Sure, you can tread the straight and narrow. But what if you could make in two screw-the-customer projects what you make in twenty honest contracts? Let's be honest here...no company will be put out of business by an exorbitant consulting fee...if the company's finances are that bad, they have other problems. It's rather like taking a casino's money...no one person loses, and you win...big. If you acquire a reputation, there are always greener pastures where people haven't heard of you.
I might not necessarily advocate this point of view, but there are certainly those out there that do.
I run four nameservers, and all four run BIND 8.2.2. I've always been aware of BIND's history of bugs, and BIND's history of having those bugs found and fixed quickly. I don't stay awake at nights worrying that someone is going to break in to my nameservers. However...if I'm not able to see the same information as everybody else, that's going to make me a lot more nervous about running BIND at my business. If this trend keeps up, I'll seriously look in to alternatives. However, it's not like ISC is going to lose money by my changing or anything. What do they care if they irk some random Unix sysadmin?
Parappa the Rapper was nothing more than a video-game Simple Simon. Don't know why it appealed to anyone...to call the gameplay "mindless" would be an understatement.
Then make it a crime to posess a camera blinder, just like it's illegal to posess a radar jammer. If there's a problem, make it a crime. Problem solved!
There is most certainly a night on the internet. Just look at any ISP's MRTG usage graphs...there's a pretty pronounced load during business hours and thereafter usage drops off until reaching practically nothing after midnight.
That old game is still around? And people actually play it? I remember playing it, the only reason to play was the combat...it was an exact ripoff of "Starfire", a great old game. I totally dug this game for a while because of the "Starfire" combat. The rest of the game was the pits, it was hard to move your units around, managing planets was tedious, you know, the usual stuff.
My nick is a very, very obscure Tolkien reference. The only other person I
ever met who knew what it meant spoke Elvish. It was delightfully obscure
until a year or two ago, when they came out with that #!%^%@! stupid
Middle-Earth clone of "Magic: The Gathering". One of the
prominently-featured cards featured my nick. I was horrified...I started
running in to people everywhere using my nick. For a while I couldn't get
on irc, even. I considered getting a new nick, but too many people knew me
by this for me to change. I was really ticked that a bunch of "Magic: The
Gathering"-playing gaywads got for free a cool name that took me much
study to find. I picked my nick specifically for its combination of
coolness and nobody-else-would-ever-find-this-edness. That, and the fact
that it started with "A"...my last name is far back in the alphabet and I
was tired of being last all the dang time.
You can't just up and move to whatever country you want to...Europe especially has extremely restrictive immigration laws that only allow very few people per year. The USA will pretty much take anyone (hint: claim that your government oppresses you, even if they don't) however.
I've always like SuSE, but I've always thought that/sbin/init.d was one of the most retarded places to put init scripts. I mean, come on.../sbin? That's for your statically linked system administrator's utilities.
Funny, I thought G.I. Joe was a foot-tall doll, not a series of miniature men dreamed up to be promoted by a television show to gullible kids who will buy anything that's on the air (beginning to sound like Pokemon yet?)
I bet, 10 years from now, there's some kid all "Dude, when I was a kid, my Vulvasaur kicked ass all over these lame-ass intelligent robot dogs like those kids have today..."
Not likely that an employer would just throw you into expensive, time-consuming language classes just so you can stay a year or two and then leave. If they're going to invest in you, they want you to pay off for a long time. The only way to work internationally is through personal contacts...realistically, it's simply impossible to do the resume/interview/hire cycle in a foreign country with no help, especially closed societies like Japan and Western Europe.
So, where's a server that I can join that's running this map? Or will it just get thrown in the rotation with the hundreds of other maps that look neat but are totally unsuitable for proper gaming.
I picked up a Nintendo Virtual Boy when Blockbuster Video was liquidating their stock of rental units. $29.99 and all the games in the bargain bin for $5. Every system Nintendo makes they dust off the old crappy Mario Tennis and sell it for the same price as the real cartridges that are actually fun. Of course, in the Virtual Boy's case, there weren't many. It was a cool idea, though.
