...am I the only one here who thinks that the time for satellite data links is pretty much upon us? If stringing data cables under the Med. (or anywhere else for that matter) is such a gawdawful issue then perhaps we need to think more about punting a few more data sats up into orbit as a solution. Granted, the Great Old ones could re-hatch and eat them but that's what we have Hellboy for.
I have to pick up after you (and and don't care who YOU are, I still have to do it.) Paper is a anachronistic, and really not as convenient as you'd like to believe. Not really.
Well, your convenience costs me my time when I have to pick up the remains of it from around my house, and I really have problems with your convenience when I go to my favorite woods in N. Cal. and they are cutting down more trees for your convenience, and so on. As inconvenient as it may be for you, its time to start thinking about how we can use less of your convenience. Period.
Please, lets face the future boldy, and let go of the past. Its time to think seriously about getting rid of paper for things like magazines. Yes, its not going to be as convenient. Never the less; its time. If the online journals offer an option for off-line reading, that will help out a lot I think.
Lots of specific applications are wasteful EXCEPT in their specific application case. I don't think wireless transmission of electricity will replace the current transmission infrastructure anytime soon, but I can certainly see that the usefulness in certain applications will over-ride the waste (cost).
I did some work under an absolute nutcase that insisted I use MVC while writing a wikimedia extension module. I don't get mvc implemented in php to begin with, but when I started getting the idea that he used the pattern for everything he did, I started getting the idea that I worked for a nutcase. Its a useful pattern for sure, but expecting a wrench to fix a problem that requires a hammer, or a screw driver, is a problem, imo.
Ok, I get that Dijkstra was a profound mathematician type. But honestly, with regard to computer science, he just comes off as a fuddy-duddy luddite. I know a few scholars who refuse to use word processing applications to write their papers (one tenured researcher at my work, a phd mathematician well past his prime will only use his old IBM Selectric), regardless of how well they know their productivity could be increased. And I don't want to hear any aesthetic arguments. If I were an employer today I might find such behavior 'quaint', but of no use on my payroll. None. In my opinion he just comes off as an intelligent quack.
I agree in principal with your argument. Perhaps if the Saudis agree to pay protection money? But then, for that matter, why don't the Russians offer the same service. They're running around the sea truckin' it down to Venezuela to play war games with Chavez, they could make a few extra bucks playing the protection racket too.
Agreed. The UN. What a laugh. A real power the pirates might have had to contend with, NATO, declined to do anything, which I don't quite understand. Then again I don't know much about their post-cold ware mandate. But if they were to take on the pirates, then you might be justified in your appeal to your deity.
In my opinion, and is just that (but keep reading), China is more than "earnest" in its hacking efforts. Our so-called security and espionage institutions seem rather stuck in a cold war mentality in my opinion, just look at the confusion, ineptitude, and inter-departmental mis-communication after 9-11.
So back in the day I used to run an apache server on my own domain, just for fun, and this required me to run my own domain server. I never got much traffic, never intended to as such I left my telnet port wide open- no ssh tunnel, so I could jump in remotely to do reboots or whatever. Security wasn't big on my mind as there was nothing sensitive on the server. Then early one morning I noticed the dsl modem activity light going nuts, it was never busy early in the morning. I let this go on for three mornings, and on the last morning I audited my name server's system logs. An ip in China had hacked my pw's and re-compiled the server's openbsd kernel completely changing the default nature of the name server. I didn't try to analyze exactly what they had re-programmed my name server to do, I just re-compiled and closed off the telnet port. But it made me think- I'd never gotten so much as an innocuous hit from a casually surfing American.gov or.mil domain, and here are the Chinese, actively bending a simple, but non-windows, domain server to their will. Just how hungry are such people for a technological presence, or even dominance? And just how asleep at the switch and backward are the leaders of the mighty United States? After everything that's happened since 9/11, the economy, everything, I think we really need to take a very stern look at how the US has been, and is being, run. This might have been a fly-by-night group of hackers creating a botnet, but I never detected any bot code or strange kernel mods, only the name server hijack. I suspect a nation has to be very hungry to commit resources, private or not, to doing things like that.
Agreed. Leave it to Hollywood to NOT create something fresh and unique but simply dig up the corpses of cinema glories past, prop them up, and make sure Capt. Kirk's reeking corpse is holding a Coke prominently...
Tab for command completion in posix shells. I've amazed more supposed unix "pros" with that little trick. I guess none of them ever read on their shell of choice. Tab sommand completion is available on any posix shell.
For an excellent verbal picture of Morris, his exploits, and the net as a whole in that era read Steven Levy's "Hackers."
Having lived in Redwood City, Ca, one block from the El Camino Real, having accessed MIT's CS facility and seen the "lusers" login message for myself, and even tried the famous choc. chip cookie recipe, and having as a close friend an ex-employee of the old Sierra On-Line Games, all mentioned in the book, it was just a delightful read. It was fun to connect up the missing dots in my incomplete memory of the early days of the internet.
