At least if US do nuclear testing they will do it in their own backyard. When the French did their testing they did it as far away from themselves as possible and damn what the neighbours.
High School economics will also tell you that maximum profit does not occur at the lowest price.
(price - cost per unit) * quantity
So they would need to balance quality (cost) and price to find a point of maximum return.
I'm not saying they have acheived that balance, just that too many people say without any thought that they should just lower their prices to the lowest possible price so they can get maximum sales. Maximum sales is not the point of business.
The operating system can't totally protect you from badly written applications. Remember the article is about web defacement and not root exploits.
If you have a web app that takes user input and displays it (for example a discussion board) and the application doesn't parse the input to strip out special html characters. This can lead to an exploit of the application and can be used for web defacement. This has nothing to do with bad security of the OS and everything to do with a badly coded application.
SMTP Auth will stop people using your mail server as a relay. It doesn't necessarily stop people from doing the simple thing of changing the From: header to impersonate you.
This requires some form of digital signature, which I haven't found has become mainstream enough to be useful.
I agree somewhat. As much as some people scoff at Microsoft products (without actually trying them). The.Net framework can be quite a useful product.
I am for the most part a J2EE developer and have my certifications from BEA and Sun, but lately I have been dabling in.Net to do some prototyping for presales.
I have found as a prototyping tool it is excellent. Developing user interfaces is much easier and faster using the server controls. For example to produce a table of data, rather than iterating over a collection and printing the html tags of the table, with data inserted in the correct places, all you need do is to bind the table to the collection.
One thing, I have found is the documentation of the APIs is not up to scratch. The java docs for j2se and j2ee and extremely more detailed, with much better examples and descriptions of special cases.
While at the moment I am yet to be satisfied that I can use.Net for anything more than prototyping, the push for.Net will definitely be a good thing if it drives more innovation on the java side of the fence.
Some very strong comments. It appears that you have dabbled in these languages but not used them for anything serious.
I use perl and its not because I'm ignorant of other languages. I've built applications using many different languages including functional languages like Haskell, logic languages like Prolog, strongly typed OO languages like Java and C++ and scripting languages like tcl, bash and perl.
Perl has some extreme strengths, I find it useful from complex shell script and trolling log files for useful information. The wealth of modules available make it extremely easy to perform almost any task in very little programming time.
I admit that for larger applications I would prefer to use Java as the need for more robust, reliable and maintainable applications become more important than quick development time. Java is great but you definitly need a reasonable IDE like Netbeans or Eclipse to improve your efficiency, otherwise even simple tasks can take some time.
That seems like a terrible story on Yamaha support.
I can't comment on their support but I have been extremely happy with their product.
I bought a Yamaha SCSI 4x CDR at the end of '97. Its gone through heaps of CDs, but 5 years later its still as reliable as ever. This little burner has outlived many cd drives and even survived a couple of upgrades.
Its not anywhere near as fast, nor does it features like underrun protection. But I wouldn't risk trading it for a newer maybe less reliable drive. (maybe when dvd burners get a bit cheaper)
I'm not sure if this is one of the untruths.
The today show report stated that it was not legal to copy cds for personal use, but with the levy this would become a legitamite use.
I watched some of the report on the today show this morning, they were spewing so much rubbish I had to turn it off.
It was a one sided reported that basically said two things:
1. All kids are pirates
2. Everyone who buys CD-R, does so to pirate CDs
An interesting note, is that they had already tried to get the levys on CD-R through the court system but it was thrown out because it was a tax.
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My linux install doesn't have an autorun feature. Do I need to install extra software to enable their copy protection.
The difference is that the US actually borders the Pacific Ocean.
At least if US do nuclear testing they will do it in their own backyard. When the French did their testing they did it as far away from themselves as possible and damn what the neighbours.
High School economics will also tell you that maximum profit does not occur at the lowest price.
(price - cost per unit) * quantity
So they would need to balance quality (cost) and price to find a point of maximum return.
I'm not saying they have acheived that balance, just that too many people say without any thought that they should just lower their prices to the lowest possible price so they can get maximum sales. Maximum sales is not the point of business.
The operating system can't totally protect you from badly written applications. Remember the article is about web defacement and not root exploits.
If you have a web app that takes user input and displays it (for example a discussion board) and the application doesn't parse the input to strip out special html characters. This can lead to an exploit of the application and can be used for web defacement. This has nothing to do with bad security of the OS and everything to do with a badly coded application.
I don't think this is what pbur was refering to.
SMTP Auth will stop people using your mail server as a relay. It doesn't necessarily stop people from doing the simple thing of changing the From: header to impersonate you.
This requires some form of digital signature, which I haven't found has become mainstream enough to be useful.
I agree somewhat. As much as some people scoff at Microsoft products (without actually trying them). The .Net framework can be quite a useful product.
.Net to do some prototyping for presales.
.Net for anything more than prototyping, the push for .Net will definitely be a good thing if it drives more innovation on the java side of the fence.
I am for the most part a J2EE developer and have my certifications from BEA and Sun, but lately I have been dabling in
I have found as a prototyping tool it is excellent. Developing user interfaces is much easier and faster using the server controls. For example to produce a table of data, rather than iterating over a collection and printing the html tags of the table, with data inserted in the correct places, all you need do is to bind the table to the collection.
One thing, I have found is the documentation of the APIs is not up to scratch. The java docs for j2se and j2ee and extremely more detailed, with much better examples and descriptions of special cases.
While at the moment I am yet to be satisfied that I can use
Some very strong comments. It appears that you have dabbled in these languages but not used them for anything serious.
I use perl and its not because I'm ignorant of other languages. I've built applications using many different languages including functional languages like Haskell, logic languages like Prolog, strongly typed OO languages like Java and C++ and scripting languages like tcl, bash and perl.
Perl has some extreme strengths, I find it useful from complex shell script and trolling log files for useful information. The wealth of modules available make it extremely easy to perform almost any task in very little programming time.
I admit that for larger applications I would prefer to use Java as the need for more robust, reliable and maintainable applications become more important than quick development time. Java is great but you definitly need a reasonable IDE like Netbeans or Eclipse to improve your efficiency, otherwise even simple tasks can take some time.
I can't comment on their support but I have been extremely happy with their product. I bought a Yamaha SCSI 4x CDR at the end of '97. Its gone through heaps of CDs, but 5 years later its still as reliable as ever. This little burner has outlived many cd drives and even survived a couple of upgrades.
Its not anywhere near as fast, nor does it features like underrun protection. But I wouldn't risk trading it for a newer maybe less reliable drive. (maybe when dvd burners get a bit cheaper)
I'm not sure if this is one of the untruths. The today show report stated that it was not legal to copy cds for personal use, but with the levy this would become a legitamite use.
I watched some of the report on the today show this morning, they were spewing so much rubbish I had to turn it off. It was a one sided reported that basically said two things: 1. All kids are pirates 2. Everyone who buys CD-R, does so to pirate CDs An interesting note, is that they had already tried to get the levys on CD-R through the court system but it was thrown out because it was a tax.