I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but... It comes down to diminishing returns. The difference between a single blade disposible razor and a Mach 3 with three blades and those nifty strips is obvious. The difference between three blades and four blades with all other factors being equal is pretty questionable.
I agree with the suggestion to avoid Buffalo. Someone else responded to this thread and said that their UI is good. My experience was just the opposite. The UI sucked and trying to get the thing integrated into Active Directory was a nightmare. The setup appears to be straight forward. Specify domain name, specify domain username/password combo. The reality of the situation turned out to be decidedly different and required numerous calls to tech support, firmware updates and a lot of headaches.
It seems like most of the questions so far have focused on the physical security of cyberspace. They have ranged from dealing with botnets, combating spam, and securing government and military computers from hackers and criminals. I have not yet seen any discussion of what I have perceived to be an important military/government "cyberspace" priority. That priority is control over information. As a specific example, one can look at "insurgent propaganda" (jihadist videos, etc). It appears to be pretty widely acknowledged that the United States is "losing" the propaganda war in "cyberspace" (I hate that term about as much as everyone else here.)
What are you people going to do to control and influence media and other similar uses of the Internet? What do you perceive your role, and the role of the United States government is in relation to controlling and shaping the message that reaches users on the Internet? To what extent are you prepared to limit people's freedom of speech in order to further national security interests?
It seems like the government is pretty incompetent when it comes to communication. It's pretty sad. This country can spend billions of dollars convincing its citizens to go into debt and stay there and be happy about it, but it can't sell the War on Terror to the Middle East. "They" control the meta message, and we don't seem to have the talent to reframe it on them. Our memetic engineers are epicly failing right now.
I used to think that too until I was educated on the subject. Most of the checks are all processed mechanically these days. They have machines that cut the envelopes open and sort the checks and statements. The checks are then scanned and processed electronically. My reason for sending checks in is that I wanted to keep as many people employed as possible. Now granted, opening envelopes and keying in numbers may not be the best job in the world. However at least it was a job. It kind of burst my bubble when I figured out that machines do 99.9% of the check processing these days.
It's tough to crack jokes with geeks. Too many of them always take things so literally. Come on now guys. If I was really going to squat on in.tel with the intention of trying to get money from Intel, would I really post about it here on/. first?
in.tel is mine and those bastards can pry it from my cold, dead fingers. Or, cough up a million bucks. I thought about taking AMD.tel, but it just doesn't have the same appeal.
It probably is the same one. I seem to remember that it was developed as part of a university project. I probably even read about it right here on/. I never checked the background activity so I can't comment on the barrage of pings. I do recall that it didn't make much of a difference in my torrent speeds. I'm on DSL at home and always get consistently good torrent performance.
It will only be a matter of time now that Apple is using the x86 architecture. All of the good virus code is written in x86 Assembly because that is what allows low level access to the memory registers and the CPU. The x86 virus code base has been evolving rather rapidly since the early 1990s. The initial difficulty of getting the code to run is pretty high due to a slightly better security model built into OSX. However like others have pointed out, there are dumb users of every OS.
There is already a plugin for Azereus that does this. I downloaded it about a year ago. I'm at work right now or otherwise I would look at my installation and tell you the exact name of it.
This is the truth. I have over ten years of experience in IT and I am now looking for a job due to financial problems with my current employer. They are about to go out of business due to fiscal mismanagement by senior staff. My boss has given me the heads up and I am looking for a job now. Despite a lot of real world experience, I do not have a degree. All of the positions that I have been in have been due to word of mouth and knowing people. I have the skills to do the job, but I can't get any call backs on the jobs that I apply to because I don't have a degree.
If I were in my early twenties and thinking about a career in IT, I would go to school for it. I started in IT in 1996 and at that point there weren't many programs out there to give people the skills that they needed to succeed in IT. In this day and age, every college has computer science courses with all sorts of hands on labs. I can almost guarantee that a college grad will come out of a computer science program with a diverse range of skills that any employer will find attractive.
