Greenpeace has every right to whine and bitch and express themselves. But slashdot is giving them a voice every time they chose to whine and bitch about a technology company and that's annoying.
Free speech is glorious but it doesn't give the individuals the right to be heard.
But then, it gets us whining and bitching which fuels the community so there's what slashdot gets out of it in a nutshell. I suppose it's a case of don't feed the trolls. It would be a nice fairy tale if, the next time the editors post a story about greenpeace, NOT A SINGLE PERSON COMMENTS.
"Why? Species are extinct for a reason - they did not survive. I never understood an ecological reason for preservation of a particular species with organism count in 100s (like pandas, for example). Just think what would be ecological impact of disappearance of 100 pandas..."
Because humans are arrogant and many of them believe that we are directly responsible for what happens to everything on the planet. That if an animal goes extinct we are to blame and have some moral responsibility to try to save the species.
Although in some cases it's true. Such as over fishing of whales and Marlin. I'm not so sure that I would agree with indirect causation, however. Such as over hunting of a food source of another species. Food sources can be cut off due to a number of natural causes and if a species is unable to adapt and find new food that's it's problem. I'm sure many lengthy debates can be had on these issues and they all vary from situation to situation.
The last time I "phlashed" someone in real-life I received a permanent injunction and restraining order from a very nice judge in court. I guess you can call that a permanent denial of service.
1. prolonged one-on-one stalking 2. manipulating the emotions of a minor 3. manipulating the emotions of someone you know to be suicidal or otherwise emotionally fragile"
The case could only set a precedent for those things if Lori Drew were being charged with those crimes. She is not.
She is being charged with a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. A VERY distorted interpretation of the act in which violating a website's terms of use policy (in this case MySpace's) becomes a felony.
So the legal precedent the case will set, if she is found guilty, is that violating a civil contract on the Internet becomes a felony. That's where the GP's logic comes from. You're essentially making trolling a felony since trolling is usually a violation of a website's terms of use policy.
Flash is definitely a big stability issue on Linux. Flashblock helps a lot. The flash ads on Slashdot used to crash FF and I'd have to kill -9 and restart.
There's still some stability issues on Linux outside of Flash, however. Sometimes FF will spontaneously maximize it's window for no reason. Rendering certain animated images also seems to be a big problem on Linux (it will hog the cpu just to display an animated gif sometimes etc.)
It's certainly not unusable. I use FF on Linux every day and usually don't have problems. But I don't remember having any of these sorts of issues at all on the win32 build and I used it for a few years before switching back to Linux.
"the reason Lori Drew alleges she started the hoax was to find out what, if anything, Megan was saying about her daughter."
If that's true then Ms. Drew should be charged in juvenile court.
Seriously, adult mothers meddling in teenage drama affairs ? It reminds me of something you'd see on the OC or One Tree Hill or some other crap teenage drama soap opera.
Nothing depresses me more than adults who have completely failed to grow the fsck up.
I remember those days too. Fortunately for us today (and like someone else already pointed out) BitTorrent solves that problem entirely and actually makes it easier to download the distributions when everyone is trying to get them all at once.
That's a smart way to look at things but I'm not sure I would agree that it's completely accurate. You can train your replacement when you're promoted but not when you've been fired.
I'm not trying to nitpick, as I know you're not singling out father/son and only using it as a device for your message.
None the less I just feel the need to point out that I'm a father who has 2 daughters and it's no different to me in this regard than if I were to have sons. I would still love to teach them everything about my trade and to have them follow in my foot steps.
Of course it's balanced by my desire to see them shine in whatever they chose to do. I'm careful not to push anything on them and to encourage everything that they show interest in. I have to admit that I smile just a tad bit more when they show an interest in the same things that I do. But then that should be obvious, why wouldn't I be ecstatic to share common interests with my children ?
The advice that I give most people who go into the "IT" field is to specialize as much as possible.
Programmers are getting outsourced more and more but there will always be high demand for researchers, architects, DBAs, network administrators (referring to the physical local network) and other very specialized areas where it takes someone local with a special skill.
If you get a general computer science degree and go looking for a position as an entry level Java programmer you're not going to be as valuable as someone who wrote their PHD thesis on searching and indexing algorithms, for example.
I very rarely whine about mods but really how the hell did my post come across as trolling ? I felt that I was making a very valid point. I wasn't trying to flame or bait.
