There are two sure things in this life - taxes and death. If I had the option of taking one away at the cost of leaving the other, it sure wouldn't be death.
If you have the motivation to spend 20% of your day building an independent project, chances are, you also have the motivation to have that project under your own terms (i.e., your own development company). From the perspective of the individual and not the corporation, I would rather spend my time funneling that kind of motivation into a system that sells and/or ends on my own terms. Even if the company offered independent project terms, I would still save my best project ideas for my own external projects.
You could easily do the same with Yahoo usernames (example, insert @yahoo.com after every username) and profiles or any other system based on the same scheme. Not impressive, since it is just collecting freely available information. It does raise a good point, barely, that people should be more aware of what they release in terms of information. As even want-to-be script kiddes like this individual can see.
...the bytes where in transit and the bits where on break. I can't believe he didn't explain this to you. Bits are under union contract, bytes are currently outsourced, so don't be suprised if there is a lack of communication between the bits and the bytes due to these factors.
I give it 2 months until Verizon runs the power grid for the east in a joint venture with SBC, GE, and AOL/TimeWarner, with Microsoft running the software that controls the power stations.
The new company formed will be called SCOnumber2 ultra LLC
And you will all have to buy licenses at $699 a pop to have electricity run to your home (one license per home).
2 million lines of code for 'lets go kill people' software. If they can do that, I wonder if I can get them to 'sponser' a new 'lets go eat some cheetos and then kill people' couch for my apartmet.
I have to say, as a 20 year old who slacked his way through high school, at the time I would have feared greatly this system as would most high school students who's daily activites include finding waldo and drooling on the desk. However, the security is what worries me. Granted if there was a password option most people would use the easily decrypted passwords. Still, something more should be in place than a social security and the first five letters. Even in the college I am attending they allow a password option with only 4 characters on top of SS. With out that option I could only imagine the access people would have to my records. Obviously the likely scenario is not going to be 'hey, check this out I found Billy's grades I'm going to post them in the NYT!'. But still, I would want that extra security on a subject matter I would consider private, even if I was a slacking snot-nosed teenager.:)
I can only assume that you are asking this question because you are considering wether you are ready or not for college. Personally, I took a year and a half off. It gave me the time I needed to actually search different fields, gain some insight through job experience in the field I was considering, and prepare for life outside of highschool. If you are considering taking some time off, my suggestion is to consider that a strong possibility. Just remmember, the time you take for college and what you do is in your ball park now that you are leaving high school, no one elses, so take time to figure out what you really want to go to college for, and why you are going.
This article has pursuaded me to relieve myself of work duty and fire up my old ATARI and pop open a can off Fancy Feast and chug a Jolt...
Slashdot - My Savior:)
This, if anything, shows the need for (as stated in the paper) a need to have a central system for recovery and research of what was described. The obvious double edged sword of this document, and documents similar, in my opinion show the need for a head strong security movement. I, like many Linux users, are constantly amused and entertained by the 'average' individuals lack of know how in this field, however, I am not amused or entertained at their ignorance to security in general. It would seem that part of the blame could be the software companies lack of forwarding information to the customer on the issue, and part of the blame in the customers hands themselves. I am not pointing fingers or blame, just simply saying they are not educated enough to control the security of their own system(s). In my opinon, this is dangerous and there should be much more education given to the hands of the end user. Obviously an 80 year old woman with a background in knitting is not going to be able to secure her home PC, so I am not speaking of extreme change. However, I am speaking of individuals, who move from mom and pop stores to ecommerce means. So often I see individuals start an ecommerce site, and then are startled why their site was owned when they are using outdated forum software, cart software, or other software, and a password that consists of 'changeme'. Maybe a dumbed down security manual referred to by ecommerce providers would do the trick, maybe not. I don't know, I'm not a security executive, so I dont have the solution (...yet, lol). But just something, anything, to show the end user some basic means of boosting security and authentication may be enough to get the ball rolling.
- Ross Smith
Slashdot Mirror
There are two sure things in this life - taxes and death. If I had the option of taking one away at the cost of leaving the other, it sure wouldn't be death.