Would it have soothed you if I offered a more formally structured literary critique? Perhaps I could have contrasted Stephanson's latest verbose verbal ejaculation with Gibson's latest work Spook Country. In Gibson's work it seems that the author manifests a terse style of prose that is offered to the reader on a very high level and left there either to be understood or not. Either the reader is familiar with the terms the author uses and can relate to the imagery, or they aren't. That seems to be the polar opposite of what Stephanson appears to favor. In Stephanson's case, he seems inclined to go into such innane levels of detail and get so wrapped up in his prose that each sentence can often seem like going through a worm hole, or following along with the stream of consciousness of an idiot savant. As a long time Gibson fan, I was disappointed by his latest book too. All of the anti-climatic reading in the fictional world I've done lately seems to pale in contract to great conversations I've had while riding the Blue Line into work. I had the best conversation with this homeless guy the other day. He was so keyed into his own responsibility for his own happiness and was so aware of being able to live in the moment that despite "barely getting buy", he was the most tranquil and content person I've met in years. That two people would waste their time attacking each other on the internet over inconsiquential opinions would probably make him laugh, and advise, "You've got better things to do with your life."
But you're right, I do lack some sophistication. I'm much more inclined to spend time contemplating some Liu I-Ming, or maybe the Flower Ornament Scripture, or maybe Lao Tzu these days. The attraction of overly complex, abstract fantasy worlds has severely dissipated.
Make sure that you save this thread. Print it out. Convert it to PDF. Put it up on the wall or pin it to your ego. You've won yet another argument. You've demeaned yet another person who isn't in lock step with your idea of what you find to be pleasurable.
I shouldn't feed the trolls, but that's so cute the way you predictably lash out when one of your favorite authors is criticized. I realize you didn't bother to refute anything I said and that's also predictable.
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I read Snow Crash at least three or four times and I think it is a great book. The last book of his that I read was the Cryptonomicon. It was good and I enjoyed the parallel stories that took place in different time periods and the way that he tied them all together in the end. However as I was slogging through the 1000+ pages of the book I came to realize that Stephanson writes the equivalent of verbal ejaculate. He makes things needlessly complex. He uses so many metaphors on top of metaphors laced with adjectives contrasted by similes... He seems to be the literary equivalent of the Rube Goldberg machine, using so many devices for the simple sake of using them, as if he's challenging himself to see how unnecessarily verbose he can be. The guy simply has too much going on in his head. Reading a Stephanson book is like being plugged into the mind of a schizophrenic idiot savant.
The beta of IE8 that I have been using at work is a steaming pile of poo. I tried it for a couple of hours and then switched it to IE7 compatability mode and haven't looked back. None of the Google sites worked (Gmail, maps, etc). Slashdot was a mess. I'm sure I checked a few other sites but there were enough problems with simple page rendering that compatability mode was the only way for me to get anything done.
Are they going to give citizens access to the same infrastructure that they are using to pass around video data from the cars and other cameras around the city? What could possibly go wrong there?
Exercise increases the metabolism and helps the body clean the blood. Healthy blood cells make for a healthier brain. Meditation helps focus the mind and keep it sharp. Modern science has made great break throughs with supplements. I can't speak highly enough of Jarrow Labs' Alpha GPC. It increases the amount of choline available to the brain and also gets metabolized into HGH.
I'm not a spook or NSA employee but it seems that the simple explination would be that they don't want to publish their personnel details much like you don't want to advertise your servers to the internet. The less information that the "bad guys" have about the internal workings of your organization, the harder it will be for them to penetrate it. In the specific case of a programmer, that programmer can be working on all sorts of highly classified projects. Even the most innocuous conversation can often times to be used to gain details about a subject.
Or someone inside the network visits a malicious web page and has their machine hijacked. That hijacked machine then has complete access to the soft underbelly of the network and can report back to the outside world on port 80.
