Forgive me if I decline to click on a link that's on the very site that the security vulnerability story is about. I was born at night, but not last night.
I think it will be a shame if Uber causes black cabs to become extinct.
Same here, but this is just part and parcel of the way of the world- things change. Some of the things that get left behind will be missed, but without artificial constraints there's no way around it- some things will inevitably drop off or disappear.
When I was young our neighborhood had a milkman who came to almost every house and dropped off milk every morning or maybe every coupe of days...it eventually became impractical for various reasons, mostly related to the costs of running a fleet of milk trucks. I kind of miss it, but there was no way it could continue to be practical (profitable) given all of the forces acting against such a service.
Is it a bad thing that milkmen are gone? Maybe, but it's the way things evolve. Some stuff gets left behind because it's no longer feasible, practical, relevant, profitable, etc etc. It is the way of the world, for better or worse.
as I understand it, the London cabbies have to take a test they call "The Knowledge" which ensures they know a lot of the details of the layout and how to find your way around in a complicated city like London.
This is true, but GPS can obviate most of the benefits of having "The Knowledge", aside from some possible delays due to unforeseen traffic, and even then you can often tell the GPS to find an alternate route.
The Knowledge thing/test/whatever is pretty impressive but it dates from a pre-GPS period when that kind of training was very beneficial. Now it's probably moderately beneficial at best.
I coded the payment system on our store's website in python CGI scripts.
You can write secure code or insecure code in any language. You haven't shown anything that proves PHP itself is less secure than Python or Perl or ASP or $favorite_language.
I've written hundreds of thousands of lines of PHP and I put security as my primary concern. None of them have been hacked because I rigorously sanitize data and don't allow users to access things they shouldn't. Yes, it's a bit of a pain to try and cover every conceivable attack vector, but you can write secure code in PHP just as you can in any language. It's not the language, it's the implementation of the code you write.
How dare you question the infinite wisdom of Microsoft!
New CEO, new Windows VP, and yet we're still treated like children who should not be allowed to make decisions on our own. They're not going to ask if we want the applications removed or not, because we're apparently not able to make such a complicated judgement call.
Yeah, but for each application they remove you'll get a coupon for 10% off the corresponding Metro app in the Windows Store!
Take a series of catch words and chain them together. For extra benefit try all permutations, one will most likely get past the firehose and make it on the main site. Try to sound cool.
You've cracked the code on how to get a story to the front page: buzzwords, "sounding cool", plus some minor association with "technical stuff".
For those of you who need help, here are some starter words:
> Cuccias wrote in an e-mail. "With that said, when Nest Cam is turned off, it completely stops > transmitting video to the cloud, meaning it no longer observes its surroundings."
Ha ha ha ha, of course it does. A spokesperson from Nest Labs would never lie to you!
Apart from the bit where you spend 10 years in jail and have the police "pursue your wealth" under the Proceeds of Crime act.
Except that he'll probably be out in 2 to 4 years at the most, and unless he's a complete dolt he's put his money where it can't be found or seized. It's not that hard to do with a little preparation.
Hell, for ten million dollars I'd happily serve a few years in prison knowing that I'd have a payday like that waiting for me when I got out. He'll probably do his time in some lame-ass minimum security facility, but even if he's in a Supermax prison he'll still come out ahead.
The moral of the story is that "if done properly, crime pays". See "Bank of America", "Bear Sterns", and "Lehman Brothers" for further proof. Those fuckers made hundreds of millions and not one of them spent a single night in jail.
It's clear as can be that I'm in the wrong business.
Here I've been working and making an honest living all these years when I could have cobbled some 100% bullshit gadget together and sold enough of them to retire to my own tropical island and live in luxury for the rest of my life.
Who says "crime doesn't pay"? Seems like it pays pretty damn well to me....
>From your comment, it sounds like you use Photoshop quite often. So I'm not surprised you find GIMP has poor usability.
