Yes, Debian was *the* technically superior linux distribution for a long time. Those days are pretty much over folks. In fact, I'm surprised that the "BSD is dead" crowd doesn't have a similar mantra for Debian.
There are plenty of well-managed, technically sweet linux distributions out there. Some of them even use apt as their package manager. Let's just agree to learn from what Debian was, and move on to something better. I'll leave the holy war of what "something better" is to the rest of the zealots.
So as part of the raids one can only assume the "evidence" is now part of the public record. Can they set all the evidence up on a website so the public can review it properly? It would be especially convenient if the larger files were stored in.torrent form.
It gets a little old to see all these companies jumping on the latest trendy bandwagon. Google got a lot of well-deserved, positive press for its very innovative SoC idea. And Google has been reaping the rewards of encouraging its employees to devote time to their own pet projects, many of which are open sourced, and some of which turn out to be brand new kickass google features. To me, this is Open Source Corporate Advocacy done right.
Plenty of other companies are trying to jump on the Open Source bandwagon as a way to get cheap/free labor for coding projects. I can't say that this is EBay's intention, but it sure doesn't smell like an innovative idea to me. Just another PR flack's brainstorm.
Can you imagine the staff of the Utah Attorney General's office compliling that list? I work for a company that does content filtering and I already steer clear of the blocking department (the folks who look at porn all day, every day for a living). I can only imagine a bunch of straight laced AG office fraus browsing zoosite.com or dumpstersluts.com and how traumatic that would be. While it might seem like a tempting job, its really not. There are sites out there much worse than tubgirl or goatse.
Considering that the former Soviet Union was able to put Skylab into orbit and maintain it for so long, its really shocking to see how poorly they're able to contribute to the ISS. I realize that it was a different era and but its amazing to see decades of expertise in space-related engineering apparently gone.
With as much money as Microsoft is throwing at this effort, its interesting to see how well they're not doing. Sony beat Microsoft out of the gate with the PS2 and essentially captured the market (arguments about how much nicer the XBox is than the PS2 aside, Sony still sold 2098309548230958 more units). Now they announce a little later, but with a product that looks like an nerd's wet dream.
It's a nice example of what happens when you have high quality engineers being thrown at a problem instead of big huge piles of money.
So you're telling me that as long as you're a trading house with a direct tie-in to NASDAQ, there's no input validation or sanity checking done? I realize its probably too much to ask that there be a moderate amount of human oversight given the extreme amount of data passing through the lines. But given the importance of accurate data, you'd think NASDAQ would put better checks and balances into their systems.
The real problem with the way we here in the US are approaching technical education is that we're no longer teaching it as a science. There is very little emphasis on complex problem solving and creative thinking. Instead, CS degress are more comparable to vocational programs taught in the latest fad programming language with a smattering of recipe-style solutions to common problems.
This leads to a couple of generations of fairly competent Java programmers (or C# if you prefer) who can only solve a problem in a prescribed way. It is, then, no wonder that many other nations are beating our ass when it comes to technical education.
As a point of note, I'm not advocating some sort of "Chicken Little" alarmism here. I'm merely pointing out that the primary focus of our educational programs should be re-directed.
Other than to give the foil-hat types among us a dose of pyrric irony, why would Microsoft team up with a German team? I would think that the past few months have demonstrated that Europeans dislike Microsfot even more than the US. So why?
Isn't it funny how the people who really know security are rarely seen making doom and gloom predictions about the end of society as we know it? Most times I see a real security wizard speaking either at a conference or in an interview, they're pragmatic and reasoned in their answers to questions, even stupid ones. Why is it that the people in the best position to know about the security or insecurity of our networks are so calm and circumspect and the remainder of the industry seems hell bent of FUD?
This is great news! I mean, by the time this thing hits mass market, the Star Wars Penultimate DVD edition will come out with extra special, previously unreleased on the 50928398 other special editions footage, and I'll be able to finally see Natalie Portman, covered in hot grits, in stunning, hi-def. Hellllloooooo MOTO!
