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Comment Utterly Useless (Score 2) 438

by radixzer0 on Friday October 07, 2011 @11:50AM (#37639716) Attached to: DHS Goes Ahead With 'Pre-Crime' Detection Project

There's zero chance this will work how they think it will. From a great presentation at this year's DefCon:
Why Airport Security Can’t Be Done FAST

Comment Wines, cheeses, trees (Score 5, Insightful) 1397

by radixzer0 on Monday February 02, 2009 @07:24PM (#26701331) Attached to: Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do?

A goofy naming scheme is a bad idea when you're running over 100 servers in a dynamic environment. When your servers are named after wines, cheeses, and trees, who can say what Oak does, or Chablis, or Feta, or Jujuba, or Sassafras, ad nauseum.

-r0

Microsoft Embraces AMQP Open Middleware Standard 122

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 27, 2008 @06:07PM from the embrace-and-extend dept.

AlexGr writes to tell us that Microsoft apparently has plans to embrace a little known messaging standard called AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol). Red Hat, a founding member of the AMQP working group, was very excited about the news and wrote to welcome Microsoft to the party. "Suffice it is to say that AMQP is to high-value, reliable business messaging what SMTP is to e-mail. The proprietary message oriented middleware (MOM) products on the market today like IBM's MQ or Tibco's Rendezvous fulfill the same function as AMQP. But they operate exclusively in single-vendor fashion and utterly fail to interoperate with each other. They are also — perhaps not by coincidence — burdensomely expensive. As a result their use is mostly limited to wealthy organizations such as Wall Street banks (at least the ones who are still in business) that need to exchange huge volumes of business messages very reliably and very quickly. But AMQP's supporters feel the market for such reliable messaging could be much larger if a less expensive and truly open solution became available."

Comment Re:Ha! (Score 1) 231

by radixzer0 on Wednesday May 07, 2003 @11:38PM (#5907742) Attached to: Slashback: Australia, Nomenclature, Books

Uh, no, it's not completely false. There have been lots of IE exploits that allow somebody you don't trust (i.e. outside of your "Local intranet" or "Trusted sites" zones) to execute arbitrary code on your machine. Ergo, you're 0wn3d.

Even a cursory search (e.g. at www.packetstormsecurity.com) would have turned up examples, like: http://packetstormsecurity.nl/mag/winsd/winsd.0308 00.txt

Posters: check facts before you bitch at moderators.

-r0

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