Ok, so you can fix at the HW level - that's good, I guess I probably envy you however I have fixed things at the hardware level in the past (voltage regulator on my comodore PET fried when I was in the 5th grade) but if we want to get computers into the hands of people who want to work on the computers and not think about volts this and amps that then we can't expect them to whip out the soldering iron. For home text writing I would love one of the mentioned systems, and probably one of yours, too. However if I were (for example) scanning the sky looking for white drawfs and I needed some serious image processing power I don't think I'd go back to my PET whose HW is only as reliable as my soldering abilities and whose processing power also a lower power of my thinking ability.
I think what you speak of is more of the built to last sort of systems. Your computers hark from an age when not many people were buying computers and the HW was aptly suited to the consumer. I tend to use sun equipment because I feel they are built to last (see below for I'm sure someone will post how sun is crap and brand X is best) and I feel sun equipment falls under your high end component that you (the above poster, not neccessarily all of you) and I can repair.
Do I want better made hardware at cheaper prices? YOU BET! That's why I pay for the better stuff whenver feasibly affordable since I feel it sends a message to those who I feel make inferior components and it might help drive down the costs of the high end stuff in the long run...
The local NBC station WGAL had coverage on the news tonight (linkage) and had a deep interview with people who fell over and the all important interview with people who talked to the person who owned the farm who didn't see anywhere where something landed and scortched his corn. And my favorite is the group of witnesses "watching deer."
Aren't we early for the Delta Aquarids they aren't expected for a few more days...
Since you say it worked for you can you comment on the review on the page you reference that isn't glowing, however does say that with some computer knowledge (above the average user, however not scary to me) you can get things rolling?
Do you have any experience using this setup with non-MS OS environments? I have a laptop I'd like to use next to my whiteboard to write simple files and have them write back to NFS shares so this thing's speed is fine, and the price looks fine, however the laptop is old (does have PCMCIA) and I just boot to a console login and fire up vim so I don't want an MS GUI hogging up the place.
What is your use experience? How does it compare to my intentions?
I've always enjoyed talking about the cleavage of rocks since so many people think I'm insulting them, "Hey, I saw you two got engaged, looks like you got some nice cleavage..." If this thing ruins that gag I might just have to stoop to asking: "What does Moh think of your hardness?"
I looked through the list of students working on the project and I saw (pretty much as expected) a ton of EE and CE, but only one full CS (there is a CSE) major. It's usually been my experience when you get a gaggle of HW Engineers they tend to design really spectacular devices, but they tend to over look their CS counter parts and often work themselves in to a O(n^n) corner. I've also seen a "hey, let's do this with as much hardware as possible for logic" mentality and in many cases this is great, but it CAN be over done. IMHO, this looks like a great learning experience for all involved, and I feel this thing is Earth bound so my worries are probably moot, but whatever devices we send to Mars should be the best devices possible built by the best and designed by the best taking everything into consideration.
Here is the email sent out from mandrake with the announcement:
Subject:
Linux-Mandrake Community Newsletter - special flash
Date:
Thu, 19 Jul 2001 22:33:04 +0200 (CEST)
From:
Mandrake Team
Mandrakesoft yesterday got the formal approval from the COB (Commission
des Operations en Bourse - the french regulatory organisation) to be
listed on the Euronext european stock market "Marché Libre". The listing
should start on the 3rd of August.
After the recent big success of its Mandrake Linux operating system in
terms of market penetration, MandrakeSoft's listing is an important step
for the company to gain still more exposure and more credibility on the
corporate IT markets.
We will soon provide more informations on our web site
(http://www.mandrakesoft.com).
MandrakeSoft's President Jacques Le Marois would like to thank everyone
who helped make this listing possible:
- all the Mandrakesoft team that helped to build the company
- the shareholders who funded it
- the contributors who helped to improve the product
- the users who helped by spreading the good word about our products
I don't run IIS, but I've been seeing odd things in my logs. It took me a sec to check security focus and learn what it was. Here is an except of a log file so you if see similar you know what's up.
The thing on security focus indicating that "default.ida" thing is IIS probes (and/or possibly already compromised systems rescanning is here.
New Accounts are currently disabled. Try again lat
on
Hushmail 2.0
·
· Score: 1
I tried to go check it out - the idea seemed good enough for me to poke at and consider for actual use, and hey we can all use an extra web account that when we hate the service eventually we can use for spam.... BUT! This message seems to be implying my quest to sign up has met a dead end:
New Accounts are currently disabled. Try again later.
