Actually, it doesn't matter what they claim; there is no commercial consideration, ergo no contract. No cash? No standing. End of story.
Otherwise, as another posted above... ya'all owe me $500 for reading this, and agree not to sue me, and agree to pay for any and all legal defense that I need defending any and all lawsuits, ever. And I get to borrow your house whenever I want.
Short of having found a "master keycode", I'd suspect something analogous to the above. Pretty much find any type of problem in the hypothetical rxkeycode() and you win, if that's how it's implemented. The cars it doesn't work on... either the triggered bug doesn't happen, or the logic starts with "unlock=false" blah blah blah.
Would be interesting to know, not that they'll ever tell.
Errr... that's a tad backwards I think. Home users have no relevance to the enterprise; to the contrary, they are historically driven BY the enterprise. You may have omitted the decade+ time where there WERE no "home users". We did not adopt PCs because "Sally the Secretary" had one at home.
Windows made it into the enterprise simply because of legacy DOS applications. DOS was somewhat simple to write software on. And the PC was somewhat simple to build hardware for.
Contrast that with a Mac. To write a business app required everything you'd do on a PC, and then... 300 hours f*ing with font colors. For an accounting package. Or inventory. Or... yeah, I'll take my DBase or Foxbase in DOS, please. Spend six hours of your life f*ing around with making an 80column print job line up. Now we get to repeat that on screen? And it really did come down to that. There was no OO, everything was top-down, and mice were for pussies.
Windows, more than a GUI, was an API to make it cheaper to write software. "Visual Basic", all that junk was an effort to make it cheaper to write software. Because in the beginning, there wasn't any. *Everything* was vertical. Even.jpeg decoding had to be written, yourself.
The strategy was a cornerstone of the "Application Barrier to Entry". If you don't know that phrase, you are missing the basis of MS anti-trust..NET is just a continued tactic for chasing the 1000 Monkey Coding Model, which makes it cheaper to write software... put 10,000 monkeys on a keyboard and you'll get Hamlet? Put 1,000 monkeys in VS.NET and you'll get working code. THAT is today's strategy behind how MS stays in the enterprise.
Some home users picked up PCs at home due to familiarity, but most home buys were for "that's where the software is", and also "jackass website requires IE". Or "AOL sux on mac". Or, "game requires PC". There weren't too many copies of Wolf3d running on a Mac as I recall. And OS2 was stillborn.
It is funny how such things evolve. Windows is entrenched in SKorea due to an e-commerce law; when SSL was new, the SK Govt passed a law requiring a specific form of encryption be used for all e-commerce traffic. The only accepted implementation ever made was an ActiveX control. Can you guess why ActiveX was the chosen tactic? It was cheapest to develop that way. Cheap!! The very reason the ActiveX model was invented, and exposed to the browser. And Excel. And Word. And Outlook. And any other application that cared to use it. Hopefully one of our SK readers will chime in with how that situation has evolved over time, since then. But it all started with cost to develop; users were never even considered. Every website out there had to push that control, and every user wanting online commerce had to run IE. Period. The enterprise drove home buys there, for sure.
You do hit the nail on the head later on regarding any-device stuff. Windows 8 is just the continuation of the 1000 monkey model, and it is likely a response to Oracle. With targets of desktop, mobile, and server... you get to pick what you'll develop in, and that dictates your cost. You can use Java, and have one codebase, one skillset, and one dev team handle it all. You can go Apple, and have a codebase for IOS, another for MacOS, another for your (linux?) server that has nothing to do with the other two, and... yeah, skillset requirements all over, and probably 3 teams that need to talk really well, and a project manager from hell. Or, you can do it with one team using.NET, single project, same skillset, and even the same GUI concept between desktop, mobile, and server-side widget crap.
If you consider some fictitious company the scope of Fedex, rolling a from-scratch solution for every form-factor that they CAN use in the office, warehouse, loading bay, airplane, truck, and wrist - your options are Oracle... or.NET. Those really are the two choices that don't implicitly involve sep
...if for any reason it causes the silentl install of a rootkit or performs some other criminal act within your enterprise, you'll be entitled to a pair of $1 iTunes gift certificates. Take THAT, google fiber!
> Well, in Julians case, attention whoring seems to be saving his freedom and probably his life. Err... I might suggest that the attention whoring is what put those things in jeopardy in the first place.
Seeing how MS is in a fight for its life to stay relevant on the enterprise side... and knowing that a linux stack will likely happen on every enterprise they're in... having a good interop is a good thing for them.
If the linux boxes I deploy do NOT talk nicely with my MS stuff... it is MS that loses value, not the little toasters I'm deploying. The game is about Apple and Oracle. Apple and Oracle are things that compete against MS in many areas. Linux is something MS can allow to fill voids they don't cover, without giving traction to the two competing for-profits.
