I don't think "that it was open source that made people think they ought to test and review code". I think that open source makes it possible (not necessary) to increase the total number of people able to review the code, by orders of magnitude. The diaspora team has 4 people. The total number of forks in github is 403, with over 2500 watchers.
if Diaspora is dependent on the OSS community their users are screwed.
If it wasn't for the OSS community, everybody would believe they've released a safe program. Thanks to OSS, we now know that installing it is not the best decision yet.
I'd say the users would be screwed if diaspora was not open source. Linus Law once again.
I was not surprised to find out that the author sells proprietary software. I think that maybe, just maybe he's biased against FLOSS?
How can copyright be a contract? Even if I don't sign anything, I can't copy your work. Rights are not an agreement between people and generally ingorantia legis non excusat.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
This was exactly what latin american free software needed. FSF - LA successfully "converted" many Brazilian trade unions to Free Software. Uruguay adopted Linux for OLPC, Argentina was going to adopt Linux but then Ballmer paid a visit to the president and now they use dual-boot. Ubuntu is already more popular than Mac, and Microsoft is the paradigm of "colonialist foreign corporation" that all the leftists despise. (See this article (spanish) from Venezuela: "Free Software vs. Privative Software: freedom vs. slavery")
I recall the last time Stallman visited Argentina, he spent more time with politicians than with programmers. I really hope this is our chance. OLPC is like Gramsci: if the kids learn linux there's no way to bring them to Windows once they grow up.
Well, google provides over 80% of the Mozilla Foundation's funding, and Mozilla pays $3000 per bug, so effectively Google is paying bounties for other browsers.
Oh come on! He comes from finland, they have free* hospitals and universities, the son of the banker has the same chances in life than the son of the fisherman. For a true socialist, that's centuries ahead of the US.
The first part of the presentation introduces the audience to Padding Oracle Attacks, the cryptographic concepts of the vulnerability, and finally how to exploit it. We also describe the algorithms implemented in POET (Padding Oracle Exploit Tool). POET is the free tool that we released a few months ago which can automatically find and exploit Padding Oracle vulnerabilities in web applications.
The second part presents a previously unknown advanced attack. The most significant new discovery is an universal Padding Oracle affecting every ASP.NET web application. In short, you can decrypt cookies, view states, form authentication tickets, membership password, user data, and anything else encrypted using the framework's API!
Finally we demonstrate the attacks against real world applications. We use the Padding Oracle attack to decrypt data and use CBC-R to encrypt our modifications. Then we abuse components present in every ASP.NET installation to forge authentication tickets and access applications with administration rights. The vulnerabilities exploited affect the framework used by 25% of the Internet websites.The impact of the attack depends on the applications installed on the server, from information disclosure to total system compromise.
What about the name "United States of Columbia"?
Is Columbia a continent? If it is, then you should consider that Cristopher Columbus traveled to places that you would not consider to be America, just like Amerigo Vespucci.
Kant's way: what would happen if all beings decided to destroy all their organs? The extinction of life.
Suicide does not promote the conservation of the species.
If you sell your film as pure entertainment then it will be pirated. Art is valuable for itself, that's why real masterpieces cost so much and replicas don't. Unfortunately in the USA (AFAIK) films are not widely thought of as a form of art. Actors are treated like artists; but not directors, designers, screenwriters, 3d modellers, or camera specialists. In the wikipedia article for Film Crew they mention the word "artist" for actors, hairdressers and musicians; and nobody else.
That's what happens in my country: I live in Argentina where piracy is almost "normal", but people still buy good films. TBH, some films are less "artistical" than others (overly heroic, commonplace, explosion-rich, world saving, impossible rambo-like heroes); and obviously you can't compare The Da Vinci Code with The Name of the Rose; but last year the most sold film was the one that ended up winning the Oscar. And the most seen one was another Hollywood ultrahero.
If you don't give the chance to fill the niche (through education, campaigns, condom give aways, chastity belts and whatnot), then it would not spread that much.
As a CS student I have not studied much physics; but I'm a very curious guy so I could not resist to follow the link. Their requirements are: average level intelligence, basic maths and a PDF reader. Sounds like perfect for me... or too perfect? W. Blaine Dowler took his time to write in LaTeX, which automatically made me think it can be trusted - don't ask me why. But, on second thoughts, this doesn't sound right.
At back at school we were taught that physics has laws and mathematical models, which are an (simplified) generalisation of the empirical data. If there's no mathematical description, what am I going to learn? 3 years ago I heard about "Schroedinger's equation". I couldn't resist my curiosity and searched it in Wikipedia. Nice greek letters and strange symbols. The teacher told me it's result described an area where it was more probable to find an electron. Wikipedia said it means much more. So now I'm sceptical about this mathless physics: they are going to make a lot of unexplained statements, and in the end I wont get any practical results out of it, and anything they write will be so over simplified that it would have lost all its meaning, just like my teacher. I won't "know" quantum physics.
