Thankfully, I'm in Canada and not bound by retarded US laws./. is, though, so I'm not gonna post verbatin what the patch is.
The gist of this security patch is to fix driver vulnerabilities. It fixes several of them, not one of them is exploitable by a remote user. They all require the hardware in question to be connected to exploit the driver vulnerability, and they all involve allowing people to write to kernel memory space. In other words... they could be used to nuke a linux box by a local user (why not just 3-finger salute, I know not), but the moment you reboot the problem is fixed anyway.
So... a big corporation sees something that resembles its name, and without even investigating into what it actually does, it sics the lawyers on 'em....
They're not too bright if they don't realize that it has the potential to expand their business.... All it does is give people using OS's other than Win/Mac the opportunity to use their absolutely trustworthy and splendid service (/sarcasm). They still have to pay AOL for it. Peng's not making a profit on it. How is this harmful to AOL again?
Oh wait. On the "About Peng" page, it says it's a "reverse ingeneering" [sic] of AOL's technology, so it must be evil.
Can't compare these jokers to Dmitri Skylarov. Skylarov was doing something that's allowed by Russian law, and frankly shouldn't be illegal in America. These jokers were running credit card scams which aren't allowed at all, no matter where you go.
The Russians objected to the FBI's means of gathering the evidence, not to the prosecution for the crimes themselves. The FBI "hacked" the computers by luring the Russians to the USA under the guise of a job interview, and installing keylogging software on their PC's as they were invited to hack a virtual network that the FBI set up. Using the keylogging software, the FBI was able to get their passwords, and use it to remotely access their computers in Russia. Using this evidence, they were extradited to the USA for prosecution.
What they did could be called Entrapment, and it could be called Espionage. But I still have to laugh that the l337 h4xx0rz from Russia were dumb enough to allow it to happen. They were running unsecured boxes at home, and for some unearthly reason decided to remotely access those boxes while partaking in an experiment to hack a virtual network in Seattle. Idiots. They get no sympathy at all from me.
This is probably the best reason I can think of to get MS users to leave the platform.... I've been a longtime x86 user, and if it wasn't for BSD this would be enough to get me to switch to Mac:-P
Um... but mac still sucks... the fact that I haven't used it since school in 1991 is meaningless, the OS has to suck....;)
Nothing that the majority of/.'ers shouldn't already know... but I do have to ask.... Am I the only one who found themselves asking how much Monster was paying these people to push their products?
hai, sou desu. I still don't think that it's gonna happen, though. I *hope* that I'll be proven wrong, but I'm just too skeptical after all the budget cutting that's been happening. Space is an expensive place to break, and until cheaper RLV's are built (they've been pretty much in complete limbo for over 20 years with little or no tangible progress), there's not really a way to get off the ground for the little guys.
With the US gov't cutting NASA's budget every year, and the Russians talking about scuttling their contribution to ISS, it's unlikely that much space exploration will be happening much more within my lifetime.
Hopefully, I'm just being cynical. Realistically, though, I have to admit that the prospect of space exploration simply isn't as good as it was during the cold war.
At least, it didn't start as the chat rooms. Even just a few years ago (well, ok, 7 years ago when I was in Grade 10) the vile language known as d3wd hadn't propagated fully. Most chatrooms were still havens for people who could actually communicate in properly composed English.
Where the linguistic nightmare first appeared was in games like Diablo, Ultima Online, and Everquest.
nitwit_01 tells you 'cn u plz tp me 2 wc plz'
you reply 'What's that in English?'
Another one of my pet peeves along these lines: Putting the dollar sign after a dollar amount. "This cost me 50$" instead of "This cost me $50". Again, the writer is thinking in terms of how it's spoken, not written.
It should be noted that in some languages, money is written as 50$ instead of $50. I see that error most often in parts of Canada bordering Quebec, and from francophones, because in French (Canadian French, at least) that's how money is supposed to be written.
And with Fox doing the movie, it's gonna be just like the translated version of DBZ.... 2 hours of grunting while they "build up their power" and 5 minutes of actual action.
