A couple of years ago, Wired had an amazingarticle about F1 racing, particularly in terms of how it evolved yearly from the technological arms race. A team would develop something astounding, and others might copy it, and by the next year it would be outlawed. Innovation after innovation came and went like this, with few of them being allowed to remain. What I most liked about the article was the picture of a Mercedes-Benz F1 motor mounted to the dyno, looking utterly gorgeous (spotlessly clean, I should add) with its huge shiny exhaust pipes glowing cherry red.:)
Honestly, now. Did anyone make any set of predictions in 1974 that had any accuracy whatsoever with regard to computer technology? I can't think of anyone. Why do we bother with them today? The only thing I can genuinely believe likely is that 30 years from now will be far cooler than anything we can imagine right now. And I think history supports the likelihood of such a prediction.
Carmak, in his jail cell for the first night of his long sentence, with "Tyree," or "Bubba," or whoever; specifics are not important, just that the individual is large, mean, and notoriously maladjusted. It is now lights-out, and quiet falls over the prison.
As Carmak cowers under the covers of the lower bunk...
"I bet you don't want ME to have a bigger penis now, do you, boy?"
What are there more of...9 year olds or people over the age of 9? And let's face it, the real difference between a successful children's movie and one that totally rocks the profits isn't found in the under-10 demographic. It's in people our age and older, who also go for their own reasons. And for us, the novelty factor applies.
It seems a lot of people aren't seeing the real point I was making. I wasn't saying for a moment that Pixar was successful because they did computer animation. I said Pixar has an edge because they do computer animation. Their movies, in of themselves, are excellent. But novelty counts, and it adds to that.
Be mindful of something. Disney in their earlier days enjoyed something that Pixar enjoys now: the way in which their movies are made is in of itself of entertainment value. People, to some degree, are as entertained by the sophistication of the CG animation as they are by the plot, characters, and so on. This will not go on forever, just as cartoon animation became ordinary in time. Not to say that Pixar doesn't rock, but still, their sales are helped by the novelty factor.
With technology like this in place, it becomes harder for the government to justify the need for less discriminate and more easily abused capablities like Carnivore/DCS-1000 or their demands that VoIP wiretapping capability be built into ISP networking gear. If they can tap someone's net connection like their phone line, they don't need to have things installed in every ISP to be able to track what someone does.
Actually, the correct spelling would be "Tokeville," to reflect a key component of their research methodology For obvious reasons they didn't get that right either.
They're taking advantage of NT's numerous "features." You see, the blue screens blend in with the color of the ocean. The crashing is by design after all!
My point wasn't about their policy with regard to defective items, or returning things; in that they are fantastic. My reference was to how they've been doing as a business. Two decades ago, they were the largest (by far) business of their type, and had been so for a while. But they've been coughing up blood for going on a decade now, and are going downhill steadily. Check out some of the historicals (and commentary) on The Motley Fool if you'd like (free, but benevolent, registration probably required for some of it). While most of the "bricks and mortar is dead" talk of the dot-com era was way overblown, it is true that things have changed, and Sears is a shining example of a company that has utterly failed to react to the changes brought about in retail by that era.
The reporter entirely fails to grasp the most fundamental truth about eBay: eBay was started because Pierre Omidyar believed existing channels for sales transactions among individuals were entirely lacking. And it grew tremendously because he was absolutely right. The last thing in the world eBay wants to do is mimic existing systems. The point of eBay is to let an evolutionary process work things out. This is how PayPal came into existence, which has turned out to be a whole other solution that was only necessitated and made possible by eBay's choice to not address any but the most basic needs of their constituents; this is the whole point of why eBay works as it does. They don't presume to think they have all the answers as to what will work best, and instead trust the user base to help sort it out.
Also worth noting is that ordering from a catalog a hundred years ago is nothing like these days, with lesser amounts of technical information, practically no standards, and nothing but hand-drawn pictures to go by for illustrations. These days, you can be a lot more certain of what you're buying than you were then, and there is no longer any need to overcome the resistance to ordering sight unseen, as was the case then.
