Okay, let us just suppose this does make it into the money supply. Why in the world would every retailer everywhere across Europe retrofit all of their cash register/P.O.S. terminals, it seems like a worthless "investment", and what about the "black market", so let us not get our britches in a bunch, the sky is not falling. It is draconian, but I honestly do not care if the government wastes hard drive space on knowing that I am partial to Code Red Mountain Dew, Ramen Noodles, and Chee-tos (TM PepsiCo and Frito-Lay, respectively, actually I do not think Ramen Noodles are a trademark of anyone, but I digress). It will just bring these governments that much closer to the brink of collapse under their own weight. How about looking after people's basic needs, like affordable housing, healthcare, and poverty, rather than pushing retarded things like these. Yes, I know, it is for my own good, protect me from the evil shopping-cart terrorists, I hear they are plotting something over on aisle 4, I heard "chatter" about pickles or something. Take away your own citizens rights when the people you say you are trying to protect against are/were not even citizens of your countries (U.S.A. included). Whatever.
I am not saying dissent is bad. I am saying that/. should stop posting these retarded stories about how "insert computing related subject here is dying" I hate it. It will not die per se, but evolve. I would be happy with "Lawrence Lessig on the Evolution of the Internet." That is cool. But I hate these pompous assholes saying that "Apple is dying." "The Internet is dying." "Computing is dying." NO NO and NO. It is just tabloid journalism, digital muckraking if you will. Mod me down if you like, I really am not here for karma, I am here for discussion with like, (or unlike) minds. If they would stop going for sensationalism all would be OK.
Stop these "_____ is dying" articles. They serve to just piss everyone off. The internet is not dying, please cordially f--k off, Mr. Lessig. This guy has enough exposure, why does he need sensational stories like these, to feed his ego? Come on/., I expect better. Please stop the "the sky is falling" articles. Please. I beg you.
Heh, I had about the same ratio of verbal to math, you are actually much better off with 4 years of experience. Just finish up a degree at night, do it in something unrelated to IT like basketweaving, criminal justice, firefighting, just in case you end up loathing IT. Hey, it could happen, just don't pigeonhole yourself into IT. I am, however, not a good fountain of advice, as I only *wish* I had a job in IT, but no one will hire me. Oh well. One Day.
Basically, spammers make money because some "John Doe", who does not know any better is buying their stuff. If no one clicked through and bought their stuff, it would just fizzle out. But hopefully these huge settlements will scare the "casual" ass, I mean "mass e-mail marketer" out of the "business" and the rest will be sued into oblivion. IMHO, the crux of this matter will be proving that someone either did or did not "opt-in" on some website somewhere with some "checked tiny ass checkbox" located on many websites. "I did not sign up for that", yes you did, on this date at this time. On the other hand, if you contacted them and they did not stop sending you things, then you should have a legal ground.
Moral is: do not buy their wares, and scrutinize all websites that ask for you e-mail address, read the privacy policies, and make sure you do not inadvertantly sign up for mail from "affiliates".
A cool article that was not tubed! Seriously awesome article, I love things like that, you may not know exactly what you are looking at, but it still looks cool. It is not really surprising to see an AMD chip, I thought they were partners with their flash memory anyway? I do not think apple makes MIPS chips either. Great article.
How do people like this sleep at night, do they accept the fact that they are complete assholes, and wastes of space? Or are they blissfully unaware, just thinking they are making a quick buck using their "computer machine". I do not know which would comfort me more. Them being jerk-offs, or being complete dumbasses.
Gee, tripe like this clogs the legal system, while hundreds of more relevant cases go unheard, god bless america. That would be like me suing a person's parents when he calls me an "asshole", does not make any sense, does it? An alternate route would have been to get a court order to make eBay disclose the identity of the alleged libeler (is that a word?, yes according to dictionary.com) then go after him directly, seems like a no-brainer, if I have learned one thing from this country, it is that it is much easier to sue the shit out of a person than a "big, evil corporation".
