Deutsch committed a fraud and should be required to repay his salary to the US Treasury, with interest and penalties.
Why should he be forced to repay his salary? He committed fraud during the hiring process, not (well not in the context of his academic degrees) while working. Also bear in mind that the human resources department at NASA bears some responsibility for the situation; they could have easily discovered this discrepency. I do understand that they're most likely overworked so I can't fault them too much.
As for prison, I know you said favor, but as far as I'm aware, there's no law against lying during a job interview. If there were, there would be a lot of people going to jail.
Wouldn't it be a lot better to think that problem out ahead of time and either agree to limits to ensure it NEVER EVER happens or how we plan to treat them once created?
I think the problem with this line of thinking is that by banning research in an attempt to prevent unknown problems from occurring in the future, then you prevent all of the potential positive outcomes from occurring too.
I'm more comfortable dealing with known problems than banning things because something bad could happen. If mankind had taken that approach, we probably wouldn't have been around for very long.
This sort of thing has been happening to people in Chicago that are attempting to photograph the Cloud Gate (aka bean, aka big blob of mercury) sculpture in Millenium Park. Apparently some overzealous security guards have been kicking photographers out of the (public) space because of copyright violations(?) and a lack of permit. This is despite city policy that only requires permits to be obtained by professional photographers. I'm not sure what the claim of copyright violation is all about; sure the plans for the sculpture are copyrighted, but I don't know how you can copyright a physical location that's accessible by the public. More information is available here.
I must admit that I'm part of this problem. I don't like DRM crippled products, but I have enough technical knowledge/skill to be able to work around any issues. I don't run any Windows systems so the copy protection is completely ineffective, pointless and self-defeating as far as I'm concerned.
To a certain extent I hope the public adopts these DRM crippled products en masse and then suffers for it. I don't have any illusions of proactive action being taken by legislative bodies to prevent harm to consumers equipment by overzealous DRM "solutions" and I certainly don't expect the public at large to have a clue. Let them buy these products and then find that they can't move content between devices or that their electronic devices become bug-ridden and (more) insecure as a result of DRM technologies.
Hey! That speech by Al Gore in Constitution Hall two weeks ago was great! Okay, I only heard about it because one of my friends works from home and has CSPAN on around the clock.
I'm not sure about DB2, but with regards to Oracle, it's not correct to think of it as just a database. If you are, then you probably shouldn't be running it as there are cheaper alternatives. Oracle bundles a gigantic stack of technologies: JVM, LDAP, geo-spatial, content management, text search, RDBMS, etc. Here's the documentation library for Oracle 9i; it's massive.
Here's a link to the classic paper, Fuzz Revisited. I'd provide a link to the first fuzz paper, but I'm not able to locate it.
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The machine might slow or freeze but an admin will notice this process and go into the users directory (as root) and type "ps -al" to see all the existing processes. Instead, it executes your "ps" virus and subsequently, the spinlocking stops with "ps" printed to output with the super user killing "la" and thinking everything is fixed.
Only one hell of a poor admin would fall for that. One of the cardinal rules is that you never put. in your PATH.
Schwartz also said the only relevant OSes left today are Linux, Windows and Solaris.
*sigh*, I probably shouldn't bother responding, but Schwartz left out a few very important operating systems, namely the three BSD distributions and AIX.
I honestly don't understand all of the hype surrounding Linux; I'd recommend FreeBSD over Suse, Red Hat, Debian, etc. any day. As for AIX, I can only assume that wasn't mentioned because it runs on IBMs Power processors which kick the crap out of Sun's gear as far as I/O throughput is concerned.
Because the DS is more fun to play than the PSP? I should know, I own both and the PSP is almost never used. The games for the PSP are typically rehashes of the games I already own for the PS2. Yes, I own some UMD movies, but there's no point in watching them unless I'm on a plane; otherwise, there's always a computer with a DVD-ROM drive near me. Music? I already own digital music players. The DS on the other hand is a unique gaming experience. Sure there are some really bad/boring games (er. demos), but there are some really great ones too (eg. Meteos). The PSP doesn't really offer anything new, while the DS does.
Nope, I have problems with them too. My hands/fingers will go numb after about fifteen minutes or so. That's not a good thing as long-term use is likely to lead to nerve damage. The smaller form factor is likely to make this problem even worse.
Wario Ware? That "game" blows; it's more appropriately called a demo. Borrow it from a friend, I think you'll be bored after ten minutes. Sorta like Nintendogs. Yeah, it's cool for a day or two, but then you realize just how few things you can actually do in the game and stop playing.
