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Microsoft To Teach Undergrads About Secure Computing
Update: 03/24 18:00 GMT by J : Another report worth reading is Writing Software Right, which requires a free but annoying registration at Technology Review. This regards automated methods of finding software errors (not security specifically). Sun's "Jackpot" is discussed, a lint that also "identifies general instances of good or bad programming."
And Microsoft's efforts in this field are explained as well -- the company "paid more than $60 million in 1999 to acquire Intrinsa, maker of a bug-finding tool called Prefix. The program, which sifts through huge swaths of code searching for patterns that match a defined list of common semantic errors, helped find thousands of mistakes in Windows and other Microsoft products." As a Microsoft QA person says, "Our challenge is to get our software to the point that people expect it to work instead of expecting it to fail."
Yeah except 30 countries like Cameroon and Portugal don't count when they don't contribute troops. GW can only convice one other NATO country to join him.
That's coalition builing for you. If you can't convince your friends, brow-beat, bride and threaten a bunch of 3rd world countries desparate for money and then claim you have a broad "coalition".
As for Yugoslavia, perhaps you have a different definition of "led" than I do. Being finally forced to do something by your NATO allies after years and years of human rights abuses and atrocities (remember Bosnia?) does not constitute "leading". I guess if Bosnia or Kosovo had an abundance of oil under the ground it would have been a different story.
Hey remember Rawanda? 1 million people killed in an ethinic genocide, live on TV. Canada (under the UN but with no real help), Belgium and France (yes France, remember them?) sent troops (too little too late unfortunatly). The people of Rawanda suffered far more than the people of Iraq. Where was the 3rd of the 7th then? The 101? The marines? Oh yeah, no oil.
Even today in parts of the Sudan, children are sold into slavery and forced to fight for warlords. If they refuse they are killed. Special Ops going there after Iraq? How about a few tomohawks? Oh wait, the US government can only spend the millions on a war if it gets something back....like oil.
Don't try to pretend that this is a broad coalition fighting in Iraq. It isn't. It's the US and Britain, with token help from the Aussies and a few other countries. And don't try to pretend the war is being fought to rid the Iraqi people of Saddam and to find weapons of mass destruction. The US government only seems to be interested in human rights when it's oil supply is threatened.
Liberating the Iraqi people from a dictator is a noble effort and a good reason to go to war. How come the US doesn't apply the same standard when oil is not involved? Hell, last time the put the Amir of Kuwait back in power. Try looking up his record at Amnesty International and see if the US is really interested in "freedom and democracy" in the middle east.
Never by hatred has hatred been appeased, only by kindness - the Buddha
i pressed enter at the wrong time
"What is our business in the internal affairs of another nation ?"
The business is that Saddam Hussein hasn't disarmed over the last dozen years. It's interesting to note that even France admits he hasn't cooperated. No one wants to wait for a bunch of terrorists carrying aerosol cans full of made-in-iraq anthrax to coat NYC before acting against Mr. Hussein.
Oh an i hear the objections already..."But there is no connection between Saddam and Al Qaeda! You're just a paranoid war-monger!"
Saddam Hussein gladly throws money at Palestinian terrorists. How far a jump do you think it is from Islamic Jihad to Osama bin Laden, even if there really is no direct connection between Hussein and Al Qaeda?
The world will be a better place when he's gone. We'll all be safer, and the Iraqi people, whether they like us or not, will be better off.
--RMT
So youre saying Paula Jones should not have been allowed to persue a sexual harrasment suit? not a womens rights kinda guy are you?
Granted, we should remove Saddam by force. The problem is that we're a^H^H the superpower. The rest of the world is scared shitless that they're going to be next. No one wants to get bombed because their leader beat Bush's bowling score last week. As a country capable of doing this to any other country, we have a responsibility to get global support before flying off the handle like this. Scaring the rest of the world into submission is not going to help our situation. Eventually they're going to find a way to fight back.
p.s.- I live near downtown LA. When they do sneak a nuke into the country, remember what I said, because I'll be dust and ash...
Blair is just using the old Lloyd George maxim "Britain reserves the right to bomb niggers."
That sounds just like George Carlin - "why do we bomb them? Because they're full of brown people! "
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
thats a scary thought what are you some kind of wird science experiment or do you just have REALLY bad higeen?
Recently on Slashdot, when I click on the links to story comments, I get taken to the comments and then immediately get directed to an ad page. This isn't a popup that I can filter out, but a forced redirect from Slashdot to the ad page. I have to click the back button to return to the comments page.
Is this a new (or old) Slashdot ad system? It is infuriatingly annoying.
The Iraqi people are hostages to a vicious regime.
Like North Korea?
The only way to do it, they tried diplomacy for 13 years.
Like China?
They tried economic sanctions.
Like Cuba?
They tried limited military applications in the northern and southern no-fly zones. That didn't work.
Like Panama?
They tried 17 U.N. resolutions.
Like Israel? (actually, Israel's ignored thirty-two U.N. resolutions to withdraw from occupied territory, so they're worse than Iraq.)
Now, that leaves only one course. You say, is there any way to do it without conflict? No, everything else was tried.
Ok, so when are we going to bomb and invade North Korea, China, Cuba, Panama, and Israel?
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.