A guy who co-authored a couple of books with Brian Kernigan and co-invented UTF-8 with Ken Thompson is entitled to his opinions, although after watching the OSCON speech, I'm inclined to believe he shoulder the lighter part of the burden on those projects.
Didn't Java's license agreement used to have a clause saying you wouldn't use it in air traffic control systems or medical devices or stuff like that? I'm not saying this is a Java issue, just using it as an example. Safety control systems, especially those where life and limb, as well as massive amounts of money, are at steak aren't the places to be cutting corners and using commodity products rather than purpose-built and well-tested systems.
No, I don't know who he is, nor do I actually care. I'm not a Linux user. However, my post was directed at blogs in general, not this guy in particular.
Why would someone name a car "little boobs" --- i don't get it? Isn't that almost as bad as trying to sell a nova ('no va' -- doesn't go in Spanish) in Mexico?
... they were reminded that the user is the biggest security threat to any system. Upon considering their market share they realized how potentially disastrous this would be once anyone with a phone book figured it out.
Isn't there generally assumed to be difference between "vocation" and what one studies in university? Maybe that's less true for something such as engineering, where you're not exactly going to be very far from the shop floor for most of your career (so to speak) than it is for, say, someone who majors in accounting or history, but still. I consider automechanics to be a "vocation" where as automotive engineering, not so much. One is a vocation, the other a profession.
In my case, I was a computer nerd in high school, worked at a physics lab as a programmer upon graduation in an internship position, was bored with freshman computer science, and switched to the English and Classics departments. I studied what I wanted to study, now I'm back in computers for the money. I'm in system administration and network "engineering", among other things. I'm not a 'real' engineer, scientist or anything like that. I think I've got the best of both worlds, but I could be wrong. If I had let money rule my studies, I'd have been un-happy, and if I had let "doing what i love" to rule my career choice, I'd be broke on the side of the street living out a less-than-fun version of 'On The Road'.
If Coke were to give their employees free Coke just to increase their own market share and make their product look like it was doing better, then that would also be a cynical move. Basically forcing 90,000 to have the phone, whether they use it or not, just to make it not look like as big a failure as the Kin, is what's cynical -- not giving free schwag to employees. But then, its perhaps not the move itself which is cynically motivated, but the summary. Not that such a thing would ever happen...
Blocking incoming traffic that isn't in a TCP session already associated with an egress port is not the same thing as filtering internet access for their customers. It's responsible security administration. Besides, how many of their customers do you think even want to have any communication with the RIAA anyway? I'd wager not a lot.
and I bet the Pirate Party and the network engineers and system administrators that they hire will be at least smart enough to straight filter, either at the packet level at the border, or application level on the mail servers, any traffic coming from IP ranges known to belong to the RIAA, MPAA, or constituent organizations. That's what I'd do. Or segment abuse@ off on its own area, let it take the hammering, and spit all the addresses back via feedback loops and get their email black listed. Or... run the mail server on OpenBSD, where spamd is linked to pf, and accept the incoming connections from their mass-mailer at 1bps, thus backlogging the sender and screwing them over (disk i/o issues, etc). Fun stuff like that.
Yeah, I'm not sure that NSA's Information Assurance Directorate advertises on Monster. That seems like it would be counter-productive. I think there are more jobs (certainly more than 11), but they're the ones that either you have to go looking for SPECIFICALLY and not just casually come across, or where they come to you.
I heard the story on NPR yesterday morning as I was driving to work, and it sounded like they were counting in all the government, intelligence and military positions, too -- not just corporate positions. And they're not going to fill the black-bag gigs or core routing positions at tier1 ISPs, or the blue-badge jobs, with H1B visas.
I think another part of the problem is that a lot of the people who have the skills and knowledge to do this type of work very well are also the same people who don't particularly support the organizations that do it, often times because of wildly inaccurate assumptions fed by crazy Hollywood story lines.
