Nope. The Secret Service's job is to protect the president and they are quite good at that job. Basically, if the president is going to visit a place, the locals who have "always" been there are not much of a risk. Any strangers who "just happen to be in town" are cause for interest. The problem with an insecure wireless network is that it is a convenient opportunity for the "bad guys" to use as part of their infrastructure.
The equal allocation method calculates prices for large numbers of items in a contract by assigning "support" costs such as indirect labor and overhead equally to each item. Take a contract to provide spare parts for a set of radar tracking monitors. Suppose a monitor has 100 parts and support costs amount to a total of $100,000. Using the equal allocation method each part is assigned $1,000 in such costs, even though one item may be a sophisticated circuit card assembly, which requires the attention of high-salaried engineers and managers, and another item may be a plastic knob. Add $1,000 to the direct cost of the part and you get a billing price.
"An agent from the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, who grasped the equal allocation method better than FBI and GAO auditors had done in an earlier investigation, used a blackboard to persuade an official in the U.S. Attorney's office in New York that no charges should be filed against Gould for billing the government $435 for a hammer."
You would think that auditors would be smarter than that!
You plant the arsenic loving cabbage and harvest and concentrate some of the leaves. This *removes* arsenic from that local ecosystem. You don't plant the arsenic loving cabbage and the arsenic stays in that local ecosystem. The levels may be lower than for insects nibbling on the cabbage, but it's permanent and pervasive. In concentrated pure form, the toxic chemicals are *valuable*. The problem is when they are low concentrations and mixed with a lot of other toxic chemicals. Besides, plants make some of the more interesting toxic chemicals themselves.
Because consistancy is important in asthetics. I'd really hate to see what you're house looks like... Hmmmm. The kitchen looks like the bedroom looks like the bathroom??? Or is it kitchens look like kitchens, bedrooms look like bedrooms, and bathrooms look like bathrooms? Seems like aesthetics demands that form and function not be too far separated from each other. The question is which consistancy is more important, the application across systems or the applications that are on a system.
Gotta disagree. The key is to cobble together a usefully different functional custom web browser with minimal effort. The fundamentals must be in place or you wind up with a big mess. For the slow "market share" death that mature markets seem to develop, what about all the wierd basic 4-function calculators? The market's mature when you choose a browser based on the color of its icon.
Did anyone else who read this feel like they went a long way and got nowhere? Personally, I thought he made the point beautifully. And the point applies to both keeping production systems running and the propagation of viruses. It doesn't take much to trip up either.
Dijkstra's Guarded Commands maybe? Programs tend to be a linear order rather than a partial order. This can be a problem even with strictly sequential processing if the requirements keep changing.
What happens on the XBox (which I do not care about) will tend to spill over to the desktop (which I do care about). Therefore I do care about what Microsoft is up to with the XBox.
Methinks you're missing what's going on there. If BoomerSooner has an accident or leaves the company, somebody will learn ls and a few other things. It's not *that* hard. In the meantime, it's much more productive to let BoomerSooner understand *how* it works and play hero while everybody else is helping to define the battles for him to win. Very quickly they exceed the scope where Microsoft Windows has "solutions".
PC's are largely bought as entertainment devices these days, a fact that you ignore at your peril. Yep, you're right. But a $2000 PC is still a poor replacement for a $200 TV.
Funny how things supposed to protect us are requiring a so much more complex technology that bugs bite back and achieve exactly the opposite of what's it's supposed to add in the first place, security. It's very easy, and almost predictable, to "out-smart" yourself. I'm not sure of the origin, but I think KISS originated in Lockheed's Skunkworks. The original "stupid" was probably something like a 19-year-old PhD from MIT. The real battle is against Mother Nature, and she's got enough tricks up her sleeve so that, comparatively, *everybody* is stupid.
Don't think the EULA would have anything to do with it. If they encounter massive loss due to a vendor's lack of disclosure, and they would have been able to readily prevent the loss if the vendor had disclosed, they should have the makings of an "interesting" court case.
Slashdot Mirror
ONE is "full of"?
Maybe that's what you get with one degree of separation.
Nope. The Secret Service's job is to protect the president and they are quite good at that job. Basically, if the president is going to visit a place, the locals who have "always" been there are not much of a risk. Any strangers who "just happen to be in town" are cause for interest. The problem with an insecure wireless network is that it is a convenient opportunity for the "bad guys" to use as part of their infrastructure.
Seems like Slapper was showing some signs of promise. You almost have to feel sorry for the poor Linux worms.
