> I think this fad comes from the entitlement
> thinking that people can do whatever they want
> whenever they want and misusing company
> equipment or embezzling time are not
> considerations.:)
Agreed. I think "freedom of speech" needs to be justified rather than pulled out of the hat every time something goes slightly wrong.
People will want entertainment. Entertainment is not hacking. Entertainment is a zero-quality plain waste of time, IMNSHO. ~Tim
-- .|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
Agreed, lots. Me, I'm worried more about the ramifications. What can I legally *do* by way of a job? I'm a linux consultant/sysadmin; I rely on nmap on a daily basis if only to *test* my scripts. I'm not going to give up and spew code for Lotus Bloats just because some government chooses to outlaw legitimate activity.
The law is doing what it does to the best of its ability: making the world criminals and itself look like an ass. ~Tim
-- .|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
Agreed, sort of. It's long been traditional since I grew up reading unix sysadmin books by O'Reilly that employers should be able to track stuff, certainly in the case of abuses of the system.
Where all the modern fad of calling it a breach of privacy has come from, I dunno.
How much mileage is there in the view that "freedom of speech is fine, but abuse it and lose it"? ~Tim
-- .|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
"Wired" put out a guide to word usage for it's writers Well, you ought to take up writing for Wired, that's all I can say to that;)
<p>But seriously, kids, you wouldn't hyphenate "electronic-mail", so you wouldn't hyphenate the abbreviation, would you? ~Tim
-- .|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
That kind of ratio merely means you have no life;)
But seriously: why not report them to spamcop? I know from experience that receiving spamcop mails is a PITA when you're a legitimate business where folks *must* have already signed up for stuff, but it certainly makes the admins think to get it.
Either that, or write a perl script to send back a fake `bounced' mail... ~Tim
-- .|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
Oh no! Yet *more* devices to cause extra noise on the train?
Admittedly I'll probably be one of the first to go wearable out of the folks I know, but if voice-control ever "takes off" en masse, I'll be getting a private car all to myself, for sure. Mobiles cause more than enough noise pollution as it is. ~Tim
-- .|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
"Critisize Microsoft for something they alone are guilty for. "
No, criticize M$loth when they're guilty, criticize RH when they screw up, and more to the point, get involved in open-source yourself to continue the evolution of the software. ~Tim
-- .|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
"Just what part of a non-comerical warning stating your password on/. has been comprimised is spam?"
All of it.
"One of these people might miss the comotion altogether. "
Well there won't be a problem then, will there?
By the time they get their asses out of bed, it'll have passed by and Taco wil've fixed everything. D'oh. ~Tim
-- .|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
For pete's (ahem) sake, it's only a blinking password on a blinkin' website, it's been going over the 'net unencrypted plaintext for the past couple of years, and if you're using the same one as for your online banking then you're already a pillock, yeah?
And besides which you shouldn't change it until our great leader CmdrTaco proclaims it as safe as before *after* it's been fixed; until then, the same paranoia factor that makes him reinstall also makes me worry that password-changes now will be intercepted. ~Tim
-- .|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
I dunno, but their "cease and desist" letter is utterly illegible, due to their having a "!" on the end of every instance of "idealab".
Fuckwits. ~Tim
-- .|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
Re:Cheap GPS units in the UK
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Me, I paid UKP360 for a Garmin eMap thing in Maplins, http://www.maplins.co.uk/ , earlier this year. Good thing it is, too. Like it lots, even works on planes and has a decent map facility.
If you're really desperate, have a look at <http://spodzone.org.uk/temp/gps_ani.gif>. That's based on real data of me approaching Gatwick airport and doing the loop before landing;) ~Tim
-- .|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
Just a point there: there's no such thing as "uncrackable", evidence notwithstanding. All you can say is that a given crypted text will take more than a feasible cost (time, money, computational power) to decrypt. Sooner or later someone would've thought "oh yeah, that's Navajo" but it's no longer worth knowing, really.
Just like when I left the last job; I made sure that recovering ~/.ssh/ from both my HD and NFS drives would cost them more than would be sensible; short of destroying the HD altogether (not a wise move), I just copied enough things over the files before the final unlink() call as to garble it all. Not that they'd even *want* to recover anything of mine anyway... ~Tim
-- .|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
Some of us have used emailers-cum-news clients where we can write this sort of thing in lisp and hook it into the send routine if we want.
