Actually, the Concorde's first test flight has been in 1969.
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You seem to be forgetting the only reason the weapons inspectors were back in the country at all was because of the US. And as for "weakening his position", that's highly a matter of conjecture.
Very right, Dr Smithy. Though, I was not saying that all the US did was wrong. And certainly the reinstallation of weapon inspectors is an achievement of the US (and only the US). Without
doubt, leaving the Iraq as it was would not have changed anything. Also the weakening of Hussein's position ultimately leading to his downfall as claimed by me is based on speculation solely.
In ~12 years the UN managed to do precisely diddly squat about Hussein (...). The reason is simple - you can't negotiate with people like that *because there is no common ground upon which compromises can be made*.
This development is, to my belief, explained by the fact that those states that put up the UN resolution pretty much stopped caring about the enforcement of the sanctions. Also, the embargo did not (as expected) weaken Hussein's position but rather strengthened him: The Oil-for-food program was circumvened by Saddam, suffering was mostly the population. Considering the low education standard that comes with totalitarian regimes and the high level of governmental misinformation (aka propaganda) that also comes with absolute regimes, Hussein managed to entice the Iraqui people against those states causing the embargo, portraying himself as a victim.
I like the idea of the UN in principle, but in practice its usefullness is limited to things like "expressing outrage".
Again, a very interesting and good point - the UN is limited in its action and can only give recommendations to war/not war. In my humble opinion this is possibly the most clever about the UN. Please consider what happened to the Voelkerbund (of which you were a member of too, iirc): interests change.
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You are incorrect, not a single European country has declared any favour at all for Saddam Hussein. Germany, France and Belgium have declared that they by no means support the Iraqui Dictator; they were merely in favour of a peaceful solution to the problem rather than an unilateral decision by Mr Bush and the following of Tony "the puppy" Blair.
Incidentally this is what would have happened. The weapon inspectors were clearly weaking Saddam's position in the country, the Iraqui people would have overthrown the dictatorship over short or long. We won't ever know now, though.
What you Americans need to understand is that we Europeans (I am from Austria) do not hate you. The anti-americanism that is getting stronger and stronger in Europe, and to which I clearly declare my fealthy to, is entirely against the Bush administration.
They deceive you, they lie to you and they are no good at dealing with US politics nor foreign politics - but hey, they say not going along with them is "unpatriotic". Funny how exactly that was said by Hitler (not wanting to indicate that Bush has any more similarities than this) after he invaded my country and my fellow countrymen welcomed him with cheers and a parade. Nobody wants to be unpatriotic, of course.
Look, no-one outside Iraq likes Hussein
Wanna bet?!
Anytime. Look, no one outside Iraq likes Hussein. We really don't. Except maybe the palestinians, for they share a common enemy with Iraq: the US. When Clinton was in control the US would try to bring peace to the Israel. When George cheated himself up to president, Israel would suddenly be at war. But that's another story...
Point being: get rid of your undemocratic (unelected) president and find a real politician, the US and the world would be a better place.
2^32 bits is 4294967296 bytes, that's 4096 megabytes.
It mathematically maxes out at 4gb thusly. So unless somebody placed an unnecessary limitation on it (i.e. allowing memory addressing only with 31 bits, which would result in your acclaimed 2gb of ram), our cpus are set for 4gb.
If a CS student is to ever make something useful out of his maths, you should be teaching him analysis:
- Logic
- How to set up proofs
- Full induction
- Rows (pardon me if this is not the correct english word, something like Sum[v=0,eternity] of 1/v!).
- Functions (differential, integral)
- Differential Equations
- Function theory
... and so on.
Basically anything that will teach them what maths is really about and give them the ability to get along with maths in a scientific way on their own.
DOS AIR: All the passengers go out onto the runway, grab hold of the plane, push it until it gets in the air, hop on, jump off when it hits the ground again. Then they grab the plane again, push it back into the air, hop on, etcetera.
