the connection to the human commander is secure and that he is held responsible for evverything his machines do (oh it decided to shoot by itself... I just allowed it to.). I would not like that this thing runs a web-interface which can be abused by a CSS attack from a botnet:
"Buy Viagra Now". "You are incooperative". "We can extend length and diameter". "Please show Credit card" What i want to say: Be fucking careful with these Machines....
And "uncooperative human" is an *UGLY* euphemism. It's so innocent. Like "enemies of the state". (To be defined on a day by day basis by the DHS.).
there was a short period bridging the vt100 terminals to the sunrays from 1997 to 2000, where the University library installed personal computers for accessing their network.
No, seriously. This is non-news.
The transition to personal Computers stopped long ago. I can not remember to have seen an institution in the last five years switching to a PC-based infrastructure, but i see since approx. 2001 a rise of thin clients in larde organizations. The organizations for which this pays off will get smaller and smaller with time and in a few years we will have gotten rid of the infrastructural maintainance and support Hell the PC still presents.
fear of becoming the sexual fansaty of millions of geeks. Every woman intelligent enough to become a famous programmer will figure out that the combination of "is woman" maybe "looks geeky" and "has created a new programming language" will result in beeing stared at on geek conventions. Imagine one hundred socially incompetent geeks trying stupid pick up lines on you.....
I am dissappointed. We are on slashdot. Please say instead "The results will be evalutaed using GNU/Hurd" or "The operators could finish a round of DNF in the breaks" or "a microsoft linux running on phantom game consoles is used as a thin client operating system" etc...
maybe, after all what has been said about the compentence about the non-fired admins, it turns out that the mystery device has the ip 127.0.0.1 and is able to hide its real MAC adresss...
c) Combinatorics requires more than two valence bonds to make different molecules
d) bonds should be strong in comparison to temperature, yet not forever
All this make carbon a pretty likely candidate to be involved. Hydrogen is painly so abundant that it *will* be involved and oxygen is also not seldom. So it is not unlikely that life somewhere else may be based on a cemistry similar to ours.
Yes. You can encrypt your connection. Thats pretty worthless if you dont know with whom you exchanged your keys. Especially in the light of the DNS vulnerability or using wireless hotspots it is pretty idiotic to claim that talking to something which you dont know is to be considered private. This screams for man in the middle attacks. And You still have the option to accept the certificate - which will increase your safety. But one should point out to the user that this is something special. I find it highly irritating that a lot of companies don't pay the small amount of money for an ssl key. I work in a company where the admins are signing the ssl key for the mail server by themself (and change it often). Thats completely great. you could hack them without them noticing it, sincer everybody is so used to clicking away trhin innocent gray warning messages . On the other hand, firefox allows the definition of own ca's doesnt it?
if you look over the shoulder of your co-worker, it does not matter if hes watching a screen or a paper. If you break into his locked desk or hacking a password, this alone is a crime. If you open his unopened snail mail letter, in Germany this is also a crime, i think something similae may apply in US - i would appreciate if the lawa for e-mail could match this. If you use information from this act, well you could be facing all kinds of funny things, most likely civil charges (e.g. you forwarded his e-mails, which he sent privately to your boss, without beeing properly instructed to do so, snd the guy gets fired and you promoted imagine there may be something in that for him).
And inside then company, there is only one way to handle it - if somebody spys on his coworkers withoput that beeing part of his job (by the rules and the laws), fire him. No second chance, There are a lot of things where you could be lenient. Surfing privatly etc.. But for reading the colleagues e-mail, the person has to go. If he was an admin, make sure he does not find another job easily.
Well - yes and no.
Pne thing is - physics is usually concerned about better sensors. While car industry denfine that they want cheaper sensors, medical systems require the best sensors (to lower radiation etc..), security application demand new sensor types. Thats because you can protect a weapon against beeing seen on a 50 year old x-ray, because you can buy a device and test his technique. using new, non-generally available sensing techniques will protect against that.
Lack of decision making.
I was a admin of the network of a small group (~10-20 Persons, 30 Computers) for approx. 6-7 Years. Whenever i asked my boss for a decision, he said: do what you think, even when i just asked him: what data should we backup in an expensive (daily, remote) way, what data should we archive in an expensive (remote, redundant, stored on tapes in the computing center) way?. Also i pointed out one year before i planned to leave that now it would be a good time to whom to transfer the knowledge to - no alarm bells rang.
It ended up with me deciding everything over 5-6 years, building the sytem in a time saving (for me) way, because the only external pressure was that i should not use too much time on it. The introduction of the next admin was two afternoons. For the last 1.5 years the system was unmaintained (the new admin said he did not want break anything), and as far as i know my root accounts are still active.....
