I think that software bug was unpatched windows machines in Ohio. But I was too close to it all and may just be making an erroneous jump for correlation to causation. The network storm caused by that virus was pretty horrendous.
As the story unfolded the early reports said the machines were unpatched. Then that story seemed to be brushed for reasons I can only guess with tinfoil hat securely fastened.
I imagine there were many factors that met on that day contributing to the blackout. And I doubt the virus was designed to take down the grid. But the lesson I took from it is that there are many critical machines that are hooked up to the internet or networks that hook up to the internet that aren't properly maintained and these sort of events will be more common. Also that if a non-specific virus can do that much harm I shudder to think what a well designed attack would unleash.
Remember the blackout in 2003? There was talk that the computers that failed were hit by a particularly nasty worm going around that week. I think it was the Sasser. Can't remember.
But I do remember working as a tech and the worm was really crescendoing at the point the grid went down. The talk of a virus being the cause was put out there and quickly replaced with some excuse less scary. But from my vantage point it seemed to really coincide with the worm.
You are on to something as it being the destruction of the family, but more so the expectation that one must forge one's own identity. By prerequisite this means narcissism. It used to be that doing something in a way because this was how one's father and grandfather did it was a reasonable justification. Now we are expected to not drive our father's Oldsmobile.
This line of thinking was popularized among the babyboomers, and if there will be one good thing that comes out of the greatest depression will be a rethinking of this logic. It's really hard to develop an identity for oneself. This difficulty can lead to an easy narcissism. This easy narcissism is about defining oneself by what one has rather than what one does. It's easier to buy the super laptop rather than learn how to operate it well, etc.
It's good though that kids have an expectation of success. Hopefully they can use this expectation to figure out a way to forge this identity through hard work.
Agree with the ACER. They have a great warentee worldwide and rock. Also, check out Fujutsu. Those babies are tuff. I got one from them via their ebay store for $400 and it has been great. Got a second for the Mrs. and she loves it too. Also, don't skimp on the RAM.
The effect is censorship caused by requiring schools and libraries to have filters "for the sake of the children". Where I work the strangest sites are blocked by Barracuda as porn: Dilbert, exile.ru, wonkette... It doesn't make any sense especially when it doesn't block a number of real pr0n sites.
Now consider how many people don't have internet access and rely on public terminals in libraries. These people aren't children, but are forcibly treated like ones due to CIPA. Worse, they are not only censored from pornography, a resonable thing in a public institute like a library, but are cut off from things that are added to the blocked lists just because they might represent a view that is unpopular.
I am not sure if that is the cause / effect you are seeking or the one between the Supreme Court ruling and the reporting of stupidly blocked sites. This cause / effect is probably because before the ruling the reports were frequent in hopes to overturn CIPA, now that the Supreme Court has ruled CIPA to be constitutional there isn't much hope in over ruling it. What legislature is going to jepordize their career by being proponents of exposing kids to porn just over some little censorship issue?
The next steps are being taken by putting filtering software in place for entire countries. This is where the Boingboing controversy came up. And there are many legislators in the US that want to do the same thing here and require all ISP's to filter "questionable material".
The 840AV had a fully functional software phone and answering machine. It worked great and was to market in 1993.
Read about it in Byte:
http://www.byte.com/art/9401/sec9/art5.htmThe Quadra 840AV's DSP uses a real-time operating system that can perform several signal-processing tasks simultaneously. One such task is the sound preprocessing for PlainTalk. Other programmed functions that the DSP can handle are telephony, modem, and fax operations. A bundled Telephone application lets the Quadra act as a phone, and, with the Apple AudioVision monitor, you can actually use the system as a speakerphone. Telephone can also answer the phone, play a recorded message, and then record a message from the caller--but you'll need lots of hard disk space to record digitized messages.
Check out the description of the Chicago School Board's use of statistics to identify cheating teachers. Not only did they successfully identify cheats, they also identified cheats that didn't even know the right answer to cheat with. Quite an eye opener.
