It's hard to argue against saving massive amounts of money every month by saying it exposes new security vulnerabilities. Someone will say "We will just add a firewall, problem solved. Let's play golf!".
It's even simpler than this! In most cases, insurence companies will gladly offer cheaper protection against occasional hacks than a more expensive hardening that would require much more money AND time to be implemented.
ARTHUR: Old crone! [rewr!][music stops] Is there anywhere in this town where we could buy a shrubbery?[dramatic chord]
OLD CRONE: Who sent you?
ARTHUR: The Corporations Who Say 'Spim'.
[...]
ARTHUR: Spim!
CRONE:[cough]
BEDEVERE: Spam!
ARTHUR: No, no, no, no, i--
BEDEVERE: Spam!
ARTHUR: No, it's not that. It's 'Spim'.
BEDEVERE: Spam!
ARTHUR: No, no. 'Spim'. You're not doing it properly. No.
BEDEVERE: Spim!
ARTHUR and BEDEVERE: Spim!
ARTHUR: That's it. That's it. You've got it.
[...]
ROGER THE SHRUBBER: Are you saying 'Spim' to that old woman?
ARTHUR: Erm,... yes.
ROGER: Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say 'spim' at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land. Nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
The article states, that metal containers (say, a can of coke) and RFID tags don't match well. Is this really true? What if the RFID tag's antenna connects to the metal? Wouldn't the metal become a bigger antenna, thus increasing the range?
Why would you need to water cool that metal, if it could just fan out into a large surface some inches away from the chip? How much cooling surface do we need for current CPUs?
I'm actually wondering why the large metal case of most MIDI towers ain't used as dissipation surface in the first place.
I wonder why MS doesn't get its Server 2003 Unix-certified.
That's the funny thing about Unix. All it takes is a set of syscalls and libraries that would provide userland apps with all required interfaces. Unix is just some kind of virtual machine that userland programs can invoke and expect some kind of behaviour.
So, if Server 2003 implemented all those interfaces, it would effectively be Unix, and could be certified as such.
This is similar to the Soekrisnet4801, which also uses a GEODE CPU. I'm using one of those boxes @home as an ADSL router, thttpd, postfix, cyrus/imap server, running FreeBSD 5.3-RC using a 2.5" laptop hdd. Works like a charm! And uses less than 10 watt power too.
(* curly braces were not part of the ISO standard *) program Anniversary (OUTPUT); (* define file used *) begin writeln ('Happy 30th Anniversary Pascal. You roxxorzz') (* semicolon not needed before end *) end.
That's one of the main reasons why instructors should use Python in introductory programming assignements. Once students get into the habit of properly indenting code (because, with Python, they must), they'll stick to it later in their professional life too.
When the general public decides that it's too big of a pain in the ass to do anything on the Internet, the Internet will start to shrink.
What would be wrong with that? Seriously? If the uneducated part of the general public left, this would only be beneficial to the rest of us. It may also increase S/N ratio. It would also deter spammers by making the smaller Internet population less attractive to them etc...
You can't a posteriori secure systems that have never been designed with security in mind. It's a lost battle, no matter what ingeneous ideas you or your AV vendors may come up with. Get over it.
Or at least move the more sensitive systems to a heavily firewalled environment within your net. This means: blocking ALL incoming (obvious) AND outgoing (spyware wants to phone, mail,... home) traffic; effectively isolating the subnets from the rest of the net. It's not always necessary to be hooked to the outside world. If departments can connect to your data center or servers, that's all they need. Nothing more, nothing less.
... or switch to more secure operating systems, be they MacOS, *BSD/Linux, Solaris,..., or whatever else can provide a decent desktop and office apps for your company.
In some countries, Amazon has a great infrastructure; much better than any other local retailer. It's simply the easiest and fastest way to order books there, that would take AGES to get through other online retailers or local book stores. It's also often cheaper than ordering from other foreign online book stores that charge a fortune for intl. shipment.
So Amazon is not playing nice with its 1-Click patent (esp. on direct competitors like BN), but are there real reasons to avoid them, besides ideological arguments?
Nothing that Google offers is really unique or irreplacable. If they started to behave badly, alternatives would be more than happy to take their place. Google is currently very dependent from the goodwill of us users. They are actually everybody's darling, because they offer the best possible service net-wide. Should this change in the future, users could quickly switch to greener pastures.
A cheap geek is not a real geek. A cheap geek is just someone who didn't hone his or her skills to remain competitive. Geekyness means to remain innovative and alert; and whoever is like this, is unlikely to loose their jobs to a "cheap geek".
Geek culture is (and has always been) a meritocracy; and it just shows here too.
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C++ is a great language, but it's choosy about its friends. It takes some time to master all (well most) advanced aspects, but as soon as you do, nothing beats a good C++/STL combo.
What I don't like about C++ standard, is the lack of a decent socket library that would be part of the i/o streams. There are non-portable classes for this of course, and everyone could roll their own, but it's not in the C++ standard (yet).
IMHO, one of Java/C# biggest advantages over C++ is this particular aspect. Not that it would convince me though to switch away from C++ to Java, which simply doesn't cut it yet.
For fast prototyping, I'd stick to Python, but when performance really matters, C++ is still king!
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It's hard to argue against saving massive amounts of money every month by saying it exposes new security vulnerabilities. Someone will say "We will just add a firewall, problem solved. Let's play golf!".
It's even simpler than this! In most cases, insurence companies will gladly offer cheaper protection against occasional hacks than a more expensive hardening that would require much more money AND time to be implemented.
Why the hell do the diebold voting machines use windows?!
