Your comment got me thinking about how MS handles there money.
Computers, software, monopoilstic tactics, and technology asside, MS handles its business quite strangely. Specificly they issue very, very small dividends to its shareholders. BillG and friends would rather MS keep the cash then give it out to the other owners. If what you say is true and they have a history of large, apparently stupid, expensive projects, prehaps its possible the the BOD of MS would rather piss away there money then pay taxes or pay out dividends.
True, but your "secure by default" is important to the OpenBSD people. There goal is to create a secure opearating system, period.
With other OS distros, be it linux, other bsd's, commercial unix'x or stuff from MS, many services are turned on by default. Services provided by packages not necessaraly developed in house. The vendor hasent audited the code so is realy unaware of the risk of running it. The sysadmin is doubly unaware of the risk; he hasent audited the code (or is taking the word of a trusted auditor..) and may not be compleatly aware that the code is even running.
OpenBSD "secure by default" means that when a system is installed somebody has to make a concious decision to enable services, and thus make the system less secure (bug free services or not; think "airplane rule" here). Hopefully the person enabling the service will think about the security consiquences of doing so. If they dont thats not realy OpenBSDs fault.
I have no idea how OpenSSH is configured out of the box on OpenBSD, or where the (potential) hole is for that matter, but I doubt it.
Since its recomended as the right way of doing it, RootLogins are probly set to off. The hole might only allow access to the user account your trying to login as, and with RootLogins to off, it probabaly trumps any user hole.
When was it decided that use of EM spectrum was a inane right?
To prefute the freedom of speech card, this has nothing to do with hindering speech. Stations are not being shut down because of what there saying. There being shutdown because the limited resource that they have been alowed to use is needed elsewhere.
Some people use linux because it is better the other OSs. Some people use it because it is free-as-in-beer.
For the people who use it because it is better, the macromedia authoring tools are better then the tools that currently exist for unix/linux (ie, none save for programatic creation).
If the win and mac versions of director come from a common code base, esp if they have an OS X version then the code is already writen with cross platform portability in mind. If thats the case then it would be relativly trivial to do the port to linux.
But the ultimate problem is that web desiginers desigine for IE, which means they test with IE. Which means there running IE on a MS OS. Unitl webdesiginers are actualy using linux then there wont be a market.
With quantum encryption, the way you would know that your being tapped is by your message being invalid.
But QE is not the magic bullet. It requires point to point unamplefied fibre does it not? It would be easier to send a trusted messenger since you would get the same effect: message either gets through or it dosent, and if it dosent you have to assume its comprimized.
Your analogy is flawed. Opening a letter not addressed to you is illegal. Owning a letter opener is not, but the DMCA makes owning a electronic knife illegal.
Mathmatical proofs and unit testing asside make sure that your program dosent crap out when its being used or abused. So get some regular people to bang on it..
For the record it was some minor traffix offence; definitly not an indictable offence. Had he been comvicted (which I dont think he was) it was a misdemeanor at best.
No where near a felon.
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Youve hit the nail on the head.. Your argument is nearly exactly that of mine and it amazes me that there are so few people with it since its clearly correct. Congrats Us!.
More or less.deb's come from only one place, the official Debian people. There are half a dozen.rpm distributions, each with there own set of basic.rpms, which knowone would consiter interchanging, and then there slightly different set of adons which Im sure people do interchange.
And then there are the hundreds (thousands?) of developement teams out there who, in addition to source, also distribute there products in rpm format. With not necessaraly well defined rpm specs. Or if they do have well defined rpm specs, there not tested agianst all 1/2dosen rpm distros, let alone on well (ab)used boxes.
I guess its kinda like the difference beteween car parts from a dealer, installed by a "factory trained mechanic" vs. generic parts installed by Bob down the road. Theres only one place to get.deb; the.deb factory. Everyone and his dog is trying to distribute rpms..
Whatever. Or write down one side of the exam book on your first pass, and when you come back to make corrections put it on the otherside.
