Given that Khan's revelations were made in early 2004, does that mean it took the IAEA 1-2 years to brute-force the encryption? Nope, that's the time it took for their lawyers to get DMCA-exemption order from federal court for performing decrpytion. The actually decryption only took them 1 minute. God saves americans.
IBM has its own (real) enterprise-level database that does everything and all way before Oracle ever exists.
Putting 10m into PostgreSQL's vendors could be an marketing strategy. If you ask an IBM sales executive the same questions, he'd introduce their own line of DB2 for your needs - depends on how deep your pocket, that is. ^^
Disclaimer: I were programming with DB2 during my time in IBM, therefore I may not be too objective in comparing DB2 and PostgreSQL. Please bear with me. ^^
I leave my laptop on at night so I can remote-desktop into it, so I'm not really happy about putting it in a drawer (no ventilation), plus I don't like the idea of having to 'unharness' everything every time I want to put it away. I don't trust cable locks. While you're concerning about the physical security of your belongings, you don't give a damn about the infrastructure security of your company. Your network admin would say a lot of you about remote desktop from home to office.
I'd strongly recommend you do the opposite: remote desktop back home with your laptop at work, so that you could shutdown and lock it at night.
Dear customer,
We regret the shortcoming that you found regarding ACID 3 test results of IE8. Please note that it's still in its beta stage and we'll put all the efforts in making IE8 score below its proud precedences, IE5.5, 6 and 7, before its release!
Stay tune. We've never failed before, we won't fail this time.
Yours truly,
Department of Embracing Standards and Compatibilities, Microsoft.
Preload is a Linux daemon that stores commonly-used libraries and binaries in memory to speed up access times, similar to the Windows Vista SuperFetch function I might be wrong, but similar function in Windows Vista should be "Reload".
Vista users respond positively toward the speed boost everytime we "Reload" their Vista. The downtime and data lost as a result of "Reload" might irritate some disgruntled users, but most of them enjoy the free break at the expense of the company.
Nothing in those Linus thingy could beat that user satisfaction. I might be bias though.
The system contains everything you could imagine: in-house tracking system, motion detectors, remote messaging control and web-interface administration, integration with all electronic household appliances for whatever control you could think of doing, including but not limited to gardening and feeding your dogs.
He even got VC supports to build the actual products; but then, I asked him one question: "what about power outage, which happen so frequently in China?"
He thought briefly and said "We could include an fuel-powered, emergency backup power supply for my system."
"Well, when there's a power outage, those house appliances cease to function as well..."
He then thought more deeply and said "Then we must kick in a bigger fuel-powered, emergency backup power supply for the entire house!"
He's now selling household fuel-powered emergency backup power supplies and really good at it.
The good things about OS/2 I described before is blessed by the wonderful SOM. I really can't tell you all the good things about SOM here, but during the time I wrote apps at IBM in C Set, SOM really save us a lot of time and efforts.
I've acquired scientific knowledge from a movie. Like, you're going to turn a bad guy in a highway into cop, end up turning the hosts into zombies, right?
That's bad enough, imagine all those hairless mosquitoes flying around hungering for blood......oh wait.
(Man how I love shooting on good idea as it's much easier than making a genetically modified mosquitoe)
In 1994, I worked for IBM and involved in testing of OS/2 (pre-warp time if my memory serves) in Hong Kong. I mainly helped testing business applications, especially Chinese apps. There's another team who were testing games(dream job right)?
The game team always invited me for 'professional opinions' because I were like a profession gamer to them. I managed to run 4 sessions of Ultima 8 in a 386. The gameplay play was smooth, even the opening video was being played without hiccup. Awesome. Imagine it's during the period when its top competitor Windows 95 would crash from time to time running one sessions of Ultima 8. I don't want to bore you with the details how great it run other applications, but I can tell you it can run more than one session of Windows 95 full-screen and windowed. (I heard Microsoft had some legal questions with that later on.. but still, OS/2 could really do that).
