you hit one thing this guy is trying to stop. As long as you're relying on external firewalls instead of internal security, you'll always be in "firefighting" mode!!! A vendor or subcontractor, VP or engineer is ALWAYS going to be comming in your office with a hot project that's holding up the whole company and "internet security" is the lowest thing on their list of hazards. They're worried about not getting an order out on last minute notice.. not wether they just left the "barn door" open and all the horses are out. Most business types think of security as a social issue... "people should just do right" that's not always possible... the education in computing alone is enormous.. that's why they have us! They tend to want to punish minor infractions severely rather than spend time diciplining the business processes to build in security.
One good thing for the IT industry is the big push for all things SOX... my company is being audited right now and we're finding so many holes in accounting practice and internal apps it's enough to make your head spin.. and that's what the authorized users can do!!! I think with SOX that the idea of multi-tiered, paranoid internal networks are going to become the norm real soon now. Just the access to sensitive information that people in the same department shouldn't be having.. i.e. purchasing and recieving.. at medium sized companies those are often office mates!!! let alone the bigger issues of an outsider knowing such holes exist. If anything IT has relied far too long on the good will and honesty of the "geeks". When you see how much power "geeks" have in most companies it's truely staggering that more companies don't have trouble with IT staff hurting them.
Ubuntu and Knoppix are more cooperative with established distros than competition. Both Ubuntu and Knoppix try to stay as close to vanilla Debian as possible... but at the same time try to create a smaller pool because debian is moving SOOOO slowly.
I think Ubuntu is a welcome addition because is pulls the "just works" masses away from nagging the Debian developers about petty things. Ubuntu and Knoppix are really more to the heart of what Linux is about... it's not helpful for them to diverge too far.. and the "putting back of code" is only limited by the arrogance of the Debian groups to not accept the changes, not because the Knoppix or Ubuntu folks are trying to "fork" anything.
The biggest thing Ubuntu offers is a Platform rather than a distro. They're trying to add some "spit n polish" to debian to make it more user friendly... They're focused more on adding the "polish" the community asks for than reinventing the mouse trap like so many other distros. The reason it's getting so many fans is because they're doing things the way they "should" have been done along time ago.. open code, reliable releases, good testing, and a great community... all the things vanilla debain seems to have issues with right now.
the idea is to Hand write on a computer not for the computer to "clone" the writers, but to imitate the ink and paper so the art can be done on a computer... saving the expense of paper, ink, and allowing it to be easily distributed. That allows more people to experience it... and those who do it in real life to enter a new world.
For character based languages this is everything... The art of the language is about "drawing" the words not just typing them in a word processor.. the characters ARE the art.
The court did leave quite a bit of opinion as to why grokster was responsible and it leaves things like BitTorrent clearly in the right. Grokster was profiting from advertizing while you were searching for stuff to "infringe"... they didn't just provide a software, they provided a service with passwords and everything AND they profited from it. BitTorrent is a protocol.. it doesn't attempt to mask or obfuscate who is doing the file sharing... its just a better form of FTP for legal purposes.
RMS is really no more extreme than Gates.. after all, it's Bill that negotiated contracts requiring HIS OS with payments on EVERY computer companies sold.. I'd say that's a pretty extreme case too.. but we all want to be rich so it's OK
Grokster and Kazza are more like running a bar and "allowing" underaged girls in the door, knowing they'll be picked up [and pushed illegal drugs] by older men who flock to your establishment. In most places that's illegal.. espically if the owners know about it.. or even don't check IDs agressively enough...
What Grokster amounted to was profiting from allowing the illegal actions of others... we have strict laws regarding alchol & drugs for just the same reason..so club owners can just "ignore" the illegal activities in their bars. so it's not entirely an unfounded or unprecidented case.. it has a lot of grounding in the meatspace world.
is the ADV english version censored? I thought it was mildly censored for some of the nudity, and some of the more adult stuff "lost in translation".. Things like Rei sleeping with the General.. I don't think they edited the scene, but they edited the dialog so they don't actually say it. After watching the whole thing, I think they left out some dialog...or in typical anime fashion expected you to read the comic. I ahd more questions at the end than the beginning!
It's like Doom...but without Demons from Hell..or Mars...
Sound familiar.. I watched the whole series on DVD and the tail end was a disapointment.. seriously, there's no way CN could ever show this on the air and not ruin the plot. The plot with nudity and gore is supposed to be shocking.. it's geared toward young teens that are experienceing all that for the first time. In that context it's very tastefully done, but definately not to american tastes.
