If it's open sores, it's because it practiced unsafe hex. Now it'll have to suck down antivirus for the rest of its life because it made a stupid mistake when it was young.
First, it's never a good sign when you measure your package using a decimal point, Slashdot. Second this article makes you look like a whore. You should be ashamed! What would your mother think if she saw you dressed in those fishnets, a stolen wonderbra, and humping an android? This is not the way to get in touch with your feminine side, young man. When you've put some decent clothes on, come back down and I'm taking you down to the hex shop and we're going to find you something to play with that won't hurt as much.
You laugh, but there's no other signifigance to "21 years". This would have been better celebrated LAST year.
Why? It's an important time in a young operating system's life -- Throw some 0xDEADBEEF on the registers and bring the free beer, it's party time! Derive safely, RTEMS, and don't BSOD or have unsafe hex while you're out.
If I understand half of what you said, which I think I do but might be wrong, I'd have to surmise that any parade involving fornication would be modded "redundant" anyway.:)
The popularity of searches for "lesbian porn" on google suggests that its redundancy in no way affects its popularity. That said, the tubes lie -- most of it winds up having some magic fairy drop a man with a hard on right in the middle of the scene, and their previous homoerotic behaviors become depressingly heteronormative at that point. Either that, or it's some girls gone wild ripoff and their heart really isn't in it. So instead we read slashfic on LJ and watch the BBC... Top Gear is a kind of lesbian soft porn. O_O
"It has been to Venus on the Venus Express, circles Mars on the Electra radio, powers Herschel and Planck, is on its way to the asteroid belt aboard DAWN, and has been a key part of physics discoveries at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center."
Well, I've been to Venus on the Venus express too, I've circled Mars (but never landed), I've powered her bell and spank, been on my way to a steroid belt aboard Dawn, and I've been a key part of clinic discoveries too. Where's my f**king parade?//Says the gay girl.
Employability is directly related to skill set and background if you have neither then yes you do not currently have the luxury of choosing who you work for.
Hey peanut, I have a few more winters behind me than you and skill set and background would be a wonderful thing for employers to start looking at before hiring. But oddly enough, when you have to sit next to someone for forty hours or more a week, skill set and background start to mean less and less when you're febreezing the chair he sat in every time he leaves and listening to him swearing all afternoon at the computer and bitching about the people he just got off the phone with. Really, attitude and likability are what get you the job -- all that background and skillset gets you is the interview.
The VM and temporary share solution sounds wonderful, but most organizations that are cracking down on Admin rights likely also will have disabled file and printer sharing.
If you have physical access to the machine, you can edit the registry -- make a copy of the hashes for the admin account, then clear them. Add your own account, and then put the hash back. You'll have local admin, but no domain rights beyond that which the machine has.
I'm going to end some mystery here: I am guessing the "very large corporation" is Target, a massive US-retail chain. I only know because I used to work on support there, and they tried this crap with trying to delete local admin rights for everyone so nobody could administer their own boxes. Even Microsoft told them this was a bad idea, and you can't remove local admin from a system because it's fundamental to the security model. It was so painful watching the daily e-mails come back from amongst IT and then once every week or two see a management e-mail so loaded in buzzwords I printed it off and hung it on my cube wall next to a train wreck picture and left my coworkers to do the math. They went ahead and tried it anyway -- I've watched whole stores, departments, and even divisions just drop off the network because they rammed some security change through, didn't test it thoroughly -- and now some application is seriously wedged. The days and days of downtime are due to convincing infosecurity that there's a problem and then fixing it -- because they're autonomous to the rest of support and report directly to the board. Which means, no matter how bad they f*** up, it's your fault, not theirs, because they each think they're Agent Smith, saving the corporation from the disorder of computational devices. *face palm*
I feel your pain. I do.
