Interesting -- I'm having troubles with my dell laptop (new Inspiron) listed as having USB2.0 not being recognized as "hi-speed" USB -- I wonder if I'm a victim as well?
The APA reports that ADD/ADHD cases have increased at an astounding rate......Educators worldwide report a drop in GPA......President G W Bush has not been available...
No personal offense, but dreamweaver blows sweating royal goats on its good days. It writes the most horrendous code (better than exporting from MSWord, but less clean than even FrontPage), has terrible CSS integration (maybe they improved this in MX?), and generally produces kludged-together tables.
I'd rather use a plain text editor with no features than DreamWeaver.
This too, will pass. This is not the beginning of the MS war, this is MS setting up petty warlords in third world companies and paying/supplying them to fight enemies of MS, enabling MS to keep its hands more or less clean officially, but do damage.
MS is too smart to go against the GPL straight off using its own name. As someone commented (I'm lazy) on the original SCO post, it is is MS's best interest for SCO to drag this out such that MS salesdroids can make references to outstanding lawsuits and pending rulings vs the GPL and whatnot.
This will be a cold war, not a WWII. The thing is, MS doesn't realize they're playing the part of the USSR...
I don't think there needs to be any CMS, or, for that matter, any system whatsoever. The law requires them to archive it, not to archive it well. For the 90+% of resumes that have no hope in hell of ever getting hired, toss it in a folder than a little shell script tar+gzips every month and sends it off to the tape drive to never be seen again unless a regulator comes by being pissy, when you hand him a pile of tapes and he never comes again.
The 0-10% of useful resumes you keep in whatever system you already have in place for good current or future applicants.
Paper resumes can be scanned and OCR'ed and archived, and the originals recycled into toilet paper.
Do you think that Brandon Wiley's thought-design of "Curious Yellow" (paper at: http://blanu.net/curious_yellow.html or http://www.securiteam.com/securityreviews/6U00L1P5 PY.html) will come about as he's laid out? It seems like not an unlikely scenario once someone puts some effort into actually designing it. What are your thoughts about the evolution of 'smart' worm attacks balanced agains thre need of good network security scanners?
If people would only use this RFC: http://www.faqs.org/ftp/rfc/rfc2549.txt (IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service, a modification of http://www.faqs.org/ftp/rfc/rfc1149.txt), there would be no spam, as the normal can of spam is MUCH too heavy for a carrier pigeon to carry.
Just because RFIDs have the super-easy potential to be the root of numerous privacy violations this century, I still think they're a great idea. I mean, it's not like we all boycott the use of databases because of doubleclick.
I think RFIDs have great potential. With a home RFID-finding wand, you'll never loose your car keys again (at least, the search wil go a lot faster). Everything becomes addressable by your personal systems (and others', herein lies the privacy-geek challenge). My fridge doesn't need eyes and image-recog to figure out what it can provide me and what it needs, it just needs an RFID scanner.
We're too too focused on how the marketdroids will use them to see how they can be used for fun by the good.
What we need to do is to develop an RFID-killer, a -muter than blocks/interferes with requests for info off of RFIDs within our personal radius, and lots of fun uses for them.
As an IT Volunteer (not in senegal, tho), I can explain this a bit -- it's much easier to get loans and donations to buy computers and get net access than, say, a program to build pit latrines. Would the money be better spent on pit latrines? Probably, but the money doesn't come for that, and can't be repurposed. So you do what you can with what you're given, and maybe one of the kids you teach will earn enough money to build pit latrines for his elementary school later on in life.
that's a bit rosy-glasses, but the do-what-you-can-with-what-you-have part is very valid and useful.
Now, the impact on society is another thing, but, (sadly?) most countries ready for a digital revolution have been watching American cable TV for most of a generation, and the Internet may actually reduce that damage...
Feel free to ask me questions on this one, I'll try to check the spam ma^H^H^H^H^H^Hhotmail account.
RTFA doesn't help -- but RTFP (paper) did. It was just/.ed when I first clicked. Ya gotta admit, the article was pretty unhelpful about what was going on.
Sorry, the article was just a bit... short, dramatically so, on the details. The article explains the process involves an attacker interacting with (Sending 'bad' blocks to receive useable info via the errors reported) the server, which would be more possible in an IMAPS tyle use, but less so in most web apps.
I thought the article was already/.ed when it didn't load. Sigh. here's wishing for better knowledge of crypto among tech reporters.
