Holy fscking sh*t. Maybe cops shouldn't pull over speeders without air support from a squadron of AH-64s, just in case there's a big bad terrorist driving that Mercedes. Maybe meter maids should drive armored personnel carriers (fully loaded with a platoon of Marines) just in case the minivan they just ticketed is carrying a bunch of really short ninjas.
OK, maybe these examples aren't realistic. Most people's moms don't drive around town with a bunch of ninjas in the back of the minivan, while everybody knows that it takes years of intense training in hand-to-hand combat, not to mention superior marksmanship, to download "The Sims: Hot Date" warez from the net.
How many disgruntled employees does it take to reveal the secrets of your obscure security features? Also, just how obscure do you have to be to keep bright people from reverse-engineering your code?
Yes, if this turns out to be true, it will be an interesting way to demonstrate nuclear fusion to freshman physics students. However, if it works, it is just another unproductive fusion technique. Call me when they refine it to give off more energy than it consumes.
Here's a primer on how a government can attain total control of its citizens.
For each dissident or somehow threatening group, perform the following steps:
1. Turn the name of the group into a perjorative term. ("X")
2. Hold numerous press conferences on the dangers "X" poses to society or to the economy.
3. Create new laws to target some core activity of "X" that seems likely to be of no interest to non-X citizens.
4. More press conferences on the widespread problem of violators of the laws created in step 3, and proposing harsh new penalties for such violators.
5. Massive crackdown on violators of laws created in 3. For small and unimportant groups, all members may simply be thrown in an oubliette, or even executed. For larger groups, the threat of arrest may be used to compel individuals in whatever way is deemed necessary.
That's it. This model works quite smoothly, as demonstrated by Stalin (too many groups to count), Hitler (Jews are the best known victims, but many others as well), McCarthy ("Communists"), and the Inquisition ("Heretics", "infidels", and others).
Meet the New World Order. Same as the Old World Order.
Or, you can simply use the mouse in explorer, browse the network, right click on the network folder and select map network
drive.
On the other hand, when you're using command line tools, you can usually find out what the options are without too much trouble. With a GUI, you have to hunt around through screen after screen of useless garbage to find a poorly-labeled option that you think might possibly do something like what you want.
The difference is that syntax is easy to describe, while dynamic GUI interaction really sucks to describe. It's MUCH easier to tell somebody on the telephone the command to type in (though you may need to spell it all out) than to describe all of the little motions needed to find a particular option on a page buried in a massive mess of GUI controls.
If you want to improve network security, ensure
that protocols and algorithms that would improve
security are not patented, and are therefore
usable by anybody who needs them. The (recently-expired) RSA patent forced many projects
to use less well tested algorithms.
Also, get rid of all export restrictions on software. Export restrictions on "strong"
encryption force companies to use less-good
algorithms.
Will Symantec also ignore trojans produced by other nations' intelligence agencies? Someone should encourage some third-world countries to set up online membership signups for their intelligence agencies at a nominal fee. Crackers will then be able to continue to do what they do without breaking any laws.
Why is it that every time there's a new package, OS, or library, we need to have screenshots for it? Don't themable window managers (and applications) mean that you can make your screen look just about any way you want it?
At least/. doesn't post screenshots for every rev of the Linux kernel.
Uh huh. How many CPU cycles does it take to synthesize a pizza, eh?
If you want to make a distributed project to use spare CPU cycles to design new pharmaceuticals, engineer new food crops, or anything else that's "useful", go ahead. Otherwise piss off.
By the way, it may not be obvious to you, but the only problems that can be attacked using distributed computing are those that we can figure out how to split up into large numbers of mostly-independent, completely algorithmic subproblems.
Why do hardware makers insist on using marketroid-designed names? I'm going to stay with PCI until somebody comes up with a new type of bus: the Magic Bus.
Every day, I put a request on the queue.
Ooh yeah, it's the MAGIC BUS!
To get on the bus to my CPU.
Ooh yeah, the MAGIC BUS!
Hard drives, video cards, memory, and every other component is now
marketed as "making the internet faster".
Of course, Making the Internet Faster is just marketroid-speak for Faster Pr0n downloads.
Sex sells.
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And a baseball bat.
Shh! Not so loud! My boss still thinks that a LART is a sophisticated piece of network analysis hardware. I never told him that the bills we get for replacing broken LARTs come from the Louisville Slugger Company.
Yup, 8 millibits per second. This counts as the first implementation of IP over humpback whale song, with ones encoded as "AHOOOOOOOOHHHhhh..." and zeroes encoded as "EEEEEEeeeeEEEEEeeEEEEE..."