Oh, one other thing. The NYT reporter should have a look at what has become of Sears these days when considering how wise it would be to emulate them.
Dude, read yourself...the post was about physical security in a technical environment. And trust me, someone who works at VeriSign doesn't confuse it with Verizon.:)
I thought the U.S. had the market cornered when it came to ridiculous PC requirements in the workplace. Honestly, you'd think that in all places, EUROPE...where there is topless advertising in magazines...would be sensible enough to tell its users, "Look, we're all grownups here, and we all know how hard spam is to deal with. There is no magic solution yet, you're going to have to deal with it." I mean honestly, how many people have spam tackled at home on their own, anyways? It seems nuts to ignore the difficulty of stopping spam in an enterprise environment when coming up with guidelines to punish companies for not doing so.
What you're saying wouldn't work is blocking of their IP ranges. I think what was actually being proposed was severance of their data links to the rest of the world. All the open proxies in the world won't work if you can't connect to them in the first place.:)
I've used Sniffer Pro, Observer Pro, and Ethereal, and I always, ALWAYS prefer Ethereal. It's free, it's open source, and it's hands down the best of the lot. Sniffer Pro may have the pretty gauges and the map that shows what's talking to what (utterly useless, IMHO), and Observer Pro comes with buttloads of tools for things like SNMP configuration and whatnot, but as a sniffer, nothing has ever beated Ethereal in ease of use, capability, or packet decodes.
Last week I was having a procedure, and the surgeon was amazing. What was strange, though, was that I could swear towards the end of the procedure, I started to come out from under the anaesthetic, and I faintly heard this deep voice call out:
Slashdot Mirror
A couple of years ago, Wired had an amazing article about F1 racing, particularly in terms of how it evolved yearly from the technological arms race. A team would develop something astounding, and others might copy it, and by the next year it would be outlawed. Innovation after innovation came and went like this, with few of them being allowed to remain. What I most liked about the article was the picture of a Mercedes-Benz F1 motor mounted to the dyno, looking utterly gorgeous (spotlessly clean, I should add) with its huge shiny exhaust pipes glowing cherry red. :)
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIEEEE! Too many hits!!!! F*#%ING Slashdot!"
It's a proof of concept worm. It's not in the wild yet, according to Symantec.
Actually, the first all-artificial movie was Gigli I believe. :)
Honestly, now. Did anyone make any set of predictions in 1974 that had any accuracy whatsoever with regard to computer technology? I can't think of anyone. Why do we bother with them today? The only thing I can genuinely believe likely is that 30 years from now will be far cooler than anything we can imagine right now. And I think history supports the likelihood of such a prediction.
Carmak, in his jail cell for the first night of his long sentence, with "Tyree," or "Bubba," or whoever; specifics are not important, just that the individual is large, mean, and notoriously maladjusted. It is now lights-out, and quiet falls over the prison.
As Carmak cowers under the covers of the lower bunk...
"I bet you don't want ME to have a bigger penis now, do you, boy?"
What are there more of...9 year olds or people over the age of 9? And let's face it, the real difference between a successful children's movie and one that totally rocks the profits isn't found in the under-10 demographic. It's in people our age and older, who also go for their own reasons. And for us, the novelty factor applies.
It seems a lot of people aren't seeing the real point I was making. I wasn't saying for a moment that Pixar was successful because they did computer animation. I said Pixar has an edge because they do computer animation. Their movies, in of themselves, are excellent. But novelty counts, and it adds to that.
Be mindful of something. Disney in their earlier days enjoyed something that Pixar enjoys now: the way in which their movies are made is in of itself of entertainment value. People, to some degree, are as entertained by the sophistication of the CG animation as they are by the plot, characters, and so on. This will not go on forever, just as cartoon animation became ordinary in time. Not to say that Pixar doesn't rock, but still, their sales are helped by the novelty factor.
I have to wonder what the quality control would be, to keep someone from inserting a couple of choice frames a la "Fight Club"?
To paint the lyrics of a particular song by NWA all over the sides of my home!
