Au contraire. The RFPolicy gives the vendor five working days to respond to a communication from the discoverer of a vulnerability, after which the discoverer can go public at any time. The discoverer and vendor are encouraged to work together to make a joint statement of the vulnerability once there is a fix.
Jtheletter said: But for a group of people to change the meaning of a word and use it to represent themselves and somehow think they then have exclusive control over the future evolution of that word is a ludicrous assertion. Language is an amorphus thing, and it will continue to change, it IS POSSIBLE for two words to have DIFFERENT AND UNRELATED meanings.
I would buy this if there were some other way for "gay" to mean "lame bullshit" and for "faggot" to mean "asshole" without the clearly implied connection to homosexuality.
I find it hard to believe that if the word "anglican" or "scotsman" or "dwarf" were used as a synonym for "asshole" that anyone would buy the explanation "It's nothing against Anglicans; its just an alternate meaning of the word. Besides which, Anglican originally just meant English, so why do members of the Anglican church figure that they have a monopoly on the word?"
So "vote with your wallet" works about as well as "vote for the guy you want". One or two people mean nothing in this day and age, you really can't do much and a small scale boycott won't effect them at all.
I can relate. It would be inconvenient for me to not buy EA's Whatever 2006 and/or go and vote and/or give money to charity or any of those thing that misguided people say can make a "difference". I won't go out of my way to do anything that doesn't immediately solve all the problems in one fell swoop and, since I have no choices that will have that effect, I am sadly unable to do anything.
At least I am not alone in my view. There seem to be many other people who believe as I do.
It's ironic that in setting out to 'solve' spam, Microsoft all but destroyed the momentum around SPF
I am now seeing SPF records for fully 1/3 of incoming external email on my medium-sized company's mailserver. Of course I also greylist (which virtually eliminates the crap fom zombie PCs), but of the mail that makes it though the filters, the percent using SPF is slowly but surely climbing.
Do you know of some evidence that shows that SPF adoption is slowing?
i can't wait for the first version of GPython or Gython !
Pygthon
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Re:Way to shoot yourself in the foot, Sony!
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If I live in Canada, I may have also paid for this music twice, once through the purchase of the CD, and a second time through the levy on my iPod as "blank media".
I agree with the rest of your rant entirely. Sony has always rubbed me the wrong way with their arrogance and I own very few Sony products. Now I will start checking CD labels for Sony-ness.
Oh, fer crying out loud. If I wore cargo pants, I'd have to move everything every day. With a purse I always have everything and I know where it all is.
I have the same plain black leather purse that I have carried, seven days a week, winter and summer, for about 3 years now. I need a new one because the leather is starting to wear out on this one. I would like this one with the light, if it were well made and if it did NOT have the stylized initials of some fashionable parasite all over it.
Just because my private information wants to be free doesn't mean that I want it to be free.
I always took the "information wants to be free" statement to mean that knowledge spreads by itself, that nothing is more powerful than in idea whose time has come, that three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead. I never read it to mean "information should be free".
If information is valuable, you do not need to spread it. It's when you want to keep it private that you must make an effort.
If you really wanted to protect the public you'd make the address of career violent criminals (like those who commit multiple armed robberies, assault, etc.) public.
Eespecially since sex offenders are generally less likely to reoffend than other criminals (see here and here)
You can set the client network settings from DHCP, that's the beauty of it. It's just that you need to set up a machine with the DNS and the web page (and proxy or patches), which will require a bit of time, depending on your skill level. You wouldn't need much hardware, it might even all run on the existing DHCP server itself, depending on what it is.
Re:WTF with Google anyway?
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Timesprout sez:
"I was quite surprised when a number of my non techie friends rejected gmail invites after some of my techie friends had practically begged for them. The reason? they were uncomfortable regarding privacy after reading the t&c."/
I am having a very hard time believing that your non-technical friends read the Terms and Conditions. This is something that I have never seen. The whole spyware industry is based on the fact that most people do not read or understand EULAs.
If you have control over their DHCP, remove their default gateway and set the offending machine's DNS servers to one that you set up that points everything to a web page (that you also set up) that tells them that they have a virus, please download free scanner/remover here (like McAfee's Stinger) and update your Windows, (you'd have to set up a mirror or proxy), please email me when your machine is clean.
Add lots of dire warnings about how "YOUR virus-infected machine is ruining things for everyone".
There's absolutely no point in cleaning the virus off if the user doesn't patch the system. At the height of the Nachi outbreak, a machine would be reinfected before Stinger was finished checking it. Your users will pass the virus back and forth between themselves continuously. If you can't make them patch, then you are, as has been mentioned often above, doomed.
