Most places there are significant and strict laws dealing with the BMPs ("Best Management Practices" which are the Gov't regs on lumber growth/harvesting) about how much wood you can cut in or near water because the eco impact is so much higher in terms of silt and keystone habitat desruction.
The only use I can see for thise would be to clear underwater obstructions in waterways.
Citing the fact that many well respected scientists believe proposition A is only an effective argument if propostion A is a proposition related to science.
Otherwise you are in effect claiming; "Since X is a great scientist, then all of X's beliefs are superior to the beliefs of people who are not great scientists" though there is no logical reason that this should be the case. Einstein and Newton were both oddballs, despite (or because of) their brilliance, so their views on other subjects could easily be called into question...Newton was obsessed with Alchemy, for example.
I always kind of straddle the fence in this argument; I don't believe in god, but I don't disbelieve either. To me, the hysterical athiests are just as crazy as the hysterical theists. Neither one has any proof, and both are convinced they are utterly right.
What's the worst that can happen if your POS gets screwy? Send some bad data out to the corporate DB? Open up the register?
With an ATM you have a much larger immediate vulnerablity (ATMs carry a LOT more money than any point-of-sale terminal), and the possibility of corruption/bad data in the home DB is much more frightening.
When code MUST be secure, as with an ATM, it must be SIMPLE, without a ton of bells and whistles that can be exploited. Only a fool would write the ability to run arbitrary code into a secure system! It really bothers me that there are banks out there that do things like this! They wouldn't have bozo the clown guarding their vault, but they don't care if their ATMs go nuts.
Heh. Well central planning is Facism, not Communism, and I can't really imagine a more facist company than Microsoft.
And while "free" things are a cornerstone of communism, I don't see any laws preventing capitalists from giving out free things...Hey, isn't that what M$ did to kill netscape?
I remember writing about this months ago. Why in God's name would they use windows for an ATM? Are you going to NEED to use it as a personal computer? Aside from all the security issues, it's just completely pointless. An ATM doesn't need to do that much!
By adding all that extra code, you make snafu's like this possible, and you get nothing in return.
ANFO (Ammonium Nitrate Fuel-Oil), which is the fertilizer diesel fuel explosive McVeigh used isn't as viable today because the government has both stepped up their monitoring, and tightened their regulation about the levels of nitrates allowed in common fertilizer.
Of course this stuff is used in all kinds of mining operations, so you could probably get some anyway, but you'd have a harder time making some in your woodshed/apartment.
You forgot the bit in the first paragraph where I typed "it" instead of "it's". If you're going to be a spelling nazi, might as well be a competent one.
Also I used "of" twice in the first sentence, which is terrible style. Also I failed to hyphenate "old-fashioned" and "high-end", which shows that you're a fucking joke gramatically as well. Shameful.
Which is okay if they're Muslims, or Jews, or Christians who don't agree with you. Can't really call that sacred, since its all, you know Heathen and shit.
I fer one think we should go a few steps farther and kill anyone who is doing anything profane. The American flag is sacred, so first we kill anyone who messes with the flag (or Texas). Then comes Jesus, so everyone who hasn't seen Passion yet has to die. Then we kill anyone who has a sense of humor, because if it's funny, it's making fun of somethign, and thats abuse, and theys gotta die.
Les see, what else? Well, I figger since 'bout everyone in the world is heathen, I'm goin ta hafta start in Europe, and work my way back around. I kin purty much tell when someone is you know, profanin, so I figger I'd best be the one to decide who's got to go.
By the time I'm dun, it'll be jest me and ma dawg, and I ain't so shur 'bout him. He looks a little queer.
Let it be a lesson to posterity; if you create a country based on freedoms, all you get is a buncha freaks who spend their time trying to kill the freedoms they don't care about or understand.
I meant more in terms of viewing the pictures, not storing them. Can you imagine trying to go through 1,000,000 photos? I about committed suicide rather than going through my wedding photos.
Image recognition software might help a little, just for sorting, but in the end, some poor bastards are going to have to go through those damn things by hand.
I hadn't thought of that angle of it. One of the problems with old fashioned cameras was the fact that you only had so much film...You could only CARRY so much.
But with a high end digital camera it practically unlimited, as long as you can offload your chips. So you don't have to pick your shots so carefully; I've never met a photographer who wouldn't rather take 10 pictures of the same thing than just one, because it's impossible to tell which picture will end up being the best. Now they can do that and it doesn't cost them a damn dime. I bet SI is getting swamped with digital photos.
At the root of it though, it's just another facet of the same problem indemic to tech...How do you deal with the massive amount of info that you can now obtain.
The only thing about that story that worries me is the fact that a three hour power outage could cause that much havok. They work with some scary stuff there.
It's not about rights, its about their stupidity. I've been at places where they refused to allow me the things I needed to do my job. Who is that hurting? Me? No way, I can sit on/. all day. No, it hurts them, and since they're paying you you ought to let them know, as an FYI, that they're shooting themselves in the foot.
