Sounds like a good idea, they really should just re-build the original towers (with new technology etc) instead of all this 'freedom' bullshit and pissy little artists impressions made by companies that really have no interest but to get their name all over it and say they built the cock-sucking-freedom-tower. The way I see it they should just build the original ones or make it into a memorial - no half-way spiky glass 'architectural revolutions'.
Western governments understand that 'censorship' is un-popular and will route around it. censorship is such a nasty word isn't it? Its certainly much better to call it 'filtering' or 'data processing', 'content management', 'vetting', making 'kid safe' etc. Now mandating that content management systems be installed at all ISPs would be a little 'un progressive' but confiscating certain servers is well established practice. In china, political censorship is the name of the game. In the US for example, political censorship would be seen as wrong no matter what your other views were, but an attempt to censor porn for example 'isn't censorship' its 'moral standards'. John Ashcroft wets him self thinking about this.
Yeees, excellent! with rumours and opinions like this spreading it won't be long before we scare companies from out-sourcing completely! Bwah ha ha ha ha haa!
I'll tell you what I heard - I heard that companies are actually starting to give up on out-sourcing and are re-hiring original employees because they found the work/pay ratio of outside workers is far worse than estimated and bugs per 1000 lines is through the roof!
you'll be driving along, the windscreen is a full-frame computer screen allowing you to see your speed, car status, map and rear/side views without taking your eyes off the road. By law its required that you don't use the screen for anything else while driving and it must not distract you or block your view. Suddenly a big goats.cx pop-up window appears and does just that, you almost hit 3 cars before you manage to close it which promptly turns into a blue screen of death, with no screen-power-button handy, and no way to power down the car computer you are forced to turn off the engine to power-cycle it while desperately looking out of the side window to avoid a line of kids crossing the road. Of course the computer controlled breaks and steering don't work with the power off, but at least you can see the people you're about to run over. Finally it re-starts, just in time for you to avert disaster - your impact is cushioned by a Microsoft employee you managed to swerve into at the last second.
Seriously where have you been for the last 50 years: any film that makes enough money will be turned into a trilogy or atleast have a sequal, even if theres no obvious sequal to make. If it makes even more money it might even get a second trilogy no matter how crap its gona be (starwars 1, 2 & 3). Hitchhikers Guide does have an obvious sequel so to say that there wouldnt be any more made after it was a box office success is just insane. Its only in rare cases that a 'not-obvious-sequal' film is spared from a sequal - usually when the director/producer has some dignity and the power to say no. And of course in the case of Gigli they just cut their losses and burn the rights.
Technically speaking, its all true - FOSS is a (somewhat loose) form of communism, the GPL is like cancer and free programs that are often better than commercial counter parts may drive products out of business. My point is, who cares? If America is a free country how can it be dictated what people code in their 'free' time? if you choose to work for nothing why should you be stopped? Should charity/volunteer work be banned too? Ok so thats a little simplistic view of what this lawsuit is about but hey..
Because its marginally.better and when you show someone something thats marginally.better and tell them it was crafted by [insert fancy description] using only natural ingredients from the rich tropics of [blah blah] with fair trade agreements and brushed aluminium and all that crap they will believe that what you are showing them is the dogs bollocks of TVs/sandwiches/coffee/gadgets etc.
Good idea, I was going to suggest logging their porn and then ignoring it making up a new list of websites they've been to (be creative) and emailing everyone anonymously - first time offenders get off a little lighter but the more time people repeat the worse the list. Another way would be to simply reduce the bandwidth/priority for those rooms, block some ports, or drop packets - you can use the rich students who just buy new computers - see if they will give you the old ones and in return you'll over-look their laziness. Wow the ideas are endless!
If you choose to become a truly competent programmer, you will kick ass in the commercial world. The need for such people is great.
