Arthur C. Clark.
In 2001 we will be able to launch a spaceship
to Jupiter controlled by a computer that talks
and behaves like a human, HAL9000
Ah yes! Also in 198something dogs will and cats
are going to die and we all are going to have monkeys as pets and they will become smarter..wait that's Planet of the Apes!
Dr. Zeus Dr. Zeus!
That's just a metaphor, it doesn't mean anything.
Comparing the Internet to an ecosystem is trite.
You can compare Wall-Street to an ecosytem.
You can compare the NFL to an ecosystem.
You can compare the human body to an ecosystem.
You can compare retail business to an ecosystem.
Duh!! We are talking junior High here.
An insightufl assesment is comparing the Internet
to...let say...US air traffic, large HUBS (Atlanta, Dallas) and small over-seas private airports. Now we are talking! Would you put the same screening from a plane coming from Newark vs. a plane coming from a small private airfield
in Egypt. Well...?
Now..what's the solution for airport security? Lots of screeners and background checks..see the analogy emerging? Large backbones already started a stringent screening process a lot of spam is not getting through. Furthermore, if an ecosystem was a good example of how the internet behaves then the methods used by the WHO and CDC during SARS outbreak(containment and isolation) would work in the Internet. And that is not true.We know that it would be ill advised to isolate all Internet traffic coming a specific region just because a virus is belived to be originated there. Internet traffic is omni-directional. While you think a virus is coming from one specific place, chances are the virus already travel that road multiple times in both dirctions. Are there systems in nature that resemble the Internet in security? The human
immune system comes to mind. The immune system
rejects and kills that that is not recognized. So
the IP layer. But I digress, the Internet may be
like an ecosytem, but so is the rest of the universe.
Must admit, I never watched the show. Cowboys and the whole "Western" genre is a big no-no for shows in need of cross-cultural support. Nobody but white anglo saxon folk is drawn to such characters.
"Some poeple call me the space-cowboy..."
To my right I have Linux RH 8.0 in intel PC.
To my left I have Windowx XP on intel PC.
Proceed to install both.
Linux RH 8.0 forces you to create a root password
for your machine and then ask you to create another account for normal used. You cannot proceed without a root password of your OWN
creation. This has been the rule since the very beginning.
Windows XP suggest you to create a password but you don't have to proceed with installation. An Administrator account is created with no password.
Now anybody and their dog can login with Administration privileges. patches patches patches.
Conclusion. It's no myth. Open Source is more
secure. With Open Source you become the Security
provider, with Windows you buy "security" and then
your machine gets hacked.
cabazorro.
Governements and institutions question wether is wise to use same OS software for the workplace and at home tied to a company that tries to be everything to everybody.
By descouraging RH as a home/desktop solution it encourage institutions to adopt it as a office/workstation solution.
The melody is taken from a classical music piece
called "El Concierto de Aranjuez" which is a spanish guitar concerto.
When I heard it I was somehow taken aback. It felt wrong to put lirics to it the same way I would feel is wrong to put lirics to let say... Gershwin Raphsody in Blue. I watched the trailer and the fifth time I heard it my dislike worn off.
It took many years. I feel somehow vindicated. GITS is IMHO Sci-Fi excellence. Pushes the pre-conceptions of individual-machine-collective to a realm where the escence of humanity lies buried as a some sort if EM signal singularity in some hi-tech artificial brain. There are cultural barriers the prevent the Westerners to fully understand the science and artistry behind this film. Nothing to be ashamed off. Like the soup Nazi would say to all those who don't get Japanese Anime: "This movie is NOT for you!" Next!!!
First rule of coolness.
If you are trying to be cool, you are not.
Second rule of coolness.
If you are pretending to be cool, defenetely
you are not.
Third rule of coolness.
If you are paying somone to make you look cool
You are a looser and please revisit to first rule.
Sir, you have spoken like a true prodigy.
What to do when a law suddenly gets in the way we all behave everyday?
Apply it in an unfair-biased-prepotent fashion
or
Change the law.
HP protection plan otherwise known as the:
"Tiger Repellent Rock"
Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a
charm.
Lisa: That's spacious reasoning, Dad.
Homer: Thank you, dear.
Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.
Homer: Oh, how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn't work.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: It's just a stupid rock.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around, do you?
[Homer thinks of this, then pulls out some money]
Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
[Lisa refuses at first, then takes the exchange]
Welchia has nothing to do with Exchange or Outlook Express or MS Outlook. You are right about that.
Welchia has to do with Microsoft out-of-the-box security holes.
