Code reviews come from a time when there were few (or no) alternatives for checking that code does what you think it should, as opposed to merely compiling which was often as far as software testing went. It also comes from a time when budgets were huge, software was EXPECTED to take forever to develop and nobody minded (too much) when it did.
Now things have changed. To expect people to find the time in their schedules to try and understand the sofwtare that one of their colleagues has written is impractical. The chances are they won't really understand it anyway - so the chances of finding any real, subtle bugs is pretty low. Add onto that code reviews evolved in a time when software always had a printed form: you'd get a line-printer dump, start at the top and work down - whereas with IDEs today, that is rarely the case. In OO coding there are many, many places to "hide" methods and inherited features/functions that for one person to try to disentangle the mess that another has produced is almost impossible.
So code reviews belong to an age that passed about 20 years ago. I recall doing code reviews and having people feel under pressure to find something - just to prove they'd read the code. Nowadays we have much better automated tools that are much cheaper to employ and can do their work overnight, rather than tying up valuable developer time with duplicated effort.
It make very little difference to Murdoch. Most of his money now comes from american interests: TV and this clears an obstacle in his quest for taking over even more satellite TV in the UK. He also knows that newspapers as a medium are dying so this is no great loss - for him or anyone else, except the people who worked there.
Ironically, the current staff, who lose their jobs were probably the least guilty of all the spying/hacking accusations, since most of the ones that have come to light so far are from 5, 10, 15 years ago. Very few of the current staff have been there that long.
Obviously the only reason you'd want to would be to circumvent a legal restriction, so obviously it should be a criminal offence to not use one of the "approved" DNS services. Or any other internet setting, for that matter.
You can almost hear how the mind of an australian petty official works. Will Oz be the first post-democratic country? Where the slide back to totalitarianism is most advanced.
Yup, one central roundabout and five "satellites". You can go round in either direction. Just think of it as revenge for the Boston Tea Party, Regan and american TV shows
I give it 25 years before someone else takes the lead.
I suppose it depends which lead you mean. There are several.
Sure, the USA is about to give up it's manned flight capabilities - though whether the scuttle represented a lead in that field is open to question. However, it still has a lot of capabilities in military launches (the military space budget is at least the size of NASA's - that's not going to be cut) and civil satellite operations.
You probably can't assign the non-governmental space business as "american" as it's, well, non-governmental so doesn't really carry a national identity.
Personally I doubt that there's going to be much manned activity past LEO for at least 100 years, as there's no real need for it. There might be some "gestures" by the chinese, but there's no need for a permanent manned base, or manned expeditions - unless it's for reasons of prestige and few people are willing to pay for that any more.
This just happens everywhere, in any country I know, and it will keep happening, that's it. Just don't take those non-jobs.
Well, you don't know many countries (any? except the US?).
I haven't seen internships on the scale of the US in any other country - in most of europe this form of child/slave labour is illegal.
The point of security is to increase the amount of time it will (would?) take a baddie to do bad things. We know that security can NEVER provide an absolute guarantee that the wrong people won't do the wrong thing - it can only reduce the possibility of that happening.
So it is with obscurity. Provided it is not the ONLY security feature used, it has a place in reducing the visibility of a target - just as camoflage has been doing in the military for hundreds of years. It also adds to the overall difficulty of getting into a secure location (be that a website or building) and therefore has a deterrent effect: even if that's only to move the baddies along to try the next target on the list, rather than yourselves.
Where does that leave obscurity? Right where it needs to be: as a valuable tool in preventing and delaying security breaches. The key thing about it (as with all security features) is to know when it is no longer effective and then to either revamp it or replace it. However, it obviously is still effective for the vast majority of institutions and therefore should not be dismissed.
Quite. Although the germans have said they won't use nuclear power - they will. It's just that they'll use FRENCH nuclear power, since the french can - apparently - do it better than the germans.
Although you could argue that during the winter the 25W or so (mine is 35W) consumed by your DVR/STB displaces the same amount of power used for heating. Though in summer, people with wasteful aircon would see an additional cooling load from the STB.
The best way to cut your winter heating bills is simply to put on a sweater.
