Slammer exploits a buffer overflow in the sql server "named instance" resolution mechanism. It has nothing to do with the storage/querying/indexing/etc of relational data.
Re:Yes, let's frighten people, not inform them.
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Some people actually still find ECT useful. The second I don't know about...
Found useful by patients or practioners? Do either of these things to people and for a while they become easier to manage...as would whacking them with a mallet. These two "therapies" are actually somewhat related, in their use anyway. It was observed that an insulin induced coma could produce similar seizures to ECT...ergo it must be a good thing to try out on mental patients. Then there was a schism. One school of thought was that ICT was more effective if it produced seizures and another that thought the opposite.
the third *worked*, but wasn't worth the price.
Again, lobotomized people are more managable. The only price is that doing ECT or ICT sounds more medical sciencey than chopping into brains.
I'm not saying that they aren't necessarily right, but there are generally sources of information that have *less* interest in one direction or another. People who are researchers...
Normally, I agree. But psychiatry was developed and practiced by researchers. Given psychiatry's ugly history, am inclined to apply a different standard of evaluation.
But in this case? The web page is pure scare tactics.
I find these things to be genuinely scary.
And then they start acting as if it's some global conspiracy or something. If Ritalin is over-prescribed, it's more the fault of the parents than the NIMH. And the manufacturer? Just trying to make money. Like every other corporation in the world. You can't fault a swan for swimming.
Of course I can fault them if they're marketing medication. ADHD is a particularly nasty example. In a lot of cases (the majority?) the behavior it's associated with could be attributed to personality differences or discipline issues. But these things aren't good for convincing people that medication is required. Call it a disorder and it's another story.
Another charming example is the "social anxiety disorder" ad for Paxil. Here we're given a litany of nasty symptoms that might occur when someone is
interacting with people. No problem, take Paxil. Since it's an official disorder using chemicals is an acceptable option.
Hmmm...drumming up new "disorders" and peddling drugs for them in order to make money. I think that actually would qualify for a conspiracy.
Creativity and spontinaeity are great qualities, but less good at putting food on the table.
Tell that to a(n)
artist
programmer
performer
teacher
researcher
negotiator
etc
It's just bullshit. F-U-D. Preying on people who don't know any better.
I'd argue the same thing...but for the other side.
My normally empathic heart is having a hard time bleeding for this guy. Especially considering:
"...the 40-year-old engineering exec has been out of work for three months now."
and "My kids think I'm still working. My oldest knows I'm looking for a job, but not that I'm out of work."
So the first guy's got the scratch to maintain his suburban Chicago existence for 3 months whilst lying to his kids so they have no idea of their situation. Then we hear thu implication of how this is exactly mhat blue collar workers are going through.
In the interest of fairness, I will admit that I, thankfully, am an employed white collar worker. That notwithstanding, this article makes it seem as if the current economic doldrums are amazingly unbelievably unprecedentedly awfully fantastically horrible; as evidenced by the fact that, gasp, executive consultants may not be able to maintain the lifestyle which they have became accustomed. And, to add insult to injury, "White-collar workers and college graduates are in a state of shock...".
We do have a serious economic problems. However, I don't think that shedding crocodile tears for the plight of the yuppie is any way to start solving them.
Usually, I'm a big free market proponent, but even I can see how media consolidation is a bad thing...
As a proponent of free markets you should see this as bad. The benefits of a "free market" don't come purely from a lack of government interference. It's also necessary that the market be free from private interference.
Actually, I think that anyone that uses windows as a general-purpose PC...over a long period of time will eventually need to do a fresh install to get rid of everything.
Or you could just learn how to properly maintain the system.
The windows registry is one cause of this.. it's a huge unmanagable beast, with many ways to have things load and hook in to various operations
It is hardly unmanageable. There's about 4 or 5 keys that have values to load processes on machine/session startup, and the "hook" mechanism (shell operations defined in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT) isn't exactly rocket science. Are these operations that less skilled users will feel comfortable performing? Probably not, but they don't get warm and fuzzies reinstalling the OS and drivers either. As for more advanced users, these skills are not only easily acquired but necessary. Or I suppose one could just not bother learning about their tools and nuke and pave on a regular basis.
