Start of with the standard/. flame fare:
WTF AR EYOU l0s3RZ DOING POSTING OLD NEWS FROM like 1997 rfu 2002 wAnz its n00s back lololo!!!
With that out of the way, the Audigy 2 looks to be a real step in the right direction as computer audio finally verges on the level of hi-fi. I personally have a plain ol' Audigy OEM card that has performed quite well for me, considering I don't record. Thankfully, though, Creative has finally come through with a mainstream version for those who do.
Hats off to Creative for continuing to improve in a field that could so easily lay stagnant.
Hear, hear. I go to University of Chicago, one of the hardest-grading institutions around (when you apply to grad schools, they multiply your GPA by a coefficient to make up for grading differences. Chicago and Cornell are the only institutions where that coefficient is greater than 1), so I've felt the bite of bad grades along with the triumph of good grades.
A major issue with the whole transcript system is that it is an average. If your class is graded on two papers discussing Kant and your first one bombs out because you didn't understand him at all, but your second one is the result of weeks of studying and as such is simply phenomenal, you might simply come out with a C...C+/B- if the teacher is feeling generous. Averages can't chart growth, can't chart experimentation with study habits, can't chart weaknesses, and can't chart strengths. I may be pretty good at speaking Japanese, but I absolutely suck when it comes to exams, and I don't know why. The result? C. And I put more work into that class than anyone else.
Grades in higher institutions seem redundant to me. They're useful in high school when attendance is mandatory, but if you're going to college then you must be self-motivated. If you're truly self-motivated to learn, then grades mean nothing to you. Let's just do away with them.
I mean, will there be a section for Red Hat, one for Mandrake, a corner for Suse....
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It's clear that you will have a unique position in the field of security having been a former hacker, and I imagine you will do quite well for yourself financially. However, the price you have paid is readily apparent. Do you consider this to be a fair trade? With so many security positions available to former hackers such as yourself, could hacking be considered a 'good career move'?
My issue is this: we had a good thing. WiFi was really beginning to gain ground, was really going to be something great. Imagine; freely available Internet access for anyone with a laptop supporting the standard (which most do nowadays). It's everywhere, and it's working.
So what does Homeland Security do? Do they go after the holes (numbering hopefully less than WiFi access points) that hackers exploit in the first place? No. Do they go after Microsoft and (gasp!) Linux for security issues? No. What they choose to do instead is to attack something that in fact has little role in the scheme of things, choosing to ignore the real vulnerabilities.
"We know that (an attack) could bring down the network of this country very quickly. Once you're on the network, it doesn't matter where you got in," said Daniel Devasirvatham, who headed the Homeland Security task force for the Wireless Communications Association International trade association.
Let me quote that again....
Once you're on the network, it doesn't matter where you got in
Right, right.... Good to know that since it doesn't matter where they get in, we're going to spend untold millions of dollars to infringe on personal rights so that we can stop them from getting into the places that don't matter. And correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the DOS attacks on the root Internet servers amount to approximately bupkiss?
What I do like, however, is Sky Dayton (Boingo CEO) saying that wireless security is possible; it just needs to be easier. Right on, Sky; I agree with you completely! Instead of attaching labels to something so that it can be instantly regulatable (I'm pretty sure that's a word), he's opting to make wireless security ma- and pa- friendly.
Nice, nice. Good to know that freely-available 802.11b will now be a thing of the past thanks to John Ashcroft and the Eye in the Sky. Of course, I can completely see the logic...only terrorists use wireless Internet, so only terrorist use the Internet, right?
Wow, something about my school! Nice:)
In case you don't know, Chicago can get a bit depressing in the Winter. The University does a bit to alleviate that, including giving us a day off in the middle of Winter quarter. Well, if Winter is depressing, then Spring is freedom. It gets warm, you take easy classes...it starts to feel like a real college.
Scav Hunt is basically a four-day long party. You stay up late, skip classes, wine and dine the judges, throw a massive party in the middle of the quad, and go on cross-country trips. I think this film is a great treatment of a really unique experience, something you can only really do at University of Chicago.
It's stuff like this that proves there is a God. All we need now is for one of those pundits who blame society's ills on violent video games to snap and go on a shooting spree because they were playing too much Pokemon.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Firewire/USB 2.0 are slower than standard ATA100, which is in turn slower than Serial ATA, which is the future of hard drive technology, and is expected to debut with drives of several hundred gigs in size, reaching a terabyte in about a year, year and a half.
Hmm. Can you say "instantly obsolete"?