Actually, it was just the opposite- I started off using GIMP. Photoshop was kind of arcane and confusing to me and I kept trying to use GIMP.
Photoshop was a no-go in my book as I couldn't afford it. So I used GIMP on and off for over a year, and after some time I ended up at a place where I had access to Photoshop. After a few times using it I found it to be more intuitive (at least for me, I can't speak to anyone else's experience).
Really, I tried GIMP doggedly and it just never clicked with me...my guess is that the people at Adobe did some serious user-experience testing and made it more intuitive for the average Joe to get started with.
I tried GIMP again a about a year ago and although it was a lot better, it still didn't "click" with me. That's just my experience, it may be the opposite for other people.
Slashdot Mirror
What's your point?
"...a link to the LinkedIn security blog"
Oh The Irony, it's sooooooooo delicious.
Forgive me if I decline to click on a link that's on the very site that the security vulnerability story is about. I was born at night, but not last night.
That's just what they want us to believe so we don't panic. Duh.
So they patched the vulnerable tool that was supposed to fix vulnerabilities, and probably introduced some more vulnerabilities along the way. Bravo!
Dear Lenovo, please stop. Any more 'help' like this and you'll be the death of me.
I think it will be a shame if Uber causes black cabs to become extinct.
Same here, but this is just part and parcel of the way of the world- things change. Some of the things that get left behind will be missed, but without artificial constraints there's no way around it- some things will inevitably drop off or disappear.
When I was young our neighborhood had a milkman who came to almost every house and dropped off milk every morning or maybe every coupe of days...it eventually became impractical for various reasons, mostly related to the costs of running a fleet of milk trucks. I kind of miss it, but there was no way it could continue to be practical (profitable) given all of the forces acting against such a service.
Is it a bad thing that milkmen are gone? Maybe, but it's the way things evolve. Some stuff gets left behind because it's no longer feasible, practical, relevant, profitable, etc etc. It is the way of the world, for better or worse.
as I understand it, the London cabbies have to take a test they call "The Knowledge" which ensures they know a lot of the details of the layout and how to find your way around in a complicated city like London.
This is true, but GPS can obviate most of the benefits of having "The Knowledge", aside from some possible delays due to unforeseen traffic, and even then you can often tell the GPS to find an alternate route.
The Knowledge thing/test/whatever is pretty impressive but it dates from a pre-GPS period when that kind of training was very beneficial. Now it's probably moderately beneficial at best.
" a fix for glxgears stuttering "
so they only FIXED a TEST !!!
and one that is a YES / NO test
I know, it's like Christmas came early with this amazing code revision.
It's such an awesome fix, it's almost incomprehensible how goshdarn difficult this must have been for them to implement.
"Hey Bill, set $glxgears_stutter to "off" in the shit_module_stuff() function and mark it as complete in the fix list."
My god man .. they changed the strings from "Catalyst" to "Radeon".
I know, it's a staggeringly complex rewrite. I can only wonder how many developer-months this took to complete.
ZenCart is as awful as WordPress, but with credit cards.
Not to worry, WordPress has plenty of plugins that will allow you to insecurely use your credit card in ways that would make a hacker dance with joy.
But the language is largely irrelevant to the method of attack surface reduction I was employing that I was referring to
And that was my point entirely.
The Zen Cart code is a mess, and I'm not surprised that it has vulnerabilities.
XCart seems much better, but it's a monster codebase. It probably has some vulnerabilities too.
I coded the payment system on our store's website in python CGI scripts.
You can write secure code or insecure code in any language. You haven't shown anything that proves PHP itself is less secure than Python or Perl or ASP or $favorite_language.
I've written hundreds of thousands of lines of PHP and I put security as my primary concern. None of them have been hacked because I rigorously sanitize data and don't allow users to access things they shouldn't. Yes, it's a bit of a pain to try and cover every conceivable attack vector, but you can write secure code in PHP just as you can in any language. It's not the language, it's the implementation of the code you write.
