"a chorus led by some very high-profile computer science professors and researchers--who say that one machine should never be computerized: the voting machine."
I don't think this has to do with computerizing it. Identity theft is out of control, even when we have human operators handling the transactions. At what point is there a need for a single identity card? We have the technology to make the encryption unbreakable (without the NSA computer in the basement). If they could hand out a national ID card, and ensure that my privacy would be securely maintained, I would be all for that... The trouble is that politicians are scraping the bottom of the pork barrel and I just don't want to part with my data.
Yes we can computerize it... Just make sure you aren't selling my data to the Val-u-PAK coupon or telemarketers. -B
Project Name / {email|docs|notes|data|code} / Revision/files. Files are in yyyy_mm_dd_filename format with leading zeros filled. Then again.. I'm a DBA and nobody emails me, nobody calls me, blah. It works for data.
There's no nice neat way to do it. I recently attended a franklin covey class and it really re-iterated a few things. Use one system, cross-reference, and keep it up to date. That's all I got out of the class because I think putting data on paper kills the data and it seems to be a real inefficient way to do things from a database standpoint.
So now, I run by the seat of my pants, 90 miles an hour with my ass on fire. I have one system that works. Put out the fires that'll get my ass burned.
-B
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Ralph Nader brought the automotive industries up to safety standards. I'm too young to remember the public's preception of him, but it sounds like we need someone like him around again. Microsoft has enough defects inside it's operating system to make it the 2000's equivalent of the Ford Pinto. They should be held accountable.
What about the users though? This isn't the 70's and information is readily available about Microsoft's security practices. Why do they do it? Is it like riding a rollercoaster that has a 6 junction split at the end, only 2 of which leads to the egress queue, 3 of which leave you hanging on the top of a hill until you debug the rollercoaster, and the final split has a jump through a fiery ring with no landing zone? I mean come on, they all saw the rollercoaster... They all knew the ramifications of their actions.. What about them?
This sounds like the Penis variant that came out shortly afterwards. The kid's a hack.. he's not the original author. It's funny. He just rode someone's coattails for fun and now he's going to do some time and have to worry about who's going to ride his coattails.
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Cameras on every corner. Web based cameras. Pan and zooming cameras... With some recognition software.. We could build something that dispenses beads when it recognizes... umm...
I saw this article about new diamond manufacturing techniques and it's an interesting read. Having diamond based processors looks like a viable technology in the near future and heat dissipation is one of the major reasons that they're considering diamond.
I'm just worried about what my wife will say when the diamond in my machine is bigger than the one on her finger... -B
Oh.... I've always wanted to meet someone that's had a successful CPIP implementation that's rfc 1149 compliant..... Maybe we should all get duck calls and have a duck naming service to make sure the pigeons know which duck to follow. Next thing you know the DNS will do round robin going duck duck goose until you're crazy as a loon.
Dammit.. too many bird jokes.. I know I'm running afowl of the etiquette.. Hell with it, I'm not chicken. -B
"Introverts often have self-esteem problems because they can't be what most of the world wants them to be. "
I'm introverted and I don't have any self esteem problems and it has nothing to do with what the world wants. I'm introverted because I have found that if people find out that I know how to fix problems (caused by the incompetent extraverts that became extraverts because they had to frequently "reach out" to people that knew how to fix stuff), then they latch deeper into my skin than an alabama tick.
If I'm intoverted, it's because I want them to learn how to do their fucking job and not bother me with every petty problem that can be solved with about 2 minutes of searching. I withdraw as a defensive measure. The last time I said "Gee, that's an easy fix" was almost 3 years ago. Now I'm being rode like a $3 hooker and it's payday. -B
I just put my boss's Windows 2003 Server CD under a microscope to examine the binaries.. Started zooming in.. and then SNAP. The bitch cracked into 2. I'll put gentoo on the server now and just tell him that a security cracker broke his shit. -B
The article's text has "Compare two simple phrases in Arabic: "rajl kabir'' and "rajl tawil.'' If a computer knows that the first phrase means "big man," and the second means "tall man," the machine can compare the two and deduce that rajl means "man," while kabir and tawil mean "big" and "tall," respectively". Are we going pro-homeland security and not tipping off the powers that be? Or did michael want to show his uber leet 1st quarter espanol skillz?
Spanish is easy and led me to believe that the article had relatively little weight (it is lightweight and a topical PHB read anyway). I do a lot of data mining in text streams and have found it to be fairly easy work. Getting cursors to play in ideograms/unicode and reversing the data is something I haven't tried yet and the article barely covers it. When I saw that they were covering language sets that were extremely dissimilar to english, my interest in multi-language applications piqued again. All of my databases are unicode and I want to learn more about having truly international systems that are automated and then hand tweaked to avoid the engrish.com type mistakes. Any help here?
-B
Second note to self: This is the forge that will make Linux either extremeley hard and brittle or strong and flexible with the ability to stay sharp. As much as I hate hearing SCO stories, I am glad that the threat is a light-weight that spews out so many lies that their story is hardly credible. Hopefully everyone will analyze what they are doing and some preventive measures can be put in place for tougher future challengers when IBM isn't taking up the defense.
