Thanks for the link. I've been planning on checking out the water heater's setting but always seem to forget when I get home. A timer would be even better. Even though my wife is home during the day she doesn't use hot water very often. Maybe once a day for dishes, once a week for laundry, and almost never for showers (the water's so warm to start off with).
Usually, here on Slashdot, we bash companies that get hax0r3d and should have known better. "That's what they get for having lame security" and "They must be hiring some real dope heads."
So, here we are, with a company that releases some drivers that let you do something you couldn't do before. Instead of bashing on the game company that made a program with an obvious game-related security flaw, we decide to bash those who made the drivers.
My my, that does seem wierd, doesn't it? We should be banging the heads of the game developers and telling them to get it right next time so there are fewer cheaters. We all know that removing the drivers to prevent cheating still leaves the gapping hole in the game.
Boo to Asus and all those "Waaa! My fun is ruined!" whiners.
Hurray to anyone that lets those game companies know that they did a lousy job and should do better next time.
When I use to play paintball we had several variations of the game. One of the coolest was Terminator. One individual was dressed up in a heavy duty suit (like a chem suit, or coveralls), a military grade helmet and given a mondo bad ass semi-auto paint gun with all the extra paint balls he/she could carry.
The rules were simple: the Terminator can't run and you can only kill it by hitting a small dot on the helmet located near the forehead.
The terminator was then unleashed into a game where two teams were sparring for the flag, or ground, or elimination. The Terminator's job was to kill everyone.
It was a freakin' blast. There's nothing greater than being in the middle of a full out battle with the other team, trying to outflank, sniper, and rush their position and have this Terminator show up and start laying down some paint.
I could see this 'cheat driver' being used this way. One dude loads up the driver and is out to blast everyone away, regardless of team. The other teams have to not only deal with one another but stay one step ahead of the 'cheat driver' user. Sure would test your skills to the limit.
I don't have much expertise in this area, just a simple observation.
By parents have two solar panels on their house (Phoenix). These panels power their water heater for them. The water heater is not on a schedule - the water is always being heated. Their house is about 2,000 square feet. The entire house has vaulted ceilings.
My house has no solar panels and is about 1,500 square feet. I have only two rooms that are vaulted (living room and master bedroom). I'm also in Phoenix.
Our electricity bills are the exact same.
What they save in heating the water with solar power allows them to cool 500+ more square feet. I estimate that the water heater represents about 1/4 to a 1/3 of my electricity bill.
After working for 3 years on mixed Netware-WinNT 4.0 networks I went to work for a company that produces directory-centric applications. They scooped me up because I could set up complex networks and use their applications. It's been great - I still get to be a network admin (gotta set up and tear down the testing networks) without the whining users. I also get to be in on the development of new features and bring a 'user point of view' to applications. Engineers are great but they (most) don't know how to manage a network like an admin does. Some of the features they want to build in to a product look good on paper but have absolutely no use.
Learning the QA methodoligies has been easy. There are several good books out there. They're at home right now so I don't have the titles available. I've found that even the 'older' books, those written in the late 70's and 80's, are just as good as the newer books.
The biggest pluses - no pager, no 'I forgot my password', and lots of time to learn ALL the new technologies.
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I think Ford did do their research on 2600. They know these guys won't give in just because they receive a strongly lettered word to change the link.
They decided to cut to the real issue and just drag 2600 into court.
I hope 2600 looses. There are better things to do with the net than piss in Ford's coffee pot.
Sounds like a cop-out to me (2600's cop out, not yours). Some people just seem to be out to pick a fight, and while I stand behind 2600 for their work against the RIAA, this seems ridiculous.
Ford has every right to just throw the book at them. I sure would. If you don't show a smattering of common sense and respect for others then you deserve to be dragged through the mud.
When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to
distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the
software or use pieces of it in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things.
The purpose of the GPL is to remove that $$$ constraint in relation to code. As I said above, money does not become the guiding rule to producing, using and sharing code. It shifts the guiding rule to FREEDOM not PRICE.
In other words, the GPL discusses FREEDOM, not PRICE. Mundie wants only PRICE discussed, not FREEDOM. Why is this obvious? Because companies are in existence to discuss and build upon PRICE, not FREEDOM. Companies could care less about freedom, and so could Mundie. The GPL however gives you the ability to shift the cares and concerns back to freedom.
