Don't forget to look at OpenSSL (you'll have to write some scripts and use a RDBMS with this), Entrust, and RSA.
Also, don't hardcode your CRL URL into your certificates. If that web server goes down, your entire PKI could break. It is better to leave revocation out of certificates and get all of your important PKI clients to use OSPF.
For the root node of your PKI: Take a laptop, scratch off all networking-type thingks (modem jack, ethernet jack), generated your root CA key, use it to sign your intermediate CA certificates, then lock the laptop in a safe.
It is much more common to find Windows on flakey hardware. Much of the reputation Windows gets for instability should be directed at the hardware. Have you ever run Windows and Linux on the same hardware, and gamed from both of them? Linux games are MUCH more likely to lock up your interface than Windows games are.
I think you should take OpenSSH off of your list until it supports X.509 certificates, like the rest of the Internet (including other SSH packages) already does. It's 2006--about time for OpenSSH to catch up with 1993.
If a decision has to be made today, what better information is there to base it on than the current mainstream scientific theories? Do you have a better suggestion? Paralysis of decisions because nothing can be proven 100%?
It is true that people with higher IQs are more liberal. It is also true that people with high IQs are less religious. It is also true that people who are more religious are more conservative. So there is certainly well-established evidence which suggests that liberal thinking positively relates to IQ.
"Exploit" is your word for "saving people from starving." You are so kind.
"Lack of character" is a great attack. Who can argue with it? It doesn't mean anything. Of course, the people who say it usually don't have anything meaningful to say, so it just works out for them.
"I think I can do without those drugs. Even if not using them shortens my life."
You go ahead, jerk. The rest of humanity will keep progressing. I don't want to die. I'm young, and there is a real chance that ageing will be cured in my lifetime. The more research the better. If the test subjects are well informed, there is nothing morally wrong with this.
While this sort of thing may seem bad when you think small, try thinking big--the products of research stick with humanity FOREVER.
Everything you said is universally accepted except "with pollution we've managed to compress that down to just a few 100 years."
But even given that, I think the idea that genetic engineering is becoming useful at the same time that climactic changes are outpacing evolution is exciting. Perhaps this woudl provide us with the motivation to architect a better-designed ecosphere--one that is more efficient and less fragile. One free of mosquitoes and other parasites. I'm looking at genetically engineered fish in my fish tank right now. Perhaps we don't need to wait for evolution, and we can instead take fate into our own hands.
Finding the key for DVD decryption required some skill in reverse engineering. Finding a key in an open source program would be 100 times easier. Just look at the source code.
The only guy I know with one of these gave up on it. In his small, clutterd bachaelor pad, it didn't have enough suction, didn't get enough places, and got stuck. He ended up buying a Dyson vac and leaving roomba in the closet.
I'll correct you: CEO answers to Shareholders by way of Board. CEOs need incentives to do their jobs well. If they don't have them, they will make the least-risky (and so the least-rewarding) decisions in order to keep their jobs as long as possible.
Hm. I don't work in a heavily regulaged industry. Perhaps what you say is more true in those industries. I'm in software.
Suppose two publically traded software companies make software for the same problem. The CEO of Company A outsources development and reduces costs by 5%. Perhaps the shareholders agree that the CEO gets 5% of the new proffits and they get the other 4%. Shareholders win.
The CEO of Company B will see this and do the same. Now both CEOs have incentive to steal marketshare from eachother by lowering prices. Eventually this will balance out. There will be more money in the shareholders' pockets. The software consumers will see a drop in price. Plutocracy doesn't enter in to it.
To understand your joke, one would have had to: 1) be familiar with unix arcanum 2) have studied the history of computer operating systems 3) have read a specific short-story by Asimov
You sir, win the inside-joke-of-the-year award. Thank you.
I will never buy a science book by an author who misuses the phrase "begs the question." If the author is a scientist (and a computer scientist, at that), then he should be familiar with the basic terminology of logical reasoning.
If you aren't sure what I mean, check out the "excerpt" page from the book on amazon.com.
Christmas has its roots in Christian (well, roman) mythology. But when the secular United States government declared it a national holiday, it effectively became a secular holiday in the US.
Today, the economic impact of Christmas is far greater to America than the philosophical impact.
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Thanks for the OCSP/OSPF fix. After 5pm all the acronyms just run together in my head. But I'm no longer being payed, so I don't need to think.
My remote is a wireless keyboard. Kinda bulky, but I never lose it :-)
Don't forget to look at OpenSSL (you'll have to write some scripts and use a RDBMS with this), Entrust, and RSA.
Also, don't hardcode your CRL URL into your certificates. If that web server goes down, your entire PKI could break. It is better to leave revocation out of certificates and get all of your important PKI clients to use OSPF.