Proper summary should be, "In other news, shitty software is shitty." THAT aspect is interesting, largely because few people realize how shitty most of it is, nor where that shittiness is found, vs. where we expect that shittiness should not be. That you can brick a receiver with a divide by zero in a cached almanac... the genius pool at $GPSCO being of THAT quality may be news to most.
Adding more fuel to the fire, the creator of the movie, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, an Egyptian born Christian immigrant living in Southern California, originally masqueraded as “Sam Bacile”, a 52-year old Jewish real estate developer from Israel. [3] “Sam Bacile” claimed the movie was made with $5 million in donations by “more than 100 Jewish donors”, as reported by the Associated Press.
Trailers and excerpts were uploaded to YouTube in July 2012 garnering little attention. In September 2012, Morris Sadek, an Egyptian-American blogger previously exiled from Egypt for calling for attacks on Egypt, translated the YouTube video to Arabic and reuploaded it. Morris Sadek then sent video links to journalists.
I'd suggest you may be mistaken. In fact, it would appear that his desire was to incite.
If the following is correct, he's an Egyptian Christian posing as an Israeli making a M Sucks video. That movie is not an insult. It is a tactic, and this was deliberate.
Most of us network and admin guys know how long things take. Pop quiz: with the "buy -> confirm" SLAs these guys have on their network, what is NOT taking place?
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Actually, it doesn't matter what they claim; there is no commercial consideration, ergo no contract. No cash? No standing. End of story.
Otherwise, as another posted above... ya'all owe me $500 for reading this, and agree not to sue me, and agree to pay for any and all legal defense that I need defending any and all lawsuits, ever. And I get to borrow your house whenever I want.
<sarcasm>...and good riddance. Look guy, Ellison said it - Oracle's database has not been hacked in over a decade.
*cough*
unlock = true;
try {
if (!rxkeycode()) { unlock = false; }
} catch { }
if (unlock) { unlock_the_door(); }
Short of having found a "master keycode", I'd suspect something analogous to the above. Pretty much find any type of problem in the hypothetical rxkeycode() and you win, if that's how it's implemented. The cars it doesn't work on... either the triggered bug doesn't happen, or the logic starts with "unlock=false" blah blah blah.
Would be interesting to know, not that they'll ever tell.
Errr... that's a tad backwards I think. Home users have no relevance to the enterprise; to the contrary, they are historically driven BY the enterprise. You may have omitted the decade+ time where there WERE no "home users". We did not adopt PCs because "Sally the Secretary" had one at home.
Windows made it into the enterprise simply because of legacy DOS applications. DOS was somewhat simple to write software on. And the PC was somewhat simple to build hardware for.
Contrast that with a Mac. To write a business app required everything you'd do on a PC, and then... 300 hours f*ing with font colors. For an accounting package. Or inventory. Or... yeah, I'll take my DBase or Foxbase in DOS, please. Spend six hours of your life f*ing around with making an 80column print job line up. Now we get to repeat that on screen? And it really did come down to that. There was no OO, everything was top-down, and mice were for pussies.
Windows, more than a GUI, was an API to make it cheaper to write software. .jpeg decoding had to be written, yourself.
"Visual Basic", all that junk was an effort to make it cheaper to write software.
Because in the beginning, there wasn't any. *Everything* was vertical. Even
The strategy was a cornerstone of the "Application Barrier to Entry". If you don't know that phrase, you are missing the basis of MS anti-trust. .NET is just a continued tactic for chasing the 1000 Monkey Coding Model, which makes it cheaper to write software... put 10,000 monkeys on a keyboard and you'll get Hamlet? Put 1,000 monkeys in VS.NET and you'll get working code. THAT is today's strategy behind how MS stays in the enterprise.
Some home users picked up PCs at home due to familiarity, but most home buys were for "that's where the software is", and also "jackass website requires IE". Or "AOL sux on mac". Or, "game requires PC". There weren't too many copies of Wolf3d running on a Mac as I recall. And OS2 was stillborn.
It is funny how such things evolve. Windows is entrenched in SKorea due to an e-commerce law; when SSL was new, the SK Govt passed a law requiring a specific form of encryption be used for all e-commerce traffic. The only accepted implementation ever made was an ActiveX control. Can you guess why ActiveX was the chosen tactic? It was cheapest to develop that way. Cheap!! The very reason the ActiveX model was invented, and exposed to the browser. And Excel. And Word. And Outlook. And any other application that cared to use it. Hopefully one of our SK readers will chime in with how that situation has evolved over time, since then. But it all started with cost to develop; users were never even considered. Every website out there had to push that control, and every user wanting online commerce had to run IE. Period. The enterprise drove home buys there, for sure.
