gcc, gdb and emacs. Some might dispute whether emacs is a contribution or a curse, but you can't really argue the value of gcc and gdb to the development community.
...I still have clipboard issues with crossing between applications to this day
That's one of (many) reasons I don't use a Linux desktop.
If you don't use a Linux desktop then I fail to see how you have clipboard issues between applications on Linux. I guess you could be an admin, but then there aren't any real circumstances where you would be copy/pasting between applications since you aren't running X on your servers.
Trying to download anything large over anykind of college or campus network is balls-achingly painful.
I don't know what college you go to, but I just downloaded the latest xcode dmg ( just under a gig in size ) in less than 3 minutes today on my campus. The experience resulted in no ball-aching on my part.
The PS3 has firmware updates. If you read this page: http://www.us.playstation.com/PS3/About/SystemUpdate
they are quite upfront about the fact that without updating there are features which may be unusable. They will have no problem changing the PS3 BD+ key and pushing it out if that means shutting down undesireable software players
No, I didn't. I just grabbed some quotes form the article and hoped they were relevant to the post I randomly replied to.
I did not read how SAFE was authored by both a Republican and a Democrat.
I did not read how Congress ( controlled by the Democrats ) folded SAFE into the Biden Bill and unanimously passed it.
I did not read how the House ( with a Dem majority ) also passed it.
I did not read how the Attorney General of New York ( Democrat, Former Clinton Cabinet Member ) is unofficially pimping the product to ISP's under the guise of brainstorming sessions.
Further more:
I am unaware of the fact that Obama felt it necessary to return to Washington after having not voted on shit since September 2007 to vote yes on FAA and then passing off some BS justification
I am unaware of Biden's request to congress for $1 billion to monitor P2P traffic under the guise of "Think of the Children"
I am unaware of Biden's friendship with the AA's
I am unaware of Biden sponsoring the Perform Act.
I am unaware of Biden sponsoring two separate bills containing this text making encryption back doors pretty much mandatory:
It is the sense of Congress that providers of electronic communications services and manufacturers of electronic communications service equipment shall ensure that communications systems permit the government to obtain the plain text contents of voice, data, and other communications when appropriately authorized by law
So, having not RTFA and not having any knowledge of the candidates or their parties, I have this totally unreasonable fear that electing either candidate puts my civil liberties at risk. But, maybe you have some information on a magical Democrat plan to grow a pair if and only if Obama is elected. If so please share.
Under the new U.S. law, a system like CopyRouter might not require involvement of law enforcement. ...
allow the ISPs to use CopyRouter or their own home-grown solutions, without including cops in the loop directly.
That provision was part of the SAFE Act, a bill introduced by Sen. McCain and Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York. ...
McCain's bill got caught in a tug-of-war with a broader bill written by another player in the presidential election, Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic vice presidential candidate. ...
Congress finally passed them both: McCain bill was folded into the Biden bill, which passed the House and Senate without objection.
It seems to me, either way you vote, your civil liberties are at risk.
I don't recall needing to do that when I signed up, but, you are right. That doesn't change my opinion of their service though, it just becomes a bit more of a PITA to see if you can use them.
Have you looked into cyberonic (www.cyberonic.com)? I use them in San Francisco and my brother uses them in Upstate NY. Dryline adsl, 1 static ip + 5 more for an extra $15, no port blocking, great customer support. The few times I've called them (over 5 years of service), I've never been on hold for more than a few minutes and once, when they couldn't fix the problem immeadiatly they called me back when the tech who could help me got back from lunch.
Adobe / Macromedia has never produced a Flash plugin for ppc linux and since gnash still stuck on v7 you can say Flash doesn't work on every current OS and browser and not be just plain wrong.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but once you have a balance on the card, regardless of encryption, couldn't you just read it once and then keep rewriting that read back onto the card giving you unlimited fare value for the year?
non-union skilled jobs in the US (specifically tech jobs) have conditions and pay that are well below what unions achieve for e.g. machinists and longshoremen.
