I think Vint gets that, and is speaking to the higher level and using "security" as an abstract generalization.
For example, the web was explicitly developed as a "pull" technology with declarative linking by reference with public visibility. Understanding the impact of that to how you build a security model governing access presents unique challenge. By comparison, Usenet is the opposite. It's essentially a syndicated push technology, more similar to a broadcast publishing method. As a result, the security model for how people gain access to resources, and what talks to what, is handled in a very different way.
Those are just two examples of content on today's general Internet which is an extension of Vint's work. When he talks about the Internet of Things, he doesn't merely mean the fad of sticking a web browser on a toaster. He's talking about the bigger vision of omnipresent computing and direct interaction of common devices to each other. Much like the Internet (specifically TCP/IP and DNS) was conceived as a way for computers to directly talk to each other (not going through a centralized hierarchy for approval and redistribution). We learned a lot of great lessons about how it would be used, the shortcoming, and the security ramifications. Now that we're in the fledgling stages of doing the same thing for a whole new are of automation and computing, there's great opportunity to think about and apply the lessons learned.
Understanding the impact of how the future world of always-on, always-available, omnipresent computing interacts at a high theoretical level is not programming and absolutely does belong in the realm of science of computing.
This isn't the realm of code monkeys, and I agree that's not what CS should teach. However, the theory of systems and interactions should be taught.
Where does researching AI, machine learning, or organic networks fall in your narrow definition? CS is maturing as a science and researching/designing the impact and how the science is applied by the world at large is a valuable endeavor that you shouldn't be so quick to dismiss and give away to some other field.
I'm pretty sure the internet (and computers in general) has topped the printing press in that way.
In less than half a century, the Internet has gone from invention to be widely used in every nation on earth with more than a 3rd of the world's population* actively using it. The printing press, while wildly popular and transformative did not have nearly this level of adoption and impact.
You are right in how transformative the printing press was, and a great example of how we can expect the Internet to continue shaping humanity for the future.
Computer UIs universally suck for sitting 6-10 feet away on a couch. Keyboard and mouse (even wireless) is a pain compared to a single-hand remote.
The best UI I've seen in this space is still Windows Media Center, but MS is systematically killing it off. So, when my HD died on my HTPC last weekend, I replaced the whole box with a $99 top-of-the line Roku. A replacement HD would have been about $100, Win 8.1 license is $120, and then another $100 to get Windows Pro Pack with Windows Media Center (since it's not included in Home anymore, and it's a real PITA to do fresh installs when your start from a WinXP Pro Upgrade license). Combine that with all the hassles of drivers, anti virus, and the fact that every week my HTPC would start doing something different (because of driver or automatic software updates) and the ease of a Roku or AppleTV is incredibly tempting.
Yeah, I got all that from the summary. The article didn't add anything because it was so poorly written.
Having read the article, I have not much more understanding of what happened. Not to mention, I still couldn't glean what exactly the sponsor's brand consultant did that ruined the whole production other than make a misogynistic comment. From the writing, I it took a reread to realize it was the brand consultant that made the comment.
Try deleting a local folder without deleting the subfolders (and committing) first. Instant corruption in SVN.
Move a folder (with subfolders). Instant corruption in SVN.
Since Git (and Hg) do a diff of the entire checkout rather than maintaining meta deta per directory, it's a lot easier to do refactoring without screwing things up.
As someone who uses SVN, Git, and Hg in a corporate environment (plus we have the MS solution around here somewhere but I don't touch it), I love using Git or Hg. I've setup some pretty complex project structures and branch behaviors that take advantage of how the different systems work.
That said, I haven't seen anything that would distinguish Git over Hg (or the opposite) when used in a corporate setting. If you like Hg over SVN, then you'll like Git as well because it behaves pretty much the same way, just different syntax for the commands.
Plus, something like SourceTree goes a long way to minimizing the differences between repository types.
Marriage is a legal status (not just a ceremony) that entitles various legally protected rights and responsibilities, and so Prop 8 was about refining the legal definition of marriage.
But you are right that it did not do anything to criminalize homosexuality or homosexual acts.
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As somehone who's done a lot of CMS implementations, the Java community does have things comperable (in scale and functionality) to Drupal, Joomla, Typo3 (god I really hate that last one). But because of the infrastructure and development costs (instead of shared hosting and the kid next door), Java CMS stacks are typically very large "enterprise" solutions with big licensing costs. Adobe AEM (formerly CQ) comes to mind.
