but how many of us look at every line of code in a distibuted or outsourced project
* How many of us ship viruses with a state of the art costly development environment which will be used by thousands of developers ?
*Does outsourcing absolve you from such things ? Are not open source products outsourced if you mean people from distributed geographical locations working on it ?
* There are absolutely no excuses to this kind of fsck ups. Can't they just checksum stuff , keep a list of files somewhere. For someone who claims how secure their systems are , such a fsck up , eventhough it is not going to affect anyone goes to show how easy it is subvert closed software packages. I often wonder whether it will be possible to ship a Nimda/Klez with the Linux Kernel ?
the McAfee virus story http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/ 14/1343223&mode=nested&tid=166&threshold=3 and we got ourselves a real conspiracy theory:))
They only affect Microsoft Windows. If you aren't running Windows, you are safe...
No you are not. Its not what fscking OS you are running, it about what OS and applications are running on the system to which you gave your credit card number and your SSN. Its about what OS your company runs to store the employee databases. You can hide your head in sand and pretend that you are safe ofcourse..
Stan on Microsoft http://www.independent.org/tii/news/lie bowitz_pric es.html Abstract : In 5 software categories where Microsoft did not have a product, prices fell by an average of 15 percent over the eight year period, with several periods of price increases. In the 10 categories where Microsoft had a product, prices fell by 65 percent.
Stan on Bill http://www.independent.org/tii/news/liebowit z_wsj1 . tml Abstract : Instead, Microsoft achieved its success the old-fashioned way--with better products.
Stan on Law http://www.actonline.org/getIT/Balkanization% 20stu d.asp Abstract : If the nine litigating states get their wish, independent software vendors and consumers will be stuck with 80 Billion dollars in new costs over the next three years.
Unlike other countries contemplating hydrogen power, Iceland has a chance to develop a genuinely carbon dioxide-free system, since the electricity to make hydrogen from the electrolysis of water will come from hydro or geothermal power , not fossil fuel.
So basically its still electricity ?
Now whats the difference between an electric car and a hydrogen powered car..i bet the electric car is safer..
If you were a manager and wanted your employees to read a PDF, what piece of software would you want on their machines?
assuming i was a manager , i would know that my employees do not read documents , whatever format they are in..they just post on slashdot and play games..
on another vien...i could use * xpdf * konqueror can view pdf files * pdf2ps > gs
Main components
* Kernel 2.4.18 or higher
* glibc 2.2.5
* gcc 3.1
* XFree86 4.2
* KDE 3.0
* Acrobat Reader
From when has Acrobat Reader become this important?
And to mention it in the same breath as the kernel and gcc is blasphemy..ok i could accept emacs;)
he's gonna give all the proceeds from XP to the *poor countries* and *AIDS prevention* and probably stand for election..you will have to vote through your passport id id anyway:))
Does Slashdot only carry atricles about Windows and Microsoft.There are atleast 3 today.Even +4 comments are beginning to sound repetitive.
Guys get sensible. There are more good things to discuss than these. If theres a internal leak at Microsoft its news here. If theres an article somewhere discussing them its news here. To a point its good but after a point it just looks like a unionist discussion forum..
Re:This is a trojan horse, plain and simple.
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disables another piece of software for which that person has paid good money
What do you mean by disable? It writes into a file and thats all (well think service packs!). The Spying software itself gets disabled. Anyway trusting such a lame software for privacy is idiotic.
Any good antispying software must be a a part of the OS. I guess both these are Windows only problems (anyway if you use XP , why do you need privacy?).
Slashdot Mirror
Too much sex as bad a too less
but how many of us look at every line of code in a distibuted or outsourced project
* How many of us ship viruses with a state of the art costly development environment which will be used by thousands of developers ?
*Does outsourcing absolve you from such things ? Are not open source products outsourced if you mean people from distributed geographical locations working on it ?
* There are absolutely no excuses to this kind of fsck ups. Can't they just checksum stuff , keep a list of files somewhere. For someone who claims how secure their systems are , such a fsck up , eventhough it is not going to affect anyone goes to show how easy it is subvert closed software packages. I often wonder whether it will be possible to ship a Nimda/Klez with the Linux Kernel ?
the McAfee virus story http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/ 14/1343223&mode=nested&tid=166&threshold=3 :))
and we got ourselves a real conspiracy theory
They only affect Microsoft Windows. If you aren't running Windows, you are safe...