If you're going to do a quote, please do it properly.
If you're going to scold someone, please do it properly.
So, how old do you typically have to be before you can count past 13???
If he can't count above 13 now, chances he never will no matter how old he gets.
But "13" is close to "infinite", right? I mean, it's gotta be at least 90% of the way there, isn't it?
"....and will surely spark legions of other Tamagochi Matrices."
Oh yes, surely. Surely it will.
How dare you question the infinite wisdom of Microsoft!
New CEO, new Windows VP, and yet we're still treated like children who should not be allowed to make decisions on our own. They're not going to ask if we want the applications removed or not, because we're apparently not able to make such a complicated judgement call.
Yeah, but for each application they remove you'll get a coupon for 10% off the corresponding Metro app in the Windows Store!
Take a series of catch words and chain them together. For extra benefit try all permutations, one will most likely get past the firehose and make it on the main site. Try to sound cool.
You've cracked the code on how to get a story to the front page: buzzwords, "sounding cool", plus some minor association with "technical stuff".
For those of you who need help, here are some starter words:
virtual
STEM
infinite
malware
singularity
IoT
"Everyone" is kind of like the "infinite" part, where "infinity" and 13 have the same value. Extrapolate from there.
Well sure, but for very small values of "infinite" he could be correct.
"...he had built an infinite network..."
He keeps using that word...I do not think that he thinks that word means the same thing as what I think that word means.
> Cuccias wrote in an e-mail. "With that said, when Nest Cam is turned off, it completely stops
> transmitting video to the cloud, meaning it no longer observes its surroundings."
Ha ha ha ha, of course it does. A spokesperson from Nest Labs would never lie to you!
Then:
Users: hey can you please stop spamming us with ads so much?
Advertisers: screw you, here's your ad
Now:
Advertisers: hey please don't use stuff to block our ads, thanks
Users: screw you
Apart from the bit where you spend 10 years in jail and have the police "pursue your wealth" under the Proceeds of Crime act.
Except that he'll probably be out in 2 to 4 years at the most, and unless he's a complete dolt he's put his money where it can't be found or seized. It's not that hard to do with a little preparation.
Hell, for ten million dollars I'd happily serve a few years in prison knowing that I'd have a payday like that waiting for me when I got out. He'll probably do his time in some lame-ass minimum security facility, but even if he's in a Supermax prison he'll still come out ahead.
The moral of the story is that "if done properly, crime pays". See "Bank of America", "Bear Sterns", and "Lehman Brothers" for further proof. Those fuckers made hundreds of millions and not one of them spent a single night in jail.
It's clear as can be that I'm in the wrong business.
Here I've been working and making an honest living all these years when I could have cobbled some 100% bullshit gadget together and sold enough of them to retire to my own tropical island and live in luxury for the rest of my life.
Who says "crime doesn't pay"? Seems like it pays pretty damn well to me....
>From your comment, it sounds like you use Photoshop quite often. So I'm not surprised you find GIMP has poor usability.
Actually, it was just the opposite- I started off using GIMP. Photoshop was kind of arcane and confusing to me and I kept trying to use GIMP.
Photoshop was a no-go in my book as I couldn't afford it. So I used GIMP on and off for over a year, and after some time I ended up at a place where I had access to Photoshop. After a few times using it I found it to be more intuitive (at least for me, I can't speak to anyone else's experience).
Really, I tried GIMP doggedly and it just never clicked with me...my guess is that the people at Adobe did some serious user-experience testing and made it more intuitive for the average Joe to get started with.
I tried GIMP again a about a year ago and although it was a lot better, it still didn't "click" with me. That's just my experience, it may be the opposite for other people.
I can't be bothered to learn a new tool to do something I can do perfectly well with the tool I know how to use.
No wonder you suck at learning anything new. But don't worry, next year in 4th grade you'll be a pro.
It'll be a hoot to see you sink like a stone in the real world where "learning something new" is frequently required.