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Drupal 7 and 8 got a lot better.... but Drupal does have a lot of that stuff as legacy specifically because they were working around those kinds of limitations in older versions of PHP. Switching out those patterns across something as big as Drupal is a massive undertaking that fundamentally changes how Drupal works.
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Implementations I've used leak connections like a seive, forcing restarts of the database servers on a regular basis.
The only time I've seen this was when a "Java Expert" built out a platform using PHP, and tried to make it jump through hoops to work like Java. Net result? Factory factory factories (not exaggerating) that resulted to an amazing kludge of massive memory-hogging threads which brought the servers down on a 2-3 hour cycle. Took massive refactoring to clean up that mess.
A scripted language fundamentally works different than a compiled language, and trying to force one to be structured like the other is a recipe for disaster no matter which way you go.
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In PHP this is now solved with parameterized queries. Plus any framework or CMS worth it's salt was doing it already: $sql = $dbConnection->prepare("SELECT fname, lname FROM people WHERE id = ?"); $sql->bind_param('s', $id); $sql->execute();
If you're rolling your own DB connection layer in modern PHP, you're doing it wrong.
I've been flying for business several times in the past month (and several times last year). With the recent easing on in-flight electronics, I've seen what seems like an explosion in tablet use that really surprised me, and a drop-off in laptop use.
And every time the tablet users are almost universally iPads, with a few kindles thrown in for good measure.
Plastic creamer pods should be banned too! Those stupid bits of plastic stick around for thousands of years.
I agree about the long-term disposal issue. But how do you propose producing hermetically sealed milk products in individual serving sizes without plastic?
Coffee pods you could get away with the biodegradable plastic, I would think. But those creamer pods are hermetically sealed because of milk's otherwise incredibly short shelf life.
You're right. They don't own it, but they are licensed to be the royalty collection entity in Germany. You'll find the member organizations to be the same or a cross-section of ASCAP members in the USA.
In the USA, music royalties are collected and distributed back to publishers and/or artists by ASCAP or BMI. In Germany, it's GEMA. In just about every country in the world, it's a different royalty collection process and licensing entity, just like it's a different copyright and distribution process.
This is the fundamental reason why music and video content has been so problematic in the era of the truly global internet. There are billions upon billions of dollars invested in the archaic business models, contracts, organizational infrastructure, and jobs to support the legacy model of content consumption that had been built up over nearly a century. The internet came along and destroyed it all in about a 5 year span.
My theory of the question for life, the universe, and everything.
The books rely heavily on probability (even as far as powering the faster than light engine as alluded in the summary).
A pair of dice is one of, of not the most common symbol for probability, chance, and luck (at least in Anglo-American culture). And how many pips are on a pair of dice?
For the hosting providers then fun really starts when you can't get a public IPv4 for your new webserver, that'll be fun. There's no NAT workaround for that, some european hosting providers are already feeling the crunch in their IPv4 blocks, you can only host so many servers. So what can you do? Jack up the prices ofcourse, isn't the free market wonderful!
There is certainly a NAT-like workaround for lack of IPv4 for webservers. It's called a load-balancer. Since the domain name requested is in the HTTP header, it's easy to route the request to different hardware behind the front machine based on domain name. In fact, typical Apache configuration relies heavily on domain name being in the HTTP header.
If we ever get holo decks then the comparison of Trek holo decks to real holo decks will be the same as current CSI "enhance enhance enhance" to real photo manipulation.
Trek holo decks are "magic" in their logical inconsistencies because of fantasy writing.
You clearly haven't done anything complex for reskinning website theme systems.
The promise of CSS stylesheets is bullshit. Yes, I know all about CSS Zen Garden (and have written my own "themes" using that). The reality is that CSS Zen Garden was a very planned HTML structure and provided a ton of extra "helper" HTML and classes.
Other than very basic style changes (like color scheme variations) substantial HTML rewrites are required. Especially if you want to introduce new functionality that wasn't accounted for in the original design (hello media queries!). Depending on how your backend framework is built, this could require a lot of fairly siginificant structural changes to support properly instead of the hack-upon-hack that is slashcode currently.
Not to mention, Slashdot has over a decade of back content to keep in place and presumably *working* after redesigning page layouts.
Slashdot Mirror
I think Vint gets that, and is speaking to the higher level and using "security" as an abstract generalization.
