I hope there is a dialog or something to the effect of "User foo is sending you their identification credentials so that you can be certain messages in the future are really from this user. Accept Credentials?"
At least then you could be reasonably sure it is really them, if they are right beside you or on the phone when you do this. If it's automatic, then what is the point? There is no real way to trust that you have the real public key of that user then.
Of course, the private and public keys are all likely stored on AOL's servers, which again defeats the purpose. Unfortunately without it being automatic, people won't use it. But automatic just isn't the way to properly authenticate.
Maybe I was unlucky and got a bad one (last they had at the store...I too bought this based on the Tom's hardware review...which ONLY looked at the thing from playing quake...not from how well text looked when doing real work), but mine took HOURS of fussing around with the fine tuning to get it crisp. Then as soon as you flip resolution (ie, to play quake at 1024x768...I only have an Athlon 900), and come back, Major blur all over the screen.
I took it back. Picked up the sony 17". The sony isn't quite as bright (So what, I use computers here in a dark room anyway and still had to turn it down), and the response is supposedly slower, but I do not see it, even when playing RTCW and Quake, but it is CRYSTAL CLEAR. I adjusted it ONCE. It locked on and has been sharp as a razor ever since.
If all of the 1760Vs are as crappy as the one I got, I'd highly recommend anybody considering one steer clear of it and go with the sony 17", which actually does provide a very crisp display at its native resolution.
..is that simpler, faster, specific apps are the way to go. Now that 'average'people all have computers, they don't want tons of bells and whistles and scripting and such in their applications. They just want to be able to do something quickly and easily without having a gazillion options getting in their way.
Instead, they just add more bloat and more useless features that get in the way of productivity with every release.
No thanks. I'll stick to my linux box with some highly-tuned specific task apps and my windowmaker + rox desktop.
The ending was very lame. It had its moments in single-player though. The first time those zombies sneak up on you from behind sure scared the bejeezus out of me, just like the sudden shout from a guard in the original:)
And you HAVE to love the cutscene with the german elite chick telling the soldiers about what happens if you look at the ceremony, while playing with her hair and swivelling her hips, and then walking away, shaking her ass all the while.
Another article to show to the boss showing him how much better off we are by going the spamass + mimedefang route over expensive, ineffective commercial crap!
Most of the good computer people I know, did not go to school for it. They taught themselves out of love and curiosity. You don't need a degree to program or administer a computer or network. You just need to have the aptitude and proper background.
The best 'computer people' I know graduated with degrees in Physics, Engineering, Math and English.
My own degree is in Aerospace Engineering, but I have never directly applied that, going the computer / network programming / administration / security policy setting and enforcement route instead. It did take a lot of work and a lot of shit tech support jobs to get to this point, however. Nobody should expect to be the guy in charge of a corporation's technology right out of school.
Comp sci? **dons flame-retardant underwear** Not really a worthwhile degree in the first place, IMHO. Better off studying engineering or physics, or any other number of applied sciences, or even philosophy or english. Unless you are a hardware / electronics geek, computers are just a very small piece of any of that bit of knowledge, and again, with the right background on how to *think*, programming is an easily self-taught discipline, as is integrating code/systems/algorithms into business/engineering/whatever processes at any given company.
They were connecting to a power grid computer from the inside, not the 'Internet' I would certainly hope that power grid controlling computers are not on the public internet.
WTF? Why are these guys going on about speed to release patches??
SQL 'slammer' should NEVER have been an issue. BASIC security practices would have stopped it. What kind of retards run SQL exposed to the Internet???
Yes, patches are important, but basic common sense is much much more important. Like...people complaining about getting 'pop up spam'. Uhh...why do you have the net messenger service, let alone Netbios, exposed to the public Internet in the first place???
I've seen Jetdirect cards on the raw internet, with NO PASSWORD (gee, let's reconfigure him to have the same ip address as their router, should be fun), Echo and Chargen (Simple DOS attack, anybody?), RPC, etc etc. There is no excuse for this.
