I can't imagine building an app like this that is almost guaranteed to change over time and then tying it to a particular mobile phone platform, which is also guaranteed to change over time.
If you do all your automation interface as a web application, then you can customize the UI using your favorite methodology for whatever browser is connected. A simple text based interface for older phones, all the way through to a rich interface for iphone-style phones that have full featured browsers.
It looks like from TFA that the code did very little of the work, and the vast majority of effort was done by hand. So this guy wasn't really "caught by code", was he?
Don't confuse hybrid cars (combining traditional gasoline with battery power) and pure-battery or pure-hydrogen cars.
Hybrids generally don't need to be plugged in, since they have regenerative features that recharge the battery while running.
For pure-electrical cars, which plug into the grid for juice, you are moving the pollution up the line to the power plant, as you say.
But pollution from electrical production tends to be less at the power plant end. You can pack a lot more pollution-reducing devices and processes into a large powerplant than you can with a car trying to produce it's own energy directly from, say, gas.
Do your numbers include the amount of borrowing we do to fund Department of Defense projects (or war time costs)? I think if you include borrowing and debt spending, DoD moves up to the top pretty quickly.
'cept Analise isn't a common cultural derivation or name, like Estes or Mercedes. Unless, of course, they meant Analise with an accent, in which I still saying naming your kid "Analysis" is stupid.
Is that kid's name pronounced Analyze or Anal Ice?
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Actually, most places that started charging for WiFi access eventually realize that the cost of supporting the paying customer is a lot more than just providing the pipe for free. When it's free, they don't have to have someone to fix it when it breaks or someone doesn't know how to connect.
So they end up with very minimal overhead, but still retain the increased business of having code monkeys like me spend hours at the place buying drinks and swearing under our breaths.
Good god. I "work from home", so I often go to the local cafe with free WiFi for a change of pace. All my work stuff is done through encrypted VPN, and I use a software firewall and SSL for everything else.
So I'm running EffeTech's HTTP Sniffer to debug my app server, and by default it dumps ALL HTTP traffic on the LAN. So I saw all full HTTP request and responses from all the laptops in the cafe. Mostly dull web surfing, but a lot of people check email using plaintext connections, which blew my mind.
Yeah, seriously. My company has several telecommuters who woke up that day to find that their normal, relative DNS lookups to internal servers (like our CVS server) were being redirected to sitefinder. But of course, the applications didn't know that, and so they reported that the server wasn't responding on the specified port.
Anyone else notice that some of his books, while quite chock full of information, are fairly dense material? I'm think of Essential XML.. he's a clear and understandable speaker, but I'm not sure I've seen that translate into his written stuff..
It seems like it must go beyond "gatekeeping" with authentication and authorization, though. The recent issue at AOL shows (besides the obvious fundamental AOL problems) that you can use somewhat solid authentication procedures like SecureID-type systems but still have a gaping hole AFTER the user is authenticated on the system.
For every advancement in computer security, there seems to be a social backdoor involving the humans that use the system. Is there any research being done on figuring how to effectively solve the social engineering problem at the software/hardware level somehow?
Am I the only person who gets maybe 2 spams a week? I never give out my "real" email address to companies or online services. I have a free webmail account for that. I only give my actual email address out to friends/family.
Granted, the webmail account gets several spams a day, but the only time I check it is when I know I'm going to get an order confirmation from a company or something.
Generally, I've found a good amount of weblogs just to be a way to report what's going on in people's lives to a wider audience. Some are full of angst, but most are very straightforward, like The Fudge Report.
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Yeah, god forbid people learned all about my bowel movements or something, that would be an invasion of my privacy!
Wouldn't this kids be better off with a degree in EE, concentrating in wireless? That's like getting a degree in web services instead of Computer Science.
So, have they scanned in every paper resource that wasn't already online? Seems like a big, copyright infringing job. The article doesn't talk about that, so it seems like a good amount of research will be hard to do.
My company uses three letter acronyms to designate groups of modules. Each module in a group is then named in the form "XXXYYYY.cxx", where XXX is the group acronym, and YYYY is a four letter word, which theoretically describes the purpose of the module The archive search system is one of my favorites. Especially the archive dump module, or ASSDUMP.
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I can't imagine building an app like this that is almost guaranteed to change over time and then tying it to a particular mobile phone platform, which is also guaranteed to change over time.
