Except it was the outside company that performed the "vulnerability assessment".
Reread that sentence and pay careful attention to how it flows. You're correct though, I marvel that his company trusted an unkown third party who did a "vulnerability assessment" and excluded the in house staff from the process review.
There is no argument I can give you that would sway your opinion I suppose.
Personally I think looking for free when the artist has put his entire life work online for 9.95 for a year subscription is pretty darn ignorant. But hey that could just be me since the alternative would have been for him to leave it dead tree and make you pay 12.95 or so per book.
"We have rocket scientists who have applied their spectral recognition and pattern analysis to software, which has yielded amazing results. We have found needles in the Mount Everest-sized haystack," Sontag said.
Let's see here, how many inaccuracies can you spot?
Rocket scientists, I would think most rocket scientists would have better things to do than go through millions of lines of code for a small unix company. Granted I could be wrong here but the next sentence sort of confirms this is a tad overstated.
Spectral (Pattern) Recognition, Used typically in places like chemistry, astronomy, etc. If I recall it's most often to identify unique compounds or stellar bodies. Even simple inference would be a clue to it's purpose colour recognition. I would hazard a guess this is probably not very useful for lines of code on a monitor, so yes if it yielded any results I would definitely be amazed.
Pattern Analysis is at least more believable but correct me if I'm wrong there's software out there now that does that.
Apparently those are some expensive needles...since I would guess that Linux is somewhere within the same ballpark as far as lines of code with Unixware. For those needles They are charging the same base price as their flavour of Unix for the Unix in Linux IP license, with the cost increasing after October 15th or so.
I would be suprised at this point if even the PHB's of the world view SCO's claims credible.
Granted I could be completely wrong about the Spectral Analysis as I really only know it from my astronomy and chemistry hobbies. Perhaps there is some new technique that allows it to be useful in other mediums.
There are many legitemate uses for large upstream bandwidth. Online gaming for one.
Neverwinter Nights requires a healthy upstream or it becomes mostly unplayable. Many skinners and modders for games rely a large upstream bandwidth to send their files to whatever host site they use. Bit Torrent and Linux distros comes to mind as well. I could probably think of few more if I tried.
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I'm trying to figure out how visual memory taping, which is what they used to back people up, caused the clone to suddenly have the same personality.
Downloading a persons visual memory would only grant the clone access to a persons visual history which is hardly a basis for personality. It's the equivelent of watching the tele with the sound off, sure it does a lot of interesting tricks with light but what's it all mean?
I enjoyed 6th Day from an action stand point and granted the movie some suspension of belief in that respect.
I would think downloading a complete copy of a person would require a lot more than a simple procedure. I've no knowledge of how the brains stores data but I'm sure it's not a simple electrical process.
It would mostly depend on the port range that Kazaa will accept connections on.
You can't connect to the central server if you're trying to send packets on a port that isn't recognized.
I know that several of the colleges in Georgia also said a definite no to irc connections through their network. If your college doesn't that's always an option.
You would be suprised how many "computer literate" people are completely baffled by something as simple as irc. I'm not even touching into file servers and dcc here just connecting to and joining/parting channels.
I seriously doubt the RIAA even has irc on it's radar at this point.
Yes it was called Waste...and the author intended it to be released under the gpl. AOL however had other plan or wisely saw that this would be counter productive to TW as a whole. It's mirrored on several sites and there's a rather lax argument if it is indeed under the GPL per the author or if the release was illegal per AOL.
Yes, well the original company was something of a cult. Both amoung it's employees and it's customers. It's also probable that they read them to remind everyone as they had a very liberal drug and alcohol policy.
After the merger with another company the new management kept reading them more or less to fool the majority of employees into thinking they were the same company.
The value I'm speaking of refered to the employees. I should know we read them at the start of every meeting.
As for them "taking a chance", that's a cop out. A chance of what?
That an employee who had a otherwise spotless work history may suddenly undergo a radical personality shift and become an evil clone? I don't think that's really what it is. I think it may be more of a "I would do this if it was me." factor. Automatically assuming an individual will behave in a childish and spiteful manner is not the sign of a good management organization in my opinion. But then I subscribed to the original company's version of the core values I spoke of. It's why I went to work for them and why I stayed after the change and left reluctantly at best. Again that's another story and if anyone ever posts about said company perhaps as a now disgruntled ex-employee I will elaborate on it. That's the real trick to treating everyone as a potential threat, you tend to annoy the ones who would have otherwise been harmless.
