I think it's great that VP Gore is getting some penguin time, but there's one issue that has always concerned me.
Tipper Gore could go on a frenzy of Internet censorship.
Are there any other old farts who care to back me up on this? As I recall, Tipper Gore was the driving force behind a legislation effort designed to "Clean Up Rock Music Lyrics". Was it the "PMRC" or something?
At some point, I hope someone will ask this question -- "Ms. Gore, many old farts remember your leglislative efforts concerning the lyric content of music. First, how familiar are you with Internet content, Second, how offended are you by that content, and Third, as First Lady, what personal campaigns or legislative activities would you find appropriate to "clean up the net", if you found such a cleansing appropriate?"
This is actually the only issue I have with the democratic side. When I hear that name -- "Tipper Gore" -- It's synonomous with "Music Censor". Is "Internet Censor" that far of a stretch?
As always, thanks for the platform, from which i spew.
you get treated like a second class citizen by everyone you meet "Hi, I program computers..." (silence)
you're lucky if you keep a job more than two years at a time.
you never know when the company is going to hire a total jerk that does nothing but give everyone grief, yet you can't fire them cuz of the lawsuit issues, plus the client is paying for them anyway, so a decent-to-good work environment turns into a hellhole.
you never know when the investors will fold, or the client decides to drop your company for a place that does VB and H1-B visas. none of the crap works, but at least it's cheap and the learning curve short.
hi level people leave, and get replaced by idiots, rendering the entire tech department as useless at teats on a nun.
i can't beleive any college entrant is currently considering a career in this industry...the entire software scene has been in decline for the last 3-5 years.
engineering pay has been holding steady at $50k - $80k for a so-so job for the past several years, but real estate costs have skyrocketed in all the tech areas. oh, yeah, a 2 bdrm condo for $540K, what a deal. maybe if a scrimp and save, i can just cover the payments while i'm job hunting in two years.
it's a losing game. if i were going into the sciences now, the last field i'd pick would be comp sci. all the way up the chain, nothing but a-holes.
see? it's rubbing off on me, too. don't get me wrong, i love programming. i'd gladly write firmware, open gl, SAP, (whatever) nonstop for 10-12 hours...then go out with my programming pals. at least that's the way it used to be.
but now it's nothing but meetings, the clueless people writing broken requirements, that need their hands held, and give you nothing but grief in return, and the rude/arrogant personality deprived above and below.
when i got into this stuff, there were jokes, fun, monty python, cruising around, working odd hours, having a blast, being intellectual. now it's all money (and how to save it by reducing our benefits), documentation, hostility and desperation.
fuznuck, i think i need a new job:-)
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admittedly, many red commie russians and chinese are scum and not fit for the civialized world. of course, every other country faces the same issue. The USA (for example) has a lot of hate filled people who would rip you off in an instant.
it seems (from somes russians i've had the pleasure of meeting) that russia is kinda in a state of economic upheaval, with many power factions, some of which are nothing but corrupt organized criminals.
it wouldn't suprise me if the people doing the organizing had the best of intentions, but it went downhill from there.
isn't there multinational effort to launch sattelites froma floating platform in the pacific? based in long beach or therabouts? that project went well, but i think it was organized and built before the current state of Russia.
one person i respect very much used to visit russia twice yearly, but stopped two years ago; he could no longer stand the corruption and graft everywhere.
it's a shame to see such a wondrous nation fall so low, but "mother russia" has a long history of these cycles.
maybe a nice thread would be "How does a country recover when it sinks into chaos and corruption, as the United States did a few times in the earlier part of this century? What can be done to help them? These are people we're talking about, a lot of good people.
...who watched my brother's family suffer while companies left his database infrastructure for MS-based DB products. Guess what? Even though my bro proved cases of client record corruption under MS, the companies still chose MS to get out from under the UNIX license fees. he was out of work for months when the company collapsed. I admit some of the UNIX license fees (sco, sun, ultrix, etc.) were ridiculous, tho. But client data corruption? how much does $25K save a $40B company?
my own experience is similar. companies choosing to leave UNIX for MS cuz they can avoid exhorbant license fees. SCO? $$$K a year. The (unnamed) company I was was contracting for replaced ONE sco server with TEN nt servers. It was easier to train people on, but checkpoints failed *way* more often, requiring a lot of people to do weekend'ers and overnight'ers. Do they take all that $$ into account?
