Because there is little difference between "Software Engineer" and "Security Researcher" - it is really just a term for the clueless article writers to attempt to grasp at what we do. More often than not, security issues are found on accident by regular developers just doing their normal day-to-day jobs, and stumble upon something. Then in their spare time, they dump their findings on their blog, and them BAM, they're all of a sudden a "Security Researcher"!!!
One of my servers made just this weird vibration noise from the combination of spinning discs and fans. I put a piece of the end of a cut off zip tie under one corner of the server. This raised just the one corner of the server by about 2mm, just enough that the vibration sound disappeared!
The big piece of information that always gets neglected in these articles is that they didn't sue because he was throwing a party, but because he runs a business which hosts party events and then used Pokémon to promote such an event. Here is the company's trashy Facebook page. "Fans" and "Businesses" are NOT the same thing. https://www.facebook.com/Rucku...
Considering that the FCC changed the definition of "broadband" to 25mbps, I think the article needs updating. Maybe 10mbps "high speed" (bullshit marketing term) is enough for general usage, but "broadband" is an official term governed by the FCC. 10mbps simply doesn't meet this requirement, therefor it isn't even broadband.
It is mostly ignored because of the condescending attitude that too many programmers have. We're supposed to be encouraging young people to get into programming, and in the same breath belittle people who dont understand why it would be on the 256th day of the year?
What is really deemed "Useful" though? For instance, my phone is a business phone and the only apps running in background are all either communication tools for other business personnel I work with, or notification services for server infrastructure issues. GREAT! Now I can install an app to disable all that important functionality! Server goes offline? No biggie, my phone battery is at least marginally more awesome, I guess?
For me, it isn't the applications themselves, it is the UX/UI of the Linux desktops themselves. Microsoft did something very VERY nice in the early 90's, and that was building Common Dialog Box API. This handles file open/save, printing, color picker, and a few more. With most applications relying upon this one single API, as the dialog's interfaces are upgraded, the applications gain the same upgrades. All applications have the same dialogs, regardless of which application they are or who made it. Open a Windows 95 era application in Windows 7 or newer, use the open/save dialog boxes, and they'll have all the modern file browsing features of the current OS. These windows are resizable and easy to navigate. They're quite feature rich, and generally keep getting better and better with each release of Windows, thus making the applications that use them better and better.
Had a client insist on using Excel for data entry into a database... wrote an entire fucking SQL front end using VBA in Excel, which in itself was tricky since Excel's SQL access is "supposed" to be read-only (just SELECT statements). Discovered an exploit in Excel 2003 (maybe earlier now? I can't remember) that allowed for INSERT and UPDATE statements to process through as well. The exploit still worked in Excel 2007 when we switched everything over to XSLX files which could be directly processed by the server so no more need for hackish bullshit. (tho, if it were MY choice, we're fuckin ditch Excel a decade ago for what we're doing)
Gigabit isn't everything... My locally owned ISP is considering the same thing with DOCSIS. The problem? It is only Gigabit DOWNLOAD, with still shitty upload. Why is this an issue? Remote storage backups and generally uploading large content (like videos) to the internet. Sure, the slower upload "works for most uses", but so does the slower downloads. The whole point of more bandwidth is to open up the availability to more types of applications. We already have the download bandwidth to stream 1080p content and possibly 4k content on the connection I have with my current ISP. The only advantage I'd get with the faster download at this point is quicker downloads of massive content that isn't streamed (Linux ISOs and packages for example). So unless they give us that sweet glorious Gigabit UPLOAD like Google has, this really isn't doing that much to change end-user experience.
How many libraries of congress is that!?!? Oh wait, we're not talking about network traffic here. But, we ARE talking about archiving and searching through tweets. So the question comes up: the library of congress is archiving all public tweets. Do they honor the fact they're deleted off of the source material? And how easy would it be to search the library's archive vs Twitter's archive?
Sad but true, I keep legacy VMs laying around just to log into various client's legacy hardware for that once a year time they need some admin task taken. Looks like this will be added to the "legacy VM suite" I carry around.
Summary sucks, so I went to the article to see what it was about... Basically it is a prebuilt penetration testing system. Now they're using the latest packages instead of older stale packages often associated with Debian, I guess?
Secondly, they're only talking about B2B Apps (as in phone apps or little web tools). The freemium model has been working out well for VMWare with their "Player" product encouraging people to get "Workstation" and their "Hypervisor" product encourage people to get the full "vSphere" suite. Oracle is doing this with the acquisition of Sun and MySQL server, trying to convince users to switch over to their Enterprise Server products. There are plenty of other examples in this space, too.
