Regan isn't the first accused spy with computer expertise
Apparently, the definition the press uses for computer expertise is the ability to download pictures and use Hotmail.
Well hell, if this is expertise, I'm Linus Torvalds!
Starcraft is about more than just being "a fast clicker." Sure, it helps, but even more important to being good at the game is good strategy, aggressive expansions, and (MOST IMPORTANTLY) constant surveillance of the board. If you have these three things down, "fast clicking" really isn't that much of a concern anymore.
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The sole purpose of the NSA is to spy on you
This is completely untrue. The NSA is charged with protecting national security. That involves _alot_ more than simply "spying" on a few people. Anyways, it is extremely limited what info they can gather anyways (they protect the privacy of U.S. citizens, despite popular opinion)
You know they used the favorite hacker OS out there and now give it out freely
If I'm not mistaken, the NSA uses a wide variety of platforms.
.funny crap coming from the very same government that locked Dimitri up for showing security flaws
This is a beef with the government/FBI, not the NSA. They're unrelated (different goals/objectives/purposes)
we don't want no gov building a hacker tool.
How is an attempt at a more secure operating system a hacker tool?
You know they're just trying to get closer to the hacker community by giving you a free linux distro
This is plain stupid. It's also self-indulgent and self-centered. You think you're that important in the grand scheme? They deal with security, they're making a secure OS. That's the reason. It has nothing to do with you.
Mp3.com may just be a victim of selective lawyers. I mean Napster got sued because it became popular and everyone and their mother used it. Mp3.com was a similar service (mp3 search engine), but why was it targeted while all the others (gnutella, audiogalaxy, etc) were blatently ignored? My first guess is the name...buncha braindead lawyers in a room going "duhhh, who can we get money from now" and the first thing they hit upon was trying typing mp3.com in a browser
Caus frankly, I don't believe mp3.com nearly has the amount of popularity of other mp3 search engines out there, and the company certainly isn't very rich (last i checked, their stock was running around 4 or 5 dollars a share - MPPP on the ticker)
Bah, greedy corporations and bloodsucking lawyers. It's sad they can get away with this crap.
Let's not forget the issue is NOT microsoft's security hole. All oses have that, it's that the userbase is not up to date on installing the security fixes
That's not completely true either. If I released a bunch of faulty brakes and then _only_ started "fixing" them when people started dying from car accidents, I doubt I'd get away scot free without a fine or any fault, etc.
Firestone did a shitty job with their tires and they took a huge hit in lawsuits and recalls BECAUSE they released an inferior product. Is Microsoft different for some reason? This isn't a case of a simple random bug showing up. This is a time-earned incredibly buggy and insecure operating system. Firestone got nailed for ONE mistake. Microsoft gets away with practically DAILY exploits (big ones too). Why can't we hold Microsoft accountable?
The Funimation people are complete bitches. They complain about practically _any_ use of DBZ in any way. If you say the word the wrong way, they'll be on your case.
I've seen alot of posts regarding the legal implications of white hat worms due to the fact that you are "trespassing" on property that isn't yours.
However, there's another (imo more significant) implication to consider. The intense global network traffic caused by spread of Code Red practically brought the Internet to its knees for a couple days due to the sheer magnitude of data travelling over the wires. Worms double effectively as DoS attacks even when not attempting to. Now, as bad as the Code Red infestation hammered the internet, releasing an equivalent White Hat worm could significantly _increase_ the amount of traffic out there. Put enough worms out there, good OR evil, and you'll eventually get to the point where the whole damn internet is DoS'ed.
There is a way (I have it written down at home) to do this. I stumbled across it when looking for a way to coem up with a shortcut icon to doubleclick to shut down my machine (rather than the standard Start, Shutdown method). It involves using rundll32 with a specific command and some options (offhand, I can't remember what they are) And it works quite nicely too (tried it myself)...it pretty much just kills everything and shuts down (you don't get those annoying "waiting for task to end" boxes)
I just can't respect any top 50 gaming list that doesn't include MOO2 (Master of Orion 2) SOMEWHERE in that listing. I mean, come on, that game was just _great_, definitely one of the "definitive" games of history.
A lot of people are told by the Linux evangelists 'just pop the CD in, follow the instructions, and the way to Paradise is clear.'