Contributed by Anonymous on Wednesday, July 18 @ 19:39:00 PDT
Printer Friendly Page
[Miscellaneous] An anonymous source has provided detailed evidence showing that the popular Linux news portal LinuxToday.com has been astroturfed by its own staff for almost as long as it has been owned by internet.com. In particular, the source has identified Kevin Reichard, Executive Editor of the Linux/Open Source & Internet Technology Channels at internet.com, as having allegedly posted these messages under a number of aliases on the site.
According to the source, others were involved in the astroturfing as well, though not to the same degree as Reichard. The source expressed hope that they will step forward and out themselves of their own accord.
"Astroturfing" refers to a method used to create the illusion of grassroots support. The term came into popularity following the LA Times revelation in 1998 of a Microsoft PR plan which would pay individuals to write letters, opinion pieces, or comments in online forums supporting Microsoft in their protracted antitrust battle.
Based on the evidence supplied by the source, Reichard has been posting talkbacks under a number of fictitious names since late 1999. Reichard has allegedly used the aliases of "George Tirebiter", "Tom Dooley", and "Will Smith" among others. These ersatz talkbacks reveal a very clear pattern of demeaning the competition while cheerleading for those associated with internet.com. The posts have targeted the sites and/or staff from sites such as LinuxWorld.com, Newsforge, Slashdot, Linux.com, ZD Net, Infoworld, Linux Journal, and The Register.
The talkbacks posted under these names accused others of trolling for page views and claiming that they were something less than honest and candid. About O'Reilly, "George Tirebiter" said, "Just some FUD spread by a company with a vested interest -- and they don't tell you their interest."
A search of LinuxToday talkbacks done today returns eight instances of the use of the perjorative term "Newsforger" when referring to the competitive site, Newsforge.com, which is a site owned by VA Linux. Seven of those eight instances are from talkbacks posted by the aliases "George Tirebiter", "Will Smith", and "Tom Dooley". The eighth is a post by Grant Gross, editor at the Newsforge site. Gross was responding to a talkback posted by the alias "Tom Dooley" which attacked Newsforge, saying that they were "blatantly and shamelessly trolling for page views. At least when LToday talks to RMS it's over something important, not something stupid like this."
These alias "personalities" also went after leaders of the open source and free software communities. People like Eric Raymond, Richard Stallman, and Alan Cox. "George Tirebiter", in particular, attacked the GPL, Linux geeks, Red Hat, VA Linux, Sun, and IBM.
The rollcall of the "Tirebiter" targets reads like a Microsoft "enemies list." In one talkback "Tirebiter" defends Microsoft's attacks on the GPL by asking "Why are we villifying Microsoft for raising valid concerns that others have raised?". "George Tirebiter" said about Alan Cox, "I woulda thought better of Alan. But then again, he's the only one not to release his opinion to the public, preferring to retain ownership on a closed-source Red Hat site."
In one rant, "George Tirebiter" lashes out at Eric S. Raymond's piece called "Beware the Microsoft shell game." "Tirebiter" posted a message saying "Y'all are a hoot. I want some of the wacky tobaccy y'all are smoking, because it certainly does alter your senses. You don't even see that stunts like this allow ESR to claim a victory no matter what happens: should someone from MS give a speech that doesn't mention open source, he'll claim victory." In the same post, the alias conludes by telling LinuxToday readers to "Wake up. You're being manipulated, and y'all don't even know it."
The base post said nothing of zero emission external - they just hadn't though of steam engines as external combusion before (as pointed out by the parent post to your post).
That's the direct opposite of when I was in HS my friend josh hooked a fisher burner up to the water line rather than the gas and shot water like a major fountain. He was known as "Fireman Josh" for quite some time after that....
It's not just the act of voting, it's those around the voter. Some employers have video cameras to watch the workers and could conceivibly see their employees votes. More needs to be done in the voter privacy area beyond sending things encrytped. This is for two reasons - one, people who don't want their vote linked to them and two, people could create proof of a vote and have a greater ability to sell their vote.
Then again, I'm probably just a paranoid freak...