"But the researchers say the loophole does not apply to credit card transactions, as banks and e-commerce sites use a different type of SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) technology"
Um? Well, are they talking about 64 vs 128 bit keys? The article later indicates it's a weakness in sending the same password often within one session, which would be actually, an implementation problem as opposed to an SSL problem. Anyone have a mirror of the actual paper and not ust the bbc article yet?
Wrong. S&L is the best book to give to your boss to get hir to understand why you want to devote a bit of time to securing your new product instead of releasing it as soon as it's semi-functional. S&L is not a very technical book (not like Applied at all), and parts are chapter-long advertisements for Bruce's new-at-the-time-of-publishing business, but but it can be appreciated even by marketdroids and pointyhairs.
"The minute you begin to do what you want to do, it's really a different kind of life" -- Buckminster Fuller
Really. the dotcom bust was the best thing that happened in my life. I did contract work at home in my boxers for a few months, then taught English in Venezela for a half-year, and am now in Jamaica with the Peace Corps as an IT Advisor.
Just live a good life! Happiness is a way of living, not a goal.
You have to agree to a EULA that says you can only listen to the CDs you ripped while you're alone in the car on a deserted road. you also have to keep the original CDs in the trunk to make sure they don't get listened to simultaneously.
Ah, but WSJ is a pay site -- even if you pay for the dead-tree version (Which I do have a paid subscription to, I should point out), you still have to pay extra for the online version, which is just excessive.
Besides, half the WSJ content is mirrored (albeit temporarily) in partner sites, so what's the point in requiring payment at WSJ.com itself (right, right, cost of bandwidth/hosting/etc.. See LiveJournal.com 's approach to handling that, and they don't have massive income from deadtree products)
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Interesting -- I'm having troubles with my dell laptop (new Inspiron) listed as having USB2.0 not being recognized as "hi-speed" USB -- I wonder if I'm a victim as well?
Bah.
All the computers that could be extracted from the Beowulf clusters this new company will have!
I was -joking-.
Sorry, forgot the tags.
The APA reports that ADD/ADHD cases have increased at an astounding rate... ...Educators worldwide report a drop in GPA... ...President G W Bush has not been available...
Maybe it does and you just can't see it, cause IT'S CLOSED!
;)
I bet you still try and 'catch' your fridge's light by surprise.
Lemme give ya a hint -- if you unplug the fridge, then open the door, it'll be too occupied wondering about the loss of power to turn the light on!
That would be an obvious feature, tho, in seriousness. Maybe they'll fix it in SP2
No personal offense, but dreamweaver blows sweating royal goats on its good days. It writes the most horrendous code (better than exporting from MSWord, but less clean than even FrontPage), has terrible CSS integration (maybe they improved this in MX?), and generally produces kludged-together tables.
I'd rather use a plain text editor with no features than DreamWeaver.
Hell, I have lots and lot sof options from my old dot-com...
This too, will pass. This is not the beginning of the MS war, this is MS setting up petty warlords in third world companies and paying/supplying them to fight enemies of MS, enabling MS to keep its hands more or less clean officially, but do damage.
MS is too smart to go against the GPL straight off using its own name. As someone commented (I'm lazy) on the original SCO post, it is is MS's best interest for SCO to drag this out such that MS salesdroids can make references to outstanding lawsuits and pending rulings vs the GPL and whatnot.
This will be a cold war, not a WWII. The thing is, MS doesn't realize they're playing the part of the USSR...
I don't think there needs to be any CMS, or, for that matter, any system whatsoever. The law requires them to archive it, not to archive it well. For the 90+% of resumes that have no hope in hell of ever getting hired, toss it in a folder than a little shell script tar+gzips every month and sends it off to the tape drive to never be seen again unless a regulator comes by being pissy, when you hand him a pile of tapes and he never comes again.
The 0-10% of useful resumes you keep in whatever system you already have in place for good current or future applicants.
Paper resumes can be scanned and OCR'ed and archived, and the originals recycled into toilet paper.
I fail to see the real problem here.
Do you think that Brandon Wiley's thought-design of "Curious Yellow" (paper at: http://blanu.net/curious_yellow.html or http://www.securiteam.com/securityreviews/6U00L1P5 PY.html) will come about as he's laid out? It seems like not an unlikely scenario once someone puts some effort into actually designing it. What are your thoughts about the evolution of 'smart' worm attacks balanced agains thre need of good network security scanners?
If people would only use this RFC: http://www.faqs.org/ftp/rfc/rfc2549.txt (IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service, a modification of http://www.faqs.org/ftp/rfc/rfc1149.txt), there would be no spam, as the normal can of spam is MUCH too heavy for a carrier pigeon to carry.
