Several news stories seem to allude that Microsoft is artificially downplaying the threat, citations of myself are used to underline the headline in an "us against Microsoft" kind of way. I want to clarify that I have the utmost respect of the MSRC team and I don't suspect Microsoft to willingly downplay anything. They also claim I am from Belgium, I am obviously from Luxembourg. The bug also is not the same as the IIS4/5 one, it's root cause is similar. That's about it.
I've heard a lot of talk about Javascript performance as intensive Dynamic HTML applications become mainstream.
Most of the apps I seen really don't have that much Javascript when you compare it to the amount of code that is in your typical desktop app or server side application. And ultimately many of the functions are small.
What I've noticed is instead their is a difference in the rendering engine itself. Javascript might be a single line to change the CSS of an element or change the visibility attribute, but then the browser takes forever to collapse the item...or the CPU spikes when some huge element of a big page disappears and the whole page has to move over/up/down.
Are we really talking about how fast the DHTML engine responds or is Javascript really that stinky slow that changing the element underlying take a while. I'm not sure I care if calculating primes in JS could made faster. Isn't most of Javascript just mapping down to a C++ library below it?
"It is also much easier to secure because "you can tweak it for everything you need" and there are not as many known ways to attack it, he said."
I'm not sure I agree with this. There are plenty of ways to hack all OSs. Maybe a generic underhardened Windows install has more know ways...but how would one even quantify what is know and not know. Public is one thing, but given that Linux is open source and even compiled code can be broken down there is likely many known ways to hack products that are not public yet.
I'd be more interested in the permiter defenses they used. Like what kind of IDS/IPS did they use? Where they using email firewalls to prevent floods of emails or just blocking. I think you also have to harden your servers, but I'd rather have something protecting my email server and have more layers to dig thru..and to alert you.
Hit the alt key(in offcie 2007)...everything in the ribbon is availabe with a key combination. Maybe a different one then you are used too..but practically everything can be done with the keyboard.
I don't think there is anything wrong with it, but when it starts to fill up it does get more cumbersome.
I took a job not too long ago where I was in word 90% of the day. Writing business requirements and the lot.
At the time I had a laptop with Office 2003 and a desktop with Office 2007. For the first little bit I wasn't all that impressed with ribbons, after a few months I dreaded having to use the laptop with Office 2003.
Change is becoming a harder and harder sell. So many people are trained to one approach that any change whether it is actually better or not is going to come with some resistance. If it's not broke don't fix it mantra. It isn't broke, but that doesn't mean there isn't a better way.
The round button is annoying and I'd rather they just left a stripped down version of the menu in there. The quick bar and subsequent short cut keys have come in handy and so now it isn't even that big of a deal to me...to start it was definately confusing. As I'm sure getting rid of the "Start" button in Windows was as well.
Same thing happened to my wife when I started using Ubuntu at home. Took her about a minute to find the top bar, but now it is just part of the deal. She hated Firefox at first, but now doesn't really mind it. At the end of the day things are very similiar.
Most people who use Office use Office. They are not just typing up some simple little paper, but are in there doing crazy layouts where the new templates in 2007 come in handy. Features slashdot reader might not even know about are used everyday.
I use OpenOffice 3 at home now and I do find it fairly clumsly to find the some of the more obsure stuff in the menus. It can still take a bit of time with the ribbons, but overall I find it to be more user friendly. Also, the button on the ribbon themselves have been enchanced since Office 2003. In Excel the new conditional formatting is much better. Word has previews all over the place where changing the font actually changes it on the screen before click okay...so you get an acutally preview quickly.
The ribbons are a nice addon to Office 2007, but alos there is a lot of useful features. If your a student writing papers or just writing a note to the editor I think you could get by with pretty much anything.
If you like vi then I'd have to ask for you to just sit quitely in the back. To each his own and this conversation is for the GUI lovers:)
I'm totally fine paying for an electronic paper. For many sitting down at the breakfast table with your paper, reading it on the train, or having it next to the toilet is great. I'm going to miss some of the things the physical paper can bring.
I like to linking to stories and all, but sometimes I want the real deal and even with 3G I'd still like a properly formated thing without stupid flash ads off to the side. A decent app for my cell phone or something like the kindle would be great.
