"The term assault is quite frequently used improperly. Its legal meaning refers to a threat of violence. It consists of one or more acts intended by the tortfeasor (the person who commits the tort) to create an aprehension of bodily harm in the victim. To rise to the level of assault, the tortfeasor must have an apparent, present means of inflicting the bodily harm. for instance, a knife or pistol (it would make no difference that the pistol was not loaded if the victim had reason to believe that it was) would scare most people. The tort of assault requires that the threat be concerned with immediate injury-not next week or in the future, such as the case where someone threatens injury if they ever see you again."
Source:
Legal Aspects of Engineering 6th edition, page 294; Richard C. Vaughn. Kendall/Hunt publication co, 1999.
There are stories about how a teenager (youngish teen) pointed a very realistic toy gun at a cop at night. Cop couldn't tell that it was a toy, it looked real, and so the cop shot the kid. Wrong thing to do? No. Unfortunate? Yes. After all, the police officer needs to protect his own life.
The toy guns is understandable. This is a different can of worms.
Almost nothing worth buying is ISA anymore (I'll ignore sound cards and modems in that statement). Servers don't need those. And a server can get an external modem if need be.
PCI is much faster, especially when you get into 64 bit and 66MHz PCI busses.
ISA is a leftover technology now, with slots there for backwards compatability. Similar to what Apple did with getting rid of the floppy drive (except it's easier to attach a USB -> floppy converter than an PCI -> ISA device if such a beast even exists). For a server motherboard in 2001, I can't see why you'd want an ISA slot. I'd rather get an extra PCI space and toss the ISA stuff.
He's saying the OS should not be part of the interface. Like, if you use a word processor, you don't see the underlying OS, just the program that lets the user word process. You shouldn't have to find an application through the start menu, you should just be able to press a button and it goes. Or press the number pad and have it open a calculator for you.
Frankly, I think Jef has some pretty nutty ideas. Like ZoomWorld. Yuck.
I had to deal with Bess when admining at my high school. Nobody was able to get around it. Here's how.
We were using Macs and Netscape 2.02 and 3.04. I had lockdown software that wouldn't let people run unapproved programs, and software that wouldn't let a user edit the preferences files (netscape stores the proxy info in the pref file). I then opened up Netscape in ResEdit and hacked out the dialog box that lets you change the proxy settings. Literally deleted it (if you never used ResEdit, this may not make too much sense. But classic mac programs have two forks, data and 'resource'. Resedit is the resource fork editor, it's designed to make creating programs easier, and holds stuff like images, sounds, dialog boxes, and strings).
As such, you couldn't change it at all. If you had admin privilages, you could run an unhacked copy of netscape to temporarly change it. But students couldn't turn it off.
If you need a power house, then performance is very important aspect. Expandability is also important, as if you're investing much you want to make sure it can do what you want it to do over the next few years. Stability is always a toss around, is it the software? Substandard hardware? Prehaps quality would be a good qualifier as well. Price doesn't matter as much, and while physical size is important in certain situations, usually if you need something that important, you'll make room for it. Not to mention, expandability partly reflects size.
Why do people post questions to Ask Slashdot on enterprise scale problems? Comeon, what network architect, manager, administrator, whatever, is really going to expect to use good, qualified feedback on slashdot?
How many people here have even sent a byte of data on an enterprise network? Probably a very small percentage. Lots of people talk out of their ass too.
There are newsgroups where a higher concentration of experienced, qualified personal are located. Use that. Slashdot is for linux activists, and I know the quality of activist advice.
"When I decide I'd like to be able to drag one document on top of another and concatenate them? (cat doc1 doc2 > doc3 in good old CLI world). I cannot."
Yeah, if you're using text files. Bet a bunch of people don't.
I don't get it, what's the point in this article? It's very short.
Blocking anonymous proxies, if you're censoring why not? That can be a security risk. Or a workaround.
Translation services may get around censorware if they translate whole pages. However, a good product would allow URL exceptions so that even if you're blocking, say, everything, you could allow one domain or URL.
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No I don't think it's Americans not keeping up the pace, it's the trust factor.
Why should we trust the computers to behave correctly? How do we know that the manufacturer didn't put a trojan horse in the boot chips? What if it crashes? What if it doesn't add 2+2 correctly?
Voting is considered one of the great rights of America. We don't want to change it too fast. Certainly not sending data over the Internet, there's way too much risk of interception.
I can't see an advantage of using a computer based system, beyond increasing the complexity of the processes and opening up new grounds for hackers to play in.
Well, anywhere from $0 to around $120 (assuming consumer systems). Obiviously, the pay money systems are WindowsXX and MacOS. BeOS can be thrown in there as well too (don't know pricing on it).
.....bsd....................
::and let's not debate the 'technical merits' of one over the other::
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Don't throw out the entire phone desk.
What happens when
(A) The remote site's WAN connection is down.
(B) The PC's networking is broken (for whatever reasons).
(C) The OS won't boot.
You'll have to have good phone people for these.
"The term assault is quite frequently used improperly. Its legal meaning refers to a threat of violence. It consists of one or more acts intended by the tortfeasor (the person who commits the tort) to create an aprehension of bodily harm in the victim. To rise to the level of assault, the tortfeasor must have an apparent, present means of inflicting the bodily harm. for instance, a knife or pistol (it would make no difference that the pistol was not loaded if the victim had reason to believe that it was) would scare most people. The tort of assault requires that the threat be concerned with immediate injury-not next week or in the future, such as the case where someone threatens injury if they ever see you again."
Source: Legal Aspects of Engineering 6th edition, page 294; Richard C. Vaughn. Kendall/Hunt publication co, 1999.
That's different than producing realistic looking guns.
That's just stoopid.
But realistic looking toy guns have caused problems.
Toy guns are different issue.
