Really, it's just you. Me, I like my trading software open source so I can see what the hell is going on inside, and I release my own work from time to time (it's far too rough to link to on/., but there are copies drifting aorund) so people have a platform to work from.
Problem appears to be that no-one wants to be the tech guy that rocks the boat, something goes wrong, and the company folds. At least if they use Windows, the logic goes, they're going with the herd, it can't all be blamed on them.
They're close to being right, though. The address record for IPv6 is AAAA , and there are IPv6 addresses reserved for the IPv4 address space, even if that's not quite the right syntax.
> Breaking and entering to prove a point != Whitehat hacking
How is it not? Because one's breaking into a computer and one's breaking into a house?
This guy could have written some software that popped up "keylogger!" after someone logged in, and found a member of staff to show. Or he could have found a member of staff, and demonstrated logging his own password and magstripe.
Instead, he accessed THIRTY TWO different student accounts. Really, how many do you need to test to be sure it works?
> Looking at your response, then, there seems to be no reason what-so-ever to be a white-hat.
Here's a revolutionary idea; if you think you've spotted a security hole, or want to be sure about the security of a site, ASK PERMISSION. You'll get one of three responses:
1. WTF? No! - Bad admin, consider edging away slowly now. 2. Err... can you give me a little more detail and I'll look into it? - Most likely response. 3. Sure, we've got a test version over at that you can use without endangering the live version - Ideal outcome.
People don't ask permissions because they're fairly bloody sure they won't get it.
> Honestly, if you're going to get the book thrown at you, fucking make it worth it. Destroy those phenomenally expensive research projects.
Or, DON'T BREAK IN in the first place.
It's like someone spotting the lock on your house looks fairly pickable, picking it, wandering in, and leaving a 16 page paper telling you all about it but promising they didn't touch your stuff. Even the most open minded admin is going to be pissed off as they have to rebuild everything incase you're not as white-hat as you claim and left something lying around, and bad admins are even less likely to take criticism well.
Hell, you Google my real name, I'm a singer-song writer with a small but reasonably successful band. If you look closer, I'm also a painter, have written papers on the MMR vaccine, critiqued Shakespeare and have done work with WSRF.
The problem is a continual stream of things that need doing that interrupt from what you're doing. That they happen to arrive by e-mail is co-incidental.
> the problem is nobody in IT wants to hire old people.
And beyond COBOL, this causes massive issues with loss of experience. At 29 I'm one of the most experienced developers at work.
TWENTY NINE!
Where are the 30, 40, 50 year olds I can pry experience from? Why is there no-one I can turn to and go "I can't decide which approach is best, what do you think?".
Ah well, could be worse. Could be games programming, where as far as I can tell people tend to flee in their early twenties...
What puzzles me is the people who build these insane watercooled dual-SLI rigs. Sure, it's fast today, but give it 9 months and standard kit will do that, and 18 months down the line it'll be out of date.
Considered the LG GGCH20L drive? http://uk.lge.com/products/model/detail/bluray_ggch20l.jhtml - Blu-Ray and HD-DVD support from a single drive, currently selling in the UK for £140 including software. Okay, that's not cheap, but it's a hell of a lot less expensive than they used to be. Standalone dual format players are also out there from LG and Samsung.
I'm certainly of the opinion that essentially we're now stuck with both formats. Blu-Ray has an edge in movies, IMHO, but HD-DVD has more TV and lower prices. With dual format drives coming down in price, I think it won't be long before people just look for either HD format, without caring if it's HD-DVD or Blu-Ray.
I live in the niave hope that there's only so many bugs you can fit in one piece of software, and as such Bind and Sendmail should be practically impossible to break by now...
I don't see a major issue with this, gamers aren't that big a market, they don't need to cater to us in their most common model. What does puzzle me is that we're apparently expected to buy a Mac Pro as a gaming system. Sorry Apple, I'm not buying a Xeon-based quad/oct core system to run games that will almost universally only use one core. So instead I upgraded in February this year to a new PC, and saved myself somewhere around $1,500-$2,000 in the process.
I'm happy to pay a few hundred dollars extra for Mac, the time and stress saved is worth it, but not $1k+ on hardware that nothing I run will use.
This is akin to finding someone sitting in your house, the entire place apparently untouched, and they explain "Oh, I was just checking the security on your locks; turns out it's fairly bad. I was going to tell you later...", and it's not okay.
If you think you've seen a security hole, stop, tell the person responsible _immediately_. With luck, they can give you a dummy system to test it on without risking getting yourself into trouble.
If the people responsible for security ignore you, get someone else to back you up. In this case, talk to one of the staff who is knowledgeable about computers, or the student newspaper.
...unless doing something crazy. Like the time I wrote a 3D renderer in PostScript. Still, essentially you're right; adding more processing power to printers is relatively trivial, print speed has been a far greater challenge...
