Even though it's funded by adblock, I still believe it. May not be such high percentages, but it will certainly take a measurable chunk away.
Individual sites cry foul because they cannot meet their advertising targets affecting their revenue, but from the point of view of the user that is active on the net they are bombarded by advertising. Stripping even 10% away can be a good thing...
After not hearing from bennett for so long, I thought slashdot had finally come to it's senses and shit-canned that ass wipe. I guess I'm the ass wipe instead.
Sonatype has determined that over 6 percent of the download requests from the Central Repository in 2014 were for component versions that included known vulnerabilities.
That means that when building a project the devs are using an older version of a dependency than a newer, fixed version. You don't pull your own artifacts from Sonatype, just dependencies.
Yes this can mean there's a bug that might be exposed to end users, but frequently a dependency is just a dependency used by the developer's code. Sure there could be a transient vulnerability, but I don't think vulnerabilities will be that transparent but that depends upon the nature of the vulnerability and the use of the component in the dev's code.
This is more of a "DLL Hell" situation. Vulnerabilities can be solved in one component, but due to interdependencies it may or may not be possible to use the fixed version. If you're choosing to use an older version of a dependency, well then that's a bad choice. But sometimes those older versions you can just be stuck with due to interdependencies, business direction (only version X has been approved by corp even if Y has critical fixes you may still be stuck with X), etc.
Exactly. Why didn't this guy summarize using his real name, Bill O'Reilly.
It's one thing to point at someone's rant about colleges which, of course, we all took apart since the dumbass majored in philosophy, but it's quite another to tag it with your own political leanings.
This news inspires some nostalgia here; ThinkGeek was for a long time one of Slashdot's sister sites under the umbrella of VA Linux, and I had some fun years back helping to set up the ThinkGeek booth at LinuxWorld in New York.
Ah, yes, back in the day before Dice ruined slashdot, those were fine times, weren't they...
Honestly the best skill I learned in HS had nothing to do with computers.
It is the one course that I've pushed my daughter to take and one course that I recommend for every HS student everywhere.
This skill has the widest possible use and has served me in every position I've ever had. It is useful both at work as well as at home.
That skill - touch typing. I took the class in HS because I thought it might help with papers, but I've used it even in programming. Sure you don't get the speed with numbers and punctuation as you do typing a document, but I can touch-type my code with relative speed without looking at the keyboard.
So forget trying to pick up a language or a technology stack. By the time they get out of HS and get in the middle of college, most of that technology stack would have been discarded anyway. But if you learn touch typing, well that's a skill that will serve you for as long as we have keyboards.
When you're on a team of one, this kind of cowboy development might work.
Agile and waterfall etc are there to get teams of many over the finish line. I doubt there has ever been a single successful project with a team of 20 based upon your chaos development process.
Agile and the like provide the structure for teams. It doesn't improve the development process IMHO, but the management of the team using these processes brings order to the chaos so goals can be shared and attained by the entire team.
We know we got security all wrong before, but trust us, we're much better now. We've learned from our mistakes and have closed all possible security holes.
Oh, and we're also going to be standards-compliant so developers can drop all of the old Microsoft-specific CSS and JS coding.
GPS trackers are being used ubiquitously nowadays. I do not have any problems with them, although I do not have any.
Success! The NSA has been busy trying to downplay all of the Snowden revelations and get people to think they're not tracking them, and it looks like they're making progress!
They're the only issues that people get out and vote on.
If it were left to purely economic and/or international issues, most interest drops off and besides, we already know what sides everyone falls on.
Conservatives back trickle-down econ and the liberals say that policy has been totally discredited. Conservatives want boots on the ground and liberals want to push diplomacy to the limit and reserve troops as the last resort.
So there's no surprises anymore. Each side believes what they believe, and there just won't be much budge on either side.
Social issues, however, well that gets the bases riled up. Social conservatives hate marriage equality, social liberals hate any form of discrimination. Although both sides are fixed on these issues, the middle seems to be moving towards the left which gets both sides even more excited and more extreme in their dire predictions.
These days nothing gets a crowd wound up like a good gay bashing or a pay disparity claim.
An actor does not have long term fame based upon a single film or role.
Look at that stupid guy from that vampire series and his girlfriend. It was the only role they had that was any good. Anything they've done since has sucked.
So years from now will there be a slashdot article about why actors in vampire movies don't become stars? Will they blame the directors or something?
It's all on their own heads based upon roles that they take on and roles they are offered. If both end up mediocre at best, well it's not because they once starred in a vampire film...
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I hope she applies, she sounds like a great talent that I'd love to have on board!
At least now we know who's in their pocket...
I use noscript and have no ads nor tracking while on slashdot...
Even though it's funded by adblock, I still believe it. May not be such high percentages, but it will certainly take a measurable chunk away.
Individual sites cry foul because they cannot meet their advertising targets affecting their revenue, but from the point of view of the user that is active on the net they are bombarded by advertising. Stripping even 10% away can be a good thing...
Imagine a world where Bennett Haselton limited himself to ONLY posting about things he was actually an expert on.