Not as great as you think; an over competent programmer, just like an over competent doctor or pilot is a bad thing. A company aims to hire someone who is competent enough for the job at hand but not so good that they're too expensive. Most products don't need to be the best and very often its in fact cheaper to throw extra memory or cpu power at some software rather than pay to write it better. But yes, its amazing what some people don't know or re-invent.
please please please oh god please let it be true! if someone in the us government has been stupid enough to do the old 'drawing black boxes over the pdf document' cock-up again it will make my day. can anyone confirm that the original document was indeed legit? i hope this paper got some evidence to show they had the real thing before it was taken down.
And yet to drive you need weeks of training and a test which most people fail at least once. Next thing you'll be telling me theres no age limit and that felons can carry but not vote..
Ok but you get my point: affordable wireless net connections in the future will be as essential as affordable home wired net connections are now. Well no I don't really want the governments internet access, I ment free as in just set up by random people around the city, although, considering the US has no data protection laws an ISP could get away with allot more monitoring of your connection than the government - at least the government is supposed to answer to someone.
Why not just log all email on the system and if someone makes a complaint then you can find the specific email in the log. For the extra paranoid you set up the log so that it cannot be read by anyone without alerting someone/everyone that its been read, that way theres no private peeking. If you're worried about espionage then you need to just ban all forms of communication in and out of your building and strip search for portable hard drives (heh) and hope no-one has a photographic memory. Someone could encode some private data as ascii hex and print it/fax it, they could send smoke signals, pigeons, plant it in the rubbish, or upload it to slashdot. 77 68 61 74 20 64 6f 20 79 6f 75 20 77 61 6e 74 20 61 20 6d 65 64 61 6c 3f 20 41 6e 79 77 61 79 20 61 73 20 49 20 77 61 73 20 73 61 79 69 6e 67 2c 20 74 68 69 73 20 63 6f 75 6c 64 20 62 65 20 73 6f 6d 65 20 69 6d 61 67 65 20 6f 66 20 79 6f 75 72 20 6c 61 74 65 73 74 20 73 65 63 72 65 74 20 70 72 6f 64 75 63 74 20 6f 72 20 77 68 61 74 65 76 65 72 20 61 6e 64 20 79 6f 75 20 63 61 6e 20 6a 75 73 74 20 70 61 73 74 65 20 69 74 20 69 6e 74 6f 20 61 20 62 6c 6f 67 2d 77 68 61 74 20 61 72 65 20 74 68 65 79 20 67 6f 6e 61 20 64 6f 3f
I think we're gona have to face it - affordable, flat-rate, decent quality wireless is not going to be a reality for a few years yet, but it will be eventually, just like DSL is today. We can speed it up by giving the ISPs/networks some demand and competition in the form of lots of free access points which will get people hooked on wireless net access - you couldn't imagine living somewhere today without a net connection, within 2 years you won't be able to imagine not having a portable net connection.
No, this is a wake up call to programmers (the snooze button has been pressed by Microsoft regularly for the last 20 years):
When transferring any kind of data from one computer/system/program to another, where the source cannot be guaranteed trustable (hint: always) the data should be assumed to be intentionally malformed, as a result the system should either:
a) limit what the input data can do eg: not be executed as binary or a privileged command, not be capable of overflowing anything (ignore extra long data) not be capable of doing anything that you wouldn't allow any random person to do.
b) warn the user every time new data is to be processed and require acknowledgement to continue.
(b) is the reason why your operating system can't install random software people send it without warning/asking you.
(a) is for documents, emails, messages, pictures, music etc.
This is a pretty fundamental computing rule, its pretty much exactly like the basic gun safety rules: always assume the gun is loaded. always keep it pointed somewhere you don't mind a bullet going. always keep it unloaded. So you really have to wonder about peoples competence..
I think that needs a bit more explination - why can't you install a repeater in the line that picks up each photon an then transmits another photon with the same quantum state thingy..?
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Sounds like a good idea, they really should just re-build the original towers (with new technology etc) instead of all this 'freedom' bullshit and pissy little artists impressions made by companies that really have no interest but to get their name all over it and say they built the cock-sucking-freedom-tower. The way I see it they should just build the original ones or make it into a memorial - no half-way spiky glass 'architectural revolutions'.
