So what if you can't slam a plane into a building? Your only limits are your creativity.
If the airplane's softwall control can't be hacked, then perhaps the terorrists can make planes crash into things by guiding them with `pirate soft walls'. Or just making planes crash. I don't think terorriats are lla that picky and choosy.
This is dumb.
When will American politics wake up and address the injustices that are the real root of the terrorist problem?
Hi robbyjo. I'm MadFarmAnimalz, and I am currently handling planning at what you could call a very large company. I was (please try very hard not to retch) assistant marketing director previously, and I had founded the Competitive Intelligence unit before that.
I am a true-to-the-bone suit (manager).
I use Debian too, at home... Installed it all by my very little welf too! Yeehaw!
Of course, I must confess I don't use it exclusively... I am a member of the horde guilty of having multiple OS'es on the machine... Yes, my other OS is... is...
Tsk tsk! No, it isn't windows you berk! It's LFS!
This hat looks particularly crunchy. Ketchup or mayo?
Forgive me, I'm truly not trying to troll (I wouldn't be much good at that, I think) but that is not news. I'd think most people here already knew of evilwm... Or, at least, anyone who might fit the user profile EvilWM is aimed at would already have found it.
I don't mind reviews and nifty pointers on the front page, such as when Tempest for Eliza came out. But this is a little too banal.
Where do we draw the line? Hey. I found a project called exim. Wonder if the eds will accept it... (exaggerating, sorry, but you get the idea)
Note to editors: Slow news days are just that: slow. We don't beef things up by stuffing the content pot full of sawdust.
War started by hyumans, nope. Recall, humans had no way of knowing what the buggers' next move would be, and it could have gone either way. Given that the buggers had already shown belligerent tendencies once, it was a good call IMHO to just go blindly for them the second time. It's the survival instinct; err on the side of caution.
Besides, you know how in the end it turned out that the buggers made themselves out to be magnanimous? Has it occurred to anyone else that it's really easy to be magnanimous in defeat too, as in "OK, you beat us but we didn't deserve to be wiped out; here, take my worlds, which you already have anyhow"
I was wondering how OS-agnostic these courses are going to be, when I came across this quote:
Okin agreed: "We need to get input from others as well. Clearly, there is no point in these undergraduates learning only about Microsoft technology. We need a broad approach."
The reason I wondered was because so much of secure programming involves access control in many ways, direct and indirect. Obviously, Microsoft's access control mechanisms vary wildly from Unix paraadigms. I'm not a hardcore programmer, but I can only assume that priviledge escalation exploits under a Redmond OS would be very different from something similar with linux.
That sentence states unambiguously that the course will cover non-MS architecture.
I, for one, am impressed. Doing the right thing for once, the boys in Redmond.
I remember reading the write-up of the 'hacking' competition they had in Texas a few months ago, about how essentially drab a live event it was.
It strikes me that the day the organizers of that competition find a way to make activities such as cracking entertaining as live events is the day the movie studios have a decent chance at an accurate and somewhat interesting portrayal of a programmer.
These doofus scientists don't even watch TV or go to the pub, obviously. Boffins.
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Hmm, re. the bit about scripting localised content with computers, I can't help but wonder how it would color the slashdot community's reaction to the concept if it were presented in the form of a frontpage story by taco in his 'gee whiz, look, another cool application of computer technology' mode rather than the less approving hue you cast it in.
Can someone take this chap's comment and submit it as news? That would, I believe, be our first meta-dupe, aside from the fact that it'd satisfy my curiosity.:-)
insert half-arsed joke about script-kiddies hacking the space shuttle here in accordance with slashdot standard lameness protocol.
And some of these drones are actually going to get modded +5 funny. *sigh*
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Left with nothing, Jim and Janet Baker turned to the courts. In a failed attempt to retrieve Dragon from among the L&H assets that were now locked up by bankruptcy laws, they hired the powerhouse law firm run by David Boies.
You know, some people really shouldn't be using linux. Honest, not trying to be funny or sarcastic; linux is not for everyone.
I get the feeling jwz would have saved some karma if he'd stuck to a windows platform, or Mac.
Additionally, I read 'video on linux review' and thought we were going to get an informed analysis; codec support, any reverse engineering efforts underway, etc. None such luck. All we get is a poor misinformed troll spewing venom for page hits.
*sigh*
Oh, and mplayer absolutely rocks; particularly if compiled with site-specific optimisations. WITH the GUI.
It's been a few years since you were exposed to the IT scene in general and the security scene in particular.
