Yea, or they could use something designed without grandious plans of dominating the world with a decentralized... something, I don't know what they were going for, the point is both Git and Mercurial are far more complicated than need be for anything but the most complex projects.
Contrary to popular belief, anarchy is not productive.
No company who wants to stay in business long term makes any profitable product open source. Open source software is NOT THE PRODUCT of ANY COMPANY ANYWHERE. Of course, you're just being a douche bag troll, but hey, I might as well bite.
And use Ruby on Rails; it's the future.
Smoke crack and do far far too much LSD I see.
I don't mind Hippies, but ignorant hippies too stupid to see past their nose are freaking annoying. Who takes care of you, your mother or father?
Will IT slap you on the back and buy you a beer if you install a GIT repo "hub" like gitolite, or take you out back and shoot you?
Thats pretty much a universal 'take you out back and shoot you' response, unless of course you talk to them about it first.
You don't start fucking around on someones network without talking to them first. When you are at work its not YOUR PC or YOUR NETWORK or anything of YOURS, its THEIRS, and you should be respectful of the fact that you don't know everything going on and you clearly are not a system admin so you know even less about whats going on with their systems.
You haven't seen shit yet, you'll experience FAR crazier things in your career for sure.
What you should be asking however is... why are THEY using old tools and not what you would consider 'best practices' (me too from the sound of it).
There may actually be a reason, and it may give you a hint as to what direction you want to take with the company. The reason is probably a bad one, but it may not be.
In short, you shouldn't be asking slashdot, you should be asking the people you work with that actually have some idea whats going on with the company you work for. You'll get a lot of retarded answers from slashdot telling you EXACTLY how it SHOULD BE when the people giving the answers have no clue what sort of requirements your company is operating under.
The new 1% will be significantly more cautious to start with. Its a cycle, its happened before and will happen again... seriously, look at the history over any 200 year period in any country since the recording began. Same thing, everywhere, all the time.
I've seen a couple guys in an inflatable raft damn near sink a destroyer and one guy with a cell phone and some ingenuity blow 6 guys AND THEIR HUMMER to oblivion. Don't be so cocky.
Fighting a war as a soldier is one thing, an occupation, as the last few years we've been in the middle east should show you is ENTIRELY DIFFERENT than a war. You can be far more advanced and still get your ass whipped for a number of reasons.
1) Thats not yet possible actually, so the price is currently infinity, its got an infinite distance to fall before it matters. 2) If you kill everyone but your own family, then you have to do the work to survive in the world yourself, not exactly the best course of action. Being rich means nothing if no one will take your money.
A nurse isn't going to start a hospital, but there are other things that can be done, such as in home care or house calls for certain things, giving flu shots at a local small scale pharmacy some times, not my profession but I can think of two people I know who are RNs and work for themselves.
A teacher isn't going to start a public school, but they can still do other things such as private tutor or start their own secondary education facility to do special education, group tutoring, or other various bits of things. There are many things a teacher can do without being at a school. My sister-in-law has been basically a 'teacher for hire' for the last couple of years doing all sorts of things for local schools and universities. So far it seems to be more profitable, rewarding, and less stressful than when she taught school here. Mind you, she already knew a lot of people here when she started doing what I'd describe as contract work.
While I think its unlikely our government will fuck up enough to end up like Egypt, it would be really easy to do right now if they keep acting like douche bags on television and radio making it clear they don't give a fuck.
Its one thing to know they don't give a fuck and want to screw us as hard as possible, we get pissed when they brag about it in our faces.
Do you have any fucking clue how much it costs to get insurance for hurricane damage in Florida?
Yes, you can do it, but its so ridiculously expensive that you're an idiot for doing so. You're far better off to just build a few miles inland where you don't have to worry about the worst bits of hurricanes. If you do build on the ocean or close to it, you pretty much just have to accept that you're going to rebuild your house once every 20 year or so and just put money away for that purpose, it'll accomplish the same thing and cost 25% the insurance prices.
The lender is responsible for ensure they borrower is capable of paying back the loan, especially when they are lending someone elses money, especially MINE.