That said, i'd like a REAL ending to the series.. even the "movies" were pretty lame and hard to follow. or maybe the point is that it doesn't have a point!
the real question is what will the state do when all the cars can't excessively speed anymore. I'd love to see the "saftey" argument when the GPS data is mysteriously "wrong" on a regular basis... or they start posting limits as different numbers... 6, 11, 13, 24..instead of even 5s to break the gps units. frankly I'd welcome the right to travel without worrying about the "hidden coppers" over being able to go wildly over the speed limit.
I'd take one of these in a minute. It's a genieus idea.. sort of a smart cruise control. My preference would be for it to allow 5-10 over for a short burst like passing or avoiding an accident...but throttle you back after half a minute. combine with front and rear sensors to watch the cars ahead and behind, along with some "flocking" software and you could really increase saftey on the roads.
actually having your car "know" the speed limit isn't that far out there... for the sane people imagine being able to just drive knowing the car won't let you speed too much! It's not like they're ticketing based on the GPS...you're just gaining the benifit of not having to watch the dial for speed changes. Like a smart cruise control!
fact of the matter is that the system is broken, not the players. The whole point of such an organization amounts to "day trading" and trying to make money by passing it around as fast as possible. I'm sure there's some economic benifit to having there always be people paying the market, but what they're doing at that business amounts to "organized gambling"... not "running a business".
Why can one person screw up so badly.. be cause the company is gambling that it just wouldn't happen quite like that. The whole point is that they want their players to score big... they just don't want them to loose big too!
What "meatspace" company expects to turn money over like that without requisitions and purchase orders being filled out. There's a reason large corporations have those things... it puts up barriers to just this happening. Sure it happens sometimes [one place I worked the engineers mis-ordered a transformer order by 1 digit and got something delivered on a TRAIN that should have been in the mailbox--OOPS], but most places have time and contracts to slow things down. Personally, I've gotten tired of anybody that wants stuff NOW. They don't really know what they want if they don't have time to wait for it to be done right... That's a system wide problem everywhere lately
desktop integration is FAR overdue. Better than half the US still has phone lines plugged into computers [poor modem users]... and they still have to pick up a phone to answer a call. WHY?
other silly questions... Why can't I use the modem in my USB fax/scanner/printer as a general purpose modem? Why can't my computer be programmed to check my answering machine for messages? Why can't I change the channels on my TV or stereo from my PC directly? I know there's hacks to do most of those things, but why don't they just work out-of-the-box.. Why aren't small things designed to work together rather than being entirely independant?
if anybody is in the position to take VOIP to the masses it's MS... yet the facts are their infrastructure and OS is wholely unable to support the 5 9s we take for granted with our phones.
PC have had the harware for VOIP for at least the last 5-7 years.. multimedia integration in windows hardware is so p-poor that it's STILL not practical. from a networking point of view it would be wonderful to only run 1 wire to each desk.. It would be way cool to route all the phone messages thru outlook too... the facts are that it doesn't "just work" keeping a 56k limited POTS on the desk is still preferable to tapping a $700 PC for something as simple as a quick chat...
When Apple gets into VOIP THEN be scared!!! That'd be a cool dashboard widget!
As long as your space ship has a ray-gun you'll be fine... sure many have "patented" it... but the first to build a spaceship with lasers gets to fry the other guys!!!
sounds like an advanced version of what the russians have been using on kids.. The "hypothermia" effect when a small kid falls in freezing water but is shocked so quickly they can be revived without damage. The russians extended the technique on children to major surgeries that require lots of time like organ transplants. It was benifical because it reduced complecations during operation from excessive bleeding, and also used fewer expensive tools and drugs.
The problem is that most of the bill paying IT managers are all still in love with whatever MS puts out. Coming from a medium sized company, our email servers are blocking 10,000 spams a day...not even addressed to valid user names. Add to that another several thousand that look "almost" legitimate... too close to call without actually looking... i.e. blocking by some kind of filter, attachment, images, HTML, etc. it's gotten so bad it ties up a full admin all day!
we need a "get in" based system and I think MS is trying to get some accountability on the ISP side.. of course the purpose of email is to contact people you don't know... that's what this wrecks. We need a new protocol like customized Jabber or some kind of pre-authorized opt-in agreement between companines. So I can pre authorize to your companies servers, then send away. of couse the OTHER big thing is SOX requiring all sorts of tracking and documentation.. SOX alone is enough to kill email as we know it... we need something between email, IM, slashdot, and blogs. Due to SOX "private" email will be dead at most companies anyway... so a more forum based alternative may be better.
