Well I for one am certain that the Nimda worm is the last worm we'll ever see. See, the president of my fine country has declared war on evil. As such, all evil will soon be destroyed. So just sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride.
As sugested, I checked Microsoft's definition of Microsoft.
The Encarta Dictionary says "No matches found for: Microsoft"
The Encarta Encyclopedia, however, has a much more fitting definition:
"Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a0005', Invalid procedure call or argument,/shared/spot/xmlsearchcore.inc, line 572 "
I think that really sums it up!
Anyone who has ever viewed the source of a html doc made by frontpage will surely agree that everything made in that horrible program is pretty disparaging toward whoever wrote it. It's downright shamefull!
So what are they going to do?
Ban books and research on cryptography and discrete mathematics next?
Actually, I think we're already there. If you wrote a book containing example code for certain cypto schemes, that book would not be allowed to leave the U.S.
The poll also says "if it meant more security against terrorism". To assume that losing civil liberties would achive this is naive, but I think many Americans will make that assumption.
More govt intervention in people's everyday lives won't stop terrorism, but it would give polititians something 'good' to wave around when the next election comes. I suppose they are just betting on people's anger lasting that long...
(from the BBC article)
The procedure could make it possible for a surgeon to perform an operation on a patient anywhere in the world.
Sure... anywhere in the world equipped with a surgery-performing-robot, a secure guarenteed-to-be-up data line, and a team of backup doctors in case anything goes wrong.
Seriously, I have to doubt the usefullness. A robotic arm with remote control options can't be cheap, and if I were on the table I'd much rather the doctor just hopped on a plane and came to me.
The idea of having the cameras in place so doctors could watch (and discuss) live surgery in far away places would be cool. But c'mon, a robotic arm doing surgery?
It just doesn't seem like this is a good use of money, especially when you account for the extra risk to the patient.
I think most ISP's probably have a list of reasons they can disconnect you, and then at the bottom of the list they have the "or for any reason, at our discretion, etc etc" clause.
So, they could probably pull the plug on any infected users and be 100% in the clear from a legal aspect. And if they were carefull, they could even get a story in the local paper (about how they were helping to fight evil hackers) before the letter to the editor from the irate infected customer with no more net access.
yea. i had a quantum fireball burst into flames before...
I've got my doubts on that story... Did you take pictures?;-)
I had an old 603e mac clone (power computing rocked!) that had the fan go out, and it led to very frequent crashes. I don't think there was lasting damage as a new fan brought things back to normal.
"Religion is the opium of the masses." You're a self-proclaimed Athiest, that's a religion. Pull your head out of your arse and smell some fresh air for once...
Atheism, by definition, is the opposite of religion. Check the dictionary:
atheistn. One who disbelieves or denies the existence of God or gods.
godn. A being of supernatural powers or attributes, believed in and worshiped by a people, especially a male deity thought to control some part of nature or reality.
religionn.
a) Belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers regarded as creator and governor of the universe.
b) A personal or institutionalized system grounded in such belief and worship.
Also, Nazi's were not atheists. The name you probably meant to call me was communist.
I know that simple-minded god-fearing types like to group all the baddies together for easy condemnation, but it's really not nice.
Quiet respect for other religions is fine if the religion is harmless. However foreign policy, written mostly by White Old Christian Men, has made our country so hated that groups of people will spend years of their life training for a suicide mission to kill American citizens. As much as we hate these terrorists, I don't think any one of us here would spend years living in their country training for a suicide mission to kill civilians. Their hate runs deeper than ours, and, proportionally, they are a more religious people.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
It was religion, both Christian and muslim, that brought us this tragedy. So no, I won't shutup and be respectfull when you want to go on praying.
Also:
As firm beleiver in the seperation of church and state, I find the President declaring a "national day of prayer" downright un-American. The point is to remove religious interference or endorsement from the government. As an atheist I find it wrong to have the President thrust prayer in my face.
C'mon...I hope they take a stand. I'd like to see someone rock the boat. They obviously don't want to give up their hard work to the general public. Let's see how it pans out. What's the worst that could happen?
I'm realize the GPL has problems, and I'd also like to see someone "rock the boat". But RTLinux has been granted a patent for something it shouldn't have and if using the GPL to stop them is what is takes then I support that.
From gnu.org, emphasis by me:
Software patents are a harmful government policy of creating monopolies that restrict computer users. We oppose this policy, and we think it is a shame that Victor Yodaiken has chosen to obtain a patent for an idea that we believe should not be, and is not, patentable. The patent covers real-time interrupt handling using a software emulation layer for interrupt masking, so that interrupts can be prioritized. There is significant prior art for this.
