Now imaginge that a country of the size of the United States would invest just the cost of 1 month worth of Iraq war into the development of alternative energys
I keep hearing this that if you give more money to research in this field new inventions will come but I'm really skeptic about this. Is there any actual proof that X amount of money leads to Y amount of inventions and X+1 leads to Y+1?
I mean, let's take medicines for example. I was listening to a speech kept by a highly respected professor in the field of healthcare here in Finland. He told about a curious theory which said that if you give more and more money to medicine research at some point it turns against on people. Healthcare starts to harm people.
I have wife, a kid, another one coming, 2 dogs, friends and hobbies. I don't have fricking time to learn new things at home.
And when has it been employers duty to develop his skills on his own time? It costs money to buy books and take classes. My employee doesn't pay me for stuff I do at my own time. If they want me to learn new things, they fricking well have to send me to some class or training course which they pay for themselves. It's usually considered as an investement to the employer and that way it benefits the whole company.
I could write hours and hours about what's wrong in IT business now a days, at least where I live. But I don't have time and my english isn't so good that I could explain myself clearly. And besides I have more important things to do than sit in front of computer like take my wife out for dinner:)
And then they could ask for a password instead of getting people in the habit of clicking away past warning windows
But it does ask for a admin password if you are running with user privileges, which you should do in the first place. Users still running Vista with admin account (or UAC off) should be shot in the face.
Now why an earth I would want to watch BluRay movies from a tiny little VGA connected monitor when I have standalone player and 32" television for that?
What's with this DRM I keep hearing about? I'm currently listening "Sepultura - Desperate Cry.MP3" with my computer running Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows Media Player with no DRM what so ever. Before that I watched "Futurama S4E1.avi" using the same WMP. I must be doing something wrong here...
Well, Windows already does that. If file came from internet zone, Windows prompts you whwn you try to execute it. You must specifically tell Windows that it is OK to run the program.
I just made a little test. I emailed me executable file as attachement. Mail came via our corporate Exchange server and I opened it with Outlook (not Express). Outlook tells me: Outlook blocked access to the following potentially unsafe attachements: foo.exe
I renamed the file to foo.jpg.exe and resent it. Outlook still blocked it. I think there's some option in Outlook that allows me to open the attachement and run the executable but I can't find it...
So I'm not sure what MS can do about this. If administrator opens EXE files on production server (s)he should be publicly flogged and denounced.
Well I'm not sure since luckily I don't have account at Sampo but what I've heard is that they use only user ID and password. No password lists or anything.
But thanks to the XSS vulnerability it doesn't really matter:)
You live in Finland and haven't heard Sampo bank's issues? What I've heard they don't use those changing confirmation codes anymore. And there was/is (I don't know if they have fixed those) a tons of security holes on their new website where a clever XSS attack leads to MITM situation.
I started digging their website a bit after I read from papers that there is XSS hole a size of elephant on their site. I composed (in my mind only, I'm not a criminal) couple of attacks where I could empty victim's bank account and user wouldn't even know it because browser is technically roaming in Sampo's domain and using their certificate.
Sampo's stance was that this is totally user's own fault, user is using "old computer" and Sampo was willing to give 100 euros to customers who would buy a new one. This is total BS of course. The age of the computer doesn't affect this, nor does the name of the Operating System or the browser.
Back to the article. In Sampo's case I would say that the bank is the one to blame. Their website is a disaster waiting to happen. In any other case like Osuuspankki, Optia etc. it is different. Bank can't and aren't allowed to watch people's computers so it is up to user to make sure that their PCs aren't compromised.
While God Emperor of Dune is probably the best book in the serie, in my opinion of course, it would make terrible film. I mean 2 hours of discussions between Leto II and Moneo/Duncan/Hwi. There's no adventure, which was the central idea of Golden Path. Just one action scene, Fish Speakers vs Face Dancers in the city of Onn. Then little romance between Leto II and Hwi and finally a big end.
But Heretics of Dune would make a perfect film I would say! It has everything. Adventure parts are like Indiana Jones on steroids. Combats and hand-to-hand fighting between various persons. Mysterious stuff like Miles Teg gaining super powers. And sex! Wild sex and lot's of it!:)
Finally Chapterhouse of Dune. It would probably also make a great movie but not so great as Heretics. Allthough there's more sex in Chapterhouse than in Heretics...
For some reason this came to my mind instantly when I read the summary (in the sound of Hubert J. Farnsworth) "Yes, yes, let's all break the law and buy upgrade versions and use it against the license."
Just a wild speculation. I'm not an expert on this.