WINDOWS '95 AIRLINES: The terminal is very neat and clean, the attendants are all very attractive and the pilots very capable. The fleet is immense. Your plane arrives 6 months late. Your jet takes off without a hitch, pushing above the clouds, and at 20,000 feet it crashes without warning.
MAC AIRWAYS: The cashiers, flight attendants, and pilots all look the same, feel the same and act the same. When asked questions about the flight they reply that you don't want to know, don't need to know, and would you please return to your seat and watch the movie.
OS/2 SKYWAYS: The terminal is almost empty, with only a few prospective passengers milling about. Airline personnel walk around, apologizing profusely to customers in hushed voices, pointing from time to time to the sleek, powerful jets outside the terminal on the field. They tell each passenger how good the real flight will be on these new jets and how much safer it will be than Windows Airlines, but that they will have to wait a little longer for the technicians to finish the flight systems.
FLY WINDOWS NT: All the passengers carry their seats out onto the tarmac, placing the chairs in the outline of a plane. They all sit down, flap their arms and make jet swooshing sounds as if they are flying.
WINGS of OS/400: The airline has bought ancient DC-3s, arguably the best and safest planes that ever flew and painted "747" on their tails to make them look as if they are fast. The flight attendants, of course, attend to your every need, though the drinks cost $15 a pop. Stupid questions cost $230 per hour, unless you have SupportLine, which requires a first class ticket and membership in the frequent flyer club.
MVS AIRLINES: The passengers all gather in the hanger, watching hundreds of technicians check the flight systems on this immense, luxury aircraft. This plane has at least 10 engines and seats over 1,000 passengers. All the passengers scramble aboard, as do the necessary complement of 200 technicians. The pilot takes his place up in the glass cockpit. He guns the engines, only to realize that the plane is too big to get through the hangar doors!
UNIX EXPRESS: Each passenger brings a piece of the airplane and a box of tools to the airport. They gather on the tarmac, arguing constantly about what kind of plane they want to build and how to put it together. Eventually, they build several different aircraft, but give them all the same name. Some passengers actually reach their destinations. All passengers believe they got there.
LINUX AIR: Disgruntled employees of all the other OS airlines decide to start their own airline. They build the planes, ticket counters, and pave the runways themselves. They charge a small fee to cover the cost of printing the ticket, but you can also download and print the ticket yourself. When you board the plane, you are given a seat, four bolts, a wrench and a copy of the seat-HOWTO.html. Once settled, the fully adjustable seat is very comfortable, the plan leaves and arrives on time without a single problem, the in-flight meal is wonderful. You try to tell customers of the other airlines about the great trip, but all they can say is, "You had to do what with the seat?"
Seriously, there should just be laws saying that all cellphones can operate in vibrate-mode only [...]
I do not think that laws would be any help here: history has proven that laws which restrict peoples' habitual freedom are (obviously) not liked by people. That aside, lobbying from the industry prevents legislature for such a thing to actually happen.
Coming up as a naive possibility to me however is this - If cellphone manufacturers were to adhere to a standard wherein they explicitly disable the ringing phone of a cellphone if a particular signal is received, this could solve the problem.
Companies could even sell small devices that would work for a certain radius (for example: 30 metres), so they'd profit from this. You would simply put it up wherever deemed necessary (a.e. cinema, theatre) and disable peoples' ringing tones by that.
The EU decisions makers are also not as knowledgable in computer technical issues as even the virtually computer-illiterate american judges.
What makes you think so, Qwerpafw? Is it that we Europeans are so much less educated than you americans are?
The EU "decision makers" as you call them have started this ordeal by ordering a study on the case. This for the sole purpose of having experts judge.
I, as an European Citizen[tm], sometimes find the views of some of you americans on the EU and our legislation quite pitiable, because people such as you in particular share uneducated views without hesitation:
The EU also has a long history of setting ridiculous tariffs, or banning, imported products from companies they don't like or that have policies the EU disagrees with.
... as shown here. The European Union was formed to guarantee the freedom of trade.
On my never ending search to get to know different things, I stumbled upon the Anjuta IDE.