> Not sit on a virtual couch, watching video on a virtual video screen in a virtual apartment, on my real TV while I sit on my real couch in my real house.
I don't know, I was looking at buying a 22'x12' bedsit, and wondering if I could use VR to keep myself sane while I paid off the mortgage and found somewhere bigger...
Am I the only person on the planet who finds laptops an ideal size. Good screen estate for working with, a little smaller than I'd like TBH but hey, it's portable. If I wanted something smaller I would have, wait for it, bought a smaller laptop.
*bang head against wall*
If I wanted something much smaller, I'd have bought a Psion Revo ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Revo ), which isn't some twisted halfbreed between a laptop and a PDA (it's more what PDAs were, before someone got handwriting recognition working well, and suits those of us who can type significantly faster than they can write).
It's a serious issue if we lose Internet access, but it doesn't stop us completely at this point. We do however lose access around once a year. Last time, the electricity substation our upstream connection was hooked up to burnt to the ground. That was really bad...
Agree, absolutely. Love the software, but like hell are we hosting key services elsewhere. With Google hosting the apps, if we lose Internet access, and we might as well close up and go home.
Personally, I'm amazed there isn't an appliance version of GMail available yet. Although I suppose they'd have to get it out of beta first...
Erm, it's a simple distributed attack. While the group that succeeded was small, the cost (in man hours) of all groups that attempted but failed must also be considered, is likely not a small number.
I think this is a fundamental problem that the people backing DRM forget. They're massively outnumbered, and it's just a matter of making it not worth the rest of the human population's time to break their stuff. So far, not gone so well for them...
> If you start demanding they are hooked non-stop to Internet so they can receive the daily patches, it may just be the thing crossing the line of tolerance.
Not to mention, while people can understand the idea of requiring an HDMI connector on their TV to go with the HDMI connector on their HD-DVD/Blu-Ray player, and are likely to accept without asking, telling your customers that they need to update their player to play new disks is just asking for them to stop and ask why...
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Really, it's just you. Me, I like my trading software open source so I can see what the hell is going on inside, and I release my own work from time to time (it's far too rough to link to on /., but there are copies drifting aorund) so people have a platform to work from.
Problem appears to be that no-one wants to be the tech guy that rocks the boat, something goes wrong, and the company folds. At least if they use Windows, the logic goes, they're going with the herd, it can't all be blamed on them.
If you're going the Interactive Brokers approach, JBookTrader and JSystemTrader are both worth a look: http://code.google.com/p/jbooktrader/ and http://groups.google.com/group/jsystemtrader
They're close to being right, though. The address record for IPv6 is AAAA , and there are IPv6 addresses reserved for the IPv4 address space, even if that's not quite the right syntax.
> Breaking and entering to prove a point != Whitehat hacking
How is it not? Because one's breaking into a computer and one's breaking into a house?
This guy could have written some software that popped up "keylogger!" after someone logged in, and found a member of staff to show. Or he could have found a member of staff, and demonstrated logging his own password and magstripe.
Instead, he accessed THIRTY TWO different student accounts. Really, how many do you need to test to be sure it works?
> Looking at your response, then, there seems to be no reason what-so-ever to be a white-hat.
Here's a revolutionary idea; if you think you've spotted a security hole, or want to be sure about the security of a site, ASK PERMISSION. You'll get one of three responses:
1. WTF? No! - Bad admin, consider edging away slowly now.
2. Err... can you give me a little more detail and I'll look into it? - Most likely response.
3. Sure, we've got a test version over at that you can use without endangering the live version - Ideal outcome.
People don't ask permissions because they're fairly bloody sure they won't get it.
> Honestly, if you're going to get the book thrown at you, fucking make it worth it. Destroy those phenomenally expensive research projects.
Or, DON'T BREAK IN in the first place.
It's like someone spotting the lock on your house looks fairly pickable, picking it, wandering in, and leaving a 16 page paper telling you all about it but promising they didn't touch your stuff. Even the most open minded admin is going to be pissed off as they have to rebuild everything incase you're not as white-hat as you claim and left something lying around, and bad admins are even less likely to take criticism well.
Hell, you Google my real name, I'm a singer-song writer with a small but reasonably successful band. If you look closer, I'm also a painter, have written papers on the MMR vaccine, critiqued Shakespeare and have done work with WSRF.
Oh, wait, the WSRF bit was actually me.
The problem is a continual stream of things that need doing that interrupt from what you're doing. That they happen to arrive by e-mail is co-incidental.
Ya laugh, but I've been trying to describe this to people all day...
"The FTSE has crashed!"
"What, like another Black Monday?"
"No, no, crashed, as in gone down!"
"Errr..."
> the problem is nobody in IT wants to hire old people.
And beyond COBOL, this causes massive issues with loss of experience. At 29 I'm one of the most experienced developers at work.