I hate MS. I always have, from the days they screwed Gary Kildall (RIP), through the days they screwed IBM, and the days they screwed Novell, through the days they screwed Borland, through the day they screwed my former employer, who abondoned UNIX to become a "Microsoft Certified Provider".
I watched my company's profits climb incredibly for two years, to the present, when they can't sell shit for fertilizer. I left long before, though. I do UNIX now, and would rather sell burgers than touch the putrid dogshit than embidies every MS product.
I wrote s/w under NT for two years. I tried to be a "believer", but every MS rep I talked to, and every "upgrade" that broke everything either left me with my skin crawling (from the obvious lies), or in the case of the latter, left me pining for the days of "Stable Unix". Yes, I'll say it again -- STABLE UNIX.
That company is nearly dead now. They watched the most complained about NT bugs (ole stream errors) persist for over a year with no programmers assigned, or status returned. Even a fading company like INFORMIX treated our bug reports better.
Did I tell you that our contract with MS was reminescent of the early railroad days of California? MS required we give them the right to entry of our premises, 365/7/24, for examination of all of our P&L accounting, all s/w licensing, etc. Note that from that point on, we had every MS license paid, but only ONE copy each of Borland products, shared among 50+ developers. Wow, how suprising.
MS fucked me, my family, and my friends with an inferior product for a low price, for 15 years. I've only met two MS developers (out of about 30) that deserve respect. The rest were whores, for the greatest pimp the world has ever seen, BILL GATES. He took what the taxpayers developed (for billions of dollars -- computer science/Unix/open GL), or apple INNOVATED, wrapped in in his own glitzy crap/renamed it, and fleeced the globe.
Everyone, please consider what i've said, and think about researching how MS fucks/has fucked competitors, the global population, and individuals. Consider feeling the way I do -- that to use, touch, or even see a machine using a BILLGATES/MS product, means you need a long shower afterwards.
I know I'm not alone in this. Sometimes I wonder how many other people hope that one of two things happen:
1) DOJ breaks up MS forever, and ends their monopolistic practices. they fade into the limelight.
2) America starts a program for Elementary Schools -- "How to be a Sniper". In this class, everyone learns to shoot long range with high powered sniper rifles. All targets have a full color pic of BILL GATES.
sorry for the hate, but too many have suffered for me to remain quiet.
okay, if i'm a physicist, i can publish drawings and descriptions of a nuclear weapon in a book or on a web page. the actual implementation of the weapon is a crime. but i can't publish algorithms that point out deficiencies in copy protection schemes? that's illegal? shouldn't the USE and IMPLEMENTATION of the the hack TO MAKE PROFIT PIRATING be the crime? what country is this anyway? pathetic!
I'm glad Linus is here, but the whole techno visa thing is a sham. It's disruptive to the people who come to the US under a shadow, and takes smart people from the homeland.
I think the whole H1 visa thing should be illegal, and we should just let a certain number of people in as Americans each year, but no targeting.
You get Drs., lawyers, politicians, Janitors, etc. in the same percentage as the donor country.
That way, programmers wouldn't feel threatened, and the new arrivals can stay and be Americans right from the get go.
> "And while all U.S. senators have e-mail, > they, like their House counterparts, > routinely shun non-constituent mail > -- even though they chair committees > whose decisions affect the entire country.'"
Oh, please. This is a *republic*. None of our officials are required to listen to a word we say, constituent or not.
Any debate over official decisions is handled in the Congress, House, White House and occasianally the Supreme Court.
Voting is our only true voice. We do not have (and SHOULD NOT HAVE) direct democracy. For the most part, the masses are asses. It would be like asking a child to make a life or death decision -- it just won't work.
Hence we have the balance of "a duly elected representative body".
this is not the middle ages, and kevin is not a witch. your lame analolgy matches your intellect (what a suprise).
To me, the case at hand is no different than searching a bank robber's house, under a warrant, and finding a (hypothetical) perfect safe.
