Regarding the initial premise, from a distance our solar system just looks like gas giants orbiting the sun. We couldn't find ourselves and we know exactly what to look for.
The bigger question is are we stable enough to have the time to find or be found by intelligent life? We haven't been here and aware but for the briefest period of time, and unless we diversify out into the universe, we're only here until the next big earth crossing body doesn't quite cross and we join the earlier earthlings (dionsaurs) as a natural resourse on this rock.
We should probably talk in terms of how many orders of magnitude of change we have seen. My first 'real' PC came with a 4 mhz z-80 and had a whopping 64K of memory. It had 2 floppy drives, One for the OS and program I was running, Wordstar, dBase II, etc. and one for the data. Came with everything you would expect in a business computer but a printer for about $1700 US. At 23 pounds, with a handle, it was considered a portable.
I remember the first time I saw super good deal on a HD. 10 Meg for only $1000 dollars! I'm mean to say at only $100/meg that was amazing--and that was in Early '80s dollars. A few months ago I went over a terrabyte at home with drives well under a dollar a gig.--simply amazing!
Comm has come nearly as far. I was living in Germany in the early '80s and you could get a 300 bps acoustic modem for about $350 or if you actually wanted to touch their wires you could rent a 1200 bps modem from the BundesPost for about $90/month. It was all x.25 packet back then so to connect to 'The Source' or Compuserve you got to pay about $12.50 an hour and pay per character which I later calculated at about $20/hour at 300bps.
My first months bill, just looking around at stuff, was about $800 (that is when I learned it was per character) and even though I cut back drastically, next month was $400 because of the billing cycle before I stabilized out at $70-80/month.
But it was worth it, I was hooked into the world!
It still never ceases to amaze me how far we have come in such a short time every time I look at the adverts.
What Gore (and the others in congress) did was allow the Internet to be commercialized!
As the ancients among us will remember clearly, before about 10 years ago saying or doing anything that could be considered commercial was completely forbidden. It was also about the surest way to be flamed into oblivion.
When congress changed that, the Internet became the crass commercial space we have today. So for better or worse, they're to blame.
...we talking about a multi-billion dollar company that just completely sold out its initial stock of iPod Minis..."
This is classic Apple stratagy going back a very long time. When a product comes out, a shortage is created to create desirability through scarcity. Sometimes they blame the suppliers. "Darn, we can get enough PowerPC chips" Sometimes they blame the forcasters." Darn, we had no idea they would sell so fast." But the effect is the same and if you went back through Apple's history you'd see countless examples.
You might argue they are loosing sales. Yes and no, they loose some sales to scarcity but ensure the ones out there aren't deeply discounted and people are trained to not quibble about price. "Oh I'd better buy it quick before it's gone."
'Petabytes--how quaint, do you have any idea how much it takes to store all these "Holo-Deck"/Matrix virtual worlds everybodies so hooked on these days?'
...yet tapes 30 years old still have readable data with few errors.
I don't know what kind of 30 year old tapes you use, but a few years ago we transfered all of our remaing 9 track archival tapes back onto a hard drive prior to re-backing them up on to DLT, we had quite a lot of loss. These were stored in a datacenter environment not some basement.
The point is real long term is not really an issue because the hardware and drivers don't stand the test of time. So unless you are going to keep a complete old system around just to restore the tapes, you just have to resign yourself to transfering things to newer tape systems every so many years.
...for our non-US neighbors, FCC stand for Federal Communications Commission. It is the American Government agency that regulates broadcast and frequency spectrum allocation among other things.
Of course, the USA didn't get things right on the first try either.
228 years later we still don't have it right. Recent evidence includes the FCC decision to let the Murdocs, Viacoms and ClearChannels of this world own huge swaths of the Televisions and radio markets making many good sized markets one provider towns. When all your broadcast news comes from one source, how 'fair and balanced'(tm) do you think it will be?
Sure, the digirati have other options but Grandma and Joe Six-Pack get their news from TV and talk radio.
I feel about Matrix exactly the way I do about Highlander...There should have been only one.
Sometime the greed of making sequels until they stop making money. Examples are legion, Planet of the reMakes" comes to mind. Does anybody really believe that the "trilogy" concept for Matrix wasn't hatched after they were suprised by how well the first move did at the boxoffice?
Yeah, at my job we do lots of work with the Veterans Administration.
While the VA isn't cutting edge--not by a long shot, they'd have to use a lot more tax-payer money to make a serious crack at it. It is all a matter of priorities spending your hard earned taxes.
