"While agile and DevOps are belatedly taking on the problems of creating secure software, the original Agile Manifesto did not acknowledge the threat of vulnerabilities as a problem, but focused on "working software [as] the primary measure of progress..."
I'm an Agile Coach at a Fortune 500. I've worked with dozens of coaches over my career. I have never met one who would tolerate a security vulnerability being in production any longer than absolutely necessary to fix it. "Working" includes utility (features, etc) and warranty (works as expected).
Has anyone looked at the differences between 7.1a and 7.2a? It seems unlikely that the TC authors would intentionally release 7.2a with security-compromising bugs...
When I upgraded to a more recent version of the Catalyst Control Center, I was advised that I was no longer able to use HDMI audio as I was using an "incompatible" DVI -> HDMI adapter. Given that I wasn't even using a DVI -> HDMI adapter ANYWHERE within the chain and was—in fact—leveraging the HDMI port soldered onto the card itself, well, I'd say this was a pretty massive fuckup. Now I think I get it: AMD probably just tacked the same sort of circuitry one would see in an DVI -> HDMI adapter on the board but neglected that EEPROM and now that the drivers are updated, I was fucked.
AMD's stereoscopic HDMI does not work, even with the third-party $25-50 drivers one has to buy because they're too cheap to write their own or license them. AMD response? "We don't provide support for 3rd-party software." Buck passing. I have yet to find any solution that enables the card to produce a stereoscopic HDMI signal, yet my PS3 has no difficulty.
I rolled back.
First, do you have any ISP alternatives? If not, it may not be worth reading the rest of this message.
Ok, now that we've got this out of the way... this really shouldn't be your problem. Your ISP is obviously routing your goodness *somewhere*, and it's obviously creating drama. So, why not ask the ISP what's going on? If there's someone empowered to fix the issue, it's them, not you.
Well, I'm running a MacOS box with LittleSnitch (outbound firewall), so it's a pretty damn limited possibility. But agreed, a possibility none-the-less.
This isn't limited to Ameritrade, either. I've had similar experiences with eMusic, eBay, and AccuChat (a decently-sized telco).
It seems to me that there are three possibilities here:
a) They sold/traded/gave away my email address in violation of their privacy policy
b) They got h4x0red (what other data about me got compromised, huh)?
c) The email was seen in transit by some malevolent ISP and had the envelope-to captured
The first two possibilities are the ones that we're looking at the most, but what is the likelihood of the third possibility?
In May of '03, I received a Rancillio Silvia espresso machine and Rancillo Rocky grinder as a college graduation gift.
Since then, I've brewed a double shot every morning, and I eventually got good at it. It's an art, just like any other hobby, and I really love it.:)
I now drink the free trade / organic Ethiopian Yirgacheffe from Supreme Bean. I also drink their organic Dulce Terra Espresso and Espresso Norte, a lighter roast. If you're in Los Angeles, check 'em out... they roast the best beans in town.:)
Take a look at open-source software. It's collaborative, usually high-quality, and responsive to people's wants and needs. Apache and Linux, for instance, are two prime examples of how people coming together can do quite a bit in the world, even if in a limited way.
Other fields of pursuit have an opportunity to capitalize the lessons learned in the software industry. Applying some of these lessons to the nonprofit sector could result in a greater net impact for society. It is possible to apply ingenuity to hundreds of real-world problems if we have a collaborative organizational structure. We've seen a couple of examples. For instance, look at http://openprosthetics.org/. This group has applied the open-source model to design better prosthetics, and a few of their prototypes are better than anything currently available on the market.
I've been working on researching this topic for the last three years. Here's my story:
In December of '03, I read an article in the New York Times about the World Bank Development Marketplace. A group of farmers in Zimbabwe struggled with a herd of elephants trampling their crops. With a $108,000 grant from the bank, they discovered that planting chili peppers around their crops deterred the elephants and provided a valuable cash crop.
I asked a friend, Sandy, what she would do to prevent elephants from eating her crops. Pulling from her childhood experience, she suggested without coaching that the farmers plant marigolds around their crops. After all, marigolds kept the deer out of her vegetable patch!
Perhaps marigolds would not deter an elephant. Suppose, then, that Sandy were a member of an online group hosted by Usenet newsgroups, Yahoo! Groups, or Google Groups, seeking a solution to the elephant problem. I am certain that she would have made a similar suggestion, and that the group probably would have recognized both its strengths and weaknesses. There is no guarantee, however, that this group would include the botanist, zoologist, or ecologist necessary to explore this seed of an idea.