Yes, the borrower is responsible for paying back the loan, and when an otherwise good borrower suddenly fucks up and doesn't pay back a loan for whatever reason, you understand that is part of the risk of lending.
However, when the bank makes loans like they did for my wife. $180k loan to a woman in college (3rd year vet student at the time) with absolutely no job and no time for one anytime in the next 2 years, then its is entirely justified to blame them when it goes South. The bank was fucking utterly retarded to loan my wife the money. Her only 'income' was student loans, which... they fucking counted as income.
Fortunately for them, we actually do have the money to pay for it.
The point however is that there are times when its just part of the lending business, and then there is what has been going on over the last decade where bankers were giving money to anyone anywhere regardless of if they actually qualified for it or not...
Theres absolutely no way you can claim its not the banks fault when they were giving loans to people who claimed other loans as 'income'.
Few people are blaming the banks because the banks legitimately took someones house who hadn't been paying for it, and those people are just nutjobs. What people ARE bitching about is the fact that the banks are foreclosing on homes they don't even fucking have loans for, and GETTING THE DAMN HOMES. They're foreclosing on homes with no paperwork showing they even loaned any money or bought a loan from someone else. They are calling up offering MUCH better financing now and asking existing customers to refinance because they don't have anything to PROVE they actually own the lean on the home!
No one feels sorry for the guy who lost his half million dollar house because he couldn't pay for it working at McDonalds. We are pissed off because the fucking bank GAME HIM A HALF MILLION DOLLARS WHILE WORKING AT MCDONALDS. We're pissed off because all the assholes that caused this shit are still rich as fuck and the government gives them money so they don't get hurt any more, while those of us who didn't fuck up are paying for it. I don't mind helping out when I'm helping someone worse off than me, but here its the poor and middle class bailing out the rich because THEY FUCKED UP.
Don't try to shift the blame. I any many other people did our part and paid our bills, and we'll be glade to help out the guy who can't feed himself, but forcing me to bail out the fuckwads who have 4 or 5 extra digits on their bank accounts than me... when they fucked up and are still currently raping others like me?
We are responsible for our position in life, and what you're seeing in these protests is people who are getting more and more tired of being fucked over even though they've done everything they were supposed to, because the rich guy in the office on the top floor, Southwest corner, who will make more in the next 15 seconds than most of us will in the next 3 years, pays off the right politician.
They are becoming more responsible for their direct position in life, hopefully the guy in the building and the politicians will start listening, in the last year, several countries have fallen for smaller reasons.
You can keep blaming the little guy, but he's getting a lot closer to just whipping your ass rather than bitching.
By any normal persons definition, these monkeys also never actually produced any of Shakespeare's works either. They basically produced the right number of As, Bs, Cs, ect... and then the guy running the project rearranged them into the right order and says the monkeys wrote shakespeare!
I guess if you count the guy who is reassembling the letters as a monkey, then its probably true that 1 million virtual monkeys and 1 human monkey could do it, though I'm guessing he probably fucked up the reassembly as well considering everything else about this 'project'.
The name of this project is completely wrong compared to what anyone who knows of the Million monkeys can recreate Shakespeares works' concept.
If a random sequence output from one of the 'virtual monkeys' matched some sequence of characters in a work, they counted it as if the monkey typed part of that work.
At no point did any one of their virtual monkeys ever turn out even a single coherent sentence, let alone one that could be found in a work of Shakespeare.
This guy seems to think that if you get enough output from/dev/urandom that you can account for all the characters in a book, then you've recreated the book. Doesn't matter than/dev/urandom didn't actually spell out the words in the book.
While for me I agree for the Metro portion of Windows 8, much like the Launchpad in OS X 10.7, you can turn it off and make your PC not act like a cell phone pretty easily.
Windows 8 on the other hand, will probably be just fine. They haven't had enough time to Vista it up.
And the Must be in app store is a other killer as well. No way adobe will give MS 30% the cost of the CS pack just to have a Metro Photoshop.
Well, first there is no 'must be in app store' requirement.