The sad part is, this isn't just that corporation: It's most Fortune 500 companies. Management is so far removed from the IT process that the only input they get is from external sources: Trade magazines and consultants. This, of course, ends in tears. These are the kind of people that read that pen drives are the source of all evil on their network and if you just delete the USB mass storage driver from the system, your problem is solved. I don't know which trade magazine published this idea -- but when I find him, I'm going to end him. Again, not a problem specific to that company -- it's representative of what everyone finds in the field today.
Since corporations with this level of brain damage inevitably give developers underpowered systems, here's your solution: Cannibalize another system, make sure you've got a few extra GB of RAM, and install an virtual machine, then do all your development within that environment. Site licensing is a wonderful thing. Just don't ever join it to the domain and shuffle your test files in and out via a temporary share. Even better, find a standalone system and use that for development so corporate can have their ridiculous security on one system, and you have an unencumbered development platform to develop for and transfer completed work back to the main system.
It's stupid, and you should never have had to do it. But then, what about working for a large corporation is ever simple? So many people trying to ensure they're a crucial part of the business, so few who actually give a damn about it...
Hardly. It is supposed to be "short, readable, clear and innocent". What are the odds that any of the airline production code meets that description?
Depends on the function -- if it's mission critical, you bet your ass it'll be documented and readable. Considering that most ATC technical failures are hardware, not software-based, that should say something. The problem is that while the code is quite well-documented, few people are left with the training or understanding of it to port it to newer systems, and it's not like they can ground all flights for a week to do an upgrade. So we're left with mainframes that were out of date in the 70s being used today being used in critical infrastructure.
On the other hand, the code in applications used at the ticket counter and security checkpoints... not so much.
This year's challenge: write a luggage routing program that mysteriously misroutes a customer's bag if a check-in clerk places just the right kind of text in a comment field.
All participants will also receive complimentary cavity-searches at airport checkpoints.
If you're not sure to stop or go, the answer is "stop". I can understand if it's dark and you don't see the traffic lights because they're covered with snow, but if the lights at the intersection aren't working, that doesn't mean the light is green. It means stop and go when it's safe to.
Yeah, and will the guy who's behind you and looking at the green light instead of your bumper notice your brake lights in time? Or how about the case where the lights in one direction are working, but not the other -- I saw this happen after a lightning storm and immediately called 911 to inform them of how the fail-safe mode wasn't. I can think of dozens of situations in which the proper functioning of the traffic control system would be a superior solution to "just stop and wait."
You seem to forget that there are two sets of rules of the road: The one on the books, and the ones we use on the road. In the ladder case, doing something unexpected (though legal) is often a greater risk than doing something expected, but illegal. Especially since most people tailgate, speed, and don't leave themselves nearly enough time to switch off their mental autopilot in the event of an unexpected situation -- which is how a lot of accidents happen.
The sooner most people grow and learn that "Shit Happens (tm)" and that no one can every prepare for every eventuality, the better. The "Security Theatre" is just a new opening for corrupt politicans and power-hungry individuals to remove more freedom from people.
That's a defeatist attitude. One problem is we're leaving ourselves helpless -- assuming that the checkpoints will work, creating "sterile zones", and if those methods fail we have nothing to fall back on. Israel, on the other hand, requires that all of its citizens undergo military training -- and curiously enough, being armed in public is commonplace. Carrying knives onto planes is legal. Very few terrorists succeed despite the large numbers of attempts occurring daily, because at any point a citizen has the training to take a terrorist down and knows that they are surrounded by others who also have training and know what to do, look for, and react when a situation occurs.
Whereas in this country, our sense of helplessness and fear leads people to become terrified of a man with food poisoning puking his guts out in the bathroom during landing -- because of the color of his skin. That's simply pathetic for so many reasons, first of which is that the guy must have been terrified to open the door for fear of being dragged out and beat on by a bunch of people who'd already judged him a threat and could easily kill him for doing nothing worse than eating a burrito that didn't agree with him and that's a shame on us. Secondly, that our rules are so stringent and unyielding that we would make grown people piss or shit their pants, vomit over each other and themselves -- and for what? How can that possibly help security? This is a pathetic state of affairs that wouldn't exist if we as a society felt we could take care of ourselves.