Linux used to be very bad in this regard, shipping with many unnecessary things running by default, but has gotten better in recent years.
Windows and linux alike need to ship with NOTHING BUT BARE ESSENTIAL services running. Anybody who NEEDS anything else, should then know how to enable it and properly lock it down, unlike the 'whore mode' situation we have had to date.
The problem in the Microsoft world, of course, is installation programs, and even the OS, running all kinds of stuff without your knowledge. When you install software on a windows box, you have no idea what it is opening up to the world. You also do not have any tools that come with the os that make it easy to figure out what is listening either. This needs to change. The culture of "windows admins" also needs to change. They have to actually UNDERSTAND TCP/IP networking now, so that they can do the right thing.
Why is it sad? That's WHY WE HAVE calculators. To do the mundane addition/subtraction. I'd rather focus on creating the equations and solving the problem I am supposed to solve than be bothered with simple arithmetic.
But yes, I agree, they are being used too early and too often these days. You should fully UNDERSTAND what is going on behind the scenes before you should be allowed to let a machine do it for you.
Many of my senior exams in college involved numerical methods (finite element analysis, numerical integration, etc). Of course these are meant to be done by computers. Guess what we had to do on paper for 2 hours in a typical exam with only 2-5 questions in total?
This was annoying enough the first time when the international lyrics server was shut down.
You fools. I have BOUGHT CD's because I would hear a song, didn't know who wrote it or what the title was, but was able to search for the lyrics I heard!
Perhaps they have a point if the site in question is purchasing sheet music, and then publishing it, and perhaps charging money for it. People submitting lyrics, however, what is the problem?
He didn't say he hated anything other than browser incompatibility. He missed a big one:
1 + 1 in javascript will blissfully give you '11', unless you play some tricks to make sure 1 is known as a number (and of course, there is no type declaration in javascript).
Using the same character for string concatenation and addition was a very dumb move, if you have no way of specifying the data type you are operating on!!!
I'm compiling now, can't wait to try it. How does it look compared to using the windoze dll's? The matrix trailer lags and skips like mad with those. Hopefully native support means smooth video playback now?
The radio ad that plays about 20x a day on my way to work and back home tells me I can make over $70,000 a year if I take their classes and become a Microsoft Certified System Engineer! So how can things not be growing?
You guys don't know what you're talking about! Computer jobs are easy money, all I gotta do is spend a few thousand dollars and in a FEW MONTHS (not 4 LONG YEARS for a degree) I'll be rolling in cash!
I just put two pieces of PVC pipe in my car's cupholders, built a shelf onto that, bought a toshiba libretto, and run custom power/analog audio to that. Very easy. 0 custom hardware or software (xmms hotkeys work quite well, including intelligent fast searches with one hand while at a red light). Power was just a matter of buying the adaptor (~$50 IIRC, inverters work but cause too much audio interference), and dropping another cigarette adapter hidden up in the dashboard.
Libretto cost me $450. And the fact that it hibernates perfectly using nothing more than the bios makes it perfect for the car (you can leave it running, if a short stop, or just hibernate it and you come back up with the same song that you left with in the playlist.)
Windowmaker, a couple of custom hotkeys, and a few little custom scripts make it all work quite well. And with the wireless card, it also makes a swank kismet stumbler.
It is NOT 'moral' OR 'responsible' as soon as you spoof your return address or abuse an open relay or proxy. Legitimate would be sending all of the mail from your OWN server which actually had a postmaster and abuse account that you actually had to read!
This guy used software that spoofed his addresses, and also abused relays. How is this POSSIBLY moral or responsible? I have no problems receiving 'ads' from somebody, if they use their own resources to do it and have to actually deal with the responses they get...good or bad.
This is called fraud and forgery, my friend, and there are laws against it. We should be using them to their fullest extent to nail these fsckwads.
Is that this scumbag doesn't believe he is doing anything wrong.