Second, Adobe doesn't seem to have a problem giving Apple 30% to be on the Mac (which is entirely voluntary) or iOS app stores, so I'd say you're probably wrong on all accounts.
Sigh... please tell me you don't tell people you know the.NET framework.
What makes WinRT a royal pain is that it is low level C++ API. Thus C# becomes a second rate citizen and C++ a first rate citizen and it uses COM technologies.
The Windowing and other GUI apis have ALWAYS been low level C (not C++) APIs, and likely always will be. Windows.Forms was built on top of that. I'm not real sure how you can say that C# is a second class citizen or a first class citizen, it is neither and both..NET Libraries care not what language they are being used by, sure the API may not feel as natural in one language over the other, but thats not anything new and will always be there.
Its rather retarded to think that any API other than the one at the lowest level is going to be the one that is most natural. Its all implemented in C at the low level, regardless of what lazy language you throw on top of it.
Never thought that would happen in that COM is brought back to life.
Then you have absolutely no idea how the.NET framework is built..NET Assemblies are extensions to ActiveX, which are... extensions to COM objects... which are extensions of OLE2 objects. In fact, every.NET framework assembly is a OLE2 object, as is every ActiveX and COM object, each one just a different set of interface requirements on top of the previous.
It is what it is and personally I think WinRT will fail overall because it means you are completely beholden to the Windows platform!
You mean like Windows.Forms is beholden to the Windows platform? So I guess you're saying it would be absolutely impossible for someone to write a clean implementation of it or a wrapper around Qt or GTK to do the same? Thats odd, why do you seem to think what can be done for the Windows.Forms namespace can't be done again, why do you think thats the case?
I'm fairly certain you have absolutely no idea how the.NET framework works. You have heard of Mono haven't you?
I'm going to get modded down just like you... but the main reason you've experienced that is mostly because the gaming experience on Linux is really fucking shitty.
You of course are just a troll trying to be all high and mighty, when all you really do is show everyone your age, or lack there of. All you've really shown anyone is that you're a self absorbed douche.
So who are you Mr AC? 15 years of Linux coding puts you pretty much in it since the beginning of any point of usefulness out of it. There weren't many 'professional Linux coders' back then, everyone of them probably knows every other one of them actually. And 'coders'... seriously? Who talks that way?
You actually understood that collection of about 8 incoherent thoughts mixed into one? Other than the bang on part, do you think you could translate what the rest of that means?
If the school receives ANY public funding what so ever, all works produced by it should be public domain.
GPL is not a proper license to use as you're intentionally fucking over multiple people to push an agenda that may not be shared by everyone contributing funding. You more or less can't use anything that takes ANY rights away from others and continue to be fair to the tax payers. Anything other than that really isn't fair to anyone who contributed to the public funds given to the school. BSD is closer, but still may conflict for trivial reasons with one of the tax payers who contributed, so public domain is the only logical option.
As the post above who states GPL is the only obvious choice, thats simply because you want to use this as a tool to promote your agenda and your political ideals, which is exactly what SHOULD NOT HAPPEN with ANYTHING that receives from PUBLIC FUNDING (anything I contribute to as required by law). GPL prevents the work from being used in far too many useful ways. I really wish GPL morons would get a clue and realize that GPL is as bad for innovation as the patent system for the exact same reasons.
If the school isn't publicly funded, then it really depends on what your school wants to accomplish and what values you are trying to teach.
Harvards and Yales are more likely to want to use proprietary licenses, and that fits more along with their own teachings.
Eitherway, your school has a charter that defines what it is trying to impart on its students both from a pure educational standpoint and from a moral stand point... that chart most likely actually defines EXACTLY what license you should be using in order to fit within its goal.
Remember, you aren't picking the license YOU WANT to win here, you're supposed to be picking a license that fits the school.
Unless someone really screwed the pooch, the results are never getting back to the virus writers
Unless of course the guy/girl who planted the virus is internal... which of course is a safe assumption since you know, the virus clearly IS there, so it had to be brought in by someone internal... unless it was connected to the internet.
