"That's just the thing - they listen to their engineers. Right up until the point where the engineers changed their stories. And that's the part of the tale that Boisjoly et al have spent the last quarter century refusing to acknowledge. by DerekLyons
That's a very interesting take on the subject, but tell me something, do you mind providing verifiable third party citations for:
01. Boisjoly et al changed their stories and spent the last quarter century refusing to acknowledge this.
02. NASA codified the standards for the Shuttle's segmented solids in the late 60's/early 70's - without reference to O-rings.
03. That engineers never told management about problems with the O-rings.
04. Engineers insisted that with some minor modifications to the joint, the problem would go away.
05. Engineers change their story on the evening of January 27th.
06. Engineers never provided a sound engineering rationale claiming the O-rings were unsafe.
07. Engineers repeatedly told management the Shuttle was safe to fly.
Boisjoly faxed the imcomplete data over, ya don't say:o
That isn't strictly accurate, NASA had known of problems with the O-rings since at least 1977. And a Shuttle launch had experienced failure of the primary O-rings on two of the joints the previous January 24, 1985. On the evening before the disaster, at a teleconference, Morton Thiokol engineers had recommended the launch be cancelled if the temperature dropped below 53F. This was overruled by NASA and senior people at Morton Thiokol. A good six months before the disaster Boisjoly wrote a memo detailing the problems with the O-rings and cold weather.
"does a viral video not also require some action by the end-user?
In that case the video isn't a virus or even malware, more like a social engineering exploit. Technical terms have a more rigid definition that language used in casual conversion. I have seen the terms virus, worm and malware mixed-up, even in technical reports.
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"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean"
Technically speaking malware can't go viral, as in malware requires action by the enduser. It should be pointed out that only users of Facebook and 'Adobe Flash` running on Microsoft are suseptable to this vulnerability.
"We have about 50 seats using it in our US office. Our CEO was using it at my prodding with some lawyers to negotiate a contract for a building purchase".
What kind of business are you in. Tell me, were you converting the document to msOffice format before sending and then re-importing the msDocument back to ODF format in the other direction. If so, wouldn't it have been a lot easier to get the lawyers to use Libre Office.
"I turned in bug reports but was told they wouldn't look at them without the file in question".
That's really inconvient considering its a confidential legal document. Tell me this, where exactly did you file the bug reports and who told you they wouldn't accept them without the original document and couldn't keep it private?
"I believe that LibreOffice will never make it in the corporate world for one single reason: It doesn't include a program that can use MAPI to connect to Exchange. Outlook is very, very ingrained in the corporate world and that alone will prevent any organization using Exchange from switching.
What prevents you using Outlook to connect to Exchange after installing LibreOffice? Unless your corporation would lose the ability to do business if they couldn't click on 'File - Send - Document as E-mail' in MS Office?
"Telecommunications sales manager Saad Allami.. sent a text message to colleagues urging them to "blow away" the competition at a trade show in New York City"
Well there you have it, an obvious prima facie case if there ever were one. An Arab sounding name next to the words 'blow away` and 'New York`. The computers at Fort Meade must have lit up like a Christmas tree..
"It is impossible to neutralize a botnet by taking control over the controller machines.. It is still possible to push an update tool on infected machines to neutralize the botnet" Securelist.com
How to neutralize the botnet, use Ubuntu on the desktop...
The opening montage was pure magic, where I notice that Alan Moore don't get a mention. 4:28: "Based on the Graphical Novel co-Created and illustrated by Dave Gibbons and published by DC COMICS". Watchmen intro
"When we were just planning to do an extreme and unusual super-hero book, we thought the Charlton characters would provide us with a great line-up.. the proposal would've left a lot of them in bad shape, and DC couldn't have really used them again after what we were going to do to them without detracting from the power of what it was that we were planningAlan Moore
'This manager, who requested anonymity, noted a related problem: for individual apps over a certain amount, "gifting" them to users under VPP can be considered "compensation" under federal income tax rules`
Jeez, you'd think a business manager would be proficent in federal income tax rules as they relate to such contracts. Is Apple seriously expected to now impart tax law advice?
'Another "tip" from a speaker on the same panel, John Welch, director of IT at The Zimmerman Agency, was a reminder that "In signing up [for VPP], you have to create a new VPP [iTunes] account even if you already have existing ones."'
* Once your enrollment information has been verified, you'll be asked to create a new Apple IS specifically for the Volume Purchase Program. This Apple ID will be used solely for the Volume Purchase Program and cannot be used with other Apple programs or services.
'Clearly the above patterns are trying to appear as though they are related to Microsoft’s “Windows Update” service versus something malicious. A clear, common name for this particular threat did not seem to emerge in the open-source, so we have commonly referred to this threat family as the “MSUpdater” Trojan` link
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"That's just the thing - they listen to their engineers. Right up until the point where the engineers changed their stories. And that's the part of the tale that Boisjoly et al have spent the last quarter century refusing to acknowledge. by DerekLyons
That's a very interesting take on the subject, but tell me something, do you mind providing verifiable third party citations for:
01. Boisjoly et al changed their stories and spent the last quarter century refusing to acknowledge this.
02. NASA codified the standards for the Shuttle's segmented solids in the late 60's/early 70's - without reference to O-rings.
