``...with my flat 50 bucks a semester internet fee...''
Damn, thats cheap. I've got my standard $100 computer/internet fee for all the windoze boxes and dialup connection which I *don't* use plus a $250 lab fee just because I'm a CS major. With our crappy network we're lucky to get 5M/sec while on the network and 1k/sec through dialup.
``But some computer security experts downplayed the online dangers.''
"It's always a risk between the criminals and the good guys. So the better they become at hacking it, the better we'll become at making it stronger," said Stratton Sclavos, CEO of Verisign, an Internet securities firm.''
Great... how many "I didn't sign that" lawsuits are going to be neccessary before they realize that this whole e-commerce thing is a huge mistake.
If you really want something, buy it in person. The cost of traveling will be much, much less than the court costs of trying to getting yourself out of a forged deal.
``Transferring karma across accounts *will* be a problem.''
Perhaps it should be "spend 2 karma points to give 1." I've been thinking about it a bit and something this would definitely prevent extensive abuse while remaining "affordable."
I also like the idea another poster ; mentioned about the donor needing to be a good player with karma of at least +20.
How many times have you seen a post that really really deserved moderation but couldn't do a thing because you weren't privileged enough to be a moderator at the time? Many times I'm sure. How about this... in addition to the usual "randomly chosen" moderator stuff, for each story a user would be allowed up to three moderations. The catch, each of these would be at the cost of one karma point each. Why would this work?
You need to be logged in to moderate
You must have karma to give karma
It would actually give some type of value to karma
Honestly, the only way I can see to abuse such a system would be transferring karma across account, but why would anyone really need to do that?;-)
Over the past few releases I've been watching alot of my favorite applications (xv, bsd-games,...) disappear and a lot of others (vi, rcs,...) break. Because of this I've had to go back to older distribution CDs to get everything back to working condition. Now that they're cutting libraries, this will no longer be posible. Not to flame, but I am seriously considering switching distros for something a bit more reliable. Does anyone have suggestions for a decent distro that can provide a reliable server and robust workstation?
Even better, throw your message through a compression algorithm, like zip or gzip then hit it with PGP. It makes confirming whether or not a message has been "decoded" all that much harder.
Wow... it's nice to read a post from someone who actually knows what they're talking about. If I had some moderator points I'd bump you up.
Unfortunately there's a large flaw in that reasoning - a key does in fact need to be exchanged.   Each user's "r". Hence the name "Diffie Hellman Key Exchange Algorithm."
Interesting, because if a student needs to prove that he/she owns the CDs, they can simply borrow them from their friends and roommates. That's the the (only) advantage to the dormatory system.;-)
"The federal government is presently working with Congress to approve legislation increasing the number of H1B workers that can come to the U.S.--while simultaneously sending currently-employed workers home."
Ok... again, am I the only one that can't make sense out of that reasoning. If we already have workers here, who are already trained, know what they are doing and have proven their worth... why not let them stay??? Countries aren't sports teams who can just trade players at their every whim. These are people... most with careers and families.
What kind of crack is our government smoking??? Why must common sense be so scarce?
``Temporary staffing positions have tripled in the last decade, according to an MIT/CDI study, which suggests IT workpractices are mainstreaming, spreading well beyond Silicon Valley.''
Is it just me or does anyone else fail to see the correlation here? This is like saying ``rabbits eat carrots therefore nanotube technology is booming.''
Personally I think it's kinda obvious that IT positions are spreading beyond the Silicon Valley. It's called the ``internet''. Perhaps more temporary staffing positions are being used because more and more postions are being opened up and there's not enough qualified people to fill them. Either that or the companies are to cheap to pay qualified people. In either case we're just watching our field evolve.
IMHO, it would be interesting to hop from job to job . . . it would keep things interesting. That is, as long as there are jobs to go to. Could be for the better, could be for the worse. Only time will tell.
