What if a company is in a commodity market and spends 90% of it's income on each good sold? Next the company becomes dominant to the point of monopoly and is taxed at this 90% rate. How can the company afford to create a product when suddenly they have effectively doubled the cost of that product.
You don't understand that economic incentive is what makes products better. A success tax would incentivize companies putting out worse products if they achieve unexpected success. The whole concept is completely flawed and not in the consumers, nor the producers best interest. It's as stupid as the Alternative Minimum Tax.
Actions have consequences- we can't afford to reward people for their intentions. Cringley is being stupid in this instance.
The smartest reader of all suggested that companies be taxed on their market share so that a company like Microsoft with 90 percent share would pay a 90 percent tax rate. The nice part about this idea is that it actually would encourage competition as well as industry alliances. The naive part is that it assumes legislative resolve that does not exist and also assumes Microsoft actually pays taxes which, for the most part, it doesn't. Still, the idea is clever.
How can anyone take Cringley or PBS seriously? He is actually suggesting all incentive for market success should be eliminated. I'd love to see Cringley present an argument for how this economic model would work. Perhaps we should move to Twinkies as our currency soon after putting a Success Tax of 90% in place. Play some Sim City and see how well this works if you don't understand how disastrous an idea this is.
I usually like controversial people because they at least bring an interesting element to a discussion- but Cringley no longer is in the group that I enjoy. Intellectually, he's wasting everyone's time if he thinks this idea is the "smartest."
Chairman Mao is in his glass case, waiting for your next visit, Cringley.
I have no idea what you're referring to, but my great memory of this conflict is Nikita Kruschev (Sic?) slapping his shoe against the podium and sayin (in reference to the West )"We will destroy you."
Now, please continue your lecture on how we are terrorists. It's really fascinating. I love appologists!
If MS is producing something that "it doesn't think will produce revenue" then it isn't worth looking at- Unhappy customers vote against shitty products by using their wallet for a competitor.
From: Alan W Harris
Date: Tue Jan 13, 2004 7:24 pm
Subject: "Turn out the lights"
Brian Marsden has substituted a different orbit that fits the observations
within allowed uncertainties. There has been no added or re-worked
astrometry, just a little push of the solution off the covariance
minimum. On the one hand, this demonstrates that the limited observations
so far are not sufficient to predict an impact with high probability. On
the other hand, nothing has happened to invalidate the previous solution or
reduce the probability that it is right. I'm reminded of an old pilot's
story of how to do a forced landing at night in a populated area. The
advice is that in order to avoid plowing into population on the ground,
find a large dark area with no lights. If you're lucky it will be a field
of some sort and you can do a dead-stick landing. As you approach, turn on
your landing lights and see what's there. If you like what you see, go
ahead and land. If you don't, turn off your lights.
Switched networks will only work if you ahve good physical security and vlans implemented. Otherwise Captain Blackhat is coming onto your campus with a MAC spoofer and will have this beat in no time.
If you need to implement security, you need to utilize authentication methods like a PKI infrastructure. When you log on to most systems with very minimal security infrastructure, you present something you have- a user account name, and something you know, a password.
A password doesn't have to be a series of upper/lower/ascii characters that do not form a word. It can be something like a bird call or a series of "knocks" as in this method. Is this useful? It certainly adds complexity to the attacker's problem. Instead of blindingly hitting a target, they'd need to do some kind of man-in-the middle attack to determine what this UNENCRYPTED password is.
A better approach is to abandon this kind of cleverness and never use the word "Password" again. A passphrase that's greater than 14 characters is far superior to any obfuscation or password complexity. It beats shoulder surfing, you can't bruteforce it and you're unlikely to find the right combination of words in a dictionary for every random human being in this world. Stop the password madness! Evolve ye damn slashdotters!
In the interest of full disclosure, I am a CCNA and a CISSP with a Bachelors in CS. Caveat Emptor.
The big reason to get any cert is because you see a series of jobs that specifically state you need the cert AND you are underqualified for the position. The certs will get your foot in the door, but your personality has to get you the job. If you're qualified, certifications don't help or hurt- they're like a mole on your back that people will be aware of only when you tell them they exist.
However, if you are targeting a company like Microsoft or Cisco for employment, get the certs! These companies are going to want to hire people that are:
familiar with their solutions
compentent/experienced enough for the position open
Companies this large tend to want folks who can help dogfood their tools and improve them. Additionally, dogfooding means that you save these groups plenty of cash- A microsoft tester who knows java is probably going to loose a position to a tester with an MCAD- who will in turn design and implement MS-based solutions rather than trying to evangelize some Javabeans solution.