If he feels that this stuff is so legitimate, why is he using software that abuses open relays and proxies, and forges mail headers, instead of publishing the real address he is sending his spew from? Hmmm?
It's forgery, plain and simple, and there are laws that deal with it. Prosecute the fsckers on it already!!!
Now you'll have newbies learning the (incorrect) filesystems, so when they end up trying to support any other distro at a company, they won't know what they are doing.
Let's face it. Those of us with jobs in the computer field have them because of all of the playing around we did with computers/OS's/languages/networking at home.
Is that these 'artists' do not give the guy who did the original music any credit. Like that remix of the police song, "Every breath you take" How many kids who listen to that shit even know who the police were? It's like taking shakespeare quotes, and claiming them as your own. Bullshit.
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I hope there is a dialog or something to the effect of "User foo is sending you their identification credentials so that you can be certain messages in the future are really from this user. Accept Credentials?"
At least then you could be reasonably sure it is really them, if they are right beside you or on the phone when you do this. If it's automatic, then what is the point? There is no real way to trust that you have the real public key of that user then.
Of course, the private and public keys are all likely stored on AOL's servers, which again defeats the purpose. Unfortunately without it being automatic, people won't use it. But automatic just isn't the way to properly authenticate.
Maybe I was unlucky and got a bad one (last they had at the store...I too bought this based on the Tom's hardware review...which ONLY looked at the thing from playing quake...not from how well text looked when doing real work), but mine took HOURS of fussing around with the fine tuning to get it crisp. Then as soon as you flip resolution (ie, to play quake at 1024x768...I only have an Athlon 900), and come back, Major blur all over the screen.
I took it back. Picked up the sony 17". The sony isn't quite as bright (So what, I use computers here in a dark room anyway and still had to turn it down), and the response is supposedly slower, but I do not see it, even when playing RTCW and Quake, but it is CRYSTAL CLEAR. I adjusted it ONCE. It locked on and has been sharp as a razor ever since.
If all of the 1760Vs are as crappy as the one I got, I'd highly recommend anybody considering one steer clear of it and go with the sony 17", which actually does provide a very crisp display at its native resolution.
Instead, they just add more bloat and more useless features that get in the way of productivity with every release.
No thanks. I'll stick to my linux box with some highly-tuned specific task apps and my windowmaker + rox desktop.
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And you HAVE to love the cutscene with the german elite chick telling the soldiers about what happens if you look at the ceremony, while playing with her hair and swivelling her hips, and then walking away, shaking her ass all the while.
Grow up, people. Do you really expect to be taken seriously by investors when you post shit like: "SCO LONGS = F*CKING IDIOTS"
Another article to show to the boss showing him how much better off we are by going the spamass + mimedefang route over expensive, ineffective commercial crap!
The best 'computer people' I know graduated with degrees in Physics, Engineering, Math and English.
My own degree is in Aerospace Engineering, but I have never directly applied that, going the computer / network programming / administration / security policy setting and enforcement route instead. It did take a lot of work and a lot of shit tech support jobs to get to this point, however. Nobody should expect to be the guy in charge of a corporation's technology right out of school.
Comp sci? **dons flame-retardant underwear** Not really a worthwhile degree in the first place, IMHO. Better off studying engineering or physics, or any other number of applied sciences, or even philosophy or english. Unless you are a hardware / electronics geek, computers are just a very small piece of any of that bit of knowledge, and again, with the right background on how to *think*, programming is an easily self-taught discipline, as is integrating code/systems/algorithms into business/engineering/whatever processes at any given company.
Try to order something online, where your confirmation is mailed to you, or be a member of a list, and then get back to us on how well this works.
They were connecting to a power grid computer from the inside, not the 'Internet' I would certainly hope that power grid controlling computers are not on the public internet.
SQL 'slammer' should NEVER have been an issue. BASIC security practices would have stopped it. What kind of retards run SQL exposed to the Internet???