You are now in a sense our Rip van Winkle in this regard, and I'd like to know what your initial impressions are about the status quo regarding attitudes towards security (now and then), and changes you've perceived in levels of implemented security (gained, of course, from reading, not practising:-) ), etc.
Describe our world for us as seen by someone who only knew it 8 years ago. Has the baby matured into something to be proud of?
QUOTE The primary reason usually lies somewhere along the lines of 'but we have this database and our database guy doesn't know how to do anything but Access!' Sigh. UNQUOTE
This I suspect is a chicken or the egg situation. It's all about user-base, which is why this story made slashdot, for example. The kids learning on linux today might grow up tomorrow to be 'the database guy who knows postgres'.
Also, there may be a more subtle reason why institutions keep older windows licenses active; annual depreciation is written off as expenses. I suppose if they canned the licenses, they'd a. lose this incentive b. have to write off what remained of the value of the licenses.
If indeed the amortization period of f.ex. win9[58] exceeds [85] years...
WTF? Slashdot was never this lame... I've been forced to browse at +5 and I've seen a bazillion posts explaining how smart the poster is that he knows that cmd.exe is not DOS, and how Cringely is by comparison.
If an explanation of why cmd.exe is not DOS +5 interesting gets modded +5, then there's too many mod points floating around. That's what you get when you mod karma whores +5.
This is NOT meant to be a troll. Slashdot used to be better than this.
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Think like a terrorist for a second, will you.
So what if you can't slam a plane into a building? Your only limits are your creativity.
If the airplane's softwall control can't be hacked, then perhaps the terorrists can make planes crash into things by guiding them with `pirate soft walls'. Or just making planes crash. I don't think terorriats are lla that picky and choosy.
This is dumb.
When will American politics wake up and address the injustices that are the real root of the terrorist problem?
Hi robbyjo. I'm MadFarmAnimalz, and I am currently handling planning at what you could call a very large company. I was (please try very hard not to retch) assistant marketing director previously, and I had founded the Competitive Intelligence unit before that.
I am a true-to-the-bone suit (manager).
I use Debian too, at home... Installed it all by my very little welf too! Yeehaw!
Of course, I must confess I don't use it exclusively... I am a member of the horde guilty of having multiple OS'es on the machine... Yes, my other OS is... is...
Tsk tsk! No, it isn't windows you berk! It's LFS!
This hat looks particularly crunchy. Ketchup or mayo?
They avoid immediate detection by well-configured firewalls, network & host IDS.
Hmm, well, not necessarily. I am thinking this is why there is such a thing as a default-deny firewall ruleset policy.
For example, you have a dns server and http server up and running on the standard ports, and anything else gets binned.
I'd say that's a fine example of 20-year-old technology (firewalls) catching a backdoor.
Sorry. What's 8 pm Eastern in a time format us in the rest of the world can comprehend?
Disgraceful. Next thing you know, we'll start measuring karma in inches and ounces.
Umm, ok. A window manager.
Forgive me, I'm truly not trying to troll (I wouldn't be much good at that, I think) but that is not news. I'd think most people here already knew of evilwm... Or, at least, anyone who might fit the user profile EvilWM is aimed at would already have found it.
I don't mind reviews and nifty pointers on the front page, such as when Tempest for Eliza came out. But this is a little too banal.
Where do we draw the line? Hey. I found a project called exim. Wonder if the eds will accept it... (exaggerating, sorry, but you get the idea)
Note to editors: Slow news days are just that: slow. We don't beef things up by stuffing the content pot full of sawdust.
Umm, do you need the subs that badly?
I think his re-appearance in this film is a fitting way to tie the whole saga together, especially for Wookiee fans."
:-)
Umm. There's Wookie fans?
Is this a fetish thing?
And I thought this was wierd...
Here.
More likely is that they misunderstand what Theo does.
Government secrecy and deception, check.
Mass slaughter of innocents, providsional check.
War started by hyumans, nope. Recall, humans had no way of knowing what the buggers' next move would be, and it could have gone either way. Given that the buggers had already shown belligerent tendencies once, it was a good call IMHO to just go blindly for them the second time. It's the survival instinct; err on the side of caution.
Besides, you know how in the end it turned out that the buggers made themselves out to be magnanimous? Has it occurred to anyone else that it's really easy to be magnanimous in defeat too, as in "OK, you beat us but we didn't deserve to be wiped out; here, take my worlds, which you already have anyhow"
I don't know. I think such a debate in the Security Council would be banal enough for Canada to participate eagerly in. /me ducks
I agree with most of what you say.
