What holds true for low-end hardware holds true for VMs as well.
I tried Vista on Parallels. I really tried to like it, but I just couldn't keep it running. I went back to XP.
Now I am trying Windows 7 on Parallels. And I am impressed. It runs stable, it runs smoothly in a VM and (so far) plays nice with the virtual environment. No aero in the VM, but that is of the least importance.
Being that I am usually on the other side of the argument re: MS/OS X or MS/*nix, I have to honestly admit that so far I really like Windows 7. Mostly because it works in the environment in which I use it (Parallels) and works at least as well as XP. I have not had any of the temporary freezing issues with 7 that I have had with XP, so at least in that regard it is working slightly better.
The biggest problem with finding "Linux Critics" is (IMO) determining what exactly they should be criticizing. In my mind, a Linux Critic has specific criticism about the kernel. If you are talking about the Desktop Environment there are plenty of/Gnome | KDE | Enlightenment | XFCE | etc/ critics out there. If it is Applications there are plenty of those as well. If it is the default programs loaded on install then you are talking about specific Distributions and again, there are plenty of/Ubuntu | Gentoo | Fedora | SuSE | RedHat | Mepis | etc/ critics out there.
Linux is not like Windows or Mac OSX where the OS, Desktop Environment and default application load are all handled by one organization. Instead, all of this is distributed. If you don't like the default desktop environment in your distro of choice you can change it, or select another distro. Same goes for default application load. If your gripe is truly Linux I suggest you look into the Kernel Developers forums and mail lists. Not only will you find plenty of critics, but you will also find lots of developers who are willing to take that criticism into consideration.
I miss the old days when the web was all text, and if you wanted to see an image you downloaded it and opened it in a separate image viewing app. At least then you knew that web authors (for such they were in those days) were at least trying to focus on content.
But alas, the days of content are long gone.
From Mac The Ripper - you can use DVD2One to create a burnable image. (If you like.)
That is the reason that all my import DVDs are stashed away safely in storage and I watch on copies burned on DL DVDs. That way when the disk gets damaged it costs me around fifty cents to replace (since I buy the discs in the 50 or 100 packs when they are on sale) rather than paying another 20 - 30 dollars for a new copy of the import.
...But the second image you've blown is you as an intelligent being- I grew up KNOWING uncles who had been in Vietnam and so didn't believe the first word any of the recruiters said, thus never signed up to "serve my country". Just about everybody I know who did got fucked over just like you did.
Touchè! I'll bite on that. I never said that joining the Army was smart, just that I probably would have suffered less (living in a park for 3 months, trying to save enough of my meager wages to afford the deposit on a shitty apartment) had I joined earlier. Besides, that would have gotten me out a year earlier. With that said, I hold no grudge against anyone who serves, especially since most of them are in the some position I was, hungry.
The neocons ARE lefties- your generation was the last generation that had a *better* standard of living than your parents. If you squandered the money you made in the 1980s and should have been investing in the 1990s, that's your own fault. Where for those of us who went into hock to get a college education in the 1990s to graduate just in time to get thrown out of work for a bunch of people in other countries (Bill Clinton and George W's idea of "liberal free trade"- between those two we might as well not even HAVE a country, neither one has ever heard of "border control" or "tariffs") have NO CHANCE AT ALL- we'll be working all of our lives just to pay off the debt run up trying to become adults. And our children will be paying for the governmental debt the baby boomers ran up.
So sorry to hear that things are difficult for you with your college degree. In the 80's I was in the Army, so none of that "Big Cash" for me, sorry. And because my enlistment papers will filled out improperly at the inprocessing station, the $48,000 I was promised for college turned out to be $480.00, to be allocated in equal monthly payments over four years as long as I was enrolled in college full-time. Yeah, right. Instead I have spent the last 15 years working my ass off to have the things I have, and am now (at the age of 41) seriously contemplating going to college, finally, to pursue my passion (physics).
