I don't know why I should be wasting my time correcting AC's in here. Still, here's a good phrase and my personal interpretation:
SECURITY THRU OBSCURITY IS NO SECURITY AT ALL.
Maybe you won't see people shouting bugs on the streets. But the hackers are there, posting the exploits in underground networks. Away from the police forces.
With public exploits, at least you can see the enemy (the security hole). With "unpublished" exploits, the enemy will strike you from behind.
It means more people vulnerable to furure viruses and the like due to a closed-source Microsoft product. Frankly, I wouldn't touch that with a 20-foot pole.
My first thought was: Maybe this disaster was needed to update disaster recovery around other areas of the world. But then I realized something: It's rather that mankind is shortsighted when dealing with new technologies, disasters (and everything else).
Like, while the media and biz ppl were focused on porn sites, businesses, etc, the less favored countries couldn't get a chance to use this technology in their favor.
Ironically, the internet was originally designed as a disaster-proof (specifically, nuke-proof) network.
Defacing a website should be compared with spraypainting the front wall of a company's building. And erasing data with burning the building's files (paper).
Pothead: "Hey guys, what are you in for?" Pirate: "20 years. The new Britney album." Dad: "25 years. I stargazed with my kid." Hussein: Life. For having MDW's that turned out to be nowhere. Osama: ZERO! They still haven't caught me.. suckers!
The advance in here is that these new cells also use infrared. Also, solar cells are only ONE of the possible applications of this new technology (Nanoapex news article).
I don't work in the US, but I (luckily) found a computer job in Mexico (not outsourced tho).
Lessons I learned:
a) Teach yourself with books. b) Take programming language (i.e. java) courses. Learn what pays, not necessarily what is the best (there are 100x more ASP.NET jobs here than PHP ones - sad but true) c) Practice a lot. d) School didn't give me more (or any at all) employment opportunities. It was just a paper. However, I don't know how that applies in the US.
I think that someone with the tools and experience in his resume will more probably get hired than someone with a Harvard degree but zero experience. (However my education was outdated, got in school in '93, and got out in '99, so the college courses were completely internet-agnostic. Maybe that's why I couldn't find more opportunities.
So.. WHY do you want to go to college? IMHO you're just giving the US lotsa money (unless you got a scholarship) so that you'll be better prepared for about nothing.
so, the news is that more applications were vulnerable to spidering. DOH! I mean, sure, give away you surveillance webcam access without a login. What were these guys thinking about?
According to my guide to Slashdot Journalism, the post qualifies perfectly for item c): "Is the story controversial enough? If you're posting a SCIENCE story, make sure the majority of comments won't be "Oh, yeah... um... cool."
Non-controversial submissions have very little chance of getting accepted.
how about to download your own MP3's without having to resort to the apple near-monopoly? Altho I'd prefer a "build-your-own-Linuxpod-hardware", but so far I haven't seen such thing.
Of course, I don't know if this iPodLinux could be accused of violating the DRM stuff blahblahblah. Any thoughts on this?
Microsoft, Intel, Phoenix, etc, will all tell everyone that they will end viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, etc if they just use their hardware solutions.
Then someone will come up with an "open source version" of the CPUs (that you could manufacture yourself of course), and the DRHIAA (Digital Rights Hardware Industry Association of America) will start banning them. Don't count on it tho.
today an article appeared on Technology Review about the LokiTorrent site fighting back in court after the MPAA sued the owner. $40K in donations from its users (for legal fees) so far.
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I have my BT client software configured to limit the u/l bandwidth. It's ABC (found at sourceforge).
Informative.
(Disclaimer: I'm not endorsing this method - just making an observation)
People can always search for torrent files on gnutella or edonkey2k. Of course, not many people know about this, but it's always like that.
I don't know why I should be wasting my time correcting AC's in here. Still, here's a good phrase and my personal interpretation:
SECURITY THRU OBSCURITY IS NO SECURITY AT ALL.
Maybe you won't see people shouting bugs on the streets. But the hackers are there, posting the exploits in underground networks. Away from the police forces.
With public exploits, at least you can see the enemy (the security hole). With "unpublished" exploits, the enemy will strike you from behind.
