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You can go help out - isn't that what open source advocates tell you to do every time you complain about an open source app?
No, that's what trolls tell you when you complain about an open source app. Not even the trolls are dumb enough to presume that everyone knows how to program competently in every language and for every application type. They just enjoy being jerks.
Are you kidding? Security scanners can't go around overflowing buffers as part of a routine test. This could take down your entire network! Honestly...
Standards don't necessarily define all behavior an application. Therefore, some versions will dance to the hackers tune when fed bad data, while others may not.
What you describe is a process by which rats are starved for calories for a while, and afterward consume as many calories as they can get once food is abundant again. It doesn't necessarily say anything about artificial sweeteners, if I'm reading it correctly.
Oh Jesus, Internet. Not this again. Can't we all agree that the science indicates aspartame is either harmless or barely measurably harmful, and certainly less harmful than the obesity one gets from consuming large amounts of sugar?
For purposes of computer science, we don't need to get philosophical. Software tackling certain problems which are easy for humans but hard for computers, such as visual object recognition, is considered "AI." Clearly, not all robots run software which tackles such problems, therefore "AI" is not a requirement for something to be considered a robot.
Your "strong" definition, which could be stated as "software which is unpredictable," is not one I've heard, and certainly not one that applies to defining a robot. Furthermore, I doubt your definition could exist even in theory, but I digress.
This is Slashdot, not the supermarket. I think it is reasonable to assume CS terminology, especially when discussing CS and related fields.
Therefore, I maintain that your definition of "robot" is incorrect regardless of which of the proposed definitions of "AI" is used. I further maintain that the definition of "AI" you used is not a recognized definition by those knowledgeable in the field.
What, specifically, does "AI" mean, and how does it differ from any software which uses an "if" statement? If you use other non-obvious terms, such as "think," please define them, as well.
It always puts me in a bad mood to see top-rated posts misusing CS terms, such as "AI," in a forum for people who should know better; but here's your opportunity to show that you used it right, and that I had no business questioning you condescendingly.
Ah, name calling. I guess that means you've proved your point. Wait, no, it means you gave up once you realized you didn't know what you were talking about.
PS: An "if" statement, which is part of your phone, is "thinking."
But please continue to claim you know what you are talking about without providing any evidence to support that claim.
You don't know what you mean when you say "think," then. I take it you got your ideas of "AI" from sci-fi movies, rather than from the computer science classroom.
That's not even slightly true. War is not a "net loss" for successful defenders. It's a great win compared to the alternative (being conquered).
Further, the idea that the technology being developed here would be at all applicable to the set of problems you mention is just ignorant. The technology to identify targets and fire projectiles is just not at all close to the technology to "predict war, formulate resolutions," whatever that would be.
Don't use the word AI unless you know what it means. "Computer control" does not mean "AI." AI is used to refer to a specific class of software problems.
I do agree that anything with a computer, a sensor, and an actuator could be called a robot, no matter how simple. However, this definition does make your cell phone a "robot" because the buttons are sensors and the display is an actuator.
Well, the systems in question are IT security systems. IDS, scanners, log analysis systems, documentation, some custom web apps which track business processes such as security approval of application designs... you get the idea.
They're certainly not "zero value," but the company's cash flow isn't immediately cut off if they go away for a bit.
This is a company where almost nothing is done formally, and every dollar of budget has to be bickered over by middle managers who have no idea what the systems in question even do. We are STILL waiting on approval for our 2009 budget, and apparently there is no way to get funding for anything unless it was approved a year in advance. So it's pretty bad, but we don't have to account for every hour of our time to some project or other. Therefore, anything we can do with custom code and free software happens, whereas anything that requires budgeting could be tied up in budget approval meetings for, well, a year or more. This is what I mean when I say "free."
But yes I agree that management is horribly dysfunctional, and yes I am looking for positions in other companies. But do you agree that, considering the type of data being archived, perhaps the cost/benefit curve optimizes at some point short of all the fine requirements you listed?
I know many developers that take hard copies of their code (meaning on removable media) home just for this reason. I have seen sys admins do the same because they didn't trust their DR stratagy.
NO NO NO NO NO!
I'm serious. Unless you are absolutely, 100% sure there is zero financial, personal, HIPAA, or otherwise sensitive data in your backups, don't even think about doing this. Careers have been ruined and huge costs incurred thanks to such well-intentioned but ill-conceived moves.
Here's the backup system I designed for the office. We had zero budget, and these systems aren't mission-critical, but I think the design would be sufficient even for billing records, etc.:
Nightly, a server on the west coast will SSH to each of our east coast servers, and suck down the important data with rsync. Once per week, it will tarball up the backups and save them with a timestamp. It will also keep a two-week-old tarball.
If one of our east coast servers are stolen or destroyed, we will have backups no more than one day old. If they are hacked, deleted, or corrupted, we will be able to fix it for up to two weeks.
Because the east coast servers can't connect to the west coast servers, we are protected against any conceivable damage to the east coast servers destroying all backups, even though it's all online.
My wife, is very practical and doesn't particularly care about owning a laptop. She'll gladly use mine or whatever computer happens to be around. When I start talking about his and her's she has no interest. Just our's.
How old is your wife? Nobody from my generation would even THINK about sharing a computer with someone else. That's like sharing a cellphone or a toothbrush. Maybe you did it in the Depression and it was good enough for you, Grandpa, but this is the 21st century.
I wouldn't think of trying to force an app designed for one DB to use another. When I write my own apps, I need to pick something, and I have no strong reason to use one not the other.
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Chrome 2 has greasmonkey support, so this would actually be easy to implement.
http://www.mychromeaddons.com/
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No, that's what trolls tell you when you complain about an open source app. Not even the trolls are dumb enough to presume that everyone knows how to program competently in every language and for every application type. They just enjoy being jerks.