I imagine I could have gone into hock to go to school years ago, if I hadn't bought the Army's line about money for education. Because, you see, the way the VEAP (Veteran's Education Assistance Program) was set up, if you qualified for any amount from that you were disqualified for any other federal tuition assistance, including FAFSA student loans. So, I was in a totally fucked position until my benefits ran out (they expired after 10 years) and by then I was busy supporting a family. So say what you want, not all of us have had life handed to us on a silver fucking platter. And BTW - going to college does not make one an adult. I had to do that at 17 when I was booted out on my freshly graduated (HS) ass to make my own way. And no, I didn't go straight into the Army. I spent most of a year working a minimum wage labor job first. I don't know why I didn't join immediately, but I didnt. Hell, I was 17 and I did a lot of stupid shit back then.
True. That's part of the transistional stage....When did you graduate from college? Early enough to make money off of the boom years of the 1980s?
I think if you read the above you will see that I have not attended college yet, and I graduated from High School in 1984. I am sorry if I have totally blown your image of me as some sort of rich asshole neocon nutbag, but those are the facts.
Of course, if you're over the age of 37 you've already escaped all that- and "fuck the future, I've got mine" has always been the neocon liberal baby boomer's defiant motto anyway, never mind the broken homes, hearts, and lack of financial ability you left behind in your divorces and drug use.
I have, huh? You say I've got mine, but I wouldn't even know where to look for it, much less have the idea that I have nothing to worry about. And do you mean to imply that everyone over the age of 37 is a neocon? Not hardly. I have always been and remain somewhere left of what the US considers 'liberal' - something in the range of Democratic Socialist.
Of course, what am I expecting? This is Slashdot and the generalizations will fly.
And BTW - everyone born in the baby boom (1946 - 1964) would be over the age of 42, while those of us between the ages of 37 and 42 are actually the early part of GenX.
Of course, what am I expecting? This is Slashdot and the inaccuracies will fly as well.
That's ok - that's kind of what I did* when Rome ended. (When is season 2 going to show up on DVD???) It was the only reason HBO ever came on in our house after the end of Oz and the (I feel) too early aborted Carnivale.
*Actually switched from having all the HBO stuff, to having the expanded basic, with all the Science Channel, Intl History, IFC, BBC America, etc.
Since some of my friends watch the Sopranos I thought I would check this thread to see what the ending was like. Sounds like the post title hit it on the head?
Where do I sign up? I would love to be able to get 1.5 Mb for only $75/month. Considering that I am currently paying more than that for 1M down 320k up - it would definitely be an improvement.
This 'magic number' keeps coming up, and the idea that by saying Linux 42, UI 65, etc etc somehow equates to a detailed description of patent breaches? Let's get real here. I want to see the actual claim. Show us the code.
Perchance the MS IP team are worried that if they actually showed which of their patents were infringed they would be laughed at? IANAL but it seems to me that even if by some remote chance a MS patent had been infringed by a kernel developer somewhere, that MS has the responsibility to let them know exactly what patent they have infringed. Failure to do so would seem to make any legal action they attempt nothing short of harassment. Or am I way off-base here?/. lawyers, where are you?
I think the point to be made here is this is not just protection from here on, but is to be made retroactive. That in itself has to give one pause to say "Why does it need to be retroactive unless there is something we're not being told?" Of course, I think the main part of this immunity is not aimed at Verizon but at AT&T and the whole NSA wire-tap flap.
I'll second that. I am responsible for several linux servers, and two windows servers. I always end up having to ask for help from the pc tech for all but the simplest tasks on the windows boxes. It just seems to me that everything related to sysadmin on windows is counter-intuitive. Probably because I cut my teeth on linux admin and am more comfortable working with command-line tools than trying to hunt and find the right gui and then the right tab and then the right 'advanced' button, etc etc. I would say that box-for-box the time I spend around 2.5 hours in windows to do what takes 1 hour in linux. Of course, we 'downsized' a while back, and the guy who was let go was the windows sysadmin. He could match me pretty well, timewise, for equivalent tasks (he in windows, me in linux) while he was often stuck rather quickly when trying to work in linux.