What I'm refering to is the fact that I judge the success of my work on how well I do my job, not how much it cost me to produce it. A working tool for $100 is not a viable replacement for a broken tool that only cost $50.
Like everyone else, I expect a paycheck at the end of the day. I take more pride it how well I do my work than how much I make.
Mundie is also stating the obvioius. He thinks in this pattern:
Idea=>Product=>Money
Those who are generally involved with opensource think along this line:
Idea=>Product=>Task Done Properly
Money doesn't enter the equation. To keep the money out of the equation, or rather, to keep it from being the sole rule that define Idea and Product, the GPL was created.
Of course Mundie has a problem with this. His sole duty at work is to make money. The general idea behind OpenSource is to do something properly, efficiently, etc. They are widly different ideas.
Of course, everyone else is going to have a slightly different spin on this. When I create something here at work I take marvel in it's simplicity, creativity, ability to do what it was designed for, etc. Mundie marvels at the number of $$$ made.
You're right. After releasing statements that refute Microsoft's arguments, we should have sent a pro-GPL speech to the same CEO/CIO bunch. You can'd play second fiddle to Microsoft and win. We'll have to send the message to the CEO/CIO that OpenSource is good and why. Without that the CEO/CIO won't listen to us because we never talked in their direction.
Why? Because humans, from day one, like to form groups. It just seems to be in our nature. There must be an in group, and out group, etc. It starts at birth (older brother or sister missing all the extra attention) and goes on throughout life in everything we do: car, clothes, skin color, political alignment, sports, IQ, career, house style, yard display, etc etc etc.
You will never get away from it. Even if you bring together 20 people who have the exact same thoughts and ideas they will somehow, someway, form groups that not everyone will fit into.
All that happened here was that each of those listed above forgot their special group (linux, OpenSource, GPL, etc) and formed a new group to attack a common enemy. When that enemy is beaten or destroyed they will quickly fall back into their respective groups to wildly hack about at everyone and everything.
I don't know what you're talking about. Getting married was the best thing that happened to me.
Of course, I have a wife who understands that some days I just need 30-60 minutes alone after work to play a game, take a nap, or read a book or magazine. (No, I'm not saying you have a bad wife/husband - please don't take offense)
In addition to replacing a single item, having seperate boxes allows you to send one of them to the repair shop and still enjoy the benefits of all the other devices. It would really suck to loose e-mail, phone, radio, games, movies, web, stock reports, irc and music just becuase the damn power cord whas chewed up by the cat.
Tisk. Tisk. With that attitude you're not going to get very far in life.
The project is sponsored by DARPA, the same people that brought you the Internet.
The military is interested in these little scorpions for recon, not weapons deployment.
On the lighter side of things, they'd make excellent lawn mowers. Since the scorpion will use a sensor to determine if an object can be scaled or should be avoided based on it's height, you could use one of these robots to crawl around the yard and clip grass that measures above a certian point.
I think what he's trying to get at is that setting up a honeypot to deceive crackers from your real network is not a viable security action. I can see the managers now thinking "Hey, if we set up a place for the hacker dudes to play, then they'll leave our real network alone."
I do agree with you, honeypots are a great resources for studying crackers and their techniques, but they are not a means to securing a network no more than giving druggies a "Drug Park" to shot up in solves the drug problem.
First and foremost, if you bring a problem to someone's attention you should offer a solution. Saying "patch it" is not a solution. Offer up some websites, details, etc. Look at it from their side - no matter what your intentions, if you simply bring them a problem and dump it in their lap you are a whiner.
Second, if you really care about the data and the security of the network then you should volunteer to help patch it. You can't run to the professor's supervisor because you'll still end up looking like a whiner.
Third, stay anonymous when you notice some else isn't doing their job correctly. It's the only way to nudge someone into action in regards to their job duties but not embarass them or break any trust/respect you have with them.
There's a big difference between an individual having a genetic test run so they can plan their lifesytle...and a corporation planning your lifestyle for you based on $$$.
These tests were being performed for one simple reason: to save the company money. If they were being offered to individuals as a service, a free service, to help the employee make an informed decision about possibly changing their line of work yet still remaining employeed at the company, then hey, that would be great. But I doubt any workplace would have such undying devotion to their employees - even our Pie in the Sky tech jobs.
Yeah, and you must be one of the asshole football jocks that just has to go around and try to put everyone in their place.
