Um, that wasn't private information. It popped right up on my browser, no password, no nothing. That was public information, same as this page. Heck, I could probably find it on Google.
You warez d00dz wouldn't be settling for security through obscurity, would you? No wonder the Feds got you:)
I have not met too many conservatives who really follow the "conservative" mindset. Just like so-called liberals, most conservatives are out to push their views on other people, freedom be damned. The only difference is the constituency that they're trying to please.
I would love to see a conservative politician with real strength of their truly conservative convictions run for office - I would vote for that man. But I mean conservative in the truest sense of the word - a politician that believes government should leave the people alone, whether we're talking about guns, taxes, religion, family values, technology, etc. And so far there are very few real conservatives like that, and plenty of Old Testament religious jackasses trying to control my soul instead.
And that's why I usually end up voting for "liberals" - because at least what they say is somewhat closer to what they'll do. But if I could find a conservative candidate who I could be sure wasn't about to flip out and start talking about prayer in schools and flag burning amendments, I would vote for that person.
If you're paying by credit card for Asheron's Call, I think you'd better provide accurate information, or else you may find yourself in a hella trouble.
I had an AmEx card for a while, and had difficulty finding any business in the Midwest which did take it. I eventually canceled it because it didn't work anywhere. Discover seems to work most places, so that's what I stick with, using Visa as a fallback.
Hotels having security and stability problems are good business for security folks and the Las Vegas P.D., but I can't see that those problems would do much to increase the tourist trade...
And also, in Las Vegas it's not one hotel that owns all of those. Picture Las Vegas as a "company town" and you'll get more of the picture.
Eventually you won't be able to run
any of the new games on Win98, and you'll have to make the choice; and when it comes, it'll be a Microsoft
product that requires Passport in order to function.
This has already happened to my Win95 dual-boot. But the die is cast - I'm not willing to downgrade to XP in order to have to register my soul just to use my gaming OS. Upgrading to any pre-XP system would just be putting off the inevitable as I put money in Microsoft's pocket - no, I don't think so.
I used to think that console gaming == suck and that PC games were where it was at, but for me Microsoft has closed that door. Any gaming in my household is going to be done on Linux, or on one of the many old consoles I've collected in the last few years. And maybe even on a new console someday if my wife lets me spend the money:)
Now, where was that Best Buy coupon for a $50 DreamCast that I saw around here somewhere?
Actually, right now the State of Illinois is investigating a massive wind farm in Southern Illinois. The motivation behind this is that apparently the City of Chicago is about to its power suppliers to use 20% "green" energy. Of course, most power in IL is nuclear right now anyway, so we're not very beholden to the oil companies (well, other than to power the massive trucks we drive at top speeds around here).
I heard this report on the news yesterday so I may have a couple details wrong here and there...
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...which is disappointing - the way it really should work is that it keeps track of karma > 50, but just displays "Karma > 50". So you get the benefit of high karma, but without being able to brag about it.
I had gone back to reading at -1 for the last few weeks, finding a few funny trolls that made the rest of the dreck tolerable, but today somebody's figured out how to use '.' to make pages arbitrarily wide, so I had to go back to browsing at 0.
For most people the goat links won't be seen at +1, I agree. Unless they're hidden under so many redir links that you can't see the end of the link. But that should always be a warning in and of itself.
Of course, now that he's posted non-anonymously, any bits of Solaris code that show up here will be assumed to be from him, so he still can't post them without fear of detection.
If you're too stupid to frickin' mouse over the link and check for goat links before clicking, maybe you should get off the 'Net? I'm certainly not going to give up on the hyperlink just because a few knobs have a silly photo up, and a few other knobs can't figure out how to avoid seeing that photo.
Yeah, I thought that quote was nuts too. I can't remember the last time I had a 20MB ftp'd file that turned out to be corrupt - the reliability of FTP is not in question at all.
The security aspect makes a little more sense, but I can't believe that they're willing to trust the minimum-wage guys in the mail room more than a strongly-encrypted electronic file transfer. And if the USPS starts irradiating the mail, I think he'll see the reliability of mailing a tape go down very quickly:)
They may have been major, famous people in the past, but IMHO their actions on this patent have shown them to be unethical CS practitioners in the here-and-now. So I would have to say that any respect I would have had for the inventor of qsort, etc., etc., is now gone. Not to mention that I could have told them that they needed Secure Boot as well as complete hardware control to get their mad scheme to ever work - this is not rocket science at all. Although it is on par with some of the dumb ideas that I see people at my place of employment patenting:)
Now if I ever see Knuth's name on a DRM patent, then that will truly be the Day the Hacking Died:(
Y'know, I think I saw the link in someone else's sig, so I certainly don't have any sort of claim on it. Share the disillusionment and the cold truth around is what I say.
