What software do you currently use? This decides a thin-clients vs. fat-client approach. I'd second giving MacMini's a thought, while outsourcing as much as possible.
Wernher von Braun is maybe not exactly a "hero". His work in wartime-Germany laid the foundation that allowed the US to send a man to the moon. Due to his involvement in the German missile program, his role in science is highly controversial. It didn't help that, after the war, the US basically gave him a "get out of jail free"-card (and US citizenship) - a fact that even today annoys a lot of Brits who would liked to have him punished for launching what would be ICBMs today on London.
What he is a good example for is that to reach a seemingly impossible goal, you have to go further than anybody else, stop at nothing and allow no obstacles standing in the way. WW2 was an "ideal" time for people like von Braun - at the right position, nearly unlimited resources were available to achieve their goals. Of course, at that time, it also meant unlimited exploitation of slave-labor in a way that was without example in the history of mankind.
I'm not sure if it's good to expose a kid to this kind of stuff. Life will get complicated for them soon enough;-)
Typing Japanese is exactly like typing in English - you press the "space" key between words. The IMEs are pretty smart, and usually the first kanji is the one you want. If it's not you might have to press "space" a second or third time, but it's rare to have to dig through a giant list of kanji to get what you want.
So, you might have to hit the space key more often if you're typing Japanese. Or, you might not - you can space-to-kanji entire sentences at once, whilst the romance languages are stuck hitting space between every word like shmucks. Except for the Germans. I don't think their language uses spaces.
Because we have basically transferred a trillion into the Eastern part, because it was run-down by 40 years of socialism. That said, Germany has some unhealthy spending habits that it really needs to get rid of.
But at least, we are not printing money like US does (helo QE2). And we still have a healthy manufacturing industry (whose products China is actually buying).
Hope dies last. The disaster that airport security checks are has been publicized to death in the last 9 years. Nobody wants to even read about it anymore and be reminded of it. Sleazy sex-scandals and racial/religious hate sell much better.
Maybe you could only let people download an URL to a one-time-download script after buying, instead of downloading the complete file directly? Or is that too complicated? OTOH, people downloading software online should have some sort of triple-digit IQ...
Other question: how does PrestaShop compare to Magento and Oxid eShop?
they last very long. Digital stuff is going do die at some point - and you're wasting resources trying to preserve and migrate it every couple of years. A print-out photo-book with some written comments of her is worth a 1000 videos.
Windows XP is released in dozens of languages with support contracts for all of them, and has two supported service packs, and a third 64-bit edition based off Windows Server 2003.
And the guy who released the 0day is responsible for that, too?
Each of those has to be regression tested and the fix needs to be guaranteed to not break anything for all of those customers with support contracts.
That's what they get for releasing too many almost-identical versions of Windows (and for not having a single version of Windows with all the languages as add-ons). What comes around, goes around.
And you know what? People want to be lied to. They don't want to hear the truth
If only it were not true. I just saw an interview with Darren Brown, and he was saying how upset people get with him when he points out a charlatan psyhic. I mean, wtf?.
It's true in the sense that people want to hear "Good News". Silly example: the infamous "Darling, does that dress make me look fat?"-question. Few women want an honest answer to that question. Same with questions about war, peace, financial situation, environment. (Adding to that is the fact that the people in charge often have very little practical power to make short-time changes for the better - they can only create stop-gap solutions etc).
In the US, the "spin-it-positively" attitude is most obvious - that doesn't mean that we don't have it at all in Europe. Just take at look at the fucked-up €-situation....
Not enough people leaked what was happening in Nazi Germany until it was too late, likely because they were afraid of the consequences. The more tools to lessen the consequences, the better.
That, and the fact that people did either not care or could just not imagine what happened in these "camps". Photos and eye-witness reports had been smuggled out of Concentration-camps (the regime was, after all, corrupt from top to bottom, and I presume there was still a lot you could do in there, if you bribed the right people) and the western leaders were more or less fully informed after about 1944. They never even bothered to bomb the train-lines or other vital parts of the infrastructure. Fast-forward to the 1990s: concentration camps resurface in Europe, again. This time, it's the Serbs. Europe takes notice, we have western film crews on site, there's video-footage in every household. They're just a couple of hundred kilometers away from the Austrian border. Does anything happen? Nope, it takes until the late 1990s before Europe takes on Serbia....
