Beyond a few well-worn platitudes, it's obvious that the interviewer is almost completely ignorant of the history surrounding Edward Teller's life - essentially, the key events of the 20th Century.
If it were not for Dr. Teller, there likely wouldn't be an Internet nor a Slashdot, because we'd all be too afraid of arrest by the KGB to do anything other than quote Marxist platitudes at one another at our jobs in Red October Tractor Factory #5 or whatever. And for this callow young woman to speculate that the world would've been better off without this man - the least technical of whose works she obviously has no concept of understanding, given her total ignorance of science and mathematics (it shows in the article) - and then to brand him as the incarnation of evil on this planet, ruminating on how the world would be a better place had he never lived, is boundlessly hypocritical.
Even if she had enough historical and/or scientific knowledge to be entitled to opinions on these matters, the fact remains that she demonstrates no appreciation of the fact that she met someone who was truly a great man. Not necessarily a good man (though I certainly believe him to be so), but one of those who has truly made a mark on the history of the human race.
Hell, Teller obtained his PhD under the tutelage of no less a personage than Heisenberg, himself. That alone ought to bring out a note of respect for the man.
It's truly sad that such a brainless nitwit wasted some of the ever-dwindling store of hours Dr. Teller had left to him.
Being able to sync the calendar info and perhaps use the iPod as a Bluetooth remote would be useful . . . streaming the content over Airport Extreme would be useful . . . and remember, not everyone copies gigs of data to/from his iPod all the time - after the initial orgy of ripping/encoding/downloading to the iPod, it's mostly deltas, and a Rendezvous-enabled iPod with AirPort Extreme would make that a snap.
Arbor Networks has a great anomaly-detection system which can be used with NetFlow in order to identify machines on your network behaving oddly, then shut their ports or use VACLs to block the relevant MAC addresses across your network until they call the help-desk and go through the scrubbing/remediation process.
And charge them for thus - nothing's sure to get their attention (and that of their parents) like a $250/incident 'virus remediation charge' which must be paid, like any other student fees, if they expect to get their grades.
It is one app that would stop me buying a Powerbook at years end.
Let me get this straight - you want Apple to invest time and money to port OpenOffice so that it uses the native GUI in order to prevent you from buying a PowerBook?
Somehow, I don't think this argument will be very persuasive, you know?;>
Yon 'software' (whatever such may be) can report us all it likes, but nothin' short o' a stout heart an' a 30-pounder broadside will ever stop my crew o' rascals from flyin' the Black Flag as we ply the Spanish Main!
See http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps 663/products_data_sheet09186a00800924d0.html & http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/wireless/ps 4570/prod_quick_installation_guide09186a00800a3fe1.html for examples.
Look, I haven't seen his work, but this article and the previous one cited both seem hype-ridden and reek of cluelessness.
I mean, it's great that here in America someone can actually get a PhD by doing a lot of traceroutes and then using gnuplot of whatever to overlay the data onto scanned images of telco fiber-maps or whatever, but the whole premise of the article - including the moronic comments about how the guy shouldn't be allowed to leave the building with the laptop (maybe I have too much faith in humanity, but I can't imagine anyone making such a stupid comment other than in jest) is much ado about nothing.
This information has been available for years, and continues to be available; it's just that this guy has nothing better to do than sit around collating it and putting it into MySQL or somesuch. So what? Terrorists aren't interested in blowing up the Internet - they're interested in blowing up -you-.
So does this mean that I can now justify a PhD by sitting around correlating MapQuest thumbnails with wardriver plots open WiFi APs, or something, and then claim I'm mapping possible 'nodes of anonymous 'terrorist Internet access'? Sign me up!
For that sort of thing, we have a very sophisticated system . . . we trend SNMP stuff, use NetFlow, have RMON probes, manage both IPv4 and IPv6 address space, etc.
We just don't have lots of pretty diagrams lying around.;>
The reason is because we're understaffed, and we're just too damned swamped to have a dedicated doc-monkey or two to do the work.
I'm not worried about my job security - I'm one of the best in the world at what I do. When someone new joins our group, we spend 4-8 hours initially on the whiteboard, and then subsequent time as events warrant. Since we haven't acquired any new members in the last year or so, it hasn't been necessary.
I do just that, every day - on a VERY large enterprise network. Before that, for an ISP hosting one of the busiest Web sites in the world.
Our network changes so much (because it's so large, and there are many people doing things to it 24/7 worldwide) that any sort of diagrams are pretty much obsolete the moment they're drawn. The pretty pictures are useful props for talking to management, etc., but they are of zero value in troubleshooting the network.
I don't need to visualize thousands (we went into five figures years ago) of devices simultaneously - nobody does. But since we adhere to sound architectural principles, and know what we're doing, I can troubleshoot any portion of said network without any diagrams other than the ones in my head as I poke around and a few quick sketches I might draw 'live' on a pad as I make inferences from my observations.
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I know precisely who Rabi is, and he's an ignoramus, too.
Beyond a few well-worn platitudes, it's obvious that the interviewer is almost completely ignorant of the history surrounding Edward Teller's life - essentially, the key events of the 20th Century.
