VBA? Office? Two words: core wars. http://www.corewars.org/inform..., Kids are tenacious, curious, and smart. With an hour of instruction the apt will learn more about programming in an afternoon than they will in a month screwing around with Windows.
Dimethyl Sulfide or DMS as known to beer brewers is common fermentation by product that tends to be present in beers made from fermentables high is sulfur (e.g. corn) which give your standard industrial lager (e.g. Budweiser, Rolling Rock, etc.) its distinctive cooked corn smell. I've never cracked open a Bud and thought, ahh the ocean. I always thought it was more of the fish and seaweed rotting out in the salt flats that gave it that attractive fragrance.
Even more insidious is the media's tenancy to state as fact corporate assertions. Its worse because I believe it is much easier for JQP to swallow these whole. For example, in how many newscasts have you heard something like "the music industry lost 8 bajillion dollars to piracy last year.", with no mention of how everyone and his brother outside of the music industry disputed that claim.
Or maybe Apple Basic. No punch cards but renumbering those line is still a royal pain in the ass.
After they figure out that they can't write a good game with the crappy basic graphics have them crack the 6502 instruction set manual and drop into the Apple ][ monitor for some machine language fun.
After that fire up a little Turbo Pascal on an original IBM PC. That's some fun stuff. Good times Good times.
Classification of information and treating that information accordingly is at the heart of the issue. It is impracticle to have to protect all information. Organisations need to decide what needs to be protect and to what extent and then implement policies based on those decisions. If you have highly senstive information, clearly classify it so, limit who has acesses it and how they access it.
When I did defense work, classisfied systems sat on seperate networks behind locked doors. Only those who knew the combinations to the locks and had electronic key cards with the right pins could access the rooms. There were no connections from the machines to the outside world and in fact many rooms were RF sheilded to prevent EM snooping. Cameras, IPods, Thumb-drives and USB watches were certainly not allowed in these rooms.
I am not suggesting that all organisations need this kind of security but using seperate physical networks, limiting physical access, and disallowing the presence of certain devices around these machines is not beyond the pale.
Bzzzz. Not about the invention of the VAX - its was about DG. Although many of the engineers were DEC defectees who had worked on the VAX. It too was a required reading for my CS Software Engineering course.
Oh how I miss the simplicity of the VAX. It makes me smile to still look up and see my VAX Architecture Guied sitting on my bookshelf.
The wording here cracks me up. The president could't "draw up plans" for eating breakfast. Attributing this to Bush is ridiculous. The DoD or the NSC draws up plans. The President gives a thumbs up or thumbs down depending on his handlers tell... er... I mean advisors... advise him to do.
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Or "The Magus" by John Fowles. Its a fantastically constructed novel with great prose. Oh yeah, and if this book doesn't make you question your reality no book ever will.
Bray is moron. Anyone who thinks they might learn something from reading one of his articles will be sorely disappointed. Better to go the the horse's mouth for a keener explanation.
I agree that we already have a de-facto national ID system: SS Number + Birth Certificate ==> State Driver's license. The problem is that the system is broken. A SS Number is easy to steal and a Birth Certificate is easy to fake. Once you have these two things the state drivers license is easy to come by especially in certain states such as FL. The Driver's license is a universally recognized form of identification in this country that doesn't come close to proving identity. If you don't beleive me take a look at how the 911 terrorist obtained the identification needed to board those planes.
Given this, a National Identity Card that can provide absolute identication (perhaps through the inclusion of biometric data) might be exactly what is needed to solve our current problem of having a corrupted yet universally accepted system of identification.
If you want to check out some background on this and read a well developed argument I suggest you read chapter 3 - "Absolute Identification" of Simon Garfinkel's book "Database Nation", 2000, O'Reilly.
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VBA? Office? Two words: core wars. http://www.corewars.org/inform..., Kids are tenacious, curious, and smart. With an hour of instruction the apt will learn more about programming in an afternoon than they will in a month screwing around with Windows.
