Maybe the attacks on Linux machines are increasing, because there are more Linux machines running or supporting critical IT infrastructure. IT engineers may be replacing old NT boxen with Linux machines.
Unfortunately this puts Linux in the security spotlight. More exploits will be found and patched (which is a good thing), and the public nature of linux security information may be exploited and used against the Linux community.
The genie is out of the bottle, but the industry measures success through outdated methods.
Nah, I think the music industry is measuring success just like any other industry, by the money entering their pockets. P2P, tape swapping, and CD copying may increase exposure for unkown musicians, but when the musician is on top, it ceases to help them.
Two, if you have a network card/modem/serial with a connection to the outside. Load the boot and root disks, setup the root partition, and download the rest! I have even gotten parallel port cdrom drives to work in linux!
There are two ways in which it would hurt the open source movement:
Companies wanting to open up software would quickly keep there source closed in fear of being sued for the bugs found. So while you may hurt Microsoft you have just turned every software company into Microsoft.
What if an open source coder has his/her program included into a distribution or linked into a another peice of software, then being sued for a bug in your code.
Seems like this short-sided idea has become a nightmare. Maybe I am over reacting but I just do not trust law makers (with no software experience) to make complicated software liability laws.
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A linux registry is a good idea and technically possible. The only problem is reality. Create your distribution with the linux registry and guess what? You have just now compounded the linux packaging problem by adding another incompatible package format. One must create a package does not need a package manager and has the functionality of a package manager.
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Yeah and what happens when make uninstall does not work?
Problem is that Apt Get only works on Debian and its derivatives. I have no problem using slackware 8 and packages that are designed for slackware 8.
It is when I am developing a 50MB program on slackware 8 and I need it to work in Redhat, SuSE, Debian, Gentoo, etc when I have a problem. I love apt-get and the freebsd ports collection but that does nothing for me in my slackware distro.
So you would rather replace dll hell with search for the correct package hell? Versioning is something that you cannot avoid in a complicated system. A legacy program that links to libx-1.0.so may not work with libx-3.0.so. Thus you may have to have both libx version 1 and 3 and a general link libx.so linking to the higher version.I do not know what you are talking about versioning is not impossible.
Also UNIX has static linking and is not immune to a DLL hell like syndrome.Though I am a devoted follower of the Slackware distro, Windows has something going for it. I grab a zip package run setup and the program is ready to run. Why can't we have the same in Linux?
In the beginning (episodes 4-6), Star Wars was just a simple story about a boy, a princess, a privateer, a wookie, a sith lord, etc. Now it has evolved into a complicated mess which everyone is over analyzing to death.
Here are my predictions for episode 2: disclaimer: I list myself as a moderate fan who has seen episode 4,5,6 a gizzilan times on TV 4,5,6 special edition once, christmas special once, and episode 1 twice.
There will be tons of boring dialog consiting of wooden actors and tons of soul-less computer generated aliens used to replicate the puppet mastery of 70s.
The love between the princess and anakin will be completely fabricated and unrealistic. Probably using the tired forbidden love motif we have all seen before.
Scenes with Jarjar will be minimized (obvious point) given the negative feedback from episode I.
There will be another unbelievable car chase scene to prove that anakin is a greatest starfighter pilot ever. ho-hum.
There will be another intense lightsaber duel with a gimmic like the dual bladed light saber seen in episode one.
We will learn more about yoda demistifing the character making him/her/it less interesting IMHO.
Will do well at the box office. Which is George Lucas' primary goal anyway.
Will leave most hardcore fans secretly disappointed but unphased since they will see episode 3.
Most moderate fans will force themselves to enjoy the film just becasue it is Star Wars.
Playa haters will hate it no matter how good or bad it is just because it is popular.
A poorly written interrupt service routine can crash almost any "well written" OS. Most people love to complain about being poorly written but they give no credence to the architecture the OS is written for. For instance it is not fair to compare Win3.1 to Win2k because the newer CPU architectures trap more problems then my old 386 could.
