Well, not really terrified I guess, but the whole "We've created life and it's procreating" thing is something that doesn't exactly make me feel warm and fuzzy,. And why did it have to be a virus. Why not a cute little kitten or something?
We tried that, it was called a "Furby" and it spread like hell. We should never try that again.
I want the fire back.
That's a can-do. My nephew created a central heating unit for in the living room.
http://www.designvormgeving.nl/fotopagina/gshow15. htm
But I only said that the original author talked about solar collectors instead of antenna's when he mentioned the size of the area. The more solar collectors the more wattage, so you seem into agreement with both me and the original author.
I think you hit the spot well when you mention that this will not generate any benefit if you keep burning fossil fuel (or if you burn any fuel for that matter). If this fuel _replaces_ oil and coal, then there would be less CO2 dumped in the atmosphere, which is probably a good thing:)
PS. Please don't go call people names. It doesn't become you.
Yeah, and maybe we can put on very good camera's so we can see it is really him. Or you. Or me. Such a weapon would be of very good use; especially to a totalitarian state.
The dutch history had a very similar idea about witches before. Until the dutch abandoned the conviction of witches without trial. Maybe we should learn from that history?
And the idea of a trial is to establish the defendant as a terrorist. Just killing or prisoning "terrorists" without trial is a bad idea; check Israel for that (or - how to turn a whole ethnic group into would be terrorists in ten easy steps).
The wheels and doors are the only moving points in the entire PeopleMover.
Don't you thing the idea of it having wheels does matter just a bit? If that aint a mechanical device (although a pretty simple one) then what is?
Sixflags in NL has a nice rollercoaster that is propelled by such a system too (more like a rail-gun actually, the propulsion is only at two stages in the ride. It as wheels as well though.
However, in order to make use of this perfect encryption, the quantum state must not change. Therefore, any obstacle along the way (imperfections in the fiber optic cable, or any attempts to read the signal) will destroy the signal. This means that a quantum encrypted message cannot be transmitted through a switched network. Every switch (as we know them) would have to read the data, and pass them along. That is not possible.
That's true if you are using a point to point connection yes, if you trust party B (somewhere in a secure building) you could make a point to point connection from A to B to exchange the keys. B could do the same with end point C.
What it comes down to: switch, no, router, yes. Creating a network would be no problem as long as you don't want to put switches in between two points. And as long as a digger does not seperate the cable, always a problem.
Note that I am just using practical cryptography, not theoretical, so if you can shoot holes in my little theory, you're most welcome.
Yeah, but people can get chicken virus. I think that there is a fish virus too that we are capable of getting. And mad cow disease. Still we aren't birds or fish or... errr....
Oh hell, it's a good point anyway. Both nightshades, ok.
First they call executable code (.net etc) through firewalls, if possible on port 80. RPC's over a (previously) relatively safe port that is open most of the time.
Then they say they will only update once in a month..
And then Billy comes along; install a firewall and keep your software up to date. Right, your company just made it pretty sure that both won't make much impact.
He should get more hands on experience, cause comments like this are not hitting their mark. Actually, it sounds like a blind man whacking around with a small table tennis bat.
No shit. Nothing is perfect (until you die?). It is the level of insecurity that counts.
Security and useability should be in balance. Using better programming techniques, making less errors, better procedures and most of all, a good architecture, shifts the balancing point in the right direction.
So you would get more useability whilst not having to care too much about security. Having your program language do bounds checking on everything (java,.net) for instance, matters a lot.
So, MS is wrong, they say: get more security holes, and patch 'm afterwards. Which is really stupid.
Neh, I would keep it and steer it for a bit, if I could in new directions, doing the real innovative stuff, and having fun at that (google labs 'n stuff).
You would still collect huge amounts of $ anyway, and have all the time you need. If you don't like steering, get a good director and go do what you want within the company (make sure the director cannot direct you, or you are another HP:).
Nice dreams, but I am still looking for my own opportunity / great idea. Oh well, maybe once....
Simulating and optimising worm propagation algorithms
I dunno if I like this title too much. I do not think coding skills are required. The design is way more important. Furthermore, MS is going to do one patch pack per month. Whaddaya think that will do to fast worms?
Those three words should not be used at the same time.
The ISP is given 10 business days to notify the customer of the court order.
Ten minutes in slow time (time when you're not online, for the non-cyberpunks out there) is years in time you spend in the matrix (the... oh bugger it, this is/.).
