A smart black hat would lay low until SP1 is released, and wait for the real corporate deployment to begin.
A smart black hat has like a job and a life.
The only thing I can say that these script kiddies and whatnot are good for is that they are easily detectable and they alert security people of vulnerabilities so that it makes it difficult for people that are really interested in doing real damage or obtaining data that they shouldn't have.
Its really ironic how valuable these kids are. Without them, real compromises would be more common and much more painful.
I've thought about comparing patents to open source.
I mean, slashdot is open source. Anybody can just download and create a new and better slashdot, but it just doesn't happen. The same goes for music. Cover bands just don't seem to be as good as "the real thing" (TM, patent pending).
Cooking is also pretty much open source. Its not uncommon for chefs to have their cookbook for sale for much less than the price of a dinner for two, but the restraunt has no problem being full all the time.
The real money is in doing, not in the instructions on how to do.
The principal is that if a 3 year head start on your own idea isnt enough to get you established in the market then you should probably let someone else do it anyway rather than stifle future innovation
The thing that gets me is that there is little to no money in innovation, but rather the actual _selling_ of a product in mass quanities.
McDonalds, Dell and Microsoft do quite well off of selling/rebranding/repackaging stuff no different than anyone elses, but the quality is at least known, and the price is right.
Sure, they all may have patents, but are they what separates them from their competetors?
What about the fashion industry? What about any other industry?
In fact, I can't think of a single instance where patents actually have helped an industry, but rather hurt the public by preventing people from just producing a product.
"Socialized medicine" is a very broad abstraction that can take on a wide variety of forms.
I view American medicine as already being socialized.
Every month health care is taken out of my check before I get it, and I have to pay more for specific services with a wait. Its just itemized. The only difference is that it is not compulsary across all pay grades and job types.
This will never change unless we go to socialized medicine, because people fundamentally go to see a doctor when they are sick, and not to manage their future potential illness burdens.
Bingo. I was talking to my dentist, well I mumbled and he was talking:), and he said that the dental community years ago established that they wanted to focus on dental health vs dental fixmeups. They established regular checkup programs, flouride in water, advertising campaigns, and people's dental health has really improved in the past 40-50 years.
"Regular doctors" don't focus on health, but expensive tuneups and fixes when things break. I'm not a fan of medications in general because many of them really suck in terms of cost and side affects, and many drugs are glorified passifiers that mask the symptoms until time takes is natural course.
While I'm on a semi-rant, I find it a big PITA that its so difficult to have basic medications for problems that patients have had before. Instead of just going back to the pharmacy or calling the doc, you have to either make an appointment and wait, or just wait, they either call in or give you a piece of paper, then you go and wait again for the pharmacist to take the pills from a big bottle and put them in a small bottle.
And I'm lucky enough to preemptively pay monthy for such a service, even if I don't use it. For those that don't do such a thing, they have to pay out of pocket at mafia-like prices. Yuck.
Its the way the legal system works. It makes little sense to take a corp to court when you are garanteed to get $750k. Its good enough, and even Sony is not stupid enough to pull this trick again. The state won, the people won, Sony lost, and even 10x more "profit" to the state would not really be more of a win.
Most cases like this are settled, and that is good enough. Its rare that a corporation treats this as "the cost of doing business" because the courts will lean harder the next time around.
I wish individuals had the same legal rights and negotiation abilities with the court system, but thats another story in itself.
People always spout some bullshit about responsibility, but the studies show that people starting to drink at 21 is more harmful than people drinking earlier.
I'm speaking as an American who has been known to be drunk for years at a time, and I believe that the American attitude towards many of the taboo things is really detrimental to society in general vs being open about these things and it actually makes the behaviors worse.
Our attitudes towards sex increases promiscuity and teen pregnancies. A boobie at the SuperBowl is still talked about years later. Societies that don't have drinking ages have less issues with alcoholism as we do. Marijuana is not a gateway drug per se, but because it is illegal but in high demand, it actually is a gateway drug because people use it, then ask, "Why is this illegal?", and then because they are already committing a crime and hanging out with "criminals", then the other drugs follow suit.
