We should not fear that Warner Bros is ending the R-rated movies. We should fear the fact that one single company has such massive influence that we even bother talking about this.
Why? Is Warner Brothers prohibiting independent studios from making their own R-Rated superhero movies?
Ext4 *is* better, and probably because it benefits from the wiggle room provided by the specifications. The question is if you accept the tradeoff between performance and security. I choose performance, because my system doesn't crash that often.
I agree that this is the case with the American Wikipedia, the German however has some odd issues with censorship.
The name of the perpetrator of the recent school shooter is Tim Kretschmer. The English media and Wikipedia don't hide this information. The German Wikipedia however first didn't mention the name at all, and after some struggle the article displays "Tim K.". It pretty much became a wikipedia drama with admins competing on how "ethical" they are by not including the full name.
After installing the proper libraries and tweaking the source code to get it to work, I had to discover that the 'api' sends the music *to the echonest server over http* to analyze the audio track. Which is unreachable, obviously.
Remember, this is about automatically obtaining the root password without physical access to the machine but with malicious code executed on a desktop computer.
Just because malware doesn't have root privileges doesn't mean it isn't capable of stealing valuable information from you.
I sometimes wonder how difficult it would be to obtain the root password from somebody. If the PATH variable has a path that the user has write access to, what's stopping the malware to put a "su" wrapper into that directory? Next time you enter su, the wrapper captures your password, logs you in and deletes itself.
I also think that a keylogger for X11 wouldn't be too difficult to implement.
The prototypes are probably quite expensive. Here is a more technical description of the system. I think you can find most of this stuff in ~50$ cellphones, and they even have an antenna. I don't think why this should cost more than ~30$ a piece.
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So we should fear comic book authors having the right to decide who can and cannot use their work?
I don't like Porsches to be free market. I'd rather have a Porsche than a Dodge.
If they can't create their own superheroes, they aren't really that independent, are they?
We should not fear that Warner Bros is ending the R-rated movies. We should fear the fact that one single company has such massive influence that we even bother talking about this.
Why? Is Warner Brothers prohibiting independent studios from making their own R-Rated superhero movies?
Because 3.5 isn't available in many repositories anymore and bugs for 3.5 aren't being fixed because efforts concentrate on kde 4.
Yes, I know, this isn't fark and throwing smart pictures into threads is bad style. But some pictures speak for themselves.
Ext4 *is* better, and probably because it benefits from the wiggle room provided by the specifications. The question is if you accept the tradeoff between performance and security. I choose performance, because my system doesn't crash that often.
As explained in the article - he hasn't made a mistake. The behaviour of ext4 is perfectly compatible with the POSIX standard.
man fsync
I agree that this is the case with the American Wikipedia, the German however has some odd issues with censorship.
The name of the perpetrator of the recent school shooter is Tim Kretschmer. The English media and Wikipedia don't hide this information. The German Wikipedia however first didn't mention the name at all, and after some struggle the article displays "Tim K.". It pretty much became a wikipedia drama with admins competing on how "ethical" they are by not including the full name.
You bet they do, Coward, you bet they do.
Out of curiosity, I checked how Python handles fsync() stuff - turns out that it's the same as in C.
I never heard about this and often coded with the assumption that a flush() writes to disk, but I was wrong.
No, electrons are reliable. They'll do what you tell them to do. Hardware engineers however design crappy hardware.
Since the original page is slashdotted, here is the google code project page: http://code.google.com/p/echo-nest-remix/.
After installing the proper libraries and tweaking the source code to get it to work, I had to discover that the 'api' sends the music *to the echonest server over http* to analyze the audio track. Which is unreachable, obviously.
I dont pay the electrician for every time I turn on the lights. I dont pay the carpenters who made the framing in this house whenever I go inside.
CreepyCrawler picks up phone and dials a number from the yellow pages
Hello, Mr. King there?
I have an empty spot in my bookshelf.
Yeah its about two inches wide, and it's next to your other work. I would like you to put something in there.
No, not about aliens this time. Make it about evil creatures from the past or something.
Six o'clock? Fantastic. Yeah, I have some pencils lying around here.
See you then. Click
Yes, but only if the prosecutor can demonstrate the downloader would have bought the item.
How can somebody possibly do that?
I meant downloading/uploading "Windows Vista", "The Dark Night" and the latest Motorhead album.
Do you think people who do that should be prosecuted?
So do you think
1) trackers should be illegal
2) downloading copyrighted software or movies should be illegal
3) uploading software or movies should be illegal
In general, you can use the nofollow-attribute for cases like these.
But there is no guarantee that commenters or potential bloggers that might pick up this story would use it too, so I see your point.
Shadow has chmod 600 (on my system at least)
Remember, this is about automatically obtaining the root password without physical access to the machine but with malicious code executed on a desktop computer.
Submit a story to Slashdot that reads
"Hello, my name is $REALNAME, and I'm currently a senior nearing graduation..."
On second thought, you don't even need that. The malware just has to do
echo "alias su=/tmp/evilwrapperscript" >> ~/.bashrc
and you're finished
Just because malware doesn't have root privileges doesn't mean it isn't capable of stealing valuable information from you.
I sometimes wonder how difficult it would be to obtain the root password from somebody. If the PATH variable has a path that the user has write access to, what's stopping the malware to put a "su" wrapper into that directory? Next time you enter su, the wrapper captures your password, logs you in and deletes itself.
I also think that a keylogger for X11 wouldn't be too difficult to implement.
I wrote a countdown script but then I got confused. Guess I have to wait for the 64-bit one :-(
The prototypes are probably quite expensive. Here is a more technical description of the system. I think you can find most of this stuff in ~50$ cellphones, and they even have an antenna. I don't think why this should cost more than ~30$ a piece.
Since many distributions don't have it in their repositories yet, you might want to grab the source and build it yourself.