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Reporting Kernel Security Issues
Omniscientist writes "A recent post on KernelTrap details the lkml post by Chris Wright talking about a centralized place to report security issues pertaining to the Linux Kernel and the discussion that was generated by it, including Chris's followup. It would appear that they now have created a security team to privately handle the bugs, who act as the alternative to reporting the flaw to the public immediately."
FREMONT, CA (TECHNEWS) - After a heated debate at Slashdot executive offices, editor Michael Sims was locked out of the building and departed in a tirade of lisping insults, vowing revenge immediately. This morning, industry sources revealed that Sims has joined the infamous trolling organization Gay Nigger Association of America with the intent of trolling Slashdot fulltime.
In a short phone interview with Technews, Sims asserted that he was calm but resolved on his course of action. "The Slashdot editors and I had a disagreement," he explained. "I did it all for the users, but they..." he drew the syllable out painfully, resting on a case full of Little League trophies and certificates of participation from transgendered dating services, "They just couldn't take my truth. They were -- babies, just babies, oh, the horror, the abomination," he said, before being led away by three white-clad male nurses.
According to Harvard Psychology Professor Arnold Rothstahlberg, "trolling" is an internet phenomenon where dissenting users disrupt a site by flooding it with absurd or paradoxical information. "It satisfies the primal id," he said, chewing on a large, bulbous, phallic black cigar. "To justify themselves by forcing their enemies into hysterics. It's a compensatory mechanism much like getting back at the kids who beat you up in high school by installing Linux and using it to pingflood their XP boxes and Macs."
Slashdot editor CmdrTaco was reticent to comment. At an interview conducted in the crap-filled Ann Arbor bungalow he shares with his wife, to whom he proposed over Slashdot, he said, "Well, you know, Slashdot is just a web site. Michael should calm down about this. But if he doesn't, our corporate sponsors will sue him until he's giving $4 blowjobs on Haight Street."
From the GNAA corporate headquarters, a mysterious floating island off the coast of Newfoundland that few reporters have seen and even fewer have returned from with their sexual identities intact, GNAA "Head Programmer" timecop said he was glad to have Sims on hand. "From what I've seen of his postings on Slashdot," said timecop, "he's a total fag. Which is convenient as all our halfops need anal, and I can't handle the drama. That's what's worst about the net: the drama."
Sims has been involved in previous internet firefights, most notably the controversy over the censorware.org website in 2001. While Sims alleges that the site was his creation that was sabotaged by others, his coworkers disagree. Bennett Haselton, security consultant for the "Anarchy Anal" and "Chaos Cumshot" websites, said of Sims, "We set up this website, and left him the password. We have a disagreement, bam, the website goes down and someone raped my two-week-old Labrador puppy with an iPod."
Slashdot Editor CowboyNeal, who was entangled in a whale net after attempting to swim the English channel, spoke fondly of his former coworker. "Michael always brought a certain passion to the work, a passion that was easily ignited and led to many sweaty sessions in the corporate washroom," he said. "I'm not at all surprised he joined an organization of gay niggers. He always like something different and unique in his pasta salads."
Programmer Seth Finkelstein alleges that Sims is "totally unstable" and agreed readily to this interview. "Of course, I'm a disinterested observer," he said. "But anytime I see that closet psychopath and monkey nut-muncher stealing the spotlight from hardworking programmers like myself, I have to speak up, for the benefit of the people, of course," he said. Technews reporters were permitted to leave the premises only after making a PayPal donation to Finkelstein.
Mike Godwin of the EFF, who balances a career as privacy advocate with his hobby of making videos of teen swingers blowing goats, agreed. "I've never met another editor like Michael," he said. "And, since my regimen of retrovirals is already costing me a
There is something to be said about keeping it private though. It would be ideal if they could keep it private and fix the bug quickly, just because this doesn't work for other companies doesn't mean they can't pull it off.
"A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes." -Mahatma Gandhi
I have an idea - because m&d have trouble installing new software, why not sell Linux preinstalled (with all the autodetection, etc.) on a new hard drive? They buy the HD, take it home, unplug the old one and plug in the new one. If they hate it, they can take the Linux drive out and replace it with the original. PLUS, loading costs are minimal because you can clone everything from a preconfigured master system.
Whaddayathink?
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Taken from Linspire Pros:
Taken from Linspire Cons:
I've seen quite a few other examples like that. They mention MacOSX's firewall is activated by default in the summary and in the description later on they say it's not. Mandrake has nearly no cons, and is not the winner. They mention it's "Hard to install other software" (notice the copy-paste)... I think they don't know anything about urpmi...
Don't take this "report" to your boss.
Qui ne va pas à la chasse n'a pas de gibier
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I use OpenBSD, it's made by canadians who don't pay US taxes (ie, fund the "war" with Iraq).
Don't use OS/X unless you want to fund Fuhrer Bush's war machine!
You got modded down as well for asking this ;-) Often I see posts clearly moderated wrongly, and this is really just a testament of that particularly moderator cluelessness. Too bad metamoderation does not really work.