We've learned over the course of this great country that a president's campaign has little to nothing to do with his actual term in office. I haven't been following the campaign much yet, but let's apply a little common sense... there's a pattern here somewhere
Bush Sr. > Gulf War Clinton > High GOP Bush Jr > Afgan, Gulf War II Obama > no gulf war III, we withdrew from there actually
When we are at war, money becomes tighter, stock markets drop faster, it'll all rise again, but is it really that great for our society?
My point being we need to burn the republican party with fire, besides if you read the article he isn't exactly talking about mounting a cross to the front door of the school here, he's talking about oppressed beliefs. If you have a problem saying "under god" in school, that's your problem and not the state's and I agree with that any day even though I believe more in the Buddhist branches of religion.
What you can do about it: Drop out, stop buying shit you don't need, paying for shit you don't use, do stuff that doesn't cost wads of $, etc... look into the hippie movement.
Corporations cannot exist without consumers and lobbyists cannot exist without corporate backing, it's all a system, the corporations just use a lot of $ to expand it, that they get from YOU the consumer, make sense?
If Sony, Apple, and Microsoft all went under tomorrow, unless you work for them, or are some sort of incompetent admin who requires support calls from ppl who give crap support, life would go on, nobody would notice much at first and the long term impact wouldn't be that great either. A few crazies might cry about the loss of their ipads cause they wanted to buy one and couldn't afford one till recently or something, but not much outside of that.
Why is big tobacco still around? If not for us.
We've been here before it seems, human greed is human nature an the rich want to get richer.
Either one of these experiences a breakthrough and down go both moore's and this. Moore's only has a lifespan still about 2015~2020 btw, hardly a law in the scientific sense.
In regards to the programming discussion... prove software bloat on your i7 w 32gb ram first. Then price out the spec of your new machine vs how long it would a dev team to make it run on your current one that's SOOOO bloated. i7 extreme w 64gb upgrade looking more attractive?:)
I still like to keep my email and social networking separate, buzz and google+ blurred that line way too much. I want to log in to google for one thing and facebook for another, I don't want to log into facebook every time i want my mail, make sense?
On that note I asked for a google+ invite on facebook, and nobody responded meaning nobody I know went over there seriously. When I tried it, it was ok at best, the people are really what make social networking worth anything, and nobody was there. Enough said.
I think google missed the concept of social networking (again!).
The point of my parent was to discuss Bush's throttle on stem cell research in relation to the article rofl, way to read the links slashdot. On that note, I'd take a monkey in office over Bush any day, no progress would be progress towards something better in that theoretical scenario.
Bush was a shining figure in opposing stem cell research to the point of banning it and making it illegal, why? Because of his Christian values and beliefs or something. So to recap, we had a president who put his beliefs over what could be the salvation of the human race (remember we just don't know the full extent of stem cells, they ALREADY are used in cancer therapy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell_treatments#Cancer ).
All in all this isn't about unemployment, or the recession, Obama walked into a shit storm, shame some of you can't respect that, imagine taking over a job from an incompetent sys admin, the kind who don't encrypt backup tapes. Your not going to have a chance to shine until you've fixed all the muck, on that note Obama was a bit slow since the republicans appear to hate the ground he walks on and opposed him on everything, legit or not. The fact that he cleared up the state of stem cell research to allow this article to be posted on slashdot nets him a +1 in my book.
Priceless advice I would mod +1 if you weren't an anonymous coward:)
Then again I've been doing that since about the time firefox came out, your right there is just no reason, I'm surprised it's still checked as on by default in new browser installs, it doesn't nearly break as much as IE8 being installed w/o compatibility view on by default.
I've never known anybody to use Zone Alarm, I've hosed a few windows with FreeAVG > killed performance and uninstalling didn't do as much as it should have...
