I don't think they would be an Aerospace Engineer. A spear would be classified as a projectile instead of any kind of object 'Of or relating to the science or technology of flight.'
Granted a spear is designed to fly, but it makes its designers no more aerospace engineers than my cat. They may however qualify for any of the following positions:
Of course, simply telling your opponents that you have tatical physics engineers ready to attack them is likely to just cause them to surrender. For added effectiveness, let them know your TPE's are going to show them a Shock and Awe attack.
Background - I'm an avid linux user. I like to think that I can see through marketing hype, inappropriate tests, legal absurdness etc... My opinion is that SCO is on its way out, and like a dying star (note the deliberate lack of the use of sun) its trying to go out with a bang. But some of the things in the interview just threw up some 'red alert' flags. Some select tidbits:
The way IBM is responding is very interesting. They haven't filed for an injunction; they haven't filed for the summary judgement enforcement to be dismissed. When you have what people would call nuisance cases then you usually go in and try and knock those out with a summary judgement motion, or something to cause them to be dismissed. IBM has actually done none of that.
Although I obtain *all* of my legal knowledge from slashdot:grin:, I don't believe that IBM's lack of filing a summary judgement is a sign that they believe thier case is in trouble. SCO has time and time again denied to release exactly what code was infringing, saying that it will only relesase that at trial. My view of the situation says that IBM is trying to get to the discovery phase as soon as possible. Due to the nature of the case, a summary judgement will probably be denied, which SCO is undoubtably waiting for so they can spin into a huge storm about how IBM lost its first legal battle over the code. IBM isn't letting them have that victory. SCO will have to go to trial and have thier bluf called.
Now, as of 16 June, we also increased our claims amount to include all AIX-derived hardware, software and services, given that they are now - in deriving that revenue - on an unauthorised route for use of the software.
Oh, this is good. IBM develops faster/better/cheaper hardware that runs AIX. IBM improves AIX specifically for that hardware. SCO calls the hardware a derivative work and claims it as its own? God, I'd pay to be on this jury.
Wouldn't you like to get this resolved quickly? I would love to have this behind us and move on. IBM has put the brakes on to try and slow things down. And to the extent that it wants to do that, I am saying that we are prepared to go the distance on this. But I would prefer to get this resolved and move forward.
Yeah, IBM is soooo slowing this process down. Not filing for that summary judgement must have delayed this case by -1 or -2 months. Bastards.
We have other rights under the contract that we are looking at. For example, we can audit IBM customers. SCO has audit rights on its customers. The reality is that we are going into discovery right now and that might be the vehicle to be able to investigate what we need there anyway.
Just what I want from a company. Although its happened before where a company has gone in and audited software, it has always resulted immediately in backlash against that company. See Microsoft and some western school districts. What is interesting is that SCO could/will be auditing IBM's customers. I'm glad that no entity has any right to barge into my business and conduct random audits. If I plunked down half a dozen 0's for some big iron I'll be damned if any SCOpunk is going to get within 200m of any of my equipment. I'll consider it a test of my internal security measures and tell the guards to shoot on site. But really, if SCO tried that it would be a act of desperation. Public opinion is already against them. A stunt like this will end all the credibility they have left. Plus, it will also blacken IBM's eye. I'm pretty certain that IBM will fight this one to SCO's death. Which is probably what SCO is betting on.
Are you still saying categorically that there is offending code in the Linux kernel? Yeah. That one is a no-brainer. When you look in the code base and you see line-by-line copy of our Unix System V code - not just the code itself, but comments to t
Isn't there something inherently wrong about slashdotting a anti-telemarketing site? I'm all for it (well, against it depending on your pov) and I'm sure the news headlines will include "Federal do not call list swamped with over 3 million users in first 12 hours." Unfortunately its looking like about 4 of those 3 million users will actually be able to sign up.
Also, what's with the e-mail address requirement? Is that so people don't sign thier neighbors up to not get calls at dinnertime or something?
If GCT actually do it, I believe the X-Prize would be the least of thier concernes.
Aside from a Nobel prize, thier work would be a base upon which to rewrite most of physics. Heck, depending on which free energy theory they are using, we might even get a grand unified field theory out of it.
Of course, every power company would be licensing thier technology. So would every transportation industry. Heck, I bet even AMD could make some kickass fans with antigravity/gravity control technology!