There is no function in the w32api that gives you that information
If you didn't use it already in GetWindowRectClint, ScreenToClient will at least do the coord conversion for you. But I do agree, ui coding with C and the Win32 API ain't a whole lot of fun.
The Interactive Digital Software Association (the gaming industry trade group) denounced the bill, calling it unconstitutional and announced plans to a lawsuit, which it hopes will prevent the law from being enforced.
...media trade group suing...if they win public rights will be upheld...someone call Rod Serling...
date never needs adjusting, it automatically accounts for different months and leap years
century display (gear ratio 1:~6 billion)
stop watch
moon phase (accurate to one day in 122 years)
self winding
slider that will chime the current time to the minute
Here's the groovy part: 100% mechanical. Yup, it calculates and adjusts the date with respect to leap years/month length, tracks centuries, and all the rest by the power of micro-mechanics. It's got 600+ parts and 70+ (IIRC) jewels. They only make 50 a year. A credit to human engineering...now if I could only afford one.
Monday is the best time to implement changes to most sites.
Absolutely. I'd like to see their data. Perhaps the bugs stem from a Friday deployment and it's just that these particular sites don't see much weekend activity. This could make it seem like the defect was introduced on Monday.
...but consider the converse of what you are proposing.
No proposal was intended. Just the observation that the idea of enforcing responsibility in coding can be used to justify other measures.
Do you really feel comfortable with the idea of laws requiring IT managers to patch their systems in an automated and rapid manner?
I don't support this idea either.
I don't think you can write laws to govern this sort of activity. HIPAA pretty much proves that. Because they couldn't figure out what security practices to dictate in the law, they instead told healthcare providers to basically come up with their own standards, and then adhere to them. (WTF?) The lesson is that I don't think the professional IT community needs "help" in the form of laws do "solve the virus problem". The first thing they need is the leeway in decisionmaking to truly address the issue, and the second thing they need is to be able to freely communicate with each other. With people like MS and Cisco going over the heads of IT managers to enforce their solutions, and then forcing the staff to sign NDAs when the shit hits the fan, I have a hard time believing that the world will be a better place if I automate the installation of their patches.
These are excellent points. What it all comes down to is that the progress of technology has occurred too rapidly for legal systems, and ethical systems for that matter, to keep up. We now are in a situation where very tangible harm can come as a result of the misapplication of technology, but we don't have any reasonable solutions to address this situation. I'd go as far as to say that now we don't even have the ability to start looking for a solution since the implications of most solutions are as bad or worse than the problem itself. The only sure thing is that the next 20-50 years will be interesting.
Why don't we start writing more responsible fucking code? I think that if as much time and effort were spent doing security evaluation of commercial software development as goes toward finding the most underpaid programmers the developing world has to offer, we wouldn't be asking underpaid adminstrators to automate patching.
While I agree in principle, the idea of ensuring more responsible code could also be used to support regulation of programmers in a similar fashion to the way some states regulate engineers.
Great plan...until your rush to judgment results in a mistake (read: miscarriage of justice). You get two nasty consequences: total loss of any moral autority, and others are inspired to retaliate.
With regard to various network based attacks, just about anyone anywhere would be in a position to retaliate.
No they don't. Two easy examples: Mondrian and Fujitsu COBOL. It'd be closer to say that all.NET languages need to be able to use the.NET Framework, still incorrect (technically), but closer.
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Uhh...no.
Slammer exploits a buffer overflow in the sql server "named instance" resolution mechanism. It has nothing to do with the storage/querying/indexing/etc of relational data.
Found useful by patients or practioners? Do either of these things to people and for a while they become easier to manage...as would whacking them with a mallet. These two "therapies" are actually somewhat related, in their use anyway. It was observed that an insulin induced coma could produce similar seizures to ECT...ergo it must be a good thing to try out on mental patients. Then there was a schism. One school of thought was that ICT was more effective if it produced seizures and another that thought the opposite.
the third *worked*, but wasn't worth the price.
