It's a no-brainer. Also, we are geeks, right? Real life is a bit too... real. Especially when it comes to engaging in violence with unsavory characters.
Now, a badass remote-controlled robot to roam the streets, beating the crap out of the bad guys, that would be something else...
Another pointless article. Troll me, but the fact is that this is addressing something that is behind MS's closed doors.
Ah, you mean like this research paper that Cohen is criticizing.
Or perhaps you are referring to these completely unfounded claims (from TFA):
The developer said Microsoft had completely misunderstood the way BitTorrent operated. The paper quotes "the tit-for-tat approach used in the BitTorrent network" as an inspiration for parts of Avalanche's own operation. Under the approach, a peer-to-peer client will not upload any content to another client unless it has also received a certain amount of content in return.
Cohen said, however, this was a waste of time and had been discarded long ago.
"I can't fathom how they came up with this," he wrote. "Researching either the source code or the documentation on the BitTorrent Web site would have shown that the real choking algorithms work nothing like this."
"Either they just heard 'tit-for-tat' and just made this up, or they for some odd reason dredged up BitTorrent 1.0 and read the source of that." BitTorrent is currently at version 4.0.2.
Cohen went on to say that the 'tit-for-tat' approach was used when BitTorrent was still being developed, but that the first real-world test with only six connected machines showed that it did not work well.
The challenge for the first UCC is to write a simple program that performs some basic image-processing operation, for example smoothing or resampling, but manages to conceal a unique imperceptible fingerprint in each image it opens.
The fingerprint should be different for every execution of the program. It doesn't have to have any particular meaning, but useful tracking information is worth extra points (tho getting caught is worth fewer points.) The print should be extractable from the output image by another program. Realistically, the detector will not have access to the original image for comparison purposes.
I seriously doubt that anyone could get arrested for writing something like this, dubious legal state or not.
82 percent of people who hack their company 'exhibited unusual behavior in the workplace prior to carrying out their activities.'
Unusual behaviour? How do you define that, especially considering the fact that we are talking about geeks here? I, for one, would not want to meet your average geek acting more unusally than usual in a dark alley. Unless unusal behaviour among geeks is acting usually, of course. Then I'd invite them over for tea.
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I resigned from my first full-time programming job a few months ago, after almost a full year of working there.
Why did I do it? Complete and utter lack of any coherent management. I won't go into the details, but the place was simply hellish to work at. I'm not kidding here - management simply did not have a clue as to what anyone in my department was doing. The result was that the department (and probably many others as well) was horribly inefficient, and a haven for slackers who simply BS-ed their way through the day.
I could, of course, have become one of those... it would have been easy enough to pretend that I was constantly busy, and that what I was assigned to do was much, much more time-consuming than it actually was. Easy, but morally abhorrent.
Or, I could have picked up some of the obvious slack and done some of what the slackers were actually supposed to be doing. Now, not only would this have been much harder work than the former option, but also, I simply didn't see this as my problem.
So, I did the only sane and moral thing and just left the place. And I have no regrets whatsoever about it.
P.S. And guess what - my old department still hasn't delivered their sole product.
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No, the article doesn't really answer these questions. It only has anectodes and theorising, such as this:
"Can Spam legalized spamming itself," said Steve Linford, the founder of the Spamhaus Project, a London organization that is one of the leading groups intent on eliminating junk e-mail. And in making spam legal, he said, the new rules also invited flouting by those intent on being outlaws.
Not everyone agrees that the Can Spam law is to blame, and lawsuits invoking the new legislation - along with other suits using state laws - have been mounted in the name of combating the problem. Besides Microsoft, other large Internet companies like AOL and Yahoo have used the federal law as the basis for suits.
It's hard to know what to believe, really. Personally, I tend to lean towards the notion that spam is simply too large a problem, and the money involved is so great, that combating it with laws alone is simply futile.
Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman is working to update the General Public License (GPL) that governs Linux and hundreds of other open-source projects. The law center said it will help with that work.
A crucial task, in my opinion. More specifially, Stallman and co. are planning to protect GPL code better legally from the threat of patent litigation. Software patents are a relatively recent, and (in the opinion of many, including myself) harmful phenomenon. Updating the GPL to somehow lessen their potential impact on Free Software would be a major accomplishment.
I am reminded of a Johnny Bravo episode where Mr. Bravo is trying to earn money in order to buy his mother a birthday present. His diminutive friend Susie suggests that he become a consultant; that is 'Someone who tells people what to do.'
Our hero goes out into the street, sees a man who is walking with a slouch, walks up to him and says:
Johnny: 'Don't slouch. That'll be 10 bucks.'
Sloucher:'Gee, thanks. Here's your money.' (Hands Johnny a bill). 'You know what you should do with that?'
J: 'What?'
S: 'Put it in a bank! That'll be 10 bucks. '(Takes the bill back).
There is a downside to this technology though. By measuring how close a
song is to previous hits, you are guaranteeing that all new songs will
be similar to old hits. This type of system tends to minimize or
eliminate fresh new types of music.
Downside? Sounds to me more like the recording industry executive's dream come true...
You can't do that! Relations between us Icelanders and America have always been great. I mean, we're members of the Coalition of the willing and everything! You guys even have an army base over here, to protect us, seeing that we have no military of our own
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That's how I would design a system like this - and then 'disappear' to a tropical island.
Oops ... I said to much, didn't I?
*Disappears to a tropical island*
Selling anti-virus services for Unix/Linux is like selling ice cream to polar bears anyway. It's good to see Microsoft focusing on the real problems :P
It's a no-brainer. Also, we are geeks, right? Real life is a bit too ... real. Especially when it comes to engaging in violence with unsavory characters.
Now, a badass remote-controlled robot to roam the streets, beating the crap out of the bad guys, that would be something else ...
