Spyware is Malware, just like Virii. But in the case of Spyware you have companies behind it and people that acutally earn money on them. There are security problems in every system. Pay people to exploit them and they will. So Mircosoft wants to put out an os that is 100% secure? With their track record on security???
Well, Slashdot also posted stories "Windows more secure than Unix".
Slashdot acutually used to be good back in the day.
A guy working at a radio station once told me that the large networks pretty much own the market. It used to be small independent radio stations, but not anymore. Like record labels. There are some small ones, but they occupy such a small marketshare that they are almost neligable.
There was a very good Calvin strip about this one. Calvin is sitting in front of the TV for four panels and says:
1st panel: "Graphic violence in the media."
2nd panel: "Does it glamorize violence? Sure. Does it desensitize us to violence? Of course. Does it help up us tolerate violence? You bet. Does it stunt our empathy for our fellow human beings? Heck yes."
3rd panel: "Does it CAUSE violence?... Well, that's hard to prove."
4th panel: (smiling) "The trick is to ask the right question."
Personally I believe that adults should be able to make their own decisions about what the do and see (like reading Calvin & Hobbes instead of watching the news). I feel much more peaceful and at ease after some good fragging. Kids is an altogether different story though.
I am sure the poster doesn't give damn about who he promoted over what. I think what he had in mind was what every other sane person who has had enough of this crap has in mind. Intelligent design is a little bs which got multiplied so much that it really stinks by now.
The earth (according to bible studies) was created 4000 BC, if you take it literally. I even met a nutcase who did while I spent a High School year in California in the 90's (I am German). I didn't understand this at all, but nowdays it wouldn't astound me as much.
Anyways, the tale of Jesus is about 2000 years old. He was/is a jew. So christianity is a jewish sect strictly speaking. The old testament was taken from (or is) the jewish tanakh, which is much older. I don't know exaclty how old, but I believe Genesis (which is the part that contains the "fable" that you are referring to) is much older.
Why does such a blatant factual error get such a high rating? I always thought the US was so religious? Mmmh Slashdot, not the stereotype, mmmh. (I like)
The Arab/Palastinian/Israel issue has generated so much disinformation (all sides involved have an open and a hidden agenda and there are more sides involved than the average Slashdotter would think) and hot debates, it is like a flamewar. Do the real flames also heat up the online world? How far? Are geeks very much involved?
I also call bs on the post, but was too lazy to put this together. There is even more. Oil is now above 60 bucks a barrel of Brent. This is two to three times as much as it used to during the 90s. Nobody expected this sharp increase. Damn markets. Oh, well, since nobody expected nobody prepared for it. The decision to put up a new well or start processing sand heavily depends upon the price, because higher prices means higher production costs can be justified. So we now can have two to three times as expensive technologies to dig it up than we had five years ago. It takes some time for this to get started. We also had economic downturn in 2002 so people were weary to invest upon the assumption that oil prices would stay this high, since they just lost a lot of money on the assumption that internet stock prices would stay as high. It takes more than a couple days to set up new production facilities. During the last oil crises offshore pumping started in the North Sea, but it took them some time. I don't remember how long, since I was not born yet.
First everyone complains that they should be as fast as possible to compete with IE, which is pretty fast.
When they do it the get slapped for using too much resources?
But I see a good point. I also would like to see new developement halted for some time to catch bugs and security problems. This would also help plugin developers to catch up. New features could be developed in plugins anyways.
I always kept wondering what exactly XUL was developed for when a browser was needed. I don't know the timeline, but wasn't Gtk ready about the time they started Mozilla? I know that Qt was for a long time worthless for cross platform free stuff, because Trolltech charged money for the win32 version (which they had every right to do so).
I have seen friendships break over email exchanges. They got so worked up it was not even funny. One of them printed out all the emails and showed them around (they had many mutual friends).
The whole story is a bit more complicated than that.
To defend my people: Yes there was never a "majority" for the Nazi party as in only 43.9% voted for the Nazi party in the last German elections before WWII. However, historians view that election already as rigged for a number of reasons. The last "free" election was in 1932. The Nazi party gained about a third of the popular vote. Because the other parties thought they could "contain" Hitler they formed a coalition with the Nazi party and Hitlor became Chancellor in a free and fair election.
He seized power later on.
Hitler was always quite a lunatic. It is horrifying to see a third of the popular vote went to that lunatic. That IMHO speaks volumes about how dumb people (in this case Germans) are.
Bush was elected in a popular vote. Meanwhile many people more "informed" in politics would have voted for the alternative. Moderation only makes sense if it is done by the "right" people. But who are better "informed"? What is "right"? Is the majority always "right"? Or "left"?
