I think not. There were three simple things that would have saved your ass, first apply the patch, second don't allow everyone in the world to connect to your database server, and last turn off the box if you don't know how to secure it. I also work for a company that uses SQL Server for the backend of our web apps, but I don't have any interesting stories for you. I think our admin was asleep in bed when this all when down, but that is because he did all the hard work ahead of time.
There are a lot of home users/business that have SQL server installed and no firewall set up. Just like code red this thing is infecting personal boxes, therefore adding to the high volumes we see. I have SQL on one of my machines at home, behind two linux based firewalls, and when I use any tool to connect to a database I am given all sorts of choices. Most of the IP addys I see belong to other cable users. I wonder how many have kept up on their patches? The problem is any fool without any training can install this stuff on their computers, I think home users are the main reason that simple worms like this are so successful.
Then there are the usual stalker types who get their jollies sending out creepy emails and eyeballing girls in the class -- my friend decided to work rather than go to grad school at Madison because this happened *twice* (on the level of restrining order), fer chrissake
My wife had the same experience in law school and while working as a lawyer and there are a large number of women in this field. If the reason women don't go into CS is because some men can be creeps they would never leave their homes.
That has got to be the dumbest thing I have seen posted here. Why do the editors thing that all geek are silly children and get off on this stupid stuff. This is worse then the never ending saga of Fartscrape. Just can the damn thing.
This alone has pretty much killed off most client side Java.
No that's ludicrous. Ugly slow java applets and flavour of the day ui lib killed java on the client. Also developers just seemed to abandon it for that purpose.
What is to be gained by allowing someone with a modem and old browser access a site that has no real content. For the most part the web is a waste land and the few areas that have any significant content are generally readable in old browsers.
Until issues of literacy and freedom are addressed the supposed digital divide will always exist. What is an illiterate 12 year old nike shoe maker going to do with a computer anyway?
Since when is stating the obvious is interesting. Anyone at this point who is not awaire it is a civil case and nobody is going to jail, should crawl out from under the rock they live in, or away from that computer in that dark room. Come out the sunshine is good for you. As far as anyone who would mode this post up should have their head checked. Interesting, as if. Karma is bullshit.
I don't give a fuck, because a. I do not have a TV. b. I do not go to movie, especially Dizme. This rule applies to my 4 kids. This knee jerk PC reaction doesn't go anywhere. Every move like this just makes me glad that I am not some salivating dog of american media. It is not big business without customers that can't think for themselves, or have you not learned anything from the Microsoft experience.
That is what I love about/., the land where hypocracy lives.
If I really want the evaluation I just enter a bogus addy or us some web account that i log into now and then and delete the whole lot. It is amazing the crap that shows up there and the quantity. These damn emails addys travel, because one list own gives two friends your address then they give it to two freinds and so on and so on. Eventually the accounts blow up because the quantity gets so huge it usually gets shut down.
How would you like it if you went into a store and asked to try on some shoes and they say you have to give them your phone number and go home to wait for a call first. Ya right.
I do web development and use VB, VC++ and JS all at the sametime and I don't have a particular preference. In fact I just finished a project where I designed and wrote COM objects in both VB and VC++ that interoperate with eachother. I use VB because it is quick and easy and clients prefer having code that can be supported by their VB trained staff. Of course there are just somethings that only VC++ will do. Another web site I designed used VBScript in some ASP pages and Perl in others (Perl kicks but on VB strings and reg exp). I know of other developers in our company that can switch between VB and VC++ or even Java and VB, though it is not always easy to make a quick switch. Though you may be right and we are the exception not the rule, but personally I don't see why that is the case.
