1) Even if it isn't completely broken, any kind of significant attack, as this most certainly is, is reason enough to switch to a more secure system if one is available. This revelation, combined with that Russian breakthrough of using GPUs to brute-force WPA keys in very little time, is evidence that WPA is very close to being insecure and inadvisable for use as a wireless security protocol, if it isn't already.
2) Alarmist headlines always have been the de facto when it comes to security-related news and always will be. While I agree it is an exaggeration in many cases, it gets people paying attention to vital security-related issues, which can only be a Good Thing.
As much as his later works, particularly his stance on global warming, annoyed me, I have to say that this is a great loss to storytelling. Here was a man who know how to put the risks of heedless pursuit of science without regard to the consequences in perspective. Whether you thought his writing was any good or not, I think we can all learn from his example of serious skepticism.
Hell, I know how to make money even without free software:
1. Post an article about nothing in particular with a misleading title that will attract thousands of Slashdotters.
2. Post the EXACT SAME ARTICLE with the EXACT SAME HEADLINE three days later.
3. Ad revenue -> Profit!
I can't help but be a little peeved at this guy. Here is a situation where potentially thousands of people in the industry are going to be laid off because of this economic downturn, and all he can mention is how great it's going to be for OSS. I mean, I see his point and it may be a valid one, but he could be a little less gung-ho about it.
I think there's also the possibility that there HAVE BEEN more advanced civilizations in the past, but they're gone now. Think about it: the Milky Way is what, nine billion years old? Humans have only existed for a minuscule fraction of that time, and humans capable of detecting advanced civilizations for a smaller fraction still. Perhaps many such civilizations have existed throughout the history of our galaxy, but we keep "missing each other on the timeline."
The world is coming to people bitching and moaning whenever any of their precious stability in life is taken away. Between the new Facebook, the new Flickr, and now iGoogle, I've seen so many people complaining for no other reason than that it's different. Call me naive, but I have faith in these companies that they made these changes for a reason, namely that they did tests and concluded it would improve the user experience, and that the bugs will be worked out in time.
(And about the FireWire: people were whining when the iMac didn't have a floppy drive too.)
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What do you mean? It is removing Windows's biggest flaw: it's ability to run.
For two reasons:
1) Even if it isn't completely broken, any kind of significant attack, as this most certainly is, is reason enough to switch to a more secure system if one is available. This revelation, combined with that Russian breakthrough of using GPUs to brute-force WPA keys in very little time, is evidence that WPA is very close to being insecure and inadvisable for use as a wireless security protocol, if it isn't already.
2) Alarmist headlines always have been the de facto when it comes to security-related news and always will be. While I agree it is an exaggeration in many cases, it gets people paying attention to vital security-related issues, which can only be a Good Thing.
let's just spin that a little, the 24th century will be the century of Linux on the desktop
There, fixed that for you.
As much as his later works, particularly his stance on global warming, annoyed me, I have to say that this is a great loss to storytelling. Here was a man who know how to put the risks of heedless pursuit of science without regard to the consequences in perspective. Whether you thought his writing was any good or not, I think we can all learn from his example of serious skepticism.
Hell, I know how to make money even without free software:
1. Post an article about nothing in particular with a misleading title that will attract thousands of Slashdotters.
2. Post the EXACT SAME ARTICLE with the EXACT SAME HEADLINE three days later.
3. Ad revenue -> Profit!
This means eternal war!
I can't help but be a little peeved at this guy. Here is a situation where potentially thousands of people in the industry are going to be laid off because of this economic downturn, and all he can mention is how great it's going to be for OSS. I mean, I see his point and it may be a valid one, but he could be a little less gung-ho about it.
I think there's also the possibility that there HAVE BEEN more advanced civilizations in the past, but they're gone now. Think about it: the Milky Way is what, nine billion years old? Humans have only existed for a minuscule fraction of that time, and humans capable of detecting advanced civilizations for a smaller fraction still. Perhaps many such civilizations have existed throughout the history of our galaxy, but we keep "missing each other on the timeline."
The world is coming to people bitching and moaning whenever any of their precious stability in life is taken away. Between the new Facebook, the new Flickr, and now iGoogle, I've seen so many people complaining for no other reason than that it's different. Call me naive, but I have faith in these companies that they made these changes for a reason, namely that they did tests and concluded it would improve the user experience, and that the bugs will be worked out in time. (And about the FireWire: people were whining when the iMac didn't have a floppy drive too.)
Does anyone else find it a really disturbing sign of the times that the parent was modded Insightful, not Funny?
People slowly realizing it's not such a good idea to have your nine most visited pages available for anyone to see.
I note that this is the third time in a month 4chan's antics have made front-page news, and not in a good way. I wonder if the backlash is coming.