So, in historic review, the leaks from the 1940's are now barely footnotes in Wikipedia. I fear the same will be true for Mr Manning's efforts, as heroic (and possibly self-destructive) his efforts are.
Of course, in the whole affaire, what I can't understand: how the hell could the officers in charge of him actually intrust him with so much access? Not only did thsi kid siphon-off a giant amount of information - he even _had_ to brag about it to somebody he thought he could trust. _That_ is the real scandal. If any serious efforts had been made to test his personality, I'm sure this would have come-up in no time. Don't they have grown-ups for such positions?
Indeed. 99% of politicians should leave office at the end of a rope. Only a very few are not pathological liars and/or sociopaths.
I like to say that there are no honest car salesmen anymore: they went bankrupt a long time ago. I think, the same is true for politicians: they either died or were elected out of office (in favor of a liar/sociopath) a long time ago.
And you know what? People want to be lied to. They don't want to hear the truth.
My 60plus mother isn't subscribed to a dozen or more mailing-lists, like I am, and the few non-marketing mails she receives a day from friends and relatives she could probably answer from an iPad. For now, she's comfortable with her iMac (which she also needs for Sibelius First anyway). There's a computing-world outside slashdot - and Apple is quickly siphoning away all the "good" customers from it. The PC-world is left with the scrubs. The Geeks&Gamers market is very small - and getting smaller everyday.
...Then a life of crime is all that awaits. It's easy to say you have high standards shutting potentially talented people out of your organization, but no one should be surprised if those people turn to illegitimate activities again.
"Potentially talented"? One of the most common memes I keep hearing is that malware writers are programming geniuses who need only a guiding hand to become productive members of society.
I've met or worked with a lot of very sharp programmers over the years. All of them made a good salary from their skills. A few of them have made a significant amount of money. Any one of them would be capable of creating his own botnet without difficulty. Furthermore, many of them are sharp enough to pull off some impressive social engineering to gain access to systems, a la Kevin Mitnick.
But none of them did that, because they had the ethics to understand that subverting millions of other peoples' computers for your own financial gain is wrong. Not just illegal, but wrong.
Maybe those were just smart enough to know that they will be caught eventually? The problem with these two guys is obviously that they had no plan B for when and after they were being caught. If you have no plan B, you are essentially gambling - with your own future in this case. That's not very smart.
They do not, in any way, do a line-by-line audit. Anyone with even a slight understanding of malicious software will know many ways to sneak malware past Apple.
According to this story: http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Researchers-show-infecting-smartphones-with-malware-is-relatively-easy-950091.html It's not so easy. Quote: "According to the researchers, only Apple's AppStore offers a certain amount of protection against malicious applications. Brown and Tijerina said that the AppStore rigorously checks the source code for potential security problems caused by buffer overflows, copyright infringements, and permitted protocols as well as APIs."
So, yes, I'm sort-of an Apple-fanboi. But enough mistakes have been made with the Windows-platform. We don't need a deja-vu on any mobile platform.
Apple should have a right to keep their store the way they want, and reject any app the want.
On the other hand, I should have a right to run any program I want on my hardware.
I agree. But all the spam that I get and that we as an ISP have to fend-off or process is from the 99.9999% of morons in front of a PC that think exactly the same and download and install any crap-trojan that comes their way and poses as a screensaver or fake anti-virus. At least, we don't get spam from iPhones. That alone makes Apple's decision worth the hassle!
Either way, obviously iPhones would be way better if Apple didn't restrict development and distribution of 3rd party apps.
Well, it's not so obvious IMO. But that really depends on what "better" means for you. I'm glad that Apple strictly controls what goes into the App-store, because I have no time at all to do a line-by-line source-code audit of every god-damn silly app I download. I'm glad Apple does this for me, for the 30% of the price that probably the seller would pocket anyway (without the benefits for the end-user)
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What software do you currently use?
This decides a thin-clients vs. fat-client approach.
I'd second giving MacMini's a thought, while outsourcing as much as possible.
They also have to ban
- eating
- drinking
- smoking
- talking to passengers
- listening to the radio
- etc.
Yeah, it's bad using the phone while driving.
But this is completely out of proportion.
Wernher von Braun is maybe not exactly a "hero".
His work in wartime-Germany laid the foundation that allowed the US to send a man to the moon.
