But seriously: if editors just spent 2 minutes per story (checking the summary, doing
a search on their site, etc.), then we'd get rid of most of the duplicates and assorted
crap.
I'm a budding photographer. I would love to get my hands on Photoshop, so I can fix up some of my photos.
Will Adobe give me Photoshop CS3 for free? Of course not.
Then why do people expect these companies to get vulnerabilities for free?
I know, a vulnerability in $SoftwareVendor's product could be exploited by Some Nefarious Person ($SNP) to cause damage. So what's preventing $SoftwareVendor from bidding on the same vulnerability and beating out $SNP?.
Don't companies spend $$$ doing security audits, automated testing, etc.? Then what's wrong with paying someone for exploits? Don't the people who find these exploits need to be paid, just like the company's software engineers?
If companies had to pay big bucks for exploits, you bet they'd make damn sure that such exploits didn't exist anymore.
Disclaimer: I have neither found, nor looked for, an exploit in any piece of software.
"Yahoo had reason to know that if they provided China with identification information that those individuals would be arrested."
Wait... does that mean corporations can provide information only when they know somebody won't be arrested?
I find this whole lawsuit ridiculous (and I am a liberal, opposed to the repression wrought by the PRC regime). Yahoo responded to a subpoena (or the Chinese equivalent of it). This is no different than the subpoena response that 1000s of businesses in the US do. There was no way for Yahoo to know what the alleged crime was! Just like the FBI and other LEOs in the US do not tell the businesses what the alleged crime is.
Example: there have been 124 exonerations of death-row inmates in the US. Does that mean that businesses should now not respond to subpoenas if they know that the alleged crime is murder? Would the lawmakers in the US let businesses flout subpoenas with impunity if the business owner didn't believe in the death penalty?
I clicked on the "Strategy Page" link to RTFA (I know, what was I thinking? ).
And here's the article in its entirety:
The U.S. Navy has adapted civilian wi-fi (wireless networks) for use at sea during boarding operations. By modifying off-the-shelf wi-fi gear, the navy increased the range to over 700 meters. The main reason for all this was to speed up the transmission of passport photos and other personal data back to the ship, so that it could be run through databases to check for terrorists or criminals. This wi-fi hack cut several hours off the time required to check documents. The Expanded Maritime Interception Operations (EIMO) wireless system was developed last year, to provide several kilometers of range to the original wi-fi gear (which has been in use for over three years). Each pair of wi-fi units costs about $1400 to construct, using common parts to add more powerful antennae to standard 802.11g wi-fi equipment.
Which is the same as the summary... what's the point?
Searching further, here's a link to GCN (Government Computer News) with a little bit more details: linky.
The problem was that he couldn'g get Evolution to work with Exchange Server which it was designed to do.
Then stop blaming Linux, and put the blame on Evolution! If Adobe Acrobat fails to read a PDF document on your Windows machine, do you blame Adobe or Microsoft ??
The summary sounds misleading. The problem was not that he couldn't get Linux working; it was that he couldn't get Linux working with Microsoft Windows! There is a big difference between the two.
From the "article":
I purchased third-party provided connectors into Exchange, and ran Office-type applications as well. But it didn't work very well....
We had to create Word and PowerPoint documents and run Microsoft-like applications because the folks we were working with at Dell were using Microsoft....
But even when working with the administrator of our Exchange server to see if there were any problems server-side, Ximian Evolution still didn't pull up my calendar or public folders....
The individual pieces... had gotten a lot better, of course, since 1998, but there were still pieces that lacked support for the new features and new functionality in Exchange....
But even now, ten years later, I couldn't get Evolution to work with our Exchange server.....
I hate to use such strong language, but this guy is a total retard.
How is this news, exactly? This is like me taking a fine American car to UK and complaining that the car sucks because I have to drive on the other side of the road!
So when you see the Google branded plane flying overhead this January 26th, hoist a sign, arrange your family into a fun formation or just get a bunch of friends together to wave.
If you want to put the blame somewhere, put it on Google. They're the ones spamming the Internet with ads everywhere (Google AdSense anyone?).
Not to rain on their parade, but bear with me:
A DVD is 4.5GB (say). So 6Gb/s means a DVD can be transferred over the distance (250m) in 6 seconds.