This arrangemnet is a lot of work to set up, but it might be worth it in your situation. It would look good on your resume, if nothing else:-)
Bamafan77 says:
Tridge's reverse engineering for SAMBA is not *that* big a deal to MS. So what if a Windows server gets fooled into thinking that some Linux or VMS box is a Windows machine? While this service is immeasurable to many of us, we represent a small part of MS's customer base. It's unlikely that such a thing will enable anyone to budge MS in it's golden goose OS or office productivity markets.
I disagree. Most machines running Samba are servers, not clients. Without Samba, we would all be running Windows fileservers. Once you have to have the Windows server, you might as well put Active Directory on it rather than set up another machine with OpenLDAP, and you might as well run IIS, since it's there and you have the Windows admins to run it. Domain server, dhcp server, on and on.
Samba is huge. It's what lets my company run 500 Win, Linux and Mac desktops with only two Win servers; the one one that runs SUS to patch all those Windows clients, and the payroll server (curse ADP). All the other servers are Linux with a couple of Sun boxes for corprate datastore apps.
Samba lets us not need Windows servers, and I can't believe that Microsoft wouldn't care about that.
Verisign does not own all the root servers. That would be insane; they would have the entire Internet by the nads (don't they wish). The root servers are spread around the world, though most of them are in the USA. See here. The purpose of the root servers is to direct queries to the correct TLD (top level domain) server depending on the TLD of the query. All DNS servers need to know the ip addresses of the root servers, and the root servers take it from there
Verisign owns the.com and.org TLD servers, which are the ones all the root servers refer.com and.org queries to.
Oracle is not in the actual linked article. For some reason (oh wait, I know the reason, it's Slashdot and they don't fact check or proof read anything) it's in the aforementioned snippet though...
Oracle actually is in the Agility Alliance even though the article does not mention it. That is why it is in the snippet; the OP actually did a bit of research
Why is slashdot so anti-RFID, anyways? Are you guys anti-barcode? It's just a longer range barcode.
Some people are very nervous about technology that lets information about a person be gathered without the person knowing about it. With an RFID passport in your purse or backback, someone with the right equipment can get your nationality and passport number just by standing behind you in a line and you will have no idea. With an RFID driver's licence, anyone at the mall could get your driver's licence number and whatever else is in the tag. Once you have a (non-tinfoil) wallet full of these things, anyone can get enough info about you to be worth selling, just by installing an inconspicuous reader under the counter at, say, an expensive jewelry store, or neo-nazi meeting, or S&M club, or AIDS clinic.
Yes, "Americans" can mean "anyone in the western hemisphere" since that consists of North America, Central America, and South America. However, do Mexicans, Canadians, or Brazillians refer to themselves as Americans? (I'm just curious). Technically "Americans" can mean anyone in the west hemisphere, but it's not used that way in practice.
Though I agree that "American" can be interpreted to mean "from/of the Americas" (and it is used that way in biology), it is NOT generally used that way to refer to people anywhere in the Americas. No Canadians would refer to themselves as Americans, nor would we refer to citizens of any other western hemisphere country (except the United States, of course) as Americans.
You've managed to put your finger on the biggest problem in the Western social and economic system, that corps have the same rights than humans but none of the responsibility.
I am starting to think that what we have created is institutionalized sociopathy; we now have entities with rights, with free will, with a desire for self-preservation, but with no conscience or empathy, only an awareness of penalties. They are proud of the fact that their only obligation is to the bottom line, they consider compassion to be inappropriate, they consider their fellow corporations to be food. We have set up an ultimate "ends justifies the means" scenario where we reward sociopathic behavior.
A human being with the ethics of your average corporation would be institutionalized. I hope.
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Just so. Map, meet territory. The art is the Mona Lisa, not sitting smiling with hands folded.
Au contraire. The RFPolicy gives the vendor five working days to respond to a communication from the discoverer of a vulnerability, after which the discoverer can go public at any time. The discoverer and vendor are encouraged to work together to make a joint statement of the vulnerability once there is a fix.
I would buy this if there were some other way for "gay" to mean "lame bullshit" and for "faggot" to mean "asshole" without the clearly implied connection to homosexuality.
I find it hard to believe that if the word "anglican" or "scotsman" or "dwarf" were used as a synonym for "asshole" that anyone would buy the explanation "It's nothing against Anglicans; its just an alternate meaning of the word. Besides which, Anglican originally just meant English, so why do members of the Anglican church figure that they have a monopoly on the word?"
Good news, everyone!
No matter how hard they try to make us do so.
I can relate. It would be inconvenient for me to not buy EA's Whatever 2006 and/or go and vote and/or give money to charity or any of those thing that misguided people say can make a "difference". I won't go out of my way to do anything that doesn't immediately solve all the problems in one fell swoop and, since I have no choices that will have that effect, I am sadly unable to do anything.
At least I am not alone in my view. There seem to be many other people who believe as I do.
