Nor are there any such things as "cyber weapons". Whatever an ever-hype-producing press may want to sell to us. Whatever successive US governments, spending money they don't have, may want us to fear. The things simply don't exist.
exactly by this kind of practices, which make it a sort of oversized patent troll. In the lifecycle of each corporation there are various phases: start-up, growing/innovator, mainstream, dinosaur/conserver, dying. A company like IBM managed to go back from stage 4 to stage 2 by taking some radical decisions. Oracle didn't. Now the only way forward for Oracle is toward stage 5. All dinosaurs eventually die. Remember Blackberry !!!!
Mark my words: By 2030, Oracle will not exist anymore in its current form. In fact, it may have dwindled into nothingness well before that date.
Mod parent up. This is going on in several European countries, too ( UK, NL ). Congratulations, BTW, for inventing a new terminus technicus: the normalized police state. As much as I hate the thought, I can not but admire the term. Yes, that is what we are going to live in, for the next years.
No need to be condescending. I use FOSS all the time. Yet, AFAIK, there is no such mechanism that lets a developer introduce security fingerprints which "tag" a critical section of code, and which the compiler adds to the binaries, in such a way that after compiling source locally, you can check critical parts of your binaries on compliance with the "official" fingerprints. Or am I mistaken ?
to compile your own binaries from source, and then letting you compare its fingerprint with "official" pre-compiled binaries. No, not a simple hash. Various fingerprints, spread over security-sensitive parts of the software. No idea if such a thing exists, although I remember having seen a discussion here on/. last year.
The thing is, however, that Bitcoin spreads by the same mechanisms that allow(ed) FOSS to become so enormously successful. Hence and ergo: Bitcoin can not be stopped. Certainly not by some rednecks paid by the US government.
That is what Snowden deserves. The man has shown great courage, absolute impartiality, resourcefulness and an admirable refusal to be intimidated by those he knew would become his enemies. These are excellent qualities for a US president. Moreover, Snowden communicates well, in a low-key tone. Better than drama queen Bush Jr., and better than disappointment-of-the-century Obama.
I once worked for one of the companies involved in the JSF project. As soon as we knew that Lockheed Martin had a web app for performing a certain task, I was asked by my boss to get the entire web app's jar files, reverse engineer it, and tell him how good or bad LM's implementation was. The company for which I worked then went on to steal LM's implementation and incorporate it into its own commercial product.
Which, and this is the best part, they then sold. To Lockheed Martin.
Ah. And if I donate sperm to my girlfriend by dumping it directly into her vagina, during a stay in a hotel in Kansas, we need to read Kansas state law first ? Thanks for warning us. We might otherwise have done some quality jail time in "Stupid is the New Smart".
The law prevents these people from agreeing upon a contract and then carrying it out, even if the contract broke no other law.... Gotta love the arcana of law.
2) Steak ( bloody ) in green pepper sauce, no potatoes or whatever side dish
3) "Mohr im Hemd" ( Austrian chocolate dessert )
accompanied by Rhine wine. How does that compare to slurping some soylent ? The table conversation ? The joy of eating ? I simply don't get it, what the fun of soylent could be. Must be me.
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1) run, when you still can. Give a reason ( underallocation of resources / time / money is a good reason to quit )
or:
2) work like an idiot, save the thing, and reap the rewards.
Not being able to choose between the two reflects a misplaced mixing-up of justified self-interest, office / company politics and work ethos.
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Nor are there any such things as "cyber weapons". Whatever an ever-hype-producing press may want to sell to us. Whatever successive US governments, spending money they don't have, may want us to fear. The things simply don't exist.
Or, also and alternatively: slownewsday.
Send me an email if you are interested in any way. I have access to research ( work at a national R & D institute in Europe )
I'm still waiting for a P2P search engine that is efficient, secure, and returns useful results.
So am I. So are many. Google is monolithic, and not to be trusted. Seriously: why don't we talk about creating a start-up ?
exactly by this kind of practices, which make it a sort of oversized patent troll. In the lifecycle of each corporation there are various phases: start-up, growing/innovator, mainstream, dinosaur/conserver, dying. A company like IBM managed to go back from stage 4 to stage 2 by taking some radical decisions. Oracle didn't. Now the only way forward for Oracle is toward stage 5. All dinosaurs eventually die. Remember Blackberry !!!!
Mark my words: By 2030, Oracle will not exist anymore in its current form. In fact, it may have dwindled into nothingness well before that date.
Mod parent up. This is going on in several European countries, too ( UK, NL ). Congratulations, BTW, for inventing a new terminus technicus: the normalized police state. As much as I hate the thought, I can not but admire the term. Yes, that is what we are going to live in, for the next years.
Exactly this. This is the point where I wanted to arrive, for starters. Finally someone got it.
I am not kebabbert. I am bigshoarmama...
with Solaris
Correct. That, however, can be in part dealt with by taking hashes....
No need to be condescending. I use FOSS all the time. Yet, AFAIK, there is no such mechanism that lets a developer introduce security fingerprints which "tag" a critical section of code, and which the compiler adds to the binaries, in such a way that after compiling source locally, you can check critical parts of your binaries on compliance with the "official" fingerprints. Or am I mistaken ?
to compile your own binaries from source, and then letting you compare its fingerprint with "official" pre-compiled binaries. No, not a simple hash. Various fingerprints, spread over security-sensitive parts of the software. No idea if such a thing exists, although I remember having seen a discussion here on /. last year.
Sure, dude. Of course. Steve Jobs was a saint. All fanbois know that. Then again, I am not a fanboi. And most /tards are not, either.
The thing is, however, that Bitcoin spreads by the same mechanisms that allow(ed) FOSS to become so enormously successful. Hence and ergo: Bitcoin can not be stopped. Certainly not by some rednecks paid by the US government.
That is what Snowden deserves. The man has shown great courage, absolute impartiality, resourcefulness and an admirable refusal to be intimidated by those he knew would become his enemies. These are excellent qualities for a US president. Moreover, Snowden communicates well, in a low-key tone. Better than drama queen Bush Jr., and better than disappointment-of-the-century Obama.
No. Did I name anyone ? Any company ? Any country, even ? And then... I may have my reasons not go AC, you know ;-)
I once worked for one of the companies involved in the JSF project. As soon as we knew that Lockheed Martin had a web app for performing a certain task, I was asked by my boss to get the entire web app's jar files, reverse engineer it, and tell him how good or bad LM's implementation was. The company for which I worked then went on to steal LM's implementation and incorporate it into its own commercial product.
Which, and this is the best part, they then sold. To Lockheed Martin.
To the left of the actual Mac SE review, there is an ad sporting "WordPerfect is Now Easy to Learn". Ach. Those times.
Ah. And if I donate sperm to my girlfriend by dumping it directly into her vagina, during a stay in a hotel in Kansas, we need to read Kansas state law first ? Thanks for warning us. We might otherwise have done some quality jail time in "Stupid is the New Smart".
10 : 1 that Princeton wins. Bookie can be contacted over my email .
The law prevents these people from agreeing upon a contract and then carrying it out, even if the contract broke no other law.... Gotta love the arcana of law.
2) Steak ( bloody ) in green pepper sauce, no potatoes or whatever side dish
3) "Mohr im Hemd" ( Austrian chocolate dessert )
accompanied by Rhine wine. How does that compare to slurping some soylent ? The table conversation ? The joy of eating ? I simply don't get it, what the fun of soylent could be. Must be me.
But the real work began when he started going on dates
You bet. He'll prolly even have needed a second or third job to finance the dates.