I tend to think that Linux machines are more vulnerable simply because there
are lots of people who pretty much have the system installed, and fail to do
anything in order to make sure the system is updated.
For all the servers out there, I wonder how many people actually run up2date
or apt from time to time. I imagine more people run windows run windows update
than any linux equivalent.
Let's face it. Linux isn't for just the uber-geek anymore. So logically, more
systems are going to be hacked into when people with no security sense are managing
systems.
Don't blame the operating system. Blame everyone who thinks they're a competent
sysadmin, but really aren't.
Not to mention that this article doesn't weigh in percentages. There are a *LOT*
more linux servers out there than there are BSD, Windows and Mac OS X servers. When
one factors in percentages, Linux really isn't *that* bad.
Netcraft confirms... Bluetooth is dy--- err skip it.
Anyway, slashdot, what are you thinking? You first show how retarded this fellow is
by linking the story about the ferrari laptop. You then proceed to start to post
other stories by this fellow. Don't you think that the credibility of this fellow
has long since gone down the toilet after an article about his laptop that goes vroom?
Everybody has an opinion. Everybody has a voice. What's next? A BSD-is-dead troll
getting linked on the front page? Seriously guys;)
I hope everybody realizes that linking to this fellow's posts will only validate him,
even if it's for the purpose of laughing at his assertions, calling him wrong, whatever.
Sorry, but I don't trust reviewers that get a kick out of a car sound starting up a laptop,
just like I don't trust the technical opinion of someone who discovers that they don't have to hear "You've got mail" when they get a new message.
I don't think he deserves the time of day after the last story. And if anybody disagrees with me here, by all means reply to this and say why I'm wrong.
The R420/423 chips will offer twice the pixel fill rate and vertex throughput of the R350 core, as well as increases in memory bandwidth.
Okay, twice the pixel fill rate? Supposing it's an 8x pipeline just like the r350, and is 500mhz where does 2x fill rate come in? The R350 is NOT 250mhz.
I'm thinking this will do roughly 25% faster than the fastest card out there, maybe 50% in some applications. Anything more will really surprise me.
While the patent does sound a bit dubious, a Microsoft spokesman was quick to deny that they'd be so bold as to patent XML itself.
Why bother patenting when you have 90% dominance, add your own proprietary standards, and shut everyone else out?
Yes, I realize that it's a file format, or even considered to be a database of sorts. But what good is a standard when most people use something that breaks standards? Does that majority make Microsoft a standard in itself?
Amazon.com has a nice little feature that says, "Is this review useful?"
And by default, you can see the review of the item that is most relevant.
How can this not apply to Teacher Reviews? If a review of the teacher is particularly bad, but gets voted as useful / accurate, then oh well.
Maybe reviews should be blammed Newgrounds Style, but with a few modifications. After a certain number of votes, if the review is found slanderous / not useful, it becomes invisible and flagged for review.
Also, why not instead of censor it, allow the actual teacher room to respond to his / her own review? If there are 200 upvotes on a negative review of the teacher, the teacher should have the right to defend his / her own philosophy.
Apparently this fellow doesn't care for his work *too* much. If he fought the good fight, I'm sure the ACLU et al would help foot the bill.
Thoughts? (I'd prefer responses over moderation on this one)
Heh, I knew after posting that, someone would say something like this.
Just because I have access to the numbers doesn't mean it's on my machine. And for that matter, somebody breaking into my machine and waiting for me to connect to the machine that does have the numbers doesn't mean that they'll get access to them either.
I have access to the numbers, but it doesn't mean I have to DO anything with them. And to be quite honest, after coding the system, I haven't seen the need to look at them. I keep the copy of my private key safe on a CD, thank you very much.
One that I've never felt the need to load into my machine. All I really do sometimes is connect to the machine, count rows in the db, look at my CD and go, "I could be sooo naughty if I wanted to be," and then find something else to do.
Hacking me is a waste of time. I have absolutely no doubt that someone could, but there are so many better targets out there. People with usable information actually on their machines.;)
Who do you trust? And who do you get to solve something like this?
