Keep in mind, in the defense industry, programmers/code reviewers are often under the pressure of some 4-star general, the colonel reporting to him, the government lead reporting to him, the boss reporting to him, and the project manager reporting to the boss, all who want a deadline of "yesterday" met to save their asses. Good luck trying to fish out bugs in any software in that window. I guess this argument supports closed-source more. Anyone know if it's common practice anywhere in defense for a third party to check over code? That's probably the answer to open-source.
We should have a licensing program to use the internet. You should be required to answer a set of questions asking you about life in general. If the results say you think everyone is out to get you, then you are adequately prepared to use the internet.
Senator Hatch has a powerful incentive in attacking P2P networks
Every day I get more sick of more politicians. I need to watch Good Ol' Mr. Smith Goes to Washington to make myself feel better. I do however trust John McCain still and hope he runs for President soon.
You know, there's a snazzy ice hotel in Canada that's rebuilt every year..very expensive, but it gets business. I'm betting it's possible to bring up an oversized super soaker in space and squirt up your very own fancy, personalized ice habitat.
You know, with MIT offering their classes online for free, and this service providing the textbooks for free, what's stopping us from getting a free diploma? The greed of the universities forces us to pay tens of thousands for simple proof. Ugh.
When spamming his test account, if you send him a spam-like message and it's recognized as spam, GMail might start thinking that your email address is a spam source and suddenly you won't be able to email anyone who uses Google.
I wonder how many "good names" these guys go through for each of these features. I wonder how long NASA spends discussing and debating them. I wonder how much of our tax payer dollars are effectively pissed away. Just have one guy name the damn features and get back to work.
Some basic tips that not enough people know, in no particular order:
1. Make sure you have a firewall configured to allow incoming connections from only ports you need open. You might be able to do just fine with no incoming connections allowed at all. 2. Have an updated virus checker.. Norton or Mcafee. By updated, I mean having it auto-update for you. Have it check every file accessed on media accessed by the computer, and email. At the very least, all the incoming media and email should be scanned on the fly, but outgoing is a good idea too. 3. Use Spybot or Ad Aware at least once a month to scan for spyware. Also keep these updated. I forget if they auto-update, but just be sure it checks for updates before you run them. 4. Only use credit cards that keep you free of liability for any fraud. 5. Buy a separate unnetworked little organizer with a keyboard to store hints to remember your passwords. Don't store the actual password. 6. Cancel credit cards you don't use. 7. Photocopy the backs and fronts of all the credit/debit cards you use and whatever else you keep in your wallet. Write in the customer service phone numbers if they're not clear. 8. Have Windows auto-update and auto-install all critical patches, or keep your Linux distro updated. 9. Don't open email attachments that you have no reason to trust, and certainly not until you have antivirus software checking incoming emails.
You know what Google needs? A "Was this result helpful in your search?" button for each link returned, so that the search itself also influences page ranks. Maybe that will help get rid of this Google bombing mess.
I think the only way for that to work is to charge something like $5 a year per Google user account. Otherwise, soon Google would have to start dealing with scripting that searches for certain web sites and chooses "Yes, this link is useful!" thousands of times per second. Then maybe you can try to restrict it by IP address, but the scripts would turn into some sort of trojan that makes other people do the same thing. Then you'd have them identify some sort of letters/numbers in graphics, which I remember seeing a previous Slashdot story about scripters having a way around as well...etc, etc.
Well, Alton's certainly not training master artists that you'd find in a 4 star restaurant last I checked, but he knows what he's talking about in terms of food. To be a chef, from my experience.. I'm an amateur... you first need to be a scientist. The art of cooking comes afterwards. If your bread doesn't rise, that's a piece of garbage, not your distinctive style of bread.
Also, Alton knows a whole lot about how to make the cooking experience more enjoyable so you can worry about the art more than the science. The best way to thaw a chicken.. put it in a bowl with barely running cold water spilling into it, rather than having it sit in the oven. See, now I can worry more about what seasoning to choose instead!
If the President or Vice President stood to make money from invading Iraq, say, there'd be a hue and cry about it and they'd have no chance of getting away with it.
I'm not sure if I'm missing sarcasm here, but Vice President Dick Cheney's contracting company made a heap of gold off invading Iraq, didn't it?
I'm disappointed I saw no mention of the liquid body armor Army scientists are working on. Basically you take Kevlar, which is already pretty protective, and soak certain chemicals into it. Then when you get shot or stabbed, etc, the liquid hardens instantly and the wearer remains unharmed. I guess it's a possible future improvement, but perhaps the more conventional body armor is more reliable and tested for now. Less fun to talk about:/
Okay, so I get 10 of my friends to surrender control to me as we're going down the New Jersey Turnpike... half of em fall asleep and I turn off my position beacon. Because I'm not an ass, I'll honk my horn to wake them up as they go barreling at 90mph into that oil tanker. Sorry judge, I was having a bad day..err..bad malfunction in my car.
