This will be the MIR that stayed up, working, and in use for 10 years......
The MIR always had a distinct musty smell, it was always commented on, but since one man stayed on board for 14 months with no harm it obviously was not a problem?
This was a case of
Russians : Will condensation be a problem?
Americans : No, you're right next to the air-conditioning unit, so don't worry about it....
The apple analogy is flawed it would be better to say that the risk of being convicted for taking a picture of your neighbours apple is 1:1000000, the cost your neighbour is somewhere between $0 and the total cost of all the pictures your neighbour could have sold of the apple
The problem is that your neighbour still has the original apple, can still take pictures of it, can sell them and can prove they are genuine pictures of the apple.... So what has he lost?
But if you sell copies of your picture for 0.20 and he sells his for 0.30 then you will damage his sales?
Maybe maybe not....I'll see when the device exists...... But as you say the spacebar is a problem...?
and it does seem that Microsoft are shouting about a technology that is not yet usable (with the camera) and claim it is the technology that is holding it back... but Apple has already demoed a device that does exactly what Microsoft says cannot be done?
No most of them at least had valid, correctly obtained driving licences in their real names?
One of them (Mohammed Atta) had his driving licence revoked.. for not turning up to a court appearance.... It was in his real name with his real current address and he was known to the CIA?
There is a widespread myth that the hijackers were in the USA illegally (there were not) that they had forged documents (mostly they didn't), that they smuggled weapons on board (they went through the laughable airport security without guns but with knives) that they were Iranian/Iraqi (they were mostly Saudis)
Some of the terrorists spent time learning to fly in the USA before 9/11 and mostly they lived openly under their real names and did nothing to hide themselves
There seems to be two ways to go... The Outlook way [Do everything become a PIM and forget about being an email client] or the Thunderbird/Outlook Express/etc... way - be an email client...
Outlook is a awful email client for anything but Exchange. It's IMAP support is flawed it's POP3 support is patchy, it's insistence on defaulting to it's own TNEF format is horrible, most of it's workgroup features only work on one (or a cluster) of Exchange servers and not between clients on different servers and not at all if the client is not a MAPI client
The number of times I have been sent stuff that I cannot read that turns out to be a file attachment or meeting request (or similar) from an Outlook client is unbelieveable
Go on send someone a calendar, link to a shared folder, etc and even if they are running Outlook unless they are n the same Exchange server they will not have access to it...That's the reality of the Outlook Client
The part I hate though is the way it reformats emails removes "redundant" line-endings etc. and generally misformats HTML emails (even ones generated by Outlook itself) and then corrupts it's own mailstore (which is generally unrecoverable since it is in closed binary format, but even though the mailstore is basically a database it's search function is slow and seems very good at not finding emails....
This is why I use Thunderbird on an Exchange Server rather than Outlook...even though Outlook does more.. I got sick of it's "way of doing things"...
The biggest problem is that what is a desktop install/server install most Linux distros do not have a different Server install and even the few that do the server install is a perfectly good desktop install and can be used as such, even if you do a Desktop install you can then add all the server components in and remove all the desktop components and end up with a server machine?
Windows has a similar but different problem - if I buy a desktop machine and wipe it install a server version, it is counted as both a server install and a desktop install, if I install Linux it is still counted as a Windows desktop install! This is why the Windows figures are always so inflated, they count every sale of Windows not every install, so this includes all the machines that are no longer running windows but came with it.
Linux can also be overcounted or undercounted depending on whether you count downloads/CDs (I've downloaded many versions of many distros but only run 2 currently) or declared installs, in which case since no-one has asked me I don't appear in the figures....
You are saying that a botnet simply does what you could do manually... but try and get it to start without the user helping....or restart without the user, this is the hard part and the reason there are so few for Linux or BSD
Try and write this script... on Windows it's easy, only one mail client only one browser but on Linux/BSD the program you wish to use might not be there, might be installed in a different place, etc. etc.
Also on Linux many users that are dumb enough to blindly follow instructions are used to only installing software via a package manager and are afraid of using the command line to install...the ones savvy enough to follow your istructions are also (mostly) savvy enough not to, without worrying what it does...
Gold plated digital cables are not pointless.... I've used gold plated USB cables rather than non when the ordinary continually failed... as said above they blip out for a second or two then cut back in again... after checking the connection points and trying several different cables I changed to Gold plated and had no more problems...
But saying that there are limits... Gold Plated USB Cables are priced at £0.01 on Amazon (i.e. delivery only) not the strupid $7000 of these audio cables...