If you have the motivation to spend 20% of your day building an independent project, chances are, you also have the motivation to have that project under your own terms (i.e., your own development company). From the perspective of the individual and not the corporation, I would rather spend my time funneling that kind of motivation into a system that sells and/or ends on my own terms. Even if the company offered independent project terms, I would still save my best project ideas for my own external projects.
NASA is to a real fix as Microsoft is to their 'Service Pack'..
..A failure, but marketed better than a video of Paris Hilton
Hire people like yourself to resolve the issue
You mean Linux kernel coders get all the "pussies"
He's off fighting crusades against Linux in Asia
Dog Wins... FATALITY
...
Cat vs. Chinchilla
Cat Wins... FATALITY
SCO vs. toilet bowl...
wait.. SCO is the toilet bowl, sorry
Your job > /dev/null
Wait...
You are a contractor?
Welcome aboard!
You could easily do the same with Yahoo usernames (example, insert @yahoo.com after every username) and profiles or any other system based on the same scheme. Not impressive, since it is just collecting freely available information. It does raise a good point, barely, that people should be more aware of what they release in terms of information. As even want-to-be script kiddes like this individual can see.
...the bytes where in transit and the bits where on break. I can't believe he didn't explain this to you. Bits are under union contract, bytes are currently outsourced, so don't be suprised if there is a lack of communication between the bits and the bytes due to these factors.
I give it 2 months until Verizon runs the power grid for the east in a joint venture with SBC, GE, and AOL/TimeWarner, with Microsoft running the software that controls the power stations.
The new company formed will be called SCOnumber2 ultra LLC
And you will all have to buy licenses at $699 a pop to have electricity run to your home (one license per home).
"Bow to me" - Gates and friends
2 million lines of code for 'lets go kill people' software. If they can do that, I wonder if I can get them to 'sponser' a new 'lets go eat some cheetos and then kill people' couch for my apartmet.
It went out slighty before 2.2
I have to say, as a 20 year old who slacked his way through high school, at the time I would have feared greatly this system as would most high school students who's daily activites include finding waldo and drooling on the desk. However, the security is what worries me. Granted if there was a password option most people would use the easily decrypted passwords. Still, something more should be in place than a social security and the first five letters. Even in the college I am attending they allow a password option with only 4 characters on top of SS. With out that option I could only imagine the access people would have to my records. Obviously the likely scenario is not going to be 'hey, check this out I found Billy's grades I'm going to post them in the NYT!'. But still, I would want that extra security on a subject matter I would consider private, even if I was a slacking snot-nosed teenager. :)
I can only assume that you are asking this question because you are considering wether you are ready or not for college. Personally, I took a year and a half off. It gave me the time I needed to actually search different fields, gain some insight through job experience in the field I was considering, and prepare for life outside of highschool. If you are considering taking some time off, my suggestion is to consider that a strong possibility. Just remmember, the time you take for college and what you do is in your ball park now that you are leaving high school, no one elses, so take time to figure out what you really want to go to college for, and why you are going.
This article has pursuaded me to relieve myself of work duty and fire up my old ATARI and pop open a can off Fancy Feast and chug a Jolt... Slashdot - My Savior :)
This, if anything, shows the need for (as stated in the paper) a need to have a central system for recovery and research of what was described. The obvious double edged sword of this document, and documents similar, in my opinion show the need for a head strong security movement. I, like many Linux users, are constantly amused and entertained by the 'average' individuals lack of know how in this field, however, I am not amused or entertained at their ignorance to security in general. It would seem that part of the blame could be the software companies lack of forwarding information to the customer on the issue, and part of the blame in the customers hands themselves. I am not pointing fingers or blame, just simply saying they are not educated enough to control the security of their own system(s). In my opinon, this is dangerous and there should be much more education given to the hands of the end user. Obviously an 80 year old woman with a background in knitting is not going to be able to secure her home PC, so I am not speaking of extreme change. However, I am speaking of individuals, who move from mom and pop stores to ecommerce means. So often I see individuals start an ecommerce site, and then are startled why their site was owned when they are using outdated forum software, cart software, or other software, and a password that consists of 'changeme'. Maybe a dumbed down security manual referred to by ecommerce providers would do the trick, maybe not. I don't know, I'm not a security executive, so I dont have the solution (...yet, lol). But just something, anything, to show the end user some basic means of boosting security and authentication may be enough to get the ball rolling. - Ross Smith