Comodo is hard to use, but a lot better than the ones you've mentioned, and though I tend to conform to your view on third party software, think of comodo as a layer between the user and the OS that prompts for user interaction to let the OS do anything. Definitely, don't use it if you don't want to though, but you do have the wrong impression of what I am referring to:)
Easiest way would be to set up another windows instance and play with it, as you probably regret not doing with AVG:)
I think anon is referring to users who open email zip files from unknown senders and who don't bother to install an AV to start...
Being a coder doesn't make you a bad / good computer user... it's just different. By seeing the grains you may have trouble seeing the big picture. Security knowledge is what is required to know if your infected or not... or you can just trust MS... or you can not store anything sensitive easily accessible on your computer (cached browser passwords are a sec joke, you can google how to extract them... it works, I've had to help some "stupid" users who can't remember theirs).
I've known coders who can't set up their own environment, much less configure a computer (not saying this is you by any means). A browser is a ready made program, it has nothing to do with whether the user knows how to code or not (unless your making extensions) and the difference is how well you know the options, and a level deeper... what do the options do that is not listed in the UI, as in how do they tie together.
Lastly, if your truelly truelly curious and are willing to let your computer drive you crazy for a week or two, look into comodo anti-virus, it provides that granular view into the workings of your computer by blocking everything until you allow it (in the right configuration that is in their documentation), and if you don't know something is, you can google it, if google doesn't know, it's probably safe to block. On that note, I run security essentials, cause I'm way too lazy to care about little things like this, all my data is behind encryption mostly on external drives, nobody's going to write an exploit that can successfully get at that.
I agree, it's not a technical marvel to put a small consumer available camera in something like a transponder. There might be uses for it outside the average driver. If they do go through with it... the backlash and work arounds would be endless. Sounds like poster is a bit paranoid of the government:) which is very smart, but don't overdo it by jumping the gun.
It looks like they were mainly studying browser based attacks, the CVE's I looked up all had to do with browser code injection, along those lines.
They go on to state 85% of virus infections (do they mean malware / spyware?) are caused by drive by attacks (website exploits)
I'm not sure of and am to lazy to look up the actual figures, but I would dedicate that 85% to email based attacks, not Nigerian scams, but infected attachments, embedded code, etc.
Oh well, I'm demoting the scope of these statistics to browsers only...
and also state that I believe WIndows gets infected buckets more by email based attacks for many reasons including the ease of guessing email addresses on a domain, as well as user trust that who is sending them the email knows their email so they may know them, etc...
I would imagine so lol, the wiki says it's the 2nd oldest OOP, language technology progress tends to be a grab the best and most features you can out of what exists, add a few of your own and name the sucker. Thus why we have a ton of programming languages that are used every day to do the same things differently. Also, it's not very easy to depreciate languages when there are million dollar apps written in them.
The syntax for LISP is ehm less then elegant though http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/lisp.html a small factor to someone who's been using it for a couple of decades, but unattractive to somebody thinking about learning it.
There is nothing about the Canadian government that the USA should/ can, Canada is not a world player, the USA is, also if the states collapsed, guess who would follow. If our first amendment collapsed, guess who's charter would as well (Mexico would suffer too maybe)? It's fine to be the copy cat with a little revision and common sense, but keep them views north of the border;)
Having SOME free speech would make Washington roll in his grave and the British invade, if we turn to socialistic "common sense" values that do no promote extreme freedom and let people piss other people off to almost unlimited extents, what fun is that?
These senators probably have over plump kids who have been bullied for posting pics of themselves on 4chan?:)
This stuff sounds like it pre dates my education, I've heard of LISP, but never worked with it, it's something that runs somewhere fortran and C reign and we're a.NET shop with the oldest app being in classic ASP, and some seriously outdated PHP, but LISP? who still runs this and why?
I really really like fluxbox's right click app menu, launch anything, anywhere, even the win 7 taskbar gets covered sometimes by full screen applications (Office nowadays rofl). I don't get why we can't at least have this as an option in windows... I know you can customize it through the registry, but wow, I try and have a life. Flux makes it easy.
Lol, you know what this sounds like? A bunch of suits discussing mvc without knowing a line of underlying code. "We want it to be multi-platform, robust, dynamic, and future proof"
Of course the final product runs on Solaris and requires a nightly reboot, you know?