I made the cert choices I did because I wanted to be in Information Security, I looked in some books and I decided I'd mirror the certs of the authors of these texts. The only thing left that I'd like to get in terms of a certification is an MCSD, but that's only if I am trying to get employed at Microsoft. If my next job is one that will be long term and give me the flexibility, then I'm going to target a Masters degree, because really, what's the point in getting another technical certification if I will acquire the experience that should equal an MCSD?
Will I renew my certs? Probably only the CISSP. How else do you convey to people that are mystified by the shamanistic ways of Hackers that Yes, I am the guy that can help keep them out. A big fat badge on your chest that says 'CISSP' makes those who don't understand feel safe. A 'CCNA' badge? meh... networking equipment will only get easier to use- The days of the Network Engineering team are starting to fade. These guys will be blue collar and unionized in another 10 years.
You need to play on a OLTL (One Life To Live) server. A box filled with 64 players in OLTL will totally change your style of play. A round is last man standing or till objective is completed. If you're down, you go into spectator mode. First off, it's more social, but secondly, it's more about team work. This is the best way to play, w/o a doubt!
Digital Rights Management means that you can lock files without using a file specific password. DRM authentication mechanisms are far superior to the password approach for a locked file. DRM, is a security solution- It's something you are (an account with specific privledges) and something you know (your username and password at login). If you weren't so beligerant about your inability to share Mp3's, you'd be able to see the blindingly obvious reason that it was a mandatory patch.
Heh! Who am I kidding? I don't believe in this gobbledey gook! I predict that pickles will become sweeter as sweaters give off more and more static electricity. We must stop the excess production of static electricity so we can save the whales!!!!
Rule number one of any vulnerability assesment is that without Management approval, you don't start.
If you came out to your car after a baseball game and found some bum sitting next to it with a tool kit and oil all over him telling you that your car needs a new oil pan, how do you respond?
Puh-lease. Enough of the apologist crap. This jack-hole targeted a corporation. This kind of thing is not the reason the Bugtraq lists exist.
Don't forget- the.Net platform encompasses C#, C++, VB and J# out-of-the-box, w/ the flexibility for developers to create languages w/ their own.Net support.
.Net is a unified way of accessing resources across different programming languages and mediums.
The definitions of the word paradigm:
One that serves as a pattern or model.
A set or list of all the inflectional forms of a word or of one of its grammatical categories: the paradigm of an irregular verb.
A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline.
Why is the word paradigm used so frequently? Because people can write apps that interface w/ eachother using home-grown protocols in different languages- plus have the work for both mobile devices and PCs. This is no more a buzzword than saying Linux is Open Source.
Consider this posting a gift. I will no longer waste my time trying to explain why.Net is worth investigating. If you don't understand, you're clearly at home still practicing:
You are falling into the predictable pattern of trying to explain complex problems in a nice neat package simply to have 'ownership' of a topic: This happened because of that.
The earth is getting warmer because of SUV's.
We are at war because George Bush is a slave to corporate interests
4 years of war concluded because of Navajo indians.
Complex problems are not resolved in one sentence unless it involves integers, a blackboard and a plucky math professor.
I believe we owe these men our gratitude, but no more or less than any other soldier that contributed to war efforts on our behalf. It's not defendable that these men single handedly (or group handedly or whatever) shortend the war. Atomic weapons? Probably. Destruction of the military industry in Japan? Probably. Small group of contributers? *wince*
These news services have people who are on staff that are paid to create content. My Aunt is actually a writer for the AP and I learned something very interesting a few months back that has totally improved my perspective on articles like this.
Editors ask writers to create content on subjects that they think will be picked up by other news services. The union rules state that the writer retains the right to withold their name on a story if they feel the story is inaccurate or if they disagree with what they've been asked to write. Editors hate when writers do this because those in the industry know what a authorless article implies. This is why you will sometimes see stories from the AP or Reuters that do reference the author:
So what does this mean to you, the critical consumer of news? If an article carries the author's name, it means they endorse it's content - they believe in the validity of it. If it does not, it means the writer was either forced to create content that they didn't agree with or believe was accurate or that the writer was up against a deadline and failed to provide content that they were proud of.
The cnn article, interestingly, does not provide an author. Any thoughts on why? The question of how they know content was deleted is awfully vital to getting the point of this article across. It really doesn't seem to stand up to scrutiny.
I love pot, Rage Against The Machine, Womyns literature and Che Gurrivera.
I George Bush. I heard he gives halliburton blow jobs and taxpayer dollars that he steals from the homeless.
E!
Data != Information
Over the years, my flatulence may have had varying degrees of strength. It has both pleased and offended many. Some still remember certain spectacular events while others have passed into obscurity. But none of this tells you if I ate a chillidog, nor the quantity.
There is no substitue for analysis of directly observed data.
As far as the "stupid" design of whatever it is you didn't specify is concerned, which OS could your mother run? Design is a complex topic, and you appear to be completely unprepared to tackle the subject. Given a choice between Visual studio, and any other IDE, which would you choose? Design and security are not equal, kiddo.