The 'science' can not predict the next Hand of God. Besides, football is football, even the best team can be easily defeated. And there is no set of absolute data for each player and formation. If you play Winning Eleven you see it classifies and gives a quantity to each "ability" such as speed, stamina, aim, strength, etc. But in the real world the player can be shocked by some event (like missing a penalty kick), he can be under pressure, he could have partied all night long and be really tired. All of that has happened in world cups and is almost random. There's no mathematical model to predict the next Hand of God. You can't calculate the rivalries among the team's players, the "will" to play, the distraction of the vuvuzelas, and pure luck.
The model you link placed France third. But they are less than 16th. Chile is 34th but they are between 9th and 16th. It also relies heavily in FIFA's ranking, which everyone knows to be bullshit since it takes into account games up to 4 years old. Other models take players as individuals and take the team for granted. If that was true, then you don't even have to think about it, Argentina has the best surnames (and we got owned 0-4). As we use to say: football statistics are like miniskirts, they give you a nice picture, but you don't know what it's hiding.
binarylarry, your UID tells me you are not new here. So I believe you know that here in Slashdot there are some users who comment on the article without actually reading it; and the rest of the users dislike their unfounded comments.
Well, your attitude is similar to those whose comments start with "I didn't RTFA but...". If you have read the literature on the subject, if you know what you are talking about, and if you are familiar with the articles that have been recently published; then it is your responsibility to prove them wrong, or at least to show the parts with which you do not agree. Now, if you have not read, and if you do not know, I ask you to open a new tab, google some papers, read them carefully, and only then come back here and tell us your opinion.
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I don't think "that it was open source that made people think they ought to test and review code". I think that open source makes it possible (not necessary) to increase the total number of people able to review the code, by orders of magnitude. The diaspora team has 4 people. The total number of forks in github is 403, with over 2500 watchers.
if Diaspora is dependent on the OSS community their users are screwed.
If it wasn't for the OSS community, everybody would believe they've released a safe program. Thanks to OSS, we now know that installing it is not the best decision yet.
I'd say the users would be screwed if diaspora was not open source. Linus Law once again.
I was not surprised to find out that the author sells proprietary software. I think that maybe, just maybe he's biased against FLOSS?
How can copyright be a contract? Even if I don't sign anything, I can't copy your work. Rights are not an agreement between people and generally ingorantia legis non excusat.
Well since the Big Bang was invented by a priest I don't see how is it strange that they don't preach the 7-day story as factual science.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
This was exactly what latin american free software needed. FSF - LA successfully "converted" many Brazilian trade unions to Free Software. Uruguay adopted Linux for OLPC, Argentina was going to adopt Linux but then Ballmer paid a visit to the president and now they use dual-boot. Ubuntu is already more popular than Mac, and Microsoft is the paradigm of "colonialist foreign corporation" that all the leftists despise. (See this article (spanish) from Venezuela: "Free Software vs. Privative Software: freedom vs. slavery")
I recall the last time Stallman visited Argentina, he spent more time with politicians than with programmers. I really hope this is our chance. OLPC is like Gramsci: if the kids learn linux there's no way to bring them to Windows once they grow up.
Well, google provides over 80% of the Mozilla Foundation's funding, and Mozilla pays $3000 per bug, so effectively Google is paying bounties for other browsers.
Oh come on! He comes from finland, they have free* hospitals and universities, the son of the banker has the same chances in life than the son of the fisherman. For a true socialist, that's centuries ahead of the US.
The first part of the presentation introduces the audience to Padding Oracle Attacks, the cryptographic concepts of the vulnerability, and finally how to exploit it. We also describe the algorithms implemented in POET (Padding Oracle Exploit Tool). POET is the free tool that we released a few months ago which can automatically find and exploit Padding Oracle vulnerabilities in web applications. The second part presents a previously unknown advanced attack. The most significant new discovery is an universal Padding Oracle affecting every ASP.NET web application. In short, you can decrypt cookies, view states, form authentication tickets, membership password, user data, and anything else encrypted using the framework's API! Finally we demonstrate the attacks against real world applications. We use the Padding Oracle attack to decrypt data and use CBC-R to encrypt our modifications. Then we abuse components present in every ASP.NET installation to forge authentication tickets and access applications with administration rights. The vulnerabilities exploited affect the framework used by 25% of the Internet websites.The impact of the attack depends on the applications installed on the server, from information disclosure to total system compromise.
http://ekoparty.org/juliano-rizzo-2010.php
As a Firefox user I haven't been on google front page for years - I just use the bar to search for whatever I'm searching for
It is the Big Bang theory we are talking about, surely Georges Lemaître would not agree with you.
