I started it up... nothing happened. Looking at the process listing I see it, but nothing else. Then, after what feels like at least 60 seconds the gui pops up. And this is a 1.7 ghz athlon with 512M of ram.
I've never looked at outsourced code, but I doubt it is much worse than US code. I've seen a lot of US written code, and it is crap too. But it is good enough to get the job done. That is all companies want - good enough to get the short term job done. The code doesn't have to be good for that, and usually isn't. No matter where it is written. I think outsourced projects fail for management reasons, not technical reasons. It is damn hard to manage a 3rd party team on the other side of the world. Once good management is co-located with the developers I'm sure the quality of the products will improve. It will just take a little longer to outsource mid-level management because they are a little higher up the food chain. Look at other outsourced industries for an example. The factory managers don't live in the US and run the factory by telephone. Factory managers are hired where the factory is. For a lot less than a US factory forman costs too.
Shouldn't be too hard to write a program that watches for that dialog box and hits OK for you. Security be damned. Its a windows box. As for open source browsers, if they are required to do something like this they should be sure there is an easy source code work around. Maybe they can't distribute their software with the work around in place, but just download the source, muck with a few lines of code, and re-compile. At least power-users won't have to deal with it. There's no law against modifying the source on your system. Yet.
I think your jail time should be based on the technical merits of your attack. The less technical knowledge required the more time you should get. For example - if you are using a root kit exploiting a bunch of unpatched win98 systems on a cable modem network to ddos the latest enemy of slashdot (RIAA or SCO or something) you should get maximum pound me in the ass time because any monkey can do that. But if you discover a new exploite for a more secure package like QMail, and do something clever with it you should get a light sentance - pick up trash for the day maybe. But- if you discover a new exploite and explain it on slashdot or release a root kit so any monkey can do it you should be punished for that - max pound me in the ass time.
After all, the government invented the business where I make my living (software engineering) and built the infrastructure to make it possible. I don't want to start paying for that all out of my own pocket. The more taxes the better I say.
I'm sure their wireless network security was overlooked in the time crunch. These folks will never know the guy next door is sharing mp3's over their network, and their kides are going to be sued for a million dollars each. Terrrrrific indeed.
Yuck. I hear this right wing bullshit all the time. Some old white males feel threatened anytime a non-white male is added to a history text book and a few column inches are taken away from their pet dead white male. You start bitching about the PCifying of text books. Just because you didn't learn about the people being added to text books when you were young doesn't mean those people aren't important to our history. It means your text books were skewed to only focus on dead white males. You got the shitty history education. Don't push it on your kids.
of coders. Look at the economy now. In the same way that we don't need higly skilled engineers to build cars anymore, we won't need highly skilled coders to build applications by the time these kids graduate. This is like bitching about Ford giving a drivers ed program a car. "Oh no, the kids won't know how to drive other kinds of cars! They'll all become Ford mechanics!" Look, a computer is a computer is a computer. This will be more true in 10 years when these kids hit the work force.
No doubt. There's no reason every text box widget from all the major frameworks shouldn't have spell check built in. Someday I might get my shit together and try and implement it.
Its been my experience that the B.S. in computer science is the sweet spot if you want to write real world code. You get enough education and theory to learn how to learn anything need to know when you need it, and you get into real world coding early enough that you have real experience and some job security (well, not anymore) and income by your mid to late 20s. Mid to late 20s happens to be the age of hot grad school chicks, and they would rather date a guy with cash than a lifer student by the way.
Now if you go to grad school you'll graduate in your late 20s and not have a clue about how to write real world code. Your co-workers with B.S. degrees will be pissed at you because they'll constantly be fixing your undocumented code and resent you for the undeserved respect and salary the pointy haired boss gives you because you have a phd.
But if you want to get into research and stay far away from me and my real world code a phd is the way to go. Well, that's been my experience working at a certain Big Blue company anyway.
You probably sit in front of slashdot all day eating cheetoes and drinking soda, drive the the bar at night, stuff your face with a basket of chicken wings while drinking beer, drive back home and go to sleep, no? Try walking the long way to the pub. 'Course after all those sodas and cheetoes you are going to have to walk about 100 miles. Maybe eat carrots and drink water while reading slashdot.
As other replies have said, there is no evidence the MS inteface to usenet does any such thing. They aren't touching the NNTP protocol at all from what I've seen. They are just running some statistical analysis on it. Anyway, the more people who use usenet the better as far as I'm concerned. There's no way the quality of the posts can get any worse. Unless web weened slashdotters figure out how to use their news readers anyway.
Of course you can't change the protocol on existing, deployed software. So just don't upgrade BK and you can write software that will eventually be 100% compat with that version. There is seldom pressing need to update any software at any time anyway.
