...and not a computer scientist? You are already shooting holes in the credibility of your own statement...
which often involves looking through Other People's Code, and software is shit
So, based off the fact that you see there are people who have written code who have no talent and/or education for it, you emperically state that software in general, is shit.
I'll make a more believeable and less grandiose statement about the state of things: 'Unless the education system is improved to better train programmers in applying mathermatical techniques developed by computer scientists, the advances in hardware will not be fully utilized'.
The entire system will crumble to bits as the sheer bulk of rubbish circling around in the net exceeds the public pain threshold.
The doctor is wrong for several reasons.
First off, his premise is based off of nothing changing. The Internet behaves like an evolutionary biological system. Spammers send out spam, people build spam filters to lock out spam, and then the spammers improve spam to beat the filters. It mirrors a biological eveloutionary race. Unless one group eliminates the other entirely by an new improvement in strategy, this will go back and forth for a long time.
Furhtermore, there is also a predator-prey model at work. As the predators(spam,viruses,spyware) become more prevalent, the 'weak' users will be weeded out. Actually, they will get fed up and abandon the meidum. The 'stronger' prey are more impervious to such nusances, and will just ignore them. As the easy prey decreeses, so does the profitiability of spammers, spyware, and vectors for virri. This will cause their numbers to drop, and allow a new batch of weak prey to enter the model.
The netw will never 'crash' due to issues such as this, but it may experience rises and falls in popularity among the masses. The sky is not falling.
...selling you licenses based on the number of CPU sockets you are using! Yes, this is a secret strategy that MS came up with years ago. It's the dreaded 'Proc socket tax'! Everybody now...
I started fooling around with multi mon at work several years ago. I grabbed some 8mb video cards out of old machines, and put them into my primary system. It was easy to find an extra moniter to scavenge, and voila, dual moniters.
But dual moniters is a gateway drug. I soon dug up a third video card, and set up another one. And then a fourth. I only stopped there because I ran out of desk space and pci slots. You think it's bad to have a monkey on your back? Try four 17" Moniters...
Its awesome because you cand have an IDE open, a DB manager open, several folder that you are developing out of, and doccumentation open all at once, and you don't have to flip back and forth. If you are a serious coder, it cannot be beat. Just...try to control your habbit....
Parent is correct, the notion that MS employe ninjas is silly. Everybody here at MS knows that Ronin are far more effective in terms of bang for the buck. Ninjas are very expensive, and non-tax deducatble.
As I understand it, law enforcement agencies raid ISPs for evidence, not to censor things. If their goal was to censor things, why wouldn't they take the backups? That Indymedia has backups to restore from pretty much shoots holes through any 'They are out to censor things argument'.
They take systems so that they can examine them at their leisure and make sure that they find whatever evidence that they are looking for. Also, it is pretty common practice for police play their cards close during an investigation. How is this case at all special in that aspect? What do you want from them, a nice flowery card that says, 'don't start destroying data, but we are investigating you?'
In 10 years, India will be full of very experienced managers, architects, and analysts. In the US though, most of those jobs will be gone much like the junior positions are leaving now.
Parent is very insightful, but the senior positions won't move, unless entire projects are moved overseas. At that point why not just license someone else's code? They will just have a lot of trouble trying to fill them with people who have a resume that meets the requirement that they are looking for. Eccccccenomikz says that at that point, either HR will have to lower expectations (less bang for the buck from their point of view) or Pay more to get the top talent (Scarcity of resource drives price up). Either way it's a long term negative for businuess in the USA, because of their short sighted goals. Which is really rather typical of the American businuess perspective.
(Eventually, Japan might just buy the entire world, because they have long term goals and are patient about achieving them.)
One thing I wonder about, though. The Screenshot in the article showed the driveway from a fairly long shot. Are the cameras good enough to read a liscence plate at that distance? And what about lighting? It might be hard to read a plate at night, although a motion detector on an external light might solve that problem.
Getting pictures of theives is a good thing, making sure that they are good enought to ID someone is even better.
The ratings on games are self-imposed. By requiring a store to enforce those ratings, a game company now has a reason to rate every game they make with a 'G' rating (or whatever the lowest category is), regardless of the actual content. Or even, not rate it at all.
Don't pass stupid useless legislation, Canada. That's Bush's job. You're supposed to be the smart member of the family...
Exactly what are you up to that you refer to law enforcement official as 'bad guys'?