I picked up both a DS and PSP on their respective release dates. I'm an older gamer (been playing since the Atari 2600 days) and don't get a chance to use the portable systems while in transit anymore since I have to drive. I simply do not find the PSP enjoyable, I find it tired and boring. As for the games, they're simply the same ones I already own for the PS2. Movies? Unless I'm on a plane there's no point, there's always a DVD player and television/monitor where I'm at. Music? I already own portable digital music devices. Oh, and that analog "stick" really hurts my hand when playing Liberty City Stories (why can't I use the damn keypad?).
The DS, on the other hand, is pure gold. It offers a unique play experience that is not available on the consoles, and it supports my large collection of GBA games. The new design does sound interesting, but I'm concerned by the size reduction. As an adult I find that systems like the GBA are much too narrow; my fingers go numb after playing for only a few minutes.
Meh. It sounds like some women are marrying men right out of college and are then surprised that the man has no experience tending to a household and expects the wife to be mommy #2. Boys typically didn't help their mothers do the cooking, cleaning and babysitting when they were younger, why would women assume that such men will automatically feel responsible for these tasks when they get married?
I tend to believe that men who have lived by themselves after school and have actually had to take care of their own homes don't have such problems. It takes time to develop good housekeeping habits.
Where are all of the really dangerous viruses? It seems that all of the ones I've heard about recently didn't do a whole lot of damage, versus what they could have done.
It shouldn't be too difficult to develop an autopatcher virus; this would auto-propagate throughout a network and maintain a distributed vulnerability database that could be updated in real-time. The idea would be to automatically exploit and patch machines in a network as new vulnerabilities are discovered. Of course, the payload wouldn't necessarily be restricted to patching vulnerabilities. Once this sort of system was deployed, I can foresee it eventually reaching a critical mass where it simply could not be removed from the network.
I'd just like to thank you for doing your academic duty to report cheaters. I had a course in operating systems back in undergrad where about one-third of the class was caught cheating on a machine problem. This was not your typical code it up in one sitting machine problem, this was a twenty hour project that required writing a UNIX shell with redirection and job control. Well, the professor caught about a dozen students from one of the ethnic cliques cheating on this project. How did he handle it? Students who came to him and admitted what they had done were let off lightly, while the others received a score of 0 on the project. None of the students were reported to the College of Engineering despite the College claiming it had a policy of expulsion for those found guilty of academic dishonesty. The professor wouldn't even tell the class who the cheaters were. Needless to say, those of us in the class that did our own work were not very happy.
Until TA's, professors, departments, colleges and universities start treating academic dishonesty as a serious offense with expulsion from the university as a consequence, students will continue to cheat.
Okay, I'll risk asking the question. What evidence is there that viewing pornography is harmful to children? I suspect that the "save the children" aspect is simply being taken advantage of by anti-pornography groups seeking to push their agenda.
Anyways, with that in mind, what exactly does the author mean by "Trojan Horse"?
The report shows that 50% of organisations using open source software are paying for support and cite that as one of the main challenges for implementation.
Higgins says some software developers use open source as a professional services Trojan horse.
I think what Higgins is implying is that some developers push an OSS solution, knowing that the company is unable to support such a solution on their own (lack of experience/expertise), and then attempt to get a contract to provide support.
Really, I don't see this as being any different than a vendor pushing a closed source solution. In many cases you aren't going to be able to support the software yourself (new features, bugs, etc) so you sign a support contract with the vendor. I find the comment about 50% of organizations running OSS paying for support rather confusing. Don't most companies running close source software carry support? Actually, I'd expect the percentage to be much higher in this case.
Does anyone else find it ironic that many of the computers were infected by pirated copies of Sony's DRM'ed discs?
The data might also show how widespread piracy has become. The 52 music titles released with the XCP software were only released in North America, he said. However, the network apparently affected by the Sony BMG issue covered 135 countries. About 4.7 million discs were manufactured and about 2.1 million had sold, according to Sony statements.
"The global scope is the big mystery here," he said. "It is fairly likely that a lot of the discs were pirated."
I agree that RAID is not a substitute for incremental and full backups, however I should mention that three-way mirrors can be very useful (and simple) solutions for point-in-time recovery.
Add an 8 port 3ware SATA Raid controller (configured to RAID5)
I would highly recommend against a RAID-5 configuration. You're not going to save much money over RAID 1+0 and it's a ticking time bomb.
See here for a cost analysis, basically you save about 33.3% by going RAID-5, but the write performance is worse than a RAID 1+0 array.
Do the math for a multi-disk failure in a RAID-5 versus a RAID 1+0 system (let's say four disks). Both the RAID-5 and RAID 1+0 system will handle a single drive failure without any problems. Now, see what the odds are of the RAID system going down when a second drive fails; in the RAID-5 case it's 100%, in the RAID 0+1 case, it's only 33.3%. More information about this is available here.
I don't know about you, but having to possibly restore a terabyte array from either tape or optical media is not my idea of a good time; spend the extra cash for RAID 1+0.
I was assured that Sprint would not sell my information to a third party.
