My experience (limited though it is) with virtualization makes me doubt the objectivity of TFA. Specifically, the comments regarding VMWare appear to be pretty far off given my experience that MSWindows (XP at least) runs fatster in a virtual environment than it does natively, which is the opposite of what the article claims.
I respectfully disagree. Where I work, we have 2 full class B allocations. I am never more than two hops away from any internal host. If I need to know where somebody is, I can query the routers and find out which port on which switch the device is plugged into- which gets me at least to the room. And that's only if the machine isn't registered in the DHCP system, and hasn't been logged into the Novell network (either of which get me a username, and therefore, a phone number.
Absolute worst-case scenario is someone who's machine is spewing spam because they clicked on a link in an email that slipped through the virus filters, and for some reason they're plugged into an undocumented port- in which case we either turn off the port, or have the network drop traffic for that MAC address, note the MAC and IP in a ticket, and assign it to the HelpDesk so that when this miscreant calls in, 'cause he can't get to his porn sites anymore, we know who he is and where he is.
Need to register a new machine? No problem. Users just submit the info (MAC, userid, building, room #, phone #) online (or if they have a dedicated "tech person" we give that person access to enter directly into DCHP) and an intern takes the two seconds to verify it and clicks a mouse a couple of times to put in in the queue to be entered into DHCP. (Max. wait time is 1hr.)
If realize it's a big initial investment (need to be able to do layer-2 switching and vlans), and the investment make your network topology needs to be as horizontal (and well documented) as possible, but for the most part, with a good DHCP setup and taking information gathered via other tools, the only thing we need to manage IP addressing is a machine to handle the web interface for DHCP and a spreadsheet of the subnets and where they are (although some even span multiple buildings, and in a couple of cases, across state lines)
...is still just a guess.
"A government report based on computer modeling..."
So- a projection from the government based on a computer model says that this is what might happen if the global temperature were to rise 3 degrees. Of course, given that computer models are just themselves guesses about how the various systems that affect climate and weather interact anyway, I remain unimpressed. I'll be taking this with more than a grain of salt. Can someone pick me up a salt lick?
And if you're going to extend the schema with a CanLogin (or simmilar) attribute, It shouldn't be too hard to write something in (Perl/Python/Whatever) that could flip that value based on time of day (maybe even as cron job). Now all you have to worry about for the authentication is whether the CanLogin is set. All your other systems just check that attribute in LDAP when they pass along the authentication credentials. You could even store the time limits in LDAP and have your script flip the attribute based on those. It'd be kludgy as all hell, but it would probably work.
This should come as no surprise to most slashdotters. I mean, come on- How many times have you been trying to figure out a way to code a particular function or determine the best way to approach a problem, only to wake up in the middle of the night (or whenever your normal sleep period occurs) with the solution. I've driven multiple roommates insane with what they call "crazy" behavior- Waking up at 3 or 4 AM, covering every scrap of paper I can get my hands on with code, and passing back out.
Roommate: "What's all this?"
Me: "Don't touch that. I have all those pages laid out in a specific order for a reason. I just figured out a better way to do the database interaction for [project] last night."
Roommate: "Dude, you are so freaking wierd."
I'm not sure I'd bother switching. MySQL 5 supports all sorts of cool features. Combine that with the fact that you already know the product and the decision as to whether or not to switch should be a no-brainer. Unless, of course, you need some feature that isn't in MySQL- but I haven't run into that particular problem yet.
"They're not making any money from already-sold devices."
How exactly do you figure this? In some cases, the money is directly from corporations (licensing fees for BlackBerry Enterprise Servers, which are required to fully integrate the device into a coroprate environment). For individual users, there is usually a "BlackBerry plan" through the service provider- a portion of which is paid to RIM for providing blackberry internet email service. In my case, There is a line item (separate from my voice plan) on my bill for unlimited data and BlackBerry service. A portion of that money is paid as a licensing fee or service fee by my wireless provider to RIM. The bulk of RIM's revenue actually comes from the service, not the individual device sales.
It is my understanding that vaccines are generally strain-specific to the virus they target (hence the new Flu shot every year). Since this vaccine is for the current H5N1 Strain, which does not seem to transmit human-to-human effectively enough to really pose much of a pandemic risk, what good is it going to be against a mutated strain that actually poses a risk? Would it be effective as a starting point for a vaccine against a future strain? Or is this just something that will save the animals but have minimal if any human application?
Everyone's musical tastes are different, and this extends to how we classify the music we listen to. Would you classify US3 as Jazz? Acid Jazz? some variation of Rap? It depends on how YOU percieve it. No online databse is gonna be perfect. Just suck it up and label everything how you think it should be labelled as you are ripping your CDs. Even then you will have to deal with crossover bands that blend elements of different musical styles. I've alost completely done away with this kind of classification for some of my music, as once my collection gained any depth, classifying some songs/artists/albums became next to impossible.