Again, MS holds the current customers, but oss holds the long term lead. if we can get enough admins to switch over... we've got to gun for an incompatible exchange replacement and do it better.. if MS is calling it, then let's break it better..and faster... there's no way they could keep up.
from that point of view I can see the necessity to change zoning to permit a new mall or factory to go in. Usually cities change the zoning gradually so that homeowners are gently "pushed" out by higher prices, more traffic, and more taxes for "commercial" properties. The problem is that there are always holdouts "come hell or high water".
I know in my town when walmart came there were cries all over the place because traffic was up... but walmart was actually OK in this case because they build on top of an empty half-mall. They bought houses accross the street from a mall what did they expect. In another case in town neighbors were upset at another mall's expansion as "too close" to their house. Again, they chose to build their houses next to a mall, and "stones throw" between 2 highway exits... Those are the locations that SHOULD be rezoned... because that's the point of zoning to keep businesses together. The last thing we need is more farmland paved over because develoers have to haggle with owners that want 10x what their property is worth for half a development project. This sounds more like zoning and sticking with it than allowing developers free reign.
my DSL router does that all the time... The idea is that ISPs have to be more "interactive" to get people to take care of their machines. Think "traffic cop" here. Of course that's a dangerous turn toward censorship... once you can figure out "spam" or "dns" packets from regular traffic, it's not hard to start blocking porn...or slashdot & freespeech. The ISPs are walking a fine line to keep themselves from being co-opted into being the nations censors.
so 300 were possibly fully legal pics? my point is that all a news paper or jury hears is 450 porno pics... never mind that most of them might be legal. That's the whole trouble with this line of "moral" crimes, that they use legal "immorality" to try to make you be more "bad" in the trials.. That's like saying because a young man was black and lived in the hood, he robbed a covenience store.. same line of bigoted, loaded procecution. You have some illegal pic... therefore your're kiddy-raper.. and should be mutilated.
Sorry to rant, but I'm seeing far too much "demonizing" of crimes lately... taking the dangerous turn that the criminals are somehow "less than human" so deserve extra "unusual" punishments... that's highly dangerous in an era of pure information and rapid communication. It's the first step to Nazi-ism.
but hey Cuba's better off than hati/dominican republic the next island over that can't even have 1 govt on it. Sure they're bad, but our "allies" and puppet govenments in the region are far more unstable causing more savagery and death. But their not "commies" so that's OK... whatever.
exactly, they're just "pretty" versions of stock parts. They're marginally better than the average PC but still "just parts". Apple gives intel a true show pony... It's a clean slate to run cutting edge chips on.. NO PCI, ISA, PS2, 640K limit, 1Meg hole, A20 line, extended/emx/xms memory swapping. Best of all Absolutely NONE of the boondoggling software compatiblity... no DOS, no Win95, NO XP,...brand new from scratch using all the latest optimumizations... The initera of the installed base is holding intel back from reaping the "glitz" of what their hardware can really do! There's a lot of little things they could fix.. using true PCI express addressing down to the OS level.. no crumby AGP Gart hack necessary. Pushing the harware timing to the limit because they can gaurantee you'll get the premium apple hardware... 4GB of 8-channel GDDR3 here we come.. Intel can build a custom striped and tricked chipset just for apple... with the gaurantees that apple will really push the hardware limits.
Now if AMD could do the same with opteron/Linux we'd have some real fun.
Lotus == IBM... even MS can't pull the plug on THAT many users without the gig being up! The last thing they'd want is IBM putting their alphaworks on some kind of AV to replace the kicked off Lotus users.
It would seem that the 30+ GB iPod drives would be just about the same size as the tape cartrige. But hey, if they put firewire on these you can always pack a 60GB iPod photo to sync to!
personally a palm, nintendo, apple cooperation would be really cool. A little cooperation and they could each keep their markets.. while making their cooperation better. The absolute coolest would be to play Nintendo games on your PC.. ie via firewire to control it. or like other posters said, Palm on a DS for quick PDA stuff.. Then you'd only have to carry an iPod & DS.. pretty cool!