So either way, if a virus can be placed on the systems, the data can be snuck off the systems using likely the same method. Maybe not real time, but none the less it could come off.
I doubt that Iran can get good quality help with something like this
Really? You don't think with the resources of an oil rich country that they couldn't buy someone domestic or foreign to do it for them? Are you retarded or just still asleep or something?
I'm not saying they did it, but you can't think that way about countries of any size at all, at that level all of them have enough resources to buy someone capable of doing it, or just kidnapping them and forcing them to do it without money. Most of the guys who write botnet software would more than likely be all over this opportunity, they clearly don't mind the moral implications.
No, its really not. A rootkit would make TripWire thing the binaries had not been modified. Thats what rootkits do, they hide every trace of themselves so that they are undetectable. Or at least thats the theory, theres always a way to detect them but it usually (for good ones) requires scanning the data in a known clean machine.
IDS systems don't work with the kernel tells the IDS that the file is the original and even delivers the original bytes to the IDS in order to fool it. The kernel returns the original data for any read of the file, any memory mapping attempt, anything you try to do to get it at the data other than what the rootkit wants you to do.
Root kits make the kernel lie to an IDS, making it useless. You can't scan an infected machine by asking it for data (local app or network share, doesn't matter). You have to ask another known clean machine to do the scanning on the data directly without any other untrusted code in the process.
Finally, the rootkit can also just make tripwire pretend to return ALL GOOD MASTER!.
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Yea, or they could use something designed without grandious plans of dominating the world with a decentralized ... something, I don't know what they were going for, the point is both Git and Mercurial are far more complicated than need be for anything but the most complex projects.
Contrary to popular belief, anarchy is not productive.
Smoke crack much?
No company who wants to stay in business long term makes any profitable product open source. Open source software is NOT THE PRODUCT of ANY COMPANY ANYWHERE. Of course, you're just being a douche bag troll, but hey, I might as well bite.
And use Ruby on Rails; it's the future.
Smoke crack and do far far too much LSD I see.
I don't mind Hippies, but ignorant hippies too stupid to see past their nose are freaking annoying. Who takes care of you, your mother or father?
Will IT slap you on the back and buy you a beer if you install a GIT repo "hub" like gitolite, or take you out back and shoot you?
Thats pretty much a universal 'take you out back and shoot you' response, unless of course you talk to them about it first.
You don't start fucking around on someones network without talking to them first. When you are at work its not YOUR PC or YOUR NETWORK or anything of YOURS, its THEIRS, and you should be respectful of the fact that you don't know everything going on and you clearly are not a system admin so you know even less about whats going on with their systems.
You haven't seen shit yet, you'll experience FAR crazier things in your career for sure.
What you should be asking however is ... why are THEY using old tools and not what you would consider 'best practices' (me too from the sound of it).
There may actually be a reason, and it may give you a hint as to what direction you want to take with the company. The reason is probably a bad one, but it may not be.
In short, you shouldn't be asking slashdot, you should be asking the people you work with that actually have some idea whats going on with the company you work for. You'll get a lot of retarded answers from slashdot telling you EXACTLY how it SHOULD BE when the people giving the answers have no clue what sort of requirements your company is operating under.
The new 1% will be significantly more cautious to start with. Its a cycle, its happened before and will happen again ... seriously, look at the history over any 200 year period in any country since the recording began. Same thing, everywhere, all the time.
I've seen a couple guys in an inflatable raft damn near sink a destroyer and one guy with a cell phone and some ingenuity blow 6 guys AND THEIR HUMMER to oblivion. Don't be so cocky.
Fighting a war as a soldier is one thing, an occupation, as the last few years we've been in the middle east should show you is ENTIRELY DIFFERENT than a war. You can be far more advanced and still get your ass whipped for a number of reasons.
1) Thats not yet possible actually, so the price is currently infinity, its got an infinite distance to fall before it matters.
2) If you kill everyone but your own family, then you have to do the work to survive in the world yourself, not exactly the best course of action. Being rich means nothing if no one will take your money.
Actually, yea, it is.
