1. Do you light the exterior of your building with that electricity?
2. Do you regulate the temperature of your interior with that electricity?
Just wondering. I'm thinking you live in a building with hot water based heating that gets given to you from a shared resource, and exterior lighting is either not needed for security or is provided by the landlord or a municipal source.
I really hate CF lights, but I found if you can mix and match them with the really low wattage incandescent lights (15W or so) the color is warm and acceptible.
Keep in mind also, that if you are in a region where you use electric heating, there's nothing at all wrong with loading up on incandescent lights and running them all night (during the winter!) They are essentially electric heaters; the light is a by-product and consumes a very small amount of the energy.
Yeah, this is clearly a case where cheap energy led to a completely inefficient house design.
If energy costs had been on consumers' minds, the kitchen would be made with lighter colors, more windows etc so that 600W wasn't necessary just to chop some onions and see what you're doing.
In really hot dry places, you can design a house that keeps the interior shaded and cool without air conditioning... but this simply hasn't been done in the US, both because of humidity which completely invalidates the above, and also cheap energy prices which remove the incentive to even think about complete redesigns.
Same goes for cold environments; instead of heating a house like crazy, which is so common, you can position the windows so that solar energy shines in and doesn't reflect back out again.
The US isn't full of bad people trying to be wasteful... it's just that in so many regions there's never been any paucity of resources* to influence behaviors like there has been in other places.
*potable water is the only exception I can think of...
It's a security lesson. If you want to secure something, you need to use multiple forms of the best quality security you can find -- not one poorly thought out implementation.
What this vendor essentially did was give a hacker training lesson to this guy.
I disagree. Fortify and Ounce both spend a lot of effort on developer remediation; for example Fortify displays in the IDE a detailed article about the issue found, how developers fall into the trap, exploit examples and how to safely remediate the code. Truncated example of this sort of information here: http://www.fortify.com/vulncat
It's true that security analysts are the ones best suited to triaging away the false positives.
Code that "works" may also do a bunch of extra things that the designed never intended.
Just because it passed the unit tests doesn't mean that it is secure. Spaghetti code has a real disadvantage over well organized code in that a security review has little chance of uncovering the things that a hacker can discover with a lot of cheap hacker time and randomness.
I can't believe that we're reading about KERNEL CODE and almost nobody is thinking in terms of the security of the code.
In the 20th century all the wheat hybrids were created by blasting wheat kernels with hexene or with radiation... and just seeing what happened.
I don't see how actually tuning and selecting traits, or adding specific ones, can be more dangerous. It's actually mucking with things a bit less.
If you don't like artificially genetically modified food, remember not to eat ANY wheat on Earth. For that matter, if you don't like artificial food, I think your options are to shoot your own deer, catch fish and study up on mushrooms. I can't think of anything else we commonly eat that isn't man made.
Guess what. School is just a place to keep kids so they don't burn down bus shelters and get pregnant all day. And also so their parents can go to work and be economically productive.
Guess what too. School sucks if you're smart, but it also sucks if you're dumb. Many kids are dumb and they deserve some attention. Smart kids are going to be bored, but in that case good parenting means directing their kids toward reading good books.
The example of the mother who home schooled until she couldn't be helpful anymore is also horseshit. I love that word. Mom could have sent her daughter to a college library to learn about ANYTHING. Physiology of color vision. Semi conductor design. Medieval history.
No child left behind attempts to put the burden on well funded schools to help out their neighboring underfunded schools. It's just a method of shifting children around to spread the school funding on a flatter curve that what the US had previously, with very local property taxes paying for education.
Little geniuses DON'T need an extra hand up in life. They're going to do fine eventually.
After getting tricked by Zonk into clicking through to Roland Piquepaille's website, from what I thought was going to be a funny picture, I'm scared to look...:-(
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I don't know why you would think that.
The "easy bake" oven used a light bulb to bake cakes!
Nice work!
1. Do you light the exterior of your building with that electricity?
2. Do you regulate the temperature of your interior with that electricity?
Just wondering. I'm thinking you live in a building with hot water based heating that gets given to you from a shared resource, and exterior lighting is either not needed for security or is provided by the landlord or a municipal source.
How are my guesses?
I really hate CF lights, but I found if you can mix and match them with the really low wattage incandescent lights (15W or so) the color is warm and acceptible.
