While ISP's have the ability to persist all network traffic not just email, it would be at great cost with no incentive. Oddly enough, ISP's do not actively try and screw their customers. Everyone must comply with the law, the goverment is saying if you have it hand it over, but there is no law compelling people to log everything.
Organizations are liable for illegal activities that happen on their infrastructure. Owners of a coffee shop where customers are selling drugs are not clear of liablity, especially in the cases where they turn a blind eye to the activities and indirectly benefit from it.
Good thing I am not as young as this kid. I have played plenty of net send pranks.
I remember my first CS lab where the TA had his computer hooked up to the projector. I kept sending him messages that the network was going down in five minutes. He sarcastically responded, "Uh oh, guess I better do as the computer says".
If I was 10 years younger it'd be me getting suspended in Junior High. I guess that is a big difference about college. No hand holding. Nobody cares if you are not learning crap, so you are best learning and experimenting as much as possible on your own.
Later on when I was a lab assistant. I put my junior programming skills to the test and built a GUI in front of netsend to make it more like a AIM. Pretty soon most of the lab assistants were using it to message each other and broadcast messages informational messages to the users, like the lab was closing. From what Beverly Sweeny was saying, that is exactly what she does not want the kids to do. The kids should not experiment, only do what she says. That way she can proliferate the next generation of retarded users.
It may be "source available", but that doesn't make it "open source". Some terms from the licensing agreement
Dude, that by definition J2SE is open source. Nobody claimed it was GPL'd. Look at the words, "open", then "source". No license implied in those two words.
I am not sure where they got their definition of metadata, but it sure isn't what I mean when I say it. From the article:
When people read our advice in the book about metadata , they tend to imagine very complicated architectures with lots of abstraction. But in reality, it could be very simple. If the sales tax rate is currently 7%, I don't put 7% into the code. I put it into a properties file or the database. The sales tax rate is a detail I abstract out of the code and store externally.
Uh. He's talking about storing data externally. This is his idea of metadata? Sounds more like 'data' to me. I think these people must be consultants because they must be full of shit.
At another point in the article the guy says he implements a state machine by using a database instead of hardcoding it in the code. Wow. Pretty novel. Next thing he's going to start talking about how OOP and OOD combined with putting the business logic in Prolog is going to affect my ROI with regard to my WYSIWYG.
Ken Thompson, co-inventor of UNIX, was given an award by ACM in 1995. In his speech he reflected on the trust we put in developers and computers.
Imagine if the first C compiler did two wierd things.
1. If you compile code that matched a pattern indicating it was a UNIX login command, then insert a backdoor to get root.
2. If you compile code that matched a pattern indicating it was a compiler then insert code such that implements 1.
Write the first evil compiler that implements 1 and 2. Then write a nice compiler but compile it with the evil compiler. You look at the source code of the nice compiler and it looks totally legit, except the binary has the same functionality as the evil compiler.
Ship the evil binary and let Linux geeks recompile their OS source with it, complete with built in backdoor.
The moral of the story is that source can't be completely trusted because you never know what the compiler will do. You can look at the source of the compiler, but what about the compiler that was used to compile that?
It's a chicken and egg problem, what if the first C compiler was evil? The only way to make sure to check the security is to check the binary. But what if the hardware architecture couldn't be trusted either?
The moral of the story is that Ken Thompson owns your box unless you wrote your own compiler in binary on a piece of hardware you designed yourself.
And how the hell is this comment Redundant? He correctly pointed out that the previous post about the previous post being incorrectly modded. Maybe off-topic, but not redundant.
Some of you moderators are just morons!
All that said, if you dont like it the way it is, break out your EMacs, and Write something better, otherwise, quit bitching!
Believe it or not, even open source projects can benefit from user suggestions/criticism. By nearly all accounts, Linux on the desktop is not ready for mainstream, though it would benefit people tremendouly if it was. The last thing anyone, except maybe Microsoft, should be saying is, "stop complaining about Linux."
700+ comments, 95% of which are:
- MS sucks for breaking RFC's
- Apache should do something about it
- Users of IE are clueless morons.
All of this because some blogger can't read a packet trace correctly. Everyone in the thread who's actually TRIED it (the other 5%) hasn't seen this behavior.
Damn, right!
