Whatever mayhem a "cyber-atttack" might cause, it is almost inconceivable that it could rival the destruction and loss of life of the attack on Pearl Harbor. It is insulting to those who died to imply otherwise.
My Grandfather served in the navy during the war, but was not at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked. He was, however, briefly assigned to the detail that had to help clean out the dead, bloated bodies from the ships that were sunk in the attack.
Leon E Panetta, you are an asshole. Unless we do something insanely stupid like hooking gas valves, electrical substations, or their like directly to the Internet, the possibility of a "cyber-Pearl Harbor" is a fllat zero. Respect those who lost their lives for our freedom and temper your fucking hyperbole.
"Wasn't a lot of anything except a lot of forest."
So only... Old growth trees (extremenly valuable at the time for shipbuilding). Vast tracts of untilled arable land. "Easily displaced" indiginents.
Not to mention the coal and oil deposits discovered later.
We know a lot more about what's on the moon than Columbus (or the Spaniards) did about North America, but what we know is that it's not all that. The moon, sadly, is kind of crappy resource-wise. It is, on the other hand, really handy for causing tides, which helped a lot of life proliferate down here, so go moon! (but don't necessarily go TO the moon)
That's how I lost my first car (a VW Beetle that would stall at any stop light unless you gently caressed the gas pedal with your toe while keeping the brake down with your heel). Security guard didn't pay any attention to the seemingly legit tow truck that hauled it away...
It's a very, very different thing to get a computer to: a) Do something it's programmed to do (like start up and drive around safely), but for the wrong person. b) Do something it has NOT been programmed to do (drive unsafely).
You can't just conflate the two with "hacking the system", as they are COMPLETELY different physically, electronically, logically and mathematically.
Just because you have some patents doesn't mean that they are valid or enforceable. Just because you've convinced some companies to license your patents and pay you royalties doesn't mean that they are valid or enforceable.
The android phone manufacturers that pay MS royalties simply decided that just paying the royalty would be less expensive than fighting the legal battle to (possibly) prove the patents in question invalid. This means that there is, so far, no evidence that the patents in question have any value at all. Given that the SCotUS has been more strongly nudging things in the direction of "You can't patent software processes, stupid", there's a pretty good chance that they are, in fact, worthless. Unfortunately, proving that will require a company with a reason to take a stand, the funds to follow it through, and a top-notch team of patent lawyers.
In the "most" difficult puzzles you can actually reach a point where you cannot gain any additional useful information by logic (even triples exclusion, X-wing exclusion and other less obvious to the naked eye things) and are forced to guess on a square, test the validity of that guess, then potentially rewind and guess again. Computers can actually solve any valid sudoku purely by this method, but it's not as fun as teasing out the logic (if it exists).
If it doesn't use the C-block, it's performance drops too close to that of earlier protocols that also don't use the C-block, which would result in PR and marketing suicide.
Ok... are you not reading the same news and economic reports I have that say very clearly that the economy has improved considerably since he took office?
Maybe you're confused by the -polls- on the "news" lately that say that most Average Joes don't *think* the economy is improving.
I'll take the economists, thank you... they may deal in filthy lying statistics, but at least they base their opinion on something real.
All the regular gun-carriers I know train regularly and frequently. The fact that they don't get paid for it does not make them less proficient than people who do.
If you are going to have ironic spelling mistakes in one part of your post, the rest had better be clean. In this case, it was not. "loud" is spelled with a "u".
"are they factoring in that the online students may have much, much, much... much more free time than a "brick and mortar" student?"
Are you serious? Both myself and most of the people I know that have been interested in these online classes are older and have full-time jobs. We squeeze in our lecture watching and homework during lunch hours and instead of the evening TV. We emphatically do -not- have more free time than a standard student (and we should know, since we were students once too, with free time, before our jobs and families took over).
And just to be clear, I know for certain that many of the "400" (twice as good as a movie?) are these sort of people and not, somehow, unemployed layabouts drowning in free time. In fact, logically, the world's smartest people will already be doing something else productive with their free time... either gainful employment or "brick and mortar" education, so this should not be surprising at all.
To summarize: "brick and mortar" students have (generally) no other obligations on their time but study. Online students are generally already brick and mortar students as well, or else holding down full time jobs. They do not have more free time.
Hells, Caltech still didn't have a CS degree in 1995.
Our "CS" undergrads had to slide in under the fairly broad "Engineering and Applied Science" umbrella or else stick out the more stringent requirements (EE151, AMa95, etc) of a straight EE degree with a focus on "Computing". There were CS courses and professors, but no degree plan.
It might make a bit of difference *where* you got your degree from. but I'll agree that connections are king. (Interestingly, the former often can effect the latter.)
Sadly, I have more Windows systems to administrate these days than Linux, which makes my days more... eventful.
Windows Logging facilities, and the interfaces available to deal with them, are *still* stone age. On Linux, I can combine grep, awk and perl to turn logs into useful information. On Windows I can browse them through an annoying GUI.
