Hey, somebody put the Scientology OT3 documents up on the PetsWarehouse message board. Maybe we can get those two lovable organizations to turn on each other.
You ought to know that the John Cage piece 4'33'', which is the length of the piece of silence, is actually made up of 3 movements of 30 seconds, 2 minutes 23 seconds, and 1 minute 40 seconds. The score consists of an appropriate number of pages of (empty) music, and the performer is to signal the end of each movement.
A history and discussion of the piece can be found here.
ATMs have also been in development for years too. They first started to show up in the late 1970s. There's been plenty of time to work out the problems.
Microsoft: "Our products aren't engineered for security"
Friday 6 September 2002 Brian Valentine, senior vice-president in charge of Microsoft's Windows development, has made a grim admission to the Microsoft Windows Server.net developer conference in Seattle, USA.
"I'm not proud," he told delegates yesterday (5 September). "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our customers. Our products just aren't engineered for security," admitted Valentine, who since 1998 has headed Microsoft's Windows division.
In August the company put out eight security bulletins. This month it has released two, so far, with the latest urging users to patch a flaw in its digital certificate technology that could allow attackers to steal a user's credit card details.
Microsoft's regular stream of security bulletins has continued despite Bill Gates company-wide Trustworthy Computing Initiative, announced earlier this year.
The Initiative was launched with a memo from Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect, and saw the company halt production on new code in all of its products while employees scanned every line of existing code in search of vulnerabilities.
"We realised that we couldn't continue with the way we were building software and expect to deliver secure products," Valentine said.
But the company is dealing with a problem that is not easily resolved. Valentine told developers at the conference that as the company works to shore up its products the security dilemma will evolve as hackers become more sophisticated.
"It's impossible to solve the problem completely," Valentine said. "As we solve these problems there are hackers who are going to come up with new ones. There's no end to this."
Microsoft has also been employing new tools developed by Microsoft Research that are designed to detect errors in code during the development process, Valentine said.
According to Chandra Mugunda, a software consultant with Dell who attended Valentine's presentation, buggy software is "an industry-wide problem, not just a Microsoft problem. But they're the leaders, and they should take the lead to solve them," he said.
How is it theft of service to listen to the chatter of an access point? That would be like saying figuring out where the phones are by listening to the ringing sounds was theft of service.
Did you even read the story? Or do you know anything about how 802.11b hubs work? You don't have to enter their network - they broadcast their existence like crazy. All you have to do is listen for the broadcasts. It's like determining where the phones are by listening to them ringing.
this happens time and time again and will continue to happen until microsoft sees the light and figures out that they don't write good software.
They already know. Remember a couple of months ago, when Microsoft VP Jim Allchin who stated, under oath, that there were flaws in Windows so great that they would threaten national security if the Windows source code were to be disclosed. The architecture of Windows is inherently insecure and cannot be fixed. Read all about it here.
Why in the hell is it illegal to modify property that you already own?
Of course, you don't "own" the software in the player. Look in the manual someplace and you'll find a "license agreement" that tries to tell you that you don't own the program that runs the DVD player. That's the idea, anyhow.
Using crime to make yourself heard makes one a "terrorist", as per U.S tradition, and two wrongs never make it right.
I'm sure Martin Luther King and Ghandi would be amused to hear civil disobedience equated with terrorism. And in the logic of civil disobedience, it's justifiable to violate an unjust law.
You need to track down and read Larry Niven's article Exercise in Speculation: The Theory and Practice of Teleportation, which is in the collection All the Myriad Ways (now out of print). Among other things, he invented the idea of the flash crowd, which is typified these days by a site being slashdotted.
Biometrics are simply a way of generating a key based on some physical attributes. Cracking the database will likely mean recovering the key via other means. The possibility that biometrics could have been used to generate the key is irrelevant.
The classic write-once-read-never computer language was APL. It had so many strange operators that they (IBM) pretty much used up the entire greek alphabet. Only language I knew of that had arbitrary-sized matrix inversion as a primary operator.
Actually, the Iff/Vff chart is pretty funny. For you non-EE types - Vff is the voltage for the filaments, Iff is the current for the filaments. What the chart shows is a stady rise in current as you turn up the voltage, until you get to about 17 volts or so. At that point the filaments burn out and current plunges to zero.
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Hey, somebody put the Scientology OT3 documents up on the PetsWarehouse message board. Maybe we can get those two lovable organizations to turn on each other.
