Nah, they just need to steal more so they become revolutionaries or businessmen.
"One lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns"- The Godfather.
When my family says, "Dylan is in computers," they don't know anything about what I do. I'm not an IT guy, so when my friends call with problems, they get a boilerplate attempt at fixing it, and a subsequent blow off if it didn't work. My family gets 5 hours, after which I throw up my hands and leave....
Making that assumption is good form, but it's not exactly the best way to do things. Sometimes the problem is something you can't quite see, can't look at in the right way, and if you're a programmer normally hardware might mystify you. Not me, but I've met those who are that way.
I've never heard this term used before and would like to know what it means. Would someone please update wikipedia for me?
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Isn't there going to be a point, though, where credit card companies start losing enough money that they are required to do more defense? I mean, one looks at all the personality fraud going on, and the people who end up paying the bill for SOME (not all, but some) of it are the big corporations like Visa and AmEx. Did anyone else notice the big push of 'your credit card companies are protecting you' ads over last year? In the US at least, there's an umbrella for consumers becoming consumers unwillingly due to the companies' inability to actually do detailed checks on people. Is there less intrusive (read: Consumer Friendly) technology being developed to combat identity fraud? Why yes, yes there is.
You're forgetting that even the least clueless are subject to this crap, and since they are someone's losing money hand over fist. Someone else is trying to make the money loser happy by pushing towards him losing LESS money. Capitalism sucks a lot, but here I think it might actually work.
Meanwhile, of course, thank you for posting on Slashdot and I'm having a great time in Aruba.
Google goes along the 'new economy' lines of thinking. If they make money as a company, everyone benefits, and since everyone benefits everyone stays and works together to benefit more. Think about working in a big corporation where it was a huge team, and everyone loved working there.
Done dreaming? Well, that's what GOOG wants to sell themselves as. If there were a company which had no politics, no minor empires, little ambition but to do a good job, and everyone was going to have enough for sure, that would be ideal. Collaboration is in the corporation's interest, and the interest of all the individuals involved because they all gain and feel their contributions are recognized and rewarded.
This is why people want a job at Google, not because they get time to develop what they want, but because the corporate culture is more open. As I develop Access VBScript to interact with FoxPro databases and wait for some moron to install Business Objects and give me enough access to the data mart to do the worthless Monthly Record Review reports noone looks at except to gauge their bonuses, (I am in QA) I think more and more that I want a job where I've got that kind of freedom, that kind of collaboration, that kind of workplace.
It's like being in the 90's all over again, only this time they're able to put the bar that much higher, and I wish I made the cut.
I have to say, an advanced tweaking guide isn't really news at this point - if you want it, you go google it. (Or microsoft it, on msdn, liek l33t winhax0rze should) This seems more like a plug for someone's website to me.
You can't help but respect someone who knows what they want - a spike in the wheel of something designed to be useful.
One is reminded of the story of the engineer who wrote a bill to a railroad out for $1000 (when it meant something) for a hammer tap that started a train. "The bill is for knowing where to tap."
This man has found a place to tap that sends the train where he wants, good luck to him.
And an incredible good time in the fires of Hades.
The Susan Crawford blog made an important distinction. This is a case in which trade secrets have been divulged, hence the breaking of an NDA. NOT a blogger doing what would be referred to as 'journalism' but a blogger exposing trade secrets to the world. This is slightly different, if not much different.
Someone whistleblowing on Enron should get and deserves more protection than someone talking about, in this case, Apple's newest ad campaign. One is important in all respects to our society, and the other is just upshowing for upshowing's sake.
I agree with the whole idea of keeping bloggers safe, but this - in the basic form - is not protection even journalists would expect. "We at Wired convinced an Intel employee to publish for us the source code of the ICE compiler directives. Here it is." is what this should be compared to, not, "This is Ken Leigh's unknown employee's videotape of him sodomizing an intern's poor little doggie."
One is more impressive, and both (well, as far as I'm concerned) should be legal... However, one is legal and the other isn't, mainly because when you work for Intel you sign an NDA. Of course, the way government is going you sign an NDA to work there, too, and that's probably one of the biggest problems with the way we're starting to do things in the US.
