Consider: Company designed X program to run X piece of medical equipment. Program fails. Patient dies. Who is responisble (the company was sued out of existence it turns out)
The business entity that was providing medical care. IMO.
I woul dbe most annoyed to discover that the hospital didn't know if it's equipment worked or not and then skimped on providing human beings to oversse the equipment.
but then you should also consider that usually Open Source comes more or less secure out of the box while Microsoft products are insecure if you take them out of the box.
A client emailed me and asked me my opinion of one of my competitors as they had offered him a cheaper deal (two of our previous employee who left and set up on their own).
I told him that I didn't believe that they had the technical competance to perform the services they were now offering. It was my honest opinion and one that was proved correct in the long run but it got me in all sorts of bother when my client forwarded my comments to them!!
"Be diplomatic not candid" is the advice I came away from that one with.
The RIAA clients make an obscene profit from their racket, the only way to hurt these people is in the pocket, that's the free market. The Corporate puppets pretending to be government by and for the people want to bleed us dry. The products are not the Records, they are the consumers.
The Maria Carey story made me very fucking angry. $50 million for less than a year's work. Fuck that. Just for singing a few shitty songs. The schools and hospitals are crumbling around us and all they can do is flaunt their decadence.
A big fuss is made when a charity night gets a few million in donations. And she get's that much every few fucking days and there must be a few hundred pop people liek that.
Bill Hicks almost got it right when he said "I want my rock stars dead".
Star spangled idiots can keep their hands out of my kid's piggy bank.
To quote Colonel Kurtz
I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, swiftly, along the edge of a straight... razor... and surviving.
"It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face, and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies."
"I've seen the horrors, horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me, you have a right to do that, but you have no right to judge me."
"Then I realized they were stronger than we. They have the strength, the strength to do that. If I had 10 divisions of those men, then our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling, without passion, without judgment."
"We must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig. Cow after cow. Village after village. Army after army."
"I want to be a pop star" seems an overwhelming dream for the attention starved nobodies.
I've worked in the music business and to my mind talented people are ten a penny. Music is a relatively easy discipline. Sure, touring can be hard work but it's not in the same league as coal mining or sewing Nike trainers together. Most of the crap pumped through the big boy channels is just pretty young things acting as clothes hangers to people like Pete Waterman and Nigel Whatsit (the guy behind Westlife & co).
The TV stations pump it up, hyping away at their new puppets so they can fill their airtime. Cosy deals between the big distributors of content put up invisible trade barriers. Mindless soporific pap to brainwash the nation into thinking that factory work is okay because as least I can fantasize about fucking Kylie when I wtach the Brit Awards tonight.
As you can tell it just doesn't sit happily with me. Bitter? yeah, pint please and a bag of nuts.
I make a point of warezing music my lad likes so he gets a copy before he can waste his money on it!
Do I really want to put food in Fred Durse's mouth? Do you really want more Steps & Hear'Say?
Splashing their ill gotten gains around and flaunting themselves living it large and for what, a few plastic pop songs to fill up the airwaves of AOL/TW & Fox & MTV.
Hopefully he'll see how manipulative the process is, in the meantime he can get down the the groove of the chocolate starfish and feel the acceptance of his peers, he even gets some false kudos for having stuff not released here etc.
Do you actually believe the ability to learn some crappy dance routine and wear make up deserves million dollar rewards?
I have argued on/. before: "oh but they entertain millions of people, they deserve it"
well those millions are just gullable dupes, just like me, no er...
Wouldn't it be worth it if you never got a spam again?
instead of mass-mailing your newsletter to 100k "registered members" who may or may not be interested in reading each one, post it on the web for them to retrieve at their convenience. Then you know no one's getting it who doesn't want it.
Well my newsletter example was a bit specious, it's not that regular. And we do mailouts from one group of customers to another (B2B and B2C). Some of which are just subgroups of our 50k+ depending on their preferences.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for a change the method of email delivery to combat unsolicited email. I just think HashCash idea is too costly when there are legitimate mass mailings to be done.
I respect my users unsubscribes so I know everyone who get's it still wants it.
For example, my workstation is able to test 27,000 hashes per second. A 19 bit hash collision takes on average 20 seconds to produce at this rate. If I am charged by recipients a 19 bit hash for each email I send, I can only usefully send 4320 mails per day.