My personal theory is that it's the popularization of stock trading/ownership which has dumbed down market reactions and behavior.
Just look how the market reacts almost instantly to any development in Iraq, no matter how trivial.
I was wondering how OS-agnostic these courses are going to be, when I came across this quote:
Okin agreed: "We need to get input from others as well. Clearly, there is no point in these undergraduates learning only about Microsoft technology. We need a broad approach."
The reason I wondered was because so much of secure programming involves access control in many ways, direct and indirect. Obviously, Microsoft's access control mechanisms vary wildly from Unix paraadigms. I'm not a hardcore programmer, but I can only assume that priviledge escalation exploits under a Redmond OS would be very different from something similar with linux.
That sentence states unambiguously that the course will cover non-MS architecture.
I, for one, am impressed. Doing the right thing for once, the boys in Redmond.
Kevin's only been online ONE FRIGGING MONTH. Jeez man, lay off already. We know yer good.
I remember reading the write-up of the 'hacking' competition they had in Texas a few months ago, about how essentially drab a live event it was.
It strikes me that the day the organizers of that competition find a way to make activities such as cracking entertaining as live events is the day the movie studios have a decent chance at an accurate and somewhat interesting portrayal of a programmer.
Is that expanding office space, expanding processing power in general, or maxing out processing power per unit of office space?
You get hiccups when you've drunk too much.
These doofus scientists don't even watch TV or go to the pub, obviously. Boffins.
Hmm, re. the bit about scripting localised content with computers, I can't help but wonder how it would color the slashdot community's reaction to the concept if it were presented in the form of a frontpage story by taco in his 'gee whiz, look, another cool application of computer technology' mode rather than the less approving hue you cast it in.
:-)
Can someone take this chap's comment and submit it as news? That would, I believe, be our first meta-dupe, aside from the fact that it'd satisfy my curiosity.
Like everything else online, there's a engrish gallewy here
insert half-arsed joke about script-kiddies hacking the space shuttle here in accordance with slashdot standard lameness protocol.
And some of these drones are actually going to get modded +5 funny. *sigh*
Left with nothing, Jim and Janet Baker turned to the courts. In a failed attempt to retrieve Dragon from among the L&H assets that were now locked up by bankruptcy laws, they hired the powerhouse law firm run by David Boies.
David Boies?
MAN, is that code GONE.
DVD, DVD/RW, SVCD, MPEG 4, PictureCD, MP3, and CD RW.
I begin to get the feeling we'll see hardware decoders supporting AMCF-42* before we get hardware ogg playback...
* Aunt Marge's Compression Format v. 42
That's what this review is.
You know, some people really shouldn't be using linux. Honest, not trying to be funny or sarcastic; linux is not for everyone.
I get the feeling jwz would have saved some karma if he'd stuck to a windows platform, or Mac.
Additionally, I read 'video on linux review' and thought we were going to get an informed analysis; codec support, any reverse engineering efforts underway, etc. None such luck. All we get is a poor misinformed troll spewing venom for page hits.
*sigh*
Oh, and mplayer absolutely rocks; particularly if compiled with site-specific optimisations. WITH the GUI.
It's been a few years since you were exposed to the IT scene in general and the security scene in particular.
You are now in a sense our Rip van Winkle in this regard, and I'd like to know what your initial impressions are about the status quo regarding attitudes towards security (now and then), and changes you've perceived in levels of implemented security (gained, of course, from reading, not practising:-) ), etc.
Describe our world for us as seen by someone who only knew it 8 years ago. Has the baby matured into something to be proud of?
QUOTE
The primary reason usually lies somewhere along the lines of 'but we have this database and our database guy doesn't know how to do anything but Access!' Sigh.
UNQUOTE
This I suspect is a chicken or the egg situation. It's all about user-base, which is why this story made slashdot, for example. The kids learning on linux today might grow up tomorrow to be 'the database guy who knows postgres'.
Also, there may be a more subtle reason why institutions keep older windows licenses active; annual depreciation is written off as expenses. I suppose if they canned the licenses, they'd a. lose this incentive b. have to write off what remained of the value of the licenses.
If indeed the amortization period of f.ex. win9[58] exceeds [85] years...
WTF? Slashdot was never this lame... I've been forced to browse at +5 and I've seen a bazillion posts explaining how smart the poster is that he knows that cmd.exe is not DOS, and how Cringely is by comparison.
If an explanation of why cmd.exe is not DOS +5 interesting gets modded +5, then there's too many mod points floating around. That's what you get when you mod karma whores +5.
This is NOT meant to be a troll. Slashdot used to be better than this.