stopping light can actually be used for information storage -- ie hard disks. Doing so would increase the amount of storage space incredibly (less space needed for data), reliability would go up (ie, less chance of disk failure), and data transfer speed would finally match CPU speed (no more RAID arrays, and maybe even no more I/O caching).
IBM sorta already did that with their "Heist" campaign. That was the one where the boss calls the cops after finding his server farm empty. He then tells the tech, who's just rolling in for the day, "They stole all our servers." Tech responds "Nah, we moved everything on to that one" and points to one machine in the far back corner. "Gonna save us a bundle. I sent you an email...."
Roblimo ran an article over at Newsforge about this. That machine was to be running VMWare with a bunch of Linux installations on top of that for all the http, ftp, mail, etc. In essense, one machine that pretended to be 12 machines (or something like that).
MS-only shop having all the boxes go down simultaneously
IIRC, there was a commercial for Southwest Airlines. Even though it's a different industry, they once used Outlook worms in their commercials.
One of their tag lines is "Want to get away?" In the commercial, a woman opens up an email with subject "Job Offer" that when opened, said "You have got the Pink Slip Virus. Your whole office is now infected. Ha ha ha..." You then see the same sequence of events hitting other cubes in her area. "Want to get away?"
silly gimmick that will be broken by the first hacker who fiddles with it
to the uninitiated, this is a reference to the Adobe E-Book software, which used a Rot-13 (Ceasar shift) cipher, and DeCSS, which also a cheap algorithm.
you dont know jack shit, do you? a real professional would post a link (and include his numbers). your.sig even suggests you would: Human knowledge advances via the thoughtful correction of ideas.
Let's take a purely mathematical approach. Entropy S = k ln W where W is the mulitplicity of the configuration: W = N!/nl!nr!. Now, if we let N be the number of OSX machines in existence with nl = number that have been cracked and nr the number that haven't been (yet!), we can plug in some numbers and find that the likelihood of break-in is roughly 87.3%.
What the f*ck is all that!! You just threw a bunch of neat looking variables together and pulled 87.3 literally out of your ass in an attempt to say that an OS-X box has a high risk of intrusion. Show what numbers you use and your sources for them and maybe then someone will believe you.
most of the sites they probably surveyed are the honest type. Places like Amazon, NY Times, even slashdot who need trust in their customers to keep them coming back. It's expected that these types of organizations will provide good/honest practices or else some people wont do business with them. Ever see a dishonest spamming organization that refuses to remove you from a mailing list survive?
can't recommend due to fundamental security issues
I'm sorry, but I gotta ask: What security issues? OS-X by default is possibly the most secure OS on the market that's suitable for the desktop. By default all the services (apache, sftp, ssh, appletalk, etc) are disabled, and cannot be enabled until after install. By comparison, Win2k has IIS enabled by default, without making it easy to disable it.
Getting updates is incredibly easy, as a tool pops up when you log on saying "there's an update available, would you like to install?" and it installs it for you.
It appears to me that you simply haven't used OS-X or have refused to find out any facts about it.
depends on the lab. here at drexel, general purpose labs all have macs and pc's running win2k, but the student can setup an ssh connection to a unix system if they want to. specific labs owned by the depts vary depending on what they need. Art students, for example, have tons of adobe and other graphic software on their lab machines, all macs. Business students have win2k with business software.
But the CS lab has a bunch of sun workstations. All courses other than the freshman C++ and elemantary Data Structures course require use of those machines. Upper level OS courses require linux on the student's home machine so that they can do their own kernel hacking. The research labs in the CS dept all have Linux (and other open OS's) running somewhere, too.
programmers get privacy from others, quietness, play music w/o others being able to hear, more decorating space for things like magnetic dart boards, more storage space for books, toys, etc. the list goes on....
what about an emergency person getting paged? Let's say an ER doctor goes to the movies. At the same time a patient arrives at his hospital in a life threatening condition. He's the only one with the expertise to save this person's life. The person dies because the nurse cant call the doctor's cell phone thanks to a jammer in the theater.
