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No, the point was to bring attention to the blatant lie the Microsoft VP was propagating. The implication of "pirating software is bad for the economy" is meant to be that "support Microsoft's rights is in the best interest of the local economy." 99% of what a smart exec says is between the lines in the words he/she didn't say.
The article's summary, then, is simply pointing out that supporting Microsoft is just as bad (or even worse) for the local economy.
Smiling is a new language? Sorry, but emotions aren't a huge revolutionary change. They are adapting to ASCII what used to be done with pictures. Even on the computer, it isn't even necessary -- use Unicode and most of those symbols are in your character set.
And... seriously... no one can disagree that "3" is used in large part by incredibly annoying people who everyone secretly wants to blast off the face of the earth in a giant rocket perpetually transmitting a "quarantine" warning.
1. I have been outside of the US, and I've done quite a bit of research into the opportunities outside the US. Let me clarify. At foreign universities comparable to a US state university, which I'm assuming is where he's going since it's where a lot of people go, the CS curriculum alone does not, in my opinion, justify spending a semester abroad. Let me stress this -- you aren't going to be able to do a semester in Cambridge et. al. just because you're from across the pond.
2. Given the fact that I've done quite a bit of research, I have bothered (a lot) to compare the curricula. When I say "opportunities" I mean the opportunity to get out of college and also be marketable. Let me make this clear. I am not only comparing CS curricula. I am looking at a multitude of factors. And I have come to the conclusion that, unless you have other reasons for studying abroad (many of which are incredibly good reasons, because I am planning to), I don't see any major benefit in studying abroad, especially since this will, often times, extend your undergraduate another semester. Now, if he wants a job in Spain or something, I could see the benefit of studying overseas. However, TFS doesn't mention any in intention of this, and it would be rather irregular.
And finally, I figured the community would appreciate the waiver. Apparently not.
I'm (hopefully) going to be in a similar situation as you in a year. I'm planning on choosing where I want to go based upon culture and what experience would be best for me, in terms of what cultures it would be most enlightening/helpful to be at least somewhat immersed in. For me, that's what a study abroad program should be about. Once that's done -- especially in the Spanish/English speaking world (minus colonies,) is shouldn't be hard to find a university with some sort of technical course.
So I guess what I'm saying is, what's the point in studying abroad if your primary concern is the quality of your coursework? Nothing in the english/spanish world has the same opportunities in CS as the US, with few exceptions.
When you're running everything as root, everything can be exploitable. And it looks like this is a character set or file format converter, which is considerably more than simple typing and copy/paste (the extend.) From the Security Focus page (disucssion tab), it looks like it could be a buffer overflow ("prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability because of...corrupted memory.")
The info page shows that it does indeed affect Server 2003, one of the more populat versions out there, as noted by another comment
When you get past the buzzwords, there's an important message here: be open to new ideas and listen to employees.
Saying "web 2.0 doesn't exist" is just as pretentious as writing a book about it. I think most people here like the idea of an open workspace where ideas are shared and appreciated. If the term of the day for that type of work environment is "web 2.0", so be it. Use the hype to convince the powers to be that it's a good idea to shift to a more open work space.
Disclaimer: "web 2.0" seriously pisses me off. I'm just saying there's an instrumental value to the hype, if not the technology itself.
All I can say is, there's not reason to be surprised.
I had to fight a suspension my sophomore year fore downloading open source software because the software was "proprietary." (It was, in fact, an open source project released under the GPL.) Fortunately for me, I'm stubborn and was a constant pain in their ass until they finally dropped the suspension. Others aren't so lucky.
But please, don't simply write off the school system as a helpless mess full of incompetencies. Some of us are still stuck here, and some direction from members of industry is the only way we're going to receive a meaningful education. Email the administration at a local school and offer to come up and help start/continue a programming/whatever club after school. It's an hour every couple weeks I can guarantee you won't regret, and we'll really appreciate it.
As a high school students, one of the most mind-numbingly annoying things about our school's programming courses is that they are taught to the lowest possible denominator... in Java. To the point at which we can complete an entire semester of assignments in the first week or two of the course.
