Not really. A house has a function: to give you a place to live. An encryption algorithim also has a function: to protect IP. Just as it is wrong to destroy your home with a wrecking ball (defeating the function of the house), is it not wrong to defeat the purpose of the algorithim?
1) The difference he was point out is that physical property is just that: physical. It's usually difficult to reproduce/replace it. Ideas are wholly different -- they can be shared, copied w/ no loss of the original value.
2) Wrong to defeat the purpose of the algorithm? Uh, no, that's how the scientific process works -- you put your ideas up, and everyone takes a whack at them. The ideas that stand up to criticism are the ones that are worthy of use. Plus, you'll remember that they were invited to "defeat the purpose" of this algorithm.
because the movies were all brilliant. and the advent of a evil dead video game causes drool to run unchecked from my lips. take it as a sign of my immaturity, i could care less.
see, that's why it should be like the merchant marines -- certain number of months on, certain number of weeks off. finish a major project, and get an instant vacation.
looking at slashdot, i'm fairly sure that cmdrTaco isn't a qualified design critic. the sony design looks cool as a piece of product design, why such harsh words? legos look like
they were designed by three year olds, too, but that's part of their beauty. simplicity, man -- technology doesn't all have to look like some bad sci-fi painting.
uh. . . his heuristic device for evaluating the value of a new technology didn't really invite a discussion on the myth of progress. if anything, he's making the same point that you're flailing around -- that you can't assume that a new technology will "yield good things".
uh. . . the successor to ascii should be a format like unicode that can support a multitude of character sets. if various stated opinions (in this thread) of what TNEF does are correct, and it's a combination of embedding both structured data (i.e, an appointment notice), and formatting information, then why not just use XML/XSL? in addition to TNEF sounding like a dirty marketing trick, it's a waste of everyone's f*&king time, since perfectly good data formats ALREADY EXIST. and don't forget that 15 years from now, when you're trying to get to some data that was originally stored in this wacky format, you'd better pray that someone still supports it -- not a forgone conclusion w/ a proprietary format by any means.
for me, php's object syntax is a lot easier to deal w/ than perl's. defining and working with classes is much easier. also, it's very similar to asp/jsp in the way you mix scripting code and markup, so if you're used working in either of those models, and a project comes up that's either perl or php, php is a more natural transition.
i'm pretty much a die-hard liberal, and a believer in protests, coming from hippy parents and all, but i have to agree this guy's article was pointless for a number of reasons.
he disseminated no information about his cause, and instead rambles about himself the entire time
his stream-of-consciousness writing style is better left to those who can actually execute it correctly
much of the detail he supplies comes off as total whining: your coffee was getting wet and someone called you a bad name? who cares?!
he talks about the events of the weekend spinning away from the "journalistic ride in the park" that he expected as if all those events were totally out of his control
if his writing is any indication of the normal fare on hackedtobits, then it's the home of poorly executed journalism.
you shouldn't be coding unless you love it. and if you love it, you'll figure out how to make it work. besides, when you get too old to work at that startup, you can be a consultant or a freelance coder.
Well, in any case, don't forget to go out and vote. You know that the lobbyists and other interest groups are out there doing their things, so apathy is a pretty weak approach. Besides, it's a good excuse to knock off work early.
I love this argument. As if we embark on our various military missions out of altruism. We spend our tax dollars and send our sons and daughters overseas to maintain a position of prominence (dominance) in global politics/economics. In some sense, I think that's an acceptable reality, but let's not pretend that we're doing everyone a lot of favors.
Besides if Bill Clinton was a Euro-trash wannabe, he'd be wearing much more hair product.
Wow. That's pretty heavy. Making parents responsible for their children's behavior until they reach the age of majority? What happens if the kid commits some jail-able offense? The parent goes to jail? How does that benefit the family?
I think it's an interesting idea. But it would have to be very limited, and perhaps fines would be the way punishment would get transferred to the parent.
This whole geek-cultural-phenomenon needs to be put to rest. We don't share a culture -- we share an interest in technology & science. I'm sure there are plenty of Indian and Filipino and Black American and African and European not to mention agnostic, atheist, Islamic, Buddhist, etc. heads that read this site and the reason everyone does so is because we have a set of common interest. You may or may not have something beyond your tech fetish in common with other people around here, but this attempt to dig deeper and find some sort of cultural common denominator is both irritating and a waste of time.
This amateur social science crap is stupid. A bunch of technologists sitting around making these silly social proclamations makes about as much sense as a bunch of sociologists trying to design a computer.
Your productivity will definitely improve. I've been messing with the Taoist spin on Tantric sex for a couple of months, and it's both mad fun and really good for your energy level. Besides, if you're willing to work at improving your programming skills, you shouldn't balk at upping your bag o' sex tricks.
