Heinlein had some good thoughts about where marriage would wind up. In most of his books it becomes a renegotiable contract between the two people rather than a total commitment. Often in his books people will marry for the reason of rasing a few children together. Once the kids all hit 18..out they go and off go the parents in seperate directions.
I suspect that common use of such a flexible marriage agreement is not as far off as the immortality speculated upon in the article.
One of the key points that Heinlein brought up with greater lifespans is the idea that it will lead to the true spread of humanity. We WILL run out of the resources needed to maintain the lifestyle and freedoms we enjoy. Longer life will give a brave few the hope that they might survive to see the end of a long trip away from earth.
The Earth is too fragile a basket for humanity to keep all its eggs in...
He also somwhat touches on the idea that interesting things might be done when there are so many experienced people around. What would it be like to work with an engineer who had been solving problems for a century? How would all that experience benefit the work he produced?
Marriage and treatment of children as they age are also interesting areas to consider. Marriage often doesn't last forever today. What if people still felt young and sure that they would live 100 more years even at 140? Would they still be with the person they chose at 20?
I would suggest that in the situation you describe, both were probably hacked if they were available via public networks. It is often easier to determine that the unix-like box has been broken into because care and feeding of a unix-like machine requires a more intimate interaction with the machine. Also the abundance of logging available in unix-like systems makes an intrusion easier to detect.
A windows box might function perfectly normally after it has been comprmised. It is very easy to miss a wrom which has installed itself on your system and is slowly spreading itself throughout the world.
Intrusion Detection Systems often are used in this same way. They monitor traffic and report suspicion actions. Some (snort included) capture and record packet dumps....much like taping a conversation.
Intrusion Prevention Systems do the same thing, except they have the ability to actaully interfere with the conversation and drop packets or block hosts. Imagine a wire tap that could mute one of the callers to interfere with meaningful conversation.
Firewalls too. Lets also lock up everyone using a firewall. A firewall, or cluster of firewalls monitor all the traffic (eamil, web, ftp, etc.) in and out of almost every business network on the internet. ALL of these devices are looking at and selectivly recording traffic on those networks.
Nearly every network security tool can be compared to a wire tap....however, its my damn wire!
The real question to ask is:
Can I legally tap my own wires?
As a business owner, is it legal for me to record and be aware of the incoming and outgoing communications from my business?
Direct X is not a M$ innovation. Its an implementation of an abstraction layer. It wraps hardware graphics chip functions with a nice layer of graphics library calls.
I was there twice in the last week and didn't notice burned in spots, but a few of them did look a bit blurry. Still, they beat the crap out of the 19' monochrome junk that was in airports just a few years ago.
I think delta runs all of those things off a bunch of HP-UX machines....I have no evidence to back this, I just know they use HP-UX a lot and seem to remember reading something about its connection with that project.
Delta is great. Those self check-in kiosks by the Marta station really rock. I only had to carry my bags about a hundred yards...to the train, then to the kiosk. Hehe, I'm a lazy man.
I worked for the high energy physics department in college. My team built hardware for the CLEO detector at Cornell and D0 detector at Fermi. Part of the project was testing some mircochips which contained ADCs for monitoring voltages. These chips had not been packaged or enclosed in anything. They had just been wire bonded to long strips with fine wires. Any bit of material falling on these chips could ruin them...so, we worked in the clean room.
Our clean room was really just a large area enclosed in heavy transparent plastic of a heavy grade with an air filer and blower on top. Like a tent. The plasctic hung from a steel frame and was an inch or so off the ground. The system worked by there being a positive pressure in the clean room. No dust could get in through the openings. Its too hard to build an airtight room...much easier just to use positive pressure in the clean zone. The system we used was a kit. I'm not sure how much it cost...the univ took care of that. I helped with some of the assembly, mostly it was done by the campus plant guys, but we hung the plastic and installed the filters ourselves.
There were 4 blowers on top of the room with really fancy filters. One of them had an air conditioner attached to its intake to keep us from getting to warm in our box. It was fun.
I think you could duplicate somthing like this fairly easily. A lot of it depends on how clean you want the room...they come in different grades.
Filters and positive pressure only work to a certain grade. I don't have numbers, been too long.