If you're going to teach, teach. Some of your students are not complete idiots, and are capable of going in depth on data structures, basic algorithms, etc.. The other ones can spend a semester teaching themselves how to make a hello world program without understanding what's going on. Or fuck it and just fail them.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, some of us students aren't taking computer programming so we can blow it off and get a bullshit A. And courses that aren't doing it right turn us off to the entire field.
ssh [server] -x
Now, launch xclock or firefox, or anything that uses X (so... anything with a gui. Even gnome-session.) The application will launch client side, ran from the server.
I used streamer, curl, and a couple shell scripts (one for login, one triggered by a cron job) Once you read the man pages, my methods become obvious (use streamer to take audio/video/still picture, send to server with curl, have a file upload script on the server.) I used my own encryption program -- but anything will do, including mcrypt.
Just make sure to store the files outside of your public webspace when they're uploaded.
email me if you want more specifics, and I'll email you my shell scripts and the PHP script I use server-side.
While I don't do the security camera thing, I do have my laptop send periodic pictures (including 5 seconds of video and audio at login) to my server using the built-in webcam and some OSS products. It only does this when it isn't at home, and it encrypts the files, so it's a great way to ensure that my computer is safe without becoming a privacy threat to myself.
I did this because I had some equipment stolen a while ago. I don't mind if people break into my house, as long as they leave everything how they found it. So instead of securing my house, I secured my property by having everything of value phone home when it's out and about. It's an alternate (cheaper) approach people might want to think about.
The court order mandates an in camera (in chambers) review of the memos, and only those that have not been granted summary judgment. Meaning that there is still a chance that the most putrid examples of abuse of civil rights are screened out for "national security" reasons. The OUTCOME of this review will be far more interesting (and indicative of the amount of justice that will be serves) than the order for its release.
TFA: "the code injected into BusinessWeek's website points to a Russian website that is currently down and not delivering further malicious code."
Seriously? Why is it that these people always point to their site? wouldn't you figure that, with a bit of injection, they could put the damn thing in the database? It's never made any sense to me. Anyone have any insights?
Also, they always waste these opportunities to give replace real headlines with those from the Onion... if they're going to do something malicious, they should at least do it with style...
Some freelancing is good. Some is terrible. Some things to watch out for:
1. People who don't speak your language well. Don't ask if you can understand them now, ask yourself if they will be able to understand a request to change a detail or glitch that you need to go in depth to explain. Also, make sure you can use the code they make. No joke, I've seen code comments in languages I couldn't begin to identify. Not helpful.
2. Over-pricing and under-pricing. Deicde what you're going to pay before you post, and post a range with that price on the upper end. Generally, these "bidding" sites reward straight forwardness.
3. Try to find open source developers first.
Also, why didn't you post your idea? If people know about the idea, they might just get excited and like it. Then they might offer to help. Then you might just have an open source project on your hands.
The United Stats (TFS:"The U.S. National Security Agency is also participating in the "IP Traceback" drafting group") and major western corporations (PDF linked from article) also support the proposal. What a surprise.
"What's distressing is that it doesn't appear that there's been any real consideration of how this type of capability could be misused," said Marc Rotenberg"
Wait... How can you correctly use this service? It seems like something only the clandestine agencies and major corporations of the world would like to see happen.
Anyways, according to TFS, this proposal would almost certainly have to modify existing protocols. Can't that be blocked by the CS/Engineering community members who sit on respective committees? Can international/national governments really force IETF to do something, as the article claims?
What is it with evilness generally claiming that they have to protect the stupid halfwits from themselves? Apple's patent app:
"Since only authorized garments are configured to electronically pair with authenticated sensors, a user (or manufacturer) can be assured that the sensing data received by the sensor is both accurate and consistent with its intended use (a sensor designed for use with running shoes can not properly be used with dance shoes, for example)."
Dear Corporate World:
We are not complete tools... we can take care of ourselves. Believe it or not, we know the difference between dancing and running.
Thanks Much
-Consumers of the World.
From the footnotes of the PDF:
-The anonymous survey was open to all respondents independent of geographical location, job title, company size or industry.
-The survey was web-based and aimed at respondents interested in or worried about web security threats in general and aimed at their organization.
In other news, when we polled members before entering a porn site, 98% said they plan on taking measures to protect their web anonymity within the next hour. The other 2% have a very strange fetish.
1. Their homepage says "Finjanâ(TM)s Survey Finds that 91% of Organizations Perceive Cybercrime as a Major Business Risk." Of course they do, anyone with a website does. That doesn't mean they perceive their specific data as being at risk. Is this paradoxical? Yes, but it's also the way things work. The "it won't happen to me" complex.