This is the reason I'm proud to call myself a geek
On the one hand we have someone who's "... sharing in the culture" and dabbles a bit with Maker projects. On the other we have some individuals in a war-torn country under foreign occupation actually making people's lives better by cobbling together a comms network out of what they can scrape up.
You sir, have nothing in common with these people at all and your patronising attitude (I'm sure Afghanistan is a great country, but...) repels me.
In most of the world, what you call "Gen Ed" is what we are taught in secondary school. Most countries degree programmes specialise completely in the subjects pertinent to the course and are the better for it. Since you only have 3 years, with *very* long holidays scattered throughout the year, you need to spend as much time as possible studying your chosen subject, not wasting it on irrelevancies that have nothing to do with the field you wish to enter.
When you have dozens of people applying for each position, the main task is to find reasons for NOT hiring, or excluding possible candidates. If you don't have a relevant degree then you get no further than the CV stage in the process.
No matter how relevant your experience or your willingness to work for Post-It's covered in peanut butter. At the pre-screening you're dead. That's because engineers and even managers time is too valuable to waste on sifting through boxes of hopeless applications - so the admin people do it. They just have a simple list of requirements and will ONLY pass on the ones that match. It's as close to "grep BSc *.cv" as you can get from a semi-animate object.
That's the real value of the degree - not to prove you can do the job, but to get past the layers of clueless administrators who's only job is to find reasons to reject candidates.
But it's so much easier to "lose" pages, or mix up the order, or assign additional pages to the wrong email.
Just out on interest, does her printer have a special "smudge" button, like Nixon's tape recorder sometimes forgot to record?
If the question was "do you play games on your computer?" then all the people who occasionally fire up solitaire would, obviously, answer YES. There's insufficient information given (and commentators here making a lot of assumptions) as to what sorts of games people play. Most comments seem to think that the whole world is just like them -- and therefore all "gamers" will only play the sorts of games they do.
First time I've ever heard of that. Here they only deliver weekdays 8 - 6p.m. Maybe on a saturday morning if you pay two or three times the standard charge and maybe on the day they say they will (but even that's not guaranteed) -- and that's all.
So far as getting domestic deliveries for households where people work for a living, forget it. There's no possibility that ANY of the couriers will work outside business hours. All I can suppose is that they make far too much profit from their current practices to feel the need to expand into actually offering domestic customers a service they could use.
All the break-in attempts I've ever seen happening to one of our systems has only tried running through a list of users / passwords that are, bluntly, pretty dam' obvious choices. That none of them has ever succeeded on any of our user accounts tells you nothing about the strength of the individuals' passwords (policy set by the CIO's IQ/memory abiliity: 6 or more letters+numbers)
All it tells you is that the amateurs who run these scripts get a high enough hit-rate from rest of the internet to keep them happy - and not wanting to try anything harder. My personal belief is that if we did ever get hacked, the source would be internal or through information leaked by a user from social engineering, not from some script kiddie with a room full of GPUs, throwing off enough heat to make the cops think they've got a marijuana farm in the building.
they are working on a range of offensive cyber weapons to increase the country's defensive capabilities
This kind of thinking shows the plan is doomed to failure before a single module of american software has been bought (at hyper-inflated prices) - which is the standard british technique for <strike> doing what the americans tell them to </strike> implementing a defence strategy.
While that might (although since it was impossible to test, we'll never really know) have been a successful strategy for nuclear war - when there were only 2 sides and therefore no uncertainty who the "enemy" was, it falls down in so many blindingly obvious ways when every man and his dog (bith within and without) is a potential threat.
What this attitude really tells us is that the plan is NOT one of defending a country against external attacks on it's computers, but to gain the ability to exert it's will against others by means of force.
That's all very nice. When the scientist have found a representative number of worlds - what shall we say; 10? an even dozen? moonless, life-containing worlds, then they'll have a theory worth considering. Until then, they've got nothing.
If attacking an american military installation via the internet is deemed an act of war, then surely exposing it on such a vulnerable network in the first place must count as treason. I mean, who would knowingly place such a valuable (and apparently, easily accessed) facility that's so vital to the defence of the country, in such danger of attack in the first place?
