Only locksmiths pick locks. Crooks just bash the door or windows. On a typical house going from a 5 pin to a 8 pin pick proof lock will not reduce the risk of a break in at all. Thats why they call them 'break-ins', something gets broken.
Back OT, In most places if a lock smith breaks into houses and gets caught, the courts will have extra punishment because they are a locksmith.
Most of the worms and virii are being coded by teenagers or kids who just do not have an idea as to what they are doing. Most rocks dropped off highway bridges are done by teenagers or kids who just do not have an idea as to what they are doing but we throw them in jail for a long time when they damage property (or kill someone)
There are some stange thigns going on with gravity and no one seems to have a real grasp on it. For example every space probe is slowing down from the GPS constilation to Pioneers. The realitivty effects on the GPS system were predicted and designed into the system but most of them were off a few orders of magnitude.
We still don't know why pendulums swing differently durring an eclipse.
Cars already exist. Their product liability is well defined "Whats good for GM is good for the US". With modern product liability you could not introduce many existing products today such as silverware, fans, bicycles since the lawyers would take all the profits.
The Hindenburg went splat and it killed off that form of transport and killed many hydorgen based concepts. I don't expect reality to change that in the future since its rather inmaterial.
Look at the price...
PC's are commodity items of last year. If people can't buy a computer for $500, they won't be paying 4x that in 2004.
OLED? When they start to come out the LCD people are going to get very nervous and they have much more room to play on the price cut front. Result, OLED meet ch 11 and its back to LCD.
IM? Thats too much like peer to peer file sharing for the media folks. I predict M$ will get its self in court with the MPAA people as well as RIAA within a year.
Wireless? Why? The last stuff that was rolled out is a hackers dream. You think large compaines are going to try it again? Other than the cool, look I can do ____ from the other side of the room, whats it worth to most compaines? No one is spending on toys anymore.
XML? TLA for the decade. Its going to be here for a long time. Much more difficult to parse than most text files and this looks like a cool idea to thouse who didn't understand why we have LALR grammar.
Multi-threading made faster. Oh joy... how many programs do I have now that are multi-threaded. Most users are more than happy with the spell check thread running under word and about 90% of applications thread well.
Magnet bubble memory is back... one more time its going to be the best thing since sliced bread. Its cool to be able to put the same 64mbyte card in my camera and my mp3 player but my rio seems to be having problems with its 1st sector as its fash has faded.
Fuel cells will be great if they don't get banned by the local fire marshal. I figure with H2's bad rap (think Hindenburg), all it will take is one accident and this will be baned in some major city. Then others will follow.
Voice portals... One more thing to strangle... too bad I can't put my hands around the things neck.
Smart cards are great. Now its difficult to get a magnetic card writer (who do you know that has one). Now everyone with a PC and the balls to walk into a Tandy shop can get what it take to reprogram some smart cards. The CPUs are too slow to do meaningful crypto and as the cable TV compaines have found out, there are people who can tell you the circut thats sealed in that thin plastic. My bet is smart card fraud will exceed US$500 by Dec of 2002.
G3? is this Gimik 3? DoCoMo will finaly get its act together, get live porn to phones in Japan. G3 will be dead anywhere they can export to or thouse parts of the world that don't have the guts to drop dead tech that isn't going to work.
Digital Cameras with more pixels. Ever try to explain to Mom why the screen can't show as many dots as the camera took and why good 35 mm fill is still 20000 lines of resulution while the overpirced camera has a few thosuand? What I want to know is why can't these $300 cameras have a lense better than a $10 disposable camera?
The only way to make generic domains work is to have things like beer.com.au go to site that has links to anyone that has a legitmate need for it.
This will be very importaint once the.name domains start to get used because at this point the law is quite weak when it comes to personal identity theft and misrepresentation. I'm sort of glad one of the first areas allowed will be for lawyers. Let them work it out with their own money for a change. I suspect that the only way you could hold on to john.smith.name is by being a portal providing links to any other john smith in the world.
