Spamhaus has released a final warning about an increase in junk email, as they prepare to lose their domain to an Illinois court ruling.
Ok, so we might be making a bigger deal of this than we should. I mean, after a simple ping:
Pinging www.spamhaus.org [216.168.30.71]:
Ping #1: Got reply from 216.168.30.71 in 79ms [TTL=57] Ping #2: Got reply from 216.168.30.71 in 84ms [TTL=57] Ping #3: Got reply from 216.168.30.71 in 79ms [TTL=57] Ping #4: Got reply from 216.168.30.71 in 79ms [TTL=57]
Variation: 5.0ms (+/- 6%)
Doesn't that mean that for all applications referencing Spamhaus, they need to push out patches that use 216.168.30.71 instead of http://www.spamhaus.org/ ?
I mean, if we can get the word out to 650 million Internet users to use IP address 216.168.30.71, what damage is done? It will just take a while for people to tell ICANN how stupid they are. Maybe this is a good thing? Maybe this will cause the community to complain about ICANN and the American control of the internet?
I read an interesting article about the operating system being dead and it contained the choice between a machine with your favorite operating system or a machine with your most hated current OS but with access to the internet.
And, you know what? I must admit that I would take the machine that had the connection to the internet regardless of what current OS it had on it.
So, not only is Windows no longer relevant, but the functionality of the operating system itself may have been trumped by our ability to communicate with other people. This doesn't invalidate operating system arguments but it does cause one to wonder about what is really important when you're getting a machine to work & play on.
These devices are a great step forward and I challenge criticisms of them. These are things in their infancy but with our economy as it is, I'll bet there's a few early adopters out there for this technology.
The only valid criticisms might be cost & intrusion. They are both fairly large devices from what I can tell. In order for them to last a while, I would assume they are made out of solid steel that would be ever present in a living room. Frankly, I'm surprised that they went the bike/running route when it would have been easier to set up a rowing or "hand cycling" device instead. I don't think this device is for the gamer who is looking to tone his already rock hard body so I wouldn't be so concerned which muscles the device works out, only that they achieve a cardiovascular exercise when they use the device. I can think of a contraption for rowing that is quite small (hooks to your feet and has a t-bar for your hands to pull) or a hand peddle device with little more than a base to stabilize it.
I like the FP GameRunner much more than the Geek-A-Cycle which simply powers the computer... after all, it's competition that drives the gamer. Hell, if you can make these cheap and very competitive in nature, I'm sure many schools will be interested in using them for gym class. The only requirement is that you have a healthy mix of strength versus strategy, I doubt that simply pumping your legs for five minutes and the fastest wins will draw many people. Provide a live course that adjusts for the path you take on the trail and penalizes you for falling and I think you're definitely headed in the right direction.
These are good starts at addressing a growing problem, but I'm hoping innovation kicks in as this market grows. In college, my roommate would watch TV and fix an device to his arm that sent electric shocks to his muscles. He would sit there and twitch and twitch and I just could not stomach that. These are, in my opinion, better that the over medication and electrocution I've witnessed some people put themselves through.
Yup, they would have allowed them to defend their actions in court. Spamhaus chose not to appear, and instead have a default judgement rendered aginst them.
What court though? I mean, if some business that I slighted in China brings a lawsuit against me, I'm not going to fly half-way across the world to defend myself. If Spamhaus is offering the maintenance of this list for free, I doubt they make much money. Couple that with the fact that people choose to use the list, I don't blame Spamhaus for farting in their general direction.
One spamfighter of my acquaintance says that Spamhaus's SBL and XBL blocklists knock out 75% of the spam at his servers before it hits and requires more CPU-intensive filtering. If ICANN is ordered to unplug Spamhaus from the DNS, and does so, is the Net prepared to deal with a 4-fold increase in spam hitting MTAs overnight?
I'm reminded of the part in the Ghostbusters movie when the man from the EPA shows up and demands that they shut down the containment unit which houses all the ghosts since it's in violation of EPA rules.
Yeah, I know it's just fiction but it seems like this could be the same kind of thing.
Excerpt from the movie:
Dr. Ray Stantz: Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by dickless here.
Walter Peck: They caused an explosion!
Mayor: Is this true?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Yes it's true.
[pause]
Dr. Peter Venkman: This man has no dick.
