Offering Russian citizenship to South Osetians didn't violate Russian or Georgian laws. Artillery strike on the city of Tskhinvali is a different story though.
And what do you thing has happened in Georgia? To tell the long story short -- Russia has stopped a Georgian assault on its citizens (most people in South Osetia have Russian citizenship) and made Georgia return to negotiations with South Osetia.
The propaganda machine is working very well though. Next you'll tell that the Russians have violated Germany's sovereignty in 1945 and made their democratic elected leader commit suicide.
>The US military is not stupid, and does take systems security very seriously. What would look like ultra-paranoid behavior to a civilian may well be fully justified in the military world.
I couldn't agree more. Allowing autostart from USB flash devices on Windows is so paranoid...
>funny how people around here are all "US imperialism in Iraq! evil! bad!" and won't say a thing about "Russian imperialism in Georgia!" Because Russia didn't capture the whole country looking for non-existent WMD's and didn't hang Georgia's president?:) Besides, Russian troops have already left Georgia.
Come on, at least pretend you did some research on the topic instead of repeating what the Big Media has conveniently provided to you. Georgian government wanted to strike down the separatism in self-declared but de-facto independent South Osetian Republic. While it is sensible for any country to maintain its integrity you have to understand that the conflict is much older then you might think and people of South Osetia have voted for independency numerous times. As for Russian response: vast majority of people in South Osetia have Russian citizenship. So it was sensible for Russia to interfere too.
I personally think that the whole conflict was a test to see how Russia will react. A win-win situation for USA which "sponsored" Georgian's assault and has provided military equipment (Russian troops are particularly happy about new Hummers they have captured). Either you'll get more influence in the region by striking down pro-Russian autonomy (and harming Russia's reputation in the process) or you can complain about Russia being an aggressor.
The fact that you truly believe all those things means the massive propaganda machine is working very well. Next you'll be supporting a nuclear assault on Russia or China...
Despite being a hardcore Linux user since 2003 I do think that a fully patched Windows Box and browsing with NoScript/AdBlock would have prevented the infection in most cases. That requires a user who won't open random attachments though. I agree that security in Windows could be better, but most infections are in fact cases of PEBKAC.
> How about it just delete their NIC drivers and post the message?
Formating hard disks and writing a message to the boot sector will be a bit more efficient than this. Remember, a clean install in case of an infection is recommended even by Microsoft.
Another example from Germany -- drivers license is hard to get here, full education may cost up to 2000 EUR (2500 USD). Practical includes driving on the highway as well as in 30 km/h zone.
Many young people therefore fly to the USA to get their license there -- cheaper and *much* easier. From what I've heard the questions are really moronic...
As this application is trust-based it can be used (by police too) to slow down speeders at close to no cost -- no need of moving expensive equipment around or purchasing extra speed traps, just mark some streets on the map.
If it were so, we wouldn't be discussing this news on/.
I'll bet anything that this worm is a well known one and not some foreign-intelligence-made. The question is -- why use a system there are hundreds of thousands viruses and worms already written for?
Does it have to be AMD? I am looking forward to buy Lenovo IDEAPAD S10 which is a very nice peace of a notebook (I can't call something with 1,5 Gb RAM and 1.6GHz CPU a netbook). It uses Atom though, but comes with Linux preloaded -- all hardware supported, nice!
Saying it doesn't do anything to your computer. If you meant typing it, than it requires a console, something Joe the Plummers are soooo afraid of... On a more serious note, Linux can indeed be configured to prevent execution of a file from a folder which owner isn't root.
In the case of a drug addict morality and fear of punishment don't play any role if he wants a dose. With the exception of ultra-rich celebrities every drug addict will rob people and would not hesitate to kill if a living person stands between him and his drug. It boils down to physiology. Besides, would you sound the same way if you'll find out that your child is using drugs?
>Granted, this process would be fatal to the majority of the infected but the survivors would be graced with an extended lifespan, as well as physical and intellectual powers far beyond those of mortal men
Sounds nice unless you are one of those "majority of the infected"...
I like it, a GPL-like solution. "By accepting this bone marrow in your body you agree to provide your own copy of bone marrow at least twice on same conditions you have received it."
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>Modern Linux won't run on them unless it is command line based.
DSL or Puppy Linux, anyone?
Please, stop mentioning SCO...
How intuitive...
Clearly WinXP is the newbie-friendliest of all OSes. Thanks for reminding us all 'bout it. *ducks*
Don't forget about Dillo.
Offering Russian citizenship to South Osetians didn't violate Russian or Georgian laws.