There are stories about how a teenager (youngish teen) pointed a very realistic toy gun at a cop at night. Cop couldn't tell that it was a toy, it looked real, and so the cop shot the kid. Wrong thing to do? No. Unfortunate? Yes. After all, the police officer needs to protect his own life.
The toy guns is understandable. This is a different can of worms.
I see a Jon Katz article in the making out of this. :) Wait a week, let's see.
Almost nothing worth buying is ISA anymore (I'll ignore sound cards and modems in that statement). Servers don't need those. And a server can get an external modem if need be.
PCI is much faster, especially when you get into 64 bit and 66MHz PCI busses.
ISA is a leftover technology now, with slots there for backwards compatability. Similar to what Apple did with getting rid of the floppy drive (except it's easier to attach a USB -> floppy converter than an PCI -> ISA device if such a beast even exists). For a server motherboard in 2001, I can't see why you'd want an ISA slot. I'd rather get an extra PCI space and toss the ISA stuff.
"Imagine: we present the system thousands of pictures of criminals from their mug shots and the program learns to classify criminals."
What does a criminal look like? Forget the computer, can you describe it?
He's not saying get rid of the OS, kinda.
He's saying the OS should not be part of the interface. Like, if you use a word processor, you don't see the underlying OS, just the program that lets the user word process. You shouldn't have to find an application through the start menu, you should just be able to press a button and it goes. Or press the number pad and have it open a calculator for you.
Frankly, I think Jef has some pretty nutty ideas. Like ZoomWorld. Yuck.
There are ways around getting around it.
I had to deal with Bess when admining at my high school. Nobody was able to get around it. Here's how.
We were using Macs and Netscape 2.02 and 3.04. I had lockdown software that wouldn't let people run unapproved programs, and software that wouldn't let a user edit the preferences files (netscape stores the proxy info in the pref file). I then opened up Netscape in ResEdit and hacked out the dialog box that lets you change the proxy settings. Literally deleted it (if you never used ResEdit, this may not make too much sense. But classic mac programs have two forks, data and 'resource'. Resedit is the resource fork editor, it's designed to make creating programs easier, and holds stuff like images, sounds, dialog boxes, and strings).
As such, you couldn't change it at all. If you had admin privilages, you could run an unhacked copy of netscape to temporarly change it. But students couldn't turn it off.
What's the point?
It's silly!
It's funny.
That's about it. It isn't designed to be taken seriously. MTo make you look at it, and go, what the hell does THAT do?
For larger companies, and people that really need a lot of power, I'd put that list as:
1. Preformance
2. Expandability
3. Stability/Quality
4. Price
5. Size
If you need a power house, then performance is very important aspect. Expandability is also important, as if you're investing much you want to make sure it can do what you want it to do over the next few years. Stability is always a toss around, is it the software? Substandard hardware? Prehaps quality would be a good qualifier as well. Price doesn't matter as much, and while physical size is important in certain situations, usually if you need something that important, you'll make room for it. Not to mention, expandability partly reflects size.
Use a VPN connection. Assuming you have one. If you don't, you can use a linux box for cheap (although not that great) VPNning.
That makes no sense AFC.
UDP port 25...who cares? Mail runs via TCP port 25.
And blocking port 25 would block all mail, not just spam. So no mail could happen. That doesn't make sense unless earthlink didn't offer email.
Good luck using it in California.
Maybe the power outages are caused by someone running a PDP-10, and not the Internet.
It was announced by Steve Jobs on Tuesday Jan 9th around 1:30p EST (give or take) at the MacWorld SF keynote.
You can also see the price at http://www.apple.com/macosx/ in the right column, labeled "MacWorld SF 2001"
Cube $1499
G4 $1699
That's not $2500+
It's been announced that MacOS X will cost $129.
Sometime in June, new mac purchases will come with OSX preinstalled.
Don't forget that neat iTunes screensaver thing. Really cool looking.
Isn't Mir having a lot of troubles as it is, crumbling and near death?
Why do people post questions to Ask Slashdot on enterprise scale problems? Comeon, what network architect, manager, administrator, whatever, is really going to expect to use good, qualified feedback on slashdot?
How many people here have even sent a byte of data on an enterprise network? Probably a very small percentage. Lots of people talk out of their ass too.
There are newsgroups where a higher concentration of experienced, qualified personal are located. Use that. Slashdot is for linux activists, and I know the quality of activist advice.
"When I decide I'd like to be able to drag one document on top of another and concatenate them? (cat doc1 doc2 > doc3 in good old CLI world). I cannot."
Yeah, if you're using text files. Bet a bunch of people don't.
man tcsh > /dev/lpr
:-)
I hear it outputs a stack of paper about half an inch thick.
Better use duplex printing.
I don't get it, what's the point in this article? It's very short.
Blocking anonymous proxies, if you're censoring why not? That can be a security risk. Or a workaround.
Translation services may get around censorware if they translate whole pages. However, a good product would allow URL exceptions so that even if you're blocking, say, everything, you could allow one domain or URL.
No I don't think it's Americans not keeping up the pace, it's the trust factor.
Why should we trust the computers to behave correctly? How do we know that the manufacturer didn't put a trojan horse in the boot chips? What if it crashes? What if it doesn't add 2+2 correctly?
Voting is considered one of the great rights of America. We don't want to change it too fast. Certainly not sending data over the Internet, there's way too much risk of interception.
I can't see an advantage of using a computer based system, beyond increasing the complexity of the processes and opening up new grounds for hackers to play in.
Well, anywhere from $0 to around $120 (assuming consumer systems). Obiviously, the pay money systems are WindowsXX and MacOS. BeOS can be thrown in there as well too (don't know pricing on it).
.....bsd....................
::and let's not debate the 'technical merits' of one over the other::