What other OS has been gone through line by line to eliminate potential holes, flaws and buffer attacks?
OpenBSD, most secure OS out there.
Of course, export restrictions make it tough to get OpenBSD if you're in the US (Which is why they are based in Canada), but you can always smuggle a copy across the border, as long as you don't look like a terrorist.
One of the biggest problems facing our environment is global warming due to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. We need to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions, and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Trees are very good at removing carbon dioxide, in fact, they are mostly carbon. Grow a tree, remove carbon dioxide. Make the tree into paper or bury it, just don't burn it.
And you can recycle paper too, just don't burn it.
Because without society, there would be no corporations.
They should be forced to pay a living way, pay for daycare and health benefits, and not pollute the environment.
Additionally, corporations that are particularly odious in raping Mother Earth, like those companies making the big gas sucking SUV's, should pay a penalty tax for environmental reparations.
We may need to work ona unified world government to make this happen, otherwise corporations will relocate to Third World countries like Thailandm, Vietnam or India, like Nike has done, to get away from fair wage laws.
I think this is dangerous, just one more way the government is trying to rein in the computer industry.
The computer industry thrives on competition, anything interfering with that competition will hurt the computer industry.
Can you imagine what would have happened if Novell sued Microsoft for including non IPX protocols in Windows? We'd still be stuck running IPX intead of IP, forget about having an internet.
Can you imagine what would have happened in DEC had sued Novell over networking software? We'd still be stuck in the stone ages on networking, rampant competition is good for the consumer.
Linux sure hasn't needed any government help to battle Microsoft, eventually the free hand of the marketplace catches up with everyone, and then bitchslaps them.
If this government interference keeps up, I can only see the US computer industry being saddled and tied down with regulations and litigation fears, like Europes, and the quickest computer innovations will probabaly take place elsewhere, Japan probably, just like Gibson predicted.
Yes, really, some promised software projects never materialize, they're called vaporware.
If thery were trying to forestall competition, like a certain company in Seattle, it would be called FUD.
Or maybe they decided all the geeks who wantd to watch DVD;s on the Linux boxes had DecSS, in which we would be to blame.
It doesn't matter anyhow, I'd rather watch a DVD on my TV, with a beer and a bong in my hand, usign a $129 DVD player, rather than mucking about in front of my 15 inch monitor.
SO you take a great general purpose OS, Linux, and then stick it on expensive propietary hardware, a CISCO router, to replace the router-optimized OS already there.
Of course, a 486 running Freesco, a Linux derived firewall router, would probably have better performance and be far cheaper, but it's not as hackworthy.
Next week, a Linux router/firewall on a wristwatch, but you can't move your arm or your network will go down.
You probably didn't realize it, but wear and corrosion of automobile engines is one of the primary ways of adding iron (Fe) to the environment.
Everyone needs iron, hence the One a Day plus iron adds, but unless a plant is growing in iron rich soil, like the oolitiic hemattite in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, it may not get enough iron. For your garden, you could just use fertilized, but you can't fertilize an entire environment.
But when you drive, tiny iron fragments get scraped off your engine, out the exhaust pipe and into the atmostphere, provding iron to plants.
A science fiction book by Neil Stephenson about nano-tech and it's affect on society.
He apparently believes with nano-tech, America would turn into a Neo-Victorian British-aping society who would proceed to economocially subjugate China.
Sounds like Mr. Stephenson watched a few too many Merchant-Ivory films.
What would it cost to have a fingerprint scanner on each goverment computer.
I know when I co-oped for the Feds back in 1987, they took my fingerprints, so it's still probably policy to fingerprint each new employee.
Stick a little fingerprint reader on each workstation, and security gets a heck of a lot better (spare me the arguments about stealing or forging the fingerprint authentication file, I'm talking security against weak assualts).
Of course, when you have fingerprints of every person who worked for the Federal government, every criminal, and every welfare recipient, you have fingerprints on a big hunk of the country. All we need then is to fingerprint student loan borrrowers. Anyone know if the NSA has massive fingerprint recognition computers?
And once something has been proved to work for the Federal government, it's a much easier sell to get it into private industry. Who knows, we all may fingerprinted soon, in the name of better security. Bye bye rights. I think Voltaire said it best, those that would forgo a little freedom for security will soon have neither.