Let's then consider another recent innovation, the social network. One such network, Friendster, has a good search engine that permits finding people based on their interests. 210 people in my "network" have botany as an interest. 252 people enjoy elephants. 17 like Zimbabwe. Over 1,000 are interested in sustainable development. Might any of them be willing to spend five minutes to answer, "Are there any plants elephants don't like?"
Over the last three years, I've developed a site called Cerbumi.org ("to brainstorm" in Esperanto) that combine these two tools. A carefully-designed mailing list system allows for rapid real-time discussion and brainstorming, while a flexible membership database allows project facilitators and other members to find expert advice. Built-in reputation-scoring and availability tools allow members to dictate clearly how willing they are to respond to certain kinds of inquires, and to whom. An executive summary is located at http://about.cerbumi.org/executiveSummary, and a Flash-based demonstration is located at http://cerbumi.org/flash/.
What are your thoughts? Do you think this is a useful tool? Would you be willing to spend a few minutes of your time working on various projects?
For those of you who like this sort of thing, check out 202-386-6909 and http://code-cracker.cerbumi.org. This is a test project that I developed for Cerbumi.org, a new and entirely non-commercial (no ads, fees, etc) website designed to help with real-world problem solving. (Think of it as a "Sourceforge.net" for projects like the "Open Prosthetics Project.") The first person to solve the puzzle and post the answer to the code-breaker project can choose where the Cerbumi.org team will make a $100 donation on their behalf.
If this sounds like fun, please consider signing up for the Cerbumi.org site at http://public.cerbumi.org/goons (a "secret back door for a site that normally requires registration) and try to crack the code. Also, please consider checking out the main planning project at http://cerbumi.cerbumi.org and our Flash-based demo at http://cerbumi.org/flash. I'd love to hear your thoughts, too... just reply.:)
Sony makes the questionable assumption that we particularly care. The problem with this console won't be the power. The problem will be the ultimate relevance.
Ok, so its 15.83913 bit color. That's only.16087 bits short of what they advertised. Now if you convert bits to dollars (2 bits = 25 cents) they've only shorted you 2 cents. They're giving you a game that's worth $29.99 retail. So what are you complaining about?
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"While agile and DevOps are belatedly taking on the problems of creating secure software, the original Agile Manifesto did not acknowledge the threat of vulnerabilities as a problem, but focused on "working software [as] the primary measure of progress..."
I'm an Agile Coach at a Fortune 500. I've worked with dozens of coaches over my career. I have never met one who would tolerate a security vulnerability being in production any longer than absolutely necessary to fix it. "Working" includes utility (features, etc) and warranty (works as expected).
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Has anyone looked at the differences between 7.1a and 7.2a? It seems unlikely that the TC authors would intentionally release 7.2a with security-compromising bugs...
Seeing as I get floating point math artifacts for simple arithmetic operations (e.g., balancing a household budget) in Google Doc spreadsheets...
When I upgraded to a more recent version of the Catalyst Control Center, I was advised that I was no longer able to use HDMI audio as I was using an "incompatible" DVI -> HDMI adapter. Given that I wasn't even using a DVI -> HDMI adapter ANYWHERE within the chain and was—in fact—leveraging the HDMI port soldered onto the card itself, well, I'd say this was a pretty massive fuckup. Now I think I get it: AMD probably just tacked the same sort of circuitry one would see in an DVI -> HDMI adapter on the board but neglected that EEPROM and now that the drivers are updated, I was fucked. AMD's stereoscopic HDMI does not work, even with the third-party $25-50 drivers one has to buy because they're too cheap to write their own or license them. AMD response? "We don't provide support for 3rd-party software." Buck passing. I have yet to find any solution that enables the card to produce a stereoscopic HDMI signal, yet my PS3 has no difficulty. I rolled back.
First, do you have any ISP alternatives? If not, it may not be worth reading the rest of this message.
Ok, now that we've got this out of the way... this really shouldn't be your problem. Your ISP is obviously routing your goodness *somewhere*, and it's obviously creating drama. So, why not ask the ISP what's going on? If there's someone empowered to fix the issue, it's them, not you.
He's probably one of the *only* FreeBSD hackers.
Well, I'm running a MacOS box with LittleSnitch (outbound firewall), so it's a pretty damn limited possibility. But agreed, a possibility none-the-less.
This isn't limited to Ameritrade, either. I've had similar experiences with eMusic, eBay, and AccuChat (a decently-sized telco).
It seems to me that there are three possibilities here:
a) They sold/traded/gave away my email address in violation of their privacy policy
b) They got h4x0red (what other data about me got compromised, huh)?
c) The email was seen in transit by some malevolent ISP and had the envelope-to captured
The first two possibilities are the ones that we're looking at the most, but what is the likelihood of the third possibility?