The summary does not make any sense. The author says that Microsoft sped up the front-end but that the OS isn't any faster. By front-end I'm assuming that they are talking about the UI. By sped up I imagine that they are saying that the windows open faster, that alt-tabbing between applications brings them up faster and things along those lines. If they have truly reduced UI latency then the OS is faster. I've only used Vista a couple of times on friend's laptops but my impression was that the UI was a dog. These were machine with dual-core processors, 3+ GB of RAM and decent video cards. It took FOREVER for screens to load. If Microsoft has improved that aspect of the OS then they are moving in the right direction.
You haven't done a very good job of justifying your statement that college tuitions would raise by $4000 a year. A program like that would be a great boon for this nation. My girlfriend has been in college for the last ten years because she has been working full time since she was 18 and taking a couple of classes at night every semester. When she was in community college she could pay for it herself. Now she is at state and because she has a full time job she makes too much money to qualify for financial aid. She has to take out loans. As a tax payer, I'd rather that my money goes to her instead of her money going to the banks. Another factor to consider is the family who sends their children to college. My co-worker can't afford to pay for his children to go to college, just like my girlfriend's parents can't afford to pay for her (she's the first college student in her family). A $4000 "welfare payment" for college students is a $4000 tax break for working families who want their children to have a good life.
It's not a matter of easy or difficult. It comes down to being over Microsoft's innane need to completely change interfaces simply so that they can release a new version. I've been using Microsoft OSes since DOS 3.3. I've been through Windows, WFW 311, Win 95/98/NT/2000/XP... NT Server 3.50, 3.51, 4.00, Server 2000, Server 2003... You don't need to look any further than Office 2007 to see how serious of a UI redesign Microsoft is capable of. Other than SharePoint integration, there aren't really any new features in 2007 that weren't there in 2003. They could have kept the UI, but they didn't. There seems to be an entire division in Microsoft that needs to justify their budget by "improving" the UI. Having used their products for over 20 years, I'm fucking sick and tired of it.
"I help those I know personally. Family and friends and their family and friends that need help. I don't need the government telling me who or what is acceptable community service."
You do, a lot of people don't. You are definitely in the minority when it comes to your community.
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I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but... It comes down to diminishing returns. The difference between a single blade disposible razor and a Mach 3 with three blades and those nifty strips is obvious. The difference between three blades and four blades with all other factors being equal is pretty questionable.
I agree with the suggestion to avoid Buffalo. Someone else responded to this thread and said that their UI is good. My experience was just the opposite. The UI sucked and trying to get the thing integrated into Active Directory was a nightmare. The setup appears to be straight forward. Specify domain name, specify domain username/password combo. The reality of the situation turned out to be decidedly different and required numerous calls to tech support, firmware updates and a lot of headaches.
Give them the first five applications on this list. ;)
http://sectools.org/
It seems like most of the questions so far have focused on the physical security of cyberspace. They have ranged from dealing with botnets, combating spam, and securing government and military computers from hackers and criminals. I have not yet seen any discussion of what I have perceived to be an important military/government "cyberspace" priority. That priority is control over information. As a specific example, one can look at "insurgent propaganda" (jihadist videos, etc). It appears to be pretty widely acknowledged that the United States is "losing" the propaganda war in "cyberspace" (I hate that term about as much as everyone else here.) What are you people going to do to control and influence media and other similar uses of the Internet? What do you perceive your role, and the role of the United States government is in relation to controlling and shaping the message that reaches users on the Internet? To what extent are you prepared to limit people's freedom of speech in order to further national security interests? It seems like the government is pretty incompetent when it comes to communication. It's pretty sad. This country can spend billions of dollars convincing its citizens to go into debt and stay there and be happy about it, but it can't sell the War on Terror to the Middle East. "They" control the meta message, and we don't seem to have the talent to reframe it on them. Our memetic engineers are epicly failing right now.
I used to think that too until I was educated on the subject. Most of the checks are all processed mechanically these days. They have machines that cut the envelopes open and sort the checks and statements. The checks are then scanned and processed electronically. My reason for sending checks in is that I wanted to keep as many people employed as possible. Now granted, opening envelopes and keying in numbers may not be the best job in the world. However at least it was a job. It kind of burst my bubble when I figured out that machines do 99.9% of the check processing these days.
