One might think that Kuhn's "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" might at least be touched on in these articles on science, but alas. Ah well, back to botched understandings.
For the real world, eh? Let's see. Optimism will not stop Ebola in its tracks. Optimism will not unfan the flames across the middle east and other regions, nor will optimism lower food prices—optimism was doubtless not why Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire—or create the three or four or more new Saudi Arabias necessary to fuel the oil craze (of Americans in particular) for a few more years. Optimism will not make the fracking boom any less of a bubble, nor cause the Oil Majors to stop speaking of an "age of austerity"—per the US EIA, 127 oil and gas companies are all taking on debt or chucking assests to try to reach a profit—nor reverse the decline of their supergiant fields, nor cause cheap oil to magically materialize from the marginal, difficult, and expensive sources that are now being resorted to, given the global peak of conventional crude oil back in 2005. Optimism may make the steps outlined in the Hirsch report a little more palatable, though that report advises, given the 2005 oil peak, migration to some new technology in 1985 (or starting in 1995 in crunch mode). I believe Tom Murphy called this an energy trap on his do the math blog. Optimism might call nuclear too cheap to meter, but that tune was young 70 years ago. Optimism will not reverse the draw-down of aquifers, nor reverse the drought in California and the other sun-burnt states. Optimism will not allow a single working class salary to suddenly pay all its bills like it did a few decades ago, nor will it end job erosion due to offshoring and automation. Optimism will not clean up the coal spills, deep water oil taints, nor any of the many other superfund sites that modern culture has blessed us with. Time and hard effort might, but that Augean labor is a far cry from fluffy all-is-well optimism. One might be optimistic that the Highway Trust Fund might somehow remain solvent, or you could wonder just how much of that $500 billion Interstate system can really be maintained now that the oil required to build it is busy pricing itself out of the market. Hey hey! Speaking of optimism, here's an article—"Billionaire Richard Branson failed to deliver on $3 billion global warming pledge." Points for trying?
Moving forward to a product that already has one marketplace failure under its belt? Oil cars slaughtered electric in the free market ~100 years ago, so this recent fuss about bringing back electric seems more about affordable oil pricing itself out of the market than anything new in the wheel'd battery department—but life in the Faust lane certainly has conditioned this culture to see only onwards and upwards, so uh I guess hooray for ACTUALLY DOING IT and all that jazz.
Nary a word about Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions, in particular the distinction between the puzzle solving of normal science and the different conditions of revolutions in thinking? Oh, the revolutionary thinkers face an uphill battle (like they always have)? I am shocked, shocked, at this sorry state of not learning from the history of science.
Office is a non-portable security and support nightmare for me. Most of the time it works as you describe, but then every so often a user wanders in wondering why their document has corrupted itself, or is otherwise doing something weird or crashy (copy/paste export/import to clear the gremlins?). Just this week I've had "large Excel document crashes when you try and do so-and-so" and seen a "I've never seen this before, but the spelling checker says it is skipping some text as being labeled as uncheckable, help!" reports.
On the portability front, users find that documents created in one version of Office cannot be opened to being with on other platforms or, once the conversion hoops are figured out for that particular os/version pair for the users in question, why the same document looks slightly different (this mainly happens between Mac and Microsoft versions of Office).
Ahh, security. Macros, viruses, and a document format that can pull all local files and URLs into itself before being sent back. Lovely.
Yes, the problem is security, though my stance is opposite yours.
I refuse to run any sort of webmail solution on my mail server for security reasons. I am far more comfortable with users accessing their mailboxes with Kerberos or TLS encrypted IMAP and SMTP connections use specially installed and configured software than letting them login from any web browser in the world.
Do you trust that each random system with a web broswer your users are logging in from does not have a keyboard sniffer or trojan installed?
White lists may have problems with online ordering sites, which send automated "do not reply" email with the receipt; or automatic receipts from mailing lists. At best, the remote admin will be peppered with white list solicitations until you accept the mail on your end.
White lists will also make some legitimate users miserable (oh, I have to do this reply thing) and otherwise slow down communication, if my experience with users and opt-in mailing list confirmation emails are any indication.
Granted, white lists are useful in some situations, but I don't see them as any inevitable magical solution.
