And the reason CDs sound like MP3s is because MP3s are ripped from CDs.
That's a bit back to front, but we get the message. But the best way to enjoy a (good quality) recording is still to play a CD of it at home on the best stereo you can afford. That doesn't mean you have to take out a second mortgage on your home - a cheap setup can be a top-notch pair of headphones with an appropriate headphone amplifier and an OK CD player.
MP3s are most useful for any environment where there's lots of background noise, so any loss in quality just isn't noticeable. Having said that, I encode my own MP3s at a fairly high bitrate, since I have a 160GB iPod, so space isn't too much of an issue.
Depends on who you buy your CDs from. Turns out that about 70% of the CDs I've bought in the last few years have come from the ECM label. I have not heard one recording of theirs that is of any quality less than stupendous.
Microsoft isn't quite so forthcoming in their licence agreements, but instead of just coming out and saying "no warranty", they hedge their terms in such a way as to mean the same thing and to require platoons of lawyers to break. Thing is, not one of any of the *nix OSs (including OS X) is vulnerable to this (or pretty nearly any other) exploit in the first place.
It doesn't work to claim that the unixy OSs don't get hit because they rely on security through obscurity. The simple fact is, they are more secure because they are designed better in the first place, and because where holes are found, the patching process is more transparent.
This exploit is no better or worse than any other social engineering attack that would work just as well via email or any other internet channel.
I don't use twitter, facebook or any other social networking site, so my interest is academic. But there is no excuse for people clicking on dodgy links, given the prominent media exposure that such exploits receive. Natural selection at work...
True. And the reference to VMS and FORTRAN (always uppercase!) is somewhat misleading - there are plenty of contractors out there (and incidentally one in my chair) who can deal with that stuff. If NASA doesn't like employing old-timers, then more fool them. We're the ones with those skills.
Incidentally, Wikipedia mentions Intel saying they would cease production of the 386 in 2007. I wonder if they made good on that...
"Boring" is a good description for software like that. One of the tasks I was given in my first IT job was to fix an intermittent error in a banking program originally written in fortran, but for which the source had for some reason been lost, so I had to hack on the binary. Wading through thousand-page core dumps needs lots of coffee, but I felt like king of the lab when I nailed that bug.
Dammit, those 386 chips are not ancient. Hell, they were state-of-the-art in 1986. ENIAC is ancient, and the '70s core-memory machines I started out with are (I suppose) just getting a bit long in the tooth...
Back in the days when I studied mechanical engineering, just about all my lecturers used HP-15C calculators. I made the mistake of buying one of their more recent models, and it gave me no end of trouble. I used to carry a slide-rule as a backup - and also because it's way cool to be able to use one.;-)
I seem to remember reading in 1988 (or so) that NASA had commissioned a bunch of Burroughs B3700 machines, big power-hungry (and aircon-dependent) core-memory boxes that had gone out of production in about 1976. Presumably these were for some sort of ground-based operation. It struck me at the time that they must have had some "interesting" expectations.
I worked intensively with exactly that machine back in my earliest days in IT, and although it was quite fast for a number of operations, it wasn't exactly that reliable.
In "King Henry VI, Part II," Shakespeare has Dick Butcher suggest to
his fellow anti-establishment rabble-rousers, "The first thing we do, let's
kill all the lawyers." That action may be extreme but a similar sentiment
was expressed by Thomas K. Connellan, president of The Management Group, Inc.
Speaking to business executives in Chicago and quoted in Automotive News,
Connellan attributed a measure of America's falling productivity to an excess
of attorneys and accountants, and a dearth of production experts. Lawyers
and accountants "do not make the economic pie any bigger; they only figure
out how the pie gets divided. Neither profession provides any added value
to product."
According to Connellan, the highly productive Japanese society has
10 lawyers and 30 accountants per 100,000 population. The U.S. has 200
lawyers and 700 accountants. This suggests that "the U.S. proportion of
pie-bakers and pie-dividers is way out of whack." Could Dick Butcher have
been an efficiency expert?
-- Motor Trend, May 1983
Keep in mind that commodore64_love would have supported this move 150% had it been done during the Bush years. His mention and capitalization of Current Administration just further proves how much of a partisan ideologue he really is.