If your being tested on logic as opposed to syntax... Its about the same as essay questions.. If its a language class, spelling counts. Spelling dosent count with other classes, but if its horrificlt wrong, or you spell the name of budy youve been studying for 4 months wrong then there going to take off points.
But I definitly hate chickenshit spelling corrections in exams as much as I hate chickenshit spelling flames..
What the hell kind of inane question is this? How long is it going to be untill we get a Ask Slashdot question along the lines of: "I recently crawled out of the primordial ooze and am wondering how to beath without gills. Please help."
But to anwser you, since you apparently dont know anything, http://veritas.com/. But most importantly get a LART. And a goddamm clue.
I never said theft of a service was acceptable. My point is that (for this example) Microsoft diddnt loose 20x(cover price). Does Microsoft loose money to pirates? Sure. Do they loose pirated_copies*list_price? No. Not everyone who uses pirated software would have purchased it.
There is a reason why there is a distinction beteween "theft" and "theft of service". Because there is a distinction.
In your example, this person did not steal $1,691.00 from microsoft. It is the theft of a potential sale. Not everyone who runs pirated software would purchase it if they could not get it otherwise.
Clearly since these 20 people are using pirated software they are unwilling to spend the money on XP. Why do you think that everyone that uses software is willing to spend money on it?
Stealing a snickers bar is infinitly different. Effen had to purchase supplies to make the bar, and then distribute it. There is a very large incremental cost in producing a tangable item such as a choclate bar. In your example, someone is buring 20 copies of XP. There was zero incremental cost to Microsoft in that operation.
The problem with wireless is that its horificly unreliable. The 802.11b spec was desigined for mobile devices working in a line of sight, indoor, office enviroment.
I cant see how a company could make any guarentees to QoS when none of the underlying technology will make that guarentee, and I cant see a normal person buying into a service that dosent make any QoS guarentees.
This is not to say that community wireless projects are not a good idea, but as soon as you start selling something it has to work.
Because since deregulation (or more accuratly shotgun competition) happend later in Canada the traditional telcos are still in the very unique spend-money-now-make-profit-in-20-years state of mind.
The most significant reason for telco prices to drop from 1975 to 1990 was fiber. Not breaking up ATT.
The incentive that AT&T had to develop fiber tunks is that there cheeper. Fiber breaks less then copper, so even with the significantly higher instalation costs in the long run it costs less to opearate.
Also, regardless of price for LD, the world in general was getting smaller (think: nightly news from Viet Nam). Deamnd for LD went up. Copper couldnt handle it, ATT was by regulation obligated to provide a certin level of service. They were thus obligated to invent better technology to provide that service.
A well regulated natural monopoly will be cheeper to the customer then competition in such a sector (by definition cheeper==better, economics-wise). Anyone who has basic math skils and 5 minutes of time to think about it can see this. Unfortunatly politicians dont fall into that catagory.
AT there was never government protection for Bell..
Im also a Canuck, but I do know a bit of the telco history.. Bell acheived a monopoly through mergers in the early early years, and buyouts later on. A communications network is a natural monopoly and once Bell acheaved it it wasent that hard to maintain.
Now, government regulators were at that point faced with a problem: competition is good, but yet natural monopolies are better. All over north america (significantly, crossing national borders and policies) more or less of the same thing happened: Government set up watch dogs to keep prirces low, and consistant from rural to urban areas. In a lot of areas the telcos diddnt want, because they couldnt afford to at there regulated consistant-accross-the-board prices run copper out to rural areas. So governments more or less paid the initial cost of the network install out to stickville provided the telcos would operate it and the bill to the customer in stickville would be the same as in metropolis. Government is happy because now all there peons have telephones and the telcos are happy because now they have more customers for free. Im sure that some of these deals involved long term leases to the telcos for the network, and this might look at government setting up a monopoly, but had they not the network would never have been built in the first place. Not quite so simple and neferiaous as you make it out to be.
