Having just read through the mailing list then quite of a few comments here most of the people are over reacting through ignorance of the situation:
I may be wrong, but I understand that this behaviour of PackageKit
only applies to users with direct console access (i.e. not remote
shells). So, only users that are logged in via GDM or TTY would be
able to perform such tasks.
This significantly limits the number of users with powers to install
signed software -- almost to the point of where it sounds like a fair
trade-off. If someone has physical access to the machine, then heck --
it's not like they don't already effectively "own" it.
Not saying it's a good default policy -- but let's cool our heads.
Regards,
So these is really a real world access security vulnerability in which case there are several easier ways to do damage.
Not that I agree with this default of course, it still allows idiots (girlfriends, who am I kidding this is slashdot, your mum) to install crap all over your system.
I came home from the pub pissed as usual and was in tears reading this. The only thing I have laughed more at is reading the comments, it is incredible how few people realise the satire in this article.
*Hint* This isn't about sockets
Re:Just one question...
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Not really, our atmosphere prevents any smallish rocks from hitting us (and a lot of them do hit the atmosphere just watch a meteor shower). The moon has no such convenience as seen by looking at its continuous craters.
I also don't see why we should pay for citizens of other countries
Because they are humans no matter what country they come from and should be offered decent health care. I don't care if they are benefit thieves (I don't know what the US version is) and haven't paid a penny of tax in their lives I would still quite happily be poorer to offer such a basic human necessity.
I only read the first few paragraphs of your post as it was so full of BS I couldn't even go on.
Given some of the footage I've seen [mediaite.com]... that would seem to fit it...
For anyone who didn't watch thevideo he posted it shows the police already having described it as unlawful assembly and have already began firing in tear gas and using the "sound cannon". A large amount of the crowd are journalists. The garbage dumpsters thing was a few people rolling it towards the police, it was pretty pathetic and in no way made it a riot. Even so considering the police were already using force to try and disperse them it is well known that this can cause people to riot (see G20 protests in London and the kettling) and so it can be the police that causes the violence in the first place.
Really? Your Google-foo must be weak... mine though is strong, because a quick search for g 20 pittsburgh damage [google.com] turns up 290k hits... repeating a number of ~50k in damage (20k of which sounds to be due to one man).
Haha yes your google-foo is so strong that you think that the number of results from an unquoted query on google proves anything. Did you even look at the first link google responds with?
Well here it is.
The first paragraph:
"PITTSBURGH - A vociferous but peaceful group of several thousand people marched for miles through downtown Pittsburgh on Friday, united by opposition to the Group of 20 summit but expressing a diversity of mostly liberal causes as an army of stone-faced riot police watched their every move"
So in summary if you are trying to correct someone for spouting bullshit don't bullshit yourself.
I've always wondered whether the reason that the linux kernel has so few forks is due to the gpl. My reasoning is that with a bsd license a company/person could easily want to extend say the freebsd kernel but want to keep that difference to itself so that they can produce something with 'value added'. The result is the further they move from the official freebsd kernel the harder it is to patch it with their updates and you end up forked.
At some later point they might end up open sourcing it again resulting in a diverse unix kernel environment that we currently have.
By sprinkling the bugs over a large area you will quickly dilute the fatty acids. It's very possible that if they take the compound and produce it in large quantities that this approach would work.
out of thin air, I swear it wasn't on the main page, then it appeared between two older articles then when I went back to the main page it was gone again.
Is slashcode really this borked?
I was involved for a while with a project within Manchester university where they were looking to map some of the cmb on the cheap using students/postgrads and a few Professors combined with some off the shelf tech.
To cut down on costs we were going to use the receivers from sky's satellite dishes since theres millions of the things, combined with a form of interference. My job was supposed to be (until I suddenly was swamped with other responsibilities and had to leave the project) to write the code that would create montecarlo simulations of the project.
Was a while ago since I left I wonder how they have gotten on with it now.
It's not a separate authority its just the BBC but they purposefully confound the issue to make it appear as if some outside legal authority is demanding your money called TV Licensing.
I love the beeb but their approach for obtaining the license fee is often intimidating and usually quite intrusive.
