Actually it's entirely possible that they make these mistakes ALL THE TIME and you only find out because the mistakes get left alone since they've gone home for the weekend.
Sure, I have no argument with that.
...when in reality it's just because there's someone around to fix the errors they make on ordinary weekdays.
Bingo! My main point was about people who make critical changes without bothering to verify correct operation afterwards. Now, it some cases, that might mean staying around for a few hours, in case an affected customer calls in a problem. In my opinion, too many of these service people simply don't care about the consequences of their actions, and are happy to make the circuit changes and just walk away.
What's the point of this? Maybe networking a bunch of animals together?
I think they were bored. Now, I think it would really funny to put a small embedded processor in the bear with an IR receiver and transmitter. The IR receiver would harvest the signals from your TV/VCR/DVD remote control, and then the bear got "bored", it would replay those IR commands in random order:-)
Or for the more ambitious, it could have a more powerful processor and an 802.11b interface. It would listen for wireless networks, and try to gain access. Then, of course, it would automatically run exploits against any host it found.
Either one of these bears would make a great gift for an unsuspecting recipient:-)
The list owner asked for a change. By the time I was up to this message it was 2am Sunday morning.
Well, if you have the time to verify correct operation after making the change, sure. Or if you positively know for a fact that the "worst case" is an acceptable risk, that's okay too.
What I object to is someone who makes critical changes and walks away before making sure that everything is in order, or at least hanging around for a while so that anyone adversely affected can get their problems fixed right away.
I believe that one of the traits of a responsible person is to know when NOT to do something.
Of course because this was sent out on a friday, so this went on all weekend.
I have never been able to figure out why so many people pull this kind of crap. Obviously they were trying something new or different than usual. Otherwise the problem would have come up earlier.
This also happens occasionally with the phone company. For some reason, the retarded assholes will make some circuit change on a Friday evening, break something, and then go home for the day (and weekend). Why not do it on Tursday morning, or some other time that allows the nitwit that made the change to fix it immediately when the customer calls in a trouble ticket? (Because all the skilled telco employees were "downsized", and only the retards are left?)
Actually, this can apply to any situation where someone makes an important change or tries something new that might have a large, unexpected effect. How about replacing a bunch of ecommerce scripts just before going on vacation? (And did you verify that your "vacation" program is working correctly?) Or how about changing your BGP filters just before leaving for the night (any night)? Or how about something more mundane, like going on a long driving trip just after changing something important, like the water pump?
I believe that this really boils down to a single factor. Does the person in question really give a shit about the consequences of his or her actions? One could argue that this person is simply too stupid to realize the potential cost of failure, but I believe that anyone who cares about his or her job will take the time to KNOW, not hope. And this person should be prepared to deal with the unexpected, and have a "worst case" fallback plan.
This is somewhat OT, but what about the f*cking avon lady. She keeps throwing those idiot catalogues in my driveway
Get a paintball gun:-) She probably won't have much trouble washing the paint off her car, but it would still serve as a friendly reminder to respect other people's property.
Wow, this hypothesis suggests that global warming may result in the Earth slowing down its rotation by 11 microseconds per decade. I had better make sure my earthquake insurance is paid up.
What they don't mention is how much NORMAL slowdown we can expect from other causes, such as the transfer of angular momentum from the Earth to the moon. I don't recall the numbers, but I am sure the moon will be a much larger factor than the variation in air currents.
Embedded programming isn't that hard, if you can keep the programs and data small.
It would still be a good reference book. One thing - do not forget a good, long, discussion on the GNU linker/loader. It is really not obvious which C code and data sections go where, and if you are about to burn an EPROM, this is really important information!
...they write up a handy little app that shares an unending stream of random data. Since devices pull content without the user actively looking for it, suddenly your PDA is full of garbage.
Add public key crypto to the system. All participants can have an anonymous handle, with their public key stored on some trusted registry. Now my PDA can tell the difference between joebloe45 and goatpope12, and their current ratings ("klepto-karma"?)
Maybe I am interested in snarfing Ironman. It just so happens that mrguano's PDA has a copy, but his kleptokarma is only 1.4 No problem, I have spare storage, so my PDA gratefully accepts it. When I get home, I discover that this isn't Ozzy, but a really bad Joe Cocker rendition of Ironman. So I "moderate" mrguano down for that. Or if it's what I want, I moderate him up.
