Well, ok, I had an OpenBSD firewall for awhile. Real fun to set up, got to play with the two flavors of packet filter they've had, and I had the extra fun of patching it periodically. But I finally said screw it, and bought a $39 NetGear firewall box. Way quieter, way less work, and I haven't been hacked yet. I still run antivirus and anti-spyware software on all my Windows boxen as well, and keep them patched, but I don't screw with the firewall at all. OpenBSD is just dandy if hours of your time is worth less than $39.
He is certainly ambitious. But compare what he has done to get restitution for consumers to what the Federal govt. has done. He has been way more aggressive than the SEC in going after finacial malfeasance. He got over a billion dollar settlement with Wall St. for issuing research reports that pumped up dodgy dot-com companies during the boom, for example. So I think he is effective, in fact he's been actually restoring the balance of power between citizens and corporations, which, believe me, is not even on Bush's agenda, quite the opposite.
So? It's a block cipher, and it has a secret key. This is not a weakness if you use it in the way it is intended to be used. Such a cipher presumes that you have you have appropriate protection for the key (which could be stored in a secure hardware device, for example) and use a secure key exchange mechanism (such as Diffie-Hellman) if you are using it over a transport layer.
Agree. All the noise seems to come from people who are not familiar with Nasdaq. To take another example, WebMethods (ticker: WEBM) was delisted a while back but they are back in compliance as of today and are listed again. It was embarrassing but not fatal: they remained in business throughout.
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This is actually good advice for buyers.
As a seller, though, I didn't accept Paypal from a credit card - because a seller is on the hook if there is a chargeback due to fraud. Now, though, Paypal tells me accepting credit cards is no longer optional. And this is good for me how?
My dad did this - started taking me to a University of California library when I was 14 or so - they wouldn't give me a card, so he went with me and checked out stuff for me, anything I wanted. When I was 16 I took a math course there while still in high school, and I also managed to wrangle a computer account at the university, which allowed me to learn some programming. My dad also took me to the physics colloquium at Caltech, which at the time I didn't hardly understand at all, but I wound up going there later as a student.
I don't really understand why people tailgate. Lots of people argue that driving 85 or faster is really safe, which I don't agree with, but on a clear day with a good road and good car is maybe plausible. But then it seem like half the speeders are tailgaiting, too, which certainly isn't safe, unless they've found a way to repeal the laws of physics. These are people that haven't been involved in a rear end collision.. yet.
However, I'm not inclined to aggravate other drivers even if they are driving unsafely. Some of them have guns, or are wack jobs, or both. You never know.
I have a pretty good basic digital camera but am about to go to digital SLR, mainly because taking good shots of a moving object (like my kid) is about impossible with a standard digital camera. They have an ISO of about 50.. you can push it up but image quality will rapidly suffer. Digital SLRs apparently do much better here, and can take reasonably low-noise images up to ISO 800 or better (ISO is a measure of film "speed" - of course there is no film here, but higher is faster, and means less light needed to capture an image, so the shutter can be open a smaller length of time and capture a moving object more precisely).
Large corporate applications like PeopleSoft are complex - it is not something a couple of guys can knock out in a year. Some apps are tightly tailored to particular industries, but even so, purchasers need a lot of customization to make the software work for them. So it's not a "write it once, use everywhere" piece of software like the Linux kernel. Plus, a lot of companies who buy this stuff are not software experts - that's not what their business does. So writing their own solution is not an attractive option. They want to sell more widgets, which is what they know about, not set up a software development shop and compete with the likes of Oracle and PeopleSoft.
Sorry, but Tivo reliability sucks too. Mine spontaneously reboots at random intervals. Also I had the hard drive die and had to replace it. It's a computer really and I expect computers to act like this, but I suspect a lot of their customers expect to plug it in, set it up once and have it keep working.
I'd be glad if Comcast rolled out their own competing box because another issue is keeping the Tivo box synched when Comcast changes their channel lineup. Hopefully if you had one vendor for DVR and programming this would be more automated.
>only good thing about Bush is that the Republican presidents have generally been less effective at curtailing our civil rights than have the Democratic ones.
