That's a pure waste of time if the md5 checksums from both the.ebuild and.tar.(g|b)z2* files match those of authoritative files.
Yes, if you can trust your md5 sums! What if a compriomized emerge first modified your md5sum to display values from a hard-coded list for those packages it has modified? It is hard to know what you really can trust.
Luckily everything indicates that this is just empty speculation. But what about the next time something gets compromized?
Scientific American had an article about Dino constuction (in 1993 - I am not sure), that showed that the legs of teh dinos were strong enough to allow them to walk and even run, some of them reasonably fast.
I am providing a secondary MX for our company, from my home machine. Not much of real traffic comes in that way, but a lot of spam does.
I suspect that some spammers have figured out that most complaints go to the first "Received" header (if not to the forged "From" headers), and most secondary MX's will forward the mail to the primary MX's, adding a "Received" header. So some complaints will go to the secondary MX instead of the open relay or the fool that actually sends the spam... So those will take a bit longer to get shut down.
I could add a procmail rule to pipe all those mails into a suspicious folder, but that would not help the rest of the company.
What if the (say) German military intelligence office (or the NSA) found out that someone/something inside their offices is communicating with a foreign address, regularily passing a packet of seemingly harmless information. Who ever installed that shit would be suspected of spionage!
What if an enemy of (some) state was known to have this software installed, and the state was monitoring the traffic. Upon seeing this packet be sent, they conclude that the enemy is enganged in some serious work, and will stay home for a few minutes. A missile strikes soon after.
Now assume the "enemy" had a good intelligence service, and figured out who or what leaked the crucial information. Whom would they take their revenge on?
Ok, perhaps a bit far fetched, but what if a sysadmin wanted to stalk that girl in accounting, and had the firewall inform him every time she started this program (by capturing its spy packet).
I have received mail from someone at your company that included this "disclaimer". I wish to point out that I have no reason (nor intention) to follow your one-sided disclaimers.
If you wish to know what the mail said, and/or purchase a non-disclosure agreement, please let me know. I charge a modest fee of USD 1000,- for opening the negotiations.
Note: Unless you have a signed NDA from me, do not send me confidential information. I will use and discuss what ever bloody well pleases me. If you wish to purchase a NDA, do so before sending me stuff, or the price will go up!
Will Ebay be as happy to answer to the French police about who is selling Nazi stuff? How about MPIAA's questions about some Norweigian selling something that sounds like DVD and Linux? Or the Papal Office querying about someone selling contraceptives in South America? Or some Sicilian Don's questions about who is selling pictures of a shotgun wedding? Or Iranian Religious Police about who is selling Salman Rushdie's collected works? Slippery slope, they are on. Where will they draw the line?
If mathematicans aren't really interested in helping understand the world, why should society fund them?
Smells like a troll, but I answer: Mathematicians produce new ways to model things. Mathematical methods and models have proven to be useful in almost all sciences. What today seems like pure "useless" math may well tomorrow find an application in some totally unexpected ways. Where would engineering be without geometry? Physics without calculus?
Even when math fails to find a solution to some "totally irrelevant" problem, great things can come out of it. Gödels proof that not everything can be proved has turned out to have profound philosophical consequences, and inderctly lead us to chaos theory and better thromostates. Who would have expected that from some failure of proving a theorem???
I keep telling me there are four kinds of "intellectual property": copyrights, trademarks, patents, and bullshit. When not specified, I assume most companies talk of the fourth kind. Makes their drivel a bit more entertaining to read.
I don't know about Joe Sixpack, but when I surf the net, I have a couple of browsers open, each with multiple tabs. Interesting links are opened in another tab, which may (or may not) get quickly closed again, when I get around to looking at it. No website can expect to get my full undivided attention!
This would really suck with video, where you have to notice the links at the right time. And what about audio? Will the other pages continue making noises quietly in the background? Wait for their turn? overpower anything else I may be listening?
