The 'attack' on estonia turned out to be by a 22 year old estonian which probably had no involvement whatsoever with the Russian government. Sorry no link read it in my local deadwood news source.
"As for wealth and power coming from freedom, I couldn't agree more. I'm an American. My wife and I both come from lower-class to very lower-class backgrounds. My mom (single divorced parent, 4 kids) was a frequently unemployed elementary school teacher. My wife's father has held a variety of odd jobs. We both worked hard, and we're both now in law school. Within a few years - practically upon graduation - our combined income will be well over six times what either of our parents brings home right now. There are very, very few places in the world where a person can make that kind of socioeconomic jump in one generation without criminal/political connections. America is one of those places.
If you're unhappy where you're at, here's a tip - work harder and work smarter. Whining will get you nowhere."
So, what's the link with freedom then? Your 'power and wealth' are not from freedom, is what you're saying here, it's from hard and smart work.
A chinese person could make the same jump in income easily (probably much easier, as his/her parents are still being paid by communist norms while he might pursue a career in a market driven field) but I wouldn't call China a haven of freedom.
For seconds... just copy my music to the device as.mp3 files so I can either play it with the machine or play it on the music player of the computer I happen to be sitting behind (which is usually a Linux machine, not iTunes). Same for movies.
Copy my music from the device to another... yes I know it's possible, no thanks to Apple.
Ok, I'm exagerating, but just because of the grudge I hold with Apple because of my iPod fiasco. Here how I think it would be in a perfect world:
You go to the store, pick up your iPhone, activate it in the store or outside, using the code in the package. You then call your family, friends whatever to tell them about this great piece of hardware you got.
Then you proceed home, and copy your music, films, whatever onto the phone USING WHATEVER FILEMANAGER YOUR OS COMES WITH!
Because, let's face it, this tie-in of iPhones and iPods to iTunes stinks. I want apples hardware not the dumb software and the idiotic restrictions (thanks RIAA) the place on the use of the hardware via their crippled software.
Cheers, well said. I've had exactly the same experience with my first Apple product ever, the iPod. The hardware is great but Apple forces you to use it's POS software.
Apple is even worse than microsoft, striving for not only a lockin on software but the combination of hardware and software.
Bullshit. The new 6th generation, of which my iPod is one, encrypts both the database index and the firmware. The database encryption was lousy, admittely, and thus hacked, but the encryption of the firmware is much better and thus alternatives like Rockbox or iPodLinux are not working on the 6th generation and the 2 and 3rd generation nano's and they have no plans supporting it, partly due to this encryption.
The encryption of the database is meant purely to force customers to use iTunes and to make alternative ways of putting music on and especially pulling music OFF your iPod impossible. If this isn't DRM enforcing, pray tell me what is.
Pray tell me, what's so great about having to download an application that is almost totally unrelated to your phone to have to activate it? A process, moreover, that requires you to have a PC, an internet connections and an OS by either Microsoft or Apple. I'm not an american, but I can hardly imagine what other carriers put you through to activate your phone. Bureaucracy? Huge amounts of money? Torture? Hell? A look into the abyss?
You must be getting sick of the comparisons to Europe and the rest of the world, but we just buy a prepaid or a subscription, with OR without a phone, and activate it using said phone and a code.
Wishfull thinking on the part of the slashdot crew who can't believe Verizon turned down Saint Jobs and his holy relic the iPhone.
I'm sorry, I just can't believe all this apple hype going on here on slashdot, especially after I bought my first Apple product ever and it's been a huge fiasco...
Apple is much worse that Microsoft regarding DRM and protecting the record industries twisted interests and the editors here are turning a blind eye to it. All the things I can't do with the nice hardware of this 160 gig iPod because of the DRM-restricted software make me sick and I just decided to sell the thing because it only irritates me.
Please kind people of slashdot, wake up to the fact that Apple is a company without ethics (as all corporations) and just because you want to be released from the Microsoft monopoly doesn't mean the Apple is the saviour!
End of rant. Please mod me down now. I'll make sure to block Apple articles from now on.
IANAA (Not an american) but as far as I understand it can be very important in the states to be with the sports teams for scholarships and grants for the universities, no?
I think most of the students would happily sign an agreement not to eat ever again if they had the feeling it wouldn't be enforced and if the alternative was to not have any chance to study at a good university or any university at all.
Obviously, they weren't all to afraid of enforcement, as they were stupid enough to upload pictures of drinking parties to a public website.
My personal opinion: I can understand the agreement as far as the not drinking/not smoking goes, but prohibiting students from being with people who choose to smoke/drink is idiotic.
