"a system that would eliminate programming because you could just speak English".
Even if you had such a system you'd still need programmers and analysts.
Most people can't even use Google efficiently to search for what they want, what are the odds that they would be able to come up with a query that would give them the _correct_ results?
"Give me the total number of our employees in Los Angeles".
Los Angeles is ambiguous - is it just the city? If it's just the city do you mean living in the city or working in the city? Also should include those on a business trip to elsewhere and those seconded to Houston for a year? And who are considered employees? So on and so forth...
The system will have to guess how precise a query needs to be, what the questioner is likely to mean. And it could still get things wrong. It could be OK if only rough estimates are needed, but there are many important queries where the exact correct results are required.
Either that or the system has to ask the questioner lots of questions to disambiguate things and perhaps suggest a "shortcut" to get the same query in the future.
Lastly: Intelligence is knowing the right answer to a question. Wisdom is giving the right response to the whole situation.
"Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."
The Chinese were/are pretty sensitive to the "addicted" keyword. It probably reminded them of the British opium business in the 1800s.
Actually in theory your ISP could supply you with a fake root cert. Unless you do stuff like downloading your browser using a different ISP or a different channel, or compare notes with someone who has.
Big deal. My advice to people is to start moving off those platforms ASAP and not bother trying to get new stuff to work on it.
SPARC's on death row and HP buried the Alpha (poor thing was still kicking and screaming;) ).
People who pick "one vendor" platforms should be well used to paying lots of money for anything.
Anyway, the only one who should build an expensive SPARC compile farm should be Sun. It's crazy for anyone else to do so. Are people going to suggest some company/organization buys lots of _expensive_ Intel "Itanic" servers just so people making _free_ software can test their software for _free_?
That's almost like expecting someone to buy a bunch of Bugatti Veyrons so that people around the world can learn to make 3rd party add ons for it for free.
Face it, if you buy a "Bugatti Veyron", don't complain when you have to go back to the vendor and their bunch of "approved partners" for practically everything.
So in theory you could have a script for "A" and "B" to automatically free up and find blocks. And a script for "C" to actually allocate a manually decided block and set up the delegation etc.
Doesn't actually seem too hard if you start with a decent database schema, and are using sane DNS software;).
Of course there are super expensive off the shelf solutions to do all sorts of stuff, but funny thing is you'd probably have to spend about the same amount of time and effort integrating them with your DNS, routers etc.
I'm not that keen on the idea of the average idiot having semi-automatic weapons[1], but the people who spout that "bear arms" thingy will love your example - the Iraqis aren't doing that bad in "fighting off the evil US Gov".
Basically the US did a bad job of attempting to take over Iraq. At the beginning they basically told the Iraqi military "Get lost" - and these are people with weapons who are used to following orders (e.g. from Saddam). Should have just set things up so they follow your orders, but no... the US sends them off and they end up following other people's orders. Nothing was or is being done to win over the population, in fact more seems to be done to _antagonize_ the local populace. Rape, random unjustified killings.
[1] Maybe I'm elitist.
Still, guess who let Bush in for a 2nd term? And you'd trust these with semi-automatic weapons?
Yeah. Maybe that hair is for protection, like a lion's mane? Say you sport one those "wild men" look - while you can be more easily grabbed by the hair, it's a bit harder to claw or strangle you in the head area.
Seems tigers get a bit put off by the mane when fighting lions - can't see the neck. That said, lions tend to do lots more cat vs cat fighting than tigers.
How about: coz enough people thought it looked nice AND the minuses aren't significant enough to select against it.
Evolution isn't about optimums - it's all about good enough. As long as it reproduces it doesn't matter how silly it looks or behaves or whatever.
You see tons of ridiculous creatures teetering at the edge of survival all the time, especially in places where energy and other resources are abundant.
And even in places where resources are not as abundant like Antartica, you still have ridiculous creatures like penguins. Put a few breeding pairs of polar bears in the south pole, and I bet more than a few penguin species would go extinct within a few decades.
