Not saying it was the case here, but remember that it's not a question of if it's elegant, or quick, but if it's right.
I can easily see them giving hours and days of computing time in exchange for KNOWING that they're doing big plodding calculations over and over again, but they'll get a damn right answer, instead of using a fast, sexy little thing that might, never the less, throw a calculation off by.000001 percent.
If the computer controlling your brain electrodes is networked in any way, other than one way send to a monitoring station, I'd say that they NEED to send more voltage through said nodes.
Didn't I see this in a made for TV movie a few years back? It had Kelsey Grammar. They used their state National Guard to close the borders.
I especially liked the end; don't read if you don't want the spoilers. When all was said and done, the governer decided to step down, so he phoned somebody up and said he was going to give his succession speech. But the feds wiretapping the phone misheard, thought he said 'secession' speech, and they invaded.:-)
Well, one piece of oft-quoted evidence is the 'tarriffs' on CD-Rs which go directly back to the RIAA; in effect, the garage band is paying the RIAA for the privledge of distributing their own stuff.
Or the ruthless efficiency with which Napster, MP3.com and the like are all attacked. Yes, they're used for piracy. Scissors are used for killing. Hell, rifles are used for killing; don't see America banning.223 cartridges any time soon.
Ah, but they're also trying to prevent one from self-broadcasting their *own* music; effectively saying, 'if you want your music released into the public market, it MUST go through us.'
I've seen it happen. Put on a nice business suit, claim to be a consultant, and the SEP field magically kicks into play.
Like those IBM commercials showing the inside of the network as a round table, and the two thieves come in. "Umm...we're vendors."
Or, to put it your way, why have the challenge if you've the swipe door? Why have the server room locked if the front door is locked? And so on. Just because you've a firewall doesn't mean you don't tell your database server to only accept requests from the webserver and the admin console. Just because the front door's locked, and the server room door's locked, doesn't mean you shouldn't lock the racks, and the machines.
You might choose to trust Juan Third Party Repairman to repair the right machine, let alone not fuck something up, accidentally or maliciously, but I don't. For example.
I guess what I'm trying to say in my own rambling way is, there's no percentage in taking chances.
If your server isn't designed with 'security' in mind, including the ability to padlock the chassis, and at least send an SNMP trap when the chassis is opened, then you need to learn that as far as 'computer and data security' is concerned, protecting from external network attacks is actually quite low on the totem pole.
Or, "If Joe Random Idiot can walk in and rip out the hard drive, who cares how 3117 your firewall and other network protections are."
Actually, that's a whole different ball of wax. There laws, regulations, and requirements that cover accounting documents; *those* are what made it illegal to be shredding paper. Similarly, there are laws coming out that classify email in the same way as paper correspondence, as pertains to corporate interests, at least. For example, for financial institutions, emails must be archived for some period of time, same as paper documents.
It's a sticky situation. There should have been a policy; this would have guided him. In the absence of a policy, the CEO, or any other duly designated executive of the company, has the right to tell him to do this. In theory, it should have gone through the Sys Admin's superior; generals don't tell lieutenants how to secure the perimeter.
Two lessons here. 1: have a policy. 2: do it through email; then you have a paper trail. In this case, an email to his the right people, say, his boss, or if there is no boss, to the CEO in question, and possibly CC'd to the HR head, just saying 'I did that task, but think we need a written policy for such things in the future, just so everybody knows what's going on.'
In other words, he had a moral objection to it, not an ethical one. Ethically, he's wrong. Morally, well, they're his morals, so he's right.
Just as an extention to this, with Exchange 2000, domain admins and the like are explicitly blocked from accessing user's mailboxes. You have to do some non-trivial ACL editing to get that ability.
How about release dates: "the movie will be out on DVD in just four or five months".
Right, sometimes, if you're lucky. Often it is one or two years, though. And by then all of your friends will have seen the movie, and you'll feel like a dork.
Hmm..wern't both Spidy and Clones out in June or July? And they'll be on DVD, in stores, in November?
As a Canadian citizen, I tried to get into the States under Trade NAFTA, a TN-1 visa. As one of the six people, at the time, on the planet who could do my job, I was denied entry as they'd have hated to take a job away from an honest American citizen.
I heard one story of a fellow at Pearson Int'l Airport who was waiting in line. There's a big red line at the US terminal; on this side, you're on Canadian soil. On that side, you're on American soil. Or carpet. Either way. Anywho, he plunked his bag down, to dig out his passport and what not. American guard says 'get your bag off of American soil, sir.' Guy says 'Sure thing, just let me grab my passport here, so I can give it to the.....' and the guard picks up the bag, and hucks it back onto the Canadian side. The fellow, when he got back to the window, was denied entry.
