Arguing scientific facts with religious fundamentalists is a waste of time.
But it sure can be entertaining. Just lead them around their own belief system and watch them roll up into a thumb-sucking ball as the contradictions assail them from every corner.
I read the article, but didn't bother to look at the date. But even though TFA is nine months old, it was news to me.
Shouldn't this tech be born by now?
Apparently I was out the day it was posted as well. Perhaps it's not as good as Sandia originally claimed, or a lot more expensive to point of not being economically feasible?
In my experience, Trojans are by far the most common malware threat out there now - mostly because they rely on user stupidity/uneducation, which is something that is very difficult to patch.
I'd agree with that, although the drive-by web bug exploits are kind of an interesting take on a trojan that from a user's perspective are virtually indistinguishable from viruses or worms, although they are not self-replicating. (dare I say "interesting" in this context?)
In the terms of the Windows world, there seems to be a whole lot of ways to get infected, including until recently even viewing a JPG or WMF file, both of which could infect system files. This latter issue is something that generally doesn't occur on *nix systems because the process is limited to just the user privileges, and this type of code runs in user space, unlike windows.
People did not flee from iOS; they embraced it like it was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
That would be because compared to everything out there, it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. That's more a statement about how bad the market was than how great iOS is. And the market hasn't really improved much, despite the wailing and whining of the Android crowd. Android as it currently exists is a disaster - no real standards, multiple versions, no defined upgrade path, essentially all the problems of the market when iOS debuted. For those that come by saying "but, I can root my Android device and install ICS.... well, you can do a lot of things if you have the proper knowledge. Most device owners will not have that knowledge nor the interest to take their device and "own" it since their main purpose is to use it to call or whatever people use Android tablets for.
I still have yet to really look into whether the "Flashback Trojan" is a virus or not, as it's monicker indicates that it is a trojan. So it may still be true that there isn't a virus out in the wild, eventually there will come the sad day that OSX will have its first virus.
What you are describing is not a normal programmer - it's a project technical lead or even technical/enterprise architect, depending upon your company's role names, with responsibilities across the entire system.
2 years if you skimped on something - tuition and fees were roughly $500 / semester for 18 hours. Books added another $50 / class on average, so about $300, unless you were in engineering, in which case they ran more. And yes, I do remember, because I paid for it.
Sorry. Send a postcard, expect it to get read. Be careless enough to send it to the wrong person....It's irrelevant as to why he set up the domains, or that he receives incorrectly addressed postcards. He's not advertising, or anything else. Is he scum? Perhaps. Is he doing something illegal? No.
In the US, every shop owner has the right to refuse service for any reason. However, should that refusal be tainted with any of the 10,000+ potential discriminatory reasons, you're screwed next week in court.
I was doing a lot of this in 1985, including running on what would become the internet. If I'd had the money, a satellite phone (the only kind running at the time IIRC) would have merely put me back about 3K.
The cheapest apartment I could get in the area I worked in the early 90s was $500/month, and included, gratis, potential lead poisoning. I opted for roommates instead. Pay was much much lower then, for everything.
This goes back to not being stupid, not involving your current co-workers, and keeping things that should be secret, well, secret. If you're going to develop things on your own, you don't go about airing what you're working on while working for someone else. Note that many businesses have started this way, and none of those were owned by founders previous employers, primarily because they didn't take the imbecile action like patenting things while employed nor talk about "this great idea I have" to everyone they worked with. If something is patented a month after you leave, then at best for the company, it becomes a battle of when the moment of elucidation occurred, and as long as your discoverable paper trail is adequate, it will never support their case. Yes, it's a dirty game.
A lot of people object to censorship of some/all kinds of speech on principle or feel that blocking is overkill for an activity such as copying a piece of information. However, probably many of the same people would not object to shutting off a command/control site for malware that was bringing down millions of PCs at a staggering economic cost, or to isolating a group who really were trading child porn. Fundamentally, on a technical level, either someone has the ability to block sites or they don't, but on an ethical level it isn't even close to that simple.