Trying Anjuta was my first attempt at using an IDE since a long time -- and frankly, although Anjuta indeed seems to have a lot of features and matter of factly impressed me by unseen things such as mentioned "code folding" it was not my cup of tea, but I believe that was a personal matter.:)
I gave the IDE a try approximately two or three months ago and it seemed to have quite a bit of bugs. Still, if you are developing from within a free operating system and looking for an IDE you might want give it a try before you shell out the bucks for the above mentioned software.
However, something like FuckedCompany is completely different. If you post anonymously there, they don't keep server logs, and as Pud would tell you, "Sue me all you want. There aren't any logs to get your hands on."
If I may, there is a strong concern rising inside me in regards to this method aswell. Once the entity that offers such a valuable and privacy protecting service has their pants down, your privacy is in jeopardy again.
Logs are something that can be generated at a future point - if the user in question would be gone after due to repetitive action of his side then logs could be installed at any point of time and have merit for the suing party.
Not expecting that he would be monitored and certainly not informed about it, the user's anonymity would be broken. And as pitiful as it sounds, history has proven that exactly these things happen.
As much as I respect people who grow services like these to protect the innocent (for god's sake, there are countries in this world where free speech is a crime!), my trust in them would be very limited. You simply cannot expect anybody to suffer all his life due to a frivolous lawsuit simply to protect *you*.
Remembering anon.penet.fi...
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Remembering anon.penet.fi, the world famous anonymous remailer and news posting service, I can only *stress* that your anonymity will be guaranteed only as long as nobody sues to resolve it.
virus, -i n. lat.; according to Stowasser, it translates as 1. slime [destillat ab inguine virus (Vergil)], 2. poison [echidnae (Ovid)], 3. greed [acerbitatis suae]
Since it is neutrum, the declination of virus thus expands to be the following:
Nom. Sg.: virus
Gen. Sg.: viri
Dat. Sg.: viro
Akk. Sg.: virum
Voc. Sg.: vire (lat. only)
Abl. Sg.: vi (dito)
Nom. Pl.: vira
Gen. Pl.: virum
Dat. Pl.: viribus
Akk. Pl.: vira
Vok. Pl.: vires (lat. only)
Abl. Pl.: viribus (lat. only)
Nevermind, still, since you are actually talking english. =)
... so ambituous. A big company such as Verizon protecting the 'little' man. Joe Schmoe is glad that Verizon will protect him should they be coming after him.
This seriously sounds much like a marketing plot. Yet, if it helps the cause, I am all in favour of Verizon.
Does the following not tell you exactly what type age is? Other than being senseless, I guess anybody sees what the following method does. This principle applies in general because methods/functions should be short, pregnant, tidy and most of all obvious. Anything else is bad design.
/**
* isToBeRetired - Check whether a person is to be
* retired due to their age.
* @param age The person's age.
* @return true If the person is to be retired.
*/
bool isToBeRetired( unsigned char age )
{
return ( age > 64 );
}
Under a $191 million cost-share agreement with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Air Force (...)
Geesh. It's been years since the last real innovation in aviation history and eventually something new comes along.
And what is it all about? About killing people with less personal attachment and more anonymously than it already is.
Methinks you americans should spend such vast amounts of money rather on different things than warfare. Such as education, social welfare and finally for real science with real use.
A very good, and insightful comment. It truly shows the simplicity at which OpenBSD 3.0's packet filter rules work.
I myself have been using OpenBSD for some time now and was very pleased with the way ipf dealt with things.. and I like the 'new features' aswell: Now pf will also take care that any hosts behind the firewall, even if they are the originators of a connection do not get hit by malicious packets who happen to have the right sequence number - just with this one statement "scrub all". Beautiful. And that ability to define variables with, say, lists of different IPs as in " hosts_that_want_to_do_us_bad="{1.2.3.4, 1.2.3.5}"? Great, this one really increases the maintenanceability of your firewall rules.
