ditto to that; up here in the mountains of british columbia my morning routine would be much, much easier if only I had something other than elbow grease and an ice scraper. If nanobots could work through the night on moving snow off of my vehicle, I'd be tempted to also apply them in a 100' radius around the house.
"These UAHuntsville scientists hope to help provide a better intelligence posture on these asymmetric threats by developing computer models that identify trends in the behaviors of the adversaries."
the data is finally in after teraflop after teraflop of intense scrutiny. 100% of the random terrorist attacks have been carried out by members of the species that built the calculator.
as a technician i endorse the idea that customers like being informed about the progress of the repair, especially when those reports on progress are not contradictory. triage is essential. it's good to be in agreement about warranty status at first, it's good to call when work is started, if extra costs are going to be involved and of course when it's finished. the opposite can be very frustrating for non-technical people when they are already putting their faith in you for a service.
stolen? and subsequently covered with a bogus paper trail? now that's not good service at all.
i once borrowed a dual-core laptop for two months without permission. the customer left the unit in our service department for over six months after our repair was complete. we had called numerous times over the months, including call by our accountant, to tell them it was fixed and to pay up!! mysteriously, they did not appear to collect their laptop nor did they return our calls. anyway... 6mo l8r... i installed linux on the second, unused partition and promptly forgot about the ntfs partition. it's contents were not of interest to me and even though i had ntfs-3g, the partition was not specified in my fstab. i did not delete the original partition, because the laptop was not mine. but i completely messed with the MBR and the second partition on their HD, tailoring a gentoo install to the gills. i spent those months compiling a nice 64-bit SMP world. i was just beginning to actually USE the laptop to do things other than compile- when:
the customer then promptly appeared in accordance with murphy's law, having rustled up the additional money for their LCD screen replacement bill. luckily i was able to quickly return it to them in it's original (but now repaired) state with a freshly written MBR now lacking grub and a happy empty second NTFS partition. the customer was pleased and went off to play solitare on XP Home.
i'm thinking: sure, some of us can revel in the non-destructible nature of our massively parallel-processing crc'ed calculators with journaled backups spanning numerous volumes on several continents, but the average user is processing with faith. it's just supposed to work for n years, especially when you pay $300 extra.
i could have been a jerk and quoted the fine print, which states that we're not responsible, blah blah blah. but i live in a small community where word of mouth flies faster than photons along fibre and putting my data somewhere else was only a few orders of magnitude slower than that.
it was probably that damn butler who hangs out in the electronics department all the time who actually ripped this lady off.
right on peeps. unfortunate that the exploit existed for so long, but a patch was available for my gentoo distro within four hours of the article being posted on slashdot.
compare this to the weeks or months for some kind of response from m$ when root access is obtainable, again...
If a security researcher is bummed out about how they are wasting their time, perhaps it's just because he recalls allowing the FBI to record keystrokes using his product- ie. Magic Lantern http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Lantern_(software)
oh, is that a hacker recording our keystrokes? nah, it's just the FBI. they would never steal our passwords. they're so cuddly.
clearly, things continue to exist even after the original 1990 release of norton anti-virus, which should have simply written zeros to all available media as a precaution against impending security threats...
heheheheheheheh
"stop wasting effort security researchers - your efforts are only making people safe from the impending, expensive threat of norton antivirus"
Having worked in the trenches fixing computers for people for well over 16 years now, I am mostly in agreement with you... except in case of norton antivirus especially - NO protection IS better than none.
In fact, in the last computer shop i worked in we had a piece of paper that never left the wall of the tech bench. it read:
"Rule 9: If it has Norton AntiVirus, it has a virus at the very least." Rule 9 held true - admittedly we did deal with a high volume of virus infected machines anyway. the bottom line was - Norton A/V doesn't seem to be working. We figured that Norton was working in tandem with microsoft to provide a security hole, y'know, when needed, for law enforcement and whatnot.
