Create an selinux policy to ensure that this software doesn't do anything weird. Give it no access to your filesystem (it shouldn't need it) and ability to use libnet (or whatever it uses to generate the packets). Voilla, paranoia (mostly) gone.
Agreed. My housemate coined the term 'available source', which I think is a far better term for products where the source code is available, but that source comes with some restrictions (such as all patches/feature additions having to go through the copyright holder).
Methinks we should stop using 'open' and replace it with 'available' for some of these things?
If employee voluntarily leaves the job, they aren't eligible for unemployment. I imagine that there are things in the tax code that save the employer money in that case (anyone?). At the very least, 'firing' someone is difficult, unless the company is downsizing. In exchange for compliance, the company will give glowing reviews of the employee.
Of course, if you make things difficult and expensive for the employer, they probably won't be a very good reference...
I had the benefit of meeting him at a conference once (within the last few months). When asked what Solaris 10 does that SELinux can't, he said, "What's SELinux?"
Tickets typically cost, what, $50~100 for general admission to a big act?
$250 - $50~100 == $150~200 in anticipated "lost" profits per ticketholder due to music piracy
Yeah, I usually spent $150~200 on records for a band that I see live (riiiiight). Bear in mind that that's $200 net...given that the typical CD sale gives an artist let's say $5 profit (that's being generous, because artists usually get a bigger cut of the record sales at concerts), which means that concert promoters expect every audience member to buy approximately 40 cds (or 30 cds and a t-shirt).
Clearly, p2p filesharing is at fault! Back in the good old days, people used to bring wheeled carts to concerts just to carry all the loot that they bought home with them! I guess we'll have to raise the prices *appropriately*!
The OS is so good at single-processor scheduling that allowing the CPUs to take care of who does what will effect better performance than splitting up the tasks among the processors at the OS level.
I thought OSes were only so good at multiprocessor scheduling because things can only be done in parallel to a certain level of granularity -- data dependencies, data locking, and other problems cause stalls in how well multithreading can work.
I guess what we're all trying to figure out: how does 'figuring out what stuff should be in what thread at the hardware level instead of at the OS level' work? Logic is logic, whether its done in hardware or software -- if a set of operations simply can't be broken down into separate threads and scheduled separately in software, how do we expect to break down the logically equivalent set of operations into threads in hardware?
I tried to post the above article on my Myspace message board, but it never actually gets posted (gets filtered out). I ran it through a l33tsp34k filter and it will post just fine.
Kind of scary, if only because people probably don't expect the service to do that kind of filtering.
Did anyone else immediately think of Snow Crash when they read this? I'm guessing Neal Stephenson did a lot of acid when he wrote that novel. I'm guessing that this guy did a lot more acid than Neal if he believes there is any truth to it.
EPA figures. I know they're not accurate, but highway driving is pretty much the best scenario for standard engines, and worst for hybrids.
Please please go back and read the EPA figures before saying this. Also read my real world experience, as well as that of everyone else who has done an analysis of city vs. highway driving before saying that. Hybrids actually get better mileage on highway than in city. I'm not sure where this misconception comes from...I hear it all the time...but I always get better mileage on the highway in my friend's civic, as do all the other hybrid drivers I've talked to (civic, insight, and prius as well).
Until it makes economic sense to purchase one, people won't.
I'm purchasing one in a few weeks (civic). I'm a person. And I'm not alone...89,000 americans have also taken the plunge.
While I realize it doesn't make economic sense (it will take me about 4 years to save enough on gas given how much I drive), I'm doing it because I'm an idealist: if I vote with my dollars that alternative vehicles are what I want, I hope that Honda will invest more R&D dollars in the technology (either hybrid or fuel cell) to make something even better down the road...
Especially when the hybrid version gets only ~6mpg more in city driving, and 1 mpg worse in highway, where I do half to three-quarters my driving.
I've been driving my friend's '04 civic hybrid a lot lately, since she has two of them:). I get 46-47 mpg city (13mpg better than the best non-hybrid civic) and 49mpg highway (11mpg better). My numbers are from my real-world driving versus EPA on the other car, where'd you get the "1 mpg worse in highway" figure from?
From what I recall, the Toyota Prius gets even better gas mileage than the civic (with the invention of CVT, standard shift is my guilty pleasure, I guess), and I know the Insight gets above 60mpg in real-world driving.
has currently unknown failure rate and repair costs is too much for a 'neat toy'.