However I am not claming that Win3.1,95,98, and ME were not pathetic excuses for operating systems.
Right on! In today's world, laws that were designed to protect people are twisted and gnarled to be used against people. I once read that as a small self-employed inventor you will need two or more patents to protect your invention. If you have only one, larger companies will be able to exploit your ideas. When you decide to sue the large company, good luck!
Large companies, on the other hand, utilize patents to control markets and lock out competitors. The whole system needs to be reviewed.
Linux/free UNIX is big competition for Microsoft especially in the mid/low-end sever market. Microsoft definately have the right to advertise why their software is presumably better.
Any CTO that foolishly buy Microsoft software believing that there is a lower total cost of ownership or better security deserves what he/she gets.
The question is so vague, it could only lead to the flame wars. Seems that ~581 people fell for it so far. You bait us telling us you have a stupid boss that wants you to find or create the perfect language.
The "brilliant" slashdot community spends the rest of the time flaming the daylights out of each other. Java is the best, no C#, no C++, no Perl,...
Nice fake hotmail account too. Why don't they just ask us the question what features do you think make up the perfect language. Even posting this is a waste of time!
Probably saying that I am prochoice because of load mouth religious ethicists was a poor choice of words. That is not my only reason. I am just more pratical. Women want the choice to abort there children, if abortion is not legal, they will abort them illegally. This could lead to harm in both mother, and child (imagine if the abortion failed and the child is born with complications). Legalizing abortion means that abortion can be controlled.
A leading avoidable cause of death in young people is drunk driving. Well then illegalize alcohol. You would save all of those lives and so forth. As we know from history prohibition never worked, it allowed a healthy criminal underground to exist and flurish. Actually some people were poisoned to the point of blindness because of the underground alcohol. We never learn whether it is drug abuse or prostitution. You can't stop it because there is a large market for it. You can only control it and hope that you can sway people from doing it.
About "healthcare"
Why don't we privatize everything from air traffic control to road construction? They could potentially do things more effieciently than the government. The problem is that if you over privatize things you cannot ensure equal service to everyone. For example when you send out mail via USPS it is garunteed to be delievered anywhere in the united states for a regulated price. If you privatize mail transport you do not get that garuntee. They may not want to deliver to certain neighboorhoods because of a high crimerate. Or they may charge more for sending postage to those nieghboorhoods than richer lower crimerate areas. They may not want to provide mail to rural areas in Alaska.
The second problem is that a charity cannot constitute good health care for the poor because charities do not have the power to reach everyone who needs it. The government (albiet inefficent) has the power to reach every crevice of the healthcare system. Local charities cannot.
The innocent live, the guilty die! It's just as simple as that. I thought the whole point of the prolife excersize was that the life is something that is sacred.
But in your case some lives or more sacred then others.
Its easy to say all people who will be executed by the death penalty are guilty, but can we be sure that everyone who will be executed is guilty?
Some children have to be aborted due to genetic defects that would cause them to die anyway, or if the birth may cause harm to the parent.
There are thousands of poor children dying because of the lack of healthcare. No one seems to care about that.
If I was prolife I would think twice about these issues rather than making quick uninformed judgement.
Good point, but I am prochoice because these loud mouth religious ethicists have conflicting morals. They hate abortion, but love the death penalty.
Prolife people have to be more consistent, they cannot be prowar, antihealthcare, antipoor, or prodeathpenalty.
Another issue I have with prolife people is in the case where the pregnancy is caused by rape or incest. Imagine the case where you have an abusive husband that rapes his wife. The wife escapes the husband, but has an unwanted pregnacy. She wants to abort the child since she could not support the child emotionally or financially. She cannot abort it because the husband actually wants her to have the baby to torture the exwife even more.
The issue is more complex than the obvious debates between prolife and prochoice. Honestly we do not value the people that are alive today, we should be arguing about that then some random embryo.
[passion] This is actively working against evolution.