Last time ActiveX had a major security flaw (I think it was a year or two ago) there was a clear cut way of disabling the ActiveX "feature." I wish I remember exactly how this was done but its been many moons since I've even touched Windoze.
I honestly don't know if this has changed since W2K came but the option was in one of the main IE control panels.
``Finally, I can start.. err.. learning. (goes and sits in stupid corner..)''
No biggie. Everyone's gotta start sometime. Hell, I'm learning new languages every day and I've been hacking for years.
Anyway, good luck. Just remember to always check your input!!! Especially with languages like Perl that have a knack of making your hard drive world readable. (yeah, I've done it... goes and sits next to ya in the stupid corner...);-)
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``...with my flat 50 bucks a semester internet fee...''
Damn, thats cheap. I've got my standard $100 computer/internet fee for all the windoze boxes and dialup connection which I *don't* use plus a $250 lab fee just because I'm a CS major. With our crappy network we're lucky to get 5M/sec while on the network and 1k/sec through dialup.
"I would have replied, but I was knocked cold by the elite-ness beams given off by your userid."
;-)
Heh, thanks I think. It used to be cool till slashdot started filtering "special" characters in their scripts. (Try clicking on my User Info)
Don't see anything, lol... neither do I.
"Three years without a remote hole in the default install"
The site has said that for months. Why did that submission get posted?
I'm having a problem w/ my account, just seeing if I can still post.
- Bruce Shneier makes a lot of good points -
``But some computer security experts downplayed the online dangers.''
"It's always a risk between the criminals and the good guys. So the better they become at hacking it, the better we'll become at making it stronger," said Stratton Sclavos, CEO of Verisign, an Internet securities firm.''
Great... how many "I didn't sign that" lawsuits are going to be neccessary before they realize that this whole e-commerce thing is a huge mistake.
If you really want something, buy it in person. The cost of traveling will be much, much less than the court costs of trying to getting yourself out of a forged deal.
If so, that's the only drug I have ever used. I know many, many other geeks that would say the same.
;-)
P.S.: Try Eating a bag of M&M's (one of those big ones) with a 2 liter of Mountain Dew. Legal speed. Great for those all night coding sessions!!!
``Transferring karma across accounts *will* be a problem.''
Perhaps it should be "spend 2 karma points to give 1." I've been thinking about it a bit and something this would definitely prevent extensive abuse while remaining "affordable."
I also like the idea another poster ; mentioned about the donor needing to be a good player with karma of at least +20.
You need to be logged in to moderate
You must have karma to give karma
It would actually give some type of value to karma
;-)
Honestly, the only way I can see to abuse such a system would be transferring karma across account, but why would anyone really need to do that?
Over the past few releases I've been watching alot of my favorite applications (xv, bsd-games, ...) disappear and a lot of others (vi, rcs, ...) break. Because of this I've had to go back to older distribution CDs to get everything back to working condition. Now that they're cutting libraries, this will no longer be posible. Not to flame, but I am seriously considering switching distros for something a bit more reliable. Does anyone have suggestions for a decent distro that can provide a reliable server and robust workstation?
I'm open to any linux or bsd suggestion.
Network Security Library
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
SecurityFocus
You can find everything you want to know (and more) at these sites.
Since the site has been slashdotted, can someone enlighten us on what Kylix is? Thank you.
BTW... I think Libya is LY, but I'm not 100% sure.
Algeria : DZ
Angola : AO
Benin : BJ
Botswana : BW
Burkina Faso : BF
Burundi : BI
Cameroon : CM
Canary Islands : ??
Cape Verde : CV
Central African Republic : CF
Chad : TD
Comoros : KM
Congo Democratic Republic (Formerly Zaire) : CD
Congo Republic : CG
Cote d Ivoire (Ivory Coast): CI
Djibouti : DJ
Egypt : EG
Equatorial Guinea : GQ
Eritrea : ER
Ethiopia : ET
Gabon : GA
Gambia : GM
Ghana : GH
Guinea : GN
Guinea-Bissau : GW
Kenya : KE
Lesotho : LS
Liberia : LR
Libya : ??
