I really dont care about this stuff anymore. I just cant take any more earth-shattering breakthroughs in porn-on-your-laptop-in-the-bathroom related news.
To me, DNA based computing will be a reality before quantum based computing. It'll at least augment what we have now. Imagine the above, a CPU thats a little bucket of DNA, and you drop someones public PGP key in as a DNA coded deal. It basically tries all possible combinations at once, kaboom.
WOW
Or DNA based prOn. Oh wait, I got that already, it's called a wife.
I thought the whole deal was they couldnt make glass thick enough to hold that much water, the guy said it would have to be like 10 feet thick or something, and therefore had to teach them how to make the material they needed.
Anyways, it makes me wonder, why the hell do they need anyone to do anything, with their replicators and technology and shit? Scotty can rebuild the warp coils in 20 minutes while the ships on fire sliding backwards through a wormhole, but he cant put together a big box for a whale? Or lock it in a transporter beam for the ride home (ya know, thats how he got himself into TNG)
You forgot the part where bob racks up a bunch of long distance phone calls on Johns line, calling the asbestos removal company and home depot delivery and whatnot.
This worm generates a ton of traffic that, ultimately, everyone ends up paying for. Espescially on a shared connection like a cablemodem.
I actually signed up for some video game news-site spam.
If you signed up for it, it wasn't spam.
Well, to do that, we'll have to re-write a lot of the protocols! And ban all P2P apps!
We do need to rewrite/replace a lot of the protocols. Theres a lot of bloat at the transport layer. P2P apps neednt be banned, because for the most part someone on one end of any p2p download actually requested the file. They could be rewritten to optimize traffic, however.
So it's OK for me to infect your machine with arbitrary code, just so long as the code does something that I deem nice?
Maybe I'll write a porn deleting worm, or a nice "redirect everything to vatican.com" worm.
Worms do much of their damage by the mechanism by which they spread - they eat bandwidth. Slammer on one machine (a laptop) at my work ate our entire T1 for a day. Thats bandwidth we pay for, and business we lost.
The cure in this case has the exact same symptoms as the disease.
If I went into your home when you were away, but all I did was make sure all the lights are off and windows/doors are locked, would you be OK with that?
Or if, instead of the worm, he decided to spam umpteen million mail addresses with worm removal instructions, would that be hunky dory too?
Fuck this "do as I say, not as I do" attitude, and keep outta my network.
Except that these "white" worms still eat up a shitload of bandwidth, and businesses and people still have to eat those costs.
I remember way back in my hometown the cops got the brilliant idea to go through the parking lot trying to open car doors. When they'd find an unlocked car, they'd leave a little pamphlet on the drivers seat about why you should lock your doors.
People were pissed, and rightly so. It doesnt matter if it's locked or not, noone has any right to open it up and go inside without your permission.
Its not important what the worms payload is. The writers of this should suffer the same punishment if caught as the writers of a DDoS worm.
Why did it need to be transparent aluminum anyways? Why couldnt they have just put the whale into a big steel bucket? Or wall it in with regular aluminum?
Was there really a need to sit around in the spaceship gawking at a whale? What a stupid movie that was. Never let Kirk direct.
It's up to the state not the feds. Thats why there are casinos in Nevada but not in Alabama.
What you propose would be yet another example of the feds wrestling power from the states.
The constitution gives very few powers to the country, more to the states, even more to municipalities, and the most to the individual.
Slowly its turning to one big homogenous state, which is a bad thing. The way it is now, if you dont like Casinos and strip clubs and prostitution, you can decide to not live in Nevada, but still be an American. Soon, you'll have to renounce your citizenship and move to some filthy european country where they molest children for sport.
They're backed by organized crime in many, if not most cases.
Last thing I'd want is a $10,000 dept to some anonymous internet guy operating out of some country with little or no laws.
Plus, real casinos are policed by gaming commissions to ensure fairness. Online ones arent. But this article is about bookmaking, not casino "games of chance".
Being as I live in Anne Arundel county, and work in the public safety field as a programmer, I can tell you that these podunk maryland cops are some of the most incompetent and out of date you'll find anywhere.
Think Mayberry. I can tell you from first hand experience that these guys are equipped to write speeding tickets and bust 14 year olds for posession of dope, and are some of the lowest paid in the nation. They start at like 25 grand a year.
If there was ever a major emergency around here (like 9/11 or hurricanes or whatever) there are so many military bases nearby, the feds can easily swoop in and take care of it. For example, the feds caught the DC snipers - local cops had an extremely minor role in the whole thing as a more of a press liason than anything else.
This is a mostly regional article and doesnt necessarily pertain to other regions I've been to, like LA or New York.
Nothing is more annoying than the asshat who calls and thinks he/she knows everything.
More often than not, they dont, and are lying when they tell you they've "already done that".
Our software uses SQL Server. In our setup, transaction logs can overflow the HDD if you dont backup the data, oh say, once a year. I had a customer call all irate about how theres no HDD space and the app kept failing.