Really now, this is what I am talking about. I don't buy into that officer friendly crap that every cop in the world wants to be my buddy, but 'bad guys'? Terrorists are bad guys. The Nazis were bad guys. The fbi/cia/m5 are, at worst, misguided guys...
This program is just a program, and it is only good or evil as it is used. That being said, this reminds me a lot of automatic weapons. Sure a gun is only a tool, and it is entirely up to the user in how it employed. However, like an automatic weapon with an extended clip, a silencer and teflon coated bullets, it's practical legal uses are very limited and the potential for abuse probably far excedes it's legitimate useage.
P2P software is in the same boat, but it is a far less clear cut case. While I could argue that there is a legitimate need to be able to transfer files to large numbers of people, and that there isn't much use in mass-mailing software, there is a far simpler line deviding them. If I go phishing for bank accounts, I am committing criminal fraud. If I share copyrighted material via P2P, I am comitting a civil offense. Ergo, I would guess that someone like this could probably be charged with aiding criminal activity. (If I were a DA, I would haul this guy in on a charge like that, and let him plea bargan a suspended sentince. He probably doesn't deserve serious jail time, but at the same time he needs a wakeup call to re-consider his rationalizations.)
What kind of cop-out is his his excuses anyway? 'It's hard to find a job'. Bullshit, when time are tough, you take a job flipping burgers if needed to make ends meet, not start writing software to aid criminals. I got a job in Seattle (supposedly one of the worst places for IT unemployment in last few years) right after the dot bomb crash, comming out of college with no real resume.
I love it when the tinfoil hats birgade comes out on slashdot, its better than TV.
Ok, just to turn the paranoia knob down ten notches here, why would the fbi/cia/M5/etc. bother to try to install key or traffic loggers? They have already demonstraited that they can literally own the box any damn time they want it. In addition, they could just slap a copy of carnivor (or whatever passes for it in Europe) on the ISP trunks, and read anything they want, and no ammount of reformatting or scanning would detect it.
This project is a reality people! I saw some sorce code the other day from it...
--TIA script v0.9 by john f.
--Notes: Runs a little slow, maybe some additional indexes on DBs?
SELECT ss.lastname,ss.firstname,*
FROM SocialSecurity SS
INNER JOIN FBIFiles FF ON SS.CurrentSSN = FF.SSN and SS.DateOfBirth = FF.DOB
INNER JOIN Langleyprime..CIASuspects CS ON CS.Aliases = FF.names
INNER JOIN NSA_security_Risks NSA ON NSA.First = SS.FirstName and NSA.last = SS.LastName and NSA.middle like ss.middleormaidenname
INNER JOIN DOT..StateDMV_trafficviolations DOT ON NSA.First = DOT.First and NSA.last = DOT.last
INNER JOIN OPENDATASOURCE('SQLOLEDB','Data Source=Secretservice1;User ID=Goodguys;Password=tokeabowl').enemies.dbo.names SS1 on SS1.Uid = SS.SSn + SS.Lastname
inner join StatetrooperReports1..Suspects ST ON st.First = DOT.First and st.last = DOT.last
inner join countypolice..bookings CP ON cp.First = DOT.First and cp.last = DOT.last
INNER JOIN OPENDATASOURCE('SQLOLEDB','Data Source=ATF_serv;User ID=goodcop;Password=badcop').suspects.dbo.info ATF on ATF.First = DOT.First and ATF.last = DOT.last
--WHERE PoliticalAffilitation 'republican' --pulled this, loonies using it as loophole
WHERE (Religion = 'Shia Mooslim' OR Religion = 'Sunny Mooslim' or Religion = 'presbeteryan')
AND (Alingment like '%evil%' or (Alingment = 'neutral' and PoliticalAffilitation = 'communinst')
AND status = 'not yet dead'
Order by ss.lastname, ss.firstname
I looked up Savannah cats and found a whole bunch of breeds of exotic cats that look like minature great cats. Toygers are really cool, too. Thanks for the tip!
I've got an even better one: GM housecats to look like tigers, cheetas and leopoards. How much would you pay for a housecat that looked exactly like a bengal tiger?
