Actually, the main barrier seems to be the political/military calculus that China is a "threat" nation. Therefore we must avoid at all costs allowing any of our holy aerospace technology from slipping into their hands due to the dual-use nature of rocketry, guidance, et. al. technology.
Witness prosecutions against defense contractors who either deliberately or accidentally transfer aerospace tech to China.
From the article, all the Russians are supplying is the heavy lift vehicle and probably a earth-to-mars transfer stage. Sounds like a juicy launch contract for a Soyuz or Proton booster, but not much else. It is probably good for the old cash flow situation for the Russian Space Agency.
I'm suprised the Chinese didn't elect to use a Long March rocket but it may not have quite the throw they need for the transfer stage. With a 2009 launch date, I'm assuming they are pretty far along in planning and building the payload and are just looking for a reliable launch vehicle. A US launcher is out for various reasons having to do with the US and Chinese rocketeers and space agencies being unable to play nice.
Gonzo is not crap. Gonzo and New Journalism were a reaction to by a society under a lot of sress following the more staid 1950's. It was fuelled by the rising tide of drugs, rock, and pop culture, and the subject matter was often those sources of social tension, the war, and famously in Thompson's case, Nixon The Crook.
I think the reason "Gonzo" and New Journalism is so underappreciated today is two-fold. One, there is just no longer any capacity to be shocked by anything. Gonzo at it's best is shocking writing that jolts one out of a staid, or concrete mindset. But what is there left to be shocked about in 2006? I think one could argue pretty persuasively that Steven Colbert does Gonzo Journalism every night on Colbert Report. But Colbert Report is considered satire, not journalism and is largely dismissed by mainstream media. Ditto John Stewart, of course.
The second reason for the depreciation of Gonzo is simply dilution through imitation. There are/were so many HST wannabes (including yours truly) that the style has been run into the ground. Few people know or acknowledge that Wolfe, Thompson, Terry Southern, et. al. were serious writers who worked very dilligently at the craft of writing. It all looks thrown together, but that was artifice. For example, Thompson as a young writer used to spend evenings retyping Hemingway and Fitzgerald so that he could get a feel for the words as they were laid down on the page. Few so-called Gonzo writers today are that serious about their craft.
More's the pity. We could use some good Gonzo writing nowadays. With all the hair-pulling within and without the media and its close observers with regards to whether "objective" journalism and "journalism as usual" serves the purposes of an informed republic, how refreshing would it be to see a serious journal take the wraps off a new writer in the gonzo style willing to rip the status quo a new asshole. Giant bats are optional.
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It is true that the spectators have caused their share of crashes. The crowds on the slopes of the mountain stages are just ridiculous. In towns, they are usually kept behind barriers. Hushvod got cut jockeying for position in a mass sprint in a town.
But you are wrong about the brakes. At anything like reasonable speeds, say below 40mph I can lock up the tires just fine in my 2004 Raleigh Grand Prix road bike with a good, hard squeeze. I'd skid out of control and take about half the life out of my $30 tires if I did so though. But stopping in an emergency is not a problem. The problem is that at 25+ mph/40+ kph and in very close (elbow-to-elbow) proximity to other riders and spectators there isn't really time to react. One second you're riding along, then bang! ass over tits onto the pavement. Been there, done that.
You are wrong because there is no compelling commercial use of space (yet). And don't start with tourism. There is no way space tourism is going to support the kind of funding required to create a safe, reusable, manned orbital vehicle.
To put it another way, why did Isabella give Columbus the ships and money? Because she was looking for a quicker, safer, more profitable method of trade with India and the Spice Islands. Right now, there is nothing either in orbit or beyond that the market is willing to say, "Hey, if we just spend a couple of billion dollars, we could get all that stuff to sell back here."
The killer app for private orbital and lunar spacefilght will be for solar arrays about the time oil hits $100/bbl.
I think that the poster has an undue faith in the philosophy of the Wikipeadea as opposed to its reality. An interesting but fraught analogy would be Marx's ideas about Socialism versus the real-world implementation of them. Such noble purposes ruined by mere human frailty.
