I figured the MS meant Microsoft, and I was surprised when I followed the link.
Yeah, I figured that since BillG launched that whole Digital Nervous System campaign (stealing an acronym in the process) and MS is a disease afflicting the nervous system...
Well, connecting the dots is left as an exercise for the regular Slashdotter.:-)
Why? Because we've only really GIVEN A FUCK about security for the last half a decade or so. Before that 99% of the worlds PCs were by themselves on a desk, or on some small 10mbit lan with a couple others.
I'm really tired of idiots on Slashdot that have no clue what the fuck they're talking about. Half a decade. Ptoii! I can start by going back 15 years and easily debunk your lies. At that time, most computers in this here world (disclaimer, I have no idea which world you're from - but you should phone home coz' your green-skinned momma is worried about you) were either in universities or corporations. I'm not counting the C= 64s, Atari ][ and Colecovisions here, kay? They have no bearing on the current crop of operating systems. UNIX does. VMS does. Access control and security were big back then - simply because schools with thousands of students had one 64k line to the world (for mail, ftp, gopher, archie and telnet) and diskspace measured in megs so there had to be ways to keep the students from eating it all up. They had to be kept from use the mainframes to play Nethack, to download ASCII pr0n and to chat on IRC instead of studying. Quotas, passwords, password policies, shadowing, encryption - all that jazz. It's not new. It's been around several decades. Half a decade... Maybe Microsoft haven't cared for it more than half a decade, but the world does not revolve around Redmond.
Security is not new. The problem is that Microsoft built DOS for single-user. It had no real security layer and that carried over into Windows 3.11, Windows 95 and all the way into ME. They had to preserve backwards compatibility, see? They had to maintain their monopoly and they could not let little things like end-user security get in the way of that goal.
Meanwhile, all the OSes that came from multi-user roots had a lot of that already built-in. They were network operating systems, built from a network-centric point of view. It wasn't tacked on afterwards like the TCP/IP stack for Windows 3.11. Remember that? It was a separate download.
Half a decade, my ass The Internet has been around and popularized by the WWW much longer than that. I've been building websites since 1995, kiddo. Were you even born back then? I used to log in remotely to SunView terminals and run the WhenHarryMetSally.aiff on my classmates' computers at full volume, that's a remote exploit if ever there was one! The Morris worm. Say no more, Squire!
And what delusional script kidde MS astroturfers modded your crappy rant Insightful, we'll never know. Hell, I was ranting on the 'net in 1990! You'd think the art would have evolved since then...
Until telnetd is totally removed (not just turned off) from Linux, Linux will not be secure.
So you're saying Linux is secure? Good. You see, it's been a few years since telnetd was installed in a base Linux install. I'd say that qualifies as "totally removed".
Where have you been? Mrs. Santa was having it on with a few of the elves when Mr. Santa came home unexpectedly. She still got the house, two of the reindeer (Donner und Blitzen) and 250,000 miles worth of wrapping paper while Mr. Santa got to keep the workshop, the sled and the rest of the reindeer. Oh, and 600 trillion tons of coal...
I have an old friend that works for Microsoft (well, I have several, but this one's special) and he kept saying how everybody has a price. Then one day, Microsoft bought the company I worked for. 1066 million SEK (roughly $140 million USD) for ~100 people and a mobile Internet platform. That very same day I handed in my resignation (yes, this was in 1999). My boss persuaded me to stay on as a consultant for a while but I milked them good before I left. Best part was they cashed in my options program, netting me a good $14k before taxes.
A few years later they killed off the unit, assimilating the best guys back to Redmond in the process. Business as usual in Mordor.
A couple of mine didn't either so I sold them off to some Nigerian investor and bought a new, larger bank. Much better standards support in the new one.
Upgrade from CRT to LCD monitor.
If you have any flourescent tubes for lighting in the office, replace them with regular bulbed fixtures.
If you keep the CRT, check your screen frequency and set it as high as it will go - 75Hz is a bare minimum.
Try lowering the resolution, it will make you squint less and will allow you to up the freq some more.
See an optician. You may have a latent eyesight problem that's crept up on you slowly.
...they have a higher fatality rate than other vehicles.
