Well I am referring to the Linux kernel, not anything else. Look at that recent root hole this year...it was known about for a few weeks and only fixed when pressured to via full disclosure.
I guess they know they can't win a full war so want to go out with a bang. Scary....nothing to lose but probably more than happy to leave an imprint on history.
The court is controlling much more than what the term means. In this example 'rape trauma syndrome' may have a simple enough definition, but substantially different viewpoints on how debilitating it may be or what long term damages would exist. Say i'm a prosecutor trying to claim that the defendant somehow caused this person to get 'XYZ Syndrome.' Damages would need to be assessed on the severity of XYZ Syndrome. I may get an expert to say that XYZ may be fatal, while the defense might have their more conservative expert witness say it only causes a cough for 15 minutes. The severity of the damages may be an important part of the verdict or sentencing. The court isn't necessary controlling what the word "is" means, but narrowing the scope of its meaning to what has been discussed.
I understand your point,but no matter how you look at it it is kind of fucked up to prevent people from doing their own research to expand on what they have been told. As per your example if they have two contradicting accounts of the severity of XYZ syndrome then by researching it they will have a clearer idea and understand it can be everything in between mild and severe.
The point is that Linux devs often only make a patch after being forced to. At the moment there are many problems which they just ignore as they don't consider the problems interesting or as important as getting the scheduler.0000001% faster.
I am getting modded down because zealots have modpoints.
Most people who use Linux don't review the code nor should they be expected to. We should expect the developers to disclose security problems in a responsible way. They don't, they obscure them.
So yes, the developers do practice security via obscurity. DO I really need to go and link the interview on kerneltrap where they say and defend that practice?
Just because there was a shift in tone away from episodic plots with a bit of humour and action, does not make the show more adult nor does it make the characters deeper. I think the characters in SG1 were far deeper and complex than anyone in SGU despite the format. SGU was more dramatic, but that was it. It was in no way better or more adult.
It's not surprising I have been modded down already, but I am referring to the policy of the developers not to disclosure security bugs that can result in remote compromise, and not to treat them with any priority. A policy I find appalling.
W13 is strictly fantasy, not sci-fi. There is no science or technology just fantasy. A warehouse which is a mystical force headed by a mystical woman overseen by a mystical group of overseers. With a mystical history. The warehouse also contains mystical objects which have to be tracked down and put in mystical goo to negate the mystical damage it may have caused or will caused.
Eureka on the other hand is plauisble most of the time, enough to suspend disbelief anyway.
Also the leads of W13 are extremely annoying and I feel like I am watching some of the kids from saved by the bell.
While OpenWall won't see much adoption on it's own I do hope a lot of the work gets ported to other distributions so it is in common use.
Not trolling, but Linux Security is somewhat atrocious these days with the whole security via obscurity approach, so I for one have a better state of mind when I know I can protect myself even in the result of a succusful exploit.
Timetravel has absolutely nothing to do with anything that I wrote. I was talking about the finale of SGA and the Wormhold Drive.
WHile Ronin and Teal'c had very different backstories, the end result was the same, at least abstractly -- except Teal'c was always a lot more deep and complex while Ronin never was.
No, in the finale of SGA Rodney has a "Wormhole Drive" which was never mentioned previously on SG1 or SGA, and got them to earth in seconds. It was bullshit, and should have negated the entire premise of SGU.
I couldnt help but feel I was watching many of the same stories told on SG1 but in a different setting. Not to mention the shameless recasting of actors from SG1 in different roles on SGA....way to screw up continuity....
SGA just never got past feeling like a cashgrab for me. The Icarus bug was interesting but never really explored....instead we got lame gothy vampire villians that simply were not interesting.
Also, just to point out the SGA replicators were completely separate from the SG1 replicators...something I also found annoying for several reasons.
Out of curiosity what new ideas do you think SGA explored?
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Well I am referring to the Linux kernel, not anything else. Look at that recent root hole this year...it was known about for a few weeks and only fixed when pressured to via full disclosure.
I guess they know they can't win a full war so want to go out with a bang. Scary....nothing to lose but probably more than happy to leave an imprint on history.
