You might have said that there is little evidence to support anything about the NT kernel. It's closed source. You can't see into it, I can't see into it, no one but Microsoft can see into it - without running afoul of the law. We certainly can't redistribute an improved kernel!
Oh - I did fire the city guard. At the same time that I upgraded to Linux, I just dismissed all those supposed "security solution" experts!
Aren't most college and university R&D discoveries released to the public? I always thought that state funded schools discoveries became the property of the people who fund those schools, ie, the taxpayer. Am I living in a dream world, or what?
LMAO - as a nation, we DO pay for gourmet tap water! Take a serious look at all the bottles of water sitting on your grocer's shelves, and at the convenience stores. Many of them come from city water supplies.
And, of those bottlers that actually have a spring(s) or an aquifer or whatever, many of those are in no way superior to common well water.
Damn, you just pointed out how stupid Americans really are!
No, trade secrets would not be preferable. If I must reverse engineer something before I can understand it, then I must first acquire one or more samples of the item I wish to reverse engineer. That may not be much of an obstacle in the case of trinkets and toys - but it could be a severe obstacle if I'm trying to design a better automotive engine, or a better suspension system. And, aviation? I can't afford a single jet engine, let alone an aircraft.
Patents are great - as they existed in the first half of the twentieth century. By the 1960's, things had started downhill, and by the 90's patent law was in the toilet. Today, the toilet is stopped up, and can't even be flushed.
Everyone switching to copyleft? Wow, that's a concept that's worth exploring. Dang, I don't even know where to start with that.
Since the summary seems to have malware in mind, primarily, maybe the most universal code in existence could be studied by a few million inquiring minds. If NT Kernel could be examined with the aim of making it as secure as possible, I wonder what might happen. Is it possible that it could be pruned, tuned, and eventually rewritten so that it actually is secure?
And, if that were to happen, is is possible that people simply wouldn't NEED Symantec, McAfee, and the myriad of other vendors offering ineffective security solutions? But wait - EVERYONE switching to copyleft? Obviously, Symantec actually has a pretty effective product. The corporate edition of their virus scanner has always been lightweight, fast, and reliable. Imagine that being opensourced, then everyone could have Symantec's best product at an affordable price! Free, or make a donation? Wow! Heck, I might even send them twenty bucks, that they would never have seen from me otherwise!
Really, the idea of the entire world moving to copyleft is worth exploring. Corporations may or may not benefit, ultimately - but humanity would certainly benefit! Especially those out of work malware writers! Instead of pocketing all that easy money from malware users, maybe they could actually do something useful. Like, designing and building the NEXT great operating system!!
Not fighting Gnome, here. I'm just abandoning it. Why, you ask? Well - among my machines, I have an Athlon 5300+ with 4 gig of memory installed. As time passes, that memory usage tends to go up, but it was more than adequate until I finally tried a distro with Gnome3. I've already posted this in another discussion, but here goes again.
Sabayon Linux version 5 and 6. Grab the CD/DVD's and do an installation with each. You want Sabayon 5 Gnome, Sabayon 6 Gnome, and Sabayon 6 Enlightenment.
Sabayon 5, which uses Gnome 2 runs comfortably under moderately heavy multitasking.
Sabayon 6, with Gnome 3, running the same apps, will quickly run out of memory, and start using swap file.
Sabayon 6 with Enlightenment uses about 2/3 the resources that Sabayon 5 with Gnome uses.
Since doing that little experiment, I've added another 4 gig of memory to that computer - but I have to ask myself why do I want to allow Gnome to use all that memory? I'd rather keep it for myself, and whatever I decide to do with it. As a side experiment, I decided to do a little "gold farming" on a popular MMORPG. With Gnome 3, I was able to keep two clients up and running reliably. With Gnome 2, I can keep 4 clients up and running for - uhhhmm - I forget how long exactly, about 40 hours, I think it was. I meant to add a couple more clients, to see how far I could go with it, but never got around to creating the accounts. Maybe I'll revisit that little experiment, then try it again with Enlightenment.
One of Linux' strongest suits has always been it's ability to run on old, legacy hardware. If Gnome is this resource hungry, then it is clearly NOT going to be running on legacy hardware. In fact, it's not going to be running on modern budget hardware! Yeah, I know, 8 gig of RAM only costs about $150 to $200 these days. But, there are millions of people who either can't afford that much, or they don't understand the wisdom of loading up with RAM. Gnome simply isn't going to cut it on budget hardware.
Have you ever researched where Linux boxes come from? Where, and how did they originate? MOST that I've ever seen, were converted OEM machines. People switched, for one reason or another. I'm the only person I know in real life, who has actually shopped for, and purchased Linux compatible hardware. Aside from business machines, I just don't see Linux boxes that were purpose built. Dell, Compaq, and Gateway lead the list, if I recall correctly.
