You might care to know that the relevant Wikipedia is already prevented from being created at the English Wiki. Although one can see the code elsewhere on the site.
All you people saying how Java is slow may find it pretty amusing that this emulator in fact runs faster than DOSBOX on my G4 Mac Mini. Haven't tried it on a PC yet, though.
"And finally the old unix guys will flame about how none of these vulnerabilites would have happened if we would have stayed away from GUIs."
No. Old UNIX hackers will instead berate UNIX for being a total piece of shit and then endlessly whine about the downfall of Symbolics and its old dedicated LISP machines. And they'd be right. I may not be an 'old UNIX hacker', but having worked with and coded for various OSes, I think that *nix is pretty much like democracy: it is the worst operating system except for all the others that have been used from time to time.
And dedicated machines, though they are a great educational tool, simply do meet today's criteria for being workable in a network-centric environment.
You may disagree, but not using voting machines seems the best idea so far. Hell, our country had an electional scandal because of the vote data being stored insecurely, despite the fact that the elections were paper-based. It is highly unlikely to find the guilty (or even to confirm manipulations) in a voting machine situation as digital voting lets someone to modify the results maliciously without leaving a trace. Is that a right route to take?
As a math major I may say the this is impressive: after understanding the significance and complexity of the problem seeing a solution has been found is really exciting. Although I'm looking forward to see something done about the most significant of the Millennium Problems (IMO and from the pure maths POV) -- the Riemann hypothesis.
Note: Not considering P vs. NP as it is quite possibly unprovable.
I am Ukrainian and live in Kyiv. Back in 2004 we had presidential elections ending almost in a tie for two candidates. There was evidence for falsifications made by goverment in favor of their political successor. Due to the high level of state influence on the media, Internet became the first tribune for the opposition. It helped to encourage the mainstream media not to obey censorship, with information spread leading to public protests which resulted in a revolution. You cannot overestimate role of the Internet in politics. (The whole story is here.)
Puppy Linux is a newbie-friendly alternate to DSL. Although (in my opinion) less suitable for hacking, it is a decent mini-desktop solution. Plus it comes in different flavors.
It isn't the medium that makes you rich, it's you business talent.
As a matter of fact, my friend has made quite a capital from an arcade in year 2001 (in Ukraine). Good marketing created the demand. You can profit from nearly anything, but it takes a real talent to see HOW.
As weird as it may sound, quite a number of small towns here, in Ukraine have their powergrids (mostly) underground. It is so because in the 90s it was not uncommon for every piece of cable/wiring to get stolen sortly after being installed. So, back in day it used to be financially effective. Now with crime rates down it, probably, would not be worth the price, thought. But it stays as it was.
That's exactly what I thought after reading the summary. The system (if designed wrong) can be used to cause much harm. And, even without the collisions, imagine that after (IF?) the system passes testing. It becomes widely accepted and major ISPs ban the sites blacklisted. Now, imagine such a thing: someone massively links to questionable images from an multiple anonymous Slashdot comments. Another scenario: upload images to some file-sharing site. Voila, your competition banner. I seriously hope that the blacklist will be moderated.
From TFA: People don't want a single dedicated computer. They don't want their whole lives bound up in one piece of hardware.
Also, people generally tend not to care about their sensitive data? Web-based software delivers even more ways to hijack it, as not only it is insecure while being transfered between two computers (that is a problem that can be fixed with, say, GPG), but also while being edited. Ok, your may encrypt it, but never the less the crackers will get quite more samples of your encrypted data than they could get if you only sent a single file. Do you really want this?
People want to get access wherever they are, from whatever device they're using.
But keep in mind that it will impact the performance of their main device.
I think we are in one of those major generational changes. And it will be interesting to see how it plays out.
If it doesn't play out the "web-is-our-OS" way, the result will actually be far better for both you and your users. Unless you intended to spy on em.;-)
I've been in the Biz for some time, being on both sides, that is. Actually, an employer has a reasonable right to check how do you behave in a informal online situation as it might also be reflect what you do in an informal situation offline. Now way am I advocating it, but it seems to me that data mining is a significant part of future's corporate intelligence. And if you think you can spy on your partners or competition, your moral will allow you to spy on your employees.
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You might care to know that the relevant Wikipedia is already prevented from being created at the English Wiki.
Although one can see the code elsewhere on the site.
All you people saying how Java is slow may find it pretty amusing that this emulator in fact runs faster than DOSBOX on my G4 Mac Mini. Haven't tried it on a PC yet, though.
Yeah! Not to mention cracking the orbiting teapot... :(
No. Old UNIX hackers will instead berate UNIX for being a total piece of shit and then endlessly whine about the downfall of Symbolics and its old dedicated LISP machines. And they'd be right. I may not be an 'old UNIX hacker', but having worked with and coded for various OSes, I think that *nix is pretty much like democracy: it is the worst operating system except for all the others that have been used from time to time.
