I don't have a windows box handy, so I can't verify this, but if you read my post, you will see that I mention that many linux distros have this feature enabled by default.
Seriously though, many Linux distros come configured out of the box to test your password. If it is too simple, it at the very least informs you of that problem. I don't know why Microsoft doesn't do the same thing.
I don't know why the parent was modded as a troll. His opinion is a perfectly valid one. However, I don't see how censorware could have prevented this from happening. What could have would be for the parents to be aware of a few things.
1. what software is installed on the computer. Chat clients can be configured to log sessions to disk. The parents could then have read the logs and realized what type of situation the child was getting themselves in.
2. what the children are doing on the computer. Placeing computer equipment in a public place in the house, instead of having a "computer room" allows parents to monitor what their children are doing on the computer. Some people think that kids need their own computer. This can be done, but the way a friend of mine handles it is to not allow external access from the kids computer. If the children need to do research, they can do it on the one computer in the house that can go on the internet, and save their research on a shared drive.
3. communication. Parents need to warn their children about what issues they may encounter on the web. What parent waits until their kid touches a hot stove before telling them it can burn them? So why wait until they get into a potentially dangerous situation before warning them of the dangers they can encounter on the net?
These are the things I plan on doing as my children get old enough to begin using the internet. I would like to see what other ideas people have.
What really needs to happen here is a better solution than censorware needs to be proposed. The public library in my city handles this issue by placing the publically accessible computers near a high-traffic area, facing the checkout counter.
Increased monitoring is a better solution because it would allow legitimate research to continue, and wouldn't allow a particular company to dictate what is allowed and what isn't. As we have seen, much of the censorware on the market is overly restrictive, and in my opinion, biased. They restrict anonymous browsing, and, who know what spyware could be embedded in their products.
I think the problem with Ext3 is that is is considerably slower than other journaling implementations, and it has some restrictive block size requirements.
But as soon as warning labels start showing up, some of 'em will start to wonder what they're being warned about
The problem here is that will the labels look like warnings, or will they say something like "This cd protected by xxxxxx DRM!" and make it sound like a good thing? If the bill states that the labels must clearly indicate that the product is deficient in some area, and must be able to be read without the aid of a micro-dot reader, then, yah this is a good idea.
We have nerf guns here in the office, and they ARE most certainly cool! There is no better feeling in the world than to pull out the nerf gatling gun and send 30 rounds flying at your boss. It really relieves a lot of tension:) Shooting at your monitor when code won't compile is also very theraputic...
Oh and a lot of software development involves a lot of talking (in meetings, or just informally), which is surely the bread and butter of film.
Except, who would pay money to watch a bunch of Software Engineers sit around and talk about the implementation of a system. Most meetings, if I hadn't been required to sit there, I wouldn't have been there at all!
Except for the parts where they talked about "beautiful" structures, and whenever they compiled, the code would scroll endlessly accross their screen...
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It's much worse than just taking money away from the farmer so he can "buy more things." Farmers go into debt at the beginning of each year, and basically hope to make enough money out of their crop to pay that debt off and pay their bills for the rest of the year.
My understanding (perhaps I was wrong) was that the guy responded to the "buy it now" price, which was set way above what he paid for the powebook in the first place. That is not violating ebays rules.
I can't fault Bugtraq's motives. They are attempting to force Microsoft to not take their usual timeframe to fix this bug. It is a particualarly nasty one, and users can't wait the usual 2 - 3 months for the security update on this.
However, their methods are suspect. There had to be a better way to handle this. Posting the exploit code encourages the use of that code, no matter what the motive for posting the code.
If you read the review listed in the/. story, you can see that
The.net implementation was not in any way a good example of "best practices." It was well optimized, but at the expense of good design practices.
The J2EE code was not fully optimized. The author of the review also doesn't mention that in some instances, an older version of the JRE had to be used, resulting in performance decreases.
I for one will always be suspecious of benchmarks paid for by a particular company to compare their product with a competitor, whether it be Microsoft or anyone else.
are among the reasons I wonder if working for a large corporation is really worth it. When I started on the team I work on, the company put out nearly $1500 per seat to purchase Borlands JBuilder for each developer. One guy was doing gui development, the rest of us were building terminal apps or servlets in java. Everyone else used JBuilder, I used an open source editor called jEdit. 8 months later, the company again put out $1500 a seat to buy version 6 of JBuilder. Fortunately, my boss realized that I wasn't using it, so he purchased one less license.
I'm with you man, I don't understand why the company would want to pay 3 times as much for such a simple tool. If I were the guy taking bids, I would want to see examples of the developers work. If it looked like the $5000 guy did good stuff, I would go with him. But then, I'm the kind of guy that tries to save the company money, even if they don't want to.
I'm not saying MS is right, I'm saying that they're protecting their interests, and the last thing they're going to do is create a forward and backward-compatible file system so you have no need to upgrade when Word 2003 comes out.
I think you just made his point here. They break compatibility to force you to upgrade.
