The pretty large difference between his 'radar' speed, and his 'gps'(actual) speed was pretty large. IMHO this sets brings into question just about every speeding ticket ever given by radar gun.....
lets say that the gun is wrong 1% of the time, which in the case of a cop handing out tickets by hand is okay (imho) because there is human intervention, he (or she) can look at the thing, bang it on his hand a little, and shake the error off as a fluke. The speed cameras on the 101 in scottsdale, arizona issue about 250 tickets daily. Thats 2.5 tickets daily that the gun gets wrong (the 1% figure was pulled from my ass, but I'm using it as an example). With THIS there is no human intervention at all (other than a pissed off commuter)..
grr...not sure where i'm going with this, I just REALLY hate it that humans are being taken out of (at least that little part) of the legal system. I don't want my fate decided by a computer!
But the thing is that it goes in both directions! Same reason you can feel like you've been asleep for 5 minutes, and have been for 3 hours! Blink and your proggy is compiled!
I wonder if the brain has a usable life though? Right now, our brains only last for about 80-100 years..... I wonder if there would be any strange side effects from giving it 1000 years worth of experience?
If we really did accomplish this, imagine how much faster we could progress technologically......allow devs to drop into one of these things and we could have software that would normally take months to build developed in mere minutes!
I would be interested to see the CLI tools for server 2003 as well....I really can't imagine that they are as straightforward as the linux equivalents. To me it seems like linux feels like an OS that was meant for the terminal...you run xorg on it if you're a windows admin, or if you're using it as a desktop OS.
Other than that (at least for linux) the command line is several orders of magnitude faster than the GUI to accomplish just about everything.
I would REALLY love to find a guide on windows administration from the CL....
KDE on top of xorg. Transparent, dockable menu bars with widgets that can be attached to them. The site seems to be slashdotted, so I can't give you a slide by slide from the image gallery, but that article seriously read like a KDE press release from 3 years ago.
And no I didn't mean kernel, don't fucking tell me what I mean you pretentious little twat. there's more to a UNIX-like OS than the kernel. SO you mean, what, then? The kernel, the userland that runs on top what is in layman terms called "the core" (the kernel)? Incremental backups? Are incremental backups what you mean by a "unix like os"? Or did you mean that SSH client?
i can see this now, the next press release of "innovative" apple features:
incremental backups! tranparency! ssh! indexed searches! a WEB SERVER!
now I just wish the the open-source world could catch up! THEN WE'D HAVE SOMETHING SPECIAL!
Huh, my non fisher-price PC sports the same "Unix Core" (you mean kernel) that apple "borrowed" from the BSD world, allows me to SSH into any one of the servers in our datacenter (not to mention remote desktop in to the domain controller, and any of the client computers) it has the capability of functioning as a full-tilt web server with PHP and a MySQL backend. It has been used as a web proxy, an intrusion detection system, and wireless access point, a file server, and a coffee table. ALl of this done with what IMHO is the GREATEST window manager out there and it seems like apple agrees....they once again "borrowed" most of their "new" features from it.
Its called BSD, it was free, and i don't have to get special permission from ANYBODY to run it on just about any architechture i want, in any way i want, they'll even hand me the source code, pay for the hosting, and support any questions that i have about it if I get confused.
Chances are that you are out and actively SEARCHING for things that look like conspiracies. 1400+ pages WERE written in two weeks. What you fail to grasp here is that it wasn't President Bush sitting in his undies on the crapper hacking away at his laptop to churn out the patriot act, all while eating a Bald Eagle sandwich. You're right in the sense that PARTS (meaning concepts, not texts) or the patriot act probably existed either as ideas in somebody's head, or previous proposals to congress. However, to assert that the scale of the document is evidence that "OMG WE PLANNED 9/11!" is both ridiculous and asinine. Also this is a bill that was written by several people, not one......
so while YOU might not have the resources to churn out a 1400 page document in two weeks, people with teams of law proffesors and dump trucks full of money do.
