As long as people will work for 1 cent per captcha cracked on Yahoo, DomainKeys will have no impact on phishing attempts. Actually, it won't even cost that much any more since Yahoo and Hotmail captchas can now be identified by software up to 5% of the time.
Ok, it must be the end of the day, cause I read the first two words as Hiding corpses. Yeah. There's a skill you should have right outa University. Pay is good, perks a killer but don't piss off the boss.
People keep posting about the fact that M$ broke the TCP/IP standard (not even close!) or the dhcp standards. The broadcast bit that the MS KB article talks about is part of the RFC. People need to read more before they start talking about things they don't fully understand.
I don't think it's typically the programmers fault that there are security issues with the software. If the programmer was taught how to do things properly, then they would do things properly. Also, if they weren't so rushed to get a product out the door, they would be able to do a proper review and test of the code and find a majority of the bugs before the product hits the streets (or the server room in the case of custom software)
Typically, a programmer is doing their job. The programmers manager is doing their job, by squeezing the work and deadlines of the programmers.
Once I got the laptop, the first thing I did was wipe it clean, partition the hard drive, and put Kubuntu and my own legit copy of XP Pro on it.
Technically, it's not a legit copy of XP Pro, as Microsoft does not allow the transferring of licenses between systems.
Unless, of course, you purchased the license specifically for this system, but then you should have just purchased the system from Dell with XP Pro bundled.
If McAfee and Symantec were being pushed out of the AV market because Microsoft was actually redesigning their products to close holes and remove *features* that provide virus' an avenue to spread themselves, I'd tell McAfee and Symantec to quit being a baby! Innovate or die! That's the rule these days.
Since Microsoft is plugging the holes with their own tape instead of tape from a third party, then they are right back where they started.
I'm amazed that the largest and rishest corporation on the planet can't remember their own history. Maybe the document shredders are working overtime.
How bad can the mosquito problem be in larger urban centres? In most larger towns and cities I've been in, there are very few mosquitoes due to the pollution and lack of standing water. If this was rolled this out over the Rural areas, NOW we're getting somewhere, because when I play paintball at the field which is in the middle of butt-fsck nowhere, it takes 100% Deet bug spray to keep the little buggers (heh heh) off of you, and that doesn't last very long.
I'm not familiar with any new hardware that has Transmeta chips in them, and I don't remember hearing any big news about new partnerships. Where is the cash coming from? They promised a lot a long time ago, and they kind of stalled.
what irritates the crap out of me is that this is like someone leaving their bike at the end of their driveway on a busy suburban street over night. It's going to get stolen. Not due to someone wanting to steal it, but because of the owners negligence and complete lack of common sense.
I'm confused why someone who believes their data is so important, and obviously spend a good chunk of money on their equipment, would be so cheap when it comes to their choice of backup medium. DAT and DLT are decently fast, very reliable, and much larger than DVD, and can hold as much as a hard drive, or even more if you purchase a loader. These can be expensive as hell, but weight that cost out with replacing all of your data and see which one sounds better.
If your data is that important, spend the cash on good backup.
I started downloading the RPM for 7.0 from the FTP, and it crapped out on me. I am retrieving it again, and for some reason, I'm grabbing AdobeReader_enu-8.0.0-1.i386.rpm, yet the ftp index still says 7.0.0. I call shenanigans!!
Agreed. I'm not the biggest Gates fan in the world, and I like to bash Bill just as much as the next guy, but I applaud this donation. Any money that goes towards a childs future is a good investment. I see people dumping on him because he happens to be the richest person on the planet, and he could single-handedly end poverty, blah blah blah. He didn't give $750 Million worth of M$ Software to kids. He didn't give $750 Million worth of computers to kids. He didn't really give them money. He gave children who have nothing in this world, a chance at a real future. He's giving them hope.
It DOES work in IE for the Mac, just not quite as advertised. It took clicking another link for the pop-up to appear saying that my pop-up was under the control of blah blah blah. So, "affects all browsers" means "affects all browsers other than those designed by Microsoft to run on Microsoft Products".
... not affected period. I tried it four times, and even on my Mac with Safari AND Internet Explorer. Maybe the "affects all browsers" means "affects all browsers other than the ones not designed to run on Microsoft Products".
