Richard Stallman pointed ou that since Linus Torvalds used some GNU programs in developing his OS this could be acknowledged by calling the new OS GNU/Linux. Nothing wrong with that!
Yup, and Symantec writes a lot of their software in Microsoft Visual C++, but we don't call it Microsoft / Norton AntiVirus, do we?
I didn't detect any serious problems with our site, either while at work or at home. For my own personal curiosity, could you elaborate?
Sure - I am not the original poster, but I know that abcnews.com, along with just about every other american news source was totally unreachable from about 9:30am to 11am eastern. I tried from several POPS, and several ISPs in the Atlanta area. The Register even had a story on it. I could not get any news from any american source for about an hour - The only sites I could get news from were in europe. This was also the general consensus among several of my friends in other office locations around the USA
What you are saying is that we should continue to be a belligerent nation and to protect ourselves from being retaliated against we should spend more money on the CIA and NSA?
Did I write this anywhere? No, I did not. I was commenting on the fact that many of the people who frequent this site have knee-jerk "Big Brother is out to get me" reactions to various three-letter-acronym agencies. These same agencies are the ones that are supposed to help protect from incidents such as the one we (the USA) experienced today.
We could avoid this by spending less money. We could stop supporting nations such as Israel, Turkey,(as a Greek American this one really pisses me off) Indonesia, etc. We could relegate our military to self defense instead of attacking Kosovo, Iraq, Libya, Vietnam, South Korea or any other nation our government chooses to use force on for political gain. Now things have come full circle and it is American who will feel the application of violence for politics. The NSA cannot prevent this sort of event(I doubt they would have a high prevention rate at all) absolutely as being a well behaved nation could.
Nowhere did I mention anything but SIGINT.
You've developed your own little tirade here....
I wonder if a slashdotter known as jerdenn, will rethink his views on the necessity of CIA and NSA covert SIGINT after today's tragedy?
Actually, I spent much of today re-assessing several things in life, thank you.
I don't think it's right for people to invade my privacy, this is a tragedy but it's no excuse to let the government read my private info.
What if the arguement could be made that by invading your privacy, this tragedy could be prevented.
(Such an arguement will likely be made in the near future. For privacy advocates, now is a very important moment - Expect a landslide of legislation to improve America's SIGINT capabilities, both domestic and abroad.)
As an interesting aside, days like this are something that our NSA and CIA are here to prevent. They monitor communications traffic (SIGINT) and attempt to forcast terrorist like events. My question is:
How many slashdotters will rethink their views on the necessity of CIA and NSA covert SIGINT after today's tragedy?
For example, lets say we have a 600 Gig database of items that we want to run price changes on. The Java app can get it done but, it takes 13 hours. Meanwhile, the C++ app gets it done in 8 hours. This app will likely be around for years to come and it will run every night. So which is the better business choice?
This is actually a poor example - please spend some time studying n-tiered architechure.
In such an application, the bottleneck will likely be the Database server, and the speed at which it can perform table updates. The second bottleneck will likely be the network. The C++ or Java business layer will likely spend most of its time in a 'wait' state, waiting for the network or dataset results.
avoid everything from Microsoft Press or written by Microsoft employees
You are mostly correct - one notable exception is Steve McConnell, author of two very notable books - "Code Complete" and "Rapid Development". -jerdenn
Yup, I had the same problem with two hours charged for simultaneous access - they told me that they had a problem on their side, and refunded me the money. Of course, it took me 3 emails before they even paid attention to me.
Actually, I do config management, and I've heard the same thing...
#define __RANT I do know that VSS is probably the _worst_ SCC system currently available today - anyone using it for a project of any significant size and complexity should have their head checked.
Infra-red lights can be made just as small as any other pen-light. The US Army AN/PVS 7b night vision goggle contains an infra-red light source that is very small, yet will light up a sizeable field of vision.
