Why the hell is it that every time there is some cool semi-scientific article on/., all the nitpicky people come out to play? Can you appreciate anything without whining and complaining? "Excuse me sir, this gold bar is too shiny, a real gold bar should be semi dull!" I did not read anywhere on the link where it said "this is an extremely scientific study, and we are stuffy, serious scientists". It looks to me like they are saying "here are a bunch of people from different countries reading this paragraph aloud".
Yes, most of us realise that it takes oodles of audio data to do any serious research, as anyone with Dragon Naturally Speaking or similar programs can attest to how long the program takes to recognise your manner of speaking.
I think the US is the greatest country on earth. Do I have an American flag on my antenna? No. Do I look up to George W. Bush? No. Do I think that we are taking away civil rights faster than you can say "1984"? Yes. The point is, that if we do not like someone, we can get rid of them, come November. The original poster was implying that we were immune to any pain because we expect bad behaviour from those in power. I was trying to rebut by stating that we may be a little numb, but it certainly does hurt us. I agree, the media will build you up to break you back down, if they see it fit. They would rather report murders and fires than scientific breakthroughs and things of that nature. I think our media foments way too much paranoia. Contrast that with pretty much any news programme from any other civilised country, and you will see the difference. If we think of everyone other than ourselves as "stupid" and "out of the loop" and "sheeple", as you succinctly put it, then we have lost the battle to convert them to a more cynical, realistic, rational way of thinking. If all else fails, look up to Woz. He created a remote (the Cloud 9) with a freaking programming manual, then gave the telephone number from that company to a
center for troubled teens, after the company went under. Although I am not sure if it's current owner was the one he gave it to.
I do not think the public is desensitized to people in power lying and being scumbags, at least not yet. We (the public) may be a little numb, but it still hurts us. Where are the role models? In music? Sports? Business? None of the above. Everyone thinks only about themselves anymore, IMHO. The point is, these people are supposed to be up on a higher plane than us, they are supposed to be infallible. The Greek Empire started deteriorating when the gods became fallible and human, and the people had nothing to aspire toward. The desire to better oneself is universal, if you have nothing to aspire toward, what is the point of doing the right thing?
I work with Engineers, electricians, etc, and they are constantly apologising for not knowing how to do something. I say to them "look, I know next to nothing about electricity/communications gear/radio systems/etc, you do, that is your niche". I try to educate people, the more people we are patient with, the more people will want to educate themselves about computers, the fewer calls you will get. I try to fix problems, then explain what I did in laymen's terms to the customer. This way, it will likely not occur again.
Most birth defects are congenital. Most genetic defects during pregnancy result in stillbirth/miscarriage. Letting the child die has nothing to do with genetics, it has everything to do with medical science. You sound like the poster child for eugenics. How would we be weakening our species anyhow? If ONLY flawed DNA were to be passed on, I could understand, but even a "strong" gene pool is dangerous, then you would have inbreeding, which is not good either. You need a diverse gene pool to ensure maximum genetic diversity. "I fear, that because we can fix things, we're weakening our society as a whole." What the hell were you thinking when you wrote that, would your solution be "he's bleeding to death, fucking weakling, don't stitch up that wound, he will pollute the gene pool!"
If this child does not survive, we have still won out. Scientific data is what we have to gain. Would you have said "what is the point" with the artificial heart? Yeah, the first few people died, but now, the technology is very, very advanced (thank you Dr. Jarvik!). How about dialysis, heart bypass surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, the heart lung machine, and hundreds of other medical breakthroughs? Seeing your loved ones die sucks beyond words, why let it happen unecessarily? If I were a doctor and said "oh well, the kid is gonna die" I would not be able to live with myself. Instead of taking that route, the doctors in this situation said "you know what, we can do something, we are promising nothing, but this may help". If I were the parent of the child in question, I would say "sure" without a second of hesitation. It reminds me of the old anecdote regarding abortion, If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis, would you recommend that she have an abortion?......Congratulations, you just killed Beethoven!" The point of the matter is that this child has a CHANCE at a normal life, instead of dying without anyone doing anything for it. Emotions? This is pure logic. A will die unless you do B. I see you point of view, but I do not agree with it. If it were not for risky procedures, many of us would not be alive today. In my opinion nothing is to much, to answer your question.
Security is a process, not a set of programs and systems, you and I know this. However, defacing a.gov or.mil site would be fucking retarded, the kind of attacks they would have to worry about would be less flashy/lower profile. Not all IT stuff is done by contractors, the installations and upgrades may be (believe me, I know), but the day-to-day is done by.gov folks, for the most part (save the NMCI, but let us please not mention that).
