So what?
So what if some other country had a 14 or 15 year old who was even better but wasn't able to compete because their country chose to follow the rules?
I don't particularly care what the age limit is... make it 10 if you want, but everyone is supposed to follow the same rules in sports.
IMO it counts. Hacking isn't just about breaking into systems with Red Bull fueled programming sessions.
The Chinese government is actively trying to quash this information and he was able to find a way around it... that is hacking.
I'm sure you start out being a Lieutenant in command of a mining ship and your first mission will be to go to Durotar and mine copper for the Alliance war effort. Oh sorry, got my games mixed up.
I had to laugh at the last sentence... "Finally, we will discuss what Microsoft can do to increase the effectiveness of the memory protections at the expense of annoying Vista users even more."
I have a 15 year old sign program. It's sole purpose is to manipulate those fancy signs you see on the freeway. "slow down.. amber alert etc" This program was created by a student who left a few years later. Of course said student took the source with him and we've been stuck for 13 years making this dos program work on the varying versions of windows.
You should be able to get the source back. Ask the San Francisco IT department for some tips.
Of course if you do that you get Hydrogen and Oxygen which will combust together just fine (and make water again). No need to pollute the universe with hydrocarbon byproducts.
The $349 Vista Basic desktop at Walmart.com ships with 2 GB RAM
Walmart.com has 30 Vista desktops and 20 Vista desktops that ship with at least 2 GB RAM. 3 or 4 GB is not uncommon. 64-bit Vista is gaining visibility as well.
Yes, 2GB+ is starting to become the norm out there (but there are still some models at Walmart that have 1 GB), and that is most likely because the 1GB that was much more common when Vista was cutting teeth was simply inadequate. Now Vista has gotten such a bad rap as having horrible performance that it will probably never be able to live it down.
The 512 MB PC runs XP Home or - wait for it - Linux.
This follows a depressingly familiar pattern. The moment OEM Linux begins to gain some traction, hardware prices fall and the Windows system with eye-popping specs becomes suddenly very affordable.
Linux suffers from one horrible flaw... it does not support Windows applications.
No matter how you slice it Windows owns the market and you'll never see Linux gain real traction until it is deployed on every bargain PC with Wine and adequate memory to support it.
The biggest problem with many discount PCs is that they typically come with very small amounts of RAM, 1 GB (sometimes even 512MB). The difference in Vista between 1 GB and 2 GB is pretty dramatic. There is some difference between 2 GB and 3 GB as well.
He was obligated to hand over his passwords the minute a superior asked. ANY superior, not just the mayor. And I'll bet good money that Childs knew exactly who those authorized superiors were - the people planning to FIRE HIM.
I agree. I would never refuse a request of my immediate management chain as long as there are no other security constraints (e.g. Federal government confidentiality).
But what if his superiors never did ask him? I haven't really seen anything specify who asked for the passwords (other than the police). Was it reported that his boss asked for it?
Perhaps his boss told one of the other admins to call Childs and request the password never talking to Childs himself, and in that case Childs rightly refused... he has no way of knowing if the admin was authorized or not. Then it just snowballed from there.
Same for the police asking for passwords... would you just turn over your passwords to any random official on request? You could then be sued for breaching confidentiality.
I will really be interested in seeing how this all plays out.
Blaster did not require any idiots... it was perfectly happy infecting any and all connected machines whether you were doing anything or not. That was really the beginning of the "you must take every security update as soon as it comes out" era that we are in because the patch for that had been released less than a month earlier.
Interestingly enough a couple years back I had to reinstall and all I had was the OEM SP1 disk.
I installed, plugged into my Linksys router, which includes a firewall with whatever default settings it had, started downloading the 30 or so "critical" security patches, but I was infected within 4 hours.
To this day I'm not sure what the Linksys firewall was letting through... perhaps the infection comes through ports opened by Windows update?
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Wow that looks ripe for a car to run into it accidentally.
Seriously, I'm in China and iTunes Store is all fine for me. Get a life.
And you can download "Songs for Tibet"?
No, there's no reason to ignore the doping rules. I'm sure all of the Chinese athletes passed their drug tests... the Chinese government said so.
So what? So what if some other country had a 14 or 15 year old who was even better but wasn't able to compete because their country chose to follow the rules? I don't particularly care what the age limit is... make it 10 if you want, but everyone is supposed to follow the same rules in sports.
