Hey Zuck! There is a whole army of non-US Ivy league MBA's who will be more than happy to produce the same BS as Joe Green for a fraction of the cost. Don't you want to work with the "Best"? Doesn't Joe Green want you to?
If one of our sites was down for as long as Adobe's was, heads would roll.
What took so long to restore? Crappy process for restoring server images or recovering a database?
Or, as others have speculated, was there a security breach and they couldn't bring it back up until all the evidence was gathered and the vulnerability was closed.
Oh wait, this is Adobe we are talking about. Their code doesn't have vulnerabilities.
LISP - Lots of InSipid Parenthesis
Surprised at the number of hateful comments regarding BASIC. Even when it was created it was aimed at novices not experts, hence the name: Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. The true value was that the simple syntax made learning programming concepts much simpler. I used to teach a beginning programming class in the 80's that used BASIC. I always felt that I was able to instill a better understanding of what was going on with the simple Line # VERB parameter syntax of the early language. Breaking things down only four Verb types ( Definition, Assignment, I/O, Control) , the operators, and the two type of variables/constants (string/numeric). That's all there is folks. Would I want to try and write a compiler in it, no, but that is not what the language was written for.
Dinosaur trivia points: why do loops commonly use the variable i. (Hint: int does not stand for index.)
Puzzles, puzzles and more puzzles! Number puzzles, word puzzles, shape puzzles! Tangram! Origami!
Things that make you think! Things that give you a sense of accomplishment when completed! Things that make you feel as smart as you are!
somehow I don't think that a group of people looking for government subsidies for their healthcare represent the best targets for identity fraud.
I hate studies like this. Do people pick common passwords, of course they do. Does everyone pick an easy to guess password, of course not. Can it be blindly determined, for any given user, if their password is "simple" or "complex"? No.
The article puts the blame on the end user, when the truth is the problem is with the websites storing the passwords in plain text or as un-salted hashes and not locking out brute force attacks. What the researchers are really arguing is that
1) your account may be compromised if hackers break into the website and steal all the passwords.
2) your password might be easier to guess if it is related to you, hackers are targeting you personally (not likely), and the website doesn't lock the account out.
Don't blame the user, blame the developers and administrators for being lazy and/or inept and failing to protect people from themselves.
I'm too small a fish for the NSA to care,
It's the marketing people who will correlate every facet of my life in an attempt to wrest every last penny from my fingers that scare me the most.
I started about the same time on a Ollevetti 401 I believe. A glorified numeric key pad for input and a red light, a green light and a cash register style tape for output.
I believe you will never really understand how a computer works until you have done two things:
built a compiler/parser and have done machine language programming (which was what you did with the 401).
varies depending upon the exit node.
We are talking about fusion here so of course it perpetually will be available in 20 years.
Sectools.org has a comprehensive list of tools with explanations of what each one does. Look at the web tools and the vulnerability scanners and you will find something you feel comfortable using. Most of the other tools mentioned so far can be found there. Also, the Open Web Applicaiton Security project (owasp.org) has some good information on secure app development.
From the article: "Gnome, the graphical desktop environment for Linux, may not be as influential as it once was."
Pity they didn't use the Hackfest to design something innovative to energize their base and make working with Gnome cutting edge. Instead it appears that they settling into comfortable middle age.
I see the shiny white side of the house and think "rear projection screen for ads". Damn, now somebody will do that for real.
There is more than one way to do it.
Perl can pretty much integrate anything with anything. Hardware or Software.
It is the Duct tape of the interwebs.
It is a swiss army chainsaw.
And yes,it can be nearly impossible to decipher what the code is doing, Oh, but the moment of enlightenment you have when you do figure out an obscure but elegant piece of code.
That, my friend, is "Why Perl?".