Note the heavy use of the word "manage". These folk have already assumed what their sensors are going to tell them. I wonder whether the sensors will be allowed to disagree. With all that management it's unlikely that any of us will.
Exactly! That's why one of the important events of the process is when we've made sure the client understands the Residual Risk and is willing to accept it.
how can you possibly prove that their provisioning system is secure
You can't; nobody can. "Prove" and "secure" in the same sentence is almost guaranteed nonsense. If you'd like, I can recommend some books that can teach you basic security concepts.
Keeping that thought going...in France, when the PC boots up in Windows 7, the first thing the user will do is uninstall the hated IE. Then, to get Firefox, he'll just browse over to....
That's a vital point. IE's underlying APIs are published and available to developers. There is no way to know how many applications (in addition to Update) would be broken by completely removing IE.
It sounds like Microsoft has decided to go along with the gag. The EU regulators, not one of which can do arithmetic with their hands in their pockets, seem to believe that there can be only one browser, one media player, etc. in Windows, and that having these installed prevents the user from installing anything else and making it the default.
The EU is threatening, as a last resort, to force Microsoft to make it possible for users to uninstall IE so that they can install something else and Microsoft's response is "No problem, it's done". This leaves the EU with its big threat defused.
Of course no one is going to bother uninstalling Microsoft applications--they'll just install competitive apps and click "Yes" when they are asked whether they should be the default--which is what they can do now.
If they do uninstall IE, a lot of people will be in for a bit of a shock when they click Help on one of the many applications that loads IE to present HTML help files.
Actually, you start by checking the list length. If it's zero, you do whatever is spec'd for an empty list. If the length is non-zero and the pointer is zero, that's a wtf fatal error.
If you can't do memory-mapped I/O or threads in standard C, then the standard has drifted too far from the original intent which included "If you can do it in assembler, you can do it in C."
I guess I should hang on to my old copy of bcc, just in case.
You are confusing C with...well, I'm not sure what...Haskell, maybe? In many cases with C, the sequence of events is as important as the end result. C code can have side-effects.
C is not an expression evaluator, it's a control language; A && B is an instruction to copy A and if it is non-zero, replace the copy with B, in that order. A++ says copy A and then increment it.
Most of the people on slashdot can tell you why that's important and a few of them have; there are more than a few scenarios where not getting the sequence right would have undesirable effects even if the returned value was correct. Look up memory-mapped I/O.
With all the sturm und drang at the start of TFA, I expected an enumeration of the hinted-at "perils" of genetic selection. I was wondering how far they would need to stretch the fabric of the universe to find some.
Before someone else brings them up, let me say it: Eugenics Wars. We all know that science fiction comes true. We don't know much about the Eugenics Wars, but we know they will be awful and that they will be the result of genetic manipulation. So be afraid, be very afraid.
In a certain respect, I do understand. I've spent about half my working life up to my elbows in code and wires. Although my view of Dilbert's Heroes (imaginary and real) is that they are twits who will never get out of the server room because their understanding of why they have jobs at all is seriously flawed, they see themselves as standing between the light and the darkness.
A number of studies have found that the less competent someone is, the bigger their overestimate of their own competence. I've been in a lot of server rooms where that is the operative case. I've also been in a lot where the admins and developers actually knew what they were doing and, more important, why. I'd call them Antiberts.
Odd. I've worked for startups, small companies, mid-sized companies and one very large one, and I would rate them in the opposite order, worst to best. -And I never quite got Dilbert.
Goes to show that the business world is a varied place where stereotypes don't work very well.
Provenzano abandoned this code after Giuffre's arrest, and this is when investigators believe he turned to a Biblical code. Since his imprisonment, he has been given a clean copy of the Bible, which he reads every day, annotating and underscoring.
Priceless! If I were stuck in jail, I too would try to find a way to drive my jailors crazy.
A semi-smart criminal will be using e.g./. to post messages
Of course! That's it! And here I thought all these weird, incomprehensible AC posts were coming from pimple-faced teenagers with half an education and no life outside of sitting in the dark keying stream-of-consciousness babble into Slashdot. Now it all makes sense! It's a code of some kind.
Slashdot Mirror
Nokia N800.
Handheld Linux machine (the nerd's iPod). Small enough to go in a pocket. Mozilla browser. Big bright 800x480 screen. WiFi. ~$200 if you can find one.
Note the heavy use of the word "manage". These folk have already assumed what their sensors are going to tell them. I wonder whether the sensors will be allowed to disagree. With all that management it's unlikely that any of us will.
Exactly! That's why one of the important events of the process is when we've made sure the client understands the Residual Risk and is willing to accept it.
