Not that I really like cheering for M$ BUT what I take away from this article is that if these people are resorting to "physical-access" attacks to break Windows7 then maybe it has a chance of being a decently secure OS.
Is this a disguised anti-bestiality law? All this brew-ha-ha just to keep a few horny people from trying to create "human-animal" hybrids whilst lonely out amongst the herd;)
I strongly disagree. As with any pair of genres there is overlap between the two BUT I would say that Science Fiction and Fantasy are both sibling subsets of Fiction.
I don't know about where you are but our urban core has utility trenches. The only time they need to dig is for a new tap-to-building or to make bigger trenches.
Once you get to the building it is no longer the telco's responsibility (although they often do the work) to get around.
Upgrading outside of the core if varies from area to area whether the lines are over or under. I'm guessing our telco won't be changing that just using the same route as was used before for any given building/neighborhood.
Cheers to this... 37 is NOT old in terms of the computer enabled generation. Here's a good example: "using computers since I was 8 years old"
I'm 32 and I've been using computers since I was about 2. You were roughly what 2nd grade when you started? Late I tell you. Now look at someone 10 years older than you.. then 20.. then 30.. now bounce back to the current fresh college grads. We were WAY ahead of the curve starting at our age and ridiculed as nerds or geeks by many. These days if you aren't computer literate by the time you enter pre-school you are the exception not the rule.
Having worked with them literally my whole life I (and your average slashdotter) understand computers in a way many of our peers will die before they achieve. The next generation, on the other hand, is getting saturated with people like us.
I'm more worried about the job market being flooded than anyone not hiring me for my age now or 20 years from now.
The entire internet prior to 1996 is archived on an old PC that I'm currently trying to get the 5GB disk restored on.. why I've kept all that old porn for so long completely escapes me tho.:)
There was a situation earlier this year (last last?) where a high school girl was strip searched because she was breaking school rules using a cell phone in class and decided to get away with it by hiding the phone in her poonani.
I don't even want to begin getting into whether that is right or not BUT to relate to this case: They called in the full set of authorities and *they* performed the search.
Teachers are not our parents and they are not the police. They are there to teach us and I know have to deal with way more crap than they should but that still does not give them the right to violate the children's own.
Agreed. I grew up with Migraines. Pre- the wonderful better drugs we have now I needed to take massive amounts of Ibuprofen to keep them in check and hell-yeah I had it with me at all times including at school. "Prescription Strength" means 800mg = 4 over the counter pills = 1/2 what I needed to bring down a bad migraine.
Their mention of the "not excessively intrusive in light of [the student's] age and sex and the nature of her suspected infraction" what.. she's a girl so we can strip search her? She's 13 so we can strip search her? She might, heaven-forbid, have *Advil* so we can strip search her?!?
Unfairly ticketed: 1) They are not talking about speed cameras.. they are talking about traffic light cameras. (same company..different tech) I got a ticket for "running a red" when I was making a *legal* right turn on red.. how's that for you? 2) You are unable to cross-examine your accuser (the camera). 3) There is typically no proof that you were driving your car. It is not illegal to borrow your car to someone else and there is no jurisdiction that makes you liable for petty offenses committed with your vehicle.
It's called circumstantial evidence.
Here in MN we got these thrown out even easier: They were deemed illegal in terms of our constitution. No new laws to pass.. bye bye evil eyes.
Honestly the company getting a cut of the ticket revenue would also be unconstitutional here. (all sorts of rules as to where certain kinds of revenue has to go) The city pays for the hardware, the maintenance and the monitoring service. The ticket money may go towards paying that but not directly.. well.. not anymore!
eh? I'm quite solidly in the US and "preventative" is what I use and most everyone around me.
According to dictionary.com and others the two words are exact synonyms for each other (each listed as an alternate spelling in the other)
I would say this is more localized preference wise than across the pond. There is a myth that one is correct as an adjective and the other as a noun but that is a falsehood. That being said it is a common enough perception that it is actually taught by some teachers.
The difference with a "Jim" is that he already got to that point the first time. Spending the time writing extensive amounts of documentation gets a "Jim" bored and he loses interest leading to a problem being left unfinished as he moves on to something better.
A "Josh" is a whole different animal (not knowing him personally I'd have to reserve judgment but based on what I do know the term Jackass fits) and most of the comments I've read above don't distinguish between the two.
I've known "Jim"s and "Josh"s aplenty throughout my career so far. "Josh"s you fire as soon as you own their intellectual property because they will cost you a fortune and other great employees in the long run. "Jim"s you do whatever you can to keep them happy because they are truly invaluable.
