Actually, I believe the GP post had it right. "We don't have time to do stupid stuff like this. However the "do-good" people in other departments would. AND they would easily justify their actions with "for the children" statements you often see." The IT department has a technology focus. I suspect they simply didn't think about anyone abusing the system...
The camel has put his nose into the tent. What next? Maybe Ford needs to be forced to install Toyota gas pedals in their cars to ensure that they crash in a politically correct manner!
I have no idea why your post was flagged as flame bait. I have an iPhone. The performance speed wise is very spotty and the coverage is unbelievably bad. Especially given that I live and work in that technology deprived area of California known as Silicon Valley.
In the business complex in Palo Alto, where I work, normal coverage for all four buildings is about one-bar of Edge. On weekends, the charge in my iPhone's battery is normally over 80% at the end of the day. When I go home after a day at work, the battery is half dead from hunting for networks, unless I remember to place it in flight mode while at the office.
Don't get me wrong. I love my iPhone and have no desire to replace it with anything else. I just wish the people at ATT would get off their assets and fix their network. Hopefully, the Verizon ads will finally force them to wake up and do something constructive.
Our society's standards for behavior have changed dramatically since WWII.
I see advertisements in the paper with pictures of women dressed and posed exactly as they used to be shown in Playboy and Penthouse magazines, back when those magazines were considered immoral.
I hear and see many things on TV and Radio that would have caused the broadcaster to lose their license.
My sister is a heavy user of Journal Space and based on reading between the lines from my conversations with her, I suspect you are 100% accurate. There will be a lot of people in that community who will be emotionally hurt by this as they had built a tight community of friends.
Too much emphasis is being placed on "educational" issues and keeping children busy. What happened to children simply learning by playing?
In Boss By Day, Gamer By Night they discuss the importance of learning to play as team members. That seems to be a lost concept in current educational circles, along with the concept of Vocational Education.
Right on! It is amazing how current that article remains.
How far down the food chain do you have to go to insure the integrity of your systems? Are you even sure that the main CPU on your system doesn't have extra instructions that remain undocumented? As complex as the current CPU's are, they could have entire subsections devoted to malware and no one would notice until those sections were activated and did what they were designed to do.
There seems to be a big push these days to move people towards absentee balloting. Yet, concepts of a secret, anonymous ballot and absentee voting simply do not match.
Absentee voting should only be a last resort, for those who cannot cast a secret ballot, such as members of the armed forces overseas or people whose health prevents them from going to the polling place.
Absentee voting is as open to abuse as the electronic voting machines.
Hand me your "correctly" filled out absentee ballot and I will;
1. pay you twenty dollars
2. allow you to keep your job
3. not send you to the hospital
The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. (Especially code from companies that employ people like me.) No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code. In demonstrating the possibility of this kind of attack, I picked on the C compiler. I could have picked on any program-handling program such as an assembler, a loader, or even hardware microcode. As the level of program gets lower, these bugs will be harder and harder to detect. A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.
I do not seen anything that prevents me from "inviting" you to a voting party, where you sit down at my computer and vote in my presence. In return, I promise that my people will not beat you up and add might even add $100 to your wallet...
I am in California, where the ballots are full of high sounding, junk measures sponsored by some corporate backed organization that pays people to collect the needed number of signatures. Back in the day, I used to routinely sign petitions to get people a chance to look at the issue and vote. Not anymore. Too many junk measures actually got passed, simply because they sounded good and had someone "important" speaking in favor of it. Government by initiative is not optimal.
I have always given at least two weeks notice. Only once was I terminated immediately, but I didn't care. Why? I had discussed both options with my new employer and they were prepared to wait until the two week period was up, or hire me immediately if terminated.
I was laid off from my last job due to corporate financial problems. This was during the post dot.com bust period, where jobs were hard to find. My employer helped me juggle vacation time and such to extend my employment as long as possible -- thus extending my families medical benefits. Since then I have gone back as a contractor, many times, to help the person who assumed my responsibilities.
