You are using incorrect terms -- the people who put money into the system in step #2 are not investors -- they are users/customers/fans. So there is no impetus there to turn a profit on that money, only to gain the fruits of the author's labors.
Imagine an age of infinite reproducibility -- it shouldn't be too difficult to concieve. Would you pay $30 to download and skim a book from someone you have never heard of? I wouldn't. I'd just take it. Would you pay $30 to your favorite author when [s]he says [s]he is working on something new, and won't release it until [s]he makes $X amount of money? I would. You probably would, too. The concept is similar to that of paying a street performer, wherein you cannot actively moniter each consumer (each person on the street), but willing patrons can contribute to their own desire. The full write-up for the street performer protocol is available at http://www.counterpane.com/street_performer.html .
There are some valid attacks on this protocol, but yours is not one of them.
You seem to have missed why we are worried about software patents in the first place.
Patents 101 -- A patent covers an idea, in any implementation. Take for example Amazon's 'one-click' patent -- B&N could write their ecommerce software any way they wanted to, but simply implementing it to support one-click confirmation places them in violation of Amazon's patent. Remember that -- concept, not code, is what is protected by patents. Actual code is what is protected by copyrights.
So to bring this back to the Quake/Half-Life/Unreal example, if id gained a patent on, say, 3d game architectures, then Unreal would run afoul of that patent -- even though they used no id code.
Jamie, I think you're the best editor on this site, but your response is the lamest I've seen you write yet.
"Actually the gzip filter is a really clever way..."
This line angers me b/c it is just a one-line unsupported dismissal of a widely held viewpoint. That may have been the design intention of the lameness filter. That may be what it looks like to you from up there. But down here in the posters' trenches, the consensus is that it sucks ass. Way too many people catch the lameness filter for a short subject, or trying to be lyrical, or just having too much whitespace. I have caught it several times, and after playing with the text for a while to evade the filter, I just give up. Most people I know do. Email it to you? Sure, right after pouring one's energies into writing someing insightful and on-topic, a tiny block of perl tells one to piss off, one should feel motivated to email bug reports to a group that has grown continually less responsive to user input?? Right, he said.
Why the continuing trend to offload debugging onto users who didn't ask for the 'improvement' in the first place? Why keep pushing code onto a hugely popular community site that only serves in Generalissimo Taco's war on trolls, dadaists, and the generally absurd? Why a gzip "filter"?? There are decades of research into fast algorithms for determining statistics on bodies of text -- any one of them, many public domain, would be an intelligent tool against crapflooders. But a 'compress and size check' line instead?? That's the worst kind of lax unfeeling code, that wields a brutal metric without regard for corollary damage. ("Rob code", I've heard it called, but "MS code" is more typifying of that style of program design.)
I generally don't rant. You are running a valuable site at no monetary cost to us. But/. continues to become a place where trenchant technical analysis is unwelcome, master geeks ignore the pablum, and Taco & the trolls continue their little war with the rest of us caught in the minefields that they lay. Every day I feel a greater desire for the/. of 1998. I say, bring back Chips and Dips.
Britian passed their own Anti-Terrorist legislation back in the 70's when there was a bombing a week (minimum) somewhere in Europe, and the IRA was really out of hand. They included time-limits (or 'sunset' clauses) as well. Of course, these have been extended more often than US copyrights. Check it out! Celebrating 29 years of "temporary" measures!!
We can expect precisely the same behavior over here in the States. Power needs to control. The government will never willingly return power to the populace -- such an act is simply not in its nature. It is only returned by massive, sustained acts of civil disobedience, for instance, in the legal viewpoint, the 60's were a reaction to the laws passed during the World Wars. It took an entire generation to restore some liberties lost during the previous decades of crisis. With this bill, we have just plotted a course for our children to follow.
Other posters rebutted you, but I should reiterate: civil liberties are in fact endowed, natural rights -- read the Declaration of Independence. Moreover, freedom and security are not polar opposities. It is largely because of our freedoms that America has developed into a vibrant, productive society capable of providing for everyone and thus removing the desperate incentives that drive terrorism. There are many places in the world far less free, with far less safety.
