"malicious software (malware) that gets onto computers without the users' knowledge 'a thing of the past'."
It's not the software that is the problem. The issue is that users will STILL accept anything offered. Install weather toolbars and so on. And the fact that windows make it so ridicilously natural and easy that there simply isn't a different choice.
I don't know what could be the answer. A good approach would be to outlaw internet access to any computer with windows installed.
Too much really bright kids are forced to be 9-5'ers. You know, it's much more important whether you will have food and shelter for the next three months instead of a chance that you will have 2-3 millions within 6-12 months.
Unfourtonately short term reality economics work really harsh on them.
1) If you have access to some anonymous router you can have a totally clean trace while hacking into your next target. Think ssh over http to router and root at.gov from there. 2) A lot of machines on a typical network usually authenticates or restricts users based on their network location. Voila, you just gained an easy access to that very secret intranet page. 3) With access to router you are now in demilitarized zone. Think 3) Profit!!!. 4) Ever wanted to intercept people's pop3 passwords? With usual password use patterns it's a golden pot. Welcome, my root.
In IT industry it's called "immersive customer experience".
Think mp3 (a shit of a standard), think cameras (tasteless joke from marketing droids, but good if you wan't to MMS someone a closeup of your member. Used mainly so.), think CoreCell or DualEverything (fuck that shit). Think extra MegaMembers from your new CPU (think what the Girls will say - extra 254 MHz!!!). Think voided warrianties (and unread manuals). Think your old grandma at outlook (and yourself as support person on the phone line).
After all those days it's pretty impossible to buy a cellular phone that is just a phone. Cars with only brakes, motor and transmission costs four times as much as electronic-ridded drive-by-razor-thin-wire-with-microsoft-on-board mass market marvels. Or try getting plain vanilla DSL with one IP, no frills and direct connection to something that resembles internet, instead of living in militarized zone of your own.
Fuck it. You are out of luck. At least while the market is dominated by Bling-Bling and neoX Platinum adorers (like most of the slashdotters).
Actually this is pretty sad - you just cannot get the basics anymore. Or, as Henry Ford would say - you can get any car, while it's in black color, has 4wd and 17" discs, 2553cm3 6 cylinder engine and cupholder near the drivers seat.
If I had a good english skills (without help from a pirated copy of a certain software from a certain software marketing company) would I be questioning the supremacy of US?
Really? No, REALLY? Really, really, really??? Where did you get the 25% number?
1. Take a look at USA trade deficite. That is by no means an indicator that we are dealing with a country that is manifacturing 1/4 of goods producing worldwide. It was what, something like ~60BN USD when I last took a look at it.
2. Take a look at where the plants are located. Have any significant amount of manifacturing action in US? Ok, big, fuel thursty cards and overpriced medicaments, but anything else?
3. USA dollar is failing. And failing miserably - it already is about 0.75 it's worth it has 5-6 years ago. Currencies of manifacturing countries don't tend to fall - economics. What brings us to the next point:
4. With the ratio of 4% / 25% there is no fucking chage the above points wouldn't be true.
There is a difference between manifacturing (that makes a lot-of-bling-bling goe round-and-round while leaving nice big pile-o-money in economy from trade surplus and owning companies in other countries that leaves us with theoretically wealthiest country in the world where the majority of capital is invested outside of the country and often sithout supporting national currency.
With all due respect, USA had nothing to do in Iraq, it wasn't threatened by it and it knew that it poses no danger. Also, at the current stage there are open admissions that intelligence data was twisted for political needs not to represent actual situations.
How often do you shoot your neighbors just because they might be holding a gun and planning to shoot you? And claim that this was just a self-defense out of necessity? Try it out! It works! It's the american way, after all!
The fact that USA tries to enforce its laws across the world is NOT acceptable, regardless of what your comment shows you think. This just isn't how the law is supposed to work.
There are cultures where murder is a very encouraged and normal (if not mandatory) response to a case if someone rapes your daughter (in example).
There are cultures where there are no needs for cops, because the justice is enforced by everyone and any criminal risk loosing not only his position in society, but home and friends too.
You just might have heard that there are cultures where the LAW is defined and exact and don't depends on 15 tomes of decisions of similar cases or your capabilities to appear as a victim of society to the jurors.
I'm not saying that Sadam Hussein wasn't a criminal. Yes, he was, he was involved in war crimes, genocide, just plain power stretching around and enforced really harsh means to silence the opposition, but this wasn't the USA's business. For heaven's sake, Iraq even isn't a border country for the USA, what would add some credibility to the "World Cop" role it postulates.