Interestingly enough, this also might stop some of the hunting for great cats in the wild. Why risk jail time when you can just breed and skin housecats? In the long run, it would also help destroy the appeal of rare furs, as if people live with the animals, I think they emphasize with them to a greater extent. (for example, most people would think you were psychotic if you tried to sell them a dog skin coat. Is is because dog hair makes bad coats, or because they like dogs and would feel revulsion to the idea as a result?)
Your idea of GM kittens and puppies also has a major plus. By making them puberty-free, they are already fixed, reducing the problem of unwanted breeding and stray animals.
2) I suppose that working in a climate controlled environment (chilled server room with fans/noise all the time) is good if you live in the tropics. Most IT guys end up shoved into a corner of the server room with a bundle of CAT5 running right overhead and a shelf of backup tapes right behind the pile of old PC carcases on the floor.
*sigh* You lucky bastard. They make me work in a normal office. Just because you get to work in Heaven, you don't need to taunt the rest of us...
This is an example of the Republican party spreading dis-information and lies in an effort to discredit their opponents.
The statement made by Al Gore was that he helped with funding to support the Internet. The Republican lie machine quickly shortened this up to 'Al Gore claims to have invented the internet' and spread the quote all over the media. Informed parties saw exactly what was happening, but the average joe only sees the issue being muddied up by all the distortions.
I realize you are trying to make a joke, but I find it hard to make light of a situation where people are knowingly distorting the truth to gain power.
you have just hit on one aspect of Godel's Incompleteness theorum. The more complex you make a system in a qwest to be perfect, the more paradox that you create. In this case, you have an infinite number if AIs, all of which can fail, and since you can never know the state of the end of the chain, you will never know if the error can be successfull resolved.
Here he is ladies and gentilemen...
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I kept thinking, wow, portland has got a lot more traffic than I last remembered...I wonder if I can car-jack that Abrahms....
I'm a Professional Programmer...
...and not a computer scientist? You are already shooting holes in the credibility of your own statement...
which often involves looking through Other People's Code, and software is shit
So, based off the fact that you see there are people who have written code who have no talent and/or education for it, you emperically state that software in general, is shit.
I'll make a more believeable and less grandiose statement about the state of things: 'Unless the education system is improved to better train programmers in applying mathermatical techniques developed by computer scientists, the advances in hardware will not be fully utilized'.
The entire system will crumble to bits as the sheer bulk of rubbish circling around in the net exceeds the public pain threshold.
The doctor is wrong for several reasons.
First off, his premise is based off of nothing changing. The Internet behaves like an evolutionary biological system. Spammers send out spam, people build spam filters to lock out spam, and then the spammers improve spam to beat the filters. It mirrors a biological eveloutionary race. Unless one group eliminates the other entirely by an new improvement in strategy, this will go back and forth for a long time.
Furhtermore, there is also a predator-prey model at work. As the predators(spam,viruses,spyware) become more prevalent, the 'weak' users will be weeded out. Actually, they will get fed up and abandon the meidum. The 'stronger' prey are more impervious to such nusances, and will just ignore them. As the easy prey decreeses, so does the profitiability of spammers, spyware, and vectors for virri. This will cause their numbers to drop, and allow a new batch of weak prey to enter the model.
The netw will never 'crash' due to issues such as this, but it may experience rises and falls in popularity among the masses. The sky is not falling.
...selling you licenses based on the number of CPU sockets you are using! Yes, this is a secret strategy that MS came up with years ago. It's the dreaded 'Proc socket tax'! Everybody now...
NO PROC SOCKET TAXATION WITH LINUXIZATION!
The author of the article is just jealous because I'm going to get millions from Nigeria, and he isn't!
/., small world eh?
Correction, Million. I'm also working with Mr. JohnDoe Psyudonimm to help remove his money from Nigeria, so I guess we will have to split it.
Imagine meeting another of Mr. Psyudonimm's partners here on
I started fooling around with multi mon at work several years ago. I grabbed some 8mb video cards out of old machines, and put them into my primary system. It was easy to find an extra moniter to scavenge, and voila, dual moniters.
But dual moniters is a gateway drug. I soon dug up a third video card, and set up another one. And then a fourth. I only stopped there because I ran out of desk space and pci slots. You think it's bad to have a monkey on your back? Try four 17" Moniters...
Its awesome because you cand have an IDE open, a DB manager open, several folder that you are developing out of, and doccumentation open all at once, and you don't have to flip back and forth. If you are a serious coder, it cannot be beat. Just...try to control your habbit....
Q:What do you call someone who hangs out with musicians?