Actually they do. But when you observe them they pop back into the nothingness from whence they came.
Dimethyl Sulfide or DMS as known to beer brewers is common fermentation by product that tends to be present in beers made from fermentables high is sulfur (e.g. corn) which give your standard industrial lager (e.g. Budweiser, Rolling Rock, etc.) its distinctive cooked corn smell. I've never cracked open a Bud and thought, ahh the ocean. I always thought it was more of the fish and seaweed rotting out in the salt flats that gave it that attractive fragrance.
Even more insidious is the media's tenancy to state as fact corporate assertions. Its worse because I believe it is much easier for JQP to swallow these whole. For example, in how many newscasts have you heard something like "the music industry lost 8 bajillion dollars to piracy last year.", with no mention of how everyone and his brother outside of the music industry disputed that claim.
WAT V (nee FORTRAN 66) - on punch cards, no less!
Or maybe Apple Basic. No punch cards but renumbering those line is still a royal pain in the ass.
After they figure out that they can't write a good game with the crappy basic graphics have them crack the 6502 instruction set manual and drop into the Apple ][ monitor for some machine language fun.
After that fire up a little Turbo Pascal on an original IBM PC. That's some fun stuff. Good times Good times.
Classification of information and treating that information accordingly is at the heart of the issue. It is impracticle to have to protect all information. Organisations need to decide what needs to be protect and to what extent and then implement policies based on those decisions. If you have highly senstive information, clearly classify it so, limit who has acesses it and how they access it.
When I did defense work, classisfied systems sat on seperate networks behind locked doors. Only those who knew the combinations to the locks and had electronic key cards with the right pins could access the rooms. There were no connections from the machines to the outside world and in fact many rooms were RF sheilded to prevent EM snooping. Cameras, IPods, Thumb-drives and USB watches were certainly not allowed in these rooms.
I am not suggesting that all organisations need this kind of security but using seperate physical networks, limiting physical access, and disallowing the presence of certain devices around these machines is not beyond the pale.
Bzzzz. Not about the invention of the VAX - its was about DG. Although many of the engineers were DEC defectees who had worked on the VAX. It too was a required reading for my CS Software Engineering course.
Oh how I miss the simplicity of the VAX. It makes me smile to still look up and see my VAX Architecture Guied sitting on my bookshelf.
Your ass was fired - you were not right sized.
And it's copyright infringement, not theft .
Bingo. I think an add in USA Today would go further bring an awarness to those not already in the know.
The wording here cracks me up. The president could't "draw up plans" for eating breakfast. Attributing this to Bush is ridiculous. The DoD or the NSC draws up plans. The President gives a thumbs up or thumbs down depending on his handlers tell... er... I mean advisors... advise him to do.
Or "The Magus" by John Fowles. Its a fantastically constructed novel with great prose. Oh yeah, and if this book doesn't make you question your reality no book ever will.
Bray is moron. Anyone who thinks they might learn something from reading one of his articles will be sorely disappointed. Better to go the the horse's mouth for a keener explanation.
Interestingly David Brin wrote a book a book, Earth , which uses a runaway, laboratory created singularity as a major plot driver.
I agree that we already have a de-facto national ID system: SS Number + Birth Certificate ==> State Driver's license. The problem is that the system is broken. A SS Number is easy to steal and a Birth Certificate is easy to fake. Once you have these two things the state drivers license is easy to come by especially in certain states such as FL. The Driver's license is a universally recognized form of identification in this country that doesn't come close to proving identity. If you don't beleive me take a look at how the 911 terrorist obtained the identification needed to board those planes.
Given this, a National Identity Card that can provide absolute identication (perhaps through the inclusion of biometric data) might be exactly what is needed to solve our current problem of having a corrupted yet universally accepted system of identification.
If you want to check out some background on this and read a well developed argument I suggest you read chapter 3 - "Absolute Identification" of Simon Garfinkel's book "Database Nation", 2000, O'Reilly.
http://www.databasenation.org/