Obviously Westerners, when presented with the two sides take the side of the idealistic students clamouring for rights and liberty, since you've enjoyed the luxuries of stable government for centuries.
Very perceptive post, with which I mostly agree. The old guard in the former Soviet Union still revere Stalin for much the same reasons.
Now why is a country that boasts a four thousand year old board game (Go), something Japan used to endow universities to teach, still going through all this crap? Why didn't the Chinese people long ago learn not to put up with this crap from their fuhrers? Mao's gone. Fix the thing!
Traditional Chinese tend to believe that the Tianenman Sq. protesters were deluded by pie in the sky. In their ten thousand year long civilization, they've never managed to come up with Patrick Henry's simple declaration?
To the Chinese people, What's wrong with you?!? Catch up, damnit!
"Nothing damages the relationship between teacher and student than this kind of arbitrary and capricious exercise of power."
Mr. MacAuley, grade five. He assigned some math problems one day that I enjoyed the living daylights out of. I told him so next day in class. He freaked out and screamed we'd do the problems he assigned us. WTF?!?
On the other hand, teachers do have it tough wrt IT these days. My sister is a elementary school teacher. She's not even allowed the privilege to change the date on her school supplied Mac, and the rules surrounding management of private student info/data makes Payment Card Industry procedures look laughable.
Bad decisions and investments should end up this way. Poof. Now we go after the fools who made it happen, and toss 'em in jail. They did the same (in result) as Enron.
The alternative is mortgaging your children's future. They'll be the ones paying the bill if the bailout happens.
All anyone has to do is look at what CERN is going to produce. They're expending vast amounts of CPU just to find the obviously uninteresting data, so they can throw it away. What they're left with is still vast. That ends up being blasted around the planet for analysis.
"I've borrowed a laptop from my office to download a little . . . well, nevermind. But, the thing is that my manager went apeshit and the laptop turns out to have a lot of valuable data sitting on it. What should I do?"
I knew a guy in high school who convinced his friends to help him smuggle a keg of beer out of a private club. They only got caught bringing it back in.
I say put it down behind one of the wheels of your car, and drive over it. Do a "What's that?" and drive forward onto it, and sit there for a while. Next time you start the car make sure it's at high rev and laptop is ejected across the street. "Uh, boss,..." You're safe now.
"The truth is, they have no idea if it was compromised or not. All you'd need is an Ubuntu boot CD and you could read the data straight off the drive."
Assuming an active screen locker existed, and you'd need to fight your way in (instead of just plugging in a usbkey and drag and drop)...
If the BIOS was password protected, they don't get at the hard drive without pulling a battery or a jumper or something. That should be detectable afterward. Unless they just pull the drive and drop it into another box. Physical access means all bets are off.
If BIOS wasn't pword protected and allowed miscreant to get in and change boot order, a Slitaz USB key is all you need. That lets you copy the data to USB.:-) Exit, stage left.
If you also have a Win ptn on the key, Windows won't notice your Linux ptn (where the gold is hidden). Feature! You may confidently hand over the key to security to be checked out knowing they won't see anything.
I agree, depending on how the box was set up, they may have no idea. It wasn't encrypted as they admit it should have been.
I doubt their people read/., and wouldn't have a clue what I'm talking about, though they probably are now.
Can we please unfork KDE and Gnome next? Assuming that means the two of them will implode into a Black Hole and wink out of existence. Please?
Fluxbox rules, Blackbox's not bad, Openbox tends to work after a fashion, and there's always fvwm* or dwm for the rest. Enlightenment, you're on your own.
For not easily-convertible formats (databases, binary code, etc.), make sure to [archive] the original program, and hunt for emulators that will emulate the appropriate hardware.
What? For databases, do an export. "Binary code" means what, exactly? Executable? Get the source code. "The original program" is pretty much worthless once you can't find the machine and OS that program runs on (emulators, my a$$). Binaries are by definition not portable, including between OSs and over time. Don't store important information in formats that can't be read by multiple, open standard reading tools.
I agree, this is one of the most depressing stories I've read in a while. None of this problem was necessary and all of it is, and was, avoidable. That they've still not yet learned their lesson and are about to sign up for another round of it is pretty sad.
*That* gets modded "insightful"?!? Well, heck, have some more: did you know the sun goes down every evening and comes up every morning, and it's been doing it for billions of years now, all over the Earth, and the same thing's been happening on (most?) other planets as well, and for just as long!:-O
I expect much better from/., but perhaps I'm an old school fart.
