That's all well and good, if you have a society of engineers. But what happens to those that can't graduate university?
They get to go to vocational school and learn how to repair and maintain all those cool toys the engineers build.
Very funny. You think it's still 1950.
No User Serviceable Parts Inside was the motto of the last half of the 20th Century. Now it's more like Ending is better than Mending.
Realistically, its virtually impossible to repair microcircuit-based devices. And even when it isn't, it's simply not cost-effective more often than not. Often, even a set of new batteries costs more than the original device did, batteries and all.
The old time TV/Radio repair shops are virtually extinct. Last one I saw did primarily replacements on projector bulbs.
Nah think bigger picture. NASA needs to start filming and selling zero-g porn. They'll have a virtual monopoly on the stuff and the adult industry is worth $10+ billion a year. That's twice what NASA spent on space operations in 2011.
And in case you think it's a joke, and not a commentary on how sad it is people would rather invest in seeing money shots than real science, I haz links:
(although it is cheering to know that the entire NASA budget is bigger than the porn industry, although I must admit I was a little surprised by the 3 billion spent on "cross agency support" -- what's that about?)
Economically speaking, people *always* behave rationally.
I think you have confused being rational with rationalizing.
It's pretty well-demonstrated that economically, people don't behave rationally. If they did, boom-and-bust cycles wouldn't exist. And Alan Greenspan wouldn't have felt compelled to make his famous comment.
Sometimes people don't think too far past the end of their noses. I mean they don't pronounce bowling like howling in the U.S. so it shouldn't be much of a stretch to pronounce Rowling like bowling instead of howling. sheesh.
Really, such a row about nothing.
I long ago decided that English-English is a language where they take other people's spelling of words and pronounce them in their own non-phonetical/non-native way. Jaguar, for example. Not that they have to be foreign words (Worcestershire). One of the differences between English English and American English is that American is more likely to track the original native language pronunciation.
If she wants to answer to "Rowling-as-in-bowling", more power. Tolkien was on record as being annoyed with people pronouncing his name German-style ("tol-keen", or "tol-kine"). It was TOL-kee-en, and who are we to argue with a professional linguist?
This is not about investigating crime. It's about figuring out which people to track, then tracking them.
FTFY
The point is... We don't want the government to arbitrarily track people. That's why we have limitations on police investigative powers, on harassment, on stalking, on all kinds of things.
We're not talking about people we have probable cause for a warrant to search or arrest.
And that's exactly the point... We should be!
No it's not.
I realize that the USA has pretensions, but we simply are not allowed to swear out warrants or make arrests in Pakistan - extraordinary renditions and Gitmo gleanings notwithstanding.
We obviously do have to have probable cause when dealing with US citizens, and that applies even to citizens like the Boston Bombers as much as it does the native-born Unabomber. But we don't have that option in other nations, so we have to either enlist the governments in question or engage in clandestine surveillance (since US constitutional protections don't apply there). And in the case of actual arrest, we need their goodwill and co-operation if we're to retain what few shreds of respect and alleged moral superiority we still have.
It's not that he doesn't know how to do the job, it's that the job is impossible.
He's right, you can't make connections without any form of tracking whatsoever, and his job is to make those connections. He shouldn't be fired, but perhaps his job should be changed or removed.
True. But the problem is that he wants to track everyoneindiscriminately instead of looking specifically for the people who he should be tracking and focusing on them.
There's an old joke about a statistician who drowned in a lake whose average depth was 2 inches.
Old fashioned detective work? Surely you jest. (Stop calling me shirley). You actually expect that we can do real detective work when we can't profile people? The PC crowd keeps poking at us when we look at a given group, say, arab men ages 18 to 40. So in order to show how "fair" we are, we need to look at everyone's metadata. After the have the data, we can filter it as we see fit and no one will know we're profiling. Oddly enough, when looking for a needle in a haystack, you need more hay.
Profiling is just another form of indiscriminate metadata.
To do a really effective job, pay attention to the people, not the groups. Not every Muslim out there is "Death to America". Not every Anglo-Saxon granny is "Apple Pie". Tim McVeigh was as white-bread USA as anyone, but if the proper people had been listening to him, he would have had a lot more trouble doing what he did. Otherwise you're just playing the odds.
Hour of code is not a bad thing, but this didn't create 12M programmers, much less 12M people who know computer science. They averaged 32.4 lines each.