What about the name "United States of Columbia"?
Is Columbia a continent? If it is, then you should consider that Cristopher Columbus traveled to places that you would not consider to be America, just like Amerigo Vespucci.
That would be illegal misinformation.
we all know that spacetime grew to the size of a football thanks to the Holy Meatballs.
Everyone knows that there is almost no "left" in the USA.
Monopoly? Here in Argentina public healthcare is open even to illegal immigrants, and it coexists with private hospitals.
Kant's way: what would happen if all beings decided to destroy all their organs? The extinction of life.
Suicide does not promote the conservation of the species.
I put my hopes in diaspora.
They are trying to conquer the browser market.
If you sell your film as pure entertainment then it will be pirated. Art is valuable for itself, that's why real masterpieces cost so much and replicas don't. Unfortunately in the USA (AFAIK) films are not widely thought of as a form of art. Actors are treated like artists; but not directors, designers, screenwriters, 3d modellers, or camera specialists. In the wikipedia article for Film Crew they mention the word "artist" for actors, hairdressers and musicians; and nobody else.
That's what happens in my country: I live in Argentina where piracy is almost "normal", but people still buy good films. TBH, some films are less "artistical" than others (overly heroic, commonplace, explosion-rich, world saving, impossible rambo-like heroes); and obviously you can't compare The Da Vinci Code with The Name of the Rose; but last year the most sold film was the one that ended up winning the Oscar. And the most seen one was another Hollywood ultrahero.
If you don't give the chance to fill the niche (through education, campaigns, condom give aways, chastity belts and whatnot), then it would not spread that much.
As a CS student I have not studied much physics; but I'm a very curious guy so I could not resist to follow the link. Their requirements are: average level intelligence, basic maths and a PDF reader. Sounds like perfect for me... or too perfect? W. Blaine Dowler took his time to write in LaTeX, which automatically made me think it can be trusted - don't ask me why. But, on second thoughts, this doesn't sound right.
At back at school we were taught that physics has laws and mathematical models, which are an (simplified) generalisation of the empirical data. If there's no mathematical description, what am I going to learn? 3 years ago I heard about "Schroedinger's equation". I couldn't resist my curiosity and searched it in Wikipedia. Nice greek letters and strange symbols. The teacher told me it's result described an area where it was more probable to find an electron. Wikipedia said it means much more. So now I'm sceptical about this mathless physics: they are going to make a lot of unexplained statements, and in the end I wont get any practical results out of it, and anything they write will be so over simplified that it would have lost all its meaning, just like my teacher. I won't "know" quantum physics.
A few days ago slashdot published a very interesting article about that. The second link is what you are looking for.
The 'science' can not predict the next Hand of God. Besides, football is football, even the best team can be easily defeated. And there is no set of absolute data for each player and formation. If you play Winning Eleven you see it classifies and gives a quantity to each "ability" such as speed, stamina, aim, strength, etc. But in the real world the player can be shocked by some event (like missing a penalty kick), he can be under pressure, he could have partied all night long and be really tired. All of that has happened in world cups and is almost random. There's no mathematical model to predict the next Hand of God. You can't calculate the rivalries among the team's players, the "will" to play, the distraction of the vuvuzelas, and pure luck.
The model you link placed France third. But they are less than 16th. Chile is 34th but they are between 9th and 16th. It also relies heavily in FIFA's ranking, which everyone knows to be bullshit since it takes into account games up to 4 years old.
Other models take players as individuals and take the team for granted. If that was true, then you don't even have to think about it, Argentina has the best surnames (and we got owned 0-4). As we use to say: football statistics are like miniskirts, they give you a nice picture, but you don't know what it's hiding.
binarylarry, your UID tells me you are not new here. So I believe you know that here in Slashdot there are some users who comment on the article without actually reading it; and the rest of the users dislike their unfounded comments.
Well, your attitude is similar to those whose comments start with "I didn't RTFA but...". If you have read the literature on the subject, if you know what you are talking about, and if you are familiar with the articles that have been recently published; then it is your responsibility to prove them wrong, or at least to show the parts with which you do not agree. Now, if you have not read, and if you do not know, I ask you to open a new tab, google some papers, read them carefully, and only then come back here and tell us your opinion.
The problem is that in 99% of the cases in which the military becomes "enlightened" you end up with a fascist dictatorship.