Speaking as an Australian - I would rather this than the "freedom" the US people strive for where the most immoral things are allowed to survive in the name of individual rights.
Speaking as another Australian - I built a Time Machine, would you like to use it for getting back to 1930's Germany?
Far be it from me to be rude normally, in this instance your commentary has stirred me to it - Sir, or Madam, you are an ignorant idiot.
Regardless, as (almost) all of us know there's a number of ways to bypass this bloody stupid filter.
Disclaimer: I don't think Child Pornography should be legal. However, I very strongly disagree that the Government has the right to put in access-Level filtering, regardless of their case. The ends DO NOT justify the means.
Depends what you consider "Largest" to mean... largest customer-base? Biggest Network?
Telstra by far, have the "Largest" Network in Australia being a monopoly and all, but (having actually worked for them in the past), they don't necessairily have the greatest number of retail customers (unless of course you count ports at the Exchange that they lease to other ISP's, Telstra customers).
I also submitted this story but it wasn't accepted, the firehose of my submission, includes a more detailed overview from Asher Moses of The Age who also wrote the original 'ridiculous trials' article.
(Worth taking a look, it's got a much better/more detailed synopsis than the ComputerWorld article).
Time spent working in an industry doesn't necessairly equal high levels of experience.
I've worked with people who've spent 20+ years in IT, and have only ever performed their job-function by following procedures, written with enough detail that a monkey could understand them. Or sometimes people who've got extremely specalized knowledge, only in a single product or technology, as soon as you ask them to do something other than export data from MYOB they fall in a heap.
Ultimately when hiring IT people you need to understand the position that they need to fill, are you looking for someone to create solutions? Are you looking for someone to support existing systems? Do you need someone who's an absolute gun at a specific type of system or technology?
The stupidest part of HR when hiring IT employees is the old "Generalist" vs "Specalist" argument, that is, the concept that someone who's spent 20 years working as a SysAdmin is more suitable for a role than someone who's only spent 5 years as a SysAdmin, and another 10 in various other IT-related roles. The thing to look for, is which one was actually WRITING the processes, systems and procedures, and who was FOLLOWING or USING them, this gives you knowledge of the candidate who posesses understanding of the field and who has rote-learned knowledge.
If we do gather the knowledge we need to cure various forms of cancer so that those dear to us don't suffer, what are we going to do to balance things out and prevent the population from skyrocketing?
You're making two (possibly incorrect) assumptions here - That someone hasn't already got the knowledge, and that people haven't already posed the very question you ask and come to the conclusion that there should be no 100% effective cancer cure developed... at least until the species is sufficiently sustainable within its immediately available ecosystem to grow the population even faster than it currently does.
Plus, Pharmacutical companies don't actually like CURING things, there's no profit in a take-one-fixed methodology, far better to PROLONG life so the patient has to keep buying your drugs.
Disclaimer (so I don't get a billion messages from conspiracy-theorist geeks): This post is all conjecture, I cannot cure cancer nor do I belong to a secret government organization that already has the cure.
This is a bogus story, a media announcement was made by UQ essentially refuting the claims made in the news.com.au article.
Were this a true story it would get more (well, definitely more CREDIBLE) coverage than a single write up by a News LTD online tabloid newspaper.
Future note for Slashdot Editors - News LTD's online journalists are (allgegedly) notorious for being heavily biased and factually incorrect. Consider any submissions linking to www.news.com.au or its related websites as EXTREMELY suspect.
It's still there, applied by Engineers/Scientists/Technologists and other people who design stuff.
Unfortunately when you work in projects like this, you need a "Wow, that's cool!" factor for people who grant your funding. My guess is the sky-crane is one of the things providing that factor in this project. Lets face it, the KISS principle provides us with very reliable but (mostly negative wow-factor) technology.
The amusing part of MUDs within Universities and Colleges....
There were as many students that learned how concurrency and Event-Driven programming worked due to coding them, as there were students that failed their subjects because they did no study and played them instead.
Hence why the acronym MUD was also used with the meaning "Multi-Undergraduate-Destroyer" by many a College/University's faculty members.
Hahaha, good idea, obviously you're the entrepreneurial type.:)
Make more money just working in "white-hat" security consulting if you are good enough to find exploits though, any company involved in asset-management or even just high-volume b2b transactions craves those skills (for obvious reasons).
I asked if they were insinuating something based on the fact anyone with more than 2 braincells already knows it's illegal and immoral, and most people wouldn't do it, the point of my post is people still do.
I didn't wet myself at all mate, you seem to be the one who overreacted.
My apologies, but I would've thought ANYONE on Slashdot would know it's illegal and immoral and runs the risk of prision? That's common knowledge?
What may NOT be common knowledge is how often it happens, because the companies it happens to don't like their customers to know their security has been compromised.
I read into your response because you stated the obvious... just having my first coffee of the morning now, cafe-latte, not espresso;)
You're not seriously insinuating I lack scruples are you?