Re:READ THE ARTICLE before you dismiss this!
on
Search Engine Payola
·
· Score: 1
Ok, I am aware of the ideas put for in the article, so I will comment to your post rather than the outer realm. I disagree with the thing just based on my personal experience, not some initial responce of "nah, is isn't that way since I didn't think before I posted."
Am I saying I have a mathematical proof that what the article says is wrong: no. Do I think it could still be hapening: yes.
However, I wrote a packet sniffer for a class and posted it on my own little corner of the world (not on the school's site so don't think that helped me). Near as I can see no one links to me about it, yet I'm #13 on google's search if you look for "packet sniffer." I know I never paid a dime, and I don't see anyone linking to me (juding by server logs and the refer url) and I think I've reached a kinda high placement for just being a kid and posting a sniffer.
I come in ahead of snort and many other sniffers I played with in creating mine. So don't you think corporate america would snuff out a little sniffer like me?
What about magazine ads (I'm thinking about popular electronics/mechanics as I write this) where the ads are made to look like columns in the mag? They have to put "paid advertisement" somwhere on there (usually on the top center added by the mag) but sometimes it's harder to find. How is this any better than "sponsored link" on google that (in my experience atleast) is even a different color than the regular results?
And where does google do this? I've seen the clearly labled "sponsored link" but nothing that seems deceptive in sneaking links higher then what appears legit. Heck, my packet sniffer on google comes up as #13 if you search for "packet sniffer" and I know I didn't pay a dime.
I hope they don't plan to build on the part where I have claim to the land. (A cereal box a long time ago awarded the person who sent in some $$ with a "deed" to moon property)
Did anyone cat the John Stossel special on "Challenging the Doomsayers" ?? I found it very well done although IMHO I don't think he cover both sides adaquately. However he did a great job finding idiots on both sides to stick their foot in their respective mouths.
The best linkage I can find (short of ordering the video) is
Calling people "distinguished meteorologists" and writing about something you don't know about is not a good thing. I could dupe some reporter into thinking I'm a distinguised comptuer scientist. "Yes, Mrs. Reporter, I know about Knuth, the Exact Cover Problem, and I can throw around words like DFS and Splay Tree so I must be distinguised..."
Anyway, I have seen scientists take the approah, "Hmm... there are lobbyists out there who pay big $$ for research grants... if I say I want to investigate global warming I can get their $$ and sometimes even dupe the Governmnet into it... and what harm is it to conclude *bad* things about fossil fules, it's not like lowering our need for them is a bad thing... hmm..."
Beleive me or not, as I said, I could dupe "Mrs. Reporter" and I could have duped you. However, aslong as this makes you consider the validity of this type of thing, that's a *good* thing.
Yes. police will attend. We've already talked
to them. Look for different colour wristbands:)
HAL is the last place on earth to do illegal
things. But if you want to learn about the police,
there are plenty of relevant workshops about them.
Will the police be running the workshops about themselves or is it going to be stritctly from the observer's point of view?
Yes, hacking does not mean "breaking" into other computers. But this conference isn't about all that either. If you are the security person for your organization - think about this: it's an opportunity to have a level field with the kind of people who might know more about your systems' security than you.
If you are thinking of developing a new protocol (chat, vrml, etc...) and want to hear what others think about the possibilities of exploit you open yourself up to - think about it: (ditto from above).
Sure, the people you mention "hack" code. In that use of the term it's like the Dr. Pepper commercials: "I'm a hacker, he's a hacker, she's a hacker..." Do I write code: yes. Do I "hack" the code: yes. Have I ever broken into a system where I did not have permission ahead of time to go poking: no. Have I ever developed an application that could be used for evil: yes, but I did it to demonstrate how insecure my target protocol was. Am I a genuine threat to you, your credit card number, your dog's alpo dish: no. Am I thinking deeply about the neat jargon going to be passed around there: yes, I'd love to be a fly on the wall.
Unfortunitly most companies don't take computer security seriously enough to understand the value of conferences like this one. 2600 meetings under the stairs at the local subway might seem like a good way to loose your walet, but it might be a good way to learn what online places are vulverable and therefore not worth the risk of credit card transations...
Quoth the/. user:
Um, nothing I've seen in XP forces you to use anything that wasn't in win2k. All the fancy photo thing seems to be is a twain client in the OS. That means that adobe and all that crap still works. If you want to use the wizard then you are limited to what the OS provides that I agree with, but if you use the existing technology (which windows would be commiting suicide to get rid of because its too big of a standard) then you have whatever capabilities you want.