... and even then, the default protocols installed during an installation was Netbeui and IPX/SPX. For a company claiming that they hold IP rights over Internet protocols, they sure didn't make good use of them for a good while.
The Province of New Brunswick Provincial Archives have been like this for quite some time now, with birth, death, marriage certs and census records. I have been able to search for information about my family history online using their handy dandy search tool, as well as visiting the Archives themselves at University of New Brunswick. It never occurred to me that others might be trying catching up, but I guess that this type of service isn't something that most governments deem necessary for the public.
At some point, I expect users to upgrade to newer releases or take some responsibility for patching their own systems. What's a reasonable period of time? I'd say 34 to 36 months. At some point, any reasonable users should understand that the best way to ensure continued support is to upgrade to something more recent."
but then we have
The beauty of the open source model is that an opportunity exists for creating fixes for old releases. Not so for the users of Windows 95 or 98 who have no source code to go back to when the next critical flaw is uncovered.
So which is it ? Do we expect people to upgrade after 36 months, or do we take any opportunity to mention that we think Microsoft sucks (of which everyone in the audience is perfectly aware)
You will notice that he said "an opportunity exists". That's ultimately what the open source model is all about, the opportunity to do something, the opportunity to change something. Whether people pick up the ball and run is up to them, but at least they are given the opportunity
Your points on UNIX history and security are intersting
UNIX evolved over time. almost no attention was paid to security initially - was it even multi-user initially?!
User and network security were unknown concepts at the time. That's like saying that we should have been preparing for the AIDS epidemic in the 70's
Linux wasn't designed with security in mind - it was cloned from a system which had security evolved and grafted onto it (unix).
The security concepts were copied from UNIX to Linux, but the application level security, and the newly discovered types of programming errors (most, but not all buffer overflows, etc) were "coded out" so to speak.
remember when anyone could remotely kill a linux box with the right udp packets ? was that security by design ?
Remember when anyone could halt any Windows box with some fragmented IP information in TCP headers? Did MS forsee this and code to avoid it? Interesting how you're condemming Linux and OSS for not doing so.
As for the OpenSSL and OpenSSH stuff, ok, I'll give you those ones =)
I'd argue that with each year of Windows, we've only seen improvements. does it then follow that there's only a bright future ahead ? If so, how is linux "better" in this regard ? How is this news ?
When any company _innovates_ (embraces and extends, rapes and pillages, whatever), they are marching into new territory, and the territory is unknown. New innovations mean new possibilities for logic and programming errors for the first company to leap into that territory. The Linux community usually sees the innovations that MS, Apple, etc, are coming up with, and adopt it, without a lot of the inherent security issues and usability problems. That's not to say that there are no security issues, but a lot of the obvious ones are worked out.
MS has in the past put the users experience above the users security, and as a desktop OS, this has worked for them, but they need to take a deeper look at application security, which is the reason why worms and virii are plaguing them to this day.
If I was living in a country where I was paying a copyright infringement tax on my CDs and on my ISP bill, I think I'd feel pretty different about engaging in copyright infringement.
If I am already paying for it, then why should I have a problem with it? I already pay a tarif on CD-Rs, so I have no troubles admitting that I download music for my own use. If I think I might want the whole CD, I either grab the whole CD off the net, or keep my eyes open for it in stores (usually second hand stores, because, let's face it, I'm not rich) if I want better audio quality.
Once again, they think they deserve to be compisated from 100% of the population because 10% of them are ripping them off. They need to get their hands out of my pockets, because my pockets are getting hit harder and harder from all directions.
Why not lobby to get the ISPs for put a bandwidth cap on outgoing http traffic from dsl subscribers with some layer 7 filtering? A lot of people will get pretty tired of waiting 3 hours to dl a song from one of their subscribers, and the ISP can reclaim bandwidth for legitimate use.
a nice KDE/Qt C++ app, which behaves more like Quicken and Microsoft Money
Ya, and these apps are meant for home use. I use gnucash in a business environment, as well as for home finances. The fact that kmymoney emulates these products is most of the reason why I don't use it.
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Really? When I saw the headline I couldn't figure out why Steve Gibson of Gibson Research had a patent issue with Guitar Hero.
Last I checked, you had to be a US Citizen to be in violation of US law.
As long as people will work for 1 cent per captcha cracked on Yahoo, DomainKeys will have no impact on phishing attempts. Actually, it won't even cost that much any more since Yahoo and Hotmail captchas can now be identified by software up to 5% of the time.
