Of course, you included a redundant "at least", so apparently nobody's perfect. The "its"/"it's" thing bugs the heck out of me too, but I suppose you can't blame posters for getting it wrong when none of the/. editors know which one to use:)
Didn't the NSA also alter some of the DES S-boxes in ways that the IBMers didn't understand at the time? Have the NSA's changes ever been fully explained as to what attacks they help avoid?
There's no reason it has to be OTA programmable; requiring that the user physically possess the device should be a reasonable level of security.
The problem is that on a large network, you have to get all of the equipment working with the same encryption scheme. As the number of nodes increases, it's tough to move everyone up to the new scheme at the right time. So you've basically reinvented the key management problems that the military has with their secure radios, for example. There are ways around this, but they're generally going to make the card more expensive and move it out of the range of your average business or college campus that's using 802.11b.
Great, thanks for the info! I'm in the process of closing on a house, but I'm so unwilling to live without broadband immediately after the move that I'm trying to figure out a way to get the line test done while the current owners are still there. They don't have cable TV, though, so I'm not sure that my chances are so good...
One would think that Apache is just as susceptable to these problems
as IIS, especially given that the source is readily available. But of course it doesn't seem to work out that way.
Even more damning - Apache has the lead in number of web servers deployed, so if anything we should by all rights expect to be awash in Apache-related exploits simply due to their marketshare. The fact that the exploits are still coming mostly from IIS makes the difference in design philosophy and just generally giving a damn about your product all the more evident.
That's what I'm looking for soon - I've actually requested my current ISP's AUP that I not run a server, even though I know that they probably would never check. But since they have the broadband monopoly at my apartment complex, I can't risk getting cut off of their system.
Soon I'm planning to switch to DSL (after I move) and I hope to find a DSL provider that allows servers. Any recommendations? I had looked at Telocity before they were swallowed up by DirecTV; do they still allow servers?
Well, in this very article there was a crime across the country and the police bothered this guy, so, yes.
As far as being "swarmed", in a recent case of a Cult of Scientology critic who was prosecuted for humorously threatening their religion with a Tomahawk cruise missile and fled to Canada to seek religious asylum, the CoS turned him in to the police in Canada and he and his wife were arrested by a fully-armed SWAT team in the middle of a crowded parking lot.
I think the situation would have been a whole lot worse for this guy from Florida if his face had matched up with Osama Bin Laden's, or someone like that. It would be real easy for someone to get hurt in situations where the police get very excited very quickly.
Is this worse than just mistaken identity from a "Wanted" poster? Maybe, maybe not. The possible reach of a mistaken identity is a lot farther, since now your photo can be compared everywhere around the country rather than just in your town. The chances of you looking like a criminal in some jurisdiction is higher than the chance that you look like someone in your own town, you know.
And if that weren't enough, I have problems with people assuming that I'm guilty when I go somewhere. A surveillance society assumes that everyone is just waiting to do something wrong. I'm pretty sure that's not the sort of attitude we want to be fostering.
Better question - if you can embed VBS in a PDF file, can you embed other kinds of scripting? How about embedding a shell script or perl script? Is the PDF format really cross-platform enough for that to work correctly?
Actually, I think that's right. A computer will only follow mathematical theories programmed into it. It may follow them faster and in greater depth than its human creators, thus coming to some insights that humans aren't persistent or long-lived enough to reach, but there is no qualitative difference in mathematical ability since the computer can't make new theories and extend the boundaries of mathematics.
I could see how in the future a computer could somehow be programmed to make guesses and "intuitive" leaps that would end up defining new mathematical theorems, and then use those theorems to explain certain gaps in our knowledge and create new mathematical knowledge that human mathematicians could not have approached. I don't think this has been done yet, though.
You need a Geforce2 to work the Helldesk? I'm very jealous - just hope your boss doesn't have any technically-inclined superiors in the budgetary process or she might be your ex-boss:)
Maybe if you're supporting user software that does all kinds of 3D I could see it, I guess.
Maybe we could do "DistributedBeating.net" - everybody piss off one copyright holder at a time on your computer's spare time.
Wait, this is starting to sound too much like Napster...
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I think Miguel's spending his enthusiasm and momentum on.NET^wMono now, isn't he?
I'll have to admit that KDE has made some great strides recently - in many ways it's been moving faster than Gnome. If Sun and the other big-money Gnome backers aren't careful, they'll turn out to have backed the wrong horse:)
I know, that's where I got the idea:) I bet Coke/Pepsi try to screen out people planning to do that, though...
I'm surprised that people can't tell them apart in a blind taste test, but then again there are people who can't tell the difference between diet and regular.
...Subsequently, I got hurried off the stage and given a coupon for a free Pepsi. I think I was the only person there (I
was there for 15minutes) who chose the Coke.
Well, of course - if you chose Pepsi you got a lot more than just that coupon:)
I'm just waiting to be in a blind taste test, so I can spit it out and yell "That's rancid milk!".
Have the software patents affected anyone here personally?