For the root node of your PKI:
Take a laptop, scratch off all networking-type thingks (modem jack, ethernet jack), generated your root CA key, use it to sign your intermediate CA certificates, then lock the laptop in a safe.
It is much more common to find Windows on flakey hardware. Much of the reputation Windows gets for instability should be directed at the hardware. Have you ever run Windows and Linux on the same hardware, and gamed from both of them? Linux games are MUCH more likely to lock up your interface than Windows games are.
I could see Bailey's in yout Cocco Puffs, but anything else and you've got a drinking problem...
I think you should take OpenSSH off of your list until it supports X.509 certificates, like the rest of the Internet (including other SSH packages) already does. It's 2006--about time for OpenSSH to catch up with 1993.
If a decision has to be made today, what better information is there to base it on than the current mainstream scientific theories? Do you have a better suggestion? Paralysis of decisions because nothing can be proven 100%?
It is true that people with higher IQs are more liberal. It is also true that people with high IQs are less religious. It is also true that people who are more religious are more conservative. So there is certainly well-established evidence which suggests that liberal thinking positively relates to IQ.
A more specific definition of modern scientific philosophy also includes the word "falsifiable."
In 20 years, I expect to be wealthy.
"Exploit" is your word for "saving people from starving." You are so kind.
"Lack of character" is a great attack. Who can argue with it? It doesn't mean anything. Of course, the people who say it usually don't have anything meaningful to say, so it just works out for them.
"I think I can do without those drugs. Even if not using them shortens my life."
You go ahead, jerk. The rest of humanity will keep progressing. I don't want to die. I'm young, and there is a real chance that ageing will be cured in my lifetime. The more research the better. If the test subjects are well informed, there is nothing morally wrong with this.
While this sort of thing may seem bad when you think small, try thinking big--the products of research stick with humanity FOREVER.
Is that because they are really good at machine code, or because they are really bad at c?
Everything you said is universally accepted except "with pollution we've managed to compress that down to just a few 100 years."
But even given that, I think the idea that genetic engineering is becoming useful at the same time that climactic changes are outpacing evolution is exciting. Perhaps this woudl provide us with the motivation to architect a better-designed ecosphere--one that is more efficient and less fragile. One free of mosquitoes and other parasites. I'm looking at genetically engineered fish in my fish tank right now. Perhaps we don't need to wait for evolution, and we can instead take fate into our own hands.
Finding the key for DVD decryption required some skill in reverse engineering. Finding a key in an open source program would be 100 times easier. Just look at the source code.
The only guy I know with one of these gave up on it. In his small, clutterd bachaelor pad, it didn't have enough suction, didn't get enough places, and got stuck. He ended up buying a Dyson vac and leaving roomba in the closet.
The first hop in a hack always comes from home. Unless you're stealing wifi. But that doesn't work on a large scale.
A honda? I wouldn't believe that for a second. Now, a hundai, perhaps...
I'll correct you:
CEO answers to Shareholders by way of Board.
CEOs need incentives to do their jobs well. If they don't have them, they will make the least-risky (and so the least-rewarding) decisions in order to keep their jobs as long as possible.
Hm. I don't work in a heavily regulaged industry. Perhaps what you say is more true in those industries. I'm in software.
Suppose two publically traded software companies make software for the same problem. The CEO of Company A outsources development and reduces costs by 5%. Perhaps the shareholders agree that the CEO gets 5% of the new proffits and they get the other 4%. Shareholders win.
The CEO of Company B will see this and do the same. Now both CEOs have incentive to steal marketshare from eachother by lowering prices. Eventually this will balance out. There will be more money in the shareholders' pockets. The software consumers will see a drop in price. Plutocracy doesn't enter in to it.
Thank you, sir. I now have a new appreciation for the wonderful command, "compress."
"There are little or no cost savings being passed on to the customers"
You should look in to this thing called "capitalism."
That seems like a great idea, but it's not so good for CGI.
To understand your joke, one would have had to:
1) be familiar with unix arcanum
2) have studied the history of computer operating systems
3) have read a specific short-story by Asimov
You sir, win the inside-joke-of-the-year award. Thank you.
I will never buy a science book by an author who misuses the phrase "begs the question." If the author is a scientist (and a computer scientist, at that), then he should be familiar with the basic terminology of logical reasoning.
If you aren't sure what I mean, check out the "excerpt" page from the book on amazon.com.
Christmas has its roots in Christian (well, roman) mythology. But when the secular United States government declared it a national holiday, it effectively became a secular holiday in the US.
Today, the economic impact of Christmas is far greater to America than the philosophical impact.