Intel invested heavily -- big stakes
on
Negroponte vs Intel
·
· Score: 3, Insightful
"Intel has invested a billion dollars over the last 10 years alone in education around the world," said Mr Otellini.[Head of Intel]
Very telling indeed, but not in the way he intends it. He's basically saying they have high stakes in this market and, being a corporation, they expect a return on this investment.
He's basically giving away the motive for Intel to do such rotten things to the OLPC project.
All you are saying is that the obscurity in password encryption is multitudes larger than the obscurity in shimmer. This still does not change the argument that both are security through obscurity methods.
What exactly is the difference with password encryption? Would you say that password encryption is also security through obscurity? Because all the points you raise to argument that this works due to obscurity also apply to password encryption, IMHO.
"Microsoft is huge, bigger in revenue than IBM, and enormously rich. It is impossible to second guess them, and shorting their stock would be foolish. But anyone who has followed the trajectory, in recent years, of (say) Ford versus Toyota and Porsche, would have to agree that being very large is no guarantee of continuing success."
I'm not sure what you mean with that last example, but it seems you are missing a fact here: Toyota is the largest car manufactorer bar GM, and is set to surpass GM in years or maybe even months.
If you work with specs (in a hewn-in-stone way) you can expect them to change... your code should reflect this and as flexible as possible so that it can change to absorb these changes in a decent way.
To achieve this, you should try to work in a modular fashion, splitting as many logical components as possible.
That said, there's always a change around the corner you didn't anticipate.
Yes, I am proud of my code, or maybe not always the code but at least my coding. It's not always possible to create beautiful, well mantainable code. I try to, but sometimes there's just not the time.
Yes, I have convinced my employer to stop allowing cowboy coding practices -- she didn't even realize it was happening. I'm currently head of the programming division of a inhouse IT dept for a large travelagency specialized in cruises... it's a pretty large department for such a small company, as we write all our inhouse software ourselves and have been for the last 5 years. When I came to work here, the codebase was about that old -- 5 years -- and maybe a two dozen different 'cowboys' had been writing the software resulting in a large heap of steaming shit. They were not centrally coordinated and everyone of them was doing things in his own style either out of laziness of ignorance.
Anyhow, I managed to convince the CEO that there was a problem... she had no idea that it was a mess, the company being a travel agency and she having very little knowledge of automation herself. I used a difficult coding project (connecting to a GDS, the guys that administer plane reservations, car rental, cruises etc) and a general optimation project ( the application was becoming very slow due to all the bad programming going on ) to build her confidence in me and asked her to put me in charge of code sanity. She did.
I am now trying to reform the bunch of code cowboys that currently works here to a well disciplined programming team... and I hope I'm succeeding. Gave them code standards to work to, asked them to clean up the code base where they stumbled upon crappy pieces, moved from Visual Source Safe to Subverion (thank god!) and started regular meetings once a week.
The codebase is still very messy at places, but many basics (use of one and only one database class e.g.) have improved very much and I think the people here are happier for it. It's much less frustrating to work on nicely formatted code that doesn't have braindead sections that aren't commented.
To make a long story short, if you're not proud of the code you write, make sure you improve it.
- Poland was always a developed nation since its inception. One strained with the hardship of large powers fighting over it and the curse of communism gone wrong -- but still developed. Literacy rates were reasonable, education was reasonable, economy was reasonable etc etc. - On top of that, the European Communion has been pouring shitloads of money and resources into the country since it's been part of the EC. Also it has given it a legal framework in which the most extremes of post-communist politics have been watered down, giving it much needed stability. Also, Poland has free export of goods and labour to the rest of Europe. Compare this with e.g. African countries which can hardly export to the EC and above that get large scale dumps of agricultural goods from both Europe and the US, strongly hindering their own agricultural capabilities.
Slashdot Mirror
This is assuming ppl actually have a choice in ISP (or better said broadband ISP's) which many ppl in the states do not have, to my knowledge.
Your argument stills hold if the ISP in question gives a choice for throttled and non-throttled policies.
... to even suggest going to war with Russia over something this trivial.
...
As are the folks that moderated you insightful, I'm lost for words here.
Even killing these Russians for this, as one of the other ppl in this thread suggest is seriously f**ed up.
I hope it's only your age showing
The 'attack' on estonia turned out to be by a 22 year old estonian which probably had no involvement whatsoever with the Russian government. Sorry no link read it in my local deadwood news source.