It's about as valid as saying 12M students "learned" neurosurgery in 3 days.
I'm bloody brilliant, but I didn't learn what I know in 3 days. I only learned a small fraction of what I know in 3 days.
Is there any other alternative to let say outlook exchange servers ? Can an email server hold more than 1000 accounts ? I know I can use openoffice but the email would be a big pain
Er, you DO realize that it took several years before Microsoft was able to run Hotmail on Microsoft software don't you?
Do we know that they saved money overall? I poked around the article but I couldnâ(TM)t find anything.
You write as though this point is the end of possible cost savings. In the future, there will be no more Windows licenses, no more CALs to buy. No more Office licenses.
More importantly, no (or perhaps fewer) vendor(s) with a lock-in that prevents effective price negotiations and, for those that do have lock-in, a very credible threat that they will be replaced if they refuse to play ball.
Also no tying up tech staff with juggling licenses in fear of the Spanish Inquisition, er software license audits.
This is Google demonstrating that their platform for abstracting a client's hardware is robust and performant. I suspect that Amiga emulation is just because it's cool.
No, It's just so you can play Lemmings the way it was meant to be played.
As bad as I feel about it, after blocking the entire IP blocks of China and Russia at my firewall, attacks (and spam) have dropped to almost zero. I know that some people can't do this for various reasons and I know that it goes against the spirit of the internet, but I think it was worth the peace of mind for me.
Ditto. It was bad enough blocking Korea, but there have been occasions when legitimate emails would come to me from Russia. Lack of policing by their ISPs has forced me to block them. You also won't get through to me if you live in Taiwan and use HINET.
It's more than just the spirit of the Internet. It's like I can't get a postcard from Great-Aunt Sally because the town she lives in has a postoffice that's heavily employed by junk mailers and con men. Or like having to ban all incoming phone calls from Canada due to telemarketers. It hurts everyone except the guilty.
Only 3? I've been the sys admin for a small number of web servers (for hobby and small business projects) for nearly 15 years and I see break-in attempts (*) from numerous IPs on a near constant basis; every few minutes a new, offending IP ends up getting blocked by my firewall. Nowadays, something close to 95% of these 'attacks' originates from China, where as only a few years ago the attacks were reasonably well distributed across the globe, with places like the Ukraine and Russia appearing highest on the list of offenders. Of course, the source IP may just be a proxy for the true source of the attack, so it is hard to say for sure where most originate from.
* The vast majority of break-in attempts I see are simple password guessing attempts for widely used account usernames. Disabling root login, enforcing use of SSH keys and using something like Fail2ban takes care of these with ease.
I didn't mention the thousands of casual assaults I deflect daily. These particular offenders, however, are more dedicated. And besides, the original item of contention was specifically on China.
May I ask what kind of server? Is it already public-facing? And just one of your servers?
Actually, there are really 2 different servers under consistent attack. Yes, they're public-facing (it would be a pretty poor firewall, else). And one of them is at almost the exact opposite end of the country.
Because no country existing outside of a dystopic novel has anything comparable to the NSA. Inb4 China: China's massive espionage ends at their borders, outside there it's just the usual, they don't even monitor WoW despite the risk of gnome terrorists.
There are no less than 3 separate sources within the People's Republic of China that hammer on one of my servers 24x7x365 trying to break their way in. They've been at it for a very, very long time.
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That's all well and good, if you have a society of engineers. But what happens to those that can't graduate university?
They get to go to vocational school and learn how to repair and maintain all those cool toys the engineers build.
Very funny. You think it's still 1950.
No User Serviceable Parts Inside was the motto of the last half of the 20th Century. Now it's more like Ending is better than Mending.
Realistically, its virtually impossible to repair microcircuit-based devices. And even when it isn't, it's simply not cost-effective more often than not. Often, even a set of new batteries costs more than the original device did, batteries and all.
The old time TV/Radio repair shops are virtually extinct. Last one I saw did primarily replacements on projector bulbs.
There is a reason you get are forced to preview your post before submitting.
It's so you can see what you mis-typed. Right after you click the "Submit" button.
Nah think bigger picture. NASA needs to start filming and selling zero-g porn. They'll have a virtual monopoly on the stuff and the adult industry is worth $10+ billion a year. That's twice what NASA spent on space operations in 2011.