On a last note, I'm generally in agreement with that other guy who said, "Who cares?"
hey, lots of people do it. sometimes for benevolent reasons and sometimes not. examples: iceland, israel, indonesia, china, etc.
the english language is just more of a slut than most. we get into bed with anyone, but mainly because we'd rather absorb a word or two than actually encourage real language study.
My opinions about this whole thing were pretty much the same as the author's. While I think Jon Katz is a good writer, I thought this whole "Hellmouth" series missed the mark by a wide margin. The most tragic part of the Littleton shootings was that the perps were so self-absorbed in their petty problems (nobody likes me, people take my lunch money, etc.) that they felt justified in killing people over some identity problems they should have solved by first grade.
When the so-called "geek" community reacts to this by displaying a similar degree of self-absorption and decrying that the real villain is society and the school system, that's a pretty sad indicator. There are tougher things than high school in even the most cushioned life, and certainly minorities are justified in scoffing at middle-class whities when they display such pathological and weak behavior.
There should be no sympathy at all for the kids who decided that their self-absorbed little problems were so monumental that it merited rubbing out their whole school.
High school is rough for everyone. For jocks, for geeks, for minorities, for fat kids, for skinny kids, etc. It's a pressure cooker. It shouldn't be that way, but it is. A football player who spends everyday after school training isn't doing that just for fun -- he's struggling for acceptance, too. Unfortunately, we often don't raise our kids to be happy with themselves and accepting of others, so a lot of insecurities come out as aggression and teasing. I encountered that, you encountered that, and you can bet that most other people did too.
But responding to daily ridicule w/ pipe bombs and guns is such a weak and sick response. If anything, self-declared geeks should be angry at those kids for giving them a bad name, not angry at the news media for doing what it always does -- giving writers the job of summarizing complicated tragedies in 200 words or less for an audience that just wants the executive summary.
that's just 'cause you're a brilliant, shining beacon in this world of dimly flickering bic lighters. i liked the book, and thought the info on embedding servlets requests in html pages and servlet chaining was helpful. i didn't immediately think of those uses on my own. but perhaps i am an idiot. : )
The psychological profiles of cops certainly are worthy of a lot more scrutiny than the "lone-wolf hacker". After all, how many hackers (well, besides Eric Raymond) carry guns and take jobs where the perks are the possibility of shooting and beating people? Or, prying into people's lifes with a microscope to see what kind of deviance they're engaged in. And to go from being a cop to a psychologist? Whoa, red flag! I recommend that the author should spend some serious time on the shrink's couch himself.
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Not really. A house has a function: to give you a place to live. An encryption algorithim also has a function: to protect IP. Just as it is wrong to destroy your home with a wrecking ball (defeating the function of the house), is it not wrong to defeat the purpose of the algorithim?
1) The difference he was point out is that physical property is just that: physical. It's usually difficult to reproduce/replace it. Ideas are wholly different -- they can be shared, copied w/ no loss of the original value.
2) Wrong to defeat the purpose of the algorithm? Uh, no, that's how the scientific process works -- you put your ideas up, and everyone takes a whack at them. The ideas that stand up to criticism are the ones that are worthy of use. Plus, you'll remember that they were invited to "defeat the purpose" of this algorithm.
do you think they meant clustered?
because the movies were all brilliant. and the advent of a evil dead video game causes drool to run unchecked from my lips. take it as a sign of my immaturity, i could care less.
see, that's why it should be like the merchant marines -- certain number of months on, certain number of weeks off. finish a major project, and get an instant vacation.
looking at slashdot, i'm fairly sure that cmdrTaco isn't a qualified design critic. the sony design looks cool as a piece of product design, why such harsh words? legos look like
they were designed by three year olds, too, but that's part of their beauty. simplicity, man -- technology doesn't all have to look like some bad sci-fi painting.
uh. . . his heuristic device for evaluating the value of a new technology didn't really invite a discussion on the myth of progress. if anything, he's making the same point that you're flailing around -- that you can't assume that a new technology will "yield good things".
uh. . . the successor to ascii should be a format like unicode that can support a multitude of character sets. if various stated opinions (in this thread) of what TNEF does are correct, and it's a combination of embedding both structured data (i.e, an appointment notice), and formatting information, then why not just use XML/XSL? in addition to TNEF sounding like a dirty marketing trick, it's a waste of everyone's f*&king time, since perfectly good data formats ALREADY EXIST. and don't forget that 15 years from now, when you're trying to get to some data that was originally stored in this wacky format, you'd better pray that someone still supports it -- not a forgone conclusion w/ a proprietary format by any means.
for me, php's object syntax is a lot easier to deal w/ than perl's. defining and working with classes is much easier. also, it's very similar to asp/jsp in the way you mix scripting code and markup, so if you're used working in either of those models, and a project comes up that's either perl or php, php is a more natural transition.
- he disseminated no information about his cause, and instead rambles about himself the entire time
- his stream-of-consciousness writing style is better left to those who can actually execute it correctly
- much of the detail he supplies comes off as total whining: your coffee was getting wet and someone called you a bad name? who cares?!
