My girlfriend and I have been trying to stop going to Walmart for the last year. Every time we go its dirty, crowded, the employees don't give a damn about the customers and the isles (Which I'd like to see if it violates fire code) are full of pallets of stuff making it a maze to walk through.
Every time I go I leave with a forehead popping vein. And every time we say we're not going back.
But alas, Walmart is the only store in my area that has decent prices and is open past 10pm. So if I need to get something after 10pm, I have to get it from Walmart... Target sadly closes at 10. Target may have its own set of problems but at least the one by me is clean and the employees actually treat you like a customer and not someone who's in their way..
But yeah the analogy is pretty good. People want to go elsewhere, but they can't. Thats why we had the whole antitrust trial. Whats funny is Microsoft lost, yet nothing has changed. Way to go.
Just because a potential buffer overflow exists in code, does not mean its exploitable. I repeat, Not all buffer overflows are exploitable. Not all bugs in code are exploitable.
The above link shows the buffer overflow and a patch to fix it. However no body has confirmed whether or not this bug is even exploitable. So before we all run and cry wolf about all our SSH servers being hacked lets calmly and collectivley actually let the people who know what they're talking about investigate if this is even exploitable.
But by all means patch and upgrade, better safe than sorry. But theres no reason for the drama.
Your house is burning down, your kid cut his hand off, your husband is having a heart attack but your zoned out on your phone call to to vote for the next American Idol.
I don't know about you Chris, but judging the employees by what the company's board of directors is doing is pretty childish in itself.
Its probably a moot point anyway as I highly doubt you're going to get floods of SCO people trying to get hired at your company, so I'm assuming your doing this for the principal and not because you honestly don't want SCO employees working for you.
In fact you can't even be sure what the SCO employees are doing. For all you know the real programmers and engineers that worked at SCO may have been/still are trying to convince upper management and executive management that their claims are baseless. For all we know SCO went out and hired a 3rd party to basically act as a technical puppet to their claims. For all you know SCO employees are working to put an end to this, but maybe for reasons out of their control cannot just up and quit their jobs. A lot of people don't have the luxury of quitting a job purely on principal. People have children to take care of, mouths to feed. In this economy quitting a job on principal is pretty risky.
Theres no reason technically speaking this couldn't be implemented on a per user, almost completely automated way.
This would more than likely need to be custom written to implement this as many ISPs use various firewalls (both physical and software), radius servers, etc. Anyone please reply if you know of software that already provides this functionality and ties into a number of brands of radius and firewalls.
But theres no reason why a user couldn't log into his or her account and through a web interface select a number of predetermined levels of filtering. Defaulting to all open of course, and from there become tighter and tighter. Theres no reason either that a user couldn't have his IP address switched to a NAT address also. Most users, especially those on dialup addresses will never need to have ports open to the world. Gamers on the otherhand might want to avoid this, but the ma' and pa's of the world that login for email and to look up simple stuff online will never need to have a public IP address.
I don't know anyone that doesn't have broadband, or who doesn't have broadband and can't get it.
There is one exception, a friend of mine who's moving to a very very rural area, I don't even think he can get cable TV. You don't see "Where is the cable TV?" articles.
My parents have broadband, I have broadband both at home and work, my grandfather has broadband, all of my friends (around 20 or so) except the above forementioned one has broadband, all my coworkers have broadband.
Where is all the broadband indeed. The article should be renamed "I'm too cheap to get broadband, why can't they take food stamps in exchange for broadband?"
Yes and then what happens if whoever controls the centralized blocklists has a hidden agenda? Then what? What if its owned 3 times removed by some other company who's in direct competition with a specific ISP. Whats to stop that ISP's IP blocks from entering the blocklist, and then all their appeals denied?
I'm all for centralized blocklists too but I don't think they're a long term solution.
'Some people have commented that I am trying very hard to make aerospace like software, and that's the truth," he says. "If we looked at what we do in software, if we could only compile and test our program once a year, we'd never get anything done. But that's the mode of aerospace.' "
Yes but if your test program fails, all you've lost is small amount of time associated with compiling and executing the program.
If the test of your rocket on the other hand fails, you could lose more than just time but materials, money, and in worst case lives.
We're not talking about 1's and 0's, we're talking about real physical matter that costs money to obtain, form, construct, and build. If you recklessly test it, you'll end up worse than no where.
It would but defamation requires proof that the value of someones character actually actually dropped.
Seeing as the letter was sent from EPA to the corporation (they decided to publicize it), then there was nothing defaming about it.
Libel however is also probably not the case since the letter says in "Good Faith." Same thing though, Libel only applies if something was actually damaged in said libel.
