The widespread adoption of programmer testing over the past five years..."
Thank God for the 2000 tech crash! Any programmer who doesn't do some amount of their own testing is a moron. I think the lack of testing is a leftover from the time when English majors were getting dev jobs at dot-coms...
When I was a lad, "Star Wars" did not automatically mean "Whatever This Name Is Attached To Sucks". After the new movies, a crappy MMORPG flogged here earlier today and now a foppish musical, I'm almost embarrassed to admit I ever owned a plastic Tie Fighter.
Re:They needed space to test a vacuum?
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Lindenhurst? They ARE running out of names. I spent a couple months in Lindenhurst, Illinois when I was about 1. It's a sprawl-barf located just outside the doors of Six Flags.
"The December 22 final deadline for evidence will give both SCO and IBM an opportunity to update their evidence based on any newly uncovered evidence before the close of fact discovery on January 27, 2006, and any other discovery matters on March 17, 2006. That will be followed by a series of expert reports, and dispositive motions, before a special attorney conference and settlement conference on January 30, 2007. The five-week jury trial is scheduled to begin on February 26, 2007."
"SCO, whose Unix business continues to struggle, said it will file a final report on the alleged abuses on Dec. 22."
This is a clear sign that SCO itself doesn't believe their list is worth the paper its printed on. There isn't a time of the year when people are paying less attention. It's like they're saying "Details at Christmas - in the meantime, enjoy your FUD."
I thought they cancelled "Nightly News". Seriously. Who has time to sit around for half an hour when you get the same information in thirty seconds on the Internet?
I tried this, involuntarily, during the last year I was earning my comp sci degree. I have two kids now, so I've learned to appreciate a good 8 (OK, 6) hours of sleep a night.
What it probably says...
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I had the chance to chat with Marty in Baltimore in May 2001 and he basically said this about Snort:
1) I wrote it over a couple of weekends because I wasn't happy with TCPDump and the commercial tools at hand
2) Someday I hope to rewrite it
3) The extensible plug-in architecture saved my ass
4) I wish the commercial guys would quit ripping it off
However, it looks like an audio interview...don't have that kind of time anymore.
Wanna talk lawsuits? Try "criminal negligence" if someone can show that the district's shitty security provided no real barrier to someone else who used the district's information to commit a more serious crime.
(If you need help, think of the laws surrounding "classified" information. Sure, it's illegal for most people to possess classified materials, but the law is structured to allow the government to go after malicious or sloppy guardians of classified materials because they are the leakers and thus the real problem.)
A couple years ago I heard through the grapevine that the local district's computers were wide open. Sure enough, I did a quick scan and found a couple ports. Within about five minutes I had a list of the names, ages and addresses of every student in the district.
Rather than contact the (potentially defensive or hostile) district myself, I had a quick, informal chat with the editor of the local paper instead, knowing that he was a big education supporter and that he could deliver the "you have no security" message to the right people in a discrete manner. Sure enough, within a week the hole was closed.
No credit, no publicity, but results. (My kids will be students there soon!)
The article profiles mission critical database software and discusses how well MySQL 5.0 fits the profile.
I love MySQL - I've built my technical solutions around it for the past 5 years. However, until it's released for PRODUCTION use you can't call it "MISSION-CRITICAL".
what part of "nuclear missiles" don't meet your threshold for "kick ass?"
I don't have a problem with the nukes...it's the fact that they're being launched from a little girlie boat. On second thought, WhyTF would terrorists bother to "research bio weapons" when they have a cruiser full of nukes?
The Admiral Ushakov is an old Soviet Kirov class nuclear missile cruiser which disappeared in the Barents sea 4 years ago and was believed lost at sea with all hands. It reappeared off the coast of Iceland recently and is believed to have fallen into terrorist hands and is being used to carry out bio-weapon research.
1) Fer crying out loud. A "dreadnought" used to mean a kick-ass battleship, not some whiny little cruiser.
2) If we can't find one fucking cruiser for 4 years with the satellites we have now, China deserves to kick our ass. (Or, just look it up on Google Earth.)
3) OK, if a cruiser DID fall into terrorist hands and is parked out in the middle of nowhere: send a sub, sink the boat and move on to the next problem. (Unless you've seen one too many Steven Seagal movie, I guess...)
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Won't touch it - too much "P" in the headline
Masood Khan - Yeah, the United States is going to like this guy...
Thank God for the 2000 tech crash! Any programmer who doesn't do some amount of their own testing is a moron. I think the lack of testing is a leftover from the time when English majors were getting dev jobs at dot-coms...
When I was a lad, "Star Wars" did not automatically mean "Whatever This Name Is Attached To Sucks". After the new movies, a crappy MMORPG flogged here earlier today and now a foppish musical, I'm almost embarrassed to admit I ever owned a plastic Tie Fighter.
