I guess off-the-shelf applications develop themselves with no need for training, skillks or creativity and that we've also developed the premier versions of all the classes of applications that will ever need to be developed.
Here's something I formulated as I was contemplating leaving Worldcom (nee UUNET) during the meltdown:
1. Is the activity/product/company/job ethical and moral ?
2. Will I get paid ?
3. Is there work related to the pay
(i.e does anybody care what I do)?
4. Is that work interesting?
5. Is the interesting work likely to continue?
...back in the 80's I worked for CompuServe. They had quite a market for private email ("InfoPlex" anyone ? Prize to the first person who tells me what FILGE stood for:-).
Of course, the market existed because people wanted email, not because they wanted to avoid spam....but I have had thoughts lately of setting up a closed email system or at the very least a whitelist syste to allow my kids to have "safe" email. The idea is not all that weird.
> he project, led by the long-time open source advocate Bruce > Perens, aims to provide businesses with freely available, high > quality Linux operating systems accompanied by
> certifications, service, and support options intended to > encourage productivity and security while reducing overall > costs."
Been without a TV since 87. If it's worth watching, it's worth getting up and going somehere else. One less excuse for not communicating. Less marketing drivel in the home. Mind not put on standby. Kids actually have to use their minds (or find other ways to avoid it) when they play. You really don't miss important news... "I learn everything I need to know about the world in slashdot...":-)
Yunz may want to look at http://oval.mitre.org In addition to listing WHAT the vulnerability is, it tries to define standardized methods for determining HOW to test for it.
Yes. Now you can trust the same people who create the bugs to decide which ones are important enough to look for....(thinking)...."inforrmation security best practices"...."seperation of roles".....nahh.
I had a.com deja-vu at the recent USENIX Security symposium. Google were there recruiting in force, the sell seemd to be "this is a really cool place to work" (I don't doubt it) and the impression I got was "yes, we have a lot of money, no, we don't have specific jobs, but we're just hiring lots of really good people". So 1999. More power to them as long as the party lasts. And Google does rock !
And as a further exercise, one could monitor the reciept of spam at the single-use email addresses given to donotcall.gov to see how long until that list finds it's way into the hands of spammers (it *will* happen).
foreach $phonenumber (range of numbers)
create email alias for $phone number
sign up $phonenumber with donotcall.gov
reply to confirmation email via HTTP
end
then fire it off for your favorite range of phone numbers (your local prefix, a random prefix). You could vary the timings, maybe add calls to reverse white pages to get the names right...randomize where you sign up the email addresses, etc.
Note that I'm just pointing out what is *theoretically* possible...not advocating that anyone actualy commit fraud to reduce junk calls.
The article in todays' WSJ (sorry, no link, I read the dead-tree version) cited the basic problem in the telco industry as being overcapacity, but then goes on to quote the C&W prez as saying that they're going to try to resell excess capacity to make up losses.
The're also going to try to "hang on to existing revenue streams" while exiting the US Market (so, exactly what valuable assets are you selling, and who, exactly is buying ?)
Also says that the blulk of their revenue comes from web hosting...there's a winning 1998 market (I just left a large recently renamed telco doing securtiy for web hosting).
The Compu-Serv Informaiton Service started about 4 years prior (1979) to minitel and, in that time frame, was conducting local (Columbus, Ohio) experiemnts with delivery via cable.
X (and other Window systems) reduce productivity
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· Score: 4, Interesting
In my experience, firing up a windowing system tends to reduce productivity. A simple text based console app allows you to focus w/o disractions.
In years past, I knew of someone who used emacs as his login shell:-)
Slashdot Mirror
The subject says it all. This is here because Slashdot does not allow blank bodies. Guess it's not twitter.
Start with the grand-daddy of them all: rogue.
5 years ago the land line mattered.
It's not clear that it does anymore.
Maybe it's just time to drop it.
---Eludom
I guess off-the-shelf applications develop themselves with no need
for training, skillks or creativity and that we've also developed
the premier versions of all the classes of applications that will
ever need to be developed.
---Eludom
What, they sent another budget request to Congress ? :-)
I'm fond of putting "Designed for Microsoft Windows"
stickers on trash cans and shredding machines.
FYI there is a 5min introductory video clip of the the MITRE entry here:
http://www.mitre.org/tech/meteor/
I saw it a few months ago doing it's thing around the
parking lot. It will be interesting to see how they
do on a live course.
