Then China can get them from Israel - problem solved. It's not as if the current Israeli government is going to do what anyone tells them to do even with hollow threats of withdrawing aid money.
It wasn't just IBM. There were plenty of situations where greed won over national interest. When some WWII aircraft manufacturing was to be done in Australia there was some Vickers aircraft parts that were not allowed to be built in Australia because there was an exclusive licence deal about the British developed technology with a German company. Ironically the only Vickers factory allowed to make those parts was bombed. Even more ironically the Australian workaround ended up being used by Ford and GM postwar. There's also pretty good grounds for crying treason over the "liberty ship" coverup in WWII as well, where huge profits paid for via war bonds and taxes, thanks to some serious (and deadly) corner cutting to save costs but not reducing the price to the government, won over making a good product to support the war effort. Pick a war, find who made the most money from it and then it doesn't take a lot of looking about to see things that smell a lot like treason.
but you'd be utterly shocked at the number of companies who simply don't have testbeds, and have only a live system.
Hence utterly ridiculous shit like the massive security holes in dropbox in it's early days (eg. being able to get in without a password and the file hash trick to get other people's files without permission). Not shocked just annoyed at the number of cowboys and turkeys. I had a web hosting bunch near me go broke overnight because their only "backup" was an online mirror that faithfully copied all the corrupted files over the top of the previous known good copy. Even now there's a pervasive "no need for a backup if you have RAID" mentality to fight against any time budgets are being worked out.
My favourite example is the bunch that used large wheeled rubbish bins (trash cans) for bulk tape storage. A new cleaning contractor got rid of ALL the backup tapes for eight federal government departments in one night because the IT contractor (an Australian company known as Telstra) had implemented such a cost saving. Even such an obvious accident waiting to happen, which then happened, wasn't enough to lose the contract.
it seems no one thought about the fact that it would be trivial to send a computer virus that way
Apart from publications even as mainstream as "Scientific American" you mean? I remember reading stuff along those lines in the very early 1980s.
Or in more modern terms, did no one ever stop to consider that it's trivial to transmit malicious code through a website with 3rd party advertisements that can use scripting?
Lots of us did but we were all ignored because we stood in the way of convenience. The history of computing is full of the same mistakes made over and over again due to a short attention span and a rush to get things out before they are finished.
I'd say the big difference is the professionals lose stuff where it doesn't matter before they can seriously be called professionals by their peers. I'm sorry that was not obvious enough from the above post.
LOGO is still around. I didn't get to see it until my early teens but if I'd had access to a computer before then I'd say LOGO would have been a much easier way to start than Applesoft BASIC.
It's funny, because you're seeing the same sort of learning process that the professional programmers and IT people have already gone through
Except we've gone through it on dev networks, virtual networks, or no network at all with machines that we can just happily wipe and start over if necessary.
After that Star Trek set designer shit and other NSA fuckups your sarcastic "should have consulted with you" is far better advice than you intended. The poster you are ridiculing is likely to be more capable than the bunch of toy soldiers who at the top ranks got there more by nepotism than ability. You are probably more capable than them yourself.
Gone are the days you could just hop a commercial plane, use an alternate passport and pass though another country with little risk of being ID'ed
Mossad are alleged to have done exactly that with a group of people involved with an assassination in Dubai a couple of years back. A few countries were a bit annoyed at having their passports faked by that group.
Easy fix - McDonalds diet. High blood pressure kinks those blood vessels to the point where it's a major change obvious to anyone, so likely to mess up a match with an earlier scan. I'm not seriously suggesting it just pointing out a flaw of biometrics due to people's bodies changing over time. Also that creepy movie plot point of taking someone's eye to fool the scanner isn't going to work without a heart pumping blood through it.
The article is about Australia, so no, there was no need 15 years ago or even last week. We have a crime here called "demanding money with menaces" (or similar) that covered speculative invoicing. Without proof from an ISP a person that sent out demands for money while claiming to represent a copyright holder was at risk of serving jail time. A business set up here, with a lot of fanfare, just two years ago in the hope of getting all that "MAFIAA" money folded without sending out a single notice for that reason. Here the legal system still sees copyright infringement as a civil and not criminal matter. Thus it sees shakedown letters as being a far more serious matter than filesharing Breaking Bad. That is changing as a serious of court challenges, like the current one, are spamming our legal system. The current one is the first that "worked" as far as the "MAFIAA" as you call them would see it.
