Sometimes you need to prove you real identity, such as to verify an SSL certificate or OpenPGP key. But there is a difference between establishing you are who you say you are and telling the entire known universe about every time you went on a weekend drinking binge at on frat row.
I doubt there is a significant overlap between the people who follow computer security and online privacy issues and the people who still leave their Facebook profiles open for search indexing. I would venture a guess that most of the people harvested will never know, or care. I mean, after all, it doesn't even really sound like this guy did anything more than Google already did anyway.
All the more reason to acquire JBoss, loot it for the good stuff, integrate it into their other product, and maybe kill off JBoss, or just milk it for a while and double-dip. But an Oracle acquisition of RedHat and its assets at least makes some sort of sense (and they can afford it. RH has like, a $5bn market capitalization, so Oracle will have plenty of change left over) unlike, say, Gimp, or a bunch of random crap like other people seem to be floating as examples of why the concept of the article is stupid.
Buying "all" open source companies would be a bit over-dramatic, but I could see perhaps a few strategic buys. For instance, buying RedHat. Oracle has their own respin of RHEL, but rather than being at the mercy of the release schedule a la CentOS, buying RH would give them more control over the pace of things, not to mention getting a lot of major contributors on the books. RedHat also owns JBoss, which might be worth their time and money to acquire, too. I doubt that it'd happen though, which is probably a good thing.
Well, in a perfect world, bad things wouldn't happen. Barring that, in a slightly less perfect, but more in keeping with what's actually supposed to happen with this sort of thing, Congressional oversight would actually mean something. Either of those are acceptable. Or alter the law to allow for quicker declassification. However, holding up as a hero the albino from the pit of despair for providing a platform and instigating people to violate their responsibilities with regards to the handling of classified documents, regardless of their content, is just asinine.
This is doubly true because its not really as if the authenticity of the documents, or the truth of their contents, can be known by him, so waving them around going "look what i got!" is sort of like if he were to get a TA to give him a copy of the mid term questions and answers, everyone in the class got it from him, memorized the answers to the questions they thought they were being asked, then came in on test day to find out that the TA gave out skunked info just to teach everyone a lesson. However, in that scenario, there is going to be a real, hard line where everyone realizes the error. Not so with this. For all we know, it's all made up. Maybe it isn't, but I'm really not sure which would be functionally worse.
And yet, a large percentage of the population still wouldn't care even if he were to be shot in a dark alley and left for dead. Remember elementary school? No one likes a tattle tail. Narcs, informants, and other snitches are just as bad. He's nothing more than a glorified tattle tail seeking to get famous for it. Even if he has "noble intentions," it's still a bitch move.
Well, what about the 12-core Mac? I mean, the only people who are really going to be able to make use of that kind of power are the same type of people who look at Mac OS X as a friendly Unix that can run Matlab AND Photoshop, probably heavy on the Matlab. Maybe 3D animators, but I've known a few of those, and they were pretty on the ball in general. I mean, I see a 12-core Mac Pro and think back to the Mac Pro we had mixed in with the HP and Sun workstations in the FEL control room when I did an internship back in 2002, I don't think "web designer" or "philosophy major." Just saying.
Well, the media seems to have always lumped it in as hacking, hence the air quotes. The media and the people who want to get air time are also the ones pushing this "cyber" crap. Although, the military now has its "Cyber Command" (whatever that is, but apparently the Director of the NSA gets to be in charge of it, too). Its spreading.
I know... they might upload a virus into their shipping fleet's ballast control computers and blame it on you so the government can trash your shit for them. But it should all work out in the end, though, and you'll get the girl.
No, but I saw on NOVA one time that they were going to have "Astro Spies," but that satellite technology good good enough fast enough to cancel the project (Manned Orbital Lab). James Bamford who also wrote a bunch of really good books on the NSA researched the thing. But, back on topic, I think "cyber" is used to indicate that the spying isn't being done in "meat space" as the kids say. Why it isn't just deemed a logical extension of signals intelligence, or just calling it "hacking" like they used to, is somewhat of a mystery however.
As an alternative question, who would really want to "steal" z/OS anyway. Does it even run on anything other an an IBM mainframe? And if you have the money for the hardware, chances are you want the software... or maybe Linux. I don't have any mainframe experience, so I'm not sure, however now that Macs are basically just expensive PCs and there is a reasonable success rate getting OS X to run on non-branded hardware, the Apple situation seems different. On the other hand, Apple also doesn't care if you don't run OS X on your Mac, so long as you buy the Mac.
Which is done with a null hypothesis. In my AP Bio or Chem classes in high school, and in the Bio classes I took in college, the key was always to "reject the null hypothesis", which while not necessarily the same thing as "proving the hypothesis" is often times functionally equivalent. Since we can't set a null hypothesis of "if God doesn't exist then, we shouldn't see X" in any meaningful way, then we can't say "since we didn't see X then we reject that God doesn't exist". I'm really not sure what's different between what I said and what you said, other than the typical Internet model of "you didn't use my exact terms so I assume you're a moron, and since I don't have to prove who I really am, then I don't mind being a jackass."