I might not agree that this message should have been modded "Troll", but did you read the article that the message made reference to?
A fission rocket is a simple and safe system that uses a nuclear reactor to heat up a liquid such as hydrogen to create thrust. Unfortunately, "nuclear" and "fission" have been dirty words in this country for the last three decades. Despite the fact that nuclear propulsion is the best and safest way to fly major missions beyond Earth orbit, NASA stopped its development back in 1972 to put nearly every penny it had into the development of the shuttle. That was a terrible decision.
At that point we had successfully tested nuclear rockets in the open air in Nevada, engines that could be operated with high thrusts for long durations--the key to entering the solar system.
I'm pretty sure it's illegal for them to telemarket to unlisted phone numbers. (Bear in mind, I'm Canadian, so it might make a difference.)
I know that the one time I did receive a telemarketting call to my cell phone, the following conversation took place.
Me: "Let me talk to your supervisor." Them: "Um..." Me: "Me. Supervisor. Now." (hold for a couple minutes) Supervisor: "What can I do for you?" Me: "Are you aware that I'm currently in Milan, and paying roughly $20/minute for international cell phone calls?" Supervisor: "Uh..." Me: "I expect you to reimburse me."
Haven't had a telemarketer call my cell phone since....
Hey wow... that's irony... as I type this, there's an ad for Compaq-sponsored SourceForge.net right above this.
A *lot* of you are citing exclusive agreements with Microsoft between other OEMs as support for Be. The fact of the matter is that OEMs have/do sell Non-MS based solutions.
In the case of Compaq, they have always sold non-MS solutions, and there's nothing that MS can do about it. None of the Presario line of computers have anything but Windows, but if you move over to the Deskpro, iPAQ, and Prolinea lines of products from them, you'll see everything from DEC Rainbow/OS (years ago) to Linux to Solaris to Compaq Tru64 Unix. They even have a tech. support department for Linux/Unix on these systems, with a call centre in Hull, Quebec.
The difference is that the product that's marketted to consumers doesn't have these as options. But tech. support won't stop you from installing another operating system. They just don't offer any support for them.
But honestly. Do you expect them to support every operating system under the sun?
It's going to work for about 5 minutes. Then little Billy is going to figure out that he can kill the software that blocks the website using any myriad of ways. (CTRL-ALT-DEL/taskmanager comes to mind, but also holding SHIFT at boot, going into MSCONFIG to remove the actual entry at startup, etc.)
The other thing is: it's a voluntary rating system. What's to say babylonX or whatever else you're visiting just says screw-it and posts the porn without rating it? You can't block every website that doesn't have a rating, since that'd block waay too much of the web out.
And even if they can get around those hurdles, there'll be web-based proxy services set up to strip the pages of their ratings, or mask the ratings.
Nope. Not gonna happen. Never work. Nice thought, though.
Not only do I have to tango with Customs to get those wonderful toys I keep buying out of the USA in the first place, now I get to play chess with the tax people to get my money back under the FTA!
Doncha just love this whole "government" thing you've got running there? Really respects the will of the masses....
You Americans (or rather, your leaders... I have nothing against Americans themselves... for the most part;)) are really quite arrogant in trying to tax a GLOBAL economy. I do hope your Senate realizes that it isn't your place to try to tax the world.
First paragraph in the article... and already they've lost my (suspension of dis)belief....
==> Traditional archaeology has not been a field that suffers science easily. Only gradually have archaeologists accepted physics as a tool for archaeological research. Perhaps as a result, the physicists who work in archaeology, their methods, and their theories, are neither well known nor numerous. Archaeometry, as the wider field of scientific archaeology is known, has no Heisenbergs or Einsteins, uncertainty principles or relativity theories. The only physical discovery to truly revolutionize archaeology has been radiocarbon dating.
Physicists have developped ground-based RADAR technology and Echo-location technologies which are having a profound impact on the archaeological world.
Take a look at: http://www.exn.ca/inc/demo.asp?Video=exn20011009-a cadia.asx
(Windows media player format, sorry.)
