In general, the libertarian-leaning Slashdot population is quick to criticize the Megan's laws. But now that it is about something important... SPAM!... well, those principles all go out the window, huh?
That, and if he could throw/catch/kick a ball/puck/quaffle not only would all be forgiven, but folks would be fighting over a chance to give him a job.
It doesn't matter what you wish for. This will never happen.
The obvious question (for me) was, why would congress get involved? If people at this company were cracking security and spreading exploits, wouldn't that be a case for the cyber unit of the local police? Or if there's some interstate/international level of operations, perhaps the FBI?
Well, I RTFA. It seems this company and some partners were hired by Uncle Sam to work on cracks to be used against terrorists.
And there you go, end of story. Hidden by the shield of "national security" none of this will be investigated, nothing will be made public, no one will be called to testify, no one will be charged or prosecuted. It's the same story as thinking the phone companies would be investigated for wiretaps done at the government's request.
The only exceptions will be what Anonymous makes public and if any members of Anonymous are identified and prosecuted.
If you live in the USA and you don't like it, the folks in Egypt, Libya, et al are showing us what it takes to effect change in government.
I suggest you take the advice of a group of unqualified strangers over that of a professor who is familiar with your work and goals.
(By unqualified, I mean anyone can post here. Sometimes that's a good thing. But in this case, you don't know if the person telling you conferences are worthless is a veteran of the subject with experience of scores of conferences or someone who has never left their parents' basement.)
The question you should be asking is, how do I find the money to attend the conference my professor is recommending?
And the answer is, many places have a deposit on cans and bottles. At the least you can sell metal and glass for scrap.
It's like saying most young criminals play video games.
Doesn't mean video games have any connection to crime, because the fact is most young people--criminals and not--play video games.
So most recent graduates are not well-trained and ready to go. Most people are not well-trained and ready to go.
I'm not the head of HR for a large multinational company, but I have been through the hiring cycle a few times. My experience has been the only significance of the length of a person's resume and the title of a position is to the salary that person will accept.
From college interns to senior personnel with decades of experiences, folks with a decent head on their shoulders will figure out what they don't know and the clueless fark-ups remain clueless fark ups.
I see a lot of comments about "dummies." Management needs to take a look at themselves as well. They hold the purse strings and the power of decision. In cases I have been exposed to, it's not the admins that are dropping the ball, it is the people making the decisions about things they do not appreciate or understand. Don't get me started on the overwhelming and pervasive attitude of users, "you mean I have to remember my password!?!"
As a user, don't get me started on admins & devs dropping the ball, making decisions about things they do not understand.
I spent 2 hours this week changing passwords for my work systems. I had 15 sets of credentials to update. Not all those systems are on the same 90-day expiration schedule as my main network ID, but I like to change them all at the same time. Otherwise, I'd never be able to keep my passwords straight.
And by 15 sets of credentials, I mean the user name is not the same for all of them, and for none of them was I able to choose my own user name. So that's 15 different combination of user names and passwords. And there is a 16th system I wasn't able to update because I don't remember the user name.
Some of these systems I rarely access. There's the company travel center and expense reports systems. I travel for business about once every 18 months. There's the benefits system I access once a year to update insurance information. I log on to those systems every 90 days to update passwords.
So here's our options: I write down my passwords. (Which of course is a big No No) I use the same password for all those systems. (Another big No No) I remember 15 different passwords, some for system I only access 4 or 5 times per year. (Impossible, for me at least)
Or the devs and admins can drop the BOFH attitude, and do their damn jobs. There is no excuse for these systems to not work with a single directory that lets me access them all with a single pair of user name and password. Management needs to stop accepting solutions which do not work with the company directory; the tech folks need to stop implementing solutions which do not work with the company directory.
So please, before you bitch about my inability to remember the 16 different passwords to the 10 or 11 different user names for the 16 systems I have at work, realize developers and admin are not the precious little snowflakes they sometimes act like.
Not to mention nobody outside of corporate knew what the hell a BCC was anyway. I've shown users how to BCC themselves when sending pictures so they have a copy in their email and every single time I get "Is that what that was for? I didn't know what that thing was."
What am I missing here? I have a drive/card/chip labeled 16 GB storage. I save 16 GB of data to it. I overwrite the entire volume with 1s.
Now I can read 16 GBs of 1s. And some l33t hacker can retrieve the 16 GB of secret sauce I thought was overwritten. So a drive labeled 16 GB really has 32 GB capacity, it's just that second 16 GB is hard to access?
