I thought submarining was when you hid who owns a patent, or looking at it another way, what patents you own. To make it harder for competing companies to work out what patents there are in the field they are developing in. So you hide the patent and they don't find out about it...
Just to restate some of your points in a different way...
Z is an abstraction layer in the same way any specification is an abstraction layer.
You don't really want to ever go from what the user wants to C. Instead you have a design and specification. Then you validate that specification against what the user wants, code the C, and validate the C and specification. This is done because it is easier to validate C against a written specification, rather than against some idea in the users head.
In the same way, in some cases it is easier validate the specification against Z, then validate Z against the C code, then validating directly.
I can't help but paraphrase Knuth's most famous phrase: Beware of this code for I have only prooved it to be correct, not tested it.
Ha! I was consulting by 18! I worked with another guy, who was older and knew business. I swear the customers thought I was his son or something. I was being charged out at £60 an hour too... but the guy I was with ripped me off totally.
The difference between science and religion, is that in science you aim to minimise "asumptions" or beliefs. In religion, you start with a set of a beliefs, and aim to maximise them. (As in when overwhelming evidence comes up against them, you only cancel out the minimum)
Imagine if everything was being simulated, in order to develop agent smith. So agent smith is the only 'real' life form. Neo etc is simply there to provide stimulation for smith.
hmm not unreasonable. If you have a kid that wants to learn that sort of thing - then why not grab an engine for him to play with? Start with a diesal engine, and get it working, with a pump or something.
well the thing is, then you'd have to find an omnidirection 802.11 transmitter (where do you get them?). Plus you have walls etc interfering (although same would apply to gps)
It's probably better to use bluetooth.. Hmm scrap that - 802.11 combined with gps.. I'm forever loosing the mugs to flatmates - this way I can keep track of where it is. I can have it update a web page every few minutes. Then from work I can keep an eye on where it is.
I don't know anything about TWiki, but Zwiki is cool as well. That is zope+wiki. This is cool since zope is a heirachal database - it is designed for storing documents etc.
okay, I looked up about mi2g. I looked all around their website. Their article about the linux being hacked more than windows is based on a pdf that isn't related, and sources unreleased data.
Doing a google for mi2g, I came up with nothing but bad news about them. The best site was:
http://vmyths.com/resource.cfm?id=64&page=1
Which has links to all the other sites about them..
My favourite quote is: "One wonders how much mathematical masturbation takes place when analysing and generating these numbers," by some security dude (I have no idea of the credientials..)
I don't want this post sounding like "omg, they said something about linux, lets dig up dirt", but it does seem that mi2g isn't the most reliable of sources...
From mi2g: >May saw the highest number of attacks ever, >according to mi2g, with 19,208 successful >breaches worldwide recorded against Linux based >systems.
>Just 3,801 breaches were recorded against >Windows, with other operating systems suffering >from 2,275 attacks.
That's pretty serious. It doesn't say what the percentages are of windows vs linux servers are tho. (An extreme example - it could be that there are only 3,801 windows server - 100% hack rate.) Any other site back this up?
hmm I have quite a few books - lord of the rings, and IT (stephen king) spring to mind, where they are huge paper back books, read many times, and are falling to bits. They lost theirs covers a long time ago...
I was thinking about this some more.. if you could find a way of fairly cheaply getting an accurate position within a few cm's, and a way to get the angle, for under say around £1000, then you could put this device on any weapon. Get a load of fake rifles etc - or any weapon, and put this tracking/angle device on them, then feed this back to a computer via wireless... hmm
I'm not sure how you would get good positioning. One way to do it is to use differential gps, but that might be too expensive, and probably too big for what is needed here..
What can be used to get the position accuretly within an area of 300mx300m or so?
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If it is a zero-sum game, wouldn't that mean there is no way to improve society?
If I come up with a way to farm more efficently, and give that away, sure that increases the richness of society?
I thought submarining was when you hid who owns a patent, or looking at it another way, what patents you own. To make it harder for competing companies to work out what patents there are in the field they are developing in.
So you hide the patent and they don't find out about it...
damn your right - we should gang up and shoot all the employees!
Oh, analogy right sorry - I'm bad at those
amen to the number of stupid replies so far
Just to restate some of your points in a different way...
:)
Z is an abstraction layer in the same way any specification is an abstraction layer.
You don't really want to ever go from what the user wants to C. Instead you have a design and specification. Then you validate that specification against what the user wants, code the C, and validate the C and specification.
This is done because it is easier to validate C against a written specification, rather than against some idea in the users head.
