If the input page is not secured, then the bad guys know what you are doing, giving them a leg up.
maybe more importantly, you can't check the certificate of who you are talking to until you submit. then you are screwed if something is wrong. Sure, sure if the domain is microsoft.com or amazon.com you might feel ok (or not, given that this is slashdot), but not all domains are so well known.
decades ago, american made tv's lasted a year or two before needing repair. even the knobs fell off. There was a tv repair business on every corner. 7-11's sold tubes for tvs and radios. I have a japanese made RCA TV that has worked without repair for 25 years. the only downside is that it doesn't have a remote. And Japan probably doesn't make too many tv's there anymore.
Jerry whats his name of Wind River/Vxworks frequently issued anti-Linux screeds, but suddenly stopped about the day before Wind River announced a Linux product.
The uncoolest thing about SG-1 is that the super-advanced goauld (sic whatever) have weapons that can't hit anything. The 'death' gliders shoot wimpy little firebombs that always miss and the staffs can't hit. They never heard of guided weapons. Its pathetic. Like on Star Trek where the Klingons are supposed to be mighty warriors but in any hand to hand fight they always get their butts kicked even by the Federation women, like skinny little major Kira.
give me an F-4 Phantom with a load of napalm over a death glider any day.
contrast that to the cool weapons effects on B-5 and the ultra-cool massive guided missle firing scene on Battlestar G.
I like the humorous episodes on SG-1 (wormhole extreme) but the serious ones are laughable.
On the Art Bell Show, Major Ed Dames, a reknowed remote viewer, (you can spend a few $100 and take his class) used remote viewing to determine that the world will end in 2 years when a massive solar flare scorches everything.
So don't worry about the wasted money. it doesn't matter anyway.
the dvd laser in mine went out after about 9 months. the cost for a do it yourself repair was about $100. since the drives have a special pinout. So I just gave up on it and stuck with PS2.
i still have the useless hulk so I hope this suit goes somewhere. but probably I will get a $10.00 off coupon for MS products and a few lawyers will get even more rich.
For all you kids who weren't there at the time, do some reading and you will find out that there wasn't any exclusive deal with Microsoft. When the IBM PC came out you had a choice. PC-DOS or CPM-86. both were available to order. It wasn't excluded. Back then me and most of my friends wanted to get CPM-86 but it as 3 times the price of PC-DOS, $300 to $100, back when $100 was serious money to a hobbyist. PC-DOS won strictly on price.
And why the whining that Gates wasn't a programmer (which he was). Neither was Jobs or McNealy or many other company founders. Running a successful company is a different skillset.
moller and theskycar thing have been around for nearly 30 years and its all hype and no results. The whole concept is foolish. The moller bunch relies on naive new investors to keep showing up because it seems like a neat idea. It was hyped in popular mechanics/science and the amateur aviation magazines in the 80's until it died away. Then the web brought in a new group of suckers to feed off the hype.
From an engineering point of view, planes and helicopters leverage aerodynamics to get lift from relatively small power plants. The skycar needs a 1/1 thrust to weight ratio. it flies (or in this case, fails to fly) on brute force, like a rocket. not an efficient way to go.
From a pilot point of view, planes and helicopters glide when the engine(s) go out. You have a chance of surviving. The skycar will fall like a rock. that won't be too popular. yes yes they claim they use a lot of engines to get redundancy, but more engines makes reliability worse, not better.
I am going to puke the next time I see people in slashdot talking about the skycar like it is real.
History will show that the baby boom and X generations, who worry and fret about every little imagined risk, actually will have lived in the golden age of human health. This will be the period when antibiotics were effective and vaccines developed in the mid 20th century kept them safe from the viral diseases. Evolution will overcome all those safeguards.
I pulled them out of all my work computers two years ago and never put them in my last 3 home computers and I have never once missed them. My colleagues are horrified but I laugh at their ignorance. When they are crying about lost data on their floppies I flip them off with my usb key. I agree with all the previous posts that it seem that at least 50% of floppies are bad out of the box. Probably a result of the non-existent profit margin and need to cut costs.
I am amused that the Slackware distribution still focuses on booting from floppies. Yes i know it can install froma a CD (I use it), but if you look at their web site you might feel you are still in 1995. Here are some interesting tidbits from the main Slackware install faq:
Q: My large (> 1/2 gig) IDE drive reports more than 16 heads, and as a result Linux won't install on it. What can I do? heh. large?
Q: Is it possible to install this operating system without a floppy drive? Yes! And it's not much harder, either.