On the other hand I have been spending a lot of time bug fixing stored procs written by VB programmers for an internal app that is part of the project. The programmers were required to write the sp's for their own VB code. I think people get a little lazy and fall into the trap of being on one code monkey, but I like change, learning and being flexable.
or even here in the great white north, but my wife, who is a litigation lawyer, has always made me get a signed contracts with beta testers stating explicitly who owns the work, me, and what they get for testing, cheap software and free support. Though at the time we started writing up these contracts there was no case law dealing directly with IP right of software and beta testers, there were cases that suggested an arguement could be made in court for part ownership. As she said to me it is better to be safe than sorry. I know I have had some good suggestions from testers that are more than bug fixes, like changes to business rules or how the interface works. If these suggestions are documented that is enough to convince a judge that they should have some IP rights, because they will not side automatically with the supposed create/developer of the software. They may look at it like a consulting job where the client owns the software and the developer is just a grunt.
Developers assume too much about who owns the code they create, and the courts here are willing to decide either way. There was one court case that I am aware of that a web developer lost rights and didn't even get paid for a web site he developed. He didn't have a contract that stated ownership or payment for a site he developed, but because he put it up on his clients web site, before getting payment, dumb, the court said the client owned it outright because the code was on his site.
Again, like has been said earlier, get a lawyer and get their opinion. If you don't have this stated in writing then you may be forced to let the judge decide ownership if your lawyer thinks you have a case that is defendable. It always comes down to the judges interpretation of case law. If you don't want to see a judge than contracts should be written up by a good lawyer before any work is done. Even lawyers can make undependable contracts, so that is why it is important to find one with experience in this area.
But on a serious note it is the abuse of patents for pharmaceuticals that is putting a excessive burden on our medical system. The cost of patented drug to hospitals is taking a larger percent of Medicare funds and that accounts for only a small percentage of drugs sales, persciptions have to be covered by the individual and their drug insurance if they have any. Pharmaceutical companies are the most profitable companies in the world, but the industry is controled by a few different companies. There are companies other than MS that have dangerous control over our lives, but if one is healthy they don't think about this issure. Now that putting patents on DNA and medical procedures become more popular we have to ask our selves is our social health important to us or just economic health.
This sort of research should be publicly funded and controled. If these companies want all the profits coming from a monopoly on certain drugs or dna than they should pay full price for education and research information and funding that they have recieved directly or indirectly through our universities and gov fund research organizations.
Maybe the problem is with, as it works right now anyway, the open source development model and large projects. As Linus has said some people check in shit and you can't get them to fix it. If that code is allowed to sit in there for a while and people start building on that code it becomes a very difficult thing to remove or fix. If it was the software for money world you can say fix it or your fired, sort of. I guess major offenders could be kicked off the project, but open source projects, especially Linux, requires a lot of warm bodies to crunch enough code to meet goals. I am not saying that open source development is shit, but like the for profit world there are good programmer and poor programmers and how you deal with them and keep the good ones focused is always going to be a problem.
Look at what has happend to Mono and The switch from LGPL to XFree. Since both licences address the issue of using classes in closed source software, the real reason they change was to get access to more resources. In some ways it isn't the much different than the commercial world it is just the resources for the most part are unpaid for.
According to some beyond the usual holiday season spending fest, as mentioned above, Amazon also add to their profits by making money due to the flux of the Europian currencies against the USD in the money markets due to the Euro introduction. So after millions of dollars and several years they still can't create a ligitimate profit. And I am happy because?
Also from my experience internet service has not improved and the interfaces that sites are using to process orders and give service is still generally poor. Unfortunately I do not think that the Darwinian law of Survival of the Fittest really applies to the last tech sector down turn. Unless the fittest means those that still have financing in place. The death rate on the internet may have dropped, but there is still more to come.
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I think not. There were three simple things that would have saved your ass, first apply the patch, second don't allow everyone in the world to connect to your database server, and last turn off the box if you don't know how to secure it. I also work for a company that uses SQL Server for the backend of our web apps, but I don't have any interesting stories for you. I think our admin was asleep in bed when this all when down, but that is because he did all the hard work ahead of time.
we will not be writing programs bigger than about 10 million lines of code no matter how fast our processors become.
Oh I am sure a group of say about 15 Irish kids could do it in a year.