I put my embedded work under GPL and actually managed to get some funding. If it's GPL, people have to talk to you to use it commercially, you know? That's the beauty of GPL.
To be more precise, since you own the copyright to the work, you can license it under GPL for the great public, and at the same time, grant a commercial license with completely different conditions to someone who is willing to pay for it, and can not accept the conditions of GPL.
This is to inform you that I have not clicked to accept your ridiculous EULA, and have *not* accepted your terms. Therefore I feel no way bound by that EULA.
I shall continue to use the software based on the rights granted to me by the fair use provisions and the first sale doctrine.
Should you desire to have the software returned, I am willing to sell my copy back, at the price I paid for it (plus $100 for shipping and handling), but only if you do not try impose any more terms and conditions on this return sale.
This offer is valid for a 7 days. If I do not hear from you in that time, you have implicitly and irrevocably accepted my purchase of the software, non-acceptance of your EULA, and my fair use rights to it.
Yours sincerely ...
P.S. non-disclaimer: Since you have not paid for me to sign a non-disclosure agreement, I reserve the right to publish what ever you send me.
It's pretty naive to believe that companies can wander around giving donating their IP to the public.
Maybe I do not understand the American capitalism very well, but I know that I work for a company that "wanders around giving donating (sic) (some of) their IP to the public", and the company has survived quite well the past 8 years. Naive or not, it certainly is possible!
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If there are "hundreds of lines" that offend, surely SCO can pick one that proves their point.
Here - I guarantee that this line exists both in Linux kernel, and in SCO's. And in various IBM products too.
return;
The original authors of this code, Kerningham and Ritchie, have not commented on the copyright question.
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
If I took the trouble to make it a cron job, I'd never even know.
I have them in my cron (upgrade -d -qq, so everything gets downloaded) (and another job sends me a mail if need be), but I prefer to be connected to the box and to see that the upgrade goes well (as it has. except for minor details around the one time Debian Woody became Debian stable) Ought to make the cron job run the updates automatically, if they have been laying around for more than a week - probably safer... Isn't there a debian package for all that?
I am in a similar position, except that our company is smaller, and the budget as well. The Windows users in our place have cast their eyes on NetMeeting, and it seems like there could be compatible Linux alternatives for the rest of us. As the security guy I need to make it work through our firewall (nat), and has turned out to be rather painful. Anyone know good pointers to a way to get all that working? Thanks in advance.
The problem has been explained here well enough already. Here is my proposed fix. It requires that a few PA ISPs get together and agree that
1) Since they are required to block an unspecified list if sites, the only thing they can do is to block all access to the net.
2) Since this is such a big move, they will have to implement it stpe by step. The first step is to block the access for all sites related to PA state administration, and home lines of the people involved.
It might be sufficient just to announce this policy, but if the silly law isn't retracted, they may have to step in and actually block the lawmakers first...
A simple solution: Pen and paper. For a few $ you can get enough paper to write a large system on. No worries about battery time, display resolution, or keyboard. Survives the worst conditions.
For a long time all programming was done this way, first on scratch paper, then on "fine" paper, then punched on cards or tape, and finally fed to a Computer, which took several hours to produce a pile of listing with one important syntax error in it...
Seriously, most projects can use a few weeks of high-level thinking, without writing many lines of code. Even if you loose the papers, the thinking will have been good for your project.
We have a dedicated backup machine, into which we rsync all the important stuff. We are a smallish shop, so it only has a couple of 120G disks.
This backup machine keeps seven generations of daily backups on one disk (cp -al, so no duplicating of static data), and a few weekly ones on the other disk. Every night it rsyncs things off-site (to my home). That rsync has turned out to be unreliable (probably my adsl), so I have a script that does it in small bits and pieces. Takes a few hours in the early morning.
From the Infoworld article: "For too long, people engaged in piracy believed that if they were outside the borders of the United States , they could violate our intellectual property laws with impunity," Malcolm added. "They were wrong. "
In other words: If you violate American Law anywhere in the world, the Americans are coming after you! Am I the only European getting scared about this kind of thinking?