So, uefi would mean that Joe Sixpack, who wants to dabble with and learn about Linux can't do it without a signed kernel.
That is just so frigging lame. But, it's part of that hidden Microsoft tax that everyone denies the existence of!
With that story in mind, it would probably be pretty easy to classify a "jailbroken" mainboard as a "counterfeit". Yes, the pieces are indeed coming together, and I definitely do NOT like the picture that is taking shape!
You are exaggerating just a little. Yes, there are some rather tedious steps involved in removing classified documents from a secure area. But, the procedure you describe would be enforced on things one level above top secret. Mere Top Secret can be shoved into a standard, lockable briefcase, and toted to a car, and driven between bases. The shackles are totally unnecessary. Levels below top secret are handled much more casually, in my experience. Ship's movement schedules, for instance, are routinely classified as confidential, unless some factor demands that it be secret or top secret. Days later, those confidential ship's movement plans are common knowledge across the base, and beyond. Of course, those same confidential movement plans are often only that - plans. Only one of 6 tours of duty actually went as planned. Things came up to change the ship's schedule, like a war in Beruit City, or some other frivolous thing.
The point is - we don't even air gap our critical stuff. Joe Sixpack can minimize his porn video over at meattube, log into his control systems, make adjustments, then maximize his meat video again. Iran is the lesson to be learned, but we don't even attempt to learn from it.
Now, if we properly air gapped all of our infrastructure, then prohibited any USB media, prohibited any floppies (where applicable), AND prohibited all CD/DVD other than official copies issued by competent authority - then we could say that we learned something from Stuxnet.
Iran may have strictly observed air gapping - but USB infections aren't new, now are they? They failed, simple as that!
And, that is the only sensible approach to take. If the world weren't filled with cheap bastards posing as CEO's and economics experts, there would be a human hand at all critical controls, nationwide. The only networking necessary would be the sound powered phone on the operator's head.
When I look at DHS, I can't find a single area in which they are competent. They can't seal the border, they can't ensure that terrorists are denied entry to our aircraft, they can't intercept a terrorist. What in hell CAN they do? Suddenly, they are in the business of issuing cyber security warnings?
The one and only thing that they MIGHT be able to do correctly, is to tell business to observe best practice advice from the professionals. Beyond that - I expect nothing.
Oh yeah, if they can grasp the concept, they might push the idea of strict air gapping.
Enlightenment. Today, E is prettier than K or G, uses less resources, and actually runs faster due to cleaner, leaner code. The added benefit is, it doesn't even try to look like Windows - it's to damned pretty to waste it's time trying to look like a wallflower!
I wish a few more top-notch developers would join the E community, and get things rolling along a little faster, but it's already sweet!
That same sentence, written about Bill Gates, would make a lot more sense. At least there are no ruined companies in Torvald's wake. Embrace, extend, extinguish, anyone?
What's with those qubits, anyway? Wasn't Noah's ark so many qubits long, so many qubits wide, and some amount of qubits high? WTF? If the quantum computer people are going blblical on us, we may NEVER see a working computer! After all these years, no one is quite certain what the hell a qubit was in the Bible. How are they gonna know what a qubit is inside a computer?
Scenario 3: Aah! See? Einstein is mostly right, but he missed a few things, because he's only human!"
I am one who has always questioned any universal "speed limit". And, I don't even try to say that Einstein was "wrong". I just think that he couldn't see the whole picture from his point of view. Smart? Of course the old guy was smart. There's no question that he was smart! But that doesn't mean that he was able to see or to know everything there is to know.
Ghostery also informs me about who is tracking me. Also, installing a cross site scripting blocker is good. Sometimes, I actually want to allow scripts to run, or the page won't work. But, just because I want/need scripting to work on that site, doesn't mean that I want scripts from another site to run alongside them!
That seems to be a staple of capitalistic propaganda.
What capitalism is most efficient at, is the transfer of money from the general population into the coffers of the small percentage of people and corporations that actually run things.
You WATCHED Dune? I "watched" it in print - more than 30 years ago. Is it 40 years? I know that I read it in high school, probably my sophomore year, and I graduated in '74. So, yeah, Dune has been around for awhile.
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I suppose that there isn't really any great difference between any two random hominids, either.
You might have said that there is little evidence to support anything about the NT kernel. It's closed source. You can't see into it, I can't see into it, no one but Microsoft can see into it - without running afoul of the law. We certainly can't redistribute an improved kernel!
Oh - I did fire the city guard. At the same time that I upgraded to Linux, I just dismissed all those supposed "security solution" experts!
