Was wondering about why they were "lucky" between those 13 astronauts that would have to stay in a potentially very crowded place and then saw this message, and the lucky word there got several new meanings.
We are speaking in galactic terms? How much it takes a star (of size/class/whatever) of Betelgeuse to go from whenever is now (from our point of view, at least), to supernova? This month? this year? this century? or the next millenium? All seems to be waiting to hit us tomorrow, and mankind could be extinct for long by when that star explodes.
I would say skinless instead. Probably for servers "naked" should mean without OS installed, what looks specially attractive since you can choose to install on them open clothes.
Massive botnets have already been infiltrated and subverted. So those computers meant to ban pornography, and maybe anti-government web sites could any day be used to send anti-government propaganda with maybe simple commands... not sure how comfortable are chinese with double-edge swords, but this could be a good example.
Anyway, i would be more worried about the US government botnet construction kit, a.k.a. microsoft windows, that seems to be putting that power to individuals, groups and foreign governments.
Internet isnt about geographical borders, and treating it like it is definately will cause collateral damage. So far most of internet based attacks were done by individuals or groups of individuals not related with government (at least, not directly). Even If we put a complex (?) criminal organization instead of a single person behind the biggest botnets, we would not be speaking about countries. And even if countries try to get a cyberarmy, probably the biggest talents (and so threats) will want to be out of there.
Probably a better example could be spam. Some administrators take as policy ban entire countries because too much spam coming from there. You think could be some collateral victims in that approach if made generic? (hint, most of the spam is still generated in US).
If the UAVs are enclosed, no way to get orders from outside, well, capturing them could be necessary. But dont think it will be the case. And intrusion in military networks happenedsometimes in the past.
And last but not least, exploiting the human factor in a way or another dont require a lot of technology, just hit in the right spot (like the very successful nigerian scam of some years ago).
We already seen several movies were infiltration with lower technology ended using weapons against their builders. Ok, Independence Day alien mainframe hacking could not count as credible, but hacking Terminators is pretty close to what is proposed here. And no matter which hard crypto technology they put into... the human factor is still there (and no, you don't want to put machines at helm)
If they ban all games/movies/comics/books where someone gets killed, a very small subset of all will remain. But still, if you are worried about rape you should be more about killing.
What if we are the "advanced" ones? The aliens could be intelligent, maybe even more than us, but communicate or show their intelligence in ways that we could not understand or see.
If that is the case, why we should go that far? Maybe whales, chimps, squids, and others here could fall into that definition, and our communication attemps were enclosing the lucky ones in zoos, or kill them for food, fun, resources, etc. Worse than that. There were times here that we didn't consider other humans "humans" enough, so was ok to enslave, rape, kill, mass exterminate, or even eat others.
If we are the advanced ones, better be very afraid any alien that could be in our path. Now, where that put us when we are not the advanced ones in such encounters?
One of the best features of wiki pages is that you can see who did what changes and when. Maybe using that technology could be made a generic "important" files changes tracker?
Google dont need to displace Microsoft from the desktop. What google is doing is displacing the desktop itself. Once you have the same info and roughly the same functionality from your cellphone, netbook, computer, gaming device, whoever else computer and so on, "Desktop" is becoming meaningless. Microsoft must give away the desktop and embrace the cloud to have any chance, just because it isnt a battlefield anymore.
As waterboarding wasnt giving enough answers, they changed tactics and now are giving them laptops with Windows ME and Microsoft Bob. I'm sure there are international laws against that inhuman methods of torture.
If you really need all the performance you can get for a service, don't virtualize it, or at least check that what you can get is enough, Virtualization have a lot of advantages, but dont give you the full resources of the real machine is running into (and if well how much you lose depend on the kind of virtualization you use, still wont be full). Maybe the 10x number could be VMWare fault or just a reasonable consequence of how is doing virtualization (maybe taking into account disk IO performance you could explain a good percent of that number).
