Um ok... sure. Wait till the next Internet worm comes around, taking advantage of some remote r00t exploit in Windows and takes down every wide-open win box permanently connecteed to the Internet. It's amazing how quick exponential algorithms grow, and if you just have every infected Windows box hack 2 more you've got a million dead billboxes in 20 cycles (yes I'm sure you already knew that). I'm entirely amazed this hasn't happened yet.
I don't think its excite's fault though. Broadband is *relatively* safe if you've got a locked down *nix box behind software and hardware firewalls, but it certainly took me a hell of a lot of time and energy to figure out how to do that right, and I'm still a novice when it comes to security. (I couldn't crack a Commodore 64:-)) But DHCP isn't going to effect a worm that can touch every IP address available.
Now if only all the Linux distros would start locking down their distros by default so that you can be safe as a Linux novice, I'd really appreciate it. I'd much rather have the inevitable worm target Windows than Linux.
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Why would you moderate this comment down as flamebait? It's OBVIOUSLY a joke. If you don't find it funny, fine, but why in the hell would you moderate it down as flamebait? Only a complete moron would actually reply to a comment like this and say... Oh I think (GNOME | KDE) is better because of X, Y, or Z.
Please spend more of your moderator points burying this comment so you'll be less able to screw anyone else.
Your just gonna register for all the TLD's that are applicable to your company and sue based on trademarks. What's wrong with sticking with.com,.net, and.org?
You guys own slashdot.com just so no one else can right? That's the same reason my company owns its.net and plural domains.
I'm all for ".dot" though... and maybe we could make mozilla translate and resolve "/..." properly.
The constitution was meant to evolve over time. That's why we have amendments. The problem is that the evolution of the constitution is not done by simply reinterpreting it to suit whatever needs you have. If you want to change it, well you have to AMMEND it.
As for the guns kill people argument, well I just don't agree. Murder is already illegal. It doesn't matter if you do it with your bare hands, a pistol, an AK-47, or a TOW missle. People who commit crimes are called criminals. Criminals, by definition do not obey laws. So what's the point of passing laws to try and prevent criminals from doing illegal things? By definition, they already don't care. What makes anyone think that a criminal who is willing to commit this nation's highest crimes gives a rat's rear about a misdemeanor gun charge?
As for the "all Jews are going to hell" comment, I'd appreciate it if you could substantiate it. While I think thats a disgusting statement to make, it does not in any way indicate that he is against the freedom of religion. He's just expressing his.
I hate to be a one issue voter, but I'm going to vote for the candidate who seems to be willing to uphold our constitution. Gore and Nader would attack the Bill of Rights itself in order to please those who believe gun control somehow reduces crime. These candidates loosely interpret the constitution in order to further whatever agenda is on their mind. (Wetlands, anyone?... that's not what they meant by interstate commerce) Anyone who walks all over the second amendment and then somehow believes that the first amendment won't be similarly screwed with is an idiot. It's the Bill of Rights, people.
I'm a complete Linux zealot, Java nut, and am very much annoyed by Microsoft. I certainly don't appreciate Bush's lack of understanding of technology, and willingness to let Microsoft continue operating in the interest of the economy (even if they broke a FEW laws). But I could never bring myself to vote for someone who wouldn't have a problem violating the constitution for his own purpose.
Bush understands that you don't just piss on the constitution when its convenient. He's pledged to appoint judges to the Supreme Court who will follow the constitution.
I just checked Mozilla.org and it seems M18 actually is out. I do not understand this. Why were we not given a false alarm a month in advance about the upcoming release like/. did for M16 and M17? C'mon guys, get with the program:-)
Scroll down farther to see Casio's new mouse/label printer... what's next, force-feedback printers? mouse scanners? hard drive UPSes? How about just making a whole damn laptop into a mouse? Or get real creative and make a monitor-toilet... or a 10k SCSI coffee warmer?
For trying to start an OS flame war with your "story". So, if this post is early enough, I just want to say let everyone know a couple of FACTS (just like the ones you offered).
- Gnome is better than KDE. I haven't used KDE in a year, but you know, i figure it must be the same as it was a year ago.
- RPM is cooler than apt because I know how to use RPM and don't know how to use apt and rpm sounds cooler.
- BSD sucks because its not Linux and not because I've never used it. Not to mention the mascot has too many pointy edges and could be dangerous for small children.
- Windows minesweeper is better than Gnome-mines. It just is.
