I bought a pair of Sennheiser earbuds. They were crap. Sennheiser has a good name at the high end but they're obviously as willing as anybody else to sell junk at the low end.
Many of those Sydney 2000 Olympics websites would have been just ticket sales and general advertising. Much as I lament the transient nature of websites, a lot of it is just promotional material... to pick a name at random: black-shoes.com is a typical no-content "spam" website. It is valueless today, let alone in the future.
I've got the Unicomp model M with the integrated trackpoint. Don't bother, the trackpoint tracks too slowly to be useful (and I don't know how to accelerate the trackpoint without also accelerating my other mouse).
For a media centre PC, I use a Lite-On keyboard with integrated joystick mouse. It's much better, but the keyboard uses IR to transmit to the host and it needs line-of-sight. I'll switch to Bluetooth one of these days.
No. Market Cap is the per-share price multiplied by the number of
shares on issue. It's a measure of how much the marketplace values the company, and isn't necessarily related to the amount of assets the company has or their cash at hand.
Now that Novell has a final judgement and an agreed-in-principle constructive trust, this saga is going to continue to play out in the bankruptcy court. I expect SCO to start dancing - a lot - about appeals and reorganisations, but they may also try to delay. They may use Xmas as an excuse to avoid being placed into Ch.7 before the end of the year.
The laptops and OS need to sell separately. Bundling distorts the market, with:
Retailers stocking more XP models and not stocking Linux models
XP models having higher spec hardware
Linux models using a cut down or crippled build.
I removed the Xandros desktop from my EEE within about 5 days of purchase. I found it frustrating that the packages I needed weren't available in the repo... git-core, gcc, rsync, telnet, host. Who makes a linux distribution without rsync?
So what we need is perhaps what we've always needed - Microsoft to unbundle the OS and sell separately so the consumer knows the true cost of the hardware, the OS, and can choose appropriately.
Is there any kind of minimalist election result feed which will inform of only the states as they're officially called and the final result? For example twitter or IM.
I don't want to spend hours watching it on TV, but I do want to know the results as they're called.
It's just another reason for Adobe to open-source the Flash client, or alternately for browsers to not support proprietary Flash.
With open source available, authors could work around the problem by removing the ability of flash scripts to write to the clipboard, or by limiting the number of times each script can write to the clipboard. If it's some desirable feature, then a capability checkbox can be added, on a per-script basis.
I think if they start restricting which protocols are allowed and which IP addresses are allowed to connect to/from then they shouldn't be allowed to call it Internet.
So... you'll buy hardware which might contain a keylogger and use it in China?
That's more likely to be compromised before you buy it than your own laptop (which I assume you can trust right now) is to be compromised after you use it in China.
But that also means that there is never a
time when you can "let people know", except when it's not an issue any
more, at which point there is no _point_ in letting people know any more.
Actually there is a point. Not everybody runs the latest kernel all the time. And so reporting a fixed security problem is not a matter of "we fixed another security problem for you" but rather "all versions of (linux) between 2.6.xx and 2.6.yy are vulnerable to (problem description) and so please upgrade to 2.6.yy+1."
However, Linus' role is to manage the huge volume of changes going into the kernel, and making a big song and dance about security fixes will detract from performing that role. Somebody else should do that, and it's often vendors, and that seems quite adequate to me. I regularly see Debian Security advisories about kernel 2.6.18 and upgraded packages. I don't run those kernels myself, but the updates probably come from backported fixes applied in later 2.6.x kernels. Therefore if I run the latest 2.6.x kernel I am safe from all vulnerabilities fixed before 2.6.x was released.
I think the kernel developers' attitude is that they don't want you to run 2.6.18 or 2.6.22 or whatever; they want you to run the latest released kernel. If there's a bug in 2.6.18 (there are many, apparently) their advice to you will be to upgrade to 2.6.26, or the latest kernel in the series you are running (2.6.25.11 if running 2.6.25, 2.4.36.6 if still running a 2.4 kernel).
With closed source software, the problem is mostly discovered after the evil code executes. If it's packaged as a trojan horse (to activate sometime in the far future, for example) then discovery will require reverse engineering the code.
So yes, it's possible for spyware/etc to be discovered in closed source software by reverse engineering, which is an order of magnitude more difficult than reading the source. In the open source community though, an alarm raised by a single person is probably going to be more effective because other people can then easily
look at the source of the questionable program.
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I bought a pair of Sennheiser earbuds. They were crap. Sennheiser has a good name at the high end but they're obviously as willing as anybody else to sell junk at the low end.
Many of those Sydney 2000 Olympics websites would have been just ticket sales and general advertising. Much as I lament the transient nature of websites, a lot of it is just promotional material ... to pick a name at random: black-shoes.com is a typical no-content "spam" website. It is valueless today, let alone in the future.
