KeePass is really the best tool for handling passwords. Open source, crypted database, easy to use (CTRL+B for username to clipboard, CTRL+C for password), contains grouping and generates safe different passwords for every site. It's actually a great example of a well done open source project.
Using an online service for something like your passwords is just incredibly stupid. It's a really well known place to hack for someone who wants lots of passwords. Backup your encrypted password container to your own place, but never something like this.
Klik & Play was awesome. Granted I was a kid then, but that along with SimCity and other great games got me interested in programming. The leap to start programming games with C/C++ and so on is huge, especially for a kid. But I guess these same people who used those tools to get interested in programming now want to remove it from new beginners, because they think everyone should immediately read several 1000's pages books about writing oh-so-perfectly optimized assembly and C/C++ code before they even get to see the fun in it.
See GeoCities regarding websites.... or AOL regarding the internet, or VB for programming.
Which all are old things from era when things were different. GeoCities is now replaced with Facebook and blogs, AOL is 20 years old and well, what's so truly terrible about VB? Yeah, lots of noobs used it back in the day. But you have to start somewhere. Besides, it's really powerful as Office macro language, when used correctly. There is no need for everyone to program in assembly, most of the things can be done in simpler languages.
And regarding GeoCities.. Aren't you actually trying to say there that people should be using HTML instead of the newer, easy-to-use interfaces like Facebook which aren't so ugly when created by casual people?
Personally I always found Delphi much more nicer to use because of the great visual designer. Since that is just replacing WinAPI (or equivalent) calls, why not use it for larger part of the project too?
If you really need to go deep down, then you do it. Use the correct tool for the job.
some of us no longer see the world as human beings have for thousands of years and simply accept whatever our gadgets show us
And how did the human beings see the world before? Yes, only the area they lived on. The culture, and the religion. They heard and saw what dictators, politicians and religious persons told them. It was a very far off from the reality and it still shows today with religion. I rather hear things from everyday people. Theres a lot of information and knowledge that would never come out of "official" channels. Or with todays technology I can travel the world myself and see those things. Yes, some people will never use that opportunity. But at least now it's possible for everyone and everyone can make their own decisions instead of some religion telling you what to do.
Yes, I've traveled to Asia and even had sex with shemales there. I'm thinking of marrying an asian woman, which seems to be a problem for the religious types in my family tree but not for anyone else. And that would had been completely out of possibility in communitys where religion tells you it's "immoral" to have sex before marriage, or hell, make all of their women wear clothes that can't even show their faces. Gadgets, internet and the technology in general has allowed me too see different parts of the world myself, and hear things from a lot of different kinds of people. It has also opened my mind and made me question the stupidity that religion is and like this article tries to imply, controlling information so that only a few persons can express their opinion.
The point is, most people didn't think on their before either. They followed what someone else in power told them - be that their parents, religion or their country. Now there's at least the possibility to choose.
Yeah, I was thinking the same.. Why the hell would you need to run firewall for a HTTP server? Clearly something like Sony isn't running their web servers on their internal infrastructure, and the HTTP server needs access to DB server anyway. You can't just firewall it off.
And also
reported in an open forum monitored by Sony employees
Why the hell they only posted it on a forum, made assumptions that Sony employees monitor and didn't actually report directly to Sony, if there was something actually wrong?
Well, the good thing about ATM's is that theres lots of them. Going to bank just to get money would be much more work, and I live in a big city. It's even more work for someone not living in a city.
By the by, lying by omission is still lying, and pretending innocence is morally corrupt. What does that say about the company that employs you to write this stuff?
No one is employing me. I employ myself. And what I've wrote is just my own experience with several mobile programming languages.
Well, for example, have you ever tried to program for Symbian? It *so much* pain in the ass. I transferred directly from that. Just making project and getting everything so easily (both debugging and actually stuff running) was so easy. You might not like WP7, but I had to go thru mobile programming in the early 2000's. And it was *not* nice. What WP7 and Apple offers now is 1000x better than it was.. just ask any mobile programmer. If they still have their brains working:D
Sorry to burst your bubble, but no. I personally choose the program I like for the job. Open source, closed source, that doesn't matter. I would choose open source if that was better for the job.