Just thought I'd pass this along... RH7 won't let us install VMWare on a box so we can get to our dirty MS SQL 7 Server.... because of the 2.4 headers, it can't compile its kernel module.
Argh.... oh well, we found a win box to use instead.
Still love you Red Hat... just a little frustrated right now.
I link in the Western burbs Illinois and am 19,000 feet from the CO. My DSL is through Telocity, which contracts Rhythms to do it. NorthPoint is the provider. The installer came with two trainees to my house, and they were all kind of looking at each other with a "holy s--t it actually worked" expression. Since then people who live a few doors down have tried to get DSL, and even Telocity/Rhythms refuses to put it in because they are "too far away from the CO". I personally had to call about 10 DSL co's. before I could I talked to anyone who was willing to install it out here. The line itself has always been reliable, its been down for a day twice, but this was due to some router at the NOC biting it.
If you don't believe me, then this posting is a figment of your imagination.
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I take it your talking about CRT's... 19" or 21" LCD's are well over two or three grand.
But 3 months ago I bought a darn near top of the line ViewSonice FD Trinitron 19" monitor (PF790) for $480 at Best Buy... (yes best buy...saw it and deemed I needed it that day or would surely be struck by lightning... no time for mail order) $800 for a 21" makes sense though.
My apologies for nit-picking, but I'm no good at grammar so I figured I troll about your facts:)
There will always be hacking. The fact that corporate and international espionage exist guarantees this. So preventing computers from being hacked by making really tough laws that imprison all the 31337 script kiddies may hurt more than help. Its kind of like fighting forest fires... good short term payoff, bad long term effects.
What we need is systems that are designed with security from the beginning. Awareness that security IS an issue. The software industry needs to work (as it has been) to make security easier for those who probably shouldn't be running a networked box in the first place!
I just don't want to see the first, last, and only line of defense being the law.
I mean at first, when I read this, I thought this guy was a complete idiot, but then, every time I turn on my Trinitron monitor, this line gets appended to my rc.firewall...
/sbin/ipchains -A input -p TCP -d 0.0.0.0/0 6688 -j DENY
Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm sure you will), but Java is the only REAL language that has the capability to safely run untrusted applications. Unfortunately, its not perfect, and exploitable security holes do happen. Like in Linux. Or in Windows. Yes, this hole sucks. So did WinNuke. So does the BIND-exploit-of-the-week.
So attention to all the trolling AC's... If you're going to use this to say "Java Sucks!", please include an alternate method of running untrusted software on your local computer!
All the people who said "it's hideously ugly" or "it doesn't have feature X so it sucks" can eat their words. Funny how programs in heavy development sometimes don't look too pretty and shouldn't be critically analyzed in their early stages!
Given that Microsoft's product is the runaway market leader, it is not surprising that it leads in vulnerabilities....
This is analagous to saying that because the Ford F-series Pickup is the best selling pickup in the United States that each one sold should have more oil leaks, transmission failures, and spontaneous gas tank explosions than any other vehicle!
Oh, and while i'm on the subject of this sentence, might I add that the term "runaway market leader" implies that the product is gaining ground in the market... but in reality its been stationary at 35% for the past two years.
I sent this to editor@abcnews.com, couldn't find any email addresses on their site. If anyone has it, please post the e-mail address of people at ABCNEWS.com to send it to. (BTW, also sent it to legal@redhat.com:))
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I'd like to inform you of a gross error in an article posted today on ABCNews.com:
"This looks like an alarmingly high number in comparison with Solaris' 34 or NetBSD's 10, but it is significantly less than the 122 racked up by Red Hat and the other Linuxes (their 2000 count stands at 47)"
Truth:
As Mr. Moody explained earlier, there exist different vendors who distribute Linux. Examples include Red Hat, SuSE, Debian, and Slackware. BugTraq counts security holes in each Linux distribution independently. In 1999 they counted 38 holes in Red Hat, 10 in Slackware, 21 in SuSE, and 29 in the Debian distribution [1].
Some security holes only affect a specific Linux distibution, and some security holes affect many distributions. For example, Red Hat might suffer from hole "A", but SuSE users might not be effected. SuSE might suffer from security hole "B" while Red Hat does not. Both SuSE and Red Hat distributions might suffer from security hole "C". This is very similar to the way sometimes Windows 2000, NT, 98, and 95 suffer from the same security holes, while other times the holes are dependent to a particular version
BugTraq also counts the total number of security holes in all Linux distributions. This means that in the previous case, we would have holes "A", "B", and "C" for a total of three security holes. Hole "C" would not be counted twice even though it is found in two distributions. This is where Mr. Moody did not bother to get his facts straight. He takes the total number of security holes found in all Linux distributions (84), adds them to the total number of security holes found in Red Hat (38, which were already counted in the previous number, 84), and comes up with the figure 122.
