I thought my morning paper was stupid for picking up this story as "news"...I can't believe SlashDot got trolled too...
If you're fired by an Open Source company...
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If you were fired by a company that paid you to write Open Source, would you still develop it? If so, I can see how management would say, "what's the point of paying you, exactly?"
This fellow is Intel's bitch: he wastes three months of his life to fix a major corporation's problems and he will get no compensation for his efforts. Maybe he hopes Intel will give the good dog a milkbone, but any human being with sense of self-worth would probably do something less demeaning.
Nevermind about the van - given his lack of ambition it's probably going to be a laptop and a blanket under an LA freeway bridge.
I'm unemployed. For the past three months, I've spent almost all of my time working on this security flaw -- investigating how serious it was, contacting all of the affected vendors, explaining how this should be fixed, et cetera. I simply haven't had time to go out and get a job -- and I decided that making sure that this issue was properly reported and fixed was far more important than earning some money. "
Lo-ser. This guy needs to get a job and move out of mom's basement. I know I wouldn't hire him - he'd likely spend all day dinking around with something completely non-work-related.
Security guru? Maybe...if you trust a guy who lives in a van down by the river.
This sounds like a pyramid scheme...
Pretend the goal is $100
1) Innocent #1 contributes $10
2) Innocent #2 contributes $10
3) Innocent #3 contributes $10
4) Party Leader contributes $70 (as Innocent #4) and unlocks the wad. Party Leader walks away with $30 profit.
5) Party leader changes identity and goes to step 1...
It's all about the service agreement, bucko.
Businesses are usually happy to let ISPs retain and filter mail for backup and spam, but they would be pissed if someone started using the content to target advertising or look for prospects. That last bit is what makes GMail unique; you're authorizing your ISP to act on the information in mail not intended for it.
I thought the point of Open Source was to allow more people to read through the code. You mean thousands of people aren't really doing that for fun? I'm shocked.
More seriously... I think many of the people who DO eyeball the code are looking for security problems these days (where you do get recognition, etc.). For the record, I know I won't get any HR props for putting OS bugs that I've uncovered on my resume, but the security bugs I've found are always good conversation pieces.
I would kill for some people who actually want to do Q/A. All the people I see are "SysAdmin" wanna-bees or lazy-ass "coders" who don't want to bothered with details. Any tips on advertising for qualified Q/A people?
I think all the new stoplights in town are LED stoplights. Most of the brakelights on trucks around town are too. Did this story fall through a time-rift from seven years ago?
Mod parent up. I got my refund from paper-filing two weeks ago.
I've always been paranoid about what an electronic program would think about all my moving expenses from category A to category B. I also like having an exact copy of what I sent the IRS.
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Why is ROT13 mod'ed funny every time a crypto discussion comes up? (After the 10th time...it's not funny anymore.)
Ahem. Rainbow tables?
Shouldn't this really be, "Gartner, which has made a name for itself CREATING hype"?
Just wait until George Lucas discovers theatre...
3 Google stories in a day?
Yawn...wake me up when something interesting shows up.
BTW, the new "text in image" things sucks ass.
It's already been done...& threadID=14566&start=30&tstart=0 ...or just fucking Google for "auto breathalyzer ignition".
http://www.whynot.net/view_idea?id=830
http://forums.autoweek.com/thread.jspa?forumID=31
http://www.wnyt.com/x3458.xml?ag=x156&sb=x183
I thought my morning paper was stupid for picking up this story as "news"...I can't believe SlashDot got trolled too...
If you were fired by a company that paid you to write Open Source, would you still develop it? If so, I can see how management would say, "what's the point of paying you, exactly?"
This fellow is Intel's bitch: he wastes three months of his life to fix a major corporation's problems and he will get no compensation for his efforts. Maybe he hopes Intel will give the good dog a milkbone, but any human being with sense of self-worth would probably do something less demeaning. Nevermind about the van - given his lack of ambition it's probably going to be a laptop and a blanket under an LA freeway bridge.
I'm unemployed. For the past three months, I've spent almost all of my time working on this security flaw -- investigating how serious it was, contacting all of the affected vendors, explaining how this should be fixed, et cetera. I simply haven't had time to go out and get a job -- and I decided that making sure that this issue was properly reported and fixed was far more important than earning some money. "
Lo-ser. This guy needs to get a job and move out of mom's basement. I know I wouldn't hire him - he'd likely spend all day dinking around with something completely non-work-related.
Security guru? Maybe...if you trust a guy who lives in a van down by the river.
I hope you're ten years old. Otherwise, get off the geek board, weenie.
You'll lose your shorts if you try that shit in the stock market.
Nice nickname, BTW.
Hmmm...at "http://www.i2p.net/bounties" there are $450 of bounties...and $150 of it is for a "Content Distribution Network"
I wouldn't quit your day job yet.
I don't know about you, but I don't have unlimited funds. Unless someone (or some license agreement) MAKES me pay for something, I won't.
This sounds like a pyramid scheme... Pretend the goal is $100 1) Innocent #1 contributes $10 2) Innocent #2 contributes $10 3) Innocent #3 contributes $10 4) Party Leader contributes $70 (as Innocent #4) and unlocks the wad. Party Leader walks away with $30 profit. 5) Party leader changes identity and goes to step 1...
It's all about the service agreement, bucko. Businesses are usually happy to let ISPs retain and filter mail for backup and spam, but they would be pissed if someone started using the content to target advertising or look for prospects. That last bit is what makes GMail unique; you're authorizing your ISP to act on the information in mail not intended for it.
An OPEN SOURCE GMail appliance? If not, it's not going to be much different than closed-source Exchange to most of the people on this board...
Google GMail doesn't seem like a serious threat to Exchange. Postfix, yes, but a third-party service which reads your email...no.
If you're reading this and you don't already know what a "buffer overflow" is, turn in your geek card and leave Slashdot immediately.
What's next? "Ever wonder what what Linux was? Here's a great book which (blah, blah, blah)..."
1) Flashlight
2) Wiffleball bat
Wait. Imagine it's 2005, and we're still talking about Star Wars... (I know my kids don't give a shit.)
A "freshman" CS major is as reliable as a freshman "pre-med" major.
(Although in the first case, the designation is usually picked to land a high-paying internship, where the second designation is picked to get laid.)
Unless you're looking at people enrolled in 3xx and 4xx level courses, this article doesn't mean much.
I thought the point of Open Source was to allow more people to read through the code. You mean thousands of people aren't really doing that for fun? I'm shocked.
More seriously... I think many of the people who DO eyeball the code are looking for security problems these days (where you do get recognition, etc.). For the record, I know I won't get any HR props for putting OS bugs that I've uncovered on my resume, but the security bugs I've found are always good conversation pieces.
By "cliff-hanger" thought you meant the election of a new pope. It's been a good cliff-hanger for a lot of us Catholics out here.
I would kill for some people who actually want to do Q/A. All the people I see are "SysAdmin" wanna-bees or lazy-ass "coders" who don't want to bothered with details. Any tips on advertising for qualified Q/A people?
I think all the new stoplights in town are LED stoplights. Most of the brakelights on trucks around town are too. Did this story fall through a time-rift from seven years ago?
Mod parent up. I got my refund from paper-filing two weeks ago.
I've always been paranoid about what an electronic program would think about all my moving expenses from category A to category B. I also like having an exact copy of what I sent the IRS.