"I will not open the safe, on the grounds it may tend to incriminate me". Then later, "Oh! I'm out of prison, and I want my safe back! You have to give it to me, it's mine!" Oh yeah, let's give the thief his safe. I don't think so.
I think the way the gov. handled this case is criminal in and of itself, but that's not the issue.
The issue is whether a convicted computer criminal has the right to his encrypted binaries. The answer is "No".
Unlike you, I (and friends) have suffered from crime. The people who did the crimes had intellects similar to yours -- "I have rights!! Wah, Wah, Wah. I want a lawyer! Fuck the government! This is an inquisition! It's the dark ages!"
I have little or no patience with convicted criminals. They should be punished strongly, and whatever assets they used in the commission of their crime should be seized by the people and auctioned or destroyed.
the seized computers had incriminating files as well as encrypted files, the same way a vehicle used in a crime has tires, the same way seized land has trees.
He gave it all up when when he did the crime.
I DO have a problem with some of the crazy laws that allow the gavernment to take property on SUSPICION of a crime, but in this case, the encrypted binaries of a hacker?
No way. Take them, don't give them back, watch him like a hawk.
The government bungled thae case, but I see no reason to reward KM, especially w/o knowing the contents. It would be like giving a "Perfect Safe" back to a bank robber.
mitnick refused to turn over the key, under the 5th amendment. he just lost all rights to the blob, since it may or may not contain fruits of his criminal activity.
there are other situations where personal property used in the commision of a crime is forfeited. guns, drugs, vehicles, land -- all can legally be taken and sold/disposed of by the gov. w/o compensation.
remember who the criminal is here. the gov treated his case very poorly, but kevin is the moron breaking/stealing/etc.
oh yeah...yet another good reason to keep backups:-)
i like sgi, but i don't think they are doing enough to support linux on their machines, no x server for indys, etc.
they need to make a concerted effort to get more tools ported, too -- maybe even that cvd debugger.
man i love their hardware, it is always so funny to see the monkeys post about their "750 mhz athlon" -- they have absolutely no clue how wonderful it is to develop under SGI/Irix -- it really makes me cringe to write under linux/pc crapware.
But I have little patience with the installation or package management of previous versions.
I am constantly ridiculed by my friends who use debian, who say i lack the patience to learn to install debian, or learn the package manager.
my reply is always the same: i should not have to "learn to install software" or "learn a package manager" -- in my opinion, these are things that should be essentially transparent to the enduser.
i would like to switch to debian, cuz it just seems to "represent linux" in many ways.
have they done anything new with the installation or pkg management since 2.1?
but after the thing dow chemical (or was it some paint company?) did with genetic algorithms, i'm not so sure.
early nineties: it was getting more and more difficult to make paint. volatility and lead laws, customer demand for particular qualities (glossy, long lived) etc. were driving chemists nuts. drop volitility, get short lived/fugly paint. they were having some luck, but not much.
the scientists brought in a consulting company to see what could be done with genetic algorithms. after some months of design and encoding of the basic chemical makeup and physical properties of paint, they were stunned that, after a few days processing, the algorithms cranked out several formulas that far exceeded all legal and usability requirements.
it was estimated that the labs, using traditional processes, would have taken 100+ years to develop these formulas.
i'm not so sure that you could not take some non-deterministic physical process and use it to drive genetic or neurofuzzy algorithms and blow all the NP stuff out of the water at some point.
there should be a mandatory, enforcable way to determine the age of the user, and the content of material.
there should be a xxx domain, or mandated ADULT tag in the html, plus a cookie from the client.
kids need a chance to be kids, and most internet smut is loaded with references to "teen (fill in the blanks)". there are currently no (even halfway) effective methodologies in place to split out pR0n between adults and kids.
i know these solutions aren't 100% effective, but at least the pR0n site can protect itself in court by saying "Look at my logs -- the connection from the kid's 'pute had a ADULT cookie!" and the fuzz can raid ISPs serving adult content without the mandatory "Adult" html tag.
a loss of freedom? take it away--all this "loss" does is keep predators away from kids. adults can see what they wish, parents can lock out adult material. most western countries have a obsession with youth anyway, going all the way back to the greeks, i suppose. this part of the "wild west internet" needs to be fixed.
