I'm far from an expert on either system, but this seems similar to the system Keberos uses, 3rd party authentication... Am I totally misunderstanding the linked explanation?
I've been reading this for months... and you know it still seems like of all the things you could do to punish microsoft or increase competitiveness, this has to be one of the most trivial.
Ignore the propriatary file formats, ignore the "microsoft tax" contracts, ignore the insane EULA's, Ignore the nasty anti-OpenSource traps in their code releases, (your prof in CSI 101 saw our code so your open source project 5 years later violates our IP...) Ignore all the other dirty tricks they are playing and make them take out the ability to download files, or listen to music out of the box??? what the HECK! The whole organization must be stifling giggles and telling the lawyers to fight it out just so the court doesn't realize how easy athey are getting off.
You seem to be making the unwarranted assumption that Disney/Sony ect not making gazzillions of dollars is a bad thing. Or that artists deserve to "earn" millions for their work. Or that these industries have in any way a reason to exist besides serving people.
It would not be a bad thing if Disney went bankrupt.Maybe for them but not for the world. Sure, we would miss out on they were producing, but would the world REALLY have been a worse place if Victor Hugo's legacy hadn't been desecrated and the "Hunchback of Notre Dame" not been made?
Think about it, who is adding more value to the world? Some guy who is developing the next generation networking protocol/developing the cure for AIDS (and who will be robbed of the "profit" by his work-for-hire contract), or Brittny for shaking her boobs in a video?
Sure, companies have the right to make a buck, but they don't have the right to buy politians and legislate a guarentee of their bucks.
Instead of going in and trying to come up with some sort of suggestion to placate Big Media, make a better use of your time and express to her her constituants disgust with these companies and their lobbies. Want a solution? Set copyright back to the orignal 14 years. Broaden and ironclad fair use. Repeal the much abused notion that corporations have the "rights" of private citizens, including the "right" to dump more money on elected officials than private individuals can match as a means of reaching their ends.
Oh, and repeal the DMCA.
Wow. Guess what, you just took care of "pirating."
Seriously though, help her understand that companies are NOT her constituents, people are.
If I had moderator points I'd give you a "funny," but it does raise interesting question. If you write an "AI" are you legaly responsible for its actions? Since there are virii "primitive AI's" writers in jail, it looks like there is a precedent that one is. This will become a lot more interesting once we start putting together AI's that come closer to deserving the title.
Heh, I think Asimov covered the idea a few times...
Could you pass on a little more info on the CERN clustering? Several of the people I sport work closely with CERN and have mentioned it but didn't really understand the details. URL?
Its one thing to salvage what is redeamable from a aborted fetus. Sad, but better than it being a total waste. But there is just something wrong with the creation of human life just for the purpose of harvesting them...
Figure out how to clone the CELLS, or grow them en-mass, but I think I just found my squeemish point in making babies just to get the cells.
Of course i havn't read the real reference, just the oft-misleading blurb so maybe i'm wasting my breath...
This isn't really very suprising, even if it is disgustingly wastefull. As a past employee of Walden Books and a couple other bookstores, I can tell you that this is standared practice with paperback books.
Ever wonder why it is sometimes so hard to find a copy of a non best-seller that came out just a couple years ago? Overstock and unmoved paperback inventory is routinely "destroyed" by your local chain bookstore.
This destruction consists of removing the front cover and throwing the book in the garbage... Try consistantly dumbster diving your local mall bookstore and you will pull out trashbags/boxes full of paperbacks.The reasoning is that its cheaper to destroy the books than pay shipping to send them to a warehouse or different store outlet. And you know, since nobody has any interest in a book that is more than 6 months old.. \
This alwas seemed an awful waste to me:( Its not as if there is any liability issue from giving away free books to shelters/schools.
But thats why you will occasionally find books sans cover, or with a note saying a copy without its front cover is considered stolen.
And you wondered why the cost of paperbacks has tripled in the last 8 years....
I'm also looking at doing backups to IDE RAID rather than tape (keeping backup server off site) but I've had trouble finding Good GPL software that has options for using HD's as your storage medium. Can you suggest anything?
Here is my insight. I am currently working for a Research University providing computing support for a High Energy Physics group, A group doing Protein Crystal analysis and a group doing Synclotron X ray instrumentation and research.
Now, I am not a physicist or biologist, just a computer geek, but my outsider's perspective is that at the high end, biology, physics, most of the hard sciences, start converging.
The X-ray folks (physics) and the Protien Crystalization (Biology) folk both use the same beam line to do their work. They are both using LOTS of Unix and Linux boxes to control and analyze the data and machinery. The "strict" biology group just bought 2 beowulf clusters to do cell membrane simulations.
