If the military wanted to use/modify/whatever this program, all they have to do is keep it classified. And you can't sue the government. So what we have here is effectively the equivalent of pacifist masturbation. To them, I'm sure it feels good to tell the military to fuck off, but at the end of the day it accomplishes nothing.
All I can say is that I did bite the bullet and buy my first Mac recently, a black MacBook. It is without a doubt the best computer I've ever had, and it's really turned into my "I'm at home, not at work, and I don't want to fight with my machine" computer.
Of course, it's so different that it took me half an hour to figure out how to install Firefox, but that's to be expected I guess.:)
My suggestion is to save up and buy even the entry level $1100 one if you can, it's SO worth it. I have zero complaints and nothing but raves about it.
I don't understand people who go after this career because they "love games."
As someone who did, I'll try to explain. In my case, I got into programming because I wanted to be a game developer. I was driven by this desire all through college, and once I got out of college I had a hard time finding a job with a game developer. (This was partly because I lived in Baltimore, and there aren't as many developers there as in, say, the SF Bay or LA areas.)
When I finally got a job with a defense contractor, I decided that I really liked programming, but I also really liked the 40-hour work weeks and being driven more by r&d than a holiday or movie release date schedule, and on average, I'm paid more to work 40 hours/week than I would be paid working 80 hr/wk as a game developer.
So, while I did get into programming with the intention of writing games, I never actually did it professionally and I don't really regret it. Especially when I can enjoy playing a game in the evenings instead of being stuck at work developing a game.
It had nothing to do with preventing unauthorized copying. The Hollywood corporations didn't care about that, no sir.
They were just worried about geeks cockfighting their dvr's and tivos in a parking lot outside Fry's at 2 in the morning. How humanitarian of them.
This (!gorgeous) woman needs her journalism degree revoked, because this article is ridiculously stupid tabloid trash. Whatever she's smoking, I'd like some please.
Seriously, what the hell difference does it make to the domain purchaser if they host PARKED domains on a MS server until you buy it and move it to your linux box?
Oh wait, nevermind, this is slashdot... as long as it's anti-microsoft, it doesn't have to be well thought out.
(Disclaimer: no, I'm not a microsoft zealot.. i just really don't understand who the hell cares.)
Maybe your friend's 600m is defective, because mine doesn't suffer from heat problems (and I compile code on it). If anything, this thing stays surprisingly cool most of the time.
What (quite possibly) actually happened is that they did intend eight versions, and the OEM manufacturers came back and said "eight? are you fucking nuts? we can't get people to intelligently choose between two choices (home and pro), and you want to offer eight?"
So now they're backpedaling (and probably consolidating) and trying to cover their asses... "Oops, our bad!"
As the parent alludes, bustage from patches is precisely why our corporate network admins have disabled automatic updates via group policy.
They download the patches directly and install them on some test machines, and verify that the patches don't actually break anything critical to our business. They then push the patches out to the rest of the corporate network via a software update service. Usually this happens within just a couple of days after Patch Tuesday.
As a local system admin, the bottom line is that I don't usually need to call out sick to defend my sanity. (or what passes for my sanity).
Provides very good decoupling for anything that can be abstracted to a request-response model.
XML is used extensively (if not exclusively) for data formats, and HTTP is used as a network protocol, keeping these to known standards keeps it simple.
I recently used gSOAP (http://gsoap.sourceforge.net/ to implement some web services into a C++ API and it worked flawlessly.
I've used this a lot lately when upgrading NAV, this is a removal tool which will nuke all traces of many Norton programs off a computer. Not as useful if you have, say, NAV and Ghost and just want to remove NAV, but if you only have NAV, this works for different versions. (As my family all uses NAV, but everyone always seems to have a different version, sticking this on my usb drive has been invaluable.)
So, since the article DOES in fact have to do with an encryption scheme, cryptanalysts pounding on it probably would help to expose any problems, or to at least verify the non-existence of obvious weaknesses.