It's tough to crack jokes with geeks. Too many of them always take things so literally. Come on now guys. If I was really going to squat on in.tel with the intention of trying to get money from Intel, would I really post about it here on /. first?
I think it's safe to say that you missed the joke.
Like my INvolvement in TELephony really infringes on their copyright. ;)~
in.tel is mine and those bastards can pry it from my cold, dead fingers. Or, cough up a million bucks. I thought about taking AMD.tel, but it just doesn't have the same appeal.
It probably is the same one. I seem to remember that it was developed as part of a university project. I probably even read about it right here on /. I never checked the background activity so I can't comment on the barrage of pings. I do recall that it didn't make much of a difference in my torrent speeds. I'm on DSL at home and always get consistently good torrent performance.
It will only be a matter of time now that Apple is using the x86 architecture. All of the good virus code is written in x86 Assembly because that is what allows low level access to the memory registers and the CPU. The x86 virus code base has been evolving rather rapidly since the early 1990s. The initial difficulty of getting the code to run is pretty high due to a slightly better security model built into OSX. However like others have pointed out, there are dumb users of every OS.
There is already a plugin for Azereus that does this. I downloaded it about a year ago. I'm at work right now or otherwise I would look at my installation and tell you the exact name of it.
This is the truth. I have over ten years of experience in IT and I am now looking for a job due to financial problems with my current employer. They are about to go out of business due to fiscal mismanagement by senior staff. My boss has given me the heads up and I am looking for a job now. Despite a lot of real world experience, I do not have a degree. All of the positions that I have been in have been due to word of mouth and knowing people. I have the skills to do the job, but I can't get any call backs on the jobs that I apply to because I don't have a degree.
If I were in my early twenties and thinking about a career in IT, I would go to school for it. I started in IT in 1996 and at that point there weren't many programs out there to give people the skills that they needed to succeed in IT. In this day and age, every college has computer science courses with all sorts of hands on labs. I can almost guarantee that a college grad will come out of a computer science program with a diverse range of skills that any employer will find attractive.
Would it have soothed you if I offered a more formally structured literary critique? Perhaps I could have contrasted Stephanson's latest verbose verbal ejaculation with Gibson's latest work Spook Country. In Gibson's work it seems that the author manifests a terse style of prose that is offered to the reader on a very high level and left there either to be understood or not. Either the reader is familiar with the terms the author uses and can relate to the imagery, or they aren't. That seems to be the polar opposite of what Stephanson appears to favor. In Stephanson's case, he seems inclined to go into such innane levels of detail and get so wrapped up in his prose that each sentence can often seem like going through a worm hole, or following along with the stream of consciousness of an idiot savant. As a long time Gibson fan, I was disappointed by his latest book too. All of the anti-climatic reading in the fictional world I've done lately seems to pale in contract to great conversations I've had while riding the Blue Line into work. I had the best conversation with this homeless guy the other day. He was so keyed into his own responsibility for his own happiness and was so aware of being able to live in the moment that despite "barely getting buy", he was the most tranquil and content person I've met in years. That two people would waste their time attacking each other on the internet over inconsiquential opinions would probably make him laugh, and advise, "You've got better things to do with your life."
But you're right, I do lack some sophistication. I'm much more inclined to spend time contemplating some Liu I-Ming, or maybe the Flower Ornament Scripture, or maybe Lao Tzu these days. The attraction of overly complex, abstract fantasy worlds has severely dissipated.
Make sure that you save this thread. Print it out. Convert it to PDF. Put it up on the wall or pin it to your ego. You've won yet another argument. You've demeaned yet another person who isn't in lock step with your idea of what you find to be pleasurable.
I shouldn't feed the trolls, but that's so cute the way you predictably lash out when one of your favorite authors is criticized. I realize you didn't bother to refute anything I said and that's also predictable.