I'd be happy to pay 5 bucks a month for the a paper in some electronic form. And yes it'll be pirated to all hell, but even though a lot on here won't believe me...some people actually like to pay for things...the whole keeping the system moving forward....some of us did grow up after all.
I think ipV6 is to much of a move. IP addresses are nice and easy to remember like phone numbers. Yes IPv6 has short hand, but it is still harder.
Why couldn't we just add another octect. So my new IP is 1.24.101.1.15. That gives use 2^40 (~1 trillion) versus 2^128(unfuckincredibly big). We made way to big of a jump.
There is also virtually no need to upgrade to v6 for internal communications. We have 10, 172 and 192 which is more then enough for even the largest companies.
I guess we are going to become even more dependent on DNS for everything. I can't imagine someone actually typing a full ipV6 hex address. Mabye the easy ones::::::b00b:8008
A story about Windows is posted on Slashdot and all the comments are usless dribble about M$ being buggy and instable. I think I see a parrallel between the way the media is covering the Swine Flu and how Linux users cover Windows stories...Can we please stay on topic here...
What is the (anti)benefit of a company putting out a beta like this for a long period of time?
Not entirely true. When I plug in my camera and a little popup comes up I really like that. Why...because it's not exactly what program I'd like to launch. Most of the time I just want to get at the file system and copy and paste over the files.
Then there is my wife who would be completely lost without the auto run that cameras present users with.
When USB drives plugin sometimes they auto run management software which could include faster drivers or encryption utilities. I'd don't want the option for this lost.
The problem to me is not that it auto runs, but that it doesn't require any sort of user involvement. I like auto run cds...except when I don't want it. I know I can hold down shift to get around it, but if I forget or my arms are to short to do both at the same time I'm boned.
If there is a use case (even if you don't see the need) for this then we need to try to continue to support it. My guess is someone though of a GOOD user for it. I don't want my entire computer expierence to be dictated by virus writers and boring programers. It's like saying we can't fly on jets because someone could fly them into buildings...figure out how to stop people from flying into buildings...not stop flying.
Yes, exactly. I wish more people would speak to this side of "cloud" computing.
What we want is two have redundant "pools" of server and applications. Those pools usually run at 2 or more data centers.
We pull the plug on one data center and clients of those servers and application automatically switch. We have more apps, need more servers for a cluster, or more space we just add on to the thing in a fairly automated fashion.
I'd like this at the intranet level. We have lots of various legacy and web based apps that I want to be able to run in 2 datacenters.
When the system fails our internal network in conjunction with the "cloud" software will switch so one of the clouds takes over the same IPs.
Putting servers in public clouds is for startup web applications, the scientific community, some niche apps(like using Amazon s3 for clusterable storage) and maybe small businesses. No way in heck we are putting our emails and our documents up on someone else servers. Being a public company I don't even think we could with all the SOX crap.
I'd almost guarantee that the hospital involved new about this problem.
I've had apps with accidental\stupid reliances on external connetions. After having the external connection fail we usually took care of the issue.
I'm be shocked if the hospital hadn't lost internet connectivity for a least 10 minutes in the not to distanct past. So they would have known. Some techy probably had warned about it to deaf ears.
Even something as simple as charging a credit card at a hospital should have some manual backup procedure. Given the hospital has the chance of loosing lifes why this basic DR scenario hadn't been more properly addressed means some IT manager swept it under the rug...and chances are someone needs to get a stern talking to or canned.
911 is the scariest and hardest to defend. We need some sort of emergency tower to tower protocal for this sort of thing. Why couldn't the phone companies hook their towers together to work around a fiber cut and then restrict phone calls to 911 traffic.
At the consumer level power is generally sold by the Kilowatt. Phone converstaions used to be by the minute, still are for cell. Water is sold in cubic feet.
I think we have finally reached a point where bandwith should be sold by the Gigabyte.
Ultimately I think cable companies and straight ISPs should sell the fastest cable connection possible. Maybe charge a flat fee at first if the new speed requires a new modem and that sort of thing. We are fast approaching speeds of 50mpbs which if we actually could obtain from servers out there would be pretty close. Once we hit 100mbps we are good with speeds above only needed for special circumastance. Most content won't be streamed live, but rather pre-cached almost as DVRs do it now.
