One way of finding security holes is to take real-world data and change individual bytes at random. Anything that didn't check for invalid offsets, ID numbers, block sizes would be quickly found.
More than likely, they'll set up their own companies. Given the unemployment rate (8.8%) and the population size (1 billion), there's always going to be several people willing to take the place of any unhappy worker. The only restriction to this is the desire of employers to only consider people with degrees and less than 24 years old.
I wonder what happens when the next generation of Indian kids realizes he could be making $50k+ a year programming over here and they all start coming to America.
They did this years ago. The sole goal for many Indians was to get a Computer Science degree so they could get a job in the USA. The downturn in the IT market forced them to return to India, which in turn led to a large pool of unemployed engineers/programmers. This allowed the contract support companies in India to grow, thus causing the trend towards outsourcing.
It would be fun to watch, but not quite so much fun as seeing the "For Sale or Lease" sign at SCO headquarters or Darl's resume on monster.com.
I once visited an open day for an auction to a liquidated high street computer store. The office was left exactly as it was on the exact day that the accountant advised the company to liquidate; you could see the indentations of the final accounting on a notepad. Every single item from the gold plated pens on the office desk to the wine bottles in the private bar and the company sign at the front of the building were labelled with a price tag. I could only imagine what a large compnay like SCO would look like.
If they had done something positive, like using their expertise in UNIX internals to offer device driver development for third party hardware, rather than destructive legal disputes, they would probably have made a much better profit.
wonder if this is why so many people consider clowns creepy.
I think it depends on how much face make-up they are wearing. I've always found clowns with full white make-up (eg. Ronald Mcdonald) more unsettling than clowns with partial makeup. The red nose, rainbow hair, baggy trousers didn't bother me.
Regardless of how "realistic" the graphics look, combat simulators can't simulate:
Lack of sleep.
Equipment Failure. (M16's really don't like sand.)
Boredom. (For most of the battle, you are just sitting there.)
Running around in chem suits under a desert sun.
Sounds like my undergraduate degree:
Lack of sleep - Staying up until 2am to complete a coursework, then getting up at 7am in order to arrive at 9am for a lecture.
Equipment Failure - Our computers used to be in South facing labs with poor heat insulation - The repetitve heating/cooling cycle would pop the ROM, memory chips and circuit boards out of their sockets.
Boredom - When required to attend talks be various speakers, you are just sitting there. The worst part being at the end of the talk, when it is lunchtime, you are hungry, and some smart-ass just has to have an in-depth discussion with the speaker, rather than talking privately at the coffee break.
Running around in chem suits under a desert sun. - Trying sitting inside a small computer lab with no air conditioning in the middle of Summer, 30 computers with 20" CRT monitors, two students to each machine, for a two hour tutorial. The sweat is forming faster, than you can wipe it off. Not forget having 10 minutes to travel between two buildings a mile apart, because someone forgot to allocate classes to rooms.
What would one do with your tag number anyway? Would you expect someone to get a car that is your make and color, fake a plate with your number on it to commit a crime with it? Man that's way too much TV talking...
To get around the congestion charging fee in London, people having been using fake number plates. Saving five pounds a day is a good incentive to do so.
In other words, corporations have a God given right to eternal perpetually increasing profits.
Investors like to see companies become 'cash cows', and become frustrated when they find out various markets are really cottage industries, or if government regulation forces them to become 'boring utilities'.
You'll find that all the people who care about quality programming/design are either working as architects or running their own companies.
What happened to the few really good programmers who could make amazing things happen with a basically crappy machine with barely any memory or other computing resources?
From my experience at university, I'd say that they all went into university teaching/research and/or consultancy and if they became contractors in the UK, they are unemployed.
Corporate directors are under pressure from shareholders to maintain the mandatory annual growth rate. With the large number of graduates with 2:1's and 1st class Honours, companies were instructed to do all they could to give them employment. So companies stopped looked for contractors and just wanted project managers to train up the graduates. And even then, they will only consider graduates who have already done similar work as a project. Anyone who worked as a contractor, or wasn't willing to remain for a full project lifecycle and let their skills become out of date, is being rejected. But these are the same companies who would probably downsize their project managers, once their graduates were skilled enough to become team leaders.
Also the same problem currently existed because many of the students had MS Office at home. So the idea was shot down after only a few seconds. I didn't know how to convince him otherwise.
Tell him that many of the students have OpenOffice at home.
Al Bundy could afford a suburban house with three bedrooms, a decorated basement, a two-bay garage, and in a safe neighbourhood, not forgetting feeding and clothing two kids and a dog, with a stay-at-home wife and all on a salary of a shoes saleman. I sure wish I could afford the lifestyle of a shoe salesman.