Don't forget the people who keep posting, "isn't this T/TCP? No, I don't have any idea how standards work." Or the, "Everyone here is a moron because this is just pipelining/keep-alive. Uh. I have no clue what you mean when you say, 'HTTP is written on top of TCP/IP and shouldn't affect TCP handshaking.'"
I agree, this is getting absolutely ridiculous. Please everyone get off your anti-MS high horses, take the opportunity to read the article, analyze it, and do some research ESPECIALLY if the article is about standard networking protocols and you do not know what a protocol stack is. The fun part is supposed to be learning about stuff, not spewing mindless drivel, only to have other people keep repost it. And please, read the other posts. I swear the state of slashdot of late is starting to making me lose faith in nerds.
I'm glad they finally announced this project I've been dying to talk about it. I talked to a researcher on this project while I was at IBM's Almaden Research Center.
I was blown away when they described it to me. I have to say that IBM is by far the greatest computer techonology research company. They take the top minds give them boat loads of money, ten years later they blow your mind with the completely innovative technology. I mean come on, cube storage?!?!
Too bad, they just can't make any inroads in the client side market. They invented the harddrive years ago and today they aren't going to even make any more client models.
Anyhow, I just wanted to talk about cube failures. Ice cube uses a 3x3x3 array of 27 cubes. But, the question is what happens if a cube goes bad. Essentially, you can never turn off Ice Cube. It's meant to be continuously running. If a single cube failure occurs the system just routes around it. To compensate you can stick more cubes on the outside. Of course, throughput will be hampered.
I asked the researcher what happens if say all the middle cubes burn out or when the throughput gets too damaged. He responds, "Well, given the failure rate, it probably won't be an issue until about ten years have passed, and by then we'll have much more powerful storage technology."
Finally, anything that is water-cooled is nifty in my book.
Any slashdotter can tell this is just a computer and many of us have a retired PC with most of the functionality this box provides. Afterall, like many have already commented, the functionality already exists in many open source projects.
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While ISP's have the ability to persist all network traffic not just email, it would be at great cost with no incentive. Oddly enough, ISP's do not actively try and screw their customers. Everyone must comply with the law, the goverment is saying if you have it hand it over, but there is no law compelling people to log everything.
Organizations are liable for illegal activities that happen on their infrastructure. Owners of a coffee shop where customers are selling drugs are not clear of liablity, especially in the cases where they turn a blind eye to the activities and indirectly benefit from it.
Frost Pissed...
Any slides?
Good thing I am not as young as this kid. I have played plenty of net send pranks.
I remember my first CS lab where the TA had his computer hooked up to the projector. I kept sending him messages that the network was going down in five minutes. He sarcastically responded, "Uh oh, guess I better do as the computer says".
If I was 10 years younger it'd be me getting suspended in Junior High. I guess that is a big difference about college. No hand holding. Nobody cares if you are not learning crap, so you are best learning and experimenting as much as possible on your own.
Later on when I was a lab assistant. I put my junior programming skills to the test and built a GUI in front of netsend to make it more like a AIM. Pretty soon most of the lab assistants were using it to message each other and broadcast messages informational messages to the users, like the lab was closing. From what Beverly Sweeny was saying, that is exactly what she does not want the kids to do. The kids should not experiment, only do what she says. That way she can proliferate the next generation of retarded users.
It may be "source available", but that doesn't make it "open source". Some terms from the licensing agreement
Dude, that by definition J2SE is open source. Nobody claimed it was GPL'd. Look at the words, "open", then "source". No license implied in those two words.This is a great story about a father doing something for his daughter and the community. I'm encouraged by the story.
Are they also going to ban 90% of the rest of the games where conflict is the only option?
I am not sure where they got their definition of metadata, but it sure isn't what I mean when I say it. From the article:
Uh. He's talking about storing data externally. This is his idea of metadata? Sounds more like 'data' to me. I think these people must be consultants because they must be full of shit.
At another point in the article the guy says he implements a state machine by using a database instead of hardcoding it in the code. Wow. Pretty novel. Next thing he's going to start talking about how OOP and OOD combined with putting the business logic in Prolog is going to affect my ROI with regard to my WYSIWYG.
Ken Thompson, co-inventor of UNIX, was given an award by ACM in 1995. In his speech he reflected on the trust we put in developers and computers.
