Maybe instead of interpreting this incident as a rallying cry to the mass lynching of forgers and spammers, we should think of it as a reminder of why it's good to use digital signatures for authentication.
It is amazing, as fast it compact, idiomatische Prosa in each possible language too farcical pseudo satire in any different one to make can.
I assume that it is remarkable that the bear Waltzes at all and that I look a gift horse in the opening, but she is still of the translation automated by the old vodka/meatfiasco from the early days reminding.
Um....let's have strong ciphers too please. 2048-bit keys (or 128Kbit for that matter) doesn't do you much good if your algorithm is ECB XOR.
And, for the nonce, the current China dustup is basically the result of crappy policy and implementation at the human level, which--like key management problems--can affect any organisation no matter how great your crypto technology is.
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What's interesting to me is that this article provides some useful information to some people who wouldn't otherwise get it--people who don't, for instance, read Wired.
An article I read last year gave a sort of rogues'-gallery rundown of weekly newsmagazines; the quote I remember most was from a circulation manager at U.S. News, who said (half-jokingly, but only half) "Our target demographic is basically retired Air Force officers living in Arizona." Yikes. No wonder it seems even whiter than Newsweek.
This is the kind of thing that gives plaintiff attorneys a bad reputation in the U.S. legal system, the legal system as a whole a bad reputation in the U.S., and the U.S. a bad reputation in the world.
All I can say is that I don't think tort reform is the answer. I just hope that the judge trying this case accords it the contempt it deserves.
Shoot, I figured I was the last person to find out about this, and I knew last week. Check the new logo, courtesy U.S. Patent and Trademark Office...
(Random aside: This seems similar to "The American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation" changing their name to "AT&T" about 10 years ago. Maybe SGI felt that "Silicon" was going the same way as "Telegraph".)
Whatever you think of esr as a public figure or an Open Source advocate, he is a nerd lexicographer extraordinaire.
I will keep my well-thumbed paper editions of v2 and v3, and probably buy this one in book form as well. It's too useful a reference for me to relegate it to solely on-line usage, and besides, Guy Steele's Crunchly cartoons alone are worth the purchase price.
It's one of the most lurid, poorly written non-fiction accounts of anything I've ever read, despite its theoretically having been written "with" Markoff, who as a New York Times reporter really ought to have done better.
The book is full of technical misrepresentations, irrelevant personal anecdotes (unless you find Shimomura's agonizing over his relationship with John Gilmore's ex-girlfriend somehow germane), and breathless descriptions of "the chase" that rang so false as to make me laugh out loud while reading it on the bus.
Even worse, the whole thing is suffused with this weird kung-fu ethos--"Tsutomu, I respect your skills"--that basically serves as a platform for Shimomura's projection of his own godly talents; and make no mistake, his ego is so bloated as to make the Stolls, Gogganses, and Goldsteins of this world seem like shrinking violets.
I had no great amount of sympathy for Mitnick when I started reading the book. Now I feel sorry for the guy. He committed a crime and deserves to be punished, but not vilified as he has been. Judging from what I read in Takedown, the comments in the interview about "the myth of Kevin Mitnick" are spot on.
is the name for the power exercised by courts in interpreting laws, as supported by centuries of tradition in the Anglo-American common law. Specifically, in the United states, the term refers to the Supreme Court's power to evaluate whether a given law is consistent with the Constitution (as codified in Marbury v. Madison). Far from being "not strictly constitutional", judicial review goes to the very heart of the Constitution and ensures its supremacy over all the (necessarily) lesser laws of the land.
I don't think your claim of the "balance of legislative power" shifting to the judiciary is legitimate, given that judicial review is exercised only when a legislature creates a law that is either (1) incompatible with the Constitution or (2) so vague as to make it impossible to determine its relation to the Constitution. This is as it should be--permitting the Congress to change the Constitution if and only if it passes an amendment ratified by three-quarters of the states. Judge-made law is here to stay, and IMHO it's perfectly in keeping with the intent of the framers with regard to the division of power among the branches of government.
