But in a more mundane sphere it's economic
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Perhaps there is little worry about 'cyberwarfare' but it is always important to understand that all governments utilize their intelligence services to conduct industrial espionage. In fact some services like France's publish that as a key objective, publically. The PRC is far more likely to be engaged in penetrating economic assets than military assets.
Does this shock you? These are the people who said money is speech and corporations have the same rights as people. Ain't radical libertarian Randian capitalism great?!?!?!
All hail Bush! The Maximum Leader For Life!
Re:The optimal state of any linear game is a draw
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Then the analysis of Awari is flawed since there is a turn and only a finite number of possible states that occur after the first turn regardless of the next move.
The optimal state of any linear game is a draw
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So what. The optimal outcome of two perfectly matched chess players is draw. For checkers, Go, gipf and just about any game where it is only possible to make one move at a time. I fail to see the elegant insight of this.
More complex games that are non linear and have multiple simultaneous gaming moves will not end in draw even with two perfectly matched opponent groups because of the effect of moves that only partially account for one another. Bridge comes close to such a game.
No really, don't laugh. Who cares how it's engineered. It's how it is supported and fixed that's crititcal. Your software forces you to make an assumption about it's reliability. So assume that MS code has low reliability and move from there.
The real problem is that MS the vendor choses not to deal these problems with any sense of urgency or permanence. I swear it's like being forced to eat green beans and hear about starving children in Asia. Beyond some point it's hard to care or worry about it when you know that your parent doesn't really plan to deal with it.
I mean if I believed in the flat earth it's all a conspiracy of the gubmint, the masons, the illuminati-bilberg group-zog theories then I would have to assume that this is a hoax too!! It stands to reason you can't reason your way over paranoia.
It's clearly a case of optimal disoptimization. You hold patents not because your idea is particularly valuable but because other developers with equally mediocre ideas hold patents and use that to attack others. You could hold a copyright but that's only useful if everyone holds copyrights. The first time someone holds a patent among copyright holders that person is the big gun. So everyone else has to arm themselves as well because the big gun will use the gun against everyone else and your only protection is either to attack the big gun and hope for the best or be coopted by the big gun and attack everyone else who doesn't have a big gun.
In this day an age patents really don't protect anyone because that is not the purpose they serve. They are the economic entry fee to the market. The financial hurdle over which a developer must hurdle to have something worth selling. Either you buy a patent or you sell one. That is what they do and that is all they do.
And the revolution begins to eat its own children
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I couldn't be happier. I would love to see the DMCA result in an enormous shift of capital from one bunch of pirates to another and collapse the whole so called software industry as a result. Watching self righteous bullies like Warnock and whomever replaced him squirm is the best news I've heard all week. My God if any software company annointed itself the bearer of standards for the whole fucking world, it's been Adobe. I would love to see Acrobat and its shitty document handling banished from earth. The only thing it really exists for is to create uneditable documents like that's some fucking holy grail upon which to dictate terms to the rest of us.
C'mon people - no one thinks you're talking to the special commando force perched in the Huey just because you hold it sideways away from and in front of, your face. You just look retarded.
However efficient it is financially for the carriers if they insist on making everything more expensive and more unpleasant - that is unless people really don't mind paying for their own cavity searches then the carriers will whither and die.
So when you're the internal auditor and your job is to find this stuff it would be one way to check on it. Also it's good to run something like this coupled with an alerting engine so that when/if something goes wrong the right people are told about it.
For shrugging off a command to open up and take everyting out of his wallet. He did it but his verbal response was "Yeah you got me I keep a rifle in there."
It was on MSNBC I think. Coupled with airlines now charging up to $80 per bag to check the bag if it's over an arbitrary size and basically what you have is an industry that is committed to committing suicide. At this rate there will be 1 or 2 Long Distance Airlines that only carry passengers overseas or long distances from coast to coast or internationally outside of western Europe. And everyone else will do anything but fly, which will costs thousands of dollars anyway.
It will be a return to the 1930's except we don't have trains in the US anymore so everyone will drive in Federally mandated 8 MPG land arks - one to an SUV by law. Once in a great while we'll look up and see a jet and it will seem as strange as seeing a hot air balloon or the Concorde today.
Ok don't take my word for it. Why do you think that only physical assets are the ones that are threatened? Do you honestly believe that law enforcement systems when splashed wouldn't have an adverse effect on the state of things? How about interbank lending systems? How about aircraft maintenance service record databases? About 100 trillion dollars, that's right, with a T, flow through world financial systems on a daily basis. How MAJORLY a big deal is it to disrupt 3% of that.