Aren't most college and university R&D discoveries released to the public? I always thought that state funded schools discoveries became the property of the people who fund those schools, ie, the taxpayer. Am I living in a dream world, or what?
LMAO - as a nation, we DO pay for gourmet tap water! Take a serious look at all the bottles of water sitting on your grocer's shelves, and at the convenience stores. Many of them come from city water supplies.
And, of those bottlers that actually have a spring(s) or an aquifer or whatever, many of those are in no way superior to common well water.
Damn, you just pointed out how stupid Americans really are!
No, trade secrets would not be preferable. If I must reverse engineer something before I can understand it, then I must first acquire one or more samples of the item I wish to reverse engineer. That may not be much of an obstacle in the case of trinkets and toys - but it could be a severe obstacle if I'm trying to design a better automotive engine, or a better suspension system. And, aviation? I can't afford a single jet engine, let alone an aircraft.
Patents are great - as they existed in the first half of the twentieth century. By the 1960's, things had started downhill, and by the 90's patent law was in the toilet. Today, the toilet is stopped up, and can't even be flushed.
Everyone switching to copyleft? Wow, that's a concept that's worth exploring. Dang, I don't even know where to start with that.
Since the summary seems to have malware in mind, primarily, maybe the most universal code in existence could be studied by a few million inquiring minds. If NT Kernel could be examined with the aim of making it as secure as possible, I wonder what might happen. Is it possible that it could be pruned, tuned, and eventually rewritten so that it actually is secure?
And, if that were to happen, is is possible that people simply wouldn't NEED Symantec, McAfee, and the myriad of other vendors offering ineffective security solutions? But wait - EVERYONE switching to copyleft? Obviously, Symantec actually has a pretty effective product. The corporate edition of their virus scanner has always been lightweight, fast, and reliable. Imagine that being opensourced, then everyone could have Symantec's best product at an affordable price! Free, or make a donation? Wow! Heck, I might even send them twenty bucks, that they would never have seen from me otherwise!
Really, the idea of the entire world moving to copyleft is worth exploring. Corporations may or may not benefit, ultimately - but humanity would certainly benefit! Especially those out of work malware writers! Instead of pocketing all that easy money from malware users, maybe they could actually do something useful. Like, designing and building the NEXT great operating system!!
Not fighting Gnome, here. I'm just abandoning it. Why, you ask? Well - among my machines, I have an Athlon 5300+ with 4 gig of memory installed. As time passes, that memory usage tends to go up, but it was more than adequate until I finally tried a distro with Gnome3. I've already posted this in another discussion, but here goes again.
Sabayon Linux version 5 and 6. Grab the CD/DVD's and do an installation with each. You want Sabayon 5 Gnome, Sabayon 6 Gnome, and Sabayon 6 Enlightenment.
Sabayon 5, which uses Gnome 2 runs comfortably under moderately heavy multitasking.
Sabayon 6, with Gnome 3, running the same apps, will quickly run out of memory, and start using swap file.
Sabayon 6 with Enlightenment uses about 2/3 the resources that Sabayon 5 with Gnome uses.
Since doing that little experiment, I've added another 4 gig of memory to that computer - but I have to ask myself why do I want to allow Gnome to use all that memory? I'd rather keep it for myself, and whatever I decide to do with it. As a side experiment, I decided to do a little "gold farming" on a popular MMORPG. With Gnome 3, I was able to keep two clients up and running reliably. With Gnome 2, I can keep 4 clients up and running for - uhhhmm - I forget how long exactly, about 40 hours, I think it was. I meant to add a couple more clients, to see how far I could go with it, but never got around to creating the accounts. Maybe I'll revisit that little experiment, then try it again with Enlightenment.
One of Linux' strongest suits has always been it's ability to run on old, legacy hardware. If Gnome is this resource hungry, then it is clearly NOT going to be running on legacy hardware. In fact, it's not going to be running on modern budget hardware! Yeah, I know, 8 gig of RAM only costs about $150 to $200 these days. But, there are millions of people who either can't afford that much, or they don't understand the wisdom of loading up with RAM. Gnome simply isn't going to cut it on budget hardware.
Have you ever researched where Linux boxes come from? Where, and how did they originate? MOST that I've ever seen, were converted OEM machines. People switched, for one reason or another. I'm the only person I know in real life, who has actually shopped for, and purchased Linux compatible hardware. Aside from business machines, I just don't see Linux boxes that were purpose built. Dell, Compaq, and Gateway lead the list, if I recall correctly.
So, uefi would mean that Joe Sixpack, who wants to dabble with and learn about Linux can't do it without a signed kernel.
That is just so frigging lame. But, it's part of that hidden Microsoft tax that everyone denies the existence of!