But it hardly takes a $350 tool to handle: PDFcreator, available over at sourceforge.net, and the old Ghostview viewer both rely on Ghostscript to process PDF and work more quickly and reliably than Adobe's conversion tools, especially with mixed language documents. And they're both freeware.
I won't dispute the availability of free PDF creation tools, but do they understand and parse CSS3? That was the key element that made this particular implementation work. Considering that CSS3 isn't even a finalized specification yet, I would be more than a little surprised.
While I do agree that the ISO doesn't need more than one standard for printable documents, I don't think that Håkon Wium Lie is on the right track with HTML/CSS for print.
Sure, it works, with enough tweaking, and CSS3, and a $350 download of a product to turn HTML/CSS3 into a PDF. This is better how? What about LyX, LaTeX, or even OpenOffice if you are just going to convert to PDF?
The whole HTML/CSS-to-print thing shoots the real argument in the foot.
Good points, all. And it does make me sad that this is where we seem to be heading. In the end it may all come down to total ownership and control by the insurance companies, which will have every commercial website owner by the short hairs paying into an "Internet Malpractice Insurance" which will eventually drive the costs for running an online business up to the point where it is no longer feasible for anyone except the major corporations and the independently wealthy.
No one likes the bearer of bad news - not the website owner, not the vendor who sold the software, not the consultant who coded the website. They have lawyers; their interest is in making money, not necessarily in creating secure software. Keep this in mind. If they can find a cause for libel, they will. If they can deflect blame (stupid hackers are at it again!), they will.
As a website owner, and admin of several sites, yes I do want to know and while no one likes bad news, I would rather hear it from a "good samaritan" than find out after my site was hacked.
Why would you expose yourself to potential legal problems, especially considering that you aren't getting paid for your efforts
Because I would truly appreciate it if others would do the same kind service.
If they were truly concerned about security, they would have hired an audit firm.
Not everyone can afford an audit firm. Also, there are things that security auditors miss as well. Any security "expert" who tries to tell you they will find every possible edge-case scenario is a liar and not to be trusted any more than the programmer that claims his or her software is 100% bug-free.
Getting hacked is perhaps the best teaching experience regarding security. Let another hacker expose their vulnerability in a way they can't deny. Then they will take security seriously.
Yes, getting hacked is a valuable learning tool, but also an incredibly expensive one.
Do the security industry a favor: why would anyone hire a security specialist when good samaritans on the internet (aka whitehats) will audit their website for free? Don't undermine your fellow workers.
Do you really think that anonymous tips could ever shut down the digital security industry? This is a straw-man argument and not worth any more time.
No one has ever been brought to trial or sued for failure to disclose a security vulnerability. You stand nothing to lose by quietly taking your business elsewhere; let the company figure out that the public wants secure web sites.
Okay, so doing nothing means that you won't get into trouble. And yes, if a site has vulnerabilities that are not remedied you are probably right to take your business elsewhere. But I see this as akin to driving past a burning building and not calling the fire department. "Let it burn, it's not my problem." Did you stop to think about all the users of the site who don't know about the security issues? Perhaps your dear aunt Ethel whose entire stock portfolio is about to be stolen by the hackers who come after you and discover the same flaw.
In the end it comes down to "What is the right thing to do?" If you really don't care then it's a non-issue, but if you do care about trying to make the net a better place an anonymous tip is at least the decent thing to do, at least until someone figures out how to produce perfect software and websites.
Not impossible, immensely time-consuming and possibly very, very costly from a development standpoint, but not impossible. In fact, if you start with a system that has an entire "world" filled with NPCs, objects, locations, etc and allow the state of those to change based on user-interaction you could do something like this. That would require a well-built database design to store all of that in the back end.
