All it would take would be one moron bringing one to a school auditorium or movie theater and shining it at the audience while standing in front of the screen, thinking the thing's a toy.
You wouldn't even have to do it yourself, you could just give it to some idiot to do it for you.
This laser is a disaster waiting to happen. Like giving a bottle of nitroglycerine to someone without experience in explosives.
Since they do this for a lot of countries, Tunesia could have claimed discrimination if they'd have refused to do it for Tunesia. Unless there was an official embargo, which there wasn't. You *may* suspect the usage of these certificates will be bad (and I agree) but there are a lot of standard uses for certificates.
We need (a) more awareness that certificates are not just "computer things' but have real impact on security and (b) more control over what happens with the certificates in our browsers. Fortunately, Tunesia's dictatorship is no longer in any position to abuse the certificates and also, the Diginotar hack is highlighting why exactly these things matter.
If you want to do this and keep your self-respect, read Jerry Weinbergs books. Good insights there.
I'm a consultant too btw and I agree completely. Now I'm back at my old employer for a short project (had been working other stuff the past years), I am so gratefull every day I made that decision to leave them (and become self-employed). Given the local tax-laws and lack of benefits I don't think I'm actually making much more money, if you add 401K and health plans to the cost. But what I did gain was freedom and much more control over how my work is to be done. Once you are hired for obscene amounts of money and wear a good suit, even (or especially) senior managers actually take you serious when you say "I'm not going to do it like that. *This* is how it should be done - and you're paying me for my advice so I suggest you listen to it rather carefully."
Never leave the suit at home, though, even if they say "we're all casual here". The difference in attitude is rather marked. Win some, lose some:)
True. This will last as long as the cost of the pollution is off-loaded to us and not factored into the cost of the fuel they use (marine diesel is the clean version of what they normally burn and it's a huge contribution to the CO2 issues we have). Would that be the case, then shipping cost would rise sharply.
I second that. My friends and I (all CS majors) absolutely loved Roborally, but we weren't alone in that. A lot of other folks quickly grasped the basics of programming because of that game.
You mean shops like SUN, BEA, PeopleSoft, Hyperion and Siebel, to name a few of the bigger ones they gobbled up? GP isn't talking about mini-shops. Gobbling them up (or not) has no impact. We're talking about multibillion dollar mergers that leave little competition and huge barriers to entry for new companies.
Does "pandora's box" ring a bell? What if your file just happens to contain child porn, and a report by an anonymous informer that he got it from you... good luck trying to defend your reputation against that.
I just read a case in the newspaper this weekend about a teacher (Mrs.) who was accused by a student of having taken her out of class 18 times and raping her, and having her raped by strange men, in the school. This girl was known to have psychiatric problems. The allegations were quite obvious and quite easily disproved. But it still took the teacher all her savings and a decade of lawsuits to clear her name because the school didn't want to admit to a mistake and be liable for damages.
No admin privileges needed - once you're running on the OS you can exploit numerous bugs to elevate your privileges but perhaps they didn't even need that. Just having access to all of the user-files would be pretty usefull in and off itself.
I've been bitten by that one before when I read a tweet that opened up javascript that opened a PDF that had embedded scripting that executed and closed. The next day I got a call from my hosting provider that my FTP-accounts had been closed due to suspicious activities. My FTP-software config files were read so the passwords were compromised. You don't need admin access for that. The same goes for telnet-software that stores passwords, terminal session software and browsers with passwords stored in files.
Subtle? Compliance is about doing things by the book, Security is about picking what book to read. They're completely different things. But you're right that the confusion between them is the root cause for many accidents.
Fun example: I always have to laugh when my compliant screensaver tells me inane things like "never open emails from people you don't know". I wonder how HR will recruit people when they aren't allowed to open the mails from potential candidates:) (hmmm or is this the reason so few people get their mails answered by HR departments? #wondering)
You can't patent a goddamned rectangle. That's ridiculous.
The judge in The Netherlands ruled today that you're basically correct. Patents that were at issue were the use of an image to unlock the phone and the way in which you scroll through your pictures in the gallery as well as something that has to do with multi-touch. Only the scrolling patent has been upheld, with everything else (model rights, trademarks, copyright, imitation and the other 2 patents at issue) Samsung has been ruled to be non-infringing.
However, this still means an end to sales as per October 15th unless they can repair the photo gallery before that time and get a new ruling. Which I'm pretty sure they'll do.