Am I the only one waiting for a report from Laura Didio on how Internet Explorer is far more secure than Firefox and citing these vulnerabilities as proof? What about the rest of the Microsoft apologist doomsayers?
Yes people, they are serious vulnerabilities. Yes, they should be patched and dealt with. And yes, they will be dealt with far sooner than "Patch Tuesday". The sky isn't falling.
Call me crazy, but I suspect the driving force behind sustaining the gaming industry will be quality products with entertaining game play. Photorealism will be nice. So will realistic force feedback effects. Sure, we all are looking forward to the neural interfaces of the future (and we welcome our machine masters). But, without a compelling storyline and entertaining game play, all the shiny new features aren't going to mean a great deal. Which is, I believe the point of what Dvorak is saying.
This kind of idiocy happens every day on IRC. And plenty of logs exist of various mouth breathers being made a mockery of by their own cluelessness. Why is slashdot posting this crap.
Malware is spread via websites. We've heard this for years. Why is it now suddenly news that some rogue blogs are being used for this purpose? Sounds like a cheap play for media attention from a company who does nominally effective content filtering.
Companies like websense and s4f (a direct competitor to websense) keep big databases of websites which fit into different categories (porn, crude/tasteless, gambling, sports, personal websites) and their products are supposed to filter based on which categories the user (or sysadmin) wants to disallow. It's a big game of whack-a-mole, however, because new sites spring up all the time, AND as you pointed out, blogs are just as prevelant on privately owned personal domains as they are on big blog-servers.
There are plenty of well-known, professional security consulting companies out there who do the job right. If you hire a lower-cost consulting company who is just going to run a few variations of nmap and nessus and slop the results into a report, then you deserve the kind of pain you get.
I've got a beef with Sony. But first, I'm going to jump ahead a bit and talk in general terms about how the deep-seated, unbridled hatred that Sony's hatchet men have for us is visceral and inculcated from cradle to grave. Then, I'll back up and fill in some of the details. Okay, so to start with the general stuff, last summer, I attempted what I knew would be a hopeless task. I tried to convince Sony that the issues surrounding alcoholism are more complex and embedded than it will admit. As I expected, Sony was unconvinced. I am aware that many people may object to the severity of my language. But is there no cause for severity? Naturally, I, not being one of the many morally questionable, besotted cowards of this world, assert that there is, because I have a dream that my children will be able to live in a world filled with open spaces and beautiful wilderness -- not in a dark, sniffish world run by prodigal crooks. No matter what Sony thinks, the objection may still be raised that it's perfectly safe to drink and drive. At first glance, this sounds almost believable. Yet the following must be borne in mind: You don't have to say anything specifically about it for it to start attacking you. All you have to do is dare to imply that we should embrace diversity.
To tolerate Sony's beer-guzzling remonstrations simply because they're not packaged and sold as nerdy is to devastate vast acres of precious farmland. Sony's policies are designed to feed blind hatred. And they're working; they're having the desired effect. You may not be aware of this, but anyone who hasn't been living in a cave with his eyes shut and his ears plugged knows that in public, Sony vehemently inveighs against corruption and sin. But when nobody's looking, Sony never fails to prey on people's fear of political and economic instability. So far, this letter has merely identified the ways in which we must publicly distance ourselves from incompetent twaddlers. Now, let me shift gears and start telling you about how Sony coins polysyllabic neologisms to make its shell games sound like they're actually important. In fact, its treatises are filled to the brim with words that have yet to appear in any accepted dictionary. To end this letter, I would like to make a bet with Sony. I will gladly give Sony a day's salary if it can prove that its prank phone calls enhance performance standards, productivity, and competitiveness, as it insists. If Sony is unable to prove that, then its end of the bargain is to step aside while I criticize its beliefs (as I would certainly not call them logically reasoned arguments) publically for their formalistic categories, their spurious claims of neutrality, and their blindness to the abuse of private power. So, do we have a bet, Sony?
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Yes, Debian was *the* technically superior linux distribution for a long time. Those days are pretty much over folks. In fact, I'm surprised that the "BSD is dead" crowd doesn't have a similar mantra for Debian.