...is that the more he writes for/., the more self-referential it gets.
I can't remember exactly when it got out of hand (although I suspect it was as a result of the initial "hey! people are flaming me because of what I wrote, and I'm now going to write about how the slings and arrows are all part of this wonderful anarchistic culture that we have, and it doesn't really hurt, but sometimes it does when it's a pointless ad hominem thing), but the levels of nesting have now become totally surreal as far as I'm concerned.
Tip: When some people self-refer (Muhammad Ali, the Muppets, Douglas Hofstadter, Beastie Boys) it's really clever. Others just come off as annoying (Monica Lewinsky, House of Pain, Al Gore,...). Figure out which side you're going to fall on before you do it.
The job description of CEOs in corporations the size of Sun doesn't entail doing work as we understand it. They don't create; they don't manage; in most cases they don't even set policy.
What they do have to be very good at is exuding confidence, so that customers and shareholders can see a person of substance at the helm that they can have faith in: in the case of established hardware firms, this means having to be seen as a visionary.
I'm not saying that I think this is right, or even that McNealy does. It's simply a fact that has existed in industry since the interbellum, concurrent with the rise of powerful companies not headed by entrepreneurs. Anyway, the point is that being a visionary means having the occasional strongly held opinion, and the substance of that opinion is (with certain limits) not nearly as important as its effect on the perceptual position of Scott McNealy and Sun.
He probably doesn't mean it, and his words will have been mostly forgotten by next month, except by the people who love to chortle over how Ken Olsen said in 1976 that the notion of a computer in the home was preposterous.
I wouldn't be quite so charitable; I'd say "because mainstream reporters in large part still don't Get It; they confine their fact checking to 'who said what', and don't ask those who might have a clue whether their story draft will make them look like a total idiot."
According to a (US) Federal law called, I think, the Plant Protection act, it is illegal to cause a patented, seedless plant (of which there are many species) to reproduce by vegetative propagation.
I found this out when I asked an acquaintance at a nursery whether instead of paying $100 for a seedless lime tree sapling (which seemed high) I could just take a cutting, and he told me we could both go to jail.
No wonder it was a hundred bucks.
Of course, if the plant happens to have seeds through some genetic accident, whose fault is that?
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Maybe instead of interpreting this incident as a rallying cry to the mass lynching of forgers and spammers, we should think of it as a reminder of why it's good to use digital signatures for authentication.
I love Babelfi.
It is amazing, as fast it compact, idiomatische Prosa in each possible language too farcical pseudo satire in any different one to make can.
I assume that it is remarkable that the bear Waltzes at all and that I look a gift horse in the opening, but she is still of the translation automated by the old vodka/meatfiasco from the early days reminding.
Um....let's have strong ciphers too please. 2048-bit keys (or 128Kbit for that matter) doesn't do you much good if your algorithm is ECB XOR.
And, for the nonce, the current China dustup is basically the result of crappy policy and implementation at the human level, which--like key management problems--can affect any organisation no matter how great your crypto technology is.
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An article I read last year gave a sort of rogues'-gallery rundown of weekly newsmagazines; the quote I remember most was from a circulation manager at U.S. News, who said (half-jokingly, but only half) "Our target demographic is basically retired Air Force officers living in Arizona." Yikes. No wonder it seems even whiter than Newsweek.
All I can say is that I don't think tort reform is the answer. I just hope that the judge trying this case accords it the contempt it deserves.
(Random aside: This seems similar to "The American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation" changing their name to "AT&T" about 10 years ago. Maybe SGI felt that "Silicon" was going the same way as "Telegraph".)
I will keep my well-thumbed paper editions of v2 and v3, and probably buy this one in book form as well. It's too useful a reference for me to relegate it to solely on-line usage, and besides, Guy Steele's Crunchly cartoons alone are worth the purchase price.
It's one of the most lurid, poorly written non-fiction accounts of anything I've ever read, despite its theoretically having been written "with" Markoff, who as a New York Times reporter really ought to have done better.