As a noob without Unix coding experience, it's even harder - you don't even know what the different flavors MEAN or how to run all the tools to install them, let alone how to get it up and running and install your stupid PCMCIA card or video drivers.
Maybe I'm an idiot, maybe I'm an incompetent, but it's likely I'm more competent than 90% of the people out there.
This doesn't mention that all the timing and stack styles could probably be modified to change the way they communicate and mask these fingerprints... I don't know how it's done, but that seems moderately important. Really, it seems like this could be more of a bonus to people looking for the clueless. It's not the spammer-hunting tool for the new millenia that I'd love to see developed and used.
Bloggers might not, but the Museum of Modern Art or the RIAA or the MPAA might, were Google to start caching songs / videos in small amounts for video searching. Could bring a lot of copyright issues into play that shouldn't be in play at all.
Fear that. Who knew? The first two posts were about how pr0n and its sub-par affiliates aren't on the list.
Slashdot is becoming mainstream and I don't like it. People used to flame me for being an idiot, and that was good - I am.
boobies, just for good measure, mod points, karma, and depressive meaning.
Interesting addendum to that question - Is Google infringing upon copyrighted information by caching EVERY page they run across? That seems like pulling massive amounts of copyrighted Java code or design code or images or etc. into their server for 'personal' use...? Does this break any laws?
"If he happens to need to jump out of the aircraft, he DOES have the GPS watch Richard Branson gave him just in case he's stranded in the middle of the Pacific somewhere"
Because anything that can keep me that angry for that long makes me produce more heat, noise, piles of hair upon my desk, and sheer nervous energy while wondering if it will work properly.
This is a great, in detail, highly effective answer, for those who know how a makefile works. I, for one, don't. I'd love to, but I just don't want to put hundreds of hours into learning to manage a non-intuitive system. In making your point, you have proved mine. Messing with Linux is like playing in a huge pile of sand - as long as you know how to build a sandbox from the ground ground up, or do without, you're just fine. But if you just want a sandbox and don't know how to build one, you either go to the beach, or hire a contractor to put one in, or take the easiest course.... Hiring a contractor is expensive and going to the beach is not so convenient. So just buying a plastic kiddie pool, some sand at Home Depot, and calling it good enough. This is Microsoft software's customer base. What I want is, since this is software and not sandboxes, to be able to go out to Home Depot, get the mahogany and gold sandbox I always dreamed of my kids having, take it home, and throw it in the backyard for the same price.
Just the way I look at how Linux affects me as a standard half-techie end user. You talk about package management and how there are like fifty ways to do it, my eyes glaze over and say, "What?" Windows Update is easy to use and centralized and I could figure it out in less than five minutes. I'm sorry I'm such an idiot to prioritize my time differently but learning to be what is considered an "intelligent" linux user takes so much more time and processor power than learning to be an "intelligent" Microsoft user. Even basic the basic 'competence' bar is set too high. Are you using LILO or GRUB? I am using the blue one. KDE or Gnome or Linspire or Enlightenment? Whatever comes with Red Hat/ Mandrake. What makes Linux so unappealing to so many people (including myself) is how fast it can roll over on top of you into an all-consuming hobby you don't understand completely and eventually abandon.
I know I'm simplistic in some ways, but at some level pragmatism comes into it. I don't mean to bitch about something free, but if you REALLY wanted Linux to become something anyone could use and therefore make it easier for your friends, family, etc, to use Linux.
I note that Ubuntu does a lot of this already, but my original point was that if a big company like IBM is going to push for Linux to be a real competitor and moneymaker for them, they need to make it easier to use on a basic level. Not for coders - the toughest coders already prefer Linux half the time or more. But for people like me who just want their crap to work. That's the kind of project I respect the most in the linux community - Ubuntu sounds great, but I haven't had inclination to run a new distro since Red Hat sucked so bad for me.
My two bits have now been spent. I'm sorry if I offended you continuously with my stupidity.
Err... good point. Enlightenment is prettier than Windows ever wuz. UI really means package management and installability combined with enough support that I could get my F*ing Linux box up and running again despite being an idiot.
