As a non-American, watching from the sidelines, I have to say that it's nice to see someone at least try to stop the erosion of freedoms in your country. It may get to the point where you really wish you'd done something earlier.
As much fun as bashing them is (and please don't let me stop you), even MS takes security into account early (or at least gives it a nod): 8 Simple Rules For Developing More Secure Code
Security is the responsibility of all developers and all _designers_. A lot of problems creep in very early, so it's something people just need to learn. Luckily, there are courses.
There are also tools, both OSS and commercial to analyze source code. All of these things help, and everyone should be using at least some of the measures available.
I was once chatting with someone at a party. They asked me what I did. I said I wrote software. They then said "Isn't that boring?". I said "No, it's generally interesting, and even fun on occasion. What do you do".
If you haven't already discovered it, the Google NewsReader is fantastic, and since it's web based, it keeps track of what's been read and what hasn't, between home, work, etc.
I would hope he learned that he either shouldn't be doing it, or shouldn't get caught, otherwise he can should probably learn to get used to being in jail.
Mainly language and technology references, plus a few news sites, wikis, etc. I tend to have at least one tab open for documentation for each of the open source packages I'm working with. I use FF session manager, and to a certain extent, I do use tabs instead of bookmarks. I also restore my session to it's previous state if I do need to restart. In general, the state of my browser plus my IDE is the state of what I'm currently working on. I'll probably switch to using Mylyn in Eclipse for some of this at some point, but for now I use Firefox.
That doesn't seem better... I currently have about 35 tabs open in FF2 and am sitting at about 240M. The browser's also been up for about 2 months as well, so leaks don't seem to be very serious. Oh well, faster is better, and as long as the memory usage doesn't get worse I'll be a happy FireFox user.
Even if it was documented, are you going to trust the documentation? If you want to make sure it's doing what you think it's doing, read the damn code, that's what it's there for.
While I agree with the privacy infringements, I really wish it wasn't someone suspected on child porn complaining about it. It certainly won't garner much support from the general public, informed or not.
They're not perfect, and won't catch everything, but they do work. Combined with unit testing, you can get a very low bug rate. Many of these (for Java, at least) are open source, so the expense in negligible.
Exactly. I'm sure we've all seen well written multi-threaded code (although admittedly not frequently) where each thread accomplished a set task and isolated the complexity of the task. In general, I think code that abuses pointers or inheritance is more difficult to to maintain.
I can't imagine who'd pay large amount to break the protection on a console... a competitor, perhaps? Hasn't the 360 already been somewhat cracked anyway?
I've always thought it should be treated like phone service. How would people feel if the phone company or some other organization listened in on their phone calls, much less degrading the quality if they didn't like what you were talking about. A government organization with proper warrants should be able to do it but that's about it.
Wasn't this sort of prank part of a William Gibson book, "Virtual Light", maybe? Perhaps we'll get some group all up in arms about the dangers of reading books now.
I'm really hoping that at some point, the car manufacturers are going to realize that it doesn't cost any more to make a car that looks good. Even if it did cost a bit more, the investment is generally quickly repaid.
Funny, I've had the same idea for the past 10 years or so. I guess I should've patented it... oh well. Oh well, I could still have the joy of showing my future grandchildren the Mercedes and BMW emblems mounted over my fireplace and saying "Yep, that one was from an IP lawyer... got him from almost 300 yards".
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As a non-American, watching from the sidelines, I have to say that it's nice to see someone at least try to stop the erosion of freedoms in your country. It may get to the point where you really wish you'd done something earlier.
As much fun as bashing them is (and please don't let me stop you), even MS takes security into account early (or at least gives it a nod): 8 Simple Rules For Developing More Secure Code
Security is the responsibility of all developers and all _designers_. A lot of problems creep in very early, so it's something people just need to learn. Luckily, there are courses.
There are also tools, both OSS and commercial to analyze source code. All of these things help, and everyone should be using at least some of the measures available.
I was once chatting with someone at a party. They asked me what I did. I said I wrote software. They then said "Isn't that boring?". I said "No, it's generally interesting, and even fun on occasion. What do you do".
"I'm an accountant."
If you haven't already discovered it, the Google NewsReader is fantastic, and since it's web based, it keeps track of what's been read and what hasn't, between home, work, etc.
I would hope he learned that he either shouldn't be doing it, or shouldn't get caught, otherwise he can should probably learn to get used to being in jail.
Unlikely ... there is almost certainly some Microsoft involvement in this. It's very much in their interest to discourage more XP deployments.
Mainly language and technology references, plus a few news sites, wikis, etc. I tend to have at least one tab open for documentation for each of the open source packages I'm working with. I use FF session manager, and to a certain extent, I do use tabs instead of bookmarks. I also restore my session to it's previous state if I do need to restart. In general, the state of my browser plus my IDE is the state of what I'm currently working on. I'll probably switch to using Mylyn in Eclipse for some of this at some point, but for now I use Firefox.
That doesn't seem better ... I currently have about 35 tabs open in FF2 and am sitting at about 240M. The browser's also been up for about 2 months as well, so leaks don't seem to be very serious. Oh well, faster is better, and as long as the memory usage doesn't get worse I'll be a happy FireFox user.
Seen ... on a bumper sticker? I'm no longer sure I should take it seriously.
Even if it was documented, are you going to trust the documentation? If you want to make sure it's doing what you think it's doing, read the damn code, that's what it's there for.
While I agree with the privacy infringements, I really wish it wasn't someone suspected on child porn complaining about it. It certainly won't garner much support from the general public, informed or not.
They're not perfect, and won't catch everything, but they do work. Combined with unit testing, you can get a very low bug rate. Many of these (for Java, at least) are open source, so the expense in negligible.
Exactly. I'm sure we've all seen well written multi-threaded code (although admittedly not frequently) where each thread accomplished a set task and isolated the complexity of the task. In general, I think code that abuses pointers or inheritance is more difficult to to maintain.
I've got a bad feeling about this.
I can't imagine who'd pay large amount to break the protection on a console ... a competitor, perhaps? Hasn't the 360 already been somewhat cracked anyway?
I've always thought it should be treated like phone service. How would people feel if the phone company or some other organization listened in on their phone calls, much less degrading the quality if they didn't like what you were talking about. A government organization with proper warrants should be able to do it but that's about it.
Ever the gamers, PA's paying their respects as well: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/
Wasn't this sort of prank part of a William Gibson book, "Virtual Light", maybe? Perhaps we'll get some group all up in arms about the dangers of reading books now.
I'm really hoping that at some point, the car manufacturers are going to realize that it doesn't cost any more to make a car that looks good. Even if it did cost a bit more, the investment is generally quickly repaid.
interact with the virtual world using their thoughts
I'm in management, you insensitive clod!
Funny, I've had the same idea for the past 10 years or so. I guess I should've patented it ... oh well. Oh well, I could still have the joy of showing my future grandchildren the Mercedes and BMW emblems mounted over my fireplace and saying "Yep, that one was from an IP lawyer ... got him from almost 300 yards".
Also, how about treating the badly written or sloppy clauses like bugs, and actually going back and fixing them.
The outcome would be dependent on whether or not the Vista machine has already booted up. If not, attacking the other 2 gives you a decent head-start.
For future discussions, please use the term "The White Witch", just to keep things clear.