It makes more money than ever. Obscene amounts of money. No, no it is not declining. Since when is software growth declining, cite me an independent report, and I will eat my shoe.
God damnit, I get so sick of these "_____ is dead" articles. NO THE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY IS NOT DEAD, IT MAKES BILLIONS OF DOLLARS A YEAR! I swear these headlines get more retarded by the day.
Would that or would that not be a productive use of the subscription dollars? The articles are available to subscribers earlier, why not make it self-supporting? Makes sense to me.
Sounds like a good idea, why should Apple not be subjected to the same competition that the PC world has faced for years? I just do not understand why only Apple sells their stuff, it would maybe encourage them to put out even better products than they already produce, maybe cheaper. The more people that have Macs the better if i were Apple. That is what you call an "Installed user base" to pitch your next batch of products to, maybe if Macs were cheaper, then more people would own them. Personally I am eyeing the 12" Powerbook with the Superdrive, only 2000 USD.:)
Hey, I like having a rational argument, albeit with a few "fuck"s interspersed. I think there is no perfect, in a perfect world, all software would be secure. There would be no holes or vulnerabilities in any piece of code written anywhere. But in the meantime, come to think of it, your position makes sense. The only reason I have come around is because recently, TechTV and CNN, among others, have been reporting on bugs that have not been fixed yet, but then again, they have not been disclosing any specifics on how to exploit the vulnerability. I do believe that this would constitute our sought-after "happy medium". Tell the world about the bug, do not name any specifics, then the white hats can go about fixing the issue, or the vendor can get off their ass to avoid egg on face syndrome. Laziness should be painful, you have to, have to, have to, patch, update, cordon off, firewall, etc. You may not be completely secure, but most casual "hackers" are lazy and they will pass on any box running anything more than the minimum security. It is akin to the Club(tm) on automobiles. The other guy's car may be stolen, but not yours. Well you could keep that going by saying, "But you can cut the steering wheel". Point is, there are ways around pretty much anything, if a "hacker" wants to gain access to your system badly enough, he will find a way in, what our jobs as net-admins, technophiles, whatever, is to make it hard as shit for them to do so.
I do see your side of the argument, but, open source software has no manufacturer, and do not put fucking words in my mouth, I do not advocate baby-killing. Now that that is out of the way, I was joking about the script kiddies thing. I realize that these vulnerabilities are very difficult to exploit, but, how would it look, if you were a software developer, if you told your customers that your software has a hole, and that you cant fix it? I mean, what the hell? Many of the vulnerablilities and holes would not make much of any sense to the general public. I say keep it the way it is, only let the people who have the knowledge and desire to fix these vulnerabilities know about them. Once they are fixed, announce the bug and the patch in the same sentence. I.e. "Hey program XXX is broken, download the patch here www.whatever.com/fixit", or "close ports xxx-yyy, and disable the ZZZZ service." Makes sense to me. The elephant, in fact, is the egos of the businesses and individuals who refuse to report how they get hacked, if they ever find out how it happened. Disclose early and often to the people who can fix it, not me, I sure as hell do not know how to fix it.
This is both good and bad. Good, in the sense that more people will know about these vulnerabilities. Bad, in the sense that more people will know about these vulnerabilities. In my opinion, the only time security vulenrabilities should be released publicly is when they are fixed. Otherwise, teenage script kiddies worldwide will launch attacks on everything and everyone. It is unreasonable to expect all code to be completely secure, it is just flat out impossible. However, when new vulnerabilities are found, they should only be disclosed to those who have the capacity to fix them, and not to the public, whose only reaction will be panic. Comments?
