$5 million a day? Big deal. Remember in the People vs Larry Flynt how the court fined him $10,000 a day until he complied with their request. $5 million a day is something like 1.8 billion a year. Somehow I think Microsoft would pay that just so that they can remain in control. From their point of view, the value of keeping their protocols closed is worth more than $1.8 billion a year. After all, they have enough cash in the bank to pay that fine for the next 15 years.
The EU would have to charge them $50 million a day before they'd really care.
I would rather that they don't release something if they think there are issues or security problems with it. Mainly because people are still adopting these pieces of software. So there will be some people who will only download the latest version and may wait years before upgrading. Its better if they get stuck with what is considered to be the current best version.
The rest of you that are aware and capabile of making upgrades, should do so of course.
Set your clock back to 1970, it will say 0, which is essentially what I meant in my post. So your post turned out to be marked as informative is beyond me:
# date 010100001970 Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 EST 1970 # date Thu Jan 1 00:00:01 EST 1970 # date +%s 18006
Of course, its skewed by my timezone, but it would said 6.
Its faked. Its staged. Watch the first 4 episodes, then the fifth one will make it all clear that its staged. Besides, that they have a fictionality disclaimer at the end of the episodes.
Right, but it also *seems* (I have no fact to back up this claim) that social engineering is the least worried about security vulnerability.
I was however pleasantly surprised recently when going to a gas station, paying at the pump, the receipt didn't print out and when I went inside the cashier actually asked me for the last name on the card instead of just handing me the receipt. I almost offered him a job.
Just like I always say. Social Engineering is the biggest security problem nowadays. Maybe this time it showed a decrease in the people who fell for the attack, but I bet that if the Auditors increased the sophistication of their ruse, that they would actually increase the amount who fell for it.
But that doesn't change everytime. I was hoping someone would give me an example like this:
This works best 1) A password with 6 characters followed by 2) The last 2 digits in your body weight (floor pad or chair will measure you for verification)
but that is just my own example. Does anyone have an example like this that is being used?
Its amazing how many misinterpretations of posts there are from people here.
I bet that if Obi Wan Kenobi posted a comment on slashdot like:
"Darth Vader betrayed and murdered Luke Skywalker's father"
10 people would reply to his post saying that he is using the wrong wording because he didn't actually murder him. Then Obi Wan would have to qualify his wording by saying "Its true, from a certain point of view."
Neither do I. But Linux definately hasn't completely established itself yet in society. One could say that we are still trying to get in installed.
And no, its not always about taking a risk at the right time. But percentage wise, their are so few risk takers (people who put them selves out there and try something new, etc.) in the world, that usually what happens during a time of change is that most people duck and cover while these "risk takers" command and conquer and usually win out at least somewhat in the end.
In an industry where companies distort facts, thwart community efforts, it can be hard to know who to trust and what to believe. I think it is times like these when we the Open Source/Linux community can compare itself most closely with other changes and booms in society's history.
Think of all the doomsayers who like to say "The sky is falling" around times of economic uncertainty and social change. In the end, the ones who take the risks during those times, usually come out ahead.
I consider the Open Source community to be the "risk takers" per say of our time. I don't think that we'll end up on the wrong side of the fence when all is said and done. But if we do, so be it! At least we tried to make something better of the world. Something that gives rather than takes.
I don't think we should spend so much time reading articles like this that give us the attitude that the sky is falling. We should spend more time celebrating Linux and Open Source and leading the way to what will come next. We need to be leaders not Doomsayers.
I didn't mean anything free, I meant when its free from a company whose motivation is profit. Its not always true, but there is almost always a profit or information motive.
Did you really expect anything less from Hotmail or Microsoft? I mean come on, this is a website that asks you (auto selected) if you want to subscribe to about 50+ different personalized newsletters when you sign up. I don't see how people can expect their privacy to be respected when the service is free.
I imagine this next year will be some of the most trying times for the Mozilla foundation as lots of people and companies are going to expect Firefox and Thunderbird to do and be lots of things. How do you plan to handle this all this pressure?
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At University of Minnesota, they made their Engineering School building mostly underground. The neat thing is that they used a series of mirrors to transmit natual light to a room that is something like 5 stories below ground. If you've ever been in that room before, it is somewhat surreal to think that you are underground, but still seeing natural light. I haven't been there in about 10 years though, so someone may correct me if I'm wrong about something here.
Whats next, rude phone calls? Or how about ringing the door bell and then running away?
