To truly make a computer science student think: They should be exposed to the facts of the real world. Most people are stupid...or just ignorant, near-sighted, and/or selfish. A lot of those people wield the majority of the power. They cannot do this without scientists.
Find a picture of Truman standing next to Einstein. Says it all.
The only problem I see is that it would take a while for the projector to warm up.
Now if they made this thing capable of walking up and using a telescoping robotic arm to replace the cable, then they would have something. VPN from 200 miles away and direct this thing to do physical layer stuff for you. That would be awesome.
How you gonna link fake kiddie porn. JEEZ. No tags or mention of kiddie porn. Slow down with the linking there man, NSFW doesn't cut it as a description of child porn, fake or not. Clean up your act dude.
Everyone already knows Billary sucks. Where's the news here?
She is essentially a straw-man in my book. Shouldn't you be posting on the rush limbaugh blog? For "Operation douchewad" or "operation buy me more pills" or whatever.
FTA: "He [Fish] noted that misregulation can impede innovation, and invoked what he called the "futility principle": There are some genuine problems that are only made worse by attempts to meliorate them."...like the Iraq war?
Not even sure what they were attempting to "meliorate" on that one aside from phantom WMDs. To their defense; the best intelligence they chose to pay attention to did indicate their existence.
McCain = 4 more years of Bush..only a little smarter but beholden to the same corporate interests and the same wrong-minded national security/diplomatic policy. Why don't we just skip the middle-man and elect Rupert Murdoch?
I get what you're saying. But you are arguing how the world should work vs how it does work. Ideally all musical artists have a ton of talent and the public has a finely tuned appreciation of art in music. Some people prefer specific genres but all in all it is generally talented work enriching the world culture. None of which is true, especially the part about people appreciating art.
The argument for commercial success of FOSS is a bit ridiculous itself as that is not really the goal. The goal is high quality software liberated to the masses. If the goal were commercial success then free would have little place in it. There isn't a knock-out business model for FOSS and the moderately successful ones don't apply to all subsections of the market.
I was arguing from the commercial success standpoint. I neither enjoy nor tolerate music that typically rates top 20, but those guys are freaking rich.
First: Who? Second FTA: he is "making a comfortable living"
While that sounds nice and all. To say that Radiohead "makes a comfortable living" would be ridiculous.
Not saying anything about his music or FOSS type distribution, but I don't know a single non-geek that listens to that guy. Never heard of him, he doesn't own a jet, and you need a better example.
OTOH: Huge commercial success without any talent other than a listenable voice once ran through the "studio magic" box: Brittany, Justin Timberlake...everything on the top 10 for the past 10 years, and others. All of the household names and all (if they were smart) could retire after one album followed up with a tour.
The real problem with most FOSS is the same with good music. Most people are stupid, look at a bell curve. You want broad appeal you need a product that appeals to idiots and a heavy-duty marketing machine.
Without those you just have to suck it up and prove yourself over several years of underground word of mouth.
I installed earlier today apparently right before the deluge of downloads. Not fast enough however to get in before their repository servers started getting nailed.
If you get it now, it runs fine, installed fine, looks kinda cool, but you will have a long wait trying to install anything beyond default packages. For instance I needed to use a Java app so I started to install the super easy Sun Java 6 installer. Super easy, but the server is dying so I ended up reading over half of the Storm worm infiltration PDF before it was done.
Other than that, it's worth the upgrade, just trying to warn about the repository servers getting slammed in the face...which is almost a good thing if it indicates the size of the user base on this go round. Bad that it wasn't load balanced better. Then again, why build a stadium to host a game twice a year. Not sure how I feel about that one. Need to beef 'em up eventually if they grow as fast as they hope they will.
Bad UI / Past due date / Hard to modify / Poor interaction with existing systems / Can't talk to financial systems / not profitable to deploy / No audit logs / whatever.
If the former, keep plugging at it but get a lawyer. If the latter, save everyone some time and refocus your efforts. Tough love, sorry but serious.