But thinking everyone who says any good about Microsoft or any other big companies is ridiculous here on slashdot. I can't just but think its some basement dwellers who have no experience in real work.. wrong? Yeah, you are too. Just see how real stuff works.
This one is again one of those overhyped slashdot summaries..
If you read the actual story, you'd see that that it is fault of Samsung and Focus. AND even they tell its because the hardware doesn't work good with them. Just yesterday we had a story on how Apple fucks up old iPhones and now we have a story on how new OS updates aren't delivered to incompatible phones? Seriously, pick which one is good. Cripling your old phone with too heavy features or not providing updates.
What is great about WP7 is its support for developers. You really cant just go wrong with that. Microsoft has always been the number one in giving developer support. From Visual Studio to C# and WP7 API. Combine this with Nokia's great hardware and I think they're going to get great support this coming year. I get the M$ hate, but just check it - it's great thing. So much better than Android.
This is beside the fact that its not really common to expect any updates at all from your mobile phone manufacturer. Buy the phone on the merits you get, not some updates. That is common sense.
What's so hard about Facebook privacy settings? I find them really easy and understandable. Preview your profile as specific person makes it even easier to change it exactly how you want it.
I don't own an iPhone ("old" HTC Touch HD), but who really expects to get updates for their phones endlessly? It's always been the case that you buy a phone on the merits it has then. If it gets any major updates at all thats a huge bonus. It's the same with every phone manufacturer and has always been.
.. and that is the problem. Instead of that bullshit flame wars between distros, why not just concentrate on making the whole system better for user. Imagine how childish it would be if Microsoft and Apple did that.
Well what would you think if the government or any other people would mess with your computer without your consent? What if they decided "utorrent.exe" was harmful and decided to remove it without asking you?
Only one part of EC2 was down. If you have a mission critical system, you use many locations. For example Netflix was unaffected because they didn't rely on just one EC2 location.
It's just the fact that now a days certain slashdot stories always have the same bullshit on them.
Cloud services ->
"Useless"
"It's just a bunch of dedicated servers!"
"Stupid buzzwords. And fuck you, CEO, for telling me where you want your company to host our stuff"
Piracy ->
"Piracy is looting on the seas, idiots!"
"Information wants to be free!!"
"This might have DRM and by principle, even if it causes no trouble, I feel obligated to steal the game"
"But copying is not stealing!!"
3D glasses ->
"Scam! I cant touch things!"
"It doesn't work for me so it doesn't work for anyone"
"Make quality stories and don't play with technology. By the way cant we just go back to silent movies where men make funny faces and piano music plays?"
Malware stories ->
"It's Microsoft's fault! This would never happen with linux!"
Facebook ->
"If I use Facebook I use fake name. In fact, even in real life my friends don't actually know who I am. That's because I want to be secure"
"What is this interaction with other people?"
"Why can't people just order their own dedicated server and host their homepages themself?"
and so on.. At some point, it gets really tiresome.
To give a better example what I mean by integrated programming. Normally you'd be making a client-server model and everything that comes with - maybe use of different programming language for server, input handling and data exchanging with error processing and data validation, all the backend stuff threaded stuff so that the server can handle lots of clients and is capable of handling lag etc..
Now, for example, Azure allows you to code those parts directly in your project. If you were making your game with C#, you'd be programming the server infrastructure in the same code. The cloud provider, in this case Microsoft, has done all the underlying parts for you. And if your server gets more players, the cloud service dynamically allocates more resources for you. You don't need to handle any of that boring stuff - you just code your game.
Why can't games be hosted with the cloud services? I know at least Zynga partly uses Amazon's hosting. Minecraft and a lot of other games use Amazon's CDN for delivering updates and game files.
If I were running a web based online game, or something that interacts with other players even if the client is local, I would seriously consider cloud hosting. Microsoft's Azure actually has great deal of things integrated, so if you were making a game client you could use the azure hosting directly. Yeah, you're depending on someone else keep it up. That's life, it's how things are - you always have to depend on some one else. The computing scalability and bandwidth might well be worth it and it's a lot cheaper to rely on a company who's primary job is to keep the hosting running than do to it yourself. And then there are the things I mentioned, like integrated programming and so on.
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KeePass password container is encrypted itself, so that shouldn't be a problem.