Are these people Windows-using UNIX admin wanna-bes? Because I seriously doubt any serious UNIX user (doesn't even have to be a zealot) would be stupid enough to make such a claim.
Ok, then we're obviously at a different view on this. My thought of a "honeynet" and its purpose is to figure out the way your attacker thinks, how they behave/attack, etc to better be prepared for future incursions. From what you're telling me, the point of the honeynet is merely to see how many attackers are out there. That much info I believed was common knowledge (be it through actual knowledge or through media-hype-naysayers of the internet). It doesn't seem to be so much a test in security measures as is it a proof of the number of script kiddies as well as unprotected computers out there.
we estimate the life expectancy of a default installation of Red Hat 6.2 server to be less then 72 hours
All their studies are done on default installations!
Of course these things are going to get cracked within days!
I'd like to see them put up a honeypot with a secured/tmp, a non_exec stack, suid bits removed on all but the essential binaries, and a semi-decent firewall (4 EASY fixes that people are too lazy to do) and see how long that lasts.
It seems like 99% of all exploits nowadays are buffer overflows or symlink, and its really not that hard to stop a large majority of those (it'll stop the script kiddies dead in their tracks at least)
These tests against "default" installations don't really show the state of security of the net so much as they show the immediate blackhat/scriptkiddie response to the laziness and ignorance of the admins of a majority of the machines out there based on the security-lax nature of default installations (with exception to systems like BSD, where such a thing is actually considered).
OK, I'm partially worried as well as partially excited. From what I've read of the Apocalypse series, Perl 6 is changing "old school" Perl ALOT. It's like a whole new programming language. Needless to say, many of these additions ($array[0] to @array[0] notation, here documents that defy whitespace, etc) I've been waiting for a long time;P
But the changes introduce a practically brand new programming language. I haven't decided quite yet if it will be fun or annoying "relearning" the new syntaxes and quirks of Perl 6.
Actually, from the jargon file/hacker dictionary (and possibly studies as well), there's a strong correlation between programmers and people interested in martial arts. Oddly, it seems to be the one form of physical activity the "geek" type is interested in.
now that's not a fair statement at all...both Battlebots and Junkyard Wars involve construction (Battlebots merely doesn't show that part)...and in Battlebots, the competition is the two "creations" fighting whereas the competition in Junkyard Wars isn't as destructive.
Anyways, if you want to get technical and metaphorical, Battlebots is about creating something new and unique, attacking it to test its flaws, and then fixing its mistakes or rebuilding it stronger. I know of no other "true hacker" spirit than that.
You seem to assume that as hard drives are getting bigger, data is remaining constant. Back in the day, games were ASCII, etc, and the largest were a couple megs big. Most you could fit on a disk. The latest game I played (Baldur's Gate 2), doing a full install takes approximately 2 gigs of space. As for compression, it may be getting "more advanced", but even that has limits, and size is still shooting up dramtically. My movies collection over the years has shifted from realplayer to asf to avi to divx. The pr0n trend has been moving from 1kb jpgs and gifs to full length 650 meg movies. People are _using_ that extra space to do nifty things in quality enhancement (or feature bloat). Otherwise, those divx files wouldn't take up 1 gig, they'd take up the 20 or 30 megs my old real player files do. You think this trend towards better quality at expense of space is going to suddenly halt? Data size will continue to grow, maybe not in direct correlation to HD space, but it will grow nonetheless. By the time we have terabyte drives, I doubt it would take you long to fill it up.
dude, apocalypse means end of the world, and if our sun _does_ go red giant, earth will be baked to a crisp. So its actually not a bit much, its quite accurate.
First off, I'd like to say that not all people with prima donna syndrome have to be the best at what they do. I happen to know I have many of these characteristics, but I can still admit when I'm wrong and can admit when someone is better than me at something.
I think the article hit the nail on the head with this statement:
`They worked hard on it, so don't trash it,' but on the other hand, would you like to drive over a bridge with the assurance that people worked hard on it? Or do you want to know they got it right?