And thus the basic business model behind GMail- give you a ton of space on THEIR servers so that they can mine YOUR data and target you for advertising. That's why- if you read the whole article- ISPs have been fighting against becoming common carriers, so that they can sell your communications to the highest bidder (or at least, the information therin that is relevant to that highest bidder). Not true. ISP's have been fighting against CC status because that would burden them with obligations they'd rather not assume. CC status would burden them with responsibilities to you and make them responsible for anything going through their pipes. They'd much prefer you, the downloader/file sharer, were sued by the RIAA instead of themselves for letting you do it.
Don't ISPs have common carrier status, and doesn't that preclude them from monitoring your communications? And claiming common carrier status for ISPs when no such law has been passed is just plain stupid. Ahem.
dict stupid
1. Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in
understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; --
said of persons. dict ignorant
1. Destitute of knowledge; uninstructed or uninformed;
untaught; unenlightened.
Words have specific definitions for a reason. Stupid != ignorant. This of course makes you ignorant as well (though not stupid).
...what on earth where they thinking in the first place? What a silly question. You can't be both thinking and doing something like this at the same time.
I once heard my dad slap my mother, so now I'm a potential homicidal maniac. This century just keeps on getting better. BTW, It's mom's B'day tomorrow.
Just how does this qualify as a Fork? [It's] Standard [procedure] for an open source development project. They are GIVING it back to the community under the same license as they [got] it.
Good God, man. You sound like you actually read TFA!
It's enough that it stored its observations. I consider the little creature bloody brilliant and look forward to its further adventures.
No, it really isn't. If it looks down and notices something that will tell us that LA is going to fall into the Pacific a week from Tuesday it really isn't going help anyone if it doesn't tell us about it.
Implementation detail. Presumably, whoever put the thing where it is cares about what it's doing. These things aren't cheap. cronjob: "any interesting satellite data lately? Peaks? Valleys? Spikes?"
Notice to the Slashdot grammarstapo community: there are people out there who can use both "it's" and "its" correctly--In the same sentence!
However, punctuation and capitilization appear still to need a bit of work. Colons denote lists; semicolons denote breaks. Emdash should not be used outside marketing circles, nor should it precede a new sentence. At least it sort of looks like a new sentence, though it's not really.
IMHO.
Thanks for the compliment, though. I do try to make my writings as easy for others as possible. I appreciate others' efforts in the same direction. There's that pesky apostrophe again ("others'"), in yet another of its:-) guises (plural of plural).
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Fast-forward to 2009.
Java.
Obviously Westerners, when presented with the two sides take the side of the idealistic students clamouring for rights and liberty, since you've enjoyed the luxuries of stable government for centuries.
Very perceptive post, with which I mostly agree. The old guard in the former Soviet Union still revere Stalin for much the same reasons.
Now why is a country that boasts a four thousand year old board game (Go), something Japan used to endow universities to teach, still going through all this crap? Why didn't the Chinese people long ago learn not to put up with this crap from their fuhrers? Mao's gone. Fix the thing!
Traditional Chinese tend to believe that the Tianenman Sq. protesters were deluded by pie in the sky. In their ten thousand year long civilization, they've never managed to come up with Patrick Henry's simple declaration?
To the Chinese people, What's wrong with you?!? Catch up, damnit!
"Nothing damages the relationship between teacher and student than this kind of arbitrary and capricious exercise of power."
Mr. MacAuley, grade five. He assigned some math problems one day that I enjoyed the living daylights out of. I told him so next day in class. He freaked out and screamed we'd do the problems he assigned us. WTF?!?
On the other hand, teachers do have it tough wrt IT these days. My sister is a elementary school teacher. She's not even allowed the privilege to change the date on her school supplied Mac, and the rules surrounding management of private student info/data makes Payment Card Industry procedures look laughable.
This looks supiciously like /. has inserted a bot that replies to every first post on a topic, "In Soviet Russia, ..."
Seems very effective. Thanks. I won't miss those.
"Libertarians smoke pot."
I'll bet J. Edgar Hoover smoked pot. What's your point?
"I will agree that something needs to be done."
Me too. Nothing. This is about a whole lot of stupid decisions going up in smoke. Sucks to be them.
http://mises.org/story/3132
Bad decisions and investments should end up this way. Poof. Now we go after the fools who made it happen, and toss 'em in jail. They did the same (in result) as Enron.
