The whole point of wearing google glasses is so that you have something to entertain you when life gets boring. And remember, he *was* going to a Jack Ryan movie.
what moron changes his compiler in the middle of a production run?
Having unxeplainable bugs in your code isn't any fun, whether it's the beginning or middle or end of a project.
Most projects I've been on run regression tests - to make sure that your new release doesn't break some functionality of your old one. Sometimes that's hard to do; but in the case of a compiler, it's extremely easy, and easy to automate. The fact that GCC isn't running any form of quality control is pretty staggering.
What Amazon needs is a way of saying "any new JK Rowling book that comes out, please send it to me". That way it is the customer's choice, and you get what you're really interested in, not what some algorithm predicts you might like.
Alternately, if they sent email saying "Hey, we see you've ordered JK Rowling books in the past; did you know there's a new one coming soon? Click here to preorder", theyd' get a lot of extra sales. You'd see the email weeks before you saw the book in B&N, so you'd be more likely to buy from Amazon (especially since it would be a lot cheaper).
Why just identify the noisy background tab? Is there a setting to say "only play audio from the visible tab"?
And if you want evil: the "block malware" is presumably done by sending the name/location of the file you want to download to a google server, where it can be preserved forever and delivered to the government on request.... nice.
When I hear news like these I always wonder what type of idiot thinks that shooting the texter solves anything?
Well, for the next month or so, I bet there won't be much text messaging happening in that movie theatre. So it did solve something, if only temporarily.
Now, when someone is already working for for you for far far less, and you are paying for one of them and his family to move to America, why would you expect them to pay him as much as the other employees, already there.
Because that is the law. Paying someone on a H1-B or L1-B visa less than the US rate is prohibited.
Oracle has more than enough lawyers; at least one of them should have known this.
Hmm, the best time to attack is in the early morning local time?
No. Best time is about 6 PM on Friday - all of your *good* IT guys have left for the weekend, with only the newbies on the night shift left in the building; and all of your really good security people are getting drunk in a bar somewhere.
For the attack to happen the way Target says, there must be two MAJOR flaws in their network:
- the POS machines must be accepting software updates from the network - to allow the attackers to download their firmware;
- the POS machines must be able to connect to an arbitrary server not on the Target network - to allow the POS machines to transmit the collected data.
There is no valid reason for either of these. Need to update firmware? Have the IT guy at each store do it manually. And, install a decent firewall so that random machines inside your store can't talk to the outside world. (This will both prevent security breaches, *and* stop the employees in the photo department from surfing the web when they're supposed to be working).
Let's face it, these professional exploit writers are not "years away" from their next great product.
And also don't forget - a *truly* great exploit kit is completely unknown to security researchers and the press. Once it's existence is known, it becomes much less useful.
This would also help if you had to wait in a ferry line
I think you missed the point - if you're stopped in traffic, or stopped in a queue, an electric car should consume zero power. (Or essentially zero - small draw for the radio/instruments and brake lights, but nothing for forward motion, since you're not moving).
So a 2-mile commute should consume pretty much the same battery power, no matter if those two miles took you 2 minutes or 2 hours to travel.
If you work for a Jehovah's witness employer they may demand that blood transfusions be covered. If you work for a Christian Science believer they may demand only broken bones be covered by health insurance.
If you work for a secular employer, they may suddenly "discover religion" in order to lower their health care costs.
FIPS is a large group of standards - literally, the Federal Information Processing Standards. Any requirement is not "mandated by FIPS", it is mandated by one particular standard - which may or may not apply to any contract.
FIPS 140-2 Annex C, for one, lists quite a few acceptable random number generators; for that standard, I see no requirement for Dual EC DRBG.
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What the hell is wrong with this guy
The whole point of wearing google glasses is so that you have something to entertain you when life gets boring. And remember, he *was* going to a Jack Ryan movie.
what moron changes his compiler in the middle of a production run?
Having unxeplainable bugs in your code isn't any fun, whether it's the beginning or middle or end of a project.
Most projects I've been on run regression tests - to make sure that your new release doesn't break some functionality of your old one. Sometimes that's hard to do; but in the case of a compiler, it's extremely easy, and easy to automate. The fact that GCC isn't running any form of quality control is pretty staggering.
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As an Amazon customer who has purchased every JK Rowling book, but never received such an email, if they have such an algorithm then it has a bug.
What Amazon needs is a way of saying "any new JK Rowling book that comes out, please send it to me". That way it is the customer's choice, and you get what you're really interested in, not what some algorithm predicts you might like.
