I made no derogatory comment about either browser. I was merely commenting on the correlation between usage and detected vulnerabilities. Many people have discounted the notion that FF has less vulnerabilities because of its lower market penetration, but this article would suggest that as FF's popularity has increase, so has the rate of vulnerability discovery.
That said, I use FF. I think it is a superior product when compared to IE. And FF developers' ability to address and rectify those vulnerabilities has been proven time after time to be better than MS's ability.
So, the whole point I was hoping to provoke in conversation:
It may not be your work though. That depends on the agreement between you and your school. Every military and profession job I've ever had, had a section in the contract stating that anything you create on provided resources, on provided time, or using provided information, is owned by the provider. If such a statement is on your enrollment agreement, then it is in fact, not your work.
That said, this really does do more to PROTECT IP rights than it does to squander them. If the student owns the paper, but is required by the administration to submit the paper in order for grading (ie: the student gives the administration limit copy rights), then the student's work will be guarded against future infringement.
My only problem with this is that with hundreds of millions of essays on the exact same subjects at the high school level, you are bound to wind up with false positives. There are only so many interpretations of Moby Dick.
Do your best to complete your specific responsibilities, and do what you can to pick up your bosses failures. One of two things will happen, either someone will notice your hard work and eventually make job description changes, or no one will notice your work, but you will have learned a lot about middle/upper management of IT. Either way, your resume will be better for it.
I work in a similar position. Our IT shop is split into Apps (my side) and Networks. The manager was a programmer 20 years ago, but I am not aware of any higher education on his part. The two supervisors are supervisors by attrition, neither have any education related to management of people or projects (one has a CS assoc, the other has a HSD). The supervisor on the network side has managed 80% turn over in the last two years. All of those people sited the supervisor as a major reason why they left in their exit interview with the manager. And yet nothing is done.
At this point I'm in a boat very similar to yours. My supervisor has limited project management skills (based on 2 years of failed/successful projects). My manager has no idea what Project Management is, and no understanding of IT Alignment. So I'm putting my education to the test, pushing for a job description change, and if I can get a little more hands on experience to match my management education, I'm headed out the door.
I've quoted "Sign a song of sixpence" when discussing military tactics before. Just because someone put it in proes that rhyme hardly demotes its relevance.
In this case, I'm of mixed response though. To know that your children are signing nursery rhymes to each other of the importance of fighting for freedom and constant vigilance against governmental control, is very heart warming.
On the other hand, your dismissal of the point of the story as nothing more than a nursery rhyme is quite disheartening. It's like asking an American what's so special about the 4th of July and having them tell you "That's the day we set off fireworks!"
Yeah, I realized that after I posted. Literacy for teh win.
I can't wrap my head around it. We are there to learn, to gain an understanding, how the hell is cheating going to teach you anything!?! What, is school getting in the way of their WoW time or something? Anyways, for the cost of continuing education, I sure as hell wouldn't be wasting it on a class I would cheat to complete.
I wonder if there isn't some amount of truth to that.
At my college, our final graduating class size was less than 10% what it was when we started. I know of people who cheated, copied, and plagiarized in the associates program but none of them made it to the final graduation. Oddly enough, only about 33% of our starting class graduated the assoc program, we had 5 students tossed out of the school in the second to last class of the program for plagiarizing code. Once we got into the bachelor's degrees, even though the papers got longer and more common, there was significantly less cheating. Sure, there were a few slackers who depended on other people in group work, but it was more like 15% than 50%.
I would be much more interested in seeing those numbers from graduates, not active students.
It's right next to the encoding selection (WMA, WMA variable, WMA lossless, MP3). Default in WMP 10 I believe was WMA and DMA off. In 11 I believe it is still WMA and DMA on (not positive on that). But if the person wants to rip to MP3 they'll have to go to that screen anyways. And, I don't know your neighborhood, but if there are any teenagers on your block and internet penetration, I would suspect that significantly more than 1 could figure it out.
Sensationalism in the media is getting crazy. Next time you bump into Charlie, tell him to imagine his sister had just been raped. Gaged, held down, and forced intercourse. After which she will have severe emotional trauma, anxiety, social issues, and have to deal with the possibility of an abortion or raising a child alone.