Like standardize all digital data and binaries that travel between computers.
That is, it should always be possible for my machine to examine a digital stream (at least on the commercial side of things) and be able to detect exactly what that stream is.
I will never understand how the FCC did such a great job on radio and TV, but completely and utterly failed the planet on computer intercommunication.
Given the US, you can't buy a standard TV that won't read and decode a channel of information. But look at PeeCee's -- none of them can talk together, unless everything is "just so". What a waste.
...so they can yap about how poorly women are treated in the classrooms.
The reality is, students have never had it so good in the classrooms, and at my university, there were maybe 2-3 women per class of 35 students.
maybe we should pay women $1000 a week to go to school and sit in science classes? i don't know what the answer is.
of course, the women i've worked with (including the 1/4 they make up at our shop) are just fine.
if you don't go to the class, you don't get a degree, and you can't really be a geek. yes, i think a true geek requires at least a bachelor's degree, or be working toward one.
well, it looks like a win for us. we're looking at about 600-900 installs of our proprietary software in the Linux environment over the next couple years.
it was (and continues) to be a struggle to convince people it's a viable solution. The support issue comes up the most -- "who will support us if you're gone?"
funny thing is, all it takes is a few decent demos and their hearts turn. it is slowly becoming a viable alternative.
hopefully some decent openGL support and quality debuggers/profilers/gui builders will start floating down the pike soon.
I was at a great one; I personally didn't have the best time, but several of my friends went completely freaky -- I was happy for them. It was fun to watch.
People keep saying Y2K was a non-event, but there were several potentially serious issues that came up, and if not for the last few years of preparation I do think it could have been bad.
I personally did some Y2K work for a finncial institution, and their employees would have extra work to do, for sure, without the database and query mods I did. A lot of account forcasts would be accumulating bad mojo as of a little over a year ago.
One person I know (who was proclaiming Y2K a joke) has a two year old mail program that rolled the years in the email headers over to "00" and "100", depending on the field. I thought that was pretty funny.
I look forward to the millenium party next year. It really is the start of the new millenium, and nerds like me are gonna rage. All the non-beleivers can stay home -- More party for us.
I doubt your boss will care if you're hungover for a week, the rollover is gone, the start of the third millenium approaches!
Plagiarism has a long history, and I saw several students get the boot from the University where I went to school for violating University guidelines.
If you are going to do new work on a previously examined topic, you must cite your sources, have a variety of sources cited, and NOT provide a sense that the owners of the cited work have been plagarized.
For example, I can write a book about "Snoop Doggy Dogg", provide about 100 citations (books, webpages, mag. articles, TV/Radio programs), provide my condensed "personal take" on the rapper, and publish. That's legal; it's the foundation of all new work -- deriving from the old.
But when I cross the line (doing a rehash of an existing SDD book), and call that work my own with no citations, or with a "sense" of plagiarism, I open myself up to legal trouble.
I think the "fair use" rules, as they apply to books, will eventually dominate this issue. People using data from webpages WILL have to cite their sources, use a variety of sources, and verbatim copiers will be penalized/threatened, etc.
What am I missing here? This just sounds like another failure of the legislative process to provide sane solutions to a fairly simple, well-known problem. Is this just a scheme to provide incompetent lawyers with phat salaries for years to come?
I see no fundamental difference between pages on the web and pages in the library. They both convey information to the observer in virtually the same manner. The earliest animations were just flipping paper pages anyway.
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I think it's great that VP Gore is getting some penguin time, but there's one issue that has always concerned me.
Tipper Gore could go on a frenzy of Internet censorship.
Are there any other old farts who care to back me up on this? As I recall, Tipper Gore was the driving force behind a legislation effort designed to "Clean Up Rock Music Lyrics". Was it the "PMRC" or something?
At some point, I hope someone will ask this question -- "Ms. Gore, many old farts remember your leglislative efforts concerning the lyric content of music. First, how familiar are you with Internet content, Second, how offended are you by that content, and Third, as First Lady, what personal campaigns or legislative activities would you find appropriate to "clean up the net", if you found such a cleansing appropriate?"
This is actually the only issue I have with the democratic side. When I hear that name -- "Tipper Gore" -- It's synonomous with "Music Censor". Is "Internet Censor" that far of a stretch?
