Don't think of humans in isolation. Think of them in combination with their technology.
Yes, but all those advances are only maintained due to external factors. Take away the technology or limit it in some way (think scarcer cheap energy), and all of a sudden we take several steps backwards.
I advise them to take a nursery rhyme that they like, take the first letter's as you mention, and capitalize proper names. Then leave it up to them to add a few numeric digits (or use 1 for "one" instead of "o"), or add a 2 digit special number at the beginning, middle or end (like a day of the month they know well).
What's worse, is that I am not aware of any popular open source programs for industrial control systems.
Not sure how popular it is, but http://puffinscada.org/ has been around a while.
Your story reminds me of a fellow engineering grad student at the time, a Pakastani fellow who could code simulations for non-linear systems like nobody's business (things like the dynamics of the tip of a helicopter rotor blade).
He marvelled at Netscape's meteoric rise to stardom, and at how simplistic a browser app was to write. Knowing what he was capable of doing, I couldn't disagree, but it was completely impossible to guess what the ramifications of technology would be. You can hardly fault yourself.
I guess innovation is a little bit like art. I'll know it when I see it (just a lot later!).
When it comes to virus warnings, predictions, and precautions. There's a stark choice.
Cry wolf and have nothing happen, or stick head in sand and get kicked in the butt?
Aren't there enough of these? Free and otherwise? We've been using Unfied Threat Management devices to augment desktop AV, particularly because of the better network monitoring that can be achieved.
Is pretty much standard now if you are using a Unified Threat Management device like one from SonicWall or Fortinet.
We monitor security in real-time and can correlate all kinds of data including P2P, IM, web, mail, you name it.
At what point do these situations become a marketing opportunity for the competition? There is definitely a void to fill when it comes to protecting windows PCs.
A destructive worm is a real throwback to old school nastiness. Who hasn't learned the lesson that destroying the host (or at least attracting attention) really diminishes the lifespan of an infection.
Although Microsoft must bristle at the fact that companies like Symantec and others make many times more money from recurring AV fees than M$ does on their every-few-years license upgrade, offering AV directly would be just to obvious of an anti-trust target. Nothing to see here folks.
Does anybody know if it does the "unknown" techniques as well? I mean seriously. Where does this thing (which we don't know if it is hardware or software) stand next to a creative individual or a script kiddie with new tricks up his sleave?
a system that enables a person to setup an RSS feed intended only for one user.
You mean kind of like a white-list? Wouldn't similar problems with white-lists arise in this method too?
For example, the case where I have never met you, yet would like to communicate with you. How do I get you to subscribe to my blog feed if you don't know me? I'm not sure the approach works for personal mail.
Now, for broadcast mail like newsletters and the like. I believe, blog feeds are becoming the defacto standard for solicited corporate communications. Totally opt-in, and no ugly "push" technology involved, just take what you like, leave the rest behind...
this is about as silly as Battlestar: Galactica getting sued because of its similarities to Star Wars back in the day.
I had read that BG was flat out ripoff of the Book of Mormon. Similarities between BG and SW seem to be more genre oriented (space opera anyone?), than anything else.
What was the lawsuit about?
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Hi. I just tried mozdex.com (as per your sig) and the following error was returned.
I've never had an error on Google.
500 Servlet Exception
java.io.IOException: Lock obtain timed out: Lock@/tmp/lucene-0bac8a4f47f7b0b319fb59f35deb062e- commit.lock
at org.apache.lucene.store.Lock.obtain(Lock.java:58)
at org.apache.lucene.store.Lock$With.run(Lock.java:10 8)
at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader.open(IndexRead er.java:111)
at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader.open(IndexRead er.java:101)
at org.apache.nutch.searcher.IndexSearcher.(IndexSear cher.java:60)
at org.apache.nutch.searcher.NutchBean.init(NutchBean.java:107)
at org.apache.nutch.searcher.NutchBean.(NutchBean.jav a:81)
at org.apache.nutch.searcher.NutchBean.(NutchBean.jav a:71)
at org.apache.nutch.searcher.NutchBean.get(NutchBean. java:63)
at _jsp._search__jsp._jspService(/search.jsp:50)
at com.caucho.jsp.JavaPage.service(JavaPage.java:61)
at com.caucho.jsp.Page.pageservice(Page.java:557)
at com.caucho.server.dispatch.PageFilterChain.doFilte r(PageFilterChain.java:141)
at com.caucho.server.webapp.WebAppFilterChain.doFilte r(WebAppFilterChain.java:163)
at com.caucho.server.dispatch.ServletInvocation.servi ce(ServletInvocation.java:207)
at com.caucho.server.hmux.HmuxRequest.handleRequest(H muxRequest.java:385)
at com.caucho.server.port.TcpConnection.run(TcpConnec tion.java:327)
at com.caucho.util.ThreadPool.runTasks(ThreadPool.jav a:450)
at com.caucho.util.ThreadPool.run(ThreadPool.java:394 )
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
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Don't think of humans in isolation. Think of them in combination with their technology.
Yes, but all those advances are only maintained due to external factors. Take away the technology or limit it in some way (think scarcer cheap energy), and all of a sudden we take several steps backwards.
they'd smell almost precisely like a wet dog.
No, you're thinking of Pluto.