Suppose my PDA gets a copy from someone with a 1.4, then finds another offer from a node with a higher rating. No problem, just discard the less sure copy in favor of the one from the higher rated unit. I can afford to let my PDA fill up with crap from low-rated peers, knowing that it is likely better than nothing, and that if a "more reputable" offer comes along, my PDA will automatically do the substitution.
If you want to get a bit fancier, add a feedback system to the registry, like ebay. And throw in a blacklist feature for those that want to make or hear accusations. There are all kinds of things a motivated group could do...
OSS companies/programmers will be just as liable as closed source ones.
It does not have to be that way. Why not put in exemption for software that comes with source code? The presumption could be that releasing source code allows the user to take responsibility for the correct operation of the software. Also consider that the OSS writer has little or no control over changes the user might make (and that's one of the main points, isn't it?)
Infact all popular programming books published in the US have an Indian edition which is often 1/10th the price and even poor students studying for their BE ( like me:) ) can afford them.
Interesting... I wonder if some enterprising student in India would be interested in making money by selling these in the US.
The US textbook industry is not exactly organized crime, but it IS corrupt. The publishers do their best to prevent re-use of old textbooks by constantly updating them. They supply new copies to teachers for free in order to make the old ones "obsolete". This is the bribery part.
Considering that the publishers deserve no sympathy or respect in regards to their textbook scams, I think it would be really funny if someone in India made money at their expense.
IMHO the coins are too small and "fiddly" compared to the old Irish coins I'm used to.
Last time I visited Eire, the half-penny seemed very thin to me:-) People told me that it was really only used for buying tobacco, though, and had something to do with the funny taxes. Also, they said that nobody really wanted to carry them around, and often just left them on the counter.
Now the 10P coin was a different matter! That fellow was as big as a US half-dollar coin, and I always ended up having a kilogram (couple pounds:-) of them in my pockets if I wasn't careful.
I wonder what the money-changers are going to do now?
Cool. It will only spend CPU cycles encrypting when the data is actually going to the disk. I guess the tradeoff is that file data in memory is likely to be plaintext, though.
I have not seen the idea mentioned here, but it seems that if one uses encrypted filesystems, there is not (as much) worry about choosing who does the backups.
I am posting this on a new K7s5a with a 1GHZ AMD, Unfortunately, you will probably have to get out the soldering iron and a 150-200 ohm SMD resistor to fix the board. Damn ECS is pretending the problem doesn't exist, but I have three K7S5A boards and three AMD CPUs saying otherwise. Grrr.
Hmm. (thinking it over) I guess I have to agree with that. That wouldn't be the case if they were using an asymmetric cypher (eg, public key), but I doubt the DVD people would have even considered anything that sophisticated. Good catch.
Now we can all say goodbye to the pending DeCss cases and litigation.
Well, that's a nice thought... Here is one part that intrigued me (under "Facts"):
CSS is primarily composed of algorithms and 400 "master keys." Every CSS encrypted DVD contains all 400 master keys, one of which is
the trade secret at issue in this case.
I thought that the 400 keys were used to encrypt the movie decryption key, and that the player in question would use its "master key" to decrypt the session key from those 400 on the disk.
In other words, I believe that the "Facts" are wrong. The master keys are NOT on the DVD, just the session key(s) encrypted by the master keys.
If a court ruling starts out with incorrect "Facts", how strong and binding can it be?
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Actually it's entirely possible that they make these mistakes ALL THE TIME and you only find out because the mistakes get left alone since they've gone home for the weekend.
...when in reality it's just because there's someone around to fix the errors they make on ordinary weekdays.
Sure, I have no argument with that.
Bingo! My main point was about people who make critical changes without bothering to verify correct operation afterwards. Now, it some cases, that might mean staying around for a few hours, in case an affected customer calls in a problem. In my opinion, too many of these service people simply don't care about the consequences of their actions, and are happy to make the circuit changes and just walk away.
What's the point of this? Maybe networking a bunch of animals together?
:-)
:-)
I think they were bored. Now, I think it would really funny to put a small embedded processor in the bear with an IR receiver and transmitter. The IR receiver would harvest the signals from your TV/VCR/DVD remote control, and then the bear got "bored", it would replay those IR commands in random order
Or for the more ambitious, it could have a more powerful processor and an 802.11b interface. It would listen for wireless networks, and try to gain access. Then, of course, it would automatically run exploits against any host it found.
