Why should it be that a prosecutor could not appeal?
because the resources of money and time of a government are "unlimited" while those of a defendent are finite. the government can always win by attrition.
because we believe in a system where a person can be held in jail or on bond pending a trial. defendendants could be held perpetually in remand for a petty crime of which s/he is never convicted.
the government could use points one and two above to coerce guilty pleas from innocent parties
once exonerated of a crime, citizens should have the ability to move on with their life without fear of a second jeaopordy.
So what if Steve Ballmer bounces around stage chanting "Developers"? Does that prove that Open Source software is superior in any way?
no. it highlights the possibility that he is neither more nor less immature than any given open source developers. does his actions prove that microsoft's "software is superior in any way?"
please, if you're going to leap to wild, unfound conclusions based on the longest of all possible stretches of interpretations at least try and be humorous about it. okay?
what would our world be like this technology wouldn't of been explored and helped along the way. i highly doubt the internet would be where it is today let alone any other form of technology.
at one point, the internet was mostly dial up. don't you remember waiting patiently for that uucp script to cron so you could get your email?
the biggest problem that the Open Source community faces in taking Open Source to the next level is . . . the immaturity and insecurity of some of the members of the community.
ballmer screams "developers! developers!" like a cocaine-feulled monkey. steve jobs is well known for his temper tantrums and "reality distortion field". darl and the sco crew are running around like paranoid schizophrenics with delusions of grandeur (or even just plain adequacy)...
and the open source people are "immature and insecure"?
while we're at it... it's a little known fact that "suse" is a german anagram for "sue us" - a direct jab at sco.
and now that i'm on a "roll" - why the hell aren't the santa cruz organization and stanford university networks actually in santa cruz or stanford university? at least ibm is international...
The problem with obscurity is not that it doesn't do anything
by this logic, you should post your email address all over the web and rely completely on your spam filter.
the bottom line is this: hiding your server decreases the number of scans and attempted xploits on your box. since secruity can never be 100%, a reduction in attacks translates to a reduction in breaches. basic math.
Gentoo gives you total control, like no other linux distro.
true. but it takes days to install and my mother would never be able to set her own USE flags. i think mepis is looking to provide maximum customization while still being "end user friendly"
while it is not a substitute for a good security policy, it is an excellent augmentation. the old saying goes that the only secure computer is one that isn't connected to the network. well, that's not really possible if yr running a web server, but you definitely don't need to advertise that you're connected... or how you're connected.
let's use a military analogy (ugh). you may put your soldiers in an armoured transport... but they still wear camoflauge.
i mean, after all, we all turn off ping before we put our servers up... don't we?
no. say you're running something like zeus or (god forbid) jigsaw. the script kiddies will look in their bag of tricks, find nothing for your stated server and move right along.
kind of a neat idea, actually.
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haha, my woody box is an "Internet Access Service" !
i wouldn't go spouting off about that if i were you. if your isp finds out that you are running as an "isp" they're likely to cut off yr service.
this is a return subscription we're talking about here. these are people who are already using rhel. this should not be interpreted to mean "all those people who were using rh 9 gladly upgraded to a more expensive version".
it's not like the fbi wasn't running amok yesterday though... yesterday they were justifying spying on anti-war prosters by claiming that lawful dissent was potentially terrorism. their big argument to support this assertion? anti-war demonstrators have attended "training camps"... and terrorists often attend "training camps". ergo: protesters == terrorists.
Particularly chilling, he said, was the use of the phrase "training camps'' to describe instruction on nonviolence given to demonstrators. That phrase is often used to describe terrorist training sites.
i predict with these new powers the fbi will be surveilling all suspiscious "training camp" attendees such as major league baseball players.
yup, SCO is out to steal & control all those Open Source riches, both GPL and BSD licensed flavors.
wrong. they are out to destroy it - so their proprietary solution is the only alternative. open source software is like air - it's free and ubiquitous. if you're in the air resale business, you can't compete that. sco's plan is pollute all the free air so that their jug-o-freshness brand of bottled air can clean up.
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or at least be using jds...
i would think the opposite: his beeper must be going all the time!
just don't switch to the dvorak keybord!
- one of the three digit sets of your license plate
- the first three letters of your mother's maiden name
- the numbe of fillings you have
stick em together and you have a seven or eight character password that looks like garbage but still can be remembered by the user.
of course it's possible for someone to reconstruct this but it would definitely have to be an inside job - probably by a dentist.
sound like good reasons to me.
you just know this joie was coming....
does this code belong to sco?
this sound just like the whole sunray thin client thing.
no. it highlights the possibility that he is neither more nor less immature than any given open source developers. does his actions prove that microsoft's "software is superior in any way?"
please, if you're going to leap to wild, unfound conclusions based on the longest of all possible stretches of interpretations at least try and be humorous about it. okay?
at one point, the internet was mostly dial up. don't you remember waiting patiently for that uucp script to cron so you could get your email?
and not fighting against the japanese... :)
ballmer screams "developers! developers!" like a cocaine-feulled monkey. steve jobs is well known for his temper tantrums and "reality distortion field". darl and the sco crew are running around like paranoid schizophrenics with delusions of grandeur (or even just plain adequacy)...
and the open source people are "immature and insecure"?
and now that i'm on a "roll" - why the hell aren't the santa cruz organization and stanford university networks actually in santa cruz or stanford university? at least ibm is international...
by this logic, you should post your email address all over the web and rely completely on your spam filter.
the bottom line is this: hiding your server decreases the number of scans and attempted xploits on your box. since secruity can never be 100%, a reduction in attacks translates to a reduction in breaches. basic math.
true. but it takes days to install and my mother would never be able to set her own USE flags. i think mepis is looking to provide maximum customization while still being "end user friendly"
my personal favourite though still remains the rpm-based yum. truly, a package management system for the lazy!
this is news for nerds, that's what.
sorry. there's prior are from stanford university networks.
while it is not a substitute for a good security policy, it is an excellent augmentation. the old saying goes that the only secure computer is one that isn't connected to the network. well, that's not really possible if yr running a web server, but you definitely don't need to advertise that you're connected... or how you're connected.
let's use a military analogy (ugh). you may put your soldiers in an armoured transport... but they still wear camoflauge.
i mean, after all, we all turn off ping before we put our servers up... don't we?
kind of a neat idea, actually.
i wouldn't go spouting off about that if i were you. if your isp finds out that you are running as an "isp" they're likely to cut off yr service.
read the t&c of yr bandwidth provider!
this is a return subscription we're talking about here. these are people who are already using rhel. this should not be interpreted to mean "all those people who were using rh 9 gladly upgraded to a more expensive version".
don't trust me. trust the sf chroncial
fbi scrutinizing anti-war protestors
choice quote:
Particularly chilling, he said, was the use of the phrase "training camps'' to describe instruction on nonviolence given to demonstrators. That phrase is often used to describe terrorist training sites.
i predict with these new powers the fbi will be surveilling all suspiscious "training camp" attendees such as major league baseball players.
when the guys who show up to fix your flat tire are wearing dark sunglasses.
wrong. they are out to destroy it - so their proprietary solution is the only alternative. open source software is like air - it's free and ubiquitous. if you're in the air resale business, you can't compete that. sco's plan is pollute all the free air so that their jug-o-freshness brand of bottled air can clean up.