This idea is only useful if students are actually learning how to solve problems. The best way to learn is to have a plan.
Too many times people with an interest in hacking get together for the sake of "learning" but there is no focus. It becomes random experimentation with no order or direction.
A group like this should compare what they are doing to government or corporate standards for security. Such standards can be found on the CIA website, and guidelines for DCOM security are considered an industry standard.
Hacker meetups such as 2600 can be a great thing, but if there is no focus then it becomes a waste of time.
I would like to see a focus group like this fix more things than it breaks. Is that too much to ask?
During the past decade, computers and the Internet have transformed the way we work, learn, communicate and are entertained. Yet some of technology's potential to do even more has not been fully realized, because of concerns about illegal use of digital information, about confidentiality and about privacy. For example, e-commerce in music and movies has been slowed, because artists and publishers have been concerned about protecting their copyrighted works from illegal use. More broadly, businesses don't exchange digital information with customers and partners as freely as they might, because they fear it could fall into the wrong hands.
These concerns reflect the increasing need of all businesses and many individual computer users to share a wide range of digital information, yet still control who can use it and how - what we at Microsoft call "rights management."
We have been working on a number of emerging rights management technologies that will help protect many kinds of digital content, and open new avenues for its secure and controlled use. These technologies are already helping encourage owners of book, music and film content to explore new e-commerce business models that will provide consumers with more convenient access and greater variety. Rights management will also help protect the privacy and confidentiality of consumers' personal data, such as medical and financial records. And in a broad range of businesses, effective rights management will help improve the efficiency of information flows, enhancing productivity and the quality of services across the entire economy.
This email, which you're receiving as a subscriber to executive emails from Microsoft, offers some insights into how we are working to develop these technologies, and how they will bring these crucial benefits to business and consumers.
WHAT IS RIGHTS MANAGEMENT?
Rights management refers to technologies that protect digital content after it is shared or distributed. Specifically, rights management technologies enable a content owner to stipulate a set of rules, or policy rights, that govern how the content may be used, by whom, for how long, etc. The protection, achieved by encrypting the content, may be provided by software or embedded in the hardware device itself - or some combination of the two.
At Microsoft we began experimenting with such protection for our software as early as the mid-1980s. We learned that no rights management system, no matter how secure, will succeed in the marketplace unless it is both easy to use and flexible. Different levels and kinds of protection are required for an individual's medical records, an attorney's confidential client memo, a recording company's master audio recording, an amateur photographer's images, and a publisher's new bestseller. And because no system can ever be 100 percent secure, protection needs to be easy to update, to address inevitable system breaches.
Microsoft has invested more than $250 million to date in rights management technologies, and we have substantial ongoing efforts to enable a new generation of rights management that will protect a broad range of personal and commercial digital content. We also work closely with many industry partners to advance the development and deployment of rights management systems. We actively participate in several cross-industry initiatives, including efforts to develop industry standards that help ensure the effectiveness, wide availability and interoperability of rights management solutions and the content they protect.
While there is still much work to do, content owners and authors today can choose from an array of flexible solutions tailored to meet customers' specific requirements, cost constraints and business models.
DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT
Microsoft's flagship technology for managing the rights to media content is Windows Media Digital Rights Management (DRM), which delivers music, video and other media content online in a secure format. R
An interesting read on how games do teach us valuable lessons, and some amazing insight into how we could change teaching habits to leverage the advantages games bring to the table.
the bottom line is that in deep complex development and customer specific situations, the common linux guru isn't going to know difference between his/her head and a serial port. who is he/she going to turn to? nobody. for broad purpose apps you might be ok. but once we get into the nitty gritty, you can hack your code all you want, its not going to make a difference if you can't solve the problem and you have no one to turn to.
and don't tell me the community is self supporting for those situations, unless you can find me someone right now that is going to write me problem specific software for free.
even after all the support efforts in the world for proprietary software (and thats a big effort), there all still endusers without a clue. Open source is going to need similar efforts to infiltrate most corporations.
home use/hobbyist = it doesn't truly matter if your application isn't stable or if support isn't readily available.
professional/corporate business = as in any professional business that needs to rely on software to sustain operations.
perhaps you are a good consultant whom knows his/her stuff because they live it. (non-wannabe) but their are too many people involved in open source (also proprietary, but fewer) that would ruin a business by trying to integrate open source software with out benefits like support.
yeah, and _most_ businesses that _only_ use these methods of _income_ will go out of business if they also plan to try and develop complex software.
not a very sound business model
i believe it would be wiser to take a different approach. something more along the lines of -- _knowing_ what you are doing. providing a service people will _pay_ a significant dollar for. don't be a wannabe.
don't get me wrong i think there is room for open source. but i really think people should specify what market they are talking about. (especially slashdotters) home use/hobbyist -- open source is great professional/corporate business -- open source needs a lot of work in this arena
eh, but its too early to tell. but from the looks of it corporations (i.e. IBM) won't be turning much profit from open source.
there are people that make things happen. there are people that watch things happen. there are people that wonder what happened. shouldn't we strive for the first camp?
why do people get pissed off because someone else is making money?
