If it can detect those it can do other things
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Like detecting human DNA.
Perhaps not with current technology, though this is of course the first step... Let us hope that people can collectively take notice of Gattaca-esque warnings.
They won't of course, though hopefully I'll not be around to see it.
Note that Dell only dropped it as a publicly available OS on the low end. Even the most basic of "Small Business Partnership" allows various OSes loaded on the machines before you get them.
It's been shown statistically that intelligence is generally proportional to mental problems (or vice versa, but either way, get one you get the other) I've known a few people now that were *geniuses* in tons of different fields, and generally weird/quirky/insane. Nasty habits involve blowing things up, faking credit card numbers to buy insanely large computers, vandalism, lecherism, and so on.
Their productivity decreased 95% if they were *forced* to do anything, mainly because they are not normal people, they've got special needs, and provide special talents.
*nod* perhaps I did not communicate my meaning very well (as I am apt to do) though I think Microsoft meant that the exploit code should never be released even after the problem's been patched, which is silly.
Yes, just like keeping Cryptography code secret improves the algorithm. I agree that the company should be notified before the flaw is announced, but seriously, the entire point of a security response center is to inform users as to vulnerabilities...
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My childhood lego game was similar, though instead of ball bearings, each team was given a set amount of bricks (usually ~12 2x4) to build a "bomb" out of, which was then lobbed in a high arc at the opposing teams' structure/ship/fort.
Thus you got the two designs of making one part sound, and the other part to make the other guy's unsound.
Absolutely. From what I've heard/read/been told Isreal allows weapons on their planes. Partly this is because they require men to be in the military, and it's fairly common for people in the reserves to be flying. The other reason is of course that no arab (or anyone else) is going to hijack a plane with 50+ gun toting isrealis on it.
Please note that you live in a Republic, not a democracy. The difference being that in pure democracy every man, woman, child, alien, or dog, namely every CITIZEN gets a vote. In a Republic, every person gets a vote so that the elected may make the votes for them.
Unfortunately as law corperations are for all purposes people. VERY influential and rich people. And apparently the majority of the people (corperations included) vote for men and women who think that music should be sold, and distributing copies of the music purchased is thievery; and it is.
Justified law breaking is still law breaking, and I'll be glad when you're arrested. Or you could perhaps gather your fellow citizens and come November vote for a representative that *gasp* has your beliefs, and will fight for them.
Or perhaps mounting 'communal' stations at some place that occurs ever 100ft (Telephone poles, bathrooms, mailboxes)?
The routing would definately be a problem (this sounds VERY similar to gnutella's file find method) though might be useful for text messaging or the sort as long as you don't mind others reading your love notes.
I had something similar happen to me recently where a post was marked -1 overrated. I think a group is just downmodding anyone that posts as 1 for general principle. Another person rated it underrated later, balancing it out.
In the end a sufficient mob, even of geeks, is reduced to it's lowest common denominator.
I was an Aeronautical Engineering major, who attended college early, because well... high school blows. Granted this isn't the best of reasons, and sure enough I was quickly depressed and spending FAR too much time playing quake and exploring the wonders of the Internet.
Thankfully I learned a hell of alot warezing quake and avoiding firewalls, because after I dropped out and spent my years worth of phone monkey ladder climbing I gained a sys admin job at the age of 19. Not glorious, but well paying, and stable, even these days. More importantly it gave me time and resources and experience to learn what I think will be useful, not what I think might be neat. (which is what 95% of Freshmen do, myself included).
Note that security is a relatively new concern for people. 'Back in the Day' for most everyone the only way that you could get problems was from virii, hence to stop all problems, you installed a virus checker, and that of course fixed everything...
The one fault of this of course is that the atomic bomb always works. Drop it somewhere, and wham, you blow stuff up.
Virii and worms, and even encryption require mediums in which to work. They only work because the medium they are in allow such things.
Virii and worms should always be discussed openly as this is the best way to defeat them. Encryption should always be discussed because that is the best way to ensure the cryptosystem.
