The US says that pennies are acceptible forms of payment. I went to a block buster and a big sign said "5 day rentals". Turns out they really meant 4 1/2 so I had to pay a late fee. They have a history of deception, so they deserve to pay. Why print a big sign or a big ad, when reality is slightly different.
So I paid in pennies and counted very slowly and very loudly and never went back. When interrupted, I started the count over. End of relationship with these slimeballs.
This makes me thing of "Animal Farm" as the constitution gets slowly changed. Let's see what can be done with this in doublespeak:
"Do no evil" equals "Do no wrong." "Do no wrong" equals "We do no wrong." "We do no wrong" equals "We always do right." "We always do right." equals "We Rape, Pillage and Destroy, because everything we do is right. You got something to say about it!?"
I've got a photo at home of a statue of Sophia. The camera caught a lens flare off the top of her head going towards heaven. I thought it was a wonderful lens effect I couldn't have made if I tried. I think it's either an unusual lens flare, or as another poster mentioned, an insect flying near the lens out of the focal range.
Shawn
If I understand the review correctly: development methodology, platform, language are all far distant seconds to the politics of social group interaction. Or another way, any chance of success is easily spoiled by a few bad apples. This is a fundamental facet of development that language and methodology advocates usually fail to mention.
I usually hear things like, if we all just did 'x' then our problems would be solved. Problem is given a large enough group, say about 3 or more, they'll almost never all do 'x'. This applies to all utopian solutions of this form.
Communication between secret partners has been one of the most undefeatable stratgies in cards for a long time. Didn't take a computer to figure that out. Someone just figured out how to do in the rules given for this competition.
When I lived in New Orleans, I just took skater-punk stickers that looked like voodou symbols and put them all around the windows. Nobody ever messed with my car after that. Of course, you have to live in a superstitious neighborhood for that to be effective. -- Sign I saw in Texas: "Tresspassers will be hexed."
I was admitted for severe breathing difficulties and chest pain. This put me on the heart attack route. Turned out to be a rare form of asthma. While I set in a bed on oxygen, I looked up to watch my heart monitor flat-line. The crash cart crew runs in with all the resucitation equipment and my heart monitor starts beating again. They give me weird looks and examine me up an down to see that I'm doing great on the oxygen. This happens a second time. About 10 minutes later the hospital IS staff show up and examine it, and he says, "Aha, yours is set on the network to show the guy next door."
He leaves and I hear the crash cart go whizzing by my door.
Networked critical care systems are a bad idea--except to report a central monitoring station. Windows is an even worse idea. Why this kind of crap is tolerated is beyond me.
Okay, it's fine that you don't agree with me, but the rock in the middle has a spiral shell appearance--looks like a fossil. Also note the circular items scattered through the image (could be jpg artifacts, but I doubt it).
I scan the raw feeds from Mars regulary. I ran across the following image: Mars Photo. Now if that doesn't significantly improve the odds of life on Mars I don't know what does.
Yes there is good reasons to have Java/ActiveX on a web page. E.g. on an internal private network, where you have trusted users and want things like signature pads uploading signatures to a database. Or how about on a public network, there is a wonderful tool to trace a route with a cool picture of the globe (but this is done without violating network security).
With Java you have to actively accept the dismantling of security, if someone clicks yes to trusting an unknown source then they will get an ugly lesson in trusted computing. With ActiveX it comes out of the box with no security and one has to actively enable security. Given the majority of home users are never going to do this, and the majority are using Windows, a massive ripe resource for worms/viruses/spammers exist. Active X suffers from fundamental security flaws, and is going to cost Microsoft a lot to fix the damage to reputation and loss of customers.
It may be more complex, but it works damn well. Squeezing an extra 30-40% out of my laptop doing disk i/o has been really worth it. Especially since I've been editing and processing 600M files on it lately.
I went to a job interview recently. Upon arriving at the city dump, I double checked my directions. Yep, right address. My gut instict was to immediately run. I didn't, I poked around till I found this little office building on the edge of the dump (2 car lengths to the pit). It wasn't on dump property, but butted up against it's line. I went into the office to see little green tree air fresheners hanging everywhere. I asked at the desk for the person I was to interview with. He came out and I shook his hand. Then he announced that I had mispronounced his name, and proceeded to make red marks all over a pad. The interview went downhill from there with him telling me how stupid I was that I couldn't answer any of his questions properly. The real surprise was the job offer arriving, apparently I was the only one who actually showed up after seeing the location.
I can remember hacking away on a box I thought was a testing box, when it was a production box. When I typed, "reboot" and hit enter there were screams all through the building.
As a runner up, I created a set of object oriented macros for C (pre C++). Now that was a disaster. Just try debugging macros of macros of macros of macros of macros of macros.
Then, once a stock is rising, it usually drags investors in. Definitely the dumb kind ("oh, it's going up. Must buy"), often the smarter kind, who plan on selling it again as soon as it shows signs of dropping.
An investor once told me, Some stocks are just an expensive game of chicken.