Who are you calling "whippersnapper"??
A history and discussion of the piece can be found here.
Here you go then. Moller SkyCar.
ATMs have also been in development for years too. They first started to show up in the late 1970s. There's been plenty of time to work out the problems.
I guess this means that the "All your base..." jokes are out too?
Microsoft: "Our products aren't engineered for security"
.net developer conference in Seattle, USA.
Friday 6 September 2002
Brian Valentine, senior vice-president in charge of Microsoft's Windows development, has made a grim admission to the Microsoft Windows Server
"I'm not proud," he told delegates yesterday (5 September). "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our customers. Our products just aren't engineered for security," admitted Valentine, who since 1998 has headed Microsoft's Windows division.
In August the company put out eight security bulletins. This month it has released two, so far, with the latest urging users to patch a flaw in its digital certificate technology that could allow attackers to steal a user's credit card details.
Microsoft's regular stream of security bulletins has continued despite Bill Gates company-wide Trustworthy Computing Initiative, announced earlier this year.
The Initiative was launched with a memo from Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect, and saw the company halt production on new code in all of its products while employees scanned every line of existing code in search of vulnerabilities.
"We realised that we couldn't continue with the way we were building software and expect to deliver secure products," Valentine said.
But the company is dealing with a problem that is not easily resolved. Valentine told developers at the conference that as the company works to shore up its products the security dilemma will evolve as hackers become more sophisticated.
"It's impossible to solve the problem completely," Valentine said. "As we solve these problems there are hackers who are going to come up with new ones. There's no end to this."
Microsoft has also been employing new tools developed by Microsoft Research that are designed to detect errors in code during the development process, Valentine said.
According to Chandra Mugunda, a software consultant with Dell who attended Valentine's presentation, buggy software is "an industry-wide problem, not just a Microsoft problem. But they're the leaders, and they should take the lead to solve them," he said.
How is it theft of service to listen to the chatter of an access point? That would be like saying figuring out where the phones are by listening to the ringing sounds was theft of service.
Did you even read the story? Or do you know anything about how 802.11b hubs work? You don't have to enter their network - they broadcast their existence like crazy. All you have to do is listen for the broadcasts. It's like determining where the phones are by listening to them ringing.
Open source does not provide immunity from patents.
They already know. Remember a couple of months ago, when Microsoft VP Jim Allchin who stated, under oath, that there were flaws in Windows so great that they would threaten national security if the Windows source code were to be disclosed. The architecture of Windows is inherently insecure and cannot be fixed. Read all about it here.
Of course, you don't "own" the software in the player. Look in the manual someplace and you'll find a "license agreement" that tries to tell you that you don't own the program that runs the DVD player. That's the idea, anyhow.
Yay! Another Asimov fan.
I'm sure Martin Luther King and Ghandi would be amused to hear civil disobedience equated with terrorism. And in the logic of civil disobedience, it's justifiable to violate an unjust law.
You need to be thinking on the next level up.
That's the problem. You have to use IE. It's what Windows Media Player uses to draw its window. It's integrated in the operating system, remember?
Probably not. A U.S. court told some web site here (I forget who) that it didn't have to follow the rulings of a French judge.
Better drop that link to Google then.
Perhaps, but each web surfer has a different 1% that they consider relevant. It's highly unlikely that I'm interested in your 1%.
You need to track down and read Larry Niven's article Exercise in Speculation: The Theory and Practice of Teleportation, which is in the collection All the Myriad Ways (now out of print). Among other things, he invented the idea of the flash crowd, which is typified these days by a site being slashdotted.
Perhaps this is true. If it is, then you'll just have to make do without using any GPL software in your product.
OK, it's over now. You can look again.
Biometrics are simply a way of generating a key based on some physical attributes. Cracking the database will likely mean recovering the key via other means. The possibility that biometrics could have been used to generate the key is irrelevant.
It's AQL. It's a quality measure (in this case - lower quality for slower paying customers). Damn jpeg pixellation.
The classic write-once-read-never computer language was APL. It had so many strange operators that they (IBM) pretty much used up the entire greek alphabet. Only language I knew of that had arbitrary-sized matrix inversion as a primary operator.
Actually, the Iff/Vff chart is pretty funny. For you non-EE types - Vff is the voltage for the filaments, Iff is the current for the filaments. What the chart shows is a stady rise in current as you turn up the voltage, until you get to about 17 volts or so. At that point the filaments burn out and current plunges to zero.