Well, at least in computer science, they present only the OSI model for networking when discussing things such as TCP/IP. You can probably tell the people who are truly good at what they do apart from the people that just hold a piece of paper called a degree by asking if TCP/IP conforms to the OSI model.
People that just read a book and puke out what they read will tell you it does. =)
Sure, let them watch. Then when they have questions or are scared, I am there to explain to them that they are watching something fake. Perhaps they will then learn how to distinguish the difference between fantasy and reality when they are older. They are going to see it anyway, and it would be better to be there to guide them than to hide it from them and let them try to figure it out for themselves.
I'm sure there are a lot of child psychology people out there that would disagree with this approach. I don't care; some of them need to learn that a psychology book is not a manual for how to operate kids. This is sort of on-par with the inability to be able to distinguish between fantasy and reality.
Personally, I think the people inforcing these rules are having trouble seperating reality from fantasy.
Agreed, but who wouldn't like to see a griefer get what's coming to them? It happens in every game: FPS aim bots, wall hacks, item duping....all the while, you just keep seeing the bastard on the other end keep telling you you've been "pwnz0r3d!!! LOLzzz!!!!"
What's next? Someone goes to jail for spawn camping?
I got the inside track on this. Here is a sample of the data chatter from a stolen notebook to the LOJack server:
<LOJACK_Loc_DATA>HELP ME!!!!</LOJACK_Loc_DATA>
<LOJACK_Loc_DATA_Response>What seems to be the problem?</LOJACK_Loc_DATA_Response>
<LOJACK_Loc_DATA>I've fallen....AND I CAN'T GET UP!!!</LOJACK_Loc_DATA>
<LOJACK_Loc_DATA_Response>Where are you? Can you describe your location?</LOJACK_Loc_DATA_Response>
<LOJACK_Loc_DATA>HELP ME!!!!</LOJACK_Loc_DATA>
<LOJACK_Loc_DATA_Response>Yes, we are aware you need help. Please tell us where you are.</LOJACK_Loc_DATA_Response>
<LOJACK_Loc_DATA>I don't know where I am. It's dark and I SEE DEAD PEOPLE!!! And empty pizza boxes and beer cans.</LOJACK_Loc_DATA>
<LOJACK_Loc_DATA_Response>Oh, you aren't stolen. You are at an Everquest Fan Faire.</LOJACK_Loc_DATA_Response>
<LOJACK_Loc_DATA>HELP M+++ CARRIER LOST
When its liberal arts machines getting infected, I've found the BEST firewall to be a pair of wire cutters. NOTHING gets through after the skilled use of these babies.
Well, let's see....at a rate of $5M/day that the EU is going to fine them (was it Euros or USD? *shrug*), its going to be roughly 80 days before they need 400 million people in the EU to spend $1M each this year on software in order to break even. The fine is pretty draconian in my opinion.
It may not be far from realistic that Bill wakes up one morning and lifts the universal sign of defiance (aka The Bird) in Europe's general direction. Definately an extreme measure, but one of EU's rocket-scientist politicians thought the attack was worthwhile.
1. Wet-wire mp3 players into geeks and even a few wanna be geeks.
2. Make the music tradeable only during sexual intercourse.
3. ? (What the hell do you need to know here anyway? #2 is either never going to happen, or you'll see a lot of geeks walking down the sidewalk with a smile from ear to ear.)
4. Profit
Most of the software issues this guy cites as his reasons can be found on every hardware platform and every operating system. I've probably seen an equal number of really bad software on the Mac as I have seen on any WinTel based OS.
As far as the hardware issues....well, MacOS ran differently on just about every Mac. I'm sure there have been improvements, but I couldn't just take MacOS from my Mac laptop and load it on a desktop. I could do this, however, with Windows or Linux. The memory problem he cites is going to be a problem on a Mac too. The only thing he gets away from is the motherboard clones, but that could be good or bad.
