you sure are right about that. but that has nothing to do with what I said.
there is no law that says you have to secure your network, or explicitly keep it insecure. my point is, just because a DHCP server hands out an address, doesn't mean it's explicit permission to use that network, for whatever resource.
your theory rides on a reasonable expectation that they are AWARE that you asked, and that they are AWARE that you are given an address.
what you fail to see is that it's NOT easy to deny people access to the radio waves an access point uses. in fact...read some security papers...it's quite trivial. forget about DHCP as explicit permission to cross a network boundary. an ISP allows you to send mail, but they can shut you down for spamming, against their 'terms of service'.
sure, i can hand out a DHCP address to you while you're in your car in front of my house, but MY "terms of service" is to allow you to do that just to test out my dhcpd server, NOT to surf. violate my terms of service, and i get to throw a tomato at your car.
you didn't read my "terms of service" it's on a post-it on my front door, written in latin. shame on you for not reading it.
if it hasn't already, the ability for wireless access point and card manufacturers can further harden (at least within the 802.11x spec) their default configs.
a law like this can't do any harm, besides the harm that has been done (or is happening) already. it sounds like to me that this is a good thing. raising awareness around network security is always a good thing.
*well, except when it fosters more fear than actual security
I left a permanent position when the bubble burst to become a contractor and I am finding work just fine, and less headaches trying to park since people left.
For those people who think they have an idea what Silicon Valley (and San Francisco) is like "post-bubble":
It's just recently that you really start to see "for rent" signs in San Francisco, in the way you see it in *normal* cities, like Boston or New York. It's not a ghosttown, it's just normal.
There are plenty of VCs who have money. They're just not spending it so crazily. Not everyone is crying 'poor me'. Not everyone blew all their money here. The media makes it out as if there are 25 year old millionaires sitting in the gutter outside a bar with a suit on, homeless and whining. Far from it. It's not like the area is Flint, Michigan or anything.
Maybe my experience is the exception. Sure, work is not crashing on my door, but I have had thus far an ok time finding work in the area of expertise I had during the bubble.
i'd agree. but finding a writing staff like salon's in phoenix would be like finding high-fashion marketing people in Omaha.
i would still say san francisco was the best choice they could have made. where they are located is not the problem, or a mistake they made. in fact, their rent is actually quite comparable to many cities. it's the lack of advertising dollars that put them in the hole to begin with, and they have made not only a good effort in trying to climb out, but also showing a great and loyal audience. (47 thousand paying subscribers is nothing to sneeze at)
Having taken MANY classes where the average on all exams never topped the 50s, I think that this is a "normal" disparity in grading between engineering and liberal arts. I once got a 17 on an exam. It was a B, due to the curve.
On the whole, I think that the "traditional" engineering (i.e. not CS) curriculums need to change, or at least the exam techniques. Having 3 questions, open-book, partial credit exams does not enforce learning. It enforces getting good at that exam type.
Having worked at a highly-trafficked, independent online magazine (that is still in existence) I can say that yes, I'm sure that there is a need for this sort of CMS/collaboration tool.
Not to say that it hasn't been done before. Many CMSs can be made to manage tasks, etc. if they haven't already.
Some people complain about the amount of content management systems. I say bring 'em on! I want to see the differences for my own eyes of Vignette, Interwoven, Zope, Bricolage, OpenACS, OpenCMS, and YES, even your php suite of tools.
Managing content is getting easier and easier these days. But running a publishing process is much more than helping computer-dumb writers publishing their stories to a HTML template. It's assigning stories, moving revisions from each step in the publishing process: legal, art, editor's desks, fact-checking, etc.
Whether it's for a university or Time magazine, I think that having CMS tools address these traditional publishing processes is a good idea.
and yes, I think you *SHOULD* open-source it!
thanks, and please ignore the jerks
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i appreciate postings like this, but as usual, any good discussion about the problem is zero on slashdot.
every time there is a mention of linux or xBSD or whatever OS having a problem, people who don't use it come out of the woodwork to say "LOOK! It sucks! It's broken! HaHaHa! We Win!".
how old are you people ? (mentally?) no wonder why other tech-based sites have no respect for slashdot discussions.
yes, and the MILLIONS of fans they have can attest to whatever they sound like to you, it must be working. all that and not barely a penny spent on radiotime, marketing, videos, or promotion.
if phish is a 'mediocre college band' then that must be my genre.
i don't know about that. i get the feeling that every generation says that innovation is starting to slow down.
there are plenty of things that haven't been invented/perfected because of physical limitations.
for example: supersonic passenger air service. it's there, but not for the average joe and mary.
another example: wireless/satellite internet access, anywhere in the world. not there yet not because of limitations on science or technology, but because of limitations of innovations in business, right ?
