What? "Sandboxing" as used in android is in fact the unix security model well applied. If you don't use it you're back to the days of windows 95. I prefer that they keep it and then *ONLY* the users stupid enough to give bank account information to random applications are affected. But thank you very much for your comment.
I won't argue my point I think its pretty clear. I'm a developer and I wouldn't work on a machine where I didn't have admin rights, unless there were a really good reason to do so.
And the "Windows Way" means you can not move or restore applications by just copying a directory. No, you must "install".
This is partly why Windows admins have only one application per (virtual) box, and Microsoft rubs their hands knowing they sell an OS for each application instance.
Debian packages need root access to be installed, as solaris packages, as... ok I think almost all unix do this too. That's why this is called "the windows way"? It sound's like you don't have a clue.
Quantum encryption needs a second channel that isn't vulnerable to man in the middle attack. It doesn't say how to make it, it only says that it's needed. This channel is used to transmit the polarization used, and although it doesn't transmit information related to the unencrypted data, the entire algorithm depends on the integrity of this channel not being attacked (sniffed it's OK).
In my opinion saying that quantum encryption is theoretically perfect is misleading, as there is no probe that this secure channel can be made.
That's assuming email addresses are random sequences of letters, digits and dots.
If you're a spammer and don't mind missing the email of mr. q9x7.3f.1zzp@hotmail.com, a phone book would probably provide an effective dictionary for narrowing that keyspace considerably
That's assuming nothing. You know how to read? Parent is talking about covering the ENTIRE range of emails under 12 characters with those characters.
I hate to reply to myself but reading again I see that the malware was not on any distro's repository so this doesn't affect my trust on them. Still I would prefer that there would be an easy way of installing packages without root access.
Probably a kernel module...
So, do you have a patch for that? No? Then stop whining that it doesn't exist. </sarcasm>
Go file a bug somewhere if you actually care.
Very clever </ sarcasm> I won't install any screen saver that needs a kernel module. Whay I'd want is an easy way to install ALL the packages that can be installed without root access to do so. As easy as apt-get install xxx but as a normal user.
I hate to reply to myself but reading again I see that the malware was not on any distro's repository so this doesn't affect my trust on them. Still I would prefer that there would be an easy way of installing packages without root access.
The argument is still the same. I'd rather be able to tell someone who can that they may than tell them they may not.
Anyone can try to fix it. Some may be better than others, but that's doesn't preclude someone from trying. Whereas, on competing systems you may not.
This argument is starting to look stupid specially in a story like this.
Any software that I use has to be made by someone I trust, there is no escape from that, no "but the source is available". I have to trust the maker.
And giving excuses instead of assuming responsibility is not going to gain my trust. There have to be concrete steps to assure this not happens again. No excuses.
England sounds like hell based on the comments posted on this story and others here. It is common for English people to move to other countries because of this?
It could also lessen the life of the computer. A computer that is shutdown at night would likely last longer than one crunching numbers every night.
This is completely false and has been proven with reams of empirical data. Keeping a computer running 24/7 give a longer useful lifetime than shutting a computer down every night blah blah blah blah....
WRONG! Keeping it on 24/7 means the capacitors are more time operating at temperature. This means more evaporation an thus shorter live. It also mean that the disks are more time spinning. As many systems power down disks anyway after some time of idle time they have a power cycle anyway so there is no advantage in having the systems 24/7 on.
What? This has nothing to do with having a good scheduler. A good scheduler should allow high cpu loads for computing jobs but more important, give the user the feeling of a fast responding computer. And in that Linux (or Ubuntu, that doesn't tweak the kernel correctly) has still work to do.
Off topic: I see that I was modded as troll... this is why Slashdot isn't the best place to discuss technology anymore... someone can give me alternatives?
That's because of crappy Windows process scheduling and/or your computers were already slow to begin with. Folding@Home is currently running on what would be known as Idle (nice 19) and is not disrupting anything.
[Citation needed]
If you had used windows and linux for a reasonable ammount of time you wouldn't be callink the WINDOWS one crappy.
A decent reference in this economy is worth nothing. On the other hand money is money, even if there is a chance you'll loose everything. And that can still happen anyway if you don't get any job for long enough.
