Good lord we're myopic. One of the first internet worms that ever got famous was the Morris worm, released in 1988. It attacked SunOS and VAX/VMS boxen.
The reason MS is struggling with it now is because the *nix folks have had about 15 years to work this problem and close the loopholes. We know what to look for.
I disagree rather strongly with this. I don't know what your experience is with XML but there are lots of shops that use XML for both presentation and data interchange because of its versatility. An XML document can be presented using an XSLT stylesheet or parsed using a DOM, SAX or whatever API.
The 'T' in XSLT stands for 'Transformation.' By the time the data described in the XML has reached you, it might not be (and probably isn't) XML any more. It's been transformed into something else.
If you want to attract the best employees to your company, you need to provide the BEST incomes, the BEST benefits, and the BEST work environments. Compare this theory with what our public school teachers get and you will see why the overall quality of teachers is so low.
The best thing you can do to weed out the bad teachers is remove the three primary benefits of being a teacher - June, July, and August.
When I hear people cry about full time pay for what is essentialy a part time job I want to puke. I've taught at the elementary level, and the collegiate level, and known great teachers and lousy teachers. You can spot the bad ones because they are busy planning thier vacations right around spring break. Make teaching a full time vocation, and the people that want to teach will stick around.
"We don't need to hire 100,000 teachers, we need to fire 100,000 teachers." --George Will
+++The solution is to develop with PostgreSQL regardless of what your deployment DB will be. Their docs favor standard SQL. The code you develop will work with the proprietary DBs as well.+++
Baloney. Their docs specificaly state they aren't SQL-92 compliant, and they don't try to be. Go ahead and create a cursor with updatable columns in Postgres, then come back and blabber on about "standard SQL."
Apache and BIND, sure. But Postgres is weak, lame, and realy, realy sucks. It's vastly superior to that other OS "RDBMS" monstrosity, MySQL, but it isn't anywhere near what you get with it's commercial variants.
If you can get images of a satelite that detailed with a web-cam and and a wooden stick, imagine the images that can be taken of you from the satelite, with all those fancy lenses.
If I remember right an entire Iraqi Republican Gurad division was 'lost' for a while at the height of Gulf war.
There were several that were lost for a while. But we found the fuckers, and we burried their asses under a mountain of Rockeye. The FLIR footage was phenomenal.
My wife had a class of thirty students who had leanring disabilities. It was a nightmare to attempt to motivate students to learn freshman science topics. However, when we moved them into a computer lab, and had them "surf" the net for the same info, build powerpoint presentations and web pages with the info, they became highly motivated and had a much more positive outlook on science.
They became highly motivated cargo cultists. She didn't motivate those kids to do anything more than a modern version of "Copy the article out of the encyclopedia."
The problem isn't that book learnin' is boring, it's that kids don't think any kind of learnin' is important.
Kids, even the brightest ones, are all dumber than a box of hammers. Experience, not information, is what morphs dumb-assed kids into well rounded adults. The problem with computers and kids is that you will have an entire generation who's entire life experience comprises sitting in front of a screen.
Virtual is just a nice way of saying "Fake."
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. I don't remember seeing anything about the right to anonymity in the Constituion.
Thats because you're an ignorant fascist that has no idea what the Constitution represents. The Constitution doesn't grant anyone rights. It grants specific powers to the government.
Let me repeat that for you. The Constitution is not an enumeration of rights. It even says so. I'll leave it as an excercise for the ignorant to discover where.
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I'd say some 30-odd years after the original Viking Restaurant
As owners of the mark, Hormel can make any specific exception they wish. I think that is the point of their trademark policy notes on SPAM.
It would be futile to try to enforce infringment on the mark in this context, even thoug they would be right in doing so. So they make an explicit exception for this case. It doesn't mean they aren't enforcing their mark. Quite the opposite.
"Zero tolerance" -- on computer cracking, drugs or whatever other issue -- is the preferred policy of people who don't want to think about an issue or who are uncomfortable with the messy world of real people with real problems.
Yeah. Like school administrators with messy problems like 13 year old criminals breaking into their data systems, or 13 year olds bringing drugs to school. You can romanticise the "benevolent cracker" myth all you like. It doesn't change the fact that the kid was old enought to know the difference between right and wrong, and chose wrong. If the little fucker decides to off himself, that's his own problem, and aptly demonstrates that he wasn't that smart in the first place.
The only appropriate policy for criminal behaviour is zero tolerance.
After all, its democracy that they hold dear, isn't it?
Hell no. Democracy can die a miserable death in a dumpster behind K-mart for all they care. CAPIATALISM is what they hold dear. If its going to make money, thats the good thing.
In fact, if I could do away with democracy completely and force you to buy my products exclusively, I'd be OK with that.
Why doesn't it surprise me that the teenage moronator crowd thinks this naiev pap is insightful, or whatever. What Jr. Dork has just described for us all is A.K.A. "Mob Rule."
1. When a very gung ho captian brought up the idea of putting wireless NICs on our PCs (to eliminate the miles of coax in a LAN) in 1992 the electronics officer shuddered, pointed out that each attenna would be a big beacon saying "Command and Control target . . HERE". Wonder how they're getting around that?
If your electronics officer didn't have enough understanding of EMCON controls and procedures to know the answer to that, he shouldn't be the electronics officer. Signal radiation has been well understood since the Germans figured out the Brits had RADAR.
2. Heavy brigades are well and good and look real pretty. Given that log support a heavy brigade needs, and the time to deply, how many times is this going to be used in the real world?
