There have been many news stories about bars USING and sharing the information on cards.
So, when you get kicked out of a bar, they can prevent you from re-entering at later dates. Also, other bars on the network will also prevent you from entering their establiments as well. There are also numerous cases of bars selling the information of who visited them.
I'm surprised at the newsworthiness of the story, other than it being a mid-west state finally implementing these features. Washington and Florida have had the holgrams, and digital info for quite a number of years, I'm sure other states have too.
So how much longer till someone gets so torq'd by spam that they write a worm to DDOS the spammers.
Considering the way most spam gets sent by zombies, this might be a worm that targets zombie machines... you can imagine the rest.
Zombie gets told to send spam, calls his zombie friends, then they DDOS the box that sent the request, then they do some evil to "alert" the owner that they're box is corrupted.
I think the only reason we haven't seen this is all the good worm writers are writing the worms to make spam zombies.
Would any of this actually help or make things better? I doubt it. Fighting evil in an evil manner rarely results in an improvement (insert Iraq, El Salvador, Afganistan comments here).
All the ad blockers work because the ads are coming from external sources. Generally frames, iframes, images, included javascript, or images.
A page author could just code the ad into the page, or do a *gasp* server side include. The ad would still be displayed, even using alt text for users who turn off images.
Of course, this whould mean that web masters would have to *take responsibility* for the content on their site.
I discovered Ruby a while back after reading Dave Thomas' "The Pragmatic Programmer". One of his suggestions was to learn a new programming language each year. I psuedo-randomly picked Ruby. It has some interesting and unique features, that have helped me later on with C++ and Java programs.
One of the advantages of learning new languages, even though they may not get used professionally, is the ideas and metaphors that come with the language. Each language was designed to solve a problem, and almost every programming language excels in the problem space for which it was designed. Each also leads to a new way of thinking and approaching a problem (flow, lists, objects, aspects).
By learning from the experiences of others, we can become better programmers and build better programs. We always here why YAPL? or YASL? I say why not? You don't have to use every little language that pops up at work. But, if you learn about the thought processes behind it, you can apply the solutions in other languages.
The article discusses doing RAD in KDevelop. This isn't for enterprise apps but, for getting proof of concepts or prototypes together quickly. I seem to remember a while back an article about doing KDE RAD with JavaScript and DCOM. That was some cool stuff. I played with it and was able to get an app together in a matter of minutes.
Can't we all drop the negative attitudes for a bit and remeber why we got into programming?
The copyright could probably be fought in court since the source is still independently (kinda) developed. Also, the source would likely be different than the *original* source. Most modern compilers also perform some optimization of source code. Thus, the disassembled code will contain the optimizations, and the source derived from that would be different still. Though you might still be able to call it a derived work. The comments and documentation added would definitely be original works. Of course, I was being somewhat sarcastic in my original post. Reverse engineering software can be more time consumng than writing form scratch (talk to wine developers about that). Its definitely less rewarding IMHO.
So, whats the legal situation where you get a drive-by install and dis-agree with the EULA. If you dis-agree with the EULA then you are not supposed to run the software. However, you are not given the means to not run the software. This is twisted. But, since you did NOT agree to teh EULA, and it was put on your system without your permission (illegal unauthorized access, according to the anti-hacking laws, just ask Mitnick) then I don't think the DMCA can apply.
So, now, I can legally dis-assemble the software, annotate it with comments, and post the source up on Usenet for google to search.
I remember a news story about somethig similar in Bosnia. The troops had an anti-sniper device that worked pretty similar. Only it used 50cal machine guns in place of the camera.
It had several sensors to triangulate the source of a shot and automatically return fire. By using a 50cal machine gun, it had no problem shooting through the walls of buildings. I found this link through google http://www.army-technology.com/contractors /surveil lance/metravib/ but it doesn't mention the auto-mated return fire.
When I worked with State Farm Insurance, they had a highly customized version of Windows NT and MS Office. They also had a major part of the source code to both. THis was about 5 years ago.
My understanding is that this is pretty common for large customers of MS products.
And to answer, the next question. No, they were NOT more stable. In fact, they appeared to crash more frequently.