Just like the other type of resources we can give breaks for per unit the more you purchase. So 1-20 gig is 50 cents a gig. 20-40 is 30 cents and so on.
Users who want to stream HD movies can instead of buying the HD channel package on their cable bill.
I wish it was possible to distinguish between the guy downloading a linux.iso and someone downloading a pirated movie, but we can't. Either way both are using more than the grandma checking her email, but somehow pay the same amount.
This might not be popular, but I think deep down most of us know it's the compromise we need. If you want to drop you cable bill and go with Hulu...fine. Just realize you have to pay. This idea that we can get everything we always had for 20-40 dollars a month just because the magic internet came along is bs.
What really irks me about cable companies is they want to put caps, but provide absolutlely no way to contest it. My bill does not have a usage number on it, but if I go over it they'll let me know. You can go look at your power meter, call your phone company, or look at your water meter. Put in usage monitoring first then we can talk. You could even put out a bill with IP, number of packets, and amount of data.
The OS and hardware should incorporate power saving into machines that are logged out.
Our users are instructed to logout, but to leave their machines on for patches and the like.
If the OS could detect when the user was logged out and no services in the background where doing things we could really turn down the machine.
A logged off machine's cpu could virtually go to sleep, the harddrives slow to 5200rpm or lower, the monitor go to sleep, and so on.
yes it's not as good as shutting the computer completely off, but maybe with some better types of wake on lan we can get as close as possible. Or scheduled turn on and off. Like tell windows to shut off from 7:00 P.M. till 1:00....turn on to get updates and then shut back down.
Ulitmately this just needs to be the default for future version of OSs like windows and the like. I think we really have to make it a brain dead for IT as possible. I've got enough other crap to worry about...although I do worry about the world engergy problems.
Feeling pain and reacting to it are different then suffering. Even changing behavior based on pain is different then acutally feeling the pain later. That requires a certain level of empathy.
The real test to me is show a crab another crab being killed in a painful way. If we can detect pain receptors firing in some way in the crab then I think we have to worry. Otherwise the crab is just saying "putting pincher in trap BAD".
Your dog for instance will get freaked out if he sees someone hurting you while a cow on the other hand will only freak out if it gets startled. I could strangle you in front of a cow and it would just sit there eating unless we made enough sound as to scare it...but it would not be scared of the strangling.
I'm sure there will be a lot of posts about how much expeirence counts. Sometimes it counts in the opposite way.
Almost everytime I hired an experienced developer I was not happy and paid to much. When I got a kid out of school and was smart it almost always worked out better.
The thing to ask yourself is do you really like coding and are you good at it. If you do and your hungry you'll find a way in. Chances are you will lap other expeirenced developers that you come across. The kind that have never heard of slashdot for sure.
You can always demo in an interview. Create some silly little app and demo it with excitement. How well you communicate the idea will let the employer know if you are write for their team.
I've said it on here before and I'll say it again. Having access to the files or not there should not be a way in computers to inject code like this.
Shouldn't the no execute bit prevent this. Are we getting to the point where we should turn this on for everything. Can't Adobe ask windows during the installation to add itself to the "I'm okay with DEP list".
Developers are going to make mistakes, I'm more mad that we still haven't fix the buffer overflow problem which to be is the core security flaw here...not Adobe.
FTA: She said there isn't "the single smallest iota of doubt" that Microsoft's tying of IE to Windows "harms competition between Web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice."
I have one.
How exactly does one download firefox without a browser pre-installed? Is MS to install Firefox on their systems and then support it when people call their call center. Should they put Opera on as well...how bout Safari...wait I forgot chrome. Who gets to say which ones it can and cannot install.
What competition exists in the browser space anyways? Is there competition between drinking fountains. All these tools are free.
How does the Mac preinstall it's browser. Should we sue them to.
If the goverment is so concerend about this why not just spend the money advertising on TV that there are alternatives versus spending even more in judicial system.
I guess no good deed goes unpunished. MS put out a superior browser to Netscape and made it free and now they are getting sued. So they bundled it so it is used by the OS. I think you can delete the big blue E from your desktop. So what if the binaries are still there and used by Outlook. I don't want the goverment making technical decisions.