I once did some research on autism and found the guys at alt.support.autism very helpful. There's also an alt.support.schizophrenia group. If you don't have access to a news server, you can go to groups.google.com..Introduce yourself, cite your concerns, and meet some great people.
I mean, it'd be an awfully big vending machine, but if they automated the process and had certain items pushed onto a conveyer belt, automatically packed up into a bag, and put into a refrigerated delivery truck, this could be fast and efficient, plus you can probably sell the stuff at near wholesale prices rather than relying on frantic shoppers pulling stuff off shelves at a mile a minute.
Also, this would be a good way to hire more of the packaging engineers in this country, to figure out how to transport eggs and potato chips in this system.
GMail offering 1GB for free is nice, and with ignorable ads, I'm tempted to switch to them, obviously. Right now I'm a paying Yahoo Mail customer, and I look at the prices they charge even now.. 100MB for $59.99.. So Yahoo claims they'll offer 100MB for free and "virtually unlimited" for paying customers. Well, a big reason I went for Yahoo is because I have a highly configured personalized Yahoo homepage and wanted to integrate my mail smoothly into it. However, if anyone's tried putting the "Yahoo Mail Preview" into their Yahoo home page, they'll be dismayed to learn that it usually does not display correctly, and "times out" or whatever.
So I ended up removing it from my homepage, and now Yahoo's on equal footing again. Paying for ad free email is worth it, and the address guard service is nice (disposable email addresses), but Yahoo will sure look bad offering only one tenth the storage of what the competition offers. Yahoo claims they're not going to take it sitting down though, so I'm looking forward to seeing capitalism give me a nice deal from one of them.
I can deal with Linus not being the father of Linux, but what I can't deal with is the tooth fairy being a guy! Now I'm picturing a hairy-legged fairy dressed like a ballerina reaching under my pillow. The horrors!
A hardware firewall is practically a requirement these days if you use your computer for anything proprietary and sensitive, at least in the eyes of management. For both my jobs, I've gotten direct requests for me to secure my home computers with a router, but oddly, they wouldn't buy me one. Well, thanks to slickdeals.net, I finally managed to grab an 802.11b wireless router for ten bucks. Security problems solved.
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Keep in mind, in the defense industry, programmers/code reviewers are often under the pressure of some 4-star general, the colonel reporting to him, the government lead reporting to him, the boss reporting to him, and the project manager reporting to the boss, all who want a deadline of "yesterday" met to save their asses. Good luck trying to fish out bugs in any software in that window. I guess this argument supports closed-source more. Anyone know if it's common practice anywhere in defense for a third party to check over code? That's probably the answer to open-source.
We should have a licensing program to use the internet. You should be required to answer a set of questions asking you about life in general. If the results say you think everyone is out to get you, then you are adequately prepared to use the internet.
By the time we get to the point where we can build AN ENTIRE CAR atom by atom, I want to be flying around Earth in spaceships at 10000mph.
Umm, that's a hell of a speeding ticket yer looking forward to.
Senator Hatch has a powerful incentive in attacking P2P networks
Every day I get more sick of more politicians. I need to watch Good Ol' Mr. Smith Goes to Washington to make myself feel better. I do however trust John McCain still and hope he runs for President soon.
You're going to need pretty good anti-glare technology for that, no? And I really worry about surfers out in the murky waters looking at porn.
I, for one, welcome our new capitalistic open-source funding overlords.
You know, there's a snazzy ice hotel in Canada that's rebuilt every year..very expensive, but it gets business. I'm betting it's possible to bring up an oversized super soaker in space and squirt up your very own fancy, personalized ice habitat.
You know, with MIT offering their classes online for free, and this service providing the textbooks for free, what's stopping us from getting a free diploma? The greed of the universities forces us to pay tens of thousands for simple proof. Ugh.
When spamming his test account, if you send him a spam-like message and it's recognized as spam, GMail might start thinking that your email address is a spam source and suddenly you won't be able to email anyone who uses Google.
I wonder how many "good names" these guys go through for each of these features. I wonder how long NASA spends discussing and debating them. I wonder how much of our tax payer dollars are effectively pissed away. Just have one guy name the damn features and get back to work.
Some basic tips that not enough people know, in no particular order:
1. Make sure you have a firewall configured to allow incoming connections from only ports you need open. You might be able to do just fine with no incoming connections allowed at all.
2. Have an updated virus checker.. Norton or Mcafee. By updated, I mean having it auto-update for you. Have it check every file accessed on media accessed by the computer, and email. At the very least, all the incoming media and email should be scanned on the fly, but outgoing is a good idea too.
3. Use Spybot or Ad Aware at least once a month to scan for spyware. Also keep these updated. I forget if they auto-update, but just be sure it checks for updates before you run them.
4. Only use credit cards that keep you free of liability for any fraud.
5. Buy a separate unnetworked little organizer with a keyboard to store hints to remember your passwords. Don't store the actual password.
6. Cancel credit cards you don't use.
7. Photocopy the backs and fronts of all the credit/debit cards you use and whatever else you keep in your wallet. Write in the customer service phone numbers if they're not clear.
