I can see that. SN is user security focused. It gives high level looks at current issues and does a lot of viewer feedback stuff. Personally, security is not my main area of study. For me talking about how DNS works, what the difference is between a TCP packet and a UDP packet, and discussing whats good security policy is far deeper then I know so I still learn a lot from the show.
This brings me to a good point. If you want deep you need to find something on JUST the one topic. SN is user level security. The show you gave looks like it's the how it works of security. SN is more general in topic and audience causing it to lack depth. Depth comes at the price of a smaller audience. I think that podcasts are actually a good place to look for deep shows. They are cheep and fairly simple to make so it's easy for someone in the industry to sit down and make one in their spare time.
FLOSS weekly and Security Now. They are both shows that Leo LaPorte of This Week in Tech does. They all can be found here http://www.twit.tv/. FLOSS is one open source project per episode. Security Now is about computer security; current events, how stuff works and anything else that relates.
Gladly. I've looked at what he has done and the bills he has written and voted for and liked what I saw. I have seen little to no flip flopping. I've seen compromise, but nothing I would call a view reversal. When he does not like an amendment to a bill he votes ageist it. If he feels the bill is the best he can get, he votes for it. I don't always think he made the best choice but we NEED compromise these days because frankly...
Is the partisanship really that bad these days ?
Yes. Very much so. We have people frothing at the mouth on both sides. We have a FUD being tossed from people on both sides. The worst part of it is that these accusations are coming from the voters.
The politicians have been doing this for years and at the end of the day they have to work with the people they hate. It's hard to truly hate someone that you have to work with daily. Voters however get so wrapped up in these things that for some I'm sure it is beginning to boarder on an addiction. Sacrificing their time, energy and happiness to fight for what they think is right.
To bring this back on topic, We both know that neither of us will give up on our candidate in this conversation. You think McCain is the better candidate but I think that Obama is. I respect McCain. He seems like a good guy who is really trying to do his best, I just think that Obama will do a better job.
You're just getting desperate in defending your predetermined idea.
This is an Ad hominem attack. This likely means you have no evidence to support your side.
They also push censorship on the Chinese
Incorrect. They complied with China's existing censorship laws. While Google does need to be watched it has not yet done anything worth condemning it for. They have kept most of their services and software open.
About your anti-child-molesting laws. To be completely honest : I wouldn't care if they turned my whole house upside down to save 1 child.
Besides I know the law and if they intrude under the guise of this law they can collect evidence, but they can't use it for any unrelated charge. If they do try to use it for an unrelated charge, then I go free in that case, and the law that you can't be sued twice for the same crime kicks in, effectively clearing me of any crimes that they might have discovered during that search.
That's fine in a perfect world but all know that is not the real concern here. If people know that a little net monitoring could prevent children from getting hurt people (including my slef) would be all for it. However 1)It does not stop children from getting hurt 2)These laws are likely to be expanded and abused
For the McCain anti-copyright laws, read this
Thank you. It's good to see McCain has been trying to reign in such foolish laws.
What I am saying (quite poorly after looking at my last post) is that according to those sites that money is from individuals not "Big Content" it self. If you make a donation it does not mean that the leaders of your organization want that candidate. So it's hard to say who those donations are really from. They could be street performers for all we know. The information we have at the moment is too vague.
Regardless Google has a lot to gain from net neutrality since that would be the first site to redirect if you were an ISP. The revenue from default search page would be HUGE. They have been behind Obama for sometime now. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/02/silicon-valley.html
Additionally I still have not seen those bills you are talking about. So I have no proof that McCain has ever done anything to the effect of making sane IP and internet laws. I did how ever see he wrote up a bill for child pornography. That tends to be the foot in the door argument for filtering internet access. The bill is S.519
"A bill to modernize and expand the reporting requirements relating to child pornography, to expand cooperation in combating child pornography, and for other purposes."
According to it's "CRS summary"
Amends the federal criminal code to expand the reporting requirements of electronic communication and remote computing service providers with respect to violations of child sexual exploitation and pornography laws.