all this hullabaloo about making software open source is bringing forth a lot of hypocrites. you get the source for free so that you can have an in-depth understanding of how it works. (thats what you want right?) now you can't figure out how it works. and you expect the makers to write (time consuming) documentation for free as well? who has that much spare time?
time=money; how can an open source business expect to make a profit if all of their efforts are thwarted by people that are "pissed off" and don't want to spend their "hard-earned buck" because they think everything should be handed to them. (because it benefits the public)
I will tell you what else would benefit the public, world hunger could be solved if the standard expectation was that farmers were required to make an abundant supply of food, and distribute all of it for free. wow, i'm a friggin genius. a true problem solver. (why don't you think that would go over very well. think.)
i wonder who gives a damn about your feelings, don't expect any "real" business to care if you don't want to pony up your "hard-earned buck"
i will trade you this for that. look that was easy and fun.
The price should depend on the quality/uniqueness of the product. This is somewhat of a unique way of keeping time. I personally believe that if the quality is high enough a price as high as $10 000 should not be considered out of question. My father owns a Rolex self-winding watch. The watch picks up the vibrations of the moving wrist to wind its gears.
People would be able to create their own tools to interact with documents, instead of with MS tools. Where's the money in that?
News flash: Hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide already developer their own tools to interact with MS documents. Some if not most serious developers have made a lot of money off writing programs for Windows/Office. Open your eyes and you will see that Microsoft makes business a lot of money. MS is a big help to the economy in that perspective.
I am a programmer updating software for a major pharmaceutical company so that they are HIPAA compliant. The update is being deployed onto Win2k SP2. So if you are worried about SP3 then certainly don't update to SP3, or roll back to SP2. I understand that rolling back could be a tremendous amount of work... but so can consulting lawyers.
The best way to get around a EULA is don't agree to it.
That picture they have at the top of the article makes it look very scary... Thats not a 2km wide asteriod... its a MOON, this isn't something to worry about, I despise it when the news is blown out of proportion and exaggerated -- Something the BBC can be known for.
What they were saying was that a Terabyte hard drive could be made that is about the same size as your laptop hard drive.
Most people wouldn't take advantage of that... but how about having 150 Gig on a square centi-meter. Now that would be awesome. My PDA could hold my entire MP3 collection.
The possibilities are amazing...
Imagine all of your electronic gadgets holding that much info. You could store entire encylopedias on pocket sized objects.
But where it gets really excitting is the possibilities with servers...
Ridiculous amounts of storage could replace entire business data mines. Clear out that room of hardrives and make way for that little box in the corner over there.
Slashdot Mirror
This idea is only useful if students are actually learning how to solve problems. The best way to learn is to have a plan.
Too many times people with an interest in hacking get together for the sake of "learning" but there is no focus. It becomes random experimentation with no order or direction.
A group like this should compare what they are doing to government or corporate standards for security. Such standards can be found on the CIA website, and guidelines for DCOM security are considered an industry standard.
Hacker meetups such as 2600 can be a great thing, but if there is no focus then it becomes a waste of time.
I would like to see a focus group like this fix more things than it breaks. Is that too much to ask?
During the past decade, computers and the Internet have transformed the way we work, learn, communicate and are entertained. Yet some of technology's potential to do even more has not been fully realized, because of concerns about illegal use of digital information, about confidentiality and about privacy. For example, e-commerce in music and movies has been slowed, because artists and publishers have been concerned about protecting their copyrighted works from illegal use. More broadly, businesses don't exchange digital information with customers and partners as freely as they might, because they fear it could fall into the wrong hands.
These concerns reflect the increasing need of all businesses and many individual computer users to share a wide range of digital information, yet still control who can use it and how - what we at Microsoft call "rights management."
We have been working on a number of emerging rights management technologies that will help protect many kinds of digital content, and open new avenues for its secure and controlled use. These technologies are already helping encourage owners of book, music and film content to explore new e-commerce business models that will provide consumers with more convenient access and greater variety. Rights management will also help protect the privacy and confidentiality of consumers' personal data, such as medical and financial records. And in a broad range of businesses, effective rights management will help improve the efficiency of information flows, enhancing productivity and the quality of services across the entire economy.
This email, which you're receiving as a subscriber to executive emails from Microsoft, offers some insights into how we are working to develop these technologies, and how they will bring these crucial benefits to business and consumers.
WHAT IS RIGHTS MANAGEMENT?
Rights management refers to technologies that protect digital content after it is shared or distributed. Specifically, rights management technologies enable a content owner to stipulate a set of rules, or policy rights, that govern how the content may be used, by whom, for how long, etc. The protection, achieved by encrypting the content, may be provided by software or embedded in the hardware device itself - or some combination of the two.
At Microsoft we began experimenting with such protection for our software as early as the mid-1980s. We learned that no rights management system, no matter how secure, will succeed in the marketplace unless it is both easy to use and flexible. Different levels and kinds of protection are required for an individual's medical records, an attorney's confidential client memo, a recording company's master audio recording, an amateur photographer's images, and a publisher's new bestseller. And because no system can ever be 100 percent secure, protection needs to be easy to update, to address inevitable system breaches.