What this comes down to is that you don't have to think "I'm going to do biology, or I'm going to be a Physicist" and think that is all you will be doing. Careers in the sciences have MANY different aspect that different people need to fill.
Another example- In the generic catagory of "high energy physics" you will see all of these activities with people changing hats on demand.
Designing particle acelerators, Building devices to acclerate and register particle interatctions, calcluating the results, running simulations, designing circuit boards, designing computing infrastructure, coding custom software, developing database systems, creating new data storing techniques for multi-terabyte data sets, designing hardware, doing equipment purchasing, developing the first web server (Cern HTTPD).
Now, the caveat. If you want to go this route, be prepared for the long haul in your education. You don't get to do most of this stuff until you are at least working on you Doctorate as a Phd student or afterwards as a postdoc.
If you really enjoy learning and playing with really cool scientific/computing toys, then the sciences are a great place to be. If you are going into computers because your good at it, and want to make the big bucks... well engineering, MIS, CS, these are all much more likely to get you a 9-5 corp job... nobody goes into academia to get rich.
Good luck and best wishes from a guy with a Comparative Religion/Psych degree who's job title is Linux Sys Admin;)
My Monster.com Resume put me on every spam list.
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I can testify to the reverse spam. I read an article a few months ago about how spammers get your email address. They addressed a number of ways but the missed the one that got me.
My publicly viewable resume.
I was job hunting and put my resume - full name,address, phone removed - up on Monster.com, hotjobs, dice, ect. I created a new email account, just for recieving responses. Well, the online resume only got me calls from head hunters, but withing a couple months that address was recieving spam like crazy, while my other more guarded address, even the ones I use for online registration and other "unsafe" purposes were still relativly spam free.
This leads me to believe that places like HotJobs and Monster are harvested by bots/spiders for email addresses on a regular basis... If the sites themselves aren't selling them.
Moral of this story is if you post a public resume, keep a seperate mail account for it.
I'm spec'ing a Dual Athlon 1800+ MP workstation for scientific work and calculation. I'm planning on using the Tyan Thunder SMP board - the one with optional SCSI, 2 onboard NICs and an onboard ATI card. This machine is going to be used only for calculation, desktop work and coding/compiling. Due to some standardization issues it's going to be running 2.2.x not the 2.4.x kernel. No 3d gaming on this box.
Is this machine going to run afoul of this bug? I have heard that its a problem in the 2.4 kernel but nothing about 2.2. Since its using ATI instead of Nvidia will that make a difference?
I know, its gauche to not act suave and opinionated on slashdot but I actually need to know something;)
To all those expressing their well thought out and intelligent opinions here:
In this case you are wasting energy and time that could be much better applied by taking that post and putting it into and email and sending it to microsoft.atr@usdoj.gov
subject :
Microsoft Settlement
As stated in the linked page, the number makes as much difference as the quality... but i'm sure the esteemed readers of Slashdot can produce both.
So, instead of nuking some poor smoe's personal webpage, lets each drop a note to the DOJ letting them know how we each feel about the settlement.
This is just too wrong. Bookstores forced to tell who bought what, mailing list subscribers revealed? Seriously... I think it would only be responsible for any company that could piss off the government or a mega-corp to keep their client list in a destructable fashion...
DAMN YOU MR. STEPHENSON for infecting me with your memes.
I was one of the ones suckered into their scam. After weeks of job hunting I saw their add in the paper... Went in for the interview and a slick "HR" rep in a suite was there to "interview" me for the position. We were given a apptitude test, that an illiterate child could pass ( I later found out they were never looked at) and told we would find out if we qualified later in the day.
We were told it was 45K a year salary, AND overtime if you worked more than 40 a week. Only have to take our $2500 class and pass either the SAIR Certs or their Highly Accredited In house test "the NEW standard for linux certification."
Well, I was a sucker and told my head hunters I was going to go with LinuxScrew'em... whoops gruven. I took the class.
The class was 12 people in a 15 by 10 foot room with one less computer than student. Taught by instructors that had passed neither their SAIR cert or the Linuxgruven Cert...
It was a VERY basic Intro into Linux... honestly not that bad for a VERY BASIC Intro to linux, but NOT in any way a preperation for the SAIR or Linuxgruven Cert.
Ah the LinuxGruven Cert... I asked the HR rep what the pass rate was... he said about %70.. mind you the test DIDN'T EXIST yet. It didn't exist till well after january of 2001. And when it was finished... it was IMPOSSIBLE. The test questions were developed by polling the employees and I never was able to find out if any of the answers/questions were checked for veracity. I think out of all the people who took it there were only 2 people who ever passed both parts.