McHenry's point is that despite the excellent ideals behind Wikipedia, which would seem self-evidently true to those of us inclined to believe "in faith" the potentiality of community-based-development, the reality is that in the area of research and writing an encyclopedea (as opposed to software) that:
Many people are essentially lazy. Many might come upon an article that is incomplete or poorly written but for many reasons will not take the time to correct it even if they are qualified to do so.
Many people are essentially arrogant. Many might come upon an article that is incomplete or poorly written and will take the time to correct it even if they are notqualified to do so either in subject knowledge or language use.
Many people are essentially stupid. Many might come upon an article that is incomplete or poorly written and not know the difference.
Some people (especially adolecents) are cruel and destructive and will muck up perfectly good articles just because they can.
Thus, the maintainers (bureaucrats?) are at a bit of a disadvantage as they have a constantly moving target.
A modest proposal then. Why not have a "perfect" flag for articles? This flag would indicate that in the opinion of a certain number of maintainers (or heaven forbit, subject matter experts) the article in question is a close to perfect as possible. The article would then be locked for editing and it would require a special appeal to the bureaucrats to reopen it to change it; for the addition of newly brought to light information, for example.
In this way the bureaucrats can concentrate on the areas that need continuing work without having to continuously go over settled articles. But the community can still bubble up new information and content for existing articles, but in a more controlled manner. Just a thought. I'm certain I'm not the first to bring it up as it seems perfectly obvious.
Oh, and lastly the poster needs to get over the whole "the Internet will save us/print people are dinos who don't get it" attitude. McHenry made a living managing the process of updating an encyclopedia. Just because he did it in a for-profit environment in a medium where cost made revisions an annual event, does not mean he doesn't have insight into the area of maintaining an open encyclopedia in digital form. Don't kill the messenger.
Okay, clear this up for us. I Enoch Root one man in both Cryptonomicon and the Baroque Cycle or several? In Cryptonomicon Enoch talks about his "religious order," and I posit that "Enoch" is some sort of (mortal) atificial construct with mind that can be transferred when that "body" wears out/is killed or what have you - a clone perhaps.
Are you ever going to clear up this mystery in another book or are you going to let us twist in the wind forever?
And just thanks for all the great writing over the years. Your books are what I pack on long trips and have kept me company in Poland, Russia, California, and an excruciating mid-December move from Chicago to Dubuque, Iowa. I'd like to make a special plug aimed at oter Slashdotters for the Wired article Hacker Tourist: Mother Earth Motherboard which kept me fascinated during a long trip up the Pacific Coast Highway in 1996. I'd buy your grocery list, man.
IBM is using the old Gillete (sic) business model. Give the razor (OS) away for free and make money on the blades (hardware, services). The other, current high-stakes gamble on this age-old business model is the iPod/iTunes store, but that turns the blade/razor model on its head; make little or nothing on the blades/songs and make more per unit on the razor/player.
The article points out that this is a high-risk gamble because IBM's agressive feeding of the OSS movement may be sowing the seeds of their failure. MySQL and JBoss are two excellent examples of how OSS can undercut IBM's own or partners' products. Although only the really large firms can afford in-house experts to boot-strap them in these technologies, those are excatly the cash cows IBM would like to benefit from under this strategy. Are they looking more downmarket?
At the end of the day, succeed or fail, IBM has done a world of good for the anti-MS, pro OSS, pro-Linux movements. I consider that a Good Thing(tm). It would be nice if it worked out for IBM too but, hey as someone who works in those areas, I'll win either way.:)
Check out this pic. Message to Burt Rutan: Wanna offset some costs? Start selling those shirts and hats with that logo on it baby. There's gotta be one ride's worth of hydrazine in that market at least.
According to what little info is avialable from Janes The ship is one of two which were initially ordered in 1995. Military procurement being what it is, no matter where you go, the ships were probably designed with NT in mind, circa '95. However, I doubt NT will last longer than the first refit or post-sea trials.