Global Warming is not fact. Correlation does not imply causality. The fact is that there is insufficient data to draw any type of meaningful conclusion about long-term trends in temperature or climate. Besides, even if Global Warming is in fact occurring, it's as likely to be cause by the decline in piracy on the high seas as anything else.
Amen- the truth is, nobody knows what will happen (or if we will see any drastic climate changes at all). Hell, when the local weather guy is incapable of even looking out the window and telling people whether or not it's raining right now, how is the general public supposed to put much stock in any "prediction" or "climate forecast" that anyone comes up with? In reality, these are all just guesses, and in most cases, they are guesses based on assumptions based on guesses about how different elements of the ecosystem and atmosphere interact to affect weather and climate. Until someone actually collects sufficient data to come up with a testable and provable hypothesis, I'll just file all of this under "FUD"
I meant "in theory" and "if everything is done legally." Obviously, this is next to impossible to enforce. *BUT* if you look at the fine print on your "off the shelf" CDs, they have a bit in there about public performance not being on e of the licensed uses.
When a DJ buys a CD or record, they actually buy a special "public performace-licensed" version which costs more than the standard consumer version. This is similar to the touch tunes-type jukeboxes which (usually) have stickers or periodic displays that say "the music you are listening to is licensed." One of the bars I go to all the time actually pays for a public performance license so that the bartenders can bring in music if they want.
In short- just like buying a DVD does not give you the right to screen the movie and charge admission, buying a CD does not give you the right to perform it publicly (especially in an instance where you are making money off it).
More likely is that years of smoking pot would make this less necessary. The most current research indicates that cannabanoids (delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol being chief among them) stimulate processes in the brain that protect against both damage from chronic causes (i.e. Alzheimer's) and acute trauma. A Google search for "Alzheimer's" and "Marijuana" should yield some good starting points. And, pot has the added bonus of probably being much cheaper than any new drug or treatment that the pharmecutical companies are likely to come out with anytime soon. Just remember to fight terrorism and buy domestic.
It looks to me like Sony went with the "shotgun" approach with the titles to be released, with at least one title for every type of consumer. I'm not sure how well this will work, since if there aren't enough titles that I want, I'm not gonna buy into the new format. I think they'd be better served to pick a market segment that is likely to be early adopters (i.e. Geeks) and release titles which that target segment is likely to want. Until then, I'll stick to the XViD movies on my 1.25TB array:-D
How would someone exploit the password issues on a GroupWise or LotusNotes- based BES install? Maybe I should be glad that RIM hasn't actually managed to come up with a backend-independent version (say, something that speaks IMAP or POP3), which would result in more servers being vulnerable.
Also- given some of the other flaws that I've discovered with BlackBerries (which is not to say that I'm not an addict), something like this is not wholly unexpected. I mean, they haven't yet managed to make the timestamps on messages sent from handhelds actually conform to the relevant RFC (2822), and I've had an open trouble ticket with RIM on that issue for the better part of a year.
How about this simple change-
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In order for a patent to be valid, the entity (person or company) owning the patent must produce at least one (1) working, real, physical example of whatever it is that they are patenting. Otherwise, the product/concept/business process/whatever else we've decided is patentable this week is subject to invalidation if someone else can produce a working example first. This would completely eliminate "patent trolls" and would provide a much larger incentive for entities seeking patents to bring their ideas/concepts/products to market more quickly.
I'm much less worried about the peak bandwidth than the latency, especially on wireless. Plus, beyond a certain point, what good does the excess bandwidth do? I've got much better devices than my phone for viewing/playing/streaming large files anyways.
Better than the last dual-boot option that I used. (Although honetly, with virtualization, who needs to dual-boot anymore?)
The last system I had that was a dual-boot, if you booted off the hard drive you got windows. If you wanted linux, you booted off the linux boot floppy.
Is someone keeping track of the kludge factor here?:-)
The procedural problems will need to be ironed out before we reach "Gattaca"-type analysis of the population. Just watch out- from the time they are born, Big Brother will be predicting the time and cause of your kids' death.
"Ambient Findability is divided into seven sections that track the journey from simply defining what the author means by findability through a history of man's search for location awareness in both the physical environment and in the cyber world"
Again- "Huh?" So, I have to read the stupid book just to find out generally what it's about? Is it just me, or does that sound retarded?
And while we're at it- let's stop making up meaningless words and phrases. If it's truly a new concept, that's one thing. Otherwise, unless it's in a dictionary, I just wish peoplw would use words and phrases that *are*
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My experience (limited though it is) with virtualization makes me doubt the objectivity of TFA. Specifically, the comments regarding VMWare appear to be pretty far off given my experience that MSWindows (XP at least) runs fatster in a virtual environment than it does natively, which is the opposite of what the article claims.
