I saw that and wondered why he was not talking about "lorries."
...because I'm living in Australia, where heavy vehicle licences are neither quick nor cheap to obtain. Sure, there have been messy cases where drivers have fucked up, but for the most part they go about their business pretty responsibly.
Once everyone finds out that the Semi Trucks drive themselves...
Most people who have only ever driven cars fail to appreciate that driving heavy trucks is actually quite a demanding job, and not one for dummies. Those rigs are expensive, and no factor that saves fuel or wear and tear can be neglected. It may be popular to label truckies as ignorant yokels, but it is a fact that they need to be quite technically astute. For instance, tyre wear alone is a huge factor when you consider the cost of replacing over 40 tyres on a multi-combination rig.
As an aside, this reminds me of one time back in my trucking days, some idiot tried to steal my rig. He might have thought he was a shit-hot car driver, but couldn't even muster the coordination required to get the crash box into gear. He was still struggling with it when the police arrived...:-)
All well and good, but none of these help if some determined individual intercepts the traffic and has the resources to brute-force the encryption. I guess the likelihood of this depends on the value of the data.
Perhaps an old-world solution might be appropriate: simply burning the data as an encrypted archive on to physical media and sending that by recorded delivery mail or some other trusted courier.
or something so you never have to type in your actual login / password on the untrusted machine.
Or simply store your passwords in a textfile or other type of document stored on a thumbdrive which is kept in a secure place, and which you can just copy/paste as required, without any keyboard input whatsoever.
Yes, I know this doesn't solve all of the problems here, but it's a simple enough security precaution.
Personally, I'm inclined to suggest that the OP finds a partner s/he can trust.
Agreed. My time these days is divided more or less 50/50 between OS X and Linux with Gnome. (KDE just kmakes kme kfucking kirritable and kbloody kranky.) My only gripe with the latter is that it has removed the ability to right-click anywhere on the desktop to bring up a new terminal. Fortunately, there is a 3rd-party app to restore this functionality (nautilus-open-terminal).
4) Fourth + *ducks* = 0 Offtopic
My conclusion is as follows.
First, adding *ducks* makes a comment off topic unless the topic is actually ducks; a topic too frequently pass on by Slashdot editors.
...
"Bash./bin/sh is the only common way to fly."
Ducks can fly too!
Hey, this guy just disproved AC's theorem! Score 5:Insightful!
What about using science to understand the origins of life and the evolution of consciousness.
Indeed, though I guess we'll only get close to understanding the latter when we can work out a decent definition for consciousness.
But we could go further than that; for instance, I am a committed atheist and believer in evolutionary biology, but I have yet to find an adequate explanation for mankind's reactions to music and poetry. OK, they're possibly the same thing, but food for thought nonetheless...
By 'Real Programmer', do you mean 'geek with massive chip on shoulder unable to move with the times'?
The "Real Programmer" to which I alluded was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the article "Real Programmers Don't eat Quiche". (Google.)
But I stand by the sentiments expressed; it really does no harm to have exposure to "bare wire" programming, and it is asinine to insist that there is nothing to be gained from it in the face of all the props and crutches available to the modern programmer.
In answer to your question, the answer is "No". I just found other things to be geekish about (molecular biology, to be specific). If your problem is with geeks in general, then too bad. I turned 45 last week, but am still content to wear the mantle of "Geek" with aplomb, if not pride. (So there.:-))
Is today's society really any different than in the past?
Short answer: No.
But, although society itself has not essentially changed, the degree to which we have been forced to endure saturation advertising has.
We have now reached a point where marketroids have been permitted to believe they have some sort of divine right to cover every surface visible to mankind with their dross. It doesn't matter whether it is on the screen in front of you or on the loo-paper with which you wipe your ass, both are legitimate media for the advertiser.
The fact that nobody seems to have dared to tell the marketroids to get out of our faces has to be one of the sicker aspects of our society.
Back in 1994 I did some contract work for a banking site that was still using some code that another firm I had worked for wrote in 1969, though it wasn't entirely unmodified. The source had somehow disappeared into the great filesystem in the sky, and it was my job to patch the binary directly.
Sadly, that sort of procedure has pretty much gone out of fashion, along with the Real Programmer. (Sigh) That's why I am no longer in IT...
Quickly pulling out of Iraq will create an Iran which is double the size of present... yada yada yada.
Oh, grow up.
The world does not revolve around the US or its paranoid fantasy where America has to be eternally fighting the "Last War". This adolescent pseudo-culture is just so tiresome.
I apologise if this sounds flamebaity, but your post is a perfect indication of why most of the world thinks Americans are stupid.
[Quick disclaimer: I'm not a US citizen, and will not be voting in any US elections.]
I would agree that he is shirking the issue of Iraq, but this policy (if it remains in place) would indicate that Obama at least has his eye on the ball.
There are lots of valid arguments for channeling a proportion of funds currently devoted to NASA into education. He is not saying that NASA should be closed down. There is no doubt that with appropriate planning, and sometimes with the assistance of a bit of plain luck (cf. Voyager, etc), great outcomes can be achieved with comparatively modest input of cash.
