Thanks, Elena, for sharing the pictures (though I doubt you'll ever read this).
Then being a 6 year old kid in Riga, Latvia (still occupied by USSR at the time) I remember little of the accident or the Soviet way of life and treating their people that partially caused the whole damned thing to happen.
It takes all three, though you can sometimes skip the "eating slightly less" part if the "eating better" part is actually "eating much better".
Whenever you eat much less than before, the organsm goes into starvation mode and slows the metabolic rate. Thus, when you go back to eating normally, it decides to store as much fat as possible in case the "famine" returns. Thus the "bouncing weight" effect evident from most diets.
In fact, eating chocolate or sweets on a weekly basis may be a good idea, since the increased metabolic rate can outweight the increased calory intake during that one day.
As far as I remember to have deducted from my business economics course:
In a perfectly competitive labor market, a union will drive wages and unemployment up, and in my opinion will be more trouble (by thriving for "equality") than benefit.
In a monopolistic/oligopolistic labor market, where the employers have much more power, unions may actually be a good thing if used correctly, by providing a counter-weight to the employers' bargaining power. Such are the telco/energy industries that you mention above.
I write an e-mail. I click "send". My e-mail client checks the "encryption" server. It finds a match for the e-mail recipient I'm sending to and downloads the PGP file and encrypts the e-mail to the recipients specifications. I did not have to do anything. If no PGP key is found then it will be sent unencrypted and let you know that it is doing so.
Sounds like Lotus Notes, when configured right - except I don't think it does PGP, just internal public key crypto to other LN users.
I've never seen things get better for a company once they stop being able to make payroll.
I have. A company I worked at had a project that employed 2/3 of the developers get cancelled (by the customer). Those developers were told they could do freelance on the company's computers, look for employment elsewhere or take the time off, but whatever the case, they won't be getting their paychecks for some time.
Many quit to work elsewhere, but returned when the company started to do OK again. It is now stronger then ever.
Morale - YMMV. OTOH - just because you hope yours will be one of the "happy cases" doesn't make it such...:).
For those that don't know - "The Stand" is a TV mini-series with a similar premise, based on a book by Stephen King.
A killer virus breaks out and kills pretty much everyone save a few that for some weird reason have imunity. The film is both scary and touching at times.
And, it really made me appreciate the acting talent of Gary Sinise.
FastT, you are right. Absolutely and brilliantly right. I forwarded your comments to my (C++) development team.
But the point being - I will not convince them to switch by this, and neither have you made your point understood to the opponents of this thread.
One can only appreciate the difference by trying both. I have. I'd take Java any time over C++, except for writing low-level stuff. I'd even go further and consider taking Python over Java in many cases.
Well, they have to show it at some point - sooner than later means they address a larger audience - even if some of it unnecessary.
Anyway (somewhat offtopic) - isn't this a reason why Passport should fail? I would want to be sure that a Website doesn't get my data before I enter them. So would the next guy. Spread some (substantiated) FUD and say goodbye to Hailstorm, Passport or whatever you call it...?
Hearing this, I moved to Mozilla 0.9.5 - and I've been quite impressed with it, the only problem being me being accustomied to Alt-D as the shortcut to the location bar, instead of Ctrl-L.
And I also sent an e-mail to Microsoft to let them know that I've moved from MSIE to Mozilla.
How long before we are faced with a version of "Microsoft BSD"? - enhanced and extended of course.
Judging from what I recall from some c.o.l.a discussions, not so soon.
You see, when Microsoft sold its Un*x (named Xenix) to SCO, they also agreed not to compete in the Un*x market any more.
Supposedly, it is not widely known, what's exactly in that agreement, but I think it exists, otherwise - internal competition and all - M$ would have re-entered the Un*x market already.
They could, however, influence the *BSDs less explicitly, but I don't think that would change much.
But please note that Gibson was NOT running circles around these kids. In fact, he is still vulnerable to their attacks, as are all of us.
He was also lucky that the hax0rz discussed their deeds in a "private" channel (and one for which the password was available from the bots or from channel conversations), and were not using private messages.
With all respect to Gibson, the RFC for IRC is quite simple, the FSM sounded quite cool to me though:-).
Some weeks ago we had a discussion on the 13 yo hax0r suicide, and comments that he might have only done what he did out of curiosity. Now we've got this - even though Gibson is not attacked any more, it seems more as the exception to the rule of not being able to protect ourselves.
I too (vaguely remembering the TCP/IP RFCs) see no need for a TCP/IP stack to permit setting up a different source IP address than configured for that interface. But seems more the fault of IETF than Microsoft, for implementing the full specification.
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Thanks, Elena, for sharing the pictures (though I doubt you'll ever read this).
Then being a 6 year old kid in Riga, Latvia (still occupied by USSR at the time) I remember little of the accident or the Soviet way of life and treating their people that partially caused the whole damned thing to happen.