People constantly trying to sell you something is the direct result of capitalism. It's capitalism in it's truest sense. If you don't like it then there's an alternative: communism. I'm not trying to say that one is better than the other. I'm only pointing out that if you don't like capitalism then communism is an alternative. Why is pointing that out considered trolling ?
"Taking the example of Bratz dolls, if I had children, I wouldn't even consider buying them. As far as I can see, they're teaching children that being succesful is the same as being famous. For any reason, no matter how degrading."
Wow. Just wow.
And I suppose that you never had anything like Ninja Turtle toys growing up ? I remember when they first became popular that parents everywhere were worried that the only thing TMNT taught children was how to be violent. Same reason toy guns were banned at my grade school in the 80's.
If you didn't have any Ninja Turtle action figures I'm sure there's lots of other examples of toys from previous generations that you grew up on and are no worse off for it.
The way you and the parent are talking is like people are sheep and the advertisers are pulling puppet strings and forcing them to spend their money on unnecessary crap at the expense of society. You're not giving people enough credit and it's actually a little insulting.
While I support education in all it's forms, I fail to see how forcing someone by law to be somewhere involuntarily for 6 hours / day 5 days / week 39 weeks / year for about 12 years can not be considered a form of imprisonment.
These cuffs sound like a natural progression of forced education. And of course only the children who resist will be subject to them. There's no need to impose more force on someone who choses to cooperate with their incarceration voluntarily.
"there is no moral dilemma when you send them on a one way trip."
Food for thought: when you're spending 1B (number pulled out of my rear) to send a single probe to mars when there are children dying of starvation here at home you might be able to find some moral dilemmas. If you chose to look for them.
I'm a huge space geek and it's a life-long dream of mine to get into space.
However, even under the assumption that Clinton is telling the complete truth and has every intention of keeping those promises I still prefer Obama's position. Simply because space exploration is not something that is going to directly affect me and the quality of my life and those that I love. Not in the next 4 years anyway.
As a parent I am, however, keenly interested in the quality of early education. I am also interested in taxes, the economy, health care, law and all of those things that actually directly affect how I live on a day to day basis.
I am dreamer and I want to get to space badly. But I also want a higher quality of life for myself and my loved ones. Space exploration is not going to accomplish that in the near future.
Disclaimer - I'm not even American so you can disregard everything that I just said as being completely irrelevant. However, I am a Canadian who does business in the US so if it's worth anything your country's political affairs do affect me. If I could vote in both countries I would, but I would need a residence in the US for a certain number of years to apply for dual-citizenship.
SEL doesn't "run" anything. It's basically access control lists implemented for the Linux kernel. So rather than using only the traditional unix-based filesystem permissions you can finely control what individual processes, groups and users can do in ways not possible with unix filesystem permissions alone.
It's explained not just in TFA but the summary:
"If you have a program that responds to socket requests but doesn't need to access the file system, then that program should be able to listen on a given socket but not have access to the file system. That way, if the program is exploited in some way, its access is explicitly minimized. This type of control is called mandatory access control (MAC). Another approach to controlling access is role-based access control (RBAC). In RBAC, permissions are provided based on roles that are granted by the security system. The concept of a role differs from that of a traditional group in that a group represents one or more users. A role can represent multiple users, but it also represents the permissions that a set of users can perform. SELinux adds both MAC and RBAC to the GNU/Linux operating system."
You can think of SEL as being an "add-on" to the Linux kernel. I realize that the name can be confusing since it kind of implies that it may be a completely different "Linux system" all together. It's really just an implementation of access control lists for Linux and various Linux distrubitions (such as Redhat) ship with it. It doesn't alter what the system can and can't run. It simply provides a tool for the administrator to further control and lock down the system in ways that are otherwise not possible with vanilla kernel.
From the sounds of it, this was a bug that was not triggered very often. When it was finally triggered, investigated and fixed the person who found it released the info publicly, thanks to the beauty of Open Source, and everyone affected, commercial entities and FOSS users using the code alike, benefited. If this were a proprietary system that were licensed out to various companies stricken by NDAs etc. it's quite likely that if one company discovered the bug the others would never learn about it.
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I agree.
Greenpeace has every right to whine and bitch and express themselves. But slashdot is giving them a voice every time they chose to whine and bitch about a technology company and that's annoying.
Free speech is glorious but it doesn't give the individuals the right to be heard.
But then, it gets us whining and bitching which fuels the community so there's what slashdot gets out of it in a nutshell. I suppose it's a case of don't feed the trolls. It would be a nice fairy tale if, the next time the editors post a story about greenpeace, NOT A SINGLE PERSON COMMENTS.
