The bigger question is what do his fellow astronauts think about the chorizo a few hours after he's eaten it? It's not like you can open a window, or blame the dog.
I'm sorry you don't understand. It does not work the way *I* want. I like the notifications -- and as long as the notifications are limited to "once per site" I can deal with them as they arise. I'll blacklist or whitelist them at that time. But just like the notifications, the icon can't tell me the difference between a site blocking a script that I haven't looked at and blocking a script that I've already evaluated as bad.
Believe me, I've tried to get NoScript to do what I want. You're right -- as it's configured now, it's useless on my box. The only reason I still have it installed is to keep up-to-date on the release notes to see if he's added blacklisting functionality. And I see in the forum that other people have requested blacklisting, because apparently I'm not the only person who works this way. I know it's not an easy thing to add. But until it's there, it doesn't do what I want; it doesn't work the way I want it to work.
Because I approach it differently. I want both blacklisting as well as whitelisting. There are sites that I never want to allow scripts from, there are sites I always want to allow scripts, and there are sites with scripts that I don't know about yet. Those are the only ones where I want notification. Once I figure them out I'll throw them in the appropriate "good" or "bad" bucket; after that I'd like NoScript to shut up about them.
Sure, it'd be possible for a formerly benign site to create a "locally evil" script bypassing NoScript, but it's far more likely they'll farm something out to a third-party tracking firm like IMRworldwide.
I have used NoScript (it's on right now, but set to "global allow"), but I prefer using AdBlock Plus to build up a blacklist of various scripts and script-hosting sites (such as google-analytics.) NoScript is kind of irritating as it doesn't support black-listing -- if you have a site with some scripts you want run, but others denied, it still pesters you. And for some reason that I haven't bothered to figure out yet, NoScript is in my processing chain before AdBlock, so blacklisting in AdBlock doesn't prevent NoScript from whining.
Speaking of whining, does anyone know how to specify the order of processing of Mozilla extensions? I'd love to leave NoScript on to catch the stuff that I haven't told AdBlock to stop yet.
No, I'm telling you what the purest form of Libertarian capitalism would yield. It sounds great if you're a "have" but not so good if you're a "have-not". It's a kind of "worst-case straw-man" of the evils of capitalism that gives people like Karl Marx something to rail against, but it's not exactly a reality. And a functioning democracy has a political counterbalance that keeps it from ever getting that bad -- something Marx neglects to point out.
I certainly don't support this particular model -- quite the opposite, I much prefer it when society invests in the common good. I think good public schools lead to better educated people who are more able to take care of themselves, and good public infrastructure leads to a better marketplace for products and jobs. I think privatization of truly common resources (such as roads) would lead to a widening of the gap between rich and poor, and that leads to all manner of ills, including increased crime and civil strife.
Oh, I think they'd sell a lot of Fords. You just have to imagine the big picture of a Libertarian private roadway scenario.
Ford Expressways, GM Streets and Chrysler Highways are usually four lanes wide, nicely maintained and have a practical speed limit of 80 MPH, and cost $100 per month. Daewoo Roadways are constantly mocked by late-night TV comedians for being slow and narrow, and they almost never go exactly where you want them to, but they only cost $20 per month to use. Just for the elite, let's say Lamborghini has a small system of double-lane highly elevated roadways that let their drivers reach speeds of over 200 MPH, but cost in the neighborhood of $10,000 per month. For the many places they don't serve, they have an arrangement with the big three to let their drivers use their roads.
Finally, there are public access streets that are little more than overcrowded, rutted, muddy, pot-holed goat trails, but they're free. Because the motoring public shuns them, they never get enough funding to fix them up, and so they remain the last roadways available to the poor.
You'd most likely buy a Ford (or GM or Chrysler) because that's what the vast majority of ordinary people use, and the roads are both cost effective and superior to the cheaper alternatives. You'd probably pick a car manufacturer based on whose roads carried you closest to your home and work, and what kind of discounts the dealer was willing to throw in. (And Eric Raymond would be out there encouraging people to buy and drive road graders in their spare time, but now I've carried the analogy too far.)