I just want a CD or 5 that I can throw into my parents' crap old Compaq computer, no matter the vendor, walk away from, and never have to touch again. I'd buy 5 IBM's if I knew that the second I pulled them out of the box, plugged them in, and threw in some passwords, I was done. An office setup, (openoffice) a web browser, (firefox) and a box locked up so tight that the only possible changes that could be made to the OS were user interface. Sounds easy to me, really, knowing the UNIX security setup... But every time I install a linux setup, I have to go to command line for SOMETHING, which leads me to MAN pages which leads me to frustration and contempt for my own slow and forgetful mind.
"Options? I have options? Cool! Wait.... they're not checkboxes? Uh."
And develop an easy-install linux that works on virtually every big-vendor box with a good GUI. Something like OSX but free and for that weird instruction set everyone else uses.
*flamebait, kill my karma*
I have a question. Why doesn't the open source community start patenting the things THEY do which are original and not just state-of-the-art? If you patent it and make the patent 'open' - on the level of the GPL 'open' - wouldn't you (I don't write code, I'm just a n00b) suddenly gain in improvements rather regularly which noone could sell and therefore cause as much havoc with software developers and sellers as their patents would cause for you? It seems that this would create space for Open Source to exist as a strong community of its own, with more 'uniqueness' than Microsoft could provide...
I only say this because, well, I know that the Linux coders I have met are just flat-out better coders and more numerous in the research and development fields of programming than Windows coders... If these Linux coders were to patent everything they did that was 'new' and 'original' they would end up patenting more processes and tools simply through outnumbering their opposition.
"Surprising that people don't use more complex searches"
I've noticed that for shopping, simple search means biggest distributor means decent price and accountability. Is this a chicken and egg situation? Is it just a sign of more mainstream-ness to the internet? Anyone else noticed Google just doesn't pop out the best results anymore?
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Nah, they just need to steal more so they become revolutionaries or businessmen. "One lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns"- The Godfather.
When my family says, "Dylan is in computers," they don't know anything about what I do. I'm not an IT guy, so when my friends call with problems, they get a boilerplate attempt at fixing it, and a subsequent blow off if it didn't work. My family gets 5 hours, after which I throw up my hands and leave.... Making that assumption is good form, but it's not exactly the best way to do things. Sometimes the problem is something you can't quite see, can't look at in the right way, and if you're a programmer normally hardware might mystify you. Not me, but I've met those who are that way.
I've never heard this term used before and would like to know what it means. Would someone please update wikipedia for me?
Isn't there going to be a point, though, where credit card companies start losing enough money that they are required to do more defense? I mean, one looks at all the personality fraud going on, and the people who end up paying the bill for SOME (not all, but some) of it are the big corporations like Visa and AmEx. Did anyone else notice the big push of 'your credit card companies are protecting you' ads over last year? In the US at least, there's an umbrella for consumers becoming consumers unwillingly due to the companies' inability to actually do detailed checks on people. Is there less intrusive (read: Consumer Friendly) technology being developed to combat identity fraud? Why yes, yes there is.
You're forgetting that even the least clueless are subject to this crap, and since they are someone's losing money hand over fist. Someone else is trying to make the money loser happy by pushing towards him losing LESS money. Capitalism sucks a lot, but here I think it might actually work.
Meanwhile, of course, thank you for posting on Slashdot and I'm having a great time in Aruba.
Google goes along the 'new economy' lines of thinking. If they make money as a company, everyone benefits, and since everyone benefits everyone stays and works together to benefit more. Think about working in a big corporation where it was a huge team, and everyone loved working there.
Done dreaming? Well, that's what GOOG wants to sell themselves as. If there were a company which had no politics, no minor empires, little ambition but to do a good job, and everyone was going to have enough for sure, that would be ideal. Collaboration is in the corporation's interest, and the interest of all the individuals involved because they all gain and feel their contributions are recognized and rewarded.
