in the Information Technology field? This might go some way to explain it.
Did Yahoo not think that women engineers would be present at this event? They make up roughly ten percent of engineers as a whole. Furthermore, did they think that there was some way that women attendees would be perfectly comfortable watching other women objectified on a stage?
It's not that I mind women being objectified for money -- the women involved are handsomely rewarded for their parts in this business deal. I do mind people in my field saying that they do everything they can to make women comfortable in our field, then turning around and saying that they don't understand why anyone would be offended by this.
But, the Schneier chapter isn't meant to piss him off, I have no beef with him whatsoever. I just think the fanboys do the world a disservice by not thinking for themselves, especially when they draw from material that's a decade old.
The thing is, you're not convincing me that the book is out of date. There is plenty of material in the Internet that is over a decade old and is still relatively current. I read the Cathedral and the Bazaar for the first time last month, and drew a good amount of benefit from its words, even if I'm not ready to swallow it whole. The Mythical Man Month shed quite a bit of perspective on project management in a field that our industry has fifty or so years of experience in, and yet we still do terribly at.
The principles of cryptography are still the same today as they were in the days of the Roman Empire and the Caesar Cipher, with all the bits about Alice and Bob with Mallory in the middle. Our toys are much more advanced today, and their rate of advance continues to increase, but just what is it that makes our pulling of information from a 10+-year-old book harmful?
I'm no Schneier "fanboy", and haven't actually read the book; I just genuinely want to know.
The solution to that problem is pretty simple (and yet at the same time, not simple at all): get a cleared job. If you work for the government and your job requires a clearance, then you have instantly guarded yourself with very good certainty from outsourcing.
Okay, you still can't telecommute, but you probably won't get outsourced.
Hewlett Packard also did this last year, as well as just a few months after Mark Hurd took office. Both times, the rumors were closely paired with internal rumors of layoffs. Both times, HP denied that the two were related.
I think a loose translation could read that Google has hit Symbian's brown note.
Google has the money to buy the experience they need. Add a half cup of search, a tablespoon of AdSense, and the rest will be history. Geeks will be clamoring for this platform just as they did for the iPhone, as Google has an uncanny sense for what their users want.
Many states have outlawed using credit cards for lottery tickets, which could be construed as gambling, I suppose. Colorado is among those states.
Thus, the rule itself may not have been for the express purpose of eliminating gambling, but to keep people from putting themselves even further in debt to pay for their gambling habit.
Java/AWT also looks pretty much like ass on everything that isn't a Mac. Apple took the initiative to integrate it in with the operating system so that it looked exactly like every other application on the macintosh.
Could you imagine a version of WINE with a widget library which integrated WINE with Cocoa?
I went through a trial run using "Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta1", "Ad-Aware SE", and "Spybot - Search & Destroy". I, of course, did all the proper updating prior to running the full system scans, including getting the latest definitions. Also, of course, I didn't allow any of the apps to actually fix anything. The results were surprisingly underwhelming (Screenshot).
Ad-aware found 10 objects which it deemed "critical" along with 21 which it called "negligible". The 10 critical ones were all tracking cookies from ads on websites I'd visited before.
Spybot Search & Destroy found five problems which it called "Data Source Exploits", which simply related to Internet Explorer settings being set to a level which is possibly insecure.
However, Microsoft's Antispyware application found only two registry entries (which neither of the other programs detected).
I think all of these applications are probably pretty good about getting the really Evil Stuff (which I had none of, so I can't profess to know truly how good these things work).
With all these applications, I think the one you'll find works the best is the one that thinks more closely along the same lines as you as far as what you call spyware.
As a Mac user and Linux guy, I have to say that this kind of study is a little tilted... how many Mac users and Windows users really know how to record a breach into their machine? Neither ships with process accounting on out of the box, to my knowledge.
I recently had some puke engage in comment spamming my website. Traceback revealed he was using a Windows XP machine infected with the Subseven trojan. I'd be willing to bet that breach was not recorded.
Seeing hatemongering like this makes me sick in the pit of my stomach. And the mods call this informative. If you're going to spread hate, at least have the courage to stand up to the repercussions it will have.