Scary stuff indeed. I had to take our pet our local vet. Very friendly girl, but she had all kinds of animal porn all over the walls of the waiting room; horses, cats, dogs, gerbils, even budgies!!! Even the screensaver of her PC was showing animal porn. The mind boggles...
#1 Viruses, worms, and trojans - The danger of these requires me to dedicate system resources to firewalls, virus file checkers and E-mail scanners.
#2 The lack of transparency in the system - on XP I can press [Ctrl][Alt][Del] and get the process manager, but it won't tell which process are using which TCP/IP sockets. I can run 'netstat' and it will tell me which sockets are used by which processes - but it won't tell me what each process is doing ie. svchost - great, there are five of them, each doing something different.
The number of ports which are left enabled by default, just asking to be exploited.
The number of different menu's controlling different resources. Instead of having a simple menu system starting from three choices [system/application/user settings], there are a bazillion menus. Not forgetting the problems with the registry. Wouldn't it have be simpler for each installed application to have its own user-id for executable/configuration files, which only it could maintain, and prevent viruses from infecting other files.
People sign up for web services using a throwaway webmail/domain name. Typically these web services allow the user to recover a forgotten password by entering their E-mail address. The only problem is, they lose interest in the web service and forget about their webmail account/domain name. After some time, the webmail account/domain name will be placed back in the public domain, ready for anyone else to stake a claim.
Hell this could be extended with fake entries in a corporate address book to monitor worms that spread via e-mail communication.
Going by the junk mail I receive in my domain site, you don't even need a valid E-mail address. The spammers just create a @yourdomain.com address and take their chances with a catch all E-mail address.
There are also long term offsite programs where you can go get a Ph.D. and this is also popular. However, of all the people that I know here with Ph.D's the majority seem to migrate into project management, essentially doing nothing but running a small team, writing proposals and giving presentations.
Are you mistaking age for qualifications? In your comment, you mention "long term offsite programs". If it takes 6 years part-time to complete a Ph.D, and the staff already have 5+ years experience (some MSc programs require 2 years industrial experience before considering applicants) and then its another three years part-time to complete the MSc, then by the time the PhD is completed (+six years), the staff would proably be in their late-30's. There wouldn't be many career options except to move into management.
The instructions for building the crane came from the Technica Ideas book 8888, which extended the options of the original technica models. And I also made the mechanical dog, which was technically impressive to me, but absolutely hilarious to everyone else, since all four legs were moved by hand rotating the poor mutts tail!
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One way of finding security holes is to take real-world data and change individual bytes at random. Anything that didn't check for invalid offsets, ID numbers, block sizes would be quickly found.
More than likely, they'll set up their own companies. Given the unemployment rate (8.8%) and the population size (1 billion), there's always going to be several people willing to take the place of any unhappy worker. The only restriction to this is the desire of employers to only consider people with degrees and less than 24 years old.
I wonder what happens when the next generation of Indian kids realizes he could be making $50k+ a year programming over here and they all start coming to America.
They did this years ago. The sole goal for many Indians was to get a Computer Science degree so they could get a job in the USA. The downturn in the IT market forced them to return to India, which in turn led to a large pool of unemployed engineers/programmers. This allowed the contract support companies in India to grow, thus causing the trend towards outsourcing.
It would be fun to watch, but not quite so much fun as seeing the "For Sale or Lease" sign at SCO headquarters or Darl's resume on monster.com.
I once visited an open day for an auction to a liquidated high street computer store. The office was left exactly as it was on the exact day that the accountant advised the company to liquidate; you could see the indentations of the final accounting on a notepad. Every single item from the gold plated pens on the office desk to the wine bottles in the private bar and the company sign at the front of the building were labelled with a price tag. I could only imagine what a large compnay like SCO would look like.
My apologies. The closest I've got to experiencing a MOPP/TAP suit is seeing Lloyd Scott in person walking a marathon in a 120lb diving suit.
If they had done something positive, like using their expertise in UNIX internals to offer device driver development for third party hardware, rather than destructive legal disputes, they would probably have made a much better profit.
wonder if this is why so many people consider clowns creepy.
I think it depends on how much face make-up they are wearing. I've always found clowns with full white make-up (eg. Ronald Mcdonald) more unsettling than clowns with partial makeup. The red nose, rainbow hair, baggy trousers didn't bother me.
Sounds like my undergraduate degree:
What would one do with your tag number anyway? Would you expect someone to get a car that is your make and color, fake a plate with your number on it to commit a crime with it? Man that's way too much TV talking...
