Anyway, considering that a lot of the questions that were proposed in the original "request for questions" tended to be the ones that everyone always asks; and that he has nothing to gain by divulging copious stuff to Slashdot; and that in general there were a lot of people asking questions designed to bring up (potentially) embarassing stuff from his past - I can't see why he'd go into a lot of detail for us.
I for one really appreciated the brief, but sincere, answers about his wife's foundation; and his policy on regret. Simple, clear thoughts. Nothing wrong with that.
Has it taken you 5 weeks to complete the work scheduled for the week one milestone? You're a little unclear as to that.
This is obviously a little gray, but your determination that they are of loose moral fiber based on the fact that you are having a dispute over the value of your work and they don't want to pay you seems a little suspect to me.
Frankly, I don't think anything you could say to the VC's would influence their decision any - they might actually view the company's reticence to pay as a good thing. Management will tell them that you're an underperforming consultant, and not getting paid. VC's see management as hardnosed people who won't play fast and loose with their money.
In short, you can only hurt yourself by going to the VC's. Odds are you've lost any shot at future work for these people - time to cut your losses and walk.
Frankly, I'm surprised something like this hasn't been tried already.
JVC isn't the only company doing this.
I've got reliable sources that say that SONY is damned close on similar technology.
And the nice folks at Smarte Solutions have a whole suite of products coming online for just this sort of thing.
I'm not sure how easily this will be broken, truthfully. The software can be configured to all sorts of different levels, and the encryption can be linked to unique hardware identifiers and such. I'm no expert, but there are some that believe that this could be very tough.
Actually, open source is gaining increasing acceptance in business because (1) it works - it really does; and (2) they can't get damages from commercial software companies today.
I'd imagine that all that stuff he got from hacking her computer (s'cuse me, cracking her computer) would be inadmissible in court.
While the humiliation factor is pretty large, none of it's useful in court.
And I'd imagine this chap is in for one whale of a civil (or even criminal) lawsuit - breaking in and publishing information she wanted to keep private and all. He's likely broken all sorts of laws - and spammer or no, that's not good.
Not sure exactly what the charges would be (IANAL), but he'd better be wearing asbestos undies - cuz it's gonna get warm.
I believe that just about everything creative is about thinking (often about established things), and broadcasting your ideas.
I can understand the desire to leave things just as the artist left them - but creating these derivative works doesn't diminish the value of the original. Quite the opposite... people are looking and considering today what they might not have before.
And he's only rendered and published some solutions that appeal to him... not -the- solution, and not even just -a- solution.
I contend that by publishing several, it challenges the viewer even more to think about why these are good, and what changes we (the viewer) might make. The fact that they are based on mathematical principles - extrapolating the center and all - only serve to make his 'solutions' more compelling viewing.
Without meaning to restate the obvious, MS is trying to keep their foot in the Peruvian door - whole countries are starting to reconsider their Microsoft tax, and MS wants to nip this sort of thinking in the bud.
If you honestly believe they're "just 'helping' a 3d world country compute" - you're hopelessly naive.
Yep... right about the time that all those southern states (Georgia notably) starting putting the confederate stars & bars in protest of the Jim Crow laws getting repealed.
We've tried the exhaustive documentation route here before, and it became pretty cumbersome before long. Describing all the symptoms and all the steps taken to correct something is undeniably a good idea, but in the heat of the moment, can be pretty darned tough.
This solution benefits both the organization (because everyone is cross-trained), and benefits you all as the admins - as you will have deeper experience on a wide range of unices.
The France upset was huge - we Americans love an underdog team on the ropes. (Hence my watching to see if the Nets could pull anything out, and our new-found interest in a plucky men's world cup soccer team. Too bad they lost to Poland this morning - but they're still in the final round.)
One wonders if this David vs. Goliath love affair will eventually work for the Free Software movement's adoption by the masses - sticking the screw to Microsoft, whom almost noone I know really likes as a company.
Speaking of which, wasn't that commercial that aired during the NBA finals last night great?
The one where the Windows network administrator - a real guy - basically said that he works with windows when he has to, and goes home to get real work done on his Mac.
This chap went waay out of his way to make note of the productivity difference between working on a Mac and a Windows machine.
It's a good one - even my non-techie girlfriend found it compelling.
(Though anytime someone identifies themselves as a Windows LAN administrator I have to choke down the urge to laugh at them. Poor chap.)
It seems to me that at some point, for a spam to be worthwhile, some money has to change hands.
There will be a money trail.
A pr0n site spams in a large way? Go after the site - shut it down.
Penis pills are sold? Shut down the purveyor.
While there are some potential issues with your competitors spamming on your behalf (to get you in trouble) - I think following the money trail would eventually cut down the tree at its root.
I am pretty sure it is going to be tough reading (and I don't even have any degrees from MIT)
Actually, once you get through the first chapter, things aren't so bad.
If you make it a point to follow along, it's not so hard - the pictures/diagrams (of which there are many) get the salient points across, and do a pretty decent job of showing what's going on. Not many equations, and the ones there are are pretty easily followed. (and this from a biology grad from Illinois Tech - I'm definitely a resident of the foothills of mathematical academia).