For sure Admins who dont want to share power and are egocentric socipaths are common. Some of them may be mentally deranged, have paranoia, and some may de plain assholes. Some of them may really see trouble in giving power to people whom you don't want to mess around with your config. Some of these guys do very good technical adminitration. But this is no good work.
But what is bad is that his practice has been observed for years by his superiors. If I operate something whis costs millions to build, and where my operations are based upon, i should always ask myself: "If the admin get's hit by a truck, who can help me to even power the network on?". If the answer is "nobody" you are doing something wrong. In the same way, as a good admin makes preparations for him leaving, or at least designs the infrascructure with a certain orthogonality in resoponsibilities. E.g. i preferred in university that handling the backups in none of my business, Even if i do something completely wrong, even if i leave, they would be able to restore the data on a completely different system without even asking me.
And when you go for no reason what, honestly giving the information for access is just professional conduct. To my experience even if you give the passwords, they dont know how to handle things.
Please mod the parent up.
I am using Linux for a long time (since 1994) and i for sure try to use open source wherever i can. Not because there is any fundamental argument, but because i know installation, security updating, and removing of open source programs using [your favourites distributions packet manager] is much more painless than otherwise, especially taking into account that i dont have to buy and read the licenses. Moreover, if a bug is really impoertant to you, you can fix it.
However, i also run matlab. Besides Mathworks having a seriuous chance of getting me annoyed over their license manager (more than 50% of my problems with using matlab go back to the license manager), i would like to have the freedom of choice.
Obviously the next question for open-source evangelists after your desktop would be if you may connect non-free web-servers, non-free java applets and non-free flash.
It is really risky not to have a revokation mechanism for packages, but definig this by availability of a new package somewhere. The only solution would be to have servers, which contain a list of revoked packages. If connecting to these list fails, the update should stop.
A simple, clean model was replaced by an ridiculously expanded blown-up mess of diferernt techniques. For most dynamical web-pages to work it would be best to make a Java application (without html). I am sick an tired of web-pages who have no notation that a user might have enable js, but disabled cookies (to name two thing which are often used together, but not really defined withint one model).
a) average brightness of monitor should be similar to rest of the room.
b) Contrast in brighness should be not to large between fg and bg (i.e. NOT black on bright white like in Word for Windows). Use a suitable hue/saturation difference. I like gray on dark blue for standard text, but this is my personal preference. (This was the default in Word for DOS and Borland pascal.)
c) Font size matters. Larger text on a larger monitor influences strongly how quickly your eyes will get tired. I prefer 14-18 (depending on the size of the monitor)pt Courier.
d) Wear Glasses?
e) Toolbars off. Sidebars minimized. You do not need to waste monitor area. The more often i scroll, the more tiring i find it for my eyes.
I had a palm M105, which i loved very much (especially for it's capability to accept AAA Standard batteries and rechargables, which are available even in the middle of nowhere). It did what it should-it kept my Adresses, my Appointments and my notes - and was well readable in bright sunlight (simple plain monochrome LCD). Then I bought a Z31 (after the M105 was stolen). It wis not readable in Sunlight, but i overall appreciate it because you can use it as MP3-Player and the memory card gives you space to store dictionaries etc.
In End of 2006 my beloved Nokia 6310i started to fail and it was clear i was going to Japan for my Job.
So i decided to get a smartphone. I tried to find a Palm Treo to buy (i really would have liked it), but missing 3G just excluded the models from the list. Now, nearly two years later, i see still no Palm OS device with 3G. For me it's dead. I am missing a lot of the convenience of the palm's PIM functions on my Nokia E61, but i have gotten used to it. I am looking forward to the day when a Palm OS Emulator will appear for Symbian OS to run the old calendar app on a Version of a Nokia Phone with a touchscreen.
Really. When version 1.4 came out it started to be usable. Contrary to the lore it was NOT ineffcient to use AWT. At least not if you wanted t opur a GUI to your PERL/Jython/etc whatever Program. And for the eas of installation under debian open source tools matter. I only use open source tools now for development and I am much happier because of reduced installation complexity
Yes. The social selection, at least in Europe is stronger for women which means that they have a stronger selection. Only the really interested ones will take a Job in programming.
This means they will, in average, be better programmers. (you read correctly - not other, just better)
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"Obama is a muslim" could be a brand new movie from the same crew who filmed "Weapons of mass destruction in iraq".
the connection to the human commander is secure and that he is held responsible for evverything his machines do (oh it decided to shoot by itself... I just allowed it to.). I would not like that this thing runs a web-interface which can be abused by a CSS attack from a botnet:
"Buy Viagra Now". "You are incooperative". "We can extend length and diameter". "Please show Credit card"
What i want to say: Be fucking careful with these Machines....
