How about openoffice? So many friends of mine started using it instead of pirating ms office, and hit an immovable UI snag, and were right back to ms office.
Even the other day I was updating my resume, and spent about 15 minutes trying to figure out how to remove a hyperlink that automatically placed itself there (nothing more aggravating than a text editor that thinks it knows better than me). I eventually had to use google to find the solution.
The annoying thing is that I can remember at least 3 other times where I have done the same thing, but I use openoffice infrequently enough that I forgot what the solution was.
In diablo 2, cheating meant uploading your own characters and items to closed servers due to server vulnerabilities, and abusing holding buffers to dupe items. Sometimes you could also manipulate client side variables that blizzard forgot about to run really fast (yogbuls is my hero!) and things like that.
When did automation become such a huge sin? The solution is simple. Write scripting into the game so everyone is on the same level, and make characters get tired after a few hours of gameplay. You could even do it at the account level so players don't just rotate characters or whatever.
It is also helpful to minimise the amount of shit that is excruciatingly boring to do twice. People like me start scripting in games when they become too tedious.
It's also a bit faster than the vaio TZ series. Still though, I was really hoping apple was going to release an 11 inch macbook:-/ I've had my 13 inch macbook for a year and a half and it still feels oversized and klunky. I would much rather have a more portable form factor than something that is just thinner.
A huge pet peeve of mine is when university professors use academic journals to advertise for their company. I have read many papers from Dawson Engler's group, and they all seem to have the same outline. Vague outlines of the new analysis algorithms they use, heavy with statistics on how badly they broke various open source projects, and always a Coverity plug. The lack of repeatable results should be enough to reject them from any self respecting computer science journal, but they keep publishing.
If DHS spent its money on investing in high quality static analysis plugins for modern (free) development environments, then you would catch all of the old mistakes, and make sure that they did not happen in the future. I just get annoyed when I see how much money goes to these companies whose only concern is treating the symptoms, not the cause, of poor security standards in software development.
You walk in to a computer store, and you see the 100 dollar laptop and right next to it you see the 75 dollar laptop -- which one you gonna spring for?
it was dumb of them to sign away their rights it was dumb of them to be drinking at parties it was dumb of them to let pictures be taken of themselves doing illegal things and.. it was dumb of them to publicly post those pictures on the internet
Also, keep in mind that no one really got in to *that* much trouble.
Of course, I understand the whole abuse of power issues, but aren't there far more troubling abuses of power?
It is mostly inhabited by graphic artists and students. Not your typical "locked in the basement power leveling" type of gamers. There are people like me that play it for the scripting, but not as many. Also secondlife commercials play pretty frequently on regular TV in Japan.
Of course it totally depends on what you want to be doing. I got my undergrad last December, and have been working on as a security engineer since last may. At school we did data structures in c++, operating systems in c, and compilers in java. I am sure that gave me a pretty solid base, but it is not how I got my job (I never let my schooling interfere with my education). I have one of the few jobs where knowing a ridiculous amount of languages is actually useful. For me, knowing how to calculate data flow in a multitude of languages is more important than familiarity with implementing specific solutions.
Keep in mind that computer science is essentially a branch of discrete mathematics. The skills you learn in the undergraduate curriculum are useful to a multitude of fields. It's not just a degree in "computers" as some people seem to think. For example, a good friend of mine did his undergraduate in CS, then got an MBA. He now works for a consulting firm that optimizes business hierarchies for multi billion dollar corporations.
I think I missed the latest wave of slang. When did the word "game" become equivalent to the word "scam" (used in this way on two different articles on the front page right now), and when did "greasy" replace "sketchy"?
It worked for paris hilton right? Doing forensics right is actually pretty hard. You need paper trails and reasonable proof that no evidence was tampered with in the process of bringing it from the victim machine to a court case. I think the point of this law is that if someone screws up, or they don't know what they are doing, they can get their licence revoked. I personally think the fact that anyone can pull data off hard drives and introduce it in court without having to prove any credentials is pretty scary. I think it's also lame that someone looking for a forensic investigator has no way to determine how qualified a given individual is, except for word of mouth.
Yes, if they screw this law up it could be really bad, but I think there is also a lot of good that can come from it.
Still though, it seems backwards. From an academic standpoint, this is all pretty cool stuff, but when it comes to practical uses, would you rather have a computer that acts like a rat brain, or a rat brain that acts like a computer?