Therefore, the statement that there are "122 [security holes] racked up by Red Hat and the other Linuxes" is completely inaccurate. Minimally, the number 122 should be corrected to the real value, 84. I understand that this will completely undermine Mr. Moody's thesis that "Linux is... the worst operating system", since it clearly shows that all Linux distributions -- taken collectively -- have fewer security holes than Windows NT (99).
However, it is misleading to use the collective statistic of 84 security bugs for all Linux distributions. A user installs a single Linux distribution at a time. Thus, even if a user chose install the Linux distribution with the most security holes (RedHat, with 38), that user would be susceptable to less than 40% of the security vulnerabilities to which a user with Windows NT would be susceptable, speaking quantitatively.
Ironically, the very report to which Mr. Moody refers [1] clearly identifies Windows NT as the most vulernable operating system for both 2000 and 1999. In 2000, it has nearly three times the number of secutiry vulnerabilities as the nearest non-Microsoft operating system.
I believe that the article's gross inaccuracies and Mr. Moody's flagerantly misleading statements warrant a full retraction of the article.
This is wildly offtopic, but while were on the subject of telecommunciations abuse, I'd love to here what the/. crowd thinks of this:
I get 10 or so calls every 30 min to 1.5 hrs during business hours M-F at home. They hang out long enough to leave a blank message on my answering machine.
So, um, WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?
I'm about ready to get Ameritech's "privacy manager" to make this stop. (Hell, maybe Ameritech's DOING it to promote privacy manager though:P)
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Um ok... sure. Wait till the next Internet worm comes around, taking advantage of some remote r00t exploit in Windows and takes down every wide-open win box permanently connecteed to the Internet. It's amazing how quick exponential algorithms grow, and if you just have every infected Windows box hack 2 more you've got a million dead billboxes in 20 cycles (yes I'm sure you already knew that). I'm entirely amazed this hasn't happened yet.
:-)) But DHCP isn't going to effect a worm that can touch every IP address available.
I don't think its excite's fault though. Broadband is *relatively* safe if you've got a locked down *nix box behind software and hardware firewalls, but it certainly took me a hell of a lot of time and energy to figure out how to do that right, and I'm still a novice when it comes to security. (I couldn't crack a Commodore 64
Now if only all the Linux distros would start locking down their distros by default so that you can be safe as a Linux novice, I'd really appreciate it. I'd much rather have the inevitable worm target Windows than Linux.
Why would you moderate this comment down as flamebait? It's OBVIOUSLY a joke. If you don't find it funny, fine, but why in the hell would you moderate it down as flamebait? Only a complete moron would actually reply to a comment like this and say... Oh I think (GNOME | KDE) is better because of X, Y, or Z.
Please spend more of your moderator points burying this comment so you'll be less able to screw anyone else.
Your just gonna register for all the TLD's that are applicable to your company and sue based on trademarks. What's wrong with sticking with .com, .net, and .org?
.net and plural domains.
You guys own slashdot.com just so no one else can right? That's the same reason my company owns its
I'm all for ".dot" though... and maybe we could make mozilla translate and resolve "/..." properly.
I love the car == gun analogy.
Exactly where in the constitution is it that you have the right to keep and bear cars?
Driving a car (on public roads) is a privilege which you can obtain by entering into a contract with your state government.
The constitution was meant to evolve over time. That's why we have amendments. The problem is that the evolution of the constitution is not done by simply reinterpreting it to suit whatever needs you have. If you want to change it, well you have to AMMEND it.
As for the guns kill people argument, well I just don't agree. Murder is already illegal. It doesn't matter if you do it with your bare hands, a pistol, an AK-47, or a TOW missle. People who commit crimes are called criminals. Criminals, by definition do not obey laws. So what's the point of passing laws to try and prevent criminals from doing illegal things? By definition, they already don't care. What makes anyone think that a criminal who is willing to commit this nation's highest crimes gives a rat's rear about a misdemeanor gun charge?
As for the "all Jews are going to hell" comment, I'd appreciate it if you could substantiate it. While I think thats a disgusting statement to make, it does not in any way indicate that he is against the freedom of religion. He's just expressing his.
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What state are you from?
