One of the professors in the CSE department at my school wrote (at least he claims to have written it, and I have no reason to doubt that) a tool that, among other things, tries to match patterns in the ways that memory is allocated and logical paths are constructed. It's actually a whole suite of tools that are used by the department to catch illegal collusion among students, and every submitted program is run through these tests.
>As SirCam virus e-mails average 250kb per message, each month we pass over a gigabyte of bandwidth on this crap.
>I wonder if its possible to approximate how many dollars worth of bandwidth and lost productivity have been lost to these kinds of worms. I don't see why the >authors shouldn't be prosecuted more harshly. This is just large-scale vandalism that raises the prices for everyone else to make up for it.
Mabe I'm short-sighted, but I don't get this kind of argument. How much bandwith is wasted by ARP requests that I can't answer? How about all those silly dhcp broadcasts that hosts send out when booting up?
Should people be persecuted because they took the long way to get to the grocery store? After all, they are adding unnecessary wear-and-tear on the sidewalks. Or even worse, how about those pointless walks through the park? Destructive activity, minute as it may be, in aggregate causes our tax dollars to be spent replacing public facilities. Gads!
It's a PUBLIC NETWORK! There's going to be traffic that you didn't ask for. At my house, I lock my doors so that public traffic doesn't interfere with my private life. If someone were to break into my house, then they commited a crime. If someone walked into my house because I took the front door off it's hinges and hung a neon 'OPEN' sign, well then that's my fault.
Who's responsibility do you expect it to be to ensure that your internet gateway remains free and clear of anything not having to do with your company?
I just don't see how traffic being blocked at a firewall can have the negative effect that so many people cry about. I would love to hear a rationalized explanation on how this is as big of a problem as people make it out to be.
From what I understand, the license agreement that you click through is covered by contract law, not consumer protection law, which is much less comsumer-oriented. This comes from the fact that we did not purchase the product itself, but a license to use the product.
Microsoft's (and every other software company's) license states that they are not responsible for *any* data loss, corruption, theft, etc. due to the use of their product. Basically they use the same "merchantability" clause as the gpl.
Maybe this could be tested in court, but so far, this is how it stands.
And the average/. reader is a little too attatched to their computer as well.
What exactly did you mean by that? Is my grandma too attatched to her knitting needles? Is Linus a little too attatched to his kernel? I can't figure out where your condecension is coming from. People care about the things they enjoy ahcking on. I, for one, am apparently a little too attatched to my 3 jeeps ('64, '78, '87) that I'm working on every weekend. Do I have a problem, in your *humble* opinion?
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Can anyone even remember an anti-business ruling? I'm not talking about one business fighting with another; can anyone think of a single case in the last twenty years where an individual or non-profit group was victorious in an action brought by a large corporation? Are there any success stories?
Only in the movies, my friend. Only in John Grisham movies.
Maybe this could be incorporated into Microsoft's punishment !
Judge: OK, Bill, in addition to spreading Windows more effectively than finely ground anthrax in a crop duster over Los Angeles, you are also going to have to allow Google to integrate their services with your.Net framework.
The developers write things that they think are useful. They most likely don't give a wet rat's ass what YOU think is useful. That's the beauty of this whole open-source concept we promote so vehemently.
What's useful to one person may be another person's triangle-shaped windows.
With graduation a few semesters away, I have been wondering the same thing. All job postings that I have found have been looking for numerous years of experience (no one wants to give root to a rookie!)
What should a college student (CSE in my case) be doing to prepare himself/herself and be desirable for future interviews?
(And I'm sorry, if you are a senior an getting off-by-one bugs then you should either pay more attention or should choose a career and make other developers lives easier).
I understood him to mean the mindless, repetitive, brainwave-inhibiting excercises where they give you a chunk of code and tell you to find the errors. These things are supposed to help you understand how to read other peoples' code and follow their logic.
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One of the professors in the CSE department at my school wrote (at least he claims to have written it, and I have no reason to doubt that) a tool that, among other things, tries to match patterns in the ways that memory is allocated and logical paths are constructed. It's actually a whole suite of tools that are used by the department to catch illegal collusion among students, and every submitted program is run through these tests.
>As SirCam virus e-mails average 250kb per message, each month we pass over a gigabyte of bandwidth on this crap.
>I wonder if its possible to approximate how many dollars worth of bandwidth and lost productivity have been lost to these kinds of worms. I don't see why the >authors shouldn't be prosecuted more harshly. This is just large-scale vandalism that raises the prices for everyone else to make up for it.
Mabe I'm short-sighted, but I don't get this kind of argument. How much bandwith is wasted by ARP requests that I can't answer? How about all those silly dhcp broadcasts that hosts send out when booting up?
Should people be persecuted because they took the long way to get to the grocery store? After all, they are adding unnecessary wear-and-tear on the sidewalks. Or even worse, how about those pointless walks through the park? Destructive activity, minute as it may be, in aggregate causes our tax dollars to be spent replacing public facilities. Gads!
It's a PUBLIC NETWORK! There's going to be traffic that you didn't ask for. At my house, I lock my doors so that public traffic doesn't interfere with my private life. If someone were to break into my house, then they commited a crime. If someone walked into my house because I took the front door off it's hinges and hung a neon 'OPEN' sign, well then that's my fault.
Who's responsibility do you expect it to be to ensure that your internet gateway remains free and clear of anything not having to do with your company?
I just don't see how traffic being blocked at a firewall can have the negative effect that so many people cry about. I would love to hear a rationalized explanation on how this is as big of a problem as people make it out to be.
From what I understand, the license agreement that you click through is covered by contract law, not consumer protection law, which is much less comsumer-oriented. This comes from the fact that we did not purchase the product itself, but a license to use the product.
Microsoft's (and every other software company's) license states that they are not responsible for *any* data loss, corruption, theft, etc. due to the use of their product. Basically they use the same "merchantability" clause as the gpl.
Maybe this could be tested in court, but so far, this is how it stands.
And the average /. reader is a little too attatched to their computer as well.
What exactly did you mean by that? Is my grandma too attatched to her knitting needles? Is Linus a little too attatched to his kernel? I can't figure out where your condecension is coming from. People care about the things they enjoy ahcking on. I, for one, am apparently a little too attatched to my 3 jeeps ('64, '78, '87) that I'm working on every weekend. Do I have a problem, in your *humble* opinion?
Maybe this could be incorporated into Microsoft's punishment !
.Net framework.
Judge: OK, Bill, in addition to spreading Windows more effectively than finely ground anthrax in a crop duster over Los Angeles, you are also going to have to allow Google to integrate their services with your
Bill: Damn, I'm good.
I don't know exactly what you mean...
...but I'm glad you were able to get that off your chest.
The developers write things that they think are useful. They most likely don't give a wet rat's ass what YOU think is useful. That's the beauty of this whole open-source concept we promote so vehemently. What's useful to one person may be another person's triangle-shaped windows.
And our congressmen are reaping the profits of poached ivory.
With graduation a few semesters away, I have been wondering the same thing. All job postings that I have found have been looking for numerous years of experience (no one wants to give root to a rookie!) What should a college student (CSE in my case) be doing to prepare himself/herself and be desirable for future interviews?