Another bright idea from Cisco, the people who built the Great Firewall of China!
This idea is pretty much out the window when you consider that in a university, or almost any office, clients will need to be able to communicate with each other on a regular basis. It starts with network printing, and will go all the way up to distributed computing. This idea is a non starter.
Some people seem not to like the Constitution. For example, they want to do mass searches without probable cause. One such person is rumored to have called it "just a God-damned piece of paper".
Such is the way of the facist. The foundation and ideals of his country run contrary to his own narrow and simplistic view of the world. He believes in absolutes, homogeneity, hierarchies, divine right, power and the right to use it.
The facist's deepest desire is to dominate those he feels are beneath him, without oversight or accountability. As he sees fit. The Constitution expressly forbids this to him, and thus is beneath contempt. It becomes, a document of the weak, a powerless writ of those beneath him, a meaningless formality, just a God-damned piece of paper.
That piece of paper is the only thing standing between you and the raw, unrestrained brutality of a brownshirted mob. I suggest you defend what's left of it before the pack brays with delight as they gleefully devour the carcass of your free society.
It's popular because the Walt Disney Corperation has a monopoly on childhood happiness. The hopes, dreams, fond memories of your most cherished time were all provided from the sterile bosom of a soulless incorperated fantasy factory. Your aspirations, your comforts, the very roots of your being were all, almost without exception provided in the form of a one size fits all childhood, carefully scripted by that organisation.
This game is simply another act, shamelessly tacked onto the prostituted play that is your emotional life. You love Kingdom Hearts because it is Disney, and without Disney, you know no other happiness. Outside the warm succor of your donald duck duvet and mickey mouse pyjamas, joy, contentment and love are cold and distant concepts which you cannot hope to achieve alone.
So come! Gather once again to suckle and the great and monsterous teat of one of the most terrible enterprises to have ever existed. Let Kingdom Hearts II once again show you the pleasures of being a shallow false happiness junkie. All the while Mother Disney will smile with her sweet and duplicitious grin.
After playing the great PC first person shooters growing up I guess I have higher standards.
If higher standards means preferring manic speed, insta deaths, constant respawning, poor framerates, abysmal textures, and running up and down omaha beach over and over and over, then high standards you shall have. The rest of us on the other hand, will have fun.
...I personally don't see what's the big fuss about. Back in Slovakia, we've got national ID cards (called "Citizen's Card").
Then you're obviously a very young Slovakian who doesn't remember when the Communists used the ID card to keep Slovaks in line. What's the equivilant to "Your papers please" in Slovak, and are they still asking it?
You owe the people who stood up for their freedom a little more than the level of apathy you're currently advocating.
Go to LA. Go see the communities that live under the shadow of the gun. People whos lives are threatened daily by their heavily armed fellow citizens. There are entire neighbourhoods where gun toting gangs are the de facto warlords of the locality.
Some people, when confronted with this, will have the nerve to say that those oppressed people in LA should in turn arm themselves. They should "act responsibly", and protect their homes and families with modern semi-automatic firearms. I'm not even going to elucidate how assine this counterargument is.
I live in a country with strict gun control. My neighbour has a shingle shot gun he goes out hunting with. He must, by law; have a gun licence, the gun must be registered, his shooting club must keep a record of his attendance. He must store it, unloaded, in a secure, locked, strongbox. Actually, he has a child now, so he may have gotten rid of it.
There are still neighbourhood in my city where shootings do happen between local crime families. The difference over here is that guns are much, much harder to get a hold of. Much, much harder to learn how to fire and use. And if you are caught with something like a semi-automatic, or even worse, a handgun, you are in deep, deep trouble. Because everyone knows there's only one reason you want it. To kill someone, unlawfully.
It is frankly ludacrious to argue that the power to intimidate, oppresses and kill others is a civil right. Guns are for personal defense in the same way that the Pentagon is part of the "Defense" Department.
They tax cigarettes, gas, alcohol and the food we eat... heck, here in Virginia, we're taxed on the stuff we already bought and own (annual property tax and car tax), why not slap it on video games?
On a more serious note, the reason is that Video Games are already taxed via VAT/Sales tax. Any extra special "video game tax" is either a double tax or an excise duty. This is essentially the former in practice, but the latter in genesis as excise duties are usually used to discourage certain behaviours.
