....Or, the media, who happen to people with the same sort of faults as the rest of us, don't like to trumpet the fact that a pack of petty hustlers led them up and down the primrose path.:P
This Heintzman character sounds like he just climbed out of a Dilbert cartoon.....Really, I always thought it was all a joke; I truly thought that NO-ONE would actually USE such moronic gabble-speak. Gad; this is depressing....
"Communicating that far away requires pointing a parabolic satelite dish precicely at a single point in the sky."
Um, nope. When I was in the military, all we needed was this rather strange-looking antenna that was roughly the shape and size of a frisbee. Not sure how it worked, but it did the job just fine.
I suspect so. That reminds me of this bird that nested outside my barracks window at Fort Devens; evidently he spent far too much time hanging around the 30-cal range: Ch-ch-ch-ch-chirp! Ch-ch-ch-ch-chirp! Ch-ch-ch -ch-chirp!
I have no doubt that the huge installed base on Windows is part of the problem, but there are other, quite basic differences between the two OSes, the most important one in this case being the differing user/daemon permissions models.
In Windows, since the system processes run at System (root) level, and users are usually forced by their apps to run at the Admin (root again) level, all it takes is one slip-up for the entire system to be compromised. In Linux, however, since it was designed from the ground-up to be multi-user, users and daemons do not run as Root (System/Admin), and therefore any penetration of the system is compartmentalized to that single user/daemon while the remainder of the system remains secure.
Looking at this, I think one can see that writing a successful Linux virus would be quite a bit more difficult than writing one for Windows, as not only does the writer have to compromise a user or daemon on the Linux system, but then they have to figure out a way to pry themselves out of that user or daemon's little security sandbox and somehow attain root.
Simple; it's called jurisdiction-creep. Bureaucracies engage in it all the time, and those bureaucracies that have the word "Security" in their moniker are especially guilty of it.:P
Y'know, judging from the submitter's slant on this, I would guess he's never had to maintain multi-gigabyte document repositories bursting at the seams with obsolete documents. Nor, I suspect, had to restore and rebuild five years worth of old email databases just to satisfy some little ambulance-chaser's fishing expedition.
Everything has a signature of sorts that can be tracked.... and Tadayoshi simply decided to examine those small variations built into electronic devices to fingerprint hardware.
Hmmm; maybe so, but wouldn't the information be lost the instant the device's original datastream hit the first caching device or overloaded router?:\
Hm, maybe; but before we can jump to that conclusion we first have to see if a) the technology is workable, and b) it can scale to high torque/high current applications.
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Point #1: At what point did rioting become peaceful assembly? Sounds like double-think to me, and *not* on the part of the government.
Point #2: You would prefer 5.56mm NATO? Evidently so, since any attempt at non-lethal means has been so enthusiastically denounced as of late.
....Or, the media, who happen to people with the same sort of faults as the rest of us, don't like to trumpet the fact that a pack of petty hustlers led them up and down the primrose path. :P
"Give him something constructive to do"
How about breaking rocks? I know a lot of potholes around here that need filling....
This Heintzman character sounds like he just climbed out of a Dilbert cartoon. ....Really, I always thought it was all a joke; I truly thought that NO-ONE would actually USE such moronic gabble-speak. Gad; this is depressing....
....the body count.
Do you have an alternative?
That is, do you have an alternative that *doesn't* eventually devolve into a totalitarian state run by a select elite?
"Communicating that far away requires pointing a parabolic satelite dish precicely at a single point in the sky."
Um, nope. When I was in the military, all we needed was this rather strange-looking antenna that was roughly the shape and size of a frisbee. Not sure how it worked, but it did the job just fine.
NLD is SuSE's Enterprise Server 9 (SLES9) kernel. It doesn't have the very latest bells and whistles, but my testing indicates that it's VERY stable.
Ah; you mean like rip-out the Microsoft OS and replace it with a minimalized Linux kernel? I'm all for that.... ;)
I suspect so. That reminds me of this bird that nested outside my barracks window at Fort Devens; evidently he spent far too much time hanging around the 30-cal range:
h -ch-chirp!
Ch-ch-ch-ch-chirp!
Ch-ch-ch-ch-chirp!
Ch-ch-c
He really made my mornings.
:D
Step 1: Put drive on anvil and pound on it w/8-pound sledgehammer until no piece of the media is bigger than a quarter.
Step 2: Collect pieces, and slag in gas-fired incinerator.
Quick! Short XM!!! :P
Fact of life: There are precious few tools that cannot be utilized as a weapon.
Welcome to the world.
In Windows, since the system processes run at System (root) level, and users are usually forced by their apps to run at the Admin (root again) level, all it takes is one slip-up for the entire system to be compromised. In Linux, however, since it was designed from the ground-up to be multi-user, users and daemons do not run as Root (System/Admin), and therefore any penetration of the system is compartmentalized to that single user/daemon while the remainder of the system remains secure.
Looking at this, I think one can see that writing a successful Linux virus would be quite a bit more difficult than writing one for Windows, as not only does the writer have to compromise a user or daemon on the Linux system, but then they have to figure out a way to pry themselves out of that user or daemon's little security sandbox and somehow attain root.
Sorry, buddy; but it sounded so much like Steve Ballmer frothing at the mouth again, we had to take it seriously. ;)
Actually, they're already doing these things; using pirated copies of Microsoft products.
>_
"Quality?" Over 90% of the world's desktops runs Microsoft Windows as their OS, and you seriously think most people give two hoots about quality?!?
The Germans call it Schadenfreude; the wretched joy some (most?) people get out of being miserable, or watching other people be miserable.
Simple; it's called jurisdiction-creep. Bureaucracies engage in it all the time, and those bureaucracies that have the word "Security" in their moniker are especially guilty of it. :P
It's amazing what sort of atrocities one can get away with, just as long as one prefaces the act with "IT'S FOR THE CHIIIIILLLLLLLDREN!!!"
Y'know, judging from the submitter's slant on this, I would guess he's never had to maintain multi-gigabyte document repositories bursting at the seams with obsolete documents. Nor, I suspect, had to restore and rebuild five years worth of old email databases just to satisfy some little ambulance-chaser's fishing expedition.
Bah.
Revolting, isn't it? :P
Even Ohio natives call the place "the mistake on the lake."
It was in the original American Constitution, as well.
Hmmm; maybe so, but wouldn't the information be lost the instant the device's original datastream hit the first caching device or overloaded router?
Hm, maybe; but before we can jump to that conclusion we first have to see if a) the technology is workable, and b) it can scale to high torque/high current applications.