This is a wonderful idea, especially for minorities who are often uneducated about computer security and unable to afford the pricey name brand AV suites. These people, who often lack the experience and the computer literacy to avoid virus infestations, could really benefit from a free and easy to use AV suite. Many complications with virus removal stem from the virus' interference with the anti-viral software, so having a seperate OS boot up to deal with them is a great idea.
Open source projects and their potential applications are really one of our greatest hopes for brining minority populations up to the level of everyone else, in terms of computer intelligence.
This has very little to do with converting pirates (which I'm sure even M$ realizes is a losing battle). The piracy sector M$ is genuinely worried about is people who get suckered into buying pirated copies from bootleggers or shady computer shops.
I seriously doubt many knowing pirates are going to turn themselves in after a sudden guilt trip. M$ knows this too. But this puts them in the blogs and the papers, and they appear to be the good guy.
It's a PR move, nothing more, nothing less, move along.
I feel precisely the same way about alcohol and nicotine. It's poor taste to joke about something which addicts people, then takes their lives, hurting their families and friends.
I've coded, on average, 70 hours a week, for the last six years. This has been on my own project, which is coming along nicely (after about a dozen complete rewrites, language changes, and overhauls).
I don't think I could accomplish this on someone else's code, however. If you love the project you're working on -- if you really believe in it, you can push yourself past the limits of a 50 hour work week. If it's just a job to you, then that motivation isn't there.
But then again, as my signature says, caffeine can help. Not in the long term, but I think people could definitely exceed 80 hours of worthwhile coding in a week if they were consuming lots of caffeine. It really is a wonder drug.
EA doesn't deserve all this criticism. We live in a free market, if those coders don't like their 80 hour weeks, they should quit.
Anyone who spends their time improving software is doing us all a favor... that's why my screensaver at work has always said: 'Hackers are great'.
It took some explaining to convince my boss that "hackers" wasn't a negative term, but since then I've received nothing but compliments from other geeks in the office.
There was a report issued in 2002 to determine whether the FCC had jurisdiction over webcasts (internet TV and the like) and whether or not their current TV regulations would apply. It's pretty interesting and their conclusions are somewhat alarming (especially if you oppose regulation on the internet), but it appears not much came of it. You can read the report here: DOC, PDF, or TXT.
My local LUG actually attached a modified laser pointer to a small shark's head -- the kind of shark you can keep in a fish tank... I don't recall its species name. We had quite a great time reciting Austin Powers lines for a few hours before we removed the water-proofed pointer from the confused shark's body. Unfortunately the only camera at the event met with an untimely death before the pictures could be recovered.
If you're in the Baltimore LUG and happened to have a camera at the event, please contact myself or Horatio -- we really regret not having any photos. If you managed to snap a photo, please, let us know!
Take a moment to familiarize yourself with genetic algorithms and you'll begin to understand this research's potential impact on computing. Institutes like HPL are quickly moving on DNA computing and some fundamental bit-manipulation has already taken place at a chromosomal level at MIT. This is the most exciting area of computing, and just might make AI possible.
This is an expected and predicted fallout from the recent rise in popularity of beowulf clusters. Slowly but surely managers are realizing, yes, it is possible to have a supercomputer on mass-market hardware, running a free OS.
Don't see this as bad news... it's a sign that we're winning.
When you search a P2P network for.xls and subsequently invade a user's privacy, you're no better than Big Brother or anyone else threatening our online rights.
I doubt your claim to being a former member of the armed forces. If you were, you'd be extremely familiar with the existing comprehensive security program, ASN, the online portion of which was proposed back in 1995.
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There are ways he could've made this information available to the military without also sharing that sensitive information. Why not just contact them and inform them of users and networks offering this material? Why has he put our servicemen and servicewomen at risk by not only pointing out this flaw, but providing pictures and information on his website?
Couldn't his point have been made without actually doing harm to our people? What disgusting behavior.
This is an excellent idea, though I would caution against such a plugin being open source. If the spammers and phishers could discover what metric is used for deciding if an e-mail is fake or not, they would have a much easier time fooling it. This might be one instance where closed source is the best solution. I think I might polish off my C book and get to work;-)
Wow, I don't find this post funny at all. How is a fellow slashdotter getting scammed funny? Sowbug, I recommend you cancel your CC immediately by calling your provider's phone hotline. Someone may have already begun using it for nefarious purposes.
The biggest demographic that is hit by these phish scams are poor, lower class minorities. With little experience using computers, let alone the internet, recent hookups to the internet in inner cities are the most heavily effected. Blacks and hispanics are especially notorious for having difficulties deciphering "phish" emails, as they've become used to cowering before anything with a menacing letterhead. It's sad that the real victims of these e-mail scams are already in difficult financial situations and can barely afford to pay for other basic services. Shame on these scammers, they are even worse than most spammers.
A good filesystem should be capable of handling all potential applications (for example, FAT32 has found its way into grandmother's desktop and production web servers). Specializing a FS is a huge mistake, and any highly-specific FS introduced to date has been a huge flop. This is not the best route to travel for Linux.
Honestly, EXT3 is leaps and bounds ahead of anything coming out of Microsoft or Apple these days. Journaling, extensive disk cluster customization, bit handling that's yet to be equaled... it's got it all. With continued development of EXT3 its popularity will only grow, and if the community can focus its efforts properly, it will be the choice this author is looking for.
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This is a wonderful idea, especially for minorities who are often uneducated about computer security and unable to afford the pricey name brand AV suites. These people, who often lack the experience and the computer literacy to avoid virus infestations, could really benefit from a free and easy to use AV suite. Many complications with virus removal stem from the virus' interference with the anti-viral software, so having a seperate OS boot up to deal with them is a great idea.