From a non-US-citizen perspective, the difference between the US Republican and Democrat parties doesn't amount to that much. They are both extremely conservative, and the use of the the term "ideologue" would be somewhat amusing if it weren't actually a bit sad.
Maybe it's time for a revival of Samizdat. Of course, we no longer need to use pen and paper for this, but there's not much the Pentagon could do about a torrent seeded in China.
hell even my Linux distro has political agendas, ( damn Mint Linux!!! )
I had never heard of them (I'm an old Slackware hand, and more recently Arch), but Mint's webpage is so incredibly slow to load, it's impossible to see what that agenda is. It doesn't inspire much confidence in them.:-|
Indeed. I don't do Facebook, but if I had got such a message, my first response would be to look at my own/etc/hosts file. From time to time I manage to bite myself on the ass with my block-list, but I can live with that...
Well, if anything, a sort of justice is being served. The US military didn't exactly get its ass kicked in Vietnam, but it definitely didn't win that fight. And now it is losing magnificently in Afghanistan. It really looks like they have the best strategists they could get in charge. But so long as they're happy to tell themselves and everyone else that they're so clever, why should we disbelieve them?
Funny, it looks like the sort of thing the Mythbusters would be into. I'm sort of surprised those physicists hadn't really thought about the effect on the human body - in a way, it's actually more interesting than the real purpose of the collider.
In other words: If it's a secret and needs to remain so, you don't share it with your 20 closest Facebook friends on the Internet...
Or fans of NCIS might prefer this reference:
"Best way to keep a secret is to keep it to yourself. Second best way is to tell one other person if you must. There is no third best."
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And the reason CDs sound like MP3s is because MP3s are ripped from CDs.
That's a bit back to front, but we get the message. But the best way to enjoy a (good quality) recording is still to play a CD of it at home on the best stereo you can afford. That doesn't mean you have to take out a second mortgage on your home - a cheap setup can be a top-notch pair of headphones with an appropriate headphone amplifier and an OK CD player.
MP3s are most useful for any environment where there's lots of background noise, so any loss in quality just isn't noticeable. Having said that, I encode my own MP3s at a fairly high bitrate, since I have a 160GB iPod, so space isn't too much of an issue.
Depends on who you buy your CDs from. Turns out that about 70% of the CDs I've bought in the last few years have come from the ECM label. I have not heard one recording of theirs that is of any quality less than stupendous.
TMI
Microsoft isn't quite so forthcoming in their licence agreements, but instead of just coming out and saying "no warranty", they hedge their terms in such a way as to mean the same thing and to require platoons of lawyers to break. Thing is, not one of any of the *nix OSs (including OS X) is vulnerable to this (or pretty nearly any other) exploit in the first place.
It doesn't work to claim that the unixy OSs don't get hit because they rely on security through obscurity. The simple fact is, they are more secure because they are designed better in the first place, and because where holes are found, the patching process is more transparent.
Dictionaries and the like do NOT define what words mean
Indeed, the best dictionaries show how they are used.
I guess so many submissions have been poorly summarised recently, one might almost forgive them.
This exploit is no better or worse than any other social engineering attack that would work just as well via email or any other internet channel.
I don't use twitter, facebook or any other social networking site, so my interest is academic. But there is no excuse for people clicking on dodgy links, given the prominent media exposure that such exploits receive. Natural selection at work...
True. And the reference to VMS and FORTRAN (always uppercase!) is somewhat misleading - there are plenty of contractors out there (and incidentally one in my chair) who can deal with that stuff. If NASA doesn't like employing old-timers, then more fool them. We're the ones with those skills.
Incidentally, Wikipedia mentions Intel saying they would cease production of the 386 in 2007. I wonder if they made good on that...
"Boring" is a good description for software like that. One of the tasks I was given in my first IT job was to fix an intermittent error in a banking program originally written in fortran, but for which the source had for some reason been lost, so I had to hack on the binary. Wading through thousand-page core dumps needs lots of coffee, but I felt like king of the lab when I nailed that bug.