Doubtful, in my case my direct supervisor was incredibly embarrassed by having to accompany me out.
My current employer for whom I am working for contractually handles the end of my contract very nicely. I pick up and go home at the end. When it's time to come back and work I come back and re-attach my stuff to a cube. I have access to enough material for this employeer that I could easily damage their company if I so desired. My manager, however, trusts me to behave like a responsible adult.
I was escorted from the premises after having performed what I thought a rather amicable resignation. Quite simply I was moving from the area and the company unfortunately had no offices where I was moving to.
The way the company handled it though came across as if they trusted me about as much as they trusted a potential disgruntled employee. It comes across as a lack of respect for the person leaving and their level of responsibility. The best part of it was the companies core values and beliefs touted the fact that they believed firmly in giving individuals respect and that individuals treated with respect acted accordingly. But their treatment of those is another story.
"Therefore, distributed attacking penguins could concievably work. Just arrange things so that if you win, or if SCO gives up all rights to GNU, it stops there, and they don't hit any other bumps. Be a gracious victor: the point is not to go to war, the point is to get out of the war intact as quickly as possible, and stay out where possible. "
Why do I see several thousand little pengiuns carrying a missle strapped to their back waddling their way across Utah with this line.
In all seriousness I don't know how effective this would really be. In my estimation the US system would instinctively side with SCO in each of these cases. The mindset to be on the side of big business is ingrained in every politico's head.
Now maybe if this were to be done in places were politicians still seem to understand they run things and not the guys in the Fortune 1000 companies.
Making in mandatory is basically saying this is what we feel is the right tool for the job. I work at a company in assett management and we've done this on numerous occasions. In fact all computer purchases have to be IBM's. Is it because it's the right tool for the job though? Not really it's more because IBM offers us the better deal for bulk business.
All in all such logic is common throughout the industry. It's the same as a newspaper buying their classified department Macs to use for their job.
Has anyone looked at the SCOsource page. They include a section of edited qoutes from "Linux Leaders". I say that because they use Stallman who's not really involved with Linux but GNU. The qoutes are all slanted to make Linux developers look like criminals. Now wouldn't this bit a nice sense of cosmic justice if the reverse is actually found to be true.
This won't be about skin colour. They're as likely to target a white guy as a black as long as he comes from one of the problem areas I imagine. It's not racial profiling but economic in a sense.
I think in those cases they're just allowing for some form of media showcase. I can't see any other reason to ignore the fact that a lot of criminals are fairly intelligent people. But then again they seem to be basing this on the factor of poor = criminal = violent thug = idiot. It's one of the reasons I think police are so baffled all the time. They assume all criminals are basically stupid thugs.
Problem is it looks like the police will still be focusing on poorer neighborhoods which means that when the affluent decide to kill everyone will still get to be shocked. So at least they're not denying the media their circus with all of this.
This could also reap benifits for the Patriot Act as well. So long as you assume that most muslim terrorists are living in the poorer sections of town.
Crime doesn't always happen in poor neighborhoods though. A lot of crime is commited by the affluent as well.
Yes it will be on officer placement but I'm willing to bet it will also influence officer behavior regarding residents of an area. I've lived in to many cities where racial profiling is practiced.
In the article he makes mention of this not being based on race but then says well most poor people are non white. It smells like profiling take two to me.
This isn't some science fantasy movie they're talking about implementing in the real world. They won't be able to tell you Joe Smith is going to kill his wife at 4:45PM.
They're talking about profiling on a neighborhood scale. What they're suggesting is that if a man from a neighborhood that has a lot of crime is out and about they will watch him under the suspicion that he will commit a crime.
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Except it was the outside company that performed the "vulnerability assessment".
Reread that sentence and pay careful attention to how it flows. You're correct though, I marvel that his company trusted an unkown third party who did a "vulnerability assessment" and excluded the in house staff from the process review.
Kyoya
Well that may be true internally but a spot check of that server list listed all 4 that I looked up as running Solaris with Netscape.
