Actually, the error should never have happened. NASA should move towards metric standards ASAP. One less things to go wrong. Not the last time lack of standardization turns out to be expensive, either.
The rest of the world is using the metric standard anyway. Why not bite the bullet and modernize?
Right.. However, I hardly think their business wisdom is very wise. If they concentrated locally, they would get lower marketing costs. If the artists really hit it big time, they go national with them. This is to some degree being done, but not enough. I'm not willing to accept that they're spending lotsa dollars on promoting Titney Spears and lotsa less known outfits. The entire entertainment industry is about greed. It's about artists were appreciated for their value, not their profitablity. Where's the love of music and movies? Gone! They need to down the ante, basically. All of them. And we need to stop buying what they tell us to. That Matchbox 20 can sell that many boring records, is beyond me...
More like the whole conscious population. Anyhow, I bet they're trying to soften their image in front of the online swapping showdown. PR is a wonderful thing..
This is probably flamebait - but aren't both candidates lame ducks from political family dynasties? They are both excellent at spinning the story - spin, spin, spin 'till we go crosseyed and can't facts glaring in our eyes.
Gore is maybe the best candidate - though nobody knows how much involved he was in Clintonian practices. We've all heard about the Buddhist temple.. (Bush raises his money in churches.. ) It's reduced to a judgement call - because facts have been so obscured it's hard to get to them. And, of course, he invented the internet. Didn't he work with DARPA? Then again, he's stated he's willing to take on big business. That has to account for something? He's also the one who's been working with Bill Clinton, arguably a very politically successful president. According to popular legend, Al Gore would do in-depth research that Bill Clinton didn't have time for. Oh - and he's so stiff and uncomfortable on-screen he HAS to be a geek of some kind. That counts here, right?
Bush is saying all the right things - restoring dignity to the white house, compassionate conservatism. Heck - he's even somewhat pro-choice (abortion when there's been incest, rape or when mother's life is threatened). So - how much of this does he really mean? If we look at his record, he's made some progress on some fronts. Texas is still lagging behind, though. NRA is quoted saying they will be "working out of the Oval Office" if he wins. He's getting endorsements and support left and right from big money and business. And on his website - the daily trivia is what team he managed.. Right on issue! Oh - and as a humble christian, shouldn't he at least research some of the death penalties he's ok'ed? And isn't he only inclusive on christians? God forbid someone are atheist, buddhist or even worse - muslim? "I guess we'll just school-prayer on them heretics!"
So - voting GW for president over one issue amounts to naivity. So does Al Gore. If you want integrity, go for Ralph Nader - if you can stomach his leftism. And, of course, if you're feeling really low, you can go for our favorite xenophobe and isolationist- Pat Buchanan.
Actually, if your computer has oomph, Mozilla prereleases are getting pretty good. I'd also recommend Galeon - Gecko rendering engine with a minimalistic user interface.
Well - Linux exploits are often more or less theoretical. However, the stakes are high - a root compromise is not fun to deal with!
What's more interesting, is that he in no way looked at what the services are, and how common they are. I don't give a hoot about postgress exploits - I use mysql. Sendmail exploits? puh-leese.. Qmail will do the job for you - securely. Basically - there's more beyond what Mr. Moody's nearsightedness allows him to see.
People will have DSL or cable modems. 56K modems will not last forever. Besides, if you pay by micropayments, isn't it more profitable to get 1 million people to download 10 songs, than 3 million people to download 1 song?
Anyhow - I have this dream that the recording industry will smarten up, dump CD prices, reduce the number of middlemen and give away the singles as tasters online. And screw most advertising as well. Just let the radio station DJs work out what's good and what's not. Guess what - I'm almost gonna put money CD sales will rise. Since the overhead for every release will be reduced, more albums are gonna be profitable. (Right now, they've cornered themselves in so that only 10 percent of all albums actually provide a profit. Or so they say.)
Singles are a scam. The radio stations should themselves choose what songs to play from the album. Music videos are promotional tools, so the record companies will keep those coming. The stakes will be higher though - because with the fall of the single, people will be more demanding of the entire album. Bye bye, Britney. Hello, REM!
Once code is actually executed(even in userspace), the number of possible exploits is multiplied by a factor of a lot.. So - Linux is not that invulnerable. Luckily, it's actually tricky to activate a trojan in Linux. I think that's the real Linux user-level security model - make it harder to install new binaries.