Hopefully none. But you can expect it to be deployed with any operational force. Any fighting unit needs heavy logistics support. Why do you think this would be any different?
3. Those new berets the army doggies are wearing look pretty damn stuipid.
Yep. In 1990 I was part of the initial deployment of the Joint Operational Tactical System II(JOTS II: God, I love acronyms), which was built on SPARC. It replaced the JOTS I system, which ran on HP900s. We also had deployed systems that ran on everything from AMOS to Xenix.
Those were the days.
I hate to break it to you all, but the military has been buying Sun as COTS (Thats "Commercial, Off The Shelf") since, well, Sun opened it's doors. Hell if you realy want to geek out, some of the Army's Digital Battlestaf Training stuff runs on [PREGNANT PAUSE].... Linux!
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I've quit jobs due to PHB reliance on the morons over at Gartner.
"Unix will be a dead OS in three years." Quoth one, on his reasoning behind implemening MS solutions for the enterprise. (~ 1995)
An expensive Gartner "analyst" told him so.
Shoulda gave me that budget...
HooHa!
Good lord we're myopic. One of the first internet worms that ever got famous was the Morris worm, released in 1988. It attacked SunOS and VAX/VMS boxen.
The reason MS is struggling with it now is because the *nix folks have had about 15 years to work this problem and close the loopholes. We know what to look for.
Indeed, I am. I am telling them "Fire at will."
Certainly it does. The events today justify leaving most of the shithole desert where these fucks come from a smoking ruin.
Learn from history and don't ignore it.
OkeeDoke. How about Neville Chamberlin. Theres some history you shouldn't ignore.
The 'T' in XSLT stands for 'Transformation.' By the time the data described in the XML has reached you, it might not be (and probably isn't) XML any more. It's been transformed into something else.
The best thing you can do to weed out the bad teachers is remove the three primary benefits of being a teacher - June, July, and August.
When I hear people cry about full time pay for what is essentialy a part time job I want to puke. I've taught at the elementary level, and the collegiate level, and known great teachers and lousy teachers. You can spot the bad ones because they are busy planning thier vacations right around spring break. Make teaching a full time vocation, and the people that want to teach will stick around.
"We don't need to hire 100,000 teachers, we need to fire 100,000 teachers."
--George Will
It is "See Sharp". As a musician, you should know that it is equivlant to "Dee Flat."
Oooh. I made a funny...
+++The solution is to develop with PostgreSQL regardless of what your deployment DB will be. Their docs favor standard SQL. The code you develop will work with the proprietary DBs as well.+++ Baloney. Their docs specificaly state they aren't SQL-92 compliant, and they don't try to be. Go ahead and create a cursor with updatable columns in Postgres, then come back and blabber on about "standard SQL."
Lenat doesn't claim to have invented a concious machine. In fact, he's written extensively on the notion that you can't do that.
It's a nice toy, but it's a toy none the less.
Maybe I should be paranoid.
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There were several that were lost for a while. But we found the fuckers, and we burried their asses under a mountain of Rockeye. The FLIR footage was phenomenal.
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File this one as "Yet Another Media Discovery."
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They became highly motivated cargo cultists. She didn't motivate those kids to do anything more than a modern version of "Copy the article out of the encyclopedia."
The problem isn't that book learnin' is boring, it's that kids don't think any kind of learnin' is important.
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Thats because you're an ignorant fascist that has no idea what the Constitution represents. The Constitution doesn't grant anyone rights. It grants specific powers to the government.
Let me repeat that for you. The Constitution is not an enumeration of rights. It even says so. I'll leave it as an excercise for the ignorant to discover where.
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As owners of the mark, Hormel can make any specific exception they wish. I think that is the point of their trademark policy notes on SPAM.
It would be futile to try to enforce infringment on the mark in this context, even thoug they would be right in doing so. So they make an explicit exception for this case. It doesn't mean they aren't enforcing their mark. Quite the opposite.
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Yeah. Like school administrators with messy problems like 13 year old criminals breaking into their data systems, or 13 year olds bringing drugs to school. You can romanticise the "benevolent cracker" myth all you like. It doesn't change the fact that the kid was old enought to know the difference between right and wrong, and chose wrong. If the little fucker decides to off himself, that's his own problem, and aptly demonstrates that he wasn't that smart in the first place.
The only appropriate policy for criminal behaviour is zero tolerance.
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Might I ask, then, how you know when the software is finished?
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Hell no. Democracy can die a miserable death in a dumpster behind K-mart for all they care. CAPIATALISM is what they hold dear. If its going to make money, thats the good thing.
In fact, if I could do away with democracy completely and force you to buy my products exclusively, I'd be OK with that.
Why doesn't it surprise me that the teenage moronator crowd thinks this naiev pap is insightful, or whatever. What Jr. Dork has just described for us all is A.K.A. "Mob Rule."
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If your electronics officer didn't have enough understanding of EMCON controls and procedures to know the answer to that, he shouldn't be the electronics officer. Signal radiation has been well understood since the Germans figured out the Brits had RADAR.
2. Heavy brigades are well and good and look real pretty. Given that log support a heavy brigade needs, and the time to deply, how many times is this going to be used in the real world?
Hopefully none. But you can expect it to be deployed with any operational force. Any fighting unit needs heavy logistics support. Why do you think this would be any different?
3. Those new berets the army doggies are wearing look pretty damn stuipid.
And made in China.
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