1- Midnight Commander 2- WinZIP 3- Winamp 4- Java SDK 5- Fire[bird|fox] 6- Visual Studio 7- MS Office 8- Adobe Acrobat 9- Ghost[script+view] 10- My \utility directory with a few hundred command line utilities, lviewpro, wfetch, and a bunch of other simple utilities.
Actually, there are three:
Something you know
Something you have
Something you ARE
The last one is where biometrics come in. Aside from the gummy-bear trick to fool fingerprint identification and other poorly implemented hardware, biometrics should serve as a additional layer, not the only layer. Of course, is it more likely that someone steals your fingerprints or guesses your password? So maybe biometrics alone is safer than a non-changing password?
If I had free-reign to design a strong security system, I would probably choose biometic + [voice|keypad] password, with rules for changing, etc. A security guard with a big gun standing next to the machine would help too.
Why does an organization like this want $30 for me to join? Wouldn't donations have been more appropriate? I can just not watch TV and not tell them-- they'll probably sue me for something though.
I think I know the one you're talking about-- didn't some warez group put that in their distros along with the "This file came from XYZ BBS".txt files?
I see Windows as being so vulnerable for 2 reasons: (1) with such a large code-base and so many interdependencies, it is difficult to keep the quality "perfect", and (2) with such a large user-base, the number of eyes poking and prodding will naturally lead to more discoveries.
I don't see Linux adopting (1)-- even though it's probably a few gigabytes with everything installed, the base kernel is much smaller. When you separate the operating system from the utilities and keep the interfaces clean, you can build secure software. If you have every application you wrote executing in kernel mode so that your web pages load 10% faster, duh, you're going to have problems.
As more users switch to Linux, however, more bugs will be found, and M$FT will be happy to point them out for us. I don't see Linux developers as "better" than Microsoft developers, they're just working with different things in mind.
I had a professor once that claimed that just about everything that came on a computer was "part of the kernel". This is a mistake, IMHO. A kernel needs to be only large enough to provide an interface between applications and hardware. If Microsoft focused on this for a while and tightened the Kernel code, I think the rest of their problems would become easier (I mean really, how hard can it be to go through the IE code and fix the 1001 bugs it has now?) </rant>
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Is anyone else waiting for the first Car Virus? "I didn't think I was driving 95 miles/hr, my digital readout said I was doing 55!" or worse, NEWS FLASH:
The HondaVirus/B will be striking at Midnight, June 4th, causing infected brake systems to lock up (or fail).
How about when they start adding WiFi systems in the car systems? Then you drive-by-infect.
Ok fine, I'm a few years early, but does anyone **really** trust car company software any more than Windows?
Depends on how big the cups are. If they're dixie cups or thimbles, I think you'll be ok. If they're 64-ounce Super-Big-Gulps then I think you'll probably change your body chemistry from 75% water to 75% coffee. But you'd get lots of work done before you die.
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March 29, 2004 Leisure Pursuits of Today's Young Man By JOHN SCHWARTZ
Note to the television networks: Pete Brandel is not missing. He's right here, but like a lot of other 20-something men he's just not watching as much TV.
Mr. Brandel, a 24-year-old real estate agent in Chicago, says that these days he looks to the Internet for news and entertainment. Television, he says, is bogged down by commercials and teasers that waste his time.
"I'll go to the Comedy Central Web site and download David Chappelle clips rather than wait to see them on TV," he said.
The television industry was shaken last October when the ratings from Nielsen Media Research showed that a huge part of a highly prized slice of the American population was watching less television. As the fall TV season began, viewership among men from 18 to 34 fell 12 percent compared with the year before, Nielsen reported. And for the youngest group of adult men, those 18 to 24, the decline was a steeper 20 percent.
In a world where fortunes are made and lost over the evanescent jitterings of fractions of audience share, the Nielsen announcement was the equivalent of a nuclear strike, a smallpox outbreak and a bad hair day all rolled into one.
But those who track the uses of technology say that the underlying shift in viewership made perfect sense. The so-called missing men might be more aptly called the missing guys, and they are doing what guys do: playing games, obsessing over sports and girls, and hanging out with buddies - often online.
And the evidence is accumulating that the behavior of guys like Mr. Brandel is changing faster than once thought. The rapid expansion of high-speed Internet access lets the computer become the video jukebox that Mr. Brandel uses to watch comedy clips. The seemingly inexhaustible appetite for computer games, DVD players, music and video file-sharing - and, yes, online pornography - all contribute to the trend, these experts say. While no one activity is enough to account for the drop that Nielsen reported, all of them together create a vast cloud of diversion that has drawn men inexorably away from television.
