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    HTTS Header encrption question

    in Security

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    I keep getting conflicting answers to a question I thought would be simple, but I'm getting conflicting responses. Is the http header (specifically any attached http variables) encrypted along with the content? I've heard everything from "Yes they are", to "No they aren't -- otherwise the server wouldn't know how to handle the message", to "Most are encrypted except for a few in clear text, mainly things like type of encrption used, encoding type, etc."

    Can anyone on here elaborate?

    Episode 4x03

    in Hak5

    Posted

    Trade Wars! We've gotta get it.

    I started on a 1200 baud, then 2400. I remember getting a 9600 and wondering why I would ever need anything faster. I could even play Doom deathmatches via dialup to my friends modem. Those were the days.

    That's IT! Damn, I can't believe you remembered that. I think I used to play an ascii based RISK as well.

    9600 baud- that did seem fast at the time. It's funny to think now I get impatient waiting for a DVD iso dl at 5-10Mb/s. Were you around Williamsburg at the time? I had a small bbs up for awhile, but it wasn't that popular, < 100 users I think. Mainly for people who wanted to do some message board D&D.

    Episode 4x03

    in Hak5

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    Wow, the BBS segment brought back some memories. It's funny seeing the text going so fast. I remember when I went from a 300 to 2400 baud modem, I couldn't believe the speed. The text would scroll faster than I could read it. :)

    I vaugely remember red dragon. Do you remember that space trader game? I can't remember the name, but you'd buy stuff at one port, and then sell it at another.

    Confused.

    in Applications & Coding

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    I've been developing software for about 10 years now professionally, and have owned my own consulting company for about 6. I do pretty well, and have some high profile Fortune 500 clients, but if it's any consolation, just about every time a new technology comes out, even it's just an advancement in a technology I'm already very proficient at, I just about always get overwhelmed. The first thing I ask myself is, "Holy shit, is this the stuff that's going to make me obsolete like the assem & cobol peeps I make fun of and get overrun by all the young guys out there?" But so far, I just sit down and set aside time to learn, and after awhile it just becomes second nature.

    Digip is absolutely right; we never stop learning, which is true of most professions like accountants, doctors, lawyers, etc., but maybe even moreso in our industry because things change so fast. I haven't done java professionally for a couple of years (mainly do C#), but if I wanted to pick up a project in it, I'd definitely be rusty and have to spend the time to get up to speed. So don't get discouraged, just practice, and there's plenty of resources to ask for help when you need it.

    I still buy books for new techs, but really Google has become the best reference for researching/finding answers to any coding questions I have for currently and/or mainsteam technologies.

    You said you were out of highschool, not sure if you mentioned college, but I'd highly recommend going to a 4yr college in CS if you were really serious about software development as a profession.

    We are all gonna die!

    in Everything Else

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    I really hope it does destroy the earth and the solar system in one way or another. In doing so all the other alien sentient beings that are aware of us will stand there staring with "WTF?!" mind bubbles floating over their heads.

    "Did you hear Earth just got pwned?"

    Assembly Language

    in Applications & Coding

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    Is it really a hard choice? Ask your self a couple simple questions and I think you'll have the answer!

    1. Do I want my programs to be dependent on .NET frameworks?

    2. Do I want to lose performance because I'm using managed code, instead of good old unmanaged c++?

    3. Do I like dots(".") so much that I must splatter them throughout my code?

    Can anyone that programs in C# elaborate on why they think its better despite what was outlined above? And don't say the code is easier/faster to write, because I certainly don't think so...

    It's not that one is necessarily better, it depends on what you're doing. If you're talking about enterprise business software, or even smaller web applications, you'd never consider C++ over C#. C# has almost 30 years of programming language and software engineering advancements over C++, so it's going to be a more robust language for the overwhelming amount of tasks. For example, there's much more concensus on development standards, and a lot of this was built into standard APIs vs. the C++ community having to develop versions of patterns to answer software programming delimas as they have come up. For that, and a number of other issues, it's facilitates much more managable code, and provides better tools to encapsulate business and data logic into maintenable tiers.

    Certainly you can do anything you can do in C# in C++, but you can make the argument that you don't need a remote control because you can get up and turn on the TV by hand.

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