[disingenuous: (adj.) not straightforward; crafty.]
...that I just about want to puke.
"Tool to eliminate the obvious effects of the Code Red II worm"
"* THE TOOL ONLY ELIMINATES THE EFFECTS OF THE CODE RED II WORM. IT DOES NOT ELIMINATE THE EFFECT OF OTHER VARIANTS OF THE WORM."
"* IF THE WORM HAS INFECTED YOUR SYSTEM, YOUR SYSTEM HAS BEEN OPENED TO ADDITIONAL FORMS OF ATTACK. THIS TOOL ONLY ELIMINATES THE DIRECT EFFECTS OF THE WORM. IT DOES NOT ELIMINATE ANY ADDITIONAL DAMAGE THAT OTHER ATTACKS MAY HAVE CAUSED WHILE YOUR SERVER WAS INFECTED."
Obvious effects..? Other variants..? If (for crissakes, IF?) the worm has infected..?
Those are just minor issues, and certainly not Micro$oft's problem, let alone Micro$oft's fault.
Remember, Micro$oft's EULA makes them absolutely not responsible for anything.
If Micro$oft had *any* integrity, it's core message would be: "You're totally screwed through our misfeasance."
Instead, it's "You're totally screwed, and we're off the hook entirely."
Remember: "We're Micro$oft, we're as big as they get, and we don't care because we don't have to!"
08/10/01 I received a total of 132 probes to tcp:80 on my 12.82.x.x dynamic IP via my dialup to worldnet.att.net
These are exclusively from other dialups and small-scale hosts in AT&T's 12.x.x.x class A; AT&T has introduced ingress filtering and I'm seeing almost nothing from outside (Note: almost - some stuff is still leaking through..)
But the problem is the enemy within: there's got to be thousands of home/SOHO small systems, maybe single boxes, put together by the hotshot early-adopters and techno-yuppies who think it's cool to go through the checkout stand at CompUSA and purchase a copy of Win 2K Professional, or whatever, and put it on their home systems with all the bells and whistles installed.
None of these boxes are under *any* formal administrative control, and it's going to be up to each and every one of these thousands of techno-yuppies to patch each and every single one of their boxes.
So far today 08/11/01 at 10:00am I've had 69 probes.
As far as I can see, getting all these systems disinfected and patched hasn't even started yet.
One of *my* favorite Firesign Theater moments was when they did a live simulcast voice-over naration for the Pasadena, CA, Tournament of Roses Parade on New Year's day, about 1970-71...
It was on an FM station in LA..
They broadcast live from a booth somewhere out on Colorado Boulevard..
You watched on TV, and listened to their naration with headphones, for full effect...
Later that afternoon my landlady kept asking me what I was laughing at so hard, all morning long.
...you seem to be talking about Internet Information Server, but Micro$oft's own security bulletin seems to be talking about Internet Indexing Service?
...that'll bring 'em streaming out of the woodwork.
Why the hell is this cast in the light of something that someone has to *believe* in?
Could it be that Katz' posting rate was falling off, and he was ordered to bring his rate up or be shown the door, now that the owners are reworking their revenue model?
As far as global warming goes, it's a fsck'ing theory, for crissakes, not a goddam religion.
But you sure couldn't tell that from some of the posts here...
"Zero Knowledge to Stop Supporting Linux... Zero Knowledge Systems, the Canadian-based software maker of security and privacy software "Freedom", has announced today that it will no longer support Linux..."
"John Alroy, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California at Santa Barbara, used a complicated computer model to simulate what may have happened when humans first entered North America some 13,400 years ago over an Ice Age land bridge from Asia..."
So this guy has got tenure, and he's making himself famous and getting quoted on CNN by coming up with some off-the-wall theory that makes him stand out from the crowd, by saying that aboriginal native americans caused mass extinctions...
Yeah, right...
Remember that university professors are under absoulutely *no* obligation whatsoever to espouse theories that make any sense.