I use Sprint for cellular service. While their privacy policy states that they won't share my information to anyone except for a certain group of people/companies, I've always wondered what prevents someone on that list from selling the information to another party.
I can relate to your experiences; if you get in the habit of making quick changes to production systems, eventually you're going to hose the thing, knock it off-line, etc. I work for a publicly traded company and now have to deal with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance issues. Having to document and get approval for every minor change to the production systems greatly improves their availability. I've also learned that if in doubt, don't.
I can accept that I am human. I can accept that I make mistakes sometimes. Anyone that thinks they don't should be kept even farther away from production systems.
The line I always use is that, "robust processes must anticipate and be able to cope with failures/mistakes". Over the years, I've seen way too many instances where a process will work only so long as every step is done correctly each and every time. One mistake and you can have one hell of a mess to clean up.
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Why should he be forced to repay his salary? He committed fraud during the hiring process, not (well not in the context of his academic degrees) while working. Also bear in mind that the human resources department at NASA bears some responsibility for the situation; they could have easily discovered this discrepency. I do understand that they're most likely overworked so I can't fault them too much.
As for prison, I know you said favor, but as far as I'm aware, there's no law against lying during a job interview. If there were, there would be a lot of people going to jail.
I think the problem with this line of thinking is that by banning research in an attempt to prevent unknown problems from occurring in the future, then you prevent all of the potential positive outcomes from occurring too.
I'm more comfortable dealing with known problems than banning things because something bad could happen. If mankind had taken that approach, we probably wouldn't have been around for very long.
This sort of thing has been happening to people in Chicago that are attempting to photograph the Cloud Gate (aka bean, aka big blob of mercury) sculpture in Millenium Park. Apparently some overzealous security guards have been kicking photographers out of the (public) space because of copyright violations(?) and a lack of permit. This is despite city policy that only requires permits to be obtained by professional photographers. I'm not sure what the claim of copyright violation is all about; sure the plans for the sculpture are copyrighted, but I don't know how you can copyright a physical location that's accessible by the public. More information is available here.
I must admit that I'm part of this problem. I don't like DRM crippled products, but I have enough technical knowledge/skill to be able to work around any issues. I don't run any Windows systems so the copy protection is completely ineffective, pointless and self-defeating as far as I'm concerned.
To a certain extent I hope the public adopts these DRM crippled products en masse and then suffers for it. I don't have any illusions of proactive action being taken by legislative bodies to prevent harm to consumers equipment by overzealous DRM "solutions" and I certainly don't expect the public at large to have a clue. Let them buy these products and then find that they can't move content between devices or that their electronic devices become bug-ridden and (more) insecure as a result of DRM technologies.
Hey! That speech by Al Gore in Constitution Hall two weeks ago was great! Okay, I only heard about it because one of my friends works from home and has CSPAN on around the clock.
I'm not sure about DB2, but with regards to Oracle, it's not correct to think of it as just a database. If you are, then you probably shouldn't be running it as there are cheaper alternatives. Oracle bundles a gigantic stack of technologies: JVM, LDAP, geo-spatial, content management, text search, RDBMS, etc. Here's the documentation library for Oracle 9i; it's massive.
Here's a link to the classic paper, Fuzz Revisited. I'd provide a link to the first fuzz paper, but I'm not able to locate it.
Only one hell of a poor admin would fall for that. One of the cardinal rules is that you never put . in your PATH.
Yeah, well what happens when there's a test available for Autism and women start terminating pregnancies?
*sigh*, I probably shouldn't bother responding, but Schwartz left out a few very important operating systems, namely the three BSD distributions and AIX.
I honestly don't understand all of the hype surrounding Linux; I'd recommend FreeBSD over Suse, Red Hat, Debian, etc. any day. As for AIX, I can only assume that wasn't mentioned because it runs on IBMs Power processors which kick the crap out of Sun's gear as far as I/O throughput is concerned.
Because the DS is more fun to play than the PSP? I should know, I own both and the PSP is almost never used. The games for the PSP are typically rehashes of the games I already own for the PS2. Yes, I own some UMD movies, but there's no point in watching them unless I'm on a plane; otherwise, there's always a computer with a DVD-ROM drive near me. Music? I already own digital music players. The DS on the other hand is a unique gaming experience. Sure there are some really bad/boring games (er. demos), but there are some really great ones too (eg. Meteos). The PSP doesn't really offer anything new, while the DS does.
Nope, I have problems with them too. My hands/fingers will go numb after about fifteen minutes or so. That's not a good thing as long-term use is likely to lead to nerve damage. The smaller form factor is likely to make this problem even worse.
Wario Ware? That "game" blows; it's more appropriately called a demo. Borrow it from a friend, I think you'll be bored after ten minutes. Sorta like Nintendogs. Yeah, it's cool for a day or two, but then you realize just how few things you can actually do in the game and stop playing.