VPN to where though? The USA already has this shit, the UK is probably going to be worse very soon, and the trans-pacific partnership deal has this sort of stuff as part of it.
Until today none of that obfiscation mattered and the Australian ISPs joined the Australian users to raise a middle finger to people who wanted to make copyright infringement a criminal offence.
As expected. I'm a little disappointed but now your above words make a bit more sense given that outlook. Perhaps you are not the sort of person that should be voting after all:)
The expensive space usage stuff is starting to head that way as well thanks to combining small cells with large cheap mirrors.
It also appears that the conventional stuff is now far better housed and mounted. A big hailstorm came through near where I live in November and there's still quite a lot of roof repair and window replacement going on now (April) yet I didn't see a single damaged panel. That may have been due to the direction the storm came from, but even then it demonstrates that the solar panels are a lot more resistant to storm damage than they used to be.
Uncertainty of dying of poisoning, with little or none of it getting into people's bodies versus close to certainty. So merely a bad idea (like lead in fuel) instead of lethal.
How is that at all related?
Lead pipes were used until only a few decades ago so the water you are drinking may have passed through some lead pipework if the building is old enough.
My point - comparing drinking a lot of stuff sweetened with lead acetate versus tiny amounts even on the parts per million scale. The lead pipes the Romans used are certain to have resulted in a better health outcome at the time than more difficult access to fresh water - plus the pipes don't get blamed for anything else in the next couple of thousand years despite being used all over the place. They just got blamed by someone who knew about the pipes, knew about the lead poisoning but didn't know about the incredibly insane (in hindsight) practice of consuming lead acetate.
The good stuff is in space. The cheap stuff is on the roof. The only reason we are stuck with "the same old technology" is because we are looking at the bottom of the market where an economy of scale meshing with semiconductors means we have similar stuff to what was used twenty years ago - elsewhere other stuff is in use.
The lead pipes were mostly fine (and they may be some still in use near you) it's using a lead compound as a sweetener that got a lot of it into the Roman's bodies.
Not geophysical - thus no actual science was harmed or even approached in the making of the report. He probably finally got around to watching a Superman movie.
Also note that "any moment" for Yellowstone is in geological time and not years or decades.
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Then China can get them from Israel - problem solved. It's not as if the current Israeli government is going to do what anyone tells them to do even with hollow threats of withdrawing aid money.
It wasn't just IBM. There were plenty of situations where greed won over national interest. When some WWII aircraft manufacturing was to be done in Australia there was some Vickers aircraft parts that were not allowed to be built in Australia because there was an exclusive licence deal about the British developed technology with a German company. Ironically the only Vickers factory allowed to make those parts was bombed. Even more ironically the Australian workaround ended up being used by Ford and GM postwar.
There's also pretty good grounds for crying treason over the "liberty ship" coverup in WWII as well, where huge profits paid for via war bonds and taxes, thanks to some serious (and deadly) corner cutting to save costs but not reducing the price to the government, won over making a good product to support the war effort.
Pick a war, find who made the most money from it and then it doesn't take a lot of looking about to see things that smell a lot like treason.
Hence utterly ridiculous shit like the massive security holes in dropbox in it's early days (eg. being able to get in without a password and the file hash trick to get other people's files without permission). Not shocked just annoyed at the number of cowboys and turkeys. I had a web hosting bunch near me go broke overnight because their only "backup" was an online mirror that faithfully copied all the corrupted files over the top of the previous known good copy.
Even now there's a pervasive "no need for a backup if you have RAID" mentality to fight against any time budgets are being worked out.
My favourite example is the bunch that used large wheeled rubbish bins (trash cans) for bulk tape storage. A new cleaning contractor got rid of ALL the backup tapes for eight federal government departments in one night because the IT contractor (an Australian company known as Telstra) had implemented such a cost saving. Even such an obvious accident waiting to happen, which then happened, wasn't enough to lose the contract.
Apart from publications even as mainstream as "Scientific American" you mean? I remember reading stuff along those lines in the very early 1980s.
Lots of us did but we were all ignored because we stood in the way of convenience. The history of computing is full of the same mistakes made over and over again due to a short attention span and a rush to get things out before they are finished.
I'd say the big difference is the professionals lose stuff where it doesn't matter before they can seriously be called professionals by their peers. I'm sorry that was not obvious enough from the above post.
