You may think your joke is funny. But it is contributing to the average person's misunderstanding of evolution. The mass media continues to distribute an incorrect understanding of evolution.
Evolution does not mean that a species will get 'smarter' or 'faster'. Evolution says that a species will become better at survival, that is all.
More like, Germany is making sure that when they start a new world war, all there computer systems are vurnerable to attack because their computer security industry was completely destoryed over night.
These cracking tools are great ways to check for security issues with a network. I use nmap all the time for general networking to find out what service are running on a server that I can use.
Damn it Charles!
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I've alway found GUI tools to be slow and weird. gentoo has great service management/etc/init.d/ start/etc/init.d/ restart/etc/init.d/ stop
GUI tools are seriously annoying, since this article is about security and disabling unneeded services having config tools that require the unneeded service X11 is pretty silly.
But you do blame the bank if the ATM you are entering your PIN at is insecure.
Having an open wireless network in the least of your troubles, I chance of someone in your area stiffing your packets in very small. The chance of someone stiffing your packets across the public internet is much higher.
I have an open wireless network, but all communication of a sensitive matter is transfered over HTTP or SSH, I really don't care if random people stiff my packets and read my slashdot.
Amazingly Firefox is actually a heavy version of Mozilla. Getting rid of bookmarks,add-ons,tabs,history lists and customisability will not make firefox smaller. The real problem is that gecko is a huge beast and XUL is resource intensive. But this too is difficult to solve. A native graphical toolkit could be used instead of XUL but solve the beast of gecko is more difficult. Gecko is the attempt at a solution for the broken nature of the web. Browsering the web is amazingly resource intensive. I remember browsing the web with a Pentium 133mhz with 64MB of ram. Now it requires 100s MB of ram and I haven't really noticed much difference in the experience I'm getting.
It's probably related to patents and funding. A company comes up with a great idea, but lacks the funding to manufacture it on a large scale. Because of patents nobody else is allowed to.
The problem with obvious is that it based on a context. If something is obvious then many people, when given the same problem, will come up with the obvious solution. But if nobody is given the problem, then there is no reason for them to come up with the solution.
So, the patent system is a race to find problems to solve. Not a race to find a solution to a known problem.
Blowing things up for maximum damage doesn't take much skill, you don't need proper training because an afternoon on the internet will give you a very good start.
Blowing up a specific target without damaging anything else around is a difficult skill to master that requires lots of training and years to experience.
Ever heard of http://flac.sourceforge.net/? But CDs still aren't going away for a while. They are still the cheapest way to transfer data directly to another person.
Buying things online is difficult especially for people under 18 without a credit card, so until that becomes easier I don't see CDs going anywhere.
'Open-source software such as Linux, on the other hand, encourages individuals to add to or modify software without fear of legal repercussions, so long as they abide by the conditions of the general public license, which stipulates that the program must remain open and sharable.'"
I don't really see much wrong with this. The wording could be a little more clear but it's not completely wrong. It is true that additions to GNU GPL code must remain sharable. The GNU GPL doesn't say you have to share them, but it does say that they must be sharable.
The reference to 'legal repercussions' could be a little more clear as it should only refer to copyright related legal repercussions and not patent related repercussions.
They could send you a bogus SSL cert. But it wouldn't look legit. That's the idea of SSL certificates, you can verify that you are making a connection to the host that you want to make a connection to and nobody in between can intercept it.
SSL requires that you trust your operating system provider and the certificate company that created the certificate. It doesn't require that you trust your ISP.
This doesn't sounds like a problem at all. To use it the regime would have to know about other sites the user had visited to input that information in to the algo. If they can already uniquely identify a users across multiple sites then they would already know who they were. All this is useful for is processing information for marketing after using your phishing detecting(IE7, google toolbar) software to spy on your users.
This is the same style of 'security solution' as Anti-Virus software.
Phishing is really easy to prevent. 1. Don't submit information on non-encrypted pages 2. Check certificate to make sure it's for the company you want to send the information to.
Amazingly this is really simple, protects better than any 'anti-phishing' list and has been part of the default functionality of web browsers for many years.
