I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy (okay, maybe not around here, but I really really hate them!), but why shouldn't they structure their corporation to reduce the tax burden? Just be glad it's Nevada and not Belize.
There's a proposed law that will make it illegal to try to figure out what you're breathing without getting police permission first. And we're discussing it like there's two sides? The terrorists have already won. No really I mean it this time.
So, my question is, is this truly a case of hybridization (ie a cross of human and animal genetic material with attributes of both), or is this inserting human DNA into an animal egg to grow human stem cells? TFA is pretty lacking in any kind of detail.
Does an improperly configured mail server invite relay abuse? Does an unsecured FTP server imply everyone's free to download whatever is on it, or offer consent for the public to upload stuff for temporary storage for later distribution to their buddies? Well, aside from your use of the word "abuse", I would say the answers could reasonably be "yes" and "yes". There is no such thing as an improper configuration. (Okay, well, there is, but that's not what we're talking about here.) A server may be misconfigured with regards to the intended configuration, but how am I supposed to know that? Open servers are a valid and possibly intended configuration. It shouldn't be up to me to guess the intent of the network administrators, especially when it comes to an ISP. Shouldn't an ISP of all entities have the knowledge to properly configure their own network? Why wouldn't I assume open servers are open by intent.
Your DNS server is not your house. It's your store. Yes, it's private and belongs to you, but it has a public interface. People walk into your store when it's unlocked because the door is the public interface, and the lock on the door is how the owner meters or controls access. DNS servers are much the same. They serve up a public interface. Making a DNS request of an open server should be no more illegal than walking into the 7/11. If they don't lock it, how am I supposed to know it's closed?
Because it focuses on the tip of the iceberg, the symptoms, not the disease. I wonder how many of the browsers have been tweaked to pass certain tests, instead of being engineered to meet the specs.
Your medical analogy is apt. Black-box testing is pointless in exactly the same way that going to a doctor when you are sick is pointless. The symptoms are all you have initially to indicate there is any disease or what it's nature might be. Those with clear-box knowledge (doctors or developers) can use the symptoms as a starting point fur further inquiry to diagnose the underlying problem.
I know what theory says about testing and correctness and all that. It doesn't work that way in the real world. Testing shouldn't be the only technique used to produce quality software, but it is very very far from a pointless pursuit.
It was pointed out by Dykstra i think, that tests can reveal the presence of errors, but never their absence. So testing is in some sense a pointless pursuit. I got your missing the point right here. It's not necessary to prove the absence of errors. Developers use the presence of errors (and knowledge of those errors) to direct efforts at improving products. In what sense is discovering errors a pointless pursuit?
Exactly. The fact that the exit polling matched up with the precinct results makes the probability of vote fraud pretty low in my mind. They didn't match.
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5535
I haven't seen a single source for exit polls that shows Clinton winning this primary.
It's important to note that in all these precincts the exit polls agreed with the actual results.
]{ Do you have a source for this? I spent the last hour googling exit polls, and have not found one yet that predicted a Clinton win. Pre-election polls predicted Obama. Exit polls predicted Obama (by a smaller margin). Seems pretty fishy to me.
When I took my undergrad degree, the intro course, data structures course, algorithms and analysis course, and a few others were all taught in Modula 2 (circa 1989). These did very little to prepare me for systems courses. C was introduced as part of the systems course, and there were concepts in C that were new to me after my Modula education, but so what? Later on I did TA work on intro courses in Pascal. Not exactly the stuff of systems programming either. Were these students doomed?
Java is a good language to start with. It's not the be all and end all of programming languages. Why should we expect the first language a student learns to prepare him or her for every possible programming task?
I'd bet anything that if we saw more linux pcs at stores like best buy and walmart, the cheaper linux PC would CLOBBER in sales, because people really do care about cost. Yes, they do care about cost, but maybe not as much as you think. I like Linux. It's my favorite operating system really, but I never use it. I gave up on it a few years ago for a lot variety of reasons.
1) Longer lag time in getting browser pugins for the latest and greatest.
2) Spotty hardware support. (My most recent attempt was Ubuntu GG, but I have not been able to get my broadcom wireless working yet... Windows works OOTB).
3) Package and version dependency nightmare when installing software.
Maybe some of this is better now than it has been in the past, but ease of use is going to seriously trump small cost gradients for a long time to come. I'd love to be proved wrong.
I believe it is testable. All computers ultimately reduce to the Turing Machine. This includes neural networks and at least some classes of quantum computer. (Heresy, I know. Terrible. Now go find a medium-rare steak to burn me on.) However, not all problems reduce to computable problems. If there is a non-computable system that exists in the real world, then it cannot be the product of a simulation, no matter how advanced the computer is. The problem with this is that computers, computability, Turing, and the entire field of theoretical computer science are fabrications made possible by the rules of the simulation we are running inside of. No correspondence to uber-reality is assumed or implied. You cant prove anything from inside the box.