"As for wealth and power coming from freedom, I couldn't agree more. I'm an American. My wife and I both come from lower-class to very lower-class backgrounds. My mom (single divorced parent, 4 kids) was a frequently unemployed elementary school teacher. My wife's father has held a variety of odd jobs. We both worked hard, and we're both now in law school. Within a few years - practically upon graduation - our combined income will be well over six times what either of our parents brings home right now. There are very, very few places in the world where a person can make that kind of socioeconomic jump in one generation without criminal/political connections. America is one of those places.
If you're unhappy where you're at, here's a tip - work harder and work smarter. Whining will get you nowhere."
So, what's the link with freedom then? Your 'power and wealth' are not from freedom, is what you're saying here, it's from hard and smart work.
A chinese person could make the same jump in income easily (probably much easier, as his/her parents are still being paid by communist norms while he might pursue a career in a market driven field) but I wouldn't call China a haven of freedom.
"Maybe it will 'accidentally' land on Iran's nuke facility! I wish our peeps were that smart."
... your CIA themselves said they stopped developing it in 2003.
I sure don't hope so, because they don't have any
But we can't let facts stand in the way of a good war, can we?
"Rockbox and Linux can already run on the classic iPods."
Not on the new 6th generation classic iPods they don't, thank you. Apple has implemented encrypted firmware on these newer models.
Please check out your facts before shouting your opinion, thank you. Start at iPodLinux.org e.g.
Bye now.
Install Rockbox or iPodLinux for starters ...
... just copy my music to the device as .mp3 files so I can either play it with the machine or play it on the music player of the computer I happen to be sitting behind (which is usually a Linux machine, not iTunes). Same for movies.
... yes I know it's possible, no thanks to Apple.
For seconds
Copy my music from the device to another
Ok, I'm exagerating, but just because of the grudge I hold with Apple because of my iPod fiasco. Here how I think it would be in a perfect world:
You go to the store, pick up your iPhone, activate it in the store or outside, using the code in the package. You then call your family, friends whatever to tell them about this great piece of hardware you got.
Then you proceed home, and copy your music, films, whatever onto the phone USING WHATEVER FILEMANAGER YOUR OS COMES WITH!
Because, let's face it, this tie-in of iPhones and iPods to iTunes stinks. I want apples hardware not the dumb software and the idiotic restrictions (thanks RIAA) the place on the use of the hardware via their crippled software.
End of rant.
Cheers, well said. I've had exactly the same experience with my first Apple product ever, the iPod. The hardware is great but Apple forces you to use it's POS software.
Apple is even worse than microsoft, striving for not only a lockin on software but the combination of hardware and software.
Bullshit. The new 6th generation, of which my iPod is one, encrypts both the database index and the firmware. The database encryption was lousy, admittely, and thus hacked, but the encryption of the firmware is much better and thus alternatives like Rockbox or iPodLinux are not working on the 6th generation and the 2 and 3rd generation nano's and they have no plans supporting it, partly due to this encryption.
The encryption of the database is meant purely to force customers to use iTunes and to make alternative ways of putting music on and especially pulling music OFF your iPod impossible. If this isn't DRM enforcing, pray tell me what is.
Pray tell me, what's so great about having to download an application that is almost totally unrelated to your phone to have to activate it? A process, moreover, that requires you to have a PC, an internet connections and an OS by either Microsoft or Apple. I'm not an american, but I can hardly imagine what other carriers put you through to activate your phone. Bureaucracy? Huge amounts of money? Torture? Hell? A look into the abyss?
You must be getting sick of the comparisons to Europe and the rest of the world, but we just buy a prepaid or a subscription, with OR without a phone, and activate it using said phone and a code.
Yes, it can be that simple.
"Verizon "hemorrhaging" customers?"
...
Wishfull thinking on the part of the slashdot crew who can't believe Verizon turned down Saint Jobs and his holy relic the iPhone.
I'm sorry, I just can't believe all this apple hype going on here on slashdot, especially after I bought my first Apple product ever and it's been a huge fiasco
Apple is much worse that Microsoft regarding DRM and protecting the record industries twisted interests and the editors here are turning a blind eye to it. All the things I can't do with the nice hardware of this 160 gig iPod because of the DRM-restricted software make me sick and I just decided to sell the thing because it only irritates me.
Please kind people of slashdot, wake up to the fact that Apple is a company without ethics (as all corporations) and just because you want to be released from the Microsoft monopoly doesn't mean the Apple is the saviour!
End of rant. Please mod me down now. I'll make sure to block Apple articles from now on.
IANAA (Not an american) but as far as I understand it can be very important in the states to be with the sports teams for scholarships and grants for the universities, no?