It is not only the estimates of temperature increase that are rising, but so are the uncertainties. We know very little about how the feedback cycles work once the temperature changes so many degrees, and we know next to nothing about how they work when faced with such quick changes.
We do not know how much methane hydrate there is stored on the ocean floor, but we do know there is a lot of it and that an eruption of it 55 million years ago was at least in part responsible for a 6 degree C rise in global temperatures. It is also thought that the biggest mass extinction event ever was caused by massive volcanism and methane hydrate release.
There is plenty of evidence that large parts of the ocean can and have previously become anoxic during climate changes. This is really bad news not only for everything that lives in the ocean, but also for us since a large part of our food supply comes from the ocean.
Basically, we are getting into a territory where all bets are off, and it is not good news for humanity. I am linking to wikipedia since that is good place to start to read up on this stuff and find links to the actual research.
This sounds very bad for civilization... but it may be an answer to Fermi paradox. When a civilization reaches certain energy consumption level it may trigger a weather feedback loop that destroys it thus preventing it from reaching other systems
is an extension framework as powerful as Firefox's one. Microsoft has been improving speed, conformance to standards, and security, to catch up and even surpass in same cases firefox, but it still needs a good variety of plugins to be taken seriously by power users. The ones I'd need to change back to IE are the IE equivalent of adblock and vimperator.
How big must be your ego to think that something that is taught at schools and published on hundreds of books is wrong, and you figured it out only by looking at the window when you were flying!. But no you're wrong, the Bernoulli effect is present even in symmetric wings... but your're right in that they (the symmetric wings) have to have a slight angle of attack to produce lift. And talking about Newton's law is a red herring, of course it applies, but it's better described this way.
That's not how things work in practice. Remote monitoring from anywhere in the world is too tempting. You can take a look at what kind of thing SCADA vendors are selling to realize things are getting worse before they're getting better.
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Only in slashdot this type of comment gets 5 insightful. *Facepalm*
What? "Sandboxing" as used in android is in fact the unix security model well applied. If you don't use it you're back to the days of windows 95. I prefer that they keep it and then *ONLY* the users stupid enough to give bank account information to random applications are affected. But thank you very much for your comment.
I think it's "Embrace, extend and extinguish"
Wooosh.
You have the force. Use It.
I won't argue my point I think its pretty clear. I'm a developer and I wouldn't work on a machine where I didn't have admin rights, unless there were a really good reason to do so.
Hear hear,
And the "Windows Way" means you can not move or restore applications by just copying a directory. No, you must "install".
This is partly why Windows admins have only one application per (virtual) box, and Microsoft rubs their hands knowing they sell an OS for each application instance.
Debian packages need root access to be installed, as solaris packages, as ... ok I think almost all unix do this too. That's why this is called "the windows way"? It sound's like you don't have a clue.
Other than making developers less productive, but hey it's not like they matter at all so its ok, right?
Quantum encryption needs a second channel that isn't vulnerable to man in the middle attack. It doesn't say how to make it, it only says that it's needed. This channel is used to transmit the polarization used, and although it doesn't transmit information related to the unencrypted data, the entire algorithm depends on the integrity of this channel not being attacked (sniffed it's OK) .
In my opinion saying that quantum encryption is theoretically perfect is misleading, as there is no probe that this secure channel can be made.
That's assuming email addresses are random sequences of letters, digits and dots.
If you're a spammer and don't mind missing the email of mr. q9x7.3f.1zzp@hotmail.com, a phone book would probably provide an effective dictionary for narrowing that keyspace considerably
That's assuming nothing. You know how to read? Parent is talking about covering the ENTIRE range of emails under 12 characters with those characters.
I hate to reply to myself but reading again I see that the malware was not on any distro's repository so this doesn't affect my trust on them. Still I would prefer that there would be an easy way of installing packages without root access.
Probably a kernel module...
So, do you have a patch for that? No? Then stop whining that it doesn't exist. </sarcasm>
Go file a bug somewhere if you actually care.
Very clever </ sarcasm>
I won't install any screen saver that needs a kernel module. Whay I'd want is an easy way to install ALL the packages that can be installed without root access to do so. As easy as apt-get install xxx but as a normal user.
I hate to reply to myself but reading again I see that the malware was not on any distro's repository so this doesn't affect my trust on them. Still I would prefer that there would be an easy way of installing packages without root access.
