However, RMS seems to be HOSTILE to those who don't make the same choices he does. Freedom to me, means, that, freedom. It's about having the freedom to make good or bad choices.
It has reminded me of someone said that 'pure freedom' could not form any political party that can enforce the freedom in a society. Instead any political party in any believe tends to restrict freedom to some degree.
I've heard an Africa country, which I couldn't recall, has more than three militaries for 'freedom'. That result in endless civil wars within this country and people are suffering. Not only people has differently intrepretation to 'Freedom', but also different 'ways' to achieve 'Freedom'.
It's very commonly seen that whenever an organization formed to fight for Freedom, individuals will come up and complain the restrictive freedom is not true freedom, as a result another organization for 'Freedom' is formed.
Some people still think that true freedom is 'the freedom to control things happens around themselves', but it doesn't not work in the real world. In this case I see that someone is firing up the conspiracy theory in the hostile-takeover of the project one is previously in control of.
I've mixed feeling. FSF is in fact beginning to restrict freedom in achieving their goal of 'Freedom', while people are starting to question the meaning of true freedom as the organization is in the process of formalization. I smell the history of the said Africa country would repeat....
Is it not also possible that they discovered these vulnerabilities in their own testing, and decided to fix them before an exploit appeared?
It's possible, but we all see that they prefer to hide them til next service patch release. If not for this CR instance we wouldn't know. They've 'hot-fix'(in-between service patches) system, but we don't see any hot-fix for these vulnerabilities.
That gives crackers plenty time to rob general public blind. That's what we are worrying about. I've heard somewhere that Russians mafias are constantly cracking US companies' webservers; they probably wouldn't publicize the vulnerability like eeyes did if they discovered it in the first place.
We do not jump into the most negative conclusions for nothing.
That means that they are not buying the company, just IP and assets. That means that Palm will not be accepting liabilities, like support contracts, employment agreements, etc.
I get it! That means Palm only wants Be's soul, not her body? Right?
Then it's an evil deal! Be trades its soul with money! Oh my! Someone stops them!
Wouldn't it have been much better for eEye to give the details of the buffer overflow only to Microsoft?
That is based on the assumption that Microsoft would take immediate action for the benefit of the society.
Ok, take a look at this: The update, which amounts to a point release for both IIS 4 and IIS 5, also addresses five previously undisclosed vulnerabilities with IIS, which could result in either denial of service or privilege elevation.
Five undisclosed vulnerabilities! Smart crackers might have enjoyed exploiting them for months!
When would Microsoft disclosed fixes of those vulnerabilities? Next Service Patch? Does it mean they wouldn't be fixed if not for this CR instance?
How could you rely on a group of people whose actions are unaccountable?
Ok, you can mod me troll now if you don't like I speak ill of Microsoft.
Actually you could put the two together and pursue "alien women". We know that the most of the people who read slashdot have more of a chance getting a date with an "alien woman" than a date with an "earth woman".
An earth man asks an alien woman in the midst of love-making:
"Honey, what is this cute little thing stuck here?"
"Weird! He asked the very same question thousand years ago!"
(Ok this is an old joke.)
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there's a pretty good amount of downtime in between reboots and so on. It's a great opportunity to meet some new people, and mingle with the ladies.
Aye, I've similar experience but in a big corp.(eye bee...) working as a internal PC support. I met most beautiful girls in the building and they begged to have my personal number so that they can call me directly when in need. Not much male has an honorable experience.:D
They don't want to make offical service call because of my supervisor. My supervisor is the kind of bastard that always bloated he invented the tactics to catch a girl's hand by suddenly putting his hand on the mouse the girl is using - "Heynotlikethatletmeshowyou"
A lowly tech support like me was relatively harmless.:)
Then there's the Slackware/Debian crowd. They tend to stick together, but they have differant views none the less. They take pride in their 'elite feeling', in that only people with 'skill' can use and know these distributions.
Hmmmm...I use Debian not because I like this 'elite' feeling...I don't feel like an 'elite' using it and nobody calls me 'elite'. I'm a lazy admin - very incurable lazy kind and would use DOS+Novell for the eternality if there's no Linux. I tend to use OS which is powerful yet easy to manage. I mean, VERY easy to manage.
Replying you is probably useless as you chose to be AC...but I'm talkative, what the hell.:)
Recently I work on mobile device and have seen the immense potential of Java in this area.
Bad news is that unless you made a HUGE business deal with SUN and mobile carriers, you probably have problem embedding JVM/KVM in your device for mass production.
