With Java the programmer is counting question marks in the SQL query and saying "Associate the 7th question mark with the number 4247", an action that will introduce a bug into the program as soon as the SQL query is modified (since now the 7th question mark has been moved to become the 8th question mark in the query).
Although I am a fan of java I have to agree on the above criticism. Surely there must be possible to build an SQL statement without all those question marks. You dont need them in clean SQL so why do you REALLY need them when calling a statement from java. (I know, I know, you need to delineate fields- well lets make a more elegant field delineator)
Brian Behlendorf started collecting patches to be applied to the last version of NCSA. The initial versions of Apache are available primarily as a series of patches. Hence, initially, the name Apache, as it was "a patchy server". At least, so the legend goes.
I guess we shouldnt preclude a good slashdot article on the basis that it is in a language that we dont understand (although it does make browsing the links from a story a little less exciting)
My point was to a certain extent as follows: Why so many german articles lately(as opposed to portugese, mandarin, polish or russian for ex.)?
Additionally I hereby offer my translation services for all Norwegian words, and for the record, I dont consider anybody asking for clarifiction about something they dont know to be stupid.
There has been a lot of German links on slashdot lately- not so nice for us non-german-speaking slashdotters.
Before I am accused of being an ignorant, intolerant idiot. Let it be known that I am a multi linguist, who believes in international peace and love!!
However, english is the nearest thing we have to a "platform independant" language on our planet and I, for one, would like to see slashdot links in a language accessable to all slashdotters (english).
People who get off on seeing co-workers fired are a desperately sad bunch. I suspect the author of the article is among them
In the case of the hospital, patient records must, by law, be kept confidential. Additionally as human beings we must respect the emotions and dignity of others, which means that health problems are private. Therefore redundancy, or at least strong a reprimand, is an appropriate course of action for an employee who violates patient privacy.
In the case of the private company I think that it is sad that the author would like to see an employee put out of work for attempting to access a financial report. It appears that the justification for this is that the user and pass for the report came from an email to somebody in "management" (those in management apparently being sacred)
I wonder if the same action would be taken against somebody in management who looked at the emails of their secretary...
I suspect not
Its bad enough that injustice and double standards in the workplace are encouraged by those at the top. But when sys-admin "collaborators" in the rank and file seem to enjoy putting their coworkers out of a job (either for selfish gain, or blind vindictiveness) it is particularly distasteful.
It may seem like it makes more sense to use a DNA style encoding scheme over a binary scheme. Or to put it another way- a Base 4 encoding system instead of a Base 2 (a DNA node having 4 possible values while a binary bit has 2 possible values).
The problem is that when storing data, the most basic form of all information is the boolean- true or 1, vs false or 0. If a system has sufficient dexterity to determine the difference between the nucleotides A,T,C or G, then that implies memory redundancy as A,T,C or G could be broken down into smaller constituent parts. To put it another way- if you have to determine atomic differences to work out if a particular molecule is A, T, C or G then you are at the lowest level counting the presence or absence of various sub atomic particles- which IS A BINARY PROCESS.
but lets for a moment accept that there may be a world beyond binary, base 2 encoding- we humans use base 10 after all!! DNA seems a little limited at base 4 (yes, yes I know that there a really much more nucleotides than the 4 basic ones, but lets keep it simple here!!) why not go the whole hog and find a medium that enables base 1000 or even greater...
Biological hardware would certainly have many benefits, but the encoding would always be binary, and therefore DNA would not be best suited to this purpose
As covered in slashdot and elsewhere, openBSD was being funded for 20 months by DARPA (that shady branch of the US military who originally invented the internet). Funding was eventually pulled after pro-peace comments from the (canadian) project leader, Theo de Raadt, 4 months early. It also had something to do with the hackathon convention he organised... maybe, DARPA has not officially commented.
openBSD is of course reputed to be the most secure open source operating system.
I think that it seems a little weird that the US military is on the one hand acting very anti opensouce, while on the other- it is actively funding its development.
Additionally, I have seen one or two "discovery channel" type documentaries in recent months that have filmed computer terminals inside US military installations. There was no doubt that the personnel were running Unix, although the exact flavour remained unclear- but could it be openBSD...?
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-after all, the gameboy advance was essentially designed as a scaled down SNES
erm.. I think the parent poster was being ironic about telnet "working fine"
Its always a bug waiting to happen
Now, where did I put that copy of Easy Rider,,,
another catch is that it is only available for windows...
SCO has airbrushed his RED HAT out- some significance perhaps...?
I guess we shouldnt preclude a good slashdot article on the basis that it is in a language that we dont understand (although it does make browsing the links from a story a little less exciting)
My point was to a certain extent as follows: Why so many german articles lately(as opposed to portugese, mandarin, polish or russian for ex.)?
Additionally I hereby offer my translation services for all Norwegian words, and for the record, I dont consider anybody asking for clarifiction about something they dont know to be stupid.
Before I am accused of being an ignorant, intolerant idiot. Let it be known that I am a multi linguist, who believes in international peace and love!!
However, english is the nearest thing we have to a "platform independant" language on our planet and I, for one, would like to see slashdot links in a language accessable to all slashdotters (english).
To be arrogant you have to be in a dominant position in the first place.
Suse is at present wanabe big player, not a big player in the linux world
All hail the fat bearded one
All hail the fat bearded one
That is all.
In the case of the hospital, patient records must, by law, be kept confidential. Additionally as human beings we must respect the emotions and dignity of others, which means that health problems are private. Therefore redundancy, or at least strong a reprimand, is an appropriate course of action for an employee who violates patient privacy.
In the case of the private company I think that it is sad that the author would like to see an employee put out of work for attempting to access a financial report. It appears that the justification for this is that the user and pass for the report came from an email to somebody in "management" (those in management apparently being sacred)
I wonder if the same action would be taken against somebody in management who looked at the emails of their secretary...
I suspect not
Its bad enough that injustice and double standards in the workplace are encouraged by those at the top. But when sys-admin "collaborators" in the rank and file seem to enjoy putting their coworkers out of a job (either for selfish gain, or blind vindictiveness) it is particularly distasteful.
The problem is that when storing data, the most basic form of all information is the boolean- true or 1, vs false or 0. If a system has sufficient dexterity to determine the difference between the nucleotides A,T,C or G, then that implies memory redundancy as A,T,C or G could be broken down into smaller constituent parts. To put it another way- if you have to determine atomic differences to work out if a particular molecule is A, T, C or G then you are at the lowest level counting the presence or absence of various sub atomic particles- which IS A BINARY PROCESS.
but lets for a moment accept that there may be a world beyond binary, base 2 encoding- we humans use base 10 after all!! DNA seems a little limited at base 4 (yes, yes I know that there a really much more nucleotides than the 4 basic ones, but lets keep it simple here!!) why not go the whole hog and find a medium that enables base 1000 or even greater...
Biological hardware would certainly have many benefits, but the encoding would always be binary, and therefore DNA would not be best suited to this purpose
openBSD is of course reputed to be the most secure open source operating system.
I think that it seems a little weird that the US military is on the one hand acting very anti opensouce, while on the other- it is actively funding its development.
Additionally, I have seen one or two "discovery channel" type documentaries in recent months that have filmed computer terminals inside US military installations. There was no doubt that the personnel were running Unix, although the exact flavour remained unclear- but could it be openBSD...?