However let me suggest the next time you do business with the VA you ask the IRM guy or the Information Security Officer about getting you a "One-VA" VPN account. The VA has all but gotten rid of regular dial-up. The remaining Dial-Up (short of some rogue site somewhere) puts you into a DMZ where you still have to VPN in even on dial-up. So you really want to dump the dial-up thing on your next VA contract.
I don't know, but I certainly wouldn't complain to see Novell take back a sizeable bite of the business that was stolen from them.
It was not stolen from them, they gave it away. They lost market share with arrogance and poor support that at the time made Micro$oft seem a breath of fresh air. Their support devolved to where didn't want to even talk to you if you weren't a CNE. The whole certification racket they pioneered was a brilliant stratagem. It got people to pay Novell for the privilege of doing their technical support for them. It was so successful that Microsoft later copied it.
Novell's near ruin was largely the result of thinking that a 90% market share makes you unaccountable to you customers. The ash heap of the industry is littered with companies, Digital Research (CP/M), Lotus, Ashton-Tate (dBase), WordStar, who made that same mistake.
I know that all those old players are gone and only the name is the same, but I was struck with real pangs of apprehension when I heard they were buying SuSE. It was the irrational fear that they would do to SuSE what they did to WordPerfect.
Legally, a corporation is a person, and I suspect this person has changed. I truly wish them well.
Of course, really it is not $26M unless they can dump the common stock for the $13M which if they try to do all at once would certainly drive the price through the floor.
Does Samba have some of the same security flaws?
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Since Samba is trying to work like Windows server as closely as possible, is it subject to some/any of the same vulnerabilities? Obviously you're going to miss wormy code specific stuff, but what about vulnerabilities based on Windows logical functioning?
Is Samba maintained to close Windows vulnerabilities that might affect it, soon after they are found? To sell switching, I need to be able to say to my boss, that the flaw that Microsoft just patched, doesn't affect the Samba server, or it can be patched there too.
> Saying that film grain is a defect is like saying pixels are a defect.
In a manner of speaking they are. The finer the grain, or the greater the number of pixels, the greater the detail that can be represented. If you don't like defect, perhaps limitation is better.
They are both limitations in representing the original analog scene.
Is there a way with YAST to update the kernel version if you have no special tweaks?
I've always appriciated how with a command line switch, you could run RH up2date and have it add a new kernel to the list for bootup.
I'm not trolling for 'real mean roll their own' replies, I would just like to know if it can do the RH up2date trick of updating the kernel version at the bootup screen.
The reality is, that is about your only option. In a society where businesses get sued based on the actions of their employees, they have a real interest in knowing a bit about you.
This is all public information available at the county court house. I do background checks and all I have to do is get off my fat ass and go there.
The point is you do have to get up and go there. It brings the cost up. You have to track down all the diverse physical locations the data is kept and visit them to gleen the info. You are less likely to go through that without a legit need versus just sitting at home and getting the scoop on all you're neighbors, co-workers, etc. with a couple of clicks.
Ok, let me rephrase what I wrote in another message.
Open ports per se are not insecure!
Of course that is true, but it goes back to the old saw about 'defense in depth'. Yes, someone can compromise a machine on the same switch, and ultimately listen to the sequence for replay. However you have greatly increased the cost to the attacker. Unless you, in particular, are the target it is not a cost any will bother to pay.
Even if they manage it, now they have an open port and then still have to compromise ssh. The more layers of defenses, the higher the cost to the attacker. This seems like an elegant way to raise that cost.
My first computer was a tan case Osborne 1. It was about half the price of an IBM and much more capable.
I still have it and the original loose leaf owners manual. It isn't 'stock' since in addition to the Osborne approved upgrades, I added a 8088 daughter board with a meg of memory to run MS DOS 2.0 programs. The 8088 and DOS were worthless but the 1 meg of RAM used as a RAM disk made it faster than DOS machines until 8Mhz AT clase machines came out with a 286 processor.
I should go out to the garage and fetch it. I have not booted it up in a long time. It is responsible for starting me in my present occupation.
It seems a poor use of time to come up with a new variant of an example just for the appearance of 'new'.
The Napoleon/Kant example illustrates the point he was making. So why waste effort trying to come up with another way to say it?
The goal behind modern programming is to reuse the debugged bits rather than reinventing the same thing.
We are used to newer is better in technology, and rightly so. However, any profound concept or invention will stand the test of time.
As Eco said elsewhere in the article, some items have remained unchanged for centuries because they have approached optimum. Spoons, hammers, and more recently bicycles, have not changed radically in a very long time for that reason.
It is usually best not to buy a new car model in the first year because the refinement that happens from the feedback of the 'early adopters' will make the next years model better.