I lie in the dirt.. Thanks for clearing up! BTW - what's a good revision control system that's free and works crossplatform? I think we could use one around here anyhow..:)
But.. Let's say that I've got a diverse network. Some Macs, some MS boxes, some Linux boxes and a couple of solaris boxes for the fun of it. Now, we all work on the same project - say a web project. So - we all have shares from the file servers mounted on our workstations. It is now sufficient to find an open exploit on one of the four operating systems to hurt my business. See - this bug doesn't attack the plants - it attacks the soil itself(roughly speaking). So, the entire monoculture point becomes moot.
Furthermore, it's not necessary for the virus to carry code for all operating systems. ILOVEYOU et al taught us that. If the virus infects one machine, that's enough to clean out all network shares, and start spreading itself randomly (or less than randomly.. it could look in the inbox, and check what emails originate from vulnerable systems). Voila.. A few thousand years of agricultural experience gone.
This, I know.. There are very few places you can find journalistic integrity. I like to think that Mother Jones has a fair amount of it. Of course, it's pretty leftist. Still - they're not afraid to take on what goes on in the real world.
The point that I was making, was that I think the media should be required by law to inform us about possible sources of bias. Slashdot does this on a regular basis, whenever Andover.net is involved in an article, the guys will remind us of that.
God forbid.. Unless journalists keep compromising their own integrity to the point where the government is forced to pass legislature making it punishable not to enclose materials received from parties involved in an article along with an article - unless it's secret information - which in such a case will not be enclosed to the government, but to a court..
Though the devil may be in the details, I think we as media consumers would benefit from such information. There are lots of opinionated media fare that result from PR stunts and PR packets and plain bribed editorial space. (Such as what is going on in the software industry. I would reconsider the reviews in the media if I knew that the winner always was the one offering the biggest benefits to the journalist)
Hmm.. So - if I was to modify this and that, and sell logins to my X server, I wouldn't have to redistribute the changes? At least it's nothing that wasn't around before the web came..
The way I see it, the browser is the user interface. The server should also be considered the workstation. Publishing on the web then becomes redistributing the software, and you must thus supply your modififications to GPL'd software.
That is the problem. However, even if you are 100% vigilant on reading up on all security exploits, patching all applicable daemons, there is still a variable time-frame between a malicious hacker finding an exploit, and a developer finding an exploit. So - portscans can still lead to a compromise of your system - even if you're patched to hell and back.
There are versions of Red Hat not available for download. Maybe they send out versions with free support? Commercial Linux applications. They will always find ways to bribe the reviewers. And just 'cuz it's been going on before, doesn't make it right.
Oh.. Wanna know why they pick on free software? Cuz this means some of the Linux companies are attempting to suck integrity out of software journalists. And don't come here and say 'oh.. we know this would happen sooner or later'.. If you wanna be defeatist, go vote for the Shrub.
Access to preview versions is still necessary to release a good review at the time of release. If they don't have brains or access to CVS, is a different matter.
Well, yes.. But they still should be able to point out double standards. If what is said in the tucows article is true, then it warrants a big slap on the wrist for Mandrake, SUSE et al. Shame on you!
I totally agree with ZDNet being - and definitely having been - MS-centric. Hey - I understand them. (I don't let them off the hook). Money can be hard to come by online.. Doesn't make it right, though.
A workalike is sometimes a good thing. The developers aim to emulate the functionality of a mature product. Microsoft spent lots of dollars creating Microsoft Excel. All the guys working on GNumeric do, is trying to copy the functionality. At least that's what they did some time ago. If they had to come up with a totally new concept for a spreadsheet, I'm afraid it would be below par. Unfortunately, there seems to be a shortage of UI specialists among us. Furthermore, the training the users invested in the product on the other platform, will hopefully somewhat transfer across to the workalike clone.
Let's face it. We owe the closed-license people some thank-yous for the standards they've established, and their investments into user interfaces. Of course, if they opened their source, we would have a heck of a lot easier time. But then again, we're talking of the real world here:(
If the portscan is successful (they find an exploitable port) and they use it, then that is similar to someone finding an open window on your ground level and entering rather than warning you or walking by. Though the reason for anger is more of the "how could i be so dumb!" sort, it is still an anger. So - when I see people sneaking around in my backyard, I tend to ask them to leave.
If shockwave would just become scriptable, i'd be all over it. It's still nice for static content, though - fast downloads, exciting graphics, sounds,interactive.. It's really all html presentation should be:)
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Actually, the error should never have happened. NASA should move towards metric standards ASAP. One less things to go wrong. Not the last time lack of standardization turns out to be expensive, either.
The rest of the world is using the metric standard anyway. Why not bite the bullet and modernize?
