If your gonna troll slashdot you should at least make your terrible terrible links work on linux. Your windows opened up nothing and just kept generating errors.
Also don't forget this. "Tomcat started off as a servlet reference implementation by James Duncan Davidson, a software architect at Sun Microsystems. He later helped make the project open source and played a key role in its donation by Sun to the Apache Software Foundation." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Tomcat)
The JSP container that defined what a JSP container was got opened up early on.
If you don't understand the consequences of the code you write, you're incompetent and in over your head. Banning specific languages won't improve your comprehension.
Fun fact! IDIOTS WILL NEVER STOP WRITING CODE.
So preventing the web from using any language that is not nerfed would be a good plan to protect everyones personal info. Even if you don't use the internet the govt will. See this story for an example... Oklahoma Leaks 10,000 Social Security Numbers
I know it's all over the story on Slashdot's end but the article it self does not say anything will be closed. GPLed code can be open but cost money. Am I missing some other article? Because to me it sounds like they plan on doing things the Red Hat way. Public free version and Enterprise pay version.
If good work is being done to fix an issue I don't care if the person who got the ball rolling did not personally care about it.
The more politicians who are talking about fixing something the more likely that politician somewhere is going to end up doing something. I know most politicians do not fix what they talk about. This is Slashdot, I did not think that needed to be stated.
Call me cynical but for an elected official I see "Hey maybe this issue will help me get re-elected." the same as caring. If good work is being done to fix an issue I don't care if the person who got the ball rolling did not personally care about it.
Yes, but the trick is the it's letterS not a letter. When everyone starts talking they start caring. MY real question is why is this not on the news?! I see more advertisements on CNN for extending the PATRIOT Act then I see news about ANYTHING relevant to it. It's infuriating. This country was built on the idea of free speech. It's the unspoken fourth branch and somehow it's been killed.
Yeah but all 'are you human' tests so far are crackable. The crack for the kitten test is to record all the unique pictures by constantly hitting the site and then mark the ones that are kittens manually. So when your bot goes there he only needs to compare the pictures he has that he knows are kittens to the ones he sees.
Now the patch for this is to start blurring the kittens. So welcome back to square one my friend.
I'm not saying that JSPs are secure by default or that PHP is hard to secure, but that to make something that is so blatantly insecure (the SQL was in the damn URL!) would not be the easy to write it in Java. Putting code to do any kind of logic on the page it self is a pain in ass with JSPs compared to putting it in a servlet. So having a JSP page create the SQL on the fly would be avoided by anyone who knew any thing about JSPs at all.
The only way to know for sure if they would have made the same mistake with JSPs as they did with PHP would be to get some equally stupid JSP programmers and have them make the same page.
True but we can blame the language for encouraging the developers to be incompetent. This will bring up the "They should learn how to do it right and not depend on the language" argument. I currently do Java web programing (JSPs not applets) and I experience both ends of this. Since Java does fantastic memory management and clean up people are constantly not having their code clean up after it self. On the other hand the strong existing structure for JSPs prevent a lot of possible security issues by giving us easy ways to do things securely so we don't have to whip up something that could have a very stupid flaw like this one.
All languages have their good and bad points. Not encouraging the coder do things the right way IS (I think) a bad point.
Did you even read that? The whole thing was about money. UK owed China a ton and started to sell them something they knew they would get hooked on. Did china know this? No and that was the problem. This is what the OP is talking about. CONTROLLED use by someone who understands the risks is ok. China did not understand the risks of Opium.
Oh and FYI, the war was BECAUSE it became illegal to IMPORT. It was still legal in grow and use in China. If the Opium imports were legal but discouraged and Opium addiction was treated they might not have had the war at all.
Fly in the face of history? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin Go take a read. It's basically a more potent and faster form of morphine. When controlled it can be just as safe. This is not to say that morphine is safe, but it is still in use medically so it's not the worst thing in the world.
I know it might look questioning the war on drugs is just the 'cool' thing to do but there are really some things there that are just stupid.
According to their data it WAS public property. Google maps has their driveway marked as a road. For those of you who will comment on the mail box being on the end of the road as a signal that the road is a driveway should be aware that there are MANY small roads that have mailboxs on one end so that the mailman does not have to go down a difficult narrow road. And most of these roads are(Surprise!) dirt roads.
Google has a lot of power so we should be keeping an eye on them, but this was a simple mistake that they immediately corrected. Move on, nothing to see here.
Most people will not care or notice. But the few who are smart enough to notice can basically "drink from the firehose". If, as ISPs say, they could not handle people using all their bandwidth I think this is a good solution.