The nuclear bomb cannot be defeated by open information, only by human conscience.
my job still has nerf toys and teenage programmers, but we also have a viable product, and experience where experience is needed. Not all start-ups fail, just stupid ones.
And even if I made some similar proposal, the common response would be that our sales staff would work 'better' with Exchange compared to a groupware solution on Linux. The 2 million dollars gained by the now improved sales staff would recoup the costs.
Total bullshit, but that would be the common company response.
Actually I've seen quite a few people (coders) leave their jobs now that they've either a: cashed out, or b: given up on cashing out to return to college for their masters or doctorates until the dark clouds roll through. They will then return to work with a new degree, and a bright economy ahead holding similar jobs if not better than the ones they left.
Well, of all the code I've written I've made 3 semi-available. 1 I did as an assignment for work, which was then semi-released as part of a toolkit. The other two were things that did not exist, and I wished to due largely because I wanted to learn something each program required (socket code and libGMP respectively).
After they were finished, and cleaned, I figured that since they didn't exist before, someone might be interested in them if for no other reason than 'it has been done'.
The actual use of this was afaik to precipitate dissolved Uranium and other dangerous elements out of streams and the such, so that people could then come by and remove the little nuggets.
is the forthcoming Master of Orion 3 (moo3). Almost half of the Dev Diaries I've read for this game detail not the game, or it's play, but how to efficiently pack 100 screens into a usable interface that won't confuse newbies.
They do, though to the common user viruses are security breaches not hacking. The common user does *not* realise the implications of box rooting. They're used to IT people doing miracle work to recover lost email, and blame them for the little that they lost instead of being spanked for causing the security breach in the first place.
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Like detecting human DNA.
Perhaps not with current technology, though this is of course the first step... Let us hope that people can collectively take notice of Gattaca-esque warnings.
They won't of course, though hopefully I'll not be around to see it.
Note that Dell only dropped it as a publicly available OS on the low end. Even the most basic of "Small Business Partnership" allows various OSes loaded on the machines before you get them.
It's been shown statistically that intelligence is generally proportional to mental problems (or vice versa, but either way, get one you get the other) I've known a few people now that were *geniuses* in tons of different fields, and generally weird/quirky/insane. Nasty habits involve blowing things up, faking credit card numbers to buy insanely large computers, vandalism, lecherism, and so on.
Their productivity decreased 95% if they were *forced* to do anything, mainly because they are not normal people, they've got special needs, and provide special talents.
*nod* perhaps I did not communicate my meaning very well (as I am apt to do) though I think Microsoft meant that the exploit code should never be released even after the problem's been patched, which is silly.
Yes, just like keeping Cryptography code secret improves the algorithm. I agree that the company should be notified before the flaw is announced, but seriously, the entire point of a security response center is to inform users as to vulnerabilities...
My childhood lego game was similar, though instead of ball bearings, each team was given a set amount of bricks (usually ~12 2x4) to build a "bomb" out of, which was then lobbed in a high arc at the opposing teams' structure/ship/fort.
Thus you got the two designs of making one part sound, and the other part to make the other guy's unsound.
of course the next Outlook virus is named Anthrax.
Absolutely. From what I've heard/read/been told Isreal allows weapons on their planes. Partly this is because they require men to be in the military, and it's fairly common for people in the reserves to be flying. The other reason is of course that no arab (or anyone else) is going to hijack a plane with 50+ gun toting isrealis on it.
Please note that you live in a Republic, not a democracy. The difference being that in pure democracy every man, woman, child, alien, or dog, namely every CITIZEN gets a vote. In a Republic, every person gets a vote so that the elected may make the votes for them.
Unfortunately as law corperations are for all purposes people. VERY influential and rich people. And apparently the majority of the people (corperations included) vote for men and women who think that music should be sold, and distributing copies of the music purchased is thievery; and it is.
