Did you know that if you buy a DVD from Disney, you will be forced to watch several minutes of commercials before you can watch the actual movie? It is rigged in a way that you cannot skip the commercials (usually for other Disney movies) and go directly to the movie with normal DVD players.
"Systrace raises the privileges for a single system call depending on the configured policy." Simply reading the post answers your question. You have a policy file which defines which programs get which priviliges. So the improvement towards setuid and setgid is that you do not need to trust the program to drop its privileges, you only give it the ones you know it needs. This makes life difficult for rogue programmers, trojans, viruses and protects you from many dangers of sloppy programming.
Try JAP, it's a Java proxy program that you run on your system, which connects to a network of anonymizer servers. It is a breeze to setup and use, even your grandmother could use it. It is also more secure than many other systems, because it makes use of a network of anonymizing servers in a way that if one server owner went evil and decided to log your traffic, he couldn't. One would need to have control of all the nodes of the anonymizing network in order to successfully track you, which is much more difficult and unlikely. BTW, the project is sponsored by the German government (!) and FREE (for the moment at least).
Thawte does offer a free certificate, which can be used to sign your applets. There is a guide on how to sign your code with that certificate. The only thing you need after signing up with them is to get notarized. This will most likely cost you a little money. It cost me around 12$ (yes, twelve dollars!) to become fully trusted and now my Web Start application is signed and trusted to the same degree as all the other expensive ones, for the full price of US$ 12!
You're right. But since they made it to the Rogue's Gallery of consumeraffairs.com, I think that the complaints about them must have trespassed some acceptable limit.
Quote from the website: "Just a quick note to the tens of foreign websites who regularly copy our content without permission. We are now actively seeking you out." Full note here.
"Sinar has today announced the development of a digital back (for medium format cameras) with an amazing 1-shot resolution of 22 million pixels." article here
I think that the fact that the Software Engineering stuff is seldomly being (properly) applied is due to the fact that, because it is so "esoteric", people do not think it is that fundamental. If people would learn development process the way they learn to code, then more people would apply them properly and achieve the successes that can be obtained by them.
Well look at the security of current software (Microsoft, SSL bug, OpenSSH hole, etc...). This will not change unless different approaches are taken in software development. In this area for example the cleanroom software development process has been very successful. One of the seminal cleanroom papers is "Cleanroom software engineering" by Mills, Dyer and Linger from 1987. I think many software projects could benefit from a cleanroom development approach.
This is also a problem with software-engineering papers. Probably one of the reasons for the lack of real software-engineering skills among programmers is the fact that, unlike coding tutorials which can be found en masse and for free on the net, most of the seminal SE papers are not freely available. They are only available against payment. Most self-teaching programmers are not able/willing to pay that much. Additionally many seminal SE papers from the 70s and 80s are not available on the net at all. In order to read them you will have to have access to some Computer Science faculty that has the old issues of the journals (and who has such access?).
If SE researchers really want their studies applied by the community, they should not publish them in journals that require payment for access to the papers.
From Sun's JMF site: "If and when licensing issues can be resolved, we plan to return MP3 functionality back to JMF."
If Thomson really does not intend to charge for free software decoders, as its PR department is loudly proclaiming, then the MP3 decoder should be very soon added to the JMF again.
WFMU has a 128kb MP3 stream in addition to real radio waves and is free. How they do it? They rely on donations from their listeners and hold a biannual record fair, where they sell some of their records. They get most of their donations from their annual on-air fund-raising marathon. They have gotten along this way for pretty long. Others should follow them.
If you want to get exposed to all kinds of great music you have never heard before, you should listen to WFMU. If you don't live in NY or NJ, they also streamcast over the web.
Check out this link http://www.powerlabs.org/gaussgun.htm for the apparently largest Gauss Gun project on the web. Apparently it shoots with a speed of 774 km/h. Just a bit more and the projectile will break the sound barrier.
According to the article, NewsBooster is going to appeal the decision.
I can't imagine that the higher instances won't throw this decision over.
By the way, the Danish Publishers Association actually didn't really believe much in this lawsuit, they just wanted some time to develop their own common news deep-linking site. Apparently NewsBooster accounts for a large part of the traffic to the Danish newspapers' websites.
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I am half-Finnish myself and have spent several summer holidays there. Beautiful country.
But AFAICR Finland unfortunately also has one of the highest suicide rates in the world.
Finland has the most press freedom in the world. Did you know that Finland is also the country with the least corruption? in the world?
Did you know that if you buy a DVD from Disney, you will be forced to watch several minutes of commercials before you can watch the actual movie? It is rigged in a way that you cannot skip the commercials (usually for other Disney movies) and go directly to the movie with normal DVD players.