But the applications wouldn't be limited to transportation and energy production. You would be able to grow crystals of immence size via gravity control. Imagine silicon wafers meters in size. That would be a boon for chip production.
Then, there are the obvious weapons from this... gosh.. it'd be too bad if the $enemy{"terrorist_country"} experienced a momentary gravitional increase of 500g's.
But you probably don't need to worry. It'll never fly.
Today IBM announced its filing of over 640 individual lawsuits against SCO.
The lawsuits ranged from countersuits regarding breach of contract, to unfair business practices, to acting not in the best intersts of shareholders, polluting the marketplace, unfair business practices, and illegal distribution of copywrighted materials.
IBM has also sent notices to the US and German attourney generals regarding SCO's breaches of international copyright treaties.
In the same announcement, IBM has denied that it employs ships stationed in international waters to attack and board any ship carrying SCO property.
On Tuesday, IBM plans to 'blacken the Utah sky' with paratrooping lawyers to persue the lawsuits.
More information will be released after Tuesday's paradrop.
No, those are not his choices. They are the same choice. If he goes to the source, the human race AND Trinity AND Zion are destroyed.
If he goes to save Trinity, he is saving the human race as well.
Remember when the architect said that if he destroys the source everyone attached to the matrix will die? Coupled with the extermination of Zion that will result in the extinction of the human race.
Not that tough on its face value. Some spoilers here, but if you haven't seed/downloaded the movie by now, you aren't going to. If you are planning to wait for dvd, don't read this.
The architect says that this is the 6th incarnation of the one [confirming evidence, The guy who likes to curse in french and makes really good desserts said he "survived his predicessors"].
The reason that the one exists is because of a 'flaw' in a basic equation of the matrix. Earlier attempts at Matrices (how do you plurialize a proper name with a previously existing plural form of a general noun?) failed because the brains would reject the programming. A solution was found that gave the people a 'choice' to accept the program or not, at a subconcious level. Those that rejected it ended up in Zion.
The remainder in that unbalanced equation leads to the creation of the One. Because it is a forseen eventuality, the machines believe that they can control it. Part of this control manefests itself by giving the One a strong connection to humanity. In Neo's case, it was more specific - to one person, Trinity. Because of Neo's strong connection to her, he wasn't going to say 'fuck you' to the Architect and blow the whole place up. Blowing the whole place up would lead to the death of everyone in the matrix, and coupled with the destruction of Zion would lead to the extinction of the human race.
Now, the architect says that the One is supposed to then distribute the code he carries back into the prime program. I suppose to 'rebalance' the equation, but we didn't get there yet. I assume that there will be another form of control that would make Neo 'want' to do it.. in order to get something else done. Probably after the destruction of Zion, he will have to pick the people to repopulate Zion, otherwise the unbalancedness will destroy the matrix.
And that's about it to explain the architect scene. Again, he lays it out fairly plain. Now to mess with your heads a little:)
Remember afterwards when they were back in the ship and he was talking to Morpheus about what happened, and why the war wasn't over. Neo said the following: "It doesn't matter. I believed him." To me, that line just sounded slightly out of character. And it probably was supposed to.
Think back to when Neo was talking to the Oracle. When he asked how he could believe her, she replied: "You can't. You have to make up your own damn mind." I think that a good portion of movie 3 is going to revolve around that.
Lawrence Lessig from Stanford Law School:
The DMCA is an embarrassment to copyright law. Copyright law has always been about balance -- about the balance between restrictions and access.
Matt Oppenheim from the Recording Industry Association of America responds:
AMEN!!
Microsoft has created a grave spam threat with this vulnerability. Hotmail has always been a problematic spam source. The saving grace has been that the spam had to be transmitted manually, through a web form, so the sending rate was limited by how fast the spammer could cut-n-paste. Now that Microsoft has provided this new programmatic interface for spammers, that limit has been removed. Spammers may now script their spam runs--and they do--which has created a huge increase in spam transmitted by Hotmail.
So you are telling me that all the spammers out there who so gracefully manage to figure out how to avoid the plethora of filters designed to stop them, negotiate with bandwidth providers to keep thier accounts, and carefully hide thier irl addresses from everyone on earth with a spare brick and a good arm actually cut and paste thier e-mailed spam?
I don't buy it. An hour with a Perl for dummies book and the LWP doc's and any spammer can automate thier submissions.