KeePass is really the best tool for handling passwords. Open source, crypted database, easy to use (CTRL+B for username to clipboard, CTRL+C for password), contains grouping and generates safe different passwords for every site. It's actually a great example of a well done open source project.
Using an online service for something like your passwords is just incredibly stupid. It's a really well known place to hack for someone who wants lots of passwords. Backup your encrypted password container to your own place, but never something like this.
Klik & Play was awesome. Granted I was a kid then, but that along with SimCity and other great games got me interested in programming. The leap to start programming games with C/C++ and so on is huge, especially for a kid. But I guess these same people who used those tools to get interested in programming now want to remove it from new beginners, because they think everyone should immediately read several 1000's pages books about writing oh-so-perfectly optimized assembly and C/C++ code before they even get to see the fun in it.
See GeoCities regarding websites.... or AOL regarding the internet, or VB for programming.
Which all are old things from era when things were different. GeoCities is now replaced with Facebook and blogs, AOL is 20 years old and well, what's so truly terrible about VB? Yeah, lots of noobs used it back in the day. But you have to start somewhere. Besides, it's really powerful as Office macro language, when used correctly. There is no need for everyone to program in assembly, most of the things can be done in simpler languages.
And regarding GeoCities.. Aren't you actually trying to say there that people should be using HTML instead of the newer, easy-to-use interfaces like Facebook which aren't so ugly when created by casual people?
Personally I always found Delphi much more nicer to use because of the great visual designer. Since that is just replacing WinAPI (or equivalent) calls, why not use it for larger part of the project too?
If you really need to go deep down, then you do it. Use the correct tool for the job.
some of us no longer see the world as human beings have for thousands of years and simply accept whatever our gadgets show us
And how did the human beings see the world before? Yes, only the area they lived on. The culture, and the religion. They heard and saw what dictators, politicians and religious persons told them. It was a very far off from the reality and it still shows today with religion. I rather hear things from everyday people. Theres a lot of information and knowledge that would never come out of "official" channels. Or with todays technology I can travel the world myself and see those things. Yes, some people will never use that opportunity. But at least now it's possible for everyone and everyone can make their own decisions instead of some religion telling you what to do.
Yes, I've traveled to Asia and even had sex with shemales there. I'm thinking of marrying an asian woman, which seems to be a problem for the religious types in my family tree but not for anyone else. And that would had been completely out of possibility in communitys where religion tells you it's "immoral" to have sex before marriage, or hell, make all of their women wear clothes that can't even show their faces. Gadgets, internet and the technology in general has allowed me too see different parts of the world myself, and hear things from a lot of different kinds of people. It has also opened my mind and made me question the stupidity that religion is and like this article tries to imply, controlling information so that only a few persons can express their opinion.
The point is, most people didn't think on their before either. They followed what someone else in power told them - be that their parents, religion or their country. Now there's at least the possibility to choose.
But isn't analysis, installation and maintenance what makes open source companies work?
reported in an open forum monitored by Sony employees
Why the hell they only posted it on a forum, made assumptions that Sony employees monitor and didn't actually report directly to Sony, if there was something actually wrong?
Well, the good thing about ATM's is that theres lots of them. Going to bank just to get money would be much more work, and I live in a big city. It's even more work for someone not living in a city.
And what about games? There's really no sense using anything else than Windows for gaming (well maybe consoles, but all that mouse & keyboard thing)
By the by, lying by omission is still lying, and pretending innocence is morally corrupt. What does that say about the company that employs you to write this stuff?
No one is employing me. I employ myself. And what I've wrote is just my own experience with several mobile programming languages.
Well, for example, have you ever tried to program for Symbian? It *so much* pain in the ass. I transferred directly from that. Just making project and getting everything so easily (both debugging and actually stuff running) was so easy. You might not like WP7, but I had to go thru mobile programming in the early 2000's. And it was *not* nice. What WP7 and Apple offers now is 1000x better than it was.. just ask any mobile programmer. If they still have their brains working :D
Sorry to burst your bubble, but no. I personally choose the program I like for the job. Open source, closed source, that doesn't matter. I would choose open source if that was better for the job.
But thinking everyone who says any good about Microsoft or any other big companies is ridiculous here on slashdot. I can't just but think its some basement dwellers who have no experience in real work.. wrong? Yeah, you are too. Just see how real stuff works.