Now that you have the db, let's add some tables for storing things like "random" events (meteor shower [always an omen don't you know], missing [person, animal, object, etc], revenge plot, justice plot, ad nauseum) and where and to whom such things might occur (jail breaks don't happen to farmers, while drought caused by a missing statue wouldn't plague the town's gendarmes, etc).
If you really wanted to add to the number of events available you could petition the player community for suggestions.
I'm with you on this one. I don't get what the threat is, what the deal is, or what the articles authors are trying to say. (Yes I followed and read all the linked articles.)
Perhaps the MS threat could (maybe) apply to Wine developers/users, unless they stick with the MS "blessed" Novel SuSE path. But even then, I don't really get it. I was under the impression that Wine was programmed to a "black-box" implementation - in other words, noodle out the expected input/output of MS programs and then code a glue layer to tie them into the *nix environment. So where is the threat from MS?
And under the GPL I can pretty well use Linux any way I want, especially if I'm not distributing anything. So where is the threat from Novel?
Could it be that this is the result of writers looking for the big "OH NOES!" story of the day?
I agree on the flamebait comment - it doesn't just hurt the distro you're flaming, but it hurts the image of Linux overall.
With that said, I have been using Gentoo for about 3 years now. The first install was the most confusing, but actually easier (because it worked) than Debian. (I tried 3 times to install Debian on that box, and it failed every time - yes, probably my fault. The Gentoo install had - and still has - step-by-step instructions online and it woreked great.)
I use Gentoo in a VM on my laptop, and run Gentoo servers at work. Why? Well, it isn't so much about the optimization, especially with fast servers, but more about the package management. Portage is the best package manager currently available (IMO) and it has made my professional duties that much easier.
When I worked as an HTML code slave, I would get mock-ups done in Photoshop, GIMP, pencil and paper, Dreamweaver, Word, Publisher, Open Office, whatever. What it all boils down to is that you need to work the way you work best and leave the coding up to the coders. If you are most comfortable doing your mock-ups in crayon, then do them in crayon. The important thing is to be sure that you have gotten your ideas across clearly and plainly, and have a little faith in your coders to do the job. If you can't trust them, then maybe you need new coders. o_O
So, I'm in the top third because I have net access? Never went to college, although I work at one and even teach a course. Have long been aware of the political and technical aspects of more than just issues like this one. So where does that put me? Oh yeah, I'm a/.er so that makes me instantly intelligent! w00t!
Try this on for size: by your "formula" the faculty I work with should all be in the top 5-10%, yet with every new phishing scheme (and even some repeats of old ones) I have to answer the question "Is this real or a scam?" from the "elite intelligencia" (PhD holders and Masters Level educators). At least we have moved to the place where they are willing to ask, but only because someone within the social circle of one the faculty fell prey to one of these scams.
The sad fact is, unless you are technically competent enough to view the source of your html email, and understand what you are looking at, you may very well be taken in. It all comes down to education, and it us to those of us in the IT field to educate users on how to understand and avoid these kinds of things. If we don't do our jobs well, the phishers win. When we start to really make a difference in user's behaviour, then these kinds of scams won't work, and we will have to educate users to protect themselves against whatever new scheme is dreamt up by the guys who dream up these cons.
I apologize. I must have misread the information - I got the idea that the fault-tolerance was handled solely by Py-Fate. As the majority of my development leans toward N-Tiered web-enabled applications that's just the first place my head goes. o_O
So how would this tie into an existing TurboGears based project? Can it be plugged in without causing too much pain or is it something you would recommend starting from scratch with?
The entire site left me wanting nothing more than a little more info. There is one "live demo" piece - that uses a connector that is not currently included in the project. There is very little to tell me why I would choose this over any other middleware solution, such as TurboGears or Django or . ...
The only thing that really piqued my interest is the inclusion of Py-Fate - but why do I need the rest? I don't think the case was made. If, however, Py-Fate does all that it purports to - well, that would be a handy tool to have.
