if you have a side-channel to the bank, such as SMS to your mobile, there is a tool you can use to defeat MITM authentication attacks.
Of course, if you can't trust the PC you're using at the moment, you have no idea what it might be doing to your bank account for the duration of your authenticated session.
And that's the long-and-short of it. Have you ever seen a shady character loitering around in front of the post office offering to go stand in line for you and deposit your paycheck, for just a few coins? Do you think you would trust him, or would you go stand in line and talk to a real bank employee? Heck, I'm nervous about using my employer's computers to do online banking -- EVEN THOUGH my employer is the one sending in the paychecks in the first place...
(course, my true fear is the ACH system. I'm completely at a loss for what to do when the russian mob figures out how to exploit that in volume.)
[quote] "Systems that think like humans" + "Systems that think rationally" "Systems that act like humans" + "Systems that act rationally" [/quote]
Know many humans? If you did, I think you would find that these two dimensions are almost mutually exclusive. Consequently, the number of systems in the interesection will be very, very small.
That's really what this is about. 10 years for intentionally tricking someone into viewing obscene materials. Funny thing is... I'm torn between my libertarian instincts and my desire to stake a goatse bandit out on a hill of fire ants.
that C was a reaction to PL/1 - the "everything plus the kitchen sink" language. Just as Unix was a reaction to Multics. This isn't really a topic for argument, I'm sure it's written down somewere. On paper.
No PC manufacturer or retailer can realistically survive selling hardware that does not WORK property on the latest version of Windows.
I have spoken to at least one company that expressed being cornered into supporting this, and somehow I doubt they are the only ones that feel that way.
Agreed - unless the Chinese government (in conjunction, perhaps, with a few other governments) decide they don't want to be held hostage to an American company.
It appeals to reviewers, who simply can't invest the time required to master a steep learning curve.
It appeals to the people evaluating your software package for purchase, because again, they aren't going to spend a month learning to use something if they aren't already sure they're going to purchase it.
Convincing people that it's worth spending time learning anything is a Very Hard sell indeed. Look at your average high school for proof.
In order to do that, you need some whizzbang testimonials from fanatical users who will swear blind that your software product changed their lives. Otherwise, you are stuck selling to scientists and engineers who live by the principal that the steeper the learning curve, the better the tool.
I can tell you first hand that the whole soviet block had a school system which is, sad to say, head and shoulder above anything the western world has to offer.
Their society had many faults, and their model didn't work in the long run. But it did stuff people with knowledge, and most importantly it motivated them to learn instead of just being the cool dumb jock or the skinny airhead.
And you say that is an improvement over other school systems, which appeals to the slashdot choir. But that is a reflection of your own biases, not any kind of objective measurement of success.
But my measure of success is not whether you have a few more sooper geeniouses or not. The measure of success is how well each generation can contribute to productivity growth and other measures of well-being.
The Soviet system took a bell curve and stretched out the tails by discarding the unfit as early as possible. In the process, they could provide quality education to a select few at relatively lower expense. Yeah, maybe they had a larger percentage of stars. But they also had a larger percentage of idiots.
The USAn system takes a bell curve and pushes up the middle, by *not* discarding the unfit, and by throwing resources at the bulk mediocre middle of the pack. It may not be elitist, and it may not salve the ego of us sooper geeniuses (yes, I hated it in high school too), but it does work.
There is also all of the surplus heat produced by the multi-year argument that Bitkeeper brought and some loss of productivity because of that, includng some untold number of people who would otherwise have worked on the kernel but bugged out because of the Bitkeeper decision. Hahahaha. C'mon Bruce, surely you've been around open source as long as I have, more or less. If BK weren't around to argue about, the community would have had to invent it. "Some untold number of people" have always had some bug up their ass about some untold thing or other. Once the BK flamefest finally dies down, there will be another, and another, and another, sure as the sun rises every morning.
Want to take bets on what that next thing will be?
