"Thousands of people got a nasty e-mail this morning from Cisco"
I read the email, maybe I'm missing something but it didn't seem too nasty to me. Which begs the question, why would the submitter try to unfairly bias the reader who didn't follow the link against Cisco?
I am utterly speechless. It's not like our nation's infrastructure runs on the Internet or anything. Let's give Prince the benefit of the doubt and think about what he said. People are addicted to the connectivity. The Internet and all the "gadgets" will not go away anytime soon.
True, but that still doesn't make it right. The government should entertain all points of view. Plus they could, if it were unfiltered, monitor the connections for suspicious activity.
The 7th gen systems have been out for about 5 years, if the average shelf life of tech is 18 months, shouldn't they have released at least one more system by now or are the manufacturers getting complacent with the current systems?
Its funny that they think, I'm assuming, that not letting someone speak about it is helping them in any way. The more people who know about vulnerabilities the safer we are because while there will be more people working to exploit it, there are also more people working to patch it.
I'm glad someone is finally taking the high road and acting like an adult. Instead of making threats, he politely asked them to stop, and it seems it worked. The fact is, piracy IS illegal and the fight for piracy isn't about committing crimes, its about fighting racketeering groups like the RIAA. I hope other artists learn from this.
Notice how they use "extremist radical", words used to describe terrorists. This is becoming an inane and insane battle. The EFF and Public Knowledge, I'm assuming, at this point, are more than a little confused.
Even though they "keep and retain" those records, that's still data owned by the company, in this case Verizon. Don't they need a warrant or subpoena to look at that data? It's just like Google refusing to give out user data.
Seriously, you have to pay to watch thurs night football now, Super Bowl adds cost millions of dollars for a 30 second slot. What more do they want?! Where the hell do they get off trying squeeze even more money out of people who are already hurting? Just shut up and let us watch football.
The whole concept of a gaming phone is impractical. The games worth playing, imho, are both memory and processing power intensive. Furthermore, you need relatively decent graphics capability. To top it all off, playing a game on a cell phone screen would be next to impossible. Most games require you to be able to pick out details which you would be unable to see on a cell-phone sized screen.
> Exactly right. Bootleg Windows is the #1 competition to Linux. So if ya want to bring about "The Year of the Linux Desktop" helping Microsoft turn the screws on unlicensed installs is probably the most productive thing a non-coder can do. Especially outside the US.
I sincerely doubt that Linux will, in the near future, become mainstream like Windows. Linux is too difficult for the average computer user to use.
This wouldn't have become an issue if the budgeting committees had actually given NASA a budget to work with. Their current budget stands around 19 billion dollars. Now if that sounds like a lot to you, to put it in perspective, the DoD received over 3/4 of a trillion dollar for FY 2009.
http://www.federalbudget.com/
Not at all. We are currently replacing the F-22 with the F-35 Lightning II, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-35_Lightning_II [wikipedia.org]. Rebooting the F-22 would be a giant step back. Furthermore, the F-22 project was ended, in part, due to the fact that it had "old" technology on board. The Wikipedia article also talks about how it has lower cost stealth gear on board, making it less expensive to maintain and use than the F-22.
That's an excellent point. In a virtual world, the only qualities that matter, are, as you said girlintraining, the necessary talent along with a creative mind. I am assuming, correct me if I am wrong, that you would need Top Secret clearance to work on a project as sensitive as this. This would present a problem, especially if you are trying to recruit talent, aptly described above as anti-authoritarian.
The government's plan to create a cyber-warfare division is a good one that has been a long time coming; however, the flaw is that they placed this division in the armed forces. This division, in my opinion, should be a civilian division placed under the DoD or DHS. They should be given a lot of leeway in order to work which can not happen in a rigorous military environment. To work in that sort of environment would stifle any sort of creativity that the "hacker" sorely needs in order to perform well.
This also brought to mind a question that I have been discussing with some friends of mine. We are of the opinion that the next great war will be a cyber war. Considering that the vast majority of pretty much everything is run on some sort of network, that is our most vulnerable spot. It's not just us either, it's most of the developed world. I'm just interested in what the Slashdot community thinks about this.