Western governments understand that 'censorship' is un-popular and will route around it. censorship is such a nasty word isn't it? Its certainly much better to call it 'filtering' or 'data processing', 'content management', 'vetting', making 'kid safe' etc. Now mandating that content management systems be installed at all ISPs would be a little 'un progressive' but confiscating certain servers is well established practice. In china, political censorship is the name of the game. In the US for example, political censorship would be seen as wrong no matter what your other views were, but an attempt to censor porn for example 'isn't censorship' its 'moral standards'. John Ashcroft wets him self thinking about this.
Yeees, excellent! with rumours and opinions like this spreading it won't be long before we scare companies from out-sourcing completely! Bwah ha ha ha ha haa!
I'll tell you what I heard - I heard that companies are actually starting to give up on out-sourcing and are re-hiring original employees because they found the work/pay ratio of outside workers is far worse than estimated and bugs per 1000 lines is through the roof!
Now fly my pretty rumour... fly fly fly!
..I thought George Bush was working on abandoning rule-of-law?
A backup hampster wheel and a colour instruction manual with space to write notes.
I say go the whole hog and make it 18. The kids can see it - they just have to wait a couple months for the DVD.
Now for the Natalie Portman nude scenes..
you'll be driving along, the windscreen is a full-frame computer screen allowing you to see your speed, car status, map and rear/side views without taking your eyes off the road. By law its required that you don't use the screen for anything else while driving and it must not distract you or block your view. Suddenly a big goats.cx pop-up window appears and does just that, you almost hit 3 cars before you manage to close it which promptly turns into a blue screen of death, with no screen-power-button handy, and no way to power down the car computer you are forced to turn off the engine to power-cycle it while desperately looking out of the side window to avoid a line of kids crossing the road. Of course the computer controlled breaks and steering don't work with the power off, but at least you can see the people you're about to run over. Finally it re-starts, just in time for you to avert disaster - your impact is cushioned by a Microsoft employee you managed to swerve into at the last second.
Seriously where have you been for the last 50 years: any film that makes enough money will be turned into a trilogy or atleast have a sequal, even if theres no obvious sequal to make. If it makes even more money it might even get a second trilogy no matter how crap its gona be (starwars 1, 2 & 3). Hitchhikers Guide does have an obvious sequel so to say that there wouldnt be any more made after it was a box office success is just insane. Its only in rare cases that a 'not-obvious-sequal' film is spared from a sequal - usually when the director/producer has some dignity and the power to say no. And of course in the case of Gigli they just cut their losses and burn the rights.
Technically speaking, its all true - FOSS is a (somewhat loose) form of communism, the GPL is like cancer and free programs that are often better than commercial counter parts may drive products out of business. My point is, who cares? If America is a free country how can it be dictated what people code in their 'free' time? if you choose to work for nothing why should you be stopped? Should charity/volunteer work be banned too? Ok so thats a little simplistic view of what this lawsuit is about but hey..
Because its marginally.better and when you show someone something thats marginally.better and tell them it was crafted by [insert fancy description] using only natural ingredients from the rich tropics of [blah blah] with fair trade agreements and brushed aluminium and all that crap they will believe that what you are showing them is the dogs bollocks of TVs/sandwiches/coffee/gadgets etc.
Good idea, I was going to suggest logging their porn and then ignoring it making up a new list of websites they've been to (be creative) and emailing everyone anonymously - first time offenders get off a little lighter but the more time people repeat the worse the list. Another way would be to simply reduce the bandwidth/priority for those rooms, block some ports, or drop packets - you can use the rich students who just buy new computers - see if they will give you the old ones and in return you'll over-look their laziness. Wow the ideas are endless!
If you choose to become a truly competent programmer, you will kick ass in the commercial world. The need for such people is great.
Not as great as you think; an over competent programmer, just like an over competent doctor or pilot is a bad thing. A company aims to hire someone who is competent enough for the job at hand but not so good that they're too expensive. Most products don't need to be the best and very often its in fact cheaper to throw extra memory or cpu power at some software rather than pay to write it better. But yes, its amazing what some people don't know or re-invent.