I just installed Ubuntu coming from XP. I guess my motivation was to put my money where my mouth was...again. I've flip-flopped back and forth semi-anually for a while- usually over counterstrike addiction, yes it works in wine but with a crap framerate as of last summer at least (yes I reniced).
So I got my 7.10 CD and tore into it after backing up the vital stuff.
Initial problems: I've got 3 drives 2 SATA and 1 IDE. The BIOS orders them SATA1, SATA2, IDE. SATA1 is the first boot device.
Told Ubuntu installer to leave SATA2 and IDE alone. Install to SATA1, create/boot mount point 256MB, swap partition 2GB, / partition 30GB, and remainder as large/home partition all of them ext3 except swap of course. It died in the "Detecting Hardware phase 90%". I'm Not sure why it died. It wasn't completely frozen and CTRL+ALT+F1 to first TTY of the liveCD showed a few "cramfs: wrong magic" errors in dmesg. I didn't dig any deeper and that was apparently unrelated. Started over, chose "Guided" partitioning of entire SDA (SATA1). That went off without a hitch.
Rebooted. Grub error 15. Used live CD, discovered it called IDE drive hd(0,x) and SATA1 hd(1,x), renumbered/boot/grub/device.map, grub-install --recheck/dev/sda. changed menu.lst (the commented part) update-grub, rebooted. All is fine in the world, brown is everywhere.
Downloaded 250+MB patches/etc. Rebooted. Drums...Brown..yay! Yes I want the restricted nvidia drivers you hippie bastard, rebooted (restart gdm would've worked I guess).
Now I'm home free...wait no flashplugin-nonfree, better grab that. Oh, sorry, we can't bother to update a package's MD5 hash after months of complaints for some weird reason. So I followed a hack post on a forum for the postinstall script to ignore the hashes. Danced around a broken install to tweak said script without it vanishing after removal, because it wasn't cached once the "successful" install actually failed and flagged the packages as present.
Now I'm happy. I'm sure they didn't gear their install for a combo of IDE/SATA with probably ambiguously reported boot order from the BIOS. However, they totally need to get flash 9 cooking with a good MD5 hash...it's just too easily fixed to tolerate. The install was seamless right up to the point of not really installing it and failing silently while reporting success (from apt/firefox). Trying the command from the shell or viewing shell details would indicate ~MD5SUM failure Flash NOT installed~ or something like that. It took an hour to research and fix as I'm not versed in postinstall scripts, just like 99.999% of the world...could be more 9s, I made that number up.
Also: "In Australia the term feral cat refers to cats living and breeding entirely in the wild. Significant populations of wildlife in Australia, including marsupials, reptiles, and birds, poorly adapted to this efficient predator, have allowed the establishment of stable populations across most of the country." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_cat
Cats are also generally despised and must be licensed according to a friend fresh from a New Zealand/Australia trip, which is second hand hearsay for what its worth.
Not arguing with the fact that people agree to that license. However, I only agree with that up to the point of "even if such Contributor has been advised of the possibility of such damages." Even Civil Engineers have better ethics than that. See Canon 1.1-4. Heck read 'em all. https://www.asce.org/inside/codeofethics.cfm
What that line suggests is that, even if they knew it was a problem, Big Dig engineering firms in Boston would've kept plugging along cutting corners until someone got hurt...oh...they did eh? Well...Oh..I see.
So...does anyone have any honor anymore?
I can understand safeguarding developers from liability for accidental goofs, but blanket free-pass for intentionally including weak code should be actionable. That same sentence quoted above (quite a legalese-paragraph-sentence too) would exonerate someone who intentionally put a hidden back door into the apache source using security through obscurity... you know... for security updates, and was told it was a stupid idea.
The upswing is that the peer reviewed, engineered, open nature of Apache would prevent something like that from living too long. I could see issues with people using the same license on lesser software though.