That's funny, because it appears to me that the "you get what you pay for" ratio is still in favor of Open Source projects, as opposed to Microsoft. I guess it depends on how happy you are with your last Microsoft purchase versus your last use of software downloaded for free. I know which one I'm happier with.
See, if AbiSource was like Microsoft, they would be promising a completely secure and easy-to-use product in a couple months, miss their date by almost a year, and have recurring security issues (all of them completely denied, then considered "features", then patched quickly so as to break other parts of the product) up until it was time to release their next bloated version, and then repeat the whole cycle. So I don't really see where AbiSource has anything to be ashamed of, unless complete honesty with your user base is some sort of black mark against you.
I didn't say I was a master yet:) It may take some time to master the details of Java, but the syntax is specifically C/C++ friendly so that it's easy for a C/C++ programmer to jump into Java and start changing things around, trying things out, etc. without having to start from the ground floor. Java may not be easy for C/C++ programmers to master, but it is easy for them to jump into and almost immediately be fairly productive. I just wouldn't make that programmer your system architect for another few months:)
It's the same way that Perl was designed to be easy to pick up if you already knew sed, awk, grep, and sh. Sure, Perl has nuances that are way beyond those tools, but the Perl newbie can still dive right into Perl based on their past knowledge of those tools without too many problems.
IIRC, it was easier for me to go from C/C++ to Java than it was to go from sed+awk+grep+sh to Perl, but I had a lot more time pressures at the time I was learning Perl.
That is so nuts, because Java was basically designed to be easy for C/C++ programmers to pick up. I went from nothing to fairly competent in Java in a month, just based on past C, C++, and OO experience.
Not hiring a competent C/C++ programmer because they don't know java is like... well, I couldn't even think of a good example here, but trust me, it's a poor hiring decision to not hire that person.
More importantly, a large installed base of Windows Media hardware players means that it will be tougher for Microsoft to change the format in order to elude competitive third-party decoders.
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Um, that wasn't private information. It popped right up on my browser, no password, no nothing. That was public information, same as this page. Heck, I could probably find it on Google.
You warez d00dz wouldn't be settling for security through obscurity, would you? No wonder the Feds got you :)
Or, speaking of criminal companies, why hasn't the U.S. extradited the leadership of Union Carbide to India yet?
I have not met too many conservatives who really follow the "conservative" mindset. Just like so-called liberals, most conservatives are out to push their views on other people, freedom be damned. The only difference is the constituency that they're trying to please.
I would love to see a conservative politician with real strength of their truly conservative convictions run for office - I would vote for that man. But I mean conservative in the truest sense of the word - a politician that believes government should leave the people alone, whether we're talking about guns, taxes, religion, family values, technology, etc. And so far there are very few real conservatives like that, and plenty of Old Testament religious jackasses trying to control my soul instead.
And that's why I usually end up voting for "liberals" - because at least what they say is somewhat closer to what they'll do. But if I could find a conservative candidate who I could be sure wasn't about to flip out and start talking about prayer in schools and flag burning amendments, I would vote for that person.
If you're paying by credit card for Asheron's Call, I think you'd better provide accurate information, or else you may find yourself in a hella trouble.
I had an AmEx card for a while, and had difficulty finding any business in the Midwest which did take it. I eventually canceled it because it didn't work anywhere. Discover seems to work most places, so that's what I stick with, using Visa as a fallback.
The ultimate movie food is Taco Bell chili-cheese burritos. They keep your pockets nice and warm as you sneak them in :)
...but in the dark it is difficult to eat a burrito cleanly :(
Hotels having security and stability problems are good business for security folks and the Las Vegas P.D., but I can't see that those problems would do much to increase the tourist trade...
And also, in Las Vegas it's not one hotel that owns all of those. Picture Las Vegas as a "company town" and you'll get more of the picture.
This has already happened to my Win95 dual-boot. But the die is cast - I'm not willing to downgrade to XP in order to have to register my soul just to use my gaming OS. Upgrading to any pre-XP system would just be putting off the inevitable as I put money in Microsoft's pocket - no, I don't think so.
I used to think that console gaming == suck and that PC games were where it was at, but for me Microsoft has closed that door. Any gaming in my household is going to be done on Linux, or on one of the many old consoles I've collected in the last few years. And maybe even on a new console someday if my wife lets me spend the money :)
Now, where was that Best Buy coupon for a $50 DreamCast that I saw around here somewhere?
Actually, right now the State of Illinois is investigating a massive wind farm in Southern Illinois. The motivation behind this is that apparently the City of Chicago is about to its power suppliers to use 20% "green" energy. Of course, most power in IL is nuclear right now anyway, so we're not very beholden to the oil companies (well, other than to power the massive trucks we drive at top speeds around here).