The Foster brothers invented the concept of cold beer. They were American and got run out of New York durring one of the local probitions. They came in Melbourne and brewed beer and then left for Canada. The Fosters in the US is imported from Canada and while its acceptable beer, the Aussie made fosters is not.
To not be completely off topic, I would expect Carlton & United (aka Fosters) to try to buy out beer.com.au but if you look at their current web sites, it will be a wate of money.
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about 90% of the volume of the planet that has life is water....
I would back that up as being wrong...
$list[0] is a single element and @list[0] is a list with a single element.
This is a common problem when coders don't understand what is going on. In this case perl will build a new list of one item and then deal with it in a list context when all that needed (and wanted) is to deal with one element. This type of problem isn't perl specifc (but the syntax is) as these types of ineffiencies show up in things like OOD data access methods and many over designed programs.
One example is one client wants a column in a report added up. fine. no problem. It was desigened to do that. Problem is that column is user supplied and not numeric. So the rule is something like an orange counts one and an apple counts 2 if its one type and three if its another.
Your saying you can plan for this kind of crap and design it in? This is a one off and perl makes that easy. In fact the orginal code spawns a 'report' and if checks in ~luser/bin/final_report and runs that if its needed.
You can never underestimate (or plan for) the lame request that some paying customers will want.
If perl hurts your eyeballs, you don't understand it.
At work we have one system that was built with python and its just not as stable as everything we have written in perl. At this stage there will be no more large project written in python but I'll be watching how the small project go.
You can't engineer your code from the beginning in the part of the real world where I work. I've got a huge mess of perl that do reports and about one out of ten clients wants something different. These request could have have been predicted since many of them have no business reasons and have no function other that look more like their older system which just happed to have done it that way.
I've been reading lately that many geeks seem to have problems identifying some of the socal clues that indicate to normal people that they are being picked on or ridiculed. Where I work there are two people that will have clicked on this thing before I arrive to clean it up. So exactly how do I point out to these lusers that some 16 yr old kid is doing the electronic equilivent of holding their very importaint work over a flusing toliet just to watch them worry. And they walked into the situation?
Tthe record industry is in a position that it can only introduce so much new product into its distribution channels at a time. Looking at billboard's top 100, it would appear that the number is is about 30 titles a month with swings that range up to 40. What that means is that if you have 10,000 bands kicking out 5 songs in a year then you have 13 times more material than the distribution channel can cope with. These numbers all need some research. In Melbourne Australia (pop ~3.5 mil) one radio station received songs from 3000 different bands.
A client of mine that does market reseach recently was asked to bid on some research that involved finding out what precentage of bands need to "make it" to give new bands hope. I don't know why they want to spend money to find this out but someone is burnning the cash. I'm guessing that the record compaines know that if there is no hope to make it in a band, many new bands won't go to the trouble of making new music and they will have even slimmer pickings.
I built a small room in my parents attic which is in Texas (as in "Texas - it isn't hell but you can see the gates from here)
The room gets quit warm so I insulated it, and ran an air conditioning duct to it along with a return duct. It stays quite cool durring the summer and durring the winter, provides heat back to the main house when the A/c fan is on. If I had much in there, I would consider getting a small window A/c unit to ensure it stayed cool. just keep in mind where the condensation is going to go.
The exploit takes advantage of the windowing operations aren't done in user space, they are done in system space which isn't disabled by the noexec_user_stack = 1. What is needed is a never_ever_ever_exec_the_stack = 1 option because the kernel and its modules aren't using an executable stack (I hope).
Has anyone noticed how long it takes to get bug fixes out of sun these days? Their usb keyboard drivers have been broken for over a year (can't cope with two keyboards correctly) and now the most trusted of trustworty programs is broken and no fix.