Godspeed and best of luck to you!
Yes, I recently searched for Katz's stories and found none in the last few months.
:-).
I miss the flames he was getting
The only way to (permanently) lose weight is by:
Eating slightly less,
Eating better,
Exercising more.
It takes all three, though you can sometimes skip the "eating slightly less" part if the "eating better" part is actually "eating much better".
Whenever you eat much less than before, the organsm goes into starvation mode and slows the metabolic rate. Thus, when you go back to eating normally, it decides to store as much fat as possible in case the "famine" returns. Thus the "bouncing weight" effect evident from most diets.
In fact, eating chocolate or sweets on a weekly basis may be a good idea, since the increased metabolic rate can outweight the increased calory intake during that one day.
As far as I remember to have deducted from my business economics course:
In a perfectly competitive labor market, a union will drive wages and unemployment up, and in my opinion will be more trouble (by thriving for "equality") than benefit.
In a monopolistic/oligopolistic labor market, where the employers have much more power, unions may actually be a good thing if used correctly, by providing a counter-weight to the employers' bargaining power. Such are the telco/energy industries that you mention above.
I write an e-mail. I click "send". My e-mail client checks the "encryption" server. It finds a match for the e-mail recipient I'm sending to and downloads the PGP file and encrypts the e-mail to the recipients specifications. I did not have to do anything. If no PGP key is found then it will be sent unencrypted and let you know that it is doing so.
Sounds like Lotus Notes, when configured right - except I don't think it does PGP, just internal public key crypto to other LN users.
I've never seen things get better for a company once they stop being able to make payroll.
:).
I have. A company I worked at had a project that employed 2/3 of the developers get cancelled (by the customer). Those developers were told they could do freelance on the company's computers, look for employment elsewhere or take the time off, but whatever the case, they won't be getting their paychecks for some time.
Many quit to work elsewhere, but returned when the company started to do OK again. It is now stronger then ever.
Morale - YMMV. OTOH - just because you hope yours will be one of the "happy cases" doesn't make it such...
For those that don't know - "The Stand" is a TV mini-series with a similar premise, based on a book by Stephen King.
A killer virus breaks out and kills pretty much everyone save a few that for some weird reason have imunity. The film is both scary and touching at times.
And, it really made me appreciate the acting talent of Gary Sinise.
FastT, you are right. Absolutely and brilliantly right. I forwarded your comments to my (C++) development team.
But the point being - I will not convince them to switch by this, and neither have you made your point understood to the opponents of this thread.
One can only appreciate the difference by trying both. I have. I'd take Java any time over C++, except for writing low-level stuff. I'd even go further and consider taking Python over Java in many cases.
Well, they have to show it at some point - sooner than later means they address a larger audience - even if some of it unnecessary.
Anyway (somewhat offtopic) - isn't this a reason why Passport should fail? I would want to be sure that a Website doesn't get my data before I enter them. So would the next guy. Spread some (substantiated) FUD and say goodbye to Hailstorm, Passport or whatever you call it...?
And that mine is not even on Tuvalu, but on Nauru - Tuvalu only supplies part of the workforce.
Hearing this, I moved to Mozilla 0.9.5 - and I've been quite impressed with it, the only problem being me being accustomied to Alt-D as the shortcut to the location bar, instead of Ctrl-L.
And I also sent an e-mail to Microsoft to let them know that I've moved from MSIE to Mozilla.
Another great PR move from the giant!
Judging from what I recall from some c.o.l.a discussions, not so soon.
You see, when Microsoft sold its Un*x (named Xenix) to SCO, they also agreed not to compete in the Un*x market any more.
Supposedly, it is not widely known, what's exactly in that agreement, but I think it exists, otherwise - internal competition and all - M$ would have re-entered the Un*x market already.
They could, however, influence the *BSDs less explicitly, but I don't think that would change much.
Perhaps if not for karma "dimator" would have posted as Anonymous Coward :-).
P.S. Hey, this _is_ insightful!
Nice article, indeed...
:-).
But please note that Gibson was NOT running circles around these kids. In fact, he is still vulnerable to their attacks, as are all of us.
He was also lucky that the hax0rz discussed their deeds in a "private" channel (and one for which the password was available from the bots or from channel conversations), and were not using private messages.
With all respect to Gibson, the RFC for IRC is quite simple, the FSM sounded quite cool to me though
Some weeks ago we had a discussion on the 13 yo hax0r suicide, and comments that he might have only done what he did out of curiosity. Now we've got this - even though Gibson is not attacked any more, it seems more as the exception to the rule of not being able to protect ourselves.
I too (vaguely remembering the TCP/IP RFCs) see no need for a TCP/IP stack to permit setting up a different source IP address than configured for that interface. But seems more the fault of IETF than Microsoft, for implementing the full specification.
Can anybody more knowledgable comment?
OK, enough ranting and best of luck to you all.