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Now, a hacker with the pseudonym KJK::Hyperion has published a provisional and, needless to say, highly unofficial patch that tries to clean up the call parameters in the handling of the vulnerable Windows function ShellExecute(). But as the developer himself warns, "The present patch is dramatically under-tested and it has underwent [sic] no quality assurance procedure whatsoever..."
I agree, but I consider the individual actions of these people to be meaningless in the scope of the damage to our entire political system. I suppose what I mean is it would be so great if we could forget revenge and the satisfaction of nailing the guy and simply make things WORK PROPERLY for once. I would be glad to let Bush off scott free if it meant we never have to worry about this kind of ridiculousness happen ever again.
What is the purpose of pointing this out? Two wrongs to NOT make a right and if you do not hold someone accountable now, then when do you plan on doing it? I am SO sick of people calling out previous administrations for their illegal activities and using it as an excuse for the current administration. It just isn't logically acceptable.
1) There is a problem now, we know what it is.
2) We know how we can stop this problem.
3) We use the resources available to us to fix the problem.
I see no where in that logical step anything about looking for precedent. Am I wrong on something here or what?
Well if you're going to do a ground up redesign, do a ground up redesign. Not some half assed redevelopment of 2000 into XP. At least with Vista they started design at a much more primitive level instead of relying purely on previous work.
I do agree with a poster up a little bit about ease of piracy being a reason Vista isn't doing too hot, but I think of the glass as half full. At least now people will be more likely to try free alternatives to Windows and Windows based software.
Why do we make the assumption that humans are inherently more reliable in controlling their own body than some alternative interface? I suppose the problem is that we have nothing with which to compare. We can't look at how many people simply go crazy and kill people and compare that percent to how many cyborgs do the same. Damn you ethics. I want my chainsaw arms now.
I smell a budding market rife with desire for custom made encryptions. Such a black market could make some clever and morally grey individuals quite a bit of money. Gotta love the free market:)
How are the faces and license plates on Google any different whatsoever than walking outside and looking at people's faces and license plates. Both were observed in public so obviously had nothing to hide. This seems really stupid and pointless.
Maybe you should walk down the street with a mosaic on a sheet of cardboard to hold in front of your head if you don't want anyone to look at you. Freaking crybabies...
Of course this doesn't apply to the pictures that Google may have taken of people in their homes through windows and such.
Oh, I love this quote from TFA. "Some of the pictures feature people who can clearly be identified." Okay, so now you know what someone looks like and where they live, but don't know their name, their ID number, their address, or their anything. Google simply does not provide anyone with enough information to violate privacy in any manner I can understand.
Now I am all for privacy and such when it comes to significant issues like phone taps and such. However, this is just childish nitpicking that accomplishes nothing but flush money down the drain to hire people to blur our faces and license plates.
The sorority girls probably aren't going to bite. They know they can get nerds like us to work on their computer and homework assignments and have to give nothing in return. They just have to be... girls. This is sort of like people boycotting gasoline... it just won't work. They can hold out indefinitely since they have other sources of income (read: non-nerds sexing them up) where as we will sit there demanding cheaper gas (read: any sexing up).
I would assume that they could accurately maintain geosynchronous orbit to a margin of error in the difference of velocities that most of those problems could be minimized. Maybe I have too much faith in our technological capabilities, though.
But what is the motivation for that behavior? It is financial for the most part, save a few renegade hackers who are living out some sort of Matrix fantasy, if I am not mistaken. So what is wrong with giving the ones with the skill the incentive to use their abilities for good? Shouldn't they be compensated according to value? Or is it too disturbing paying the lion to not eat you?
But what recourse do disenfranchised hackers (of either hat colour) have for an industry that in one breath will tell you that skill in the trade is the most valuable thing, then in the other breath farm out your job to a programmer in India who barely knows how to use a hash table?
All I am saying is that it is hard to decipher if the ethical concerns with an individual hacker were present before they had the skill or if the ethics are merely a result of happenstance.
The technology industry is by all means in its infancy relative to other established industries, and that being said should always be kept in mind when we see any changes in the "average" so stated above.
If I am familiar with statistics at all, considering the relative short time in which we have had to analyze the industry we have little grounds to be so attached to what we can consider normality. A niche will be formed for technology just as carpentry and blacksmithing were laid into the niches in which they exist today. I fear that we as nerds believe we are something more important or special than other artisans, practicing a skilled trade.