Justified law breaking is still law breaking, and I'll be glad when you're arrested. Or you could perhaps gather your fellow citizens and come November vote for a representative that *gasp* has your beliefs, and will fight for them.
Or perhaps mounting 'communal' stations at some place that occurs ever 100ft (Telephone poles, bathrooms, mailboxes)?
The routing would definately be a problem (this sounds VERY similar to gnutella's file find method) though might be useful for text messaging or the sort as long as you don't mind others reading your love notes.
I had something similar happen to me recently where a post was marked -1 overrated. I think a group is just downmodding anyone that posts as 1 for general principle. Another person rated it underrated later, balancing it out.
In the end a sufficient mob, even of geeks, is reduced to it's lowest common denominator.
I was an Aeronautical Engineering major, who attended college early, because well... high school blows. Granted this isn't the best of reasons, and sure enough I was quickly depressed and spending FAR too much time playing quake and exploring the wonders of the Internet.
Thankfully I learned a hell of alot warezing quake and avoiding firewalls, because after I dropped out and spent my years worth of phone monkey ladder climbing I gained a sys admin job at the age of 19. Not glorious, but well paying, and stable, even these days. More importantly it gave me time and resources and experience to learn what I think will be useful, not what I think might be neat. (which is what 95% of Freshmen do, myself included).
Hemos' brain has disappeared to? Apparently some sort of substance was involved to make that funny.
Note that security is a relatively new concern for people. 'Back in the Day' for most everyone the only way that you could get problems was from virii, hence to stop all problems, you installed a virus checker, and that of course fixed everything...
wait... the Tyan Thunder can support the 66mhz 64bit PCI already. and the Tiger can support normal old DDR (though only 2)
Do you guys even read the articles?
The one fault of this of course is that the atomic bomb always works. Drop it somewhere, and wham, you blow stuff up.
Virii and worms, and even encryption require mediums in which to work. They only work because the medium they are in allow such things.
Virii and worms should always be discussed openly as this is the best way to defeat them. Encryption should always be discussed because that is the best way to ensure the cryptosystem.
The nuclear bomb cannot be defeated by open information, only by human conscience.
my job still has nerf toys and teenage programmers, but we also have a viable product, and experience where experience is needed. Not all start-ups fail, just stupid ones.
Wow. I didn't know 28% of Americans have read Applied Cryptography!
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And even if I made some similar proposal, the common response would be that our sales staff would work 'better' with Exchange compared to a groupware solution on Linux. The 2 million dollars gained by the now improved sales staff would recoup the costs.
Total bullshit, but that would be the common company response.
Actually I've seen quite a few people (coders) leave their jobs now that they've either a: cashed out, or b: given up on cashing out to return to college for their masters or doctorates until the dark clouds roll through. They will then return to work with a new degree, and a bright economy ahead holding similar jobs if not better than the ones they left.
Well, of all the code I've written I've made 3 semi-available. 1 I did as an assignment for work, which was then semi-released as part of a toolkit. The other two were things that did not exist, and I wished to due largely because I wanted to learn something each program required (socket code and libGMP respectively).
After they were finished, and cleaned, I figured that since they didn't exist before, someone might be interested in them if for no other reason than 'it has been done'.
The actual use of this was afaik to precipitate dissolved Uranium and other dangerous elements out of streams and the such, so that people could then come by and remove the little nuggets.
is the forthcoming Master of Orion 3 (moo3). Almost half of the Dev Diaries I've read for this game detail not the game, or it's play, but how to efficiently pack 100 screens into a usable interface that won't confuse newbies.
Gamespy had a diary with screenshots.
The UI for my new webcam looks eerily similar to the side buttons.
They do, though to the common user viruses are security breaches not hacking. The common user does *not* realise the implications of box rooting. They're used to IT people doing miracle work to recover lost email, and blame them for the little that they lost instead of being spanked for causing the security breach in the first place.
Ideally it's a square wave, though for all practical purposes the wave more resembles a sin wave than square.