And in case you think it's a joke, and not a commentary on how sad it is people would rather invest in seeing money shots than real science, I haz links :
http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/659660main_NASA_FY13_Budget_Estimates-508-rev.pdf
http://www.forbes.com/2001/05/25/0524porn.html
(although it is cheering to know that the entire NASA budget is bigger than the porn industry, although I must admit I was a little surprised by the 3 billion spent on "cross agency support" -- what's that about?)
Nah. Russian zero-g porn!
Economically speaking, people *always* behave rationally.
I think you have confused being rational with rationalizing.
It's pretty well-demonstrated that economically, people don't behave rationally. If they did, boom-and-bust cycles wouldn't exist. And Alan Greenspan wouldn't have felt compelled to make his famous comment.
Sometimes people don't think too far past the end of their noses. I mean they don't pronounce bowling like howling in the U.S. so it shouldn't be much of a stretch to pronounce Rowling like bowling instead of howling. sheesh.
Really, such a row about nothing.
I long ago decided that English-English is a language where they take other people's spelling of words and pronounce them in their own non-phonetical/non-native way. Jaguar, for example. Not that they have to be foreign words (Worcestershire). One of the differences between English English and American English is that American is more likely to track the original native language pronunciation.
If she wants to answer to "Rowling-as-in-bowling", more power. Tolkien was on record as being annoyed with people pronouncing his name German-style ("tol-keen", or "tol-kine"). It was TOL-kee-en, and who are we to argue with a professional linguist?
If you use it like a noun, it is a noun. Prescriptivist linguistics is pretty much always wrong.
Of course, going back to the original paragraph, it's pretty plain that they used it like an adjective.
Pffft!
This is not about investigating crime. It's about figuring out which people to track, then tracking them.
FTFY
The point is... We don't want the government to arbitrarily track people. That's why we have limitations on police investigative powers, on harassment, on stalking, on all kinds of things.
We're not talking about people we have probable cause for a warrant to search or arrest.
And that's exactly the point... We should be!
No it's not.
I realize that the USA has pretensions, but we simply are not allowed to swear out warrants or make arrests in Pakistan - extraordinary renditions and Gitmo gleanings notwithstanding.
We obviously do have to have probable cause when dealing with US citizens, and that applies even to citizens like the Boston Bombers as much as it does the native-born Unabomber. But we don't have that option in other nations, so we have to either enlist the governments in question or engage in clandestine surveillance (since US constitutional protections don't apply there). And in the case of actual arrest, we need their goodwill and co-operation if we're to retain what few shreds of respect and alleged moral superiority we still have.
It's not that he doesn't know how to do the job, it's that the job is impossible.
He's right, you can't make connections without any form of tracking whatsoever, and his job is to make those connections. He shouldn't be fired, but perhaps his job should be changed or removed.
True. But the problem is that he wants to track everyone indiscriminately instead of looking specifically for the people who he should be tracking and focusing on them.
There's an old joke about a statistician who drowned in a lake whose average depth was 2 inches.
Old fashioned detective work? Surely you jest. (Stop calling me shirley). You actually expect that we can do real detective work when we can't profile people? The PC crowd keeps poking at us when we look at a given group, say, arab men ages 18 to 40. So in order to show how "fair" we are, we need to look at everyone's metadata. After the have the data, we can filter it as we see fit and no one will know we're profiling. Oddly enough, when looking for a needle in a haystack, you need more hay.
Profiling is just another form of indiscriminate metadata.
To do a really effective job, pay attention to the people, not the groups. Not every Muslim out there is "Death to America". Not every Anglo-Saxon granny is "Apple Pie". Tim McVeigh was as white-bread USA as anyone, but if the proper people had been listening to him, he would have had a lot more trouble doing what he did. Otherwise you're just playing the odds.
Hour of code is not a bad thing, but this didn't create 12M programmers, much less 12M people who know computer science. They averaged 32.4 lines each.
It's about as valid as saying 12M students "learned" neurosurgery in 3 days.
I'm bloody brilliant, but I didn't learn what I know in 3 days. I only learned a small fraction of what I know in 3 days.
Is there any other alternative to let say outlook exchange servers ? Can an email server hold more than 1000 accounts ? I know I can use openoffice but the email would be a big pain
Er, you DO realize that it took several years before Microsoft was able to run Hotmail on Microsoft software don't you?
Guess what they were using before then.
"spite" isn't likely a significant factor, unless Microsoft has somehow managed to personally offend every politician in Munich.