Serious question since I've not touched GIMP in years (or any other Linux graphics utilities), but one of the primary reasons why I've stuck with Windows/Photoshop is simply for color management. Does GIMP+Linux support proper color management, ICC profiles, 10/12-bit displays, 16/32-bit per channel within images, CMYK color, Adobe RGB color space, and ProPhoto RGB color space? These are all tools used in various aspects of professional graphics design. Also, designers love to hand me AI files instead of PSDs, can GIMP open and render these too? Photoshop can at least import and rasterize AI files, as well as PDF documents.
I guess you've never heard of Google Reverse Image Search then? It searches based on the contents of the image, not a direct binary comparison. It is quite awesome, in fact.
In my area, I get free OTA TV. Subscribing to the bare minimum cable package, which is *JUST* the same channels as OTA provides, is $18/mo. The only advantage I would have is a more reliable signal, as with bad weather the OTA sometimes drops in and out a bit. A "standard" cable package, the next tier up, starts at $53/mo. Now, let's compare this to Netflix, which starts at only $8/mo.
So, why is cord cutting huge? Because we all want to save a buck or two... or $40! Really, look at the difference there. It is $18/mo for the same service that is already free, only slightly more reliable. Or $8/mo for unlimited streaming. Or the getting an actual cable package at $58/mo!? Seriously, what would you choose in this scenario?
All of them? Either physical hardware button, softkey, or software UI (like on the Nexus devices). Long-press the home button to activate search when you dont want to do it by voice.
Or how about a super successful PR guy, by getting his story right to the front page of/. and probably many other tech sites. "Hey, if he can get a silly story about himself everywhere, WHAT CAN HE DO FOR US!?" He just PRed the hell outta himself right in to the pocket books of many new clients.
Slashdot Mirror
https://xkcd.com/349/
And what's even better... https://www.debian.org/ports/k...
Crap, better take down Mind Croft by Macrosoft before I get caught!
Because there is little difference between "Software Engineer" and "Security Researcher" - it is really just a term for the clueless article writers to attempt to grasp at what we do. More often than not, security issues are found on accident by regular developers just doing their normal day-to-day jobs, and stumble upon something. Then in their spare time, they dump their findings on their blog, and them BAM, they're all of a sudden a "Security Researcher"!!!
One of my servers made just this weird vibration noise from the combination of spinning discs and fans. I put a piece of the end of a cut off zip tie under one corner of the server. This raised just the one corner of the server by about 2mm, just enough that the vibration sound disappeared!
HELLZ YEAH!! Been there, done that.
In other news, Energy Drink sales are surging with the younger crowds!
The big piece of information that always gets neglected in these articles is that they didn't sue because he was throwing a party, but because he runs a business which hosts party events and then used Pokémon to promote such an event. Here is the company's trashy Facebook page. "Fans" and "Businesses" are NOT the same thing. https://www.facebook.com/Rucku...
https://support.mozilla.org/en...
Considering that the FCC changed the definition of "broadband" to 25mbps, I think the article needs updating. Maybe 10mbps "high speed" (bullshit marketing term) is enough for general usage, but "broadband" is an official term governed by the FCC. 10mbps simply doesn't meet this requirement, therefor it isn't even broadband.
Source: https://www.fcc.gov/document/f...
It is mostly ignored because of the condescending attitude that too many programmers have. We're supposed to be encouraging young people to get into programming, and in the same breath belittle people who dont understand why it would be on the 256th day of the year?
I'm going to link an obligatory XKCD reference now: https://xkcd.com/1053/
What is really deemed "Useful" though? For instance, my phone is a business phone and the only apps running in background are all either communication tools for other business personnel I work with, or notification services for server infrastructure issues. GREAT! Now I can install an app to disable all that important functionality! Server goes offline? No biggie, my phone battery is at least marginally more awesome, I guess?
For me, it isn't the applications themselves, it is the UX/UI of the Linux desktops themselves. Microsoft did something very VERY nice in the early 90's, and that was building Common Dialog Box API. This handles file open/save, printing, color picker, and a few more. With most applications relying upon this one single API, as the dialog's interfaces are upgraded, the applications gain the same upgrades. All applications have the same dialogs, regardless of which application they are or who made it. Open a Windows 95 era application in Windows 7 or newer, use the open/save dialog boxes, and they'll have all the modern file browsing features of the current OS. These windows are resizable and easy to navigate. They're quite feature rich, and generally keep getting better and better with each release of Windows, thus making the applications that use them better and better.