Today, I don't drink, and I do believe that 1-3 drinks a day is a healthy thing. It relieves stress and is good for the heart. Beyond that level it harms the liver and brain and psychologically it can really fuck you up after a period of time.
Honestly, I don't believe that cocaine and heroin are actually as bad as they are made out to be either. Like alcohol, under 5% of those that use heroin and cocaine actually become addicted to them, and getting off of them is a bitch, especially alcohol and heroin.
Make a list of what XP-64 will do for you that XP won't.
Actually, its probably easier to make a list of what XP-64 won't do for you.
This 32-64 bit thing is funny. For one thing, I've been using 64bit machines for almost 10 years. I've only really needed them in the past 5 years.
Basically if you don't need single processes over 4 Gigs of RAM, and you don't need system memory over 12 Gigs or whatever the upper limit has been hacked onto 32 bit systems, AND you are willing to pay for that much RAM (which excludes 99% of slashdotters right there), then you do not need a 64bit system.
If you and your family live anywhere near the launch site, or ride an airliner anywhere near it, you better damn well hope it does.
I understand your point, but I would bet that liability insurance and other potential legal recourse, plus the desire to stay in business and make a profit would vastly surpass anything that the FAA could make up.
Going to space is not trivial. Its not cheap, and even though everybody wants to go, in reality its only going to be people with money that are going to do it, and they are not going to give their money to some guy in a back alley who offers space travel for cheap.
First, let me be clear that this list is bogus. These 'Good' habits are not that advantagious at all, and I've been using UNIX for quite some time now, and I'm pretty good at it.
Now, being pedantic, the cd a/b/c || mkdir -p/a/b/c is silly, just do the mkdir -p/a/b/c if that is what you want. Don't test for it, just do it!
cat-ing a file and then piping it to grep. surely that is a good point he is making, because grep already takes filenames as an argument?
That list was fairly arbitrary, but the piping cat thing is something that basically only annoys the most anal of anal, and they probably do it sometimes too.
Its common for me to do cat foo and then hit the up arrow and append a pipe to another command instead of editing the whole command line. Computers are pretty fast, and real anal people would use fgrep instead of grep, but again I always use egrep, because I never know when a regular expression will be edited into a more complex one, and to me all of the speeds are the same.
My #1 habit to tell people, although it is not a habit, but just where to start it to learn your shell. No science guys, csh is not a worthy shell in 2006. If you have to suffer with the wacky behavior of a csh variant, at least use tcsh.
My #2 thing to learn is a text editor.
As far as habits go. First and foremost, unalias cp, mv, rm to have the -i flag. In my opinion, that is a BAD habit to start. You WILL lose files sooner or later, and the more painful the better so that you will think so you will stop doing it. the -i flag will NOT stop you from redirecting into a file, and the most dangerous is the -rf flag with rm will override that -i. Remote copies via rcp or scp will not honor the -i flag. Unarchiving an archive will not honor the -i flag. There are tons of ways to lose files, and you will lose them. Its a much better habit to universally save yourself from yourself to not lose them by testing with -i, working off of a copy, and thinking before you hit return, creating new directories to eliminate clobbering a file, NEVER, EVER, do tar cf foo.tar. or tar cf foo.tar *. You will piss yourself and others by doing that.
Actually, this top 10 list is pretty lame, and should be ignored.
Yes, I wonder who really cares. If the FAA starts making tourism such a hassle, most would be tourists will go to space via Russia, on Russian rockets that are more reliable and on the cheap! Now beat that. I care, and don't care.
I care because this means that I may be able to go to space in my lifetime.
I don't care because if I'm going to space, the FAA rules will not affect me.
Which, coincidentally, just happens to be my #1 OSX UI peeve.
I questioned that too at first, and then I realized it was due to the fact that Apple-O to open them instead of Enter. Its VERY difficult to hit Apple-O, its easy for a cat to step on a keyboard and hit the 2nd largest key on the keyboard.
The same goes with deleting files. Sure it would be easier to hit the delete key or whatever, but what about Apple-Backspace to delete them.