I am from Germany. I don't want to compare Bush to Hitler. They are both completely different and have nothing in common. Except that they were both elected in a popular vote.
But what people do is their business, be it marrying a chimp or a stone.
Bedrock of society? Raising kids? I think we have failed that a long time ago. If people want to get married in church, it is their business, but why legally? Marriage was supposed to protect the woman that raises the children while the man is out and about working. As I said, that was a long time ago.
If someone runs Windows like almost everyone runs Linux (not as system user) and also run Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware products they might even be up to par on security holes and how long until they are fixed. How important the bugs/holes are and how fast they are fixed in Linux vs Windows is hotly debated. There are various reasons why IMHO Linux is ahead there (OSS, secure by design,...). But because Microsoft is spreading a lot of "information" on that I can see many people believing and writing that Windows is ahead.
My point:
It is more than obvious that malware writers target Windows so much more than they target Linux. We just had a story about the WMF exploit being sold late last year and spyware companies using it before Microsoft put out a patch. Until more malware writers target Linux the theory that users might be more secure with Windows is so ridiculous that:
1. I don't even need to RTFA to debunk it 2. I don't want to click on it to generate revenue for the webpage through ads 3. I don't understand why Slashdot is putting this up
I have to tell you that France is neither behind nor ahead on a moral level than any other country including the US, simply because it is VERY hard to define morals (as in whose morals).
Also Chirac is a big fat asshole. Only because he is much smarter than Bush doesn't mean he is a nice guy. Bush comes across as a clueless nice guy that I wouldn't mind as a buddy, but that should never be in a position of power, whereas Chirac is a very corrupt smart power player. Now choose.
I am from Germany and if I could decide who dominates the world I dunno which country to choose. Germany dominated much of Europe up till 1945. In the end it was good that that changed. France and the UK dominated (and still meddle around) in Africa and parts of Asia. The US dominates the Americas. Colombia if sinking into civil war, dragging the whole region behind and the slums in Brazil are pretty bad, but compared to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola and Ruanda (among other regions in Africa) they are still much better off. The only really bleak spot in the American hemnisphere are Haiti and the likes, but even though Haiti is one of the worst places to live in the world it is comparably much smaller than the DRC.
Iraq: Made no sense other than fueling the "industrial-military complex" as Eisenhower called it. BUT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_Civil_War (Algeria is still considered colony by many people in the French administration and treated as such by French intelligence services), so the US is not the only one engaging in wars. It just happens to have a high profile. Look up Russia and Chechnya.
can't get it to work, because Skype has not put out a new package for a very long time
they have a dependency for a lib that was renamed
so either you download the debian package and then unpack it, fix the dependency and rename it (it's libqt)
or use alien on the madrake package
1 download the RPM for Mandriva, 2 convert it from rpm to deb with alien: sudo alien -d skype-1.2.0.21-1mdk.i586.rpm 3 install it: sudo dpkg -i skype_1.2.0.21-2_i386.deb
Well, inventions get used in different ways. Scientists easily dismiss such notions. As would software developers, I suppose. But since the poster touched upon this topic I would really like to know how the Slashdot crowd feels about this issue. Should scientists be more sensetive about possible missuse of their findings?
One argument would be: If I don't figure it out, someone else will come along later on. So by not discovering dangerous stuff it merely prolongs the danger.
A good example would be genetic research, which bears huge potential as well as risks.
IMHO researchers should not stop researching altogether, but be more sensitive and think about possible missuse beforehand. Also they should be much more vocal about the possible dangers that come with using the knowledge they helped to gain.
I am sorry, I didn't put it the right way. On the router there will only be GPLv2 software. An open source drm system. Impossible to hack, because firmware updates are only taken encrypted and signed from company server. Am I so hard to understand? As long as you don't find any errors (and that happened with Playstation as well, even though it was closed source) in the implementation to hack it I am save. They can even use the open source developement model to make a secure drm system.
Slashdot Mirror
Why is this story even on Slashdot? Hello Zonk?
Spyware is Malware, just like Virii. But in the case of Spyware you have companies behind it and people that acutally earn money on them. There are security problems in every system. Pay people to exploit them and they will. So Mircosoft wants to put out an os that is 100% secure? With their track record on security???
Well, Slashdot also posted stories "Windows more secure than Unix".
Slashdot acutually used to be good back in the day.
A guy working at a radio station once told me that the large networks pretty much own the market. It used to be small independent radio stations, but not anymore. Like record labels. There are some small ones, but they occupy such a small marketshare that they are almost neligable.