I know of schemes like XML??? Good luck replacing that...
It's not just Amazon, a lot of online retailers don't charge taxes. Here's what everybody in Washington seems to be missing though: A LOT of people buy A LOT of stuff online for the past decade or two. All this stuff used to be in brick and mortar stores getting taxed regularly, now that revenue has completely moved to the private sector, which doesn't do much for the country besides the CEOs like to help the private jet industry from time to time.
I think as a country we are collecting less tax from internal sales overall, and suddenly the debt skyrockets... but you know, how much do we really care? We can be self-sufficient if things went to shit, your cloth might be more expensive, but it beats the alternative...
How about laying out what securing an application looks like by government standard, some coders might magically use the spec already improving the state of things. Seriously though, if the government tells me how to code, I will be the one going off shore. I've had to create compliance reports for the government and the main motivation there is if we didn't do it, we got the shit fined out of us.
Them interface with our system and pull our data to audit? Yea right...
Any mistakes I made by not fully reading their 200 page doc? Undocumented.
In my experience, they are so far behind the curve, their security is more fear of consequences from the legal system, than actual technical safeguards. Quite useless against foreign hackers no?
Lol, this guy took the tapes out to his CAR, would you feel ok walking around with your companies database in your briefcase?
I wouldn't, I'd VPN in to grab it, not carry it, and I'd make sure I'm using a hardened windows to do it too. That kind of liability can really put a kink in somebody's day.
This fine gentleman though, not only removed the tapes, he put them in his car.
Now with that thought pattern do you REALLY expect him to know about encrypting tapes?
Some people just shouldn't be allowed to be around computers, but are because for reasons that are not fully revealed to me some people think they can work in IT without actually knowing much about computers. I'm just adding this post as an extra gtfo of IT to these people.
If my record was among those, I'd prolly be looking into a class action lawsuit rather than making this post.
I would love to hear from who actually still uses these services... anyone? Also, that's typically how mergers work, beats getting your internet / cell phone / TV service getting cut off one day for seemingly no reason.
The key here is communication, I find the more of my day I devot to communication at the cost of getting less stuff done, the better my position becomes. As a coder you can spend a week fixing a part of the system of your own initiative and good will, my point is... propose your project, document it, explain the scope to the best of your ability, as a side-effect its a lot easier to ask for longer time lines when you follow all these steps. The disconnect between IT and senior management is communication, the managers want to manage and know what's going on, but IT is too complex for them so they hire you. Make sense? There is usually a very uneasy trust between IT and senior management that you have to compensate for as well....
For everybody getting freaked out, I'm pretty sure by third party sites, they mean sites they have a partnership with, too lazy to find which ones, but I posted like a month ago about this when it first surfaced.
They are only tracking you with their affiliates with which they have achieved systems integration. A cookie is the legacy best practice code approach to sharing data between two sites. I'm sure they had business reasons for using a cookie rather than a web service (helps the smarter than average bear not get tracked since cookies are client based, while a web service happens on the back end).
I want to make it very clear I'm not defending facebook for tracking its users, but they are not tracking EVERY site like the majority of slashdotters seem to be implying.
And last, but not least, merry christmas, tin foil hat ready,
Slashdot Mirror
We've learned over the course of this great country that a president's campaign has little to nothing to do with his actual term in office. I haven't been following the campaign much yet, but let's apply a little common sense... there's a pattern here somewhere
Bush Sr. > Gulf War
Clinton > High GOP
Bush Jr > Afgan, Gulf War II
Obama > no gulf war III, we withdrew from there actually
When we are at war, money becomes tighter, stock markets drop faster, it'll all rise again, but is it really that great for our society?
My point being we need to burn the republican party with fire, besides if you read the article he isn't exactly talking about mounting a cross to the front door of the school here, he's talking about oppressed beliefs. If you have a problem saying "under god" in school, that's your problem and not the state's and I agree with that any day even though I believe more in the Buddhist branches of religion.
