Usually competitions like this are in "Which OS is most secure" kinds of settings, where the ostensible purpose is to find out which OS is the most secure. However, in this case, you had you had a bunch of different OSs all linked together, and you had to protect them from a bunch of security professionals. I imagine these "pros" probably weren't hard-core hackers, and given that, I'm not sure what the value of the exercise was. These pros won't have anything in their arsenal that everybody doesn't already know about it (at least, if they're studying computer security, they *ought* to know about it), and so we're basically left with (and this is something the article mentions) a bunch of people changing their conf files as fast as possible. If you ask me, they should six Eastern Europeans and North Koreans, and offer them $10,000 for every box they own. If the teams box doesn't get owned, they get the ten grand. Simpler, more interesting, and far more realistic.
Not to reply to my own post like a jerk or anything, but if what I say true, it could be part of a serious strategic deal with Apple. Everyone "knows" Macs are incompatible with most of the big server apps, but if IBM's stuff is compatible, that will help IBM with all-Mac shops like graphic designers, and help Macs crack into the corporate big-leagues.
Yeah, but Big Blue doesn't care about that since they got out of the PC business. At best, in the long run it means that IBM's apps will support Mac clients.
It depends on which masses you refer to. Linux covers about 90% of the Windows world, and it's definitely the most importnat 90%. People can and do switch desktops to Linux. Maybe not as often as you'd like, but they do it.
The problem is that the other 10% is crap like Clippy and Activex that no one on Linux wants to have or implement, but makes a certain number of computer users more comfortable. Windows does so much hand-holding by default, and that's one of the things Linux users hate about it. But it's necessary for a number of people who can never remember the difference between business and friendly letters or for people who are to afraid to even click Settings... let alone dick around with it a bit.
It doesn't help that Linux is mostly marketed by the community as being "Almost-Windows" or "Free Windows", instead of as a product that stands on its own.
People have said as a joke that OpenOffice.org or similar programs will take over once they have their own clippy, but may a true word is said in jest.
You could build a really interesting "Deep Web" crawler by ignoring robots.txt. In fact, an index just of robots.txt files would be pretty cool in its own right. Call it "Sweet Sixteen" (10**100 in binary) or something.
I am tempted to copy and paste that and post it as my reply, but I think that would be insufferably clever. So, too, is referring the fact that I could be insufferably clever, but choose not to be. Etc...
That's my point, the PHB mentality (as opposed to that of the admin who's really responsible for uptime) is to go for the all in one. I haven't decided if Cisco's apparent strategy is really clever, or really evil.
The DoD spokesjerk says the kit was "likely stolen". These guys have been misplacing shit for years, and they have the audacity to assume some junk sold on the internet is stolen?
I saw an documentary on the war in Iraq. One segment focused on a particular base where various units would be stationed temporarily before being moved on to somewhere else. Any material or equipment that they didn't want to take with them at the end of their stay just got dumped because they didn't want to do the paperwork to return it to the quartermaster. It all just ended up being a big pile of junk in the middle of the desert, and there are apparently dozens of these across Iraq. You expect me to believe that no one just picks that stuff up takes it home?
If the Defense Department wants to stop this stuff being sold online, they should stop misplacing it in the first place. They have no one but themselves to blame.
I think it's Cisco trying to muscle in on the server market. When you think servers, you don't think Cisco. You think Sun, IBM, HP, Dell, etc. But when you think routers and switches, you think Cisco. So if a Cisco rep can come along and say, "Hey, look, this is a piece of networking hardware, not a server, but it can do everything a server can for less money. Plus if you get this it's one less piece of equipment that can fail on you," they can start getting orders for these. If you were a PHB, would you rather have two boxes that each do one thing, or one box that does everything, and is super-cool "new" gear to boot?
It's like DEC with the PDP-1. Everyone *knew* in those days that a "computer" was a big, room-sized monstrosity that cost upwards of a million dollars and required a staff of dozens just to run; people figured there was only demand for 10 or so of those things on the planet. But DEC didn't sell "computers," they sold "Programmable Digital Processors," so companies bought them. The rest is history, and I guess Cisco is banking on being able to pull off the same thing with their new gear.
