Slashback: Disclosure, Maricopa, Telecoms

Slashback tonight with another round of updates and errata regarding recent Slashdot stories. Read on for more on domain slamming, the process behind fixing and revealing the recent OpenSSH vulnerability, early photography, and a special note for residents of Maricopa County, Arizona.

Quick work by smart people. ciaweb writes "The OpenSSH group has revised its security advisory about the recent OpenSSH vulnerabilities. In it, they describe their decision-making process for releasing the bug information. It is interesting to contrast their procedure, which appears designed to maximize user protection, against Microsoft's, which appears to maximize Microsoft's protection."

Pardon me, sir, would you mind if I SLAMMED THIS HAMMER ON YOUR FINGERS?! D0wnsp0ut writes "I thumbed through my mail today and found what appeared to be a renewal notice for my domain. This one came from "Domain Registry of America." Verisign attempted something similar back in March and Bulkregister.com fought back and won an injunction, against the mailings. So watch out if your domain is getting close to expiring. I talked to my registrar (Register.com) and they're aware of it.
I'll scan the letter but have no place to post the pictures. Can anyone lend some bandwidth?"

Half the world has never eaten a Krispy Kreme donut, either. cshirky writes "I've just written an essay on the phrase ' Half the world has never made a phone call'. It's more 'voice telephony-y' than the usual telecom stories here, but after seeing the interest in media and the market that surfaced during my /. interview, I thought it might be of some interest."

Please stop sending my money to Redmond, OK? TrumpetPower! writes "All that brouhaha over Maricopa County's policy prohibiting companies or persons convicted of antitrust violations has had an effect. I just received the following note announcing a public forum scheduled for this coming Monday.

You recently inquired about the County's use of Microsoft products and the manner in which we license their software. We appreciate your interest in the County's technology plans. To provide a forum in which to discuss our technology direction and address any questions you may have, we will have Information Technology staff members available to meet with citizens at 8:30 am on Monday July 8th. The meeting location will be the County Administration Building at 301 W. Jefferson in Suite 420. Please RSVP your attendance so we can ensure that adequate facilities are available for the meeting.

Thank you for your inquiry,
Paul Allsing
Deputy CIO
Maricopa County
301 W Jefferson, Suite 420
Phoenix, AZ 85003"

Ah, but what about the first annoying family photographer? 7h3_B055 writes: "Contrary to this article on Slashdot claiming the first photograph was created in 1826, much evidence is pointing to the fact that the Shroud of Turin may have been an earlier example (substantially earlier) of photography using ingredients as basic as egg-white for treating cloth (the photopaper) and urine for developing it. The camera itself could have been a simple box with a hole in it and the exposure time would have been lengthy."

Of course, there are a lot of theories about the Shroud of Turin, and a google search is likely to intrigue you for days.

Comments

if i were a county office,

[RumGunner]

i certainly wouldn't have my offices in suite 420.

or maybe i would.

Exactly!

[PhysicsGenius]

There's also a very shallow learning curve! And I'd like to reiterate your point about the upgrade treadmill--I've had my kernel installed since...gosh, it must have been mid-June when I d/l'd and compiled this baby. And XP's latest patch came out what, last week? HAHA, M$ SUXORS!

It'll also be pretty sweet when all that GPL'd, SouthWest-oriented county management software can finally get used. It's been ramping up in usability on SourceForge for literally months and it's time to give that stuff a spin around the block!

It's a great time to be a Linux fanatic!

I am *truly* sorry about that...

[realgone]

The shroud article's paraphrase of one Dr. Nicholas Allen:

He said all one had to do was suspend a corpse for three to four days in sunlight.

I'd like to formally apologize to Sears Photo Studio for ever having complained while sitting through those family portraits back in the '70s. In retrospect, you were surprisingly gentle with me.

Re:Shroud evidence: Jesus underwent nuclear fissio

[_Sprocket_]

One theory is that Jesus became pure energy and the radiation burned the image into the cloth.

...

In fact this is the same concept of an atom bomb - matter becoming pure energy using radioactive material as a catalyst.

"Yea. I knew Jesus. Nice guy. Real concern for his fellow man. Kinda quiet. But boy... once you set him off... what a temper!"

Re:Shroud evidence: Jesus underwent nuclear fissio

[Ten Pound Pussy]

...if Jesus were the energy source that etched this image on the linen, he wouldn't cast a shadow, now would he?

Jesus is a vampire? Does that mean if you take communion, you become a vampire? I can't believe the church doesn't advertise this. I'm on my way to mass.

Re:Shroud evidence: Jesus underwent nuclear fissio

[i_am_nitrogen]

Wow, that's really inane. Now I know why people some peole call some Christians morons... I'm a Christian myself, but I have had little awareness of all the hilarious "evidence" out there... Amazing that people think a big ball of radiation could walk out of the tomb and talk to Mary Magdalene...

Re:Shroud evidence: Jesus underwent nuclear fissio

[brsmith4]

seems like the xians are starting to lose faith and need to justify their blind beliefs through crackpot science. A fucking man turning in to energy? Thats absurd. Oh wait, I forgot, he's the son of god, or wait, he is god, or, maybe the holy spirit. Yeah... maybe he changed from jesus, to the holy spirit, kinda like one of those unexplained and baffling Star Trek 'energy beings' that we see in 3 out of every 5 episodes of TNG. Perhaps the equation should be revised: E = J C ^ 2? They can make one of those WWJD trinkets out of it.

I know I can't be the only who thought of it

[aTMsA]

I think the first thing(s) i would try to clone if i could would be anything resembling human DNA in the shroud. It would be hilarious if some blond/black chinese guy(or even girl) come out of the clonation!

Re:Shroud evidence: Jesus underwent nuclear fissio

[Alien Being]

Why naturally Sherman, you have heard of "Critical Mass" haven't you?

-Peabody

Re:Shroud evidence: Jesus underwent nuclear fissio

[Anonymous Coward]

Why naturally Sherman, you have heard of "Critical Mass" haven't you?

Is that Easter or Christmas?

Early photography

[rnturn]

``the Shroud of Turin may have been an earlier example (substantially earlier) of photography using ingredients as basic as egg-white for treating cloth (the photopaper) and urine for developing it.''

Now while I'm wondering how someone decided that oysters were edible, I can wonder how someone figured out 2000 years ago that urinating on an egg-white soaked cloth would produce an recognizable image. I know that things like gun cotton and Bakelite were discovered by accident but this egg-white thing I'm finding a bit hard to believe. But I would sure like to see a Mel Brooks bit on that historic moment.

Krispy Kreme

[BlueFall]

Half the world has never eaten a Krispy Kreme donut.

Is that by weight? ;-)