An Aibo is not a substitute for a real dog. I'm surprised anyone would think of it as so. It's just a toy with a few programmed behaviors, closer to a Tamagotchi with legs than any kind of actual pet. It's really, really expensive, as well...it would probably be the most expensive breakable item in the house. I just don't see an Aibo as being suitable for a child, but hell, I guess if you can afford one Aibo, what's the big deal about buying a second when the first one breaks.
I certainly don't remember the Omnibot being a big deal. It was around, certainly, but it wasn't an everybody-had-one kind of thing. Wasn't it mostly a glorified cassette player? I don't remember how much one cost, (here's how much they're going for on ebay) though I do remember the Omnibot was aimed at the general consumer...unlike the Aibo which is an item reserved exclusively for the enjoyment of the wealthy.
I always thought the term "bake-off" when applied to software was a particularly egregious malforming of a previously well-understood phrase. It's just the kind of flip, ignorant re-use of a halfway-misunderstood phrase that pollutes the meaning for everybody. The guys who decided to give the word 'widget' an actual meaning as opposed being a metasyntactic variable also fall into this category of miscreants.
Sounds like you'd be better off with an Enterprise 250 or 450. These el cheapo Netras are not aimed any anyone who needs SCSI, or RAID, or multiple CPUs. Check out the rest of Sun's product line, and throw that Compaq in the trash.
While security through obscurity may work for you, it certainly scale well. That is, when doing things on the industrial or national level, relying on security through obscurity simply does not work. A thorough, public peer review process is necessary for any reliable security solution that is going stand the test of time.
Note that Blackbeard the pirate ensured his security through obscurity by murder. Not the most enlightening example. And I noticed above, you publicly admit the name of the site you're supposedly closemouthed about. What happened to not talking about security? I'll have to give that subnet a quick scan, to see if any simple, dumb mistakes were made by one set of eyes that could be uncovered by many eyes.
Security through obscurity just plain doesn't work.
The 747 looked on radar rather quite like the American reconnaisance planes that quite regularly would cross the border just a tad, and then record what happened as the Soviet interceptors scrambled to defend their homeland. When a fighter got anywhere near incursion point the American would be long gone. The Sovs just thought they finally caught one of the American planes, when they actually blew up an airliner (they didn't even bother to call the plane on the radio first).
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As it should be.
I might not necessarily advocate this point of view, but there are certainly those out there that do.
I run four nameservers, and all four run BIND 8.2.2. I've always been aware of BIND's history of bugs, and BIND's history of having those bugs found and fixed quickly. I don't stay awake at nights worrying that someone is going to break in to my nameservers. However...if I'm not able to see the same information as everybody else, that's going to make me a lot more nervous about running BIND at my business. If this trend keeps up, I'll seriously look in to alternatives. However, it's not like ISC is going to lose money by my changing or anything. What do they care if they irk some random Unix sysadmin?
Parappa the Rapper was nothing more than a video-game Simple Simon. Don't know why it appealed to anyone...to call the gameplay "mindless" would be an understatement.
Then make it a crime to posess a camera blinder, just like it's illegal to posess a radar jammer. If there's a problem, make it a crime. Problem solved!
There is most certainly a night on the internet. Just look at any ISP's MRTG usage graphs...there's a pretty pronounced load during business hours and thereafter usage drops off until reaching practically nothing after midnight.
That old game is still around? And people actually play it? I remember playing it, the only reason to play was the combat...it was an exact ripoff of "Starfire", a great old game. I totally dug this game for a while because of the "Starfire" combat. The rest of the game was the pits, it was hard to move your units around, managing planets was tedious, you know, the usual stuff.
My nick is a very, very obscure Tolkien reference. The only other person I ever met who knew what it meant spoke Elvish. It was delightfully obscure until a year or two ago, when they came out with that #!%^%@! stupid Middle-Earth clone of "Magic: The Gathering". One of the prominently-featured cards featured my nick. I was horrified...I started running in to people everywhere using my nick. For a while I couldn't get on irc, even. I considered getting a new nick, but too many people knew me by this for me to change. I was really ticked that a bunch of "Magic: The Gathering"-playing gaywads got for free a cool name that took me much study to find. I picked my nick specifically for its combination of coolness and nobody-else-would-ever-find-this-edness. That, and the fact that it started with "A"...my last name is far back in the alphabet and I was tired of being last all the dang time.