Quoth: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,27 81 900,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01
His team [Koak] was developing new software to manipulate digital photos and needed to make sure it was compatible with Microsoft's latest version of Windows, the basic software that runs most new computers. An early version of Microsoft's newest software, code-named Whistler, had just arrived at Kodak's software labs. When Mr. Gerskovich and his team loaded it onto their computers, they were shocked by what they saw.
When Kodak cameras were plugged into a PC loaded with Kodak software, it was Microsoft's own photo software that popped up--not Kodak's.
This is sorta like IE grabbing at html docs and aserting itself as the application for html. However it's deeper since I can install mozilla and it can have code in it to alter my system to steal back html. Although the battle rages on, applications can steal and re-steal. In this referenced instance Kodak could not write software to "steal" access to it's own camera from MS.
Continuing the quoth from zd:
Camera customers would have to go through a cumbersome process to get Kodak's software to pop up every time, and most would probably just use Microsoft's.
It's a pain enough to get mp3s back to winamp from media player and I know what I'm doing. Kodak sees that to stay alive it needs to get in on the ground floor of average joe sixpack user of digital photography. They are kinda like Xerox of the 70s. So, their target market is the "point and shoot" family: this is the type of person who can alter file assocaitaions and what-not?
Does MS prohibit running of (as you suggest) adobe: no. Can you and I get a system to do what we want (get around the wizzard): yes. Can Kodak assume it's target market can do that: no. Does Kodak want people to use its process to get prints made: I'm sure (it wants to make $$ just like the rest of us). Should Kodak have to pay MS like the other development companies to be listed on XP systems in the default software: uhhhh NO. Is this unfair: well, flame away...
Recently I took a graduate class on software engineering and I thought it'd be interesting to write a paper on open source software development. Knowing the prof never read it (grades due in the day after paper was due) maybe someone other than myself would like to read it...
Slashdot Mirror
Ok, so you can fix at the HW level - that's good, I guess I probably envy you however I have fixed things at the hardware level in the past (voltage regulator on my comodore PET fried when I was in the 5th grade) but if we want to get computers into the hands of people who want to work on the computers and not think about volts this and amps that then we can't expect them to whip out the soldering iron. For home text writing I would love one of the mentioned systems, and probably one of yours, too. However if I were (for example) scanning the sky looking for white drawfs and I needed some serious image processing power I don't think I'd go back to my PET whose HW is only as reliable as my soldering abilities and whose processing power also a lower power of my thinking ability.
I think what you speak of is more of the built to last sort of systems. Your computers hark from an age when not many people were buying computers and the HW was aptly suited to the consumer. I tend to use sun equipment because I feel they are built to last (see below for I'm sure someone will post how sun is crap and brand X is best) and I feel sun equipment falls under your high end component that you (the above poster, not neccessarily all of you) and I can repair.
Do I want better made hardware at cheaper prices? YOU BET! That's why I pay for the better stuff whenver feasibly affordable since I feel it sends a message to those who I feel make inferior components and it might help drive down the costs of the high end stuff in the long run...
The local NBC station WGAL had coverage on the news tonight (linkage) and had a deep interview with people who fell over and the all important interview with people who talked to the person who owned the farm who didn't see anywhere where something landed and scortched his corn. And my favorite is the group of witnesses "watching deer."
Aren't we early for the Delta Aquarids they aren't expected for a few more days...
Since you say it worked for you can you comment on the review on the page you reference that isn't glowing, however does say that with some computer knowledge (above the average user, however not scary to me) you can get things rolling?
Do you have any experience using this setup with non-MS OS environments? I have a laptop I'd like to use next to my whiteboard to write simple files and have them write back to NFS shares so this thing's speed is fine, and the price looks fine, however the laptop is old (does have PCMCIA) and I just boot to a console login and fire up vim so I don't want an MS GUI hogging up the place.
What is your use experience? How does it compare to my intentions?
I've always enjoyed talking about the cleavage of rocks since so many people think I'm insulting them, "Hey, I saw you two got engaged, looks like you got some nice cleavage..." If this thing ruins that gag I might just have to stoop to asking: "What does Moh think of your hardness?"