This guy has some -serious- ego, though - the first chapter seemed to be nothing but (as yet unsubstantiated, but then I'm only on the 4th chapter) blowhard hubris promise-the-world-in-a-simple-program promises.
Nevertheless...
I work with computers these days, and have gotten used to the idea that people with huge egos not only exist, but often have the results to back them up. So I'm trying to reserve judgement about his revolutionizing the world of science until I read a bit more.
But cellular automata are much better observed in action than in the static pictures he provides. A quick search on the web yielded this fine program that has given me a lot to play with over the last few days too.
A fun book, overall. Not expensive. Worth poking around in, once you get past Wolfram's ego.
Thanks for your informative response - I really appreciate it.
So the answer is (if I'm reading this right) . ..
You -CAN- make http-based SOAP services secure.
They won't be routable, and there might be transmission problems if they're going through certain messaging servers. And there's processing overhead involved in using https encryption that could make it sub-optimal for larger messages.
But then, if you restrict it to http, it's not really fully SOAP compliant, I suppose.
It seems to me that, even with these caveats, it's no less secure than doing business over an encrypted http connection or secured CGI stuff.
I really don't know (flame gently if I'm being ignorant), but I'm hoping someone can explain this simply.
If https is secure... and xml/soap is http-based... what's the giant technical leap preventing https transmission of soap/xml packets?
Also, if you're doing business with say, a vendor of yours, what's stopping the both of you from encrypting the body of the soap messages on both sides by means of a PGP key or something?
I'm just curious as to why the issue seems to be reasonably solved with http web traffic, but isn't with SOAP...
Makes you wonder if these things aren't being spun out to get people to use the latest version of MS's products - if for no other reason than to make their systems secure.
Don't use 3d party stuff. Use the latest from MS. It's secure this time. We promise. Really.
Vaguely reminds me of auto glass purveyors out in a parking lot with a bat.
The moment Sun makes java not free (as in beer), its huge developer base gets sliced in half. There's no way they're foolish enough to try to make people pay just to use java.
Slashdot Mirror
There's something to be said for brevity.
Anyway, considering that a lot of the questions that were proposed in the original "request for questions" tended to be the ones that everyone always asks; and that he has nothing to gain by divulging copious stuff to Slashdot; and that in general there were a lot of people asking questions designed to bring up (potentially) embarassing stuff from his past - I can't see why he'd go into a lot of detail for us.
I for one really appreciated the brief, but sincere, answers about his wife's foundation; and his policy on regret. Simple, clear thoughts. Nothing wrong with that.
In the Navy, there is no such thing as a Second Lieutenant. That would be an Ensign, fresh out of Annapolis.
Big problems in suburban Chicago as well . . .
Has it taken you 5 weeks to complete the work scheduled for the week one milestone? You're a little unclear as to that.
This is obviously a little gray, but your determination that they are of loose moral fiber based on the fact that you are having a dispute over the value of your work and they don't want to pay you seems a little suspect to me.
Frankly, I don't think anything you could say to the VC's would influence their decision any - they might actually view the company's reticence to pay as a good thing. Management will tell them that you're an underperforming consultant, and not getting paid. VC's see management as hardnosed people who won't play fast and loose with their money.
In short, you can only hurt yourself by going to the VC's. Odds are you've lost any shot at future work for these people - time to cut your losses and walk.
Just my 2 cents . . .
Well done . . . thanks for taking the time to explain!
Huh? Porn cartoons aren't protected speech?
I'd love to see a link explaining this; absent that, I've gotta call you on that one.
Frankly, I'm surprised something like this hasn't been tried already.
JVC isn't the only company doing this.
I've got reliable sources that say that SONY is damned close on similar technology.
And the nice folks at Smarte Solutions have a whole suite of products coming online for just this sort of thing.
I'm not sure how easily this will be broken, truthfully. The software can be configured to all sorts of different levels, and the encryption can be linked to unique hardware identifiers and such. I'm no expert, but there are some that believe that this could be very tough.
Actually, open source is gaining increasing acceptance in business because (1) it works - it really does; and (2) they can't get damages from commercial software companies today.
I'd imagine that all that stuff he got from hacking her computer (s'cuse me, cracking her computer) would be inadmissible in court.
While the humiliation factor is pretty large, none of it's useful in court.
And I'd imagine this chap is in for one whale of a civil (or even criminal) lawsuit - breaking in and publishing information she wanted to keep private and all. He's likely broken all sorts of laws - and spammer or no, that's not good.
Not sure exactly what the charges would be (IANAL), but he'd better be wearing asbestos undies - cuz it's gonna get warm.
Occam, I believe - it's how I've always seen it. But I could be wrong - humbling, isn't it?
Well I'll be! It -can- be spelled Ockham.
Whoops. Apologies.
Occam's Razor
For the spelling impaired.
I believe that just about everything creative is about thinking (often about established things), and broadcasting your ideas.
... people are looking and considering today what they might not have before.
