How about creating a standard for dealing with new hacks that have to be put in place to deal with propietary software that people think is necessary? For example, there should be a way to add to networking systems everytime some influential company decides to extend to their own "standard." It would be especially nice to be able to tell my users when and how something will be in place cuz once they get the bug up their butt they want answers now.
Can you really own an X-Box. I just assumed that the fee you pay at the store was to rent it from microsoft. I guess I shouldn't have gotten so excited that I didn't have to pay any monthly fees on it...
The GRE, General Ripoff Exams, is a test that many graduate programs require as part of their entrance applications. The subject exams are sometimes hijacked by specialists in certain areas of the relevant fields which means that only a small portion of people do well on them. For example, one year the biology exam might be overly weighted toward plant biology which means that all of the zoology students get screwed.
A lot of people ignore the subject exams and concentrate on the general exams which are a better indicator of a students aptitude (IMHO). The main reason to require the exams is tradition and laziness. This is why the testing service will be in business for a very long time.
The other side of the coin is that limited disclosure disarms the script kiddies and cyber vandals by not giving them an exploit on a plate.
Thank goodness they will be keeping this information from the people who will do bad things with it. I'm sure that the script kiddies would never share this information with each other! Besides the nice people who are installing these systems really should be on a "need to know" basis anyways....
Silly, silly, silly. That was back when the continents were all one great land mass, and the earth was crawling with kangaroos and plants of all types. Noah need only pick up the animals, plants, and things in between that were close by.... Then again, this raises the question of what happened to all of the marine animals. (Unless it was raining salt water. But then what about the freshwater animals? It must have been raining fresh water. But...)
Maybe a lot of things were created, like bombardier beetles, and when they got off the ark they evolved into the animals of today. (Except for the dinasours, they didn't fit on the ark and drowned.)
Also, the Genesis flood would have greatly upset the carbon balance. The flood buried a huge amount of carbon, which became coal, oil, etc., lowering the total 12C in the biosphere (including the atmosphere--plants regrowing after the flood absorb CO2, which is not replaced by the decay of the buried vegetation).
This is the problem with trying to argue these points when science and religion collide. Both sides believe that they are correct based on their own dogma. The religious side is correct because the bible is correct - end of argument. The science side is correct because this is the prevailing paradigm.
There is one interesting piece in the article: We should remember God's admonition to Job, 'Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?' (Job 38:4).
It is interesting to note that this argument cuts against both sides!
We all use Linux at home when on call at night (to some degree) to support this. I personally have FreeBSD, Solaris-x86 and Linux, but rarely leave Linux.
It seems that they are aware of freebsd. I can only assume that they use linux because they know it and are comfortable with it. Then again, that's why my grandfather sticks with a different OS...
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The folks in the article cite several examples of practical applications. One of these examples is a webcam???? ("Look mommy linux can do tricks.")
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Let's see... MS updates their bios and changes some of their chips. Now the boxes can't be hacked. The next thing you know someone will post a story about how the new boxes can be hacked which will be followed by the horror that the next updates will defeat those hacks. Oh the humanity.
This may sound like a troll, but I am very ignorant about their "hardware," i.e. mice and keyboards. I had always assumed that they contracted that stuff out. Do they really make that stuff or is done out of house?
From the Reuter's article:
Microsoft said that the software will make it painless for users of its hardware products to install a wireless network and connect a variety of devices.
See, there's nothing to worry about. Everything will be all right. Life will be good and I can go home early every night from now on....
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It [Nerds 1] is aimed at the education market, not homes,...
I enjoyed the show a great deal and I'm willing to ignore the shameless promotion filler at the top of Cringley's article, but... is this something that has much educational value for our schools? There hasn't been enough time past to make it valuable for a history class and the technological info in the series is surely way to low to be of any value.
Moreover, I doubt that the pictures of geeks making millions will be enough to stop the school bullies from beating the snot our of nerds. In fact it may make it worse!
Redhat has been doing ed stuff for a long time. They even have a
K-12 program. Here at our university we went to Redhat several years ago. We get good support and have been happy. Debian is a bit too late. They will have to be extremely aggressive if they would want folks like us to switch over.
Your comments also imply that they do not understand the medium. This is somewhat ironic given that these are the people who are a part of the media and are supposed to have the best formal training on what the media is.
One key lesson here is that you have to understand the medium that you are a part of, and you must also be willing to innovate. In this case that means be willing to give your customers some control, and more importantly allow your customers to have some sort of way to have their say.
One of the reasons that some radio call in shows are so popular is that they allow at least a small subset of their listeners to add their $0.02. This has always been a vital key to the succcess of many radio show. Most content sources on the internet are still one way. I'd rather read the NY Times in print then simply read it on a screen.
