You're both also failing to notice that this guy says that "shadow photons" are made of "shadow atoms"!!! Photons are believed to be elementary particles. As such they are not made up from anything. This is true of all guage bosons. When you are talking about atoms together to form things, then you are talking about chemistry and that is at a molecular level.
Well, I'm running 10.0 and have been running it since just before beta 1. The 2.6.x kernel changes are amazing for the desktop user. The speed at which X based applications respond is noticeable faster. Also, I have noticed that memory usage on my laptop (P4 1.6GHz with 512MB RAM) has dropped about 35% over the previous 2.4.22 kernel I was running in 9.2. These two items alone make the upgrade worthwhile for desktop users. For server purposes, I have yet to really put a lot of effort into it. I usually wait a few months before I start running servers with a new distro. So far though, I am running an Anti-SPAM/Anti-Virus e-mail gateway with 10.0, and it seems to run VERY well on this 300MHz/256MB RAM machine. Overall, I have to say . . . nicely done!!
That it doesn't fool the security zones in IE. If you have a site in your "Trusted Sites" zone, and you try to spoof that site using the mentioned vulnerability, the Address Bar shows false, but the Zone is not fooled. Thank heavens for small miracles.
I actually found the article quite refreshing and a good call. I agree with most of his points. In his terms, I would be on the borderline between a Priest and a Pro. I dislike Windows for technical reasons, and I dislike Microsoft for philosophical reasons; but I also know that there are situations where solutions other than Linux or Open-Source are the answer. Sometimes, there just isn't a Linux or Open-Source alternative. I would it were that I could program well enough to remedy that situation, but alas, I am a mere sysadmin and not a coder extraordinaire.
Bedazzled (The original with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore) Empire Records (Liv Tyler.... Yummy!) The Fisher King (Robin Williams was great!) LadyHawke (Rutger Houer and Michelle Pfiefer) Pitch Black (Vin Diesel and Claudia Black)
All of these were really good and never made it big at the box office.
Personally, I didn't enter the high-tech field because I wanted to. I did it because that was who I am. I wouldn't have been happy (relatively) if I had forced myself into another profession.
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I've always been a fan of your science fiction series TekWar and so on, but I would like to know where some of the ideas behind it came from? Were some of those ideas spawned from the legendary Gene Roddenbery, or were they all your own?
I am the Director of Managed Security for a company on Hawaii, and we rovide managed Security Services to various companies around the state based on Snort. Snort truly is a very good IDS, and if configured properly it will generate few if any false positive alerts. Most of the reason that people say bad things about a product is due to their own lack of experience in setting it up.
Here's a question. When did we all grow up? I mean, I loved the Transformers and still do, but every time I taslk to any of myfriends I get a ration of disdain from them about watching cartoons. In the meantime, they watch Invader Zim and that's alright... Hrrrmmmm... Viva La Tranformers!!!!
The Hawaii International Film Festival rolled this out last year too. It was great!! The theatre was packed (over 200 people), and the movie itself was excellent. The history behind the cyGNUs name is rather interesting.
Yes! Exactly. There are several standards for the evaluation of computer security. The more accepted today is the Common Criteria of Information Security Evaluation (Common Criteria for short) and the good old Rainbow series from the US Gov't. Particularly the RED book for the evaluation of trusted computer systems and the orange book for the evaluation of trusted networks. There are many more, but the problem is not so much that we need these standards, but that many companies are not willing to go to the expense of implementing them. This leads to shotty software because no organization or company is paying to check out all of the possible flaws in their systems.
Ah, but what you failed to mention is that the Chemical Weapons Convention only refers to chemicals which incapacitate people at a biological level. This is a physical deterrent, and not a chemical weapon. It would be the same as putting banana peels all over the ground (As the original post mentions). That is not a violation of the accord.
Microsoft "Quit picking on us, or we'll take our toys and go home..."
The NYT article makes Ballmer sound like a spoiled child.. Not a good thing to do in front of the American public. So, Microsoft, who has more money than God, says they can't produce Windows if they are forced to release a version without IE? How many programmers do they have? If they were to release a crippled version of Windows without IE it would look better to the public than to not release any at all. This kinda makes them look dumb.
The problem is that the JRE has a security manager which, unless the user mucks it up, won't allow virii to access the local machine or resources (i.e. address book).
They take all of the power of Java and then throw in all of the security vulnerabilities of C/C++. It's only inevitable that C# is going to cuase all sorts of headaches for people like me (Security professionals).
