That's a pretty broad statement, what do you propose people move too instead?
If this Microsoft lawsuit is because TomTom included code in their software that allows them to read CF cards formatted with the FAT filesystem, why hasn't MS gone after Redhat/Suse/etc?
I can't remember a linux box I've sat down at that can't read FAT...
Considering the thousands of highly skilled programmers who are now out of a job and who also probably worked on financial systems and who also have a very detailed understanding of the Win32 subsystems, I'm not surprised.
So basically somebody needs to take out that whole "stealing your data" part from this worm and re-release it back into the wild and it would be a good thing?
Basically I see these people cutting their nose off to spite their face.
Firstly, if the person is watching the show on a Boxee or Hulu, you can partly figure they're not watching it on some traditional medium such as cable TV.
So following that logic, basically they're forgoing 5-10% additional revenue they'd get because now the person is going to go to mininova and download the same show sans their ads instead of watching it on hulu or a boxee.
Though it should be noted this industry has had a long and protracted history of doing things that make utterly no sense because instead of embracing technology and getting ahead of the curve they're being dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
What's odder is that, while flawed in a several ways Hulu was actually a step in the right direction...
There's an easy solution to this situation... port Android over to the iPhone and be done with it. I can't imagine the hardware inside the thing is that exotic or that proprietary that there couldn't be a port for the iPhone in some reasonable amount of time if the right talented people (read: Android developers) were to go at it.
Personally, I've chosen not to buy an iPhone because I'm not cool with the crazy Apple lock in shit.
I have two checking accounts, what I call "primary and scratch". Primary is where my paycheck goes into and bills come out of. Scratch is the account that my ATM card in my wallet is connected to. This account has at maximum 250 bucks in it. If it has more, generally it's because I'm on some special mission to buy something (like a Wii)
So, even if some nitwit were to either rob me or my card were to be swiped surreptitiously they're not going to get far.
I think it should be law that any system that's used by law enforcement should have its internals made available.
It's only fair if a piece of DNA can put me in jail I should be allowed to read the algorithm that was used to infer that my DNA matched the strand that was put into the machine.
Having read the original story, there's a couple of things I noticed.
1. She accidentally ordered a laptop with Ubuntu on it. Okay, when she calls Dell, they should have been much more helpful. Yes, we geeks of the world clearly understand the superiority of Linux to windows. However, the customer is always right... If she wants windows, Dell should have been much more accommodating and put windows on the laptop.
2. Hopefully the first class this woman is going to take is a "Introduction to using the personal computer".
The first thing that comes to mind is micro meteors. Even if you had an inflated habitat you'd want it partly buried and then surrounded by these bricks.
The other problem heat and cold. When it's hot it's hot, when it's cold, damn it's cold.
What they now need to do is build a robot that would land on the moon and crank these bricks out in large quantity. Then you could just tunnel into the moon and use these to line the walls.
I think that has to do more with cheap construction than anything else and the fact their living in Florida where if it gets below freezing it makes the news.
Here in the Northeast (Massachusetts) because of high cost of living, most people's houses are very well insulated. I'd be very surprised if you could buy single pane windows in Massachusetts at this point.
Step A. Someone purposely handles explosives or better saturates their shins/shoes with a chemical that would set off the bomb detector. Step B. Go to an airport and purposely brush by/touch people luggage. Step C. Watch as airport grinds to a halt with massive numbers of false positives.
Even better spill some of this chemical in a doorway carpet so that lots of people would walk in every direction with it on their shoes.
How would an airport rationally handle something like this?
1. They could simply close the airport and wash every surface (I guess this would considered an physical DDOS) 2. Turn off the devices and go back to manually searching every article. (Slow but people would still get through) 3. Leave the devices on and just process all the people who come up positive. (Slow but people would still get through)
I'm not sure that an airport would have a really good way to combat this. I guess one way would be to put sniffer type devices discretely through the airport that you could use to map out the location of certain chemicals. Then set up the airport with doors that could be closed remotely so that when something like C4 is detected in some area you could seal the area, etc.
I think this is akin to what happens to some people when they gamble. They start with a hundred and lose it, but since there's just the off chance that they could win thousands they figure, "Well, if I spend $200 and get $20,000 it'll be worth it!"