The alternative is mortgaging your children's future. They'll be the ones paying the bill if the bailout happens.
Why single out Sun? How many of you want to run AIX these days (including IBM)?
All anyone has to do is look at what CERN is going to produce. They're expending vast amounts of CPU just to find the obviously uninteresting data, so they can throw it away. What they're left with is still vast. That ends up being blasted around the planet for analysis.
/., 2008 style.
"I've borrowed a laptop from my office to download a little . . . well, nevermind. But, the thing is that my manager went apeshit and the laptop turns out to have a lot of valuable data sitting on it. What should I do?"
I knew a guy in high school who convinced his friends to help him smuggle a keg of beer out of a private club. They only got caught bringing it back in.
I say put it down behind one of the wheels of your car, and drive over it. Do a "What's that?" and drive forward onto it, and sit there for a while. Next time you start the car make sure it's at high rev and laptop is ejected across the street. "Uh, boss, ..." You're safe now.
"The truth is, they have no idea if it was compromised or not. All you'd need is an Ubuntu boot CD and you could read the data straight off the drive."
Assuming an active screen locker existed, and you'd need to fight your way in (instead of just plugging in a usbkey and drag and drop) ...
If the BIOS was password protected, they don't get at the hard drive without pulling a battery or a jumper or something. That should be detectable afterward. Unless they just pull the drive and drop it into another box. Physical access means all bets are off.
If BIOS wasn't pword protected and allowed miscreant to get in and change boot order, a Slitaz USB key is all you need. That lets you copy the data to USB. :-) Exit, stage left.
If you also have a Win ptn on the key, Windows won't notice your Linux ptn (where the gold is hidden). Feature! You may confidently hand over the key to security to be checked out knowing they won't see anything.
I agree, depending on how the box was set up, they may have no idea. It wasn't encrypted as they admit it should have been.
I doubt their people read /., and wouldn't have a clue what I'm talking about, though they probably are now.
"God, I can't believe I remember crap like that from 20 years ago. :)"
@#$% man, I remember the AT command set! ATS11=65!
It only took four countries' standards bodies to get them to ... pause.
Interesting, if you're a country. "Unless you can find lobbying pals, we're not listening. Call back when you've garnered some support."
Waaayy the fsck off topic but, you opined?!?
/.?!? What the fsck for?!?
Would you people please try not to emulate Shakespeare? He's been done, much better than you ever will.
Opined, on
Too bad that you're grammer sucks, you meant?
If you can't spell, don't bitch about other's grammar, schmuck. s/you're/your/
Can we please unfork KDE and Gnome next? Assuming that means the two of them will implode into a Black Hole and wink out of existence. Please?
Fluxbox rules, Blackbox's not bad, Openbox tends to work after a fashion, and there's always fvwm* or dwm for the rest. Enlightenment, you're on your own.
I agree, this is one of the most depressing stories I've read in a while. None of this problem was necessary and all of it is, and was, avoidable. That they've still not yet learned their lesson and are about to sign up for another round of it is pretty sad.
*That* gets modded "insightful"?!? Well, heck, have some more: did you know the sun goes down every evening and comes up every morning, and it's been doing it for billions of years now, all over the Earth, and the same thing's been happening on (most?) other planets as well, and for just as long!
I expect much better from
Words have specific definitions for a reason. Stupid != ignorant. This of course makes you ignorant as well (though not stupid).
...what on earth where they thinking in the first place? What a silly question. You can't be both thinking and doing something like this at the same time.Think, then type.
I once heard my dad slap my mother, so now I'm a potential homicidal maniac. This century just keeps on getting better. BTW, It's mom's B'day tomorrow.
Don't tempt me Bill! >:-|
Good God, man. You sound like you actually read TFA!
Implementation detail. Presumably, whoever put the thing where it is cares about what it's doing. These things aren't cheap. cronjob: "any interesting satellite data lately? Peaks? Valleys? Spikes?"
However, punctuation and capitilization appear still to need a bit of work. Colons denote lists; semicolons denote breaks. Emdash should not be used outside marketing circles, nor should it precede a new sentence. At least it sort of looks like a new sentence, though it's not really.
IMHO.
Thanks for the compliment, though. I do try to make my writings as easy for others as possible. I appreciate others' efforts in the same direction. There's that pesky apostrophe again ("others'"), in yet another of its