Comparing Microsoft OS and Linux and saying who's is like asking who would win in fight between Darth Vader and Capt Picard. Essentially pointless because they live in different universes.
Same universe, different galaxies, different time periods, actually. Get your sci-fi right! This is slashdot!
99% of installs allow the main user to sudo any command. For those that require a password, a virus would simply record the password as it is typed into the users (fake) terminal.
Scenario: User gets virus. Virus modifies his.profile to run a 'dummy' keylogger shell immediately as the user logs in. Shell waits for sudo password.
Scenario2: Virus replaces all gui terminal emulators with keylogging dummies.
There is no way to be safe if a virus owns your account. Even if you have sudo configured to only allow you a few commands, one of those commands necessarily allows you to add more commands to the list. Game over.
Most end-user linux installs have one user who admins the maching with sudo. Anyone with any skill who writes a linux virus would simply make his code wait for the user to sudo, then install the rootkit.
The one reason viruses aren't a problem in linux: fewer gullible users. The one reason worms aren't a problem in linux: the small number of diverse builds.
I don't understand how... terrorists threaten my freedom. They can blow shit up all they want, but I still have freedom of speech and religion.
Terrorists threaten your inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Or at least the "life" part. That's the reasoning. They also threaten your freedom of speech with that "don't draw Allah or we'll riot!" stuff.
You may not think giving up one right (privacy) to decrease your chances of losing another right (life) is a fair trade. But some people do, and that is the reasoning used to justify it. It isn't even totally unreasonable: at least some terrorist attacks have been stopped thanks (in part) to domestic spying.
THIS IS RFID. There is no difference. RFID can have small or larage data sizes, small or large coils (which determine how much power is needed to read/write it), and read-only or read/write ability. This is RFID.
All the concerns people have with RFID technology apply here.
So a specially-crafted RFID tag could cause code to execute on a vulnerable RFID reader. That's not a virus. But if this code causes the RFID reader to begin writing copies of the bad data to tags, then we have a virus.
But read-only RFID tags and RFID readers are much cheaper than the writable kind, so this is not very practical. And RFID tags typically can't hold bit strings which are long enough to contain useful software. So, again, this is a bit silly.
Currently, there are no unpatched bugs (at least none that I'm aware of) that let you deliver malware straight to a connected computer.
Before any of the hundreds of security holes in Windows XP were published, they were still there! If you have paid any attention to security, you would be very confident that there are many remote root, arbitrary code, no-interaction-required holes in Windows RIGHT NOW.
They are no doubt being used. I can think of many ways to build a bot that connects home indetectably to all but the most paranoid and brilliant sysadmin.
This software is not designed to be controlled by editing conf files. There is a big difference between editing conf files that were designed to be edited, and editing conf files that were meant to be controlled by a GUI that nobody bothered porting.
The very latest beta had many bugs. There is no doubt this version has these same bugs. That is a problem, expecially for servers.
I love this software, but the Linux client really is neglected. The documentation for Linux is not really there. There is no decent configuration tool for Linux. There are many bugs. For example, if you do any port forwarding, you must edit some nat.conf file. And if you reconfigure anything after that with vmware-config.pl, it completely wipes out all your changes to nat.conf without warning. I spent so much time dealing with these types of bugs while testing the beta, I should have simply purchased another solution.
It is not that the media is trying to mislead the public. It is not that the media thinks some people are "more equal" than others. It just the invitable result of human nature, capitalism, and journalism combined.
But please, if you can find a way to get popular media to provide a more complete picture of the world; and you can do it without violating freedom of speach, PLEASE SHARE!
I totally understand that. Abraham Lincoln was terribly depressed--nearly suicidal.
But, for all the Stephen Hawkings, consider all the children who were either not conceived, or not afforded the right to go to college, because all their parents financial resources were tied up with retarded older siblings. How many of those would have been geniuses if given the chance?
You can't play the "what if" game in only one direction.
You radio to ground and get the suit engineers to tell you the best place to puncture your suit so that some air escapes and pushes you toward the ship.
If your question is: Whether suffocating or having your chest explode/blood boil is more painful, I think it is obvious that suffocating is better. Think of how many people die while sleeping due to gas leaks. There is no pain there. So you make yourself pass out (like a little kid mad at Mom) and go painlessly.
Theology doesn't seek the truth. It assumes it already has the truth (faith). Science really is a search for truth.