I respectfully disagree. Where I work, we have 2 full class B allocations. I am never more than two hops away from any internal host. If I need to know where somebody is, I can query the routers and find out which port on which switch the device is plugged into- which gets me at least to the room. And that's only if the machine isn't registered in the DHCP system, and hasn't been logged into the Novell network (either of which get me a username, and therefore, a phone number.
Absolute worst-case scenario is someone who's machine is spewing spam because they clicked on a link in an email that slipped through the virus filters, and for some reason they're plugged into an undocumented port- in which case we either turn off the port, or have the network drop traffic for that MAC address, note the MAC and IP in a ticket, and assign it to the HelpDesk so that when this miscreant calls in, 'cause he can't get to his porn sites anymore, we know who he is and where he is.
Need to register a new machine? No problem. Users just submit the info (MAC, userid, building, room #, phone #) online (or if they have a dedicated "tech person" we give that person access to enter directly into DCHP) and an intern takes the two seconds to verify it and clicks a mouse a couple of times to put in in the queue to be entered into DHCP. (Max. wait time is 1hr.)
If realize it's a big initial investment (need to be able to do layer-2 switching and vlans), and the investment make your network topology needs to be as horizontal (and well documented) as possible, but for the most part, with a good DHCP setup and taking information gathered via other tools, the only thing we need to manage IP addressing is a machine to handle the web interface for DHCP and a spreadsheet of the subnets and where they are (although some even span multiple buildings, and in a couple of cases, across state lines)
...is still just a guess. "A government report based on computer modeling..." So- a projection from the government based on a computer model says that this is what might happen if the global temperature were to rise 3 degrees. Of course, given that computer models are just themselves guesses about how the various systems that affect climate and weather interact anyway, I remain unimpressed. I'll be taking this with more than a grain of salt. Can someone pick me up a salt lick?
And if you're going to extend the schema with a CanLogin (or simmilar) attribute, It shouldn't be too hard to write something in (Perl/Python/Whatever) that could flip that value based on time of day (maybe even as cron job). Now all you have to worry about for the authentication is whether the CanLogin is set. All your other systems just check that attribute in LDAP when they pass along the authentication credentials. You could even store the time limits in LDAP and have your script flip the attribute based on those. It'd be kludgy as all hell, but it would probably work.
This should come as no surprise to most slashdotters. I mean, come on- How many times have you been trying to figure out a way to code a particular function or determine the best way to approach a problem, only to wake up in the middle of the night (or whenever your normal sleep period occurs) with the solution. I've driven multiple roommates insane with what they call "crazy" behavior- Waking up at 3 or 4 AM, covering every scrap of paper I can get my hands on with code, and passing back out.
Roommate: "What's all this?"
Me: "Don't touch that. I have all those pages laid out in a specific order for a reason. I just figured out a better way to do the database interaction for [project] last night."
Roommate: "Dude, you are so freaking wierd."
I'm not sure I'd bother switching. MySQL 5 supports all sorts of cool features. Combine that with the fact that you already know the product and the decision as to whether or not to switch should be a no-brainer. Unless, of course, you need some feature that isn't in MySQL- but I haven't run into that particular problem yet.
Or the pain from the Repetitive Stress injuries for that matter?
"They're not making any money from already-sold devices."
How exactly do you figure this? In some cases, the money is directly from corporations (licensing fees for BlackBerry Enterprise Servers, which are required to fully integrate the device into a coroprate environment). For individual users, there is usually a "BlackBerry plan" through the service provider- a portion of which is paid to RIM for providing blackberry internet email service. In my case, There is a line item (separate from my voice plan) on my bill for unlimited data and BlackBerry service. A portion of that money is paid as a licensing fee or service fee by my wireless provider to RIM. The bulk of RIM's revenue actually comes from the service, not the individual device sales.
It is my understanding that vaccines are generally strain-specific to the virus they target (hence the new Flu shot every year). Since this vaccine is for the current H5N1 Strain, which does not seem to transmit human-to-human effectively enough to really pose much of a pandemic risk, what good is it going to be against a mutated strain that actually poses a risk? Would it be effective as a starting point for a vaccine against a future strain? Or is this just something that will save the animals but have minimal if any human application?
Everyone's musical tastes are different, and this extends to how we classify the music we listen to. Would you classify US3 as Jazz? Acid Jazz? some variation of Rap? It depends on how YOU percieve it. No online databse is gonna be perfect. Just suck it up and label everything how you think it should be labelled as you are ripping your CDs. Even then you will have to deal with crossover bands that blend elements of different musical styles. I've alost completely done away with this kind of classification for some of my music, as once my collection gained any depth, classifying some songs/artists/albums became next to impossible.