That too will not likely happen by accident, and then you can bypass the chronic bozobox asking if you really want to delete crap.
These things are by design, and once getting used to them and thinking about them, they make a whole lot of sense.
Keep in mind that one big difference between Macs and other GUIs is that the apps actually remember window positions!
Having my apps have their individual windows in their places and having them overlap so I can see/switch between them is priceless.
Maximizing windows is not really a desire. It is to achieve user focus (Macs have a feature hide other applications for that), and it is to create a menu in the same place (Macs always have the application menu at the top of the screen).
Sure, there are times for specific application where even "maximizing" is not good enough. And that is called full screen, and there are hooks in GUIs for that as well.
Also, Macs have what no other GUI has in that they treat "applications" and "windows" differently. If you don't know what this means, you have not used a Mac for any time, and you don't know the advantage there.
I would like to chime in on the one button mouse thing.
I used to knock apple for it for years, and then I started _using_ a one button mouse, and I don't too much care how many buttons there are. I would say I'm slightly in favor of one button.
When I got my first Mac a few years ago, the first thing I did was to buy a "real mouse". Actually, it was a powerbook and I did not want to exclusively use the trackpad.
What have I learned over the years. Multi-button mice on any OS do not differentiate between Alt, shift, control, Option, or whatever key combination with the advent of any number of buttons. In fact, when you hook up a multibutton mouse to a Mac the other clicker button is usually mapped to control+click.
I will say for laptops and a trackpad, its much better having one button vs two.
Also, I have not used this personally, but I bet it, like most things Mac -- it "Just works" when using a touch screen with a Mac because it is the same as a one button mouse, and most apps are designed with the one button.
The problem is that Windows Users (and apparently Linux Users) expect the zoom button (on the Mac) to take up the entire screen, so that it hides all other open windows. it doesn't do that.
This is the second time I've read this in this thread.
Windows users have been conditioned to only want to view one window at a time, which is perfectly fine, and the Mac has a thing hides the current application, and one that hides other applications. Also, there are things like 30" widescreen monitors that are the desire of all Mac users, and viewing things like slashdot in a web browser maximized across a 30" monitor simply makes little sense.
Microsoft has enabled a number of features that have become habits of users as "hacks" or whatever to achieve a secodary goal. My.sig claims that MS invented the forward slash as an example. They did. Before MS decided to use the backslash as a path deliminator and everybody else uses the slash character, people then started using other systems, especially the WWW where the "forward slash" was used. The backslash deliminator thing has been confusing for quite some time. In developing on a windows environment, C/C++ #include statements and certain functions can (almost always) interchangably use a forward or a backward slash. The same goes for other MS products. On some versions of IE on an IIS webserver (some versions??) forward and backward slashes can be used interchangebly and/or they are stripped out or some unique behavior to that particular version.
What also kills me is that a / is a reserved character and cannot be used in a filename in windows, but a backslash can be a legitimate character in other systems.
Yes, there are a number of quirks and inconsistancies in OSX, but they have not turned into workstyles and have not affected people's view of computing.
Every dependency system has that, including RPM, pkg, apt, and even Perl's CPAN setup.
I guess my opinions of RPM were just too ahead of the time, and now people are catching on.
To put it bluntly, RPMs suck. The real fun comes when you actually build and maintain RPMs, and then you realize their ugliness.
However, I'm kinda not happy with the whole package system at times. Sometimes its just easier and better to compile something yourself because of the features or custom patches you want to add to something (this is open source) and then if the program is not registered in the package system.
Then if something depends on it, even though the dependancies are met, the package system is not aware of that.
The thing is that I don't believe there really is an answer, and that is why sysadmins exist.
They were both compromised by social engineering. Which allows us to see the passwords people are choosing and find that corporate passwords are more venerable to brute force attacks.
I was being a little facetious. I'm not one who believes in "strong" passwords simply because I don't believe that they are secure to begin with.