There are plenty of well-managed, technically sweet linux distributions out there. Some of them even use apt as their package manager. Let's just agree to learn from what Debian was, and move on to something better. I'll leave the holy war of what "something better" is to the rest of the zealots.
So as part of the raids one can only assume the "evidence" is now part of the public record. Can they set all the evidence up on a website so the public can review it properly? It would be especially convenient if the larger files were stored in .torrent form.
It gets a little old to see all these companies jumping on the latest trendy bandwagon. Google got a lot of well-deserved, positive press for its very innovative SoC idea. And Google has been reaping the rewards of encouraging its employees to devote time to their own pet projects, many of which are open sourced, and some of which turn out to be brand new kickass google features. To me, this is Open Source Corporate Advocacy done right.
Plenty of other companies are trying to jump on the Open Source bandwagon as a way to get cheap/free labor for coding projects. I can't say that this is EBay's intention, but it sure doesn't smell like an innovative idea to me. Just another PR flack's brainstorm.
Can you imagine the staff of the Utah Attorney General's office compliling that list? I work for a company that does content filtering and I already steer clear of the blocking department (the folks who look at porn all day, every day for a living). I can only imagine a bunch of straight laced AG office fraus browsing zoosite.com or dumpstersluts.com and how traumatic that would be. While it might seem like a tempting job, its really not. There are sites out there much worse than tubgirl or goatse.
Yes its an issue, and yes Google has already dealt with the offending entry. Nothing more to see hear.
Do you think they'd grade my entry down if I formatted it using TeX?
Considering that the former Soviet Union was able to put Skylab into orbit and maintain it for so long, its really shocking to see how poorly they're able to contribute to the ISS. I realize that it was a different era and but its amazing to see decades of expertise in space-related engineering apparently gone.
" that is a really disturbing post. perhaps 'girlfriend' or 'wife' or 'partner' instead of sister would make it a little less...uhh...wrong..."
Did you forget that this is slashdot?
With as much money as Microsoft is throwing at this effort, its interesting to see how well they're not doing. Sony beat Microsoft out of the gate with the PS2 and essentially captured the market (arguments about how much nicer the XBox is than the PS2 aside, Sony still sold 2098309548230958 more units). Now they announce a little later, but with a product that looks like an nerd's wet dream.
It's a nice example of what happens when you have high quality engineers being thrown at a problem instead of big huge piles of money.
So you're telling me that as long as you're a trading house with a direct tie-in to NASDAQ, there's no input validation or sanity checking done? I realize its probably too much to ask that there be a moderate amount of human oversight given the extreme amount of data passing through the lines. But given the importance of accurate data, you'd think NASDAQ would put better checks and balances into their systems.
The real problem with the way we here in the US are approaching technical education is that we're no longer teaching it as a science. There is very little emphasis on complex problem solving and creative thinking. Instead, CS degress are more comparable to vocational programs taught in the latest fad programming language with a smattering of recipe-style solutions to common problems.
This leads to a couple of generations of fairly competent Java programmers (or C# if you prefer) who can only solve a problem in a prescribed way. It is, then, no wonder that many other nations are beating our ass when it comes to technical education.
As a point of note, I'm not advocating some sort of "Chicken Little" alarmism here. I'm merely pointing out that the primary focus of our educational programs should be re-directed.
Other than to give the foil-hat types among us a dose of pyrric irony, why would Microsoft team up with a German team? I would think that the past few months have demonstrated that Europeans dislike Microsfot even more than the US. So why?
Isn't it funny how the people who really know security are rarely seen making doom and gloom predictions about the end of society as we know it? Most times I see a real security wizard speaking either at a conference or in an interview, they're pragmatic and reasoned in their answers to questions, even stupid ones. Why is it that the people in the best position to know about the security or insecurity of our networks are so calm and circumspect and the remainder of the industry seems hell bent of FUD?
This is great news! I mean, by the time this thing hits mass market, the Star Wars Penultimate DVD edition will come out with extra special, previously unreleased on the 50928398 other special editions footage, and I'll be able to finally see Natalie Portman, covered in hot grits, in stunning, hi-def. Hellllloooooo MOTO!