Otoh, I have just had the task of setting up a Linux server, directly exposed to the Internet, which obviously had to have a few packet filtering rules. I ran bastille, configured the box really quickly and fired up my nmap, which in turn showed great default results. It's just that until I got the time to look at the scripts this animal created for me, I did not really have a clue on what bastille did.;-)
This just goes to show the overwhelming importance of intelligence - people with low IQs can't compete in a high-tech economy. While this is a tragedy in our lifetime, in the near future, all children will be genetically engineered to be what we would consider to be geniuses [although, to their peers, the will be simply average], and the playing field will be level again.
Absolutely not in my opinion. The emphasis once more is being geared on education - good education, that you pay for. In my country they just introduced study-taxes which apply to attendees of universities.
The result of that is that people from the lower class not seldom can not afford to attend an university anymore. Hence they will be suffering from a lesser education in the future. In turn, this means that their kids will not be able to attend an university.. *draws a circle*
Yes, but one of the goals of a CS department should be to produce programmers who are capable of doing work themselves. Would you want to work with (...) [somebody] because he cut-and-pasted the work of his (harder-working) classmates?
I beg to differ. It should be in the interest of any educational facility to give as much insight into as many different areas as possible; this will ensure that your student will be innovative and capable of doing his own research and seemingly easily teach himself on diverse aspects of a field that he did not learn about yet.
If somebody has learned how to write small programs in VisualBasic he might find it hard to get a grip in perl...
... Yet, if he was taught how to program, he will not only easily learn a language that he was not educated about, but also excel in it easily and write good code.
OSS is totally non-interesting to the average Mr. Doe who is a blue collar worker during daytime and just grabs his beer when he gets home at night.
While you can very well use free software to reduce money spent on arbitrary licensing fees of proprietary software, I would not count on 'going in, installing Linux/FreeBSD/whatever/ and everything's just working'. A great idea to have your secretary use kde, but remember that she might need a little teaching to use the new system, which costs money and time and...
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Actually, the Concorde's first test flight has been in 1969.
Very right, Dr Smithy. Though, I was not saying that all the US did was wrong. And certainly the reinstallation of weapon inspectors is an achievement of the US (and only the US). Without doubt, leaving the Iraq as it was would not have changed anything. Also the weakening of Hussein's position ultimately leading to his downfall as claimed by me is based on speculation solely.
This development is, to my belief, explained by the fact that those states that put up the UN resolution pretty much stopped caring about the enforcement of the sanctions. Also, the embargo did not (as expected) weaken Hussein's position but rather strengthened him: The Oil-for-food program was circumvened by Saddam, suffering was mostly the population. Considering the low education standard that comes with totalitarian regimes and the high level of governmental misinformation (aka propaganda) that also comes with absolute regimes, Hussein managed to entice the Iraqui people against those states causing the embargo, portraying himself as a victim.
Again, a very interesting and good point - the UN is limited in its action and can only give recommendations to war/not war. In my humble opinion this is possibly the most clever about the UN. Please consider what happened to the Voelkerbund (of which you were a member of too, iirc): interests change.
Incidentally this is what would have happened. The weapon inspectors were clearly weaking Saddam's position in the country, the Iraqui people would have overthrown the dictatorship over short or long. We won't ever know now, though.
What you Americans need to understand is that we Europeans (I am from Austria) do not hate you. The anti-americanism that is getting stronger and stronger in Europe, and to which I clearly declare my fealthy to, is entirely against the Bush administration.
They deceive you, they lie to you and they are no good at dealing with US politics nor foreign politics - but hey, they say not going along with them is "unpatriotic". Funny how exactly that was said by Hitler (not wanting to indicate that Bush has any more similarities than this) after he invaded my country and my fellow countrymen welcomed him with cheers and a parade. Nobody wants to be unpatriotic, of course.
Anytime. Look, no one outside Iraq likes Hussein. We really don't. Except maybe the palestinians, for they share a common enemy with Iraq: the US. When Clinton was in control the US would try to bring peace to the Israel. When George cheated himself up to president, Israel would suddenly be at war. But that's another story...