Q: Now that the N series doesn't fit on floppy disks, how do I get network support into my laptop? followed by convoluted procedure to make a multiple floppy install
Q: I can't get the disks made by RAWRITE to boot! because floppies don't work anymore.
The story of Weber is eerily parallel to the story of Carmack and Romero in 'Masters of Doom', with the exception that Carmack/Romero were doing legal things.
Young guys working intensely, figuring things out, advancing the state of the art, making money and spending it. Then having it all end badly in one way or another (certainly not the same order of magnitude for Id/Carmack/Ion Storm/Romero but still there).
Also, the social engineering Weber used is very Mitnick.
Its India, for having weird anti-free-speech laws that ban inadvertent mistakes or differing opinions. What kind of crap is that? In the US and probably most other free western countries I could publish software that says India is part of China and that the US owns Kashmir. Just nobody would use it.
on the other hand, in the US, most folks wouldn't know the difference.
and yes its a dupe.
I agree. Jakob Nielsen is all about self promotion. You too can have usability if you will just pay him $$$$ for his seminars and consulting. He has a vested interest in trashing anything he didn't have a hand in.
Exactly. In capitalism, I don't care anything about who is offering the product. I don't care if MS or Redhat makes a profit, just like they don't care if I get screwed on price or not.
When BG or whoever wants some sort of intervention to 'protect' his workers, then they benefit while the consumers and potential competitors are screwed. Usually more people are screwed than benefit. Of course if you are the beneficiary then you don't mind.
Capitalism creates the best environment for consumers. Then you have to ask what about the workers? Well, they are consumers too. Even here in the US capitalism is tempered to avoid the most draconian labor practices. But every worker protection that an employer must adhere to hurts the consumer. So it needs to be balanced out.
When the communists say 'from each according to his ability, to each according to his need', the question then becomes 'who gets to decide . In a free society, YOU get to decide. When you don't get to decide, then you aren't free.
I think in Economics class I learned that in a perfect market a commodity product will yield zero profit. The better and freer the market is, the less profit. Its the government protected, regulated markets that screw the consumer.
OSS is all about capitalism, as long as you don't cross the line that says you HAVE to give your software away, GPL or otherwise.
(it doesn't matter if it takes longer to ship/manufacture in various countries; delay all copies till it's ready!)
easy to say but if you are running a business you have to think about cash flow.
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If the input page is not secured, then the bad guys know what you are doing, giving them a leg up.
maybe more importantly, you can't check the certificate of who you are talking to until you submit. then you are screwed if something is wrong. Sure, sure if the domain is microsoft.com or amazon.com you might feel ok (or not, given that this is slashdot), but not all domains are so well known.
the interview was of some young pointy hair manager types, not developers. They were all way too clean cut.
you mean like when Indian programmers come here?
decades ago, american made tv's lasted a year or two before needing repair. even the knobs fell off. There was a tv repair business on every corner. 7-11's sold tubes for tvs and radios. I have a japanese made RCA TV that has worked without repair for 25 years. the only downside is that it doesn't have a remote. And Japan probably doesn't make too many tv's there anymore.
and why does a county need to make TV's anyway?
I loved the stretch armstrong. It was heavy and you could really hurt someone with it.
Jerry whats his name of Wind River/Vxworks frequently issued anti-Linux screeds, but suddenly stopped about the day before Wind River announced a Linux product.
problem is RTLinux isn't free as in beer. or if it is, where do I download the iso's.
The uncoolest thing about SG-1 is that the super-advanced goauld (sic whatever) have weapons that can't hit anything. The 'death' gliders shoot wimpy little firebombs that always miss and the staffs can't hit. They never heard of guided weapons. Its pathetic. Like on Star Trek where the Klingons are supposed to be mighty warriors but in any hand to hand fight they always get their butts kicked even by the Federation women, like skinny little major Kira.
give me an F-4 Phantom with a load of napalm over a death glider any day.
contrast that to the cool weapons effects on B-5 and the ultra-cool massive guided missle firing scene on Battlestar G.
I like the humorous episodes on SG-1 (wormhole extreme) but the serious ones are laughable.
On the Art Bell Show, Major Ed Dames, a reknowed remote viewer, (you can spend a few $100 and take his class) used remote viewing to determine that the world will end in 2 years when a massive solar flare scorches everything. So don't worry about the wasted money. it doesn't matter anyway.
the dvd laser in mine went out after about 9 months. the cost for a do it yourself repair was about $100. since the drives have a special pinout. So I just gave up on it and stuck with PS2.
i still have the useless hulk so I hope this suit goes somewhere. but probably I will get a $10.00 off coupon for MS products and a few lawyers will get even more rich.