I think the fact that Gnus doesn't do this says a lot for what the geekier ones amongst us don't need in a mailer, myself.
Alternative thought: "I can't use the word fuck? FUCK THAT!" and expletives would probably increase as a direct result;) ~Tim
-- .|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
No, *you* stop using it. Then I won't have a problem. There's stuff-all I can do apart from bitch about it, isn't there?
So glad you've never had a false positive; unfortunately those of us who use our own MTAs on dialup IP#s -because we can- have had plenty enough bounces not to bother resending any other way. ~Tim
-- .|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
True, or the one I use is spamcop.net.
Choice of two evils, I think. MAPS have several projects in which they're involved, including the DUL which is the worst piece of half-baked crap for valid (non-spam) emails I've ever seen, but the other approaches are at least generally a step in the right direction.
I've had so much shit from Harris before now, I've even reported it with aforementioned spamcop after complaints to harris failed to have any effect... in the end, I stuck a quick procmail rule in force to forward all their crap straight back where it came from.
Harris must lose. They must die. And then something really bad should happen to them. ~Tim
-- .|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
"What kinds of schedules are we really talking about?"
What's a `schedule'?
"When it's ready" will suffice, not before, and any later due to continuing testing.
None of this "January 2001" crap here, please! ~Tim
-- .|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
You omit the idea that colleges (around here, they're *universities*, dammit) actually have something useful to impart, that you'd probably be an idiot to miss out on.
...Not that you necessarily have to go straight from high-school into Uni immediately, of course.
"*employers*! Their work consists exclusively in conditioning productive people, called employees, "...
and
"Buzzz! Off to class!"
Either you're right, you should stay in class until grown up, or you're getting your cynicism-for-BOFH training in early. ~Tim
-- .|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
"If you've got a BS is computer science-not JUST programming mind you-"
Exactly right, couldn't agree more.
FWIW I've been working in the "IT" sector for the last 3.5 years, and it's only proved one thing: I actually find some of the stuff I despised in CompSki now interesting. They tried teaching us functional programming, because teaching us "ML", "C++" and "Pascal" is obviously a no-brain route to obsolesence in a few years.
I believe (with my zero-under-the-covers involvement that I have) there should be a possibility of compatibility between the two desktops in practice; in particular, being able to use a CORBA "gateway" to go between both things without necessarily starting a whole KDE session as well as Gnome bits would be rather good. The underlying APIs don't have to have said compatibility in mind, but I think it helps if the data can be blitted back and forth.
What those who want to stir the "mythical unified desktop" rumour will make of that is, of course, their own problem:) ~Tim
-- .|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
"What's to stop people slurping it all up as GPL and dumping the MPL entirely? "
Nothing at all, AFAIK.
The only reasons I can think of for preferring something complicated like the MPL over the known GPL are `marketroid' and good ol' idiocy. ~Tim
-- .|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
"To me it sounds as if the codebase is branched and will go on as 2 different codebases with 2 different licenses. Not that practical if you ask me, "
Well, I'm not asking;) but I disagree anyway. Code branching is a part of easing the development process by allowing a next-generation programmer to use your work as a leg-up.
"gain back marketshare."
What's that mean, then?
We don't have a `market', we have users. End of problem. ~Tim
-- .|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
ODBC drivers vary. I used to work for a company purveying fairly rapid ODBC (and other connectivity) drivers, and we just avoided benchmarking altogether saying "go run your own"; probably this was a fairly wise move, all things considered;)
I notice that neither the original article nor the MySQL refutation talk in *any* detail about "tuning"; did PostgreSQL have its -F argument set on the postmaster, as that has given me a 4-fold speed improvement on mostly-insert/update applications demanding speed?
I'd agree with the 'horses for courses' thing, of course. The `advertising' is badly done, but publicity can't be all that bad. And postgresql still *is* a very reasonable database for a lot of applications regardless of the quality of the plug.
You won't be surprised to know I don't run System 7 on my powerbook...
At the last count, I was on 9.x for watching DVDs and Debian GNU/Linux `unstable' for everything else. HTH. ~Tim
-- .|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
Slashdot Mirror
> I think this fad comes from the entitlement :)
.|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
> thinking that people can do whatever they want
> whenever they want and misusing company
> equipment or embezzling time are not
> considerations.
