Microsoft would call me a pirate even though Windows came with my machine. It was Vista and it irritated me to no end. I eventually downgraded to XP but since M$ decided only Vista Business could do that I had a few choices: (1) Keep Vista. Out of the question. (2) Buy XP. Yeah right! (3) "Pirate XP". That's the best I could do. If I were to use WGA my installation would stop working after 30 days (or after I set the clock to the right time...). Fortunately, in XP, WGA is optional--all you have to do is uncheck it when the OS wants to update. And never use fully automatic updates because it tries to trick you sometimes.
And who cares if we bash Windows, anyway? Are you honestly defending it? I presume that you simply find it annoying. Well... I find anti-windows-bashers extremely annoying. Almost as annoying as trolls...
What's the difference between that and sudo -i? I tried it but couldn't verify much because my user password is the same as my root password. From what I saw it's the intended usage and not a bug as far as I could tell. su is deprecated in Ubuntu though.
You can't carefully compare Linux with proprietary products because they won't let you see the source, especially if you tell them you're going to carefully scrutinize it.
I don't see a whole lot of difference between the word smugness and the word confidence. I, as an affected Linux user, am fully confident this will be fixed before the bug is exploited against me. Of course, I do trust all my users, since all my users (me) know the root password anyway, but that's beside the point.
I'm curious as to what this "bad stuff" is on the internet. Barring the "come get some candy" situations, I can't think of anything. Sure there are extremest sites (I've never found any but I've never looked.. but is it so bad to hear what the other side has to say?), pr0n (oh noes! the things you see in the shower!) and what? Information about things the kid is afraid to ask? I think information is good. I used the internet to find information about a lot of things I was afraid to ask about when I was younger. I would have been extremely indignant if I had been monitored. I would have probably screwed up the computer in creative ways trying to disable the monitoring. I feel that they are an invasion of privacy. I had a 3Mbit connection. I think I turned out fine.
I took over the router when I was 15-or-so too, though I only did so as a guise to keep the DNS logs to myself... I was quite embarrassed when I found out about those... I thought he was bluffing. Whoops.
That was Alonzo Bodden. Unfortunately, while verifying that on Google, I learned that it actually has been done. I guess it's not as funny in real life.
Sealing the cockpit is a good idea. You could also have a compartment separating the cockpit from the rest of the plane and keep it in a vacuum. if somebody gets in there, they can't breath and simply pass out... then you can arrest them. I.e.:
1. Separate cockpit from passenger area.
2. Depressurize newly made compartment.
3. ???
4. Profit.
I'm assuming that when you say blackhole you mean block their IPs throughout the US. Actually I think that's a pretty decent idea--far better than killing people. However it's not that simple because the viruses have already spread, so we'd need to come up with a way to stop all of those, which can be done. The trouble is that we would also have to convince other countries to block them too or the attackers might use a proxy from them.
Ahh but Newton triumphs once again. If the rails are arrested so that they do not fly apart at incredibly high velocities then something else must take the force. Newton's third law of motion states that "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction", which means that the force would instead go in the opposite direction of the projectile. It would only part the rails if that were the path of least resistance.
I'm pretty sure something like that would not be considered the US's fault. I think killing everything in x radius qualifies more as terrorism than a legitimate tactic. It's akin to a nation killing its own citizens as a defense.
Of course, your initial premise makes sense. Each nation, when acting in defense, should come up with a countermeasure for other nation's weapons. That part is simply good practice.
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Microsoft would call me a pirate even though Windows came with my machine. It was Vista and it irritated me to no end. I eventually downgraded to XP but since M$ decided only Vista Business could do that I had a few choices: (1) Keep Vista. Out of the question. (2) Buy XP. Yeah right! (3) "Pirate XP". That's the best I could do. If I were to use WGA my installation would stop working after 30 days (or after I set the clock to the right time...). Fortunately, in XP, WGA is optional--all you have to do is uncheck it when the OS wants to update. And never use fully automatic updates because it tries to trick you sometimes.
Man thank God I looked at the Wikipedia page about slashdot before joining. It warned me about goatse =)
LOL I think the legal term for that is "entrapment". You really just baited him to say exactly what you needed to make him look dumb...
And who cares if we bash Windows, anyway? Are you honestly defending it? I presume that you simply find it annoying. Well... I find anti-windows-bashers extremely annoying. Almost as annoying as trolls...
What's the difference between that and sudo -i? I tried it but couldn't verify much because my user password is the same as my root password. From what I saw it's the intended usage and not a bug as far as I could tell. su is deprecated in Ubuntu though.
You can't carefully compare Linux with proprietary products because they won't let you see the source, especially if you tell them you're going to carefully scrutinize it.
I don't see a whole lot of difference between the word smugness and the word confidence. I, as an affected Linux user, am fully confident this will be fixed before the bug is exploited against me. Of course, I do trust all my users, since all my users (me) know the root password anyway, but that's beside the point.
I'm curious as to what this "bad stuff" is on the internet. Barring the "come get some candy" situations, I can't think of anything. Sure there are extremest sites (I've never found any but I've never looked.. but is it so bad to hear what the other side has to say?), pr0n (oh noes! the things you see in the shower!) and what? Information about things the kid is afraid to ask? I think information is good. I used the internet to find information about a lot of things I was afraid to ask about when I was younger. I would have been extremely indignant if I had been monitored. I would have probably screwed up the computer in creative ways trying to disable the monitoring. I feel that they are an invasion of privacy. I had a 3Mbit connection. I think I turned out fine.
I took over the router when I was 15-or-so too, though I only did so as a guise to keep the DNS logs to myself... I was quite embarrassed when I found out about those... I thought he was bluffing. Whoops.
That was Alonzo Bodden. Unfortunately, while verifying that on Google, I learned that it actually has been done. I guess it's not as funny in real life.
I was going to say the same thing. Doh! *redundancy!*
Sealing the cockpit is a good idea. You could also have a compartment separating the cockpit from the rest of the plane and keep it in a vacuum. if somebody gets in there, they can't breath and simply pass out... then you can arrest them. I.e.: 1. Separate cockpit from passenger area. 2. Depressurize newly made compartment. 3. ??? 4. Profit.
Did he see that in his crystal ball?
And Tannenbaum means Christmas tree!
I'm assuming that when you say blackhole you mean block their IPs throughout the US. Actually I think that's a pretty decent idea--far better than killing people. However it's not that simple because the viruses have already spread, so we'd need to come up with a way to stop all of those, which can be done. The trouble is that we would also have to convince other countries to block them too or the attackers might use a proxy from them.
I remember reading about that. IIRC the cookie was hijacked so the exploiter could log in at any time, even if the password was changed.
Ahh but Newton triumphs once again. If the rails are arrested so that they do not fly apart at incredibly high velocities then something else must take the force. Newton's third law of motion states that "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction", which means that the force would instead go in the opposite direction of the projectile. It would only part the rails if that were the path of least resistance.
I'm pretty sure something like that would not be considered the US's fault. I think killing everything in x radius qualifies more as terrorism than a legitimate tactic. It's akin to a nation killing its own citizens as a defense. Of course, your initial premise makes sense. Each nation, when acting in defense, should come up with a countermeasure for other nation's weapons. That part is simply good practice.
Actually that's the definition of anecdotal evidence--anecdote means story.