I don't think it's a "disfunction" [sic] to not actually care what operating system other people are using. It's not my business. I think that's the difference -- I'm not 15 any more, and I don't look at the operating system or hardware choices that I or anyone else make as a political statement.
I use Mac and Windows at work because the user interface for our product has Mac and Windows clients that I need to test. Our product is built on FreeBSD, but I also have a number of Linux and vanilla FreeBSD servers set up to do stuff. At home I have a MacBook Pro with Windows, FreeBSD and OpenBSD images in VMWare. I also have a PC running FreeBSD as a server in a network test lab.
I'm sorry if I don't make "software freedom" a top priority. When I was a teenager, yes, my identity was largely tied to "the movement," but in retrospect, yes, I think the difference between "RMS free and free for non-commercial use" is basically a minor technical detail.
I think a lot of it stems from the fact that GNU and the FSF are socio-political in nature, and happen to be involved with technology almost as an aside. Your UID is low enough you should remember that Gnome was started because KDE didn't meet the definition of "free software" due to Qt's licensing. Years later, the KDE/Qt issue has pretty much been resolved, yet there are such deep fissures the old days, that it's just ridiculous. But that's the same mentality of "Widows is bad, you should use Linux" or "Microsoft is evil, you should use Linux." Most people don't want or need to be using Linux and it's asinine to continue to push it on them. If you have valid technical reasons, then Linux or BSD are great. If you're just trying to "stick it to the man," then there are likely much better uses of your time and effort.
Are the same people claiming that Childs is some sort of mis-understood hero the same people who had "Free Kevin" schwag back in the day? If not, I'm not sure I get the mentality, because from what I know of the situation (maybe not enough), he did sort of grossly overstep the bounds. Maybe he didn't deserve jail time, but I'm not about to go emulating my career after him.
The story, on a Chinese website (.cn domain) is reporting that the US is reporting that China shot down the satellite. I'm not sure how reliable any of this really is.
If you're new to using computers, chances are you don't have a lot of highly technical friends -- but they'll probably have some familiarity with Windows, so you can ask them for help. The new user is more likely to go to the store and buy Encarta on CD, and when they take it home and it doesn't work in Linux, then they're going to be confused and/or pissed off. There is more to "using a computer" than hitting keys and clicking mice, and that's something that often gets lost in these discussions. When your issue is wifi compatability, how are you going to debug your issue without familiarity with A) web search, and B) at least some idea of what question you need to be searching for to get relevant information. The barrier to entry is a lot lower for J Random User who just uses Windows like "everyone else" than the guy who wants to be different for some, probably misguided, reason.
Would it not be an option to send robotic construction workers to the site ahead of time to begin construction of the shelter? Or, send two separate ships, one that just has cargo on board? That way, the ship that carries the people would need to carry less, and therefor the weight that would be allocated to kit could be allocated to slightly thicker walls. But, in typical Slashdot fashion, I'm just putting forth something that seems reasonable, substituting what I believe to be common sense for the engineering degree that I don't have.
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Actually, we immediately did nothing but say "if you don't do what we want, we're gunna roast you!" for a month. And the Taliban refused to give up Bin Laden. Then they assassinated the commander of the Northern Alliance, which had been fighting the Taliban since they first showed up from Pakistan, and we had hopes that, perhaps with a bit of CIA help, the Northern Alliance could do the job for us -- it being their country and all -- and that we could avoid the whole situation.
Clearly, after their leader was murdered, the Northern Alliance needed help in their war, and the Taliban weren't going to co-operate. Since in mid-October, weeks after 9/11, we finally got around to spending some ordinance. It's not like we just jumped on B-2 flights to nuke the crap out of Afghanistan or anything like that. Not exactly the same thing.
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A guy who co-authored a couple of books with Brian Kernigan and co-invented UTF-8 with Ken Thompson is entitled to his opinions, although after watching the OSCON speech, I'm inclined to believe he shoulder the lighter part of the burden on those projects.