Don't laugh at OS/2, it sold, millions copies; some came along with PS/2, some were embedded in ATMs and cashiers. They stopped update and development since 2006, but still, OS/2 installed machines generates revenue for IBM, even today.
Where OS/2 failed was some top boneheads in IBM asked their major software competitor, Microsoft, to develop the initial OS/2 1.x. Microsoft still owns many of the royalties inside OS/2. The more OS/2 sold, the more Microsoft got. I've been told later IBM had difficult time in negotiations with Microsoft on lowering the royalties fee in new contracts, because, obviously, crushing OS/2 benefits Microsoft more than letting it survive.
who manages spam fighting systems in the largest organization in Hong Kong. The spam increased by tens of millions every month since August last year, mostly related to this 'stock spamming', you can see how difficult our days were; especially when a couple of them got past our multiple layers of spam controls and reached our top management, who believes no spam should be seen when they paid millions on spam fighting.
I know it's just tip of an iceberg, but this is surely a good news for us.
The law that was struck down was about age verification and ID requirements for PERFORMERS in the porn. It had nothing to do with the age of the people VIEWING the porn.
oic, so the performers aren't required to click on "Yes, I'm 18" before acting anymore?
"It was like breaking down walls. And it was a metaphor. The world is better when you break down walls. Walls separate people. The more inclusive we can be, the better we can be as a species." Those FPS games fits into your metaphoric mind as well. The world has way too many people, up to the point that the less people there are, the better we can be as a species. Killing people in game are a metaphor, we might as well use real guns to kill people on the street, but kids today need training.
But I do agree with you that walls should all be broken. We all use wall hack anyway. What's the point with setting up walls besides conning newbies? Down with walls.
Yahoo was doing what was required to do business in China & considering how the US Gov't has bent over to facilitate China, they have no room to talk. You may be right, but the general public in China does not seem to understand Yahoo!'s difficulties.
Before the case, Jerry Yang is a role model of entrepreneur among youngsters in China
After the case, nobody would want to talk about him. No more press on his successful stories, no more study or discussion in college on his way of success. No one wants to write book about success of Yahoo! since.
We just don't want to mention anything about him.
Yahoo! was just having bad luck? You bet. Shi Tao is definitely not the only activist speaking openly, do they all end up like Shi Tao? Jerry Yang needs to ask himself.
[rant]
I'm forced to wonder, did the sysadmin who granted a programmer (one responsible for "small programs," natch) administrative priveledge get fired? How about the manager that signed off on it (assuming a proper change control system)? How about the executive that probably wrote off the proper change control system as "unnecessary overhead"?
[/rant] Since you're interested, let me give you more details.
When talking about JCL you probably could know it's related to Big Blue Iron. The beauty of Big Iron is that the system administration, data(set) administration, application system(s) administration can be cleanly separated from each other. Each team work on their own part, and almost no peer communication was needed during normal operation.
The root of the loophole is very complicated, not as simple as system configuration issue. If we should put a blame on someone, it'd be Big Blue (no one be fired for using Big Blue as they're contractually liable to critical server-side issues like that). The manager in question was on the application side, there's no responsible held for cases like JCL loophole. (verse nowaday get-all-blames application developers. Gotta love programming for Big Iron? Yeah, I love it)
I believe IBM did handle part of the damage, I don't know, but I'm sure the evasive attitude of my friend angered the top management thus was fired. As far as I concern, nobody in the bank was being blamed for such loophole that was outside their control, especially when the system passed yearly audit(also carried out by Big Blue, ha ha). Compare to modern midrange-to-PC systems development, this is like dream job.
Also, in a shocking design flaw, there was a "power off" command leading to all three of the supposedly redundant processing units. That reminds me many years ago, when my friend worked as a programmer in a major bank writing small programs for an online international financial system. He issued an 'shutdown' command through JCL(Job Control Language) and that really shutdown the entire system. He didn't realize he had the privilege to issue administration commands. Instead of reporting the crisis to his manager, he hide away until someone figured out what's going on. Needless to say, my friend was fired.