If you don't like the way MS designs their software...install Linux or buy a Mac. If your software vendor doesn't support it find another software vendor. I remember pretty clearly when IE 4 came along and the idea of customizing folder views with HTML. I thought it was a cool idea. MS probably messed it up, but I don't see the problem having to use IE to see system folders and then using Firefox to browse the web. It has no effect on my use of firefox or my decision to use it or not use depending on what I'm doing. If KDE using some QT library is that killing competion in some other graphical library.
IE and Firefox both popup a warning saying "make me the default browser". For the technical changing it really isn't that hard. For the non technical even understanding the concept of a default browser is. I'm okay with having IEs first page being...look you have alternative to this, but then we should make all browser do the same thing and who decides what alternative should be on this page.
Honestly I think the government should spend more time sponsering open source then trying to kill MS. The money alone from this anti-trust could have developed real alternative to some of the windows only products still out there.
I wouldn't panic, but I don't think Best Buy has access to your address just because you used your debit card. The address is not stored in the stripe and the credit card processors don't return anything. Best Buy either bought a database from someone else and matched up the numbers, but I didn't think those provided street level addresses for security reasons. More like "single lady with a dog in Chicago,IL" type of information.
I'm guessing he used his Best Buy rewards and getting updates to your products is actually some kind of perk for that. Even if he didn't use the reward zone card when he bought the player any earlier combination of the debit card and reward zone card probably linked them together.
Heck maybe his wife sent in the registration card...oh wait this is slashdot...no one has girlfriends or wifes here.
Slashdot Mirror
http://blog.zoller.lu/2009/05/iis-6-webdac-auth-bypass-and-data.html
Several news stories seem to allude that Microsoft is artificially downplaying the threat, citations of myself are used to underline the headline in an "us against Microsoft" kind of way. I want to clarify that I have the utmost respect of the MSRC team and I don't suspect Microsoft to willingly downplay anything. They also claim I am from Belgium, I am obviously from Luxembourg. The bug also is not the same as the IIS4/5 one, it's root cause is similar. That's about it.
TFA states they need one byte per base pair resulting in 6 gigabytes per subject.
My guess is there is a huge sequences of duplicates so compressions could probably bring this number down quite a bit.
Also, since a byte can store 256 distinct values would it be able to handle more then just one base pair.
I've heard a lot of talk about Javascript performance as intensive Dynamic HTML applications become mainstream.
Most of the apps I seen really don't have that much Javascript when you compare it to the amount of code that is in your typical desktop app or server side application. And ultimately many of the functions are small.
What I've noticed is instead their is a difference in the rendering engine itself. Javascript might be a single line to change the CSS of an element or change the visibility attribute, but then the browser takes forever to collapse the item...or the CPU spikes when some huge element of a big page disappears and the whole page has to move over/up/down.
Are we really talking about how fast the DHTML engine responds or is Javascript really that stinky slow that changing the element underlying take a while. I'm not sure I care if calculating primes in JS could made faster. Isn't most of Javascript just mapping down to a C++ library below it?
Would it be possible to drag the telescope and attach it to the space station.
Seems like it would be a lot easier to service. Not to mention that cool Canada arm could work on it for years to come for a fraction of the cost.
Hand over ownership to the international community and split the costs might also help.
"It is also much easier to secure because "you can tweak it for everything you need" and there are not as many known ways to attack it, he said."
I'm not sure I agree with this. There are plenty of ways to hack all OSs. Maybe a generic underhardened Windows install has more know ways...but how would one even quantify what is know and not know. Public is one thing, but given that Linux is open source and even compiled code can be broken down there is likely many known ways to hack products that are not public yet.
I'd be more interested in the permiter defenses they used. Like what kind of IDS/IPS did they use? Where they using email firewalls to prevent floods of emails or just blocking. I think you also have to harden your servers, but I'd rather have something protecting my email server and have more layers to dig thru..and to alert you.
Hit the alt key(in offcie 2007)...everything in the ribbon is availabe with a key combination. Maybe a different one then you are used too..but practically everything can be done with the keyboard.
I don't think there is anything wrong with it, but when it starts to fill up it does get more cumbersome.
I took a job not too long ago where I was in word 90% of the day. Writing business requirements and the lot.
At the time I had a laptop with Office 2003 and a desktop with Office 2007. For the first little bit I wasn't all that impressed with ribbons, after a few months I dreaded having to use the laptop with Office 2003.
