I don't know if you've realized this, but MS is one of the largest and richest companies in the world.
Would it get on slashdot if IBM or the US gov't had a significant part of their services simply go down without an explaination? Yes. And there'd be a lot more conspiracy theorists milling about saying the gov't or IBM got hacked, too. (However, with MS, it's not too much of a stretch to believe that their service really was disrupted by technical incompetence.)
A new 'I, Robot' movie is coming out based on the Isaac Asimov book series, *yay! revel! rejoice!*... dot dot dot... ...starring Will Smith. *string of obscenities! tears of sorrow! gnashing of teeth!*
What are these people thinking?! I hope to god that he doesn't go through the film with quipish, off-the-cuff stupidity. A good choice for main actor would be someone like Alec Baldwin, I think. FUCK, I'd take Ben Affleck (that no-tallent dickweed son-of-a-bitch) over Will Smith.
Will Smith's career was at it's pinacle of quality before he got into film - and then it started to plummet.
It's one thing to have an Indian company start up and out-produce an American company. When this thing occurs, it is fair trade.
It's another thing entirely to have a US national company fire hundreds of thousands of college-educated Americans and send the jobs overseas for a fraction of the cost simply to have higher profits and to expand their market.
The situation we have now is that the Indian tech boom is a direct result of American workers and American money. It got off the ground floor with the help of millions of dollars that were 'saved' by taking jobs away from Americans.
No. They created a new format that is similar to XML. Office2003 doesn't have a 'standard' file format in the least bit.
What's more, you're blatantly wrong. Office 2000 and Office 97 have fairly different file formats, as I've continually seen at work. I'd suspect the only reason they actually changed file formats to something 'drastically' different is because 3rd party word processors (such as OpenOffice) have finally reverse engineered.doc and such to be useable in something other than MS applications. Thus, it's time to "embrace and extend" in order to secure their 'investment'.
However, that doesn't mean that having "adult entertainment" on your resume is a good thing. A future employer will still look at that as an ethical snafu, instead of an experience working with 'cutting edge' stuff. At least a lot of them would.
I don't know about anyone else, but I actually appreciated it when my NES or genesis would slow down. It usually happened in a particularly difficult spot, and it allowed for quicker response on my part. Such slowdown is the only reason I ever managed to beat Super Mario Brothers.
Since I couldn't afford a game genie, it was a nice substitute at times.:)
I've noticed the same thing in linux when pulling/pushing files between win2k workstations and a linux machine. The workstations are 800MHz Durons - 1800Mhz AthlonXPs, and the samba (2.2)/linux (2.4) system is a Pentium 2 333MHz (!)
When pulling/pushing (making requests) with a Win2k workstation: narry a problem. Works much better than a setup with windows windows interacting.
When pulling/pushing (making requests) with the linux system on any of the workstations: quite often the Windows machine will choke up while pushing data to a windows machine, while I've not noticed anything pecular about pulling. Not sure if this is due to a poor implimentation of the samba client, or if it's due to windows choking on data/throughput, or what. (Anyone else experience this?)
I've also brought my linux laptop in and done some file transfer: it works without a hitch, and file transfer is substantially faster from linux linux than any windows linux or windows windows setup I've seen.
instead of cutting off net access entirely, why not provide a means to actually fix the problem instead of alienating their customers?
why not (say) decrease the dhcp lease time from whatever to an hour or so. when whatever mechanism they're using to detect spam/whatever infection (hope to god they're not just listening for smtp traffic, that'd be evil but sadly likely) goes off, it would tell the cable modem ot use a different config which would then allow the user to get a different dhcp lease. this lease would set their router to something different, which would then pipe a single page to the user - similar to what many universities install for when users try and access pr0n or something like that from a school computer.
some mechanism ('m not familiar with routing protocols unfortunately) would then be provided to drop all traffic at the router except for http traffic through a specific gateway, possibly to specific hosts such as mcaffee, symantec, windowsupdate.microsoft.com, and the vairous other free virus and malware scanning packages.
This is a bit more complex, but surely it's possible - I've seen and/or read about all the various mechanisms I mentioned above.
You must still be in high school. At least, your worldview seems to represent an environment much like the high school I remember.