Imaging [sic] you trying to argue that before you can get a speeding ticket, you would have to have a cop warn you and a speed limit sign would need to be on every block
Actually, in many places, that is the case - haven't you ever seen the "this area monitored by radar" or "your speed many be monitored" signs on the side of the road? In some areas, it is law that you be informed of this as well as many other factors during a speeding violation. As an ex-cop, I can tell you that speed enforcement is one of the great scams of the 20th century.
-jerdenn
I'm a current csoft customer, and I routinely experience outages of greater than 1 hour, with no notice or explanation posted (in fact, they rarely admit to an outage unless it lasts the whole day.)
The concept is cool, and I like the amount of control that csoft offers (csoftadm rocks), but all in all, csoft sucks.
A quote from their current motd:
Until users are moved to the
new servers, complaints go to/dev/null.
Nothing like telling your customers up front that complaints about their network will fall upon deaf ears.
Anyone know of anything like csoft that actually works?
The fact is, all this system does is record a set of identifying points on a finger
That's what fingerprint analysis is - comparing sets of points to other known points. That's how the FBI's fingerprint computers work. So, claiming that 'all the system does is record a set of indentifying points' is a little bit of understatement.
I just interviewed with this company - got to see their prototype MP3 / DVD / Web Portal boxes. They were sweet. It runs linux, has a hard drive, broadband ready (aka ethernet port), built in DVD player. It was purty.
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Richard Stallman pointed ou that since Linus Torvalds used some GNU programs in developing his OS this could be acknowledged by calling the new OS GNU/Linux. Nothing wrong with that!
Yup, and Symantec writes a lot of their software in Microsoft Visual C++, but we don't call it Microsoft / Norton AntiVirus, do we?
-jerdenn
I didn't detect any serious problems with our site, either while at work or at home. For my own personal curiosity, could you elaborate?
Sure - I am not the original poster, but I know that abcnews.com, along with just about every other american news source was totally unreachable from about 9:30am to 11am eastern. I tried from several POPS, and several ISPs in the Atlanta area. The Register even had a story on it. I could not get any news from any american source for about an hour - The only sites I could get news from were in europe. This was also the general consensus among several of my friends in other office locations around the USA
-jerdenn
Are you thinking clearly?
Quite, thank you.
What you are saying is that we should continue to be a belligerent nation and to protect ourselves from being retaliated against we should spend more money on the CIA and NSA?
Did I write this anywhere? No, I did not. I was commenting on the fact that many of the people who frequent this site have knee-jerk "Big Brother is out to get me" reactions to various three-letter-acronym agencies. These same agencies are the ones that are supposed to help protect from incidents such as the one we (the USA) experienced today.
We could avoid this by spending less money. We could stop supporting nations such as Israel, Turkey,(as a Greek American this one really pisses me off) Indonesia, etc. We could relegate our military to self defense instead of attacking Kosovo, Iraq, Libya, Vietnam, South Korea or any other nation our government chooses to use force on for political gain. Now things have come full circle and it is American who will feel the application of violence for politics. The NSA cannot prevent this sort of event(I doubt they would have a high prevention rate at all) absolutely as being a well behaved nation could.
Nowhere did I mention anything but SIGINT. You've developed your own little tirade here....
I wonder if a slashdotter known as jerdenn, will rethink his views on the necessity of CIA and NSA covert SIGINT after today's tragedy?
Actually, I spent much of today re-assessing several things in life, thank you.
-jerdenn
there isn't any known case of terrorists using strong encryption. [sic]
s .html
On the contrary - here are several examples:
http://www.cs.georgetown.edu/~denning/crypto/case
-jerdenn
I don't think it's right for people to invade my privacy, this is a tragedy but it's no excuse to let the government read my private info.
What if the arguement could be made that by invading your privacy, this tragedy could be prevented.
(Such an arguement will likely be made in the near future. For privacy advocates, now is a very important moment - Expect a landslide of legislation to improve America's SIGINT capabilities, both domestic and abroad.)