In short, there is no easy solution for the complex needs of computing. There will always be work to do to get the required stability, regardless of software or hardware platform.
No no no....you don't get it. The REAL solution is to just cut off the thumb of the person sitting next to you and use THEIR fingerprint to unlock a biometrically protected password store. You can even make money:
1. Cut off thumb of guy in next cube (you didn't like that bastard looking over the wall all the time anyway.)
2. Eat some chili, VERY CAREFULLY.
3. ???
4. Profit
I fail to see how the possession and sale of legally obtained data is a threat to anyone.
I'm sure more than one person in this forum would agree that personal data obtained about them without their consent is not legally obtained data. I would also think that if it were my personal information, I should be able to exercise the right to select what is made public and to scrutinize the security methods in place to ensure that information I wish to keep private does not suddenly become public. The people that collect this data are not even trusted by anyone to keep it confidential because most people don't know it is being collected and distributed in the first place. The data warehouses that collect it are staffed with people of unknown, and apparently insufficient, backgrounds to properly possess this knowledge in confidence.
Your comparison to misusing legally obtained items to break the law is irrelevant. You could similarly compare the birthing of a baby that grows up to be a serial killer as legal yet an act that allows something illegal to happen.
You should ask that question when some psycho you piss off figures out where you live. I'm sure after said psycho visits your house in the middle of the night and delivers you a flaming-hot UFIA, you'd probably be pretty pissed that your info was available to the public too.
Didn't you get the memo? No, it appears you didn't.
Turn your spam filter off so you can get all the penis enlargment emails the More-Women-in-CS conspiracy organization has been circulating. We strongly believe this is the key to getting more women in CS.
Or, how about the reverse...the boss that assumes all programming is too hard.
In this case, he wants to "mature" the project by refining the QA process. Knows next to nothing about software development lifecycles. All software has been architechted on the back of a paper napkin, and plans for sales done the same way. So I see a Capability Maturity Model book on his desk one day. The next day, I swear this is true, he is out in the developer cubicle area throwing around terms like "Regression Testing". I resisted the urge to ask if he saved the napkins where the software was designed so that we could come up with a baseline for regressing against.
Another thing is that there is a concurrency problem in our product that can cause users to overwrite each other's data. Despite occasionally have problems with it, he refuses to allow anyone to fix the problem because it will take too long. Most design flaws get this type of treatment too. So much for trying to "mature" the product.
You outsourced it to a foreign company (not on your home country's soil) I presume?
As punishment for your stupidity, bend over and take it. You deserve what you are getting. You could have hired a few consultants and brought it in house, but nooooooooooooooooo.....you had to try to get it cheap.
Just put all the stupid, opportunistic, just-graduated-from-law-school-and-need-to-prove-I -have-a-large-penis lawyers on a boat, take it to the middle of the pacific, and sink it.
I only wish buffer overflows were the core issue in security problems.
I believe that the problem is mostly that security is an afterthought. By the time everyone realizes how much work it is going to take to put security into a product, the core functionality is about ready to head to QA. By the time it is ready to head to QA, sales has already been promised a delivery date.
So the management decides to put some basic security in the product, and save the more security effort for Rev. 2. Rev. 2 then takes a really long time to materialize while they are modify the core functionality to make the product more sellable.
1. Pizza. Lots of it, on the company dime.
2. All the soda you can drink before 5pm.
3. All the beer you can drink after 5pm.
4. A dev machine with the best graphics card, raided SATA drives, 3+GHz, and a raw, unrestricted net connection.
Free food and drink, Half-Life parties after 5pm...what more could any geek want? They'll pump out more code than you're slowbie QA people can handle.
Programmer: "Where is the last golden ticket?"
Computer: "I can't tell you, that would be cheating. And don't even think of trying to bribe me a with a lifetime supply of chocolate sux0r!"
This guy has been out of it too long to know what he is talking about. All the project he listed were not the major successes, so he probably stood to the side waiting for his opportunity to work on a big app, but never got one.