Only applies to criminal charges. No criminal charges have been filed at this point. The DCMA Bot seems to simply be scouring the internet regex'ing for various names in a large copyright database. Which is assinine to begin with. You compile a large enough list everything is going to match.
I'm curious to see how the ISP handles this and what kind of response they get back from the ESA. For all we know it's rather simple, they provide a written signed letter stating the filename in question isn't PacMan. At one point or another the file would need to be downloaded and shown it was PacMan, if they can't do that they can't win any case, or even win a motion on behalf of the defendent to dismiss.
Most folks can't hack code. And even if they can, most projects have enough coders (remember what they say about too many cooks).
What? are you on crack? That's like saying I have too much RAM, I have too much money, I have too much free time and I have too much poontang. Seriously, if well managed, the more coders the better.
Somewhat true, but with the next version of GTA on GameCube I don't think it will be much true anymore. Plus theres Resident Evil 0, Hitman, lots of other "mature" games available for GameCube. You can't blame Nintendo if the game developers were roped into a contract for X time to produce exclusively for a specific console.
Not only that, "Cartoony Graphics and Cartoony Games" don't mean they don't kick serious ass. I'm 22 and I love Zelda The Wind Waker, it's probably one of the best games I have ever played of all time. Then theres Metroid Prime, Mario Sunshine, Star Wars Rogue Squadren II, the Tony Hawk series, lots of awesome games.
Haha what? You mean apple made an innovation to a mouse? Next to the single button whats next, the single button keyboard? I sure hope its the ESC key.
What?? I don't know what corner of the world you live in but Sun Microsystems software is in use quite a lot still, and still beats Linux when it comes to server market share.
I work for a large data hosting company which shall remain unnamed so I don't get a memo with a copy of the NDA and privacy policies I signed, that has somewhere around 15,000 - 20,000 servers. We primarily offer 3 basic managed systems. Windows 2000, Sun Solaris, and RedHat Linux.
Of the servers about 55% of them are Compaq servers running Windows 2000, 40% of them are Sun Solaris servers, and a whopping 5% of them Compaq servers running RedHat Linux.
Who's beatin' who huh?
* Of course I believe Linux will eventually surpass just about anything, that or a fork of Linux or another open source project. But as it stands now, Sun Solaris is still one of the major UNIX operating systems in the market, and will remain so for years to come.
x86 Linux (Gentoo) on a Pentium 4 2.4GHz on MSI Board
x86 OpenBSD on a AMD Athlon
You're confusing software and hardware. Apache distributions are available on many many platforms, not just Mac. In fact, I would go as far as to say Apache distros that run on Mac are far fewer than any other.
Oh, and you only get one chance, so real life is stressful as hell. Failure is not an option.
Specifically you only get one chance? You know this how? Lots of religions belive in re-encarnation, which many embody the meaning of more chances. A lot of religions believe not only in re-encarnation but rather as a means to have a second chance at life, to do what you are suppose to do. If you succeed in doing what you are suppose to do, then you go to your religions "heaven".
I try never to speak in absolutes, so I highly doubt anyone has continued to re-encarnate and remember their previous life fully. Thats the difference between the real world and a game world. Sure you can die in both, but only in the game world can you learn from your mistakes and apply them to your second new life. Even if re-encarnation is true, its a clean slate and you don't remember what happened before.
Of course socieity in a way fills this gap through historical records allowing you to study others mistakes and learn from them. Thats what allows our race to grow through the centuries as opposed to doing the same thing, every generation, over and over like the rest of the animal kingdom. No other animal on earth can record and aggregate experiences like humans and continue to pass it down. I'm often saddened when I think of the Dark Ages, roughly 500 years of technological evolution halting with our own will. Had the Dark Ages never occured, we'd more than likely living in a world very much like that of Star Trek or various other Science Fiction stories. 500 years is a lot of time, over 10 generations.. Imagine 10 generations ago, then apply Moores law and fast forward another 10 generations.
That has to be by far something I wish was possible, and who knows, where-ever I go when I die I may be able to see mankind evolve in the future. Watching from above somewhere. Then again, its a very real possiblity that when I die, that's it. There's no soul, no spirit, nothing that continues on. My existance is merely the sum of all the cells in my body and an electrical current that runs through it, my only purpose on this earth to procreate and then die.
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At the risk of feeding trolls, you're mistaken, vi is a slim effeicent editor. Emacs is the correct operating, err.. editor you were referring to.
Its actually funny.
My girlfriend and I have been trying to stop going to Walmart for the last year. Every time we go its dirty, crowded, the employees don't give a damn about the customers and the isles (Which I'd like to see if it violates fire code) are full of pallets of stuff making it a maze to walk through.
Every time I go I leave with a forehead popping vein. And every time we say we're not going back.