Probably the only hit in a long list. Definately graphical www was one of the most world changing app, and Mosaic (or something similar around that dates) started it all. My list would include also fast compressors (pkarc? pkzip?), wiki, spreadsheets, some other parts of the basic internet infrastructure (sendmail, bind), perl, and probably Lisa desktop.
Of course, there are history (like in the 1st apps that marked that something was the way to go) and things that put that trend to the masses. In the second acception, i would put Windows, Netscape, Wikipedia, MySQL and Linux.
The default install in most linux distributions usually includes one browser (and one office suite, and one desktop environment, and so on). But you can have the option to install additional programs, and dig between the options to see that there are more around in each area, and are good and safe enough to be included there.
Windows does something like that already, you can install everything, the default or choose between some alternatives (all from microsoft, and except very few exceptions, like picking between write and notepad, only one choice for category). What if you expand those not obligatory options giving alternatives from other vendors?
The problem here isn't (directly, at least) money, but choice. Most don't even know that they have one. You get a computer, you usually dont have a choice on what operating system it includes, and in that operating system you dont have a choice on browser (at least, no without further work/knowledge/etc).
Also, you can consider all free, but that dont make them all equal.
Windows will become itself a linux-like distribution, with hundreds of included, tested, and secure packages of several alternative tools for the same purpose. Think like Kubuntu, that comes with the KDE desktop, Konqueror as default browser and several more "by default" applications, but where you can install with a command alternate browsers, office suites, entire desktops, and so on.
Would love to see him in a fake photo with Czar clothes. Maybe he goes forward to the czar role, pushes us to the open source communism and Ballmer starts calling him Stalinman.
Now that a manga collector got jailed up to 15 years having a some, hosting a website to the internet with plain and real child pornography should get at least death penalty (they will try to push it to something worse).
You could not care if your pc is sending spam, or cracking captchas, or serving malware, not affecting specially you... but hosting a child porn site in your own pc is a bit risky taking that into account.
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Was wondering about why they were "lucky" between those 13 astronauts that would have to stay in a potentially very crowded place and then saw this message, and the lucky word there got several new meanings.
We are speaking in galactic terms? How much it takes a star (of size/class/whatever) of Betelgeuse to go from whenever is now (from our point of view, at least), to supernova? This month? this year? this century? or the next millenium? All seems to be waiting to hit us tomorrow, and mankind could be extinct for long by when that star explodes.
I would say skinless instead. Probably for servers "naked" should mean without OS installed, what looks specially attractive since you can choose to install on them open clothes.
Massive botnets have already been infiltrated and subverted. So those computers meant to ban pornography, and maybe anti-government web sites could any day be used to send anti-government propaganda with maybe simple commands... not sure how comfortable are chinese with double-edge swords, but this could be a good example.
Anyway, i would be more worried about the US government botnet construction kit, a.k.a. microsoft windows, that seems to be putting that power to individuals, groups and foreign governments.
Internet isnt about geographical borders, and treating it like it is definately will cause collateral damage. So far most of internet based attacks were done by individuals or groups of individuals not related with government (at least, not directly). Even If we put a complex (?) criminal organization instead of a single person behind the biggest botnets, we would not be speaking about countries. And even if countries try to get a cyberarmy, probably the biggest talents (and so threats) will want to be out of there.
Probably a better example could be spam. Some administrators take as policy ban entire countries because too much spam coming from there. You think could be some collateral victims in that approach if made generic? (hint, most of the spam is still generated in US).
And last but not least, exploiting the human factor in a way or another dont require a lot of technology, just hit in the right spot (like the very successful nigerian scam of some years ago).
We already seen several movies were infiltration with lower technology ended using weapons against their builders. Ok, Independence Day alien mainframe hacking could not count as credible, but hacking Terminators is pretty close to what is proposed here. And no matter which hard crypto technology they put into... the human factor is still there (and no, you don't want to put machines at helm)
Moderators should stop posting funny idle.slashdot videos in main site. Whats next, lolcats?
If they ban all games/movies/comics/books where someone gets killed, a very small subset of all will remain. But still, if you are worried about rape you should be more about killing.
