You're pretty much right. There's an article in the June issue of Discover (which the website does not yet acknowledge the existence of, oh well) about corneal repairs, and one man in particular, blind since age 3, who had his corneas repaired. And yes, although his eyes now should allow him to see fine, he can't interpret what he sees. (One interesting side effect: he's immune to certain optical illusions, because he never learned to interpret images in the way that gives rise to the illusion!) Studies have been done with animals, too, in which animals are blindfolded at birth and their eyes only uncovered after they've reached adulthood - and although their eyes are physically fine, they're unable to actually use their vision. "Seeing" seems to be mostly post-processing by the brain.
Hey, I still remember an ad I saw in the late 70s or early 80s for a remote-controlled toy vehicle of some sort which you controlled by wrapping a cuff around your bicep, and then flexing your bicep, and the cuff would somehow translate this into commands for the vehicle. Does anyone else remember that? I never saw the thing itself, just the ad...
What you say is true, but it may not be enough. Where I work, we have admins (I am one). But we're run ragged just doing the day-to-day stuff. I'd love to be more security-focused, but there just aren't that many hours in the day. What people need to realize is that security isn't just another checkbox - "Oh yeah, security, done that..." - but an ongoing process that demands real time.
Yeah, but the point is that they didn't have to, and they would have been entirely within their rights to say, "You didn't buy it from us, so sod off." (And, sadly, that's what I'd have expected them to say.) The fact that they were willing to help out somebody who hadn't bought something from them and probably never would is what makes it cool.
I hope you're trolling. QFE is Quad Fast Ethernet - four 100Mb interfaces on one card. You know, like real hardware, not some crappo piece of cheap junk you picked up at Hardware Harry's.;-) (Actually, you can even find quad NICs on Pricewatch, but they still aren't cheap.)
Google for "tiny linux distributions". (Although most of them are rather limited in functionality, too.) There's also ELKS, for systems even more limited than a 4MB 386!
What makes it even dirtier is that if you make above a certain amount of money, you get penalized if you don't pre-pay more than you actually owe, i.e. you must give them a free loan. Wish I could find a cite for this...I just remember coming across it a few years ago.
This got modded "insightful"? A thread is never "another process"; threads exist inside processes. The whole reason threading was invented was so that you wouldn't have to have the overhead of another process.
Politicians today can get elected on platforms that would have had them run out of town on a rail only 30 years ago.
Amen to that. (Although to be fair, we should note that 30 years ago, politicians got elected on platforms that would get them run out of town on a rail today.) Always at tax time, I'm reminded of how when the (modern, post-1913) income tax was first proposed, politicians said "Don't worry! It will only be on the richest few percent of Americans, and it will only be a few percent!" I trust I don't have to tell anybody how that turned out. I pay 20% of my income to the Feds, another 5% to the state, and ANOTHER 3% to the city! And I'm not in the richest few percent. (BTW, "withholding" was another big lie. They said "It's a temporary wartime measure." That was during WWII. Somehow it didn't go away.)
The lesson, I think, is "Step on evil as soon as you see it." The longer it sticks around, the more used to it people get, and the harder it is to get rid of. Stop it at the source.
I don't know where you've been but for quite some time Java has worked out the CLASSPATH by itself.
HAAhahahaha! Yeah, tell us another good one. Java magically reads your mind and figures out where the class files you wanted to use are, huh? So I guess that's why my company's Java application server has a CLASSPATH as long as my arm. Either you're full of it and have never worked on a large Java project, or our vendor (one of the biggest and best-known in the industry) writes utterly crap code. The sad thing is that I'd estimate the odds at about 20:80...
Hey, I would have just said that obviously everybody's an instant expert at Java.:-) More seriously - so it protects you from stuff like buffer overflows. Big whoop. It doesn't prevent you from writing utterly crap algorithms or having messed-up logic in your program, which is every bit as much "bad code" as things like buffer overflows or failure to cast properly.
Speaking of ambient cooling: has anyone tried using a pumpless water block (optionally fitted with a fan)? I'm picturing just a big copper box full of water, to cool by convection. All it would need is to be effective enough to not need a fan for total silence - I'm not into gonzo overclocking. Hey, if Macs can do it...
