One is the quote: experts predict the high-tech processor will offer unprecedented gaming power They say this before any new release, all the console game companies do, It doesn't allways pan out. The Playstation one is not all that "Oohh' LaLa, and Sony said it was the greatest thing ever or some spin like that. I bought one for my kids and they want to sell it to the neighbors kid and use the money to buy more N-64 games.
But that kind of speed in a console is going to open up a whole new realm in gaming. Second was the DVD influence: Combine that with a DVD drive, and a modular design that will offer simple upgrades to Internet access.... I'm getting a little leary of DVD/Net connected anything. For one the technology is just advancing to fast to make it a sound investment and also Because a PlayStation 2 lacks a built-in storage device, he says new programs would likely run through the DVD drive. DVD Write will eventually come in to play and with it will come all the hassles with encription, keys, copyright infringement etc.
Should be an interesting product to watch though, I wonder how Sony will target market it to the non-gamer community. Those chips could have so many other uses.
I know I'm going to be flambe'ed for this but I sort of have to agree with him on this. Realizing this is another Katz flavored troll, passing high emotion content with the underlyings of great social and political import. However, I beleive he has a good point. Our culture is evelving so quickly with the advent of technology that the impacts are getting greater, both positively and negatively. On the positive front the technology advances are wonderous in scope and add value to our lives and to society. Katz hits on-target one of the biggest and most feared negative impacts, the privacy issue.
The folks in the/. community know these impacts because the majority of our lives surround technology in one way or another and we protect ourselves to a degree. But to the average Joe on the street, they really have no idea. And Jon hits on the fact that it is already too late to correct the direction we are heading. I wouldn't want to slow down technilogical advances in any way, however I am disheartened with the lack of ethics and uses of some of our technilogical advances. so I guess we take the good with the bad. Sort of like the firearms analogy; The gun doesn't kill a person, the person firing the gun does. So are guns bad? Is technology advancement?
Even if the date has all even numbers evenly spaced, Even if the day has to be shared with Phil the evenkeeled rodent, Even if the 2nd month is an uneven leap year month and is evenly spaced every four years, Even if the year will eventually end with the dawn of an even millennium, Even though this is Slashdot and this post has an even number of lines, and even number of words and an even number of letters, it's still Wednesday. Isn't that odd?
The code for the artificial intelligence engine on the bot must be coded entirely by you or your team. It is okay to use other people's code (with their permission, of course) for getting the bot on IRC, but the rest is up to you.
Closed source bots. I wonder how many bots will be released a'la GPL.
As much as I personally dislike Mitnick and what he did, I think that the lawyers have a good point. On one hand the feds state: said the situation was akin to Mitnick asking for his coat back and the government not knowing if there was a pistol in the pocket. which seems like a reasonable argument. I wouldn't give him the coat back either.
On the other side the argument boils down to fifth amendment rights: Mitnick's lawyers immediately objected to this condition on the grounds that it would force him to waive his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination to obtain evidence he needed and that he had a legal right to see. the judge shot this down hard. But from my point of view, I think he would have been in deeper poop if he allowed the files to be decrypted. Hence he would have been contributing to his own demise.
On a side note, with all the MIPS the government has, I think it's odd that they seem to have never broken his homemade encryption scheme. Maybe they should outsource the job to some Norwegian teenagers.
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I actually agree 100% with your post. Just didn't want to post a "Me too" post. I know (Score:-1 silly)
The fact is that it's much harder to make good end-user software than it is to make good infrastructure software - and that's going to make it tough for Open Source software to break out of its server niche.
This is so true. A common thread around here is that someone will say "But doing X on Linux is hard, it was easier on my old UI" or something like that and then the flames start. Linux is supposed to be for people who are smart enough to understand it etc. etc. I agree to a point, specifically around the infrastructure areas, but to be truly mainstream and industrial strength, Open-Souce software will have to grow up so that the average customer can use it.
AC's got it right this time. I think what he did was right, but it was also done do be silly. Read the thread on Christmas day, he was on/., thats how he heard of it.
I found the article above interesting and thought provoking and well written, but in the big picture I thought the port from Micheal to Marxism to "Why can t we all just get along" and back to Michael very odd. I think it was an exercise in creative writing.
Bottom Line: Contrary to common perceptions, open-source development is neither a recent phenomenon nor a transient one, and more significantly, it is one that will increasingly be associated with commercial vendors and end-user organizations. We recommend that IT organizations which currently exclude all OSS from their acquisition plans should re-examine this policy. P. Coming from Gartner, this is a real landmark. I hope this wave of positive press continues.