I really hate MCBride and SCO, but I think this is a good thing for us in the long run. Please remember that we all have to concentrate on making Linux just right for us. If other people/corporations appreciate Linux, then it will be on merit alone. Corporate backing is great and it makes other corporations look towards supporting hardware for Linux, but we're not selling to corporations, we're selling Linux to ourselves - and I think I'm my own worst customer.
Before "Windows will provide functions equivalent to those of Linux deployments" such as having a worm every week, a critical notification, or maybe someone elses DRM patent infringing technology in it.
I do agree with the go-slow bit - you shouldn't be deploying enterprise servers on a whim without performing an honest comparison of all platforms. Continue to deploy Linux as needed and if the shit really hits the fan only pay those asses when they start sending collection notices. Screw em. -B
Munich has many older versions of Windows installed, including Windows 3.1
They have to get Linux to get support for Microsoft apps. Microsoft's dropping NT. I think 98 is DOA as well, and 3.1 is long dead. There are two points here. We can run your legacy Windows apps on a current and supported platform, ableit on VMWare. I'm not sure why they didn't use Wine - I'm not a VMWare user and don't know the difference between the two, but for companies that want to be able to look forward as well as well as maintaining their current processes. Secondly, Is there a list of applications out that run on older platforms that need to be migrated? I don't remember but maybe 3 applications that went past 5 floppies so I may be out of line but I don't think that the scale is that big of an issue. Maybe there is a genuine need for these applications, and maybe that'll be another group of YA* applications that we can say are covered.
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"a chorus led by some very high-profile computer science professors and researchers--who say that one machine should never be computerized: the voting machine."
I don't think this has to do with computerizing it. Identity theft is out of control, even when we have human operators handling the transactions. At what point is there a need for a single identity card? We have the technology to make the encryption unbreakable (without the NSA computer in the basement).
If they could hand out a national ID card, and ensure that my privacy would be securely maintained, I would be all for that... The trouble is that politicians are scraping the bottom of the pork barrel and I just don't want to part with my data.
Yes we can computerize it... Just make sure you aren't selling my data to the Val-u-PAK coupon or telemarketers.
-B
Hmm... Software Engineering taught by Dr. Watson ....The school nurse is Rita McAfee....
School colors are navy blue with white lettering.. hmmmm..
-B
I can post the only kinda Linux car joke that I know!!!
-B
Project Name / {email|docs|notes|data|code} / Revision/files. Files are in yyyy_mm_dd_filename format with leading zeros filled. Then again.. I'm a DBA and nobody emails me, nobody calls me, blah. It works for data. There's no nice neat way to do it. I recently attended a franklin covey class and it really re-iterated a few things. Use one system, cross-reference, and keep it up to date. That's all I got out of the class because I think putting data on paper kills the data and it seems to be a real inefficient way to do things from a database standpoint.
So now, I run by the seat of my pants, 90 miles an hour with my ass on fire. I have one system that works. Put out the fires that'll get my ass burned. -B
Ralph Nader brought the automotive industries up to safety standards. I'm too young to remember the public's preception of him, but it sounds like we need someone like him around again. Microsoft has enough defects inside it's operating system to make it the 2000's equivalent of the Ford Pinto. They should be held accountable.
What about the users though? This isn't the 70's and information is readily available about Microsoft's security practices. Why do they do it? Is it like riding a rollercoaster that has a 6 junction split at the end, only 2 of which leads to the egress queue, 3 of which leave you hanging on the top of a hill until you debug the rollercoaster, and the final split has a jump through a fiery ring with no landing zone? I mean come on, they all saw the rollercoaster... They all knew the ramifications of their actions.. What about them?
-B
This sounds like the Penis variant that came out shortly afterwards. The kid's a hack.. he's not the original author. It's funny. He just rode someone's coattails for fun and now he's going to do some time and have to worry about who's going to ride his coattails.
From: State District Judge Bonnie Sudder jbsudder@state.texas.us
To: legal@aol.com; abuse@aol.com
Subject: AOL, Save Thousands in Under One Minute! Quickest Quote!
Dear AOL,
This is your chance to opt-out of a completely unique program! You May Be Closer (Maybe Hours Away) To Financial Punishments than you think...
* 100% Safe To Take, With Abosultely No Side Effects
* Totally confidential, no one needs to know!
Cameras on every corner. Web based cameras. Pan and zooming cameras... With some recognition software.. We could build something that dispenses beads when it recognizes ... umm...
I saw this article about new diamond manufacturing techniques and it's an interesting read. Having diamond based processors looks like a viable technology in the near future and heat dissipation is one of the major reasons that they're considering diamond.
I'm just worried about what my wife will say when the diamond in my machine is bigger than the one on her finger...
-B
Oh.... I've always wanted to meet someone that's had a successful CPIP implementation that's rfc 1149 compliant..... Maybe we should all get duck calls and have a duck naming service to make sure the pigeons know which duck to follow. Next thing you know the DNS will do round robin going duck duck goose until you're crazy as a loon.