Agree.. not necessarily that all programmers are bad at math but that for a vast amount of development work you're not doing much that's that interesting.
Between my EE and my CS degree I took something like 30 math classes (5 theoretical and 25 practical) Since graduating, I haven't needed anything beyond the Algebra I learned in 8th grade. Ergo, I'm really, really rusty at anything more advanced. Were I programming in a different field then maybe my higher-level math skills would be getting better use.
That all being said you don't need advanced math to figure out whether your drive will last for you. +-/* will do the job just fine.
Si Senor.. especially with the expense. Oracle/suppliers will give deals but the list price for a Standard Oracle license (which for you US peeps means #cores / 2) is $17.5K. If you wanna run RAC you don't need enterprise for that BUT if you want data guard to have a hot standby server you must have enterprise which is $45K per license.
So given any server worth a damn these days has at least 4 cores that 2 licenses per box so for RAC you are at $35K * 2 = $70K just for your database servers software license (plus RAC is an up-charge).. then add your web-servers (2 for same redundancy) A nice SAN with all sorts of tasty RAID redundancy (lets say $15K for a few TB RAID 60) That's 4 servers (about $5K each) + SAN + Oracle and you've spent over $105K.
Use something like data-guard and that makes your enterprise licenses go up to $45 * 4, also double your SAN as each server will need its own storage and you've spent almost $230K.
Warm backup using something like dbVisit you're only spending $2.5K on the software + Standard Oracle licenses (now only 2x 17.5 as the standby servers don't have to be licensed as the parent said) You still need 2 SANs SO now we're at $35 + 2x$15K + 4x$5k = $85K again and you lose real-time fail-over and a delay in how current your backup is via log-shipping.
$$$$$$
WAY too expensive if you don't need it. 1000 users is a picnic.
To be fair.. Professionalism is acting with grace and civility......even when the person/company on the receiving end deserves a kick in the arse.
SO when the boss tells you to unclog the toilet in the bathroom you reply: "No problem sir. Would you prefer I use a plunger or the toilet brush as I am updating my resume and want a good list of what technologies I use in my work?"
Why is this even news.. yes, given a decent rez photo of the person in question you can now (with their password) log in to the machine bypassing the additional face check. DUH! You can also bypass a fingerprint reader by putting a scan of the fingerprint on the scanner.. they even did that on Myth Busters.
How about I post serious hacking research saying I can access any unencrypted Linux machine with a boot disk. Now THAT's news.
It's not like they actually showed an error in the calculations or showed any proof of danger.
This is a bunch of bored brains saying that on the basis of pure statistics: If one in 10,000 papers have an error in them then the probability of this paper having an error in it is 1 in 10,000 ergo any claim must be degraded by 10^-4?
They should be spending their valuable time actually checking the facts and figures and coming up with some real conclusions not some abstract theory on the reliability of scientific calculations..
Excuse me? ADVERTISING IS MISLEADING! Even for products that are truly worth it the job of a marketing exec is to convince people to buy their products. There are numerous laws about how much you can lie in advertising (about pharmaceuticals especially) but to outlaw being misleading would be to outlaw the industry.
Good examples (which we learned about in middle school as I recall): * Celebrity endorsement: I should buy that because uses it. (ignore the fact he doesn't use it and was paid to say he does) * Bandwagon: I should buy that because EVERYONE uses that. (show me the statistics please) * Professional Endorsement: 9/10 systems engineers say that this product is the best (did I mention that those 10 work in our IT department and the 10th one was fired?)
Come on.. We're/. We may find out about a product because of advertising but I think we can do a bit better research on what we should buy. The masses deserve what they choose to believe.
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Well.. no. The fast-becoming-obsolete music industry depends on taking a very small number of likable tunes and thrusting them on the public in the attempt to get vast volume of sales. Some of this is occasionally good music but much of the time it is vanilla (the average of the masses will like it) and performed by underwear models.
Meanwhile there is a veritable renaissance going on right now in the music world. Yes, there is plenty of crap out there BUT there is also a mountain of fantastic music that will never see the light of record company forced fame. To put it bluntly: Recording Studios are expensive. Gear is expensive. Creating the music is an expensive endeavor possibly made cheaper with the emergence of the home studio but the chances of hearing a home-studio recording on a mainstream radio station are virtually nil. Marketing is what the big companies are good for (and always will be) but their ability to only push a few hits a year and oft-limited taste in music means more good music gets lost than promoted.