This is my biggest frustration with PCI (and Visa.) In the mid 1990s Mastercard introduced a protocol called Secure Electronic Transaction (SET). It was exactly what you requested above -- a better system. It completely defined a standard for strongly encrypting the cards at the terminal. The encrypted authorization and settlement data could be safely carried throughout a merchant's IT network and other systems. PCI as we know it would be reduced to its subset of physical tamperproofing requirements, and retailers would never have been in a position to leak account data.
It bombed for a couple of reasons. First, it made heavy use of public key cryptography, and on the CPUs of the day that sort of encryption would have slowed each credit transaction by at least three to six seconds. Second, the merchants didn't like it because it was complex and very large, producing authorization message sizes ten times larger than anything they were used to (and thus ten times slower over their over-burdened networks.) But the most important reason it bombed was that it rendered Visa irrelevant. SET made authorization transactions so strong that they could be passed securely and directly to your bank, even over the public internet. There was no need for the data to flow through the consolidating and percentage-skimming hands of a Visa provider or a secured network, because the data blobs were securely armored.
The first objections above could have easily been overcome by Visa. For at least the last 20 years Visa has been strong-arming retailers into installing new systems and upgrading hardware through the threat of rate hikes. Do you think the retailers wanted to install expensive mag stripe readers back in the 1980s? They didn't want to spend the money, but they didn't want to have their rates jacked up by an extra percentage point either. Virtually every other Visa "innovation" (such as 3DES and PCI) has been introduced with the same strong-arm tactics. So if Visa wanted SET to succeed, they would have simply threatened another rate-hike to non-compliant merchants. But since no such threats came down, SET withered quietly away.
So all these credit-card leaks from various merchants over the last ten years could have been completely avoided except for the deliberate interference of Visa. Think about that.
Metric or not, MTBF has a direct effect on our systems. Our group has about 45,000 machines deployed nationwide. An MTBF of 30,000 hours means that we're repairing a dozen machines a day (30,000 hours includes everything, not just hard drives.) It's interesting in that we have clients who expect certain bits of data will be magically "guaranteed" to arrive intact. I like explaining to them that the statistics insure we'll have at least a dozen machine failures per day, and that they better understand that occasionally a two-phase commit will never get finished because the client died. (Besides, I hate lazy designers who think other systems will always properly clean up their messes.)
I believe it is moral to help people gain access to information
As do I. However, helping doesn't imply providing the facilities.
Rather than host a proxy yourself, offer to help them find other proxies. Offer to teach them about torpark. But mostly teach them how to figure the problem out for themselves. As they encounter this problem repeatedly throughout their lives, they'll be in a better position to recognize it and fight it.
If myspace or facebook is important enough to them, they'll have the motivation to learn how to bypass the firewalls themselves. If not, they can continue to whine in ignorance. You don't have to do it for them to be their hero -- you just have to help.
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Don't feel bad. I did basically the same thing to one of my managers earlier this week.:-)
I hope their business plan calls for Fujitsu to give away decoders like Digital Convergence did with:CueCats.
But serioiusly, did anyone ever use a:CueCat for its business-intended purpose? Even once would be remarkable. I have no idea why someone would waste time trying this with a cell-phone, unless they were already a geek -- and then they'd be busy trying to find ways to hack it, not to use it.
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Oh, no; I know "I LIKE MONKEYS" has been around for a very long time. I just always thought Tom's spin on it was pretty funny, and tangentially relevant to the discussion of Maureen O'Gara.
Sorry I didn't fully specify what I meant. As you quoted me above:
I really dislike the recent increases in violent crime
Until George Bush showed this nation how to seriously piss away money that he's been stealing from my son's future, drug laws had been by far the biggest waste of my taxpayer dollars. I don't associate drugs with violent crime -- but I do associate the illegality of the drugs forcing artificially high prices with violent crime.
Violent crime can be reduced. While I'm sure it's a combination of factors, prisons and money seem to help -- the 1980s and 1990s showed that if you lock away violent offenders for a longer period of time, violent crimes drop. Minneapolis violent crimes have steadily dropped since 1995, from 42,000 to 27,200 in 2002 (although they seem to be heading back up these last few years.)