It seems when these "2.0" companies get bought out they really start to suck. So the user's and buyer's expectations pop like a favorite ballon who was just discovered by the cat.
This is why were seeing a new breed of mySpace and Facebooks evolve and next we'll start seeing something to replace youTube which thanks to removal of content due to litiginous bastards is now just a bunch of cat videos and bad Wendy's commercials.
The cycle will continue as these albatrosses will bring down the purchasing companies allowing for newcomers with real innovation to take their place. And if they can avoid their predecessor's error will go on to great things.
If I had seen the CD before I bought it, I wouldn't have. I bought it online from Amazon because it was a decent price and I was worried the RIAA might come after me for having one of the songs from it running through my head illegally.:-)
Today I bought my first CD in over a year and it had big FBI copyright warnings all over it and a mail in questionaire with many survey questions that could be seen as incriminating and a good lead for the RIAA to follow up with a lawsuit.
If this is what they see as value added, I think they got the eqation backwards... it's supposed to be value added to the consumer's experience, not the record company's legal squad.
No effort to add you to the axis of evil? Is that what you believe up there in Soviet Canuckistan? Why do you think we're always firing on your troops? One word: Pre-Emptive Strike!
Just wait a few years when Nevada runs dry. We'll be up there for your water to support our desert casinos, eh.
In the ad they use the term personal computer which at that time was abbreviated as PC. This was before Compaq made the first IBM clone. It was run in August of 1981.
*** mumbles about absent minded oldies....
Here's the text if you're running a non-gui computer;-)
Welcome, IBM. Seriously. Welcome to the most exciting and important marketplace since the computer revolution began 35 years ago. And congratulations on your first personal computer. Putting real computer power in the hands of the individual is already improving the way people work, think, learn, communicate, and spend their leisure hours. Computer literacy is fast becoming as fundamental a skill as reading or writing. When we invented the first personal computer system, we estimated that over 140,000,000 people worldwide could justify the purchase of one, if only they understood its benefits. Next year alone, we project that well over 1,000,000 will come to that understanding. Over the next decade, the growth of the personal computer will continue in logarithmic leaps. We look forward to responsible competition in the massive effort to distribute this American technology to the world. And we appreciate the magnitude of your commitment. Because what we are doing is increasing social capital by enhancing individual productivity. Welcome to the task. Apple.
No kidding! I just sold some property and the realtor wanted me to email the title company my social security number so they could process the paperwork. I had a hard time explaining to them that I would only telephone or mail the number since email was insecure. Finally they emailed me their telephone number. I just can't imagine what a treasure trove their email account would be for identity thieves.
Sad but true. Time Warner really blew it. They could have leveraged AOL's strength and really catapulted into the twenty-first century. Could you imagine what they would be like today if they had taken care of what they had in AOL? Instead of keeping it as a ISP whore, they could have made it into a media delivery powerhouse.
For example what if they offered their library of media along with the AOL subscription... they would have been there before iTunes even started.
What a waste.
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I have the impression that web professionals have a difficult go of any relationship because the web culture is based on chaos: it's all about 80 hour weeks and IPO's out of nothing and is very high in the dramatics and stress.
This is why I prefer the Database world. All of the author's of my University DB texts seemed to be married 40+ years. This also seems to be the case in most departments I have worked. It's a different culture, based on order, structure, sane hours, professional respect and decent hours.
Dr. Levine, a Mayo Clinic obesity researcher, has found that walking slowly, about a mile per hour, burns calories while not breaking a sweat. It's called "non-exercise activity thermogenesis", or NEAT.
Levine has devised a computer workstation that integrates a treadmill so you can type and walk. He and his colleagues also walk laps together at the track rather than sit in boardrooms.
Levine claims that the added workload would equate to loosing fifty pounds per year without any diet change and without breaking a sweat!
I agree with you. The thing that angers me the most is that he is hiding behind the cloak of reason that it was a 'scientific experiment'. It was no more a legitimate experiment than the Tuskegee Experiment.