Anyway, head hair is good for preventing sun burn on our heads. The lack of hair elsewhere allows us to sweat and keep cool when moving at a brisk pace.
And maybe it makes us look weird to other creatures - seems like quite a fair number of large land predators aren't as keen on eating us as compared to other targets.
So what if it's unenforceable _now_. Who's to say it won't be enforceable later?
Even if they say it's "nothing" or not enforceable, it's still stupid to have it in.
Or do they prefer to select employees whose signatures/words are worth _nothing_, while eliminating potential employees who actually are diligent (to read fine print in contracts) AND have integrity?
It can't be acceptable practice, otherwise what do you expect a baker to do if he leaves a bakery? Do web design?
Request that the clause (and other unreasonable clauses - e.g. unreasonable IP clauses[1] ) be struck out.
[1] Just because I work for a company doesn't mean it should own everything I think about. Do NOT sign up to be a slave. Sure the company should have rights to most stuff they tell me to create/make for them. BUT if a carpenter makes tools using his own materials and time to better build his employer's stuff, then the carpenter should own those tools. His employer should of course own what he made for them.
I've seen IP contracts where ALL ideas of yours past, present, future end up being property of the company whether or not they have any relation to the work you were hired to do, that's ridiculous.
That's not really relevant - it's supposedly a democracy after all.
I'm just wondering about the sanity of those who voted him in the SECOND TIME AROUND.
Even if he wasn't really voted in, and the voting machines were tampered with etc, the voters are responsible for allowing such voting machines to be used.
It doesn't matter whether a saleperson has an IQ of 40 or likes wearing polka dot everything. If the sales targets are exceeded and the money is pouring in[1], anything short of significantly criminal is usually forgiven by management.
It is actually much easier to measure what Sales does, and if a salesperson doesn't meet targets, well it's usually bye bye time. Sometimes it's not even their fault - it could be they are made to sell a crap product (produced by crappy developers;) ).
In contrast sysadmins could be reading slashdot all day AND that could be a sign of them doing their job properly - nothing goes down, and anything that has problems doesn't fail immediately warnings get sent in advance, and hardware/software fixes are scheduled.
[1] The salesperson is selling to people who actually pay. There's a very significant and important difference between people ordering your stuff, taking "delivery", saying they will pay, vs them actually paying.
They should just tell Microsoft - give us Windows XP for 5-7 more years OR we go Linux.
After all apparently Windows XP already works OK for them, and new computers capable of running Vista tolerably will run XP pretty well;).
It'll be crazy for the FAA or DoT to switch to Vista, there are only a handful of pluses for them (nope DirectX 10 support is not it), whereas there are so many minuses - trouble with drivers, trouble with compatibility, costs of retraining and support, lower performance (so far most of the benchmarks indicate that Vista is slower even for office apps) etc.
Then after 5-7 years, maybe Linux/Wine will have a decent Windows XP compatibility layer and the FAA and others can continue running their apps on a free OS of their choice (or a commercial Microsoft Windows compatible competitor ).
Well, one of my "far out" theories is that a significant part of how minds work is they make models/simulations of stuff.
A baby looks at a ball bounce, and a bunch of neurons first start attempting to "mirror" the behaviour (e.g. fire when it moves one way), then "prediction" would be to fire as if the ball is going to move in a certain way BEFORE the ball actually does. If the prediction is correct, then the model is good.
Being able to automatically create and run many simulations/models in parallel would be very useful for a creature that's trying to decide what to do by predicting what will happen. Quantum computing might help with making this easier.
Perhaps you are right and we don't use quantum computing.
It seems rats replay their memories backwards and forwards during idle or when sleep. Maybe that's part of finding possible "destination/answer" points to "situations/questions/" and storing them. So the next time there's a "question" the rat can think immediately of many possible "answer" points.
Maybe consciousness is what happens when a creature starts recursively simulating itself in order to guess what the creature itself will do next;).
It's fortunate that most Democracies are nothing like that. Every citizen is an independent thinking individual. None of this evil communist conformist crap.