If you are standing apart from the event, some light year(s) away, you can calculate the distance between objects by simple trigonometry. But if you are standing inside the event horizon... If there is no dimensions how can one measure distances?:)
Nope. PDF is a pretty good format for publishing documents that aren't to be edited anymore. And when everything else is published in PDF I don't see any issue here.
If you really want to prepare for a career in programming, you need something that'll introduce you to clueless customers
What really helped me in the early years was that I made a website for myself, about myself. I coded it myself from bottom up and didn't use any stuff you can find in the internet. This showed that I can actually write code that works. I also wrote some code snippets in my "code archive". I think half of those didn't work well and other half didn't have any usefull purpose but at least I had something to show.
I also wrote some personal stuff there too, about my hobbies and such. This is important if you want to find good employee. Bad ones doesn't care much about anything that isn't closely related to coding and making profit. They push and push you until you get burn out and then they find another code-monkey for themselves. Good ones takes care of you so that you can work for them years.
So when I went to interview I had all the normal papers with me, CV, references and such. When we were nearing the end of the interview I said something like "Hey, you don't happen to have internet connection on your PC? There's some stuff on my personal web page which I think you might find interesting. Here's the address...". I think in most of the cases the interviewer was positively surprised by this and the discussion started to change in my favor so that I was the one leading the discussion, not the interviewer. And that's the point where you know you just got the job:)
Yes but EULA is a End User License. Is he the End User? Hell no! He isn't even playing the game, players are. I think Blizzard would have more legal ground suing the actual players who are using the bot.
How do you know it is your screen you are looking at?;)
But seriously, information can be stolen by just looking at your computer screen. Add a video recorder between your USB stick and monitor. No need to hack the operating system, hardware, password etc. All the emails you read can be read by others.
For home use... I'm not sure if that is such a good idea either. If you can already stuff your favorite OS to USB stick with your documents, just plug that in to your brother's computer and reset the computer. Or there could be some system which enables you to switch between operating systems like VMWare does, but in the hardware level.
I think there is something in your idea but it needs a little more thought.
Yep. I live in Finland and use TeliaSonera (or Surina (noise/buzz is english) as we call it) ADSL and can't reach Groklaw. Unfortunately I live in an area where TS is the only choice as ISP.
But luckily I live in an area where TS isn't disconnecting their phone lines! Couple of kilometers north from here and you can't get ADSL there anymore.
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So there is a lot to discover then...
I keep hearing this that if you give more money to research in this field new inventions will come but I'm really skeptic about this. Is there any actual proof that X amount of money leads to Y amount of inventions and X+1 leads to Y+1?
I mean, let's take medicines for example. I was listening to a speech kept by a highly respected professor in the field of healthcare here in Finland. He told about a curious theory which said that if you give more and more money to medicine research at some point it turns against on people. Healthcare starts to harm people.
I have wife, a kid, another one coming, 2 dogs, friends and hobbies. I don't have fricking time to learn new things at home.
And when has it been employers duty to develop his skills on his own time? It costs money to buy books and take classes. My employee doesn't pay me for stuff I do at my own time. If they want me to learn new things, they fricking well have to send me to some class or training course which they pay for themselves. It's usually considered as an investement to the employer and that way it benefits the whole company.
I could write hours and hours about what's wrong in IT business now a days, at least where I live. But I don't have time and my english isn't so good that I could explain myself clearly. And besides I have more important things to do than sit in front of computer like take my wife out for dinner :)
But it does ask for a admin password if you are running with user privileges, which you should do in the first place. Users still running Vista with admin account (or UAC off) should be shot in the face.
Now why an earth I would want to watch BluRay movies from a tiny little VGA connected monitor when I have standalone player and 32" television for that?
What's with this DRM I keep hearing about? I'm currently listening "Sepultura - Desperate Cry.MP3" with my computer running Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows Media Player with no DRM what so ever. Before that I watched "Futurama S4E1.avi" using the same WMP. I must be doing something wrong here...
Well, Windows already does that. If file came from internet zone, Windows prompts you whwn you try to execute it. You must specifically tell Windows that it is OK to run the program.
I just made a little test. I emailed me executable file as attachement. Mail came via our corporate Exchange server and I opened it with Outlook (not Express). Outlook tells me: Outlook blocked access to the following potentially unsafe attachements: foo.exe
I renamed the file to foo.jpg.exe and resent it. Outlook still blocked it. I think there's some option in Outlook that allows me to open the attachement and run the executable but I can't find it...
So I'm not sure what MS can do about this. If administrator opens EXE files on production server (s)he should be publicly flogged and denounced.
For a right amount of cash I can remember anything you like.
Well I'm not sure since luckily I don't have account at Sampo but what I've heard is that they use only user ID and password. No password lists or anything.