I heard this report on the news yesterday so I may have a couple details wrong here and there...
Wolfcastle: "My eyes! The goggles do nothing!"
...which is disappointing - the way it really should work is that it keeps track of karma > 50, but just displays "Karma > 50". So you get the benefit of high karma, but without being able to brag about it.
I had gone back to reading at -1 for the last few weeks, finding a few funny trolls that made the rest of the dreck tolerable, but today somebody's figured out how to use '.' to make pages arbitrarily wide, so I had to go back to browsing at 0.
For most people the goat links won't be seen at +1, I agree. Unless they're hidden under so many redir links that you can't see the end of the link. But that should always be a warning in and of itself.
Interestingly enough, I first heard of this attack on the dshield mailing list last night. So your sig is particularly apropos.
...although it really should go in the sig space, not in the body of the comment, because some of us have sigs disabled.
You could remove in.telnetd, but keep telnet the client for testing mail servers, etc.
Of course, now that he's posted non-anonymously, any bits of Solaris code that show up here will be assumed to be from him, so he still can't post them without fear of detection.
If you're too stupid to frickin' mouse over the link and check for goat links before clicking, maybe you should get off the 'Net? I'm certainly not going to give up on the hyperlink just because a few knobs have a silly photo up, and a few other knobs can't figure out how to avoid seeing that photo.
Damn the torpedoes: http://www.wa-state-resident.com/tugpayup.htm
Yeah, I thought that quote was nuts too. I can't remember the last time I had a 20MB ftp'd file that turned out to be corrupt - the reliability of FTP is not in question at all.
The security aspect makes a little more sense, but I can't believe that they're willing to trust the minimum-wage guys in the mail room more than a strongly-encrypted electronic file transfer. And if the USPS starts irradiating the mail, I think he'll see the reliability of mailing a tape go down very quickly :)
They may have been major, famous people in the past, but IMHO their actions on this patent have shown them to be unethical CS practitioners in the here-and-now. So I would have to say that any respect I would have had for the inventor of qsort, etc., etc., is now gone. Not to mention that I could have told them that they needed Secure Boot as well as complete hardware control to get their mad scheme to ever work - this is not rocket science at all. Although it is on par with some of the dumb ideas that I see people at my place of employment patenting :)
Now if I ever see Knuth's name on a DRM patent, then that will truly be the Day the Hacking Died :(
Y'know, I think I saw the link in someone else's sig, so I certainly don't have any sort of claim on it. Share the disillusionment and the cold truth around is what I say.
That's funny, because it appears to me that the "you get what you pay for" ratio is still in favor of Open Source projects, as opposed to Microsoft. I guess it depends on how happy you are with your last Microsoft purchase versus your last use of software downloaded for free. I know which one I'm happier with.
See, if AbiSource was like Microsoft, they would be promising a completely secure and easy-to-use product in a couple months, miss their date by almost a year, and have recurring security issues (all of them completely denied, then considered "features", then patched quickly so as to break other parts of the product) up until it was time to release their next bloated version, and then repeat the whole cycle. So I don't really see where AbiSource has anything to be ashamed of, unless complete honesty with your user base is some sort of black mark against you.
I didn't say I was a master yet :) It may take some time to master the details of Java, but the syntax is specifically C/C++ friendly so that it's easy for a C/C++ programmer to jump into Java and start changing things around, trying things out, etc. without having to start from the ground floor. Java may not be easy for C/C++ programmers to master, but it is easy for them to jump into and almost immediately be fairly productive. I just wouldn't make that programmer your system architect for another few months :)
It's the same way that Perl was designed to be easy to pick up if you already knew sed, awk, grep, and sh. Sure, Perl has nuances that are way beyond those tools, but the Perl newbie can still dive right into Perl based on their past knowledge of those tools without too many problems.
IIRC, it was easier for me to go from C/C++ to Java than it was to go from sed+awk+grep+sh to Perl, but I had a lot more time pressures at the time I was learning Perl.
That is so nuts, because Java was basically designed to be easy for C/C++ programmers to pick up. I went from nothing to fairly competent in Java in a month, just based on past C, C++, and OO experience.
Not hiring a competent C/C++ programmer because they don't know java is like ... well, I couldn't even think of a good example here, but trust me, it's a poor hiring decision to not hire that person.
More importantly, a large installed base of Windows Media hardware players means that it will be tougher for Microsoft to change the format in order to elude competitive third-party decoders.
Now that was subjective hyperbole :)
Hmmm, that explains a lot about "Law & Order" - I wondered why all of their cases went right to the NY Supreme Court :)