A spokesman for Nielsen Media Research cautioned against reading too profound a societal shift into the ratings slide. Jack Loftus, the vice president for communications, took a gentle view of the ratings data, saying that the total loss of average viewership, spread out across the entire population of men 18 to 34, translated to a reduction of "about four-and-a-half minutes" a person each night, which he characterized as "a bathroom break." The amount of viewing time lost, he said, has not narrowed since October.
That is understandable, experts say, given that nearly 75 percent of males 18 to 34 have Internet access, according to the latest figures from comScore Media Metrix, making them the most wired segment of the population. By comparison, 57 percent of men from 35 to 44 are online, comScore found in research for the Online Publishers Association, which is releasing the results today.
Between the allure of high-speed Internet services, computer games and other activities, "you begin to have the ability to get entertained and distracted in a million ways, and not just television," said Rishad Tobaccowala, an executive with the Starcom MediaVest Group, a company that advises advertisers on where to put their money.
Incompatible survey methods make it impossible to say that a rise in one kind of activity corresponds precisely to a drop in another. But study after study show that those in the age range of the "missing guys'' are devoting much more of their time and attention to interactions that take them away from passive activities like watching sit-coms and even popular reality TV shows like "The Apprentice" and "American Idol.''
David F. Poltrack, executive vice president for research at CBS, says that the trend of young men watching somewhat less television is clear, but that the Nielsen numbers still do not add up. The
Ignition interlocks require a breath test, which takes 30 seconds to complete...
Can you imagine the car chases in movies? Good guy jumps in through the open window... fumbles with the keys as the bad guy is getting closer... puts the key in the ignition... BEEP! PLEASE BREATHE INTO THE STEERING WHEEL AND WAIT 30 SECONDS! BEEP!
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First time the SEC's been /.ed?
I always get "Geddy" when I hear people mention Rush.
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I'll join when they get In Flames and Nightwish.
1- Midnight Commander
2- WinZIP
3- Winamp
4- Java SDK
5- Fire[bird|fox]
6- Visual Studio
7- MS Office
8- Adobe Acrobat
9- Ghost[script+view]
10- My \utility directory with a few hundred command line utilities, lviewpro, wfetch, and a bunch of other simple utilities.
Actually, there are three:
Something you know
Something you have
Something you ARE
The last one is where biometrics come in. Aside from the gummy-bear trick to fool fingerprint identification and other poorly implemented hardware, biometrics should serve as a additional layer, not the only layer. Of course, is it more likely that someone steals your fingerprints or guesses your password? So maybe biometrics alone is safer than a non-changing password?
If I had free-reign to design a strong security system, I would probably choose biometic + [voice|keypad] password, with rules for changing, etc. A security guard with a big gun standing next to the machine would help too.
Wouldn't it actually be an old Vader suit??
Why does an organization like this want $30 for me to join? Wouldn't donations have been more appropriate? I can just not watch TV and not tell them-- they'll probably sue me for something though.
I think I know the one you're talking about-- didn't some warez group put that in their distros along with the "This file came from XYZ BBS" .txt files?
...an email address has been slashdotted Oh yeah, except for that spammer.
You should ask over on indiadot.org (sorry, unintentional pun), they're cycles are a tenth of the price.
I see Windows as being so vulnerable for 2 reasons: (1) with such a large code-base and so many interdependencies, it is difficult to keep the quality "perfect", and (2) with such a large user-base, the number of eyes poking and prodding will naturally lead to more discoveries.
I don't see Linux adopting (1)-- even though it's probably a few gigabytes with everything installed, the base kernel is much smaller. When you separate the operating system from the utilities and keep the interfaces clean, you can build secure software. If you have every application you wrote executing in kernel mode so that your web pages load 10% faster, duh, you're going to have problems.
As more users switch to Linux, however, more bugs will be found, and M$FT will be happy to point them out for us. I don't see Linux developers as "better" than Microsoft developers, they're just working with different things in mind.
I had a professor once that claimed that just about everything that came on a computer was "part of the kernel". This is a mistake, IMHO. A kernel needs to be only large enough to provide an interface between applications and hardware. If Microsoft focused on this for a while and tightened the Kernel code, I think the rest of their problems would become easier (I mean really, how hard can it be to go through the IE code and fix the 1001 bugs it has now?)
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They can't even get voting machines to work without losing thousands of votes. You trust them to get the logic right?
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here is some text to prevent the postercommenter filter from not letting me post my message. this is really dumb, i think i should be able to post it, it's not like it's totally off topic, and who doesn't like some good ascii art once in a while, not that i'm saying that mine is good, but that it's technically art, and it's, well, ascii.