... not -the- solution, and not even just -a- solution.
I can understand the desire to leave things just as the artist left them - but creating these derivative works doesn't diminish the value of the original. Quite the opposite
And he's only rendered and published some solutions that appeal to him
I contend that by publishing several, it challenges the viewer even more to think about why these are good, and what changes we (the viewer) might make. The fact that they are based on mathematical principles - extrapolating the center and all - only serve to make his 'solutions' more compelling viewing.
And you haven't even started thinking about the cost of his (unsuccessful) legal defense. (Assuming he didn't go the "public defender" route).
Without meaning to restate the obvious, MS is trying to keep their foot in the Peruvian door - whole countries are starting to reconsider their Microsoft tax, and MS wants to nip this sort of thinking in the bud.
If you honestly believe they're "just 'helping' a 3d world country compute" - you're hopelessly naive.
Yep ... right about the time that all those southern states (Georgia notably) starting putting the confederate stars & bars in protest of the Jim Crow laws getting repealed.
Halelujah! Amen brotha . .
We've tried the exhaustive documentation route here before, and it became pretty cumbersome before long. Describing all the symptoms and all the steps taken to correct something is undeniably a good idea, but in the heat of the moment, can be pretty darned tough.
This solution benefits both the organization (because everyone is cross-trained), and benefits you all as the admins - as you will have deeper experience on a wide range of unices.
An excellent solution.
The France upset was huge - we Americans love an underdog team on the ropes. (Hence my watching to see if the Nets could pull anything out, and our new-found interest in a plucky men's world cup soccer team. Too bad they lost to Poland this morning - but they're still in the final round.)
One wonders if this David vs. Goliath love affair will eventually work for the Free Software movement's adoption by the masses - sticking the screw to Microsoft, whom almost noone I know really likes as a company.
Speaking of which, wasn't that commercial that aired during the NBA finals last night great?
The one where the Windows network administrator - a real guy - basically said that he works with windows when he has to, and goes home to get real work done on his Mac.
This chap went waay out of his way to make note of the productivity difference between working on a Mac and a Windows machine.
It's a good one - even my non-techie girlfriend found it compelling.
(Though anytime someone identifies themselves as a Windows LAN administrator I have to choke down the urge to laugh at them. Poor chap.)
Hmm...
It seems to me that at some point, for a spam to be worthwhile, some money has to change hands.
There will be a money trail.
A pr0n site spams in a large way? Go after the site - shut it down.
Penis pills are sold? Shut down the purveyor.
While there are some potential issues with your competitors spamming on your behalf (to get you in trouble) - I think following the money trail would eventually cut down the tree at its root.
I am pretty sure it is going to be tough reading (and I don't even have any degrees from MIT)
...
Actually, once you get through the first chapter, things aren't so bad.
If you make it a point to follow along, it's not so hard - the pictures/diagrams (of which there are many) get the salient points across, and do a pretty decent job of showing what's going on. Not many equations, and the ones there are are pretty easily followed. (and this from a biology grad from Illinois Tech - I'm definitely a resident of the foothills of mathematical academia).
This guy has some -serious- ego, though - the first chapter seemed to be nothing but (as yet unsubstantiated, but then I'm only on the 4th chapter) blowhard hubris promise-the-world-in-a-simple-program promises.
Nevertheless
I work with computers these days, and have gotten used to the idea that people with huge egos not only exist, but often have the results to back them up. So I'm trying to reserve judgement about his revolutionizing the world of science until I read a bit more.
But cellular automata are much better observed in action than in the static pictures he provides. A quick search on the web yielded this fine program that has given me a lot to play with over the last few days too.
A fun book, overall. Not expensive. Worth poking around in, once you get past Wolfram's ego.
Thanks for your informative response - I really appreciate it.
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So the answer is (if I'm reading this right) . .
You -CAN- make http-based SOAP services secure.
They won't be routable, and there might be transmission problems if they're going through certain messaging servers. And there's processing overhead involved in using https encryption that could make it sub-optimal for larger messages.
But then, if you restrict it to http, it's not really fully SOAP compliant, I suppose.
It seems to me that, even with these caveats, it's no less secure than doing business over an encrypted http connection or secured CGI stuff.
Am I still wrong?
I really don't know (flame gently if I'm being ignorant), but I'm hoping someone can explain this simply.
If https is secure... and xml/soap is http-based... what's the giant technical leap preventing https transmission of soap/xml packets?
Also, if you're doing business with say, a vendor of yours, what's stopping the both of you from encrypting the body of the soap messages on both sides by means of a PGP key or something?
I'm just curious as to why the issue seems to be reasonably solved with http web traffic, but isn't with SOAP...
Makes you wonder if these things aren't being spun out to get people to use the latest version of MS's products - if for no other reason than to make their systems secure.
Don't use 3d party stuff. Use the latest from MS. It's secure this time. We promise. Really.
Vaguely reminds me of auto glass purveyors out in a parking lot with a bat.
The moment Sun makes java not free (as in beer), its huge developer base gets sliced in half. There's no way they're foolish enough to try to make people pay just to use java.