Clippy: It looks like you're attempting to write a campaign speech. Need some help?
You write as though this point is the end of possible cost savings. In the future, there will be no more Windows licenses, no more CALs to buy. No more Office licenses.
More importantly, no (or perhaps fewer) vendor(s) with a lock-in that prevents effective price negotiations and, for those that do have lock-in, a very credible threat that they will be replaced if they refuse to play ball.
Also no tying up tech staff with juggling licenses in fear of the Spanish Inquisition, er software license audits.
No tablet interface shoehorned onto your desktop because Steve Ballmer says so...
Having experienced the Gnome Desktop, I'm presuming that this was meant to be sarcastic.
This kind of thing is outright theft so let's hope others start to think twice before outsourcing to India.
But then who will answer all my technical support questions?
Have you tried turning off and back on again?
So an emulator running on 2010 era hardware can almost run at speeds of the native technology on 80's era hardware.
wow
On the other hand, you can emulate a high-end IBM mainframe circa 1980 at higher speed than the original on a cell phone.
That's terrifying. You don't even need motor-generators or a water chiller.
This is Google demonstrating that their platform for abstracting a client's hardware is robust and performant. I suspect that Amiga emulation is just because it's cool.
No, It's just so you can play Lemmings the way it was meant to be played.
As bad as I feel about it, after blocking the entire IP blocks of China and Russia at my firewall, attacks (and spam) have dropped to almost zero. I know that some people can't do this for various reasons and I know that it goes against the spirit of the internet, but I think it was worth the peace of mind for me.
Ditto. It was bad enough blocking Korea, but there have been occasions when legitimate emails would come to me from Russia. Lack of policing by their ISPs has forced me to block them. You also won't get through to me if you live in Taiwan and use HINET.
It's more than just the spirit of the Internet. It's like I can't get a postcard from Great-Aunt Sally because the town she lives in has a postoffice that's heavily employed by junk mailers and con men. Or like having to ban all incoming phone calls from Canada due to telemarketers. It hurts everyone except the guilty.
Only 3? I've been the sys admin for a small number of web servers (for hobby and small business projects) for nearly 15 years and I see break-in attempts (*) from numerous IPs on a near constant basis; every few minutes a new, offending IP ends up getting blocked by my firewall. Nowadays, something close to 95% of these 'attacks' originates from China, where as only a few years ago the attacks were reasonably well distributed across the globe, with places like the Ukraine and Russia appearing highest on the list of offenders. Of course, the source IP may just be a proxy for the true source of the attack, so it is hard to say for sure where most originate from.
* The vast majority of break-in attempts I see are simple password guessing attempts for widely used account usernames. Disabling root login, enforcing use of SSH keys and using something like Fail2ban takes care of these with ease.
I didn't mention the thousands of casual assaults I deflect daily. These particular offenders, however, are more dedicated. And besides, the original item of contention was specifically on China.
If that quote is accurate, Mr. Fuller was mistaken.
Pollution is allowed to happen because harvesting the resources represented would cost grossly more than they are worth.
Too often, however, the "worth" is computed by the bean-counters merely by clean-up costs to the company and not on the costs to the rest of us.
May I ask what kind of server? Is it already public-facing? And just one of your servers?
Actually, there are really 2 different servers under consistent attack. Yes, they're public-facing (it would be a pretty poor firewall, else). And one of them is at almost the exact opposite end of the country.
Ha! In the real world we'd end up with the Nutrimatics Drinks Dispenser.
And yes, something almost - but not quite - entirely unlike tea
"Hippy herbal tea."
Earl Grey is a mixture of tea and bergamot. Which itself is an herb.
Anyway, it's rather amusing that only one computer on the Enteprise can talk, just aside from the stupidity of the food synthesizer.
Because no country existing outside of a dystopic novel has anything comparable to the NSA. Inb4 China: China's massive espionage ends at their borders, outside there it's just the usual, they don't even monitor WoW despite the risk of gnome terrorists.
There are no less than 3 separate sources within the People's Republic of China that hammer on one of my servers 24x7x365 trying to break their way in. They've been at it for a very, very long time.
"Computer: end program."
Tea: Earl Grey, Hot.
Didn't work, but there's still no way I'm wearing a red jumpsuit out of the house....
Primitive technology,
A sufficiently advanced system would recognize his voice and automatically choose his usual preference unless otherwise stated. In other words:
"Tea."