Damn, I should've read further "Friday, Landesman said more data during the week had made her change her mind about the link to Fasthosts. "There are a great deal more of these [compromised] sites than earlier," she said. "There are a number of them that can be traced to Fasthosts, but not all of them do."" (same article)
I had remembered the previous claim without the new clarification. Still it looks like an inside job at least originally. Also, what would prevent a server moved from Fasthosts to a new hosting company from spreading the infection to poorly secured/pached servers on the same internal vlan assuming a "crunchy on the outside, soft in the middle" approach by the new hosting company.
It still sounds like the root of the problem was the breach at Fasthosts, but it's all conjecture on my part at this point. I'm posting it anyway cuz it's the intarwebs, and that second quote exonerates Fasthosts somewhat.
This thousands of hosts number being bandied about includes a majority of mom and pop online stores mainly in the UK right?
"Last week, ScanSafe's Landesman drew a link between the security breach at UK-based Fasthosts and the site hacks, saying then that the domains ScanSafe had found infected had, or had recently had, a relationship with Fasthosts."
It's not a software flaw according to Landesman. Its stupid admins not changing passwords or with a lingering delayed infection from the initial theft.
Am I the only one that's noticed a ton of these "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" tags recently. Did the mad scientist class of '07 get to work quickly or what? Who is throwing all this money at applying knowledge we barely have to applications we can't imagine the repercussions of. Some of this stuff could turn out a little worse than introducing cats to Australia, if you catch my meaning.
Just wanted to throw in a me too on this one. We just recently got burned because we came to a decision in a conference call to change plans. Nobody felt the need to send an email "Per our discussion *the important stuff*" because we're all upstanding people good for our word.
Three months later it is finally getting set straight as 90% of the people in the conversation heard the same thing. Too many weasels in this world to take a man for his word anymore. It's a damn shame.
What was his plan if the device was lost or stolen?
Encryption goes a long way in remedying this particular dilemma. If you're worried enough about it to freak when they don't send the drive back, you should be worried about loss or theft. Use TrueCrypt or your favorite encryption software for those files.
It's also over after max 7 seconds, with more doses possible if it didn't hurt enough.
Pepper spray gets on your skin, "washing it off" isn't as easy as you imply either. It makes it hard to breath and see for a prolonged period and effects everyone around the person. Its not like pepper spray hasn't killed or blinded people.
I would rather be tasered than pepper sprayed. 7 seconds of intense pain, or 30-45 minutes of burning pain and inability to breathe or see properly with a possibility of being blind if applied improperly.
Obviously you are not a cop, nor are you related to one. You oversimplified the choice: Get in a physical altercation with a dumbass druggie, possibly lose, have them grab your sidearm, get shot by a douche bag and leave a widow and a kid with emotional problems. OR Tase the dumbass and see your kid graduate college, retire on a modest income, see grandkids at thanksgiving, etc.
The choice is clear when you're placed in the situation yourself. If its being used on a whim, ok, I see your point. Most likely its being used when it needs to be and there's a.0001 chance it can kill people with some oddball heart defect and no regard for law enforcement.
Also, if this is torture, what is pepper spray? Having solved all of the worlds problems, the UN is now tackling effective, essentially non-lethal tools for law enforcement?
So.... Block these networks. Think I got them all. 194.110.69.0/24 91.198.71.0/24 91.194.140.0/23 91.196.232.0/22 91.195.116.0/23 91.193.40.0/22 91.193.56.0/22 193.33.128.0/23
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I remember a few years ago someone proposed a phased terraforming operation. Send a lander, have it do phase 1...step 2... big profit.
So lets get this going. I wanna see some of that big profit.
To truly make a computer science student think: They should be exposed to the facts of the real world. Most people are stupid...or just ignorant, near-sighted, and/or selfish. A lot of those people wield the majority of the power. They cannot do this without scientists.
Find a picture of Truman standing next to Einstein. Says it all.
(/pessimist)
The only problem I see is that it would take a while for the projector to warm up.
