If you can't get your / you're right, how do you hope to get top class security right?
If your computer skills are anywhere near your writing, you're going to cock up something bigtime, and you DON'T want to be working for the DoD when that happens. I might even be so extreme as to suggest a change in career, for the safety of all involved.
Now that we can make multi-GHz CPUs which take hundreds of watts to power and need massive noisy fans, couldn't we backport the tech and get a sub-GHz CPU that needs practically no power or cooling?
Any ETA on when I can expect a ~$2 per episode, download on demand, high quality torrent of series, each episode released within a couple of days of being aired in japan?
I've become quite used to the speed, convenience, and quality of fansubs -- if the anime companies can be faster, more convenient (eg legal), or higher quality, I'd be only too willing to pay for them.
Come to think of it, what would the problem be with a company like ADV simply buying out a fansub group, getting them to do everything as they normally do, just adding an "official" badge and a price tag?
Erm, he already has a program, and it's a game which doesn't seem to use any traditional widgets. Why would it help to know about a traditional widget toolkit that can be used to write new, non-game programs from scratch?
Ubuntu routinely pushes out several hundred megs of updates every few weeks
My ubuntu stable box has had probably 20MB of updats since installation, and most of that was firefox - Even the unstable box only has an average of 10MB/week, since I only update things when I want the latest version...
Why not have an unstable branch (2.7) where all the development work is done, and a stable branch (2.6) which only gets bugfixes? It seems that with 2.6 both branches have been merged, leaving half-assed stability with half-assed feature rushing...
While I'm wishing for ponies, could the bugfix-only release also have a stable ABI, pretty please?
Barely on topic, but AFAIR it's also faster than current mobile phone text input, which is another benefit to learning it (if you have a morse-input enabled phone):)
If he has problems with his Firefox installation then he should be bugreporting to Bugzilla, not flamebaiting to Slashdot
Like the guy who pointed out the window icon was broken on windows 9x something like 3 years ago, workarounds were available immediately and a proper fix pointed out soon after, yet the problem is *still* there?
The reasoning is that although not having a window icon makes FF look horribly unprofessional, it isn't a security risk, so they won't accept the fix into the 1.0 branch.
If you disable root logins, then they can't get hold of the admin account... Although your use of "an" admin account suggests that you mean someone other than root who can write to the system binary locations -- that seems like a bad idea anyway, and is unrelated.
Ummm... read the sentance after the one you commented on:
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IBM Software Services for WebSphere and IBM Global Services (IGS) provide:
* Design, build, test and deploy e-business application services
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Similar to that, what seems even more obvious (to me at least) is to judge the crimes based on what they are with the computer bit removed:
Breaking a computer's security and entering it = breaking and entering
Making viruses to break people's computers = vandalism
Sharing copyrighted CDs over the internet = having a friend burn a copy of their real life CDs
etc...
It all reminds me of the guy being sued for $80,000 for stealing a tech manual that could be bought directly for $10, or the numberous patents passed which are perfectly obvious ideas with "on the internet" on the end. I do hope we're coming to the end of the era where the internet is seen as an entirely different world to the one we live in...
An interesting drama-type thing from the view of the criminals is The Scene; the first 9 episodes in a torrent are here. They seem slow to release though; one wonders how it can take 3-4 weeks to record 20 minutes of desktop screenshots...
Slashdot didn't support slate a great deal, but it's never gone out and confiscated their servers, nor has it come to our personal firewalls and removed anyone's access.
IIRC All the times the internet has gone down due to flooding (nimda, codered, msblast, etc) were buffer overflows -- when we get to a point where society depends upon the internet, a buffer overflow could well take out the world as we know it...
Not officially, but back when I used gentoo there was -fstack-protector and IIRC one other switch which implemented stack smash protection and bounds checking. Despite it being a lot slower in theory, I never noticed a difference in practice (except when my programs crashed it'd be "Pointer error detected, aborting" rather than "Segmentation fault")
my provider offer up to 2MBit down and 256k up; my modem is connected at 2272k down and 288k up, and occasionally gets data transfer speeds to match, even with TCP overhead:-)
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If your computer skills are anywhere near your writing, you're going to cock up something bigtime, and you DON'T want to be working for the DoD when that happens. I might even be so extreme as to suggest a change in career, for the safety of all involved.