I advise them to take a nursery rhyme that they like, take the first letter's as you mention, and capitalize proper names. Then leave it up to them to add a few numeric digits (or use 1 for "one" instead of "o"), or add a 2 digit special number at the beginning, middle or end (like a day of the month they know well).
Hey! How's this idea? Maybe start a Facebook Group to do this? ...oh, delicious irony...
What's worse, is that I am not aware of any popular open source programs for industrial control systems.
Not sure how popular it is, but http://puffinscada.org/ has been around a while.
Your story reminds me of a fellow engineering grad student at the time, a Pakastani fellow who could code simulations for non-linear systems like nobody's business (things like the dynamics of the tip of a helicopter rotor blade).
He marvelled at Netscape's meteoric rise to stardom, and at how simplistic a browser app was to write. Knowing what he was capable of doing, I couldn't disagree, but it was completely impossible to guess what the ramifications of technology would be. You can hardly fault yourself.
I guess innovation is a little bit like art. I'll know it when I see it (just a lot later!).
Probably happened just prior to lunch.
You do mean launch right?
no, poles... oh slashdot! I already have enough to worry about. Now this!
isn't worth a damn...
Including this one.
When it comes to virus warnings, predictions, and precautions. There's a stark choice. Cry wolf and have nothing happen, or stick head in sand and get kicked in the butt?
Aren't there enough of these? Free and otherwise? We've been using Unfied Threat Management devices to augment desktop AV, particularly because of the better network monitoring that can be achieved.
You gotta use bright shiny trinkets to get their attention.
Is pretty much standard now if you are using a Unified Threat Management device like one from SonicWall or Fortinet.
We monitor security in real-time and can correlate all kinds of data including P2P, IM, web, mail, you name it.
At what point do these situations become a marketing opportunity for the competition? There is definitely a void to fill when it comes to protecting windows PCs.
A destructive worm is a real throwback to old school nastiness. Who hasn't learned the lesson that destroying the host (or at least attracting attention) really diminishes the lifespan of an infection.
Although Microsoft must bristle at the fact that companies like Symantec and others make many times more money from recurring AV fees than M$ does on their every-few-years license upgrade, offering AV directly would be just to obvious of an anti-trust target. Nothing to see here folks.
Does anybody know if it does the "unknown" techniques as well? I mean seriously. Where does this thing (which we don't know if it is hardware or software) stand next to a creative individual or a script kiddie with new tricks up his sleave?
Sure, the guy acted like a dictator, but he did good things.
"... and he made the trains run on time... "
Although you didn't mention the subway, these were the kind of things that were said of Mussolini. It's easy to forget.
a system that enables a person to setup an RSS feed intended only for one user.
You mean kind of like a white-list? Wouldn't similar problems with white-lists arise in this method too?
For example, the case where I have never met you, yet would like to communicate with you. How do I get you to subscribe to my blog feed if you don't know me? I'm not sure the approach works for personal mail.
Now, for broadcast mail like newsletters and the like. I believe, blog feeds are becoming the defacto standard for solicited corporate communications. Totally opt-in, and no ugly "push" technology involved, just take what you like, leave the rest behind...
When it's already done ?
I switched to carrying a small notebook and pen. It has great note taking ability, instant handwriting recognition.
LOL... I do the same thing, except my scratch is similar to lousy perl code. It's write-only.
this is about as silly as Battlestar: Galactica getting sued because of its similarities to Star Wars back in the day.
I had read that BG was flat out ripoff of the Book of Mormon. Similarities between BG and SW seem to be more genre oriented (space opera anyone?), than anything else.
What was the lawsuit about?
Hi.
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I just tried mozdex.com (as per your sig) and the following error was returned.
I've never had an error on Google.
500 Servlet Exception
java.io.IOException: Lock obtain timed out: Lock@/tmp/lucene-0bac8a4f47f7b0b319fb59f35deb062e
at org.apache.lucene.store.Lock.obtain(Lock.java:58)
at org.apache.lucene.store.Lock$With.run(Lock.java:1
at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader.open(IndexRea
at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader.open(IndexRea
at org.apache.nutch.searcher.IndexSearcher.(IndexSea
at org.apache.nutch.searcher.NutchBean.init(NutchBea
at org.apache.nutch.searcher.NutchBean.(NutchBean.ja
at org.apache.nutch.searcher.NutchBean.(NutchBean.ja
at org.apache.nutch.searcher.NutchBean.get(NutchBean
at _jsp._search__jsp._jspService(/search.jsp:50)
at com.caucho.jsp.JavaPage.service(JavaPage.java:61)
at com.caucho.jsp.Page.pageservice(Page.java:557)
at com.caucho.server.dispatch.PageFilterChain.doFilt
at com.caucho.server.webapp.WebAppFilterChain.doFilt
at com.caucho.server.dispatch.ServletInvocation.serv
at com.caucho.server.hmux.HmuxRequest.handleRequest(
at com.caucho.server.port.TcpConnection.run(TcpConne
at com.caucho.util.ThreadPool.runTasks(ThreadPool.ja
at com.caucho.util.ThreadPool.run(ThreadPool.java:39
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
... just snorted my coffee ... *good one*.
ah yes... hindsight, 20-20, and all that good stuff.
You should probably be standing by when he decides to extract the thing with a bottle of JD and dull thumbtack...