Maybe an African Swallow, however...
Just because RFIDs have the super-easy potential to be the root of numerous privacy violations this century, I still think they're a great idea. I mean, it's not like we all boycott the use of databases because of doubleclick.
I think RFIDs have great potential. With a home RFID-finding wand, you'll never loose your car keys again (at least, the search wil go a lot faster). Everything becomes addressable by your personal systems (and others', herein lies the privacy-geek challenge). My fridge doesn't need eyes and image-recog to figure out what it can provide me and what it needs, it just needs an RFID scanner.
We're too too focused on how the marketdroids will use them to see how they can be used for fun by the good.
What we need to do is to develop an RFID-killer, a -muter than blocks/interferes with requests for info off of RFIDs within our personal radius, and lots of fun uses for them.
lest all our files be iambically pentameterized...
Isn't that required for InterCal interoperation anyway?
As an IT Volunteer (not in senegal, tho), I can explain this a bit -- it's much easier to get loans and donations to buy computers and get net access than, say, a program to build pit latrines. Would the money be better spent on pit latrines? Probably, but the money doesn't come for that, and can't be repurposed. So you do what you can with what you're given, and maybe one of the kids you teach will earn enough money to build pit latrines for his elementary school later on in life.
that's a bit rosy-glasses, but the do-what-you-can-with-what-you-have part is very valid and useful.
Now, the impact on society is another thing, but, (sadly?) most countries ready for a digital revolution have been watching American cable TV for most of a generation, and the Internet may actually reduce that damage...
Feel free to ask me questions on this one, I'll try to check the spam ma^H^H^H^H^H^Hhotmail account.
First cheese, now SSL. Do they have no limits? No qualms? What next? Innocent pastries??? ...Ohmigod... DONUTS. I feel sick.
Is nothing holey? er, I mean, holy?
RTFA doesn't help -- but RTFP (paper) did. It was just /.ed when I first clicked. Ya gotta admit, the article was pretty unhelpful about what was going on.
Sorry, the article was just a bit... short, dramatically so, on the details. The article explains the process involves an attacker interacting with (Sending 'bad' blocks to receive useable info via the errors reported) the server, which would be more possible in an IMAPS tyle use, but less so in most web apps.
/.ed when it didn't load. Sigh. here's wishing for better knowledge of crypto among tech reporters.
I thought the article was already
"But the researchers say the loophole does not apply to credit card transactions, as banks and e-commerce sites use a different type of SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) technology"
Um? Well, are they talking about 64 vs 128 bit keys? The article later indicates it's a weakness in sending the same password often within one session, which would be actually, an implementation problem as opposed to an SSL problem. Anyone have a mirror of the actual paper and not ust the bbc article yet?
Wrong. S&L is the best book to give to your boss to get hir to understand why you want to devote a bit of time to securing your new product instead of releasing it as soon as it's semi-functional. S&L is not a very technical book (not like Applied at all), and parts are chapter-long advertisements for Bruce's new-at-the-time-of-publishing business, but but it can be appreciated even by marketdroids and pointyhairs.
"The minute you begin to do what you want to do, it's really a different kind of life" -- Buckminster Fuller
Really. the dotcom bust was the best thing that happened in my life. I did contract work at home in my boxers for a few months, then taught English in Venezela for a half-year, and am now in Jamaica with the Peace Corps as an IT Advisor.
Just live a good life! Happiness is a way of living, not a goal.
But we can only hope someone went around and bought out all the local Vegas stores of their hot grits supplies.
Interesting. I wonder if they'll now ask for backpayment of all decoders issued?
godddamnnnit, cat /user/MountainDew > /sys/kbd certainly fubars things, tho. Time to open the Closet of Doom and bring out a new keyboard.
Don't post things like that without a "swallow beverage before reading" warning, OK?
You have to agree to a EULA that says you can only listen to the CDs you ripped while you're alone in the car on a deserted road. you also have to keep the original CDs in the trunk to make sure they don't get listened to simultaneously.
(I think i'm joking.)
Ah, but WSJ is a pay site -- even if you pay for the dead-tree version (Which I do have a paid subscription to, I should point out), you still have to pay extra for the online version, which is just excessive.
Besides, half the WSJ content is mirrored (albeit temporarily) in partner sites, so what's the point in requiring payment at WSJ.com itself (right, right, cost of bandwidth/hosting/etc.. See LiveJournal.com 's approach to handling that, and they don't have massive income from deadtree products)