Nokia can do that, Motorola can do that; but absoultely not a tiny startup can do that.
So unless we could find a gullible VC, kaffe is our only hope. Unfortunately, checking the bug database you'll find many unsolved problems(probably will never be solved) hinder the decision to put kaffe to use. java.security make it unusable for e-commerce apps, for example.
Trust me, we sincerely hope that kaffe can replace SUN's JVM/KVM. The news that Microsoft bought up Transvirtual worried us, and now our worry come true. As Sun said, Microsoft's sponsorship on Kaffe is just to disturbing Java's development. Now we can see many vital parts of kaffe seems to be missing.
Nevertheless, kaffe still has hope - it's GPL and anyone could create a better derivative from it. It'd be a huge prospect in mobile business.(Man I love GPL).
Kaffe would be killed by dirty business practice, but I'm sure a better GPL JVM will be emerge sooner or later....
Your perljvm - The Perl to Java Virtual Machine Compiler is impressive. I believe you've the authority to answer this question.
Sun has its sole control to their Java VM, and the control is extended to other JVM versions. As Richard said, free software build on non-free platform/program is useless to Free World.
We had much expectation on kaffe. However, it has halted its development long time ago, since Microsoft made business deals with Transvirtual. The only free JVM is basically dead now.
I'd like to have your opnion on this: do you have Java in your vision of Free World?
We didn't have computerized timesheet system at that time(I got to write one later) because CPU time was costy. We had given a stack of palm-size timesheet cards, each slot is a 15-minute interval.(I think newer IBMers could find this timecards in storage room, they've printed quite a lot of them)
It wasn't so bad when one day our new manager introducing 'time-slicing' time-management technique, that we had to fill in different tasks in each time slot, to prove that you've 'used your time efficiently'.
Time-slicing was a new buzzwords that days. Obviously he didn't quite catch the meaning of it.
Well, he wasn't asked a question he hasn't answered five hundred times. I'll bet I could find decent answers to every question in that interview on the fsf website.
jill.c. Don't regard it as a malicious exploit, it's infact a very powerful remote administration tool. All our NT boxes are not attached to Internet so we don't worry.:)
he was adamant that he would never work in the US again (I think the last film he did in the US before then was Cannonball Run!). He hasn't got anything against the US as such,
Since you've worked with him I'm sure you'd like to know what happened.:)
In today's radio show(again) he told us his unhappy event when filming 'Cannonball Run'. He and another HK actor had to wait 10 days to shoot a 1/2 hour film, and the Hollywood staffs then was very disrespectful to him - just told them to talk 'anything' for 1/2 hours and then they could leave. Already top movie stars in HK, they felt so unhappy and they spoke foul language(in Chinese) during that boring 1/2 hour session(while their face act otherwise). Unfortunately the few minutes clips that they spoke foul language was being used.:D
Look at "The Big Brawl" for the first example of Hollywood screwing up Chan.
Oh yes, you reminded me, he has talked about 'Big Brawl' in radio today. Saying how he had a tough time working with Hollywood guys, and how those Big noses media treated him(very) differently since 'Cannonball'.
You probably wouldn't hear him saying that to US media.:D
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The following are real telephone dialogs when I worked as a tech support in IBM:
.....sorry about that, but would you tell me what exactly on the screen now?
.......your mousepad?
....sure I'll get someone more knowledgeable.
[me]: You type DIR and press the ENTER key and tell me what you see.
[idiot1]: I ain't see nothing
[me]: Are you sure you are at the right directory? Please type CD BACKSLASH and press the ENTER key again. What do you see?
[idiot1]: Still nothing. Do you have somone else more knowledgeable who can help?
[me]:
[idiot1]: nothing, it's blank.
[me]: Have you turn on your terminal?
[idiot1]:....I don't think so.
Months later the same user is having brand new OS/2 to replace her dumb term DOS 3.1.
[me]: Please move your mouse pointer to the 3270 icon and double.....
[idiot1]: WAIT!!!! NOT THAT FAST! I DIDN'T SEE ANY 3270 ICON ON IT!!!!
[me]: Calm down please. All desktop is preloaded with this apps.....now what does the mouse pointer pointing at?
[idiot1]: Let me see...the I of the IBM logo.
[me]: You've a wallpaper on your desktop?
[idiot1]: Not wallpaper, but a mouse pad with IBM logo on my desktop.
[me]:
[idiot1]: ARE YOU SURE YOU CAN HELP?! I NEED TO GET JOB DONE CAN'T YOU FIX THAT QUICKIER?!