And "uncooperative human" is an *UGLY* euphemism. It's so innocent. Like "enemies of the state". (To be defined on a day by day basis by the DHS.).
Excuse me, version 6.0 is also expected to contain bugs and chrash your hard drive.
there was a short period bridging the vt100 terminals to the sunrays from 1997 to 2000, where the University library installed personal computers for accessing their network.
No, seriously. This is non-news.
The transition to personal Computers stopped long ago. I can not remember to have seen an institution in the last five years switching to a PC-based infrastructure, but i see since approx. 2001 a rise of thin clients in larde organizations. The organizations for which this pays off will get smaller and smaller with time and in a few years we will have gotten rid of the infrastructural maintainance and support Hell the PC still presents.
fear of becoming the sexual fansaty of millions of geeks. Every woman intelligent enough to become a famous programmer will figure out that the combination of "is woman" maybe "looks geeky" and "has created a new programming language" will result in beeing stared at on geek conventions. Imagine one hundred socially incompetent geeks trying stupid pick up lines on you.....
I am dissappointed. We are on slashdot. Please say instead
"The results will be evalutaed using GNU/Hurd"
or "The operators could finish a round of DNF in the breaks" or "a microsoft linux running on phantom game consoles is used as a thin client operating system" etc...
NO Sports, please!
nothing more to say about that
maybe, after all what has been said about the compentence about the non-fired admins, it turns out that the mystery device has the ip 127.0.0.1 and is able to hide its real MAC adresss...
Well.
a) Working point for life is liquid-solid
b) To form structures, valence bonds are suitable
c) Combinatorics requires more than two valence bonds to make different molecules
d) bonds should be strong in comparison to temperature, yet not forever
All this make carbon a pretty likely candidate to be involved. Hydrogen is painly so abundant that it *will* be involved and oxygen is also not seldom. So it is not unlikely that life somewhere else may be based on a cemistry similar to ours.
I deeply recommend: "Introduction to Finite Fields and their Applications" Rudolf Lidl, Harald Niederreiter
Yes. You can encrypt your connection. Thats pretty worthless if you dont know with whom you exchanged your keys. Especially in the light of the DNS vulnerability or using wireless hotspots it is pretty idiotic to claim that talking to something which you dont know is to be considered private. This screams for man in the middle attacks. And You still have the option to accept the certificate - which will increase your safety. But one should point out to the user that this is something special. I find it highly irritating that a lot of companies don't pay the small amount of money for an ssl key. I work in a company where the admins are signing the ssl key for the mail server by themself (and change it often). Thats completely great. you could hack them without them noticing it, sincer everybody is so used to clicking away trhin innocent gray warning messages . On the other hand, firefox allows the definition of own ca's doesnt it?
if you look over the shoulder of your co-worker, it does not matter if hes watching a screen or a paper. If you break into his locked desk or hacking a password, this alone is a crime. If you open his unopened snail mail letter, in Germany this is also a crime, i think something similae may apply in US - i would appreciate if the lawa for e-mail could match this. If you use information from this act, well you could be facing all kinds of funny things, most likely civil charges (e.g. you forwarded his e-mails, which he sent privately to your boss, without beeing properly instructed to do so, snd the guy gets fired and you promoted imagine there may be something in that for him). And inside then company, there is only one way to handle it - if somebody spys on his coworkers withoput that beeing part of his job (by the rules and the laws), fire him. No second chance, There are a lot of things where you could be lenient. Surfing privatly etc.. But for reading the colleagues e-mail, the person has to go. If he was an admin, make sure he does not find another job easily.
But is assume you can use it as a modem without this software, or am i wrong?
Well - yes and no. Pne thing is - physics is usually concerned about better sensors. While car industry denfine that they want cheaper sensors, medical systems require the best sensors (to lower radiation etc..), security application demand new sensor types. Thats because you can protect a weapon against beeing seen on a 50 year old x-ray, because you can buy a device and test his technique. using new, non-generally available sensing techniques will protect against that.
Yes. How about Apple paying for people who go to Linux FAQs and rant around there?
Lack of decision making. I was a admin of the network of a small group (~10-20 Persons, 30 Computers) for approx. 6-7 Years. Whenever i asked my boss for a decision, he said: do what you think, even when i just asked him: what data should we backup in an expensive (daily, remote) way, what data should we archive in an expensive (remote, redundant, stored on tapes in the computing center) way?. Also i pointed out one year before i planned to leave that now it would be a good time to whom to transfer the knowledge to - no alarm bells rang. It ended up with me deciding everything over 5-6 years, building the sytem in a time saving (for me) way, because the only external pressure was that i should not use too much time on it. The introduction of the next admin was two afternoons. For the last 1.5 years the system was unmaintained (the new admin said he did not want break anything), and as far as i know my root accounts are still active.....