Is this what you REALLY want?
[Goes back to designing Angelina Jolie X7c]
Yeah, so nice and everything, but will it run Linux?
It means more people vulnerable to furure viruses and the like due to a closed-source Microsoft product. Frankly, I wouldn't touch that with a 20-foot pole.
My first thought was: Maybe this disaster was needed to update disaster recovery around other areas of the world. But then I realized something: It's rather that mankind is shortsighted when dealing with new technologies, disasters (and everything else).
Like, while the media and biz ppl were focused on porn sites, businesses, etc, the less favored countries couldn't get a chance to use this technology in their favor.
Ironically, the internet was originally designed as a disaster-proof (specifically, nuke-proof) network.
Defacing a website should be compared with spraypainting the front wall of a company's building. And erasing data with burning the building's files (paper).
Now the MPAA can prevent 'pirates' from voting against their friendly senators...
who cares? With encrypted P2P, piracy will survive underground.
Pothead: "Hey guys, what are you in for?"
Pirate: "20 years. The new Britney album."
Dad: "25 years. I stargazed with my kid."
Hussein: Life. For having MDW's that turned out to be nowhere.
Osama: ZERO! They still haven't caught me.. suckers!
2002 CNN article about "paintable solar cells".
The advance in here is that these new cells also use infrared. Also, solar cells are only ONE of the possible applications of this new technology (Nanoapex news article).
let's hope we don't have to scorch the sky later! :P
I don't work in the US, but I (luckily) found a computer job in Mexico (not outsourced tho).
Lessons I learned:
a) Teach yourself with books.
b) Take programming language (i.e. java) courses. Learn what pays, not necessarily what is the best (there are 100x more ASP.NET jobs here than PHP ones - sad but true)
c) Practice a lot.
d) School didn't give me more (or any at all) employment opportunities. It was just a paper. However, I don't know how that applies in the US.
I think that someone with the tools and experience in his resume will more probably get hired than someone with a Harvard degree but zero experience. (However my education was outdated, got in school in '93, and got out in '99, so the college courses were completely internet-agnostic. Maybe that's why I couldn't find more opportunities.
So.. WHY do you want to go to college? IMHO you're just giving the US lotsa money (unless you got a scholarship) so that you'll be better prepared for about nothing.
Just when I switched back to IE after learning the 3 new mozilla vulnerabilities... *cries*
Argh can't find the link. Anyway, Wired news a year ago: http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,578 97,00.html
so, the news is that more applications were vulnerable to spidering. DOH! I mean, sure, give away you surveillance webcam access without a login. What were these guys thinking about?
Caritas, international
http://www.caritas.org/
It's a group of over 150 catholic organizations dedicated 100% to charity.
The new George Foreman Web Browser - knocks out the FAT from your web-surfing experience!
:)
Don't you rather mean the Computer Cookery 5000? It lets the Intel Pentium Prescott (TM) do the cooking for you!
Bill Gates, for his contribution to Internet Explorer viruses!
(APPLAUSE)
"All your bytes are belong to us!"
Slashdot alert: This page has HEAVY graphics. You better use the Mirrordot link.
According to my guide to Slashdot Journalism, the post qualifies perfectly for item c): "Is the story controversial enough? If you're posting a SCIENCE story, make sure the majority of comments won't be "Oh, yeah... um... cool."
Non-controversial submissions have very little chance of getting accepted.
Like... helping to prevent the arctic from warming?
how about to download your own MP3's without having to resort to the apple near-monopoly? Altho I'd prefer a "build-your-own-Linuxpod-hardware", but so far I haven't seen such thing.
Of course, I don't know if this iPodLinux could be accused of violating the DRM stuff blahblahblah. Any thoughts on this?
Microsoft, Intel, Phoenix, etc, will all tell everyone that they will end viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, etc if they just use their hardware solutions.
Then someone will come up with an "open source version" of the CPUs (that you could manufacture yourself of course), and the DRHIAA (Digital Rights Hardware Industry Association of America) will start banning them. Don't count on it tho.
today an article appeared on Technology Review about the LokiTorrent site fighting back in court after the MPAA sued the owner. $40K in donations from its users (for legal fees) so far.