Oh, and I'm not worried about anthrax -- the infection rate is too low to be effective in the face of our fully mobilized medical resources. But there are other, simpler bateriums that can be spread in other fashions. My advice to you -- drink filtered water.
Gonzo Marketing doesn't tell companies they can't market to customers -- but that they need to radically rethink how they communicate. Before the automobile, the transcontinental railroad was the only easy way to get to the west coast. Before the Internet, mass marketing was the only easy way you could communicate on a global scale. And the railroads of old were just as inefficient and costly as the bloated marketing budgets of today.
What kind of stupid analogy is this?? 'railroads inefficient and costly'? WTF planet are you on? The auto is a fantastically inefficient vehicle compared to a rail system. The auto generally expends, minimum, 3 times the fuel that a train expends when transporting proportional masses. There's a reason trains, rather than sedans, are used for freight. MacLauglin is spouting some kind of stupid American 'my car is god' fetishism. It's getting in the way.
There are real economic trends that support "Gonzo Marketing". Much of it will come true. But this kind of bad writing isn't helping. One trend is that everyone is this future will be a writing. Hopefully MacLaughlin takes some time between now and then to learn how to write effectively.
I am a complete ILL monger. I have used and abused it cruelly and relentlessly. It's great. But it still doesn't solve the general problem: that when one person checks out a book, everyone else has to go without. The internet *does* solve this problem. So while libraries are still awesome, text on the net can serve more people.
Okay, you're just being stubborn. You don't understand the problem with temp tables, but you're going to 1) ignore it, and 2) keep pushing them as a replacement for stored procedures?
The worth of your opinion just went to zero.
The reason MySQL is so popular in web projects is because of network effects. The reason MySQL *survives* in many web projects is because most web projects have low enough usage that their shortcomings are not apparent. One can easily waste 20 times the necessary resources on the web, and you won't notice until that day you are slashdotted and your usage pattern triples. You'll note that large MySQL projects such as slashdot end up writing large complex caching systems to avoid MySQL and are running on enormous machines relative to their needs. Perhaps you have noticed the number of MySQL projects that get successful, and then start working on Postgres and Oracle ports after they look at scalability data.
As for the rest of your arguments -- SP required seldom, biz logic simple in middle tier, etc -- check the beginning of my message to see a response. You do not know what you are talking about.
Nor is the actual *course material* really going to be online. That will be found in the textbooks.
You are, of course, correct -- except for the large number of courses that operate without textbooks of any kind, and use only lectures and notes the professor drafted. These are particularly prevalent in technical classes where the textbooks haven't been out yet, or there is no comparable text. Or the prof just wants to explain things a different way. Happens all the time.
If you want to learn physics or how to read the Iliad in the original greek all you need do is make the trip to your local public library, and in some states any state funded college library is also considered a public library, and take out a relevant text.
Certainly. Assuming, of course, that your local public library stocks all texts for MIT-grade classes, especially recent printings and obscure classes. And that no one else has checked them out first. Please. Be serious. When was the last time you could find that O'Reilly book you needed at the public library? Or W. Richard Stevens? Public library funding has been on the slide (or plummet) for years and years now, and it's not like they were ever all that well funded. With the new RIAA laws, libraries' funding situation will get even worse.
So let's just consider going to the local library and finding an available copy of last year's 'Markov Chains and Simulated Neuro-physiology' textbook just right out, shall we?? What we really need is some kind of system that can transmit large quantities of text and pictures to each interested student's workspace, without reducing the supply for anyone else. Gee, I wonder what we could use....
The possibility of having lecture notes available online is an interesting exercise, but I'm not sure of what general relevance or use it might be. The textbook always contains superiour information, that is why they USE textbooks after all,
Oh, right, I forgot. Except for those literally thousands of errors I have found in textbooks over the course of my life. So errata must come with each; distributing such and updating such is difficult if it has to come with the physical book -- I suppose you would need the above hypothetical information transport system, tying the errata to the book, in some kind of 'web'.