The truck rental compaines will get the new radios just as soon as one of the braodcasters promote their high tech marketing solution and come up with a "U-haul truck" station.
Think of the joy you will have of a a station with 24 hrs of short cheesy music followed by the voice over guy saying "Please check over head clearance when before refueling"...10 seoconds of music..."Remember most U-hual trucks are too large to go through most fast food drive throughs"...music..."In an unhappy home? Always moving? join our frequent mover program and rent 8 trucks and get one weekend free!"
The N64 isn't widely pirated. In fact I don't personly know anyone one other than myself that has a rom emulator.
I heard the other day that Nintendo sells 2x as much in Australia as Sony does but there are 10 times more Sony consoles. This was told to me by a manager at a vidoe game store.
A removable hard drive is great protection aginst the pc getting hit by lightning or being stolen. Thats what the home user needs backups for. If your talking archiving, thats a different story but an archive a year will set you back the cost of a hard drive a year. Both are cheaper than a tape drive and tapes. Keep in mind the tape drive you buy this year may not have tapes made for it in a half decade.
I'm currently running two hard drives that are over 12 years old and I've got a few others that still have their data safe that are older. I'm not sure I can read all my tapes from that long ago.
So how are the african critters that must have water at the right times for there breeding cycles going to compete with the roos that have the ability to put their babies "on hold" for up to two years in different embrotic states when the water goes away? Marsupials in the wild are better at plainning their offspring than a suit wearing business women.
I've seen dogs go after kangaroos and I don't think that the large african preditors would have much better luck than the large native crocks. Big cats are about the same speed and adgility but they are built to take down hooved hearding animals.
Besides when critters escape, then Packer and his buddies can go out and hunt them down.
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Only locksmiths pick locks. Crooks just bash the door or windows. On a typical house going from a 5 pin to a 8 pin pick proof lock will not reduce the risk of a break in at all. Thats why they call them 'break-ins', something gets broken.
Back OT, In most places if a lock smith breaks into houses and gets caught, the courts will have extra punishment because they are a locksmith.
Most of the worms and virii are being coded by teenagers or kids who just do not have an idea as to what they are doing.
Most rocks dropped off highway bridges are done by teenagers or kids who just do not have an idea as to what they are doing but we throw them in jail for a long time when they damage property (or kill someone)
There are some stange thigns going on with gravity and no one seems to have a real grasp on it. For example every space probe is slowing down from the GPS constilation to Pioneers. The realitivty effects on the GPS system were predicted and designed into the system but most of them were off a few orders of magnitude.
We still don't know why pendulums swing differently durring an eclipse.
Cars already exist. Their product liability is well defined "Whats good for GM is good for the US". With modern product liability you could not introduce many existing products today such as silverware, fans, bicycles since the lawyers would take all the profits.
The Hindenburg went splat and it killed off that form of transport and killed many hydorgen based concepts. I don't expect reality to change that in the future since its rather inmaterial.
Look at the price...
PC's are commodity items of last year. If people can't buy a computer for $500, they won't be paying 4x that in 2004.
OLED? When they start to come out the LCD people are going to get very nervous and they have much more room to play on the price cut front. Result, OLED meet ch 11 and its back to LCD.
IM? Thats too much like peer to peer file sharing for the media folks. I predict M$ will get its self in court with the MPAA people as well as RIAA within a year.
Wireless? Why? The last stuff that was rolled out is a hackers dream. You think large compaines are going to try it again? Other than the cool, look I can do ____ from the other side of the room, whats it worth to most compaines? No one is spending on toys anymore.
XML? TLA for the decade. Its going to be here for a long time. Much more difficult to parse than most text files and this looks like a cool idea to thouse who didn't understand why we have LALR grammar.
Multi-threading made faster. Oh joy... how many programs do I have now that are multi-threaded. Most users are more than happy with the spell check thread running under word and about 90% of applications thread well.