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1 - how much time do you put into making trippy background images, anyway ? hippy yourself.
2 - i'm from Boston.
3 - reading. it's fundamental. try it. i'll pose the question one more time. if you read it slow, then maybe you'll have a chance to understand it:
where do you see that The Well claims to be the first online community ? who are you arguing that with ?
p.s. even if i was a Californian, i'd be happy not to be from Arizona, with their "vortexes" and "ufo communities"
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yeah, we got it. it wasn't the first. who is saying it was ?
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cool! thanks for that link to google. you're so clever, telling me to have fun and all that.
anyway, i'm not sure either of us can find the stats on what online community has more of those things, so i guess you got me there. if i'm wrong about that, and you *do* have those stats, please send 'em on.
again, my original point was that no one claims it was either unique, or the first. not in any book that i've read about it. and believe me, i'd know. i used to work there.
so where did you read that The Well *does* claim to be the first ? or unique ? it's not in Howard's book. as before, i could be wrong and there is a claim somewhere of this. if there is, let me know.
they were unique and ground-breaking because....
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...they *were* vocal about it. it's an online community, not a scientific discovery.
the main point that people make about The Well is that they *did* speak strongly, whiners or not...not whether they are the actual FIRST group to do it. they are still one of the largest and long-lasting online communities, with a history of "real-world" events that were spun from online discussion. moreso than any other. please correct me if you know of any other online community having more:
marriages, pregnancies, screenplays, books of fiction, business plans, political changes, etc.
no one has made any claims that the Well was an "earth-shattering contribution"...that's YOUR perception, because it has been written about a million times.
your comment might as well be about Coca-cola, and how ubiquitous it is, yet it wasn't the first soft drink of its kind. it may not be, but to date, it's been seen as the most sucessful.
it's NOT driving people away. they have 45,000 paying subscribers. even then, tho, they have trouble keeping afloat. if they go down, it's not because people don't want to read them.
do you have a suggestiong for a more balanced (closer to center) online magazine that isn't backed by a big corporation ? if you do, then i might agree with you.
of course....but it's not *OWNED* by a megacorporation, like AOL/TW or Microsoft.
show me where there is an independently run online publication with a full staff and experienced journalists whose bills are being paid by individual subscribers, and i'll agree with you.
back in 1999, 2 recruiting agencies had my resume when I moved out to the bay area. they each had different contacts/jobs, and I figured that they wouldn't send my resume anywhere without my knowing it, seeing how I asked/warned/screamed that wish to them almost everyday. but it still made no difference. I was told by a potential employer that I had been represented by 2 recruiters, and that they would no longer consider me a candidate, although I was basically overqualified (it was for a sysadmin position). I was told that the HR dept didn't want to get into a pissing contest between the recruiters, arguing who got my resume there first, who had consent to send it, etc.
I think this happens all the time, and all I could do was scream at the top of my lungs and threaten the recruiter who sent it without my knowledge.
formerly known as many different things....it's on sourceforge. it is an industrial strength CMS open source project that (in many different implementations) runs the content management for some large scale sites.
Postgres/Mason/mod_perl/lots of other stuff...check it out. the developers working on it know what they are doing. stable as all get-out and a pretty intuitive UI, in my opinion.
i know little to nothing about freebsd memory management, so i can't comment there...but IMHO Irix was a breeze to tune for both CPU and memory intensive applications. the machines i worked on did HUGE finite element analysis (dyna3d, hypermesh, etc) and after tinkering a little with kernel parameters (low/high water marks, etc) i was able to squeeze a lot more performance out of the boxes.