A nurse isn't going to start a hospital, but there are other things that can be done, such as in home care or house calls for certain things, giving flu shots at a local small scale pharmacy some times, not my profession but I can think of two people I know who are RNs and work for themselves.
A teacher isn't going to start a public school, but they can still do other things such as private tutor or start their own secondary education facility to do special education, group tutoring, or other various bits of things. There are many things a teacher can do without being at a school. My sister-in-law has been basically a 'teacher for hire' for the last couple of years doing all sorts of things for local schools and universities. So far it seems to be more profitable, rewarding, and less stressful than when she taught school here. Mind you, she already knew a lot of people here when she started doing what I'd describe as contract work.
You go ahead and try taking down the government of the USA and see how you do, if you want to compare apples to apples.
If you take a look at Late December last year/early January of this year in egypt looked a lot like we do now actually, slightly different reasons of course but none the less.
While I think its unlikely our government will fuck up enough to end up like Egypt, it would be really easy to do right now if they keep acting like douche bags on television and radio making it clear they don't give a fuck.
Its one thing to know they don't give a fuck and want to screw us as hard as possible, we get pissed when they brag about it in our faces.
Electric companies grow by doing more with less.
Efficiency innovation is where the electric thrive or die.
Uhm, do you live in Florida?
Do you have any fucking clue how much it costs to get insurance for hurricane damage in Florida?
Yes, you can do it, but its so ridiculously expensive that you're an idiot for doing so. You're far better off to just build a few miles inland where you don't have to worry about the worst bits of hurricanes. If you do build on the ocean or close to it, you pretty much just have to accept that you're going to rebuild your house once every 20 year or so and just put money away for that purpose, it'll accomplish the same thing and cost 25% the insurance prices.
Corporations have this things that exist inside them called people, those people can vote. Thats how they get to voice an opinion.
What you are suggesting is that the people running the corporations get multiple votes, one for themselves, and whatever they can buy with profits.
People get to vote, not corporations.
To summarize, bullshit.
The lender is responsible for ensure they borrower is capable of paying back the loan, especially when they are lending someone elses money, especially MINE.
Yes, the borrower is responsible for paying back the loan, and when an otherwise good borrower suddenly fucks up and doesn't pay back a loan for whatever reason, you understand that is part of the risk of lending.
However, when the bank makes loans like they did for my wife. $180k loan to a woman in college (3rd year vet student at the time) with absolutely no job and no time for one anytime in the next 2 years, then its is entirely justified to blame them when it goes South. The bank was fucking utterly retarded to loan my wife the money. Her only 'income' was student loans, which ... they fucking counted as income.
Fortunately for them, we actually do have the money to pay for it.
The point however is that there are times when its just part of the lending business, and then there is what has been going on over the last decade where bankers were giving money to anyone anywhere regardless of if they actually qualified for it or not ...
Theres absolutely no way you can claim its not the banks fault when they were giving loans to people who claimed other loans as 'income'.
Few people are blaming the banks because the banks legitimately took someones house who hadn't been paying for it, and those people are just nutjobs. What people ARE bitching about is the fact that the banks are foreclosing on homes they don't even fucking have loans for, and GETTING THE DAMN HOMES. They're foreclosing on homes with no paperwork showing they even loaned any money or bought a loan from someone else. They are calling up offering MUCH better financing now and asking existing customers to refinance because they don't have anything to PROVE they actually own the lean on the home!
No one feels sorry for the guy who lost his half million dollar house because he couldn't pay for it working at McDonalds. We are pissed off because the fucking bank GAME HIM A HALF MILLION DOLLARS WHILE WORKING AT MCDONALDS. We're pissed off because all the assholes that caused this shit are still rich as fuck and the government gives them money so they don't get hurt any more, while those of us who didn't fuck up are paying for it. I don't mind helping out when I'm helping someone worse off than me, but here its the poor and middle class bailing out the rich because THEY FUCKED UP.
Don't try to shift the blame. I any many other people did our part and paid our bills, and we'll be glade to help out the guy who can't feed himself, but forcing me to bail out the fuckwads who have 4 or 5 extra digits on their bank accounts than me ... when they fucked up and are still currently raping others like me?