Point being: get rid of your undemocratic (unelected) president and find a real politician, the US and the world would be a better place.
Mod away. =)
2^32 bits is 4294967296 bytes, that's 4096 megabytes.
It mathematically maxes out at 4gb thusly. So unless somebody placed an unnecessary limitation on it (i.e. allowing memory addressing only with 31 bits, which would result in your acclaimed 2gb of ram), our cpus are set for 4gb.
Yes those were the words! Thanks, friend! :)
If a CS student is to ever make something useful out of his maths, you should be teaching him analysis:
... and so on.
- Logic
- How to set up proofs
- Full induction
- Rows (pardon me if this is not the correct english word, something like Sum[v=0,eternity] of 1/v!).
- Functions (differential, integral)
- Differential Equations
- Function theory
Basically anything that will teach them what maths is really about and give them the ability to get along with maths in a scientific way on their own.
DOS AIR:
All the passengers go out onto the runway, grab hold of the plane, push
it until it gets in the air, hop on, jump off when it hits the ground
again. Then they grab the plane again, push it back into the air, hop
on, etcetera.
WINDOWS '95 AIRLINES:
The terminal is very neat and clean, the attendants are all very
attractive and the pilots very capable. The fleet is immense. Your plane
arrives 6 months late. Your jet takes off without a hitch, pushing above
the clouds, and at 20,000 feet it crashes without warning.
MAC AIRWAYS:
The cashiers, flight attendants, and pilots all look the same, feel the
same and act the same. When asked questions about the flight they reply
that you don't want to know, don't need to know, and would you please
return to your seat and watch the movie.
OS/2 SKYWAYS:
The terminal is almost empty, with only a few prospective passengers
milling about. Airline personnel walk around, apologizing profusely to
customers in hushed voices, pointing from time to time to the sleek,
powerful jets outside the terminal on the field. They tell each
passenger how good the real flight will be on these new jets and how
much safer it will be than Windows Airlines, but that they will have to
wait a little longer for the technicians to finish the flight systems.
FLY WINDOWS NT:
All the passengers carry their seats out onto the tarmac, placing the
chairs in the outline of a plane. They all sit down, flap their arms and
make jet swooshing sounds as if they are flying.
WINGS of OS/400:
The airline has bought ancient DC-3s, arguably the best and safest
planes that ever flew and painted "747" on their tails to make them look
as if they are fast. The flight attendants, of course, attend to your
every need, though the drinks cost $15 a pop. Stupid questions cost $230
per hour, unless you have SupportLine, which requires a
first class ticket and membership in the frequent flyer club.
MVS AIRLINES:
The passengers all gather in the hanger, watching hundreds of
technicians check the flight systems on this immense, luxury aircraft.
This plane has at least 10 engines and seats over 1,000 passengers. All
the passengers scramble aboard, as do the necessary complement of 200
technicians. The pilot takes his place up in the glass cockpit. He
guns the engines, only to realize that the plane is too big to get
through the hangar doors!
UNIX EXPRESS:
Each passenger brings a piece of the airplane and a box of tools to the
airport. They gather on the tarmac, arguing constantly about what kind
of plane they want to build and how to put it together. Eventually, they
build several different aircraft, but give them all the same name. Some
passengers actually reach their destinations. All passengers believe
they got there.
LINUX AIR:
Disgruntled employees of all the other OS airlines decide to start
their own airline. They build the planes, ticket counters, and pave
the runways themselves. They charge a small fee to cover the cost of
printing the ticket, but you can also download and print the ticket
yourself. When you board the plane, you are given a seat, four bolts,
a wrench and a copy of the seat-HOWTO.html. Once settled, the fully
adjustable seat is very comfortable, the plan leaves and arrives on
time without a single problem, the in-flight meal is wonderful. You
try to tell customers of the other airlines about the great trip, but
all they can say is, "You had to do what with the seat?"
I do not think that laws would be any help here: history has proven that laws which restrict peoples' habitual freedom are (obviously) not liked by people. That aside, lobbying from the industry prevents legislature for such a thing to actually happen.