First and foremost, this has a vastly better outcome in terms of "bang for the buck". Investment in education is an investment in the future in terms much more realisable than NASA can EVER deliver.
I'm willing to be corrected here, but in just about any current Unix or Linux system that I know of, shadow passwords allow sequences of unlimited length.
I can see why they might be difficult to implement on web forms, however.
My last computer had a USB bus which (under Linux - never tried it with Windows) caused random disconnects with my iPod. I never had a problem with any other USB device. But as I was upgrading my soundcard to an Audigy which had a firewire port, I bought a firewire cable for the iPod, and my problem ceased to exist.
It is wise to not allow HTML in your e-mail but a satisfactory compromise...
Hmmm, tedium vitae, given that current software leaves html email pretty safe, I've given up worrying about it. I've got plenty of other windmills to tilt at.
I've learned to accept that 90% of the people I know think of writing an email in the same way as they might write a document with a word processor. Just take the appropriate precautions (as you say) and let them do it.
His record IS known. He was a civil rights attorney before he got into politics.
Fair point.
I'm not a US citizen, so I won't be voting in any of your elections, but the impression of many of us in the World Outside is that we genuinely like what we see of Barack Obama. My only worry is that we shouldn't expect too much of a very wealthy lawyer.
This is all getting a bit silly. The drawing in question is obviously a sketch, and is just as obviously not intended to be a final document ready for delivery to the machine shop. I won't take issue with the weights given, but that is part of where the interest (such as it is) in this document lies.
We might pompously sound off about "using judgement" yada yada, but the simple fact is that if anyone (say a born-again christian jihadist, for the sake of an inflammatory example) wanted to kill a lot of people in one go, there are plenty of easier and cheaper means available to do so.
My personal interest in the document (if genuine) is in its historical aspect, more particularly in the context of showing part of the process - from the engineers' point of view, in the context of contemporary procedures and technology - in the design of this bomb.
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I saw that and wondered why he was not talking about "lorries."
...because I'm living in Australia, where heavy vehicle licences are neither quick nor cheap to obtain. Sure, there have been messy cases where drivers have fucked up, but for the most part they go about their business pretty responsibly.
Obviously you are not a fan of The Simpsons.
No.
[Tempted to make snide remark about Slashdot readers and attention span less than that of a flea, but I won't...]
Once everyone finds out that the Semi Trucks drive themselves...
:-)
Most people who have only ever driven cars fail to appreciate that driving heavy trucks is actually quite a demanding job, and not one for dummies. Those rigs are expensive, and no factor that saves fuel or wear and tear can be neglected. It may be popular to label truckies as ignorant yokels, but it is a fact that they need to be quite technically astute. For instance, tyre wear alone is a huge factor when you consider the cost of replacing over 40 tyres on a multi-combination rig.
As an aside, this reminds me of one time back in my trucking days, some idiot tried to steal my rig. He might have thought he was a shit-hot car driver, but couldn't even muster the coordination required to get the crash box into gear. He was still struggling with it when the police arrived...
All well and good, but none of these help if some determined individual intercepts the traffic and has the resources to brute-force the encryption. I guess the likelihood of this depends on the value of the data.
Perhaps an old-world solution might be appropriate: simply burning the data as an encrypted archive on to physical media and sending that by recorded delivery mail or some other trusted courier.
Slackware is now at 12.1 and it hasn't been installable from floppies for some time now.
Sorry.
But (I agree) Slackware is my own Linux distro of choice, though I am using an ageing iBook G4 to post this...
or something so you never have to type in your actual login / password on the untrusted machine.
Or simply store your passwords in a textfile or other type of document stored on a thumbdrive which is kept in a secure place, and which you can just copy/paste as required, without any keyboard input whatsoever.
Yes, I know this doesn't solve all of the problems here, but it's a simple enough security precaution.
Personally, I'm inclined to suggest that the OP finds a partner s/he can trust.
Agreed. My time these days is divided more or less 50/50 between OS X and Linux with Gnome. (KDE just kmakes kme kfucking kirritable and kbloody kranky.) My only gripe with the latter is that it has removed the ability to right-click anywhere on the desktop to bring up a new terminal. Fortunately, there is a 3rd-party app to restore this functionality (nautilus-open-terminal).
4) Fourth + *ducks* = 0 Offtopic
/bin/sh is the only common way to fly."
My conclusion is as follows.
First, adding *ducks* makes a comment off topic unless the topic is actually ducks; a topic too frequently pass on by Slashdot editors.
...
"Bash.
Ducks can fly too!
Hey, this guy just disproved AC's theorem! Score 5:Insightful!
Perhaps that explains why we find women attractive.
:-P
No. It only explains why us geeks may (or may not) find women attractive.
For the rest, we might just put it down to rampaging hormones and stupidity.
Sorry.
What about using science to understand the origins of life and the evolution of consciousness.
Indeed, though I guess we'll only get close to understanding the latter when we can work out a decent definition for consciousness.
