If you cause too much of a stir about this *so called* "big bang" thing, President Bush might just pull the plug on the funding for this pagan science!
I think that this is a good move by IBM because after Jack Welch left GE there are some doubts about GE as a consulting firm. IBM could jump in and push technology (to help processes and quality) over restructuring and quality focus seminars as the panacea for a company's problems.
Also, if anyone watched the Masters golf tournament they saw at least 10 commercials for IBMs consulting services. After seeing them buy up all of that expensive advertising time the conclusion is simple: IBM believes that services are the future and they are getting a jump on the competiton with advertising dollars, marketing generalizations and dare I say "slashvertising."
The article is very short on information, but there is one tidbit that might shed light on what they are doing:
"As for Round Two's own extensions, Decrem said the company was
considering antivirus software to integrate with Firefox." emphasis mine
With Microsoft expected by many to offer antivirus software for free with windows, could they be beating them to the punch? I know that there are a lot of free antivirus packages (I use AVG myself) but if they can leverage Firefox's large user base then they might be on to something. I personally think that its a bad move to play Microsoft's game, which is effectivly making antivirus software worthless in the market.
Except for enterprise solutions, Symantec and McAffee could be in for a big hit in the personal antivirus protection department. Competition is an engine for innovation, but the most efficient engines for R&D come from within the firms that are actually selling the products and getting the most feeback. Something to think about, perhaps Symantec and Mcafee will continue to innovate and stay ahead of the curve.
Well, now that I opened the can of worms at both ends...proceed
Great minds are important, but our collegiate culture which rewards academic achievement and fosters intellectual discussion develops these minds in very specific areas. This is what is required for innovation, not just a firm understanding of the underlying concepts. This is why Paul Kurgman from Princeton University (publicly known for his colums in the New York Times) is used as an economic consultant for Malaysia.
In refute of your point that we are funneling our technology to China; we are not funneling our defense technologies to China. In fact, we go to great lengths to protect our defense secrets from other countries (I would provide a link but a simple Google search would yield more than enough evidence).
Wait and see what happens when China starts to use advances from American Universities for a while. We will start to guard our scholorship with our army and things will get interesting. What is going to keep us on top is our concentration of great minds and to a lesser degree our military prowess. According to Richard Nelson, a professor of International Political Economy at Columbia University, in his book The Sources of Economic Growth innovation is from environment more than anything else. He makes a strong case that the keystone of science and invetion is the ability of business to share ideas with universities.
Great book by the way. And it has an in depth case study on the conditions surrounding the invention and use of the transistor. Although I didn't get to the last chapter yet entitled, "The Rise and Fall of American Technological Leadership: The Postwar Era in Historical Perspective" so I might be missing something:)
1) "We suspect that some Jacks had been DOS-ing the site in order to cause it to overflow and shutdown"
No, whoever posted the story to Slashdot is the one that is DOS-ing your site.
2) "our group bribed two kids with a stereo into playing the Ride of the Valkyries, Caltech's song"
The Valkyries were the ones who carried the dead from the battlefield (and into heaven if i'm not mistaken). If they tried that garbage at my school they had better bring their own Valkries to clean up the mess.
Heh, yeah Green Peace would love that, a biped robot running from tree to tree taking them out with the greatest of ease.
Seriously tough, 2 legs are only better than 6 for agility. In this application, when your combing a hillside for trees (and chopping them down) stability is more important. We bipeds have great agility, but there's a spider on my ceiling feeling pretty good about himself.
I don't code in Perl, but I have the refrence and could throw down something ugly if necessary. Its more of paying homage to O'Reilly then it is a shout out to the Perl language. Also, I like my relativly low userID:D
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Highly unlikely--as the web page is just a proxy for the IRC client. The PSP only sees the HTML that the web site spits out. It would be really hard to transmit the virus through the mark-up, unless the web page itself was corrupt.
No offense to you but I asked a member of your "Geek Squad" a test question: "How do I get started with Perl programming?" The response? Perl is a mixture of C++ and Java so you should buy C# and go to Sun's web site and download the Java SDK. Well, they were right about getting the Java SDK from Sun's web site; but how clueless do you have to be to mistake any programming langage for a "mixture of" two? I was pissed, when you don't know the answer to a question should you just throw buzz words at someone? No! You try to answer their question or admit that your clueless.
Note: I don't even dabble in Perl, I script PHP or HTML and code in C++ and Java(not proficient enough to sell services or even read discussions of advanced topics).
I love those non-dithered text made in MS Paint look alike icons. A 12kb JPEG shouldn't have any sharp edges. To their point, there are a lot of different shades of green. However, they couldn't spare a couple shades of grey to make the letters look the least bit smooth?
Now the two adwords mesothelioma and debt consolidation are going to get rocked by hundreds of thousands of slashdotters. From an earlier post, the mesothelioma adword give revenue of $40/click. Be responsible and don't hammer the ad; for on the other end are lawyers and they will certaintly take suit against Google if they see a huge spike in traffic and draw the connection.