Thanks man, as a Linux user stuck on a windows2000 machine for web development, I didn't know how to kill this. I stopped even trying to admin windows systems years ago...there's no point. But this was getting annoying.
I have "Ask for ID" on the back of my cards where the signature should go. I got around the signature issue by signing my name in VERY tiny writing. Its readable and it matches my signature, but the first thing peoples eyes are drawn to when they look at the card back is the "Ask for ID" line.
Too bad the jerks usually don't bother to turn the card over...hell, most don't even look at the front of the card. At the stores with the little box where I swipe my own card, a lot of cashiers never see or touch my card.
Before someone whines at me about what a hard life cashiers have, I was one for a little while, and I don't care. There is no excuse for not doing your job properly.
I really like your idea of writing on the back in huge letters. I think I'll get my sharpie out and mark mine up a little.
I'm an out of work developer in Atlanta. The job market here is terrible. I'm not super experienced, but I know how to learn what I need to know and I always get the job done.
But, my guess is that the company you are working for will be broke before long. I doubt that your management would be asking this of you unless they had hit the point where they could fund development for only a short time. Their tactic of flat out demanding you work more (with no additional compensation mentioned) shows a towering lack of respect for their employees. These two issues, financial trouble, and poor employee treatment are a spectacular way to fan the flames of apathy and diloyalty. I'm sure some of the developers will find other places to work, and a few others will be asked to leave as "we tighten the belt a little" in response to the dwindling money.
I worked at that company last year, but I'll work there now, just to alleviate the dull daily routine of unemployment and poverty.
I'm glad it went well. I'll be at the next one, but I hope its somewhere else. How about Dave and Buster's? They can handle any number and accomodate all ages until 10 or 11. We can play video games together. Or get blasted.
No idea man, I was late too and the place was a bitch to find. No address, no parking, the sign was invisible from the road yahoo maps told me to take and the place was to small to have held half the people signed up if they showed. I couldn't make it till 9 and there were only a few people at the place and none really looked like the meetup crowd. A couple people necking and an old man asleep in a chair by the door was about it. I will certainly vote for another venue next time.
I'd like to hear from someone how it went, or if it went at all.
I also think that the meetup site needs a forum where the past events can be discussed publicly. I want to read some opinions from people who were there.
That is really friggin' funny. I wish a had some mod points today. It fits so well with the humor of the book. I guess no one around here today has read it.
hehehe. I love it.
The beauty of this model is that if you weren't such a lazy whinner you could get off your ass and write the same damned EZ-KONFIG tool.
Don't complain about this.
Usability = 1/Functionality
This equation explains the problem pretty well I think.
Snort is very flexible, stable and thin. It has tremendous packet scanning capabilities. Because of all of this functionality there are many choices to be made when configuring snort. It takes time, knowledge and effort to correctly and efficiently configure snort.
All of the functionality is in the open source version, and there are other open source tools, such as ACID, which make analysis of the snort output very easy. I'm sure there will be some effort made to make snort easier to configure and maintain by an open source project someday. I won't do it though, cause I like snort the way it is.
The man gave us a good app. I think its pretty fair of him to ask for money if you want him to hold your hand and set it up for you.
Actually, I know the people who run that site. It does exactly what they say it does. They show you some ads, some other folks pay them, they feed starving people.
They are good people and have worked for many years in many countries to feed starving people.
Don't believe everything you read....or if you choose to, I have an article about the benefits of becoming my slave I'd like you to read.
I went to the mozilla party in my area (atlanta) and had a great time. I met a bunch of true geeks. One of them even had a pair of stratus machines in his living-room.
Yeah, I'll be heading to this party. Having a total geek conversation with new people who haven't heard all of you rants is always fun. Mix some beer and things could get really wild. We might even talk about non technology related topics!
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Heinlein had some good thoughts about where marriage would wind up. In most of his books it becomes a renegotiable contract between the two people rather than a total commitment. Often in his books people will marry for the reason of rasing a few children together. Once the kids all hit 18..out they go and off go the parents in seperate directions.
I suspect that common use of such a flexible marriage agreement is not as far off as the immortality speculated upon in the article.
Heinlein is the man.
One of the key points that Heinlein brought up with greater lifespans is the idea that it will lead to the true spread of humanity. We WILL run out of the resources needed to maintain the lifestyle and freedoms we enjoy. Longer life will give a brave few the hope that they might survive to see the end of a long trip away from earth.
