I cannot believe that sticking your head in the sand is any better. I would think that there are many examples of security holes being found and patched before they could be exploited.
If anything, the data seems to point to the fact that software companies and users need to act on security holes and patches more quickly. This may require better education of the user, and it also would help to have better patching mechanisms.
The sad thing is these govnt asshats cost this guy a lot of money. Even in the case of a public defender, a person looses a lot of money because they cannot earn like they normally would, and they may have their future earning damaged as well.
Time to revoke the entire nazi, err, I mean patriot act.
I have known several people with better beards than that - ie- I have know many non-"I am a farking american christian" people. None were terrorists. One liked to fart a lot, but that just does not count.
Really, What else was it? The "Live Music Capitol of the Nation", or the the well known "Austin City Limits"? Or how TX is the first state to put wi-fi with its rest stops? What was the first thing that came to mind?
Didn't AMD take this approach some years back? They have to name their processors to sounds like pentium clock speed ratings, but they have been preaching the idea that clock-speed is not the sole issue for years. I know IBM is technical leader, but it just smells like IBM, like Intel, are jumping on the AMD bandwagon, but they aren't calling it the AMD bandwagon.
That's just stupid. I don't mean to be rude, but several of the languages on the list either have very specific uses that do not overlap with the others, are ancestors / descendants of others, or are competition (you remember competition, the thing that little notion called evolution is based on).
Do any of these projects / products work with digital cable and/or sat?
I love the DVR built into my sat (100 hours), but I have already had to delete shows I would like to have kept around a little longer. Since we have gotten into the habit of recording much of the content we watch, so we can watch it when we want to do so, I find myself running into the 100 hour limit.
They may not be unsuccessful, but the (sometimes wildly) different implimentations of C++ turns my stomach a bit. I think the way C++ evolved into its "stanard" over the 90s was analogous to watching a car wreck in slow motion. C++ is very, very powerful but also very fragmented by varying levels of support of templates, etc, etc, etc.
That said, I think that there could be an "official" Java release similar to Linus's official kernel, which the vast majority of the world use. I think plain old GPL Java would work very well.
I haven't used Snort for a while. We used it at a little ISP I worked at to protect various parts of our network. If I recall we were running Snort on some small linux build like trinix. We had old desktop machines running snort with rulesets that were mean for each segment i.e. the Snort box sitting on front of our NT machine was watching for NT attacks, etc. I never recall having performance issues; Snort was very fast even on old machines.
We ended up putting together a little access db that we could generate rules for snort based on critieria like port, os, etc. Eventually we turned this into the first Snort rules site snort.rapidnet.com which is now down. I would imagine that any problems someone might have with Snort (or other IDS) is the correct config for a given scenario or situation.
You have to give props to guys like Marty who make a really great, free product that the little guys can use to conduct homegrown (not homeland) security.
This will probably just get modded off-topic, flame-bait or redundant but I am going to say it anyway.
Why in the world was the post green-lighted?
All this poor soul is going to get is a bunch of crappy comments going for funny, rude, or both. I have no doubt there are people on this list with friends or family with mental illness, including me.
A very good friend of mine recently "went nuts" (I don't want to go into detail). There are so many other places much better suited to ask this question. I would never ask for advice about my friend on Slashdot. And if I did, I would hope someone would have the good sense to reject the comment and perhaps the sensitivity to send me an email telling me why.
A simple google groups search turned these up:
alt.support.schizophrenia
sci.med.* (23 groups)
alt.health.hmo
alt.nurse
and: www.schizophreniaresource.com
A coworker of mine basically black holed Asia, Africa, and South America for the county we were consulting with at the border router. The theory was that no one in this little county had any reason to be talking to anyone in any of those locations.
He was going to black hole Europe as well, but it seems like there was somebody over there that a county commissioner knew...
This not only killed most spam, but most attacks as well. I know this kind of blanket technique will not work for many orgs, but it worked well for them.
Who would have guessed that China would lead the way in green transportation?
Uhh, until we build a lot more nuclear, solar and wind power plants, electricity in most areas of the world (including the US) still comes overwhelmingly from fossil fuels.