I dial in and look at the machines logs, last backup was three years earlier (the backup I did during installation to show the idiot how to do a backup, in fact). I'm sitting there looking at this, knowing for a fact they've never backed the machine up, meanwhile the customer is on the phone spouting some horseshit about how they diligently do incremental backups every night.
Finally, since the know-it-all wouldnt listen to anything I had to say (why call anyways?) I simply said, "well, since you backup every night, you need to bounce the machine, and reinstall last nights backup to the freshly formatted hard drive".
So now the customer can a) admit he's full of shit or b) pipe three years of data to/dev/null just to save face. He chose b. (BTW, this is a police dispatching system, he obliterated years of calls for service data.. He was fired within a week.)
My point is... If you think you know everything, you're wrong. Even the most advanced techies sometimes forget the most trivial of troubleshooting techniques (are the cords in tight? Is it switched on?)
MSFT has done that for years, but I've noticed they've slowed down.
My company has done this too. Thing is, people dont get "beta", and dont get the notion that they're getting something ahead of final release for free.
And this is interesting how? Because it's a jab at commercial software? Does it somehow imply open source is better? Yuk yuk MSFT is teh gay!
You can make the same arguments in any industry. Why are cars improved every year? The Model T was just an expiriment, Ford used us as guinea pigs! Why do fashions keep changing, designers use us as free test subjects!
Everything in the grocery store bears a label "New and improved!" That means the previous product was inferior! I'm shocked and appalled that anyone would sell a less-than-optimal product!
Yeah, products are revamped, reviewed and improved. Plenty of stuff is recalled, plenty of poor engineering mistakes are made.
It doesnt mean the worlds out to screw you, as an educated consumer you should know better by now.
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So you'd prefer they follow this plan:
1. Start small company with big ideas and a new very cool technology
2. Partner with Sony and other industry giants to create an "open" standard
3. File chapter 11 once you realize the big guys wont let a dime slip through their fingers edgewise.
It's the way the world works. The plan you posted is the right one, with step 2 being "License tech out to people with the means to mass produce it"
I really dont care about this stuff anymore. I just cant take any more earth-shattering breakthroughs in porn-on-your-laptop-in-the-bathroom related news.
Well we already got DNA based porn. They're called girls.
To me, DNA based computing will be a reality before quantum based computing. It'll at least augment what we have now. Imagine the above, a CPU thats a little bucket of DNA, and you drop someones public PGP key in as a DNA coded deal. It basically tries all possible combinations at once, kaboom.
WOW
Or DNA based prOn. Oh wait, I got that already, it's called a wife.
I thought the whole deal was they couldnt make glass thick enough to hold that much water, the guy said it would have to be like 10 feet thick or something, and therefore had to teach them how to make the material they needed.
Anyways, it makes me wonder, why the hell do they need anyone to do anything, with their replicators and technology and shit? Scotty can rebuild the warp coils in 20 minutes while the ships on fire sliding backwards through a wormhole, but he cant put together a big box for a whale? Or lock it in a transporter beam for the ride home (ya know, thats how he got himself into TNG)
BAH to bad sci-fi.
Damn that green blooded robot.
You forgot the part where bob racks up a bunch of long distance phone calls on Johns line, calling the asbestos removal company and home depot delivery and whatnot.
This worm generates a ton of traffic that, ultimately, everyone ends up paying for. Espescially on a shared connection like a cablemodem.
I actually signed up for some video game news-site spam.
If you signed up for it, it wasn't spam.
Well, to do that, we'll have to re-write a lot of the protocols! And ban all P2P apps!
We do need to rewrite/replace a lot of the protocols. Theres a lot of bloat at the transport layer. P2P apps neednt be banned, because for the most part someone on one end of any p2p download actually requested the file. They could be rewritten to optimize traffic, however.
So it's OK for me to infect your machine with arbitrary code, just so long as the code does something that I deem nice?
Maybe I'll write a porn deleting worm, or a nice "redirect everything to vatican.com" worm.
Worms do much of their damage by the mechanism by which they spread - they eat bandwidth. Slammer on one machine (a laptop) at my work ate our entire T1 for a day. Thats bandwidth we pay for, and business we lost.
The cure in this case has the exact same symptoms as the disease.
As he should be.
If I went into your home when you were away, but all I did was make sure all the lights are off and windows/doors are locked, would you be OK with that?
Or if, instead of the worm, he decided to spam umpteen million mail addresses with worm removal instructions, would that be hunky dory too?
Fuck this "do as I say, not as I do" attitude, and keep outta my network.
Its still a worm, once its on your machine its still trying to find other machines. It just replaces the old worm.
I dont want anything on my PC or network that I didn't put there deliberately.
Hes such a whitehat he can pay my bandwidth bill for me.
Would you like spam if it offered you things you like? Would spam from redhat or the FSF be good?
I say no, spam is spam and worms are worms.
The best way to make the internet cheaper and faster is to eliminate all the superflouous junk traffic.
No, and if you'd keep your hands out of the cheetos bag and pick up a healthy subway sub instead of your double qp with cheese, you wouldnt either.