As he continues to speak on this issue that he thinks is worth thinking about, he continues refine it. I prefer that to someone who shoots from the hip and never really thinks about something with enough depth to fully consider it.
Either way, linux growth is going to stop dead for a good chunk of time while these issues with Redhat and Suse settle down.
I actually I see it as a net positive even though I had had to get over the shock of my favorite distro going to the same company whose poor customer service left a bad taste even before they ruined WordPerfect.
The reason is this: I think we can be pretty sure that their lawyers clearly analyzed the SCO effect and would not have bought a company with so much to loose if SCO had any chance of success.
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The bigger question is are we stable enough to have the time to find or be found by intelligent life? We haven't been here and aware but for the briefest period of time, and unless we diversify out into the universe, we're only here until the next big earth crossing body doesn't quite cross and we join the earlier earthlings (dionsaurs) as a natural resourse on this rock.
Don't bunch up, one grenade will get us all.
I remember the first time I saw super good deal on a HD. 10 Meg for only $1000 dollars! I'm mean to say at only $100/meg that was amazing--and that was in Early '80s dollars. A few months ago I went over a terrabyte at home with drives well under a dollar a gig.--simply amazing!
Comm has come nearly as far. I was living in Germany in the early '80s and you could get a 300 bps acoustic modem for about $350 or if you actually wanted to touch their wires you could rent a 1200 bps modem from the BundesPost for about $90/month. It was all x.25 packet back then so to connect to 'The Source' or Compuserve you got to pay about $12.50 an hour and pay per character which I later calculated at about $20/hour at 300bps.
My first months bill, just looking around at stuff, was about $800 (that is when I learned it was per character) and even though I cut back drastically, next month was $400 because of the billing cycle before I stabilized out at $70-80/month.
But it was worth it, I was hooked into the world!
It still never ceases to amaze me how far we have come in such a short time every time I look at the adverts.
As the ancients among us will remember clearly, before about 10 years ago saying or doing anything that could be considered commercial was completely forbidden. It was also about the surest way to be flamed into oblivion.
When congress changed that, the Internet became the crass commercial space we have today. So for better or worse, they're to blame.
You're right of course, Americans do it all the time. Sir Charles of basketball, Queen Latifa, Prince...
New Zealand owes is security to its remoteness and a big ocean...and that it has already supressed the natives.
This is classic Apple stratagy going back a very long time. When a product comes out, a shortage is created to create desirability through scarcity. Sometimes they blame the suppliers. "Darn, we can get enough PowerPC chips" Sometimes they blame the forcasters." Darn, we had no idea they would sell so fast." But the effect is the same and if you went back through Apple's history you'd see countless examples.
You might argue they are loosing sales. Yes and no, they loose some sales to scarcity but ensure the ones out there aren't deeply discounted and people are trained to not quibble about price. "Oh I'd better buy it quick before it's gone."
Happy Now?
Overheard in that same Fantasy world:
'Petabytes--how quaint, do you have any idea how much it takes to store all these "Holo-Deck"/Matrix virtual worlds everybodies so hooked on these days?'
I don't know what kind of 30 year old tapes you use, but a few years ago we transfered all of our remaing 9 track archival tapes back onto a hard drive prior to re-backing them up on to DLT, we had quite a lot of loss. These were stored in a datacenter environment not some basement.
The point is real long term is not really an issue because the hardware and drivers don't stand the test of time. So unless you are going to keep a complete old system around just to restore the tapes, you just have to resign yourself to transfering things to newer tape systems every so many years.
...for our non-US neighbors, FCC stand for Federal Communications Commission. It is the American Government agency that regulates broadcast and frequency spectrum allocation among other things.
228 years later we still don't have it right. Recent evidence includes the FCC decision to let the Murdocs, Viacoms and ClearChannels of this world own huge swaths of the Televisions and radio markets making many good sized markets one provider towns. When all your broadcast news comes from one source, how 'fair and balanced'(tm) do you think it will be?
Sure, the digirati have other options but Grandma and Joe Six-Pack get their news from TV and talk radio.
Sometime the greed of making sequels until they stop making money. Examples are legion, Planet of the reMakes" comes to mind. Does anybody really believe that the "trilogy" concept for Matrix wasn't hatched after they were suprised by how well the first move did at the boxoffice?
While the VA isn't cutting edge--not by a long shot, they'd have to use a lot more tax-payer money to make a serious crack at it. It is all a matter of priorities spending your hard earned taxes.
