Yes. MAC is primarily about supporting military information classification levels. While that also has some security applications, they are fairly limited when it comes to civilian computing appliances and single-user workstations. Since those are the main niches that OpenBSD targets, It makes sense that they would eschew that extra complexity in favour of other approaches that have a bigger security payoff for those applications.
Alternatively, you could wind up taking a regional flight to NY or Atlanta, and then supersonic to London. Even with the transfer you would probably still arrive earlier.
Well, despite what Dick Cheney said, there was no due process for sending people to Guantanamo. A lot of people got sent to Guantanamo because somebody turned them in (at best hearsay evidence, and often paid-for "testimony") or because they got rounded up for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. For 5 years there was no judicial review of any kind for Guantanamo inmates. In contrast, for somebody to be covered by this ruling, it would appear that they would have to have been convicted of at least one serious sexually-related crime. So there is a significant difference and you are proposing a false equivalence.
P.S. I'm a strong proponent of nuclear power - particularly if we develop processes based on the thorium cycle - and I think it can be done safely. I just am skeptical whether it can be done safely in the USA.
There were a number of errors with critical safety equipment being partially inoperative and improperly documented,
There were tests done that showed that there was a pressure problem that meant methane may be leaking into the pipe,
There should have been follow-up tests to confirm the first result but no record of those tests exist,
Operating the rig cost $500,000/day and there was substantial pressure to finish things off to earn early-completion bonuses.
So yeah, there's no definitive paper trail indicating that this was a deliberate choice, or on which of the three corporations involved the bulk of the responsibility should lie. But there's quite a bit of circumstantial evidence that corners were cut leading to the disaster, even if it's not clear who had the responsibility for cutting those corners.
Not at all. It's just that a big part of the USA has the "Everything is better if it's private" mental disease, combined with the "Regulation is unnecessary bureaucracy" mental disease. So the same corporate policy tendencies for short term profits at the expense of safety that made the Gulf of Mexico Three Amigos cut corners when running a deep water rig can be expected to also apply to privately run nuclear power plants. Instead of a large oil slick that kills all wildlife over hundreds of square miles and takes 20 years to break down, you would have a nuclear waste spill that infects groundwater, rendering a huge area uninhabitable for hundreds of years. Until you completely cut off for-profit corporate contributions to political organizations and campaigns, you can't allow corporations to run really dangerous projects because they'll manipulate the political process to allow them to make more money by cutting oversight on necessary safety processes.
Because even if you haven't figured it out yet after the bank bailouts, many corporate executives have figured out that it doesn't matter whether cutting corners may mean that the company might go bankrupt in 3 or 4 years as long as they can make massive bonuses through increasing profits by cutting safety margins and taking other significant risks with a half-life that's long enough to get them set up for life.
True enough. But Spaceship One was also a prototype/proof of concept. You really shouldn't be surprised to lose, or nearly lose, one of them every now and then. Now when you lose something that's been billed as a reliable "space truck", there's some reason for consternation.
You forgot:
The policy also states that you are supposed to provide system passwords for inclusion in a central secure passwords DB.
You don't convey the system passwords that you know on to the security department either through ignorance, incompetence, or by reading and wrongly believing too many BOFH humour articles that indicate it would provide job security.
When you refuse to provide the passwords, you try to hide behind a security policy which you actually had violated. Because of your intransigence, it eventually goes to court where the jury sees past your bullshit and finds you guilty.
I wasn't in the courtroom so I don't know what the Jury heard (and neither does anybody else on Slashdot) but it sure looks to me like the guy got nailed for trying to be the BOFH instead of a professional systems administrator. His first clue that things weren't going to work out for him was his lack of a PFY minion.
Yep. One of the biggest lessons in taking advanced tests is to know when to set a problem aside and come back to it later after you've worked on other problems for a while.
Goth and grunge cultures are memes. Dressing up in black with pasty skin, or ratty plaids, not so much. As for fashion or fads needing a meme, what's the meme behind miniature dogs in purses, pot-bellied pigs, chia pets, and pet rocks? (apart for the P.T. Barnum saying, which applies to a whole lot more).
But I'm on Slashdot, which is News for Nerds, and nerds are all about using jargon and terminology correctly. So the local namespace actually dictates that "meme" by itself refers to the original meaning ascribed by Richard Dawkins. Otherwise there would be no way for nerds to discuss memes in the original context while on the Internet, which is a pretty ridiculous claim since it started as a research network for communicating and developing ideas like memetics. If the use of meme was in an article by a mainstream media reporter or PR flack, then you might have a point, but a site for techies provides expectation of more rigorous semantics.
Hey, at least I didn't ask you to turn in your nerd card.
