Do you honestly believe Microsoft knew about the exploits before stamping the CDs and left them out to later sell security software?
1) Microsoft knows about exploits before selling their software. In such a big pile of source code, there is a 99.9999999999% (okay 100%) chance they have bug reports internally that are exploitable.
2) They are trying to work adware/virus software into their business model, to do to McAffe/Symantec what they've done to dozens of companies (Stac, DR-DOS, etc.).
So, basically, the GP post is right on the money. Sure, they don't break knees with bats, but they effectively to the same thing with people's egos and bank accounts.
I won't pay as much as plasmas cost for a TV, yet I still think nine years is crap. My current TV is from the late 1980s with only slight fading in one corner of the screen. Plasmas: thousands of dollars / a few years = owning a plasma TV is like having yet another cable-cellphone-whatever subscription per month.
Depending on the voltage and amount of power involved.
The amount of power involved is...13 watts.
BTW, those low-voltage lighting systems for driveways, etc., are pretty safe at 12 volts and not all that much wattage. As long as the potential is really low, just the resistence in our skin would be enough to protect us.
Don't expect to get involved in computer forensics straight off the blocks.
One peeve of mine is that CS undergrads never have to install sheilded conduit, set up a locked equipment closet, etc. There is very little "hands on" in CS, yet so many graduates want to get into things like networking or security that are inherently hands-on professions. People might say that the hands-on stuff is common sense, but a lot of people choke when having to do something that isn't writing code.
The problem is getting your foot in the door, just as you are trying to do.
The bigger problem is majoring as an undergrad in a niche job market. Anyone who expects a 20-year-old to really be into such a specialized field is fooling themselves, because 20-year-olds are still growing up. The kid won't realize what the job really entails until it is too late, and retraining out of such a specialty is a downer. It can lead straight into managing a clothing store or--drumroll--preparing taxes for a living (shudder).
One way to get a clearance is to begin working on a non-classified project and hope you move to another project within a few years. Or, if you're lucky, you could get recruited directly onto some big juicy aircraft project or something. I've heard that the clearance process costs many tens of thousands of dollars, which is why so few companies want to foot the bill. This is probably the biggest thing I hated about government contacting: no training or clearance, unless it can be charged directly to ol' Unca Sam. Bascially, that meant none of either, which sucked.
I'm glad I rented The Clone Wars, because I finished it in like two days, but had to use a cheat to beat one level (only Anakin could race a speeder through that, and my word choices at the time would have made a modern comedian faint).
Then I made the mistake to buy Bounty Hunter on sale. I never even bothered to finish it. Somehow I found the game about as engaging as a porn movie plot.
What's with this formula of every game being identical except a few script lines here and there? A while back there was this flurry of platformers, where there were several worlds, each with several mini-games, and the character had to collect coins or gems to advance. After a few of those, the industry realized they had killed it. Twice. Why not with Star Wars?
Multi GPU cards have been around a long time. Back in the late 1990s, Sun had one with three or six graphics processors depending on the depth of your wallet. More recent cards like the XVR-1200 are being advertised as "dual pipe".
The only news, here, is probably a price point somewhere.
... what does September 11 have to do with Iraq Invasion ?
It created the political opportunity to topple Saddam. They always wanted to do it, except now was there a global environment that allowed it: some political support at home, UN sanctions made a good excuse, left-overs from 1991, etc.
I generally stopped worrying about Iraq once I realized why that war exists. I'm 99% sure the USA won't pre-emptively do anything else world-wide, because the administration can't do so legally. The rest of the world would completely and whole-heartedly hate us if the administration attempted anything else. GWB's advisors know this, and I'd even bet that GWB knows this. Iraq is basically a rare opportunity to open up gigantic energy reserves. Let's hope, for everyone's sake, they pull it off (I hope their defensive excuses about armored vehicles are just a temporary set-back).
This, truly is not the United States I grew up in.
Are you sure about this? The USA has gone through many trials during its lifetime: Revolutionary War, Civil War, other domestic wars (I'm not a historian), Slavery, Prohibition, "The 60's", the Cold War, etc. George Bush is just one more for the historians to debate (even GWB says this about himself).
The history of the USA isn't that different than most other countries. Basically, people suck until they can develop a system to kill eachother with lawyers. Then, they suck just a little bit less.
It's like vaccinations. Sure, there are side-effects but a risk-benefit analysis shows that some action is favorable than doing nothing.
However, shutting down GPS isn't quite like vaccinations in that there will be some airplane and boat pilots left dazzled at their GPS going tits-up while they are in the air or miles from civilization. Hopefully they are all up to date on their other navigation methods, especially if it is foggy or cloudy.