Anyway, I'm sure some uberhackers will subvert Carnivore into logging all traffic, thus boobytrapping the public support.
Right.. However, I hardly think their business wisdom is very wise. If they concentrated locally, they would get lower marketing costs. If the artists really hit it big time, they go national with them. This is to some degree being done, but not enough. I'm not willing to accept that they're spending lotsa dollars on promoting Titney Spears and lotsa less known outfits. The entire entertainment industry is about greed. It's about artists were appreciated for their value, not their profitablity. Where's the love of music and movies? Gone! They need to down the ante, basically. All of them. And we need to stop buying what they tell us to. That Matchbox 20 can sell that many boring records, is beyond me...
More like the whole conscious population. Anyhow, I bet they're trying to soften their image in front of the online swapping showdown. PR is a wonderful thing..
now if they smarten up on online stuff, i might start paying for RIAA cds! :)
This Linux-watch is pre-alpha.. They're probably figuring how to run it at all, not yet considering user interface to be a top priority.
This is probably flamebait - but aren't both candidates lame ducks from political family dynasties? They are both excellent at spinning the story - spin, spin, spin 'till we go crosseyed and can't facts glaring in our eyes.
Gore is maybe the best candidate - though nobody knows how much involved he was in Clintonian practices. We've all heard about the Buddhist temple.. (Bush raises his money in churches.. ) It's reduced to a judgement call - because facts have been so obscured it's hard to get to them. And, of course, he invented the internet. Didn't he work with DARPA? Then again, he's stated he's willing to take on big business. That has to account for something? He's also the one who's been working with Bill Clinton, arguably a very politically successful president. According to popular legend, Al Gore would do in-depth research that Bill Clinton didn't have time for. Oh - and he's so stiff and uncomfortable on-screen he HAS to be a geek of some kind. That counts here, right?
Bush is saying all the right things - restoring dignity to the white house, compassionate conservatism. Heck - he's even somewhat pro-choice (abortion when there's been incest, rape or when mother's life is threatened). So - how much of this does he really mean? If we look at his record, he's made some progress on some fronts. Texas is still lagging behind, though. NRA is quoted saying they will be "working out of the Oval Office" if he wins. He's getting endorsements and support left and right from big money and business. And on his website - the daily trivia is what team he managed.. Right on issue! Oh - and as a humble christian, shouldn't he at least research some of the death penalties he's ok'ed? And isn't he only inclusive on christians? God forbid someone are atheist, buddhist or even worse - muslim? "I guess we'll just school-prayer on them heretics!"
So - voting GW for president over one issue amounts to naivity. So does Al Gore. If you want integrity, go for Ralph Nader - if you can stomach his leftism. And, of course, if you're feeling really low, you can go for our favorite xenophobe and isolationist- Pat Buchanan.
Actually, if your computer has oomph, Mozilla prereleases are getting pretty good. I'd also recommend Galeon - Gecko rendering engine with a minimalistic user interface.
Well - Linux exploits are often more or less theoretical. However, the stakes are high - a root compromise is not fun to deal with!
What's more interesting, is that he in no way looked at what the services are, and how common they are. I don't give a hoot about postgress exploits - I use mysql. Sendmail exploits? puh-leese.. Qmail will do the job for you - securely. Basically - there's more beyond what Mr. Moody's nearsightedness allows him to see.
People will have DSL or cable modems. 56K modems will not last forever. Besides, if you pay by micropayments, isn't it more profitable to get 1 million people to download 10 songs, than 3 million people to download 1 song?
Anyhow - I have this dream that the recording industry will smarten up, dump CD prices, reduce the number of middlemen and give away the singles as tasters online. And screw most advertising as well. Just let the radio station DJs work out what's good and what's not. Guess what - I'm almost gonna put money CD sales will rise. Since the overhead for every release will be reduced, more albums are gonna be profitable. (Right now, they've cornered themselves in so that only 10 percent of all albums actually provide a profit. Or so they say.)
Singles are a scam. The radio stations should themselves choose what songs to play from the album. Music videos are promotional tools, so the record companies will keep those coming. The stakes will be higher though - because with the fall of the single, people will be more demanding of the entire album. Bye bye, Britney. Hello, REM!
Once code is actually executed(even in userspace), the number of possible exploits is multiplied by a factor of a lot.. So - Linux is not that invulnerable. Luckily, it's actually tricky to activate a trojan in Linux. I think that's the real Linux user-level security model - make it harder to install new binaries.