Artillery strike on the city of Tskhinvali is a different story though.
And what do you thing has happened in Georgia? To tell the long story short -- Russia has stopped a Georgian assault on its citizens (most people in South Osetia have Russian citizenship) and made Georgia return to negotiations with South Osetia.
The propaganda machine is working very well though. Next you'll tell that the Russians have violated Germany's sovereignty in 1945 and made their democratic elected leader commit suicide.
>Actually it was britneynude.exe
Only US soldiers would fall on THAT!
>The US military is not stupid, and does take systems security very seriously. What would look like ultra-paranoid behavior to a civilian may well be fully justified in the military world.
I couldn't agree more. Allowing autostart from USB flash devices on Windows is so paranoid...
Wait, what?..
>funny how people around here are all "US imperialism in Iraq! evil! bad!" and won't say a thing about "Russian imperialism in Georgia!" :) Besides, Russian troops have already left Georgia.
Because Russia didn't capture the whole country looking for non-existent WMD's and didn't hang Georgia's president?
Come on, at least pretend you did some research on the topic instead of repeating what the Big Media has conveniently provided to you. Georgian government wanted to strike down the separatism in self-declared but de-facto independent South Osetian Republic. While it is sensible for any country to maintain its integrity you have to understand that the conflict is much older then you might think and people of South Osetia have voted for independency numerous times.
As for Russian response: vast majority of people in South Osetia have Russian citizenship. So it was sensible for Russia to interfere too.
I personally think that the whole conflict was a test to see how Russia will react. A win-win situation for USA which "sponsored" Georgian's assault and has provided military equipment (Russian troops are particularly happy about new Hummers they have captured). Either you'll get more influence in the region by striking down pro-Russian autonomy (and harming Russia's reputation in the process) or you can complain about Russia being an aggressor.
The fact that you truly believe all those things means the massive propaganda machine is working very well. Next you'll be supporting a nuclear assault on Russia or China...
Not really, no...
Despite being a hardcore Linux user since 2003 I do think that a fully patched Windows Box and browsing with NoScript/AdBlock would have prevented the infection in most cases. That requires a user who won't open random attachments though. I agree that security in Windows could be better, but most infections are in fact cases of PEBKAC.
> How about it just delete their NIC drivers and post the message?
Formating hard disks and writing a message to the boot sector will be a bit more efficient than this. Remember, a clean install in case of an infection is recommended even by Microsoft.
But can you still do the old "remove BIOS battery and plug it back again" trick?
Another example from Germany -- drivers license is hard to get here, full education may cost up to 2000 EUR (2500 USD). Practical includes driving on the highway as well as in 30 km/h zone.
Many young people therefore fly to the USA to get their license there -- cheaper and *much* easier. From what I've heard the questions are really moronic...
As this application is trust-based it can be used (by police too) to slow down speeders at close to no cost -- no need of moving expensive equipment around or purchasing extra speed traps, just mark some streets on the map.
If it were so, we wouldn't be discussing this news on /.
I'll bet anything that this worm is a well known one and not some foreign-intelligence-made. The question is -- why use a system there are hundreds of thousands viruses and worms already written for?
Does it have to be AMD? I am looking forward to buy Lenovo IDEAPAD S10 which is a very nice peace of a notebook (I can't call something with 1,5 Gb RAM and 1.6GHz CPU a netbook). It uses Atom though, but comes with Linux preloaded -- all hardware supported, nice!
Saying it doesn't do anything to your computer. If you meant typing it, than it requires a console, something Joe the Plummers are soooo afraid of...
On a more serious note, Linux can indeed be configured to prevent execution of a file from a folder which owner isn't root.
In the case of a drug addict morality and fear of punishment don't play any role if he wants a dose.
With the exception of ultra-rich celebrities every drug addict will rob people and would not hesitate to kill if a living person stands between him and his drug. It boils down to physiology.
Besides, would you sound the same way if you'll find out that your child is using drugs?
Oh yes, I clearly see the mighty £inux Corporation behind all this FUD about Windows now.
If you truly thinks that Linux (as an OS and as a community) owns you something -- don't even consider a switch. Thank you.
ClamWin? Do you mean ClamAv?
man screen, it does wonders on ssh especially on a slow line.
>Granted, this process would be fatal to the majority of the infected but the survivors would be graced with an extended lifespan, as well as physical and intellectual powers far beyond those of mortal men
Sounds nice unless you are one of those "majority of the infected"...
I like it, a GPL-like solution.
"By accepting this bone marrow in your body you agree to provide your own copy of bone marrow at least twice on same conditions you have received it."