Like many, Slashdot was the first and last site I read every day for the longest time and i just wanted to add to the chorus of Thank You's for creating one of the greatest geek communities on this here internets.
Thank You Sir, Thank You
What a lot of North American readers (like yourself) don't seem to understand is that the population density in the countries where 3G coverage is widespread justifies that widespread deployment of 3G technology by giving companies a speedier return on their investment.
and your argument falls on it's face when you look at the deployment of 3G in Australia, and it's population density is far far below North America's
The police write down the number plates of cars on certain roads. Informers watch every street corner. E-mail is restricted too - Yahoo and Gmail accounts are often blocked.
Well, half blocked.
For all the security and the fear, this is not a competently-run country. And it is not China.
Hotels and internet cafes use dozens of proxy servers to bypass the government's crude attempts to police the internet.
"it appears he'll now attempt to become even more aggressive, do his best to ignore the best interests of PHP by disclosing unpatched holes, and in general trying to expose as many security holes in PHP."
How can anyone possibly think that disclosing and exposing security holes in an open source project is a bad thing and against the best interests of the language ?
PHP is essentially the lingua franca of web development but the rise of Rails and Django simply highlight that it's time in the sun is coming to an end and if they have any chance of staying up with the jones', PHP's well known security issues need to be lain bare and plugged.
The Australi released console (and I'll predict Euro as they're probably the same package) straps don't seem to be anywhere near as weak as the stories of the US release makes out
It was entirely (afaik) Spiner's decision, basically for that reason, that he was getting too old to play Data (hence his appearances as Soong in ST:ENT)
As a professional, I've very rarely seen clients who want a CMS ever actually use them the way they're intended. They either contract back to the developer to maintain their own projects or they spiral into development hell.
To often, the idea of a CMS far outweigh's their reality, simple HTML/CSS with a few lessons in the basics of editing often end up cheaper and more effective than deploying and maintaining the cheapest OSS title
.. saying that, +1 Drupal. Well designed, nice architecture, decent documentation and great user-base, the four horseman of a decent CMS.
In early 2006, former Newsweek editor and author Brook Larmer released "Operation Yao Ming", a controversial book in which he claims that as a child Yao was forced against his will to play basketball by and for the Chinese government. In addition, Larmer alleges that Yao's father, 6-foot-10 (2.08 m) Yao Zhiyuan, and mother, 6-foot-2 (1.88 m) Fang Fengdi, both national team basketball players, were, on retirement, "encouraged" to wed, with the aim of producing an athletic if not also extremely tall future son.
A Canary was used in a coalmine to give advanced warning of the buildup of Carbon Dioxide, as birds are more sensitive to changes in the air quality than humans are. The analogy says that Doctrow and Pilgrim are the canaries, and the rising CO2 level is the relative 'open-ness' of OS X vs Linux, and that if Apple doesn't take note of the 'rising CO2' they're ignoring the advanced warning.
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1. Open iTunes
2. Select Media
3. Wait until's downloaded
4. Watch (or listen to downloaded media)
Well, let's just say then, they already have...
Music and video piracy aren't driven by people wanting to rip off "Big Media", it's being driven by people who want easier access to the media.
I'm sorry, but that's not just true anymore. It's what I do, every day - and where JS/Client side scripting was hellish in the late 90's there are plenty of examples of complex and mature javascript driven apps. Claiming that it's all too hard is the easy way out, there are standards, they are supported, widely amongst modern clients and it's just lazy to say, "screw it, we'll make it work in IE and nothing else".
You should also never be mandating error checking of complex forms on the client side because you can't control the client-side. If it's complex enough that you can't reliably deploy it in JS, you should be writing that logic into the server side code.
Given the current moves to change the IR(Industrial Relations) laws in Australia, this will probably be the case here too soon. Currently, employees are protected under a scheme of unfair dismal legislation, which, should the changes pass, will be removed.
Depends
if it's your hotmail password, then no.
if it's the passphrase on your private key on a server with millions of dollar's worth of transactions then yes.
Going forward, I wouldn't use them (MD5 or SHA-1) for anything resembling security anymore
Both Pages & Keynote documents are XML files at their core (they aren't even Zipped like OO) -- although Apple are a little lazy with the documentation at the moment (Keynote v1 is documented on apple.com, v2 isn't yet), it's not that hard to trawl through the XML to grab content & style
I think this is indicative of a greater problem with the stable/unstable labelling of Debian.
I use an 'unstable' build of debian, and it's the most stable OS I've used, yet for an approaching user facing, a copy of an up-to-date-but-'unstable' debian, a two-year-old-but-'stable' debian or Fedora Core, guess which one's going to get picked. Naming is everything and the debian brand is being hurt by it's semantics.
There's a simple fact about software development, bugs are guaranteed, especially on a projects as complex as Mozilla, heightened by the multi-platform delivery platform that's expected of Mozilla & Gecko.
Given that, imho, it's much better to see many bug fix releases in a vibrant and alert software project rather than minor patches every year and major releases years apart.
'Being less buggy' isn't the measurement here, identifying and resolving the bugs is. I know it's a half full/half empty argument, but software testing should never be approached with the 'be less buggy' attitude, it should always be approached with the 'find the bugs' attitude.
These are drastic measures, but given the average BigPond user is much less a geek than anyone frequenting these parts, this will probably be the first time that most of these users will know about it, and given BigPond's previous problems with mail-servers, perhaps they're striking before the problem gets too out of hand.