As the description says, a meme is a concept or an idea, preferably one that provides insight or a new way of doing things. Now if the original poster had said Internet Meme, then you might have a point, but only meme was used. "Let's make parodies of Hitler having a spaz" is pretty weak as ideas go. It's pretty derivative of MST3K (which goes back to the late 80s before either the Internet or the use of the word meme became mainstream). There's also not much in the way of memetic evolution possible with doing parodies of a clip of a Hitler spaz from a particular movie. Now if making MST3K-style parodies of sequences from movies becomes really common for everything from Gone with the Wind to Monty Python or Adam Sandler movies, then you might have a genuine Internet meme. But this at best qualifies as a memetic codon.
Heh, what do you think happened with Madoff for 20 years? The only reason he got caught is that the economic downturn caused enough people to need to pull some of their money out of the Ponzi scheme that it collapsed when the piggy bank was emptied.
When you're talking about understanding the (directed graph) dependencies and object structure in a complex application system, the best means of conveying that information is, believe it or not!, graphical.
and stuff that never stays in synch anyway.
I guess you missed the part where I mentioned using a tool that does reverse/round-trip engineering and having it integrated into the source control system. I'm not taking about Visio diagrams with UML templates that are created once and never updated.
When you start taking your 4x6 cards, scanning them, and sharing them on the same server as your source code repository so that anybody with access to the latter also has access to the former, then we can compare. Otherwise it doesn't do anybody else any good when they are in your drawer, especially in a distributed project with contributors across the world.
UML isn't about programming. It's about documentation for large projects that require division of labour. It's about specifying functionality for communication between business experts and the people who get the work done. It's about getting the big picture without having to pour over the whole picture with a magnifying glass (i.e. reading the source code).
Seriously, I might consider contributing to more open source projects with bug fixes if it didn't involve scanning though megabytes of code first to narrow down the source of the problem.
Something that I think Sourceforge or an equivalent repository system really needs is a tool for reverse/round-trip engineering UML diagrams of the projects it contains (i.e. identifying how/where code restructuring affects UML documentation and supporting the update of that documentation). One reason why nobody has actually tackled this may be that Sourceforge projects may contain various combinations of Java, C++, python, C, PHP, perl, etc and UML really works best with object-oriented languages.
The JSF is being built at the same cost (or frikken more) as the F22 with lower end tech to be sold to allies (where the F22 is under high-end tech restrictions).
Guess which one is going to be chosen by the USAF to buy?
True, but most of those tasks the GP listed are in well understood domains. Medical R&D spending pretty well falls under a different budget category and is not under Medicare. In contrast there is a substantial portion of space contracts requiring R&D, with associated unknowns and risk.
Sure. However if you can't find just the furniture or paper or building that meets your needs off-the-shelf, you can still pay someone to produce exactly what you want but you'll have to pay more for a custom solution (or you can pick up a hammer and saw). The thing is that furniture, paper, and buildings are used by a lot of people so there is a lot of variety on the shelf, but when it comes to niche market products, there isn't as much choice.
Well, ya see... with a five-digit slashdot-id I originally had "His name cannot be Spoken" as my name... then they did some database truncation about 12 or so years ago, and I lost some letters.
Hmm, if that were the case shouldn't your currrent name be "His name cannot be S"?
And ya can't change your name on Slashdot, and I didn't wanna give up my 5 digit ID.:D
I can understand that. If nothing else, it's a freebee achievement point. Pull this OSS Windows package manager off and maybe Cmdr Taco should personally go into the database and fix your account name to whatever you want.
The primary purpose of public corporations is to separate customers from their money and give it to their shareholders. If the customers are lucky then they will get a fair trade for their money. Fundamentally, the goals of corporations and customers are opposed. However unlike small proprietorships which often depend on the goodwill of customers, large corporations have a number of tools available to them that limit their dependence on customer goodwill. The size difference between large corporations and customers means that the negotiating power in a typical trade transaction is much more imbalanced than between individuals and small proprietorships. Economies of scale often give large corporations better margins and more price flexibility, allowing them to squeeze out smaller players that may offer better service because the majority of the population has insufficient information to judge an offering on expected service quality, whereas the price is more clearly defined.
In theory at least, government is beholden to the voters and its goals should frequently align with those of the populace. In practice, the cost of campaigning in the US, the poor quality of modern news reporting in conveying relevant information and analysis, and the willingness of the populace to be manipulated means that the government can be manipulated by corporations for their benefit. However when conservatives say government can't be trusted, what they really mean is that you can't trust the people to see through the bullshit and use their voting power appropriately to control government the way conservatives want it controlled. If you think about it, that is at least as elitist as anything that "elitist liberals" have ever done. Note that I make no claims about whether the "elitism", either conservative or liberal, is warranted.