You can't just up and move to whatever country you want to...Europe especially has extremely restrictive immigration laws that only allow very few people per year. The USA will pretty much take anyone (hint: claim that your government oppresses you, even if they don't) however.
Nah. He's real. Now ahem, that's a dumb-sounding name.
Since when do other countries respect American patents? Good luck suing some third-world country company that stole your company's ideas.
If you ran a distro, would you have shipped the 2.2.0 kernel as soon as it was availible?
I've always like SuSE, but I've always thought that /sbin/init.d was one of the most retarded places to put init scripts. I mean, come on.../sbin? That's for your statically linked system administrator's utilities.
I bet, 10 years from now, there's some kid all "Dude, when I was a kid, my Vulvasaur kicked ass all over these lame-ass intelligent robot dogs like those kids have today..."
Not likely that an employer would just throw you into expensive, time-consuming language classes just so you can stay a year or two and then leave. If they're going to invest in you, they want you to pay off for a long time. The only way to work internationally is through personal contacts...realistically, it's simply impossible to do the resume/interview/hire cycle in a foreign country with no help, especially closed societies like Japan and Western Europe.
Some day, you'll thank me...
So, where's a server that I can join that's running this map? Or will it just get thrown in the rotation with the hundreds of other maps that look neat but are totally unsuitable for proper gaming.
I picked up a Nintendo Virtual Boy when Blockbuster Video was liquidating their stock of rental units. $29.99 and all the games in the bargain bin for $5. Every system Nintendo makes they dust off the old crappy Mario Tennis and sell it for the same price as the real cartridges that are actually fun. Of course, in the Virtual Boy's case, there weren't many. It was a cool idea, though.
An Aibo is not a substitute for a real dog. I'm surprised anyone would think of it as so. It's just a toy with a few programmed behaviors, closer to a Tamagotchi with legs than any kind of actual pet. It's really, really expensive, as well...it would probably be the most expensive breakable item in the house. I just don't see an Aibo as being suitable for a child, but hell, I guess if you can afford one Aibo, what's the big deal about buying a second when the first one breaks.
I certainly don't remember the Omnibot being a big deal. It was around, certainly, but it wasn't an everybody-had-one kind of thing. Wasn't it mostly a glorified cassette player? I don't remember how much one cost, (here's how much they're going for on ebay) though I do remember the Omnibot was aimed at the general consumer...unlike the Aibo which is an item reserved exclusively for the enjoyment of the wealthy.
I always thought the term "bake-off" when applied to software was a particularly egregious malforming of a previously well-understood phrase. It's just the kind of flip, ignorant re-use of a halfway-misunderstood phrase that pollutes the meaning for everybody. The guys who decided to give the word 'widget' an actual meaning as opposed being a metasyntactic variable also fall into this category of miscreants.
The Mr. Potato Head Foot Massager has nothing on the legendary Hello Kitty Vibrator.
Sounds like you'd be better off with an Enterprise 250 or 450. These el cheapo Netras are not aimed any anyone who needs SCSI, or RAID, or multiple CPUs. Check out the rest of Sun's product line, and throw that Compaq in the trash.
Note that Blackbeard the pirate ensured his security through obscurity by murder. Not the most enlightening example. And I noticed above, you publicly admit the name of the site you're supposedly closemouthed about. What happened to not talking about security? I'll have to give that subnet a quick scan, to see if any simple, dumb mistakes were made by one set of eyes that could be uncovered by many eyes.
Security through obscurity just plain doesn't work.
The 747 looked on radar rather quite like the American reconnaisance planes that quite regularly would cross the border just a tad, and then record what happened as the Soviet interceptors scrambled to defend their homeland. When a fighter got anywhere near incursion point the American would be long gone. The Sovs just thought they finally caught one of the American planes, when they actually blew up an airliner (they didn't even bother to call the plane on the radio first).