Yodaiken has attempted to use the patent to impose restrictive terms on a GPL-covered program (Linux, the kernel used in the GNU/Linux operating system). These terms conflict with the GNU General Public License, and imposing them is a violation of the GPL. We have told Yodaiken this, and we have told him what license terms would comply with GPL. He, like everyone, has the reponsibility to comply with the GPL or cease his infringing distribution. Anyone else redistributing a modified version of Linux under the restrictive patent license that Yodaiken uses will also be violating the GPL.
I'm not familiar with this case so much, but I get the impression its just yet another stupid software patent, and this one just happens to be built on GPL'd code and therefore can be stopped.
When I got dsl I went for some stupid promotion that waived my setup fee. What I didn't know is that the dsl "modem" they gave us would only get one computer online (no NAT or anything).If I wanted to get my roommates online too (which was a key part of my plan to pay very little for dsl) I was told that I'd have to buy additional IP's for each pc. And there would be no firewall or anything, so their win98 boxes would be open to the world.
That sounded like a bad idea to me (security wise), and I didn't want to pay for the extra IP's anyway, so I picked up a retired server from a local bussiness (dual pentium II 120's w/128mb ram and a 6gb hd) and installed redhat. My isp included a new nic with every dsl setup, giving me the second card I needed for the server.
I've got very little networking experience previous to this, but it wasn't hard to find decent documentation online. Now I've got it doing IP Masquerading and I've got a decently simple setup for routing ports to internal IP's. I opted not to setup DHCP, though I may in the future.
It was a learning experience for me, and I've certainly got a lot more control over my setup than any of those web-interface standalone setups.
By the fact that Palestian has NOT made any real attempts to bring in the terrorist who are bombing Isreal, Palestian is showing that they support such ativity and have no problems with it!!!
And by the fact that Isreal and the U.S. have made no real attempts to stop the terrorism against the palestinians (excuse my spelling, as usual:/ ) they are showing that they support such activity and have no problem with it! And by giving huge financial support to the Israeli military, the U.S. is taking sides and joining into their war! This is not a war like we've seen before, but it is certainly a war. And the countless foreign civilians the U.S. has killed and assisted in killing over the years are no less innocent than the people who died in the WTC bombing.
What these terrorists have done is clearly wrong, it is clearly immoral, there is no question about that. But the things the U.S. has done overseas are equally wrong and immoral. I'd imagine that these people are fighting back the only way they can; I mean they can't exactly launch missile strikes at us like we do at them.
Take the feelings of pain and sorrow you feel after seeing hijacked airplanes crashing into america's proudest cities, and imagine what the people of, say, Kosovo felt when there were missiles raining down from the sky, hitting schools and hospitials along with anything else. And not just for a few hours, their crisis lasted for weeks. The bombs kept coming, they're friends and family kept dying.
American's would like to believe that the U.S. represents a "beacon of freedom" (as W. put it) and in many places it certainly does. But the fact is, in many other places around the world the U.S. represents coldblooded slaughter of women and children.
It's simple to dismiss the terrorists as madmen, but are the nations of people (such as egypt, one of the 'moderate' states) who applaud their efforts all madmen too? I don't think so. I think those people out in the streets are just oridnary people, like you and me, who just know the U.S. as the most well funded international terrorists in the world.
If we want to live in a safe, civilized nation, we need to give up some of our lesser freedoms.
You make me sick.
You clearly have no understanding of the principals this country was founded on.
There are countries where the government watches over everyone, where nothing is private. I'd sugest you move to one of those places; maybe Iraq? Or Afghanistan?
If a terrorist act can get the American govt to take away it's citizens freedom, even "lesser freedoms", then the terrorists have been successfull.
Some of those inocent Arabs were and still are sleeper cells for terrorists such as OBL.
Sure, so by your logic we should round them all up and put them in camps?
Maybe you missed history class, but the U.S. tried that with Japaneese Americans during WWII, as did others around the same time. It was as ignorant a plan then as it is now.
Taking away certain goups of american citizen's freedom would make your own freedom worthless and false.
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Well I for one am certain that the Nimda worm is the last worm we'll ever see. See, the president of my fine country has declared war on evil. As such, all evil will soon be destroyed. So just sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride.
As sugested, I checked Microsoft's definition of Microsoft.
/shared/spot/xmlsearchcore.inc, line 572 "
The Encarta Dictionary says "No matches found for: Microsoft"
The Encarta Encyclopedia, however, has a much more fitting definition:
"Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a0005', Invalid procedure call or argument,
I think that really sums it up!