Personally I don't like the sound of that in terms of protecting my privacy.
ObamaMcCain
Far more of McCains money is from unknown sources and PACs. Additionally while Obama's money from Big content is enough to register (unlike McCain's)it's still only 1% of his total. In this election who is donating to you does not mean much, most of the money is coming from the people for both candidates.
As for the bills you speak of I see no such thing from McCain on http://thomas.loc.gov/. Can you please tell me what bills you are referencing?
On health care reform, the American people are too often offered two extremes - government-run health care with higher taxes or letting the insurance companies operate without rules. Barack Obama and Joe Biden believe both of these extremes are wrong, and thatâ(TM)s why theyâ(TM)ve proposed a plan that strengthens employer coverage, makes insurance companies accountable and ensures patient choice of doctor and care without government interference.
The Obama-Biden plan provides affordable, accessible health care for all Americans, builds on the existing health care system, and uses existing providers, doctors and plans to implement the plan.
Check your own link. It was only $2,000. For a campaign of any kind that is nothing. So much nothing I would think he never even realized he got it.
I understand and agree with your dislike of him taking money from such a group but it's either Obama or McCain. Obama understands the issues and has been talking about them for a long time, He even had his own podcast for awhile. McCain Admits He Doesn't Know How To Use A Computer http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/11/mccain-admits-he-doesnt-k_n_106478.html(Video). Personally I found the choice fairly easy for tech issues.
We can't have a situation in which the corporate duopoly dictates the future of the internet and that's why I'm supporting what is called net neutrality.
I agree. That link iplayfast has given is basically FUD started by a FUD article here on/. http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/09/22/0526237.shtml. Notice that the original/. story was updated to say that while the main page for Obama's plans has been cut down the original information remains unchanged and is in PDF form.
Unfortunately, the Republicans are in virtual lockstep with the current administration
so of course they opposed the Democrats every chance they get - and then laugh at them for not being able to change things.
Agreed. I became aware of just how true this was with the FISA bill. Almost every step of the way members of the GOP voted exactly the same. The GOP accounted for 50% of the people able to vote on this. Additionally, It seems that there are a lot of "blue dog dems" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Dog_Coalition people who are democrats but vote along GOP lines(Joe Lieberman for example). If they wanted to it's likely that the GOP can still muster up almost 2/3 of the vote. As much as people bitch about Obama voting to pass this bill I think that if was able to convince the Dems to try and block it the GOP would have just made a version that had telco immunity and much more.
In my family when my father ran out of things to fix on a house it was time to move. But to be fair he is a civil engineer so he spends his days telling people how to build buildings but is not allowed to actually touch the tools him self. We have done massive renovations over the years some of them just to see if we could. For example our pool has both a solar heater and a connection to the heat in the house. We hardly use either.
With some work you can do almost any fairly large project on a house in a month or two. You'll still spend money on parts and have days where it's just frustrating but it's all doable.
That said I would like to point out this bit from the parent "Hire out the big jobs -- anything foundation-related/structural especially". Very true. My dad is as cheep as they come and knows how to build a house from end to end but we still hired people for several things. Installing the pool, working on a water leek in our driveway, framing the addition of a second story to the house. Some jobs need LOTS of time and energy and must be done with in a reasonable time frame. If you plan on working on something that is time critical or critical to the functioning of the house the money is well spent.
I filly agree. Head First JSP is also a great book. Also if you want to get really good at it you should read the JavaCore books. You can get away with not reading them but they can teach you lots of things that are hard to learn other wise. Good for anyone really serious about learning and using Java. For a week I googled the hell out of Java Annotations. It was only when I read the chapter on them in core vol 2 that understood what the JVM did with annotations and why.
I read it. He does talk about outsourcing a lot in the book. However he talks about it like it's the weather, not with an agenda. "yes it sucks but here are things you can do to better your self to avoid this happening to you." The author was actually a programmer that had to spend a lot of time in India hiring people that would be doing out sourced work for his company. So there are also several stories about things that he found to be different (not better or worse but different) about India and Indian programmers.