And as far as the Federal Reserve goes... has there ever been a non-Jewish chairman or board member? I probably shouldn't even dignify this with a reply, but before Greenspan, the only chairman who was Jewish was Eugen Meyer. Burns, Miller, Volcker, Martin, McCabe, these are not Jewish names.
Hell, look at what happened when they tried to sell port administration to a company based in a friendly Arab state? DPW couldn't back out of the deal so it was coerced to sell its rights and prevent political backlash.
I'm just glad that the Canadian government was smart enough not to believe a foreign company that said they were going to keep the operations in Canada. One something is controlled by a company that is based in a country, there's precious little the government can stop them from moving jobs to the cheaper country. Remember all those factories the car companies built in Mexico that they said weren't going to take jobs away from Americans? How did that work out, anyway?
I would call it IntarWeb, or Interbutts, or some other dumb slang word for the internet, and then go around and sue the pants off everyone that uses it online. This way has three advantages: 1 - you have a lot of built-in name recognition 2 - you have an extra revenue stream from suing idiots 3 - you will force said idiots to stop using at least one dumb slang term, the whole world benefits!
Then the solution is to lower or eliminate local sales taxes, isn't it? Or at least reduce them to the point that the difference between local sales tax and S&H is negligible. You can think about it in terms of big businesses not being taxed enough, or you can think about it as local small businesses shouldering an unbearable tax burden.
In fact, in a place like New York, you might bring in more revenue with a lower sales tax, more people staying local for big-ticket purchases instead of hopping over the border.
How exactly has that stopped the government from doing whatever the hell it wants for the last decade or so? Just raise the specter of national security and every judge in the country (especially the Supreme Court) will roll over as always. Just say that the tax revenues go to anti-terrorism activities, or that the taxation is a way of regulating and controlling what comes into the state, to make sure it's not contraband.
No, he is correct in his interpretation of my words. It's not possible to exploit resources efficiently without cities and transportation frameworks. There were cultures in America, but none of them could be considered more advanced that Neolithic: sparse, subsistence agriculture; little to no metalworking (no bronze, no saws, no metal axes); no wheels; no bricks; little cultivation of animals; no sails. In 1500 AD they were behind the level of Egypt in 2000BC. They would have gotten there sooner or later, but people may have been beginning to settle around the fertile crescent when the first humans were crossing the Bering Strait, so they had a lot of catching up to do.
No, Marilyn was wrong. Under the Buddhist (and therefore correct) interpretation, the answer is to choose what's behind the door that Monty opens and reveals to be empty. Material goods only promote greater attachment to the random, impermanent dream-world our consciousness inhabits, whereas recognizing that enlightenment, the capacity for which is intrinsic to all things, is the only true prize means you begin to demonstrate the attitudes necessary to cast off the shroud of this false existence.
If you think this is a joke, ask yourself: would a car *really* prevent you being unhappy, or it is simply another thing you have to worry about?
There's a problem with that, though. In Australia and Canada, the vast sections of empty space really are empty. If you look at population density maps, you see that Canada is densely populated around the borders to the US, and the rest is COMPLETELY empty. And Australia is basically a big desert island with some settlements along the coasts. I'm exaggerating, but only a little bit.
The US, on the other hand, has its two largest distributions of population on the two coasts, which sound good. But, you have to realize, the middle of the United States is not nearly as empty as the middle of Australia. There are a whole bunch of cities in between the Appalachians and Rockies, like Chicago, Houston, New Orleans, Austin, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Denver, etc etc etc. The only part of the country that's really empty is Alaska, and even that has a couple of major cities inland, like Fairbanks. China is the only country has is in a similar situation vis-a-vis population density, and it's possible that even China has more uninhabited open space than the U.S.
This, incidentally, is the major reason for the success of the U.S. in the last century or so. It has the geographic mass of a large country, but it has rates of resource use, land exploitation, and economic production of a smaller country, like England or Germany. In fact, had civilization arose in American before Europe, it's likely that the territory we now call the United States would be a fragmented group of states the way Europe is now (Canada would be Russia, of course).
No, I think Blogosphere is a great term! You have to speak French though, because 'blague' (pronounced the same) means 'joke', and that, in a nutshell, describes the blague-o-sphere.