Anyone who has ever viewed the source of a html doc made by frontpage will surely agree that everything made in that horrible program is pretty disparaging toward whoever wrote it. It's downright shamefull!
Checkout his website.
So what are they going to do?
Ban books and research on cryptography and discrete mathematics next?
Actually, I think we're already there. If you wrote a book containing example code for certain cypto schemes, that book would not be allowed to leave the U.S.
The poll also says "if it meant more security against terrorism". To assume that losing civil liberties would achive this is naive, but I think many Americans will make that assumption.
More govt intervention in people's everyday lives won't stop terrorism, but it would give polititians something 'good' to wave around when the next election comes. I suppose they are just betting on people's anger lasting that long...
(from the BBC article)
The procedure could make it possible for a surgeon to perform an operation on a patient anywhere in the world.
Sure... anywhere in the world equipped with a surgery-performing-robot, a secure guarenteed-to-be-up data line, and a team of backup doctors in case anything goes wrong.
Seriously, I have to doubt the usefullness. A robotic arm with remote control options can't be cheap, and if I were on the table I'd much rather the doctor just hopped on a plane and came to me.
The idea of having the cameras in place so doctors could watch (and discuss) live surgery in far away places would be cool. But c'mon, a robotic arm doing surgery?
It just doesn't seem like this is a good use of money, especially when you account for the extra risk to the patient.
So if they foul up halfway through, is there one doctor who says "hey guys lets try that again! I only fucked up cuz of lag, d00d!"?
My boss tends to think up new domains he should own on a regular basis. He recently had be
I think most ISP's probably have a list of reasons they can disconnect you, and then at the bottom of the list they have the "or for any reason, at our discretion, etc etc" clause.
So, they could probably pull the plug on any infected users and be 100% in the clear from a legal aspect. And if they were carefull, they could even get a story in the local paper (about how they were helping to fight evil hackers) before the letter to the editor from the irate infected customer with no more net access.
yea. i had a quantum fireball burst into flames before...
;-)
I've got my doubts on that story... Did you take pictures?
I had an old 603e mac clone (power computing rocked!) that had the fan go out, and it led to very frequent crashes. I don't think there was lasting damage as a new fan brought things back to normal.
This article has no business being on Slashdot and is just more anti-Microsoft zealotry.
/. is known for!
Re-read that once, and then pause for reflection.
What aspect of this story doesn't belong on slashdot? Zealotry? Anti-Microsoft-ism? These are the things
Sure, both those solutions would work, but I'd rather see someone find out why a linux box brought down a network it should've been compatible with!
Atheism, by definition, is the opposite of religion. Check the dictionary:
atheist n. One who disbelieves or denies the existence of God or gods.
god n. A being of supernatural powers or attributes, believed in and worshiped by a people, especially a male deity thought to control some part of nature or reality.
religion n.
a) Belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers regarded as creator and governor of the universe.
b) A personal or institutionalized system grounded in such belief and worship.
Also, Nazi's were not atheists. The name you probably meant to call me was communist.
I know that simple-minded god-fearing types like to group all the baddies together for easy condemnation, but it's really not nice.
Someone had to take the bait, so here goes:
Quiet respect for other religions is fine if the religion is harmless. However foreign policy, written mostly by White Old Christian Men, has made our country so hated that groups of people will spend years of their life training for a suicide mission to kill American citizens. As much as we hate these terrorists, I don't think any one of us here would spend years living in their country training for a suicide mission to kill civilians. Their hate runs deeper than ours, and, proportionally, they are a more religious people.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
It was religion, both Christian and muslim, that brought us this tragedy. So no, I won't shutup and be respectfull when you want to go on praying.
Also:
As firm beleiver in the seperation of church and state, I find the President declaring a "national day of prayer" downright un-American. The point is to remove religious interference or endorsement from the government. As an atheist I find it wrong to have the President thrust prayer in my face.
Build bbs style packet-based message systems that are hidden in mp3s.
As if mp3's aren't getting a bad enough rap already... and you want to start using them to transmit encrypted data now?
Then after the next terrorist attack they'll want to ban mp3s! (hey, if requiring backdoors is logical...)
C'mon...I hope they take a stand. I'd like to see someone rock the boat. They obviously don't want to give up their hard work to the general public. Let's see how it pans out. What's the worst that could happen?
I'm realize the GPL has problems, and I'd also like to see someone "rock the boat". But RTLinux has been granted a patent for something it shouldn't have and if using the GPL to stop them is what is takes then I support that.
