I can't quite recall, but what I do recall is a Dirk Gently radio play, the one with the electric monk, where a programmer is making software that interprets financial statements into music.
There's a huge difference - none of the Ubuntu distributions is crippled in any way and in theory any one could morph into the other with the right packages.
This is just what we need, having the power of downloading and executing arbitrary code with a single click will finally put Linux on par with Internet Explorer!
I can barely see a difference. If there is a shift, it's around 7-12 degrees, and either way it can be explained best by a slanted notepad, not a slanted moon.
It's primary purpose isn't to avoid the measure, but to play the game for you. Sure, avoiding the protection is necessary for this, but it is not why it was designed and produced.
Why not? When the big bang banged, it sent the universe hurling in every other direction, so why not both forward in time and backward in time. Of course, antimatter running backwards through time is identical to matter running forwards, thereby creating the parallel universe where everything is the same except that evil is good and they all have goatee beards.
A mixture of solar when clear and wind power for the dust storms perhaps. No fuel to supply, just generators. Making chemical batteries might be another option. Like you said though, a large stable power source will be needed, and nuclear is the only short-term answer.
Surprisingly, a lot of comments have been of the "I'm no fan of MS, but kudos to them for this" variety. I'm not going to install it for the inauguration - hell I'm Australian and still I can watch it live on two free to air stations or the BBC, CNN and Fox cable coverage - but still I congratulate MS for catering to the mac and linux communities when really they could have easily ignored them.
True, and the sooner it is dealt with the better. We already know how to disinfect machines, that's not the problem. The problem will be the hundreds of thousands of minor variations in Windows setups out there, and the number of unmaintained and infected systems.
The cure will be guaranteed to crash some, corrupt others and hopefully also fix the problem. At least until the next largest botnet fills the gap. I wouldn't be surprised if it was replaced in a day with a prepared botnet just waiting for the signal.
If the cure ever gets spread we just better hope it's not essential systems going down. We'll still have spam and botnets even if it's done, which is why I sue for caution, but hopefully we wont suffer a major crisis.
We're dealing with millions of machines here. Would you bet your life that none of them support critical infrastructure or life support machines? There are plenty of companies including hospitals and power stations running top to bottom Windows solutions, not to mention unpatched embedded systems running one Windows flavour or another that are directly or indirectly connected to the net, and hence are potentially infected. If the cure for the botnet cased an accidental reboot or some other unintended fault in even a fraction of a percent of machines it is very likely that critical infrastructure will be affected. It's a Y2K level of disaster waiting to happen. Those life support machines were Y2K certified, but they've never been Storm certified. We need a level of response similar to the Y2K audit to cure this, not just another virus in the mix.
If it screws up uninfected machines and networks, oh well, umm whoops? If there are actually critical, life-supporting systems affected, damn, I guess we can't say sorry to the dead, perhaps send a nice e-mail to their grieving families?
There are plenty of scenarios in which the cure is far more catastrophic than the botnet. We should not be reckless or rash in implementing a solution. When taking on something that utilises the worlds stupidity I think we should keep Murphys law foremost in mind.
It happens less on linux, but it still happens. Read fighting fragmentation on linux by the same author for a clearer picture. His solution there is to defrag the drive by copying to a backup and copying back over the original data. So not only does fragmentation happen, you can defrag without fancy tools. GP is 100% correct.
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Other than starving CIS majors, who barely earn enough money from their university's computer lab to pay for Ramen Noodles, who does that?
People who read slashdot do.
How is that offtopic? Tsar and Czar are both derived from Caesar.
Like this guy?
I can't quite recall, but what I do recall is a Dirk Gently radio play, the one with the electric monk, where a programmer is making software that interprets financial statements into music.
There's a huge difference - none of the Ubuntu distributions is crippled in any way and in theory any one could morph into the other with the right packages.
Heres one good reason.
In ten years we'll all be speaking Korean.
This is just what we need, having the power of downloading and executing arbitrary code with a single click will finally put Linux on par with Internet Explorer!
I can barely see a difference. If there is a shift, it's around 7-12 degrees, and either way it can be explained best by a slanted notepad, not a slanted moon.
It's primary purpose isn't to avoid the measure, but to play the game for you. Sure, avoiding the protection is necessary for this, but it is not why it was designed and produced.
Why not? When the big bang banged, it sent the universe hurling in every other direction, so why not both forward in time and backward in time. Of course, antimatter running backwards through time is identical to matter running forwards, thereby creating the parallel universe where everything is the same except that evil is good and they all have goatee beards.
I choose to spend my time socializing with my friends
So how the hell do you clock so many hours on warcraft then?
Ok, they're either Linux zealots or daemon worshippers then.
A mixture of solar when clear and wind power for the dust storms perhaps. No fuel to supply, just generators. Making chemical batteries might be another option. Like you said though, a large stable power source will be needed, and nuclear is the only short-term answer.
Surprisingly, a lot of comments have been of the "I'm no fan of MS, but kudos to them for this" variety. I'm not going to install it for the inauguration - hell I'm Australian and still I can watch it live on two free to air stations or the BBC, CNN and Fox cable coverage - but still I congratulate MS for catering to the mac and linux communities when really they could have easily ignored them.
Funny? I second his opinions, but in a surly, stoic and humourless manner.
Stay under 88mph?
True, and the sooner it is dealt with the better. We already know how to disinfect machines, that's not the problem. The problem will be the hundreds of thousands of minor variations in Windows setups out there, and the number of unmaintained and infected systems.
The cure will be guaranteed to crash some, corrupt others and hopefully also fix the problem. At least until the next largest botnet fills the gap. I wouldn't be surprised if it was replaced in a day with a prepared botnet just waiting for the signal.
If the cure ever gets spread we just better hope it's not essential systems going down. We'll still have spam and botnets even if it's done, which is why I sue for caution, but hopefully we wont suffer a major crisis.
We're dealing with millions of machines here. Would you bet your life that none of them support critical infrastructure or life support machines? There are plenty of companies including hospitals and power stations running top to bottom Windows solutions, not to mention unpatched embedded systems running one Windows flavour or another that are directly or indirectly connected to the net, and hence are potentially infected. If the cure for the botnet cased an accidental reboot or some other unintended fault in even a fraction of a percent of machines it is very likely that critical infrastructure will be affected. It's a Y2K level of disaster waiting to happen. Those life support machines were Y2K certified, but they've never been Storm certified. We need a level of response similar to the Y2K audit to cure this, not just another virus in the mix.
If it screws up uninfected machines and networks, oh well, umm whoops?
If there are actually critical, life-supporting systems affected, damn, I guess we can't say sorry to the dead, perhaps send a nice e-mail to their grieving families?
There are plenty of scenarios in which the cure is far more catastrophic than the botnet. We should not be reckless or rash in implementing a solution. When taking on something that utilises the worlds stupidity I think we should keep Murphys law foremost in mind.
Just get them to play this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz-grdpKVqg and they should change their tune.
The Eulogy Song - hey, you aked for it. You were one of us Roland, we'll all miss you, trolls included.
The successful dictionary attack gave the hacker the unencrypted password. Encoding wouldn't help at all in this case.
It happens less on linux, but it still happens. Read fighting fragmentation on linux by the same author for a clearer picture. His solution there is to defrag the drive by copying to a backup and copying back over the original data. So not only does fragmentation happen, you can defrag without fancy tools. GP is 100% correct.
Why? Exabyte is 2^60, GB 2^30, and MB 2^20 - simple.
FTFY