The focus of the book is definitely becoming a better programmer but out sourcing is used to show what a business needs and wants in a programmer.
I was thinking that too but then I thought about the energy issues we have been having. NASA has spent a lot of time dealing with solar panels and creative uses for energy in space. It's about time they see what they can do about energy. After all they still owe us for unleashing space ice cream on to the world
Drug war. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_cannabis Progress has been made very recently towards the legalization of medicinal marijuana.
destruction of social security Economics has been made a large issue this election.It's only a matter of time before this is looked at.
foreign oil dependence and offshoring Only recently has oil become such a huge issue. They are starting to work on it now.
nafta
Not seen as a big enough issue yet. Still many can be seen that have taken up the cause.
DMCA Well you read Slashdot. lots are fighting it.
Remember these things take time. If you really think that these issues are so important be one of the smart good people helping move things along.
Hmmm you're right about the term. I remember hearing the reasoning I said from somewhere.
(From Wiki)It is commonly understood that "short" is used because the short seller is in a deficit position with his brokerage house.
I called it messy and strange because I found it to be messy and strange. Selling someone else's stock and saying "Don't worry you'll get it back" is not something that I would think would be a common and legal practice on Wall Street but it is. Additionally without someone putting it in such simple terms I've found it hard to figure out what it all means. I'm not big on the ways of money but I've started to read about it recently. I've found that it's all very simple but put in overly complex terms.
It's a bit messy but it's something like this...
1) barrow some stock from some and promise to give it back in the following few(i forget the longest you can do this for) months.
2) Sell it.
3) Wait for said stock to fall.
4) Buy it at what you hope is a lower price.
5) give it back to the owner.
It's called selling short because you can only have it sold for a 'short' period before you have to buy it back again. Basically you bet that said stock will fall. As strange as it sounds it's fairly common in Wall Street
"good smart people" do not refuse to fix things. The holes are issues that the good smart people did not see at first. When they finally do see them either 1) they demand things get fixed but since everything is running smoothly at the moment no one cares and nothing is done or 2) They are long dead by the time it is clear there is a problem.
It is evil stupid people that refuse to fix them and that exacerbate them. Because either they are profiting from them (making them evil) or they don't see the problem(making them stupid).
"smart good people" don't make systems with holes in.
They try to but smart != perfect. For example think about patents. When they were first set up they did not know about software and all the problems that could arise. Also it was already established that a patent would only last for so long but the hole was widened by extending patent length to insane proportions. You could argue that this is a case of a hole being added but I tend to look at it more as an existing problem being abused and worsened.
Slashdot Mirror
I can see that. SN is user security focused. It gives high level looks at current issues and does a lot of viewer feedback stuff. Personally, security is not my main area of study. For me talking about how DNS works, what the difference is between a TCP packet and a UDP packet, and discussing whats good security policy is far deeper then I know so I still learn a lot from the show.
This brings me to a good point. If you want deep you need to find something on JUST the one topic. SN is user level security. The show you gave looks like it's the how it works of security. SN is more general in topic and audience causing it to lack depth. Depth comes at the price of a smaller audience. I think that podcasts are actually a good place to look for deep shows. They are cheep and fairly simple to make so it's easy for someone in the industry to sit down and make one in their spare time.
FLOSS weekly and Security Now. They are both shows that Leo LaPorte of This Week in Tech does. They all can be found here http://www.twit.tv/. FLOSS is one open source project per episode. Security Now is about computer security; current events, how stuff works and anything else that relates.
Gladly. I've looked at what he has done and the bills he has written and voted for and liked what I saw. I have seen little to no flip flopping. I've seen compromise, but nothing I would call a view reversal. When he does not like an amendment to a bill he votes ageist it. If he feels the bill is the best he can get, he votes for it. I don't always think he made the best choice but we NEED compromise these days because frankly...
Yes. Very much so. We have people frothing at the mouth on both sides. We have a FUD being tossed from people on both sides. The worst part of it is that these accusations are coming from the voters.