but i like the idea of a "cigarette smoke jammer" to weed out cigarette smoke and odor from the front of buildings.
yeah, you're right. Java doesnt explicitly require templates because of that Object base. But I'm actually in favor of generics because it can clean up code readibility. take a peek at gilad bracha's presentation[pdf] on the topic from last year's JavaOne. Note how the code reads (and when errors happen) in slides 9 and 10.
it also appears someone else didnt catch on either. that leads me to beleive that you more focused on muttering bullshit about the MPAA than on a decent story submission.
sounds like GMontag didnt do his research on the cuba article. I can say with a straight face it wasnt the MPAA/RIAA. This is Cuba remember. Poverty for the vast majority of people there. Movies and entertainment are almost non existent simply because they cant afford it.
Wired says in the article that they dont know why Cuba banned the PC. They're unable to speak with the government. They can only speculate that they're trying to stop anti-Castro people from publishing to the internet from within Cuba.
just to start out with, try giving students that think they skip the intro course the equivalent a final exam for that course. if they're good enough to skip over it, they should be able to handle it with a breeze.
Or, try offering up an accellerated version of the course to keep the kids bored at first, but challenged later.
during the initial Bernie Shifman exchange several months ago, he asked for someone's address for legal contact. Anyone else catch what I'm fearing....?
my younger brother likes to troll. he sometimes uses my computer and hits the ac box. me forgot this time. my golly did he ever have a white face when i caught him.
oh i'm definitely aware of the anti-microsofties there are at/. I just think it's good to point out to those that skip straight to the comments that MS is taking it seriously and not trying to change the embrace/extend yet another standard like they have in the past, which was implied by the original poster: Here is another instance where Microsoft is going one way and everybody else going to other
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stopping light can actually be used for information storage -- ie hard disks. Doing so would increase the amount of storage space incredibly (less space needed for data), reliability would go up (ie, less chance of disk failure), and data transfer speed would finally match CPU speed (no more RAID arrays, and maybe even no more I/O caching).
ah. the perfect follower
IBM sorta already did that with their "Heist" campaign. That was the one where the boss calls the cops after finding his server farm empty. He then tells the tech, who's just rolling in for the day, "They stole all our servers." Tech responds "Nah, we moved everything on to that one" and points to one machine in the far back corner. "Gonna save us a bundle. I sent you an email...."
Roblimo ran an article over at Newsforge about this. That machine was to be running VMWare with a bunch of Linux installations on top of that for all the http, ftp, mail, etc. In essense, one machine that pretended to be 12 machines (or something like that).
MS-only shop having all the boxes go down simultaneously
IIRC, there was a commercial for Southwest Airlines. Even though it's a different industry, they once used Outlook worms in their commercials.
One of their tag lines is "Want to get away?" In the commercial, a woman opens up an email with subject "Job Offer" that when opened, said "You have got the Pink Slip Virus. Your whole office is now infected. Ha ha ha..." You then see the same sequence of events hitting other cubes in her area. "Want to get away?"
silly gimmick that will be broken by the first hacker who fiddles with it
to the uninitiated, this is a reference to the Adobe E-Book software, which used a Rot-13 (Ceasar shift) cipher, and DeCSS, which also a cheap algorithm.
i started to realize that after i made my rebuttal to the entropy crap and looking back at the Win95 comment he made.
you dont know jack shit, do you? a real professional would post a link (and include his numbers). your .sig even suggests you would: Human knowledge advances via the thoughtful correction of ideas.
item 2:
Let's take a purely mathematical approach. Entropy S = k ln W where W is the mulitplicity of the configuration: W = N!/nl!nr!. Now, if we let N be the number of OSX machines in existence with nl = number that have been cracked and nr the number that haven't been (yet!), we can plug in some numbers and find that the likelihood of break-in is roughly 87.3%.