Now if they made this thing capable of walking up and using a telescoping robotic arm to replace the cable, then they would have something. VPN from 200 miles away and direct this thing to do physical layer stuff for you. That would be awesome.
Still pretty nifty in a dog-and-pony show way.
I will leave the evolution "debate" alone. You can't argue science with theology or philosophy.
What the heck is this guy doing evolving E coli.?!? Isn't there a more harmeless bacteria to work with?
Why do we need an E Coli that can flourish on a more diverse food supply than before?
How many times did this guy get the runs from not scrubbing up properly? Does he not catch the clue?
How you gonna link fake kiddie porn. JEEZ. No tags or mention of kiddie porn. Slow down with the linking there man, NSFW doesn't cut it as a description of child porn, fake or not. Clean up your act dude.
Everyone already knows Billary sucks. Where's the news here? She is essentially a straw-man in my book. Shouldn't you be posting on the rush limbaugh blog? For "Operation douchewad" or "operation buy me more pills" or whatever.
FTA: "He [Fish] noted that misregulation can impede innovation, and invoked what he called the "futility principle": There are some genuine problems that are only made worse by attempts to meliorate them." ...like the Iraq war?
Not even sure what they were attempting to "meliorate" on that one aside from phantom WMDs. To their defense; the best intelligence they chose to pay attention to did indicate their existence.
McCain = 4 more years of Bush..only a little smarter but beholden to the same corporate interests and the same wrong-minded national security/diplomatic policy. Why don't we just skip the middle-man and elect Rupert Murdoch?
I get what you're saying. But you are arguing how the world should work vs how it does work. Ideally all musical artists have a ton of talent and the public has a finely tuned appreciation of art in music. Some people prefer specific genres but all in all it is generally talented work enriching the world culture. None of which is true, especially the part about people appreciating art.
The argument for commercial success of FOSS is a bit ridiculous itself as that is not really the goal. The goal is high quality software liberated to the masses. If the goal were commercial success then free would have little place in it. There isn't a knock-out business model for FOSS and the moderately successful ones don't apply to all subsections of the market.
I was arguing from the commercial success standpoint. I neither enjoy nor tolerate music that typically rates top 20, but those guys are freaking rich.
First: Who?
Second FTA: he is "making a comfortable living"
While that sounds nice and all. To say that Radiohead "makes a comfortable living" would be ridiculous.
Not saying anything about his music or FOSS type distribution, but I don't know a single non-geek that listens to that guy. Never heard of him, he doesn't own a jet, and you need a better example.
OTOH: Huge commercial success without any talent other than a listenable voice once ran through the "studio magic" box: Brittany, Justin Timberlake...everything on the top 10 for the past 10 years, and others. All of the household names and all (if they were smart) could retire after one album followed up with a tour.
The real problem with most FOSS is the same with good music. Most people are stupid, look at a bell curve. You want broad appeal you need a product that appeals to idiots and a heavy-duty marketing machine.
Without those you just have to suck it up and prove yourself over several years of underground word of mouth.
I installed earlier today apparently right before the deluge of downloads. Not fast enough however to get in before their repository servers started getting nailed.
If you get it now, it runs fine, installed fine, looks kinda cool, but you will have a long wait trying to install anything beyond default packages. For instance I needed to use a Java app so I started to install the super easy Sun Java 6 installer. Super easy, but the server is dying so I ended up reading over half of the Storm worm infiltration PDF before it was done.
Other than that, it's worth the upgrade, just trying to warn about the repository servers getting slammed in the face...which is almost a good thing if it indicates the size of the user base on this go round. Bad that it wasn't load balanced better. Then again, why build a stadium to host a game twice a year. Not sure how I feel about that one. Need to beef 'em up eventually if they grow as fast as they hope they will.
Why was your project dropped?
Politics / Good 'ol Boy / Politics
-OR-
Bad UI / Past due date / Hard to modify / Poor interaction with existing systems / Can't talk to financial systems / not profitable to deploy / No audit logs / whatever.
