I never saw the point of all this "oh don't push values onto other people" bullshit.
I figure we might as well push our values to other people while we can than let MTV, **AA, G W Bush etc have all the fun;).
Of course in my opinion, force or threat of force should not be allowed. Because once you allow that, that soon reduces the odds of a useful and productive debate.
So saying that someone shouldn't say something, should be fine for most people, unless one is in a position of authority in which case some care should be taken - unless you think it's such a good idea to surround yourself with "Yes-men".
Lastly, feel free to try to push your values to me, but I suggest giving good reasons why I should even consider accepting them.
Yeah when I see stuff like Highlander I laugh. People think it's so cool, but imagine being "immortal" like that, and some huge boulder falls on you, or you sink into some concrete mix without anyone knowing. Or some sadist captures you, starts a few experiments and...
But seriously though, in my opinion you don't even need such messed up scenarios that an eternity would be horrible.
I strongly suspect that Eternity could be a very very long time if you are not _perfect_.
Way too long.
Perhaps the first few million years will be great. But after a trillion or so?
well Apache, Postgresql can take advantage of multiple cores.
And most decent unix or unixlike systems can take advantage of multiple cores- even just piping something through gzip and grep would do it.
Still, dual core is good value now and will likely be even better value when the quads really start flowing.
The other important bottleneck still remains - disk I/O. Drives are still _really_ slow. So you might not be able to get data to the cores fast enough to keep all of them busy.
It shouldn't be surprising that the ones who can convince people to pay lots of money for some bug ridden crap programmers write, would be able to convince their bosses to pay them in return for it.
Then there's also PR - that's when you outsource the bullshit, half-truths and outright lies, so that if _they_ screw up you can switch PR companies and hopefully keep your job.
Anyway, I think it'll still be a very searchable space - there are a relatively small number of ISPs and the way most give out addresses is not going to be random.
Also is the common method of ipv6 autoconfig random? Or is it based on the MAC? If it is based on the MAC then that narrows things down even more.
Basically if the advantages of IPv6 are used then everyone gets to be a "peer", that probably means that people running such servers will want to make it easy for others to find their servers (or zombies;) ).
If "users" don't get to run their own servers, then it sounds a bit like NAT + IPv4;).
That's why you shouldn't care so much about the title. It's more about the bosses.
Comes down to: 1) Who do you report to and need to make happy? 2) What do you need to do to achieve 1) and what can you do 3) What do you get as compensation for doing 2) and 1)
Who your boss is helps a lot.
Your job title could be Senior Microsoft Janitor (in charge of care and cleaning of Windows) for all you care.
Your supervisor obviously figured out a way to get the system to work... That's what decent middle managers have to do. May involve some ugly hacks sometimes...
what makes you think that ipv6 addresses are going to be that random?
For technical reasons I believe that ISPs will still get their own ranges, and it is likely that their ranges will still be listed as the ipv4 ones are nowadays. Also, I doubt any single ISP is going to be given 4 billion IP addresses just like that (if they are, I think it's crazy - it'll be like the old days where US universities were given 16 million addresses;) ).
By the time they slice and dice the 128 bits out the search space might not be so small in practice. And as your botnet grows the searching could get faster;).
BTW all the people here saying that NAT has _nothing_ to do with security are clueless.
Actually dying in a freezing vacuum (or burning up in the atmosphere) isn't that bad considering the many possible nasty death scenarios:
Like going round and round the world in a screwed up orbit while the various life support systems slowly go poof one after another, and not being sure if NASA or whoever can wangle up a rescue in time - because the other shuttles will probably have a similar problem too.
AFAIK the Russian Soyuz only has room for 3. While a shuttle can carry 7.
Still it's not that much worse than having a terminal disease I guess. And AFAIK most of us will die eventually.
But that's not a problem, that is a correct way to do things. Perl is intentionally weakly typed.
If you want to have weak typing and compare stuff then when you want to compare different types of stuff with each other, you need different operators/functions depending on what sort of comparisons you want to do. The alternative is to be verbose and convert stuff before comparing.