After all, the Left-wing Party and Right-wing Party are poles apart. They are as different as the Good guys and the Bad guys in Pro Wrestling.
How more obvious can it be. Left is on one side, Right is on the other side. Like the difference between the Communist Red corner and the Freedom Blue corner. Or the Axis of Evil and the Coalition of the Good!
And the wonderful thing about modern democracy is you have the freedom to choose any of those choices!:p
Hey, those Chinese kids have to get off their butts, stop messing with "the internet" and start getting low paying jobs in factories to make stuff for Walmart so that the US people can keep buying it with money they don't have, that was borrowed from banks. Money that's printed by the Feds, backed by bonds bought by the Central Bank of China (and the Bank of Japan).
I hope you understand it's a pretty delicate situation, if too many Chinese kids and other people don't do the "right thing", the whole scheme could fall apart a bit earlier than _expected_.
Someone using the exploit can only grab any file on your filesystem that the user account your browser runs as has permissions to read, which may be significantly restricted (I found that hard to do on Linux in the old days, but I guess nowadays it should be easier with better filesystem ACLs).
If you use the same user account for work, ssh and browsing then you risk exposing stuff like:
~/.ssh/id_dsa ~/.ssh/id_rsa
Which in some cases might be more interesting than/etc/fstab;).
Slashdot Mirror
You sure that works? So what happens if someone spams DOC SIS UNCAP PING everywhere?
Just like the good old +++ATH0<cr> days of crappy modems.
Why's my post modded redundant? I only see one other post here on the same thing AND it's was posted AFTER my post.
off-the-cuff posts are removing much of the demand for high-level editorial skills...
;)
Plus all you need to do is rehash old stories, or even just dupe them... And voila 300+ comments.
"a system that would eliminate programming because you could just speak English".
Even if you had such a system you'd still need programmers and analysts.
Most people can't even use Google efficiently to search for what they want, what are the odds that they would be able to come up with a query that would give them the _correct_ results?
"Give me the total number of our employees in Los Angeles".
Los Angeles is ambiguous - is it just the city? If it's just the city do you mean living in the city or working in the city? Also should include those on a business trip to elsewhere and those seconded to Houston for a year? And who are considered employees? So on and so forth...
The system will have to guess how precise a query needs to be, what the questioner is likely to mean. And it could still get things wrong. It could be OK if only rough estimates are needed, but there are many important queries where the exact correct results are required.
Either that or the system has to ask the questioner lots of questions to disambiguate things and perhaps suggest a "shortcut" to get the same query in the future.
Lastly: Intelligence is knowing the right answer to a question. Wisdom is giving the right response to the whole situation.
Bill Gates said the same thing 9 years ago.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-212942.html
"Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."
The Chinese were/are pretty sensitive to the "addicted" keyword. It probably reminded them of the British opium business in the 1800s.
Ah but the researchers aren't screwing with their own brains in those experiments...
Actually in theory your ISP could supply you with a fake root cert. Unless you do stuff like downloading your browser using a different ISP or a different channel, or compare notes with someone who has.
Big deal. My advice to people is to start moving off those platforms ASAP and not bother trying to get new stuff to work on it.
;) ).
SPARC's on death row and HP buried the Alpha (poor thing was still kicking and screaming
People who pick "one vendor" platforms should be well used to paying lots of money for anything.
Anyway, the only one who should build an expensive SPARC compile farm should be Sun. It's crazy for anyone else to do so. Are people going to suggest some company/organization buys lots of _expensive_ Intel "Itanic" servers just so people making _free_ software can test their software for _free_?
That's almost like expecting someone to buy a bunch of Bugatti Veyrons so that people around the world can learn to make 3rd party add ons for it for free.
Face it, if you buy a "Bugatti Veyron", don't complain when you have to go back to the vendor and their bunch of "approved partners" for practically everything.
For the IP part, postgresql has network operators and functions that can come in very useful.
c tions-net.html
;).
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/fun
So in theory you could have a script for "A" and "B" to automatically free up and find blocks.
And a script for "C" to actually allocate a manually decided block and set up the delegation etc.