Walter Peck: Jeez!
[Charges at Venkman]
Mayor: Break it up! Hey, break this up! Break it up!
Walter Peck: All right, all right, all right!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Well, that's what I heard!
I think the problem that the Ghostbusters faced in the movie was that the guy from the EPA was a prick and didn't bother doing any follow up or open a channel of communication with the Ghostbusters. Now, Spamhaus might be violating rules at the same time they provide the public a valuable service. Has the United State's judicial system attempted any lines of communication with them aside from a cease-and-desist letter threatening them with $11.7 million?
The Illinois court that told Spamhaus to stop blocking the spammer filing suit against them...
Where does it say that e360insight is a spammer? I think that Spamhaus should have to present proof that e360insight is an illegitimate spamming business. I think that's important. If e360insight is a spammer, I'm siding with Spamhaus. Since they have taken the roll of deciding who is spamming and who isn't, I think they could use more accountability than what I find indicated on their website.
Or - and here is the nub of an issue that would consume me for more than a year - was the shuffle function, meant to mix up my music collection in a random fashion, actually not random at all?
There there, Mr. Levy, we'll get you all the randomness you want. In fact, we have a special place filled with randomness and padded white walls! You're going to like it there.
You know, instead of wasting your interviewee's time, you could have installed a five song list on your iPod and set it to shuffle. You'd have to carefully mark down the track number being played and listen to it for 100 songs. Do this a few times and make sure you're very methodical about what you do. Wipe the iPod, put five songs on it in order and then listen to a hundred songs "randomly." If you start to see a pattern developing or one song is obviously favored over the other, it will begin to show up.
But on the more technical side, they have to seed the random variable with something. Whether or not it's an internal clock, I'm not sure. Either way, they have to derive a random number and it's possible that their seed isn't good enough or has too few states or is prone to being seeded at the same state, etc. Based on this information, I hate to break it to you but it is very hard to be truly random.
I don't think so. I guess I phrased this badly. It's reportedly (no official Nintendo release yet) that the Wii will be using a Linux kernel with a proprietary GUI. Whether or not they are modifying the kernel (like Google has done so that it fits there needs) I cannot say. All I know is that they can either look at the GUI separately from the kernel and leave the kernel under the GPL or they can bundle it all together and not fret over releasing it under the GPL.
I'm not a lawyer so I'm not too clear on the GPL. I thought you could modify the software under it and release it without ever being forced to hand out the source code. I could be wrong though.
So I'm sure there's a huge argument as to whether or not new or old games function better as comfort games. Honestly, I don't see how a racing game/destruction game could be a comfort game but to each their own. I would have to say that my comfort 'games' are
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Tetris (Gameboy)
Bubble Bobble
Age of Empires
General Chaos
I find it interesting that so many newer games are finding their way into the highly revered realm of gamer's favorites. The social aspects of the game are a double edged sword because although this increases the enjoyment, it also causes the enjoyment to be highly volatile because your friends aren't going to always be there playing with you. Had Star Wars Galaxies never underwent the combat upgrade, I would have it as a comfort game. Unfortunately, it's no longer there for me. I currently play World of Warcraft but I am wary about marking it as a comfort game. After all, the expansion is on the horizon and who knows what's going to change in the game? There is a chance that World of Warcraft suffers from the same corporate zeal that destroyed Star Wars Galaxies--all we can do is wait and see.
So the analysts are split, eh? And that's news? So if the analysts go one way or the analysts go the other, it's news. And now, we've witnessed that if the analysts don't agree, it's news. Come to think of it, it'd be pretty damn hard for analysts to do something that isn't news.
Well, I've got the next headline: "Analysts Think About Vista & Retire to the Bathroom to Lay Some Cable." I mean, is there anything the analysts can do that won't make the news? And it causes me great amusement when we get reports from IDC or sponsored "analysts" that are in favor of those who sponsor them.
You know, I should become an analyst. I hear they get all the girls--unlike the bassists.
That being said, this project has been in the news for a LONG while now (at least it'd seem), are they any closer to actually reaching their goal?
I've been following this project pretty closely and I would like to say that everyone is very concerned that this is done correctly the first time. Bill Gates and India's government have already denied support to this project for reasons previously discussed on/.