I'm not sure what "statistics monitor" you're referring to, but I have never, ever, had a Windows server problem that was easier to diagnose than the most pathological Linux server issue I've had. Ok, not completely true... back in the mid 90s there were some reasonably twisted Linux issues, but I wasn't using Linux for production systems back then... we used Solaris, which worked fine. Linux eventually matured to the Sys V standard of usability. IMO, Windows still has not.
"A system error has occurred." "The service terminated unexpectedly." "Please contact your network administrator."
Linux failures leave me checking log and config files. Windows failures leave me tearing my hair and screaming "I *am* the administrator! Tell me what the bloody problem is!!!!!" at the screen.
The biggest advantage to Linux security is that it is far far easier to tell what is running, why it's running, and how it is configured, not to mention what ports are open and by whom.
Yes, in the hands of a newb user, both Linux and Windows can be insecure. That said, the training needed to lock down a Linux system is much more accessible and implementable. To properly lock down a Windows box you either need expensive third party tools or a Doctorate in "Making Microsoft do what I say despite what it wants".
"I just hope both Apple and Linux developers would add something similar, as it's hard drive failure can lead to huge problems."
It's called SMART and has been around for a while already. Warns you when your hard drive starts acting outside normal parameters or throwing soft errors (which it usually does before it actually fails).
You had me up until the last two sentences, which appear to be merely unsubstantiated and provocative. I highly appreciate (and agree as Insightful) your analysis of what the response to some other software vendors would be to this sort of incident.
What would *you* write your inventory database front-end in? PHP makes it work without unacceptable overhead. I preferentially use Perl for straight scripting work, but mod-perl just hasn't proven itself to hold up against PHP on the performance front for web-based apps, and the hooks aren't as convenient. The ability to say something like
is actually amazingly concise and powerful. (angle brackets turned to sqare after fighting/.s editor too long and not remembering the required dance this early in the morning)
And, for the record, I tried to use this to co-opt my PHP-based sites and... nothing happened.
Yes, but they cleverly named them "Reference you don't understand or care about" rather than "Pop culture meme that doesn't mean what you think it should mean.
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Whatever mayhem a "cyber-atttack" might cause, it is almost inconceivable that it could rival the destruction and loss of life of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
It is insulting to those who died to imply otherwise.
My Grandfather served in the navy during the war, but was not at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked.
He was, however, briefly assigned to the detail that had to help clean out the dead, bloated bodies from the ships that were sunk in the attack.
Leon E Panetta, you are an asshole. Unless we do something insanely stupid like hooking gas valves, electrical substations, or their like directly to the Internet, the possibility of a "cyber-Pearl Harbor" is a fllat zero. Respect those who lost their lives for our freedom and temper your fucking hyperbole.
"Wasn't a lot of anything except a lot of forest."
So only...
Old growth trees (extremenly valuable at the time for shipbuilding).
Vast tracts of untilled arable land.
"Easily displaced" indiginents.
Not to mention the coal and oil deposits discovered later.
We know a lot more about what's on the moon than Columbus (or the Spaniards) did about North America, but what we know is that it's not all that.
The moon, sadly, is kind of crappy resource-wise. It is, on the other hand, really handy for causing tides, which helped a lot of life proliferate down here, so go moon! (but don't necessarily go TO the moon)
+1 Tow truck theft
That's how I lost my first car (a VW Beetle that would stall at any stop light unless you gently caressed the gas pedal with your toe while keeping the brake down with your heel). Security guard didn't pay any attention to the seemingly legit tow truck that hauled it away...
No.
It's a very, very different thing to get a computer to:
a) Do something it's programmed to do (like start up and drive around safely), but for the wrong person.
b) Do something it has NOT been programmed to do (drive unsafely).
You can't just conflate the two with "hacking the system", as they are COMPLETELY different physically, electronically, logically and mathematically.
Just because you have some patents doesn't mean that they are valid or enforceable.
Just because you've convinced some companies to license your patents and pay you royalties doesn't mean that they are valid or enforceable.
The android phone manufacturers that pay MS royalties simply decided that just paying the royalty would be less expensive than fighting the legal battle to (possibly) prove the patents in question invalid. This means that there is, so far, no evidence that the patents in question have any value at all. Given that the SCotUS has been more strongly nudging things in the direction of "You can't patent software processes, stupid", there's a pretty good chance that they are, in fact, worthless. Unfortunately, proving that will require a company with a reason to take a stand, the funds to follow it through, and a top-notch team of patent lawyers.
It gets much, MUCH more complicated than that.
In the "most" difficult puzzles you can actually reach a point where you cannot gain any additional useful information by logic (even triples exclusion, X-wing exclusion and other less obvious to the naked eye things) and are forced to guess on a square, test the validity of that guess, then potentially rewind and guess again. Computers can actually solve any valid sudoku purely by this method, but it's not as fun as teasing out the logic (if it exists).
If it doesn't use the C-block, it's performance drops too close to that of earlier protocols that also don't use the C-block, which would result in PR and marketing suicide.
The creature has stolen the space modulator!!!
Delays... delays...
I am deeply sorry that you hang out with imbeciles.
Fedora.
Ubuntu.