I looked through the list of students working on the project and I saw (pretty much as expected) a ton of EE and CE, but only one full CS (there is a CSE) major. It's usually been my experience when you get a gaggle of HW Engineers they tend to design really spectacular devices, but they tend to over look their CS counter parts and often work themselves in to a O(n^n) corner. I've also seen a "hey, let's do this with as much hardware as possible for logic" mentality and in many cases this is great, but it CAN be over done. IMHO, this looks like a great learning experience for all involved, and I feel this thing is Earth bound so my worries are probably moot, but whatever devices we send to Mars should be the best devices possible built by the best and designed by the best taking everything into consideration.
Here is the email sent out from mandrake with the announcement:
Subject:
Linux-Mandrake Community Newsletter - special flash
Date:
Thu, 19 Jul 2001 22:33:04 +0200 (CEST)
From:
Mandrake Team
Mandrakesoft yesterday got the formal approval from the COB (Commission
des Operations en Bourse - the french regulatory organisation) to be
listed on the Euronext european stock market "Marché Libre". The listing
should start on the 3rd of August.
After the recent big success of its Mandrake Linux operating system in
terms of market penetration, MandrakeSoft's listing is an important step
for the company to gain still more exposure and more credibility on the
corporate IT markets.
We will soon provide more informations on our web site
(http://www.mandrakesoft.com).
MandrakeSoft's President Jacques Le Marois would like to thank everyone
who helped make this listing possible:
- all the Mandrakesoft team that helped to build the company
- the shareholders who funded it
- the contributors who helped to improve the product
- the users who helped by spreading the good word about our products
------------
I don't run IIS, but I've been seeing odd things in my logs. It took me a sec to check security focus and learn what it was. Here is an except of a log file so you if see similar you know what's up.
/default.ida?NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN%u9090%u6858% ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%uc bd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u531 b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0" 400 323 "-" "-"
65.201.146.103 - - [19/Jul/2001:17:58:49 -0400] "GET
The thing on security focus indicating that "default.ida" thing is IIS probes (and/or possibly already compromised systems rescanning is here.
I tried to go check it out - the idea seemed good enough for me to poke at and consider for actual use, and hey we can all use an extra web account that when we hate the service eventually we can use for spam.... BUT! This message seems to be implying my quest to sign up has met a dead end:
New Accounts are currently disabled. Try again later.
Contributed by Anonymous on Wednesday, July 18 @ 19:39:00 PDT
Printer Friendly Page
[Miscellaneous] An anonymous source has provided detailed evidence showing that the popular Linux news portal LinuxToday.com has been astroturfed by its own staff for almost as long as it has been owned by internet.com. In particular, the source has identified Kevin Reichard, Executive Editor of the Linux/Open Source & Internet Technology Channels at internet.com, as having allegedly posted these messages under a number of aliases on the site.
According to the source, others were involved in the astroturfing as well, though not to the same degree as Reichard. The source expressed hope that they will step forward and out themselves of their own accord.
"Astroturfing" refers to a method used to create the illusion of grassroots support. The term came into popularity following the LA Times revelation in 1998 of a Microsoft PR plan which would pay individuals to write letters, opinion pieces, or comments in online forums supporting Microsoft in their protracted antitrust battle.
Based on the evidence supplied by the source, Reichard has been posting talkbacks under a number of fictitious names since late 1999. Reichard has allegedly used the aliases of "George Tirebiter", "Tom Dooley", and "Will Smith" among others. These ersatz talkbacks reveal a very clear pattern of demeaning the competition while cheerleading for those associated with internet.com. The posts have targeted the sites and/or staff from sites such as LinuxWorld.com, Newsforge, Slashdot, Linux.com, ZD Net, Infoworld, Linux Journal, and The Register.
The talkbacks posted under these names accused others of trolling for page views and claiming that they were something less than honest and candid. About O'Reilly, "George Tirebiter" said, "Just some FUD spread by a company with a vested interest -- and they don't tell you their interest."
A search of LinuxToday talkbacks done today returns eight instances of the use of the perjorative term "Newsforger" when referring to the competitive site, Newsforge.com, which is a site owned by VA Linux. Seven of those eight instances are from talkbacks posted by the aliases "George Tirebiter", "Will Smith", and "Tom Dooley". The eighth is a post by Grant Gross, editor at the Newsforge site. Gross was responding to a talkback posted by the alias "Tom Dooley" which attacked Newsforge, saying that they were "blatantly and shamelessly trolling for page views. At least when LToday talks to RMS it's over something important, not something stupid like this."