The politicians have been doing this for years and at the end of the day they have to work with the people they hate. It's hard to truly hate someone that you have to work with daily. Voters however get so wrapped up in these things that for some I'm sure it is beginning to boarder on an addiction. Sacrificing their time, energy and happiness to fight for what they think is right.
To bring this back on topic, We both know that neither of us will give up on our candidate in this conversation. You think McCain is the better candidate but I think that Obama is. I respect McCain. He seems like a good guy who is really trying to do his best, I just think that Obama will do a better job.
This is an Ad hominem attack. This likely means you have no evidence to support your side.
Incorrect. They complied with China's existing censorship laws. While Google does need to be watched it has not yet done anything worth condemning it for. They have kept most of their services and software open.
That's fine in a perfect world but all know that is not the real concern here. If people know that a little net monitoring could prevent children from getting hurt people (including my slef) would be all for it. However
1)It does not stop children from getting hurt
2)These laws are likely to be expanded and abused
Thank you. It's good to see McCain has been trying to reign in such foolish laws.
Regardless Google has a lot to gain from net neutrality since that would be the first site to redirect if you were an ISP. The revenue from default search page would be HUGE. They have been behind Obama for sometime now. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/02/silicon-valley.html
Additionally I still have not seen those bills you are talking about. So I have no proof that McCain has ever done anything to the effect of making sane IP and internet laws. I did how ever see he wrote up a bill for child pornography. That tends to be the foot in the door argument for filtering internet access. The bill is S.519 "A bill to modernize and expand the reporting requirements relating to child pornography, to expand cooperation in combating child pornography, and for other purposes."
According to it's "CRS summary"
Personally I don't like the sound of that in terms of protecting my privacy.
Obama McCain Far more of McCains money is from unknown sources and PACs. Additionally while Obama's money from Big content is enough to register (unlike McCain's)it's still only 1% of his total. In this election who is donating to you does not mean much, most of the money is coming from the people for both candidates.
As for the bills you speak of I see no such thing from McCain on http://thomas.loc.gov/. Can you please tell me what bills you are referencing?
That is far from the truth. It was also his biggest difference I saw between him and Hillary(she wanted what you are implying). From http://www.barackobama.com/issues/healthcare/
Check your own link. It was only $2,000. For a campaign of any kind that is nothing. So much nothing I would think he never even realized he got it.
I understand and agree with your dislike of him taking money from such a group but it's either Obama or McCain. Obama understands the issues and has been talking about them for a long time, He even had his own podcast for awhile. McCain Admits He Doesn't Know How To Use A Computer http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/11/mccain-admits-he-doesnt-k_n_106478.html(Video). Personally I found the choice fairly easy for tech issues.
So does Obama. http://www.lessig.org/blog/2007/11/4barack.html
Additionally Obama has long supported Net Neutrality.
That is a quote from Obama's podcast he was doing while he was a senator. http://obama.senate.gov/podcast/060608-network_neutral/
I agree. That link iplayfast has given is basically FUD started by a FUD article here on /. http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/09/22/0526237.shtml. Notice that the original /. story was updated to say that while the main page for Obama's plans has been cut down the original information remains unchanged and is in PDF form.
Wiki was an easy link to get, that is why I used it. But I can give you more if you want.
From http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10056529-1.html This image highlights the small interior camera. http://www.dsfanboy.com/photos/nintendo-dsi/1069060/ This one shows the exterior camera. http://www.dsfanboy.com/photos/nintendo-dsi/1069061/ Those images are from the Japanese site for the DSi http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/dsi.html
This is correct. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS#Nintendo_DSi
Agreed. I became aware of just how true this was with the FISA bill. Almost every step of the way members of the GOP voted exactly the same. The GOP accounted for 50% of the people able to vote on this. Additionally, It seems that there are a lot of "blue dog dems" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Dog_Coalition people who are democrats but vote along GOP lines(Joe Lieberman for example). If they wanted to it's likely that the GOP can still muster up almost 2/3 of the vote. As much as people bitch about Obama voting to pass this bill I think that if was able to convince the Dems to try and block it the GOP would have just made a version that had telco immunity and much more.