'd bet a large percentage of people likely to see the ad already are familiar with Firefox, considering how much media attention its gotten in magazines, NPR, etc over the last few months.
What's more important is that the ad re-inforces the brand. Even people who know about Firefox can be stubborn to try it out. It took me over a year to get everyone in my family to finally be using Mozilla or Firefox. Twice it took me installing it for them, but it was all finally validated by "Hey, this really is faster...."
Funny mod day, huh? I've actually seen OpenBSD people discuss a real desire to replace GCC (GCC is not under a BSD license). Man-years was not at all an understatement.
Subversion is far enough along to be useful to some people, but I'm not sure if I would put a very large amount of money on the line with it. I've seen way to many new fashionable tools get adopted by overly-optimistic people only to have them come back and bite them hard. Additional layers of abstraction obscuring troubleshooting, new cure-all frameworks obscuring troubleshooting, ambitious roadmaps that will probably never be implemented, etc. are all the hallmarks of young tools that are barely out of puberty, yet. Subversion has some of these qualities.
Also, such tools are a dime a dozen. How many free alternatives to CVS have come out in past few years? At least three. Most are merely academic exercises, some a little bit more than that, none have withstood the test of time, yet. If I set up a Subversion repository, now, will it still be useful in five years? Will there be clear migration paths during upgrades? Will one of the other upstarts eclipse Subversion in the fashion shows next year? Who knows? All Subversion is, right now, is a bandwagon to me.
I don't care for Subversion because it is immature. I also find their ideas about a whole slew of different database backends will be a source of endless problems (who'd ever thunk that XYZ had endianness issues or that QRS can't talk to ABC). Subversion is certainly very neat, but I'd still consider commercial VC software if my business depended on having really good VC in a project.
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Do you honestly believe Microsoft knew about the exploits before stamping the CDs and left them out to later sell security software?
1) Microsoft knows about exploits before selling their software. In such a big pile of source code, there is a 99.9999999999% (okay 100%) chance they have bug reports internally that are exploitable.
2) They are trying to work adware/virus software into their business model, to do to McAffe/Symantec what they've done to dozens of companies (Stac, DR-DOS, etc.).
So, basically, the GP post is right on the money. Sure, they don't break knees with bats, but they effectively to the same thing with people's egos and bank accounts.
I won't pay as much as plasmas cost for a TV, yet I still think nine years is crap. My current TV is from the late 1980s with only slight fading in one corner of the screen. Plasmas: thousands of dollars / a few years = owning a plasma TV is like having yet another cable-cellphone-whatever subscription per month.
/insert flames from irate plasma TV owners below
The current lack of such responses indicates that irate plasma TV owners abstained from posting out of shame.
But on an LCD you just replace the backlight, no?
Plasma just seems like a dud to anyone educated about it.
- Networked camera's (more zooming, tilting and maybe even lighting with 39 W)
Girl wakes up. "What...what is that light doing above my bed?!?"
Depending on the voltage and amount of power involved.
The amount of power involved is...13 watts.
BTW, those low-voltage lighting systems for driveways, etc., are pretty safe at 12 volts and not all that much wattage. As long as the potential is really low, just the resistence in our skin would be enough to protect us.
Don't expect to get involved in computer forensics straight off the blocks.
One peeve of mine is that CS undergrads never have to install sheilded conduit, set up a locked equipment closet, etc. There is very little "hands on" in CS, yet so many graduates want to get into things like networking or security that are inherently hands-on professions. People might say that the hands-on stuff is common sense, but a lot of people choke when having to do something that isn't writing code.
This is the description of the Advanced Investigations course. It's a joke...
No joke, this is my ticket to meeting that goth chick on NCIS!
The problem is getting your foot in the door, just as you are trying to do.
The bigger problem is majoring as an undergrad in a niche job market. Anyone who expects a 20-year-old to really be into such a specialized field is fooling themselves, because 20-year-olds are still growing up. The kid won't realize what the job really entails until it is too late, and retraining out of such a specialty is a downer. It can lead straight into managing a clothing store or--drumroll--preparing taxes for a living (shudder).
One way to get a clearance is to begin working on a non-classified project and hope you move to another project within a few years. Or, if you're lucky, you could get recruited directly onto some big juicy aircraft project or something. I've heard that the clearance process costs many tens of thousands of dollars, which is why so few companies want to foot the bill. This is probably the biggest thing I hated about government contacting: no training or clearance, unless it can be charged directly to ol' Unca Sam. Bascially, that meant none of either, which sucked.