This (imo) is the heart of the issue with primas vs "normals" (so to speak). With this mentality often comes a driving need for practicality, functionality, and logical sense. And it leaves little room for tact or pandering to the emotional needs of the usually self-conscious "normal." Face it, most people do NOT take criticism well. Primas strive for excellence, and expect others to do the same...criticism is not a prima's way of saying "boy you suck, damn am I cool"...its the way of saying "dude, here's yer mistakes, fix them and get better." Very poor people skills and lack of tack often make this sort of thing sound like the prima is simply trashing the work for no reason more than arrogance and egocentrism. Read Any Rand's "The Fountainhead" sometime...it's a damn good read, and deals with the elitist "genius" persona. People like this have a right to be proud and arrogant. This DOESN'T give them the right to treat people like dirt, or to be ignorant. But like I already mentioned, these are often (not always) misconceptions. Primas are merely critical by nature. And most people are defensive and easy to take offense. The personality types naturally clash. I don't blame the primas. They aren't the emotionally weak and praise-dependent ones, the co-workers are. If I wrote up a piece of code and it looked shitty, I'd _hope_ someone had the balls to step up and tell me it sucked so that I could learn rather than churn out the same crap the following day. People just don't appreicate criticism. That's why the primas aren't appreicated. The more you can put up with incompetence without saying anything, the more of a "team player" you are (good definition).
On a side note, I've found the main distinction between the "good" prima and the "bad" prima is ignorance. Those primas that think they are gods, and are ignorant to any possible contrary, are the ones that are a pain in the ass. The ones that think they are right most of the time (because admit it, normally they are), but can at least have an open mind and level head about things, are valuable assets imo.
This article speaks of the prima personality as if its a bad thing. Well like I said already, I'll take a go-getter who tells me when I'm wrong over a perky, happy incompetent that reassures and reaffirms all my failings. The former encourages change, the latter cements incompetence.
Btw, on a further side note, I've found that if you can take a prima's criticism with an open mind, and not simply take it personally and lash out, that prima WILL come to respect you. That means they will be nicer. Accepting a prima's advice/criticism (or at least dealing with it in a non-disregarding or hostile manner) lets that prima know that you respect his/her opinion and that you aren't a brain-dead incompetent. In turn, they will treat you accordingly, more as an equal than as a lesser who doesn't respect them.
So I implore you, don't ostracize the primas of the world. Listen and learn (or in some cases, listen and humor), and you'll get along fine.
What are the differences?
Someone mentioned there's a link to SELinux on the TrustedBSD website. And from reading what's incorporated in TrustedBSD, it seems to me that at first glance it's basically the same thing as SELinux (someone please correct me if this isn't true). They're basically both mandatory access control security overlays for operating systems (the only difference being Linux vs BSD).
I've worked with SELinux a bit, and (most) everything mentioned on that page is similar (policy file, access control lists, etc) So what I want to know is...what's the difference between the two? (or is there one?)
I was thinking the same thing. I'm a pro-nuclear advocate, and I understand how safe it is (the statistics are actually extremely low on the possibility of meltdown). But when you're firing these things into the atmosphere, it only takes one slipup to really screw humanity.
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for reasons posted in other thread
Caus frankly, I don't believe mp3.com nearly has the amount of popularity of other mp3 search engines out there, and the company certainly isn't very rich (last i checked, their stock was running around 4 or 5 dollars a share - MPPP on the ticker)
Bah, greedy corporations and bloodsucking lawyers. It's sad they can get away with this crap.
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Firestone did a shitty job with their tires and they took a huge hit in lawsuits and recalls BECAUSE they released an inferior product. Is Microsoft different for some reason? This isn't a case of a simple random bug showing up. This is a time-earned incredibly buggy and insecure operating system. Firestone got nailed for ONE mistake. Microsoft gets away with practically DAILY exploits (big ones too). Why can't we hold Microsoft accountable?
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Critics:
"See Angelina Jolie bounce repeatedly as she dodges railgun blasts! Absolutely titilating!"
"Best movie since Tomb Raider!"
"Action thriller! Heart pounding action that includes even MORE unrealistic, gravity defying acrobatics that makes the Matrix look like Pong!"
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However, there's another (imo more significant) implication to consider. The intense global network traffic caused by spread of Code Red practically brought the Internet to its knees for a couple days due to the sheer magnitude of data travelling over the wires. Worms double effectively as DoS attacks even when not attempting to. Now, as bad as the Code Red infestation hammered the internet, releasing an equivalent White Hat worm could significantly _increase_ the amount of traffic out there. Put enough worms out there, good OR evil, and you'll eventually get to the point where the whole damn internet is DoS'ed.