What you can do about it: Drop out, stop buying shit you don't need, paying for shit you don't use, do stuff that doesn't cost wads of $, etc... look into the hippie movement.
Corporations cannot exist without consumers and lobbyists cannot exist without corporate backing, it's all a system, the corporations just use a lot of $ to expand it, that they get from YOU the consumer, make sense?
If Sony, Apple, and Microsoft all went under tomorrow, unless you work for them, or are some sort of incompetent admin who requires support calls from ppl who give crap support, life would go on, nobody would notice much at first and the long term impact wouldn't be that great either. A few crazies might cry about the loss of their ipads cause they wanted to buy one and couldn't afford one till recently or something, but not much outside of that.
Why is big tobacco still around? If not for us.
We've been here before it seems, human greed is human nature an the rich want to get richer.
Quantum computing... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biocomputers
Either one of these experiences a breakthrough and down go both moore's and this. Moore's only has a lifespan still about 2015~2020 btw, hardly a law in the scientific sense.
In regards to the programming discussion... prove software bloat on your i7 w 32gb ram first. Then price out the spec of your new machine vs how long it would a dev team to make it run on your current one that's SOOOO bloated. i7 extreme w 64gb upgrade looking more attractive? :)
I still like to keep my email and social networking separate, buzz and google+ blurred that line way too much. I want to log in to google for one thing and facebook for another, I don't want to log into facebook every time i want my mail, make sense?
On that note I asked for a google+ invite on facebook, and nobody responded meaning nobody I know went over there seriously. When I tried it, it was ok at best, the people are really what make social networking worth anything, and nobody was there. Enough said.
I think google missed the concept of social networking (again!).
They are still richer than me :(
The point of my parent was to discuss Bush's throttle on stem cell research in relation to the article rofl, way to read the links slashdot. On that note, I'd take a monkey in office over Bush any day, no progress would be progress towards something better in that theoretical scenario.
Bush was a shining figure in opposing stem cell research to the point of banning it and making it illegal, why? Because of his Christian values and beliefs or something. So to recap, we had a president who put his beliefs over what could be the salvation of the human race (remember we just don't know the full extent of stem cells, they ALREADY are used in cancer therapy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell_treatments#Cancer ).
All in all this isn't about unemployment, or the recession, Obama walked into a shit storm, shame some of you can't respect that, imagine taking over a job from an incompetent sys admin, the kind who don't encrypt backup tapes. Your not going to have a chance to shine until you've fixed all the muck, on that note Obama was a bit slow since the republicans appear to hate the ground he walks on and opposed him on everything, legit or not. The fact that he cleared up the state of stem cell research to allow this article to be posted on slashdot nets him a +1 in my book.
Makes it feel a little less like Bush America
http://articles.cnn.com/2006-07-19/politics/stemcells.veto_1_embryonic-stem-cell-destruction-of-human-embryos-moral-boundary?_s=PM:POLITICS
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/obamastemcells2/
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/24906.php
I for one believe that this along with nano technology can bring about a whole new age of medicine.
Priceless advice I would mod +1 if you weren't an anonymous coward :)
Then again I've been doing that since about the time firefox came out, your right there is just no reason, I'm surprised it's still checked as on by default in new browser installs, it doesn't nearly break as much as IE8 being installed w/o compatibility view on by default.
I've never known anybody to use Zone Alarm, I've hosed a few windows with FreeAVG > killed performance and uninstalling didn't do as much as it should have...
Comodo is hard to use, but a lot better than the ones you've mentioned, and though I tend to conform to your view on third party software, think of comodo as a layer between the user and the OS that prompts for user interaction to let the OS do anything. Definitely, don't use it if you don't want to though, but you do have the wrong impression of what I am referring to :)
Easiest way would be to set up another windows instance and play with it, as you probably regret not doing with AVG :)
If you think malware / spyware is sketchy on a windows box, root kits are just plain out creepy
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/startups/rootkit.html
The rootkit is what makes me want to reinstall windows on compromised machines than try and fix em,
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/startups/rootkit.html
I think anon is referring to users who open email zip files from unknown senders and who don't bother to install an AV to start...