Microsoft is using these arguments as stall tactics to:
- Wear the DoJ down - Waste our tax monies - Tire the states - Prevent the release of the windows source code
They can tie this up in court until end of the decade, by which time they will just say "Oh! Here's the code for Windows 95." because windows 2010 will be out after three interim versions which they used to secure their monopoly. The US legal system is supposed to have speedy trials, but I foresee this one stretching out quite a ways.
This is the first, of likely many, legal tactics that MS is going to use to prevent the ordered release of the Windows source code. As their argument actually has a minor bit of merit, the courts will have to investigate and argue their position. This means that MicroSoft's lawyers have some time to come up with their next time wasting strategy while they maintain their monopoly. Each time their arguments get shot down, they will come up with another argument which will bog down the entire case again and again until one of the following happens:
- The states capitulate to a not so devastating settlement - The DOJ screws up and loses one of the arguments - Microsoft screws up and loses
It's likely that we will not see an end to this case within this decade...
If the statement made is true, and the artists still own the rights to the materials; then couldn't Napster make distribution agreements with the artists themselves? We have all heard how little money the artists make from the labels for distribution of their materials, and that they have to tour to pay the bills; but if they negotiate their own distribution with the digital content providers, then they would get whatever their contract stipulates. That would be a win for the artists, the consumers, and the content providers...
Truth be told, a goephysicist friend of mine told me why they look for life and water on Mars. It is to estimate the likelyhood of more life in the universe, and to determine the practicality of creating human colonies on other planets. If water and life are common, then the entire idea becomes far more practical. If water is abundant and available, then we can move out among the stars at a much faster rate than current science has estimated.
The core memory thing was really interesting. The computer I used to maintin in the Navy ran on Core memory. It weighed a ton, ran slower than molasses uphill in a blizzard, but it NEVER failed. It was a great technology for the time.
Mandrake has this option. If you install with either the 'high' or 'paranoid' security levels, the installed services are installed with very tight restrictions. In fact, at high and paranoid, sshd will not allow remote root; apache does not allow CGIs; local root login is denied(paranoid only); etc... Not too shabby.
I use e-music, and I regularly get 150-250kbps download speeds (Cable modem). They have all of the major industrial and synthpop labels (Metropolis, Cleopatra, etc...). I just downloaded Wumpscut's "Bunkertor 7" last night. Perfect playback and no worries about corrupt mp3's. Also, if you use freeamp, it works even better.
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You're both also failing to notice that this guy says that "shadow photons" are made of "shadow atoms"!!! Photons are believed to be elementary particles. As such they are not made up from anything. This is true of all guage bosons. When you are talking about atoms together to form things, then you are talking about chemistry and that is at a molecular level.
Well, I'm running 10.0 and have been running it since just before beta 1. The 2.6.x kernel changes are amazing for the desktop user. The speed at which X based applications respond is noticeable faster. Also, I have noticed that memory usage on my laptop (P4 1.6GHz with 512MB RAM) has dropped about 35% over the previous 2.4.22 kernel I was running in 9.2. These two items alone make the upgrade worthwhile for desktop users. For server purposes, I have yet to really put a lot of effort into it. I usually wait a few months before I start running servers with a new distro. So far though, I am running an Anti-SPAM/Anti-Virus e-mail gateway with 10.0, and it seems to run VERY well on this 300MHz/256MB RAM machine. Overall, I have to say . . . nicely done!!
There's a VERY detailed article about the whole thing over at Physics Web.
That it doesn't fool the security zones in IE. If you have a site in your "Trusted Sites" zone, and you try to spoof that site using the mentioned vulnerability, the Address Bar shows false, but the Zone is not fooled. Thank heavens for small miracles.
I actually found the article quite refreshing and a good call. I agree with most of his points. In his terms, I would be on the borderline between a Priest and a Pro. I dislike Windows for technical reasons, and I dislike Microsoft for philosophical reasons; but I also know that there are situations where solutions other than Linux or Open-Source are the answer. Sometimes, there just isn't a Linux or Open-Source alternative. I would it were that I could program well enough to remedy that situation, but alas, I am a mere sysadmin and not a coder extraordinaire.
A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.
.. that no one seems to have watched:
Bedazzled (The original with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore)
Empire Records (Liv Tyler.... Yummy!)
The Fisher King (Robin Williams was great!)
LadyHawke (Rutger Houer and Michelle Pfiefer)
Pitch Black (Vin Diesel and Claudia Black)
All of these were really good and never made it big at the box office.
Personally, I didn't enter the high-tech field because I wanted to. I did it because that was who I am. I wouldn't have been happy (relatively) if I had forced myself into another profession.
I've always been a fan of your science fiction series TekWar and so on, but I would like to know where some of the ideas behind it came from? Were some of those ideas spawned from the legendary Gene Roddenbery, or were they all your own?