The "HR" people WERE salesmen, and were called such inside the company. And they worked almost entirely on commssion. They had a warm body policy... if you were enough sucker to pay cash up front, then you were in the class. The instructors, begged them again and again to at least make sure the students were computer literate but they were telling people that if they could check email, they could do well in the class and pass the tests...
Well I did get my SAIR certs after a month of study and testing AFTER the class - I was one of only like 3 from my class to actually pass them. I knew another fellow from my class that spent over $2000 retaking the exams only to be put off about starting for a month. His first day was the day they closed the doors and told us not to come to work.. mind you without any provision for informing the students. I and a few others defied the edit to not come in. Felt we had to face our students and let them know what we could of the situation. Way to much only came out afterwards but I was warning students already to not quit their current positions.
We kept hoping that LG would actually start looking for contracts for us, work to do... but they never did. We begged for real work, but they kept just basing the whole thing on a pyramid scheme till it burst.
While Hibits and his croney were the worst, general opinion is that Porter was not blameless either... but to be fair he may have just been promoted way above his competancy level and used as a scape goat/fall guy by the owners.
The desktop model is great for the average user and there is nothing wrong with the HD icon.
It is about the most intuitive method yet.
Your destop emulates the actual top of a desk, you keep the papers you work with frequently there and you have a few drawers/files for stuff you need handy. On my desk I also keep a phone, clock, stabler, pens and blank paper (ssh, clock, some-app, word processor icon). The rest of the thousand documents you keep in the filecabinet right next to the desk (the HD icon).
According to this gentleman I should take my filecabinet, empty it out and wallpaper the walls of my office with its contents -sans alphabetical order no less- and try to find things by examining the walls through a cardboard tube.
Want to confuse your mother? Give her 15 desktops with a "flat" area of about 10 feet at a side but only allow here to see it through a 10inch by 15inch window.
This is what happens when folks are more concerned with sounding smart than thinking smart.
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I'm far from an expert on either system, but this seems similar to the system Keberos uses, 3rd party authentication... Am I totally misunderstanding the linked explanation?
Thanks
I've been reading this for months... and you know it still seems like of all the things you could do to punish microsoft or increase competitiveness, this has to be one of the most trivial.
Ignore the propriatary file formats, ignore the "microsoft tax" contracts, ignore the insane EULA's, Ignore the nasty anti-OpenSource traps in their code releases, (your prof in CSI 101 saw our code so your open source project 5 years later violates our IP...) Ignore all the other dirty tricks they are playing and make them take out the ability to download files, or listen to music out of the box??? what the HECK! The whole organization must be stifling giggles and telling the lawyers to fight it out just so the court doesn't realize how easy athey are getting off.
I have to agree with the previous post.
You seem to be making the unwarranted assumption that Disney/Sony ect not making gazzillions of dollars is a bad thing. Or that artists deserve to "earn" millions for their work. Or that these industries have in any way a reason to exist besides serving people.
It would not be a bad thing if Disney went bankrupt.Maybe for them but not for the world. Sure, we would miss out on they were producing, but would the world REALLY have been a worse place if Victor Hugo's legacy hadn't been desecrated and the "Hunchback of Notre Dame" not been made?
Think about it, who is adding more value to the world? Some guy who is developing the next generation networking protocol/developing the cure for AIDS (and who will be robbed of the "profit" by his work-for-hire contract), or Brittny for shaking her boobs in a video?
Sure, companies have the right to make a buck, but they don't have the right to buy politians and legislate a guarentee of their bucks.
Instead of going in and trying to come up with some sort of suggestion to placate Big Media, make a better use of your time and express to her her constituants disgust with these companies and their lobbies. Want a solution? Set copyright back to the orignal 14 years. Broaden and ironclad fair use. Repeal the much abused notion that corporations have the "rights" of private citizens, including the "right" to dump more money on elected officials than private individuals can match as a means of reaching their ends.
Oh, and repeal the DMCA.
Wow. Guess what, you just took care of "pirating."
Seriously though, help her understand that companies are NOT her constituents, people are.
If I had moderator points I'd give you a "funny," but it does raise interesting question. If you write an "AI" are you legaly responsible for its actions? Since there are virii "primitive AI's" writers in jail, it looks like there is a precedent that one is. This will become a lot more interesting once we start putting together AI's that come closer to deserving the title.
Heh, I think Asimov covered the idea a few times...