Do you say, "Only certain government approved facilities can deal
with this sort of information?" Seriously, should I feel that someone
"government sponsored" is better off with my information than an outsourced
programmer in India? Who gets to play Big Brother? And what will they do
with what they know?
You can take this to the extreme, and be wary of anyone
to handle private data about you. But then, if there's that sort of
outcry, nobody would be able to handle it, would they?
I suppose it's better than having the Smoking Man from the X-Files
having a file about you, and a blood sample. I find most programmers
to have a certain level of professionalism to what they do.
I personally have access to roughly 10,000 credit card numbers. I'll
never abuse the fact that I have access to them. But on the other hand,
I'm not stupid enough to post all of them on the net for everybody to see,
either.
I hope anybody who ends up doing something that stupid becomes a victim
of identity theft. That'll really open their eyes to respecting other people's
privacy.
By the way, I hate how everybody gets up in arms
over the fact that this is data from children. This is horrible
for ANYBODY to have their information posted on the net
like this. And it could have been worse. It could have been a list of women
tying them to the current Battered Women's Shelter they were staying at.
You know, maybe I don't get it... Maybe it's just me.
But it says right there... "Please write the online editor at daddypants@slashdot.org for any corrections.".
I decide to write that it was a dupe. Sure enough, the thing gets posted anyway.
I mean, that's partly what subscribers are for. And that's also why subscribers can't do comments early. Right?
It's silly. Not only should the editors actually read slashdot, they should more importantly look at email from subscribers saying "It's a dupe!" before posting the thing.
But maybe it's just me thinking in a perfect world. Forget it.
I actually do a reverse dns and look at the domain two steps back: (e.g: aol.com, etc). If there's no reverse entry, it stores the Class A/B entry.
The reverse DNS is only done on the start of a session. Plus, if there's a different class B, it'll boot the person into a new session.
The block on bandwidth is really interesting. But is that really a good idea?
When someone goes to a porn site for the first time, I imagine they'd spend a couple hours checking out everything that's there. Imagine if they went over their limit the first time they went to the site? I doubt they'd renew, even after their usage of the site goes down for the rest of the month.
I mean, seriously... Would you renew on a site that kicked you off for downloading too much?
Once installed, Pennywize will monitor every hit to your members section. If it notices that an account is logging too many hits from different IP addresses
Guess you don't do that sort of thing anymore.
Ever try doing blocking that way? It's impossible? Reason being that companies like AOL like to rotate their users' IP addresses every few minutes to every 30 seconds, making it appear like there are roughly 15 users on the site at once.
It's also nice to be able to trace back where these lists are being posted and pro-actively check them.
Sometimes reinventing the wheel involves making them out of rubber instead of using stone or wood.;)
It's not so much the sharing of material that the companies I do work for care about, but the leaking of passwords onto online sites.
When a site gets released onto a list, and several hundred people end up downloading 100meg+ movies, that's essentially a slashdot effect for you. Before I ended up implementing a protection system for one company, they spent upwards of $3k/month in bandwidth overages. This was just for one day of password leaking.
Sometimes sharing porn is good press. That's why all of SW's images are watermarked, as well as all their videos. That's partly how the word is spread. Of course, making the news on roughly 10 different shows and being contravercial doesn't hurt either:)
I know of some companies that deliberately leak passwords out onto lists for short periods of time just to drive people to the site. That works quite well. Too bad the music industry couldn't learn from something like that.
But then, the problem with the music industry is that people only want to pirate well known artists. With porn, sex is sex. No matter whose ass is involved, as long as it's a fine one, people will watch.
It's obvious that SCO is not only wanting to raise its stock price, but it's hoping to be bought out by some of the bigger fish out there to possibly placate them.
My suggestion... How about we do as they say and buy them out just to shut them up.
I propose that the mods of Slashdot start a fund called the "Buy out SCO so they can shut the fsck up" fund. If we all paypal a couple of dollars into the pot, we can use it in order to help buy out SCO so that we can go on as usual without all this SCO gibberish.