Agreed. I think "freedom of speech" needs to be justified rather than pulled out of the hat every time something goes slightly wrong.
People will want entertainment. Entertainment is not hacking. Entertainment is a zero-quality plain waste of time, IMNSHO.
~Tim
--
Agreed, lots. Me, I'm worried more about the ramifications. What can I legally *do* by way of a job? I'm a linux consultant/sysadmin; I rely on nmap on a daily basis if only to *test* my scripts. I'm not going to give up and spew code for Lotus Bloats just because some government chooses to outlaw legitimate activity.
.|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
The law is doing what it does to the best of its ability: making the world criminals and itself look like an ass.
~Tim
--
Agreed, sort of. It's long been traditional since I grew up reading unix sysadmin books by O'Reilly that employers should be able to track stuff, certainly in the case of abuses of the system.
.|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
Where all the modern fad of calling it a breach of privacy has come from, I dunno.
How much mileage is there in the view that "freedom of speech is fine, but abuse it and lose it"?
~Tim
--
"Wired" put out a guide to word usage for it's writers ;)
.|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
Well, you ought to take up writing for Wired, that's all I can say to that
<p>But seriously, kids, you wouldn't hyphenate "electronic-mail", so you wouldn't hyphenate the abbreviation, would you?
~Tim
--
That kind of ratio merely means you have no life ;)
.|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
But seriously: why not report them to spamcop? I know from experience that receiving spamcop mails is a PITA when you're a legitimate business where folks *must* have already signed up for stuff, but it certainly makes the admins think to get it.
Either that, or write a perl script to send back a fake `bounced' mail...
~Tim
--
...except that that is not monotonically increasing ;8)
.|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
~Tim
--
Oh no! Yet *more* devices to cause extra noise on the train?
.|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
Admittedly I'll probably be one of the first to go wearable out of the folks I know, but if voice-control ever "takes off" en masse, I'll be getting a private car all to myself, for sure. Mobiles cause more than enough noise pollution as it is.
~Tim
--
"Critisize Microsoft for something they alone are guilty for. "
.|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
No, criticize M$loth when they're guilty, criticize RH when they screw up, and more to the point, get involved in open-source yourself to continue the evolution of the software.
~Tim
--
"Just what part of a non-comerical warning stating your password on /. has been comprimised is spam?"
.|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
All of it.
"One of these people might miss the comotion altogether. "
Well there won't be a problem then, will there?
By the time they get their asses out of bed, it'll have passed by and Taco wil've fixed everything. D'oh.
~Tim
--
Duh!
.|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
Do that and I'll forward it to spamcop.
For pete's (ahem) sake, it's only a blinking password on a blinkin' website, it's been going over the 'net unencrypted plaintext for the past couple of years, and if you're using the same one as for your online banking then you're already a pillock, yeah?
And besides which you shouldn't change it until our great leader CmdrTaco proclaims it as safe as before *after* it's been fixed; until then, the same paranoia factor that makes him reinstall also makes me worry that password-changes now will be intercepted.
~Tim
--
I dunno, but their "cease and desist" letter is utterly illegible, due to their having a "!" on the end of every instance of "idealab".
.|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
Fuckwits.
~Tim
--
Me, I paid UKP360 for a Garmin eMap thing in Maplins, http://www.maplins.co.uk/ , earlier this year. Good thing it is, too. Like it lots, even works on planes and has a decent map facility.
;)
.|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
If you're really desperate, have a look at <http://spodzone.org.uk/temp/gps_ani.gif>. That's based on real data of me approaching Gatwick airport and doing the loop before landing
~Tim
--
Just a point there: there's no such thing as "uncrackable", evidence notwithstanding. All you can say is that a given crypted text will take more than a feasible cost (time, money, computational power) to decrypt. Sooner or later someone would've thought "oh yeah, that's Navajo" but it's no longer worth knowing, really.
.|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
Just like when I left the last job; I made sure that recovering ~/.ssh/ from both my HD and NFS drives would cost them more than would be sensible; short of destroying the HD altogether (not a wise move), I just copied enough things over the files before the final unlink() call as to garble it all. Not that they'd even *want* to recover anything of mine anyway...
~Tim
--
Some of us have used emailers-cum-news clients where we can write this sort of thing in lisp and hook it into the send routine if we want. I think the fact that Gnus doesn't do this says a lot for what the geekier ones amongst us don't need in a mailer, myself.