Ok, it must be the end of the day, cause I read the first two words as Hiding corpses . Yeah. There's a skill you should have right outa University. Pay is good, perks a killer but don't piss off the boss.
I find the Ewoks are perfectly cromulent
Really? I found they taste like chicken.
People keep posting about the fact that M$ broke the TCP/IP standard (not even close!) or the dhcp standards. The broadcast bit that the MS KB article talks about is part of the RFC. People need to read more before they start talking about things they don't fully understand.
http://faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2131.html - Section 4.1 (Broadcast Bit)
My $0.02 CDN
I don't think it's typically the programmers fault that there are security issues with the software. If the programmer was taught how to do things properly, then they would do things properly. Also, if they weren't so rushed to get a product out the door, they would be able to do a proper review and test of the code and find a majority of the bugs before the product hits the streets (or the server room in the case of custom software)
Typically, a programmer is doing their job. The programmers manager is doing their job, by squeezing the work and deadlines of the programmers.
My $0.02 CDN
Once I got the laptop, the first thing I did was wipe it clean, partition the hard drive, and put Kubuntu and my own legit copy of XP Pro on it.
Technically, it's not a legit copy of XP Pro, as Microsoft does not allow the transferring of licenses between systems.
Unless, of course, you purchased the license specifically for this system, but then you should have just purchased the system from Dell with XP Pro bundled.
\m/
If McAfee and Symantec were being pushed out of the AV market because Microsoft was actually redesigning their products to close holes and remove *features* that provide virus' an avenue to spread themselves, I'd tell McAfee and Symantec to quit being a baby! Innovate or die! That's the rule these days.
Since Microsoft is plugging the holes with their own tape instead of tape from a third party, then they are right back where they started.
I'm amazed that the largest and rishest corporation on the planet can't remember their own history. Maybe the document shredders are working overtime.
My $0.02 CDN
http://www.mirrordot.org/
I searched for "Arrogant Prick" and it returned my own profile as a result. WTF??
How bad can the mosquito problem be in larger urban centres? In most larger towns and cities I've been in, there are very few mosquitoes due to the pollution and lack of standing water. If this was rolled this out over the Rural areas, NOW we're getting somewhere, because when I play paintball at the field which is in the middle of butt-fsck nowhere, it takes 100% Deet bug spray to keep the little buggers (heh heh) off of you, and that doesn't last very long.
My $0.02 CDN
I'm not familiar with any new hardware that has Transmeta chips in them, and I don't remember hearing any big news about new partnerships. Where is the cash coming from? They promised a lot a long time ago, and they kind of stalled.
what irritates the crap out of me is that this is like someone leaving their bike at the end of their driveway on a busy suburban street over night. It's going to get stolen. Not due to someone wanting to steal it, but because of the owners negligence and complete lack of common sense.
My $0.02 CDN
I'm confused why someone who believes their data is so important, and obviously spend a good chunk of money on their equipment, would be so cheap when it comes to their choice of backup medium. DAT and DLT are decently fast, very reliable, and much larger than DVD, and can hold as much as a hard drive, or even more if you purchase a loader. These can be expensive as hell, but weight that cost out with replacing all of your data and see which one sounds better.
If your data is that important, spend the cash on good backup.
It's Gamma radiation right?
soooooooo..........
We'd all be big, green and speaking broken english.
Where's the problem?
I started downloading the RPM for 7.0 from the FTP, and it crapped out on me. I am retrieving it again, and for some reason, I'm grabbing AdobeReader_enu-8.0.0-1.i386.rpm, yet the ftp index still says 7.0.0. I call shenanigans!!
Agreed. I'm not the biggest Gates fan in the world, and I like to bash Bill just as much as the next guy, but I applaud this donation. Any money that goes towards a childs future is a good investment. I see people dumping on him because he happens to be the richest person on the planet, and he could single-handedly end poverty, blah blah blah. He didn't give $750 Million worth of M$ Software to kids. He didn't give $750 Million worth of computers to kids. He didn't really give them money. He gave children who have nothing in this world, a chance at a real future. He's giving them hope.
Good job Bill.
Correction.
It DOES work in IE for the Mac, just not quite as advertised. It took clicking another link for the pop-up to appear saying that my pop-up was under the control of blah blah blah. So, "affects all browsers" means "affects all browsers other than those designed by Microsoft to run on Microsoft Products".
