Plot Outline: In the year 2035 a techno-phobic cop investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity.
Why does this remind me of Animatrix's "The Second Renaissance"? The "I, Robot" plot is ripped off from The Matrix !!!1!
Unless a trial is done in front of the highest court of law, both of the parties can go into revision, where the trial is brought to a court on a higher level, until both of the parties accept the result or until the highest level of hierarchy is reached. This system is common practice in Europe.
Actually, software developers have to be really harsh and impolite to make their success a real success. Just look at DJB, OpenBSD or the mplayer developers? Are they nice and friendly? Absolutely not. Is their software widely used? Absolutely yes. I don't know, maybe this is something that impresses people, like "oh, this must be a good programmer, when he can the liberty of being harsh to his users, and so his software must be really good".
The mistake you make is that you don't care about security in multiple layers. Additionally, I would recommend to use a ProProlice-enabled gcc to compile your server applications, to enable (if your OS provides it) non-executable-stack features, and (when it's finished) my self-written ContraPolice, which adds protection against heap overflows to your applications. Additionally, systrace might also be a good feature against possible attacks against your system.
Of course, the things I presented here are only for a small percentage of all services and machines in "big" production environment. So, for more protection, a close look at the client has to be done, too.
Fortunately, Werner Koch informed me yesterday already (I got the email at some time in the morning), so I had plenty of time to create a new key, sign it with the old one, and revoke the old one.
Of course, this had one disadvantage: since the old key is potentially compromised, I cannot really trust in my web of trust anymore.:-/
I don't think that people would adapt this. I extremely cash, because I can clearly see how much money I still have. When having the money "for real", I can somehow relate to it - it's touchable, countable, more than just a number on a display.
Electronic money - in whatever way, be it RFID tags or credit cards - just doesn't give me the same feeling.
The way I feel about money is also the way of many people that I know. So, what I have observed, people are generally quite conservative when it's about money, and so I don't think that RFID tags will be accepted as replacement for cash by the customers.
We're running 2.6.0-test9 on several production machines at work, and we had absolutely no problem, so far, but a huge improvement on performance instead. The only thing one has to care about is that 2.6.0 requires module-init-tools instead of modutils. It's especially important to read the upgrade guide, so that one can easily switch back to 2.4.x even when using modules (not that I would miss 2.4.x, but you never know... not all people will have such flawless upgrade processes as I did).
The new scheduler of Linux 2.6 is a O(1) scheduler, which is AFAIK the first time that this has been implemented in a Unix-like operating. AFAICR the original author of the new scheduler also had the general idea of how to implement such a scheduler. This is true innovation (IMHO).
At home, I use OSX 10.3, and Expose is one of my favourite features of 10.3, which I use most often. Now, with Expose-like functionality on Metacity, I can have the same kind of comfort on my computer at work (where I use GNU/Linux with Gnome as desktop environment and - of course - Metacity as window manager). This will definitely improve my workflow.
This is because when you explain code to another person, you are forced to think about it. That's why it's usually very useful to do code reviews by explaining the code you wrote to another person.
This doesn't really impress me since it's a NUMA architecture (with all the NUMA-specific drawbacks). But of course, a cat/proc/cpuinfo | lpr would be extremely long.;-)
Well, they pay lots of people for doing other stuff than space research. Just think of Larry Wall, who was working on Perl during his time at the NASA JPL.
The SGI Altix 3000 is not quite a supercomputer. Our local university got the very first model for production use of the Altix 3000's successor, the Altix 3700, in last April or so, and it made it in the TOP 500 supercomputer list in last June, but it fell out of the current list. And the 3700 is even faster than the 3700, so what's so special about it?
It's Microsoft's job that something like this doesn't happen in the first and if it does happen that the damage is kept minimal. That is called "quality assurance" and "good operating system design", two subjects where Microsoft seems to have failed.
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Spammers actually seem to try defeating bayesian spam filters by "training" them with random words:
From: Noah Poe
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 15:58:49 -0600
To: a.konrad@aon.at
Subject: canberra happen
aides bone emmanuel rumania persistent josephine pencil majesty bottom
anarch molecular cafe hepburn done ellipsoid monoceros chokeberry pungent decontrolled
orphanage keel cessna lippincott drugstore onion inclement empire
This is just sick.
Plot Outline: In the year 2035 a techno-phobic cop investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity.
Why does this remind me of Animatrix's "The Second Renaissance"? The "I, Robot" plot is ripped off from The Matrix !!!1!
