Yup. That's why if you really want to 'protect the children', it makes a lot more sense to create a.kids tld, and then you can 'deny all; allow *.kids' in your filtering device of choice.
That's stupid. If you must do something with domain names, then create '.kids' and make it kiddy safe. This makes much more sense, since then you can 'deny all; allow *.kids' on your censoring device of choice.
Copyright is the right for someone to copy. So, the person creating the original work could have given the rights to a corporation or something. These things tend to stay around long after the creator's death.
It's even easier than that. Every time you pay with your credit card at a restaurant, you are trusting that waiter not to steal your number, or that they don't print a tape with the number on it and put it in the trash unshredded.
Two should be repealed. Having specific laws for talking on cell phones while driving vs. a more broad law for distracted and unsafe driving are stupid, for example. Many laws simply become outdated and the new laws should account for that and nuke the old one.
When you run out of stuff that you can repeal, well, I guess you have enough laws, don't you?
"if it were up to Torvalds, beauty and intuition would take a backseat to functionality. But when you look at distributions like Ubuntu or OpenSuse, it looks like no one is paying attention.
Done right, functionality *IS* beauty and intuition. That I can chain a bunch of simple things together *EASILY* with shell scripts is beautiful and intuitive. Quite the opposite with that thing that was born of redmond. That many linux desktops are chasing windoze metaphors (and this is EXACTLY WHY Ubuntu and OpenSuse have problems) instead of doing it better and integrated with "the unix way" is a travesty.
Things like this (This isn't linux, just something that runs on it, mind you) are very cool and the types of things that linux desktops *should* be doing rather than trying to behave like windows, IMNSHO: Renaming Files in Bulk with Rox-Filer (you can select in the gui using regular expressions and such...nifty). See? *THAT* is pretty innovative.
Comcast bought the local cable company. Since they are not regulated like the phone companies, you can't have any broadband cablemodem connection like you can with DSL. IOW, many people DID use non major ISPs, and when the local cable company was bought by comcast, those ISPs either had to set up shop as DSL providers (providing a degradation in the service they used to offer), or go out of business.
And even then, if you don't mind that it's relayed through their servers, they'll block even that if they consider your hosting a mail list to be "your computer is infected with a virus". Dyndns mailhop services resolve that problem, but unfortunately since you aren't relaying yourself, you have no control over tempfail requeuing or the ability to troubleshoot beyond your connection to that relay.
He used to do a better analogy with the car roof. That it wasn't as structurally strong as, say, the front, because the likelyhood of a boulder falling on the car was pretty slim, so the engineering goes there, and not to the roof. Still somewhat flawed (cars roll over), but it was better than the arrow one.
What Tippett is saying is already well known by security professionals (at least the ones who know what they are doing...risk analysis is part of the CISSP exam, is it not?). The problem is that despite this, we are forced to do expensive and less useful (useful at all?) stuff by management because they are the "decider". Companies that actually have a CISO with competent staff have a decent chance at doing it right, but in my experience, many companies don't, so you end up deploying stuff just because management likes to deploy new 'security systems' rather than actually address the security posture of the company.
Most software development is try something, look for the error. repeat. Engineering isn't like that, at least not to that degree. You have to work everything out ahead of time. You don't get to test to that degree, so need to be able to understand the applied physics and math without creating the actual object. With software, the theoretical thinking part is really the product as well. You can experiment with it without consequence. Heck, this is one reason I love developing software. I get to play and see what happens. I don't call myself an engineer with it though (I *DO* have a degree in aerospace engineering, however).
Some software could be called engineered, but only if it was carefully thought out and built and compiled and worked as designed with all exception handling done on the first go.
Do you write software that way? Most likely not. So you aren't an engineer. That's not a bad thing or a good thing. It just is. Stop trying to give yourself an important-sounding title without understanding what that title actually means. Engineering is a lot of applied theory BEFORE the product. Software, well, you get to produce the product right away with no real cost or design required. This is why software also should not be patentable, but I digress.
But at least in this case, Yahoo! lost its postition because it was out-innovated by the young google. Yahoo got complacent. When did Microsoft ever actually get to their position by having a better product than their competition?
which is sad, for the animal simply being, well, what it is. Caged it. Then killed it when it gave chase to an idiot waving things at it. If you have house cats, you *know* how they react to that, Anyone with any intelligence wouldn't do the same to a tiger.
You may have at one point been flagged as being 'infected with a virus'. This is when my comcrap connections always got nuked (I host a mailing list). But instead of filtering just outbound, they would kill everything.
I got tired of fighting with them (and after the headaches they caused with my overpriced business class connection when they took over for the ISP they bought out I was not going to pay for that service again), and discovered DynDNS's mailhop outbound and mailhop relay services. Problem solved. You can have stuff forwarded in on a nonstandard port and sent out that way too.
If they make no money off of their site, where is their incentive to constantly scan it to remove 'illegal' trackers? If the *AA want TPB to perform this service, perhaps the *AA should pay the pirate pay to perform it and to be able to hire people to perform it for them. And to the *AA's specifications (ie, they MUST provide a blacklist themselves).
Otherwise, WTF? Why should anybody (ie, like slashdot) be responsible for things that others post on their site, ESPECIALLY when it is not the content itself, but pointers to it.
Slashdot Mirror
It's a lot easier to whitelist a few than to blacklist the many...
Yup. That's why if you really want to 'protect the children', it makes a lot more sense to create a .kids tld, and then you can 'deny all; allow *.kids' in your filtering device of choice.
That's stupid. If you must do something with domain names, then create '.kids' and make it kiddy safe. This makes much more sense, since then you can 'deny all; allow *.kids' on your censoring device of choice.