In the same way, in some cases it is easier validate the specification against Z, then validate Z against the C code, then validating directly.
I can't help but paraphrase Knuth's most famous phrase: Beware of this code for I have only prooved it to be correct, not tested it.
or something like that
160GB? I wouldn't even fit my star trek collection on that!
Ha!
I was consulting by 18!
I worked with another guy, who was older and knew business. I swear the customers thought I was his son or something.
I was being charged out at £60 an hour too... but the guy I was with ripped me off totally.
Oh well - you live and learn.
The difference between science and religion, is that in science you aim to minimise "asumptions" or beliefs.
In religion, you start with a set of a beliefs, and aim to maximise them. (As in when overwhelming evidence comes up against them, you only cancel out the minimum)
um, if you saw a group of white men walking and dressing in a certain way, wouldn't you still cross the street?
btw, you do know that being expected to commit crimes can cause you to commit crimes?
oooooh, I like it!
Imagine if everything was being simulated, in order to develop agent smith. So agent smith is the only 'real' life form. Neo etc is simply there to provide stimulation for smith.
hmm not unreasonable.
If you have a kid that wants to learn that sort of thing - then why not grab an engine for him to play with?
Start with a diesal engine, and get it working, with a pump or something.
Jeez man, get your son another machine then.
I was coding C by 12, and sure knew the inside of my machine.
well the thing is, then you'd have to find an omnidirection 802.11 transmitter (where do you get them?). Plus you have walls etc interfering (although same would apply to gps)
It's probably better to use bluetooth.. Hmm scrap that - 802.11 combined with gps.. I'm forever loosing the mugs to flatmates - this way I can keep track of where it is. I can have it update a web page every few minutes. Then from work I can keep an eye on where it is.
Hmm writing the number 7 with a line through it is merely for making it clear it is the number 7 I think.
It's like putting a / through 0
I don't know anything about TWiki, but Zwiki is cool as well. That is zope+wiki. This is cool since zope is a heirachal database - it is designed for storing documents etc.
Sounds like they were caught playing quake during work hours, and had to make up an elaborate story :)
/. blurb, it's not that cool if all they can learn is what weapon is best.
nah just kidding.. But from the
okay, I looked up about mi2g.
I looked all around their website. Their article about the linux being hacked more than windows is based on a pdf that isn't related, and sources unreleased data.
Doing a google for mi2g, I came up with nothing but bad news about them. The best site was:
http://vmyths.com/resource.cfm?id=64&page=1
Which has links to all the other sites about them..
My favourite quote is:
"One wonders how much mathematical masturbation takes place when analysing and generating these numbers," by some security dude (I have no idea of the credientials..)
I don't want this post sounding like "omg, they said something about linux, lets dig up dirt", but it does seem that mi2g isn't the most reliable of sources...
From mi2g:
>May saw the highest number of attacks ever, >according to mi2g, with 19,208 successful >breaches worldwide recorded against Linux based >systems.
>Just 3,801 breaches were recorded against >Windows, with other operating systems suffering >from 2,275 attacks.
That's pretty serious. It doesn't say what the percentages are of windows vs linux servers are tho. (An extreme example - it could be that there are only 3,801 windows server - 100% hack rate.)
Any other site back this up?
This virus could be fairly easily extended to pgp sign the viruses from you.
It already has a keyboard logger. It could wait for you to type in your pgp password, grab it, then sign the virus emails..
Now that would be scary..
Can anyone tell me why it bothers to try connecting to the internet so hard?
The article says that an infected machine will try to get on to the internet, and will try dialing the modem if it has to.
Surely the most interesting machines are those with fast good connections - not people on crappy slow modems...
This is from the assumption that the computers would be used for a DDoS.
Has a worm ever been used for anything other than a DDoS?
hmm I have quite a few books - lord of the rings, and IT (stephen king) spring to mind, where they are huge paper back books, read many times, and are falling to bits. They lost theirs covers a long time ago...
The main difference between this and linux being that this is a real-time operating system - right?
Or am I missing something?
oh I agree .. it was more of an accademic suggestion :)
I'm curious to see if it someone can do it heh
I was thinking about this some more.. if you could find a way of fairly cheaply getting an accurate position within a few cm's, and a way to get the angle, for under say around £1000, then you could put this device on any weapon. Get a load of fake rifles etc - or any weapon, and put this tracking/angle device on them, then feed this back to a computer via wireless...
hmm
I'm not sure how you would get good positioning. One way to do it is to use differential gps, but that might be too expensive, and probably too big for what is needed here..
What can be used to get the position accuretly within an area of 300mx300m or so?