In my backpack, I can put a 100 DVDs (a spindle). Assume I'm not in shape and can't carry more. I can walk the 250m in just over 4 minnutes (at a leisurely pace of 1m/s).
So if I carry my 100 DVDs the distance, I'll cover it in 250 seconds, which works out to a speed of 14.4 Gb/s, more than double of what these boffins are getting.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a backpack full of DVDs....
This paper was published in the June 2006 issue of "The Journal of Quantitative Criminology".
Here are the pertinent details: Title:Forecasting Dangerous Inmate Misconduct: An Application of Ensemble Statistical Procedures Journal:Journal of Quantitative Criminology Issue:Volume 22, Number 2 / June, 2006 Pages:131-145
Abstract:
In this paper, we attempt to forecast which prison inmates are likely to engage in very serious misconduct while incarcerated. Such misconduct would usually be a major felony if committed outside of prison: drug trafficking, assault, rape, attempted murder and other crimes. The binary response variable is problematic because it is highly unbalanced. Using data from nearly 10,000 inmates held in facilities operated by the California Department of Corrections, we show that several popular classification procedures do no better than the marginal distribution unless the data are weighted in a fashion that compensates for the lack of balance. Then, random forests performs reasonably well, and better than CART or logistic regression. Although less than 3% of the inmates studied over 24 months were reported for very serious misconduct, we are able to correctly forecast such behavior about half the time.
Unfortunately, you've got to pay $30 to get this paper. Maybe some slashdotter with a school/corp subscription to Springer will put up the text?;-)
Amazon has begun offering a service called elastic compute cloud (EC2). It is designed to offer scalable computing/storage solutions designed to handle, (drumroll), traffic spikes.
Which leads me to think: was this a beta test for this EC2 system? I mean, there's no better bait for the millions of youngsters out there than a cheap top-o-the-line console. What better way to stress test your system than to have 100s of 1000s of people hit your site at the same time? If Amazon has logged the traffic data (and they'd be incredibly stupid not to), it would be a gold mine for their engineers. Eventually expect them to offer just such a service which can handle the such spikes, and pitch it to the Best Buys and Walmarts of the the world.
Most big companies look at patents not as an offensive weapon, but more as a defensive weapon
against someone else patenting the stuff and then suing them over it.
Why is questioning this administration automatically branded as "left-wing"?
I'm a conservative/libertarian by most measures. I was pro-war in Afghanistan. And yet I question this administration's actions (from the case for the war, to the conduct) in Iraq.
Who are you, sir, to call me anything but a patriot ??
When Google gives in to a government notice to give up information on a user, the Slashdot community sympathises with them.
When Yahoo gives in to a government notice to give up information on a user, the Slashdot community gets its panties in a twist.
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On March 28, . . . a Massachusetts judge threw out the original lawsuit on a technicality.
A ruling based on a technicality is hardly a dismissal...
But seriously: if editors just spent 2 minutes per story (checking the summary, doing a search on their site, etc.), then we'd get rid of most of the duplicates and assorted crap.
Will Adobe give me Photoshop CS3 for free? Of course not.
Then why do people expect these companies to get vulnerabilities for free?
I know, a vulnerability in $SoftwareVendor's product could be exploited by Some Nefarious Person ($SNP) to cause damage. So what's preventing $SoftwareVendor from bidding on the same vulnerability and beating out $SNP?.
Don't companies spend $$$ doing security audits, automated testing, etc.? Then what's wrong with paying someone for exploits? Don't the people who find these exploits need to be paid, just like the company's software engineers?
If companies had to pay big bucks for exploits, you bet they'd make damn sure that such exploits didn't exist anymore.
Disclaimer: I have neither found, nor looked for, an exploit in any piece of software.
shakes magic 8-ball
Signs point to yes
What's up with these cheesy-ass questions at the end of summaries? Of course the /. crowd will be up in arms against it!
Wait... does that mean corporations can provide information only when they know somebody won't be arrested?
I find this whole lawsuit ridiculous (and I am a liberal, opposed to the repression wrought by the PRC regime). Yahoo responded to a subpoena (or the Chinese equivalent of it). This is no different than the subpoena response that 1000s of businesses in the US do. There was no way for Yahoo to know what the alleged crime was! Just like the FBI and other LEOs in the US do not tell the businesses what the alleged crime is.