I just looked up machinists and some different IT workers avg. salaries (US) on salary.com and don't see that to be true. Could you elaborate on additional benefits that they get that tech doesn't see?
I think bigstrat makes an interesting point. OSS proponents, myself included, make two possibly false assumptions.
1) That just because there is a project page on sourceforge that lists the number of downloads and a couple of email addresses for maintainers, that there is some sort of legitimacy to that software
2) That just because there is the possibility that the "community at large" can audit some code, that they did, or will.
Really, when you look at most smaller projects, it's one guy writing software and he's got some paragraphs on the interweb with the who and what and some requests for donations from people who like the software. I am a developer, and I can tell you exactly how many times I have taken more than 5 minutes to examine code like that: 0. I don't have the time. If I need / have interest in it I download the package and build. Now maybe someday in the future, I will really need something and it won't work quite right and I will fix some bugs or add some features, but I have yet to have that happen.
The point of all this being: In reality as much as we like to harp on open code, we blindly trust a project because of its means of delivery and the possibility that someone, somewhere could eventually audit the code.
I agree that there is definitely a lack of security conscious behavior on the internet, however I think there are some circumstances that mitigate the problems seen in scenario 2.
For sites that use your email address as your login, I hope that someone signing up for that service would not use their email password, In fact many people I know, who use ISP provided accounts, only knew their password when they set up Outlook Express. Gmail and its ilk are obviously a different story.
Scenario 2 assumes that people are able to get the same user id on every site they use. My experience is that this is not the case. Especially as the internet becomes utilized by a greater population simple or consistent id's are not available for long after a site comes into existence. So unless an attacker has been reading the autofill information in a victims browser preferences, he is probably not going to be able to access more than one or two sites.
I am not saying this is indicative of the mentality of internet users in general, but recently I was helping my mother with something that required a password and she was very conscious of the security of her password regardless of the fact that she is almost completely lost when it comes to most things computer related. Now admittedly I got the impression that she thinks her passwords are stored in a Caesar Cipher out in the open, but that does tell me security issues are filtering down to the masses.
You are correct in that OpenID does create a suitable compromise between Scenarios 1 and 2. However, once OpenID is commonly used there will be a new set of security problems that users are faced with. Even considering the limited success rate of fishing attacks, once a users OpenID is compromised, it becomes trivial to automate attacks on possible accounts across popular sites. Also, we are now relying on the reliability and integrity of a third party OpenID provider. It is easy to say "if you have doubts, move your OpenID", but that solution assumes anything but blind trust, which seems to be the default in many cases. It also assumes that if the OpenID server has been compromised that the user will become aware within a reasonable amount of time in order to minimize that damage done. Admittedly, if the damage is limited to someones blog and myspace account, really, who cares. But if that damage crosses over to financial and government accounts then it becomes a much bigger issue. I can't even imagine the lawsuit shit storm that befall some poor guy who decided to become an OpenID provider in that circumstance.
I think you might have something there, however, I don't think that really all that many people who sit in starbucks really read wikileaks, so my solution would be to just forward a nice long log of the persons emails back to that person (from a throwaway account obviously) explaining the what, where and why and detailing the fix.
While the headline is a bit erroneous, if you bothered to RTFA you might actually understand what is going on here. But since you obviously just like posting crap, I will help you out with some important tidbits.
...consists of the FTC, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Competition Bureau Canada, the Toronto Police Service - Fraud Squad, the Ontario Ministry of Government Services, the Ontario Provincial Police - Anti-Rackets, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the United Kingdom's Office of Fair Trading.
A federal district court judge in Chicago, Robert M. Dow, Jr., ordered a halt to the deceptive claims and froze the defendants' assets held in the United States, pending trial.