In my family when my father ran out of things to fix on a house it was time to move. But to be fair he is a civil engineer so he spends his days telling people how to build buildings but is not allowed to actually touch the tools him self. We have done massive renovations over the years some of them just to see if we could. For example our pool has both a solar heater and a connection to the heat in the house. We hardly use either.
With some work you can do almost any fairly large project on a house in a month or two. You'll still spend money on parts and have days where it's just frustrating but it's all doable.
That said I would like to point out this bit from the parent "Hire out the big jobs -- anything foundation-related/structural especially". Very true. My dad is as cheep as they come and knows how to build a house from end to end but we still hired people for several things. Installing the pool, working on a water leek in our driveway, framing the addition of a second story to the house. Some jobs need LOTS of time and energy and must be done with in a reasonable time frame. If you plan on working on something that is time critical or critical to the functioning of the house the money is well spent.
I filly agree. Head First JSP is also a great book. Also if you want to get really good at it you should read the Java Core books. You can get away with not reading them but they can teach you lots of things that are hard to learn other wise. Good for anyone really serious about learning and using Java. For a week I googled the hell out of Java Annotations. It was only when I read the chapter on them in core vol 2 that understood what the JVM did with annotations and why.
They HAVE made working models. They are just trying to perfect the process.
It is. It's just not possible for ANYONE to make anything. Some people just don't have the lego skills it takes.
I read it. He does talk about outsourcing a lot in the book. However he talks about it like it's the weather, not with an agenda. "yes it sucks but here are things you can do to better your self to avoid this happening to you." The author was actually a programmer that had to spend a lot of time in India hiring people that would be doing out sourced work for his company. So there are also several stories about things that he found to be different (not better or worse but different) about India and Indian programmers.
The focus of the book is definitely becoming a better programmer but out sourcing is used to show what a business needs and wants in a programmer.
I was thinking that too but then I thought about the energy issues we have been having. NASA has spent a lot of time dealing with solar panels and creative uses for energy in space. It's about time they see what they can do about energy. After all they still owe us for unleashing space ice cream on to the world
Also look at the pictures. Ladies are there.
Drug war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_cannabis Progress has been made very recently towards the legalization of medicinal marijuana.
destruction of social security
Economics has been made a large issue this election.It's only a matter of time before this is looked at.
foreign oil dependence and offshoring
Only recently has oil become such a huge issue. They are starting to work on it now.
nafta
Not seen as a big enough issue yet. Still many can be seen that have taken up the cause.
DMCA
Well you read Slashdot. lots are fighting it.
Remember these things take time. If you really think that these issues are so important be one of the smart good people helping move things along.
I called it messy and strange because I found it to be messy and strange. Selling someone else's stock and saying "Don't worry you'll get it back" is not something that I would think would be a common and legal practice on Wall Street but it is. Additionally without someone putting it in such simple terms I've found it hard to figure out what it all means. I'm not big on the ways of money but I've started to read about it recently. I've found that it's all very simple but put in overly complex terms.
It's a bit messy but it's something like this...
1) barrow some stock from some and promise to give it back in the following few(i forget the longest you can do this for) months.
2) Sell it.
3) Wait for said stock to fall.
4) Buy it at what you hope is a lower price.
5) give it back to the owner.
It's called selling short because you can only have it sold for a 'short' period before you have to buy it back again. Basically you bet that said stock will fall. As strange as it sounds it's fairly common in Wall Street
"good smart people" do not refuse to fix things. The holes are issues that the good smart people did not see at first. When they finally do see them either 1) they demand things get fixed but since everything is running smoothly at the moment no one cares and nothing is done or 2) They are long dead by the time it is clear there is a problem.
It is evil stupid people that refuse to fix them and that exacerbate them. Because either they are profiting from them (making them evil) or they don't see the problem(making them stupid).
They try to but smart != perfect. For example think about patents. When they were first set up they did not know about software and all the problems that could arise. Also it was already established that a patent would only last for so long but the hole was widened by extending patent length to insane proportions. You could argue that this is a case of a hole being added but I tend to look at it more as an existing problem being abused and worsened.