And what about zombie boxes where outlook is cheerlfully spewing forth spam at near lightspeed from a valid user email account?
Will Silly sPam Fighter help then?
I say we need to have a no-email week. Send everything to dev/null.
The only way to deal with spammer is by forcing the government to hand out 10 year prison sentences for spammers. Send 1000 emails in one day, go to jail.
First offense: Letter in the mail.
Second offense: a visit by 2 FBI agents.
Third offence: get a lawyer and some K-Y jelly, you're gonna need it.
If your PC is zombied, and you do nothing the first 2 times, you still go to jail. It's like buying a gun, not locking it, and your little brother takes it to school. The first time you get a stern lecture. The second time you'll get charged with child endangerment.
Spam from foreign contries: Block all email from that country for 90 days at a time once more than 1000 spams have been received. The foreign government will take extraordinary measures to punish the culprits and reestablish communication with the US. They would lose millions per day if email did not come through.
Now, some might say these are drastic measures. And they may spell the end of email. Well, wake up and smell the coffee. Email as we know it is gettting to be too expensive for the benefit it provides.
Maybe all the slashdotters should make it a habit of filing for a new patent each year. Of course, they will be without merit, will probably be overturned, and will effectively demonstrate that the system is broken because nobody will be able to get their patents through because of the flood of slashdotters patent applications.
Of course, it would be interesting to see how many such slashdot patents actually do get through.
Of course, looking at the uspto.gov web site showed the fee for filing a patent is $385.00 for an individual. What a rackett!!!
I say forget the idea above.
Send $50 to the EFF and cheer them as they take the bastards down.
Of course, a monthly handritten letter to your congressman would be welcomed too. (does anyone know where to find a good template?)
No... In the truck... No wait. At your front door. Driver: Here's your package, please sign here Man: Thank you. Driver: You have the toshiba? Man: Yes, right here. (hands the laptop to the driver. Driver: Ok great. (Takes the laptop and snaps in a new keyboard in 2 seconds--They're professionals after all) Driver: Here you go Sir. Man: Thanks.
(door closes)
Actually, I don't think I trust the brown men with my laptop.
in order to be a Professional, in California, you have to have passed a state licence, like architect, lawyer, doctor, or accountant (the BAR exam)
Computer professionals, surpisingly, have their own section in the california code. one of the requirements for them being exxept is that their hourly rate as of (jan 2004) exceed 44.63 dollars an hour. So if you're working 60 hours a week, you should be making (and I round down) $139000 per year.
I think they didn't look hard enough. I think it would hold better if they had found 900 bugs. That's a lot harder to do...
Besides, a bad programmer writes some buggy code. Next year, same proggrammer writes some similar buggy code. How much do you want to bet that some of the bugs are going to be the same?
An interesting question: If bugs are software features, then can bugs be proprietary? I'd love to know who would fess up to the IP to this line of code:
I am going to assume that this is a data entry teminal with a windows (VB/Access) app.
Remove all drives, usb, and anything else except: mouse, keyboard, and video output.
put a 1 gig hd in the machine, install linux with bare minimum, and use rDesktop to remote into a win2003 machine with nothing enabled. now you have just one machine to manage, and win2k3TS has more options than a win2kbox for lockdown.
More costly, yes. But they won't be surfing the net or installing bonzibuddy.
Oh, look, what's this heavy thing... What? A pistol, but it's so pretty, and shiny... Yes very shiny... and that little hole there? I wonder what's in there? I cant's see what's down there... Can I open it? Woa look, this little thing looks like a lever. I wonder what it does... Woah, this is so cool... BAM.
Hello!!! Tell them hackers can steal money from their bank account if they use IE. If they still use it, pull a Pilate.
You know, like Pontius Pilate said: "I wash my hand off this matter".
>>And the solution to that: Let's restrict free speech on the net. Maybe they won't notice that the books are being burnt too as they watch Survivor 69: the Island of Desire on their big screen TV.
>Dude, the story is that the supremes STRUCK DOWN the law, not upheld it, so why don't you reserve your grandstanding and nazis-burning-books rethoric for a more appropriate occasion?
You should have read my sig. Nearly all my posts are laced with lethal amounts of Sarcasmus Maximus.
