Comment Hmmm (Score 1) 835
Has anyone else noticed how http://lulzsecurity.com/ has been down, and their twitter account has been pretty quiet since this release? Maybe they just ran out of jolt (and their server)?
Comment Re:Especially if they are training developers (Score 2, Insightful) 141
I would have to agree with your statement. As a soon-to-be graduate of Virginia Tech in Computer Science and Finance, the CS department's curriculum has about 2.5 years of programming before you even see any SA classes (of which cover a very limited area). It's almost as though the message is that one needs to be a good programmer (perhaps exposed programmer would be more appropriate) in order to be a good system administrator, which I don't believe is the case. I thoroughly enjoy net/sys administration and am a terrible programmer. It would certainly be nice to see these two coexist without one being such a prerequisite.
It would also be nice for courses to prepare the students better for certifications, which hold a lot of weight in the corporate IT world.
Comment heat == marijuana? (Score 3, Insightful) 282
Even if they could use a thermal imaging device, how would that solidify their accusations exactly?
Why Coder Pay Isn't Proportional To Productivity 597
theodp writes "John D. Cook takes a stab at explaining why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity. The basic problem, Cook explains, is that extreme programmer productivity may not be obvious. A salesman who sells 10x as much as his peers will be noticed, and compensated accordingly. And if a bricklayer were 10x more productive than his peers, this would be obvious too (it doesn't happen). But the best programmers do not write 10x as many lines of code; nor do they work 10x as many hours. Programmers are most effective when they avoid writing code. An über-programmer, Cook explains, is likely to be someone who stares quietly into space and then says 'Hmm. I think I've seen something like this before.'"
Submission + - Mark Hoekstra of geektechnique.org passes away (geektechnique.org)
rhewt writes: "Mark Hoekstra of www.geektechnique.org passed away Saturday morning (20th). Mark has always shown a true hacker spirit and has had an amazing blog in which I personally have kept track of for years. He will truly be missed."
Comment Publicity might help this situation... (Score 1) 434
I am sure this guy was not expecting to get so much attention when starting this fraud. Perhaps all this publicity will help get this guy locked up.
Journal Journal: iPhones flooding wireless network at Duke
"The Wi-Fi connection on Apple's recently released iPhone seems to be the source of a big headache for network administrators at Duke. The built-in 802.11b/g adapters on several iPhones periodically flood sections of the school's wireless LAN with MAC address requests, temporarily knocking out anywhere from a dozen to 30 wireless access points at a time. Campus network staff are talking with Cisco, the main WLAN provider, and have opened a help-desk ticket with Apple. But so far, the precise cau