And I'll call you on the local corruption -- but then again, you've held a royal flush in that department for almost a century now.
Tax me a little more so that those less fortunate can have a chance at the same life that I enjoy.
Actually, I'm a lot more selfish than that. Tax my gas more so that my streets can be repaved and potholes be filled in before they destroy my suspension. Spend more in public schools so I don't have to send my kid to a private school just to give him an average education. Raise my income taxes instead of my property taxes, so that when I get old I'm not paying a fortune I no longer have to live in my own house. Spend more public money on art and architecture to keep this a pleasant and beautiful place to live. I really dislike the recent increases in violent crime due to cuts in local government budgets, so add some more money to Minneapolis and Saint Paul to fund more cops, and have the state open more prison beds. And finally, give Public Radio enough money so they'll shut the hell up about their pledge drive after three days instead of ten.
If I wanted to live in a low-tax shithole I'd have moved out years ago. I *like* living in a beautiful place that doesn't have garbage constantly flowing in the gutters, and like you I am willing to pay for the privilege. If Pawlenty wants to pay less in taxes, he should go be governor of a state that has lower taxes rather than continuing to fuck up ours.
Objects in orbit are moving very fast, in the kilometers per second range. I can't think of anything that could cleanly "catch" a tumbling piece of hyper-sonic solar panel.
What about aerogels? They were used to catch comet particles that were traveling at extremely high relative speeds (6km/sec.) Yes, they were extremely tiny particles, but perhaps something more dense would be able to do the same work. What we need would be more like a kind of orbital sandbag (one that doesn't leak when you hit it.)
III. Striking space junk will cause more space junk, each new smaller piece now has it's own orbit.
That's what TFA calls "the Kessler Syndrome" after the NASA scientist who first recognized that a chain reaction would eventually occur in LEO where debris collisions produce more debris that are then involved in more collisions, rendering space flight virtually impossible due to the collision hazard.
"them"? Which "them" are you talking about? The Chinese just increased the amount of junk by perhaps 5% with their test. The US and the Soviet Union are responsible for the vast majority of the (s)crap cluttering LEO.
Of course if you were ever planning on cleaning the debris, the sooner you start the less time the fragments have to drift apart. I imagine that the explosion has already driven those fragments in virtually every direction at distances too far to recover.
Really old CRTs and LCDs only had one cell per pixel, for grayscale.
No, Fairly old CRTs and LCDs only had one cell per pixel, for grayscale. Really old LCDs had seven segments per digit. Really old CRTs were character oriented, and you had no control over individual pixels (back when ASCII art was the height of computer graphics.) Ancient CRTs were vector oriented storage scopes, allowing you to draw lines, but not erase them without erasing the entire display.
You kids these days and your fancy bitmapped screens.
Anything that you enjoy doing instantly becomes much less fun the moment you are doing it because you are required to, for whatever reason.
Actually, I have had the opposite experience. I advocate doing what you love; if someone is willing to pay you for it, so much the better! I feel really bad for the people who wake up each morning and head off to a job they hate.
I'd say it's good for any company to have an engineer like this on staff, who has guts to face management and speak his or her mind.
Jim Allchin, the author of the email you're talking about, isn't an engineer. At the time, he was the vice president of the platform group at Microsoft (the group responsible for operating systems.) He wasn't "facing" management, he was management (he retired earlier this week.)
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The bigger question is what do his fellow astronauts think about the chorizo a few hours after he's eaten it? It's not like you can open a window, or blame the dog.
Profit. It goes for US$150 per pound.
But I suppose you have to be from a place where they do a lot of ice fishing before that joke makes any sense at all.
Nice boy, but doesn't listen to a word I say.
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Believe me, I've tried to get NoScript to do what I want. You're right -- as it's configured now, it's useless on my box. The only reason I still have it installed is to keep up-to-date on the release notes to see if he's added blacklisting functionality. And I see in the forum that other people have requested blacklisting, because apparently I'm not the only person who works this way. I know it's not an easy thing to add. But until it's there, it doesn't do what I want; it doesn't work the way I want it to work.