No, he means falisfy, as in you can't disprove the opposite. Science doesn't really work on proving a hypothesis, but on disproving enough alternative hypothesis that you can be fairly sure you're close to the truth. As is my understanding, having gone to a school where we didn't have to deal with this bullshit.
I use a Mac to multiplex SSH sessions out to my legion of FreeBSD and Linux servers and devices. I have no art skills. My roommate once said "if only I had a Macintosh, then I'd be truly happy." That's kind of a sad sentiment. Just sayin'.
Slashdot is a different beast, though. It wasn't started in a model that encouraged using real names/identities -- ie, using your.edu email address specifically to connect with people at your school. Registered slashdot users also tend not to be complete morons, and there is a lack of many features which morons find attractive, such as the ability to post pictures of ourselves shotgunning bear while holding a joint in one hand and an under-age girl in the other. You know, stuff like that.
A few months ago I started skunking my FB data, then removing it. Last week I deleted the account (there was a way to do it before they made it obvious). In FB's attempt to attract more users and build a "platform," they've just made it slightly less horrible than MySpace. I got phone numbers and email addresses for the friends that mattered and for whom I wasn't already in possession of the information, then just slipped away. Do you have any idea how much more time I have to waste on Slashdot again now that I don't have any competing sites?
Then why don't we let the CIA cut a deal with the cartels that if they take out the Taliban for us that they can have control over opium production in Afghanistan without interference from us? Drug cartels have nearly unlimited resources and aren't bound by bullshit "rules of engagement." The whole thing could be over in a matter of months. It's at least as good a plan as trying to poison Castro's milkshake over some lousy Casino money, and I think the Colombians could kick La Cosa Nostra's ass anyway.
Alexander didn't conquer Afghanistan. The British didn't. The Soviets didn't. Maybe the Romans would have done a more thorough job, but all the other failures weren't exactly poofters. Then again, Julius Caesar instigated the Gallic Wars and then went on to murder over a million Celts just so his troops could sharpen their swords for civil war, and to settle the old debt from when the Gauls sacked Rome 390 b.c. They were particularly hard-assed back then.
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Yeah. It's called "New Media." It's like news, but without the journalism degrees or standards of professionalism.
Sometimes you need to prove you real identity, such as to verify an SSL certificate or OpenPGP key. But there is a difference between establishing you are who you say you are and telling the entire known universe about every time you went on a weekend drinking binge at on frat row.
I doubt there is a significant overlap between the people who follow computer security and online privacy issues and the people who still leave their Facebook profiles open for search indexing. I would venture a guess that most of the people harvested will never know, or care. I mean, after all, it doesn't even really sound like this guy did anything more than Google already did anyway.
All the more reason to acquire JBoss, loot it for the good stuff, integrate it into their other product, and maybe kill off JBoss, or just milk it for a while and double-dip. But an Oracle acquisition of RedHat and its assets at least makes some sort of sense (and they can afford it. RH has like, a $5bn market capitalization, so Oracle will have plenty of change left over) unlike, say, Gimp, or a bunch of random crap like other people seem to be floating as examples of why the concept of the article is stupid.
Buying "all" open source companies would be a bit over-dramatic, but I could see perhaps a few strategic buys. For instance, buying RedHat. Oracle has their own respin of RHEL, but rather than being at the mercy of the release schedule a la CentOS, buying RH would give them more control over the pace of things, not to mention getting a lot of major contributors on the books. RedHat also owns JBoss, which might be worth their time and money to acquire, too. I doubt that it'd happen though, which is probably a good thing.
Well, in a perfect world, bad things wouldn't happen. Barring that, in a slightly less perfect, but more in keeping with what's actually supposed to happen with this sort of thing, Congressional oversight would actually mean something. Either of those are acceptable. Or alter the law to allow for quicker declassification. However, holding up as a hero the albino from the pit of despair for providing a platform and instigating people to violate their responsibilities with regards to the handling of classified documents, regardless of their content, is just asinine.
This is doubly true because its not really as if the authenticity of the documents, or the truth of their contents, can be known by him, so waving them around going "look what i got!" is sort of like if he were to get a TA to give him a copy of the mid term questions and answers, everyone in the class got it from him, memorized the answers to the questions they thought they were being asked, then came in on test day to find out that the TA gave out skunked info just to teach everyone a lesson. However, in that scenario, there is going to be a real, hard line where everyone realizes the error. Not so with this. For all we know, it's all made up. Maybe it isn't, but I'm really not sure which would be functionally worse.
And yet, a large percentage of the population still wouldn't care even if he were to be shot in a dark alley and left for dead. Remember elementary school? No one likes a tattle tail. Narcs, informants, and other snitches are just as bad. He's nothing more than a glorified tattle tail seeking to get famous for it. Even if he has "noble intentions," it's still a bitch move.