The US and UK navies are both experimenting with a number of computer-control options ranging from MS solutions, to various *nixen. Of course there is the now aporcyphal story of the NT crash that put the USS Yorktown dead in the water. Short answer, it may have been built on the NT platform, but lots of replacement systems exist now and I doubt NT will survive long enough for the ship to enter the active list.
That is my biggest headache. I work in a health care facility where HIPPA security is mandantory. Yet half of the "HIPPA compliant" or ancillary applications that people use require Admin privs to run properly.
I could lock this stuff down in a NY Minute if I didn't have lazy programmers and shit MS security to deal with.
Correct. Yes, there are work arounds and it is possible to put together a reasonable facimilie of an Exchange server. If you both the time and the ability.
The Library I work for is currently running Exchange 5.5 on a very underpowered server that is way overdue for replacement. Now, we are faced with using up almost 60% of our FY2004 hardware/software budget just to get a new server, which of course, will need to be W2K Server and E2K.
We are in the process of moving web, dns, dhcp to Linux boxen All three reside on afforementioned Exchange server (don't ask, it was that way when I started in October.) But our users are totally dependent on Exchange functionality. I could get them used to a new interface, but if it didn't replicate the functionality it would be a non-starter.
If, on the other hand, someone would build a decent server platfrom that did not require hacking together four or five different sub-protocols (hey, I'm an army of one here, that means I do it all from server admin, to web dezine, to swapping out defective sound cards, to helping the public Internet users find what they're looking for on Google) that was a more-or-less complete solution "out of the box" and was priced reasonably, we would be all over it as I am sure lots of municipalities, libraries and non-profits would as well.
Hey, get a clue. Mitch Kapor had almost nothing to do with the development of the Lotus Notes/Domino that you speak of. He left the company when Notes was in it's infancy. Everything you mention is the fault of later Lotus developers and IBM.
I wonder if (this report is in fact true) this will add fuel to the WV and MA appeal to the settlement? Can those states use post-judgement behavior to show that the settlement is ineffective and that M$ is not changing its Monopolistic ways?
It's theft. Granted, 95% of what you steal comes from big corporations that are behaving like utter morons and trying to protect their traditional monoploy from technolgy that is ripping (love the pun) their industry to shreds. But, you still steal that 5% from the artists you purport to like, admire, whatever.
I will stipulate that the music industry's lack of desire or ability to adapt reflected in turning their customer base into criminals makes it almost a moral imperitive to rip them off. But let's not forget that at the end of the day, we need a new system for rewarding the production of valuable IP, be it music, literature, software or whatever.
It's been said here ad nauseum but still bears repeating (prefereably with a baseball bat with the words reverse inscribed).
"Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither."
The apparent mandate for the President's current security policy on Tuesday just confirms that most American's don't give a shit that the security apparatus can do whatever it wants (as long as they only do it to "rag-heads" and other non-Amurican types) in order to maintain our protective cocoon of blissful, consumerist ignorance.
Well, that's all well and good but the subject of the message is integrating Mac OS X with AD. I've played around with the third-party Novell client for OS X and I merely find it, okay.
Besides that you've completely missed the point as the poor sod above is simply looking for some help keeping his new Unix boxes hooked up to the insanely complex and costly network that his bosses have imposed on him, which he (or she) has little or no conrtol over.
Well you can certainly run Linux on Apple hardware. There are several PPC-specific distros; LinuxPPC running the 2.4.9 kernel, Debian, Yellow Dog, running a RedHat distro, and my personal favorite, the SuSE port running the SuSE 7.3 distro.
Darwin will compile and run on x86 hardware. It is basically the core OS of Mac OS X without the Aqua interface and the Quartz 2D rendering system. One uses X11 instead. As the OpenOffice article states, they have succeeded in producing a stable build (albeit without printer support, etc.) for Darwin.
