Well- I don't know about deals slashdot may have with anyone. I don't work for them or anyone associated with them. And I can't speak for any of the other front page articles, I didn't write or submit them. But in this case, I wrote a journal entry and for whatever reason, Taco put it on the front page.
I'm guessing that the other people who submitted the other things on the front page were also readers like me. So I guess at the very worst you could say Slashdot has been payed to accept submissions about the movie. For there to be a lot of them getting approved, there still need to be people submitting them on their own, which means there needs to be interest.
I don't watch the firehose too closely, but I bet lots of stuff related to the film is being submitted/journaled all the time. Interest in this film is very high amongst our community. Could there be some kind of payola going on? I guess. Does the recent number of stories about the film prove that this is happening? I don't think so.
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I think they did a lot of work to show that Bridge's character was the evil bad guy and that if it weren't for him, everything was good.
It made an interesting tension as Stark basically said they would halt all production until he could figure out a better way to do business. It looked like Stark wanted to start supplying cheap power to people but the 'system' was against him.
The only military portrayed is the US military and they are never shown to be doing anything wrong. I personally served in the military and was glad to see it myself.
This was just a journal entry of mine that got promoted to the front page. Surprised me - but anyway it is not a review. Just me making a post that would be read by my friends.
I didn't make any anti-US remark. All I'm saying is that they try to be anti-war without being anti-military and it was interesting to watch them walk that line. If you think that there was not intentional writing to bring up the issue you haven't seen the film. It is not just about the suit. And I don't smoke anything.
I don't know who Jim Rome is - but I talk that way. I figure it this way - you are an ass and my vocabulary may not be the best when I write journals on slashdot. I know I'm glad I fall into that category as opposed to yours.
It's pretty decent. Some great laughs, and really great action. It's not life changing - but it was a great amount of fun. Sort of like a comic book - but a movie instead.
What do you think about the interface itself once you get things the way you want? If a hacker can get a site dialed in and working correctly, can someone without a lot of tech knowledge maintain and operate the site easily?
I've been thinking about a project along very similar lines. I've discussed it with others and have we have found ourselves looking at the same options.
Some want to use django and build it from there. I'm leaning towards building what we need on top of Drupal. I set up Drupal on a test server and now I'm trying to get a good handle on the core and existing modules. Then when I know what I can do that way, I'd like to get started on my own modules.
At the very least if you are all wet, you aren't alone. The thing with building on a framework is that there is so much we would be doing all over again, that has already been done many times. I am hoping that with Drupal we will get a real jump on things and be able to move past a lot of busy work and get right to providing what we need quickly.
I'm interested in your experience with it thus far. I've just finished spending a few weeks looking at Joomla and am now working with Drupal. Any chance you would like to give more details?
I've been thinking about teaming up drupal with a few other php/mysql products. My end goal is content management, contact management, community building and some social network stuff. I planned on writing my own modules if I couldn't find any that meet what I need. Would the willingness to do modules myself alleviate some of the concerns you mention?
If you don't want to post it for all the world to see here, please feel free to email me.
I think a lot of us really hoped that eventually people would really get what a mess Microsoft's products are and then OSS would really take off. Instead what I think is happening is that Apple may really see some growth.
I don't know if this means much but my department of 80-90 has gone from zero to about 20% mac in the last year. I don't see that adoption rate slowing down either. Now in the server room it is a mix - Windows, AIX and Linux. With Linux growing the fastest. But on the desktop I don't think anyone is full time Linux only. Even the Linux users all have a windows or apple machine.
They did - along with amphib ships and helo carriers. You can check this article for a decent list. Look at the paragraphs just to the left of the Chinook photo.
I just want you to know that may have given me the best laugh I've had all day. I'll be saving that comment away for sharing with friends. Well played.
It is interesting that the GAO has concerns about the ability of Soyuz to take the shuttle's place. And anything else with capabilities that approach the shuttle's are basically vaporware at this point. I think that it is not out of line to ask if the ISS is going to make it. I'm not saying that because I think it wont, I just don't think it is to difficult to imagine very realistic scenarios where it does not.