And what if I then go back and overwrite those 1s with 0s or random bits? Is it possible to retrieve the layer of 1s and the original data? So a 16 GB disk can hold 48 GB? And that last 32 GB is just really, really hard to access?
Of course, I didn't RTFA. But I presume we're not just talking about delete/undelete of single files. If they didn't wipe the whole disk, why would this be on/.?
The common "folk" do this with everything, so I think it is odd that it is getting discussed with 'app'. As the subject said, there are still people that call all game systems a Nintendo (I seriously know a person who I have to correct because they will call their PS3 a Nintendo). They will still call all controllers paddles. They will call any system on Atari an Atari. They will call the Genesis a Sega.
Are these the same people who will call any soda (or pop) a Coke?
How many times have you had to migrate your iTunes library to a new machine and then get it all working with your iPhone without losing any apps or media?
4 or 5 times.
WTF? This is trivial. Copy your iTunes directory over, authorize the new iTunes, deauthorize the old one. Maybe that is too complicated for some. Copy the right part of your ~/Library if you want your older backups.
Why is this complicated?
I don't know why this is complicated, but it is. iTunes is a huge digital turd, and my boggles whenever anyone describes Apple products as "it just works."
I recently migrated iTunes to a new machine, but rather than losing media, I ended up duplicate copies of many things. Out of 8000 songs, over 1000 had duplicate files.
My library is on a network drive. Yet somehow I keep finding media files on my local drive. Maybe keeping track of the library location is too complicated.
For the folks who swear by Apple, glad you found a product that serves your needs. For my needs, the iPod (which was a gift) and iTunes have convinced to me to never get involved with another Apple product.
There is absolutely, undeniably, objectively a difference between humans and other animals, and such that other animals' interests are not equal to the interests of humans.
It is, I am a human. I am a human.
And as a human, I give greater weight to the concerns and needs of humans. I'm not saying there should be no moral or ethical restrictions on treatment of animals. I'm not saying animals don't feel pain. I'm just saying, I have a bias towards my own species, particularly in regards to the survival of my species, and no one should have any issue with this.
Put it this way, obviously the lion is biased towards the interests of lions. The lion is not concerned with the rights of the gazelle. Now, the lion does have some interests which align with the gazelle's. If all the gazelles disappear, the lion will starve. So both the lion and gazelle have an interest in there continuing to be more gazelles.
But the lion never puts the interests of the gazelle above--or even at the same level--as his own interests. For anyone to suggest the lion do otherwise is foolishness beyond idiocracy.
And so, in your own words, since there is no "magical difference between humans and animals" shouldn't humans put their own interests above those of other species, the same way those other species look after their own?
Again, I am not saying there are no rules when it comes to treatment of animals. I think Michael Vick should be rotting in a prison cell somewhere and not making millions of dollars. I think better living conditions for livestock produce healthier food to eat.
But that does not mean by the merely being human I have some original sin robbing me of some right given to every other living thing on the planet.
Why don't your modern philosophers try to explain to a mosquito that their interests are equal to human interests, and that they should stop spreading malaria.
The day the mosquitoes agree is the day I become a vegan.
Until then, praise the lord and pass the steak sauce.
I recall reading a Scientific American article that indicated that the Universe had infinite size and mass, meaning that probabilistically, the exact construction and configuration of our observable universe would repeat itself (infinity tends to have nasty implications like that). Or to put it another way, another you is reading this somewhere (actually, an infinite number of you's, to be precise).
What are the chances another me somewhere is working instead of killing time on/.?
I should probably thank that me for covering for the rest of us.
Supposedly matter cannot move faster than light. But the expansion of the universe following the Big Bang involves the dimensions of space-time. It's not the movement of matter, but the movement of existence itself in which that matter exists which can produce FTL expansion.
What if plumbing was as reliable as the average home computer? I get virus definition updates from my doctor at most once a year, yet my computer's anti-virus software updates daily.
Maybe the tech geeks who help out family and friends spend so much time on it because, rather than an issue of demanding acquaintances, the help being given just isn't that helpful.
I used to be a bitter geek like so many folks here. Then I realized, when I bought my first house I got help from family who work in Real Estate. I get advice from family who work in the financial industry. I get help from CPAs and lawyers and all sorts of folks who know stuff I don't know.
It turns out, I also know stuff those people don't know. That does not make me a precious snowflake.
Get over yourself. You're not that important to the world.
1) Why isn't this the highest modded comment in the thread?