This is why people want a job at Google, not because they get time to develop what they want, but because the corporate culture is more open. As I develop Access VBScript to interact with FoxPro databases and wait for some moron to install Business Objects and give me enough access to the data mart to do the worthless Monthly Record Review reports noone looks at except to gauge their bonuses, (I am in QA) I think more and more that I want a job where I've got that kind of freedom, that kind of collaboration, that kind of workplace.
It's like being in the 90's all over again, only this time they're able to put the bar that much higher, and I wish I made the cut.
I have to say, an advanced tweaking guide isn't really news at this point - if you want it, you go google it. (Or microsoft it, on msdn, liek l33t winhax0rze should) This seems more like a plug for someone's website to me.
Did the company pay for your subscription, or do you get to write it off?
You can't help but respect someone who knows what they want - a spike in the wheel of something designed to be useful.
One is reminded of the story of the engineer who wrote a bill to a railroad out for $1000 (when it meant something) for a hammer tap that started a train. "The bill is for knowing where to tap."
This man has found a place to tap that sends the train where he wants, good luck to him.
And an incredible good time in the fires of Hades.
Err... says noone could see anything but their own. Still don't quite trust this answer though. Looks like a setup to me after a second look.
But weren't even applying to go to Harvard?
The Susan Crawford blog made an important distinction. This is a case in which trade secrets have been divulged, hence the breaking of an NDA. NOT a blogger doing what would be referred to as 'journalism' but a blogger exposing trade secrets to the world. This is slightly different, if not much different.
Someone whistleblowing on Enron should get and deserves more protection than someone talking about, in this case, Apple's newest ad campaign. One is important in all respects to our society, and the other is just upshowing for upshowing's sake.
I agree with the whole idea of keeping bloggers safe, but this - in the basic form - is not protection even journalists would expect. "We at Wired convinced an Intel employee to publish for us the source code of the ICE compiler directives. Here it is." is what this should be compared to, not, "This is Ken Leigh's unknown employee's videotape of him sodomizing an intern's poor little doggie."
One is more impressive, and both (well, as far as I'm concerned) should be legal... However, one is legal and the other isn't, mainly because when you work for Intel you sign an NDA. Of course, the way government is going you sign an NDA to work there, too, and that's probably one of the biggest problems with the way we're starting to do things in the US.
As a noob without Unix coding experience, it's even harder - you don't even know what the different flavors MEAN or how to run all the tools to install them, let alone how to get it up and running and install your stupid PCMCIA card or video drivers.
Maybe I'm an idiot, maybe I'm an incompetent, but it's likely I'm more competent than 90% of the people out there.
This doesn't mention that all the timing and stack styles could probably be modified to change the way they communicate and mask these fingerprints... I don't know how it's done, but that seems moderately important. Really, it seems like this could be more of a bonus to people looking for the clueless. It's not the spammer-hunting tool for the new millenia that I'd love to see developed and used.
Bloggers might not, but the Museum of Modern Art or the RIAA or the MPAA might, were Google to start caching songs / videos in small amounts for video searching. Could bring a lot of copyright issues into play that shouldn't be in play at all.
Fear that. Who knew? The first two posts were about how pr0n and its sub-par affiliates aren't on the list.
Slashdot is becoming mainstream and I don't like it. People used to flame me for being an idiot, and that was good - I am.
boobies, just for good measure, mod points, karma, and depressive meaning.
Interesting addendum to that question - Is Google infringing upon copyrighted information by caching EVERY page they run across? That seems like pulling massive amounts of copyrighted Java code or design code or images or etc. into their server for 'personal' use...? Does this break any laws?
"If he happens to need to jump out of the aircraft, he DOES have the GPS watch Richard Branson gave him just in case he's stranded in the middle of the Pacific somewhere"
Because anything that can keep me that angry for that long makes me produce more heat, noise, piles of hair upon my desk, and sheer nervous energy while wondering if it will work properly.
A machine you can put on autopirate and it works! A new generation of AI!