Yes, patches are important, but basic common sense is much much more important. Like...people complaining about getting 'pop up spam'. Uhh...why do you have the net messenger service, let alone Netbios, exposed to the public Internet in the first place???
I've seen Jetdirect cards on the raw internet, with NO PASSWORD (gee, let's reconfigure him to have the same ip address as their router, should be fun), Echo and Chargen (Simple DOS attack, anybody?), RPC, etc etc. There is no excuse for this.
Linux used to be very bad in this regard, shipping with many unnecessary things running by default, but has gotten better in recent years.
Windows and linux alike need to ship with NOTHING BUT BARE ESSENTIAL services running. Anybody who NEEDS anything else, should then know how to enable it and properly lock it down, unlike the 'whore mode' situation we have had to date.
The problem in the Microsoft world, of course, is installation programs, and even the OS, running all kinds of stuff without your knowledge. When you install software on a windows box, you have no idea what it is opening up to the world. You also do not have any tools that come with the os that make it easy to figure out what is listening either. This needs to change. The culture of "windows admins" also needs to change. They have to actually UNDERSTAND TCP/IP networking now, so that they can do the right thing.
If it gets to 1.0, and if it does cookie-blocking properly (deny all by default, allow as needed).
But yes, I agree, they are being used too early and too often these days. You should fully UNDERSTAND what is going on behind the scenes before you should be allowed to let a machine do it for you.
Many of my senior exams in college involved numerical methods (finite element analysis, numerical integration, etc). Of course these are meant to be done by computers. Guess what we had to do on paper for 2 hours in a typical exam with only 2-5 questions in total?
Russ complains a lot, but he never offers any solutions to the problem.
You fools. I have BOUGHT CD's because I would hear a song, didn't know who wrote it or what the title was, but was able to search for the lyrics I heard!
Perhaps they have a point if the site in question is purchasing sheet music, and then publishing it, and perhaps charging money for it. People submitting lyrics, however, what is the problem?
*sigh*
Of course there are others...
1 + 1 in javascript will blissfully give you '11', unless you play some tricks to make sure 1 is known as a number (and of course, there is no type declaration in javascript).
Using the same character for string concatenation and addition was a very dumb move, if you have no way of specifying the data type you are operating on!!!
I'm compiling now, can't wait to try it. How does it look compared to using the windoze dll's? The matrix trailer lags and skips like mad with those. Hopefully native support means smooth video playback now?
You guys don't know what you're talking about! Computer jobs are easy money, all I gotta do is spend a few thousand dollars and in a FEW MONTHS (not 4 LONG YEARS for a degree) I'll be rolling in cash!
Libretto cost me $450. And the fact that it hibernates perfectly using nothing more than the bios makes it perfect for the car (you can leave it running, if a short stop, or just hibernate it and you come back up with the same song that you left with in the playlist.)
Windowmaker, a couple of custom hotkeys, and a few little custom scripts make it all work quite well. And with the wireless card, it also makes a swank kismet stumbler.
This guy used software that spoofed his addresses, and also abused relays. How is this POSSIBLY moral or responsible? I have no problems receiving 'ads' from somebody, if they use their own resources to do it and have to actually deal with the responses they get...good or bad.
This is called fraud and forgery, my friend, and there are laws against it. We should be using them to their fullest extent to nail these fsckwads.
If all you really care about is speed, use links. Opera does not impress me.
If he feels that this stuff is so legitimate, why is he using software that abuses open relays and proxies, and forges mail headers, instead of publishing the real address he is sending his spew from? Hmmm?
It's forgery, plain and simple, and there are laws that deal with it. Prosecute the fsckers on it already!!!
Let's face it. Those of us with jobs in the computer field have them because of all of the playing around we did with computers/OS's/languages/networking at home.
Bad move for the community, gobolinux.
Is that these 'artists' do not give the guy who did the original music any credit. Like that remix of the police song, "Every breath you take" How many kids who listen to that shit even know who the police were? It's like taking shakespeare quotes, and claiming them as your own. Bullshit.