I thought that the professors needed a new down payment for a Porsche, so they add a few paragraphs, change the chapters around, and ask the publisher to make a new edition.
For shame, for shame, bringing commercialism into the sacred grove of academe.
Thankfully, there was nothing like this when I matriculated, and I was able to fully enjoy watching the Penn State Nittany Lions beat the Miami Hurricanes in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl while sipping my Budweiser under the alluring glance of my Free Bud-Girls poster.
Yeah, Gibson rocked in the 80's, when Japan was gonna rule the world, but has he written anything relevant since, or has he just kept on rewriting Neuromancer.
Plus, did he ever give a huge cut of his royalties to John Brunner's estate? Having just finished Stand on Zanziber, and adoring Shockwave Rider, al I can say is Brunner did it first and better.
Jon, read some science fiction that's been published in the last 5 years, (except for that miserable Benford Foundation book, yuck!)
I said India was a possibility, but India doesn't show the hubris that Singapore does. Plus, it would have to be in the very tip of India to make the Equator.
And what does Cryptonomicon have to do with anything, have you actually read it, or did you just glance at it? We've heard about you Americans and your reluctance to read big books.
Have you read Cryptonimicon? Stephenson nearly ejaculates an imperial pint of semen when he describes the Phillipines, alluding to the Phillipines as being the closest country to America in the far east. Whatever, I still wouldnb't build a space elevator there.
I like big books, Gravity's Rainbow is my favorite book, and it's quite big.
It has to be very near the equator, which really limits the places. You want to have a stable, reasonably high tech place that you can get to easily. I mean, you don't want to spend trillions of dollars to build it, and have it be destroyed in an uprising.
Looking at the equatorial slice, you have Central and the northern part of South America. That's close to the US, but the only country in that area that sounds somewhat reasaonable is Venezuela. I think they're stable, and at least somewhat technically clueful. A shame there aren't more, as close to the US is a major plus, since American will probablly pay for most of it.
Going East, we get to Africa. Enough said there, I wouldn't invest a significant amount in Africa until it gets more stable.
Further East is India and Sri Lanka. India would certainly be a possibility, they have high tech, they speak English.
Still further East is Singapore, Indonesia and the Phillipines. Shades of the Cryptonimicon. While Singapore has a harsh dictatorship, it is stable and high tech. Indonesia and the Phillipines have too many trouble.
Counting the votes, it looks like Singapore is it, which is a shame since they're so far from the US. Oh well, maybe the Asian tiger will rise again.
But you totally misread what I was saying, and colored it with your own experiences.
My daughter is frighteningly smart. She is four, and started our car yesterday. Just because she's physically capable of starting a car, should I let her drive? I don't blindly forbid her to do things, I explain why she can't.
If she was 13 and wanted an M-rated game, I might buy it for her (depends on the game). I would rather be the one deciding if it was appropriate for her or not, and if KMart forbid her from buying it, that gives me that power.
Honestly, I hope you have a good therapist, and are working through that anger.
I mean, I do watch over her (she's only 4 at the moment) but when she gets older, and has her own spending money, I'm not going to be able to watch over her shoulder all day and keep her from age inappropriate stuff.
I'm a little thankful that corporations are being a little more conscience of the effects on society of what they sell. If only advertisers would follow suit.
That being said, I am letting her mess around with Deer Hunter.
You share your specifications and propietary code with an overseas shop that has a much lower overhead than you.
As long as they don't try to Detroit you (ala Honda in the '70s) and produce a competing product that's cheaper and better, you should be fine.
You can make them sign a NDA, of course, and hope their foreign courts are more sympathetic to your interests than their own. And then hell will freeze over.
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I remember using the equivalent on an IBM mainframe in the 80's in college.
Of course, there were a lot fewer 13f's online.
What other OS has been gone through line by line to eliminate potential holes, flaws and buffer attacks?
OpenBSD, most secure OS out there.
Of course, export restrictions make it tough to get OpenBSD if you're in the US (Which is why they are based in Canada), but you can always smuggle a copy across the border, as long as you don't look like a terrorist.
but your thinking is fuzzy.
One of the biggest problems facing our environment is global warming due to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. We need to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions, and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Trees are very good at removing carbon dioxide, in fact, they are mostly carbon. Grow a tree, remove carbon dioxide. Make the tree into paper or bury it, just don't burn it.