I send a weekly newsletter to our registered members. It's not unsolicited. We have over 50,000 registered members and our two year target is 100,000.
My current server is nicely specced. 800Mz P3 256mb ram, 20gb HD. It easily serves the website and the newsletter. It's going to be 5 years before it needs any sort of upgrade. I like this.
With HashCash suddenly I'm going have have to consume 23 days of CPU time per 7 days. So I'm going to need another 3 machines JUST TO SEND THE NEWSLETTER. And in 5 years time maybe I'll need at least another 2. So with a mtbf for HD's of about 5 years suddenly my co-lo is going to see me once every year instead of once every 5.
And all because YOU couldn't look after your email address properly.
Slashdot Mirror
:)
.qmail already silently drops anything from yahoo.com (& msn.com) that's not in my whitelist so I haven't noticed.
My
Consider: Company designed X program to run X piece of medical equipment. Program fails. Patient dies. Who is responisble (the company was sued out of existence it turns out)
The business entity that was providing medical care. IMO.
I woul dbe most annoyed to discover that the hospital didn't know if it's equipment worked or not and then skimped on providing human beings to oversse the equipment.
but then you should also consider that usually Open Source comes more or less secure out of the box while Microsoft products are insecure if you take them out of the box.
You are joking, yeah?
My IP is 192.168.1.100 Hack it if you want.
hey, that's mine, give it back!!
i'll have to use I92.IGB.I.IOO now!
yeah because no doubt he hit on that design first time in about 2 hours!
:)
A client emailed me and asked me my opinion of one of my competitors as they had offered him a cheaper deal (two of our previous employee who left and set up on their own).
I told him that I didn't believe that they had the technical competance to perform the services they were now offering. It was my honest opinion and one that was proved correct in the long run but it got me in all sorts of bother when my client forwarded my comments to them!!
"Be diplomatic not candid" is the advice I came away from that one with.
what the FUCK are you rambling about?!
The RIAA clients make an obscene profit from their racket, the only way to hurt these people is in the pocket, that's the free market. The Corporate puppets pretending to be government by and for the people want to bleed us dry. The products are not the Records, they are the consumers.
The Maria Carey story made me very fucking angry. $50 million for less than a year's work. Fuck that. Just for singing a few shitty songs. The schools and hospitals are crumbling around us and all they can do is flaunt their decadence.
A big fuss is made when a charity night gets a few million in donations. And she get's that much every few fucking days and there must be a few hundred pop people liek that.
Bill Hicks almost got it right when he said "I want my rock stars dead".
My twist is "I want YOUR pop stars dead!"
s/export/exploit
looks like the php grammar/spell checker was buggy too!
"land of the free
home of the brave"
copy protection in my Video Camera!
copy protection in my Game controller!
cool, all this won't cost much
copy protection in my modem
copy protection in my monitor
copy protection in my watch
copy protection in my microwave
one more victory for the lawyers
If it goes through we should try and prosecute the manufacturers of as many digital devices as possible!
I think morse code kind of predates ethernet!
and you wonder why we feel like ripping them off
Star spangled idiots can keep their hands out of my kid's piggy bank.
To quote Colonel Kurtz
I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, swiftly, along the edge of a straight... razor... and surviving.
"It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face, and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies."
"I've seen the horrors, horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me, you have a right to do that, but you have no right to judge me."
"Then I realized they were stronger than we. They have the strength, the strength to do that. If I had 10 divisions of those men, then our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling, without passion, without judgment."
"We must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig. Cow after cow. Village after village. Army after army."
bah s/discrimanted/discriminated
must sit nearer the screen
I use http login and server side tracking. No cookies required but you do need to get the users to register first.
:
I was going to use unique URI's like
http://www.genie.co.uk
It redirects you to a big url with a 20 digit number.
Maybe the real problem is in ipv4, NAT'd IPs mean individual machines can't be discrimanted.
So whatever protocols are introduced will only be a fad that's here to stay! (thanks Matt Groening)
you seem to be confusing IRC with it's DCC extensions.
IRC is very client server.
Napster is/was irc like in that the central server connected people but then it initiated DCC transfers.
er, I may as well watch Star Trek!
S'right. Greed & fame make terrible masters.