Maybe not the only correct way, but definitely better than PHP's way - where they didn't seem to think about the implications of weak typing, and slapped on === later on as a kneejerk reaction.
PHP really shows a severe lack of good design. PHP too often makes doing the wrong things easy, and the right things difficult.
"Buying a vote is when you give somebody money in return for their vote"
Well someone sure gave Diebold money in return for something;).
At least traditional vote buying is more honest about it. You offer someone money to vote XYZ, they decide it's worth it, they vote XYZ. After all prostitution is legal in some US states right? So that's about the same thing right?
Whereas if thousands or millions of people get Diebolded, even if they never wanted to prostitute themselves, they get screwed anyway...
The main priority should be to prevent Diebolding of elections, not quibble about _relatively_ unimportant things like "buying votes".
There are so many ways of doing elections that are much better than the current US system (even if they far from perfect) that to do things as badly is quite remarkable.
I find it funny that the US is willing to spend billions of dollars and thousands of lives in Iraq for WMD^H^H^H oops Democracy, but not willing to get their elections right AND they claim they are a democracy.
India is a democracy, not so sure about the US nowadays. Maybe the US should outsource one more thing to India;).
Yeah. Try designing an effective UI to play counterstrike with just a mouse with no mouse buttons - no keyboard or other input.
Without a click or some other explicit action (mouse gesture?), the app has to slow things down till it is sure a choice has been made. If things are too fast then the wrong thing happens.
Also: what if you wanted to rapidly select a few words in your message box to delete/change them?
So I don't really see what's the point of this. This sort of thing might be useful for disabled people - there was an app that involved you just pointing to type words.
That said with the new medical innovations in neural interfaces this no click stuff becomes less important - and stuff like thought macros and rapid sequences of thought macros could become useful (not sure if thinking of multiple macros at the same time could be recognizable as the individual ones).
I don't care? I do care, and it's not even my country that's using messed up electronic voting systems.
I'm just wondering why people make a bigger fuss about something (not perfectly anonymous systems) that only affects a few votes (unless the country is already screwed up) and don't make a big fuss over something (crappy electronic voting systems) that can affect magnitudes more votes without a trace.
Seems like one of those magician tricks where the magician distracts the audience.
You have: "Pick a candidate, any candidate, just one", and people are complaining about others being able to see which candidate they pick, instead of complaining that Evote the Magnificent can change the candidates when no one is looking.
So the issue is not me. I'm just watching the show in a different country. I'm not as bothered about the Netherlands elections since they won't affect me or the rest of the world that much. But the US elections are a different matter.
Also, if the US messes the TLD stuff enough, network/sys admins can choose different roots. The roots are changed every now and then anyway, so any decent admin will know how to change those.
So the EU or whoever can set up alternative root servers and an alternative to the ICANN and if the rest of the world prefers them we'll use them.
The ICANN are pretty crap already, so if they can't set up anything significantly better than the ICANN, why bother then?
There are ways of retaining some compatibility with the US roots. And there are only a relatively few who would be using the root nameservers - the ISPs, and people who run their own nameservers.
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Well the parents are responsible - for teaching their children that sharing is good :). And stealing is wrong.
BUT copyright infringement is not theft - otherwise theft laws would be easily applicable.
You and a great many individuals (including lawmaker types) are just brainwashed to think that copying is stealing, when it is not.
I never saw the point of all this "oh don't push values onto other people" bullshit.
;).
I figure we might as well push our values to other people while we can than let MTV, **AA, G W Bush etc have all the fun
Of course in my opinion, force or threat of force should not be allowed. Because once you allow that, that soon reduces the odds of a useful and productive debate.
So saying that someone shouldn't say something, should be fine for most people, unless one is in a position of authority in which case some care should be taken - unless you think it's such a good idea to surround yourself with "Yes-men".
Lastly, feel free to try to push your values to me, but I suggest giving good reasons why I should even consider accepting them.
The health care spending is too high because the US gets less for what they spend compared to many other developed countries.