"Systrace raises the privileges for a single system call depending on the configured policy." Simply reading the post answers your question. You have a policy file which defines which programs get which priviliges. So the improvement towards setuid and setgid is that you do not need to trust the program to drop its privileges, you only give it the ones you know it needs. This makes life difficult for rogue programmers, trojans, viruses and protects you from many dangers of sloppy programming.
Try JAP, it's a Java proxy program that you run on your system, which connects to a network of anonymizer servers. It is a breeze to setup and use, even your grandmother could use it. It is also more secure than many other systems, because it makes use of a network of anonymizing servers in a way that if one server owner went evil and decided to log your traffic, he couldn't. One would need to have control of all the nodes of the anonymizing network in order to successfully track you, which is much more difficult and unlikely. BTW, the project is sponsored by the German government (!) and FREE (for the moment at least).
If only it was just Israel...
Thawte does offer a free certificate, which can be used to sign your applets. There is a guide on how to sign your code with that certificate. The only thing you need after signing up with them is to get notarized. This will most likely cost you a little money. It cost me around 12$ (yes, twelve dollars!) to become fully trusted and now my Web Start application is signed and trusted to the same degree as all the other expensive ones, for the full price of US$ 12!
You're right. But since they made it to the Rogue's Gallery of consumeraffairs.com, I think that the complaints about them must have trespassed some acceptable limit.
Read what others have to say about their experiences with Tiger Direct before you place any orders: Consumer Affairs
I don't think it was neccessary this time.
Quote from the website: "Just a quick note to the tens of foreign websites who regularly copy our content without permission. We are now actively seeking you out." Full note here.
"Sinar has today announced the development of a digital back (for medium format cameras) with an amazing 1-shot resolution of 22 million pixels." article here
I think that the fact that the Software Engineering stuff is seldomly being (properly) applied is due to the fact that, because it is so "esoteric", people do not think it is that fundamental. If people would learn development process the way they learn to code, then more people would apply them properly and achieve the successes that can be obtained by them.
Well look at the security of current software (Microsoft, SSL bug, OpenSSH hole, etc...). This will not change unless different approaches are taken in software development. In this area for example the cleanroom software development process has been very successful. One of the seminal cleanroom papers is "Cleanroom software engineering" by Mills, Dyer and Linger from 1987. I think many software projects could benefit from a cleanroom development approach.
This is also a problem with software-engineering papers. Probably one of the reasons for the lack of real software-engineering skills among programmers is the fact that, unlike coding tutorials which can be found en masse and for free on the net, most of the seminal SE papers are not freely available. They are only available against payment. Most self-teaching programmers are not able/willing to pay that much. Additionally many seminal SE papers from the 70s and 80s are not available on the net at all. In order to read them you will have to have access to some Computer Science faculty that has the old issues of the journals (and who has such access?).
If SE researchers really want their studies applied by the community, they should not publish them in journals that require payment for access to the papers.
From Sun's JMF site: "If and when licensing issues can be resolved, we plan to return MP3 functionality back to JMF."
If Thomson really does not intend to charge for free software decoders, as its PR department is loudly proclaiming, then the MP3 decoder should be very soon added to the JMF again.
Here are different sites that offer the old files. For those of us who are willing to pay the license fees only, of course.
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Use JAP (translation), a German government-subsidized still-free Internet Anonymizer service. It makes it virtually impossible to track you.
Me too.
WFMU has a 128kb MP3 stream in addition to real radio waves and is free. How they do it? They rely on donations from their listeners and hold a biannual record fair, where they sell some of their records. They get most of their donations from their annual on-air fund-raising marathon. They have gotten along this way for pretty long. Others should follow them.
Sounds nice, but has anyone actually done this successfully?
instead one out of 24 of your friends will be spies for your government.
Just in time for the MacWorld Keynote webcast on Wednesday.
If you want to get exposed to all kinds of great music you have never heard before, you should listen to WFMU. If you don't live in NY or NJ, they also streamcast over the web.
Check out this link http://www.powerlabs.org/gaussgun.htm for the apparently largest Gauss Gun project on the web. Apparently it shoots with a speed of 774 km/h. Just a bit more and the projectile will break the sound barrier.
It's not all over yet.
According to the article, NewsBooster is going to appeal the decision.
I can't imagine that the higher instances won't throw this decision over.
By the way, the Danish Publishers Association actually didn't really believe much in this lawsuit, they just wanted some time to develop their own common news deep-linking site. Apparently NewsBooster accounts for a large part of the traffic to the Danish newspapers' websites.