Had a client insist on using Excel for data entry into a database... wrote an entire fucking SQL front end using VBA in Excel, which in itself was tricky since Excel's SQL access is "supposed" to be read-only (just SELECT statements). Discovered an exploit in Excel 2003 (maybe earlier now? I can't remember) that allowed for INSERT and UPDATE statements to process through as well. The exploit still worked in Excel 2007 when we switched everything over to XSLX files which could be directly processed by the server so no more need for hackish bullshit. (tho, if it were MY choice, we're fuckin ditch Excel a decade ago for what we're doing)
Gigabit isn't everything... My locally owned ISP is considering the same thing with DOCSIS. The problem? It is only Gigabit DOWNLOAD, with still shitty upload. Why is this an issue? Remote storage backups and generally uploading large content (like videos) to the internet. Sure, the slower upload "works for most uses", but so does the slower downloads. The whole point of more bandwidth is to open up the availability to more types of applications. We already have the download bandwidth to stream 1080p content and possibly 4k content on the connection I have with my current ISP. The only advantage I'd get with the faster download at this point is quicker downloads of massive content that isn't streamed (Linux ISOs and packages for example). So unless they give us that sweet glorious Gigabit UPLOAD like Google has, this really isn't doing that much to change end-user experience.
Here is your publication of what is "secure" - https://www.pcisecuritystandar...
How many libraries of congress is that!?!? Oh wait, we're not talking about network traffic here. But, we ARE talking about archiving and searching through tweets. So the question comes up: the library of congress is archiving all public tweets. Do they honor the fact they're deleted off of the source material? And how easy would it be to search the library's archive vs Twitter's archive?
https://www.facebook.com/notes...
Sad but true, I keep legacy VMs laying around just to log into various client's legacy hardware for that once a year time they need some admin task taken. Looks like this will be added to the "legacy VM suite" I carry around.
Summary sucks, so I went to the article to see what it was about... Basically it is a prebuilt penetration testing system. Now they're using the latest packages instead of older stale packages often associated with Debian, I guess?
Secondly, they're only talking about B2B Apps (as in phone apps or little web tools). The freemium model has been working out well for VMWare with their "Player" product encouraging people to get "Workstation" and their "Hypervisor" product encourage people to get the full "vSphere" suite. Oracle is doing this with the acquisition of Sun and MySQL server, trying to convince users to switch over to their Enterprise Server products. There are plenty of other examples in this space, too.
Serious question since I've not touched GIMP in years (or any other Linux graphics utilities), but one of the primary reasons why I've stuck with Windows/Photoshop is simply for color management. Does GIMP+Linux support proper color management, ICC profiles, 10/12-bit displays, 16/32-bit per channel within images, CMYK color, Adobe RGB color space, and ProPhoto RGB color space? These are all tools used in various aspects of professional graphics design. Also, designers love to hand me AI files instead of PSDs, can GIMP open and render these too? Photoshop can at least import and rasterize AI files, as well as PDF documents.
I guess you've never heard of Google Reverse Image Search then? It searches based on the contents of the image, not a direct binary comparison. It is quite awesome, in fact.
https://www.google.com/search?...
In my area, I get free OTA TV. Subscribing to the bare minimum cable package, which is *JUST* the same channels as OTA provides, is $18/mo. The only advantage I would have is a more reliable signal, as with bad weather the OTA sometimes drops in and out a bit. A "standard" cable package, the next tier up, starts at $53/mo. Now, let's compare this to Netflix, which starts at only $8/mo.
So, why is cord cutting huge? Because we all want to save a buck or two... or $40! Really, look at the difference there. It is $18/mo for the same service that is already free, only slightly more reliable. Or $8/mo for unlimited streaming. Or the getting an actual cable package at $58/mo!? Seriously, what would you choose in this scenario?
All of them? Either physical hardware button, softkey, or software UI (like on the Nexus devices). Long-press the home button to activate search when you dont want to do it by voice.
My dice rolls are pretty random... https://xkcd.com/221/
Or how about a super successful PR guy, by getting his story right to the front page of /. and probably many other tech sites. "Hey, if he can get a silly story about himself everywhere, WHAT CAN HE DO FOR US!?" He just PRed the hell outta himself right in to the pocket books of many new clients.