US DOE stats show that nearly 80% of electricity in the US comes from fossils fuels. And because electical lines loose power do to resistance, and batteries are not perfect, electically driven bike are not very efficient.
The bike is polluting, maybe hundreds of miles away, but it is still polluting.
Its sounds like the right decision
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Sometimes the correct decision is to make a decision and stick with it. I hate it when people go back and forth, and can't really nail down what they want to do. I admire that Linus made the decision, stuck with it despite outside pressure, and has proven to at least be much more productive than he was before. Linux has come a long way both technically and work-flow-wise in the last couple of years. It sounds like BK is doing a good job, even if it isn't FOSS.
So Apple is doing this so they can continue to be in business selling music. In other words, Apple is making money on DRM, correct? Wow, Microsoft sure is evil with all of their DRM.
Seriously, I am not trying to be flamebait here. There is not much of a difference is there? Both are in business making money off of DRM now, correct? I know MS really is evil in much of what they do, and Apple has been a pretty decent company. But lets not all be hypocrites (cause that would never happen here).
Good. All anti-MS "They should have written more secure software" comments aside, I am glad they were able to catch this guy if it is him. I am glad the reward worked. In the end there is one person that is really, truly responsible for the virus and that is the virus writer.
Now I wonder how much of the $5m pot the informer(s) will get.
Do you mean "radical" in the traditional sense, or the 80 style "that's radical, dude"! Because quite frankly, I think it would be rad is DirectX "just ran" under linux with this software.
When I was doing CompSci (about 10 years ago), they were just switching from Pascal to C++. Many of the files at my fraternity were in Pascal (so much for those "references"). However, speaking with younger students that have worked for me over the last several years, more and more of them have been taking Java instead of C or C++, and many have never seen Pascal.
Another thing that I have noticed is that a lot of students are also taking VB in college, and some of the windows based scripting languages based on it like ASP. I have also seen a lot of PHP experience. This is especially true of engineering, and compsci related courses (not hardcore compsci).
I am surprised that the AP exam for Java wasn't around several years ago based on what I have seen in a variety of school via 2nd hand knowledge.
I am not familiar with those projects. The Java runtime (VM) is not open source. If there are commonly used, non-Sun VM's out there that are open source then that is very cool. What is there progress (other projects)?
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I cannot believe that sticking your head in the sand is any better. I would think that there are many examples of security holes being found and patched before they could be exploited.
If anything, the data seems to point to the fact that software companies and users need to act on security holes and patches more quickly. This may require better education of the user, and it also would help to have better patching mechanisms.
The sad thing is these govnt asshats cost this guy a lot of money. Even in the case of a public defender, a person looses a lot of money because they cannot earn like they normally would, and they may have their future earning damaged as well.
Time to revoke the entire nazi, err, I mean patriot act.
I have known several people with better beards than that - ie- I have know many non-"I am a farking american christian" people. None were terrorists. One liked to fart a lot, but that just does not count.
Really, What else was it? The "Live Music Capitol of the Nation", or the the well known "Austin City Limits"? Or how TX is the first state to put wi-fi with its rest stops? What was the first thing that came to mind?
The whole "silicon" thing is applied a lot. Austin is called the "Silicon Hills" because of the Texas hill country and the huge tech economy here.
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Didn't AMD take this approach some years back? They have to name their processors to sounds like pentium clock speed ratings, but they have been preaching the idea that clock-speed is not the sole issue for years. I know IBM is technical leader, but it just smells like IBM, like Intel, are jumping on the AMD bandwagon, but they aren't calling it the AMD bandwagon.
That's just stupid. I don't mean to be rude, but several of the languages on the list either have very specific uses that do not overlap with the others, are ancestors / descendants of others, or are competition (you remember competition, the thing that little notion called evolution is based on).
Do any of these projects / products work with digital cable and/or sat? I love the DVR built into my sat (100 hours), but I have already had to delete shows I would like to have kept around a little longer. Since we have gotten into the habit of recording much of the content we watch, so we can watch it when we want to do so, I find myself running into the 100 hour limit.
They may not be unsuccessful, but the (sometimes wildly) different implimentations of C++ turns my stomach a bit. I think the way C++ evolved into its "stanard" over the 90s was analogous to watching a car wreck in slow motion. C++ is very, very powerful but also very fragmented by varying levels of support of templates, etc, etc, etc.
