Humans don't organize well above the tribal level (5-25 people), just something built in. Any Larger structure that runs well is usually either INCREDIBLY disciplined, as in the Japanese Auto-worker sense. Otherwise it is merely a set of tribes or teams or fiefdoms where each leader is part of a "higher" tribe. You can of course rotate who belongs in the "management" tribe, but that would be representative democracy;) Usually you only get this kind of in-fighting when people see a great benefit to the users for general use, yet there end up being grey areas for features... people rarely fight over cut-and-dried this-or-that decisions that are easy to make (c++ or cobol in the kernel? -- that was easy right? Bobs' printing file system or Bills? - there aren't any quicky answers so people fight out of loyalty to a person or product.
I think recognizing it, and organizing a public treaty/ceasefire between the two parties is in order. Make them sit down and say what is at the root of the problem. Force them to review the others work, not negatively, but build a list of things that are good about the other product, and questions where they think it is bad.
Instead of "Mines better because of this", ask "why doesn't yours do this"... they might suprise each other.
Well, I'm not going to charge for PSP... it seems like too much ahssle and that I would cause more harm than not by trying to make money directly from it. BTW, you can downloaded Beta v.9 at Torry's delphi pages and also the Pascal Super Page! It doesn't have all the nice explainations... its a rogh cut and all, but I'm still working on it....
Looks like its time to create a not-for-profit corporation to assist in the defense and provide a legal "enforcement" arm... a 501(c) "Open-source" protection agency. Of course this begs the question of who will guard the guardians themselves... but it would be nice to have an org you could go to if you have problems.
World's Toughest Computer Case by Pelican This case is unbelievable -- watertight, airtight, crushproof, dustproof, shock resistant, and attractive enough to use as an everyday attache. Includes a lid organizer that, like a regular briefcase, holds papers, pens, cell phone, etc. There's... www.landfallnav.com Might not exactly be what you ae looking for.
Although I do believe the article offers a direction in attack analysis, it merely mimics old artificial intelligence, heuristic, approaches, where a specific goal is mapped out.. I bet you could process these things in LISP.
Now, to bring this thing to a monster of a science, would be to create fuzzy diagrams, and especially to incorporate Peter Senge's archetypes (they apply to learning organizations, but since they deal with goals and interaction - they should apply here)
Anyone want to start a peer review journal for "Attack Analysis"... I'm sure you could get some extra funding from the DoD or NSA to pull that one off;)
Although I do believe the article offers a direction in attack analysis, it merely mimics old artificial intelligence, heuristic, approaches, where a specific goal is mapped out.. I bet you could process these things in LISP. Now, to bring this thing to a monster of a science, would be to create fuzzy diagrams, and especially to incorporate Peter Senge's archetypes (they apply to learning organizations, but since they deal with goals and interaction - they should apply here) Anyone want to start a peer review journal for "Attack Analysis"... I'm sure you could get some extra funding from the DoD or NSA to pull that one off;)
the 50's represent a period far enough in the past that seems to many to be the "golden age".. despite the 50's discusting underbelly, it attempted to present a clean and wholesome society in backlash to the horror of the 40's war and the darkness of the 30's depression. For the right crowd (mainly the middle and upper class white Americans), the 50's were a heyday of "Americanism", and a nice clear-cut us-versus-them of the cold war. Now, in the age of non-identity, where being yourself is important, but having an identity that is not acceptible if it makes anyone feel uncomfortable, everyone wants to have that "American-childhood".. or at least they want to pretend that the illusion was good enough. The 50's resurgance is like the 70's resurgence, young people can only see the images given them of a generation, and most of them provide an unclear picture of those who lived through it. Many of the failed ideals of the 60's and failed "openness" and "friendliness" of the 70's led to the "uncertainty" of the 90's. So we explored the 60's, and we didn't like how it applied to the 90's (riots at woodstock pretty much signed and dated that death)... so now the 50's and 70's are having a go. It is interesting to note many of the puritanical "keep it in the closet" Victorian values that are showing a resurgance... Then Again, it could be that 50's cartoons just had a certain flair... and I'm just over analyzing.
I worked for a contract shop in Florida, and more than once used "hack" tools to get a job done. Occasionally the rules of engagement get you in a bind and you have to work outside those rules to get your job done. We had a source control machine that crashed, dead, inoperable with quite a bit of source code that we needed to retrieve. Without hack tools, etc, we wouldn't have been able to get the data back out by playing the role of script kiddies and using hack s/w to make the drive accessible. A tool is a tool. Without those tools in particular, my company would have had to face a serious financial set back. mike
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Any state got a cool senator who can read DeCSS into the federal congressional record? I'd like to see them ban that!
Recipe for SUCCESS!
1. an international shipment of diamonds
2. one hacker, preferably a paid cop in New Zealand
3. GPS!! Route that ship right to your door!
"Who will gaurd the gaurdians themselves?" - and old Latin saying...
Lets slap some PVFS/Network clients, some ROM/IO or other beowulf-y code on there and make Beowulf clusters @ (6 * #ofPCIslots * Nodes)!!!!