Given that both sides behaved honourable and professionally, both sides are very happy and comfortable with the outcome.
If you take pride in yourself, then you should behave in a praise worthy manner, no matter how unprofessional the other side behaves.
I work at a large corporation that still mandates windows 2000 on all, normal desktop systems. This morning I was locked out of a site because it required Flash 8, which normal users in our corporation cannot install. There was no fallback... just a link to download.
Too often I run into such sites, either from one of the computers at work, running an antique OS, or on a Linux box, running yet another antique OS. (Why upgrade a normally functional system?)
Thus, site providers have a choice. Use Flash for its fancy features... and lock out that unknown percentage of people who just want information.
Is anyone worried about what the effects might be on the person sitting at the desk? Long term exposure to magnetic radiation may cause cancer... I have a heart pacemaker and have been told that magnetic fields are something to be avoided. I wonder if they even looked into the possibility of there being a problem.
I walk into your office, reach over your desk to shake your hand (not knowing your charger is there) and collapse...
All I know about hip-hop or rap is that I personally find it boring, loud and intrusive. Why do all those people, of all ages, racial and ethnic backgrounds, drive around with that stuff blaring at maximum volume? They must be deaf! If not now, they will be soon. Sitting in my house, I find the sound from some of the cars driving by to be painfully loud. Why?
When you add in the contents of some of the lyrics I hear, all I can do is wonder about their sanity.
This is NOT a racial or ethnic thing. I live in a very multi-ethnic area and the people driving/riding in these vehicles are from all different backgrounds. For example, the one vehicle that is the most intrusive belongs to a middle aged, construction contractor who happens to be Polish. He loves to park in his driveway, across the street from our house, and share his music with all his neighbors.
Do you think that 200 "unarmed" people could take down 5 people armed with box cutters? If so, then why didn't they? And since they obviously didn't, how would guns have changed anything? What has changed is attitude of the passengers. Prior to 911, everyone was told to let things play out and wait for the plane to land. No one imagined someone using a plane full of people as a weapon. That was the difference in the last aircraft. The passengers found out that the rules of the game had changed and adapted to the new rules.
I cannot tell you how many times I have NOT purchased a couple of books at a book store, simply because they were part of a series and an early volume of the set was not available.
I had a trilogy on my book shelf that was missing volume one for years, until they issued a reprint and I was able to repurchase the set.
In both cases, I would have gladly walked up to a machine and wait seven minutes while it produced a copy of the missing volume.
So, assuming that the quality of the machine's output is equivalent to a standard, trade paperback, I am definately a buyer...
I just ordered and update for my personal, home copy of FrameMaker. It is not cheap, but it is the best text/word/document development tool I've ever used. For technical documents, especially large ones - including books, it has everything you need. It supports multiple output formats, WYSIWYG editing, and has a slick math formula tool.
Check out the free evaluation.
What I don't like about FrameMaker? Adobe dropped the Linux port, after a successfull beta test, due to lack of interest... sigh...
YARIFTRW (Yet Another Reason I'm Force To Run Windows)
I find the statement disheartening. Until I read the article, I had no reason to question SANS. When first established, SANS had a solid team of people with high integrity, some of which I had worked with in the past. The SANS security boot camp I attended, back in the late-nineties, was THE best, most solid, technical workshop I have ever attended. Now, years later, based on this article, it seems that the BORG has gotten to them. I will definately have to research his statements related to SANS.
If we eliminate software patents, we are left with software copyrights and software trade secrets, which suffice to explain, as you said, the advancement in first years of the computer industry up to the 90s.
Nicely stated. To prevent the problem of trade secrets becoming a block to innovation, Congress developed the patent system. To prevent the problem of someone simply copying your stuff and putting their name on it, Congress developed the copyright system. It wasn't until patents were applied to stuff that was traditionally copyrighted that this trouble developed.
Using the One-Click patent as an example, here is how I see it:
The idea of having a one click sales button should not be patentable. However, the method used (software written) to implement that idea can be copyrighted. That keeps me from having to spend time, money and effort on hiding my implementation (treating it as a trade secret), freeing me to continue to innovate, while protecting me from you simply copying my code and using it.
