True. We also don't like having our shopping bags packed by the cashier. This happened to me the first time two months ago in Spain and I admit I was alienated at first, but quickly got used to it because it was a time saver.
Get a shell on the vulnerable device (methods vary).
How will this supposed worm manage to login to the box? Brute force? Properly configured Linux will block login attempts for quite a while after several failures. SSH? Can't be compromised within a reasonable time. Telnet? Not supported on all routers I know.
The article doesn't go into the essential details, so I call FUD until proven otherwise.
Shit happens in Germany like everywhere else, it just tends to draw more attention. It seems every loud fart in Germany is seen as a possible sign of apocalypse.
But more than any other modern democracy, we have been very successful here in digesting the less laudable chapters of our history in a sane way, and build a progressive, free society in the process. I think many other countries can learn from us in this regard.
Wal-Mart has no presence in Germany (although they tried). The retailer is in question is Kaufhof, which has hypermarkets in many major cities. Compared with the hundreds of MediaMarkt, Saturn or Medion stores I don't think their decision will have a nocticeable impact on the market. Even among hypermarkets Kaufhof is one of the minor players. This is totally played up by the press.
I find it amusing that many commercial games suffer from the opposite problem: Millions are thrown into state of the art content, but the gameplay is awkward or unbalanced, or the game crashes often.
Well, it's only a screenful and every second word is "patents". The word "freedom" doesn't occur a single time. Further, it doesn't mandate access to the source code, which worries me even more.
Just watch it on TV. And tell them you are forced to do that because you cannot watch the games your non-Windows computer, your smartphone, your Playstation etc.
For as long as people have been complaining about the gimp UI, pro-gimpers have been saying "that's how linux UIs work, it's better, get over it and get a virtual desktop to manage the windows"
What they really mean is "that's how our Gtk toolkit in all its archaic glory works. We designed it specifically for the Gimp and it has never been more than a kludge, and we have no intention to improve on that because GNU and Gnome use it, so it must rock."
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That's not manly. I use them to toggle in the OS loader every time I need to boot.
Well, some guys from ZDNet presented it as a Windows 7 beta and nobody noticed the difference.
4.2 works fine for me BTW and I switched to it from 3.5.10 for everyday use, but the former releases indeed were quite unfinished.
Both are deprecated. It seems you meant compiz.
KDE 4. This is where Microsoft apparently borrowed their ideas this time.
True. We also don't like having our shopping bags packed by the cashier. This happened to me the first time two months ago in Spain and I admit I was alienated at first, but quickly got used to it because it was a time saver.
Ok, TFA states
Get a shell on the vulnerable device (methods vary).
How will this supposed worm manage to login to the box? Brute force? Properly configured Linux will block login attempts for quite a while after several failures. SSH? Can't be compromised within a reasonable time. Telnet? Not supported on all routers I know.
The article doesn't go into the essential details, so I call FUD until proven otherwise.
Shit happens in Germany like everywhere else, it just tends to draw more attention. It seems every loud fart in Germany is seen as a possible sign of apocalypse.
But more than any other modern democracy, we have been very successful here in digesting the less laudable chapters of our history in a sane way, and build a progressive, free society in the process. I think many other countries can learn from us in this regard.
Du beschreibst hier äußerst akkurat den typischen Ablauf einer Bundestagssitzung...
These aren't extremes, but perfectly valid everyday coverage here in Germany.
82 million.
And millions of native Americans would still be alive had they been available in the 1800s.
Ah, I understand. The German populace loved violence! We had to be neutered and conditioned! Is that what schools teach in other countries?
Wal-Mart has no presence in Germany (although they tried). The retailer is in question is Kaufhof, which has hypermarkets in many major cities. Compared with the hundreds of MediaMarkt, Saturn or Medion stores I don't think their decision will have a nocticeable impact on the market. Even among hypermarkets Kaufhof is one of the minor players. This is totally played up by the press.
Will it tie my shoelaces?
Ah, Slashdot understands HTML unicode identifiers. Thanks!
They did it via the physical access thingy, not by means of a remote exploit. And they surely had the root password.
Some BIOSes have an option for flash protection; would that be an effective countermeasure?
How is it that a troll can post umlauts and I cannot? Tried playing with the site encoding in Firefox to no avail...
You misspelled "thank you".
I find it amusing that many commercial games suffer from the opposite problem: Millions are thrown into state of the art content, but the gameplay is awkward or unbalanced, or the game crashes often.
That were my thoughts exactly. They reinvented valgrind ... poorly. Nothing to see here.
If Slashdot would be capable of more than ancient 7 bit ASCII, you could even write Google with a Euro sign.
Well, it's only a screenful and every second word is "patents". The word "freedom" doesn't occur a single time. Further, it doesn't mandate access to the source code, which worries me even more.
Just watch it on TV. And tell them you are forced to do that because you cannot watch the games your non-Windows computer, your smartphone, your Playstation etc.
For as long as people have been complaining about the gimp UI, pro-gimpers have been saying "that's how linux UIs work, it's better, get over it and get a virtual desktop to manage the windows"
What they really mean is "that's how our Gtk toolkit in all its archaic glory works. We designed it specifically for the Gimp and it has never been more than a kludge, and we have no intention to improve on that because GNU and Gnome use it, so it must rock."