;)
-yes I already emailed them asking for this
I have a favorite saying when I start feeling paranoid. "Never blame on conspiracy what can be attributed to collective stupidity"
Humans don't organize well above the tribal level (5-25 people), just something built in. Any Larger structure that runs well is usually either INCREDIBLY disciplined, as in the Japanese Auto-worker sense. Otherwise it is merely a set of tribes or teams or fiefdoms where each leader is part of a "higher" tribe. You can of course rotate who belongs in the "management" tribe, but that would be representative democracy ;)
Usually you only get this kind of in-fighting when people see a great benefit to the users for general use, yet there end up being grey areas for features... people rarely fight over cut-and-dried this-or-that decisions that are easy to make (c++ or cobol in the kernel? -- that was easy right? Bobs' printing file system or Bills? - there aren't any quicky answers so people fight out of loyalty to a person or product.
I think recognizing it, and organizing a public treaty/ceasefire between the two parties is in order. Make them sit down and say what is at the root of the problem. Force them to review the others work, not negatively, but build a list of things that are good about the other product, and questions where they think it is bad.
Instead of "Mines better because of this", ask "why doesn't yours do this"... they might suprise each other.
I would be happy to host such a public debate.
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Combine the 3d real time camera with Jerry's Blind Eye (see BBC news articles on the Blind-man-can see) for some REAL FUN!
Well, I'm not going to charge for PSP... it seems like too much ahssle and that I would cause more harm than not by trying to make money directly from it. BTW, you can downloaded Beta v.9 at Torry's delphi pages and also the Pascal Super Page! It doesn't have all the nice explainations... its a rogh cut and all, but I'm still working on it....
Looks like its time to create a not-for-profit corporation to assist in the defense and provide a legal "enforcement" arm... a 501(c) "Open-source" protection agency.
Of course this begs the question of who will guard the guardians themselves... but it would be nice to have an org you could go to if you have problems.
World's Toughest Computer Case by Pelican This case is unbelievable -- watertight, airtight, crushproof, dustproof, shock resistant, and attractive enough to use as an everyday attache. Includes a lid organizer that, like a regular briefcase, holds papers, pens, cell phone, etc. There's... www.landfallnav.com Might not exactly be what you ae looking for.
Although I do believe the article offers a direction in attack analysis, it merely mimics old artificial intelligence, heuristic, approaches, where a specific goal is mapped out.. I bet you could process these things in LISP.
;)
Now, to bring this thing to a monster of a science, would be to create fuzzy diagrams, and especially to incorporate Peter Senge's archetypes (they apply to learning organizations, but since they deal with goals and interaction - they should apply here)
Anyone want to start a peer review journal for "Attack Analysis"... I'm sure you could get some extra funding from the DoD or NSA to pull that one off
Although I do believe the article offers a direction in attack analysis, it merely mimics old artificial intelligence, heuristic, approaches, where a specific goal is mapped out.. I bet you could process these things in LISP. Now, to bring this thing to a monster of a science, would be to create fuzzy diagrams, and especially to incorporate Peter Senge's archetypes (they apply to learning organizations, but since they deal with goals and interaction - they should apply here) Anyone want to start a peer review journal for "Attack Analysis"... I'm sure you could get some extra funding from the DoD or NSA to pull that one off ;)
the 50's represent a period far enough in the past that seems to many to be the "golden age".. despite the 50's discusting underbelly, it attempted to present a clean and wholesome society in backlash to the horror of the 40's war and the darkness of the 30's depression.
For the right crowd (mainly the middle and upper class white Americans), the 50's were a heyday of "Americanism", and a nice clear-cut us-versus-them of the cold war.
Now, in the age of non-identity, where being yourself is important, but having an identity that is not acceptible if it makes anyone feel uncomfortable, everyone wants to have that "American-childhood".. or at least they want to pretend that the illusion was good enough.
The 50's resurgance is like the 70's resurgence, young people can only see the images given them of a generation, and most of them provide an unclear picture of those who lived through it.
Many of the failed ideals of the 60's and failed "openness" and "friendliness" of the 70's led to the "uncertainty" of the 90's. So we explored the 60's, and we didn't like how it applied to the 90's (riots at woodstock pretty much signed and dated that death)... so now the 50's and 70's are having a go.
It is interesting to note many of the puritanical "keep it in the closet" Victorian values that are showing a resurgance...
Then Again, it could be that 50's cartoons just had a certain flair... and I'm just over analyzing.
I worked for a contract shop in Florida, and more than once used "hack" tools to get a job done. Occasionally the rules of engagement get you in a bind and you have to work outside those rules to get your job done. We had a source control machine that crashed, dead, inoperable with quite a bit of source code that we needed to retrieve. Without hack tools, etc, we wouldn't have been able to get the data back out by playing the role of script kiddies and using hack s/w to make the drive accessible. A tool is a tool. Without those tools in particular, my company would have had to face a serious financial set back. mike