[me]:
[idiot1]: APPRECIATED!
However, RMS seems to be HOSTILE to those who don't make the same choices he does. Freedom to me, means, that, freedom. It's about having the freedom to make good or bad choices.
It has reminded me of someone said that 'pure freedom' could not form any political party that can enforce the freedom in a society. Instead any political party in any believe tends to restrict freedom to some degree.
I've heard an Africa country, which I couldn't recall, has more than three militaries for 'freedom'. That result in endless civil wars within this country and people are suffering. Not only people has differently intrepretation to 'Freedom', but also different 'ways' to achieve 'Freedom'.
It's very commonly seen that whenever an organization formed to fight for Freedom, individuals will come up and complain the restrictive freedom is not true freedom, as a result another organization for 'Freedom' is formed.
Some people still think that true freedom is 'the freedom to control things happens around themselves', but it doesn't not work in the real world. In this case I see that someone is firing up the conspiracy theory in the hostile-takeover of the project one is previously in control of.
I've mixed feeling. FSF is in fact beginning to restrict freedom in achieving their goal of 'Freedom', while people are starting to question the meaning of true freedom as the organization is in the process of formalization. I smell the history of the said Africa country would repeat....
Its only problem is that it waits for images to load before it displays anything past the image tag in question.
That's especially bad for p0rns-browsing. All I need to see is 10% of an image to decide whether to stop.
Tux Racer?
xbill?
Please....
Is it not also possible that they discovered these vulnerabilities in their own testing, and decided to fix them before an exploit appeared?
It's possible, but we all see that they prefer to hide them til next service patch release. If not for this CR instance we wouldn't know. They've 'hot-fix'(in-between service patches) system, but we don't see any hot-fix for these vulnerabilities.
That gives crackers plenty time to rob general public blind. That's what we are worrying about. I've heard somewhere that Russians mafias are constantly cracking US companies' webservers; they probably wouldn't publicize the vulnerability like eeyes did if they discovered it in the first place.
We do not jump into the most negative conclusions for nothing.
That means that they are not buying the company, just IP and assets. That means that Palm will not be accepting liabilities, like support contracts, employment agreements, etc.
I get it! That means Palm only wants Be's soul, not her body? Right?
Then it's an evil deal! Be trades its soul with money! Oh my! Someone stops them!
Wouldn't it have been much better for eEye to give the details of the buffer overflow only to Microsoft?
That is based on the assumption that Microsoft would take immediate action for the benefit of the society.
Ok, take a look at this:
The update, which amounts to a point release for both IIS 4 and IIS 5, also addresses five previously undisclosed vulnerabilities with IIS, which could result in either denial of service or privilege elevation.
Five undisclosed vulnerabilities! Smart crackers might have enjoyed exploiting them for months!
When would Microsoft disclosed fixes of those vulnerabilities? Next Service Patch? Does it mean they wouldn't be fixed if not for this CR instance?
How could you rely on a group of people whose actions are unaccountable?
Ok, you can mod me troll now if you don't like I speak ill of Microsoft.
Troll
Actually you could put the two together and pursue "alien women". We know that the most of the people who read slashdot have more of a chance getting a date with an "alien woman" than a date with an "earth woman".
An earth man asks an alien woman in the midst of love-making:
"Honey, what is this cute little thing stuck here?"
"Weird! He asked the very same question thousand years ago!"
(Ok this is an old joke.)
there's a pretty good amount of downtime in between reboots and so on. It's a great opportunity to meet some new people, and mingle with the ladies.
:D
:)
Aye, I've similar experience but in a big corp.(eye bee...) working as a internal PC support. I met most beautiful girls in the building and they begged to have my personal number so that they can call me directly when in need. Not much male has an honorable experience.
They don't want to make offical service call because of my supervisor. My supervisor is the kind of bastard that always bloated he invented the tactics to catch a girl's hand by suddenly putting his hand on the mouse the girl is using - "Heynotlikethatletmeshowyou"
A lowly tech support like me was relatively harmless.
if you have an extra PPC machine kicking around somewhere, i would suggest getting a copy of Yellow Dog Linux 2.0.
....and Debian if you get a SPARC.
:)
Sorry couldn't resist.
Then there's the Slackware/Debian crowd. They tend to stick together, but they have differant views none the less. They take pride in their 'elite feeling', in that only people with 'skill' can use and know these distributions.