This article (uses the words 'proposed' and 'absolutely secure' in the same paragraph. You can't trust such a claim about a proposed system until it's been implemented, distributed, deployed, and pounded on for years by cryptanalysists.
Enough with Star Wars, World War II, Vietnam, and other existing franchises. It's been done to death.
How about writing a good old school style fantasy RPG with an original storyline? If you MUST, do another Forgotten Realms game, but invent some new characters instead of copying Baldur's Gate.
Of course, an RPG set in the TRON universe would also be new and different... I don't think anyone has tried to do anything but action games in that setting before. (I liked Tron2.0, but it wasn't an RPG.)
(And I realize I just asked for a couple of holy grails, but oh well...)
I disagree. SSL is only useful for protecting data in transit, where the data is only valuable in transit. Too many companies make the mistake that if data is protected while on the network, the databases don't matter. Then malicious intruders who hack in past the firewall have unfettered access to clear data.
Don't misunderstand me, SSL *IS* a useful part of a secure design, but it's only a part and is in no way a security solution in and of itself.
A more optimal solution is one which encrypts sensitive portions of the database. XML-Encryption and XML-Signature are good examples of how to represent data with sensitive bits encrypted and/or signed. It's the data in the database that's important, not the connections to the database, so it's the data which should be secured at all costs.
Using X509 certificates, data can be encrypted via a session key, which can then in turn be encrypted with the various certificates of people who require access to that data. A private key passphrase is then required to gain access to the private key, which gains access to the session key, which gains access to the data. Further measures can be taken such as key separation, where a certain number of private key fragments (ie the owners of those fragments) are required to recover the private key to gain access to the data.
Furthermore, if the database is encrypted then an intruder can't gain access. I completely agree with the statement that the database is the last line of defense, and should therefore be Done Right(TM).
My work revolves primarily around network security, and even in my own company I've watched divisions of people design applications with the intent of tacking security on later. Encryption is NOT a panacea, digital signatures are NOT a panacea. Intelligent key management infrastructure is difficult to do right, but investing the time and effort up front leads to the ability to easily leverage it and reap its benefits in many different ways down the road. Authentication, authorization, key escrow and recovery, nonrepudiation, and so forth. In addition to key exchange for sending encrypted data.
The people that stand up and shout about the evils of shared encryption keys have a point, shared keys are bad, but key management has evolved to the point where it's becoming useful in the real world. I've written a research paper on the subject (http://www.dodccrp.org/events/2005/10th/CD/papers /081.pdf), in which the concept of secured data is discussed in depth. Anyone interested in discussing it further is welcome to email me (email address is in the paper) or to directly message me through slashdot.
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Why does the term "core dump" come to mind?
:)
Sorry, couldn't resist!
If the military wanted to use/modify/whatever this program, all they have to do is keep it classified. And you can't sue the government. So what we have here is effectively the equivalent of pacifist masturbation. To them, I'm sure it feels good to tell the military to fuck off, but at the end of the day it accomplishes nothing.
All I can say is that I did bite the bullet and buy my first Mac recently, a black MacBook. It is without a doubt the best computer I've ever had, and it's really turned into my "I'm at home, not at work, and I don't want to fight with my machine" computer.
:)
Of course, it's so different that it took me half an hour to figure out how to install Firefox, but that's to be expected I guess.
My suggestion is to save up and buy even the entry level $1100 one if you can, it's SO worth it. I have zero complaints and nothing but raves about it.
-r
... as Amazon gets pwned for being completely insecure.
Honestly, I don't understand why people we've never heard of defecting from Microsoft is newsworthy anymore.
Who the fuck cares about MySpace? (Aside from teenagers, obviously... but they're dumb.)
Amen, brother. I wish I had mod points to give you.
Or type what you want in this box and we'll send you wherever we feel like. [ ]
I don't understand people who go after this career because they "love games."
As someone who did, I'll try to explain. In my case, I got into programming because I wanted to be a game developer. I was driven by this desire all through college, and once I got out of college I had a hard time finding a job with a game developer. (This was partly because I lived in Baltimore, and there aren't as many developers there as in, say, the SF Bay or LA areas.)