Aside from that, the allegation that we went to "war for oil" is simply, absurd.
Oh PUHHHHLEASE! 1st of all, do NOT chalk this up to the "Bush Administration" it makes you sound like some collge aged stoner wanna-be know-it-all who thinks that the only reliable source of information is blogs about the conspiracy of the government that are all hosted with angelfire.com The truth of the matter is that after 9-11 we paniced, we made some bad decisions got ourselves into a bad situation. When i say we i mean WE. The dems in congress voted to start the war too. My stance is that yes, now we're in a bad place, but there is very few people who are actually willing to do anything to get us out of it other than bury their heads in the sand. Guess which side of the aisle they sit on.
I agree with you 100%....it just pisses me off that AS400 is IMPOSSIBLE for me to get my hands on.....because I REALLY want to play with it:). It would be nice if IBM had a virtual copy of OS/400 that i could run in qemu or vmware or something so that i could learn how it works...... Maybe i'm just bitter because all the nerds that i grew up around taught me that BSD/Linux was THE operating system for the server.....then when i found out how amazing OS/400 was, i really wanted to buy it....but i didn't have 30k just burning a hole in my checking account.
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Photoshop is going to soon suffer the same problem that i see for IBM. Open source is really starting to gain momentum. My fellow art nerds and I are all poor. We can't afford to go out and buy expensive software like photoshop; so what do we do? We go out and buy a wacom, get ourselves a copy of the GIMP and go to work. When we start getting ourselves into decision making positions, what are we going to choose? A very expensive and (imho) difficult to use piece of software like photoshop? Or a very familiar, and 100% free piece of software like the gimp?
Similarly, IBM has really shot themselves in the foot with the OS/400 platform. Here you have a a really really rock solid piece of software, arguably one of the most stable operating system/platforms in existence today, but you have a problem. If I wanted to go out and learn OS/400, I mean REALLY learn it (the way that i can with Linux/BSD) I wouldn't be able to. It is FARRRR to expensive for a hobbyist like myselft to get into. Now ask yourself, if I, or my equally poor nerd brethren, go out into the job market and are tasked with building a database for whoever we start working for, what are we going to choose? Are we going to go with the familiar, very capable, and very FREE database called MySQL or Postgres (running on top of a *nix of course)? Or are we going to opt for a very cumbersum (I mean this from the perspective of somebody who has never developed on it before, it might be very elegant for all i know) very expensive, and VERY unfamiliar database such as DB2 (which is what runs on OS/400).
Both IBM and adobe have shot themselves in the foot in this regard. Today's hobbyists are tomorrows decision makers, and they are going to choose what they are accustomed to.
And that is why it SUCKS to be the person in charge of security for a domain. Make the security too harsh and the users complain (with good reason) that they can't get anything done. Make things too lax, and you turn into an alcoholic schitzophrenic who does nothing but sit at home in the dark murmering about exploits and unencrypted telnet sessions that your entire company runs on, and how even the software providers out in north carolina won't implement SSL into their software because all of their programmers are from the 1970s even the guy who supposedly "knows-linux" and wants to run gentoo on the soekris box that you sent them to use as a firewall; you sit there alone, and paranoid that some russian script kid, or 14 year old digg user wanna-be l33t-sausage hack-zore is gonna come accross a username/pass and burn your precious servers to the ground!
The relation between beer/security can most properly be illustrated by this graph
Well if you would have read the article, you would have noticed that the balloon was flying at 120,000 feet. In this case, a balloon has serious advantages over a plane:
airplanes don't fly this high. If we had one that did (hell, maybe we do) it would be hideously expensive to both A) Purchase and B) operate. Not to mention the fact that to sustain flight at that altitutde you would need some SERIOUS speed.
And about earth's atmosphere....the point of the balloon was to ESCAPE earth's atmosphere. In your own post, you admit that pictures taken from this balloon would be better than those from a ground-based telescope.