I've got the Unicomp model M with the integrated trackpoint. Don't bother, the trackpoint tracks too slowly to be useful (and I don't know how to accelerate the trackpoint without also accelerating my other mouse).
For a media centre PC, I use a Lite-On keyboard with integrated joystick mouse. It's much better, but the keyboard uses IR to transmit to the host and it needs line-of-sight. I'll switch to Bluetooth one of these days.
Water still wet.
Pope still Catholic.
However, Unix time_t is a signed quantity. It has no trouble going back to December 1901 on 32-bit systems.
So when you spend money in-game does Sony pay tax on that?
I couldn't find any analyses online, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's more than half.
Neither did the article.
No. Market Cap is the per-share price multiplied by the number of shares on issue. It's a measure of how much the marketplace values the company, and isn't necessarily related to the amount of assets the company has or their cash at hand.
Now that Novell has a final judgement and an agreed-in-principle constructive trust, this saga is going to continue to play out in the bankruptcy court. I expect SCO to start dancing - a lot - about appeals and reorganisations, but they may also try to delay. They may use Xmas as an excuse to avoid being placed into Ch.7 before the end of the year.
I removed the Xandros desktop from my EEE within about 5 days of purchase. I found it frustrating that the packages I needed weren't available in the repo ... git-core, gcc, rsync, telnet, host. Who makes a linux distribution without rsync?
So what we need is perhaps what we've always needed - Microsoft to unbundle the OS and sell separately so the consumer knows the true cost of the hardware, the OS, and can choose appropriately.
Is there any kind of minimalist election result feed which will inform of only the states as they're officially called and the final result? For example twitter or IM.
I don't want to spend hours watching it on TV, but I do want to know the results as they're called.
In Soviet Russia, your editor has tabs on you.
Waiting for Adobe to release bugfixes and versions for other platforms like ARM isn't working out so well for us either.
But apparently if the computer itself decides to make such drastic flight alterations that's okay?
IANAPilot too.
Make sure you build the ipv7 kernel module; you may need it in 25 years.
Damn straight.
It's just another reason for Adobe to open-source the Flash client, or alternately for browsers to not support proprietary Flash.
With open source available, authors could work around the problem by removing the ability of flash scripts to write to the clipboard, or by limiting the number of times each script can write to the clipboard. If it's some desirable feature, then a capability checkbox can be added, on a per-script basis.
The problem is asking questions to Slashdot?
I think if they start restricting which protocols are allowed and which IP addresses are allowed to connect to/from then they shouldn't be allowed to call it Internet.
So ... you'll buy hardware which might contain a keylogger and use it in China?
That's more likely to be compromised before you buy it than your own laptop (which I assume you can trust right now) is to be compromised after you use it in China.
If forth you love, honk you will.
I can't stand seeing 'if' with no whitespace before the opening parenthesis, as in 'if(condition)'.
'if' is not a function! (at least not in perl nor C).
But that also means that there is never a time when you can "let people know", except when it's not an issue any more, at which point there is no _point_ in letting people know any more.
Actually there is a point. Not everybody runs the latest kernel all the time. And so reporting a fixed security problem is not a matter of "we fixed another security problem for you" but rather "all versions of (linux) between 2.6.xx and 2.6.yy are vulnerable to (problem description) and so please upgrade to 2.6.yy+1."
However, Linus' role is to manage the huge volume of changes going into the kernel, and making a big song and dance about security fixes will detract from performing that role. Somebody else should do that, and it's often vendors, and that seems quite adequate to me. I regularly see Debian Security advisories about kernel 2.6.18 and upgraded packages. I don't run those kernels myself, but the updates probably come from backported fixes applied in later 2.6.x kernels. Therefore if I run the latest 2.6.x kernel I am safe from all vulnerabilities fixed before 2.6.x was released.
I think the kernel developers' attitude is that they don't want you to run 2.6.18 or 2.6.22 or whatever; they want you to run the latest released kernel. If there's a bug in 2.6.18 (there are many, apparently) their advice to you will be to upgrade to 2.6.26, or the latest kernel in the series you are running (2.6.25.11 if running 2.6.25, 2.4.36.6 if still running a 2.4 kernel).
At least we know McCain didn't write the spider himself. The guy can't even use a web browser or email.
With closed source software, the problem is mostly discovered after the evil code executes. If it's packaged as a trojan horse (to activate sometime in the far future, for example) then discovery will require reverse engineering the code.
So yes, it's possible for spyware/etc to be discovered in closed source software by reverse engineering, which is an order of magnitude more difficult than reading the source. In the open source community though, an alarm raised by a single person is probably going to be more effective because other people can then easily look at the source of the questionable program.