Re:IBM VisualAge for Java?
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Java IDEs?
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OK... I'm retarded... I just opened VisualAge and it has color syntax highlighting... but everything else is true... it is a crappy editor...:-)
Re:IBM VisualAge for Java?
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Java IDEs?
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The internal editor does not have color syntax highlighting... It actually is just an overall crappy text editor.
The menus are not logical, things are not where you would expect them to be. I can't even get used to the way they are after hours of use.
The workbench concept is wonderful. Visual Age is a VERY good idea... but like many other things IBM dreams up, it gets washed out and watered down in execution. I work at IBM and I have an idea of how this happened.
IBM probably asked everyone, including the idiots, how an IDE should work... and then they went out and systematically put all the stupidest ideas right in with the brilliant ones. IBM is good at this... at least in the software realm.
Other distro's put package managers and admin tools that all have bugs and glitches... eventually you find yourself digging into the init files manually to make everything work right. Slackware just skips the pretense that Unix can be managed from X or curses.
Telco switches and networks are the most reliable. 99.999% (5-9's) uptime. Better than IP, cable, wireless... Just ask the dorkwads trying to get VOIP to work...
here here... I've dumped Linux for OpenBSD. I don't have to spend an hour "hardening" after a fresh install. If I want a service, I turn it on. novel idea huh...
Bush has a tough problem here. He must act to find the terrorists, jail them, and prevent future terrorist actions. If it is perceived that he has restricted freedoms to do so... he will suffer in the next election. If he does not get additional power to wiretap and detain foreigners, his success will be less likely and he will suffer in the next election. He will not be able to "blame congress" for failure... catch 22 baybee...
Actually, I think this is all a false problem... The current laws are sufficient to investigate suspected terrorists. We don't need any new laws to tackle this problem. It's always been illegal to blow up a building full of people. So leave me alone FBI and do your freaking jobbie job... thats why you make the BIG BUCKS...!
Second paragraph is interesting... there are plenty of very well funded government agencies (we just got a new one last night) concerned with "security" and "law enforcement". These agencies always get money and voice. Few focusing on protecting our rights... Lemme try to list a few
-- uhhhhh...
-- can't think of any...
-- help me out here
-- EEOC maybe?
Re:They can have my private key . . .
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Blaming Encryption
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Like I said before... If the government restricts liberties in the United States... If this "homeland security" idea is perceived to be a new gestapo... the government will create US terrorists...
Hello... Oklahoma City...? Some white guy (McVeigh) thought freedom was being restricted by the ATF and FBI... he made a bomb and blew up a building killing many people.
There are many people who believe that, when oppression is perceived, it must be acted against violently. Many people believe the only power they possess to change things is violence. Many of them live in America and are "white folk". One could even assert it is a human impulse.
If the government restricts liberty to fight foreign terrorists... they could create more "McVeighs" here at home. People don't take kindly to having phone calls tapped, homes invaded and such.
Every measure restricting freedom taken to ferret out mid-eastern terrorist will create MIDDLE AMERICAN terrorists. Don't be a fool. It would be easier for an American to get a weapon of mass destruction or hijack a plane over American airspace than a foreigner.
make planes impossible to Hijack...? also...
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A New Kind of War
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-- Give pilots 9MM automatics.
-- Put kevlar curtains between the passengers and the pilots
-- Give stewardesses those non-lethal "goo guns" or pepper spray.
-- NO carry on luggage.
-- make everyone empty their pockets into lockers before they get onto the plane.
-- get BinLaden and put him in jail
-- purchase all the nuclear bomb building material from Russia they want to sell us
-- give all people with biological and nuclear weapon making knowledge free American citizenship... and a little "sign-on" bonus
-- put a 500 million dollar bounty on BinLaden
-- give every Palestinian 10,000 dollars and tell them to remember who gave it to them.
-- legalize drugs (pot in particular)
Re:What can be done about terrorism?
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More On Tragedy
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The same thing that was done to end global Fascism. War.
1. create a laundry list of the bad guys.
2. urge them to surrender unconditionally and submit to international justice.
3. if they refuse, find them and destroy them... don't let anyone or anything stand in your way.
4. work to minimize collateral damage, but expect it will happen.
Spying is about exchanging money for information... whomever has the most money will probably have the most spies... ergo America will have spies everywhere possible...;-)
American politians are talking about this as well... I saw some Senator on CNN talking about "protecting American assets from foreign attacks" by "guarding our information borders" monitoring and blocking information that comes into America from the Internet.
These people are our enemies. They are the same people who get us into world wars. They haven't learned anything from History.
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Looks like an opportunity for an open source virus scanner project... if one doesn't already exist...
done...
OK... I'm retarded... I just opened VisualAge and it has color syntax highlighting... but everything else is true... it is a crappy editor... :-)
The internal editor does not have color syntax highlighting... It actually is just an overall crappy text editor.
The menus are not logical, things are not where you would expect them to be. I can't even get used to the way they are after hours of use.