Alas, I'm dreaming.
"Why? Species are extinct for a reason - they did not survive. I never understood an ecological reason for preservation of a particular species with organism count in 100s (like pandas, for example). Just think what would be ecological impact of disappearance of 100 pandas..."
Because humans are arrogant and many of them believe that we are directly responsible for what happens to everything on the planet. That if an animal goes extinct we are to blame and have some moral responsibility to try to save the species.
Although in some cases it's true. Such as over fishing of whales and Marlin. I'm not so sure that I would agree with indirect causation, however. Such as over hunting of a food source of another species. Food sources can be cut off due to a number of natural causes and if a species is unable to adapt and find new food that's it's problem. I'm sure many lengthy debates can be had on these issues and they all vary from situation to situation.
The last time I "phlashed" someone in real-life I received a permanent injunction and restraining order from a very nice judge in court. I guess you can call that a permanent denial of service.
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"it can only set a precedent for:
1. prolonged one-on-one stalking
2. manipulating the emotions of a minor
3. manipulating the emotions of someone you know to be suicidal or otherwise emotionally fragile"
The case could only set a precedent for those things if Lori Drew were being charged with those crimes. She is not.
She is being charged with a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. A VERY distorted interpretation of the act in which violating a website's terms of use policy (in this case MySpace's) becomes a felony.
So the legal precedent the case will set, if she is found guilty, is that violating a civil contract on the Internet becomes a felony. That's where the GP's logic comes from. You're essentially making trolling a felony since trolling is usually a violation of a website's terms of use policy.
Flash is definitely a big stability issue on Linux. Flashblock helps a lot. The flash ads on Slashdot used to crash FF and I'd have to kill -9 and restart.
There's still some stability issues on Linux outside of Flash, however. Sometimes FF will spontaneously maximize it's window for no reason. Rendering certain animated images also seems to be a big problem on Linux (it will hog the cpu just to display an animated gif sometimes etc.)
It's certainly not unusable. I use FF on Linux every day and usually don't have problems. But I don't remember having any of these sorts of issues at all on the win32 build and I used it for a few years before switching back to Linux.
"the reason Lori Drew alleges she started the hoax was to find out what, if anything, Megan was saying about her daughter."
If that's true then Ms. Drew should be charged in juvenile court.
Seriously, adult mothers meddling in teenage drama affairs ? It reminds me of something you'd see on the OC or One Tree Hill or some other crap teenage drama soap opera.
Nothing depresses me more than adults who have completely failed to grow the fsck up.
I remember those days too. Fortunately for us today (and like someone else already pointed out) BitTorrent solves that problem entirely and actually makes it easier to download the distributions when everyone is trying to get them all at once.
"Why would I want to pass that down to my kids?"
Unplanned pregnancy ?
"Irreplaceable is a synonym for unpromotable."
That's a smart way to look at things but I'm not sure I would agree that it's completely accurate. You can train your replacement when you're promoted but not when you've been fired.
I'm not trying to nitpick, as I know you're not singling out father/son and only using it as a device for your message.
None the less I just feel the need to point out that I'm a father who has 2 daughters and it's no different to me in this regard than if I were to have sons. I would still love to teach them everything about my trade and to have them follow in my foot steps.
Of course it's balanced by my desire to see them shine in whatever they chose to do. I'm careful not to push anything on them and to encourage everything that they show interest in. I have to admit that I smile just a tad bit more when they show an interest in the same things that I do. But then that should be obvious, why wouldn't I be ecstatic to share common interests with my children ?
The advice that I give most people who go into the "IT" field is to specialize as much as possible.
Programmers are getting outsourced more and more but there will always be high demand for researchers, architects, DBAs, network administrators (referring to the physical local network) and other very specialized areas where it takes someone local with a special skill.
If you get a general computer science degree and go looking for a position as an entry level Java programmer you're not going to be as valuable as someone who wrote their PHD thesis on searching and indexing algorithms, for example.
I very rarely whine about mods but really how the hell did my post come across as trolling ? I felt that I was making a very valid point. I wasn't trying to flame or bait.
People constantly trying to sell you something is the direct result of capitalism. It's capitalism in it's truest sense. If you don't like it then there's an alternative: communism. I'm not trying to say that one is better than the other. I'm only pointing out that if you don't like capitalism then communism is an alternative. Why is pointing that out considered trolling ?
"Taking the example of Bratz dolls, if I had children, I wouldn't even consider buying them. As far as I can see, they're teaching children that being succesful is the same as being famous. For any reason, no matter how degrading."