2) Why are others continuing to post after this solution? I mean, why would you do anything other than name the stream coming in to the server as the input stream in the server context, the stream coming from the client as the output stream in the client context, and so on?
3) How long until the entire project crashes in complete disaster? Does it really take 2 developers to figure this out? The only other scenario I can think of is the grown ups are finishing the project while these 2 kids are on a snipe hunt.
It's not useless, and it's not perfect. Not a terrible idea though.
It is a terrible idea.
Here's the need: I'm in college. I post crazy college pics for my friends to see while I'm in college. Next year, when I'm graduated and interviewing for jobs, I don't want those pictures available.
Here's the solution: Make the pics private. Make them only available to friends on facebook. Or use some other hosting service with password protection.
Or even easier--rather than have a service host the keys and promise to destroy the key when you want the image to expire, why not just host the pics with a service that promises to destroy the pics when they expire?
It's terrible because it's needlessly complex.
I could come up with a scheme for car registrations where a code is affixed to the license plate. Then traffic police can access a data-driven 3-tier client-server web 2.0 interactive site where they can look up the code and see if that car's registration is current.
We'll even provide scanners with OCR to read the license plate and look up the code.
Or the state can send out stickers with the registration year, people put the stickers on their plates, and cops just read the stickers.
I won't dismiss the technology completely. There may be some use for the system.
But in this case, instead of encrypting the pics and storing the decryption key for a limited time and requiring the use of a plug in, why not just host the pics for a limited time, no plug in required?
Slashdot Mirror
Yes.
While the US billion is a thousand million, the UK billion is a million million. In the US, a million million is a trillion.
In general, the libertarian-leaning Slashdot population is quick to criticize the Megan's laws. But now that it is about something important... SPAM! ... well, those principles all go out the window, huh?
That, and if he could throw/catch/kick a ball/puck/quaffle not only would all be forgiven, but folks would be fighting over a chance to give him a job.
It doesn't matter what you wish for. This will never happen.
The obvious question (for me) was, why would congress get involved? If people at this company were cracking security and spreading exploits, wouldn't that be a case for the cyber unit of the local police? Or if there's some interstate/international level of operations, perhaps the FBI?
Well, I RTFA. It seems this company and some partners were hired by Uncle Sam to work on cracks to be used against terrorists.
And there you go, end of story. Hidden by the shield of "national security" none of this will be investigated, nothing will be made public, no one will be called to testify, no one will be charged or prosecuted. It's the same story as thinking the phone companies would be investigated for wiretaps done at the government's request.
The only exceptions will be what Anonymous makes public and if any members of Anonymous are identified and prosecuted.
If you live in the USA and you don't like it, the folks in Egypt, Libya, et al are showing us what it takes to effect change in government.
I suggest you take the advice of a group of unqualified strangers over that of a professor who is familiar with your work and goals.
(By unqualified, I mean anyone can post here. Sometimes that's a good thing. But in this case, you don't know if the person telling you conferences are worthless is a veteran of the subject with experience of scores of conferences or someone who has never left their parents' basement.)
The question you should be asking is, how do I find the money to attend the conference my professor is recommending?
And the answer is, many places have a deposit on cans and bottles. At the least you can sell metal and glass for scrap.
It's like saying most young criminals play video games.
Doesn't mean video games have any connection to crime, because the fact is most young people--criminals and not--play video games.
So most recent graduates are not well-trained and ready to go. Most people are not well-trained and ready to go.
I'm not the head of HR for a large multinational company, but I have been through the hiring cycle a few times. My experience has been the only significance of the length of a person's resume and the title of a position is to the salary that person will accept.
From college interns to senior personnel with decades of experiences, folks with a decent head on their shoulders will figure out what they don't know and the clueless fark-ups remain clueless fark ups.
'Photographic memory is a detestable myth. Doesn't exist. In fact, my memory is quite average,' concludes Ed Cooke...
And yet this man has memory palaces. Average, indeed.
You're not exceptional until you have a memory yacht.
The prizes at these world memory championships are scooped up by people who enter these contests.
Are you saying that people who don't enter memory championships don't exist?
Put another way, these contests are ways for folks who work on their memory to show off.
If the mythical "photographic memory" did exist, those folks would likely find these contests quite boring.
I see a lot of comments about "dummies." Management needs to take a look at themselves as well. They hold the purse strings and the power of decision. In cases I have been exposed to, it's not the admins that are dropping the ball, it is the people making the decisions about things they do not appreciate or understand. Don't get me started on the overwhelming and pervasive attitude of users, "you mean I have to remember my password!?!"
