Hammond is in trouble because of his beliefs. Because the net that FBI cast to select which members of Lulzsec to target for closer observation and then prosecution was not primarily based on the gravity of the actions of the members, but on other actions the people supported and the beliefs they echoed. Sure, he is also in trouble because he did illegal things - but out of a large set of people to prosecute, he was picked based on the statements he made. Which he did based on his beliefs.
Just because he is in trouble because of his alleged criminal actions, it does not mean he is also not in trouble because of his beliefs.
Right. Just like the suffragettes backed down immediately it became obvious that its dangerous? Just like the civil rights people all disappeared into thin air the moment it became clear that not only can you go to prison or get killed for it, but more of then than not, the goons were the people supposedly upholding law? There is no credible evidence to date that anonymous and lulzsec members don't know what they are up to, or penalties for getting caught.
It raises a lot of questions about which initiatives of Lulzsec are actually genuinely their work and which as really the work of FBI, carried out by the willing hands of Lulzsec. Maybe FBI wanted to take down Stratfor, but lacking a legitimate way, siced their inside man on it. It will also make for a very obvious defence for anybody arrested - they have a very easy way of claiming that what they did was on orders of Sabu and hence the law enforcement agency themselves now trying to prosecute them.
This is also going to be a big blow to credibility of FBI.
Obviously not. Also, he is not really "open source engineer", because what he does (when he actually does something besides empty talk) is not "engineering".
Microsoft's privacy protection feature in Internet Explorer, known as P3P
This is simply utterly preposterous. P3P is not a Internet Explorer thing. Even google search knows its a w3c thing - but apparently those coming up with such excuses do not use Google search. Google can do with a doze of being at least a bit less evil.
Any time, as any serious application will need checksums anyways. It does not help you one bit if you spread data over seven 10 GB file systems or a single 70 GB file system - you will get exactly the same amount of URE in your 70GB data set.
"This much data" ? Hello? Are you a time traveler from the 1990s who has missed a decade of storage space expansion or simply trying to have a cheap laugh? 72TB is not "much" in this day and age. Also, fsck only deals with metadata, if you are worried about what happened to your data, the file system at hand is not adequate to your needs anyways.
OK, so I have a large x86/64 server and want to follow your advice. Can you please tell me where you can get AIX, or HP-UX, to run on X86?
Right. Very funny how you managed to pick out the two systems that don't run on x6 out of the three. If your question was even remotely serious there are two options for you: Solaris and FreeBSD.
I think that it is you that is trolling here. Not only are you deliberately spreading FUD about the nvidia drivers:
the nvidia blob is actually a half-assed port of their Windows drivers to Linux
the only even marginally semi-constructive thing you appear capable of saying is "have you done some bug reporting?", while completely ignoring the fact that the support it provides is at the level where the only pertient bug report wording would be "when will you start planning to support the other 50%+ of the API?".
The problem still remains that it utterly sucks with 3d performance, something that is actually the foremost reason these days to actually have a discrete graphics card in your computer. What use is a graphics driver for a 3d card that does not do 3d?
Another example is the XRandR case. Nvidia bundles the nvidia-settings application which works fine if you use it. However if you want to use the KDE or gnome or whatever other software to change the screen resolution and multiple-screens, then you will notice how bad they work BECAUSE nvidia fails to properly implement the XRandR specification (instead they make some kind of wrapper to their own twinview). With nouveau, XRandR works beautifully. Because nvidia also emulates Xinerama, sometimes window managers fail to properly detect your multi-screen setup geometry and you will get strange window management results. This happened to me and that's why I perfectly happy with nouveau. Of course I still hit bugs when playing opengl games and sometimes the GPU even hardlocks but I honestly prefer having those localized bugs than the general inconsistencies I described above.
BTW: cudos to everyone involved in nouveau. OpenCL support is indeed a very good thing:)
You see, the reality is that anybody doing any serious 3d work wants exactly the functionality that Twinview gives them, not the supposedly "correct" functionality from the OS drivers. What KDE and gnome should do is use the wrapper, not mess around on their own. And that is simply because everybody doing serious 3d cares about their application and the performance, not what abstraction of things the utterly boring and not terribly useful thing drawing window borders thinks of all of this.
