Most likely, the ads will be initially used to provide ultra-cheap service ($5 - $10 / month). Eventually, they'll become "standard" and you'll have to pay extra to not be annoyed.
SecurityFocus was acquired by Symantec Corporation in the fall of 2002, and Symantec has since incorporated the SecurityFocus commercial products DeepSight Threat Management System and Alert Services into its product line. Part of the purchase agreement was to keep SecurityFocus as an independent Website that is not influenced by Symantec corporate policies or products.
The SecurityFocus Website retains full editorial discretion for all content and remains a vendor-neutral voice for the security community.
Now, it can be argued that Symantec is Microsoft's little bitch, but that's another flamewar entirely...
WAPI has been portrayed as China's indigenous solution to the problem of securing wireless communication. Security holes in the Wireless Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol, part of the 802.11 wireless LAN standard, caused an international uproar following publication of the standard in 1999, and development work began on a solution. But WAPI, as it has been verbally described in meetings with some of the concerned companies, appears to replicate many of the problems the development community had to solve for WEP. Multinational companies believe that WAPI, if really implemented, will be insecure and will create a burden for manufacturers, who will have to meet one standard for China and another for the rest of the world. But many smaller Chinese companies see WAPI as an important commercial opportunity.
One thing people keep forgetting (or don't learn) is that encryption standards tend to need many, many years of peer review before they are considered "trustworthy" (and that's if they're written by a well-respected member of the crypto community). Generally, if a popular cryptosystem can survive a decade's worth of scrutiny without any major weaknesses being discovered then it's probably worth investing some confidence.
If we all had a dime for every time someone came up with a new encryption scheme and it failed miserably (WEP, DeCSS, etc.), we'd all be rich enough to sit around reading Slashdot all day...
I haven't met the guy and tend to hold him in reasonably high regard based on what I've read of his writings on the Internet. That being said, he appears to be extremely opinionated and tends to say or imply that certain people that disagre with him are idiots. While this may be the case (or may not be; I have no idea, but I'll give djb the benefit of the doubt), his tendency to express himself so bluntly probably turns many people off.
I just keep dreaming that the judge holds Darl McBride, Chris Sontag, and David Boies in jail for contempt of court until their minions can come up with the necessary "evidence."
I know it's just a dream, but it's such a niiiice, pretty one!
Ok, for those of us who read the books, saw the flicks, bought the DVDs, but don't obsess over the political minutae of the Tolkien family and estate's feelings about the movies, what exactly is Christopher Tolkien's problem?
Needless to say the Australian record industry is complaining the three should do time, which could have meant five years behind bars. The judge ruled prison was not called for.
Isn't listening to most of the crap put out by RIAA companies punishment enough???
I think that the key point of this article is that developers can now develop and test 32- and 64-bit apps on the same machine. With many high level languages (and even, to a certain extent, C/C++), it's fairly trivial to develop a version that compiles under both archs, especially if you're starting a new project (just have to watch your int & pointer sizes, etc). I think that a key attraction in CPU-intensive apps (games, multimedia creation/editing, scientific, etc.) will be the extra 8 general purpose registers available in 64-bit mode. They can produce order-of-magnitude performance increases for parameter passing, many inner-loops, etc.
I seriously considered purchasing this book the other day, however, I paused because its contents sound so similar to what you download with the product for free. If there are better explanations, information, etc., I would love to acquire it. Does anyone familiar with both have any comments?
Amazing, somebody actually came up with a vehicle that offers less protection than a motercycle. Call me less-than-adventurous, but I'll stick to my good old-fashioned collision-survivable car.
Wasn't there something in one of Neil Stephenson's books about a guy who's nervous system implants got hacked and he continuously saw advertisments in his peripheral vision until it drove him to suicide?
My understanding (coming from a college professor) is that the professors get kickbacks for forcing their classes to use "upgraded" textbooks on a regular basis. Also, I've seen several instances where professors sell their poorly-typed (unless they have good assistants) "manditory" class notes for outrageous amounts.
But, if you think about it, textbooks are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to ways that higher educations fucks students financially...
The only real way to get the attention of such a magazine is to get angry and cancel your subscription, and mention the idea to your friends and coworkers as well...
I am currently running POPFile 0.19.1 and it's classifying my two main e-mail accounts (approx 200 e-mails per day, 17.89% spam) at 98.92% accuracy. I'm pretty happy with that...
I use a (now) old IBM Thinkpad T-22, but any of the T-Series can be set to run normally in a "closed" position. They weigh in between 4 and 5 lbs, and can be purchased with very nice 1400x1050 screens. They're not insanely expensive, either, unless you have to have the absolute latest and greatest model. Some do have Centrino, but you can also buy them with IBM's 802.11a/b/g solution. Thinkpads have typically handled Linux extremely well (mine does, anyway).