Ok... are you not reading the same news and economic reports I have that say very clearly that the economy has improved considerably since he took office?
Maybe you're confused by the -polls- on the "news" lately that say that most Average Joes don't *think* the economy is improving.
I'll take the economists, thank you... they may deal in filthy lying statistics, but at least they base their opinion on something real.
"and then hope that amateurs take him down"
All the regular gun-carriers I know train regularly and frequently.
The fact that they don't get paid for it does not make them less proficient than people who do.
"based on how [b]load[/b] the stereo gets"
If you are going to have ironic spelling mistakes in one part of your post, the rest had better be clean. In this case, it was not.
"loud" is spelled with a "u".
"are they factoring in that the online students may have much, much, much... much more free time than a "brick and mortar" student?"
Are you serious?
Both myself and most of the people I know that have been interested in these online classes are older and have full-time jobs. We squeeze in our lecture watching and homework during lunch hours and instead of the evening TV. We emphatically do -not- have more free time than a standard student (and we should know, since we were students once too, with free time, before our jobs and families took over).
And just to be clear, I know for certain that many of the "400" (twice as good as a movie?) are these sort of people and not, somehow, unemployed layabouts drowning in free time. In fact, logically, the world's smartest people will already be doing something else productive with their free time... either gainful employment or "brick and mortar" education, so this should not be surprising at all.
To summarize:
"brick and mortar" students have (generally) no other obligations on their time but study.
Online students are generally already brick and mortar students as well, or else holding down full time jobs. They do not have more free time.
Bzzzt.
Please turn in your geek card.
PFY = "Pimply Faced Youth"
Maybe you want to edit 40,000 photos to reset their aspect ratio and resolution, and add a flat color border.
The CLI command to do this is easy. Clicking on multiple menus 40,000 times is not.
Hells, Caltech still didn't have a CS degree in 1995.
Our "CS" undergrads had to slide in under the fairly broad "Engineering and Applied Science" umbrella or else stick out the more stringent requirements (EE151, AMa95, etc) of a straight EE degree with a focus on "Computing". There were CS courses and professors, but no degree plan.
It might make a bit of difference *where* you got your degree from. but I'll agree that connections are king.
(Interestingly, the former often can effect the latter.)
Sadly, I have more Windows systems to administrate these days than Linux, which makes my days more... eventful.
Windows Logging facilities, and the interfaces available to deal with them, are *still* stone age. On Linux, I can combine grep, awk and perl to turn logs into useful information. On Windows I can browse them through an annoying GUI.
I'm not sure what "statistics monitor" you're referring to, but I have never, ever, had a Windows server problem that was easier to diagnose than the most pathological Linux server issue I've had. Ok, not completely true... back in the mid 90s there were some reasonably twisted Linux issues, but I wasn't using Linux for production systems back then... we used Solaris, which worked fine. Linux eventually matured to the Sys V standard of usability. IMO, Windows still has not.
"A system error has occurred."
"The service terminated unexpectedly."
"Please contact your network administrator."
Linux failures leave me checking log and config files.
Windows failures leave me tearing my hair and screaming "I *am* the administrator! Tell me what the bloody problem is!!!!!" at the screen.
The biggest advantage to Linux security is that it is far far easier to tell what is running, why it's running, and how it is configured, not to mention what ports are open and by whom.
Yes, in the hands of a newb user, both Linux and Windows can be insecure. That said, the training needed to lock down a Linux system is much more accessible and implementable. To properly lock down a Windows box you either need expensive third party tools or a Doctorate in "Making Microsoft do what I say despite what it wants".
Emacs? Pshaw I say! You and your fancy python bindings and X-integration... it's all a bunch of useless modern folderol! Pshaw again!
vi at holds closer to it's respectable ed antecedents, but I don't hold much truck with that "new vi" nonsense.
When -we- used to program you had to carry your case of hand-punched cards to the datacenter... in the snow... uphill... BOTH WAYS.
Dang fools come around talking up emacs and taking on airs... don't rightly got no sense in their heads.
"I just hope both Apple and Linux developers would add something similar, as it's hard drive failure can lead to huge problems."
It's called SMART and has been around for a while already.
Warns you when your hard drive starts acting outside normal parameters or throwing soft errors (which it usually does before it actually fails).
You had me up until the last two sentences, which appear to be merely unsubstantiated and provocative.
I highly appreciate (and agree as Insightful) your analysis of what the response to some other software vendors would be to this sort of incident.
What would *you* write your inventory database front-end in? PHP makes it work without unacceptable overhead.
I preferentially use Perl for straight scripting work, but mod-perl just hasn't proven itself to hold up against PHP on the performance front for web-based apps, and the hooks aren't as convenient. The ability to say something like
is actually amazingly concise and powerful. (angle brackets turned to sqare after fighting /.s editor too long and not remembering the required dance this early in the morning)
And, for the record, I tried to use this to co-opt my PHP-based sites and... nothing happened.
Yes, but they cleverly named them "Reference you don't understand or care about" rather than "Pop culture meme that doesn't mean what you think it should mean.
Name better, Try again.