Unless a trial is done in front of the highest court of law, both of the parties can go into revision, where the trial is brought to a court on a higher level, until both of the parties accept the result or until the highest level of hierarchy is reached. This system is common practice in Europe.
Actually, software developers have to be really harsh and impolite to make their success a real success. Just look at DJB, OpenBSD or the mplayer developers? Are they nice and friendly? Absolutely not. Is their software widely used? Absolutely yes. I don't know, maybe this is something that impresses people, like "oh, this must be a good programmer, when he can the liberty of being harsh to his users, and so his software must be really good".
At 60 mph you still have a good chance to survive. Not so with 250 kph (search for "Eschede" and "ICE" on Google) or over 500 kph.
The mistake you make is that you don't care about security in multiple layers. Additionally, I would recommend to use a ProProlice-enabled gcc to compile your server applications, to enable (if your OS provides it) non-executable-stack features, and (when it's finished) my self-written ContraPolice, which adds protection against heap overflows to your applications. Additionally, systrace might also be a good feature against possible attacks against your system.
Of course, the things I presented here are only for a small percentage of all services and machines in "big" production environment. So, for more protection, a close look at the client has to be done, too.
I really have to recommend it! It's great fun to watch! I always use it when I want to watch pr0n but too lazy to fire up X11.
Well, I didn't exactly know what it is, I simply chose it because I founded the name pretty cool (don't laugh).
Fortunately, Werner Koch informed me yesterday already (I got the email at some time in the morning), so I had plenty of time to create a new key, sign it with the old one, and revoke the old one.
:-/
Of course, this had one disadvantage: since the old key is potentially compromised, I cannot really trust in my web of trust anymore.
I don't think that people would adapt this. I extremely cash, because I can clearly see how much money I still have. When having the money "for real", I can somehow relate to it - it's touchable, countable, more than just a number on a display.
Electronic money - in whatever way, be it RFID tags or credit cards - just doesn't give me the same feeling.
The way I feel about money is also the way of many people that I know. So, what I have observed, people are generally quite conservative when it's about money, and so I don't think that RFID tags will be accepted as replacement for cash by the customers.
We're running 2.6.0-test9 on several production machines at work, and we had absolutely no problem, so far, but a huge improvement on performance instead. The only thing one has to care about is that 2.6.0 requires module-init-tools instead of modutils. It's especially important to read the upgrade guide, so that one can easily switch back to 2.4.x even when using modules (not that I would miss 2.4.x, but you never know... not all people will have such flawless upgrade processes as I did).
Nit #6: it's Anonymous Coward, not Conanymous Award.
Nit #7: this is getting stupid.
Nit #4: English sentences usually end with a '.' (aka 'full stop').
The new scheduler of Linux 2.6 is a O(1) scheduler, which is AFAIK the first time that this has been implemented in a Unix-like operating. AFAICR the original author of the new scheduler also had the general idea of how to implement such a scheduler. This is true innovation (IMHO).
Well, basically everybody copies features from everyone else. That's business.
At home, I use OSX 10.3, and Expose is one of my favourite features of 10.3, which I use most often. Now, with Expose-like functionality on Metacity, I can have the same kind of comfort on my computer at work (where I use GNU/Linux with Gnome as desktop environment and - of course - Metacity as window manager). This will definitely improve my workflow.
It does, but (currently) not in the US.
This is because when you explain code to another person, you are forced to think about it. That's why it's usually very useful to do code reviews by explaining the code you wrote to another person.
My university's Altix 3700 doesn't impress me, either. A supercomputer that impresses me? Big Mac.
This doesn't really impress me since it's a NUMA architecture (with all the NUMA-specific drawbacks). But of course, a cat /proc/cpuinfo | lpr would be extremely long. ;-)
Well, they pay lots of people for doing other stuff than space research. Just think of Larry Wall, who was working on Perl during his time at the NASA JPL.
The SGI Altix 3000 is not quite a supercomputer. Our local university got the very first model for production use of the Altix 3000's successor, the Altix 3700, in last April or so, and it made it in the TOP 500 supercomputer list in last June, but it fell out of the current list. And the 3700 is even faster than the 3700, so what's so special about it?
Yes, Austrian copyright law, for example.
It's Microsoft's job that something like this doesn't happen in the first and if it does happen that the damage is kept minimal. That is called "quality assurance" and "good operating system design", two subjects where Microsoft seems to have failed.
How the hell to you get rated "Score:2"?
That is called "good karma". When you exceed a certain karma, you get a karma bonus of +1 for every posting.