Anybody else noticed that tfa points to page 1 but starts at number 11??
Given the choice of text to put in the link, I'd say they decided to point directly to the page with the content in question...
Re:"the snort rule will peg the CPU on your router
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Because Microsoft checks the header for every image file and treats it as WMF if the header matches, all jpegs, gifs, and pngs are potential vectors for the disease.
Deja vu... wasn't this the basis behind the vulnerability a couple of years back, caused by the integration of the browser into the OS?
Something like sending EXEs with text headers, so that the browser saw the text part and regarded it as safe, blindly passing it to the file handling engine (whatever it's called) which looked at the EXE extension and executed it. After all, the browser would have flagged it if it were dangerous, right?:-/
It's a play on the Tolkien quote, "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger." Presumably from one of the LOTR books or the like (haven't read them myself).
The U2 frontman, speaking of his collaboration with the Gateses on tackling global health, said: "When an Irish rock star starts talking about it, people go, yeah, you're paid to be indulged and have these ideas.
"But when Bill Gates says you can fix malaria in 10 years, they know he's done a few spreadsheets."
Was that the same Gates who once said that spam would be solved by 2006 (who now has just under 2 weeks to make it happen)?
Somebody should start a network that does no other programming than picking up and continuing the shows that FOX kills too soon with the same cast & writers.
Great idea in theory, but I doubt that FOX would want to relinquish their rights to the shows (even though they're not using them) - Serenity only came about because of the TV<=>movie distinction, for example.
Even if they could buy them off FOX, the cost of that alone would probably be prohibitive...:(
Linux is like Darwinian evolution. The code base mutates and the stronger strains survive. Sometimes parts of version cross into another, analogous to natural selection on individual genes.
And how do you think the code base mutates? Hint: it's not random power glitches flipping bits on the disk...
(No, I don't exactly support the "Intelligent Design" movement either, it doesn't go far enough.)
Not to mention, it's really useful for temporary (ie. until you can reinstall) cleanups of compromised systems, since (a) it uses its own internal code for things like ls, chmod, etc, and (b) rootkits don't generally replace it:)
Re:my favourite quote from the tv show
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Jayne: You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with 'til you understand who's in ruttin' command here.
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Mal: So did I call you back?
Wash: No, Mal, you didn't...
Zoe: I take full responsibility, sir.
Simon: Her decision probably saved your life.
Zoe: Won't happen again, sir.
"...not being a paleontologist, I don't want to pour too much scorn on paleontologists, but if you were to spend your life picking up bones and finding little fragments of head and little fragments of jaw, there's a very strong desire there to exaggerate the importance of those fragments..." - Dr Greg Kirby
"The problem with a lot of anthropologists is that they want so much to find a hominid that any scrap of bone becomes a hominid bone." - Dr Tim White
Jon "maddog" Hall is the president of Linux International, not of OSDL. The CEO of OSDL is Stuart Cohen.
My bad... the fax in front of me has an OSDL letterhead but I didn't actually check at the time. FWIW, he is the president of LMI (as at May 4 anyway). Point is, he's probably the next individual in the trademark rights chain (after Linus himself).
ok farquad, if the license only covers direct uses of the name, explain this post.
This reply to that post (not by me) about sums it up...
And since you work for this tool, do you also send out his Scientology shit?
No, much of that was before my time. Besides, I'm helping with this one because I'm also involved with Linux/OSS/foo... I have nothing to do with Scientology (fortunately).
The key phrase there is "I'm not sure" (I haven't been liaising with everyone, that's Jeremy's job).
Also by "personally know", I mean that if you walk up to him on the street and ask "Do you know Jeremy Malcolm?" I'm not sure if he could say off the top of his head "Yes, he's applying for the trademark in Australia for me"... but I'm pretty sure he's been CCed on various emails, at the very least.
Re the trademark being HIS, yes, that's correct, but for some reason he prefers to hack and be with his family rather than spend all his time policing the trademark (go figure). Hence he assigned LMI to do the job for him. And LMI definitely know of our efforts (I've spoken to them in conference calls).
THANK YOU... I was hoping someone was going to post that soon.
An FAQ for the/. hordes...
Why are you sending letters of demand?
We're not... the letter (and the email body which contained the first paragraph) specifically state "This is not a letter of demand, but rather a request for your assistance..."
$5000? WTF?