Except that these "white" worms still eat up a shitload of bandwidth, and businesses and people still have to eat those costs.
I remember way back in my hometown the cops got the brilliant idea to go through the parking lot trying to open car doors. When they'd find an unlocked car, they'd leave a little pamphlet on the drivers seat about why you should lock your doors.
People were pissed, and rightly so. It doesnt matter if it's locked or not, noone has any right to open it up and go inside without your permission.
Its not important what the worms payload is. The writers of this should suffer the same punishment if caught as the writers of a DDoS worm.
Why did it need to be transparent aluminum anyways? Why couldnt they have just put the whale into a big steel bucket? Or wall it in with regular aluminum?
Was there really a need to sit around in the spaceship gawking at a whale? What a stupid movie that was. Never let Kirk direct.
It's up to the state not the feds. Thats why there are casinos in Nevada but not in Alabama.
What you propose would be yet another example of the feds wrestling power from the states.
The constitution gives very few powers to the country, more to the states, even more to municipalities, and the most to the individual.
Slowly its turning to one big homogenous state, which is a bad thing. The way it is now, if you dont like Casinos and strip clubs and prostitution, you can decide to not live in Nevada, but still be an American. Soon, you'll have to renounce your citizenship and move to some filthy european country where they molest children for sport.
They're backed by organized crime in many, if not most cases.
Last thing I'd want is a $10,000 dept to some anonymous internet guy operating out of some country with little or no laws.
Plus, real casinos are policed by gaming commissions to ensure fairness. Online ones arent. But this article is about bookmaking, not casino "games of chance".
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Being as I live in Anne Arundel county, and work in the public safety field as a programmer, I can tell you that these podunk maryland cops are some of the most incompetent and out of date you'll find anywhere.
Think Mayberry. I can tell you from first hand experience that these guys are equipped to write speeding tickets and bust 14 year olds for posession of dope, and are some of the lowest paid in the nation. They start at like 25 grand a year.
If there was ever a major emergency around here (like 9/11 or hurricanes or whatever) there are so many military bases nearby, the feds can easily swoop in and take care of it. For example, the feds caught the DC snipers - local cops had an extremely minor role in the whole thing as a more of a press liason than anything else.
This is a mostly regional article and doesnt necessarily pertain to other regions I've been to, like LA or New York.
Nothing is more annoying than the asshat who calls and thinks he/she knows everything.
/dev/null just to save face. He chose b. (BTW, this is a police dispatching system, he obliterated years of calls for service data.. He was fired within a week.)
More often than not, they dont, and are lying when they tell you they've "already done that".
Our software uses SQL Server. In our setup, transaction logs can overflow the HDD if you dont backup the data, oh say, once a year. I had a customer call all irate about how theres no HDD space and the app kept failing.
I dial in and look at the machines logs, last backup was three years earlier (the backup I did during installation to show the idiot how to do a backup, in fact). I'm sitting there looking at this, knowing for a fact they've never backed the machine up, meanwhile the customer is on the phone spouting some horseshit about how they diligently do incremental backups every night.
Finally, since the know-it-all wouldnt listen to anything I had to say (why call anyways?) I simply said, "well, since you backup every night, you need to bounce the machine, and reinstall last nights backup to the freshly formatted hard drive".
So now the customer can a) admit he's full of shit or b) pipe three years of data to
My point is... If you think you know everything, you're wrong. Even the most advanced techies sometimes forget the most trivial of troubleshooting techniques (are the cords in tight? Is it switched on?)
MSFT has done that for years, but I've noticed they've slowed down.
My company has done this too. Thing is, people dont get "beta", and dont get the notion that they're getting something ahead of final release for free.
The bitching and whining remains the same.
And this is interesting how? Because it's a jab at commercial software? Does it somehow imply open source is better? Yuk yuk MSFT is teh gay!
You can make the same arguments in any industry. Why are cars improved every year? The Model T was just an expiriment, Ford used us as guinea pigs! Why do fashions keep changing, designers use us as free test subjects!
Everything in the grocery store bears a label "New and improved!" That means the previous product was inferior! I'm shocked and appalled that anyone would sell a less-than-optimal product!
Yeah, products are revamped, reviewed and improved. Plenty of stuff is recalled, plenty of poor engineering mistakes are made.
It doesnt mean the worlds out to screw you, as an educated consumer you should know better by now.
What kind of a idiotic idea is that, anyways? Yeah the questions arent important.
I guess not in an interview like this, which is just some windbag pontificating endlessly about nothing at all.
But still, what kind of idiotic interview doesnt show the questions being asked?
Q1: ?
A: Yes
All answers, no questions..
Or is this guy so eager to hear himself talk that we cant be distracted by the questions he's being asked?
This is true, each seemed to base their work on their own peculiar mindset.
Freud: Everything has to do with penises, penises are why you're crazy
Jung: Everything has to do with your mother, your mother is why your crazy
Skinner: Everyone is full of shit, thats why I'm crazy