I'm not arguing that. All I'm saying is that this depends upon a chain of failures prior to becoming possible and those failures are even greater than the exploit itself.
I don't know enough about sysadmin to make a good comparison, but my dba brain thinks this is like, saying 'hey you might think ls is pretty safe- but not if you give people root privileges before they use it.' But that might be a bad example.
It's an interesting piece but when he points out that there really is little chance of it being used in the real world, that is an understatement. Using this method in the real world wouldn't even make sense.
In order to pull this off you need to have alter session priveleges. And you need to already have injected sql into the database- which means there is absolutely no point to taking the extra steps to modify some other data type to allow you to do what you have already done.
It's an interesting mental exercise but I don't think it really has an practical ramifications. If you've already handed out alter session to anyone using a form you've hosed yourself so many times over, playing with sysdate or number is the least of your worries.
Anything that reminds people to be careful about how they handle input is good, but I think a lot of people are going to think this is a bigger deal than it is.
That's ok - as long as rich people with lots of money are the ones who decide what is handed out and what isn't. When the hoi polloi start making those kind of decisions, we have a problem.
It would be nice if the apple lawyers got all riled up about it, and it got enough attention that everyone new any company claiming sole rights to something so obvious should be slapped upside the head. Even better would be if this slapping actually took place in court so no one else would have to worry about apple bothering them over something so idiotic.
They say if you want the 20gig model with XP - your best bet is to buy the linux version and install xp yourself. But I heard somewhere that xp has problems on the eee pc. Though maybe that is just the 7 inch version and this newer machine will do better.
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Well- I don't know about deals slashdot may have with anyone. I don't work for them or anyone associated with them. And I can't speak for any of the other front page articles, I didn't write or submit them. But in this case, I wrote a journal entry and for whatever reason, Taco put it on the front page.
I'm guessing that the other people who submitted the other things on the front page were also readers like me. So I guess at the very worst you could say Slashdot has been payed to accept submissions about the movie. For there to be a lot of them getting approved, there still need to be people submitting them on their own, which means there needs to be interest.
I don't watch the firehose too closely, but I bet lots of stuff related to the film is being submitted/journaled all the time. Interest in this film is very high amongst our community. Could there be some kind of payola going on? I guess. Does the recent number of stories about the film prove that this is happening? I don't think so.
I think they did a lot of work to show that Bridge's character was the evil bad guy and that if it weren't for him, everything was good.
It made an interesting tension as Stark basically said they would halt all production until he could figure out a better way to do business. It looked like Stark wanted to start supplying cheap power to people but the 'system' was against him.
The only military portrayed is the US military and they are never shown to be doing anything wrong. I personally served in the military and was glad to see it myself.
This was just a journal entry of mine that got promoted to the front page. Surprised me - but anyway it is not a review. Just me making a post that would be read by my friends.
I didn't make any anti-US remark. All I'm saying is that they try to be anti-war without being anti-military and it was interesting to watch them walk that line. If you think that there was not intentional writing to bring up the issue you haven't seen the film. It is not just about the suit. And I don't smoke anything.
I don't know who Jim Rome is - but I talk that way. I figure it this way - you are an ass and my vocabulary may not be the best when I write journals on slashdot. I know I'm glad I fall into that category as opposed to yours.
It's pretty decent. Some great laughs, and really great action. It's not life changing - but it was a great amount of fun. Sort of like a comic book - but a movie instead.
I heard they are hermetically sealed to keep all the viruses inside.
What do you think about the interface itself once you get things the way you want? If a hacker can get a site dialed in and working correctly, can someone without a lot of tech knowledge maintain and operate the site easily?
Just can't get our act together. It's why we've never been able to get past our image as disorganized and in general lower than the other birds.
I've been thinking about a project along very similar lines. I've discussed it with others and have we have found ourselves looking at the same options.
