I can never understand social conservatives, who rail against the government for all its imperfections, and then go on to support the death penalty when they know full well that they are supporting the regular killing of the innocent in so doing. It's dissonant, incongruous, and just plain self-contradictory.
A declaration of war has nothing to do with the crime of treason, the threshold for which is set forth in Article III, Section 3 of the Constituion:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
Refraining from discussing the OS wars is not an overt act, regardless of whether you believe it gives aid and comfort (which it does, IMHO.)
It can mutate it's image all it wants, but the signature of how it hooks in to the OS is constant. Think of how large a trojan which could overcome that would have to be.
Not really; sites such as av-test.org and virus.gr are constantly testing malware detection, and while coverage is spotty on average, the products do tend to keep pace with new malware.
Dude, do you think anyone going to the trouble of making sure their trojan is polymorphic is going to let it take up much of your CPU time while you're doing shit?
excellent comment, but reading it was somewhat of a let-down, because the entire controversy and discussion, and all those righteous flames are moot. LOL
You can bet your bottom dollar that the cross dressing lover who has admitted to killing people in the past will be called to the stand at trial. The fact that not much attention has been paid to him will work to Reiser's advantage. The more the prosecution ignores the guy, the more the defense will have the weight of surprise. That guy is reasonable doubt, packaged and bundled and tied in a bow, and he would be under much stronger evidence, too.
This is false. Physics says nothing about whether time came into existence, nor anything about what did or did not precede the big bang. The metric expansion of space is not the same as the structure of time. However, it is meaningless to talk about anything before the big bang because such information is unknowable.
It can not, however, conceal unexplained activity in a virtualization box, which is standard practice in honeypot security research (and yes the experts can detect when code tries to tell if it's runing on a VM.) It also can't conceal unexplained packets in and out, which is how most of the botnets are discovered -- in the wild, not honeypots.
Theoretically our customers do know about it, because they gave us permission to do it EULA click-through, but the same permission text is spelled out in their purchase contract. They give us permission to "remotely access, upgrade, update, patch, manage, or otherwise change the software, databases, and connect to licensee's network in order to do so at (company name)'s discretion, with or without licensee's permission or knowledge." Hundreds of customers have signed on the dotted line and clicked "Agree" below that language (albeit along with 31 paragraphs in total) and we haven't heard squat about it yet, because one of the selling points of our packages is that we update them when laws change. (Those particular updates happen via different means, just a HTTP GET followed by some more of them when there is something to update -- we don't open the ssh tunnels under most conditions.)
I'm not a big fan of all this, but customer care is a huge money sink, and this has proven to have saved at least $20,000 per year to the department. I admit, the ethics do bother me, but anything that reduces the number of hand-held walk-throughs is okay.
On a side note, I'm constantly amazed at the expectation of vendors and PHBs that we will automatically open up our network so that some stray vendor can remotely debug their dodgy application.
My developers gave up on that a long time ago. Now, whenever the end user asks for live assistance, or in any one of a number of error conditions, we spawn off an ssh tunnel from the customer site to our mothership server, send the error/status report, and leave the thing open for three days.
Yeah, we snag customer care techs off the street, it's true. But your security-cleared IT personnel install whatever we ship as root if we tell them too in the readme. I'm not trying to scare or insult you or act macho. It's pathetic that we could arrange to expose the networks of dozens of Fortune 500 companies. But realistically, if someone calls up and can't figure out what our software did with their tax information, it's a lot quicker to tunnel in and look at the logs than it is to walk them through the myriad of possibilities on the phone.
CMU Sphinx is NOT a dictation system. It comes with no language models, you have to build your own from scratch. It is good for command and control ("lower temperature by five degrees") but not much else.
Putting files up for everyone to grab is not making the copies. The people who download them are making the unauthorized copies. Under your theory, libraries can't have photocopiers because they are just putting it up for everyone to grab copies out of books and magazines.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. (emphasis added)
It's not like they set out to foster fear. Corporations do what is profitable, and marketing playing up a threat causes congresscritters to vote to spend money on not-so-cost-effective gear. There's no denying it.