Hmmmm...I use Debian not because I like this 'elite' feeling...I don't feel like an 'elite' using it and nobody calls me 'elite'. I'm a lazy admin - very incurable lazy kind and would use DOS+Novell for the eternality if there's no Linux. I tend to use OS which is powerful yet easy to manage. I mean, VERY easy to manage.
Well if we can convince our govenment that the Asains are ahead of us with OS tech, creating a "Linux gap!
:)
Here you can find some ads and posters that could help you convincing them.
(it's weird that they use WMV format to promote their Linux system, I can't open them....)
Aye, I wonder why all managers on earth believe their staffs could finish a timesheet in 15 mintues; it'd be a world record if one could.
Replying you is probably useless as you chose to be AC...but I'm talkative, what the hell. :)
Recently I work on mobile device and have seen the immense potential of Java in this area.
Bad news is that unless you made a HUGE business deal with SUN and mobile carriers, you probably have problem embedding JVM/KVM in your device for mass production.
Nokia can do that, Motorola can do that; but absoultely not a tiny startup can do that.
So unless we could find a gullible VC, kaffe is our only hope. Unfortunately, checking the bug database you'll find many unsolved problems(probably will never be solved) hinder the decision to put kaffe to use. java.security make it unusable for e-commerce apps, for example.
Trust me, we sincerely hope that kaffe can replace SUN's JVM/KVM. The news that Microsoft bought up Transvirtual worried us, and now our worry come true. As Sun said, Microsoft's sponsorship on Kaffe is just to disturbing Java's development. Now we can see many vital parts of kaffe seems to be missing.
Nevertheless, kaffe still has hope - it's GPL and anyone could create a better derivative from it. It'd be a huge prospect in mobile business.(Man I love GPL).
Kaffe would be killed by dirty business practice, but I'm sure a better GPL JVM will be emerge sooner or later....
Your perljvm - The Perl to Java Virtual Machine Compiler is impressive. I believe you've the authority to answer this question.
Sun has its sole control to their Java VM, and the control is extended to other JVM versions. As Richard said, free software build on non-free platform/program is useless to Free World.
We had much expectation on kaffe. However, it has halted its development long time ago, since Microsoft made business deals with Transvirtual. The only free JVM is basically dead now.
I'd like to have your opnion on this: do you have Java in your vision of Free World?
Thanks!
We didn't have computerized timesheet system at that time(I got to write one later) because CPU time was costy. We had given a stack of palm-size timesheet cards, each slot is a 15-minute interval.(I think newer IBMers could find this timecards in storage room, they've printed quite a lot of them)
It wasn't so bad when one day our new manager introducing 'time-slicing' time-management technique, that we had to fill in different tasks in each time slot, to prove that you've 'used your time efficiently'.
Time-slicing was a new buzzwords that days. Obviously he didn't quite catch the meaning of it.
Clueless managers can be found everywhere.
Well, he wasn't asked a question he hasn't answered five hundred times. I'll bet I could find decent answers to every question in that interview on the fsf website.
:)
Heh, I thought I were reading a CNN interview.
Why don' t you add a checking to stay away from Apache servers?! The worm would be more difficult to trace without all those access.log evidence....
/usr/log/apache man.
You are overloading my
So I install Apache to collect the logs for the historic momemt. :)
jill.c. Don't regard it as a malicious exploit, it's infact a very powerful remote administration tool. All our NT boxes are not attached to Internet so we don't worry. :)
he was adamant that he would never work in the US again (I think the last film he did in the US before then was Cannonball Run!). He hasn't got anything against the US as such,
:)
:D
Since you've worked with him I'm sure you'd like to know what happened.
In today's radio show(again) he told us his unhappy event when filming 'Cannonball Run'. He and another HK actor had to wait 10 days to shoot a 1/2 hour film, and the Hollywood staffs then was very disrespectful to him - just told them to talk 'anything' for 1/2 hours and then they could leave. Already top movie stars in HK, they felt so unhappy and they spoke foul language(in Chinese) during that boring 1/2 hour session(while their face act otherwise). Unfortunately the few minutes clips that they spoke foul language was being used.
Look at "The Big Brawl" for the first example of Hollywood screwing up Chan.
:D
Oh yes, you reminded me, he has talked about 'Big Brawl' in radio today. Saying how he had a tough time working with Hollywood guys, and how those Big noses media treated him(very) differently since 'Cannonball'.
You probably wouldn't hear him saying that to US media.
Go here
Under "Exclude Stories from the Homepage", check "JonKatz".
Be happy, and move along.
Doesn't all Hollywood movies like that?