Kyoya
Well that's 375 at the old Netscape Campus and the other 75 from the San Francisco office.
(Fuck you, RIAA, I own it).
Actually I'm fairly sure those songs are not amoung those in the RIAA catalog.
There is no argument I can give you that would sway your opinion I suppose.
Personally I think looking for free when the artist has put his entire life work online for 9.95 for a year subscription is pretty darn ignorant. But hey that could just be me since the alternative would have been for him to leave it dead tree and make you pay 12.95 or so per book.
You can actually subscribe to MyComicsPages.com linked of Breathed's site.
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The entire back catalog is reprinted there and presumably he gets a share of the profits.
This was mentioned a while back in a previous
Here in fact
"We have rocket scientists who have applied their spectral recognition and pattern analysis to software, which has yielded amazing results. We have found needles in the Mount Everest-sized haystack," Sontag said.
Let's see here, how many inaccuracies can you spot?
Rocket scientists, I would think most rocket scientists would have better things to do than go through millions of lines of code for a small unix company. Granted I could be wrong here but the next sentence sort of confirms this is a tad overstated.
Spectral (Pattern) Recognition, Used typically in places like chemistry, astronomy, etc. If I recall it's most often to identify unique compounds or stellar bodies. Even simple inference would be a clue to it's purpose colour recognition. I would hazard a guess this is probably not very useful for lines of code on a monitor, so yes if it yielded any results I would definitely be amazed.
Pattern Analysis is at least more believable but correct me if I'm wrong there's software out there now that does that.
Apparently those are some expensive needles...since I would guess that Linux is somewhere within the same ballpark as far as lines of code with Unixware. For those needles They are charging the same base price as their flavour of Unix for the Unix in Linux IP license, with the cost increasing after October 15th or so.
I would be suprised at this point if even the PHB's of the world view SCO's claims credible.
Granted I could be completely wrong about the Spectral Analysis as I really only know it from my astronomy and chemistry hobbies. Perhaps there is some new technique that allows it to be useful in other mediums.
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There are many legitemate uses for large upstream bandwidth. Online gaming for one.
Neverwinter Nights requires a healthy upstream or it becomes mostly unplayable. Many skinners and modders for games rely a large upstream bandwidth to send their files to whatever host site they use. Bit Torrent and Linux distros comes to mind as well. I could probably think of few more if I tried.
I'm trying to figure out how visual memory taping, which is what they used to back people up, caused the clone to suddenly have the same personality.
Downloading a persons visual memory would only grant the clone access to a persons visual history which is hardly a basis for personality. It's the equivelent of watching the tele with the sound off, sure it does a lot of interesting tricks with light but what's it all mean?
I enjoyed 6th Day from an action stand point and granted the movie some suspension of belief in that respect.
I would think downloading a complete copy of a person would require a lot more than a simple procedure. I've no knowledge of how the brains stores data but I'm sure it's not a simple electrical process.
It would mostly depend on the port range that Kazaa will accept connections on.
You can't connect to the central server if you're trying to send packets on a port that isn't recognized.
I know that several of the colleges in Georgia also said a definite no to irc connections through their network. If your college doesn't that's always an option.
You would be suprised how many "computer literate" people are completely baffled by something as simple as irc. I'm not even touching into file servers and dcc here just connecting to and joining/parting channels.
I seriously doubt the RIAA even has irc on it's radar at this point.
Yes it was called Waste...and the author intended it to be released under the gpl. AOL however had other plan or wisely saw that this would be counter productive to TW as a whole. It's mirrored on several sites and there's a rather lax argument if it is indeed under the GPL per the author or if the release was illegal per AOL.
Yes, well the original company was something of a cult. Both amoung it's employees and it's customers. It's also probable that they read them to remind everyone as they had a very liberal drug and alcohol policy.
After the merger with another company the new management kept reading them more or less to fool the majority of employees into thinking they were the same company.
The value I'm speaking of refered to the employees. I should know we read them at the start of every meeting.
As for them "taking a chance", that's a cop out. A chance of what?