Agreed. I was amazed at what I accomplished while I was out of work for a few years (I supported myself with the odd contract job) until I was able to land the position I have now. I put together a pretty sophisticated web site touting my skills, released several open-source projects, and picked up some new skills (Ruby & ROR, for example, although I haven't used it since I learned it). What this is really is wishful thinking from the closed-source crowd.
Hacking lightbulbs (and anything else connected) will also become trivial. Want to rob Joe-Bob Internet's house? After he leaves hack his virtual access points and unlock those pesky doors and windows from the comfort of your car with your laptop.
Not true... mostly. You are not required to be a lawyer in most (all?) jurisdictions of the United States. Judges are appointed and in many cases elected. I'm not aware that many jurisdictions require judges to be jurisdoctors (that is, earned a law degree.) Lawyers on the other hand must have earned a law degree and passed the legal bar examination of the state where they practice.
Worked for a Seattle company in the domain name business that did a lot of business with G-Daddy. Both companies and the guys who ran them struck me as being somewhat on the shady side. Just not very professional in my opinion. And this story just bares out my opinion.
Not true. I'm using Linux and plenty of front-facing apps are written in Python. If you're a sundry user I bet that you'd never know that probably more than half the apps you're using are written in python with a glade UI.
During the year 2000 switch I worked for a contract firm that had a very, very difficult time finding a capable engineer who could update a system running some esoteric, proprietary version of Fortran, I barely remember the details, but I believe on the fourth hire this company found a sharp enough guy who had some familiarity with the dialect and was able to complete the contract. And the guy was in his 60's. Bare in mind this was 10 years ago. Don't be so complacent as to think that need won't arise again. I do know that the company that was the object of the contract implemented a plan to obsolete that computer a few years later.
By the time these things are ready we won't need to put bodies in them. Then soon after the other side will have them. Then maybe war will become a harmless spectator sport. Of course some one will have the bright idea of "...well, since we're waging a war, we might as well put the losers in gas chambers..." (a la that Star Trek TOS episode, if anyone remembers...?)
War is such a dark, stupid game.
Pretty sad. Looks like another case of corporate head-in-the-sand behavior. That and the usual complete disregard for their customers. Fortunately this exploit is pretty easy to circumvent; don't buy 2Wire products! Get the the word out. And teach the neos to never use WEP. If they can't do virtual tunnels with certs then at least make sure they are using WPA. And change those factory installed passwords people!
Yes, if they promise to make Win7 more "Mac-Like" I'll ignore it even harder than I ever have before. I'll even wake up at night in a cold sweat trying to remember what my OSX nightmare was all about.
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...am I the only one here who thinks that the time for satellite data links is pretty much upon us? If stringing data cables under the Med. (or anywhere else for that matter) is such a gawdawful issue then perhaps we need to think more about punting a few more data sats up into orbit as a solution. Granted, the Great Old ones could re-hatch and eat them but that's what we have Hellboy for.
I have to pick up after you (and and don't care who YOU are, I still have to do it.) Paper is a anachronistic, and really not as convenient as you'd like to believe. Not really.
Well, your convenience costs me my time when I have to pick up the remains of it from around my house, and I really have problems with your convenience when I go to my favorite woods in N. Cal. and they are cutting down more trees for your convenience, and so on. As inconvenient as it may be for you, its time to start thinking about how we can use less of your convenience. Period.
Please, lets face the future boldy, and let go of the past. Its time to think seriously about getting rid of paper for things like magazines. Yes, its not going to be as convenient. Never the less; its time. If the online journals offer an option for off-line reading, that will help out a lot I think.
Almost as lame as the Zune itself. I came "this" close to buying one of those things.
Lots of specific applications are wasteful EXCEPT in their specific application case. I don't think wireless transmission of electricity will replace the current transmission infrastructure anytime soon, but I can certainly see that the usefulness in certain applications will over-ride the waste (cost).
I did some work under an absolute nutcase that insisted I use MVC while writing a wikimedia extension module. I don't get mvc implemented in php to begin with, but when I started getting the idea that he used the pattern for everything he did, I started getting the idea that I worked for a nutcase. Its a useful pattern for sure, but expecting a wrench to fix a problem that requires a hammer, or a screw driver, is a problem, imo.
Ok, I get that Dijkstra was a profound mathematician type. But honestly, with regard to computer science, he just comes off as a fuddy-duddy luddite. I know a few scholars who refuse to use word processing applications to write their papers (one tenured researcher at my work, a phd mathematician well past his prime will only use his old IBM Selectric), regardless of how well they know their productivity could be increased. And I don't want to hear any aesthetic arguments. If I were an employer today I might find such behavior 'quaint', but of no use on my payroll. None. In my opinion he just comes off as an intelligent quack.
"No. Fuck them."
Pretty much sums it up for me.
I agree in principal with your argument. Perhaps if the Saudis agree to pay protection money? But then, for that matter, why don't the Russians offer the same service. They're running around the sea truckin' it down to Venezuela to play war games with Chavez, they could make a few extra bucks playing the protection racket too.
Agreed. The UN. What a laugh. A real power the pirates might have had to contend with, NATO, declined to do anything, which I don't quite understand. Then again I don't know much about their post-cold ware mandate. But if they were to take on the pirates, then you might be justified in your appeal to your deity.