However, using the diamond cutting example mucks it up a bit. I develop an improved method of polishing diamonds. The idea of polishing diamonds cannot be patented. However the method used (rubbing with sandpaper):), is not something you would normally copyright. Given the underlying belief that trade secrets are bad and that we want techniques to be published for the common good, how do we balance the two examples?
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Actually, I believe the GP post had it right. "We don't have time to do stupid stuff like this. However the "do-good" people in other departments would. AND they would easily justify their actions with "for the children" statements you often see." The IT department has a technology focus. I suspect they simply didn't think about anyone abusing the system...
The camel has put his nose into the tent. What next? Maybe Ford needs to be forced to install Toyota gas pedals in their cars to ensure that they crash in a politically correct manner!
I have no idea why your post was flagged as flame bait. I have an iPhone. The performance speed wise is very spotty and the coverage is unbelievably bad. Especially given that I live and work in that technology deprived area of California known as Silicon Valley.
In the business complex in Palo Alto, where I work, normal coverage for all four buildings is about one-bar of Edge. On weekends, the charge in my iPhone's battery is normally over 80% at the end of the day. When I go home after a day at work, the battery is half dead from hunting for networks, unless I remember to place it in flight mode while at the office.
Don't get me wrong. I love my iPhone and have no desire to replace it with anything else. I just wish the people at ATT would get off their assets and fix their network. Hopefully, the Verizon ads will finally force them to wake up and do something constructive.
Our society's standards for behavior have changed dramatically since WWII.
I see advertisements in the paper with pictures of women dressed and posed exactly as they used to be shown in Playboy and Penthouse magazines, back when those magazines were considered immoral.
I hear and see many things on TV and Radio that would have caused the broadcaster to lose their license.
The beat goes on...
> I want one for my electric car.
That was exactly my first thought!
That sounds like a nice, clean, scalable solution to me.
My sister is a heavy user of Journal Space and based on reading between the lines from my conversations with her, I suspect you are 100% accurate. There will be a lot of people in that community who will be emotionally hurt by this as they had built a tight community of friends.
Too much emphasis is being placed on "educational" issues and keeping children busy. What happened to children simply learning by playing?
In Boss By Day, Gamer By Night they discuss the importance of learning to play as team members. That seems to be a lost concept in current educational circles, along with the concept of Vocational Education.
I'm thinking about CAT control.... Let that critter try to sleep on my computer when I'm at work.... Yes!
Right on! It is amazing how current that article remains.
How far down the food chain do you have to go to insure the integrity of your systems? Are you even sure that the main CPU on your system doesn't have extra instructions that remain undocumented? As complex as the current CPU's are, they could have entire subsections devoted to malware and no one would notice until those sections were activated and did what they were designed to do.
Guess what! A quick visit to whois.net will show that mydomain.com is a valid, registered site. Obviously not good for random examples.
There seems to be a big push these days to move people towards absentee balloting. Yet, concepts of a secret, anonymous ballot and absentee voting simply do not match.
Absentee voting should only be a last resort, for those who cannot cast a secret ballot, such as members of the armed forces overseas or people whose health prevents them from going to the polling place.
Absentee voting is as open to abuse as the electronic voting machines.
Hand me your "correctly" filled out absentee ballot and I will;
1. pay you twenty dollars
2. allow you to keep your job
3. not send you to the hospital
Pick one...
Having source is not sufficient.
Check out Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson.
The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. (Especially code from companies that employ people like me.) No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code. In demonstrating the possibility of this kind of attack, I picked on the C compiler. I could have picked on any program-handling program such as an assembler, a loader, or even hardware microcode. As the level of program gets lower, these bugs will be harder and harder to detect. A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.
I do not seen anything that prevents me from "inviting" you to a voting party,
where you sit down at my computer and vote in my presence. In return, I promise
that my people will not beat you up and add might even add $100 to your wallet...
