That's supposedly how the Indians felt when the white man first offered to buy their land. They accepted the deal thinking they were getting money for nothing - how could you really own anything you didn't create and couldn't carry with you? Now it's hard for us to see things that way.
If you're thinking about when we bought manhattan for $24, then yes, they did get something for nothing. Apparently we bought the island from some guys that lived in Brooklyn, thus starting a long tradition... The Indians have a very well developed sense of land ownership and property rights. The problem was, we have the guns.
Dnet when it ran its RSA challenges and the current challenges used a lot of resources. Many many many thousands of computers and even then, the process took some years. And, the ciphers that were broken were just very short key lengths. Much smaller than the usual non-paranoid key length used by most people. And paranoid key lengths (PGP used 768 or 1024 bits as a first choice, GnuPG uses 2048 in there. 2048bits is quite a number of factors larger than even 1024 bits.).
Doesn't gpg and its ilk use DSA or some other symmetric codec for sessions? You can't compare keylength between Assymetric and Symmetric ciphers - they're too different.
To play a devil's advocate: If I happen to be a driver who always drives safely and at recommended speed limits and undangerously for the roads on which I'm driving... and a black box can help to reasonably prove that, why should I be required to subsidise people who don't drive safely by paying higher insurance premiums myself?
Presumption of innocence. Until you have been caught doing something by an actual person, we presume that you are behaving reasonably. As an aside, what makes you think that a black box could ever do what you describe?
And suffer from interminable complaints from dumbasses who like blaming someone else that their DSL is being 'censored'. BTW, neither you or the grandfather post seem to have any real understanding of the administrators job if you think they can be blamed for 'not locking down ports', or indeed their job is wiping user's bottoms.
Duh - my point is that joe user doesn't have an admin. I guess sarcasm doesn't carry over into prose so well.
I really hate to say this, but you're dead wrong. It would be trivial to write a small daemon which would snoop your console ttys and take a dump of your X-windows session on a regular basis. Name it something innocuous like httppd, and chances are the user would never notice.
The problem comes when you try to install it and find that it can't actually read the user's ttys or screen. Woops!
And it's a bit absurd that The Fine Article was talking about the "ANSI-92 SQL Standard".
Wouldn't the "SQL-2003 standard" or at least the "SQL-99 standard" be better goals to shoot for?
It depends on what the majority of DB products support. The last I had heard was that SQL-99 was well supported, but SQL-2003 was not. Granted, this was a year ago, but the point remains: there's no reason to be SQL-2003 if your chosen DB doesn't support it.
Perhaps its a result of having a family to protect, but I simply find it difficult to believe that anyone can be so callous as to write a story ending with no real concern over a pointless loss of a loved one.
That's the point - the main characer is so conditioned to only value baubles that he has no concern for his fellow human being. Life isn't all disney, you know.
I'm even more disgusted by the fact that the author chose to present this garbage to impressionable young adults who lack a solid enough grasp on the depth of reality to effectively judge the content for themselves.
I'm sure you were equally disgusted with Lord of the Flies. After all, making impressionable children read that is just going to encourage them to go kill each other.
Oh, because that never happens when the other guy is speaking American English... Maybe your problem is more with the people you're dealing with and less with their choice of language.
So, not only do they have a _thick_ accent, they're idiots as well, because all the smart people came to America/Europe or are making $40k locally.
While this is a setback for the pacemaker-using crowd, almost all agree that having a non-variable heart rate is better than having no heart rate at all.
The ones that don't are probably the pilot group for this turbo-heart thingy.
Um, they're contracting with India. English is spoken quite well there -- perhaps not the accent you're used to, but still the Queen's English.
Spoken like someone who hasn't had the pleasure of Indian English. It sounds like English, but somehow, no information gets through. It's especially fun when dealing with Tech support that's got an attitude, or developers that tell you what they think you'd like to hear.
To where, South Carolina? They manufacture a lot of cars here (they being Japanese companies), and I buy them because I only really trust the big 3 to try and screw me.
This whole third world outsourcing thing is a bit different - we aren't competing with Indian firms producing some product, we're seeing US companies sending the work overseas because it's cheap. The main benefactors are Indians and CxO level guys.
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That's supposedly how the Indians felt when the white man first offered to buy their land. They accepted the deal thinking they were getting money for nothing - how could you really own anything you didn't create and couldn't carry with you? Now it's hard for us to see things that way.
If you're thinking about when we bought manhattan for $24, then yes, they did get something for nothing. Apparently we bought the island from some guys that lived in Brooklyn, thus starting a long tradition... The Indians have a very well developed sense of land ownership and property rights. The problem was, we have the guns.
At the very least, he could probably be charged with maintaining an attractive nuisance.
Nah, he'd just have the judge declare that it didn't have jurisdiction over the Sun.
Nah, Jake lives in the endzone.
Dnet when it ran its RSA challenges and the current challenges used a lot of resources. Many many many thousands of computers and even then, the process took some years. And, the ciphers that were broken were just very short key lengths. Much smaller than the usual non-paranoid key length used by most people. And paranoid key lengths (PGP used 768 or 1024 bits as a first choice, GnuPG uses 2048 in there. 2048bits is quite a number of factors larger than even 1024 bits.).