Does the author really believe that these spammers are copy and pasting thier spams? I sure as heck don't.
Eight hacking groups join together to set an official standard for limiting disclosure of software security holes.
#1337, Efnet â" Eight computer hacking groups rounded up a three-day Exploits in Computing Forum on Thrusday by formally announcing a coalition against full disclosure of vulnerability information, ending a week of intense speculation, and immediately sparking controversy.
WanSan, TCPuke, NetLoft, HeavySak, BitEvil, SYNergy, HPLat, and DownScope joined together to declare they would immediately begin following a policy of limited public disclosure of security vulnerability information. Members of the coalition who discover new vulnerabilities will omit from their initial public advisories any details about how a hole might be exploited in an attack, and will not include code that demonstrates the bug. Thirty days after the first advisory, a more detailed notice can be released under the rules. Full disclosure of the vulnerabilities will be shared only among the members for âtestingâ(TM) purposes.
"We felt that as responsible industry leaders, we, as a voluntary organization, are going to follow a set of reasonable standards," said DXNo, manager of 1337â(TM)s intrusion exploitation, in an interview.
1337 will also draft a proposed international standard for notifying vendors and the public about newly-discovered software security bugs, following the group's limited disclosure ethic. The organization will admit new members, under an as-yet unwritten set of bylaws. The initial draft of the limited disclosure ethic will limit the disclosure to the home pages of the vulnerable sites.
A chief objective of the group is to discourage 'full disclosure,' the common practice of revealing complete details about security holes, even if publication might aide attackers in exploiting them. The group believes that any type of full disclosure would assist software vendors into patching various vulnerabilities before they can be widely exploited.
Publishing complete information, and sometimes "exploit" code that demonstrates a vulnerability, is de rigueur among many computer security professionals, who argue that malicious hackers can acquire the same information themselves, and that network administrators and security gurus often need technical details to properly defend themselves from attack.
But Culp criticized the practice in an essay published on a Microsoft Web site last month, and blamed "information anarchy" for the epidemic of malicious worms that have struck the Internet in the last year. "It's high time the security community stopped providing blueprints for building these weapons," Culp wrote.
Under the plan, member groups would share detailed information during the 30-day grace period with âoeother communities in which enforceable frameworks exist to deter onward uncontrolled distribution.â The last category would allow member groups to share details with one another. "They're not going to ban it among themselves," says Levy. "They might be willing to limit the public access to this information, but I highly doubt that they'll limit it among each other."
"People have to do it Microsoft's way or they'll have this group telling them that they're acting irresponsibly," says Maiffret. "It's going to drive people into the underground, and could lead to more people breaking into computers." The majority of members in 1337 agree with Maiffretâ(TM)s assessment.
"We are not trying to form a secret society of exploiters," says CKLawz "We are just creating a standard... This represents one of the first process standards between security companies and vendors."
wyZopa1 estimate that it will take one or two months to produce drafts of the proposed RFCs. He emphasizes that the standards would not just limit vulnerability disclosure, but would also spur vendors to be more responsive to security vulnerability reports. "My goal in the RFC is to have equally stringent standards for vendors and exploiters," says wyZopa1. âoeWe worked hard to discover these vulnerabilities, the developers should work just as hard to fix them. Providing them with all our tools without compensation is not what software development is about.â
The english translation of the english translated version (just a sensible cleaning up of babel fish translating. I assume warned means file some kind of legal document. I didn't want to push the interpertation that far though.)
LinuxTag warned SCO that it is engaging in anti-competitive behavior. SCO has stated that Linux contains patented Unix source code whose patents are owned by SCO. SCO has also warned end users and companies that they could be held liable "for the use of Linux." SCO has not explained which parts of Linux are believed to contain the patented code.
The warning by Linuxtag now forces SCO to submit proof that Linux contains patented code, or to retract the statements. The unproven statements by SCO are causing economic damage to competitors that use GNU/Linux and are tarnishing its reputation.
Hans's Bavarian of SCO Germany has confirmed that the warnings have been recieved. SCO's attourneys are examining them. SCO however only wants to respond with a small statement clarifying its position. It does not want to divulge the proof until the trial against IBM. SCO sued IBM at the beginning of march for $1,000,000,000.
