Just curious, is there any outcome to any situation that will not cause mass hysteria among the/. community?
People come to the US looking for jobs..PANIC!!!! People leave the US looking for jobs...PANIC!!! President tries to solve this problem by trying to kill all those annoying foreigners...PANIC!!!
Perhaps I'm reasing his question incorrectly, but it sounds as if he hasn't tried any of the design tools available.
Not to flame either, but I think his career will be shortlived. The personality type that would succeed would have started messing with at least one editor before throwing the question out there. I think this is a case of him hearing someone say that the way into the gaming industry is to do level design. His first criteria was for a tool that was easy to use. Instead of diving into the tools and the community, he's looking for the easy route.
The thing that bothers me about this combination malware is that the anti-virus people could easily miss something.
You're assuming the anti-virus people just run the virus just to see what happens, then guess at a solution. I would bet money that part of their process includes decompiling the code. I would also assume they examine the code manually in addition to having automated tools to scrub it. For example, they don't just run it to see what registry keys appear, they look at the code to see what registry keys its creates. Once they have the virus in hand, I think there is a very low probability of them missing something.
I didn't want anyone to wast their mod points on that. Is there any other way to get modded down automaticlly.
Maybe it's experiment time. Wait for an article on a subject you know fairly well. Prepare a long, we'll articulated post. Include quotes from industry experts, and a few useful links. Even double check your grammar and spelling. Choose your best +5 material. When your post is ready, set the subject to something like: "Taco sucks asian boy wanker".
If no-one talks, then don't expect any problems to get solved.
Do the following: 1)List all of the issues you would like to raise. 2)Go back through the list and pick the few that you think are most important. 3)For each issue script a clear description, and most importantly, script a solution to the problem. If you don't have a workable solution, then never escalate the problem. Without a proposed solution, the manager will feel that s/he needs to find a solution, which is not always ideal. 4)Bring up only the 1 or 2 most important issues at the dinner. In that environment, any more than that stuff will be forgotten.
Bring up issues that will matter to upper management. Don't bring up crap like "The IT Director wants all of us to partition our drives a certain way, but that is not always optimal". Bring up stuff that effect finances and/or employee morale.
Finally, don't single out people for criticism ("My boss is an idiot!!"), but don't always hold back because you are afraid of the consequences. If your choose your actions based on fear of being trampled upon, then be prepared to always be trampled upon.
Keep in mind that upper management sometimes does care about the company. If they don't know about problems, they can't fix them.
...is why hasn't something like this been done BEFORE 2003? I mean, it seems like a great idea, so why wasn't there anything available?
Because, man, you never got off your lazy ass and did it!! Everyone was like waiting and waiting for you, but nadda. Someone finally got sick of waiting and put it together. And now its here. What the hell is your problem, slack-off?
Step number one is, even if it looks innoculous, don't let it through. Nobody is going to let you email or floppy a picture of Barney out of a classifed system, because there's no reason to, and it might contain classified information. It doesn't matter what the stegnography filter says, it won't go.
You can send email from classified systems. It's only to other classified system though, because its a closed network. Hack the Pentagon website all you want. You'll never get the meat, because it's not on the internet.
Also, you can take non-classified information from a classified system to a non-classified system. There's a long painful cleansing process you have to go through, but it does happen occasionally for legitimate reasons. The issue is that as technology changes, the processes must stay up to date to help prevent accidental release of information.
if i new slashdot was truly anonymous i might post more...but i can't...
No anonymous here.
I had a project meeting the other day with about a dozen different agency reps.
There are thousands of cross agency projects. No big secrets. Well, not many at least;)
Jesus, everyone here is so hoping this is all one big secret agent movie. I think it's a combination of all those role-playing games and not getting outside much.
They likley want this to scan documents leaving thier internal network in an attempt to catch people who are sending out sensitive or secret info. To me this looks like the USAF is plugging a leak, not going on the hunt.
That's exactly one of the reasons for the technology. The DoD has an obligation to protect sensitive information. There are a crazy number of hoops that need to be gone through to get unclassified info off of a classified system. They can't have people encoding stuff in pictures of Barney then walking away with it.
I know the usual paranoids are up in arms about the AF doing this, but the same people would flood "The DoD is so stupid" if it were found out that people were abusing the technology to transport classified info.
I don't know much about Python and I'll give it a go when I get a chance, but it's really hard to take your comments seriously when you call Python a "Silver Bullet" in your sig;)
On another note, is anything going to be reported on capturing Saddam Hussein? It seems like Slashdot would mention it for consistency's sake because they did report on Iraq before [slashdot.org]. I'll give them time, but it would only be right.
You're in Liberal news land my friend. If you want to see Saddam with the flashlight in his mouth and pictures of President Bush in front of a waving flag with eagles overhead, take a right turn over to FoxNews
It's because this is Slashdot and PowerPoint is a Microsoft product. If Slashdot stopped posting super spun MS bash articles like this, their traffic would decrease. All part of knowing your customer.