A standard lock on a door may not be as "strong" as a steel door with bolts going through it like a vault, but I do believe that most weak passwords are strong enough, like standard locks. In my years of working with computers, I have heard plenty of things about passwords (strong or not) being found or given away. I've heard of them phished, sniffed on plaintext transmissions, or social engineered. I've heard of root passwords being left in.bash_history files when someone mistyped 'su' and then typed the password having it stored.
In fact, as far as weak passwords go, I've heard of default passwords being used plenty of times, even here on slashdot a few years back. I've heard of a handful of people getting in with 200 or so attempts via the standard ssh bruteforce attacks, but almost 100% of the time a computer geek's version of a weak password will never be compromised. The only exceptions were when people knew someone and tried things like their kids names or whatnot, but that is VERY rare. I would like to hear any number of examples of brute force breakins via weak passwords, but its so much easier to just get the few characters from somebody via trickery or just asking them vs brute force. Back to the locks, even if a lock only takes a simple shoulder to break, most people will simply try all of the other doors and windows first.
Au contraire! It shows that MySpace users value their virtual presence more than corporate users value data security on the corporate network. Not the same thing. Most people don't get fired for choosing a shit password and getting the company hacked up.
Riddle me this Batman.
How is a password from sample A more secure than sample B when BOTH sample A and B's passwords were compromised?
Dimes, Quarters, Half-Dollars and (I think) Dollars were silver until 1964. That is why you don't normally see any dimes or quarters from before the '60s in your change.
Clarification. They were either kept by coin collectors, or they were melted down because they are worth much more in either form than their face value.
Money is a very funny (ha-ha funny) topic. Its real and not-real at the same time. What is also interesting is how new the new fiat currency is as a practice.
I get the feeling that most people commenting on this article have no idea how laws and the criminal justice system work.
No, you cannot realistically ensure that all registered sex offenders have a single email address/IM address/etc and that they register them. What you do do, however, is make it a legal requirement to register all your electronic contact details if you're a registered sex offender, then if you catch someone violating the law, you've something else to charge them with.
Ah, I've got it now. Its the government's bait-n-switch routine.
First, you bust someone with a pseudo-crime like child molestation, rape, murder, or marijuana possession.
Then, you make just about every modern feature of modern life that is legal for everyone else, but a special case for the offender. Things like points of contact, driving, traveling, drinking alcohol at home, self-defense, etc.
Then, its simple. You then find the person guilty of violating a violation that is otherwise normal, but now that person is now really guilty of the original pseudo crime without even having to court for the normal-derived crime.
Turns out we hired a guy who used a fake name and someone else's social security number, and he worked as one of our main sysadmins for over a year...
Hmm, so I would assume he picked a clean SSN and name, so a background check would have revealed???
There is a place that has 441 employees, and here is the breakdown of their past:
* 29 members have been accused of spousal abuse. * 7 have been arrested for fraud. * 19 have been accused of writing bad checks. * 117 have bankrupted at least two businesses. * 3 have been arrested for assault. * 71 have credit reports so bad they can't qualify for a credit card. * 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges. * 8 have been arrested for shoplifting. * 21 are current defendants in lawsuits.
* And in 1998 alone, 84 were stopped for drunk driving, but released after they claimed Congressional immunity.
Wake up RIAA and realize that the price of music drives piracy.
That is only a small part of it.
I pirate music I have on CD somewhere upstairs or in my car because I'm too lazy to dig out the CD and rip it myself. I get the bonus by frequently being able to download all albums by the artist in one download. Even if the CD boxset was free, its still easier and more convenient to download the music than it is to rip the plastic off of all the CD cases.
In fact, I've even heard of markets that are around convenience over quanity or quality. They are things like convenience stores, where the prices are often more than at other, less convenient stores. There are also things like fast food that is not the best food, but its priced lower and the service is faster than other restaurants.
I have yet to of seen the availiability of a resonably priced MP3 collection on a standard data CD that I can play in my car CD player or copy onto my computer and/or MP3 player.
So, for now, convenience and price wins and the media moguls lose.
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A smart black hat would lay low until SP1 is released, and wait for the real corporate deployment to begin.