Don't look at us, that's the pricing set by the Linux Mark Institute (LMI) and they say that most uses are no more than $500. What's more, the license only covers direct uses of the name (like in a business name) not descriptive uses like "We sell Linux CDs". In any event, that's all down the road, and we're not likely to be the ones pursuing it anyway (that's LMI's job). Don't get your panties in a knot.
Isn't "Linux" already a registered trademark elsewhere? Doesn't it cover Australia by default?
No, it doesn't. That's what we're trying to do, get it registered for Linus here.
Do you really represent Linus/LMI/foo?
Yes, really. Feel free to check with Linux Australia Inc, LMI, whoever. I'm not sure if Linus personally knows of our efforts, but Jon "maddog" Hall (President of OSDL I believe) certainly does.
It still smells bogus.
Andrew Cowie (one of the Linux Australia board members) has written an excellent summary in his blog. Well worth the read.
And in case you think I'm talking out of my rear, I work for Jeremy (on the IT side, IANAL) and was the one who "physically" sent out the 90 emails.
Furthermore, I think that the creation story from Genesis is reasonably accurate, given that it was written by the son of slaves roughly 2300 years before the discovery of quantum physics. Let's see: there was nothing, then there was light, then land with oceans, then plants, then sea creatures, then birds, then mammals, then man. Given that birds are widely held to be directly evolved from dinosaurs, that seems like a pretty close fit to modern theory.
Replace "days" with "exponentially shrinking units of time" and the timeline doesn't even seem too far off.
Going to an even lower level, I understand Roger Penrose, who worked with Hawking on black holes, calculated the odds of the supposed Big Bang producing our ordered universe at "one in 10^10^123" - a number with more zeroes than there are particles in the known universe...
3) Send diffs (just what changed) of files that are in the cache but out of date.
This sounds suspiciously close to the intent of RProxy. Might it have the same unfortunate patent problems? (One would hope that Google would have checked that sort of thing, though...)
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Anybody else noticed that tfa points to page 1 but starts at number 11??
Given the choice of text to put in the link, I'd say they decided to point directly to the page with the content in question...
Because Microsoft checks the header for every image file and treats it as WMF if the header matches, all jpegs, gifs, and pngs are potential vectors for the disease.
Deja vu... wasn't this the basis behind the vulnerability a couple of years back, caused by the integration of the browser into the OS?
Something like sending EXEs with text headers, so that the browser saw the text part and regarded it as safe, blindly passing it to the file handling engine (whatever it's called) which looked at the EXE extension and executed it. After all, the browser would have flagged it if it were dangerous, right? :-/
"... and they fix them before anybody finds out."
If only that were the case...
It's a play on the Tolkien quote, "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger." Presumably from one of the LOTR books or the like (haven't read them myself).
From some more coverage:
The U2 frontman, speaking of his collaboration with the Gateses on tackling global health, said: "When an Irish rock star starts talking about it, people go, yeah, you're paid to be indulged and have these ideas.
"But when Bill Gates says you can fix malaria in 10 years, they know he's done a few spreadsheets."
Was that the same Gates who once said that spam would be solved by 2006 (who now has just under 2 weeks to make it happen)?
Just wonderin'.
... except then you have to concentrate on what they say in reply - infinite loop :(
You really need to say "That's great... now give me 5 minutes to come up with a response" - but that's hardly polite now, is it?
Somebody should start a network that does no other programming than picking up and continuing the shows that FOX kills too soon with the same cast & writers.
Great idea in theory, but I doubt that FOX would want to relinquish their rights to the shows (even though they're not using them) - Serenity only came about because of the TV<=>movie distinction, for example.
Even if they could buy them off FOX, the cost of that alone would probably be prohibitive... :(
I protest! I am NOT cranky and short tempered...
* sets quota to 4KB *
That'll learn ya!
Linux is like Darwinian evolution. The code base mutates and the stronger strains survive. Sometimes parts of version cross into another, analogous to natural selection on individual genes.
And how do you think the code base mutates? Hint: it's not random power glitches flipping bits on the disk...
(No, I don't exactly support the "Intelligent Design" movement either, it doesn't go far enough.)
Not to mention, it's really useful for temporary (ie. until you can reinstall) cleanups of compromised systems, since (a) it uses its own internal code for things like ls, chmod, etc, and (b) rootkits don't generally replace it :)
Jayne: You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with 'til you understand who's in ruttin' command here.
and
Mal: So did I call you back?
Wash: No, Mal, you didn't...
Zoe: I take full responsibility, sir.
Simon: Her decision probably saved your life.