The machines running the P-system in firmware never caught on. They were expensive and proprietary - the ones I know about had a very limited production run before they were discontinued. They ran a special version of the P-system. Most people at UCSD (myself included) ran the P-system on the University's Terak microcomputers, a very early pre-IBM PC beast with 8 inch floppies.
While I really, really don't like the war on drugs, and think the propaganda that lumps all illegal drugs together as equally bad is just stupid, heroin is dangerous stuff. I recently finished this book, which is a great cautionary tale - read it to the end and see how many of the multiple hard drug users mentioned wind up in a happy ending.
Umm, Enron wasn't a small business.. But even large businesses are often banking their tax breaks, or using a windfall to fund acquisitions (which result in layoffs), rather than creating jobs, as reported in today's Wall Street Journal, page one.
When you give small business people extra money (through tax breaks), what makes the administration think they will go out and hire someone with the $$$? Maybe they'll take a trip to Bermuda and spend it there. The Bushies have been using job creation as the excuse for all kinds of regressive tax policies. If they want to create jobs maybe they should incentivize job creation, instead of just handing out tax breaks to every rich person and hoping they cause some hiring. (The other argument Bush made in the debate was that we needed the tax cuts to get out of recession and respond to 9/11 - but that doesn't jibe with his attempts to make them permanent).
> they are generally people who invest their bank's money
Investment bankers facilitate a variety of financial transactions for their clients - these could include sale of all or part of the business, arranging a merger or acquisition, or raising cash through a bond, IPO, or secondary stock offering. In many cases the investment bank is acting as a middleman in the transaction and collecting fees - they may not be investing their own funds.
Three Mile Island did a lot to cool enthusiasm for new nuclear plants. But even if you believe they're safe, there is still the issue that the real costs of a nuclear plant are not paid by the utilities that run plants. If they had to buy insurance to cover the risks of damage to life & property from an accident, and if they had to bear the full costs of disposing of spent fuel, then nobody would built plants because it would be uneconomical.
Agree with the recommendation. Farmer was a pioneer in bringing AIDS treatment to third-world patients, in Haiti and elsewhere. His organization has also been very active in treating multi-drug resistant TB, especially in Russia, where it's a big problem. I've been sending Partners in Health regular donations for several years. Hopefully the book will make them better known. They spend very little on fundraising or PR, so they haven't until now had very much visibility.
I actually like the social policy aspects of Libertarianism (e.g. ending the war on drugs) better than the economic aspects. Every time we have a local election, the Libertarians write ballot arguments opposing all tax and bond measures. Sewer bond? Vote no. Parcel tax for libraries? Vote no. How they plan to fund public services is really a mystery to me. I don't like taxes either, but I like flush toilets, and I'd like the library to stay open.
> See Copeland's book The Inmates Are Running The
Asylum for a wonderful look at the main issue
facing ERP vendors today.
It's Alan Cooper, not Copeland.
The speed limit is dynamic, at least in California: it's illegal to drive at an unsafe speed. Ice on the road, or foggy - means drive slower. But you don't ever get a pass to drive faster than the posted speed limit. Which, frankly, I am happy enough about having at 65mph - it's getting to be rare that anybody obeys it, but I don't feel very safe cruising at 85mph, or particularly sure that the other people doing are safe & sane.. for one thing, they usually also seem to be tailgating.
IMO the main reason to program in a "safe" language is not to cut the coding cycle but to cut the debugging and maintainence costs. You can't leak memory in Java or stomp on pointers (well, you can, but it's hard..). So you don't spend time finding the leaks and overruns, and you don't get angry customers who find them for you. Do you really want to do more bug fixing?
I also dispute that Java coders are generally less skilled. You get the same spectrum of skill in Java you have in other languages. I know guys who are Java wizards and are maybe 15x more productive in the language than your average coder. Plus they know all the latest features: generics, NIO, enums, annotations, etc.