>How bout they focus on educating the public about malware instead?
Educating the public never works. It's like giving money to the poor. They will take it, mutter a "it's about time" and keep on doing whatever they were doing.
Go to Border's Bookstore, buy the book, then go over to your grandmother's for tea and cookie.
In all seriousness, the libraries were not built for children.
>Not in a back room, not hidden from view, out in the open, 15 feet from the children's section
There is nothing inherently wrong with an adult male looking at the figure of adult female in various positions or state of undress. There is also nothing wrong with children knowing this sort of thing. (5.7 billion people can't be wrong.
I perhaps find that the man in question might be exhibitionistic, and gets a kick out of showing the stuff to underage people. Of course, you could have walked over there and asked him kindly to move. (kindly is the word.) It's amazing what can be done with kindness.
Filtering technology is a violation of freedom. How would you feel if the writing of Thomas Jefferson where filtered (he advocated taking arms against the government)?
How about information about the Catholic Church, the Church of Scientology, or the Hebrew faith?
How about medical information regarding reproduction?
How about information relating to the expression of sexual desires, the consummation of such, and its results?
If you feel society does not adequatly protect your children, perhaps it is because it's not society's job. We are not babysitters.
I know it's difficult. Yet, that's the price one pays for having children. There are many joys to parenthood, and many struggles. Don't try to pass off the struggles to society and society won't take away the joys.
Sorry for being so rough, but in the grand scheme of things, we are all just animals without God and God himself said that the world is evil. That's the way things are. Any attempt at changing the situation will result in difficulty, and ultimately, failure. [/preachy]
That's why I am SO glad I went to school in France.
Of course, you _could_ print out everything in color that came back from google when searching for the "American Beaver" and bring it with you next time you meet the teacher. Then you _could_suggest that the teacher assign research on a less "popular" animal, like the tortoise.
>There has to be SOME measure of prevention to keep children from accessing pornography.
No computer.
If computer, no net connection.
If computer and net connection, then computer is in parent's bedroom, locked.
If computer and net connection and computer in living area, password-protected access.
If computer and net connection and computer in living area and no password, check under the bed and look for the loaded pistol.
If parents are stupid and/or ignorant, the children will suffer.
If the parents don't care and want to expose their children to life's harsh reality, who the fuck does the state think it is to tell people how to raise their kids?
Oh, I forgot, this is America, the Land That Traded Freedom For Safety.
And the solution to that: Let's restrict free speech on the net. Maybe they won't notice that the books are being burnt too as they watch Survivor 69: the Island of Desire on their big screen TV.
Found in: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/default.aspx , one of the links in the post, this quote:
The Express products, expanding the Visual Studio product line to include lightweight, easy-to-use, easy-to-learn tools for hobbyists, enthusiasts, and novices who want to build dynamic Windows applications and Web sites.
hobbyists? enthusiasts? novices?
They're not going to grab many self-respecting geeks with labels like these.
A more catchy line:
The Express products, expanding the Visual Studio product line to include powerful, cross-platform, well-documented and secure tools for software gurus who want to build dynamic Windows applications and Web sites.
Now that would be something. Of course, that would be lying too.
>>...low-cost and will continue to be easy to acquire.
how low-cost? Low cost for poor people in india type of low cost? Low cost for deployment in the third world-low cost? If it's more than $1, it ain't low cost no more.
>>Easy to aquire? As easy as logging in to world-wide mirrored ftp archive with anon username? That easy?
Besides, I see "Express" in the name and shudder. FrontPage Express, Outlook Express, Yuck!!!
[rant]
With this sort of thing going on, user-controlled, self-discovering dns needs to be implemeted by the community (make it p2p on freenet or sumthin'), and let the guvn'mts rot. [/rant]
Some people have yet to understand that all IP addresses are dynamic, given enough time.
>There are many pathologies at play here as well as certain healthy patterns of creative behavior. One pathology is a type of savior complex that cannot be satisfied without blowing every single deadline but the last, and then emerging victoriously with a brilliant piece of work five minutes late. A more healthy pattern is that of the true innovator who is truly designing something great, but who has no personal resources left over for anything but the work at hand. Every ounce of psychological, emotional and intellectual energy is being consumed in the work itself. Teamwork, in this case, is an insignificant factor to a person immersed in this sort of creative experience.
