The headline clearly reads, "Expert hacks Hotmail in 1 line of code". Then in the second sentence of the first paragraph, "It took just three lines of code for Grossman to breach Hotmail filters..."
Brilliant reporting. Whatever generates page hits I guess...
Why is Handspring going with GSM? Isn't that a dying protocol? I thought the future protocal was CDMA. That seems to be (one of) the way to 3G phones and higher data bandwidth. IIRC, Sprint (and maybe Cingular and Verizon) are using something like CDMA for their network. This should make it easier for that network to migrate to 3g.
While the thought of having a hypersonic commercial vehicle is enticing, I think the intended use of scramjets are more for the military than anything. Remember this is a DARPA project. There isn't many DARPA projects that made it into the commercial realm. Well, I can think of at least one.;-)
Heck, just a hypersonic projectile and/or missile would really change the landscape for Ballistic Missle Defense. Having a velocity several times faster than your target is a major advantage.
It wasn't mentioned in the article but the projectile used gaseous ethylene at 1000 psi, not hydgrogen, as its fuel. I love my Aviation Week subscription.:-)
As mentioned in another posting hydrogen embrittlement would be a concern in a larger vehicle, this is a 20% scale model. The biggest barrier is heating. Atmospheric heating is a big deal at Mach 7+.
A more detailed article can be found here at Aviation Weeks online site.
Actually, I think some stand in New York's Coney Island pioneered the cheese coney. Skyline et al. just happens to sell a lot of them with Cincinnati-style chili.
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But what kind of "involvement" is actually possible for lusers like us? Do we have large sums of money to donate to Congressional campaigns? No we do not. Who does Congress work for? They work for the people who pay them, like anybody else.
All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
Someone has to start turning things around. If we continue to let special interest groups and companies to run our government (they aren't even full citizens for goodness sakes!) we will get what we deserve.
Democracy is predicated on the actions of its citizens. When the citizenry is lax and not doing its end of the bargain the nation suffers.
I mean involvement from the standpoint of not just using an application and/or product but being involved in its development. In terms of an open and free (as in speech) Web that means working with legislators, getting involved with projects that you want to see succeed.
Join organizations that promote what you think should be done. Heck, start organizations to promote what you think needs to be done.
We may not get change in laws to occur at the mythical Internet speed but we need to be involved to at least shape them.
Unless we're sitting at the table when change occurs we won't even get the leftovers.
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This story just brings up the problems and issues written about by Lawrence Lessig in Code. This primarily revolved around the notion that unless the users (hackers, lusers, slashdotters, everyone) take an active part in how the laws and code are shaped then big business and government will do it form them.
Jessica Litman's excellent book,Digital Copyright, details how copyright law was shaped without the users being present. Sort of a glimpse into what could happen to the Internet
Bruce Schneier's Secrets and Lies goes into depth concerning how techonological solutions are permanent (which I think refutes some of the article's notion concerning Myth #3).
What is needed is involvement at any level we can afford. The more that users are involved in any endeavor that involves them the better, generally, that endeavor does.
The Scientific American article you're thinking of is from January 2001, "The Mystery of Damascus Blades". The article was by John D. Verhoeven, the same guy as in the Chicago Tribune article. This is rehashing old news.
If you want to cite related but even older news you could peruse the Slashdot article concerning this Wired article about the Dragonslayer project.
Fuck what everone else is saying about brand and megahertz and RAM.
Evaluate what you want.
My last two laptops have been purchased because they were light (IBM Thinkpad 560 and Sony VAIO SR7K).
I wanted a light laptop that could do what I needed (working from home or on the road). My first laptop was a Compaq LTE 5300. It quickly made me realize what I valued most in a laptop: lack of weight.
I've spent more on the SR7K than the previous two compined (LTE: $800, Thinkpad: $500). I spent $1,700 on the VAIO. At the time it was a bargain. I just saw an ad for the SR33K going for $999.
In contrast, a friend wanted a desktop replacement. She needed something that she could bring home and still be able to do her work (she's a civil engineer for a good sized city). She has one of the monster VAIO's (an FX series IIRC). The damn thing is HUGE compared to my little SR. However, she has more PCMCIA slots and has the CDROM and DVD internal. I think she also has a larger HD in her model as well.
Both of our machines are running PIII 700MHz's and 128M RAM with 10GB+ HD's. Those are sufficient for just about any kind of work one would want to do on a laptop IMO. We aren't looking to do any rendering nor crunch some serious FEA solves.
Once you decide what you need your laptop to do then you go hunting.
