I saw him in person last month. He's got skills...
He uses social engineering to get hold of the cellphone firmware source code then leet skillz to disassemble phones and reprogram them to hack the networks (whose protocols he's just reverse engineered).
Most of us that were in the scene at that time and before did not have much respect for him.
His early exploits weren't much but some of the stuff he did when he was on the run from the FBI were quite impressive. eg. He had a setup that linked through the local cellphone towers that warned him when an FBI-owned cellphone came into his cell. No big deal for a cellphone company to do, but a private citizen...?
b) This is almost a perfect example of begging the question.
If patent examiners are being allowed to examine patents then there's an implicit assumption that they're qualified to do so.
We're all debating whether the patent system is any good but we'll never know so long as 99.9999% of patents are complete junk. The problem of junk is what needs addressing, not the system.
Even Microsoft has thrown their arms up at times giving up with the directive that you should erase first in some cases because you just can't be sure you got rid of the malware.
This is why they invented disk imaging software....
FTA: "Unfortunately the patent industry relies far too much on patent prior art and ignores the vast corpus of open material. The result is that many patents look stupid on their face to anybody 'skilled in the art.' "
...which begs the question: Why can't the patent office employ a few people who are skilled in the art of software?
We all know "real FORTRAN programmers can write FORTRAN in any language" but when fresh young minds are exposed to programming I don't think PHP is an ideal choice. When (eg.) strings can be compared with numbers without so much as a warning you know there's a WTF brewing.
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I saw him in person last month. He's got skills...
He uses social engineering to get hold of the cellphone firmware source code then leet skillz to disassemble phones and reprogram them to hack the networks (whose protocols he's just reverse engineered).
Most of us that were in the scene at that time and before did not have much respect for him.
His early exploits weren't much but some of the stuff he did when he was on the run from the FBI were quite impressive. eg. He had a setup that linked through the local cellphone towers that warned him when an FBI-owned cellphone came into his cell. No big deal for a cellphone company to do, but a private citizen...?
Apple juice...?
I saw him at at a conference in Campus Party Spain last month. His story is quite amazing.
Also scored one of his business cards, best business card ever!
These guys already beat him to it...
If "social interaction" means "Facebook", then maybe not.
OTOH people managed to interact socially before Facebook. Weird but true.
That would have required reading it, and that never happens. Ever.
Trying to get first post is WAY more important than reading the article.
Slashdot needs a new moderation option "first post whore" which sends posts to the very bottom if it reaches 5.
Java you don't have to worry about cleaning the mess up and in C++ you clean it up in the destructor
If you're doing it right C++ needs very few destructors and memory leaks only happen once every blue moon.
Are these really meaningful advances?
Making it easier for people to close files? I'd say that was an advance.
At least somebody is finally admitting that garbage collection causes as many problems as it solves.
Arguments for slow Java are so 1990's.
Nope, still as relevant as ever. Java simply doesn't scale. Try running your microbenchmarks with a million objects in memory...
Why are you both confused/assuming? Too busy to read the article?
a) I just won a bet ... thanks!
b) This is almost a perfect example of begging the question.
If patent examiners are being allowed to examine patents then there's an implicit assumption that they're qualified to do so.
We're all debating whether the patent system is any good but we'll never know so long as 99.9999% of patents are complete junk. The problem of junk is what needs addressing, not the system.
Even Microsoft has thrown their arms up at times giving up with the directive that you should erase first in some cases because you just can't be sure you got rid of the malware.
This is why they invented disk imaging software....
FTA: "Unfortunately the patent industry relies far too much on patent prior art and ignores the vast corpus of open material. The result is that many patents look stupid on their face to anybody 'skilled in the art.' "
...which begs the question: Why can't the patent office employ a few people who are skilled in the art of software?
What about all the parents who suddenly find they have to be home on Fridays instead of working?
To save $50,000 a year...
I'd like to know what that is as a percentage of total school costs.
I'm guessing it isn't an impressive number when expressed as a percentage.
We all know "real FORTRAN programmers can write FORTRAN in any language" but when fresh young minds are exposed to programming I don't think PHP is an ideal choice. When (eg.) strings can be compared with numbers without so much as a warning you know there's a WTF brewing.
None of that changes the fact that it's a horribly "designed" language
It was "designed"??? Whoa...I think I just experienced a negative reality inversion.
Who writes "large projects" in C?
Scalability isn't C's strong point, use C++ for that.
As for PHP... sure you *can* write good code in PHP but on average it's the Visual Basic and Excel Macro programmers who are (ab)using it.
Simple solution: Get a USB extension cable which only has power connections, not data.
Yep. I mean, what happens if somebody else gains rights over rectangular objects with square corners...? The world is screwed.
As a web designer, they're turning my hair white with all these versions.
Um, you're much more likely to have everybody using the same version now they've added auto-update...
They know that...they're just saying this to mess with the American psyche.
My time_t has been 64-bit for the last five years or so so I'll miss the party....
It's much easier to add a couple more rounds of encryption.
However, after a few decades of failure, now anybody and everybody in the industry understands that "unbreakable" is just a fantasy.
a) DES has never been broken, nor is it likely to be. The best known attack against DES is brute force (discarding the impractical attacks...)
b) There's no reason to believe we can't make a 128-bit cypher which is as secure as DES.
(in fact AES with more rounds is probably as secure as DES, the only thing this new attack has shown is that AES needs more rounds)