People download music because its free and its easy to do. Simple as that. Everyone knows they are violating the law, so they try to justify it. "The RIAA is evil!!" "I don't want to pay for songs I don't like". All smokescreens to hide the real issues. You are all thieves and so am I. Have the balls to admit it.
Re:Are you an RIAA spokesperson?
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The problem with your argument...
The problem with his argument is that it goes against the Slashdot Hive approved opinion.
You say that downloading a few songs is cheaper that buying the whole albumn. Ok, fine, so downloading is cheaper than buying. So is downloading wrong? Obviously, since you add that you only use P2P software for "legitimate" reasons. Downloading must be bad, and buying good, right? Well, no, don't buy because the artists suck and the RIAA takes most of the money anyway. RIAA sucks, fight the power, download songs!! Which songs do you download? The ones you like? But I thought the artists sucked?
I guess people justify stealing from the artists by stealing more from the RIAA
Put the systems (Yes, each app has to have at least two for redundancy) behind a pair of load balancers. Let the load balancer do the work. While we're at it, make sure the load balancers have SSL accelerators too, so we can offload that from the CPUs...
Yeah, I spout fancy buzzwords to get Insightful mods!!
What are you talking about? Those are details that may or may not apply to a specific project. It depends on the requirements. All your rant did was prove the point of the article.
Re:Passwords? OT
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"NO CARRIER" still getting a funny?
Interesting... that has to be one of the longest lived funny mod triggers.
Current funny triggers: SCO jokes, Golum speak.
Declining funny triggers: I, for one, welcome our new... overlords
Recently deceased funny triggers: Yoda speak
Deceased, but still occasionally funny: All your base..., In Soviet Russia...
I guess you missed the story from the other day with "virii" in the title
Yeah, sorry, I did miss it.
But this is/., how can you reasonably expect someone to express an opinion based on more than half the story, or even a moderator to have knowledge of past articles?;)
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I hope that this trend does not continue
/. community?
Just curious, is there any outcome to any situation that will not cause mass hysteria among the
People come to the US looking for jobs..PANIC!!!! People leave the US looking for jobs...PANIC!!! President tries to solve this problem by trying to kill all those annoying foreigners...PANIC!!!
Jeez, I feel for you people
Perhaps I'm reasing his question incorrectly, but it sounds as if he hasn't tried any of the design tools available.
Not to flame either, but I think his career will be shortlived. The personality type that would succeed would have started messing with at least one editor before throwing the question out there. I think this is a case of him hearing someone say that the way into the gaming industry is to do level design. His first criteria was for a tool that was easy to use. Instead of diving into the tools and the community, he's looking for the easy route.
This was probably done to defame us
:)
With 3 SCO posts a day, I already figured www.sco.com was under constant DOS from this community
Which one has the porn ads? (I submitted the story).
:)
It's the Ukraine one. Sometimes one of the small ads on the bottom links to a porn site. No boobies on the site you posted though.
Even though sex is mandatory for human survival, people still seem to be afraid of it
The thing that bothers me about this combination malware is that the anti-virus people could easily miss something.
You're assuming the anti-virus people just run the virus just to see what happens, then guess at a solution. I would bet money that part of their process includes decompiling the code. I would also assume they examine the code manually in addition to having automated tools to scrub it. For example, they don't just run it to see what registry keys appear, they look at the code to see what registry keys its creates. Once they have the virus in hand, I think there is a very low probability of them missing something.
I didn't want anyone to wast their mod points on that. Is there any other way to get modded down automaticlly.
Maybe it's experiment time. Wait for an article on a subject you know fairly well. Prepare a long, we'll articulated post. Include quotes from industry experts, and a few useful links. Even double check your grammar and spelling. Choose your best +5 material. When your post is ready, set the subject to something like: "Taco sucks asian boy wanker".
If no-one talks, then don't expect any problems to get solved.
Do the following:
1)List all of the issues you would like to raise.
2)Go back through the list and pick the few that you think are most important.
3)For each issue script a clear description, and most importantly, script a solution to the problem. If you don't have a workable solution, then never escalate the problem. Without a proposed solution, the manager will feel that s/he needs to find a solution, which is not always ideal.
4)Bring up only the 1 or 2 most important issues at the dinner. In that environment, any more than that stuff will be forgotten.
Bring up issues that will matter to upper management. Don't bring up crap like "The IT Director wants all of us to partition our drives a certain way, but that is not always optimal". Bring up stuff that effect finances and/or employee morale.
Finally, don't single out people for criticism ("My boss is an idiot!!"), but don't always hold back because you are afraid of the consequences. If your choose your actions based on fear of being trampled upon, then be prepared to always be trampled upon.
Keep in mind that upper management sometimes does care about the company. If they don't know about problems, they can't fix them.
... they draw the attention from the text of the article I'm trying to read
:)
I think that's the point
The Register should know better.