1. Unless you are root you cannot affect anything you do not have permission to , unless you use a flaw in the system, in which case all bets are off... but that is true of any system no matter how secure ?
2. You ran/lib/ld-2.3.6.so which is executable.... effectively./hello is a script, and you can do what with this... oh yes any thing you could have done by running any other command ? i.e. anything you have the rights to do ?
3. I agree maybe....
4. Try getting a clueless user to follow a set of instructions when you have to do a large number of "If's" they give up very quickly.. now try getting them to do the same in windows (assume they are running XP, with Outlook which most people are) and the instruction list gets *very* short
5. the relative number of developers will drop but the number of developers will continue to rise...
In other news the movie/music industry apparently lost more money to piracy in America than the total income of the population of the USA....
or perhaps not everyone who "stole" their media would have paid for it and perhaps the song they could download for $1 and the DVD they can buy in the Bargain Bucket for $4.99 is not really worth $1000+ ????
The postal system is based on very similar protocols and it still works all over the world... It's based on trust
If I receive a letter how can I tell is the sender is the person they claim to be, from the envelope... I can't?
How can I stop people sending me mail I don't want.... I can't?
But it still works ! It creaks but I works...
Come up with a system where anyone can send me mail without annoying them so they can't be bothered, but spammers can't, and you will have a better system. All the email replacements I have seen do not work, they either let spam through or block people I want email from, I suspect that it is impossible....
I agree that the submarine crews didn't but this was mainly due to lack of funds (the submarine service was not held to be a priority, as long as it kept working).. a similar problem as NASA have
There is a very simple difference between the GPL/BSD and Music Copyright......To use GPL copyright works I have to obey the GPL/BSD licences.. It costs me nothing I can (with reasonable restrictions) do what I like with them...To use Copyright music, I have to pay for it again and again and again, for each new device I put it on for each new format and the devices I put it on have to have an overhead of DRM to restrict my rights, meanwhile I have the threat of being sued for large amounts of money for copying/distributing files without (seemingly) the requirement of adequate proof by a private company
Please note the "They" was not "The GPL guys" but one lone programmer who submitted his changes to the project, they were not accepted no-one else was involved.....
* Updated versions constantly * Lack of access unless you have IE(latest version) * Impossible to share documents since no-one else will use it? * DoS attack at Microsoft could mean loss of revenues for companies using this service * I never have experienced any "outages" of Office installed on my desktop. Have you? * Do you really own anything but your user name for this service? How expensive is a user name going to be?
Just ask NASA who could rescue a shuttle stuck in orbit before they ran out of air/water/food, not NASA they couldn't get their "reusable" shuttle in orbit in less than 56 days, whereas the Russians sensibly had a Soyuz or Progress craft on standby at all times to mount a rescue of their Cosmonauts?
It's very simple chroot was originally not a jail for a process, but it can be used like that (as a side effect), but you should not use it to jail a process that you have given root privilege to...
root by definition can do anything including breaking out of chroot..if you want to restrict a process then do one of two things use chroot but run the process as an ordinary process, or run as root and use a proper security tool to restrict it. The problem seems to be processes that have to be run as root and people misguidedly attempt to restrict using chroot
The simple message is that security done badly is worse than no security since it gives the impression that a system is secure when it is not...
"For one thing, bios boot time (before the OS starts loading) have dropped to mere seconds, often so fast I can't even hit del fast enough"
So you claim loading an operating system speeds up the time the system needs before loading *the operation system* this is absurd and impossible....!
The main difference I experience is the time before I can do useful work... On NT It took a few minutes before it got to the desktop and then I could work, on 2000 and it got to the desktop faster but the machine was still thrashing so badly that It cannot be used for anything (or it so slow it is pointless) until it has *really* finished booting which is a few minutes, Vista appears to do exactly the same,.... where is the advantage?
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Wikipedia does it by using a feature of Apache .... the same that other sites do ...Prior art and then some ....
This will be the MIR that stayed up, working, and in use for 10 years ......
....
The MIR always had a distinct musty smell, it was always commented on, but since one man stayed on board for 14 months with no harm it obviously was not a problem?
This was a case of
Russians : Will condensation be a problem?
Americans : No, you're right next to the air-conditioning unit, so don't worry about it
The apple analogy is flawed it would be better to say that the risk of being convicted for taking a picture of your neighbours apple is 1:1000000, the cost your neighbour is somewhere between $0 and the total cost of all the pictures your neighbour could have sold of the apple
.... So what has he lost?