-jerdenn
As an interesting aside, days like this are something that our NSA and CIA are here to prevent. They monitor communications traffic (SIGINT) and attempt to forcast terrorist like events. My question is:
How many slashdotters will rethink their views on the necessity of CIA and NSA covert SIGINT after today's tragedy?
-jerdenn
Well spoken.
-jerdenn
For example, lets say we have a 600 Gig database of items that we want to run price changes on. The Java app can get it done but, it takes 13 hours. Meanwhile, the C++ app gets it done in 8 hours. This app will likely be around for years to come and it will run every night. So which is the better business choice?
This is actually a poor example - please spend some time studying n-tiered architechure.
In such an application, the bottleneck will likely be the Database server, and the speed at which it can perform table updates. The second bottleneck will likely be the network. The C++ or Java business layer will likely spend most of its time in a 'wait' state, waiting for the network or dataset results.
-jerdenn
Or perhaps he really is a spy, and the US Government is not making a big issue about it because they find the whole thing embarassing?
-jerdenn
avoid everything from Microsoft Press or written by Microsoft employees
You are mostly correct - one notable exception is Steve McConnell, author of two very notable books - "Code Complete" and "Rapid Development".
-jerdenn
Yup, I had the same problem with two hours charged for simultaneous access - they told me that they had a problem on their side, and refunded me the money. Of course, it took me 3 emails before they even paid attention to me.
-jerdenn
Actually, I do config management, and I've heard the same thing...
#define __RANT I do know that VSS is probably the _worst_ SCC system currently available today - anyone using it for a project of any significant size and complexity should have their head checked.
-jerdenn
SQL Server (code from IBM and Oracle)
Actually, MS SQL Server was branched from the Sybase SQL Server codebase. Sybase 11 and MS SQL Server 6.5 are remarkably similar.
-jerdenn
Infra-red lights can be made just as small as any other pen-light. The US Army AN/PVS 7b night vision goggle contains an infra-red light source that is very small, yet will light up a sizeable field of vision.
-jerdenn
what, is he like 90 years old now? he should be dying of old age soon, anyways.
-jerdenn
Imaging [sic] you trying to argue that before you can get a speeding ticket, you would have to have a cop warn you and a speed limit sign would need to be on every block
Actually, in many places, that is the case - haven't you ever seen the "this area monitored by radar" or "your speed many be monitored" signs on the side of the road? In some areas, it is law that you be informed of this as well as many other factors during a speeding violation. As an ex-cop, I can tell you that speed enforcement is one of the great scams of the 20th century.
-jerdenn
I'm a current csoft customer, and I routinely experience outages of greater than 1 hour, with no notice or explanation posted (in fact, they rarely admit to an outage unless it lasts the whole day.)
The concept is cool, and I like the amount of control that csoft offers (csoftadm rocks), but all in all, csoft sucks.
A quote from their current motd:
Nothing like telling your customers up front that complaints about their network will fall upon deaf ears.
Anyone know of anything like csoft that actually works?
-jerdenn
If PacMan had affected us as kids we'd be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to electronic music
Sounds like a rave to me...
-jerdenn
Isn't that the truth - Takedown was excruciatingly painful to read - even for a geek.
-jerdenn
-jerdenn
That's what fingerprint analysis is - comparing sets of points to other known points. That's how the FBI's fingerprint computers work. So, claiming that 'all the system does is record a set of indentifying points' is a little bit of understatement.
-jerdenn
While you are correct that HTTP is most commonly run over TCP/IP, please note that HTTP is completely separate from TCP/IP.
RFC 2068 (HTTP/1.1) - "HTTP only presumes a reliable transport; any protocol that provides such guarantees can be used"-jerdenn
Too much latency in satellite communication vs. fiberoptic.
-jerdenn
I just interviewed with this company - got to see their prototype MP3 / DVD / Web Portal boxes. They were sweet. It runs linux, has a hard drive, broadband ready (aka ethernet port), built in DVD player. It was purty.