I joined the industry a mere 5 months ago out of University. I arrived at my job fearful of an environment demanding only the things I had forgotten from my studies, and in that time have come to love the community and open mindedness of my co-workers. I imagine this is what miners feel with their comrades at work, or a worker at a steel mill. Perhaps when we try to compare our declining positions and salaries as they get closer to more "blue collar" positions, we should look at the other industries we are going toward and see exactly why their salaries are where they are. Is it a supply/demand issue? Is it due to social oppression? And most important, are the times of unions coming again, leaving the developing countries to fill the roll of scabs or is our industry due to fall in line with every other established trade. I am proud to be part of this settling down of the industry, and hopefully along with it many stereotypes about us can be broken down, making the futures of nerds everywhere brighter as their existence approaches normality, and I will always try to raise the bar and would expect nothing less from my fellow nerds.
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the intentions of the ACLU and suggest you read a bit of political and philosophical theory before jumping to such a disheartening conclusion, considering they are the thin pink line preventing complete fascism in the face of overwhelming military and police power.
Granted, there are numerous other groups doing the similar things, the ACLU as an organization (the members of which not necessarily withstanding) has consistently and logically supported the fundamental rights and liberties all people should be granted and have protected. So instead of criticizing the organization as a whole, criticize the individual cases in the organization you disagree with, because the ACLU, if any other group, would be willing to learn from mistakes and make things better.
Of course I say this in potential ignorance of something the organization has done that should make me feel otherwise, so if that is the case, by all means let me know.
Perhaps because the consequences of their business practices don't necessarily only affect consumers, but the companies from which they are buying their products, specifically the labour practices of the manufacturers. Walmart has low prices, this is true, but the value we enjoy from those prices are supported solely by the unfair wages and operations of overseas manufacturers.
It is just like thermodynamics. The low cost of these products has to come from somewhere. It just happens this somewhere is sometimes a sweatshop.
I would like to think that intelligence is highly correlated with conscience and integrity. Time keeps reinforcing this belief for me. So my solution? KILL EVERYONE WITH A LOW IQ! It is the only logical answer.
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rtfa Now, a hacker with the pseudonym KJK::Hyperion has published a provisional and, needless to say, highly unofficial patch that tries to clean up the call parameters in the handling of the vulnerable Windows function ShellExecute(). But as the developer himself warns, "The present patch is dramatically under-tested and it has underwent [sic] no quality assurance procedure whatsoever..."
I agree, but I consider the individual actions of these people to be meaningless in the scope of the damage to our entire political system. I suppose what I mean is it would be so great if we could forget revenge and the satisfaction of nailing the guy and simply make things WORK PROPERLY for once. I would be glad to let Bush off scott free if it meant we never have to worry about this kind of ridiculousness happen ever again.
What is the purpose of pointing this out? Two wrongs to NOT make a right and if you do not hold someone accountable now, then when do you plan on doing it? I am SO sick of people calling out previous administrations for their illegal activities and using it as an excuse for the current administration. It just isn't logically acceptable.
1) There is a problem now, we know what it is.
2) We know how we can stop this problem.
3) We use the resources available to us to fix the problem.
I see no where in that logical step anything about looking for precedent. Am I wrong on something here or what?
Well if you're going to do a ground up redesign, do a ground up redesign. Not some half assed redevelopment of 2000 into XP. At least with Vista they started design at a much more primitive level instead of relying purely on previous work. I do agree with a poster up a little bit about ease of piracy being a reason Vista isn't doing too hot, but I think of the glass as half full. At least now people will be more likely to try free alternatives to Windows and Windows based software.
Why do we make the assumption that humans are inherently more reliable in controlling their own body than some alternative interface? I suppose the problem is that we have nothing with which to compare. We can't look at how many people simply go crazy and kill people and compare that percent to how many cyborgs do the same. Damn you ethics. I want my chainsaw arms now.
History doesn't seem to be their forte either.
I smell a budding market rife with desire for custom made encryptions. Such a black market could make some clever and morally grey individuals quite a bit of money. Gotta love the free market :)
I agree completely. Oh have you seen the latest lolcats calendar for 2008? It is so rad you just have to digg it!
How are the faces and license plates on Google any different whatsoever than walking outside and looking at people's faces and license plates. Both were observed in public so obviously had nothing to hide. This seems really stupid and pointless.
Maybe you should walk down the street with a mosaic on a sheet of cardboard to hold in front of your head if you don't want anyone to look at you. Freaking crybabies...
Of course this doesn't apply to the pictures that Google may have taken of people in their homes through windows and such.