The expresso version:
LinuxTag is mad because SCO is saying to its customers that you could be sued because we might own some of the linux IP and you haven't paid us. LinuxTag called SCO out saying that is anticompetitive and either prove or retract your statements. SCO now caught between a lie and a legal brief doesn't want to until the trial with IBM. LinuxTag will probably tell SCO 'tough cookies' and possibly blacken the sky with paratrooping attourneys... maybe with some air support from IBM.
Ok.. I wish people would get this through thier heads. A 64 bit chip is _NOT_ inherently faster than a 32 bit chip. It is able to address more memory space and perform greater precision calculations faster. If you are just working with lots and lots of 32 bit numbers you will see some speed improvement but not close to double. Once you are into the realm of 33 bit and higher numbers which are done with mathematical trickery on 32bit processors, you will see a huge speed increase when working with a 64 bit processor.
Also, the increased memory ceiling helps.
*note: yes, I know this is not technically correct, but I'm not explaining how 32bit and 64bit processors handle thier operations. Maybe someone can reply with that.
Its been said before, but here are the various spots going down on the personal liberty/privacy slide:
Black boxes introduced to help car companies gather data to 'improve safety.' Recorded data is minimal and access is limited to the manufacturer. Sheep are happy.
Black boxes are increased in capability so as to gather more safety related data. Sheep don't really care.
Black boxes are used in a case where there was no other evidence to rely upon (Jerome Brown in 1992) . Sheep hear about it being used in a good way. Happy for a while, don't care in 2 days.
Black boxes are open to more companies than the manufacturers, but on a limited basis. Sheep don't care.
Black boxes are opened to everyone via simple diagnostic tools. Sheep are concerned, but after a trip through the petting zoo they don't care.
Black boxes are increased in data storage capacity once again. Sheep aren't told. Still happy from petting zoo.
Black box data recorded after an accident by police at the scene of a collision. Admissible as evidence, but easily contradicted by attourneys. Sheep that think they don't have one of these boxes are happy.
Black box data recording is made mandatory on all vehicles, for previously mentioned 'safety' reasons.
Black box data can be collected by police at a traffic stop, to prove speeding or seat belt usage. Smart sheep are upset and smash thier black boxes. The rest of the sheep believe the spin that this can be used to fight 'unjust traffic tickets.'
Black box data now collected by insurance agents at the scene of a accident. Remarkably insurance premiums still manage to go up. Sheep are upset.
Black box data is now able to be transmitted wirelessly via bluetooth/802.11g/rf. Makes it simpler to access data, reducing the 'hassle' of police having to retrieve the data via cable. Boxes now store 30days of driving data. Sheep believe the spin that this is for thier convienence.
Insurance companies give discount to install 'remote monitoring' equipment in your black box. The reason given is to inform them immediately if you are ever in an accident, so they can provide better service. Sheep are confused, but like the discounts, and the 'free' upgrade.
Premiums rise mysteriously on sheep whose right foot is heavier than thier left. News at 11.
Upgraded black boxes are subsidized by insurance companies at manufacture. Sheep like getting the $500 'personal safety' upgrade on all thier new cars for free.
Sheep are slaughtered because they are too stupid to stand up for themselves when the butcher comes along. Nametag on butcher: Sam.
Save yourselves! Rip these things out right now! Write your senator! E-Mail your representative! Hack the thing so it continueously records you going 25mph with your seatbelt on! Just don't sit there and let anything your car says be used against you in court.
I'm sure this is just a natural progression of advertizing and
. . . . . . . . . . . Support Think Geek . . . . . . . . . . . it will go away eventually as it is deemed ineffective. Unfortunately all the IE users are going to be stuck in the meantime. Another plus for mozilla.
This may sound a bit odd, but I've done it on a few computers (where the case permits) with abnormally good results.
Take a coffe filter, cut to size, and tape it infront of/behind all the air inlets to your case. Even after a year of sitting on carpet in a dusty area, the interrior was devoid of fuzz and dust pup^H^H^H bunnies.
Now, the last time I did this was in the pentium 133 area... Be sure to monitor processor temperatures for a few days to make sure you are getting adequate cooling.
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I don't think they would be an Aerospace Engineer. A spear would be classified as a projectile instead of any kind of object 'Of or relating to the science or technology of flight.'