Imagine if the first C compiler did two wierd things.
1. If you compile code that matched a pattern indicating it was a UNIX login command, then insert a backdoor to get root.
2. If you compile code that matched a pattern indicating it was a compiler then insert code such that implements 1.
Write the first evil compiler that implements 1 and 2. Then write a nice compiler but compile it with the evil compiler. You look at the source code of the nice compiler and it looks totally legit, except the binary has the same functionality as the evil compiler.
Ship the evil binary and let Linux geeks recompile their OS source with it, complete with built in backdoor.
The moral of the story is that source can't be completely trusted because you never know what the compiler will do. You can look at the source of the compiler, but what about the compiler that was used to compile that?
It's a chicken and egg problem, what if the first C compiler was evil? The only way to make sure to check the security is to check the binary. But what if the hardware architecture couldn't be trusted either?
The moral of the story is that Ken Thompson owns your box unless you wrote your own compiler in binary on a piece of hardware you designed yourself.In soviet russian first post posts you.
And how the hell is this comment Redundant? He correctly pointed out that the previous post about the previous post being incorrectly modded. Maybe off-topic, but not redundant. Some of you moderators are just morons!
You resume has a "Community" section but no Education section. What's up with that?
No eclipse does not use a command line CVS. It implements its own version of a CVS client.
I am a proud owner of a thinkpad. I love it. Though powerbooks are a bit of a temptation.
No, they do not. Not because they don't want to but because they can't afford it anymore, lack of demand, yada, yada.
All that said, if you dont like it the way it is, break out your EMacs, and Write something better, otherwise, quit bitching!
Believe it or not, even open source projects can benefit from user suggestions/criticism. By nearly all accounts, Linux on the desktop is not ready for mainstream, though it would benefit people tremendouly if it was. The last thing anyone, except maybe Microsoft, should be saying is, "stop complaining about Linux."Damn, right!
Don't forget the people who keep posting, "isn't this T/TCP? No, I don't have any idea how standards work." Or the, "Everyone here is a moron because this is just pipelining/keep-alive. Uh. I have no clue what you mean when you say, 'HTTP is written on top of TCP/IP and shouldn't affect TCP handshaking.'"
I agree, this is getting absolutely ridiculous. Please everyone get off your anti-MS high horses, take the opportunity to read the article, analyze it, and do some research ESPECIALLY if the article is about standard networking protocols and you do not know what a protocol stack is. The fun part is supposed to be learning about stuff, not spewing mindless drivel, only to have other people keep repost it. And please, read the other posts. I swear the state of slashdot of late is starting to making me lose faith in nerds.Errr... You call doing all that fast?
Any recommendations on introducing yourself to car mechanics?
Step 1: Rebuild an entire car from scratch
if( NP-complete == do it by hand ){
you must go to must have the same AI and CS degree as the first guy
}
Yeah... But that doesn't work for cubes in the middle... Guess I forgot to mention that.
I'm glad they finally announced this project I've been dying to talk about it. I talked to a researcher on this project while I was at IBM's Almaden Research Center.
I was blown away when they described it to me. I have to say that IBM is by far the greatest computer techonology research company. They take the top minds give them boat loads of money, ten years later they blow your mind with the completely innovative technology. I mean come on, cube storage?!?!
Too bad, they just can't make any inroads in the client side market. They invented the harddrive years ago and today they aren't going to even make any more client models.
Anyhow, I just wanted to talk about cube failures. Ice cube uses a 3x3x3 array of 27 cubes. But, the question is what happens if a cube goes bad. Essentially, you can never turn off Ice Cube. It's meant to be continuously running. If a single cube failure occurs the system just routes around it. To compensate you can stick more cubes on the outside. Of course, throughput will be hampered.
I asked the researcher what happens if say all the middle cubes burn out or when the throughput gets too damaged. He responds, "Well, given the failure rate, it probably won't be an issue until about ten years have passed, and by then we'll have much more powerful storage technology."
Finally, anything that is water-cooled is nifty in my book.
Any slashdotter can tell this is just a computer and many of us have a retired PC with most of the functionality this box provides. Afterall, like many have already commented, the functionality already exists in many open source projects.
Who really wants a audio box that costs $1000?
I'd much rather have the now defunc Moxi.