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I tried Vista on Parallels. I really tried to like it, but I just couldn't keep it running. I went back to XP.
Now I am trying Windows 7 on Parallels. And I am impressed. It runs stable, it runs smoothly in a VM and (so far) plays nice with the virtual environment. No aero in the VM, but that is of the least importance.
Being that I am usually on the other side of the argument re: MS/OS X or MS/*nix, I have to honestly admit that so far I really like Windows 7. Mostly because it works in the environment in which I use it (Parallels) and works at least as well as XP. I have not had any of the temporary freezing issues with 7 that I have had with XP, so at least in that regard it is working slightly better.
My $.02
The biggest problem with finding "Linux Critics" is (IMO) determining what exactly they should be criticizing. In my mind, a Linux Critic has specific criticism about the kernel. If you are talking about the Desktop Environment there are plenty of /Gnome | KDE | Enlightenment | XFCE | etc/ critics out there. If it is Applications there are plenty of those as well. If it is the default programs loaded on install then you are talking about specific Distributions and again, there are plenty of /Ubuntu | Gentoo | Fedora | SuSE | RedHat | Mepis | etc/ critics out there.
Linux is not like Windows or Mac OSX where the OS, Desktop Environment and default application load are all handled by one organization. Instead, all of this is distributed. If you don't like the default desktop environment in your distro of choice you can change it, or select another distro. Same goes for default application load. If your gripe is truly Linux I suggest you look into the Kernel Developers forums and mail lists. Not only will you find plenty of critics, but you will also find lots of developers who are willing to take that criticism into consideration.
... than to mount your pimp. Unless you are into that sort of thing.
I miss the old days when the web was all text, and if you wanted to see an image you downloaded it and opened it in a separate image viewing app. At least then you knew that web authors (for such they were in those days) were at least trying to focus on content. But alas, the days of content are long gone.
From Mac The Ripper - you can use DVD2One to create a burnable image. (If you like.) That is the reason that all my import DVDs are stashed away safely in storage and I watch on copies burned on DL DVDs. That way when the disk gets damaged it costs me around fifty cents to replace (since I buy the discs in the 50 or 100 packs when they are on sale) rather than paying another 20 - 30 dollars for a new copy of the import.
I posted a story on this in May and no one cared. The story hasn't changed - but now that it's stale it has become interesting?
(no, not bitter, not me, nope)
...But the second image you've blown is you as an intelligent being- I grew up KNOWING uncles who had been in Vietnam and so didn't believe the first word any of the recruiters said, thus never signed up to "serve my country". Just about everybody I know who did got fucked over just like you did.
Touchè! I'll bite on that. I never said that joining the Army was smart, just that I probably would have suffered less (living in a park for 3 months, trying to save enough of my meager wages to afford the deposit on a shitty apartment) had I joined earlier. Besides, that would have gotten me out a year earlier. With that said, I hold no grudge against anyone who serves, especially since most of them are in the some position I was, hungry.
The neocons ARE lefties- your generation was the last generation that had a *better* standard of living than your parents. If you squandered the money you made in the 1980s and should have been investing in the 1990s, that's your own fault. Where for those of us who went into hock to get a college education in the 1990s to graduate just in time to get thrown out of work for a bunch of people in other countries (Bill Clinton and George W's idea of "liberal free trade"- between those two we might as well not even HAVE a country, neither one has ever heard of "border control" or "tariffs") have NO CHANCE AT ALL- we'll be working all of our lives just to pay off the debt run up trying to become adults. And our children will be paying for the governmental debt the baby boomers ran up.
So sorry to hear that things are difficult for you with your college degree. In the 80's I was in the Army, so none of that "Big Cash" for me, sorry. And because my enlistment papers will filled out improperly at the inprocessing station, the $48,000 I was promised for college turned out to be $480.00, to be allocated in equal monthly payments over four years as long as I was enrolled in college full-time. Yeah, right. Instead I have spent the last 15 years working my ass off to have the things I have, and am now (at the age of 41) seriously contemplating going to college, finally, to pursue my passion (physics).