C# Explicitly encapsulates the functionality of Pointers in Delegates. I believe it's possible to still acheive the same effect of pointers (and thus regain the risk of B.O.'s associated w/ them) but not without explicit calls.
It's obviously not as fast as C in certain situations, but personally I like C# a lot and am focusing my future development efforts in this arena.
Slashdot Mirror
What if a company is in a commodity market and spends 90% of it's income on each good sold? Next the company becomes dominant to the point of monopoly and is taxed at this 90% rate. How can the company afford to create a product when suddenly they have effectively doubled the cost of that product.
You don't understand that economic incentive is what makes products better. A success tax would incentivize companies putting out worse products if they achieve unexpected success. The whole concept is completely flawed and not in the consumers, nor the producers best interest. It's as stupid as the Alternative Minimum Tax.
Actions have consequences- we can't afford to reward people for their intentions. Cringley is being stupid in this instance.
How can anyone take Cringley or PBS seriously? He is actually suggesting all incentive for market success should be eliminated. I'd love to see Cringley present an argument for how this economic model would work. Perhaps we should move to Twinkies as our currency soon after putting a Success Tax of 90% in place. Play some Sim City and see how well this works if you don't understand how disastrous an idea this is.
I usually like controversial people because they at least bring an interesting element to a discussion- but Cringley no longer is in the group that I enjoy. Intellectually, he's wasting everyone's time if he thinks this idea is the "smartest." Chairman Mao is in his glass case, waiting for your next visit, Cringley.
Although Freeze tag (chmod 000) is interesting.
BullShit.
Everyone knows that it's not until the Playstation 5 comes out that Sony finally emerges victorious.
Now, please continue your lecture on how we are terrorists. It's really fascinating. I love appologists!
If MS is producing something that "it doesn't think will produce revenue" then it isn't worth looking at- Unhappy customers vote against shitty products by using their wallet for a competitor.
From: Alan W Harris Date: Tue Jan 13, 2004 7:24 pm Subject: "Turn out the lights"
Brian Marsden has substituted a different orbit that fits the observations within allowed uncertainties. There has been no added or re-worked astrometry, just a little push of the solution off the covariance minimum. On the one hand, this demonstrates that the limited observations so far are not sufficient to predict an impact with high probability. On the other hand, nothing has happened to invalidate the previous solution or reduce the probability that it is right. I'm reminded of an old pilot's story of how to do a forced landing at night in a populated area. The advice is that in order to avoid plowing into population on the ground, find a large dark area with no lights. If you're lucky it will be a field of some sort and you can do a dead-stick landing. As you approach, turn on your landing lights and see what's there. If you like what you see, go ahead and land. If you don't, turn off your lights.
Switched networks will only work if you ahve good physical security and vlans implemented. Otherwise Captain Blackhat is coming onto your campus with a MAC spoofer and will have this beat in no time.
A password doesn't have to be a series of upper/lower/ascii characters that do not form a word. It can be something like a bird call or a series of "knocks" as in this method. Is this useful? It certainly adds complexity to the attacker's problem. Instead of blindingly hitting a target, they'd need to do some kind of man-in-the middle attack to determine what this UNENCRYPTED password is.
A better approach is to abandon this kind of cleverness and never use the word "Password" again. A passphrase that's greater than 14 characters is far superior to any obfuscation or password complexity. It beats shoulder surfing, you can't bruteforce it and you're unlikely to find the right combination of words in a dictionary for every random human being in this world. Stop the password madness! Evolve ye damn slashdotters!
That's not my passphrase, I swear.
He might be a proctologist.
The big reason to get any cert is because you see a series of jobs that specifically state you need the cert AND you are underqualified for the position. The certs will get your foot in the door, but your personality has to get you the job. If you're qualified, certifications don't help or hurt- they're like a mole on your back that people will be aware of only when you tell them they exist.
However, if you are targeting a company like Microsoft or Cisco for employment, get the certs! These companies are going to want to hire people that are:
- familiar with their solutions
- compentent/experienced enough for the position open
Companies this large tend to want folks who can help dogfood their tools and improve them. Additionally, dogfooding means that you save these groups plenty of cash- A microsoft tester who knows java is probably going to loose a position to a tester with an MCAD- who will in turn design and implement MS-based solutions rather than trying to evangelize some Javabeans solution.I made the cert choices I did because I wanted to be in Information Security, I looked in some books and I decided I'd mirror the certs of the authors of these texts. The only thing left that I'd like to get in terms of a certification is an MCSD, but that's only if I am trying to get employed at Microsoft. If my next job is one that will be long term and give me the flexibility, then I'm going to target a Masters degree, because really, what's the point in getting another technical certification if I will acquire the experience that should equal an MCSD?
