He will make mistakes at some rate. In C, those bugs will translate directly to security holes, whereas in a typesafe language they will not.
So you're saying that managed languages won't let programmers send passwords over a socket in the clear? Or use a predictable psuedo-random source for key generation? Or store credit card numbers in a folder served up by http? Wow! I'm drooling over managed languages already!
This seems an odd way to compare accomplishments. If you use this metric, then you reach the false conclusion that doubling wattage doubles distance. Since signal strength deteriorates with distance squared, a better metric might be miles^2 per Watt.
Example using round numbers. Philip transmits 10 miles using a 10W transmitter. Sally transmits 19 miles using a 20W transmitter. If you use miles per Watt to compare, it looks like Philip achieved better results, when in fact Sally did.
This kind of thing just burns me up. Clueless companies hire clueless developers who think they can make software or hardware relatively secure by mearly applying encryption in whatever way they think is convenient. Never mind the plain-text password behind the curtain. Never mind that xor is equivalent to plain text (Lexor). Never mind that supporting multiple decription keys reduces the effective key length (DVD). Never mind that if you somehow store the decryption keys in a way that the software retreive (DVD again) that anyone can extract them. Never mind that storing a strongly-encoded password along with a weakly-encoded one buys you nothing (Microsoft). Never mind that encryption can't prevent copying (DRM). Never mind that this list can go on forever...
I own a JumpDrive Secure. Don't laugh; I only got it because Wally World didn't have the regular 256MB one. I plugged it in and the first thing it did was install their security software *without asking me*. Yes, Windows XP. Yes, I had turned AutoRun off on my CD. No, I have no idea how to disable AutoRun on a device that has never been plugged in before. Grrrr.
What did I do? I used Linux to reformat the JumpDrive then uninstalled the software it added without my permission. Now I have a perfectly usable device. (This was 4 months ago)
Why don't they just start manufacturing them as soon as they're ordered? They can then use a demo model to go to the future, pick them up, then sell to you immediately. Just-in-time manufacturing aquires a whole new meaning!
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So you're saying that managed languages won't let programmers send passwords over a socket in the clear? Or use a predictable psuedo-random source for key generation? Or store credit card numbers in a folder served up by http? Wow! I'm drooling over managed languages already!
This seems an odd way to compare accomplishments. If you use this metric, then you reach the false conclusion that doubling wattage doubles distance. Since signal strength deteriorates with distance squared, a better metric might be miles^2 per Watt.
Example using round numbers. Philip transmits 10 miles using a 10W transmitter. Sally transmits 19 miles using a 20W transmitter. If you use miles per Watt to compare, it looks like Philip achieved better results, when in fact Sally did.
I misread this as: and furnish the International Space Station with disposable rockets. ie. to plunge it into the atmosphere for end-of-life
Best of luck to Private Spaceflight.
Is he related to Buzz Lightyear?
one of the very first to have inter-user electronic mail
because intra-user electronic mail wasn't as useful as people had hoped.
This kind of thing just burns me up. Clueless companies hire clueless developers who think they can make software or hardware relatively secure by mearly applying encryption in whatever way they think is convenient. Never mind the plain-text password behind the curtain. Never mind that xor is equivalent to plain text (Lexor). Never mind that supporting multiple decription keys reduces the effective key length (DVD). Never mind that if you somehow store the decryption keys in a way that the software retreive (DVD again) that anyone can extract them. Never mind that storing a strongly-encoded password along with a weakly-encoded one buys you nothing (Microsoft). Never mind that encryption can't prevent copying (DRM). Never mind that this list can go on forever...
I own a JumpDrive Secure. Don't laugh; I only got it because Wally World didn't have the regular 256MB one. I plugged it in and the first thing it did was install their security software *without asking me*. Yes, Windows XP. Yes, I had turned AutoRun off on my CD. No, I have no idea how to disable AutoRun on a device that has never been plugged in before. Grrrr.
What did I do? I used Linux to reformat the JumpDrive then uninstalled the software it added without my permission. Now I have a perfectly usable device. (This was 4 months ago)
Man, I can't stand it when that list goes down from beeing hax0red...
from #scheme on freenode:
<c++> sarahbot, what is slashdot
<sarahbot> I could be wrong, but slashdot is in soviet russia
I seriously doubt it.
What? You mean the U.S. doesn't get daylight anymore? bummer.
Either this guy has a discusting sense of humor, or his site http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2901 was cracked.
Does this mean everything on Press Pass is a hoax?
Why don't they just start manufacturing them as soon as they're ordered? They can then use a demo model to go to the future, pick them up, then sell to you immediately. Just-in-time manufacturing aquires a whole new meaning!