You know what costs ISPs even more money? Not having any customers.
You're the type of person who gets looked at by their boss and told "This code is terrible, it is unbelievably user-unfriendly, and it barely even accomplishes the task required because you have implemented so many hoops that people have to jump over just to get anything done" to which you respond: "Well we should start requiring all of our receptionists to have degrees in computer science from now on!"
FAIL! If you make your system so "secure" that even your own users cant use it...then you have basically just DOS'd yourself..... = fail.
Somehow, I don't think that you're going to get ISPs to turn off half of their customers' internet connection to fix a worm that the user doesn't even know they have/know how to remove.
Not if they make the paper sensitive to high intensity light. Put a disclaimer on it that says "Don't put this into a photocopier, or expose it to high heat/light....
you put it in the xerox and it turns completely black and never works again because "the circuitry is so delicate".
You have 1 guy sitting at a desk all night whose job it is to disable accounts. If somebody gets their key stolen and calls, he disables the account..then calls them back to confirm. No, you didn't call me? Somebody is trying to lock you out? Well would you please ensure that you have your key with you by using it to log in? You're logged in? Okay, sorry to wake you, please come to the I.T. depertment tomorrow morning and we will issue you a new key (in case it was copied or something else spooky), we will be monitoring your account for unusual activity until then, have a nice night.
lUser: 1.800.pas.swrd Phone Operator: Hello, this is Ryan in the I.T. department, how may I help you? lUser: Omg! i left my purse on the table in the restaurant, my key was in there....will you disable my account? Phone Operator: Sure may i have the password? lUser: The password is bananas Phone Operator: No, thats not the password, you only get two more tries before I call the number we have on file for this user and ask her what the problem is. lUser: AHHH AHHA AHHHHHH is the password, uhhh....... *click*
True, but it you create an easy way for a user to disable their own account this isn't as much of a problem. Create a 1.800 where you put in a (much easier) password that will allow you to disable access to your account. This way, if your key gets stolen, you just go into I.T. in the morning and have them issue you a new one.
Not to mention the fact that when talking about password, your biggest enemy is some phiser sitting in russia....who is NOT very likely to fly to the states to steal your key. If your data actually is important enough to justify a hiring somebody to steal it, then chances are you are using biometrics/bullets to lock people out anyhow. If you're not, then tell you CIO to stop spending money on frosted glass NOCs that are suspended from the ceiling above your data center that is kept at a constant 42 degress and tell him to start spending it on real engineers.
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whoever modded me troll on this one. Maybe you didn't read the rest of the thread....above it were like 6 comments talking about how the kid did it by spoofing his caller ID, all of which were modded like +5 informative. When i responded....the comment i was responding to wasn't moderated at all.
Sure. What parent was implying was that even if usenet was completely shut down (which you're right, would be a lot like trying to shut down DNS, since it works in much the same way), the community would have it back up and running at another domain in "3 days". Usenet is a system that has evolved for the last 20+ years to become what it is today. Even if people DID start hosting their own private usenet servers outside of the usenet that exists now, it would be nearly impossible to recreate the network that exists today. Chances are that it would exist in a form that FTP networks exist now on the scene; meaning each network has its own set of stuff and they don't share with each other (automatically, i'm not talking about runners).
Tunnel usenet over SSH? Have you ever USED usenet? Most servers these days support encryption, as well as connecting over port 80, so "tunneling it over SSH" would not only be COMPLETELY useless, but also an unnecessary strain on whatever box your tunneling it through. Not to mention the fact that you might be able to get an encrypted tunnel between two computers that way, but if you aren't using encryption back to the actual NNTP server....you're pooched.