These RADAR/SONAR devices have drastically reduced the time it takes to locate archaeological sites, and yet they don't even mention it until the end of the article. After having clearly stated that "The only physical discovery to truly revolutionize archaeology has been radiocarbon dating."
Take a peek at: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5090 409,00.html
(It was the first hit on a Google search for "Organic Display". No... I wasn't looking for pr0n)
Toshiba, and a few other manufacturers, are already working in organic carbon-based LCD's. If I'm not mistaken, these LCD's are already in use in cellular phones that are commercially available in Japan. We're about 2 years away from seeing them in North America, by Toshiba's estimates.
But I'm waiting for the active refresh technology in development by Samsung, instead, which promises to upgrade the refresh rate on LCD's from 42Hz to 72Hz.... finally I can play EQ on my laptop...;)
Wil reads/. and actually links here from his website....
Oh... heh... nice computer he's running, and I especially like his answer to the question "how do you tell losers who can't tell Wesley from Wil to get a life?" on the BBSpot interview.
Not only is this comment completely redundant... so too is the whole contest....
Any user who knows what he's doing can secure a system so that it's completely immune to virii. Close all ports so hackers can't get to you, and don't do anything stupid like openning attachments.
Even in Windows... Close all ports (easier than you might think). Use a program like Eudora, Pegasus, or Kaufman Mail Warrior that don't support scripting. Don't open any attachments. Don't download illicit software. Don't visit WAREZ sites. Don't take burns/diskettes from ANY other computer. Hey wow... you've just eliminated every way a virus can get into your system, and you're completely immune to virii. I could offer a billion dollars in Microshaft stock to the first person to infect me with a virus, and it wouldn't mean squat, because I know what I'm doing.
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Thankfully, I'm in Canada and not bound by retarded US laws. /. is, though, so I'm not gonna post verbatin what the patch is.
The gist of this security patch is to fix driver vulnerabilities. It fixes several of them, not one of them is exploitable by a remote user. They all require the hardware in question to be connected to exploit the driver vulnerability, and they all involve allowing people to write to kernel memory space. In other words... they could be used to nuke a linux box by a local user (why not just 3-finger salute, I know not), but the moment you reboot the problem is fixed anyway.
So... a big corporation sees something that resembles its name, and without even investigating into what it actually does, it sics the lawyers on 'em....
They're not too bright if they don't realize that it has the potential to expand their business.... All it does is give people using OS's other than Win/Mac the opportunity to use their absolutely trustworthy and splendid service (/sarcasm). They still have to pay AOL for it. Peng's not making a profit on it. How is this harmful to AOL again?
Oh wait. On the "About Peng" page, it says it's a "reverse ingeneering" [sic] of AOL's technology, so it must be evil.
Size: 450x200x300 (LxWxH cm)
Weight: 3.5-5 kg (incl. battery)
A 10lb robot that's 4.5m long, 2m wide, and 3m high?
You want to name the new one "Two Beers"? (nihongo de "two beers" wa "ni biru")
;)
I suppose that's easier to pronounce than "Quaoar". Might make it more popular among students.
Can't compare these jokers to Dmitri Skylarov. Skylarov was doing something that's allowed by Russian law, and frankly shouldn't be illegal in America. These jokers were running credit card scams which aren't allowed at all, no matter where you go.
The Russians objected to the FBI's means of gathering the evidence, not to the prosecution for the crimes themselves. The FBI "hacked" the computers by luring the Russians to the USA under the guise of a job interview, and installing keylogging software on their PC's as they were invited to hack a virtual network that the FBI set up. Using the keylogging software, the FBI was able to get their passwords, and use it to remotely access their computers in Russia. Using this evidence, they were extradited to the USA for prosecution.
What they did could be called Entrapment, and it could be called Espionage. But I still have to laugh that the l337 h4xx0rz from Russia were dumb enough to allow it to happen. They were running unsecured boxes at home, and for some unearthly reason decided to remotely access those boxes while partaking in an experiment to hack a virtual network in Seattle. Idiots. They get no sympathy at all from me.