Its to stop terrorism obviously!
Yeah, just before they find out about shitting, puking and waking up at 3am.
When the un-washed masses can't actually tell the difference (they can't even see DCT blocking) and you can get away with selling this crap to them..
Maybe May 5th will change the British government and they will take the initiative to stop this crap? Nah not really, but I can dream right?
please please please oh god please let it be true! if someone in the us government has been stupid enough to do the old 'drawing black boxes over the pdf document' cock-up again it will make my day. can anyone confirm that the original document was indeed legit? i hope this paper got some evidence to show they had the real thing before it was taken down.
And yet to drive you need weeks of training and a test which most people fail at least once. Next thing you'll be telling me theres no age limit and that felons can carry but not vote..
In the US do you have to pass a test to show you understand safety to get a gun license?
Ok but you get my point: affordable wireless net connections in the future will be as essential as affordable home wired net connections are now. Well no I don't really want the governments internet access, I ment free as in just set up by random people around the city, although, considering the US has no data protection laws an ISP could get away with allot more monitoring of your connection than the government - at least the government is supposed to answer to someone.
Why not just log all email on the system and if someone makes a complaint then you can find the specific email in the log. For the extra paranoid you set up the log so that it cannot be read by anyone without alerting someone/everyone that its been read, that way theres no private peeking. If you're worried about espionage then you need to just ban all forms of communication in and out of your building and strip search for portable hard drives (heh) and hope no-one has a photographic memory. Someone could encode some private data as ascii hex and print it/fax it, they could send smoke signals, pigeons, plant it in the rubbish, or upload it to slashdot. 77 68 61 74 20 64 6f 20 79 6f 75 20 77 61 6e 74 20 61 20 6d 65 64 61 6c 3f 20 41 6e 79 77 61 79 20 61 73 20 49 20 77 61 73 20 73 61 79 69 6e 67 2c 20 74 68 69 73 20 63 6f 75 6c 64 20 62 65 20 73 6f 6d 65 20 69 6d 61 67 65 20 6f 66 20 79 6f 75 72 20 6c 61 74 65 73 74 20 73 65 63 72 65 74 20 70 72 6f 64 75 63 74 20 6f 72 20 77 68 61 74 65 76 65 72 20 61 6e 64 20 79 6f 75 20 63 61 6e 20 6a 75 73 74 20 70 61 73 74 65 20 69 74 20 69 6e 74 6f 20 61 20 62 6c 6f 67 2d 77 68 61 74 20 61 72 65 20 74 68 65 79 20 67 6f 6e 61 20 64 6f 3f
I think we're gona have to face it - affordable, flat-rate, decent quality wireless is not going to be a reality for a few years yet, but it will be eventually, just like DSL is today. We can speed it up by giving the ISPs/networks some demand and competition in the form of lots of free access points which will get people hooked on wireless net access - you couldn't imagine living somewhere today without a net connection, within 2 years you won't be able to imagine not having a portable net connection.
The Register is from London!!
No, this is a wake up call to programmers (the snooze button has been pressed by Microsoft regularly for the last 20 years):
When transferring any kind of data from one computer/system/program to another, where the source cannot be guaranteed trustable (hint: always) the data should be assumed to be intentionally malformed, as a result the system should either:
a) limit what the input data can do eg: not be executed as binary or a privileged command, not be capable of overflowing anything (ignore extra long data) not be capable of doing anything that you wouldn't allow any random person to do.
b) warn the user every time new data is to be processed and require acknowledgement to continue.
(b) is the reason why your operating system can't install random software people send it without warning/asking you.
(a) is for documents, emails, messages, pictures, music etc.
This is a pretty fundamental computing rule, its pretty much exactly like the basic gun safety rules: always assume the gun is loaded. always keep it pointed somewhere you don't mind a bullet going. always keep it unloaded. So you really have to wonder about peoples competence..
I think that needs a bit more explination - why can't you install a repeater in the line that picks up each photon an then transmits another photon with the same quantum state thingy..?