The Commission files a complaint when it has "reason to believe" that the law has been or is being violated, and it appears to the Commission that a proceeding is in the public interest. The complaint is not a finding or ruling that the defendant has actually violated the law. The case will be decided by the court.
If anyone actually needs the "hack" for this posted, then they deserve to have their geek credentials revoked and an entry added in their hosts file: 0.0.0.0 slashdot.org
I just got one I haven't seen in a long while. Tuesday Morning one of the systems was BSOD with a non bootable device error. The guy whose computer it is said he tagged reboot as he left Monday night because it was running slow. I booted knoppix and mounted the drive with no problem and with the minimal amount of locally stored company data intact. However, I didn't tool around the OS files too much. Utils said the memory was right and smartctl gave the drives a healthy. ClamAV on the mounted drive came up clean, and I haven't seen any hits on the file server logs for infected files. chkdsk \r in recovery console fixed it up nice and it has been running clean and fast since 10 am or so Tuesday. I am definately not a windows guy so if anyone has ideas on how a NTFS partition with XP can become unblessed I would love to know.
That guy in his garage is some beard writing code under the GPL. We'll say it's a pretty good piece of software called Chippewa. It grows and grows, ends up having a bunch of people working on it and is more widely deployed than MegaSofts competing version of the software commonly referred to by its acronym. MegaSoft has billions, can use a tax write off, and is willing to spend that money to cement dominance in the market. The people involved in Chippewa can, at most, come up with a few million of their own plus another few million from companies backing the development to defend the copyright. MegaSoft is aware of this and knows that since the product is GPL and distributed for free, the backers probably won't go all out to help the Chippewa foundation retain ownership. So, MegaSoft overbids, knowing they can take the hit, the developers end up in a legal fiasco since anyone who wrote even a single line of code that ended up in a release wants a piece of the pie and MegaSoft now owns Chippewa, which is quickly buried.
After all this, the community decides to fork the project, hoping that the GPL will save them, but MegaSoft still has loads of cash and really expensive lawyers in retainer just waiting to hang some free software schmucks out to dry. C&D letters are sent out to forks of Chippewa and suddenly everyone involved is embroiled in legal crap and all development is halted while the validity of the GPL is sorted out in a fight between MegaSoft and the FSF that makes the SCO trial look like child's play.
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gcc, gdb and emacs. Some might dispute whether emacs is a contribution or a curse, but you can't really argue the value of gcc and gdb to the development community.
We can also look here http://www.fortify.com/partners/technologyPartners.jsp and note that Microsoft is one of their partners.
...I still have clipboard issues with crossing between applications to this day
That's one of (many) reasons I don't use a Linux desktop.
If you don't use a Linux desktop then I fail to see how you have clipboard issues between applications on Linux. I guess you could be an admin, but then there aren't any real circumstances where you would be copy/pasting between applications since you aren't running X on your servers.
Trying to download anything large over anykind of college or campus network is balls-achingly painful.
I don't know what college you go to, but I just downloaded the latest xcode dmg ( just under a gig in size ) in less than 3 minutes today on my campus. The experience resulted in no ball-aching on my part.
The PS3 has firmware updates. If you read this page: http://www.us.playstation.com/PS3/About/SystemUpdate they are quite upfront about the fact that without updating there are features which may be unusable. They will have no problem changing the PS3 BD+ key and pushing it out if that means shutting down undesireable software players
I did not read how SAFE was authored by both a Republican and a Democrat.
I did not read how Congress ( controlled by the Democrats ) folded SAFE into the Biden Bill and unanimously passed it.
I did not read how the House ( with a Dem majority ) also passed it.
I did not read how the Attorney General of New York ( Democrat, Former Clinton Cabinet Member ) is unofficially pimping the product to ISP's under the guise of brainstorming sessions.
Further more:
I am unaware of the fact that Obama felt it necessary to return to Washington after having not voted on shit since September 2007 to vote yes on FAA and then passing off some BS justification
I am unaware of Biden's request to congress for $1 billion to monitor P2P traffic under the guise of "Think of the Children"
I am unaware of Biden's friendship with the AA's
I am unaware of Biden sponsoring the Perform Act.