And as I said above, frequently there are no books. Or the books suck, which is an even more common situation. Or school politics fucks up book choice, so the prof is xeroxing and distributing portions of other books, making his own compiliation for the class as it goes along. Or somehow, the prof deigns to think himself talented enough to explain material better, to his focused group, than a general textbook -- perish the thought!
All in all I see how this might prove useful to the less actually educationally ambitious student of MIT, and how it might prove *interesting* to some of the public, but I fail to see how it in any way AIDS the public in an educational sense. The material is already available to the public, (including the course curiculum of MIT which is published and stocked by public libraries already), in the superiour form of actual texts.
Okay, cockmonger, let me put it for you straight. The material, at least not all of it, is not available to the public. This missing material, the real deal, the reason people pay 5 or 6 digits for 4 years of it, is the community of learning that supports peoples' interest and efforts. This community is the one thing that the ACES project is trying to duplicate that makes it different from the rest of the 'put notes on the web' projects the world over. Go read the article, join the community, add your ideas to the source -- it's GPLed.
So in closing, I should thank you for pushing the declining cause of public libraries. They need more support and funding, and always have. But there is so much more to a college course, and to a college environment, that you are missing. Take another look.
I looked at PostgreSQL, but it was going to take me a while to figure out how to get it set up -...
Here's how I read this: "I spent five minutes looking at the Postgres docs. Then I gave up and went back to MySQL."
I know this isn't true, at least I suspect it is not from the content of your other posts. But I think the most cracked-out zealotry for MySQL comes largely from people for whom MySQL has been their only database -- script kiddies and beginning Perl/CGI peons in start-ups that have MySQL as default from their hosting provider or somesuch. Most of them don't even know what most database terms mean, let alone can derive a coherent value statement from them. People scream loudest when they are threatened by obsolesence.
This is not to say that a "Well-Rounded Education" is a good thing, or if the current attempts to implement such are effective.
There are, IMHO, two solid things that constitute a serious education. One is a broad comprehension of many fields. When one has this knowledge, one can generalize approaches and draw on many different patterns of thought. The holder of such can be called "educated", but perhaps "instructed" might be a better term.
The second is to know at least one subject deeply -- to the point of mastery. There are major changes in how you think when you have focused yourself enough on any one field. You know its boundaries, where it is malleable, the history of the field and what questions have been answered, and how evidence is evaluated in the field. The holder of this kind of training can be called "intelligent", and it is the practice of this that creates knowledge.
Both are required to call a person fully educated, and it is laughable to think that the average person, with average dedication, can complete this by the end of their bachelor's degree at the age of 22 or so. Currently schools try to teach the former, and only in certain fine companies will the latter be picked up by the cunning. Neither one is really useful by themselves -- the unintelligent educated man can make insights, but accomplish little; the uneducated intelligent man can achieve much that is empheral or unwanted.
In response to your final question, I should say "screw what a company really wants". What is needed is for a student to know a broad enough base to keep their mind open, and a willingness to work hard to develop focus and intelligence. You are soft iron -- you will be forged.
The webcomic "Shlock Mercenary" (www.schlockmercenary.com) briefly explored this a few months ago. They took it one further, though. In the Schlock universe, interstellar travel is handled in a similar fashion, but it is controlled by one ancient race who allows no one else to see the inner workings of its operation. The reason for that is that rather than automatically destroying the original, the wormgate race interrogates the clone, extracting all conceivably useful info, and then destroys the original. The motive, and effect of this policy is that they gain detailed inside knowledge of the plans and discoveries of all the races who use their transport, which is to say all the powerful races; the wormgate aliens use this to prop up their rather shadowy empire. That's the main backstory, at least; "Schlock" proceeds like a conventional webcomic, returning only occasionally to the core of the plot advancement, namely the cast has invented a new warp drive that does not rely on the wormgate platform, and has growing evidence of the copying and interrogation.
I haven't seen any of this in classic sci-fi, so jms's question still stands.