So they have an excuse, if something goes wrong?
ARTHUR: Old crone! [rewr!][music stops] Is there anywhere in this town where we could buy a shrubbery?[dramatic chord]
OLD CRONE: Who sent you?
ARTHUR: The Corporations Who Say 'Spim'.
[...]
ARTHUR: Spim!
CRONE:[cough]
BEDEVERE: Spam!
ARTHUR: No, no, no, no, i--
BEDEVERE: Spam!
ARTHUR: No, it's not that. It's 'Spim'.
BEDEVERE: Spam!
ARTHUR: No, no. 'Spim'. You're not doing it properly. No.
BEDEVERE: Spim!
ARTHUR and BEDEVERE: Spim!
ARTHUR: That's it. That's it. You've got it.
[...]
ROGER THE SHRUBBER: Are you saying 'Spim' to that old woman?
ARTHUR: Erm,... yes.
ROGER: Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say 'spim' at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land. Nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
The article states, that metal containers (say, a can of coke) and RFID tags don't match well. Is this really true? What if the RFID tag's antenna connects to the metal? Wouldn't the metal become a bigger antenna, thus increasing the range?
If NetBSD is allowed, would a toaster do?
Why would you need to water cool that metal, if it could just fan out into a large surface some inches away from the chip? How much cooling surface do we need for current CPUs?
I'm actually wondering why the large metal case of most MIDI towers ain't used as dissipation surface in the first place.
So is UnixWare Unix anymore?
I wonder why MS doesn't get its Server 2003 Unix-certified.
That's the funny thing about Unix. All it takes is a set of syscalls and libraries that would provide userland apps with all required interfaces. Unix is just some kind of virtual machine that userland programs can invoke and expect some kind of behaviour.
So, if Server 2003 implemented all those interfaces, it would effectively be Unix, and could be certified as such.
Now... does it?
This is similar to the Soekris net4801, which also uses a GEODE CPU. I'm using one of those boxes @home as an ADSL router, thttpd, postfix, cyrus/imap server, running FreeBSD 5.3-RC using a 2.5" laptop hdd. Works like a charm! And uses less than 10 watt power too.
But while you walk around with a non shield RFID the CIA will know exactly who you are and able to add notes to your passport with out your knowledge.
How silly. The CIA would have a representative sitting at the reading terminal itself!
The Wizard Book is still [one of?] the best introductory CS course[s] around. It's being used in Universities all around the world.
Even more nitpicking:
Not to forget the contracts with and royalties to the fraunhofer gesellschaft who owns the mp3 patents...
On a second thought, you may be right.
Learn to love whitespaces
That's one of the main reasons why instructors should use Python in introductory programming assignements. Once students get into the habit of properly indenting code (because, with Python, they must), they'll stick to it later in their professional life too.
That's exactly like cellphone jammers. Illegal, but incredibly useful anyway.
When the general public decides that it's too big of a pain in the ass to do anything on the Internet, the Internet will start to shrink.
What would be wrong with that? Seriously? If the uneducated part of the general public left, this would only be beneficial to the rest of us. It may also increase S/N ratio. It would also deter spammers by making the smaller Internet population less attractive to them etc...
So much for the electronic frontier. Anarchy is always good until you have actual people involved.
Well, Wikipedia and other wikis are the proof that this is not necessarily true.
You can't a posteriori secure systems that have never been designed with security in mind. It's a lost battle, no matter what ingeneous ideas you or your AV vendors may come up with. Get over it.
Or at least move the more sensitive systems to a heavily firewalled environment within your net. This means: blocking ALL incoming (obvious) AND outgoing (spyware wants to phone, mail, ... home) traffic; effectively isolating the subnets from the rest of the net. It's not always necessary to be hooked to the outside world. If departments can connect to your data center or servers, that's all they need. Nothing more, nothing less.
... or switch to more secure operating systems, be they MacOS, *BSD/Linux, Solaris, ..., or whatever else can provide a decent desktop and office apps for your company.
Good luck!
In other countires, Amazon buys YOU!
In some countries, Amazon has a great infrastructure; much better than any other local retailer. It's simply the easiest and fastest way to order books there, that would take AGES to get through other online retailers or local book stores. It's also often cheaper than ordering from other foreign online book stores that charge a fortune for intl. shipment.
So Amazon is not playing nice with its 1-Click patent (esp. on direct competitors like BN), but are there real reasons to avoid them, besides ideological arguments?
Nothing that Google offers is really unique or irreplacable. If they started to behave badly, alternatives would be more than happy to take their place. Google is currently very dependent from the goodwill of us users. They are actually everybody's darling, because they offer the best possible service net-wide. Should this change in the future, users could quickly switch to greener pastures.
zip and stuffit are available on Unix too...
A cheap geek is not a real geek. A cheap geek is just someone who didn't hone his or her skills to remain competitive. Geekyness means to remain innovative and alert; and whoever is like this, is unlikely to loose their jobs to a "cheap geek".
Geek culture is (and has always been) a meritocracy; and it just shows here too.
C++ is a great language, but it's choosy about its friends. It takes some time to master all (well most) advanced aspects, but as soon as you do, nothing beats a good C++/STL combo.
What I don't like about C++ standard, is the lack of a decent socket library that would be part of the i/o streams. There are non-portable classes for this of course, and everyone could roll their own, but it's not in the C++ standard (yet).
IMHO, one of Java/C# biggest advantages over C++ is this particular aspect. Not that it would convince me though to switch away from C++ to Java, which simply doesn't cut it yet.
For fast prototyping, I'd stick to Python, but when performance really matters, C++ is still king!