LOGO is still around. I didn't get to see it until my early teens but if I'd had access to a computer before then I'd say LOGO would have been a much easier way to start than Applesoft BASIC.
Except we've gone through it on dev networks, virtual networks, or no network at all with machines that we can just happily wipe and start over if necessary.
If you've got sensitive stuff naked on the net then you have seriously fucked up and should not be allowed near other people's sensitive stuff.
After that Star Trek set designer shit and other NSA fuckups your sarcastic "should have consulted with you" is far better advice than you intended. The poster you are ridiculing is likely to be more capable than the bunch of toy soldiers who at the top ranks got there more by nepotism than ability. You are probably more capable than them yourself.
Mossad are alleged to have done exactly that with a group of people involved with an assassination in Dubai a couple of years back. A few countries were a bit annoyed at having their passports faked by that group.
Easy fix - McDonalds diet. High blood pressure kinks those blood vessels to the point where it's a major change obvious to anyone, so likely to mess up a match with an earlier scan.
I'm not seriously suggesting it just pointing out a flaw of biometrics due to people's bodies changing over time. Also that creepy movie plot point of taking someone's eye to fool the scanner isn't going to work without a heart pumping blood through it.
The article is about Australia, so no, there was no need 15 years ago or even last week.
We have a crime here called "demanding money with menaces" (or similar) that covered speculative invoicing. Without proof from an ISP a person that sent out demands for money while claiming to represent a copyright holder was at risk of serving jail time. A business set up here, with a lot of fanfare, just two years ago in the hope of getting all that "MAFIAA" money folded without sending out a single notice for that reason.
Here the legal system still sees copyright infringement as a civil and not criminal matter. Thus it sees shakedown letters as being a far more serious matter than filesharing Breaking Bad. That is changing as a serious of court challenges, like the current one, are spamming our legal system. The current one is the first that "worked" as far as the "MAFIAA" as you call them would see it.
Yes that's pretty obvious when you didn't think about all the bottlenecks from one side of the world to another.
Wow - Australia to Europe at what - 14.4kbps or is there a super fast 56kbps option?
Rupert Murdoch wants it and the current PM is a complete arselicker.
VPN to where though?
The USA already has this shit, the UK is probably going to be worse very soon, and the trans-pacific partnership deal has this sort of stuff as part of it.
Until today none of that obfiscation mattered and the Australian ISPs joined the Australian users to raise a middle finger to people who wanted to make copyright infringement a criminal offence.
As expected. :)
I'm a little disappointed but now your above words make a bit more sense given that outlook.
Perhaps you are not the sort of person that should be voting after all
The expensive space usage stuff is starting to head that way as well thanks to combining small cells with large cheap mirrors.
It also appears that the conventional stuff is now far better housed and mounted. A big hailstorm came through near where I live in November and there's still quite a lot of roof repair and window replacement going on now (April) yet I didn't see a single damaged panel. That may have been due to the direction the storm came from, but even then it demonstrates that the solar panels are a lot more resistant to storm damage than they used to be.
Uncertainty of dying of poisoning, with little or none of it getting into people's bodies versus close to certainty. So merely a bad idea (like lead in fuel) instead of lethal.
Lead pipes were used until only a few decades ago so the water you are drinking may have passed through some lead pipework if the building is old enough.
My point - comparing drinking a lot of stuff sweetened with lead acetate versus tiny amounts even on the parts per million scale.
The lead pipes the Romans used are certain to have resulted in a better health outcome at the time than more difficult access to fresh water - plus the pipes don't get blamed for anything else in the next couple of thousand years despite being used all over the place. They just got blamed by someone who knew about the pipes, knew about the lead poisoning but didn't know about the incredibly insane (in hindsight) practice of consuming lead acetate.
The good stuff is in space. The cheap stuff is on the roof. The only reason we are stuck with "the same old technology" is because we are looking at the bottom of the market where an economy of scale meshing with semiconductors means we have similar stuff to what was used twenty years ago - elsewhere other stuff is in use.
It still burns it's just harder to do. That's how an oxy-acetylene cutter works after all.
Surely washing clothes by hand cuts down on energy usage :)
The lead pipes were mostly fine (and they may be some still in use near you) it's using a lead compound as a sweetener that got a lot of it into the Roman's bodies.
Not geophysical - thus no actual science was harmed or even approached in the making of the report.
He probably finally got around to watching a Superman movie.
Also note that "any moment" for Yellowstone is in geological time and not years or decades.