I would be more concerned that they are willing to hire you solely on the basis of a phone interview. Anybody with reasonable intelligence and Google could pass a phone interview on just about any position. Think. Even if you are a skilled developer, the others around you may not be. They were probably hired the same way. I agree with other posts that you really should get out to the site and meet the people first.
My comment is based on my own experience. I took a job where the only action by the employer was a phone interview. When I got out there I saw that almost all the other developers were complete hacks. Their code was in pathetic condition, showed an obvious lack of understanding of fundamental programming skills, and they thought everything was fine. I gave notice on the third day, I felt that a company that found that type of practice acceptable would be a black mark on my resume.
While I disagree that the modification of an identity document really affects my civil rights (especially when you look at the info required just to get a passport). I do agree that the argument for process speedup is crap.
I've been across the border several times (Mexico, Canada, Miami International Airport) and the speed of getting across just depends on the agents. When I cam back from Costa Rica, they didn't even ask for any kind id, just waved me through. When I drove across the Mexican border last summer, they decided that my car should be taken apart, wasting about 3 hours of my time. (Sombody please explain to me how this seach without a warrant is legal)
Considering the new Mac OS has a heart of BSD, which is already ported to x86, and some of its apps (Safari) also have a heart from apps already ported to x86. I expect an Apple port to x86 hardware would take a bit less effort. Now, getting apps to run on this is another story.....
The windows code has come so far from the NT core that I expect the MS porting effort ot be much higher. But, MS does have more money and developers so, this may not equal more time.
OTOH, why not use an OS already ported to both of these platforms, as well as many others. Perhaps Linux or BSD. Then you can have an OS and apps on both and still be able to transfer your docs.
Then again, why not pick the OS/Platform that meets your needs the best.
Perhaps I don't really see the benefit of porting two crappy OS's to more platforms (Thats my trollbait line).
Replacing the PSU's may codt more in labor than just replacing the box.
Remember the point of using commodity hardware is to save money. If a part goes bad, just toss (donate) the box. A new box is probably cheaper than the labor to fix ot.
The biggest difference is servers have *really* good marketing to support outrageous prices to place basically underclocked commodity hardware in a different case.
Your argument suggests GOOGLE is full of dumbasses.....
Why fix or upgrade?
If a $2K+ server goes bad, you spend more for parts to fix, and you pay almost as much for the labor of the admin to do the work.
If a $300 desktop tasked as a server goes bad, donate/trash it. If you were doing regular backups, you should be able to mirror a drive and have a new one up in no-time. To support your argument, if he wanted to "maintain" the server then he's losing money. My point is, he's saving so much money that he shouldn't maintain them beyond backups. It's not worth it.
You are calling him a dumbass because you have fallen for the marketing hype. Most servers by the time they need servicing are obsolete. So, what good is paying extra for maintainability? I have a cheap desktop running as a webserver (Tomcat/Linux) for about 3 years. If anything goes bad, I'll just get a new box. I only paid $400. Now, Id get a cheap walmart box for $3-400 to do the same thing. I could build a cluster for the price of one server.
How is it that we have to choose between Bush and Kerry?
Yes, Bush and Gore (two true believers)
Seriously, you have a choice to vote for someone other than Bush or Kerry. If you think you don't or that voting for another party is a waste. Well, then just don't bother voting at all, you are already a slave.
I'll give aas an example, the Clinton presidency. The Congress (Republican) and the President (Demecrat) spent so much time fighting that they didn't have time to f*** up the country.
A Republican congress is amazingly financially conservative with a Democrat in the white house. But, whenever you get one party in control of both, all goes to hell.
Reppublicans get control, deficit central. Democrats get control, taxed to death.
Now, if we could get the Libertarians and the Communist parties to get about 20% each, we could really slow down the government and get on with our lives.
Heinlein once proposed what I thought would be the best system for congress (somebody correct me on the details), where it takes a 75% vote to pass a law and a 50% vote to get rid of it.
Jusdging by your story, I started consulting for Real just before you were hired. Disclaimer, I was hired fulltime by Real about a week after this layoff.