I am in California, where the ballots are full of high sounding, junk measures sponsored by some corporate backed organization that pays people to collect the needed number of signatures. Back in the day, I used to routinely sign petitions to get people a chance to look at the issue and vote. Not anymore. Too many junk measures actually got passed, simply because they sounded good and had someone "important" speaking in favor of it. Government by initiative is not optimal.
I have always given at least two weeks notice. Only once was I terminated immediately, but I didn't care. Why? I had discussed both options with my new employer and they were prepared to wait until the two week period was up, or hire me immediately if terminated.
I was laid off from my last job due to corporate financial problems. This was during the post dot.com bust period, where jobs were hard to find. My employer helped me juggle vacation time and such to extend my employment as long as possible -- thus extending my families medical benefits. Since then I have gone back as a contractor, many times, to help the person who assumed my responsibilities.
Given that both sides behaved honourable and professionally, both sides are very happy and comfortable with the outcome.
If you take pride in yourself, then you should behave in a praise worthy manner, no matter how unprofessional the other side behaves.
I work at a large corporation that still mandates windows 2000 on all, normal desktop systems. This morning I was locked out of a site because it required Flash 8, which normal users in our corporation cannot install. There was no fallback... just a link to download.
... and lock out that unknown percentage of people who just want information.
Too often I run into such sites, either from one of the computers at work, running an antique OS, or on a Linux box, running yet another antique OS. (Why upgrade a normally functional system?)
Thus, site providers have a choice. Use Flash for its fancy features
I've get a lot of my stuff from Weird Stuff. I wouldn't be surprised to find something with a "goggle" property tag there... :)
I walk into your office, reach over your desk to shake your hand (not knowing your charger is there) and collapse...
All I know about hip-hop or rap is that I personally find it boring, loud and intrusive. Why do all those people, of all ages, racial and ethnic backgrounds, drive around with that stuff blaring at maximum volume? They must be deaf! If not now, they will be soon. Sitting in my house, I find the sound from some of the cars driving by to be painfully loud. Why?
When you add in the contents of some of the lyrics I hear, all I can do is wonder about their sanity.
This is NOT a racial or ethnic thing. I live in a very multi-ethnic area and the people driving/riding in these vehicles are from all different backgrounds. For example, the one vehicle that is the most intrusive belongs to a middle aged, construction contractor who happens to be Polish. He loves to park in his driveway, across the street from our house, and share his music with all his neighbors.
I cannot tell you how many times I have NOT purchased a couple
of books at a book store, simply because they were part of a series
and an early volume of the set was not available.
I had a trilogy on my book shelf that was missing volume one for
years, until they issued a reprint and I was able to repurchase the set.
In both cases, I would have gladly walked up to a machine and
wait seven minutes while it produced a copy of the missing volume.
So, assuming that the quality of the machine's output is equivalent
to a standard, trade paperback, I am definately a buyer...
I just ordered and update for my personal, home copy of FrameMaker. It is not cheap, but it is the best text/word/document development tool I've ever used. For technical documents, especially large ones - including books, it has everything you need. It supports multiple output formats, WYSIWYG editing, and has a slick math formula tool.
Check out the free evaluation.
What I don't like about FrameMaker? Adobe dropped the Linux port, after a successfull beta test, due to lack of interest... sigh...
YARIFTRW (Yet Another Reason I'm Force To Run Windows)
I find the statement disheartening. Until I read the article, I had no reason to question SANS. When first established, SANS had a solid team of people with high integrity, some of which I had worked with in the past. The SANS security boot camp I attended, back in the late-nineties, was THE best, most solid, technical workshop I have ever attended. Now, years later, based on this article, it seems that the BORG has gotten to them. I will definately have to research his statements related to SANS.
Using the One-Click patent as an example, here is how I see it:However, using the diamond cutting example mucks it up a bit. I develop an improved method of polishing diamonds. The idea of polishing diamonds cannot be patented. However the method used (rubbing with sandpaper)