I am a very intelligent person who made some occupational and educational choices (music)
Well that's a contradiction if I ever saw one. While the rest of us were learning useful skills we knew would be worth money, you were blowing on a horn.
That's like the high school champion quarterback wondering why he can't get a job at anywhere but fast food places.
I don't know where you got that. I guess you took the Pentium or compatible part to apply to the rest of the list. It doesn't work that way.
The whole sentence is a grammar nightmare though, the alternative is implying that you need to have all those different versions of windows, or you can't play it.
I realize that, I was just posting in reply to his claim that the GPL somehow made him not have any claim to the name Linux, showing a clear confusion about the difference between trademarks and copyrights (licensing, etc).
I know, the original poster implied that the GPL somehow made his trademark invalid. The first poster clearly does not know the difference between trademarks, copyrights, and patents.
Well, we're talking about TCP here, you can always just tell it you never got the last packet correctly, and keep requesting resends until the abort command goes through.
In theory of course, this should never be applied in a way that circumvents any sort of copyright protections.:)
These kind of snide remarks by Linus are not needed, and if I was Rik, I would tell Linus to fuck off and put my talent to use somewhere else. Linus, act a little more mature.
Anyone can sound bad taken out of context. You really need to read the whole thread to understand what this is about.
UID and GID 0 are root. When a program becomes root a lot it makes it more likely that someone will be able to overwrite the executing code with malicious code that will execute as root. Malicious executing as root allows an attacker to open up a back door. System calls run external commands, if you can hijack the string that is fed to the system call, you can make the program run a malicious command.
This is not true, you can't read the magnetic shadows without removing the HDA and the seperating the platters and putting them on more sensitive equipment. What you probably saw was getting data out of slack space and deleted files from free space.
My point about it being a myth, is that it is not generally feasible to do this sort of analysis, since it would take many hours just to extract a small amount of data, using magnetic echo methods, espcially if that data was overwritten with random data.
Yeah, that was the basic theme of it, that it would never be used in any real world investigation, at least no normal criminal one.
With data densities ever increasing, it's going to become more and more difficult to do something like this also.
We are talking hours of work for tiny amounts of data. In almost any real criminal investigation, there would be other evidence that would make such analysis unnecessary.
A googolplex is 10^google. You couldn't write the number out even if you could write zeros as small as atoms, it would be as large as the known universe.
It is possible to take a disk apart and use an electron microscope to read information from the individual magnetic spots on the surface of a disk that may have been intentionally erased, Mr. Patzakis said.
I monitor the forensics list on securityfocus, and there was discussion that this might be mostly a myth.
Actually, I did consider these in building a new cluster. Bottom line is that for $250 you can get a motherbord, weak PS and case, or for $100 you can get a normal cheap micro-ATX motherboard (with more slots if you ever want to use them) and cheap 300 watt micro-ATX case and PS. It's no contest. $150 more per computer with less upgradability (not that it matters much for a cluster) just to look cooler? I'd rather spend that on RAM for the nodes.
You talk about your biology background, and then you talk about using antibiotics on viruses. I don't know if you are just a clever troll, or someone who thinks they know what they are talking about.
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I am a very intelligent person who made some occupational and educational choices (music)
Well that's a contradiction if I ever saw one. While the rest of us were learning useful skills we knew would be worth money, you were blowing on a horn.
That's like the high school champion quarterback wondering why he can't get a job at anywhere but fast food places.
Quit whining. Learn some skills or shut up.
I think there are some :)
problems making human transportation packet switched.
I don't know where you got that. I guess you took the Pentium or compatible part to apply to the rest of the list. It doesn't work that way.
The whole sentence is a grammar nightmare though, the alternative is implying that you need to have all those different versions of windows, or you can't play it.
You just want to point at your new huge Plasma TV and say "It was for a good cause".
Smoke detecters have Americium in them, lantern mantles have thorium, if I recall correctly.
You really don't want to turn out like this guy, do you?
And they won't have to ride that bus back and forth all the time anymore.
I realize that, I was just posting in reply to his claim that the GPL somehow made him not have any claim to the name Linux, showing a clear confusion about the difference between trademarks and copyrights (licensing, etc).
I know, the original poster implied that the GPL somehow made his trademark invalid. The first poster clearly does not know the difference between trademarks, copyrights, and patents.
DISCLAIMER: I havn't used a microsoft product for a long time so I might be full of shit.
But isn't XP Pro ALWAYS activation free? I thought only the retail home users had to activate, not the professional versions.
the way Fanning keeps talking about it the wrapper makes me think it will be
Please please let this be the case that finally gets the DMCA thrown out.
Whoever writes this cracker is going to go to court, so they had better have money.
Gtk-Gnutella looks exactly like Napshare... what's up with that?
Well, we're talking about TCP here, you can always just tell it you never got the last packet correctly, and keep requesting resends until the abort command goes through.
:)
In theory of course, this should never be applied in a way that circumvents any sort of copyright protections.
Sheesh, Linus Torvalds. You know what I meant.
Linux is a trademark of Linux Torvalds. He owns the name. Please learn a little about IP.
These kind of snide remarks by Linus are not needed, and if I was Rik, I would tell Linus to fuck off and put my talent to use somewhere else. Linus, act a little more mature.
Anyone can sound bad taken out of context. You really need to read the whole thread to understand what this is about.
I prefer old clicky keyboards like IBM used to sell, and always buy them at the thrift shop..... hmmm. :)
UID and GID 0 are root. When a program becomes root a lot it makes it more likely that someone will be able to overwrite the executing code with malicious code that will execute as root. Malicious executing as root allows an attacker to open up a back door. System calls run external commands, if you can hijack the string that is fed to the system call, you can make the program run a malicious command.
This is not true, you can't read the magnetic shadows without removing the HDA and the seperating the platters and putting them on more sensitive equipment. What you probably saw was getting data out of slack space and deleted files from free space.
My point about it being a myth, is that it is not generally feasible to do this sort of analysis, since it would take many hours just to extract a small amount of data, using magnetic echo methods, espcially if that data was overwritten with random data.
If they can start moving things around, maybe they can fix internal damage
If they can start moving things around, maybe they can cause internal damage.
Until the first international treaty on nanowarfare at least, after that the major counties will just secretly stockpile them.
Yeah, that was the basic theme of it, that it would never be used in any real world investigation, at least no normal criminal one.
With data densities ever increasing, it's going to become more and more difficult to do something like this also.
We are talking hours of work for tiny amounts of data. In almost any real criminal investigation, there would be other evidence that would make such analysis unnecessary.
ARGH :)
It so hard to type Googol, it's like trying to type the word "passed" after working in UNIX for a while.
A googolplex is 10^google. You couldn't write the number out even if you could write zeros as small as atoms, it would be as large as the known universe.
It is possible to take a disk apart and use an electron microscope to read information from the individual magnetic spots on the surface of a disk that may have been intentionally erased, Mr. Patzakis said.
I monitor the forensics list on securityfocus, and there was discussion that this might be mostly a myth.
Actually, I did consider these in building a new cluster. Bottom line is that for $250 you can get a motherbord, weak PS and case, or for $100 you can get a normal cheap micro-ATX motherboard (with more slots if you ever want to use them) and cheap 300 watt micro-ATX case and PS. It's no contest. $150 more per computer with less upgradability (not that it matters much for a cluster) just to look cooler? I'd rather spend that on RAM for the nodes.
You talk about your biology background, and then you talk about using antibiotics on viruses. I don't know if you are just a clever troll, or someone who thinks they know what they are talking about.