And you can recycle paper too, just don't burn it.
Because without society, there would be no corporations.
They should be forced to pay a living way, pay for daycare and health benefits, and not pollute the environment.
Additionally, corporations that are particularly odious in raping Mother Earth, like those companies making the big gas sucking SUV's, should pay a penalty tax for environmental reparations.
We may need to work ona unified world government to make this happen, otherwise corporations will relocate to Third World countries like Thailandm, Vietnam or India, like Nike has done, to get away from fair wage laws.
I think this is dangerous, just one more way the government is trying to rein in the computer industry.
The computer industry thrives on competition, anything interfering with that competition will hurt the computer industry.
Can you imagine what would have happened if Novell sued Microsoft for including non IPX protocols in Windows? We'd still be stuck running IPX intead of IP, forget about having an internet.
Can you imagine what would have happened in DEC had sued Novell over networking software? We'd still be stuck in the stone ages on networking, rampant competition is good for the consumer.
Linux sure hasn't needed any government help to battle Microsoft, eventually the free hand of the marketplace catches up with everyone, and then bitchslaps them.
If this government interference keeps up, I can only see the US computer industry being saddled and tied down with regulations and litigation fears, like Europes, and the quickest computer innovations will probabaly take place elsewhere, Japan probably, just like Gibson predicted.
Yes, really, some promised software projects never materialize, they're called vaporware.
If thery were trying to forestall competition, like a certain company in Seattle, it would be called FUD.
Or maybe they decided all the geeks who wantd to watch DVD;s on the Linux boxes had DecSS, in which we would be to blame.
It doesn't matter anyhow, I'd rather watch a DVD on my TV, with a beer and a bong in my hand, usign a $129 DVD player, rather than mucking about in front of my 15 inch monitor.
SO you take a great general purpose OS, Linux, and then stick it on expensive propietary hardware, a CISCO router, to replace the router-optimized OS already there.
Of course, a 486 running Freesco, a Linux derived firewall router, would probably have better performance and be far cheaper, but it's not as hackworthy.
Next week, a Linux router/firewall on a wristwatch, but you can't move your arm or your network will go down.
You probably didn't realize it, but wear and corrosion of automobile engines is one of the primary ways of adding iron (Fe) to the environment.
Everyone needs iron, hence the One a Day plus iron adds, but unless a plant is growing in iron rich soil, like the oolitiic hemattite in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, it may not get enough iron. For your garden, you could just use fertilized, but you can't fertilize an entire environment.
But when you drive, tiny iron fragments get scraped off your engine, out the exhaust pipe and into the atmostphere, provding iron to plants.
Think about it.
That's a big part of the book I don't understand, either.
A science fiction book by Neil Stephenson about nano-tech and it's affect on society.
He apparently believes with nano-tech, America would turn into a Neo-Victorian British-aping society who would proceed to economocially subjugate China.
Sounds like Mr. Stephenson watched a few too many Merchant-Ivory films.
What would it cost to have a fingerprint scanner on each goverment computer.
I know when I co-oped for the Feds back in 1987, they took my fingerprints, so it's still probably policy to fingerprint each new employee.
Stick a little fingerprint reader on each workstation, and security gets a heck of a lot better (spare me the arguments about stealing or forging the fingerprint authentication file, I'm talking security against weak assualts).
Of course, when you have fingerprints of every person who worked for the Federal government, every criminal, and every welfare recipient, you have fingerprints on a big hunk of the country. All we need then is to fingerprint student loan borrrowers. Anyone know if the NSA has massive fingerprint recognition computers?
And once something has been proved to work for the Federal government, it's a much easier sell to get it into private industry. Who knows, we all may fingerprinted soon, in the name of better security. Bye bye rights. I think Voltaire said it best, those that would forgo a little freedom for security will soon have neither.
So use IRC. What's with those "messengers" anyway?
15F don't know enough to use IRC they have to use AOL chat.
Or so I've been told
heh-hehe
I thought that the professors needed a new down payment for a Porsche, so they add a few paragraphs, change the chapters around, and ask the publisher to make a new edition.
everyone wins then
oops, forgot my tags.
My point was, this is nothing new, colleges have always had advertising.