We are responsible for our position in life, and what you're seeing in these protests is people who are getting more and more tired of being fucked over even though they've done everything they were supposed to, because the rich guy in the office on the top floor, Southwest corner, who will make more in the next 15 seconds than most of us will in the next 3 years, pays off the right politician.
They are becoming more responsible for their direct position in life, hopefully the guy in the building and the politicians will start listening, in the last year, several countries have fallen for smaller reasons.
You can keep blaming the little guy, but he's getting a lot closer to just whipping your ass rather than bitching.
No, these couldn't.
By any normal persons definition, these monkeys also never actually produced any of Shakespeare's works either. They basically produced the right number of As, Bs, Cs, ect ... and then the guy running the project rearranged them into the right order and says the monkeys wrote shakespeare!
I guess if you count the guy who is reassembling the letters as a monkey, then its probably true that 1 million virtual monkeys and 1 human monkey could do it, though I'm guessing he probably fucked up the reassembly as well considering everything else about this 'project'.
The name of this project is completely wrong compared to what anyone who knows of the Million monkeys can recreate Shakespeares works' concept.
If a random sequence output from one of the 'virtual monkeys' matched some sequence of characters in a work, they counted it as if the monkey typed part of that work.
At no point did any one of their virtual monkeys ever turn out even a single coherent sentence, let alone one that could be found in a work of Shakespeare.
This guy seems to think that if you get enough output from /dev/urandom that you can account for all the characters in a book, then you've recreated the book. Doesn't matter than /dev/urandom didn't actually spell out the words in the book.
The windows 8 only is a big trun off.
While for me I agree for the Metro portion of Windows 8, much like the Launchpad in OS X 10.7, you can turn it off and make your PC not act like a cell phone pretty easily.
Windows 8 on the other hand, will probably be just fine. They haven't had enough time to Vista it up.
And the Must be in app store is a other killer as well. No way adobe will give MS 30% the cost of the CS pack just to have a Metro Photoshop.
Well, first there is no 'must be in app store' requirement.
Second, Adobe doesn't seem to have a problem giving Apple 30% to be on the Mac (which is entirely voluntary) or iOS app stores, so I'd say you're probably wrong on all accounts.
(NOTE: Unity wouldn't fit in the subject, so I used Qt)
And thats a stupid statement, just like the article title.
Metro is a user interface, not an entire programming environment composed of several languages and thousands of libraries.
Who ever wrote the title or has any such concern has absolutely no idea what Metro and/or the .NET system is.
Sigh ... please tell me you don't tell people you know the .NET framework.
What makes WinRT a royal pain is that it is low level C++ API. Thus C# becomes a second rate citizen and C++ a first rate citizen and it uses COM technologies.
The Windowing and other GUI apis have ALWAYS been low level C (not C++) APIs, and likely always will be. Windows.Forms was built on top of that. I'm not real sure how you can say that C# is a second class citizen or a first class citizen, it is neither and both. .NET Libraries care not what language they are being used by, sure the API may not feel as natural in one language over the other, but thats not anything new and will always be there.
Its rather retarded to think that any API other than the one at the lowest level is going to be the one that is most natural. Its all implemented in C at the low level, regardless of what lazy language you throw on top of it.
Never thought that would happen in that COM is brought back to life.
Then you have absolutely no idea how the .NET framework is built. .NET Assemblies are extensions to ActiveX, which are ... extensions to COM objects ... which are extensions of OLE2 objects. In fact, every .NET framework assembly is a OLE2 object, as is every ActiveX and COM object, each one just a different set of interface requirements on top of the previous.
It is what it is and personally I think WinRT will fail overall because it means you are completely beholden to the Windows platform!
You mean like Windows.Forms is beholden to the Windows platform? So I guess you're saying it would be absolutely impossible for someone to write a clean implementation of it or a wrapper around Qt or GTK to do the same? Thats odd, why do you seem to think what can be done for the Windows.Forms namespace can't be done again, why do you think thats the case?