But I would be happy to sell you some gold plated USB cables...you know, because the gold tips make it go faster!;-)
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The pretty large difference between his 'radar' speed, and his 'gps'(actual) speed was pretty large. IMHO this sets brings into question just about every speeding ticket ever given by radar gun.....
lets say that the gun is wrong 1% of the time, which in the case of a cop handing out tickets by hand is okay (imho) because there is human intervention, he (or she) can look at the thing, bang it on his hand a little, and shake the error off as a fluke.
The speed cameras on the 101 in scottsdale, arizona issue about 250 tickets daily. Thats 2.5 tickets daily that the gun gets wrong (the 1% figure was pulled from my ass, but I'm using it as an example). With THIS there is no human intervention at all (other than a pissed off commuter)..
grr...not sure where i'm going with this, I just REALLY hate it that humans are being taken out of (at least that little part) of the legal system. I don't want my fate decided by a computer!
AhA!
But the thing is that it goes in both directions! Same reason you can feel like you've been asleep for 5 minutes, and have been for 3 hours! Blink and your proggy is compiled!
NOW GET BACK TO HACKING!
I wonder if the brain has a usable life though?
Right now, our brains only last for about 80-100 years.....
I wonder if there would be any strange side effects from giving it 1000 years worth of experience?
If we really did accomplish this, imagine how much faster we could progress technologically......allow devs to drop into one of these things and we could have software that would normally take months to build developed in mere minutes!
I would be interested to see the CLI tools for server 2003 as well....I really can't imagine that they are as straightforward as the linux equivalents. To me it seems like linux feels like an OS that was meant for the terminal...you run xorg on it if you're a windows admin, or if you're using it as a desktop OS.
Other than that (at least for linux) the command line is several orders of magnitude faster than the GUI to accomplish just about everything.
I would REALLY love to find a guide on windows administration from the CL....
KDE on top of xorg.
Transparent, dockable menu bars with widgets that can be attached to them. The site seems to be slashdotted, so I can't give you a slide by slide from the image gallery, but that article seriously read like a KDE press release from 3 years ago.
i can see this now, the next press release of "innovative" apple features:
incremental backups!
tranparency!
ssh!
indexed searches!
a WEB SERVER!
now I just wish the the open-source world could catch up! THEN WE'D HAVE SOMETHING SPECIAL!
Huh, my non fisher-price PC sports the same "Unix Core" (you mean kernel) that apple "borrowed" from the BSD world, allows me to SSH into any one of the servers in our datacenter (not to mention remote desktop in to the domain controller, and any of the client computers) it has the capability of functioning as a full-tilt web server with PHP and a MySQL backend. It has been used as a web proxy, an intrusion detection system, and wireless access point, a file server, and a coffee table. ....they once again "borrowed" most of their "new" features from it.
ALl of this done with what IMHO is the GREATEST window manager out there and it seems like apple agrees
Its called BSD, it was free, and i don't have to get special permission from ANYBODY to run it on just about any architechture i want, in any way i want, they'll even hand me the source code, pay for the hosting, and support any questions that i have about it if I get confused.
FOR FREE!
First, let me point something out:
your username is conspirator57
Chances are that you are out and actively SEARCHING for things that look like conspiracies. 1400+ pages WERE written in two weeks. What you fail to grasp here is that it wasn't President Bush sitting in his undies on the crapper hacking away at his laptop to churn out the patriot act, all while eating a Bald Eagle sandwich.
You're right in the sense that PARTS (meaning concepts, not texts) or the patriot act probably existed either as ideas in somebody's head, or previous proposals to congress. However, to assert that the scale of the document is evidence that "OMG WE PLANNED 9/11!" is both ridiculous and asinine. Also this is a bill that was written by several people, not one......
so while YOU might not have the resources to churn out a 1400 page document in two weeks, people with teams of law proffesors and dump trucks full of money do.
Aside from that, the allegation that we went to "war for oil" is simply, absurd.
Oh PUHHHHLEASE!