I am unaware of Biden sponsoring two separate bills containing this text making encryption back doors pretty much mandatory:
So, having not RTFA and not having any knowledge of the candidates or their parties, I have this totally unreasonable fear that electing either candidate puts my civil liberties at risk. But, maybe you have some information on a magical Democrat plan to grow a pair if and only if Obama is elected. If so please share.
It seems to me, either way you vote, your civil liberties are at risk.
I don't recall needing to do that when I signed up, but, you are right. That doesn't change my opinion of their service though, it just becomes a bit more of a PITA to see if you can use them.
Have you looked into cyberonic (www.cyberonic.com)? I use them in San Francisco and my brother uses them in Upstate NY. Dryline adsl, 1 static ip + 5 more for an extra $15, no port blocking, great customer support. The few times I've called them (over 5 years of service), I've never been on hold for more than a few minutes and once, when they couldn't fix the problem immeadiatly they called me back when the tech who could help me got back from lunch.
Adobe / Macromedia has never produced a Flash plugin for ppc linux and since gnash still stuck on v7 you can say Flash doesn't work on every current OS and browser and not be just plain wrong.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but once you have a balance on the card, regardless of encryption, couldn't you just read it once and then keep rewriting that read back onto the card giving you unlimited fare value for the year?
non-union skilled jobs in the US (specifically tech jobs) have conditions and pay that are well below what unions achieve for e.g. machinists and longshoremen.
I just looked up machinists and some different IT workers avg. salaries (US) on salary.com and don't see that to be true. Could you elaborate on additional benefits that they get that tech doesn't see?
I think bigstrat makes an interesting point. OSS proponents, myself included, make two possibly false assumptions.
1) That just because there is a project page on sourceforge that lists the number of downloads and a couple of email addresses for maintainers, that there is some sort of legitimacy to that software
2) That just because there is the possibility that the "community at large" can audit some code, that they did, or will.
Really, when you look at most smaller projects, it's one guy writing software and he's got some paragraphs on the interweb with the who and what and some requests for donations from people who like the software. I am a developer, and I can tell you exactly how many times I have taken more than 5 minutes to examine code like that: 0. I don't have the time. If I need / have interest in it I download the package and build. Now maybe someday in the future, I will really need something and it won't work quite right and I will fix some bugs or add some features, but I have yet to have that happen.
The point of all this being: In reality as much as we like to harp on open code, we blindly trust a project because of its means of delivery and the possibility that someone, somewhere could eventually audit the code.
I agree that there is definitely a lack of security conscious behavior on the internet, however I think there are some circumstances that mitigate the problems seen in scenario 2.
For sites that use your email address as your login, I hope that someone signing up for that service would not use their email password, In fact many people I know, who use ISP provided accounts, only knew their password when they set up Outlook Express. Gmail and its ilk are obviously a different story.
Scenario 2 assumes that people are able to get the same user id on every site they use. My experience is that this is not the case. Especially as the internet becomes utilized by a greater population simple or consistent id's are not available for long after a site comes into existence. So unless an attacker has been reading the autofill information in a victims browser preferences, he is probably not going to be able to access more than one or two sites.
I am not saying this is indicative of the mentality of internet users in general, but recently I was helping my mother with something that required a password and she was very conscious of the security of her password regardless of the fact that she is almost completely lost when it comes to most things computer related. Now admittedly I got the impression that she thinks her passwords are stored in a Caesar Cipher out in the open, but that does tell me security issues are filtering down to the masses.