People also get unduly emotionally attached to a situation/thing and it clouds their judgment.
This same psychological problem can be seen in the business world where a company will continue to develop a product even when a competitor has the same product already on the shelf.
I guess I'm flabbergasted by the idea that even in this day and age there are still people falling for this kind of fraud.
I have a problem with the first statement you made... "I'm not necessarily convinced that free and open access to information is necessary... or even useful"
So what you're saying is that things like libraries aren't useful? Please explain that statement in clearer terms...
What you could do is setup a system that would do the following...
1. Create a CD and then using your favorite hashing algorithm generate either a whole disk hash or a per sector hash and store this information in a database.
2. Take a disk out of storage, analyze the disk and if all the hashes match up, use this disk to make a copy. Then rerun step 1 on the second disk to verify that all it's hashes match up and if they do, store both.
3. Setup up a routine where once a month you pull a volume out of your archive and verify it's hashes. If that volume fails, go to the second disk, hope like hell it's hashes are good and if they are, duplicate off the second disk.
I guess I'm one of those people who do things for the sake of growing my brain. Yeah, the practical route would be to go to a gear shop and have a qualified person do it for me.
Though as a tinkerer, I've had more fun making mistakes and experimenting then I'd care to admit. Yeah, it might take me 10X as long to mill what I want, and yeah in the process I might waste a couple bucks worth of stock, but I'll walk away with a much better understanding of the underlying principles. That alone makes all the time spent worth it.
If you really want to go hardcore, what you should do is go to your local university that has a CNC milling machine, take an industrial/cad class, buy some stock and mill yourself some gears!
Yeah, it won't be off the shelf stuff... however it will be exactly what you need!
We have language inserted that says if the software isn't working the way we want, we can get a refund. Most reputable software companies are cool with that.
Geneally we've found that if a company won't back a product they've produced, then doing business with them doesn't make much sense.
Apples own need to control every aspect of the iPhone is going to be their undoing. Just by the mere fact that Android is open means its going to find its way onto a larger swath of devices.
I'm not saying the iPhone is a bad product, I just think it's going to get out competed in the market place.
What's worse is that Apple through stupid shit like restricting applications and NDA'd reject letters are going to drive people into the arms of Android.
I can't wait until people port Android onto an iPhone.
So, how long before someone puts an electromagnet on the bottom of their car connected to a circuit that generates a random power output? Better yet, they hide the whole thing inside their muffler or gas tank so the whole thing would be hidden.
If this system is matching on some magnetic profile, you could end up making your magnetic signature look just like some other cars signature.
Just imagine if the system thinks car X goes by sensor A at 9:00 and then sensor B at 9:01 and those sensors are 10 miles apart. Suddenly car X owner gets a speeding ticket in the mail.
Or what if someone driving along has a device under their car that consists of a grinding wheel that is feed by a magazine of rare earth magnets. I would imagine coating the ground with very magnetic powder would probably screw the system up, not to mention what it would do to the cars behind it as a fine dusting of magnetic powder goes into their engine.
I understand where the poster is coming from (since I've been there) and I also see it from the side of the employer (where I am right now).
The biggest problem I run into when hiring an "IT Professional" is that a good 60% of them either outright lie or hilariously exaggerate about their experience/training.
I'd much rather hire a person whose honest about what skills he/she does/doesn't have but demonstrates solid problem solving skills.
If you've never administrated a SAN, don't tell me that you have and not expect me to ask a few probing questions....
Referring to yourself as an ESX guru but then not knowing what vmotion is won't win you any friends (or a return interview).
As a general rule, before my boss is going to let anybody loose in the server room, expect to spend a couple of hours in a conference room in front of a white board.
Expect to be asked about your experience and expect to demonstrate problem solving skills related to those skills.
Expect to be given some theoretical problems and be asked to solve them. Also, an answer of "I'd have to check google" is actually okay.
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That's a pretty broad statement, what do you propose people move too instead?
If this Microsoft lawsuit is because TomTom included code in their software that allows them to read CF cards formatted with the FAT filesystem, why hasn't MS gone after Redhat/Suse/etc?
I can't remember a linux box I've sat down at that can't read FAT...
Considering the thousands of highly skilled programmers who are now out of a job and who also probably worked on financial systems and who also have a very detailed understanding of the Win32 subsystems, I'm not surprised.