1st of all, do NOT chalk this up to the "Bush Administration" it makes you sound like some collge aged stoner wanna-be know-it-all who thinks that the only reliable source of information is blogs about the conspiracy of the government that are all hosted with angelfire.com
The truth of the matter is that after 9-11 we paniced, we made some bad decisions got ourselves into a bad situation. When i say we i mean WE. The dems in congress voted to start the war too.
My stance is that yes, now we're in a bad place, but there is very few people who are actually willing to do anything to get us out of it other than bury their heads in the sand. Guess which side of the aisle they sit on.
Okay, you win....that was a really good post :)
:). It would be nice if IBM had a virtual copy of OS/400 that i could run in qemu or vmware or something so that i could learn how it works......
I agree with you 100%....it just pisses me off that AS400 is IMPOSSIBLE for me to get my hands on.....because I REALLY want to play with it
Maybe i'm just bitter because all the nerds that i grew up around taught me that BSD/Linux was THE operating system for the server.....then when i found out how amazing OS/400 was, i really wanted to buy it....but i didn't have 30k just burning a hole in my checking account.
IMHO:
Photoshop is going to soon suffer the same problem that i see for IBM. Open source is really starting to gain momentum. My fellow art nerds and I are all poor. We can't afford to go out and buy expensive software like photoshop; so what do we do? We go out and buy a wacom, get ourselves a copy of the GIMP and go to work. When we start getting ourselves into decision making positions, what are we going to choose? A very expensive and (imho) difficult to use piece of software like photoshop? Or a very familiar, and 100% free piece of software like the gimp?
Similarly, IBM has really shot themselves in the foot with the OS/400 platform. Here you have a a really really rock solid piece of software, arguably one of the most stable operating system/platforms in existence today, but you have a problem. If I wanted to go out and learn OS/400, I mean REALLY learn it (the way that i can with Linux/BSD) I wouldn't be able to. It is FARRRR to expensive for a hobbyist like myselft to get into.
Now ask yourself, if I, or my equally poor nerd brethren, go out into the job market and are tasked with building a database for whoever we start working for, what are we going to choose? Are we going to go with the familiar, very capable, and very FREE database called MySQL or Postgres (running on top of a *nix of course)? Or are we going to opt for a very cumbersum (I mean this from the perspective of somebody who has never developed on it before, it might be very elegant for all i know) very expensive, and VERY unfamiliar database such as DB2 (which is what runs on OS/400).
Both IBM and adobe have shot themselves in the foot in this regard. Today's hobbyists are tomorrows decision makers, and they are going to choose what they are accustomed to.
And that is why it SUCKS to be the person in charge of security for a domain. Make the security too harsh and the users complain (with good reason) that they can't get anything done. Make things too lax, and you turn into an alcoholic schitzophrenic who does nothing but sit at home in the dark murmering about exploits and unencrypted telnet sessions that your entire company runs on, and how even the software providers out in north carolina won't implement SSL into their software because all of their programmers are from the 1970s even the guy who supposedly "knows-linux" and wants to run gentoo on the soekris box that you sent them to use as a firewall; you sit there alone, and paranoid that some russian script kid, or 14 year old digg user wanna-be l33t-sausage hack-zore is gonna come accross a username/pass and burn your precious servers to the ground!
The relation between beer/security can most properly be illustrated by this graph
Well if you would have read the article, you would have noticed that the balloon was flying at 120,000 feet. In this case, a balloon has serious advantages over a plane:
airplanes don't fly this high.
If we had one that did (hell, maybe we do) it would be hideously expensive to both A) Purchase and B) operate. Not to mention the fact that to sustain flight at that altitutde you would need some SERIOUS speed.
And about earth's atmosphere....the point of the balloon was to ESCAPE earth's atmosphere. In your own post, you admit that pictures taken from this balloon would be better than those from a ground-based telescope.
You know what costs ISPs even more money?
Not having any customers.