Didn't Java's license agreement used to have a clause saying you wouldn't use it in air traffic control systems or medical devices or stuff like that? I'm not saying this is a Java issue, just using it as an example. Safety control systems, especially those where life and limb, as well as massive amounts of money, are at steak aren't the places to be cutting corners and using commodity products rather than purpose-built and well-tested systems.
No, I don't know who he is, nor do I actually care. I'm not a Linux user. However, my post was directed at blogs in general, not this guy in particular.
Why would someone name a car "little boobs" --- i don't get it? Isn't that almost as bad as trying to sell a nova ('no va' -- doesn't go in Spanish) in Mexico?
Isn't that what blogging is for?
... they were reminded that the user is the biggest security threat to any system. Upon considering their market share they realized how potentially disastrous this would be once anyone with a phone book figured it out.
isn't "crowdsourcing" business decisions kind of like... communism?
Isn't there generally assumed to be difference between "vocation" and what one studies in university? Maybe that's less true for something such as engineering, where you're not exactly going to be very far from the shop floor for most of your career (so to speak) than it is for, say, someone who majors in accounting or history, but still. I consider automechanics to be a "vocation" where as automotive engineering, not so much. One is a vocation, the other a profession.
In my case, I was a computer nerd in high school, worked at a physics lab as a programmer upon graduation in an internship position, was bored with freshman computer science, and switched to the English and Classics departments. I studied what I wanted to study, now I'm back in computers for the money. I'm in system administration and network "engineering", among other things. I'm not a 'real' engineer, scientist or anything like that. I think I've got the best of both worlds, but I could be wrong. If I had let money rule my studies, I'd have been un-happy, and if I had let "doing what i love" to rule my career choice, I'd be broke on the side of the street living out a less-than-fun version of 'On The Road'.
what the hell does Harry Potter have to do with Isaac Asimov?
If Coke were to give their employees free Coke just to increase their own market share and make their product look like it was doing better, then that would also be a cynical move. Basically forcing 90,000 to have the phone, whether they use it or not, just to make it not look like as big a failure as the Kin, is what's cynical -- not giving free schwag to employees. But then, its perhaps not the move itself which is cynically motivated, but the summary. Not that such a thing would ever happen...
Blocking incoming traffic that isn't in a TCP session already associated with an egress port is not the same thing as filtering internet access for their customers. It's responsible security administration. Besides, how many of their customers do you think even want to have any communication with the RIAA anyway? I'd wager not a lot.
as a system administrator at a web hosting company who had to monitor abuse@ and all the crap that was associated with that... yes. yes i have.
and I bet the Pirate Party and the network engineers and system administrators that they hire will be at least smart enough to straight filter, either at the packet level at the border, or application level on the mail servers, any traffic coming from IP ranges known to belong to the RIAA, MPAA, or constituent organizations. That's what I'd do. Or segment abuse@ off on its own area, let it take the hammering, and spit all the addresses back via feedback loops and get their email black listed. Or... run the mail server on OpenBSD, where spamd is linked to pf, and accept the incoming connections from their mass-mailer at 1bps, thus backlogging the sender and screwing them over (disk i/o issues, etc). Fun stuff like that.
Yeah, I'm not sure that NSA's Information Assurance Directorate advertises on Monster. That seems like it would be counter-productive. I think there are more jobs (certainly more than 11), but they're the ones that either you have to go looking for SPECIFICALLY and not just casually come across, or where they come to you.
I heard the story on NPR yesterday morning as I was driving to work, and it sounded like they were counting in all the government, intelligence and military positions, too -- not just corporate positions. And they're not going to fill the black-bag gigs or core routing positions at tier1 ISPs, or the blue-badge jobs, with H1B visas.
I think another part of the problem is that a lot of the people who have the skills and knowledge to do this type of work very well are also the same people who don't particularly support the organizations that do it, often times because of wildly inaccurate assumptions fed by crazy Hollywood story lines.