Cut your losses, cutover to HP Openview or any number of expensive SNMP managers. BTW, Unicenter and Solaris don't mix. They have allways had bigtime problems with Solaris, and Novel 4.x and up have been about the same. Don't look to TNG either, same poor results.
I believe the advantage comes from being able to scan from the Linux box to the Win clients. now we have a couple of extra workstation strung up just for this task. It'll be nice to get rid of 'em.
You seemed to have focused on just the virus part of the press release, but this is only one area of the larger suite that CA is pushing. With CA partnering with Red Hat, this helps provide an "Industrial Strength" flavor that business wants before we blindly port our enterprise to the flavor of the month. I would have had other choiced ahead of CA, because I think their products are clunky, but the exposure as mainstream I think is a good thing.
Overall this is really good. The exposure, positive press etc. for Linux as a mainstream business platform is great. CA on the other hand has had some problems in the credibility department, specifically on how their products integrate and the press release stated:
delivering a seamless out-of-the-box management solution tightly packaged for the midmarket customer
This, I know is rah rah marketing talk, but I work with CA products every day and I have never seen a seamless out-of-the-box solution come from them yet. I'm sort of surprised that HP and Harris or even BMC got in on this instread of CA.
On a more positive note, A recent MERIT survey revealed that 48 percent of enterprise customers view Linux as an important component to their enterprise IT strategy for 2000..
I hadn't heard of this survey yet, this is good news.
Ya' know, the list you put up is really not all that absurd. They have most of this same crap for cell phones now, (save the lego and fishtank) It wouldn't surprise me a bit to see this in the near term. Sad part is that Palms are so expensive to start with.
Normally I try not to feed the trolls, however this is something to consider. With AC on the list and with the above thread listing best comments, I would also like to see a catagory for best trolls be on the list.
I thought the review was right on. I've read the book also and the biggest problem I have is convincing senior management that information security is paramount and should be treated as such. This book helped me a lot in this effort, it brought me from port level scanning conversations and helped me make the communication much more generic in terms that my management understood.
The main InfoSec problem out there today is that the people who control where the IT money is spent, don't always understand the risks associated with ignoring or cutting back on proactive security measures. This book gave me a different way to present. I'd strongly recommend it to both InfoSec folks as well at senior IT management.
I must agree however that understanding how neurons work etc, is a long way off and emulating that is even further. Emulating is the key word here, we can mimick the basic way the brain performs, but emulating is something entirely different.
Kind of gives a whole ned dimension to the term Wearables
With the rate technology is moving forward this really doesn't sound all that absurd. However I cant help thinking of that old movie "They Saved Hitlers Brain", where they pickled hitlers brain and it got out of control. Horrible movie, right up there with "Attack of the Killer Tomatos" but the concept was pretty cool.
Aside from the obvious references that will come relating to ZEO et all, I thinkthat for the most part this would be a very bas idea.
Ultimately, however, the earth's technology-creating species will merge with its own computational technology. After all, what is the difference between a human brain enhanced a trillion-fold by nanobot-based implants, and a computer whose design is based on high-resolution scans of the human brain, and then extended a trillion-fold?
We are already, as a society getting lazier, fatter and more reliant on outside influences, If we all end up getting wired, we will begin a forced evolution of the species, I dont think that would be such a great idea.
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One is the quote: experts predict the high-tech processor will offer unprecedented gaming power They say this before any new release, all the console game companies do, It doesn't allways pan out. The Playstation one is not all that "Oohh' LaLa, and Sony said it was the greatest thing ever or some spin like that. I bought one for my kids and they want to sell it to the neighbors kid and use the money to buy more N-64 games.
But that kind of speed in a console is going to open up a whole new realm in gaming. Second was the DVD influence: Combine that with a DVD drive, and a modular design that will offer simple upgrades to Internet access.... I'm getting a little leary of DVD/Net connected anything. For one the technology is just advancing to fast to make it a sound investment and also Because a PlayStation 2 lacks a built-in storage device, he says new programs would likely run through the DVD drive. DVD Write will eventually come in to play and with it will come all the hassles with encription, keys, copyright infringement etc.
Should be an interesting product to watch though, I wonder how Sony will target market it to the non-gamer community. Those chips could have so many other uses.
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The folks in the /. community know these impacts because the majority of our lives surround technology in one way or another and we protect ourselves to a degree. But to the average Joe on the street, they really have no idea. And Jon hits on the fact that it is already too late to correct the direction we are heading. I wouldn't want to slow down technilogical advances in any way, however I am disheartened with the lack of ethics and uses of some of our technilogical advances. so I guess we take the good with the bad. Sort of like the firearms analogy; The gun doesn't kill a person, the person firing the gun does. So are guns bad? Is technology advancement?