Granted a spear is designed to fly, but it makes its designers no more aerospace engineers than my cat. They may however qualify for any of the following positions:
Experimental projectile theorist
Advanced weaponry specialist
Long range warfare expert
Overt combat engineer
Specialized weaponry designer
Multi-component weapon composer
Tatical physics engineer
Of course, simply telling your opponents that you have tatical physics engineers ready to attack them is likely to just cause them to surrender. For added effectiveness, let them know your TPE's are going to show them a Shock and Awe attack.
But some of the things in the interview just threw up some 'red alert' flags. Some select tidbits:
Although I obtain *all* of my legal knowledge from slashdot :grin:, I don't believe that IBM's lack of filing a summary judgement is a sign that they believe thier case is in trouble. SCO has time and time again denied to release exactly what code was infringing, saying that it will only relesase that at trial. My view of the situation says that IBM is trying to get to the discovery phase as soon as possible. Due to the nature of the case, a summary judgement will probably be denied, which SCO is undoubtably waiting for so they can spin into a huge storm about how IBM lost its first legal battle over the code. IBM isn't letting them have that victory. SCO will have to go to trial and have thier bluf called.
Oh, this is good. IBM develops faster/better/cheaper hardware that runs AIX. IBM improves AIX specifically for that hardware. SCO calls the hardware a derivative work and claims it as its own? God, I'd pay to be on this jury.
Yeah, IBM is soooo slowing this process down. Not filing for that summary judgement must have delayed this case by -1 or -2 months. Bastards.
Just what I want from a company. Although its happened before where a company has gone in and audited software, it has always resulted immediately in backlash against that company. See Microsoft and some western school districts. What is interesting is that SCO could/will be auditing IBM's customers. I'm glad that no entity has any right to barge into my business and conduct random audits. If I plunked down half a dozen 0's for some big iron I'll be damned if any SCOpunk is going to get within 200m of any of my equipment. I'll consider it a test of my internal security measures and tell the guards to shoot on site.
But really, if SCO tried that it would be a act of desperation. Public opinion is already against them. A stunt like this will end all the credibility they have left. Plus, it will also blacken IBM's eye. I'm pretty certain that IBM will fight this one to SCO's death. Which is probably what SCO is betting on.
We'll give them all the Pringles they can eat!
Isn't there something inherently wrong about slashdotting a anti-telemarketing site? I'm all for it (well, against it depending on your pov) and I'm sure the news headlines will include "Federal do not call list swamped with over 3 million users in first 12 hours." Unfortunately its looking like about 4 of those 3 million users will actually be able to sign up.
Also, what's with the e-mail address requirement? Is that so people don't sign thier neighbors up to not get calls at dinnertime or something?
If GCT actually do it, I believe the X-Prize would be the least of thier concernes.
Aside from a Nobel prize, thier work would be a base upon which to rewrite most of physics. Heck, depending on which free energy theory they are using, we might even get a grand unified field theory out of it.
Of course, every power company would be licensing thier technology. So would every transportation industry. Heck, I bet even AMD could make some kickass fans with antigravity/gravity control technology!
But the applications wouldn't be limited to transportation and energy production. You would be able to grow crystals of immence size via gravity control. Imagine silicon wafers meters in size. That would be a boon for chip production.
Then, there are the obvious weapons from this... gosh.. it'd be too bad if the $enemy{"terrorist_country"} experienced a momentary gravitional increase of 500g's.
But you probably don't need to worry. It'll never fly.
Today IBM announced its filing of over 640 individual lawsuits against SCO.
The lawsuits ranged from countersuits regarding breach of contract, to unfair business practices, to acting not in the best intersts of shareholders, polluting the marketplace, unfair business practices, and illegal distribution of copywrighted materials.
IBM has also sent notices to the US and German attourney generals regarding SCO's breaches of international copyright treaties.
In the same announcement, IBM has denied that it employs ships stationed in international waters to attack and board any ship carrying SCO property.
On Tuesday, IBM plans to 'blacken the Utah sky' with paratrooping lawyers to persue the lawsuits.
More information will be released after Tuesday's paradrop.
Didn't SCO do the same thing?
No, those are not his choices. They are the same choice. If he goes to the source, the human race AND Trinity AND Zion are destroyed.
If he goes to save Trinity, he is saving the human race as well.
Remember when the architect said that if he destroys the source everyone attached to the matrix will die? Coupled with the extermination of Zion that will result in the extinction of the human race.
