Its all well and good having a closed group, this doesn't address that people outside this group may find the flaws, and craft the exploits.
Full disclosure is the best way. It ensures that maximum exposure for problems is achieved. Without which many users will be unaware that software they are running is vulnerable.
This is particularily important with OSS: With closed source the vendor will usually know who is using its software...
The main sources of news for the OSS community from a user's perspective is forums like bugtraq and slashdot.
Closing a forum or obscuring flaws behind an eliteist facade is no answer.
This will only serve to lengthen the time to fix. We all know how long it takes some vendors to release security patches. Take a look at the recent macromedia problem, where it was only once the problem hit bugtraq that they did anything about it.
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And therein lies the humour....
gettid?
...when they pry it from my cold dead /dev/hda.
The javascript thing made me grin. We have enough problems with that shit already....
Its all well and good having a closed group, this doesn't address that people outside this group may find the flaws, and craft the exploits.
Full disclosure is the best way. It ensures that maximum exposure for problems is achieved. Without which many users will be unaware that software they are running is vulnerable.
This is particularily important with OSS: With closed source the vendor will usually know who is using its software...
The main sources of news for the OSS community from a user's perspective is forums like bugtraq and slashdot.
Closing a forum or obscuring flaws behind an eliteist facade is no answer.
This will only serve to lengthen the time to fix. We all know how long it takes some vendors to release security patches. Take a look at the recent macromedia problem, where it was only once the problem hit bugtraq that they did anything about it.
try using this one:
/ i3 86////bind-8.2.3-0.6.x.i386.html
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/redhat/6.2/updates
You see what I did there, though...
Comic book... comic book seller from the Simpsons... everyone slags off katz...
But instead, Katz trolls me... DOH!
in the voice of that bloke from the Simpsons...
engineering == difficult
phys ed == not so difficult.
what a coincidence...
When I was a sboolboy I was attacked by a bat!
Just like it does in all those movies. Maybe with an odd Russian for comic relief....
So long as we can have a Brit as the bad guy...
Really?
My wife manages to find all my character faults without much apparent effort....
Perhaps the computer is female....
It's wet...
It's dry...
Can't we just agree on "moist" or "Damp"?
Slashdot is so controversial these days...
and gogo took this even further..
It took LAME's quality and then was optimized for speed...
About half past three, sir.
They also used that sphere as potential method of transport back in the seventies: A way for people to cross rivers...
Virtual reality is cool.
But have you noticed how the "real" world is increasingly mimicing the electronic?
Filtering/blocking based on Domain names is fatally flawed.
Domain names are basically really, really cheap and people can move from domain to domain with no real problem.
Kind of like whack-a-mole.
People who want porn will get porn. News letters will (spam for the rest of us) supply the latest domain name.
Censorware only really works on static sites, like political ones.... Free speech ones...
Why not just "mail"
I thought that the terms email and/or e-mail were redundant.
We should use the term "tree-mail" to refer to paper based mail systems. Much less confusing.
I'm saving my money for that fully operational death star they are working on.
(I think I'll spring for the redundant power supply option though...)
It is successful in the sense that Gutenberg's press was successful.
I.e. worked bloody well, but is now extinct.
Eventually it will find its own level anyway...
Impatient larval warez doods will move on to something that better suits them.
People who use it and like using it will continue to use it.
I haven't missed the point at all.
Britain, a dinky little island with a relatively tiny population at the time, controlled just about 2/3 of the globe.
Less than 1% controlled the remainder.
I thought the British empire was the greatest concentration of power since the roman empire....
Go figure.... Guess history *was* wrong after all...
putting your slashdot account on ebay...?
You are completely right. Plus you got my point!
At least some slasdot readers have a brain.
If they can't use linux and staroffice. I don't hire them.
Simple policy.
As far as I care, people are working in the tech industry they should be tech literate.
keep paying and paying and paying and paying....