These days 2 monitors is not "multiple monitors". TwinView works great.
Now try 4 monitors and 2 video cards with X.org.
Except of course, You only have TwinView if you are using the Nvidia binary blob drivers. Supporting TwinView is another thing the free drivers don't do.
You are right on this. Unfortunately, much too often, "shut up and listen" is only applied from the perspective of the subordinates shutting up, including by over-eager to please subordinates.
Again, in my experience, past experience in armed forces tends to encourage this.
And what do I need people who think that "shut up and listen" is a talent, for? Blind obedience is useless eve in a janitor, never mind somebody who will need to operate complex systems.
Your attempt to insinuate that this is somehow caused by personal bitterness is extremely low of you. Surely you can frame better arguments than personal attacks?
Certainly there are many companies out there that have "awareness of place and lines of command" as the most important qualifications, but by and large, this is not what is about what is really needed for fitting into, and taking part in the work in positions that require individual creativity. Sure, very bright and creative people join the armed forces for a large number of differing reasons, and some of these even get assigned to do IT related work there. This however does in no way change the reality of what the average quality of such ex-personell is.
The article is propaganda as it pushes a very narrow, pro specific government initiative view without any ability to look outside what the blinkers show. If you do not understand why this makes it be propaganda, maybe you should refresh your memory of what exactly the word "propaganda" means?
This is much more of propaganda, and far less of reality. The reality is much more of people who have shallow and overly specific skills, whose ability to learn and innovate on their own has been stunted, who are much more willing to just do anything and claim it was an order rather than being an active, thinking participant in the process. If you need people who will just take on tasks from some ticketing system, do whats in it, close it, take the next one and keep doing that for 8 hours every day of the week - sure, hiring ex-military will probably pay off.
Ex-military is not the contingent from where you will find people passionate about IT or CS. And those are the people you want if you are not just doing routine crap. And as a result, ex-military is extremely poor fare to recruit.
The requirement for reverse dns is in hindsight a part of the "security theater" where various claims are made, and remedies suggested against perceived ills. The suggestion for reverse DNS comes solidly from the era of TCP wrappers, another supposed saviour of ill maintained systems from outside evils.
In reality, there is no actual increase of security from checking if some address has reverse dns as for ages most of the dial up and broadband lines all have reverse dns. Also, as reverse dns zones are by and large often unmaintained, esp. when it comes to removing entries, you neither can rely on the data returned, nor assign any significance to what is returned.
You forgot to check that it is indeed a 32bit, 33Mhz slot it goes into. So forget about 533 MB/s, the maximum burst is going to be 133MB/s. But this also doesn't mean you would not be making full use of the card - the external card bandwidth only really matters if a lot of data is transversing the interface.Which would not be the case if you are using it largely for 2d, or 2d with 3d effects. And a 520 does not really have all that much of hardware to make the most of.
The part about pushing people to consider alternatives seems to be founded on very thin ice - the alternatives do not actually offer you the functionality you woudl have to pay for in case of using "Oracle" MySQL, and also, if you use Oracle MySQL to get the for pay features and support, you would select teh system you run it on based on what is supported - just the same as you do with any database you pay support for.
Wrong. Even if there is a separate development department (something most banks don't want to have), it is not the CS people who develop HFT algorithms, though they might be the people who implement those. And these might be at pretty much any place in the org chart, but being part of teh trading department or the IT are the most likely places. That is simply because people with CS background completely lack the finance and financial mathematics background you need for developing trading (or even valuation) algorithms. In any larger setup, never mind for a bank of sufficient size to do their own HFT, the networking will be handled by the networking department.
Actually having some idea what you are talking about, or even better, knowing what you are talking about, always helps.
All of them that need some kind of certification from DHS on meeting their standards. It does not matter if it works or is useful - DHS mandates it, so they must have one.
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Hammond is in trouble because of his beliefs. Because the net that FBI cast to select which members of Lulzsec to target for closer observation and then prosecution was not primarily based on the gravity of the actions of the members, but on other actions the people supported and the beliefs they echoed. Sure, he is also in trouble because he did illegal things - but out of a large set of people to prosecute, he was picked based on the statements he made. Which he did based on his beliefs.