The Earth is too fragile a basket for humanity to keep all its eggs in...
He also somwhat touches on the idea that interesting things might be done when there are so many experienced people around. What would it be like to work with an engineer who had been solving problems for a century? How would all that experience benefit the work he produced?
Marriage and treatment of children as they age are also interesting areas to consider. Marriage often doesn't last forever today. What if people still felt young and sure that they would live 100 more years even at 140? Would they still be with the person they chose at 20?
I look forward to seeing it...but doubt I will.
There's no test like production!
I would suggest that in the situation you describe, both were probably hacked if they were available via public networks. It is often easier to determine that the unix-like box has been broken into because care and feeding of a unix-like machine requires a more intimate interaction with the machine. Also the abundance of logging available in unix-like systems makes an intrusion easier to detect.
A windows box might function perfectly normally after it has been comprmised. It is very easy to miss a wrom which has installed itself on your system and is slowly spreading itself throughout the world.
Intrusion Detection Systems often are used in this same way. They monitor traffic and report suspicion actions. Some (snort included) capture and record packet dumps....much like taping a conversation.
Intrusion Prevention Systems do the same thing, except they have the ability to actaully interfere with the conversation and drop packets or block hosts. Imagine a wire tap that could mute one of the callers to interfere with meaningful conversation.
Firewalls too. Lets also lock up everyone using a firewall. A firewall, or cluster of firewalls monitor all the traffic (eamil, web, ftp, etc.) in and out of almost every business network on the internet. ALL of these devices are looking at and selectivly recording traffic on those networks.
Nearly every network security tool can be compared to a wire tap....however, its my damn wire!
The real question to ask is:
Can I legally tap my own wires?
As a business owner, is it legal for me to record and be aware of the incoming and outgoing communications from my business?
Heinlein is my idol.
What 60s era sci-fi would you recommend?
And, are you trying to say that sci-fi books don't qualify as 'real books'?
Direct X is not a M$ innovation. Its an implementation of an abstraction layer. It wraps hardware graphics chip functions with a nice layer of graphics library calls.
Like OpenGL...which came first
Delphi came before VB and its better.
I was there twice in the last week and didn't notice burned in spots, but a few of them did look a bit blurry. Still, they beat the crap out of the 19' monochrome junk that was in airports just a few years ago.
I think delta runs all of those things off a bunch of HP-UX machines....I have no evidence to back this, I just know they use HP-UX a lot and seem to remember reading something about its connection with that project.
Delta is great. Those self check-in kiosks by the Marta station really rock. I only had to carry my bags about a hundred yards...to the train, then to the kiosk. Hehe, I'm a lazy man.
I worked for the high energy physics department in college. My team built hardware for the CLEO detector at Cornell and D0 detector at Fermi. Part of the project was testing some mircochips which contained ADCs for monitoring voltages. These chips had not been packaged or enclosed in anything. They had just been wire bonded to long strips with fine wires. Any bit of material falling on these chips could ruin them...so, we worked in the clean room.
Our clean room was really just a large area enclosed in heavy transparent plastic of a heavy grade with an air filer and blower on top. Like a tent. The plasctic hung from a steel frame and was an inch or so off the ground. The system worked by there being a positive pressure in the clean room. No dust could get in through the openings. Its too hard to build an airtight room...much easier just to use positive pressure in the clean zone. The system we used was a kit. I'm not sure how much it cost...the univ took care of that. I helped with some of the assembly, mostly it was done by the campus plant guys, but we hung the plastic and installed the filters ourselves.
There were 4 blowers on top of the room with really fancy filters. One of them had an air conditioner attached to its intake to keep us from getting to warm in our box. It was fun.
I think you could duplicate somthing like this fairly easily. A lot of it depends on how clean you want the room...they come in different grades.
Filters and positive pressure only work to a certain grade. I don't have numbers, been too long.
Thanks man, as a Linux user stuck on a windows2000 machine for web development, I didn't know how to kill this. I stopped even trying to admin windows systems years ago...there's no point. But this was getting annoying.
You win a star.