I don't think this is a project that you want to rush and I am gratefull that they have been making many design changes and taking their time. For example, it was decided that the power generation being built into the hinge of the monitor/laptop was a design flaw. Since this is a piece that will experience the most motion, it was identified as being the biggest potential for wearing out or breaking. They instead modularized this component into something like two wheels you push around to generate energy.
Also, there are targets for energy consumption and communication that they wish to achieve before launching this project.
From what I have read, the people backing this are approaching with caution and I still expect it to be a 2-3 year longer effort before we start to see these things available for sale.
Will a serious mishap in space be the end of our manned space program?
Nope. It's going to be something that seems innocuous that occurs that will be the end of our space program.
I think it's important to remember that with space exploration, it doesn't have to be a serious mishap but it could be any mishap at all. Fuel tank O-rings not being tested down to low enough temperatures, insulation breaking off the shuttle, pea-sized particles piercing the shuttle--these are the things that pose risk to our space program.
Yeah, I know how the probes feel, every now and then I'll run into one of my grade school classmates thousands of miles away from where we went to school.
We shake hands and take pictures of each other.
I wonder if the probes experience the same awkward silence after you've asked them how they're doing and feign interest about what they've been up to. I'll bet they both broke out, "Well, I'll let you go, you must be so busy and what with having the whole rest of the planet to photograph....but it was nice meeting you! And out here of all places! I mean with you an orbiter and I a rover, who would have thought we would have been assigned to the same planet?! It's a small universe afterall!"
I can't RTFA because I think that link is broken but I would like to comment on the summary:
coondoggie writes to mention an article on Information Week about possible unintended consequences of the Microsoft Software Protection Plan (SPP) discussed on Slashdot on Wednesday.
What makes you think that Microsoft doesn't intend for people to not be able to swap motherboards? I would imagine that it is fully intentional. Prove me wrong. Keep in mind that any "consequences" that come with Microsoft's new anti-piracy scheme are probably well known by Microsoft and acceptable problems. That's what beta testing for this long is for.
I'm going to list off the only ones I have heard my employer mentioning:
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Oracle Certification Program
Sun's Java Certification Levels
A few things I can tell you to steer clear of is Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer or Microsoft Office Power User. In my workplace, all I hear is people making fun of those certifications over and over and over again. I don't know if they are jokes but from what I hear, it's a stupid idea to pay for them.
I think in order to get good answers from people, you need to break down what division IT is. I know the CISSP is very important to my employer due to a lot of our apps requiring major security. If you're a glorified secretary making powerpoints with click-actions then maybe "Microsoft Office Power User" is right down your alley? What job are you looking for? IT is a HUGE and now diverse term. It could mean everything from networks to programming to simply moving hardware.
College at the time was not an option...
That's a shame, with a name like 'ganjadude' I think you would have enjoyed college quite a bit.
I just registered and flew through a few of them. Honestly, some of these are very very good phishing attacks. In fact, some are so good that it's unclear whether or not you can call them 'phishing attacks.' For instance, one asks you to apply for mortgage but doesn't ask you for sensitive information aside from your address and phone number.
Now, I don't want them selling this to telemarketers and snail mail SPAM but maybe there are people looking for mortgages and want to be contacted. What do I vote this as? There is no possible phishing attack to select. When I clicked 'phishing' attack, 70% said it wasn't while I was part of the 30% who said it was. Kind of confusing.
After voting on ten of them (all of which, I decided where scams), I found a classic Ukrainian eBay phish. 100% votes were phishing attack. I started to notice that the URL tells more than the actual message itself. I guess I wish the site would have a section firmly defining phishing attacks and what are obvious give-a-ways.
This is all they say on that:
What is phishing?
Phishing is a fraudulent attempt to get you to provide personal information, including but not limited to, account information.
How do I tell a phish email from just regular spam?
Spam is unsolicited commercial email...which may include phishing attempts, but is often simply unwanted marketing. Phishing often has criminal intent. Spam isn't always, though it can be.
So appearantly the mortgage example asked for personal information but was just Spam? I'm a bit confused.
We, the authors of this paper, are part of a growing group of computer experts that opposes
the use of electronic voting technology that is built in such a way that the outcome of an election is
not voter-verifiable. We believe public elections are pointless unless people have the right and the
meaningful possibility to verify that that their votes are counted correctly. We further strongly
believe that trade secrets, secret computer programs and secret test reports have absolutely no place
in any democratic election.