It does beg the question of how these people must have been raised to end up as patent trolls. What kind of enviornment is required to make someone so self-centered, unscrupulous and unethical?
Do you have to spoil the child? Beat it? Ignore it? Lead by example? What circumstances can create a creature so base as a patent troll? To they have even a shread of scruple left?
I'm beginning to think these trolls are generated electronically. It could be done I suppose. Simply use the slashdot article as a kind of "seed" and let the algorithim generate a somewhat coherant, vaugely relavant troll, according to a certain framework. In this case, it appears to be some kind of religious rant.
Most people want a safe, comfortable and practical car. And you most certainly don't want anybody to laugh at you while riding it...
Actually, I just want a vehicle to get me from A to B. I really don't care what anyone thinks.
Funny story. Neighbour of mine was looking to buy a new car. One model had his eye. As he was browsing around the dealership, looking for a bargin, the dealer showed him just the model he wanted, exactly the same as the others, all except for the paint job.
The car was banana yellow. He bought it and saved about $1,500.
This kind of innanity has only further reinforced my belief that automobiles are, in the main, grossly overpriced. Think about it. A $50 red paint job, and all of a sudden the car is worth $1,500 more? This was a four door sedan by the way. I think it was a ford.
So he took it home. He had a young child, who is shall we say, rather forward in his opinions. The kid wasn't happy, and made it clear. I don't think his wife was thrilled either. Did this guy care? Hell, no! He laughed all the way to the bank because he'd just saved himself $1,500 at the drop of a hat.
He hasn't even bothered giving it a paint job. I reckon he'll wait until he comes to sell, so the paint looks better. Meanwhile, people driving around in that same model have basically all been ripped of $1,500 a head so they can think no one will laugh at their car. Wake up. No one cares what colour your car is.
If you've got a chronic inferiority complex, then sure, by all means go out and blow money on a brand new car that will depreciate by 20% the second you drive it out of the garage. Meanwhile, I'm currently looking at a 12 year old sedan I can probably get for under $1,000. It's in good condition, and if it isn't in great condition, it's no great loss anyway.
Honestly, if you stop listening to the ads on TV, you can live like a prince on a paupers salary, rather than the other way around.
Rolling blackouts in California were not caused by lack of generation capacity. They were caused by Enron calling up plant operators and saying "Hey. Shut down for maintenance. Find an excuse. Any excuse." Watch "Enron, The Smartest Guys In The Room"...they have tape recordings of the traders calling up grids and plant.
And not a single prosection. Caught red-handed enacting possibly one of the largest, most ongoing acts of economic sabotage in world history and they got away scott free. Big companies truely are above the law.
Windows has a different culture to *nix. On *nix, most basic management software is either FOSS, or comes packed with the OS. On Windows systems, you pay for everything.
Everything.
Except IE.
Want file conversion software? Pay for it. Want interface software? Pay for it? Want ssh? Pay for it. Want to do something that is taken for granted in *nix systems and can be done by three different programs running on the system by default? Pay for it.
Let's face it, you can't get the functionality of pico on a windows install without buying or downloading a third party piece of software. And FOSS software is hard to come by on windows, so you're left with the option of paying $15 for a program that reads id3 tags or has syntax highlighting. The danm OS doesn't even come with a compiler.
If you're working in windows, it means you've decided to pay good money for inferior versions of basic tools that come free on a *nix system. Hence, if PowerShell becomes popular, expect companies to repackage csh and bash variants for $500 a pop to Vista admins that have reached the limits of their $50 Powershell.
This is deeply worrying and ultimate stems from television, which is responsible for the lack of meaningful public discourse in our society.
It's not so much television as it is what's on television. i.e. soul sucking, brain rotting, lowest common denominator programming. It's only a matter of time before three syllable words become extinct on broadcasted media. But hey, that's evolution in action!
I realize I'll probably get modded down for asking this, but what exactly is wrong with an 802.11g LAN session? The latency has never been an issue for me.
"Because the field is undefined. What is a mathematician? What do they do after they graduate?
Actually, most of us don't go on to become professional mathematicians at all.
Most mathematics graduates go on to work in statistics, finance, accountancy, programming, actuarial work, teaching, business, etc. Only a few stay on for postgraduate mathematics and beyond, involving either pure or applied mathematics. I suppose the last group is what you'd really refer to as "mathematical mathematicians".