You're implying too much. Just because someone doesn't care about what they're wearing doesn't mean they're going to wear old, dirty rags and not bathe or groom. Nobody said anywhere that the kid didn't have a haircut - it was just about him having the wrong one. Don't rememeber things like that in high school? Or were you too divorced from reality to notice those things?
What I'm talking about is: adults (that is, people who have matured and grown up past the emotional level of a high schooler) don't pay attention to what others are wearing so much as pay attention to the attributes of the person. I'm saying that focus should be put on building the person, not the image of the person. By building the person, you are teaching them about the world around them, and thus helping them learn how to relate to people.
You may not have noticed, but (for example) Alan Cox is quite apathetic about clothes and personal appearance. He wears raggy clothes, half-clothes, and some of the oddest configurations - and he's an extreme in this matter, to be sure. But he's well liked, amiable, and intelligent, all while held in high regard by his peers. He doesn't spout off pointlessly as some people do, and he doesn't go about making enemies intentionally.
Oh, and I never said anything about people that dress horribly, act like jerks, and then complain about it later. So why bring it up? are you lookng to cause a conflict?
Kodak is claiming patentship on "electronic cameras that use compression and digital storage"?
Last I checked, most "electronic" cameras used film. I've only seen digital cameras use compression and digital storage. Might this be a potential loophole?
Seriously, though. Kodak needs ot have their asses thrown out of court for this: they're falling behind because they're not innovating, just like the music industry.
google should start a 'google development' search engine. normal google would still be available, but the googledev would have the same initial database, but use different algorithms and procedures with which it would classify material, thus yielding different results for the same searches... 'cutting edge' google. or it could even have it's own search crawler, for that matter. that way they can start finding new ways to combat spammers.
but how many children are now going to be able to bypass the disclaimer pages on porn sites because of deep linking?
Hello, 1996 is calling; they want their paranoia back!
Goodness, you aren't serious, are you? Have you used a search engine in the last couple years? Have you not ever looked for porn yourself? Just hop over to images.google.com and enter the name of a porn star - bam, shitloads of smut. Not only that, but search google.com for a porn star's name (many of which you could easily find by searching for 'famous porn stars', I'm sure) and you'll find gallery after gallery of porn, open and free.
There is no such thing as protecting your kids from porn on the internet anymore. If you don't want to have them looking at porn, don't let them online or police their actions.
If you tell a kid to conform, he will conform and hate you, or be misserable, or something along those lines.
If he does end up deciding to conform, he'll likely be a poser - yeah, a poser. One of those kids that dresses like the popular kids, but is nothing at all like the popular kids. Yet he tries to act like them anyway, and comes off as a goof, only increasing the scorn that he receives from his peers.
The best way to get people to like him, be nice to him, and such? Help him have self-respect. Help him to like who he is as a person, so that he'll be able to have confidence. people like being around others that have confidence - this is why the popular kids are popular: they know how to make others feel good, and thus make the people they want to associate with (ie, the other popular kids) feel good by reducing the unpopular kids to ash.
Up until 4th grade (which is when I attended a private/rich boarding school where I was the only kid that didn't have money), I was completely oblivious of things like clothes, fashion, and the various social networks getting built and destroyed around me. I wasn't aware that other kids were 'dating' around me until 5th grade. I didn't consider the implications it had on me until high school, when I really started wanting to be accepted. I got past that, though, and realized that I wasn't going to be accepted, period, simply because of who I was (not part of the in-group), what I knew (smart, or at least appeared so), and what I believed (Christianity, in part, but also various other ethical and moral things that prevented me from being part of the in-group).
Granted, I didn't pick up my first book for entertainment until around 3rd grade, but starting at that point I was all over books, computers, and various other geeky things. I was quite socially reclusive, and have only in the last couple years started coming out of that and breaking myself of socially destructive behavior (sadistism, sarcasm, cynacism, elitism, etc.) and actually learning how to socially network. I'm now 21, but I'm able to pick up on these things quite quickly and make a lot of progress in a short period of time because of the skills that I learned when I was younger as a result of my geekiness: creativity, problem solving, attentiveness, and adaptability.
PS, I didn't know about the superbowl until it was over.:) (a bit of a stretch, I knew it was coming up, but I didn't know anything about it)
That was something I was going to suggest but forgot to in my previous post: encourage him to hang out with older people/geeks, and/or provide outlets for him to do so.
