It's funny you should mention this. I am finishing up my MBA (MIS concentration) and in my system analysis and design class, we studied nearly all of the topics discussed in this book. I believe the text that we used even cited many passages from this book. We then had to complete a group project, which forced us to utilize the material in a somewhat realistic setting (creating a project time tracking app). So the MBA's that want to work in technology are getting at least exposed to this. Hopefully this will make for better management, but who know's.
I'm not an expert, but this is my basic understanding. ECC is a public key encryption algorithm. The challenge was to find the private keys using a list of public keys and a set of system rules. If two computers find keys (DP points) that are the same, then theoretically, the encryption has been cracked, i.e. the private key has been found. It's a brute force method. This shows, however, that it is very hard to crack the encryption and would be generally useless, since by the time you cracked the encryption, whatever you were trying to read is probably not relevant anymore. However, with a fast enough computer or group of computers, it could be useful.
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Oh no, I have a Bachelor degree in philosophy and will be finishing my MBA in August!!!! What does that make me? An uber-PHB?!?!
Even though I hate them with a passion, people do "Learn" something in the home decorating shows. It just may not be something you (or I) are interested in.
As far as your comment about the Hacker/Cracker distinction - I could not agree more.
Good point. However, given what they knew then, they made the best decision they could, all things equal. Hindsight is always 20/20. It is very easy to critize the decisions from the side lines. It's another thing to actually make the call on the field.
You statement that "the almighty buck is most important" is completely correct. It is the duty of any US company, given this countries business and accounting laws, to provide the highest return possible to the shareholders. Dell is not some 2 bit operation. They certainly did a cost analysis on the decision. Given what they know now, I am sure they picked the most profitable solution, all things considered. If they do move back in five years, things will have to have change significantly for them to make suck a move. However, given what is known now, I am betting that they don't move back anytime soon.
Just my 2 cents
I think that this community insulates itself too much from what is going on in the business world. This is a good representation of how the business world views the open source model. Its good to see some constructive discussion on the issue, since these are the real people running the world, as much as we would love to deny it! The first step in fixing a problem is identifying the problem.
Thanks. This was the first, actually funny, comment I have read on Slashdot. To bad I laughed out loud, which sent up red flares in the office. Anyone who is laughing at my place of employment is obviously not working! Now I'm on double secret probation.
Jackass,
Wait a fucking minute. Maybe it was because we had a dynamic IP and it changed to an IP that was used by a spammer? Do you think maybe that could be the reason? We switched to static and fixed the problem. Also, these lists block blocks of IP addresses, you could be blocked if you happened to get an IP address in that block even though you didn't spam anyone. We dont have an open realy. Oh, but I forgot, everyone on/. is a fucking genius and knows everything. Your late for home room fuck wad!
Same thing has happened to me. We can no longer email several business contacts because of Joe Jared and his lovely list. I had to change our IP address serveral times. It is starting to get old. We never spam, or send out email on mailing lists, yet we are punished becaue of those that do. There has to be a better solution than SPEWS!
They sure as hell better come up with a better solution than what they do now! It would really be nice if they would release patches that don't crash your system. Last time I tried to patch one of our servers, it "upgraded" some system files and wouldn't allow me to reboot (BSoD). Thank good for Google, since the knowledge base didn't have the answer on how to fix that "added feature."
JB
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It's funny you should mention this. I am finishing up my MBA (MIS concentration) and in my system analysis and design class, we studied nearly all of the topics discussed in this book. I believe the text that we used even cited many passages from this book. We then had to complete a group project, which forced us to utilize the material in a somewhat realistic setting (creating a project time tracking app). So the MBA's that want to work in technology are getting at least exposed to this. Hopefully this will make for better management, but who know's.
I'm not an expert, but this is my basic understanding. ECC is a public key encryption algorithm. The challenge was to find the private keys using a list of public keys and a set of system rules. If two computers find keys (DP points) that are the same, then theoretically, the encryption has been cracked, i.e. the private key has been found. It's a brute force method. This shows, however, that it is very hard to crack the encryption and would be generally useless, since by the time you cracked the encryption, whatever you were trying to read is probably not relevant anymore. However, with a fast enough computer or group of computers, it could be useful.
Oh no, I have a Bachelor degree in philosophy and will be finishing my MBA in August!!!! What does that make me? An uber-PHB?!?!
Even though I hate them with a passion, people do "Learn" something in the home decorating shows. It just may not be something you (or I) are interested in. As far as your comment about the Hacker/Cracker distinction - I could not agree more.
I don't have any quid! I'm American, you insensitive clod! Sorry, I had too ;-)
creates better code. Evolution occurs in a dynamic environment, not in a static one. Just my 2 cents.
Good point. However, given what they knew then, they made the best decision they could, all things equal. Hindsight is always 20/20. It is very easy to critize the decisions from the side lines. It's another thing to actually make the call on the field.
You statement that "the almighty buck is most important" is completely correct. It is the duty of any US company, given this countries business and accounting laws, to provide the highest return possible to the shareholders. Dell is not some 2 bit operation. They certainly did a cost analysis on the decision. Given what they know now, I am sure they picked the most profitable solution, all things considered. If they do move back in five years, things will have to have change significantly for them to make suck a move. However, given what is known now, I am betting that they don't move back anytime soon. Just my 2 cents
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I think that this community insulates itself too much from what is going on in the business world. This is a good representation of how the business world views the open source model. Its good to see some constructive discussion on the issue, since these are the real people running the world, as much as we would love to deny it! The first step in fixing a problem is identifying the problem.
Thanks. This was the first, actually funny, comment I have read on Slashdot. To bad I laughed out loud, which sent up red flares in the office. Anyone who is laughing at my place of employment is obviously not working! Now I'm on double secret probation.
Jackass, Wait a fucking minute. Maybe it was because we had a dynamic IP and it changed to an IP that was used by a spammer? Do you think maybe that could be the reason? We switched to static and fixed the problem. Also, these lists block blocks of IP addresses, you could be blocked if you happened to get an IP address in that block even though you didn't spam anyone. We dont have an open realy. Oh, but I forgot, everyone on /. is a fucking genius and knows everything. Your late for home room fuck wad!
Same thing has happened to me. We can no longer email several business contacts because of Joe Jared and his lovely list. I had to change our IP address serveral times. It is starting to get old. We never spam, or send out email on mailing lists, yet we are punished becaue of those that do. There has to be a better solution than SPEWS!
I thought it looked remenisint of Blue Curve?
They sure as hell better come up with a better solution than what they do now! It would really be nice if they would release patches that don't crash your system. Last time I tried to patch one of our servers, it "upgraded" some system files and wouldn't allow me to reboot (BSoD). Thank good for Google, since the knowledge base didn't have the answer on how to fix that "added feature." JB