Magnet bubble memory is back... one more time its going to be the best thing since sliced bread. Its cool to be able to put the same 64mbyte card in my camera and my mp3 player but my rio seems to be having problems with its 1st sector as its fash has faded.
Fuel cells will be great if they don't get banned by the local fire marshal. I figure with H2's bad rap (think Hindenburg), all it will take is one accident and this will be baned in some major city. Then others will follow.
Voice portals... One more thing to strangle... too bad I can't put my hands around the things neck.
Smart cards are great. Now its difficult to get a magnetic card writer (who do you know that has one). Now everyone with a PC and the balls to walk into a Tandy shop can get what it take to reprogram some smart cards. The CPUs are too slow to do meaningful crypto and as the cable TV compaines have found out, there are people who can tell you the circut thats sealed in that thin plastic. My bet is smart card fraud will exceed US$500 by Dec of 2002.
G3? is this Gimik 3? DoCoMo will finaly get its act together, get live porn to phones in Japan. G3 will be dead anywhere they can export to or thouse parts of the world that don't have the guts to drop dead tech that isn't going to work.
Digital Cameras with more pixels. Ever try to explain to Mom why the screen can't show as many dots as the camera took and why good 35 mm fill is still 20000 lines of resulution while the overpirced camera has a few thosuand? What I want to know is why can't these $300 cameras have a lense better than a $10 disposable camera?
The only way to make generic domains work is to have things like beer.com.au go to site that has links to anyone that has a legitmate need for it.
.name domains start to get used because at this point the law is quite weak when it comes to personal identity theft and misrepresentation. I'm sort of glad one of the first areas allowed will be for lawyers. Let them work it out with their own money for a change. I suspect that the only way you could hold on to john.smith.name is by being a portal providing links to any other john smith in the world.
This will be very importaint once the
The Foster brothers invented the concept of cold beer. They were American and got run out of New York durring one of the local probitions. They came in Melbourne and brewed beer and then left for Canada. The Fosters in the US is imported from Canada and while its acceptable beer, the Aussie made fosters is not.
To not be completely off topic, I would expect Carlton & United (aka Fosters) to try to buy out beer.com.au but if you look at their current web sites, it will be a wate of money.
about 90% of the volume of the planet that has life is water....
it could feed like most coral by just making contact with much smaller life.
I would back that up as being wrong...
$list[0] is a single element and @list[0] is a list with a single element.
This is a common problem when coders don't understand what is going on. In this case perl will build a new list of one item and then deal with it in a list context when all that needed (and wanted) is to deal with one element. This type of problem isn't perl specifc (but the syntax is) as these types of ineffiencies show up in things like OOD data access methods and many over designed programs.
One example is one client wants a column in a report added up. fine. no problem. It was desigened to do that. Problem is that column is user supplied and not numeric. So the rule is something like an orange counts one and an apple counts 2 if its one type and three if its another.
Your saying you can plan for this kind of crap and design it in? This is a one off and perl makes that easy. In fact the orginal code spawns a 'report' and if checks in ~luser/bin/final_report and runs that if its needed.
You can never underestimate (or plan for) the lame request that some paying customers will want.
If perl hurts your eyeballs, you don't understand it.
At work we have one system that was built with python and its just not as stable as everything we have written in perl. At this stage there will be no more large project written in python but I'll be watching how the small project go.
You can't engineer your code from the beginning in the part of the real world where I work. I've got a huge mess of perl that do reports and about one out of ten clients wants something different. These request could have have been predicted since many of them have no business reasons and have no function other that look more like their older system which just happed to have done it that way.
I've been reading lately that many geeks seem to have problems identifying some of the socal clues that indicate to normal people that they are being picked on or ridiculed. Where I work there are two people that will have clicked on this thing before I arrive to clean it up. So exactly how do I point out to these lusers that some 16 yr old kid is doing the electronic equilivent of holding their very importaint work over a flusing toliet just to watch them worry. And they walked into the situation?