I picked up both a DS and PSP on their respective release dates. I'm an older gamer (been playing since the Atari 2600 days) and don't get a chance to use the portable systems while in transit anymore since I have to drive. I simply do not find the PSP enjoyable, I find it tired and boring. As for the games, they're simply the same ones I already own for the PS2. Movies? Unless I'm on a plane there's no point, there's always a DVD player and television/monitor where I'm at. Music? I already own portable digital music devices. Oh, and that analog "stick" really hurts my hand when playing Liberty City Stories (why can't I use the damn keypad?).
The DS, on the other hand, is pure gold. It offers a unique play experience that is not available on the consoles, and it supports my large collection of GBA games. The new design does sound interesting, but I'm concerned by the size reduction. As an adult I find that systems like the GBA are much too narrow; my fingers go numb after playing for only a few minutes.
Meh. It sounds like some women are marrying men right out of college and are then surprised that the man has no experience tending to a household and expects the wife to be mommy #2. Boys typically didn't help their mothers do the cooking, cleaning and babysitting when they were younger, why would women assume that such men will automatically feel responsible for these tasks when they get married?
I tend to believe that men who have lived by themselves after school and have actually had to take care of their own homes don't have such problems. It takes time to develop good housekeeping habits.
Where are all of the really dangerous viruses? It seems that all of the ones I've heard about recently didn't do a whole lot of damage, versus what they could have done.
It shouldn't be too difficult to develop an autopatcher virus; this would auto-propagate throughout a network and maintain a distributed vulnerability database that could be updated in real-time. The idea would be to automatically exploit and patch machines in a network as new vulnerabilities are discovered. Of course, the payload wouldn't necessarily be restricted to patching vulnerabilities. Once this sort of system was deployed, I can foresee it eventually reaching a critical mass where it simply could not be removed from the network.
I'd just like to thank you for doing your academic duty to report cheaters. I had a course in operating systems back in undergrad where about one-third of the class was caught cheating on a machine problem. This was not your typical code it up in one sitting machine problem, this was a twenty hour project that required writing a UNIX shell with redirection and job control. Well, the professor caught about a dozen students from one of the ethnic cliques cheating on this project. How did he handle it? Students who came to him and admitted what they had done were let off lightly, while the others received a score of 0 on the project. None of the students were reported to the College of Engineering despite the College claiming it had a policy of expulsion for those found guilty of academic dishonesty. The professor wouldn't even tell the class who the cheaters were. Needless to say, those of us in the class that did our own work were not very happy.
Until TA's, professors, departments, colleges and universities start treating academic dishonesty as a serious offense with expulsion from the university as a consequence, students will continue to cheat.
Okay, I'll risk asking the question. What evidence is there that viewing pornography is harmful to children? I suspect that the "save the children" aspect is simply being taken advantage of by anti-pornography groups seeking to push their agenda.
I think what Higgins is implying is that some developers push an OSS solution, knowing that the company is unable to support such a solution on their own (lack of experience/expertise), and then attempt to get a contract to provide support.
Really, I don't see this as being any different than a vendor pushing a closed source solution. In many cases you aren't going to be able to support the software yourself (new features, bugs, etc) so you sign a support contract with the vendor. I find the comment about 50% of organizations running OSS paying for support rather confusing. Don't most companies running close source software carry support? Actually, I'd expect the percentage to be much higher in this case.
I agree that RAID is not a substitute for incremental and full backups, however I should mention that three-way mirrors can be very useful (and simple) solutions for point-in-time recovery.
I would highly recommend against a RAID-5 configuration. You're not going to save much money over RAID 1+0 and it's a ticking time bomb. See here for a cost analysis, basically you save about 33.3% by going RAID-5, but the write performance is worse than a RAID 1+0 array.
Do the math for a multi-disk failure in a RAID-5 versus a RAID 1+0 system (let's say four disks). Both the RAID-5 and RAID 1+0 system will handle a single drive failure without any problems. Now, see what the odds are of the RAID system going down when a second drive fails; in the RAID-5 case it's 100%, in the RAID 0+1 case, it's only 33.3%. More information about this is available here. I don't know about you, but having to possibly restore a terabyte array from either tape or optical media is not my idea of a good time; spend the extra cash for RAID 1+0.
Actually, the Barbie Liberation Organization switched the voice boxes and put the packages back on the shelves.
I use Sprint for cellular service. While their privacy policy states that they won't share my information to anyone except for a certain group of people/companies, I've always wondered what prevents someone on that list from selling the information to another party.
The line I always use is that, "robust processes must anticipate and be able to cope with failures/mistakes". Over the years, I've seen way too many instances where a process will work only so long as every step is done correctly each and every time. One mistake and you can have one hell of a mess to clean up.