As always, thanks for the platform, from which i spew.
you get treated like a second class citizen by everyone you meet "Hi, I program computers..." (silence)
:-)
you're lucky if you keep a job more than two years at a time.
you never know when the company is going to hire a total jerk that does nothing but give everyone grief, yet you can't fire them cuz of the lawsuit issues, plus the client is paying for them anyway, so a decent-to-good work environment turns into a hellhole.
you never know when the investors will fold, or the client decides to drop your company for a place that does VB and H1-B visas. none of the crap works, but at least it's cheap and the learning curve short.
hi level people leave, and get replaced by idiots, rendering the entire tech department as useless at teats on a nun.
i can't beleive any college entrant is currently considering a career in this industry...the entire software scene has been in decline for the last 3-5 years.
engineering pay has been holding steady at $50k - $80k for a so-so job for the past several years, but real estate costs have skyrocketed in all the tech areas. oh, yeah, a 2 bdrm condo for $540K, what a deal. maybe if a scrimp and save, i can just cover the payments while i'm job hunting in two years.
it's a losing game. if i were going into the sciences now, the last field i'd pick would be comp sci. all the way up the chain, nothing but a-holes.
see? it's rubbing off on me, too. don't get me wrong, i love programming. i'd gladly write firmware, open gl, SAP, (whatever) nonstop for 10-12 hours...then go out with my programming pals. at least that's the way it used to be.
but now it's nothing but meetings, the clueless people writing broken requirements, that need their hands held, and give you nothing but grief in return, and the rude/arrogant personality deprived above and below.
when i got into this stuff, there were jokes, fun, monty python, cruising around, working odd hours, having a blast, being intellectual. now it's all money (and how to save it by reducing our benefits), documentation, hostility and desperation.
fuznuck, i think i need a new job
admittedly, many red commie russians and chinese are scum and not fit for the civialized world. of course, every other country faces the same issue. The USA (for example) has a lot of hate filled people who would rip you off in an instant.
it seems (from somes russians i've had the pleasure of meeting) that russia is kinda in a state of economic upheaval, with many power factions, some of which are nothing but corrupt organized criminals.
it wouldn't suprise me if the people doing the organizing had the best of intentions, but it went downhill from there.
isn't there multinational effort to launch sattelites froma floating platform in the pacific? based in long beach or therabouts? that project went well, but i think it was organized and built before the current state of Russia.
one person i respect very much used to visit russia twice yearly, but stopped two years ago; he could no longer stand the corruption and graft everywhere.
it's a shame to see such a wondrous nation fall so low, but "mother russia" has a long history of these cycles.
maybe a nice thread would be "How does a country recover when it sinks into chaos and corruption, as the United States did a few times in the earlier part of this century? What can be done to help them? These are people we're talking about, a lot of good people.
...who watched my brother's family suffer while companies left his database infrastructure for MS-based DB products. Guess what? Even though my bro proved cases of client record corruption under MS, the companies still chose MS to get out from under the UNIX license fees. he was out of work for months when the company collapsed. I admit some of the UNIX license fees (sco, sun, ultrix, etc.) were ridiculous, tho. But client data corruption? how much does $25K save a $40B company?
my own experience is similar. companies choosing to leave UNIX for MS cuz they can avoid exhorbant license fees. SCO? $$$K a year. The (unnamed) company I was was contracting for replaced ONE sco server with TEN nt servers. It was easier to train people on, but checkpoints failed *way* more often, requiring a lot of people to do weekend'ers and overnight'ers. Do they take all that $$ into account?
I hate MS. I always have, from the days they screwed Gary Kildall (RIP), through the days they screwed IBM, and the days they screwed Novell, through the days they screwed Borland, through the day they screwed my former employer, who abondoned UNIX to become a "Microsoft Certified Provider".
I watched my company's profits climb incredibly for two years, to the present, when they can't sell shit for fertilizer. I left long before, though. I do UNIX now, and would rather sell burgers than touch the putrid dogshit than embidies every MS product.
