No I am not an employee of Microsoft. I am a CS student and a programmer\sys. admin assistant at a company in Atlanta.
But then does it really matter what company I work for? The point is that as a programmer you should work to help people release good code, not avoid helping someone just because you don't like their previous products.
Some of the comments about this challenge have really amazed me. People have said that we should not try to crack the server because of a lot of different reasons, but they have all been selfish.
For instance: 1)why should anyone want to help micro$oft audit the security of win2k? wait till we can get a copy of it, then we'll start looking for security holes.
2)why should anyone want to help micro$oft audit the security of win2k? wait till we can get a copy of it, then we'll start looking for security holes.
3)Maybe the crackers should avoid the site, or break it and NEVER tell Microsoft how they did it. We certainly do not want to help improve products of particular company.
What is it with you guys? You constantly complain about how unsecure Windows is and how much better Linux is. Then Microsoft gives you a chance to show them some of these security problems that Windows has and you say "Wait, don't help Microsoft then they might have a better product!!" Are you afraid that by showing them some of their security holes that Windows 2000 might actually, heaven forbid, be a good product and make Linux work keep its edge?
From most of the posts I read it seemed that people were afraid that they might actually help Microsoft release of good product and I don't understand how you can see the release of a more secure and better product as a bad thing regardless of who makes it.
The word ueber was around before the Nazis. To say that we should not use something because they used it is totally backward. The swastika was a religious symbol a long time before the Nazi party began using it, so does that mean an entire religion should stop using one of their symbols? NO!!!
The Nazis did _alot_ of bad and evil things to _alot_ of people but that does not mean that we need to stop using everything they used because of the fact that they used it also.
By the way, did you know the Nazis also used early computers? Should we stop using those also?
The article mentions allowing the buyers to download SDMI compliant music, it does not really say you can download mp3s. Are there even any SDMI compliant portable players out yet? I thought they were not suppost to come out until Christmas at the earliest. Also are Rios able to play SDMI compliant stuff or did the evil industry end up trying to make it SDMI or mp3 but not both?
I would like to suggest a book titled The Age of Spiritual Machines. I dont remember the author's name off hand but perhaps someone else had read it and can back me up.
It is quite good and goes into a good bit of detail on the storage and calculation capacities of the human brain. In it the author calculates that the brain has about 10^14 cycles a second worth of calculations and about 10^14 bits of memory. I could be off by a few factors of 10 but hey whats a billion between friends?;)
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No I am not an employee of Microsoft. I am a CS student and a programmer\sys. admin assistant at a company in Atlanta.
But then does it really matter what company I work for? The point is that as a programmer you should work to help people release good code, not avoid helping someone just because you don't like their previous products.
That is only narrow minded and immature.
Rich
Some of the comments about this challenge have really amazed me. People have said that we should not try to crack the server because of a lot of different reasons, but they have all been selfish.
For instance:
1)why should anyone want to help micro$oft audit the security of win2k? wait till we can get a copy of it, then we'll start looking for security holes.
2)why should anyone want to help micro$oft audit the security of win2k? wait till we can get a copy of it, then we'll start looking for security holes.
3)Maybe the crackers should avoid the site, or break it and NEVER tell Microsoft how they did it. We certainly do not want to help improve products of particular company.
What is it with you guys? You constantly complain about how unsecure Windows is and how much better Linux is. Then Microsoft gives you a chance to show them some of these security problems that Windows has and you say "Wait, don't help Microsoft then they might have a better product!!" Are you afraid that by showing them some of their security holes that Windows 2000 might actually, heaven forbid, be a good product and make Linux work keep its edge?
From most of the posts I read it seemed that people were afraid that they might actually help Microsoft release of good product and I don't understand how you can see the release of a more secure and better product as a bad thing regardless of who makes it.
Rich
The Constitution does say that but if the people in charge do not respect the Constitution then it does not really matter what it says now does it?
The word ueber was around before the Nazis. To say that we should not use something because they used it is totally backward. The swastika was a religious symbol a long time before the Nazi party began using it, so does that mean an entire religion should stop using one of their symbols? NO!!!
The Nazis did _alot_ of bad and evil things to _alot_ of people but that does not mean that we need to stop using everything they used because of the fact that they used it also.
By the way, did you know the Nazis also used early computers? Should we stop using those also?
Rich
The problem with water guns is you can't use them around computers. They tend to cause some expensive damage. :)
Rich
The article mentions allowing the buyers to download SDMI compliant music, it does not really say you can download mp3s. Are there even any SDMI compliant portable players out yet? I thought they were not suppost to come out until Christmas at the earliest. Also are Rios able to play SDMI compliant stuff or did the evil industry end up trying to make it SDMI or mp3 but not both?
Rich
Subject says it all. I can't get the page, that was fast.
Rich
don't you mean worse? ;)
I would like to suggest a book titled The Age of Spiritual Machines. I dont remember the author's name off hand but perhaps someone else had read it and can back me up.
;)
It is quite good and goes into a good bit of detail on the storage and calculation capacities of the human brain. In it the author calculates that the brain has about 10^14 cycles a second worth of calculations and about 10^14 bits of memory. I could be off by a few factors of 10 but hey whats a billion between friends?
Rich