Our problem isn't in terms of operational security -- our problem is culture. We are constantly told to be docile and passive in the face of lethal threats. How is this a sane response? Anyone who's had even the most minimal combat training will tell you that the right answer 98% of the time is to turn into the attack. I don't care if the guy has fully automatic assault rifle and body armor on the plane -- five people with pocket knives within fifteen feet of him bum-rushing him's going to drop him if they're coordinated. And yes, a couple people will die that is a certainty -- or you can sit there and let the two hundred or so people die. Really, now -- if you had the knife in your hand, which option would you pick? Wait for death, or meet it head on? We all strive to prevent the worst-case scenario, but we shouldn't be paralyzed by fear if we find ourselves in it.
Terrorism only works because we allow ourselves to be afraid. As politely as I can say this -- stop living in fear. Learn how to defend yourself and then stop putting yourself in high-risk situations. That's advice that works as well for countries as it does for individuals.
The principle that search engines should have no editorial policies other than that their results be comprehensive, impartial and based solely on relevance.
The definition of comprehensive depends on the computational resources of the provider. The definition of impartiality depends on the morality of the observer. The definition of relevance depends on entirely subjective criteron.
You can't legislate these things. They're intangible. And besides, Google (and many other search engines) rely on the ability to edit their results to defeat attempts to game the algorithms they use. Legislation that limits that would ironically worsen the very attribute it is attempting to improve! It would allow search engine spammers free reign. The solution here is not to regulate... If a search engine sucks, it'll be replaced by a vendor that offers an alternative that sucks less. But if you must legislate, I would take a minimalist approach -- only regulate that which is proven harmful.
*sighs* With what we know today about privacy -- a zip code, gender, and last name is all it takes to uniquely identify a person in the majority of cases, I feel it's necessary to obscure as much as possible. But you're entitled to your opinion...
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Does political activism really carry the same cachet as skydiving? I guess I need to start attending those Green Party meetings again. Really -- I was running for office before family issues derailed my erstwhile campaign. I just pretty much assumed that politics was a huge turn-off. (I know that's how my ex felt!)
To that degree, yes, I imagine it would be. But the same could be said for anything that consumes so much of your time you don't have much left-over for your partner. Admittedly, it works better for lesbians than hetero-couples, but it's an activity you can do with your significant other and it shows that you're not just a couch potato. Like I said, just try to show that you have some ambition in your life; Something about you that's a little edgy but not over the top. Brain storm awhile... and good luck with the ladies!
Some guy gets fed up with facebook and states, as his last update, that he has better things to do with his life. How many thousand times did that happen every day in 2009?
Non of these have signed an extradition treaty with the USA
The lack of a treaty does not prevent a country from offering them up anyway. All that means is that there's not a diplomatic channel and prescribed rules for making and granting (or rejecting) the request.
I would think if the criminal is smart/dedicated enough to leave the country, they would be smart enough to not leave any trace.
Tell that to the how many illegal immigrants in this and other countries? It's easy not to leave a trace... It's harder to live a comfortable life doing that. When you're accustomed to a certain way of living, changing that is very difficult. Most criminals on the run aren't caught because they're stupid -- they're caught because they slip up, usually within the first few weeks or months of their escape. It takes time to adjust, which is why once they've been out there for several months or a year the chances of them being caught go way, way down.
There's a myth that's prevalent amongst those with little exposure to the criminal element that criminals are stupid. They aren't -- more often, they're just like you and me, only desperate. Intelligence is not a good predictor of criminal behavior -- socioeconomic status is.
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Burn him anyway.
The hex shop around here is pretty bad. The store owner turned me into a toad for saying their prices were too high.
You're a pretty talented toad to be posting on slashdot.
RTEMS is Open Source, not Opun Source.
If it's open sores, it's because it practiced unsafe hex. Now it'll have to suck down antivirus for the rest of its life because it made a stupid mistake when it was young.