8. Have Windows auto-update and auto-install all critical patches, or keep your Linux distro updated.
9. Don't open email attachments that you have no reason to trust, and certainly not until you have antivirus software checking incoming emails.
You know what Google needs? A "Was this result helpful in your search?" button for each link returned, so that the search itself also influences page ranks. Maybe that will help get rid of this Google bombing mess.
I think the only way for that to work is to charge something like $5 a year per Google user account. Otherwise, soon Google would have to start dealing with scripting that searches for certain web sites and chooses "Yes, this link is useful!" thousands of times per second. Then maybe you can try to restrict it by IP address, but the scripts would turn into some sort of trojan that makes other people do the same thing. Then you'd have them identify some sort of letters/numbers in graphics, which I remember seeing a previous Slashdot story about scripters having a way around as well...etc, etc.
Well, Alton's certainly not training master artists that you'd find in a 4 star restaurant last I checked, but he knows what he's talking about in terms of food. To be a chef, from my experience.. I'm an amateur ... you first need to be a scientist. The art of cooking comes afterwards. If your bread doesn't rise, that's a piece of garbage, not your distinctive style of bread.
Also, Alton knows a whole lot about how to make the cooking experience more enjoyable so you can worry about the art more than the science. The best way to thaw a chicken.. put it in a bowl with barely running cold water spilling into it, rather than having it sit in the oven. See, now I can worry more about what seasoning to choose instead!
If the President or Vice President stood to make money from invading Iraq, say, there'd be a hue and cry about it and they'd have no chance of getting away with it.
I'm not sure if I'm missing sarcasm here, but Vice President Dick Cheney's contracting company made a heap of gold off invading Iraq, didn't it?
I'm disappointed I saw no mention of the liquid body armor Army scientists are working on. Basically you take Kevlar, which is already pretty protective, and soak certain chemicals into it. Then when you get shot or stabbed, etc, the liquid hardens instantly and the wearer remains unharmed. I guess it's a possible future improvement, but perhaps the more conventional body armor is more reliable and tested for now. Less fun to talk about :/
Okay, so I get 10 of my friends to surrender control to me as we're going down the New Jersey Turnpike... half of em fall asleep and I turn off my position beacon. Because I'm not an ass, I'll honk my horn to wake them up as they go barreling at 90mph into that oil tanker. Sorry judge, I was having a bad day..err..bad malfunction in my car.
Jesus, are they outsourcing everything now?!?
Well, it's not the same thing though. It's not like we had thousands of highly paid professional gamers in the US that lost their jobs.
I once did some research on autism and found the guys at alt.support.autism very helpful. There's also an alt.support.schizophrenia group. If you don't have access to a news server, you can go to groups.google.com ..Introduce yourself, cite your concerns, and meet some great people.
I mean, it'd be an awfully big vending machine, but if they automated the process and had certain items pushed onto a conveyer belt, automatically packed up into a bag, and put into a refrigerated delivery truck, this could be fast and efficient, plus you can probably sell the stuff at near wholesale prices rather than relying on frantic shoppers pulling stuff off shelves at a mile a minute.
Also, this would be a good way to hire more of the packaging engineers in this country, to figure out how to transport eggs and potato chips in this system.
GMail offering 1GB for free is nice, and with ignorable ads, I'm tempted to switch to them, obviously. Right now I'm a paying Yahoo Mail customer, and I look at the prices they charge even now.. 100MB for $59.99.. So Yahoo claims they'll offer 100MB for free and "virtually unlimited" for paying customers. Well, a big reason I went for Yahoo is because I have a highly configured personalized Yahoo homepage and wanted to integrate my mail smoothly into it. However, if anyone's tried putting the "Yahoo Mail Preview" into their Yahoo home page, they'll be dismayed to learn that it usually does not display correctly, and "times out" or whatever.
So I ended up removing it from my homepage, and now Yahoo's on equal footing again. Paying for ad free email is worth it, and the address guard service is nice (disposable email addresses), but Yahoo will sure look bad offering only one tenth the storage of what the competition offers. Yahoo claims they're not going to take it sitting down though, so I'm looking forward to seeing capitalism give me a nice deal from one of them.
With all the fast food in the US, you'd think we'd have enough gas to keep us holding our noses for the foreseeable future!
Plus, if one of them blows up, who's going to cry?
The rats' pan-dimensional, super-intelligent kindred will care, and I would not want to tangle with them.
I really hope that when they reach the landing site they don't find any petunias or sperm whales.
I can deal with Linus not being the father of Linux, but what I can't deal with is the tooth fairy being a guy! Now I'm picturing a hairy-legged fairy dressed like a ballerina reaching under my pillow. The horrors!
A hardware firewall is practically a requirement these days if you use your computer for anything proprietary and sensitive, at least in the eyes of management. For both my jobs, I've gotten direct requests for me to secure my home computers with a router, but oddly, they wouldn't buy me one. Well, thanks to slickdeals.net, I finally managed to grab an 802.11b wireless router for ten bucks. Security problems solved.