Years later I met his manager, he told me that my friend could have been promoted for discovering one of the biggest loophole ever in the bank's history, if he had reported the problem immediately. Though the unexpected shutdown caused considerable damage, it could have saved billions from real break-in with this loophole.
That's a lesson that every engineer should have been learned.:)
because he put scripts to delete all emails with subjects like "CONGRATZ YOU WON A FREE IPHONE FOR BEING THE ADMIN OF THE YEAR BY/.!!!!", so he'd probably won't get the prize anyway.
Ballmer says of Google, 'they read your mail and we don't.' Now I know why you don't respond to my comments and complains, you just simply don't read them at all.
Mr. Nirhamo has now been let go due to a 'lack of trust.'...
The Association is accepting applications for the position. Anyone interested?" Apparently they can only trust someone who wouldn't speak up for the truth...
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woke up in the wrong universe. In my universe customers are sued all the time.
Hi there guys, I'm very new here.
This time Ballmer would fly with his chair.
when the letter has to be distributed in PDF.
IBM has its own (real) enterprise-level database that does everything and all way before Oracle ever exists.
Putting 10m into PostgreSQL's vendors could be an marketing strategy. If you ask an IBM sales executive the same questions, he'd introduce their own line of DB2 for your needs - depends on how deep your pocket, that is. ^^
Disclaimer: I were programming with DB2 during my time in IBM, therefore I may not be too objective in comparing DB2 and PostgreSQL. Please bear with me. ^^
I'd strongly recommend you do the opposite: remote desktop back home with your laptop at work, so that you could shutdown and lock it at night.
Dear customer, We regret the shortcoming that you found regarding ACID 3 test results of IE8. Please note that it's still in its beta stage and we'll put all the efforts in making IE8 score below its proud precedences, IE5.5, 6 and 7, before its release! Stay tune. We've never failed before, we won't fail this time. Yours truly, Department of Embracing Standards and Compatibilities, Microsoft.
Vista users respond positively toward the speed boost everytime we "Reload" their Vista. The downtime and data lost as a result of "Reload" might irritate some disgruntled users, but most of them enjoy the free break at the expense of the company.
Nothing in those Linus thingy could beat that user satisfaction. I might be bias though.
Use something a layman could understand OK?
Say, how many Library of Congress, or elephants, have we got here?
and were planning to sell it to China.
The system contains everything you could imagine: in-house tracking system, motion detectors, remote messaging control and web-interface administration, integration with all electronic household appliances for whatever control you could think of doing, including but not limited to gardening and feeding your dogs.
He even got VC supports to build the actual products; but then, I asked him one question: "what about power outage, which happen so frequently in China?"
He thought briefly and said "We could include an fuel-powered, emergency backup power supply for my system."
"Well, when there's a power outage, those house appliances cease to function as well..."
He then thought more deeply and said "Then we must kick in a bigger fuel-powered, emergency backup power supply for the entire house!"
He's now selling household fuel-powered emergency backup power supplies and really good at it.
Fast, really fast.
Don't trust me. Try it.
The good things about OS/2 I described before is blessed by the wonderful SOM. I really can't tell you all the good things about SOM here, but during the time I wrote apps at IBM in C Set, SOM really save us a lot of time and efforts.
I've acquired scientific knowledge from a movie. Like, you're going to turn a bad guy in a highway into cop, end up turning the hosts into zombies, right?
That's bad enough, imagine all those hairless mosquitoes flying around hungering for blood......oh wait.
(Man how I love shooting on good idea as it's much easier than making a genetically modified mosquitoe)
Well hold your flamethrowers a bit...
In 1994, I worked for IBM and involved in testing of OS/2 (pre-warp time if my memory serves) in Hong Kong. I mainly helped testing business applications, especially Chinese apps. There's another team who were testing games(dream job right)?