Just because he is in trouble because of his alleged criminal actions, it does not mean he is also not in trouble because of his beliefs.
Right. Just like the suffragettes backed down immediately it became obvious that its dangerous? Just like the civil rights people all disappeared into thin air the moment it became clear that not only can you go to prison or get killed for it, but more of then than not, the goons were the people supposedly upholding law? There is no credible evidence to date that anonymous and lulzsec members don't know what they are up to, or penalties for getting caught.
It raises a lot of questions about which initiatives of Lulzsec are actually genuinely their work and which as really the work of FBI, carried out by the willing hands of Lulzsec. Maybe FBI wanted to take down Stratfor, but lacking a legitimate way, siced their inside man on it. It will also make for a very obvious defence for anybody arrested - they have a very easy way of claiming that what they did was on orders of Sabu and hence the law enforcement agency themselves now trying to prosecute them.
This is also going to be a big blow to credibility of FBI.
Obviously not. Also, he is not really "open source engineer", because what he does (when he actually does something besides empty talk) is not "engineering".
Microsoft's privacy protection feature in Internet Explorer, known as P3P
This is simply utterly preposterous. P3P is not a Internet Explorer thing. Even google search knows its a w3c thing - but apparently those coming up with such excuses do not use Google search. Google can do with a doze of being at least a bit less evil.
Any time, as any serious application will need checksums anyways. It does not help you one bit if you spread data over seven 10 GB file systems or a single 70 GB file system - you will get exactly the same amount of URE in your 70GB data set.
"This much data" ? Hello? Are you a time traveler from the 1990s who has missed a decade of storage space expansion or simply trying to have a cheap laugh? 72TB is not "much" in this day and age. Also, fsck only deals with metadata, if you are worried about what happened to your data, the file system at hand is not adequate to your needs anyways.
OK, so I have a large x86/64 server and want to follow your advice. Can you please tell me where you can get AIX, or HP-UX, to run on X86?
Right. Very funny how you managed to pick out the two systems that don't run on x6 out of the three. If your question was even remotely serious there are two options for you: Solaris and FreeBSD.
Enticing them to sell it to you is entrapment as far as "sale of stolen property" is concerned.
I think that it is you that is trolling here. Not only are you deliberately spreading FUD about the nvidia drivers :
the nvidia blob is actually a half-assed port of their Windows drivers to Linux
the only even marginally semi-constructive thing you appear capable of saying is "have you done some bug reporting?", while completely ignoring the fact that the support it provides is at the level where the only pertient bug report wording would be "when will you start planning to support the other 50%+ of the API?".
The problem still remains that it utterly sucks with 3d performance, something that is actually the foremost reason these days to actually have a discrete graphics card in your computer. What use is a graphics driver for a 3d card that does not do 3d?
Another example is the XRandR case. Nvidia bundles the nvidia-settings application which works fine if you use it. However if you want to use the KDE or gnome or whatever other software to change the screen resolution and multiple-screens, then you will notice how bad they work BECAUSE nvidia fails to properly implement the XRandR specification (instead they make some kind of wrapper to their own twinview). With nouveau, XRandR works beautifully.
Because nvidia also emulates Xinerama, sometimes window managers fail to properly detect your multi-screen setup geometry and you will get strange window management results. This happened to me and that's why I perfectly happy with nouveau. Of course I still hit bugs when playing opengl games and sometimes the GPU even hardlocks but I honestly prefer having those localized bugs than the general inconsistencies I described above.
BTW: cudos to everyone involved in nouveau. OpenCL support is indeed a very good thing :)
You see, the reality is that anybody doing any serious 3d work wants exactly the functionality that Twinview gives them, not the supposedly "correct" functionality from the OS drivers. What KDE and gnome should do is use the wrapper, not mess around on their own. And that is simply because everybody doing serious 3d cares about their application and the performance, not what abstraction of things the utterly boring and not terribly useful thing drawing window borders thinks of all of this.
These days 2 monitors is not "multiple monitors". TwinView works great.