The parallels are interesting. Jesus advocated open access to religion. Linux users advocate open source as a religion. Jesus got nailed up for the idea, it rested control from a large religious institution. It was a revolution in thought. Open source begins removing control in several areas from large corporations. The problem is they can't figure out who to nail up. SCO's giving it a go, but that 800-lb gorrilla is proving very hard to corner.
The DMCA is nothing more than a club to provide additional leverage (via punishment) for copyright violations.
That was it's stated intent. But what it's being used for is another story. It's a club that's being swung in all directions knocking people down right and left for ligit activities. Did Skylarov crack eBooks for the purpose of bootlegging? No he did it with the stated purpose of creating backup copies. And how much did the garage door company have to pay during the lawsuit? The bootleggers aren't slowed much by the DMCA--they just make straight copies-- encryption and all. It's those who circumvent control, that are getting hit with the club.
If an engineer wants to make it clear to a banker why they shouldn't use Embedded XP on an ATM, he has to learn to speak in a language that a banker understands. There is common ground here, it's called security. Bankers are usually keen to listen to suggestions about security.
Here's a suggested analogy, ask a banker if he will publish detailed blueprints of the bank, and it's security systems. Using an off the shelf OS with default ports open is equivalent to this. Security through obscurity isn't true security, but it sure cuts down on script-kiddie hacks and common internet worms.
Consider the issue of DRM-enabled music from the perspective of someone who doesn't download illegal music, but who has a mix of devices (home stereo, desktop PC with CD player, MP3 player, laptop PC, car CD stacker,...) that they use to listen to music. At a guess, there are quite a few people who fall into this category.
You neglected to mention the compatibility issues between devices. For example, most DRM scheme don't allow for device chaining. I.e. Cable -> TiVo -> VCR -> TV. So a legal user with a mix of devices quickly finds he can use them all at the same time or in a serial setup. The DRM literature says this won't happen, but I'd like someone to tell me how one can have DRM and not have this restricted.
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The US says that pennies are acceptible forms of payment. I went to a block buster and a big sign said "5 day rentals". Turns out they really meant 4 1/2 so I had to pay a late fee. They have a history of deception, so they deserve to pay. Why print a big sign or a big ad, when reality is slightly different. So I paid in pennies and counted very slowly and very loudly and never went back. When interrupted, I started the count over. End of relationship with these slimeballs.
As a poster for Star Wars II said many moons ago: "I await the new movie with all the anticipation of a communist election."
MindStalker said: Google's motto is do no wrong.
I thought it was "Do no evil."
This makes me thing of "Animal Farm" as the constitution gets slowly changed. Let's see what can be done with this in doublespeak:
New cheap replacements for all those tin-foil hats. Easy application!
I've got a photo at home of a statue of Sophia. The camera caught a lens flare off the top of her head going towards heaven. I thought it was a wonderful lens effect I couldn't have made if I tried. I think it's either an unusual lens flare, or as another poster mentioned, an insect flying near the lens out of the focal range. Shawn
If I understand the review correctly: development methodology, platform, language are all far distant seconds to the politics of social group interaction. Or another way, any chance of success is easily spoiled by a few bad apples. This is a fundamental facet of development that language and methodology advocates usually fail to mention.
I usually hear things like, if we all just did 'x' then our problems would be solved. Problem is given a large enough group, say about 3 or more, they'll almost never all do 'x'. This applies to all utopian solutions of this form.
Communication between secret partners has been one of the most undefeatable stratgies in cards for a long time. Didn't take a computer to figure that out. Someone just figured out how to do in the rules given for this competition.
When I lived in New Orleans, I just took skater-punk stickers that looked like voodou symbols and put them all around the windows. Nobody ever messed with my car after that. Of course, you have to live in a superstitious neighborhood for that to be effective.
--
Sign I saw in Texas: "Tresspassers will be hexed."
This happened to me in a hospital:
I was admitted for severe breathing difficulties and chest pain. This put me on the heart attack route. Turned out to be a rare form of asthma. While I set in a bed on oxygen, I looked up to watch my heart monitor flat-line. The crash cart crew runs in with all the resucitation equipment and my heart monitor starts beating again. They give me weird looks and examine me up an down to see that I'm doing great on the oxygen. This happens a second time. About 10 minutes later the hospital IS staff show up and examine it, and he says, "Aha, yours is set on the network to show the guy next door."
He leaves and I hear the crash cart go whizzing by my door.
Networked critical care systems are a bad idea--except to report a central monitoring station. Windows is an even worse idea. Why this kind of crap is tolerated is beyond me.
ShawnOkay, it's fine that you don't agree with me, but the rock in the middle has a spiral shell appearance--looks like a fossil. Also note the circular items scattered through the image (could be jpg artifacts, but I doubt it).
I scan the raw feeds from Mars regulary. I ran across the following image: Mars Photo. Now if that doesn't significantly improve the odds of life on Mars I don't know what does.
Yes there is good reasons to have Java/ActiveX on a web page. E.g. on an internal private network, where you have trusted users and want things like signature pads uploading signatures to a database. Or how about on a public network, there is a wonderful tool to trace a route with a cool picture of the globe (but this is done without violating network security).