To hear a defeatist attitude and car analogies from somebody who invented a program a long time ago that flags headers of files only indicates to me that the only constant in this industry continues to be change and that this security researcher is a dinosaur who has profited all along from the ignorance and frustration of others. firewall? bah. client push.
if i read your comment correctly you are saying that having two different sets of people in a nation creates unbalance.
if it's true, then we've absolutely got to keep the internet intact so that these different sets of people can interact without these explosive consequences.
whatever happened to settling international disputes via online deathmatch anyway.
If that's Machiavellian geopolitics, what's the name of the science of classifying thermonuclear radiation by religious orientation?
i.e. that proton certainly is decaying in an islamic fashion, don't you think?
oh yes, you can tell by the way it periodically spins towards mecca......?
According to the article, "Robert Whiteley, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc." is the guy who makes this outrageous claim that the "next step" is to avoid shorter hops between routes.
Hey, since we have such a faster connection anyway, what so a few more hops matter?
I guess that's a worthy goal anyway- to have so much bandwidth that a few extra circumnavigations of the globe won't even fill up the headers of future packets.
Aw, shucks. Let's go back to Netbeui.
if i were a skeptical, ruthless, oil-based economy, i might just hire somebody to create the conditions for my continued exploitation of the status quo.
them newfangled smart people sure are mighty suspicious-like what with their blinking lights and pocket calculators. we'd all be better off makin' sure that they'all are designing weapons for a good wholesome american arms distributor instead of for osama over in iraq there. if we ever catch billy building something other than a cluster munition, we spank his hide, let me tell you what.
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i dunno, sounds like something homestar runner would do.
ditto to that; up here in the mountains of british columbia my morning routine would be much, much easier if only I had something other than elbow grease and an ice scraper. If nanobots could work through the night on moving snow off of my vehicle, I'd be tempted to also apply them in a 100' radius around the house.
"These UAHuntsville scientists hope to help provide a better intelligence posture on these asymmetric threats by developing computer models that identify trends in the behaviors of the adversaries." the data is finally in after teraflop after teraflop of intense scrutiny. 100% of the random terrorist attacks have been carried out by members of the species that built the calculator.
as a technician i endorse the idea that customers like being informed about the progress of the repair, especially when those reports on progress are not contradictory. triage is essential. it's good to be in agreement about warranty status at first, it's good to call when work is started, if extra costs are going to be involved and of course when it's finished. the opposite can be very frustrating for non-technical people when they are already putting their faith in you for a service.
stolen? and subsequently covered with a bogus paper trail? now that's not good service at all.
i once borrowed a dual-core laptop for two months without permission. the customer left the unit in our service department for over six months after our repair was complete. we had called numerous times over the months, including call by our accountant, to tell them it was fixed and to pay up!! mysteriously, they did not appear to collect their laptop nor did they return our calls. anyway... 6mo l8r... i installed linux on the second, unused partition and promptly forgot about the ntfs partition. it's contents were not of interest to me and even though i had ntfs-3g, the partition was not specified in my fstab. i did not delete the original partition, because the laptop was not mine. but i completely messed with the MBR and the second partition on their HD, tailoring a gentoo install to the gills. i spent those months compiling a nice 64-bit SMP world. i was just beginning to actually USE the laptop to do things other than compile- when: the customer then promptly appeared in accordance with murphy's law, having rustled up the additional money for their LCD screen replacement bill. luckily i was able to quickly return it to them in it's original (but now repaired) state with a freshly written MBR now lacking grub and a happy empty second NTFS partition. the customer was pleased and went off to play solitare on XP Home. i'm thinking: sure, some of us can revel in the non-destructible nature of our massively parallel-processing crc'ed calculators with journaled backups spanning numerous volumes on several continents, but the average user is processing with faith. it's just supposed to work for n years, especially when you pay $300 extra.
i could have been a jerk and quoted the fine print, which states that we're not responsible, blah blah blah. but i live in a small community where word of mouth flies faster than photons along fibre and putting my data somewhere else was only a few orders of magnitude slower than that.
it was probably that damn butler who hangs out in the electronics department all the time who actually ripped this lady off.
