At least have the car's ECU running linux and geeks might take an interest.
Linux is probably not ideal for an ECU - you want a looping program running pretty much in realtime. It might be OK for some of the data-gathering/control hardware though.
Gmail can't support IMAP properly because of the labels feature they have.
So support POP3 and add a "Label" tag in the mail headers for mail clients to go whatever they want to with. Google will never do this, though -- every person who uses a thick e-mail client loses them advertising dollars.
Ban normal cell phones for everyone under the age of 21, and let the only cell phones allowed for people that age be one button cell phones with no screen that only call 911.
Some people under 21 or even under 18 have full-time paying jobs, y'know. Not all teenagers are irresponsible fscks...
Firing squad followed by dumping your ashes in international waters for you! (As happened to a certain famous Nazi who thought he was safe in Argentina.)
Oh shiznit! But it's such a stupid simple hack, I could do it in about 3 lines of code! It would take my midrange laptop perhaps 20 minutes to run and send all the messages!
I hope to God that they implement some sort of rate limiting per IP and/or per phone #. If you try to auto-send 10,000 messages to 202-555-1234, it should be blocked after the first 2 or 3.
Maybe if he wasn't such a child with "winblows" and "M$" everywhere
Sadly, he's right, though. MS stuff isn't appropriate in life/safety-critical applications. Maybe for running e-mail systems, but not for anything that'll have bad physical effects if it fails. Embedded systems, specialized OS's, or even minimal UNIX systems do the job with far more reliability.
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That's because so many males these days are immature little twits.
Replace "males" with "people" and you may be on to something. No one race/gender/creed/etc hs a monopoly on stupidity.
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kipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia says its the city of brotherly love. Other than being ranked 6th most dangerous city, I really don't understand the phrase from the post.
There was a film called Philadelphia about a successful attorney who was fired from his law firm when he was dying of AIDS in the 80s.
IT departments often do as little as posable with the plant network an stick to the corp network.... they dont like working on this stuff.
Certainly easier for them if they have an outside contractor to blame if something fucks up with dangerous equipment. In the current liability climate, I can't blame them too much.
OK, then there should be a gateway machine/device that can be physically connected or disconnected selectively? Want access to the network? Call first, otherwise you're not getting on. Period.
Also why is the inside network connected to the internal network.. that should never be done, if you need access you need to vpn in.
Wrong. You shouldn't be able to VPN in -- there should be dedicated machines specifically for the purpose of accessing and monitoring that critical network (assuming that it's really that critical). Once a VPN link is opened, malicious traffic can traverse it the same as any other network. The only totally airtight security is complete physical seperation.
Some printers do have web apps embedded in them. Hilarity ensues when said printers have a public IP address and no password.
Yep, the more expensive ones. Still, if they can embed a web app in a $20 router, no reason why they can't put one in a $250-300 middle-range office printer for scanning. Especially if the printer ALREADY has a web page for configuration. As far as security -- make the thing disabled by default until a password is set.
Why does a printer driver require 435 MB of disk space (no really, you cannot install it otherwise) and take 30 minutes and a reboot to install?
Usually, you can just install the drivers from disk. The problem is when you want nifty functionality like network scanning on multifunction machines. Then you have to install the whole package or nothing. Far better would be to have a web app embedded in the multifunction machines -- you should be able to just point a browser to the printer's IP or name and download scanned images as.jpg or.pdf.
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Re:Dartmouth Co-education
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Men will succeed in co-ed and all male institutions quite easily. Women often underperform in co-ed enviornments.
Regardless, if women have the choice, so should men. I'm not talking about taking away women's right to single-sex education -- I'm saying that in order to have "equality", both genders should have that right.
Besides, the premise is that men and women are intellectually equal. Are you saying that women can't compete on a level playing field now?
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Some studies showed that separate but equal was a good idea too. Studies tend to show whatever the guy who pays for it wants it to show.
If you think that single-sex education is immoral, then ban it entirely. We seem to have a double standard where all-female education is somehow OK while all-male education is not (at least socially) acceptable.
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Dartmouth has been co-ed for about 35 years now. Lots of Dartmouth students ca. 1970 griped about co-education. They were in the minority even then; vocal, but a minority
I'm not arguing that it made Dartmouth a better place or not. But, I still don't think it should be held against him, especially since all-female schools are pretty common, so why can't there be all-male schools? Should we lambast a female CEO that went to Smith, Holyoke, or Bryn Mawr if she expressed the opinion that her alma-mater would be better off not going co-ed? I'm not against co-education, but private universities should have a choice as to whom to admit.