A smart black hat has like a job and a life.
The only thing I can say that these script kiddies and whatnot are good for is that they are easily detectable and they alert security people of vulnerabilities so that it makes it difficult for people that are really interested in doing real damage or obtaining data that they shouldn't have.
Its really ironic how valuable these kids are. Without them, real compromises would be more common and much more painful.
he's seeking to sell off his open-source file system company, Namesys, to help pay mounting legal costs.
Too bad you can't fsck a mounted filesystem.
I've thought about comparing patents to open source.
I mean, slashdot is open source. Anybody can just download and create a new and better slashdot, but it just doesn't happen. The same goes for music. Cover bands just don't seem to be as good as "the real thing" (TM, patent pending).
Cooking is also pretty much open source. Its not uncommon for chefs to have their cookbook for sale for much less than the price of a dinner for two, but the restraunt has no problem being full all the time.
The real money is in doing, not in the instructions on how to do.
The principal is that if a 3 year head start on your own idea isnt enough to get you established in the market then you should probably let someone else do it anyway rather than stifle future innovation
The thing that gets me is that there is little to no money in innovation, but rather the actual _selling_ of a product in mass quanities.
McDonalds, Dell and Microsoft do quite well off of selling/rebranding/repackaging stuff no different than anyone elses, but the quality is at least known, and the price is right.
Sure, they all may have patents, but are they what separates them from their competetors?
What about the fashion industry? What about any other industry?
In fact, I can't think of a single instance where patents actually have helped an industry, but rather hurt the public by preventing people from just producing a product.
"Socialized medicine" is a very broad abstraction that can take on a wide variety of forms.
I view American medicine as already being socialized.
Every month health care is taken out of my check before I get it, and I have to pay more for specific services with a wait. Its just itemized. The only difference is that it is not compulsary across all pay grades and job types.
This will never change unless we go to socialized medicine, because people fundamentally go to see a doctor when they are sick, and not to manage their future potential illness burdens.
:), and he said that the dental community years ago established that they wanted to focus on dental health vs dental fixmeups. They established regular checkup programs, flouride in water, advertising campaigns, and people's dental health has really improved in the past 40-50 years.
Bingo. I was talking to my dentist, well I mumbled and he was talking
"Regular doctors" don't focus on health, but expensive tuneups and fixes when things break. I'm not a fan of medications in general because many of them really suck in terms of cost and side affects, and many drugs are glorified passifiers that mask the symptoms until time takes is natural course.
While I'm on a semi-rant, I find it a big PITA that its so difficult to have basic medications for problems that patients have had before. Instead of just going back to the pharmacy or calling the doc, you have to either make an appointment and wait, or just wait, they either call in or give you a piece of paper, then you go and wait again for the pharmacist to take the pills from a big bottle and put them in a small bottle.
And I'm lucky enough to preemptively pay monthy for such a service, even if I don't use it. For those that don't do such a thing, they have to pay out of pocket at mafia-like prices. Yuck.
Why did the states take the settlement?
Its the way the legal system works. It makes little sense to take a corp to court when you are garanteed to get $750k. Its good enough, and even Sony is not stupid enough to pull this trick again. The state won, the people won, Sony lost, and even 10x more "profit" to the state would not really be more of a win.
Most cases like this are settled, and that is good enough. Its rare that a corporation treats this as "the cost of doing business" because the courts will lean harder the next time around.
I wish individuals had the same legal rights and negotiation abilities with the court system, but thats another story in itself.
People always spout some bullshit about responsibility, but the studies show that people starting to drink at 21 is more harmful than people drinking earlier.
I'm speaking as an American who has been known to be drunk for years at a time, and I believe that the American attitude towards many of the taboo things is really detrimental to society in general vs being open about these things and it actually makes the behaviors worse.
Our attitudes towards sex increases promiscuity and teen pregnancies. A boobie at the SuperBowl is still talked about years later. Societies that don't have drinking ages have less issues with alcoholism as we do. Marijuana is not a gateway drug per se, but because it is illegal but in high demand, it actually is a gateway drug because people use it, then ask, "Why is this illegal?", and then because they are already committing a crime and hanging out with "criminals", then the other drugs follow suit.