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One good thing for the IT industry is the big push for all things SOX... my company is being audited right now and we're finding so many holes in accounting practice and internal apps it's enough to make your head spin.. and that's what the authorized users can do!!! I think with SOX that the idea of multi-tiered, paranoid internal networks are going to become the norm real soon now. Just the access to sensitive information that people in the same department shouldn't be having.. i.e. purchasing and recieving.. at medium sized companies those are often office mates!!! let alone the bigger issues of an outsider knowing such holes exist. If anything IT has relied far too long on the good will and honesty of the "geeks". When you see how much power "geeks" have in most companies it's truely staggering that more companies don't have trouble with IT staff hurting them.
I think Ubuntu is a welcome addition because is pulls the "just works" masses away from nagging the Debian developers about petty things. Ubuntu and Knoppix are really more to the heart of what Linux is about... it's not helpful for them to diverge too far.. and the "putting back of code" is only limited by the arrogance of the Debian groups to not accept the changes, not because the Knoppix or Ubuntu folks are trying to "fork" anything.
The biggest thing Ubuntu offers is a Platform rather than a distro. They're trying to add some "spit n polish" to debian to make it more user friendly... They're focused more on adding the "polish" the community asks for than reinventing the mouse trap like so many other distros. The reason it's getting so many fans is because they're doing things the way they "should" have been done along time ago.. open code, reliable releases, good testing, and a great community... all the things vanilla debain seems to have issues with right now.
For character based languages this is everything... The art of the language is about "drawing" the words not just typing them in a word processor.. the characters ARE the art.
The court did leave quite a bit of opinion as to why grokster was responsible and it leaves things like BitTorrent clearly in the right. Grokster was profiting from advertizing while you were searching for stuff to "infringe"... they didn't just provide a software, they provided a service with passwords and everything AND they profited from it. BitTorrent is a protocol.. it doesn't attempt to mask or obfuscate who is doing the file sharing... its just a better form of FTP for legal purposes.
RMS is really no more extreme than Gates.. after all, it's Bill that negotiated contracts requiring HIS OS with payments on EVERY computer companies sold.. I'd say that's a pretty extreme case too.. but we all want to be rich so it's OK
What Grokster amounted to was profiting from allowing the illegal actions of others... we have strict laws regarding alchol & drugs for just the same reason..so club owners can just "ignore" the illegal activities in their bars. so it's not entirely an unfounded or unprecidented case.. it has a lot of grounding in the meatspace world.
is the ADV english version censored? I thought it was mildly censored for some of the nudity, and some of the more adult stuff "lost in translation".. Things like Rei sleeping with the General.. I don't think they edited the scene, but they edited the dialog so they don't actually say it. After watching the whole thing, I think they left out some dialog...or in typical anime fashion expected you to read the comic. I ahd more questions at the end than the beginning!
Sound familiar.. I watched the whole series on DVD and the tail end was a disapointment.. seriously, there's no way CN could ever show this on the air and not ruin the plot. The plot with nudity and gore is supposed to be shocking.. it's geared toward young teens that are experienceing all that for the first time. In that context it's very tastefully done, but definately not to american tastes.
That said, i'd like a REAL ending to the series.. even the "movies" were pretty lame and hard to follow. or maybe the point is that it doesn't have a point!
I'd take one of these in a minute. It's a genieus idea.. sort of a smart cruise control. My preference would be for it to allow 5-10 over for a short burst like passing or avoiding an accident...but throttle you back after half a minute. combine with front and rear sensors to watch the cars ahead and behind, along with some "flocking" software and you could really increase saftey on the roads.
actually having your car "know" the speed limit isn't that far out there... for the sane people imagine being able to just drive knowing the car won't let you speed too much! It's not like they're ticketing based on the GPS...you're just gaining the benifit of not having to watch the dial for speed changes. Like a smart cruise control!
Why can one person screw up so badly.. be cause the company is gambling that it just wouldn't happen quite like that. The whole point is that they want their players to score big... they just don't want them to loose big too!
What "meatspace" company expects to turn money over like that without requisitions and purchase orders being filled out. There's a reason large corporations have those things... it puts up barriers to just this happening. Sure it happens sometimes [one place I worked the engineers mis-ordered a transformer order by 1 digit and got something delivered on a TRAIN that should have been in the mailbox--OOPS], but most places have time and contracts to slow things down. Personally, I've gotten tired of anybody that wants stuff NOW. They don't really know what they want if they don't have time to wait for it to be done right... That's a system wide problem everywhere lately
other silly questions... Why can't I use the modem in my USB fax/scanner/printer as a general purpose modem? Why can't my computer be programmed to check my answering machine for messages? Why can't I change the channels on my TV or stereo from my PC directly? I know there's hacks to do most of those things, but why don't they just work out-of-the-box.. Why aren't small things designed to work together rather than being entirely independant?