I though for a moment that you beat me to my own post! Whew! Here's mine:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/28/0145245/ACTA-To-Be-Signed-This-Weekend?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=facebook
With that story in mind, it would probably be pretty easy to classify a "jailbroken" mainboard as a "counterfeit". Yes, the pieces are indeed coming together, and I definitely do NOT like the picture that is taking shape!
You are exaggerating just a little. Yes, there are some rather tedious steps involved in removing classified documents from a secure area. But, the procedure you describe would be enforced on things one level above top secret. Mere Top Secret can be shoved into a standard, lockable briefcase, and toted to a car, and driven between bases. The shackles are totally unnecessary. Levels below top secret are handled much more casually, in my experience. Ship's movement schedules, for instance, are routinely classified as confidential, unless some factor demands that it be secret or top secret. Days later, those confidential ship's movement plans are common knowledge across the base, and beyond. Of course, those same confidential movement plans are often only that - plans. Only one of 6 tours of duty actually went as planned. Things came up to change the ship's schedule, like a war in Beruit City, or some other frivolous thing.
The point is - we don't even air gap our critical stuff. Joe Sixpack can minimize his porn video over at meattube, log into his control systems, make adjustments, then maximize his meat video again. Iran is the lesson to be learned, but we don't even attempt to learn from it.
Now, if we properly air gapped all of our infrastructure, then prohibited any USB media, prohibited any floppies (where applicable), AND prohibited all CD/DVD other than official copies issued by competent authority - then we could say that we learned something from Stuxnet.
Iran may have strictly observed air gapping - but USB infections aren't new, now are they? They failed, simple as that!
And, that is the only sensible approach to take. If the world weren't filled with cheap bastards posing as CEO's and economics experts, there would be a human hand at all critical controls, nationwide. The only networking necessary would be the sound powered phone on the operator's head.
When I look at DHS, I can't find a single area in which they are competent. They can't seal the border, they can't ensure that terrorists are denied entry to our aircraft, they can't intercept a terrorist. What in hell CAN they do? Suddenly, they are in the business of issuing cyber security warnings?
The one and only thing that they MIGHT be able to do correctly, is to tell business to observe best practice advice from the professionals. Beyond that - I expect nothing.
Oh yeah, if they can grasp the concept, they might push the idea of strict air gapping.
Enlightenment. Today, E is prettier than K or G, uses less resources, and actually runs faster due to cleaner, leaner code. The added benefit is, it doesn't even try to look like Windows - it's to damned pretty to waste it's time trying to look like a wallflower!
I wish a few more top-notch developers would join the E community, and get things rolling along a little faster, but it's already sweet!
I think you're both full of feces. I've never seen a box to check regarding my party affiliation when making a donation to any OSS project.
That same sentence, written about Bill Gates, would make a lot more sense. At least there are no ruined companies in Torvald's wake. Embrace, extend, extinguish, anyone?
Yep, I remember that, like yesterday. The catch-phrase was something like "To big to fail".
What's with those qubits, anyway? Wasn't Noah's ark so many qubits long, so many qubits wide, and some amount of qubits high? WTF? If the quantum computer people are going blblical on us, we may NEVER see a working computer! After all these years, no one is quite certain what the hell a qubit was in the Bible. How are they gonna know what a qubit is inside a computer?
"the board looked around and none of the current second-level VPs was ready to be CEO"
Translated, that would mean something like, "None of our current VPs have slept with, or even performed fellatio, on any of the board members."
Scenario 3: Aah! See? Einstein is mostly right, but he missed a few things, because he's only human!"
I am one who has always questioned any universal "speed limit". And, I don't even try to say that Einstein was "wrong". I just think that he couldn't see the whole picture from his point of view. Smart? Of course the old guy was smart. There's no question that he was smart! But that doesn't mean that he was able to see or to know everything there is to know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_human_combustion
Wikipedia seems to answer most of your questions. Read the accounts of the two survivors who were accompanied by relatives at the time.
Ghostery also informs me about who is tracking me. Also, installing a cross site scripting blocker is good. Sometimes, I actually want to allow scripts to run, or the page won't work. But, just because I want/need scripting to work on that site, doesn't mean that I want scripts from another site to run alongside them!
That seems to be a staple of capitalistic propaganda.
What capitalism is most efficient at, is the transfer of money from the general population into the coffers of the small percentage of people and corporations that actually run things.
Awesome. Just awesome. No photographer could have done better!
You WATCHED Dune? I "watched" it in print - more than 30 years ago. Is it 40 years? I know that I read it in high school, probably my sophomore year, and I graduated in '74. So, yeah, Dune has been around for awhile.