Today, I don't drink, and I do believe that 1-3 drinks a day is a healthy thing. It relieves stress and is good for the heart. Beyond that level it harms the liver and brain and psychologically it can really fuck you up after a period of time.
Honestly, I don't believe that cocaine and heroin are actually as bad as they are made out to be either. Like alcohol, under 5% of those that use heroin and cocaine actually become addicted to them, and getting off of them is a bitch, especially alcohol and heroin.
*Rushes out to get a 64-bit processor, to be able to play games with bit-board chess AI faster!*
Funny, but being that a chess board is 8*8 or 64 and it is faster doing calculations with 64bit ints directly is basically the way to do it.
Make a list of what XP-64 will do for you that XP won't.
Actually, its probably easier to make a list of what XP-64 won't do for you.
This 32-64 bit thing is funny. For one thing, I've been using 64bit machines for almost 10 years. I've only really needed them in the past 5 years.
Basically if you don't need single processes over 4 Gigs of RAM, and you don't need system memory over 12 Gigs or whatever the upper limit has been hacked onto 32 bit systems, AND you are willing to pay for that much RAM (which excludes 99% of slashdotters right there), then you do not need a 64bit system.
If you and your family live anywhere near the launch site, or ride an airliner anywhere near it, you better damn well hope it does.
I understand your point, but I would bet that liability insurance and other potential legal recourse, plus the desire to stay in business and make a profit would vastly surpass anything that the FAA could make up.
Going to space is not trivial. Its not cheap, and even though everybody wants to go, in reality its only going to be people with money that are going to do it, and they are not going to give their money to some guy in a back alley who offers space travel for cheap.
First, let me be clear that this list is bogus. These 'Good' habits are not that advantagious at all, and I've been using UNIX for quite some time now, and I'm pretty good at it.
Now, being pedantic, the cd a/b/c || mkdir -p
cat-ing a file and then piping it to grep. surely that is a good point he is making, because grep already takes filenames as an argument?
. or tar cf foo.tar *. You will piss yourself and others by doing that.
That list was fairly arbitrary, but the piping cat thing is something that basically only annoys the most anal of anal, and they probably do it sometimes too.
Its common for me to do cat foo and then hit the up arrow and append a pipe to another command instead of editing the whole command line. Computers are pretty fast, and real anal people would use fgrep instead of grep, but again I always use egrep, because I never know when a regular expression will be edited into a more complex one, and to me all of the speeds are the same.
My #1 habit to tell people, although it is not a habit, but just where to start it to learn your shell. No science guys, csh is not a worthy shell in 2006. If you have to suffer with the wacky behavior of a csh variant, at least use tcsh.
My #2 thing to learn is a text editor.
As far as habits go. First and foremost, unalias cp, mv, rm to have the -i flag. In my opinion, that is a BAD habit to start. You WILL lose files sooner or later, and the more painful the better so that you will think so you will stop doing it. the -i flag will NOT stop you from redirecting into a file, and the most dangerous is the -rf flag with rm will override that -i. Remote copies via rcp or scp will not honor the -i flag. Unarchiving an archive will not honor the -i flag. There are tons of ways to lose files, and you will lose them. Its a much better habit to universally save yourself from yourself to not lose them by testing with -i, working off of a copy, and thinking before you hit return, creating new directories to eliminate clobbering a file, NEVER, EVER, do tar cf foo.tar
Actually, this top 10 list is pretty lame, and should be ignored.
I care because this means that I may be able to go to space in my lifetime.
I don't care because if I'm going to space, the FAA rules will not affect me.
Screw you guys, I'm going to outer space!
Which, coincidentally, just happens to be my #1 OSX UI peeve.
I questioned that too at first, and then I realized it was due to the fact that Apple-O to open them instead of Enter. Its VERY difficult to hit Apple-O, its easy for a cat to step on a keyboard and hit the 2nd largest key on the keyboard.