I hate to be a one issue voter, but I'm going to vote for the candidate who seems to be willing to uphold our constitution. Gore and Nader would attack the Bill of Rights itself in order to please those who believe gun control somehow reduces crime. These candidates loosely interpret the constitution in order to further whatever agenda is on their mind. (Wetlands, anyone?... that's not what they meant by interstate commerce) Anyone who walks all over the second amendment and then somehow believes that the first amendment won't be similarly screwed with is an idiot. It's the Bill of Rights, people.
I'm a complete Linux zealot, Java nut, and am very much annoyed by Microsoft. I certainly don't appreciate Bush's lack of understanding of technology, and willingness to let Microsoft continue operating in the interest of the economy (even if they broke a FEW laws). But I could never bring myself to vote for someone who wouldn't have a problem violating the constitution for his own purpose.
Bush understands that you don't just piss on the constitution when its convenient. He's pledged to appoint judges to the Supreme Court who will follow the constitution.
Because of the way the antenna is connected to the LOWER part of the phone, the antenna (and transmission equipment) is farther away from your head.
/. and all that's as good as fact :)
I'm no expert on this, but I've heard a couple people tell it to me. This being
I just checked Mozilla.org and it seems M18 actually is out. I do not understand this. Why were we not given a false alarm a month in advance about the upcoming release like /. did for M16 and M17? C'mon guys, get with the program :-)
Scroll down farther to see Casio's new mouse/label printer... what's next, force-feedback printers? mouse scanners? hard drive UPSes? How about just making a whole damn laptop into a mouse? Or get real creative and make a monitor-toilet... or a 10k SCSI coffee warmer?
For trying to start an OS flame war with your "story". So, if this post is early enough, I just want to say let everyone know a couple of FACTS (just like the ones you offered).
- Gnome is better than KDE. I haven't used KDE in a year, but you know, i figure it must be the same as it was a year ago.
- RPM is cooler than apt because I know how to use RPM and don't know how to use apt and rpm sounds cooler.
- BSD sucks because its not Linux and not because I've never used it. Not to mention the mascot has too many pointy edges and could be dangerous for small children.
- Windows minesweeper is better than Gnome-mines. It just is.
Just thought I'd pass this along... RH7 won't let us install VMWare on a box so we can get to our dirty MS SQL 7 Server.... because of the 2.4 headers, it can't compile its kernel module.
Argh.... oh well, we found a win box to use instead.
Still love you Red Hat... just a little frustrated right now.
"Although Microsoft might have market power, it has not in the past exercised this power, as I demonstrated in my book with Steve Margolis."
Don't think there's been enough air getting under the rock he's hiding beneath all these years.
I link in the Western burbs Illinois and am 19,000 feet from the CO. My DSL is through Telocity, which contracts Rhythms to do it. NorthPoint is the provider. The installer came with two trainees to my house, and they were all kind of looking at each other with a "holy s--t it actually worked" expression. Since then people who live a few doors down have tried to get DSL, and even Telocity/Rhythms refuses to put it in because they are "too far away from the CO". I personally had to call about 10 DSL co's. before I could I talked to anyone who was willing to install it out here. The line itself has always been reliable, its been down for a day twice, but this was due to some router at the NOC biting it.
If you don't believe me, then this posting is a figment of your imagination.
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I take it your talking about CRT's... 19" or 21" LCD's are well over two or three grand. But 3 months ago I bought a darn near top of the line ViewSonice FD Trinitron 19" monitor (PF790) for $480 at Best Buy... (yes best buy...saw it and deemed I needed it that day or would surely be struck by lightning... no time for mail order) $800 for a 21" makes sense though. My apologies for nit-picking, but I'm no good at grammar so I figured I troll about your facts :)
There will always be hacking. The fact that corporate and international espionage exist guarantees this. So preventing computers from being hacked by making really tough laws that imprison all the 31337 script kiddies may hurt more than help. Its kind of like fighting forest fires... good short term payoff, bad long term effects.
What we need is systems that are designed with security from the beginning. Awareness that security IS an issue. The software industry needs to work (as it has been) to make security easier for those who probably shouldn't be running a networked box in the first place!
I just don't want to see the first, last, and only line of defense being the law.
I mean at first, when I read this, I thought this guy was a complete idiot, but then, every time I turn on my Trinitron monitor, this line gets appended to my rc.firewall...