With Java you have to actively accept the dismantling of security, if someone clicks yes to trusting an unknown source then they will get an ugly lesson in trusted computing. With ActiveX it comes out of the box with no security and one has to actively enable security. Given the majority of home users are never going to do this, and the majority are using Windows, a massive ripe resource for worms/viruses/spammers exist. Active X suffers from fundamental security flaws, and is going to cost Microsoft a lot to fix the damage to reputation and loss of customers.
This was pulled from an OS X discussion group:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RedirectMatch permanent (.*)cmd.exe(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com
RedirectMatch permanent (.*)root.exe(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com
RedirectMatch permanent (.*)\/_vti_bin\/(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com
RedirectMatch permanent (.*)\/scripts\/\.\.(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com
RedirectMatch permanent (.*)\/_mem_bin\/(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com
RedirectMatch permanent (.*)\/msadc\/(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com
RedirectMatch permanent (.*)\/MSADC\/(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com
RedirectMatch permanent (.*)\/c\/winnt\/(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com
RedirectMatch permanent (.*)\/d\/winnt\/(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com
RedirectMatch permanent (.*)\/x90\/(.*)$ http://www.microsoft.com
</IfModule>
er...5 billion people is quite an isolated market
The current Chinese population is around 1.3 billion. It does not include everyone on Earth.
I, for one, welcome our new Chinese overlords.Yep, one back block and there went a whole partition. I swore off Reiser after that incident.
It may be more complex, but it works damn well. Squeezing an extra 30-40% out of my laptop doing disk i/o has been really worth it. Especially since I've been editing and processing 600M files on it lately.
I just keep flushing the toilet hoping the water will eventually run clean. Maybe I need to check my intake water...
I went to a job interview recently. Upon arriving at the city dump, I double checked my directions. Yep, right address. My gut instict was to immediately run. I didn't, I poked around till I found this little office building on the edge of the dump (2 car lengths to the pit). It wasn't on dump property, but butted up against it's line. I went into the office to see little green tree air fresheners hanging everywhere. I asked at the desk for the person I was to interview with. He came out and I shook his hand. Then he announced that I had mispronounced his name, and proceeded to make red marks all over a pad. The interview went downhill from there with him telling me how stupid I was that I couldn't answer any of his questions properly. The real surprise was the job offer arriving, apparently I was the only one who actually showed up after seeing the location.
I can remember hacking away on a box I thought was a testing box, when it was a production box. When I typed, "reboot" and hit enter there were screams all through the building.
As a runner up, I created a set of object oriented macros for C (pre C++). Now that was a disaster. Just try debugging macros of macros of macros of macros of macros of macros.
Then, once a stock is rising, it usually drags investors in. Definitely the dumb kind ("oh, it's going up. Must buy"), often the smarter kind, who plan on selling it again as soon as it shows signs of dropping.
An investor once told me, Some stocks are just an expensive game of chicken.
The parallels are interesting. Jesus advocated open access to religion. Linux users advocate open source as a religion. Jesus got nailed up for the idea, it rested control from a large religious institution. It was a revolution in thought. Open source begins removing control in several areas from large corporations. The problem is they can't figure out who to nail up. SCO's giving it a go, but that 800-lb gorrilla is proving very hard to corner.
The DMCA is nothing more than a club to provide additional leverage (via punishment) for copyright violations.
That was it's stated intent. But what it's being used for is another story. It's a club that's being swung in all directions knocking people down right and left for ligit activities. Did Skylarov crack eBooks for the purpose of bootlegging? No he did it with the stated purpose of creating backup copies. And how much did the garage door company have to pay during the lawsuit? The bootleggers aren't slowed much by the DMCA--they just make straight copies-- encryption and all. It's those who circumvent control, that are getting hit with the club.
<sarcasm>Come on now, as any slashdot reader knows, BSD is dead.</sarcasm>
LONG LIVE BSD!
--Mod me up, mod me down, they're your points to waste...
If an engineer wants to make it clear to a banker why they shouldn't use Embedded XP on an ATM, he has to learn to speak in a language that a banker understands. There is common ground here, it's called security. Bankers are usually keen to listen to suggestions about security.
Here's a suggested analogy, ask a banker if he will publish detailed blueprints of the bank, and it's security systems. Using an off the shelf OS with default ports open is equivalent to this. Security through obscurity isn't true security, but it sure cuts down on script-kiddie hacks and common internet worms.
Consider the issue of DRM-enabled music from the perspective of someone who doesn't download illegal music, but who has a mix of devices (home stereo, desktop PC with CD player, MP3 player, laptop PC, car CD stacker, ...) that they use to listen to music. At a guess, there are quite a few people who fall into this category.
You neglected to mention the compatibility issues between devices. For example, most DRM scheme don't allow for device chaining. I.e. Cable -> TiVo -> VCR -> TV. So a legal user with a mix of devices quickly finds he can use them all at the same time or in a serial setup. The DRM literature says this won't happen, but I'd like someone to tell me how one can have DRM and not have this restricted.