When I finally got a job with a defense contractor, I decided that I really liked programming, but I also really liked the 40-hour work weeks and being driven more by r&d than a holiday or movie release date schedule, and on average, I'm paid more to work 40 hours/week than I would be paid working 80 hr/wk as a game developer.
So, while I did get into programming with the intention of writing games, I never actually did it professionally and I don't really regret it. Especially when I can enjoy playing a game in the evenings instead of being stuck at work developing a game.
Just my 2 jellybeans.
It had nothing to do with preventing unauthorized copying. The Hollywood corporations didn't care about that, no sir.
They were just worried about geeks cockfighting their dvr's and tivos in a parking lot outside Fry's at 2 in the morning. How humanitarian of them.
This (!gorgeous) woman needs her journalism degree revoked, because this article is ridiculously stupid tabloid trash. Whatever she's smoking, I'd like some please.
Outcast36 was too busy trying to FristPsot to consider that. But maybe he'll listen to Reason.
Seriously, what the hell difference does it make to the domain purchaser if they host PARKED domains on a MS server until you buy it and move it to your linux box?
Oh wait, nevermind, this is slashdot... as long as it's anti-microsoft, it doesn't have to be well thought out.
(Disclaimer: no, I'm not a microsoft zealot.. i just really don't understand who the hell cares.)
Maybe your friend's 600m is defective, because mine doesn't suffer from heat problems (and I compile code on it). If anything, this thing stays surprisingly cool most of the time.
What (quite possibly) actually happened is that they did intend eight versions, and the OEM manufacturers came back and said "eight? are you fucking nuts? we can't get people to intelligently choose between two choices (home and pro), and you want to offer eight?"
So now they're backpedaling (and probably consolidating) and trying to cover their asses... "Oops, our bad!"
As the parent alludes, bustage from patches is precisely why our corporate network admins have disabled automatic updates via group policy.
They download the patches directly and install them on some test machines, and verify that the patches don't actually break anything critical to our business. They then push the patches out to the rest of the corporate network via a software update service. Usually this happens within just a couple of days after Patch Tuesday.
As a local system admin, the bottom line is that I don't usually need to call out sick to defend my sanity. (or what passes for my sanity).
For that, I have this on my door. (I'm close to winning.)
*lol* If only my modpoints hadn't expired yesterday. Sorry dude, you'd have gotten one from me for sure.
Provides very good decoupling for anything that can be abstracted to a request-response model.
XML is used extensively (if not exclusively) for data formats, and HTTP is used as a network protocol, keeping these to known standards keeps it simple.
I recently used gSOAP (http://gsoap.sourceforge.net/ to implement some web services into a C++ API and it worked flawlessly.
In what year is Google going to enslave and exterminate the human race, and then send cyborgs back through time to retroactively crush the resistance?
I've used this a lot lately when upgrading NAV, this is a removal tool which will nuke all traces of many Norton programs off a computer. Not as useful if you have, say, NAV and Ghost and just want to remove NAV, but if you only have NAV, this works for different versions. (As my family all uses NAV, but everyone always seems to have a different version, sticking this on my usb drive has been invaluable.)
f /docid/2005033108162039?Open&src=&docid=2001092114 452606&nsf=nav.nsf&view=docid&dtype=&prod=&ver=&os v=&osv_lvl=&seg=
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.ns
The SymNRT.exe remover will remove ALL installs of:
* Norton AntiVirus 2004/2005/2006
* Norton AntiVirus Professional 2004
* Norton AntiVirus 3, 5 and 10 User Pack 2004/2005/2006
* Norton GoBack 3.1/3.5/3.6/4.0/4.1
* Norton SystemWorks 2004 Professional Edition
* Norton SystemWorks 2005/2006 Premier
* Norton SystemWorks 2004/2005/2006
* Norton SystemWorks 2006 Basic Edition
* Norton Password Manager 2004
* Norton Internet Security 2004/2005/2006
* Norton Internet Security 5 and 10 User Pack 2004/2005/2006
* Norton Internet Security 2005 AntiSpyware Edition 8.2
* Norton Personal Firewall 2004/2005/2006
* Norton AntiSpam 2004/2005
* Norton Ghost 2003/9.0/10.0
A 26yo declaring that anyone over 25 is "too old"? Let me be the first to stand up and yell "stupid young whippersnapper!"