Just as there is the attitude of "publish or perish" that drives much of what comes out of the university context, so is there the attitude that "I can say any damn thing I want to because of my 'academic freedom'"
It doesn't have to make any sense, it just has to get him noticed.
When I was at CSU at Long Beach in the late sixties, taking a geology minor, there was an extremely influential professor there who based his entire career on the position that plate tectonics was a bunch of crap.
Everyone took him very seriously, and he went on and on, and he was totally wrong.
Wrong.
Period.
And yet everyone pretended to take him seriously because he had tenure and he'd been there a long time.
And wait just one minute:
"Regardless of the variables he plugged in, the presence of human hunters triggered mass extinctions..."
No matter *what* variables he plugged in, he still kept getting the same answer?!?
Are you putting me on?
Either CNN is full of sh*t, (heh.. don't get me started...) or the guy had a result he wanted, and set up his model to get that result no matter what.
"...detailing why Microsoft is not a monopoly) be able to force its technology down the throats of unsuspecting, uninformed or apathetic users (link to photo of lemmings) who might not realize the implications of the technology (link to Microsoft XP order info page).
Slashdot Mirror
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formatting
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just th
at the default seems
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Do I need to g
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set something?
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"Plain Old Text" ignores html tags and works off cr/lf only, it seems.
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Certainly that's understandable, but why is it the default?
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Whoa! And it's also still Friday...
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t_t_b
Sounds like a setup, to me...
t_t_b
Have ye truly fallen so low, oh, once mighty Taco?
t_t_b
"* THE TOOL ONLY ELIMINATES THE EFFECTS OF THE CODE RED II WORM. IT DOES NOT ELIMINATE THE EFFECT OF OTHER VARIANTS OF THE WORM."
"* IF THE WORM HAS INFECTED YOUR SYSTEM, YOUR SYSTEM HAS BEEN OPENED TO ADDITIONAL FORMS OF ATTACK. THIS TOOL ONLY ELIMINATES THE DIRECT EFFECTS OF THE WORM. IT DOES NOT ELIMINATE ANY ADDITIONAL DAMAGE THAT OTHER ATTACKS MAY HAVE CAUSED WHILE YOUR SERVER WAS INFECTED."
Obvious effects..? Other variants..? If (for crissakes, IF?) the worm has infected..?
Those are just minor issues, and certainly not Micro$oft's problem, let alone Micro$oft's fault.
Remember, Micro$oft's EULA makes them absolutely not responsible for anything.
If Micro$oft had *any* integrity, it's core message would be: "You're totally screwed through our misfeasance."
Instead, it's "You're totally screwed, and we're off the hook entirely."
Remember: "We're Micro$oft, we're as big as they get, and we don't care because we don't have to!"
t_t_b
08/10/01 I received a total of 132 probes to tcp:80 on my 12.82.x.x dynamic IP via my dialup to worldnet.att.net
These are exclusively from other dialups and small-scale hosts in AT&T's 12.x.x.x class A; AT&T has introduced ingress filtering and I'm seeing almost nothing from outside (Note: almost - some stuff is still leaking through..)
But the problem is the enemy within: there's got to be thousands of home/SOHO small systems, maybe single boxes, put together by the hotshot early-adopters and techno-yuppies who think it's cool to go through the checkout stand at CompUSA and purchase a copy of Win 2K Professional, or whatever, and put it on their home systems with all the bells and whistles installed.
None of these boxes are under *any* formal administrative control, and it's going to be up to each and every one of these thousands of techno-yuppies to patch each and every single one of their boxes.
So far today 08/11/01 at 10:00am I've had 69 probes.
As far as I can see, getting all these systems disinfected and patched hasn't even started yet.
t_t_b
Can't get off it..
One of *my* favorite Firesign Theater moments was when they did a live simulcast voice-over naration for the Pasadena, CA, Tournament of Roses Parade on New Year's day, about 1970-71...