Due to his involvement in the German missile program, his role in science is highly controversial.
It didn't help that, after the war, the US basically gave him a "get out of jail free"-card (and US citizenship) - a fact that even today annoys a lot of Brits who would liked to have him punished for launching what would be ICBMs today on London.
What he is a good example for is that to reach a seemingly impossible goal, you have to go further than anybody else, stop at nothing and allow no obstacles standing in the way.
WW2 was an "ideal" time for people like von Braun - at the right position, nearly unlimited resources were available to achieve their goals.
Of course, at that time, it also meant unlimited exploitation of slave-labor in a way that was without example in the history of mankind.
I'm not sure if it's good to expose a kid to this kind of stuff. Life will get complicated for them soon enough ;-)
That would cost too much. Airlines couldn't offer super-cheap tickets anymore.
Typing Japanese is exactly like typing in English - you press the "space" key between words. The IMEs are pretty smart, and usually the first kanji is the one you want. If it's not you might have to press "space" a second or third time, but it's rare to have to dig through a giant list of kanji to get what you want.
So, you might have to hit the space key more often if you're typing Japanese. Or, you might not - you can space-to-kanji entire sentences at once, whilst the romance languages are stuck hitting space between every word like shmucks. Except for the Germans. I don't think their language uses spaces.
NatürlichhabenwirLeerzeichen!
Currently, the only other solution seems to be to not to fly at all.
Which, given recent events, "terrorist" are apparently the first to implement.
Because we have basically transferred a trillion into the Eastern part, because it was run-down by 40 years of socialism.
That said, Germany has some unhealthy spending habits that it really needs to get rid of.
But at least, we are not printing money like US does (helo QE2).
And we still have a healthy manufacturing industry (whose products China is actually buying).
I'm hoping
Hope dies last.
The disaster that airport security checks are has been publicized to death in the last 9 years. Nobody wants to even read about it anymore and be reminded of it.
Sleazy sex-scandals and racial/religious hate sell much better.
Maybe you could only let people download an URL to a one-time-download script after buying, instead of downloading the complete file directly?
Or is that too complicated? OTOH, people downloading software online should have some sort of triple-digit IQ...
Other question: how does PrestaShop compare to Magento and Oxid eShop?
they last very long.
Digital stuff is going do die at some point - and you're wasting resources trying to preserve and migrate it every couple of years.
A print-out photo-book with some written comments of her is worth a 1000 videos.
...are like assholes.
Everybody's got one.
Windows XP is released in dozens of languages with support contracts for all of them, and has two supported service packs, and a third 64-bit edition based off Windows Server 2003.
And the guy who released the 0day is responsible for that, too?
Each of those has to be regression tested and the fix needs to be guaranteed to not break anything for all of those customers with support contracts.
That's what they get for releasing too many almost-identical versions of Windows (and for not having a single version of Windows with all the languages as add-ons).
What comes around, goes around.
And you know what? People want to be lied to. They don't want to hear the truth
If only it were not true. I just saw an interview with Darren Brown, and he was saying how upset people get with him when he points out a charlatan psyhic. I mean, wtf?.
It's true in the sense that people want to hear "Good News".
Silly example: the infamous "Darling, does that dress make me look fat?"-question.
Few women want an honest answer to that question.
Same with questions about war, peace, financial situation, environment.
(Adding to that is the fact that the people in charge often have very little practical power to make short-time changes for the better - they can only create stop-gap solutions etc).
In the US, the "spin-it-positively" attitude is most obvious - that doesn't mean that we don't have it at all in Europe.
Just take at look at the fucked-up €-situation....
Not enough people leaked what was happening in Nazi Germany until it was too late, likely because they were afraid of the consequences. The more tools to lessen the consequences, the better.
That, and the fact that people did either not care or could just not imagine what happened in these "camps".
Photos and eye-witness reports had been smuggled out of Concentration-camps (the regime was, after all, corrupt from top to bottom, and I presume there was still a lot you could do in there, if you bribed the right people) and the western leaders were more or less fully informed after about 1944. They never even bothered to bomb the train-lines or other vital parts of the infrastructure.
Fast-forward to the 1990s: concentration camps resurface in Europe, again. This time, it's the Serbs. Europe takes notice, we have western film crews on site, there's video-footage in every household. They're just a couple of hundred kilometers away from the Austrian border.