The slippery slope is a rhetorical fallacy. It is the entire premise in your argument, and therefore your argument is 100% bullshit, not +5 Insightful. Moderators on this site need to take a debate class. At least they should be required to google for "slippery slope" and hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button. There is no evidence that proposing bills like this will make it easier for other bills to pass. You can't point to a single anecdotal example, muchless actual evidence.
what's the definition of refined software? Oh, there isn't one? Then how did they measure it? They didn't? It is just more evangelism? Then why is it posted on a "news" site? Ohhh, it is slashdot. I think I need to configure my firewall to block all packets from slashdot from now on.
Open source programmers and their viral GPL are slowly destroying the value of our high quality, patriotic, made in the USA software like Windows and SCO Unix. I think the only solution at this point is, through legislation, to restrict access to compilers, debuggers, emacs, vim and other software tools to God fearing American corporations. Home PC's must be registered with the government, and it should only be legal to run the IE web browser and that Army game on legacy PC's. This can be enforced with random spot checks. All new PC's must not include hard drives, (indeed hard drives will be classified as a munition and not available to the general public) and really can be nothing more than dumb terminals with a web browser hard wired into the firmware. God Bless America! Remember your motto citizen! "For AOL, Microsoft, God and Country!"
It is nothing like deciding if two cows or planes _look_ the same. It is like deciding if two cows are the same cow, or two planes are the same plane. Everyone knows you can't have two planes that are the same plane. And you can't have two cows that are the same cow. The article implies that code was copied unmodified (but doesn't actually say it. Actually, the article doesn't reveal any new information at all. If that is a result of the resctrictivness of the NDA then it is proof that the NDA thing is bunk) Anyone can tell if the code is copied and pasted because it matches, letter for letter.
IANAL, and neither are you. My IP address is public. The internet wouldn't work to well if it wasn't. Also, you say "they also claim ownership of all materials you send through their application" whereas they say "Trepia, Inc. is free to use any ideas, know-how, concepts, techniques or other materials you send us for any purpose." The difference being they say and material you send _to_ them, not _through_ their service. Again, IANAL, but it don't think it is as bad as you make it out to be. Finally, you shouldn't discuss valuable ideas over any open network no matter what their policy is. Use a chat system that supports encryption for that. And is it a privacy violation if they tell you they are doing it? I don't think so.
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Any time I do anything in the gui iTunes locks up for at least 30 seconds. Back to winamp for me. Maybe the next version of itunes will work.
I started it up... nothing happened. Looking at the process listing I see it, but nothing else. Then, after what feels like at least 60 seconds the gui pops up. And this is a 1.7 ghz athlon with 512M of ram.
I've never looked at outsourced code, but I doubt it is much worse than US code. I've seen a lot of US written code, and it is crap too. But it is good enough to get the job done. That is all companies want - good enough to get the short term job done. The code doesn't have to be good for that, and usually isn't. No matter where it is written. I think outsourced projects fail for management reasons, not technical reasons. It is damn hard to manage a 3rd party team on the other side of the world. Once good management is co-located with the developers I'm sure the quality of the products will improve. It will just take a little longer to outsource mid-level management because they are a little higher up the food chain. Look at other outsourced industries for an example. The factory managers don't live in the US and run the factory by telephone. Factory managers are hired where the factory is. For a lot less than a US factory forman costs too.
Shouldn't be too hard to write a program that watches for that dialog box and hits OK for you. Security be damned. Its a windows box. As for open source browsers, if they are required to do something like this they should be sure there is an easy source code work around. Maybe they can't distribute their software with the work around in place, but just download the source, muck with a few lines of code, and re-compile. At least power-users won't have to deal with it. There's no law against modifying the source on your system. Yet.
I think your jail time should be based on the technical merits of your attack. The less technical knowledge required the more time you should get. For example - if you are using a root kit exploiting a bunch of unpatched win98 systems on a cable modem network to ddos the latest enemy of slashdot (RIAA or SCO or something) you should get maximum pound me in the ass time because any monkey can do that. But if you discover a new exploite for a more secure package like QMail, and do something clever with it you should get a light sentance - pick up trash for the day maybe. But- if you discover a new exploite and explain it on slashdot or release a root kit so any monkey can do it you should be punished for that - max pound me in the ass time.
After all, the government invented the business where I make my living (software engineering) and built the infrastructure to make it possible. I don't want to start paying for that all out of my own pocket. The more taxes the better I say.
In some areas of contract law disclaimers must be in all caps. They aren't just shouting.
I'm sure their wireless network security was overlooked in the time crunch. These folks will never know the guy next door is sharing mp3's over their network, and their kides are going to be sued for a million dollars each. Terrrrrific indeed.
Yuck. I hear this right wing bullshit all the time. Some old white males feel threatened anytime a non-white male is added to a history text book and a few column inches are taken away from their pet dead white male. You start bitching about the PCifying of text books. Just because you didn't learn about the people being added to text books when you were young doesn't mean those people aren't important to our history. It means your text books were skewed to only focus on dead white males. You got the shitty history education. Don't push it on your kids.