First, it's never a good sign when you measure your package using a decimal point, Slashdot. Second this article makes you look like a whore. You should be ashamed! What would your mother think if she saw you dressed in those fishnets, a stolen wonderbra, and humping an android? This is not the way to get in touch with your feminine side, young man. When you've put some decent clothes on, come back down and I'm taking you down to the hex shop and we're going to find you something to play with that won't hurt as much.
You laugh, but there's no other signifigance to "21 years". This would have been better celebrated LAST year.
Why? It's an important time in a young operating system's life -- Throw some 0xDEADBEEF on the registers and bring the free beer, it's party time! Derive safely, RTEMS, and don't BSOD or have unsafe hex while you're out.
If I understand half of what you said, which I think I do but might be wrong, I'd have to surmise that any parade involving fornication would be modded "redundant" anyway. :)
The popularity of searches for "lesbian porn" on google suggests that its redundancy in no way affects its popularity. That said, the tubes lie -- most of it winds up having some magic fairy drop a man with a hard on right in the middle of the scene, and their previous homoerotic behaviors become depressingly heteronormative at that point. Either that, or it's some girls gone wild ripoff and their heart really isn't in it. So instead we read slashfic on LJ and watch the BBC... Top Gear is a kind of lesbian soft porn. O_O
But are you 21 and is it your birthday?
It can be, for the right girl. :P~
"It has been to Venus on the Venus Express, circles Mars on the Electra radio, powers Herschel and Planck, is on its way to the asteroid belt aboard DAWN, and has been a key part of physics discoveries at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center."
Well, I've been to Venus on the Venus express too, I've circled Mars (but never landed), I've powered her bell and spank, been on my way to a steroid belt aboard Dawn, and I've been a key part of clinic discoveries too. Where's my f**king parade? //Says the gay girl.
Employability is directly related to skill set and background if you have neither then yes you do not currently have the luxury of choosing who you work for.
Hey peanut, I have a few more winters behind me than you and skill set and background would be a wonderful thing for employers to start looking at before hiring. But oddly enough, when you have to sit next to someone for forty hours or more a week, skill set and background start to mean less and less when you're febreezing the chair he sat in every time he leaves and listening to him swearing all afternoon at the computer and bitching about the people he just got off the phone with. Really, attitude and likability are what get you the job -- all that background and skillset gets you is the interview.
The VM and temporary share solution sounds wonderful, but most organizations that are cracking down on Admin rights likely also will have disabled file and printer sharing.
If you have physical access to the machine, you can edit the registry -- make a copy of the hashes for the admin account, then clear them. Add your own account, and then put the hash back. You'll have local admin, but no domain rights beyond that which the machine has.
I'd be highly reluctant to work at a place that didn't let me install and manage the software packages I needed to do my job.
Must be nice, being able to pick and choose what jobs you take. Unfortunately, most people here don't have that luxury.
I'm going to end some mystery here: I am guessing the "very large corporation" is Target, a massive US-retail chain. I only know because I used to work on support there, and they tried this crap with trying to delete local admin rights for everyone so nobody could administer their own boxes. Even Microsoft told them this was a bad idea, and you can't remove local admin from a system because it's fundamental to the security model. It was so painful watching the daily e-mails come back from amongst IT and then once every week or two see a management e-mail so loaded in buzzwords I printed it off and hung it on my cube wall next to a train wreck picture and left my coworkers to do the math. They went ahead and tried it anyway -- I've watched whole stores, departments, and even divisions just drop off the network because they rammed some security change through, didn't test it thoroughly -- and now some application is seriously wedged. The days and days of downtime are due to convincing infosecurity that there's a problem and then fixing it -- because they're autonomous to the rest of support and report directly to the board. Which means, no matter how bad they f*** up, it's your fault, not theirs, because they each think they're Agent Smith, saving the corporation from the disorder of computational devices. *face palm*
I feel your pain. I do.