I've been following the BBC's internet blog for quite a while (it's pretty good) and their engineers always come across as hating DRM and if they had the choice they wouldn't use it at all. A few months ago one of them said they were pushing to keep any content produced by the BBC DRM free and that it was only because of licensed content that they employed any DRM at all.
Based on this I'm guessing this is the upper echelons of the beeb looking to push this.
The PcPro article showed their ignorance when they wrote:
"Nevertheless, netbook manufacturers running the ARM processor will be forced to adopt an alternative such as Google's Android, Windows CE or even Windows Mobile."
They mentioned running windows mobile over the ability to run fully fledged distributions such as debian with huge repositories.
I can't wait for these laptop to start coming out, microsoft can't even pay people to put XP on them this time.
If it's a "DMCA violation to distribute products that enable consumers to override copyright owner preferences against unauthorized copying", then does that mean that repositries that distribute libcss2 are breaking the law?
Its quite simple really. They explain it so even a layman with a wad of cash can understand and invest their money:
Orbo is based upon time variant magnetic interactions, i.e. magnetic interactions whose efficiency varies as a function of transaction timeframes.
It is this variation of energy exchanged as a function of transaction time frame that lies at the heart of Orbo technology, and its ability to contravene the principle of the conservation of energy. Why? Conservation of energy requires that the total energy exchanged using interactions are invariant in time. This principle of time invariance is enshrined in Noetherâ(TM)s Theorem.
The time variant nature of Orbo interactions can be engineered using two basic techniques. The first technique utilizes a method of controlling the response time of magnetic materials to make them time variant. This is achieved by controlling the MH position of materials during permanent magnetic interactions.
The second technique decouples the Counter Electromotive Force (CEMF) from torque for electromagnet interactions. This decoupling of CEMF allows time variant magnetic interactions in electromagnetic systems.
I may as well get out my cheque book, I'm convinced.
I've been trying to follow dirac since they used it to transfer the olympics HD streams internally but I am finding it difficult. Their project page is teeming with interesting pages but the updates to it are few and far between. Their wiki page has had only minor additions in the last few months and their git log is moving at a snails pace. They have a forum on sourceforge but similarly it is rather quiet.
I realise that it only being developed by a few people at the BBC but the project has such promise that it leaves me wondering why there isn't a larger community behind it and whether it will ever pick up. I've tried asking in a few comments on their internet blog but they were not answered and they haven't written anything about dirac their for a long time.
Electromagnetic induction is the way 'tons' of energy transfers. It is also how transformers work but it is only efficient at short range.
This application is different in that it makes use of resonance to overcome these shortcomings. From wikipedia:
"resonance comes in and helps efficiency dramatically by "tunneling" the magnetic field to a receiver coil that resonates at the same frequency. If resonant coupling is used, where inductors are tuned to a mutual frequency and the input current is modified from a sinusoidal into a rectangular or transient waveform, significant power may be transmitted over a range of many meters."
We have a large CRT sitting in our living room connected up to an xbox running XBMC and there is no way I'd replace it with a similar size LCD screen.
CRTs are very kind when watching low bit rate video. They hide the artefacts and provide some natural anti-aliasing. In fact I prefer watching 800kbit video on it compared to 1500kbit on my pc.
This isn't true, from here: "The primary advantage of this format is a low manufacturing cost. Since HD-DVD media is so technically similar to standard DVD media (it uses the same layer thicknesses as DVD, made of similar materials), the discs can be produced with only a slight modification to existing manufacturing lines. "
"This technology comes with a significant price. Manufacturing Blu-Ray discs requires significant costs in updating DVD fabrication equipment, and would be a sharp manufacturer cost increase over HD-DVD."
Toshiba also got the jump on sony and released it's first players months earlier allowing it to get production ramped up. It's true that when HD-DVD started to lose they chopped at the price, but it was already significantly lower than Bluray.
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I may be wrong, but I understand that this behaviour of PackageKit only applies to users with direct console access (i.e. not remote shells). So, only users that are logged in via GDM or TTY would be able to perform such tasks. This significantly limits the number of users with powers to install signed software -- almost to the point of where it sounds like a fair trade-off. If someone has physical access to the machine, then heck -- it's not like they don't already effectively "own" it. Not saying it's a good default policy -- but let's cool our heads. Regards,
So these is really a real world access security vulnerability in which case there are several easier ways to do damage.
