This is the reason employers have problems when their employees run Seti@Home (and indeed, any unauthorized software) on their machines.
As an IT professional, you talk and talk and talk and talk trying to warn your superiors of the danger of running unnecessary network services -- why you can't just open the firewall wide up to let them use their proprietary stock-tracking application; hell, why you even have a firewall in the first place.
And then Seti@Home, the ultimate nonessential network service, comes along and validates everything you've been saying. But you're running it anyway, because it's "cool". And now your network is compromised.
I'd really like to see this done without using any cheap JavaScript hacks. Hell I'd like to see it done period. Feel free to enlighten me via example:-) You've got the pages code, feel free to "simply rearrange" it in such a way that is indistinguishable from the current page, yet runs fine under Internet Explorer.
It is functionally identical to your current page in layout, and retains your alpha'd news boxes identically without using the "background-attachment: fixed" CSS property that Mozilla zealots like to hold over IE's head. (Instead, the tables have a background with a 25% transparent black PNG).
It does not appear exactly the same between IE and Mozilla -- however this version is usable in IE, unlike your current page. In fact, the only difference between the page in IE and the page in Mozilla is that Mozilla supports PNG transparency; IE sports ugly gray boxes.
I am just going to use the set standards, and if a product happens to support them, great, if not, well I guess there's nothing I can do about it.
Interestingly enough I ran across a bug in Mozilla's "overflow: auto" support while putting this page together. The unfortunate side-effect being that the scrollwheel on your mouse doesn't work to scroll the page in Mozilla. I
was going to put together a workaround for that, but it appears you'd rather have it this way.
What you've done is set up a straw man. Yes, the page is standards-compliant, but the specific standards in use were apparently specifically chosen based on how badly IE renders them (and your script to detect when the user is running IE so you can provide unwanted zealotry to them removes any doubt that your design decisions weren't made with anti-IE bias in mind). Your page layout can be done in an equally standards-compliant form, and be IE-compatible to boot, simply by rearranging the page layout slightly.
You've obviously missed the point of standards, which exist to allow usability by the widest user base possible; and instead perverted them into a weapon used to further your ideological goals. Shame on you.
I don't trust anyone who goes out of their way to make their page look bad in IE to give an unbiased comparison... and that, sir, is not an unbiased comparison.
Keep in mind that in spite of what people want you to think, most people who use Linux don't use a soundcard anyway. I have well over a half dozen boxes with Linux on them. One has a sound card.
That's one more with a sound card than I have.;) I use Linux on a couple servers, I have no need for sound cards in those.
The new drivers for my card can suddenly mix 2 channels together in hardware
Linux is just getting that feature???
I know I'm going to sound like a troll, but I'm rather surprised Linux on the Desktop is that far behind -- Windows has been doing it for over 4 years.
In effect, they would extend the already-extant laws relating to theft of cable TV services to any telecom service.
You didn't really think wardriving would stay in the gray "no laws" area for long, did you?
At the risk of sounding level-headed in what's sure to be a discussion filled with reactionary "how can they do this?!" sorts of comments, I guess I don't really see the problem with this law. You have to take a pretty loose interpretation of it to apply it to NAT and other legitamite sorts of technologies -- unless of course you're using it on an ISP that specifically forbids NAT, or wants you to pay extra for multiple computers on the same line; but in that case you're at least ethically bound to pay what they're asking, or find another ISP.
there's little reason - other than extreme catastrophic failure of onboard systems - for a Shuttle pilot to attempt to override the autopilot
So don't you think whatever happened to Columbia in the last few moments might fit into that "extreme catastrophic failure of onboard systems" prerequisite?
Or how about the fact that if your NT 4.0 servers are inside the corperate forewall LEAVE THEM RUNNING. sorry but Nt4.0 makes a good Fileserver/SQL platform on good hardware.
Not anymore it doesn't. It's file sharing capabilities use the same port that the broken RPC system does, so now you can no longer share files on a NT4 box without it being a security problem.
Remember the EULA on windows from two years back? It said "This product cannot be used in life-critical applications, because it contains Java from Sun Microsystems." Don't underestimate the damage a sinister sounding warning message can cause.