I've been programming(not professionally) for 10 years. Mostly in C, Python, ECMAscript and Java. I've been recently trying to get in to functional programming after reading a really interesting article: http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html. I really liked the concepts.
I started by looking at Erlang and Haskell, but I just don't like their syntax which made it really difficult to stay motivated in learning. Thinking functionally was pretty easy, but thinking functionally to do something that involves state is confusing.
I've recently been looking at scheme and using ECMAscript functionally, which I like the syntax of more.
the great thing about being a patent holding company is that you aren't making anything and therefore not violating anyone else's patents. The software patent war won't be a war, but an extermination. Where those companies that make things will be crushed by those that don't.
Nuclear power produces waste that needs to be stored for thousands of years in secure facilities, thousands of years of storage is expensive. To make sure these facilities continue to function we need a stable government for that whole time.
Think about it, the egyptains made the pyramids only a few thousand years ago and was hardly any information about them when we found them. Imagine if they were nuclear waste storage.
You still need some backups of that Raid array. DVDs and even Blue-Ray are still way too small.
You can't do backups to hard drives because they aren't very reliable, the whole moving part thing is a problem. So this tech is going to allow for a good optical backup solution.
I walk. I walk to uni. I walk to the shops. I walk around in dark places at night with friends and discuss current events. It's pretty good. I can't imagine walking on the spot being very interesting for very long. Infact it would be boring and pointless.
Note: if you have malware installed on your computer with administrator privileges you can't trust your software firewall. You can't trust your anti-virus. You can't trust your OS installation at all.
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$84 million dollars? WTF?
Which that sort of money you could create something useful...
Governments shouldn't have money.
You may think your joke is funny. But it is contributing to the average person's misunderstanding of evolution.
The mass media continues to distribute an incorrect understanding of evolution.
Evolution does not mean that a species will get 'smarter' or 'faster'. Evolution says that a species will become better at survival, that is all.
More like, Germany is making sure that when they start a new world war, all there computer systems are vurnerable to attack because their computer security industry was completely destoryed over night.
These cracking tools are great ways to check for security issues with a network. I use nmap all the time for general networking to find out what service are running on a server that I can use.
Damn it Charles!
I've alway found GUI tools to be slow and weird. /etc/init.d/ start /etc/init.d/ restart /etc/init.d/ stop
gentoo has great service management
GUI tools are seriously annoying, since this article is about security and disabling unneeded services having config tools that require the unneeded service X11 is pretty silly.
But you do blame the bank if the ATM you are entering your PIN at is insecure.
Having an open wireless network in the least of your troubles, I chance of someone in your area stiffing your packets in very small. The chance of someone stiffing your packets across the public internet is much higher.
I have an open wireless network, but all communication of a sensitive matter is transfered over HTTP or SSH, I really don't care if random people stiff my packets and read my slashdot.
Amazingly Firefox is actually a heavy version of Mozilla.
Getting rid of bookmarks,add-ons,tabs,history lists and customisability will not make firefox smaller.
The real problem is that gecko is a huge beast and XUL is resource intensive. But this too is difficult to solve. A native graphical toolkit could be used instead of XUL but solve the beast of gecko is more difficult. Gecko is the attempt at a solution for the broken nature of the web.
Browsering the web is amazingly resource intensive. I remember browsing the web with a Pentium 133mhz with 64MB of ram. Now it requires 100s MB of ram and I haven't really noticed much difference in the experience I'm getting.
It's probably related to patents and funding.
A company comes up with a great idea, but lacks the funding to manufacture it on a large scale. Because of patents nobody else is allowed to.
any chance they are patenting this to prevent others from doing it?
Sounds like a great way to stop ad-ware, by suing them for patent infringement.
The problem with obvious is that it based on a context.
If something is obvious then many people, when given the same problem, will come up with the obvious solution.
But if nobody is given the problem, then there is no reason for them to come up with the solution.
So, the patent system is a race to find problems to solve. Not a race to find a solution to a known problem.