The sad part is, this isn't just that corporation: It's most Fortune 500 companies. Management is so far removed from the IT process that the only input they get is from external sources: Trade magazines and consultants. This, of course, ends in tears. These are the kind of people that read that pen drives are the source of all evil on their network and if you just delete the USB mass storage driver from the system, your problem is solved. I don't know which trade magazine published this idea -- but when I find him, I'm going to end him. Again, not a problem specific to that company -- it's representative of what everyone finds in the field today.
Since corporations with this level of brain damage inevitably give developers underpowered systems, here's your solution: Cannibalize another system, make sure you've got a few extra GB of RAM, and install an virtual machine, then do all your development within that environment. Site licensing is a wonderful thing. Just don't ever join it to the domain and shuffle your test files in and out via a temporary share. Even better, find a standalone system and use that for development so corporate can have their ridiculous security on one system, and you have an unencumbered development platform to develop for and transfer completed work back to the main system.
It's stupid, and you should never have had to do it. But then, what about working for a large corporation is ever simple? So many people trying to ensure they're a crucial part of the business, so few who actually give a damn about it...
Funny, but you've got a point.
The best humor also makes a good point. Thanks for noticing.
Hardly. It is supposed to be "short, readable, clear and innocent". What are the odds that any of the airline production code meets that description?
Depends on the function -- if it's mission critical, you bet your ass it'll be documented and readable. Considering that most ATC technical failures are hardware, not software-based, that should say something. The problem is that while the code is quite well-documented, few people are left with the training or understanding of it to port it to newer systems, and it's not like they can ground all flights for a week to do an upgrade. So we're left with mainframes that were out of date in the 70s being used today being used in critical infrastructure.
On the other hand, the code in applications used at the ticket counter and security checkpoints... not so much.
I am certain that this is already a feature of existing luggage routing software.
It's not a misfeature, it's a Bohr bug.
This year's challenge: write a luggage routing program that mysteriously misroutes a customer's bag if a check-in clerk places just the right kind of text in a comment field.
All participants will also receive complimentary cavity-searches at airport checkpoints.
This is a good point. The promise of 72 Virgins is probably much more enticing to geek engineers.
It doesn't specify the sex of those 72 virgins in the religious text. Just saying -- unless you're bisexual you might be disappointed.
If you're not sure to stop or go, the answer is "stop". I can understand if it's dark and you don't see the traffic lights because they're covered with snow, but if the lights at the intersection aren't working, that doesn't mean the light is green. It means stop and go when it's safe to.
Yeah, and will the guy who's behind you and looking at the green light instead of your bumper notice your brake lights in time? Or how about the case where the lights in one direction are working, but not the other -- I saw this happen after a lightning storm and immediately called 911 to inform them of how the fail-safe mode wasn't. I can think of dozens of situations in which the proper functioning of the traffic control system would be a superior solution to "just stop and wait."
You seem to forget that there are two sets of rules of the road: The one on the books, and the ones we use on the road. In the ladder case, doing something unexpected (though legal) is often a greater risk than doing something expected, but illegal. Especially since most people tailgate, speed, and don't leave themselves nearly enough time to switch off their mental autopilot in the event of an unexpected situation -- which is how a lot of accidents happen.
The sooner most people grow and learn that "Shit Happens (tm)" and that no one can every prepare for every eventuality, the better. The "Security Theatre" is just a new opening for corrupt politicans and power-hungry individuals to remove more freedom from people.
That's a defeatist attitude. One problem is we're leaving ourselves helpless -- assuming that the checkpoints will work, creating "sterile zones", and if those methods fail we have nothing to fall back on. Israel, on the other hand, requires that all of its citizens undergo military training -- and curiously enough, being armed in public is commonplace. Carrying knives onto planes is legal. Very few terrorists succeed despite the large numbers of attempts occurring daily, because at any point a citizen has the training to take a terrorist down and knows that they are surrounded by others who also have training and know what to do, look for, and react when a situation occurs.