I said I see this when I'm asked to come in and TRY to make sure it doesn't happen again, not because I do it myself?
If you work in the finance sector you will KNOW this happens and you will KNOW Banks and other financial businesses don't like it publicized when they are taken for a ride.
But you pointed out the flaw in the wording of the article - this IS NOT a memory leak, just inefficient use of the heap.
I thought the definition of a memory leak was an application that kept allocating memory from the OS as it ran, not an application that asked for a chunk of memory and just reused it inefficiently? (If I'm wrong, someone please correct me).
How Star-Trek creates some fiction about a type of technology/species, then a few years later it's a scientific-discovery/engineering-acheivement.
I read this and instantly think, Nano-probes, intra-cellular monitoring - Borg!!!
Not that I believe the scientists working on this based their research on the Borg from ST, however the paralells are quite intriguing.
Give it a couple more years and these nano-probes will be repairing cells in addition to monitoring them - I'm joking here, although who knows what's possible in this field!
Actually, there are many (mostly-legacy) applications that will ONLY run on the "older" Unicies.
I worked for a number of years doing SysAdmin/Infrastructure-Architectural work for various global banks. The majority of the niche applications used to provide complex financial services are STILL not ported to "modern" unix-like OS's.
As an example, DST International's (http://www.dstinternational.com) HiPortfolio product will only run on IBM's AIX and Sun's Solaris as it's Unix OS platform. The reason for this is the product is so damned old and ingrained into that specific industry, the company can afford to ignore their customers demands and not re-invest potential profit in expensive porting exercises... You can get away with murder by holding a monopoly on most of the large Asset-Management businesses.
If a bunch of clever programmers got together and wrote some clean, horizontally-scaling, easily intergrated applications to destroy the hold of these monopolistic "niche" software products, they could really make some money (and the world would be better off with one less monopoly market).
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Speaking as an Australian - I would rather this than the "freedom" the US people strive for where the most immoral things are allowed to survive in the name of individual rights.
Speaking as another Australian - I built a Time Machine, would you like to use it for getting back to 1930's Germany?
Far be it from me to be rude normally, in this instance your commentary has stirred me to it - Sir, or Madam, you are an ignorant idiot.
That'll work fine unless they're using Name Based Virtual Hosts.
Regardless, as (almost) all of us know there's a number of ways to bypass this bloody stupid filter.
Disclaimer: I don't think Child Pornography should be legal. However, I very strongly disagree that the Government has the right to put in access-Level filtering, regardless of their case.
The ends DO NOT justify the means.
Depends what you consider "Largest" to mean... largest customer-base? Biggest Network? Telstra by far, have the "Largest" Network in Australia being a monopoly and all, but (having actually worked for them in the past), they don't necessairily have the greatest number of retail customers (unless of course you count ports at the Exchange that they lease to other ISP's, Telstra customers).
Yah, you're exactly right....
I also submitted this story but it wasn't accepted, the firehose of my submission, includes a more detailed overview from Asher Moses of The Age who also wrote the original 'ridiculous trials' article.
(Worth taking a look, it's got a much better/more detailed synopsis than the ComputerWorld article).
Time spent working in an industry doesn't necessairly equal high levels of experience.
I've worked with people who've spent 20+ years in IT, and have only ever performed their job-function by following procedures, written with enough detail that a monkey could understand them. Or sometimes people who've got extremely specalized knowledge, only in a single product or technology, as soon as you ask them to do something other than export data from MYOB they fall in a heap.
Ultimately when hiring IT people you need to understand the position that they need to fill, are you looking for someone to create solutions? Are you looking for someone to support existing systems? Do you need someone who's an absolute gun at a specific type of system or technology?
The stupidest part of HR when hiring IT employees is the old "Generalist" vs "Specalist" argument, that is, the concept that someone who's spent 20 years working as a SysAdmin is more suitable for a role than someone who's only spent 5 years as a SysAdmin, and another 10 in various other IT-related roles. The thing to look for, is which one was actually WRITING the processes, systems and procedures, and who was FOLLOWING or USING them, this gives you knowledge of the candidate who posesses understanding of the field and who has rote-learned knowledge.
"You think Einstein walked around thinkin' everyone was a bunch of dumb shits? ...Now you know why he built that bomb."
~ Rita (from the Movie Idiocracy).
If we do gather the knowledge we need to cure various forms of cancer so that those dear to us don't suffer, what are we going to do to balance things out and prevent the population from skyrocketing?
You're making two (possibly incorrect) assumptions here - That someone hasn't already got the knowledge, and that people haven't already posed the very question you ask and come to the conclusion that there should be no 100% effective cancer cure developed... at least until the species is sufficiently sustainable within its immediately available ecosystem to grow the population even faster than it currently does.
Plus, Pharmacutical companies don't actually like CURING things, there's no profit in a take-one-fixed methodology, far better to PROLONG life so the patient has to keep buying your drugs.