Change is becoming a harder and harder sell. So many people are trained to one approach that any change whether it is actually better or not is going to come with some resistance. If it's not broke don't fix it mantra. It isn't broke, but that doesn't mean there isn't a better way.
The round button is annoying and I'd rather they just left a stripped down version of the menu in there. The quick bar and subsequent short cut keys have come in handy and so now it isn't even that big of a deal to me...to start it was definately confusing. As I'm sure getting rid of the "Start" button in Windows was as well.
Same thing happened to my wife when I started using Ubuntu at home. Took her about a minute to find the top bar, but now it is just part of the deal. She hated Firefox at first, but now doesn't really mind it. At the end of the day things are very similiar.
Most people who use Office use Office. They are not just typing up some simple little paper, but are in there doing crazy layouts where the new templates in 2007 come in handy. Features slashdot reader might not even know about are used everyday.
I use OpenOffice 3 at home now and I do find it fairly clumsly to find the some of the more obsure stuff in the menus. It can still take a bit of time with the ribbons, but overall I find it to be more user friendly. Also, the button on the ribbon themselves have been enchanced since Office 2003. In Excel the new conditional formatting is much better. Word has previews all over the place where changing the font actually changes it on the screen before click okay...so you get an acutally preview quickly.
The ribbons are a nice addon to Office 2007, but alos there is a lot of useful features. If your a student writing papers or just writing a note to the editor I think you could get by with pretty much anything.
If you like vi then I'd have to ask for you to just sit quitely in the back. To each his own and this conversation is for the GUI lovers :)
I'm totally fine paying for an electronic paper. For many sitting down at the breakfast table with your paper, reading it on the train, or having it next to the toilet is great. I'm going to miss some of the things the physical paper can bring.
I like to linking to stories and all, but sometimes I want the real deal and even with 3G I'd still like a properly formated thing without stupid flash ads off to the side. A decent app for my cell phone or something like the kindle would be great.
I'd be happy to pay 5 bucks a month for the a paper in some electronic form. And yes it'll be pirated to all hell, but even though a lot on here won't believe me...some people actually like to pay for things...the whole keeping the system moving forward....some of us did grow up after all.
Intel just got in trouble for providing incentives to not offer a processor.
This is definately a bit different then that, but does this not seem like an anti-competitive type of move?
Any tech lawyers read slashdot?
What movie was it that a guy pissed into a smart toilet every morning which could detect changes in diet and shit...we are one piss closer.
I think ipV6 is to much of a move. IP addresses are nice and easy to remember like phone numbers. Yes IPv6 has short hand, but it is still harder.
Why couldn't we just add another octect. So my new IP is 1.24.101.1.15. That gives use 2^40 (~1 trillion) versus 2^128(unfuckincredibly big). We made way to big of a jump.
There is also virtually no need to upgrade to v6 for internal communications. We have 10, 172 and 192 which is more then enough for even the largest companies.
I guess we are going to become even more dependent on DNS for everything. I can't imagine someone actually typing a full ipV6 hex address. Mabye the easy ones ::::::b00b:8008
A story about Windows is posted on Slashdot and all the comments are usless dribble about M$ being buggy and instable. I think I see a parrallel between the way the media is covering the Swine Flu and how Linux users cover Windows stories...Can we please stay on topic here...
What is the (anti)benefit of a company putting out a beta like this for a long period of time?
I installed Linux and I feel so much better now.
Dennis Leary
Not entirely true. When I plug in my camera and a little popup comes up I really like that. Why...because it's not exactly what program I'd like to launch. Most of the time I just want to get at the file system and copy and paste over the files.
Then there is my wife who would be completely lost without the auto run that cameras present users with.
When USB drives plugin sometimes they auto run management software which could include faster drivers or encryption utilities. I'd don't want the option for this lost.
The problem to me is not that it auto runs, but that it doesn't require any sort of user involvement. I like auto run cds...except when I don't want it. I know I can hold down shift to get around it, but if I forget or my arms are to short to do both at the same time I'm boned.
If there is a use case (even if you don't see the need) for this then we need to try to continue to support it. My guess is someone though of a GOOD user for it. I don't want my entire computer expierence to be dictated by virus writers and boring programers. It's like saying we can't fly on jets because someone could fly them into buildings...figure out how to stop people from flying into buildings...not stop flying.