If the former, keep plugging at it but get a lawyer. If the latter, save everyone some time and refocus your efforts. Tough love, sorry but serious.
I just installed Ubuntu coming from XP. I guess my motivation was to put my money where my mouth was...again. I've flip-flopped back and forth semi-anually for a while- usually over counterstrike addiction, yes it works in wine but with a crap framerate as of last summer at least (yes I reniced).
/boot mount point 256MB, swap partition 2GB, / partition 30GB, and remainder as large /home partition all of them ext3 except swap of course. It died in the "Detecting Hardware phase 90%". I'm Not sure why it died. It wasn't completely frozen and CTRL+ALT+F1 to first TTY of the liveCD showed a few "cramfs: wrong magic" errors in dmesg. I didn't dig any deeper and that was apparently unrelated. Started over, chose "Guided" partitioning of entire SDA (SATA1). That went off without a hitch.
/boot/grub/device.map, grub-install --recheck /dev/sda. changed menu.lst (the commented part) update-grub, rebooted. All is fine in the world, brown is everywhere.
So I got my 7.10 CD and tore into it after backing up the vital stuff.
Initial problems:
I've got 3 drives 2 SATA and 1 IDE. The BIOS orders them SATA1, SATA2, IDE. SATA1 is the first boot device.
Told Ubuntu installer to leave SATA2 and IDE alone. Install to SATA1, create
Rebooted. Grub error 15. Used live CD, discovered it called IDE drive hd(0,x) and SATA1 hd(1,x), renumbered
Downloaded 250+MB patches/etc. Rebooted. Drums...Brown..yay! Yes I want the restricted nvidia drivers you hippie bastard, rebooted (restart gdm would've worked I guess).
Now I'm home free...wait no flashplugin-nonfree, better grab that. Oh, sorry, we can't bother to update a package's MD5 hash after months of complaints for some weird reason. So I followed a hack post on a forum for the postinstall script to ignore the hashes. Danced around a broken install to tweak said script without it vanishing after removal, because it wasn't cached once the "successful" install actually failed and flagged the packages as present.
Now I'm happy. I'm sure they didn't gear their install for a combo of IDE/SATA with probably ambiguously reported boot order from the BIOS. However, they totally need to get flash 9 cooking with a good MD5 hash...it's just too easily fixed to tolerate. The install was seamless right up to the point of not really installing it and failing silently while reporting success (from apt/firefox). Trying the command from the shell or viewing shell details would indicate ~MD5SUM failure Flash NOT installed~ or something like that. It took an hour to research and fix as I'm not versed in postinstall scripts, just like 99.999% of the world...could be more 9s, I made that number up.
Why not simulate it first?
You're right rabbits had a big impact. But I'm right too. http://www.messybeast.com/ausdilemma.htm
Also: "In Australia the term feral cat refers to cats living and breeding entirely in the wild. Significant populations of wildlife in Australia, including marsupials, reptiles, and birds, poorly adapted to this efficient predator, have allowed the establishment of stable populations across most of the country." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_cat
Cats are also generally despised and must be licensed according to a friend fresh from a New Zealand/Australia trip, which is second hand hearsay for what its worth.
Not arguing with the fact that people agree to that license. However, I only agree with that up to the point of "even if such Contributor has been advised of the possibility of such damages." Even Civil Engineers have better ethics than that. See Canon 1.1-4. Heck read 'em all. https://www.asce.org/inside/codeofethics.cfm
What that line suggests is that, even if they knew it was a problem, Big Dig engineering firms in Boston would've kept plugging along cutting corners until someone got hurt...oh...they did eh? Well...Oh..I see.
So...does anyone have any honor anymore?
I can understand safeguarding developers from liability for accidental goofs, but blanket free-pass for intentionally including weak code should be actionable. That same sentence quoted above (quite a legalese-paragraph-sentence too) would exonerate someone who intentionally put a hidden back door into the apache source using security through obscurity... you know... for security updates, and was told it was a stupid idea.