Personally, I find OS X to be a "pretty darn good" Unix implementation. Notice I don't say great. From a pure performance standpoint the hardware still lags behind Linux running on a high-end x86 box. Aqua/Quartz is quite a CPU/Memory hog, which is a problem on the hardware architecture Apple is stuck with. But, I find the combination of *nix and commercial software availability, e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator and MS Office compelling. And hey, if you ever really need pure processing power, you can always boot into CLI only.
A delicious pork tenderloin recipie for the grill.
1/4 cup brown sugar (packed) 3 tsp. dried thyme (or 1 1/2 fresh) 2 tsp. each of: ground allspice, ginger powder, mustard powder 1 tsp. each of: salt & pepper 2 pork tenderloin strips (one package)
Combine all ingredients (except the tenderloin, put it aside for now) and mix well. Prepare grill. Rub mixture on tenderloins to coat wel. Let stand for 10 minutes (sugar will dissolve a bit). Just prior to placing on the grill, add a bit more of the rub.
Grill over medium hot coals turning frequently. The crust will darken and blacken, so a meat thermometer should be used to make sure the tenderloins are cooked thouroughly (160 - 180F/70-83C).
I have very little faith that a large American studio can do any justice whatsoever to such a low-key, non action, non "Hollywood ending" vehicle.
That said, here is the IMDB entry. Which lists it as in production with Steve Soderbegh as director. He is responsible for Sex, Lies and Videotape, The Limey, Erin Brokovich, Traffic, and Oceans Eleven. So, it is possible he might do something worthwhile with the material. Depends on what the studio lets him get away with.
The virus has to be an executable attached either to a web page or an e-mail. The problems with this are manifest. In the case of e-mail, The Man either has to spam a whole universe of "suspects" or email a particular "suspect." In the case of a web-delivery, the "suspect(s)" must be induced to go to a particular web page. Unless of course The Man is going to force slashdot, Yahoo!, et. al. to load this baby. Many problems here.
So, assuming they get past all these hurdles then they need to depend on the fact that the "suspect" who is clearly security-minded -- this is key-logging software that one supposes is desinged to capture encryption keys as well as URLS, etc. -- is not going to have his security settings set way up or in any other way notice the delivery of the virus payload. Again, big hurdles.
Lastly, The Man depends on the "suspect(s)" not noticing any increase in network traffic as their every keystroke goes back out over the net as a transmission and ACK from the Carnivore box. One assumes that if the user goes into offline mode the wee beastie caches the data for later transmission. Another potential giveaway.
Finally, at each of these hurdles the critter is subject to capture, examination and reverse engineering by "suspects", suspicious sysadmins and clueful civil libertarians. After that is is only a matter of time before the code is out of the bag so to speak and The Man then gets stuck in a vicious circle of re-coding and redeploying the critter to overcome defenses.
In other words, it just doesn't make any sense. I can't beleive it would pass muster with any reasoably intelligent technologist in federal law enforcement let alone in the Courts.
The next level seems clear: to round up convicted murders and psychopaths and have them tear one another up, then sell the grisly pictures over the Web to anybody with $10. Maybe fires, traffic accidents, shootings, or the next federal and state executions could be broadcast that way, too, a new revenue source for embattled popular media. Believe me, it will happen.
Sign me up! Robert Hanssen v. Sidney Bangham would be one way to reduce the population of repeated violent offenders in jail and make room for more hackers and casual drug users.
But seriously though Jon, you seem like you really want to come out and say "there 'outta be a law!" But you would never say that. Right?:)
As a parent of two kids who are not yet old enough to surf such trash, but who soon will be, the attitude exemplified by CBS really worries me. Sure, I am trying to be a good role model for my kids and to bring them up to be moral people with a good dose of common sense. But one cannot be ever vigilant. I really don't want my kids to be able to just hop on to crap like this. (Granted, it's my own fault if I let them get ahold of the CC numbers).
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Actually, the main barrier seems to be the political/military calculus that China is a "threat" nation. Therefore we must avoid at all costs allowing any of our holy aerospace technology from slipping into their hands due to the dual-use nature of rocketry, guidance, et. al. technology.