I'll bring your attention to:
"the true innovator who is truly designing something great"
and "Every ounce of psychological, emotional and intellectual energy is being consumed in the work itself"
This is called being in the "zone".
and "Teamwork, in this case, is an insignificant factor to a person immersed in this sort of creative experience."
Exactly.
The key is that when the creative programmer programs, he will program great programs when he alone is the King, God, and Final Arbiter of the program. He is not limited by arbitrary boundaries in the development, only by physical constraints as he understands them.
This is why, ultimately, Open Source software is more brilliant than commercial software (huge generalization of course).
Now, there is a team. Python, Linux, and Perl are not one-man shows. But they have a "dictator for life" person who says "Yay of Nay" to any changes: Guido, Linus and Larry. These guys were the original "guy in a room".
Companies just formalize the creative process into a structure. However, once large sums of money are involved, such companies tend to not give the "Excellent Programmer" the time of day and so he goes off and starts a project on his old debian box.
Of course, with time and tlc, that little project might kick the virtual pants of the industry. But that's after next quarter's earning results, so it is ignored my mgmt.
In fact, due to its worship of Geek, MS is probably the closest, company-wise, to what an open-source keiretsu might look like.
Slashdot Mirror
MSN Search
Results 1-15 containing "christopher mahan"
google:
Results 1 - 10 of about 48,500 for christopher mahan. (0.18 seconds)
And what about zombie boxes where outlook is cheerlfully spewing forth spam at near lightspeed from a valid user email account?
Will Silly sPam Fighter help then?
I say we need to have a no-email week. Send everything to dev/null.
The only way to deal with spammer is by forcing the government to hand out 10 year prison sentences for spammers. Send 1000 emails in one day, go to jail.
First offense: Letter in the mail.
Second offense: a visit by 2 FBI agents.
Third offence: get a lawyer and some K-Y jelly, you're gonna need it.
If your PC is zombied, and you do nothing the first 2 times, you still go to jail. It's like buying a gun, not locking it, and your little brother takes it to school. The first time you get a stern lecture. The second time you'll get charged with child endangerment.
Spam from foreign contries: Block all email from that country for 90 days at a time once more than 1000 spams have been received. The foreign government will take extraordinary measures to punish the culprits and reestablish communication with the US. They would lose millions per day if email did not come through.
Now, some might say these are drastic measures. And they may spell the end of email. Well, wake up and smell the coffee. Email as we know it is gettting to be too expensive for the benefit it provides.
Maybe all the slashdotters should make it a habit of filing for a new patent each year.
Of course, they will be without merit, will probably be overturned, and will effectively demonstrate that the system is broken because nobody will be able to get their patents through because of the flood of slashdotters patent applications.
Of course, it would be interesting to see how many such slashdot patents actually do get through.
Of course, looking at the uspto.gov web site showed the fee for filing a patent is $385.00 for an individual. What a rackett!!!
I say forget the idea above.
Send $50 to the EFF and cheer them as they take the bastards down.
Of course, a monthly handritten letter to your congressman would be welcomed too.
(does anyone know where to find a good template?)
Oh, that didn't come out right...
/me drinks more coffee
Ok, the men in brown...
The men who wear brown.
The men who wear brown uniforms.
The brown-uniformed men
The brown men... Oh wait...
The men who work for brown...
No... In the truck...
No wait. At your front door.
Driver:
Here's your package, please sign here
Man:
Thank you.
Driver:
You have the toshiba?
Man:
Yes, right here.
(hands the laptop to the driver.
Driver:
Ok great.
(Takes the laptop and snaps in a new keyboard in 2 seconds--They're professionals after all)
Driver:
Here you go Sir.
Man:
Thanks.
(door closes)
Actually, I don't think I trust the brown men with my laptop.
in order to be a Professional, in California, you have to have passed a state licence, like architect, lawyer, doctor, or accountant (the BAR exam)
t ime-exempt.html
Computer professionals, surpisingly, have their own section in the california code. one of the requirements for them being exxept is that their hourly rate as of (jan 2004) exceed 44.63 dollars an hour. So if you're working 60 hours a week, you should be making (and I round down) $139000 per year.