That warning is from Sun's EULA for Java. It's not something Microsoft threw in just to make Java look bad.
You have to learn to crawl before you learn to walk. Think back a few years when Microsoft didn't even let their source out the door at all -- then try to say with a straight face that they're not slowly sliding down the slippery slope towards the gaping maw of Open Source that's eating their lunch.
Look, Microsoft is a company that wants to make money. They will eventually do whatever their customers demand. If that means eventually giving out full source along with their binaries because everyone else is doing it, then that's what they'll do; or they'll become irrelevant in the marketplace, which is something they'll never allow to happen.
Then, of course, 9 times out of 10 you overshoot, and have to run back, meaning that you actually get most of the last ad at regular speed (I can already hear the ad execs charging more for the last spot)
What? TiVo has overshoot adjustment built in, where it starts regular play a little bit BEFORE where you hit play to get out of FFW... it's rather accurate at resetting itself right back to the fade in of your program.... and if you DO hit it too late, the instant recall button takes you back 8 seconds each time you hit it, so you don't end up seeing "most of the last ad".
While this makes the front page so we can all have our obligatory cracks at Microsoft, a similar (and just as important!) remote root exploit in Samba was just fixed today.
It's too bad most Linux developers aren't interested in doing something really forward-thinking. If there was a DB integrated into the OS, and apps encouraged to use it, with avenues of data management made easily available to the user, computing could be actually pushed ahead by Linux. But not today, and probably nor ever.
An application integrated into the OS? You mean like Internet Explorer?
Two parties have a secure channel in which to exchange these pads.
OTP is mathematically 100% secure, but not practically.
The whole point of encryption is to make secure an otherwise unsecure channel of communication. If you have a secure channel in the first place (which you need to exchange pads with OTP), then why not just send the data you want to communicate through that channel and do away with encryption altogether?
Someone can intercept your pads and you'd never know. OTP is extremely vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack.
Your pads themselves may be attackable. In the extreme case, a pad comprised entirely of NULs can be XORed against your sourcetext to produce cyphertext, and that's OTP, but that doesn't mean it's secured. Any pad generated in a reproducable manner is susceptable to crypto analysis.
Empirical evidence suggests that the end points of a communication are just as vulnerable to compromise as the communication channel. If your message is decrypted and displayed on a non TEMPEST compliant display, then all your security was for naught.
A couple of these problems are constant no matter what type of cypher you use, but some of them are solved by other forms of encryption; but they fit the opposite criteria: they are not mathmatically 100% secure, but they can be practically secure.
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Spammers annoy us, so we want them restricted.
We want free music, so we're against restrictive controls on digital media.
We're just like any other special interest group, there doesn't need to be any internal consistency in our stands on various issues.
K4RBR is the new FCKGW.
This is the reason employers have problems when their employees run Seti@Home (and indeed, any unauthorized software) on their machines.
As an IT professional, you talk and talk and talk and talk trying to warn your superiors of the danger of running unnecessary network services -- why you can't just open the firewall wide up to let them use their proprietary stock-tracking application; hell, why you even have a firewall in the first place.
And then Seti@Home, the ultimate nonessential network service, comes along and validates everything you've been saying. But you're running it anyway, because it's "cool". And now your network is compromised.
Should have taken your own advice.
I am just going to use the set standards, and if a product happens to support them, great, if not, well I guess there's nothing I can do about it.
What you've done is set up a straw man. Yes, the page is standards-compliant, but the specific standards in use were apparently specifically chosen based on how badly IE renders them (and your script to detect when the user is running IE so you can provide unwanted zealotry to them removes any doubt that your design decisions weren't made with anti-IE bias in mind). Your page layout can be done in an equally standards-compliant form, and be IE-compatible to boot, simply by rearranging the page layout slightly.
You've obviously missed the point of standards, which exist to allow usability by the widest user base possible; and instead perverted them into a weapon used to further your ideological goals. Shame on you.
Suppose the software actually does what it was designed for, and no longer needs development?
Ok. TeX is done.
Everything else needs bug fixes.
http://forever-hacking.net/compare.html
I don't trust anyone who goes out of their way to make their page look bad in IE to give an unbiased comparison... and that, sir, is not an unbiased comparison.