Actually, I think it was much more likely that the Q&A session that President Micheal Capellas had at the Boise site of HP helped. One person specifically asked Capellas about this issue, and it seemed that he was vaguely aware of the issue, but didn't realize that a threat had been issued. When that was pointed out to him, he seemed to get somewhat agitated. He promised that he would investigate the matter himeself, stating that threats were not the way to solve a situation like tis.
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I don't have a windows box handy, so I can't verify this, but if you read my post, you will see that I mention that many linux distros have this feature enabled by default.
Aaaah!! Damn, gotta change my password!
Seriously though, many Linux distros come configured out of the box to test your password. If it is too simple, it at the very least informs you of that problem. I don't know why Microsoft doesn't do the same thing.
I don't know why the parent was modded as a troll. His opinion is a perfectly valid one. However, I don't see how censorware could have prevented this from happening. What could have would be for the parents to be aware of a few things.
1. what software is installed on the computer. Chat clients can be configured to log sessions to disk. The parents could then have read the logs and realized what type of situation the child was getting themselves in.
2. what the children are doing on the computer. Placeing computer equipment in a public place in the house, instead of having a "computer room" allows parents to monitor what their children are doing on the computer. Some people think that kids need their own computer. This can be done, but the way a friend of mine handles it is to not allow external access from the kids computer. If the children need to do research, they can do it on the one computer in the house that can go on the internet, and save their research on a shared drive.
3. communication. Parents need to warn their children about what issues they may encounter on the web. What parent waits until their kid touches a hot stove before telling them it can burn them? So why wait until they get into a potentially dangerous situation before warning them of the dangers they can encounter on the net?
These are the things I plan on doing as my children get old enough to begin using the internet. I would like to see what other ideas people have.
What really needs to happen here is a better solution than censorware needs to be proposed. The public library in my city handles this issue by placing the publically accessible computers near a high-traffic area, facing the checkout counter.
Increased monitoring is a better solution because it would allow legitimate research to continue, and wouldn't allow a particular company to dictate what is allowed and what isn't. As we have seen, much of the censorware on the market is overly restrictive, and in my opinion, biased. They restrict anonymous browsing, and, who know what spyware could be embedded in their products.
I think the problem with Ext3 is that is is considerably slower than other journaling implementations, and it has some restrictive block size requirements.
Many of these features are available in various backup vendor packages. Arkiea (I know I spelled it wrong) had a lot of linux scsi tape controls.
The problem here is that will the labels look like warnings, or will they say something like "This cd protected by xxxxxx DRM!" and make it sound like a good thing? If the bill states that the labels must clearly indicate that the product is deficient in some area, and must be able to be read without the aid of a micro-dot reader, then, yah this is a good idea.
We have nerf guns here in the office, and they ARE most certainly cool! There is no better feeling in the world than to pull out the nerf gatling gun and send 30 rounds flying at your boss. It really relieves a lot of tension :) Shooting at your monitor when code won't compile is also very theraputic...
Except, who would pay money to watch a bunch of Software Engineers sit around and talk about the implementation of a system. Most meetings, if I hadn't been required to sit there, I wouldn't have been there at all!
Except for the parts where they talked about "beautiful" structures, and whenever they compiled, the code would scroll endlessly accross their screen...
Mike Tysons punch the monkey...
Man, the 2 people on that list would be driven nuts after a day or so.
It's much worse than just taking money away from the farmer so he can "buy more things." Farmers go into debt at the beginning of each year, and basically hope to make enough money out of their crop to pay that debt off and pay their bills for the rest of the year.
This sounds to me like the Extra-Terrestrial version of "Cow Tipping."
You forgot the Television, which was a good old american invention.
My understanding (perhaps I was wrong) was that the guy responded to the "buy it now" price, which was set way above what he paid for the powebook in the first place. That is not violating ebays rules.
However, their methods are suspect. There had to be a better way to handle this. Posting the exploit code encourages the use of that code, no matter what the motive for posting the code.
Here is an interesting tidbit. When a certain percentage of the nodes go down, the whole system is considered to be down.
I for one will always be suspecious of benchmarks paid for by a particular company to compare their product with a competitor, whether it be Microsoft or anyone else.
I'm with you man, I don't understand why the company would want to pay 3 times as much for such a simple tool. If I were the guy taking bids, I would want to see examples of the developers work. If it looked like the $5000 guy did good stuff, I would go with him. But then, I'm the kind of guy that tries to save the company money, even if they don't want to.
Walk into your friendly neighborhood Wal-Mart. You would have a choice of several sub-$100 DVD players.
All I can say is that I am glad my wife was a pratical person and was ok with having a CZ instead of a "real" diamond!
I think you just made his point here. They break compatibility to force you to upgrade.
Actually, I think it was much more likely that the Q&A session that President Micheal Capellas had at the Boise site of HP helped. One person specifically asked Capellas about this issue, and it seemed that he was vaguely aware of the issue, but didn't realize that a threat had been issued. When that was pointed out to him, he seemed to get somewhat agitated. He promised that he would investigate the matter himeself, stating that threats were not the way to solve a situation like tis.
Do models know how to play battleship?