Does anything happen?
Nope, it takes until the late 1990s before Europe takes on Serbia....
So, in historic review, the leaks from the 1940's are now barely footnotes in Wikipedia.
I fear the same will be true for Mr Manning's efforts, as heroic (and possibly self-destructive) his efforts are.
Of course, in the whole affaire, what I can't understand: how the hell could the officers in charge of him actually intrust him with so much access?
Not only did thsi kid siphon-off a giant amount of information - he even _had_ to brag about it to somebody he thought he could trust.
_That_ is the real scandal. If any serious efforts had been made to test his personality, I'm sure this would have come-up in no time.
Don't they have grown-ups for such positions?
Indeed. 99% of politicians should leave office at the end of a rope. Only a very few are not pathological liars and/or sociopaths.
I like to say that there are no honest car salesmen anymore: they went bankrupt a long time ago.
I think, the same is true for politicians: they either died or were elected out of office (in favor of a liar/sociopath) a long time ago.
And you know what? People want to be lied to. They don't want to hear the truth.
Where are they going to be plugging in all of these laptops? most batteries can't last the 8 hour school day of high school.
MacBooks' do: http://www.apple.com/macbook/features.html
When was the last time you actually used a MacBook?
I thought it was real.
Like "24".
Or Knight Rider.
Well, not from what I know.
http://magbiz.net/news-en/unknown-person-extorts-shut-down-of-an-erotic-portal/?lang=en
the eeek-pad.
My 60plus mother isn't subscribed to a dozen or more mailing-lists, like I am, and the few non-marketing mails she receives a day from friends and relatives she could probably answer from an iPad.
For now, she's comfortable with her iMac (which she also needs for Sibelius First anyway).
There's a computing-world outside slashdot - and Apple is quickly siphoning away all the "good" customers from it. The PC-world is left with the scrubs.
The Geeks&Gamers market is very small - and getting smaller everyday.
"Potentially talented"? One of the most common memes I keep hearing is that malware writers are programming geniuses who need only a guiding hand to become productive members of society.
I've met or worked with a lot of very sharp programmers over the years. All of them made a good salary from their skills. A few of them have made a significant amount of money. Any one of them would be capable of creating his own botnet without difficulty. Furthermore, many of them are sharp enough to pull off some impressive social engineering to gain access to systems, a la Kevin Mitnick.
But none of them did that, because they had the ethics to understand that subverting millions of other peoples' computers for your own financial gain is wrong. Not just illegal, but wrong.
Maybe those were just smart enough to know that they will be caught eventually?
The problem with these two guys is obviously that they had no plan B for when and after they were being caught.
If you have no plan B, you are essentially gambling - with your own future in this case. That's not very smart.
You can bind services to it and access then via a proxy on the main IP...
They do not, in any way, do a line-by-line audit. Anyone with even a slight understanding of malicious software will know many ways to sneak malware past Apple.
According to this story:
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Researchers-show-infecting-smartphones-with-malware-is-relatively-easy-950091.html
It's not so easy.
Quote: "According to the researchers, only Apple's AppStore offers a certain amount of protection against malicious applications. Brown and Tijerina said that the AppStore rigorously checks the source code for potential security problems caused by buffer overflows, copyright infringements, and permitted protocols as well as APIs."
So, yes, I'm sort-of an Apple-fanboi. But enough mistakes have been made with the Windows-platform. We don't need a deja-vu on any mobile platform.
Apple should have a right to keep their store the way they want, and reject any app the want.
On the other hand, I should have a right to run any program I want on my hardware.
I agree. But all the spam that I get and that we as an ISP have to fend-off or process is from the 99.9999% of morons in front of a PC that think exactly the same and download and install any crap-trojan that comes their way and poses as a screensaver or fake anti-virus.
At least, we don't get spam from iPhones. That alone makes Apple's decision worth the hassle!
Either way, obviously iPhones would be way better if Apple didn't restrict development and distribution of 3rd party apps.
Well, it's not so obvious IMO.
But that really depends on what "better" means for you.
I'm glad that Apple strictly controls what goes into the App-store, because I have no time at all to do a line-by-line source-code audit of every god-damn silly app I download. I'm glad Apple does this for me, for the 30% of the price that probably the seller would pocket anyway (without the benefits for the end-user)