Does slashdot contact the webmaster before a link? It seems pretty careless if they don't. I wonder if they will slashdot the wrong site sometime and get sued.
"Your honor, 30% of the time they post a link to a site, it becomes unavailable. Script kiddies have a far less success ration. Surely they are far worse than the average hacker"
I certaninly know my company would never give it's confidential data to others to backup... and isn't that the most important type of data?
The obvious solution is to encrypt. BUT... how long will encryption of today last? If I have plans for a product that will last 15 years, I don't want the plans out there to be decrypted in 10. Also... where do I store my decryption key? If that get's lost, I might as well have no backup at all.
But in case people don't know about it. distcc, the clustering solution he used rocks! It's just a wrapper for gcc, and works on most platforms. We use it here at work on Mac OSX!
From reading the flamewar that is the news thread, I got this much:
1) They use GPL & code under another license that isn't GPL compatible, plus their own code. 2) They never distributed a binary. 3) The released all that code. 4) Their code had an added clause that states you can't distribute binaries.
So the problem was, they used gpl & gpl incompatible code, so the resulting binary could not have been legal under any license. So they just simply didn't release a binary. I don't see a problem here. It's not against licenses to distribute GPL code next to gpl-incompatible code... it's just illegal to compile them together and distribute.
I don't see this helping the slashdot effect. How many people are actually going to download the browser plugins required to make all this work?
I mean, I might get the plugins if I'm dealing a lot with sites that use this technology, but how many people will be dealing with a lot of these?
And those sites are using this, are probably the ones that are use to high volumes of traffic, so they prepare for it. The average site that can't handle a slashdot, can't handle it because they generally don't need to.
The FAQ makes it sound like the only way to place one of these calls is with a normal phone plugged into this special hardware device. Is this true?
Oh sure, it looks like I can dial with gnome meeting, but do I have to talk through the normal analog phone? If this is the case... what does using gnome meeting do for us? Just give a gui to configure & dial the phone? Doesn't sound like news, but maybe I'm missing something.
If MS offers huge discounts for windows insurance, then the would loose GOBS of money when it comes time to pay out those insurance claims. I'm guessing the profit margin on insurance generally isn't as big as it is on software! They would essentially have to pay for their own bugs.
The article went on to talk about some "hoops" companies must go through to get insured. Some of these hoops included external audits, and assurances that security is important. Perhaps this kind of thing can actually increase security since it gets people higher up (and not the techies) thinking about it.
If you're board of directors tries to get cracker insurance, and the insurance company fails you as being to big of a risk.... I bet that board will step up to the plate for security funding!
It sounds to me like this is just another way of designing, but that makes the wrong emphasis. These tests sound a lot like low level use-cases. You should be creating those anyways. But you should create all of those first! Not one at a time as you code.
Sure, this sounds like a nice academic activity, but really... In the real world, use the right tool for the right job. I tend to think word redundancy does not correlate directly to spaminess.
This is getting to be old news. Kind of like Linux on the Desktop stories.
Yes, we know it's heading there. Yes, we know it's being adopted by big players. Do we need to hear about each article just because it has "Linux" in the title?
It's a shame apple is actually restricting uses of their software like this. Isn't one of the best signs of good-designed software when people do things with it that you never imagined?
Bad laws are just that, bad laws. I don't disagree with all of the intentions of the DMCA, I mean protecting copyright is important. But bad laws can be made to protect good things. This is one of those cases. The only remedy for this, is to revoke the bad laws, and create new, good laws.
Microsoft has built a new national wireless data network, based on the data broadcasting ability of FM radio stations. The company says that compared with traditional paging systems, this network makes it cheaper both to broadcast data and build receivers. It said the microchips for the watch, which it designed, cost less than $10 each wholesale.
So they already made an FM network? I thought it was just a what-if scenario.
Slashdot Mirror
Great, now all the mirrors are slashdotted!
Does slashdot contact the webmaster before a link? It seems pretty careless if they don't. I wonder if they will slashdot the wrong site sometime and get sued.
"Your honor, 30% of the time they post a link to a site, it becomes unavailable. Script kiddies have a far less success ration. Surely they are far worse than the average hacker"
So now I have to rely on a whole bunch of people having good backups instead of a few.
And it still doesn't address the problem of backing up the decompression key.
I certaninly know my company would never give it's confidential data to others to backup ... and isn't that the most important type of data?
... how long will encryption of today last? If I have plans for a product that will last 15 years, I don't want the plans out there to be decrypted in 10. Also... where do I store my decryption key? If that get's lost, I might as well have no backup at all.