OK, I'll bite. Mycon Overloads...http://uqm.stack.nl/wiki/Mycon/
They needed to go into space to test a vacuum?
Maybe they wanted to test radiation, or is this just a high-profile confirmation of something we already knew?
Has this laptop already been rendered obsolete by cellphones?
Just look at the kind of information people are sending and retrieving from these low-power, sub-$100 devices already...
Lindenhurst? They ARE running out of names. I spent a couple months in Lindenhurst, Illinois when I was about 1. It's a sprawl-barf located just outside the doors of Six Flags.
Yo gran-momma so old she knew Burger King while he was still a prince.
Sorry, I quit FPSs when they started to want me to jump from place to place. I guess I've been tuned out since 1995.
These dates were set in July. From the article...
"The December 22 final deadline for evidence will give both SCO and IBM an opportunity to update their evidence based on any newly uncovered evidence before the close of fact discovery on January 27, 2006, and any other discovery matters on March 17, 2006. That will be followed by a series of expert reports, and dispositive motions, before a special attorney conference and settlement conference on January 30, 2007. The five-week jury trial is scheduled to begin on February 26, 2007."
This is a clear sign that SCO itself doesn't believe their list is worth the paper its printed on. There isn't a time of the year when people are paying less attention. It's like they're saying "Details at Christmas - in the meantime, enjoy your FUD."
I thought they cancelled "Nightly News". Seriously. Who has time to sit around for half an hour when you get the same information in thirty seconds on the Internet?
I tried this, involuntarily, during the last year I was earning my comp sci degree. I have two kids now, so I've learned to appreciate a good 8 (OK, 6) hours of sleep a night.
I had the chance to chat with Marty in Baltimore in May 2001 and he basically said this about Snort:
1) I wrote it over a couple of weekends because I wasn't happy with TCPDump and the commercial tools at hand
2) Someday I hope to rewrite it
3) The extensible plug-in architecture saved my ass
4) I wish the commercial guys would quit ripping it off
However, it looks like an audio interview...don't have that kind of time anymore.
Wanna talk lawsuits? Try "criminal negligence" if someone can show that the district's shitty security provided no real barrier to someone else who used the district's information to commit a more serious crime.
(If you need help, think of the laws surrounding "classified" information. Sure, it's illegal for most people to possess classified materials, but the law is structured to allow the government to go after malicious or sloppy guardians of classified materials because they are the leakers and thus the real problem.)
A couple years ago I heard through the grapevine that the local district's computers were wide open. Sure enough, I did a quick scan and found a couple ports. Within about five minutes I had a list of the names, ages and addresses of every student in the district.
Rather than contact the (potentially defensive or hostile) district myself, I had a quick, informal chat with the editor of the local paper instead, knowing that he was a big education supporter and that he could deliver the "you have no security" message to the right people in a discrete manner. Sure enough, within a week the hole was closed.
No credit, no publicity, but results. (My kids will be students there soon!)
The article profiles mission critical database software and discusses how well MySQL 5.0 fits the profile.
I love MySQL - I've built my technical solutions around it for the past 5 years. However, until it's released for PRODUCTION use you can't call it "MISSION-CRITICAL".
See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/choosing-version .html
what part of "nuclear missiles" don't meet your threshold for "kick ass?"
I don't have a problem with the nukes...it's the fact that they're being launched from a little girlie boat. On second thought, WhyTF would terrorists bother to "research bio weapons" when they have a cruiser full of nukes?
Doom had a sense of humor...
The Admiral Ushakov is an old Soviet Kirov class nuclear missile cruiser which disappeared in the Barents sea 4 years ago and was believed lost at sea with all hands. It reappeared off the coast of Iceland recently and is believed to have fallen into terrorist hands and is being used to carry out bio-weapon research.
1) Fer crying out loud. A "dreadnought" used to mean a kick-ass battleship, not some whiny little cruiser.
2) If we can't find one fucking cruiser for 4 years with the satellites we have now, China deserves to kick our ass. (Or, just look it up on Google Earth.)
3) OK, if a cruiser DID fall into terrorist hands and is parked out in the middle of nowhere: send a sub, sink the boat and move on to the next problem. (Unless you've seen one too many Steven Seagal movie, I guess...)
4) Enough, already, my brain hurts!
Nevermind - it's a wacky personal setting that controls how much I think Karma is worth overall. (So everyone was +5 for a moment).
Yep - look at my Karma: +5?!
Just a test - I think SlashDot let me do something I shouldn't have been able to do a moment ago.
Leaking Star Wars 3/6/whatever? What farking losers. Now if they can get an advance copy of BSG season 3, I'd pay for that.