In short: US law is law that is (and should be) enforced only in USA. One step across the border - and you have a different set of laws. And that's how it should stay - each culture deciding itself on the laws it needs and the enforcement methods it should use.
There is a really, really big difference between McJunkie Girl (violently raped at each of last three parties she attended and happy for that) and the wife of some Taliban Man (violently beaten up each evening, and happy for that). And laws are made to reflect that.
If they were even pretty... I saw the screenshots yesterday and my first tought was: "Fuck. They have managed to fuck the UI even more than in XP. Look at that scrollbar in "start" menu. Fuck, fuck, fuck! And that horrid no-contrast grayish joke of a theme. Fuck. Good thing it wont reach my desktop sooner than in a 4-5 years when I hopefully will be retired, cruising around the world and not worrying about Windows usability anymore".
Stop whining and ride us to the revolution of the digital media. Please don't complain and ignore us for the fact that we have been promising it for the last five or so years.
The actual entry presented was "Harmless.". "Mostly " was added in the version Ford presented to Arthur, but I really don't recall that it actually made it into updated guide (that shrilly bird, ya know).
You forgot Vogon takeovers (Brittanica?) and rather violent editors in the office, not to mention executive personel.
And as for comparision with Wikipedia - HHg2g was based on secretaries and legal departament drones, so, of course, the rather colourfull and occasionally politically incorrect (i.e. claiming that Republicans are a political party, while, in fact, everyone knows that they are just Voldemort bystanders) and potentially insulting entries couldn't be possible there.
For example - take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth and say how it compares with "Harmless."
Ha, Punk? So, ya thing Douglas would like it, ya? Bullshit!
And that's, I'm afraid, is the main reason why the programming will just go worse and worse. Because at any time there will be a guaranteed watchers base, if not for the sheer excitement over watching those poor dumbasses being abused in front of the camera, then for the chance that "ONE DAY I could be THERE too, Ma!"
Stop shitting about windows registry. It's EXACTLY the same as ye old praised shitload of differently sintaxed plain texts.
Applications misue both of them. And to be honest - I prefer windows registry. In there, at least, I know I see it all. With plaintext configuration files I have spent far more time searching why something is shitting around, just to discover that yet another stupid app has decided that it should prefer.conf file in some obscure directory made by hacked rpm from different distro precedes both the one lying in/etc and in./app/conf dirs.
Ahh, what a world that would be where each app would be running in it's small little jail. No corruption of system registry, clean uninstalls and possibly subjails for dependency software.
snurf... what a dream.
Anyway - it's not the windows registry that sucks. It's an excellent idea and magnificent implementation. It's just that WE WILL NEVER LEARN TO WRITE GOOD AND PROPER SOFTWARE. And this is the issue that has to be adressed.
In our fast pacing business domain please remember to use thread synchronisation properly, to ensure that projects state doesn't change while your code executes.
Yes, defensive coding practices. Not to even mention accessing fields directly. And even more fun, if using them directly as condition variables.
Of course deep adressing is pretty evil thing too, but you don't seem to care about encapsulation at all. And I would guess that you haven't encountered any design patterns in your life. (just like I still haven't found my grammar skills)
Just a short clue to the right path (I'm lazy):
if (null != project && null != project.getProjectType() && Project.getProjectType().equals(ProjectTypes.getPr ojectType(ProjectTypes.INTERNAL))) { ProjectImplementer i = project.getImplementer(); if (null != i) { if (i.getType() == ProjectImplementer.TYPE_EMPLOYEES) { //... } else if (i.getType() == ProjectImplementer.TYPE_CONTRACTOR) ( //... } } else { throw new UnexpectedStateException("Guilty party not found. Therefore start packing"); } //... }
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"malicious software (malware) that gets onto computers without the users' knowledge 'a thing of the past'."
It's not the software that is the problem. The issue is that users will STILL accept anything offered. Install weather toolbars and so on. And the fact that windows make it so ridicilously natural and easy that there simply isn't a different choice.
I don't know what could be the answer. A good approach would be to outlaw internet access to any computer with windows installed.
Too much really bright kids are forced to be 9-5'ers. You know, it's much more important whether you will have food and shelter for the next three months instead of a chance that you will have 2-3 millions within 6-12 months.
Unfourtonately short term reality economics work really harsh on them.
1) If you have access to some anonymous router you can have a totally clean trace while hacking into your next target. Think ssh over http to router and root at .gov from there.