Some of these regulations are suspect in the extreme, and certainly shouldn't be used as a model for futher legislation. Some of them are out-and-out wrong. Take nunchaku as an case in point. I recall an example almost a decade ago in Texas, wherein a woman with extensive training was car-jacked by a man with a gun who entered from the passenger side. She being Texan, reached behind the pick-up's seat to find her nuchaku, whereupon she beat him sore. He escaped but was later found, and in the legal proceedings, the victim was prosecuted for use of an illegal weapon!
Nunchaku, and most hand-to-hand weapons, require a significant amount of training simply to keep from hurting yourself, while the "Saturday Night Special" remains the legal weapon of choice for the violent human untrained in control and moderation. I don't think this is an accident. The government's stance for many years now has been to hobble only those with training, skill, and the will to use tools properly, as they are harder to control... The parallels to computer technology are obvious. We are now the strange new group with skill, training, and will.
I don't understand the motivations of a career politico's defense mechanisms, but I don't like the consequences.
Gartner is one of these "the sky is falling; change everything" analysts. They spent the last 3 years telling everyone to switch from Apache to IIS; now their only possible retraction is to switch everyone back. Moderation and smarter business practices aren't a part of their target market -- the ever fickle C*Os. I quote Greenspun:
a CTO is someone who can't or doesn't want to write code. After all, if Joe CTO writes a program he incurs the risk of a user sitting down in front of it and saying "this program doesn't work the way it needs to." So a CTO goes from meeting to meeting thinking profound thoughts about different brands of RDBMS server, operating systems, Web servers, etc.
So telling these people that the massive upheaval of switching platforms is the only thing that they understand.
On a different point, I have to disagree with this:
The main problem with IIS isn't that there are exploits for it, after all there are exploits for every major piece of server software from BIND to Apache to Sendmail. The problem is that there is no decent pathway to funnel patches to users of IIS.
No, I think the problem is that there are exploits for IIS, or at least, that there are so many. When was the last time Apache had a remote exploit? Okay, what year did Apache last have a remote exploit? BIND has had a huge number of exploits in its time, but its been quite stable for a while now; still, I use djbdns rather than BIND, qmail rather than sendmail. That's another major difference -- in the Unix world there are several tools that perform similar functions like DNS, FTP, and HTTP; any competent administrator will switch the default daemons over to the packages released by scary paranoid crypto motherfuckers. On Windows, you have the MS daemons and nothing else! That has always been the problem in MS paradise -- it's their way or no way.
Obviously, administration skill matters. Certainly, with a raft of technicians you can keep anything afloat. But that doesn't change the absolute fact that there are differences in software quality afoot, readiness to admit vulnerabilities, and ability for the community to contribute fixes and peer review. MS is absolutely failing in those respects, so much in fact that even their biggest syncophants are deserting them.
The other poster said what needs to be said, namely that Microsoft is restating what has been said for the last 15 years or so by the distributed computation researchers. I'd like to point out some flaws in what you said, primarily:
4. Where we work. Telecommuting is, for all the cheerleading, not very common at all.
In some industries, it is in fact, *very* common to telecommute. Where you *never* see telecommuting, OTOH, is in the Windows world, where it is impossible to secure networks if there are some PCs on your intranet out there somewhere, filesharing is a nightmare, and roaming is a laughable failure compared to two decades of NIS. What you see in this paper is standard Microsoft engineering -- spinning futures out of gossamer to fix the problems they have created by ignoring everyone else. For instance, why is threading crucial in Windows programming? Because they never created a process model as simple and lightweight as in Unix.
2. Games. Games require zero latency - nobody enjoys playing Quake with network lag, let alone system lag.
More importantly, no one likes network lag on anything!! I spent the last few days working on threaded programming, where all the problems revolve around sensitive timing issues -- and that's all local. Abstracting local-vs-network away is an ivory tower pipe dream, because all these timing issues suddenly have no assurances. And the application will fail in myriad and hard-to-reproduce ways that will never be debugged. There are many great things yet to be done with distributed programming, but pretending that it's the same as local programming is not one of them.
a worldwide network in which you can basically bid on processing power to draw from the global network,
Go talk to the MojoNation boys down in Mountain View. They can hook you up.
..now I am reading your site, checking out how MS has fooled you... Aha! You are much too cute to be a programmer. Go hence, deciever!! Ne'er come again unto this lair of curmudgeons!