An ISP could then try and verify the claim and file a response themselves
LOL. Insightful. Right.
sounding kind of draconian
No, just bloody unlikely to happen. Besides, the justice dept. over here (NL) is busy enough already. The US justice dept. ? Settle it!
One interesting new "feature" is a sort of grammatical analyzer for writing code that will suggest improvements or corrections, similar to the way word underlines misspellings or grammar errors.
Ah, yes, so after grabbing everything from Java (and , as I must say, improved upon it in some ways) they now copy the popular Eclipse from IBM. It even catches syntactic & semantic errors in the wizards:)
It's unfortunate that such a large company like MS comes up with some true inovation by itself, appart from copying bright ideas from others.
Hmmm, appart from the hardware front that is, come to think of it...
Except that you cannot run C# with a standardized graphical user interface on anything other that Windows.
Maybe the language itself is more open, but the API surely isn't. Many OO languages are relatively similar (otherwise the.net environment could not have happened). Therefore it's the API's that count.
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Well, not really terrified I guess, but the whole "We've created life and it's procreating" thing is something that doesn't exactly make me feel warm and fuzzy,. And why did it have to be a virus. Why not a cute little kitten or something?
. htm
We tried that, it was called a "Furby" and it spread like hell. We should never try that again.
I want the fire back.
That's a can-do. My nephew created a central heating unit for in the living room.
http://www.designvormgeving.nl/fotopagina/gshow15
Maarten
Dunno, I just burned some of my CD collection, and I am sure there was a lot more heat than that.
Maybe 1's burns more brightly than 0's cause most of them contained data.
Wow, great justification!
:)
But I only said that the original author talked about solar collectors instead of antenna's when he mentioned the size of the area. The more solar collectors the more wattage, so you seem into agreement with both me and the original author.
I think you hit the spot well when you mention that this will not generate any benefit if you keep burning fossil fuel (or if you burn any fuel for that matter). If this fuel _replaces_ oil and coal, then there would be less CO2 dumped in the atmosphere, which is probably a good thing
PS. Please don't go call people names. It doesn't become you.
Duh, he spoke of the solar collectors, not about the antenna's when he spoke about the additional square miles.
Um.... the moon, like, moves...
Yeah, but it always comes out at night when the energy is much needed for lighting.
Yeah, and maybe we can put on very good camera's so we can see it is really him. Or you. Or me. Such a weapon would be of very good use; especially to a totalitarian state.
The dutch history had a very similar idea about witches before. Until the dutch abandoned the conviction of witches without trial. Maybe we should learn from that history?
And the idea of a trial is to establish the defendant as a terrorist. Just killing or prisoning "terrorists" without trial is a bad idea; check Israel for that (or - how to turn a whole ethnic group into would be terrorists in ten easy steps).
Ha, the item inventory list contains a nice age old joke:
Compass: points directly to West Pole.
I think the user interface would be a bit outdated for now. Much more interesting communities could evolve with the current state of things.
Now for the theoretical problems.
The wheels and doors are the only moving points in the entire PeopleMover.
Don't you thing the idea of it having wheels does matter just a bit? If that aint a mechanical device (although a pretty simple one) then what is?
Sixflags in NL has a nice rollercoaster that is propelled by such a system too (more like a rail-gun actually, the propulsion is only at two stages in the ride. It as wheels as well though.
Since it takes only one instruction code to stop Windows 3.11 dead (loop to itself e.g.) Mastering Win3.11 could really be a short book....
:)
The author seems to have affection with defunct operating systems
So? If they think these readers are right (with substantial bases), they should pull the freakin plug.
People these days aren't as responsive as they used to. There is no use ignoring the ones that do respond to such an ad.
Still, there are many, many commercials that are totally over the top. I don't know why this commercial would be banned and others not.
However, in order to make use of this perfect encryption, the quantum state must not change. Therefore, any obstacle along the way (imperfections in the fiber optic cable, or any attempts to read the signal) will destroy the signal. This means that a quantum encrypted message cannot be transmitted through a switched network. Every switch (as we know them) would have to read the data, and pass them along. That is not possible.
That's true if you are using a point to point connection yes, if you trust party B (somewhere in a secure building) you could make a point to point connection from A to B to exchange the keys. B could do the same with end point C.
