There are a lot of pre-concieved notions about this book, but it's really useful.
From a geek perspective, Dale Carnegie approaches the task of management as a formal problem. That is, there are a certain number of tasks that you need to accomplish, like getting people to like you and trust you, and not hurting anyone's feelings, and there are accepted methods of doing this in society.
It's not that he's telling you to be a robot, more that he's telling you not to approach a business setting like you would if you were with a bunch of friends. Realize the dynamics of the situation and approach it rationally.
In the end this is quite liberating. You now know how it works, go out and do it! Well, it's not so easy, really, but still great as a technique for the socially awkward.
Well, I'm not trying to sell you anything here. The simplest way to answer that question is for you to look at webjay and judge for yourself, but I think there is a slight misunderstanding. The idea is that you find something you like on webjay, and there is a playlist of stuff that goes with it. If you like one song in a playlist, you might like another, because somebody who made the playlist thinks that they go together. This is not a social networking site. You can look at your friends' playlists, but there's no reason to if you don't like the music.
The cool thing also is that the music is right there. There are sites like audioscrobbler where you can see what people like who like what you like, but you can't actually HEAR it.
Yeah, man, the basic principles of decentralization are still quite sound. I mean, how'd you get here? typing "66.35.250.150"?
The thing is, Webjay (Gonze's current project, for those who skipped the article) isn't a decentralized service. It's a centralized index of audio from all over the net. It provides tools to aggregate disparate and far-flung audio into a single playlist, and lets users judge. It's pretty cool, actually, because it solves (or tries to solve) a big problem with online free music, which is that nobody wants to weed through the crap to find the good stuff.
As a die-hard leftist, I think the left should tone down on the gun control issue. Not that I think everyone should have guns, but there are a lot of reasons people shoot each other, and not all of those are eliminated if you eliminate guns. As leftists' unelected spokesmodel Michael Moore points out in Bowling for Columbine, the Canadians have more guns, and they don't blast each other as much.
Another reason to chill with the gun rhetoric, as the parent points out, is the Bill of Rights. It says pretty clearly you can have guns.
The U.S. Dep't of state reports about 200 terrorist incidents per year, killing fewer people worldwide than, say, tractor accidents. Yet, this has become a big issue, where people want to know which candidate will be better at fighting terrorism! You'd be better off asking why we don't have free healthcare, which could be paid for by cutting the fucking defense budget, but generally people love authority figures and take whatever they say as gospel. Most people reading this probably do not have healthcare, and are much more at risk of death from those circumstances than from any terrorist. Fuck railguns!
Well, I think that OS X is inherently safer than Windows for various reasons including the Unix core and not being made by Microsoft.
Not sure what that means, but there are some real, non-MS-bashing reasons why OS X is more secure. For one thing, it doesn't come with a bunch of services listening by default.
But, it's the lowest hanging fruit that get eaten first.
Well, then look at an example where the software you're comparing is more evenly distributed. Small mail server, HTTP server -- which is more likely to get wormed, the unix-based one or the Windows-based one?
Well, for that matter, you could use a terminal system where sevral users share the same central server. Most corporate desktop PCs will support several users at once, since all they're doing is looking at the screen most of the time. I think there's even a way to do this in MS Windows (because that's what they're using on desktops, for the most part), but I really have no idea if licensing would make it cost-prohibitive. For linux machines, there's the LTSP, which is quite impressive.
Yeah, and what's wierd is that vendors sell these OSes as the default install. No custom kernels, full of random RedHat doodads that aren't even being used... I mean, what's the point of a customizable OS if it's not customized?
ok, not having got much info from the article, there seems to be a probelm with this design. i'm making one possibly false assumtion, that there is a standard design for teh key and it is the light routing that changes. if so, it seems that it would be possible to make a device that is shaped like a key, but with a small computer attached that changes the routes, and that could try millions of combinations a second. i guess you could foil this attack by requiring the light to flow through for a predetermined amount of time, like even a second. still, with enough time you could pick it.
Because when you have 1/3 of the taxpayer's dollars to do whatever you fuckin want, and you got to spend it, you start to lose that kind of perspective. How's about this: a ROBOT FUCKING NEGOTIATOR??! Oh, sorry, i forgot that the plan is to ALWAYS be at WAR! How's about a robot that delivers some sense to General Thompson (the third) when he suggests a ROBOT DOG??!!
"Satisfied with your opus? Export to iTunes for instant access from your iTunes music library. In fact, iTunes 4.2 automatically creates a playlist in your name. See, you're famous already."
Why do these copy writers always have to come off with this wannabe famous crap? Can't I just play some music every once in a while?
What you describe is called a "salt". It's standard for storing hashed passwords and preventing against dictionary attacks, or comparing a user's passwords on two different systems. Maybe you know that already.
That's a very wierd article. First, the "Master Password" was a word from the dictionary??? Second, why would someone download tons of credit card data, and spend all that time doing it, and leave such an obvious trail, and not seek to profit from it? The article suggests that the prosecuting attorney believed that he did nothing further illegal with the info.
These types af articles always seem to be a little strange. Would the "300 passwords" that he stole be a single password file, that maybe he brute forced the "Packers" password out of?
And what's up with the bit about threatening the President? It's illegal to collect guns and bombs for use in harming the president. It's not illegal to say that you want to harm the president.