Not only will it help him improve intellectually, but hopefully emotionally and socially as well, provided the particular group isn't a bunch of obscenely immature folks. It'd be best if the older folks were those of character. Invite the kid to a LUG or such, there would likely be a couple folks there that would love to share their knowledge with the youngster and be a mentor for him.
You're taking the wrong approach. 1) Getting anyone to be able to be social with a group of their peers in high school is damned near impossible, particularly when the peers are unintelligent goons. 2) If he does indeed find he fits in at some point, he'll feel regretful for fitting in, because of the comprimises he'll have to make to do so: ie, not being himself.
You'd be better off helping him realize that it doesn't matter and helping him become self-actualized. Simply be a role-model for him, instruct him, and provide him with moral and ethical support when he needs it. Never let him compromise. You'd only reduce who he is to something more like them.
Digital encycopedia sales are down for one very obvious reason: people don't need another encyclopedia. Just as someone doesn't throw away their 1400$ encyclopedia set, they don't just throw away Encarta 2001 because it's a couple years old. It still works.
There simply isn't that much new information created in a given year or group of years, and what does happen is generally quite easy to find online for the first couple years after its occurance in contemporary news form.
Even small to medium sized libraries aren't likely to buy a new encyclopedia edition every year, 2 years, or whatever. My parents still have an enyclopedia set from sometime in the 1970's that is pertinent for a very vast amount of the information you might want to look up. Granted, some of the scientific information is a bit dated, as is the "history" that has occured in the last 25 years, but that's a relatively insignificant amount of time and knowledge.
I have a copy of Encarta from 1995 that is still more than capable of providing more information than Id likely need for a given topic given cursory interest, when and if I'm unable to find the info online.
Gah, you need to learn something about 'troubleshooting'.
First, it's not task specific. If you have a problem with a computer or a car (or whatever) and you don't know much about computers, it's still possible to perform a crude diagnosis if you're able to solve problems.
That's the main problem here. People aren't able to solve problems - and this is why problem-solving tasks tend to be associated with higher-paying jobs (at least in theory).
Last time the USA thought it did not have to care about the rest of the world, it got involved in what we now call the 2nd world war.
From you saying this, I can conclude several possible things.
- you are ignorant, and are refering to the current Middle East conflict as the "2nd world war" - you intended to say "3rd world war" - you're a fool enough to say that the US didn't care about the rest of the world during WWII. That must be why we gave the Brits all those supplies, and why we had covert ops and AF guys in europe throughout WWII, and why we had troop installations (largely AF) in China to help protect them against the Japs long before Pearl Harbor? It might also be why we sent a large contingency force over there to help liberate Europe from Hitler?
Never mind that in any past history, a conqueroring country would have kept the lands that it 'liberated'. I guess we just didn't care enough about Europe to control them in such a fashion.
I'm so bloody tired of bleeding heart educational elite that consider social sciences real science. They aren't. Can you consuct economy studies in a controlled environment? No? Well then, it's not a science. Can you conduct natural response studies on humans? No? Well then, it's not science.
It might be a discipline, but stop being a fool and passing your limited study off as a real science for the sake of funding and/or acceptance. It's dastardly and insulting.
Proper exploitation of this vulnerability leads to local privilege escalation giving an attacker full super-user privileges. The vulnerability may also lead to a denial-of-service attack on the available system memory.
Tested and known to be vulnerable kernel versions are all
So it looks like we've all got to update to the latest of respective trees. I guess the days of running a kernel for months on end are pretty much over.
I don't know about you, but I've noticed on quite frequent occassion when one of these kiddies who "gets it" will enter a channel I'm in and start asking overly pointed questions about various kiddie like things. They don't "get it" that it's fairly obvious to everyone else that they're kiddies, nor do they "get" how Linux, or even windows, actually works.
I'd say it's more a social group or culture than it is an 'elite cabal'. But what do I know, I only use IRC. Same goes for the Any guy. You obviously know a lot more.
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I don't know if you've realized this, but MS is one of the largest and richest companies in the world.
Would it get on slashdot if IBM or the US gov't had a significant part of their services simply go down without an explaination? Yes. And there'd be a lot more conspiracy theorists milling about saying the gov't or IBM got hacked, too. (However, with MS, it's not too much of a stretch to believe that their service really was disrupted by technical incompetence.)