Neither of those is censorship - they're illegal. As is making available copyrighted works, if they're copyrighted in the country they're being made available. But what they do for the prior two is hunt down those responsible and arrest them. Just taking the site out is insufficient.
it could encourage productivity and for those of us who really go 100% during work time, the appreciation of our colleagues.
No, it will lead to your "colleagues" despising you as the whiney narc that got the company to put tracking devices in their phones. And since no technology is perfect, it's only a matter of time before your position on the map starts identifying you as visiting the local gay bar (if straight, strip club if gay) during work hours.
It doesn't take much to defeat. Just leave your "company phone" in the drawer, set forwarding to your personal phone, and go where you want while you stay at your desk.
So you're comparing the 2nd best selling console with the 3rd? No less one that was designed more to "win" the BD vs HDDVD battle than anything else, since they were still riding high on the PS2's success and banking on that continuing? The PS3 should only be mentioned in statements of how to fail, or "at least we're better than a PS3", although that's like saying it's better to be behind a hippo than an elephant - neither is pleasant.
I haven't kept up with the profit numbers, but revenue is largely irrelevant. Last I recall, XBox etc was losing money, due to things like the red ring of death and other problems that caused a high turn over of hardware under warranty. Perhaps that's finally turned around.
Remember what happened the last time Microsoft tried to compete with Apple hardware by themselves. I predict this hitting the market with the giant *THUD* usually associated with MS products.
Like Xbox360?
What Apple product does the XBox 360 compete with?
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Unlike Windows? Are you still using XP?
Apparently not since 2004... :)
Arguing scientific facts with religious fundamentalists is a waste of time.
But it sure can be entertaining. Just lead them around their own belief system and watch them roll up into a thumb-sucking ball as the contradictions assail them from every corner.
... it spins @ 1.75 kRPM.
That extra 250 RPM does the trick!
I read the article, but didn't bother to look at the date. But even though TFA is nine months old, it was news to me.
Shouldn't this tech be born by now?
Apparently I was out the day it was posted as well. Perhaps it's not as good as Sandia originally claimed, or a lot more expensive to point of not being economically feasible?
To the editors - surely you can automate a spamcatcher for this type of spam, and automatically kill it?
In my experience, Trojans are by far the most common malware threat out there now - mostly because they rely on user stupidity/uneducation, which is something that is very difficult to patch.
I'd agree with that, although the drive-by web bug exploits are kind of an interesting take on a trojan that from a user's perspective are virtually indistinguishable from viruses or worms, although they are not self-replicating. (dare I say "interesting" in this context?)
In the terms of the Windows world, there seems to be a whole lot of ways to get infected, including until recently even viewing a JPG or WMF file, both of which could infect system files. This latter issue is something that generally doesn't occur on *nix systems because the process is limited to just the user privileges, and this type of code runs in user space, unlike windows.
People did not flee from iOS; they embraced it like it was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
That would be because compared to everything out there, it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. That's more a statement about how bad the market was than how great iOS is. And the market hasn't really improved much, despite the wailing and whining of the Android crowd. Android as it currently exists is a disaster - no real standards, multiple versions, no defined upgrade path, essentially all the problems of the market when iOS debuted. For those that come by saying "but, I can root my Android device and install ICS.... well, you can do a lot of things if you have the proper knowledge. Most device owners will not have that knowledge nor the interest to take their device and "own" it since their main purpose is to use it to call or whatever people use Android tablets for.
I still have yet to really look into whether the "Flashback Trojan" is a virus or not, as it's monicker indicates that it is a trojan. So it may still be true that there isn't a virus out in the wild, eventually there will come the sad day that OSX will have its first virus.
What you are describing is not a normal programmer - it's a project technical lead or even technical/enterprise architect, depending upon your company's role names, with responsibilities across the entire system.