I imagine I could have gone into hock to go to school years ago, if I hadn't bought the Army's line about money for education. Because, you see, the way the VEAP (Veteran's Education Assistance Program) was set up, if you qualified for any amount from that you were disqualified for any other federal tuition assistance, including FAFSA student loans. So, I was in a totally fucked position until my benefits ran out (they expired after 10 years) and by then I was busy supporting a family. So say what you want, not all of us have had life handed to us on a silver fucking platter. And BTW - going to college does not make one an adult. I had to do that at 17 when I was booted out on my freshly graduated (HS) ass to make my own way. And no, I didn't go straight into the Army. I spent most of a year working a minimum wage labor job first. I don't know why I didn't join immediately, but I didnt. Hell, I was 17 and I did a lot of stupid shit back then.
True. That's part of the transistional stage....When did you graduate from college? Early enough to make money off of the boom years of the 1980s?
I think if you read the above you will see that I have not attended college yet, and I graduated from High School in 1984. I am sorry if I have totally blown your image of me as some sort of rich asshole neocon nutbag, but those are the facts.
Of course, if you're over the age of 37 you've already escaped all that- and "fuck the future, I've got mine" has always been the neocon liberal baby boomer's defiant motto anyway, never mind the broken homes, hearts, and lack of financial ability you left behind in your divorces and drug use.
I have, huh? You say I've got mine, but I wouldn't even know where to look for it, much less have the idea that I have nothing to worry about. And do you mean to imply that everyone over the age of 37 is a neocon? Not hardly. I have always been and remain somewhere left of what the US considers 'liberal' - something in the range of Democratic Socialist.
Of course, what am I expecting? This is Slashdot and the generalizations will fly.
And BTW - everyone born in the baby boom (1946 - 1964) would be over the age of 42, while those of us between the ages of 37 and 42 are actually the early part of GenX.
Of course, what am I expecting? This is Slashdot and the inaccuracies will fly as well.
That's ok - that's kind of what I did* when Rome ended. (When is season 2 going to show up on DVD???) It was the only reason HBO ever came on in our house after the end of Oz and the (I feel) too early aborted Carnivale.
*Actually switched from having all the HBO stuff, to having the expanded basic, with all the Science Channel, Intl History, IFC, BBC America, etc.
Since some of my friends watch the Sopranos I thought I would check this thread to see what the ending was like. Sounds like the post title hit it on the head?
Where do I sign up? I would love to be able to get 1.5 Mb for only $75/month. Considering that I am currently paying more than that for 1M down 320k up - it would definitely be an improvement.
This 'magic number' keeps coming up, and the idea that by saying Linux 42, UI 65, etc etc somehow equates to a detailed description of patent breaches? Let's get real here. I want to see the actual claim. Show us the code.
Perchance the MS IP team are worried that if they actually showed which of their patents were infringed they would be laughed at? IANAL but it seems to me that even if by some remote chance a MS patent had been infringed by a kernel developer somewhere, that MS has the responsibility to let them know exactly what patent they have infringed. Failure to do so would seem to make any legal action they attempt nothing short of harassment. Or am I way off-base here? /. lawyers, where are you?
I think the point to be made here is this is not just protection from here on, but is to be made retroactive. That in itself has to give one pause to say "Why does it need to be retroactive unless there is something we're not being told?" Of course, I think the main part of this immunity is not aimed at Verizon but at AT&T and the whole NSA wire-tap flap.
I'll second that. I am responsible for several linux servers, and two windows servers. I always end up having to ask for help from the pc tech for all but the simplest tasks on the windows boxes. It just seems to me that everything related to sysadmin on windows is counter-intuitive. Probably because I cut my teeth on linux admin and am more comfortable working with command-line tools than trying to hunt and find the right gui and then the right tab and then the right 'advanced' button, etc etc. I would say that box-for-box the time I spend around 2.5 hours in windows to do what takes 1 hour in linux. Of course, we 'downsized' a while back, and the guy who was let go was the windows sysadmin. He could match me pretty well, timewise, for equivalent tasks (he in windows, me in linux) while he was often stuck rather quickly when trying to work in linux.