Either one of these bears would make a great gift for an unsuspecting recipient
The list owner asked for a change. By the time I was up to this message it was 2am Sunday morning.
Well, if you have the time to verify correct operation after making the change, sure. Or if you positively know for a fact that the "worst case" is an acceptable risk, that's okay too.
What I object to is someone who makes critical changes and walks away before making sure that everything is in order, or at least hanging around for a while so that anyone adversely affected can get their problems fixed right away.
I believe that one of the traits of a responsible person is to know when NOT to do something.
Of course because this was sent out on a friday, so this went on all weekend.
I have never been able to figure out why so many people pull this kind of crap. Obviously they were trying something new or different than usual. Otherwise the problem would have come up earlier.
This also happens occasionally with the phone company. For some reason, the retarded assholes will make some circuit change on a Friday evening, break something, and then go home for the day (and weekend). Why not do it on Tursday morning, or some other time that allows the nitwit that made the change to fix it immediately when the customer calls in a trouble ticket? (Because all the skilled telco employees were "downsized", and only the retards are left?)
Actually, this can apply to any situation where someone makes an important change or tries something new that might have a large, unexpected effect. How about replacing a bunch of ecommerce scripts just before going on vacation? (And did you verify that your "vacation" program is working correctly?) Or how about changing your BGP filters just before leaving for the night (any night)? Or how about something more mundane, like going on a long driving trip just after changing something important, like the water pump?
I believe that this really boils down to a single factor. Does the person in question really give a shit about the consequences of his or her actions? One could argue that this person is simply too stupid to realize the potential cost of failure, but I believe that anyone who cares about his or her job will take the time to KNOW, not hope. And this person should be prepared to deal with the unexpected, and have a "worst case" fallback plan.
This is somewhat OT, but what about the f*cking avon lady. She keeps throwing those idiot catalogues in my driveway
:-) She probably won't have much trouble washing the paint off her car, but it would still serve as a friendly reminder to respect other people's property.
Get a paintball gun
Wow, this hypothesis suggests that global warming may result in the Earth slowing down its rotation by 11 microseconds per decade. I had better make sure my earthquake insurance is paid up.
What they don't mention is how much NORMAL slowdown we can expect from other causes, such as the transfer of angular momentum from the Earth to the moon. I don't recall the numbers, but I am sure the moon will be a much larger factor than the variation in air currents.
They're famous, as are "Many hands make light work."
:-) (I'll stop now.)
Hey, that's pretty good! That project had large numbers involved, and the final product was really big news
ut what are the "traditional magic words"?
:-)
Doesn't anyone remember "THE WORDS ARE SQUEAMISH OSSIFRAGE"?
Maybe not... Well, it was worth a try
Embedded programming isn't that hard, if you can keep the programs and data small.
It would still be a good reference book. One thing - do not forget a good, long, discussion on the GNU linker/loader. It is really not obvious which C code and data sections go where, and if you are about to burn an EPROM, this is really important information!
...they write up a handy little app that shares an unending stream of random data. Since devices pull content without the user actively looking for it, suddenly your PDA is full of garbage.
Add public key crypto to the system. All participants can have an anonymous handle, with their public key stored on some trusted registry. Now my PDA can tell the difference between joebloe45 and goatpope12, and their current ratings ("klepto-karma"?)
Maybe I am interested in snarfing Ironman. It just so happens that mrguano's PDA has a copy, but his kleptokarma is only 1.4 No problem, I have spare storage, so my PDA gratefully accepts it. When I get home, I discover that this isn't Ozzy, but a really bad Joe Cocker rendition of Ironman. So I "moderate" mrguano down for that. Or if it's what I want, I moderate him up.
Suppose my PDA gets a copy from someone with a 1.4, then finds another offer from a node with a higher rating. No problem, just discard the less sure copy in favor of the one from the higher rated unit. I can afford to let my PDA fill up with crap from low-rated peers, knowing that it is likely better than nothing, and that if a "more reputable" offer comes along, my PDA will automatically do the substitution.
If you want to get a bit fancier, add a feedback system to the registry, like ebay. And throw in a blacklist feature for those that want to make or hear accusations. There are all kinds of things a motivated group could do...