Disclaimer (so I don't get a billion messages from conspiracy-theorist geeks):
This post is all conjecture, I cannot cure cancer nor do I belong to a secret government organization that already has the cure.
This is a bogus story, a media announcement was made by UQ essentially refuting the claims made in the news.com.au article.
Were this a true story it would get more (well, definitely more CREDIBLE) coverage than a single write up by a News LTD online tabloid newspaper.
Future note for Slashdot Editors - News LTD's online journalists are (allgegedly) notorious for being heavily biased and factually incorrect. Consider any submissions linking to www.news.com.au or its related websites as EXTREMELY suspect.
Whatever happened to KISS?
It's still there, applied by Engineers/Scientists/Technologists and other people who design stuff.
Unfortunately when you work in projects like this, you need a "Wow, that's cool!" factor for people who grant your funding. My guess is the sky-crane is one of the things providing that factor in this project. Lets face it, the KISS principle provides us with very reliable but (mostly negative wow-factor) technology.
The amusing part of MUDs within Universities and Colleges....
There were as many students that learned how concurrency and Event-Driven programming worked due to coding them, as there were students that failed their subjects because they did no study and played them instead.
Hence why the acronym MUD was also used with the meaning "Multi-Undergraduate-Destroyer" by many a College/University's faculty members.
/* Just need to relax a bit more and think before typing/speaking. */
Ditto!
Hahaha, good idea, obviously you're the entrepreneurial type. :)
Make more money just working in "white-hat" security consulting if you are good enough to find exploits though, any company involved in asset-management or even just high-volume b2b transactions craves those skills (for obvious reasons).
Why would I bother arguing? No-one cares about me? :)
:)
Male yes, late 20s no, single no, but no-one cares, so why comment?
I'm obviously argumentative, you can see so in my posts, full of hostility and lack of knowledge on the topic
LOL, you're quite amusing. /* see, noone cares about you, your sad life or your pathetic insecurities. */
;)
:)
I'd beg to differ - if that were the case you wouldn't have replied
Please continue, I find unrequited abuse very entertaning
I asked if they were insinuating something based on the fact anyone with more than 2 braincells already knows it's illegal and immoral, and most people wouldn't do it, the point of my post is people still do.
I didn't wet myself at all mate, you seem to be the one who overreacted.
My apologies, but I would've thought ANYONE on Slashdot would know it's illegal and immoral and runs the risk of prision? That's common knowledge?
;)
What may NOT be common knowledge is how often it happens, because the companies it happens to don't like their customers to know their security has been compromised.
I read into your response because you stated the obvious... just having my first coffee of the morning now, cafe-latte, not espresso
Yet someone else who is assuming I'm extorting companies?
I said in the above, I SEE this as part of my job, I don't DO it?
You guys love your conclusion-jumping don't you?
You're not seriously insinuating I lack scruples are you?
I said I see this when I'm asked to come in and TRY to make sure it doesn't happen again, not because I do it myself?
If you work in the finance sector you will KNOW this happens and you will KNOW Banks and other financial businesses don't like it publicized when they are taken for a ride.
This would be more about notoriety than money.
;)
Think about it - hacker gets paid $10k for finding a critical flaw and reporting it.
Hacker finds a critical flaw and blackmails a company for HUNDREDS of thousands.
It happens, I see it often enough when called in to do security-audits after-the-fact, and no, it's not me that's doing the blackmailing
Excellent post, well worth the +5.
But you pointed out the flaw in the wording of the article - this IS NOT a memory leak, just inefficient use of the heap.
I thought the definition of a memory leak was an application that kept allocating memory from the OS as it ran, not an application that asked for a chunk of memory and just reused it inefficiently?
(If I'm wrong, someone please correct me).
How Star-Trek creates some fiction about a type of technology/species, then a few years later it's a scientific-discovery/engineering-acheivement.
I read this and instantly think, Nano-probes, intra-cellular monitoring - Borg!!!
Not that I believe the scientists working on this based their research on the Borg from ST, however the paralells are quite intriguing.
Give it a couple more years and these nano-probes will be repairing cells in addition to monitoring them - I'm joking here, although who knows what's possible in this field!
Actually, there are many (mostly-legacy) applications that will ONLY run on the "older" Unicies.
I worked for a number of years doing SysAdmin/Infrastructure-Architectural work for various global banks. The majority of the niche applications used to provide complex financial services are STILL not ported to "modern" unix-like OS's.
As an example, DST International's (http://www.dstinternational.com) HiPortfolio product will only run on IBM's AIX and Sun's Solaris as it's Unix OS platform. The reason for this is the product is so damned old and ingrained into that specific industry, the company can afford to ignore their customers demands and not re-invest potential profit in expensive porting exercises... You can get away with murder by holding a monopoly on most of the large Asset-Management businesses.
If a bunch of clever programmers got together and wrote some clean, horizontally-scaling, easily intergrated applications to destroy the hold of these monopolistic "niche" software products, they could really make some money (and the world would be better off with one less monopoly market).