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  1. Re:Web developers know they'll be attacked on Typing 'http://:' Into a Skype Message Trashes the Installation Beyond Repair · · Score: 2

    You are smoking crack. Web developers, those writing crappy PHP websites or just straight HTML do not have a clue about security. Those writing enterprise apps at least know what the word means, but the general web page developer still does exactly 0 security work.

  2. And displays an incredibly bad error condition handling in the codebase. There's a reason I only used Skype when forced to. Although now I might enjoy it - all MS users send me a message at MSisDaBomb!

  3. Re: finally on Microsoft To Support SSH In Windows and Contribute To OpenSSH · · Score: 1

    AD doesn't play well with anyone. It's still a crappy directory and I don't think anything will ever change that short of a wholesale replacement.

  4. I've actually done this using my real name and a variation of it. My real name didn't get an interview, the fake "English" sounding one did. I didn't go, but man it was depressing.

    Well, what that proves is that it isn't about race, but name bias. I'll bet something like Bjork ranks low as well.

  5. It is expensive, until you need a reliable wireless connection. Then, compared to Cisco and other business class routers, the APE is an absolute bargain. Yes, you don't get enterprisey management, but all I want or need is a reliable wireless connection. Linksys, D-link, TrendNet, Buffalo, etc have all failed at this basic requirement for a wireless router. I used to get a new router every 3-6 months or so as the current one went flaky. Tallied up the costs in a year and decided to buy an APE. 5 years later, still running the same APE and it's been rebooted only a handful of times. I'm considering getting a new one only to get the upgraded wireless speeds.

  6. Re: finally on Microsoft To Support SSH In Windows and Contribute To OpenSSH · · Score: 1

    It's more like 2 decades since ssh first hit the internet. And I came here to retract the other day's comment that MS still didn't support the industry standard, well, will soon support the standard...

    I agree with the AC however, cygwin is a pain, enough so that I switched to Linux and macs to get real shell support. Granted, since I stopped running any windows at all more than 5 years ago, I can't state that cygwin still sucks, as I haven't seen it in that time.

  7. Re:Simplistic on Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs To Computerization? · · Score: 1

    And then you have pilots like Lubitz who's only the latest in a string of such pilots.

  8. Re: Where did all the money go on Ask Slashdot: Switching Careers From Software Engineering To Networking? · · Score: 1

    You should never short-change your emergency fund, and at 200K+ a year, sorry, I don't care where you live. I and my friends have lived on a lot less in various portions of the country that you're naming. Granted, it's not always where you *want* to live, but it is way way way beneath the means of someone earning 6 figures. Otherwise waitresses, busboys, doormen and fast food workers would all be earning well into 6 figures. He's living far beyond his means if his stated circumstances are true. And the old quote "just because you can, doesn't mean you should" holds here too. Live like you earn 100K in his case, and his finances will be fine in short order.

  9. Re:Yes, but because on Steve Albini: The Music Industry Is a Parasite -- and Copyright Is Dead · · Score: 1

    100% wrong. The music industry is there to market the music. From Taylor Swift down to those "indie bands" that you guys like to listen to. You wouldn't have heard about them without the music industry marketing machine. You didn't just "discover" that "indie band". Someone was out there marketing them.

    And that is a large part of the problem. The "music industry" has a lock on all marketing avenues that matter, if you don't sign with the gatekeeper, you will 99.999% of the time fail. Even if you discover an indie band that you like, if they don't sign, they'll most likely fail.

  10. Re:Where did all the money go on Ask Slashdot: Switching Careers From Software Engineering To Networking? · · Score: 2

    Yeah, I'm sorry, no pity here - you're making over 210K / year, and you don't have at least 2 years run rate and a hefty retirement savings account you can fall back on? Sounds like you majorly failed at money management 101 - spend less than you earn and put at least 20% away in savings. BTW, that 20% is for people at an average salary, in your case, no matter where you live, you should be dropping at least 40% into savings, and likely more.

  11. Re:Missing the 'why' of it. on Let's Take This Open Floor Plan To the Next Level · · Score: 3, Informative

    One of the most highly productive companies I worked for in the past had individual near sound-proofed offices for all their developers. The least productive companies all had one thing in common - chairs attached to common tables as desks, the epitome of the cheap open office concept.

  12. Re:A Sign of the Times on Let's Take This Open Floor Plan To the Next Level · · Score: 1

    If you want to reduce your productivity as much as possible, spend as little on productivity enhancements as possible. Voila - open office floor plans. Great for 1 way seminars, terrible for actually getting work done that does require some communication and collaboration.

  13. Re:Those of you who are? on Let's Take This Open Floor Plan To the Next Level · · Score: 1

    Substitute "Agile" for "Open Office" and "open floor" and it applies equally well.

  14. Re:It's 1930s retro! on Professional Internet Troll Sues Her Former Employer · · Score: 2

    What access? Tech minded individuals don't see anything they don't want to see on something as malleable as HTML.

  15. Re:Is a reduction on Bats' White-Nose Syndrome May Be Cured · · Score: 1

    If they have discovered a treatment/cure and they're working with the Forest Service, then they've already engaged government and have effectively come up with a way to save bats. All without lobbying.

