Sun wants you to remember, C# is not Java, and is not a Java replacement.
It's just a programming language that looks like C++ but has many of the benifits that Java has. It's designed to let you migrate all that code in C and C++ without much problem...
For the past several years we had Netscape 4.x, the bastion of stability and standards compliance, available to the world, and people still use IE. Go figure.
Netscape had their chance, they blew it with the total crap known as Netscape 4, any decent company would have killed software that was as bug ridden as Netscape was.
Oh yah, they did kill it. AOL picked IE as their default browser.
The point of HTML was to turn plaintext into hyperlinked text. Formatting was an afterthought.
The formatting was added in (up till 3.x) and then removed later to be put into CSS. Of course, this makes HTML a complete and total mess. Which started the browser wars...
'The day that every motherboard's BIOS uses strong crypto...'
That's when I actually buy a Mac.
Do you really think Apple, Motorola, AMD and IBM would just sit there and watch? All of the above have platform producing capabilities outside of Intel and Microsoft.
Wasn't AOL warned about this sort of stuff over a year ago?
I remember someone at Microsoft saying that AIM and ICQ had some serious unchecked buffer problems. Something to do with why Microsoft wouldn't update MSN Messenger to work with AIM anymore.
Everything must be encrypted. That's the first step. From SSL, to the connection between your Web and DB Server.
Once it's on there, make sure the data is encrypted inside the DB as well. Make the keys available to the CC processing program, and define security so that the only interface that has read access to the credit card data is the CC processing program.
That way the keys are not on the web server and if you do it right, compiled and hashed up inside your processing program.
For the very paranoid, part of the key should be entered in at runtime along with a password.
Passwords should only be given out to the most trusted people in the company.
Provide NO credit-card reading functions outside of the actual processing program. You can provide a search, update and delete, but no ability to read.
Encrypt everything between you and the CC processor, (cybercash, etc...).
Don't leave a trace log with all the info sitting in the root of the drive.
Block as much from the Internet as you can. Add IP restrictions, extra passwords, etc..
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Last time I checked, everything you "buy" when it comes to software says "This software is licensed, not sold".
Doesn't this mean, if you have paid for at least one copy of the software, then it's not piracy, but instead a contract disagreement?
Sorry, should have read
Who woudda thought it was possible.
Emphasis on the NY accent.
This just in:
Geek writes software that crashes, film at 11.
Sun wants you to remember, C# is not Java, and is not a Java replacement.
It's just a programming language that looks like C++ but has many of the benifits that Java has. It's designed to let you migrate all that code in C and C++ without much problem...
Wait, tell me again why this is bad?
Creative releasing drivers that cause a bluescreen?
Who would of thought it was possible.
Rule 1 with hibernation, no creative products.
Going for total outright sarcasm.
For the past several years we had Netscape 4.x, the bastion of stability and standards compliance, available to the world, and people still use IE. Go figure.
Netscape had their chance, they blew it with the total crap known as Netscape 4, any decent company would have killed software that was as bug ridden as Netscape was.
Oh yah, they did kill it. AOL picked IE as their default browser.
Some HTML History, for those who care.
The point of HTML was to turn plaintext into hyperlinked text. Formatting was an afterthought.
The formatting was added in (up till 3.x) and then removed later to be put into CSS. Of course, this makes HTML a complete and total mess. Which started the browser wars...
Isn't 3.5GHz the minimum speed requirement for the latest Everquest expansion?
That and a spare 2 GB of RAM.
Sounds like a return to the days where the motherboard is sitting out on a towel.
Now, where did I put my 8088 system....
At what point does the cooling system start to become a problem for the components around the cpu?
Does your HDD or CD like it when the case temp goes wildly up and down? How about the actual motherboard?
The US can't properly fund it's national rail system.
Heck, New York can't even properly fund it's subway.
Autos have a stranglehold on the US.
Proper use of this program requires a third party hardware firewall that blocks the following ports and protocols, 0 thru 65535, tcp, udp, icmp, ip.
Failure to install this firewall may lead to software insecurity.
I also develop software for a small company. I would LOVE to see my software pirated more often.
It would mean that the software is about to achieve critical mass among users and even if I only get part of the revenue, it would pay off.
Piracy put Microsoft where it is today.
'The day that every motherboard's BIOS uses strong crypto...'
That's when I actually buy a Mac.
Do you really think Apple, Motorola, AMD and IBM would just sit there and watch? All of the above have platform producing capabilities outside of Intel and Microsoft.
Much to my suprise, Microsoft came out with a processor pack upgrade to VC6 to support the newer processor extensions.
Good luck finding it, it's almost never mentioned and it's buried in the VC website which is currently too busy hyping Visual Studio.net
I like the name, it's slightly better compared to the name given to all of Creative's other sound-cards.
How about the 'clickpopstatic' sound card. Or the 'screwupthepcibus' card. Or better yet the 'bullyandsueaurealtilltheygobroke' card.
Windows drivers available in 6 months, working drivers in 6 years.
Works by redifining the word byte to equal 2 trillion bits.
Thus, my entire hard drive fits in under 1K.
Wasn't AOL warned about this sort of stuff over a year ago?
I remember someone at Microsoft saying that AIM and ICQ had some serious unchecked buffer problems. Something to do with why Microsoft wouldn't update MSN Messenger to work with AIM anymore.
(I might be wrong on this, anyone have info?)
Is how long it would take to download the finished documentary at 300 baud.
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ARB BBS, excuse me while I laugh.
C-Net 64, Crashes as much as Windows 3.1
Everything must be encrypted. That's the first step. From SSL, to the connection between your Web and DB Server.
Once it's on there, make sure the data is encrypted inside the DB as well. Make the keys available to the CC processing program, and define security so that the only interface that has read access to the credit card data is the CC processing program.
That way the keys are not on the web server and if you do it right, compiled and hashed up inside your processing program.
For the very paranoid, part of the key should be entered in at runtime along with a password.
Passwords should only be given out to the most trusted people in the company.
Provide NO credit-card reading functions outside of the actual processing program. You can provide a search, update and delete, but no ability to read.
Encrypt everything between you and the CC processor, (cybercash, etc...).
Don't leave a trace log with all the info sitting in the root of the drive.
Block as much from the Internet as you can. Add IP restrictions, extra passwords, etc..
Basically, be paranoid.
This is why MSN Messenger/Passport is down again today!
Offtopic: But if the person had an admin account, raw sockets wouldn't be a big deal compared to the other things that could be done.
An admin can install a whole new tcp stack while they're sitting around, if they really wanted to.
Do you think that all those home users went out and paid for DOS, Windows and Office?
They got a copy, then had their businesses use the product they used at home.