You are correct in that OpenID does create a suitable compromise between Scenarios 1 and 2. However, once OpenID is commonly used there will be a new set of security problems that users are faced with. Even considering the limited success rate of fishing attacks, once a users OpenID is compromised, it becomes trivial to automate attacks on possible accounts across popular sites. Also, we are now relying on the reliability and integrity of a third party OpenID provider. It is easy to say "if you have doubts, move your OpenID", but that solution assumes anything but blind trust, which seems to be the default in many cases. It also assumes that if the OpenID server has been compromised that the user will become aware within a reasonable amount of time in order to minimize that damage done. Admittedly, if the damage is limited to someones blog and myspace account, really, who cares. But if that damage crosses over to financial and government accounts then it becomes a much bigger issue. I can't even imagine the lawsuit shit storm that befall some poor guy who decided to become an OpenID provider in that circumstance.
I think you might have something there, however, I don't think that really all that many people who sit in starbucks really read wikileaks, so my solution would be to just forward a nice long log of the persons emails back to that person (from a throwaway account obviously) explaining the what, where and why and detailing the fix.
Nope, but you can still get in either through a terminal window (bash just sees them as folders ) or from finder ctrl-click->show package contents
Yes, they do and it looks pretty good. See http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/02/1236237
...consists of the FTC, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Competition Bureau Canada, the Toronto Police Service - Fraud Squad, the Ontario Ministry of Government Services, the Ontario Provincial Police - Anti-Rackets, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the United Kingdom's Office of Fair Trading.A federal district court judge in Chicago, Robert M. Dow, Jr., ordered a halt to the deceptive claims and froze the defendants' assets held in the United States, pending trial.
The Commission files a complaint when it has "reason to believe" that the law has been or is being violated, and it appears to the Commission that a proceeding is in the public interest. The complaint is not a finding or ruling that the defendant has actually violated the law. The case will be decided by the court.
If anyone actually needs the "hack" for this posted, then they deserve to have their geek credentials revoked and an entry added in their hosts file: 0.0.0.0 slashdot.org
We Americans have replaced all our money with plastic too.
So, what, the you're saying the dungeon masters guidebook isn't historically accurate?
well, if it didn't before it sure does now
I just got one I haven't seen in a long while. Tuesday Morning one of the systems was BSOD with a non bootable device error. The guy whose computer it is said he tagged reboot as he left Monday night because it was running slow. I booted knoppix and mounted the drive with no problem and with the minimal amount of locally stored company data intact. However, I didn't tool around the OS files too much. Utils said the memory was right and smartctl gave the drives a healthy. ClamAV on the mounted drive came up clean, and I haven't seen any hits on the file server logs for infected files. chkdsk \r in recovery console fixed it up nice and it has been running clean and fast since 10 am or so Tuesday. I am definately not a windows guy so if anyone has ideas on how a NTFS partition with XP can become unblessed I would love to know.
You are missing the obvious problem:
That guy in his garage is some beard writing code under the GPL. We'll say it's a pretty good piece of software called Chippewa. It grows and grows, ends up having a bunch of people working on it and is more widely deployed than MegaSofts competing version of the software commonly referred to by its acronym. MegaSoft has billions, can use a tax write off, and is willing to spend that money to cement dominance in the market. The people involved in Chippewa can, at most, come up with a few million of their own plus another few million from companies backing the development to defend the copyright. MegaSoft is aware of this and knows that since the product is GPL and distributed for free, the backers probably won't go all out to help the Chippewa foundation retain ownership. So, MegaSoft overbids, knowing they can take the hit, the developers end up in a legal fiasco since anyone who wrote even a single line of code that ended up in a release wants a piece of the pie and MegaSoft now owns Chippewa, which is quickly buried.
After all this, the community decides to fork the project, hoping that the GPL will save them, but MegaSoft still has loads of cash and really expensive lawyers in retainer just waiting to hang some free software schmucks out to dry. C&D letters are sent out to forks of Chippewa and suddenly everyone involved is embroiled in legal crap and all development is halted while the validity of the GPL is sorted out in a fight between MegaSoft and the FSF that makes the SCO trial look like child's play.
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