The traditional telco are now facing major problems because of this. Consiter Maratime Telephone and Telegraph (now MTT, even more accuratly a part of Aliant..) here in Halifax, Nova Scotia for example. Halifax has the cheepest last mile high speed internet anywhere in the world, save for Canbera Au. We have a dense urban enviroment, both MTT (the traditional telco) and the cable companies offer high speed internet, and the cable companies (Eastlink) also offer telco services as well.
Since the cable companies only offer telco (and HS internet (and for that matter, cable)) in the urban areas there average per-drop pots costs are significantly lower then the average per-drop pots connection of MTT for their provence wide network. Eastlink telco is less then MTT. 'Bundles' of cable, telco and internet are only slightly more then just telco and internet from MTT.
The urban lines pay for the rural lines for MTT. For eastlink the urban lines have a lower sticker cost, and they dont offer rural service at all.
Competition has been forced on MTT. They are obligated to interconnect there telco network with that of competetors. However, regulation has not dissipeared. They are also obligated to maintain service - and cost - to everyone, everywhere in Nova Scotia. They are lobbying hard to introduce a split urban/rural rate for telco service. Eneviatably it will happen.
I guess Im ranting on here, but the moral of the story is that we were all better off with a well regulated monopoly.
One of my pet peves is people purchasing tools that dont meet the well defined spec and then later complain that there thing is broken. You bought it, suck it up.
My favourite (most hated?) example is the 1024 week roll over problem with GPS receivers. One of the first public whitepapers/specs clearly spelt out the problem, and while it diddnt mention a solution (a implementaion problem), the problem was public as long as the GPS spec itself was public.. Living on the coast around that time there were numerous news stories from the coast guard and fishermen complaning about how there old receivers will stop working and how all hell will break loose. If you happen to be operating a craft with a broken GPS receiver which stops working at the roll over point then your responsible for purchasing that POS. And if you happened to cause an accident due to you POS, IMNSOHO you are criminaly responsible.
But I digress. Off the top of my head I cant think of how opearating a broken DVD player might be life threating. Im almost positive that there is some group that licenses manufacturers to use the phrase 'dvd player', even if its a group of dvd plyer makers.. In a perfect world that group should be more stringnant on who they issue there stickers to. Or prehaps even better have levels of compliance. IE have discs that implement seamless branching labeled as such ala Dolby extensions to analogue tapes, and players clearly labeled with what features they can and cant support, with a non catastrofic failure mode.
What your describing is staticly linking all of your libraries into a end product. And thats just plain stupid. There is DLL hell in Windows, and there is dependency/SO hell in linux.
If you want to install every half ass writen shareware program in windows then your going to run into trouble. And if you want to install every bleeding edge (or half assed) program in linux that requires not-yet-in-your-distribution libraries then your going to run into problems.
The solution on the windows side is to not run half assed shareware programs, and the solution on the linux side is to be very, very carefull of what you install; preferable those fomr your distrbution vendow..
If you have a DVD player that dosent do seamless branching, then you dont have a DVD player. Its in the spec. Bitch to your vender if you want, but you cant complain to a DVD maker for making a DVD that dosent play on your notquiteDVD player.
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Computers, software, monopoilstic tactics, and technology asside, MS handles its business quite strangely. Specificly they issue very, very small dividends to its shareholders. BillG and friends would rather MS keep the cash then give it out to the other owners. If what you say is true and they have a history of large, apparently stupid, expensive projects, prehaps its possible the the BOD of MS would rather piss away there money then pay taxes or pay out dividends.
hmm....
With other OS distros, be it linux, other bsd's, commercial unix'x or stuff from MS, many services are turned on by default. Services provided by packages not necessaraly developed in house. The vendor hasent audited the code so is realy unaware of the risk of running it. The sysadmin is doubly unaware of the risk; he hasent audited the code (or is taking the word of a trusted auditor..) and may not be compleatly aware that the code is even running.