Spray-painting "JoE wUz HerE" on a warehouse definitely gets you something: public visibility. Everybody knows JoE was there and busy spray-painting...which seems pretty stupid, admittedly, but it's _something_. On a (D)DOS, there's usually not even that level of recognition. (Unless maybe in the kiddie IRC channels?) I don't get it either. I guess they think their willies are big because they made Yahoo unavailable for a few hours.
One point which I think has not been made: not all reports of DOS attacks are reliable. My company's Senior Director of Technology once told our upstream provider that we were being DOS'ed, when in fact we were simply getting more (legitimate) traffic than usual. It also doesn't help that some OSes ship with stack settings poorly chosen for a busy public webserver and a) effectively participate in their own DOS'ing, and b) report possible attacks when in fact no such thing is going on.
Amen to that. I have GAIM at work, but most of the time I leave it off. I already have email and a phone and people still drop by to bother me in person - why the hell do I need another way for people to bother me? If anybody's thinking about writing something like this - FOR GOD'S SAKE, INCLUDE A WAY TO TURN IT OFF. I do NOT want to automatically be logged into IM whenever I'm reading my email. Did the writers talk to anyone who's actually used a system like this? A friend of mine who uses AOL has had to set up multiple screen names simply because she can't avoid logging into AIM (and becoming visible to everyone) every time she goes on AOL.
And needless to say, the one thing I really care about, they didn't think of: REPLY AT THE BOTTOM, NOT THE TOP!
Correction: the "spam button" sounds like a wonderful idea. A "remove all evilness and cruelty and hurtful things from the world button" also sounds like a wonderful idea. Flying cars sound like a wonderful idea. The problem is that they're rather hard to implement. This "design" is little beyond blue-skying, as they've given no thought to how you would actually do these things. As others have pointed out, most spammers are forging their headers anyway, are using a spamhaus ISP that doesn't care, or are simply not accepting incoming email. A "one-click spam reporting tool" would only lead people to click the button without thinking about what they're doing, and bother people who can't or won't do anything.
Heck, they can't even realisticly threaten free software - their lawyers would have to intimidate every single author of free software on the planet, and that takes lots of time and money.
Name two things Microsoft has more of. (Well, maybe not the time...) But intimidating lots of people is easy - it's an old principle called "kill a chicken to scare a monkey". You take one person or organization and make a very messy public demonstration out of him. His real guilt is immaterial; what's important is that you visibly crucified him. Now a lot of other people will be scared into silence, because they know it can be done to them, too - it's not that it's likely, but it's possible and easy for a behemoth like Microsoft. I am starting to feel more and more that Microsoft's mere existance poses a serious threat to the health of the law, economy, and moral culture of the US, if not the world.
In this case the long term goal beiung controll of a critical percentage of the servers on the Internet and corporate LANs.
"control of a critical percentage of the servers"? Try "control of everything even vaguely technology-related." If the server market was their real long-term goal, how does releasing the Xbox help? Note that they didn't ever bother with the game console market until Sony started talking about becoming a "digital entertainment hub" or some such. Suddenly MS swung into action, because they saw their position being threatened...
To make white/pink noise? cat/dev/urandom >/dev/dsp
I don't know how statistically good it is, but it's easy to do. Personally, I think anybody who says that that helps block out noise is nuts, but to each his own.
If you'd actually talk to some of the riders of "those fucking things", you might find out that for them, being loud is a matter of safety. Motorcycles are harder to see (particularly because most drivers aren't looking for them) and the riders are much more vulnerable in crashes. They need all the "visibility" they can get. Of course, not all of them need to be as loud as they are...
The ECU that controls things like spark timing and fuel delivery is a real-time controller running on hardware totally separate from anything that will ever be interacted with by the driver ever.
Hopefully. I have horrible visions of some beancounter at an automaker saying "Hey, why are we putting two totally independent computer systems in our cars? Let's roll them into one and save money!"
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You're pretty much right. There's an article in the June issue of Discover (which the website does not yet acknowledge the existence of, oh well) about corneal repairs, and one man in particular, blind since age 3, who had his corneas repaired. And yes, although his eyes now should allow him to see fine, he can't interpret what he sees. (One interesting side effect: he's immune to certain optical illusions, because he never learned to interpret images in the way that gives rise to the illusion!) Studies have been done with animals, too, in which animals are blindfolded at birth and their eyes only uncovered after they've reached adulthood - and although their eyes are physically fine, they're unable to actually use their vision. "Seeing" seems to be mostly post-processing by the brain.