This is a really good thing for Linux. When governments use a piece of software the companies that want to deal with that government have a strong incentive to also use the same software because of the convenience factor. On the down side, a huge installed base increases the probability that more people will try to propagate a virus for those machines. It would be far too tempting to try to debilitate a whole government.
There will be a threshhold at which the number of linux boxes will make for a target rich environment for virus writers. This is something that should be anticipated and dealt with now before it becomes an embarrassment. Let's learn from others mistakes!
We just got back from our weekend on the beach. We got a little crazy and started exchanging public encyption keys. Just hit reply if you would like to see the pictures.
It looks like Dell's satisfaction numbers are slipping, and the article gives many excuses as to why this might be. It is a little difficult to give this much credence when they've paid for the banners spanning across the top of the page. Not only that but they gave Apple a few passing comments even thought they were the only ones to improve their satisfaction numbers.
The persons responsible should be the folks who designed the robot. Of course this would mean that they would have to anticipate every possible outcome. For instance one of the rules is the following:
Also, apart from the baths and showers with which the camps shall be furnished, prisoners of war shall be provided with sufficient water and soap for their personal toilet and for washing their personal laundry; the necessary installations, facilities and time shall be granted them for that purpose. (GPW, art. 29.)
Therefore combat robots should come equipped with showers and soap on a rope in order to properly care for their prisoners.
Former Philippine president Joseph Estrada, accused of massive corruption, was driven out of power two years ago by smart mobs who swarmed to demonstrations, alerted by their cell phones, gathering in no time. "It's like pizza delivery," Alex Magno, a political science professor at the University of the Philippines, told The Post at the time. "You can get a rally in 30 minutes -- delivered to you."
Actually the flash crowd is much more effective. It seems that they actually do things other than look at web pages. For all of the calls for action that I hear here on slashdot it doesn't seem that much actually happens. Seems we have something to learn!
What is the most popular thing on the desktop? That's right games. The gaming people really know how to design an interface. When the computer comes on you should have some myst like opening scene and you have to figure out how to battle the OS at every step in order to get to your files, have the computer perform specific actions, etcetera. Then as you progress to higher levels of proficencies the computer throws bigger obstacles at you, and you must find new ways to complete your mission.
Oh wait a second, this metaphor is already in use.
The project is really cool, and the plots are fascinating. However, the plots that are produced are misleading. The role of science and the media is a growing concern, and
it
was on slashdot earlier today.
When you look at the plots it looks like the whole space is filled. This is not even close to representing the true picture since the spacial scales are so large, the actual masses are really smaller than pinpoints. The media is putting out misleading pictures without giving any explanation about the scale, and it looks like we are sitting inside a virtual fog bank of asteroids.
Perhaps the folks who did this have reason to believe that the servers held some of their copyrighted material? As long as you have a reasonable suspicion you should be able to just start kicking ass, right??
The "boxing match" sounds hilarious, and the event appears like it would be gobs of fun. Unfortunately, though, a lot of people don't take the EFF seriously, and they don't take their goals seriously. It is counter-productive if our political representatives come to think of the RFF as simply a bunch of irreverent nerds.
Personaly, I am an irreverent nerd, and after years of not going to therapy I've come to like it. I also am willing to recognize that others haven't reached that point in their social development. The EFF is an important organization doing good work, but they need to be more careful in how others perceive them if they want to be an effective lobbying organization.
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How about creating a standard for dealing with new hacks that have to be put in place to deal with propietary software that people think is necessary? For example, there should be a way to add to networking systems everytime some influential company decides to extend to their own "standard." It would be especially nice to be able to tell my users when and how something will be in place cuz once they get the bug up their butt they want answers now.
Interesting. I had assumed the whole purpose was to make a back up. Compared to a contract with IBM it seemed like the price was justified.
Can you really own an X-Box. I just assumed that the fee you pay at the store was to rent it from microsoft. I guess I shouldn't have gotten so excited that I didn't have to pay any monthly fees on it...
The GRE, General Ripoff Exams, is a test that many graduate programs require as part of their entrance applications. The subject exams are sometimes hijacked by specialists in certain areas of the relevant fields which means that only a small portion of people do well on them. For example, one year the biology exam might be overly weighted toward plant biology which means that all of the zoology students get screwed.
A lot of people ignore the subject exams and concentrate on the general exams which are a better indicator of a students aptitude (IMHO). The main reason to require the exams is tradition and laziness. This is why the testing service will be in business for a very long time.
A quick look on mathsci.net shows other papers that they have published:
"Lake Superior: Gosh it sure is a lot of water," Journal of Hydrologic modeling.
Thank goodness they will be keeping this information from the people who will do bad things with it. I'm sure that the script kiddies would never share this information with each other! Besides the nice people who are installing these systems really should be on a "need to know" basis anyways....
Screw the end user.