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Considering that nuclear reactions operate on energy values seven orders of magnitude higher than electrostatics, I doubt your claim. Even if it were factually correct, however, Einstein had an enormous hand in the early development of quantum mechanics and thus nuclear physics. And even besides that, concentrating only on his relativity work, he was part of the greater effort of new physics at the beginning of the 20th century, and has some level of subjectivity with the people who did work directly on the bomb.
I understand the desire to exonerate Einstein from the morally grey activities that used his work. But it's silly to claim anyone totally clean in this day and age.
regarding your 'shopping cart': you should probably move from MySQL to Postgres. Yes, yes, I've heard all the carping from MySQLers proclaiming that you don't need transactions in most cases, but when your bits start representing dollars, you should consider that one of the 'important' cases.
past Unix holes, particularly the Great Worm, relied on buffer overflows that were much more prevalent back then, before everyone started using bounded I/O. Perils of writing everything in C. And an interesting thing about The Great Worm was that it only ran on one architecture -- Sun3 on the VAX, if I remember correctly. Of course, modern rootkits compile source on the machine, so one could expect a new Great Worm to do the same, and be cross-platform. OTOH, back in the day of the Great Worm, many more processes ran in priviledged accounts than now (most run as 'nobody'), so there are hopefully less blatant openings. OTTH, who am I kidding? Modern security sucks. Bring on the lawsuits.
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I think we *do* license some weapon designs. I'd have to check, which would entail caring a bit more than I do now.
I wish the attacks would have been a proper military strike with all of the rules and tradition that goes along with them, but how do you attack the United States Military through traditional means?
You, um, don't. Afghanistan is a land-locked country with no airforce save some helicopters. Actually attacking another country means ships, because planes simply can't carry enough cargo efficiently. Getting ships across to US soil demands, first, a sea port that they don't have, second, mastery of the seas, third, air command of the seas to attack subs. Then you can actually start planning an invasion. With all that as a *requirement*, you can see why a big war won't be seen again for a long, long time. A civil attack from Afghanistan would look more like "The Mouse That Roared" rather than D-Day. You might like to read Dunningham's "How to Make War" -- it's very informative on necessary logistics.
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Imagine an age of infinite reproducibility -- it shouldn't be too difficult to concieve. Would you pay $30 to download and skim a book from someone you have never heard of? I wouldn't. I'd just take it. Would you pay $30 to your favorite author when [s]he says [s]he is working on something new, and won't release it until [s]he makes $X amount of money? I would. You probably would, too. The concept is similar to that of paying a street performer, wherein you cannot actively moniter each consumer (each person on the street), but willing patrons can contribute to their own desire. The full write-up for the street performer protocol is available at http://www.counterpane.com/street_performer.html .
There are some valid attacks on this protocol, but yours is not one of them.
Patents 101 -- A patent covers an idea, in any implementation. Take for example Amazon's 'one-click' patent -- B&N could write their ecommerce software any way they wanted to, but simply implementing it to support one-click confirmation places them in violation of Amazon's patent. Remember that -- concept, not code, is what is protected by patents. Actual code is what is protected by copyrights.
So to bring this back to the Quake/Half-Life/Unreal example, if id gained a patent on, say, 3d game architectures, then Unreal would run afoul of that patent -- even though they used no id code.
See the problem??
And your interpretation of Pogo sucks. The correct line is:
BTW, what does it mean for a software design to 'get to first base', as you put it?
Why the continuing trend to offload debugging onto users who didn't ask for the 'improvement' in the first place? Why keep pushing code onto a hugely popular community site that only serves in Generalissimo Taco's war on trolls, dadaists, and the generally absurd? Why a gzip "filter"?? There are decades of research into fast algorithms for determining statistics on bodies of text -- any one of them, many public domain, would be an intelligent tool against crapflooders. But a 'compress and size check' line instead?? That's the worst kind of lax unfeeling code, that wields a brutal metric without regard for corollary damage. ("Rob code", I've heard it called, but "MS code" is more typifying of that style of program design.)