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Okay, let us just suppose this does make it into the money supply. Why in the world would every retailer everywhere across Europe retrofit all of their cash register/P.O.S. terminals, it seems like a worthless "investment", and what about the "black market", so let us not get our britches in a bunch, the sky is not falling. It is draconian, but I honestly do not care if the government wastes hard drive space on knowing that I am partial to Code Red Mountain Dew, Ramen Noodles, and Chee-tos (TM PepsiCo and Frito-Lay, respectively, actually I do not think Ramen Noodles are a trademark of anyone, but I digress). It will just bring these governments that much closer to the brink of collapse under their own weight. How about looking after people's basic needs, like affordable housing, healthcare, and poverty, rather than pushing retarded things like these. Yes, I know, it is for my own good, protect me from the evil shopping-cart terrorists, I hear they are plotting something over on aisle 4, I heard "chatter" about pickles or something. Take away your own citizens rights when the people you say you are trying to protect against are/were not even citizens of your countries (U.S.A. included). Whatever.
May 23, 1984...err 2003
I am not saying dissent is bad. I am saying that /. should stop posting these retarded stories about how "insert computing related subject here is dying" I hate it. It will not die per se, but evolve. I would be happy with "Lawrence Lessig on the Evolution of the Internet." That is cool. But I hate these pompous assholes saying that "Apple is dying." "The Internet is dying." "Computing is dying." NO NO and NO. It is just tabloid journalism, digital muckraking if you will. Mod me down if you like, I really am not here for karma, I am here for discussion with like, (or unlike) minds. If they would stop going for sensationalism all would be OK.
Stop these "_____ is dying" articles. They serve to just piss everyone off. The internet is not dying, please cordially f--k off, Mr. Lessig. This guy has enough exposure, why does he need sensational stories like these, to feed his ego? Come on /., I expect better. Please stop the "the sky is falling" articles. Please. I beg you.
Heh, I had about the same ratio of verbal to math, you are actually much better off with 4 years of experience. Just finish up a degree at night, do it in something unrelated to IT like basketweaving, criminal justice, firefighting, just in case you end up loathing IT. Hey, it could happen, just don't pigeonhole yourself into IT. I am, however, not a good fountain of advice, as I only *wish* I had a job in IT, but no one will hire me. Oh well. One Day.
Makes me feel good about my 1190, and not doing anything with my life up to this point.
dude, huh?
Tubed=slashdot effect
I meant tubed in the "Penny-Arcade" fashion.
Basically, spammers make money because some "John Doe", who does not know any better is buying their stuff. If no one clicked through and bought their stuff, it would just fizzle out. But hopefully these huge settlements will scare the "casual" ass, I mean "mass e-mail marketer" out of the "business" and the rest will be sued into oblivion. IMHO, the crux of this matter will be proving that someone either did or did not "opt-in" on some website somewhere with some "checked tiny ass checkbox" located on many websites. "I did not sign up for that", yes you did, on this date at this time. On the other hand, if you contacted them and they did not stop sending you things, then you should have a legal ground.
Moral is: do not buy their wares, and scrutinize all websites that ask for you e-mail address, read the privacy policies, and make sure you do not inadvertantly sign up for mail from "affiliates".
A cool article that was not tubed! Seriously awesome article, I love things like that, you may not know exactly what you are looking at, but it still looks cool. It is not really surprising to see an AMD chip, I thought they were partners with their flash memory anyway? I do not think apple makes MIPS chips either. Great article.
How do people like this sleep at night, do they accept the fact that they are complete assholes, and wastes of space? Or are they blissfully unaware, just thinking they are making a quick buck using their "computer machine". I do not know which would comfort me more. Them being jerk-offs, or being complete dumbasses.
Gee, tripe like this clogs the legal system, while hundreds of more relevant cases go unheard, god bless america. That would be like me suing a person's parents when he calls me an "asshole", does not make any sense, does it? An alternate route would have been to get a court order to make eBay disclose the identity of the alleged libeler (is that a word?, yes according to dictionary.com) then go after him directly, seems like a no-brainer, if I have learned one thing from this country, it is that it is much easier to sue the shit out of a person than a "big, evil corporation".