Dammit.. too many bird jokes.. I know I'm running afowl of the etiquette.. Hell with it, I'm not chicken.
-B
Nothing like trying to pop a zit in a mirror that looks like it's 2 DPI. On the flip side, when it hits the mirror, you REALLY know it.
-B
"Introverts often have self-esteem problems because they can't be what most of the world wants them to be. "
I'm introverted and I don't have any self esteem problems and it has nothing to do with what the world wants. I'm introverted because I have found that if people find out that I know how to fix problems (caused by the incompetent extraverts that became extraverts because they had to frequently "reach out" to people that knew how to fix stuff), then they latch deeper into my skin than an alabama tick.
If I'm intoverted, it's because I want them to learn how to do their fucking job and not bother me with every petty problem that can be solved with about 2 minutes of searching. I withdraw as a defensive measure. The last time I said "Gee, that's an easy fix" was almost 3 years ago. Now I'm being rode like a $3 hooker and it's payday.
-B
When I see a POS (piece of ....) computer, it's usually running Windows.
Is this the slashdot effect in reverse? Arguably plenty of bandwidth but withholding the content? It's been ./'d!!!
-B
I just put my boss's Windows 2003 Server CD under a microscope to examine the binaries.. Started zooming in.. and then SNAP. The bitch cracked into 2. I'll put gentoo on the server now and just tell him that a security cracker broke his shit.
-B
The article's text has "Compare two simple phrases in Arabic: "rajl kabir'' and "rajl tawil.'' If a computer knows that the first phrase means "big man," and the second means "tall man," the machine can compare the two and deduce that rajl means "man," while kabir and tawil mean "big" and "tall," respectively". Are we going pro-homeland security and not tipping off the powers that be? Or did michael want to show his uber leet 1st quarter espanol skillz?
Spanish is easy and led me to believe that the article had relatively little weight (it is lightweight and a topical PHB read anyway). I do a lot of data mining in text streams and have found it to be fairly easy work. Getting cursors to play in ideograms/unicode and reversing the data is something I haven't tried yet and the article barely covers it. When I saw that they were covering language sets that were extremely dissimilar to english, my interest in multi-language applications piqued again. All of my databases are unicode and I want to learn more about having truly international systems that are automated and then hand tweaked to avoid the engrish.com type mistakes. Any help here?
-B
"This exceptional hero costume was worn by Greene as Commander Adama in virtually every episode of the series"
Hope these costumes have been washed/dry cleaned.. Wouldn't want to get space herpes
-B
As their senior DBA, I have 4 words for you.
"I do not recall"
-B
Second note to self: This is the forge that will make Linux either extremeley hard and brittle or strong and flexible with the ability to stay sharp. As much as I hate hearing SCO stories, I am glad that the threat is a light-weight that spews out so many lies that their story is hardly credible. Hopefully everyone will analyze what they are doing and some preventive measures can be put in place for tougher future challengers when IBM isn't taking up the defense.
I really hate MCBride and SCO, but I think this is a good thing for us in the long run. Please remember that we all have to concentrate on making Linux just right for us. If other people/corporations appreciate Linux, then it will be on merit alone. Corporate backing is great and it makes other corporations look towards supporting hardware for Linux, but we're not selling to corporations, we're selling Linux to ourselves - and I think I'm my own worst customer.
-B
Before "Windows will provide functions equivalent to those of Linux deployments" such as having a worm every week, a critical notification, or maybe someone elses DRM patent infringing technology in it.
I do agree with the go-slow bit - you shouldn't be deploying enterprise servers on a whim without performing an honest comparison of all platforms. Continue to deploy Linux as needed and if the shit really hits the fan only pay those asses when they start sending collection notices. Screw em.
-B
Munich has many older versions of Windows installed, including Windows 3.1
They have to get Linux to get support for Microsoft apps. Microsoft's dropping NT. I think 98 is DOA as well, and 3.1 is long dead.
There are two points here. We can run your legacy Windows apps on a current and supported platform, ableit on VMWare. I'm not sure why they didn't use Wine - I'm not a VMWare user and don't know the difference between the two, but for companies that want to be able to look forward as well as well as maintaining their current processes.
Secondly, Is there a list of applications out that run on older platforms that need to be migrated? I don't remember but maybe 3 applications that went past 5 floppies so I may be out of line but I don't think that the scale is that big of an issue. Maybe there is a genuine need for these applications, and maybe that'll be another group of YA* applications that we can say are covered.
Any thoughts?
-B
Reread the subject again (I just jumped on the RIAA mp3 sue keywords) I'm not sharing files btw.
-B
Is it okay to download mp3's of songs that I legitimately own on CD? Can I claim fair use if I own the CD? Can I counter sue?
-B
Maybe we should all move to gopher for a while cause the rest of the net has no idea wtf that is.
-B
This about covers it all. National security and Microsoft. Wrapped up in one...
Have fun with this
-B