However let me suggest the next time you do business with the VA you ask the IRM guy or the Information Security Officer about getting you a "One-VA" VPN account. The VA has all but gotten rid of regular dial-up. The remaining Dial-Up (short of some rogue site somewhere) puts you into a DMZ where you still have to VPN in even on dial-up. So you really want to dump the dial-up thing on your next VA contract.
It was not stolen from them, they gave it away. They lost market share with arrogance and poor support that at the time made Micro$oft seem a breath of fresh air. Their support devolved to where didn't want to even talk to you if you weren't a CNE. The whole certification racket they pioneered was a brilliant stratagem. It got people to pay Novell for the privilege of doing their technical support for them. It was so successful that Microsoft later copied it.
Novell's near ruin was largely the result of thinking that a 90% market share makes you unaccountable to you customers. The ash heap of the industry is littered with companies, Digital Research (CP/M), Lotus, Ashton-Tate (dBase), WordStar, who made that same mistake.
I know that all those old players are gone and only the name is the same, but I was struck with real pangs of apprehension when I heard they were buying SuSE. It was the irrational fear that they would do to SuSE what they did to WordPerfect.
Legally, a corporation is a person, and I suspect this person has changed. I truly wish them well.
Of course, really it is not $26M unless they can dump the common stock for the $13M which if they try to do all at once would certainly drive the price through the floor.
Is Samba maintained to close Windows vulnerabilities that might affect it, soon after they are found? To sell switching, I need to be able to say to my boss, that the flaw that Microsoft just patched, doesn't affect the Samba server, or it can be patched there too.
In a manner of speaking they are. The finer the grain, or the greater the number of pixels, the greater the detail that can be represented. If you don't like defect, perhaps limitation is better.
They are both limitations in representing the original analog scene.
I've always appriciated how with a command line switch, you could run RH up2date and have it add a new kernel to the list for bootup.
I'm not trolling for 'real mean roll their own' replies, I would just like to know if it can do the RH up2date trick of updating the kernel version at the bootup screen.
The reality is, that is about your only option. In a society where businesses get sued based on the actions of their employees, they have a real interest in knowing a bit about you.
The point is you do have to get up and go there. It brings the cost up. You have to track down all the diverse physical locations the data is kept and visit them to gleen the info. You are less likely to go through that without a legit need versus just sitting at home and getting the scoop on all you're neighbors, co-workers, etc. with a couple of clicks.
For starters, there's the sticker that seals the top of the box. `Business License Required,' it reads.
Whew, I feel sooo much better, I was thinking just anybody could get their package....sigh!
http://www.portknocking.org/view/about/obscurity
It does a much better job of explaining this than anything yet posted here.
Open ports per se are not insecure!
Of course that is true, but it goes back to the old saw about 'defense in depth'. Yes, someone can compromise a machine on the same switch, and ultimately listen to the sequence for replay. However you have greatly increased the cost to the attacker. Unless you, in particular, are the target it is not a cost any will bother to pay.
Even if they manage it, now they have an open port and then still have to compromise ssh. The more layers of defenses, the higher the cost to the attacker. This seems like an elegant way to raise that cost.
I still have it and the original loose leaf owners manual. It isn't 'stock' since in addition to the Osborne approved upgrades, I added a 8088 daughter board with a meg of memory to run MS DOS 2.0 programs. The 8088 and DOS were worthless but the 1 meg of RAM used as a RAM disk made it faster than DOS machines until 8Mhz AT clase machines came out with a 286 processor.
I should go out to the garage and fetch it. I have not booted it up in a long time. It is responsible for starting me in my present occupation.
The Napoleon/Kant example illustrates the point he was making. So why waste effort trying to come up with another way to say it?
The goal behind modern programming is to reuse the debugged bits rather than reinventing the same thing.
We are used to newer is better in technology, and rightly so. However, any profound concept or invention will stand the test of time. As Eco said elsewhere in the article, some items have remained unchanged for centuries because they have approached optimum. Spoons, hammers, and more recently bicycles, have not changed radically in a very long time for that reason.
It is usually best not to buy a new car model in the first year because the refinement that happens from the feedback of the 'early adopters' will make the next years model better. As he continues to speak on this issue that he thinks is worth thinking about, he continues refine it. I prefer that to someone who shoots from the hip and never really thinks about something with enough depth to fully consider it.
I actually I see it as a net positive even though I had had to get over the shock of my favorite distro going to the same company whose poor customer service left a bad taste even before they ruined WordPerfect.
The reason is this: I think we can be pretty sure that their lawyers clearly analyzed the SCO effect and would not have bought a company with so much to loose if SCO had any chance of success.