Could it be that since Linux has become somewhat mainstream kernel developement is considered a "solved problem" to young programmers looking for an interesing project? Maybe new programmers are tackling other open source problems instead.
These are all US court cases, and courts in the US are a lot less forgiving than the European when you sign an unreasonable contract.
In Norway for instance, it is generally assumed by lawyers (but untested) that EULAs can be ignored. Only proper SLAs and such constitute binding contracts.
So it kind of depends on which contry's laws you try it under.
Let's assume for a second we've educated each and every single user and made them security conscious on the Internet. An educated user browses a site which contains an image that is constructed to exploit a security flaw in the browser without the user ever doing anything but viewing the image. Unknowingly the user's browser is compromised and in the hands of the attackers despite the fact that the user is well educated and security conscious, which means education alone is not the solution. Better software is the solution.
Absolutely. But what we stated was that, as of right now, users are the weakest link in the security chain. By educating users, you strengthen that link and make another link the weakest. Even so, you have by training improved the security of the system.
To get exploited in your scenario, assuming the user now sticks to "honest" sites and doesn't follow all email links) would require something like a web server exploit such a XSS. This is more difficult than simply tricking the user into executing a trojan.
Normally to safely cross the street you only need to look left and right to check for traffic, you don't have to look up for falling objects, you don't have to check the road for mines, tripwires or other booby traps, you don't have to check for sniper fire
We should not ignore software security just because the user is the weakest link. But to borrow your analogy: the problem today is that pedestrians don't look left and right before crossing the street. Training them to do this would save more lives than any piano transportation safety regulation.
Users are the weakest link in the security chain. And the least trained users are normally those on the de facto standard of Windows with IE, which implies a higher infection rate on thos systems.
If we substitute eg. Firefox for IE as the default browser in Windows, unskilled users will still remain unskilled users. They will still follow any shady link they come over, some of which will undoubtedly manage to poke a hole in FF's security.
The challenge and solution to security in the current environment is to educate the "average person."
As a long time user of Seamonkey 2 (alphas and betas) as my primary browser I suspect he threw it at a lot of "testing" sites to see what it could stand up to. Sure I do see crashes during regular use, but it's rare enough to surprise me (anything else and I would have stopped using it).
It would be nice if he mentioned whether he actually tried to make the browser crash or if it happened during normal usage...
It also helped that SimSup (can't remember his name) pulled this exact fault code on Krantz' team during a simulation training just a week prior to launch. Krantz incorrectly called for an abort then, so the whole problem was still fresh in his mind.
it is more efficient for me to hold down the shift key (which is closer to my pinky than the caps lock key) while continuing to type at the same pace than it is to stop and press and release the caps lock key. i suspect this is likely the case with most people who are able to type at any reasonable pace.
I think you're mistaken. You clearly don't touch-type, which is impossible if you commit one finger just to holding down a shift key.
You should be able to get a lot higher typing rate with training, and then you'll start to appreciate the caps lock for stuff like SQL queries.
Both Firefox and Opera lets you tune settings by going to the "about:config" page. On this page almost any setting can be twiddled, provided you know what and where.
The rounding up Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, etc, was done by volunteer groups -- the euphemistically called Einsatzgruppen or Sonderkommandos (special units) -- recruited from the SS, SD, Gestapo (all under Himmler, btw) and local volunteers, _not_ from the army.
I agree with your argument, but want to point out that the Sonderkommando was not working along with the Einsatzgroups. They were prisoners in the concentration camps forced to dispose of their killed inmates.
Nonsense, it's simply because i - n commonly is used to denote integer variables (sum x_i from 1 to n) i mathematical notation. This is a practice dating back at least to Gauss.
Perhaps, there is still no evidence of that. This standard was obviously not created by Teletype corp, and no other stories I know of explain why caps were chosen for transcripts.
While the Earth-Moon system has lagrangians of its own, STEREO will pass through L4 and L5 belonging to the Earth-Sun system. STEREO left the Earth-Moon system only a few days after launch.
Most companies consider the documents written by their employees during work as proprietary.
Minutes from meetings with suppliers or customers, code written on the train by commuters and reports written to your managers in that quiet moment on the plane are all examples of data that should be encrypted.
Of course, good crypto should not be an excuse to download the entire customer database to your laptop.
To be fair, this isn't really snobbery. A well typeset document, with proper font sizes, line lenghts and "colouring," is easier on the reader. Good presentation makes it just a little more likely that your audience will actually read your paper buy your ideas.
Both the form and the content of the document are important.
Space Mission Analysis and Design has tabulated some orbit life times. For high-ballistic coefficient satellites (high mass to drag ratio), some altitudes and lifetimes are:
100km: 0.06 days 450km (roughly ISS altitude): 2 years 1000km: 1 million years above: no loss of altitude
Unfortunately coal is not mined from holes in the ground, but by removing the mountains altogether (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountaintop_removal_mining). The cited area is 1.4 million acres of stripped forests (nationally).
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Could it be that since Linux has become somewhat mainstream kernel developement is considered a "solved problem" to young programmers looking for an interesing project? Maybe new programmers are tackling other open source problems instead.
These are all US court cases, and courts in the US are a lot less forgiving than the European when you sign an unreasonable contract.
In Norway for instance, it is generally assumed by lawyers (but untested) that EULAs can be ignored. Only proper SLAs and such constitute binding contracts.
So it kind of depends on which contry's laws you try it under.
The arctic is hardly a desert, most of the area north of the arctic circle is sea. Maybe you are thinking of inland Greenland?