Witness prosecutions against defense contractors who either deliberately or accidentally transfer aerospace tech to China.
From the article, all the Russians are supplying is the heavy lift vehicle and probably a earth-to-mars transfer stage. Sounds like a juicy launch contract for a Soyuz or Proton booster, but not much else. It is probably good for the old cash flow situation for the Russian Space Agency.
I'm suprised the Chinese didn't elect to use a Long March rocket but it may not have quite the throw they need for the transfer stage. With a 2009 launch date, I'm assuming they are pretty far along in planning and building the payload and are just looking for a reliable launch vehicle. A US launcher is out for various reasons having to do with the US and Chinese rocketeers and space agencies being unable to play nice.
Gonzo is not crap. Gonzo and New Journalism were a reaction to by a society under a lot of sress following the more staid 1950's. It was fuelled by the rising tide of drugs, rock, and pop culture, and the subject matter was often those sources of social tension, the war, and famously in Thompson's case, Nixon The Crook.
I think the reason "Gonzo" and New Journalism is so underappreciated today is two-fold. One, there is just no longer any capacity to be shocked by anything. Gonzo at it's best is shocking writing that jolts one out of a staid, or concrete mindset. But what is there left to be shocked about in 2006? I think one could argue pretty persuasively that Steven Colbert does Gonzo Journalism every night on Colbert Report. But Colbert Report is considered satire, not journalism and is largely dismissed by mainstream media. Ditto John Stewart, of course.
The second reason for the depreciation of Gonzo is simply dilution through imitation. There are/were so many HST wannabes (including yours truly) that the style has been run into the ground. Few people know or acknowledge that Wolfe, Thompson, Terry Southern, et. al. were serious writers who worked very dilligently at the craft of writing. It all looks thrown together, but that was artifice. For example, Thompson as a young writer used to spend evenings retyping Hemingway and Fitzgerald so that he could get a feel for the words as they were laid down on the page. Few so-called Gonzo writers today are that serious about their craft.
More's the pity. We could use some good Gonzo writing nowadays. With all the hair-pulling within and without the media and its close observers with regards to whether "objective" journalism and "journalism as usual" serves the purposes of an informed republic, how refreshing would it be to see a serious journal take the wraps off a new writer in the gonzo style willing to rip the status quo a new asshole. Giant bats are optional.
It is true that the spectators have caused their share of crashes. The crowds on the slopes of the mountain stages are just ridiculous. In towns, they are usually kept behind barriers. Hushvod got cut jockeying for position in a mass sprint in a town.
But you are wrong about the brakes. At anything like reasonable speeds, say below 40mph I can lock up the tires just fine in my 2004 Raleigh Grand Prix road bike with a good, hard squeeze. I'd skid out of control and take about half the life out of my $30 tires if I did so though. But stopping in an emergency is not a problem. The problem is that at 25+ mph/40+ kph and in very close (elbow-to-elbow) proximity to other riders and spectators there isn't really time to react. One second you're riding along, then bang! ass over tits onto the pavement. Been there, done that.
You are wrong because there is no compelling commercial use of space (yet). And don't start with tourism. There is no way space tourism is going to support the kind of funding required to create a safe, reusable, manned orbital vehicle.
To put it another way, why did Isabella give Columbus the ships and money? Because she was looking for a quicker, safer, more profitable method of trade with India and the Spice Islands. Right now, there is nothing either in orbit or beyond that the market is willing to say, "Hey, if we just spend a couple of billion dollars, we could get all that stuff to sell back here."
The killer app for private orbital and lunar spacefilght will be for solar arrays about the time oil hits $100/bbl.
I think that the poster has an undue faith in the philosophy of the Wikipeadea as opposed to its reality. An interesting but fraught analogy would be Marx's ideas about Socialism versus the real-world implementation of them. Such noble purposes ruined by mere human frailty.