[quote]Do they really want to send people like this girl to prison for several years? For what reason? [/quote]There's no joy in gaining power if you don't exert it. Every ill-conceived law will eventually be abused by an "ambitious", "hungry", "eager" young assistant DA trying to work the angles towards a federal judgeship.
How many of those federal judges used to be defense attorneys, and how many used to be prosecutors?
Even though he does say he is not going to go after the small-fish, there are MANY, many medium-fish eBay buisnesses that don't even make nearly as much as the $50,000 they require for a bond. One way to kill buisnesses off real quick is to make them jump through flaming hoops before they can even operate.
one product one customer 420,000 lines 260 staff no competition no trade shows no salespeople selling new features that have never been discussed
It's interesting to talk about their attention to detail, but to hold it up as a model for all software development neglects to consider that they are working under an entirely different set of constraints from most everyone else.
Microsoft would not be able to maintain their monopoly in a free market, without access to the armed power of the state to prevent so-called infringement of their intellectual so-called property. Truly-free market actors should not be permitted to use violence or the threat thereof to restrict access to a market.
I don't think it would shake the theological world nearly as much as the discovery of intelligent life in the New World did. Christianity survived that one relatively unscathed, save for the invention of a new sect and a sci-fi TV series. I'm sure that it won't struggle too much with Martian microbes. After all, the Genesis account only says that God created life on Earth, it doesn't rule out the possibility that he might have created life somewhere else as well.
Buddhism, Shinto, Taoism, and Wicca couldn't care less.
Judaism and Islam share the same creation myth as Christianity, but their adherents don't seem to have quite so much invested in it, so I doubt they would blink.
I feel like an old fogie -- when I was a sophomore in college, *two* students in my dorm had PCs. I was one of them. By the time I was a senior, probably a dozen did. Maybe half the students had stereos. One had a TV in his room. One had a private telephone. One had a laserdisc player but no TV. A few had those little refrigerators.
Now it sounds like most all of the students are ensconced in their own little den of luxury.
Where did all this wealth come from? It can't be just that the prices of consumer electronics dropped, because phone service hasn't dropped in price that much.
The staple of good SciFi is great special effects.No way. The staple of good SciFi is a great story. Dr Who had the worst special effects imaginable, and it didn't matter. The original Star Trek used salt shakers as props. Meanwhile, Dune had great special effects.
Think about all the on-processor caches there are, these days. Do you think they really help users that much? Even a few megs of cache will quickly be flooded by handling oversized multi-threaded applications.
Yes, I *know* they help. I've developed plenty of software which paid careful attention to cache sizes and memory accesses, and could have retired in my 30s because of it...
Basic performance optimizations like moving constant code outside loops will exploit the on-chip caches. Maybe it's only compiler writers, OS hackers, and embedded programmers that know it, but the benefits are real and present in product after product after product.
Yeah, "RSS was a really stupid protocol". As was HTTP, and the idea of putting protocol specifiers in names, and Napster, and Microsoft Dfs and a dozen other protocols which were designed to varying degrees of poor.
People invent these non-scaling, incredibly wasteful protocols that seem like they work fine for screwing around with their three buddies when you're willing to dedicate $300 worth of server hardware and 1 Mb/s of network bandwidth per user.
But when you try to handle hundreds of thousands of users for $1 each, those protocols won't ever work.
Of course, if you're a physicist, or a freshman, or an MBA, you're likely to assume that one, ten, a thousand users, it's all the same.
And never stop to think about tens or hundreds of thousands of users.
As if timeliness were really an issue of concern for a fiction miniseries. Why is it such a big deal to wait a few months? It won't go stale...
('Course, I can't figure why people obsess about watching football games live, either. If the game is good, it will still be good an hour later, right? What if that game was aired a half-hour delayed, and they just *told* the viewers it was live. Would that diminish the experience?)
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if you have a side-channel to the bank, such as SMS to your mobile, there is a tool you can use to defeat MITM authentication attacks.
Of course, if you can't trust the PC you're using at the moment, you have no idea what it might be doing to your bank account for the duration of your authenticated session.