I know you were making a NetCraft/BSD dying joke, but fact of the matter is that motorcyclists have almost the exact same fatality rate as cagers (in Sweden). The trend has gone from approximately 25 deaths per 1000 motorcyclists 20 years ago to 5-6 deaths per 1000 motorcyclists now and those are the same numbers as for cars.
Yes, I realize that the numbers for the US are drastically different (both are higher), but still. It goes to show that it does not have to be inherently more dangerous to ride a bike than drive a car.
Incidentally, the deaths for bikers show a much larger ratio of drunk rider/stolen bike than for cars, meaning that if you stay sober and on your own bike, you're actually safer than in a car - statistically speaking.
(incidentally, this is an exact quote from when Victoria replied to the question 'is really David the father of your child?')
I don't normally watch soccer, or any other sports on TV, but I did watch the last few minutes after the Portuguese 1-1 goal, the extension and the penalties - it was very good entertainment. It was fun to see Svennis not only actually has emotions, but he can display them.:-)
In my BF1942 team, we play internal leagues that are as fun to watch as they are to play.
Then again, CTF doesn't have to have the same problem with focal points that BF1942 Conquest mode or Counter-Strike has - the flag can be the focal point. When spectating, there could be a "View Flag mode" where you always see the action from the flag's POV. Maybe have the ability to move around within a set radius of the flag. Just a thought to make the matches more attractive for spectators.
I'm sure you aren't surprised by the fact that Halliburton served rotting meats and vegetables to our troops in Iraq.
That link was hilarious.:-)
Halliburton-Kellogg Brown and Root's promises to improve "have not been followed through," according to a Pentagon report that warned "serious repercussions may result" if the contractor did not clean up.
I suppose that means they'll go to war against Halliburton next? After all, that's basically what resolution 1441 said about Iraq and look how Bush interpreted that. Oh, what a funny world we all live in. Well, I'm not sure which world Twirp lives in, but it sure seems like an interesting one.
I find it funny that people whine about Bush's service, but defend Clinton, the draft-dodger who never served in anything.
In the autumn of 1969, Clinton entered the draft but received a high number in the lottery (311) and was never called to serve. Geroge W. Bush got a cushy assignment flying National Guard jets in Texas. Or was it Alabama? Whatever, it seems he wasn't sure either. For fun and extra credit, compare Bush and Kerry.
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Yeah, I figured that since BillG launched that whole Digital Nervous System campaign (stealing an acronym in the process) and MS is a disease afflicting the nervous system...
Well, connecting the dots is left as an exercise for the regular Slashdotter. :-)
Oh, yeah, thanks. I guess the Alzheimer's finally getting to me.
Get off my Internet, you damn script kiddies!
I'm really tired of idiots on Slashdot that have no clue what the fuck they're talking about. Half a decade. Ptoii! I can start by going back 15 years and easily debunk your lies. At that time, most computers in this here world (disclaimer, I have no idea which world you're from - but you should phone home coz' your green-skinned momma is worried about you) were either in universities or corporations. I'm not counting the C= 64s, Atari ][ and Colecovisions here, kay? They have no bearing on the current crop of operating systems. UNIX does. VMS does. Access control and security were big back then - simply because schools with thousands of students had one 64k line to the world (for mail, ftp, gopher, archie and telnet) and diskspace measured in megs so there had to be ways to keep the students from eating it all up. They had to be kept from use the mainframes to play Nethack, to download ASCII pr0n and to chat on IRC instead of studying. Quotas, passwords, password policies, shadowing, encryption - all that jazz. It's not new. It's been around several decades. Half a decade... Maybe Microsoft haven't cared for it more than half a decade, but the world does not revolve around Redmond.
Security is not new. The problem is that Microsoft built DOS for single-user. It had no real security layer and that carried over into Windows 3.11, Windows 95 and all the way into ME. They had to preserve backwards compatibility, see? They had to maintain their monopoly and they could not let little things like end-user security get in the way of that goal.
Meanwhile, all the OSes that came from multi-user roots had a lot of that already built-in. They were network operating systems, built from a network-centric point of view. It wasn't tacked on afterwards like the TCP/IP stack for Windows 3.11. Remember that? It was a separate download.
Half a decade, my ass The Internet has been around and popularized by the WWW much longer than that. I've been building websites since 1995, kiddo. Were you even born back then? I used to log in remotely to SunView terminals and run the WhenHarryMetSally.aiff on my classmates' computers at full volume, that's a remote exploit if ever there was one! The Morris worm. Say no more, Squire!
