I'm really sad Jesse is gone. The budget he proposed at the beginning of the crash was wise and fiscally sound, and based on the assumption that things would get worse before they got better. It was depressing to watch it be destroyed by political interests.:-(
Our current governer is almost as scary as Bush.:-(
Any solution that leaves DNS around in its current form is broken. DNS's centralized naming scheme is and endless source of annoying political problems.
Which brings me to the core of my posts. No, no, no. People should not stop using Microsoft software anymore than they should stop using free software, public domain software, shareware software, malware, spyware or any other kind of software. Telling people to stop using Microsoft software IS a call for a monoculture.
You're wrong.
The greater the diversity of OSes out there, the less likely any particular attack like this will be able to affect all of them. Right now, increasing diversity means dropping Microsoft. Microsoft accounts for a larger percentage of computers on the net than any other OS. Most (not all) people should drop Microsoft.
Pointing at people and laughing at them and saying it's their fault for using Microsoft is perfectly appropriate, because it is. The same as if most farmers use the exact same corn, and some disease came and wiped it all out, but left the holdout farmer's fields intact. The holdout farmers are perfectly justified in pointing at the others and laughing at how they all use the same corn, and all got wiped out. They shouldn't all have used the same corn. It's wrong.
Given the same marketshare as Windows, Linux would be just as much targetted by the black hats and script kiddies alike as Windows is these days.
And, so the solution to this problem is to continue to go sheeplike to a single OS vendor because if we had a more even distribution of marketshare the network as a whole would be less vulnerable to attack. Explain to me again how this makes sense.
The problem you talk about is monoculture, and the solution to that problem is still to drop Microsoft like a hot potato. Monocultures are bad. The solution is to stop using the same software everybody else does. As such, most people should stop using Microsoft software.
Actually, a better way would be to have two polarized filters at 90 degrees to eachother, and send your photons through that. If the light source is of random polarization, each photon has a 25% chance it will make it through. But which photon makes it through is random.
Even if the light source isn't randomly polarized, only 50% of the photons that make it through the first filter will make it through the second, and that _will_ be a complete random 50%.
If they get Microsoft's keys then millions of people's emails are comprimised. If they get mom and pop ISPs private key, then a few hundred people's emails are comprimised.
For this kind of investor fraud, and for extortion, SCO executives should be charged as criminals. Here is an excellent Advogato article summarizing how and more of why.
You know, you have that almost completely backwards. It's kind of amusing to see someone with an opinion that's so totally wrong.
GNUCash imports and exports Quicken just fine. The core data is kept in XML, where it belongs. QIF is not an industry standard file format, it's a proprietary file format and is as byzantine and non-standard as you should expect of such a format. If you want real interoperability with other applications, XML is exactly the thing to do in this case.
The only times the file format matters to the accountant are these: when she's trying to get her Quicken files into GNUCash; when she's downloading a QIF file from her bank; and if she drops GNUCash for Quicken and wants her data back. Import and export of Quicken files is just fine for all of these situations.
Well, strangely enough, I run RedHat, that distribution that's supposed to have this horrible, awful RPM format that handles dependencies so incredibly poorly. Strangely enough, I've had a working GNUCash installation for a few years now. I even compiled it myself from a.src RPM a couple of times when I wanted newer features. In fact, it was pretty painless.
I think the heighth of journalistic integrity is plainly and simply stating your biases for all to see. That is all I want and all I need. If Slashdot becomes a site that largely carries stories that seem to be ads, I'll stop reading it because it won't be useful anymore.
All this rot about journalistic integrity gets us our current news media, all of whom claim to be 'objective' while clearly being extremely biased in one way or another. Journalistic integrity is about saying who you are, where you're coming from, and letting the reader decide.
Of course, it could also be some kind of new thing where some publishers have hijacked a word and are using it to hold the 1st, 4th and 5th ammendments for ransom.
Is this some sort of new thing where people hijack truckloads of books, sell the books and hold the drivers for ransom? Seems a little odd to me. If you're going to make money at a criminal enterprise, there are many better, more profitable ones to pick.
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That's a good idea. I'll have to explain it that way.:-) The acronym is encrypted with a letter swapping cipher.
That IS funny, isn't it? But, Fox News couldn't possibly be being influenced by large corporations or politicians. They're a fair and balanced news source, they say so themselves!
They still were. Them happening to be right about him being a criminal doesn't excuse it. If you have all kinds of secrets from the people who are supposed to ostensibly be your boss (We, the people, remember?) you have to expect them to get really cranky and upset with you. The FBI had no business being so secretive about it all.
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I'm really sad Jesse is gone. The budget he proposed at the beginning of the crash was wise and fiscally sound, and based on the assumption that things would get worse before they got better. It was depressing to watch it be destroyed by political interests. :-(
Our current governer is almost as scary as Bush. :-(
I have no idea why I was moderated 'flamebait'. Thanks for pointing me at the paper, though I can only find the first page of it there.