After you get it sunk into him just what a brutal act rape truly is, ask him just how appropriate his use of the word was in his wallet analogy.
There is a simple method of bypasing this DRM when ripping your music. In WMP go to the Tools menu, select Options. Click on the "Copy Music" tab and ensure that the "Copy protect music" option is not selected.
Man, that was a close one, they almost screwed us this time!
-Rick
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I'm a PC gammer. I've been a PC gammer for almost 20 years now. And I have never owned a gaming console.
That said, the Wii is the first console I've actually considered buying. If the first 6 months look good for it, and someone makes a light-saber game that works with the Wii-mote, I just might buy my very first console.
What I am not interested in is a $3,000 system, which is what the PS3 or XBox is to me. $400-600 for the console. $1,4000-1,800 to replace my 48" projection with a similar sized HD projection. $200 for a few games and a controller, and $200 for new HD or Blue ray movies to take advantage of the HD tv and player.
For $250 I can hit the ground running with the Wii. Another $200 for a few games and a controller and I'll be pretty set for entertainment for the year.
I transferred in 25% of my credits from high school, the Marine Corps, and test outs. While working full time and raising my family I pulled off an ASCS and a dual major BSIT and BSMT in three years. That was going to school year round on a block schedule. Nothing I feel like repeating. I think my masters is going to be at a much slower pace.
But will that continue in the future? If they've over doubled the square footage from last year, their are either a lot more development studios getting together at this GDC, or they are increasing the scope of the event to include more flash, corporate, and consumer interest.
Given the subtext "Hezbollah might have taken advantage of Israeli soldiers' mistakes in following secure radio procedures"
It is far more likely that some ass hat of a soldier left a radio, a list of channels and codes, and/or other secret information relating to communication someplace available to the enemy.
When faced with two explanations, one taking an amazing amount of skill and luck, and the other taking a severe amount of incompetence... go with incompetence.
You dial into (or are connected to) Ma and Pa ISP Ma and Pa ISP connects to some local back bone local back bone connects to a national back bone national back bone connects to major ISP major ISP connects to Google
Now, let's say that the national back bone ditches out on NN. That national back bone sends Google a bill saying "pay this much or your service will be degraded." So, if Google pays them, great. Except then the Major ISP is going to tell Google that if they want premium service on their side, they'll have to pay them more as well. No biggie, at this point Google is just shelling out a few extra checks a month. But then it hits the local back bones. Networks all over the world demand that Google pay them directly to get non-degraded service. And then it comes to Ma and Pa, they get the best of both worlds, they can bill you an extra fee for "preferred services" and the can bill Google for it's traffic.
Even if you switch from Ma and Pa to another ISP, you'll still hit non-neutral traffic in between you and Google.
The infrastructure industry is demanding more money. Fair enough, there are two ways of getting it: The NN way, increase your bill rates. Or the non-NN way, bill the providers and users an extra fee.
Using the NN way, the implementation process is simple, you increase your bill rates. No new technology to implement, no new personnel, no new sales, etc.
Using the non-NN way, the implementation process is incredibly complex. You need to first implement new hardware over the network to take advantage of the performance. Then you need to establish a billing system for the new services. You need to increase your staff to manage the new billing and sales requirements. You need to advertise and educate. You need to spend a whole lot more money to get the extra income. Which means it is significantly less efficient.
NN or non-NN, either way the infrastructure will get the money they need/want. The question is how much will it cost the customers (consumers and businesses). And from what I've seen, implementing a non-NN solution is going to have significantly more overhead, costs, and problems than just raising the rates.
Not to mention the inevitable use of unfair practices to leverage business opportunities. Imagine if AT&T choked all VOIP traffic to a snails pace. Just by disrupting VOIP on their back bones they could literally crush the VOIP industry overnight.
The actions are only illegal because the existing political party made them illegal.
At one point in time it was illegal to free slaves in the US. And you'd be hard pressed to find an elected official at this point that would still defend that stance.