You took options instead of higher pay when they were trading $52-$54. At that same time they filled a book value with the SEC of about $2.80/share. So, you were banking on the idea that what Real said was worth almost 3 dollars was going to climb even higher than $54. Definitely the definition of a blind optimist.
You also failed to mention the sweetest severance package around. Everyone laid got a pretty decent amount of cash. They brought in a company to help everyone laid off get their resumes in gear and find jobs. I remember most of the people left behind wanting to get added to the layoff because of the generous package.
Now, I'll be honest, the way the layoff happened was kind of weird. But, in retrospect, I see that they knew they had to do it but were scared. It was the first time they ever had to layoff a number of people and they didn't know what to do.
Another point, the company had over 1000 employees at the time. They needed to lay some people off. They should have dropped more. Think about it, 1000 people to support a streaming media player and server, plus some web properties. Thats an excessive head count for the business. You should be able to run that company with about 2-300 people.
Now, not to sound too cruel but, if you are presently only making $9/hr perhaps you should re-evaluate your skills. And honestly consider that maybe (just maybe) you didn't deserve the job you had.
I left Real a few months ago, and I can't get the headhunter (pimps) to stop calling me. There are a huge number of jobs available for developers.
so, if you're on your laptop you can actually get charged double to move the pictures.
You pay to use the piccce eeding service, and you pay for airtime as you use the phone as a modem for your laptop to get the pictures. Meanwhile your pics are travelling all ove the place just to go from the phone in your pocket to the laptop on your lap.
Sounds good but, I'll only disagree on the income. They need some motivation to take the job in the first place. I'll say pay them 5x's the median income. That should be enough to attract good people in the first place.
Of course, if it would really prevent coruption, I'd vote to give them all a $million/year for the rest of their lives. But, I doubt it would prevent the funny money from coming in.
Slashdot Mirror
disregard me, I should have RTFA before reading the comments
There have been many news stories about bars USING and sharing the information on cards.
So, when you get kicked out of a bar, they can prevent you from re-entering at later dates. Also, other bars on the network will also prevent you from entering their establiments as well.
There are also numerous cases of bars selling the information of who visited them.
I'm surprised at the newsworthiness of the story, other than it being a mid-west state finally implementing these features. Washington and Florida have had the holgrams, and digital info for quite a number of years, I'm sure other states have too.
I have learned something new today.
Things are not as simple as I first thought.
So how much longer till someone gets so torq'd by spam that they write a worm to DDOS the spammers.
... you can imagine the rest.
Considering the way most spam gets sent by zombies, this might be a worm that targets zombie machines
Zombie gets told to send spam, calls his zombie friends, then they DDOS the box that sent the request, then they do some evil to "alert" the owner that they're box is corrupted.
I think the only reason we haven't seen this is all the good worm writers are writing the worms to make spam zombies.
Would any of this actually help or make things better? I doubt it. Fighting evil in an evil manner rarely results in an improvement (insert Iraq, El Salvador, Afganistan comments here).
All the ad blockers work because the ads are coming from external sources. Generally frames, iframes, images, included javascript, or images.
A page author could just code the ad into the page, or do a *gasp* server side include. The ad would still be displayed, even using alt text for users who turn off images.
Of course, this whould mean that web masters would have to *take responsibility* for the content on their site.
I discovered Ruby a while back after reading Dave Thomas' "The Pragmatic Programmer". One of his suggestions was to learn a new programming language each year. I psuedo-randomly picked Ruby. It has some interesting and unique features, that have helped me later on with C++ and Java programs.
One of the advantages of learning new languages, even though they may not get used professionally, is the ideas and metaphors that come with the language. Each language was designed to solve a problem, and almost every programming language excels in the problem space for which it was designed. Each also leads to a new way of thinking and approaching a problem (flow, lists, objects, aspects).
By learning from the experiences of others, we can become better programmers and build better programs. We always here why YAPL? or YASL? I say why not? You don't have to use every little language that pops up at work. But, if you learn about the thought processes behind it, you can apply the solutions in other languages.
The article discusses doing RAD in KDevelop. This isn't for enterprise apps but, for getting proof of concepts or prototypes together quickly. I seem to remember a while back an article about doing KDE RAD with JavaScript and DCOM. That was some cool stuff. I played with it and was able to get an app together in a matter of minutes.