And that's the long-and-short of it. Have you ever seen a shady character loitering around in front of the post office offering to go stand in line for you and deposit your paycheck, for just a few coins? Do you think you would trust him, or would you go stand in line and talk to a real bank employee? Heck, I'm nervous about using my employer's computers to do online banking -- EVEN THOUGH my employer is the one sending in the paychecks in the first place...
(course, my true fear is the ACH system. I'm completely at a loss for what to do when the russian mob figures out how to exploit that in volume.)
[quote]
"Systems that think like humans" + "Systems that think rationally"
"Systems that act like humans" + "Systems that act rationally"
[/quote]
Know many humans? If you did, I think you would find that these two dimensions are almost mutually exclusive. Consequently, the number of systems in the interesection will be very, very small.
That's really what this is about. 10 years for intentionally tricking someone into viewing obscene materials. Funny thing is ... I'm torn between my libertarian instincts and my desire to stake a goatse bandit out on a hill of fire ants.
that C was a reaction to PL/1 - the "everything plus the kitchen sink" language. Just as Unix was a reaction to Multics. This isn't really a topic for argument, I'm sure it's written down somewere. On paper.
so if you want to paypal me a buck, go for it...
Agreed - unless the Chinese government (in conjunction, perhaps, with a few other governments) decide they don't want to be held hostage to an American company.
It appeals to reviewers, who simply can't invest the time required to master a steep learning curve.
It appeals to the people evaluating your software package for purchase, because again, they aren't going to spend a month learning to use something if they aren't already sure they're going to purchase it.
Convincing people that it's worth spending time learning anything is a Very Hard sell indeed. Look at your average high school for proof.
In order to do that, you need some whizzbang testimonials from fanatical users who will swear blind that your software product changed their lives. Otherwise, you are stuck selling to scientists and engineers who live by the principal that the steeper the learning curve, the better the tool.
I can tell you first hand that the whole soviet block had a school system which is, sad to say, head and shoulder above anything the western world has to offer.
Their society had many faults, and their model didn't work in the long run. But it did stuff people with knowledge, and most importantly it motivated them to learn instead of just being the cool dumb jock or the skinny airhead.
And you say that is an improvement over other school systems, which appeals to the slashdot choir. But that is a reflection of your own biases, not any kind of objective measurement of success.
But my measure of success is not whether you have a few more sooper geeniouses or not. The measure of success is how well each generation can contribute to productivity growth and other measures of well-being.
The Soviet system took a bell curve and stretched out the tails by discarding the unfit as early as possible. In the process, they could provide quality education to a select few at relatively lower expense. Yeah, maybe they had a larger percentage of stars. But they also had a larger percentage of idiots.
The USAn system takes a bell curve and pushes up the middle, by *not* discarding the unfit, and by throwing resources at the bulk mediocre middle of the pack. It may not be elitist, and it may not salve the ego of us sooper geeniuses (yes, I hated it in high school too), but it does work.
Optimize for the common case, not the exception.
There is also all of the surplus heat produced by the multi-year argument that Bitkeeper brought and some loss of productivity because of that, includng some untold number of people who would otherwise have worked on the kernel but bugged out because of the Bitkeeper decision.
Hahahaha. C'mon Bruce, surely you've been around open source as long as I have, more or less. If BK weren't around to argue about, the community would have had to invent it. "Some untold number of people" have always had some bug up their ass about some untold thing or other. Once the BK flamefest finally dies down, there will be another, and another, and another, sure as the sun rises every morning.
Want to take bets on what that next thing will be?
[quote]Do they really want to send people like this girl to prison for several years? For what reason? [/quote]There's no joy in gaining power if you don't exert it. Every ill-conceived law will eventually be abused by an "ambitious", "hungry", "eager" young assistant DA trying to work the angles towards a federal judgeship.
How many of those federal judges used to be defense attorneys, and how many used to be prosecutors?
The system is inherently flawed.