Although I don't understand the purpose of a trojaned machine repeatedly hitting a DNS server, is this an attempt to cause an overflow and therefore making the DNS server itself vulnerable?
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Like many, Slashdot was the first and last site I read every day for the longest time and i just wanted to add to the chorus of Thank You's for creating one of the greatest geek communities on this here internets. Thank You Sir, Thank You
What a lot of North American readers (like yourself) don't seem to understand is that the population density in the countries where 3G coverage is widespread justifies that widespread deployment of 3G technology by giving companies a speedier return on their investment.
and your argument falls on it's face when you look at the deployment of 3G in Australia, and it's population density is far far below North America's
How can anyone possibly think that disclosing and exposing security holes in an open source project is a bad thing and against the best interests of the language ?
PHP is essentially the lingua franca of web development but the rise of Rails and Django simply highlight that it's time in the sun is coming to an end and if they have any chance of staying up with the jones', PHP's well known security issues need to be lain bare and plugged.
The Australi released console (and I'll predict Euro as they're probably the same package) straps don't seem to be anywhere near as weak as the stories of the US release makes out
Don't these scientists learn anything from the movies, Matrix or Highland 2 anyone?
It was entirely (afaik) Spiner's decision, basically for that reason, that he was getting too old to play Data (hence his appearances as Soong in ST:ENT)
I whole heartedly agree, Frameworks > CMS and thus I'll always suggest a custom designed framework over a cookie cutter CMS everyday.
(and for the record, I've been developing with Rails for 18 months now)
..that I actually liked
.. saying that, +1 Drupal. Well designed, nice architecture, decent documentation and great user-base, the four horseman of a decent CMS.
As a professional, I've very rarely seen clients who want a CMS ever actually use them the way they're intended. They either contract back to the developer to maintain their own projects or they spiral into development hell.
To often, the idea of a CMS far outweigh's their reality, simple HTML/CSS with a few lessons in the basics of editing often end up cheaper and more effective than deploying and maintaining the cheapest OSS title
Wikipedia
It's a perfectly cromulent analogy
A Canary was used in a coalmine to give advanced warning of the buildup of Carbon Dioxide, as birds are more sensitive to changes in the air quality than humans are. The analogy says that Doctrow and Pilgrim are the canaries, and the rising CO2 level is the relative 'open-ness' of OS X vs Linux, and that if Apple doesn't take note of the 'rising CO2' they're ignoring the advanced warning.
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame
..
Oh, wait
um 1. Open iTunes 2. Select Media 3. Wait until's downloaded 4. Watch (or listen to downloaded media) Well, let's just say then, they already have ...
Music and video piracy aren't driven by people wanting to rip off "Big Media", it's being driven by people who want easier access to the media.
I'm sorry, but that's not just true anymore. It's what I do, every day - and where JS/Client side scripting was hellish in the late 90's there are plenty of examples of complex and mature javascript driven apps. Claiming that it's all too hard is the easy way out, there are standards, they are supported, widely amongst modern clients and it's just lazy to say, "screw it, we'll make it work in IE and nothing else".
You should also never be mandating error checking of complex forms on the client side because you can't control the client-side. If it's complex enough that you can't reliably deploy it in JS, you should be writing that logic into the server side code.
Given the current moves to change the IR(Industrial Relations) laws in Australia, this will probably be the case here too soon. Currently, employees are protected under a scheme of unfair dismal legislation, which, should the changes pass, will be removed.
rumor has it - invite wumpus.game@gmail.com, then IM it 'play'
Depends if it's your hotmail password, then no. if it's the passphrase on your private key on a server with millions of dollar's worth of transactions then yes. Going forward, I wouldn't use them (MD5 or SHA-1) for anything resembling security anymore
'to an extent already'.. No extents about it, you just described OS X - take away Aqua, and OS X is a pretty hard-core and stable BSD.
Both Pages & Keynote documents are XML files at their core (they aren't even Zipped like OO) -- although Apple are a little lazy with the documentation at the moment (Keynote v1 is documented on apple.com, v2 isn't yet), it's not that hard to trawl through the XML to grab content & style
I think this is indicative of a greater problem with the stable/unstable labelling of Debian.
I use an 'unstable' build of debian, and it's the most stable OS I've used, yet for an approaching user facing, a copy of an up-to-date-but-'unstable' debian, a two-year-old-but-'stable' debian or Fedora Core, guess which one's going to get picked. Naming is everything and the debian brand is being hurt by it's semantics.
Reader's Digest Version (ala Fight Club) "I am Jack's Network Places" "I am Jack's Stash of Pr0n"
What the hell are you going on about. A large proportion of OS X is open source.
There's a simple fact about software development, bugs are guaranteed, especially on a projects as complex as Mozilla, heightened by the multi-platform delivery platform that's expected of Mozilla & Gecko.
Given that, imho, it's much better to see many bug fix releases in a vibrant and alert software project rather than minor patches every year and major releases years apart.
'Being less buggy' isn't the measurement here, identifying and resolving the bugs is. I know it's a half full/half empty argument, but software testing should never be approached with the 'be less buggy' attitude, it should always be approached with the 'find the bugs' attitude.
These are drastic measures, but given the average BigPond user is much less a geek than anyone frequenting these parts, this will probably be the first time that most of these users will know about it, and given BigPond's previous problems with mail-servers, perhaps they're striking before the problem gets too out of hand.
Although I don't understand the purpose of a trojaned machine repeatedly hitting a DNS server, is this an attempt to cause an overflow and therefore making the DNS server itself vulnerable?