No you are not. Its not what fscking OS you are running, it about what OS and applications are running on the system to which you gave your credit card number and your SSN. Its about what OS your company runs to store the employee databases. You can hide your head in sand and pretend that you are safe ofcourse..
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/1 365491
Remote access for MS RAS
Stan on Microsofte bowitz_pric es.html
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% 20stu d.asp
http://www.independent.org/tii/news/li
Abstract : In 5 software categories where Microsoft did not have a product, prices fell by an average of 15 percent over the eight year period, with several periods of price increases. In the 10 categories where Microsoft had a product, prices fell by 65 percent.
Stan on Bill
http://www.independent.org/tii/news/liebowi
Abstract : Instead, Microsoft achieved its success the old-fashioned way--with better products.
Stan on Law
http://www.actonline.org/getIT/Balkanization
Abstract : If the nine litigating states get their wish, independent software vendors and consumers will be stuck with 80 Billion dollars in new costs over the next three years.
My Conclusion:
Stan had a change of heart ?
to figure out how many libraries of congress you can fit into that..
All your holes are belong to us ...
"What will the humans do with their time once they realize they are obsolete?"
..Mod me down
They will post on Slashdot !
This is however, completely off topic
Ok so is mine
in the loo ofcourse ... ...
less sound , and you cant find out whose makin that goddam stink
even if the government cant get you .. .. ...
..
even if the mpaa can shut you down
you can get fsckin slashdotted
anyway , who wants to watch hairy potter
http://www.satirewire.com/news/june02/economy_of_e rrors.shtml
Unless this some phenomenal new thing, this is the kind of stuff for bookmakers and betters..once it was horses now its jockz...
we could have prevented seles gettin stabbed ?
nothin can beat human unpredictability
Search => Osama Bin Laden ...
...
Latitude/Longitude => 37/180, Pak
Capture
If this would have come out before we could have saved a country
Unlike other countries contemplating hydrogen power, Iceland has a chance to develop a genuinely carbon dioxide-free system, since the electricity to make hydrogen from the electrolysis of water will come from hydro or geothermal power , not fossil fuel.
..i bet the electric car is safer ..
So basically its still electricity ?
Now whats the difference between an electric car and a hydrogen powered car
If you were a manager and wanted your employees to read a PDF, what piece of software would you want on their machines?
..they just post on slashdot and play games..
...i could use
assuming i was a manager , i would know that my employees do not read documents , whatever format they are in
on another vien
* xpdf
* konqueror can view pdf files
* pdf2ps > gs
gotya ?
Main components * Kernel 2.4.18 or higher * glibc 2.2.5 * gcc 3.1 * XFree86 4.2 * KDE 3.0 * Acrobat Reader From when has Acrobat Reader become this important? And to mention it in the same breath as the kernel and gcc is blasphemy ..ok i could accept emacs ;)
Wrote a whole article so that he could get :)
tech support on his modem
If you had better tools, you could more effectively demonstrate your total incompetence.
...
true..true
he's gonna give all the proceeds from XP to the *poor countries* and *AIDS prevention* and probably stand for election ..you will have to vote through your passport id id anyway :))
Does Slashdot only carry atricles about Windows and Microsoft .There are atleast 3 today.Even +4 comments are beginning to sound repetitive.
Guys get sensible.
There are more good things to discuss than these.
If theres a internal leak at Microsoft its news here. If theres an article somewhere discussing them its news here. To a point its good but after a point it just looks like a unionist discussion forum..
disables another piece of software for which that person has paid good money What do you mean by disable? It writes into a file and thats all (well think service packs!). The Spying software itself gets disabled. Anyway trusting such a lame software for privacy is idiotic. Any good antispying software must be a a part of the OS. I guess both these are Windows only problems (anyway if you use XP , why do you need privacy?).
And Iam typing this on that
www.slashdot.org Now that was only about 40 bytes...