An added benefit would be to get Slashdot Subscription pages for every dollar we donate to the cause. That will make some of the more geeky of us choose to help. Not like we wouldn't help anyway:).
Of course, when SCO loses their case, it will become significantly easier to buy the company since their stock will be worth about 1/10th of a cent. At that point, us Slashdot users will be able to make McBride our own personal bitch, and everyone will be happy still.
Hurry though! Before Microsoft chooses to buy out SCO before we can.
'half the world's supply of 'IC Plastics'' and can result in 'sudden or premature end of life.'
Maybe this is offtopic and morbid... but...
If only this applied to people and Hollywood... It'd be such a beauty to watch the Grammys or the Emmys only to watch half of Hollywood's plastic-faced cronies drop dead in the middle of the awards.
Well, maybe not drop dead... but seeing them writhing around on the floor with their hands on their faces as their skin starts bubbling and boiling. It'd be like some sci-fi episode... Like the twilight zone... But the only Twilight Zone because those were good.
But no! This shit has to happen to hard drives! Only thing that I want *not* to fail end up doing so.
I still hate RealPlyaer. Any sort of file format that requires me to
install the company's software to use I will eternally hate, regardless of who it is. I hate Real, and I hate Quicktime. I'd ask that they both die a slow miserable death, but I honestly want them both out of the way so that more open standards will take their place faster.
I saw this story as a subscriber before most everyone else did, so I go to the site and download all the software before the site ends up getting slashdotted.
I then download java, run the jar, scan my driver's license... doesn't work.
Then I rotate the image 180 and find out it doesn't work.
Then I go online and notice that California doesn't have a 2d barcode on the back of their licenses.
Which comes to the rule of the day, which is apparently applicable to myself:
You can be enough of a nerd to care about what's on your barcode, and still be a complete fucking moron
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For all the servers out there, I wonder how many people actually run up2date or apt from time to time. I imagine more people run windows run windows update than any linux equivalent.
Let's face it. Linux isn't for just the uber-geek anymore. So logically, more systems are going to be hacked into when people with no security sense are managing systems.
Don't blame the operating system. Blame everyone who thinks they're a competent sysadmin, but really aren't.
Not to mention that this article doesn't weigh in percentages. There are a *LOT* more linux servers out there than there are BSD, Windows and Mac OS X servers. When one factors in percentages, Linux really isn't *that* bad.
Give credit where credit is due. Granted, for all I know the one I linked is ripped too, but still...
Time to filter out the new redundant / trolls, relevant or not.
Netcraft confirms... Bluetooth is dy--- err skip it.
Anyway, slashdot, what are you thinking? You first show how retarded this fellow is by linking the story about the ferrari laptop. You then proceed to start to post other stories by this fellow. Don't you think that the credibility of this fellow has long since gone down the toilet after an article about his laptop that goes vroom?
Everybody has an opinion. Everybody has a voice. What's next? A BSD-is-dead troll getting linked on the front page? Seriously guys ;)
I hope everybody realizes that linking to this fellow's posts will only validate him, even if it's for the purpose of laughing at his assertions, calling him wrong, whatever. Sorry, but I don't trust reviewers that get a kick out of a car sound starting up a laptop, just like I don't trust the technical opinion of someone who discovers that they don't have to hear "You've got mail" when they get a new message.
I don't think he deserves the time of day after the last story. And if anybody disagrees with me here, by all means reply to this and say why I'm wrong.
</rant>
"This deal is getting worse all the time."
Can you hear me now...
(wait for it)
(wait for it)
NO CARRIER.
SHIT!
I was thinking of going to college for an MCSE, and then I remembered that I already had a lobotomy.
To quote the Anandtech article:
The R420/423 chips will offer twice the pixel fill rate and vertex throughput of the R350 core, as well as increases in memory bandwidth.
Okay, twice the pixel fill rate? Supposing it's an 8x pipeline just like the r350, and is 500mhz where does 2x fill rate come in? The R350 is NOT 250mhz.