Blowing things up for maximum damage doesn't take much skill, you don't need proper training because an afternoon on the internet will give you a very good start.
Blowing up a specific target without damaging anything else around is a difficult skill to master that requires lots of training and years to experience.
Ever heard of http://flac.sourceforge.net/?
But CDs still aren't going away for a while. They are still the cheapest way to transfer data directly to another person.
Buying things online is difficult especially for people under 18 without a credit card, so until that becomes easier I don't see CDs going anywhere.
'Open-source software such as Linux, on the other hand, encourages individuals to add to or modify software without fear of legal repercussions, so long as they abide by the conditions of the general public license, which stipulates that the program must remain open and sharable.'"
I don't really see much wrong with this. The wording could be a little more clear but it's not completely wrong.
It is true that additions to GNU GPL code must remain sharable. The GNU GPL doesn't say you have to share them, but it does say that they must be sharable.
The reference to 'legal repercussions' could be a little more clear as it should only refer to copyright related legal repercussions and not patent related repercussions.
This was hardly worth putting up on slashdot.
They could send you a bogus SSL cert. But it wouldn't look legit.
That's the idea of SSL certificates, you can verify that you are making a connection to the host that you want to make a connection to and nobody in between can intercept it.
SSL requires that you trust your operating system provider and the certificate company that created the certificate. It doesn't require that you trust your ISP.
indeed not.
But the US Supreme Court has ruled that ilegally copying digital media isn't stealing.
And I'm not familiar with any products that are better than FrontPage yet still easy to use for Web design.
LOL.
That is all I have to say.
This doesn't sounds like a problem at all.
To use it the regime would have to know about other sites the user had visited to input that information in to the algo.
If they can already uniquely identify a users across multiple sites then they would already know who they were.
All this is useful for is processing information for marketing after using your phishing detecting(IE7, google toolbar) software to spy on your users.
This is the same style of 'security solution' as Anti-Virus software.
Phishing is really easy to prevent.
1. Don't submit information on non-encrypted pages
2. Check certificate to make sure it's for the company you want to send the information to.
Amazingly this is really simple, protects better than any 'anti-phishing' list and has been part of the default functionality of web browsers for many years.
I've been programming(not professionally) for 10 years.
Mostly in C, Python, ECMAscript and Java. I've been recently trying to get in to functional programming after reading a really interesting article: http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html. I really liked the concepts.
I started by looking at Erlang and Haskell, but I just don't like their syntax which made it really difficult to stay motivated in learning. Thinking functionally was pretty easy, but thinking functionally to do something that involves state is confusing.
I've recently been looking at scheme and using ECMAscript functionally, which I like the syntax of more.
the great thing about being a patent holding company is that you aren't making anything and therefore not violating anyone else's patents.
The software patent war won't be a war, but an extermination.
Where those companies that make things will be crushed by those that don't.
Nuclear power produces waste that needs to be stored for thousands of years in secure facilities, thousands of years of storage is expensive.
To make sure these facilities continue to function we need a stable government for that whole time.
Think about it, the egyptains made the pyramids only a few thousand years ago and was hardly any information about them when we found them. Imagine if they were nuclear waste storage.
You still need some backups of that Raid array.
DVDs and even Blue-Ray are still way too small.
You can't do backups to hard drives because they aren't very reliable, the whole moving part thing is a problem.
So this tech is going to allow for a good optical backup solution.
lol
I Predicted this sort of thing in 2005.
It's a really stupid feature.
CVS shouldn't be part of the document.
The GPL is very supportive of captialism.
It allow for lots of competition which is required for a functioning captialist system.
Monoploys and huge multinational corporation are very bad for captialism as they reduce competition in the market so benefits of captialism are lost.
I walk.
I walk to uni.
I walk to the shops.
I walk around in dark places at night with friends and discuss current events.
It's pretty good. I can't imagine walking on the spot being very interesting for very long.
Infact it would be boring and pointless.
Note: if you have malware installed on your computer with administrator privileges you can't trust your software firewall. You can't trust your anti-virus. You can't trust your OS installation at all.