During the 80's Microsoft tormented the IT world with the shoddy 386 high memory mapping making companies like Norton flourish with solutions for memory fragmentation etc.
Now Microsoft is tormenting the IT world with shoddy Servers(IIS) with security holes galore.
Now anti-virus product flourish with all kind of products (virus detection/firewalls) that eat up your memory and cpu cycles but protect the week-meek-and-ever-so-vulnerable Windows OS.
And round and round and round we go, when we will wise-up? No one Knows!
Sure we can hire someone from the street to sit behind a desk with a web browser and start reading every single Windows security report. Then that person would be assigned to patch every Windows machine in the office by clicking on the icon that says "download patch".
And then that person will have to click on the icon that says "install security upgrade" and so on.
We will call that person IT Security Officer and pay them 12 dlls and hour. He/She will carry a beeper and look very professional!
And cyberspace will be better safer...NOT!
The reason of the so called "stagnant" state of sci-fi today is mainly because the people that understand science are way to busy working it up while writers sad attempts to describe it are pathetic. Just rented latest sci-fi SOLARIS, what a pice of junk! Science and technology have reached a pervasive complex level that most of the writers today trying to harness it fall way short, even the Wachowski brothers and Spielberg trying attempting to portray AI and humans relatonships fall way short to what Kubrick achieved(way more intrinsic, real, introspective).
To talk about the future you have to live it.
Is stupid to think we will fight a computer with
kung-fu (cool looking but stupid nevertheless).
Is stupid to think that computers in the future
will be looking for their mothers and their daddy's(touching, but stupid nevertheless).
I think for sci-fi to catch on again the general audience has to get smarter..fat chance!!
Advice:
Don't conceptualize tasks, define them. Simple well thought out tasks it's whats all about!!
Example:
Monday morning CS340 class.
The teacher gives an assignment due in 2 weeks to write a task scheduler using some known symentric multiprocessor algorithm. Teacher provides input data and samples of output data.
What do you do? What do, you, do?
Don't say: By Monday I should have 50 % done.
Say:
Tuesday: Program that captures input data completed and running. Careful read-over of assignment browse subject, think about it.
Wednesday. Design and define all function and data types AKA skeleton.
Thursday. Code functions and data types.ALL
Friday.
Friday: Run functions use own dummy data.
Get the drift? It's all about ORGANIZATION.
GOLDEN RULE: Once you are done with your task for the day: STOP STOP STOP. If you follow this rule you are less likeley to make mistakes.
Good luck!
Cabazorro.
Tomorrows challenge to deface websites start.
www.defacers-challenge.com
Scoring is as follows:
Defacing a website hosted on:
Windows: 1 pt
Linux: 2 pts
AIX: 3 pts
HP-UX, Macintosh: 5 pts
Yet another example of how MS is quantity
over quality.
Analogies between computing and Biology is idiotic.
Biology is an expression of Chemestry + Physics.
Computing is an expression of Logic + Mathematics.
Enuf said.
"user error" is such an oximoron.
A correct program does not allow a user to
enter erroneous data.
Unfortunately computers do what you ask them to
do and not what the user "meant" to do.
Computers are a few dozen years old. They are still very stupid systems. They are getting smarter though. Lets be patient.
cabazorro.
You are going to run out of bandwith! Don't go wireless! Gigabit ethernet cards are already out there and you want them moving your traffic around the house. To feed this giga cards a file server with a PIII chip is good enough to feed a stereo and 2 other PC's.Get 2 or 3 40 gig HD's, they are cheapo and they tie you up for your music needs. For movies I don't think is cost effective yet to stores them in HD's, put them in R/W DVD's. My advise again, keep your "back bone traffic" in copper and branchout a wireless subnet for convenience.
Be our...guest, be our guest..put our
menu to the test..ooops! just infringed copy
right laws!!! Sorry Disney!
Maybe you should revisit the Nuremberg
trials or take psychology at school.
Following orders (doing our job) withrdraws responsability?
Are alqueada enemy combatants (soldiers)or just a bunch of criminals?
An as for digital broadcast. Let the free market decide. Let Hollywood enforce any flag they want in their media and electronic manufacturers to embrace or reject upon consumer acceptance.
And may the best marketer win!
Free Market: Love it, hate it, or get out of the way!
That's all folks!
Sense offender? Drug supressed society?
Lame, trite, and unimaginative.
Just another slick flick trying to exploit
yet another "problem?" vexing our society.
Whats next? Rampant SUV's crushing hobos?