Zoe: Won't happen again, sir.
... or so they would have you believe.
Indeed...
"...not being a paleontologist, I don't want to pour too much scorn on paleontologists, but if you were to spend your life picking up bones and finding little fragments of head and little fragments of jaw, there's a very strong desire there to exaggerate the importance of those fragments..." - Dr Greg Kirby
"The problem with a lot of anthropologists is that they want so much to find a hominid that any scrap of bone becomes a hominid bone." - Dr Tim White
Christians like Newton, Darwin and Galileo.
Why stop there? Let's keep going:
Will this suffice?
"Oh, but that must be fake." Go on, I dare you :-P
Jon "maddog" Hall is the president of Linux International, not of OSDL. The CEO of OSDL is Stuart Cohen.
My bad... the fax in front of me has an OSDL letterhead but I didn't actually check at the time. FWIW, he is the president of LMI (as at May 4 anyway). Point is, he's probably the next individual in the trademark rights chain (after Linus himself).
ok farquad, if the license only covers direct uses of the name, explain this post.
This reply to that post (not by me) about sums it up...
And since you work for this tool, do you also send out his Scientology shit?
No, much of that was before my time. Besides, I'm helping with this one because I'm also involved with Linux/OSS/foo... I have nothing to do with Scientology (fortunately).
The key phrase there is "I'm not sure" (I haven't been liaising with everyone, that's Jeremy's job).
Also by "personally know", I mean that if you walk up to him on the street and ask "Do you know Jeremy Malcolm?" I'm not sure if he could say off the top of his head "Yes, he's applying for the trademark in Australia for me"... but I'm pretty sure he's been CCed on various emails, at the very least.
Re the trademark being HIS, yes, that's correct, but for some reason he prefers to hack and be with his family rather than spend all his time policing the trademark (go figure). Hence he assigned LMI to do the job for him. And LMI definitely know of our efforts (I've spoken to them in conference calls).
THANK YOU... I was hoping someone was going to post that soon.
An FAQ for the /. hordes...
We're not... the letter (and the email body which contained the first paragraph) specifically state "This is not a letter of demand, but rather a request for your assistance..."
Don't look at us, that's the pricing set by the Linux Mark Institute (LMI) and they say that most uses are no more than $500. What's more, the license only covers direct uses of the name (like in a business name) not descriptive uses like "We sell Linux CDs". In any event, that's all down the road, and we're not likely to be the ones pursuing it anyway (that's LMI's job). Don't get your panties in a knot.
No, it doesn't. That's what we're trying to do, get it registered for Linus here.
Yes, really. Feel free to check with Linux Australia Inc, LMI, whoever. I'm not sure if Linus personally knows of our efforts, but Jon "maddog" Hall (President of OSDL I believe) certainly does.
Andrew Cowie (one of the Linux Australia board members) has written an excellent summary in his blog. Well worth the read.
And in case you think I'm talking out of my rear, I work for Jeremy (on the IT side, IANAL) and was the one who "physically" sent out the 90 emails.
Furthermore, I think that the creation story from Genesis is reasonably accurate, given that it was written by the son of slaves roughly 2300 years before the discovery of quantum physics. Let's see: there was nothing, then there was light, then land with oceans, then plants, then sea creatures, then birds, then mammals, then man. Given that birds are widely held to be directly evolved from dinosaurs, that seems like a pretty close fit to modern theory.
Replace "days" with "exponentially shrinking units of time" and the timeline doesn't even seem too far off.
Really? You might find this interesting...
(Hi Leon...)
Ah yes, Borel's single law of chance.
Going to an even lower level, I understand Roger Penrose, who worked with Hawking on black holes, calculated the odds of the supposed Big Bang producing our ordered universe at "one in 10^10^123" - a number with more zeroes than there are particles in the known universe...
Oblig. Firefly:
Mal: You are very much lacking in imagination.
Zoe: I imagine that's so, sir.
I can have it done in twelve hours.
[which, in Scotty-time, as you know, means 'done in six hours and re-affirmation of status as Miracle Worker']
Erm, three hours (factor of 4)... :)
And no, I didn't memorize all of the episodes of Firefly, I cheated.
Oh, come on, it's not that hard - there's only 14 episodes! It's not like Doctor Who fans...
3) Send diffs (just what changed) of files that are in the cache but out of date.
This sounds suspiciously close to the intent of RProxy. Might it have the same unfortunate patent problems? (One would hope that Google would have checked that sort of thing, though...)