I am the Director of Managed Security for a company on Hawaii, and we rovide managed Security Services to various companies around the state based on Snort. Snort truly is a very good IDS, and if configured properly it will generate few if any false positive alerts. Most of the reason that people say bad things about a product is due to their own lack of experience in setting it up.
Here's a question. When did we all grow up? I mean, I loved the Transformers and still do, but every time I taslk to any of myfriends I get a ration of disdain from them about watching cartoons. In the meantime, they watch Invader Zim and that's alright... Hrrrmmmm... Viva La Tranformers!!!!
The Hawaii International Film Festival rolled this out last year too. It was great!! The theatre was packed (over 200 people), and the movie itself was excellent. The history behind the cyGNUs name is rather interesting.
Yes! Exactly. There are several standards for the evaluation of computer security. The more accepted today is the Common Criteria of Information Security Evaluation (Common Criteria for short) and the good old Rainbow series from the US Gov't. Particularly the RED book for the evaluation of trusted computer systems and the orange book for the evaluation of trusted networks. There are many more, but the problem is not so much that we need these standards, but that many companies are not willing to go to the expense of implementing them. This leads to shotty software because no organization or company is paying to check out all of the possible flaws in their systems.
Ah, but what you failed to mention is that the Chemical Weapons Convention only refers to chemicals which incapacitate people at a biological level. This is a physical deterrent, and not a chemical weapon. It would be the same as putting banana peels all over the ground (As the original post mentions). That is not a violation of the accord.
Microsoft "Quit picking on us, or we'll take our toys and go home..."
The NYT article makes Ballmer sound like a spoiled child.. Not a good thing to do in front of the American public. So, Microsoft, who has more money than God, says they can't produce Windows if they are forced to release a version without IE? How many programmers do they have? If they were to release a crippled version of Windows without IE it would look better to the public than to not release any at all. This kinda makes them look dumb.
Bah!!
The problem is that the JRE has a security manager which, unless the user mucks it up, won't allow virii to access the local machine or resources (i.e. address book).
They take all of the power of Java and then throw in all of the security vulnerabilities of C/C++. It's only inevitable that C# is going to cuase all sorts of headaches for people like me (Security professionals).
Microsoft is using these arguments as stall tactics to:
- Wear the DoJ down
- Waste our tax monies
- Tire the states
- Prevent the release of the windows source code
They can tie this up in court until end of the decade, by which time they will just say "Oh! Here's the code for Windows 95." because windows 2010 will be out after three interim versions which they used to secure their monopoly. The US legal system is supposed to have speedy trials, but I foresee this one stretching out quite a ways.
This is the first, of likely many, legal tactics that MS is going to use to prevent the ordered release of the Windows source code. As their argument actually has a minor bit of merit, the courts will have to investigate and argue their position. This means that MicroSoft's lawyers have some time to come up with their next time wasting strategy while they maintain their monopoly. Each time their arguments get shot down, they will come up with another argument which will bog down the entire case again and again until one of the following happens:
- The states capitulate to a not so devastating settlement
- The DOJ screws up and loses one of the arguments
- Microsoft screws up and loses
It's likely that we will not see an end to this case within this decade...
If the statement made is true, and the artists still own the rights to the materials; then couldn't Napster make distribution agreements with the artists themselves? We have all heard how little money the artists make from the labels for distribution of their materials, and that they have to tour to pay the bills; but if they negotiate their own distribution with the digital content providers, then they would get whatever their contract stipulates. That would be a win for the artists, the consumers, and the content providers...
...to say "Join the Church Of Euthanasia!!! Save the planet, Kill yourself!!"
Truth be told, a goephysicist friend of mine told me why they look for life and water on Mars. It is to estimate the likelyhood of more life in the universe, and to determine the practicality of creating human colonies on other planets. If water and life are common, then the entire idea becomes far more practical. If water is abundant and available, then we can move out among the stars at a much faster rate than current science has estimated.
The core memory thing was really interesting. The computer I used to maintin in the Navy ran on Core memory. It weighed a ton, ran slower than molasses uphill in a blizzard, but it NEVER failed. It was a great technology for the time.
Mandrake has this option. If you install with either the 'high' or 'paranoid' security levels, the installed services are installed with very tight restrictions. In fact, at high and paranoid, sshd will not allow remote root; apache does not allow CGIs; local root login is denied(paranoid only); etc... Not too shabby.
I use e-music, and I regularly get 150-250kbps download speeds (Cable modem). They have all of the major industrial and synthpop labels (Metropolis, Cleopatra, etc...). I just downloaded Wumpscut's "Bunkertor 7" last night. Perfect playback and no worries about corrupt mp3's. Also, if you use freeamp, it works even better.