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wglb
69,333karma·9,653submissions·January 13, 2008
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At home, Simple country boy
wgl at ciexinc.com
twitter: @wgl8
w8lvn, 7019, 3519, 1819 and occasionally 7074.000
Formerly at kCura/Relativity, security. I do application penetration testing for hire these days. Happy to chat about application security, programming, and ham radio. My conversations about agriculture are not that interesting.
Security: https://ciexinc.com/ Of particular interest are the solarwinds articles at https://ciexinc.com/blog/solarwinds/index.html Old very fun projects: https://ciex-software.com
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.”
Beware the anxiety industrial complex.
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I find the original experiment (just from reading this article) to be a bit sketchy. It seems to presume that the unconscious mind is a separate entity from the conscious mind, and that free will mus…
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Well, this is not a simple substitution in the original. There are entire paragraphs removed. The ending remains pretty much the same. I am not getting the point.
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Giant cannibalistic don't-work-when-its-raining spiders.
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One wonders, though, whether there is enough room within the company for good hackers and Larry's way of doing business, or Larry his own self. We can all name more than one Sun figure that has indus…
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Good article. However, I think of the wisdom of crowds in the sense described by James Surowiecki is that the participants are acting independently. Is it true that "Crowdsourced" now means somethin…
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Actually, the counterexample is Carol Bartz herself, with what she did with Autodesk.
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I recommend this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5ObAgkqicQ to everyone here. Note she was interested in programming from a young age, but nobody encouraged her to be an engineer.…
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How very cool.
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His deal seems particularly attractive given this new information. One can imagine that he has been working 100-120 hour weeks, has no external life. Now he has buckage, gets to continue doing what …
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If the corporation is convicted of a felony, it should lose the right to vote, right?
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Wait--when a person goes bankrupt, nobody is charged with murder, so I am not following the argument here.
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One person's calculated risk is another persons sheer terror. If you have been employed by a midwestern insurance giant for 20 years, your idea of risk might be heavily influenced by gartner, and you …
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Interesting. Kind of the junk DNA of chips.
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How so?
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Ok, so there is a lot of noise. I picked ubuntu ignoring the noise because it has a nice package system does everything I want, upgrades nicely. No trauma, I ignore the noise. It has the shell I wan…
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Speaking of one who has four "distros" in the shop (ubuntu, freebsd, openbsd, osx) each of these has its strength and making our stuff work on them is not a big deal. I don't get confused at all, and…
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Write him a letter telling him that you enjoyed his blog and would like to see more. (I did.)
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Perhaps the fundamental thing to do is to not pay the final 50% until mutually agreed-upon criteria were met. And for something like this there clearly needs to be a periodic code inspection, or speci…
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And Frances Allen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_E._Allen thinks that C is a terrible language. What is clear about c++ is that there are certainly many subsets of the whole thing that are us…
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I think this is a good thing, and it is a good thing seeing lots of energy poured into each of these approaches. I wonder if the Zen of python "There is only one-- and preferably only one --obvious wa…
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Looks good here. Looks like a snap to use (NPI).
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They don't see the content coming or going. That to me is pretty significant.
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Cool site, but I would lose the fluorescent dots filling each margin.
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If I am reading stuff at the library or other public wifi (says right hear "The Library's wireless network is not secure") I don't want eavesdroppers to know.
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This is a treasure of engineering information about storage. There is a lot to the building of storage if you are cost conscious.
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But seriously--if this bug was in BSD, wouldn't we know it already?