I have a car that runs on 5 of it's 6 cylinders -- and it runs great.
New Cadillacs with V8's have a feature that detects if a cylinder is bad and stops its' plugs from firing while the engine churns on.
I have a hard drive with lots of bad sectors -- but they are marked bad and my box is stable.
You can buy new harddrives in the same condition.
Ever put a 450Mhz processor on a 400Mhz motherboard? You're throwing away 12% of your processing power but the machine will still run fine.
Why is RAM any different? Sure, new 100% working RAM is better -- but if I found a 512M DIMM lying on the street -- and 448M still works -- I'm not gonna complain!!
I believe that secure systems *ARE* possible. And when I say secure systems I mean ABSOLUTELY secure systems. A computer is a finite machine. There are only so many possible states my PC can ever be in. There are even less possibilities for my palmpilot. Granted it boggles the mind to contemplate EVERY possible state of a modern PC -- but the set *IS* finite. I repeat: IS FINITE.
Whether or not it is financially possible to create a 100% secure machine should not be cause to abandon the idea and leap towards compromise. A beautiful example, is of course, OpenBSD -- the pursuit of an absolutely secure system *DOES* result in a more secure system. I'd take OpenBSD out of the box over any commercial UNIX with all the vendors' "window-limiting" products any day!
If your goal is a secure system -- then it is possible (even if unlikely) to create a secure system! If you goal is something else (profit, chrome, popularity, enlightenment, whatever..) then it probably isn't. SO, if YOU are trying to create a secure system don't let someone with another goal get in your way! (accounting firms, authors, vendors, users, managers, whom/whatever)
There is nothing abstract about system security -- and intentionally abstracting it to liability management or limiting window time is a lie -- even though it may be a white one.
Find a carrot.*
Find a fishing pole*
Attach the carrot to the fishing pole.*
Find a goat.*
Get goat to follow carrot*
Walk over bridge with goat in lead, following* carrot, to knock off the menacing troll.*
* NEVER MISPELL ANYTHING
Option 2:
Find a REALLY REALLY BIG GUN (Like a rocket launcher)*
Obliterate the troll**
* You start the game standing on top of the rocket launcher
** You start the game with the troll standing about 20 paces in front of you.
Assuming the presidential debates actually take place:
Does anyone know how to contact whatever committee it is that runs them? Perhaps it'd be possible to suggest some questions dealing with the DMCA or even just more generic internet/copyright ideas.
It'd be nice to get some PRIME TIME answers from the presidential candidates. It'd also raise public awareness outside of the this arena.
That being said: It seems that the KDE developers, no matter what they do, no matter what good intentions they hold, always gets bashed by the GNU/GNOME/RMS camp.
If it isn't legal nitpicking then it is outright insults. If it isn't outright insults then it is implict insults ("We hereby grant you forgiveness..") Come on! WHO ARE YOU? GOD?
Sure KDE is a little cartoony looking but it runs well and is stable. Perhaps SOMEBODIES are jealous?
I really doubt I'll get burned for linking to something with a QPL License. I also really doubt I'll make it to the end of the day without my GNOME desktop crashing again.
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I have a car that runs on 5 of it's 6 cylinders -- and it runs great. New Cadillacs with V8's have a feature that detects if a cylinder is bad and stops its' plugs from firing while the engine churns on. I have a hard drive with lots of bad sectors -- but they are marked bad and my box is stable. You can buy new harddrives in the same condition. Ever put a 450Mhz processor on a 400Mhz motherboard? You're throwing away 12% of your processing power but the machine will still run fine. Why is RAM any different? Sure, new 100% working RAM is better -- but if I found a 512M DIMM lying on the street -- and 448M still works -- I'm not gonna complain!!
> [snipped] ...and design a system that provides defenses against the expected threats.
>
Expand your expectations. Get *LOTS* of people together listen as they expand their expectations.
I believe that secure systems *ARE* possible. And when I say secure systems I mean ABSOLUTELY secure systems. A computer is a finite machine. There are only so many possible states my PC can ever be in. There are even less possibilities for my palmpilot. Granted it boggles the mind to contemplate EVERY possible state of a modern PC -- but the set *IS* finite. I repeat: IS FINITE.
Whether or not it is financially possible to create a 100% secure machine should not be cause to abandon the idea and leap towards compromise. A beautiful example, is of course, OpenBSD -- the pursuit of an absolutely secure system *DOES* result in a more secure system. I'd take OpenBSD out of the box over any commercial UNIX with all the vendors' "window-limiting" products any day!
If your goal is a secure system -- then it is possible (even if unlikely) to create a secure system! If you goal is something else (profit, chrome, popularity, enlightenment, whatever..) then it probably isn't. SO, if YOU are trying to create a secure system don't let someone with another goal get in your way! (accounting firms, authors, vendors, users, managers, whom/whatever)
There is nothing abstract about system security -- and intentionally abstracting it to liability management or limiting window time is a lie -- even though it may be a white one.
Option 1:
Find a carrot.*
Find a fishing pole*
Attach the carrot to the fishing pole.*
Find a goat.*
Get goat to follow carrot*
Walk over bridge with goat in lead, following* carrot, to knock off the menacing troll.*
* NEVER MISPELL ANYTHING
Option 2:
Find a REALLY REALLY BIG GUN (Like a rocket launcher)*
Obliterate the troll**
* You start the game standing on top of the rocket launcher
** You start the game with the troll standing about 20 paces in front of you.
They both suck.
Assuming the presidential debates actually take place:
Does anyone know how to contact whatever committee it is that runs them? Perhaps it'd be possible to suggest some questions dealing with the DMCA or even just more generic internet/copyright ideas.
It'd be nice to get some PRIME TIME answers from the presidential candidates. It'd also raise public awareness outside of the this arena.
Microsoft doesn't explicitly support? Huh?
a ll_med.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/support/customer/bussm
If you don't understand runtime/compile-time dependencies and linking, you are really not qualified to speak on this.
Oh give me a break from the holier-and-loftier-than-thou crap.
This is a GNU pissing contest and nothing more.
Where are the GNU folks when people distribute BINARY ONLY (*GASP*) copies of their utilities linked to Solaris libs, or IRIX libs, or AIX libs.
They are just pissed because KDE/TrollTech beat them to the desktop arena.
Oh and about the BSD license.. not all *BSD distributions are based on 4.4LITE releases.
Baloney.
How many people combined SSH (not OpenSSH) with Linux or *BSD?
How many people combined XForms with Linux or *BSD?
How many people combined QT with Linux or *BSD?
Now here is the tricky part:
How many of these people have been sued/burned/hogtied?
Disclaimer: I am a GNOME user.
That being said: It seems that the KDE developers, no matter what they do, no matter what good intentions they hold, always gets bashed by the GNU/GNOME/RMS camp.
If it isn't legal nitpicking then it is outright insults. If it isn't outright insults then it is implict insults ("We hereby grant you forgiveness..") Come on! WHO ARE YOU? GOD?
Sure KDE is a little cartoony looking but it runs well and is stable. Perhaps SOMEBODIES are jealous?
I really doubt I'll get burned for linking to something with a QPL License. I also really doubt I'll make it to the end of the day without my GNOME desktop crashing again.
Maybe this overly simplistic but.. Doing more stuff requires more power. More power means more heat. The End.
Just means that ovens and stoves will get internet access before toasters and platewarmers.