Why is it that when people hear "designed for/by women" they think "I will be a pussy if I use it", and immediately belittle and deride the object in question? Maybe the fairer sex can shed some new light on printers and cars, amongst other things. Women tend to look at things from a different angle. They are more practical than most men. I am a practical person, as I am sure most geeks are. I would rather have a good printer designed by/for a woman than a P.O.S.
If my computer systems were so insecure as to be shut down, I would be fired. FIRED, FIRED, FIRED. I would not be around long enough to make the same mistake thrice. How hard could it be to install a virus-scanner, proxy server (squid anyone?), and a firewall? Then only leave open necessary ports (25, 110, 443, 80, etc). How come government is given a free pass when it comes to incompetence? If stuff like this happened in the private sector, shareholders would be calling for heads on platters.
There are far more people installing Linux and Open Source applications of their own accord than are buying the solution from any vendor. With the exception of MySQL in the occasional circumstance. Linux+Salesmen=Weird. The major "selling" is of the technology to Upper Management rather than from vendors.
As soon as I could, I started using typewriters/computers to complete reports and papers for school. I also think faster than I write, so I write it in chicken scratch first, inserting words with ^ or drawing an arrow to the margin pointing to entire sentences. I will then take those changes and make a second draft, somewhat neater. Then type up my third or fourth draft. Then I nitpick at that for a few days. I totally do that write big then oh shit running out of space and write really small. My handwriting is so famously bad that people tell me I should become a doctor! The only trouble I have is signing cards for people, I take like 5 minutes to write it out so they can read it.
I like to think that I am an intelligent person. My handwriting sucks ass though. If it is an important document I am writing, my trick is to go VERY SLOWLY, don't rush through it, it is not a sprint. Once you go "slow" for a while, it will become your new normal. If it is a draft of something, my brain thinks faster than I can type, so I write it up in my chicken scratch, basically my own form of shorthand. I then either type it up or rewrite it, making improvements along the way. Try different pens. If I use the right pen, even my normal speed writing looks good. The best pens I have come across are Cross brand. The big fat pens help me out as well.
Let me get this straight, it has nothing to do with the bug from a year ago, except that it affects the same code in the same system call? Call me unenlightened, but, that sounds pretty similar to me.
Have you seen the designs for these sites? A retarded three-legged, one-eyed dog named Lucky could have made a better design. It looks like every Angelfire website, circa 1996. Has this guy not heard of Adobe CS? There are enough wizards in those programs to make even a pile of crap into something halfway decent looking. That $300,000 is like 3,000 copies of Adobe CS Premium. Looks like he bought a "Teach Yourself Frontpage in 24 hours" books and went to town.
I agree with Mr. Glenn, but I do not believe that we have enough expertise built up on the idiosyncrasies of the Martian atmosphere or the planet itself. We have been having a educational, albeit difficult experience with unmanned rovers on Mars' surface. We had to h4x0r the rovers! I would not want to have to h4x0r an actual shuttle. We also now know we need wiper blades on the solar panels of any vehicle that would potentially be sent to Mars, on account of the dust. I think it would be more prudent to send crews back to the moon, get that down, then maybe stretch to Mars. Any manned Mars mission before we are absolutely ready for one is suicide for the astronauts aboard. The amount of time/fuel it would take to get to Mars for a manned, fully loaded shuttle, complete with life support systems, testing equipment, rovers, etc, would be astronomical (pun intended).
At least we disclose our vulnerabilities and patch them quickly. Compare *nix/OS X patches and vulnerabilities to Windows vulnerabilities. It will be a matter of "a buffer overflow could happen in this program, although no one has exploited it, and may not be able to, it could happen, so here is the patch, and here is the code" versus "this vulnerability will share everything on your hard drive, delete random digits from your spreadsheets, spread itself to all of your contacts, hit on your sister, rape your dog, tell bad jokes, and eat all your food in the fridge. We could have told you about this six months ago, but you know what, bite me, what do you paying customers know anyway?".
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But, if you have enough money in the bank, and clicked the correct box, it will magically replace itself!
Why the hell is it that every time there is some cool semi-scientific article on /., all the nitpicky people come out to play? Can you appreciate anything without whining and complaining? "Excuse me sir, this gold bar is too shiny, a real gold bar should be semi dull!" I did not read anywhere on the link where it said "this is an extremely scientific study, and we are stuffy, serious scientists". It looks to me like they are saying "here are a bunch of people from different countries reading this paragraph aloud".