Alternately, if they sent email saying "Hey, we see you've ordered JK Rowling books in the past; did you know there's a new one coming soon? Click here to preorder", theyd' get a lot of extra sales. You'd see the email weeks before you saw the book in B&N, so you'd be more likely to buy from Amazon (especially since it would be a lot cheaper).
I would probably have to say whatever is the inner loop on the system idle process in windows.
(1) Aren't there more Android devices than windows boxes?
(2) Even if not.... most Android devices are up and running their idle loop 24/7/365. Windows boxes often get shut down at night.
Semantics: do we consider the idle loop in Win XP to be the same code, or different code, from the idle loop in Win 7, or Win 8??
What if I want to run my code *on* a server? Does this newfangled Chrome thingy run on Solaris/AIX/IRIX/HPUX/etc?
There is a case for negligence, but that requires that the negligent party be unreasonably incompetent
It's 2014. Anyone who stores data unencrypted *IS* unreasonably incompetent.
Starbucks says they've addressed it - but unless they've fired everyone involved (including the managers), they really have not.
Why just identify the noisy background tab? Is there a setting to say "only play audio from the visible tab"?
And if you want evil: the "block malware" is presumably done by sending the name/location of the file you want to download to a google server, where it can be preserved forever and delivered to the government on request.... nice.
Rail it, all the cool ADHD kids are.
Who needs ADHD?? ALL the kids are on it. Adderall is more popular in college than smoking used to be.
The ADHD kids are probably taking less than others - because they make so much money selling their prescriptions.
When I hear news like these I always wonder what type of idiot thinks that shooting the texter solves anything?
Well, for the next month or so, I bet there won't be much text messaging happening in that movie theatre. So it did solve something, if only temporarily.
Now, when someone is already working for for you for far far less, and you are paying for one of them and his family to move to America, why would you expect them to pay him as much as the other employees, already there.
Because that is the law. Paying someone on a H1-B or L1-B visa less than the US rate is prohibited.
Oracle has more than enough lawyers; at least one of them should have known this.
Hmm, the best time to attack is in the early morning local time?
No. Best time is about 6 PM on Friday - all of your *good* IT guys have left for the weekend, with only the newbies on the night shift left in the building; and all of your really good security people are getting drunk in a bar somewhere.
There really is no such thing,
Of course there is - I've been reactive programming for years. My boss yells at me to do something, and I react.
This.
For the attack to happen the way Target says, there must be two MAJOR flaws in their network:
- the POS machines must be accepting software updates from the network - to allow the attackers to download their firmware;
- the POS machines must be able to connect to an arbitrary server not on the Target network - to allow the POS machines to transmit the collected data.
There is no valid reason for either of these. Need to update firmware? Have the IT guy at each store do it manually. And, install a decent firewall so that random machines inside your store can't talk to the outside world. (This will both prevent security breaches, *and* stop the employees in the photo department from surfing the web when they're supposed to be working).
Let's face it, these professional exploit writers are not "years away" from their next great product.
And also don't forget - a *truly* great exploit kit is completely unknown to security researchers and the press. Once it's existence is known, it becomes much less useful.
This also removes the piston-to-liner pathway as a way of cooling the piston head - the hardest part of an internal combustion engine to keep cool.
Who says it needs to run on fossil fuel? Alcohol runs just fine as a fuel in an internal combustion engine with little modification needed.
Never mind security - who is going to be the first patient who died, because their cellphone battery died?
This would also help if you had to wait in a ferry line
I think you missed the point - if you're stopped in traffic, or stopped in a queue, an electric car should consume zero power. (Or essentially zero - small draw for the radio/instruments and brake lights, but nothing for forward motion, since you're not moving).
So a 2-mile commute should consume pretty much the same battery power, no matter if those two miles took you 2 minutes or 2 hours to travel.
then again, I don't have a body that too many people are interested in seeing in a state of undress
Neither did Anthony Weiner. Didn't stop him.
If you work for a Jehovah's witness employer they may demand that blood transfusions be covered. If you work for a Christian Science believer they may demand only broken bones be covered by health insurance.
If you work for a secular employer, they may suddenly "discover religion" in order to lower their health care costs.
FIPS is a large group of standards - literally, the Federal Information Processing Standards. Any requirement is not "mandated by FIPS", it is mandated by one particular standard - which may or may not apply to any contract.
FIPS 140-2 Annex C, for one, lists quite a few acceptable random number generators; for that standard, I see no requirement for Dual EC DRBG.
"Soda-can shaped"? Really?
Most corporate sysadmins are in charge of setting up things like wifi access - so they will already know the wifi password.....
This ignores multiuser systems.
Multi-user systems don't need all users to be an administrator.
Even on a personal machine never used by anyone else, a normal Unix/Linux system won't have administrative rights on the regularly used login account.