Can't we all drop the negative attitudes for a bit and remeber why we got into programming?
The copyright could probably be fought in court since the source is still independently (kinda) developed. Also, the source would likely be different than the *original* source. Most modern compilers also perform some optimization of source code. Thus, the disassembled code will contain the optimizations, and the source derived from that would be different still. Though you might still be able to call it a derived work. The comments and documentation added would definitely be original works.
Of course, I was being somewhat sarcastic in my original post. Reverse engineering software can be more time consumng than writing form scratch (talk to wine developers about that). Its definitely less rewarding IMHO.
So, whats the legal situation where you get a drive-by install and dis-agree with the EULA.
If you dis-agree with the EULA then you are not supposed to run the software. However, you are not given the means to not run the software. This is twisted.
But, since you did NOT agree to teh EULA, and it was put on your system without your permission (illegal unauthorized access, according to the anti-hacking laws, just ask Mitnick) then I don't think the DMCA can apply.
So, now, I can legally dis-assemble the software, annotate it with comments, and post the source up on Usenet for google to search.
I remember a news story about somethig similar in Bosnia. The troops had an anti-sniper device that worked pretty similar. Only it used 50cal machine guns in place of the camera.
s /surveil lance/metravib/
It had several sensors to triangulate the source of a shot and automatically return fire. By using a 50cal machine gun, it had no problem shooting through the walls of buildings.
I found this link through google
http://www.army-technology.com/contractor
but it doesn't mention the auto-mated return fire.
Anyone else remeber this?
In my experience, when a problem is found, I've had no problem getting an updated credit report for free.
When I worked with State Farm Insurance, they had a highly customized version of Windows NT and MS Office. They also had a major part of the source code to both. THis was about 5 years ago. My understanding is that this is pretty common for large customers of MS products. And to answer, the next question. No, they were NOT more stable. In fact, they appeared to crash more frequently.
Reagrdless, these are countries that show little concern for patents, licenses, or copyrights.
Do you think a guy who is using a priated version of windows really care if linux might have patent issues.
I'll go slightly off-topic here.
I would be more concerned that they are willing to hire you solely on the basis of a phone interview. Anybody with reasonable intelligence and Google could pass a phone interview on just about any position.
Think.
Even if you are a skilled developer, the others around you may not be. They were probably hired the same way. I agree with other posts that you really should get out to the site and meet the people first.
My comment is based on my own experience. I took a job where the only action by the employer was a phone interview. When I got out there I saw that almost all the other developers were complete hacks. Their code was in pathetic condition, showed an obvious lack of understanding of fundamental programming skills, and they thought everything was fine.
I gave notice on the third day, I felt that a company that found that type of practice acceptable would be a black mark on my resume.
While I disagree that the modification of an identity document really affects my civil rights (especially when you look at the info required just to get a passport). I do agree that the argument for process speedup is crap.
I've been across the border several times (Mexico, Canada, Miami International Airport) and the speed of getting across just depends on the agents.
When I cam back from Costa Rica, they didn't even ask for any kind id, just waved me through.
When I drove across the Mexican border last summer, they decided that my car should be taken apart, wasting about 3 hours of my time. (Sombody please explain to me how this seach without a warrant is legal)
Considering the new Mac OS has a heart of BSD, which is already ported to x86, and some of its apps (Safari) also have a heart from apps already ported to x86. I expect an Apple port to x86 hardware would take a bit less effort.
Now, getting apps to run on this is another story.....
The windows code has come so far from the NT core that I expect the MS porting effort ot be much higher. But, MS does have more money and developers so, this may not equal more time.
OTOH, why not use an OS already ported to both of these platforms, as well as many others. Perhaps Linux or BSD. Then you can have an OS and apps on both and still be able to transfer your docs.
Then again, why not pick the OS/Platform that meets your needs the best.
Perhaps I don't really see the benefit of porting two crappy OS's to more platforms (Thats my trollbait line).
You must work at RealNetworks.
I remember quite a few folks there who seemed to spend more time on their can pyramids than work.
Don't fix it.
Replacing the PSU's may codt more in labor than just replacing the box.