I wrote s/w under NT for two years. I tried to be a "believer", but every MS rep I talked to, and every "upgrade" that broke everything either left me with my skin crawling (from the obvious lies), or in the case of the latter, left me pining for the days of "Stable Unix". Yes, I'll say it again -- STABLE UNIX.
That company is nearly dead now. They watched the most complained about NT bugs (ole stream errors) persist for over a year with no programmers assigned, or status returned. Even a fading company like INFORMIX treated our bug reports better.
Did I tell you that our contract with MS was reminescent of the early railroad days of California? MS required we give them the right to entry of our premises, 365/7/24, for examination of all of our P&L accounting, all s/w licensing, etc. Note that from that point on, we had every MS license paid, but only ONE copy each of Borland products, shared among 50+ developers. Wow, how suprising.
MS fucked me, my family, and my friends with an inferior product for a low price, for 15 years. I've only met two MS developers (out of about 30) that deserve respect. The rest were whores, for the greatest pimp the world has ever seen, BILL GATES. He took what the taxpayers developed (for billions of dollars -- computer science/Unix/open GL), or apple INNOVATED, wrapped in in his own glitzy crap/renamed it, and fleeced the globe.
Everyone, please consider what i've said, and think about researching how MS fucks/has fucked competitors, the global population, and individuals. Consider feeling the way I do -- that to use, touch, or even see a machine using a BILLGATES/MS product, means you need a long shower afterwards.
I know I'm not alone in this. Sometimes I wonder how many other people hope that one of two things happen:
1) DOJ breaks up MS forever, and ends their monopolistic practices. they fade into the limelight.
2) America starts a program for Elementary Schools -- "How to be a Sniper". In this class, everyone learns to shoot long range with high powered sniper rifles. All targets have a full color pic of BILL GATES.
sorry for the hate, but too many have suffered for me to remain quiet.
okay, if i'm a physicist, i can publish drawings and descriptions of a nuclear weapon in a book or on a web page. the actual implementation of the weapon is a crime. but i can't publish algorithms that point out deficiencies in copy protection schemes? that's illegal? shouldn't the USE and IMPLEMENTATION of the the hack TO MAKE PROFIT PIRATING be the crime? what country is this anyway? pathetic!
I wonder what this corrupt bastard will do with his newfound wealth?
motif and cde kick ass cuz the high end workstations work really well with the official stuff.
bear in mind that the casual programmer/linux enthusiast NEVER sees these type of machines, and I seriously doubt the author of the piece has either.
the cluster of irix/sgi machines i use at work blows away any cluster of commercial pc's i've seen -- and of course they use motif/cde.
it's a really crappy comparison to make. really, the article is more flamebait than anything else, it's doesn't make a lot of sense.
I'm glad Linus is here, but the whole techno visa thing is a sham. It's disruptive to the people who come to the US under a shadow, and takes smart people from the homeland.
I think the whole H1 visa thing should be illegal, and we should just let a certain number of people in as Americans each year, but no targeting.
You get Drs., lawyers, politicians, Janitors, etc. in the same percentage as the donor country.
That way, programmers wouldn't feel threatened, and the new arrivals can stay and be Americans right from the get go.
> "And while all U.S. senators have e-mail,
> they, like their House counterparts,
> routinely shun non-constituent mail
> -- even though they chair committees
> whose decisions affect the entire country.'"
Oh, please. This is a *republic*. None of our officials are required to listen to a word we say, constituent or not.
Any debate over official decisions is handled in the Congress, House, White House and occasianally the Supreme Court.
Voting is our only true voice. We do not have (and SHOULD NOT HAVE) direct democracy. For the most part, the masses are asses. It would be like asking a child to make a life or death decision -- it just won't work.
Hence we have the balance of "a duly elected representative body".
hello, flamebaiting AC.
this is not the middle ages, and kevin is not a witch. your lame analolgy matches your intellect (what a suprise).
To me, the case at hand is no different than searching a bank robber's house, under a warrant, and finding a (hypothetical) perfect safe.
"I will not open the safe, on the grounds it may tend to incriminate me". Then later, "Oh! I'm out of prison, and I want my safe back! You have to give it to me, it's mine!" Oh yeah, let's give the thief his safe. I don't think so.
I think the way the gov. handled this case is criminal in and of itself, but that's not the issue.