A list of which amendments the government doesn't disregard. First is gone, second is long gone, fourth is gone, fifth & sixth have been thoroughly trashed at Gitmo, eighth excludes waterboarding, ninth and tenth are themselves eliminated by the provisions of the fourteenth amendment, the protections of which the Federal government refuses to honor. Of the original Bill of Rights, the only ones still unspoilt are the provisions prohibiting the quartering of soldiers in private residences, guaranteeing trial by jury for civil suits over $20, and prohibiting double jeopardy (it's just a matter of time, though).
There's no way to teach C++ effectively in a university setting, because there's so goddamn much of it. It would be like having a major in "Science". You have a language that's been around for a quarter-century and its creator still doesn't fully understand it. Well, maybe he does understand it, but we'll never know because the language is too goddamn complex to say for sure. It's taken forever just to get compilers that implement (as far as anyone knows, anyway) the language completely (and now they want to make a new version that will be even harder to understand.
I think the first step in teaching good C++ is to sit down and figure out which portion of C++ is actually useful, and then standardize and implement that. Call it C+, or C++,++ or something.
1) Round up all the neo-nazis and put them in concentration camps, just for the sake of irony. 2) Fire three-fourths of the FCC: leave enough people to regulate broadcast frequencies and harmful interference and send the rest of the people packing. Then tell Congress that the FCC doesn't have enough manpower to do everything they want it to, so either repeal content-control laws, or give it form money. If they supply the funding, divert it elsewhere in an "emergency." 3) Veto all pork. *All* of it. 4) Repeal/decline-to-renew No Child Left Behind. 5) Give the Iraqis nice card that says, "A republic if you can keep it" and pull out all our troops. 6) Disband the paramilitary wing of the directorate of operations of the CIA. It only exists to wage war without uniformed military personnel. 7) Work to end subsidies for corn-derived ethanol, and promote subsidies for more efficient sources of renewable energy. 8) Give the EPA some teeth. And maybe shotguns. 9) Research efficient alternatives to the current healthcare, which may involve limiting medical malpractice awards. 10) Appoint a bisexual sorority as First Ladies and throw lots of parties.
The NRA doesn't get attacked for gun safety education; they get attacked for being a reactionary-conservative lobbying group that wants to make guns easier to obtain. Nobody had a problem with them until the early 1990s, when they started getting involved in the Republican campagin machine.
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Usually competitions like this are in "Which OS is most secure" kinds of settings, where the ostensible purpose is to find out which OS is the most secure. However, in this case, you had you had a bunch of different OSs all linked together, and you had to protect them from a bunch of security professionals. I imagine these "pros" probably weren't hard-core hackers, and given that, I'm not sure what the value of the exercise was. These pros won't have anything in their arsenal that everybody doesn't already know about it (at least, if they're studying computer security, they *ought* to know about it), and so we're basically left with (and this is something the article mentions) a bunch of people changing their conf files as fast as possible. If you ask me, they should six Eastern Europeans and North Koreans, and offer them $10,000 for every box they own. If the teams box doesn't get owned, they get the ten grand. Simpler, more interesting, and far more realistic.
Not to reply to my own post like a jerk or anything, but if what I say true, it could be part of a serious strategic deal with Apple. Everyone "knows" Macs are incompatible with most of the big server apps, but if IBM's stuff is compatible, that will help IBM with all-Mac shops like graphic designers, and help Macs crack into the corporate big-leagues.
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Yeah, but Big Blue doesn't care about that since they got out of the PC business. At best, in the long run it means that IBM's apps will support Mac clients.
It depends on which masses you refer to. Linux covers about 90% of the Windows world, and it's definitely the most importnat 90%. People can and do switch desktops to Linux. Maybe not as often as you'd like, but they do it.
The problem is that the other 10% is crap like Clippy and Activex that no one on Linux wants to have or implement, but makes a certain number of computer users more comfortable. Windows does so much hand-holding by default, and that's one of the things Linux users hate about it. But it's necessary for a number of people who can never remember the difference between business and friendly letters or for people who are to afraid to even click Settings... let alone dick around with it a bit.
It doesn't help that Linux is mostly marketed by the community as being "Almost-Windows" or "Free Windows", instead of as a product that stands on its own.
People have said as a joke that OpenOffice.org or similar programs will take over once they have their own clippy, but may a true word is said in jest.