If you do all your automation interface as a web application, then you can customize the UI using your favorite methodology for whatever browser is connected. A simple text based interface for older phones, all the way through to a rich interface for iphone-style phones that have full featured browsers.
It looks like from TFA that the code did very little of the work, and the vast majority of effort was done by hand. So this guy wasn't really "caught by code", was he?
Why do you think it's a different OS than what was originally on the laptop? Could just be a new installation of the same thing.
Don't confuse hybrid cars (combining traditional gasoline with battery power) and pure-battery or pure-hydrogen cars. Hybrids generally don't need to be plugged in, since they have regenerative features that recharge the battery while running. For pure-electrical cars, which plug into the grid for juice, you are moving the pollution up the line to the power plant, as you say. But pollution from electrical production tends to be less at the power plant end. You can pack a lot more pollution-reducing devices and processes into a large powerplant than you can with a car trying to produce it's own energy directly from, say, gas.
Do your numbers include the amount of borrowing we do to fund Department of Defense projects (or war time costs)? I think if you include borrowing and debt spending, DoD moves up to the top pretty quickly.
'cept Analise isn't a common cultural derivation or name, like Estes or Mercedes. Unless, of course, they meant Analise with an accent, in which I still saying naming your kid "Analysis" is stupid.
Is that kid's name pronounced Analyze or Anal Ice?
Actually, most places that started charging for WiFi access eventually realize that the cost of supporting the paying customer is a lot more than just providing the pipe for free. When it's free, they don't have to have someone to fix it when it breaks or someone doesn't know how to connect. So they end up with very minimal overhead, but still retain the increased business of having code monkeys like me spend hours at the place buying drinks and swearing under our breaths.
Good god. I "work from home", so I often go to the local cafe with free WiFi for a change of pace. All my work stuff is done through encrypted VPN, and I use a software firewall and SSL for everything else. So I'm running EffeTech's HTTP Sniffer to debug my app server, and by default it dumps ALL HTTP traffic on the LAN. So I saw all full HTTP request and responses from all the laptops in the cafe. Mostly dull web surfing, but a lot of people check email using plaintext connections, which blew my mind.
Before the flame war breaks out, read: http://slashdot.org/articles/02/06/26/1935246.shtm l?tid=103
And then decide if you have something new to say.
Yeah, seriously. My company has several telecommuters who woke up that day to find that their normal, relative DNS lookups to internal servers (like our CVS server) were being redirected to sitefinder. But of course, the applications didn't know that, and so they reported that the server wasn't responding on the specified port.
Anyone else notice that some of his books, while quite chock full of information, are fairly dense material? I'm think of Essential XML.. he's a clear and understandable speaker, but I'm not sure I've seen that translate into his written stuff..
It seems like it must go beyond "gatekeeping" with authentication and authorization, though. The recent issue at AOL shows (besides the obvious fundamental AOL problems) that you can use somewhat solid authentication procedures like SecureID-type systems but still have a gaping hole AFTER the user is authenticated on the system.
For every advancement in computer security, there seems to be a social backdoor involving the humans that use the system. Is there any research being done on figuring how to effectively solve the social engineering problem at the software/hardware level somehow?
Am I the only person who gets maybe 2 spams a week? I never give out my "real" email address to companies or online services. I have a free webmail account for that. I only give my actual email address out to friends/family. Granted, the webmail account gets several spams a day, but the only time I check it is when I know I'm going to get an order confirmation from a company or something.
Silly. He would call himself wbulger@!
Generally, I've found a good amount of weblogs just to be a way to report what's going on in people's lives to a wider audience. Some are full of angst, but most are very straightforward, like The Fudge Report.
Yeah, god forbid people learned all about my bowel movements or something, that would be an invasion of my privacy!
That's pretty good, especially since you apparently don't use periods.
Wouldn't this kids be better off with a degree in EE, concentrating in wireless? That's like getting a degree in web services instead of Computer Science.
So, have they scanned in every paper resource that wasn't already online? Seems like a big, copyright infringing job. The article doesn't talk about that, so it seems like a good amount of research will be hard to do.
My company uses three letter acronyms to designate groups of modules. Each module in a group is then named in the form "XXXYYYY.cxx", where XXX is the group acronym, and YYYY is a four letter word, which theoretically describes the purpose of the module The archive search system is one of my favorites. Especially the archive dump module, or ASSDUMP.