So basically somebody needs to take out that whole "stealing your data" part from this worm and re-release it back into the wild and it would be a good thing?
Basically I see these people cutting their nose off to spite their face.
Firstly, if the person is watching the show on a Boxee or Hulu, you can partly figure they're not watching it on some traditional medium such as cable TV.
So following that logic, basically they're forgoing 5-10% additional revenue they'd get because now the person is going to go to mininova and download the same show sans their ads instead of watching it on hulu or a boxee.
Though it should be noted this industry has had a long and protracted history of doing things that make utterly no sense because instead of embracing technology and getting ahead of the curve they're being dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
What's odder is that, while flawed in a several ways Hulu was actually a step in the right direction...
There's an easy solution to this situation... port Android over to the iPhone and be done with it. I can't imagine the hardware inside the thing is that exotic or that proprietary that there couldn't be a port for the iPhone in some reasonable amount of time if the right talented people (read: Android developers) were to go at it.
Personally, I've chosen not to buy an iPhone because I'm not cool with the crazy Apple lock in shit.
I have two checking accounts, what I call "primary and scratch".
Primary is where my paycheck goes into and bills come out of.
Scratch is the account that my ATM card in my wallet is connected to. This account has at maximum 250 bucks in it. If it has more, generally it's because I'm on some special mission to buy something (like a Wii)
So, even if some nitwit were to either rob me or my card were to be swiped surreptitiously they're not going to get far.
I think it should be law that any system that's used by law enforcement should have its internals made available.
It's only fair if a piece of DNA can put me in jail I should be allowed to read the algorithm that was used to infer that my DNA matched the strand that was put into the machine.
Having read the original story, there's a couple of things I noticed.
1. She accidentally ordered a laptop with Ubuntu on it. Okay, when she calls Dell, they should have been much more helpful. Yes, we geeks of the world clearly understand the superiority of Linux to windows. However, the customer is always right... If she wants windows, Dell should have been much more accommodating and put windows on the laptop.
2. Hopefully the first class this woman is going to take is a "Introduction to using the personal computer".
The first thing that comes to mind is micro meteors. Even if you had an inflated habitat you'd want it partly buried and then surrounded by these bricks.
The other problem heat and cold. When it's hot it's hot, when it's cold, damn it's cold.
What they now need to do is build a robot that would land on the moon and crank these bricks out in large quantity. Then you could just tunnel into the moon and use these to line the walls.
I think that has to do more with cheap construction than anything else and the fact their living in Florida where if it gets below freezing it makes the news.
Here in the Northeast (Massachusetts) because of high cost of living, most people's houses are very well insulated. I'd be very surprised if you could buy single pane windows in Massachusetts at this point.
I was wondering the same thing...
Step A. Someone purposely handles explosives or better saturates their shins/shoes with a chemical that would set off the bomb detector.
Step B. Go to an airport and purposely brush by/touch people luggage.
Step C. Watch as airport grinds to a halt with massive numbers of false positives.
Even better spill some of this chemical in a doorway carpet so that lots of people would walk in every direction with it on their shoes.
How would an airport rationally handle something like this?
1. They could simply close the airport and wash every surface (I guess this would considered an physical DDOS)
2. Turn off the devices and go back to manually searching every article. (Slow but people would still get through)
3. Leave the devices on and just process all the people who come up positive. (Slow but people would still get through)
I'm not sure that an airport would have a really good way to combat this. I guess one way would be to put sniffer type devices discretely through the airport that you could use to map out the location of certain chemicals. Then set up the airport with doors that could be closed remotely so that when something like C4 is detected in some area you could seal the area, etc.
I think this is akin to what happens to some people when they gamble. They start with a hundred and lose it, but since there's just the off chance that they could win thousands they figure, "Well, if I spend $200 and get $20,000 it'll be worth it!"
People also get unduly emotionally attached to a situation/thing and it clouds their judgment.
This same psychological problem can be seen in the business world where a company will continue to develop a product even when a competitor has the same product already on the shelf.
I guess I'm flabbergasted by the idea that even in this day and age there are still people falling for this kind of fraud.
As far as third party email apps for the blackberry go, I've been using the Gmail app to (obviously read my gmail) and it works great.