Tthe record industry is in a position that it can only introduce so much new product into its distribution channels at a time. Looking at billboard's top 100, it would appear that the number is is about 30 titles a month with swings that range up to 40. What that means is that if you have 10,000 bands kicking out 5 songs in a year then you have 13 times more material than the distribution channel can cope with. These numbers all need some research. In Melbourne Australia (pop ~3.5 mil) one radio station received songs from 3000 different bands.
A client of mine that does market reseach recently was asked to bid on some research that involved finding out what precentage of bands need to "make it" to give new bands hope. I don't know why they want to spend money to find this out but someone is burnning the cash. I'm guessing that the record compaines know that if there is no hope to make it in a band, many new bands won't go to the trouble of making new music and they will have even slimmer pickings.
Pirates kill...
I know people have have sailed with
Peter Blake who was recently killed by pirates in Brazil.
What the SBA calls piracy is simply misuse of software.
I built a small room in my parents attic which is in Texas (as in "Texas - it isn't hell but you can see the gates from here)
The room gets quit warm so I insulated it, and ran an air conditioning duct to it along with a return duct. It stays quite cool durring the summer and durring the winter, provides heat back to the main house when the A/c fan is on. If I had much in there, I would consider getting a small window A/c unit to ensure it stayed cool. just keep in mind where the condensation is going to go.
The exploit takes advantage of the windowing operations aren't done in user space, they are done in system space which isn't disabled by the noexec_user_stack = 1. What is needed is a never_ever_ever_exec_the_stack = 1 option because the kernel and its modules aren't using an executable stack (I hope).
Has anyone noticed how long it takes to get bug fixes out of sun these days? Their usb keyboard drivers have been broken for over a year (can't cope with two keyboards correctly) and now the most trusted of trustworty programs is broken and no fix.
The truck rental compaines will get the new radios just as soon as one of the braodcasters promote their high tech marketing solution and come up with a "U-haul truck" station.
Think of the joy you will have of a a station with 24 hrs of short cheesy music followed by the voice over guy saying "Please check over head clearance when before refueling"...10 seoconds of music..."Remember most U-hual trucks are too large to go through most fast food drive throughs"...music..."In an unhappy home? Always moving? join our frequent mover program and rent 8 trucks and get one weekend free!"
I just bought a PC (900mhz/256M/20g) for AU$450 (~US $225).
The cheapest box on dell.com is how much more?
The N64 isn't widely pirated. In fact I don't personly know anyone one other than myself that has a rom emulator.
I heard the other day that Nintendo sells 2x as much in Australia as Sony does but there are 10 times more Sony consoles. This was told to me by a manager at a vidoe game store.
And the going prrice for two 100gig drives and a removalbe rack is about $600. If your willing to do it with 30 gig drives its even cheaper.
Remember the 2x compression tape drives claim won't work on just about anything filling up a 100gig drive.
A removable hard drive is great protection aginst the pc getting hit by lightning or being stolen. Thats what the home user needs backups for. If your talking archiving, thats a different story but an archive a year will set you back the cost of a hard drive a year. Both are cheaper than a tape drive and tapes. Keep in mind the tape drive you buy this year may not have tapes made for it in a half decade.
I'm currently running two hard drives that are over 12 years old and I've got a few others that still have their data safe that are older. I'm not sure I can read all my tapes from that long ago.
So how are the african critters that must have water at the right times for there breeding cycles going to compete with the roos that have the ability to put their babies "on hold" for up to two years in different embrotic states when the water goes away? Marsupials in the wild are better at plainning their offspring than a suit wearing business women.
I've seen dogs go after kangaroos and I don't think that the large african preditors would have much better luck than the large native crocks. Big cats are about the same speed and adgility but they are built to take down hooved hearding animals.
Besides when critters escape, then Packer and his buddies can go out and hunt them down.
thats...
Kerry, you are a fucking Rich idiot!