I suppose the idea of a brain simulation is much more interesting to psychologists, because it gives them the chance to snapshot and rewind certain simulations of brain activity, which I imagine would be very useful to them. As a computer scientist, however, I am really looking forward to the day when I can go buy my USB neuron vat, and use it to offload large computations to.
The only politician who is receiving more money from the insurance industry is a republican. You must have fallen asleep in 1993. Clinton's amazing plan about "healthcare for all" is about making it illegal to not have health insurance. This is just about the FARTHEST from socialism you can get.
The problem isn't that adobe has a poor implementation of the flash protocol. If that was the case, they could just patch the issues (like in the past). These issues stem from the protocol itself, and that it is very liberal on how it defines access control. This is not something that can be fixed by open source. Even if gnash did have a top notch security team (which I doubt, since it sounds to me like they are still having trouble getting swf to parse safely), they would need to redefine much of the protocol, add proper mandatory access controls. Doing this in a way that would not break existing flash applets would be a huge pain in the ass. Not to mention having to go back and change everything again once adobe releases a new version.
At my first software engineering job when I was in highschool, everyone on my team was hardcore into perl. My boss especially, since he regularly hung out with some of the perl oriley authors, and had written however dozen many of the cpan modules etc.
I remember how excited he was because perl 6 was going to be coming out "any day now". This was in 2001. I have been out of the loop for a while, but every time I do a linux install, I notice that perl hasn't hit 6 yet, and I find that slightly amusing.
If you want an informed opinion about vista, slashdot is not the place to get it. Microsoft was in a tough place for this release. The more mandatory access controls they implemented, the more it broke legacy code. In the end they decided security was more important than backwards compatibility in most cases.
It's not perfect, and I'm not switching away from linux anytime soon, but at least microsoft is trying.
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How about openoffice? So many friends of mine started using it instead of pirating ms office, and hit an immovable UI snag, and were right back to ms office.
Even the other day I was updating my resume, and spent about 15 minutes trying to figure out how to remove a hyperlink that automatically placed itself there (nothing more aggravating than a text editor that thinks it knows better than me). I eventually had to use google to find the solution.
The annoying thing is that I can remember at least 3 other times where I have done the same thing, but I use openoffice infrequently enough that I forgot what the solution was.
In diablo 2, cheating meant uploading your own characters and items to closed servers due to server vulnerabilities, and abusing holding buffers to dupe items. Sometimes you could also manipulate client side variables that blizzard forgot about to run really fast (yogbuls is my hero!) and things like that.
When did automation become such a huge sin? The solution is simple. Write scripting into the game so everyone is on the same level, and make characters get tired after a few hours of gameplay. You could even do it at the account level so players don't just rotate characters or whatever.
It is also helpful to minimise the amount of shit that is excruciatingly boring to do twice. People like me start scripting in games when they become too tedious.
It's also a bit faster than the vaio TZ series. Still though, I was really hoping apple was going to release an 11 inch macbook :-/ I've had my 13 inch macbook for a year and a half and it still feels oversized and klunky. I would much rather have a more portable form factor than something that is just thinner.
A fucking men?
A huge pet peeve of mine is when university professors use academic journals to advertise for their company. I have read many papers from Dawson Engler's group, and they all seem to have the same outline. Vague outlines of the new analysis algorithms they use, heavy with statistics on how badly they broke various open source projects, and always a Coverity plug. The lack of repeatable results should be enough to reject them from any self respecting computer science journal, but they keep publishing.
If DHS spent its money on investing in high quality static analysis plugins for modern (free) development environments, then you would catch all of the old mistakes, and make sure that they did not happen in the future. I just get annoyed when I see how much money goes to these companies whose only concern is treating the symptoms, not the cause, of poor security standards in software development.
You walk in to a computer store, and you see the 100 dollar laptop and right next to it you see the 75 dollar laptop -- which one you gonna spring for?
Well, I am of the opinion that..
it was dumb of them to sign away their rights
it was dumb of them to be drinking at parties
it was dumb of them to let pictures be taken of themselves doing illegal things
and..
it was dumb of them to publicly post those pictures on the internet
Also, keep in mind that no one really got in to *that* much trouble.
Of course, I understand the whole abuse of power issues, but aren't there far more troubling abuses of power?
In the article, it explains that the only kids that got in trouble were the ones on the sports teams that signed the "no drug" agreements.
It is mostly inhabited by graphic artists and students. Not your typical "locked in the basement power leveling" type of gamers. There are people like me that play it for the scripting, but not as many. Also secondlife commercials play pretty frequently on regular TV in Japan.