Justification by saying that we were not the only ones doing it doesn't make it right. Justification by saying that the Germans declared war on us first doesn't make it right. Both sides were involved in a very bloody war, and I don't care what you've read, neither side was in the right.
I am an American, a patriot. I love my country, and would fight to protect it. I have even served in the military, protecting the rights of cowards like you to the uneducated filth of your half-truths.
This man's father was killed by my country and its allies in its quest to scare and conquer its enemy, and I'm not proud of that. To be associated by citizenship with a person who would treat the memory of thousands of dead men, women, and children with anything less than the utmost of reverence and respect makes me absolutely sick.
Seriously. Stop that. Seeing that the XBox uses PowerPC chips now, you're going to start these Microsoft developers thinking they can port Windows XP to my Powerbook.
Okay, serously, not everybody has the means, but I have my desktop that I use to do nothing but work on. I have my laptop in front of the couch, that I use to do things such as read Slashdot, etc...
Shrinks suggest for people who can't sleep to reserve the bedroom for sleeping only (except the obvious other thing that people do in there). Study in another room, do everything in another room. Discipline is the key, though.
Government budgets generally run from one year to the next, and it takes at least ten mother-may-i's up the chain of command to spend a dime of Uncle Sam's money.
Windows is good enough, it's made a lot of progress in the last few years. DoD is huge on standards... everyone should run the same things, everyone runs Windows, Word, Excel, yada yada, so we don't run into issues like compatibility... it takes one more node out of the fault tree.
The DoD has just now started opening their eyes to Linux, and I don't think they're ready to retrain everyone on an OS that most soldiers are completely lost at... I think that's a pretty decent deal, if you ask me.
And, by the way, XP has been approved by the DoD for most uses on their networks.:)
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in the Information Technology field? This might go some way to explain it.
Did Yahoo not think that women engineers would be present at this event? They make up roughly ten percent of engineers as a whole. Furthermore, did they think that there was some way that women attendees would be perfectly comfortable watching other women objectified on a stage?
It's not that I mind women being objectified for money -- the women involved are handsomely rewarded for their parts in this business deal. I do mind people in my field saying that they do everything they can to make women comfortable in our field, then turning around and saying that they don't understand why anyone would be offended by this.
But, the Schneier chapter isn't meant to piss him off, I have no beef with him whatsoever. I just think the fanboys do the world a disservice by not thinking for themselves, especially when they draw from material that's a decade old.
The thing is, you're not convincing me that the book is out of date. There is plenty of material in the Internet that is over a decade old and is still relatively current. I read the Cathedral and the Bazaar for the first time last month, and drew a good amount of benefit from its words, even if I'm not ready to swallow it whole. The Mythical Man Month shed quite a bit of perspective on project management in a field that our industry has fifty or so years of experience in, and yet we still do terribly at.
The principles of cryptography are still the same today as they were in the days of the Roman Empire and the Caesar Cipher, with all the bits about Alice and Bob with Mallory in the middle. Our toys are much more advanced today, and their rate of advance continues to increase, but just what is it that makes our pulling of information from a 10+-year-old book harmful?
I'm no Schneier "fanboy", and haven't actually read the book; I just genuinely want to know.
Works fine here:
Let's set so double the killer delete select all
See?
The solution to that problem is pretty simple (and yet at the same time, not simple at all): get a cleared job. If you work for the government and your job requires a clearance, then you have instantly guarded yourself with very good certainty from outsourcing.
Okay, you still can't telecommute, but you probably won't get outsourced.
Hewlett Packard also did this last year, as well as just a few months after Mark Hurd took office. Both times, the rumors were closely paired with internal rumors of layoffs. Both times, HP denied that the two were related.
I think a loose translation could read that Google has hit Symbian's brown note.
Google has the money to buy the experience they need. Add a half cup of search, a tablespoon of AdSense, and the rest will be history. Geeks will be clamoring for this platform just as they did for the iPhone, as Google has an uncanny sense for what their users want.
> Obiously 50,000 users didn't test anything at all.
No, those are the ones whose crashes were in the network stack.