Remember the point of using commodity hardware is to save money. If a part goes bad, just toss (donate) the box. A new box is probably cheaper than the labor to fix ot.
The biggest difference is servers have *really* good marketing to support outrageous prices to place basically underclocked commodity hardware in a different case.
Your argument suggests GOOGLE is full of dumbasses.....
Why fix or upgrade?
If a $2K+ server goes bad, you spend more for parts to fix, and you pay almost as much for the labor of the admin to do the work.
If a $300 desktop tasked as a server goes bad, donate/trash it. If you were doing regular backups, you should be able to mirror a drive and have a new one up in no-time. To support your argument, if he wanted to "maintain" the server then he's losing money. My point is, he's saving so much money that he shouldn't maintain them beyond backups. It's not worth it.
You are calling him a dumbass because you have fallen for the marketing hype. Most servers by the time they need servicing are obsolete. So, what good is paying extra for maintainability? I have a cheap desktop running as a webserver (Tomcat/Linux) for about 3 years. If anything goes bad, I'll just get a new box. I only paid $400. Now, Id get a cheap walmart box for $3-400 to do the same thing. I could build a cluster for the price of one server.
No, the best reason is to vote for who you think the best candidate is. Regardless of party. period.
How is it that we have to choose between Bush and Kerry?
Yes, Bush and Gore (two true believers)
Seriously, you have a choice to vote for someone other than Bush or Kerry. If you think you don't or that voting for another party is a waste. Well, then just don't bother voting at all, you are already a slave.
here here !!!
I'll give aas an example, the Clinton presidency.
The Congress (Republican) and the President (Demecrat) spent so much time fighting that they didn't have time to f*** up the country.
A Republican congress is amazingly financially conservative with a Democrat in the white house. But, whenever you get one party in control of both, all goes to hell.
Reppublicans get control, deficit central.
Democrats get control, taxed to death.
Now, if we could get the Libertarians and the Communist parties to get about 20% each, we could really slow down the government and get on with our lives.
Heinlein once proposed what I thought would be the best system for congress (somebody correct me on the details), where it takes a 75% vote to pass a law and a 50% vote to get rid of it.
Jusdging by your story, I started consulting for Real just before you were hired. Disclaimer, I was hired fulltime by Real about a week after this layoff.
You took options instead of higher pay when they were trading $52-$54. At that same time they filled a book value with the SEC of about $2.80/share. So, you were banking on the idea that what Real said was worth almost 3 dollars was going to climb even higher than $54. Definitely the definition of a blind optimist.
You also failed to mention the sweetest severance package around. Everyone laid got a pretty decent amount of cash. They brought in a company to help everyone laid off get their resumes in gear and find jobs. I remember most of the people left behind wanting to get added to the layoff because of the generous package.
Now, I'll be honest, the way the layoff happened was kind of weird. But, in retrospect, I see that they knew they had to do it but were scared. It was the first time they ever had to layoff a number of people and they didn't know what to do.
Another point, the company had over 1000 employees at the time. They needed to lay some people off. They should have dropped more. Think about it, 1000 people to support a streaming media player and server, plus some web properties. Thats an excessive head count for the business. You should be able to run that company with about 2-300 people.
Now, not to sound too cruel but, if you are presently only making $9/hr perhaps you should re-evaluate your skills. And honestly consider that maybe (just maybe) you didn't deserve the job you had.
I left Real a few months ago, and I can't get the headhunter (pimps) to stop calling me. There are a huge number of jobs available for developers.
So, my point. Tell the whole story.
so, if you're on your laptop you can actually get charged double to move the pictures.
You pay to use the piccce eeding service, and you pay for airtime as you use the phone as a modem for your laptop to get the pictures. Meanwhile your pics are travelling all ove the place just to go from the phone in your pocket to the laptop on your lap.
nice
Sounds good but, I'll only disagree on the income.
They need some motivation to take the job in the first place. I'll say pay them 5x's the median income. That should be enough to attract good people in the first place.
Of course, if it would really prevent coruption, I'd vote to give them all a $million/year for the rest of their lives. But, I doubt it would prevent the funny money from coming in.