Open source projects and their potential applications are really one of our greatest hopes for brining minority populations up to the level of everyone else, in terms of computer intelligence.
Crawl back under your bridge, troll.
This has very little to do with converting pirates (which I'm sure even M$ realizes is a losing battle). The piracy sector M$ is genuinely worried about is people who get suckered into buying pirated copies from bootleggers or shady computer shops.
I seriously doubt many knowing pirates are going to turn themselves in after a sudden guilt trip. M$ knows this too. But this puts them in the blogs and the papers, and they appear to be the good guy.
It's a PR move, nothing more, nothing less, move along.
Apple uses Intel northbridge and southbridge chips on some models (namely the iMac 2.0).
I feel precisely the same way about alcohol and nicotine. It's poor taste to joke about something which addicts people, then takes their lives, hurting their families and friends.
It depends on the competency of the coder. Just because you're not able to produce good code 80 hours a week doesn't mean that applies to everyone.
Please, don't jest about a drug which has taken the lives of thousands of people. Cocaine is not a joke.
I've coded, on average, 70 hours a week, for the last six years. This has been on my own project, which is coming along nicely (after about a dozen complete rewrites, language changes, and overhauls).
I don't think I could accomplish this on someone else's code, however. If you love the project you're working on -- if you really believe in it, you can push yourself past the limits of a 50 hour work week. If it's just a job to you, then that motivation isn't there.
But then again, as my signature says, caffeine can help. Not in the long term, but I think people could definitely exceed 80 hours of worthwhile coding in a week if they were consuming lots of caffeine. It really is a wonder drug.
EA doesn't deserve all this criticism. We live in a free market, if those coders don't like their 80 hour weeks, they should quit.
Maybe I should apply at EA.
Wow, you must be desperate for karma, you karmawhore!
Anyone who spends their time improving software is doing us all a favor... that's why my screensaver at work has always said: 'Hackers are great'.
It took some explaining to convince my boss that "hackers" wasn't a negative term, but since then I've received nothing but compliments from other geeks in the office.
Hackers are great!
+1 Funny
There was a report issued in 2002 to determine whether the FCC had jurisdiction over webcasts (internet TV and the like) and whether or not their current TV regulations would apply. It's pretty interesting and their conclusions are somewhat alarming (especially if you oppose regulation on the internet), but it appears not much came of it. You can read the report here: DOC, PDF, or TXT.
My local LUG actually attached a modified laser pointer to a small shark's head -- the kind of shark you can keep in a fish tank... I don't recall its species name. We had quite a great time reciting Austin Powers lines for a few hours before we removed the water-proofed pointer from the confused shark's body. Unfortunately the only camera at the event met with an untimely death before the pictures could be recovered.
If you're in the Baltimore LUG and happened to have a camera at the event, please contact myself or Horatio -- we really regret not having any photos. If you managed to snap a photo, please, let us know!
Take a moment to familiarize yourself with genetic algorithms and you'll begin to understand this research's potential impact on computing. Institutes like HPL are quickly moving on DNA computing and some fundamental bit-manipulation has already taken place at a chromosomal level at MIT. This is the most exciting area of computing, and just might make AI possible.
This is an expected and predicted fallout from the recent rise in popularity of beowulf clusters. Slowly but surely managers are realizing, yes, it is possible to have a supercomputer on mass-market hardware, running a free OS.
Don't see this as bad news... it's a sign that we're winning.
If I forget to lock my apartment door at night, do I deserve to be robbed?
When you search a P2P network for .xls and subsequently invade a user's privacy, you're no better than Big Brother or anyone else threatening our online rights.
I doubt your claim to being a former member of the armed forces. If you were, you'd be extremely familiar with the existing comprehensive security program, ASN, the online portion of which was proposed back in 1995.
There are ways he could've made this information available to the military without also sharing that sensitive information. Why not just contact them and inform them of users and networks offering this material? Why has he put our servicemen and servicewomen at risk by not only pointing out this flaw, but providing pictures and information on his website?
Couldn't his point have been made without actually doing harm to our people? What disgusting behavior.
I'd suggest doing some reading before calling my claims outrageous.
This is an excellent idea, though I would caution against such a plugin being open source. If the spammers and phishers could discover what metric is used for deciding if an e-mail is fake or not, they would have a much easier time fooling it. This might be one instance where closed source is the best solution. I think I might polish off my C book and get to work ;-)
Wow, I don't find this post funny at all. How is a fellow slashdotter getting scammed funny? Sowbug, I recommend you cancel your CC immediately by calling your provider's phone hotline. Someone may have already begun using it for nefarious purposes.
The biggest demographic that is hit by these phish scams are poor, lower class minorities. With little experience using computers, let alone the internet, recent hookups to the internet in inner cities are the most heavily effected. Blacks and hispanics are especially notorious for having difficulties deciphering "phish" emails, as they've become used to cowering before anything with a menacing letterhead. It's sad that the real victims of these e-mail scams are already in difficult financial situations and can barely afford to pay for other basic services. Shame on these scammers, they are even worse than most spammers.
A good filesystem should be capable of handling all potential applications (for example, FAT32 has found its way into grandmother's desktop and production web servers). Specializing a FS is a huge mistake, and any highly-specific FS introduced to date has been a huge flop. This is not the best route to travel for Linux.
Honestly, EXT3 is leaps and bounds ahead of anything coming out of Microsoft or Apple these days. Journaling, extensive disk cluster customization, bit handling that's yet to be equaled... it's got it all. With continued development of EXT3 its popularity will only grow, and if the community can focus its efforts properly, it will be the choice this author is looking for.