McHenry's point is that despite the excellent ideals behind Wikipedia, which would seem self-evidently true to those of us inclined to believe "in faith" the potentiality of community-based-development, the reality is that in the area of research and writing an encyclopedea (as opposed to software) that:
- Many people are essentially lazy. Many might come upon an article that is incomplete or poorly written but for many reasons will not take the time to correct it even if they are qualified to do so.
- Many people are essentially arrogant. Many might come upon an article that is incomplete or poorly written and will take the time to correct it even if they are notqualified to do so either in subject knowledge or language use.
- Many people are essentially stupid. Many might come upon an article that is incomplete or poorly written and not know the difference.
- Some people (especially adolecents) are cruel and destructive and will muck up perfectly good articles just because they can.
Thus, the maintainers (bureaucrats?) are at a bit of a disadvantage as they have a constantly moving target.A modest proposal then. Why not have a "perfect" flag for articles? This flag would indicate that in the opinion of a certain number of maintainers (or heaven forbit, subject matter experts) the article in question is a close to perfect as possible. The article would then be locked for editing and it would require a special appeal to the bureaucrats to reopen it to change it; for the addition of newly brought to light information, for example.
In this way the bureaucrats can concentrate on the areas that need continuing work without having to continuously go over settled articles. But the community can still bubble up new information and content for existing articles, but in a more controlled manner. Just a thought. I'm certain I'm not the first to bring it up as it seems perfectly obvious.
Oh, and lastly the poster needs to get over the whole "the Internet will save us/print people are dinos who don't get it" attitude. McHenry made a living managing the process of updating an encyclopedia. Just because he did it in a for-profit environment in a medium where cost made revisions an annual event, does not mean he doesn't have insight into the area of maintaining an open encyclopedia in digital form. Don't kill the messenger.
Okay, clear this up for us. I Enoch Root one man in both Cryptonomicon and the Baroque Cycle or several? In Cryptonomicon Enoch talks about his "religious order," and I posit that "Enoch" is some sort of (mortal) atificial construct with mind that can be transferred when that "body" wears out/is killed or what have you - a clone perhaps.
Are you ever going to clear up this mystery in another book or are you going to let us twist in the wind forever?
And just thanks for all the great writing over the years. Your books are what I pack on long trips and have kept me company in Poland, Russia, California, and an excruciating mid-December move from Chicago to Dubuque, Iowa. I'd like to make a special plug aimed at oter Slashdotters for the Wired article Hacker Tourist: Mother Earth Motherboard which kept me fascinated during a long trip up the Pacific Coast Highway in 1996. I'd buy your grocery list, man.
IBM is using the old Gillete (sic) business model. Give the razor (OS) away for free and make money on the blades (hardware, services). The other, current high-stakes gamble on this age-old business model is the iPod/iTunes store, but that turns the blade/razor model on its head; make little or nothing on the blades/songs and make more per unit on the razor/player.
:)
The article points out that this is a high-risk gamble because IBM's agressive feeding of the OSS movement may be sowing the seeds of their failure. MySQL and JBoss are two excellent examples of how OSS can undercut IBM's own or partners' products. Although only the really large firms can afford in-house experts to boot-strap them in these technologies, those are excatly the cash cows IBM would like to benefit from under this strategy. Are they looking more downmarket?
At the end of the day, succeed or fail, IBM has done a world of good for the anti-MS, pro OSS, pro-Linux movements. I consider that a Good Thing(tm). It would be nice if it worked out for IBM too but, hey as someone who works in those areas, I'll win either way.
Check out this pic. Message to Burt Rutan: Wanna offset some costs? Start selling those shirts and hats with that logo on it baby. There's gotta be one ride's worth of hydrazine in that market at least.
Oh, certainly. Remember that article was from 1995.
According to what little info is avialable from Janes The ship is one of two which were initially ordered in 1995. Military procurement being what it is, no matter where you go, the ships were probably designed with NT in mind, circa '95. However, I doubt NT will last longer than the first refit or post-sea trials.