- he talks about the events of the weekend spinning away from the "journalistic ride in the park" that he expected as if all those events were totally out of his control
if his writing is any indication of the normal fare on hackedtobits, then it's the home of poorly executed journalism.you shouldn't be coding unless you love it. and if you love it, you'll figure out how to make it work. besides, when you get too old to work at that startup, you can be a consultant or a freelance coder.
hmmm. perhaps that would be an option if microsoft were to provide a sqlserver 7 port to linux.
Well, in any case, don't forget to go out and vote. You know that the lobbyists and other interest groups are out there doing their things, so apathy is a pretty weak approach. Besides, it's a good excuse to knock off work early.
I love this argument. As if we embark on our various military missions out of altruism. We spend our tax dollars and send our sons and daughters overseas to maintain a position of prominence (dominance) in global politics/economics. In some sense, I think that's an acceptable reality, but let's not pretend that we're doing everyone a lot of favors.
Besides if Bill Clinton was a Euro-trash wannabe, he'd be wearing much more hair product.
but you gotta love us for being so darned wacky!
At least our beer has gotten better in the last several years.
Wow. That's pretty heavy. Making parents responsible for their children's behavior until they reach the age of majority? What happens if the kid commits some jail-able offense? The parent goes to jail? How does that benefit the family?
I think it's an interesting idea. But it would have to be very limited, and perhaps fines would be the way punishment would get transferred to the parent.
was this supposed to be a joke? if so, it's in horribly bad taste.
This whole geek-cultural-phenomenon needs to be put to rest. We don't share a culture -- we share an interest in technology & science. I'm sure there are plenty of Indian and Filipino and Black American and African and European not to mention agnostic, atheist, Islamic, Buddhist, etc. heads that read this site and the reason everyone does so is because we have a set of common interest. You may or may not have something beyond your tech fetish in common with other people around here, but this attempt to dig deeper and find some sort of cultural common denominator is both irritating and a waste of time.
This amateur social science crap is stupid. A bunch of technologists sitting around making these silly social proclamations makes about as much sense as a bunch of sociologists trying to design a computer.
I'm really full of myself, huh?
Your productivity will definitely improve.
I've been messing with the Taoist spin on Tantric sex for a couple of months, and it's both mad fun and really good for your energy level. Besides, if you're willing to work at improving your programming skills, you shouldn't balk at upping your bag o' sex tricks.
On a last note, I'm generally in agreement with that other guy who said, "Who cares?"
hey, lots of people do it. sometimes for benevolent reasons and sometimes not.
examples: iceland, israel, indonesia, china, etc.
the english language is just more of a slut than most. we get into bed with anyone, but mainly because we'd rather absorb a word or two than actually encourage real language study.
My opinions about this whole thing were pretty much the same as the author's. While I think Jon Katz is a good writer, I thought this whole "Hellmouth" series missed the mark by a wide margin. The most tragic part of the Littleton shootings was that the perps were so self-absorbed in their petty problems (nobody likes me, people take my lunch money, etc.) that they felt justified in killing people over some identity problems they should have solved by first grade.
When the so-called "geek" community reacts to this by displaying a similar degree of self-absorption and decrying that the real villain is society and the school system, that's a pretty sad indicator. There are tougher things than high school in even the most cushioned life, and certainly minorities are justified in scoffing at middle-class whities when they display such pathological and weak behavior.
There should be no sympathy at all for the kids who decided that their self-absorbed little problems were so monumental that it merited rubbing out their whole school.
High school is rough for everyone. For jocks, for geeks, for minorities, for fat kids, for skinny kids, etc. It's a pressure cooker. It shouldn't be that way, but it is. A football player who spends everyday after school training isn't doing that just for fun -- he's struggling for acceptance, too. Unfortunately, we often don't raise our kids to be happy with themselves and accepting of others, so a lot of insecurities come out as aggression and teasing. I encountered that, you encountered that, and you can bet that most other people did too.
But responding to daily ridicule w/ pipe bombs and guns is such a weak and sick response. If anything, self-declared geeks should be angry at those kids for giving them a bad name, not angry at the news media for doing what it always does -- giving writers the job of summarizing complicated tragedies in 200 words or less for an audience that just wants the executive summary.
that's just 'cause you're a brilliant, shining beacon in this world of dimly flickering bic lighters. i liked the book, and thought the info on embedding servlets requests in html pages and servlet chaining was helpful. i didn't immediately think of those uses on my own. but perhaps i am an idiot. : )
The psychological profiles of cops certainly are worthy of a lot more scrutiny than the "lone-wolf hacker". After all, how many hackers (well, besides Eric Raymond) carry guns and take jobs where the perks are the possibility of shooting and beating people? Or, prying into people's lifes with a microscope to see what kind of deviance they're engaged in. And to go from being a cop to a psychologist? Whoa, red flag! I recommend that the author should spend some serious time on the shrink's couch himself.