Better; This week, the coalition of German political parties have a policy to....
(it's not worth filling in the blank as I expect it to change the next time there's an election or when the higher power bills start arriving - whichever is the sooner.)
Maybe so, but when they close down their nuclear plants, Germany will have trouble meeting its CO2 emissions targets. The problem is not so much about generation capacity (anyone can build coal-fired stations), but doing so within agreed targets
Further, they're 17 in the game. Here in the US that's just one year shy of legal adulthood.
Just checking.... has anyone told you that Sweden, Denmark and Norway are NOT in the United States?
Strange as it may seem to you, other countries do have different laws and the ones that the US enacts don't apply elsewhere.
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Now things have changed. To expect people to find the time in their schedules to try and understand the sofwtare that one of their colleagues has written is impractical. The chances are they won't really understand it anyway - so the chances of finding any real, subtle bugs is pretty low. Add onto that code reviews evolved in a time when software always had a printed form: you'd get a line-printer dump, start at the top and work down - whereas with IDEs today, that is rarely the case. In OO coding there are many, many places to "hide" methods and inherited features/functions that for one person to try to disentangle the mess that another has produced is almost impossible.
So code reviews belong to an age that passed about 20 years ago. I recall doing code reviews and having people feel under pressure to find something - just to prove they'd read the code. Nowadays we have much better automated tools that are much cheaper to employ and can do their work overnight, rather than tying up valuable developer time with duplicated effort.
It make very little difference to Murdoch. Most of his money now comes from american interests: TV and this clears an obstacle in his quest for taking over even more satellite TV in the UK. He also knows that newspapers as a medium are dying so this is no great loss - for him or anyone else, except the people who worked there. Ironically, the current staff, who lose their jobs were probably the least guilty of all the spying/hacking accusations, since most of the ones that have come to light so far are from 5, 10, 15 years ago. Very few of the current staff have been there that long.
You can almost hear how the mind of an australian petty official works. Will Oz be the first post-democratic country? Where the slide back to totalitarianism is most advanced.
Yup, one central roundabout and five "satellites". You can go round in either direction. Just think of it as revenge for the Boston Tea Party, Regan and american TV shows
I give it 25 years before someone else takes the lead.
I suppose it depends which lead you mean. There are several.
Sure, the USA is about to give up it's manned flight capabilities - though whether the scuttle represented a lead in that field is open to question. However, it still has a lot of capabilities in military launches (the military space budget is at least the size of NASA's - that's not going to be cut) and civil satellite operations.
You probably can't assign the non-governmental space business as "american" as it's, well, non-governmental so doesn't really carry a national identity.
Personally I doubt that there's going to be much manned activity past LEO for at least 100 years, as there's no real need for it. There might be some "gestures" by the chinese, but there's no need for a permanent manned base, or manned expeditions - unless it's for reasons of prestige and few people are willing to pay for that any more.
This just happens everywhere, in any country I know, and it will keep happening, that's it. Just don't take those non-jobs.
Well, you don't know many countries (any? except the US?). I haven't seen internships on the scale of the US in any other country - in most of europe this form of child/slave labour is illegal.
So it is with obscurity. Provided it is not the ONLY security feature used, it has a place in reducing the visibility of a target - just as camoflage has been doing in the military for hundreds of years. It also adds to the overall difficulty of getting into a secure location (be that a website or building) and therefore has a deterrent effect: even if that's only to move the baddies along to try the next target on the list, rather than yourselves.
Where does that leave obscurity? Right where it needs to be: as a valuable tool in preventing and delaying security breaches. The key thing about it (as with all security features) is to know when it is no longer effective and then to either revamp it or replace it. However, it obviously is still effective for the vast majority of institutions and therefore should not be dismissed.
Quite. Although the germans have said they won't use nuclear power - they will. It's just that they'll use FRENCH nuclear power, since the french can - apparently - do it better than the germans.
The best way to cut your winter heating bills is simply to put on a sweater.
This is the reason I'm proud to call myself a geek
On the one hand we have someone who's " ... sharing in the culture" and dabbles a bit with Maker projects. On the other we have some individuals in a war-torn country under foreign occupation actually making people's lives better by cobbling together a comms network out of what they can scrape up.