All the things he listed that Microsoft missed their opportunity to implement were a bit off. Some of them were implmented (Passport, for example, for logging into websites with one login.....but that is another sore subject), and others are part of the direction not only Microsoft, but IBM, HP, Sun, etc are working towards. Many of these companies believe web-services are the future, and this is one step beyond the old band wagon of "hosted applications are the future." The hosted applications are what more companies are moving to, its just that the interfaces are being made a bit differently. The old way was to log into a terminal and run MS-Word (or take your pick of app). The new way is to run whatever app you want, but the logic is hosted somewhere else.
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People that just read a book and puke out what they read will tell you it does. =)
I'm sure there are a lot of child psychology people out there that would disagree with this approach. I don't care; some of them need to learn that a psychology book is not a manual for how to operate kids. This is sort of on-par with the inability to be able to distinguish between fantasy and reality.
Agreed, but who wouldn't like to see a griefer get what's coming to them? It happens in every game: FPS aim bots, wall hacks, item duping....all the while, you just keep seeing the bastard on the other end keep telling you you've been "pwnz0r3d!!! LOLzzz!!!!"
What's next? Someone goes to jail for spawn camping?
<LOJACK_Loc_DATA>HELP ME!!!!</LOJACK_Loc_DATA>
<LOJACK_Loc_DATA_Response>What seems to be the problem?</LOJACK_Loc_DATA_Response>
<LOJACK_Loc_DATA>I've fallen....AND I CAN'T GET UP!!!</LOJACK_Loc_DATA>
<LOJACK_Loc_DATA_Response>Where are you? Can you describe your location?</LOJACK_Loc_DATA_Response>
<LOJACK_Loc_DATA>HELP ME!!!!</LOJACK_Loc_DATA>
<LOJACK_Loc_DATA_Response>Yes, we are aware you need help. Please tell us where you are.</LOJACK_Loc_DATA_Response>
<LOJACK_Loc_DATA>I don't know where I am. It's dark and I SEE DEAD PEOPLE!!! And empty pizza boxes and beer cans.</LOJACK_Loc_DATA>
<LOJACK_Loc_DATA_Response>Oh, you aren't stolen. You are at an Everquest Fan Faire.</LOJACK_Loc_DATA_Response>
<LOJACK_Loc_DATA>HELP M+++ CARRIER LOST
When its liberal arts machines getting infected, I've found the BEST firewall to be a pair of wire cutters. NOTHING gets through after the skilled use of these babies.
Now I can finally plow down my two neighbors houses and install my cluster!!!!
It may not be far from realistic that Bill wakes up one morning and lifts the universal sign of defiance (aka The Bird) in Europe's general direction. Definately an extreme measure, but one of EU's rocket-scientist politicians thought the attack was worthwhile.
2. Make the music tradeable only during sexual intercourse.
3. ? (What the hell do you need to know here anyway? #2 is either never going to happen, or you'll see a lot of geeks walking down the sidewalk with a smile from ear to ear.)
4. Profit
I should get paid for this.
As far as the hardware issues....well, MacOS ran differently on just about every Mac. I'm sure there have been improvements, but I couldn't just take MacOS from my Mac laptop and load it on a desktop. I could do this, however, with Windows or Linux. The memory problem he cites is going to be a problem on a Mac too. The only thing he gets away from is the motherboard clones, but that could be good or bad.
In short, there is no easy solution for the complex needs of computing. There will always be work to do to get the required stability, regardless of software or hardware platform.
1. Cut off thumb of guy in next cube (you didn't like that bastard looking over the wall all the time anyway.)
2. Eat some chili, VERY CAREFULLY.
3. ???
4. Profit
I'm sure more than one person in this forum would agree that personal data obtained about them without their consent is not legally obtained data. I would also think that if it were my personal information, I should be able to exercise the right to select what is made public and to scrutinize the security methods in place to ensure that information I wish to keep private does not suddenly become public. The people that collect this data are not even trusted by anyone to keep it confidential because most people don't know it is being collected and distributed in the first place. The data warehouses that collect it are staffed with people of unknown, and apparently insufficient, backgrounds to properly possess this knowledge in confidence.