You do hit the nail on the head later on regarding any-device stuff. Windows 8 is just the continuation of the 1000 monkey model, and it is likely a response to Oracle. With targets of desktop, mobile, and server... you get to pick what you'll develop in, and that dictates your cost. You can use Java, and have one codebase, one skillset, and one dev team handle it all. You can go Apple, and have a codebase for IOS, another for MacOS, another for your (linux?) server that has nothing to do with the other two, and... yeah, skillset requirements all over, and probably 3 teams that need to talk really well, and a project manager from hell. Or, you can do it with one team using .NET, single project, same skillset, and even the same GUI concept between desktop, mobile, and server-side widget crap.
If you consider some fictitious company the scope of Fedex, rolling a from-scratch solution for every form-factor that they CAN use in the office, warehouse, loading bay, airplane, truck, and wrist - your options are Oracle... or .NET. Those really are the two choices that don't implicitly involve sep
I have a high-speed BiDi parallel port, if that'll help...
When I fire up my 500KW transceiver within 50 miles of you? Not very well.
...if for any reason it causes the silentl install of a rootkit or performs some other criminal act within your enterprise, you'll be entitled to a pair of $1 iTunes gift certificates.
Take THAT, google fiber!
Nah, it's the entire premise behind "Bible Code". It works fine!
Same name, guilty. Let them burn in hell.
> Well, in Julians case, attention whoring seems to be saving his freedom and probably his life.
Err... I might suggest that the attention whoring is what put those things in jeopardy in the first place.
Just sayin.
Seeing how MS is in a fight for its life to stay relevant on the enterprise side... and knowing that a linux stack will likely happen on every enterprise they're in... having a good interop is a good thing for them.
If the linux boxes I deploy do NOT talk nicely with my MS stuff... it is MS that loses value, not the little toasters I'm deploying. The game is about Apple and Oracle. Apple and Oracle are things that compete against MS in many areas. Linux is something MS can allow to fill voids they don't cover, without giving traction to the two competing for-profits.
Almost. The manipulation is irrelevant.
Proper summary should be, "In other news, shitty software is shitty." THAT aspect is interesting, largely because few people realize how shitty most of it is, nor where that shittiness is found, vs. where we expect that shittiness should not be. That you can brick a receiver with a divide by zero in a cached almanac... the genius pool at $GPSCO being of THAT quality may be news to most.
It seems you are not familiar with QuickBooks, or anything else from Intuit. :)
Congressman? Is that you?
So you're saying that at least one alien theology states that their deity will be found in a human's anal cavity?
Because they have to be, stupid! They're SCADA!
No, he realizes what's up.
cut-n-paste from http://www.social-engineer.org/general-blog/innocence-of-the-media/ :
Adding more fuel to the fire, the creator of the movie, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, an Egyptian born Christian immigrant living in Southern California, originally masqueraded as “Sam Bacile”, a 52-year old Jewish real estate developer from Israel. [3] “Sam Bacile” claimed the movie was made with $5 million in donations by “more than 100 Jewish donors”, as reported by the Associated Press.
Trailers and excerpts were uploaded to YouTube in July 2012 garnering little attention. In September 2012, Morris Sadek, an Egyptian-American blogger previously exiled from Egypt for calling for attacks on Egypt, translated the YouTube video to Arabic and reuploaded it. Morris Sadek then sent video links to journalists.
I'd suggest you may be mistaken. In fact, it would appear that his desire was to incite.
If the following is correct, he's an Egyptian Christian posing as an Israeli making a M Sucks video. That movie is not an insult. It is a tactic, and this was deliberate.
READ ME. http://www.social-engineer.org/general-blog/innocence-of-the-media/
..."At least 2,000 US Federal Government sites were hacked when it was discovered that they were not behind a NAT anymore."
Even more skewed is the definition of "accurate" as simply, "was found, somewhere", while ignoring the attributes being correct in every aspect.
I once geocoded an address in FL and the result was 4 miles out to sea. GDT considered that "accurate" because the address query was resolved.
It'll be interesting to see how many f*ups occur because of such misrepresentations of what "accuracy" is. Never mind the GPS inaccuracy on top of it.
I misread this as "the three and eight waitresses" and thought, "so, they attested to serving him lunch on gold plates? Why so many waitresses?"
Most of us network and admin guys know how long things take. Pop quiz: with the "buy -> confirm" SLAs these guys have on their network, what is NOT taking place?
Schneier's "externality", indeed.
Better solution:
Someone else's fingertips and a few drops of superglue.
Funny that you say you should *not* hold your breath around that stuff...
Even better is if *I* can get a copy of your information and correct it, just as with your credit reports.