You sir, have nothing in common with these people at all and your patronising attitude (I'm sure Afghanistan is a great country, but ...) repels me.
In most of the world, what you call "Gen Ed" is what we are taught in secondary school. Most countries degree programmes specialise completely in the subjects pertinent to the course and are the better for it. Since you only have 3 years, with *very* long holidays scattered throughout the year, you need to spend as much time as possible studying your chosen subject, not wasting it on irrelevancies that have nothing to do with the field you wish to enter.
That's the real value of the degree - not to prove you can do the job, but to get past the layers of clueless administrators who's only job is to find reasons to reject candidates.
But it's so much easier to "lose" pages, or mix up the order, or assign additional pages to the wrong email. Just out on interest, does her printer have a special "smudge" button, like Nixon's tape recorder sometimes forgot to record?
This report is too limited to have any value.
Re:UPS Rings Doorbells?
First time I've ever heard of that. Here they only deliver weekdays 8 - 6p.m. Maybe on a saturday morning if you pay two or three times the standard charge and maybe on the day they say they will (but even that's not guaranteed) -- and that's all.
So far as getting domestic deliveries for households where people work for a living, forget it. There's no possibility that ANY of the couriers will work outside business hours. All I can suppose is that they make far too much profit from their current practices to feel the need to expand into actually offering domestic customers a service they could use.
All the break-in attempts I've ever seen happening to one of our systems has only tried running through a list of users / passwords that are, bluntly, pretty dam' obvious choices. That none of them has ever succeeded on any of our user accounts tells you nothing about the strength of the individuals' passwords (policy set by the CIO's IQ/memory abiliity: 6 or more letters+numbers)
All it tells you is that the amateurs who run these scripts get a high enough hit-rate from rest of the internet to keep them happy - and not wanting to try anything harder. My personal belief is that if we did ever get hacked, the source would be internal or through information leaked by a user from social engineering, not from some script kiddie with a room full of GPUs, throwing off enough heat to make the cops think they've got a marijuana farm in the building.
Sure it has: the proper generic term is GARBAGE. Really, when did ill-considered soundbites from anonymous children ever become news?
they are working on a range of offensive cyber weapons to increase the country's defensive capabilities
This kind of thinking shows the plan is doomed to failure before a single module of american software has been bought (at hyper-inflated prices) - which is the standard british technique for <strike> doing what the americans tell them to </strike> implementing a defence strategy.
While that might (although since it was impossible to test, we'll never really know) have been a successful strategy for nuclear war - when there were only 2 sides and therefore no uncertainty who the "enemy" was, it falls down in so many blindingly obvious ways when every man and his dog (bith within and without) is a potential threat.
What this attitude really tells us is that the plan is NOT one of defending a country against external attacks on it's computers, but to gain the ability to exert it's will against others by means of force.
That's all very nice. When the scientist have found a representative number of worlds - what shall we say; 10? an even dozen? moonless, life-containing worlds, then they'll have a theory worth considering. Until then, they've got nothing.
If attacking an american military installation via the internet is deemed an act of war, then surely exposing it on such a vulnerable network in the first place must count as treason. I mean, who would knowingly place such a valuable (and apparently, easily accessed) facility that's so vital to the defence of the country, in such danger of attack in the first place?
(it's not worth filling in the blank as I expect it to change the next time there's an election or when the higher power bills start arriving - whichever is the sooner.)
Maybe so, but when they close down their nuclear plants, Germany will have trouble meeting its CO2 emissions targets. The problem is not so much about generation capacity (anyone can build coal-fired stations), but doing so within agreed targets
Absolutely - if the guy had kept his thoughts private, he wouldn't be in this trouble now. That IS what you meant, isn't it?
The first one is "unreliable" and the second is "rumoured". As in "an unreliable source is rumoured to have said .... "
Further, they're 17 in the game. Here in the US that's just one year shy of legal adulthood.
Just checking .... has anyone told you that Sweden, Denmark and Norway are NOT in the United States?
Strange as it may seem to you, other countries do have different laws and the ones that the US enacts don't apply elsewhere.