There is that, but there is also that you can run some things directly from the disk image once it is mounted. This makes running and "uninstalling" a breeze.
Personally, I think people are reading into this data a bit too much. I would rather see the full breakdown between Very Happy/ Happy/ Satisfied/ Unhappy/ Very Unhappy (or whatever the original poll was).
All in all, I don't know too many IT people who are VERY HAPPY with their job, but almost all of them are Happy or Satisfied.
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Coming up with a problem is the least of our worries, just pick a problem that's NP-complete or at least NP-hard. Let's pick an example problem you've heard of: factoring is believed to be NP-hard, and would work fine for this purpose.
The mail server comes up with two random primes, large but not "cryptographically large", sends their product, and waits for the factorization. The mail server could even precompute what random primes it will be using for future questions, or offload that task to another server if it is too busy.
For a patent application, the applicant attempts to include everything under the sun under their claims. Of course, it's unclear how throughly the patent office will go through their claims, but it's not a given that what MS has claimed is what they're going to get. They may end up with nothing, or with claims so specific that they're nigh useless.
Exactly. This doesn't quite seem like the panacea that Cringely seems to think it is.
What I would be worried about is if it obfuscates while maintaining the correctness of the program. Debugging normal code is hard enough. Debugging this would be aggravating to the point of madness.
Historicaly, self-modifying code has either been used to get around hardware limitations (which modern hardware has fixed). In all other respects, it's almost always been a bad idea.
There is also a paranoia novel titled Title Deleted for Security Reasons, about the adventures of James-B-OND-1. It's also quite good, and very entertaining.
Actually, there's a little-known crossover mission between CoC and Paranoia called Call of Computer. It took me forever to find the requisite Pyramid magazine that had it (thanks ebay!).
There's original author has (or had?) a website up with supplemental mission information and scenarios. I can't seem to find it now; google's turning up 404s. I've got a hardcopy of it somewhere...
Haven't ran it yet, mainly because the people I game with don't follow Cthulhu and thus wouldn't get any of the jokes.
Ia! Ia! Ultraviolet programmer with a thousand clones!
Well, they could still complete them for us, and as part of the normal submission process make us certify that they are correct. Note that they already make us do this.
Yes, osx has locate. It's updatedb gets run out of cron, but as I discovered for my powerbook, I keep putting it to sleep every night so it never ran. Running updatedb manually worked (of course), or one could always reschedule it.
I also agree with this, but a summer internship or part-time work with a company that does the kind of networking you're interested in (while working on your degree) would make it all the better. This might affect your choice of school.
And as someone else mentioned, a broader degree will introduce you to more fields, in case you change your mind about networking.
This is bascially what the RSA SecurID is all about.
RSA SecurID authenticators are as simple to use as entering a password, but much more secure. Each end user is assigned an RSA SecurID authenticator which generates a new, unpredictable code every 60 seconds. The user combines this number with a secret PIN to log into protected resources.
Instead of just a password, or in the knocking case, just some additional knowledge that anyone can sniff, you need a physical token and a PIN as well (assuming no one cracks your auth server).
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There is that, but there is also that you can run some things directly from the disk image once it is mounted. This makes running and "uninstalling" a breeze.
It was with extreme sadness I discovered that OpenOffice has a disk image (dmg) but it just contains the installer. It wanted a real install.
So does Microsoft just write them a big check? That'd be awesome!
Actually, exactly. The fault was that of the prosecuting party, in that the case was only with respect to linking instead of something more generic.
Sorry this guy ripped off your stuff, man.
It was funny then and it's funny now.
All in all, I don't know too many IT people who are VERY HAPPY with their job, but almost all of them are Happy or Satisfied.
The mail server comes up with two random primes, large but not "cryptographically large", sends their product, and waits for the factorization. The mail server could even precompute what random primes it will be using for future questions, or offload that task to another server if it is too busy.
For a patent application, the applicant attempts to include everything under the sun under their claims. Of course, it's unclear how throughly the patent office will go through their claims, but it's not a given that what MS has claimed is what they're going to get. They may end up with nothing, or with claims so specific that they're nigh useless.
What I would be worried about is if it obfuscates while maintaining the correctness of the program. Debugging normal code is hard enough. Debugging this would be aggravating to the point of madness.
Historicaly, self-modifying code has either been used to get around hardware limitations (which modern hardware has fixed). In all other respects, it's almost always been a bad idea.
There is also a paranoia novel titled Title Deleted for Security Reasons , about the adventures of James-B-OND-1. It's also quite good, and very entertaining.
Another quote from the second edition manual (which is actually a quote from another book whose title I forget):
There's original author has (or had?) a website up with supplemental mission information and scenarios. I can't seem to find it now; google's turning up 404s. I've got a hardcopy of it somewhere...
Haven't ran it yet, mainly because the people I game with don't follow Cthulhu and thus wouldn't get any of the jokes.
Ia! Ia! Ultraviolet programmer with a thousand clones!
Spend two evil to turn into a pack of your favorite vermin. Reappear at a convenient place close by.
False accusations of treason are themselves treason!
Please turn in your personal affects and report to the food vats.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Well, they could still complete them for us, and as part of the normal submission process make us certify that they are correct. Note that they already make us do this.
Yes, osx has locate. It's updatedb gets run out of cron, but as I discovered for my powerbook, I keep putting it to sleep every night so it never ran. Running updatedb manually worked (of course), or one could always reschedule it.
why the hell are you booting in a meeting? it should already be up and ready to go.
And as someone else mentioned, a broader degree will introduce you to more fields, in case you change your mind about networking.
I'm glad someone else brought this up. "Yeah, I know wustl; they've got that badass ftp server!" Of course, I haven't used it since high school...
aww come on, the Black album rocks. how about we forget about everything after that?
your insurance covers robots?
seriously, a quality skit. :)