Dammit, those 386 chips are not ancient. Hell, they were state-of-the-art in 1986. ENIAC is ancient, and the '70s core-memory machines I started out with are (I suppose) just getting a bit long in the tooth...
Now get off my lawn.
Back in the days when I studied mechanical engineering, just about all my lecturers used HP-15C calculators. I made the mistake of buying one of their more recent models, and it gave me no end of trouble. I used to carry a slide-rule as a backup - and also because it's way cool to be able to use one. ;-)
I seem to remember reading in 1988 (or so) that NASA had commissioned a bunch of Burroughs B3700 machines, big power-hungry (and aircon-dependent) core-memory boxes that had gone out of production in about 1976. Presumably these were for some sort of ground-based operation. It struck me at the time that they must have had some "interesting" expectations.
I worked intensively with exactly that machine back in my earliest days in IT, and although it was quite fast for a number of operations, it wasn't exactly that reliable.
This reminds me of a fortune cookie I've seen:
In "King Henry VI, Part II," Shakespeare has Dick Butcher suggest to his fellow anti-establishment rabble-rousers, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." That action may be extreme but a similar sentiment was expressed by Thomas K. Connellan, president of The Management Group, Inc. Speaking to business executives in Chicago and quoted in Automotive News, Connellan attributed a measure of America's falling productivity to an excess of attorneys and accountants, and a dearth of production experts. Lawyers and accountants "do not make the economic pie any bigger; they only figure out how the pie gets divided. Neither profession provides any added value to product."
According to Connellan, the highly productive Japanese society has 10 lawyers and 30 accountants per 100,000 population. The U.S. has 200 lawyers and 700 accountants. This suggests that "the U.S. proportion of pie-bakers and pie-dividers is way out of whack." Could Dick Butcher have been an efficiency expert?
-- Motor Trend, May 1983
I suspect Jobs will have to go fuck himself. After all, thousands of podiatrists and chiropodists have a prior claim...
Keep in mind that commodore64_love would have supported this move 150% had it been done during the Bush years. His mention and capitalization of Current Administration just further proves how much of a partisan ideologue he really is.
From a non-US-citizen perspective, the difference between the US Republican and Democrat parties doesn't amount to that much. They are both extremely conservative, and the use of the the term "ideologue" would be somewhat amusing if it weren't actually a bit sad.
Maybe it's time for a revival of Samizdat. Of course, we no longer need to use pen and paper for this, but there's not much the Pentagon could do about a torrent seeded in China.
hell even my Linux distro has political agendas, ( damn Mint Linux!!! )
:-|
I had never heard of them (I'm an old Slackware hand, and more recently Arch), but Mint's webpage is so incredibly slow to load, it's impossible to see what that agenda is. It doesn't inspire much confidence in them.
Who are those? Programmers I'd like to fuck? Sorry, that doesn't compute.
Indeed. I don't do Facebook, but if I had got such a message, my first response would be to look at my own /etc/hosts file. From time to time I manage to bite myself on the ass with my block-list, but I can live with that...
Hmmm. I thought the irony in my post was obvious enough, but apparently not...
Well, if anything, a sort of justice is being served. The US military didn't exactly get its ass kicked in Vietnam, but it definitely didn't win that fight. And now it is losing magnificently in Afghanistan. It really looks like they have the best strategists they could get in charge. But so long as they're happy to tell themselves and everyone else that they're so clever, why should we disbelieve them?
Well, the article does little to shed any real light on their reasoning. Apparently it's something like this:
"Warriors are better than geeks, because I am a warrior, I'm the boss, and I say so. So there."
Funny, it looks like the sort of thing the Mythbusters would be into. I'm sort of surprised those physicists hadn't really thought about the effect on the human body - in a way, it's actually more interesting than the real purpose of the collider.
...to visualise [sic]...
FYI: in the English (as opposed to American)-speaking world, it is typical (though no longer obligatory) to use "s" rather than "z" in such a case.
In other words: If it's a secret and needs to remain so, you don't share it with your 20 closest Facebook friends on the Internet...
Or fans of NCIS might prefer this reference:
"Best way to keep a secret is to keep it to yourself. Second best way is to tell one other person if you must. There is no third best."