And yes, I hope he has his passport and bags packed. After all, the ad was seeking sexual sadists. But maybe that is what he was looking for.
One hears so much about people not being hired for posting a picture of themselves drunk on mySpace... how is he going to explain this in an interview? Thanks to Google, he probably won't be getting too many interviews to be a network administrator anymore. He should probably consider a career move to HR.. this sort of action would be looked on admirably in that field.;-)
I work for a company in Wisconsin and we have recently had foreign government ministers visiting to talk to us about writing software for them. We produce software to be used in many countries that are considered places where programming jobs go. I guess it just goes to show markets are still cyclical.
Thanks for making that distinction. Yes ipCop does run on a separate machine, but that machine can cost less than most personal firewalls and does a better job of protecting a windows machine because it is autonomous from the OS and is therefore more difficult to circumvent.
For the home or business network it is a valuable tool. It can also be used to prevent specific programs from accessing the network by blocking the ports they use. However, both types of firewalls have difficulty with proctoring port 80 traffic.
The nice thing about something like ipcop, is that users don't notice it being there. For an experienced user, a personal firewall is great. But for the average user, the notifications get to be too frequent and tend to be ignored or worse, cause the user to turn it off.
distinguishing between the two? I am not sure, mostly a guess but sometimes it is obvious. For example I have had a few machines that just loose connectivity and do not allow me to delete the tcp/ip stack. In both cases it happened after a win update. No signifigant spyware or virus was detected. Replacing the NIC didn't work. The only solution was to reinstall windows and only install the security updates but not the other updates. When I installed the non-security updates the driver structure blew out and I had to rollback the install to get a stable machine. My guess is that the new updates for WinXP don't support the full HCL and older machines are getting pushed off the XP platform.
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I think that software bug was unpatched windows machines in Ohio. But I was too close to it all and may just be making an erroneous jump for correlation to causation. The network storm caused by that virus was pretty horrendous.
As the story unfolded the early reports said the machines were unpatched. Then that story seemed to be brushed for reasons I can only guess with tinfoil hat securely fastened.
I imagine there were many factors that met on that day contributing to the blackout. And I doubt the virus was designed to take down the grid. But the lesson I took from it is that there are many critical machines that are hooked up to the internet or networks that hook up to the internet that aren't properly maintained and these sort of events will be more common. Also that if a non-specific virus can do that much harm I shudder to think what a well designed attack would unleash.
Remember the blackout in 2003? There was talk that the computers that failed were hit by a particularly nasty worm going around that week. I think it was the Sasser. Can't remember. But I do remember working as a tech and the worm was really crescendoing at the point the grid went down. The talk of a virus being the cause was put out there and quickly replaced with some excuse less scary. But from my vantage point it seemed to really coincide with the worm.
You are on to something as it being the destruction of the family, but more so the expectation that one must forge one's own identity. By prerequisite this means narcissism. It used to be that doing something in a way because this was how one's father and grandfather did it was a reasonable justification. Now we are expected to not drive our father's Oldsmobile.
This line of thinking was popularized among the babyboomers, and if there will be one good thing that comes out of the greatest depression will be a rethinking of this logic. It's really hard to develop an identity for oneself. This difficulty can lead to an easy narcissism. This easy narcissism is about defining oneself by what one has rather than what one does. It's easier to buy the super laptop rather than learn how to operate it well, etc. It's good though that kids have an expectation of success. Hopefully they can use this expectation to figure out a way to forge this identity through hard work.
Yep and so is Microsoft. And since they aren't medical companies they are not required to follow HIPPA. Nice end run.
Agree with the ACER. They have a great warentee worldwide and rock. Also, check out Fujutsu. Those babies are tuff. I got one from them via their ebay store for $400 and it has been great. Got a second for the Mrs. and she loves it too.
Also, don't skimp on the RAM.
The effect is censorship caused by requiring schools and libraries to have filters "for the sake of the children". Where I work the strangest sites are blocked by Barracuda as porn: Dilbert, exile.ru, wonkette... It doesn't make any sense especially when it doesn't block a number of real pr0n sites.
