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New Linux Kernel Vulnerability
Stop Or I'll Noop writes "Paul Starzetz writes, "A critical security vulnerability has been found in the Linux kernel memory management code inside the mremap(2) system call due to missing function return
value check. This bug is completely unrelated to the mremap bug disclosed on 05-01-2003 except concerning the same internal kernel function code." Full scoop here."
Update: 03/07 20:53 GMT by T : This vulnerability (and fixes) were mentioned briefly in an update to this earlier posting.
second post
first post too late
but second post just on time
not quite first post
close enough for second post
I swear allegiance to the cult of foo bar.
Apparently, only .sigh.
Roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF, all my base are belong to you
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Lets face it, Michael Moore is an idiot and we should take back his Oscar. Where does he get off calling our President fictitious...moreover, sending a quarter of a million troops into war for "fictitious reasons."
Moore along with the Dixie Chicks, should pack their bags and make a b-line for nearest communist country. Their personal attacks on our beloved President are cowardly and utterly disrespectful.
Mr. President Bush, if you ever read this article, take peace in knowing that while the majority of Hollywood is not taking sides with you, the majority of America supports your cause as it is in the best interest of national security. God Bless your soul, God Bless the troops in Iraq, God Bless America!
I'm glad I voted for you. And just in case if any of you out there are wondering what party I am? I'm not a republican, but an independent.
Remember, most of what Moore says are lies. Including elements that are included in his movies. To find out the truth please visit MOORE WATCH.
That's what Eric Raymond said.
And he's never told a lie.
You fucking fail it
Second post is not for you
Death is the answer
FCC Plans New Round of Indecency Fines Targeting Broadcasters, Stern
Fri Mar 5, 4:05 AM ET
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NEW YORK -- Amid a widening and increasingly politicized campaign to clean up the nation's airwaves, regulators are proposing fines against many of the nation's major radio companies for carrying well-known "shock jocks," Federal Communications Commission (news - web sites) officials told The Wall Street Journal.
About a dozen cases are being finalized, these officials said, and one target is Howard Stern, one of the nation's most popular and controversial radio hosts. The FCC (news - web sites) is deciding on penalties against his employer, Viacom Inc. (NYSE:VIA - News)'s Infinity Broadcasting. Also facing further scrutiny are Emmis Communications Inc. and Clear Channel Communications Inc. (NYSE:CCU - News) , the nation's largest radio owner, which last week took Mr. Stern's show off six of its radio stations and fired a controversial -- and oft-fined -- Tampa, Fla., radio host, Todd Clem, known as "Bubba the Love Sponge."
Bowing to public pressure, the agency also plans to reverse its earlier finding that singer Bono's use of a vulgarity on live television during the 2003 Golden Globes broadcast wasn't indecent, possibly as soon as next week, officials said. However, it won't impose what could have been a multimillion- dollar fine against General Electric Co. (NYSE:GE - News)'s NBC network, which carried the event, or its affiliates.
The flurry of new cases is the latest sign of a sweeping federal crackdown on controversial content beamed over television and radio airwaves. Congress has held a spate of hearings in the last two months to decry what some legislators call a "race to the bottom" by broadcasters. While a move to act against questionable material had been under way before, it was ignited by this year's Super Bowl broadcast, in which entertainer Janet Jackson's breast was exposed during the halftime show to the embarrassment of broadcaster CBS, a Viacom unit, its affiliates and the FCC.
Feeding the push is an increasingly charged, and polarized, political atmosphere in which cultural issues such as obscenity and gay marriage have become hot topics as the general election campaign heats up. Lawmakers of both parties have been implicitly and in some cases openly threatening legislative action if regulators don't step up their enforcement of existing decency standards.
Wall Street Journal Staff Reporters Anne Marie Squeo and Joe Flint contributed to this report.
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Clearly, the only way to defeat this is to vote out the republicans. But are the democrats any better?
Which really is the lesser of two evils?
Not that I condone the GNAA... why don't you at least change the gay pic to Rob Enderle.
"Mission Accomplished" -- George W. Bush May 1, 2003
DID THE PENTAGON MANUFACTURE AIDS AS A BIOLOGICAL WEAPON?
By David Guyatt
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AIDS kills. It does so in extremely nasty ways. By attacking the human immune system, the disease opens the victim to any number of, otherwise, non fatal illnesses. The result is generally a heart-rending debilitating and lingering death.
According to some experts, AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome - first arose in the middle to late 1970's in Africa, when a small, infected Green Monkey, sunk its teeth into a local native. From such humble beginnings it then exploded across the globe - as a result of sexual transmission - bringing massive death and misery in its wake.
There are currently 30 million people - throughout the world - who have contracted the killer disease. With a death toll already set at over 8.4 million, estimates indicate this could leap to 40 million by the year 2000. Over 1000 people are dying from AIDS per day. Figures provided by the United Nations show that the geographic spread is almost entirely focused on black Africa and Southeast Asia - which combined - account for almost 90% of all known cases. In effect, AIDS/HIV fundamentally attacks the impoverished Third World.
This geographic spread has led to spectacular charges that the rich industrialised countries secretly developed and deployed AIDS as a biological weapon aimed at decimating the "useless eaters" of the Third World. Researchers point to a number of government documents which they claim supports this charge. Chief amongst these is National Security Memorandum (NSSM 200) authored in the early seventies by then US National Security Adviser, Dr. Henry Kissinger. This document, hitherto marked as top secret, was quietly de-classified in 1990 and lodged in the US National Archives. It is a chilling, cynical document.
"De-population should be the highest priority of US foreign policy towards the Third World." This sentence formed the hard backbone of NSSM 200. The memo went on to state that "Reduction of the rate of population in these States [Third World nations] is a matter of vital US national security." Why? Simply because "The US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries." In stating this the focus was exclusively, on the "...economic interests of the US."
The arrogant and cynical mindset that underscored Kissinger's document was nothing new. Third World citizens merely continued to be viewed as useless, lazy degenerates. Years earlier, in 1932, cancer experiments were undertaken by Cornelius Rhoades, then chief pathologist of the Rockerfeller Institute. The experiments involved deliberately infecting a number of Puerto Ricans with cancer. Thirteen died as a consequence. Rhoades explained away the experiments with the comment: "The Porto(sic) Ricans are the dirtiest, laziest, most degenerate and thievesh race of men ever inhabiting this sphere... I have done my best to further the process of extermination by killing off eight and transplanting cancer into several more... all physicians take delight in the abuse and torture of the unfortunate subjects."
Amazingly, Rhoades not only escaped prosecution for this hideous admission, but was later placed in charge of a number of chemical warfare projects during WW11. He was also given a seat on the Atomic Energy Commission and awarded the Legion of Merit. One may also remark on the known close connections of Henry Kissinger to the Rockerfeller family. It was due to this close family connection that Kissinger was appointed National Security Adviser in the Nixon administration in 1971. According to US News & World Report the appointment "was on the advice of Governor Rockerfeller, who described Mr. Kissinger as 'the smartest guy available.'"
When viewed in conjunction with another US government document, the underlying foreign policy aims of NSSM 200, are caus
"Wne a Linux vulnerability is patched, it is proof that open source software is wonderful."
Bah, here we go again, yet another "Slashdot is anti-MS pro-Linux yadda yadda bla bla".
Look at the first comment in this story! It questions open source yet is modded up to +5!
Go fix your code.
http://saveie6.com/
...and besides, Netcraft confirms it.