2) A lot of machines on a typical network usually authenticates or restricts users based on their network location. Voila, you just gained an easy access to that very secret intranet page.
3) With access to router you are now in demilitarized zone. Think 3) Profit!!!.
4) Ever wanted to intercept people's pop3 passwords? With usual password use patterns it's a golden pot. Welcome, my root.
And this is just the beginning.
In IT industry it's called "immersive customer experience".
Think mp3 (a shit of a standard), think cameras (tasteless joke from marketing droids, but good if you wan't to MMS someone a closeup of your member. Used mainly so.), think CoreCell or DualEverything (fuck that shit). Think extra MegaMembers from your new CPU (think what the Girls will say - extra 254 MHz!!!). Think voided warrianties (and unread manuals). Think your old grandma at outlook (and yourself as support person on the phone line).
Think bling-bling!!!
After all those days it's pretty impossible to buy a cellular phone that is just a phone. Cars with only brakes, motor and transmission costs four times as much as electronic-ridded drive-by-razor-thin-wire-with-microsoft-on-board mass market marvels. Or try getting plain vanilla DSL with one IP, no frills and direct connection to something that resembles internet, instead of living in militarized zone of your own.
Fuck it. You are out of luck. At least while the market is dominated by Bling-Bling and neoX Platinum adorers (like most of the slashdotters).
Actually this is pretty sad - you just cannot get the basics anymore. Or, as Henry Ford would say - you can get any car, while it's in black color, has 4wd and 17" discs, 2553cm3 6 cylinder engine and cupholder near the drivers seat.
If I had a good english skills (without help from a pirated copy of a certain software from a certain software marketing company) would I be questioning the supremacy of US?
;)
Unless I were British, that is
If I'm not mistaken, there was an obscure US law that allowed transferral of patent to the government without any compensation to the authors.
I read about some cases where DOD used it.
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Hmm. Couldn't find any reference to it in google under 30 seconds. May I stand corrected?
You will not get away with this!!!
Really? No, REALLY? Really, really, really??? Where did you get the 25% number?
1. Take a look at USA trade deficite. That is by no means an indicator that we are dealing with a country that is manifacturing 1/4 of goods producing worldwide. It was what, something like ~60BN USD when I last took a look at it.
2. Take a look at where the plants are located. Have any significant amount of manifacturing action in US? Ok, big, fuel thursty cards and overpriced medicaments, but anything else?
3. USA dollar is failing. And failing miserably - it already is about 0.75 it's worth it has 5-6 years ago. Currencies of manifacturing countries don't tend to fall - economics. What brings us to the next point:
4. With the ratio of 4% / 25% there is no fucking chage the above points wouldn't be true.
There is a difference between manifacturing (that makes a lot-of-bling-bling goe round-and-round while leaving nice big pile-o-money in economy from trade surplus
and owning companies in other countries that leaves us with theoretically wealthiest country in the world where the majority of capital is invested outside of the country and often sithout supporting national currency.
Bling-bling!
I especially liked the ending. Finally a legal criminal that really delivers :P
And do you consider the result "ok"?
With all due respect, USA had nothing to do in Iraq, it wasn't threatened by it and it knew that it poses no danger. Also, at the current stage there are open admissions that intelligence data was twisted for political needs not to represent actual situations.
How often do you shoot your neighbors just because they might be holding a gun and planning to shoot you? And claim that this was just a self-defense out of necessity? Try it out! It works! It's the american way, after all!
The fact that USA tries to enforce its laws across the world is NOT acceptable, regardless of what your comment shows you think. This just isn't how the law is supposed to work.
There are cultures where murder is a very encouraged and normal (if not mandatory) response to a case if someone rapes your daughter (in example).
There are cultures where there are no needs for cops, because the justice is enforced by everyone and any criminal risk loosing not only his position in society, but home and friends too.
You just might have heard that there are cultures where the LAW is defined and exact and don't depends on 15 tomes of decisions of similar cases or your capabilities to appear as a victim of society to the jurors.
I'm not saying that Sadam Hussein wasn't a criminal. Yes, he was, he was involved in war crimes, genocide, just plain power stretching around and enforced really harsh means to silence the opposition, but this wasn't the USA's business. For heaven's sake, Iraq even isn't a border country for the USA, what would add some credibility to the "World Cop" role it postulates.
In short: US law is law that is (and should be) enforced only in USA. One step across the border - and you have a different set of laws. And that's how it should stay - each culture deciding itself on the laws it needs and the enforcement methods it should use.