What if we are the "advanced" ones? The aliens could be intelligent, maybe even more than us, but communicate or show their intelligence in ways that we could not understand or see.
If that is the case, why we should go that far? Maybe whales, chimps, squids, and others here could fall into that definition, and our communication attemps were enclosing the lucky ones in zoos, or kill them for food, fun, resources, etc. Worse than that. There were times here that we didn't consider other humans "humans" enough, so was ok to enslave, rape, kill, mass exterminate, or even eat others.
If we are the advanced ones, better be very afraid any alien that could be in our path. Now, where that put us when we are not the advanced ones in such encounters?
... preferably Rosetta ones.
One of the best features of wiki pages is that you can see who did what changes and when. Maybe using that technology could be made a generic "important" files changes tracker?
Google dont need to displace Microsoft from the desktop. What google is doing is displacing the desktop itself. Once you have the same info and roughly the same functionality from your cellphone, netbook, computer, gaming device, whoever else computer and so on, "Desktop" is becoming meaningless. Microsoft must give away the desktop and embrace the cloud to have any chance, just because it isnt a battlefield anymore.
If they want to see 70+ virgins they should just surf slashdot. Oh, wait, you mean female virgins?
As waterboarding wasnt giving enough answers, they changed tactics and now are giving them laptops with Windows ME and Microsoft Bob. I'm sure there are international laws against that inhuman methods of torture.
the right term to name its current status is zombie, as most of the machines its run on.
If you really need all the performance you can get for a service, don't virtualize it, or at least check that what you can get is enough, Virtualization have a lot of advantages, but dont give you the full resources of the real machine is running into (and if well how much you lose depend on the kind of virtualization you use, still wont be full). Maybe the 10x number could be VMWare fault or just a reasonable consequence of how is doing virtualization (maybe taking into account disk IO performance you could explain a good percent of that number).
Probably the only hit in a long list. Definately graphical www was one of the most world changing app, and Mosaic (or something similar around that dates) started it all. My list would include also fast compressors (pkarc? pkzip?), wiki, spreadsheets, some other parts of the basic internet infrastructure (sendmail, bind), perl, and probably Lisa desktop.
Of course, there are history (like in the 1st apps that marked that something was the way to go) and things that put that trend to the masses. In the second acception, i would put Windows, Netscape, Wikipedia, MySQL and Linux.
The default install in most linux distributions usually includes one browser (and one office suite, and one desktop environment, and so on). But you can have the option to install additional programs, and dig between the options to see that there are more around in each area, and are good and safe enough to be included there.
Windows does something like that already, you can install everything, the default or choose between some alternatives (all from microsoft, and except very few exceptions, like picking between write and notepad, only one choice for category). What if you expand those not obligatory options giving alternatives from other vendors?
The problem here isn't (directly, at least) money, but choice. Most don't even know that they have one. You get a computer, you usually dont have a choice on what operating system it includes, and in that operating system you dont have a choice on browser (at least, no without further work/knowledge/etc). Also, you can consider all free, but that dont make them all equal.
Windows will become itself a linux-like distribution, with hundreds of included, tested, and secure packages of several alternative tools for the same purpose. Think like Kubuntu, that comes with the KDE desktop, Konqueror as default browser and several more "by default" applications, but where you can install with a command alternate browsers, office suites, entire desktops, and so on.
Microsoft took out the limitation of Windows 2009 server of running more than 10 simultaneous tasks, if your computer is a 486.
Would love to see him in a fake photo with Czar clothes. Maybe he goes forward to the czar role, pushes us to the open source communism and Ballmer starts calling him Stalinman.
They are setting the ground to make people accept the next change, a very big one. Be ready to see lots of posts titled "In Soviet America..."
Now that a manga collector got jailed up to 15 years having a some, hosting a website to the internet with plain and real child pornography should get at least death penalty (they will try to push it to something worse). You could not care if your pc is sending spam, or cracking captchas, or serving malware, not affecting specially you... but hosting a child porn site in your own pc is a bit risky taking that into account.