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"Thousands of people got a nasty e-mail this morning from Cisco" I read the email, maybe I'm missing something but it didn't seem too nasty to me. Which begs the question, why would the submitter try to unfairly bias the reader who didn't follow the link against Cisco?
I am utterly speechless. It's not like our nation's infrastructure runs on the Internet or anything. Let's give Prince the benefit of the doubt and think about what he said. People are addicted to the connectivity. The Internet and all the "gadgets" will not go away anytime soon.
"He who gives up Liberty for Security deserves neither" - Benjamin Franklin
True, but that still doesn't make it right. The government should entertain all points of view. Plus they could, if it were unfiltered, monitor the connections for suspicious activity.
The 7th gen systems have been out for about 5 years, if the average shelf life of tech is 18 months, shouldn't they have released at least one more system by now or are the manufacturers getting complacent with the current systems?
Its funny that they think, I'm assuming, that not letting someone speak about it is helping them in any way. The more people who know about vulnerabilities the safer we are because while there will be more people working to exploit it, there are also more people working to patch it.
I'm glad someone is finally taking the high road and acting like an adult. Instead of making threats, he politely asked them to stop, and it seems it worked. The fact is, piracy IS illegal and the fight for piracy isn't about committing crimes, its about fighting racketeering groups like the RIAA. I hope other artists learn from this.
Notice how they use "extremist radical", words used to describe terrorists. This is becoming an inane and insane battle. The EFF and Public Knowledge, I'm assuming, at this point, are more than a little confused.
Has there been a full decryption of Plato's work? Or are these results preliminary?
Even though they "keep and retain" those records, that's still data owned by the company, in this case Verizon. Don't they need a warrant or subpoena to look at that data? It's just like Google refusing to give out user data.
Seriously, you have to pay to watch thurs night football now, Super Bowl adds cost millions of dollars for a 30 second slot. What more do they want?! Where the hell do they get off trying squeeze even more money out of people who are already hurting? Just shut up and let us watch football.
The whole concept of a gaming phone is impractical. The games worth playing, imho, are both memory and processing power intensive. Furthermore, you need relatively decent graphics capability. To top it all off, playing a game on a cell phone screen would be next to impossible. Most games require you to be able to pick out details which you would be unable to see on a cell-phone sized screen.
> Exactly right. Bootleg Windows is the #1 competition to Linux. So if ya want to bring about "The Year of the Linux Desktop" helping Microsoft turn the screws on unlicensed installs is probably the most productive thing a non-coder can do. Especially outside the US.
I sincerely doubt that Linux will, in the near future, become mainstream like Windows. Linux is too difficult for the average computer user to use.
This wouldn't have become an issue if the budgeting committees had actually given NASA a budget to work with. Their current budget stands around 19 billion dollars. Now if that sounds like a lot to you, to put it in perspective, the DoD received over 3/4 of a trillion dollar for FY 2009. http://www.federalbudget.com/
Not at all. We are currently replacing the F-22 with the F-35 Lightning II, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-35_Lightning_II [wikipedia.org]. Rebooting the F-22 would be a giant step back. Furthermore, the F-22 project was ended, in part, due to the fact that it had "old" technology on board. The Wikipedia article also talks about how it has lower cost stealth gear on board, making it less expensive to maintain and use than the F-22.
That's an excellent point. In a virtual world, the only qualities that matter, are, as you said girlintraining, the necessary talent along with a creative mind. I am assuming, correct me if I am wrong, that you would need Top Secret clearance to work on a project as sensitive as this. This would present a problem, especially if you are trying to recruit talent, aptly described above as anti-authoritarian. The government's plan to create a cyber-warfare division is a good one that has been a long time coming; however, the flaw is that they placed this division in the armed forces. This division, in my opinion, should be a civilian division placed under the DoD or DHS. They should be given a lot of leeway in order to work which can not happen in a rigorous military environment. To work in that sort of environment would stifle any sort of creativity that the "hacker" sorely needs in order to perform well. This also brought to mind a question that I have been discussing with some friends of mine. We are of the opinion that the next great war will be a cyber war. Considering that the vast majority of pretty much everything is run on some sort of network, that is our most vulnerable spot. It's not just us either, it's most of the developed world. I'm just interested in what the Slashdot community thinks about this.