Well, what about the 12-core Mac? I mean, the only people who are really going to be able to make use of that kind of power are the same type of people who look at Mac OS X as a friendly Unix that can run Matlab AND Photoshop, probably heavy on the Matlab. Maybe 3D animators, but I've known a few of those, and they were pretty on the ball in general. I mean, I see a 12-core Mac Pro and think back to the Mac Pro we had mixed in with the HP and Sun workstations in the FEL control room when I did an internship back in 2002, I don't think "web designer" or "philosophy major." Just saying.
or Oklahoma... or Waco, TX... or Ruby Ridge, ID...or that little Commie kid's closet in Florida.
Well, the media seems to have always lumped it in as hacking, hence the air quotes. The media and the people who want to get air time are also the ones pushing this "cyber" crap. Although, the military now has its "Cyber Command" (whatever that is, but apparently the Director of the NSA gets to be in charge of it, too). Its spreading.
thank you for ruining my "hackers"-based joke attempt.
Assume, in my scenario, that there is a secondary "helper moron" who is holding the beer bong for moron 1.
I know... they might upload a virus into their shipping fleet's ballast control computers and blame it on you so the government can trash your shit for them. But it should all work out in the end, though, and you'll get the girl.
No, but I saw on NOVA one time that they were going to have "Astro Spies," but that satellite technology good good enough fast enough to cancel the project (Manned Orbital Lab). James Bamford who also wrote a bunch of really good books on the NSA researched the thing. But, back on topic, I think "cyber" is used to indicate that the spying isn't being done in "meat space" as the kids say. Why it isn't just deemed a logical extension of signals intelligence, or just calling it "hacking" like they used to, is somewhat of a mystery however.
"PC" as in "IBM Compatible" as in "Wintel" as in not a PPC-based system.
As an alternative question, who would really want to "steal" z/OS anyway. Does it even run on anything other an an IBM mainframe? And if you have the money for the hardware, chances are you want the software... or maybe Linux. I don't have any mainframe experience, so I'm not sure, however now that Macs are basically just expensive PCs and there is a reasonable success rate getting OS X to run on non-branded hardware, the Apple situation seems different. On the other hand, Apple also doesn't care if you don't run OS X on your Mac, so long as you buy the Mac.
step 1) buy truck
step 2) move into neighborhood mostly populated by off-campus college students
step 3) girl: "hey, can you help me move?"
step 4) profit.
Which is done with a null hypothesis. In my AP Bio or Chem classes in high school, and in the Bio classes I took in college, the key was always to "reject the null hypothesis", which while not necessarily the same thing as "proving the hypothesis" is often times functionally equivalent. Since we can't set a null hypothesis of "if God doesn't exist then, we shouldn't see X" in any meaningful way, then we can't say "since we didn't see X then we reject that God doesn't exist". I'm really not sure what's different between what I said and what you said, other than the typical Internet model of "you didn't use my exact terms so I assume you're a moron, and since I don't have to prove who I really am, then I don't mind being a jackass."
s/falisfy/falsify/g today is not my day.
No, he means falisfy, as in you can't disprove the opposite. Science doesn't really work on proving a hypothesis, but on disproving enough alternative hypothesis that you can be fairly sure you're close to the truth. As is my understanding, having gone to a school where we didn't have to deal with this bullshit.
I use a Mac to multiplex SSH sessions out to my legion of FreeBSD and Linux servers and devices. I have no art skills. My roommate once said "if only I had a Macintosh, then I'd be truly happy." That's kind of a sad sentiment. Just sayin'.
oops.. I meant beer not bear (though both can totally be shotgunned). Stupid brain farts. I'm useless before I've had my 2 pots of coffee.
Slashdot is a different beast, though. It wasn't started in a model that encouraged using real names/identities -- ie, using your .edu email address specifically to connect with people at your school. Registered slashdot users also tend not to be complete morons, and there is a lack of many features which morons find attractive, such as the ability to post pictures of ourselves shotgunning bear while holding a joint in one hand and an under-age girl in the other. You know, stuff like that.
A few months ago I started skunking my FB data, then removing it. Last week I deleted the account (there was a way to do it before they made it obvious). In FB's attempt to attract more users and build a "platform," they've just made it slightly less horrible than MySpace. I got phone numbers and email addresses for the friends that mattered and for whom I wasn't already in possession of the information, then just slipped away. Do you have any idea how much more time I have to waste on Slashdot again now that I don't have any competing sites?
Then why don't we let the CIA cut a deal with the cartels that if they take out the Taliban for us that they can have control over opium production in Afghanistan without interference from us? Drug cartels have nearly unlimited resources and aren't bound by bullshit "rules of engagement." The whole thing could be over in a matter of months. It's at least as good a plan as trying to poison Castro's milkshake over some lousy Casino money, and I think the Colombians could kick La Cosa Nostra's ass anyway.
Alexander didn't conquer Afghanistan. The British didn't. The Soviets didn't. Maybe the Romans would have done a more thorough job, but all the other failures weren't exactly poofters. Then again, Julius Caesar instigated the Gallic Wars and then went on to murder over a million Celts just so his troops could sharpen their swords for civil war, and to settle the old debt from when the Gauls sacked Rome 390 b.c. They were particularly hard-assed back then.