Never knock on Death's door:
Even if the day has to be shared with Phil the evenkeeled rodent,
Even if the 2nd month is an uneven leap year month and is evenly spaced every four years,
Even if the year will eventually end with the dawn of an even millennium,
Even though this is Slashdot and this post has an even number of lines, and even number of words and an even number of letters, it's still Wednesday.
Isn't that odd?
Never knock on Death's door:
Never knock on Death's door:
Closed source bots. I wonder how many bots will be released a'la GPL.
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On the other side the argument boils down to fifth amendment rights: Mitnick's lawyers immediately objected to this condition on the grounds that it would force him to waive his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination to obtain evidence he needed and that he had a legal right to see. the judge shot this down hard. But from my point of view, I think he would have been in deeper poop if he allowed the files to be decrypted. Hence he would have been contributing to his own demise.
On a side note, with all the MIPS the government has, I think it's odd that they seem to have never broken his homemade encryption scheme. Maybe they should outsource the job to some Norwegian teenagers.
Never knock on Death's door:
Never knock on Death's door:
Nascar 2K with some good amped sound. . . Yeah Baby!
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Court to violators bringing for responsibility take will they case which in, FSF the to over copyright the sign to be would option one. Action legal take can you though, know you if. Difficult very be could code GPL your stolen has else someone that knowing. $.02 my in put I'll, anyway posting I'm since, anyway.
I actually agree 100% with your post. Just didn't want to post a "Me too" post. I know (Score:-1 silly)
Never knock on Death's door:
This is so true. A common thread around here is that someone will say "But doing X on Linux is hard, it was easier on my old UI" or something like that and then the flames start. Linux is supposed to be for people who are smart enough to understand it etc. etc. I agree to a point, specifically around the infrastructure areas, but to be truly mainstream and industrial strength, Open-Souce software will have to grow up so that the average customer can use it.
Never knock on Death's door:
I found the article above interesting and thought provoking and well written, but in the big picture I thought the port from Micheal to Marxism to "Why can t we all just get along" and back to Michael very odd. I think it was an exercise in creative writing.
Never knock on Death's door:
Never knock on Death's door:
Cut your losses, cutover to HP Openview or any number of expensive SNMP managers. BTW, Unicenter and Solaris don't mix. They have allways had bigtime problems with Solaris, and Novel 4.x and up have been about the same. Don't look to TNG either, same poor results.
Good luck, your going to need it.
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a) yes Linux=Red Hat
b)Linux=mainstream
You seemed to have focused on just the virus part of the press release, but this is only one area of the larger suite that CA is pushing. With CA partnering with Red Hat, this helps provide an "Industrial Strength" flavor that business wants before we blindly port our enterprise to the flavor of the month. I would have had other choiced ahead of CA, because I think their products are clunky, but the exposure as mainstream I think is a good thing.
Never knock on Death's door:
delivering a seamless out-of-the-box management solution tightly packaged for the midmarket customer
This, I know is rah rah marketing talk, but I work with CA products every day and I have never seen a seamless out-of-the-box solution come from them yet. I'm sort of surprised that HP and Harris or even BMC got in on this instread of CA.
On a more positive note, A recent MERIT survey revealed that 48 percent of enterprise customers view Linux as an important component to their enterprise IT strategy for 2000..
I hadn't heard of this survey yet, this is good news.
Never knock on Death's door:
Never knock on Death's door:
Oh well, maybe next year.
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The main InfoSec problem out there today is that the people who control where the IT money is spent, don't always understand the risks associated with ignoring or cutting back on proactive security measures. This book gave me a different way to present. I'd strongly recommend it to both InfoSec folks as well at senior IT management.
Never knock on Death's door:
I must agree however that understanding how neurons work etc, is a long way off and emulating that is even further. Emulating is the key word here, we can mimick the basic way the brain performs, but emulating is something entirely different.
Never knock on Death's door:
With the rate technology is moving forward this really doesn't sound all that absurd. However I cant help thinking of that old movie "They Saved Hitlers Brain", where they pickled hitlers brain and it got out of control. Horrible movie, right up there with "Attack of the Killer Tomatos" but the concept was pretty cool.
Aside from the obvious references that will come relating to ZEO et all, I thinkthat for the most part this would be a very bas idea.
Ultimately, however, the earth's technology-creating species will merge with its own computational technology. After all, what is the difference between a human brain enhanced a trillion-fold by nanobot-based implants, and a computer whose design is based on high-resolution scans of the human brain, and then extended a trillion-fold?
We are already, as a society getting lazier, fatter and more reliant on outside influences, If we all end up getting wired, we will begin a forced evolution of the species, I dont think that would be such a great idea.
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That was funny!
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