The same goes with deleting files. Sure it would be easier to hit the delete key or whatever, but what about Apple-Backspace to delete them.
That too will not likely happen by accident, and then you can bypass the chronic bozobox asking if you really want to delete crap.
These things are by design, and once getting used to them and thinking about them, they make a whole lot of sense.
Keep in mind that one big difference between Macs and other GUIs is that the apps actually remember window positions!
Having my apps have their individual windows in their places and having them overlap so I can see/switch between them is priceless.
Maximizing windows is not really a desire. It is to achieve user focus (Macs have a feature hide other applications for that), and it is to create a menu in the same place (Macs always have the application menu at the top of the screen).
Sure, there are times for specific application where even "maximizing" is not good enough. And that is called full screen, and there are hooks in GUIs for that as well.
Also, Macs have what no other GUI has in that they treat "applications" and "windows" differently. If you don't know what this means, you have not used a Mac for any time, and you don't know the advantage there.
I would like to chime in on the one button mouse thing.
I used to knock apple for it for years, and then I started _using_ a one button mouse, and I don't too much care how many buttons there are. I would say I'm slightly in favor of one button.
When I got my first Mac a few years ago, the first thing I did was to buy a "real mouse". Actually, it was a powerbook and I did not want to exclusively use the trackpad.
What have I learned over the years. Multi-button mice on any OS do not differentiate between Alt, shift, control, Option, or whatever key combination with the advent of any number of buttons. In fact, when you hook up a multibutton mouse to a Mac the other clicker button is usually mapped to control+click.
I will say for laptops and a trackpad, its much better having one button vs two.
Also, I have not used this personally, but I bet it, like most things Mac -- it "Just works" when using a touch screen with a Mac because it is the same as a one button mouse, and most apps are designed with the one button.
The problem is that Windows Users (and apparently Linux Users) expect the zoom button (on the Mac) to take up the entire screen, so that it hides all other open windows. it doesn't do that.
.sig claims that MS invented the forward slash as an example. They did. Before MS decided to use the backslash as a path deliminator and everybody else uses the slash character, people then started using other systems, especially the WWW where the "forward slash" was used. The backslash deliminator thing has been confusing for quite some time. In developing on a windows environment, C/C++ #include statements and certain functions can (almost always) interchangably use a forward or a backward slash. The same goes for other MS products. On some versions of IE on an IIS webserver (some versions??) forward and backward slashes can be used interchangebly and/or they are stripped out or some unique behavior to that particular version.
This is the second time I've read this in this thread.
Windows users have been conditioned to only want to view one window at a time, which is perfectly fine, and the Mac has a thing hides the current application, and one that hides other applications. Also, there are things like 30" widescreen monitors that are the desire of all Mac users, and viewing things like slashdot in a web browser maximized across a 30" monitor simply makes little sense.
Microsoft has enabled a number of features that have become habits of users as "hacks" or whatever to achieve a secodary goal. My
What also kills me is that a / is a reserved character and cannot be used in a filename in windows, but a backslash can be a legitimate character in other systems.
Yes, there are a number of quirks and inconsistancies in OSX, but they have not turned into workstyles and have not affected people's view of computing.
Every dependency system has that, including RPM, pkg, apt, and even Perl's CPAN setup.
I guess my opinions of RPM were just too ahead of the time, and now people are catching on.
To put it bluntly, RPMs suck. The real fun comes when you actually build and maintain RPMs, and then you realize their ugliness.
However, I'm kinda not happy with the whole package system at times. Sometimes its just easier and better to compile something yourself because of the features or custom patches you want to add to something (this is open source) and then if the program is not registered in the package system.
Then if something depends on it, even though the dependancies are met, the package system is not aware of that.
The thing is that I don't believe there really is an answer, and that is why sysadmins exist.
They were both compromised by social engineering. Which allows us to see the passwords people are choosing and find that corporate passwords are more venerable to brute force attacks.
.bash_history files when someone mistyped 'su' and then typed the password having it stored.
I was being a little facetious. I'm not one who believes in "strong" passwords simply because I don't believe that they are secure to begin with.
