Carol Cafiero, who had previously sought to quash a subpoena ordering her to testify, refused to answer questions pertaining to the district's controversial practice of remotely activating webcams on Apple MacBooks issued to high-school students.
It was like a window into "a little LMSD soap opera," a staffer is quoted as saying in an e-mail to Carol Cafiero, the administrator running the program.
"I know, I love it," she is quoted as having replied.
This has me quite excited for my move to BC. All too often we are asked to provide this piece of identification or that one, but how often do we question the need to provide it. I'm guilty of this the majority of the time, I'm sure. The default answer to providing personal information beyond the norm should be, "no." And, then after a chat with a manager a comprimise, a justification or an explanation of what is done and will be done with the information, should be given. Props to the complainant who brought this to the Privacy Commissioner.
Wrong. The virus according to the author was written for his Apple II.
So during a winter break from the Mt. Lebanon Senior High School near Pittsburgh, Skrenta hacked away on his Apple II computer - the dominant personal computer then - and figured out how to get the code to launch those messages onto disks automatically.
For the longest time OpenBSD could advertise that it had not had a remote exploit in X number of year in the default install. And, although, that is no longer the case the whole raison d'etre of OpenBSD IS security. From the website:
OpenBSD believes in strong security. Our aspiration is to be NUMBER ONE in the industry for security (if we are not already there). Our open software development model permits us to take a more uncompromising view towards increased security than Sun, SGI, IBM, HP, or other vendors are able to. We can make changes the vendors would not make. Also, since OpenBSD is exported with cryptography, we are able to take cryptographic approaches towards fixing security problems.
Not to mention OpenBSD has been auditing their code file-by-file since 1996.
They also employ the following technologies:
strlcpy() and strlcat()
Memory protection purify
W^X
.rodata segment
Guard pages
Randomized malloc()
Randomized mmap()
atexit() and stdio protection
Privilege separation
Privilege revocation
Chroot jailing
New uids
ProPolice
And since OpenBSD is based in Canada you get all the cryptography you would ever desire.
What about Publisher's Clearing house? I have had the equivalent of two trees sent to my house? Which is more unjust loads of email or a couple of trees? Maybe there is a problem we aren't looking at
I have never had a computer virus affect my computer. I have been on the 'net of lo 3 years now. I don't know what the big deal is. Just keep your eyes open and don't read email that has a.src or.exe as an attachment. It's really not that hard.
Unfortunately they are not the all powerful iPaqs mentioned in the slashdot but very crappy Compaqs that have pretty much everything on board and cost waaaay too much. It's a shame we get Compaqs and some elementary schools 20 minutes away get some brand-spanking new SunRays.
*sigh*
Oh well I am sure my time will come. You can't surf the "web" on a 486 forever...
Okay no one likes me when I make fun of grammar but look at this:
dcigary writes: "CNN has an interesting story about the attempts to bring Maylasian citizens into the Internet Age. Now, they just have to wait until the infrastructure in the country catches up." Actually, this wouldn't be a bad idea of parts of the U.S. (and elsewhere), either.
Does this sound right? "Actually, this wouldn't be a bad idea of parts of the U.S. (and elsewhere), either", Arrgh, me grammar ungood!
Just bring up here to Saskatchewan (Canada) its damn near -40 C 10.5 months of the year. You could save a lot in the price of that coolent. In the winters I just make a server room (a.k.a. igloo) out back and just string some cat5 back into the house through the basement window. Turn my 486/66 mhz into a 486/200 mhz!...
Well not really, but I can dream can't I?
You know there would also be a lot of shrapnel flying around. I am not big on shrapnel flying at my body, but hey it is getting rid of landmines or what have you
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This has me quite excited for my move to BC. All too often we are asked to provide this piece of identification or that one, but how often do we question the need to provide it. I'm guilty of this the majority of the time, I'm sure. The default answer to providing personal information beyond the norm should be, "no." And, then after a chat with a manager a comprimise, a justification or an explanation of what is done and will be done with the information, should be given. Props to the complainant who brought this to the Privacy Commissioner.
See: First virus hatched as a practical joke
Swine flu first came to US through Canadian border.
Not to mention OpenBSD has been auditing their code file-by-file since 1996. They also employ the following technologies:
strlcpy() and strlcat()
Memory protection purify
Privilege separation
Privilege revocation
Chroot jailing
New uids
ProPolice
And since OpenBSD is based in Canada you get all the cryptography you would ever desire.
First penis joke gets a quark!
Yeah but, is it easy enough for Windows users to use it?
What about Publisher's Clearing house? I have had the equivalent of two trees sent to my house? Which is more unjust loads of email or a couple of trees? Maybe there is a problem we aren't looking at
Finally I can be sued from all over the world. God bless the global village.
Does Microsoft know about this?
Clients Gigs
Napster 6830 1926
OpenNap 28320 33009
What can I say?
I have never had a computer virus affect my computer. I have been on the 'net of lo 3 years now. I don't know what the big deal is. Just keep your eyes open and don't read email that has a .src or .exe as an attachment. It's really not that hard.
Unfortunately they are not the all powerful iPaqs mentioned in the slashdot but very crappy Compaqs that have pretty much everything on board and cost waaaay too much. It's a shame we get Compaqs and some elementary schools 20 minutes away get some brand-spanking new SunRays.
*sigh*Oh well I am sure my time will come. You can't surf the "web" on a 486 forever...
-sCan you say, "Monopoly"? -Drew Larson
Okay no one likes me when I make fun of grammar but look at this:
dcigary writes: "CNN has an interesting story about the attempts to bring Maylasian citizens into the Internet Age. Now, they just have to wait until the infrastructure in the country catches up." Actually, this wouldn't be a bad idea of parts of the U.S. (and elsewhere), either.
Does this sound right? "Actually, this wouldn't be a bad idea of parts of the U.S. (and elsewhere), either", Arrgh, me grammar ungood!
-Drew
Jeez! Did you go out of your way to mispell "Canadiennes". Even francophones don't spell Canadians like that.
Why not just use like a 70/30 mix of anti-freeze and water? That would probaly got to about -60 I think.
Just bring up here to Saskatchewan (Canada) its damn near -40 C 10.5 months of the year. You could save a lot in the price of that coolent. In the winters I just make a server room (a.k.a. igloo) out back and just string some cat5 back into the house through the basement window. Turn my 486/66 mhz into a 486/200 mhz!... Well not really, but I can dream can't I?
Anyone who writes software for Linux and releases it under a commercial licsense is a bastard Skyppey, Be careful you might learn somthing!
You know there would also be a lot of shrapnel flying around. I am not big on shrapnel flying at my body, but hey it is getting rid of landmines or what have you