There was a very good Calvin strip about this one. Calvin is sitting in front of the TV for four panels and says:
... Well, that's hard to prove."
1st panel:
"Graphic violence in the media."
2nd panel:
"Does it glamorize violence? Sure.
Does it desensitize us to violence? Of course.
Does it help up us tolerate violence? You bet.
Does it stunt our empathy for our fellow human beings? Heck yes."
3rd panel:
"Does it CAUSE violence?
4th panel:
(smiling) "The trick is to ask the right question."
Personally I believe that adults should be able to make their own decisions about what the do and see (like reading Calvin & Hobbes instead of watching the news). I feel much more peaceful and at ease after some good fragging.
Kids is an altogether different story though.
I am sure the poster doesn't give damn about who he promoted over what. I think what he had in mind was what every other sane person who has had enough of this crap has in mind. Intelligent design is a little bs which got multiplied so much that it really stinks by now.
The earth (according to bible studies) was created 4000 BC, if you take it literally. I even met a nutcase who did while I spent a High School year in California in the 90's (I am German). I didn't understand this at all, but nowdays it wouldn't astound me as much.
Anyways, the tale of Jesus is about 2000 years old. He was/is a jew. So christianity is a jewish sect strictly speaking. The old testament was taken from (or is) the jewish tanakh, which is much older. I don't know exaclty how old, but I believe Genesis (which is the part that contains the "fable" that you are referring to) is much older.
Why does such a blatant factual error get such a high rating? I always thought the US was so religious? Mmmh Slashdot, not the stereotype, mmmh. (I like)
The Arab/Palastinian/Israel issue has generated so much disinformation (all sides involved have an open and a hidden agenda and there are more sides involved than the average Slashdotter would think) and hot debates, it is like a flamewar. Do the real flames also heat up the online world? How far? Are geeks very much involved?
Isn't that exactly what Skype has been offering for almost 2 years now with Skype for Pocket PC?
http://www.skype.com/products/skype/pocketpc/
So they switch their OSX to x86 going through a ton of work only to come out and say we did this for nothing???
Either they sell you a license and you can loose your copy but still get it back, because you own a license, not a copy.
Or you buy a CD as a "thing" and can do whatever you feel with it, as long as you don't sell the content to someone else.
At least that is how it should be and how it used to be in Germany, but we are working to get to where the US law is now. And we are pickung up speed.
I also call bs on the post, but was too lazy to put this together. There is even more. Oil is now above 60 bucks a barrel of Brent. This is two to three times as much as it used to during the 90s. Nobody expected this sharp increase. Damn markets. Oh, well, since nobody expected nobody prepared for it. The decision to put up a new well or start processing sand heavily depends upon the price, because higher prices means higher production costs can be justified. So we now can have two to three times as expensive technologies to dig it up than we had five years ago. It takes some time for this to get started. We also had economic downturn in 2002 so people were weary to invest upon the assumption that oil prices would stay this high, since they just lost a lot of money on the assumption that internet stock prices would stay as high. It takes more than a couple days to set up new production facilities. During the last oil crises offshore pumping started in the North Sea, but it took them some time. I don't remember how long, since I was not born yet.
As I said, BS
First everyone complains that they should be as fast as possible to compete with IE, which is pretty fast.
When they do it the get slapped for using too much resources?
But I see a good point. I also would like to see new developement halted for some time to catch bugs and security problems. This would also help plugin developers to catch up. New features could be developed in plugins anyways.
I always kept wondering what exactly XUL was developed for when a browser was needed. I don't know the timeline, but wasn't Gtk ready about the time they started Mozilla? I know that Qt was for a long time worthless for cross platform free stuff, because Trolltech charged money for the win32 version (which they had every right to do so).
I have seen friendships break over email exchanges. They got so worked up it was not even funny. One of them printed out all the emails and showed them around (they had many mutual friends).
The whole story is a bit more complicated than that.
To defend my people: Yes there was never a "majority" for the Nazi party as in only 43.9% voted for the Nazi party in the last German elections before WWII. However, historians view that election already as rigged for a number of reasons. The last "free" election was in 1932. The Nazi party gained about a third of the popular vote. Because the other parties thought they could "contain" Hitler they formed a coalition with the Nazi party and Hitlor became Chancellor in a free and fair election.
He seized power later on.
Hitler was always quite a lunatic. It is horrifying to see a third of the popular vote went to that lunatic. That IMHO speaks volumes about how dumb people (in this case Germans) are.