Now consider how many people don't have internet access and rely on public terminals in libraries. These people aren't children, but are forcibly treated like ones due to CIPA. Worse, they are not only censored from pornography, a resonable thing in a public institute like a library, but are cut off from things that are added to the blocked lists just because they might represent a view that is unpopular.
I am not sure if that is the cause / effect you are seeking or the one between the Supreme Court ruling and the reporting of stupidly blocked sites. This cause / effect is probably because before the ruling the reports were frequent in hopes to overturn CIPA, now that the Supreme Court has ruled CIPA to be constitutional there isn't much hope in over ruling it. What legislature is going to jepordize their career by being proponents of exposing kids to porn just over some little censorship issue?
The next steps are being taken by putting filtering software in place for entire countries. This is where the Boingboing controversy came up. And there are many legislators in the US that want to do the same thing here and require all ISP's to filter "questionable material".
Those requests are probably coming from oil companies trying to analyze the most efficient way to drill for oil at Mount Rushmore.
The 840AV had a fully functional software phone and answering machine. It worked great and was to market in 1993. Read about it in Byte: http://www.byte.com/art/9401/sec9/art5.htm The Quadra 840AV's DSP uses a real-time operating system that can perform several signal-processing tasks simultaneously. One such task is the sound preprocessing for PlainTalk. Other programmed functions that the DSP can handle are telephony, modem, and fax operations. A bundled Telephone application lets the Quadra act as a phone, and, with the Apple AudioVision monitor, you can actually use the system as a speakerphone. Telephone can also answer the phone, play a recorded message, and then record a message from the caller--but you'll need lots of hard disk space to record digitized messages.
Not prior art because Star Trek happens in the future.
Check out the description of the Chicago School Board's use of statistics to identify cheating teachers. Not only did they successfully identify cheats, they also identified cheats that didn't even know the right answer to cheat with. Quite an eye opener.
In Raising Genius he plays son to Milton in a back story to Office Space and the Mac ads.
It seems when these "2.0" companies get bought out they really start to suck. So the user's and buyer's expectations pop like a favorite ballon who was just discovered by the cat.
This is why were seeing a new breed of mySpace and Facebooks evolve and next we'll start seeing something to replace youTube which thanks to removal of content due to litiginous bastards is now just a bunch of cat videos and bad Wendy's commercials.
The cycle will continue as these albatrosses will bring down the purchasing companies allowing for newcomers with real innovation to take their place. And if they can avoid their predecessor's error will go on to great things.
If I had seen the CD before I bought it, I wouldn't have. I bought it online from Amazon because it was a decent price and I was worried the RIAA might come after me for having one of the songs from it running through my head illegally. :-)
Today I bought my first CD in over a year and it had big FBI copyright warnings all over it and a mail in questionaire with many survey questions that could be seen as incriminating and a good lead for the RIAA to follow up with a lawsuit.
If this is what they see as value added, I think they got the eqation backwards... it's supposed to be value added to the consumer's experience, not the record company's legal squad.
No effort to add you to the axis of evil? Is that what you believe up there in Soviet Canuckistan? Why do you think we're always firing on your troops? One word: Pre-Emptive Strike!
Just wait a few years when Nevada runs dry. We'll be up there for your water to support our desert casinos, eh.
Thanks, Dynedain. I wasn't aware of that ad. Here's a link to the one I was refering to:
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/kengz/198041571/
In the ad they use the term personal computer which at that time was abbreviated as PC. This was before Compaq made the first IBM clone. It was run in August of 1981.