PC have had the harware for VOIP for at least the last 5-7 years.. multimedia integration in windows hardware is so p-poor that it's STILL not practical. from a networking point of view it would be wonderful to only run 1 wire to each desk.. It would be way cool to route all the phone messages thru outlook too... the facts are that it doesn't "just work" keeping a 56k limited POTS on the desk is still preferable to tapping a $700 PC for something as simple as a quick chat...
When Apple gets into VOIP THEN be scared!!! That'd be a cool dashboard widget!
As long as your space ship has a ray-gun you'll be fine... sure many have "patented" it... but the first to build a spaceship with lasers gets to fry the other guys!!!
sounds like an advanced version of what the russians have been using on kids.. The "hypothermia" effect when a small kid falls in freezing water but is shocked so quickly they can be revived without damage. The russians extended the technique on children to major surgeries that require lots of time like organ transplants. It was benifical because it reduced complecations during operation from excessive bleeding, and also used fewer expensive tools and drugs.
we need a "get in" based system and I think MS is trying to get some accountability on the ISP side.. of course the purpose of email is to contact people you don't know... that's what this wrecks. We need a new protocol like customized Jabber or some kind of pre-authorized opt-in agreement between companines. So I can pre authorize to your companies servers, then send away. of couse the OTHER big thing is SOX requiring all sorts of tracking and documentation.. SOX alone is enough to kill email as we know it... we need something between email, IM, slashdot, and blogs. Due to SOX "private" email will be dead at most companies anyway... so a more forum based alternative may be better.
Again, MS holds the current customers, but oss holds the long term lead. if we can get enough admins to switch over... we've got to gun for an incompatible exchange replacement and do it better.. if MS is calling it, then let's break it better..and faster... there's no way they could keep up.
I know in my town when walmart came there were cries all over the place because traffic was up... but walmart was actually OK in this case because they build on top of an empty half-mall. They bought houses accross the street from a mall what did they expect. In another case in town neighbors were upset at another mall's expansion as "too close" to their house. Again, they chose to build their houses next to a mall, and "stones throw" between 2 highway exits... Those are the locations that SHOULD be rezoned... because that's the point of zoning to keep businesses together. The last thing we need is more farmland paved over because develoers have to haggle with owners that want 10x what their property is worth for half a development project. This sounds more like zoning and sticking with it than allowing developers free reign.
my DSL router does that all the time... The idea is that ISPs have to be more "interactive" to get people to take care of their machines. Think "traffic cop" here. Of course that's a dangerous turn toward censorship... once you can figure out "spam" or "dns" packets from regular traffic, it's not hard to start blocking porn...or slashdot & freespeech. The ISPs are walking a fine line to keep themselves from being co-opted into being the nations censors.
Sorry to rant, but I'm seeing far too much "demonizing" of crimes lately... taking the dangerous turn that the criminals are somehow "less than human" so deserve extra "unusual" punishments... that's highly dangerous in an era of pure information and rapid communication. It's the first step to Nazi-ism.
but hey Cuba's better off than hati/dominican republic the next island over that can't even have 1 govt on it. Sure they're bad, but our "allies" and puppet govenments in the region are far more unstable causing more savagery and death. But their not "commies" so that's OK... whatever.
Now if AMD could do the same with opteron/Linux we'd have some real fun.
Lotus == IBM... even MS can't pull the plug on THAT many users without the gig being up! The last thing they'd want is IBM putting their alphaworks on some kind of AV to replace the kicked off Lotus users.
It would seem that the 30+ GB iPod drives would be just about the same size as the tape cartrige. But hey, if they put firewire on these you can always pack a 60GB iPod photo to sync to!
personally a palm, nintendo, apple cooperation would be really cool. A little cooperation and they could each keep their markets.. while making their cooperation better. The absolute coolest would be to play Nintendo games on your PC.. ie via firewire to control it. or like other posters said, Palm on a DS for quick PDA stuff.. Then you'd only have to carry an iPod & DS.. pretty cool!
Finally a way to get decent games on linux hardware!