The US and UK navies are both experimenting with a number of computer-control options ranging from MS solutions, to various *nixen. Of course there is the now aporcyphal story of the NT crash that put the USS Yorktown dead in the water. Short answer, it may have been built on the NT platform, but lots of replacement systems exist now and I doubt NT will survive long enough for the ship to enter the active list.
That is my biggest headache. I work in a health care facility where HIPPA security is mandantory. Yet half of the "HIPPA compliant" or ancillary applications that people use require Admin privs to run properly.
I could lock this stuff down in a NY Minute if I didn't have lazy programmers and shit MS security to deal with.
Correct. Yes, there are work arounds and it is possible to put together a reasonable facimilie of an Exchange server. If you both the time and the ability.
The Library I work for is currently running Exchange 5.5 on a very underpowered server that is way overdue for replacement. Now, we are faced with using up almost 60% of our FY2004 hardware/software budget just to get a new server, which of course, will need to be W2K Server and E2K.
We are in the process of moving web, dns, dhcp to Linux boxen All three reside on afforementioned Exchange server (don't ask, it was that way when I started in October.) But our users are totally dependent on Exchange functionality. I could get them used to a new interface, but if it didn't replicate the functionality it would be a non-starter.
If, on the other hand, someone would build a decent server platfrom that did not require hacking together four or five different sub-protocols (hey, I'm an army of one here, that means I do it all from server admin, to web dezine, to swapping out defective sound cards, to helping the public Internet users find what they're looking for on Google) that was a more-or-less complete solution "out of the box" and was priced reasonably, we would be all over it as I am sure lots of municipalities, libraries and non-profits would as well.
Hey, get a clue. Mitch Kapor had almost nothing to do with the development of the Lotus Notes/Domino that you speak of. He left the company when Notes was in it's infancy. Everything you mention is the fault of later Lotus developers and IBM.
I wonder if (this report is in fact true) this will add fuel to the WV and MA appeal to the settlement? Can those states use post-judgement behavior to show that the settlement is ineffective and that M$ is not changing its Monopolistic ways?
It's theft. Granted, 95% of what you steal comes from big corporations that are behaving like utter morons and trying to protect their traditional monoploy from technolgy that is ripping (love the pun) their industry to shreds. But, you still steal that 5% from the artists you purport to like, admire, whatever.
I will stipulate that the music industry's lack of desire or ability to adapt reflected in turning their customer base into criminals makes it almost a moral imperitive to rip them off. But let's not forget that at the end of the day, we need a new system for rewarding the production of valuable IP, be it music, literature, software or whatever.
Stealing isn't it.
If you are referring to the relationship between record company executives and artists then, right on. If not, what the f888 are you talking about?
Word.
It's been said here ad nauseum but still bears repeating (prefereably with a baseball bat with the words reverse inscribed).
"Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither."
The apparent mandate for the President's current security policy on Tuesday just confirms that most American's don't give a shit that the security apparatus can do whatever it wants (as long as they only do it to "rag-heads" and other non-Amurican types) in order to maintain our protective cocoon of blissful, consumerist ignorance.
Ouch. Suprised myself with vehamence there.
Well, that's all well and good but the subject of the message is integrating Mac OS X with AD. I've played around with the third-party Novell client for OS X and I merely find it, okay.
:P
Besides that you've completely missed the point as the poor sod above is simply looking for some help keeping his new Unix boxes hooked up to the insanely complex and costly network that his bosses have imposed on him, which he (or she) has little or no conrtol over.
-cman-
MCSE, CNE, AppleCare
Well you can certainly run Linux on Apple hardware. There are several PPC-specific distros; LinuxPPC running the 2.4.9 kernel, Debian, Yellow Dog, running a RedHat distro, and my personal favorite, the SuSE port running the SuSE 7.3 distro.
Darwin will compile and run on x86 hardware. It is basically the core OS of Mac OS X without the Aqua interface and the Quartz 2D rendering system. One uses X11 instead. As the OpenOffice article states, they have succeeded in producing a stable build (albeit without printer support, etc.) for Darwin.