The book is full of technical misrepresentations, irrelevant personal anecdotes (unless you find Shimomura's agonizing over his relationship with John Gilmore's ex-girlfriend somehow germane), and breathless descriptions of "the chase" that rang so false as to make me laugh out loud while reading it on the bus.
Even worse, the whole thing is suffused with this weird kung-fu ethos--"Tsutomu, I respect your skills"--that basically serves as a platform for Shimomura's projection of his own godly talents; and make no mistake, his ego is so bloated as to make the Stolls, Gogganses, and Goldsteins of this world seem like shrinking violets.
I had no great amount of sympathy for Mitnick when I started reading the book. Now I feel sorry for the guy. He committed a crime and deserves to be punished, but not vilified as he has been. Judging from what I read in Takedown, the comments in the interview about "the myth of Kevin Mitnick" are spot on.
is the name for the power exercised by courts in interpreting laws, as supported by centuries of tradition in the Anglo-American common law. Specifically, in the United states, the term refers to the Supreme Court's power to evaluate whether a given law is consistent with the Constitution (as codified in Marbury v. Madison ). Far from being "not strictly constitutional", judicial review goes to the very heart of the Constitution and ensures its supremacy over all the (necessarily) lesser laws of the land.
I don't think your claim of the "balance of legislative power" shifting to the judiciary is legitimate, given that judicial review is exercised only when a legislature creates a law that is either (1) incompatible with the Constitution or (2) so vague as to make it impossible to determine its relation to the Constitution. This is as it should be--permitting the Congress to change the Constitution if and only if it passes an amendment ratified by three-quarters of the states. Judge-made law is here to stay, and IMHO it's perfectly in keeping with the intent of the framers with regard to the division of power among the branches of government.
I can't remember exactly when it got out of hand (although I suspect it was as a result of the initial "hey! people are flaming me because of what I wrote, and I'm now going to write about how the slings and arrows are all part of this wonderful anarchistic culture that we have, and it doesn't really hurt, but sometimes it does when it's a pointless ad hominem thing), but the levels of nesting have now become totally surreal as far as I'm concerned.
Tip: When some people self-refer (Muhammad Ali, the Muppets, Douglas Hofstadter, Beastie Boys) it's really clever. Others just come off as annoying (Monica Lewinsky, House of Pain, Al Gore, ...). Figure out which side you're going to fall on before you do it.
Nobody's said how they feel about the part where it says "...an advisory board comprised of members from Silicon Graphics, Slashdot, and Oracle..."
I would like to state for the record that it makes me really happy. Rob, are you the representation?
A perfect example of how Python combines the power of MS-DOS batch file programming with the intuitiveness of INTERCAL.
...in car headlights. Sorry. Couldn't resist.
Freedows vs. the Alliance!
Yeah!!!
What they do have to be very good at is exuding confidence, so that customers and shareholders can see a person of substance at the helm that they can have faith in: in the case of established hardware firms, this means having to be seen as a visionary.
I'm not saying that I think this is right, or even that McNealy does. It's simply a fact that has existed in industry since the interbellum, concurrent with the rise of powerful companies not headed by entrepreneurs. Anyway, the point is that being a visionary means having the occasional strongly held opinion, and the substance of that opinion is (with certain limits) not nearly as important as its effect on the perceptual position of Scott McNealy and Sun.
He probably doesn't mean it, and his words will have been mostly forgotten by next month, except by the people who love to chortle over how Ken Olsen said in 1976 that the notion of a computer in the home was preposterous.
I wouldn't be quite so charitable; I'd say "because mainstream reporters in large part still don't Get It; they confine their fact checking to 'who said what', and don't ask those who might have a clue whether their story draft will make them look like a total idiot."
Anyone know whether RTMARK is behind this? Could be their style: corruption of youth; corporate sabotage; copyright infringement.
I found this out when I asked an acquaintance at a nursery whether instead of paying $100 for a seedless lime tree sapling (which seemed high) I could just take a cutting, and he told me we could both go to jail.
No wonder it was a hundred bucks.
Of course, if the plant happens to have seeds through some genetic accident, whose fault is that?