Global Warming is not fact. Correlation does not imply causality. The fact is that there is insufficient data to draw any type of meaningful conclusion about long-term trends in temperature or climate. Besides, even if Global Warming is in fact occurring, it's as likely to be cause by the decline in piracy on the high seas as anything else.
Amen- the truth is, nobody knows what will happen (or if we will see any drastic climate changes at all). Hell, when the local weather guy is incapable of even looking out the window and telling people whether or not it's raining right now, how is the general public supposed to put much stock in any "prediction" or "climate forecast" that anyone comes up with? In reality, these are all just guesses, and in most cases, they are guesses based on assumptions based on guesses about how different elements of the ecosystem and atmosphere interact to affect weather and climate. Until someone actually collects sufficient data to come up with a testable and provable hypothesis, I'll just file all of this under "FUD"
Oh yeah, that's right- I *have* seen this movie once before. Or maybe it's twice.
I meant "in theory" and "if everything is done legally." Obviously, this is next to impossible to enforce. *BUT* if you look at the fine print on your "off the shelf" CDs, they have a bit in there about public performance not being on e of the licensed uses.
Actually- incorrect.
When a DJ buys a CD or record, they actually buy a special "public performace-licensed" version which costs more than the standard consumer version. This is similar to the touch tunes-type jukeboxes which (usually) have stickers or periodic displays that say "the music you are listening to is licensed." One of the bars I go to all the time actually pays for a public performance license so that the bartenders can bring in music if they want.
In short- just like buying a DVD does not give you the right to screen the movie and charge admission, buying a CD does not give you the right to perform it publicly (especially in an instance where you are making money off it).
More likely is that years of smoking pot would make this less necessary. The most current research indicates that cannabanoids (delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol being chief among them) stimulate processes in the brain that protect against both damage from chronic causes (i.e. Alzheimer's) and acute trauma. A Google search for "Alzheimer's" and "Marijuana" should yield some good starting points. And, pot has the added bonus of probably being much cheaper than any new drug or treatment that the pharmecutical companies are likely to come out with anytime soon. Just remember to fight terrorism and buy domestic.
It looks to me like Sony went with the "shotgun" approach with the titles to be released, with at least one title for every type of consumer. I'm not sure how well this will work, since if there aren't enough titles that I want, I'm not gonna buy into the new format. I think they'd be better served to pick a market segment that is likely to be early adopters (i.e. Geeks) and release titles which that target segment is likely to want. Until then, I'll stick to the XViD movies on my 1.25TB array :-D
How would someone exploit the password issues on a GroupWise or LotusNotes- based BES install? Maybe I should be glad that RIM hasn't actually managed to come up with a backend-independent version (say, something that speaks IMAP or POP3), which would result in more servers being vulnerable.
Also- given some of the other flaws that I've discovered with BlackBerries (which is not to say that I'm not an addict), something like this is not wholly unexpected. I mean, they haven't yet managed to make the timestamps on messages sent from handhelds actually conform to the relevant RFC (2822), and I've had an open trouble ticket with RIM on that issue for the better part of a year.
In order for a patent to be valid, the entity (person or company) owning the patent must produce at least one (1) working, real, physical example of whatever it is that they are patenting. Otherwise, the product/concept/business process/whatever else we've decided is patentable this week is subject to invalidation if someone else can produce a working example first. This would completely eliminate "patent trolls" and would provide a much larger incentive for entities seeking patents to bring their ideas/concepts/products to market more quickly.
I'm much less worried about the peak bandwidth than the latency, especially on wireless. Plus, beyond a certain point, what good does the excess bandwidth do? I've got much better devices than my phone for viewing/playing/streaming large files anyways.
Better than the last dual-boot option that I used. (Although honetly, with virtualization, who needs to dual-boot anymore?)
:-)
The last system I had that was a dual-boot, if you booted off the hard drive you got windows. If you wanted linux, you booted off the linux boot floppy.
Is someone keeping track of the kludge factor here?
In Nature, as in many other things- Form follows function.
The procedural problems will need to be ironed out before we reach "Gattaca"-type analysis of the population. Just watch out- from the time they are born, Big Brother will be predicting the time and cause of your kids' death.
is "Ambient Findablility?"
"Ambient Findability is divided into seven sections that track the journey from simply defining what the author means by findability through a history of man's search for location awareness in both the physical environment and in the cyber world"
Again- "Huh?" So, I have to read the stupid book just to find out generally what it's about? Is it just me, or does that sound retarded?
And while we're at it- let's stop making up meaningless words and phrases. If it's truly a new concept, that's one thing. Otherwise, unless it's in a dictionary, I just wish peoplw would use words and phrases that *are*
If one actually reads TFA, the project was presented in Berlin, but the hack was done in Austria. The reporter was in Berlin, hence the "BERLIN-"