We're not talking about minimal protections we're talking about the cost to implement large scale protections on very large systems that are owned by commercial companies who make judgments on how they want to spend their own money. That is, in lieu of insurance dollars.
It's time to grow up pal and see how large institutions really manage and measure risk and stop thinking about technical feasibility; majorly, speaking, that is.
I do this for a living and while the world is filled with urban myths and apocryphal stories the risk is real. Every day sites are knocked over or D0S'd or rendered crippled in some way. Most of them are commercial sites or consumer sites but none the less every site is at some risk and many of them fail every single day.
We host government sites that get hammered at 24-7. We host exchanges that someone is trying to break. We host DBs and catalogs that have all sorts of 'risk acceptances' documented all clear and pretty where the customer basically says "yeah I know it's a piece of shit but I'm not paying to fix it so just tell the auditors we're willing to accept the risk."
OK so the proverbial air traffic control system or water treatment plant system or nuclear reactor cooling subsystem hasn't been nuked yet.....
Find and organization that encourages Telecommuting and it won't matter what job you have. My org does this and everyone from developers to project managers to secretaries can be remote if they desire. I am not only remote but I have a very nonstandard workday; pretty much whatever I want whether it's 2am or 9-5. I have never met most of the people in my department and many of them are remote as well.
Teachers are too busy keeping dirty pictures and bad words out of their impressionable wittle hands to actually use computers for any valuable purpose, whatever that is. AFAIK the primary use of computers in schools is to replace the physical assets of libraries and books. Oh and it replaces actual teaching skill on the staff's part.
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Perhaps there is little worry about 'cyberwarfare' but it is always important to understand that all governments utilize their intelligence services to conduct industrial espionage. In fact some services like France's publish that as a key objective, publically. The PRC is far more likely to be engaged in penetrating economic assets than military assets.
Does this shock you? These are the people who said money is speech and corporations have the same rights as people. Ain't radical libertarian Randian capitalism great?!?!?!
All hail Bush! The Maximum Leader For Life!
Then the analysis of Awari is flawed since there is a turn and only a finite number of possible states that occur after the first turn regardless of the next move.
So what. The optimal outcome of two perfectly matched chess players is draw. For checkers, Go, gipf and just about any game where it is only possible to make one move at a time. I fail to see the elegant insight of this.
More complex games that are non linear and have multiple simultaneous gaming moves will not end in draw even with two perfectly matched opponent groups because of the effect of moves that only partially account for one another. Bridge comes close to such a game.
No really, don't laugh. Who cares how it's engineered. It's how it is supported and fixed that's crititcal. Your software forces you to make an assumption about it's reliability. So assume that MS code has low reliability and move from there.
The real problem is that MS the vendor choses not to deal these problems with any sense of urgency or permanence. I swear it's like being forced to eat green beans and hear about starving children in Asia. Beyond some point it's hard to care or worry about it when you know that your parent doesn't really plan to deal with it.
I mean if I believed in the flat earth it's all a conspiracy of the gubmint, the masons, the illuminati-bilberg group-zog theories then I would have to assume that this is a hoax too!! It stands to reason you can't reason your way over paranoia.
It's clearly a case of optimal disoptimization. You hold patents not because your idea is particularly valuable but because other developers with equally mediocre ideas hold patents and use that to attack others. You could hold a copyright but that's only useful if everyone holds copyrights. The first time someone holds a patent among copyright holders that person is the big gun. So everyone else has to arm themselves as well because the big gun will use the gun against everyone else and your only protection is either to attack the big gun and hope for the best or be coopted by the big gun and attack everyone else who doesn't have a big gun.
In this day an age patents really don't protect anyone because that is not the purpose they serve. They are the economic entry fee to the market. The financial hurdle over which a developer must hurdle to have something worth selling. Either you buy a patent or you sell one. That is what they do and that is all they do.
I couldn't be happier. I would love to see the DMCA result in an enormous shift of capital from one bunch of pirates to another and collapse the whole so called software industry as a result. Watching self righteous bullies like Warnock and whomever replaced him squirm is the best news I've heard all week. My God if any software company annointed itself the bearer of standards for the whole fucking world, it's been Adobe. I would love to see Acrobat and its shitty document handling banished from earth. The only thing it really exists for is to create uneditable documents like that's some fucking holy grail upon which to dictate terms to the rest of us.
Screw them and fontmanagers they rode in on.
C'mon people - no one thinks you're talking to the special commando force perched in the Huey just because you hold it sideways away from and in front of, your face. You just look retarded.
-and I'm a fucking retard.