I will have to look for House of Leaves, it's on my Palm.
I just took issue with your statement that Gibson created a new form of science-fiction when I find his work very derivative of Brunner's in the 70's.
Take some Brunner, some PK Dick, mix in some PC magazine, voila, Gibson. Entertaining, somewhat provocative, but not as novel as Brunner of Dick was.
was that engineering students were easily accepted, while liberal arts majors had a harder time.
Though I spent too many times studying in the engineering library to enjoy it, while the liberal arts majors were partying across the street.
For shame, for shame, bringing commercialism into the sacred grove of academe.
Thankfully, there was nothing like this when I matriculated, and I was able to fully enjoy watching the Penn State Nittany Lions beat the Miami Hurricanes in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl while sipping my Budweiser under the alluring glance of my Free Bud-Girls poster.
Yeah, Gibson rocked in the 80's, when Japan was gonna rule the world, but has he written anything relevant since, or has he just kept on rewriting Neuromancer.
Plus, did he ever give a huge cut of his royalties to John Brunner's estate? Having just finished Stand on Zanziber, and adoring Shockwave Rider, al I can say is Brunner did it first and better.
Jon, read some science fiction that's been published in the last 5 years, (except for that miserable Benford Foundation book, yuck!)
Now the PC Slashdot mods are gonna nail your ass.
I hope your khamra can handle it.
What's your argument against India then?
I said India was a possibility, but India doesn't show the hubris that Singapore does. Plus, it would have to be in the very tip of India to make the Equator.
And what does Cryptonomicon have to do with anything, have you actually read it, or did you just glance at it? We've heard about you Americans and your reluctance to read big books.
Have you read Cryptonimicon? Stephenson nearly ejaculates an imperial pint of semen when he describes the Phillipines, alluding to the Phillipines as being the closest country to America in the far east. Whatever, I still wouldnb't build a space elevator there.
I like big books, Gravity's Rainbow is my favorite book, and it's quite big.
It has to be very near the equator, which really limits the places. You want to have a stable, reasonably high tech place that you can get to easily. I mean, you don't want to spend trillions of dollars to build it, and have it be destroyed in an uprising.
Looking at the equatorial slice, you have Central and the northern part of South America. That's close to the US, but the only country in that area that sounds somewhat reasaonable is Venezuela. I think they're stable, and at least somewhat technically clueful. A shame there aren't more, as close to the US is a major plus, since American will probablly pay for most of it.
Going East, we get to Africa. Enough said there, I wouldn't invest a significant amount in Africa until it gets more stable.
Further East is India and Sri Lanka. India would certainly be a possibility, they have high tech, they speak English.
Still further East is Singapore, Indonesia and the Phillipines. Shades of the Cryptonimicon. While Singapore has a harsh dictatorship, it is stable and high tech. Indonesia and the Phillipines have too many trouble.
Counting the votes, it looks like Singapore is it, which is a shame since they're so far from the US. Oh well, maybe the Asian tiger will rise again.
But you totally misread what I was saying, and colored it with your own experiences.
My daughter is frighteningly smart. She is four, and started our car yesterday. Just because she's physically capable of starting a car, should I let her drive? I don't blindly forbid her to do things, I explain why she can't.
If she was 13 and wanted an M-rated game, I might buy it for her (depends on the game). I would rather be the one deciding if it was appropriate for her or not, and if KMart forbid her from buying it, that gives me that power.
Honestly, I hope you have a good therapist, and are working through that anger.
I mean, I do watch over her (she's only 4 at the moment) but when she gets older, and has her own spending money, I'm not going to be able to watch over her shoulder all day and keep her from age inappropriate stuff.
I'm a little thankful that corporations are being a little more conscience of the effects on society of what they sell. If only advertisers would follow suit.
That being said, I am letting her mess around with Deer Hunter.
You share your specifications and propietary code with an overseas shop that has a much lower overhead than you.
As long as they don't try to Detroit you (ala Honda in the '70s) and produce a competing product that's cheaper and better, you should be fine.
You can make them sign a NDA, of course, and hope their foreign courts are more sympathetic to your interests than their own. And then hell will freeze over.
DO you want to skip college to be the Information Age equivalent of a line worker?
Or go to college to be the Information Age equivalent of an engineer?