(emphasis mine)
I would first like to say that I admire your diligence in this matter and gratefully appreciate the work and effort you have put forth to protect the votes of many people the world over including my own.
Secondly, I would like to point out that, although you are a group of experts/scientists, I have witnessed concerns based on science go unheeded by politics--at least in the United States. I hope it is different in other countries, but I have seen a large organization of scientists from all walks of life oppose some of the current administration's actions here with little or no effect on the populace.
Whether this is because people still view scientists as nerds or outcasts of society, I cannot comment on. I only want to make it known--at least on Slashdot--that I support what you're doing and am amazed at the work contained in this PDF. I am more so amazed that someone was kind enough to take the time to translate it to English.
I hope your efforts are met with international recognition as being a champion of voting security--although I fear the reality is you may be criticized and possibly even sued.
My favorite criticism listed in the PDF:
By adding extra security measures against the over-emphasized threat posed by outsiders, one
can actually increase the risk posed by insiders.
After reading a bit of the PDF, I must say that the only thing I don't like is that there is no clear solution offered aside from allusions to opening up the process and technology on how all of this works so that it can be scrutinized. It is pointed out that Security by Obscurity is not the best route... ever. This is good criticism but it's never explored whether or not we could dream up a scheme that would be protected.
I made a simple search for "fade file:.js" in order to find a javascript function that would fade a div or table or anything really (I know scriptaculous offers this already, just curious as to what's out there). I found something but the header of the file read:
All Code herein is Copyright 2005 Match.com
Do not copy, reproduce, reuse or sell any code herein
without the express, written consent of Match.com.
For information contact webmaster@match.com.
All Rights Reserved.
Which is expected. However, that means this tool isn't useful for finding a method or function or class I can use and then using it... it seems to be restricted to one of two uses. If I'm looking for code that does natural language parsing, I could hope a comment somewhere contains NLP as a description of what's going on. Or, I could look for libraries out there with methods and then search for those methods to see how other people used them to get an idea of how they work. The vast majority of this code seems to be just web development front-end code at least from the few searches I've done. Too bad, that's a very small part of programming.
Tarjan's Data Structures book looks like it has potential, but seems focused on network algorithms, which are unlikely to be applicable to the kernel programming I do.
You'd be surprised. Some of the very basic network algorithms are kind of universal. Because, let's face it, some operating systems revolve around message passing.
CLR is far too large and almost exclusively covers basic territory.
Well, let's be fair, when you get to advanced data structures, it's kind of up to you to really do all the imagining that makes them great. Don't dismiss CLR too quickly, as the book has a lot of great concepts that, if you're serious about algorithms and data structures, are quite useful as a starting toolbox.
Honestly though, when I went through college, the very last thing they tried to shove down my throat wasn't advanced data structures but instead Design Patterns. I'm not talking about algorithm design but instead just designs in general. This book might not do it in C but the ideas are pretty language independent. It's your 'cookbook' of designs laid out in class diagrams and sometimes more documentation is provided. Anyways, what I would actually suggest is that you combine a book that covers C structures with book and what you would have is a way for you to make a set of complex classes that emulate a proxy. Or you have an adapter class that is a "advanced data structure." I guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't see the point of paying attention to advanced data structures when it's really the way these data structures interact that is complex and important.
The big problem is that, in order to make design patterns work for you, you have to go through a lot of documentation and diagrams. Take this for example, you're writing an OS code and there's a part of the operating system that's going to be changing frequently depending on processor (I don't know a lot about OS development), let's say the scheduler. So what do you do? Do you just willy-nilly throw the scheduler and start going? Well, what would be best is that if you encapsulated the scheduler inside a package or library so that it could easily be exchanged for another one. You try to keep it small and modularize the classes and data structures that change from those that don't. Then, a new processor comes out that might demand a new scheduler and you open up this mini-project, edit/debug it and roll it out as something that just replaces the classes and libraries on all your deployed versions. Sounds like common sense, right? Well, for some it is and for some it isn't but to me this interaction is a complication of data structures and I think that the answer you're looking for isn't necessarily a book called "advanced data structures" just a few that explain how they work.