2. According the TFS, Most IT Professionals say their data is at risk, not most companies. That's not the safe as companies saying it.
If companies admitted that they can never completely protect your data, people would be smarter about who gets what information about them. As with anything else, the best way to secure a customer's data is to not have it unless you absolutely need it, and to only keep it for as long as you need it.
Yes.
1. TFA: "In the system demonstrated today, sensors mounted under the bus measured the magnetic fields created from the roadway magnets, which were placed beneath the pavement surface 1 meter apart along the center of the lane."
I'm assuming (but probably a safe one, UC Berkley is full of smart people) that the system has some pretty specific levels of acceptable differential in the magnetic field. Otherwise, any large magnet -- of which there are many in a large city -- would be able to modify its direction, intentional or not. And, seeing as it's a bus, the computer on-board probably has a course that it will accept, the magnets are just there to get it to exactly the right place so that loading/unloading time can be saved -- stops add up.
2. It doesn't replace a driver, it supplements one.
A few problems:
1. Co-Option!
TFA: "it [DECE] could be a very good thing for consumers."
Ever heard of the concept of a co-option? The anti-DRM movement has so much public support (outside of/. et al) because of its downfalls in terms of flexibility. Take that away, DRM seems more reasonable to Joe College, his parents, and his little sister.
2. More centralization, more big corporations, less privacy, and another chance for IE to redeem itself.
TFS: "you could stream the file to any device with a DECE-compatible Web browser"
And what exactly does DECE compatability mean? Does this mean my real identity is broadcast when I use a browser? If so, Will it be disabled by default?
3. Use your MP3 player/computer for storage of non-music files? Think again.
TFA: "The caveats: the devices have to be registered electronically to that user, and the copyright holder gets to limit the total number of devices customers may register."
Considering the history of DRM, I wouldn't be surprised if this means both corporations AND whoever cracks their methods gets to see everything.
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No, the point was to bring attention to the blatant lie the Microsoft VP was propagating. The implication of "pirating software is bad for the economy" is meant to be that "support Microsoft's rights is in the best interest of the local economy." 99% of what a smart exec says is between the lines in the words he/she didn't say.
The article's summary, then, is simply pointing out that supporting Microsoft is just as bad (or even worse) for the local economy.
Smiling is a new language? Sorry, but emotions aren't a huge revolutionary change. They are adapting to ASCII what used to be done with pictures. Even on the computer, it isn't even necessary -- use Unicode and most of those symbols are in your character set.
And... seriously... no one can disagree that "3" is used in large part by incredibly annoying people who everyone secretly wants to blast off the face of the earth in a giant rocket perpetually transmitting a "quarantine" warning.
The keyboard that (presumably?) shipped with the IIGS (image here) has to be an all-time favorite of mine.
1. I have been outside of the US, and I've done quite a bit of research into the opportunities outside the US. Let me clarify. At foreign universities comparable to a US state university, which I'm assuming is where he's going since it's where a lot of people go, the CS curriculum alone does not, in my opinion, justify spending a semester abroad. Let me stress this -- you aren't going to be able to do a semester in Cambridge et. al. just because you're from across the pond.
2. Given the fact that I've done quite a bit of research, I have bothered (a lot) to compare the curricula. When I say "opportunities" I mean the opportunity to get out of college and also be marketable. Let me make this clear. I am not only comparing CS curricula. I am looking at a multitude of factors. And I have come to the conclusion that, unless you have other reasons for studying abroad (many of which are incredibly good reasons, because I am planning to), I don't see any major benefit in studying abroad, especially since this will, often times, extend your undergraduate another semester. Now, if he wants a job in Spain or something, I could see the benefit of studying overseas. However, TFS doesn't mention any in intention of this, and it would be rather irregular.
And finally, I figured the community would appreciate the waiver. Apparently not.
I think it's an important question.
I'm (hopefully) going to be in a similar situation as you in a year. I'm planning on choosing where I want to go based upon culture and what experience would be best for me, in terms of what cultures it would be most enlightening/helpful to be at least somewhat immersed in. For me, that's what a study abroad program should be about. Once that's done -- especially in the Spanish/English speaking world (minus colonies,) is shouldn't be hard to find a university with some sort of technical course.