Silly, silly, silly. That was back when the continents were all one great land mass, and the earth was crawling with kangaroos and plants of all types. Noah need only pick up the animals, plants, and things in between that were close by.... Then again, this raises the question of what happened to all of the marine animals. (Unless it was raining salt water. But then what about the freshwater animals? It must have been raining fresh water. But...)
Maybe a lot of things were created, like bombardier beetles, and when they got off the ark they evolved into the animals of today. (Except for the dinasours, they didn't fit on the ark and drowned.)
This is the problem with trying to argue these points when science and religion collide. Both sides believe that they are correct based on their own dogma. The religious side is correct because the bible is correct - end of argument. The science side is correct because this is the prevailing paradigm.
There is one interesting piece in the article:
We should remember God's admonition to Job, 'Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?' (Job 38:4).
It is interesting to note that this argument cuts against both sides!
It seems that they are aware of freebsd. I can only assume that they use linux because they know it and are comfortable with it. Then again, that's why my grandfather sticks with a different OS...
< tangent > /tangent >
The folks in the article cite several examples of practical applications. One of these examples is a webcam???? ("Look mommy linux can do tricks.")
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Let's see... MS updates their bios and changes some of their chips. Now the boxes can't be hacked. The next thing you know someone will post a story about how the new boxes can be hacked which will be followed by the horror that the next updates will defeat those hacks. Oh the humanity.
This may sound like a troll, but I am very ignorant about their "hardware," i.e. mice and keyboards. I had always assumed that they contracted that stuff out. Do they really make that stuff or is done out of house?
Microsoft said that the software will make it painless for users of its hardware products to install a wireless network and connect a variety of devices.
See, there's nothing to worry about. Everything will be all right. Life will be good and I can go home early every night from now on....
I enjoyed the show a great deal and I'm willing to ignore the shameless promotion filler at the top of Cringley's article, but... is this something that has much educational value for our schools? There hasn't been enough time past to make it valuable for a history class and the technological info in the series is surely way to low to be of any value.
Moreover, I doubt that the pictures of geeks making millions will be enough to stop the school bullies from beating the snot our of nerds. In fact it may make it worse!
Kudos to Debian for re-starting the trend.
Dude!
Redhat has been doing ed stuff for a long time. They even have a K-12 program. Here at our university we went to Redhat several years ago. We get good support and have been happy. Debian is a bit too late. They will have to be extremely aggressive if they would want folks like us to switch over.
Your comments also imply that they do not understand the medium. This is somewhat ironic given that these are the people who are a part of the media and are supposed to have the best formal training on what the media is.
One key lesson here is that you have to understand the medium that you are a part of, and you must also be willing to innovate. In this case that means be willing to give your customers some control, and more importantly allow your customers to have some sort of way to have their say.
One of the reasons that some radio call in shows are so popular is that they allow at least a small subset of their listeners to add their $0.02. This has always been a vital key to the succcess of many radio show. Most content sources on the internet are still one way. I'd rather read the NY Times in print then simply read it on a screen.
There will be a threshhold at which the number of linux boxes will make for a target rich environment for virus writers. This is something that should be anticipated and dealt with now before it becomes an embarrassment. Let's learn from others mistakes!
We just got back from our weekend on the beach. We got a little crazy and started exchanging public encyption keys. Just hit reply if you would like to see the pictures.
I wonder if there is a connection there?
Also, apart from the baths and showers with which the camps shall be furnished, prisoners of war shall be provided with sufficient water and soap for their personal toilet and for washing their personal laundry; the necessary installations, facilities and time shall be granted them for that purpose. (GPW, art. 29.)
Therefore combat robots should come equipped with showers and soap on a rope in order to properly care for their prisoners.
After viewing the yahoo "slidewhow" I had assumed that the article was just a cheesy way to sell digital cameras.
Actually the flash crowd is much more effective. It seems that they actually do things other than look at web pages. For all of the calls for action that I hear here on slashdot it doesn't seem that much actually happens. Seems we have something to learn!
Oh wait a second, this metaphor is already in use.
When you look at the plots it looks like the whole space is filled. This is not even close to representing the true picture since the spacial scales are so large, the actual masses are really smaller than pinpoints. The media is putting out misleading pictures without giving any explanation about the scale, and it looks like we are sitting inside a virtual fog bank of asteroids.
Perhaps the folks who did this have reason to believe that the servers held some of their copyrighted material? As long as you have a reasonable suspicion you should be able to just start kicking ass, right??
Personaly, I am an irreverent nerd, and after years of not going to therapy I've come to like it. I also am willing to recognize that others haven't reached that point in their social development. The EFF is an important organization doing good work, but they need to be more careful in how others perceive them if they want to be an effective lobbying organization.
And, yes this is a rather sad statement.