As a user, don't get me started on admins & devs dropping the ball, making decisions about things they do not understand.
I spent 2 hours this week changing passwords for my work systems. I had 15 sets of credentials to update. Not all those systems are on the same 90-day expiration schedule as my main network ID, but I like to change them all at the same time. Otherwise, I'd never be able to keep my passwords straight.
And by 15 sets of credentials, I mean the user name is not the same for all of them, and for none of them was I able to choose my own user name. So that's 15 different combination of user names and passwords. And there is a 16th system I wasn't able to update because I don't remember the user name.
Some of these systems I rarely access. There's the company travel center and expense reports systems. I travel for business about once every 18 months. There's the benefits system I access once a year to update insurance information. I log on to those systems every 90 days to update passwords.
So here's our options: I write down my passwords. (Which of course is a big No No) I use the same password for all those systems. (Another big No No) I remember 15 different passwords, some for system I only access 4 or 5 times per year. (Impossible, for me at least)
Or the devs and admins can drop the BOFH attitude, and do their damn jobs. There is no excuse for these systems to not work with a single directory that lets me access them all with a single pair of user name and password. Management needs to stop accepting solutions which do not work with the company directory; the tech folks need to stop implementing solutions which do not work with the company directory.
So please, before you bitch about my inability to remember the 16 different passwords to the 10 or 11 different user names for the 16 systems I have at work, realize developers and admin are not the precious little snowflakes they sometimes act like.
Not to mention nobody outside of corporate knew what the hell a BCC was anyway. I've shown users how to BCC themselves when sending pictures so they have a copy in their email and every single time I get "Is that what that was for? I didn't know what that thing was."
Don't these people have a 'sent' folder?
What am I missing here? I have a drive/card/chip labeled 16 GB storage. I save 16 GB of data to it. I overwrite the entire volume with 1s.
Now I can read 16 GBs of 1s. And some l33t hacker can retrieve the 16 GB of secret sauce I thought was overwritten. So a drive labeled 16 GB really has 32 GB capacity, it's just that second 16 GB is hard to access?
And what if I then go back and overwrite those 1s with 0s or random bits? Is it possible to retrieve the layer of 1s and the original data? So a 16 GB disk can hold 48 GB? And that last 32 GB is just really, really hard to access?
Of course, I didn't RTFA. But I presume we're not just talking about delete/undelete of single files. If they didn't wipe the whole disk, why would this be on /.?
Yes, but leaving those documents available on WikiLeaks after the law passes (if it passes in to law) would be an on-going act that could be illegal.
True, but traffic deaths are in tens of thousands, flu deaths are 1-2 million per year.
In other news, the armistice was signed and the Great Was is over!
That's not cheating, it's Open Source!
The common "folk" do this with everything, so I think it is odd that it is getting discussed with 'app'. As the subject said, there are still people that call all game systems a Nintendo (I seriously know a person who I have to correct because they will call their PS3 a Nintendo). They will still call all controllers paddles. They will call any system on Atari an Atari. They will call the Genesis a Sega.
Are these the same people who will call any soda (or pop) a Coke?
Because I hate those people.
How many times have you had to migrate your iTunes library to a new machine and then get it all working with your iPhone without losing any apps or media?
4 or 5 times.
WTF? This is trivial. Copy your iTunes directory over, authorize the new iTunes, deauthorize the old one. Maybe that is too complicated for some. Copy the right part of your ~/Library if you want your older backups.
Why is this complicated?
I don't know why this is complicated, but it is. iTunes is a huge digital turd, and my boggles whenever anyone describes Apple products as "it just works."
I recently migrated iTunes to a new machine, but rather than losing media, I ended up duplicate copies of many things. Out of 8000 songs, over 1000 had duplicate files.
My library is on a network drive. Yet somehow I keep finding media files on my local drive. Maybe keeping track of the library location is too complicated.
For the folks who swear by Apple, glad you found a product that serves your needs. For my needs, the iPod (which was a gift) and iTunes have convinced to me to never get involved with another Apple product.
Gosh. What a load of gobbledegook.
There is absolutely, undeniably, objectively a difference between humans and other animals, and such that other animals' interests are not equal to the interests of humans.
It is, I am a human. I am a human.
And as a human, I give greater weight to the concerns and needs of humans. I'm not saying there should be no moral or ethical restrictions on treatment of animals. I'm not saying animals don't feel pain. I'm just saying, I have a bias towards my own species, particularly in regards to the survival of my species, and no one should have any issue with this.