The problem is that your neighbour still has the original apple, can still take pictures of it, can sell them and can prove they are genuine pictures of the apple
But if you sell copies of your picture for 0.20 and he sells his for 0.30 then you will damage his sales?
So how much is the picture worth?
Maybe maybe not ....I'll see when the device exists ... ... But as you say the spacebar is a problem ...?
... but Apple has already demoed a device that does exactly what Microsoft says cannot be done?
and it does seem that Microsoft are shouting about a technology that is not yet usable (with the camera) and claim it is the technology that is holding it back
But have you tried touchtyping with both hands while holding it ...without dropping it ...?
...?
...
So you either learn to type all over again or use all ten fingers and drop it
Microsoft reinventing what Apple have already invented and then implementing it badly
No most of them at least had valid, correctly obtained driving licences in their real names?
.. for not turning up to a court appearance....
One of them (Mohammed Atta) had his driving licence revoked
It was in his real name with his real current address and he was known to the CIA?
There is a widespread myth that the hijackers were in the USA illegally (there were not) that they had forged documents (mostly they didn't), that they smuggled weapons on board (they went through the laughable airport security without guns but with knives) that they were Iranian/Iraqi (they were mostly Saudis)
Some of the terrorists spent time learning to fly in the USA before 9/11 and mostly they lived openly under their real names and did nothing to hide themselves
Do you want to tell Microsoft that they are actively discouraging use of the registry in favour of XML configuration (structured text files)
...and she could have gone out and bought the music for a few dollars? So how come they are suddenly worth all this money ?
There seems to be two ways to go ... The Outlook way [Do everything become a PIM and forget about being an email client] or the Thunderbird/Outlook Express/etc... way - be an email client ...
...That's the reality of the Outlook Client
...even though Outlook does more .. I got sick of it's "way of doing things" ...
Outlook is a awful email client for anything but Exchange. It's IMAP support is flawed it's POP3 support is patchy, it's insistence on defaulting to it's own TNEF format is horrible, most of it's workgroup features only work on one (or a cluster) of Exchange servers and not between clients on different servers and not at all if the client is not a MAPI client
The number of times I have been sent stuff that I cannot read that turns out to be a file attachment or meeting request (or similar) from an Outlook client is unbelieveable
Go on send someone a calendar, link to a shared folder, etc and even if they are running Outlook unless they are n the same Exchange server they will not have access to it
The part I hate though is the way it reformats emails removes "redundant" line-endings etc. and generally misformats HTML emails (even ones generated by Outlook itself) and then corrupts it's own mailstore (which is generally unrecoverable since it is in closed binary format, but even though the mailstore is basically a database it's search function is slow and seems very good at not finding emails....
This is why I use Thunderbird on an Exchange Server rather than Outlook
The biggest problem is that what is a desktop install/server install most Linux distros do not have a different Server install and even the few that do the server install is a perfectly good desktop install and can be used as such, even if you do a Desktop install you can then add all the server components in and remove all the desktop components and end up with a server machine?
Windows has a similar but different problem - if I buy a desktop machine and wipe it install a server version, it is counted as both a server install and a desktop install, if I install Linux it is still counted as a Windows desktop install! This is why the Windows figures are always so inflated, they count every sale of Windows not every install, so this includes all the machines that are no longer running windows but came with it.
Linux can also be overcounted or undercounted depending on whether you count downloads/CDs (I've downloaded many versions of many distros but only run 2 currently) or declared installs, in which case since no-one has asked me I don't appear in the figures....
You are saying that a botnet simply does what you could do manually ... but try and get it to start without the user helping ....or restart without the user, this is the hard part and the reason there are so few for Linux or BSD
... on Windows it's easy, only one mail client only one browser but on Linux/BSD the program you wish to use might not be there, might be installed in a different place, etc. etc.
...the ones savvy enough to follow your istructions are also (mostly) savvy enough not to, without worrying what it does...
Try and write this script
Also on Linux many users that are dumb enough to blindly follow instructions are used to only installing software via a package manager and are afraid of using the command line to install
Gold plated digital cables are not pointless .... I've used gold plated USB cables rather than non when the ordinary continually failed ... as said above they blip out for a second or two then cut back in again ... after checking the connection points and trying several different cables I changed to Gold plated and had no more problems ...
... Gold Plated USB Cables are priced at £0.01 on Amazon (i.e. delivery only) not the strupid $7000 of these audio cables ...
But saying that there are limits
1. Unless you are root you cannot affect anything you do not have permission to , unless you use a flaw in the system, in which case all bets are off ... but that is true of any system no matter how secure ?