For instance: why do US people need to pay so much for health care/insurance if the Gov is already spending tons on it?
Yeah when I see stuff like Highlander I laugh. People think it's so cool, but imagine being "immortal" like that, and some huge boulder falls on you, or you sink into some concrete mix without anyone knowing. Or some sadist captures you, starts a few experiments and ...
But seriously though, in my opinion you don't even need such messed up scenarios that an eternity would be horrible.
I strongly suspect that Eternity could be a very very long time if you are not _perfect_.
Way too long.
Perhaps the first few million years will be great. But after a trillion or so?
well Apache, Postgresql can take advantage of multiple cores.
And most decent unix or unixlike systems can take advantage of multiple cores- even just piping something through gzip and grep would do it.
Still, dual core is good value now and will likely be even better value when the quads really start flowing.
The other important bottleneck still remains - disk I/O. Drives are still _really_ slow. So you might not be able to get data to the cores fast enough to keep all of them busy.
Yeah I've always wondered about that when people talk about space elevators.
;).
Maybe on the plus side you won't have to worry about the now nonexistent Van Allen belts.
And maybe on the minus side you'd have to worry about the lack of Van Allen belts.
Might have to repair/rebuild stuff too after the first huge zap
Compare this:
l .htm
http://www.bennychow.com/pacman_redirect.shtml
With this:
http://www1.plala.or.jp/chikada/vba/pac/pacelle_d
It shouldn't be surprising that the ones who can convince people to pay lots of money for some bug ridden crap programmers write, would be able to convince their bosses to pay them in return for it.
Then there's also PR - that's when you outsource the bullshit, half-truths and outright lies, so that if _they_ screw up you can switch PR companies and hopefully keep your job.
You _could_ be breaking:
;)
11) Thou shalt not be an asshole.
Depends on the situation of course.
As far as I know there has always just been one criteria:
1) Those who reproduce.
Not stronger, faster, better or smarter.
Those silly scientists can say all they want about some fancy plumage showing that a male is "better", it doesn't really matter.
Anyway, I think it'll still be a very searchable space - there are a relatively small number of ISPs and the way most give out addresses is not going to be random.
S 12222t ype=simple
;) ).
;).
I'm sure there will be sites doing the following sort of stuff for IPv6:
http://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=A
http://www.ripe.net/whois?searchtext=AS3292&form_
Also is the common method of ipv6 autoconfig random? Or is it based on the MAC? If it is based on the MAC then that narrows things down even more.
Basically if the advantages of IPv6 are used then everyone gets to be a "peer", that probably means that people running such servers will want to make it easy for others to find their servers (or zombies
If "users" don't get to run their own servers, then it sounds a bit like NAT + IPv4
That's why you shouldn't care so much about the title. It's more about the bosses.
Comes down to:
1) Who do you report to and need to make happy?
2) What do you need to do to achieve 1) and what can you do
3) What do you get as compensation for doing 2) and 1)
Who your boss is helps a lot.
Your job title could be Senior Microsoft Janitor (in charge of care and cleaning of Windows) for all you care.
Your supervisor obviously figured out a way to get the system to work... That's what decent middle managers have to do. May involve some ugly hacks sometimes...
what makes you think that ipv6 addresses are going to be that random?
;) ).
;).
For technical reasons I believe that ISPs will still get their own ranges, and it is likely that their ranges will still be listed as the ipv4 ones are nowadays. Also, I doubt any single ISP is going to be given 4 billion IP addresses just like that (if they are, I think it's crazy - it'll be like the old days where US universities were given 16 million addresses
By the time they slice and dice the 128 bits out the search space might not be so small in practice. And as your botnet grows the searching could get faster
BTW all the people here saying that NAT has _nothing_ to do with security are clueless.
Actually dying in a freezing vacuum (or burning up in the atmosphere) isn't that bad considering the many possible nasty death scenarios:
Like going round and round the world in a screwed up orbit while the various life support systems slowly go poof one after another, and not being sure if NASA or whoever can wangle up a rescue in time - because the other shuttles will probably have a similar problem too.