Ofcourse everything in this judgement can be appealed in another (longer) procedure by both sides.
Hitting, striking or causing injury to a person without the use of weapons falls under the simple assault and battery charge. Those includes my examples, though perhaps not the ones on the blog. But IANAL:)
Hey, those poor people still have refrigerators! Our soldiers don't get fancy personal refrigerators in all of them foreign desserts they're fighting in, they have to make do with communal refrigerators!
(yeah I'm sarcastic - and they're not *my* soldiers. Nor yours, I might add)
"Domestic assault and battery" for pouring milk? What's up when you throw a pie? Mandatory life sentences for both? Just guessin'
Get a sense of proportion: domestic assault and battery is NOT pouring milk over someone. It's beating your wife so bad she needs surgery. It's holding her with her head to the hot stove. THAT is battery and assault. THIS is just two teens having a row. And if you can't see the difference, you're a huge part of the problem.
Quote from the article: "The second model was a flat-panel array that was mounted at 45 degrees. It had the same type and number of PV solar panels as the tree design, and the same peak voltage."
XSLT, trivial? Have you ever tried doing anything useful with it?
I converted our primary mainframe application (COBOL) into an XML + XSLT app early 2001. We had migrated to a new application but we needed the old application for retrieval of non-migrated items. So we screenscraped the entire application into ASCII pages and I converted the ASCII pages into XML + XSLT, served up by a simple webapp (2 pages) that had the security we required. It actually performed faster than the mainframe we got rid of.
XLST is not trivial, but it's not that hard to write either. And when used in the right location, it can do some difficult things in a really elegant way.
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My hobby is "shooting down helicopters that disturb my sleep". I'm pretty sure this will come in handy.
All it would take would be one moron bringing one to a school auditorium or movie theater and shining it at the audience while standing in front of the screen, thinking the thing's a toy.
You wouldn't even have to do it yourself, you could just give it to some idiot to do it for you.
This laser is a disaster waiting to happen. Like giving a bottle of nitroglycerine to someone without experience in explosives.
Since they do this for a lot of countries, Tunesia could have claimed discrimination if they'd have refused to do it for Tunesia. Unless there was an official embargo, which there wasn't. You *may* suspect the usage of these certificates will be bad (and I agree) but there are a lot of standard uses for certificates.
We need (a) more awareness that certificates are not just "computer things' but have real impact on security and (b) more control over what happens with the certificates in our browsers. Fortunately, Tunesia's dictatorship is no longer in any position to abuse the certificates and also, the Diginotar hack is highlighting why exactly these things matter.
Gates is rich enough. But I'm guessing the local sales rep isn't a billionaire yet.
In that case, we just witnessed an eclipse :)
Lol... bonus points for excellent use of sarcasm :)
If you want to do this and keep your self-respect, read Jerry Weinbergs books. Good insights there.
I'm a consultant too btw and I agree completely. Now I'm back at my old employer for a short project (had been working other stuff the past years), I am so gratefull every day I made that decision to leave them (and become self-employed). Given the local tax-laws and lack of benefits I don't think I'm actually making much more money, if you add 401K and health plans to the cost. But what I did gain was freedom and much more control over how my work is to be done. Once you are hired for obscene amounts of money and wear a good suit, even (or especially) senior managers actually take you serious when you say "I'm not going to do it like that. *This* is how it should be done - and you're paying me for my advice so I suggest you listen to it rather carefully."
Never leave the suit at home, though, even if they say "we're all casual here". The difference in attitude is rather marked. Win some, lose some :)
"You can't argue with the facts."
Yes you can.
True. This will last as long as the cost of the pollution is off-loaded to us and not factored into the cost of the fuel they use (marine diesel is the clean version of what they normally burn and it's a huge contribution to the CO2 issues we have). Would that be the case, then shipping cost would rise sharply.
I second that. My friends and I (all CS majors) absolutely loved Roborally, but we weren't alone in that. A lot of other folks quickly grasped the basics of programming because of that game.
You mean shops like SUN, BEA, PeopleSoft, Hyperion and Siebel, to name a few of the bigger ones they gobbled up? GP isn't talking about mini-shops. Gobbling them up (or not) has no impact. We're talking about multibillion dollar mergers that leave little competition and huge barriers to entry for new companies.
Does "pandora's box" ring a bell? What if your file just happens to contain child porn, and a report by an anonymous informer that he got it from you... good luck trying to defend your reputation against that.