Hah. You're freaking full of it. Insightful? Maybe you have some sort of magic knowledge transference machine hooked up to your server, or maybe you wait until someone calls you...Oh wait they can't call you. Hmmm. Wait until you get an email? Wait until you independantly notice?
Bottom line: If you have a cell phone, ESPECIALLY one set up to take a text message from a server monitoring program, you will know MUCH faster than you would otherwise, unless you were just sitting there staring at it like a moron. It is infinitely preferable to learn about it from the system, than to learn about it from your boss.
The interesting thing is to try and break it down to subroutines for AI programming.
First, there is the HUGE problem that everything we do, motor-skill-wise is completely unconsious. So all these weight shiftings and speed shifts and balance issues, they are all unknown territory for us. We are put in the position of having to guess what our own minds are thinking.
Then there is the whole "threat/obstacle" recognition bit. Human beings start developing that stuff long before we can walk, so by the time we could be running over uneven terrain we've got tens of thousands of hours of experience in this sort of thing, and every bit of that has honed our ability to recognise obstacles, and develop action plans.
All these advantages we have, and still, running over uneven terrain gives us that exilirating/terrifying brain-about-to-explode feeling.
Can you imagine what it would be like for a computer that has no experience with walking or with threat recognition to invent and reinvent them over and over again. And don't talk to me about learning systems; they don't learn very fast at all.
At this stage, it would probably be a better idea to build a machine that knows its own limits.
Well, except for the fact that PSTN is based on hardware which is, by and large, too stupid to hack, whereas VOIP is pre-eminently and provably hackable.
Anyone remember the little scandal thing last year where someone was hacking cell phones that had public IP addresses? I think they definitely need to work on some encryption for VOIP. Everything I've seen with it to date has run with PTP tunneling because of the lack of security, and you could tell, bandwidth-wise.
Seven miles is an abysmal return on so large an investment. I think you're right that it is a nice step in the right direction, in terms of getting ideas from outside the traditional government contractor set, but at the same time, these people have a long way to go.
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Most places there are significant and strict laws dealing with the BMPs ("Best Management Practices" which are the Gov't regs on lumber growth/harvesting) about how much wood you can cut in or near water because the eco impact is so much higher in terms of silt and keystone habitat desruction.
The only use I can see for thise would be to clear underwater obstructions in waterways.
"Teaching" Office?
A spreadsheet is a spread sheet. I don't have a preference between Calc and Excel.
A word processor is a word processor. I don't have a preference for ANY wordprocessor, as long as its reasonably modern.
There are more differences between office 97 and office 2000 than there are between Office and OpenOffice.
Hmmmmm, I'll argue, just for the hell of it.
Citing the fact that many well respected scientists believe proposition A is only an effective argument if propostion A is a proposition related to science.
Otherwise you are in effect claiming; "Since X is a great scientist, then all of X's beliefs are superior to the beliefs of people who are not great scientists" though there is no logical reason that this should be the case. Einstein and Newton were both oddballs, despite (or because of) their brilliance, so their views on other subjects could easily be called into question...Newton was obsessed with Alchemy, for example.
I always kind of straddle the fence in this argument; I don't believe in god, but I don't disbelieve either. To me, the hysterical athiests are just as crazy as the hysterical theists. Neither one has any proof, and both are convinced they are utterly right.
What's the worst that can happen if your POS gets screwy? Send some bad data out to the corporate DB? Open up the register?
With an ATM you have a much larger immediate vulnerablity (ATMs carry a LOT more money than any point-of-sale terminal), and the possibility of corruption/bad data in the home DB is much more frightening.
When code MUST be secure, as with an ATM, it must be SIMPLE, without a ton of bells and whistles that can be exploited. Only a fool would write the ability to run arbitrary code into a secure system! It really bothers me that there are banks out there that do things like this! They wouldn't have bozo the clown guarding their vault, but they don't care if their ATMs go nuts.
Heh. Well central planning is Facism, not Communism, and I can't really imagine a more facist company than Microsoft.
And while "free" things are a cornerstone of communism, I don't see any laws preventing capitalists from giving out free things...Hey, isn't that what M$ did to kill netscape?
He can fucking say whatever the fucking hell he fucking wants.
It's the POINT that should count, not the style.
I remember writing about this months ago. Why in God's name would they use windows for an ATM? Are you going to NEED to use it as a personal computer? Aside from all the security issues, it's just completely pointless. An ATM doesn't need to do that much!
By adding all that extra code, you make snafu's like this possible, and you get nothing in return.
Indian tech support was too good for Dell. I hear they're looking at Elbonia now.
ANFO (Ammonium Nitrate Fuel-Oil), which is the fertilizer diesel fuel explosive McVeigh used isn't as viable today because the government has both stepped up their monitoring, and tightened their regulation about the levels of nitrates allowed in common fertilizer.
Of course this stuff is used in all kinds of mining operations, so you could probably get some anyway, but you'd have a harder time making some in your woodshed/apartment.
Since the site is running IIS it should come as no surprise to know that the site is dead. Too bad the pictures aren't in the cache.
Ummmmm...It's a scroll...