More typical wierdness:
Baas, 25, of Milford, admitted his hacking and theft of their customer information cost Acxiom -- of Little Rock, Ark., -- about $6 million. The tab included $2.4 million in Acxiom employee time and $1.3 million for security audits and encryptions upgrades for the company's computer system.
He admitted what? How much employee time? At $40/hour, that's 480,000 hours. That's 240 full-time employees at $40/hr for a year. That's not including the audits and "encryptions upgrades".
But there is some good stuff out there; for example Slashdot's search engine seems to run smooth, clean, and fast, but some poking around failed to reveal what it is: I wouldn't be surprised if it's just the Mysql search facility.
"It's a perfect example of the power of the GPL. They can do whatever they want. We sell RHEL with a stack of support and services, so it's not competition in the usual sense."
(Nice username, btw.)
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Sheesh! Touchy, aren't you. Maybe you should just think about it a little more.
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This might just be silly, but what if they bought the Classic or Finder OS from Apple. Great OS for simple applications, tons of code runs on it, IMO very stable and usable in its last incarnation 9.2, and it would be nice if somebody did something with the code.
Of course, this runs on different hardware (really just a different motherboard and cpu) that might not be so cheap. Then again, it runs really well on slower chips.
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From a geek perspective, Dale Carnegie approaches the task of management as a formal problem. That is, there are a certain number of tasks that you need to accomplish, like getting people to like you and trust you, and not hurting anyone's feelings, and there are accepted methods of doing this in society.
It's not that he's telling you to be a robot, more that he's telling you not to approach a business setting like you would if you were with a bunch of friends. Realize the dynamics of the situation and approach it rationally.
In the end this is quite liberating. You now know how it works, go out and do it! Well, it's not so easy, really, but still great as a technique for the socially awkward.
The cool thing also is that the music is right there. There are sites like audioscrobbler where you can see what people like who like what you like, but you can't actually HEAR it.
Yeah, man, the basic principles of decentralization are still quite sound. I mean, how'd you get here? typing "66.35.250.150"?
The thing is, Webjay (Gonze's current project, for those who skipped the article) isn't a decentralized service. It's a centralized index of audio from all over the net. It provides tools to aggregate disparate and far-flung audio into a single playlist, and lets users judge. It's pretty cool, actually, because it solves (or tries to solve) a big problem with online free music, which is that nobody wants to weed through the crap to find the good stuff.
That is the truest post in this whole thread.
Another reason to chill with the gun rhetoric, as the parent points out, is the Bill of Rights. It says pretty clearly you can have guns.
Because it parses HTML as well as RSS and Atom, kinja is quite good as an online rss/blog accumulator.
Thank you, that is all.
Well, for that matter, you could use a terminal system where sevral users share the same central server. Most corporate desktop PCs will support several users at once, since all they're doing is looking at the screen most of the time. I think there's even a way to do this in MS Windows (because that's what they're using on desktops, for the most part), but I really have no idea if licensing would make it cost-prohibitive. For linux machines, there's the LTSP, which is quite impressive.
Yeah, and what's wierd is that vendors sell these OSes as the default install. No custom kernels, full of random RedHat doodads that aren't even being used... I mean, what's the point of a customizable OS if it's not customized?
thank you.
ok, not having got much info from the article, there seems to be a probelm with this design. i'm making one possibly false assumtion, that there is a standard design for teh key and it is the light routing that changes. if so, it seems that it would be possible to make a device that is shaped like a key, but with a small computer attached that changes the routes, and that could try millions of combinations a second. i guess you could foil this attack by requiring the light to flow through for a predetermined amount of time, like even a second. still, with enough time you could pick it.
You jerk, that sentence from the article was meant to illustrate the sillyness of postmodern jargon. It's the only sentence that doesn't make sense.
I don't think you know what droll means. Nice post, otherwise.
Because when you have 1/3 of the taxpayer's dollars to do whatever you fuckin want, and you got to spend it, you start to lose that kind of perspective. How's about this: a ROBOT FUCKING NEGOTIATOR??! Oh, sorry, i forgot that the plan is to ALWAYS be at WAR! How's about a robot that delivers some sense to General Thompson (the third) when he suggests a ROBOT DOG??!!
Why do these copy writers always have to come off with this wannabe famous crap? Can't I just play some music every once in a while?
For example:
"How do I foo?"
"Ask the foo mailing list, or hire a foo consultant, you moron!"
Here's a pretty good recent thread on the subject from SecurityFocus' secprog list.
These types af articles always seem to be a little strange. Would the "300 passwords" that he stole be a single password file, that maybe he brute forced the "Packers" password out of?
And what's up with the bit about threatening the President? It's illegal to collect guns and bombs for use in harming the president. It's not illegal to say that you want to harm the president.
More typical wierdness:
He admitted what? How much employee time? At $40/hour, that's 480,000 hours. That's 240 full-time employees at $40/hr for a year. That's not including the audits and "encryptions upgrades".Too much nonsense in there.
"It's a perfect example of the power of the GPL. They can do whatever they want. We sell RHEL with a stack of support and services, so it's not competition in the usual sense."
(Nice username, btw.)
Sheesh! Touchy, aren't you. Maybe you should just think about it a little more.
Of course, this runs on different hardware (really just a different motherboard and cpu) that might not be so cheap. Then again, it runs really well on slower chips.