5. "space elevator" turns out to be a very, very long straw.
"We look for things that make us go." The Next Generation- 'Samaritan Snare' (Episode Number 217)
apologies, i can see now that the second statement is simply a refinement of the first.
HEY HEY HEY
if i read the patch correctly, 3 lines are ADDED, not REPLACED.
sorry about shouting. but ADDING the lines to fs/splice.c also disables the exploit while still maintaining the old break condition.
the exploit worked on my gentoo i686 install. i had to change the exploit somewhat to get it to compile, but the result was the same, root access.
after patching my kernel using this patch and re-compiling my kernel, everything is OK. just like many others have related.
right on peeps. unfortunate that the exploit existed for so long, but a patch was available for my gentoo distro within four hours of the article being posted on slashdot.
compare this to the weeks or months for some kind of response from m$ when root access is obtainable, again...
If a security researcher is bummed out about how they are wasting their time, perhaps it's just because he recalls allowing the FBI to record keystrokes using his product- ie. Magic Lantern http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Lantern_(software)
oh, is that a hacker recording our keystrokes? nah, it's just the FBI. they would never steal our passwords. they're so cuddly.
clearly, things continue to exist even after the original 1990 release of norton anti-virus, which should have simply written zeros to all available media as a precaution against impending security threats...
heheheheheheheh "stop wasting effort security researchers - your efforts are only making people safe from the impending, expensive threat of norton antivirus"
Having worked in the trenches fixing computers for people for well over 16 years now, I am mostly in agreement with you... except in case of norton antivirus especially - NO protection IS better than none. In fact, in the last computer shop i worked in we had a piece of paper that never left the wall of the tech bench. it read: "Rule 9: If it has Norton AntiVirus, it has a virus at the very least." Rule 9 held true - admittedly we did deal with a high volume of virus infected machines anyway. the bottom line was - Norton A/V doesn't seem to be working. We figured that Norton was working in tandem with microsoft to provide a security hole, y'know, when needed, for law enforcement and whatnot. To hear a defeatist attitude and car analogies from somebody who invented a program a long time ago that flags headers of files only indicates to me that the only constant in this industry continues to be change and that this security researcher is a dinosaur who has profited all along from the ignorance and frustration of others. firewall? bah. client push.
if i read your comment correctly you are saying that having two different sets of people in a nation creates unbalance. if it's true, then we've absolutely got to keep the internet intact so that these different sets of people can interact without these explosive consequences. whatever happened to settling international disputes via online deathmatch anyway.
If that's Machiavellian geopolitics, what's the name of the science of classifying thermonuclear radiation by religious orientation? i.e. that proton certainly is decaying in an islamic fashion, don't you think? oh yes, you can tell by the way it periodically spins towards mecca... ...?
i keep thinking about Vernor Vinge's Book because of this thread.
According to the article, "Robert Whiteley, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc." is the guy who makes this outrageous claim that the "next step" is to avoid shorter hops between routes. Hey, since we have such a faster connection anyway, what so a few more hops matter? I guess that's a worthy goal anyway- to have so much bandwidth that a few extra circumnavigations of the globe won't even fill up the headers of future packets. Aw, shucks. Let's go back to Netbeui.
Last Apollo 17 EVA?
Travelling to space is only old news because finer details such as the melting point of steel are now dictated by FOX news.
Back in the good old 50's it was a piece of cake to get enough Delta-V without the entire rocket collapsing due to it's steel structure vaporizing.
if i were a skeptical, ruthless, oil-based economy, i might just hire somebody to create the conditions for my continued exploitation of the status quo.
them newfangled smart people sure are mighty suspicious-like what with their blinking lights and pocket calculators. we'd all be better off makin' sure that they'all are designing weapons for a good wholesome american arms distributor instead of for osama over in iraq there. if we ever catch billy building something other than a cluster munition, we spank his hide, let me tell you what.