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you sure are right about that.
but that has nothing to do with what I said.
there is no law that says you have to secure your network, or explicitly keep it insecure. my point is, just because a DHCP server hands out an address, doesn't mean it's explicit permission to use that network, for whatever resource.
it's an assumption that is wrong.
your theory rides on a reasonable expectation that they are AWARE that you asked, and that they are AWARE that you are given an address.
what you fail to see is that it's NOT easy to deny people access to the radio waves an access point uses. in fact...read some security papers...it's quite trivial. forget about DHCP as explicit permission to cross a network boundary. an ISP allows you to send mail, but they can shut you down for spamming, against their 'terms of service'.
sure, i can hand out a DHCP address to you while you're in your car in front of my house, but MY "terms of service" is to allow you to do that just to test out my dhcpd server, NOT to surf. violate my terms of service, and i get to throw a tomato at your car.
you didn't read my "terms of service" it's on a post-it on my front door, written in latin. shame on you for not reading it.
if it hasn't already, the ability for wireless access point and card manufacturers can further harden (at least within the 802.11x spec) their default configs.
a law like this can't do any harm, besides the harm that has been done (or is happening) already. it sounds like to me that this is a good thing. raising awareness around network security is always a good thing.
*well, except when it fosters more fear than actual security
I left a permanent position when the bubble burst to become a contractor and I am finding work just fine, and less headaches trying to park since people left.
For those people who think they have an idea what Silicon Valley (and San Francisco) is like "post-bubble":
It's just recently that you really start to see "for rent" signs in San Francisco, in the way you see it in *normal* cities, like Boston or New York. It's not a ghosttown, it's just normal.
There are plenty of VCs who have money. They're just not spending it so crazily. Not everyone is crying 'poor me'. Not everyone blew all their money here. The media makes it out as if there are 25 year old millionaires sitting in the gutter outside a bar with a suit on, homeless and whining. Far from it. It's not like the area is Flint, Michigan or anything.
Maybe my experience is the exception. Sure, work is not crashing on my door, but I have had thus far an ok time finding work in the area of expertise I had during the bubble.
i'd agree. but finding a writing staff like salon's in phoenix would be like finding high-fashion marketing people in Omaha.
i would still say san francisco was the best choice they could have made. where they are located is not the problem, or a mistake they made. in fact, their rent is actually quite comparable to many cities. it's the lack of advertising dollars that put them in the hole to begin with, and they have made not only a good effort in trying to climb out, but also showing a great and loyal audience. (47 thousand paying subscribers is nothing to sneeze at)
if i had a dime every time salon almost dies...and then pulls through, i'd be loaded.
personally, i hope they pull through.
Having taken MANY classes where the average on all exams never topped the 50s, I think that this is a "normal" disparity in grading between engineering and liberal arts. I once got a 17 on an exam. It was a B, due to the curve.
On the whole, I think that the "traditional" engineering (i.e. not CS) curriculums need to change, or at least the exam techniques. Having 3 questions, open-book, partial credit exams does not enforce learning. It enforces getting good at that exam type.
Having worked at a highly-trafficked, independent online magazine (that is still in existence) I can say that yes, I'm sure that there is a need for this sort of CMS/collaboration tool.
Not to say that it hasn't been done before. Many CMSs can be made to manage tasks, etc. if they haven't already.
Some people complain about the amount of content management systems. I say bring 'em on! I want to see the differences for my own eyes of Vignette, Interwoven, Zope, Bricolage, OpenACS, OpenCMS, and YES, even your php suite of tools.
Managing content is getting easier and easier these days. But running a publishing process is much more than helping computer-dumb writers publishing their stories to a HTML template. It's assigning stories, moving revisions from each step in the publishing process: legal, art, editor's desks, fact-checking, etc.
Whether it's for a university or Time magazine, I think that having CMS tools address these traditional publishing processes is a good idea.
and yes, I think you *SHOULD* open-source it!
i appreciate postings like this, but as usual, any good discussion about the problem is zero on slashdot.
every time there is a mention of linux or xBSD or whatever OS having a problem, people who don't use it come out of the woodwork to say "LOOK! It sucks! It's broken! HaHaHa! We Win!".
how old are you people ? (mentally?)
no wonder why other tech-based sites have no respect for slashdot discussions.
yes, and the MILLIONS of fans they have can attest to whatever they sound like to you, it must be working.
all that and not barely a penny spent on radiotime, marketing, videos, or promotion.
if phish is a 'mediocre college band' then that must be my genre.
i don't know about that. i get the feeling that every generation says that innovation is starting to slow down.