2 years if you skimped on something - tuition and fees were roughly $500 / semester for 18 hours. Books added another $50 / class on average, so about $300, unless you were in engineering, in which case they ran more. And yes, I do remember, because I paid for it.
Sorry. Send a postcard, expect it to get read. Be careless enough to send it to the wrong person....It's irrelevant as to why he set up the domains, or that he receives incorrectly addressed postcards. He's not advertising, or anything else. Is he scum? Perhaps. Is he doing something illegal? No.
At least they're shipping - or close to shipping - a product. Surface has no date, and may not even be a real working product.
In the US, every shop owner has the right to refuse service for any reason. However, should that refusal be tainted with any of the 10,000+ potential discriminatory reasons, you're screwed next week in court.
Oh but come on. Their engineers are super leet! To work at Facebook, you have to win a drunken speed-hacking contest just to be a PHP coder!
You just insulted coders everywhere.
Ah, but it's an "enterprise-grade" toy.
Only by wishful thinking...
if your webserver needs to go into swap... you have bigger problems than whether it stays up or not.
I was doing a lot of this in 1985, including running on what would become the internet. If I'd had the money, a satellite phone (the only kind running at the time IIRC) would have merely put me back about 3K.
Considering we were already "commuting" to shared computers in 1985, yes, telecommute wasn't a foreign concept.
The cheapest apartment I could get in the area I worked in the early 90s was $500/month, and included, gratis, potential lead poisoning. I opted for roommates instead. Pay was much much lower then, for everything.
This goes back to not being stupid, not involving your current co-workers, and keeping things that should be secret, well, secret. If you're going to develop things on your own, you don't go about airing what you're working on while working for someone else. Note that many businesses have started this way, and none of those were owned by founders previous employers, primarily because they didn't take the imbecile action like patenting things while employed nor talk about "this great idea I have" to everyone they worked with. If something is patented a month after you leave, then at best for the company, it becomes a battle of when the moment of elucidation occurred, and as long as your discoverable paper trail is adequate, it will never support their case. Yes, it's a dirty game.
A lot of people object to censorship of some/all kinds of speech on principle or feel that blocking is overkill for an activity such as copying a piece of information. However, probably many of the same people would not object to shutting off a command/control site for malware that was bringing down millions of PCs at a staggering economic cost, or to isolating a group who really were trading child porn. Fundamentally, on a technical level, either someone has the ability to block sites or they don't, but on an ethical level it isn't even close to that simple.
Neither of those is censorship - they're illegal. As is making available copyrighted works, if they're copyrighted in the country they're being made available. But what they do for the prior two is hunt down those responsible and arrest them. Just taking the site out is insufficient.
it could encourage productivity and for those of us who really go 100% during work time, the appreciation of our colleagues.
No, it will lead to your "colleagues" despising you as the whiney narc that got the company to put tracking devices in their phones. And since no technology is perfect, it's only a matter of time before your position on the map starts identifying you as visiting the local gay bar (if straight, strip club if gay) during work hours.
It doesn't take much to defeat. Just leave your "company phone" in the drawer, set forwarding to your personal phone, and go where you want while you stay at your desk.
A $99 network TV product vs a $300 game machine with (HD) DVD player capabilities?
So you're comparing the 2nd best selling console with the 3rd? No less one that was designed more to "win" the BD vs HDDVD battle than anything else, since they were still riding high on the PS2's success and banking on that continuing? The PS3 should only be mentioned in statements of how to fail, or "at least we're better than a PS3", although that's like saying it's better to be behind a hippo than an elephant - neither is pleasant.
I haven't kept up with the profit numbers, but revenue is largely irrelevant. Last I recall, XBox etc was losing money, due to things like the red ring of death and other problems that caused a high turn over of hardware under warranty. Perhaps that's finally turned around.
Remember what happened the last time Microsoft tried to compete with Apple hardware by themselves. I predict this hitting the market with the giant *THUD* usually associated with MS products.
Like Xbox360?
What Apple product does the XBox 360 compete with?