A:A Drummer
Ninjas? Was this written by an 8 year old?
Parent is correct, the notion that MS employe ninjas is silly. Everybody here at MS knows that Ronin are far more effective in terms of bang for the buck. Ninjas are very expensive, and non-tax deducatble.
As I understand it, law enforcement agencies raid ISPs for evidence, not to censor things. If their goal was to censor things, why wouldn't they take the backups? That Indymedia has backups to restore from pretty much shoots holes through any 'They are out to censor things argument'.
They take systems so that they can examine them at their leisure and make sure that they find whatever evidence that they are looking for. Also, it is pretty common practice for police play their cards close during an investigation. How is this case at all special in that aspect? What do you want from them, a nice flowery card that says, 'don't start destroying data, but we are investigating you?'
You can take off your tinfoil hats now.
In 10 years, India will be full of very experienced managers, architects, and analysts. In the US though, most of those jobs will be gone much like the junior positions are leaving now.
Parent is very insightful, but the senior positions won't move, unless entire projects are moved overseas. At that point why not just license someone else's code? They will just have a lot of trouble trying to fill them with people who have a resume that meets the requirement that they are looking for. Eccccccenomikz says that at that point, either HR will have to lower expectations (less bang for the buck from their point of view) or Pay more to get the top talent (Scarcity of resource drives price up). Either way it's a long term negative for businuess in the USA, because of their short sighted goals. Which is really rather typical of the American businuess perspective.
(Eventually, Japan might just buy the entire world, because they have long term goals and are patient about achieving them.)
One thing I wonder about, though. The Screenshot in the article showed the driveway from a fairly long shot. Are the cameras good enough to read a liscence plate at that distance? And what about lighting? It might be hard to read a plate at night, although a motion detector on an external light might solve that problem.
Getting pictures of theives is a good thing, making sure that they are good enought to ID someone is even better.
The ratings on games are self-imposed. By requiring a store to enforce those ratings, a game company now has a reason to rate every game they make with a 'G' rating (or whatever the lowest category is), regardless of the actual content. Or even, not rate it at all.
Don't pass stupid useless legislation, Canada. That's Bush's job. You're supposed to be the smart member of the family...
Exactly what are you up to that you refer to law enforcement official as 'bad guys'?
Really now, this is what I am talking about. I don't buy into that officer friendly crap that every cop in the world wants to be my buddy, but 'bad guys'? Terrorists are bad guys. The Nazis were bad guys. The fbi/cia/m5 are, at worst, misguided guys...
This program is just a program, and it is only good or evil as it is used. That being said, this reminds me a lot of automatic weapons. Sure a gun is only a tool, and it is entirely up to the user in how it employed. However, like an automatic weapon with an extended clip, a silencer and teflon coated bullets, it's practical legal uses are very limited and the potential for abuse probably far excedes it's legitimate useage.
P2P software is in the same boat, but it is a far less clear cut case. While I could argue that there is a legitimate need to be able to transfer files to large numbers of people, and that there isn't much use in mass-mailing software, there is a far simpler line deviding them. If I go phishing for bank accounts, I am committing criminal fraud. If I share copyrighted material via P2P, I am comitting a civil offense. Ergo, I would guess that someone like this could probably be charged with aiding criminal activity. (If I were a DA, I would haul this guy in on a charge like that, and let him plea bargan a suspended sentince. He probably doesn't deserve serious jail time, but at the same time he needs a wakeup call to re-consider his rationalizations.)
What kind of cop-out is his his excuses anyway? 'It's hard to find a job'. Bullshit, when time are tough, you take a job flipping burgers if needed to make ends meet, not start writing software to aid criminals. I got a job in Seattle (supposedly one of the worst places for IT unemployment in last few years) right after the dot bomb crash, comming out of college with no real resume.
I love it when the tinfoil hats birgade comes out on slashdot, its better than TV.
Ok, just to turn the paranoia knob down ten notches here, why would the fbi/cia/M5/etc. bother to try to install key or traffic loggers? They have already demonstraited that they can literally own the box any damn time they want it. In addition, they could just slap a copy of carnivor (or whatever passes for it in Europe) on the ISP trunks, and read anything they want, and no ammount of reformatting or scanning would detect it.
This project is a reality people! I saw some sorce code the other day from it...
s SS1 on SS1.Uid = SS.SSn + SS.Lastname
--TIA script v0.9 by john f.