It makes more money than ever. Obscene amounts of money. No, no it is not declining. Since when is software growth declining, cite me an independent report, and I will eat my shoe.
God damnit, I get so sick of these "_____ is dead" articles. NO THE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY IS NOT DEAD, IT MAKES BILLIONS OF DOLLARS A YEAR! I swear these headlines get more retarded by the day.
too bad you stole the headline from HardOcp
Would that or would that not be a productive use of the subscription dollars? The articles are available to subscribers earlier, why not make it self-supporting? Makes sense to me.
Sounds like a good idea, why should Apple not be subjected to the same competition that the PC world has faced for years? I just do not understand why only Apple sells their stuff, it would maybe encourage them to put out even better products than they already produce, maybe cheaper. The more people that have Macs the better if i were Apple. That is what you call an "Installed user base" to pitch your next batch of products to, maybe if Macs were cheaper, then more people would own them. Personally I am eyeing the 12" Powerbook with the Superdrive, only 2000 USD. :)
At least I am registered.
What about the fucking cheating bastards?
Hey, I like having a rational argument, albeit with a few "fuck"s interspersed. I think there is no perfect, in a perfect world, all software would be secure. There would be no holes or vulnerabilities in any piece of code written anywhere. But in the meantime, come to think of it, your position makes sense. The only reason I have come around is because recently, TechTV and CNN, among others, have been reporting on bugs that have not been fixed yet, but then again, they have not been disclosing any specifics on how to exploit the vulnerability. I do believe that this would constitute our sought-after "happy medium". Tell the world about the bug, do not name any specifics, then the white hats can go about fixing the issue, or the vendor can get off their ass to avoid egg on face syndrome. Laziness should be painful, you have to, have to, have to, patch, update, cordon off, firewall, etc. You may not be completely secure, but most casual "hackers" are lazy and they will pass on any box running anything more than the minimum security. It is akin to the Club(tm) on automobiles. The other guy's car may be stolen, but not yours. Well you could keep that going by saying, "But you can cut the steering wheel". Point is, there are ways around pretty much anything, if a "hacker" wants to gain access to your system badly enough, he will find a way in, what our jobs as net-admins, technophiles, whatever, is to make it hard as shit for them to do so.
I do see your side of the argument, but, open source software has no manufacturer, and do not put fucking words in my mouth, I do not advocate baby-killing. Now that that is out of the way, I was joking about the script kiddies thing. I realize that these vulnerabilities are very difficult to exploit, but, how would it look, if you were a software developer, if you told your customers that your software has a hole, and that you cant fix it? I mean, what the hell? Many of the vulnerablilities and holes would not make much of any sense to the general public. I say keep it the way it is, only let the people who have the knowledge and desire to fix these vulnerabilities know about them. Once they are fixed, announce the bug and the patch in the same sentence. I.e. "Hey program XXX is broken, download the patch here www.whatever.com/fixit", or "close ports xxx-yyy, and disable the ZZZZ service." Makes sense to me. The elephant, in fact, is the egos of the businesses and individuals who refuse to report how they get hacked, if they ever find out how it happened. Disclose early and often to the people who can fix it, not me, I sure as hell do not know how to fix it.
This is both good and bad. Good, in the sense that more people will know about these vulnerabilities. Bad, in the sense that more people will know about these vulnerabilities. In my opinion, the only time security vulenrabilities should be released publicly is when they are fixed. Otherwise, teenage script kiddies worldwide will launch attacks on everything and everyone. It is unreasonable to expect all code to be completely secure, it is just flat out impossible. However, when new vulnerabilities are found, they should only be disclosed to those who have the capacity to fix them, and not to the public, whose only reaction will be panic. Comments?
In any case, any of the above scenarios would suck major ass.
Ok, stop now.
I realized that, like, two seconds after clicking submit, that is what I get for not using preview, huh?