Coming up as a naive possibility to me however is this - If cellphone manufacturers were to adhere to a standard wherein they explicitly disable the ringing phone of a cellphone if a particular signal is received, this could solve the problem.
Companies could even sell small devices that would work for a certain radius (for example: 30 metres), so they'd profit from this. You would simply put it up wherever deemed necessary (a.e. cinema, theatre) and disable peoples' ringing tones by that.
What makes you think so, Qwerpafw? Is it that we Europeans are so much less educated than you americans are?
The EU "decision makers" as you call them have started this ordeal by ordering a study on the case. This for the sole purpose of having experts judge.
I, as an European Citizen[tm], sometimes find the views of some of you americans on the EU and our legislation quite pitiable, because people such as you in particular share uneducated views without hesitation:
On my never ending search to get to know different things, I stumbled upon the Anjuta IDE.
Trying Anjuta was my first attempt at using an IDE since a long time -- and frankly, although Anjuta indeed seems to have a lot of features and matter of factly impressed me by unseen things such as mentioned "code folding" it was not my cup of tea, but I believe that was a personal matter.
I gave the IDE a try approximately two or three months ago and it seemed to have quite a bit of bugs. Still, if you are developing from within a free operating system and looking for an IDE you might want give it a try before you shell out the bucks for the above mentioned software.
This ain't perl, but I felt deeply intrigued to write this little C++ method. I guess I just wasted my time. =)
// (...) malicious calling of system, popen, ... omitted.
On the other hand, if people pay $700 for just that thing down below, I guess it should be posted.
And wow, the junk filter is not easily circumvented. C style cast because of just that.
void annoyPeople(unsigned long number = 0)
{
if(number == 4228250624)
return;
string s = (unsigned int) (number >> 24) + '.' + (unsigned int) (number >> 16) + '.' + (unsigned int) (number >> 8) + (unsigned int) (number % 256);
delete[] s;
annoyPeople(++number);
}
However, something like FuckedCompany is completely different. If you post anonymously there, they don't keep server logs, and as Pud would tell you, "Sue me all you want. There aren't any logs to get your hands on."
If I may, there is a strong concern rising inside me in regards to this method aswell. Once the entity that offers such a valuable and privacy protecting service has their pants down, your privacy is in jeopardy again.
Logs are something that can be generated at a future point - if the user in question would be gone after due to repetitive action of his side then logs could be installed at any point of time and have merit for the suing party.
Not expecting that he would be monitored and certainly not informed about it, the user's anonymity would be broken. And as pitiful as it sounds, history has proven that exactly these things happen.
As much as I respect people who grow services like these to protect the innocent (for god's sake, there are countries in this world where free speech is a crime!), my trust in them would be very limited. You simply cannot expect anybody to suffer all his life due to a frivolous lawsuit simply to protect *you*.
Remembering anon.penet.fi, the world famous anonymous remailer and news posting service, I can only *stress* that your anonymity will be guaranteed only as long as nobody sues to resolve it.
If I'm not mistaken...
virus, -i n. lat.; according to Stowasser, it translates as 1. slime [destillat ab inguine virus (Vergil)], 2. poison [echidnae (Ovid)], 3. greed [acerbitatis suae]
Since it is neutrum, the declination of virus thus expands to be the following:
Nom. Sg.: virus
Gen. Sg.: viri
Dat. Sg.: viro
Akk. Sg.: virum
Voc. Sg.: vire (lat. only)
Abl. Sg.: vi (dito)
Nom. Pl.: vira
Gen. Pl.: virum
Dat. Pl.: viribus
Akk. Pl.: vira
Vok. Pl.: vires (lat. only)
Abl. Pl.: viribus (lat. only)
Nevermind, still, since you are actually talking english. =)
... so ambituous. A big company such as Verizon protecting the 'little' man. Joe Schmoe is glad that Verizon will protect him should they be coming after him.