Trend data is not so useful when it comes to a new trend;) Sure, there may have been some of this in the past, but fuel prices haven't seen these kinds of jumps since the 70's oil crisis. The price of fuel is one of the top voter concerns right now, so if you're an (unscrupulous) incumbent, you're doing everything you can to hold the price low until after the election. If you are a (unscrupulous) challenger, you want the price to be high so that you can point a finger at the incumbent. Maybe I'm just a hair on the paranoid side (No, I don't think anyone is out to get me), but I think we've seen enough corruption in our government to believe that the people in power would exert force on market trends to improve their odds of staying in power.
No bill has been passed. But if you were a senator on the energy committee, and you were talking to an oil/fuel company and said something like "These high fuel prices sure are a hot ticket. If the people keep getting upset about it, they may vote me out of office for someone who will legislate your profits."
IOW: Keep your prices low until after I'm re-elected, and I'll keep the committee from pushing out any new bills on fuel cost reform.
I agree that a lot of the effect is supply/demand and the volatility of the market, but there is a large amount of both gouging and price suppression that has been going on for years. The only thing that has changed remarkably in the last five years is that the vendors have discovered that the US economy can stay operate successfully at $3/gal instead of $1/gal.
It's not so bad, prices are set to decline and stay 'lower' for a while... like until November.
Nothing like an election year to get incumbents to make hot ticket issues temporarily disappear. Also, expect a sharp rise in fuel costs come December due to a "heating oil usage spike" and "conversion to winter fuels" coupled with the "winter travel season" and rise in demand from "winter recreation vehicles". You likely won't see "lack of political pressure" as a reason for higher prices though.
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That wasn't a pro-MS statement. That was a "don't be an idiot" statement.
-Rick
I made no derogatory comment about either browser. I was merely commenting on the correlation between usage and detected vulnerabilities. Many people have discounted the notion that FF has less vulnerabilities because of its lower market penetration, but this article would suggest that as FF's popularity has increase, so has the rate of vulnerability discovery.
That said, I use FF. I think it is a superior product when compared to IE. And FF developers' ability to address and rectify those vulnerabilities has been proven time after time to be better than MS's ability.
So, the whole point I was hoping to provoke in conversation:
Vulnerabilities Discovered != Vulnerabilities
Increased Usage = Increased Vulnerabilities Discovered
-Rick
What's this? Could it be an indication that there is some truth to the market segment correlation to vulnerabilities and attacks?
-Rick
It may not be your work though. That depends on the agreement between you and your school. Every military and profession job I've ever had, had a section in the contract stating that anything you create on provided resources, on provided time, or using provided information, is owned by the provider. If such a statement is on your enrollment agreement, then it is in fact, not your work.
That said, this really does do more to PROTECT IP rights than it does to squander them. If the student owns the paper, but is required by the administration to submit the paper in order for grading (ie: the student gives the administration limit copy rights), then the student's work will be guarded against future infringement.
My only problem with this is that with hundreds of millions of essays on the exact same subjects at the high school level, you are bound to wind up with false positives. There are only so many interpretations of Moby Dick.
-Rick
Do your best to complete your specific responsibilities, and do what you can to pick up your bosses failures. One of two things will happen, either someone will notice your hard work and eventually make job description changes, or no one will notice your work, but you will have learned a lot about middle/upper management of IT. Either way, your resume will be better for it.
I work in a similar position. Our IT shop is split into Apps (my side) and Networks. The manager was a programmer 20 years ago, but I am not aware of any higher education on his part. The two supervisors are supervisors by attrition, neither have any education related to management of people or projects (one has a CS assoc, the other has a HSD). The supervisor on the network side has managed 80% turn over in the last two years. All of those people sited the supervisor as a major reason why they left in their exit interview with the manager. And yet nothing is done.
At this point I'm in a boat very similar to yours. My supervisor has limited project management skills (based on 2 years of failed/successful projects). My manager has no idea what Project Management is, and no understanding of IT Alignment. So I'm putting my education to the test, pushing for a job description change, and if I can get a little more hands on experience to match my management education, I'm headed out the door.
-Rick
I've quoted "Sign a song of sixpence" when discussing military tactics before. Just because someone put it in proes that rhyme hardly demotes its relevance.