Now that we can make multi-GHz CPUs which take hundreds of watts to power and need massive noisy fans, couldn't we backport the tech and get a sub-GHz CPU that needs practically no power or cooling?
Several stories have gone past with no comments; it's a little spooky, so I'm just seeing if commenting is broken...
People keep mentioning the DRM, anyone care to link / explain the workings? TFAs don't seem to have technical details...
I've become quite used to the speed, convenience, and quality of fansubs -- if the anime companies can be faster, more convenient (eg legal), or higher quality, I'd be only too willing to pay for them.
Come to think of it, what would the problem be with a company like ADV simply buying out a fansub group, getting them to do everything as they normally do, just adding an "official" badge and a price tag?
Erm, he already has a program, and it's a game which doesn't seem to use any traditional widgets. Why would it help to know about a traditional widget toolkit that can be used to write new, non-game programs from scratch?
My ubuntu stable box has had probably 20MB of updats since installation, and most of that was firefox - Even the unstable box only has an average of 10MB/week, since I only update things when I want the latest version...
While I'm wishing for ponies, could the bugfix-only release also have a stable ABI, pretty please?
The same way I do; "mplayer -dumpstream [url]" for a few hours while listening to a different station, then copy the result to my MP3 player...
Stream rippers and portable mp3 players work nicely~
Then listen to stations that aren't in your area --> shoutcast.com.
Bush came to slashdot and made a post declaring a war on pirates?
Barely on topic, but AFAIR it's also faster than current mobile phone text input, which is another benefit to learning it (if you have a morse-input enabled phone) :)
Like the guy who pointed out the window icon was broken on windows 9x something like 3 years ago, workarounds were available immediately and a proper fix pointed out soon after, yet the problem is *still* there?
The reasoning is that although not having a window icon makes FF look horribly unprofessional, it isn't a security risk, so they won't accept the fix into the 1.0 branch.
If you disable root logins, then they can't get hold of the admin account... Although your use of "an" admin account suggests that you mean someone other than root who can write to the system binary locations -- that seems like a bad idea anyway, and is unrelated.
IBM Migration Assistance
IBM Software Services for WebSphere and IBM Global Services (IGS) provide:
* Design, build, test and deploy e-business application services
* Branch infrastructure strategy, design, and migration services
IBM Global Services Linux Porting Service Practice provides custom application porting services for customers wishing to incorporate Linux into their application platform strategy.
Breaking a computer's security and entering it = breaking and entering
Making viruses to break people's computers = vandalism
Sharing copyrighted CDs over the internet = having a friend burn a copy of their real life CDs
etc...
It all reminds me of the guy being sued for $80,000 for stealing a tech manual that could be bought directly for $10, or the numberous patents passed which are perfectly obvious ideas with "on the internet" on the end. I do hope we're coming to the end of the era where the internet is seen as an entirely different world to the one we live in...
An interesting drama-type thing from the view of the criminals is The Scene; the first 9 episodes in a torrent are here. They seem slow to release though; one wonders how it can take 3-4 weeks to record 20 minutes of desktop screenshots...
Slashdot didn't support slate a great deal, but it's never gone out and confiscated their servers, nor has it come to our personal firewalls and removed anyone's access.
IIRC All the times the internet has gone down due to flooding (nimda, codered, msblast, etc) were buffer overflows -- when we get to a point where society depends upon the internet, a buffer overflow could well take out the world as we know it...
Not officially, but back when I used gentoo there was -fstack-protector and IIRC one other switch which implemented stack smash protection and bounds checking. Despite it being a lot slower in theory, I never noticed a difference in practice (except when my programs crashed it'd be "Pointer error detected, aborting" rather than "Segmentation fault")
my provider offer up to 2MBit down and 256k up; my modem is connected at 2272k down and 288k up, and occasionally gets data transfer speeds to match, even with TCP overhead :-)
Also, Nullsoft/AOL's DIY TV station kit is pretty cool; with enough bandwidth we'll be seeing 640x480 live streaming videos replacing blogs, maybe.
High mandwidth != low latency.
VNC and X are fine locally, but laggy remotely; and the lag is pretty constant from 56k dialup to 100mbit lan...
Or rather than wait, you could use C# now...