That's a huge over-simplification of a pretty complex moral debate.
While I'm certainly not pro banning pornography, you have to bear in mind that like any form of media, it's going to exert some influence on its viewers.
Take images of degradation or abuse - even if they're staged, their existance, and, the connection the mind forges between those images and the mass of happy-chemicals your mind produces is going to give you one hell of a Pavlovian response - I don't think that's under much debate. And once you've established a grey area like this, where do you draw the line of what constitute degradation/abuse?
As for the point about our society being built on sexual relationships - absolutely. But I'd argue the ready availability of pornography actually takes away from them - try going without pornography for a month (clearly, afterall, this is something of a personal matter for you) and see the effect it has on your sex life.
HTML? Isn't that a markup language, and not a programming language? How does HTML teach you any programming concepts?
And then... PHP. *shudder*. "Like Perl without the toolbox, like C without the speed".
You give no reason why you wouldn't recommend Perl as a starting language, so I can't rebutt them. However, I would, for one reason:
It allows programming to be FUN. Ideally, everyone would learn ASM first, then C, then Lisp, then Python, then Perl, then Ruby. But you'll probably have killed most people's desire to program with the first two, and freaked them out with the third.
Install Windows on a computer and hook it up to the Internet. Leave it hooked up without downloading one bit of software from anywhere! and the machine will be compromised. Why is that Mr. Gates?
I note that:
Install OpenBSD from two/three years ago on a computer and hook it up to the Internet. Leave it hooked up without downloading one bit of software from anywhere! (especially not the OpenSSH patch) and the machine can be compromised. Why is that Mr. de Raadt?
Yes Windows is worse than most. Yes OpenBSD is better than almost all. But why the double-standard?
Your English 'professor' may like it, but try giving it to anyone who writes for a living (or a real editor), and they'll put a nice big red line though it, being that it's mostly unreadable.
- Single 'that' when two would be clearer - 'says' and 'speak' next to each other - But basically: far too many words used
No wonder you pissed off Word.
If you were to rewrite it, I'd suggest:
"The letter says a great deal about how children should feel about themselves"
What's the significance of the first black guy in space? Seriously?
We note the first Chinese guy in space, but not the first East-Asian in space. Do you know who the first blonde person in space was? The first person with green eyes?
The reason your country has such an issue with racism STILL is that you create such significance in skin colour, where really there should be none.
The idea that a virus/worm needs its exploited user to be root to replicate and spread to other people is ludicrous. Almost all recent Windows viruses wouldn't have been particularly hindered if the user wasn't running as root - in most cases, they simply replicate, by email - a situation you don't need to be running as a privileged user to replicate.
And if we're picking random piece of software oft-associated with a platform, and looking at their security history, try taking a deep look bind/sendmail.
It's absolutely ridiculous that a three year old piece of software might have a remotely exploitable hole. It's a good thing that none of these UNIX-clones from three years ago had a remotely exploitable sshd switched on by default, right?
As is always the case, user-stupidity led to your infection.
Rather surprisingly, they managed to turn the almost-as-complex His Dark Materials trilogy into what is, by all accounts, a fantastic stage show... I'll certainly be getting tickets to see this...
Phew, it's a good thing Microsoft didn't intertwine IE so closely with the operating system that it's actually impossible to escape from it...
You know how in Windows Explorer, if you click on an HTML document, you'll get a preview of the page in the right-hand panel? IE generates that. Thus, you can get infected JUST BY HIGHLIGHTING the file. You really can't escape...
Re:Ugh, these aren't viruses...
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The Virus Squad
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· Score: 3, Informative
Actually, common industry usage says that worm is a subset of virus. If you want to use your own terminology, fine, just don't inflict it on others:-)
You'll note that AV vendors don't tend to compete on detection - detection rates among most of the established players are pretty much identical - there's also a policy in the industry of swapping virus samples with each other immediately.
There's absolutely no financial sense for AV companies in doing this: best-case scenario is that they have to spend money to get a minute advantage that most AV vendors claim *anyway*, worst-case scenario is that the company directors get ripped away from their yachts, mansions, and BMWs to spend time in prison.
Our Firm tried, the indian firm kept trying to use Lime green in their color schemes, no matter hwo often we told them we don't like lime green that
Seems unlikely. Using green for projects with an Indian audience is the archetypal example of American firms being absolutely culturally blind. Green being a colour very firmly affiliated with an armed and dangerous neighbour.
Re:It's another case against OS monoculture
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More MyDoom Gloom
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· Score: 3, Interesting
You can read a good rebuttal against the 'MONOCULTURE IS DEATH' argument here:
Hrm, maybe because it'd be seen as an act of war, and at least three of the contributing countries have enough operational nuclear warheads to turn America into a small and insignificant pile of radioactive dust?
Oh what, you thought you were the only ones with nuclear capability? Ooops!
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That's a huge over-simplification of a pretty complex moral debate.
While I'm certainly not pro banning pornography, you have to bear in mind that like any form of media, it's going to exert some influence on its viewers.
Take images of degradation or abuse - even if they're staged, their existance, and, the connection the mind forges between those images and the mass of happy-chemicals your mind produces is going to give you one hell of a Pavlovian response - I don't think that's under much debate. And once you've established a grey area like this, where do you draw the line of what constitute degradation/abuse?
As for the point about our society being built on sexual relationships - absolutely. But I'd argue the ready availability of pornography actually takes away from them - try going without pornography for a month (clearly, afterall, this is something of a personal matter for you) and see the effect it has on your sex life.