But alas, Walmart is the only store in my area that has decent prices and is open past 10pm. So if I need to get something after 10pm, I have to get it from Walmart... Target sadly closes at 10. Target may have its own set of problems but at least the one by me is clean and the employees actually treat you like a customer and not someone who's in their way..
But yeah the analogy is pretty good. People want to go elsewhere, but they can't. Thats why we had the whole antitrust trial. Whats funny is Microsoft lost, yet nothing has changed. Way to go.
Don't feed the trolls, even if they're in the Slashdot story itself!
Just because a potential buffer overflow exists in code, does not mean its exploitable. I repeat, Not all buffer overflows are exploitable. Not all bugs in code are exploitable.
Link to Patch
The above link shows the buffer overflow and a patch to fix it. However no body has confirmed whether or not this bug is even exploitable. So before we all run and cry wolf about all our SSH servers being hacked lets calmly and collectivley actually let the people who know what they're talking about investigate if this is even exploitable.
But by all means patch and upgrade, better safe than sorry. But theres no reason for the drama.
Or an industrial magnet.
And you, the primitive being know we are primitive and what we must overcome to not be primitive? :) Chicken or Egg indeed.
While we're at it lets just restrict all personal freedoms. Down with choice! Everyone must follow the standard, Zeig Heil!
Your house is burning down, your kid cut his hand off, your husband is having a heart attack but your zoned out on your phone call to to vote for the next American Idol.
I don't know about you Chris, but judging the employees by what the company's board of directors is doing is pretty childish in itself.
Its probably a moot point anyway as I highly doubt you're going to get floods of SCO people trying to get hired at your company, so I'm assuming your doing this for the principal and not because you honestly don't want SCO employees working for you.
In fact you can't even be sure what the SCO employees are doing. For all you know the real programmers and engineers that worked at SCO may have been/still are trying to convince upper management and executive management that their claims are baseless. For all we know SCO went out and hired a 3rd party to basically act as a technical puppet to their claims. For all you know SCO employees are working to put an end to this, but maybe for reasons out of their control cannot just up and quit their jobs. A lot of people don't have the luxury of quitting a job purely on principal. People have children to take care of, mouths to feed. In this economy quitting a job on principal is pretty risky.
Theres no reason technically speaking this couldn't be implemented on a per user, almost completely automated way.
This would more than likely need to be custom written to implement this as many ISPs use various firewalls (both physical and software), radius servers, etc. Anyone please reply if you know of software that already provides this functionality and ties into a number of brands of radius and firewalls.
But theres no reason why a user couldn't log into his or her account and through a web interface select a number of predetermined levels of filtering. Defaulting to all open of course, and from there become tighter and tighter. Theres no reason either that a user couldn't have his IP address switched to a NAT address also. Most users, especially those on dialup addresses will never need to have ports open to the world. Gamers on the otherhand might want to avoid this, but the ma' and pa's of the world that login for email and to look up simple stuff online will never need to have a public IP address.
I don't know anyone that doesn't have broadband, or who doesn't have broadband and can't get it.
There is one exception, a friend of mine who's moving to a very very rural area, I don't even think he can get cable TV. You don't see "Where is the cable TV?" articles.
My parents have broadband, I have broadband both at home and work, my grandfather has broadband, all of my friends (around 20 or so) except the above forementioned one has broadband, all my coworkers have broadband.
Where is all the broadband indeed. The article should be renamed "I'm too cheap to get broadband, why can't they take food stamps in exchange for broadband?"
Get bent.
new Jane's addiction CD
I thought that in itself was copy control?
Yes and then what happens if whoever controls the centralized blocklists has a hidden agenda? Then what? What if its owned 3 times removed by some other company who's in direct competition with a specific ISP. Whats to stop that ISP's IP blocks from entering the blocklist, and then all their appeals denied?
I'm all for centralized blocklists too but I don't think they're a long term solution.
I love "A friend of mine.." stories, they're like Unicorns. You always hear about them but never see any proof. :)
'Some people have commented that I am trying very hard to make aerospace like software, and that's the truth," he says. "If we looked at what we do in software, if we could only compile and test our program once a year, we'd never get anything done. But that's the mode of aerospace.' "
Yes but if your test program fails, all you've lost is small amount of time associated with compiling and executing the program.
If the test of your rocket on the other hand fails, you could lose more than just time but materials, money, and in worst case lives.
We're not talking about 1's and 0's, we're talking about real physical matter that costs money to obtain, form, construct, and build. If you recklessly test it, you'll end up worse than no where.
It would but defamation requires proof that the value of someones character actually actually dropped.
Seeing as the letter was sent from EPA to the corporation (they decided to publicize it), then there was nothing defaming about it.