Doesn't actually seem too hard if you start with a decent database schema, and are using sane DNS software
Of course there are super expensive off the shelf solutions to do all sorts of stuff, but funny thing is you'd probably have to spend about the same amount of time and effort integrating them with your DNS, routers etc.
I'm not that keen on the idea of the average idiot having semi-automatic weapons[1], but the people who spout that "bear arms" thingy will love your example - the Iraqis aren't doing that bad in "fighting off the evil US Gov".
Basically the US did a bad job of attempting to take over Iraq. At the beginning they basically told the Iraqi military "Get lost" - and these are people with weapons who are used to following orders (e.g. from Saddam). Should have just set things up so they follow your orders, but no... the US sends them off and they end up following other people's orders. Nothing was or is being done to win over the population, in fact more seems to be done to _antagonize_ the local populace. Rape, random unjustified killings.
[1] Maybe I'm elitist.
Still, guess who let Bush in for a 2nd term? And you'd trust these with semi-automatic weapons?
Yeah. Maybe that hair is for protection, like a lion's mane? Say you sport one those "wild men" look - while you can be more easily grabbed by the hair, it's a bit harder to claw or strangle you in the head area.
Seems tigers get a bit put off by the mane when fighting lions - can't see the neck. That said, lions tend to do lots more cat vs cat fighting than tigers.
"Where's the evolutionary advantage of that?"
How about: coz enough people thought it looked nice AND the minuses aren't significant enough to select against it.
Evolution isn't about optimums - it's all about good enough. As long as it reproduces it doesn't matter how silly it looks or behaves or whatever.
You see tons of ridiculous creatures teetering at the edge of survival all the time, especially in places where energy and other resources are abundant.
And even in places where resources are not as abundant like Antartica, you still have ridiculous creatures like penguins. Put a few breeding pairs of polar bears in the south pole, and I bet more than a few penguin species would go extinct within a few decades.
Anyway, head hair is good for preventing sun burn on our heads. The lack of hair elsewhere allows us to sweat and keep cool when moving at a brisk pace.
And maybe it makes us look weird to other creatures - seems like quite a fair number of large land predators aren't as keen on eating us as compared to other targets.
So what if it's unenforceable _now_. Who's to say it won't be enforceable later?
Even if they say it's "nothing" or not enforceable, it's still stupid to have it in.
Or do they prefer to select employees whose signatures/words are worth _nothing_, while eliminating potential employees who actually are diligent (to read fine print in contracts) AND have integrity?
It can't be acceptable practice, otherwise what do you expect a baker to do if he leaves a bakery? Do web design?
Request that the clause (and other unreasonable clauses - e.g. unreasonable IP clauses[1] ) be struck out.
[1] Just because I work for a company doesn't mean it should own everything I think about. Do NOT sign up to be a slave. Sure the company should have rights to most stuff they tell me to create/make for them. BUT if a carpenter makes tools using his own materials and time to better build his employer's stuff, then the carpenter should own those tools. His employer should of course own what he made for them.
I've seen IP contracts where ALL ideas of yours past, present, future end up being property of the company whether or not they have any relation to the work you were hired to do, that's ridiculous.
That's not really relevant - it's supposedly a democracy after all.
I'm just wondering about the sanity of those who voted him in the SECOND TIME AROUND.
Even if he wasn't really voted in, and the voting machines were tampered with etc, the voters are responsible for allowing such voting machines to be used.
It doesn't matter whether a saleperson has an IQ of 40 or likes wearing polka dot everything. If the sales targets are exceeded and the money is pouring in[1], anything short of significantly criminal is usually forgiven by management.
;) ).
It is actually much easier to measure what Sales does, and if a salesperson doesn't meet targets, well it's usually bye bye time. Sometimes it's not even their fault - it could be they are made to sell a crap product (produced by crappy developers
In contrast sysadmins could be reading slashdot all day AND that could be a sign of them doing their job properly - nothing goes down, and anything that has problems doesn't fail immediately warnings get sent in advance, and hardware/software fixes are scheduled.