Many states have outlawed using credit cards for lottery tickets, which could be construed as gambling, I suppose. Colorado is among those states.
Thus, the rule itself may not have been for the express purpose of eliminating gambling, but to keep people from putting themselves even further in debt to pay for their gambling habit.
Java/AWT also looks pretty much like ass on everything that isn't a Mac. Apple took the initiative to integrate it in with the operating system so that it looked exactly like every other application on the macintosh.
Could you imagine a version of WINE with a widget library which integrated WINE with Cocoa?
So what happens if you change your browser to identify as Googlebot?
Problem solved, right? The scammer redirects you via 302, and you see the original content of the page that the scammer wants to index.
I went through a trial run using "Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta1", "Ad-Aware SE", and "Spybot - Search & Destroy". I, of course, did all the proper updating prior to running the full system scans, including getting the latest definitions. Also, of course, I didn't allow any of the apps to actually fix anything. The results were surprisingly underwhelming (Screenshot).
Ad-aware found 10 objects which it deemed "critical" along with 21 which it called "negligible". The 10 critical ones were all tracking cookies from ads on websites I'd visited before.
Spybot Search & Destroy found five problems which it called "Data Source Exploits", which simply related to Internet Explorer settings being set to a level which is possibly insecure.
However, Microsoft's Antispyware application found only two registry entries (which neither of the other programs detected).
I think all of these applications are probably pretty good about getting the really Evil Stuff (which I had none of, so I can't profess to know truly how good these things work).
With all these applications, I think the one you'll find works the best is the one that thinks more closely along the same lines as you as far as what you call spyware.
As a Mac user and Linux guy, I have to say that this kind of study is a little tilted... how many Mac users and Windows users really know how to record a breach into their machine? Neither ships with process accounting on out of the box, to my knowledge.
I recently had some puke engage in comment spamming my website. Traceback revealed he was using a Windows XP machine infected with the Subseven trojan. I'd be willing to bet that breach was not recorded.
We don't have to invent it here to screw it up... we brought Linux all the way from Finland to make Lindows out of it.
Seeing hatemongering like this makes me sick in the pit of my stomach. And the mods call this informative. If you're going to spread hate, at least have the courage to stand up to the repercussions it will have.
Justification by saying that we were not the only ones doing it doesn't make it right. Justification by saying that the Germans declared war on us first doesn't make it right. Both sides were involved in a very bloody war, and I don't care what you've read, neither side was in the right.
I am an American, a patriot. I love my country, and would fight to protect it. I have even served in the military, protecting the rights of cowards like you to the uneducated filth of your half-truths.
This man's father was killed by my country and its allies in its quest to scare and conquer its enemy, and I'm not proud of that. To be associated by citizenship with a person who would treat the memory of thousands of dead men, women, and children with anything less than the utmost of reverence and respect makes me absolutely sick.
Seriously. Stop that. Seeing that the XBox uses PowerPC chips now, you're going to start these Microsoft developers thinking they can port Windows XP to my Powerbook.
Add this line to your /etc/hosts file:
127.0.0.1 www.slashdot.org
Okay, serously, not everybody has the means, but I have my desktop that I use to do nothing but work on. I have my laptop in front of the couch, that I use to do things such as read Slashdot, etc...
Shrinks suggest for people who can't sleep to reserve the bedroom for sleeping only (except the obvious other thing that people do in there). Study in another room, do everything in another room. Discipline is the key, though.
Why reinvent the wheel?
:)
Government budgets generally run from one year to the next, and it takes at least ten mother-may-i's up the chain of command to spend a dime of Uncle Sam's money.
Windows is good enough, it's made a lot of progress in the last few years. DoD is huge on standards... everyone should run the same things, everyone runs Windows, Word, Excel, yada yada, so we don't run into issues like compatibility... it takes one more node out of the fault tree.
The DoD has just now started opening their eyes to Linux, and I don't think they're ready to retrain everyone on an OS that most soldiers are completely lost at... I think that's a pretty decent deal, if you ask me.
And, by the way, XP has been approved by the DoD for most uses on their networks.