If it were not for Dr. Teller, there likely wouldn't be an Internet nor a Slashdot, because we'd all be too afraid of arrest by the KGB to do anything other than quote Marxist platitudes at one another at our jobs in Red October Tractor Factory #5 or whatever. And for this callow young woman to speculate that the world would've been better off without this man - the least technical of whose works she obviously has no concept of understanding, given her total ignorance of science and mathematics (it shows in the article) - and then to brand him as the incarnation of evil on this planet, ruminating on how the world would be a better place had he never lived, is boundlessly hypocritical.
Even if she had enough historical and/or scientific knowledge to be entitled to opinions on these matters, the fact remains that she demonstrates no appreciation of the fact that she met someone who was truly a great man. Not necessarily a good man (though I certainly believe him to be so), but one of those who has truly made a mark on the history of the human race.
Hell, Teller obtained his PhD under the tutelage of no less a personage than Heisenberg, himself. That alone ought to bring out a note of respect for the man.
It's truly sad that such a brainless nitwit wasted some of the ever-dwindling store of hours Dr. Teller had left to him.
Being able to sync the calendar info and perhaps use the iPod as a Bluetooth remote would be useful . . . streaming the content over Airport Extreme would be useful . . . and remember, not everyone copies gigs of data to/from his iPod all the time - after the initial orgy of ripping/encoding/downloading to the iPod, it's mostly deltas, and a Rendezvous-enabled iPod with AirPort Extreme would make that a snap.
I thought you were saying that the new iPods had BlueTooth and Airport Extreme support, heh.
Now, that would rock. Apple, are you listening?
it gave you a Z-minus.
Here's the relevant link.
You're guilty! ;>
And then shut the ports on the access switches.
Arbor Networks has a great anomaly-detection system which can be used with NetFlow in order to identify machines on your network behaving oddly, then shut their ports or use VACLs to block the relevant MAC addresses across your network until they call the help-desk and go through the scrubbing/remediation process.
And charge them for thus - nothing's sure to get their attention (and that of their parents) like a $250/incident 'virus remediation charge' which must be paid, like any other student fees, if they expect to get their grades.
It is one app that would stop me buying a Powerbook at years end.
;>
Let me get this straight - you want Apple to invest time and money to port OpenOffice so that it uses the native GUI in order to prevent you from buying a PowerBook?
Somehow, I don't think this argument will be very persuasive, you know?
Yon 'software' (whatever such may be) can report us all it likes, but nothin' short o' a stout heart an' a 30-pounder broadside will ever stop my crew o' rascals from flyin' the Black Flag as we ply the Spanish Main!
I guess MSBLASTER, Code Red, Nimda, SQL Slammer, etc. could be considered 'third-party code'. ;>
you've certainly come to the right place! ;>
"There's a sucker born every minute." ;>
What's a 'girl'? ;)
was Belgian War Heroes, heh. ;>
Anyone remember Core Wars?
Hmmm - maybe we're onto something . . . ;>
with swiches, 802.11 APs and with IP phones.
s 663/products_data_sheet09186a00800924d0.html & http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/wireless/ps 4570/prod_quick_installation_guide09186a00800a3fe1 .html for examples.
See http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/p
Look, I haven't seen his work, but this article and the previous one cited both seem hype-ridden and reek of cluelessness.
I mean, it's great that here in America someone can actually get a PhD by doing a lot of traceroutes and then using gnuplot of whatever to overlay the data onto scanned images of telco fiber-maps or whatever, but the whole premise of the article - including the moronic comments about how the guy shouldn't be allowed to leave the building with the laptop (maybe I have too much faith in humanity, but I can't imagine anyone making such a stupid comment other than in jest) is much ado about nothing.
This information has been available for years, and continues to be available; it's just that this guy has nothing better to do than sit around collating it and putting it into MySQL or somesuch. So what? Terrorists aren't interested in blowing up the Internet - they're interested in blowing up -you-.
So does this mean that I can now justify a PhD by sitting around correlating MapQuest thumbnails with wardriver plots open WiFi APs, or something, and then claim I'm mapping possible 'nodes of anonymous 'terrorist Internet access'? Sign me up!
Think about it.
For that sort of thing, we have a very sophisticated system . . . we trend SNMP stuff, use NetFlow, have RMON probes, manage both IPv4 and IPv6 address space, etc.
;>
We just don't have lots of pretty diagrams lying around.
That's untrue.
The reason is because we're understaffed, and we're just too damned swamped to have a dedicated doc-monkey or two to do the work.
I'm not worried about my job security - I'm one of the best in the world at what I do. When someone new joins our group, we spend 4-8 hours initially on the whiteboard, and then subsequent time as events warrant. Since we haven't acquired any new members in the last year or so, it hasn't been necessary.
Internet accesses -you-!
I can't wait for the news headline - "Satellite lost due to unresolved RPM dependencies . . ." ;>
And Evolution when in Linux . . .
I do just that, every day - on a VERY large enterprise network. Before that, for an ISP hosting one of the busiest Web sites in the world.
Our network changes so much (because it's so large, and there are many people doing things to it 24/7 worldwide) that any sort of diagrams are pretty much obsolete the moment they're drawn. The pretty pictures are useful props for talking to management, etc., but they are of zero value in troubleshooting the network.
I don't need to visualize thousands (we went into five figures years ago) of devices simultaneously - nobody does. But since we adhere to sound architectural principles, and know what we're doing, I can troubleshoot any portion of said network without any diagrams other than the ones in my head as I poke around and a few quick sketches I might draw 'live' on a pad as I make inferences from my observations.