.....is that the radio signal emitted by the phone can interfere with the plane's navigation equipment.
This is one possible reason, but the REAL reason is that using a cellular phone whilst in the air totally SCREWS with the cellular network. As the signal getting back to literally tens of base stations is of the same signal strength, it totally confuses the network in the handoff of the call to the cell with the strongest signal. The excuse that it stuffs up aircraft navigation is a propogation of a beleivable lie, rather than the real reason...
The signal from the satellites used to be accurate to within 100M. This was always the intended design by the US military. When they go to war, the actually "turn off" the noise so that GPS signals are accurate to within 1 M.
I have a feeling that after the last skirmish, that the noise has not been turned back on.
anyone who actually knows want to comment?
100M is generally "good enough" for the average joe in his boat, who uses GPS as an aid to visual navigation. Hell it is even good enough to assist in flying an aircraft.
After all, the GPS system was originally developed for the Military and was never meant to be able to be used to navigate your car between tall buildings in a city (Hell, You would more than likely loose the sat signal while trying to use it for this purpose anyway, let alone the bullshit of winning blackjack:-) )
KDE is used on more the 70% of all Linux desktops.
We could fight for those remaining 30% but given that Linux has less
than 5% of the overall desktop market we should rather target the 95%
of desktop users than compete with our friends from the GNOME project.
Just converting 5% of Windows users will get us more KDE users than
converting all GNOME users
Do I see a poll coming up....
On all my linux/FreeBSD boxen the desktop of choice is KDE. On the rest of my linux machines the command line rules supreme.
this is vote of 7 KDE, 0 gnome (3 the evil empire TM)
Not totally irrelevant, While both AMD and Intel keep trying to outdo each other, their previous generation of chips keep falling in price.
So I say that they should both keep going for it! and as long as they also keep churning out slightly slower chips at cheaper prices, I can still have a reasonabley fast machine for peanuts....
To state a point, I am Still using a k6/200 processor in a machine, simply because it is still faster than anything I need it to do. The gam3rz keep bloating hardware requirements so that people who want a fast server can, at a much cheaper price
The only solution is for every interconnect point to the Internet ot do some basic filtering.
Simple ingress/egress filtering based on the address space for the connected network.
Do not let addresses out that are fake, nor let any of your own addresses in. Basically 10 minutes worth of work by any half brained sysadmin would totally solve the problem.
If the attack cannot originate, then there is no attack.
Ok, if someone does not care about being identified, then they would do it from an 0wn3d host, but there would be a better chance of the "problem" being fixed if the addresses getting in/out of a network are a known commodity......
There seems to be not a lot of reason to move from a.2 (stable) to a.0 added features!, Am I totally missing something or have there been some MAJOR additions?
The one good thing about statistics is that you can make them say whatever you need them to.
There was no reference to several distro's so at best the source of the information is crap. What constituted the results? Retail sales? Web downloads? A marketers hype!
IMO Redhad(sic!) only ever had (has) one purpose. That is simply to get people to dump windows and give Linux a try. Then, with any luck they will soon see it is far better than The other OS, and then also see the shortcomings of Redhad and change to a different distro.
While my personal choice is Slakware {Ain't it strage how it was one of the first to be a distro that is still doing it, Must be doing something right by a lot of people), There are lots of good distro theat didn't even get a look in in these attempt at stats.
It seems to me that all security related articels have some holes in them, But there are a few good pointers in this as well.
It is simply a matter of reading all of them along with other documentation, and making an informed decision of what you want to allow the world to do to your box.
Of course you disable all the services not needed, or chose a distro that has a minimum number of services by default
{flamebait} If you want ease of install and ease of being 0wn3d, then do an everything install of any Redhat Release. By default, there are more open holes than a whores convention. (Most other distro's have WAY too many open ports as well) We should not kid ourselves, there are a lot of redhat boxes that are really easilyhad.
If you are online 24/7 then you of course should be a little paranoid, or learn to re-install every other day......