OpenBSD "secure by default" means that when a system is installed somebody has to make a concious decision to enable services, and thus make the system less secure (bug free services or not; think "airplane rule" here). Hopefully the person enabling the service will think about the security consiquences of doing so. If they dont thats not realy OpenBSDs fault.
Since its recomended as the right way of doing it, RootLogins are probly set to off. The hole might only allow access to the user account your trying to login as, and with RootLogins to off, it probabaly trumps any user hole.
To prefute the freedom of speech card, this has nothing to do with hindering speech. Stations are not being shut down because of what there saying. There being shutdown because the limited resource that they have been alowed to use is needed elsewhere.
Some people use linux because it is better the other OSs. Some people use it because it is free-as-in-beer.
For the people who use it because it is better, the macromedia authoring tools are better then the tools that currently exist for unix/linux (ie, none save for programatic creation).
If the win and mac versions of director come from a common code base, esp if they have an OS X version then the code is already writen with cross platform portability in mind. If thats the case then it would be relativly trivial to do the port to linux.
But the ultimate problem is that web desiginers desigine for IE, which means they test with IE. Which means there running IE on a MS OS. Unitl webdesiginers are actualy using linux then there wont be a market.
But QE is not the magic bullet. It requires point to point unamplefied fibre does it not? It would be easier to send a trusted messenger since you would get the same effect: message either gets through or it dosent, and if it dosent you have to assume its comprimized.
Your analogy is flawed. Opening a letter not addressed to you is illegal. Owning a letter opener is not, but the DMCA makes owning a electronic knife illegal.
Mathmatical proofs and unit testing asside make sure that your program dosent crap out when its being used or abused. So get some regular people to bang on it..
No where near a felon.
More or less
And then there are the hundreds (thousands?) of developement teams out there who, in addition to source, also distribute there products in rpm format. With not necessaraly well defined rpm specs. Or if they do have well defined rpm specs, there not tested agianst all 1/2dosen rpm distros, let alone on well (ab)used boxes.
I guess its kinda like the difference beteween car parts from a dealer, installed by a "factory trained mechanic" vs. generic parts installed by Bob down the road. Theres only one place to get .deb; the .deb factory. Everyone and his dog is trying to distribute rpms..
If your being tested on logic as opposed to syntax... Its about the same as essay questions.. If its a language class, spelling counts. Spelling dosent count with other classes, but if its horrificlt wrong, or you spell the name of budy youve been studying for 4 months wrong then there going to take off points.
But I definitly hate chickenshit spelling corrections in exams as much as I hate chickenshit spelling flames..
Yes, my first computer was a C=64, why do you ask?
But to anwser you, since you apparently dont know anything, http://veritas.com/. But most importantly get a LART. And a goddamm clue.
Uh, ever heard of something called BIND?
In your example, this person did not steal $1,691.00 from microsoft. It is the theft of a potential sale. Not everyone who runs pirated software would purchase it if they could not get it otherwise.
Clearly since these 20 people are using pirated software they are unwilling to spend the money on XP. Why do you think that everyone that uses software is willing to spend money on it?
Stealing a snickers bar is infinitly different. Effen had to purchase supplies to make the bar, and then distribute it. There is a very large incremental cost in producing a tangable item such as a choclate bar. In your example, someone is buring 20 copies of XP. There was zero incremental cost to Microsoft in that operation.
I cant see how a company could make any guarentees to QoS when none of the underlying technology will make that guarentee, and I cant see a normal person buying into a service that dosent make any QoS guarentees.
This is not to say that community wireless projects are not a good idea, but as soon as you start selling something it has to work.
Because since deregulation (or more accuratly shotgun competition) happend later in Canada the traditional telcos are still in the very unique spend-money-now-make-profit-in-20-years state of mind.
Also, regardless of price for LD, the world in general was getting smaller (think: nightly news from Viet Nam). Deamnd for LD went up. Copper couldnt handle it, ATT was by regulation obligated to provide a certin level of service. They were thus obligated to invent better technology to provide that service.