Nice of you to include the NRA.
how can you possibly prove that their provisioning system is secure
You can't; nobody can. "Prove" and "secure" in the same sentence is almost guaranteed nonsense. If you'd like, I can recommend some books that can teach you basic security concepts.
Keeping that thought going...in France, when the PC boots up in Windows 7, the first thing the user will do is uninstall the hated IE. Then, to get Firefox, he'll just browse over to ....
That's a vital point. IE's underlying APIs are published and available to developers. There is no way to know how many applications (in addition to Update) would be broken by completely removing IE.
It sounds like Microsoft has decided to go along with the gag. The EU regulators, not one of which can do arithmetic with their hands in their pockets, seem to believe that there can be only one browser, one media player, etc. in Windows, and that having these installed prevents the user from installing anything else and making it the default.
The EU is threatening, as a last resort, to force Microsoft to make it possible for users to uninstall IE so that they can install something else and Microsoft's response is "No problem, it's done". This leaves the EU with its big threat defused.
Of course no one is going to bother uninstalling Microsoft applications--they'll just install competitive apps and click "Yes" when they are asked whether they should be the default--which is what they can do now.
If they do uninstall IE, a lot of people will be in for a bit of a shock when they click Help on one of the many applications that loads IE to present HTML help files.
Actually, you start by checking the list length. If it's zero, you do whatever is spec'd for an empty list. If the length is non-zero and the pointer is zero, that's a wtf fatal error.
If you can't do memory-mapped I/O or threads in standard C, then the standard has drifted too far from the original intent which included "If you can do it in assembler, you can do it in C."
I guess I should hang on to my old copy of bcc, just in case.
You are confusing C with...well, I'm not sure what...Haskell, maybe? In many cases with C, the sequence of events is as important as the end result. C code can have side-effects.
C is not an expression evaluator, it's a control language; A && B is an instruction to copy A and if it is non-zero, replace the copy with B, in that order. A++ says copy A and then increment it.
Most of the people on slashdot can tell you why that's important and a few of them have; there are more than a few scenarios where not getting the sequence right would have undesirable effects even if the returned value was correct. Look up memory-mapped I/O.
I'm going to have to start dumbing-down my jokes.
With all the sturm und drang at the start of TFA, I expected an enumeration of the hinted-at "perils" of genetic selection. I was wondering how far they would need to stretch the fabric of the universe to find some.
Before someone else brings them up, let me say it: Eugenics Wars. We all know that science fiction comes true. We don't know much about the Eugenics Wars, but we know they will be awful and that they will be the result of genetic manipulation. So be afraid, be very afraid.
Probably--but would he know what he was disagreeing with?
In a certain respect, I do understand. I've spent about half my working life up to my elbows in code and wires. Although my view of Dilbert's Heroes (imaginary and real) is that they are twits who will never get out of the server room because their understanding of why they have jobs at all is seriously flawed, they see themselves as standing between the light and the darkness.
A number of studies have found that the less competent someone is, the bigger their overestimate of their own competence. I've been in a lot of server rooms where that is the operative case. I've also been in a lot where the admins and developers actually knew what they were doing and, more important, why. I'd call them Antiberts.
Odd. I've worked for startups, small companies, mid-sized companies and one very large one, and I would rate them in the opposite order, worst to best. -And I never quite got Dilbert.
Goes to show that the business world is a varied place where stereotypes don't work very well.
Great link.
Provenzano abandoned this code after Giuffre's arrest, and this is when investigators believe he turned to a Biblical code. Since his imprisonment, he has been given a clean copy of the Bible, which he reads every day, annotating and underscoring.
Priceless! If I were stuck in jail, I too would try to find a way to drive my jailors crazy.
A semi-smart criminal will be using e.g. /. to post messages
Of course! That's it! And here I thought all these weird, incomprehensible AC posts were coming from pimple-faced teenagers with half an education and no life outside of sitting in the dark keying stream-of-consciousness babble into Slashdot. Now it all makes sense! It's a code of some kind.
I wonder what "intertubes" is code for.
Bernardo Provenzano, head of the Sicilian Mafia, used a Caesar cipher using a bible as key
Huh? The key to a Caesar cipher is an integer between 1 and 25. Where does the bible fit in?
Why don't you read the paper and find out?
I'm going to guess that you were never asked to document your work.
The Orbital Carbon Observatory doesn't measure carbon dioxide, it measures spectral absorption of sunlight reflecting off the surface of the earth.
The really cool thing about this is that the analysis is so sensitive to factors and assumptions that the results can be anything we want them to be.
I knew there was something I was missing!
TFA is unfortunately incomplete. So far what they seem to have is ten terabits per square inch, but the bits are all zeros.
Facial recognition is tuned to facial features. It won't record what you do with your hands