I have "Ask for ID" on the back of my cards where the signature should go. I got around the signature issue by signing my name in VERY tiny writing. Its readable and it matches my signature, but the first thing peoples eyes are drawn to when they look at the card back is the "Ask for ID" line.
Too bad the jerks usually don't bother to turn the card over...hell, most don't even look at the front of the card. At the stores with the little box where I swipe my own card, a lot of cashiers never see or touch my card.
Before someone whines at me about what a hard life cashiers have, I was one for a little while, and I don't care. There is no excuse for not doing your job properly.
I really like your idea of writing on the back in huge letters. I think I'll get my sharpie out and mark mine up a little.
I'm an out of work developer in Atlanta. The job market here is terrible. I'm not super experienced, but I know how to learn what I need to know and I always get the job done.
But, my guess is that the company you are working for will be broke before long. I doubt that your management would be asking this of you unless they had hit the point where they could fund development for only a short time. Their tactic of flat out demanding you work more (with no additional compensation mentioned) shows a towering lack of respect for their employees. These two issues, financial trouble, and poor employee treatment are a spectacular way to fan the flames of apathy and diloyalty. I'm sure some of the developers will find other places to work, and a few others will be asked to leave as "we tighten the belt a little" in response to the dwindling money.
I worked at that company last year, but I'll work there now, just to alleviate the dull daily routine of unemployment and poverty.
I've looked and find nothing. Perhaps someone captured the show on a tivo and could share it with the rest of us that way?
Suggestions anyone?
I make no claims about whether Java or Perl is faster, but I think this article had some interesting information on performance in one area.
Alright, screw it, Perl ROCKS!. Java SUCKS!. See here.
I think I'll submit Dave and Buster's as a venue choice. Its on 85 past north of 285 a couple miles.
Any Atlanta folks have any thoughts, objections, support?
See this comment for a couple thoughts.
I'm glad it went well. I'll be at the next one, but I hope its somewhere else. How about Dave and Buster's? They can handle any number and accomodate all ages until 10 or 11. We can play video games together. Or get blasted.
What do you think?
I am blessed. Thank you. Let the cooking begin!
No idea man, I was late too and the place was a bitch to find. No address, no parking, the sign was invisible from the road yahoo maps told me to take and the place was to small to have held half the people signed up if they showed. I couldn't make it till 9 and there were only a few people at the place and none really looked like the meetup crowd. A couple people necking and an old man asleep in a chair by the door was about it. I will certainly vote for another venue next time.
I'd like to hear from someone how it went, or if it went at all.
I also think that the meetup site needs a forum where the past events can be discussed publicly. I want to read some opinions from people who were there.
Better luck next time I hope.
Perhaps a link to help out us little children?
I would love to devour such a text.
I crack me up.
That is really friggin' funny. I wish a had some mod points today. It fits so well with the humor of the book. I guess no one around here today has read it.
hehehe. I love it.
The beauty of this model is that if you weren't such a lazy whinner you could get off your ass and write the same damned EZ-KONFIG tool.
Don't complain about this.
Usability = 1/Functionality
This equation explains the problem pretty well I think.
Snort is very flexible, stable and thin. It has tremendous packet scanning capabilities. Because of all of this functionality there are many choices to be made when configuring snort. It takes time, knowledge and effort to correctly and efficiently configure snort.
All of the functionality is in the open source version, and there are other open source tools, such as ACID, which make analysis of the snort output very easy. I'm sure there will be some effort made to make snort easier to configure and maintain by an open source project someday. I won't do it though, cause I like snort the way it is.
The man gave us a good app. I think its pretty fair of him to ask for money if you want him to hold your hand and set it up for you.
Actually, I know the people who run that site. It does exactly what they say it does. They show you some ads, some other folks pay them, they feed starving people.
They are good people and have worked for many years in many countries to feed starving people.
Don't believe everything you read....or if you choose to, I have an article about the benefits of becoming my slave I'd like you to read.
HAHAHA!
I love it. Crap, I need to learn to fish again, I've forgotten how.
I went to the mozilla party in my area (atlanta) and had a great time. I met a bunch of true geeks. One of them even had a pair of stratus machines in his living-room.
Yeah, I'll be heading to this party. Having a total geek conversation with new people who haven't heard all of you rants is always fun. Mix some beer and things could get really wild. We might even talk about non technology related topics!