I don't know why people are hating on him. I think it's great that an IT guy has found an outlet for his creative side. Not sure when NS started publishing sci-fi, but it sounds interesting nonetheless.
You do realize that the bottom of the Aussie article has a link to the original article on informationweek.com don't you? How hard is it to read the article before calling someone out like that. Don't be such a lazy ass...
There's nothing new here. The DEA has been seizing property for the last decade or longer, and placing the onus on American citizens to prove their innocence. So now the administration wants to extend it to property used in copyright violations as well. Civil Asset Forfeiture (google it, or here's something from 2001 to get you started: http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/6/27/191414.shtml ) has not been overturned yet as it relates to the drug property. Why would anyone expect it to fail in the copyright arena?
Face it, you have no right to property under the American constitution as it is currently being interpreted by the legislative and judicial branches.
If data is sensitive enough, people won't outsource the storage to large, publicly accessible data centers. But for the mass market, I don't see a big problem. I already have my resume, household bills spreadsheet, and Christmas shopping list (not to mention all my mail for the past year) stored with google. I don't care about privacy for this data. I'm not up enough on home network security to do a better job protecting it than google, and quite frankly, the convenience of "access from anywhere", and publish/collaborate features outweigh any concerns I might have. In short, I am an average low-end user.
I could see a market for isolated and encrypted corporate data stores, but that would be a different beast.
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I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy (okay, maybe not around here, but I really really hate them!), but why shouldn't they structure their corporation to reduce the tax burden? Just be glad it's Nevada and not Belize.
There's a proposed law that will make it illegal to try to figure out what you're breathing without getting police permission first. And we're discussing it like there's two sides? The terrorists have already won. No really I mean it this time.
So, my question is, is this truly a case of hybridization (ie a cross of human and animal genetic material with attributes of both), or is this inserting human DNA into an animal egg to grow human stem cells? TFA is pretty lacking in any kind of detail.
Your DNS server is not your house. It's your store. Yes, it's private and belongs to you, but it has a public interface. People walk into your store when it's unlocked because the door is the public interface, and the lock on the door is how the owner meters or controls access. DNS servers are much the same. They serve up a public interface. Making a DNS request of an open server should be no more illegal than walking into the 7/11. If they don't lock it, how am I supposed to know it's closed?
Your medical analogy is apt. Black-box testing is pointless in exactly the same way that going to a doctor when you are sick is pointless. The symptoms are all you have initially to indicate there is any disease or what it's nature might be. Those with clear-box knowledge (doctors or developers) can use the symptoms as a starting point fur further inquiry to diagnose the underlying problem.
I know what theory says about testing and correctness and all that. It doesn't work that way in the real world. Testing shouldn't be the only technique used to produce quality software, but it is very very far from a pointless pursuit.
When I took my undergrad degree, the intro course, data structures course, algorithms and analysis course, and a few others were all taught in Modula 2 (circa 1989). These did very little to prepare me for systems courses. C was introduced as part of the systems course, and there were concepts in C that were new to me after my Modula education, but so what? Later on I did TA work on intro courses in Pascal. Not exactly the stuff of systems programming either. Were these students doomed? Java is a good language to start with. It's not the be all and end all of programming languages. Why should we expect the first language a student learns to prepare him or her for every possible programming task?
I don't know why people are hating on him. I think it's great that an IT guy has found an outlet for his creative side. Not sure when NS started publishing sci-fi, but it sounds interesting nonetheless.
You do realize that the bottom of the Aussie article has a link to the original article on informationweek.com don't you? How hard is it to read the article before calling someone out like that. Don't be such a lazy ass...
There's nothing new here. The DEA has been seizing property for the last decade or longer, and placing the onus on American citizens to prove their innocence. So now the administration wants to extend it to property used in copyright violations as well. Civil Asset Forfeiture (google it, or here's something from 2001 to get you started: http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/6/27/191414.shtml ) has not been overturned yet as it relates to the drug property. Why would anyone expect it to fail in the copyright arena? Face it, you have no right to property under the American constitution as it is currently being interpreted by the legislative and judicial branches.
If data is sensitive enough, people won't outsource the storage to large, publicly accessible data centers. But for the mass market, I don't see a big problem. I already have my resume, household bills spreadsheet, and Christmas shopping list (not to mention all my mail for the past year) stored with google. I don't care about privacy for this data. I'm not up enough on home network security to do a better job protecting it than google, and quite frankly, the convenience of "access from anywhere", and publish/collaborate features outweigh any concerns I might have. In short, I am an average low-end user. I could see a market for isolated and encrypted corporate data stores, but that would be a different beast.