So I guess what I'm saying is, what's the point in studying abroad if your primary concern is the quality of your coursework? Nothing in the english/spanish world has the same opportunities in CS as the US, with few exceptions.
When you're running everything as root, everything can be exploitable. And it looks like this is a character set or file format converter, which is considerably more than simple typing and copy/paste (the extend.) From the Security Focus page (disucssion tab), it looks like it could be a buffer overflow ("prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability because of...corrupted memory.")
The info page shows that it does indeed affect Server 2003, one of the more populat versions out there, as noted by another comment
When you get past the buzzwords, there's an important message here: be open to new ideas and listen to employees.
Saying "web 2.0 doesn't exist" is just as pretentious as writing a book about it. I think most people here like the idea of an open workspace where ideas are shared and appreciated. If the term of the day for that type of work environment is "web 2.0", so be it. Use the hype to convince the powers to be that it's a good idea to shift to a more open work space.
Disclaimer: "web 2.0" seriously pisses me off. I'm just saying there's an instrumental value to the hype, if not the technology itself.
I am currently a student.
All I can say is, there's not reason to be surprised.
I had to fight a suspension my sophomore year fore downloading open source software because the software was "proprietary." (It was, in fact, an open source project released under the GPL.) Fortunately for me, I'm stubborn and was a constant pain in their ass until they finally dropped the suspension. Others aren't so lucky.
But please, don't simply write off the school system as a helpless mess full of incompetencies. Some of us are still stuck here, and some direction from members of industry is the only way we're going to receive a meaningful education. Email the administration at a local school and offer to come up and help start/continue a programming/whatever club after school. It's an hour every couple weeks I can guarantee you won't regret, and we'll really appreciate it.
As a high school students, one of the most mind-numbingly annoying things about our school's programming courses is that they are taught to the lowest possible denominator... in Java. To the point at which we can complete an entire semester of assignments in the first week or two of the course.
If you're going to teach, teach. Some of your students are not complete idiots, and are capable of going in depth on data structures, basic algorithms, etc.. The other ones can spend a semester teaching themselves how to make a hello world program without understanding what's going on. Or fuck it and just fail them.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, some of us students aren't taking computer programming so we can blow it off and get a bullshit A. And courses that aren't doing it right turn us off to the entire field.
ssh [server] -x Now, launch xclock or firefox, or anything that uses X (so... anything with a gui. Even gnome-session.) The application will launch client side, ran from the server.
I used streamer, curl, and a couple shell scripts (one for login, one triggered by a cron job) Once you read the man pages, my methods become obvious (use streamer to take audio/video/still picture, send to server with curl, have a file upload script on the server.) I used my own encryption program -- but anything will do, including mcrypt.
Just make sure to store the files outside of your public webspace when they're uploaded.
email me if you want more specifics, and I'll email you my shell scripts and the PHP script I use server-side.
While I don't do the security camera thing, I do have my laptop send periodic pictures (including 5 seconds of video and audio at login) to my server using the built-in webcam and some OSS products. It only does this when it isn't at home, and it encrypts the files, so it's a great way to ensure that my computer is safe without becoming a privacy threat to myself.
I did this because I had some equipment stolen a while ago. I don't mind if people break into my house, as long as they leave everything how they found it. So instead of securing my house, I secured my property by having everything of value phone home when it's out and about. It's an alternate (cheaper) approach people might want to think about.
The court order mandates an in camera (in chambers) review of the memos, and only those that have not been granted summary judgment. Meaning that there is still a chance that the most putrid examples of abuse of civil rights are screened out for "national security" reasons. The OUTCOME of this review will be far more interesting (and indicative of the amount of justice that will be serves) than the order for its release.
TFA: "the code injected into BusinessWeek's website points to a Russian website that is currently down and not delivering further malicious code."
Seriously? Why is it that these people always point to their site? wouldn't you figure that, with a bit of injection, they could put the damn thing in the database? It's never made any sense to me. Anyone have any insights?
Also, they always waste these opportunities to give replace real headlines with those from the Onion... if they're going to do something malicious, they should at least do it with style...
Some freelancing is good. Some is terrible. Some things to watch out for:
1. People who don't speak your language well. Don't ask if you can understand them now, ask yourself if they will be able to understand a request to change a detail or glitch that you need to go in depth to explain. Also, make sure you can use the code they make. No joke, I've seen code comments in languages I couldn't begin to identify. Not helpful.