Will I renew my certs? Probably only the CISSP. How else do you convey to people that are mystified by the shamanistic ways of Hackers that Yes, I am the guy that can help keep them out. A big fat badge on your chest that says 'CISSP' makes those who don't understand feel safe. A 'CCNA' badge? meh... networking equipment will only get easier to use- The days of the Network Engineering team are starting to fade. These guys will be blue collar and unionized in another 10 years.
You need to play on a OLTL (One Life To Live) server. A box filled with 64 players in OLTL will totally change your style of play. A round is last man standing or till objective is completed. If you're down, you go into spectator mode. First off, it's more social, but secondly, it's more about team work. This is the best way to play, w/o a doubt!
Digital Rights Management means that you can lock files without using a file specific password. DRM authentication mechanisms are far superior to the password approach for a locked file. DRM, is a security solution- It's something you are (an account with specific privledges) and something you know (your username and password at login). If you weren't so beligerant about your inability to share Mp3's, you'd be able to see the blindingly obvious reason that it was a mandatory patch.
Heh! Who am I kidding? I don't believe in this gobbledey gook! I predict that pickles will become sweeter as sweaters give off more and more static electricity. We must stop the excess production of static electricity so we can save the whales!!!!
I can just give people access to the files independent of a something-you-know credential (outside of whatever's necessary for logon).
It's pretty rad.
If you came out to your car after a baseball game and found some bum sitting next to it with a tool kit and oil all over him telling you that your car needs a new oil pan, how do you respond?
Puh-lease. Enough of the apologist crap. This jack-hole targeted a corporation. This kind of thing is not the reason the Bugtraq lists exist.
The definitions of the word paradigm:
One that serves as a pattern or model.
A set or list of all the inflectional forms of a word or of one of its grammatical categories: the paradigm of an irregular verb. A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline.
Why is the word paradigm used so frequently? Because people can write apps that interface w/ eachother using home-grown protocols in different languages- plus have the work for both mobile devices and PCs. This is no more a buzzword than saying Linux is Open Source.
Consider this posting a gift. I will no longer waste my time trying to explain why .Net is worth investigating. If you don't understand, you're clearly at home still practicing:
#include
main()
{
printf("Hello World");
}
The earth is getting warmer because of SUV's.
We are at war because George Bush is a slave to corporate interests
4 years of war concluded because of Navajo indians.
Complex problems are not resolved in one sentence unless it involves integers, a blackboard and a plucky math professor.
I believe we owe these men our gratitude, but no more or less than any other soldier that contributed to war efforts on our behalf. It's not defendable that these men single handedly (or group handedly or whatever) shortend the war. Atomic weapons? Probably. Destruction of the military industry in Japan? Probably. Small group of contributers? *wince*
Editors ask writers to create content on subjects that they think will be picked up by other news services. The union rules state that the writer retains the right to withold their name on a story if they feel the story is inaccurate or if they disagree with what they've been asked to write. Editors hate when writers do this because those in the industry know what a authorless article implies. This is why you will sometimes see stories from the AP or Reuters that do reference the author:
Move Over Beauty Queens, Italy Seeks Miss Digital
And others that don't:
Dog Shoots Man
So what does this mean to you, the critical consumer of news? If an article carries the author's name, it means they endorse it's content - they believe in the validity of it. If it does not, it means the writer was either forced to create content that they didn't agree with or believe was accurate or that the writer was up against a deadline and failed to provide content that they were proud of.
The cnn article, interestingly, does not provide an author. Any thoughts on why? The question of how they know content was deleted is awfully vital to getting the point of this article across. It really doesn't seem to stand up to scrutiny.
JAVA IS DEAD SCOTT. LEARN C# AND GET OVER IT!!!
But undoubtedly that woulda modded me Troll (You bastards). It sure woulda been funnier though (You bastards).
Scott McNealy is such a fucking loose cannon. When will his handlers reign in his hockey-rage?
FOR THE SAKE OF THE CHILDREN, PLEASE STOP SCOTT!
I love pot, Rage Against The Machine, Womyns literature and Che Gurrivera. I George Bush. I heard he gives halliburton blow jobs and taxpayer dollars that he steals from the homeless. E!
Data != Information Over the years, my flatulence may have had varying degrees of strength. It has both pleased and offended many. Some still remember certain spectacular events while others have passed into obscurity. But none of this tells you if I ate a chillidog, nor the quantity. There is no substitue for analysis of directly observed data.
When was the last time you saw the XP source?
As far as the "stupid" design of whatever it is you didn't specify is concerned, which OS could your mother run? Design is a complex topic, and you appear to be completely unprepared to tackle the subject. Given a choice between Visual studio, and any other IDE, which would you choose? Design and security are not equal, kiddo.
It's obviously not as fast as C in certain situations, but personally I like C# a lot and am focusing my future development efforts in this arena.