Wow. Just wow.
And I suppose that you never had anything like Ninja Turtle toys growing up ? I remember when they first became popular that parents everywhere were worried that the only thing TMNT taught children was how to be violent. Same reason toy guns were banned at my grade school in the 80's.
If you didn't have any Ninja Turtle action figures I'm sure there's lots of other examples of toys from previous generations that you grew up on and are no worse off for it.
The way you and the parent are talking is like people are sheep and the advertisers are pulling puppet strings and forcing them to spend their money on unnecessary crap at the expense of society. You're not giving people enough credit and it's actually a little insulting.
I just really hate that everything in our society has to be about selling you something,"
You're free to move to a communist country.
Actually these cuffs make perfect sense.
While I support education in all it's forms, I fail to see how forcing someone by law to be somewhere involuntarily for 6 hours / day 5 days / week 39 weeks / year for about 12 years can not be considered a form of imprisonment.
These cuffs sound like a natural progression of forced education. And of course only the children who resist will be subject to them. There's no need to impose more force on someone who choses to cooperate with their incarceration voluntarily.
... why would we give them firewalls ?
*runs*
"And spending 400B on slaughtering people in Iraq is favorable, right?"
Is that a question that you're directing at me, personally ?
Because my answer would be "no".
"there is no moral dilemma when you send them on a one way trip."
Food for thought: when you're spending 1B (number pulled out of my rear) to send a single probe to mars when there are children dying of starvation here at home you might be able to find some moral dilemmas. If you chose to look for them.
I'm a huge space geek and it's a life-long dream of mine to get into space.
However, even under the assumption that Clinton is telling the complete truth and has every intention of keeping those promises I still prefer Obama's position. Simply because space exploration is not something that is going to directly affect me and the quality of my life and those that I love. Not in the next 4 years anyway.
As a parent I am, however, keenly interested in the quality of early education. I am also interested in taxes, the economy, health care, law and all of those things that actually directly affect how I live on a day to day basis.
I am dreamer and I want to get to space badly. But I also want a higher quality of life for myself and my loved ones. Space exploration is not going to accomplish that in the near future.
Disclaimer - I'm not even American so you can disregard everything that I just said as being completely irrelevant. However, I am a Canadian who does business in the US so if it's worth anything your country's political affairs do affect me. If I could vote in both countries I would, but I would need a residence in the US for a certain number of years to apply for dual-citizenship.
One word ... autorun.
"You're going to need an exploitable BIOS bug, or the ability to reflash the ROM. Either is going to be very system-specific."
Exactly. Windows was written to solve this very problem. All this talk about hiding root kits in SMM is one giant leap backwards.
Isn't that like using a gun to prevent a cold? Yes I suppose it's effective, but still...
Where can I buy this gun of which you speak ?
I don't see any mention SEL will run Firefox.
SEL doesn't "run" anything. It's basically access control lists implemented for the Linux kernel. So rather than using only the traditional unix-based filesystem permissions you can finely control what individual processes, groups and users can do in ways not possible with unix filesystem permissions alone.
It's explained not just in TFA but the summary:
"If you have a program that responds to socket requests but doesn't need to access the file system, then that program should be able to listen on a given socket but not have access to the file system. That way, if the program is exploited in some way, its access is explicitly minimized. This type of control is called mandatory access control (MAC). Another approach to controlling access is role-based access control (RBAC). In RBAC, permissions are provided based on roles that are granted by the security system. The concept of a role differs from that of a traditional group in that a group represents one or more users. A role can represent multiple users, but it also represents the permissions that a set of users can perform. SELinux adds both MAC and RBAC to the GNU/Linux operating system."
You can think of SEL as being an "add-on" to the Linux kernel. I realize that the name can be confusing since it kind of implies that it may be a completely different "Linux system" all together. It's really just an implementation of access control lists for Linux and various Linux distrubitions (such as Redhat) ship with it. It doesn't alter what the system can and can't run. It simply provides a tool for the administrator to further control and lock down the system in ways that are otherwise not possible with vanilla kernel.
From the sounds of it, this was a bug that was not triggered very often. When it was finally triggered, investigated and fixed the person who found it released the info publicly, thanks to the beauty of Open Source, and everyone affected, commercial entities and FOSS users using the code alike, benefited. If this were a proprietary system that were licensed out to various companies stricken by NDAs etc. it's quite likely that if one company discovered the bug the others would never learn about it.