Heh, that would be kinda funny actually. Like in one of those made for TV movies, could you imagine someone calling some female CEO of company X in the middle of the night and saying in a dark voice:
Dark voice: "We know where you got your source code, so you better put it back." Female CEO: "Who is this?" Dark voice: *pauses* Female CEO: "Who is this? You better stop calling me" Dark voice: *click* Child: "What's wrong mommy?" Female CEO: "Its ok honey, go back to sleep."
from looking at the before and after images, this technique looks pretty cool and will probably have applications for recoloring an image that is already color. For instance, the image where he recolors the fabric on the chair.
Whatever you do, I think its best to keep it in an open and obvious format like mbox or maildir. The nice thing about maildir though, is that since all the messages are seperate, it might be a little easier to write a program to put them into a new format.
Personally, since 1999, I've been using a combination of maildir and procmail to archive and save my mail. Every message that comes in, goes to a folder called.saved-messages-YYYY-MM and also to my inbox. I simply don't touch the saved-messages folders and when I am done with the message in my inbox, I just delete it. This has worked well for me and makes it much easier to deal with archiving old mail. In the end, having categorized folders and such is just a waste of time. Its kinda like the wm2 (window manager) way of thinking, but for mailboxes.
Typical person from the press: What's PPC? It looks to me like you are running MacOS X on that machine. But that's not a Mac, isn't that illegal?
Most people from the general press don't know what they are looking at. Take for example, the release presentation for the Transmeta Crusoe back in 2000, some idiot reporter in the audience thought he was speaking for everyone when he said "I think a lot of us came here thinking that you were going tell us that this chip was going to run Windows better and with less crashes". Him saying this showed that he had no idea what he was looking at. The press doesn't get it and in the end will make up whatever story they want that sounds good.
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$5 million a day? Big deal. Remember in the People vs Larry Flynt how the court fined him $10,000 a day until he complied with their request. $5 million a day is something like 1.8 billion a year. Somehow I think Microsoft would pay that just so that they can remain in control. From their point of view, the value of keeping their protocols closed is worth more than $1.8 billion a year. After all, they have enough cash in the bank to pay that fine for the next
15 years.
The EU would have to charge them $50 million a day before they'd really
care.
I would rather that they don't release something if they think there are issues or security problems with it. Mainly because people are still adopting these pieces of software. So there will be some people who will only download the latest version and may wait years before upgrading. Its better if they get stuck with what is considered to be the current best version.
The rest of you that are aware and capabile of making upgrades, should do so of course.
Set your clock back to 1970, it will say 0, which is essentially what I meant in my post. So your post turned out to be marked as informative is beyond me:
# date 010100001970
Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 EST 1970
# date
Thu Jan 1 00:00:01 EST 1970
# date +%s
18006
Of course, its skewed by my timezone, but it would said 6.
I'll wait until it goes back to 0000000000 til I celebrate.
No, it will be me. Someone just wrote me saying "w3'll s33", thats code for you're definately going to be in it. ;-)
we should all know in about 4.2 minutes whether it is really a black hole or not. It was nice knowing all of you. Thanks for all the fish.
Its faked. Its staged. Watch the first 4 episodes, then the fifth one will make it all clear that its staged. Besides, that they have a fictionality disclaimer at the end of the episodes.
Its kinda fun to watch my bittorrent upload rate jump up from 2KB/s to 17 to 100 within seconds of the article making slashdot.
Right, but it also *seems* (I have no fact to back up this claim) that social engineering is the least worried about security vulnerability.
I was however pleasantly surprised recently when going to a gas station, paying at the pump, the receipt didn't print out and when I went inside the cashier actually asked me for the last name on the card instead of just handing me the receipt. I almost offered him a job.
Just like I always say. Social Engineering is the biggest security problem nowadays. Maybe this time it showed a decrease in the people who fell for the attack, but I bet that if the Auditors increased the sophistication of their ruse, that they would actually increase the amount who fell for it.
KDE 3.4 weights in at 6,500+ bug fixes, 1,700+ enhancements, and a grand total of 80,000+ contributions.
Plus the 1000+ posts that are going to come in this slashdot article from kde vs. gnome folks.
But that doesn't change everytime. I was hoping someone would give me an example like this:
This works best
1) A password with 6 characters followed by
2) The last 2 digits in your body weight (floor pad or chair will measure you for verification)
but that is just my own example. Does anyone have an example like this that is being used?
Does anyone have a good example of two factor authentication?
Its amazing how many misinterpretations of posts there are from people here.