What would happen if a student used your login credentials to forward the e-mail from your account to a hotmail account, change the grade, then turn off the forwarding filter? Is this possible? I go to Rutgers and I know the university advertises its e-mail forwarding feature for its accounts during the webmail log in. Not only would you not be aware of the grade change, but you would also miss any important e-mails sent to you during the break-in.
Also, if they have your e-mail login information they could just set-up Thunderbird to fetch new e-mails at a faster rate than your client and delete messages from the server, thus getting the e-mails before your inbox is made aware (that's assuming that your computer is even turned on during the attack). Couple this with an open access point at Starbucks and your university (probably many) have something to worry about.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, I wouldn't predict 1 million downloads either.
If you thought software pirates were bad, wait until you see the real deal!
Jokes aside, this goes a long way to galvanize the theories of hydrodynamics (see: fluid dynamics for wikipedia).
They pretended that they were prefrosh?
The one with the guy(consultant) that tossed the bag of money on the table was decent. "Are you suggesting that we throw money at it?" *nods*
Also, if anyone watched the Masters golf tournament they saw at least 10 commercials for IBMs consulting services. After seeing them buy up all of that expensive advertising time the conclusion is simple: IBM believes that services are the future and they are getting a jump on the competiton with advertising dollars, marketing generalizations and dare I say "slashvertising."
With Microsoft expected by many to offer antivirus software for free with windows, could they be beating them to the punch? I know that there are a lot of free antivirus packages (I use AVG myself) but if they can leverage Firefox's large user base then they might be on to something. I personally think that its a bad move to play Microsoft's game, which is effectivly making antivirus software worthless in the market.
Except for enterprise solutions, Symantec and McAffee could be in for a big hit in the personal antivirus protection department. Competition is an engine for innovation, but the most efficient engines for R&D come from within the firms that are actually selling the products and getting the most feeback. Something to think about, perhaps Symantec and Mcafee will continue to innovate and stay ahead of the curve.
Well, now that I opened the can of worms at both ends...proceed
In refute of your point that we are funneling our technology to China; we are not funneling our defense technologies to China. In fact, we go to great lengths to protect our defense secrets from other countries (I would provide a link but a simple Google search would yield more than enough evidence).
Great book by the way. And it has an in depth case study on the conditions surrounding the invention and use of the transistor. Although I didn't get to the last chapter yet entitled, "The Rise and Fall of American Technological Leadership: The Postwar Era in Historical Perspective" so I might be missing something :)
No, whoever posted the story to Slashdot is the one that is DOS-ing your site.
2) "our group bribed two kids with a stereo into playing the Ride of the Valkyries, Caltech's song"
The Valkyries were the ones who carried the dead from the battlefield (and into heaven if i'm not mistaken). If they tried that garbage at my school they had better bring their own Valkries to clean up the mess.
Seriously tough, 2 legs are only better than 6 for agility. In this application, when your combing a hillside for trees (and chopping them down) stability is more important. We bipeds have great agility, but there's a spider on my ceiling feeling pretty good about himself.
"said Will Smith, AOL's net security expert." I'd say so.
Well, we have Celine Dion in Vegas so we are accepting trades.
Ping? ... Pong!
Sword Fight
I don't code in Perl, but I have the refrence and could throw down something ugly if necessary. Its more of paying homage to O'Reilly then it is a shout out to the Perl language. Also, I like my relativly low userID :D
Highly unlikely--as the web page is just a proxy for the IRC client. The PSP only sees the HTML that the web site spits out. It would be really hard to transmit the virus through the mark-up, unless the web page itself was corrupt.
Note: I don't even dabble in Perl, I script PHP or HTML and code in C++ and Java(not proficient enough to sell services or even read discussions of advanced topics).
Sure to add a touch of class to any web site.
Kate Moss?
Now the two adwords mesothelioma and debt consolidation are going to get rocked by hundreds of thousands of slashdotters. From an earlier post, the mesothelioma adword give revenue of $40/click. Be responsible and don't hammer the ad; for on the other end are lawyers and they will certaintly take suit against Google if they see a huge spike in traffic and draw the connection.
*sigh* A TLD is a Top Level Domain. Examples of Top Level Domains are .com .net and .org.
Also, if they have your e-mail login information they could just set-up Thunderbird to fetch new e-mails at a faster rate than your client and delete messages from the server, thus getting the e-mails before your inbox is made aware (that's assuming that your computer is even turned on during the attack). Couple this with an open access point at Starbucks and your university (probably many) have something to worry about.
The article you are talking about is at A List Apart and is a two part piece titled, "Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards." (and part II)
Click the Orange or Blue orb next to the flower in the top right part of your window. I just did it and it auto-updates Firefox to 1.02.