There is a really, really big difference between McJunkie Girl (violently raped at each of last three parties she attended and happy for that) and the wife of some Taliban Man (violently beaten up each evening, and happy for that). And laws are made to reflect that.
If they were even pretty... I saw the screenshots yesterday and my first tought was: "Fuck. They have managed to fuck the UI even more than in XP. Look at that scrollbar in "start" menu. Fuck, fuck, fuck! And that horrid no-contrast grayish joke of a theme. Fuck. Good thing it wont reach my desktop sooner than in a 4-5 years when I hopefully will be retired, cruising around the world and not worrying about Windows usability anymore".
No.
Stop whining and ride us to the revolution of the digital media. Please don't complain and ignore us for the fact that we have been promising it for the last five or so years.
We will get your money - one way or another.
Allyourwalletarebelongtous!
Enable DMA on your CDROM.
After all it's clearly visible that we are dealing with integer variables here. C++ doesn't says anything to you?
So, of course, we have variables GOTO and OOP and post-incremented C.
But you are probably right about "==".
The actual entry presented was "Harmless.". "Mostly " was added in the version Ford presented to Arthur, but I really don't recall that it actually made it into updated guide (that shrilly bird, ya know).
You forgot Vogon takeovers (Brittanica?) and rather violent editors in the office, not to mention executive personel.
And as for comparision with Wikipedia - HHg2g was based on secretaries and legal departament drones, so, of course, the rather colourfull and occasionally politically incorrect (i.e. claiming that Republicans are a political party, while, in fact, everyone knows that they are just Voldemort bystanders) and potentially insulting entries couldn't be possible there.
For example - take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth and say how it compares with "Harmless."
Ha, Punk? So, ya thing Douglas would like it, ya? Bullshit!
Those commies...
"Look, Ma, I'm ON TV!"
And that's, I'm afraid, is the main reason why the programming will just go worse and worse. Because at any time there will be a guaranteed watchers base, if not for the sheer excitement over watching those poor dumbasses being abused in front of the camera, then for the chance that "ONE DAY I could be THERE too, Ma!"
If there have ever ever been wedding for any of the MIT students, even more so, on the site itself...
Well, you get the idea.
Another guy who doesn't get that A) IT WAS A JOKE, and B) IT WAS LOUSY JAVA CODE.
What is this, an asperger's convention? Lay off the coffee, man, you're gonna give yourself a heart attack.
BREATHE.
You are saying that people are stupid, with short attention spans and highly trusting to the reccomendations from unreliable sources?
Whoa, what a concept!
Stop shitting about windows registry. It's EXACTLY the same as ye old praised shitload of differently sintaxed plain texts.
.conf file in some obscure directory made by hacked rpm from different distro precedes both the one lying in /etc and in ./app/conf dirs.
Applications misue both of them. And to be honest - I prefer windows registry. In there, at least, I know I see it all. With plaintext configuration files I have spent far more time searching why something is shitting around, just to discover that yet another stupid app has decided that it should prefer
Ahh, what a world that would be where each app would be running in it's small little jail. No corruption of system registry, clean uninstalls and possibly subjails for dependency software.
snurf... what a dream.
Anyway - it's not the windows registry that sucks. It's an excellent idea and magnificent implementation. It's just that WE WILL NEVER LEARN TO WRITE GOOD AND PROPER SOFTWARE. And this is the issue that has to be adressed.
In our fast pacing business domain please remember to use thread synchronisation properly, to ensure that projects state doesn't change while your code executes.
Yes, defensive coding practices. Not to even mention accessing fields directly. And even more fun, if using them directly as condition variables.
r ojectType(ProjectTypes.INTERNAL))) {
//...
//...
//...
Of course deep adressing is pretty evil thing too, but you don't seem to care about encapsulation at all. And I would guess that you haven't encountered any design patterns in your life. (just like I still haven't found my grammar skills)
Just a short clue to the right path (I'm lazy):
if (null != project
&& null != project.getProjectType()
&& Project.getProjectType().equals(ProjectTypes.getP
ProjectImplementer i = project.getImplementer();
if (null != i) {
if (i.getType() == ProjectImplementer.TYPE_EMPLOYEES) {
} else if (i.getType() == ProjectImplementer.TYPE_CONTRACTOR) (
}
} else {
throw new UnexpectedStateException("Guilty party not found. Therefore start packing");
}
}
My apologies - I probably was a little harsh.
:)
Anyway - yet another lesson learned