Put it this way, obviously the lion is biased towards the interests of lions. The lion is not concerned with the rights of the gazelle. Now, the lion does have some interests which align with the gazelle's. If all the gazelles disappear, the lion will starve. So both the lion and gazelle have an interest in there continuing to be more gazelles.
But the lion never puts the interests of the gazelle above--or even at the same level--as his own interests. For anyone to suggest the lion do otherwise is foolishness beyond idiocracy.
And so, in your own words, since there is no "magical difference between humans and animals" shouldn't humans put their own interests above those of other species, the same way those other species look after their own?
Again, I am not saying there are no rules when it comes to treatment of animals. I think Michael Vick should be rotting in a prison cell somewhere and not making millions of dollars. I think better living conditions for livestock produce healthier food to eat.
But that does not mean by the merely being human I have some original sin robbing me of some right given to every other living thing on the planet.
Why don't your modern philosophers try to explain to a mosquito that their interests are equal to human interests, and that they should stop spreading malaria.
The day the mosquitoes agree is the day I become a vegan.
Until then, praise the lord and pass the steak sauce.
I recall reading a Scientific American article that indicated that the Universe had infinite size and mass, meaning that probabilistically, the exact construction and configuration of our observable universe would repeat itself (infinity tends to have nasty implications like that). Or to put it another way, another you is reading this somewhere (actually, an infinite number of you's, to be precise).
What are the chances another me somewhere is working instead of killing time on /.?
I should probably thank that me for covering for the rest of us.
Supposedly matter cannot move faster than light. But the expansion of the universe following the Big Bang involves the dimensions of space-time. It's not the movement of matter, but the movement of existence itself in which that matter exists which can produce FTL expansion.
What if plumbing was as reliable as the average home computer? I get virus definition updates from my doctor at most once a year, yet my computer's anti-virus software updates daily.
Maybe the tech geeks who help out family and friends spend so much time on it because, rather than an issue of demanding acquaintances, the help being given just isn't that helpful.
I used to be a bitter geek like so many folks here. Then I realized, when I bought my first house I got help from family who work in Real Estate. I get advice from family who work in the financial industry. I get help from CPAs and lawyers and all sorts of folks who know stuff I don't know.
It turns out, I also know stuff those people don't know. That does not make me a precious snowflake.
Get over yourself. You're not that important to the world.
I have 3 questions:
1) Why isn't this the highest modded comment in the thread?
2) Why are others continuing to post after this solution? I mean, why would you do anything other than name the stream coming in to the server as the input stream in the server context, the stream coming from the client as the output stream in the client context, and so on?
3) How long until the entire project crashes in complete disaster? Does it really take 2 developers to figure this out? The only other scenario I can think of is the grown ups are finishing the project while these 2 kids are on a snipe hunt.
I hope that helps.
Danm. I blew all my mods points on jokes in the Columbia thread.
It's not useless, and it's not perfect. Not a terrible idea though.
It is a terrible idea.
Here's the need: I'm in college. I post crazy college pics for my friends to see while I'm in college. Next year, when I'm graduated and interviewing for jobs, I don't want those pictures available.
Here's the solution:
Make the pics private. Make them only available to friends on facebook. Or use some other hosting service with password protection.
Or even easier--rather than have a service host the keys and promise to destroy the key when you want the image to expire, why not just host the pics with a service that promises to destroy the pics when they expire?
It's terrible because it's needlessly complex.
I could come up with a scheme for car registrations where a code is affixed to the license plate. Then traffic police can access a data-driven 3-tier client-server web 2.0 interactive site where they can look up the code and see if that car's registration is current.
We'll even provide scanners with OCR to read the license plate and look up the code.
Or the state can send out stickers with the registration year, people put the stickers on their plates, and cops just read the stickers.
I won't dismiss the technology completely. There may be some use for the system.
But in this case, instead of encrypting the pics and storing the decryption key for a limited time and requiring the use of a plug in, why not just host the pics for a limited time, no plug in required?
Why is there a need for a new app for view a particular magazine?
If I subscribe to the paper version of Playboy, I don't need to get a new mailbox.
Shouldn't there be one app for viewing periodicals, and you just add a magazine or newspaper to a subscription list in that app?
For folks who use the iPad as an eReader, do you need to install a separate app for each book?
I immediately thought of Netscape 4, which was so bad it opened the door for IE.
NPR had a story on using an iPhone app to surf surveillance cameras around the world.