With technology like this in place, it becomes harder for the government to justify the need for less discriminate and more easily abused capablities like Carnivore/DCS-1000 or their demands that VoIP wiretapping capability be built into ISP networking gear. If they can tap someone's net connection like their phone line, they don't need to have things installed in every ISP to be able to track what someone does.
Actually, the correct spelling would be "Tokeville," to reflect a key component of their research methodology For obvious reasons they didn't get that right either.
They're taking advantage of NT's numerous "features." You see, the blue screens blend in with the color of the ocean. The crashing is by design after all!
My point wasn't about their policy with regard to defective items, or returning things; in that they are fantastic. My reference was to how they've been doing as a business. Two decades ago, they were the largest (by far) business of their type, and had been so for a while. But they've been coughing up blood for going on a decade now, and are going downhill steadily. Check out some of the historicals (and commentary) on The Motley Fool if you'd like (free, but benevolent, registration probably required for some of it). While most of the "bricks and mortar is dead" talk of the dot-com era was way overblown, it is true that things have changed, and Sears is a shining example of a company that has utterly failed to react to the changes brought about in retail by that era.
The reporter entirely fails to grasp the most fundamental truth about eBay: eBay was started because Pierre Omidyar believed existing channels for sales transactions among individuals were entirely lacking. And it grew tremendously because he was absolutely right. The last thing in the world eBay wants to do is mimic existing systems. The point of eBay is to let an evolutionary process work things out. This is how PayPal came into existence, which has turned out to be a whole other solution that was only necessitated and made possible by eBay's choice to not address any but the most basic needs of their constituents; this is the whole point of why eBay works as it does. They don't presume to think they have all the answers as to what will work best, and instead trust the user base to help sort it out.
Also worth noting is that ordering from a catalog a hundred years ago is nothing like these days, with lesser amounts of technical information, practically no standards, and nothing but hand-drawn pictures to go by for illustrations. These days, you can be a lot more certain of what you're buying than you were then, and there is no longer any need to overcome the resistance to ordering sight unseen, as was the case then.
Oh, one other thing. The NYT reporter should have a look at what has become of Sears these days when considering how wise it would be to emulate them.
OMG! Dubya reads slashdot?!?!?!
Dude, read yourself...the post was about physical security in a technical environment. And trust me, someone who works at VeriSign doesn't confuse it with Verizon. :)
Okay, to the person who posted this in response to my personal description of some of VeriSign's security...THIS is why!
"...thermoacoustic refrigeration technology, which uses helium gas subjected to ultra-loud 173 db sound to chill an ice cream cooler..."
A use for '80s hair metal bands, at last.
I thought the U.S. had the market cornered when it came to ridiculous PC requirements in the workplace. Honestly, you'd think that in all places, EUROPE...where there is topless advertising in magazines...would be sensible enough to tell its users, "Look, we're all grownups here, and we all know how hard spam is to deal with. There is no magic solution yet, you're going to have to deal with it." I mean honestly, how many people have spam tackled at home on their own, anyways? It seems nuts to ignore the difficulty of stopping spam in an enterprise environment when coming up with guidelines to punish companies for not doing so.
Now someone can be both Miriam Abacha AND Sese-Seko in their 419 scams at the same time!
Ahh, yes. IPX. The network protocol that, like IP, uses sequence numbers. Unfortunately, it only uses 256 of them!
What you're saying wouldn't work is blocking of their IP ranges. I think what was actually being proposed was severance of their data links to the rest of the world. All the open proxies in the world won't work if you can't connect to them in the first place. :)
I've used Sniffer Pro, Observer Pro, and Ethereal, and I always, ALWAYS prefer Ethereal. It's free, it's open source, and it's hands down the best of the lot. Sniffer Pro may have the pretty gauges and the map that shows what's talking to what (utterly useless, IMHO), and Observer Pro comes with buttloads of tools for things like SNMP configuration and whatnot, but as a sniffer, nothing has ever beated Ethereal in ease of use, capability, or packet decodes.
Last week I was having a procedure, and the surgeon was amazing. What was strange, though, was that I could swear towards the end of the procedure, I started to come out from under the anaesthetic, and I faintly heard this deep voice call out:
FRAG MONKEY!