Speaking of which, is there any word on how hard it would be to get android on an iphone?
http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/01/iphone-processor-found-620mhz-arm/
Of course it totally depends on what you want to be doing. I got my undergrad last December, and have been working on as a security engineer since last may. At school we did data structures in c++, operating systems in c, and compilers in java. I am sure that gave me a pretty solid base, but it is not how I got my job (I never let my schooling interfere with my education). I have one of the few jobs where knowing a ridiculous amount of languages is actually useful. For me, knowing how to calculate data flow in a multitude of languages is more important than familiarity with implementing specific solutions.
Keep in mind that computer science is essentially a branch of discrete mathematics. The skills you learn in the undergraduate curriculum are useful to a multitude of fields. It's not just a degree in "computers" as some people seem to think. For example, a good friend of mine did his undergraduate in CS, then got an MBA. He now works for a consulting firm that optimizes business hierarchies for multi billion dollar corporations.
I love how with slashdot, the tone of the inflection when I read comments is determined by the moderators.
I think I missed the latest wave of slang. When did the word "game" become equivalent to the word "scam" (used in this way on two different articles on the front page right now), and when did "greasy" replace "sketchy"?
:-(
I'm too young to be a dirty old man
It worked for paris hilton right? Doing forensics right is actually pretty hard. You need paper trails and reasonable proof that no evidence was tampered with in the process of bringing it from the victim machine to a court case. I think the point of this law is that if someone screws up, or they don't know what they are doing, they can get their licence revoked. I personally think the fact that anyone can pull data off hard drives and introduce it in court without having to prove any credentials is pretty scary. I think it's also lame that someone looking for a forensic investigator has no way to determine how qualified a given individual is, except for word of mouth.
Yes, if they screw this law up it could be really bad, but I think there is also a lot of good that can come from it.
"Or maybe the universe is a snake eating its own tail!"
nonono, you don't understand at all. You see, the universe is like a giant loaf of bread.
http://www.amazon.com/NOVA-Universe-Michael-B-Green/dp/B0000ZG0TA/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_i/102-0161043-9516150
Still though, it seems backwards. From an academic standpoint, this is all pretty cool stuff, but when it comes to practical uses, would you rather have a computer that acts like a rat brain, or a rat brain that acts like a computer?
I suppose the idea of a brain simulation is much more interesting to psychologists, because it gives them the chance to snapshot and rewind certain simulations of brain activity, which I imagine would be very useful to them. As a computer scientist, however, I am really looking forward to the day when I can go buy my USB neuron vat, and use it to offload large computations to.
?? Clinton ??
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/nyregion/12donate.html
The only politician who is receiving more money from the insurance industry is a republican. You must have fallen asleep in 1993. Clinton's amazing plan about "healthcare for all" is about making it illegal to not have health insurance. This is just about the FARTHEST from socialism you can get.
If I gave explanations and references, it would be "informative" :-)
I agree. Slashdot has a humour section. This is marked as "apple" and "censorship".
The problem isn't that adobe has a poor implementation of the flash protocol. If that was the case, they could just patch the issues (like in the past). These issues stem from the protocol itself, and that it is very liberal on how it defines access control. This is not something that can be fixed by open source. Even if gnash did have a top notch security team (which I doubt, since it sounds to me like they are still having trouble getting swf to parse safely), they would need to redefine much of the protocol, add proper mandatory access controls. Doing this in a way that would not break existing flash applets would be a huge pain in the ass. Not to mention having to go back and change everything again once adobe releases a new version.
Maybe they are looking to hire someone to design a better test?
At my first software engineering job when I was in highschool, everyone on my team was hardcore into perl. My boss especially, since he regularly hung out with some of the perl oriley authors, and had written however dozen many of the cpan modules etc.
I remember how excited he was because perl 6 was going to be coming out "any day now". This was in 2001. I have been out of the loop for a while, but every time I do a linux install, I notice that perl hasn't hit 6 yet, and I find that slightly amusing.
sensationalist pseudo-journalism?
If you want an informed opinion about vista, slashdot is not the place to get it. Microsoft was in a tough place for this release. The more mandatory access controls they implemented, the more it broke legacy code. In the end they decided security was more important than backwards compatibility in most cases.
It's not perfect, and I'm not switching away from linux anytime soon, but at least microsoft is trying.
If you hook it up to the red ethernet cable, you can get better bandwidth :-)
Red means fast!
Hahaha, you mean GNU/Linux right?