I can deal nicely with Babylon 5 returning, but Galactica? I can only hope that somehow they do a better job this time around than the first time, or it'll die faster than it did at first. I mean, yes, the Cylons were good villain material, but every week? It got old rather fast.
Must be something broken on your box. As I write this, I am *running* 2.4.5 with no issues or problems. Perhaps you might email the errors you're getting to me? I might be able to help.
This idea bothers me simply because sooner or later it leads to the possibility of revisionist history. I know this may sound paranoid, but think of this: in the 1920's & 30's some Germans who had been paying attention were trying to warn folks.
All right, this is nowhere near that dangerous a situation, but we still need to pay attention to this just to be certain that it is used responsibly.
You make an excellent point here. I had intended to make a comment to the effect of this being yet another loss of privacy, but after reading your comment I changed my mind on that. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I wish something similar had been available when I was in high school. Thanks for giving me something to think about.
In my view, this obviates the need for better auditing of the process. If you're going to use a piece of software for anything this important, then you need to be certain that it will work correctly. IMHO, the publisher was very nearly criminally negligent on this issue.
'Course, I also think that this is yet another good example of the need for open source software, but that's me.
Maybe it's just me being paranoid, but I get nervous any time a government tries to regulate anything about the internet. It always reminds me of a comment Heinlein made concerning censorship: It starts small, to protect you from something harmful, but the end result is tyranny.
What scares me about this is the precedent that it sets. Once a door like this is openned anywhere, it raises the likelyhood that the same thing will happen elsewhere. If this goes through, how long will it be before we *all* end up carrying such an id card?
While this is interesting, and it's surprising to find someone wrote a worm that is possibly helpful instead of harmful, I still feel this is an example of the need for securing your boxen.
I prefer not to have anyone or anything other than me making changes to my box, and this is why I have both a firewall and a NATed router. Folks, don't count on others to secure your systems for you, and don't trust that this worm will do only good. It might repair damage done by 1i0n, but what kind of back door might it be leaving behind and for what purpose?
If it's truly beneficial only, then the guy who wrote it is to be commended for his attitude but needs to change his methods. A better solution would have been to make his fix available but not invasive.
"Misleading articles"?
Sorry, but I don't see that. I read/. for a number of reasons, one of which is that I enjoy the humorous items that get posted from time to time. For serious news only, there are sites available, but/. is great for the mixture that gets presented.
I tend to like the concept of MRAM. I don't know about anyone else, but I would be willing to wait 1-2 years for it. To me it only means that the currently planned 2nd box will be built on schedule but the also planned 3rd one will wait a while (until MRAM is available.)
Oh, c'mon! In spite of a few flaws, this film finally brought a great novel to the theatre! I personally found Travolta's acting as Terl to be truly great, having brought a villain to life quite nicely. I also thought that Mr Pepper did a wonderful job portraying Jonnie Goodboy Tyler. The changes in the story from the novel were extensive but needed to avoid making an eight hour film, and wonderfully preserved the original sense of the story. I have seen this 4 times, and frankly, I love the film.
I work for DISH Network, and they informed us only today that most of our website would be offline for Y2K, and all of our servers run on UNIX for the love of the gods!!!! C'mon! UNIX does not suffer from this defect, nor does my fave OS linux! How paranoid can you get!!!!
Well, I need to keep track of 28 different passwords for various machines, so my practice is to keep this info contained in a file on an electronic organiser (that has yet another password!) I have never shared the organiser password with anyone, nor do I allow anyone to handle the thing, so that is the one password that I never change. Any time I update a password elsewhere I update the organiser, and I am good to go. I realise there must be more secure methods, but what the hell, it works for me.
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I can deal nicely with Babylon 5 returning, but Galactica? I can only hope that somehow they do a better job this time around than the first time, or it'll die faster than it did at first. I mean, yes, the Cylons were good villain material, but every week? It got old rather fast.
Must be something broken on your box. As I write this, I am *running* 2.4.5 with no issues or problems. Perhaps you might email the errors you're getting to me? I might be able to help.
This idea bothers me simply because sooner or later it leads to the possibility of revisionist history. I know this may sound paranoid, but think of this: in the 1920's & 30's some Germans who had been paying attention were trying to warn folks.
All right, this is nowhere near that dangerous a situation, but we still need to pay attention to this just to be certain that it is used responsibly.
You make an excellent point here. I had intended to make a comment to the effect of this being yet another loss of privacy, but after reading your comment I changed my mind on that. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I wish something similar had been available when I was in high school. Thanks for giving me something to think about.
In my view, this obviates the need for better auditing of the process. If you're going to use a piece of software for anything this important, then you need to be certain that it will work correctly. IMHO, the publisher was very nearly criminally negligent on this issue.
'Course, I also think that this is yet another good example of the need for open source software, but that's me.
Maybe it's just me being paranoid, but I get nervous any time a government tries to regulate anything about the internet. It always reminds me of a comment Heinlein made concerning censorship: It starts small, to protect you from something harmful, but the end result is tyranny.
It may be intended as satire, but it could still easily have come from the mouth of Mr Gate$.
The scary thing is, you could very well be right. At that point, the internet suddenly starts looking unattractive.
What scares me about this is the precedent that it sets. Once a door like this is openned anywhere, it raises the likelyhood that the same thing will happen elsewhere. If this goes through, how long will it be before we *all* end up carrying such an id card?
Frightening thought, wouldn't you say?
While this is interesting, and it's surprising to find someone wrote a worm that is possibly helpful instead of harmful, I still feel this is an example of the need for securing your boxen.
I prefer not to have anyone or anything other than me making changes to my box, and this is why I have both a firewall and a NATed router. Folks, don't count on others to secure your systems for you, and don't trust that this worm will do only good. It might repair damage done by 1i0n, but what kind of back door might it be leaving behind and for what purpose?
If it's truly beneficial only, then the guy who wrote it is to be commended for his attitude but needs to change his methods. A better solution would have been to make his fix available but not invasive.
"Misleading articles"? Sorry, but I don't see that. I read /. for a number of reasons, one of which is that I enjoy the humorous items that get posted from time to time. For serious news only, there are sites available, but /. is great for the mixture that gets presented.
Yeah, the eTrade on was nicely done.
I tend to like the concept of MRAM. I don't know about anyone else, but I would be willing to wait 1-2 years for it. To me it only means that the currently planned 2nd box will be built on schedule but the also planned 3rd one will wait a while (until MRAM is available.)
Oh, c'mon! In spite of a few flaws, this film finally brought a great novel to the theatre! I personally found Travolta's acting as Terl to be truly great, having brought a villain to life quite nicely. I also thought that Mr Pepper did a wonderful job portraying Jonnie Goodboy Tyler. The changes in the story from the novel were extensive but needed to avoid making an eight hour film, and wonderfully preserved the original sense of the story. I have seen this 4 times, and frankly, I love the film.
I work for DISH Network, and they informed us only today that most of our website would be offline for Y2K, and all of our servers run on UNIX for the love of the gods!!!! C'mon! UNIX does not suffer from this defect, nor does my fave OS linux! How paranoid can you get!!!!
Well, I need to keep track of 28 different passwords for various machines, so my practice is to keep this info contained in a file on an electronic organiser (that has yet another password!) I have never shared the organiser password with anyone, nor do I allow anyone to handle the thing, so that is the one password that I never change. Any time I update a password elsewhere I update the organiser, and I am good to go. I realise there must be more secure methods, but what the hell, it works for me.