How many people patch their systems the day the patch is released? Certainly, I do, but does even the majority do so? I doubt it. Moreover, they're giving 30 days for the script kiddies to run amok while we are clueless. They will certainly find out, if there is even an inkling of information about the exploit. IRC is much more effective than ISS anyway.
First off, it's a sysadmin's job to patch vulnerabilities ASAP; considering you're charged with maintaining the security of your systems, I think it pretty much comes with the territory. As for the script kiddies, any admin worth his salt can find a makeshift solution to at least reduce if not stop the attacks completely.
Remember, too, that this article refers to how ISS notifies the public, not the vendor. Patches can still be released at the same rate, but the public is kept in the dark as to how to exploit the hole in the first place. After all, it's better to force the script kiddies to figure out the exploit themselves than hand them the manual, no?
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Long as I get some of those cool sunglasses, I'll be okay....
WTF AR EYOU l0s3RZ DOING POSTING OLD NEWS FROM like 1997 rfu 2002 wAnz its n00s back lololo!!!
With that out of the way, the Audigy 2 looks to be a real step in the right direction as computer audio finally verges on the level of hi-fi. I personally have a plain ol' Audigy OEM card that has performed quite well for me, considering I don't record. Thankfully, though, Creative has finally come through with a mainstream version for those who do.
Hats off to Creative for continuing to improve in a field that could so easily lay stagnant.
A major issue with the whole transcript system is that it is an average. If your class is graded on two papers discussing Kant and your first one bombs out because you didn't understand him at all, but your second one is the result of weeks of studying and as such is simply phenomenal, you might simply come out with a C...C+/B- if the teacher is feeling generous. Averages can't chart growth, can't chart experimentation with study habits, can't chart weaknesses, and can't chart strengths. I may be pretty good at speaking Japanese, but I absolutely suck when it comes to exams, and I don't know why. The result? C. And I put more work into that class than anyone else.
Grades in higher institutions seem redundant to me. They're useful in high school when attendance is mandatory, but if you're going to college then you must be self-motivated. If you're truly self-motivated to learn, then grades mean nothing to you. Let's just do away with them.
<hint>That was a joke, too</hint>
I mean, will there be a section for Red Hat, one for Mandrake, a corner for Suse....
It's clear that you will have a unique position in the field of security having been a former hacker, and I imagine you will do quite well for yourself financially. However, the price you have paid is readily apparent. Do you consider this to be a fair trade? With so many security positions available to former hackers such as yourself, could hacking be considered a 'good career move'?
My issue is this: we had a good thing. WiFi was really beginning to gain ground, was really going to be something great. Imagine; freely available Internet access for anyone with a laptop supporting the standard (which most do nowadays). It's everywhere, and it's working.
So what does Homeland Security do? Do they go after the holes (numbering hopefully less than WiFi access points) that hackers exploit in the first place? No. Do they go after Microsoft and (gasp!) Linux for security issues? No. What they choose to do instead is to attack something that in fact has little role in the scheme of things, choosing to ignore the real vulnerabilities.
Let me quote that again....
Right, right.... Good to know that since it doesn't matter where they get in, we're going to spend untold millions of dollars to infringe on personal rights so that we can stop them from getting into the places that don't matter. And correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the DOS attacks on the root Internet servers amount to approximately bupkiss?
What I do like, however, is Sky Dayton (Boingo CEO) saying that wireless security is possible; it just needs to be easier. Right on, Sky; I agree with you completely! Instead of attaching labels to something so that it can be instantly regulatable (I'm pretty sure that's a word), he's opting to make wireless security ma- and pa- friendly.
And isn't that what it's ultimately about?
For God's sake, man, give us back our freedoms!!
Wow, something about my school! Nice :)
In case you don't know, Chicago can get a bit depressing in the Winter. The University does a bit to alleviate that, including giving us a day off in the middle of Winter quarter. Well, if Winter is depressing, then Spring is freedom. It gets warm, you take easy classes...it starts to feel like a real college.
Scav Hunt is basically a four-day long party. You stay up late, skip classes, wine and dine the judges, throw a massive party in the middle of the quad, and go on cross-country trips. I think this film is a great treatment of a really unique experience, something you can only really do at University of Chicago.
It's stuff like this that proves there is a God. All we need now is for one of those pundits who blame society's ills on violent video games to snap and go on a shooting spree because they were playing too much Pokemon.
Earth art is lame. Give me some good old-fashioned rock porn any day!!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Firewire/USB 2.0 are slower than standard ATA100, which is in turn slower than Serial ATA, which is the future of hard drive technology, and is expected to debut with drives of several hundred gigs in size, reaching a terabyte in about a year, year and a half. Hmm. Can you say "instantly obsolete"?