Slashdot gets slashdotted regularly. They just know how to handle it.
Ever notice how sometimes, the front page doesn't have your login information? Or the post count doesn't get updated? You're being served a static page for one reason or another.
The simple fact of the matter is that most of the 'database driven' sites, which is where you get the 'mysql socket error' or 'too many sql server connections' or whatever problems, don't need to be database driven. You don't write a static article, put it in a database, then hit that database every bloody time somebody wants to read it. Put a copy in a variable, display that, refresh the variable every five minutes. Or even every minute. Or even ever ten seconds. You'll still never get more than six connections a minute, at that rate, and the information is just as current and fresh.
I believe it was James Forrestal, SecDef, who was confined to Bethesda Naval Hospital for acute paranoia, as he believed he was being followed by Israeli secret agents.
After he jumped from the 16th story, it was discovered that he was, in fact, being trailed by Israeli secret agents.
You ripped the DVD-Video track, not the DVD-Audio track. DVD-As often include a DVD-Video track, playable in a DVD Video player, that has no picture, and an AC-3 bitstream.
It's very likely that you wern't listening to the DVD-A track, so much as the AC-3 track that's on there for people who don't have a DVD-A player, and just pop it into their DVD-V player.
Actually, would be more accurate to say 'is capable of' running a version of WinCE. It's a title by title basis; the hardware itself doesn't run an OS, only a bootstrapper and a few hard-coded utils to play CDs, change the clock, and futz with the memory cards.
Nonsense. Your taxes go, in part, to maintaining public roads and highways, but that doesn't give you the 'right' to drive on them, use them, or do anything with them, really.
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Watching an hour of CNN, then watching an hour of, say, BBC World or Sky News is a very eye opening experience.
CNN is closer to 24 hour talk shows than to 24 hour news, I'm afraid.
Obligatory disclaimer: I'm Canadian.
Not saying it was the case here, but remember that it's not a question of if it's elegant, or quick, but if it's right.
I can easily see them giving hours and days of computing time in exchange for KNOWING that they're doing big plodding calculations over and over again, but they'll get a damn right answer, instead of using a fast, sexy little thing that might, never the less, throw a calculation off by .000001 percent.
Well, according to the Gaia theory, a self-contained ecosystem will correct. People point to things like AIDS as examples.
Step one: go to audible.com and get books.
Step two: get one of those little thingies that plugs into the headphone out, and transmits on a radio frequency.
Step three: profit!!
If the computer controlling your brain electrodes is networked in any way, other than one way send to a monitoring station, I'd say that they NEED to send more voltage through said nodes.
Didn't I see this in a made for TV movie a few years back? It had Kelsey Grammar. They used their state National Guard to close the borders.
I especially liked the end; don't read if you don't want the spoilers. When all was said and done, the governer decided to step down, so he phoned somebody up and said he was going to give his succession speech. But the feds wiretapping the phone misheard, thought he said 'secession' speech, and they invaded. :-)
Well, one piece of oft-quoted evidence is the 'tarriffs' on CD-Rs which go directly back to the RIAA; in effect, the garage band is paying the RIAA for the privledge of distributing their own stuff.
Or the ruthless efficiency with which Napster, MP3.com and the like are all attacked. Yes, they're used for piracy. Scissors are used for killing. Hell, rifles are used for killing; don't see America banning .223 cartridges any time soon.
Ah, but they're also trying to prevent one from self-broadcasting their *own* music; effectively saying, 'if you want your music released into the public market, it MUST go through us.'
I've seen it happen. Put on a nice business suit, claim to be a consultant, and the SEP field magically kicks into play.
Like those IBM commercials showing the inside of the network as a round table, and the two thieves come in. "Umm...we're vendors."
Or, to put it your way, why have the challenge if you've the swipe door? Why have the server room locked if the front door is locked? And so on. Just because you've a firewall doesn't mean you don't tell your database server to only accept requests from the webserver and the admin console. Just because the front door's locked, and the server room door's locked, doesn't mean you shouldn't lock the racks, and the machines.
You might choose to trust Juan Third Party Repairman to repair the right machine, let alone not fuck something up, accidentally or maliciously, but I don't. For example.
I guess what I'm trying to say in my own rambling way is, there's no percentage in taking chances.