Sure, it'd be possible for a formerly benign site to create a "locally evil" script bypassing NoScript, but it's far more likely they'll farm something out to a third-party tracking firm like IMRworldwide.
Speaking of whining, does anyone know how to specify the order of processing of Mozilla extensions? I'd love to leave NoScript on to catch the stuff that I haven't told AdBlock to stop yet.
I certainly don't support this particular model -- quite the opposite, I much prefer it when society invests in the common good. I think good public schools lead to better educated people who are more able to take care of themselves, and good public infrastructure leads to a better marketplace for products and jobs. I think privatization of truly common resources (such as roads) would lead to a widening of the gap between rich and poor, and that leads to all manner of ills, including increased crime and civil strife.
Ford Expressways, GM Streets and Chrysler Highways are usually four lanes wide, nicely maintained and have a practical speed limit of 80 MPH, and cost $100 per month. Daewoo Roadways are constantly mocked by late-night TV comedians for being slow and narrow, and they almost never go exactly where you want them to, but they only cost $20 per month to use. Just for the elite, let's say Lamborghini has a small system of double-lane highly elevated roadways that let their drivers reach speeds of over 200 MPH, but cost in the neighborhood of $10,000 per month. For the many places they don't serve, they have an arrangement with the big three to let their drivers use their roads.
Finally, there are public access streets that are little more than overcrowded, rutted, muddy, pot-holed goat trails, but they're free. Because the motoring public shuns them, they never get enough funding to fix them up, and so they remain the last roadways available to the poor.
You'd most likely buy a Ford (or GM or Chrysler) because that's what the vast majority of ordinary people use, and the roads are both cost effective and superior to the cheaper alternatives. You'd probably pick a car manufacturer based on whose roads carried you closest to your home and work, and what kind of discounts the dealer was willing to throw in. (And Eric Raymond would be out there encouraging people to buy and drive road graders in their spare time, but now I've carried the analogy too far.)
It bombed for a couple of reasons. First, it made heavy use of public key cryptography, and on the CPUs of the day that sort of encryption would have slowed each credit transaction by at least three to six seconds. Second, the merchants didn't like it because it was complex and very large, producing authorization message sizes ten times larger than anything they were used to (and thus ten times slower over their over-burdened networks.) But the most important reason it bombed was that it rendered Visa irrelevant. SET made authorization transactions so strong that they could be passed securely and directly to your bank, even over the public internet. There was no need for the data to flow through the consolidating and percentage-skimming hands of a Visa provider or a secured network, because the data blobs were securely armored.
The first objections above could have easily been overcome by Visa. For at least the last 20 years Visa has been strong-arming retailers into installing new systems and upgrading hardware through the threat of rate hikes. Do you think the retailers wanted to install expensive mag stripe readers back in the 1980s? They didn't want to spend the money, but they didn't want to have their rates jacked up by an extra percentage point either. Virtually every other Visa "innovation" (such as 3DES and PCI) has been introduced with the same strong-arm tactics. So if Visa wanted SET to succeed, they would have simply threatened another rate-hike to non-compliant merchants. But since no such threats came down, SET withered quietly away.
So all these credit-card leaks from various merchants over the last ten years could have been completely avoided except for the deliberate interference of Visa. Think about that.
Metric or not, MTBF has a direct effect on our systems. Our group has about 45,000 machines deployed nationwide. An MTBF of 30,000 hours means that we're repairing a dozen machines a day (30,000 hours includes everything, not just hard drives.) It's interesting in that we have clients who expect certain bits of data will be magically "guaranteed" to arrive intact. I like explaining to them that the statistics insure we'll have at least a dozen machine failures per day, and that they better understand that occasionally a two-phase commit will never get finished because the client died. (Besides, I hate lazy designers who think other systems will always properly clean up their messes.)
As do I. However, helping doesn't imply providing the facilities.
Rather than host a proxy yourself, offer to help them find other proxies. Offer to teach them about torpark. But mostly teach them how to figure the problem out for themselves. As they encounter this problem repeatedly throughout their lives, they'll be in a better position to recognize it and fight it.
