No, they are delivering killer robots designed to look like over-the-hill bodybuilders (like THAT'S really inconspicuous), which will infiltrate undetected and kill our future leaders.
I try to follow an idea from public heath services' response to virus outbreaks; I create a perimeter around the outbreak consisting of vaccinated systems. In this case, the virus carrier is the internet, so all of the systems the control passage of information to and from the internet are vaccinated (patched) first. Of course, if you have no proxy server, and way to block harmful web content at the edge, that means patching everybody...
In typical Heinlein fashion, they seem to have come up with an outside-the-box solution that actually has the potential to acheive their goals. It's not clear whether this was all Ginny's idea, or whether R.A.H. had a hand, but either way, it's clearly a great idea.
He's not just some shlub in a lab. The guy's the CTO, and as such, he is assumed to set the technical tone for the company (that's why he's the chief). If the board believes his personal vision is not in line with the company's goals (i.e., taking Microsoft's money and getting rich), then they would be failing in their duties if they did not replace him.
The article neglects to mention that some states have begun implementing their own version of TIA (see The Washington Post article). There appears to be some feeling that they can sneak in under the radar if it's not a federal program.
The pledges of restraint by Florida law enforcement officials are particularly comforting.
I've seen the annotated version of the picture above (or a similar one), which tries to identify each cluster of light sources. My favoriteblobs of light are the ones labelled "Japanese fishing fleet" and the various gas burn-offs from African and Mideast oil fields.
Well, having done tech support, I know for a fact that the good ones get promoted to something more interesting, like system administration or sheep dipping. If you run into a guy with a number of years of tech support experience on tier one, you gotta wonder what he's still doing there.
Want to place a bet that the NSA did some major number crunching post-9/11, on exactly this topic - whether someone was betting that certain stocks and municipal bonds would fall after early September 2001? Or that kidnappers (organized ones) in certain areas of the world don't sell short on companies whose CEO's they intend to snatch?
One of the things computers are good for (in the hands of good programmers) is correlating data. Yes, they can't pattern match like humans, but once you sic them on a problem, they can sure sift data. If the gnomes didn't have big iron busy tracking these buying patterns, they're more asleep than they've proven themselves in the past
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I'm finding, after having lived here for only 8 years, that you can't turn around here without running into someplace where something happened, or is still happening.
The MIT Swapfest, the Media Labs, Tech Square, the Museum of Science, The Harvard-Smithsonian Observatory...the list goes on and on. The Boston Perl Mongers are also a star studed group. Plan to spend a week, in the third week of the month (Swapfest).
It's really a symptom of a monoploy economy for IP address blocks. No one is keeping the distributor honest, so market inequities do not get resolved. Hoarding can then exist.
But honestly, is a large enough fraction of the user community going to be upset enough to change this? Probably not. Right now, businesses seem more than willing to shell out for a small CIDR address space, and NAT the internal addresses. Until there's a customer revolt, there's no reason for a monopoly to be overthrown.
Yes, but if EVERYONE left, it becomes clear that the problem wasn't with you, it was with the company. We're talking about a mass exodus here; If you're applying for a job in the same vertical market, or even in the same town, the word of these gets around.
That having been said, it is still much better to go from strength to strength. It's like getting a loan: you're much more likely to get a job if you don't actually need one.
I spent 7 years trying to find John Shirley's "A Song Called Youth" trilogy (Eclipse, Eclipse Penumbra, Eclipse Corona), which I consider one of the great earlier cyberpunk works. Apparently, it has recently been re-released.
I would also recommend Norman Spinrad's Little Heroes, which is now out of print, but well worth hunting for.
Forget Windows 2000; what about the huge installed base of NT servers out there? I've seen estimates are that as much as 20% of the Windows server market is still on Windows NT.
Yes, it was buggy, and yes, you had to patch the heck out of it, but it was enormously successful for Microsoft. NT 4.0 and the option pack made them players in the server marker. At work, I'm now faced with a huge battle to get the upgrade to 2003.