This is probably the best reason I can think of to get MS users to leave the platform.... I've been a longtime x86 user, and if it wasn't for BSD this would be enough to get me to switch to Mac :-P
;)
Um... but mac still sucks... the fact that I haven't used it since school in 1991 is meaningless, the OS has to suck....
Nothing that the majority of /.'ers shouldn't already know... but I do have to ask.... Am I the only one who found themselves asking how much Monster was paying these people to push their products?
hai, sou desu. I still don't think that it's gonna happen, though. I *hope* that I'll be proven wrong, but I'm just too skeptical after all the budget cutting that's been happening. Space is an expensive place to break, and until cheaper RLV's are built (they've been pretty much in complete limbo for over 20 years with little or no tangible progress), there's not really a way to get off the ground for the little guys.
With the US gov't cutting NASA's budget every year, and the Russians talking about scuttling their contribution to ISS, it's unlikely that much space exploration will be happening much more within my lifetime.
Hopefully, I'm just being cynical. Realistically, though, I have to admit that the prospect of space exploration simply isn't as good as it was during the cold war.
Not to fault you, but you realize they were predicting the same thing by the end of the 1950s?
Simple as that. You don't have to sign an agreement to get your severance package, and if they tell you that you do, they're full of it.
Then... if they withhold your severance, sue the buggers.
At least, it didn't start as the chat rooms. Even just a few years ago (well, ok, 7 years ago when I was in Grade 10) the vile language known as d3wd hadn't propagated fully. Most chatrooms were still havens for people who could actually communicate in properly composed English.
Where the linguistic nightmare first appeared was in games like Diablo, Ultima Online, and Everquest.
nitwit_01 tells you 'cn u plz tp me 2 wc plz'
you reply 'What's that in English?'
Another one of my pet peeves along these lines: Putting the dollar sign after a dollar amount. "This cost me 50$" instead of "This cost me $50". Again, the writer is thinking in terms of how it's spoken, not written.
It should be noted that in some languages, money is written as 50$ instead of $50. I see that error most often in parts of Canada bordering Quebec, and from francophones, because in French (Canadian French, at least) that's how money is supposed to be written.
And with Fox doing the movie, it's gonna be just like the translated version of DBZ.... 2 hours of grunting while they "build up their power" and 5 minutes of actual action.
I'm pretty sure it's illegal for them to telemarket to unlisted phone numbers. (Bear in mind, I'm Canadian, so it might make a difference.)
I know that the one time I did receive a telemarketting call to my cell phone, the following conversation took place.
Me: "Let me talk to your supervisor."
Them: "Um..."
Me: "Me. Supervisor. Now."
(hold for a couple minutes)
Supervisor: "What can I do for you?"
Me: "Are you aware that I'm currently in Milan, and paying roughly $20/minute for international cell phone calls?"
Supervisor: "Uh..."
Me: "I expect you to reimburse me."
Haven't had a telemarketer call my cell phone since....
A job I can hope for!
Keeping the list updated....
Hey wow... that's irony... as I type this, there's an ad for Compaq-sponsored SourceForge.net right above this.
A *lot* of you are citing exclusive agreements with Microsoft between other OEMs as support for Be. The fact of the matter is that OEMs have/do sell Non-MS based solutions.
In the case of Compaq, they have always sold non-MS solutions, and there's nothing that MS can do about it. None of the Presario line of computers have anything but Windows, but if you move over to the Deskpro, iPAQ, and Prolinea lines of products from them, you'll see everything from DEC Rainbow/OS (years ago) to Linux to Solaris to Compaq Tru64 Unix. They even have a tech. support department for Linux/Unix on these systems, with a call centre in Hull, Quebec.
The difference is that the product that's marketted to consumers doesn't have these as options. But tech. support won't stop you from installing another operating system. They just don't offer any support for them.
But honestly. Do you expect them to support every operating system under the sun?
/cough
He's not referring to Windows 2k, He's referring to Windows 98/98SE/ME/XP.
Go to Add/Remove programs, make sure there's a full checkbox next to "Communications" (instead of a grey checkbox). Click apply, and Ok. Reboot.
Click Start > Programs > Accessories > Communications > Internet Connection Sharing Wizard.