For example, the web was explicitly developed as a "pull" technology with declarative linking by reference with public visibility. Understanding the impact of that to how you build a security model governing access presents unique challenge. By comparison, Usenet is the opposite. It's essentially a syndicated push technology, more similar to a broadcast publishing method. As a result, the security model for how people gain access to resources, and what talks to what, is handled in a very different way.
Those are just two examples of content on today's general Internet which is an extension of Vint's work. When he talks about the Internet of Things, he doesn't merely mean the fad of sticking a web browser on a toaster. He's talking about the bigger vision of omnipresent computing and direct interaction of common devices to each other. Much like the Internet (specifically TCP/IP and DNS) was conceived as a way for computers to directly talk to each other (not going through a centralized hierarchy for approval and redistribution). We learned a lot of great lessons about how it would be used, the shortcoming, and the security ramifications. Now that we're in the fledgling stages of doing the same thing for a whole new are of automation and computing, there's great opportunity to think about and apply the lessons learned.
Understanding the impact of how the future world of always-on, always-available, omnipresent computing interacts at a high theoretical level is not programming and absolutely does belong in the realm of science of computing.
This isn't the realm of code monkeys, and I agree that's not what CS should teach. However, the theory of systems and interactions should be taught.
Where does researching AI, machine learning, or organic networks fall in your narrow definition? CS is maturing as a science and researching/designing the impact and how the science is applied by the world at large is a valuable endeavor that you shouldn't be so quick to dismiss and give away to some other field.
I'm pretty sure the internet (and computers in general) has topped the printing press in that way.
In less than half a century, the Internet has gone from invention to be widely used in every nation on earth with more than a 3rd of the world's population* actively using it. The printing press, while wildly popular and transformative did not have nearly this level of adoption and impact.
You are right in how transformative the printing press was, and a great example of how we can expect the Internet to continue shaping humanity for the future.
*Source:
http://www.internetworldstats....
Or you know, just drag and drop using my existing filesystem viewer and not need a special client to do something simple like renaming a folder.
Nothing like reinventing the wheel!
Simple answer:
Computer UIs universally suck for sitting 6-10 feet away on a couch. Keyboard and mouse (even wireless) is a pain compared to a single-hand remote.
The best UI I've seen in this space is still Windows Media Center, but MS is systematically killing it off. So, when my HD died on my HTPC last weekend, I replaced the whole box with a $99 top-of-the line Roku. A replacement HD would have been about $100, Win 8.1 license is $120, and then another $100 to get Windows Pro Pack with Windows Media Center (since it's not included in Home anymore, and it's a real PITA to do fresh installs when your start from a WinXP Pro Upgrade license). Combine that with all the hassles of drivers, anti virus, and the fact that every week my HTPC would start doing something different (because of driver or automatic software updates) and the ease of a Roku or AppleTV is incredibly tempting.
Yeah, I got all that from the summary. The article didn't add anything because it was so poorly written.
Having read the article, I have not much more understanding of what happened. Not to mention, I still couldn't glean what exactly the sponsor's brand consultant did that ruined the whole production other than make a misogynistic comment. From the writing, I it took a reread to realize it was the brand consultant that made the comment.
Yeah, try teaching that to people who's job is to do front-end development or other tasks where the OS GUI is the right tool, not the command line.
Try deleting a local folder without deleting the subfolders (and committing) first. Instant corruption in SVN.
Move a folder (with subfolders). Instant corruption in SVN.
Since Git (and Hg) do a diff of the entire checkout rather than maintaining meta deta per directory, it's a lot easier to do refactoring without screwing things up.
The difference I've seen is that Git doesn't fail miserably and corrupt your local repository tracking info the way SVN tends to.
As someone who uses SVN, Git, and Hg in a corporate environment (plus we have the MS solution around here somewhere but I don't touch it), I love using Git or Hg. I've setup some pretty complex project structures and branch behaviors that take advantage of how the different systems work.
That said, I haven't seen anything that would distinguish Git over Hg (or the opposite) when used in a corporate setting. If you like Hg over SVN, then you'll like Git as well because it behaves pretty much the same way, just different syntax for the commands.
Plus, something like SourceTree goes a long way to minimizing the differences between repository types.
Marriage is a legal status (not just a ceremony) that entitles various legally protected rights and responsibilities, and so Prop 8 was about refining the legal definition of marriage.
But you are right that it did not do anything to criminalize homosexuality or homosexual acts.