The issue is whether a convicted computer criminal has the right to his encrypted binaries. The answer is "No".
Unlike you, I (and friends) have suffered from crime. The people who did the crimes had intellects similar to yours -- "I have rights!! Wah, Wah, Wah. I want a lawyer! Fuck the government! This is an inquisition! It's the dark ages!"
I have little or no patience with convicted criminals. They should be punished strongly, and whatever assets they used in the commission of their crime should be seized by the people and auctioned or destroyed.
the seized computers had incriminating files as well as encrypted files, the same way a vehicle used in a crime has tires, the same way seized land has trees.
He gave it all up when when he did the crime.
I DO have a problem with some of the crazy laws that allow the gavernment to take property on SUSPICION of a crime, but in this case, the encrypted binaries of a hacker?
No way. Take them, don't give them back, watch him like a hawk.
The government bungled thae case, but I see no reason to reward KM, especially w/o knowing the contents. It would be like giving a "Perfect Safe" back to a bank robber.
mitnick refused to turn over the key, under the 5th amendment. he just lost all rights to the blob, since it may or may not contain fruits of his criminal activity.
:-)
there are other situations where personal property used in the commision of a crime is forfeited. guns, drugs, vehicles, land -- all can legally be taken and sold/disposed of by the gov. w/o compensation.
remember who the criminal is here. the gov treated his case very poorly, but kevin is the moron breaking/stealing/etc.
oh yeah...yet another good reason to keep backups
i like sgi, but i don't think they are doing enough to support linux on their machines, no x server for indys, etc.
they need to make a concerted effort to get more tools ported, too -- maybe even that cvd debugger.
man i love their hardware, it is always so funny to see the monkeys post about their "750 mhz athlon" -- they have absolutely no clue how wonderful it is to develop under SGI/Irix -- it really makes me cringe to write under linux/pc crapware.
hope SGI continues to embrace os community.
But I have little patience with the installation or package management of previous versions.
I am constantly ridiculed by my friends who use debian, who say i lack the patience to learn to install debian, or learn the package manager.
my reply is always the same: i should not have to "learn to install software" or "learn a package manager" -- in my opinion, these are things that should be essentially transparent to the enduser.
i would like to switch to debian, cuz it just seems to "represent linux" in many ways.
have they done anything new with the installation or pkg management since 2.1?
but after the thing dow chemical (or was it some paint company?) did with genetic algorithms, i'm not so sure.
early nineties: it was getting more and more difficult to make paint. volatility and lead laws, customer demand for particular qualities (glossy, long lived) etc. were driving chemists nuts. drop volitility, get short lived/fugly paint. they were having some luck, but not much.
the scientists brought in a consulting company to see what could be done with genetic algorithms. after some months of design and encoding of the basic chemical makeup and physical properties of paint, they were stunned that, after a few days processing, the algorithms cranked out several formulas that far exceeded all legal and usability requirements.
it was estimated that the labs, using traditional processes, would have taken 100+ years to develop these formulas.
i'm not so sure that you could not take some non-deterministic physical process and use it to drive genetic or neurofuzzy algorithms and blow all the NP stuff out of the water at some point.
Browses the web fine, and a whole lot (maybe too much) more. Free, with support from a large, quality focused vendor. Duh.
there should be a mandatory, enforcable way to determine the age of the user, and the content of material.
there should be a xxx domain, or mandated ADULT tag in the html, plus a cookie from the client.
kids need a chance to be kids, and most internet smut is loaded with references to "teen (fill in the blanks)". there are currently no (even halfway) effective methodologies in place to split out pR0n between adults and kids.
i know these solutions aren't 100% effective, but at least the pR0n site can protect itself in court by saying "Look at my logs -- the connection from the kid's 'pute had a ADULT cookie!" and the fuzz can raid ISPs serving adult content without the mandatory "Adult" html tag.
a loss of freedom? take it away--all this "loss" does is keep predators away from kids. adults can see what they wish, parents can lock out adult material. most western countries have a obsession with youth anyway, going all the way back to the greeks, i suppose. this part of the "wild west internet" needs to be fixed.
Like standardize all digital data and binaries that travel between computers.