These alias "personalities" also went after leaders of the open source and free software communities. People like Eric Raymond, Richard Stallman, and Alan Cox. "George Tirebiter", in particular, attacked the GPL, Linux geeks, Red Hat, VA Linux, Sun, and IBM.
The rollcall of the "Tirebiter" targets reads like a Microsoft "enemies list." In one talkback "Tirebiter" defends Microsoft's attacks on the GPL by asking "Why are we villifying Microsoft for raising valid concerns that others have raised?". "George Tirebiter" said about Alan Cox, "I woulda thought better of Alan. But then again, he's the only one not to release his opinion to the public, preferring to retain ownership on a closed-source Red Hat site."
In one rant, "George Tirebiter" lashes out at Eric S. Raymond's piece called "Beware the Microsoft shell game." "Tirebiter" posted a message saying "Y'all are a hoot. I want some of the wacky tobaccy y'all are smoking, because it certainly does alter your senses. You don't even see that stunts like this allow ESR to claim a victory no matter what happens: should someone from MS give a speech that doesn't mention open source, he'll claim victory." In the same post, the alias conludes by telling LinuxToday readers to "Wake up. You're being manipulated, and y'all don't even know it."
Hmmm, did anyone check with the good natured folks over at AOL? They seem to have issues with programs that have AIM hidden in them somewhere.
The base post said nothing of zero emission external - they just hadn't though of steam engines as external combusion before (as pointed out by the parent post to your post).
That's the direct opposite of when I was in HS my friend josh hooked a fisher burner up to the water line rather than the gas and shot water like a major fountain. He was known as "Fireman Josh" for quite some time after that....
It's not just the act of voting, it's those around the voter. Some employers have video cameras to watch the workers and could conceivibly see their employees votes. More needs to be done in the voter privacy area beyond sending things encrytped. This is for two reasons - one, people who don't want their vote linked to them and two, people could create proof of a vote and have a greater ability to sell their vote.
Then again, I'm probably just a paranoid freak...
Ok, I am aware of the ideas put for in the article, so I will comment to your post rather than the outer realm. I disagree with the thing just based on my personal experience, not some initial responce of "nah, is isn't that way since I didn't think before I posted."
Am I saying I have a mathematical proof that what the article says is wrong: no. Do I think it could still be hapening: yes.
However, I wrote a packet sniffer for a class and posted it on my own little corner of the world (not on the school's site so don't think that helped me). Near as I can see no one links to me about it, yet I'm #13 on google's search if you look for "packet sniffer." I know I never paid a dime, and I don't see anyone linking to me (juding by server logs and the refer url) and I think I've reached a kinda high placement for just being a kid and posting a sniffer.
I come in ahead of snort and many other sniffers I played with in creating mine. So don't you think corporate america would snuff out a little sniffer like me?
What about magazine ads (I'm thinking about popular electronics/mechanics as I write this) where the ads are made to look like columns in the mag? They have to put "paid advertisement" somwhere on there (usually on the top center added by the mag) but sometimes it's harder to find. How is this any better than "sponsored link" on google that (in my experience atleast) is even a different color than the regular results?
And where does google do this? I've seen the clearly labled "sponsored link" but nothing that seems deceptive in sneaking links higher then what appears legit. Heck, my packet sniffer on google comes up as #13 if you search for "packet sniffer" and I know I didn't pay a dime.
I hope they don't plan to build on the part where I have claim to the land. (A cereal box a long time ago awarded the person who sent in some $$ with a "deed" to moon property)
Did anyone cat the John Stossel special on "Challenging the Doomsayers" ?? I found it very well done although IMHO I don't think he cover both sides adaquately. However he did a great job finding idiots on both sides to stick their foot in their respective mouths.
a mperingwithnature.html
The best linkage I can find (short of ordering the video) is
http://abcnews.go.com/onair/2020/stossel_010629_t
Can anyone do any better?
Calling people "distinguished meteorologists" and writing about something you don't know about is not a good thing. I could dupe some reporter into thinking I'm a distinguised comptuer scientist. "Yes, Mrs. Reporter, I know about Knuth, the Exact Cover Problem, and I can throw around words like DFS and Splay Tree so I must be distinguised..."