Microsoft has invested more than $250 million to date in rights management technologies, and we have substantial ongoing efforts to enable a new generation of rights management that will protect a broad range of personal and commercial digital content. We also work closely with many industry partners to advance the development and deployment of rights management systems. We actively participate in several cross-industry initiatives, including efforts to develop industry standards that help ensure the effectiveness, wide availability and interoperability of rights management solutions and the content they protect.
While there is still much work to do, content owners and authors today can choose from an array of flexible solutions tailored to meet customers' specific requirements, cost constraints and business models.
DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT
Microsoft's flagship technology for managing the rights to media content is Windows Media Digital Rights Management (DRM), which delivers music, video and other media content online in a secure format. R
An interesting read on how games do teach us valuable lessons, and some amazing insight into how we could change teaching habits to leverage the advantages games bring to the table.
the bottom line is that in deep complex development and customer specific situations, the common linux guru isn't going to know difference between his/her head and a serial port. who is he/she going to turn to? nobody.
for broad purpose apps you might be ok. but once we get into the nitty gritty, you can hack your code all you want, its not going to make a difference if you can't solve the problem and you have no one to turn to.
and don't tell me the community is self supporting for those situations, unless you can find me someone right now that is going to write me problem specific software for free.
keywords:
able to figure it out fast
right people
those are some big variables.
even after all the support efforts in the world for proprietary software (and thats a big effort), there all still endusers without a clue. Open source is going to need similar efforts to infiltrate most corporations.
home use/hobbyist = it doesn't truly matter if your application isn't stable or if support isn't readily available.
professional/corporate business = as in any professional business that needs to rely on software to sustain operations.
perhaps you are a good consultant whom knows his/her stuff because they live it. (non-wannabe) but their are too many people involved in open source (also proprietary, but fewer) that would ruin a business by trying to integrate open source software with out benefits like support.
yeah, and _most_ businesses that _only_ use these methods of _income_ will go out of business if they also plan to try and develop complex software.
not a very sound business model
i believe it would be wiser to take a different approach. something more along the lines of -- _knowing_ what you are doing. providing a service people will _pay_ a significant dollar for. don't be a wannabe.
don't get me wrong i think there is room for open source. but i really think people should specify what market they are talking about. (especially slashdotters)
home use/hobbyist -- open source is great
professional/corporate business -- open source needs a lot of work in this arena
eh, but its too early to tell. but from the looks of it corporations (i.e. IBM) won't be turning much profit from open source.
there are people that make things happen. there are people that watch things happen. there are people that wonder what happened. shouldn't we strive for the first camp?
why do people get pissed off because someone else is making money?
all this hullabaloo about making software open source is bringing forth a lot of hypocrites. you get the source for free so that you can have an in-depth understanding of how it works. (thats what you want right?) now you can't figure out how it works. and you expect the makers to write (time consuming) documentation for free as well? who has that much spare time?
time=money; how can an open source business expect to make a profit if all of their efforts are thwarted by people that are "pissed off" and don't want to spend their "hard-earned buck" because they think everything should be handed to them. (because it benefits the public)
I will tell you what else would benefit the public, world hunger could be solved if the standard expectation was that farmers were required to make an abundant supply of food, and distribute all of it for free. wow, i'm a friggin genius. a true problem solver. (why don't you think that would go over very well. think.)
i wonder who gives a damn about your feelings, don't expect any "real" business to care if you don't want to pony up your "hard-earned buck"
i will trade you this for that. look that was easy and fun.
The price should depend on the quality/uniqueness of the product. This is somewhat of a unique way of keeping time.
I personally believe that if the quality is high enough a price as high as $10 000 should not be considered out of question. My father owns a Rolex self-winding watch.
The watch picks up the vibrations of the moving wrist to wind its gears.
People would be able to create their own tools to interact with documents, instead of with MS tools. Where's the money in that? News flash: Hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide already developer their own tools to interact with MS documents. Some if not most serious developers have made a lot of money off writing programs for Windows/Office. Open your eyes and you will see that Microsoft makes business a lot of money. MS is a big help to the economy in that perspective.
I am a programmer updating software for a major pharmaceutical company so that they are HIPAA compliant. The update is being deployed onto Win2k SP2. So if you are worried about SP3 then certainly don't update to SP3, or roll back to SP2. I understand that rolling back could be a tremendous amount of work... but so can consulting lawyers. The best way to get around a EULA is don't agree to it.
That picture they have at the top of the article makes it look very scary... Thats not a 2km wide asteriod... its a MOON, this isn't something to worry about, I despise it when the news is blown out of proportion and exaggerated -- Something the BBC can be known for.
What they were saying was that a Terabyte hard drive could be made that is about the same size as your laptop hard drive. Most people wouldn't take advantage of that... but how about having 150 Gig on a square centi-meter. Now that would be awesome. My PDA could hold my entire MP3 collection. The possibilities are amazing... Imagine all of your electronic gadgets holding that much info. You could store entire encylopedias on pocket sized objects. But where it gets really excitting is the possibilities with servers... Ridiculous amounts of storage could replace entire business data mines. Clear out that room of hardrives and make way for that little box in the corner over there.