Because they know they are likely to win the election, and they want all of that power for themselves?
Copyright is the right for someone to copy. So, the person creating the original work could have given the rights to a corporation or something. These things tend to stay around long after the creator's death.
But how can it be fair if somebody gets a worse ball of clutter than another? Or do they do best x out of y?
That they deliberately named the damned thing to look like a piece of open office is dispicible.
[the majority of] Windows users are the problem.
Fixed that for ya.
It's even easier than that. Every time you pay with your credit card at a restaurant, you are trusting that waiter not to steal your number, or that they don't print a tape with the number on it and put it in the trash unshredded.
*grin*
Two should be repealed. Having specific laws for talking on cell phones while driving vs. a more broad law for distracted and unsafe driving are stupid, for example. Many laws simply become outdated and the new laws should account for that and nuke the old one.
When you run out of stuff that you can repeal, well, I guess you have enough laws, don't you?
Done right, functionality *IS* beauty and intuition. That I can chain a bunch of simple things together *EASILY* with shell scripts is beautiful and intuitive. Quite the opposite with that thing that was born of redmond. That many linux desktops are chasing windoze metaphors (and this is EXACTLY WHY Ubuntu and OpenSuse have problems) instead of doing it better and integrated with "the unix way" is a travesty.
Things like this (This isn't linux, just something that runs on it, mind you) are very cool and the types of things that linux desktops *should* be doing rather than trying to behave like windows, IMNSHO: Renaming Files in Bulk with Rox-Filer (you can select in the gui using regular expressions and such...nifty). See? *THAT* is pretty innovative.
Comcast bought the local cable company. Since they are not regulated like the phone companies, you can't have any broadband cablemodem connection like you can with DSL. IOW, many people DID use non major ISPs, and when the local cable company was bought by comcast, those ISPs either had to set up shop as DSL providers (providing a degradation in the service they used to offer), or go out of business.
And even then, if you don't mind that it's relayed through their servers, they'll block even that if they consider your hosting a mail list to be "your computer is infected with a virus". Dyndns mailhop services resolve that problem, but unfortunately since you aren't relaying yourself, you have no control over tempfail requeuing or the ability to troubleshoot beyond your connection to that relay.
He used to do a better analogy with the car roof. That it wasn't as structurally strong as, say, the front, because the likelyhood of a boulder falling on the car was pretty slim, so the engineering goes there, and not to the roof. Still somewhat flawed (cars roll over), but it was better than the arrow one.
Couldn't have said it better myself, which is one of the reasons I left my last job where I was the lead security analyst.
What Tippett is saying is already well known by security professionals (at least the ones who know what they are doing...risk analysis is part of the CISSP exam, is it not?). The problem is that despite this, we are forced to do expensive and less useful (useful at all?) stuff by management because they are the "decider". Companies that actually have a CISO with competent staff have a decent chance at doing it right, but in my experience, many companies don't, so you end up deploying stuff just because management likes to deploy new 'security systems' rather than actually address the security posture of the company.
Wow,
10 years ago he was saying exactly the same thing. It's still relevant, but nobody has been listening.
Most software development is try something, look for the error. repeat. Engineering isn't like that, at least not to that degree. You have to work everything out ahead of time. You don't get to test to that degree, so need to be able to understand the applied physics and math without creating the actual object. With software, the theoretical thinking part is really the product as well. You can experiment with it without consequence. Heck, this is one reason I love developing software. I get to play and see what happens. I don't call myself an engineer with it though (I *DO* have a degree in aerospace engineering, however).
Some software could be called engineered, but only if it was carefully thought out and built and compiled and worked as designed with all exception handling done on the first go.
Do you write software that way? Most likely not. So you aren't an engineer. That's not a bad thing or a good thing. It just is. Stop trying to give yourself an important-sounding title without understanding what that title actually means. Engineering is a lot of applied theory BEFORE the product. Software, well, you get to produce the product right away with no real cost or design required. This is why software also should not be patentable, but I digress.
But at least in this case, Yahoo! lost its postition because it was out-innovated by the young google. Yahoo got complacent. When did Microsoft ever actually get to their position by having a better product than their competition?
OS/2 had better windows compatibility than windows too...
Yeah, but women already have functional 'robotic companions'. That's a little more difficult a problem to solve for men.
which is sad, for the animal simply being, well, what it is. Caged it. Then killed it when it gave chase to an idiot waving things at it. If you have house cats, you *know* how they react to that, Anyone with any intelligence wouldn't do the same to a tiger.
You may have at one point been flagged as being 'infected with a virus'. This is when my comcrap connections always got nuked (I host a mailing list). But instead of filtering just outbound, they would kill everything.
I got tired of fighting with them (and after the headaches they caused with my overpriced business class connection when they took over for the ISP they bought out I was not going to pay for that service again), and discovered DynDNS's mailhop outbound and mailhop relay services. Problem solved. You can have stuff forwarded in on a nonstandard port and sent out that way too.
http://www.dyndns.com/services/mailhop/outbound.html
http://www.dyndns.com/services/mailhop/relay.html
If they make no money off of their site, where is their incentive to constantly scan it to remove 'illegal' trackers? If the *AA want TPB to perform this service, perhaps the *AA should pay the pirate pay to perform it and to be able to hire people to perform it for them. And to the *AA's specifications (ie, they MUST provide a blacklist themselves).
Otherwise, WTF? Why should anybody (ie, like slashdot) be responsible for things that others post on their site, ESPECIALLY when it is not the content itself, but pointers to it.