Is it wrong that I actually want one of these?
Keep in mind that in spite of what people want you to think, most people who use Linux don't use a soundcard anyway. I have well over a half dozen boxes with Linux on them. One has a sound card.
;) I use Linux on a couple servers, I have no need for sound cards in those.
That's one more with a sound card than I have.
The new drivers for my card can suddenly mix 2 channels together in hardware
Linux is just getting that feature???
I know I'm going to sound like a troll, but I'm rather surprised Linux on the Desktop is that far behind -- Windows has been doing it for over 4 years.
Sendmail: The IIS of Open Source.
This is the straw that breaks the camel's back. I'm changing to another MTA.
Either most slashdot readers are now actually reading the articles
... Anticipatory Slashdotting.
It's a new feature of PHP5
In effect, they would extend the already-extant laws relating to theft of cable TV services to any telecom service.
You didn't really think wardriving would stay in the gray "no laws" area for long, did you?
At the risk of sounding level-headed in what's sure to be a discussion filled with reactionary "how can they do this?!" sorts of comments, I guess I don't really see the problem with this law. You have to take a pretty loose interpretation of it to apply it to NAT and other legitamite sorts of technologies -- unless of course you're using it on an ISP that specifically forbids NAT, or wants you to pay extra for multiple computers on the same line; but in that case you're at least ethically bound to pay what they're asking, or find another ISP.
there's little reason - other than extreme catastrophic failure of onboard systems - for a Shuttle pilot to attempt to override the autopilot
So don't you think whatever happened to Columbia in the last few moments might fit into that "extreme catastrophic failure of onboard systems" prerequisite?
Or how about the fact that if your NT 4.0 servers are inside the corperate forewall LEAVE THEM RUNNING. sorry but Nt4.0 makes a good Fileserver/SQL platform on good hardware.
Not anymore it doesn't. It's file sharing capabilities use the same port that the broken RPC system does, so now you can no longer share files on a NT4 box without it being a security problem.
Quick, someone tell Microsoft about this! I bet they'd love to sign on!
Remember the EULA on windows from two years back? It said "This product cannot be used in life-critical applications, because it contains Java from Sun Microsystems." Don't underestimate the damage a sinister sounding warning message can cause.
That warning is from Sun's EULA for Java. It's not something Microsoft threw in just to make Java look bad.
I'm waiting to see how the playoffs go first, myself.
but it doesn't look that way to me.
You have to learn to crawl before you learn to walk. Think back a few years when Microsoft didn't even let their source out the door at all -- then try to say with a straight face that they're not slowly sliding down the slippery slope towards the gaping maw of Open Source that's eating their lunch.
Look, Microsoft is a company that wants to make money. They will eventually do whatever their customers demand. If that means eventually giving out full source along with their binaries because everyone else is doing it, then that's what they'll do; or they'll become irrelevant in the marketplace, which is something they'll never allow to happen.
Then, of course, 9 times out of 10 you overshoot, and have to run back, meaning that you actually get most of the last ad at regular speed (I can already hear the ad execs charging more for the last spot)
What? TiVo has overshoot adjustment built in, where it starts regular play a little bit BEFORE where you hit play to get out of FFW... it's rather accurate at resetting itself right back to the fade in of your program.... and if you DO hit it too late, the instant recall button takes you back 8 seconds each time you hit it, so you don't end up seeing "most of the last ad".
While this makes the front page so we can all have our obligatory cracks at Microsoft, a similar (and just as important!) remote root exploit in Samba was just fixed today.
It's too bad most Linux developers aren't interested in doing something really forward-thinking. If there was a DB integrated into the OS, and apps encouraged to use it, with avenues of data management made easily available to the user, computing could be actually pushed ahead by Linux. But not today, and probably nor ever.
An application integrated into the OS? You mean like Internet Explorer?
I think The Cheat tried to tell me about this earlier today but I couldn't understand a word he was saying.
OTP is mathematically 100% secure, but not practically.
A couple of these problems are constant no matter what type of cypher you use, but some of them are solved by other forms of encryption; but they fit the opposite criteria: they are not mathmatically 100% secure, but they can be practically secure.
Build it out of wood. I hear that works pretty good for houses.