Is anyone else waiting for the first Car Virus? "I didn't think I was driving 95 miles/hr, my digital readout said I was doing 55!" or worse,
NEWS FLASH:
The HondaVirus/B will be striking at Midnight, June 4th, causing infected brake systems to lock up (or fail).
How about when they start adding WiFi systems in the car systems? Then you drive-by-infect.
Ok fine, I'm a few years early, but does anyone **really** trust car company software any more than Windows?
Depends on how big the cups are. If they're dixie cups or thimbles, I think you'll be ok. If they're 64-ounce Super-Big-Gulps then I think you'll probably change your body chemistry from 75% water to 75% coffee. But you'd get lots of work done before you die.
March 29, 2004
Leisure Pursuits of Today's Young Man
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
Note to the television networks: Pete Brandel is not missing. He's right here, but like a lot of other 20-something men he's just not watching as much TV.
Mr. Brandel, a 24-year-old real estate agent in Chicago, says that these days he looks to the Internet for news and entertainment. Television, he says, is bogged down by commercials and teasers that waste his time.
"I'll go to the Comedy Central Web site and download David Chappelle clips rather than wait to see them on TV," he said.
The television industry was shaken last October when the ratings from Nielsen Media Research showed that a huge part of a highly prized slice of the American population was watching less television. As the fall TV season began, viewership among men from 18 to 34 fell 12 percent compared with the year before, Nielsen reported. And for the youngest group of adult men, those 18 to 24, the decline was a steeper 20 percent.
In a world where fortunes are made and lost over the evanescent jitterings of fractions of audience share, the Nielsen announcement was the equivalent of a nuclear strike, a smallpox outbreak and a bad hair day all rolled into one.
But those who track the uses of technology say that the underlying shift in viewership made perfect sense. The so-called missing men might be more aptly called the missing guys, and they are doing what guys do: playing games, obsessing over sports and girls, and hanging out with buddies - often online.
And the evidence is accumulating that the behavior of guys like Mr. Brandel is changing faster than once thought. The rapid expansion of high-speed Internet access lets the computer become the video jukebox that Mr. Brandel uses to watch comedy clips. The seemingly inexhaustible appetite for computer games, DVD players, music and video file-sharing - and, yes, online pornography - all contribute to the trend, these experts say. While no one activity is enough to account for the drop that Nielsen reported, all of them together create a vast cloud of diversion that has drawn men inexorably away from television.
A spokesman for Nielsen Media Research cautioned against reading too profound a societal shift into the ratings slide. Jack Loftus, the vice president for communications, took a gentle view of the ratings data, saying that the total loss of average viewership, spread out across the entire population of men 18 to 34, translated to a reduction of "about four-and-a-half minutes" a person each night, which he characterized as "a bathroom break." The amount of viewing time lost, he said, has not narrowed since October.
That is understandable, experts say, given that nearly 75 percent of males 18 to 34 have Internet access, according to the latest figures from comScore Media Metrix, making them the most wired segment of the population. By comparison, 57 percent of men from 35 to 44 are online, comScore found in research for the Online Publishers Association, which is releasing the results today.
Between the allure of high-speed Internet services, computer games and other activities, "you begin to have the ability to get entertained and distracted in a million ways, and not just television," said Rishad Tobaccowala, an executive with the Starcom MediaVest Group, a company that advises advertisers on where to put their money.
Incompatible survey methods make it impossible to say that a rise in one kind of activity corresponds precisely to a drop in another. But study after study show that those in the age range of the "missing guys'' are devoting much more of their time and attention to interactions that take them away from passive activities like watching sit-coms and even popular reality TV shows like "The Apprentice" and "American Idol.''
David F. Poltrack, executive vice president for research at CBS, says that the trend of young men watching somewhat less television is clear, but that the Nielsen numbers still do not add up. The
because he's "sleeping with the fishes"? or was that a (Godfather reference?
Does it look like this portable computer? 16 pounds? Come on-- Does it come in a lead-enclosed frame?
...because they'd be spending all of their time reading /. instead of reviewing patent applications?
Features like simultaneous streaming (read/write), multi-stream recording, data forking, power failure recorvery, and wrap mode...
I put my total faith in companies who fail to spell-check.
Does this version of the protocol support RFC 2423, the HTCPCP (Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol)?
Ignition interlocks require a breath test, which takes 30 seconds to complete...
Can you imagine the car chases in movies? Good guy jumps in through the open window... fumbles with the keys as the bad guy is getting closer... puts the key in the ignition... BEEP! PLEASE BREATHE INTO THE STEERING WHEEL AND WAIT 30 SECONDS! BEEP!
Space Quest 3 was better. You could play Astro-Chicken.
Yeah, my proofreeader is brokin.
Apparently, their motto of "Keeps a lickin but keeps on tickin" doesn't apply to their web site.