Main difference between the book and the movie: Asimov didn't have niggers in his books.
Dear god man, that was the funniest thing I've read on slashdot in years! I splurted beer all over the place.
A new 'I, Robot' movie is coming out based on the Isaac Asimov book series, *yay! revel! rejoice!* ... dot dot dot ... ...starring Will Smith. *string of obscenities! tears of sorrow! gnashing of teeth!*
What are these people thinking?! I hope to god that he doesn't go through the film with quipish, off-the-cuff stupidity. A good choice for main actor would be someone like Alec Baldwin, I think. FUCK, I'd take Ben Affleck (that no-tallent dickweed son-of-a-bitch) over Will Smith.
Will Smith's career was at it's pinacle of quality before he got into film - and then it started to plummet.
It's one thing to have an Indian company start up and out-produce an American company. When this thing occurs, it is fair trade.
It's another thing entirely to have a US national company fire hundreds of thousands of college-educated Americans and send the jobs overseas for a fraction of the cost simply to have higher profits and to expand their market.
The situation we have now is that the Indian tech boom is a direct result of American workers and American money. It got off the ground floor with the help of millions of dollars that were 'saved' by taking jobs away from Americans.
Doesn't seem terribly 'fair' to me.
To 'support XML'?
.doc and such to be useable in something other than MS applications. Thus, it's time to "embrace and extend" in order to secure their 'investment'.
No. They created a new format that is similar to XML. Office2003 doesn't have a 'standard' file format in the least bit.
What's more, you're blatantly wrong. Office 2000 and Office 97 have fairly different file formats, as I've continually seen at work. I'd suspect the only reason they actually changed file formats to something 'drastically' different is because 3rd party word processors (such as OpenOffice) have finally reverse engineered
Definately.
However, that doesn't mean that having "adult entertainment" on your resume is a good thing. A future employer will still look at that as an ethical snafu, instead of an experience working with 'cutting edge' stuff. At least a lot of them would.
I don't know about anyone else, but I actually appreciated it when my NES or genesis would slow down. It usually happened in a particularly difficult spot, and it allowed for quicker response on my part. Such slowdown is the only reason I ever managed to beat Super Mario Brothers.
:)
Since I couldn't afford a game genie, it was a nice substitute at times.
I've noticed the same thing in linux when pulling/pushing files between win2k workstations and a linux machine. The workstations are 800MHz Durons - 1800Mhz AthlonXPs, and the samba (2.2)/linux (2.4) system is a Pentium 2 333MHz (!)
When pulling/pushing (making requests) with a Win2k workstation: narry a problem. Works much better than a setup with windows windows interacting.
When pulling/pushing (making requests) with the linux system on any of the workstations: quite often the Windows machine will choke up while pushing data to a windows machine, while I've not noticed anything pecular about pulling. Not sure if this is due to a poor implimentation of the samba client, or if it's due to windows choking on data/throughput, or what. (Anyone else experience this?)
I've also brought my linux laptop in and done some file transfer: it works without a hitch, and file transfer is substantially faster from linux linux than any windows linux or windows windows setup I've seen.
instead of cutting off net access entirely, why not provide a means to actually fix the problem instead of alienating their customers?
why not (say) decrease the dhcp lease time from whatever to an hour or so. when whatever mechanism they're using to detect spam/whatever infection (hope to god they're not just listening for smtp traffic, that'd be evil but sadly likely) goes off, it would tell the cable modem ot use a different config which would then allow the user to get a different dhcp lease. this lease would set their router to something different, which would then pipe a single page to the user - similar to what many universities install for when users try and access pr0n or something like that from a school computer.
some mechanism ('m not familiar with routing protocols unfortunately) would then be provided to drop all traffic at the router except for http traffic through a specific gateway, possibly to specific hosts such as mcaffee, symantec, windowsupdate.microsoft.com, and the vairous other free virus and malware scanning packages.
This is a bit more complex, but surely it's possible - I've seen and/or read about all the various mechanisms I mentioned above.
You must still be in high school. At least, your worldview seems to represent an environment much like the high school I remember.