See: http://www.management-advantage.com/products/over
I think they didn't look hard enough. I think it would hold better if they had found 900 bugs. That's a lot harder to do...
Besides, a bad programmer writes some buggy code. Next year, same proggrammer writes some similar buggy code. How much do you want to bet that some of the bugs are going to be the same?
An interesting question: If bugs are software features, then can bugs be proprietary? I'd love to know who would fess up to the IP to this line of code:
if (someLongAssNamedVariable=4){
eh!
Do you need internet access with this app?
Do you need only internet access?
I am going to assume that this is a data entry teminal with a windows (VB/Access) app.
Remove all drives, usb, and anything else except: mouse, keyboard, and video output.
put a 1 gig hd in the machine, install linux with bare minimum, and use rDesktop to remote into a win2003 machine with nothing enabled. now you have just one machine to manage, and win2k3TS has more options than a win2kbox for lockdown.
More costly, yes. But they won't be surfing the net or installing bonzibuddy.
Either you are not good with the ol' axe, or you're the guru of gurus if you can get linux installed post axeing.
But will your bank account be empty by then?
I would rather use buggy software than software that allows hackers to pilfer my stash'o cash.
In LA, people buy 4x4 to go shopping.
Well, in all honesty, they also use the 4x4 to go to the movies, and some even take it to work and park it in the garage.
Oh, look, what's this heavy thing... What? A pistol, but it's so pretty, and shiny... Yes very shiny... and that little hole there? I wonder what's in there? I cant's see what's down there... Can I open it? Woa look, this little thing looks like a lever. I wonder what it does... Woah, this is so cool... BAM.
Hello!!! Tell them hackers can steal money from their bank account if they use IE. If they still use it, pull a Pilate.
You know, like Pontius Pilate said: "I wash my hand off this matter".
>>And the solution to that: Let's restrict free speech on the net. Maybe they won't notice that the books are being burnt too as they watch Survivor 69: the Island of Desire on their big screen TV.
>Dude, the story is that the supremes STRUCK DOWN the law, not upheld it, so why don't you reserve your grandstanding and nazis-burning-books rethoric for a more appropriate occasion?
You should have read my sig. Nearly all my posts are laced with lethal amounts of Sarcasmus Maximus.
>How bout they focus on educating the public about malware instead?
Educating the public never works. It's like giving money to the poor. They will take it, mutter a "it's about time" and keep on doing whatever they were doing.
Fear is a much better motivator.
When you are old/smart enough to defeat the barrier, you are old/smart enough what was behind it.
:P
>I hardly suffered, I learned a lot out of my parent's ignorance of technology. I can only thank them for providing so many barriers to defeat.
Go Geek!
>by Anonymous Coward
'nuff said.
Go to Border's Bookstore, buy the book, then go over to your grandmother's for tea and cookie.
In all seriousness, the libraries were not built for children.
>Not in a back room, not hidden from view, out in the open, 15 feet from the children's section
There is nothing inherently wrong with an adult male looking at the figure of adult female in various positions or state of undress. There is also nothing wrong with children knowing this sort of thing. (5.7 billion people can't be wrong.
I perhaps find that the man in question might be exhibitionistic, and gets a kick out of showing the stuff to underage people. Of course, you could have walked over there and asked him kindly to move. (kindly is the word.) It's amazing what can be done with kindness.
Filtering technology is a violation of freedom. How would you feel if the writing of Thomas Jefferson where filtered (he advocated taking arms against the government)?
How about information about the Catholic Church, the Church of Scientology, or the Hebrew faith?
How about medical information regarding reproduction?
How about information relating to the expression of sexual desires, the consummation of such, and its results?
If you feel society does not adequatly protect your children, perhaps it is because it's not society's job. We are not babysitters.
I know it's difficult. Yet, that's the price one pays for having children. There are many joys to parenthood, and many struggles. Don't try to pass off the struggles to society and society won't take away the joys.
Sorry for being so rough, but in the grand scheme of things, we are all just animals without God and God himself said that the world is evil. That's the way things are. Any attempt at changing the situation will result in difficulty, and ultimately, failure. [/preachy]
Yeah,
That's the US educational system for you.
