Degrees should be MUCH harder to achieve in the U.S. I am sick to death of having my credentials weakened because of an education "industry" that is barely capable of failing a student at anything. Even graduate school can be achieved as a relative cakewalk if desired. Lame...
To me it seems that deploying "beneficial" code in the clothing of a virus clouds the issue as much as anything else. I hope there aren't any unexpected consequences. It's hard for me to say that the rank and file computer user needs and deserves unrequested help with securing their system.
Agreed it is hard to trust third-party code, ever. To me it's even harder when the code is intended to be placed on the system without the operator's knowledge and without any real accounting for where it originally came from.
Imagine the U.S., when some fraction of the hackers realize that they'll never be paid a decent salary for their work.:O Why do you think Bulgaria has been a traditional hotbed of virus activity? Educated populace with no legitimate work to do...
Perhaps with apprpriate agreements, OS patches could be delivered through anti-virus packages. Would require close communications and trust between the OS developer and antivirus vendors, though, and would introduce other areas of risk.
Agreed on this. A terrible if well-intentioned strategy. Getting blasted with ICMP packets today, seems to have a penchant for connecting to hosts in the same/16 or/24.
This is an area where the DMCA really sucks - if making a working copy requires defeating anything intended as copy protection, the fair use right is completely eliminated.
Distribution of the cheaper stones is likely to be a problem until the supply is sufficient to replace the rate at which DeBeers sells from their cache. They basically arm-twist the dealers. IIRC the only way you get diamonds from DeBeers is to agree to purchase from them exclusively, they would cut you off for selling "unauthorized" diamonds. Without significant other sources of diamonds, dealers have to accept the terms of the monopoly to stay in business.
Wouldn't interest rates drop? The urgency of getting debts repaid in 5, 10, 20, or 70 years need not really be there. I would think that typical annual interest rates are loosely correlated to human lifespan.
Do you find XML a fair compromise between human and machine readability? In my recent experience, it's the cleanest interface I've actually been asked to code for an RDBMS-based product. Doing arbitrary parsing on text is a coding hassle unless there is simple structure in the flat text.
Yeah, it also seems to override security policy settings relating to shutdown by remote users. (It seems possible to restrict remote users from shutdown via GUI but the shutdown command line still operates.)
Agreed - I feel very strongly that geeks still haven't earned enough genuine respect in society. To some degree, it's just a persistent social phenomenon with engineers and academic types. We tend to get involved in our own little worlds of our creations, where we have good control over systems and boundary conditions etc. Other than that, we largely want to live pretty simply and be left alone. Given that, we'll work pretty hard. Unfortunately, in the long run, that attitude just gets you controlled by control-minded people who aren't capable of doing or understanding what you're capable of. A bit gross...
It was a question. It is interesting how people get the angriest about leading questions - tends to elicit serious response, though sometimes emotional.
Regarding America, I currently live here and have citizenship. I was not born here.
I don't defend the DMCA, I find it to be an incredibly overzealous and potentially unconstitutional piece of law. I do, however, believe in IP, and I'm sick to death of the atrocious business ethics in respecting it. World-wide. (Yes this includes the U.S. - companies profit here as well by pirating software that they use to produce product.)
Can you provide more facts about the Singapore government's defense of IP? Your view does not coincide well with what I've been told by friends who have visited and lived there.
Hmm - most interesting. I never got into DCOM, but I'm amazed that Microsoft used DCE RPC. Especially considering that they rolled their own rather than use ONC RPC for local IPC. Wow...
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Degrees should be MUCH harder to achieve in the U.S. I am sick to death of having my credentials weakened because of an education "industry" that is barely capable of failing a student at anything. Even graduate school can be achieved as a relative cakewalk if desired. Lame...
I agree about choice in trust.
To me it seems that deploying "beneficial" code in the clothing of a virus clouds the issue as much as anything else. I hope there aren't any unexpected consequences. It's hard for me to say that the rank and file computer user needs and deserves unrequested help with securing their system.
Agreed it is hard to trust third-party code, ever. To me it's even harder when the code is intended to be placed on the system without the operator's knowledge and without any real accounting for where it originally came from.
Imagine the U.S., when some fraction of the hackers realize that they'll never be paid a decent salary for their work. :O Why do you think Bulgaria has been a traditional hotbed of virus activity? Educated populace with no legitimate work to do...
How would you ever be sure that code injected into your system against your will is "harmless"?
Perhaps with apprpriate agreements, OS patches could be delivered through anti-virus packages. Would require close communications and trust between the OS developer and antivirus vendors, though, and would introduce other areas of risk.
Agreed on this. A terrible if well-intentioned strategy. Getting blasted with ICMP packets today, seems to have a penchant for connecting to hosts in the same /16 or /24.
I hate to say it, but your comments about short-term focus and investment seem spot-on.
Bacteria are OK, at least they're trying to live. Fsck the viruses... :)
Yep, IMO they're nothing more than unfortunate shapes - tinker toy stuff that happens to resemble the stuff of actual life. :)
It doesn't. windowsupdate.com doesn't resolve to an IP and perhaps never has.
That was funny - thanks for spending the time.
This is an area where the DMCA really sucks - if making a working copy requires defeating anything intended as copy protection, the fair use right is completely eliminated.
Distribution of the cheaper stones is likely to be a problem until the supply is sufficient to replace the rate at which DeBeers sells from their cache. They basically arm-twist the dealers. IIRC the only way you get diamonds from DeBeers is to agree to purchase from them exclusively, they would cut you off for selling "unauthorized" diamonds. Without significant other sources of diamonds, dealers have to accept the terms of the monopoly to stay in business.
L'Hopital's rule in action, eh? ;)
An excellent point. I wish I could mod you up...
Also requires competitor collusion in the long run and tight-fisted control of research information. I don't think so, myself.
Wouldn't interest rates drop? The urgency of getting debts repaid in 5, 10, 20, or 70 years need not really be there. I would think that typical annual interest rates are loosely correlated to human lifespan.
Do you find XML a fair compromise between human and machine readability? In my recent experience, it's the cleanest interface I've actually been asked to code for an RDBMS-based product. Doing arbitrary parsing on text is a coding hassle unless there is simple structure in the flat text.
Yeah, it also seems to override security policy settings relating to shutdown by remote users. (It seems possible to restrict remote users from shutdown via GUI but the shutdown command line still operates.)
Agreed - I feel very strongly that geeks still haven't earned enough genuine respect in society. To some degree, it's just a persistent social phenomenon with engineers and academic types. We tend to get involved in our own little worlds of our creations, where we have good control over systems and boundary conditions etc. Other than that, we largely want to live pretty simply and be left alone. Given that, we'll work pretty hard. Unfortunately, in the long run, that attitude just gets you controlled by control-minded people who aren't capable of doing or understanding what you're capable of. A bit gross...
Sounds like Microsoft...
It was a question. It is interesting how people get the angriest about leading questions - tends to elicit serious response, though sometimes emotional.
Regarding America, I currently live here and have citizenship. I was not born here.
I don't defend the DMCA, I find it to be an incredibly overzealous and potentially unconstitutional piece of law. I do, however, believe in IP, and I'm sick to death of the atrocious business ethics in respecting it. World-wide. (Yes this includes the U.S. - companies profit here as well by pirating software that they use to produce product.)
Can you provide more facts about the Singapore government's defense of IP? Your view does not coincide well with what I've been told by friends who have visited and lived there.
Hmm - most interesting. I never got into DCOM, but I'm amazed that Microsoft used DCE RPC. Especially considering that they rolled their own rather than use ONC RPC for local IPC. Wow...
Sounds like AIDS... :(