And it is pretty obvious which method of searching for an understanding of the universe is working. How many priests would it take to put a man on the moon? How many soul-searching monks, pouring over ancient texts would it take to create a nuclear reactor?
If there is any truth in religion, there isn't much to show for it.
I only have the resources to raise a finite number of children well. I intend to screen all the fetuses of my potential future wife for some of the more serious genetic diseases. I won't bring one into this world if it is going to have a miserable or unproductive life.
If we had inifinite resources, it would be different. But since we don't, it is actually MORE moral to raise 3 healthy children than to raise 2 healthy children and 1 miserable, diseased child who will die young.
I decide which conditions are worth inducing miscarriage by imagining if I would commit suicide if such a condition is afflicted on me.
Einstein seems to have had similar ideas, but not enough information (genetic testing) to act on them.
2. No credit cards (they are EVIL) 6. DO NOT bank online. Evar
Wow. I'm surprised you (and three moderators) all share a fear of credit cards and online finances. Do you ride around on penny farthing (huge wheel) bicycles and have a handlebar mustaches? Let me give you some suggestions that will save you money.
1. Have all income go to a single checking account. Savings accounts are for suckers. 2. Have one credit card with cash-back. These days, most give you 5% on gas/food, 1% on everything else. 3. Sign up all your bills, your checking account, and your credit card to a payment service like mycheckfree.com. Set up everything to be auto-paid from your checking account. 4. When you have extra money (say, more than 2x your typical credit card bill) invest the extra with a discount brokerage like scottrade.com. Retire early.
With that, you never have to think about writing checks, you get a record of all your expenses every month in the form of a CC bill, and you get something like a 3% pay raise (effectively) because of the cash-back on all your purchases.
As long as you aren't stupid enough to think your credit limit is money you actually have (seems absurd to me), you will have more money and a simpler life.
The physics is beyond me, but a room of uniform atmospheric pressure could be used to store energy (in the form of increased pressure compared to that outside of the room). So is there any chance this science could lead to a new kind of battery?
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Same universe, different galaxies, different time periods, actually. Get your sci-fi right! This is slashdot!
You win the "funniest comment of the week" award. And it's only Sunday!
It makes me very sad your comment didn't begin with "It's a space station!"
Thanks for clarifying that.
.profile to run a 'dummy' keylogger shell immediately as the user logs in. Shell waits for sudo password.
99% of installs allow the main user to sudo any command. For those that require a password, a virus would simply record the password as it is typed into the users (fake) terminal.
Scenario:
User gets virus. Virus modifies his
Scenario2:
Virus replaces all gui terminal emulators with keylogging dummies.
There is no way to be safe if a virus owns your account. Even if you have sudo configured to only allow you a few commands, one of those commands necessarily allows you to add more commands to the list. Game over.
A girl into information security? Will you marry me? Seriously.
Most end-user linux installs have one user who admins the maching with sudo. Anyone with any skill who writes a linux virus would simply make his code wait for the user to sudo, then install the rootkit.
The one reason viruses aren't a problem in linux: fewer gullible users.
The one reason worms aren't a problem in linux: the small number of diverse builds.
User seperation has very little to do with it.
when slashdot used to be about technology.
Terrorists threaten your inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Or at least the "life" part. That's the reasoning. They also threaten your freedom of speech with that "don't draw Allah or we'll riot!" stuff.
You may not think giving up one right (privacy) to decrease your chances of losing another right (life) is a fair trade. But some people do, and that is the reasoning used to justify it. It isn't even totally unreasonable: at least some terrorist attacks have been stopped thanks (in part) to domestic spying.
THIS IS RFID. There is no difference. RFID can have small or larage data sizes, small or large coils (which determine how much power is needed to read/write it), and read-only or read/write ability. This is RFID.
All the concerns people have with RFID technology apply here.
So a specially-crafted RFID tag could cause code to execute on a vulnerable RFID reader. That's not a virus. But if this code causes the RFID reader to begin writing copies of the bad data to tags, then we have a virus.
But read-only RFID tags and RFID readers are much cheaper than the writable kind, so this is not very practical. And RFID tags typically can't hold bit strings which are long enough to contain useful software. So, again, this is a bit silly.
Before any of the hundreds of security holes in Windows XP were published, they were still there! If you have paid any attention to security, you would be very confident that there are many remote root, arbitrary code, no-interaction-required holes in Windows RIGHT NOW.