Not that I agree with this default of course, it still allows idiots (girlfriends, who am I kidding this is slashdot, your mum) to install crap all over your system.
I came home from the pub pissed as usual and was in tears reading this. The only thing I have laughed more at is reading the comments, it is incredible how few people realise the satire in this article.
*Hint* This isn't about sockets
Not really, our atmosphere prevents any smallish rocks from hitting us (and a lot of them do hit the atmosphere just watch a meteor shower). The moon has no such convenience as seen by looking at its continuous craters.
I also don't see why we should pay for citizens of other countries
Because they are humans no matter what country they come from and should be offered decent health care. I don't care if they are benefit thieves (I don't know what the US version is) and haven't paid a penny of tax in their lives I would still quite happily be poorer to offer such a basic human necessity.
Given some of the footage I've seen [mediaite.com]... that would seem to fit it...
For anyone who didn't watch thevideo he posted it shows the police already having described it as unlawful assembly and have already began firing in tear gas and using the "sound cannon". A large amount of the crowd are journalists. The garbage dumpsters thing was a few people rolling it towards the police, it was pretty pathetic and in no way made it a riot. Even so considering the police were already using force to try and disperse them it is well known that this can cause people to riot (see G20 protests in London and the kettling) and so it can be the police that causes the violence in the first place.
Really? Your Google-foo must be weak... mine though is strong, because a quick search for g 20 pittsburgh damage [google.com] turns up 290k hits... repeating a number of ~50k in damage (20k of which sounds to be due to one man).
Haha yes your google-foo is so strong that you think that the number of results from an unquoted query on google proves anything. Did you even look at the first link google responds with?
Well here it is. The first paragraph:
"PITTSBURGH - A vociferous but peaceful group of several thousand people marched for miles through downtown Pittsburgh on Friday, united by opposition to the Group of 20 summit but expressing a diversity of mostly liberal causes as an army of stone-faced riot police watched their every move"
So in summary if you are trying to correct someone for spouting bullshit don't bullshit yourself.
I've always wondered whether the reason that the linux kernel has so few forks is due to the gpl. My reasoning is that with a bsd license a company/person could easily want to extend say the freebsd kernel but want to keep that difference to itself so that they can produce something with 'value added'. The result is the further they move from the official freebsd kernel the harder it is to patch it with their updates and you end up forked.
At some later point they might end up open sourcing it again resulting in a diverse unix kernel environment that we currently have.
By sprinkling the bugs over a large area you will quickly dilute the fatty acids. It's very possible that if they take the compound and produce it in large quantities that this approach would work.
out of thin air, I swear it wasn't on the main page, then it appeared between two older articles then when I went back to the main page it was gone again.
Is slashcode really this borked?
I was involved for a while with a project within Manchester university where they were looking to map some of the cmb on the cheap using students/postgrads and a few Professors combined with some off the shelf tech.
To cut down on costs we were going to use the receivers from sky's satellite dishes since theres millions of the things, combined with a form of interference.
My job was supposed to be (until I suddenly was swamped with other responsibilities and had to leave the project) to write the code that would create montecarlo simulations of the project.
Was a while ago since I left I wonder how they have gotten on with it now.
That's what happens when you don't name your torrent "Worlds largest xxx porn collection(BritneySpears)Lohan-dogs-horses teen.avi.torrent"
It's not a separate authority its just the BBC but they purposefully confound the issue to make it appear as if some outside legal authority is demanding your money called TV Licensing.
I love the beeb but their approach for obtaining the license fee is often intimidating and usually quite intrusive.
I've been following the BBC's internet blog for quite a while (it's pretty good) and their engineers always come across as hating DRM and if they had the choice they wouldn't use it at all.
A few months ago one of them said they were pushing to keep any content produced by the BBC DRM free and that it was only because of licensed content that they employed any DRM at all.
Based on this I'm guessing this is the upper echelons of the beeb looking to push this.
The PcPro article showed their ignorance when they wrote:
"Nevertheless, netbook manufacturers running the ARM processor will be forced to adopt an alternative such as Google's Android, Windows CE or even Windows Mobile."