Example: there have been 124 exonerations of death-row inmates in the US. Does that mean that businesses should now not respond to subpoenas if they know that the alleged crime is murder? Would the lawmakers in the US let businesses flout subpoenas with impunity if the business owner didn't believe in the death penalty?
Which is the same as the summary... what's the point?
Searching further, here's a link to GCN (Government Computer News) with a little bit more details: linky.
We know how well the physical age verification works at bars, tobacco/liquor shops, etc.
we can ask him how to build a better Slashdot search engine also? dupe!
Then stop blaming Linux, and put the blame on Evolution! If Adobe Acrobat fails to read a PDF document on your Windows machine, do you blame Adobe or Microsoft ??
I'm sure you do, seeing that you're the CTO of the site.
Is it so hard to add a disclaimer?
From the "article":
I hate to use such strong language, but this guy is a total retard.
How is this news, exactly? This is like me taking a fine American car to UK and complaining that the car sucks because I have to drive on the other side of the road!
If you want to put the blame somewhere, put it on Google. They're the ones spamming the Internet with ads everywhere (Google AdSense anyone?).
But when Google does it, it can only be for the common good, right? A malicious Hax0r gets put away??
A DVD is 4.5GB (say). So 6Gb/s means a DVD can be transferred over the distance (250m) in 6 seconds.
In my backpack, I can put a 100 DVDs (a spindle). Assume I'm not in shape and can't carry more. I can walk the 250m in just over 4 minnutes (at a leisurely pace of 1m/s).
So if I carry my 100 DVDs the distance, I'll cover it in 250 seconds, which works out to a speed of 14.4 Gb/s, more than double of what these boffins are getting.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a backpack full of DVDs....
Here are the pertinent details:
Title: Forecasting Dangerous Inmate Misconduct: An Application of Ensemble Statistical Procedures
Journal: Journal of Quantitative Criminology
Issue: Volume 22, Number 2 / June, 2006
Pages: 131-145
Abstract:
In this paper, we attempt to forecast which prison inmates are likely to engage in very serious misconduct while incarcerated. Such misconduct would usually be a major felony if committed outside of prison: drug trafficking, assault, rape, attempted murder and other crimes. The binary response variable is problematic because it is highly unbalanced. Using data from nearly 10,000 inmates held in facilities operated by the California Department of Corrections, we show that several popular classification procedures do no better than the marginal distribution unless the data are weighted in a fashion that compensates for the lack of balance. Then, random forests performs reasonably well, and better than CART or logistic regression. Although less than 3% of the inmates studied over 24 months were reported for very serious misconduct, we are able to correctly forecast such behavior about half the time.
Unfortunately, you've got to pay $30 to get this paper. Maybe some slashdotter with a school/corp subscription to Springer will put up the text? ;-)
It was moderated " interesting ", not "insightful", you retard.
Which leads me to think: was this a beta test for this EC2 system? I mean, there's no better bait for the millions of youngsters out there than a cheap top-o-the-line console. What better way to stress test your system than to have 100s of 1000s of people hit your site at the same time? If Amazon has logged the traffic data (and they'd be incredibly stupid not to), it would be a gold mine for their engineers. Eventually expect them to offer just such a service which can handle the such spikes, and pitch it to the Best Buys and Walmarts of the the world.
What is there in the water in Michigan? A few years ago a teen in Michigan created a nuclear fission reactor; now this guy one ups him and creates fusion ?
Most big companies look at patents not as an offensive weapon, but more as a defensive weapon against someone else patenting the stuff and then suing them over it.
Why is questioning this administration automatically branded as "left-wing"?
I'm a conservative/libertarian by most measures. I was pro-war in Afghanistan. And yet I question this administration's actions (from the case for the war, to the conduct) in Iraq.
Who are you, sir, to call me anything but a patriot ??
I, for one, welcome our new exploding laptop overlords...
I would not be surprised at all if this guy Hiller turned out to be on the payroll of Facebook (either now, or some day in the future).
When Yahoo gives in to a government notice to give up information on a user, the Slashdot community gets its panties in a twist.
Why the double standard?
Roland has not stopped; he has two stories on the front page today!