Google is one half of the internet advertising market and DoubleClick is the other half. It's basically an instant monopoly. There are very few other guys out there. I know MS is in the market and I guess Yahoo is too but I can't think of anyone else. Add in that Google owns most peoples data (email, search, and who knows what else) and you have something that could be very very dangerous. Personally I'm not that worried but I'm keeping my eye on them
In the last few years IBM has defended Open Source. After they got hit so hard in the pocket book over their court case (it's before my time so I don't know much of it) they finally "got it". They saw that it would mean more for their bottom line to help the Open Source community then to try to replace it as Microsoft does today and as they were doing. Give away the software then charge for the service and charge even more for the training. Anyone who "gos it alone" (does not pay for training or support because they were able to learn everything on their own) is likely to come back and pay for SOMETHING at some point (a book, enterprise level software, etc.)or at least not hate you and tell all of their friends your stuff is crap because they had to pay a shit ton for something they ended up not using. When people deal with MS it gos the other way, they only use MS if they have to. The "gos it alone" guy hits a road block because the software is too expensive to try on a whim and too locked down to learn with out spending even more. This change has made IBM geek friendly over the years, but not geek chic like Apple.
I got one better for you. Put the packets your sending in encrypted packets of a different type while on the Comcast network. Comcast can't sniff you then and you could use it as a selling point. So your customers would all get a router or hub or something that can encrypt/decrypt on the user end and as soon as the packet gets to your network you decrypt/encrypt it. Using a packet in a packet is fairly common with the internet, the backbone is an acronym soup of packet types.
Correct me if I'm wrong but could this work?
1)Start new ISP that does not filter
2)Get help from the FCC because they are a bit pissed at Comcast for their "nah nah nah You cant get us!" crap
3)When Comcast tries to buy you out/stomp you in to oblivion use antitrust laws to stay alive.
4)Grow to a reasonable size because you have some idea of how the internet works and will not be a dick to your customers.
5)????
6)profit
I know it's not a programming language, but it's my answer to people looking for a new programming language for a challenge or to enhance their skills.
I fully agree. For most people an HDL is worthless but as programing exercise it's a interesting experience to say the least. And I would say look in to VHDL, it seems to be a more open competitor to Verilog but I must admit I've never used Verilog. Can someone summarize the differences?
Hell yeah we do but if they gave them to us then he would basically be giving some other PR group cannon fodder. As much as we can understand that things don't always go as planed or context matters the average joe does not. A highly precise answer for one question could be twisted to an answer for a totally different question. Honestly I think he got away with as much emotion as he could with out getting a spanking from his overlords. Don't think some of what he said can't be twisted?
The person who hates war the most is the warrior who has to go to it... we want to prevent that.
Oh shit! The government is trying to make us love war!
As much as I hate the canned answers I can't blame the guy.
You know I have to question this. It took a decade but gaming became cool. With how important and integrated computers are in our daily life then I think that being cool and being a geek will no longer be thought of as mutually exclusive. To take it a step further I think that if you CAN'T use a computer in this day and age your not cool.
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If your gonna troll slashdot you should at least make your terrible terrible links work on linux. Your windows opened up nothing and just kept generating errors.
Also don't forget this. "Tomcat started off as a servlet reference implementation by James Duncan Davidson, a software architect at Sun Microsystems. He later helped make the project open source and played a key role in its donation by Sun to the Apache Software Foundation." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Tomcat) The JSP container that defined what a JSP container was got opened up early on.
I know it's all over the story on Slashdot's end but the article it self does not say anything will be closed. GPLed code can be open but cost money. Am I missing some other article? Because to me it sounds like they plan on doing things the Red Hat way. Public free version and Enterprise pay version.
Call me cynical but for an elected official I see "Hey maybe this issue will help me get re-elected." the same as caring. If good work is being done to fix an issue I don't care if the person who got the ball rolling did not personally care about it.
Yes, but the trick is the it's letterS not a letter. When everyone starts talking they start caring. MY real question is why is this not on the news?! I see more advertisements on CNN for extending the PATRIOT Act then I see news about ANYTHING relevant to it. It's infuriating. This country was built on the idea of free speech. It's the unspoken fourth branch and somehow it's been killed.
Yeah but all 'are you human' tests so far are crackable. The crack for the kitten test is to record all the unique pictures by constantly hitting the site and then mark the ones that are kittens manually. So when your bot goes there he only needs to compare the pictures he has that he knows are kittens to the ones he sees.
Now the patch for this is to start blurring the kittens. So welcome back to square one my friend.