Employers actually really like mathematicians. Suppossedly it has something to do with our "problem solving" abilities, or mathematical way of looking at things. Jeff Immelt, the head of General Electric, is actually an applied mathematics graduate!
Personally I think mathematicians have some kind of mystique about them, like an alchemist. "A mathematics graduate! He/she must be smart". It's unjustified I assure you. It all balances out though. Telling people my degree is like telling them my parents died in a car accident. "What do you do? Mathematics? Oh!!" **awkward 'I'm sorry' type stare**.
Someone smart enough to major in CS and willing to do the work might as well just get an MBA, and start out making 30-50 percent more than they would with the technical degree.
But what about dignity? Personal pride? Integrity?
I don't think I would be able to sleep with the thoughts of the sweet babes horribly dying of all the arsenic I put in their baby food. Their terrible wails would rise up over the walls of my gated community.
I still think changing passwords periodically is a great idea.
I think that idea sucks.
What's the advantage? Crackers find it harder to crack things? Why? Because the password will have expired by the time they crack it? Maybe, maybe not. Unless you rotate passwords every month, at this stage, rotation is useless.
Maybe a better solution would be to make passwords the first line of defense, not the last. Simply assume they will eventually be broken, no matter how many times you rotate and plan accordingly.
For that matter, why are admins still making things easy for the cracker? I read somewhwre that 90% of all military databursts are in fact, random noise, to frustrate the crackers bruteforce attacks. Why don't regular networks do this?
In the meantime, stop relying on passwords, or boimetrics, or passphrases, or usb-keys for access to the system. Passwords should get you one thing and one thing only, a prompt/desktop. Everything else should be subject to finely granulated access, with logs. At this current time, on most networks, the only thing higher than normal user level access is root/domain controller.
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Three words: private vlan edge.
Another bright idea from Cisco, the people who built the Great Firewall of China!
This idea is pretty much out the window when you consider that in a university, or almost any office, clients will need to be able to communicate with each other on a regular basis. It starts with network printing, and will go all the way up to distributed computing. This idea is a non starter.
Has an unlicensed copy been made? Yes.
Music isn't licenced. It's purchased.
Some people seem not to like the Constitution. For example, they want to do mass searches without probable cause. One such person is rumored to have called it "just a God-damned piece of paper".
Such is the way of the facist. The foundation and ideals of his country run contrary to his own narrow and simplistic view of the world. He believes in absolutes, homogeneity, hierarchies, divine right, power and the right to use it.
The facist's deepest desire is to dominate those he feels are beneath him, without oversight or accountability. As he sees fit. The Constitution expressly forbids this to him, and thus is beneath contempt. It becomes, a document of the weak, a powerless writ of those beneath him, a meaningless formality, just a God-damned piece of paper.
That piece of paper is the only thing standing between you and the raw, unrestrained brutality of a brownshirted mob. I suggest you defend what's left of it before the pack brays with delight as they gleefully devour the carcass of your free society.
It's popular because the Walt Disney Corperation has a monopoly on childhood happiness. The hopes, dreams, fond memories of your most cherished time were all provided from the sterile bosom of a soulless incorperated fantasy factory. Your aspirations, your comforts, the very roots of your being were all, almost without exception provided in the form of a one size fits all childhood, carefully scripted by that organisation.
This game is simply another act, shamelessly tacked onto the prostituted play that is your emotional life. You love Kingdom Hearts because it is Disney, and without Disney, you know no other happiness. Outside the warm succor of your donald duck duvet and mickey mouse pyjamas, joy, contentment and love are cold and distant concepts which you cannot hope to achieve alone.
So come! Gather once again to suckle and the great and monsterous teat of one of the most terrible enterprises to have ever existed. Let Kingdom Hearts II once again show you the pleasures of being a shallow false happiness junkie. All the while Mother Disney will smile with her sweet and duplicitious grin.
It's a troll. No doubt someone has simply done a s/[infamous person]/Ralsky on a famous letter or whatnot.
If you don't believe me, just search the text for the zero occurances of "spam" or "email" within.
For bonus points, can you discover the original subject for the piece of text above?
Ethnic Wiseass, actually.
Look at the quotes in the article, it's meaningless blabber.
He who does not listen, does not hear.
After playing the great PC first person shooters growing up I guess I have higher standards.
If higher standards means preferring manic speed, insta deaths, constant respawning, poor framerates, abysmal textures, and running up and down omaha beach over and over and over, then high standards you shall have. The rest of us on the other hand, will have fun.