You forgot the bit in the first paragraph where I typed "it" instead of "it's". If you're going to be a spelling nazi, might as well be a competent one.
Also I used "of" twice in the first sentence, which is terrible style. Also I failed to hyphenate "old-fashioned" and "high-end", which shows that you're a fucking joke gramatically as well. Shameful.
Which is okay if they're Muslims, or Jews, or Christians who don't agree with you. Can't really call that sacred, since its all, you know Heathen and shit.
I fer one think we should go a few steps farther and kill anyone who is doing anything profane. The American flag is sacred, so first we kill anyone who messes with the flag (or Texas). Then comes Jesus, so everyone who hasn't seen Passion yet has to die. Then we kill anyone who has a sense of humor, because if it's funny, it's making fun of somethign, and thats abuse, and theys gotta die.
Les see, what else? Well, I figger since 'bout everyone in the world is heathen, I'm goin ta hafta start in Europe, and work my way back around. I kin purty much tell when someone is you know, profanin, so I figger I'd best be the one to decide who's got to go.
By the time I'm dun, it'll be jest me and ma dawg, and I ain't so shur 'bout him. He looks a little queer.
Let it be a lesson to posterity; if you create a country based on freedoms, all you get is a buncha freaks who spend their time trying to kill the freedoms they don't care about or understand.
I meant more in terms of viewing the pictures, not storing them. Can you imagine trying to go through 1,000,000 photos? I about committed suicide rather than going through my wedding photos.
Image recognition software might help a little, just for sorting, but in the end, some poor bastards are going to have to go through those damn things by hand.
I hadn't thought of that angle of it. One of the problems with old fashioned cameras was the fact that you only had so much film...You could only CARRY so much.
But with a high end digital camera it practically unlimited, as long as you can offload your chips. So you don't have to pick your shots so carefully; I've never met a photographer who wouldn't rather take 10 pictures of the same thing than just one, because it's impossible to tell which picture will end up being the best. Now they can do that and it doesn't cost them a damn dime. I bet SI is getting swamped with digital photos.
At the root of it though, it's just another facet of the same problem indemic to tech...How do you deal with the massive amount of info that you can now obtain.
I thought that's what we had the FBI for?
Amusing, as they seem to have been /.ed to hell and back. Updates in real time, eh?
Take that trojan writer!
The only thing about that story that worries me is the fact that a three hour power outage could cause that much havok. They work with some scary stuff there.
It's not about rights, its about their stupidity. I've been at places where they refused to allow me the things I needed to do my job. Who is that hurting? Me? No way, I can sit on /. all day. No, it hurts them, and since they're paying you you ought to let them know, as an FYI, that they're shooting themselves in the foot.
Hah. You're freaking full of it. Insightful? Maybe you have some sort of magic knowledge transference machine hooked up to your server, or maybe you wait until someone calls you...Oh wait they can't call you. Hmmm. Wait until you get an email? Wait until you independantly notice?
Bottom line: If you have a cell phone, ESPECIALLY one set up to take a text message from a server monitoring program, you will know MUCH faster than you would otherwise, unless you were just sitting there staring at it like a moron. It is infinitely preferable to learn about it from the system, than to learn about it from your boss.
I posted this same article at 10:00am this morning, but apparently, as usual, it's just not as cool coming from me.
I know exactly what you mean.
The interesting thing is to try and break it down to subroutines for AI programming.
First, there is the HUGE problem that everything we do, motor-skill-wise is completely unconsious. So all these weight shiftings and speed shifts and balance issues, they are all unknown territory for us. We are put in the position of having to guess what our own minds are thinking.
Then there is the whole "threat/obstacle" recognition bit. Human beings start developing that stuff long before we can walk, so by the time we could be running over uneven terrain we've got tens of thousands of hours of experience in this sort of thing, and every bit of that has honed our ability to recognise obstacles, and develop action plans.
All these advantages we have, and still, running over uneven terrain gives us that exilirating/terrifying brain-about-to-explode feeling.
Can you imagine what it would be like for a computer that has no experience with walking or with threat recognition to invent and reinvent them over and over again. And don't talk to me about learning systems; they don't learn very fast at all.
At this stage, it would probably be a better idea to build a machine that knows its own limits.
Well, except for the fact that PSTN is based on hardware which is, by and large, too stupid to hack, whereas VOIP is pre-eminently and provably hackable.
Anyone remember the little scandal thing last year where someone was hacking cell phones that had public IP addresses? I think they definitely need to work on some encryption for VOIP. Everything I've seen with it to date has run with PTP tunneling because of the lack of security, and you could tell, bandwidth-wise.
Seven miles is an abysmal return on so large an investment. I think you're right that it is a nice step in the right direction, in terms of getting ideas from outside the traditional government contractor set, but at the same time, these people have a long way to go.
Exactly. Do they think that the unmanned drones are going to end up in LESS hostile environments, whether they end up in combat or on mars? Pathetic.
If this is an example of their evalutation procedures, and form everything I've seen it is, it's no wonder we end up with such high failure rates.