The argument is still the same. I'd rather be able to tell someone who can that they may than tell them they may not.
Anyone can try to fix it. Some may be better than others, but that's doesn't preclude someone from trying. Whereas, on competing systems you may not.
This argument is starting to look stupid specially in a story like this.
Any software that I use has to be made by someone I trust, there is no escape from that, no "but the source is available". I have to trust the maker.
And giving excuses instead of assuming responsibility is not going to gain my trust. There have to be concrete steps to assure this not happens again. No excuses.
England sounds like hell based on the comments posted on this story and others here. It is common for English people to move to other countries because of this?
It could also lessen the life of the computer. A computer that is shutdown at night would likely last longer than one crunching numbers every night.
This is completely false and has been proven with reams of empirical data. Keeping a computer running 24/7 give a longer useful lifetime than shutting a computer down every night blah blah blah blah....
WRONG! Keeping it on 24/7 means the capacitors are more time operating at temperature. This means more evaporation an thus shorter live. It also mean that the disks are more time spinning. As many systems power down disks anyway after some time of idle time they have a power cycle anyway so there is no advantage in having the systems 24/7 on.
What? This has nothing to do with having a good scheduler. A good scheduler should allow high cpu loads for computing jobs but more important, give the user the feeling of a fast responding computer. And in that Linux (or Ubuntu, that doesn't tweak the kernel correctly) has still work to do.
Off topic: I see that I was modded as troll... this is why Slashdot isn't the best place to discuss technology anymore... someone can give me alternatives?
That's because of crappy Windows process scheduling and/or your computers were already slow to begin with. Folding@Home is currently running on what would be known as Idle (nice 19) and is not disrupting anything.
[Citation needed]
If you had used windows and linux for a reasonable ammount of time you wouldn't be callink the WINDOWS one crappy.
Shut the hell up. Thanks.
A decent reference in this economy is worth nothing. On the other hand money is money, even if there is a chance you'll loose everything. And that can still happen anyway if you don't get any job for long enough.
It is not only the estimates of temperature increase that are rising, but so are the uncertainties. We know very little about how the feedback cycles work once the temperature changes so many degrees, and we know next to nothing about how they work when faced with such quick changes. We do not know how much methane hydrate there is stored on the ocean floor, but we do know there is a lot of it and that an eruption of it 55 million years ago was at least in part responsible for a 6 degree C rise in global temperatures. It is also thought that the biggest mass extinction event ever was caused by massive volcanism and methane hydrate release. There is plenty of evidence that large parts of the ocean can and have previously become anoxic during climate changes. This is really bad news not only for everything that lives in the ocean, but also for us since a large part of our food supply comes from the ocean. Basically, we are getting into a territory where all bets are off, and it is not good news for humanity. I am linking to wikipedia since that is good place to start to read up on this stuff and find links to the actual research.
This sounds very bad for civilization... but it may be an answer to Fermi paradox. When a civilization reaches certain energy consumption level it may trigger a weather feedback loop that destroys it thus preventing it from reaching other systems
I'm not getting worried until hearing about Google Nation...
I don't know where you got the idea that web applications==thin clients. All this discussion is bogus.
If Windows has a back door that the NSA can use, how would they prevent foreign intelligence agencies from using it?
You have heard of that concept called “password”, have you? ^^
You have heard of that concept called password cracking haven't you?
You have heard of that concept called hard crypto haven't you?
is an extension framework as powerful as Firefox's one. Microsoft has been improving speed, conformance to standards, and security, to catch up and even surpass in same cases firefox, but it still needs a good variety of plugins to be taken seriously by power users. The ones I'd need to change back to IE are the IE equivalent of adblock and vimperator.
How big must be your ego to think that something that is taught at schools and published on hundreds of books is wrong, and you figured it out only by looking at the window when you were flying!. But no you're wrong, the Bernoulli effect is present even in symmetric wings... but your're right in that they (the symmetric wings) have to have a slight angle of attack to produce lift. And talking about Newton's law is a red herring, of course it applies, but it's better described this way.
That's not how things work in practice. Remote monitoring from anywhere in the world is too tempting. You can take a look at what kind of thing SCADA vendors are selling to realize things are getting worse before they're getting better.