Man, or should I say boy, it's people like you that burn a hole in me. You just have to go around and stick your nose up at everyone else. You just have to prove that you're so much better than the rest of us.
Hey, fella - go way. We don't need your stinkin' aristocratic attitude around here.
I'd have to disagree with you, in at least one specific case. QWest kept calling us and offering free hook up on all kinds of extras: call waiting, three way calling, etc. After about the 6th time my wife told them to never call us again concerning services and place us on the do not call list. A few weeks later we received a letter confirming what she had said, that we had been placed on the do not call list, and that they would maintain that information for 10 years. We haven't received a call from them for months now.
Hence there is little violence in European countries.
Do you have some data or links to back this up? I'm not asking this because I disagree with your or think I smell a rat. I ask becuase I'm curious just how low the violence is over there. From what US media shows me Europe has lots of rampant car chases through downtown and riots at soccer games (yes, I know the media isn't painting a true picture).
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That takes time. That takes money. We aren't in the market to inform people, we are simply in the market to sell a product. All we want the customer to do is give us money, not learn a new skillset, or be happy, or improve the value of their home.
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Thanks for the link. I've been planning on checking out the water heater's setting but always seem to forget when I get home. A timer would be even better. Even though my wife is home during the day she doesn't use hot water very often. Maybe once a day for dishes, once a week for laundry, and almost never for showers (the water's so warm to start off with).
Usually, here on Slashdot, we bash companies that get hax0r3d and should have known better. "That's what they get for having lame security" and "They must be hiring some real dope heads."
So, here we are, with a company that releases some drivers that let you do something you couldn't do before. Instead of bashing on the game company that made a program with an obvious game-related security flaw, we decide to bash those who made the drivers.
My my, that does seem wierd, doesn't it? We should be banging the heads of the game developers and telling them to get it right next time so there are fewer cheaters. We all know that removing the drivers to prevent cheating still leaves the gapping hole in the game.
Boo to Asus and all those "Waaa! My fun is ruined!" whiners.
Hurray to anyone that lets those game companies know that they did a lousy job and should do better next time.
The rules were simple: the Terminator can't run and you can only kill it by hitting a small dot on the helmet located near the forehead.
The terminator was then unleashed into a game where two teams were sparring for the flag, or ground, or elimination. The Terminator's job was to kill everyone.
It was a freakin' blast. There's nothing greater than being in the middle of a full out battle with the other team, trying to outflank, sniper, and rush their position and have this Terminator show up and start laying down some paint.
I could see this 'cheat driver' being used this way. One dude loads up the driver and is out to blast everyone away, regardless of team. The other teams have to not only deal with one another but stay one step ahead of the 'cheat driver' user. Sure would test your skills to the limit.
By parents have two solar panels on their house (Phoenix). These panels power their water heater for them. The water heater is not on a schedule - the water is always being heated. Their house is about 2,000 square feet. The entire house has vaulted ceilings.
My house has no solar panels and is about 1,500 square feet. I have only two rooms that are vaulted (living room and master bedroom). I'm also in Phoenix.
Our electricity bills are the exact same.
What they save in heating the water with solar power allows them to cool 500+ more square feet. I estimate that the water heater represents about 1/4 to a 1/3 of my electricity bill.
Learning the QA methodoligies has been easy. There are several good books out there. They're at home right now so I don't have the titles available. I've found that even the 'older' books, those written in the late 70's and 80's, are just as good as the newer books.
The biggest pluses - no pager, no 'I forgot my password', and lots of time to learn ALL the new technologies.
They decided to cut to the real issue and just drag 2600 into court.
I hope 2600 looses. There are better things to do with the net than piss in Ford's coffee pot.
Ford has every right to just throw the book at them. I sure would. If you don't show a smattering of common sense and respect for others then you deserve to be dragged through the mud.
When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things.
The purpose of the GPL is to remove that $$$ constraint in relation to code. As I said above, money does not become the guiding rule to producing, using and sharing code. It shifts the guiding rule to FREEDOM not PRICE.
In other words, the GPL discusses FREEDOM, not PRICE. Mundie wants only PRICE discussed, not FREEDOM. Why is this obvious? Because companies are in existence to discuss and build upon PRICE, not FREEDOM. Companies could care less about freedom, and so could Mundie. The GPL however gives you the ability to shift the cares and concerns back to freedom.