Gigity.
you know, I would say "who would be stupid enough to order pot over sms?," but that's the sort of question that really just answers itself.
I don't think it's a "disfunction" [sic] to not actually care what operating system other people are using. It's not my business. I think that's the difference -- I'm not 15 any more, and I don't look at the operating system or hardware choices that I or anyone else make as a political statement.
I use Mac and Windows at work because the user interface for our product has Mac and Windows clients that I need to test. Our product is built on FreeBSD, but I also have a number of Linux and vanilla FreeBSD servers set up to do stuff. At home I have a MacBook Pro with Windows, FreeBSD and OpenBSD images in VMWare. I also have a PC running FreeBSD as a server in a network test lab.
I'm sorry if I don't make "software freedom" a top priority. When I was a teenager, yes, my identity was largely tied to "the movement," but in retrospect, yes, I think the difference between "RMS free and free for non-commercial use" is basically a minor technical detail.
like "snitching," "informing," "dropping dimes," etc?
I think a lot of it stems from the fact that GNU and the FSF are socio-political in nature, and happen to be involved with technology almost as an aside. Your UID is low enough you should remember that Gnome was started because KDE didn't meet the definition of "free software" due to Qt's licensing. Years later, the KDE/Qt issue has pretty much been resolved, yet there are such deep fissures the old days, that it's just ridiculous. But that's the same mentality of "Widows is bad, you should use Linux" or "Microsoft is evil, you should use Linux." Most people don't want or need to be using Linux and it's asinine to continue to push it on them. If you have valid technical reasons, then Linux or BSD are great. If you're just trying to "stick it to the man," then there are likely much better uses of your time and effort.
Are the same people claiming that Childs is some sort of mis-understood hero the same people who had "Free Kevin" schwag back in the day? If not, I'm not sure I get the mentality, because from what I know of the situation (maybe not enough), he did sort of grossly overstep the bounds. Maybe he didn't deserve jail time, but I'm not about to go emulating my career after him.
The story, on a Chinese website (.cn domain) is reporting that the US is reporting that China shot down the satellite. I'm not sure how reliable any of this really is.
If you're new to using computers, chances are you don't have a lot of highly technical friends -- but they'll probably have some familiarity with Windows, so you can ask them for help. The new user is more likely to go to the store and buy Encarta on CD, and when they take it home and it doesn't work in Linux, then they're going to be confused and/or pissed off. There is more to "using a computer" than hitting keys and clicking mice, and that's something that often gets lost in these discussions. When your issue is wifi compatability, how are you going to debug your issue without familiarity with A) web search, and B) at least some idea of what question you need to be searching for to get relevant information. The barrier to entry is a lot lower for J Random User who just uses Windows like "everyone else" than the guy who wants to be different for some, probably misguided, reason.
Would it not be an option to send robotic construction workers to the site ahead of time to begin construction of the shelter? Or, send two separate ships, one that just has cargo on board? That way, the ship that carries the people would need to carry less, and therefor the weight that would be allocated to kit could be allocated to slightly thicker walls. But, in typical Slashdot fashion, I'm just putting forth something that seems reasonable, substituting what I believe to be common sense for the engineering degree that I don't have.
Actually, we immediately did nothing but say "if you don't do what we want, we're gunna roast you!" for a month. And the Taliban refused to give up Bin Laden. Then they assassinated the commander of the Northern Alliance, which had been fighting the Taliban since they first showed up from Pakistan, and we had hopes that, perhaps with a bit of CIA help, the Northern Alliance could do the job for us -- it being their country and all -- and that we could avoid the whole situation.
Clearly, after their leader was murdered, the Northern Alliance needed help in their war, and the Taliban weren't going to co-operate. Since in mid-October, weeks after 9/11, we finally got around to spending some ordinance. It's not like we just jumped on B-2 flights to nuke the crap out of Afghanistan or anything like that. Not exactly the same thing.
Maybe someone at the Washington Post leaked it to them beforehand?