Not that tough on its face value. Some spoilers here, but if you haven't seed/downloaded the movie by now, you aren't going to. If you are planning to wait for dvd, don't read this.
:)
The architect says that this is the 6th incarnation of the one [confirming evidence, The guy who likes to curse in french and makes really good desserts said he "survived his predicessors"].
The reason that the one exists is because of a 'flaw' in a basic equation of the matrix. Earlier attempts at Matrices (how do you plurialize a proper name with a previously existing plural form of a general noun?) failed because the brains would reject the programming. A solution was found that gave the people a 'choice' to accept the program or not, at a subconcious level. Those that rejected it ended up in Zion.
The remainder in that unbalanced equation leads to the creation of the One. Because it is a forseen eventuality, the machines believe that they can control it. Part of this control manefests itself by giving the One a strong connection to humanity. In Neo's case, it was more specific - to one person, Trinity. Because of Neo's strong connection to her, he wasn't going to say 'fuck you' to the Architect and blow the whole place up. Blowing the whole place up would lead to the death of everyone in the matrix, and coupled with the destruction of Zion would lead to the extinction of the human race.
Now, the architect says that the One is supposed to then distribute the code he carries back into the prime program. I suppose to 'rebalance' the equation, but we didn't get there yet. I assume that there will be another form of control that would make Neo 'want' to do it.. in order to get something else done. Probably after the destruction of Zion, he will have to pick the people to repopulate Zion, otherwise the unbalancedness will destroy the matrix.
And that's about it to explain the architect scene. Again, he lays it out fairly plain. Now to mess with your heads a little
Remember afterwards when they were back in the ship and he was talking to Morpheus about what happened, and why the war wasn't over. Neo said the following: "It doesn't matter. I believed him." To me, that line just sounded slightly out of character. And it probably was supposed to.
Think back to when Neo was talking to the Oracle. When he asked how he could believe her, she replied: "You can't. You have to make up your own damn mind." I think that a good portion of movie 3 is going to revolve around that.
I don't buy it. An hour with a Perl for dummies book and the LWP doc's and any spammer can automate thier submissions.
Does the author really believe that these spammers are copy and pasting thier spams? I sure as heck don't.
1337 Reveals limited disclosure plan
Eight hacking groups join together to set an official standard for limiting disclosure of software security holes.
#1337, Efnet â" Eight computer hacking groups rounded up a three-day Exploits in Computing Forum on Thrusday by formally announcing a coalition against full disclosure of vulnerability information, ending a week of intense speculation, and immediately sparking controversy.
WanSan, TCPuke, NetLoft, HeavySak, BitEvil, SYNergy, HPLat, and DownScope joined together to declare they would immediately begin following a policy of limited public disclosure of security vulnerability information. Members of the coalition who discover new vulnerabilities will omit from their initial public advisories any details about how a hole might be exploited in an attack, and will not include code that demonstrates the bug. Thirty days after the first advisory, a more detailed notice can be released under the rules. Full disclosure of the vulnerabilities will be shared only among the members for âtestingâ(TM) purposes.
"We felt that as responsible industry leaders, we, as a voluntary organization, are going to follow a set of reasonable standards," said DXNo, manager of 1337â(TM)s intrusion exploitation, in an interview.
1337 will also draft a proposed international standard for notifying vendors and the public about newly-discovered software security bugs, following the group's limited disclosure ethic. The organization will admit new members, under an as-yet unwritten set of bylaws. The initial draft of the limited disclosure ethic will limit the disclosure to the home pages of the vulnerable sites.
A chief objective of the group is to discourage 'full disclosure,' the common practice of revealing complete details about security holes, even if publication might aide attackers in exploiting them. The group believes that any type of full disclosure would assist software vendors into patching various vulnerabilities before they can be widely exploited.
Publishing complete information, and sometimes "exploit" code that demonstrates a vulnerability, is de rigueur among many computer security professionals, who argue that malicious hackers can acquire the same information themselves, and that network administrators and security gurus often need technical details to properly defend themselves from attack.
But Culp criticized the practice in an essay published on a Microsoft Web site last month, and blamed "information anarchy" for the epidemic of malicious worms that have struck the Internet in the last year. "It's high time the security community stopped providing blueprints for building these weapons," Culp wrote.
