TheloniusPhunk

Wow.

So many. I have a programmer friend who saw that movie and became obsessed with going and working for some hip tech company (like Twitter). I can't say this from experience, but I imagine working for twitter (or any other sexy tech company) isn't a big party. It's hard work. It's seventy hour weeks and a ball-breaking boss.

Awesome.

I'd just like to say that if you're too lazy for University, then you're fucked either way.

I think, in a way, they are.

The point he's making, in my opinion, is that while farming rats to kill them is useless, farming vulnerabilities is not. There's no real use in advancing our knowledge of rat slaughter, we know how to do that pretty well already, and these rat farmers are indeed gaming the system.

Researchers aren't necessarily injecting bugs in the system unscrupulously, but even if they were, would it be a bad thing? The nature of security is such that bug farming would probably help move the problem forward. The science of mitigating threats is far more complicated than that of killing rats. So manufacturing vulnerabilities will advance our understanding of computer security.

It's a loose metaphor, but I see it.

I disagree. I think this story humanizes the guy and helps to dispel the Steve Jobs, Jedi Master, myth.

This is exactly the kind of things that the Obama Administration's NSTIC policy aims to create. I feel like a number of companies (Google, Facebook, your bank, specifically) already have plans to do this.

"We developed a novel method, called UDmap, to identify dynamically assigned IP addresses and analyze their dynamics pattern. UDmap is fully automatic, and relies only on application-level server logs that are already available today."

Not sure if that answers the question.

Source: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/S-GPS/

That's a good point. Invading Gaul et al. was probably more lucrative than invading a country like Afghanistan as the Romans were more obviously and unabashedly imperialistic and that war had to do with territorial expansion.

The invasion of Gaul is more akin to the way (relatively) early Americans forced out the Native Americans, and their culture certainly changed/doesn't really exist anymore. WWII Japan and Nazi Germany are examples of a places where a short war changed the culture.

The reason it won't work any more is because that style of 'total war' appears to have gone out of style. Probably a good thing, though Fareed Zakaria was on the Daily Show the other night talking about how one reason America has been so powerful is because Europe was leveled in WWII and the US had the industry to rebuild.

I agree. The point of this article is to refute the belief that a broad and open field of employment interests will increase your chances of finding a job. The reality is that a refined interest is better. Same goes for job postings; it's better to pick a company and hone in than it is to blanket resumes across a number of potential employers.

This is all pretty exciting, but I want more exterior button shortcuts. Also, why can't I search text fields on my meager 3Gs?

Not surprised. Hacking Sony is one thing. Hack the FBI and you end up in a dark room somewhere. I almost feel bad for these kids, if they are indeed kids.

I'm pretty surprised by a number of things here. First and foremost, how popular Polish and Catalan are. Secondly, I thought that there would be vastly more English articles than any other language, and this isn't the case.

Yeah, I just downloaded 4 like a month ago.

That's all I remember being asked. I guess they saw themselves as pioneers of creativity, but as they were something of an obscure start-up, this wasn't totally clear to prospective interviewees. So I went in there expecting a serious interview, but got nonsense. It's funny now, but I was pissed at the time. Drove eight hours, booked a hotel, and wore a suit for nothing.

I was once given thirty seconds to come up with synonyms for information, which I did. Then I was asked come up with antonyms for fast and furious starting with the letter p, I came up with pudgy and pleased. Then I was asked to tell my life story in twenty seconds. I refused. The interview ended.

Libraries aren't going anywhere. I think they will transition from relatively large storage place facility physical books, to a hub for study. It's already happened, really. All my collegiate library studying took place via online databases like EBSCOhost, but this much is pretty obvious. What is more obscure, and will be more interesting to see is how the library evolves culturally in the coming years.

I have always wondered why 3-d tech is so gimmicky and silly looking. Life is 3-d, and it looks good.

I was gonna say, didn't Microsoft buy into Apple in order to avoid becoming a monopoly at some point along the way?

Yeah, National Geographic mentioned this in a documentary a few years ago. This is where you end up if you try to flee to China, which is, in and of itself, indicative of the state of affairs in North Korea.

can individuals do this, or does it have to be an organization?

Thanks, must have missed that. Sorry for the repost.

I can't imagine producing anything of any quality on LSD.

Agreed. There is also a difference between security conscious people like us giving "explicit permission" and common user (who greatly outnumber us) handing out permissions like they're going out of style.

I hope this isn't true.

Too be honest. I just don't know that industrial carbon emissions rival those of a super-volcanoes or that of an apocalyptic asteroid slamming into Earth. 100 years isn't a lot of time to measure our affect on the grander scheme. Not saying our recent environmental efforts are for naught, but I do believe that when all is said and done and humans are extinct, our impact on Earth will have been negligible.

EDIT: I find it extremely ignorant that people believe conditions on earth will significantly deteriorate in the next century. Earth has been around for 4.6 billion years. It's appealing to say that humans are destroying the Earth, but it also incredibly arrogant. We have been a a flicker in the bigger picture. Disease or weaponry will kill us long before climate change does.

That doesn't mean I don't enjoy this timeline!