I just read a case in the newspaper this weekend about a teacher (Mrs.) who was accused by a student of having taken her out of class 18 times and raping her, and having her raped by strange men, in the school. This girl was known to have psychiatric problems. The allegations were quite obvious and quite easily disproved. But it still took the teacher all her savings and a decade of lawsuits to clear her name because the school didn't want to admit to a mistake and be liable for damages.
It was grandfathered in with an older browser :P
Hehehe... and in Dutch, it means "grandfather".
"Yeah, I wrote this program in grandfather and..." (voice trails off under whithering stare of boss)
This is why commercial entities do a namecheck before choosing names :)
No admin privileges needed - once you're running on the OS you can exploit numerous bugs to elevate your privileges but perhaps they didn't even need that. Just having access to all of the user-files would be pretty usefull in and off itself.
I've been bitten by that one before when I read a tweet that opened up javascript that opened a PDF that had embedded scripting that executed and closed. The next day I got a call from my hosting provider that my FTP-accounts had been closed due to suspicious activities. My FTP-software config files were read so the passwords were compromised. You don't need admin access for that. The same goes for telnet-software that stores passwords, terminal session software and browsers with passwords stored in files.
Subtle? Compliance is about doing things by the book, Security is about picking what book to read. They're completely different things. But you're right that the confusion between them is the root cause for many accidents.
Fun example: I always have to laugh when my compliant screensaver tells me inane things like "never open emails from people you don't know". I wonder how HR will recruit people when they aren't allowed to open the mails from potential candidates :) (hmmm or is this the reason so few people get their mails answered by HR departments? #wondering)
You can't patent a goddamned rectangle. That's ridiculous.
The judge in The Netherlands ruled today that you're basically correct. Patents that were at issue were the use of an image to unlock the phone and the way in which you scroll through your pictures in the gallery as well as something that has to do with multi-touch. Only the scrolling patent has been upheld, with everything else (model rights, trademarks, copyright, imitation and the other 2 patents at issue) Samsung has been ruled to be non-infringing.
However, this still means an end to sales as per October 15th unless they can repair the photo gallery before that time and get a new ruling. Which I'm pretty sure they'll do.
Ofcourse everything in this judgement can be appealed in another (longer) procedure by both sides.
The ruling is over here (in Dutch, you may want to use Google Translate): http://www.rechtspraak.nl/Organisatie/Rechtbanken/Den-Haag/Nieuws/Pages/VoorzieningenrechterverbiedtdeverhandelingvanSamsungsmartphonesGalaxyS,SIIenAce.aspx
It was a toss-up between several methods :P
Oh man - I'm so sorry. We should have told you but by the time we got round to it, we had finished all of the chocolate mousse already :)
But have some desert, we've got plenty of that :P
Examples of battery on South Carolina lawyer blog: http://www.southcarolinacriminallawyerblog.com/assault_and_battery/
Hitting, striking or causing injury to a person without the use of weapons falls under the simple assault and battery charge. Those includes my examples, though perhaps not the ones on the blog. But IANAL :)
Hey, those poor people still have refrigerators! Our soldiers don't get fancy personal refrigerators in all of them foreign desserts they're fighting in, they have to make do with communal refrigerators!
(yeah I'm sarcastic - and they're not *my* soldiers. Nor yours, I might add)
"Domestic assault and battery" for pouring milk? What's up when you throw a pie? Mandatory life sentences for both? Just guessin'
Get a sense of proportion: domestic assault and battery is NOT pouring milk over someone. It's beating your wife so bad she needs surgery. It's holding her with her head to the hot stove. THAT is battery and assault. THIS is just two teens having a row. And if you can't see the difference, you're a huge part of the problem.
I think they combined them with the "Obama is an illegal president" line :/
Quote from the article: "The second model was a flat-panel array that was mounted at 45 degrees. It had the same type and number of PV solar panels as the tree design, and the same peak voltage."
XSLT, trivial? Have you ever tried doing anything useful with it?
I converted our primary mainframe application (COBOL) into an XML + XSLT app early 2001. We had migrated to a new application but we needed the old application for retrieval of non-migrated items. So we screenscraped the entire application into ASCII pages and I converted the ASCII pages into XML + XSLT, served up by a simple webapp (2 pages) that had the security we required. It actually performed faster than the mainframe we got rid of.
XLST is not trivial, but it's not that hard to write either. And when used in the right location, it can do some difficult things in a really elegant way.