The difference between music and books is that anyone can burn a pile of CDs and even make them look pretty. For relatively small $$ you can even get an indy distributor to do it right and ship to your favorite store. That is still considered self-published. It is a LOT more expensive to have real books made and distributed. You need a publisher just to get the work printed unless you want to distribute digitally but frankly I would still rather cozy up with a good book than fall asleep on my laptop. Either way you lack the marketing engine to get the word to the masses.
Your statement is what the record companies and the RIAA want everyone to believe to keep them in business. Their days in the current model are numbered. They have the uses but are no indication of the quality of their product only how many people they can sell it to.
That's basically how I worked when I was a contractor.. "OK.. so I have 3 months to do X amount of work and a budget of Y hours" If I can get the job done in a week or two then I can slack off for the rest of the time (or get another job and another paycheck) The only hard part was if I procrastinated (which I tended to do) it was a challenge to decide what to report was done to show progress when it all wasn't going to get done till a later one week in the time frame:)
Have all scientists been reading my books? I swear I pick up some paperback and next thing you know the event in the story is being broadcast to the world as the next big thing.
Read the book Sun Storm (after reading it's predecessor Time's Eye of course.. they are kind of a part 1/part 2 pair) By Arthur C. Clark. The first book is really cool in a "Let's collide a bunch of civilizations from throughout history and see what happens" kind of way. Sun Storm is about exactly that.. a sun storm. Lots of Sci Fi reality goodness and a good storyline as well. Of course in his book the storm is not random:)
I'm pretty happy with a file system that is fully capable of handling my current hardware limitations with plenty of room to grow as the hardware gets better.
When the current SD cards are coming in at around 64GB designing the current standard to handle 2TB ain't bad. (lots of headroom in the standard as it will take manufacturing a few years at least to get to that point at the rate they're going)
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Not that I really like cheering for M$ BUT what I take away from this article is that if these people are resorting to "physical-access" attacks to break Windows7 then maybe it has a chance of being a decently secure OS.
I can always hope :)
Is this a disguised anti-bestiality law? All this brew-ha-ha just to keep a few horny people from trying to create "human-animal" hybrids whilst lonely out amongst the herd ;)
I strongly disagree. As with any pair of genres there is overlap between the two BUT I would say that Science Fiction and Fantasy are both sibling subsets of Fiction.
I don't know about where you are but our urban core has utility trenches. The only time they need to dig is for a new tap-to-building or to make bigger trenches.
Once you get to the building it is no longer the telco's responsibility (although they often do the work) to get around.
Upgrading outside of the core if varies from area to area whether the lines are over or under. I'm guessing our telco won't be changing that just using the same route as was used before for any given building/neighborhood.
How resistant IS fiber to being wind-whipped?
Cheers to this... 37 is NOT old in terms of the computer enabled generation. Here's a good example: "using computers since I was 8 years old"
I'm 32 and I've been using computers since I was about 2. You were roughly what 2nd grade when you started? Late I tell you. Now look at someone 10 years older than you.. then 20.. then 30.. now bounce back to the current fresh college grads. We were WAY ahead of the curve starting at our age and ridiculed as nerds or geeks by many. These days if you aren't computer literate by the time you enter pre-school you are the exception not the rule.
Having worked with them literally my whole life I (and your average slashdotter) understand computers in a way many of our peers will die before they achieve. The next generation, on the other hand, is getting saturated with people like us.
I'm more worried about the job market being flooded than anyone not hiring me for my age now or 20 years from now.
OR maybe the data center just drove away..
The entire internet prior to 1996 is archived on an old PC that I'm currently trying to get the 5GB disk restored on.. why I've kept all that old porn for so long completely escapes me tho. :)
There was a situation earlier this year (last last?) where a high school girl was strip searched because she was breaking school rules using a cell phone in class and decided to get away with it by hiding the phone in her poonani.
I don't even want to begin getting into whether that is right or not BUT to relate to this case:
They called in the full set of authorities and *they* performed the search.
Teachers are not our parents and they are not the police. They are there to teach us and I know have to deal with way more crap than they should but that still does not give them the right to violate the children's own.
Agreed. I grew up with Migraines. Pre- the wonderful better drugs we have now I needed to take massive amounts of Ibuprofen to keep them in check and hell-yeah I had it with me at all times including at school. "Prescription Strength" means 800mg = 4 over the counter pills = 1/2 what I needed to bring down a bad migraine.