This is a great, in detail, highly effective answer, for those who know how a makefile works. I, for one, don't. I'd love to, but I just don't want to put hundreds of hours into learning to manage a non-intuitive system. In making your point, you have proved mine. Messing with Linux is like playing in a huge pile of sand - as long as you know how to build a sandbox from the ground ground up, or do without, you're just fine. But if you just want a sandbox and don't know how to build one, you either go to the beach, or hire a contractor to put one in, or take the easiest course.... Hiring a contractor is expensive and going to the beach is not so convenient. So just buying a plastic kiddie pool, some sand at Home Depot, and calling it good enough. This is Microsoft software's customer base. What I want is, since this is software and not sandboxes, to be able to go out to Home Depot, get the mahogany and gold sandbox I always dreamed of my kids having, take it home, and throw it in the backyard for the same price.
Just the way I look at how Linux affects me as a standard half-techie end user. You talk about package management and how there are like fifty ways to do it, my eyes glaze over and say, "What?" Windows Update is easy to use and centralized and I could figure it out in less than five minutes. I'm sorry I'm such an idiot to prioritize my time differently but learning to be what is considered an "intelligent" linux user takes so much more time and processor power than learning to be an "intelligent" Microsoft user. Even basic the basic 'competence' bar is set too high. Are you using LILO or GRUB? I am using the blue one. KDE or Gnome or Linspire or Enlightenment? Whatever comes with Red Hat/ Mandrake. What makes Linux so unappealing to so many people (including myself) is how fast it can roll over on top of you into an all-consuming hobby you don't understand completely and eventually abandon.
I know I'm simplistic in some ways, but at some level pragmatism comes into it. I don't mean to bitch about something free, but if you REALLY wanted Linux to become something anyone could use and therefore make it easier for your friends, family, etc, to use Linux.
I note that Ubuntu does a lot of this already, but my original point was that if a big company like IBM is going to push for Linux to be a real competitor and moneymaker for them, they need to make it easier to use on a basic level. Not for coders - the toughest coders already prefer Linux half the time or more. But for people like me who just want their crap to work. That's the kind of project I respect the most in the linux community - Ubuntu sounds great, but I haven't had inclination to run a new distro since Red Hat sucked so bad for me. My two bits have now been spent. I'm sorry if I offended you continuously with my stupidity.
Err... good point. Enlightenment is prettier than Windows ever wuz. UI really means package management and installability combined with enough support that I could get my F*ing Linux box up and running again despite being an idiot. I just want a CD or 5 that I can throw into my parents' crap old Compaq computer, no matter the vendor, walk away from, and never have to touch again. I'd buy 5 IBM's if I knew that the second I pulled them out of the box, plugged them in, and threw in some passwords, I was done. An office setup, (openoffice) a web browser, (firefox) and a box locked up so tight that the only possible changes that could be made to the OS were user interface. Sounds easy to me, really, knowing the UNIX security setup... But every time I install a linux setup, I have to go to command line for SOMETHING, which leads me to MAN pages which leads me to frustration and contempt for my own slow and forgetful mind.
"Options? I have options? Cool! Wait.... they're not checkboxes? Uh."
And develop an easy-install linux that works on virtually every big-vendor box with a good GUI. Something like OSX but free and for that weird instruction set everyone else uses. *flamebait, kill my karma*
I have a question. Why doesn't the open source community start patenting the things THEY do which are original and not just state-of-the-art? If you patent it and make the patent 'open' - on the level of the GPL 'open' - wouldn't you (I don't write code, I'm just a n00b) suddenly gain in improvements rather regularly which noone could sell and therefore cause as much havoc with software developers and sellers as their patents would cause for you? It seems that this would create space for Open Source to exist as a strong community of its own, with more 'uniqueness' than Microsoft could provide...
I only say this because, well, I know that the Linux coders I have met are just flat-out better coders and more numerous in the research and development fields of programming than Windows coders... If these Linux coders were to patent everything they did that was 'new' and 'original' they would end up patenting more processes and tools simply through outnumbering their opposition.
You mean the open source community and Microsoft disagree about something? How'd that happen?
They were getting along so well.
"Surprising that people don't use more complex searches"
I've noticed that for shopping, simple search means biggest distributor means decent price and accountability. Is this a chicken and egg situation? Is it just a sign of more mainstream-ness to the internet? Anyone else noticed Google just doesn't pop out the best results anymore?