  16. Re:With Names Like This... on Hubble Discovers a Fast-Aging Star Nicknamed "Nasty 1" · · Score: 1

    No, I prefer to think we're seeing a peaceful instance of Dyson sphere construction. Years from now this object will show up on the patrol scans as a vanilla-looking cool red giant.

    and another instance of "dark matter" will be born.... (there will be no red giant, a sufficiently advanced race that can build a dyson sphere won't waste that much energy)

  17. Re:I don't know why people still say Java is slow. on How Java Changed Programming Forever · · Score: 1

    Funny enough, it is the lack of proper abstraction that causes the kind of code bloat you're describing. If you're cutting and pasting boilerplate code and doing a search/replace within your "new" files, that is a clear warning flag of bad software architecture.

  18. Re:Plant? on How Java Changed Programming Forever · · Score: 1

    You must live just outside Seattle.

  19. Re:I see the master plan on Jason Scott of Textfiles.com Wants Your AOL & Shovelware CDs · · Score: 1

    I'd have to look up some of that shareware I still have, as I haven't read one in a really long time. And yes, I've sat through more contracts with lawyers than I wanted to. it's brain deadening. I do recall the time limitation usually applied to the amount of time you could install and trial the software, not the distribution thereof. So if you distributed a wrapped, self-installing version of the shareware with the shareware in its original form, you'd still be adhering to the license, as it wouldn't be installed until the user ran the VM for the first time. At that point the user is the one subject to the license, not you. And you can get around 99.999% of the cost issues by just making that VM downloadable online via a torrent. If you're truly not looking to make money, you've just side-stepped the entire license debacle.

  20. Re:It's not a networking issue. on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Solve a Unique Networking Issue? · · Score: 2

    the manufacturer has done a crap job of building the "networking" part of this,

    Actually, the manufacturer has done an EXCELLENT job of building the "networking" part of this. Hacking into this remote is going to be very problematic! Think of the built in security! Maintaining it, however, is a different story.

  21. Re:It's Jason Scott on Jason Scott of Textfiles.com Wants Your AOL & Shovelware CDs · · Score: 1

    I'm in the process of cleaning out the old software box in the closet. I'll send what I haven't already thrown out (unfortunately there were a few things that were probably somewhat rare).

  22. Re:I see the master plan on Jason Scott of Textfiles.com Wants Your AOL & Shovelware CDs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Afraid not, a friend of my and myself actually tried contacting some of the old shareware companies to get permission to make the old shareware on a flash stick with a preconfigured DOSBox so kids could see what it was like in the early 90s.

    What we found was

    This is why you follow the license on the shareware, and what you did was essentially allow the copyright holders to restrict you retroactively. Most shareware, IIRC, had something along the lines of distribution was fine, you had essentially a "trial" free version, and payment to unlock the entire thing. Abide by those rules, and you should be fine. IANAL....

    This is why I think copyrights should be a "use it or lose it" situation, where if a company does not sell their product in retail markets for x number of years they lose the rights which then go into public domain.

    I'll agree with this. Personally, I feel the following should happen

    • 1) bring back the register the work with the Library of Congress portion within a year of publishing. This will ensure the work remains available even if the publisher goes away.
    • 2) make the copyright term truly limited. Since the average life expectancy for men in the US is 74 and you cannot realistically recall most things until you're at least 10, that means the max would have to be less than 64 years to effectively be limited. I would argue 32, rounded down to 30, which is darn close to the original copyright terms. I also am fine with the original clause that required re-registering the copyright halfway through.
    • 3) putting something in "the vault" (a la Disney) automatically puts it in the public domain. (the anti-Disney greedy money grubbing clause)
    • 4) copyrights are non-transferrable and distribution agreements cannot extend beyond half the copyright term. (guarantees that the copyright creators maintain ownership)
  23. Re:Not reduced enough, I guarantee it on Court of Appeals Says Samsung's Legal Payments To Apple Should Be Reduced · · Score: 1
    And, interestingly enough, they were all in development, as was the iphone in 2004. And there was the issue with Eric Schmidt:

    Apple launched the iPhone in January of 2007. Eleven months later, in November of 2007, Google showed a video that effectively juxtaposed Google-Android's original pre-iPhone "before" prototype which looked and operated more like a Blackberry button-driven phone, with Google-Android's post-iPhone-launch "after" prototype that heavily-resembled the look-and-feel of the iPhone and incorporated many of Apple's signature touch-screen inventions. In October 2008, T-Mobile released the G1, Google's first Android phone.

    You can draw whatever conclusions you want, but it is hard to argue that Android did not change in nature due to Schmidt's privileged knowledge.

  24. Re:Is it on the main download page? on Trojanized, Info-Stealing PuTTY Version Lurking Online · · Score: 1

    There is always a risk if you must download something from the web and install it for your security toolset. I blame MS for not putting a basic solid security tool into their distribution that has existed for decades, and was in wide use prior to the release of Windows NT 4.0.

  25. Re:Not reduced enough, I guarantee it on Court of Appeals Says Samsung's Legal Payments To Apple Should Be Reduced · · Score: 0

    Did Samsung knowingly and intentionally copy the iPhone? Yes and yes.