*sigh* Kids these days...
Actually, according to CNET, Media Center is XP Home, not Pro. (4th paragraph on the linked page.)
So as a computer, it's kinda useless.
Did YOU read the article?
If you click through to TFA, follow the link to http://www.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0509136, and then follow the link again to http://www.arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0509136 which is the full text PDF of the research paper, section 3 discusses the "Secure, threefold encrypted, Kirchoff-loop-Johnson-noise (KLJN) cipher".
So, since the article DOES in fact have to do with an encryption scheme, cryptanalysts pounding on it probably would help to expose any problems, or to at least verify the non-existence of obvious weaknesses.
This article (uses the words 'proposed' and 'absolutely secure' in the same paragraph. You can't trust such a claim about a proposed system until it's been implemented, distributed, deployed, and pounded on for years by cryptanalysists.
Oh, the sensationalism!
... the hack works because IE does not properly parse cascading style sheet (CSS) files, a Web design language used by thousands of Internet sites.
Yeah, this was already discovered by that kid 'samy' when he thrashed MySpace. Microsoft hasn't patched it.
But yeah, it's Google's fault. Right.
Enough with Star Wars, World War II, Vietnam, and other existing franchises. It's been done to death.
How about writing a good old school style fantasy RPG with an original storyline? If you MUST, do another Forgotten Realms game, but invent some new characters instead of copying Baldur's Gate.
Of course, an RPG set in the TRON universe would also be new and different... I don't think anyone has tried to do anything but action games in that setting before. (I liked Tron2.0, but it wasn't an RPG.)
(And I realize I just asked for a couple of holy grails, but oh well...)
I disagree. SSL is only useful for protecting data in transit, where the data is only valuable in transit. Too many companies make the mistake that if data is protected while on the network, the databases don't matter. Then malicious intruders who hack in past the firewall have unfettered access to clear data.
s /081.pdf), in which the concept of secured data is discussed in depth. Anyone interested in discussing it further is welcome to email me (email address is in the paper) or to directly message me through slashdot.
Don't misunderstand me, SSL *IS* a useful part of a secure design, but it's only a part and is in no way a security solution in and of itself.
A more optimal solution is one which encrypts sensitive portions of the database. XML-Encryption and XML-Signature are good examples of how to represent data with sensitive bits encrypted and/or signed. It's the data in the database that's important, not the connections to the database, so it's the data which should be secured at all costs.
Using X509 certificates, data can be encrypted via a session key, which can then in turn be encrypted with the various certificates of people who require access to that data. A private key passphrase is then required to gain access to the private key, which gains access to the session key, which gains access to the data. Further measures can be taken such as key separation, where a certain number of private key fragments (ie the owners of those fragments) are required to recover the private key to gain access to the data.
Furthermore, if the database is encrypted then an intruder can't gain access. I completely agree with the statement that the database is the last line of defense, and should therefore be Done Right(TM).
My work revolves primarily around network security, and even in my own company I've watched divisions of people design applications with the intent of tacking security on later. Encryption is NOT a panacea, digital signatures are NOT a panacea. Intelligent key management infrastructure is difficult to do right, but investing the time and effort up front leads to the ability to easily leverage it and reap its benefits in many different ways down the road. Authentication, authorization, key escrow and recovery, nonrepudiation, and so forth. In addition to key exchange for sending encrypted data.
The people that stand up and shout about the evils of shared encryption keys have a point, shared keys are bad, but key management has evolved to the point where it's becoming useful in the real world. I've written a research paper on the subject (http://www.dodccrp.org/events/2005/10th/CD/paper
-Rod