Under the plan, member groups would share detailed information during the 30-day grace period with âoeother communities in which enforceable frameworks exist to deter onward uncontrolled distribution.â The last category would allow member groups to share details with one another. "They're not going to ban it among themselves," says Levy. "They might be willing to limit the public access to this information, but I highly doubt that they'll limit it among each other."
"People have to do it Microsoft's way or they'll have this group telling them that they're acting irresponsibly," says Maiffret. "It's going to drive people into the underground, and could lead to more people breaking into computers." The majority of members in 1337 agree with Maiffretâ(TM)s assessment.
"We are not trying to form a secret society of exploiters," says CKLawz "We are just creating a standard... This represents one of the first process standards between security companies and vendors."
wyZopa1 estimate that it will take one or two months to produce drafts of the proposed RFCs. He emphasizes that the standards would not just limit vulnerability disclosure, but would also spur vendors to be more responsive to security vulnerability reports. "My goal in the RFC is to have equally stringent standards for vendors and exploiters," says wyZopa1. âoeWe worked hard to discover these vulnerabilities, the developers should work just as hard to fix them. Providing them with all our tools without compensation is not what software development is about.â
The english translation of the english translated version (just a sensible cleaning up of babel fish translating. I assume warned means file some kind of legal document. I didn't want to push the interpertation that far though.)
LinuxTag warned SCO that it is engaging in anti-competitive behavior. SCO has stated that Linux contains patented Unix source code whose patents are owned by SCO. SCO has also warned end users and companies that they could be held liable "for the use of Linux." SCO has not explained which parts of Linux are believed to contain the patented code.
The warning by Linuxtag now forces SCO to submit proof that Linux contains patented code, or to retract the statements. The unproven statements by SCO are causing economic damage to competitors that use GNU/Linux and are tarnishing its reputation.
Hans's Bavarian of SCO Germany has confirmed that the warnings have been recieved. SCO's attourneys are examining them. SCO however only wants to respond with a small statement clarifying its position. It does not want to divulge the proof until the trial against IBM. SCO sued IBM at the beginning of march for $1,000,000,000.
The expresso version:
LinuxTag is mad because SCO is saying to its customers that you could be sued because we might own some of the linux IP and you haven't paid us. LinuxTag called SCO out saying that is anticompetitive and either prove or retract your statements. SCO now caught between a lie and a legal brief doesn't want to until the trial with IBM. LinuxTag will probably tell SCO 'tough cookies' and possibly blacken the sky with paratrooping attourneys... maybe with some air support from IBM.
You mean a company or government actually bought a piece of software without the source code!
What kind of world are we living in?
Ok.. I wish people would get this through thier heads. A 64 bit chip is _NOT_ inherently faster than a 32 bit chip. It is able to address more memory space and perform greater precision calculations faster. If you are just working with lots and lots of 32 bit numbers you will see some speed improvement but not close to double. Once you are into the realm of 33 bit and higher numbers which are done with mathematical trickery on 32bit processors, you will see a huge speed increase when working with a 64 bit processor.
Also, the increased memory ceiling helps.
*note: yes, I know this is not technically correct, but I'm not explaining how 32bit and 64bit processors handle thier operations. Maybe someone can reply with that.
Is html really that difficult? Here is the link for the keyboard impared/lazy:
http://www.laks.com/
Save yourselves! Rip these things out right now! Write your senator! E-Mail your representative! Hack the thing so it continueously records you going 25mph with your seatbelt on! Just don't sit there and let anything your car says be used against you in court.
Yes, its the most incorrect use of bittorrent possible! A mirror of a site with some pictures. All tar'd for your enjoyment.
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rocketcar.tar.torrent
At least I selected a proper chunk size
I'm sure this is just a natural progression of advertizing and
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it will go away eventually as it is deemed ineffective. Unfortunately all the IE users are going to be stuck in the meantime. Another plus for mozilla.
This may sound a bit odd, but I've done it on a few computers (where the case permits) with abnormally good results.
Take a coffe filter, cut to size, and tape it infront of/behind all the air inlets to your case. Even after a year of sitting on carpet in a dusty area, the interrior was devoid of fuzz and dust pup^H^H^H bunnies.
Now, the last time I did this was in the pentium 133 area... Be sure to monitor processor temperatures for a few days to make sure you are getting adequate cooling.