I think the main reason there's this feeling of, well, stagnation in the industry, is because of the inability of people to see the "Next Big Thing" that will drive development.
Spreadsheets, GUIs, relational DBMS's (Oracle), and the internet were all new technologies that added impulses (in the engineering sense) to the computer industry pendulum, keeping it swinging higher. People right now are unsure where that next kick is coming from.
What is coming down the pike that people absolutely must have? Bioinformatics? Small wireless devices? If you knew what's coming next, you could be the next Larry Ellison. Unfortunately, Larry wants to be the next Larry Ellison, too, and he's got more money to spend on research.
In the end, you should find something that is well defined (fuzzy plans make flops), that interests you, that doesn't put you in direct competition with a multi-billion dollar firm, and that there's at least some market for. If you're good at it, you'll do fine.
Or join the multi-billion dollar firm, and save your weekends for fun.
I agree with your nomination of Asimov, but for a slightly different reason. While he didn't actual "invent" anything, his statement of robot behavioral ethics contained in the "Three Laws" is first successful rebuttal to the Frankenstein Complex. If applied successfully, it removes the chance of any intentional harm to humans from robots, and makes the idea of Robots palatable. The dramatic tension in Asimov's Robot stories comes from failures and/or unforeseen consequences of the Three Laws of Robotics. Unfortunately, there are two problems: to avoid these unforeseen consequences, the robots require a phenomenal level of judgement, and, of course, how do you program ethics and judgement?
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Yeah, he used to work for Maytag
I believe the military already has an air deployable acoustic monitor with built-in GPS locator called the ADAS.
No, they are delivering killer robots designed to look like over-the-hill bodybuilders (like THAT'S really inconspicuous), which will infiltrate undetected and kill our future leaders.
All right, that's it! I'm packing up the truck and going to Nebraska to see the old lady in the rocking chair I dreamed about.
Just imagine the applications for single's bars!:
***
Guest 825391 info:
Sex: Female (just this alone would eliminate quite a few embarassing situations)
Age: 23
Marital Status: Single
Preferences: Bashful computer geeks.
***
It would streamline the whole pickup experience!
I try to follow an idea from public heath services' response to virus outbreaks; I create a perimeter around the outbreak consisting of vaccinated systems. In this case, the virus carrier is the internet, so all of the systems the control passage of information to and from the internet are vaccinated (patched) first. Of course, if you have no proxy server, and way to block harmful web content at the edge, that means patching everybody...
Including not one, but two Chinese takeout joints. Open late, lotto tickets on sale.
Here's my theory: Google's been hacked by Microsoft's minions, trying to discredit them, and to get searches for Linux to point to:
here
In typical Heinlein fashion, they seem to have come up with an outside-the-box solution that actually has the potential to acheive their goals. It's not clear whether this was all Ginny's idea, or whether R.A.H. had a hand, but either way, it's clearly a great idea.
Now if there were grants for students....
He's not just some shlub in a lab. The guy's the CTO, and as such, he is assumed to set the technical tone for the company (that's why he's the chief). If the board believes his personal vision is not in line with the company's goals (i.e., taking Microsoft's money and getting rich), then they would be failing in their duties if they did not replace him.
The article neglects to mention that some states have begun implementing their own version of TIA (see The Washington Post article). There appears to be some feeling that they can sneak in under the radar if it's not a federal program.
The pledges of restraint by Florida law enforcement officials are particularly comforting.
I've seen the annotated version of the picture above (or a similar one), which tries to identify each cluster of light sources. My favoriteblobs of light are the ones labelled "Japanese fishing fleet" and the various gas burn-offs from African and Mideast oil fields.
Well, having done tech support, I know for a fact that the good ones get promoted to something more interesting, like system administration or sheep dipping. If you run into a guy with a number of years of tech support experience on tier one, you gotta wonder what he's still doing there.
Want to place a bet that the NSA did some major number crunching post-9/11, on exactly this topic - whether someone was betting that certain stocks and municipal bonds would fall after early September 2001? Or that kidnappers (organized ones) in certain areas of the world don't sell short on companies whose CEO's they intend to snatch?