You're implying too much. Just because someone doesn't care about what they're wearing doesn't mean they're going to wear old, dirty rags and not bathe or groom. Nobody said anywhere that the kid didn't have a haircut - it was just about him having the wrong one. Don't rememeber things like that in high school? Or were you too divorced from reality to notice those things?
What I'm talking about is: adults (that is, people who have matured and grown up past the emotional level of a high schooler) don't pay attention to what others are wearing so much as pay attention to the attributes of the person. I'm saying that focus should be put on building the person, not the image of the person. By building the person, you are teaching them about the world around them, and thus helping them learn how to relate to people.
You may not have noticed, but (for example) Alan Cox is quite apathetic about clothes and personal appearance. He wears raggy clothes, half-clothes, and some of the oddest configurations - and he's an extreme in this matter, to be sure. But he's well liked, amiable, and intelligent, all while held in high regard by his peers. He doesn't spout off pointlessly as some people do, and he doesn't go about making enemies intentionally.
Oh, and I never said anything about people that dress horribly, act like jerks, and then complain about it later. So why bring it up? are you lookng to cause a conflict?
Kodak is claiming patentship on "electronic cameras that use compression and digital storage"?
Last I checked, most "electronic" cameras used film. I've only seen digital cameras use compression and digital storage. Might this be a potential loophole?
Seriously, though. Kodak needs ot have their asses thrown out of court for this: they're falling behind because they're not innovating, just like the music industry.
google should start a 'google development' search engine. normal google would still be available, but the googledev would have the same initial database, but use different algorithms and procedures with which it would classify material, thus yielding different results for the same searches... 'cutting edge' google. or it could even have it's own search crawler, for that matter. that way they can start finding new ways to combat spammers.
but how many children are now going to be able to bypass the disclaimer pages on porn sites because of deep linking?
Hello, 1996 is calling; they want their paranoia back!
Goodness, you aren't serious, are you? Have you used a search engine in the last couple years? Have you not ever looked for porn yourself? Just hop over to images.google.com and enter the name of a porn star - bam, shitloads of smut. Not only that, but search google.com for a porn star's name (many of which you could easily find by searching for 'famous porn stars', I'm sure) and you'll find gallery after gallery of porn, open and free.
There is no such thing as protecting your kids from porn on the internet anymore. If you don't want to have them looking at porn, don't let them online or police their actions.
How did this get modded as insightful?
If you tell a kid to conform, he will conform and hate you, or be misserable, or something along those lines.
If he does end up deciding to conform, he'll likely be a poser - yeah, a poser. One of those kids that dresses like the popular kids, but is nothing at all like the popular kids. Yet he tries to act like them anyway, and comes off as a goof, only increasing the scorn that he receives from his peers.
The best way to get people to like him, be nice to him, and such? Help him have self-respect. Help him to like who he is as a person, so that he'll be able to have confidence. people like being around others that have confidence - this is why the popular kids are popular: they know how to make others feel good, and thus make the people they want to associate with (ie, the other popular kids) feel good by reducing the unpopular kids to ash.
I've written more on the topic here.
Heh. Sounds a bit like me.
:) (a bit of a stretch, I knew it was coming up, but I didn't know anything about it)
Up until 4th grade (which is when I attended a private/rich boarding school where I was the only kid that didn't have money), I was completely oblivious of things like clothes, fashion, and the various social networks getting built and destroyed around me. I wasn't aware that other kids were 'dating' around me until 5th grade. I didn't consider the implications it had on me until high school, when I really started wanting to be accepted. I got past that, though, and realized that I wasn't going to be accepted, period, simply because of who I was (not part of the in-group), what I knew (smart, or at least appeared so), and what I believed (Christianity, in part, but also various other ethical and moral things that prevented me from being part of the in-group).
Granted, I didn't pick up my first book for entertainment until around 3rd grade, but starting at that point I was all over books, computers, and various other geeky things. I was quite socially reclusive, and have only in the last couple years started coming out of that and breaking myself of socially destructive behavior (sadistism, sarcasm, cynacism, elitism, etc.) and actually learning how to socially network. I'm now 21, but I'm able to pick up on these things quite quickly and make a lot of progress in a short period of time because of the skills that I learned when I was younger as a result of my geekiness: creativity, problem solving, attentiveness, and adaptability.
PS, I didn't know about the superbowl until it was over.