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Arthur C. Clark. In 2001 we will be able to launch a spaceship to Jupiter controlled by a computer that talks and behaves like a human, HAL9000 Ah yes! Also in 198something dogs will and cats are going to die and we all are going to have monkeys as pets and they will become smarter..wait that's Planet of the Apes! Dr. Zeus Dr. Zeus!
That's just a metaphor, it doesn't mean anything. Comparing the Internet to an ecosystem is trite. You can compare Wall-Street to an ecosytem. You can compare the NFL to an ecosystem. You can compare the human body to an ecosystem. You can compare retail business to an ecosystem. Duh!! We are talking junior High here. An insightufl assesment is comparing the Internet to...let say...US air traffic, large HUBS (Atlanta, Dallas) and small over-seas private airports. Now we are talking! Would you put the same screening from a plane coming from Newark vs. a plane coming from a small private airfield in Egypt. Well...? Now..what's the solution for airport security? Lots of screeners and background checks..see the analogy emerging? Large backbones already started a stringent screening process a lot of spam is not getting through. Furthermore, if an ecosystem was a good example of how the internet behaves then the methods used by the WHO and CDC during SARS outbreak(containment and isolation) would work in the Internet. And that is not true.We know that it would be ill advised to isolate all Internet traffic coming a specific region just because a virus is belived to be originated there. Internet traffic is omni-directional. While you think a virus is coming from one specific place, chances are the virus already travel that road multiple times in both dirctions. Are there systems in nature that resemble the Internet in security? The human immune system comes to mind. The immune system rejects and kills that that is not recognized. So the IP layer. But I digress, the Internet may be like an ecosytem, but so is the rest of the universe.
Point taken, then again, Japanese Anime doesn't enjoy the sci-fi status that it deserves in the U.S.
Must admit, I never watched the show. Cowboys and the whole "Western" genre is a big no-no for shows in need of cross-cultural support. Nobody but white anglo saxon folk is drawn to such characters. "Some poeple call me the space-cowboy..."
To my right I have Linux RH 8.0 in intel PC. To my left I have Windowx XP on intel PC. Proceed to install both. Linux RH 8.0 forces you to create a root password for your machine and then ask you to create another account for normal used. You cannot proceed without a root password of your OWN creation. This has been the rule since the very beginning. Windows XP suggest you to create a password but you don't have to proceed with installation. An Administrator account is created with no password. Now anybody and their dog can login with Administration privileges. patches patches patches. Conclusion. It's no myth. Open Source is more secure. With Open Source you become the Security provider, with Windows you buy "security" and then your machine gets hacked. cabazorro.
Governements and institutions question wether is wise to use same OS software for the workplace and at home tied to a company that tries to be everything to everybody. By descouraging RH as a home/desktop solution it encourage institutions to adopt it as a office/workstation solution.
The melody is taken from a classical music piece called "El Concierto de Aranjuez" which is a spanish guitar concerto. When I heard it I was somehow taken aback. It felt wrong to put lirics to it the same way I would feel is wrong to put lirics to let say... Gershwin Raphsody in Blue. I watched the trailer and the fifth time I heard it my dislike worn off.
It took many years. I feel somehow vindicated. GITS is IMHO Sci-Fi excellence. Pushes the pre-conceptions of individual-machine-collective to a realm where the escence of humanity lies buried as a some sort if EM signal singularity in some hi-tech artificial brain. There are cultural barriers the prevent the Westerners to fully understand the science and artistry behind this film. Nothing to be ashamed off. Like the soup Nazi would say to all those who don't get Japanese Anime: "This movie is NOT for you!" Next!!!
mmmmmm CD's arrrrghh!
First rule of coolness. If you are trying to be cool, you are not. Second rule of coolness. If you are pretending to be cool, defenetely you are not. Third rule of coolness. If you are paying somone to make you look cool You are a looser and please revisit to first rule.
Sir, you have spoken like a true prodigy. What to do when a law suddenly gets in the way we all behave everyday? Apply it in an unfair-biased-prepotent fashion or Change the law.