Oh, I love this quote from TFA. "Some of the pictures feature people who can clearly be identified." Okay, so now you know what someone looks like and where they live, but don't know their name, their ID number, their address, or their anything. Google simply does not provide anyone with enough information to violate privacy in any manner I can understand.
Now I am all for privacy and such when it comes to significant issues like phone taps and such. However, this is just childish nitpicking that accomplishes nothing but flush money down the drain to hire people to blur our faces and license plates.
For use in case of zombie apocalypse.
You have to field test your research somewhere, this one just happens to have a big juicy contract with it probably.
The sorority girls probably aren't going to bite. They know they can get nerds like us to work on their computer and homework assignments and have to give nothing in return. They just have to be... girls. This is sort of like people boycotting gasoline... it just won't work. They can hold out indefinitely since they have other sources of income (read: non-nerds sexing them up) where as we will sit there demanding cheaper gas (read: any sexing up).
I would assume that they could accurately maintain geosynchronous orbit to a margin of error in the difference of velocities that most of those problems could be minimized. Maybe I have too much faith in our technological capabilities, though.
But what is the motivation for that behavior? It is financial for the most part, save a few renegade hackers who are living out some sort of Matrix fantasy, if I am not mistaken. So what is wrong with giving the ones with the skill the incentive to use their abilities for good? Shouldn't they be compensated according to value? Or is it too disturbing paying the lion to not eat you?
But what recourse do disenfranchised hackers (of either hat colour) have for an industry that in one breath will tell you that skill in the trade is the most valuable thing, then in the other breath farm out your job to a programmer in India who barely knows how to use a hash table?
All I am saying is that it is hard to decipher if the ethical concerns with an individual hacker were present before they had the skill or if the ethics are merely a result of happenstance.
Then he's obviously not referring to you, so don't get offended.
The technology industry is by all means in its infancy relative to other established industries, and that being said should always be kept in mind when we see any changes in the "average" so stated above.
If I am familiar with statistics at all, considering the relative short time in which we have had to analyze the industry we have little grounds to be so attached to what we can consider normality. A niche will be formed for technology just as carpentry and blacksmithing were laid into the niches in which they exist today. I fear that we as nerds believe we are something more important or special than other artisans, practicing a skilled trade.
I joined the industry a mere 5 months ago out of University. I arrived at my job fearful of an environment demanding only the things I had forgotten from my studies, and in that time have come to love the community and open mindedness of my co-workers. I imagine this is what miners feel with their comrades at work, or a worker at a steel mill. Perhaps when we try to compare our declining positions and salaries as they get closer to more "blue collar" positions, we should look at the other industries we are going toward and see exactly why their salaries are where they are. Is it a supply/demand issue? Is it due to social oppression? And most important, are the times of unions coming again, leaving the developing countries to fill the roll of scabs or is our industry due to fall in line with every other established trade. I am proud to be part of this settling down of the industry, and hopefully along with it many stereotypes about us can be broken down, making the futures of nerds everywhere brighter as their existence approaches normality, and I will always try to raise the bar and would expect nothing less from my fellow nerds.
I think he still wants the hinged fixed for free, and in all reality it should be.
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the intentions of the ACLU and suggest you read a bit of political and philosophical theory before jumping to such a disheartening conclusion, considering they are the thin pink line preventing complete fascism in the face of overwhelming military and police power. Granted, there are numerous other groups doing the similar things, the ACLU as an organization (the members of which not necessarily withstanding) has consistently and logically supported the fundamental rights and liberties all people should be granted and have protected. So instead of criticizing the organization as a whole, criticize the individual cases in the organization you disagree with, because the ACLU, if any other group, would be willing to learn from mistakes and make things better. Of course I say this in potential ignorance of something the organization has done that should make me feel otherwise, so if that is the case, by all means let me know.
Gates was probably just playing WoW and got his account hacked.
Perhaps because the consequences of their business practices don't necessarily only affect consumers, but the companies from which they are buying their products, specifically the labour practices of the manufacturers. Walmart has low prices, this is true, but the value we enjoy from those prices are supported solely by the unfair wages and operations of overseas manufacturers. It is just like thermodynamics. The low cost of these products has to come from somewhere. It just happens this somewhere is sometimes a sweatshop.
A fish in his bowl would believe many incorrect things, in the context of his containment.
I guess the irony IS escapable!
I would like to think that intelligence is highly correlated with conscience and integrity. Time keeps reinforcing this belief for me. So my solution? KILL EVERYONE WITH A LOW IQ! It is the only logical answer.