I generally don't rant. You are running a valuable site at no monetary cost to us. But /. continues to become a place where trenchant technical analysis is unwelcome, master geeks ignore the pablum, and Taco & the trolls continue their little war with the rest of us caught in the minefields that they lay. Every day I feel a greater desire for the /. of 1998. I say, bring back Chips and Dips.
We can expect precisely the same behavior over here in the States. Power needs to control. The government will never willingly return power to the populace -- such an act is simply not in its nature. It is only returned by massive, sustained acts of civil disobedience, for instance, in the legal viewpoint, the 60's were a reaction to the laws passed during the World Wars. It took an entire generation to restore some liberties lost during the previous decades of crisis. With this bill, we have just plotted a course for our children to follow.
Other posters rebutted you, but I should reiterate: civil liberties are in fact endowed, natural rights -- read the Declaration of Independence. Moreover, freedom and security are not polar opposities. It is largely because of our freedoms that America has developed into a vibrant, productive society capable of providing for everyone and thus removing the desperate incentives that drive terrorism. There are many places in the world far less free, with far less safety.
Oh, and I'm not worried about anthrax -- the infection rate is too low to be effective in the face of our fully mobilized medical resources. But there are other, simpler bateriums that can be spread in other fashions. My advice to you -- drink filtered water.
There are real economic trends that support "Gonzo Marketing". Much of it will come true. But this kind of bad writing isn't helping. One trend is that everyone is this future will be a writing. Hopefully MacLaughlin takes some time between now and then to learn how to write effectively.
I am a complete ILL monger. I have used and abused it cruelly and relentlessly. It's great. But it still doesn't solve the general problem: that when one person checks out a book, everyone else has to go without. The internet *does* solve this problem. So while libraries are still awesome, text on the net can serve more people.
The worth of your opinion just went to zero.
The reason MySQL is so popular in web projects is because of network effects. The reason MySQL *survives* in many web projects is because most web projects have low enough usage that their shortcomings are not apparent. One can easily waste 20 times the necessary resources on the web, and you won't notice until that day you are slashdotted and your usage pattern triples. You'll note that large MySQL projects such as slashdot end up writing large complex caching systems to avoid MySQL and are running on enormous machines relative to their needs. Perhaps you have noticed the number of MySQL projects that get successful, and then start working on Postgres and Oracle ports after they look at scalability data.
As for the rest of your arguments -- SP required seldom, biz logic simple in middle tier, etc -- check the beginning of my message to see a response. You do not know what you are talking about.
So let's just consider going to the local library and finding an available copy of last year's 'Markov Chains and Simulated Neuro-physiology' textbook just right out, shall we?? What we really need is some kind of system that can transmit large quantities of text and pictures to each interested student's workspace, without reducing the supply for anyone else. Gee, I wonder what we could use....
Oh, right, I forgot. Except for those literally thousands of errors I have found in textbooks over the course of my life. So errata must come with each; distributing such and updating such is difficult if it has to come with the physical book -- I suppose you would need the above hypothetical information transport system, tying the errata to the book, in some kind of 'web'.And as I said above, frequently there are no books. Or the books suck, which is an even more common situation. Or school politics fucks up book choice, so the prof is xeroxing and distributing portions of other books, making his own compiliation for the class as it goes along. Or somehow, the prof deigns to think himself talented enough to explain material better, to his focused group, than a general textbook -- perish the thought!
Okay, cockmonger, let me put it for you straight. The material, at least not all of it, is not available to the public. This missing material, the real deal, the reason people pay 5 or 6 digits for 4 years of it, is the community of learning that supports peoples' interest and efforts. This community is the one thing that the ACES project is trying to duplicate that makes it different from the rest of the 'put notes on the web' projects the world over. Go read the article, join the community, add your ideas to the source -- it's GPLed.So in closing, I should thank you for pushing the declining cause of public libraries. They need more support and funding, and always have. But there is so much more to a college course, and to a college environment, that you are missing. Take another look.