I won't dispute the availability of free PDF creation tools, but do they understand and parse CSS3? That was the key element that made this particular implementation work. Considering that CSS3 isn't even a finalized specification yet, I would be more than a little surprised.
While I do agree that the ISO doesn't need more than one standard for printable documents, I don't think that Håkon Wium Lie is on the right track with HTML/CSS for print.
Sure, it works, with enough tweaking, and CSS3, and a $350 download of a product to turn HTML/CSS3 into a PDF. This is better how? What about LyX, LaTeX, or even OpenOffice if you are just going to convert to PDF?
The whole HTML/CSS-to-print thing shoots the real argument in the foot.
Good points, all. And it does make me sad that this is where we seem to be heading. In the end it may all come down to total ownership and control by the insurance companies, which will have every commercial website owner by the short hairs paying into an "Internet Malpractice Insurance" which will eventually drive the costs for running an online business up to the point where it is no longer feasible for anyone except the major corporations and the independently wealthy.
- No one likes the bearer of bad news - not the website owner, not the vendor who sold the software, not the consultant who coded the website. They have lawyers; their interest is in making money, not necessarily in creating secure software. Keep this in mind. If they can find a cause for libel, they will. If they can deflect blame (stupid hackers are at it again!), they will.
- Why would you expose yourself to potential legal problems, especially considering that you aren't getting paid for your efforts
- If they were truly concerned about security, they would have hired an audit firm.
- Getting hacked is perhaps the best teaching experience regarding security. Let another hacker expose their vulnerability in a way they can't deny. Then they will take security seriously.
- Do the security industry a favor: why would anyone hire a security specialist when good samaritans on the internet (aka whitehats) will audit their website for free? Don't undermine your fellow workers.
- No one has ever been brought to trial or sued for failure to disclose a security vulnerability. You stand nothing to lose by quietly taking your business elsewhere; let the company figure out that the public wants secure web sites.
In the end it comes down to "What is the right thing to do?" If you really don't care then it's a non-issue, but if you do care about trying to make the net a better place an anonymous tip is at least the decent thing to do, at least until someone figures out how to produce perfect software and websites.As a website owner, and admin of several sites, yes I do want to know and while no one likes bad news, I would rather hear it from a "good samaritan" than find out after my site was hacked.
Because I would truly appreciate it if others would do the same kind service.
Not everyone can afford an audit firm. Also, there are things that security auditors miss as well. Any security "expert" who tries to tell you they will find every possible edge-case scenario is a liar and not to be trusted any more than the programmer that claims his or her software is 100% bug-free.
Yes, getting hacked is a valuable learning tool, but also an incredibly expensive one.
Do you really think that anonymous tips could ever shut down the digital security industry? This is a straw-man argument and not worth any more time.
Okay, so doing nothing means that you won't get into trouble. And yes, if a site has vulnerabilities that are not remedied you are probably right to take your business elsewhere. But I see this as akin to driving past a burning building and not calling the fire department. "Let it burn, it's not my problem." Did you stop to think about all the users of the site who don't know about the security issues? Perhaps your dear aunt Ethel whose entire stock portfolio is about to be stolen by the hackers who come after you and discover the same flaw.
I don't know, I'm sure this is impossible to do.
Not impossible, immensely time-consuming and possibly very, very costly from a development standpoint, but not impossible. In fact, if you start with a system that has an entire "world" filled with NPCs, objects, locations, etc and allow the state of those to change based on user-interaction you could do something like this. That would require a well-built database design to store all of that in the back end.