The Danish countryside is littered with white wind turbines. One day I noticed they all point in the same direction. I always thought they were trying to produce a cool breeze to compensate for the global warming, but now I know they are actually trying to control the spinning rate of the earth. Who would have though?
The legal process is slow, but given enough time it should follow these steps:
1) Make local laws to criminalize spam
2) Harmonize laws
3) Pressure remaining rogue states to join the system
4) Economic or military sanctions to the rest
That is the way it went with patents, copyrights, drugs, and other laws. Spam laws will follow the same pattern. Unfortunately it can take decades.
The last few times the world was supposed to end in a great catastrophy, it somehow did not. Think of the embarassement if the announced killer asteroid would miss, and all the people raping and pillaging would have to answer for their deeds.
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Yes, if you can trust your md5 sums! What if a compriomized emerge first modified your md5sum to display values from a hard-coded list for those packages it has modified? It is hard to know what you really can trust.
Luckily everything indicates that this is just empty speculation. But what about the next time something gets compromized?
Scientific American had an article about Dino constuction (in 1993 - I am not sure), that showed that the legs of teh dinos were strong enough to allow them to walk and even run, some of them reasonably fast.
I suspect that some spammers have figured out that most complaints go to the first "Received" header (if not to the forged "From" headers), and most secondary MX's will forward the mail to the primary MX's, adding a "Received" header. So some complaints will go to the secondary MX instead of the open relay or the fool that actually sends the spam... So those will take a bit longer to get shut down.
I could add a procmail rule to pipe all those mails into a suspicious folder, but that would not help the rest of the company.
What if an enemy of (some) state was known to have this software installed, and the state was monitoring the traffic. Upon seeing this packet be sent, they conclude that the enemy is enganged in some serious work, and will stay home for a few minutes. A missile strikes soon after.
Now assume the "enemy" had a good intelligence service, and figured out who or what leaked the crucial information. Whom would they take their revenge on?
Ok, perhaps a bit far fetched, but what if a sysadmin wanted to stalk that girl in accounting, and had the firewall inform him every time she started this program (by capturing its spy packet).
If you wish to know what the mail said, and/or purchase a non-disclosure agreement, please let me know. I charge a modest fee of USD 1000,- for opening the negotiations.
Yours sincerely
Will Ebay be as happy to answer to the French police about who is selling Nazi stuff? How about MPIAA's questions about some Norweigian selling something that sounds like DVD and Linux? Or the Papal Office querying about someone selling contraceptives in South America? Or some Sicilian Don's questions about who is selling pictures of a shotgun wedding? Or Iranian Religious Police about who is selling Salman Rushdie's collected works? Slippery slope, they are on. Where will they draw the line?
Smells like a troll, but I answer: Mathematicians produce new ways to model things. Mathematical methods and models have proven to be useful in almost all sciences. What today seems like pure "useless" math may well tomorrow find an application in some totally unexpected ways. Where would engineering be without geometry? Physics without calculus?
Even when math fails to find a solution to some "totally irrelevant" problem, great things can come out of it. Gödels proof that not everything can be proved has turned out to have profound philosophical consequences, and inderctly lead us to chaos theory and better thromostates. Who would have expected that from some failure of proving a theorem???
Obviously there are many solutions. Extra points for the largest possible number (with a decent explanation)
0 -> 0 = 0
1 -> 1 ! = 1
2 -> 2 ! ! = 2
3 -> 3 ! ! ! = 6 ! ! = 720 ! approx. 2.6 E+1746
Any higher ??
I keep telling me there are four kinds of "intellectual property": copyrights, trademarks, patents, and bullshit. When not specified, I assume most companies talk of the fourth kind. Makes their drivel a bit more entertaining to read.
This would really suck with video, where you have to notice the links at the right time. And what about audio? Will the other pages continue making noises quietly in the background? Wait for their turn? overpower anything else I may be listening?