I'm fairly certain you have absolutely no idea how the .NET framework works. You have heard of Mono haven't you?
I'm going to get modded down just like you ... but the main reason you've experienced that is mostly because the gaming experience on Linux is really fucking shitty.
You of course are just a troll trying to be all high and mighty, when all you really do is show everyone your age, or lack there of. All you've really shown anyone is that you're a self absorbed douche.
So who are you Mr AC? 15 years of Linux coding puts you pretty much in it since the beginning of any point of usefulness out of it. There weren't many 'professional Linux coders' back then, everyone of them probably knows every other one of them actually. And 'coders' ... seriously? Who talks that way?
You actually understood that collection of about 8 incoherent thoughts mixed into one? Other than the bang on part, do you think you could translate what the rest of that means?
joining in on the odd slashdot or wikipedia talk page argument can also be entertaining
Funny, I used to get on IRC for that exact same reason, God I miss the 90s. Good times.
If the school receives ANY public funding what so ever, all works produced by it should be public domain.
GPL is not a proper license to use as you're intentionally fucking over multiple people to push an agenda that may not be shared by everyone contributing funding. You more or less can't use anything that takes ANY rights away from others and continue to be fair to the tax payers.
Anything other than that really isn't fair to anyone who contributed to the public funds given to the school. BSD is closer, but still may conflict for trivial reasons with one of the tax payers who contributed, so public domain is the only logical option.
As the post above who states GPL is the only obvious choice, thats simply because you want to use this as a tool to promote your agenda and your political ideals, which is exactly what SHOULD NOT HAPPEN with ANYTHING that receives from PUBLIC FUNDING (anything I contribute to as required by law). GPL prevents the work from being used in far too many useful ways. I really wish GPL morons would get a clue and realize that GPL is as bad for innovation as the patent system for the exact same reasons.
If the school isn't publicly funded, then it really depends on what your school wants to accomplish and what values you are trying to teach.
Harvards and Yales are more likely to want to use proprietary licenses, and that fits more along with their own teachings.
Eitherway, your school has a charter that defines what it is trying to impart on its students both from a pure educational standpoint and from a moral stand point ... that chart most likely actually defines EXACTLY what license you should be using in order to fit within its goal.
Remember, you aren't picking the license YOU WANT to win here, you're supposed to be picking a license that fits the school.
Unless someone really screwed the pooch, the results are never getting back to the virus writers
Unless of course the guy/girl who planted the virus is internal ... which of course is a safe assumption since you know, the virus clearly IS there, so it had to be brought in by someone internal ... unless it was connected to the internet.
So either way, if a virus can be placed on the systems, the data can be snuck off the systems using likely the same method. Maybe not real time, but none the less it could come off.
I doubt that Iran can get good quality help with something like this
Really? You don't think with the resources of an oil rich country that they couldn't buy someone domestic or foreign to do it for them? Are you retarded or just still asleep or something?
I'm not saying they did it, but you can't think that way about countries of any size at all, at that level all of them have enough resources to buy someone capable of doing it, or just kidnapping them and forcing them to do it without money. Most of the guys who write botnet software would more than likely be all over this opportunity, they clearly don't mind the moral implications.
No, its really not. A rootkit would make TripWire thing the binaries had not been modified. Thats what rootkits do, they hide every trace of themselves so that they are undetectable. Or at least thats the theory, theres always a way to detect them but it usually (for good ones) requires scanning the data in a known clean machine.
IDS systems don't work with the kernel tells the IDS that the file is the original and even delivers the original bytes to the IDS in order to fool it. The kernel returns the original data for any read of the file, any memory mapping attempt, anything you try to do to get it at the data other than what the rootkit wants you to do.
Root kits make the kernel lie to an IDS, making it useless. You can't scan an infected machine by asking it for data (local app or network share, doesn't matter). You have to ask another known clean machine to do the scanning on the data directly without any other untrusted code in the process.
Finally, the rootkit can also just make tripwire pretend to return ALL GOOD MASTER!.
Please don't ever claim you know about security.