Another pointless article. Troll me, but the fact is that this is addressing something that is behind MS's closed doors.
Ah, you mean like this research paper that Cohen is criticizing.
Or perhaps you are referring to these completely unfounded claims (from TFA):
The developer said Microsoft had completely misunderstood the way BitTorrent operated. The paper quotes "the tit-for-tat approach used in the BitTorrent network" as an inspiration for parts of Avalanche's own operation. Under the approach, a peer-to-peer client will not upload any content to another client unless it has also received a certain amount of content in return.
Cohen said, however, this was a waste of time and had been discarded long ago.
"I can't fathom how they came up with this," he wrote. "Researching either the source code or the documentation on the BitTorrent Web site would have shown that the real choking algorithms work nothing like this."
"Either they just heard 'tit-for-tat' and just made this up, or they for some odd reason dredged up BitTorrent 1.0 and read the source of that." BitTorrent is currently at version 4.0.2.
Cohen went on to say that the 'tit-for-tat' approach was used when BitTorrent was still being developed, but that the first real-world test with only six connected machines showed that it did not work well.
Yup, that's a guy bashing closed doors alright.
Yeah, that sounds good. If you want to join me, I hope Iceland isn't too far out of your way.
F*** it, I'm getting drunk.
Hmm - on second thought, seems you actually just made my night. Cheers!
Aha, you mean something like this, I presume.
Sheez, the summer sure makes some people strange in the head.
Now excuse me while I go and compile my newly optimized subroutine. Man, that subroutine really pushes my buttons, you know what I mean?
Bah, 867-5309 has much better times. Just remember - The password is 'Ken sent me'.
RTFA, please.
The challenge for the first UCC is to write a simple program that performs some basic image-processing operation, for example smoothing or resampling, but manages to conceal a unique imperceptible fingerprint in each image it opens.
The fingerprint should be different for every execution of the program. It doesn't have to have any particular meaning, but useful tracking information is worth extra points (tho getting caught is worth fewer points.) The print should be extractable from the output image by another program. Realistically, the detector will not have access to the original image for comparison purposes.
I seriously doubt that anyone could get arrested for writing something like this, dubious legal state or not.
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Websense alert
It is particularily interesting to note that this is a browser vulnerability exploit rather than an actual virus.
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Symantec description of the Trojan Horse encoder
A google search for PGPcoder will turn up lots more.
Unusual behaviour? How do you define that, especially considering the fact that we are talking about geeks here? I, for one, would not want to meet your average geek acting more unusally than usual in a dark alley. Unless unusal behaviour among geeks is acting usually, of course. Then I'd invite them over for tea.
Now on to the Internets study!
- The L33t programming language
heh my openoffice.org caught the mistakes and speeling errors :P
No it didn't.
I double-checked this post using Word's grammar checker. I dare you find fault with it!
Why did I do it? Complete and utter lack of any coherent management. I won't go into the details, but the place was simply hellish to work at. I'm not kidding here - management simply did not have a clue as to what anyone in my department was doing. The result was that the department (and probably many others as well) was horribly inefficient, and a haven for slackers who simply BS-ed their way through the day.
I could, of course, have become one of those ... it would have been easy enough to pretend that I was constantly busy, and that what I was assigned to do was much, much more time-consuming than it actually was. Easy, but morally abhorrent.
Or, I could have picked up some of the obvious slack and done some of what the slackers were actually supposed to be doing. Now, not only would this have been much harder work than the former option, but also, I simply didn't see this as my problem.
So, I did the only sane and moral thing and just left the place. And I have no regrets whatsoever about it.
P.S. And guess what - my old department still hasn't delivered their sole product.
"Can Spam legalized spamming itself," said Steve Linford, the founder of the Spamhaus Project, a London organization that is one of the leading groups intent on eliminating junk e-mail. And in making spam legal, he said, the new rules also invited flouting by those intent on being outlaws.
Not everyone agrees that the Can Spam law is to blame, and lawsuits invoking the new legislation - along with other suits using state laws - have been mounted in the name of combating the problem. Besides Microsoft, other large Internet companies like AOL and Yahoo have used the federal law as the basis for suits.
It's hard to know what to believe, really. Personally, I tend to lean towards the notion that spam is simply too large a problem, and the money involved is so great, that combating it with laws alone is simply futile.
Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman is working to update the General Public License (GPL) that governs Linux and hundreds of other open-source projects. The law center said it will help with that work.
A crucial task, in my opinion. More specifially, Stallman and co. are planning to protect GPL code better legally from the threat of patent litigation. Software patents are a relatively recent, and (in the opinion of many, including myself) harmful phenomenon. Updating the GPL to somehow lessen their potential impact on Free Software would be a major accomplishment.
The 'unstable man, unstable OS' jokes may begin ... now.
Our hero goes out into the street, sees a man who is walking with a slouch, walks up to him and says:
Johnny: 'Don't slouch. That'll be 10 bucks.'
Sloucher:'Gee, thanks. Here's your money.' (Hands Johnny a bill). 'You know what you should do with that?'
J: 'What?'
S: 'Put it in a bank! That'll be 10 bucks. '(Takes the bill back).
No, unfortunately you're wrong. Please allow me to explain.
From the article:
... previously aired content from ABC, PBS, Fox News and C-SPAN
As we all know, Miss Hilton's and Miss Simpson's ever-popular show, The Simple Life, is a FOX production, so it won't be included.
Pity.
P.S. You were talking about that show, right?
And have his appearances in major newspapers posted on his eponymous Web site helped with those California girls at school?
"They're the ones that aren't impressed at all," he said with a laugh.
Depressingly familiar ...
Downside? Sounds to me more like the recording industry executive's dream come true ...
...
Oh shit.
We're fucked, right?