...I personally don't see what's the big fuss about. Back in Slovakia, we've got national ID cards (called "Citizen's Card").
Then you're obviously a very young Slovakian who doesn't remember when the Communists used the ID card to keep Slovaks in line. What's the equivilant to "Your papers please" in Slovak, and are they still asking it?
You owe the people who stood up for their freedom a little more than the level of apathy you're currently advocating.
Gun ownership is a civil right.
Freedom from oppression is a civil right.
Go to LA. Go see the communities that live under the shadow of the gun. People whos lives are threatened daily by their heavily armed fellow citizens. There are entire neighbourhoods where gun toting gangs are the de facto warlords of the locality.
Some people, when confronted with this, will have the nerve to say that those oppressed people in LA should in turn arm themselves. They should "act responsibly", and protect their homes and families with modern semi-automatic firearms. I'm not even going to elucidate how assine this counterargument is.
I live in a country with strict gun control. My neighbour has a shingle shot gun he goes out hunting with. He must, by law; have a gun licence, the gun must be registered, his shooting club must keep a record of his attendance. He must store it, unloaded, in a secure, locked, strongbox. Actually, he has a child now, so he may have gotten rid of it.
There are still neighbourhood in my city where shootings do happen between local crime families. The difference over here is that guns are much, much harder to get a hold of. Much, much harder to learn how to fire and use. And if you are caught with something like a semi-automatic, or even worse, a handgun, you are in deep, deep trouble. Because everyone knows there's only one reason you want it. To kill someone, unlawfully.
It is frankly ludacrious to argue that the power to intimidate, oppresses and kill others is a civil right. Guns are for personal defense in the same way that the Pentagon is part of the "Defense" Department.
They tax cigarettes, gas, alcohol and the food we eat... heck, here in Virginia, we're taxed on the stuff we already bought and own (annual property tax and car tax), why not slap it on video games?
On a more serious note, the reason is that Video Games are already taxed via VAT/Sales tax. Any extra special "video game tax" is either a double tax or an excise duty. This is essentially the former in practice, but the latter in genesis as excise duties are usually used to discourage certain behaviours.
It does beg the question of how these people must have been raised to end up as patent trolls. What kind of enviornment is required to make someone so self-centered, unscrupulous and unethical?
Do you have to spoil the child? Beat it? Ignore it? Lead by example? What circumstances can create a creature so base as a patent troll? To they have even a shread of scruple left?
I'm beginning to think these trolls are generated electronically. It could be done I suppose. Simply use the slashdot article as a kind of "seed" and let the algorithim generate a somewhat coherant, vaugely relavant troll, according to a certain framework. In this case, it appears to be some kind of religious rant.
Has anyone heard of this kind of technology?
Most people want a safe, comfortable and practical car. And you most certainly don't want anybody to laugh at you while riding it...
Actually, I just want a vehicle to get me from A to B. I really don't care what anyone thinks.
Funny story. Neighbour of mine was looking to buy a new car. One model had his eye. As he was browsing around the dealership, looking for a bargin, the dealer showed him just the model he wanted, exactly the same as the others, all except for the paint job.
The car was banana yellow. He bought it and saved about $1,500.
This kind of innanity has only further reinforced my belief that automobiles are, in the main, grossly overpriced. Think about it. A $50 red paint job, and all of a sudden the car is worth $1,500 more? This was a four door sedan by the way. I think it was a ford.
So he took it home. He had a young child, who is shall we say, rather forward in his opinions. The kid wasn't happy, and made it clear. I don't think his wife was thrilled either. Did this guy care? Hell, no! He laughed all the way to the bank because he'd just saved himself $1,500 at the drop of a hat.
He hasn't even bothered giving it a paint job. I reckon he'll wait until he comes to sell, so the paint looks better. Meanwhile, people driving around in that same model have basically all been ripped of $1,500 a head so they can think no one will laugh at their car. Wake up. No one cares what colour your car is.
If you've got a chronic inferiority complex, then sure, by all means go out and blow money on a brand new car that will depreciate by 20% the second you drive it out of the garage. Meanwhile, I'm currently looking at a 12 year old sedan I can probably get for under $1,000. It's in good condition, and if it isn't in great condition, it's no great loss anyway.
Honestly, if you stop listening to the ads on TV, you can live like a prince on a paupers salary, rather than the other way around.