The only quirk is the buttons are mapped out differently (d for delete instead of del key... etc)
My co-worker has a G1 and that thing is super slick, though the new blackberry looks pretty slick as well, I just wish it was more open...
I have a problem with the first statement you made... "I'm not necessarily convinced that free and open access to information is necessary... or even useful"
So what you're saying is that things like libraries aren't useful? Please explain that statement in clearer terms...
The fact it's an LED makes me feel better... most projectors I've ever worked with have been rather fragile in the bulb area...
What you could do is setup a system that would do the following...
1. Create a CD and then using your favorite hashing algorithm generate either a whole disk hash or a per sector hash and store this information in a database.
2. Take a disk out of storage, analyze the disk and if all the hashes match up, use this disk to make a copy. Then rerun step 1 on the second disk to verify that all it's hashes match up and if they do, store both.
3. Setup up a routine where once a month you pull a volume out of your archive and verify it's hashes. If that volume fails, go to the second disk, hope like hell it's hashes are good and if they are, duplicate off the second disk.
Thanks for the info!
I guess I'm one of those people who do things for the sake of growing my brain. Yeah, the practical route would be to go to a gear shop and have a qualified person do it for me.
Though as a tinkerer, I've had more fun making mistakes and experimenting then I'd care to admit. Yeah, it might take me 10X as long to mill what I want, and yeah in the process I might waste a couple bucks worth of stock, but I'll walk away with a much better understanding of the underlying principles. That alone makes all the time spent worth it.
If you really want to go hardcore, what you should do is go to your local university that has a CNC milling machine, take an industrial/cad class, buy some stock and mill yourself some gears!
Yeah, it won't be off the shelf stuff... however it will be exactly what you need!
We have language inserted that says if the software isn't working the way we want, we can get a refund. Most reputable software companies are cool with that.
Geneally we've found that if a company won't back a product they've produced, then doing business with them doesn't make much sense.
Both... Richard Dean Anderson has made several McGyver references in SG-1.
Now to your question: No not really. A F-302 doesn't have any type of airlock. A Tel'tak or an Al'kesh is probably what you'd need.
Apples own need to control every aspect of the iPhone is going to be their undoing. Just by the mere fact that Android is open means its going to find its way onto a larger swath of devices.
I'm not saying the iPhone is a bad product, I just think it's going to get out competed in the market place.
What's worse is that Apple through stupid shit like restricting applications and NDA'd reject letters are going to drive people into the arms of Android.
I can't wait until people port Android onto an iPhone.
Brings a new meaning to "Checkmate, Bitch!"
You think this system would have sanity checks???
I wish I could live in your naive world...
So, how long before someone puts an electromagnet on the bottom of their car connected to a circuit that generates a random power output? Better yet, they hide the whole thing inside their muffler or gas tank so the whole thing would be hidden.
If this system is matching on some magnetic profile, you could end up making your magnetic signature look just like some other cars signature.
Just imagine if the system thinks car X goes by sensor A at 9:00 and then sensor B at 9:01 and those sensors are 10 miles apart. Suddenly car X owner gets a speeding ticket in the mail.
Or what if someone driving along has a device under their car that consists of a grinding wheel that is feed by a magazine of rare earth magnets. I would imagine coating the ground with very magnetic powder would probably screw the system up, not to mention what it would do to the cars behind it as a fine dusting of magnetic powder goes into their engine.
I understand where the poster is coming from (since I've been there) and I also see it from the side of the employer (where I am right now).
The biggest problem I run into when hiring an "IT Professional" is that a good 60% of them either outright lie or hilariously exaggerate about their experience/training.
I'd much rather hire a person whose honest about what skills he/she does/doesn't have but demonstrates solid problem solving skills.
If you've never administrated a SAN, don't tell me that you have and not expect me to ask a few probing questions....
Referring to yourself as an ESX guru but then not knowing what vmotion is won't win you any friends (or a return interview).
As a general rule, before my boss is going to let anybody loose in the server room, expect to spend a couple of hours in a conference room in front of a white board.
Expect to be asked about your experience and expect to demonstrate problem solving skills related to those skills.
Expect to be given some theoretical problems and be asked to solve them. Also, an answer of "I'd have to check google" is actually okay.