Being a coder doesn't make you a bad / good computer user... it's just different. By seeing the grains you may have trouble seeing the big picture. Security knowledge is what is required to know if your infected or not... or you can just trust MS... or you can not store anything sensitive easily accessible on your computer (cached browser passwords are a sec joke, you can google how to extract them... it works, I've had to help some "stupid" users who can't remember theirs).
I've known coders who can't set up their own environment, much less configure a computer (not saying this is you by any means). A browser is a ready made program, it has nothing to do with whether the user knows how to code or not (unless your making extensions) and the difference is how well you know the options, and a level deeper... what do the options do that is not listed in the UI, as in how do they tie together.
Lastly, if your truelly truelly curious and are willing to let your computer drive you crazy for a week or two, look into comodo anti-virus, it provides that granular view into the workings of your computer by blocking everything until you allow it (in the right configuration that is in their documentation), and if you don't know something is, you can google it, if google doesn't know, it's probably safe to block. On that note, I run security essentials, cause I'm way too lazy to care about little things like this, all my data is behind encryption mostly on external drives, nobody's going to write an exploit that can successfully get at that.
I agree, it's not a technical marvel to put a small consumer available camera in something like a transponder. There might be uses for it outside the average driver. If they do go through with it... the backlash and work arounds would be endless. Sounds like poster is a bit paranoid of the government :) which is very smart, but don't overdo it by jumping the gun.
It looks like they were mainly studying browser based attacks, the CVE's I looked up all had to do with browser code injection, along those lines.
They go on to state 85% of virus infections (do they mean malware / spyware?) are caused by drive by attacks (website exploits)
I'm not sure of and am to lazy to look up the actual figures, but I would dedicate that 85% to email based attacks, not Nigerian scams, but infected attachments, embedded code, etc.
Oh well, I'm demoting the scope of these statistics to browsers only...
and also state that I believe WIndows gets infected buckets more by email based attacks for many reasons including the ease of guessing email addresses on a domain, as well as user trust that who is sending them the email knows their email so they may know them, etc...
I would imagine so lol, the wiki says it's the 2nd oldest OOP, language technology progress tends to be a grab the best and most features you can out of what exists, add a few of your own and name the sucker. Thus why we have a ton of programming languages that are used every day to do the same things differently. Also, it's not very easy to depreciate languages when there are million dollar apps written in them.
The syntax for LISP is ehm less then elegant though http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/lisp.html a small factor to someone who's been using it for a couple of decades, but unattractive to somebody thinking about learning it.
There is nothing about the Canadian government that the USA should/ can, Canada is not a world player, the USA is, also if the states collapsed, guess who would follow. If our first amendment collapsed, guess who's charter would as well (Mexico would suffer too maybe)? It's fine to be the copy cat with a little revision and common sense, but keep them views north of the border ;)
Having SOME free speech would make Washington roll in his grave and the British invade, if we turn to socialistic "common sense" values that do no promote extreme freedom and let people piss other people off to almost unlimited extents, what fun is that?
These senators probably have over plump kids who have been bullied for posting pics of themselves on 4chan? :)
From the article, I didn't even pick up that this was a programming language lol...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_(programming_language)
Thanks for the clarification.
This stuff sounds like it pre dates my education, I've heard of LISP, but never worked with it, it's something that runs somewhere fortran and C reign and we're a .NET shop with the oldest app being in classic ASP, and some seriously outdated PHP, but LISP? who still runs this and why?
Ya, there's stuff like...
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/right-click-context-menu-extender-for-windows-7-released
but it's pretty :( compared to fluxbox.
I really really like fluxbox's right click app menu, launch anything, anywhere, even the win 7 taskbar gets covered sometimes by full screen applications (Office nowadays rofl). I don't get why we can't at least have this as an option in windows... I know you can customize it through the registry, but wow, I try and have a life.
Flux makes it easy.