The Honda Insight has been out since 2000, so the tech is 5 years old (technically 6 in "car years", since the 2000 model was introduced around this time of year in 1999). I haven't seen or heard about any problems with the motors (gas or electric), just a few recalls on the headlights and airbags and things that are typical with any car. I've got a friend with a 2000 Insight, she hasn't had anything odd go wrong in her 160,000 miles (a set of CV joints that cost $200 more total to replace has been the only major repair so far). Another pal has two civic hybrids, one from '03 (50k), one from '04(30k), and neither has had any issues. I think the "when something goes wrong" issue is kind of a moot point.
Still, it could end up costing Dell a bit of money just supporting the hardware without a commercial operating system. If someone calls to say that their modem is defective, it would require someone who actually has a clue to answer the call and be sure that's what is wrong before sending out the prepaid shipping label boxes and things...
Not that I'm defending Microsoft, but there could be a simple explanation for this:
Dell knows what support for a machine running XP costs, and they haven't got a really good idea of what it costs to support the same machine with FreeDOS. When in doubt, charge more.
Logic dictates that everybody buying the machine with FreeDOS will be relatively computer-savvy and thus won't need support, but humans have proven logic wrong on a number of occasions...
I heard a report on this earlier in the week on NPR. The interview (sorry, RealAudio is the only option for listening to the report) seemed to indicate that all the recipients up to this point had really really serious health problems besides just having bad hearts. I wonder what choice someone has if they are deemed too unhealthy/high risk for a heart transplant? Sit and wait to die? Serious bummer...
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Create an selinux policy to ensure that this software doesn't do anything weird. Give it no access to your filesystem (it shouldn't need it) and ability to use libnet (or whatever it uses to generate the packets). Voilla, paranoia (mostly) gone.
Agreed. My housemate coined the term 'available source', which I think is a far better term for products where the source code is available, but that source comes with some restrictions (such as all patches/feature additions having to go through the copyright holder).
Methinks we should stop using 'open' and replace it with 'available' for some of these things?
It's all about benefits (I suspect).
If employee voluntarily leaves the job, they aren't eligible for unemployment. I imagine that there are things in the tax code that save the employer money in that case (anyone?). At the very least, 'firing' someone is difficult, unless the company is downsizing. In exchange for compliance, the company will give glowing reviews of the employee.
Of course, if you make things difficult and expensive for the employer, they probably won't be a very good reference...
I had the benefit of meeting him at a conference once (within the last few months). When asked what Solaris 10 does that SELinux can't, he said, "What's SELinux?"
At least he asked.
Tickets typically cost, what, $50~100 for general admission to a big act?
$250 - $50~100 == $150~200 in anticipated "lost" profits per ticketholder due to music piracy
Yeah, I usually spent $150~200 on records for a band that I see live (riiiiight). Bear in mind that that's $200 net...given that the typical CD sale gives an artist let's say $5 profit (that's being generous, because artists usually get a bigger cut of the record sales at concerts), which means that concert promoters expect every audience member to buy approximately 40 cds (or 30 cds and a t-shirt).
Clearly, p2p filesharing is at fault! Back in the good old days, people used to bring wheeled carts to concerts just to carry all the loot that they bought home with them! I guess we'll have to raise the prices *appropriately*!
The OS is so good at single-processor scheduling that allowing the CPUs to take care of who does what will effect better performance than splitting up the tasks among the processors at the OS level.
I thought OSes were only so good at multiprocessor scheduling because things can only be done in parallel to a certain level of granularity -- data dependencies, data locking, and other problems cause stalls in how well multithreading can work.
I guess what we're all trying to figure out: how does 'figuring out what stuff should be in what thread at the hardware level instead of at the OS level' work? Logic is logic, whether its done in hardware or software -- if a set of operations simply can't be broken down into separate threads and scheduled separately in software, how do we expect to break down the logically equivalent set of operations into threads in hardware?
Myspace is owned by Rupert Murdoch & Company. Before anyone confuses me with a conspiracy theorist, they really do censor what you can write via Myspace. Article text is here: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interes ting-people/200601/msg00095.html .
I tried to post the above article on my Myspace message board, but it never actually gets posted (gets filtered out). I ran it through a l33tsp34k filter and it will post just fine.
Kind of scary, if only because people probably don't expect the service to do that kind of filtering.
The prize site ( http://winxponmac.com/ ) is 403'ing. Maybe the prizegivers are worried? :)
I guess he never heard of Godwin's Law.