There are a lot of home users/business that have SQL server installed and no firewall set up. Just like code red this thing is infecting personal boxes, therefore adding to the high volumes we see. I have SQL on one of my machines at home, behind two linux based firewalls, and when I use any tool to connect to a database I am given all sorts of choices. Most of the IP addys I see belong to other cable users. I wonder how many have kept up on their patches? The problem is any fool without any training can install this stuff on their computers, I think home users are the main reason that simple worms like this are so successful.
Then there are the usual stalker types who get their jollies sending out creepy emails and eyeballing girls in the class -- my friend decided to work rather than go to grad school at Madison because this happened *twice* (on the level of restrining order), fer chrissake
My wife had the same experience in law school and while working as a lawyer and there are a large number of women in this field. If the reason women don't go into CS is because some men can be creeps they would never leave their homes.
That has got to be the dumbest thing I have seen posted here. Why do the editors thing that all geek are silly children and get off on this stupid stuff. This is worse then the never ending saga of Fartscrape. Just can the damn thing.
Being able to read other peoples Office documents is the number one reason people use Office.
So you are saying that people use office because people use office. What is the number two reason, to be able to send Office documents?
A good theory but uneducated opinion wins out again.
Asphyxiation still represents a problem. But most are killed by the spin-cycle.
Actually stats show that 32% of deaths are due to trauma while 68% die from asphyxiation.
http://www.avalanche.ca/accident/trends.html
A Slashdot, where the uniformed can act intelligent.
This alone has pretty much killed off most client side Java.
No that's ludicrous. Ugly slow java applets and flavour of the day ui lib killed java on the client. Also developers just seemed to abandon it for that purpose.
I guess it doesn't matter though because nobody can prove them wrong and there is no practical use for this.
Now can we get back to useful thing?
What is to be gained by allowing someone with a modem and old browser access a site that has no real content. For the most part the web is a waste land and the few areas that have any significant content are generally readable in old browsers.
Until issues of literacy and freedom are addressed the supposed digital divide will always exist. What is an illiterate 12 year old nike shoe maker going to do with a computer anyway?
Can't destroy something that doesn't exist.
Since when is stating the obvious is interesting. Anyone at this point who is not awaire it is a civil case and nobody is going to jail, should crawl out from under the rock they live in, or away from that computer in that dark room. Come out the sunshine is good for you. As far as anyone who would mode this post up should have their head checked. Interesting, as if. Karma is bullshit.
some people never learn
If that is the case then the same can be said about Windows NT. I understand they use BSD and that is only the open source code we know about.
I don't give a fuck, because a. I do not have a TV. b. I do not go to movie, especially Dizme. This rule applies to my 4 kids. This knee jerk PC reaction doesn't go anywhere. Every move like this just makes me glad that I am not some salivating dog of american media. It is not big business without customers that can't think for themselves, or have you not learned anything from the Microsoft experience.
/., the land where hypocracy lives.
That is what I love about
Those Kiwis they are so advanced.
If I really want the evaluation I just enter a bogus addy or us some web account that i log into now and then and delete the whole lot. It is amazing the crap that shows up there and the quantity. These damn emails addys travel, because one list own gives two friends your address then they give it to two freinds and so on and so on. Eventually the accounts blow up because the quantity gets so huge it usually gets shut down.
How would you like it if you went into a store and asked to try on some shoes and they say you have to give them your phone number and go home to wait for a call first. Ya right.
and a loss
I do web development and use VB, VC++ and JS all at the sametime and I don't have a particular preference. In fact I just finished a project where I designed and wrote COM objects in both VB and VC++ that interoperate with eachother. I use VB because it is quick and easy and clients prefer having code that can be supported by their VB trained staff. Of course there are just somethings that only VC++ will do. Another web site I designed used VBScript in some ASP pages and Perl in others (Perl kicks but on VB strings and reg exp). I know of other developers in our company that can switch between VB and VC++ or even Java and VB, though it is not always easy to make a quick switch. Though you may be right and we are the exception not the rule, but personally I don't see why that is the case.
