Comment Better link to the actual project (Score 1) 93
Why link to the crappy ad-laden SD times article and not to the actual GitHub project https://github.com/docker/dock...
Comment NIST (Score 1) 298
You can try applying to NIST. Although it is not a corporation, it is an excellent research institution with an excellent guest researcher. It is mostly geared towards graduate student, but having five year degree from Europe is enough to get in.
Speaking from my own experience, a stint at NIST will help you a lot in your future career.
Feed Macworld: Final Cut Pro skin offered for aluminum keyboard (macworld.com)
zCover's new TypeOn keyboard cover fits aluminum keyboards and comes pre-printed with Final Cut Pro commands
Feed The Register: NASA's Deep Impact mislays comet (theregister.com)
Boethin goes awol
NASA has cancelled a scheduled liaison between its Deep Impact spacecraft and Comet 85P/Boethin because the latter has disappeared without trace, New Scientist reports.
Feed The Register: O2 to join IPTV fray next year (theregister.com)
'I want a piece of that non-action!'
O2 says its IPTV efforts have been such a roaring success in the Czech Republic that it'll roll out a similar offering in the UK 2008.
Bookmark Foreclosure Auctions Drawing Attention (foreclosurerepos.com)
Why Ballmer Should Leave Microsoft 341
An anonymous reader writes "In the wake of the announcement of Bill Gates' departure from the top spot at Microsoft, CNN Money is carrying an article arguing that Steve Ballmer should step down as well." From the article: "Since Gates stepped down as CEO in 2000 in favor of Ballmer, the company has floundered technically and strategically. As the company's chairman, chief software architect and supposed visionary, Gates deserves blame for missing the wave of Web-based software that has propelled Google and Yahoo. But Ballmer has made gaffes of his own in his longtime role as head of the company's business side. They include an undistinguished push into business applications to compete with Oracle, financial maneuvers that have failed to stir the stock - which has slumped 16 percent so far this year - and continuing antitrust problems in the United States and Europe."
Comment Re:Mathematically provably secure? (Score 1) 234
There are several "provably secure" computer systems. As in you can demonstrate they fulfil certain mathematical constraints and those constraints are absolute. Then you have to write the code and prove the code, then you have to hope the prover is correct and the hardwareis correct. Nothing is 100%.
As to the randomisation stuff - yes I've got examples, and we've hit the same thing in Linux with randomisation. You get cases where memory scribbles cause a problem only if the layout happens to be a specific variant (especially with stack randomisation). From "either it dies or it works" you get "1 in 10,000 times xyz app blows up". That does make debugging much much harder. Of course a good reply to that is "so improve the debugging tools".
As to the randomisation stuff - yes I've got examples, and we've hit the same thing in Linux with randomisation. You get cases where memory scribbles cause a problem only if the layout happens to be a specific variant (especially with stack randomisation). From "either it dies or it works" you get "1 in 10,000 times xyz app blows up". That does make debugging much much harder. Of course a good reply to that is "so improve the debugging tools".
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