I'm glad I rented The Clone Wars, because I finished it in like two days, but had to use a cheat to beat one level (only Anakin could race a speeder through that, and my word choices at the time would have made a modern comedian faint).
Then I made the mistake to buy Bounty Hunter on sale. I never even bothered to finish it. Somehow I found the game about as engaging as a porn movie plot.
What's with this formula of every game being identical except a few script lines here and there? A while back there was this flurry of platformers, where there were several worlds, each with several mini-games, and the character had to collect coins or gems to advance. After a few of those, the industry realized they had killed it. Twice. Why not with Star Wars?
Multi GPU cards have been around a long time. Back in the late 1990s, Sun had one with three or six graphics processors depending on the depth of your wallet. More recent cards like the XVR-1200 are being advertised as "dual pipe".
The only news, here, is probably a price point somewhere.
... what does September 11 have to do with Iraq Invasion ?
It created the political opportunity to topple Saddam. They always wanted to do it, except now was there a global environment that allowed it: some political support at home, UN sanctions made a good excuse, left-overs from 1991, etc.
I generally stopped worrying about Iraq once I realized why that war exists. I'm 99% sure the USA won't pre-emptively do anything else world-wide, because the administration can't do so legally. The rest of the world would completely and whole-heartedly hate us if the administration attempted anything else. GWB's advisors know this, and I'd even bet that GWB knows this. Iraq is basically a rare opportunity to open up gigantic energy reserves. Let's hope, for everyone's sake, they pull it off (I hope their defensive excuses about armored vehicles are just a temporary set-back).
This, truly is not the United States I grew up in.
Are you sure about this? The USA has gone through many trials during its lifetime: Revolutionary War, Civil War, other domestic wars (I'm not a historian), Slavery, Prohibition, "The 60's", the Cold War, etc. George Bush is just one more for the historians to debate (even GWB says this about himself).
The history of the USA isn't that different than most other countries. Basically, people suck until they can develop a system to kill eachother with lawyers. Then, they suck just a little bit less.
It's like vaccinations. Sure, there are side-effects but a risk-benefit analysis shows that some action is favorable than doing nothing.
However, shutting down GPS isn't quite like vaccinations in that there will be some airplane and boat pilots left dazzled at their GPS going tits-up while they are in the air or miles from civilization. Hopefully they are all up to date on their other navigation methods, especially if it is foggy or cloudy.
Yes, but did you pay for it?
'd bet a large percentage of people likely to see the ad already are familiar with Firefox, considering how much media attention its gotten in magazines, NPR, etc over the last few months.
What's more important is that the ad re-inforces the brand. Even people who know about Firefox can be stubborn to try it out. It took me over a year to get everyone in my family to finally be using Mozilla or Firefox. Twice it took me installing it for them, but it was all finally validated by "Hey, this really is faster...."
I'd love to see a re-make of Aliens with Hello Kitty as Ripley.
I believe I've heard that honda is planning to move human-like robots into their factories to revolutionize efficiency.
There are reports that on-the-job sex actually boosts productivity. Just put a few finishing touches on ASIMO...
I bet he isn't looking forward to having his security hole exploited while in prison!
Funny mod day, huh? I've actually seen OpenBSD people discuss a real desire to replace GCC (GCC is not under a BSD license). Man-years was not at all an understatement.
Care to elaborate how is it immature?
Subversion is far enough along to be useful to some people, but I'm not sure if I would put a very large amount of money on the line with it. I've seen way to many new fashionable tools get adopted by overly-optimistic people only to have them come back and bite them hard. Additional layers of abstraction obscuring troubleshooting, new cure-all frameworks obscuring troubleshooting, ambitious roadmaps that will probably never be implemented, etc. are all the hallmarks of young tools that are barely out of puberty, yet. Subversion has some of these qualities.
Also, such tools are a dime a dozen. How many free alternatives to CVS have come out in past few years? At least three. Most are merely academic exercises, some a little bit more than that, none have withstood the test of time, yet. If I set up a Subversion repository, now, will it still be useful in five years? Will there be clear migration paths during upgrades? Will one of the other upstarts eclipse Subversion in the fashion shows next year? Who knows? All Subversion is, right now, is a bandwagon to me.
The OpenBSD folks would re-implement GCC in a heartbeat, if they could afford the man-years to do so.
why don't they?
I don't care for Subversion because it is immature. I also find their ideas about a whole slew of different database backends will be a source of endless problems (who'd ever thunk that XYZ had endianness issues or that QRS can't talk to ABC). Subversion is certainly very neat, but I'd still consider commercial VC software if my business depended on having really good VC in a project.
I guess that means it still sucks compared to 95% of VC systems out there (the remaining 5% being RCS and nightly backups).