Are you smoking crack or do you just have no idea about what you are talking about?
Cops in countries like Romania, China and Russia do not give a shit about "interstate cable fraud"... heck, they often do not cooperate with child pornography and terrorism investigations.
If you attempt to release a non-GPL program which incorporates GNU code, you are in violation and will get sued -- even if you link to GNU binaries.
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The behavior that you have described when applied to other organizations is called "embrace and extend" and is univerally derided by the slashbot crowd.
The bastardization or arbitrary creation of "standards" for political reasons is not a good thing, whether the offender is Microsoft or the GNU people.
right to not be subjected to unlawful searches perhaps, but no basic privacy right.
Here is the text of the 4th Amendment:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Where in this do you get the impression that persistant monitoring of private communications is ok?
Except that you forgot to mention that the "compromise" of the kernel never happened and the Debian compromise was a password issue and again nothing serious happened.
Sounds like how a drunk driver rationalizes his actions.
The whitepaper simply presents the dirty little secret that highly technical IT people have always known -- there is no such thing as a totally "secure" system.
Sophisticated hackers identify exploits before they get mentioned on bugtraq and before a fix or patch is even looked at. Those people are a big threat to a company like Microsoft.
Instead of being horrified at Microsoft, you should be pleased. They are taking a remarkably straightforward tack by highlighting the industry's dirty little secret. That is an about face from typical Microsoft FUD.
Did any of the idiots commenting on this story with sophmoric (hehe, M$ security sUx045!) even start to read the Whitepaper?
If they did, they would probaly notice that the paper describes a methodology of security management, including dealing with operating system & application security issues.
Information security is more reliant on process than using x product or y product. If you have established methods to classify what needs protection, identify vulnerabilities & intrusions and rectify the situation, you have a secure IT shop.
Perhaps you forgot about the compromise of kernel development servers and the Debian website?
Microsoft's concerns regarding source code are likely less about preventing someone from SEEING it (you can pay them money to look at code) and more about modifiying it.
Open Source is a wonderful thing -- but it isn't a silver bullet. Sophisticated programmers with access to any source repository, open or closed can create all sorts of havoc.
This will force the implementation of what is needed to solve the email problem -- digital signatures identifying SMTP servers outside of your network.
In order to pay the tax or tariff (for foreign email), you'd have to have a virtual "tax stamp" that identifies the server to the taxing authority. Email spam would disappear overnight.
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Plasterwork is a great example.
Another lost art is metalwork. Our local rail station needed a new copper dome... The nearest available tradesman was in Italy (the station is in New York) they had to wait 6 months to the Italian to come over and do the work, and I believe that he was in his early 60's.
The Navy is in a similar situation. There are approximately 50 people who can safely perform a specialized kind of hull welding that is needed to assemble the bows of submarines. They actually extend submarine production cycles purposely to keep their skills fresh.
Then it should be no wonder why "modern" households are as fucked up as they are. Families should spend time together, not in seperate rooms staring at a screen.
Nearly everyone in my family is an engineer or has a master's degree. We're not luddities -- but catching the hot sitcom at 8 or spending 18 hours playing Quake wasn't the driving force in our lives.
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You cannot put a price on a craftsman's work -- but such people are in short supply these days.
Try to find a skilled brick or stonemason, or a carpenter capable of building a staircase like they did 100 years ago. If you'll find any, they'll either be semi-retired or have a multi-year backlog of work.
My parents just put one up
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It's big colonial that came in 5 pieces... and it is absolutely magnificent.
If you go with a good builder, you're gonna get a house as good or better than a conventional home for less money.
It tends to be easier to find a good prefab builder than a reliable contractor, depending on where you live.
Just one tip: If you are building a house in the country or suburbs where there is no city sewer, MAKE SURE that you perform a perk test BEFORE purchasing the land. If the soil is clay or too rocky, you could spend as much as 50-75k putting in a septic system!
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Are you smoking crack or do you just have no idea about what you are talking about?
Cops in countries like Romania, China and Russia do not give a shit about "interstate cable fraud"... heck, they often do not cooperate with child pornography and terrorism investigations.
Great idea!
Now try to find a team of lawyers that can successfully prosecute such a case in Romania, China or Russia!
These sorts of scams generally do not originate in places like the US or UK.
It's not different at all.
If you attempt to release a non-GPL program which incorporates GNU code, you are in violation and will get sued -- even if you link to GNU binaries.
The behavior that you have described when applied to other organizations is called "embrace and extend" and is univerally derided by the slashbot crowd.
The bastardization or arbitrary creation of "standards" for political reasons is not a good thing, whether the offender is Microsoft or the GNU people.