If you run SpamAssassin after the MTA, sure, the cows are out. Better to run SpamAssassin integrated with your MTA if possible, which can be done with Exim, Sendmail, and possibly others. Doing spam checks at the MTA level also lets you look at the mail envelope data and similar that SA cannot check on.
Granted, you tend to have to run your own mail server to do this, but hey...
Since ssh is a drop-in replacement for the r* utilities, the ideas will carry over from a discussion. One can also use the MIT Kerberos enhanced r* utilities, which are hardly âoeOBSOLETEâ by your definition.
The 102 is likely a failure to have read the documentation for localtime() or gmtime(), which in perl (and probably other languages) returns the number of years since 1900.
Funny, I never noticed Haku's wolf head on the dragon until looking again at the DVD just now. Though the movie is full of references to other Miyazaki movies...
The music was done by Joe Hisaishi, though I have not seen the Disney version yet to know whether they've mucked with the excellent music.
Dock replacement? I've been using DragThing happily with the dock tiny and minimized, and LaunchBar for spiffy keyboard access, and neither have broken through any 10.x upgrade.
If only it were true. Nuclear energy is environmentally the most harmful energy source imaginable because it leaves behind waste that is both highly toxic and completely indestructible by chemical or biological means. We should eliminate it completely as soon as possible--we just don't need it.
Interesting opinion. Care to support your claims? My personal opinion on nuclear power is opposite yours, and covered quite well in the short essay âoeKnow Nukesâ in Mind, Machines and Evolution by James P. Hogan.
Unless one had an old Crisco 675 set to bridging mode, despite QWurst's best efforts to get one to use the brain-dead NAT mode they have all the new routers set to...
Oh, and some HP printers were unhappy about Code Red or Nimda; turns out they run a webserver by default (and FTP, telnet, LPD, JetDirect, and lord only knows what else) that got screwed up before any access control took place. Yay firmware updates.
There was also a post to the security-announce list, signed with Apple's Product Security key, which you can verify with a live person if you really feel like it. The post contained the website notes, plus SHA1 checksum of the installer disk image. Given current security technology, Apple covered their bases quite well.
You might get burned by the next virus-of-the-day, but in any case you will eventually have to bite the bullet and upgrade to something supported.
Or keep stumbling along, with firewalls and antivirus software and whatnot hopefully keeping the bad stuff away, though we do that for the current Microsoft systems anyhow.
What exactly does smtp.earthlink.net add to the headers that you find objectionable?
Blockage of the elegant STARTTLS protocol, forcing use of the alternate-port-kluge smtps for folks who want to do authenticated relaying through my mail server. I would rather my users not have to monkey with their outgoing SMTP server settings depending on where they are, or have to switch mail agents to one that supports smtps.
As always, spammers are making life miserable for everyone else. Earthlink firewalling off SMTP is likely the easiest option for them; other methods would probably cost Earthlink more.
10. Done. New versions of Outlook by default disable scripting.
And this new version is a free upgrade to all users running previous versions? Is Microsoft going to get on TV and beg users to upgrade for the sake of the Internet?
9. Windows XP automatically downloads security patches. This functionality should be extended to universally cover Office and other products as well.
XP sounds like something users have to pay for. What would happen to someone in the middle ages who built a castle with three walls, then came back for more money for a castle with four walls?
8. Done. New versions of Outlook by default will warn a user if an external app is trying to use it to send email, and further warn if it's being used rapidly.
See #10, above.
7. Pretty much done with WinXP. There are a few settings relating to domain authentication that can be strengthened by default. I think they are not because it would cause connectivity issues with older NT domains.
See #9, above.
6. That would be virus protection and step on third parties like Norton and McAfee.
My unix machines only need anti-virus software to protect the odd Windows client, or to reduce DoS attacks by Windows clients. Why does the existence of Windows outside my organization mandate the additional cost of anti-virus software?
5. That's not Microsoft's responsibility.
Sure, but I would love to see higher insurance rate for people running Microsoft software, until it can be proven otherwise that Microsoft has fixed the historic flaws in their products.
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See #6, above.
2. Done. This is part of the Active Directory integration.
That sounds like something you have to pay for. What about older systems, or independent systems run at an ISP or educational institute that do not have the money or resources to setup such an administrative layer?
1. Process auditing has been part of NT since the very beginning. What you want is reporting on that, and I don't think you fully appreciate just how big of a task this would be. This functionality is really only useful in more secure DoD installations because of the scope.