The workbench concept is wonderful. Visual Age is a VERY good idea... but like many other things IBM dreams up, it gets washed out and watered down in execution. I work at IBM and I have an idea of how this happened.
IBM probably asked everyone, including the idiots, how an IDE should work... and then they went out and systematically put all the stupidest ideas right in with the brilliant ones. IBM is good at this... at least in the software realm.
yes yes yes... Development can be estimated... Design is more "creative" and unpredictable.
Other distro's put package managers and admin tools that all have bugs and glitches... eventually you find yourself digging into the init files manually to make everything work right. Slackware just skips the pretense that Unix can be managed from X or curses.
And they couldn't make it work...??? retards...
Telco switches and networks are the most reliable. 99.999% (5-9's) uptime. Better than IP, cable, wireless... Just ask the dorkwads trying to get VOIP to work...
national ID underwear, tongue-studs or bracelets... cards are so overused...
here here... I've dumped Linux for OpenBSD. I don't have to spend an hour "hardening" after a fresh install. If I want a service, I turn it on. novel idea huh...
Bush has a tough problem here. He must act to find the terrorists, jail them, and prevent future terrorist actions. If it is perceived that he has restricted freedoms to do so... he will suffer in the next election. If he does not get additional power to wiretap and detain foreigners, his success will be less likely and he will suffer in the next election. He will not be able to "blame congress" for failure... catch 22 baybee...
Actually, I think this is all a false problem... The current laws are sufficient to investigate suspected terrorists. We don't need any new laws to tackle this problem. It's always been illegal to blow up a building full of people. So leave me alone FBI and do your freaking jobbie job... thats why you make the BIG BUCKS...!
Second paragraph is interesting... there are plenty of very well funded government agencies (we just got a new one last night) concerned with "security" and "law enforcement". These agencies always get money and voice. Few focusing on protecting our rights... Lemme try to list a few
-- uhhhhh...
-- can't think of any...
-- help me out here
-- EEOC maybe?
Like I said before... If the government restricts liberties in the United States... If this "homeland security" idea is perceived to be a new gestapo... the government will create US terrorists...
Hello... Oklahoma City...? Some white guy (McVeigh) thought freedom was being restricted by the ATF and FBI... he made a bomb and blew up a building killing many people.
There are many people who believe that, when oppression is perceived, it must be acted against violently. Many people believe the only power they possess to change things is violence. Many of them live in America and are "white folk". One could even assert it is a human impulse.
If the government restricts liberty to fight foreign terrorists... they could create more "McVeighs" here at home. People don't take kindly to having phone calls tapped, homes invaded and such.
Every measure restricting freedom taken to ferret out mid-eastern terrorist will create MIDDLE AMERICAN terrorists. Don't be a fool. It would be easier for an American to get a weapon of mass destruction or hijack a plane over American airspace than a foreigner.
-- Give pilots 9MM automatics.
-- Put kevlar curtains between the passengers and the pilots
-- Give stewardesses those non-lethal "goo guns" or pepper spray.
-- NO carry on luggage.
-- make everyone empty their pockets into lockers before they get onto the plane.
-- get BinLaden and put him in jail
-- purchase all the nuclear bomb building material from Russia they want to sell us
-- give all people with biological and nuclear weapon making knowledge free American citizenship... and a little "sign-on" bonus
-- put a 500 million dollar bounty on BinLaden
-- give every Palestinian 10,000 dollars and tell them to remember who gave it to them.
-- legalize drugs (pot in particular)
The courts are...
The same thing that was done to end global Fascism. War.
1. create a laundry list of the bad guys.
2. urge them to surrender unconditionally and submit to international justice.
3. if they refuse, find them and destroy them... don't let anyone or anything stand in your way.
4. work to minimize collateral damage, but expect it will happen.
This "virus" is just an exploit. A successful virus most often takes advantage of a chain of exploits.
The next remote hole that pops up can be combined with this technique to produce an interesting effect.
1. cause remote hole
2. infect with "worm/backdoor/trojan/whatever"
3. rinse repeat
Agree... Sun has some challenges in the "technical execution" area. Their idea of a fix is to compel the customer to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
Micrsoft is just a little more customer driven. Imagine if Star Office was the ONLY choice.
IBM creates and sells more software than Microsoft... in dollars and titles... Look it up... IBM has always been a software company.
Just because you don't use IBM Software doesn't mean Corporations, Banks and Government don't...
Your retarded little PC bullshit is not the sum total of software in the world.
Spying is about exchanging money for information... whomever has the most money will probably have the most spies... ergo America will have spies everywhere possible... ;-)
American politians are talking about this as well... I saw some Senator on CNN talking about "protecting American assets from foreign attacks" by "guarding our information borders" monitoring and blocking information that comes into America from the Internet.
These people are our enemies. They are the same people who get us into world wars. They haven't learned anything from History.
There are other capacitive substances. We can cook up more... Tantalum is not critical...
not merely sue them... but have them arrested by the FBI.