This is Slashdot... contridictory statements and inane articles are the norm here.
The only suprise here is that there is no references to Linux, Eric Raymond or the supremacy of open source.
Here is the text of the 4th Amendment:
Where in this do you get the impression that persistant monitoring of private communications is ok?
Exactly. Try putting an unpatched Solaris or HP-UX box on the public internet!
Every scumbag with a copy of Frontpage and $19.99 a month for web hosting is trying to become a millionaire with affilate commissions.
The more Google does to obscure the peddlers of obnoxious scams and "get rich quick" Amway types, the better.
Who writes the frameworks? HAL 9000? Nanomachines?
9 hours
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4 hours
4 / 9 = 0.4444 * 100 = 44.44%
The issues were related to licensing incompatible with GNU/Linux.
Except that you forgot to mention that the "compromise" of the kernel never happened and the Debian compromise was a password issue and again nothing serious happened.
Sounds like how a drunk driver rationalizes his actions.
The fact that "nothing serious" happened is luck.
The whitepaper simply presents the dirty little secret that highly technical IT people have always known -- there is no such thing as a totally "secure" system.
Sophisticated hackers identify exploits before they get mentioned on bugtraq and before a fix or patch is even looked at. Those people are a big threat to a company like Microsoft.
Instead of being horrified at Microsoft, you should be pleased. They are taking a remarkably straightforward tack by highlighting the industry's dirty little secret. That is an about face from typical Microsoft FUD.
Did any of the idiots commenting on this story with sophmoric (hehe, M$ security sUx045!) even start to read the Whitepaper?
If they did, they would probaly notice that the paper describes a methodology of security management, including dealing with operating system & application security issues.
Information security is more reliant on process than using x product or y product. If you have established methods to classify what needs protection, identify vulnerabilities & intrusions and rectify the situation, you have a secure IT shop.
Perhaps you forgot about the compromise of kernel development servers and the Debian website?
Microsoft's concerns regarding source code are likely less about preventing someone from SEEING it (you can pay them money to look at code) and more about modifiying it.
Open Source is a wonderful thing -- but it isn't a silver bullet. Sophisticated programmers with access to any source repository, open or closed can create all sorts of havoc.
It's always funny to listen to educational "experts" wax on about the need to put computers in every class.
What a total joke. If schools cannot teach reading and algebra, "teaching computers" (whatever that means) is pointless.
No Gentoo server has ever been compromised.
One thing is clear here: the pathetic administrative model of Debian is 100% at fault.
This whole incident could have been prevented with a combination of OpenBSD router & IDS equipment and Gentoo servers.
If Debian ran OpenBSD, this wouldn't have happened! Theo runs a tight ship over there.
I also think that Gentoo would have prevented this tragedy.
This will force the implementation of what is needed to solve the email problem -- digital signatures identifying SMTP servers outside of your network.
In order to pay the tax or tariff (for foreign email), you'd have to have a virtual "tax stamp" that identifies the server to the taxing authority. Email spam would disappear overnight.
Plasterwork is a great example.
Another lost art is metalwork. Our local rail station needed a new copper dome... The nearest available tradesman was in Italy (the station is in New York) they had to wait 6 months to the Italian to come over and do the work, and I believe that he was in his early 60's.
The Navy is in a similar situation. There are approximately 50 people who can safely perform a specialized kind of hull welding that is needed to assemble the bows of submarines. They actually extend submarine production cycles purposely to keep their skills fresh.
Then it should be no wonder why "modern" households are as fucked up as they are. Families should spend time together, not in seperate rooms staring at a screen.
Nearly everyone in my family is an engineer or has a master's degree. We're not luddities -- but catching the hot sitcom at 8 or spending 18 hours playing Quake wasn't the driving force in our lives.
You cannot put a price on a craftsman's work -- but such people are in short supply these days.
Try to find a skilled brick or stonemason, or a carpenter capable of building a staircase like they did 100 years ago. If you'll find any, they'll either be semi-retired or have a multi-year backlog of work.
Your house is a HOME, not an office.
There is no excuse for having a television in each room, forget about a computer.
If they need to do homework, hand them a pencil.
his day is up!
It's big colonial that came in 5 pieces... and it is absolutely magnificent.
If you go with a good builder, you're gonna get a house as good or better than a conventional home for less money.
It tends to be easier to find a good prefab builder than a reliable contractor, depending on where you live.
Just one tip: If you are building a house in the country or suburbs where there is no city sewer, MAKE SURE that you perform a perk test BEFORE purchasing the land. If the soil is clay or too rocky, you could spend as much as 50-75k putting in a septic system!