I bet that if Obi Wan Kenobi posted a comment on slashdot like:
"Darth Vader betrayed and murdered Luke Skywalker's father"
10 people would reply to his post saying that he is using the wrong wording because he didn't actually murder him. Then Obi Wan would have to qualify his wording by saying "Its true, from a certain point of view."
Sheesh. Give me a break people.
I do not think Linux is a "risk" these days.
Neither do I. But Linux definately hasn't completely established itself yet in society. One could say that we are still trying to get in installed.
And no, its not always about taking a risk at the right time. But percentage wise, their are so few risk takers (people who put them selves out there and try something new, etc.) in the world, that usually what happens during a time of change is that most people duck and cover while these "risk takers" command and conquer and usually win out at least somewhat in the end.
In relation to the spirit of this article.
In an industry where companies distort facts, thwart community efforts, it can be hard to know who to trust and what to believe. I think it is times like these when we the Open Source/Linux community can compare itself most closely with other changes and booms in society's history.
Think of all the doomsayers who like to say "The sky is falling" around times of economic uncertainty and social change. In the end, the ones who take the risks during those times, usually come out ahead.
I consider the Open Source community to be the "risk takers" per say of our time. I don't think that we'll end up on the wrong side of the fence when all is said and done. But if we do, so be it! At least we tried to make something better of the world. Something that gives rather than takes.
I don't think we should spend so much time reading articles like this that give us the attitude that the sky is falling. We should spend more time celebrating Linux and Open Source and leading the way to what will come next. We need to be leaders not Doomsayers.
If you want to read a good article on why open source is the right way to do things, read this Peruvian Congressman's letter to the manager of Microsoft in Peru. Really great read.
I didn't mean anything free, I meant when its free from a company whose motivation is profit. Its not always true, but there is almost always a profit or information motive.
Did you really expect anything less from Hotmail or Microsoft? I mean come on, this is a website that asks you (auto selected) if you want to subscribe to about 50+ different personalized newsletters when you sign up. I don't see how people can expect their privacy to be respected when the service is free.
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I imagine this next year will be some of the most trying times for the Mozilla foundation as lots of people and companies are going to expect Firefox and Thunderbird to do and be lots of things. How do you plan to handle this all this pressure?
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At University of Minnesota, they made their Engineering School building mostly underground. The neat thing is that they used a series of mirrors to transmit natual light to a room that is something like 5 stories below ground. If you've ever been in that room before, it is somewhat surreal to think that you are underground, but still seeing natural light. I haven't been there in about 10 years though, so someone may correct me if I'm wrong about something here.
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suso.org website/email hosting, no disk space quotas and personalized support.
Whats next, rude phone calls? Or how about ringing the door bell and then running away?
Heh, that would be kinda funny actually. Like in one of those made for TV movies, could you imagine someone calling some female CEO of company X in the middle of the night and saying in a dark voice:
Dark voice: "We know where you got your source code, so you better put it back."
Female CEO: "Who is this?"
Dark voice: *pauses*
Female CEO: "Who is this? You better stop calling me"
Dark voice: *click*
Child: "What's wrong mommy?"
Female CEO: "Its ok honey, go back to sleep."
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suso.org website/email hosting, no disk space quotas and personalized support.
from looking at the before and after images, this technique looks pretty cool and will probably have applications for recoloring an image that is already color. For instance, the image where he recolors the fabric on the chair.
Whatever you do, I think its best to keep it in an open and obvious format like mbox or maildir. The nice thing about maildir though, is that since all the messages are seperate, it might be a little easier to write a program to put them into a new format.
.saved-messages-YYYY-MM and also to my inbox. I simply don't touch the saved-messages folders and when I am done with the message in my inbox, I just delete it. This has worked well for me and makes it much easier to deal with archiving old mail. In the end, having categorized folders and such is just a waste of time. Its kinda like the wm2 (window manager) way of thinking, but for mailboxes.
Personally, since 1999, I've been using a combination of maildir and procmail to archive and save my mail. Every message that comes in, goes to a folder called
Typical person from the press: What's PPC? It looks to me like you are running MacOS X on that machine. But that's not a Mac, isn't that illegal?
Most people from the general press don't know what they are looking at. Take for example, the release presentation for the Transmeta Crusoe back in 2000, some idiot reporter in the audience thought he was speaking for everyone when he said "I think a lot of us came here thinking that you were going tell us that this chip was going to run Windows better and with less crashes". Him saying this showed that he had no idea what he was looking at. The press doesn't get it and in the end will make up whatever story they want that sounds good.