I think most of the students would happily sign an agreement not to eat ever again if they had the feeling it wouldn't be enforced and if the alternative was to not have any chance to study at a good university or any university at all.
Obviously, they weren't all to afraid of enforcement, as they were stupid enough to upload pictures of drinking parties to a public website.
My personal opinion: I can understand the agreement as far as the not drinking/not smoking goes, but prohibiting students from being with people who choose to smoke/drink is idiotic.
"Intel has invested a billion dollars over the last 10 years alone in education around the world," said Mr Otellini.[Head of Intel]
Very telling indeed, but not in the way he intends it. He's basically saying they have high stakes in this market and, being a corporation, they expect a return on this investment.
He's basically giving away the motive for Intel to do such rotten things to the OLPC project.
All you are saying is that the obscurity in password encryption is multitudes larger than the obscurity in shimmer. This still does not change the argument that both are security through obscurity methods.
What exactly is the difference with password encryption? Would you say that password encryption is also security through obscurity? Because all the points you raise to argument that this works due to obscurity also apply to password encryption, IMHO.
"Microsoft is huge, bigger in revenue than IBM, and enormously rich. It is impossible to second guess them, and shorting their stock would be foolish. But anyone who has followed the trajectory, in recent years, of (say) Ford versus Toyota and Porsche, would have to agree that being very large is no guarantee of continuing success."
I'm not sure what you mean with that last example, but it seems you are missing a fact here: Toyota is the largest car manufactorer bar GM, and is set to surpass GM in years or maybe even months.
European regulation requires car manufacturers to average 100 kilometers on 5 liters, which is roughly 47 mpg. This is in 2012, not 2020!
If you work with specs (in a hewn-in-stone way) you can expect them to change ... your code should reflect this and as flexible as possible so that it can change to absorb these changes in a decent way.
To achieve this, you should try to work in a modular fashion, splitting as many logical components as possible.
That said, there's always a change around the corner you didn't anticipate.
Yes, I am proud of my code, or maybe not always the code but at least my coding. It's not always possible to create beautiful, well mantainable code. I try to, but sometimes there's just not the time.
... it's a pretty large department for such a small company, as we write all our inhouse software ourselves and have been for the last 5 years. When I came to work here, the codebase was about that old -- 5 years -- and maybe a two dozen different 'cowboys' had been writing the software resulting in a large heap of steaming shit. They were not centrally coordinated and everyone of them was doing things in his own style either out of laziness of ignorance.
... she had no idea that it was a mess, the company being a travel agency and she having very little knowledge of automation herself. I used a difficult coding project (connecting to a GDS, the guys that administer plane reservations, car rental, cruises etc) and a general optimation project ( the application was becoming very slow due to all the bad programming going on ) to build her confidence in me and asked her to put me in charge of code sanity. She did.
... and I hope I'm succeeding. Gave them code standards to work to, asked them to clean up the code base where they stumbled upon crappy pieces, moved from Visual Source Safe to Subverion (thank god!) and started regular meetings once a week.
Yes, I have convinced my employer to stop allowing cowboy coding practices -- she didn't even realize it was happening. I'm currently head of the programming division of a inhouse IT dept for a large travelagency specialized in cruises
Anyhow, I managed to convince the CEO that there was a problem
I am now trying to reform the bunch of code cowboys that currently works here to a well disciplined programming team
The codebase is still very messy at places, but many basics (use of one and only one database class e.g.) have improved very much and I think the people here are happier for it. It's much less frustrating to work on nicely formatted code that doesn't have braindead sections that aren't commented.
To make a long story short, if you're not proud of the code you write, make sure you improve it.
Poland is a crap argument for your argument:
- Poland was always a developed nation since its inception. One strained with the hardship of large powers fighting over it and the curse of communism gone wrong -- but still developed. Literacy rates were reasonable, education was reasonable, economy was reasonable etc etc.
- On top of that, the European Communion has been pouring shitloads of money and resources into the country since it's been part of the EC. Also it has given it a legal framework in which the most extremes of post-communist politics have been watered down, giving it much needed stability. Also, Poland has free export of goods and labour to the rest of Europe. Compare this with e.g. African countries which can hardly export to the EC and above that get large scale dumps of agricultural goods from both Europe and the US, strongly hindering their own agricultural capabilities.
It needs to be addictively competive! You know, with a scoring system, frags maybe, level-up stuff ...
Any good IT professional lives by the 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' adagium, so what's new?
Not in my corner of the world, nor in any of the other places I've been to recently, bar the US.