Like everyone else, I expect a paycheck at the end of the day. I take more pride it how well I do my work than how much I make.
Idea=>Product=>Money
Those who are generally involved with opensource think along this line:
Idea=>Product=>Task Done Properly
Money doesn't enter the equation. To keep the money out of the equation, or rather, to keep it from being the sole rule that define Idea and Product, the GPL was created.
Of course Mundie has a problem with this. His sole duty at work is to make money. The general idea behind OpenSource is to do something properly, efficiently, etc. They are widly different ideas.
Of course, everyone else is going to have a slightly different spin on this. When I create something here at work I take marvel in it's simplicity, creativity, ability to do what it was designed for, etc. Mundie marvels at the number of $$$ made.
You're right. After releasing statements that refute Microsoft's arguments, we should have sent a pro-GPL speech to the same CEO/CIO bunch. You can'd play second fiddle to Microsoft and win. We'll have to send the message to the CEO/CIO that OpenSource is good and why. Without that the CEO/CIO won't listen to us because we never talked in their direction.
You will never get away from it. Even if you bring together 20 people who have the exact same thoughts and ideas they will somehow, someway, form groups that not everyone will fit into.
All that happened here was that each of those listed above forgot their special group (linux, OpenSource, GPL, etc) and formed a new group to attack a common enemy. When that enemy is beaten or destroyed they will quickly fall back into their respective groups to wildly hack about at everyone and everything.
Naah. Sounds like you simply lost your ability to let your imagination run free.
Of course, I have a wife who understands that some days I just need 30-60 minutes alone after work to play a game, take a nap, or read a book or magazine. (No, I'm not saying you have a bad wife/husband - please don't take offense)
In addition to replacing a single item, having seperate boxes allows you to send one of them to the repair shop and still enjoy the benefits of all the other devices. It would really suck to loose e-mail, phone, radio, games, movies, web, stock reports, irc and music just becuase the damn power cord whas chewed up by the cat.
The project is sponsored by DARPA, the same people that brought you the Internet.
The military is interested in these little scorpions for recon, not weapons deployment.
On the lighter side of things, they'd make excellent lawn mowers. Since the scorpion will use a sensor to determine if an object can be scaled or should be avoided based on it's height, you could use one of these robots to crawl around the yard and clip grass that measures above a certian point.
I do agree with you, honeypots are a great resources for studying crackers and their techniques, but they are not a means to securing a network no more than giving druggies a "Drug Park" to shot up in solves the drug problem.
Second, if you really care about the data and the security of the network then you should volunteer to help patch it. You can't run to the professor's supervisor because you'll still end up looking like a whiner.
Third, stay anonymous when you notice some else isn't doing their job correctly. It's the only way to nudge someone into action in regards to their job duties but not embarass them or break any trust/respect you have with them.
There's a big difference between an individual having a genetic test run so they can plan their lifesytle...and a corporation planning your lifestyle for you based on $$$.
These tests were being performed for one simple reason: to save the company money. If they were being offered to individuals as a service, a free service, to help the employee make an informed decision about possibly changing their line of work yet still remaining employeed at the company, then hey, that would be great. But I doubt any workplace would have such undying devotion to their employees - even our Pie in the Sky tech jobs.
Man, or should I say boy, it's people like you that burn a hole in me. You just have to go around and stick your nose up at everyone else. You just have to prove that you're so much better than the rest of us.
Hey, fella - go way. We don't need your stinkin' aristocratic attitude around here.
I'd have to disagree with you, in at least one specific case. QWest kept calling us and offering free hook up on all kinds of extras: call waiting, three way calling, etc. After about the 6th time my wife told them to never call us again concerning services and place us on the do not call list. A few weeks later we received a letter confirming what she had said, that we had been placed on the do not call list, and that they would maintain that information for 10 years. We haven't received a call from them for months now.
Do you have some data or links to back this up? I'm not asking this because I disagree with your or think I smell a rat. I ask becuase I'm curious just how low the violence is over there. From what US media shows me Europe has lots of rampant car chases through downtown and riots at soccer games (yes, I know the media isn't painting a true picture).
The mirror is bordered with stock options - lots of them.
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That takes time. That takes money. We aren't in the market to inform people, we are simply in the market to sell a product. All we want the customer to do is give us money, not learn a new skillset, or be happy, or improve the value of their home.
We want their money - brainwash them with commercials.
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