Yes, most of us realise that it takes oodles of audio data to do any serious research, as anyone with Dragon Naturally Speaking or similar programs can attest to how long the program takes to recognise your manner of speaking.
I think the US is the greatest country on earth. Do I have an American flag on my antenna? No. Do I look up to George W. Bush? No. Do I think that we are taking away civil rights faster than you can say "1984"? Yes. The point is, that if we do not like someone, we can get rid of them, come November. The original poster was implying that we were immune to any pain because we expect bad behaviour from those in power. I was trying to rebut by stating that we may be a little numb, but it certainly does hurt us. I agree, the media will build you up to break you back down, if they see it fit. They would rather report murders and fires than scientific breakthroughs and things of that nature. I think our media foments way too much paranoia. Contrast that with pretty much any news programme from any other civilised country, and you will see the difference. If we think of everyone other than ourselves as "stupid" and "out of the loop" and "sheeple", as you succinctly put it, then we have lost the battle to convert them to a more cynical, realistic, rational way of thinking. If all else fails, look up to Woz. He created a remote (the Cloud 9) with a freaking programming manual, then gave the telephone number from that company to a center for troubled teens, after the company went under. Although I am not sure if it's current owner was the one he gave it to.
I do not think the public is desensitized to people in power lying and being scumbags, at least not yet. We (the public) may be a little numb, but it still hurts us. Where are the role models? In music? Sports? Business? None of the above. Everyone thinks only about themselves anymore, IMHO. The point is, these people are supposed to be up on a higher plane than us, they are supposed to be infallible. The Greek Empire started deteriorating when the gods became fallible and human, and the people had nothing to aspire toward. The desire to better oneself is universal, if you have nothing to aspire toward, what is the point of doing the right thing?
I work with Engineers, electricians, etc, and they are constantly apologising for not knowing how to do something. I say to them "look, I know next to nothing about electricity/communications gear/radio systems/etc, you do, that is your niche". I try to educate people, the more people we are patient with, the more people will want to educate themselves about computers, the fewer calls you will get. I try to fix problems, then explain what I did in laymen's terms to the customer. This way, it will likely not occur again.
Well, if I could venture a guess, given the fact that story is on a *.au domain, that the figure in parentheses is in Australian dollars.
Giving any and everyone who wants access to root level things that can hose your box that access.
Most birth defects are congenital. Most genetic defects during pregnancy result in stillbirth/miscarriage. Letting the child die has nothing to do with genetics, it has everything to do with medical science. You sound like the poster child for eugenics. How would we be weakening our species anyhow? If ONLY flawed DNA were to be passed on, I could understand, but even a "strong" gene pool is dangerous, then you would have inbreeding, which is not good either. You need a diverse gene pool to ensure maximum genetic diversity. "I fear, that because we can fix things, we're weakening our society as a whole." What the hell were you thinking when you wrote that, would your solution be "he's bleeding to death, fucking weakling, don't stitch up that wound, he will pollute the gene pool!"
If this child does not survive, we have still won out. Scientific data is what we have to gain. Would you have said "what is the point" with the artificial heart? Yeah, the first few people died, but now, the technology is very, very advanced (thank you Dr. Jarvik!). How about dialysis, heart bypass surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, the heart lung machine, and hundreds of other medical breakthroughs? Seeing your loved ones die sucks beyond words, why let it happen unecessarily? If I were a doctor and said "oh well, the kid is gonna die" I would not be able to live with myself. Instead of taking that route, the doctors in this situation said "you know what, we can do something, we are promising nothing, but this may help". If I were the parent of the child in question, I would say "sure" without a second of hesitation. It reminds me of the old anecdote regarding abortion, If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis, would you recommend that she have an abortion?......Congratulations, you just killed Beethoven!" The point of the matter is that this child has a CHANCE at a normal life, instead of dying without anyone doing anything for it. Emotions? This is pure logic. A will die unless you do B. I see you point of view, but I do not agree with it. If it were not for risky procedures, many of us would not be alive today. In my opinion nothing is to much, to answer your question.
Security is a process, not a set of programs and systems, you and I know this. However, defacing a .gov or .mil site would be fucking retarded, the kind of attacks they would have to worry about would be less flashy/lower profile. Not all IT stuff is done by contractors, the installations and upgrades may be (believe me, I know), but the day-to-day is done by .gov folks, for the most part (save the NMCI, but let us please not mention that).