Now that you have the db, let's add some tables for storing things like "random" events (meteor shower [always an omen don't you know], missing [person, animal, object, etc], revenge plot, justice plot, ad nauseum) and where and to whom such things might occur (jail breaks don't happen to farmers, while drought caused by a missing statue wouldn't plague the town's gendarmes, etc).
If you really wanted to add to the number of events available you could petition the player community for suggestions.
Just my 2 cents
I'm with you on this one. I don't get what the threat is, what the deal is, or what the articles authors are trying to say. (Yes I followed and read all the linked articles.)
Perhaps the MS threat could (maybe) apply to Wine developers/users, unless they stick with the MS "blessed" Novel SuSE path. But even then, I don't really get it. I was under the impression that Wine was programmed to a "black-box" implementation - in other words, noodle out the expected input/output of MS programs and then code a glue layer to tie them into the *nix environment. So where is the threat from MS?
And under the GPL I can pretty well use Linux any way I want, especially if I'm not distributing anything. So where is the threat from Novel?
Could it be that this is the result of writers looking for the big "OH NOES!" story of the day?
I agree on the flamebait comment - it doesn't just hurt the distro you're flaming, but it hurts the image of Linux overall.
With that said, I have been using Gentoo for about 3 years now. The first install was the most confusing, but actually easier (because it worked) than Debian. (I tried 3 times to install Debian on that box, and it failed every time - yes, probably my fault. The Gentoo install had - and still has - step-by-step instructions online and it woreked great.)
I use Gentoo in a VM on my laptop, and run Gentoo servers at work. Why? Well, it isn't so much about the optimization, especially with fast servers, but more about the package management. Portage is the best package manager currently available (IMO) and it has made my professional duties that much easier.
Anyway, that's my two cents. YMMV.
When I worked as an HTML code slave, I would get mock-ups done in Photoshop, GIMP, pencil and paper, Dreamweaver, Word, Publisher, Open Office, whatever. What it all boils down to is that you need to work the way you work best and leave the coding up to the coders. If you are most comfortable doing your mock-ups in crayon, then do them in crayon. The important thing is to be sure that you have gotten your ideas across clearly and plainly, and have a little faith in your coders to do the job. If you can't trust them, then maybe you need new coders. o_O
So, I'm in the top third because I have net access? Never went to college, although I work at one and even teach a course. Have long been aware of the political and technical aspects of more than just issues like this one. So where does that put me? Oh yeah, I'm a /.er so that makes me instantly intelligent! w00t!
Try this on for size: by your "formula" the faculty I work with should all be in the top 5-10%, yet with every new phishing scheme (and even some repeats of old ones) I have to answer the question "Is this real or a scam?" from the "elite intelligencia" (PhD holders and Masters Level educators). At least we have moved to the place where they are willing to ask, but only because someone within the social circle of one the faculty fell prey to one of these scams.
The sad fact is, unless you are technically competent enough to view the source of your html email, and understand what you are looking at, you may very well be taken in. It all comes down to education, and it us to those of us in the IT field to educate users on how to understand and avoid these kinds of things. If we don't do our jobs well, the phishers win. When we start to really make a difference in user's behaviour, then these kinds of scams won't work, and we will have to educate users to protect themselves against whatever new scheme is dreamt up by the guys who dream up these cons.
I apologize. I must have misread the information - I got the idea that the fault-tolerance was handled solely by Py-Fate. As the majority of my development leans toward N-Tiered web-enabled applications that's just the first place my head goes. o_O So how would this tie into an existing TurboGears based project? Can it be plugged in without causing too much pain or is it something you would recommend starting from scratch with?
The entire site left me wanting nothing more than a little more info. There is one "live demo" piece - that uses a connector that is not currently included in the project. There is very little to tell me why I would choose this over any other middleware solution, such as TurboGears or Django or . . ..
The only thing that really piqued my interest is the inclusion of Py-Fate - but why do I need the rest? I don't think the case was made. If, however, Py-Fate does all that it purports to - well, that would be a handy tool to have.