You are not really really talking about evolution you are talking more about the process of natural selection. I guess your idea is that blind, deaf, "ugly", and stupid people are the weakest, and this somewhat goes against natural selection. The problem with this statement is that natural selection is a natural and is not a directly controlled process. Just because the blind, deaf, "ugly", and stupid people still exist after billions of years of natural selection probably means that maybe those traits are necessary for humanity as a whole.
Also blindness, deafness, ugliness, and mental deficiency could have environmental causes. You say you do not have any thing against this group of people, but you have a problem with them procreating. Sounds to me like your making a "trollish" statement and then trying to cover your ass by saying you have nothing against them. It's like saying African-Americans do not contribute to American culture but you love jazz.
It seems that the moderaters fell for it.
I really do not know why you were given 5 rating for your flawed logic.
My point is SOAP can be used as RPC. Thus I could use SOAP to make a function call, pass in some arguments, and get a return value.
see: using soap as RPC
If I exploit the web server and manipulate the CGI programs to return bogus values you are introuble. If I exploit the web server and manipulate the CGI/SOAP programs to return bogus values you are even more trouble.
(simm_s) The difference is that at least on the client side is that if I hack a website with SOAP web services the results can now affect the software running locally. Thus manipulating software on the client side to do things they were not intended to do. (Zeinfeld) No, this is not the difference. In IIS the Web service runs as just another back-end service provider.
If you read what I wrote, I was talking about client side not server side. I wrote that twice for goodness stake!
The difference is subtle to the unknowing end user since both CGI and SOAP provide services to the end user. With CGI programs in the backend, I log on to the website and content is generated dynamically. With SOAP my program makes a function call, the CGI/SOAP backend generates a return value to be used by the program. CGI is for web browsers, SOAP is for software in general (that is the danger).
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Maybe the attacks on Linux machines are increasing, because there are more Linux machines running or supporting critical IT infrastructure. IT engineers may be replacing old NT boxen with Linux machines.
Unfortunately this puts Linux in the security spotlight. More exploits will be found and patched (which is a good thing), and the public nature of linux security information may be exploited and used against the Linux community.
The X-Box has a 128bit processor, dude I can't wait until Intel releases that for my PC.
The genie is out of the bottle, but the industry measures success through outdated methods.
Nah, I think the music industry is measuring success just like any other industry, by the money entering their pockets. P2P, tape swapping, and CD copying may increase exposure for unkown musicians, but when the musician is on top, it ceases to help them.
Two, if you have a network card/modem/serial with a connection to the outside. Load the boot and root disks, setup the root partition, and download the rest! I have even gotten parallel port cdrom drives to work in linux!
There are two ways in which it would hurt the open source movement:
Companies wanting to open up software would quickly keep there source closed in fear of being sued for the bugs found. So while you may hurt Microsoft you have just turned every software company into Microsoft.
What if an open source coder has his/her program included into a distribution or linked into a another peice of software, then being sued for a bug in your code.
Seems like this short-sided idea has become a nightmare. Maybe I am over reacting but I just do not trust law makers (with no software experience) to make complicated software liability laws.
A linux registry is a good idea and technically possible. The only problem is reality. Create your distribution with the linux registry and guess what? You have just now compounded the linux packaging problem by adding another incompatible package format. One must create a package does not need a package manager and has the functionality of a package manager.
Yeah and what happens when make uninstall does not work?
Problem is that Apt Get only works on Debian and its derivatives. I have no problem using slackware 8 and packages that are designed for slackware 8.
It is when I am developing a 50MB program on slackware 8 and I need it to work in Redhat, SuSE, Debian, Gentoo, etc when I have a problem. I love apt-get and the freebsd ports collection but that does nothing for me in my slackware distro.
So you would rather replace dll hell with search for the correct package hell? Versioning is something that you cannot avoid in a complicated system. A legacy program that links to libx-1.0.so may not work with libx-3.0.so. Thus you may have to have both libx version 1 and 3 and a general link libx.so linking to the higher version.I do not know what you are talking about versioning is not impossible.