It was on an FM station in LA..
They broadcast live from a booth somewhere out on Colorado Boulevard..
You watched on TV, and listened to their naration with headphones, for full effect...
Later that afternoon my landlady kept asking me what I was laughing at so hard, all morning long.
I didn't even *try* to explain..
t_t_b
Don't know what this refers to?
t_t_b
Cuh- cuh- coming, mother...!
Oh, that Georgie.. he's so good with the help!
t_t_b
Win 2000?
There's your whole problem, right there.
Get a real computer.
Or a real operating system, at least...
t_t_b
I've seen Talkback only about three times and 0.9.2 is up and doing something 24/7.
t_t_b
Pandering to the gangsta crowd now, are we?
t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®
t_t_b
Just wondering...
t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®
Nova...
No va
Don't go
Kinda like that, anyway...
t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®
Let's add "hit whore" to the /. lexicon, right down there with "karma whore".
That's about what Taco and the rest have stooped to become, these days...
t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®
So let's see:
Started college '87 at, say, 19, 1997 maybe 29, so this guy's in maybe his mid thirties...
And how long has *he* been writing software?
Or does he, even?
Who knows.
I don't care...
t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®
Why the hell is this cast in the light of something that someone has to *believe* in?
Could it be that Katz' posting rate was falling off, and he was ordered to bring his rate up or be shown the door, now that the owners are reworking their revenue model?
As far as global warming goes, it's a fsck'ing theory, for crissakes, not a goddam religion.
But you sure couldn't tell that from some of the posts here...
t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®
it generates a 404...
t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®
Years?
Ever?
Can't wait to get home and tinker!
t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®
Your vote (2) has been registered.
Sure, I'd love no banner ads for a few bucks a month 260 / 24%
No way, Slashdot is crap 786 / 75%
So, "premium /." huh?
Gotta figure out how to make a few extra bucks, do we?
And, no banner ads, huh?
Does that mean that /. "lite" is going away?"
t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®
I'm gonna put my collection up on eBay, Real Soon Now(tm)!
Oughta fetch a pretty penny...
t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®
Screw 'em...
t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®
"John Alroy, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California at Santa Barbara, used a complicated computer model to simulate what may have happened when humans first entered North America some 13,400 years ago over an Ice Age land bridge from Asia..."
So this guy has got tenure, and he's making himself famous and getting quoted on CNN by coming up with some off-the-wall theory that makes him stand out from the crowd, by saying that aboriginal native americans caused mass extinctions...
Yeah, right...
Remember that university professors are under absoulutely *no* obligation whatsoever to espouse theories that make any sense.
Just as there is the attitude of "publish or perish" that drives much of what comes out of the university context, so is there the attitude that "I can say any damn thing I want to because of my 'academic freedom'"
It doesn't have to make any sense, it just has to get him noticed.
When I was at CSU at Long Beach in the late sixties, taking a geology minor, there was an extremely influential professor there who based his entire career on the position that plate tectonics was a bunch of crap.
Everyone took him very seriously, and he went on and on, and he was totally wrong.
Wrong.
Period.
And yet everyone pretended to take him seriously because he had tenure and he'd been there a long time.
And wait just one minute:
"Regardless of the variables he plugged in, the presence of human hunters triggered mass extinctions..."
No matter *what* variables he plugged in, he still kept getting the same answer?!?
Are you putting me on?
Either CNN is full of sh*t, (heh.. don't get me started...) or the guy had a result he wanted, and set up his model to get that result no matter what.
Some "scientist"...
t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®
"...detailing why Microsoft is not a monopoly) be able to force its technology down the throats of unsuspecting, uninformed or apathetic users (link to photo of lemmings) who might not realize the implications of the technology (link to Microsoft XP order info page).
I, for one, think so...
t_t_b
--
I think not; therefore I ain't®
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