In this case, I'm of mixed response though. To know that your children are signing nursery rhymes to each other of the importance of fighting for freedom and constant vigilance against governmental control, is very heart warming.
On the other hand, your dismissal of the point of the story as nothing more than a nursery rhyme is quite disheartening. It's like asking an American what's so special about the 4th of July and having them tell you "That's the day we set off fireworks!"
-Rick
Russ Fiengold for one.
-Rick
Yeah, I realized that after I posted. Literacy for teh win.
I can't wrap my head around it. We are there to learn, to gain an understanding, how the hell is cheating going to teach you anything!?! What, is school getting in the way of their WoW time or something? Anyways, for the cost of continuing education, I sure as hell wouldn't be wasting it on a class I would cheat to complete.
-Rick
I wonder if there isn't some amount of truth to that.
At my college, our final graduating class size was less than 10% what it was when we started. I know of people who cheated, copied, and plagiarized in the associates program but none of them made it to the final graduation. Oddly enough, only about 33% of our starting class graduated the assoc program, we had 5 students tossed out of the school in the second to last class of the program for plagiarizing code. Once we got into the bachelor's degrees, even though the papers got longer and more common, there was significantly less cheating. Sure, there were a few slackers who depended on other people in group work, but it was more like 15% than 50%.
I would be much more interested in seeing those numbers from graduates, not active students.
-Rick
/shrug
It's right next to the encoding selection (WMA, WMA variable, WMA lossless, MP3). Default in WMP 10 I believe was WMA and DMA off. In 11 I believe it is still WMA and DMA on (not positive on that). But if the person wants to rip to MP3 they'll have to go to that screen anyways. And, I don't know your neighborhood, but if there are any teenagers on your block and internet penetration, I would suspect that significantly more than 1 could figure it out.
-Rick
Sensationalism in the media is getting crazy. Next time you bump into Charlie, tell him to imagine his sister had just been raped. Gaged, held down, and forced intercourse. After which she will have severe emotional trauma, anxiety, social issues, and have to deal with the possibility of an abortion or raising a child alone.
After you get it sunk into him just what a brutal act rape truly is, ask him just how appropriate his use of the word was in his wallet analogy.
-Rick
There is a simple method of bypasing this DRM when ripping your music. In WMP go to the Tools menu, select Options. Click on the "Copy Music" tab and ensure that the "Copy protect music" option is not selected.
Man, that was a close one, they almost screwed us this time!
-Rick
I'm a PC gammer. I've been a PC gammer for almost 20 years now. And I have never owned a gaming console.
That said, the Wii is the first console I've actually considered buying. If the first 6 months look good for it, and someone makes a light-saber game that works with the Wii-mote, I just might buy my very first console.
What I am not interested in is a $3,000 system, which is what the PS3 or XBox is to me. $400-600 for the console. $1,4000-1,800 to replace my 48" projection with a similar sized HD projection. $200 for a few games and a controller, and $200 for new HD or Blue ray movies to take advantage of the HD tv and player.
For $250 I can hit the ground running with the Wii. Another $200 for a few games and a controller and I'll be pretty set for entertainment for the year.
-Rick
I transferred in 25% of my credits from high school, the Marine Corps, and test outs. While working full time and raising my family I pulled off an ASCS and a dual major BSIT and BSMT in three years. That was going to school year round on a block schedule. Nothing I feel like repeating. I think my masters is going to be at a much slower pace.
-Rick
"Or maybe they just shot him and took it off his corpse."
A completely plausible explanation however, I have never heard of the Israeli regulars leaving bodies behind.
-Rick
But will that continue in the future? If they've over doubled the square footage from last year, their are either a lot more development studios getting together at this GDC, or they are increasing the scope of the event to include more flash, corporate, and consumer interest.
-Rick
Given the subtext "Hezbollah might have taken advantage of Israeli soldiers' mistakes in following secure radio procedures"
It is far more likely that some ass hat of a soldier left a radio, a list of channels and codes, and/or other secret information relating to communication someplace available to the enemy.
When faced with two explanations, one taking an amazing amount of skill and luck, and the other taking a severe amount of incompetence... go with incompetence.