To get around the congestion charging fee in London, people having been using fake number plates. Saving five pounds a day is a good incentive to do so.
I had a look at the paper, and noticed they didn't include those robot impersonators, which were the really in-thing back in the late 80's/early 90's.
I wonder where which side of the valley the mimes would be placed?
In other words, corporations have a God given right to eternal perpetually increasing profits.
Investors like to see companies become 'cash cows', and become frustrated when they find out various markets are really cottage industries, or if government regulation forces them to become 'boring utilities'.
You'll find that all the people who care about quality programming/design are either working as architects or running their own companies.
What happened to the few really good programmers who could make amazing things happen with a basically crappy machine with barely any memory or other computing resources?
From my experience at university, I'd say that they all went into university teaching/research and/or consultancy and if they became contractors in the UK, they are unemployed.
Corporate directors are under pressure from shareholders to maintain the mandatory annual growth rate. With the large number of graduates with 2:1's and 1st class Honours, companies were instructed to do all they could to give them employment. So companies stopped looked for contractors and just wanted project managers to train up the graduates. And even then, they will only consider graduates who have already done similar work as a project. Anyone who worked as a contractor, or wasn't willing to remain for a full project lifecycle and let their skills become out of date, is being rejected. But these are the same companies who would probably downsize their project managers, once their graduates were skilled enough to become team leaders.
Also the same problem currently existed because many of the students had MS Office at home. So the idea was shot down after only a few seconds. I didn't know how to convince him otherwise.
Tell him that many of the students have OpenOffice at home.
According to kiddofspeed, being /.'ed was similar to being invaded by a horde of mongols.
Al Bundy could afford a suburban house with three bedrooms, a decorated basement, a two-bay garage, and in a safe neighbourhood, not forgetting feeding and clothing two kids and a dog, with a stay-at-home wife and all on a salary of a shoes saleman. I sure wish I could afford the lifestyle of a shoe salesman.
Scary stuff indeed. I had to take our pet our local vet. Very friendly girl, but she had all kinds of animal porn all over the walls of the waiting room; horses, cats, dogs, gerbils, even budgies!!! Even the screensaver of her PC was showing animal porn. The mind boggles...
Since both rovers have drills, maybe they could carve kennels out of the rocks.
double pram
#1 Viruses, worms, and trojans - The danger of these requires me to dedicate system resources to firewalls, virus file checkers and E-mail scanners.
#2 The lack of transparency in the system - on XP I can press [Ctrl][Alt][Del] and get the process manager, but it won't tell which process are using which TCP/IP sockets. I can run 'netstat' and it will tell me which sockets are used by which processes - but it won't tell me what each process is doing ie. svchost - great, there are five of them, each doing something different.
The number of ports which are left enabled by default, just asking to be exploited.
The number of different menu's controlling different resources. Instead of having a simple menu system starting from three choices [system/application/user settings], there are a bazillion menus. Not forgetting the problems with the registry. Wouldn't it have be simpler for each installed application to have its own user-id for executable/configuration files, which only it could maintain, and prevent viruses from infecting other files.
Undoubtably in the future, high-performance PC's will have turbo-charged double PRAMS's.
Reading this translation, I could help but think of klunk, who is probably now working as a technical writer for Japanese instruction manuals.
People sign up for web services using a throwaway webmail/domain name. Typically these web services allow the user to recover a forgotten password by entering their E-mail address. The only problem is, they lose interest in the web service and forget about their webmail account/domain name. After some time, the webmail account/domain name will be placed back in the public domain, ready for anyone else to stake a claim.
Hell this could be extended with fake entries in a corporate address book to monitor worms that spread via e-mail communication.
Going by the junk mail I receive in my domain site, you don't even need a valid E-mail address. The spammers just create a @yourdomain.com address and take their chances with a catch all E-mail address.
There are also long term offsite programs where you can go get a Ph.D. and this is also popular. However, of all the people that I know here with Ph.D's the majority seem to migrate into project management, essentially doing nothing but running a small team, writing proposals and giving presentations.
Are you mistaking age for qualifications? In your comment, you mention "long term offsite programs". If it takes 6 years part-time to complete a Ph.D, and the staff already have 5+ years experience (some MSc programs require 2 years industrial experience before considering applicants) and then its another three years part-time to complete the MSc, then by the time the PhD is completed (+six years), the staff would proably be in their late-30's. There wouldn't be many career options except to move into management.
The instructions for building the crane came from the Technica Ideas book 8888, which extended the options of the original technica models. And I also made the mechanical dog, which was technically impressive to me, but absolutely hilarious to everyone else, since all four legs were moved by hand rotating the poor mutts tail!