While you might be able to make a case for any news show being 'full of bullshit,' it is my opinion that The Daily Show's viewers retain so much more information because it is entertaining. News? Entertaining? That's right.
How do I know what bills are being passed? How do I know who Zell Miller is? Well, if you ever saw the "Zell on Earth" episode from Indecision 2004, you'd never forget the man. If CNN, Fox, CBS, ABC, whoever else tried to cover that, I would have fallen asleep. Not only does it cover just as much material, but I retain far more of it.
Possibly because it's not a good business model for enterprise consumers--and therefore must up its charges.
I mean, you want to sell a product that a community developed. Which means its quality could be variable. On top of that, you want to support it. The depends on excellent documentation which isn't enforced in the open source community. There's probably a lot of dead OSS projects for every one successful OSS project. You'll notice that the software itself is very very free... what the summary is complaining about is 'seats' (training or support).
This particular user seems to be looking for portable technologies. The commercial versions of these technologies are still in their infancy which does not bode well for the OSS alternatives. I would suggest that you're paying the early adopter fees on a few of these things. Afterall, Google uses a stripped down version of Red Hat. My company of tens of thousands employees uses Red Hat company wide. They find the free cost to be quite lucrative--just buying support whenever it's needed.
The OSS business model works well for the individual user who isn't looking for support because the free end product is out there for them and they use it if it works. The enterprise consumers looking for support year after year must pay quite a bit.
The software itself is not expensive, nor is it necessarily harder to support--it's just very difficult to create this support out of nothing.
In my opinion, you're going about OSS all wrong. You should stick with what is working and slowly move to a new OSS tool one at a time. You will encounter learning curves. But there is a lot of information online and, worse comes to worse, you can look at the source/documentation yourself.
I imagine there's something about the product you aren't telling us about that is quite constraining....
Well, they've been saying that all versions of Vista will ship on one DVD disc. That's right, if you buy one copy, you will have all levels of Vista on the disc. When you want to upgrade, you simply buy a key to unlock.
It would only make sense that they force user security down our throats at the time of installation. I don't agree with this or condone it, of course. It is also quite naïve of them to think that they can win the cat n' mouse game of license control with the hackers.
"If a legitimate copy is not bought within 30 days, the system will curtail functionality much further by restricting users to just the Web browser for an hour at a time, said Thomas Lindeman, Microsoft senior product manager."
Just one more reason to stick with XP for those applications that only run on Windows. I'll buy in around SP5. I hope this keeps the hackers busy so they don't have free time to dream up mythical Firefox bugs.
Slashdot Mirror
I mean, if we can get the word out to 650 million Internet users to use IP address 216.168.30.71, what damage is done? It will just take a while for people to tell ICANN how stupid they are. Maybe this is a good thing? Maybe this will cause the community to complain about ICANN and the American control of the internet?
I read an interesting article about the operating system being dead and it contained the choice between a machine with your favorite operating system or a machine with your most hated current OS but with access to the internet.
And, you know what? I must admit that I would take the machine that had the connection to the internet regardless of what current OS it had on it.
So, not only is Windows no longer relevant, but the functionality of the operating system itself may have been trumped by our ability to communicate with other people. This doesn't invalidate operating system arguments but it does cause one to wonder about what is really important when you're getting a machine to work & play on.
These devices are a great step forward and I challenge criticisms of them. These are things in their infancy but with our economy as it is, I'll bet there's a few early adopters out there for this technology.
... after all, it's competition that drives the gamer. Hell, if you can make these cheap and very competitive in nature, I'm sure many schools will be interested in using them for gym class. The only requirement is that you have a healthy mix of strength versus strategy, I doubt that simply pumping your legs for five minutes and the fastest wins will draw many people. Provide a live course that adjusts for the path you take on the trail and penalizes you for falling and I think you're definitely headed in the right direction.
The only valid criticisms might be cost & intrusion. They are both fairly large devices from what I can tell. In order for them to last a while, I would assume they are made out of solid steel that would be ever present in a living room. Frankly, I'm surprised that they went the bike/running route when it would have been easier to set up a rowing or "hand cycling" device instead. I don't think this device is for the gamer who is looking to tone his already rock hard body so I wouldn't be so concerned which muscles the device works out, only that they achieve a cardiovascular exercise when they use the device. I can think of a contraption for rowing that is quite small (hooks to your feet and has a t-bar for your hands to pull) or a hand peddle device with little more than a base to stabilize it.