RealPlayer however has repeatedly caused my Win2k to totally lock up, never to recover. I geuss what MS always said about 3rd party drivers being at fault actaully has an element of truth
Is this a fault of the Third pary App or more a fault of the "Almighty ones" Failings in releasing the full API details???
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This speaks for itself!!
Lets make a network that won't work, then show everyone how it doesn't work......
what! You have not heard of OPERA !!!
This is one possible reason, but the REAL reason is that using a cellular phone whilst in the air totally SCREWS with the cellular network. As the signal getting back to literally tens of base stations is of the same signal strength, it totally confuses the network in the handoff of the call to the cell with the strongest signal. The excuse that it stuffs up aircraft navigation is a propogation of a beleivable lie, rather than the real reason...
I have a feeling that after the last skirmish, that the noise has not been turned back on.
anyone who actually knows want to comment?
100M is generally "good enough" for the average joe in his boat, who uses GPS as an aid to visual navigation. Hell it is even good enough to assist in flying an aircraft.
After all, the GPS system was originally developed for the Military and was never meant to be able to be used to navigate your car between tall buildings in a city (Hell, You would more than likely loose the sat signal while trying to use it for this purpose anyway, let alone the bullshit of winning blackjack :-) )
Do I see a poll coming up....
On all my linux/FreeBSD boxen the desktop of choice is KDE. On the rest of my linux machines the command line rules supreme.
this is vote of 7 KDE, 0 gnome (3 the evil empire TM)
Not totally irrelevant, While both AMD and Intel keep trying to outdo each other, their previous generation of chips keep falling in price.
So I say that they should both keep going for it! and as long as they also keep churning out slightly slower chips at cheaper prices, I can still have a reasonabley fast machine for peanuts....
To state a point, I am Still using a k6/200 processor in a machine, simply because it is still faster than anything I need it to do. The gam3rz keep bloating hardware requirements so that people who want a fast server can, at a much cheaper price
does it have native support for the cue cat?
Sure, an OS release WILL NEVER and should never do everything that you need on a computer be it a Spakintoss, x86 or anything else...
It seems, since IANAP (not a programmer) then since my computer does not have a compiler, it must not have an OS.
Simple ingress/egress filtering based on the address space for the connected network.
Do not let addresses out that are fake, nor let any of your own addresses in. Basically 10 minutes worth of work by any half brained sysadmin would totally solve the problem.
If the attack cannot originate, then there is no attack.
Ok, if someone does not care about being identified, then they would do it from an 0wn3d host, but there would be a better chance of the "problem" being fixed if the addresses getting in/out of a network are a known commodity......
Great, another release for the sake of a release!
There seems to be not a lot of reason to move from a .2 (stable) to a .0 added features!, Am I totally missing something or have there been some MAJOR additions?
Suggested name for this release.... RedSoft
The one good thing about statistics is that you can make them say whatever you need them to.
There was no reference to several distro's so at best the source of the information is crap. What constituted the results? Retail sales? Web downloads? A marketers hype!
IMO Redhad(sic!) only ever had (has) one purpose. That is simply to get people to dump windows and give Linux a try. Then, with any luck they will soon see it is far better than The other OS, and then also see the shortcomings of Redhad and change to a different distro.
While my personal choice is Slakware {Ain't it strage how it was one of the first to be a distro that is still doing it, Must be doing something right by a lot of people), There are lots of good distro theat didn't even get a look in in these attempt at stats.
It is simply a matter of reading all of them along with other documentation, and making an informed decision of what you want to allow the world to do to your box.
Of course you disable all the services not needed, or chose a distro that has a minimum number of services by default
{flamebait} If you want ease of install and ease of being 0wn3d, then do an everything install of any Redhat Release. By default, there are more open holes than a whores convention. (Most other distro's have WAY too many open ports as well) We should not kid ourselves, there are a lot of redhat boxes that are really easilyhad.
If you are online 24/7 then you of course should be a little paranoid, or learn to re-install every other day......
Is this a fault of the Third pary App or more a fault of the "Almighty ones" Failings in releasing the full API details???