Now to be a hypocrite and preach about the platforms. The SR series is great but it has been somewhat of a pain to find decently priced RAM and batteries for it. I had to hunt awhile on the auction sites to find decent prices for batteries. That said, once the SR series becomes a bit more popolar/sells more units things should be easier to find.
I absolutely love the Thinkpad line! If I could have found a laptop in the Thinkpad line that compared to the deal on the SR I would have gone for it. Excellent keyboards for a laptop.
I like what I've seen with the Apple Ti and new iBooks. I've read about the new iBooks scorching peoples legs though.
Dell's seem to be ok in any arena except the sub 4lb class.
This is relatively old news. There is a previous Wired article from Friday discussing this virus. I would say the only thing new is that all of the anti-virus house have come to an agreement about its name, what it does, and how it does it.
Isn't this the facility that was supposed to create a black hole and destroy the earth? Here's the report that Brookhaven had to research to quiet the fears of the folks concerned about the RHIC's disaster potential.
I agree in theory, but don't use this story as the prototype. Analyze it for a moment; the only real advise it can offer sysadmins is "Call tech support".
While the exact story may not be useful the site itself could be. Real analysis of the problem and how it was resolved would be necessities.
In this case it would be interesting to know what the Cisco/network dudes did to "correctly" configure the router and the rest of the network.
You gotta be kidding. The Grinch? Jim Carrey trying to do Seuss? I think it will be a travesty. Some things should be live action, or even made into movies...70's TV shows, 60's TV shows, comic books, especially so called live-action movies.
I've given up on action movies making too much sense. As a geek (by profession) and a rocket scientist (by degree) I don't mind when a movie doesn't have every little detail correct. I would be ecstatic if I did find a movie that dotted every i and crossed every t.
If you want realism take a hike. If you want realism in movies...good luck. In fact go watch "Men of Honor", that's the most realism you'll get in a movie.
Red Planet had stunning visuals and special effects. As has been posted, the robot animation is amazing. I would recommend it as a matinee, but not a full-price action movie necessarily.
Grab your Coke, get your Goobers, sit back, and enjoy the show.
The biggest problem I have with Gore is he is married to the Queen of Censorship. Remember way back when she and a group of "concerned parents" were trying to censor rock music?
While she isn't a candidate she is married to him. She has a measure of influence on the office. Just think about the influence Nancy Reagan and Hilary Rodham-Clinton have had.
As for Ralph, it looks like he's been reading Simson Garfinkel's _Database Nation_.
Ralph seems to have some good ideas. Too bad he isn't involved in the debates, it would make them more interesting
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What surprised me in the ruling (from what is so far available at NYT and Yahoo) was that it wasn't determined whether or not the remarks were defamation or not. I don't know if ALL anonymous speech should be allowed, but there has to be conditions when it should be allowed.
Where do whistleblowers go? What about employees that want to tell others of the working condition at their job? What about anyone that just wants to rant?
I find it irresponsible of the judge not to consider if the speech was inappropiate or not. I find this especially interestin since I've just about finished Lessig's "Code: and other laws of cyberspace". A must read for anyone that wants to understand how the future of the internet and other technologies might be determined.
Just to name a few. He has also created a yet to be published module to write Perl programs in Latin (Lingua::Romana::Perligata)! On top of that he is a tireless lecturer.
He has also written a very good book concerning OO and Perl: Object Oriented Perl.
In fact, during this year's Perl Conference his series of talks was jokingly referred to as "Damian TV, all Damian, all the time." It would be very helpful to have Damian devote even just 1 year full time to Perl.
I hope this is enough to show you his value to the Perl Community.
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I think the biggest cause for the spread of it in a corporate environment is that IIS is turned on by default.
Why does MS (and IT departments) have IIS running by default?
Everyone running an OS by now should run a minimum of services/applications by default.
Live and learn I suppose.
Not brilliant, just way too tired. Don't have the cleverness at this hour for such a good troll.
I think that's my cue to succumb to my sleep deprivation and go to bed.
What's worse is I read the damn thing twice. Long week, long day.
I've never liked USA Today as a news source.
The headline clearly reads, "Expert hacks Hotmail in 1 line of code". Then in the second sentence of the first paragraph, "It took just three lines of code for Grossman to breach Hotmail filters..."
Brilliant reporting. Whatever generates page hits I guess...