Also UNIX has static linking and is not immune to a DLL hell like syndrome.Though I am a devoted follower of the Slackware distro, Windows has something going for it. I grab a zip package run setup and the program is ready to run. Why can't we have the same in Linux?
Actually I have not watched the movie yet. The reviews spoil everything. ;>
In the beginning (episodes 4-6), Star Wars was just a simple story about a boy, a princess, a privateer, a wookie, a sith lord, etc. Now it has evolved into a complicated mess which everyone is over analyzing to death.
Here are my predictions for episode 2:
disclaimer: I list myself as a moderate fan who has seen episode 4,5,6 a gizzilan times on TV 4,5,6 special edition once, christmas special once, and episode 1 twice.
There will be tons of boring dialog consiting of wooden actors and tons of soul-less computer generated aliens used to replicate the puppet mastery of 70s.
The love between the princess and anakin will be completely fabricated and unrealistic. Probably using the tired forbidden love motif we have all seen before.
Scenes with Jarjar will be minimized (obvious point) given the negative feedback from episode I.
There will be another unbelievable car chase scene to prove that anakin is a greatest starfighter pilot ever. ho-hum.
There will be another intense lightsaber duel with a gimmic like the dual bladed light saber seen in episode one.
We will learn more about yoda demistifing the character making him/her/it less interesting IMHO.
Will do well at the box office. Which is George Lucas' primary goal anyway.
Will leave most hardcore fans secretly disappointed but unphased since they will see episode 3.
Most moderate fans will force themselves to enjoy the film just becasue it is Star Wars.
Playa haters will hate it no matter how good or bad it is just because it is popular.
A poorly written interrupt service routine can crash almost any "well written" OS. Most people love to complain about being poorly written but they give no credence to the architecture the OS is written for. For instance it is not fair to compare Win3.1 to Win2k because the newer CPU architectures trap more problems then my old 386 could.
However I am not claming that Win3.1,95,98, and ME were not pathetic excuses for operating systems.
Right on!
In today's world, laws that were designed to protect people are twisted and gnarled to be used against people. I once read that as a small self-employed inventor you will need two or more patents to protect your invention. If you have only one, larger companies will be able to exploit your ideas. When you decide to sue the large company, good luck!
Large companies, on the other hand, utilize patents to control markets and lock out competitors. The whole system needs to be reviewed.
Linux/free UNIX is big competition for Microsoft especially in the mid/low-end sever market. Microsoft definately have the right to advertise why their software is presumably better.
Any CTO that foolishly buy Microsoft software believing that there is a lower total cost of ownership or better security deserves what he/she gets.
I was really looking foward to this product. Oh well I guess I have to create my own DVD, PVR for Linux. Any one know any good Linux TV capture cards?
Yeah I can't believe the editor let that one pass ^_^.
CN aired it along with Thunder Cats a while back, but I guess they cut it.
I thought Java 2 was a platform not an OS. Can someone enlighten me!
The question is so vague, it could only lead to the flame wars. Seems that ~581 people fell for it so far. You bait us telling us you have a stupid boss that wants you to find or create the perfect language.
...
The "brilliant" slashdot community spends the rest of the time flaming the daylights out of each other. Java is the best, no C#, no C++, no Perl,
Nice fake hotmail account too. Why don't they just ask us the question what features do you think make up the perfect language. Even posting this is a waste of time!
Probably saying that I am prochoice because of load mouth religious ethicists was a poor choice of words. That is not my only reason. I am just more pratical. Women want the choice to abort there children, if abortion is not legal, they will abort them illegally. This could lead to harm in both mother, and child (imagine if the abortion failed and the child is born with complications). Legalizing abortion means that abortion can be controlled.
A leading avoidable cause of death in young people is drunk driving. Well then illegalize alcohol. You would save all of those lives and so forth. As we know from history prohibition never worked, it allowed a healthy criminal underground to exist and flurish. Actually some people were poisoned to the point of blindness because of the underground alcohol. We never learn whether it is drug abuse or prostitution. You can't stop it because there is a large market for it. You can only control it and hope that you can sway people from doing it.