I like the FP GameRunner much more than the Geek-A-Cycle which simply powers the computer
These are good starts at addressing a growing problem, but I'm hoping innovation kicks in as this market grows. In college, my roommate would watch TV and fix an device to his arm that sent electric shocks to his muscles. He would sit there and twitch and twitch and I just could not stomach that. These are, in my opinion, better that the over medication and electrocution I've witnessed some people put themselves through.
Yeah, I know it's just fiction but it seems like this could be the same kind of thing.
Excerpt from the movie:
Dr. Ray Stantz: Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by dickless here.
Walter Peck: They caused an explosion!
Mayor: Is this true?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Yes it's true.
[pause]
Dr. Peter Venkman: This man has no dick.
Walter Peck: Jeez!
[Charges at Venkman]
Mayor: Break it up! Hey, break this up! Break it up!
Walter Peck: All right, all right, all right!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Well, that's what I heard!
I think the problem that the Ghostbusters faced in the movie was that the guy from the EPA was a prick and didn't bother doing any follow up or open a channel of communication with the Ghostbusters. Now, Spamhaus might be violating rules at the same time they provide the public a valuable service. Has the United State's judicial system attempted any lines of communication with them aside from a cease-and-desist letter threatening them with $11.7 million?
Where does it say that e360insight is a spammer? I think that Spamhaus should have to present proof that e360insight is an illegitimate spamming business. I think that's important. If e360insight is a spammer, I'm siding with Spamhaus. Since they have taken the roll of deciding who is spamming and who isn't, I think they could use more accountability than what I find indicated on their website.
You know, instead of wasting your interviewee's time, you could have installed a five song list on your iPod and set it to shuffle. You'd have to carefully mark down the track number being played and listen to it for 100 songs. Do this a few times and make sure you're very methodical about what you do. Wipe the iPod, put five songs on it in order and then listen to a hundred songs "randomly." If you start to see a pattern developing or one song is obviously favored over the other, it will begin to show up.
But on the more technical side, they have to seed the random variable with something. Whether or not it's an internal clock, I'm not sure. Either way, they have to derive a random number and it's possible that their seed isn't good enough or has too few states or is prone to being seeded at the same state, etc. Based on this information, I hate to break it to you but it is very hard to be truly random.
I don't think so. I guess I phrased this badly. It's reportedly (no official Nintendo release yet) that the Wii will be using a Linux kernel with a proprietary GUI. Whether or not they are modifying the kernel (like Google has done so that it fits there needs) I cannot say. All I know is that they can either look at the GUI separately from the kernel and leave the kernel under the GPL or they can bundle it all together and not fret over releasing it under the GPL.
I'm not a lawyer so I'm not too clear on the GPL. I thought you could modify the software under it and release it without ever being forced to hand out the source code. I could be wrong though.
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
- Tetris (Gameboy)
- Bubble Bobble
- Age of Empires
- General Chaos
I find it interesting that so many newer games are finding their way into the highly revered realm of gamer's favorites. The social aspects of the game are a double edged sword because although this increases the enjoyment, it also causes the enjoyment to be highly volatile because your friends aren't going to always be there playing with you. Had Star Wars Galaxies never underwent the combat upgrade, I would have it as a comfort game. Unfortunately, it's no longer there for me. I currently play World of Warcraft but I am wary about marking it as a comfort game. After all, the expansion is on the horizon and who knows what's going to change in the game? There is a chance that World of Warcraft suffers from the same corporate zeal that destroyed Star Wars Galaxies--all we can do is wait and see.You know those guys we always used to beat up in gum class?
...
Yeah, they ended up with all the money.
I'm being sarcastic of course, I lacked the bicepts to ever raise a fist in anger/frustration
Disclaimer: I am drunk.
So the analysts are split, eh? And that's news? So if the analysts go one way or the analysts go the other, it's news. And now, we've witnessed that if the analysts don't agree, it's news. Come to think of it, it'd be pretty damn hard for analysts to do something that isn't news.
Well, I've got the next headline: "Analysts Think About Vista & Retire to the Bathroom to Lay Some Cable." I mean, is there anything the analysts can do that won't make the news? And it causes me great amusement when we get reports from IDC or sponsored "analysts" that are in favor of those who sponsor them.