[1] The salesperson is selling to people who actually pay. There's a very significant and important difference between people ordering your stuff, taking "delivery", saying they will pay, vs them actually paying.
They should just tell Microsoft - give us Windows XP for 5-7 more years OR we go Linux.
;).
After all apparently Windows XP already works OK for them, and new computers capable of running Vista tolerably will run XP pretty well
It'll be crazy for the FAA or DoT to switch to Vista, there are only a handful of pluses for them (nope DirectX 10 support is not it), whereas there are so many minuses - trouble with drivers, trouble with compatibility, costs of retraining and support, lower performance (so far most of the benchmarks indicate that Vista is slower even for office apps) etc.
Then after 5-7 years, maybe Linux/Wine will have a decent Windows XP compatibility layer and the FAA and others can continue running their apps on a free OS of their choice (or a commercial Microsoft Windows compatible competitor ).
Wow. What's the reasoning behind changing the DST so often?
AFAIK the FDA is a US Gov agency funded by taxpayers (so far).
So I think it's in the interests of the US taxpayers to fix things before it gets to "Lawyer time".
Also, it's pretty hard to undo the creation of "super-resistant bacteria".
What I'm curious about is why does Sony get away so easily with installing backdoors and you don't?
I mean just look at the fine to revenue ratios. And who got a criminal record because they were involved in the sony rootkit thing?
Well, one of my "far out" theories is that a significant part of how minds work is they make models/simulations of stuff.
;).
A baby looks at a ball bounce, and a bunch of neurons first start attempting to "mirror" the behaviour (e.g. fire when it moves one way), then "prediction" would be to fire as if the ball is going to move in a certain way BEFORE the ball actually does. If the prediction is correct, then the model is good.
Being able to automatically create and run many simulations/models in parallel would be very useful for a creature that's trying to decide what to do by predicting what will happen. Quantum computing might help with making this easier.
Perhaps you are right and we don't use quantum computing.
It seems rats replay their memories backwards and forwards during idle or when sleep. Maybe that's part of finding possible "destination/answer" points to "situations/questions/" and storing them. So the next time there's a "question" the rat can think immediately of many possible "answer" points.
Maybe consciousness is what happens when a creature starts recursively simulating itself in order to guess what the creature itself will do next
No, it's only copyright infringement to remember it ;).
A penny for your thoughts? The greedy MAFIAA will want more than a penny.
In the future you may be forced to have DRM in your senses and brains (whether 100% natural or not).
The current copyright schemes don't scale (with population, better technology), and the direction isn't towards improvement.
It's fortunate that most Democracies are nothing like that. Every citizen is an independent thinking individual. None of this evil communist conformist crap.
:p
After all, the Left-wing Party and Right-wing Party are poles apart. They are as different as the Good guys and the Bad guys in Pro Wrestling.
How more obvious can it be. Left is on one side, Right is on the other side. Like the difference between the Communist Red corner and the Freedom Blue corner. Or the Axis of Evil and the Coalition of the Good!
And the wonderful thing about modern democracy is you have the freedom to choose any of those choices!
Hey, those Chinese kids have to get off their butts, stop messing with "the internet" and start getting low paying jobs in factories to make stuff for Walmart so that the US people can keep buying it with money they don't have, that was borrowed from banks. Money that's printed by the Feds, backed by bonds bought by the Central Bank of China (and the Bank of Japan).
I hope you understand it's a pretty delicate situation, if too many Chinese kids and other people don't do the "right thing", the whole scheme could fall apart a bit earlier than _expected_.
Someone using the exploit can only grab any file on your filesystem that the user account your browser runs as has permissions to read, which may be significantly restricted (I found that hard to do on Linux in the old days, but I guess nowadays it should be easier with better filesystem ACLs).
/etc/fstab ;).
If you use the same user account for work, ssh and browsing then you risk exposing stuff like:
~/.ssh/id_dsa
~/.ssh/id_rsa
Which in some cases might be more interesting than
But if you crack that problem then you'd be immortal.