"But wait", I hear you say, "Has anyone considered that creating artificial black holes might not be the best idea?" The idea of creating black holes in the laboratory has to give one pause. I mean, how can anyone resist the urge to imagine future headlines like "Artificial Black Hole Escapes Laboratory, Eats Chicago" or some such thing? In reality, there is no risk posed by creating artificial black holes, at least not in the manner planned with the LHC. The black holes produced at CERN will be millions of times smaller than the nucleus of an atom; too small to swallow much of anything. And they'll only live for a tiny fraction of a second, too short a time to swallow anything around them even if they wanted to.
If it makes you feel any more comfortable, we're pretty sure that if the LHC can produce black holes, then so can cosmic rays, high-energy particles that smash into our atmosphere every day. There are probably a few tiny black holes forming and dying far above you right now. So I think we should all relax, fire up the Large Hadron Collider, and get ready for a view of the universe that we've never seen before.
What kind of pull do they have? I mean, I'd certainly like to see SCO "shit or get off the pot". But other than the letters, what can they do? Are they a German EFF (or is the EFF an American LinuxTAG)?
Slashbashing.
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All we need is his address info and we can SlashBash him like the others.
Ok, maybe this is a troll, but its what/.ers have done before.
I believe that there is a secret memo floating around Microsoft to
extend this standard by one bit:
0x00 - If set to 0, the packet has no evil intent, as it was sent by a
Microsoft product. There is no need for any security measures as all
Microsoft products are inherently secure.
0x01 - If set to 1, the packet may have no evil intent other than taking
away market share from Microsoft and should be regarded with suspicion.
These packets should be randomly dropped by all Microsoft products and
blame put on the third party vendor.
0x10 - If set to 2, the packet MAY have evil intent, but since it comes
from a Microsoft product, there is no need for any security measures as
all Microsoft products are inherently secure. Any Microsoft product that
receives this packet should be setup to automatically notify Microsoft
marketing and it's legal staff to start blaming Open Source software in
the media.
0x11 - If set to 3, the packet has evil intent since it comes from a
third party, most likely an Open Source developer. All packets should be
dropped immediately, any Microsoft product that receives this packet
should be setup to automatically notify Microsoft marketing and it's
legal staff to start blaming Open Source software in the media.
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I know that there are supposed to be some out there, but I haven't found any that really work at this point. Example: The Evolution connector "cheats", it reads and processes OWA pages.
If they will go after the small companies to bankroll enough to go after the larger companies, or go after the large ones first in an effort to scare the smaller ones to cave in.
Seriously, why presume that there are limits? There doesn't need to be any. Many grand things, good and bad, came from folks deciding that they didn't want to be limited.
Ok, that could be considered a troll, but having worked with both, I really prefer qmail. It's smaller and I feel that its more robust than Sendmail. The fact that Sendmail is monolithic (one program does it all) where as qmail is modular makes it more secure too. A buffer overflow in one will not compromise the other modules. But no one has found a hack for qmail as yet.
I believe that what they are talking about is the backbone, the top of the "upstream" as it were. The only problem with this is that the people that they want to watch could get arount this in quite a variety of ways. The encryption is only one. If I were them, I'd set up some relays over old POT(s) lines similar as to what was done in the BBS days.
And as far as the "Keeping your eggs in one basket" thing, that's been done, from the inside yet.
Some spam filter, spamassassin is one, allow "white listing" of addresses that send what it might mark as spam but that you really do want to receieve.
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"But wait", I hear you say, "Has anyone considered that creating artificial black holes might not be the best idea?" The idea of creating black holes in the laboratory has to give one pause. I mean, how can anyone resist the urge to imagine future headlines like "Artificial Black Hole Escapes Laboratory, Eats Chicago" or some such thing? In reality, there is no risk posed by creating artificial black holes, at least not in the manner planned with the LHC. The black holes produced at CERN will be millions of times smaller than the nucleus of an atom; too small to swallow much of anything. And they'll only live for a tiny fraction of a second, too short a time to swallow anything around them even if they wanted to. If it makes you feel any more comfortable, we're pretty sure that if the LHC can produce black holes, then so can cosmic rays, high-energy particles that smash into our atmosphere every day. There are probably a few tiny black holes forming and dying far above you right now. So I think we should all relax, fire up the Large Hadron Collider, and get ready for a view of the universe that we've never seen before.
What kind of pull do they have? I mean, I'd certainly like to see SCO "shit or get off the pot". But other than the letters, what can they do? Are they a German EFF (or is the EFF an American LinuxTAG)?
Ok, maybe this is a troll, but its what /.ers have done before.
For anyone that's interested, Cordwainer Smith wrote about this stuff back in the '60s.
Ahh, the advantages of the subscription service. Crashing the target server before anyone else.
It'll never happen.
No, it's NOT a pr0n reference.
0x00 - If set to 0, the packet has no evil intent, as it was sent by a Microsoft product. There is no need for any security measures as all Microsoft products are inherently secure.
0x01 - If set to 1, the packet may have no evil intent other than taking away market share from Microsoft and should be regarded with suspicion. These packets should be randomly dropped by all Microsoft products and blame put on the third party vendor.
0x10 - If set to 2, the packet MAY have evil intent, but since it comes from a Microsoft product, there is no need for any security measures as all Microsoft products are inherently secure. Any Microsoft product that receives this packet should be setup to automatically notify Microsoft marketing and it's legal staff to start blaming Open Source software in the media.
0x11 - If set to 3, the packet has evil intent since it comes from a third party, most likely an Open Source developer. All packets should be dropped immediately, any Microsoft product that receives this packet should be setup to automatically notify Microsoft marketing and it's legal staff to start blaming Open Source software in the media.
Tyco writes good commentary and Gabe draws a mean comic.
Pity this didn't appear BEFORE the Paul Kocher post.
Sell it to the Military.
Ethereal is a wonderful thing.
I know that there are supposed to be some out there, but I haven't found any that really work at this point. Example: The Evolution connector "cheats", it reads and processes OWA pages.
He could leverage a hostile takeover of Microsoft.
But to get this comment back on topic, the review is about a Sams book, not the O'Reilly book on the same topic.
Picky, picky ,picky.
If they will go after the small companies to bankroll enough to go after the larger companies, or go after the large ones first in an effort to scare the smaller ones to cave in.
Hopefully other disadvantaged countries like ZA will pick up on this. Isn't India considering this too?
Seriously, why presume that there are limits? There doesn't need to be any. Many grand things, good and bad, came from folks deciding that they didn't want to be limited.
Ok, that could be considered a troll, but having worked with both, I really prefer qmail. It's smaller and I feel that its more robust than Sendmail. The fact that Sendmail is monolithic (one program does it all) where as qmail is modular makes it more secure too. A buffer overflow in one will not compromise the other modules. But no one has found a hack for qmail as yet.
Just my 2 cents.
It's located here.
Also here.
And as far as the "Keeping your eggs in one basket" thing, that's been done, from the inside yet.
It's probably the size of the CD itself. I believe that the Elvis CD is actually an 80 minute CD and older players have problems with that.
Ok, ok, it's just a lame joke about a lame processor. Move along.
Some spam filter, spamassassin is one, allow "white listing" of addresses that send what it might mark as spam but that you really do want to receieve.