I lie in the dirt.. Thanks for clearing up! BTW - what's a good revision control system that's free and works crossplatform? I think we could use one around here anyhow.. :)
But.. Let's say that I've got a diverse network. Some Macs, some MS boxes, some Linux boxes and a couple of solaris boxes for the fun of it. Now, we all work on the same project - say a web project. So - we all have shares from the file servers mounted on our workstations. It is now sufficient to find an open exploit on one of the four operating systems to hurt my business. See - this bug doesn't attack the plants - it attacks the soil itself(roughly speaking). So, the entire monoculture point becomes moot.
Furthermore, it's not necessary for the virus to carry code for all operating systems. ILOVEYOU et al taught us that. If the virus infects one machine, that's enough to clean out all network shares, and start spreading itself randomly (or less than randomly.. it could look in the inbox, and check what emails originate from vulnerable systems). Voila.. A few thousand years of agricultural experience gone.
This, I know.. There are very few places you can find journalistic integrity. I like to think that Mother Jones has a fair amount of it. Of course, it's pretty leftist. Still - they're not afraid to take on what goes on in the real world.
The point that I was making, was that I think the media should be required by law to inform us about possible sources of bias. Slashdot does this on a regular basis, whenever Andover.net is involved in an article, the guys will remind us of that.
in a networked invironment, diversity = more applicable exploits. simple as that.
God forbid.. Unless journalists keep compromising their own integrity to the point where the government is forced to pass legislature making it punishable not to enclose materials received from parties involved in an article along with an article - unless it's secret information - which in such a case will not be enclosed to the government, but to a court..
Though the devil may be in the details, I think we as media consumers would benefit from such information. There are lots of opinionated media fare that result from PR stunts and PR packets and plain bribed editorial space. (Such as what is going on in the software industry. I would reconsider the reviews in the media if I knew that the winner always was the one offering the biggest benefits to the journalist)
Hmm.. So - if I was to modify this and that, and sell logins to my X server, I wouldn't have to redistribute the changes? At least it's nothing that wasn't around before the web came..
The way I see it, the browser is the user interface. The server should also be considered the workstation. Publishing on the web then becomes redistributing the software, and you must thus supply your modififications to GPL'd software.
Then again, I'm no lawyer..
That is the problem. However, even if you are 100% vigilant on reading up on all security exploits, patching all applicable daemons, there is still a variable time-frame between a malicious hacker finding an exploit, and a developer finding an exploit. So - portscans can still lead to a compromise of your system - even if you're patched to hell and back.
There are versions of Red Hat not available for download. Maybe they send out versions with free support? Commercial Linux applications. They will always find ways to bribe the reviewers. And just 'cuz it's been going on before, doesn't make it right.
Oh.. Wanna know why they pick on free software? Cuz this means some of the Linux companies are attempting to suck integrity out of software journalists. And don't come here and say 'oh.. we know this would happen sooner or later'.. If you wanna be defeatist, go vote for the Shrub.
Access to preview versions is still necessary to release a good review at the time of release. If they don't have brains or access to CVS, is a different matter.
Well, yes.. But they still should be able to point out double standards. If what is said in the tucows article is true, then it warrants a big slap on the wrist for Mandrake, SUSE et al. Shame on you!
I totally agree with ZDNet being - and definitely having been - MS-centric. Hey - I understand them. (I don't let them off the hook). Money can be hard to come by online.. Doesn't make it right, though.
A workalike is sometimes a good thing. The developers aim to emulate the functionality of a mature product. Microsoft spent lots of dollars creating Microsoft Excel. All the guys working on GNumeric do, is trying to copy the functionality. At least that's what they did some time ago. If they had to come up with a totally new concept for a spreadsheet, I'm afraid it would be below par. Unfortunately, there seems to be a shortage of UI specialists among us. Furthermore, the training the users invested in the product on the other platform, will hopefully somewhat transfer across to the workalike clone.
Let's face it. We owe the closed-license people some thank-yous for the standards they've established, and their investments into user interfaces. Of course, if they opened their source, we would have a heck of a lot easier time. But then again, we're talking of the real world here :(
If the portscan is successful (they find an exploitable port) and they use it, then that is similar to someone finding an open window on your ground level and entering rather than warning you or walking by. Though the reason for anger is more of the "how could i be so dumb!" sort, it is still an anger. So - when I see people sneaking around in my backyard, I tend to ask them to leave.
If shockwave would just become scriptable, i'd be all over it. It's still nice for static content, though - fast downloads, exciting graphics, sounds,interactive.. It's really all html presentation should be :)