You could build a really interesting "Deep Web" crawler by ignoring robots.txt. In fact, an index just of robots.txt files would be pretty cool in its own right. Call it "Sweet Sixteen" (10**100 in binary) or something.
I am tempted to copy and paste that and post it as my reply, but I think that would be insufferably clever. So, too, is referring the fact that I could be insufferably clever, but choose not to be. Etc...
Sorry. I will try harder to meet my quota of over-used memes in the future.
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That's my point, the PHB mentality (as opposed to that of the admin who's really responsible for uptime) is to go for the all in one. I haven't decided if Cisco's apparent strategy is really clever, or really evil.
The DoD spokesjerk says the kit was "likely stolen". These guys have been misplacing shit for years, and they have the audacity to assume some junk sold on the internet is stolen?
I saw an documentary on the war in Iraq. One segment focused on a particular base where various units would be stationed temporarily before being moved on to somewhere else. Any material or equipment that they didn't want to take with them at the end of their stay just got dumped because they didn't want to do the paperwork to return it to the quartermaster. It all just ended up being a big pile of junk in the middle of the desert, and there are apparently dozens of these across Iraq. You expect me to believe that no one just picks that stuff up takes it home?
If the Defense Department wants to stop this stuff being sold online, they should stop misplacing it in the first place. They have no one but themselves to blame.
I think it's Cisco trying to muscle in on the server market. When you think servers, you don't think Cisco. You think Sun, IBM, HP, Dell, etc. But when you think routers and switches, you think Cisco. So if a Cisco rep can come along and say, "Hey, look, this is a piece of networking hardware, not a server, but it can do everything a server can for less money. Plus if you get this it's one less piece of equipment that can fail on you," they can start getting orders for these. If you were a PHB, would you rather have two boxes that each do one thing, or one box that does everything, and is super-cool "new" gear to boot?
It's like DEC with the PDP-1. Everyone *knew* in those days that a "computer" was a big, room-sized monstrosity that cost upwards of a million dollars and required a staff of dozens just to run; people figured there was only demand for 10 or so of those things on the planet. But DEC didn't sell "computers," they sold "Programmable Digital Processors," so companies bought them. The rest is history, and I guess Cisco is banking on being able to pull off the same thing with their new gear.
Hell, look at what happened when they tried to sell port administration to a company based in a friendly Arab state? DPW couldn't back out of the deal so it was coerced to sell its rights and prevent political backlash.
I'm just glad that the Canadian government was smart enough not to believe a foreign company that said they were going to keep the operations in Canada. One something is controlled by a company that is based in a country, there's precious little the government can stop them from moving jobs to the cheaper country. Remember all those factories the car companies built in Mexico that they said weren't going to take jobs away from Americans? How did that work out, anyway?
I would call it IntarWeb, or Interbutts, or some other dumb slang word for the internet, and then go around and sue the pants off everyone that uses it online. This way has three advantages:
1 - you have a lot of built-in name recognition
2 - you have an extra revenue stream from suing idiots
3 - you will force said idiots to stop using at least one dumb slang term, the whole world benefits!
No, that only brings about faster rebirth. Haven't you read the Lotus Sutra, or did you skip class that day?
Then the solution is to lower or eliminate local sales taxes, isn't it? Or at least reduce them to the point that the difference between local sales tax and S&H is negligible. You can think about it in terms of big businesses not being taxed enough, or you can think about it as local small businesses shouldering an unbearable tax burden.
In fact, in a place like New York, you might bring in more revenue with a lower sales tax, more people staying local for big-ticket purchases instead of hopping over the border.
How exactly has that stopped the government from doing whatever the hell it wants for the last decade or so? Just raise the specter of national security and every judge in the country (especially the Supreme Court) will roll over as always. Just say that the tax revenues go to anti-terrorism activities, or that the taxation is a way of regulating and controlling what comes into the state, to make sure it's not contraband.
No, he is correct in his interpretation of my words. It's not possible to exploit resources efficiently without cities and transportation frameworks. There were cultures in America, but none of them could be considered more advanced that Neolithic: sparse, subsistence agriculture; little to no metalworking (no bronze, no saws, no metal axes); no wheels; no bricks; little cultivation of animals; no sails. In 1500 AD they were behind the level of Egypt in 2000BC. They would have gotten there sooner or later, but people may have been beginning to settle around the fertile crescent when the first humans were crossing the Bering Strait, so they had a lot of catching up to do.