Madagascar : MG
Malawi : MW
Mali : ML
Mauritania : MR
Mauritius : MU
Morocco : MA
Mozambique : MZ
Namibia : NA
Niger : NE
Reunion : RE
Rwanda : RW
Sao Tome and Principe : ST
Senegal : SN
Seychelles : SC
Sierra Leone : SL
Somalia : SO
South Africa : ZA
Sudan : SD
Swaziland : SZ
Tanzania : TZ
Togo : TG
Tunisia : TN
Uganda : UG
Western Sahara : EG
Zambia : ZM
Zimbabwe : ZW
Whew!!! Looks like there's quite a few, no?
Even better, throw your message through a compression algorithm, like zip or gzip then hit it with PGP. It makes confirming whether or not a message has been "decoded" all that much harder.
Each user's "r".
Whoops... meant "y" there. Time to get a new spell-checker. %-)
Wow... it's nice to read a post from someone who actually knows what they're talking about. If I had some moderator points I'd bump you up.
;-)
Unfortunately there's a large flaw in that reasoning - a key does in fact need to be exchanged.   Each user's "r". Hence the name "Diffie Hellman Key Exchange Algorithm."
Time to hit those cryptography books again.
Interesting, because if a student needs to prove that he/she owns the CDs, they can simply borrow them from their friends and roommates. That's the the (only) advantage to the dormatory system. ;-)
"The federal government is presently working with Congress to approve legislation increasing the number of H1B workers that can come to the U.S.--while simultaneously sending currently-employed workers home."
Ok... again, am I the only one that can't make sense out of that reasoning. If we already have workers here, who are already trained, know what they are doing and have proven their worth... why not let them stay??? Countries aren't sports teams who can just trade players at their every whim. These are people... most with careers and families.
What kind of crack is our government smoking??? Why must common sense be so scarce?
``e-this, e-that, i-this, i-that, me-commerce . . .''
;-)
Hmmm . . . maybe we should start a new one . . .
f-
f-this, f-that, f-commerce . . . it has a nice ring to it.
``Temporary staffing positions have tripled in the last decade, according to an MIT/CDI study, which suggests IT workpractices are mainstreaming, spreading well beyond Silicon Valley.''
Is it just me or does anyone else fail to see the correlation here? This is like saying ``rabbits eat carrots therefore nanotube technology is booming.''
Personally I think it's kinda obvious that IT positions are spreading beyond the Silicon Valley. It's called the ``internet''. Perhaps more temporary staffing positions are being used because more and more postions are being opened up and there's not enough qualified people to fill them. Either that or the companies are to cheap to pay qualified people. In either case we're just watching our field evolve.
IMHO, it would be interesting to hop from job to job . . . it would keep things interesting. That is, as long as there are jobs to go to. Could be for the better, could be for the worse. Only time will tell.
Last time ActiveX had a major security flaw (I think it was a year or two ago) there was a clear cut way of disabling the ActiveX "feature." I wish I remember exactly how this was done but its been many moons since I've even touched Windoze.
I honestly don't know if this has changed since W2K came but the option was in one of the main IE control panels.
Thanx! :-)
``Finally, I can start.. err.. learning. (goes and sits in stupid corner..)''
... goes and sits next to ya in the stupid corner...) ;-)
No biggie. Everyone's gotta start sometime. Hell, I'm learning new languages every day and I've been hacking for years.
Anyway, good luck. Just remember to always check your input!!! Especially with languages like Perl that have a knack of making your hard drive world readable. (yeah, I've done it
Wow... I didn't even know python was still around. Thanks! Really... I'm on a "learn new languages" kick so I'm gonna seriously check it out. :-)
Hopefully it'll help speed up certain unnamed (*cough* /. ) perl generated sites. ;-)