It is a broad and simplistic evaluation, but I think its purpose was to dispell, one way or the other, long held assumptions about the simple case scenario. Like you're saying, it sounds like it impacts decision makers, but in reality it doesn't proffer any salient facts beyond the unrealistically trivial case they setup.
I do feel that they make this point in the article though, that each scenario is different, that this was just a very simple example, et cetera, ad nauseum.
Certainly nothing for a corporate IT strategy to be based upon;).
No offense, but in the context of the article it is quite obvious that they are referring to IT system administrators in a professional environment.
BTW, by stating "If your IT department doesn't have anyone who's competent to secure and maintain the system" you're making the enormous assumption that good IT staff are a normal precondition to a company having an IT department;).
It's interesting that people on SlashDot are using the "well, something is only as secure as someone makes it" when I've never seen that same mantra when a story goes along the lines of "Windows found to be less secure than Linux";).
Use the old security notification for image library overflows and do nothing new with it except use the image code running in messenger. WOW, that's news...
...Mac OS is secure. Surely if he doesn't state what Windows his SO is using we should assume he isn't running OSX (well, maybe if she's running XP.)
I've been a software engineer on Irix/HP-Unix/Solaris(SunOS)/Linux(mostly slackware and mandrake)/NT3.5[.51/4]/2000/XP for 15 years and I've NEVER been hit with a virus on any of those systems. Some of it is luck, most of it is caution.
People who are STUPID enough to connect their machine to the internet, regardless of OS, without a software firewall or without using a router, should expect to be punished.
You don't think my Linux boxes aren't getting scanned for SSH vulnerabilities? LOL.
Slashdot shouldn't have given this author the publicity of printing his article. There are much better ways to deconstruct the illusion of 'Microsoft Quality.'
Yeah, sadly the pervasive feeling amongst the software 'purchasers' of this world is that all Linux-ware is half finished and has to be compiled (usually true, lol.)
I spend my free time writing a Linux replacement for ISAPI extensions and IIS for our products (we don't need a real web server, it was just 'convenient.') Firefox is one huge step forward. Man, what a GREAT browser (on Windows too.)
The best thing is that schools are embracing Linux. That's where Microsoft pushed cheap/free Visual C++ in the early through late 90's, and it paid off for them.
I always wonder about the paradox between how great Linux would be if companies developed for it with as much effort as Microsoft's OSes, and by how much crap software would then exist on Linux;).
No offense, and I'm no pro-Microsoft retard, but many people buy Microsoft products for reasons other than "you have to use" or because they don't realize there are alternatives. Many Microsoft products are very strong. Don't equate security with being everyone's concerns either. There are many corporations who rely on their DMZ to maintain security (whether stupid/naive or not) ergo their purchasing decisions are made on other factors, such as usability, features, et cetera.
Don't just dismiss Microsoft products as 'crap' out of hand (unless we're talking security of course, LOL.)
Actually, this IS using AGP 8x and using a rendertarget.
For example, with a single video input source feed at 320x240 (a standard) I upload each::Render() and lock & read the resultant render target and I get 3500+ fps (the video is simple textured onto a quad made from 2 tris.) This depreciates quickly when adding video streams.
...only capable of performing machine vision on 2-4 video streams into a machine that can run multigaussian motion detection on 20+ video streams via pixel shading. Image processing can really benefit from the floating point monsters that are today's consumer level game cards.
BTW, the shader for multigaussian motion detection is really large and yet runs at THOUSANDS of video frames per second including the time to upload a dynamic texture (video frame) to the card every frame render and pulling it back down to get the motion map.;)
Without the texture upload and download(a useless test but indicates the relative power of these 'game' cards) the shader runs in the TENS OF THOUSANDS of frames per second.
LOL, I can't tell if he's being sarcastic or is just naive... Hehe. Amigo, I like ActiveX, I use it extensively at work; however, it has HUGE problems which could have been addressed better.
You're being assinine about 'signing.' Signing suggests some level or authentication, it does not guarantee anything. It is like everything else in the world, things can be faked/corrupted/hacked/bribed, et cetera.
There's no 'out of sandbox' plugin anywhere that you can say is safe. Even if you wrote it yourself.
Less dangerous? Well, in a sense it is less dangerous because someone must register themselves with a signing authority. That doesn't guarentee safety, but nothing can do that;).
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...nothing like an English bird's smile.
It is a broad and simplistic evaluation, but I think its purpose was to dispell, one way or the other, long held assumptions about the simple case scenario. Like you're saying, it sounds like it impacts decision makers, but in reality it doesn't proffer any salient facts beyond the unrealistically trivial case they setup.
;).
I do feel that they make this point in the article though, that each scenario is different, that this was just a very simple example, et cetera, ad nauseum.
Certainly nothing for a corporate IT strategy to be based upon
No offense, but in the context of the article it is quite obvious that they are referring to IT system administrators in a professional environment.