Alternative thought: "I can't use the word fuck? FUCK THAT!" and expletives would probably increase as a direct result ;)
.|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
~Tim
--
"If you don't like it, don't use it"
.|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
No, *you* stop using it. Then I won't have a problem. There's stuff-all I can do apart from bitch about it, isn't there?
So glad you've never had a false positive; unfortunately those of us who use our own MTAs on dialup IP#s -because we can- have had plenty enough bounces not to bother resending any other way.
~Tim
--
True, or the one I use is spamcop.net.
.|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
Choice of two evils, I think. MAPS have several projects in which they're involved, including the DUL which is the worst piece of half-baked crap for valid (non-spam) emails I've ever seen, but the other approaches are at least generally a step in the right direction.
I've had so much shit from Harris before now, I've even reported it with aforementioned spamcop after complaints to harris failed to have any effect... in the end, I stuck a quick procmail rule in force to forward all their crap straight back where it came from.
Harris must lose. They must die. And then something really bad should happen to them.
~Tim
--
"In other words, robust USB support won't be there until USB is obsolete."
.|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
I guess that means USB is but a temporary flash in the pan, then.
~Tim
--
"What kinds of schedules are we really talking about?"
.|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
What's a `schedule'?
"When it's ready" will suffice, not before, and any later due to continuing testing.
None of this "January 2001" crap here, please!
~Tim
--
You omit the idea that colleges (around here, they're *universities*, dammit) actually have something useful to impart, that you'd probably be an idiot to miss out on.
.|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
...Not that you necessarily have to go straight from high-school into Uni immediately, of course.
"*employers*! Their work consists exclusively in conditioning productive people, called employees, "...
and
"Buzzz! Off to class!"
Either you're right, you should stay in class until grown up, or you're getting your cynicism-for-BOFH training in early.
~Tim
--
"If you've got a BS is computer science-not JUST programming mind you-"
.|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
Exactly right, couldn't agree more.
FWIW I've been working in the "IT" sector for the last 3.5 years, and it's only proved one thing: I actually find some of the stuff I despised in CompSki now interesting. They tried teaching us functional programming, because teaching us "ML", "C++" and "Pascal" is obviously a no-brain route to obsolesence in a few years.
Thought for the day: IT is dumbed-down CS.
~Tim
--
"Could they settle on a common component model?"
:)
.|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
I believe (with my zero-under-the-covers involvement that I have) there should be a possibility of compatibility between the two desktops in practice; in particular, being able to use a CORBA "gateway" to go between both things without necessarily starting a whole KDE session as well as Gnome bits would be rather good. The underlying APIs don't have to have said compatibility in mind, but I think it helps if the data can be blitted back and forth.
What those who want to stir the "mythical unified desktop" rumour will make of that is, of course, their own problem
~Tim
--
"What's to stop people slurping it all up as GPL and dumping the MPL entirely? "
.|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
Nothing at all, AFAIK.
The only reasons I can think of for preferring something complicated like the MPL over the known GPL are `marketroid' and good ol' idiocy.
~Tim
--
"To me it sounds as if the codebase is branched and will go on as 2 different codebases with 2 different licenses. Not that practical if you ask me, "
;) but I disagree anyway. Code branching is a part of easing the development process by allowing a next-generation programmer to use your work as a leg-up.
.|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
Well, I'm not asking
"gain back marketshare."
What's that mean, then?
We don't have a `market', we have users. End of problem.
~Tim
--
ODBC drivers vary. I used to work for a company purveying fairly rapid ODBC (and other connectivity) drivers, and we just avoided benchmarking altogether saying "go run your own"; probably this was a fairly wise move, all things considered ;)
.|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
I notice that neither the original article nor the MySQL refutation talk in *any* detail about "tuning"; did PostgreSQL have its -F argument set on the postmaster, as that has given me a 4-fold speed improvement on mostly-insert/update applications demanding speed?
I'd agree with the 'horses for courses' thing, of course. The `advertising' is badly done, but publicity can't be all that bad. And postgresql still *is* a very reasonable database for a lot of applications regardless of the quality of the plug.
~Tim
--
You won't be surprised to know I don't run System 7 on my powerbook...
.|` Clouds cross the black moonlight,
At the last count, I was on 9.x for watching DVDs and Debian GNU/Linux `unstable' for everything else. HTH.
~Tim
--