If you read the fine print ( http://sitefinder.verisign.com/privacy.jsp for the numbered-link phobic; I've blocked DNS for that domain on my network) on the SiteFinder Privacy Policy, you'll find an inference that the searches are going through the Slashdot Community's favorite search engine, Overture, now a division (beeyatch) of Yahoo:
Third Party Search Results and Cookies
We use third-party companies to serve paid and unpaid search results and other content to our Site Finder. In the course of serving these results, these companies may place or recognize a cookie on your browser, and may use information (not including your name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other web sites in order to serve content to our site, improve the services offered on our site, or measure advertising effectiveness of paid search results. For more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having your information used by these companies, please visit http://www.content.overture.com/d/Usm/about/compan y/privacypolicy.jhtml. [Note - this link is broken... it should go here.]
It would be interesting to find out just how deep in this mess Yahoo / Overture is....
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Most likely, the ads will be initially used to provide ultra-cheap service ($5 - $10 / month). Eventually, they'll become "standard" and you'll have to pay extra to not be annoyed.
The leak... does that suck or does that blow...?
That's not even a good troll. Actually, SecurityFocus is owned by Symantec Corporation:
Now, it can be argued that Symantec is Microsoft's little bitch, but that's another flamewar entirely...
One thing people keep forgetting (or don't learn) is that encryption standards tend to need many, many years of peer review before they are considered "trustworthy" (and that's if they're written by a well-respected member of the crypto community). Generally, if a popular cryptosystem can survive a decade's worth of scrutiny without any major weaknesses being discovered then it's probably worth investing some confidence.
If we all had a dime for every time someone came up with a new encryption scheme and it failed miserably (WEP, DeCSS, etc.), we'd all be rich enough to sit around reading Slashdot all day...
I haven't met the guy and tend to hold him in reasonably high regard based on what I've read of his writings on the Internet. That being said, he appears to be extremely opinionated and tends to say or imply that certain people that disagre with him are idiots. While this may be the case (or may not be; I have no idea, but I'll give djb the benefit of the doubt), his tendency to express himself so bluntly probably turns many people off.
I just keep dreaming that the judge holds Darl McBride, Chris Sontag, and David Boies in jail for contempt of court until their minions can come up with the necessary "evidence."
I know it's just a dream, but it's such a niiiice, pretty one!
Of course, the 9th Circuit gets overturned some ridiculous percentage of the time. They're (in)famous for stupid and bizzare decisions.
Ok, for those of us who read the books, saw the flicks, bought the DVDs, but don't obsess over the political minutae of the Tolkien family and estate's feelings about the movies, what exactly is Christopher Tolkien's problem?
I think that the key point of this article is that developers can now develop and test 32- and 64-bit apps on the same machine. With many high level languages (and even, to a certain extent, C/C++), it's fairly trivial to develop a version that compiles under both archs, especially if you're starting a new project (just have to watch your int & pointer sizes, etc). I think that a key attraction in CPU-intensive apps (games, multimedia creation/editing, scientific, etc.) will be the extra 8 general purpose registers available in 64-bit mode. They can produce order-of-magnitude performance increases for parameter passing, many inner-loops, etc.
I seriously considered purchasing this book the other day, however, I paused because its contents sound so similar to what you download with the product for free. If there are better explanations, information, etc., I would love to acquire it. Does anyone familiar with both have any comments?
Amazing, somebody actually came up with a vehicle that offers less protection than a motercycle. Call me less-than-adventurous, but I'll stick to my good old-fashioned collision-survivable car.
Ok, it's old but it's still amusing:
Q: What happens when you put the batteries in the Energizer Bunny backwards?
A: He keeps coming... and coming... and coming...
I didn't know that George Lucas was inspired by Penny Arcade...
Wasn't there something in one of Neil Stephenson's books about a guy who's nervous system implants got hacked and he continuously saw advertisments in his peripheral vision until it drove him to suicide?
My understanding (coming from a college professor) is that the professors get kickbacks for forcing their classes to use "upgraded" textbooks on a regular basis. Also, I've seen several instances where professors sell their poorly-typed (unless they have good assistants) "manditory" class notes for outrageous amounts.
But, if you think about it, textbooks are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to ways that higher educations fucks students financially...
The only real way to get the attention of such a magazine is to get angry and cancel your subscription, and mention the idea to your friends and coworkers as well...
I am currently running POPFile 0.19.1 and it's classifying my two main e-mail accounts (approx 200 e-mails per day, 17.89% spam) at 98.92% accuracy. I'm pretty happy with that...
It's from the Microsoft "Freedom to Innovate" school of "innovation" (not sure how much more "innovation" the Internet can handle)...
I use a (now) old IBM Thinkpad T-22, but any of the T-Series can be set to run normally in a "closed" position. They weigh in between 4 and 5 lbs, and can be purchased with very nice 1400x1050 screens. They're not insanely expensive, either, unless you have to have the absolute latest and greatest model. Some do have Centrino, but you can also buy them with IBM's 802.11a/b/g solution. Thinkpads have typically handled Linux extremely well (mine does, anyway).
It would be interesting to find out just how deep in this mess Yahoo / Overture is....
I don't know... Penny Arcade could use another angry character...