I am now seeing SPF records for fully 1/3 of incoming external email on my medium-sized company's mailserver. Of course I also greylist (which virtually eliminates the crap fom zombie PCs), but of the mail that makes it though the filters, the percent using SPF is slowly but surely climbing.
Do you know of some evidence that shows that SPF adoption is slowing?
Pygthon
The iPod levy was ruled invalid and Apple is refunding it.
I agree with the rest of your rant entirely. Sony has always rubbed me the wrong way with their arrogance and I own very few Sony products. Now I will start checking CD labels for Sony-ness.
I see these attacks all the time on all Internet facing servers.
I have the same plain black leather purse that I have carried, seven days a week, winter and summer, for about 3 years now. I need a new one because the leather is starting to wear out on this one. I would like this one with the light, if it were well made and if it did NOT have the stylized initials of some fashionable parasite all over it.
I always took the "information wants to be free" statement to mean that knowledge spreads by itself, that nothing is more powerful than in idea whose time has come, that three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead. I never read it to mean "information should be free".
If information is valuable, you do not need to spread it. It's when you want to keep it private that you must make an effort.
Eespecially since sex offenders are generally less likely to reoffend than other criminals (see here and here)
Yeah, sure, like THAT will be useful.
You can set the client network settings from DHCP, that's the beauty of it. It's just that you need to set up a machine with the DNS and the web page (and proxy or patches), which will require a bit of time, depending on your skill level. You wouldn't need much hardware, it might even all run on the existing DHCP server itself, depending on what it is.
I am having a very hard time believing that your non-technical friends read the Terms and Conditions. This is something that I have never seen. The whole spyware industry is based on the fact that most people do not read or understand EULAs.
Add lots of dire warnings about how "YOUR virus-infected machine is ruining things for everyone".
There's absolutely no point in cleaning the virus off if the user doesn't patch the system. At the height of the Nachi outbreak, a machine would be reinfected before Stinger was finished checking it. Your users will pass the virus back and forth between themselves continuously. If you can't make them patch, then you are, as has been mentioned often above, doomed.
This arrangemnet is a lot of work to set up, but it might be worth it in your situation. It would look good on your resume, if nothing else :-)
Tridge's reverse engineering for SAMBA is not *that* big a deal to MS. So what if a Windows server gets fooled into thinking that some Linux or VMS box is a Windows machine? While this service is immeasurable to many of us, we represent a small part of MS's customer base. It's unlikely that such a thing will enable anyone to budge MS in it's golden goose OS or office productivity markets.
I disagree. Most machines running Samba are servers, not clients. Without Samba, we would all be running Windows fileservers. Once you have to have the Windows server, you might as well put Active Directory on it rather than set up another machine with OpenLDAP, and you might as well run IIS, since it's there and you have the Windows admins to run it. Domain server, dhcp server, on and on.
Samba is huge. It's what lets my company run 500 Win, Linux and Mac desktops with only two Win servers; the one one that runs SUS to patch all those Windows clients, and the payroll server (curse ADP). All the other servers are Linux with a couple of Sun boxes for corprate datastore apps.
Samba lets us not need Windows servers, and I can't believe that Microsoft wouldn't care about that.
Verisign owns the .com and .org TLD servers, which are the ones all the root servers refer .com and .org queries to.
Does this make me a DNS guru? :-P
Oracle actually is in the Agility Alliance even though the article does not mention it. That is why it is in the snippet; the OP actually did a bit of research
Some people are very nervous about technology that lets information about a person be gathered without the person knowing about it. With an RFID passport in your purse or backback, someone with the right equipment can get your nationality and passport number just by standing behind you in a line and you will have no idea. With an RFID driver's licence, anyone at the mall could get your driver's licence number and whatever else is in the tag. Once you have a (non-tinfoil) wallet full of these things, anyone can get enough info about you to be worth selling, just by installing an inconspicuous reader under the counter at, say, an expensive jewelry store, or neo-nazi meeting, or S&M club, or AIDS clinic.
Paranoia? Perhaps, perhaps not.
Though I agree that "American" can be interpreted to mean "from/of the Americas" (and it is used that way in biology), it is NOT generally used that way to refer to people anywhere in the Americas. No Canadians would refer to themselves as Americans, nor would we refer to citizens of any other western hemisphere country (except the United States, of course) as Americans.
The Mars rovers were the highlight of science this year for me.
I am starting to think that what we have created is institutionalized sociopathy; we now have entities with rights, with free will, with a desire for self-preservation, but with no conscience or empathy, only an awareness of penalties. They are proud of the fact that their only obligation is to the bottom line, they consider compassion to be inappropriate, they consider their fellow corporations to be food. We have set up an ultimate "ends justifies the means" scenario where we reward sociopathic behavior.
A human being with the ethics of your average corporation would be institutionalized. I hope.
They are pissed off that marketeers who do not belong to their organization are not required to do the same.