To be more precise, since you own the copyright to the work, you can license it under GPL for the great public, and at the same time, grant a commercial license with completely different conditions to someone who is willing to pay for it, and can not accept the conditions of GPL.
I know, I work for a company that has done it.
I shall continue to use the software based on the rights granted to me by the fair use provisions and the first sale doctrine.
Should you desire to have the software returned, I am willing to sell my copy back, at the price I paid for it (plus $100 for shipping and handling), but only if you do not try impose any more terms and conditions on this return sale.
This offer is valid for a 7 days. If I do not hear from you in that time, you have implicitly and irrevocably accepted my purchase of the software, non-acceptance of your EULA, and my fair use rights to it.
Yours sincerely
...
P.S. non-disclaimer: Since you have not paid for me to sign a non-disclosure agreement, I reserve the right to publish what ever you send me.
Maybe I do not understand the American capitalism very well, but I know that I work for a company that "wanders around giving donating (sic) (some of) their IP to the public", and the company has survived quite well the past 8 years. Naive or not, it certainly is possible!
Here - I guarantee that this line exists both in Linux kernel, and in SCO's. And in various IBM products too.
The original authors of this code, Kerningham and Ritchie, have not commented on the copyright question.Nuke it from the orbit, that's the only safe way to be sure.
apt-get upgrade
If I took the trouble to make it a cron job, I'd never even know.
I have them in my cron (upgrade -d -qq, so everything gets downloaded) (and another job sends me a mail if need be), but I prefer to be connected to the box and to see that the upgrade goes well (as it has. except for minor details around the one time Debian Woody became Debian stable) Ought to make the cron job run the updates automatically, if they have been laying around for more than a week - probably safer... Isn't there a debian package for all that?
I am in a similar position, except that our company is smaller, and the budget as well. The Windows users in our place have cast their eyes on NetMeeting, and it seems like there could be compatible Linux alternatives for the rest of us. As the security guy I need to make it work through our firewall (nat), and has turned out to be rather painful. Anyone know good pointers to a way to get all that working? Thanks in advance.
1) Since they are required to block an unspecified list if sites, the only thing they can do is to block all access to the net.
2) Since this is such a big move, they will have to implement it stpe by step. The first step is to block the access for all sites related to PA state administration, and home lines of the people involved.
It might be sufficient just to announce this policy, but if the silly law isn't retracted, they may have to step in and actually block the lawmakers first...
For a long time all programming was done this way, first on scratch paper, then on "fine" paper, then punched on cards or tape, and finally fed to a Computer, which took several hours to produce a pile of listing with one important syntax error in it...
Seriously, most projects can use a few weeks of high-level thinking, without writing many lines of code. Even if you loose the papers, the thinking will have been good for your project.
This backup machine keeps seven generations of daily backups on one disk (cp -al, so no duplicating of static data), and a few weekly ones on the other disk. Every night it rsyncs things off-site (to my home). That rsync has turned out to be unreliable (probably my adsl), so I have a script that does it in small bits and pieces. Takes a few hours in the early morning.
In other words: If you violate American Law anywhere in the world, the Americans are coming after you! Am I the only European getting scared about this kind of thinking?
The Danish countryside is littered with white wind turbines. One day I noticed they all point in the same direction. I always thought they were trying to produce a cool breeze to compensate for the global warming, but now I know they are actually trying to control the spinning rate of the earth. Who would have though?
1) Make local laws to criminalize spam
2) Harmonize laws
3) Pressure remaining rogue states to join the system
4) Economic or military sanctions to the rest
That is the way it went with patents, copyrights, drugs, and other laws. Spam laws will follow the same pattern. Unfortunately it can take decades.
The last few times the world was supposed to end in a great catastrophy, it somehow did not. Think of the embarassement if the announced killer asteroid would miss, and all the people raping and pillaging would have to answer for their deeds.