You're the type of person who gets looked at by their boss and told "This code is terrible, it is unbelievably user-unfriendly, and it barely even accomplishes the task required because you have implemented so many hoops that people have to jump over just to get anything done"
to which you respond:
"Well we should start requiring all of our receptionists to have degrees in computer science from now on!"
FAIL!
If you make your system so "secure" that even your own users cant use it...then you have basically just DOS'd yourself..... = fail.
Somehow, I don't think that you're going to get ISPs to turn off half of their customers' internet connection to fix a worm that the user doesn't even know they have/know how to remove.
Not if they make the paper sensitive to high intensity light. Put a disclaimer on it that says "Don't put this into a photocopier, or expose it to high heat/light....
you put it in the xerox and it turns completely black and never works again because "the circuitry is so delicate".
IT worked for the box office industry.
DO i really need to outline this for you?
You have 1 guy sitting at a desk all night whose job it is to disable accounts.
If somebody gets their key stolen and calls, he disables the account..then calls them back to confirm.
No, you didn't call me? Somebody is trying to lock you out? Well would you please ensure that you have your key with you by using it to log in?
You're logged in?
Okay, sorry to wake you, please come to the I.T. depertment tomorrow morning and we will issue you a new key (in case it was copied or something else spooky), we will be monitoring your account for unusual activity until then, have a nice night.
No:
lUser: 1.800.pas.swrd
Phone Operator: Hello, this is Ryan in the I.T. department, how may I help you?
lUser: Omg! i left my purse on the table in the restaurant, my key was in there....will you disable my account?
Phone Operator: Sure may i have the password?
lUser: The password is bananas
Phone Operator: No, thats not the password, you only get two more tries before I call the number we have on file for this user and ask her what the problem is.
lUser: AHHH AHHA AHHHHHH is the password, uhhh....... *click*
True, but it you create an easy way for a user to disable their own account this isn't as much of a problem. Create a 1.800 where you put in a (much easier) password that will allow you to disable access to your account. This way, if your key gets stolen, you just go into I.T. in the morning and have them issue you a new one.
Not to mention the fact that when talking about password, your biggest enemy is some phiser sitting in russia....who is NOT very likely to fly to the states to steal your key. If your data actually is important enough to justify a hiring somebody to steal it, then chances are you are using biometrics/bullets to lock people out anyhow. If you're not, then tell you CIO to stop spending money on frosted glass NOCs that are suspended from the ceiling above your data center that is kept at a constant 42 degress and tell him to start spending it on real engineers.
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WE ARE THE BORG, YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED
whoever modded me troll on this one. Maybe you didn't read the rest of the thread....above it were like 6 comments talking about how the kid did it by spoofing his caller ID, all of which were modded like +5 informative. When i responded....the comment i was responding to wasn't moderated at all.
Sir, please take your rational, knowledgable, and insightful comments elsewhere.
THIS IS SLASHDOT FOR FORD'S SAKE!
Sure. What parent was implying was that even if usenet was completely shut down (which you're right, would be a lot like trying to shut down DNS, since it works in much the same way), the community would have it back up and running at another domain in "3 days". Usenet is a system that has evolved for the last 20+ years to become what it is today. Even if people DID start hosting their own private usenet servers outside of the usenet that exists now, it would be nearly impossible to recreate the network that exists today. Chances are that it would exist in a form that FTP networks exist now on the scene; meaning each network has its own set of stuff and they don't share with each other (automatically, i'm not talking about runners).
Tunnel usenet over SSH? Have you ever USED usenet? Most servers these days support encryption, as well as connecting over port 80, so "tunneling it over SSH" would not only be COMPLETELY useless, but also an unnecessary strain on whatever box your tunneling it through. Not to mention the fact that you might be able to get an encrypted tunnel between two computers that way, but if you aren't using encryption back to the actual NNTP server....you're pooched.
;-)
But I would be happy to sell you some gold plated USB cables...you know, because the gold tips make it go faster!