Then there is current research on doing audio-keylogging (by recognizing the individual key-sounds), and that seems to work reasonably well. We had a project at uni last year where you had to do exactly that. There were 2 teams, one of my friends was in one. It's really not that easy and it doesn't work all that great. The idea is indeed simple, but you get in all sorts of trouble when you press the keys harder or you use a different keyboard or... Their program recognized about 5-8 keys reliably and even then...
Besides, you'd run into trouble in case the password you're trying to steal is actually decent, because how would you know if certain characters are numbers or punctuation symbols? I guess you could see if the shift button was being held, but then you'd also have to see when it wasn't held anymore.
There's a lot of problems associated with this kind of "audio"-keylogging and it's certainly tenfold times easier to create a regular keylogger.
Well, except viruses can't really die, they don't have a "normal" lifespan. Sure, they can, hmm, well, "get broken", but they don't die like a normal living organism would.
I completely aggree with you here. In the OO Programming course I had this year, they encouraged us to practice extreme programming. Well, it sucked... Everytime my partner and I encountered a little problem and one of us had an idea, he had to explain it to the other, which took at least 3 times as long as just typing it out, which in almost every case made the idea perfectly clear. Suffice to say, after about 4 hours we gave up and just sent each other any files we had edited (of course making sure we didn't work on the same file at the same time).
I guess I'm lucky then, I'm studying civil engineer - electronics & computer sciences in Leuven (Belgium) (finished the 2nd year now) and in the (object oriented) programming class they forced us to first draw out UML diagrams of all our classes. Also, we had to put comment for every class, function, variable,... using a specific system. The only annoying thing was that the comments usually took up more space than the code itself:).
Also, about the math education. We got quite a bit of math subjects, for example we had courses named: analysis 1 & 2, linear algebra, applied discrete algebra, numerical mathematics and probability & statistics (note that those names may not be ideal to describe what was teached in those courses). Now, I'm sure there's litterally tons of things I don't know about mathematics, but as far as I can see, this should cover a pretty broad base, especially as far as programming stuff goes.
All the courses given in 1st year builded upon the knowledge learned in high school, in fact about 80% of the linear algebra course, I had already learned in high school. However, that was because I had 8 hours of math in high school and one can choose between 4/6h (depends on what you study) or 8h in the last 2 years of high school. The people who have 8h math get 4h algebra & 4h other math, whereas the people having 4/6h of math only get the 'other' math.
Also we had a course called "computer aided problem solving", which I suppose helps develop the skills needed to plan out an "algorithm" to solve simple problems.
So maybe what your saying might be true for some institutions, but definately not for all of them. That or I'm blinded and brainwashed by propaganda, hehe:).
Ok, I should have been more clear and should have made "communism-inclined" bold. My point was that it's completely unimportant to the story that this governement is comumnism-inclined, it's been democratically elected, so it shouldn't matter. I don't see the point in it being mentioned in the article except for the fact to make the Karala governement look "evil" in some people's eyes.
If it hadn't been mentioned in the article, people would think about the decision. Now some people will try to come up with some explanation of why this is bad because it's a communism-inclined governement, which is of course completely retarted. (Note that I'm not saying if I think their decision is good or bad, that's not the point here.)
I got to agree with you here. Seriously, what exactly is so important about the fact that it's a democratically electedcommunism-inclined governement that decided doing this?
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Well, except viruses can't really die, they don't have a "normal" lifespan. Sure, they can, hmm, well, "get broken", but they don't die like a normal living organism would.
I completely aggree with you here. In the OO Programming course I had this year, they encouraged us to practice extreme programming. Well, it sucked... Everytime my partner and I encountered a little problem and one of us had an idea, he had to explain it to the other, which took at least 3 times as long as just typing it out, which in almost every case made the idea perfectly clear. Suffice to say, after about 4 hours we gave up and just sent each other any files we had edited (of course making sure we didn't work on the same file at the same time).
Then again, Dutch speaking Belgians aren't Dutch, but Flemish. The Dutch are the people from The Netherlands.
It's not that I don't get the joke or anything, but I just wanted to clear that up.
I guess I'm lucky then, I'm studying civil engineer - electronics & computer sciences in Leuven (Belgium) (finished the 2nd year now) and in the (object oriented) programming class they forced us to first draw out UML diagrams of all our classes. Also, we had to put comment for every class, function, variable, ... using a specific system. The only annoying thing was that the comments usually took up more space than the code itself :).
Also, about the math education. We got quite a bit of math subjects, for example we had courses named: analysis 1 & 2, linear algebra, applied discrete algebra, numerical mathematics and probability & statistics (note that those names may not be ideal to describe what was teached in those courses). Now, I'm sure there's litterally tons of things I don't know about mathematics, but as far as I can see, this should cover a pretty broad base, especially as far as programming stuff goes.
All the courses given in 1st year builded upon the knowledge learned in high school, in fact about 80% of the linear algebra course, I had already learned in high school. However, that was because I had 8 hours of math in high school and one can choose between 4/6h (depends on what you study) or 8h in the last 2 years of high school. The people who have 8h math get 4h algebra & 4h other math, whereas the people having 4/6h of math only get the 'other' math.
Also we had a course called "computer aided problem solving", which I suppose helps develop the skills needed to plan out an "algorithm" to solve simple problems.
So maybe what your saying might be true for some institutions, but definately not for all of them. That or I'm blinded and brainwashed by propaganda, hehe :).
Ok, I should have been more clear and should have made "communism-inclined" bold. My point was that it's completely unimportant to the story that this governement is comumnism-inclined, it's been democratically elected, so it shouldn't matter. I don't see the point in it being mentioned in the article except for the fact to make the Karala governement look "evil" in some people's eyes. If it hadn't been mentioned in the article, people would think about the decision. Now some people will try to come up with some explanation of why this is bad because it's a communism-inclined governement, which is of course completely retarted. (Note that I'm not saying if I think their decision is good or bad, that's not the point here.)
I got to agree with you here. Seriously, what exactly is so important about the fact that it's a democratically elected communism-inclined governement that decided doing this?
Did you guys read his comment? Why is it modded "Funny"? It's not even meant to be so...