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Hiii Carly !!!
Yeah, I hit rock bottom the day I woke up and decided to tear our PC's in half and sell them for 3x the old price.
However efficient it is financially for the carriers if they insist on making everything more expensive and more unpleasant - that is unless people really don't mind paying for their own cavity searches then the carriers will whither and die.
So when you're the internal auditor and your job is to find this stuff it would be one way to check on it. Also it's good to run something like this coupled with an alerting engine so that when/if something goes wrong the right people are told about it.
For shrugging off a command to open up and take everyting out of his wallet. He did it but his verbal response was "Yeah you got me I keep a rifle in there."
It was on MSNBC I think. Coupled with airlines now charging up to $80 per bag to check the bag if it's over an arbitrary size and basically what you have is an industry that is committed to committing suicide. At this rate there will be 1 or 2 Long Distance Airlines that only carry passengers overseas or long distances from coast to coast or internationally outside of western Europe. And everyone else will do anything but fly, which will costs thousands of dollars anyway.
It will be a return to the 1930's except we don't have trains in the US anymore so everyone will drive in Federally mandated 8 MPG land arks - one to an SUV by law. Once in a great while we'll look up and see a jet and it will seem as strange as seeing a hot air balloon or the Concorde today.
Honestly this whole week is a /. "Everything in the whole world is shit, I alone am great and all knowning" moment.
This used to be such a nice neighborhood how it's just a skater wannabe strip mall.
when I read this I thought, gee did a big net bring down the WTC?
Oh you're right, everything's perfect. Let's go back to playing Quake. Don't worry your daddy's portfolio can keep you in the style to which.
Ok don't take my word for it. Why do you think that only physical assets are the ones that are threatened? Do you honestly believe that law enforcement systems when splashed wouldn't have an adverse effect on the state of things? How about interbank lending systems? How about aircraft maintenance service record databases? About 100 trillion dollars, that's right, with a T, flow through world financial systems on a daily basis. How MAJORLY a big deal is it to disrupt 3% of that.
We're not talking about minimal protections we're talking about the cost to implement large scale protections on very large systems that are owned by commercial companies who make judgments on how they want to spend their own money. That is, in lieu of insurance dollars.
It's time to grow up pal and see how large institutions really manage and measure risk and stop thinking about technical feasibility; majorly, speaking, that is.
I do this for a living and while the world is filled with urban myths and apocryphal stories the risk is real. Every day sites are knocked over or D0S'd or rendered crippled in some way. Most of them are commercial sites or consumer sites but none the less every site is at some risk and many of them fail every single day.
We host government sites that get hammered at 24-7. We host exchanges that someone is trying to break. We host DBs and catalogs that have all sorts of 'risk acceptances' documented all clear and pretty where the customer basically says "yeah I know it's a piece of shit but I'm not paying to fix it so just tell the auditors we're willing to accept the risk."
OK so the proverbial air traffic control system or water treatment plant system or nuclear reactor cooling subsystem hasn't been nuked yet.....
Sleep tight boys and girls, the future is bright.
I wish they were I know a few people who could use the work. We [u]just[/u] laid off about 15,000.
Find and organization that encourages Telecommuting and it won't matter what job you have. My org does this and everyone from developers to project managers to secretaries can be remote if they desire. I am not only remote but I have a very nonstandard workday; pretty much whatever I want whether it's 2am or 9-5. I have never met most of the people in my department and many of them are remote as well.
Hey guys and girls; take your 'leet hats off for a second and think.
It's about product DISTRIBUTION, SERVICE AND SUPPORT. It's about UPGRADES, PACKAGING AND BUGFIX. It's about NOTIFICATION, PROCESS AND BIDDING.
Can You Dig It, Can You Dig It? Caaaannn Yooooouuu Diiiig Iiiiiiiit.
because they can use open source source code that doesn't have the requirements of MS code therefore they can use older hardware.
Why is this a distince degree? It would seem to be self limiting, yes?
"I'm sorry but the job opening is for advanced networking design, I'm afraid that only wireless won't cut it"
The new Sony Vaio U1 ultrasmall notebook machines are the Cat's Ass!
http://www.dynamism.com/u1/index.shtml
Real PC Real Small: 29 oz And that's ok because if your PDA doesn't actually fit in your pocket it doesn't matter how large it really is.
Teachers are too busy keeping dirty pictures and bad words out of their impressionable wittle hands to actually use computers for any valuable purpose, whatever that is. AFAIK the primary use of computers in schools is to replace the physical assets of libraries and books. Oh and it replaces actual teaching skill on the staff's part.