/perfected because of physical limitations.
there are plenty of things that haven't been invented
for example: supersonic passenger air service. it's there, but not for the average joe and mary.
another example: wireless/satellite internet access, anywhere in the world. not there yet not because of limitations on science or technology, but because of limitations of innovations in business, right ?
1 - how much time do you put into making trippy background images, anyway ? hippy yourself.
2 - i'm from Boston.
3 - reading. it's fundamental. try it. i'll pose the question one more time. if you read it slow, then maybe you'll have a chance to understand it:
where do you see that The Well claims to be the first online community ? who are you arguing that with ?
p.s. even if i was a Californian, i'd be happy not to be from Arizona, with their "vortexes" and "ufo communities"
yeah, we got it. it wasn't the first. who is saying it was ?
cool! thanks for that link to google. you're so clever, telling me to have fun and all that.
anyway, i'm not sure either of us can find the stats on what online community has more of those things, so i guess you got me there. if i'm wrong about that, and you *do* have those stats, please send 'em on.
again, my original point was that no one claims it was either unique, or the first. not in any book that i've read about it. and believe me, i'd know. i used to work there.
so where did you read that The Well *does* claim to be the first ? or unique ? it's not in Howard's book. as before, i could be wrong and there is a claim somewhere of this. if there is, let me know.
...they *were* vocal about it. it's an online community, not a scientific discovery.
the main point that people make about The Well is that they *did* speak strongly, whiners or not...not whether they are the actual FIRST group to do it. they are still one of the largest and long-lasting online communities, with a history of "real-world" events that were spun from online discussion. moreso than any other. please correct me if you know of any other online community having more:
marriages, pregnancies, screenplays, books of fiction, business plans, political changes, etc.
no one has made any claims that the Well was an "earth-shattering contribution"...that's YOUR perception, because it has been written about a million times.
your comment might as well be about Coca-cola, and how ubiquitous it is, yet it wasn't the first soft drink of its kind. it may not be, but to date, it's been seen as the most sucessful.
ah....i meant an online news/opinion magazine, not one with just product reviews.
it's NOT driving people away. they have 45,000 paying subscribers. even then, tho, they have trouble keeping afloat. if they go down, it's not because people don't want to read them.
do you have a suggestiong for a more balanced (closer to center) online magazine that isn't backed by a big corporation ? if you do, then i might agree with you.
of course....but it's not *OWNED* by a megacorporation, like AOL/TW or Microsoft.
show me where there is an independently run online publication with a full staff and experienced journalists whose bills are being paid by individual subscribers, and i'll agree with you.
hmmm. could you suggest a source of very balanced impartial journalism ? or better, one that's not owned by a large megacorporation ?
15 minutes ? try 7 YEARS. they've been around since 96.
back in 1999, 2 recruiting agencies had my resume when I moved out to the bay area. they each had different contacts/jobs, and I figured that they wouldn't send my resume anywhere without my knowing it, seeing how I asked/warned/screamed that wish to them almost everyday. but it still made no difference. I was told by a potential employer that I had been represented by 2 recruiters, and that they would no longer consider me a candidate, although I was basically overqualified (it was for a sysadmin position). I was told that the HR dept didn't want to get into a pissing contest between the recruiters, arguing who got my resume there first, who had consent to send it, etc.
I think this happens all the time, and all I could do was scream at the top of my lungs and threaten the recruiter who sent it without my knowledge.
sorta funny that there's nothing listed below "not vulnerable"...
t em .pl?section=discussion&id=4371
http://online.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/vulns-i
try this, but it's strengths come thru when it's used with a site that is dynamic (a version of this runs salon.com's content management)
http://bricolage.thepirtgroup.com/
formerly known as many different things....it's on sourceforge. it is an industrial strength CMS open source project that (in many different implementations) runs the content management for some large scale sites.
Postgres/Mason/mod_perl/lots of other stuff...check it out. the developers working on it know what they are doing. stable as all get-out and a pretty intuitive UI, in my opinion.
i know little to nothing about freebsd memory management, so i can't comment there...but IMHO Irix was a breeze to tune for both CPU and memory intensive applications. the machines i worked on did HUGE finite element analysis (dyna3d, hypermesh, etc) and after tinkering a little with kernel parameters (low/high water marks, etc) i was able to squeeze a lot more performance out of the boxes.