Doesn't gpg and its ilk use DSA or some other symmetric codec for sessions? You can't compare keylength between Assymetric and Symmetric ciphers - they're too different.
PS New York Stock Exchange, 0915h, main stock floor, 14th August 2004.
PPS be funny if anyone sees that and doesn't turn up for work that day
Hate to break it to you, but the 14th is a saturday.
I prefer the old stand by:
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To play a devil's advocate: If I happen to be a driver who always drives safely and at recommended speed limits and undangerously for the roads on which I'm driving... and a black box can help to reasonably prove that, why should I be required to subsidise people who don't drive safely by paying higher insurance premiums myself?
Presumption of innocence. Until you have been caught doing something by an actual person, we presume that you are behaving reasonably. As an aside, what makes you think that a black box could ever do what you describe?
And you don't want convicts monitored, why?
Monitor convicts all you want, just don't monitor me until you've convicted me of something.
I think people confuse "government" with "the local guy in power who wants to strut his/her stuff".
What's the difference?
Who are we going to be fighting with this stuff? Terrorists? Belgium?
Grandparent here.
And suffer from interminable complaints from dumbasses who like blaming someone else that their DSL is being 'censored'. BTW, neither you or the grandfather post seem to have any real understanding of the administrators job if you think they can be blamed for 'not locking down ports', or indeed their job is wiping user's bottoms.
Duh - my point is that joe user doesn't have an admin. I guess sarcasm doesn't carry over into prose so well.
Me, I would have placed the blame squarely on all of the admins out there who allowed their systems to be compromised by the worms in the first place.
You mean that it's Joe user's fault that his DSL connected PC got infected? What do you suggest we do about that?
I'm an MBA. Would you please explain the joke?
Well, it's like when you have two people doing the same job in case one gets sick, except that, instead of firing one, you keep both around.
Are you saying that the guy you replied to can't program, or that it would be impossible to do?
I'm saying that the guy cant read the ttys because he won't have the necessary permissions.
I really hate to say this, but you're dead wrong. It would be trivial to write a small daemon which would snoop your console ttys and take a dump of your X-windows session on a regular basis. Name it something innocuous like httppd, and chances are the user would never notice.
The problem comes when you try to install it and find that it can't actually read the user's ttys or screen. Woops!
And it's a bit absurd that The Fine Article was talking about the "ANSI-92 SQL Standard". Wouldn't the "SQL-2003 standard" or at least the "SQL-99 standard" be better goals to shoot for?
It depends on what the majority of DB products support. The last I had heard was that SQL-99 was well supported, but SQL-2003 was not. Granted, this was a year ago, but the point remains: there's no reason to be SQL-2003 if your chosen DB doesn't support it.
Perhaps its a result of having a family to protect, but I simply find it difficult to believe that anyone can be so callous as to write a story ending with no real concern over a pointless loss of a loved one.
That's the point - the main characer is so conditioned to only value baubles that he has no concern for his fellow human being. Life isn't all disney, you know.
I'm even more disgusted by the fact that the author chose to present this garbage to impressionable young adults who lack a solid enough grasp on the depth of reality to effectively judge the content for themselves.
I'm sure you were equally disgusted with Lord of the Flies. After all, making impressionable children read that is just going to encourage them to go kill each other.
Oh, because that never happens when the other guy is speaking American English... Maybe your problem is more with the people you're dealing with and less with their choice of language.
So, not only do they have a _thick_ accent, they're idiots as well, because all the smart people came to America/Europe or are making $40k locally.
While this is a setback for the pacemaker-using crowd, almost all agree that having a non-variable heart rate is better than having no heart rate at all.
The ones that don't are probably the pilot group for this turbo-heart thingy.
Um, they're contracting with India. English is spoken quite well there -- perhaps not the accent you're used to, but still the Queen's English.
Spoken like someone who hasn't had the pleasure of Indian English. It sounds like English, but somehow, no information gets through. It's especially fun when dealing with Tech support that's got an attitude, or developers that tell you what they think you'd like to hear.
They "outsourced" cars too
To where, South Carolina? They manufacture a lot of cars here (they being Japanese companies), and I buy them because I only really trust the big 3 to try and screw me.
This whole third world outsourcing thing is a bit different - we aren't competing with Indian firms producing some product, we're seeing US companies sending the work overseas because it's cheap. The main benefactors are Indians and CxO level guys.
And if somethings hard, we just shouldn't do it, right? And "boring"! Like testing software is ever "fun".
Why the hell should I work hard for someone else's benefit? It's not like I can modify the code and build myself a custom system.
Walmart
Okay, that explains that: I never go to walmart.
Rewrite the code for that $800 digital camcorder to a $2 box of pasta that weighs the same.
Who sells camcorders and pasta in the same store, anyway?
Every voter gets a paper receipt which will show how they voted.
Not acceptable - it makes vote buying easy.