You know, I should become an analyst. I hear they get all the girls--unlike the bassists.
I don't think this is a project that you want to rush and I am gratefull that they have been making many design changes and taking their time. For example, it was decided that the power generation being built into the hinge of the monitor/laptop was a design flaw. Since this is a piece that will experience the most motion, it was identified as being the biggest potential for wearing out or breaking. They instead modularized this component into something like two wheels you push around to generate energy.
Also, there are targets for energy consumption and communication that they wish to achieve before launching this project.
From what I have read, the people backing this are approaching with caution and I still expect it to be a 2-3 year longer effort before we start to see these things available for sale.
I think it's important to remember that with space exploration, it doesn't have to be a serious mishap but it could be any mishap at all. Fuel tank O-rings not being tested down to low enough temperatures, insulation breaking off the shuttle, pea-sized particles piercing the shuttle--these are the things that pose risk to our space program.
Yeah, I know how the probes feel, every now and then I'll run into one of my grade school classmates thousands of miles away from where we went to school.
We shake hands and take pictures of each other.
I wonder if the probes experience the same awkward silence after you've asked them how they're doing and feign interest about what they've been up to. I'll bet they both broke out, "Well, I'll let you go, you must be so busy and what with having the whole rest of the planet to photograph....but it was nice meeting you! And out here of all places! I mean with you an orbiter and I a rover, who would have thought we would have been assigned to the same planet?! It's a small universe afterall!"
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- Oracle Certification Program
- Sun's Java Certification Levels
A few things I can tell you to steer clear of is Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer or Microsoft Office Power User. In my workplace, all I hear is people making fun of those certifications over and over and over again. I don't know if they are jokes but from what I hear, it's a stupid idea to pay for them.I think in order to get good answers from people, you need to break down what division IT is. I know the CISSP is very important to my employer due to a lot of our apps requiring major security. If you're a glorified secretary making powerpoints with click-actions then maybe "Microsoft Office Power User" is right down your alley? What job are you looking for? IT is a HUGE and now diverse term. It could mean everything from networks to programming to simply moving hardware.
That's a shame, with a name like 'ganjadude' I think you would have enjoyed college quite a bit.
Now, I don't want them selling this to telemarketers and snail mail SPAM but maybe there are people looking for mortgages and want to be contacted. What do I vote this as? There is no possible phishing attack to select. When I clicked 'phishing' attack, 70% said it wasn't while I was part of the 30% who said it was. Kind of confusing.
After voting on ten of them (all of which, I decided where scams), I found a classic Ukrainian eBay phish. 100% votes were phishing attack. I started to notice that the URL tells more than the actual message itself. I guess I wish the site would have a section firmly defining phishing attacks and what are obvious give-a-ways.
This is all they say on that: So appearantly the mortgage example asked for personal information but was just Spam? I'm a bit confused.
And the mirrordot server here.
I would first like to say that I admire your diligence in this matter and gratefully appreciate the work and effort you have put forth to protect the votes of many people the world over including my own.
Secondly, I would like to point out that, although you are a group of experts/scientists, I have witnessed concerns based on science go unheeded by politics--at least in the United States. I hope it is different in other countries, but I have seen a large organization of scientists from all walks of life oppose some of the current administration's actions here with little or no effect on the populace.
Whether this is because people still view scientists as nerds or outcasts of society, I cannot comment on. I only want to make it known--at least on Slashdot--that I support what you're doing and am amazed at the work contained in this PDF. I am more so amazed that someone was kind enough to take the time to translate it to English.
I hope your efforts are met with international recognition as being a champion of voting security--although I fear the reality is you may be criticized and possibly even sued.
My favorite criticism listed in the PDF: After reading a bit of the PDF, I must say that the only thing I don't like is that there is no clear solution offered aside from allusions to opening up the process and technology on how all of this works so that it can be scrutinized. It is pointed out that Security by Obscurity is not the best route
I made a simple search for "fade file:.js" in order to find a javascript function that would fade a div or table or anything really (I know scriptaculous offers this already, just curious as to what's out there). I found something but the header of the file read:
... it seems to be restricted to one of two uses. If I'm looking for code that does natural language parsing, I could hope a comment somewhere contains NLP as a description of what's going on. Or, I could look for libraries out there with methods and then search for those methods to see how other people used them to get an idea of how they work. The vast majority of this code seems to be just web development front-end code at least from the few searches I've done. Too bad, that's a very small part of programming.