They mentioned running windows mobile over the ability to run fully fledged distributions such as debian with huge repositories.
I can't wait for these laptop to start coming out, microsoft can't even pay people to put XP on them this time.
The telcos are way ahead in this field, they've had telephone sanitisers for years.
Because "think of the children they could be killed!", is a lot more convincing than "think of the children they could turn into spam bots!"
If it's a "DMCA violation to distribute products that enable consumers to override copyright owner preferences against unauthorized copying", then does that mean that repositries that distribute libcss2 are breaking the law?
I'm going to use this as an excuse when I break up with my 50 year old wife,
"Sorry it's not you it's evolution, younger women these days are just much more attractive".
In fact sod the torrent altogether, I'm going to turn my films in to a series of animated GIFs and post them instead.
In Ireland they started replacing the road signs to kilometres but ran out of money mid way through leaving a mix of both.
They probably drank the rest of the budget...
Orbo is based upon time variant magnetic interactions, i.e. magnetic interactions whose efficiency varies as a function of transaction timeframes.
It is this variation of energy exchanged as a function of transaction time frame that lies at the heart of Orbo technology, and its ability to contravene the principle of the conservation of energy. Why? Conservation of energy requires that the total energy exchanged using interactions are invariant in time. This principle of time invariance is enshrined in Noetherâ(TM)s Theorem.
The time variant nature of Orbo interactions can be engineered using two basic techniques. The first technique utilizes a method of controlling the response time of magnetic materials to make them time variant. This is achieved by controlling the MH position of materials during permanent magnetic interactions.
The second technique decouples the Counter Electromotive Force (CEMF) from torque for electromagnet interactions. This decoupling of CEMF allows time variant magnetic interactions in electromagnetic systems.
I may as well get out my cheque book, I'm convinced.
"At least the analog photography industry knows how to change with the times."
Oh yes Kodak have really coped well in the digital age.
Its not like Kodak concluded a four-year, $3.4 billion restructuring in December 2007 that eliminated 28,000 jobs, about half its workforce. Or that its "share price sank to the lowest price in at least 35 years".
I've been trying to follow dirac since they used it to transfer the olympics HD streams internally but I am finding it difficult. Their project page is teeming with interesting pages but the updates to it are few and far between. Their wiki page has had only minor additions in the last few months and their git log is moving at a snails pace. They have a forum on sourceforge but similarly it is rather quiet.
I realise that it only being developed by a few people at the BBC but the project has such promise that it leaves me wondering why there isn't a larger community behind it and whether it will ever pick up. I've tried asking in a few comments on their internet blog but they were not answered and they haven't written anything about dirac their for a long time.
Electromagnetic induction is the way 'tons' of energy transfers. It is also how transformers work but it is only efficient at short range.
This application is different in that it makes use of resonance to overcome these shortcomings. From wikipedia:
"resonance comes in and helps efficiency dramatically by "tunneling" the magnetic field to a receiver coil that resonates at the same frequency. If resonant coupling is used, where inductors are tuned to a mutual frequency and the input current is modified from a sinusoidal into a rectangular or transient waveform, significant power may be transmitted over a range of many meters."
We have a large CRT sitting in our living room connected up to an xbox running XBMC and there is no way I'd replace it with a similar size LCD screen.
CRTs are very kind when watching low bit rate video. They hide the artefacts and provide some natural anti-aliasing. In fact I prefer watching 800kbit video on it compared to 1500kbit on my pc.
This isn't true, from here:
"The primary advantage of this format is a low manufacturing cost. Since HD-DVD media is so technically similar to standard DVD media (it uses the same layer thicknesses as DVD, made of similar materials), the discs can be produced with only a slight modification to existing manufacturing lines. "
"This technology comes with a significant price. Manufacturing Blu-Ray discs requires significant costs in updating DVD fabrication equipment, and would be a sharp manufacturer cost increase over HD-DVD."
Toshiba also got the jump on sony and released it's first players months earlier allowing it to get production ramped up. It's true that when HD-DVD started to lose they chopped at the price, but it was already significantly lower than Bluray.