Now try 4 monitors and 2 video cards with X.org.
Except of course, You only have TwinView if you are using the Nvidia binary blob drivers. Supporting TwinView is another thing the free drivers don't do.
You are right on this. Unfortunately, much too often, "shut up and listen" is only applied from the perspective of the subordinates shutting up, including by over-eager to please subordinates.
Again, in my experience, past experience in armed forces tends to encourage this.
And what do I need people who think that "shut up and listen" is a talent, for? Blind obedience is useless eve in a janitor, never mind somebody who will need to operate complex systems.
Your attempt to insinuate that this is somehow caused by personal bitterness is extremely low of you. Surely you can frame better arguments than personal attacks?
Certainly there are many companies out there that have "awareness of place and lines of command" as the most important qualifications, but by and large, this is not what is about what is really needed for fitting into, and taking part in the work in positions that require individual creativity. Sure, very bright and creative people join the armed forces for a large number of differing reasons, and some of these even get assigned to do IT related work there. This however does in no way change the reality of what the average quality of such ex-personell is.
The article is propaganda as it pushes a very narrow, pro specific government initiative view without any ability to look outside what the blinkers show. If you do not understand why this makes it be propaganda, maybe you should refresh your memory of what exactly the word "propaganda" means?
This is much more of propaganda, and far less of reality. The reality is much more of people who have shallow and overly specific skills, whose ability to learn and innovate on their own has been stunted, who are much more willing to just do anything and claim it was an order rather than being an active, thinking participant in the process. If you need people who will just take on tasks from some ticketing system, do whats in it, close it, take the next one and keep doing that for 8 hours every day of the week - sure, hiring ex-military will probably pay off.
Ex-military is not the contingent from where you will find people passionate about IT or CS. And those are the people you want if you are not just doing routine crap. And as a result, ex-military is extremely poor fare to recruit.
The requirement for reverse dns is in hindsight a part of the "security theater" where various claims are made, and remedies suggested against perceived ills. The suggestion for reverse DNS comes solidly from the era of TCP wrappers, another supposed saviour of ill maintained systems from outside evils.
In reality, there is no actual increase of security from checking if some address has reverse dns as for ages most of the dial up and broadband lines all have reverse dns. Also, as reverse dns zones are by and large often unmaintained, esp. when it comes to removing entries, you neither can rely on the data returned, nor assign any significance to what is returned.
Well, go ahead and make a VLB to PCI bridge with a fpga and then you can use this card in your poor neglacted vlb slot ;)
You forgot to check that it is indeed a 32bit, 33Mhz slot it goes into. So forget about 533 MB/s, the maximum burst is going to be 133MB/s. But this also doesn't mean you would not be making full use of the card - the external card bandwidth only really matters if a lot of data is transversing the interface.Which would not be the case if you are using it largely for 2d, or 2d with 3d effects. And a 520 does not really have all that much of hardware to make the most of.
The part about pushing people to consider alternatives seems to be founded on very thin ice - the alternatives do not actually offer you the functionality you woudl have to pay for in case of using "Oracle" MySQL, and also, if you use Oracle MySQL to get the for pay features and support, you would select teh system you run it on based on what is supported - just the same as you do with any database you pay support for.
Wrong. Even if there is a separate development department (something most banks don't want to have), it is not the CS people who develop HFT algorithms, though they might be the people who implement those. And these might be at pretty much any place in the org chart, but being part of teh trading department or the IT are the most likely places. That is simply because people with CS background completely lack the finance and financial mathematics background you need for developing trading (or even valuation) algorithms. In any larger setup, never mind for a bank of sufficient size to do their own HFT, the networking will be handled by the networking department.
Actually having some idea what you are talking about, or even better, knowing what you are talking about, always helps.
You are making hardly any sense. CS is *the* degree you go for if you want to work in IT. The only "CS" jobs that exists are academic ones.
All of them that need some kind of certification from DHS on meeting their standards. It does not matter if it works or is useful - DHS mandates it, so they must have one.
Don't be a pussy, they gave up on those in the Old Kingdom times as training enough proofreaders was far too expensive.