In my opinion, and is just that (but keep reading), China is more than "earnest" in its hacking efforts. Our so-called security and espionage institutions seem rather stuck in a cold war mentality in my opinion, just look at the confusion, ineptitude, and inter-departmental mis-communication after 9-11. So back in the day I used to run an apache server on my own domain, just for fun, and this required me to run my own domain server. I never got much traffic, never intended to as such I left my telnet port wide open- no ssh tunnel, so I could jump in remotely to do reboots or whatever. Security wasn't big on my mind as there was nothing sensitive on the server. .gov or .mil domain, and here are the Chinese, actively bending a simple, but non-windows, domain server to their will. Just how hungry are such people for a technological presence, or even dominance? And just how asleep at the switch and backward are the leaders of the mighty United States? After everything that's happened since 9/11, the economy, everything, I think we really need to take a very stern look at how the US has been, and is being, run.
Then early one morning I noticed the dsl modem activity light going nuts, it was never busy early in the morning. I let this go on for three mornings, and on the last morning I audited my name server's system logs. An ip in China had hacked my pw's and re-compiled the server's openbsd kernel completely changing the default nature of the name server. I didn't try to analyze exactly what they had re-programmed my name server to do, I just re-compiled and closed off the telnet port.
But it made me think- I'd never gotten so much as an innocuous hit from a casually surfing American
This might have been a fly-by-night group of hackers creating a botnet, but I never detected any bot code or strange kernel mods, only the name server hijack. I suspect a nation has to be very hungry to commit resources, private or not, to doing things like that.
Agreed. Leave it to Hollywood to NOT create something fresh and unique but simply dig up the corpses of cinema glories past, prop them up, and make sure Capt. Kirk's reeking corpse is holding a Coke prominently...
Tab for command completion in posix shells. I've amazed more supposed unix "pros" with that little trick. I guess none of them ever read on their shell of choice. Tab sommand completion is available on any posix shell.
For an excellent verbal picture of Morris, his exploits, and the net as a whole in that era read Steven Levy's "Hackers." Having lived in Redwood City, Ca, one block from the El Camino Real, having accessed MIT's CS facility and seen the "lusers" login message for myself, and even tried the famous choc. chip cookie recipe, and having as a close friend an ex-employee of the old Sierra On-Line Games, all mentioned in the book, it was just a delightful read. It was fun to connect up the missing dots in my incomplete memory of the early days of the internet.
Agreed. I was amazed at what I accomplished while I was out of work for a few years (I supported myself with the odd contract job) until I was able to land the position I have now. I put together a pretty sophisticated web site touting my skills, released several open-source projects, and picked up some new skills (Ruby & ROR, for example, although I haven't used it since I learned it). What this is really is wishful thinking from the closed-source crowd.
Hacking lightbulbs (and anything else connected) will also become trivial. Want to rob Joe-Bob Internet's house? After he leaves hack his virtual access points and unlock those pesky doors and windows from the comfort of your car with your laptop.
Not true... mostly. You are not required to be a lawyer in most (all?) jurisdictions of the United States. Judges are appointed and in many cases elected. I'm not aware that many jurisdictions require judges to be jurisdoctors (that is, earned a law degree.) Lawyers on the other hand must have earned a law degree and passed the legal bar examination of the state where they practice.
Worked for a Seattle company in the domain name business that did a lot of business with G-Daddy. Both companies and the guys who ran them struck me as being somewhat on the shady side. Just not very professional in my opinion. And this story just bares out my opinion.
Not true. I'm using Linux and plenty of front-facing apps are written in Python. If you're a sundry user I bet that you'd never know that probably more than half the apps you're using are written in python with a glade UI.
During the year 2000 switch I worked for a contract firm that had a very, very difficult time finding a capable engineer who could update a system running some esoteric, proprietary version of Fortran, I barely remember the details, but I believe on the fourth hire this company found a sharp enough guy who had some familiarity with the dialect and was able to complete the contract. And the guy was in his 60's. Bare in mind this was 10 years ago. Don't be so complacent as to think that need won't arise again. I do know that the company that was the object of the contract implemented a plan to obsolete that computer a few years later.
Yeah. If we can outlaw flying cars, smoking from everywhere, and stupid people from breeding, then life will finally be 100% PERFECT!
By the time these things are ready we won't need to put bodies in them. Then soon after the other side will have them. Then maybe war will become a harmless spectator sport. Of course some one will have the bright idea of "...well, since we're waging a war, we might as well put the losers in gas chambers..." (a la that Star Trek TOS episode, if anyone remembers...?) War is such a dark, stupid game.
Pretty sad. Looks like another case of corporate head-in-the-sand behavior. That and the usual complete disregard for their customers. Fortunately this exploit is pretty easy to circumvent; don't buy 2Wire products! Get the the word out. And teach the neos to never use WEP. If they can't do virtual tunnels with certs then at least make sure they are using WPA. And change those factory installed passwords people!
Yes, if they promise to make Win7 more "Mac-Like" I'll ignore it even harder than I ever have before. I'll even wake up at night in a cold sweat trying to remember what my OSX nightmare was all about.