Whereas in this country, our sense of helplessness and fear leads people to become terrified of a man with food poisoning puking his guts out in the bathroom during landing -- because of the color of his skin. That's simply pathetic for so many reasons, first of which is that the guy must have been terrified to open the door for fear of being dragged out and beat on by a bunch of people who'd already judged him a threat and could easily kill him for doing nothing worse than eating a burrito that didn't agree with him and that's a shame on us. Secondly, that our rules are so stringent and unyielding that we would make grown people piss or shit their pants, vomit over each other and themselves -- and for what? How can that possibly help security? This is a pathetic state of affairs that wouldn't exist if we as a society felt we could take care of ourselves.
Our problem isn't in terms of operational security -- our problem is culture. We are constantly told to be docile and passive in the face of lethal threats. How is this a sane response? Anyone who's had even the most minimal combat training will tell you that the right answer 98% of the time is to turn into the attack. I don't care if the guy has fully automatic assault rifle and body armor on the plane -- five people with pocket knives within fifteen feet of him bum-rushing him's going to drop him if they're coordinated. And yes, a couple people will die that is a certainty -- or you can sit there and let the two hundred or so people die. Really, now -- if you had the knife in your hand, which option would you pick? Wait for death, or meet it head on? We all strive to prevent the worst-case scenario, but we shouldn't be paralyzed by fear if we find ourselves in it.
Terrorism only works because we allow ourselves to be afraid. As politely as I can say this -- stop living in fear. Learn how to defend yourself and then stop putting yourself in high-risk situations. That's advice that works as well for countries as it does for individuals.
The principle that search engines should have no editorial policies other than that their results be comprehensive, impartial and based solely on relevance.
The definition of comprehensive depends on the computational resources of the provider.
The definition of impartiality depends on the morality of the observer.
The definition of relevance depends on entirely subjective criteron.
You can't legislate these things. They're intangible. And besides, Google (and many other search engines) rely on the ability to edit their results to defeat attempts to game the algorithms they use. Legislation that limits that would ironically worsen the very attribute it is attempting to improve! It would allow search engine spammers free reign. The solution here is not to regulate... If a search engine sucks, it'll be replaced by a vendor that offers an alternative that sucks less. But if you must legislate, I would take a minimalist approach -- only regulate that which is proven harmful.
*sighs* With what we know today about privacy -- a zip code, gender, and last name is all it takes to uniquely identify a person in the majority of cases, I feel it's necessary to obscure as much as possible. But you're entitled to your opinion...
Does political activism really carry the same cachet as skydiving? I guess I need to start attending those Green Party meetings again. Really -- I was running for office before family issues derailed my erstwhile campaign. I just pretty much assumed that politics was a huge turn-off. (I know that's how my ex felt!)
To that degree, yes, I imagine it would be. But the same could be said for anything that consumes so much of your time you don't have much left-over for your partner. Admittedly, it works better for lesbians than hetero-couples, but it's an activity you can do with your significant other and it shows that you're not just a couch potato. Like I said, just try to show that you have some ambition in your life; Something about you that's a little edgy but not over the top. Brain storm awhile... and good luck with the ladies!
Some guy gets fed up with facebook and states, as his last update, that he has better things to do with his life. How many thousand times did that happen every day in 2009?
Fair enough, but most of them are emo...
Non of these have signed an extradition treaty with the USA
The lack of a treaty does not prevent a country from offering them up anyway. All that means is that there's not a diplomatic channel and prescribed rules for making and granting (or rejecting) the request.
I would think if the criminal is smart/dedicated enough to leave the country, they would be smart enough to not leave any trace.
Tell that to the how many illegal immigrants in this and other countries? It's easy not to leave a trace... It's harder to live a comfortable life doing that. When you're accustomed to a certain way of living, changing that is very difficult. Most criminals on the run aren't caught because they're stupid -- they're caught because they slip up, usually within the first few weeks or months of their escape. It takes time to adjust, which is why once they've been out there for several months or a year the chances of them being caught go way, way down.
There's a myth that's prevalent amongst those with little exposure to the criminal element that criminals are stupid. They aren't -- more often, they're just like you and me, only desperate. Intelligence is not a good predictor of criminal behavior -- socioeconomic status is.