"I want to be a pop star" seems an overwhelming dream for the attention starved nobodies.
I've worked in the music business and to my mind talented people are ten a penny. Music is a relatively easy discipline. Sure, touring can be hard work but it's not in the same league as coal mining or sewing Nike trainers together. Most of the crap pumped through the big boy channels is just pretty young things acting as clothes hangers to people like Pete Waterman and Nigel Whatsit (the guy behind Westlife & co).
The TV stations pump it up, hyping away at their new puppets so they can fill their airtime. Cosy deals between the big distributors of content put up invisible trade barriers. Mindless soporific pap to brainwash the nation into thinking that factory work is okay because as least I can fantasize about fucking Kylie when I wtach the Brit Awards tonight.
As you can tell it just doesn't sit happily with me. Bitter? yeah, pint please and a bag of nuts.
DrSkwid, if that is your real name
It certianly is Mr Coward.!
I bet you're not even a real doctor, are you?
Depends if you are a real Coward?
Another scenario under serious consideration by police ... to .. temporarily blind the pilot during final night approaches.
Pardon my ignorance of Canadian culture but why on earth would the police want to do that?
I make a point of warezing music my lad likes so he gets a copy before he can waste his money on it!
/. before :
Do I really want to put food in Fred Durse's mouth? Do you really want more Steps & Hear'Say?
Splashing their ill gotten gains around and flaunting themselves living it large and for what, a few plastic pop songs to fill up the airwaves of AOL/TW & Fox & MTV.
Hopefully he'll see how manipulative the process is, in the meantime he can get down the the groove of the chocolate starfish and feel the acceptance of his peers, he even gets some false kudos for having stuff not released here etc.
Do you actually believe the ability to learn some crappy dance routine and wear make up deserves million dollar rewards?
I have argued on
"oh but they entertain millions of people, they deserve it"
well those millions are just gullable dupes, just like me, no er...
Hopefully music will get wrapped in enough red tape to drown out Britney & Westlife
The musicians are just as guilty as the record companies and the RIAA and the rest of them. No-one forces you to sign to Sony Music or Thorn EMI.
There's so much great music out there that's not distributed by the big corps you know, you don't *HAVE* to buy stuff from them.
Let them do wtf they like with their music, who cares, let them drown in their own decadence.
It's quite easy for the consumer to get the information in this case, the poster did exactly that himself.
But yes, it is only a two sentence description of the process after all. Economics isn't science!
/me adorns flameproof suit
Wouldn't it be worth it if you never got a spam again?
instead of mass-mailing your newsletter to 100k "registered members" who may or may not be interested in reading each one, post it on the web for them to retrieve at their convenience. Then you know no one's getting it who doesn't want it.
Well my newsletter example was a bit specious, it's not that regular. And we do mailouts from one group of customers to another (B2B and B2C).
Some of which are just subgroups of our 50k+ depending on their preferences.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for a change the method of email delivery to combat unsolicited email. I just think HashCash idea is too costly when there are legitimate mass mailings to be done.
I respect my users unsubscribes so I know everyone who get's it still wants it.
anyway KDE is a MS Windows App
why?
/. crew.
so mac's use BSD code
so does windows and we don't have "woo those windows boxes are so cool, I'm drooling" from the
Well we did when DiabloII came out..
Wel in fact lets just change it do DosDot and have done
From HashCash's site :
For example, my workstation is able to test 27,000 hashes per second. A 19 bit hash collision takes on average 20 seconds to produce at this rate. If I am charged by recipients a 19 bit hash for each email I send, I can only usefully send 4320 mails per day.
I send a weekly newsletter to our registered members. It's not unsolicited. We have over 50,000 registered members and our two year target is 100,000.
My current server is nicely specced. 800Mz P3 256mb ram, 20gb HD. It easily serves the website and the newsletter. It's going to be 5 years before it needs any sort of upgrade. I like this.
With HashCash suddenly I'm going have have to consume 23 days of CPU time per 7 days. So I'm going to need another 3 machines JUST TO SEND THE NEWSLETTER. And in 5 years time maybe I'll need at least another 2. So with a mtbf for HD's of about 5 years suddenly my co-lo is going to see me once every year instead of once every 5.
And all because YOU couldn't look after your email address properly.
thanks.