Software patents in general - sure. You've almost certainly paid more for some software because its components had to be licensed due to patent issues.
MP3 in particular- maybe not yet. If Fraunhofer goes through with their plans to charge all encoder makers, you won't be able to get a free MP3 encoder any more at all. Thus the potential of Ogg Vorbis. I mean, if the MP3 phenomenon proved anything, it's "never underestimate the power of free":)
Sometimes the talkbacks are OK, but I actually think they're less worthwhile since they're moderated. The one time I cared enough about something to post there, there was no immediate way to tell if my comment would be accepted, or when. As a result, I feel less a part of the LT community and am less motivated to post there, even if I have what would be a good point on a story there. I much prefer the/. system where your comment goes up immediately, and then if it's crap it's moderated into the floor immediately:)
I'll still be keeping my LT slashbox, though, if for no other reason than they tend to post the Kernel Times and Kernel Cousin stories when they come out, and their slashbox is usually fairly up-to-date with some other stories as well.
That is a good point, and I think there are a lot of people that talk about Open Source without necessarily ever using the source. I admit that I don't contribute back as much as I'd like - my day job and various family events keep me fairly busy. I've sent in a few patches for features that I like, which have made it into some open source projects. But I admit that I'm not as happy with my contributions to Open Source as I could be.
But, on the other hand, I think there is benefit to having the source. Even if just once you were able to look through an application and figure out why it was doing something weird in order to work around the problem, you've still benefited from Open Source. And since you can't always predict what software will work and what won't, the more source you have access to, the less likely it becomes that you'll be totally stymied by a software bug. I think there are a lot of people on/. who are Open Source supporters for just this reason - they don't necessarily contribute a lot back to the community, but they use Open Source because in the end it's easier to get it to do what you want it to do.
Is that enough reason to continually bitch about commercial software which is not Open Source? Maybe, maybe not. I don't spend my time complaining about Windows (well, not for that reason at least:), but I do put my time where my mouth is. My time and my money are too important to waste with non-open software, unless there is an overwhelming value to closed software that I just can't get from Open Source. And with every passing day and every little patch, the value of Open Source software to me increases, and the corresponding value of closed software decreases.
Or, in the case of The Day The Earth Stood Still, an even more interesting story entitled "Farewell to the Master". Spoiler alert - once you read the story, you'll wish that had been the movie that was made...
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Of course, you included a redundant "at least", so apparently nobody's perfect. The "its"/"it's" thing bugs the heck out of me too, but I suppose you can't blame posters for getting it wrong when none of the /. editors know which one to use :)
Didn't the NSA also alter some of the DES S-boxes in ways that the IBMers didn't understand at the time? Have the NSA's changes ever been fully explained as to what attacks they help avoid?
There's no reason it has to be OTA programmable; requiring that the user physically possess the device should be a reasonable level of security.
The problem is that on a large network, you have to get all of the equipment working with the same encryption scheme. As the number of nodes increases, it's tough to move everyone up to the new scheme at the right time. So you've basically reinvented the key management problems that the military has with their secure radios, for example. There are ways around this, but they're generally going to make the card more expensive and move it out of the range of your average business or college campus that's using 802.11b.
Great, thanks for the info! I'm in the process of closing on a house, but I'm so unwilling to live without broadband immediately after the move that I'm trying to figure out a way to get the line test done while the current owners are still there. They don't have cable TV, though, so I'm not sure that my chances are so good...
Even more damning - Apache has the lead in number of web servers deployed, so if anything we should by all rights expect to be awash in Apache-related exploits simply due to their marketshare. The fact that the exploits are still coming mostly from IIS makes the difference in design philosophy and just generally giving a damn about your product all the more evident.
You mean in VMWare? Or is this one of those "FreeBSD is dying" trolls again?
Yes, I know what you meant :)
That's what I'm looking for soon - I've actually requested my current ISP's AUP that I not run a server, even though I know that they probably would never check. But since they have the broadband monopoly at my apartment complex, I can't risk getting cut off of their system.
Soon I'm planning to switch to DSL (after I move) and I hope to find a DSL provider that allows servers. Any recommendations? I had looked at Telocity before they were swallowed up by DirecTV; do they still allow servers?
[wagging finger] I did not troll LinuxToday as that woman!
Hmmm, not quite the same :)
Well, in this very article there was a crime across the country and the police bothered this guy, so, yes.
As far as being "swarmed", in a recent case of a Cult of Scientology critic who was prosecuted for humorously threatening their religion with a Tomahawk cruise missile and fled to Canada to seek religious asylum, the CoS turned him in to the police in Canada and he and his wife were arrested by a fully-armed SWAT team in the middle of a crowded parking lot.
I think the situation would have been a whole lot worse for this guy from Florida if his face had matched up with Osama Bin Laden's, or someone like that. It would be real easy for someone to get hurt in situations where the police get very excited very quickly.
Is this worse than just mistaken identity from a "Wanted" poster? Maybe, maybe not. The possible reach of a mistaken identity is a lot farther, since now your photo can be compared everywhere around the country rather than just in your town. The chances of you looking like a criminal in some jurisdiction is higher than the chance that you look like someone in your own town, you know.