As somehone who's done a lot of CMS implementations, the Java community does have things comperable (in scale and functionality) to Drupal, Joomla, Typo3 (god I really hate that last one). But because of the infrastructure and development costs (instead of shared hosting and the kid next door), Java CMS stacks are typically very large "enterprise" solutions with big licensing costs. Adobe AEM (formerly CQ) comes to mind.
Drupal 7 and 8 got a lot better.... but Drupal does have a lot of that stuff as legacy specifically because they were working around those kinds of limitations in older versions of PHP. Switching out those patterns across something as big as Drupal is a massive undertaking that fundamentally changes how Drupal works.
The only time I've seen this was when a "Java Expert" built out a platform using PHP, and tried to make it jump through hoops to work like Java. Net result? Factory factory factories (not exaggerating) that resulted to an amazing kludge of massive memory-hogging threads which brought the servers down on a 2-3 hour cycle. Took massive refactoring to clean up that mess.
A scripted language fundamentally works different than a compiled language, and trying to force one to be structured like the other is a recipe for disaster no matter which way you go.
In PHP this is now solved with parameterized queries. Plus any framework or CMS worth it's salt was doing it already:
$sql = $dbConnection->prepare("SELECT fname, lname FROM people WHERE id = ?");
$sql->bind_param('s', $id);
$sql->execute();
If you're rolling your own DB connection layer in modern PHP, you're doing it wrong.
I've been flying for business several times in the past month (and several times last year). With the recent easing on in-flight electronics, I've seen what seems like an explosion in tablet use that really surprised me, and a drop-off in laptop use.
And every time the tablet users are almost universally iPads, with a few kindles thrown in for good measure.
I agree about the long-term disposal issue. But how do you propose producing hermetically sealed milk products in individual serving sizes without plastic?
Coffee pods you could get away with the biodegradable plastic, I would think. But those creamer pods are hermetically sealed because of milk's otherwise incredibly short shelf life.
Not to mention that under taste-testing the Mr. Coffee performed better...
https://www.cooksillustrated.c...
You're right. They don't own it, but they are licensed to be the royalty collection entity in Germany. You'll find the member organizations to be the same or a cross-section of ASCAP members in the USA.
In the USA, music royalties are collected and distributed back to publishers and/or artists by ASCAP or BMI. In Germany, it's GEMA. In just about every country in the world, it's a different royalty collection process and licensing entity, just like it's a different copyright and distribution process.
This is the fundamental reason why music and video content has been so problematic in the era of the truly global internet. There are billions upon billions of dollars invested in the archaic business models, contracts, organizational infrastructure, and jobs to support the legacy model of content consumption that had been built up over nearly a century. The internet came along and destroyed it all in about a 5 year span.
My theory of the question for life, the universe, and everything.
The books rely heavily on probability (even as far as powering the faster than light engine as alluded in the summary).
A pair of dice is one of, of not the most common symbol for probability, chance, and luck (at least in Anglo-American culture). And how many pips are on a pair of dice?
Then you weren't paying attention. It was all over Slashdot when they launched.
Granted, it's marketed to users *inside* the Great Firewall, so you at least have that excuse.
There is certainly a NAT-like workaround for lack of IPv4 for webservers. It's called a load-balancer. Since the domain name requested is in the HTTP header, it's easy to route the request to different hardware behind the front machine based on domain name. In fact, typical Apache configuration relies heavily on domain name being in the HTTP header.
If we ever get holo decks then the comparison of Trek holo decks to real holo decks will be the same as current CSI "enhance enhance enhance" to real photo manipulation.
Trek holo decks are "magic" in their logical inconsistencies because of fantasy writing.
You clearly haven't done anything complex for reskinning website theme systems.
The promise of CSS stylesheets is bullshit. Yes, I know all about CSS Zen Garden (and have written my own "themes" using that). The reality is that CSS Zen Garden was a very planned HTML structure and provided a ton of extra "helper" HTML and classes.
Other than very basic style changes (like color scheme variations) substantial HTML rewrites are required. Especially if you want to introduce new functionality that wasn't accounted for in the original design (hello media queries!). Depending on how your backend framework is built, this could require a lot of fairly siginificant structural changes to support properly instead of the hack-upon-hack that is slashcode currently.
Not to mention, Slashdot has over a decade of back content to keep in place and presumably *working* after redesigning page layouts.
Many countries outside of the US, especially developing countries, have higher penetration of mobile phones.
http://mobile.slashdot.org/sto...