If myspace or facebook is important enough to them, they'll have the motivation to learn how to bypass the firewalls themselves. If not, they can continue to whine in ignorance. You don't have to do it for them to be their hero -- you just have to help.
Don't feel bad. I did basically the same thing to one of my managers earlier this week. :-)
But serioiusly, did anyone ever use a :CueCat for its business-intended purpose? Even once would be remarkable. I have no idea why someone would waste time trying this with a cell-phone, unless they were already a geek -- and then they'd be busy trying to find ways to hack it, not to use it.
Oh, no; I know "I LIKE MONKEYS" has been around for a very long time. I just always thought Tom's spin on it was pretty funny, and tangentially relevant to the discussion of Maureen O'Gara.
Until George Bush showed this nation how to seriously piss away money that he's been stealing from my son's future, drug laws had been by far the biggest waste of my taxpayer dollars. I don't associate drugs with violent crime -- but I do associate the illegality of the drugs forcing artificially high prices with violent crime.
Violent crime can be reduced. While I'm sure it's a combination of factors, prisons and money seem to help -- the 1980s and 1990s showed that if you lock away violent offenders for a longer period of time, violent crimes drop. Minneapolis violent crimes have steadily dropped since 1995, from 42,000 to 27,200 in 2002 (although they seem to be heading back up these last few years.)
And I'll call you on the local corruption -- but then again, you've held a royal flush in that department for almost a century now.
Actually, I'm a lot more selfish than that. Tax my gas more so that my streets can be repaved and potholes be filled in before they destroy my suspension. Spend more in public schools so I don't have to send my kid to a private school just to give him an average education. Raise my income taxes instead of my property taxes, so that when I get old I'm not paying a fortune I no longer have to live in my own house. Spend more public money on art and architecture to keep this a pleasant and beautiful place to live. I really dislike the recent increases in violent crime due to cuts in local government budgets, so add some more money to Minneapolis and Saint Paul to fund more cops, and have the state open more prison beds. And finally, give Public Radio enough money so they'll shut the hell up about their pledge drive after three days instead of ten.
If I wanted to live in a low-tax shithole I'd have moved out years ago. I *like* living in a beautiful place that doesn't have garbage constantly flowing in the gutters, and like you I am willing to pay for the privilege. If Pawlenty wants to pay less in taxes, he should go be governor of a state that has lower taxes rather than continuing to fuck up ours.
What about aerogels? They were used to catch comet particles that were traveling at extremely high relative speeds (6km/sec.) Yes, they were extremely tiny particles, but perhaps something more dense would be able to do the same work. What we need would be more like a kind of orbital sandbag (one that doesn't leak when you hit it.)
III. Striking space junk will cause more space junk, each new smaller piece now has it's own orbit.That's what TFA calls "the Kessler Syndrome" after the NASA scientist who first recognized that a chain reaction would eventually occur in LEO where debris collisions produce more debris that are then involved in more collisions, rendering space flight virtually impossible due to the collision hazard.
Of course if you were ever planning on cleaning the debris, the sooner you start the less time the fragments have to drift apart. I imagine that the explosion has already driven those fragments in virtually every direction at distances too far to recover.
No, Fairly old CRTs and LCDs only had one cell per pixel, for grayscale. Really old LCDs had seven segments per digit. Really old CRTs were character oriented, and you had no control over individual pixels (back when ASCII art was the height of computer graphics.) Ancient CRTs were vector oriented storage scopes, allowing you to draw lines, but not erase them without erasing the entire display.
You kids these days and your fancy bitmapped screens.
Actually, I have had the opposite experience. I advocate doing what you love; if someone is willing to pay you for it, so much the better! I feel really bad for the people who wake up each morning and head off to a job they hate.
I don't know, are you willing to relocate to India?
Jim Allchin, the author of the email you're talking about, isn't an engineer. At the time, he was the vice president of the platform group at Microsoft (the group responsible for operating systems.) He wasn't "facing" management, he was management (he retired earlier this week.)