Again, lobotomized people are more managable. The only price is that doing ECT or ICT sounds more medical sciencey than chopping into brains.
I'm not saying that they aren't necessarily right, but there are generally sources of information that have *less* interest in one direction or another. People who are researchers...
Normally, I agree. But psychiatry was developed and practiced by researchers. Given psychiatry's ugly history, am inclined to apply a different standard of evaluation.
But in this case? The web page is pure scare tactics.
I find these things to be genuinely scary.
And then they start acting as if it's some global conspiracy or something. If Ritalin is over-prescribed, it's more the fault of the parents than the NIMH. And the manufacturer? Just trying to make money. Like every other corporation in the world. You can't fault a swan for swimming.
Of course I can fault them if they're marketing medication. ADHD is a particularly nasty example. In a lot of cases (the majority?) the behavior it's associated with could be attributed to personality differences or discipline issues. But these things aren't good for convincing people that medication is required. Call it a disorder and it's another story.
Another charming example is the "social anxiety disorder" ad for Paxil. Here we're given a litany of nasty symptoms that might occur when someone is interacting with people. No problem, take Paxil. Since it's an official disorder using chemicals is an acceptable option.
Hmmm...drumming up new "disorders" and peddling drugs for them in order to make money. I think that actually would qualify for a conspiracy.
Creativity and spontinaeity are great qualities, but less good at putting food on the table.
Tell that to a(n)
- artist
- programmer
- performer
- teacher
- researcher
- negotiator
- etc
It's just bullshit. F-U-D. Preying on people who don't know any better.I'd argue the same thing...but for the other side.
Besides, I don't know that I have a problem with bias against a field that has endorsed such treatments as:
electroconvulsive therapy
insulin coma therapy
lobotomy
etc...
My normally empathic heart is having a hard time bleeding for this guy. Especially considering:
"...the 40-year-old engineering exec has been out of work for three months now."
and
"My kids think I'm still working. My oldest knows I'm looking for a job, but not that I'm out of work."
So the first guy's got the scratch to maintain his suburban Chicago existence for 3 months whilst lying to his kids so they have no idea of their situation. Then we hear thu implication of how this is exactly mhat blue collar workers are going through.
In the interest of fairness, I will admit that I, thankfully, am an employed white collar worker. That notwithstanding, this article makes it seem as if the current economic doldrums are amazingly unbelievably unprecedentedly awfully fantastically horrible; as evidenced by the fact that, gasp, executive consultants may not be able to maintain the lifestyle which they have became accustomed. And, to add insult to injury, "White-collar workers and college graduates are in a state of shock...".
We do have a serious economic problems. However, I don't think that shedding crocodile tears for the plight of the yuppie is any way to start solving them.
TV: "Teacher, mother, secret lover."
What could be wrong with that?
New York is gonna be pissed.
It's a separate country...or maybe even a planet. ;)
The first Matrix movie was released in Egypt but was criticised by Islamic newspapers for promoting Zionism.
Maybe I should check the credits again to make sure.
Usually, I'm a big free market proponent, but even I can see how media consolidation is a bad thing...
As a proponent of free markets you should see this as bad. The benefits of a "free market" don't come purely from a lack of government interference. It's also necessary that the market be free from private interference.
...from Raytheon's Stinger page:
The Stinger Family of Weapon Systems is combat-proven, fire-and-forget, lethal, lightweight, and multimission. That's the "Stinger Advantage."
I wonder if this trade show has booth babes...
Actually, I think that anyone that uses windows as a general-purpose PC...over a long period of time will eventually need to do a fresh install to get rid of everything.
Or you could just learn how to properly maintain the system.
The windows registry is one cause of this.. it's a huge unmanagable beast, with many ways to have things load and hook in to various operations
It is hardly unmanageable. There's about 4 or 5 keys that have values to load processes on machine/session startup, and the "hook" mechanism (shell operations defined in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT) isn't exactly rocket science. Are these operations that less skilled users will feel comfortable performing? Probably not, but they don't get warm and fuzzies reinstalling the OS and drivers either. As for more advanced users, these skills are not only easily acquired but necessary. Or I suppose one could just not bother learning about their tools and nuke and pave on a regular basis.
