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by bediger 16y ago
Hey! I see that Accenture finally got a rational valuation and price! No, I'm not a big fan, having experienced them as long ago as "Anderson Consulting" days.
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by bediger 16y ago
I don't think that software culture per se rewards failure, but rather that emergent behavior in large groups, particularly corporate IT groups does reward some failure. If you, as a manager, can't point to some failure, and the resulti
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by bediger 16y ago
About time someone (now that corporations are even more "people") takes this point of view, and acts on it. Should simplify security issues, too: just cut off DHCP for any computer that gets detected spraying spam or ARP spoofing or whateve
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by bediger 16y ago
Wow, "dwarfs" bank robbery? That is quite amazing. How many "Intellectual Property" Guards were injured during this giant crime spree? What's that? Not that kind of tort? Well in that case, I hope the songwriter's didn't notice that thei
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by bediger 16y ago
That reminds me: why didn't we have any public debate about electronic money? We just let the Big New York Banks slide credit cards in, despite the badness of the format, and indeed, the whole system. I guess we're all going to find out ho
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by bediger 16y ago
One problem that PCI compliance has had in the past is that an enterprise was only "compliant" for a very brief period, right after the security scan. So it's easy for TJ Maxx to get nailed for "non-compliance" if and when they have a card
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by bediger 16y ago
This is very cool. Once you find out about chromosome pairs (high school biology in USA's public schools) a lot of things about Mendelian inheritance fall into place. But if you've got any curiosity, you start to wonder about the 23-pair v
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by bediger 16y ago
I have to say I feel skeptical about this. In some situations (servers) we just don't care about how long it takes to do this part of the boot: my SMTP/HTTP/SSH server in the basement has been up 155 days. I think it only goes down when I
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by bediger 16y ago
Weird comments on the original article, akin to the people who literally wept tears of blood when they got a copy of Posh Spice's new album.
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by bediger 16y ago
So, "cyberwar" can happen once (we fix stuff so the second time doesn't happen), and the cyberwar has to happen all at once, with no preliminary "skirmishes", and no warning "shots", otherwise, we fix stuff so it doesn't happen again. And y
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by bediger 16y ago
That's what I thought when I saw the chopping and sawing parts. I seem to recall that in the Great War book "All Quiet on the Western Front", the author mentions that sharpened shovels get used as weapons extensively on the German side. T
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by bediger 16y ago
Doesn't this article explicitly point out a rather horrible Windows flaw, or maybe flaws? First, having an "extension" as a separate part of the file name has some bad consequences: you have to treat a file name as several parts. Second, ha
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by bediger 16y ago
Univ of Washington switched to an Apache License, and started calling it "alpine". Last release appears to have been in August 2008: http://www.washington.edu/alpine/changes.html
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by bediger 16y ago
Not very explicitly. When have you heard some journalist write an article about a "Windows Worm"? They're always always always "PC Worms" or "PC Viruses". Microsoft gets big credit for releasing a patch for many "PC Worms" or "PC vulnerab
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by bediger 17y ago
I "pledged allegiance" thousands of times from about age 5 on. Until about age 13 I didn't even think about, pledging allegiance constituted a ritual at the start of a day of school, which was pretty ritualistic in and of itself. Even after
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by bediger 17y ago
Oh, yeah, I forgot about that: the Pentavirate is now in charge. A secret society of the five wealthiest people in the world, known as The Pentavirate, who run everything in the world, including Microsoft, and meet tri-annually at a secret
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by bediger 17y ago
I think that in Real Life, there's enormous value in using (or at least supporting) the software you write. Nothing like having to debug a production concurrency problem to make you appreciate adequate logging, with timestamps .
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by bediger 17y ago
Sorry, but the record seems to indicate that your viewpoint, although common and valiantly expressed, is wrong: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090308/1022324034.shtml Copyright on music got introduced part way through composer Giusepp
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by bediger 17y ago
Some questions about the copyright status of Sherlock Holmes stories still exists: http://www.techdirt.com/blog.php?tag=sherlock+holmes&edi... If I had any literary talent, I'd think twice about writing any Sherlock Holmes sequels, et
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by bediger 17y ago
Not to mention that at least a few of the things recommended wouldn't be possible without source code.
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by bediger 17y ago
"Non-technical", when said by a manager, usually means something like: "I don't know what you do, I don't want to know what you do, I don't respect what you do, and I'm scared of what you do." Your "avoided the osmosis" part is essentially
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by bediger 17y ago
Well, geez, make it possible to have a career in engineering, then, or make it possible to have a career in science without a post-doc. Also, stop the War on the Unexpected, where people with home-built electronics are immediately under sus
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by bediger 17y ago
Yes, they should. Programming languages have these mysterious features called "loops", "conditionals" and "recursion". Without an intimate knowledge of these, you just can't understand why your subordinates do what they do, and you certa
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by bediger 17y ago
Problem solving contests. The "Regular Expression of The Week" challenge, or solving a Raymond Smullyan logic problem, or smallest program that does X challenge. You'll have to mix it up to encourage a lot of participation, as some people
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by bediger 17y ago
He needs to take a look at this one: "Does Code Decay? Assessing the Evidence from Change Management Data" http://nisla05.niss.org/technicalreports/tr81.pdf The answer is "yes", except if you undertake extraordinarily rare "perfective mai
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by bediger 17y ago
Not under HP-UX on a "PA" processor. The page at 0x0 isn't neccessarily unmapped or marked noread/nowrite/nonothing. As I recall one or the other HP C compilers has a way around this, but unless you take care, you won't use that compiler f
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by bediger 17y ago
Pics or it didn't happen.
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by bediger 17y ago
Slightly misleading title: the article is about modifying GUI program's input and output. Which, if the massive success of "screen macro" programs, and LodeRunner are any indication, is a lost cause. The electrons chopped down to make that
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by bediger 17y ago
There's some speculation that the vague wording (your item 9) comes from AT&T knowing that some of the code in System V wasn't the cleanest with respect to copyright. AT&T did essentially lose its own lawsuit against Univ of Califo
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by bediger 17y ago
I've heard the paranoid ascribe FOSS nutjobs to Microsoft Astroturfing efforts. This character emailed me claiming that the bellicose, "F*ck MSFT!" mouth-breathers were really Waggoner-Edstrom shills.

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