And dedicated machines, though they are a great educational tool, simply do meet today's criteria for being workable in a network-centric environment.
...the Three Laws of Robotics.
Just in case you needed a confirmation on that Seoul is on of the World's most intelligent cities, here it is. :)
...they are state's Orwellian "Mincopy". This is just wrong.
Now I'm really looking forward for the apples I eat to look like this. :-(
Oh wait, that sounds just like I'm Microsoft...
You may disagree, but not using voting machines seems the best idea so far. Hell, our country had an electional scandal because of the vote data being stored insecurely, despite the fact that the elections were paper-based. It is highly unlikely to find the guilty (or even to confirm manipulations) in a voting machine situation as digital voting lets someone to modify the results maliciously without leaving a trace. Is that a right route to take?
Well, you need text, sure as hell you do. But who said that it has to be arranged linearly?
The real challenge of interface design is not really finding substitution for text but rather figuring out the correct arrangement for it.
As a math major I may say the this is impressive: after understanding the significance and complexity of the problem seeing a solution has been found is really exciting. Although I'm looking forward to see something done about the most significant of the Millennium Problems (IMO and from the pure maths POV) -- the Riemann hypothesis.
Note: Not considering P vs. NP as it is quite possibly unprovable.
I am Ukrainian and live in Kyiv. Back in 2004 we had presidential elections ending almost in a tie for two candidates. There was evidence for falsifications made by goverment in favor of their political successor. Due to the high level of state influence on the media, Internet became the first tribune for the opposition. It helped to encourage the mainstream media not to obey censorship, with information spread leading to public protests which resulted in a revolution. You cannot overestimate role of the Internet in politics. (The whole story is here.)
Linux's market is very different. Need not to say that OSS is not prone to one man's (team's) mistakes, while corporate products are.
Puppy Linux is a newbie-friendly alternate to DSL. Although (in my opinion) less suitable for hacking, it is a decent mini-desktop solution. Plus it comes in different flavors.
...they also tend to have the best networking stacks I ever worked with.
It isn't the medium that makes you rich, it's you business talent.
As a matter of fact, my friend has made quite a capital from an arcade in year 2001 (in Ukraine). Good marketing created the demand.
You can profit from nearly anything, but it takes a real talent to see HOW.
...should be in how the application interacts with you, not how it looks.
Most of Apple's own programs seem to have exactly this type of beauty.
Actually, the situation with definitions is a bit messed up.
As weird as it may sound, quite a number of small towns here, in Ukraine have their powergrids (mostly) underground. It is so because in the 90s it was not uncommon for every piece of cable/wiring to get stolen sortly after being installed. So, back in day it used to be financially effective. Now with crime rates down it, probably, would not be worth the price, thought. But it stays as it was.
That's exactly what I thought after reading the summary. The system (if designed wrong) can be used to cause much harm.
And, even without the collisions, imagine that after (IF?) the system passes testing. It becomes widely accepted and major ISPs ban the sites blacklisted. Now, imagine such a thing: someone massively links to questionable images from an multiple anonymous Slashdot comments.
Another scenario: upload images to some file-sharing site. Voila, your competition banner.
I seriously hope that the blacklist will be moderated.
I bet they use Intel CPUs!
From TFA:
;-)
People don't want a single dedicated computer. They don't want their whole lives bound up in one piece of hardware.
Also, people generally tend not to care about their sensitive data? Web-based software delivers even more ways to hijack it, as not only it is insecure while being transfered between two computers (that is a problem that can be fixed with, say, GPG), but also while being edited. Ok, your may encrypt it, but never the less the crackers will get quite more samples of your encrypted data than they could get if you only sent a single file. Do you really want this?
People want to get access wherever they are, from whatever device they're using.
But keep in mind that it will impact the performance of their main device.
I think we are in one of those major generational changes. And it will be interesting to see how it plays out.
If it doesn't play out the "web-is-our-OS" way, the result will actually be far better for both you and your users. Unless you intended to spy on em.
...is that ALIENS have STOLEN our camera jamming technology!!
I've been in the Biz for some time, being on both sides, that is. Actually, an employer has a reasonable right to check how do you behave in a informal online situation as it might also be reflect what you do in an informal situation offline. Now way am I advocating it, but it seems to me that data mining is a significant part of future's corporate intelligence. And if you think you can spy on your partners or competition, your moral will allow you to spy on your employees.
Actually, it works perfectly with Safari.
:-P
And if you don't believe me, I've got screenshots to confirm my words.
P.S.: Sorry for the banner, it is a problem of free hosting.