For all you kids who weren't there at the time, do some reading and you will find out that there wasn't any exclusive deal with Microsoft. When the IBM PC came out you had a choice. PC-DOS or CPM-86. both were available to order. It wasn't excluded. Back then me and most of my friends wanted to get CPM-86 but it as 3 times the price of PC-DOS, $300 to $100, back when $100 was serious money to a hobbyist. PC-DOS won strictly on price.
And why the whining that Gates wasn't a programmer (which he was). Neither was Jobs or McNealy or many other company founders. Running a successful company is a different skillset.
you mean like the Zaurus?
I doubt if Drudge's claim to have a copyright on a letter Sean Penn wrote will hold up in court.
We don't want to be like other freaking countries. Thats the whole point. Most of them suck worse than we do.
moller and theskycar thing have been around for nearly 30 years and its all hype and no results. The whole concept is foolish. The moller bunch relies on naive new investors to keep showing up because it seems like a neat idea. It was hyped in popular mechanics/science and the amateur aviation magazines in the 80's until it died away. Then the web brought in a new group of suckers to feed off the hype.
From an engineering point of view, planes and helicopters leverage aerodynamics to get lift from relatively small power plants. The skycar needs a 1/1 thrust to weight ratio. it flies (or in this case, fails to fly) on brute force, like a rocket. not an efficient way to go.
From a pilot point of view, planes and helicopters glide when the engine(s) go out. You have a chance of surviving. The skycar will fall like a rock. that won't be too popular. yes yes they claim they use a lot of engines to get redundancy, but more engines makes reliability worse, not better.
I am going to puke the next time I see people in slashdot talking about the skycar like it is real.
History will show that the baby boom and X generations, who worry and fret about every little imagined risk, actually will have lived in the golden age of human health. This will be the period when antibiotics were effective and vaccines developed in the mid 20th century kept them safe from the viral diseases. Evolution will overcome all those safeguards.
People under 30 have a bleak future.
I am amused that the Slackware distribution still focuses on booting from floppies. Yes i know it can install froma a CD (I use it), but if you look at their web site you might feel you are still in 1995. Here are some interesting tidbits from the main Slackware install faq:
The story of Weber is eerily parallel to the story of Carmack and Romero in 'Masters of Doom', with the exception that Carmack/Romero were doing legal things.
Young guys working intensely, figuring things out, advancing the state of the art, making money and spending it. Then having it all end badly in one way or another (certainly not the same order of magnitude for Id/Carmack/Ion Storm/Romero but still there).
Also, the social engineering Weber used is very Mitnick.
Its India, for having weird anti-free-speech laws that ban inadvertent mistakes or differing opinions. What kind of crap is that? In the US and probably most other free western countries I could publish software that says India is part of China and that the US owns Kashmir. Just nobody would use it. on the other hand, in the US, most folks wouldn't know the difference. and yes its a dupe.
I agree. Jakob Nielsen is all about self promotion. You too can have usability if you will just pay him $$$$ for his seminars and consulting. He has a vested interest in trashing anything he didn't have a hand in.
dang, i was furiously writing the same thing about roads and fortunately i refreshed before i posted.
Exactly. In capitalism, I don't care anything about who is offering the product. I don't care if MS or Redhat makes a profit, just like they don't care if I get screwed on price or not. When BG or whoever wants some sort of intervention to 'protect' his workers, then they benefit while the consumers and potential competitors are screwed. Usually more people are screwed than benefit. Of course if you are the beneficiary then you don't mind. Capitalism creates the best environment for consumers. Then you have to ask what about the workers? Well, they are consumers too. Even here in the US capitalism is tempered to avoid the most draconian labor practices. But every worker protection that an employer must adhere to hurts the consumer. So it needs to be balanced out. When the communists say 'from each according to his ability, to each according to his need', the question then becomes 'who gets to decide . In a free society, YOU get to decide. When you don't get to decide, then you aren't free.
I think in Economics class I learned that in a perfect market a commodity product will yield zero profit. The better and freer the market is, the less profit. Its the government protected, regulated markets that screw the consumer.
OSS is all about capitalism, as long as you don't cross the line that says you HAVE to give your software away, GPL or otherwise.
(it doesn't matter if it takes longer to ship/manufacture in various countries; delay all copies till it's ready!)
easy to say but if you are running a business you have to think about cash flow.
Michael Howard, a longtime Microsoft Employee, wears a 'my other computer is your LINUX box' t-shirt when he gives talks on how to write secure code.
saw him in it at directx meltdown last month.