Not only do you get phenomenal 8mbps download speeds, but also this development brings e-commerce and pr0n to the cetacean community.
So, should we shoot the messengers, or just defenestrate them? This is a really good strategy. Ford should have tried getting Ralph Nader thrown into jail as a solution to the little problem with exploding Pintos.
Hello? Is anybody home? Microsoft should issue warnings like: Due to security problems in IIS, Microsoft is issuing a recall on this product. All users of this product should see www.microsoft.com/refunds for instructions on obtaining a full refund and suggestions on alternative web server products.
I hadn't thought of that aspect of SSSCA. So, that means that undergraduate Operating Systems classes will be shut down, since they typically use reduced-complexity or toy OSes for programming projects, while graduate OS classes will be renamed "Stupid Windows Tricks".
Can we have some well-spoken and photogenic hacker volunteers to run for seats in Congress? Please?
Didn't your read my post? The issue isn't the difficulty of writing an office suite. The issue is all of the useless crap that goes into an office suite, and the fact that most users have no need (or even awareness) of all of it.
It's only the MS Marketing department that convinces users that they really can't live without Clippy and all of the other gee-whiz "innovations" since Word 4.0 (which was a pretty decent program that took 20 seconds to load on a Mac Classic).
Not to criticize the OpenOffice project, which is only trying to provide a reasonably-priced replacement for MS Office, but what the hell is so compicated about text documents and spreadsheets that it takes such a whomping code base to handle it?
It strikes me as sick that so much human effort is going into a piece of software that will be used primarily to create email attachments that can't be read by non-Office users, all of which will be essentially plain text but inflated in size by several times by the inefficient document format.
OK, I'm done ranting now. There's nothing to see here. More along.
Currently, yes. Once signed.debs get to be standard, then no, even having the update server get rooted isn't that big a deal, as long as developers are sane and don't store their private keys on the same server.
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Oh, and the beer is better, too.
No kidding. Not only does a pint of Guiness taste great, it also contains a full day's supply of dietary fiber.
Holy fscking sh*t. Maybe cops shouldn't pull over speeders without air support from a squadron of AH-64s, just in case there's a big bad terrorist driving that Mercedes. Maybe meter maids should drive armored personnel carriers (fully loaded with a platoon of Marines) just in case the minivan they just ticketed is carrying a bunch of really short ninjas.
OK, maybe these examples aren't realistic. Most people's moms don't drive around town with a bunch of ninjas in the back of the minivan, while everybody knows that it takes years of intense training in hand-to-hand combat, not to mention superior marksmanship, to download "The Sims: Hot Date" warez from the net.
How many disgruntled employees does it take to reveal the secrets of your obscure security features? Also, just how obscure do you have to be to keep bright people from reverse-engineering your code?
it's a real-time, turn-based system.
Hmm. Sounds like a MUD to me. The classics never go out of style.
JFC, things have gotten out of hand.
Damn, I wonder how long people have been swearing by the Java Foundation Classes?
Yes, if this turns out to be true, it will be an
interesting way to demonstrate nuclear fusion
to freshman physics students. However, if it
works, it is just another unproductive fusion
technique. Call me when they refine it to
give off more energy than it consumes.
Hey, I just went out and bought a spool of barbed wire, only to discover that Cisco hasn't yet developed Ethernet-over-barbed-wire technology.
I guess I'll just have to reattach the alligator clips for my Ethernet-over-city-sewer connection.
By making non-DRM OSes illegal, of course. Just think: in a year or two, all *nix users could be felons. Where do you want to go today? JAIL!
Here's a primer on how a government can attain total control of its citizens.
For each dissident or somehow threatening group, perform the following steps:
1. Turn the name of the group into a perjorative term. ("X")
2. Hold numerous press conferences on the dangers "X" poses to society or to the economy.
3. Create new laws to target some core activity of "X" that seems likely to be of no interest to non-X citizens.
4. More press conferences on the widespread problem of violators of the laws created in step 3, and proposing harsh new penalties for such violators.
5. Massive crackdown on violators of laws created in 3. For small and unimportant groups, all members may simply be thrown in an oubliette, or even executed. For larger groups, the threat of arrest may be used to compel individuals in whatever way is deemed necessary.
That's it. This model works quite smoothly, as demonstrated by Stalin (too many groups to count), Hitler (Jews are the best known victims, but many others as well), McCarthy ("Communists"), and the Inquisition ("Heretics", "infidels", and others).
Meet the New World Order. Same as the Old World Order.
Or, you can simply use the mouse in explorer, browse the network, right click on the network folder and select map network drive.