The Register is a tech tabloid. They need not concern themselves with facts.
...is why hasn't something like this been done BEFORE 2003? I mean, it seems like a great idea, so why wasn't there anything available?
Because, man, you never got off your lazy ass and did it!! Everyone was like waiting and waiting for you, but nadda. Someone finally got sick of waiting and put it together. And now its here. What the hell is your problem, slack-off?
Maybe if you actually commented your code, like a good boy, you wouldnt be so clueless as to how your code works.
:)
Or created a detailed design document....
No onder software still sucks
In traditional /. fashion I didn't read the artical.
/. fashion, you can't spell either.
In traditional
Step number one is, even if it looks innoculous, don't let it through. Nobody is going to let you email or floppy a picture of Barney out of a classifed system, because there's no reason to, and it might contain classified information. It doesn't matter what the stegnography filter says, it won't go.
You can send email from classified systems. It's only to other classified system though, because its a closed network. Hack the Pentagon website all you want. You'll never get the meat, because it's not on the internet.
Also, you can take non-classified information from a classified system to a non-classified system. There's a long painful cleansing process you have to go through, but it does happen occasionally for legitimate reasons. The issue is that as technology changes, the processes must stay up to date to help prevent accidental release of information.
if i new slashdot was truly anonymous i might post more...but i can't...
;)
No anonymous here.
I had a project meeting the other day with about a dozen different agency reps. There are thousands of cross agency projects. No big secrets. Well, not many at least
Jesus, everyone here is so hoping this is all one big secret agent movie. I think it's a combination of all those role-playing games and not getting outside much.
They likley want this to scan documents leaving thier internal network in an attempt to catch people who are sending out sensitive or secret info. To me this looks like the USAF is plugging a leak, not going on the hunt.
That's exactly one of the reasons for the technology. The DoD has an obligation to protect sensitive information. There are a crazy number of hoops that need to be gone through to get unclassified info off of a classified system. They can't have people encoding stuff in pictures of Barney then walking away with it.
I know the usual paranoids are up in arms about the AF doing this, but the same people would flood "The DoD is so stupid" if it were found out that people were abusing the technology to transport classified info.
Dynamically typed? Bleh.
;)
I don't know much about Python and I'll give it a go when I get a chance, but it's really hard to take your comments seriously when you call Python a "Silver Bullet" in your sig
On another note, is anything going to be reported on capturing Saddam Hussein? It seems like Slashdot would mention it for consistency's sake because they did report on Iraq before [slashdot.org]. I'll give them time, but it would only be right.
You're in Liberal news land my friend. If you want to see Saddam with the flashlight in his mouth and pictures of President Bush in front of a waving flag with eagles overhead, take a right turn over to FoxNews
Please, no more...
It's because this is Slashdot and PowerPoint is a Microsoft product. If Slashdot stopped posting super spun MS bash articles like this, their traffic would decrease. All part of knowing your customer.
People download music because its free and its easy to do. Simple as that. Everyone knows they are violating the law, so they try to justify it. "The RIAA is evil!!" "I don't want to pay for songs I don't like". All smokescreens to hide the real issues. You are all thieves and so am I. Have the balls to admit it.
The problem with your argument...
The problem with his argument is that it goes against the Slashdot Hive approved opinion.
You say that downloading a few songs is cheaper that buying the whole albumn. Ok, fine, so downloading is cheaper than buying. So is downloading wrong? Obviously, since you add that you only use P2P software for "legitimate" reasons. Downloading must be bad, and buying good, right? Well, no, don't buy because the artists suck and the RIAA takes most of the money anyway. RIAA sucks, fight the power, download songs!!
Which songs do you download? The ones you like? But I thought the artists sucked?
I guess people justify stealing from the artists by stealing more from the RIAA
Put the systems (Yes, each app has to have at least two for redundancy) behind a pair of load balancers. Let the load balancer do the work. While we're at it, make sure the load balancers have SSL accelerators too, so we can offload that from the CPUs...
Yeah, I spout fancy buzzwords to get Insightful mods!!
What are you talking about? Those are details that may or may not apply to a specific project. It depends on the requirements. All your rant did was prove the point of the article.
"NO CARRIER" still getting a funny?
... overlords
Interesting... that has to be one of the longest lived funny mod triggers.
Current funny triggers: SCO jokes, Golum speak.
Declining funny triggers: I, for one, welcome our new
Recently deceased funny triggers: Yoda speak
Deceased, but still occasionally funny: All your base..., In Soviet Russia...
I guess you missed the story from the other day with "virii" in the title
/., how can you reasonably expect someone to express an opinion based on more than half the story, or even a moderator to have knowledge of past articles? ;)
Yeah, sorry, I did miss it.
But this is
then you can "prove" you weren't at the crime scene.
No, you can just "prove" that your phone wasn't at the crime scene.
Shouldn't that be viri or virii, or something like that?
;)
No
The article is in English, not Latin