The upswing is that the peer reviewed, engineered, open nature of Apache would prevent something like that from living too long. I could see issues with people using the same license on lesser software though.
Damn, I should've read further "Friday, Landesman said more data during the week had made her change her mind about the link to Fasthosts. "There are a great deal more of these [compromised] sites than earlier," she said. "There are a number of them that can be traced to Fasthosts, but not all of them do."" (same article)
I had remembered the previous claim without the new clarification. Still it looks like an inside job at least originally. Also, what would prevent a server moved from Fasthosts to a new hosting company from spreading the infection to poorly secured/pached servers on the same internal vlan assuming a "crunchy on the outside, soft in the middle" approach by the new hosting company.
It still sounds like the root of the problem was the breach at Fasthosts, but it's all conjecture on my part at this point. I'm posting it anyway cuz it's the intarwebs, and that second quote exonerates Fasthosts somewhat.
This thousands of hosts number being bandied about includes a majority of mom and pop online stores mainly in the UK right?
"Last week, ScanSafe's Landesman drew a link between the security breach at UK-based Fasthosts and the site hacks, saying then that the domains ScanSafe had found infected had, or had recently had, a relationship with Fasthosts."
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsid=11184
It's not a software flaw according to Landesman. Its stupid admins not changing passwords or with a lingering delayed infection from the initial theft.
Am I the only one that's noticed a ton of these "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" tags recently. Did the mad scientist class of '07 get to work quickly or what? Who is throwing all this money at applying knowledge we barely have to applications we can't imagine the repercussions of. Some of this stuff could turn out a little worse than introducing cats to Australia, if you catch my meaning.
Just wanted to throw in a me too on this one. We just recently got burned because we came to a decision in a conference call to change plans. Nobody felt the need to send an email "Per our discussion *the important stuff*" because we're all upstanding people good for our word.
Three months later it is finally getting set straight as 90% of the people in the conversation heard the same thing. Too many weasels in this world to take a man for his word anymore. It's a damn shame.
What was his plan if the device was lost or stolen?
Encryption goes a long way in remedying this particular dilemma. If you're worried enough about it to freak when they don't send the drive back, you should be worried about loss or theft. Use TrueCrypt or your favorite encryption software for those files.
I don't know which is more hilarious:
1) I bought that scene when I originally saw it all those years ago.
2) They spent billions of dollars for a fighting robot and didn't think about stairs
3) The robot makes lion growls and rat and/or pig squeals.
I'll stop there, could keep going.
It's also over after max 7 seconds, with more doses possible if it didn't hurt enough.
Pepper spray gets on your skin, "washing it off" isn't as easy as you imply either. It makes it hard to breath and see for a prolonged period and effects everyone around the person. Its not like pepper spray hasn't killed or blinded people.
I would rather be tasered than pepper sprayed. 7 seconds of intense pain, or 30-45 minutes of burning pain and inability to breathe or see properly with a possibility of being blind if applied improperly.
Obviously you are not a cop, nor are you related to one. You oversimplified the choice: Get in a physical altercation with a dumbass druggie, possibly lose, have them grab your sidearm, get shot by a douche bag and leave a widow and a kid with emotional problems. OR Tase the dumbass and see your kid graduate college, retire on a modest income, see grandkids at thanksgiving, etc.
.0001 chance it can kill people with some oddball heart defect and no regard for law enforcement.
The choice is clear when you're placed in the situation yourself. If its being used on a whim, ok, I see your point. Most likely its being used when it needs to be and there's a
Also, if this is torture, what is pepper spray? Having solved all of the worlds problems, the UN is now tackling effective, essentially non-lethal tools for law enforcement?
So.... Block these networks. Think I got them all.
194.110.69.0/24
91.198.71.0/24
91.194.140.0/23
91.196.232.0/22
91.195.116.0/23
91.193.40.0/22
91.193.56.0/22
193.33.128.0/23
Isn't it obvious why they need all this info? They're breeding the AI that causes the singularity.
I think I'm joking, but I probably have overly healthy paranoia.