About "healthcare"
Why don't we privatize everything from air traffic control to road construction? They could potentially do things more effieciently than the government. The problem is that if you over privatize things you cannot ensure equal service to everyone. For example when you send out mail via USPS it is garunteed to be delievered anywhere in the united states for a regulated price. If you privatize mail transport you do not get that garuntee. They may not want to deliver to certain neighboorhoods because of a high crimerate. Or they may charge more for sending postage to those nieghboorhoods than richer lower crimerate areas. They may not want to provide mail to rural areas in Alaska.
The second problem is that a charity cannot constitute good health care for the poor because charities do not have the power to reach everyone who needs it. The government (albiet inefficent) has the power to reach every crevice of the healthcare system. Local charities cannot.
The innocent live, the guilty die! It's just as simple as that. I thought the whole point of the prolife excersize was that the life is something that is sacred.
But in your case some lives or more sacred then others.
Its easy to say all people who will be executed by the death penalty are guilty, but can we be sure that everyone who will be executed is guilty?
Some children have to be aborted due to genetic defects that would cause them to die anyway, or if the birth may cause harm to the parent.
There are thousands of poor children dying because of the lack of healthcare. No one seems to care about that.
If I was prolife I would think twice about these issues rather than making quick uninformed judgement.
Good point, but I am prochoice because these loud mouth religious ethicists have conflicting morals. They hate abortion, but love the death penalty.
Prolife people have to be more consistent, they cannot be prowar, antihealthcare, antipoor, or prodeathpenalty.
Another issue I have with prolife people is in the case where the pregnancy is caused by rape or incest. Imagine the case where you have an abusive husband that rapes his wife. The wife escapes the husband, but has an unwanted pregnacy. She wants to abort the child since she could not support the child emotionally or financially. She cannot abort it because the husband actually wants her to have the baby to torture the exwife even more.
The issue is more complex than the obvious debates between prolife and prochoice. Honestly we do not value the people that are alive today, we should be arguing about that then some random embryo.
[passion] This is actively working against evolution.
You are not really really talking about evolution you are talking more about the process of natural selection. I guess your idea is that blind, deaf, "ugly", and stupid people are the weakest, and this somewhat goes against natural selection. The problem with this statement is that natural selection is a natural and is not a directly controlled process. Just because the blind, deaf, "ugly", and stupid people still exist after billions of years of natural selection probably means that maybe those traits are necessary for humanity as a whole.
Also blindness, deafness, ugliness, and mental deficiency could have environmental causes. You say you do not have any thing against this group of people, but you have a problem with them procreating. Sounds to me like your making a "trollish" statement and then trying to cover your ass by saying you have nothing against them. It's like saying African-Americans do not contribute to American culture but you love jazz.
It seems that the moderaters fell for it.
I really do not know why you were given 5 rating for your flawed logic.
This is cool but it must be an ergonomic nightmare!
My point is SOAP can be used as RPC. Thus I could use SOAP to make a function call, pass in some arguments, and get a return value.
see: using soap as RPC
If I exploit the web server and manipulate the CGI programs to return bogus values you are introuble.
If I exploit the web server and manipulate the CGI/SOAP programs to return bogus values you are even more trouble.
(simm_s) The difference is that at least on the client side is that if I hack a website with SOAP web services the results can now affect the software running locally. Thus manipulating software on the client side to do things they were not intended to do.
(Zeinfeld) No, this is not the difference. In IIS the Web service runs as just another back-end service provider.
If you read what I wrote, I was talking about client side not server side. I wrote that twice for goodness stake!
The difference is subtle to the unknowing end user since both CGI and SOAP provide services to the end user. With CGI programs in the backend, I log on to the website and content is generated dynamically. With SOAP my program makes a function call, the CGI/SOAP backend generates a return value to be used by the program. CGI is for web browsers, SOAP is for software in general (that is the danger).