Haven't you ever seen logos blurred out (on MTV) or more humorously, product cans changed?
:-)
I thought they did this very tastefully in Repoman
Is that true? And which very-famous post?
Could it be the one about Anne Tomlinson? I seem to remember that Slashdot wanted to censor that whole thread for legal reasons.
Now I've said it! Jehovah! Jehovah!
OSS companies/programmers will be just as liable as closed source ones.
It does not have to be that way. Why not put in exemption for software that comes with source code? The presumption could be that releasing source code allows the user to take responsibility for the correct operation of the software. Also consider that the OSS writer has little or no control over changes the user might make (and that's one of the main points, isn't it?)
Or "Starkist"?
How about "Charlie"? (Sorry, Charlie!)
How about Flancrest? D'oh!
Or maybe "Mr. Paul"?
Or call him "Brainwash"? (Flipper - there was a guy, and he... and... uh, nevermind, you wouldn't understand it anyway.)
Infact all popular programming books published in the US have an Indian edition which is often 1/10th the price and even poor students studying for their BE ( like me :) ) can afford them.
Interesting... I wonder if some enterprising student in India would be interested in making money by selling these in the US.
The US textbook industry is not exactly organized crime, but it IS corrupt. The publishers do their best to prevent re-use of old textbooks by constantly updating them. They supply new copies to teachers for free in order to make the old ones "obsolete". This is the bribery part.
Considering that the publishers deserve no sympathy or respect in regards to their textbook scams, I think it would be really funny if someone in India made money at their expense.
IMHO the coins are too small and "fiddly" compared to the old Irish coins I'm used to.
:-) People told me that it was really only used for buying tobacco, though, and had something to do with the funny taxes. Also, they said that nobody really wanted to carry them around, and often just left them on the counter.
:-) of them in my pockets if I wasn't careful.
Last time I visited Eire, the half-penny seemed very thin to me
Now the 10P coin was a different matter! That fellow was as big as a US half-dollar coin, and I always ended up having a kilogram (couple pounds
I wonder what the money-changers are going to do now?
One should never use two punctuation marks in a row; it's just bad grammar.
What the heck?! Shirley, you must be joking...
I use mine [Iridium] in Europe and Japan - it's cheaper than GSM roaming, and the incomming caller pays the $1.50, not me.
:-)
Cool! Now all you have to do is make sure telemarketers get your number
Cool. It will only spend CPU cycles encrypting when the data is actually going to the disk. I guess the tradeoff is that file data in memory is likely to be plaintext, though.
I have not seen the idea mentioned here, but it seems that if one uses encrypted filesystems, there is not (as much) worry about choosing who does the backups.
I am posting this on a new K7s5a with a 1GHZ AMD,
Unfortunately, you will probably have to get out the soldering iron and a 150-200 ohm SMD resistor to fix the board. Damn ECS is pretending the problem doesn't exist, but I have three K7S5A boards and three AMD CPUs saying otherwise. Grrr.
A K7S5A message board
Hmm. (thinking it over) I guess I have to agree with that. That wouldn't be the case if they were using an asymmetric cypher (eg, public key), but I doubt the DVD people would have even considered anything that sophisticated. Good catch.
Now we can all say goodbye to the pending DeCss cases and litigation.
Well, that's a nice thought... Here is one part that intrigued me (under "Facts"):
CSS is primarily composed of algorithms and 400 "master keys." Every CSS encrypted DVD contains all 400 master keys, one of which is
the trade secret at issue in this case.
I thought that the 400 keys were used to encrypt the movie decryption key, and that the player in question would use its "master key" to decrypt the session key from those 400 on the disk.
In other words, I believe that the "Facts" are wrong. The master keys are NOT on the DVD, just the session key(s) encrypted by the master keys.
If a court ruling starts out with incorrect "Facts", how strong and binding can it be?
The parents/plantiffs shall be given presumption, if the case involves graphic images, ...
:-)
Oh, it only applies to graphic images. I guess my ASCII porn is okay, then
Morons.
The more I think of it, the more this sounds like the three perfect applications for Microsoft products. (+1 flamebait)
Perhaps you should write a daemon to check for daemons and restart them if necessary. :P
It is called 'supervise' and comes with daemontools.