The whole idea of organized journals, back when print was essentially the only medium, was widespread accessible distribution, and costs were orders of magnitude lower, even adjusted for inflation. The way publishers manipulate the market is despicable and things like this, hopefully, will encourage more researchers to publish in open access.
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I can never understand social conservatives, who rail against the government for all its imperfections, and then go on to support the death penalty when they know full well that they are supporting the regular killing of the innocent in so doing. It's dissonant, incongruous, and just plain self-contradictory.
It is dumb extrapolation. When resources are limited, what looks exactly like an exponential turns out to be a logistic curve with an upper asymptote.
[citation needed]
Nobody who modded this funny ever worked with a foreign language programming team.
Check out the use of it. It looks like a language better than C, except for the caps. But the caps even set off the syntax nicely.
It can mutate it's image all it wants, but the signature of how it hooks in to the OS is constant. Think of how large a trojan which could overcome that would have to be.
Not really; sites such as av-test.org and virus.gr are constantly testing malware detection, and while coverage is spotty on average, the products do tend to keep pace with new malware.
Dude, do you think anyone going to the trouble of making sure their trojan is polymorphic is going to let it take up much of your CPU time while you're doing shit?
What is the 207.68.173.231 address they were having problems with? Some MSN host?
They might emit the same light.
orly? math pls
excellent comment, but reading it was somewhat of a let-down, because the entire controversy and discussion, and all those righteous flames are moot. LOL
You can bet your bottom dollar that the cross dressing lover who has admitted to killing people in the past will be called to the stand at trial. The fact that not much attention has been paid to him will work to Reiser's advantage. The more the prosecution ignores the guy, the more the defense will have the weight of surprise. That guy is reasonable doubt, packaged and bundled and tied in a bow, and he would be under much stronger evidence, too.
This is false. Physics says nothing about whether time came into existence, nor anything about what did or did not precede the big bang. The metric expansion of space is not the same as the structure of time. However, it is meaningless to talk about anything before the big bang because such information is unknowable.
It can not, however, conceal unexplained activity in a virtualization box, which is standard practice in honeypot security research (and yes the experts can detect when code tries to tell if it's runing on a VM.) It also can't conceal unexplained packets in and out, which is how most of the botnets are discovered -- in the wild, not honeypots.
I'm not a big fan of all this, but customer care is a huge money sink, and this has proven to have saved at least $20,000 per year to the department. I admit, the ethics do bother me, but anything that reduces the number of hand-held walk-throughs is okay.
My developers gave up on that a long time ago. Now, whenever the end user asks for live assistance, or in any one of a number of error conditions, we spawn off an ssh tunnel from the customer site to our mothership server, send the error/status report, and leave the thing open for three days.
Yeah, we snag customer care techs off the street, it's true. But your security-cleared IT personnel install whatever we ship as root if we tell them too in the readme. I'm not trying to scare or insult you or act macho. It's pathetic that we could arrange to expose the networks of dozens of Fortune 500 companies. But realistically, if someone calls up and can't figure out what our software did with their tax information, it's a lot quicker to tunnel in and look at the logs than it is to walk them through the myriad of possibilities on the phone.
CMU Sphinx is NOT a dictation system. It comes with no language models, you have to build your own from scratch. It is good for command and control ("lower temperature by five degrees") but not much else.
There is no way for us to know whether they are copies or original purchased downloads.
So? The photocopier creates the copy at the request of the person pressing the button.
Putting files up for everyone to grab is not making the copies. The people who download them are making the unauthorized copies. Under your theory, libraries can't have photocopiers because they are just putting it up for everyone to grab copies out of books and magazines.
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The whole idea of organized journals, back when print was essentially the only medium, was widespread accessible distribution, and costs were orders of magnitude lower, even adjusted for inflation. The way publishers manipulate the market is despicable and things like this, hopefully, will encourage more researchers to publish in open access.