And if that weren't enough, I have problems with people assuming that I'm guilty when I go somewhere. A surveillance society assumes that everyone is just waiting to do something wrong. I'm pretty sure that's not the sort of attitude we want to be fostering.
Not to bitch too hard, but in my story submission I spelled his name correctly. Twice. But then again, we can't all be Paul Ferris, I guess.
Better question - if you can embed VBS in a PDF file, can you embed other kinds of scripting? How about embedding a shell script or perl script? Is the PDF format really cross-platform enough for that to work correctly?
[Totally Offtopic, and not that I'm a Gator fan either, but]
Best sign seen during the Florida-FSU game a few years back:
"You can't spell FELON without NOLE"
Well, I thought it was funny...
According to the article, ECMA has different rules. Not all standards bodies are equally able at setting standards, unfortunately.
Actually, I think that's right. A computer will only follow mathematical theories programmed into it. It may follow them faster and in greater depth than its human creators, thus coming to some insights that humans aren't persistent or long-lived enough to reach, but there is no qualitative difference in mathematical ability since the computer can't make new theories and extend the boundaries of mathematics.
I could see how in the future a computer could somehow be programmed to make guesses and "intuitive" leaps that would end up defining new mathematical theorems, and then use those theorems to explain certain gaps in our knowledge and create new mathematical knowledge that human mathematicians could not have approached. I don't think this has been done yet, though.
You need a Geforce2 to work the Helldesk? I'm very jealous - just hope your boss doesn't have any technically-inclined superiors in the budgetary process or she might be your ex-boss :)
Maybe if you're supporting user software that does all kinds of 3D I could see it, I guess.
Maybe we could do "DistributedBeating.net" - everybody piss off one copyright holder at a time on your computer's spare time.
Wait, this is starting to sound too much like Napster...
I think Miguel's spending his enthusiasm and momentum on .NET^wMono now, isn't he?
I'll have to admit that KDE has made some great strides recently - in many ways it's been moving faster than Gnome. If Sun and the other big-money Gnome backers aren't careful, they'll turn out to have backed the wrong horse :)
I know, that's where I got the idea :) I bet Coke/Pepsi try to screen out people planning to do that, though...
I'm surprised that people can't tell them apart in a blind taste test, but then again there are people who can't tell the difference between diet and regular.
Well, of course - if you chose Pepsi you got a lot more than just that coupon :)
I'm just waiting to be in a blind taste test, so I can spit it out and yell "That's rancid milk!".
Software patents in general - sure. You've almost certainly paid more for some software because its components had to be licensed due to patent issues.
MP3 in particular- maybe not yet. If Fraunhofer goes through with their plans to charge all encoder makers, you won't be able to get a free MP3 encoder any more at all. Thus the potential of Ogg Vorbis. I mean, if the MP3 phenomenon proved anything, it's "never underestimate the power of free" :)
Sometimes the talkbacks are OK, but I actually think they're less worthwhile since they're moderated. The one time I cared enough about something to post there, there was no immediate way to tell if my comment would be accepted, or when. As a result, I feel less a part of the LT community and am less motivated to post there, even if I have what would be a good point on a story there. I much prefer the /. system where your comment goes up immediately, and then if it's crap it's moderated into the floor immediately :)
I'll still be keeping my LT slashbox, though, if for no other reason than they tend to post the Kernel Times and Kernel Cousin stories when they come out, and their slashbox is usually fairly up-to-date with some other stories as well.
That is a good point, and I think there are a lot of people that talk about Open Source without necessarily ever using the source. I admit that I don't contribute back as much as I'd like - my day job and various family events keep me fairly busy. I've sent in a few patches for features that I like, which have made it into some open source projects. But I admit that I'm not as happy with my contributions to Open Source as I could be.
But, on the other hand, I think there is benefit to having the source. Even if just once you were able to look through an application and figure out why it was doing something weird in order to work around the problem, you've still benefited from Open Source. And since you can't always predict what software will work and what won't, the more source you have access to, the less likely it becomes that you'll be totally stymied by a software bug. I think there are a lot of people on /. who are Open Source supporters for just this reason - they don't necessarily contribute a lot back to the community, but they use Open Source because in the end it's easier to get it to do what you want it to do.
Is that enough reason to continually bitch about commercial software which is not Open Source? Maybe, maybe not. I don't spend my time complaining about Windows (well, not for that reason at least :), but I do put my time where my mouth is. My time and my money are too important to waste with non-open software, unless there is an overwhelming value to closed software that I just can't get from Open Source. And with every passing day and every little patch, the value of Open Source software to me increases, and the corresponding value of closed software decreases.
Or, in the case of The Day The Earth Stood Still, an even more interesting story entitled "Farewell to the Master". Spoiler alert - once you read the story, you'll wish that had been the movie that was made...
It's about time people figured out that Microsoft is bad for business :)
Woops, good point. Amazing - a .com without an IPO. Who'd 'a thunk it?