Could you pass on a little more info on the CERN clustering? Several of the people I sport work closely with CERN and have mentioned it but didn't really understand the details. URL?
Thanks!
Could I write this off on my taxes for my home office
Its one thing to salvage what is redeamable from a aborted fetus. Sad, but better than it being a total waste. But there is just something wrong with the creation of human life just for the purpose of harvesting them...
Figure out how to clone the CELLS, or grow them en-mass, but I think I just found my squeemish point in making babies just to get the cells.
Of course i havn't read the real reference, just the oft-misleading blurb so maybe i'm wasting my breath...
Its ok to have software designed to "share" possibly copyrighted music, but God forbid they mess with the GPL copyright...
Not condemning, just seems amusingly ironic.
This isn't really very suprising, even if it is disgustingly wastefull. As a past employee of Walden Books and a couple other bookstores, I can tell you that this is standared practice with paperback books.
Ever wonder why it is sometimes so hard to find a copy of a non best-seller that came out just a couple years ago? Overstock and unmoved paperback inventory is routinely "destroyed" by your local chain bookstore.
This destruction consists of removing the front cover and throwing the book in the garbage... Try consistantly dumbster diving your local mall bookstore and you will pull out trashbags/boxes full of paperbacks.The reasoning is that its cheaper to destroy the books than pay shipping to send them to a warehouse or different store outlet. And you know, since nobody has any interest in a book that is more than 6 months old.. \
This alwas seemed an awful waste to me
But thats why you will occasionally find books sans cover, or with a note saying a copy without its front cover is considered stolen.
And you wondered why the cost of paperbacks has tripled in the last 8 years....
I'm also looking at doing backups to IDE RAID rather than tape (keeping backup server off site) but I've had trouble finding Good GPL software that has options for using HD's as your storage medium. Can you suggest anything?
Thanks!
Here is my insight. I am currently working for a Research University providing computing support for a High Energy Physics group, A group doing Protein Crystal analysis and a group doing Synclotron X ray instrumentation and research.
;)
Now, I am not a physicist or biologist, just a computer geek, but my outsider's perspective is that at the high end, biology, physics, most of the hard sciences, start converging.
The X-ray folks (physics) and the Protien Crystalization (Biology) folk both use the same beam line to do their work. They are both using LOTS of Unix and Linux boxes to control and analyze the data and machinery. The "strict" biology group just bought 2 beowulf clusters to do cell membrane simulations.
What this comes down to is that you don't have to think "I'm going to do biology, or I'm going to be a Physicist" and think that is all you will be doing. Careers in the sciences have MANY different aspect that different people need to fill.
Another example- In the generic catagory of "high energy physics" you will see all of these activities with people changing hats on demand.
Designing particle acelerators, Building devices to acclerate and register particle interatctions, calcluating the results, running simulations, designing circuit boards, designing computing infrastructure, coding custom software, developing database systems, creating new data storing techniques for multi-terabyte data sets, designing hardware, doing equipment purchasing, developing the first web server (Cern HTTPD).
Now, the caveat. If you want to go this route, be prepared for the long haul in your education. You don't get to do most of this stuff until you are at least working on you Doctorate as a Phd student or afterwards as a postdoc.
If you really enjoy learning and playing with really cool scientific/computing toys, then the sciences are a great place to be. If you are going into computers because your good at it, and want to make the big bucks... well engineering, MIS, CS, these are all much more likely to get you a 9-5 corp job... nobody goes into academia to get rich.
Good luck and best wishes from a guy with a Comparative Religion/Psych degree who's job title is Linux Sys Admin
I can testify to the reverse spam. I read an article a few months ago about how spammers get your email address. They addressed a number of ways but the missed the one that got me.
My publicly viewable resume.
I was job hunting and put my resume - full name,address, phone removed - up on Monster.com, hotjobs, dice, ect. I created a new email account, just for recieving responses. Well, the online resume only got me calls from head hunters, but withing a couple months that address was recieving spam like crazy, while my other more guarded address, even the ones I use for online registration and other "unsafe" purposes were still relativly spam free.
This leads me to believe that places like HotJobs and Monster are harvested by bots/spiders for email addresses on a regular basis... If the sites themselves aren't selling them.
Moral of this story is if you post a public resume, keep a seperate mail account for it.
I'm spec'ing a Dual Athlon 1800+ MP workstation for scientific work and calculation. I'm planning on using the Tyan Thunder SMP board - the one with optional SCSI, 2 onboard NICs and an onboard ATI card. This machine is going to be used only for calculation, desktop work and coding/compiling. Due to some standardization issues it's going to be running 2.2.x not the 2.4.x kernel. No 3d gaming on this box.