Keep in mind also, that if you are in a region where you use electric heating, there's nothing at all wrong with loading up on incandescent lights and running them all night (during the winter!) They are essentially electric heaters; the light is a by-product and consumes a very small amount of the energy.
Yeah, this is clearly a case where cheap energy led to a completely inefficient house design.
If energy costs had been on consumers' minds, the kitchen would be made with lighter colors, more windows etc so that 600W wasn't necessary just to chop some onions and see what you're doing.
In really hot dry places, you can design a house that keeps the interior shaded and cool without air conditioning... but this simply hasn't been done in the US, both because of humidity which completely invalidates the above, and also cheap energy prices which remove the incentive to even think about complete redesigns.
Same goes for cold environments; instead of heating a house like crazy, which is so common, you can position the windows so that solar energy shines in and doesn't reflect back out again.
The US isn't full of bad people trying to be wasteful... it's just that in so many regions there's never been any paucity of resources* to influence behaviors like there has been in other places.
*potable water is the only exception I can think of...
Do you heat your flat with that electricity?
It's a security lesson. If you want to secure something, you need to use multiple forms of the best quality security you can find -- not one poorly thought out implementation.
What this vendor essentially did was give a hacker training lesson to this guy.
I disagree. I think "Anarke_Incarnate (733529)" gets the Pedantic Nerd award for pointing out the correct names for the parts of the gun.
I disagree. Fortify and Ounce both spend a lot of effort on developer remediation; for example Fortify displays in the IDE a detailed article about the issue found, how developers fall into the trap, exploit examples and how to safely remediate the code. Truncated example of this sort of information here: http://www.fortify.com/vulncat
It's true that security analysts are the ones best suited to triaging away the false positives.
Code that "works" may also do a bunch of extra things that the designed never intended.
Just because it passed the unit tests doesn't mean that it is secure. Spaghetti code has a real disadvantage over well organized code in that a security review has little chance of uncovering the things that a hacker can discover with a lot of cheap hacker time and randomness.
I can't believe that we're reading about KERNEL CODE and almost nobody is thinking in terms of the security of the code.
Certainly the have the sun there. Or is that not a major interferer with cell signals?
I never thought I would see anybody spell /. wrong!
In the 20th century all the wheat hybrids were created by blasting wheat kernels with hexene or with radiation... and just seeing what happened.
I don't see how actually tuning and selecting traits, or adding specific ones, can be more dangerous. It's actually mucking with things a bit less.
If you don't like artificially genetically modified food, remember not to eat ANY wheat on Earth. For that matter, if you don't like artificial food, I think your options are to shoot your own deer, catch fish and study up on mushrooms. I can't think of anything else we commonly eat that isn't man made.
There's an emulator here, supposedly:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=332485&cid=21032675
Guess what. School is just a place to keep kids so they don't burn down bus shelters and get pregnant all day. And also so their parents can go to work and be economically productive.
Guess what too. School sucks if you're smart, but it also sucks if you're dumb. Many kids are dumb and they deserve some attention. Smart kids are going to be bored, but in that case good parenting means directing their kids toward reading good books.
The example of the mother who home schooled until she couldn't be helpful anymore is also horseshit. I love that word. Mom could have sent her daughter to a college library to learn about ANYTHING. Physiology of color vision. Semi conductor design. Medieval history.
No child left behind attempts to put the burden on well funded schools to help out their neighboring underfunded schools. It's just a method of shifting children around to spread the school funding on a flatter curve that what the US had previously, with very local property taxes paying for education.
Little geniuses DON'T need an extra hand up in life. They're going to do fine eventually.
I wonder if the spy reports provided to the NSA are equally detailed?
I can see it now:
12:34PM from:Terrorist_xyz to:Person_123 type:voice content:voice
That data is for the October term, 2002.
After getting tricked by Zonk into clicking through to Roland Piquepaille's website, from what I thought was going to be a funny picture, I'm scared to look... :-(
It's just called a column.
I've always found you to be really neat.
Arguably they may not be "fundamental UNIX concepts" (which I reserve for "everything is a file" and the like), but they are principal UNIX utilities.
We have hash in the US... it's potatos, meat and onions cooked together on a flat surface.
I think it's wonderful, but some people serve it to their children for supper as a punishment!
Hey, just kidding. I read your original post and I can't see what is getting people so excited.
But it just seemed like a cute little bunny...
Very interesting read, thanks!
If your posting were a car, all it would do is describe other cars.