TWENTY NINE!
Where are the 30, 40, 50 year olds I can pry experience from? Why is there no-one I can turn to and go "I can't decide which approach is best, what do you think?".
Ah well, could be worse. Could be games programming, where as far as I can tell people tend to flee in their early twenties...
There's also a lack of jobs from companies that recognise that people can learn skills if they're halfway decent...
What puzzles me is the people who build these insane watercooled dual-SLI rigs. Sure, it's fast today, but give it 9 months and standard kit will do that, and 18 months down the line it'll be out of date.
Considered the LG GGCH20L drive? http://uk.lge.com/products/model/detail/bluray_ggch20l.jhtml - Blu-Ray and HD-DVD support from a single drive, currently selling in the UK for £140 including software. Okay, that's not cheap, but it's a hell of a lot less expensive than they used to be. Standalone dual format players are also out there from LG and Samsung.
I'm certainly of the opinion that essentially we're now stuck with both formats. Blu-Ray has an edge in movies, IMHO, but HD-DVD has more TV and lower prices. With dual format drives coming down in price, I think it won't be long before people just look for either HD format, without caring if it's HD-DVD or Blu-Ray.
I live in the niave hope that there's only so many bugs you can fit in one piece of software, and as such Bind and Sendmail should be practically impossible to break by now...
I don't see a major issue with this, gamers aren't that big a market, they don't need to cater to us in their most common model. What does puzzle me is that we're apparently expected to buy a Mac Pro as a gaming system. Sorry Apple, I'm not buying a Xeon-based quad/oct core system to run games that will almost universally only use one core. So instead I upgraded in February this year to a new PC, and saved myself somewhere around $1,500-$2,000 in the process.
I'm happy to pay a few hundred dollars extra for Mac, the time and stress saved is worth it, but not $1k+ on hardware that nothing I run will use.
In addition to the fact that actually there are several MXM slot formats, the iMac card is apparently non-standard anyway.
...without permission.
This is akin to finding someone sitting in your house, the entire place apparently untouched, and they explain "Oh, I was just checking the security on your locks; turns out it's fairly bad. I was going to tell you later...", and it's not okay.
If you think you've seen a security hole, stop, tell the person responsible _immediately_. With luck, they can give you a dummy system to test it on without risking getting yourself into trouble.
If the people responsible for security ignore you, get someone else to back you up. In this case, talk to one of the staff who is knowledgeable about computers, or the student newspaper.
...unless doing something crazy. Like the time I wrote a 3D renderer in PostScript. Still, essentially you're right; adding more processing power to printers is relatively trivial, print speed has been a far greater challenge...
> Not sit on a virtual couch, watching video on a virtual video screen in a virtual apartment, on my real TV while I sit on my real couch in my real house.
I don't know, I was looking at buying a 22'x12' bedsit, and wondering if I could use VR to keep myself sane while I paid off the mortgage and found somewhere bigger...
Am I the only person on the planet who finds laptops an ideal size. Good screen estate for working with, a little smaller than I'd like TBH but hey, it's portable. If I wanted something smaller I would have, wait for it, bought a smaller laptop.
*bang head against wall*
If I wanted something much smaller, I'd have bought a Psion Revo ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Revo ), which isn't some twisted halfbreed between a laptop and a PDA (it's more what PDAs were, before someone got handwriting recognition working well, and suits those of us who can type significantly faster than they can write).
> Safari incorrectly renders lots of sites. Firefox seems to be better about most sites.
Are you sure that's Safari's fault, and not the site's fault? I've seen a lot more mangled websites than browser bugs (yes, even counting IE)...
It's a serious issue if we lose Internet access, but it doesn't stop us completely at this point. We do however lose access around once a year. Last time, the electricity substation our upstream connection was hooked up to burnt to the ground. That was really bad...
Agree, absolutely. Love the software, but like hell are we hosting key services elsewhere. With Google hosting the apps, if we lose Internet access, and we might as well close up and go home.
Personally, I'm amazed there isn't an appliance version of GMail available yet. Although I suppose they'd have to get it out of beta first...
Erm, it's a simple distributed attack. While the group that succeeded was small, the cost (in man hours) of all groups that attempted but failed must also be considered, is likely not a small number.
I think this is a fundamental problem that the people backing DRM forget. They're massively outnumbered, and it's just a matter of making it not worth the rest of the human population's time to break their stuff. So far, not gone so well for them...
> If you start demanding they are hooked non-stop to Internet so they can receive the daily patches, it may just be the thing crossing the line of tolerance.
Not to mention, while people can understand the idea of requiring an HDMI connector on their TV to go with the HDMI connector on their HD-DVD/Blu-Ray player, and are likely to accept without asking, telling your customers that they need to update their player to play new disks is just asking for them to stop and ask why...