That is, it should always be possible for my machine to examine a digital stream (at least on the commercial side of things) and be able to detect exactly what that stream is.
I will never understand how the FCC did such a great job on radio and TV, but completely and utterly failed the planet on computer intercommunication.
Given the US, you can't buy a standard TV that won't read and decode a channel of information. But look at PeeCee's -- none of them can talk together, unless everything is "just so". What a waste.
...so they can yap about how poorly women are treated in the classrooms.
The reality is, students have never had it so good in the classrooms, and at my university, there were maybe 2-3 women per class of 35 students.
maybe we should pay women $1000 a week to go to school and sit in science classes? i don't know what the answer is.
of course, the women i've worked with (including the 1/4 they make up at our shop) are just fine.
if you don't go to the class, you don't get a degree, and you can't really be a geek. yes, i think a true geek requires at least a bachelor's degree, or be working toward one.
well, it looks like a win for us. we're looking at about 600-900 installs of our proprietary software in the Linux environment over the next couple years.
it was (and continues) to be a struggle to convince people it's a viable solution. The support issue comes up the most -- "who will support us if you're gone?"
funny thing is, all it takes is a few decent demos and their hearts turn. it is slowly becoming a viable alternative.
hopefully some decent openGL support and quality debuggers/profilers/gui builders will start floating down the pike soon.
people are asking on the ranger list how to send money, and they give an address, but what is the best method?
... (well, you know).
money order, personal check, etc?
no one seems to be able to answer this rather basic question...i've never sent money overseas.
who would i even make the darn check out to? can someone from slashdot find out and update the post?
i hate to whine (not really) but to ask for help with so many basic details missing is kind of
Im stuck at work, someone be a hero for the little penguins, eh?
complete unsubstantiated bullshit. it's funny how slashdot keeps reporting this unsubstantiated story.
"Oh! But there are TWO articles supporting it!" Yes, but the second article is a derivitive of the first.
This should really have the Monty Python foot, cuz it is kinda funny!
I was at a great one; I personally didn't have the best time, but several of my friends went completely freaky -- I was happy for them. It was fun to watch.
People keep saying Y2K was a non-event, but there were several potentially serious issues that came up, and if not for the last few years of preparation I do think it could have been bad.
I personally did some Y2K work for a finncial institution, and their employees would have extra work to do, for sure, without the database and query mods I did. A lot of account forcasts would be accumulating bad mojo as of a little over a year ago.
One person I know (who was proclaiming Y2K a joke) has a two year old mail program that rolled the years in the email headers over to "00" and "100", depending on the field. I thought that was pretty funny.
I look forward to the millenium party next year. It really is the start of the new millenium, and nerds like me are gonna rage. All the non-beleivers can stay home -- More party for us.
I doubt your boss will care if you're hungover for a week, the rollover is gone, the start of the third millenium approaches!
Plagiarism has a long history, and I saw several students get the boot from the University where I went to school for violating University guidelines.
:-)
If you are going to do new work on a previously examined topic, you must cite your sources, have a variety of sources cited, and NOT provide a sense that the owners of the cited work have been plagarized.
For example, I can write a book about "Snoop Doggy Dogg", provide about 100 citations (books, webpages, mag. articles, TV/Radio programs), provide my condensed "personal take" on the rapper, and publish. That's legal; it's the foundation of all new work -- deriving from the old.
But when I cross the line (doing a rehash of an existing SDD book), and call that work my own with no citations, or with a "sense" of plagiarism, I open myself up to legal trouble.
I think the "fair use" rules, as they apply to books, will eventually dominate this issue. People using data from webpages WILL have to cite their sources, use a variety of sources, and verbatim copiers will be penalized/threatened, etc.
What am I missing here? This just sounds like another failure of the legislative process to provide sane solutions to a fairly simple, well-known problem. Is this just a scheme to provide incompetent lawyers with phat salaries for years to come?
I see no fundamental difference between pages on the web and pages in the library. They both convey information to the observer in virtually the same manner. The earliest animations were just flipping paper pages anyway.
New Year's Rocked. Love you all
i don't see any alpha mobos or cpus in frys or on pricewatch. or any other 64 bit cpu.
how exactly is that "competition?"