For sure Admins who dont want to share power and are egocentric socipaths are common. Some of them may be mentally deranged, have paranoia, and some may de plain assholes. Some of them may really see trouble in giving power to people whom you don't want to mess around with your config. Some of these guys do very good technical adminitration. But this is no good work. But what is bad is that his practice has been observed for years by his superiors. If I operate something whis costs millions to build, and where my operations are based upon, i should always ask myself: "If the admin get's hit by a truck, who can help me to even power the network on?". If the answer is "nobody" you are doing something wrong. In the same way, as a good admin makes preparations for him leaving, or at least designs the infrascructure with a certain orthogonality in resoponsibilities. E.g. i preferred in university that handling the backups in none of my business, Even if i do something completely wrong, even if i leave, they would be able to restore the data on a completely different system without even asking me. And when you go for no reason what, honestly giving the information for access is just professional conduct. To my experience even if you give the passwords, they dont know how to handle things.
Please mod the parent up. I am using Linux for a long time (since 1994) and i for sure try to use open source wherever i can. Not because there is any fundamental argument, but because i know installation, security updating, and removing of open source programs using [your favourites distributions packet manager] is much more painless than otherwise, especially taking into account that i dont have to buy and read the licenses. Moreover, if a bug is really impoertant to you, you can fix it. However, i also run matlab. Besides Mathworks having a seriuous chance of getting me annoyed over their license manager (more than 50% of my problems with using matlab go back to the license manager), i would like to have the freedom of choice. Obviously the next question for open-source evangelists after your desktop would be if you may connect non-free web-servers, non-free java applets and non-free flash.
who is we? Most people i work with consider nanomaterial a serious health issue.
It is really risky not to have a revokation mechanism for packages, but definig this by availability of a new package somewhere. The only solution would be to have servers, which contain a list of revoked packages. If connecting to these list fails, the update should stop.
A simple, clean model was replaced by an ridiculously expanded blown-up mess of diferernt techniques. For most dynamical web-pages to work it would be best to make a Java application (without html). I am sick an tired of web-pages who have no notation that a user might have enable js, but disabled cookies (to name two thing which are often used together, but not really defined withint one model).
a) average brightness of monitor should be similar to rest of the room.
b) Contrast in brighness should be not to large between fg and bg (i.e. NOT black on bright white like in Word for Windows). Use a suitable hue/saturation difference. I like gray on dark blue for standard text, but this is my personal preference. (This was the default in Word for DOS and Borland pascal.)
c) Font size matters. Larger text on a larger monitor influences strongly how quickly your eyes will get tired. I prefer 14-18 (depending on the size of the monitor)pt Courier.
d) Wear Glasses?
e) Toolbars off. Sidebars minimized. You do not need to waste monitor area. The more often i scroll, the more tiring i find it for my eyes.
I had a palm M105, which i loved very much (especially for it's capability to accept AAA Standard batteries and rechargables, which are available even in the middle of nowhere). It did what it should-it kept my Adresses, my Appointments and my notes - and was well readable in bright sunlight (simple plain monochrome LCD). Then I bought a Z31 (after the M105 was stolen). It wis not readable in Sunlight, but i overall appreciate it because you can use it as MP3-Player and the memory card gives you space to store dictionaries etc. In End of 2006 my beloved Nokia 6310i started to fail and it was clear i was going to Japan for my Job. So i decided to get a smartphone. I tried to find a Palm Treo to buy (i really would have liked it), but missing 3G just excluded the models from the list. Now, nearly two years later, i see still no Palm OS device with 3G. For me it's dead. I am missing a lot of the convenience of the palm's PIM functions on my Nokia E61, but i have gotten used to it. I am looking forward to the day when a Palm OS Emulator will appear for Symbian OS to run the old calendar app on a Version of a Nokia Phone with a touchscreen.
Really. When version 1.4 came out it started to be usable. Contrary to the lore it was NOT ineffcient to use AWT. At least not if you wanted t opur a GUI to your PERL/Jython/etc whatever Program. And for the eas of installation under debian open source tools matter. I only use open source tools now for development and I am much happier because of reduced installation complexity
Yes. The social selection, at least in Europe is stronger for women which means that they have a stronger selection. Only the really interested ones will take a Job in programming. This means they will, in average, be better programmers. (you read correctly - not other, just better)