Though Elijah Wood was a kid when LotR started, he was also a veteran. He was in "Back to The Future 2". In City of God, all the main roles were played by kids who had never acted before, kids who lived in City of God when the movie was shot.
Donald Knuth wrote, about TeX, that a programmer should also do QA, use the program, and write the manual.
It's easy to write the documentation and the program, use it and do the QA when you are Donald Knuth, but unfortunately we have some problems:
We might be good at coding, but we are not necessarily good at technical writing;
When we are hired to develop software, we will rarely develop software for us to use;
QA as many control related activities is something that must be done by the developers (do your job with quality should be in everyone's job description), it must have other eyes looking because some problems have the terrible habit of slipping by the eyes of the developer.
Adherence to release scheduals is also almost always contrary to quality.
Well, that's not exactly true. I'd agree with you, if you wrote: adherence to release schedules that no rational mind would set in the first place is contrary to quality.
You see, the real problem is the way that the release schedules are usually defined, but that is a management problem. More specific, they don't know how to manage a project properly!
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Well, Dell have to do this because if they don't, people will buy computers from other companies that sell the computer and the operating system together.
One thing that is funny is that here in Brazil, it's actually illegal to do what Microsoft does in the US. A Consumer can't be forced to buy one thing because he bought another. For instance, They can't force me to buy a computer with an specific opertating system. They must be sold separately.
Nice. Dandy. Absolutely outdated. It talks about 486s for god's sake! X performance today is good enough for typical office use. There are many GUI tools to customize your environment, yadda, yadda, yadda, but some things like the clipboard still have to work nice.
Like an id card or a driver's license. It would work for an elector's id, or the CPF ( note: it is a kind of IRS id, the closest we have for a Social Security Number ). Not very useful, IMHO.
My point is:
Digital signatures are designed to be used with digital documents. They do not work with printed ones. Period.
It would be a big barcode to keep all the info that we keep in a driver's license ( we should include the photo as well ). If you mean a bar code of the digital signature, than I could print the document, create a fake ID, cut the barcode from the original, paste in the fake ID ( that's physically cut & pasting! ), and make a copy of the new I.D. Voilà! A fraud!
As I said, digital signatures are for digital documents. The ability to be able to have my digital signature public and a way to represent me is nice, but this notarys should be REALLY SECURE to make this system work and I don't believe that they will be.
And how could the police officer validate the digital signature? He would only look at the printed paper and it would seem all right to him.
Digital signatures only work with digital documents. A digital signature is a hash of the entire document signed with a private key ( in this case the notary's key ). When you print the document, how could you check the signature? Should you scan it back so a computer could validate it again? How could you be sure that what I scanned would generate the same bits of the original? Actually, you can't! So we would always have a bad signature!
I don't know, but as a brazilian, I'm quite worried about this. One thing is to digitally sign digital documents, but to sign digitally sign real documents and allow anyone to print them as authentic copies! This opens a large space to fraud! If I'm able to print a document, why couldn't I change it before I print it, for instance? And what would make this document that I printed in my computer a really authenticated copy? I sense a lot of frauds coming...
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Though Elijah Wood was a kid when LotR started, he was also a veteran. He was in "Back to The Future 2". In City of God, all the main roles were played by kids who had never acted before, kids who lived in City of God when the movie was shot.
Actually, City of God had 4 nominations:
Cinematography, Direction, Writing and Film Editing.
IANAL, but what there is to patent? XML? Use XML to make a document? And StarOffice/OpenOffice?
Trick or treat! :P
Man, I thought after all that crack they've been smoking it would be
"SCO bad trip show"
If you like your girls, you should come to Brazil! We also like our girls very much, and it seems that everybody else does as well. ;-)
Donald Knuth wrote, about TeX, that a programmer should also do QA, use the program, and write the manual.
It's easy to write the documentation and the program, use it and do the QA when you are Donald Knuth, but unfortunately we have some problems:
Adherence to release scheduals is also almost always contrary to quality.
Well, that's not exactly true. I'd agree with you, if you wrote: adherence to release schedules that no rational mind would set in the first place is contrary to quality.
You see, the real problem is the way that the release schedules are usually defined, but that is a management problem. More specific, they don't know how to manage a project properly!
I believe IBM has more legs than Microsoft...
He deliberately used the word to give himself an out later if it doesn't come to pass? Inconceivable!
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
If SCSI were being designed today it would look something like firewire, which I'm sure you're not biased against. Don't be fooled by the ATA moniker.
What do you mean with it would look like firewire. Firewire IS Serial SCSI!
Well, Dell have to do this because if they don't, people will buy computers from other companies that sell the computer and the operating system together.
One thing that is funny is that here in Brazil, it's actually illegal to do what Microsoft does in the US. A Consumer can't be forced to buy one thing because he bought another. For instance, They can't force me to buy a computer with an specific opertating system. They must be sold separately.
Well, that is the whole point. 1 is not prime "BY DEFINITION".
Nice. Dandy. Absolutely outdated. It talks about 486s for god's sake! X performance today is good enough for typical office use. There are many GUI tools to customize your environment, yadda, yadda, yadda, but some things like the clipboard still have to work nice.
The film "melts". I've seen it in a theater and in DVD.
I am brazilian. I went to the site. They mean it when they say "print".
Like an id card or a driver's license. It would work for an elector's id, or the CPF ( note: it is a kind of IRS id, the closest we have for a Social Security Number ). Not very useful, IMHO.
My point is:
Digital signatures are designed to be used with digital documents. They do not work with printed ones. Period.
It would be a big barcode to keep all the info that we keep in a driver's license ( we should include the photo as well ). If you mean a bar code of the digital signature, than I could print the document, create a fake ID, cut the barcode from the original, paste in the fake ID ( that's physically cut & pasting! ), and make a copy of the new I.D. Voilà! A fraud!
As I said, digital signatures are for digital documents. The ability to be able to have my digital signature public and a way to represent me is nice, but this notarys should be REALLY SECURE to make this system work and I don't believe that they will be.
This is not a law, but a service that the notarians will provide.
Pois é, né? Mas a "linguagem universal" do site é inglês. Se escrevermos em português, só nós nos entenderíamos.
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And both are arguing in english....
My message:
Indeed. But the site's "universal language" is english. If we wrote in portuguese, only we could understand.
And how could the police officer validate the digital signature? He would only look at the printed paper and it would seem all right to him.
Digital signatures only work with digital documents. A digital signature is a hash of the entire document signed with a private key ( in this case the notary's key ). When you print the document, how could you check the signature? Should you scan it back so a computer could validate it again? How could you be sure that what I scanned would generate the same bits of the original? Actually, you can't! So we would always have a bad signature!
I don't know, but as a brazilian, I'm quite worried about this. One thing is to digitally sign digital documents, but to sign digitally sign real documents and allow anyone to print them as authentic copies! This opens a large space to fraud! If I'm able to print a document, why couldn't I change it before I print it, for instance? And what would make this document that I printed in my computer a really authenticated copy? I sense a lot of frauds coming...
Interesting. But if I am daltonic, how would I distinguish the good guys from the bad ones?
Funny, I think that if someone is the id, this one is Kirk.
Ego: Spock
Id: Kirk
Super-Ego: McCoy
Well, it is as good as SQL can get. You see, no vendors implement the same subset of that standard.