Here's something I formulated as I was contemplating
leaving Worldcom (nee UUNET) during the meltdown:
1. Is the activity/product/company/job ethical and moral ?
2. Will I get paid ?
3. Is there work related to the pay
(i.e does anybody care what I do)?
4. Is that work interesting?
5. Is the interesting work likely to continue?
> This release of Windows ... is not ...networking
> capable.
Hey...how come Russia gets the secure version of XP?
---eludom
> Show me one another who has donated and build so
> much for so many people WITHOUT crowing around !!!
Oh, I don't know, maybe the guy that founded CMU:
http://www.carnegie.org/
---eludom
...back in the 80's I worked for CompuServe. They had :-).
quite a market for private email ("InfoPlex" anyone ?
Prize to the first person who tells me what FILGE stood for
Of course, the market existed because people wanted email,
not because they wanted to avoid spam....but I have had
thoughts lately of setting up a closed email system
or at the very least a whitelist syste to allow my kids
to have "safe" email. The idea is not all that weird.
---eludom
> he project, led by the long-time open source advocate Bruce
> Perens, aims to provide businesses with freely available, high
> quality Linux operating systems accompanied by
> certifications, service, and support options intended to
> encourage productivity and security while reducing overall
> costs."
Did I hear "buzzword compliant" ?
---eludom
Been without a TV since 87. If it's worth watching, :-)
it's worth getting up and going somehere else.
One less excuse for not communicating.
Less marketing drivel in the home.
Mind not put on standby.
Kids actually have to use their minds (or find
other ways to avoid it) when they play.
You really don't miss important news...
"I learn everything I need to know about the
world in slashdot..."
Yunz may want to look at http://oval.mitre.org
In addition to listing WHAT the vulnerability is,
it tries to define standardized methods for determining
HOW to test for it.
Yes. Now you can trust the same people who create
the bugs to decide which ones are important enough
to look for....(thinking)...."inforrmation security
best practices"...."seperation of roles".....nahh.
---eludom
http://john.regehr.org/reading_list/
I had a .com deja-vu at the recent USENIX
Security symposium. Google were there recruiting
in force, the sell seemd to be "this is a really
cool place to work" (I don't doubt it) and
the impression I got was "yes, we have a lot of
money, no, we don't have specific jobs, but
we're just hiring lots of really good people".
So 1999. More power to them as long as the
party lasts. And Google does rock !
Anbyody know what profile IBM used ? (seeo files/ index.html)
http://www.commoncriteria.org/protection_pr
--eludom
And as a further exercise, one could monitor
the reciept of spam at the single-use email
addresses given to donotcall.gov to see how
long until that list finds it's way into
the hands of spammers (it *will* happen).
---eludom
Theoretically, one could write a script that:
foreach $phonenumber (range of numbers)
create email alias for $phone number
sign up $phonenumber with donotcall.gov
reply to confirmation email via HTTP
end
then fire it off for your favorite range of
phone numbers (your local prefix, a random
prefix). You could vary the timings, maybe
add calls to reverse white pages to get the
names right...randomize where you
sign up the email addresses, etc.
Note that I'm just pointing out what is
*theoretically* possible...not advocating
that anyone actualy commit fraud to reduce
junk calls.
---eludom
The article in todays' WSJ (sorry, no link,
I read the dead-tree version) cited the
basic problem in the telco industry as being
overcapacity, but then goes on to quote
the C&W prez as saying that they're going
to try to resell excess capacity to make
up losses.
The're also going to try to "hang on to
existing revenue streams" while exiting
the US Market (so, exactly what valuable
assets are you selling, and who, exactly
is buying ?)
Also says that the blulk of their revenue
comes from web hosting...there's a winning
1998 market (I just left a large recently
renamed telco doing securtiy for web hosting).
It's corporate "leadership" without a clue.
---eludom
Sounds like it's time to start maintainin
a list (web site, blog...) of the
non-alignend radio & TV stations....vote
with your tuner.
The Compu-Serv Informaiton Service started
about 4 years prior (1979) to minitel
and, in that time frame, was conducting
local (Columbus, Ohio) experiemnts with
delivery via cable.
In my experience, firing up a windowing system
:-)
tends to reduce productivity. A simple text
based console app allows you to focus w/o
disractions.
In years past, I knew of someone who used
emacs as his login shell
---eludom
What are the best current options (wireless?)
for sharing a network connection (T1, etc.)
in a small area/neighborhood ?
---eludom