I'm thinking this will do roughly 25% faster than the fastest card out there, maybe 50% in some applications. Anything more will really surprise me.
While the patent does sound a bit dubious, a Microsoft spokesman was quick to deny that they'd be so bold as to patent XML itself.
Why bother patenting when you have 90% dominance, add your own proprietary standards, and shut everyone else out?
Yes, I realize that it's a file format, or even considered to be a database of sorts. But what good is a standard when most people use something that breaks standards? Does that majority make Microsoft a standard in itself?
You also need a hairpiece over your eyes, or a scottish accent to operate it.
And by default, you can see the review of the item that is most relevant.
How can this not apply to Teacher Reviews? If a review of the teacher is particularly bad, but gets voted as useful / accurate, then oh well.
Maybe reviews should be blammed Newgrounds Style, but with a few modifications. After a certain number of votes, if the review is found slanderous / not useful, it becomes invisible and flagged for review.
Also, why not instead of censor it, allow the actual teacher room to respond to his / her own review? If there are 200 upvotes on a negative review of the teacher, the teacher should have the right to defend his / her own philosophy.
Apparently this fellow doesn't care for his work *too* much. If he fought the good fight, I'm sure the ACLU et al would help foot the bill.
Thoughts? (I'd prefer responses over moderation on this one)
Just because I have access to the numbers doesn't mean it's on my machine. And for that matter, somebody breaking into my machine and waiting for me to connect to the machine that does have the numbers doesn't mean that they'll get access to them either.
I have access to the numbers, but it doesn't mean I have to DO anything with them. And to be quite honest, after coding the system, I haven't seen the need to look at them. I keep the copy of my private key safe on a CD, thank you very much.
One that I've never felt the need to load into my machine. All I really do sometimes is connect to the machine, count rows in the db, look at my CD and go, "I could be sooo naughty if I wanted to be," and then find something else to do.
Hacking me is a waste of time. I have absolutely no doubt that someone could, but there are so many better targets out there. People with usable information actually on their machines. ;)
See, this is how ya do it :)
....SHIT!
Who do you trust? And who do you get to solve something like this?
Do you say, "Only certain government approved facilities can deal with this sort of information?" Seriously, should I feel that someone "government sponsored" is better off with my information than an outsourced programmer in India? Who gets to play Big Brother? And what will they do with what they know?
You can take this to the extreme, and be wary of anyone to handle private data about you. But then, if there's that sort of outcry, nobody would be able to handle it, would they?
I suppose it's better than having the Smoking Man from the X-Files having a file about you, and a blood sample. I find most programmers to have a certain level of professionalism to what they do.
I personally have access to roughly 10,000 credit card numbers. I'll never abuse the fact that I have access to them. But on the other hand, I'm not stupid enough to post all of them on the net for everybody to see, either.
I hope anybody who ends up doing something that stupid becomes a victim of identity theft. That'll really open their eyes to respecting other people's privacy.
By the way, I hate how everybody gets up in arms over the fact that this is data from children. This is horrible for ANYBODY to have their information posted on the net like this. And it could have been worse. It could have been a list of women tying them to the current Battered Women's Shelter they were staying at.
Then they'll change the project name to "MozillaSoft Internet Explorer" just to confuse a few chaps.
But it says right there... "Please write the online editor at daddypants@slashdot.org for any corrections.".
I decide to write that it was a dupe. Sure enough, the thing gets posted anyway.
I mean, that's partly what subscribers are for. And that's also why subscribers can't do comments early. Right?
It's silly. Not only should the editors actually read slashdot, they should more importantly look at email from subscribers saying "It's a dupe!" before posting the thing.
But maybe it's just me thinking in a perfect world. Forget it.
The reverse DNS is only done on the start of a session. Plus, if there's a different class B, it'll boot the person into a new session.
The block on bandwidth is really interesting. But is that really a good idea?
When someone goes to a porn site for the first time, I imagine they'd spend a couple hours checking out everything that's there. Imagine if they went over their limit the first time they went to the site? I doubt they'd renew, even after their usage of the site goes down for the rest of the month.