Even though he does say he is not going to go after the small-fish, there are MANY, many medium-fish eBay buisnesses that don't even make nearly as much as the $50,000 they require for a bond. One way to kill buisnesses off real quick is to make them jump through flaming hoops before they can even operate.
You don't need $50,000 to post a $50,000 bond.
Instead of Solitaire! Whoohoo!
I list my income bracket as > $150,000 and I get lots of dates from Match.com, so maybe that's your problem.
I shared an office with one pudgy little 40-something bald guy
Who you calling pudgy?
Slashdot is full of pudgy little guys who are working hard on becoming 40-something and bald.
Though I'd hope to do something about the pudgy bit by the time I turn 40, my track record ain't so good.
Er, they figured that out pretty quickly, hence the term "New World."
one product
one customer
420,000 lines
260 staff
no competition
no trade shows
no salespeople selling new features that have never been discussed
It's interesting to talk about their attention to detail, but to hold it up as a model for all software development neglects to consider that they are working under an entirely different set of constraints from most everyone else.
Microsoft would not be able to maintain their monopoly in a free market, without access to the armed power of the state to prevent so-called infringement of their intellectual so-called property. Truly-free market actors should not be permitted to use violence or the threat thereof to restrict access to a market.
I don't think it would shake the theological world nearly as much as the discovery of intelligent life in the New World did. Christianity survived that one relatively unscathed, save for the invention of a new sect and a sci-fi TV series. I'm sure that it won't struggle too much with Martian microbes. After all, the Genesis account only says that God created life on Earth, it doesn't rule out the possibility that he might have created life somewhere else as well.
Buddhism, Shinto, Taoism, and Wicca couldn't care less.
Judaism and Islam share the same creation myth as Christianity, but their adherents don't seem to have quite so much invested in it, so I doubt they would blink.
I feel like an old fogie -- when I was a sophomore in college, *two* students in my dorm had PCs. I was one of them. By the time I was a senior, probably a dozen did. Maybe half the students had stereos. One had a TV in his room. One had a private telephone. One had a laserdisc player but no TV. A few had those little refrigerators.
Now it sounds like most all of the students are ensconced in their own little den of luxury.
Where did all this wealth come from? It can't be just that the prices of consumer electronics dropped, because phone service hasn't dropped in price that much.
The staple of good SciFi is great special effects.No way. The staple of good SciFi is a great story. Dr Who had the worst special effects imaginable, and it didn't matter. The original Star Trek used salt shakers as props. Meanwhile, Dune had great special effects.
Which episode was that? I don't remember it... Title?
Yes, I *know* they help. I've developed plenty of software which paid careful attention to cache sizes and memory accesses, and could have retired in my 30s because of it...
Basic performance optimizations like moving constant code outside loops will exploit the on-chip caches. Maybe it's only compiler writers, OS hackers, and embedded programmers that know it, but the benefits are real and present in product after product after product.
So the problem is simply that the right media (truly virgin DVD-Rs with a writeable space where the keys go) is not manufactured and sold?
What's stopping that? Is there some law preventing the manufacture of not-broken DVDRs?
Yeah, "RSS was a really stupid protocol".
As was HTTP, and the idea of putting protocol specifiers in names, and Napster, and Microsoft Dfs and a dozen other protocols which were designed to varying degrees of poor.
People invent these non-scaling, incredibly wasteful protocols that seem like they work fine for screwing around with their three buddies when you're willing to dedicate $300 worth of server hardware and 1 Mb/s of network bandwidth per user.
But when you try to handle hundreds of thousands of users for $1 each, those protocols won't ever work.
Of course, if you're a physicist, or a freshman, or an MBA, you're likely to assume that one, ten, a thousand users, it's all the same.
And never stop to think about tens or hundreds of thousands of users.
As if timeliness were really an issue of concern for a fiction miniseries. Why is it such a big deal to wait a few months? It won't go stale...
('Course, I can't figure why people obsess about watching football games live, either. If the game is good, it will still be good an hour later, right? What if that game was aired a half-hour delayed, and they just *told* the viewers it was live. Would that diminish the experience?)