That was something I was going to suggest but forgot to in my previous post: encourage him to hang out with older people/geeks, and/or provide outlets for him to do so.
Not only will it help him improve intellectually, but hopefully emotionally and socially as well, provided the particular group isn't a bunch of obscenely immature folks. It'd be best if the older folks were those of character. Invite the kid to a LUG or such, there would likely be a couple folks there that would love to share their knowledge with the youngster and be a mentor for him.
You're taking the wrong approach.
1) Getting anyone to be able to be social with a group of their peers in high school is damned near impossible, particularly when the peers are unintelligent goons.
2) If he does indeed find he fits in at some point, he'll feel regretful for fitting in, because of the comprimises he'll have to make to do so: ie, not being himself.
You'd be better off helping him realize that it doesn't matter and helping him become self-actualized. Simply be a role-model for him, instruct him, and provide him with moral and ethical support when he needs it. Never let him compromise. You'd only reduce who he is to something more like them.
Digital encycopedia sales are down for one very obvious reason: people don't need another encyclopedia. Just as someone doesn't throw away their 1400$ encyclopedia set, they don't just throw away Encarta 2001 because it's a couple years old. It still works.
There simply isn't that much new information created in a given year or group of years, and what does happen is generally quite easy to find online for the first couple years after its occurance in contemporary news form.
Even small to medium sized libraries aren't likely to buy a new encyclopedia edition every year, 2 years, or whatever. My parents still have an enyclopedia set from sometime in the 1970's that is pertinent for a very vast amount of the information you might want to look up. Granted, some of the scientific information is a bit dated, as is the "history" that has occured in the last 25 years, but that's a relatively insignificant amount of time and knowledge.
I have a copy of Encarta from 1995 that is still more than capable of providing more information than Id likely need for a given topic given cursory interest, when and if I'm unable to find the info online.
A .32 automatic?
.22 derringer (which do exist).
I was thinking more along the lines of a
Gah, you need to learn something about 'troubleshooting'.
First, it's not task specific. If you have a problem with a computer or a car (or whatever) and you don't know much about computers, it's still possible to perform a crude diagnosis if you're able to solve problems.
That's the main problem here. People aren't able to solve problems - and this is why problem-solving tasks tend to be associated with higher-paying jobs (at least in theory).
Last time the USA thought it did not have to care about the rest of the world, it got involved in what we now call the 2nd world war.
From you saying this, I can conclude several possible things.
- you are ignorant, and are refering to the current Middle East conflict as the "2nd world war"
- you intended to say "3rd world war"
- you're a fool enough to say that the US didn't care about the rest of the world during WWII. That must be why we gave the Brits all those supplies, and why we had covert ops and AF guys in europe throughout WWII, and why we had troop installations (largely AF) in China to help protect them against the Japs long before Pearl Harbor? It might also be why we sent a large contingency force over there to help liberate Europe from Hitler?
Never mind that in any past history, a conqueroring country would have kept the lands that it 'liberated'. I guess we just didn't care enough about Europe to control them in such a fashion.
so, were's the scientifical evidence?
I'm so bloody tired of bleeding heart educational elite that consider social sciences real science. They aren't. Can you consuct economy studies in a controlled environment? No? Well then, it's not a science. Can you conduct natural response studies on humans? No? Well then, it's not science.
It might be a discipline, but stop being a fool and passing your limited study off as a real science for the sake of funding and/or acceptance. It's dastardly and insulting.
Ok, so I read the write up.
Here's the immediately pertinent part:
Proper exploitation of this vulnerability leads to local privilege escalation giving an attacker full super-user privileges. The vulnerability may also lead to a denial-of-service attack on the available system memory.
Tested and known to be vulnerable kernel versions are all
So it looks like we've all got to update to the latest of respective trees. I guess the days of running a kernel for months on end are pretty much over.
I don't know about you, but I've noticed on quite frequent occassion when one of these kiddies who "gets it" will enter a channel I'm in and start asking overly pointed questions about various kiddie like things. They don't "get it" that it's fairly obvious to everyone else that they're kiddies, nor do they "get" how Linux, or even windows, actually works.
I'd say it's more a social group or culture than it is an 'elite cabal'. But what do I know, I only use IRC. Same goes for the Any guy. You obviously know a lot more.
's all good