I mean, seriously... Would you renew on a site that kicked you off for downloading too much?
Quote from PennyWize's page:
Once installed, Pennywize will monitor every hit to your members section. If it notices that an account is logging too many hits from different IP addresses
Guess you don't do that sort of thing anymore.
Ever try doing blocking that way? It's impossible? Reason being that companies like AOL like to rotate their users' IP addresses every few minutes to every 30 seconds, making it appear like there are roughly 15 users on the site at once.
It's also nice to be able to trace back where these lists are being posted and pro-actively check them.
Sometimes reinventing the wheel involves making them out of rubber instead of using stone or wood. ;)
It's not so much the sharing of material that the companies I do work for care about, but the leaking of passwords onto online sites.
When a site gets released onto a list, and several hundred people end up downloading 100meg+ movies, that's essentially a slashdot effect for you. Before I ended up implementing a protection system for one company, they spent upwards of $3k/month in bandwidth overages. This was just for one day of password leaking.
Sometimes sharing porn is good press. That's why all of SW's images are watermarked, as well as all their videos. That's partly how the word is spread. Of course, making the news on roughly 10 different shows and being contravercial doesn't hurt either :)
I know of some companies that deliberately leak passwords out onto lists for short periods of time just to drive people to the site. That works quite well. Too bad the music industry couldn't learn from something like that.
But then, the problem with the music industry is that people only want to pirate well known artists. With porn, sex is sex. No matter whose ass is involved, as long as it's a fine one, people will watch.
And people will pay. Simple as that.
It's obvious that SCO is not only wanting to raise its stock price, but it's hoping to be bought out by some of the bigger fish out there to possibly placate them.
My suggestion... How about we do as they say and buy them out just to shut them up.
I propose that the mods of Slashdot start a fund called the "Buy out SCO so they can shut the fsck up" fund. If we all paypal a couple of dollars into the pot, we can use it in order to help buy out SCO so that we can go on as usual without all this SCO gibberish.
An added benefit would be to get Slashdot Subscription pages for every dollar we donate to the cause. That will make some of the more geeky of us choose to help. Not like we wouldn't help anyway :).
Of course, when SCO loses their case, it will become significantly easier to buy the company since their stock will be worth about 1/10th of a cent. At that point, us Slashdot users will be able to make McBride our own personal bitch, and everyone will be happy still.
Hurry though! Before Microsoft chooses to buy out SCO before we can.
Just a thought. Continue as normal.
Maybe this is offtopic and morbid... but...
If only this applied to people and Hollywood... It'd be such a beauty to watch the Grammys or the Emmys only to watch half of Hollywood's plastic-faced cronies drop dead in the middle of the awards.
Well, maybe not drop dead... but seeing them writhing around on the floor with their hands on their faces as their skin starts bubbling and boiling. It'd be like some sci-fi episode... Like the twilight zone... But the only Twilight Zone because those were good.
But no! This shit has to happen to hard drives! Only thing that I want *not* to fail end up doing so.
Doesn't that just suck?
Like winamp?
I still hate RealPlyaer. Any sort of file format that requires me to install the company's software to use I will eternally hate, regardless of who it is. I hate Real, and I hate Quicktime. I'd ask that they both die a slow miserable death, but I honestly want them both out of the way so that more open standards will take their place faster.
Oh beautiful!
Let's add slashdot to our list of sites DDOSing us!
Wow, you Slashdot Editors like kicking people while they're down, huh?
And while we're at it, why not make the file redirect to www.sco.com? Oh wait... that's been done.
java -jar SwipeBarcode.jar
I saw this story as a subscriber before most everyone else did, so I go to the site and download all the software before the site ends up getting slashdotted.
I then download java, run the jar, scan my driver's license... doesn't work.
Then I rotate the image 180 and find out it doesn't work.
Then I go online and notice that California doesn't have a 2d barcode on the back of their licenses.
Which comes to the rule of the day, which is apparently applicable to myself:
You can be enough of a nerd to care about what's on your barcode, and still be a complete fucking moron