A well regulated natural monopoly will be cheeper to the customer then competition in such a sector (by definition cheeper==better, economics-wise). Anyone who has basic math skils and 5 minutes of time to think about it can see this. Unfortunatly politicians dont fall into that catagory.
Now, government regulators were at that point faced with a problem: competition is good, but yet natural monopolies are better. All over north america (significantly, crossing national borders and policies) more or less of the same thing happened: Government set up watch dogs to keep prirces low, and consistant from rural to urban areas. In a lot of areas the telcos diddnt want, because they couldnt afford to at there regulated consistant-accross-the-board prices run copper out to rural areas. So governments more or less paid the initial cost of the network install out to stickville provided the telcos would operate it and the bill to the customer in stickville would be the same as in metropolis. Government is happy because now all there peons have telephones and the telcos are happy because now they have more customers for free. Im sure that some of these deals involved long term leases to the telcos for the network, and this might look at government setting up a monopoly, but had they not the network would never have been built in the first place. Not quite so simple and neferiaous as you make it out to be.
The traditional telco are now facing major problems because of this. Consiter Maratime Telephone and Telegraph (now MTT, even more accuratly a part of Aliant..) here in Halifax, Nova Scotia for example. Halifax has the cheepest last mile high speed internet anywhere in the world, save for Canbera Au. We have a dense urban enviroment, both MTT (the traditional telco) and the cable companies offer high speed internet, and the cable companies (Eastlink) also offer telco services as well.
Since the cable companies only offer telco (and HS internet (and for that matter, cable)) in the urban areas there average per-drop pots costs are significantly lower then the average per-drop pots connection of MTT for their provence wide network. Eastlink telco is less then MTT. 'Bundles' of cable, telco and internet are only slightly more then just telco and internet from MTT.
The urban lines pay for the rural lines for MTT. For eastlink the urban lines have a lower sticker cost, and they dont offer rural service at all.
Competition has been forced on MTT. They are obligated to interconnect there telco network with that of competetors. However, regulation has not dissipeared. They are also obligated to maintain service - and cost - to everyone, everywhere in Nova Scotia. They are lobbying hard to introduce a split urban/rural rate for telco service. Eneviatably it will happen.
I guess Im ranting on here, but the moral of the story is that we were all better off with a well regulated monopoly.
You dont have to pay more for there idiocy. And on the way to paying what you should, you got a good deal.
My favourite (most hated?) example is the 1024 week roll over problem with GPS receivers. One of the first public whitepapers/specs clearly spelt out the problem, and while it diddnt mention a solution (a implementaion problem), the problem was public as long as the GPS spec itself was public.. Living on the coast around that time there were numerous news stories from the coast guard and fishermen complaning about how there old receivers will stop working and how all hell will break loose. If you happen to be operating a craft with a broken GPS receiver which stops working at the roll over point then your responsible for purchasing that POS. And if you happened to cause an accident due to you POS, IMNSOHO you are criminaly responsible.
But I digress. Off the top of my head I cant think of how opearating a broken DVD player might be life threating. Im almost positive that there is some group that licenses manufacturers to use the phrase 'dvd player', even if its a group of dvd plyer makers.. In a perfect world that group should be more stringnant on who they issue there stickers to. Or prehaps even better have levels of compliance. IE have discs that implement seamless branching labeled as such ala Dolby extensions to analogue tapes, and players clearly labeled with what features they can and cant support, with a non catastrofic failure mode.
If you want to install every half ass writen shareware program in windows then your going to run into trouble. And if you want to install every bleeding edge (or half assed) program in linux that requires not-yet-in-your-distribution libraries then your going to run into problems.
The solution on the windows side is to not run half assed shareware programs, and the solution on the linux side is to be very, very carefull of what you install; preferable those fomr your distrbution vendow..
If you have a DVD player that dosent do seamless branching, then you dont have a DVD player. Its in the spec. Bitch to your vender if you want, but you cant complain to a DVD maker for making a DVD that dosent play on your notquiteDVD player.
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