IMO it counts. Hacking isn't just about breaking into systems with Red Bull fueled programming sessions. The Chinese government is actively trying to quash this information and he was able to find a way around it... that is hacking.
At least that's better than TFA which shows a large chunk of otherwise good farmland being taken up by a solar array in Germany.
I'm curious what the carbon impact of 12.5 square miles of solar panels vs 12.5 square miles of forest.
On the one hand you're not burning oil, on the other you're preventing light from reaching massive amounts of land, so no plant life will exist there.
Granted you can cover the deserts with solar panels, but beyond that would it be worse than burning fossil fuels?
I'm sure you start out being a Lieutenant in command of a mining ship and your first mission will be to go to Durotar and mine copper for the Alliance war effort. Oh sorry, got my games mixed up.
I had to laugh at the last sentence... "Finally, we will discuss what Microsoft can do to increase the effectiveness of the memory protections at the expense of annoying Vista users even more."
I have a 15 year old sign program. It's sole purpose is to manipulate those fancy signs you see on the freeway. "slow down.. amber alert etc" This program was created by a student who left a few years later. Of course said student took the source with him and we've been stuck for 13 years making this dos program work on the varying versions of windows.
You should be able to get the source back. Ask the San Francisco IT department for some tips.
$6.55 per hour? I'm sure a lot of companies would be interested in your services at that rate too...
But then you'll just lose energy (you cant break even, remember?).
True, but I think you missed this part:
Send a giga-shitload of solar panels there, fore into the liquid water layer [wikipedia.org], do electrolysis, and there you go!
As long as you have sun there is always more energy coming in. At least for a little while.
Of course if you do that you get Hydrogen and Oxygen which will combust together just fine (and make water again). No need to pollute the universe with hydrocarbon byproducts.
Great! Now, all they have to do is combine that with this, and we can all sleep soundly.
With one of those I'd be a little afraid of that "three-to-one ratio of alerts to actual events"...
The $349 Vista Basic desktop at Walmart.com ships with 2 GB RAM
Walmart.com has 30 Vista desktops and 20 Vista desktops that ship with at least 2 GB RAM. 3 or 4 GB is not uncommon. 64-bit Vista is gaining visibility as well.
Yes, 2GB+ is starting to become the norm out there (but there are still some models at Walmart that have 1 GB), and that is most likely because the 1GB that was much more common when Vista was cutting teeth was simply inadequate. Now Vista has gotten such a bad rap as having horrible performance that it will probably never be able to live it down.
The 512 MB PC runs XP Home or - wait for it - Linux.
This follows a depressingly familiar pattern. The moment OEM Linux begins to gain some traction, hardware prices fall and the Windows system with eye-popping specs becomes suddenly very affordable.
Linux suffers from one horrible flaw... it does not support Windows applications. No matter how you slice it Windows owns the market and you'll never see Linux gain real traction until it is deployed on every bargain PC with Wine and adequate memory to support it.
The biggest problem with many discount PCs is that they typically come with very small amounts of RAM, 1 GB (sometimes even 512MB). The difference in Vista between 1 GB and 2 GB is pretty dramatic. There is some difference between 2 GB and 3 GB as well.
He was obligated to hand over his passwords the minute a superior asked. ANY superior, not just the mayor. And I'll bet good money that Childs knew exactly who those authorized superiors were - the people planning to FIRE HIM.
I agree. I would never refuse a request of my immediate management chain as long as there are no other security constraints (e.g. Federal government confidentiality).
But what if his superiors never did ask him? I haven't really seen anything specify who asked for the passwords (other than the police). Was it reported that his boss asked for it?
Perhaps his boss told one of the other admins to call Childs and request the password never talking to Childs himself, and in that case Childs rightly refused... he has no way of knowing if the admin was authorized or not. Then it just snowballed from there.
Same for the police asking for passwords... would you just turn over your passwords to any random official on request? You could then be sued for breaching confidentiality.
I will really be interested in seeing how this all plays out.
Blaster did not require any idiots... it was perfectly happy infecting any and all connected machines whether you were doing anything or not. That was really the beginning of the "you must take every security update as soon as it comes out" era that we are in because the patch for that had been released less than a month earlier.
Interestingly enough a couple years back I had to reinstall and all I had was the OEM SP1 disk. I installed, plugged into my Linksys router, which includes a firewall with whatever default settings it had, started downloading the 30 or so "critical" security patches, but I was infected within 4 hours. To this day I'm not sure what the Linksys firewall was letting through... perhaps the infection comes through ports opened by Windows update?