It must be awesome to still live in 1998. How's your stock portfolio lookin? I bet the job market's good for you, too. Good times, good times.
Are you kidding? Security scanners can't go around overflowing buffers as part of a routine test. This could take down your entire network! Honestly...
And security scanners are going to misreport the systems with backported patches as being vulnerable :-/
Standards don't necessarily define all behavior an application. Therefore, some versions will dance to the hackers tune when fed bad data, while others may not.
What you describe is a process by which rats are starved for calories for a while, and afterward consume as many calories as they can get once food is abundant again. It doesn't necessarily say anything about artificial sweeteners, if I'm reading it correctly.
Oh Jesus, Internet. Not this again. Can't we all agree that the science indicates aspartame is either harmless or barely measurably harmful, and certainly less harmful than the obesity one gets from consuming large amounts of sugar?
For purposes of computer science, we don't need to get philosophical. Software tackling certain problems which are easy for humans but hard for computers, such as visual object recognition, is considered "AI." Clearly, not all robots run software which tackles such problems, therefore "AI" is not a requirement for something to be considered a robot.
Your "strong" definition, which could be stated as "software which is unpredictable," is not one I've heard, and certainly not one that applies to defining a robot. Furthermore, I doubt your definition could exist even in theory, but I digress.
This is Slashdot, not the supermarket. I think it is reasonable to assume CS terminology, especially when discussing CS and related fields.
Therefore, I maintain that your definition of "robot" is incorrect regardless of which of the proposed definitions of "AI" is used. I further maintain that the definition of "AI" you used is not a recognized definition by those knowledgeable in the field.
OK, let me put it to you politely.
What, specifically, does "AI" mean, and how does it differ from any software which uses an "if" statement? If you use other non-obvious terms, such as "think," please define them, as well.
It always puts me in a bad mood to see top-rated posts misusing CS terms, such as "AI," in a forum for people who should know better; but here's your opportunity to show that you used it right, and that I had no business questioning you condescendingly.
I have little patience for fake experts on the internet. What can I say? I really don't care if such people dislike me, and they always sour my mood.
Ah, name calling. I guess that means you've proved your point. Wait, no, it means you gave up once you realized you didn't know what you were talking about.
PS: An "if" statement, which is part of your phone, is "thinking."
But please continue to claim you know what you are talking about without providing any evidence to support that claim.
You don't know what you mean when you say "think," then. I take it you got your ideas of "AI" from sci-fi movies, rather than from the computer science classroom.
That's not even slightly true. War is not a "net loss" for successful defenders. It's a great win compared to the alternative (being conquered).
Further, the idea that the technology being developed here would be at all applicable to the set of problems you mention is just ignorant. The technology to identify targets and fire projectiles is just not at all close to the technology to "predict war, formulate resolutions," whatever that would be.
Don't use the word AI unless you know what it means. "Computer control" does not mean "AI." AI is used to refer to a specific class of software problems.
I do agree that anything with a computer, a sensor, and an actuator could be called a robot, no matter how simple. However, this definition does make your cell phone a "robot" because the buttons are sensors and the display is an actuator.
Well, the systems in question are IT security systems. IDS, scanners, log analysis systems, documentation, some custom web apps which track business processes such as security approval of application designs... you get the idea.
They're certainly not "zero value," but the company's cash flow isn't immediately cut off if they go away for a bit.
This is a company where almost nothing is done formally, and every dollar of budget has to be bickered over by middle managers who have no idea what the systems in question even do. We are STILL waiting on approval for our 2009 budget, and apparently there is no way to get funding for anything unless it was approved a year in advance. So it's pretty bad, but we don't have to account for every hour of our time to some project or other. Therefore, anything we can do with custom code and free software happens, whereas anything that requires budgeting could be tied up in budget approval meetings for, well, a year or more. This is what I mean when I say "free."
But yes I agree that management is horribly dysfunctional, and yes I am looking for positions in other companies. But do you agree that, considering the type of data being archived, perhaps the cost/benefit curve optimizes at some point short of all the fine requirements you listed?
NO NO NO NO NO!
I'm serious. Unless you are absolutely, 100% sure there is zero financial, personal, HIPAA, or otherwise sensitive data in your backups, don't even think about doing this. Careers have been ruined and huge costs incurred thanks to such well-intentioned but ill-conceived moves.
Here's the backup system I designed for the office. We had zero budget, and these systems aren't mission-critical, but I think the design would be sufficient even for billing records, etc.:
Nightly, a server on the west coast will SSH to each of our east coast servers, and suck down the important data with rsync. Once per week, it will tarball up the backups and save them with a timestamp. It will also keep a two-week-old tarball.
If one of our east coast servers are stolen or destroyed, we will have backups no more than one day old. If they are hacked, deleted, or corrupted, we will be able to fix it for up to two weeks.
Because the east coast servers can't connect to the west coast servers, we are protected against any conceivable damage to the east coast servers destroying all backups, even though it's all online.
Tell me where I'm wrong.
It is my experience that not even women know what women want, but they do know that you're a failure of a man for not giving it to them.
How old is your wife? Nobody from my generation would even THINK about sharing a computer with someone else. That's like sharing a cellphone or a toothbrush. Maybe you did it in the Depression and it was good enough for you, Grandpa, but this is the 21st century.
What motherboard fits 48GiB RAM?
I wouldn't think of trying to force an app designed for one DB to use another. When I write my own apps, I need to pick something, and I have no strong reason to use one not the other.
You've outsmarted me! Yes you figured out that I am trying to tell you I have a "very limited imagination."
Or you could read sibling posts. Or you could keep on trollin. You're at strike 2 for having content.
There's no information in your post. Please try your troll again.