I read Snow Crash at least three or four times and I think it is a great book. The last book of his that I read was the Cryptonomicon. It was good and I enjoyed the parallel stories that took place in different time periods and the way that he tied them all together in the end. However as I was slogging through the 1000+ pages of the book I came to realize that Stephanson writes the equivalent of verbal ejaculate. He makes things needlessly complex. He uses so many metaphors on top of metaphors laced with adjectives contrasted by similes... He seems to be the literary equivalent of the Rube Goldberg machine, using so many devices for the simple sake of using them, as if he's challenging himself to see how unnecessarily verbose he can be. The guy simply has too much going on in his head. Reading a Stephanson book is like being plugged into the mind of a schizophrenic idiot savant.
The beta of IE8 that I have been using at work is a steaming pile of poo. I tried it for a couple of hours and then switched it to IE7 compatability mode and haven't looked back. None of the Google sites worked (Gmail, maps, etc). Slashdot was a mess. I'm sure I checked a few other sites but there were enough problems with simple page rendering that compatability mode was the only way for me to get anything done.
Are they going to give citizens access to the same infrastructure that they are using to pass around video data from the cars and other cameras around the city? What could possibly go wrong there?
Exercise increases the metabolism and helps the body clean the blood. Healthy blood cells make for a healthier brain. Meditation helps focus the mind and keep it sharp. Modern science has made great break throughs with supplements. I can't speak highly enough of Jarrow Labs' Alpha GPC. It increases the amount of choline available to the brain and also gets metabolized into HGH.
I'm not a spook or NSA employee but it seems that the simple explination would be that they don't want to publish their personnel details much like you don't want to advertise your servers to the internet. The less information that the "bad guys" have about the internal workings of your organization, the harder it will be for them to penetrate it. In the specific case of a programmer, that programmer can be working on all sorts of highly classified projects. Even the most innocuous conversation can often times to be used to gain details about a subject.
Or someone inside the network visits a malicious web page and has their machine hijacked. That hijacked machine then has complete access to the soft underbelly of the network and can report back to the outside world on port 80.
The summary does not make any sense. The author says that Microsoft sped up the front-end but that the OS isn't any faster. By front-end I'm assuming that they are talking about the UI. By sped up I imagine that they are saying that the windows open faster, that alt-tabbing between applications brings them up faster and things along those lines. If they have truly reduced UI latency then the OS is faster. I've only used Vista a couple of times on friend's laptops but my impression was that the UI was a dog. These were machine with dual-core processors, 3+ GB of RAM and decent video cards. It took FOREVER for screens to load. If Microsoft has improved that aspect of the OS then they are moving in the right direction.
You haven't done a very good job of justifying your statement that college tuitions would raise by $4000 a year. A program like that would be a great boon for this nation. My girlfriend has been in college for the last ten years because she has been working full time since she was 18 and taking a couple of classes at night every semester. When she was in community college she could pay for it herself. Now she is at state and because she has a full time job she makes too much money to qualify for financial aid. She has to take out loans. As a tax payer, I'd rather that my money goes to her instead of her money going to the banks. Another factor to consider is the family who sends their children to college. My co-worker can't afford to pay for his children to go to college, just like my girlfriend's parents can't afford to pay for her (she's the first college student in her family). A $4000 "welfare payment" for college students is a $4000 tax break for working families who want their children to have a good life.
It's not a matter of easy or difficult. It comes down to being over Microsoft's innane need to completely change interfaces simply so that they can release a new version. I've been using Microsoft OSes since DOS 3.3. I've been through Windows, WFW 311, Win 95/98/NT/2000/XP... NT Server 3.50, 3.51, 4.00, Server 2000, Server 2003... You don't need to look any further than Office 2007 to see how serious of a UI redesign Microsoft is capable of. Other than SharePoint integration, there aren't really any new features in 2007 that weren't there in 2003. They could have kept the UI, but they didn't. There seems to be an entire division in Microsoft that needs to justify their budget by "improving" the UI. Having used their products for over 20 years, I'm fucking sick and tired of it.
"I help those I know personally. Family and friends and their family and friends that need help. I don't need the government telling me who or what is acceptable community service." You do, a lot of people don't. You are definitely in the minority when it comes to your community.