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The equal allocation method calculates prices for large numbers of items in a contract by assigning "support" costs such as indirect labor and overhead equally to each item. Take a contract to provide spare parts for a set of radar tracking monitors. Suppose a monitor has 100 parts and support costs amount to a total of $100,000. Using the equal allocation method each part is assigned $1,000 in such costs, even though one item may be a sophisticated circuit card assembly, which requires the attention of high-salaried engineers and managers, and another item may be a plastic knob. Add $1,000 to the direct cost of the part and you get a billing price.
"An agent from the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, who grasped the equal allocation method better than FBI and GAO auditors had done in an earlier investigation, used a blackboard to persuade an official in the U.S. Attorney's office in New York that no charges should be filed against Gould for billing the government $435 for a hammer."
You would think that auditors would be smarter than that!
You plant the arsenic loving cabbage and harvest and concentrate some of the leaves. This *removes* arsenic from that local ecosystem.
You don't plant the arsenic loving cabbage and the arsenic stays in that local ecosystem. The levels may be lower than for insects nibbling on the cabbage, but it's permanent and pervasive.
In concentrated pure form, the toxic chemicals are *valuable*. The problem is when they are low concentrations and mixed with a lot of other toxic chemicals.
Besides, plants make some of the more interesting toxic chemicals themselves.
One degree of separation from .NYET?
Today we have a few nonstandard browsers.
Tomorrow we will have a good number of standard browsers.
Who would want a nonstandard browser?
Because consistancy is important in asthetics. I'd really hate to see what you're house looks like...
Hmmmm. The kitchen looks like the bedroom looks like the bathroom??? Or is it kitchens look like kitchens, bedrooms look like bedrooms, and bathrooms look like bathrooms? Seems like aesthetics demands that form and function not be too far separated from each other.
The question is which consistancy is more important, the application across systems or the applications that are on a system.
Joe's Own Editor.
Reason enough to use it. (Remember the acronym if not the name;)
Gotta disagree.
The key is to cobble together a usefully different functional custom web browser with minimal effort. The fundamentals must be in place or you wind up with a big mess.
For the slow "market share" death that mature markets seem to develop, what about all the wierd basic 4-function calculators? The market's mature when you choose a browser based on the color of its icon.
That kind of game, there is no ONE right answer.
I do NOT want my /. login and my credit card info to ever be stored in the same place.
Funny, I feel safer with an unchecked download from some random hacker.
All the M$ support included *STILL* can't get rid of Code Red.
Did anyone else who read this feel like they went a long way and got nowhere?
Personally, I thought he made the point beautifully. And the point applies to both keeping production systems running and the propagation of viruses. It doesn't take much to trip up either.
Dijkstra's Guarded Commands maybe?
Programs tend to be a linear order rather than a partial order.
This can be a problem even with strictly sequential processing if the requirements keep changing.
Current Network Status (mixed case to avoid lameness filter) ;-)
Outages: Normal
What happens on the XBox (which I do not care about) will tend to spill over to the desktop (which I do care about).
Therefore I do care about what Microsoft is up to with the XBox.
What's wrong with that?
Very different dynamics.
Methinks you're missing what's going on there. If BoomerSooner has an accident or leaves the company, somebody will learn ls and a few other things. It's not *that* hard. In the meantime, it's much more productive to let BoomerSooner understand *how* it works and play hero while everybody else is helping to define the battles for him to win. Very quickly they exceed the scope where Microsoft Windows has "solutions".
PC's are largely bought as entertainment devices these days, a fact that you ignore at your peril.
Yep, you're right. But a $2000 PC is still a poor replacement for a $200 TV.
Funny how things supposed to protect us are requiring a so much more complex technology that bugs bite back and achieve exactly the opposite of what's it's supposed to add in the first place, security.
It's very easy, and almost predictable, to "out-smart" yourself.
I'm not sure of the origin, but I think KISS originated in Lockheed's Skunkworks. The original "stupid" was probably something like a 19-year-old PhD from MIT. The real battle is against Mother Nature, and she's got enough tricks up her sleeve so that, comparatively, *everybody* is stupid.
Don't think the EULA would have anything to do with it.
If they encounter massive loss due to a vendor's lack of disclosure, and they would have been able to readily prevent the loss if the vendor had disclosed, they should have the makings of an "interesting" court case.
Hmmmm. How to bridge the air gap. Sounds ripe for all sorts of deviltry.
Just wait 'till Clippy finds his voice. ...
If he sounds as bad as he looks, I think Linux *will* take over the desktop.
when you mean the Department of War.