I can't believe nobody has mentioned this...
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"I am the serenest!" *g*
Hey, I still remember an ad I saw in the late 70s or early 80s for a remote-controlled toy vehicle of some sort which you controlled by wrapping a cuff around your bicep, and then flexing your bicep, and the cuff would somehow translate this into commands for the vehicle. Does anyone else remember that? I never saw the thing itself, just the ad...
What you say is true, but it may not be enough. Where I work, we have admins (I am one). But we're run ragged just doing the day-to-day stuff. I'd love to be more security-focused, but there just aren't that many hours in the day. What people need to realize is that security isn't just another checkbox - "Oh yeah, security, done that..." - but an ongoing process that demands real time.
Yeah, but the point is that they didn't have to, and they would have been entirely within their rights to say, "You didn't buy it from us, so sod off." (And, sadly, that's what I'd have expected them to say.) The fact that they were willing to help out somebody who hadn't bought something from them and probably never would is what makes it cool.
I hope you're trolling. QFE is Quad Fast Ethernet - four 100Mb interfaces on one card. You know, like real hardware, not some crappo piece of cheap junk you picked up at Hardware Harry's. ;-) (Actually, you can even find quad NICs on Pricewatch, but they still aren't cheap.)
Google for "tiny linux distributions". (Although most of them are rather limited in functionality, too.) There's also ELKS, for systems even more limited than a 4MB 386!
What makes it even dirtier is that if you make above a certain amount of money, you get penalized if you don't pre-pay more than you actually owe, i.e. you must give them a free loan. Wish I could find a cite for this...I just remember coming across it a few years ago.
This got modded "insightful"? A thread is never "another process"; threads exist inside processes. The whole reason threading was invented was so that you wouldn't have to have the overhead of another process.
Or an SGI Indigo2. The whole world is not x86.
The lesson, I think, is "Step on evil as soon as you see it." The longer it sticks around, the more used to it people get, and the harder it is to get rid of. Stop it at the source.
Hey, I would have just said that obviously everybody's an instant expert at Java. :-) More seriously - so it protects you from stuff like buffer overflows. Big whoop. It doesn't prevent you from writing utterly crap algorithms or having messed-up logic in your program, which is every bit as much "bad code" as things like buffer overflows or failure to cast properly.
Never mind.
Speaking of ambient cooling: has anyone tried using a pumpless water block (optionally fitted with a fan)? I'm picturing just a big copper box full of water, to cool by convection. All it would need is to be effective enough to not need a fan for total silence - I'm not into gonzo overclocking. Hey, if Macs can do it...
One point which I think has not been made: not all reports of DOS attacks are reliable. My company's Senior Director of Technology once told our upstream provider that we were being DOS'ed, when in fact we were simply getting more (legitimate) traffic than usual. It also doesn't help that some OSes ship with stack settings poorly chosen for a busy public webserver and a) effectively participate in their own DOS'ing, and b) report possible attacks when in fact no such thing is going on.
Hey, don't forget 64-bit Irix, too. (First, too, if you believe their claim.) Is it any surprise Billyware is behind the curve, as usual?
And needless to say, the one thing I really care about, they didn't think of: REPLY AT THE BOTTOM, NOT THE TOP!
"control of a critical percentage of the servers"? Try "control of everything even vaguely technology-related." If the server market was their real long-term goal, how does releasing the Xbox help? Note that they didn't ever bother with the game console market until Sony started talking about becoming a "digital entertainment hub" or some such. Suddenly MS swung into action, because they saw their position being threatened...
To make white/pink noise? /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp
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I don't know how statistically good it is, but it's easy to do. Personally, I think anybody who says that that helps block out noise is nuts, but to each his own.
If you'd actually talk to some of the riders of "those fucking things", you might find out that for them, being loud is a matter of safety. Motorcycles are harder to see (particularly because most drivers aren't looking for them) and the riders are much more vulnerable in crashes. They need all the "visibility" they can get. Of course, not all of them need to be as loud as they are...