03. That engineers never told management about problems with the O-rings.
04. Engineers insisted that with some minor modifications to the joint, the problem would go away.
05. Engineers change their story on the evening of January 27th.
06. Engineers never provided a sound engineering rationale claiming the O-rings were unsafe.
07. Engineers repeatedly told management the Shuttle was safe to fly.
Boisjoly faxed the imcomplete data over, ya don't say :o
That isn't strictly accurate, NASA had known of problems with the O-rings since at least 1977. And a Shuttle launch had experienced failure of the primary O-rings on two of the joints the previous January 24, 1985. On the evening before the disaster, at a teleconference, Morton Thiokol engineers had recommended the launch be cancelled if the temperature dropped below 53F. This was overruled by NASA and senior people at Morton Thiokol. A good six months before the disaster Boisjoly wrote a memo detailing the problems with the O-rings and cold weather.
"I can't comment on any specific conversation you had with any volunteer", drewjensen-libo
Check the parent posts, it wasn't me, but some AC poster who refers to a 'bug report` (Bug 41049) posted by user jkonecny over on libreoffice.org.
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ref: link
How does 'server-side polymorphism` apply to a read-only bootable Ubuntu USB distro, which is the one I use here?
"does a viral video not also require some action by the end-user?
In that case the video isn't a virus or even malware, more like a social engineering exploit. Technical terms have a more rigid definition that language used in casual conversion. I have seen the terms virus, worm and malware mixed-up, even in technical reports.
--
"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean"
Technically speaking malware can't go viral, as in malware requires action by the enduser. It should be pointed out that only users of Facebook and 'Adobe Flash` running on Microsoft are suseptable to this vulnerability.
I wonder are they monitoring all voice and txt msgs now as a matter of course and is this even legal and why no one seems to be bothered.
"We have about 50 seats using it in our US office. Our CEO was using it at my prodding with some lawyers to negotiate a contract for a building purchase".
What kind of business are you in. Tell me, were you converting the document to msOffice format before sending and then re-importing the msDocument back to ODF format in the other direction. If so, wouldn't it have been a lot easier to get the lawyers to use Libre Office.
"I turned in bug reports but was told they wouldn't look at them without the file in question".
That's really inconvient considering its a confidential legal document. Tell me this, where exactly did you file the bug reports and who told you they wouldn't accept them without the original document and couldn't keep it private?
"I believe that LibreOffice will never make it in the corporate world for one single reason: It doesn't include a program that can use MAPI to connect to Exchange. Outlook is very, very ingrained in the corporate world and that alone will prevent any organization using Exchange from switching.
What prevents you using Outlook to connect to Exchange after installing LibreOffice? Unless your corporation would lose the ability to do business if they couldn't click on 'File - Send - Document as E-mail' in MS Office?
"Telecommunications sales manager Saad Allami .. sent a text message to colleagues urging them to "blow away" the competition at a trade show in New York City"
..
Well there you have it, an obvious prima facie case if there ever were one. An Arab sounding name next to the words 'blow away` and 'New York`. The computers at Fort Meade must have lit up like a Christmas tree
"It is impossible to neutralize a botnet by taking control over the controller machines .. It is still possible to push an update tool on infected machines to neutralize the botnet" Securelist.com
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How to neutralize the botnet, use Ubuntu on the desktop
"As part of their request to remedy a busybox GPL violation, the SFC does ask for source code unrelated to busybox"
What are the names of these Busybox using companies that the SFC requested non-GPL code from?
"There are instances where this litigation and the terms requested by the SFC have resulted in companies dropping their embedded Linux projects."
What are the names of these companies?
"It has also caused even compliant companies to re-evaluate their adoption of Linux"
What are the names of these companies, define 're-evaluate`.
ref: Busybox Replacement Project
The opening montage was pure magic, where I notice that Alan Moore don't get a mention. 4:28: "Based on the Graphical Novel co-Created and illustrated by Dave Gibbons and published by DC COMICS". Watchmen intro
"When we were just planning to do an extreme and unusual super-hero book, we thought the Charlton characters would provide us with a great line-up .. the proposal would've left a lot of them in bad shape, and DC couldn't have really used them again after what we were going to do to them without detracting from the power of what it was that we were planning Alan Moore
'This manager, who requested anonymity, noted a related problem: for individual apps over a certain amount, "gifting" them to users under VPP can be considered "compensation" under federal income tax rules`
Jeez, you'd think a business manager would be proficent in federal income tax rules as they relate to such contracts. Is Apple seriously expected to now impart tax law advice?
'Another "tip" from a speaker on the same panel, John Welch, director of IT at The Zimmerman Agency, was a reminder that "In signing up [for VPP], you have to create a new VPP [iTunes] account even if you already have existing ones."'
From reading the VPP_Business_Guide, I gathered this:
Important information about your Apple ID
* Once your enrollment information has been verified, you'll be asked to create a new Apple IS specifically for the Volume Purchase Program. This Apple ID will be used solely for the Volume Purchase Program and cannot be used with other Apple programs or services.
'Clearly the above patterns are trying to appear as though they are related to Microsoft’s “Windows Update” service versus something malicious. A clear, common name for this particular threat did not seem to emerge in the open-source, so we have commonly referred to this threat family as the “MSUpdater” Trojan` link