Your comparison to misusing legally obtained items to break the law is irrelevant. You could similarly compare the birthing of a baby that grows up to be a serial killer as legal yet an act that allows something illegal to happen.
You should ask that question when some psycho you piss off figures out where you live. I'm sure after said psycho visits your house in the middle of the night and delivers you a flaming-hot UFIA, you'd probably be pretty pissed that your info was available to the public too.
Turn your spam filter off so you can get all the penis enlargment emails the More-Women-in-CS conspiracy organization has been circulating. We strongly believe this is the key to getting more women in CS.
In this case, he wants to "mature" the project by refining the QA process. Knows next to nothing about software development lifecycles. All software has been architechted on the back of a paper napkin, and plans for sales done the same way. So I see a Capability Maturity Model book on his desk one day. The next day, I swear this is true, he is out in the developer cubicle area throwing around terms like "Regression Testing". I resisted the urge to ask if he saved the napkins where the software was designed so that we could come up with a baseline for regressing against.
Another thing is that there is a concurrency problem in our product that can cause users to overwrite each other's data. Despite occasionally have problems with it, he refuses to allow anyone to fix the problem because it will take too long. Most design flaws get this type of treatment too. So much for trying to "mature" the product.
Spam on the refrigerator screen - Spood.
Spam on the toaster - Spoast.
Spam on the ice cream maker - Spooge.
Spooge?!? Now the pr0n industry has come full circle....
1. Get banner printed, "All your bases are belong to us!" 2. Hang banner where everyone in cube farm can see it. 3. ? 4. Profit
As punishment for your stupidity, bend over and take it. You deserve what you are getting. You could have hired a few consultants and brought it in house, but nooooooooooooooooo.....you had to try to get it cheap.
Karma sucks.
Just put all the stupid, opportunistic, just-graduated-from-law-school-and-need-to-prove-I -have-a-large-penis lawyers on a boat, take it to the middle of the pacific, and sink it.
I believe that the problem is mostly that security is an afterthought. By the time everyone realizes how much work it is going to take to put security into a product, the core functionality is about ready to head to QA. By the time it is ready to head to QA, sales has already been promised a delivery date.
So the management decides to put some basic security in the product, and save the more security effort for Rev. 2. Rev. 2 then takes a really long time to materialize while they are modify the core functionality to make the product more sellable.
2. All the soda you can drink before 5pm.
3. All the beer you can drink after 5pm.
4. A dev machine with the best graphics card, raided SATA drives, 3+GHz, and a raw, unrestricted net connection.
Free food and drink, Half-Life parties after 5pm...what more could any geek want? They'll pump out more code than you're slowbie QA people can handle.
No kidding. I could sum it up in one sentence:
Step 1: Call someone who knows what they are doing, or else Step 2 will kill you from sleep deprivation.
Anyone want to publish my book?
But, hey, think about it.....now you can be bitched at over your cell phone without having to spend air time minutes!
Programmer: "Where is the last golden ticket?" Computer: "I can't tell you, that would be cheating. And don't even think of trying to bribe me a with a lifetime supply of chocolate sux0r!"
All the things he listed that Microsoft missed their opportunity to implement were a bit off. Some of them were implmented (Passport, for example, for logging into websites with one login.....but that is another sore subject), and others are part of the direction not only Microsoft, but IBM, HP, Sun, etc are working towards. Many of these companies believe web-services are the future, and this is one step beyond the old band wagon of "hosted applications are the future." The hosted applications are what more companies are moving to, its just that the interfaces are being made a bit differently. The old way was to log into a terminal and run MS-Word (or take your pick of app). The new way is to run whatever app you want, but the logic is hosted somewhere else.
You could have compressed his package for him. That might have made him maintain control of it a bit more.