Rolling blackouts in California were not caused by lack of generation capacity. They were caused by Enron calling up plant operators and saying "Hey. Shut down for maintenance. Find an excuse. Any excuse." Watch "Enron, The Smartest Guys In The Room"...they have tape recordings of the traders calling up grids and plant.
And not a single prosection. Caught red-handed enacting possibly one of the largest, most ongoing acts of economic sabotage in world history and they got away scott free. Big companies truely are above the law.
Windows has a different culture to *nix. On *nix, most basic management software is either FOSS, or comes packed with the OS. On Windows systems, you pay for everything.
Everything.
Except IE.
Want file conversion software? Pay for it. Want interface software? Pay for it? Want ssh? Pay for it. Want to do something that is taken for granted in *nix systems and can be done by three different programs running on the system by default? Pay for it.
Let's face it, you can't get the functionality of pico on a windows install without buying or downloading a third party piece of software. And FOSS software is hard to come by on windows, so you're left with the option of paying $15 for a program that reads id3 tags or has syntax highlighting. The danm OS doesn't even come with a compiler.
If you're working in windows, it means you've decided to pay good money for inferior versions of basic tools that come free on a *nix system. Hence, if PowerShell becomes popular, expect companies to repackage csh and bash variants for $500 a pop to Vista admins that have reached the limits of their $50 Powershell.
This is deeply worrying and ultimate stems from television, which is responsible for the lack of meaningful public discourse in our society.
It's not so much television as it is what's on television. i.e. soul sucking, brain rotting, lowest common denominator programming. It's only a matter of time before three syllable words become extinct on broadcasted media. But hey, that's evolution in action!
Ahhh! Whom cares!!?
I realize I'll probably get modded down for asking this, but what exactly is wrong with an 802.11g LAN session? The latency has never been an issue for me.
"Because the field is undefined. What is a mathematician? What do they do after they graduate?
Actually, most of us don't go on to become professional mathematicians at all.
Most mathematics graduates go on to work in statistics, finance, accountancy, programming, actuarial work, teaching, business, etc. Only a few stay on for postgraduate mathematics and beyond, involving either pure or applied mathematics. I suppose the last group is what you'd really refer to as "mathematical mathematicians".
Employers actually really like mathematicians. Suppossedly it has something to do with our "problem solving" abilities, or mathematical way of looking at things. Jeff Immelt, the head of General Electric, is actually an applied mathematics graduate!
Personally I think mathematicians have some kind of mystique about them, like an alchemist. "A mathematics graduate! He/she must be smart". It's unjustified I assure you. It all balances out though. Telling people my degree is like telling them my parents died in a car accident. "What do you do? Mathematics? Oh!!" **awkward 'I'm sorry' type stare**.
Someone smart enough to major in CS and willing to do the work might as well just get an MBA, and start out making 30-50 percent more than they would with the technical degree.
But what about dignity? Personal pride? Integrity?
I don't think I would be able to sleep with the thoughts of the sweet babes horribly dying of all the arsenic I put in their baby food. Their terrible wails would rise up over the walls of my gated community.
From TFA:
Windows 95 is not allowed unless you buy a separate firewall device and stick it in front of [Windows 95].
Right idea, wrong scope.
I still think changing passwords periodically is a great idea.
I think that idea sucks.
What's the advantage? Crackers find it harder to crack things? Why? Because the password will have expired by the time they crack it? Maybe, maybe not. Unless you rotate passwords every month, at this stage, rotation is useless.
Maybe a better solution would be to make passwords the first line of defense, not the last. Simply assume they will eventually be broken, no matter how many times you rotate and plan accordingly.
For that matter, why are admins still making things easy for the cracker? I read somewhwre that 90% of all military databursts are in fact, random noise, to frustrate the crackers bruteforce attacks. Why don't regular networks do this?
In the meantime, stop relying on passwords, or boimetrics, or passphrases, or usb-keys for access to the system. Passwords should get you one thing and one thing only, a prompt/desktop. Everything else should be subject to finely granulated access, with logs. At this current time, on most networks, the only thing higher than normal user level access is root/domain controller.
Voyager 2 and Pioneer 10 will outlive the Earth.
I hardly think getting blown up by a bird of prey counts as outliving.
I no longer seem to be able to access their web-based email with Firefox for Windows 1.0.
Now that's cross platform!