-Rick
Lets say you want to get to Google.
You dial into (or are connected to) Ma and Pa ISP
Ma and Pa ISP connects to some local back bone
local back bone connects to a national back bone
national back bone connects to major ISP
major ISP connects to Google
Now, let's say that the national back bone ditches out on NN. That national back bone sends Google a bill saying "pay this much or your service will be degraded." So, if Google pays them, great. Except then the Major ISP is going to tell Google that if they want premium service on their side, they'll have to pay them more as well. No biggie, at this point Google is just shelling out a few extra checks a month. But then it hits the local back bones. Networks all over the world demand that Google pay them directly to get non-degraded service. And then it comes to Ma and Pa, they get the best of both worlds, they can bill you an extra fee for "preferred services" and the can bill Google for it's traffic.
Even if you switch from Ma and Pa to another ISP, you'll still hit non-neutral traffic in between you and Google.
The infrastructure industry is demanding more money. Fair enough, there are two ways of getting it: The NN way, increase your bill rates. Or the non-NN way, bill the providers and users an extra fee.
Using the NN way, the implementation process is simple, you increase your bill rates. No new technology to implement, no new personnel, no new sales, etc.
Using the non-NN way, the implementation process is incredibly complex. You need to first implement new hardware over the network to take advantage of the performance. Then you need to establish a billing system for the new services. You need to increase your staff to manage the new billing and sales requirements. You need to advertise and educate. You need to spend a whole lot more money to get the extra income. Which means it is significantly less efficient.
NN or non-NN, either way the infrastructure will get the money they need/want. The question is how much will it cost the customers (consumers and businesses). And from what I've seen, implementing a non-NN solution is going to have significantly more overhead, costs, and problems than just raising the rates.
Not to mention the inevitable use of unfair practices to leverage business opportunities. Imagine if AT&T choked all VOIP traffic to a snails pace. Just by disrupting VOIP on their back bones they could literally crush the VOIP industry overnight.
-Rick
The actions are only illegal because the existing political party made them illegal.
At one point in time it was illegal to free slaves in the US. And you'd be hard pressed to find an elected official at this point that would still defend that stance.
-Rick
I guess we'll just have to see what happens come December :) I hope you are right. But just in case, I'll keep driving my bio-diesel friendly Golf ;)
-Rick
Wow, looks like I'm on my way to join you. 2 to 5 and back to 2.
-Rick
Trend data is not so useful when it comes to a new trend ;) Sure, there may have been some of this in the past, but fuel prices haven't seen these kinds of jumps since the 70's oil crisis. The price of fuel is one of the top voter concerns right now, so if you're an (unscrupulous) incumbent, you're doing everything you can to hold the price low until after the election. If you are a (unscrupulous) challenger, you want the price to be high so that you can point a finger at the incumbent. Maybe I'm just a hair on the paranoid side (No, I don't think anyone is out to get me), but I think we've seen enough corruption in our government to believe that the people in power would exert force on market trends to improve their odds of staying in power.
-Rick
No bill has been passed. But if you were a senator on the energy committee, and you were talking to an oil/fuel company and said something like "These high fuel prices sure are a hot ticket. If the people keep getting upset about it, they may vote me out of office for someone who will legislate your profits."
IOW: Keep your prices low until after I'm re-elected, and I'll keep the committee from pushing out any new bills on fuel cost reform.
I agree that a lot of the effect is supply/demand and the volatility of the market, but there is a large amount of both gouging and price suppression that has been going on for years. The only thing that has changed remarkably in the last five years is that the vendors have discovered that the US economy can stay operate successfully at $3/gal instead of $1/gal.
-Rick
It's not so bad, prices are set to decline and stay 'lower' for a while... like until November.
Nothing like an election year to get incumbents to make hot ticket issues temporarily disappear. Also, expect a sharp rise in fuel costs come December due to a "heating oil usage spike" and "conversion to winter fuels" coupled with the "winter travel season" and rise in demand from "winter recreation vehicles". You likely won't see "lack of political pressure" as a reason for higher prices though.
-Rick
The code is open source though, maybe someone who cares enough about the site will write it for them :P
-Rick