Obviously the architectural issues need to be addressed. However, these people did a BAD THING. Traditionally, when people do BAD THINGS, we attempt to FIND and PUNISH them. It's called LAW ENFORCEMENT.
It's not the attackers' fault that 99.9% of the organizations on the Internet don't take security seriously.
Give me a frickin' break. So I left my door unlocked. Does that give you the right to come in, douse my home with gasoline, light a match, hit the charred remains with a bulldozer, and nuke the remaining pile of ashes? I think not.
It's difficult to talk about, but that doesn't mean it's impossible. Try reading some of David Chalmers' stuff. Dennett, as much as I respect him, has his head in the sand.
Actually, the essays (all, I think, previously published elsewhere) were written by many different contributors. Great book. Hofstadter and Dennett clearly have their own opinion, but the book presents a variety of views on consciousness.
Programmers are _not_ typical end-users. They are way, way more savvy. On top of that, they're intimately familiar with their own work, so idioms that may be completely mystifying to typical users become second nature to them. The key to useful usability testing is seeing how much a typical, slightly computer-phobic user can get done in the first half hour of use. IMHO, often, a programmer's evaluation of the usability of his or her own work has little connection to reality. UI design should be trusted to UI professionals, subjected to as much testing as possible, and then translated into code.
Hm. You're saying we can't use this effect to communicate, which is true. However, information is still being transmitted -- we just have no control over what it is.
So while this may not be a _useful_ effect, it's still an interesting one.
Pirates are just stations that don't have a license to broadcast. I can't give you a good overview of UK pirate radio, but I do know there are a lot of cool techno/jungle/house/etc pirates. Pirates are at least partly responsible for the popularity of electronic music in the UK.
Without making everyone buy a new car stereo, that is. Seems like if your radio accepts a certain signal as an order to change to frequency X, the only "countermeasure" would be to jam the signal. And if they could do that, the pirates would be out of business already.
> Actually, DJ's are not allowed to play any > music they own copies of. They must obtain a > license to play their tunes. (Just like radio > stations.)
Actually, the DJ doesn't need to have that license if the space he/she is performing in has one. And almost any club that a DJ would be in has such a license. I don't know a single DJ that has one.
You've got that one drive conflict with a recently installed hard drive on the new server that has to go up NOW or the e-commerce site crashes. You offer $500, set a time limit of 45 minutes. The company reimburses you. Boom.
I hesitate only because *everybody* does Linus interviews, and most of them get posted on Slashdot and we all read them.
Yeahbut most of those interviews are targeted at a general audience, and written by journalists who aren't as well-informed as the Slashdot hive-mind. So hopefully people will ask more revealing questions here.
Ok, if TM is really inventing the Holy Grail, they're probably going to expect, um...high demand. So wouldn't they need to have either (1) built their own chip fab or (2) contracted with another chip fab? Seems like someone should be able to confirm (1) or (2), and if neither has occured, it's likely we won't see this chip for some time.
You know, there's no reason Red Hat couldn't sign a contract with a company such as your to accomplish the exact same thing. Say they agree to have X programmers "on call" if any piece of free software breaks. Something mission-critical breaks where you work, the Red Hat guys fly in and fix it, everyone's happy. Oh, and the fix would be GPL'd, so everyone else would benefit, too. Isn't open source great?
This is an interesting idea...a government, say Serbia, writing a newsgroup bot designed to look for discussions of the Balkans and spread the Serbian government's viewpoint. Of course, it would be a lot more successful if it was subtle, rather than bombastic.
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It's not the attackers' fault that 99.9% of the organizations on the Internet don't take security seriously.
Give me a frickin' break. So I left my door unlocked. Does that give you the right to come in, douse my home with gasoline, light a match, hit the charred remains with a bulldozer, and nuke the remaining pile of ashes? I think not.
It's difficult to talk about, but that doesn't mean it's impossible. Try reading some of David Chalmers' stuff. Dennett, as much as I respect him, has his head in the sand.
Actually, the essays (all, I think, previously published elsewhere) were written by many different contributors.
Great book. Hofstadter and Dennett clearly have their own opinion, but the book presents a variety of views on consciousness.
Programmers are _not_ typical end-users. They are way, way more savvy. On top of that, they're intimately familiar with their own work, so idioms that may be completely mystifying to typical users become second nature to them. The key to useful usability testing is seeing how much a typical, slightly computer-phobic user can get done in the first half hour of use. IMHO, often, a programmer's evaluation of the usability of his or her own work has little connection to reality. UI design should be trusted to UI professionals, subjected to as much testing as possible, and then translated into code.
So while this may not be a _useful_ effect, it's still an interesting one.
Pirates are just stations that don't have a license to broadcast. I can't give you a good overview of UK pirate radio, but I do know there are a lot of cool techno/jungle/house/etc pirates. Pirates are at least partly responsible for the popularity of electronic music in the UK.
Without making everyone buy a new car stereo, that is. Seems like if your radio accepts a certain signal as an order to change to frequency X, the only "countermeasure" would be to jam the signal. And if they could do that, the pirates would be out of business already.
Moderate this down, please.
> music they own copies of. They must obtain a
> license to play their tunes. (Just like radio
> stations
Actually, the DJ doesn't need to have that license if the space he/she
is performing in has one. And almost any club that a DJ would be in
has such a license. I don't know a single DJ that has one.
You've got that one drive conflict with a recently installed hard drive on the new server that has to go up NOW or the e-commerce site crashes. You offer $500, set a time limit of 45 minutes. The company reimburses you. Boom.
I mean, heaven forbid that I should actually sit and think for five minutes without electronic stimulation.
Yeahbut most of those interviews are targeted at a general audience, and written by journalists who aren't as well-informed as the Slashdot hive-mind. So hopefully people will ask more revealing questions here.
No Transmeta questions, please.
Ok, if TM is really inventing the Holy Grail, they're probably going to expect, um...high demand. So wouldn't they need to have either (1) built their own chip fab or (2) contracted with another chip fab? Seems like someone should be able to confirm (1) or (2), and if neither has occured, it's likely we won't see this chip for some time.
Yeah, there probably will be a shortage of Linux developers. But I don't necessarily think anyone here needs to be too upset about that...
You know, there's no reason Red Hat couldn't sign a contract with a company such as your to accomplish the exact same thing. Say they agree to have X programmers "on call" if any piece of free software breaks. Something mission-critical breaks where you work, the Red Hat guys fly in and fix it, everyone's happy. Oh, and the fix would be GPL'd, so everyone else would benefit, too. Isn't open source great?
This is an interesting idea...a government, say Serbia, writing a newsgroup bot designed to look for discussions of the Balkans and spread the Serbian government's viewpoint. Of course, it would be a lot more successful if it was subtle, rather than bombastic.
Aren't there a number of projects attempting to archive the entire web? How about Alexa, for example? Or Google?