On the other hand I have been spending a lot of time bug fixing stored procs written by VB programmers for an internal app that is part of the project. The programmers were required to write the sp's for their own VB code. I think people get a little lazy and fall into the trap of being on one code monkey, but I like change, learning and being flexable.
but who shall operate this system and who hires the admins?
oh wait a second I don't have a Tivo.
It is always good to have something trivial to complain about. Hell that is the fuel that this place runs on.
or even here in the great white north, but my wife, who is a litigation lawyer, has always made me get a signed contracts with beta testers stating explicitly who owns the work, me, and what they get for testing, cheap software and free support. Though at the time we started writing up these contracts there was no case law dealing directly with IP right of software and beta testers, there were cases that suggested an arguement could be made in court for part ownership. As she said to me it is better to be safe than sorry. I know I have had some good suggestions from testers that are more than bug fixes, like changes to business rules or how the interface works. If these suggestions are documented that is enough to convince a judge that they should have some IP rights, because they will not side automatically with the supposed create/developer of the software. They may look at it like a consulting job where the client owns the software and the developer is just a grunt.
Developers assume too much about who owns the code they create, and the courts here are willing to decide either way. There was one court case that I am aware of that a web developer lost rights and didn't even get paid for a web site he developed. He didn't have a contract that stated ownership or payment for a site he developed, but because he put it up on his clients web site, before getting payment, dumb, the court said the client owned it outright because the code was on his site.
Again, like has been said earlier, get a lawyer and get their opinion. If you don't have this stated in writing then you may be forced to let the judge decide ownership if your lawyer thinks you have a case that is defendable. It always comes down to the judges interpretation of case law. If you don't want to see a judge than contracts should be written up by a good lawyer before any work is done. Even lawyers can make undependable contracts, so that is why it is important to find one with experience in this area.
But on a serious note it is the abuse of patents for pharmaceuticals that is putting a excessive burden on our medical system. The cost of patented drug to hospitals is taking a larger percent of Medicare funds and that accounts for only a small percentage of drugs sales, persciptions have to be covered by the individual and their drug insurance if they have any. Pharmaceutical companies are the most profitable companies in the world, but the industry is controled by a few different companies. There are companies other than MS that have dangerous control over our lives, but if one is healthy they don't think about this issure. Now that putting patents on DNA and medical procedures become more popular we have to ask our selves is our social health important to us or just economic health.
This sort of research should be publicly funded and controled. If these companies want all the profits coming from a monopoly on certain drugs or dna than they should pay full price for education and research information and funding that they have recieved directly or indirectly through our universities and gov fund research organizations.
Maybe the problem is with, as it works right now anyway, the open source development model and large projects. As Linus has said some people check in shit and you can't get them to fix it. If that code is allowed to sit in there for a while and people start building on that code it becomes a very difficult thing to remove or fix. If it was the software for money world you can say fix it or your fired, sort of. I guess major offenders could be kicked off the project, but open source projects, especially Linux, requires a lot of warm bodies to crunch enough code to meet goals. I am not saying that open source development is shit, but like the for profit world there are good programmer and poor programmers and how you deal with them and keep the good ones focused is always going to be a problem.
Look at what has happend to Mono and The switch from LGPL to XFree. Since both licences address the issue of using classes in closed source software, the real reason they change was to get access to more resources. In some ways it isn't the much different than the commercial world it is just the resources for the most part are unpaid for.
According to some beyond the usual holiday season spending fest, as mentioned above, Amazon also add to their profits by making money due to the flux of the Europian currencies against the USD in the money markets due to the Euro introduction. So after millions of dollars and several years they still can't create a ligitimate profit. And I am happy because?
Also from my experience internet service has not improved and the interfaces that sites are using to process orders and give service is still generally poor. Unfortunately I do not think that the Darwinian law of Survival of the Fittest really applies to the last tech sector down turn. Unless the fittest means those that still have financing in place. The death rate on the internet may have dropped, but there is still more to come.