Let's assume for a second we've educated each and every single user and made them security conscious on the Internet. An educated user browses a site which contains an image that is constructed to exploit a security flaw in the browser without the user ever doing anything but viewing the image. Unknowingly the user's browser is compromised and in the hands of the attackers despite the fact that the user is well educated and security conscious, which means education alone is not the solution. Better software is the solution.
Absolutely. But what we stated was that, as of right now, users are the weakest link in the security chain. By educating users, you strengthen that link and make another link the weakest. Even so, you have by training improved the security of the system.
To get exploited in your scenario, assuming the user now sticks to "honest" sites and doesn't follow all email links) would require something like a web server exploit such a XSS. This is more difficult than simply tricking the user into executing a trojan.
Normally to safely cross the street you only need to look left and right to check for traffic, you don't have to look up for falling objects, you don't have to check the road for mines, tripwires or other booby traps, you don't have to check for sniper fire
We should not ignore software security just because the user is the weakest link. But to borrow your analogy: the problem today is that pedestrians don't look left and right before crossing the street. Training them to do this would save more lives than any piano transportation safety regulation.
Users are the weakest link in the security chain. And the least trained users are normally those on the de facto standard of Windows with IE, which implies a higher infection rate on thos systems.
If we substitute eg. Firefox for IE as the default browser in Windows, unskilled users will still remain unskilled users. They will still follow any shady link they come over, some of which will undoubtedly manage to poke a hole in FF's security.
The challenge and solution to security in the current environment is to educate the "average person."
if you keep the environment completely pathogen free , the immunity of the people there will drop significantly , since it is not being stimulated.
[Citation needed]
They would not have antibodies against anything new, but they still have resistence to everything they were exposed to before they left.
IANAMD (I am not an MD), but I don't think the immune system works like muscle mass in that respect...
It is, browser.tabs in about:config is the place to look. You can make Seamonkey behave like FF or vice versa.
As a long time user of Seamonkey 2 (alphas and betas) as my primary browser I suspect he threw it at a lot of "testing" sites to see what it could stand up to. Sure I do see crashes during regular use, but it's rare enough to surprise me (anything else and I would have stopped using it).
It would be nice if he mentioned whether he actually tried to make the browser crash or if it happened during normal usage...
I thought the mouse army was Chinese...
It also helped that SimSup (can't remember his name) pulled this exact fault code on Krantz' team during a simulation training just a week prior to launch. Krantz incorrectly called for an abort then, so the whole problem was still fresh in his mind.
it is more efficient for me to hold down the shift key (which is closer to my pinky than the caps lock key) while continuing to type at the same pace than it is to stop and press and release the caps lock key. i suspect this is likely the case with most people who are able to type at any reasonable pace.
I think you're mistaken. You clearly don't touch-type, which is impossible if you commit one finger just to holding down a shift key.
You should be able to get a lot higher typing rate with training, and then you'll start to appreciate the caps lock for stuff like SQL queries.
I think your average scenario #2 Decepticon would be more likely to make some super greasy popcorn and watch...
Both Firefox and Opera lets you tune settings by going to the "about:config" page. On this page almost any setting can be twiddled, provided you know what and where.
The rounding up Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, etc, was done by volunteer groups -- the euphemistically called Einsatzgruppen or Sonderkommandos (special units) -- recruited from the SS, SD, Gestapo (all under Himmler, btw) and local volunteers, _not_ from the army.
I agree with your argument, but want to point out that the Sonderkommando was not working along with the Einsatzgroups. They were prisoners in the concentration camps forced to dispose of their killed inmates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderkommando
Aristotle's Organon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organon). Without a firm logical science we would be nowhere.
Nonsense, it's simply because i - n commonly is used to denote integer variables (sum x_i from 1 to n) i mathematical notation. This is a practice dating back at least to Gauss.
Anyone else getting logins to random accounts?
Perhaps, there is still no evidence of that. This standard was obviously not created by Teletype corp, and no other stories I know of explain why caps were chosen for transcripts.
It's still "Citation needed."
Notice that even the jargon file adds the disclaimer
or so, at least, hacker folklore has it,
which has stood for at least 20 years. Even the writers of the jargon file apparently felt that a citation was needed here.
Telegrams were typically transcribed in all-caps, so this practice dates back way longer than the teletype.
While the Earth-Moon system has lagrangians of its own, STEREO will pass through L4 and L5 belonging to the Earth-Sun system. STEREO left the Earth-Moon system only a few days after launch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point#Lagrangian_point_missions
Guess it pays off to be a union member...
Most companies consider the documents written by their employees during work as proprietary.
Minutes from meetings with suppliers or customers, code written on the train by commuters and reports written to your managers in that quiet moment on the plane are all examples of data that should be encrypted.
Of course, good crypto should not be an excuse to download the entire customer database to your laptop.
To be fair, this isn't really snobbery. A well typeset document, with proper font sizes, line lenghts and "colouring," is easier on the reader. Good presentation makes it just a little more likely that your audience will actually read your paper buy your ideas.
Both the form and the content of the document are important.
Space Mission Analysis and Design has tabulated some orbit life times. For high-ballistic coefficient satellites (high mass to drag ratio), some altitudes and lifetimes are:
100km: 0.06 days
450km (roughly ISS altitude): 2 years
1000km: 1 million years
above: no loss of altitude
Unfortunately coal is not mined from holes in the ground, but by removing the mountains altogether (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountaintop_removal_mining). The cited area is 1.4 million acres of stripped forests (nationally).