But we could go further than that; for instance, I am a committed atheist and believer in evolutionary biology, but I have yet to find an adequate explanation for mankind's reactions to music and poetry. OK, they're possibly the same thing, but food for thought nonetheless...
By 'Real Programmer', do you mean 'geek with massive chip on shoulder unable to move with the times'?
The "Real Programmer" to which I alluded was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the article "Real Programmers Don't eat Quiche". (Google.)
But I stand by the sentiments expressed; it really does no harm to have exposure to "bare wire" programming, and it is asinine to insist that there is nothing to be gained from it in the face of all the props and crutches available to the modern programmer.
In answer to your question, the answer is "No". I just found other things to be geekish about (molecular biology, to be specific). If your problem is with geeks in general, then too bad. I turned 45 last week, but am still content to wear the mantle of "Geek" with aplomb, if not pride. (So there.
Is today's society really any different than in the past?
Short answer: No.
But, although society itself has not essentially changed, the degree to which we have been forced to endure saturation advertising has.
We have now reached a point where marketroids have been permitted to believe they have some sort of divine right to cover every surface visible to mankind with their dross. It doesn't matter whether it is on the screen in front of you or on the loo-paper with which you wipe your ass, both are legitimate media for the advertiser.
The fact that nobody seems to have dared to tell the marketroids to get out of our faces has to be one of the sicker aspects of our society.
Back in 1994 I did some contract work for a banking site that was still using some code that another firm I had worked for wrote in 1969, though it wasn't entirely unmodified. The source had somehow disappeared into the great filesystem in the sky, and it was my job to patch the binary directly.
Sadly, that sort of procedure has pretty much gone out of fashion, along with the Real Programmer. (Sigh) That's why I am no longer in IT...
1), hibernate when complete...
does it aestivate during the summer months?
Quickly pulling out of Iraq will create an Iran which is double the size of present... yada yada yada.
Oh, grow up.
The world does not revolve around the US or its paranoid fantasy where America has to be eternally fighting the "Last War". This adolescent pseudo-culture is just so tiresome.
I apologise if this sounds flamebaity, but your post is a perfect indication of why most of the world thinks Americans are stupid.
This is insightful? If you reason like this, then you can't reason at all.
Dear me, I'm glad I'm not voting in your elections...
[Quick disclaimer: I'm not a US citizen, and will not be voting in any US elections.]
I would agree that he is shirking the issue of Iraq, but this policy (if it remains in place) would indicate that Obama at least has his eye on the ball.
There are lots of valid arguments for channeling a proportion of funds currently devoted to NASA into education. He is not saying that NASA should be closed down. There is no doubt that with appropriate planning, and sometimes with the assistance of a bit of plain luck (cf. Voyager, etc), great outcomes can be achieved with comparatively modest input of cash.
First and foremost, this has a vastly better outcome in terms of "bang for the buck". Investment in education is an investment in the future in terms much more realisable than NASA can EVER deliver.
I'm willing to be corrected here, but in just about any current Unix or Linux system that I know of, shadow passwords allow sequences of unlimited length.
I can see why they might be difficult to implement on web forms, however.
But I've never had a periperal that needed it.
My last computer had a USB bus which (under Linux - never tried it with Windows) caused random disconnects with my iPod. I never had a problem with any other USB device. But as I was upgrading my soundcard to an Audigy which had a firewire port, I bought a firewire cable for the iPod, and my problem ceased to exist.
It is wise to not allow HTML in your e-mail but a satisfactory compromise...
Hmmm, tedium vitae, given that current software leaves html email pretty safe, I've given up worrying about it. I've got plenty of other windmills to tilt at.
I've learned to accept that 90% of the people I know think of writing an email in the same way as they might write a document with a word processor. Just take the appropriate precautions (as you say) and let them do it.
who it was who said something about managing programmers being like herding cats, but it seems relevant here.
I'm all for the enfranchisement of our feline friends.
His record IS known. He was a civil rights attorney before he got into politics.
Fair point.
I'm not a US citizen, so I won't be voting in any of your elections, but the impression of many of us in the World Outside is that we genuinely like what we see of Barack Obama. My only worry is that we shouldn't expect too much of a very wealthy lawyer.
This is all getting a bit silly. The drawing in question is obviously a sketch, and is just as obviously not intended to be a final document ready for delivery to the machine shop. I won't take issue with the weights given, but that is part of where the interest (such as it is) in this document lies.
We might pompously sound off about "using judgement" yada yada, but the simple fact is that if anyone (say a born-again christian jihadist, for the sake of an inflammatory example) wanted to kill a lot of people in one go, there are plenty of easier and cheaper means available to do so.
My personal interest in the document (if genuine) is in its historical aspect, more particularly in the context of showing part of the process - from the engineers' point of view, in the context of contemporary procedures and technology - in the design of this bomb.
You cannot have a verdict before the trial. It is still early in the year. :)
Maybe he's the Red Queen. "Execution first, then the trial!"
Hmmm. Well, you could always try Zenity...