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A lot of people are told by the Linux evangelists 'just pop the CD in, follow the instructions, and the way to Paradise is clear.'
Are these people Windows-using UNIX admin wanna-bes? Because I seriously doubt any serious UNIX user (doesn't even have to be a zealot) would be stupid enough to make such a claim.
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All their studies are done on default installations! /tmp, a non_exec stack, suid bits removed on all but the essential binaries, and a semi-decent firewall (4 EASY fixes that people are too lazy to do) and see how long that lasts.
Of course these things are going to get cracked within days!
I'd like to see them put up a honeypot with a secured
It seems like 99% of all exploits nowadays are buffer overflows or symlink, and its really not that hard to stop a large majority of those (it'll stop the script kiddies dead in their tracks at least)
These tests against "default" installations don't really show the state of security of the net so much as they show the immediate blackhat/scriptkiddie response to the laziness and ignorance of the admins of a majority of the machines out there based on the security-lax nature of default installations (with exception to systems like BSD, where such a thing is actually considered).
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But the changes introduce a practically brand new programming language. I haven't decided quite yet if it will be fun or annoying "relearning" the new syntaxes and quirks of Perl 6.
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Anyways, if you want to get technical and metaphorical, Battlebots is about creating something new and unique, attacking it to test its flaws, and then fixing its mistakes or rebuilding it stronger. I know of no other "true hacker" spirit than that.
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First off, I'd like to say that not all people with prima donna syndrome have to be the best at what they do. I happen to know I have many of these characteristics, but I can still admit when I'm wrong and can admit when someone is better than me at something.
I think the article hit the nail on the head with this statement:
This (imo) is the heart of the issue with primas vs "normals" (so to speak). With this mentality often comes a driving need for practicality, functionality, and logical sense. And it leaves little room for tact or pandering to the emotional needs of the usually self-conscious "normal." Face it, most people do NOT take criticism well. Primas strive for excellence, and expect others to do the same...criticism is not a prima's way of saying "boy you suck, damn am I cool"...its the way of saying "dude, here's yer mistakes, fix them and get better." Very poor people skills and lack of tack often make this sort of thing sound like the prima is simply trashing the work for no reason more than arrogance and egocentrism. Read Any Rand's "The Fountainhead" sometime...it's a damn good read, and deals with the elitist "genius" persona. People like this have a right to be proud and arrogant. This DOESN'T give them the right to treat people like dirt, or to be ignorant. But like I already mentioned, these are often (not always) misconceptions. Primas are merely critical by nature. And most people are defensive and easy to take offense. The personality types naturally clash. I don't blame the primas. They aren't the emotionally weak and praise-dependent ones, the co-workers are. If I wrote up a piece of code and it looked shitty, I'd _hope_ someone had the balls to step up and tell me it sucked so that I could learn rather than churn out the same crap the following day. People just don't appreicate criticism. That's why the primas aren't appreicated. The more you can put up with incompetence without saying anything, the more of a "team player" you are (good definition).On a side note, I've found the main distinction between the "good" prima and the "bad" prima is ignorance. Those primas that think they are gods, and are ignorant to any possible contrary, are the ones that are a pain in the ass. The ones that think they are right most of the time (because admit it, normally they are), but can at least have an open mind and level head about things, are valuable assets imo.
This article speaks of the prima personality as if its a bad thing. Well like I said already, I'll take a go-getter who tells me when I'm wrong over a perky, happy incompetent that reassures and reaffirms all my failings. The former encourages change, the latter cements incompetence.
Btw, on a further side note, I've found that if you can take a prima's criticism with an open mind, and not simply take it personally and lash out, that prima WILL come to respect you. That means they will be nicer. Accepting a prima's advice/criticism (or at least dealing with it in a non-disregarding or hostile manner) lets that prima know that you respect his/her opinion and that you aren't a brain-dead incompetent. In turn, they will treat you accordingly, more as an equal than as a lesser who doesn't respect them.
So I implore you, don't ostracize the primas of the world. Listen and learn (or in some cases, listen and humor), and you'll get along fine.
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