Why is it that when people hear "designed for/by women" they think "I will be a pussy if I use it", and immediately belittle and deride the object in question? Maybe the fairer sex can shed some new light on printers and cars, amongst other things. Women tend to look at things from a different angle. They are more practical than most men. I am a practical person, as I am sure most geeks are. I would rather have a good printer designed by/for a woman than a P.O.S.
If my computer systems were so insecure as to be shut down, I would be fired. FIRED, FIRED, FIRED. I would not be around long enough to make the same mistake thrice. How hard could it be to install a virus-scanner, proxy server (squid anyone?), and a firewall? Then only leave open necessary ports (25, 110, 443, 80, etc). How come government is given a free pass when it comes to incompetence? If stuff like this happened in the private sector, shareholders would be calling for heads on platters.
There are far more people installing Linux and Open Source applications of their own accord than are buying the solution from any vendor. With the exception of MySQL in the occasional circumstance. Linux+Salesmen=Weird. The major "selling" is of the technology to Upper Management rather than from vendors.
The parts are probably only worth $18.95 though.
As soon as I could, I started using typewriters/computers to complete reports and papers for school. I also think faster than I write, so I write it in chicken scratch first, inserting words with ^ or drawing an arrow to the margin pointing to entire sentences. I will then take those changes and make a second draft, somewhat neater. Then type up my third or fourth draft. Then I nitpick at that for a few days. I totally do that write big then oh shit running out of space and write really small. My handwriting is so famously bad that people tell me I should become a doctor! The only trouble I have is signing cards for people, I take like 5 minutes to write it out so they can read it.
I like to think that I am an intelligent person. My handwriting sucks ass though. If it is an important document I am writing, my trick is to go VERY SLOWLY, don't rush through it, it is not a sprint. Once you go "slow" for a while, it will become your new normal. If it is a draft of something, my brain thinks faster than I can type, so I write it up in my chicken scratch, basically my own form of shorthand. I then either type it up or rewrite it, making improvements along the way. Try different pens. If I use the right pen, even my normal speed writing looks good. The best pens I have come across are Cross brand. The big fat pens help me out as well.
I have prepared a response, I believe that (buffering, buffering, buffering) the case has no (buffering, buffering, buffering) ahh the hell with it.
If I am not mistaken, didn't Phantasy Star Online do this, to some degree?
I can't seem to read the article...it just says "Buffering, buffering, buffering".
Let me get this straight, it has nothing to do with the bug from a year ago, except that it affects the same code in the same system call? Call me unenlightened, but, that sounds pretty similar to me.
Have you seen the designs for these sites? A retarded three-legged, one-eyed dog named Lucky could have made a better design. It looks like every Angelfire website, circa 1996. Has this guy not heard of Adobe CS? There are enough wizards in those programs to make even a pile of crap into something halfway decent looking. That $300,000 is like 3,000 copies of Adobe CS Premium. Looks like he bought a "Teach Yourself Frontpage in 24 hours" books and went to town.
You mean Windows XP?
I agree with Mr. Glenn, but I do not believe that we have enough expertise built up on the idiosyncrasies of the Martian atmosphere or the planet itself. We have been having a educational, albeit difficult experience with unmanned rovers on Mars' surface. We had to h4x0r the rovers! I would not want to have to h4x0r an actual shuttle. We also now know we need wiper blades on the solar panels of any vehicle that would potentially be sent to Mars, on account of the dust. I think it would be more prudent to send crews back to the moon, get that down, then maybe stretch to Mars. Any manned Mars mission before we are absolutely ready for one is suicide for the astronauts aboard. The amount of time/fuel it would take to get to Mars for a manned, fully loaded shuttle, complete with life support systems, testing equipment, rovers, etc, would be astronomical (pun intended).
At least we disclose our vulnerabilities and patch them quickly. Compare *nix/OS X patches and vulnerabilities to Windows vulnerabilities. It will be a matter of "a buffer overflow could happen in this program, although no one has exploited it, and may not be able to, it could happen, so here is the patch, and here is the code" versus "this vulnerability will share everything on your hard drive, delete random digits from your spreadsheets, spread itself to all of your contacts, hit on your sister, rape your dog, tell bad jokes, and eat all your food in the fridge. We could have told you about this six months ago, but you know what, bite me, what do you paying customers know anyway?".
The cliff-climbing scheme from King's Quest 6 was a little less traumatizing.