That's why I am SO glad I went to school in France.
Of course, you _could_ print out everything in color that came back from google when searching for the "American Beaver" and bring it with you next time you meet the teacher. Then you _could_suggest that the teacher assign research on a less "popular" animal, like the tortoise.
use wikipedia.
>There has to be SOME measure of prevention to keep children from accessing pornography.
No computer.
If computer, no net connection.
If computer and net connection, then computer is in parent's bedroom, locked.
If computer and net connection and computer in living area, password-protected access.
If computer and net connection and computer in living area and no password, check under the bed and look for the loaded pistol.
If parents are stupid and/or ignorant, the children will suffer.
If the parents don't care and want to expose their children to life's harsh reality, who the fuck does the state think it is to tell people how to raise their kids?
Oh, I forgot, this is America, the Land That Traded Freedom For Safety.
And the solution to that: Let's restrict free speech on the net. Maybe they won't notice that the books are being burnt too as they watch Survivor 69: the Island of Desire on their big screen TV.
Found in: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/default.aspx , one of the links in the post, this quote:
The Express products, expanding the Visual Studio product line to include lightweight, easy-to-use, easy-to-learn tools for hobbyists, enthusiasts, and novices who want to build dynamic Windows applications and Web sites.
hobbyists? enthusiasts? novices?
They're not going to grab many self-respecting geeks with labels like these.
A more catchy line:
The Express products, expanding the Visual Studio product line to include powerful, cross-platform, well-documented and secure tools for software gurus who want to build dynamic Windows applications and Web sites.
Now that would be something. Of course, that would be lying too.
Oh well, back to Python on Debian.
>>...low-cost and will continue to be easy to acquire.
how low-cost? Low cost for poor people in india type of low cost? Low cost for deployment in the third world-low cost?
If it's more than $1, it ain't low cost no more.
>>Easy to aquire?
As easy as logging in to world-wide mirrored ftp archive with anon username?
That easy?
Besides, I see "Express" in the name and shudder. FrontPage Express, Outlook Express, Yuck!!!
[rant]
With this sort of thing going on, user-controlled, self-discovering dns needs to be implemeted by the community (make it p2p on freenet or sumthin'), and let the guvn'mts rot.
[/rant]
Some people have yet to understand that all IP addresses are dynamic, given enough time.
[slogan] Google is my DNS. [/slogan]
>There are many pathologies at play here as well as certain healthy patterns of creative behavior. One pathology is a type of savior complex that cannot be satisfied without blowing every single deadline but the last, and then emerging victoriously with a brilliant piece of work five minutes late. A more healthy pattern is that of the true innovator who is truly designing something great, but who has no personal resources left over for anything but the work at hand. Every ounce of psychological, emotional and intellectual energy is being consumed in the work itself. Teamwork, in this case, is an insignificant factor to a person immersed in this sort of creative experience.
I'll bring your attention to:
"the true innovator who is truly designing something great"
and "Every ounce of psychological, emotional and intellectual energy is being consumed in the work itself"
This is called being in the "zone".
and "Teamwork, in this case, is an insignificant factor to a person immersed in this sort of creative experience."
Exactly.
The key is that when the creative programmer programs, he will program great programs when he alone is the King, God, and Final Arbiter of the program. He is not limited by arbitrary boundaries in the development, only by physical constraints as he understands them.
This is why, ultimately, Open Source software is more brilliant than commercial software (huge generalization of course).
Now, there is a team. Python, Linux, and Perl are not one-man shows. But they have a "dictator for life" person who says "Yay of Nay" to any changes: Guido, Linus and Larry. These guys were the original "guy in a room".
Companies just formalize the creative process into a structure. However, once large sums of money are involved, such companies tend to not give the "Excellent Programmer" the time of day and so he goes off and starts a project on his old debian box.
Of course, with time and tlc, that little project might kick the virtual pants of the industry. But that's after next quarter's earning results, so it is ignored my mgmt.
In fact, due to its worship of Geek, MS is probably the closest, company-wise, to what an open-source keiretsu might look like.
All I see is "Click here to get the plugin"
When will they learn?
Oh well, my ADD self has already skipped ahead to another site.