Am I the only one waiting for a report from Laura Didio on how Internet Explorer is far more secure than Firefox and citing these vulnerabilities as proof? What about the rest of the Microsoft apologist doomsayers?
Yes people, they are serious vulnerabilities. Yes, they should be patched and dealt with. And yes, they will be dealt with far sooner than "Patch Tuesday". The sky isn't falling.
Call me crazy, but I suspect the driving force behind sustaining the gaming industry will be quality products with entertaining game play. Photorealism will be nice. So will realistic force feedback effects. Sure, we all are looking forward to the neural interfaces of the future (and we welcome our machine masters). But, without a compelling storyline and entertaining game play, all the shiny new features aren't going to mean a great deal. Which is, I believe the point of what Dvorak is saying.
This kind of idiocy happens every day on IRC. And plenty of logs exist of various mouth breathers being made a mockery of by their own cluelessness. Why is slashdot posting this crap.
Malware is spread via websites. We've heard this for years. Why is it now suddenly news that some rogue blogs are being used for this purpose? Sounds like a cheap play for media attention from a company who does nominally effective content filtering.
Companies like websense and s4f (a direct competitor to websense) keep big databases of websites which fit into different categories (porn, crude/tasteless, gambling, sports, personal websites) and their products are supposed to filter based on which categories the user (or sysadmin) wants to disallow. It's a big game of whack-a-mole, however, because new sites spring up all the time, AND as you pointed out, blogs are just as prevelant on privately owned personal domains as they are on big blog-servers.
There are plenty of well-known, professional security consulting companies out there who do the job right. If you hire a lower-cost consulting company who is just going to run a few variations of nmap and nessus and slop the results into a report, then you deserve the kind of pain you get.
Hire quality, get quality results.
I've got a beef with Sony. But first, I'm going to jump ahead a bit and talk in general terms about how the deep-seated, unbridled hatred that Sony's hatchet men have for us is visceral and inculcated from cradle to grave. Then, I'll back up and fill in some of the details. Okay, so to start with the general stuff, last summer, I attempted what I knew would be a hopeless task. I tried to convince Sony that the issues surrounding alcoholism are more complex and embedded than it will admit. As I expected, Sony was unconvinced. I am aware that many people may object to the severity of my language. But is there no cause for severity? Naturally, I, not being one of the many morally questionable, besotted cowards of this world, assert that there is, because I have a dream that my children will be able to live in a world filled with open spaces and beautiful wilderness -- not in a dark, sniffish world run by prodigal crooks. No matter what Sony thinks, the objection may still be raised that it's perfectly safe to drink and drive. At first glance, this sounds almost believable. Yet the following must be borne in mind: You don't have to say anything specifically about it for it to start attacking you. All you have to do is dare to imply that we should embrace diversity. To tolerate Sony's beer-guzzling remonstrations simply because they're not packaged and sold as nerdy is to devastate vast acres of precious farmland. Sony's policies are designed to feed blind hatred. And they're working; they're having the desired effect. You may not be aware of this, but anyone who hasn't been living in a cave with his eyes shut and his ears plugged knows that in public, Sony vehemently inveighs against corruption and sin. But when nobody's looking, Sony never fails to prey on people's fear of political and economic instability. So far, this letter has merely identified the ways in which we must publicly distance ourselves from incompetent twaddlers. Now, let me shift gears and start telling you about how Sony coins polysyllabic neologisms to make its shell games sound like they're actually important. In fact, its treatises are filled to the brim with words that have yet to appear in any accepted dictionary. To end this letter, I would like to make a bet with Sony. I will gladly give Sony a day's salary if it can prove that its prank phone calls enhance performance standards, productivity, and competitiveness, as it insists. If Sony is unable to prove that, then its end of the bargain is to step aside while I criticize its beliefs (as I would certainly not call them logically reasoned arguments) publically for their formalistic categories, their spurious claims of neutrality, and their blindness to the abuse of private power. So, do we have a bet, Sony?