Yes, exactly. I wish more people would speak to this side of "cloud" computing.
What we want is two have redundant "pools" of server and applications. Those pools usually run at 2 or more data centers.
We pull the plug on one data center and clients of those servers and application automatically switch. We have more apps, need more servers for a cluster, or more space we just add on to the thing in a fairly automated fashion.
I'd like this at the intranet level. We have lots of various legacy and web based apps that I want to be able to run in 2 datacenters.
When the system fails our internal network in conjunction with the "cloud" software will switch so one of the clouds takes over the same IPs.
Putting servers in public clouds is for startup web applications, the scientific community, some niche apps(like using Amazon s3 for clusterable storage) and maybe small businesses. No way in heck we are putting our emails and our documents up on someone else servers. Being a public company I don't even think we could with all the SOX crap.
I'd almost guarantee that the hospital involved new about this problem.
I've had apps with accidental\stupid reliances on external connetions. After having the external connection fail we usually took care of the issue.
I'm be shocked if the hospital hadn't lost internet connectivity for a least 10 minutes in the not to distanct past. So they would have known.
Some techy probably had warned about it to deaf ears.
Even something as simple as charging a credit card at a hospital should have some manual backup procedure. Given the hospital has the chance of loosing lifes why this basic DR scenario hadn't been more properly addressed
means some IT manager swept it under the rug...and chances are someone needs to get a stern talking to or canned.
911 is the scariest and hardest to defend. We need some sort of emergency tower to tower protocal for this sort of thing. Why couldn't
the phone companies hook their towers together to work around a fiber cut and then restrict phone calls to 911 traffic.
At the consumer level power is generally sold by the Kilowatt. Phone converstaions used to be by the minute, still are for cell. Water is sold in cubic feet.
I think we have finally reached a point where bandwith should be sold by the Gigabyte.
Ultimately I think cable companies and straight ISPs should sell the fastest cable connection possible. Maybe charge a flat fee at first if the new
speed requires a new modem and that sort of thing. We are fast approaching speeds of 50mpbs which if we actually could obtain from
servers out there would be pretty close. Once we hit 100mbps we are good with speeds above only needed for special circumastance. Most content
won't be streamed live, but rather pre-cached almost as DVRs do it now.
Just like the other type of resources we can give breaks for per unit the more you purchase. So 1-20 gig is 50 cents a gig. 20-40 is 30 cents and so on.
Users who want to stream HD movies can instead of buying the HD channel package on their cable bill.
I wish it was possible to distinguish between the guy downloading a linux .iso and someone downloading a pirated movie, but we can't.
Either way both are using more than the grandma checking her email, but somehow pay the same amount.
This might not be popular, but I think deep down most of us know it's the compromise we need. If you want to drop you cable bill and
go with Hulu...fine. Just realize you have to pay. This idea that we can get everything we always had for 20-40 dollars a month just
because the magic internet came along is bs.
What really irks me about cable companies is they want to put caps, but provide absolutlely no way to contest it. My bill
does not have a usage number on it, but if I go over it they'll let me know. You can go look at your power meter, call your phone company, or look at
your water meter. Put in usage monitoring first then we can talk. You could even put out a bill with IP, number of packets, and amount of data.
The OS and hardware should incorporate power saving into machines that are logged out.
Our users are instructed to logout, but to leave their machines on for patches and the like.
If the OS could detect when the user was logged out and no services in the background where doing things we could
really turn down the machine.
A logged off machine's cpu could virtually go to sleep, the harddrives slow to 5200rpm or lower, the monitor go to sleep, and so on.
yes it's not as good as shutting the computer completely off, but maybe with some better types of wake on lan we can get as close as possible. Or scheduled turn on and off. Like tell windows to shut off from 7:00 P.M. till 1:00....turn on to get updates and then shut back down.
Ulitmately this just needs to be the default for future version of OSs like windows and the like. I think we really have to make it a brain dead for IT as possible. I've got enough other crap to worry about...although I do worry about the world engergy problems.
Talk about eating your crumpets and having them to.
Feeling pain and reacting to it are different then suffering. Even changing
behavior based on pain is different then acutally feeling the pain later. That requires
a certain level of empathy.