What it comes down to: switch, no, router, yes. Creating a network would be no problem as long as you don't want to put switches in between two points. And as long as a digger does not seperate the cable, always a problem.
Note that I am just using practical cryptography, not theoretical, so if you can shoot holes in my little theory, you're most welcome.
Ok, but what happened to the R/C indoor carpet track, just out of curiosity?
Yeah, but people can get chicken virus. I think that there is a fish virus too that we are capable of getting. And mad cow disease. Still we aren't birds or fish or ... errr....
Oh hell, it's a good point anyway. Both nightshades, ok.
Ok, so they say on their website that they have to focus on the more promising uses of the metal.
And they come up with a really expensive (5.1 * 7500 = 38250 dollars for a surround set) speaker system first. Which already exists.
First they call executable code (.net etc) through firewalls, if possible on port 80. RPC's over a (previously) relatively safe port that is open most of the time.
Then they say they will only update once in a month..
And then Billy comes along; install a firewall and keep your software up to date. Right, your company just made it pretty sure that both won't make much impact.
He should get more hands on experience, cause comments like this are not hitting their mark. Actually, it sounds like a blind man whacking around with a small table tennis bat.
No shit. Nothing is perfect (until you die?). It is the level of insecurity that counts.
.net) for instance, matters a lot.
Security and useability should be in balance. Using better programming techniques, making less errors, better procedures and most of all, a good architecture, shifts the balancing point in the right direction.
So you would get more useability whilst not having to care too much about security. Having your program language do bounds checking on everything (java,
So, MS is wrong, they say: get more security holes, and patch 'm afterwards. Which is really stupid.
That's easy to prove for Windows, here it is in ascii coding:
M
it's the first one byte of every executable and doesn't work at all. It needs at least another byte, Z, to do something useful.
Neh, I would keep it and steer it for a bit, if I could in new directions, doing the real innovative stuff, and having fun at that (google labs 'n stuff).
:).
You would still collect huge amounts of $ anyway, and have all the time you need. If you don't like steering, get a good director and go do what you want within the company (make sure the director cannot direct you, or you are another HP
Nice dreams, but I am still looking for my own opportunity / great idea. Oh well, maybe once....
1) sounds like McAfee
:)
2) sounds like McAfee (to a certain extend)
3) defntly McAfee, just had to fix yet another corrupt mailbox file
And we pay to have this stuff on our computer
Internet killed the radio star, internet killed the radio star....
Radio won't be gone for I while I guess.
Simulating and optimising worm propagation algorithms
I dunno if I like this title too much. I do not think coding skills are required. The design is way more important. Furthermore, MS is going to do one patch pack per month. Whaddaya think that will do to fast worms?
quick legal remedy
... oh bugger it, this is /.).
Those three words should not be used at the same time.
The ISP is given 10 business days to notify the customer of the court order.
Ten minutes in slow time (time when you're not online, for the non-cyberpunks out there) is years in time you spend in the matrix (the
An ISP could then try and verify the claim and file a response themselves
LOL. Insightful. Right.
sounding kind of draconian
No, just bloody unlikely to happen. Besides, the justice dept. over here (NL) is busy enough already. The US justice dept. ? Settle it!
Don't you think it would be a better idea to just put a standardized and well tested firmware loader into the drive?
If the firmware is fu^H^H broken you could just upload a new one. That's the way a lot of devices work.
Both ideas cost money (as has been observed). I don't think it would be benificial to CD-ROM drives unless it could be done really cheap.
And yes the engeneer should be shot, and yes I would not buy an LG drive before being shot (for my own machine at least, for company use: whatever).
One interesting new "feature" is a sort of grammatical analyzer for writing code that will suggest improvements or corrections, similar to the way word underlines misspellings or grammar errors.
:)
Ah, yes, so after grabbing everything from Java (and , as I must say, improved upon it in some ways) they now copy the popular Eclipse from IBM. It even catches syntactic & semantic errors in the wizards
It's unfortunate that such a large company like MS comes up with some true inovation by itself, appart from copying bright ideas from others.
Hmmm, appart from the hardware front that is, come to think of it...
Except that you cannot run C# with a standardized graphical user interface on anything other that Windows.
.net environment could not have happened). Therefore it's the API's that count.
Maybe the language itself is more open, but the API surely isn't. Many OO languages are relatively similar (otherwise the
Pointer arithmetic is the next goto -- me.