I know this isn't true, at least I suspect it is not from the content of your other posts. But I think the most cracked-out zealotry for MySQL comes largely from people for whom MySQL has been their only database -- script kiddies and beginning Perl/CGI peons in start-ups that have MySQL as default from their hosting provider or somesuch. Most of them don't even know what most database terms mean, let alone can derive a coherent value statement from them. People scream loudest when they are threatened by obsolesence.
There are, IMHO, two solid things that constitute a serious education. One is a broad comprehension of many fields. When one has this knowledge, one can generalize approaches and draw on many different patterns of thought. The holder of such can be called "educated", but perhaps "instructed" might be a better term.
The second is to know at least one subject deeply -- to the point of mastery. There are major changes in how you think when you have focused yourself enough on any one field. You know its boundaries, where it is malleable, the history of the field and what questions have been answered, and how evidence is evaluated in the field. The holder of this kind of training can be called "intelligent", and it is the practice of this that creates knowledge.
Both are required to call a person fully educated, and it is laughable to think that the average person, with average dedication, can complete this by the end of their bachelor's degree at the age of 22 or so. Currently schools try to teach the former, and only in certain fine companies will the latter be picked up by the cunning. Neither one is really useful by themselves -- the unintelligent educated man can make insights, but accomplish little; the uneducated intelligent man can achieve much that is empheral or unwanted.
In response to your final question, I should say "screw what a company really wants". What is needed is for a student to know a broad enough base to keep their mind open, and a willingness to work hard to develop focus and intelligence. You are soft iron -- you will be forged.
Use some of that Panzer Kunst. You'll be fine.
I haven't seen any of this in classic sci-fi, so jms's question still stands.
Nunchaku, and most hand-to-hand weapons, require a significant amount of training simply to keep from hurting yourself, while the "Saturday Night Special" remains the legal weapon of choice for the violent human untrained in control and moderation. I don't think this is an accident. The government's stance for many years now has been to hobble only those with training, skill, and the will to use tools properly, as they are harder to control... The parallels to computer technology are obvious. We are now the strange new group with skill, training, and will.
I don't understand the motivations of a career politico's defense mechanisms, but I don't like the consequences.
I found Zod!
Lay off the hooch next time you post.
Wait, check that. We need to work *for* you.
Hiring in the Bay Area?
On a different point, I have to disagree with this:
No, I think the problem is that there are exploits for IIS, or at least, that there are so many. When was the last time Apache had a remote exploit? Okay, what year did Apache last have a remote exploit? BIND has had a huge number of exploits in its time, but its been quite stable for a while now; still, I use djbdns rather than BIND, qmail rather than sendmail. That's another major difference -- in the Unix world there are several tools that perform similar functions like DNS, FTP, and HTTP; any competent administrator will switch the default daemons over to the packages released by scary paranoid crypto motherfuckers. On Windows, you have the MS daemons and nothing else! That has always been the problem in MS paradise -- it's their way or no way.Obviously, administration skill matters. Certainly, with a raft of technicians you can keep anything afloat. But that doesn't change the absolute fact that there are differences in software quality afoot, readiness to admit vulnerabilities, and ability for the community to contribute fixes and peer review. MS is absolutely failing in those respects, so much in fact that even their biggest syncophants are deserting them.
And unleash the first Space Dance Monkey?? Is this some kind of devious plan to conquer other planets by bringing them MS-brand funk?
I understand the desire to exonerate Einstein from the morally grey activities that used his work. But it's silly to claim anyone totally clean in this day and age.
Better speed, too.
past Unix holes, particularly the Great Worm, relied on buffer overflows that were much more prevalent back then, before everyone started using bounded I/O. Perils of writing everything in C. And an interesting thing about The Great Worm was that it only ran on one architecture -- Sun3 on the VAX, if I remember correctly. Of course, modern rootkits compile source on the machine, so one could expect a new Great Worm to do the same, and be cross-platform. OTOH, back in the day of the Great Worm, many more processes ran in priviledged accounts than now (most run as 'nobody'), so there are hopefully less blatant openings. OTTH, who am I kidding? Modern security sucks. Bring on the lawsuits.
I compiled some of my rantings about difficulties of attacking the Talib in my latest journal entry.