HP protection plan otherwise known as the: "Tiger Repellent Rock" Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm. Lisa: That's spacious reasoning, Dad. Homer: Thank you, dear. Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away. Homer: Oh, how does it work? Lisa: It doesn't work. Homer: Uh-huh. Lisa: It's just a stupid rock. Homer: Uh-huh. Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around, do you? [Homer thinks of this, then pulls out some money] Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your rock. [Lisa refuses at first, then takes the exchange]
Welchia has nothing to do with Exchange or Outlook Express or MS Outlook. You are right about that. Welchia has to do with Microsoft out-of-the-box security holes. During the 80's Microsoft tormented the IT world with the shoddy 386 high memory mapping making companies like Norton flourish with solutions for memory fragmentation etc. Now Microsoft is tormenting the IT world with shoddy Servers(IIS) with security holes galore. Now anti-virus product flourish with all kind of products (virus detection/firewalls) that eat up your memory and cpu cycles but protect the week-meek-and-ever-so-vulnerable Windows OS. And round and round and round we go, when we will wise-up? No one Knows!
Sure we can hire someone from the street to sit behind a desk with a web browser and start reading every single Windows security report. Then that person would be assigned to patch every Windows machine in the office by clicking on the icon that says "download patch". And then that person will have to click on the icon that says "install security upgrade" and so on. We will call that person IT Security Officer and pay them 12 dlls and hour. He/She will carry a beeper and look very professional! And cyberspace will be better safer...NOT!
Enough Said.
Will his "banana" PC run MacOSX???
The reason of the so called "stagnant" state of sci-fi today is mainly because the people that understand science are way to busy working it up while writers sad attempts to describe it are pathetic. Just rented latest sci-fi SOLARIS, what a pice of junk! Science and technology have reached a pervasive complex level that most of the writers today trying to harness it fall way short, even the Wachowski brothers and Spielberg trying attempting to portray AI and humans relatonships fall way short to what Kubrick achieved(way more intrinsic, real, introspective). To talk about the future you have to live it. Is stupid to think we will fight a computer with kung-fu (cool looking but stupid nevertheless). Is stupid to think that computers in the future will be looking for their mothers and their daddy's(touching, but stupid nevertheless). I think for sci-fi to catch on again the general audience has to get smarter..fat chance!!
Advice: Don't conceptualize tasks, define them. Simple well thought out tasks it's whats all about!! Example: Monday morning CS340 class. The teacher gives an assignment due in 2 weeks to write a task scheduler using some known symentric multiprocessor algorithm. Teacher provides input data and samples of output data. What do you do? What do, you, do? Don't say: By Monday I should have 50 % done. Say: Tuesday: Program that captures input data completed and running. Careful read-over of assignment browse subject, think about it. Wednesday. Design and define all function and data types AKA skeleton. Thursday. Code functions and data types.ALL Friday. Friday: Run functions use own dummy data. Get the drift? It's all about ORGANIZATION. GOLDEN RULE: Once you are done with your task for the day: STOP STOP STOP. If you follow this rule you are less likeley to make mistakes. Good luck! Cabazorro.
Tomorrows challenge to deface websites start. www.defacers-challenge.com Scoring is as follows: Defacing a website hosted on: Windows: 1 pt Linux: 2 pts AIX: 3 pts HP-UX, Macintosh: 5 pts Yet another example of how MS is quantity over quality.
Analogies between computing and Biology is idiotic. Biology is an expression of Chemestry + Physics. Computing is an expression of Logic + Mathematics. Enuf said.
Not neccessarily, he could have code it on his "spare time"
"user error" is such an oximoron. A correct program does not allow a user to enter erroneous data. Unfortunately computers do what you ask them to do and not what the user "meant" to do. Computers are a few dozen years old. They are still very stupid systems. They are getting smarter though. Lets be patient. cabazorro.
You are going to run
out of bandwith!
Don't go wireless!
Gigabit ethernet cards are already out there and
you want them moving your traffic around the house.
To feed this giga cards a file server with a PIII chip is good enough to feed a stereo and 2 other PC's.Get 2 or 3 40 gig HD's, they are cheapo and they tie you up for your music needs. For movies I don't think is cost effective yet to stores them in HD's, put them in R/W DVD's.
My advise again, keep your "back bone traffic" in copper and branchout a wireless subnet for convenience.
Be our...guest, be our guest..put our menu to the test..ooops! just infringed copy right laws!!! Sorry Disney! Maybe you should revisit the Nuremberg trials or take psychology at school. Following orders (doing our job) withrdraws responsability? Are alqueada enemy combatants (soldiers)or just a bunch of criminals? An as for digital broadcast. Let the free market decide. Let Hollywood enforce any flag they want in their media and electronic manufacturers to embrace or reject upon consumer acceptance. And may the best marketer win! Free Market: Love it, hate it, or get out of the way! That's all folks!
Sense offender? Drug supressed society? Lame, trite, and unimaginative. Just another slick flick trying to exploit yet another "problem?" vexing our society. Whats next? Rampant SUV's crushing hobos?