*** mumbles about absent minded oldies....
Here's the text if you're running a non-gui computer
Welcome, IBM. Seriously. Welcome to the most exciting and important marketplace since the computer revolution began 35 years ago. And congratulations on your first personal computer. Putting real computer power in the hands of the individual is already improving the way people work, think, learn, communicate, and spend their leisure hours. Computer literacy is fast becoming as fundamental a skill as reading or writing. When we invented the first personal computer system, we estimated that over 140,000,000 people worldwide could justify the purchase of one, if only they understood its benefits. Next year alone, we project that well over 1,000,000 will come to that understanding. Over the next decade, the growth of the personal computer will continue in logarithmic leaps. We look forward to responsible competition in the massive effort to distribute this American technology to the world. And we appreciate the magnitude of your commitment. Because what we are doing is increasing social capital by enhancing individual productivity. Welcome to the task. Apple.
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It has an erie deja vu feeling of when Apple put an ad out welcoming IBM to the PC market.
No kidding! I just sold some property and the realtor wanted me to email the title company my social security number so they could process the paperwork. I had a hard time explaining to them that I would only telephone or mail the number since email was insecure. Finally they emailed me their telephone number. I just can't imagine what a treasure trove their email account would be for identity thieves.
Sad but true. Time Warner really blew it. They could have leveraged AOL's strength and really catapulted into the twenty-first century. Could you imagine what they would be like today if they had taken care of what they had in AOL? Instead of keeping it as a ISP whore, they could have made it into a media delivery powerhouse.
For example what if they offered their library of media along with the AOL subscription... they would have been there before iTunes even started.
What a waste.
I have the impression that web professionals have a difficult go of any relationship because the web culture is based on chaos: it's all about 80 hour weeks and IPO's out of nothing and is very high in the dramatics and stress.
This is why I prefer the Database world. All of the author's of my University DB texts seemed to be married 40+ years. This also seems to be the case in most departments I have worked. It's a different culture, based on order, structure, sane hours, professional respect and decent hours.
Dr. Levine, a Mayo Clinic obesity researcher, has found that walking slowly, about a mile per hour, burns calories while not breaking a sweat. It's called "non-exercise activity thermogenesis", or NEAT.
Levine has devised a computer workstation that integrates a treadmill so you can type and walk. He and his colleagues also walk laps together at the track rather than sit in boardrooms.
Levine claims that the added workload would equate to loosing fifty pounds per year without any diet change and without breaking a sweat!
I agree with you. The thing that angers me the most is that he is hiding behind the cloak of reason that it was a 'scientific experiment'. It was no more a legitimate experiment than the Tuskegee Experiment.
;-)
And yes, I hope he has his passport and bags packed. After all, the ad was seeking sexual sadists. But maybe that is what he was looking for.
One hears so much about people not being hired for posting a picture of themselves drunk on mySpace... how is he going to explain this in an interview? Thanks to Google, he probably won't be getting too many interviews to be a network administrator anymore. He should probably consider a career move to HR.. this sort of action would be looked on admirably in that field.
I work for a company in Wisconsin and we have recently had foreign government ministers visiting to talk to us about writing software for them. We produce software to be used in many countries that are considered places where programming jobs go. I guess it just goes to show markets are still cyclical.
Thanks for making that distinction. Yes ipCop does run on a separate machine, but that machine can cost less than most personal firewalls and does a better job of protecting a windows machine because it is autonomous from the OS and is therefore more difficult to circumvent.
For the home or business network it is a valuable tool. It can also be used to prevent specific programs from accessing the network by blocking the ports they use. However, both types of firewalls have difficulty with proctoring port 80 traffic.
The nice thing about something like ipcop, is that users don't notice it being there. For an experienced user, a personal firewall is great. But for the average user, the notifications get to be too frequent and tend to be ignored or worse, cause the user to turn it off.
distinguishing between the two? I am not sure, mostly a guess but sometimes it is obvious. For example I have had a few machines that just loose connectivity and do not allow me to delete the tcp/ip stack. In both cases it happened after a win update. No signifigant spyware or virus was detected. Replacing the NIC didn't work. The only solution was to reinstall windows and only install the security updates but not the other updates. When I installed the non-security updates the driver structure blew out and I had to rollback the install to get a stable machine. My guess is that the new updates for WinXP don't support the full HCL and older machines are getting pushed off the XP platform.