/lib/ld-2.3.6.so which is executable .... effectively ./hello is a script, and you can do what with this ... oh yes any thing you could have done by running any other command ? i.e. anything you have the rights to do ?
....
.. now try getting them to do the same in windows (assume they are running XP, with Outlook which most people are) and the instruction list gets *very* short
...
2. You ran
3. I agree maybe
4. Try getting a clueless user to follow a set of instructions when you have to do a large number of "If's" they give up very quickly
5. the relative number of developers will drop but the number of developers will continue to rise
In other news the movie/music industry apparently lost more money to piracy in America than the total income of the population of the USA ....
or perhaps not everyone who "stole" their media would have paid for it and perhaps the song they could download for $1 and the DVD they can buy in the Bargain Bucket for $4.99 is not really worth $1000+ ????
The postal system is based on very similar protocols and it still works all over the world ... It's based on trust
... I can't?
.... I can't?
...
If I receive a letter how can I tell is the sender is the person they claim to be, from the envelope
How can I stop people sending me mail I don't want
But it still works ! It creaks but I works
Come up with a system where anyone can send me mail without annoying them so they can't be bothered, but spammers can't, and you will have a better system. All the email replacements I have seen do not work, they either let spam through or block people I want email from, I suspect that it is impossible....
I agree that the submarine crews didn't but this was mainly due to lack of funds (the submarine service was not held to be a priority, as long as it kept working) .. a similar problem as NASA have
There is a very simple difference between the GPL/BSD and Music Copyright ... ...To use GPL copyright works I have to obey the GPL/BSD licences .. It costs me nothing I can (with reasonable restrictions) do what I like with them ...To use Copyright music, I have to pay for it again and again and again, for each new device I put it on for each new format and the devices I put it on have to have an overhead of DRM to restrict my rights, meanwhile I have the threat of being sued for large amounts of money for copying/distributing files without (seemingly) the requirement of adequate proof by a private company
Please note the "They" was not "The GPL guys" but one lone programmer who submitted his changes to the project, they were not accepted no-one else was involved .....
Cons
* Updated versions constantly
* Lack of access unless you have IE(latest version)
* Impossible to share documents since no-one else will use it?
* DoS attack at Microsoft could mean loss of revenues for companies using this service
* I never have experienced any "outages" of Office installed on my desktop. Have you?
* Do you really own anything but your user name for this service? How expensive is a user name going to be?
Just ask NASA who could rescue a shuttle stuck in orbit before they ran out of air/water/food, not NASA they couldn't get their "reusable" shuttle in orbit in less than 56 days, whereas the Russians sensibly had a Soyuz or Progress craft on standby at all times to mount a rescue of their Cosmonauts?
The point is that if it was closed source then there would be nothing anyone but the manufacturer could do about it
Since it is open source there is at least the possibility of the community writing the interface to Linux themselves
It's very simple chroot was originally not a jail for a process, but it can be used like that (as a side effect), but you should not use it to jail a process that you have given root privilege to ...
..if you want to restrict a process then do one of two things use chroot but run the process as an ordinary process, or run as root and use a proper security tool to restrict it. The problem seems to be processes that have to be run as root and people misguidedly attempt to restrict using chroot
...
root by definition can do anything including breaking out of chroot
The simple message is that security done badly is worse than no security since it gives the impression that a system is secure when it is not
8 bits = byte but bytes have ranged from five to twelve bits.....
"For one thing, bios boot time (before the OS starts loading) have dropped to mere seconds, often so fast I can't even hit del fast enough"
....!
... On NT It took a few minutes before it got to the desktop and then I could work, on 2000 and it got to the desktop faster but the machine was still thrashing so badly that It cannot be used for anything (or it so slow it is pointless) until it has *really* finished booting which is a few minutes, Vista appears to do exactly the same ,.... where is the advantage?
So you claim loading an operating system speeds up the time the system needs before loading *the operation system* this is absurd and impossible
The main difference I experience is the time before I can do useful work
Unfortunately they claimed three meteorite hits in the last few years and they all turned out to be other things?
....
A Meteorite small enough to make a hold that small would be tiny and would not have enough material if vapourised to affect a large number of people?
e.g. Meteor Crater in Arizona is 1,200m across and was probably formed by a meteorite 50m across
so this hole (42 feet across) would have been formed by a meteorite ~ 2ft across ?
Most of the stuff thrown up in an impact is made of ejecta from the crater not from the meteorite itself....
So arsenic from the ground/groundwater sound good to me