If you develop software that follows the usual layered model (web, business, persistence), you have code in place to isolate the web bit from the database bit. MS tools sort of shortcut the web/database bit, making it easier to exploit what's in the database.
I blame Microsoft for a lot of these vulnerabilities.
I recently attended a Microsoft-sponsored seminar on web site security at the DeVry Institute in Decatur, GA.
One of the speakers was a man from SPI Dynamics (sorry, forgot his name). He demonstrated how Microsoft's tools make it very easy to expose a database to the web, but how the same tools make exploiting the database very easy. He demonstrated an application that used SQL injection to first reverse-engineer the schema of an exposed database, and then the data in the database. It was quite a revelation.
Yes, yes, I uderstand they can't be trusted, as they deny the current conventional wisdom and should be burned at the stake like the heretics they are. Nonetheless...
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Thanks for the update. I admit: As a programmer I was seeing this from the perspective of easily-outsourced work.
That said, I remember reading something about a plan by McDonalds to outsource drive-through ordering to remote call centers. So, your order goes to a remote call center where someone verifies and types in the order that's then sent back to the preparer at the restaurant where you're driving through.
Average female fertility in Greece, Italy, and Spain is 1.1. So, their populations are going down by half each generation. In a couple of generations, a given Italian won't have brothers, sisters, aunts, or uncles.
China has a one-child policy, so you can expect a similar result there in coming years.
In Germany, it's about 1.35.
In France, female fertility hovers at about 1.89. The rest of Europe has similar numbers.
The US is hovering at about replacement rate, 2.1.
The earth is depopulating. Al Gore's documentary can be safely ignored: The problem we face isn't too many people, but too few.
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I'm afraid Yahoo will still be behind the curve, even with this initiative.
Amazon's Mechanical Turk (http://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome) program is basically a jobs board, allowing matchups of skills and tasks for payment. And it's operational now.
I think that Yahoo's missed the idea that the internet makes the world flat. What's the sense of dealing with local want ads when the entire world is available to service job needs?
His basic attitude, it seems to me, is that most people are children who have to be ordered about by an all-knowing government. Just the sort of thing one expects from a European intellectual. Give him half a chance and it's be greenshirts at Nuremburg.
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Superconductivity in non-superconductive materials, except where they've been doped to be superconductive.
Makes me want to get back to the pub.
I decided to just build hot taco salads at Jose's Mexican Buffet, avoiding refried beans completely. I'm happy to do my p(h)art to save the world.
I agree completely. I failed to express this idea in my original post. I apologize.
The Russians have been sending unmanned supply ships for years. The upgrade here is that the craft is reusable.
If you develop software that follows the usual layered model (web, business, persistence), you have code in place to isolate the web bit from the database bit. MS tools sort of shortcut the web/database bit, making it easier to exploit what's in the database.
Hope this helps.
I blame Microsoft for a lot of these vulnerabilities.
I recently attended a Microsoft-sponsored seminar on web site security at the DeVry Institute in Decatur, GA.
One of the speakers was a man from SPI Dynamics (sorry, forgot his name). He demonstrated how Microsoft's tools make it very easy to expose a database to the web, but how the same tools make exploiting the database very easy. He demonstrated an application that used SQL injection to first reverse-engineer the schema of an exposed database, and then the data in the database. It was quite a revelation.
Well, yes I was. I'm a geek. What can I say?
On the other hand, I did know about her previously, because of her robot "Kismet". The PBS show just brought her to the front of my mind.
It's a shame they missed her: http://web.media.mit.edu/~cynthiab/
Why are humans, a plague on this planet, trying to gain dominion over the others?
If God had meant us to fly, he'd have given us rocket engines, day one.
(Yes, tongue is firmly in cheek.)
Sorry I offended your delicate sensibilities.
Nonetheless, the evidence is in: Humanity is on the decline.
I have MS password management to control access to my Firefox password manager.
Phew!
As to your post, well, between that, Rocky Mountain shale, and ANWR, I think OPEC will eventually be importing from us.
As to your particular instructions, well
Israel to produce synthetic oil from low quality shale at $17 a barrel: http://www.upi.com/Energy/view.php?StoryID=2006110 7-070924-5161r
Yeah. Right.
Please google "shale oil reserves".
From the Competitive Enterprise Institute: http://www.cei.org/pages/ait_response.cfm
Yes, yes, I uderstand they can't be trusted, as they deny the current conventional wisdom and should be burned at the stake like the heretics they are. Nonetheless...
Thanks for the update. I admit: As a programmer I was seeing this from the perspective of easily-outsourced work.
That said, I remember reading something about a plan by McDonalds to outsource drive-through ordering to remote call centers. So, your order goes to a remote call center where someone verifies and types in the order that's then sent back to the preparer at the restaurant where you're driving through.
Average female fertility in Greece, Italy, and Spain is 1.1. So, their populations are going down by half each generation. In a couple of generations, a given Italian won't have brothers, sisters, aunts, or uncles.
China has a one-child policy, so you can expect a similar result there in coming years.
In Germany, it's about 1.35.
In France, female fertility hovers at about 1.89. The rest of Europe has similar numbers.
The US is hovering at about replacement rate, 2.1.
The earth is depopulating. Al Gore's documentary can be safely ignored: The problem we face isn't too many people, but too few.
I'm afraid Yahoo will still be behind the curve, even with this initiative.
Amazon's Mechanical Turk (http://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome) program is basically a jobs board, allowing matchups of skills and tasks for payment. And it's operational now.
I think that Yahoo's missed the idea that the internet makes the world flat. What's the sense of dealing with local want ads when the entire world is available to service job needs?
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I did not know that. I appreciate the info.
Liberal: A power-worshipper without power.
Take a look at this article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1 935562,00.html
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His basic attitude, it seems to me, is that most people are children who have to be ordered about by an all-knowing government. Just the sort of thing one expects from a European intellectual. Give him half a chance and it's be greenshirts at Nuremburg.
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