Why is Handspring going with GSM? Isn't that a dying protocol? I thought the future protocal was CDMA. That seems to be (one of) the way to 3G phones and higher data bandwidth. IIRC, Sprint (and maybe Cingular and Verizon) are using something like CDMA for their network. This should make it easier for that network to migrate to 3g.
While the thought of having a hypersonic commercial vehicle is enticing, I think the intended use of scramjets are more for the military than anything. Remember this is a DARPA project. There isn't many DARPA projects that made it into the commercial realm. Well, I can think of at least one. ;-)
:-)
Heck, just a hypersonic projectile and/or missile would really change the landscape for Ballistic Missle Defense. Having a velocity several times faster than your target is a major advantage.
It wasn't mentioned in the article but the projectile used gaseous ethylene at 1000 psi, not hydgrogen, as its fuel. I love my Aviation Week subscription.
As mentioned in another posting hydrogen embrittlement would be a concern in a larger vehicle, this is a 20% scale model. The biggest barrier is heating. Atmospheric heating is a big deal at Mach 7+.
A more detailed article can be found here at Aviation Weeks online site.
...Skyline pioneered the cheese coney...
Actually, I think some stand in New York's Coney Island pioneered the cheese coney. Skyline et al. just happens to sell a lot of them with Cincinnati-style chili.
But what kind of "involvement" is actually possible for lusers like us? Do we have large sums of money to donate to Congressional campaigns? No we do not. Who does Congress work for? They work for the people who pay them, like anybody else.
Someone has to start turning things around. If we continue to let special interest groups and companies to run our government (they aren't even full citizens for goodness sakes!) we will get what we deserve.
Democracy is predicated on the actions of its citizens. When the citizenry is lax and not doing its end of the bargain the nation suffers.
To clarify my point just a bit.
I mean involvement from the standpoint of not just using an application and/or product but being involved in its development. In terms of an open and free (as in speech) Web that means working with legislators, getting involved with projects that you want to see succeed.
Join organizations that promote what you think should be done. Heck, start organizations to promote what you think needs to be done.
We may not get change in laws to occur at the mythical Internet speed but we need to be involved to at least shape them.
Unless we're sitting at the table when change occurs we won't even get the leftovers.
This story just brings up the problems and issues written about by Lawrence Lessig in Code. This primarily revolved around the notion that unless the users (hackers, lusers, slashdotters, everyone) take an active part in how the laws and code are shaped then big business and government will do it form them.
Jessica Litman's excellent book,Digital Copyright, details how copyright law was shaped without the users being present. Sort of a glimpse into what could happen to the Internet
Bruce Schneier's Secrets and Lies goes into depth concerning how techonological solutions are permanent (which I think refutes some of the article's notion concerning Myth #3).
What is needed is involvement at any level we can afford. The more that users are involved in any endeavor that involves them the better, generally, that endeavor does.
The Scientific American article you're thinking of is from January 2001, "The Mystery of Damascus Blades". The article was by John D. Verhoeven, the same guy as in the Chicago Tribune article. This is rehashing old news.
If you want to cite related but even older news you could peruse the Slashdot article concerning this Wired article about the Dragonslayer project.
Fuck what everone else is saying about brand and megahertz and RAM.
Evaluate what you want.
My last two laptops have been purchased because they were light (IBM Thinkpad 560 and Sony VAIO SR7K).
I wanted a light laptop that could do what I needed (working from home or on the road). My first laptop was a Compaq LTE 5300. It quickly made me realize what I valued most in a laptop: lack of weight.
I've spent more on the SR7K than the previous two compined (LTE: $800, Thinkpad: $500). I spent $1,700 on the VAIO. At the time it was a bargain. I just saw an ad for the SR33K going for $999.
In contrast, a friend wanted a desktop replacement. She needed something that she could bring home and still be able to do her work (she's a civil engineer for a good sized city). She has one of the monster VAIO's (an FX series IIRC). The damn thing is HUGE compared to my little SR. However, she has more PCMCIA slots and has the CDROM and DVD internal. I think she also has a larger HD in her model as well.
Both of our machines are running PIII 700MHz's and 128M RAM with 10GB+ HD's. Those are sufficient for just about any kind of work one would want to do on a laptop IMO. We aren't looking to do any rendering nor crunch some serious FEA solves.
Once you decide what you need your laptop to do then you go hunting.
Now to be a hypocrite and preach about the platforms. The SR series is great but it has been somewhat of a pain to find decently priced RAM and batteries for it. I had to hunt awhile on the auction sites to find decent prices for batteries. That said, once the SR series becomes a bit more popolar/sells more units things should be easier to find.