Some want to use django and build it from there. I'm leaning towards building what we need on top of Drupal. I set up Drupal on a test server and now I'm trying to get a good handle on the core and existing modules. Then when I know what I can do that way, I'd like to get started on my own modules.
At the very least if you are all wet, you aren't alone. The thing with building on a framework is that there is so much we would be doing all over again, that has already been done many times. I am hoping that with Drupal we will get a real jump on things and be able to move past a lot of busy work and get right to providing what we need quickly.
I'm interested in your experience with it thus far. I've just finished spending a few weeks looking at Joomla and am now working with Drupal. Any chance you would like to give more details?
I've been thinking about teaming up drupal with a few other php/mysql products. My end goal is content management, contact management, community building and some social network stuff. I planned on writing my own modules if I couldn't find any that meet what I need. Would the willingness to do modules myself alleviate some of the concerns you mention?
If you don't want to post it for all the world to see here, please feel free to email me.
Me - I'd like to at some point because I really like working with and on open software.
I think cost comes into it for some as well.
I think a lot of us really hoped that eventually people would really get what a mess Microsoft's products are and then OSS would really take off. Instead what I think is happening is that Apple may really see some growth.
I don't know if this means much but my department of 80-90 has gone from zero to about 20% mac in the last year. I don't see that adoption rate slowing down either. Now in the server room it is a mix - Windows, AIX and Linux. With Linux growing the fastest. But on the desktop I don't think anyone is full time Linux only. Even the Linux users all have a windows or apple machine.
They did - along with amphib ships and helo carriers. You can check this article for a decent list. Look at the paragraphs just to the left of the Chinook photo.
There was - and I don't know if it was the anesthesia or the nano-particles - but it tasted funny.
I just want you to know that may have given me the best laugh I've had all day. I'll be saving that comment away for sharing with friends. Well played.
if you want to talk about the ak-47 you just need two words: spray and pray.
It is interesting that the GAO has concerns about the ability of Soyuz to take the shuttle's place. And anything else with capabilities that approach the shuttle's are basically vaporware at this point. I think that it is not out of line to ask if the ISS is going to make it. I'm not saying that because I think it wont, I just don't think it is to difficult to imagine very realistic scenarios where it does not.
I don't think so. This is dependent upon circumstances where the horse is already out of the barn so to speak.
I'm not arguing that. All I'm saying is that this depends upon a chain of failures prior to becoming possible and those failures are even greater than the exploit itself.
I don't know enough about sysadmin to make a good comparison, but my dba brain thinks this is like, saying 'hey you might think ls is pretty safe- but not if you give people root privileges before they use it.' But that might be a bad example.
It's an interesting piece but when he points out that there really is little chance of it being used in the real world, that is an understatement. Using this method in the real world wouldn't even make sense.
In order to pull this off you need to have alter session priveleges. And you need to already have injected sql into the database- which means there is absolutely no point to taking the extra steps to modify some other data type to allow you to do what you have already done.
It's an interesting mental exercise but I don't think it really has an practical ramifications. If you've already handed out alter session to anyone using a form you've hosed yourself so many times over, playing with sysdate or number is the least of your worries.
Anything that reminds people to be careful about how they handle input is good, but I think a lot of people are going to think this is a bigger deal than it is.
That's ok - as long as rich people with lots of money are the ones who decide what is handed out and what isn't. When the hoi polloi start making those kind of decisions, we have a problem.
I guess it is exactly like that since neither has actually happened yet.
which goes to show you how much longer an airframe can last when not put under the stresses of acm.
I could swear I saw an Estes sticker on the side of that rocket.
It would be nice if the apple lawyers got all riled up about it, and it got enough attention that everyone new any company claiming sole rights to something so obvious should be slapped upside the head. Even better would be if this slapping actually took place in court so no one else would have to worry about apple bothering them over something so idiotic.
They say if you want the 20gig model with XP - your best bet is to buy the linux version and install xp yourself. But I heard somewhere that xp has problems on the eee pc. Though maybe that is just the 7 inch version and this newer machine will do better.