Anyway, I have seen scientists take the approah, "Hmm... there are lobbyists out there who pay big $$ for research grants... if I say I want to investigate global warming I can get their $$ and sometimes even dupe the Governmnet into it... and what harm is it to conclude *bad* things about fossil fules, it's not like lowering our need for them is a bad thing... hmm..."
Beleive me or not, as I said, I could dupe "Mrs. Reporter" and I could have duped you. However, aslong as this makes you consider the validity of this type of thing, that's a *good* thing.
Yes. police will attend. We've already talked :)
to them. Look for different colour wristbands
HAL is the last place on earth to do illegal
things. But if you want to learn about the police,
there are plenty of relevant workshops about them.
Will the police be running the workshops about themselves or is it going to be stritctly from the observer's point of view?
Yes, hacking does not mean "breaking" into other computers. But this conference isn't about all that either. If you are the security person for your organization - think about this: it's an opportunity to have a level field with the kind of people who might know more about your systems' security than you.
If you are thinking of developing a new protocol (chat, vrml, etc...) and want to hear what others think about the possibilities of exploit you open yourself up to - think about it: (ditto from above).
Sure, the people you mention "hack" code. In that use of the term it's like the Dr. Pepper commercials: "I'm a hacker, he's a hacker, she's a hacker..." Do I write code: yes. Do I "hack" the code: yes. Have I ever broken into a system where I did not have permission ahead of time to go poking: no. Have I ever developed an application that could be used for evil: yes, but I did it to demonstrate how insecure my target protocol was. Am I a genuine threat to you, your credit card number, your dog's alpo dish: no. Am I thinking deeply about the neat jargon going to be passed around there: yes, I'd love to be a fly on the wall.
Unfortunitly most companies don't take computer security seriously enough to understand the value of conferences like this one. 2600 meetings under the stairs at the local subway might seem like a good way to loose your walet, but it might be a good way to learn what online places are vulverable and therefore not worth the risk of credit card transations...
Quoth the /. user:
7 81 900,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01
Um, nothing I've seen in XP forces you to use anything that wasn't in win2k. All the fancy photo thing seems to be is a twain client in the OS. That means that adobe and all that crap still works. If you want to use the wizard then you are limited to what the OS provides that I agree with, but if you use the existing technology (which windows would be commiting suicide to get rid of because its too big of a standard) then you have whatever capabilities you want.
Quoth:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2
His team [Koak] was developing new software to manipulate digital photos and needed to make sure it was compatible with Microsoft's latest version of Windows, the basic software that runs most new computers. An early version of Microsoft's newest software, code-named Whistler, had just arrived at Kodak's software labs. When Mr. Gerskovich and his team loaded it onto their computers, they were shocked by what they saw.
When Kodak cameras were plugged into a PC loaded with Kodak software, it was Microsoft's own photo software that popped up--not Kodak's.
This is sorta like IE grabbing at html docs and aserting itself as the application for html. However it's deeper since I can install mozilla and it can have code in it to alter my system to steal back html. Although the battle rages on, applications can steal and re-steal. In this referenced instance Kodak could not write software to "steal" access to it's own camera from MS.
Continuing the quoth from zd:
Camera customers would have to go through a cumbersome process to get Kodak's software to pop up every time, and most would probably just use Microsoft's.
It's a pain enough to get mp3s back to winamp from media player and I know what I'm doing. Kodak sees that to stay alive it needs to get in on the ground floor of average joe sixpack user of digital photography. They are kinda like Xerox of the 70s. So, their target market is the "point and shoot" family: this is the type of person who can alter file assocaitaions and what-not?
Does MS prohibit running of (as you suggest) adobe: no. Can you and I get a system to do what we want (get around the wizzard): yes. Can Kodak assume it's target market can do that: no. Does Kodak want people to use its process to get prints made: I'm sure (it wants to make $$ just like the rest of us). Should Kodak have to pay MS like the other development companies to be listed on XP systems in the default software: uhhhh NO. Is this unfair: well, flame away...
But AOL might not like the G infront of a series of words.... don't try Knuclear-Tracker either: adobe seems to tracking down "K" groups...
Ok... so I left the href= on in the name... the link works fine I do not... operator error, replace user and press any key to continue... time for bed
Recently I took a graduate class on software engineering and I thought it'd be interesting to write a paper on open source software development. Knowing the prof never read it (grades due in the day after paper was due) maybe someone other than myself would like to read it...
e r.pdf
href=http://www.zimwiz.com/research/openSourcePap