Their mention of the "not excessively intrusive in light of [the student's] age and sex and the nature of her suspected infraction" what.. she's a girl so we can strip search her? She's 13 so we can strip search her? She might, heaven-forbid, have *Advil* so we can strip search her?!?
Let them burn.
No.
Unfairly ticketed:
1) They are not talking about speed cameras.. they are talking about traffic light cameras. (same company..different tech) I got a ticket for "running a red" when I was making a *legal* right turn on red.. how's that for you?
2) You are unable to cross-examine your accuser (the camera).
3) There is typically no proof that you were driving your car. It is not illegal to borrow your car to someone else and there is no jurisdiction that makes you liable for petty offenses committed with your vehicle.
It's called circumstantial evidence.
Here in MN we got these thrown out even easier: They were deemed illegal in terms of our constitution. No new laws to pass.. bye bye evil eyes.
Honestly the company getting a cut of the ticket revenue would also be unconstitutional here. (all sorts of rules as to where certain kinds of revenue has to go) The city pays for the hardware, the maintenance and the monitoring service. The ticket money may go towards paying that but not directly.. well.. not anymore!
eh? I'm quite solidly in the US and "preventative" is what I use and most everyone around me.
According to dictionary.com and others the two words are exact synonyms for each other (each listed as an alternate spelling in the other)
I would say this is more localized preference wise than across the pond. There is a myth that one is correct as an adjective and the other as a noun but that is a falsehood. That being said it is a common enough perception that it is actually taught by some teachers.
The difference with a "Jim" is that he already got to that point the first time. Spending the time writing extensive amounts of documentation gets a "Jim" bored and he loses interest leading to a problem being left unfinished as he moves on to something better.
A "Josh" is a whole different animal (not knowing him personally I'd have to reserve judgment but based on what I do know the term Jackass fits) and most of the comments I've read above don't distinguish between the two.
I've known "Jim"s and "Josh"s aplenty throughout my career so far. "Josh"s you fire as soon as you own their intellectual property because they will cost you a fortune and other great employees in the long run. "Jim"s you do whatever you can to keep them happy because they are truly invaluable.
SO.. I have a Dell XPS that I decided to waste $$ and buy the 64GB SSD (as my primary disk.. SATA for disk 2).
I bought this laptop in January of '08. It is now March of '09. 14months > 12months and my drive is still working fine.
You lose.
Agree.. not necessarily that all programmers are bad at math but that for a vast amount of development work you're not doing much that's that interesting.
Between my EE and my CS degree I took something like 30 math classes (5 theoretical and 25 practical) Since graduating, I haven't needed anything beyond the Algebra I learned in 8th grade. Ergo, I'm really, really rusty at anything more advanced. Were I programming in a different field then maybe my higher-level math skills would be getting better use.
That all being said you don't need advanced math to figure out whether your drive will last for you. +-/* will do the job just fine.
Si Senor.. especially with the expense. Oracle/suppliers will give deals but the list price for a Standard Oracle license (which for you US peeps means #cores / 2) is $17.5K. If you wanna run RAC you don't need enterprise for that BUT if you want data guard to have a hot standby server you must have enterprise which is $45K per license.
So given any server worth a damn these days has at least 4 cores that 2 licenses per box so for RAC you are at $35K * 2 = $70K just for your database servers software license (plus RAC is an up-charge) .. then add your web-servers (2 for same redundancy) A nice SAN with all sorts of tasty RAID redundancy (lets say $15K for a few TB RAID 60) That's 4 servers (about $5K each) + SAN + Oracle and you've spent over $105K.
Use something like data-guard and that makes your enterprise licenses go up to $45 * 4, also double your SAN as each server will need its own storage and you've spent almost $230K.
Warm backup using something like dbVisit you're only spending $2.5K on the software + Standard Oracle licenses (now only 2x 17.5 as the standby servers don't have to be licensed as the parent said) You still need 2 SANs SO now we're at $35 + 2x$15K + 4x$5k = $85K again and you lose real-time fail-over and a delay in how current your backup is via log-shipping.
$$$$$$
WAY too expensive if you don't need it. 1000 users is a picnic.
To be fair.. ...even when the person/company on the receiving end deserves a kick in the arse.
Professionalism is acting with grace and civility...
SO when the boss tells you to unclog the toilet in the bathroom you reply:
"No problem sir. Would you prefer I use a plunger or the toilet brush as I am updating my resume and want a good list of what technologies I use in my work?"