On the other hand, when you're using command line tools, you can usually find out what the options are without too much trouble. With a GUI, you have to hunt around through screen after screen of useless garbage to find a poorly-labeled option that you think might possibly do something like what you want.
The difference is that syntax is easy to describe, while dynamic GUI interaction really sucks to describe. It's MUCH easier to tell somebody on the telephone the command to type in (though you may need to spell it all out) than to describe all of the little motions needed to find a particular option on a page buried in a massive mess of GUI controls.
If you want to improve network security, ensure
that protocols and algorithms that would improve
security are not patented, and are therefore
usable by anybody who needs them. The (recently-expired) RSA patent forced many projects
to use less well tested algorithms.
Also, get rid of all export restrictions on software. Export restrictions on "strong"
encryption force companies to use less-good
algorithms.
Will Symantec also ignore trojans produced by other nations' intelligence agencies? Someone should encourage some third-world countries to set up online membership signups for their intelligence agencies at a nominal fee. Crackers will then be able to continue to do what they do without breaking any laws.
But the interface lives on as "Afterstep"!!
And WindowMaker. And NeXT's excellent OPENSTEP IDE lives on as GNUStep.
Dang, now I'm unsure if the Halting problem is NP-Complete.
Nope, the Halting Problem is undecidable.
Why is it that every time there's a new package, OS, or library, we need to have screenshots for it? Don't themable window managers (and applications) mean that you can make your screen look just about any way you want it?
/. doesn't post screenshots for every rev of the Linux kernel.
At least
Uh huh. How many CPU cycles does it take to synthesize a pizza, eh?
If you want to make a distributed project to use spare CPU cycles to design new pharmaceuticals, engineer new food crops, or anything else that's "useful", go ahead. Otherwise piss off.
By the way, it may not be obvious to you, but the only problems that can be attacked using distributed computing are those that we can figure out how to split up into large numbers of mostly-independent, completely algorithmic subproblems.
Why do hardware makers insist on using marketroid-designed names? I'm going to stay with PCI until somebody comes up with a new type of bus: the Magic Bus.
Every day, I put a request on the queue.
Ooh yeah, it's the MAGIC BUS!
To get on the bus to my CPU.
Ooh yeah, the MAGIC BUS!
Hard drives, video cards, memory, and every other component is now marketed as "making the internet faster".
Of course, Making the Internet Faster is just marketroid-speak for Faster Pr0n downloads.
Sex sells.
And a baseball bat.
Shh! Not so loud! My boss still thinks that a LART is a sophisticated piece of network analysis hardware. I never told him that the bills we get for replacing broken LARTs come from the Louisville Slugger Company.
Yup, 8 millibits per second. This counts as the first implementation of IP over humpback whale song, with ones encoded as "AHOOOOOOOOHHHhhh..." and zeroes encoded as "EEEEEEeeeeEEEEEeeEEEEE..."
Not only do you get phenomenal 8mbps download speeds, but also this development brings e-commerce and pr0n to the cetacean community.
So, should we shoot the messengers, or just defenestrate them? This is a really good strategy. Ford should have tried getting Ralph Nader thrown into jail as a solution to the little problem with exploding Pintos.
Hello? Is anybody home? Microsoft should issue warnings like: Due to security problems in IIS, Microsoft is issuing a recall on this product. All users of this product should see www.microsoft.com/refunds for instructions on obtaining a full refund and suggestions on alternative web server products.
I hadn't thought of that aspect of SSSCA. So, that means that undergraduate Operating Systems classes will be shut down, since they typically use reduced-complexity or toy OSes for programming projects, while graduate OS classes will be renamed "Stupid Windows Tricks".
Can we have some well-spoken and photogenic hacker volunteers to run for seats in Congress? Please?
Didn't your read my post? The issue isn't the difficulty of writing an office suite. The issue is all of the useless crap that goes into an office suite, and the fact that most users have no need (or even awareness) of all of it.
It's only the MS Marketing department that convinces users that they really can't live without Clippy and all of the other gee-whiz "innovations" since Word 4.0 (which was a pretty decent program that took 20 seconds to load on a Mac Classic).
Not to criticize the OpenOffice project, which is only trying to provide a reasonably-priced replacement for MS Office, but what the hell is so compicated about text documents and spreadsheets that it takes such a whomping code base to handle it?
It strikes me as sick that so much human effort is going into a piece of software that will be used primarily to create email attachments that can't be read by non-Office users, all of which will be essentially plain text but inflated in size by several times by the inefficient document format.
OK, I'm done ranting now. There's nothing to see here. More along.
Currently, yes. Once signed .debs get to be standard, then no, even having the update server get rooted isn't that big a deal, as long as developers are sane and don't store their private keys on the same server.