The obvious solution is to encrypt. BUT
Well, on the whole, fairly uninteresting.
But in case people don't know about it. distcc, the clustering solution he used rocks! It's just a wrapper for gcc, and works on most platforms. We use it here at work on Mac OSX!
http://distcc.samba.org/
super easy to set up too!
From reading the flamewar that is the news thread, I got this much:
1) They use GPL & code under another license that isn't GPL compatible, plus their own code.
2) They never distributed a binary.
3) The released all that code.
4) Their code had an added clause that states you can't distribute binaries.
So the problem was, they used gpl & gpl incompatible code, so the resulting binary could not have been legal under any license. So they just simply didn't release a binary. I don't see a problem here. It's not against licenses to distribute GPL code next to gpl-incompatible code... it's just illegal to compile them together and distribute.
I don't see this helping the slashdot effect. How many people are actually going to download the browser plugins required to make all this work?
I mean, I might get the plugins if I'm dealing a lot with sites that use this technology, but how many people will be dealing with a lot of these?
And those sites are using this, are probably the ones that are use to high volumes of traffic, so they prepare for it. The average site that can't handle a slashdot, can't handle it because they generally don't need to.
The FAQ makes it sound like the only way to place one of these calls is with a normal phone plugged into this special hardware device. Is this true?
... what does using gnome meeting do for us? Just give a gui to configure & dial the phone? Doesn't sound like news, but maybe I'm missing something.
Oh sure, it looks like I can dial with gnome meeting, but do I have to talk through the normal analog phone? If this is the case
I bet not as much... These companies are looking for financial stability. So they make X number of dollars no matter what.
When a company buys insurance they are 100% guarenteed to recover losses from a crack.
When a company spends that money on an admin, the chance for being broken into goes down, but will never be 0%
Disclaimer: This assumes the company negotiates a "good" insurance contract, and fullfills all of their requirements.
And what the hell is a |acker !!!
well.. duh... someone has to pay the claims
If MS offers huge discounts for windows insurance, then the would loose GOBS of money when it comes time to pay out those insurance claims. I'm guessing the profit margin on insurance generally isn't as big as it is on software! They would essentially have to pay for their own bugs.
The article went on to talk about some "hoops" companies must go through to get insured. Some of these hoops included external audits, and assurances that security is important. Perhaps this kind of thing can actually increase security since it gets people higher up (and not the techies) thinking about it.
.... I bet that board will step up to the plate for security funding!
If you're board of directors tries to get cracker insurance, and the insurance company fails you as being to big of a risk
The NY Attorney General was prosecuting a spammer.
Do spammers get prosecuted many other places?
What's not to get there?
Windows just isn't as secureable as unix's
It sounds to me like this is just another way of designing, but that makes the wrong emphasis. These tests sound a lot like low level use-cases. You should be creating those anyways. But you should create all of those first! Not one at a time as you code.
Right up until Congress decides to treat patents like copyrights and extend, extend, extend!
Yeah, those everquest bastards!
<DOBBY MODE>
Must not talk badly about everquest.
Hitting self repeatedly in head
</DOBY MODE>
Sony & Verant would never do something like that. They are good!
Please mr. Everquest man, he didn't mean it, don't take my account away!
(Nonsense rants from an everquest addict)
Sure, this sounds like a nice academic activity, but really ... In the real world, use the right tool for the right job. I tend to think word redundancy does not correlate directly to spaminess.
Too bad all the spammers aren't in NY ... then maybe we could actually do something about most of them.
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This is getting to be old news. Kind of like Linux on the Desktop stories.
Yes, we know it's heading there. Yes, we know it's being adopted by big players. Do we need to hear about each article just because it has "Linux" in the title?
It's a shame apple is actually restricting uses of their software like this. Isn't one of the best signs of good-designed software when people do things with it that you never imagined?
Bad laws are just that, bad laws. I don't disagree with all of the intentions of the DMCA, I mean protecting copyright is important. But bad laws can be made to protect good things. This is one of those cases. The only remedy for this, is to revoke the bad laws, and create new, good laws.
circutry on glass?
Sweet, so when can we have computers that come on crystals like in the superman movie.
Oooh, can the glass go transparent? I'd love a window that doubles as a computer. I bet it can't
I'd say no, right up until a court determines a "technique" is the same as a "tool".
Microsoft has built a new national wireless data network, based on the data broadcasting ability of FM radio stations. The company says that compared with traditional paging systems, this network makes it cheaper both to broadcast data and build receivers. It said the microchips for the watch, which it designed, cost less than $10 each wholesale.
So they already made an FM network? I thought it was just a what-if scenario.