This one is again one of those overhyped slashdot summaries..
If you read the actual story, you'd see that that it is fault of Samsung and Focus. AND even they tell its because the hardware doesn't work good with them. Just yesterday we had a story on how Apple fucks up old iPhones and now we have a story on how new OS updates aren't delivered to incompatible phones? Seriously, pick which one is good. Cripling your old phone with too heavy features or not providing updates.
What is great about WP7 is its support for developers. You really cant just go wrong with that. Microsoft has always been the number one in giving developer support. From Visual Studio to C# and WP7 API. Combine this with Nokia's great hardware and I think they're going to get great support this coming year. I get the M$ hate, but just check it - it's great thing. So much better than Android.
This is beside the fact that its not really common to expect any updates at all from your mobile phone manufacturer. Buy the phone on the merits you get, not some updates. That is common sense.
h ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesäpallo (slashcode breaks the link so copypaste)
What's so hard about Facebook privacy settings? I find them really easy and understandable. Preview your profile as specific person makes it even easier to change it exactly how you want it.
He asked what needs to be open sourced and noted that how it works is widely known. There is nothing to open source.
I don't own an iPhone ("old" HTC Touch HD), but who really expects to get updates for their phones endlessly? It's always been the case that you buy a phone on the merits it has then. If it gets any major updates at all thats a huge bonus. It's the same with every phone manufacturer and has always been.
.. and that is the problem. Instead of that bullshit flame wars between distros, why not just concentrate on making the whole system better for user. Imagine how childish it would be if Microsoft and Apple did that.
Well what would you think if the government or any other people would mess with your computer without your consent? What if they decided "utorrent.exe" was harmful and decided to remove it without asking you?
And you can simulate zero-G on earth too...
Only one part of EC2 was down. If you have a mission critical system, you use many locations. For example Netflix was unaffected because they didn't rely on just one EC2 location.
It's just the fact that now a days certain slashdot stories always have the same bullshit on them.
Cloud services ->
"Useless"
"It's just a bunch of dedicated servers!"
"Stupid buzzwords. And fuck you, CEO, for telling me where you want your company to host our stuff"
Piracy ->
"Piracy is looting on the seas, idiots!"
"Information wants to be free!!"
"This might have DRM and by principle, even if it causes no trouble, I feel obligated to steal the game"
"But copying is not stealing!!"
3D glasses ->
"Scam! I cant touch things!"
"It doesn't work for me so it doesn't work for anyone"
"Make quality stories and don't play with technology. By the way cant we just go back to silent movies where men make funny faces and piano music plays?"
Malware stories ->
"It's Microsoft's fault! This would never happen with linux!"
Facebook ->
"If I use Facebook I use fake name. In fact, even in real life my friends don't actually know who I am. That's because I want to be secure"
"What is this interaction with other people?"
"Why can't people just order their own dedicated server and host their homepages themself?"
and so on.. At some point, it gets really tiresome.
To give a better example what I mean by integrated programming. Normally you'd be making a client-server model and everything that comes with - maybe use of different programming language for server, input handling and data exchanging with error processing and data validation, all the backend stuff threaded stuff so that the server can handle lots of clients and is capable of handling lag etc..
Now, for example, Azure allows you to code those parts directly in your project. If you were making your game with C#, you'd be programming the server infrastructure in the same code. The cloud provider, in this case Microsoft, has done all the underlying parts for you. And if your server gets more players, the cloud service dynamically allocates more resources for you. You don't need to handle any of that boring stuff - you just code your game.
Why can't games be hosted with the cloud services? I know at least Zynga partly uses Amazon's hosting. Minecraft and a lot of other games use Amazon's CDN for delivering updates and game files.
If I were running a web based online game, or something that interacts with other players even if the client is local, I would seriously consider cloud hosting. Microsoft's Azure actually has great deal of things integrated, so if you were making a game client you could use the azure hosting directly. Yeah, you're depending on someone else keep it up. That's life, it's how things are - you always have to depend on some one else. The computing scalability and bandwidth might well be worth it and it's a lot cheaper to rely on a company who's primary job is to keep the hosting running than do to it yourself. And then there are the things I mentioned, like integrated programming and so on.