The real test to me is show a crab another crab being killed in a painful way. If
we can detect pain receptors firing in some way in the crab then I think we have to worry. Otherwise the crab is just saying "putting pincher in trap BAD".
Your dog for instance will get freaked out if he sees someone hurting you while a cow on the other hand will only freak out if it gets startled. I could strangle you in front of a cow and
it would just sit there eating unless we made enough sound as to scare it...but it would not be
scared of the strangling.
I'm sure there will be a lot of posts about how much expeirence counts. Sometimes it counts in the opposite way.
Almost everytime I hired an experienced developer I was not happy and paid to much. When I got a kid out of school
and was smart it almost always worked out better.
The thing to ask yourself is do you really like coding and are you good at it. If you do and your hungry you'll find a way in.
Chances are you will lap other expeirenced developers that you come across. The kind that have never heard of slashdot for sure.
You can always demo in an interview. Create some silly little app and demo it with excitement. How well you communicate the idea
will let the employer know if you are write for their team.
I've said it on here before and I'll say it again. Having access to the files or not there should not be a way in computers to inject code like this.
Shouldn't the no execute bit prevent this. Are we getting to the point where we should turn this on for everything. Can't Adobe ask windows
during the installation to add itself to the "I'm okay with DEP list".
Developers are going to make mistakes, I'm more mad that we still haven't fix the buffer overflow problem which to be is the core security flaw here...not Adobe.
a phone that doesn't drop calls...or if it does try to reinstate the call automatically.
I'm all up for all these gadgets and gizmos, but I really want the phone part of my phone to get some priority.
If the phone is in my pocket automatically put it on vibrate. Or if it detects loud noise like a car radio change the ringer.
FTA: She said there isn't "the single smallest iota of doubt" that Microsoft's tying of IE to Windows "harms competition between Web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice."
I have one.
How exactly does one download firefox without a browser pre-installed? Is MS to install Firefox on their systems and then support it when people call their call center. Should they put Opera on as well...how bout Safari...wait I forgot chrome. Who gets to say which ones it can and cannot install.
What competition exists in the browser space anyways? Is there competition between drinking fountains. All these tools are free.
How does the Mac preinstall it's browser. Should we sue them to.
If the goverment is so concerend about this why not just spend the money advertising on TV that there are alternatives versus spending even
more in judicial system.
I guess no good deed goes unpunished. MS put out a superior browser to Netscape and made it free and now they are getting sued. So they bundled it so it is used by the OS. I think you can delete the big blue E from your desktop. So what if the binaries are still there and used by Outlook. I don't want the goverment making technical decisions.
If you don't like the way MS designs their software...install Linux or buy a Mac. If your software vendor doesn't support it find another software vendor. I remember pretty clearly when IE 4 came along and the idea of customizing folder views with HTML. I thought it was a cool idea. MS probably messed it up, but I don't see the problem having to use IE to see system folders and then using Firefox to browse the web. It has no effect on my use of firefox or my decision to use it or not use depending on what I'm doing. If KDE using some QT library is that killing competion in some other graphical library.
IE and Firefox both popup a warning saying "make me the default browser". For the technical changing it really isn't that hard. For the non technical even understanding the concept of a default browser is. I'm okay with having IEs first page being...look you have alternative to this, but then we should make all browser do the same thing and who decides what alternative should be on this page.
Honestly I think the government should spend more time sponsering open source then trying to kill MS. The money alone from this anti-trust could have developed real alternative to some of the windows only products still out there.
Yes!! And they should do magnets next to hard drives. I feel an Ask Slashdot coming on...
What other Myths can we think of to test?
I wouldn't panic, but I don't think Best Buy has access to your address just because you used your debit card. The address is not stored in the stripe and the credit card processors don't return anything. Best Buy either bought a database from someone else and matched up the numbers, but I didn't think those provided street level addresses for security reasons. More like "single lady with a dog in Chicago,IL" type of information.
I'm guessing he used his Best Buy rewards and getting updates to your products is actually some kind of perk for that. Even if he didn't use the reward zone card when he bought the player any earlier combination of the debit card and reward zone card probably linked them together.
Heck maybe his wife sent in the registration card...oh wait this is slashdot...no one has girlfriends or wifes here.