RTFA, he didn't 'put backdoors in the security system', he used the access that he orignally had had legitimately, and which Aventis had failed to revoke.
I read this story as "the employer fucked up by not locking off his id card. someone had to pay. so they told the ibm experts 'make sure it costs over $5,000 - we want to send this bastard to jail'."
>Would it be such a bad idea to launch seeds into outer space to orbit the world just in case?
Yes, because they might land on another planet and spread new unknown (to them) diseases which would wipe out all of life as they know it in the galaxy.
however IIRC, although you must agree to the GPL in order to use software, it doesn't make any requirements of you as a user. only modifying, redistributing etc.
>Instead of some actuarial positions, there are openings in software houses, animation studios, civil sector, etc..
i am a final year mathematics student whose dream isn't to work as an actuary or for a merchant bank. if anyone has advice on interesting fields where mathematicians are required rather than tolerated, i would appreciate it. or in general, advice on where to look.
i have studied almost exclusively pure maths, mainly analysis and number theory with some algebra and computational stuff, and can program C, some Fortran and some C++.
..is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson?
Bill Gates lacks human empathy
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If you look at his proposed solutions way back when, they seem quite bizarre now - micropayments / microforfeits of computational time to a problem that has now been largely solved using combined machine/human intelligence eg Bayesian filtering etc.
Bill Gates seems to lack a real understanding of how people think and work. For him technical solutions come so naturally he seems to miss the human side to questions like this. Look how MS were blind to the potentials of networked communication in the mid 90's.
People say that he is a genius. Not just a 'real smart guy' but the likes of newton, da vinci.. Sometimes I wonder if people like that really think completely differently to everyone else, or if they just think they do since other people seem so backward to them, at least in certain areas.
It was designed for students. it's a good balance between languages that are too high-level to get a good idea of what the machine is doing, and c/c++ which aren't really worth learning unless you're prepared to get into all the low-level concepts like pointers, and also learn a little bit about assembler. two downsides are; -it's a bit obsolete now. but fine for doing command line based stuff, even quite complex things -a the edit-compile-run cycle of a compiled language can be quite slow if you're spending long periods of time hunting for bugs. you will be.
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I thought it would be fairly clear to anyone: Beatles-Beatles is not trying to get slashdotters to click on his link. why would anyone? it's clear from the address that's it's not of any particular interest or relevance to the story, and why would anyone anyway. i've never clicked on those links, at least not on purpose, and a few people have pointed out in this thread that they thought those links go to the user's home page on slashdot. nor do i see what benefit he would get from a few random slashdotters clicking his link (either to give him 'props' for a good story, or out of curiosity?)
No, Beatles Beatles is trying to spam Google, and other search engines that work like PageRank. Doesn't his username make this obvious? this is a problem for Google, and one they need to work on. i have never liked their purported solution, the <nofollow> tag, for the following reason; when i post comments on someone's blog, i don't want those links to be disregarded by pagerank. i might be replying to someone's request for help, by linking to relevant information. pagerank's success owes a lot to the fact that everyone can influence search results through pointers in their own content, and <nofollow> seems to destroy this.
as you point out, slashdot's problem is that people talk about this stuff ad nauseam. the only solutions which occur to me are: "don't read it" and "mod it down".
the whole point of something like slashdot is that if you give many people a small incentive to provide others with useful/interesting information, people will get the best content very quickly.
Beatles Beatles is a great example of this. apparently his or her major concern is promoting a fairly pointless website about George Harrison. in order to do this he spends major amounts of time finding interesting news stories and submitting them to/. for YOU to read. his only reward is a link to his website - at no cost or damage to you whatsoever.
without the submitter link, the balance would tip in favour of those who want to make the front page either because they are spamming the links in the article itself (eg Roland Piquepaille) or to push some agenda.
some big stories appear on a whole bunch of news sites in a short space of time, and presumably get submitted here multiple times. it's the ones which are only submitted once, and don't appear many other places, that are the slashdot gold. and hence the obsessive submitters make a big contribution to the magic. (also, i would guess, ones who obsess a particular topic, and submit quite a few stories about say, heatsinks until once in a while an genuinely interesting heatsink story comes along.)
how old is this?
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yesterday, this link was posted in a comment as part of the discussion to a story "guy makes scanner out of optical mouse". a couple of other posts pointed out that hackaday.com has lots more stuff like this. today it makes the front page. slow news day?
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RTFA, he didn't 'put backdoors in the security system', he used the access that he orignally had had legitimately, and which Aventis had failed to revoke.
I read this story as "the employer fucked up by not locking off his id card. someone had to pay. so they told the ibm experts 'make sure it costs over $5,000 - we want to send this bastard to jail'."
>Would it be such a bad idea to launch seeds into outer space to orbit the world just in case?
Yes, because they might land on another planet and spread new unknown (to them) diseases which would wipe out all of life as they know it in the galaxy.