... not affected period. I tried it four times, and even on my Mac with Safari AND Internet Explorer. Maybe the "affects all browsers" means "affects all browsers other than the ones not designed to run on Microsoft Products".
... and even then, the default protocols installed during an installation was Netbeui and IPX/SPX. For a company claiming that they hold IP rights over Internet protocols, they sure didn't make good use of them for a good while.
The Province of New Brunswick Provincial Archives have been like this for quite some time now, with birth, death, marriage certs and census records. I have been able to search for information about my family history online using their handy dandy search tool, as well as visiting the Archives themselves at University of New Brunswick. It never occurred to me that others might be trying catching up, but I guess that this type of service isn't something that most governments deem necessary for the public.
At some point, I expect users to upgrade to newer releases or take some responsibility for patching their own systems. What's a reasonable period of time? I'd say 34 to 36 months. At some point, any reasonable users should understand that the best way to ensure continued support is to upgrade to something more recent."
but then we have
The beauty of the open source model is that an opportunity exists for creating fixes for old releases. Not so for the users of Windows 95 or 98 who have no source code to go back to when the next critical flaw is uncovered.
So which is it ? Do we expect people to upgrade after 36 months, or do we take any opportunity to mention that we think Microsoft sucks (of which everyone in the audience is perfectly aware)
You will notice that he said "an opportunity exists". That's ultimately what the open source model is all about, the opportunity to do something, the opportunity to change something. Whether people pick up the ball and run is up to them, but at least they are given the opportunity
Your points on UNIX history and security are intersting
UNIX evolved over time. almost no attention was paid to security initially - was it even multi-user initially?!
User and network security were unknown concepts at the time. That's like saying that we should have been preparing for the AIDS epidemic in the 70's
Linux wasn't designed with security in mind - it was cloned from a system which had security evolved and grafted onto it (unix).
The security concepts were copied from UNIX to Linux, but the application level security, and the newly discovered types of programming errors (most, but not all buffer overflows, etc) were "coded out" so to speak.
remember when anyone could remotely kill a linux box with the right udp packets ? was that security by design ?
Remember when anyone could halt any Windows box with some fragmented IP information in TCP headers? Did MS forsee this and code to avoid it? Interesting how you're condemming Linux and OSS for not doing so.
As for the OpenSSL and OpenSSH stuff, ok, I'll give you those ones =)
I'd argue that with each year of Windows, we've only seen improvements. does it then follow that there's only a bright future ahead ? If so, how is linux "better" in this regard ? How is this news ?
When any company _innovates_ (embraces and extends, rapes and pillages, whatever), they are marching into new territory, and the territory is unknown. New innovations mean new possibilities for logic and programming errors for the first company to leap into that territory. The Linux community usually sees the innovations that MS, Apple, etc, are coming up with, and adopt it, without a lot of the inherent security issues and usability problems. That's not to say that there are no security issues, but a lot of the obvious ones are worked out.
MS has in the past put the users experience above the users security, and as a desktop OS, this has worked for them, but they need to take a deeper look at application security, which is the reason why worms and virii are plaguing them to this day.
My $0.02 CDN.If I was living in a country where I was paying a copyright infringement tax on my CDs and on my ISP bill, I think I'd feel pretty different about engaging in copyright infringement.
If I am already paying for it, then why should I have a problem with it? I already pay a tarif on CD-Rs, so I have no troubles admitting that I download music for my own use. If I think I might want the whole CD, I either grab the whole CD off the net, or keep my eyes open for it in stores (usually second hand stores, because, let's face it, I'm not rich) if I want better audio quality.
Once again, they think they deserve to be compisated from 100% of the population because 10% of them are ripping them off. They need to get their hands out of my pockets, because my pockets are getting hit harder and harder from all directions.
Why not lobby to get the ISPs for put a bandwidth cap on outgoing http traffic from dsl subscribers with some layer 7 filtering? A lot of people will get pretty tired of waiting 3 hours to dl a song from one of their subscribers, and the ISP can reclaim bandwidth for legitimate use.
My $0.02 CDN
Ya, and these apps are meant for home use. I use gnucash in a business environment, as well as for home finances. The fact that kmymoney emulates these products is most of the reason why I don't use it.