In May of '03, I received a Rancillio Silvia espresso machine and Rancillo Rocky grinder as a college graduation gift.
:)
:)
Since then, I've brewed a double shot every morning, and I eventually got good at it. It's an art, just like any other hobby, and I really love it.
I now drink the free trade / organic Ethiopian Yirgacheffe from Supreme Bean. I also drink their organic Dulce Terra Espresso and Espresso Norte, a lighter roast. If you're in Los Angeles, check 'em out... they roast the best beans in town.
Take a look at open-source software. It's collaborative, usually high-quality, and responsive to people's wants and needs. Apache and Linux, for instance, are two prime examples of how people coming together can do quite a bit in the world, even if in a limited way. Other fields of pursuit have an opportunity to capitalize the lessons learned in the software industry. Applying some of these lessons to the nonprofit sector could result in a greater net impact for society. It is possible to apply ingenuity to hundreds of real-world problems if we have a collaborative organizational structure. We've seen a couple of examples. For instance, look at http://openprosthetics.org/. This group has applied the open-source model to design better prosthetics, and a few of their prototypes are better than anything currently available on the market. I've been working on researching this topic for the last three years. Here's my story: In December of '03, I read an article in the New York Times about the World Bank Development Marketplace. A group of farmers in Zimbabwe struggled with a herd of elephants trampling their crops. With a $108,000 grant from the bank, they discovered that planting chili peppers around their crops deterred the elephants and provided a valuable cash crop. I asked a friend, Sandy, what she would do to prevent elephants from eating her crops. Pulling from her childhood experience, she suggested without coaching that the farmers plant marigolds around their crops. After all, marigolds kept the deer out of her vegetable patch! Perhaps marigolds would not deter an elephant. Suppose, then, that Sandy were a member of an online group hosted by Usenet newsgroups, Yahoo! Groups, or Google Groups, seeking a solution to the elephant problem. I am certain that she would have made a similar suggestion, and that the group probably would have recognized both its strengths and weaknesses. There is no guarantee, however, that this group would include the botanist, zoologist, or ecologist necessary to explore this seed of an idea. Let's then consider another recent innovation, the social network. One such network, Friendster, has a good search engine that permits finding people based on their interests. 210 people in my "network" have botany as an interest. 252 people enjoy elephants. 17 like Zimbabwe. Over 1,000 are interested in sustainable development. Might any of them be willing to spend five minutes to answer, "Are there any plants elephants don't like?" Over the last three years, I've developed a site called Cerbumi.org ("to brainstorm" in Esperanto) that combine these two tools. A carefully-designed mailing list system allows for rapid real-time discussion and brainstorming, while a flexible membership database allows project facilitators and other members to find expert advice. Built-in reputation-scoring and availability tools allow members to dictate clearly how willing they are to respond to certain kinds of inquires, and to whom. An executive summary is located at http://about.cerbumi.org/executiveSummary, and a Flash-based demonstration is located at http://cerbumi.org/flash/. What are your thoughts? Do you think this is a useful tool? Would you be willing to spend a few minutes of your time working on various projects?
For those of you who like this sort of thing, check out 202-386-6909 and http://code-cracker.cerbumi.org. This is a test project that I developed for Cerbumi.org, a new and entirely non-commercial (no ads, fees, etc) website designed to help with real-world problem solving. (Think of it as a "Sourceforge.net" for projects like the "Open Prosthetics Project.") The first person to solve the puzzle and post the answer to the code-breaker project can choose where the Cerbumi.org team will make a $100 donation on their behalf.
:)
If this sounds like fun, please consider signing up for the Cerbumi.org site at http://public.cerbumi.org/goons (a "secret back door for a site that normally requires registration) and try to crack the code. Also, please consider checking out the main planning project at http://cerbumi.cerbumi.org and our Flash-based demo at http://cerbumi.org/flash. I'd love to hear your thoughts, too... just reply.
Sony makes the questionable assumption that we particularly care. The problem with this console won't be the power. The problem will be the ultimate relevance.
It's a good thing the forums are still up so that I can see some sort of thread posted by isnoop. Oh. Wait.
This guy is like the Ann Coulter / Ayatollah of the Windows world.
the other 20% are macs... ha ha ha
Ok, so its 15.83913 bit color. That's only .16087 bits short of what they advertised. Now if you convert bits to dollars (2 bits = 25 cents) they've only shorted you 2 cents. They're giving you a game that's worth $29.99 retail. So what are you complaining about?
Shave and a hair cut, two bits.
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