The game team always invited me for 'professional opinions' because I were like a profession gamer to them. I managed to run 4 sessions of Ultima 8 in a 386. The gameplay play was smooth, even the opening video was being played without hiccup. Awesome. Imagine it's during the period when its top competitor Windows 95 would crash from time to time running one sessions of Ultima 8. I don't want to bore you with the details how great it run other applications, but I can tell you it can run more than one session of Windows 95 full-screen and windowed. (I heard Microsoft had some legal questions with that later on.. but still, OS/2 could really do that).
Don't laugh at OS/2, it sold, millions copies; some came along with PS/2, some were embedded in ATMs and cashiers. They stopped update and development since 2006, but still, OS/2 installed machines generates revenue for IBM, even today.
Where OS/2 failed was some top boneheads in IBM asked their major software competitor, Microsoft, to develop the initial OS/2 1.x. Microsoft still owns many of the royalties inside OS/2. The more OS/2 sold, the more Microsoft got. I've been told later IBM had difficult time in negotiations with Microsoft on lowering the royalties fee in new contracts, because, obviously, crushing OS/2 benefits Microsoft more than letting it survive.
who manages spam fighting systems in the largest organization in Hong Kong. The spam increased by tens of millions every month since August last year, mostly related to this 'stock spamming', you can see how difficult our days were; especially when a couple of them got past our multiple layers of spam controls and reached our top management, who believes no spam should be seen when they paid millions on spam fighting.
I know it's just tip of an iceberg, but this is surely a good news for us.
Yeah, it happened long time ago in a galaxy far, far Away.
What else!
They learn from rental cars, where GPS can track if the rent car broke the speed limit and that implies extra charge.
....nevermind then.
If the athletes was found moving at around 40 km/h all the time, they must have taken steroid.
If they're moving over 60 km/h, they must be driving a car.
oic, so the performers aren't required to click on "Yes, I'm 18" before acting anymore?
Oh wait...
But I do agree with you that walls should all be broken. We all use wall hack anyway. What's the point with setting up walls besides conning newbies? Down with walls.
You may be right, but the general public in China does not seem to understand Yahoo!'s difficulties.
Before the case, Jerry Yang is a role model of entrepreneur among youngsters in China
After the case, nobody would want to talk about him. No more press on his successful stories, no more study or discussion in college on his way of success. No one wants to write book about success of Yahoo! since.
We just don't want to mention anything about him.
Yahoo! was just having bad luck? You bet. Shi Tao is definitely not the only activist speaking openly, do they all end up like Shi Tao? Jerry Yang needs to ask himself.
When talking about JCL you probably could know it's related to Big Blue Iron. The beauty of Big Iron is that the system administration, data(set) administration, application system(s) administration can be cleanly separated from each other. Each team work on their own part, and almost no peer communication was needed during normal operation.
The root of the loophole is very complicated, not as simple as system configuration issue. If we should put a blame on someone, it'd be Big Blue (no one be fired for using Big Blue as they're contractually liable to critical server-side issues like that). The manager in question was on the application side, there's no responsible held for cases like JCL loophole. (verse nowaday get-all-blames application developers. Gotta love programming for Big Iron? Yeah, I love it)
I believe IBM did handle part of the damage, I don't know, but I'm sure the evasive attitude of my friend angered the top management thus was fired. As far as I concern, nobody in the bank was being blamed for such loophole that was outside their control, especially when the system passed yearly audit(also carried out by Big Blue, ha ha). Compare to modern midrange-to-PC systems development, this is like dream job.
Years later I met his manager, he told me that my friend could have been promoted for discovering one of the biggest loophole ever in the bank's history, if he had reported the problem immediately. Though the unexpected shutdown caused considerable damage, it could have saved billions from real break-in with this loophole.
That's a lesson that every engineer should have been learned.
because he put scripts to delete all emails with subjects like "CONGRATZ YOU WON A FREE IPHONE FOR BEING THE ADMIN OF THE YEAR BY /.!!!!", so he'd probably won't get the prize anyway.
Your honesty as a corporate leader shines us all.
I'm in!