;)
Is this machine going to run afoul of this bug? I have heard that its a problem in the 2.4 kernel but nothing about 2.2. Since its using ATI instead of Nvidia will that make a difference?
I know, its gauche to not act suave and opinionated on slashdot but I actually need to know something
Thanks!
To all those expressing their well thought out and intelligent opinions here:
In this case you are wasting energy and time that could be much better applied by taking that post and putting it into and email and sending it to microsoft.atr@usdoj.gov
subject :
Microsoft Settlement
As stated in the linked page, the number makes as much difference as the quality... but i'm sure the esteemed readers of Slashdot can produce both.
So, instead of nuking some poor smoe's personal webpage, lets each drop a note to the DOJ letting them know how we each feel about the settlement.
Flex your clout rather than clout your cynicism.
This is just too wrong. Bookstores forced to tell who bought what, mailing list subscribers revealed? Seriously... I think it would only be responsible for any company that could piss off the government or a mega-corp to keep their client list in a destructable fashion...
DAMN YOU MR. STEPHENSON for infecting me with your memes.
I had the misfortune of dealing with Linuxgruven.
What a bunch of liars, cheats, and con-artists.
I was one of the ones suckered into their scam. After weeks of job hunting I saw their add in the paper... Went in for the interview and a slick "HR" rep in a suite was there to "interview" me for the position. We were given a apptitude test, that an illiterate child could pass ( I later found out they were never looked at) and told we would find out if we qualified later in the day.
We were told it was 45K a year salary, AND overtime if you worked more than 40 a week. Only have to take our $2500 class and pass either the SAIR Certs or their Highly Accredited In house test "the NEW standard for linux certification."
Well, I was a sucker and told my head hunters I was going to go with LinuxScrew'em... whoops gruven. I took the class.
The class was 12 people in a 15 by 10 foot room with one less computer than student. Taught by instructors that had passed neither their SAIR cert or the Linuxgruven Cert...
It was a VERY basic Intro into Linux... honestly not that bad for a VERY BASIC Intro to linux, but NOT in any way a preperation for the SAIR or Linuxgruven Cert.
Ah the LinuxGruven Cert... I asked the HR rep what the pass rate was... he said about %70.. mind you the test DIDN'T EXIST yet. It didn't exist till well after january of 2001. And when it was finished... it was IMPOSSIBLE. The test questions were developed by polling the employees and I never was able to find out if any of the answers/questions were checked for veracity. I think out of all the people who took it there were only 2 people who ever passed both parts.
The "HR" people WERE salesmen, and were called such inside the company. And they worked almost entirely on commssion. They had a warm body policy... if you were enough sucker to pay cash up front, then you were in the class. The instructors, begged them again and again to at least make sure the students were computer literate but they were telling people that if they could check email, they could do well in the class and pass the tests...
Well I did get my SAIR certs after a month of study and testing AFTER the class - I was one of only like 3 from my class to actually pass them. I knew another fellow from my class that spent over $2000 retaking the exams only to be put off about starting for a month. His first day was the day they closed the doors and told us not to come to work.. mind you without any provision for informing the students. I and a few others defied the edit to not come in. Felt we had to face our students and let them know what we could of the situation. Way to much only came out afterwards but I was warning students already to not quit their current positions.
We kept hoping that LG would actually start looking for contracts for us, work to do... but they never did. We begged for real work, but they kept just basing the whole thing on a pyramid scheme till it burst.
While Hibits and his croney were the worst, general opinion is that Porter was not blameless either... but to be fair he may have just been promoted way above his competancy level and used as a scape goat/fall guy by the owners.
Oi, I could go on but that is enough.
Any other LG victims out there?
What a complete LOAD of bull.
The desktop model is great for the average user and there is nothing wrong with the HD icon.
It is about the most intuitive method yet.
Your destop emulates the actual top of a desk, you keep the papers you work with frequently there and you have a few drawers/files for stuff you need handy. On my desk I also keep a phone, clock, stabler, pens and blank paper (ssh, clock, some-app, word processor icon). The rest of the thousand documents you keep in the filecabinet right next to the desk (the HD icon).
According to this gentleman I should take my filecabinet, empty it out and wallpaper the walls of my office with its contents -sans alphabetical order no less- and try to find things by examining the walls through a cardboard tube.
Want to confuse your mother? Give her 15 desktops with a "flat" area of about 10 feet at a side but only allow here to see it through a 10inch by 15inch window.
This is what happens when folks are more concerned with sounding smart than thinking smart.
Oi.