Can't you people see that it's this unholy marriage between governmental regulation and big business that's resulted in the current broadband situation?
You're right. Can't see it. Maybe it's because we've actually studied economics and history and know what's happened in the past that lead to the current system.
Apart for the local loop, nearly all Internet traffic currently is transmitted over glass fibre. Clearly glass fibre and wires are different.
Apparently the FCC's charter needs to be updated for the 21st century to clarify things for overly literal judges.
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Yes. MAC is primarily about supporting military information classification levels. While that also has some security applications, they are fairly limited when it comes to civilian computing appliances and single-user workstations. Since those are the main niches that OpenBSD targets, It makes sense that they would eschew that extra complexity in favour of other approaches that have a bigger security payoff for those applications.
Alternatively, you could wind up taking a regional flight to NY or Atlanta, and then supersonic to London. Even with the transfer you would probably still arrive earlier.
Well, despite what Dick Cheney said, there was no due process for sending people to Guantanamo. A lot of people got sent to Guantanamo because somebody turned them in (at best hearsay evidence, and often paid-for "testimony") or because they got rounded up for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. For 5 years there was no judicial review of any kind for Guantanamo inmates. In contrast, for somebody to be covered by this ruling, it would appear that they would have to have been convicted of at least one serious sexually-related crime. So there is a significant difference and you are proposing a false equivalence.
P.S. I'm a strong proponent of nuclear power - particularly if we develop processes based on the thorium cycle - and I think it can be done safely. I just am skeptical whether it can be done safely in the USA.
So yeah, there's no definitive paper trail indicating that this was a deliberate choice, or on which of the three corporations involved the bulk of the responsibility should lie. But there's quite a bit of circumstantial evidence that corners were cut leading to the disaster, even if it's not clear who had the responsibility for cutting those corners.
Not at all. It's just that a big part of the USA has the "Everything is better if it's private" mental disease, combined with the "Regulation is unnecessary bureaucracy" mental disease. So the same corporate policy tendencies for short term profits at the expense of safety that made the Gulf of Mexico Three Amigos cut corners when running a deep water rig can be expected to also apply to privately run nuclear power plants. Instead of a large oil slick that kills all wildlife over hundreds of square miles and takes 20 years to break down, you would have a nuclear waste spill that infects groundwater, rendering a huge area uninhabitable for hundreds of years. Until you completely cut off for-profit corporate contributions to political organizations and campaigns, you can't allow corporations to run really dangerous projects because they'll manipulate the political process to allow them to make more money by cutting oversight on necessary safety processes.
Because even if you haven't figured it out yet after the bank bailouts, many corporate executives have figured out that it doesn't matter whether cutting corners may mean that the company might go bankrupt in 3 or 4 years as long as they can make massive bonuses through increasing profits by cutting safety margins and taking other significant risks with a half-life that's long enough to get them set up for life.
True enough. But Spaceship One was also a prototype/proof of concept. You really shouldn't be surprised to lose, or nearly lose, one of them every now and then. Now when you lose something that's been billed as a reliable "space truck", there's some reason for consternation.
You forgot:
The policy also states that you are supposed to provide system passwords for inclusion in a central secure passwords DB.
You don't convey the system passwords that you know on to the security department either through ignorance, incompetence, or by reading and wrongly believing too many BOFH humour articles that indicate it would provide job security.
When you refuse to provide the passwords, you try to hide behind a security policy which you actually had violated. Because of your intransigence, it eventually goes to court where the jury sees past your bullshit and finds you guilty.
I wasn't in the courtroom so I don't know what the Jury heard (and neither does anybody else on Slashdot) but it sure looks to me like the guy got nailed for trying to be the BOFH instead of a professional systems administrator. His first clue that things weren't going to work out for him was his lack of a PFY minion.
Yep. One of the biggest lessons in taking advanced tests is to know when to set a problem aside and come back to it later after you've worked on other problems for a while.
Goth and grunge cultures are memes. Dressing up in black with pasty skin, or ratty plaids, not so much. As for fashion or fads needing a meme, what's the meme behind miniature dogs in purses, pot-bellied pigs, chia pets, and pet rocks? (apart for the P.T. Barnum saying, which applies to a whole lot more).
But I'm on Slashdot, which is News for Nerds, and nerds are all about using jargon and terminology correctly. So the local namespace actually dictates that "meme" by itself refers to the original meaning ascribed by Richard Dawkins. Otherwise there would be no way for nerds to discuss memes in the original context while on the Internet, which is a pretty ridiculous claim since it started as a research network for communicating and developing ideas like memetics. If the use of meme was in an article by a mainstream media reporter or PR flack, then you might have a point, but a site for techies provides expectation of more rigorous semantics.
Hey, at least I didn't ask you to turn in your nerd card.