Personally, I find OS X to be a "pretty darn good" Unix implementation. Notice I don't say great. From a pure performance standpoint the hardware still lags behind Linux running on a high-end x86 box. Aqua/Quartz is quite a CPU/Memory hog, which is a problem on the hardware architecture Apple is stuck with. But, I find the combination of *nix and commercial software availability, e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator and MS Office compelling. And hey, if you ever really need pure processing power, you can always boot into CLI only.
A delicious pork tenderloin recipie for the grill.
1/4 cup brown sugar (packed)
3 tsp. dried thyme (or 1 1/2 fresh)
2 tsp. each of: ground allspice, ginger powder, mustard powder
1 tsp. each of: salt & pepper
2 pork tenderloin strips (one package)
Combine all ingredients (except the tenderloin, put it aside for now) and mix well. Prepare grill. Rub mixture on tenderloins to coat wel. Let stand for 10 minutes (sugar will dissolve a bit). Just prior to placing on the grill, add a bit more of the rub.
Grill over medium hot coals turning frequently. The crust will darken and blacken, so a meat thermometer should be used to make sure the tenderloins are cooked thouroughly (160 - 180F/70-83C).
I have very little faith that a large American studio can do any justice whatsoever to such a low-key, non action, non "Hollywood ending" vehicle.
That said, here is the IMDB entry. Which lists it as in production with Steve Soderbegh as director. He is responsible for Sex, Lies and Videotape, The Limey, Erin Brokovich, Traffic, and Oceans Eleven. So, it is possible he might do something worthwhile with the material. Depends on what the studio lets him get away with.
Well this is just getting silly.
The virus has to be an executable attached either to a web page or an e-mail. The problems with this are manifest. In the case of e-mail, The Man either has to spam a whole universe of "suspects" or email a particular "suspect." In the case of a web-delivery, the "suspect(s)" must be induced to go to a particular web page. Unless of course The Man is going to force slashdot, Yahoo!, et. al. to load this baby. Many problems here.
So, assuming they get past all these hurdles then they need to depend on the fact that the "suspect" who is clearly security-minded -- this is key-logging software that one supposes is desinged to capture encryption keys as well as URLS, etc. -- is not going to have his security settings set way up or in any other way notice the delivery of the virus payload. Again, big hurdles.
Lastly, The Man depends on the "suspect(s)" not noticing any increase in network traffic as their every keystroke goes back out over the net as a transmission and ACK from the Carnivore box. One assumes that if the user goes into offline mode the wee beastie caches the data for later transmission. Another potential giveaway.
Finally, at each of these hurdles the critter is subject to capture, examination and reverse engineering by "suspects", suspicious sysadmins and clueful civil libertarians. After that is is only a matter of time before the code is out of the bag so to speak and The Man then gets stuck in a vicious circle of re-coding and redeploying the critter to overcome defenses.
In other words, it just doesn't make any sense. I can't beleive it would pass muster with any reasoably intelligent technologist in federal law enforcement let alone in the Courts.
[i/][blockquote]If you can keep your head when all about you;
Are loosing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself wne all men doubt you;
But make allowances for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting;
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies;
Or being hated, don't giive way to hating'
And yet don't look too good, not talk too wise...
You will be a man my son.
-Rudyard Kipling
Thanks Phil for everything.
Sign me up! Robert Hanssen v. Sidney Bangham would be one way to reduce the population of repeated violent offenders in jail and make room for more hackers and casual drug users.
But seriously though Jon, you seem like you really want to come out and say "there 'outta be a law!" But you would never say that. Right?
As a parent of two kids who are not yet old enough to surf such trash, but who soon will be, the attitude exemplified by CBS really worries me. Sure, I am trying to be a good role model for my kids and to bring them up to be moral people with a good dose of common sense. But one cannot be ever vigilant. I really don't want my kids to be able to just hop on to crap like this. (Granted, it's my own fault if I let them get ahold of the CC numbers).