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Which is expected. However, that means this tool isn't useful for finding a method or function or class I can use and then using it
Well, let's be fair, when you get to advanced data structures, it's kind of up to you to really do all the imagining that makes them great. Don't dismiss CLR too quickly, as the book has a lot of great concepts that, if you're serious about algorithms and data structures, are quite useful as a starting toolbox.
Honestly though, when I went through college, the very last thing they tried to shove down my throat wasn't advanced data structures but instead Design Patterns. I'm not talking about algorithm design but instead just designs in general. This book might not do it in C but the ideas are pretty language independent. It's your 'cookbook' of designs laid out in class diagrams and sometimes more documentation is provided. Anyways, what I would actually suggest is that you combine a book that covers C structures with book and what you would have is a way for you to make a set of complex classes that emulate a proxy. Or you have an adapter class that is a "advanced data structure." I guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't see the point of paying attention to advanced data structures when it's really the way these data structures interact that is complex and important.
The big problem is that, in order to make design patterns work for you, you have to go through a lot of documentation and diagrams. Take this for example, you're writing an OS code and there's a part of the operating system that's going to be changing frequently depending on processor (I don't know a lot about OS development), let's say the scheduler. So what do you do? Do you just willy-nilly throw the scheduler and start going? Well, what would be best is that if you encapsulated the scheduler inside a package or library so that it could easily be exchanged for another one. You try to keep it small and modularize the classes and data structures that change from those that don't. Then, a new processor comes out that might demand a new scheduler and you open up this mini-project, edit/debug it and roll it out as something that just replaces the classes and libraries on all your deployed versions. Sounds like common sense, right? Well, for some it is and for some it isn't but to me this interaction is a complication of data structures and I think that the answer you're looking for isn't necessarily a book called "advanced data structures" just a few that explain how they work.
Or they could just invent their own words to confuse it.
Seriously, tacular? How in the hell is a computer supposed to know that meant nuclear and tactical? Wait, how in the hell am I supposed to know that?!
While you might be able to make a case for any news show being 'full of bullshit,' it is my opinion that The Daily Show's viewers retain so much more information because it is entertaining. News? Entertaining? That's right.
How do I know what bills are being passed? How do I know who Zell Miller is? Well, if you ever saw the "Zell on Earth" episode from Indecision 2004, you'd never forget the man. If CNN, Fox, CBS, ABC, whoever else tried to cover that, I would have fallen asleep. Not only does it cover just as much material, but I retain far more of it.
I mean, you want to sell a product that a community developed. Which means its quality could be variable. On top of that, you want to support it. The depends on excellent documentation which isn't enforced in the open source community. There's probably a lot of dead OSS projects for every one successful OSS project. You'll notice that the software itself is very very free
This particular user seems to be looking for portable technologies. The commercial versions of these technologies are still in their infancy which does not bode well for the OSS alternatives. I would suggest that you're paying the early adopter fees on a few of these things. Afterall, Google uses a stripped down version of Red Hat. My company of tens of thousands employees uses Red Hat company wide. They find the free cost to be quite lucrative--just buying support whenever it's needed.
The OSS business model works well for the individual user who isn't looking for support because the free end product is out there for them and they use it if it works. The enterprise consumers looking for support year after year must pay quite a bit.
The software itself is not expensive, nor is it necessarily harder to support--it's just very difficult to create this support out of nothing.
In my opinion, you're going about OSS all wrong. You should stick with what is working and slowly move to a new OSS tool one at a time. You will encounter learning curves. But there is a lot of information online and, worse comes to worse, you can look at the source/documentation yourself.
I imagine there's something about the product you aren't telling us about that is quite constraining
It would only make sense that they force user security down our throats at the time of installation. I don't agree with this or condone it, of course. It is also quite naïve of them to think that they can win the cat n' mouse game of license control with the hackers.
Just one more reason to stick with XP for those applications that only run on Windows. I'll buy in around SP5. I hope this keeps the hackers busy so they don't have free time to dream up mythical Firefox bugs.