As the description says, a meme is a concept or an idea, preferably one that provides insight or a new way of doing things. Now if the original poster had said Internet Meme, then you might have a point, but only meme was used.
"Let's make parodies of Hitler having a spaz" is pretty weak as ideas go. It's pretty derivative of MST3K (which goes back to the late 80s before either the Internet or the use of the word meme became mainstream). There's also not much in the way of memetic evolution possible with doing parodies of a clip of a Hitler spaz from a particular movie. Now if making MST3K-style parodies of sequences from movies becomes really common for everything from Gone with the Wind to Monty Python or Adam Sandler movies, then you might have a genuine Internet meme. But this at best qualifies as a memetic codon.
Heh, what do you think happened with Madoff for 20 years? The only reason he got caught is that the economic downturn caused enough people to need to pull some of their money out of the Ponzi scheme that it collapsed when the piggy bank was emptied.
When you're talking about understanding the (directed graph) dependencies and object structure in a complex application system, the best means of conveying that information is, believe it or not!, graphical.
I guess you missed the part where I mentioned using a tool that does reverse/round-trip engineering and having it integrated into the source control system. I'm not taking about Visio diagrams with UML templates that are created once and never updated.
When you start taking your 4x6 cards, scanning them, and sharing them on the same server as your source code repository so that anybody with access to the latter also has access to the former, then we can compare. Otherwise it doesn't do anybody else any good when they are in your drawer, especially in a distributed project with contributors across the world.
UML isn't about programming. It's about documentation for large projects that require division of labour. It's about specifying functionality for communication between business experts and the people who get the work done. It's about getting the big picture without having to pour over the whole picture with a magnifying glass (i.e. reading the source code).
Seriously, I might consider contributing to more open source projects with bug fixes if it didn't involve scanning though megabytes of code first to narrow down the source of the problem.
Something that I think Sourceforge or an equivalent repository system really needs is a tool for reverse/round-trip engineering UML diagrams of the projects it contains (i.e. identifying how/where code restructuring affects UML documentation and supporting the update of that documentation). One reason why nobody has actually tackled this may be that Sourceforge projects may contain various combinations of Java, C++, python, C, PHP, perl, etc and UML really works best with object-oriented languages.
Neither?
True, but most of those tasks the GP listed are in well understood domains. Medical R&D spending pretty well falls under a different budget category and is not under Medicare. In contrast there is a substantial portion of space contracts requiring R&D, with associated unknowns and risk.
Yep. I can highly recommend these if you have a toddler/young child.
Sure. However if you can't find just the furniture or paper or building that meets your needs off-the-shelf, you can still pay someone to produce exactly what you want but you'll have to pay more for a custom solution (or you can pick up a hammer and saw). The thing is that furniture, paper, and buildings are used by a lot of people so there is a lot of variety on the shelf, but when it comes to niche market products, there isn't as much choice.
Some of us 5-digiters still have all our hair, it's just starting to go gray is all.
Hmm, if that were the case shouldn't your currrent name be "His name cannot be S"?
I can understand that. If nothing else, it's a freebee achievement point. Pull this OSS Windows package manager off and maybe Cmdr Taco should personally go into the database and fix your account name to whatever you want.
The primary purpose of public corporations is to separate customers from their money and give it to their shareholders. If the customers are lucky then they will get a fair trade for their money. Fundamentally, the goals of corporations and customers are opposed. However unlike small proprietorships which often depend on the goodwill of customers, large corporations have a number of tools available to them that limit their dependence on customer goodwill. The size difference between large corporations and customers means that the negotiating power in a typical trade transaction is much more imbalanced than between individuals and small proprietorships. Economies of scale often give large corporations better margins and more price flexibility, allowing them to squeeze out smaller players that may offer better service because the majority of the population has insufficient information to judge an offering on expected service quality, whereas the price is more clearly defined.
In theory at least, government is beholden to the voters and its goals should frequently align with those of the populace. In practice, the cost of campaigning in the US, the poor quality of modern news reporting in conveying relevant information and analysis, and the willingness of the populace to be manipulated means that the government can be manipulated by corporations for their benefit. However when conservatives say government can't be trusted, what they really mean is that you can't trust the people to see through the bullshit and use their voting power appropriately to control government the way conservatives want it controlled. If you think about it, that is at least as elitist as anything that "elitist liberals" have ever done. Note that I make no claims about whether the "elitism", either conservative or liberal, is warranted.
You're right. Can't see it. Maybe it's because we've actually studied economics and history and know what's happened in the past that lead to the current system.
Apart for the local loop, nearly all Internet traffic currently is transmitted over glass fibre. Clearly glass fibre and wires are different.
Apparently the FCC's charter needs to be updated for the 21st century to clarify things for overly literal judges.