That said, I think that there could be an "official" Java release similar to Linus's official kernel, which the vast majority of the world use. I think plain old GPL Java would work very well.
Is that like multi-modal reflection sorting? (link)
We ended up putting together a little access db that we could generate rules for snort based on critieria like port, os, etc. Eventually we turned this into the first Snort rules site snort.rapidnet.com which is now down. I would imagine that any problems someone might have with Snort (or other IDS) is the correct config for a given scenario or situation.
You have to give props to guys like Marty who make a really great, free product that the little guys can use to conduct homegrown (not homeland) security.
already figure this out a few years back?
Why in the world was the post green-lighted?
All this poor soul is going to get is a bunch of crappy comments going for funny, rude, or both. I have no doubt there are people on this list with friends or family with mental illness, including me.
A very good friend of mine recently "went nuts" (I don't want to go into detail). There are so many other places much better suited to ask this question. I would never ask for advice about my friend on Slashdot. And if I did, I would hope someone would have the good sense to reject the comment and perhaps the sensitivity to send me an email telling me why.
A simple google groups search turned these up:
alt.support.schizophrenia
sci.med.* (23 groups)
alt.health.hmo
alt.nurse
and: www.schizophreniaresource.com
Slashdot staff get a -1 (Offtopic) for this post.
A coworker of mine basically black holed Asia, Africa, and South America for the county we were consulting with at the border router. The theory was that no one in this little county had any reason to be talking to anyone in any of those locations.
He was going to black hole Europe as well, but it seems like there was somebody over there that a county commissioner knew...
This not only killed most spam, but most attacks as well. I know this kind of blanket technique will not work for many orgs, but it worked well for them.
Uhh, until we build a lot more nuclear, solar and wind power plants, electricity in most areas of the world (including the US) still comes overwhelmingly from fossil fuels.
US DOE stats show that nearly 80% of electricity in the US comes from fossils fuels. And because electical lines loose power do to resistance, and batteries are not perfect, electically driven bike are not very efficient.
The bike is polluting, maybe hundreds of miles away, but it is still polluting.
Sometimes the correct decision is to make a decision and stick with it. I hate it when people go back and forth, and can't really nail down what they want to do. I admire that Linus made the decision, stuck with it despite outside pressure, and has proven to at least be much more productive than he was before. Linux has come a long way both technically and work-flow-wise in the last couple of years. It sounds like BK is doing a good job, even if it isn't FOSS.
Seriously, I am not trying to be flamebait here. There is not much of a difference is there? Both are in business making money off of DRM now, correct? I know MS really is evil in much of what they do, and Apple has been a pretty decent company. But lets not all be hypocrites (cause that would never happen here).
I bet that "over-rated" mod I got for my comment's karma is pure ./ anti-ms.
Good. All anti-MS "They should have written more secure software" comments aside, I am glad they were able to catch this guy if it is him. I am glad the reward worked. In the end there is one person that is really, truly responsible for the virus and that is the virus writer. Now I wonder how much of the $5m pot the informer(s) will get.
When is a Linux distro going to finally try to emulate the look and feel of Microsoft BOB, a truly intuative GUI?!?!?! Jeeesh!
Do you mean "radical" in the traditional sense, or the 80 style "that's radical, dude"! Because quite frankly, I think it would be rad is DirectX "just ran" under linux with this software.
When I was doing CompSci (about 10 years ago), they were just switching from Pascal to C++. Many of the files at my fraternity were in Pascal (so much for those "references"). However, speaking with younger students that have worked for me over the last several years, more and more of them have been taking Java instead of C or C++, and many have never seen Pascal.
Another thing that I have noticed is that a lot of students are also taking VB in college, and some of the windows based scripting languages based on it like ASP. I have also seen a lot of PHP experience. This is especially true of engineering, and compsci related courses (not hardcore compsci).
I am surprised that the AP exam for Java wasn't around several years ago based on what I have seen in a variety of school via 2nd hand knowledge.
I am not familiar with those projects. The Java runtime (VM) is not open source. If there are commonly used, non-Sun VM's out there that are open source then that is very cool. What is there progress (other projects)?
Got a link?