Did anyone else immediately think of Snow Crash when they read this? I'm guessing Neal Stephenson did a lot of acid when he wrote that novel. I'm guessing that this guy did a lot more acid than Neal if he believes there is any truth to it.
Geography is not a problem as we are used to working in a distributed manner.
Just remember that B.A. CanHackus doesn't like to fly.
here.
Not to be a prick, but are there any planets orbiting a star perhaps a bit below the belt?
"fruit flies" is a complete sentence, not a noun-noun compound.
I fly.
You fly.
He/She/It flies.
Fruit flies.
I don't know what happens if only the rear seats are occupied
I believe the dome light slowly fades out, and funk starts playing on the radio...
In set C I can't see the rotated image. Is my visual neural net in need of an upgrade? I thought I was young...:(.
Would be nice if they included a little button to go through the images slowly so I can feel sorry for myself.
EPA figures. I know they're not accurate, but highway driving is pretty much the best scenario for standard engines, and worst for hybrids.
Please please go back and read the EPA figures before saying this. Also read my real world experience, as well as that of everyone else who has done an analysis of city vs. highway driving before saying that. Hybrids actually get better mileage on highway than in city. I'm not sure where this misconception comes from...I hear it all the time...but I always get better mileage on the highway in my friend's civic, as do all the other hybrid drivers I've talked to (civic, insight, and prius as well).
Until it makes economic sense to purchase one, people won't.
:). I get 46-47 mpg city (13mpg better than the best non-hybrid civic) and 49mpg highway (11mpg better). My numbers are from my real-world driving versus EPA on the other car, where'd you get the "1 mpg worse in highway" figure from?
I'm purchasing one in a few weeks (civic). I'm a person. And I'm not alone...89,000 americans have also taken the plunge.
While I realize it doesn't make economic sense (it will take me about 4 years to save enough on gas given how much I drive), I'm doing it because I'm an idealist: if I vote with my dollars that alternative vehicles are what I want, I hope that Honda will invest more R&D dollars in the technology (either hybrid or fuel cell) to make something even better down the road...
Especially when the hybrid version gets only ~6mpg more in city driving, and 1 mpg worse in highway, where I do half to three-quarters my driving.
I've been driving my friend's '04 civic hybrid a lot lately, since she has two of them
From what I recall, the Toyota Prius gets even better gas mileage than the civic (with the invention of CVT, standard shift is my guilty pleasure, I guess), and I know the Insight gets above 60mpg in real-world driving.
has currently unknown failure rate and repair costs is too much for a 'neat toy'.
The Honda Insight has been out since 2000, so the tech is 5 years old (technically 6 in "car years", since the 2000 model was introduced around this time of year in 1999). I haven't seen or heard about any problems with the motors (gas or electric), just a few recalls on the headlights and airbags and things that are typical with any car. I've got a friend with a 2000 Insight, she hasn't had anything odd go wrong in her 160,000 miles (a set of CV joints that cost $200 more total to replace has been the only major repair so far). Another pal has two civic hybrids, one from '03 (50k), one from '04(30k), and neither has had any issues. I think the "when something goes wrong" issue is kind of a moot point.
Peace,
Reid
i++; // Incremement i by 1 // check if i less than 3 // print "hello world" to screen // if (i 3)
if (i 3){
println("hello, world");
}
Bummer that.
Still, it could end up costing Dell a bit of money just supporting the hardware without a commercial operating system. If someone calls to say that their modem is defective, it would require someone who actually has a clue to answer the call and be sure that's what is wrong before sending out the prepaid shipping label boxes and things...
Not that I'm defending Microsoft, but there could be a simple explanation for this:
Dell knows what support for a machine running XP costs, and they haven't got a really good idea of what it costs to support the same machine with FreeDOS. When in doubt, charge more.
Logic dictates that everybody buying the machine with FreeDOS will be relatively computer-savvy and thus won't need support, but humans have proven logic wrong on a number of occasions...
Especially given today's poll...which finger is your least favorite? That's the one the data should go on...
I heard a report on this earlier in the week on NPR. The interview (sorry, RealAudio is the only option for listening to the report) seemed to indicate that all the recipients up to this point had really really serious health problems besides just having bad hearts. I wonder what choice someone has if they are deemed too unhealthy/high risk for a heart transplant? Sit and wait to die? Serious bummer...
I would do you one better and give you 3d images of a computer displaying the actual 3d images, but then I'd probably have to meta-kill or something.
I think the real irony is that it will be live-action, and the acting in the game will still be less wooden than in the movie.