There is no function in the w32api that gives you that information
If you didn't use it already in GetWindowRectClint, ScreenToClient will at least do the coord conversion for you. But I do agree, ui coding with C and the Win32 API ain't a whole lot of fun.
The Interactive Digital Software Association (the gaming industry trade group) denounced the bill, calling it unconstitutional and announced plans to a lawsuit, which it hopes will prevent the law from being enforced.
...media trade group suing...if they win public rights will be upheld...someone call Rod Serling...
- time range between 1/8 second and 100 years
- date displayed as day of week/day of month
- date never needs adjusting, it automatically accounts for different months and leap years
- century display (gear ratio 1:~6 billion)
- stop watch
- moon phase (accurate to one day in 122 years)
- self winding
- slider that will chime the current time to the minute
Here's the groovy part: 100% mechanical. Yup, it calculates and adjusts the date with respect to leap years/month length, tracks centuries, and all the rest by the power of micro-mechanics. It's got 600+ parts and 70+ (IIRC) jewels. They only make 50 a year. A credit to human engineering...now if I could only afford one.Monday is the best time to implement changes to most sites.
Absolutely. I'd like to see their data. Perhaps the bugs stem from a Friday deployment and it's just that these particular sites don't see much weekend activity. This could make it seem like the defect was introduced on Monday.
...but consider the converse of what you are proposing.
No proposal was intended. Just the observation that the idea of enforcing responsibility in coding can be used to justify other measures.
Do you really feel comfortable with the idea of laws requiring IT managers to patch their systems in an automated and rapid manner?
I don't support this idea either.
I don't think you can write laws to govern this sort of activity. HIPAA pretty much proves that. Because they couldn't figure out what security practices to dictate in the law, they instead told healthcare providers to basically come up with their own standards, and then adhere to them. (WTF?) The lesson is that I don't think the professional IT community needs "help" in the form of laws do "solve the virus problem". The first thing they need is the leeway in decisionmaking to truly address the issue, and the second thing they need is to be able to freely communicate with each other. With people like MS and Cisco going over the heads of IT managers to enforce their solutions, and then forcing the staff to sign NDAs when the shit hits the fan, I have a hard time believing that the world will be a better place if I automate the installation of their patches.
These are excellent points. What it all comes down to is that the progress of technology has occurred too rapidly for legal systems, and ethical systems for that matter, to keep up. We now are in a situation where very tangible harm can come as a result of the misapplication of technology, but we don't have any reasonable solutions to address this situation. I'd go as far as to say that now we don't even have the ability to start looking for a solution since the implications of most solutions are as bad or worse than the problem itself. The only sure thing is that the next 20-50 years will be interesting.
Why don't we start writing more responsible fucking code? I think that if as much time and effort were spent doing security evaluation of commercial software development as goes toward finding the most underpaid programmers the developing world has to offer, we wouldn't be asking underpaid adminstrators to automate patching.
While I agree in principle, the idea of ensuring more responsible code could also be used to support regulation of programmers in a similar fashion to the way some states regulate engineers.
Great plan...until your rush to judgment results in a mistake (read: miscarriage of justice). You get two nasty consequences: total loss of any moral autority, and others are inspired to retaliate.
With regard to various network based attacks, just about anyone anywhere would be in a position to retaliate.
So, how's the weather in Santa Monica today?
DevLead: Make a dialog with a tab control.
;)
SuperFastAlgorithmProblemSolver: Huh?
Uh huh...argument by sound-bite...really convincing. I take that back, it does convince me that you don't have any experience with .NET.
And your point would be?
Well said. Not to mention having to maintain/extend/fix/rewrite code written by the last guy who refused to code in anything but Klingon Fortran .NET.
Since .NET is nothing but a reworking of java
Why do you say that?
No they don't. Two easy examples: Mondrian and Fujitsu COBOL. It'd be closer to say that all .NET languages need to be able to use the .NET Framework, still incorrect (technically), but closer.