Libel however is also probably not the case since the letter says in "Good Faith." Same thing though, Libel only applies if something was actually damaged in said libel.
wrongful prosecution
Only applies to criminal charges. No criminal charges have been filed at this point. The DCMA Bot seems to simply be scouring the internet regex'ing for various names in a large copyright database. Which is assinine to begin with. You compile a large enough list everything is going to match.
I'm curious to see how the ISP handles this and what kind of response they get back from the ESA. For all we know it's rather simple, they provide a written signed letter stating the filename in question isn't PacMan. At one point or another the file would need to be downloaded and shown it was PacMan, if they can't do that they can't win any case, or even win a motion on behalf of the defendent to dismiss.
Most folks can't hack code. And even if they can, most projects have enough coders (remember what they say about too many cooks).
What? are you on crack? That's like saying I have too much RAM, I have too much money, I have too much free time and I have too much poontang. Seriously, if well managed, the more coders the better.
Somewhat true, but with the next version of GTA on GameCube I don't think it will be much true anymore. Plus theres Resident Evil 0, Hitman, lots of other "mature" games available for GameCube. You can't blame Nintendo if the game developers were roped into a contract for X time to produce exclusively for a specific console.
Not only that, "Cartoony Graphics and Cartoony Games" don't mean they don't kick serious ass. I'm 22 and I love Zelda The Wind Waker, it's probably one of the best games I have ever played of all time. Then theres Metroid Prime, Mario Sunshine, Star Wars Rogue Squadren II, the Tony Hawk series, lots of awesome games.
Haha what? You mean apple made an innovation to a mouse? Next to the single button whats next, the single button keyboard? I sure hope its the ESC key.
..on that gun they're shooting themselves in the foot with.
What?? I don't know what corner of the world you live in but Sun Microsystems software is in use quite a lot still, and still beats Linux when it comes to server market share.
I work for a large data hosting company which shall remain unnamed so I don't get a memo with a copy of the NDA and privacy policies I signed, that has somewhere around 15,000 - 20,000 servers. We primarily offer 3 basic managed systems. Windows 2000, Sun Solaris, and RedHat Linux.
Of the servers about 55% of them are Compaq servers running Windows 2000, 40% of them are Sun Solaris servers, and a whopping 5% of them Compaq servers running RedHat Linux.
Who's beatin' who huh?
* Of course I believe Linux will eventually surpass just about anything, that or a fork of Linux or another open source project. But as it stands now, Sun Solaris is still one of the major UNIX operating systems in the market, and will remain so for years to come.
Um? Lets see, I run Apache on:
SPARC Solaris 8 on an E5500, E450, and an Ultra5.
x86 Linux (Gentoo) on a Pentium 4 2.4GHz on MSI Board
x86 OpenBSD on a AMD Athlon
You're confusing software and hardware. Apache distributions are available on many many platforms, not just Mac. In fact, I would go as far as to say Apache distros that run on Mac are far fewer than any other.
Oh, and you only get one chance, so real life is stressful as hell. Failure is not an option.
Specifically you only get one chance? You know this how? Lots of religions belive in re-encarnation, which many embody the meaning of more chances. A lot of religions believe not only in re-encarnation but rather as a means to have a second chance at life, to do what you are suppose to do. If you succeed in doing what you are suppose to do, then you go to your religions "heaven".
I try never to speak in absolutes, so I highly doubt anyone has continued to re-encarnate and remember their previous life fully. Thats the difference between the real world and a game world. Sure you can die in both, but only in the game world can you learn from your mistakes and apply them to your second new life. Even if re-encarnation is true, its a clean slate and you don't remember what happened before.
Of course socieity in a way fills this gap through historical records allowing you to study others mistakes and learn from them. Thats what allows our race to grow through the centuries as opposed to doing the same thing, every generation, over and over like the rest of the animal kingdom. No other animal on earth can record and aggregate experiences like humans and continue to pass it down. I'm often saddened when I think of the Dark Ages, roughly 500 years of technological evolution halting with our own will. Had the Dark Ages never occured, we'd more than likely living in a world very much like that of Star Trek or various other Science Fiction stories. 500 years is a lot of time, over 10 generations.. Imagine 10 generations ago, then apply Moores law and fast forward another 10 generations.
That has to be by far something I wish was possible, and who knows, where-ever I go when I die I may be able to see mankind evolve in the future. Watching from above somewhere. Then again, its a very real possiblity that when I die, that's it. There's no soul, no spirit, nothing that continues on. My existance is merely the sum of all the cells in my body and an electrical current that runs through it, my only purpose on this earth to procreate and then die.
Scary thought.
And still todays panels of judges have no idea about technology at all.
Not that I disagee, I'm just saying you can get a sense of the confusion.