That's just plain wrong...
Your(singular) = "Y'all are"
Your(plural) = "Alls'y'all is"
Alls'y'all better get off'n my lawn!!!
Why is this even news.. yes, given a decent rez photo of the person in question you can now (with their password) log in to the machine bypassing the additional face check. DUH! You can also bypass a fingerprint reader by putting a scan of the fingerprint on the scanner.. they even did that on Myth Busters.
How about I post serious hacking research saying I can access any unencrypted Linux machine with a boot disk. Now THAT's news.
It's not like they actually showed an error in the calculations or showed any proof of danger.
This is a bunch of bored brains saying that on the basis of pure statistics: If one in 10,000 papers have an error in them then the probability of this paper having an error in it is 1 in 10,000 ergo any claim must be degraded by 10^-4?
They should be spending their valuable time actually checking the facts and figures and coming up with some real conclusions not some abstract theory on the reliability of scientific calculations..
Just don't write bugs in the first place and write all modules that you need for your own project.
"I didn't reinvent the wheel.. I made it better!"
Excuse me? ADVERTISING IS MISLEADING! Even for products that are truly worth it the job of a marketing exec is to convince people to buy their products. There are numerous laws about how much you can lie in advertising (about pharmaceuticals especially) but to outlaw being misleading would be to outlaw the industry.
Good examples (which we learned about in middle school as I recall):
* Celebrity endorsement: I should buy that because uses it. (ignore the fact he doesn't use it and was paid to say he does)
* Bandwagon: I should buy that because EVERYONE uses that. (show me the statistics please)
* Professional Endorsement: 9/10 systems engineers say that this product is the best (did I mention that those 10 work in our IT department and the 10th one was fired?)
Come on.. We're /. We may find out about a product because of advertising but I think we can do a bit better research on what we should buy. The masses deserve what they choose to believe.
Well.. no. The fast-becoming-obsolete music industry depends on taking a very small number of likable tunes and thrusting them on the public in the attempt to get vast volume of sales. Some of this is occasionally good music but much of the time it is vanilla (the average of the masses will like it) and performed by underwear models.
Meanwhile there is a veritable renaissance going on right now in the music world. Yes, there is plenty of crap out there BUT there is also a mountain of fantastic music that will never see the light of record company forced fame. To put it bluntly: Recording Studios are expensive. Gear is expensive. Creating the music is an expensive endeavor possibly made cheaper with the emergence of the home studio but the chances of hearing a home-studio recording on a mainstream radio station are virtually nil. Marketing is what the big companies are good for (and always will be) but their ability to only push a few hits a year and oft-limited taste in music means more good music gets lost than promoted.
The difference between music and books is that anyone can burn a pile of CDs and even make them look pretty. For relatively small $$ you can even get an indy distributor to do it right and ship to your favorite store. That is still considered self-published. It is a LOT more expensive to have real books made and distributed. You need a publisher just to get the work printed unless you want to distribute digitally but frankly I would still rather cozy up with a good book than fall asleep on my laptop. Either way you lack the marketing engine to get the word to the masses.
Your statement is what the record companies and the RIAA want everyone to believe to keep them in business. Their days in the current model are numbered. They have the uses but are no indication of the quality of their product only how many people they can sell it to.
That's basically how I worked when I was a contractor.. "OK.. so I have 3 months to do X amount of work and a budget of Y hours" If I can get the job done in a week or two then I can slack off for the rest of the time (or get another job and another paycheck) The only hard part was if I procrastinated (which I tended to do) it was a challenge to decide what to report was done to show progress when it all wasn't going to get done till a later one week in the time frame :)
Have all scientists been reading my books? I swear I pick up some paperback and next thing you know the event in the story is being broadcast to the world as the next big thing.
Read the book Sun Storm (after reading it's predecessor Time's Eye of course.. they are kind of a part 1/part 2 pair) By Arthur C. Clark. The first book is really cool in a "Let's collide a bunch of civilizations from throughout history and see what happens" kind of way. Sun Storm is about exactly that.. a sun storm. Lots of Sci Fi reality goodness and a good storyline as well. Of course in his book the storm is not random :)
Well.. which limit should be higher?
I'm pretty happy with a file system that is fully capable of handling my current hardware limitations with plenty of room to grow as the hardware gets better.
When the current SD cards are coming in at around 64GB designing the current standard to handle 2TB ain't bad. (lots of headroom in the standard as it will take manufacturing a few years at least to get to that point at the rate they're going)