/sbin/ipchains -A input -p TCP -d 0.0.0.0/0 6688 -j DENY
Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm sure you will), but Java is the only REAL language that has the capability to safely run untrusted applications. Unfortunately, its not perfect, and exploitable security holes do happen. Like in Linux. Or in Windows. Yes, this hole sucks. So did WinNuke. So does the BIND-exploit-of-the-week.
So attention to all the trolling AC's... If you're going to use this to say "Java Sucks!", please include an alternate method of running untrusted software on your local computer!
Grammar my sucks!
All the people who said "it's hideously ugly" or "it doesn't have feature X so it sucks" can eat their words. Funny how programs in heavy development sometimes don't look too pretty and shouldn't be critically analyzed in their early stages!
Given that Microsoft's product is the runaway market leader, it is not surprising that it leads in vulnerabilities....
This is analagous to saying that because the Ford F-series Pickup is the best selling pickup in the United States that each one sold should have more oil leaks, transmission failures, and spontaneous gas tank explosions than any other vehicle!
Oh, and while i'm on the subject of this sentence, might I add that the term "runaway market leader" implies that the product is gaining ground in the market... but in reality its been stationary at 35% for the past two years.
I sent this to editor@abcnews.com, couldn't find any email addresses on their site. If anyone has it, please post the e-mail address of people at ABCNEWS.com to send it to. (BTW, also sent it to legal@redhat.com :))
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I'd like to inform you of a gross error in an article posted today on ABCNews.com:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/m
Quote:
"This looks like an alarmingly high number in comparison with Solaris' 34 or NetBSD's 10, but it is significantly less than the 122 racked up by Red Hat and the other Linuxes (their 2000 count stands at 47)"
Truth:
As Mr. Moody explained earlier, there exist different vendors who distribute Linux. Examples include Red Hat, SuSE, Debian, and Slackware. BugTraq counts security holes in each Linux distribution independently. In 1999 they counted 38 holes in Red Hat, 10 in Slackware, 21 in SuSE, and 29 in the Debian distribution [1].
Some security holes only affect a specific Linux distibution, and some security holes affect many distributions. For example, Red Hat might suffer from hole "A", but SuSE users might not be effected. SuSE might suffer from security hole "B" while Red Hat does not. Both SuSE and Red Hat distributions might suffer from security hole "C". This is very similar to the way sometimes Windows 2000, NT, 98, and 95 suffer from the same security holes, while other times the holes are dependent to a particular version
BugTraq also counts the total number of security holes in all Linux distributions. This means that in the previous case, we would have holes "A", "B", and "C" for a total of three security holes. Hole "C" would not be counted twice even though it is found in two distributions. This is where Mr. Moody did not bother to get his facts straight. He takes the total number of security holes found in all Linux distributions (84), adds them to the total number of security holes found in Red Hat (38, which were already counted in the previous number, 84), and comes up with the figure 122.
Therefore, the statement that there are "122 [security holes] racked up by Red Hat and the other Linuxes" is completely inaccurate. Minimally, the number 122 should be corrected to the real value, 84. I understand that this will completely undermine Mr. Moody's thesis that "Linux is... the worst operating system", since it clearly shows that all Linux distributions -- taken collectively -- have fewer security holes than Windows NT (99).
However, it is misleading to use the collective statistic of 84 security bugs for all Linux distributions. A user installs a single Linux distribution at a time. Thus, even if a user chose install the Linux distribution with the most security holes (RedHat, with 38), that user would be susceptable to less than 40% of the security vulnerabilities to which a user with Windows NT would be susceptable, speaking quantitatively.
Ironically, the very report to which Mr. Moody refers [1] clearly identifies Windows NT as the most vulernable operating system for both 2000 and 1999. In 2000, it has nearly three times the number of secutiry vulnerabilities as the nearest non-Microsoft operating system.
I believe that the article's gross inaccuracies and Mr. Moody's flagerantly misleading statements warrant a full retraction of the article.
References:
[1] "BUGTRAQ Vulnerability Database Statistics"
http://www.securityfocus.com/vdb/stats.html
This is wildly offtopic, but while were on the subject of telecommunciations abuse, I'd love to here what the /. crowd thinks of this:
:P)
I get 10 or so calls every 30 min to 1.5 hrs during business hours M-F at home. They hang out long enough to leave a blank message on my answering machine.
So, um, WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?
I'm about ready to get Ameritech's "privacy manager" to make this stop. (Hell, maybe Ameritech's DOING it to promote privacy manager though
Doh! And just when I thought I had a legitimate non-trolling post for Slashdot. :)