That an employee who had a otherwise spotless work history may suddenly undergo a radical personality shift and become an evil clone? I don't think that's really what it is. I think it may be more of a "I would do this if it was me." factor. Automatically assuming an individual will behave in a childish and spiteful manner is not the sign of a good management organization in my opinion. But then I subscribed to the original company's version of the core values I spoke of. It's why I went to work for them and why I stayed after the change and left reluctantly at best. Again that's another story and if anyone ever posts about said company perhaps as a now disgruntled ex-employee I will elaborate on it. That's the real trick to treating everyone as a potential threat, you tend to annoy the ones who would have otherwise been harmless.
Doubtful, in my case my direct supervisor was incredibly embarrassed by having to accompany me out.
My current employer for whom I am working for contractually handles the end of my contract very nicely. I pick up and go home at the end. When it's time to come back and work I come back and re-attach my stuff to a cube. I have access to enough material for this employeer that I could easily damage their company if I so desired. My manager, however, trusts me to behave like a responsible adult.
I was escorted from the premises after having performed what I thought a rather amicable resignation. Quite simply I was moving from the area and the company unfortunately had no offices where I was moving to.
The way the company handled it though came across as if they trusted me about as much as they trusted a potential disgruntled employee. It comes across as a lack of respect for the person leaving and their level of responsibility. The best part of it was the companies core values and beliefs touted the fact that they believed firmly in giving individuals respect and that individuals treated with respect acted accordingly. But their treatment of those is another story.
"Therefore, distributed attacking penguins could concievably work. Just arrange things so that if you win, or if SCO gives up all rights to GNU, it stops there, and they don't hit any other bumps. Be a gracious victor: the point is not to go to war, the point is to get out of the war intact as quickly as possible, and stay out where possible.
"
Why do I see several thousand little pengiuns carrying a missle strapped to their back waddling their way across Utah with this line.
In all seriousness I don't know how effective this would really be. In my estimation the US system would instinctively side with SCO in each of these cases. The mindset to be on the side of big business is ingrained in every politico's head.
Now maybe if this were to be done in places were politicians still seem to understand they run things and not the guys in the Fortune 1000 companies.
Making in mandatory is basically saying this is what we feel is the right tool for the job. I work at a company in assett management and we've done this on numerous occasions. In fact all computer purchases have to be IBM's. Is it because it's the right tool for the job though? Not really it's more because IBM offers us the better deal for bulk business.
All in all such logic is common throughout the industry. It's the same as a newspaper buying their classified department Macs to use for their job.
Has anyone looked at the SCOsource page. They include a section of edited qoutes from "Linux Leaders". I say that because they use Stallman who's not really involved with Linux but GNU. The qoutes are all slanted to make Linux developers look like criminals. Now wouldn't this bit a nice sense of cosmic justice if the reverse is actually found to be true.
What about a better remake of
Tomorrow People
and maybe one of Blake's 7.
You can find most internet/tech related jargon on one of the various Jargon File Nodes floating about the net.
:)
http://info.astrian.net/jargon/ for the to lazy to google.
This won't be about skin colour. They're as likely to target a white guy as a black as long as he comes from one of the problem areas I imagine. It's not racial profiling but economic in a sense.
I think in those cases they're just allowing for some form of media showcase. I can't see any other reason to ignore the fact that a lot of criminals are fairly intelligent people. But then again they seem to be basing this on the factor of poor = criminal = violent thug = idiot. It's one of the reasons I think police are so baffled all the time. They assume all criminals are basically stupid thugs.
Problem is it looks like the police will still be focusing on poorer neighborhoods which means that when the affluent decide to kill everyone will still get to be shocked. So at least they're not denying the media their circus with all of this.
This could also reap benifits for the Patriot Act as well. So long as you assume that most muslim terrorists are living in the poorer sections of town.
Crime doesn't always happen in poor neighborhoods though. A lot of crime is commited by the affluent as well.
Yes it will be on officer placement but I'm willing to bet it will also influence officer behavior regarding residents of an area. I've lived in to many cities where racial profiling is practiced.
In the article he makes mention of this not being based on race but then says well most poor people are non white. It smells like profiling take two to me.
This isn't some science fantasy movie they're talking about implementing in the real world. They won't be able to tell you Joe Smith is going to kill his wife at 4:45PM.
They're talking about profiling on a neighborhood scale. What they're suggesting is that if a man from a neighborhood that has a lot of crime is out and about they will watch him under the suspicion that he will commit a crime.