;).
;).
BTW, by stating "If your IT department doesn't have anyone who's competent to secure and maintain the system" you're making the enormous assumption that good IT staff are a normal precondition to a company having an IT department
It's interesting that people on SlashDot are using the "well, something is only as secure as someone makes it" when I've never seen that same mantra when a story goes along the lines of "Windows found to be less secure than Linux"
Exactly, I don't think too many people are worried about the 'TCO for home web server users' ;).
LOL, tell me about it. Ever wrote a SOAP web service that you wanted to do things besides call other COM objects/CORBA objects? Fo' gedd aboud it... ;)
Did you notice that this was a study aimed at IT administrators, not home users?
I've been tinkering with my systems a bunch lately. New slack, new drake, suse, et cetera...
Use the old security notification for image library overflows and do nothing new with it except use the image code running in messenger. WOW, that's news...
That's re-diculous. ;)
There's bound to be 3 or 4 of them.
...Mac OS is secure. Surely if he doesn't state what Windows his SO is using we should assume he isn't running OSX (well, maybe if she's running XP.)
I've been a software engineer on Irix/HP-Unix/Solaris(SunOS)/Linux(mostly slackware and mandrake)/NT3.5[.51/4]/2000/XP for 15 years and I've NEVER been hit with a virus on any of those systems. Some of it is luck, most of it is caution.
People who are STUPID enough to connect their machine to the internet, regardless of OS, without a software firewall or without using a router, should expect to be punished.
You don't think my Linux boxes aren't getting scanned for SSH vulnerabilities? LOL.
Slashdot shouldn't have given this author the publicity of printing his article. There are much better ways to deconstruct the illusion of 'Microsoft Quality.'
ergo, when you push your key into the ignition, it will push back the sheathe.
Yeah, sadly the pervasive feeling amongst the software 'purchasers' of this world is that all Linux-ware is half finished and has to be compiled (usually true, lol.)
I spend my free time writing a Linux replacement for ISAPI extensions and IIS for our products (we don't need a real web server, it was just 'convenient.') Firefox is one huge step forward. Man, what a GREAT browser (on Windows too.)
The best thing is that schools are embracing Linux. That's where Microsoft pushed cheap/free Visual C++ in the early through late 90's, and it paid off for them.
Yep,
;).
I always wonder about the paradox between how great Linux would be if companies developed for it with as much effort as Microsoft's OSes, and by how much crap software would then exist on Linux
No offense, and I'm no pro-Microsoft retard, but many people buy Microsoft products for reasons other than "you have to use" or because they don't realize there are alternatives. Many Microsoft products are very strong. Don't equate security with being everyone's concerns either. There are many corporations who rely on their DMZ to maintain security (whether stupid/naive or not) ergo their purchasing decisions are made on other factors, such as usability, features, et cetera.
Don't just dismiss Microsoft products as 'crap' out of hand (unless we're talking security of course, LOL.)
...they have managed to give the abstracted and impersonal internet a touch of reality.
SERIOUSLY cool idea.
Actually, this IS using AGP 8x and using a rendertarget.
::Render() and lock & read the resultant render target and I get 3500+ fps (the video is simple textured onto a quad made from 2 tris.) This depreciates quickly when adding video streams.
For example, with a single video input source feed at 320x240 (a standard) I upload each
...only capable of performing machine vision on 2-4 video streams into a machine that can run multigaussian motion detection on 20+ video streams via pixel shading. Image processing can really benefit from the floating point monsters that are today's consumer level game cards.
;)
BTW, the shader for multigaussian motion detection is really large and yet runs at THOUSANDS of video frames per second including the time to upload a dynamic texture (video frame) to the card every frame render and pulling it back down to get the motion map.
Without the texture upload and download(a useless test but indicates the relative power of these 'game' cards) the shader runs in the TENS OF THOUSANDS of frames per second.
LOL, I can't tell if he's being sarcastic or is just naive... Hehe. Amigo, I like ActiveX, I use it extensively at work; however, it has HUGE problems which could have been addressed better.
You've got to be shitting me... Viruses?
LOL, are you the grammar and spelling police? I was OBVIOUSLY replying to your use of "...probably..." in your sentence.
You're being assinine about 'signing.' Signing suggests some level or authentication, it does not guarantee anything. It is like everything else in the world, things can be faked/corrupted/hacked/bribed, et cetera.
There's no 'out of sandbox' plugin anywhere that you can say is safe. Even if you wrote it yourself.
What made you inser the 'perhaps'? ;)
Less dangerous? Well, in a sense it is less dangerous because someone must register themselves with a signing authority. That doesn't guarentee safety, but nothing can do that ;).
Exactly. :)
You should visit his site (ensure you have high security if using IE, lol) and see some of the stupid things he says.
I always assumed that he was really sharp.