Or be swallowed by a small dog, or both.
..and a lot of people above are wrong.
however IIRC, although you must agree to the GPL in order to use software, it doesn't make any requirements of you as a user. only modifying, redistributing etc.
amateur, moron.
>the concept of M$ itself being 1 on the list
>>>So, Microsoft's criteria would be equivalent to #1 here
i believe the OP means to say - that which Microsoft describe as 'critical' vuln.s == #1 on this list
that's my excuse for compulsively correcting them. to safeguard the searchability of the world's useful information.
and i'm sticking to it.
>Instead of some actuarial positions, there are openings in software houses, animation studios, civil sector, etc..
i am a final year mathematics student whose dream isn't to work as an actuary or for a merchant bank. if anyone has advice on interesting fields where mathematicians are required rather than tolerated, i would appreciate it. or in general, advice on where to look.
i have studied almost exclusively pure maths, mainly analysis and number theory with some algebra and computational stuff, and can program C, some Fortran and some C++.
"Latent Sematnic Analaysis"
How clever of you to have worked out how to foil these evil Big Brother-type mathematical techniques.
..is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson?
If you look at his proposed solutions way back when, they seem quite bizarre now - micropayments / microforfeits of computational time to a problem that has now been largely solved using combined machine/human intelligence eg Bayesian filtering etc.
Bill Gates seems to lack a real understanding of how people think and work. For him technical solutions come so naturally he seems to miss the human side to questions like this. Look how MS were blind to the potentials of networked communication in the mid 90's.
People say that he is a genius. Not just a 'real smart guy' but the likes of newton, da vinci.. Sometimes I wonder if people like that really think completely differently to everyone else, or if they just think they do since other people seem so backward to them, at least in certain areas.
if not doing something won't solve the problem, we should go ahead and do it.
Yes, it's because he cloned the first one that there is now more than one dog.
It was designed for students.
it's a good balance between languages that are too high-level to get a good idea of what the machine is doing, and c/c++ which aren't really worth learning unless you're prepared to get into all the low-level concepts like pointers, and also learn a little bit about assembler.
two downsides are;
-it's a bit obsolete now. but fine for doing command line based stuff, even quite complex things
-a the edit-compile-run cycle of a compiled language can be quite slow if you're spending long periods of time hunting for bugs. you will be.
abhorent.
Did they hire you for your low UID?
365 weeks a year?
Maybe you should join the Euro :)
Paper tape was the original distribution medium for recorded music.
I thought it would be fairly clear to anyone: Beatles-Beatles is not trying to get slashdotters to click on his link. why would anyone? it's clear from the address that's it's not of any particular interest or relevance to the story, and why would anyone anyway. i've never clicked on those links, at least not on purpose, and a few people have pointed out in this thread that they thought those links go to the user's home page on slashdot. nor do i see what benefit he would get from a few random slashdotters clicking his link (either to give him 'props' for a good story, or out of curiosity?)
No, Beatles Beatles is trying to spam Google, and other search engines that work like PageRank. Doesn't his username make this obvious? this is a problem for Google, and one they need to work on. i have never liked their purported solution, the <nofollow> tag, for the following reason; when i post comments on someone's blog, i don't want those links to be disregarded by pagerank. i might be replying to someone's request for help, by linking to relevant information. pagerank's success owes a lot to the fact that everyone can influence search results through pointers in their own content, and <nofollow> seems to destroy this.
as you point out, slashdot's problem is that people talk about this stuff ad nauseam. the only solutions which occur to me are: "don't read it" and "mod it down".
the whole point of something like slashdot is that if you give many people a small incentive to provide others with useful/interesting information, people will get the best content very quickly.
/. for YOU to read. his only reward is a link to his website - at no cost or damage to you whatsoever.
Beatles Beatles is a great example of this. apparently his or her major concern is promoting a fairly pointless website about George Harrison. in order to do this he spends major amounts of time finding interesting news stories and submitting them to
without the submitter link, the balance would tip in favour of those who want to make the front page either because they are spamming the links in the article itself (eg Roland Piquepaille) or to push some agenda.
some big stories appear on a whole bunch of news sites in a short space of time, and presumably get submitted here multiple times. it's the ones which are only submitted once, and don't appear many other places, that are the slashdot gold. and hence the obsessive submitters make a big contribution to the magic. (also, i would guess, ones who obsess a particular topic, and submit quite a few stories about say, heatsinks until once in a while an genuinely interesting heatsink story comes along.)
people would still bitch about the submitter endlessly.
he just wouldn't get his links.
i think what they need to know is how to read.
yesterday, this link was posted in a comment as part of the discussion to a story "guy makes scanner out of optical mouse". a couple of other posts pointed out that hackaday.com has lots more stuff like this.
today it makes the front page.
slow news day?
>Strangely, negative Windows articles don't get questioned.
That's because they are true.
George Bush is stupid.
Al Gore did not invent the Internet.