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Well, ok, I had an OpenBSD firewall for awhile. Real fun to set up, got to play with the two flavors of packet filter they've had, and I had the extra fun of patching it periodically. But I finally said screw it, and bought a $39 NetGear firewall box. Way quieter, way less work, and I haven't been hacked yet. I still run antivirus and anti-spyware software on all my Windows boxen as well, and keep them patched, but I don't screw with the firewall at all. OpenBSD is just dandy if hours of your time is worth less than $39.
He is certainly ambitious. But compare what he has done to get restitution for consumers to what the Federal govt. has done. He has been way more aggressive than the SEC in going after finacial malfeasance. He got over a billion dollar settlement with Wall St. for issuing research reports that pumped up dodgy dot-com companies during the boom, for example. So I think he is effective, in fact he's been actually restoring the balance of power between citizens and corporations, which, believe me, is not even on Bush's agenda, quite the opposite.
So? It's a block cipher, and it has a secret key. This is not a weakness if you use it in the way it is intended to be used. Such a cipher presumes that you have you have appropriate protection for the key (which could be stored in a secure hardware device, for example) and use a secure key exchange mechanism (such as Diffie-Hellman) if you are using it over a transport layer.
Agree. All the noise seems to come from people who are not familiar with Nasdaq. To take another example, WebMethods (ticker: WEBM) was delisted a while back but they are back in compliance as of today and are listed again. It was embarrassing but not fatal: they remained in business throughout.
Not hardly.
Oracle SE One Database - $149 per user. Dell will sell you a server plus database pre-installed for about $5500.
2004 Ferrari Modena : $150K and up.
This is actually good advice for buyers.
As a seller, though, I didn't accept Paypal from a credit card - because a seller is on the hook if there is a chargeback due to fraud. Now, though, Paypal tells me accepting credit cards is no longer optional. And this is good for me how?
My dad did this - started taking me to a University of California library when I was 14 or so - they wouldn't give me a card, so he went with me and checked out stuff for me, anything I wanted. When I was 16 I took a math course there while still in high school, and I also managed to wrangle a computer account at the university, which allowed me to learn some programming. My dad also took me to the physics colloquium at Caltech, which at the time I didn't hardly understand at all, but I wound up going there later as a student.
I don't really understand why people tailgate. Lots of people argue that driving 85 or faster is really safe, which I don't agree with, but on a clear day with a good road and good car is maybe plausible. But then it seem like half the speeders are tailgaiting, too, which certainly isn't safe, unless they've found a way to repeal the laws of physics. These are people that haven't been involved in a rear end collision .. yet.
However, I'm not inclined to aggravate other drivers even if they are driving unsafely. Some of them have guns, or are wack jobs, or both. You never know.
I have a pretty good basic digital camera but am about to go to digital SLR, mainly because taking good shots of a moving object (like my kid) is about impossible with a standard digital camera. They have an ISO of about 50 .. you can push it up but image quality will rapidly suffer. Digital SLRs apparently do much better here, and can take reasonably low-noise images up to ISO 800 or better (ISO is a measure of film "speed" - of course there is no film here, but higher is faster, and means less light needed to capture an image, so the shutter can be open a smaller length of time and capture a moving object more precisely).
Large corporate applications like PeopleSoft are complex - it is not something a couple of guys can knock out in a year. Some apps are tightly tailored to particular industries, but even so, purchasers need a lot of customization to make the software work for them.
So it's not a "write it once, use everywhere" piece of software like the Linux kernel. Plus, a lot of companies who buy this stuff are not software experts - that's not what their business does. So writing their own solution is not an attractive option. They want to sell more widgets, which is what they know about, not set up a software development shop and compete with the likes of Oracle and PeopleSoft.
Sorry, but Tivo reliability sucks too. Mine spontaneously reboots at random intervals. Also I had the hard drive die and had to replace it. It's a computer really and I expect computers to act like this, but I suspect a lot of their customers expect to plug it in, set it up once and have it keep working.
I'd be glad if Comcast rolled out their own competing box because another issue is keeping the Tivo box synched when Comcast changes their channel lineup. Hopefully if you had one vendor for DVR and programming this would be more automated.
