i was gonna crack (no pun intended;) a joke about gangs in places like milwaukee, but reading the rest of the/. responses gave me pause....
i'd just like to say that i personally am happy to see that there are groups out there that are trying to improve peoples lives....
it's sorta ironic how so many people call for reform based programs instead of jail-time, but then a program like this that's intended to spark interest and develop skills is ridiculed by the majority of people (on/.) who comment on it.....
who cares if web development isnt' a high paying job anymore... who cares if their web sites aren't the greatest ever.... there are people out there actually trying to do something for others who have harder lives.... that's more than most of us can say, isn't it;)
some other really cool stuff about this....
first off, the advancements that have taken place haven't made it efficient enough to replace most cooling devices, but if they can double the efficiency they believe they could start making 'solid-state' refrigerators and such....
the other really neat thing about this innovation is that not only does the material cool things down, but if you expose it to heat it generates electricity.... there's supposed to be huge potential there... the example i heard was that the material could be used to regain much of the wasted thermal energy put out by combustion engines, perhaps in a type of hybrid gas/elec car....
-- dragonxhero
recode IIS from the ground up, and potentially make it good
set the default install to turn off as much functionality as possible so we can point the finger at admins who actually want their webserver to do something
yea, good choice MS.... what a crock.... oh yea, and 100x bleh at saying that this action is MS doing the right thing from a security standpoint....
what you suggest would require that lawmakers and law-enforces had a grasp of the actual situation.
let's take a step into their minds for a second.
#1 - "#2, give me the situation"
#2 - "Sir, a 14 year old from delaware has written a computer 'virus' that's verging on 'taking down the internet'"
#1 - "my god! how has this happened?"
#2 - "well, the [gov't acronym here] believes that this individial is a very skilled hacker... probably the kind of person who hacks into NASA, DOD, etc and sells our national security secrets to Iraq, Libya, etc"
you know, these ppl don't understand what a script kiddie is. they don't understand that often a successful hack is really just the result of a stupid admin.
we're talking about the people who just a few years ago were lockin kids up behind bars for years for web site defacements.
don't get me wrong, i don't disagree w/ you. but we should also be giving ppl who are heroin, meth, and coke/crack addicts heavy counsiling, support, and guidence. but u see, there's no political will for that. "lock em up and forget about it, those ppl are just trash".
what we have are ppl who don't understand the reality of the technology that's running the world they live in. they are so hopelessly disconnected that they are forced to rely on advisors who aren't neccessarily gonna know anything either. this kind of thing isn't going to get better until we have a changing of the guard in the us gov't. when younger, more techno-savy, ppl begin to filter in.
in short, our 'leaders' are those ppl who have '12:00' flashing on their VCRs at home. don't expect them to be sympathetic or understanding to the plight of geeks/hackers.
butttt.... and perhaps i'm being naive, but i really don't think the procecutor would release information saying "the fbi found x, y, and z" and "he told people he was going to _______" unless it were proven/admitted/'true'....
but props for pointin that out;)
not much pity here.....
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some posts act like this guy is innocent....
IMHO, he shouldn't be punished for the penetration or browsing, cause he reported it to the company....
but, he apparently deliberately lied to the company about some stuff, and attempted to steal some of their intellectual property for his own personal gain.... sorry, this guy seems a bit shady, and it seems to me he got what he earned for himself....
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the article states that ML steals crypto keys... slightly different than passwords/passphrases...
:P
think about the entropy difference between 128 random bits and 128 bits assigned based off of a password....
in short, not all crypt uses passwords, thus the key is key....
-- dragonxhero
i was gonna crack (no pun intended ;) a joke about gangs in places like milwaukee, but reading the rest of the /. responses gave me pause....
/.) who comment on it.....
;)
i'd just like to say that i personally am happy to see that there are groups out there that are trying to improve peoples lives....
it's sorta ironic how so many people call for reform based programs instead of jail-time, but then a program like this that's intended to spark interest and develop skills is ridiculed by the majority of people (on
who cares if web development isnt' a high paying job anymore... who cares if their web sites aren't the greatest ever.... there are people out there actually trying to do something for others who have harder lives.... that's more than most of us can say, isn't it
-- dragonxhero
some other really cool stuff about this.... first off, the advancements that have taken place haven't made it efficient enough to replace most cooling devices, but if they can double the efficiency they believe they could start making 'solid-state' refrigerators and such.... the other really neat thing about this innovation is that not only does the material cool things down, but if you expose it to heat it generates electricity.... there's supposed to be huge potential there... the example i heard was that the material could be used to regain much of the wasted thermal energy put out by combustion engines, perhaps in a type of hybrid gas/elec car.... -- dragonxhero
we at MS could either:
- recode IIS from the ground up, and potentially make it good
- set the default install to turn off as much functionality as possible so we can point the finger at admins who actually want their webserver to do something
yea, good choice MS.... what a crock.... oh yea, and 100x bleh at saying that this action is MS doing the right thing from a security standpoint....-- dragonxhero
what you suggest would require that lawmakers and law-enforces had a grasp of the actual situation.
let's take a step into their minds for a second.
#1 - "#2, give me the situation"
#2 - "Sir, a 14 year old from delaware has written a computer 'virus' that's verging on 'taking down the internet'"
#1 - "my god! how has this happened?"
#2 - "well, the [gov't acronym here] believes that this individial is a very skilled hacker... probably the kind of person who hacks into NASA, DOD, etc and sells our national security secrets to Iraq, Libya, etc"
you know, these ppl don't understand what a script kiddie is. they don't understand that often a successful hack is really just the result of a stupid admin.
we're talking about the people who just a few years ago were lockin kids up behind bars for years for web site defacements.
don't get me wrong, i don't disagree w/ you. but we should also be giving ppl who are heroin, meth, and coke/crack addicts heavy counsiling, support, and guidence. but u see, there's no political will for that. "lock em up and forget about it, those ppl are just trash".
what we have are ppl who don't understand the reality of the technology that's running the world they live in. they are so hopelessly disconnected that they are forced to rely on advisors who aren't neccessarily gonna know anything either. this kind of thing isn't going to get better until we have a changing of the guard in the us gov't. when younger, more techno-savy, ppl begin to filter in.
in short, our 'leaders' are those ppl who have '12:00' flashing on their VCRs at home. don't expect them to be sympathetic or understanding to the plight of geeks/hackers.
nice point....
;)
butttt.... and perhaps i'm being naive, but i really don't think the procecutor would release information saying "the fbi found x, y, and z" and "he told people he was going to _______" unless it were proven/admitted/'true'....
but props for pointin that out
some posts act like this guy is innocent.... IMHO, he shouldn't be punished for the penetration or browsing, cause he reported it to the company.... but, he apparently deliberately lied to the company about some stuff, and attempted to steal some of their intellectual property for his own personal gain.... sorry, this guy seems a bit shady, and it seems to me he got what he earned for himself....