This is true. Far better to spend time fixing the historic flaws of Microsoft products in the first place.
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Sing along now! Oh we'll send him to outer space, to find another race
One might think that Kuhn's "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" might at least be touched on in these articles on science, but alas. Ah well, back to botched understandings.
For the real world, eh? Let's see. Optimism will not stop Ebola in its tracks. Optimism will not unfan the flames across the middle east and other regions, nor will optimism lower food prices—optimism was doubtless not why Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire—or create the three or four or more new Saudi Arabias necessary to fuel the oil craze (of Americans in particular) for a few more years. Optimism will not make the fracking boom any less of a bubble, nor cause the Oil Majors to stop speaking of an "age of austerity"—per the US EIA, 127 oil and gas companies are all taking on debt or chucking assests to try to reach a profit—nor reverse the decline of their supergiant fields, nor cause cheap oil to magically materialize from the marginal, difficult, and expensive sources that are now being resorted to, given the global peak of conventional crude oil back in 2005. Optimism may make the steps outlined in the Hirsch report a little more palatable, though that report advises, given the 2005 oil peak, migration to some new technology in 1985 (or starting in 1995 in crunch mode). I believe Tom Murphy called this an energy trap on his do the math blog. Optimism might call nuclear too cheap to meter, but that tune was young 70 years ago. Optimism will not reverse the draw-down of aquifers, nor reverse the drought in California and the other sun-burnt states. Optimism will not allow a single working class salary to suddenly pay all its bills like it did a few decades ago, nor will it end job erosion due to offshoring and automation. Optimism will not clean up the coal spills, deep water oil taints, nor any of the many other superfund sites that modern culture has blessed us with. Time and hard effort might, but that Augean labor is a far cry from fluffy all-is-well optimism. One might be optimistic that the Highway Trust Fund might somehow remain solvent, or you could wonder just how much of that $500 billion Interstate system can really be maintained now that the oil required to build it is busy pricing itself out of the market. Hey hey! Speaking of optimism, here's an article—"Billionaire Richard Branson failed to deliver on $3 billion global warming pledge." Points for trying?
Moving forward to a product that already has one marketplace failure under its belt? Oil cars slaughtered electric in the free market ~100 years ago, so this recent fuss about bringing back electric seems more about affordable oil pricing itself out of the market than anything new in the wheel'd battery department—but life in the Faust lane certainly has conditioned this culture to see only onwards and upwards, so uh I guess hooray for ACTUALLY DOING IT and all that jazz.
Nary a word about Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions, in particular the distinction between the puzzle solving of normal science and the different conditions of revolutions in thinking? Oh, the revolutionary thinkers face an uphill battle (like they always have)? I am shocked, shocked, at this sorry state of not learning from the history of science.
Office is a non-portable security and support nightmare for me. Most of the time it works as you describe, but then every so often a user wanders in wondering why their document has corrupted itself, or is otherwise doing something weird or crashy (copy/paste export/import to clear the gremlins?). Just this week I've had "large Excel document crashes when you try and do so-and-so" and seen a "I've never seen this before, but the spelling checker says it is skipping some text as being labeled as uncheckable, help!" reports.
On the portability front, users find that documents created in one version of Office cannot be opened to being with on other platforms or, once the conversion hoops are figured out for that particular os/version pair for the users in question, why the same document looks slightly different (this mainly happens between Mac and Microsoft versions of Office).
Ahh, security. Macros, viruses, and a document format that can pull all local files and URLs into itself before being sent back. Lovely.
Yes, the problem is security, though my stance is opposite yours.
I refuse to run any sort of webmail solution on my mail server for security reasons. I am far more comfortable with users accessing their mailboxes with Kerberos or TLS encrypted IMAP and SMTP connections use specially installed and configured software than letting them login from any web browser in the world.
Do you trust that each random system with a web broswer your users are logging in from does not have a keyboard sniffer or trojan installed?
White lists may have problems with online ordering sites, which send automated "do not reply" email with the receipt; or automatic receipts from mailing lists. At best, the remote admin will be peppered with white list solicitations until you accept the mail on your end.
White lists will also make some legitimate users miserable (oh, I have to do this reply thing) and otherwise slow down communication, if my experience with users and opt-in mailing list confirmation emails are any indication.