AFAIK the Russian Soyuz only has room for 3. While a shuttle can carry 7.
Still it's not that much worse than having a terminal disease I guess. And AFAIK most of us will die eventually.
But that's not a problem, that is a correct way to do things. Perl is intentionally weakly typed.
If you want to have weak typing and compare stuff then when you want to compare different types of stuff with each other, you need different operators/functions depending on what sort of comparisons you want to do. The alternative is to be verbose and convert stuff before comparing.
Maybe not the only correct way, but definitely better than PHP's way - where they didn't seem to think about the implications of weak typing, and slapped on === later on as a kneejerk reaction.
PHP really shows a severe lack of good design. PHP too often makes doing the wrong things easy, and the right things difficult.
Question: what's wrong with string comparisons and eq in perl? Examples please if possible.
Two?
Haven't you heard the joke on how the Jews got the _Ten_ Commandments?
Not if the article was deleted.
Maybe the cops busted you for whatever it is you're drinking. ;)
"Buying a vote is when you give somebody money in return for their vote"
;).
;).
Well someone sure gave Diebold money in return for something
At least traditional vote buying is more honest about it. You offer someone money to vote XYZ, they decide it's worth it, they vote XYZ. After all prostitution is legal in some US states right? So that's about the same thing right?
Whereas if thousands or millions of people get Diebolded, even if they never wanted to prostitute themselves, they get screwed anyway...
The main priority should be to prevent Diebolding of elections, not quibble about _relatively_ unimportant things like "buying votes".
There are so many ways of doing elections that are much better than the current US system (even if they far from perfect) that to do things as badly is quite remarkable.
I find it funny that the US is willing to spend billions of dollars and thousands of lives in Iraq for WMD^H^H^H oops Democracy, but not willing to get their elections right AND they claim they are a democracy.
India is a democracy, not so sure about the US nowadays. Maybe the US should outsource one more thing to India
Would have a been a nicer touch if the numbers added up to > 100 ;).
Should make the perp do the letter sending.
Do it to too many and you could be in jail for a very long time sending letters and making phone calls.
Yeah. Try designing an effective UI to play counterstrike with just a mouse with no mouse buttons - no keyboard or other input.
Without a click or some other explicit action (mouse gesture?), the app has to slow things down till it is sure a choice has been made. If things are too fast then the wrong thing happens.
Also: what if you wanted to rapidly select a few words in your message box to delete/change them?
So I don't really see what's the point of this. This sort of thing might be useful for disabled people - there was an app that involved you just pointing to type words.
That said with the new medical innovations in neural interfaces this no click stuff becomes less important - and stuff like thought macros and rapid sequences of thought macros could become useful (not sure if thinking of multiple macros at the same time could be recognizable as the individual ones).
I don't care? I do care, and it's not even my country that's using messed up electronic voting systems.
I'm just wondering why people make a bigger fuss about something (not perfectly anonymous systems) that only affects a few votes (unless the country is already screwed up) and don't make a big fuss over something (crappy electronic voting systems) that can affect magnitudes more votes without a trace.
Seems like one of those magician tricks where the magician distracts the audience.
You have: "Pick a candidate, any candidate, just one", and people are complaining about others being able to see which candidate they pick, instead of complaining that Evote the Magnificent can change the candidates when no one is looking.
So the issue is not me. I'm just watching the show in a different country. I'm not as bothered about the Netherlands elections since they won't affect me or the rest of the world that much. But the US elections are a different matter.
AFAIK they are not all on US soil.
Also, if the US messes the TLD stuff enough, network/sys admins can choose different roots. The roots are changed every now and then anyway, so any decent admin will know how to change those.
So the EU or whoever can set up alternative root servers and an alternative to the ICANN and if the rest of the world prefers them we'll use them.
The ICANN are pretty crap already, so if they can't set up anything significantly better than the ICANN, why bother then?
There are ways of retaining some compatibility with the US roots. And there are only a relatively few who would be using the root nameservers - the ISPs, and people who run their own nameservers.