>only good thing about Bush is that the Republican presidents have generally been less effective at curtailing our civil rights than have the Democratic ones.
Huh? Can you say "Patriot Act"?
The machines running the P-system in firmware never caught on. They were expensive and proprietary - the ones I know about had a very limited production run before they were discontinued. They ran a special version of the P-system. Most people at UCSD (myself included) ran the P-system on the University's Terak microcomputers, a very early pre-IBM PC beast with 8 inch floppies.
While I really, really don't like the war on drugs, and think the propaganda that lumps all illegal drugs together as equally bad is just stupid, heroin is dangerous stuff. I recently finished this book, which is a great cautionary tale - read it to the end and see how many of the multiple hard drug users mentioned wind up in a happy ending.
Umm, Enron wasn't a small business .. But even large businesses are often banking their tax breaks, or using a windfall to fund acquisitions (which result in layoffs), rather than creating jobs, as reported in today's Wall Street Journal, page one.
When you give small business people extra money (through tax breaks), what makes the administration think they will go out and hire someone with the $$$? Maybe they'll take a trip to Bermuda and spend it there. The Bushies have been using job creation as the excuse for all kinds of regressive tax policies. If they want to create jobs maybe they should incentivize job creation, instead of just handing out tax breaks to every rich person and hoping they cause some hiring. (The other argument Bush made in the debate was that we needed the tax cuts to get out of recession and respond to 9/11 - but that doesn't jibe with his attempts to make them permanent).
In 2004, the top Federal bracket is 35% for individuals and married filing jointly, and starts at $319,100 taxable income.
> they are generally people who invest their bank's money
Investment bankers facilitate a variety of financial transactions for their clients - these could include sale of all or part of the business, arranging a merger or acquisition, or raising cash through a bond, IPO, or secondary stock offering. In many cases the investment bank is acting as a middleman in the transaction and collecting fees - they may not be investing their own funds.
Three Mile Island did a lot to cool enthusiasm for new nuclear plants.
But even if you believe they're safe, there is still the issue that the real costs of a nuclear plant are not paid by the utilities that run plants. If they had to buy insurance to cover the risks of damage to life & property from an accident, and if they had to bear the full costs of disposing of spent fuel, then nobody would built plants because it would be uneconomical.
Agree with the recommendation. Farmer was a pioneer in bringing AIDS treatment to third-world patients, in Haiti and elsewhere. His organization has also been very active in treating multi-drug resistant TB, especially in Russia, where it's a big problem. I've been sending Partners in Health regular donations for several years. Hopefully the book will make them better known. They spend very little on fundraising or PR, so they haven't until now had very much visibility.
Move to Germany. This is standard operating procedure over there: no decent employee cafeteria is lacking beer.
I actually like the social policy aspects of Libertarianism (e.g. ending the war on drugs) better than the economic aspects. Every time we have a local election, the Libertarians write ballot arguments opposing all tax and bond measures. Sewer bond? Vote no. Parcel tax for libraries? Vote no. How they plan to fund public services is really a mystery to me. I don't like taxes either, but I like flush toilets, and I'd like the library to stay open.
> See Copeland's book The Inmates Are Running The Asylum for a wonderful look at the main issue facing ERP vendors today.
It's Alan Cooper, not Copeland.
The speed limit is dynamic, at least in California: it's illegal to drive at an unsafe speed. Ice on the road, or foggy - means drive slower. But you don't ever get a pass to drive faster than the posted speed limit. Which, frankly, I am happy enough about having at 65mph - it's getting to be rare that anybody obeys it, but I don't feel very safe cruising at 85mph, or particularly sure that the other people doing are safe & sane .. for one thing, they usually also seem to be tailgating.
IMO the main reason to program in a "safe" language is not to cut the coding cycle but to cut the debugging and maintainence costs. You can't leak memory in Java or stomp on pointers (well, you can, but it's hard
I also dispute that Java coders are generally less skilled. You get the same spectrum of skill in Java you have in other languages. I know guys who are Java wizards and are maybe 15x more productive in the language than your average coder. Plus they know all the latest features: generics, NIO, enums, annotations, etc.