The court is controlling much more than what the term means. In this example 'rape trauma syndrome' may have a simple enough definition, but substantially different viewpoints on how debilitating it may be or what long term damages would exist. Say i'm a prosecutor trying to claim that the defendant somehow caused this person to get 'XYZ Syndrome.' Damages would need to be assessed on the severity of XYZ Syndrome. I may get an expert to say that XYZ may be fatal, while the defense might have their more conservative expert witness say it only causes a cough for 15 minutes. The severity of the damages may be an important part of the verdict or sentencing. The court isn't necessary controlling what the word "is" means, but narrowing the scope of its meaning to what has been discussed.
I understand your point,but no matter how you look at it it is kind of fucked up to prevent people from doing their own research to expand on what they have been told. As per your example if they have two contradicting accounts of the severity of XYZ syndrome then by researching it they will have a clearer idea and understand it can be everything in between mild and severe.
The point is that Linux devs often only make a patch after being forced to. At the moment there are many problems which they just ignore as they don't consider the problems interesting or as important as getting the scheduler .0000001% faster.
I am getting modded down because zealots have modpoints.
Most people who use Linux don't review the code nor should they be expected to. We should expect the developers to disclose security problems in a responsible way. They don't, they obscure them.
So yes, the developers do practice security via obscurity. DO I really need to go and link the interview on kerneltrap where they say and defend that practice?
Not sure what you were saying, but my point was that the show was not more adult at all, it was just made to look that way.
Except it took less than 2 seconds to get from Pegasus to earth with the wormhole drive. So what, a few months to get back home at most?
Oh, you mean Sergeant Hate.
Just because there was a shift in tone away from episodic plots with a bit of humour and action, does not make the show more adult nor does it make the characters deeper. I think the characters in SG1 were far deeper and complex than anyone in SGU despite the format. SGU was more dramatic, but that was it. It was in no way better or more adult.
That's true, but thats because the story fleshes out those cliches. SGA did not.
Well done :-)
It's not surprising I have been modded down already, but I am referring to the policy of the developers not to disclosure security bugs that can result in remote compromise, and not to treat them with any priority. A policy I find appalling.
It would have been nice if that at least addressed why the wormhole drive couldn't work to get them back home.
Not with the wormhole drive.....
Atlantis was in the Pegasus Galaxy. SGU are just in a third different galaxy....is it necessarily that much further away?
Wrong. Teyla filled that gap nicely.
Eli was a slacker teenager with absolutely no place on the ship, let alone as a stand in for an expert scientist.
I don't know......
W13 is strictly fantasy, not sci-fi. There is no science or technology just fantasy. A warehouse which is a mystical force headed by a mystical woman overseen by a mystical group of overseers. With a mystical history. The warehouse also contains mystical objects which have to be tracked down and put in mystical goo to negate the mystical damage it may have caused or will caused.
Eureka on the other hand is plauisble most of the time, enough to suspend disbelief anyway.
Also the leads of W13 are extremely annoying and I feel like I am watching some of the kids from saved by the bell.
I *loved* sliders until they killed the professor and introduced the Kromags. A damn shame to see a show gone so wrong.
While OpenWall won't see much adoption on it's own I do hope a lot of the work gets ported to other distributions so it is in common use.
Not trolling, but Linux Security is somewhat atrocious these days with the whole security via obscurity approach, so I for one have a better state of mind when I know I can protect myself even in the result of a succusful exploit.
Because now the view antisocial diehard SG fans that liked it have nothing to do on a Tuesday night.
Timetravel has absolutely nothing to do with anything that I wrote. I was talking about the finale of SGA and the Wormhold Drive.
WHile Ronin and Teal'c had very different backstories, the end result was the same, at least abstractly -- except Teal'c was always a lot more deep and complex while Ronin never was.
No, in the finale of SGA Rodney has a "Wormhole Drive" which was never mentioned previously on SG1 or SGA, and got them to earth in seconds. It was bullshit, and should have negated the entire premise of SGU.
Abstractly he was. The socially bumbling science expert. Sam became a lot more sociably capable after season 1, but the similarities are plentiful.
I watched all seasons over the course of a week.
I couldnt help but feel I was watching many of the same stories told on SG1 but in a different setting. Not to mention the shameless recasting of actors from SG1 in different roles on SGA....way to screw up continuity....
SGA just never got past feeling like a cashgrab for me. The Icarus bug was interesting but never really explored....instead we got lame gothy vampire villians that simply were not interesting.
Also, just to point out the SGA replicators were completely separate from the SG1 replicators...something I also found annoying for several reasons.
Out of curiosity what new ideas do you think SGA explored?