I'm not saying that JSPs are secure by default or that PHP is hard to secure, but that to make something that is so blatantly insecure (the SQL was in the damn URL!) would not be the easy to write it in Java. Putting code to do any kind of logic on the page it self is a pain in ass with JSPs compared to putting it in a servlet. So having a JSP page create the SQL on the fly would be avoided by anyone who knew any thing about JSPs at all.
The only way to know for sure if they would have made the same mistake with JSPs as they did with PHP would be to get some equally stupid JSP programmers and have them make the same page.
True but we can blame the language for encouraging the developers to be incompetent. This will bring up the "They should learn how to do it right and not depend on the language" argument. I currently do Java web programing (JSPs not applets) and I experience both ends of this. Since Java does fantastic memory management and clean up people are constantly not having their code clean up after it self. On the other hand the strong existing structure for JSPs prevent a lot of possible security issues by giving us easy ways to do things securely so we don't have to whip up something that could have a very stupid flaw like this one.
All languages have their good and bad points. Not encouraging the coder do things the right way IS (I think) a bad point.
Did you even read that? The whole thing was about money. UK owed China a ton and started to sell them something they knew they would get hooked on. Did china know this? No and that was the problem. This is what the OP is talking about. CONTROLLED use by someone who understands the risks is ok. China did not understand the risks of Opium.
Oh and FYI, the war was BECAUSE it became illegal to IMPORT. It was still legal in grow and use in China. If the Opium imports were legal but discouraged and Opium addiction was treated they might not have had the war at all.
Drugs != Bad
Fly in the face of history? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin Go take a read. It's basically a more potent and faster form of morphine. When controlled it can be just as safe. This is not to say that morphine is safe, but it is still in use medically so it's not the worst thing in the world.
I know it might look questioning the war on drugs is just the 'cool' thing to do but there are really some things there that are just stupid.
According to their data it WAS public property. Google maps has their driveway marked as a road. For those of you who will comment on the mail box being on the end of the road as a signal that the road is a driveway should be aware that there are MANY small roads that have mailboxs on one end so that the mailman does not have to go down a difficult narrow road. And most of these roads are(Surprise!) dirt roads.
Google has a lot of power so we should be keeping an eye on them, but this was a simple mistake that they immediately corrected. Move on, nothing to see here.
Most people will not care or notice. But the few who are smart enough to notice can basically "drink from the firehose". If, as ISPs say, they could not handle people using all their bandwidth I think this is a good solution.
Google is one half of the internet advertising market and DoubleClick is the other half. It's basically an instant monopoly. There are very few other guys out there. I know MS is in the market and I guess Yahoo is too but I can't think of anyone else. Add in that Google owns most peoples data (email, search, and who knows what else) and you have something that could be very very dangerous. Personally I'm not that worried but I'm keeping my eye on them
In the last few years IBM has defended Open Source. After they got hit so hard in the pocket book over their court case (it's before my time so I don't know much of it) they finally "got it". They saw that it would mean more for their bottom line to help the Open Source community then to try to replace it as Microsoft does today and as they were doing. Give away the software then charge for the service and charge even more for the training. Anyone who "gos it alone" (does not pay for training or support because they were able to learn everything on their own) is likely to come back and pay for SOMETHING at some point (a book, enterprise level software, etc.)or at least not hate you and tell all of their friends your stuff is crap because they had to pay a shit ton for something they ended up not using. When people deal with MS it gos the other way, they only use MS if they have to. The "gos it alone" guy hits a road block because the software is too expensive to try on a whim and too locked down to learn with out spending even more. This change has made IBM geek friendly over the years, but not geek chic like Apple.
I got one better for you. Put the packets your sending in encrypted packets of a different type while on the Comcast network. Comcast can't sniff you then and you could use it as a selling point. So your customers would all get a router or hub or something that can encrypt/decrypt on the user end and as soon as the packet gets to your network you decrypt/encrypt it. Using a packet in a packet is fairly common with the internet, the backbone is an acronym soup of packet types.
Hey I never said it would be easy, just that it could work. With any luck Google will get the same idea and act on it.
Correct me if I'm wrong but could this work? 1)Start new ISP that does not filter 2)Get help from the FCC because they are a bit pissed at Comcast for their "nah nah nah You cant get us!" crap 3)When Comcast tries to buy you out/stomp you in to oblivion use antitrust laws to stay alive. 4)Grow to a reasonable size because you have some idea of how the internet works and will not be a dick to your customers. 5)???? 6)profit
Ray Tracing has a place. New high speed FPS games are not it.
As much as I hate the canned answers I can't blame the guy.
Well I guess you better get McCain on the phone. We don't want the poor man to think he has a chance.
He was saying that RP could win NEXT election. He has a point too. Most people still don't know anything about RP and why he said the things he did.