2. Over-pricing and under-pricing. Deicde what you're going to pay before you post, and post a range with that price on the upper end. Generally, these "bidding" sites reward straight forwardness.
3. Try to find open source developers first.
Also, why didn't you post your idea? If people know about the idea, they might just get excited and like it. Then they might offer to help. Then you might just have an open source project on your hands.
The United Stats (TFS:"The U.S. National Security Agency is also participating in the "IP Traceback" drafting group") and major western corporations (PDF linked from article) also support the proposal. What a surprise.
"What's distressing is that it doesn't appear that there's been any real consideration of how this type of capability could be misused," said Marc Rotenberg"
Wait... How can you correctly use this service? It seems like something only the clandestine agencies and major corporations of the world would like to see happen.
Anyways, according to TFS, this proposal would almost certainly have to modify existing protocols. Can't that be blocked by the CS/Engineering community members who sit on respective committees? Can international/national governments really force IETF to do something, as the article claims?
Since the courts agreed it is:
"...numerous courts have upheld the right to anonymity online in similar contexts." -ACLU
What is it with evilness generally claiming that they have to protect the stupid halfwits from themselves? Apple's patent app:
"Since only authorized garments are configured to electronically pair with authenticated sensors, a user (or manufacturer) can be assured that the sensing data received by the sensor is both accurate and consistent with its intended use (a sensor designed for use with running shoes can not properly be used with dance shoes, for example)."
Dear Corporate World:
We are not complete tools... we can take care of ourselves. Believe it or not, we know the difference between dancing and running.
Thanks Much
-Consumers of the World.
From the footnotes of the PDF:
-The anonymous survey was open to all respondents independent of geographical location, job title, company size or industry.
-The survey was web-based and aimed at respondents interested in or worried about web security threats in general and aimed at their organization. In other news, when we polled members before entering a porn site, 98% said they plan on taking measures to protect their web anonymity within the next hour. The other 2% have a very strange fetish.
1. Their homepage says "Finjanâ(TM)s Survey Finds that 91% of Organizations Perceive Cybercrime as a Major Business Risk." Of course they do, anyone with a website does. That doesn't mean they perceive their specific data as being at risk. Is this paradoxical? Yes, but it's also the way things work. The "it won't happen to me" complex.
2. According the TFS, Most IT Professionals say their data is at risk, not most companies. That's not the safe as companies saying it.
If companies admitted that they can never completely protect your data, people would be smarter about who gets what information about them. As with anything else, the best way to secure a customer's data is to not have it unless you absolutely need it, and to only keep it for as long as you need it.
Yes. 1. TFA: "In the system demonstrated today, sensors mounted under the bus measured the magnetic fields created from the roadway magnets, which were placed beneath the pavement surface 1 meter apart along the center of the lane." I'm assuming (but probably a safe one, UC Berkley is full of smart people) that the system has some pretty specific levels of acceptable differential in the magnetic field. Otherwise, any large magnet -- of which there are many in a large city -- would be able to modify its direction, intentional or not. And, seeing as it's a bus, the computer on-board probably has a course that it will accept, the magnets are just there to get it to exactly the right place so that loading/unloading time can be saved -- stops add up. 2. It doesn't replace a driver, it supplements one.
You can now. It's called public transportation.
who gets sued in the event of a crash?
A few problems: /. et al) because of its downfalls in terms of flexibility. Take that away, DRM seems more reasonable to Joe College, his parents, and his little sister.
1. Co-Option! TFA: "it [DECE] could be a very good thing for consumers." Ever heard of the concept of a co-option? The anti-DRM movement has so much public support (outside of
2. More centralization, more big corporations, less privacy, and another chance for IE to redeem itself. TFS: "you could stream the file to any device with a DECE-compatible Web browser" And what exactly does DECE compatability mean? Does this mean my real identity is broadcast when I use a browser? If so, Will it be disabled by default?
3. Use your MP3 player/computer for storage of non-music files? Think again.
TFA: "The caveats: the devices have to be registered electronically to that user, and the copyright holder gets to limit the total number of devices customers may register."
Considering the history of DRM, I wouldn't be surprised if this means both corporations AND whoever cracks their methods gets to see everything.