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How bout put biometrics on the stick.
of coders. Look at the economy now. In the same way that we don't need higly skilled engineers to build cars anymore, we won't need highly skilled coders to build applications by the time these kids graduate. This is like bitching about Ford giving a drivers ed program a car. "Oh no, the kids won't know how to drive other kinds of cars! They'll all become Ford mechanics!" Look, a computer is a computer is a computer. This will be more true in 10 years when these kids hit the work force.
No doubt. There's no reason every text box widget from all the major frameworks shouldn't have spell check built in. Someday I might get my shit together and try and implement it.
Its been my experience that the B.S. in computer science is the sweet spot if you want to write real world code. You get enough education and theory to learn how to learn anything need to know when you need it, and you get into real world coding early enough that you have real experience and some job security (well, not anymore) and income by your mid to late 20s. Mid to late 20s happens to be the age of hot grad school chicks, and they would rather date a guy with cash than a lifer student by the way. Now if you go to grad school you'll graduate in your late 20s and not have a clue about how to write real world code. Your co-workers with B.S. degrees will be pissed at you because they'll constantly be fixing your undocumented code and resent you for the undeserved respect and salary the pointy haired boss gives you because you have a phd. But if you want to get into research and stay far away from me and my real world code a phd is the way to go. Well, that's been my experience working at a certain Big Blue company anyway.
You probably sit in front of slashdot all day eating cheetoes and drinking soda, drive the the bar at night, stuff your face with a basket of chicken wings while drinking beer, drive back home and go to sleep, no? Try walking the long way to the pub. 'Course after all those sodas and cheetoes you are going to have to walk about 100 miles. Maybe eat carrots and drink water while reading slashdot.
As other replies have said, there is no evidence the MS inteface to usenet does any such thing. They aren't touching the NNTP protocol at all from what I've seen. They are just running some statistical analysis on it. Anyway, the more people who use usenet the better as far as I'm concerned. There's no way the quality of the posts can get any worse. Unless web weened slashdotters figure out how to use their news readers anyway.
Of course you can't change the protocol on existing, deployed software. So just don't upgrade BK and you can write software that will eventually be 100% compat with that version. There is seldom pressing need to update any software at any time anyway.
The slippery slope is a rhetorical fallacy. It is the entire premise in your argument, and therefore your argument is 100% bullshit, not +5 Insightful. Moderators on this site need to take a debate class. At least they should be required to google for "slippery slope" and hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button. There is no evidence that proposing bills like this will make it easier for other bills to pass. You can't point to a single anecdotal example, muchless actual evidence.
what's the definition of refined software? Oh, there isn't one? Then how did they measure it? They didn't? It is just more evangelism? Then why is it posted on a "news" site? Ohhh, it is slashdot. I think I need to configure my firewall to block all packets from slashdot from now on.
'nuff said.
Well, studly to bespectacled pulp fantasy reading Tolkein geek chicks anyway. Probably hasn't reached the status of general studlyness though.
Open source programmers and their viral GPL are slowly destroying the value of our high quality, patriotic, made in the USA software like Windows and SCO Unix. I think the only solution at this point is, through legislation, to restrict access to compilers, debuggers, emacs, vim and other software tools to God fearing American corporations. Home PC's must be registered with the government, and it should only be legal to run the IE web browser and that Army game on legacy PC's. This can be enforced with random spot checks. All new PC's must not include hard drives, (indeed hard drives will be classified as a munition and not available to the general public) and really can be nothing more than dumb terminals with a web browser hard wired into the firmware. God Bless America! Remember your motto citizen! "For AOL, Microsoft, God and Country!"
It is nothing like deciding if two cows or planes _look_ the same. It is like deciding if two cows are the same cow, or two planes are the same plane. Everyone knows you can't have two planes that are the same plane. And you can't have two cows that are the same cow. The article implies that code was copied unmodified (but doesn't actually say it. Actually, the article doesn't reveal any new information at all. If that is a result of the resctrictivness of the NDA then it is proof that the NDA thing is bunk) Anyone can tell if the code is copied and pasted because it matches, letter for letter.
IANAL, and neither are you. My IP address is public. The internet wouldn't work to well if it wasn't. Also, you say "they also claim ownership of all materials you send through their application" whereas they say "Trepia, Inc. is free to use any ideas, know-how, concepts, techniques or other materials you send us for any purpose." The difference being they say and material you send _to_ them, not _through_ their service. Again, IANAL, but it don't think it is as bad as you make it out to be. Finally, you shouldn't discuss valuable ideas over any open network no matter what their policy is. Use a chat system that supports encryption for that. And is it a privacy violation if they tell you they are doing it? I don't think so.
For taking the country your father has been defending and handing it over to us. I'm sure he is proud of you. Love, Verizon