A jest at the lack of definition anon (XML would be schema), do I have an anon troll trying to figure out if I take slashdot seriously?
Lol, you know what this sounds like? A bunch of suits discussing mvc without knowing a line of underlying code. "We want it to be multi-platform, robust, dynamic, and future proof"
Of course the final product runs on Solaris and requires a nightly reboot, you know?
I know of schemes like XML??? Good luck replacing that...
Then there's this kind of gibberish when I actually try and figure r7rs out...
http://lists.r6rs.org/pipermail/r6rs-discuss/2009-September/004913.html
Conclusion: r7rs is a rhetorical play on acronyms .
It's not just Amazon, a lot of online retailers don't charge taxes. Here's what everybody in Washington seems to be missing though: A LOT of people buy A LOT of stuff online for the past decade or two. All this stuff used to be in brick and mortar stores getting taxed regularly, now that revenue has completely moved to the private sector, which doesn't do much for the country besides the CEOs like to help the private jet industry from time to time.
I think as a country we are collecting less tax from internal sales overall, and suddenly the debt skyrockets... but you know, how much do we really care? We can be self-sufficient if things went to shit, your cloth might be more expensive, but it beats the alternative...
I think baby steps are in order first..
How about laying out what securing an application looks like by government standard, some coders might magically use the spec already improving the state of things. Seriously though, if the government tells me how to code, I will be the one going off shore. I've had to create compliance reports for the government and the main motivation there is if we didn't do it, we got the shit fined out of us.
Them interface with our system and pull our data to audit? Yea right...
Any mistakes I made by not fully reading their 200 page doc? Undocumented.
In my experience, they are so far behind the curve, their security is more fear of consequences from the legal system, than actual technical safeguards. Quite useless against foreign hackers no?
Lol, this guy took the tapes out to his CAR, would you feel ok walking around with your companies database in your briefcase?
I wouldn't, I'd VPN in to grab it, not carry it, and I'd make sure I'm using a hardened windows to do it too. That kind of liability can really put a kink in somebody's day.
This fine gentleman though, not only removed the tapes, he put them in his car.
Now with that thought pattern do you REALLY expect him to know about encrypting tapes?
Some people just shouldn't be allowed to be around computers, but are because for reasons that are not fully revealed to me some people think they can work in IT without actually knowing much about computers. I'm just adding this post as an extra gtfo of IT to these people.
If my record was among those, I'd prolly be looking into a class action lawsuit rather than making this post.
I would love to hear from who actually still uses these services... anyone? Also, that's typically how mergers work, beats getting your internet / cell phone / TV service getting cut off one day for seemingly no reason.
The key here is communication, I find the more of my day I devot to communication at the cost of getting less stuff done, the better my position becomes. As a coder you can spend a week fixing a part of the system of your own initiative and good will, my point is... propose your project, document it, explain the scope to the best of your ability, as a side-effect its a lot easier to ask for longer time lines when you follow all these steps. The disconnect between IT and senior management is communication, the managers want to manage and know what's going on, but IT is too complex for them so they hire you. Make sense? There is usually a very uneasy trust between IT and senior management that you have to compensate for as well....
For everybody getting freaked out, I'm pretty sure by third party sites, they mean sites they have a partnership with, too lazy to find which ones, but I posted like a month ago about this when it first surfaced.
They are only tracking you with their affiliates with which they have achieved systems integration. A cookie is the legacy best practice code approach to sharing data between two sites. I'm sure they had business reasons for using a cookie rather than a web service (helps the smarter than average bear not get tracked since cookies are client based, while a web service happens on the back end).
I want to make it very clear I'm not defending facebook for tracking its users, but they are not tracking EVERY site like the majority of slashdotters seem to be implying.
And last, but not least, merry christmas, tin foil hat ready,
http://blog.blackdown.de/2010/05/20/stop-facebook-from-tracking-you-on-third-party-sites/
Yep, I keep forgetting about the Florida elections... that put Bush in office w a convenient consensual resignation of the democratic candidate.