--Notes: Runs a little slow, maybe some additional indexes on DBs?
SELECT ss.lastname,ss.firstname,*
FROM SocialSecurity SS
INNER JOIN FBIFiles FF ON SS.CurrentSSN = FF.SSN and SS.DateOfBirth = FF.DOB
INNER JOIN Langleyprime..CIASuspects CS ON CS.Aliases = FF.names
INNER JOIN NSA_security_Risks NSA ON NSA.First = SS.FirstName and NSA.last = SS.LastName and NSA.middle like ss.middleormaidenname
INNER JOIN DOT..StateDMV_trafficviolations DOT ON NSA.First = DOT.First and NSA.last = DOT.last
INNER JOIN OPENDATASOURCE('SQLOLEDB','Data Source=Secretservice1;User ID=Goodguys;Password=tokeabowl').enemies.dbo.name
inner join StatetrooperReports1..Suspects ST ON st.First = DOT.First and st.last = DOT.last
inner join countypolice..bookings CP ON cp.First = DOT.First and cp.last = DOT.last
INNER JOIN OPENDATASOURCE('SQLOLEDB','Data Source=ATF_serv;User ID=goodcop;Password=badcop').suspects.dbo.info ATF on ATF.First = DOT.First and ATF.last = DOT.last
--WHERE PoliticalAffilitation 'republican' --pulled this, loonies using it as loophole
WHERE (Religion = 'Shia Mooslim' OR Religion = 'Sunny Mooslim' or Religion = 'presbeteryan')
AND (Alingment like '%evil%' or (Alingment = 'neutral' and PoliticalAffilitation = 'communinst')
AND status = 'not yet dead'
Order by ss.lastname, ss.firstname
I looked up Savannah cats and found a whole bunch of breeds of exotic cats that look like minature great cats. Toygers are really cool, too. Thanks for the tip!
I've got an even better one: GM housecats to look like tigers, cheetas and leopoards. How much would you pay for a housecat that looked exactly like a bengal tiger?
Interestingly enough, this also might stop some of the hunting for great cats in the wild. Why risk jail time when you can just breed and skin housecats? In the long run, it would also help destroy the appeal of rare furs, as if people live with the animals, I think they emphasize with them to a greater extent. (for example, most people would think you were psychotic if you tried to sell them a dog skin coat. Is is because dog hair makes bad coats, or because they like dogs and would feel revulsion to the idea as a result?)
Your idea of GM kittens and puppies also has a major plus. By making them puberty-free, they are already fixed, reducing the problem of unwanted breeding and stray animals.
well, unless they figure out how to have a bot produce lawsuits...
Bots...Producing...lawsuits...hmmmmm...SHEER GEINUS!
I think I have just hit upon the mysterious solution to step number 3 that has eluded many business plans over the last few years...
The recording industry's relentless barrage of lawsuits (and settlements) have deterred a significant number of people from "stealing" music.
Yes, but have they caused those people to start buying music? I'd say no, so the whole legal adventure is/was a waste of time.
2) I suppose that working in a climate controlled environment (chilled server room with fans/noise all the time) is good if you live in the tropics. Most IT guys end up shoved into a corner of the server room with a bundle of CAT5 running right overhead and a shelf of backup tapes right behind the pile of old PC carcases on the floor.
*sigh* You lucky bastard. They make me work in a normal office. Just because you get to work in Heaven, you don't need to taunt the rest of us...
I just want to know then, where the IT managers that work for a waste collection agencies fall in the grand scheme of things...
This is an example of the Republican party spreading dis-information and lies in an effort to discredit their opponents.
The statement made by Al Gore was that he helped with funding to support the Internet. The Republican lie machine quickly shortened this up to 'Al Gore claims to have invented the internet' and spread the quote all over the media. Informed parties saw exactly what was happening, but the average joe only sees the issue being muddied up by all the distortions.
I realize you are trying to make a joke, but I find it hard to make light of a situation where people are knowingly distorting the truth to gain power.
you have just hit on one aspect of Godel's Incompleteness theorum. The more complex you make a system in a qwest to be perfect, the more paradox that you create. In this case, you have an infinite number if AIs, all of which can fail, and since you can never know the state of the end of the chain, you will never know if the error can be successfull resolved.
MacDate? Sounds more like staying home and Mac-sturbating to me!
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