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Mod parent up insightful!
Why the double standard -- all-female schools are ok while all-male schools aren't? And some studies have shown that children of both genders do better in single-sex schools.
Actually, it's become worse by one or two points since the late 80s. More SUVs and ridiculously strict crash safety standards.
There is no good fix for the sprawl.
Rethink current zoning laws that put a premium on distance between business and residential, fix the broken real-estate tax systems in some states, and you're around half way there.
Glad someone mentions this -- for every dead soldier coming back from Iraq, there are probably 5 or 10 soldiers who are either mentally or physically maimed. And, with modern medicine, this ratio is bound to increase. Something to think about, especially since few in the media talk about the wounded.
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Linux is probably not ideal for an ECU - you want a looping program running pretty much in realtime. It might be OK for some of the data-gathering/control hardware though.
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So support POP3 and add a "Label" tag in the mail headers for mail clients to go whatever they want to with. Google will never do this, though -- every person who uses a thick e-mail client loses them advertising dollars.
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Well, the reactor should be critical. If the network controlling it were critical too, I'd be a bit disturbed.
Some people under 21 or even under 18 have full-time paying jobs, y'know. Not all teenagers are irresponsible fscks...
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Firing squad followed by dumping your ashes in international waters for you! (As happened to a certain famous Nazi who thought he was safe in Argentina.)
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Maybe she was texting internationally or sending multimedia messages?
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Better they yap than text while driving! At least you can keep your eyes on the road whilst yapping.
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I hope to God that they implement some sort of rate limiting per IP and/or per phone #. If you try to auto-send 10,000 messages to 202-555-1234, it should be blocked after the first 2 or 3.
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It's KURWA to you, guy!
What about sole proprietorships/startups. Plenty of business (at least in the US) are NOT incorporated!
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Sadly, he's right, though. MS stuff isn't appropriate in life/safety-critical applications. Maybe for running e-mail systems, but not for anything that'll have bad physical effects if it fails. Embedded systems, specialized OS's, or even minimal UNIX systems do the job with far more reliability.
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Replace "males" with "people" and you may be on to something. No one race/gender/creed/etc hs a monopoly on stupidity.
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There was a film called Philadelphia about a successful attorney who was fired from his law firm when he was dying of AIDS in the 80s.
Certainly easier for them if they have an outside contractor to blame if something fucks up with dangerous equipment. In the current liability climate, I can't blame them too much.
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insightful. He's worked in a nuclear power station and seems to be clueful.
OK, then there should be a gateway machine/device that can be physically connected or disconnected selectively? Want access to the network? Call first, otherwise you're not getting on. Period.
Wrong. You shouldn't be able to VPN in -- there should be dedicated machines specifically for the purpose of accessing and monitoring that critical network (assuming that it's really that critical). Once a VPN link is opened, malicious traffic can traverse it the same as any other network. The only totally airtight security is complete physical seperation.
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Yep, the more expensive ones. Still, if they can embed a web app in a $20 router, no reason why they can't put one in a $250-300 middle-range office printer for scanning. Especially if the printer ALREADY has a web page for configuration. As far as security -- make the thing disabled by default until a password is set.
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Regardless, if women have the choice, so should men. I'm not talking about taking away women's right to single-sex education -- I'm saying that in order to have "equality", both genders should have that right.
Besides, the premise is that men and women are intellectually equal. Are you saying that women can't compete on a level playing field now?
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If you think that single-sex education is immoral, then ban it entirely. We seem to have a double standard where all-female education is somehow OK while all-male education is not (at least socially) acceptable.
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I'm not arguing that it made Dartmouth a better place or not. But, I still don't think it should be held against him, especially since all-female schools are pretty common, so why can't there be all-male schools? Should we lambast a female CEO that went to Smith, Holyoke, or Bryn Mawr if she expressed the opinion that her alma-mater would be better off not going co-ed? I'm not against co-education, but private universities should have a choice as to whom to admit.
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Why the double standard -- all-female schools are ok while all-male schools aren't? And some studies have shown that children of both genders do better in single-sex schools.
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Actually, it's become worse by one or two points since the late 80s. More SUVs and ridiculously strict crash safety standards.
There is no good fix for the sprawl.
Rethink current zoning laws that put a premium on distance between business and residential, fix the broken real-estate tax systems in some states, and you're around half way there.
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