Granted, white lists are useful in some situations, but I don't see them as any inevitable magical solution.
If you run SpamAssassin after the MTA, sure, the cows are out. Better to run SpamAssassin integrated with your MTA if possible, which can be done with Exim, Sendmail, and possibly others. Doing spam checks at the MTA level also lets you look at the mail envelope data and similar that SA cannot check on.
Granted, you tend to have to run your own mail server to do this, but hey...
Since ssh is a drop-in replacement for the r* utilities, the ideas will carry over from a discussion. One can also use the MIT Kerberos enhanced r* utilities, which are hardly âoeOBSOLETEâ by your definition.
The 102 is likely a failure to have read the documentation for localtime() or gmtime(), which in perl (and probably other languages) returns the number of years since 1900.
perl -le 'print ((localtime)[5])'
Funny, I never noticed Haku's wolf head on the dragon until looking again at the DVD just now. Though the movie is full of references to other Miyazaki movies...
The music was done by Joe Hisaishi, though I have not seen the Disney version yet to know whether they've mucked with the excellent music.
Dock replacement? I've been using DragThing happily with the dock tiny and minimized, and LaunchBar for spiffy keyboard access, and neither have broken through any 10.x upgrade.
Interesting opinion. Care to support your claims? My personal opinion on nuclear power is opposite yours, and covered quite well in the short essay âoeKnow Nukesâ in Mind, Machines and Evolution by James P. Hogan.
Ehh, MineSweeper Certified Engineer vs. Microsoft Certified Solitare Engineer, what's the difference?
#!/usr/bin/perl
rand($.) < 1 && ($line = $_) while <DATA>;
print $line;
__DATA__
Definitely yes
Outlook cloudy
Unless one had an old Crisco 675 set to bridging mode, despite QWurst's best efforts to get one to use the brain-dead NAT mode they have all the new routers set to...
Oh, and some HP printers were unhappy about Code Red or Nimda; turns out they run a webserver by default (and FTP, telnet, LPD, JetDirect, and lord only knows what else) that got screwed up before any access control took place. Yay firmware updates.
Sounds kind of like what the Regexp::English perl module does.
You may also want to look at the YAPE::Regex series of modules that allow parsing/extracting/explaining of regex.
Screw perception, get an ad-blocking proxy to do the hard work for you.
There was also a post to the security-announce list, signed with Apple's Product Security key, which you can verify with a live person if you really feel like it. The post contained the website notes, plus SHA1 checksum of the installer disk image. Given current security technology, Apple covered their bases quite well.
You might get burned by the next virus-of-the-day, but in any case you will eventually have to bite the bullet and upgrade to something supported.
Or keep stumbling along, with firewalls and antivirus software and whatnot hopefully keeping the bad stuff away, though we do that for the current Microsoft systems anyhow.
A minority at NASA would probably be happy to see the metric system used more consistently...
Never seen such things. Might have something to do with running OmniWeb on OS X and utterly disabling JavaScript, but hey...
Blockage of the elegant STARTTLS protocol, forcing use of the alternate-port-kluge smtps for folks who want to do authenticated relaying through my mail server. I would rather my users not have to monkey with their outgoing SMTP server settings depending on where they are, or have to switch mail agents to one that supports smtps.
As always, spammers are making life miserable for everyone else. Earthlink firewalling off SMTP is likely the easiest option for them; other methods would probably cost Earthlink more.
And this new version is a free upgrade to all users running previous versions? Is Microsoft going to get on TV and beg users to upgrade for the sake of the Internet?
XP sounds like something users have to pay for. What would happen to someone in the middle ages who built a castle with three walls, then came back for more money for a castle with four walls?
See #10, above.
See #9, above.
My unix machines only need anti-virus software to protect the odd Windows client, or to reduce DoS attacks by Windows clients. Why does the existence of Windows outside my organization mandate the additional cost of anti-virus software?
Sure, but I would love to see higher insurance rate for people running Microsoft software, until it can be proven otherwise that Microsoft has fixed the historic flaws in their products.
See #6, above.
That sounds like something you have to pay for. What about older systems, or independent systems run at an ISP or educational institute that do not have the money or resources to setup such an administrative layer?
This is true. Far better to spend time fixing the historic flaws of Microsoft products in the first place.