I have my own system for decentralized naming I'm designing.
I still find my moderation of 'flamebait' to be very strange.
Any solution that leaves DNS around in its current form is broken. DNS's centralized naming scheme is and endless source of annoying political problems.
And you are a complete idiot.
I didn't say nobody should use Microsoft software. Just fewer. When they have 20-30% market share, I'll be happy.
You're wrong.
The greater the diversity of OSes out there, the less likely any particular attack like this will be able to affect all of them. Right now, increasing diversity means dropping Microsoft. Microsoft accounts for a larger percentage of computers on the net than any other OS. Most (not all) people should drop Microsoft.
Pointing at people and laughing at them and saying it's their fault for using Microsoft is perfectly appropriate, because it is. The same as if most farmers use the exact same corn, and some disease came and wiped it all out, but left the holdout farmer's fields intact. The holdout farmers are perfectly justified in pointing at the others and laughing at how they all use the same corn, and all got wiped out. They shouldn't all have used the same corn. It's wrong.
And, so the solution to this problem is to continue to go sheeplike to a single OS vendor because if we had a more even distribution of marketshare the network as a whole would be less vulnerable to attack. Explain to me again how this makes sense.
The problem you talk about is monoculture, and the solution to that problem is still to drop Microsoft like a hot potato. Monocultures are bad. The solution is to stop using the same software everybody else does. As such, most people should stop using Microsoft software.
Actually, a better way would be to have two polarized filters at 90 degrees to eachother, and send your photons through that. If the light source is of random polarization, each photon has a 25% chance it will make it through. But which photon makes it through is random.
Even if the light source isn't randomly polarized, only 50% of the photons that make it through the first filter will make it through the second, and that _will_ be a complete random 50%.
If they get Microsoft's keys then millions of people's emails are comprimised. If they get mom and pop ISPs private key, then a few hundred people's emails are comprimised.
They are wrong, especially if I can get CAKE working well. :-)
So, what are you getting me for myth myth?
They were using wu-ftp? That's a worse security hole magnet than sendmail or bind.
For this kind of investor fraud, and for extortion, SCO executives should be charged as criminals. Here is an excellent Advogato article summarizing how and more of why.
You know, you have that almost completely backwards. It's kind of amusing to see someone with an opinion that's so totally wrong.
GNUCash imports and exports Quicken just fine. The core data is kept in XML, where it belongs. QIF is not an industry standard file format, it's a proprietary file format and is as byzantine and non-standard as you should expect of such a format. If you want real interoperability with other applications, XML is exactly the thing to do in this case.
The only times the file format matters to the accountant are these: when she's trying to get her Quicken files into GNUCash; when she's downloading a QIF file from her bank; and if she drops GNUCash for Quicken and wants her data back. Import and export of Quicken files is just fine for all of these situations.
Well, strangely enough, I run RedHat, that distribution that's supposed to have this horrible, awful RPM format that handles dependencies so incredibly poorly. Strangely enough, I've had a working GNUCash installation for a few years now. I even compiled it myself from a .src RPM a couple of times when I wanted newer features. In fact, it was pretty painless.
Ahh, so you're proving that GNUCash needs developers to help fix those problems. I don't suppose you know how to code?
I usually don't run Windows for gaming. It's a very rare occurence anyway. :-)
Yes, you noticed a spelling error. Congratulations. I should've dropped an 'e'.
Yes, that's real integrity. Not some fluffy, patently false attempt to claim you've managed to expunge all trace of bias.
I think the heighth of journalistic integrity is plainly and simply stating your biases for all to see. That is all I want and all I need. If Slashdot becomes a site that largely carries stories that seem to be ads, I'll stop reading it because it won't be useful anymore.
All this rot about journalistic integrity gets us our current news media, all of whom claim to be 'objective' while clearly being extremely biased in one way or another. Journalistic integrity is about saying who you are, where you're coming from, and letting the reader decide.
Of course, it could also be some kind of new thing where some publishers have hijacked a word and are using it to hold the 1st, 4th and 5th ammendments for ransom.
Is this some sort of new thing where people hijack truckloads of books, sell the books and hold the drivers for ransom? Seems a little odd to me. If you're going to make money at a criminal enterprise, there are many better, more profitable ones to pick.
That's a good idea. I'll have to explain it that way. :-) The acronym is encrypted with a letter swapping cipher.
That IS funny, isn't it? But, Fox News couldn't possibly be being influenced by large corporations or politicians. They're a fair and balanced news source, they say so themselves!
They still were. Them happening to be right about him being a criminal doesn't excuse it. If you have all kinds of secrets from the people who are supposed to ostensibly be your boss (We, the people, remember?) you have to expect them to get really cranky and upset with you. The FBI had no business being so secretive about it all.