What the f*ck is all that!! You just threw a bunch of neat looking variables together and pulled 87.3 literally out of your ass in an attempt to say that an OS-X box has a high risk of intrusion. Show what numbers you use and your sources for them and maybe then someone will believe you.
most of the sites they probably surveyed are the honest type. Places like Amazon, NY Times, even slashdot who need trust in their customers to keep them coming back. It's expected that these types of organizations will provide good/honest practices or else some people wont do business with them. Ever see a dishonest spamming organization that refuses to remove you from a mailing list survive?
can't recommend due to fundamental security issues
I'm sorry, but I gotta ask: What security issues? OS-X by default is possibly the most secure OS on the market that's suitable for the desktop. By default all the services (apache, sftp, ssh, appletalk, etc) are disabled, and cannot be enabled until after install. By comparison, Win2k has IIS enabled by default, without making it easy to disable it.
Getting updates is incredibly easy, as a tool pops up when you log on saying "there's an update available, would you like to install?" and it installs it for you.
It appears to me that you simply haven't used OS-X or have refused to find out any facts about it.
First, in what course exactly would an instructor want to say "Well, here's a whole bunch of code from a commercial (or any) project. Study it."
uh, what about courses in Software Maintenance and Reverse Engineering?
depends on the lab. here at drexel, general purpose labs all have macs and pc's running win2k, but the student can setup an ssh connection to a unix system if they want to. specific labs owned by the depts vary depending on what they need. Art students, for example, have tons of adobe and other graphic software on their lab machines, all macs. Business students have win2k with business software.
But the CS lab has a bunch of sun workstations. All courses other than the freshman C++ and elemantary Data Structures course require use of those machines. Upper level OS courses require linux on the student's home machine so that they can do their own kernel hacking. The research labs in the CS dept all have Linux (and other open OS's) running somewhere, too.
programmers get privacy from others, quietness, play music w/o others being able to hear, more decorating space for things like magnetic dart boards, more storage space for books, toys, etc. the list goes on....
that's true. doctors was probably a bad example. but illustrates the point of why jamming can be bad.
what about an emergency person getting paged? Let's say an ER doctor goes to the movies. At the same time a patient arrives at his hospital in a life threatening condition. He's the only one with the expertise to save this person's life. The person dies because the nurse cant call the doctor's cell phone thanks to a jammer in the theater.
but i like the idea of a "cigarette smoke jammer" to weed out cigarette smoke and odor from the front of buildings.
yeah, you're right. Java doesnt explicitly require templates because of that Object base. But I'm actually in favor of generics because it can clean up code readibility. take a peek at gilad bracha's presentation[pdf] on the topic from last year's JavaOne. Note how the code reads (and when errors happen) in slides 9 and 10.
it also appears someone else didnt catch on either. that leads me to beleive that you more focused on muttering bullshit about the MPAA than on a decent story submission.
sounds like GMontag didnt do his research on the cuba article. I can say with a straight face it wasnt the MPAA/RIAA. This is Cuba remember. Poverty for the vast majority of people there. Movies and entertainment are almost non existent simply because they cant afford it.
Wired says in the article that they dont know why Cuba banned the PC. They're unable to speak with the government. They can only speculate that they're trying to stop anti-Castro people from publishing to the internet from within Cuba.
polymorphism:
assume class B extends from A
A a = new B();
Tada!!
just to start out with, try giving students that think they skip the intro course the equivalent a final exam for that course. if they're good enough to skip over it, they should be able to handle it with a breeze.
Or, try offering up an accellerated version of the course to keep the kids bored at first, but challenged later.
during the initial Bernie Shifman exchange several months ago, he asked for someone's address for legal contact. Anyone else catch what I'm fearing....?
my younger brother likes to troll. he sometimes uses my computer and hits the ac box. me forgot this time. my golly did he ever have a white face when i caught him.
same to you too mister!!
oh i'm definitely aware of the anti-microsofties there are at /. I just think it's good to point out to those that skip straight to the comments that MS is taking it seriously and not trying to change the embrace/extend yet another standard like they have in the past, which was implied by the original poster: Here is another instance where Microsoft is going one way and everybody else going to other
the article says that even MS spokespeople are admitting that it's a bug. I dont see it as anything to get all up in arms and angry about.