Did that change?
Bush was elected in a popular vote. Meanwhile many people more "informed" in politics would have voted for the alternative. Moderation only makes sense if it is done by the "right" people. But who are better "informed"? What is "right"? Is the majority always "right"? Or "left"?
I am from Germany. I don't want to compare Bush to Hitler. They are both completely different and have nothing in common. Except that they were both elected in a popular vote.
Ubuntu is here, and is desktop ready, with all free software!
But what people do is their business, be it marrying a chimp or a stone.
Bedrock of society? Raising kids? I think we have failed that a long time ago. If people want to get married in church, it is their business, but why legally? Marriage was supposed to protect the woman that raises the children while the man is out and about working. As I said, that was a long time ago.
Time to move on, I say.
In some ways I was very mature early on. In other ways I was a "late bloomer". Guess in which.
If someone runs Windows like almost everyone runs Linux (not as system user) and also run Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware products they might even be up to par on security holes and how long until they are fixed. How important the bugs/holes are and how fast they are fixed in Linux vs Windows is hotly debated. There are various reasons why IMHO Linux is ahead there (OSS, secure by design, ...). But because Microsoft is spreading a lot of "information" on that I can see many people believing and writing that Windows is ahead.
My point:
It is more than obvious that malware writers target Windows so much more than they target Linux. We just had a story about the WMF exploit being sold late last year and spyware companies using it before Microsoft put out a patch. Until more malware writers target Linux the theory that users might be more secure with Windows is so ridiculous that:
1. I don't even need to RTFA to debunk it
2. I don't want to click on it to generate revenue for the webpage through ads
3. I don't understand why Slashdot is putting this up
I have to tell you that France is neither behind nor ahead on a moral level than any other country including the US, simply because it is VERY hard to define morals (as in whose morals).
Also Chirac is a big fat asshole. Only because he is much smarter than Bush doesn't mean he is a nice guy. Bush comes across as a clueless nice guy that I wouldn't mind as a buddy, but that should never be in a position of power, whereas Chirac is a very corrupt smart power player. Now choose.
I am from Germany and if I could decide who dominates the world I dunno which country to choose. Germany dominated much of Europe up till 1945. In the end it was good that that changed. France and the UK dominated (and still meddle around) in Africa and parts of Asia. The US dominates the Americas. Colombia if sinking into civil war, dragging the whole region behind and the slums in Brazil are pretty bad, but compared to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola and Ruanda (among other regions in Africa) they are still much better off. The only really bleak spot in the American hemnisphere are Haiti and the likes, but even though Haiti is one of the worst places to live in the world it is comparably much smaller than the DRC.
Iraq:
Made no sense other than fueling the "industrial-military complex" as Eisenhower called it. BUT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_Civil_War (Algeria is still considered colony by many people in the French administration and treated as such by French intelligence services), so the US is not the only one engaging in wars. It just happens to have a high profile. Look up Russia and Chechnya.
Skype and Ubuntu
can't get it to work, because Skype has not put out a new package for a very long time
they have a dependency for a lib that was renamed
so either you download the debian package and then unpack it, fix the dependency and rename it (it's libqt)
or use alien on the madrake package
1 download the RPM for Mandriva,
2 convert it from rpm to deb with alien: sudo alien -d skype-1.2.0.21-1mdk.i586.rpm
3 install it: sudo dpkg -i skype_1.2.0.21-2_i386.deb
Well, inventions get used in different ways. Scientists easily dismiss such notions. As would software developers, I suppose. But since the poster touched upon this topic I would really like to know how the Slashdot crowd feels about this issue. Should scientists be more sensetive about possible missuse of their findings?
One argument would be: If I don't figure it out, someone else will come along later on. So by not discovering dangerous stuff it merely prolongs the danger.
A good example would be genetic research, which bears huge potential as well as risks.
IMHO researchers should not stop researching altogether, but be more sensitive and think about possible missuse beforehand. Also they should be much more vocal about the possible dangers that come with using the knowledge they helped to gain.
Slavery is alive and kicking in many parts of the world! I am not going to come up with a link, since it is so obvious.
I always thought XP SP2 was all about security and is secure now (from Microsoft's viewpoint). What happened to that?
I am sorry, I didn't put it the right way. On the router there will only be GPLv2 software. An open source drm system. Impossible to hack, because firmware updates are only taken encrypted and signed from company server. Am I so hard to understand? As long as you don't find any errors (and that happened with Playstation as well, even though it was closed source) in the implementation to hack it I am save. They can even use the open source developement model to make a secure drm system.