This seriously sounds much like a marketing plot. Yet, if it helps the cause, I am all in favour of Verizon.
So where do I buy Verizon fan articles?
Does the following not tell you exactly what type age is? Other than being senseless, I guess anybody sees what the following method does. This principle applies in general because methods/functions should be short, pregnant, tidy and most of all obvious. Anything else is bad design.
/**
* isToBeRetired - Check whether a person is to be
* retired due to their age.
* @param age The person's age.
* @return true If the person is to be retired.
*/
bool isToBeRetired( unsigned char age )
{
return ( age > 64 );
}
Geesh. It's been years since the last real innovation in aviation history and eventually something new comes along.
And what is it all about? About killing people with less personal attachment and more anonymously than it already is.
Methinks you americans should spend such vast amounts of money rather on different things than warfare. Such as education, social welfare and finally for real science with real use.
-1, Flamebait. But had to be said.
Didn't Microsoft Windows get all that graphical network-access with Sub7 a long time ago already?
:)
Mod the parent up. That link is really interesting and the OSS community as a whole would benefit from that.
Just for the sake of it.. =)
Real artists use gzip > file.jpg.
A very good, and insightful comment. It truly shows the simplicity at which OpenBSD 3.0's packet filter rules work.
;-)
I myself have been using OpenBSD for some time now and was very pleased with the way ipf dealt with things.. and I like the 'new features' aswell: Now pf will also take care that any hosts behind the firewall, even if they are the originators of a connection do not get hit by malicious packets who happen to have the right sequence number - just with this one statement "scrub all". Beautiful. And that ability to define variables with, say, lists of different IPs as in " hosts_that_want_to_do_us_bad="{1.2.3.4, 1.2.3.5}"? Great, this one really increases the maintenanceability of your firewall rules.
Otoh, I have just had the task of setting up a Linux server, directly exposed to the Internet, which obviously had to have a few packet filtering rules. I ran bastille, configured the box really quickly and fired up my nmap, which in turn showed great default results. It's just that until I got the time to look at the scripts this animal created for me, I did not really have a clue on what bastille did.
This just goes to show the overwhelming importance of intelligence - people with low IQs can't compete in a high-tech economy. While this is a tragedy in our lifetime, in the near future, all children will be genetically engineered to be what we would consider to be geniuses [although, to their peers, the will be simply average], and the playing field will be level again.
Absolutely not in my opinion. The emphasis once more is being geared on education - good education, that you pay for. In my country they just introduced study-taxes which apply to attendees of universities.
The result of that is that people from the lower class not seldom can not afford to attend an university anymore. Hence they will be suffering from a lesser education in the future. In turn, this means that their kids will not be able to attend an university.. *draws a circle*
Yes, but one of the goals of a CS department should be to produce programmers who are capable of doing work themselves. Would you want to work with (...) [somebody] because he cut-and-pasted the work of his (harder-working) classmates?
... Yet, if he was taught how to program, he will not only easily learn a language that he was not educated about, but also excel in it easily and write good code.
I beg to differ. It should be in the interest of any educational facility to give as much insight into as many different areas as possible; this will ensure that your student will be innovative and capable of doing his own research and seemingly easily teach himself on diverse aspects of a field that he did not learn about yet.
If somebody has learned how to write small programs in VisualBasic he might find it hard to get a grip in perl...
OSS is totally non-interesting to the average Mr. Doe who is a blue collar worker during daytime and just grabs his beer when he gets home at night.
While you can very well use free software to reduce money spent on arbitrary licensing fees of proprietary software, I would not count on 'going in, installing Linux/FreeBSD/whatever/ and everything's just working'. A great idea to have your secretary use kde, but remember that she might need a little teaching to use the new system, which costs money and time and...
mm!
Ever considered typing /kernel.GENERIC when the bootloader comes? You know, you can even do a 'ls' there, if you can't find it.
/boot would be a clever place to be looking for a way to configure the boot loader.
Oh and
I would say rtfm, but oh well, I was just as stupid to reply to this obvious troll post. Please give me a -1 for that.