But thanks to the XSS vulnerability it doesn't really matter :)
You live in Finland and haven't heard Sampo bank's issues? What I've heard they don't use those changing confirmation codes anymore. And there was/is (I don't know if they have fixed those) a tons of security holes on their new website where a clever XSS attack leads to MITM situation.
I started digging their website a bit after I read from papers that there is XSS hole a size of elephant on their site. I composed (in my mind only, I'm not a criminal) couple of attacks where I could empty victim's bank account and user wouldn't even know it because browser is technically roaming in Sampo's domain and using their certificate.
Sampo's stance was that this is totally user's own fault, user is using "old computer" and Sampo was willing to give 100 euros to customers who would buy a new one. This is total BS of course. The age of the computer doesn't affect this, nor does the name of the Operating System or the browser.
Back to the article. In Sampo's case I would say that the bank is the one to blame. Their website is a disaster waiting to happen. In any other case like Osuuspankki, Optia etc. it is different. Bank can't and aren't allowed to watch people's computers so it is up to user to make sure that their PCs aren't compromised.
Well, with enough BS the Year of the Desktop Linux could actually come.
Could it be that while some people were implementing Vista, others were already designing Windows 7?
While God Emperor of Dune is probably the best book in the serie, in my opinion of course, it would make terrible film. I mean 2 hours of discussions between Leto II and Moneo/Duncan/Hwi. There's no adventure, which was the central idea of Golden Path. Just one action scene, Fish Speakers vs Face Dancers in the city of Onn. Then little romance between Leto II and Hwi and finally a big end.
But Heretics of Dune would make a perfect film I would say! It has everything. Adventure parts are like Indiana Jones on steroids. Combats and hand-to-hand fighting between various persons. Mysterious stuff like Miles Teg gaining super powers. And sex! Wild sex and lot's of it! :)
Finally Chapterhouse of Dune. It would probably also make a great movie but not so great as Heretics. Allthough there's more sex in Chapterhouse than in Heretics...
Brian Herbert's sequal? God no!
For some reason this came to my mind instantly when I read the summary (in the sound of Hubert J. Farnsworth) "Yes, yes, let's all break the law and buy upgrade versions and use it against the license."
Afraid? I'm praying for it! And Cthulhu. Which one comes first.
Just a wild speculation. I'm not an expert on this.
If you are standing apart from the event, some light year(s) away, you can calculate the distance between objects by simple trigonometry. But if you are standing inside the event horizon... If there is no dimensions how can one measure distances? :)
Nope. PDF is a pretty good format for publishing documents that aren't to be edited anymore. And when everything else is published in PDF I don't see any issue here.
What really helped me in the early years was that I made a website for myself, about myself. I coded it myself from bottom up and didn't use any stuff you can find in the internet. This showed that I can actually write code that works. I also wrote some code snippets in my "code archive". I think half of those didn't work well and other half didn't have any usefull purpose but at least I had something to show.
I also wrote some personal stuff there too, about my hobbies and such. This is important if you want to find good employee. Bad ones doesn't care much about anything that isn't closely related to coding and making profit. They push and push you until you get burn out and then they find another code-monkey for themselves. Good ones takes care of you so that you can work for them years.
So when I went to interview I had all the normal papers with me, CV, references and such. When we were nearing the end of the interview I said something like "Hey, you don't happen to have internet connection on your PC? There's some stuff on my personal web page which I think you might find interesting. Here's the address...". I think in most of the cases the interviewer was positively surprised by this and the discussion started to change in my favor so that I was the one leading the discussion, not the interviewer. And that's the point where you know you just got the job :)
That was copied from Mirc.
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Quite easily. Ask WMI. It knows a lot of stuff going on and under your Windows setup.
Yes but EULA is a End User License. Is he the End User? Hell no! He isn't even playing the game, players are. I think Blizzard would have more legal ground suing the actual players who are using the bot.
How do you know it is your screen you are looking at? ;)
But seriously, information can be stolen by just looking at your computer screen. Add a video recorder between your USB stick and monitor. No need to hack the operating system, hardware, password etc. All the emails you read can be read by others.
For home use... I'm not sure if that is such a good idea either. If you can already stuff your favorite OS to USB stick with your documents, just plug that in to your brother's computer and reset the computer. Or there could be some system which enables you to switch between operating systems like VMWare does, but in the hardware level.
I think there is something in your idea but it needs a little more thought.
Yep. I live in Finland and use TeliaSonera (or Surina (noise/buzz is english) as we call it) ADSL and can't reach Groklaw. Unfortunately I live in an area where TS is the only choice as ISP.
But luckily I live in an area where TS isn't disconnecting their phone lines! Couple of kilometers north from here and you can't get ADSL there anymore.
You are absolutely right. If someone were to install XP or Linux on my laptop it would fly ... out of the window.