No, Marilyn was wrong. Under the Buddhist (and therefore correct) interpretation, the answer is to choose what's behind the door that Monty opens and reveals to be empty. Material goods only promote greater attachment to the random, impermanent dream-world our consciousness inhabits, whereas recognizing that enlightenment, the capacity for which is intrinsic to all things, is the only true prize means you begin to demonstrate the attitudes necessary to cast off the shroud of this false existence.
If you think this is a joke, ask yourself: would a car *really* prevent you being unhappy, or it is simply another thing you have to worry about?
There's a problem with that, though. In Australia and Canada, the vast sections of empty space really are empty. If you look at population density maps, you see that Canada is densely populated around the borders to the US, and the rest is COMPLETELY empty. And Australia is basically a big desert island with some settlements along the coasts. I'm exaggerating, but only a little bit.
The US, on the other hand, has its two largest distributions of population on the two coasts, which sound good. But, you have to realize, the middle of the United States is not nearly as empty as the middle of Australia. There are a whole bunch of cities in between the Appalachians and Rockies, like Chicago, Houston, New Orleans, Austin, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Denver, etc etc etc. The only part of the country that's really empty is Alaska, and even that has a couple of major cities inland, like Fairbanks. China is the only country has is in a similar situation vis-a-vis population density, and it's possible that even China has more uninhabited open space than the U.S.
This, incidentally, is the major reason for the success of the U.S. in the last century or so. It has the geographic mass of a large country, but it has rates of resource use, land exploitation, and economic production of a smaller country, like England or Germany. In fact, had civilization arose in American before Europe, it's likely that the territory we now call the United States would be a fragmented group of states the way Europe is now (Canada would be Russia, of course).
No, I think Blogosphere is a great term! You have to speak French though, because 'blague' (pronounced the same) means 'joke', and that, in a nutshell, describes the blague-o-sphere.
A list of which amendments the government doesn't disregard. First is gone, second is long gone, fourth is gone, fifth & sixth have been thoroughly trashed at Gitmo, eighth excludes waterboarding, ninth and tenth are themselves eliminated by the provisions of the fourteenth amendment, the protections of which the Federal government refuses to honor. Of the original Bill of Rights, the only ones still unspoilt are the provisions prohibiting the quartering of soldiers in private residences, guaranteeing trial by jury for civil suits over $20, and prohibiting double jeopardy (it's just a matter of time, though).
There's no way to teach C++ effectively in a university setting, because there's so goddamn much of it. It would be like having a major in "Science". You have a language that's been around for a quarter-century and its creator still doesn't fully understand it. Well, maybe he does understand it, but we'll never know because the language is too goddamn complex to say for sure. It's taken forever just to get compilers that implement (as far as anyone knows, anyway) the language completely (and now they want to make a new version that will be even harder to understand.
I think the first step in teaching good C++ is to sit down and figure out which portion of C++ is actually useful, and then standardize and implement that. Call it C+, or C++,++ or something.
1) Round up all the neo-nazis and put them in concentration camps, just for the sake of irony.
2) Fire three-fourths of the FCC: leave enough people to regulate broadcast frequencies and harmful interference and send the rest of the people packing. Then tell Congress that the FCC doesn't have enough manpower to do everything they want it to, so either repeal content-control laws, or give it form money. If they supply the funding, divert it elsewhere in an "emergency."
3) Veto all pork. *All* of it.
4) Repeal/decline-to-renew No Child Left Behind.
5) Give the Iraqis nice card that says, "A republic if you can keep it" and pull out all our troops.
6) Disband the paramilitary wing of the directorate of operations of the CIA. It only exists to wage war without uniformed military personnel.
7) Work to end subsidies for corn-derived ethanol, and promote subsidies for more efficient sources of renewable energy.
8) Give the EPA some teeth. And maybe shotguns.
9) Research efficient alternatives to the current healthcare, which may involve limiting medical malpractice awards.
10) Appoint a bisexual sorority as First Ladies and throw lots of parties.
The NRA doesn't get attacked for gun safety education; they get attacked for being a reactionary-conservative lobbying group that wants to make guns easier to obtain. Nobody had a problem with them until the early 1990s, when they started getting involved in the Republican campagin machine.