Lo. NAT, courtesy of the evil empire.
And I'm reasonably sure the same thing exists in Win2k, but I'm too lazy to reformat a box and install it to test.
It's going to work for about 5 minutes. Then little Billy is going to figure out that he can kill the software that blocks the website using any myriad of ways. (CTRL-ALT-DEL/taskmanager comes to mind, but also holding SHIFT at boot, going into MSCONFIG to remove the actual entry at startup, etc.)
The other thing is: it's a voluntary rating system. What's to say babylonX or whatever else you're visiting just says screw-it and posts the porn without rating it? You can't block every website that doesn't have a rating, since that'd block waay too much of the web out.
And even if they can get around those hurdles, there'll be web-based proxy services set up to strip the pages of their ratings, or mask the ratings.
Nope. Not gonna happen. Never work. Nice thought, though.
Not only do I have to tango with Customs to get those wonderful toys I keep buying out of the USA in the first place, now I get to play chess with the tax people to get my money back under the FTA!
;)) are really quite arrogant in trying to tax a GLOBAL economy. I do hope your Senate realizes that it isn't your place to try to tax the world.
Doncha just love this whole "government" thing you've got running there? Really respects the will of the masses....
You Americans (or rather, your leaders... I have nothing against Americans themselves... for the most part
-Canadian, and damned proud of it.
*cough* DMCA *cough* Skylarov *cough*
Sure they are, and making asses of themselves in the World Community, as usual.
Oh well... so much for Freedom of Speech, and that whole "constitution" thing so many of your politicians like holding dear to their hearts.
First paragraph in the article... and already they've lost my (suspension of dis)belief....
a cadia.asx
==> Traditional archaeology has not been a field that suffers science easily. Only gradually have archaeologists accepted physics as a tool for archaeological research. Perhaps as a result, the physicists who work in archaeology, their methods, and their theories, are neither well known nor numerous. Archaeometry, as the wider field of scientific archaeology is known, has no Heisenbergs or Einsteins, uncertainty principles or relativity theories. The only physical discovery to truly revolutionize archaeology has been radiocarbon dating.
Physicists have developped ground-based RADAR technology and Echo-location technologies which are having a profound impact on the archaeological world.
Take a look at: http://www.exn.ca/inc/demo.asp?Video=exn20011009-
(Windows media player format, sorry.)
These RADAR/SONAR devices have drastically reduced the time it takes to locate archaeological sites, and yet they don't even mention it until the end of the article. After having clearly stated that "The only physical discovery to truly revolutionize archaeology has been radiocarbon dating."
Take a peek at: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5090 409,00.html
;)
(It was the first hit on a Google search for "Organic Display". No... I wasn't looking for pr0n)
Toshiba, and a few other manufacturers, are already working in organic carbon-based LCD's. If I'm not mistaken, these LCD's are already in use in cellular phones that are commercially available in Japan. We're about 2 years away from seeing them in North America, by Toshiba's estimates.
But I'm waiting for the active refresh technology in development by Samsung, instead, which promises to upgrade the refresh rate on LCD's from 42Hz to 72Hz.... finally I can play EQ on my laptop...
HTH
didn't need to....
/. and actually links here from his website....
Wil reads
Oh... heh... nice computer he's running, and I especially like his answer to the question "how do you tell losers who can't tell Wesley from Wil to get a life?" on the BBSpot interview.
Not only is this comment completely redundant... so too is the whole contest....
Any user who knows what he's doing can secure a system so that it's completely immune to virii. Close all ports so hackers can't get to you, and don't do anything stupid like openning attachments.
Even in Windows... Close all ports (easier than you might think). Use a program like Eudora, Pegasus, or Kaufman Mail Warrior that don't support scripting. Don't open any attachments. Don't download illicit software. Don't visit WAREZ sites. Don't take burns/diskettes from ANY other computer. Hey wow... you've just eliminated every way a virus can get into your system, and you're completely immune to virii. I could offer a billion dollars in Microshaft stock to the first person to infect me with a virus, and it wouldn't mean squat, because I know what I'm doing.