They are no doubt being used. I can think of many ways to build a bot that connects home indetectably to all but the most paranoid and brilliant sysadmin.
This software is not designed to be controlled by editing conf files. There is a big difference between editing conf files that were designed to be edited, and editing conf files that were meant to be controlled by a GUI that nobody bothered porting.
The very latest beta had many bugs. There is no doubt this version has these same bugs. That is a problem, expecially for servers.
Also, Linux is not an acronym.
I love this software, but the Linux client really is neglected. The documentation for Linux is not really there. There is no decent configuration tool for Linux. There are many bugs. For example, if you do any port forwarding, you must edit some nat.conf file. And if you reconfigure anything after that with vmware-config.pl, it completely wipes out all your changes to nat.conf without warning. I spent so much time dealing with these types of bugs while testing the beta, I should have simply purchased another solution.
I'm getting the torrent at 714B/s. Wow. You guys are all a bunch of leaches.
[Don't mod up people who post torrents in the comments. They are all on the page linked. Mod such posts as redundant.]
Fear sells more papers.
It is not that the media is trying to mislead the public. It is not that the media thinks some people are "more equal" than others. It just the invitable result of human nature, capitalism, and journalism combined.
But please, if you can find a way to get popular media to provide a more complete picture of the world; and you can do it without violating freedom of speach, PLEASE SHARE!
I totally understand that. Abraham Lincoln was terribly depressed--nearly suicidal.
But, for all the Stephen Hawkings, consider all the children who were either not conceived, or not afforded the right to go to college, because all their parents financial resources were tied up with retarded older siblings. How many of those would have been geniuses if given the chance?
You can't play the "what if" game in only one direction.
You radio to ground and get the suit engineers to tell you the best place to puncture your suit so that some air escapes and pushes you toward the ship.
If your question is: Whether suffocating or having your chest explode/blood boil is more painful, I think it is obvious that suffocating is better. Think of how many people die while sleeping due to gas leaks. There is no pain there. So you make yourself pass out (like a little kid mad at Mom) and go painlessly.
Theology doesn't seek the truth. It assumes it already has the truth (faith). Science really is a search for truth.
And it is pretty obvious which method of searching for an understanding of the universe is working. How many priests would it take to put a man on the moon? How many soul-searching monks, pouring over ancient texts would it take to create a nuclear reactor?
If there is any truth in religion, there isn't much to show for it.
It's more than human. It's rational.
I only have the resources to raise a finite number of children well. I intend to screen all the fetuses of my potential future wife for some of the more serious genetic diseases. I won't bring one into this world if it is going to have a miserable or unproductive life.
If we had inifinite resources, it would be different. But since we don't, it is actually MORE moral to raise 3 healthy children than to raise 2 healthy children and 1 miserable, diseased child who will die young.
I decide which conditions are worth inducing miscarriage by imagining if I would commit suicide if such a condition is afflicted on me.
Einstein seems to have had similar ideas, but not enough information (genetic testing) to act on them.
Wow. I'm surprised you (and three moderators) all share a fear of credit cards and online finances. Do you ride around on penny farthing (huge wheel) bicycles and have a handlebar mustaches? Let me give you some suggestions that will save you money.
1. Have all income go to a single checking account. Savings accounts are for suckers.
2. Have one credit card with cash-back. These days, most give you 5% on gas/food, 1% on everything else.
3. Sign up all your bills, your checking account, and your credit card to a payment service like mycheckfree.com. Set up everything to be auto-paid from your checking account.
4. When you have extra money (say, more than 2x your typical credit card bill) invest the extra with a discount brokerage like scottrade.com. Retire early.
With that, you never have to think about writing checks, you get a record of all your expenses every month in the form of a CC bill, and you get something like a 3% pay raise (effectively) because of the cash-back on all your purchases.
As long as you aren't stupid enough to think your credit limit is money you actually have (seems absurd to me), you will have more money and a simpler life.
I just tested this in XP SP2. The longest path it let me make is about 250 chars.
It is possible that this is just explorer stopping me, though.
The physics is beyond me, but a room of uniform atmospheric pressure could be used to store energy (in the form of increased pressure compared to that outside of the room). So is there any chance this science could lead to a new kind of battery?
Did someone mention broken windows?
The plural of "anecdote" is apparently "sexism."
Yeah... but you can't buy a rainbow table for a seeded hash set. And if the hash is long enough, a precalculated rainbow table is the only way to go.