And what delusional script kidde MS astroturfers modded your crappy rant Insightful, we'll never know. Hell, I was ranting on the 'net in 1990! You'd think the art would have evolved since then...
So you're saying Linux is secure? Good. You see, it's been a few years since telnetd was installed in a base Linux install. I'd say that qualifies as "totally removed".
Where have you been? Mrs. Santa was having it on with a few of the elves when Mr. Santa came home unexpectedly. She still got the house, two of the reindeer (Donner und Blitzen) and 250,000 miles worth of wrapping paper while Mr. Santa got to keep the workshop, the sled and the rest of the reindeer. Oh, and 600 trillion tons of coal...
I guess this Christmas will suck, after all.
Oops, I just got a kernel panic, I have to change diapers. BRB.
Search Engine Test Methodology.
Have a look at www.webhackande.se/~richie/ or www.gpz1100.com, they're both in English instead of bork-de-bork.
A few years later they killed off the unit, assimilating the best guys back to Redmond in the process. Business as usual in Mordor.
A couple of mine didn't either so I sold them off to some Nigerian investor and bought a new, larger bank. Much better standards support in the new one.
Upgrade from CRT to LCD monitor.
If you have any flourescent tubes for lighting in the office, replace them with regular bulbed fixtures.
If you keep the CRT, check your screen frequency and set it as high as it will go - 75Hz is a bare minimum.
Try lowering the resolution, it will make you squint less and will allow you to up the freq some more.
See an optician. You may have a latent eyesight problem that's crept up on you slowly.
I know you were making a NetCraft/BSD dying joke, but fact of the matter is that motorcyclists have almost the exact same fatality rate as cagers (in Sweden). The trend has gone from approximately 25 deaths per 1000 motorcyclists 20 years ago to 5-6 deaths per 1000 motorcyclists now and those are the same numbers as for cars.
Yes, I realize that the numbers for the US are drastically different (both are higher), but still. It goes to show that it does not have to be inherently more dangerous to ride a bike than drive a car.
Incidentally, the deaths for bikers show a much larger ratio of drunk rider/stolen bike than for cars, meaning that if you stay sober and on your own bike, you're actually safer than in a car - statistically speaking.
(incidentally, this is an exact quote from when Victoria replied to the question 'is really David the father of your child?')
I don't normally watch soccer, or any other sports on TV, but I did watch the last few minutes after the Portuguese 1-1 goal, the extension and the penalties - it was very good entertainment. It was fun to see Svennis not only actually has emotions, but he can display them. :-)
In my BF1942 team, we play internal leagues that are as fun to watch as they are to play. Then again, CTF doesn't have to have the same problem with focal points that BF1942 Conquest mode or Counter-Strike has - the flag can be the focal point. When spectating, there could be a "View Flag mode" where you always see the action from the flag's POV. Maybe have the ability to move around within a set radius of the flag. Just a thought to make the matches more attractive for spectators.
( Wil, you're good people. Remember that. \m/ )
( Wil, you're good people. Remember that. \m/ )
That link was hilarious. :-)
I suppose that means they'll go to war against Halliburton next? After all, that's basically what resolution 1441 said about Iraq and look how Bush interpreted that. Oh, what a funny world we all live in. Well, I'm not sure which world Twirp lives in, but it sure seems like an interesting one.That was the best rant I have seen in a long, long time. :-D
Providing space? That must be like shipping ice to the north pole. ;-P
No, it's because they need to be shot. There's a difference. ;-)
Most war movies to a pathetic job of portraying what real munitions look like in use.
Or sound like. Artillery shells do not whistle through the air. They sound like ripped fabric.
They rarely resorted to the cliche "Monster Fireball" effect
Ah, the Forbidden Scene.
I'm sorry, we just couldn't find the Finnish ships to report about them. I know they're around here somewhere...
Seriously, there have been stealthy ships before, but the Visby-class is the first of a new generation.
You're not dead yet. Go for it!
(couldn't resist either)
*raises hand*
In the autumn of 1969, Clinton entered the draft but received a high number in the lottery (311) and was never called to serve. Geroge W. Bush got a cushy assignment flying National Guard jets in Texas. Or was it Alabama? Whatever, it seems he wasn't sure either. For fun and extra credit, compare Bush and Kerry.