I absolutely love the Thinkpad line! If I could have found a laptop in the Thinkpad line that compared to the deal on the SR I would have gone for it. Excellent keyboards for a laptop.
I like what I've seen with the Apple Ti and new iBooks. I've read about the new iBooks scorching peoples legs though.
Dell's seem to be ok in any arena except the sub 4lb class.
This is relatively old news. There is a previous Wired article from Friday discussing this virus. I would say the only thing new is that all of the anti-virus house have come to an agreement about its name, what it does, and how it does it.
Isn't this the facility that was supposed to create a black hole and destroy the earth? Here's the report that Brookhaven had to research to quiet the fears of the folks concerned about the RHIC's disaster potential.
Informative? I guess that means fiber optic cable should have the smallest bandwidth since it's the thinnest?
Get real. Moderators, blast this thread down.
I agree in theory, but don't use this story as the prototype. Analyze it for a moment; the only real advise it can offer sysadmins is "Call tech support".
While the exact story may not be useful the site itself could be. Real analysis of the problem and how it was resolved would be necessities.
In this case it would be interesting to know what the Cisco/network dudes did to "correctly" configure the router and the rest of the network.
Is there any plans to support other DB's, not that mysql isn't sufficient, I'm just wondering aloud about what path Slash is going to take.
Otherwise, keep up the good work!
The article mentions that they tuned the kernel to do better power management. I wonder if they'll share that interesting bit of code.
I'd assume they would since it would make their Thinkpads (and any other laptop possibly) that much more of an attractive platform.
I wouldn't say one has the right to make a profit.
I would agree that you have the opportunity to make a profit.
A right makes it a guarantee each and every time
I attempt to make a profit. So long as I exercise
the right, I should get a profit.
You gotta be kidding. The Grinch? Jim Carrey trying to do Seuss? I think it will be a travesty. Some things should be live action, or even made into movies...70's TV shows, 60's TV shows, comic books, especially so called live-action movies.
...it's a movie, an action movie at that.
I've given up on action movies making too much sense. As a geek (by profession) and a rocket scientist (by degree) I don't mind when a movie doesn't have every little detail correct. I would be ecstatic if I did find a movie that dotted every i and crossed every t.
If you want realism take a hike. If you want realism in movies...good luck. In fact go watch "Men of Honor", that's the most realism you'll get in a movie.
Red Planet had stunning visuals and special effects. As has been posted, the robot animation is amazing. I would recommend it as a matinee, but not a full-price action movie necessarily.
Grab your Coke, get your Goobers, sit back, and enjoy the show.
The biggest problem I have with Gore is he is married to the Queen of Censorship. Remember way back when she and a group of "concerned parents" were trying to censor rock music?
While she isn't a candidate she is married to him. She has a measure of influence on the office. Just think about the influence Nancy Reagan and Hilary Rodham-Clinton have had.
As for Ralph, it looks like he's been reading Simson Garfinkel's _Database Nation_.
Ralph seems to have some good ideas. Too bad he isn't involved in the debates, it would make them more interesting
First off, Yahoo has the article&l t;/A> as well.
What surprised me in the ruling (from what is so far available at NYT and Yahoo) was that it wasn't determined whether or not the remarks were defamation or not. I don't know if ALL anonymous speech should be allowed, but there has to be conditions when it should be allowed.
Where do whistleblowers go? What about employees that want to tell others of the working condition at their job? What about anyone that just wants to rant?
I find it irresponsible of the judge not to consider if the speech was inappropiate or not. I find this especially interestin since I've just about finished Lessig's "Code: and other laws of cyberspace". A must read for anyone that wants to understand how the future of the internet and other technologies might be determined.
Dr. Conway is a coding fiend. A quick look through CPAN will reveal:
Parse::RecDescent
Coy
Text::Balanced
Lingua::EN::Inflect
Quantum::Superpositions
Just to name a few. He has also created a yet to be published module to write Perl programs in Latin (Lingua::Romana::Perligata)! On top of that he is a tireless lecturer.
He has also written a very good book concerning OO and Perl: Object Oriented Perl.
In fact, during this year's Perl Conference his series of talks was jokingly referred to as "Damian TV, all Damian, all the time." It would be very helpful to have Damian devote even just 1 year full time to Perl.
I hope this is enough to show you his value to the Perl Community.
Yes, the disclosure of any DNA testing results is voluntary. However, the insurance companies are still allowed to use genetic testing.
The worry is that it will become mandatory. This legislation is a big first step towards that.
Welcome to Gattaca.