If your server isn't designed with 'security' in mind, including the ability to padlock the chassis, and at least send an SNMP trap when the chassis is opened, then you need to learn that as far as 'computer and data security' is concerned, protecting from external network attacks is actually quite low on the totem pole.
Or, "If Joe Random Idiot can walk in and rip out the hard drive, who cares how 3117 your firewall and other network protections are."
ROFL! Clippy the Chess Assitant!
"Hi! I can see that you're trying to fork my rook! Would you like some help with that?"
Actually, that's a whole different ball of wax. There laws, regulations, and requirements that cover accounting documents; *those* are what made it illegal to be shredding paper. Similarly, there are laws coming out that classify email in the same way as paper correspondence, as pertains to corporate interests, at least. For example, for financial institutions, emails must be archived for some period of time, same as paper documents.
It's a sticky situation. There should have been a policy; this would have guided him. In the absence of a policy, the CEO, or any other duly designated executive of the company, has the right to tell him to do this. In theory, it should have gone through the Sys Admin's superior; generals don't tell lieutenants how to secure the perimeter.
Two lessons here. 1: have a policy. 2: do it through email; then you have a paper trail. In this case, an email to his the right people, say, his boss, or if there is no boss, to the CEO in question, and possibly CC'd to the HR head, just saying 'I did that task, but think we need a written policy for such things in the future, just so everybody knows what's going on.'
In other words, he had a moral objection to it, not an ethical one. Ethically, he's wrong. Morally, well, they're his morals, so he's right.
Just as an extention to this, with Exchange 2000, domain admins and the like are explicitly blocked from accessing user's mailboxes. You have to do some non-trivial ACL editing to get that ability.
Hmm..wern't both Spidy and Clones out in June or July? And they'll be on DVD, in stores, in November?
Windows 9x doesn't. NT/2K/XP do.
You can get apps for 9x, such as Rain, that will run as a lowest-priority thread and issue the HLT commands.
As a Canadian citizen, I tried to get into the States under Trade NAFTA, a TN-1 visa. As one of the six people, at the time, on the planet who could do my job, I was denied entry as they'd have hated to take a job away from an honest American citizen.
I heard one story of a fellow at Pearson Int'l Airport who was waiting in line. There's a big red line at the US terminal; on this side, you're on Canadian soil. On that side, you're on American soil. Or carpet. Either way. Anywho, he plunked his bag down, to dig out his passport and what not. American guard says 'get your bag off of American soil, sir.' Guy says 'Sure thing, just let me grab my passport here, so I can give it to the.....' and the guard picks up the bag, and hucks it back onto the Canadian side. The fellow, when he got back to the window, was denied entry.
He's not a witness; he's the accused. Under American law, he needs to be in front of a Judge for anything to happen, IIRC.
Slashdot gets slashdotted regularly. They just know how to handle it.
Ever notice how sometimes, the front page doesn't have your login information? Or the post count doesn't get updated? You're being served a static page for one reason or another.
The simple fact of the matter is that most of the 'database driven' sites, which is where you get the 'mysql socket error' or 'too many sql server connections' or whatever problems, don't need to be database driven. You don't write a static article, put it in a database, then hit that database every bloody time somebody wants to read it. Put a copy in a variable, display that, refresh the variable every five minutes. Or even every minute. Or even ever ten seconds. You'll still never get more than six connections a minute, at that rate, and the information is just as current and fresh.
I believe it was James Forrestal, SecDef, who was confined to Bethesda Naval Hospital for acute paranoia, as he believed he was being followed by Israeli secret agents.
After he jumped from the 16th story, it was discovered that he was, in fact, being trailed by Israeli secret agents.
You ripped the DVD-Video track, not the DVD-Audio track. DVD-As often include a DVD-Video track, playable in a DVD Video player, that has no picture, and an AC-3 bitstream.
It's very likely that you wern't listening to the DVD-A track, so much as the AC-3 track that's on there for people who don't have a DVD-A player, and just pop it into their DVD-V player.
How is it nitpicking to point out that when comparing number of packages required, you're leaving out required packages?
Any OS, ANY one at all, is only as secure as the admin makes it. Period.
Actually, would be more accurate to say 'is capable of' running a version of WinCE. It's a title by title basis; the hardware itself doesn't run an OS, only a bootstrapper and a few hard-coded utils to play CDs, change the clock, and futz with the memory cards.
Nonsense. Your taxes go, in part, to maintaining public roads and highways, but that doesn't give you the 'right' to drive on them, use them, or do anything with them, really.