Blathering?
for the cheesy family movie "Real Steel"?
I read the whole thing and didn't see a thing about what it is like to be a victim of swatting...
After not hearing from bennett for so long, I thought slashdot had finally come to it's senses and shit-canned that ass wipe. I guess I'm the ass wipe instead.
It is important to note the following:
Sonatype has determined that over 6 percent of the download requests from the Central Repository in 2014 were for component versions that included known vulnerabilities.
That means that when building a project the devs are using an older version of a dependency than a newer, fixed version. You don't pull your own artifacts from Sonatype, just dependencies.
Yes this can mean there's a bug that might be exposed to end users, but frequently a dependency is just a dependency used by the developer's code. Sure there could be a transient vulnerability, but I don't think vulnerabilities will be that transparent but that depends upon the nature of the vulnerability and the use of the component in the dev's code.
This is more of a "DLL Hell" situation. Vulnerabilities can be solved in one component, but due to interdependencies it may or may not be possible to use the fixed version. If you're choosing to use an older version of a dependency, well then that's a bad choice. But sometimes those older versions you can just be stuck with due to interdependencies, business direction (only version X has been approved by corp even if Y has critical fixes you may still be stuck with X), etc.
What competition? Any website you go to has creditcards and paypal. There is no other competition.
I prefer characters from Beavis and Butthead. The server is named cornholio because he was the best character.
Exactly. Why didn't this guy summarize using his real name, Bill O'Reilly.
It's one thing to point at someone's rant about colleges which, of course, we all took apart since the dumbass majored in philosophy, but it's quite another to tag it with your own political leanings.
This news inspires some nostalgia here; ThinkGeek was for a long time one of Slashdot's sister sites under the umbrella of VA Linux, and I had some fun years back helping to set up the ThinkGeek booth at LinuxWorld in New York.
Ah, yes, back in the day before Dice ruined slashdot, those were fine times, weren't they...
They're reporting he's been captured in Washington, DC.
I never get first post...
Honestly the best skill I learned in HS had nothing to do with computers.
It is the one course that I've pushed my daughter to take and one course that I recommend for every HS student everywhere.
This skill has the widest possible use and has served me in every position I've ever had. It is useful both at work as well as at home.
That skill - touch typing. I took the class in HS because I thought it might help with papers, but I've used it even in programming. Sure you don't get the speed with numbers and punctuation as you do typing a document, but I can touch-type my code with relative speed without looking at the keyboard.
So forget trying to pick up a language or a technology stack. By the time they get out of HS and get in the middle of college, most of that technology stack would have been discarded anyway. But if you learn touch typing, well that's a skill that will serve you for as long as we have keyboards.
When you're on a team of one, this kind of cowboy development might work.
Agile and waterfall etc are there to get teams of many over the finish line. I doubt there has ever been a single successful project with a team of 20 based upon your chaos development process.
Agile and the like provide the structure for teams. It doesn't improve the development process IMHO, but the management of the team using these processes brings order to the chaos so goals can be shared and attained by the entire team.
We know we got security all wrong before, but trust us, we're much better now. We've learned from our mistakes and have closed all possible security holes.
Oh, and we're also going to be standards-compliant so developers can drop all of the old Microsoft-specific CSS and JS coding.
GPS trackers are being used ubiquitously nowadays. I do not have any problems with them, although I do not have any.
Success! The NSA has been busy trying to downplay all of the Snowden revelations and get people to think they're not tracking them, and it looks like they're making progress!
I've been pushing my daughter in STEM and she's about to transition from HS to college.
If this keeps up, I can look forward to her not having to move home after college graduation!
A quick search returned bank statements, someones 2012 1040 tax form (completed w/ soc and everything)...
Couldn't find any porn though. I guess those aren't making it into the google indexes...
They're the only issues that people get out and vote on.
If it were left to purely economic and/or international issues, most interest drops off and besides, we already know what sides everyone falls on.
Conservatives back trickle-down econ and the liberals say that policy has been totally discredited. Conservatives want boots on the ground and liberals want to push diplomacy to the limit and reserve troops as the last resort.
So there's no surprises anymore. Each side believes what they believe, and there just won't be much budge on either side.
Social issues, however, well that gets the bases riled up. Social conservatives hate marriage equality, social liberals hate any form of discrimination. Although both sides are fixed on these issues, the middle seems to be moving towards the left which gets both sides even more excited and more extreme in their dire predictions.
These days nothing gets a crowd wound up like a good gay bashing or a pay disparity claim.
The NSA is monitoring this thread to identify all of you naysayers...
An actor does not have long term fame based upon a single film or role.
Look at that stupid guy from that vampire series and his girlfriend. It was the only role they had that was any good. Anything they've done since has sucked.
So years from now will there be a slashdot article about why actors in vampire movies don't become stars? Will they blame the directors or something?
It's all on their own heads based upon roles that they take on and roles they are offered. If both end up mediocre at best, well it's not because they once starred in a vampire film...
oh how I wish I had mod points...