A standard lock on a door may not be as "strong" as a steel door with bolts going through it like a vault, but I do believe that most weak passwords are strong enough, like standard locks. In my years of working with computers, I have heard plenty of things about passwords (strong or not) being found or given away. I've heard of them phished, sniffed on plaintext transmissions, or social engineered. I've heard of root passwords being left in
In fact, as far as weak passwords go, I've heard of default passwords being used plenty of times, even here on slashdot a few years back. I've heard of a handful of people getting in with 200 or so attempts via the standard ssh bruteforce attacks, but almost 100% of the time a computer geek's version of a weak password will never be compromised. The only exceptions were when people knew someone and tried things like their kids names or whatnot, but that is VERY rare. I would like to hear any number of examples of brute force breakins via weak passwords, but its so much easier to just get the few characters from somebody via trickery or just asking them vs brute force. Back to the locks, even if a lock only takes a simple shoulder to break, most people will simply try all of the other doors and windows first.
Au contraire! It shows that MySpace users value their virtual presence more than corporate users value data security on the corporate network. Not the same thing. Most people don't get fired for choosing a shit password and getting the company hacked up.
Riddle me this Batman.
How is a password from sample A more secure than sample B when BOTH sample A and B's passwords were compromised?
Dimes, Quarters, Half-Dollars and (I think) Dollars were silver until 1964. That is why you don't normally see any dimes or quarters from before the '60s in your change.
Clarification. They were either kept by coin collectors, or they were melted down because they are worth much more in either form than their face value.
Money is a very funny (ha-ha funny) topic. Its real and not-real at the same time. What is also interesting is how new the new fiat currency is as a practice.
I get the feeling that most people commenting on this article have no idea how laws and the criminal justice system work.
No, you cannot realistically ensure that all registered sex offenders have a single email address/IM address/etc and that they register them. What you do do, however, is make it a legal requirement to register all your electronic contact details if you're a registered sex offender, then if you catch someone violating the law, you've something else to charge them with.
Ah, I've got it now. Its the government's bait-n-switch routine.
First, you bust someone with a pseudo-crime like child molestation, rape, murder, or marijuana possession.
Then, you make just about every modern feature of modern life that is legal for everyone else, but a special case for the offender. Things like points of contact, driving, traveling, drinking alcohol at home, self-defense, etc.
Then, its simple. You then find the person guilty of violating a violation that is otherwise normal, but now that person is now really guilty of the original pseudo crime without even having to court for the normal-derived crime.
Turns out we hired a guy who used a fake name and someone else's social security number, and he worked as one of our main sysadmins for over a year...
Hmm, so I would assume he picked a clean SSN and name, so a background check would have revealed???
There is a place that has 441 employees, and here is the breakdown of their past:
* 29 members have been accused of spousal abuse.
* 7 have been arrested for fraud.
* 19 have been accused of writing bad checks.
* 117 have bankrupted at least two businesses.
* 3 have been arrested for assault.
* 71 have credit reports so bad they can't qualify for a credit card.
* 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges.
* 8 have been arrested for shoplifting.
* 21 are current defendants in lawsuits.
* And in 1998 alone, 84 were stopped for drunk driving, but released after they claimed Congressional immunity.
Yes, thats congress.
Wake up RIAA and realize that the price of music drives piracy.
That is only a small part of it.
I pirate music I have on CD somewhere upstairs or in my car because I'm too lazy to dig out the CD and rip it myself. I get the bonus by frequently being able to download all albums by the artist in one download. Even if the CD boxset was free, its still easier and more convenient to download the music than it is to rip the plastic off of all the CD cases.
In fact, I've even heard of markets that are around convenience over quanity or quality. They are things like convenience stores, where the prices are often more than at other, less convenient stores. There are also things like fast food that is not the best food, but its priced lower and the service is faster than other restaurants.
I have yet to of seen the availiability of a resonably priced MP3 collection on a standard data CD that I can play in my car CD player or copy onto my computer and/or MP3 player.
So, for now, convenience and price wins and the media moguls lose.