+Pete
"First of all, I've got to save it to disk, mark it as executable, and run it. This alone makes it quite improbable"
Nah, you just lack imagination.
Embed an image or other media file that exploits a buffer overflow in the handling library - it's not as if there's a shortage of bugs in that area.
HTML? Isn't that a markup language, and not a programming language? How does HTML teach you any programming concepts?
... PHP. *shudder*. "Like Perl without the toolbox, like C without the speed".
And then
You give no reason why you wouldn't recommend Perl as a starting language, so I can't rebutt them. However, I would, for one reason:
It allows programming to be FUN. Ideally, everyone would learn ASM first, then C, then Lisp, then Python, then Perl, then Ruby. But you'll probably have killed most people's desire to program with the first two, and freaked them out with the third.
+Pete
http://cou.ch/bounce.txt
Perl script to handle spam bounces...
Install Windows on a computer and hook it up to the Internet. Leave it hooked up without downloading one bit of software from anywhere! and the machine will be compromised. Why is that Mr. Gates?
I note that:
Install OpenBSD from two/three years ago on a computer and hook it up to the Internet. Leave it hooked up without downloading one bit of software from anywhere! (especially not the OpenSSH patch) and the machine can be compromised. Why is that Mr. de Raadt?
Yes Windows is worse than most. Yes OpenBSD is better than almost all. But why the double-standard?
+Pete
mod parent down. That's an example of a normal gorilla, as any reasonable primate would have discerned.
+Pete
Sadly Google returns no hits for rearchistrated
Your English 'professor' may like it, but try giving it to anyone who writes for a living (or a real editor), and they'll put a nice big red line though it, being that it's mostly unreadable.
- Single 'that' when two would be clearer
- 'says' and 'speak' next to each other
- But basically: far too many words used
No wonder you pissed off Word.
If you were to rewrite it, I'd suggest:
"The letter says a great deal about how children should feel about themselves"
The definitive (and about ten-year-old) paper on this is:
http://www.virusbtn.com/old/OtherPapers/GoodVir/
Well worth a read if you've not seen it before
What's the significance of the first black guy in space? Seriously?
We note the first Chinese guy in space, but not the first East-Asian in space. Do you know who the first blonde person in space was? The first person with green eyes?
The reason your country has such an issue with racism STILL is that you create such significance in skin colour, where really there should be none.
Which modern systems are those exactly? I've never had any trouble getting it to compile...
... surely that's just because there's been nothing to change about it? Are there outstanding bugs?
When you say unmaintained
+Pete
Exactly.
The idea that a virus/worm needs its exploited user to be root to replicate and spread to other people is ludicrous. Almost all recent Windows viruses wouldn't have been particularly hindered if the user wasn't running as root - in most cases, they simply replicate, by email - a situation you don't need to be running as a privileged user to replicate.
And if we're picking random piece of software oft-associated with a platform, and looking at their security history, try taking a deep look bind/sendmail.
+Pete (a commited OpenBSD user)
It looks like their iPod clone has some funky screen on it - is that a video player of some description?
I'd agree!
It's absolutely ridiculous that a three year old piece of software might have a remotely exploitable hole. It's a good thing that none of these UNIX-clones from three years ago had a remotely exploitable sshd switched on by default, right?
As is always the case, user-stupidity led to your infection.
Rather surprisingly, they managed to turn the almost-as-complex His Dark Materials trilogy into what is, by all accounts, a fantastic stage show ... I'll certainly be getting tickets to see this...
Phew, it's a good thing Microsoft didn't intertwine IE so closely with the operating system that it's actually impossible to escape from it...
You know how in Windows Explorer, if you click on an HTML document, you'll get a preview of the page in the right-hand panel? IE generates that. Thus, you can get infected JUST BY HIGHLIGHTING the file. You really can't escape...
Actually, common industry usage says that worm is a subset of virus. If you want to use your own terminology, fine, just don't inflict it on others :-)
+Pete
You'll note that AV vendors don't tend to compete on detection - detection rates among most of the established players are pretty much identical - there's also a policy in the industry of swapping virus samples with each other immediately.
There's absolutely no financial sense for AV companies in doing this: best-case scenario is that they have to spend money to get a minute advantage that most AV vendors claim *anyway*, worst-case scenario is that the company directors get ripped away from their yachts, mansions, and BMWs to spend time in prison.
Think, before engaging fingers.
Our Firm tried, the indian firm kept trying to use Lime green in their color schemes, no matter hwo often we told them we don't like lime green that
Seems unlikely. Using green for projects with an Indian audience is the archetypal example of American firms being absolutely culturally blind. Green being a colour very firmly affiliated with an armed and dangerous neighbour.
You can read a good rebuttal against the 'MONOCULTURE IS DEATH' argument here:
m onoculture.xml
:-)
http://www.virusbtn.com/magazine/archives/200312/
written by someone who actually knows a little about malicious mobile code
And what exactly does Holly think about this?
I got myself a job at a local pub one or two nights a week. I find I get my fill of human interaction fairly quickly this way.
;-)
Of course, you need to find the right place with fun people, but, it gets you out, gets you talking, and earns you icecream money
Say what?
I remember being insanely jealous visiting my ex in Stockholm, because of the adverts offering 10Mb/s broadband for what I'm paying for 1Mb/s...
Hrm, maybe because it'd be seen as an act of war, and at least three of the contributing countries have enough operational nuclear warheads to turn America into a small and insignificant pile of radioactive dust?
Oh what, you thought you were the only ones with nuclear capability? Ooops!
http://www.virusbtn.com/magazine/archives/200209/l inux_malware.xml
That should answer most of your questions