One of the things computers are good for (in the hands of good programmers) is correlating data. Yes, they can't pattern match like humans, but once you sic them on a problem, they can sure sift data. If the gnomes didn't have big iron busy tracking these buying patterns, they're more asleep than they've proven themselves in the past
Is it any surprise that a guy named Poindexter has been in charge of so MANY bad ideas?
If you're going to an Ivy League school, you should be able to figure out how Slashdot works and not post off-topic comments. If you really want an answer, please submit under Ask Slashdot.
...is located at 2066 Crist Avenue, Los Altos, CA
I'm finding, after having lived here for only 8 years, that you can't turn around here without running into someplace where something happened, or is still happening.
The MIT Swapfest, the Media Labs, Tech Square, the Museum of Science, The Harvard-Smithsonian Observatory...the list goes on and on. The Boston Perl Mongers are also a star studed group. Plan to spend a week, in the third week of the month (Swapfest).
Anyone notice that Compaq and HP have merged? Do they need 3.2 million addresses now?
It's really a symptom of a monoploy economy for IP address blocks. No one is keeping the distributor honest, so market inequities do not get resolved. Hoarding can then exist.
But honestly, is a large enough fraction of the user community going to be upset enough to change this? Probably not. Right now, businesses seem more than willing to shell out for a small CIDR address space, and NAT the internal addresses. Until there's a customer revolt, there's no reason for a monopoly to be overthrown.
Yes, but if EVERYONE left, it becomes clear that the problem wasn't with you, it was with the company. We're talking about a mass exodus here; If you're applying for a job in the same vertical market, or even in the same town, the word of these gets around.
That having been said, it is still much better to go from strength to strength. It's like getting a loan: you're much more likely to get a job if you don't actually need one.
I spent 7 years trying to find John Shirley's "A Song Called Youth" trilogy (Eclipse, Eclipse Penumbra, Eclipse Corona), which I consider one of the great earlier cyberpunk works. Apparently, it has recently been re-released.
I would also recommend Norman Spinrad's Little Heroes, which is now out of print, but well worth hunting for.
Forget Windows 2000; what about the huge installed base of NT servers out there? I've seen estimates are that as much as 20% of the Windows server market is still on Windows NT.
Yes, it was buggy, and yes, you had to patch the heck out of it, but it was enormously successful for Microsoft. NT 4.0 and the option pack made them players in the server marker. At work, I'm now faced with a huge battle to get the upgrade to 2003.
I think the main reason there's this feeling of, well, stagnation in the industry, is because of the inability of people to see the "Next Big Thing" that will drive development.
Spreadsheets, GUIs, relational DBMS's (Oracle), and the internet were all new technologies that added impulses (in the engineering sense) to the computer industry pendulum, keeping it swinging higher. People right now are unsure where that next kick is coming from.
What is coming down the pike that people absolutely must have? Bioinformatics? Small wireless devices? If you knew what's coming next, you could be the next Larry Ellison. Unfortunately, Larry wants to be the next Larry Ellison, too, and he's got more money to spend on research.
In the end, you should find something that is well defined (fuzzy plans make flops), that interests you, that doesn't put you in direct competition with a multi-billion dollar firm, and that there's at least some market for. If you're good at it, you'll do fine.
Or join the multi-billion dollar firm, and save your weekends for fun.
I agree with your nomination of Asimov, but for a slightly different reason. While he didn't actual "invent" anything, his statement of robot behavioral ethics contained in the "Three Laws" is first successful rebuttal to the Frankenstein Complex. If applied successfully, it removes the chance of any intentional harm to humans from robots, and makes the idea of Robots palatable. The dramatic tension in Asimov's Robot stories comes from failures and/or unforeseen consequences of the Three Laws of Robotics. Unfortunately, there are two problems: to avoid these unforeseen consequences, the robots require a phenomenal level of judgement, and, of course, how do you program ethics and judgement?