From gnu.org, emphasis by me:
Software patents are a harmful government policy of creating monopolies that restrict computer users. We oppose this policy, and we think it is a shame that Victor Yodaiken has chosen to obtain a patent for an idea that we believe should not be, and is not, patentable. The patent covers real-time interrupt handling using a software emulation layer for interrupt masking, so that interrupts can be prioritized. There is significant prior art for this.
Yodaiken has attempted to use the patent to impose restrictive terms on a GPL-covered program (Linux, the kernel used in the GNU/Linux operating system). These terms conflict with the GNU General Public License, and imposing them is a violation of the GPL. We have told Yodaiken this, and we have told him what license terms would comply with GPL. He, like everyone, has the reponsibility to comply with the GPL or cease his infringing distribution. Anyone else redistributing a modified version of Linux under the restrictive patent license that Yodaiken uses will also be violating the GPL.
I'm not familiar with this case so much, but I get the impression its just yet another stupid software patent, and this one just happens to be built on GPL'd code and therefore can be stopped.
This is 100% about the GPL.
Without the provisions in the GPL about making the source for any midifications open this case would not exist.
If this isn't a test of the GPL, what would be?
When I got dsl I went for some stupid promotion that waived my setup fee. What I didn't know is that the dsl "modem" they gave us would only get one computer online (no NAT or anything).If I wanted to get my roommates online too (which was a key part of my plan to pay very little for dsl) I was told that I'd have to buy additional IP's for each pc. And there would be no firewall or anything, so their win98 boxes would be open to the world.
That sounded like a bad idea to me (security wise), and I didn't want to pay for the extra IP's anyway, so I picked up a retired server from a local bussiness (dual pentium II 120's w/128mb ram and a 6gb hd) and installed redhat. My isp included a new nic with every dsl setup, giving me the second card I needed for the server.
I've got very little networking experience previous to this, but it wasn't hard to find decent documentation online. Now I've got it doing IP Masquerading and I've got a decently simple setup for routing ports to internal IP's. I opted not to setup DHCP, though I may in the future.
It was a learning experience for me, and I've certainly got a lot more control over my setup than any of those web-interface standalone setups.
By the fact that Palestian has NOT made any real attempts to bring in the terrorist who are bombing Isreal, Palestian is showing that they support such ativity and have no problems with it!!!
:/ ) they are showing that they support such activity and have no problem with it! And by giving huge financial support to the Israeli military, the U.S. is taking sides and joining into their war! This is not a war like we've seen before, but it is certainly a war. And the countless foreign civilians the U.S. has killed and assisted in killing over the years are no less innocent than the people who died in the WTC bombing.
And by the fact that Isreal and the U.S. have made no real attempts to stop the terrorism against the palestinians (excuse my spelling, as usual
What these terrorists have done is clearly wrong, it is clearly immoral, there is no question about that. But the things the U.S. has done overseas are equally wrong and immoral. I'd imagine that these people are fighting back the only way they can; I mean they can't exactly launch missile strikes at us like we do at them.
Take the feelings of pain and sorrow you feel after seeing hijacked airplanes crashing into america's proudest cities, and imagine what the people of, say, Kosovo felt when there were missiles raining down from the sky, hitting schools and hospitials along with anything else. And not just for a few hours, their crisis lasted for weeks. The bombs kept coming, they're friends and family kept dying.
American's would like to believe that the U.S. represents a "beacon of freedom" (as W. put it) and in many places it certainly does. But the fact is, in many other places around the world the U.S. represents coldblooded slaughter of women and children.
It's simple to dismiss the terrorists as madmen, but are the nations of people (such as egypt, one of the 'moderate' states) who applaud their efforts all madmen too? I don't think so. I think those people out in the streets are just oridnary people, like you and me, who just know the U.S. as the most well funded international terrorists in the world.
I consider Arab Americans just plain Americans.
Just a few posts ago you said "Most Arabs ARE TO BLAME!!!".
So you consider them "plain americans" but you also hold "most" of them accountable?
If we want to live in a safe, civilized nation, we need to give up some of our lesser freedoms.
You make me sick.
You clearly have no understanding of the principals this country was founded on.
There are countries where the government watches over everyone, where nothing is private. I'd sugest you move to one of those places; maybe Iraq? Or Afghanistan?
If a terrorist act can get the American govt to take away it's citizens freedom, even "lesser freedoms", then the terrorists have been successfull.
There was speculation on cnn that it was headed for either the White House or Camp David, but I don't see how they could be certain at this point.
Some of those inocent Arabs were and still are sleeper cells for terrorists such as OBL.
Sure, so by your logic we should round them all up and put them in camps?
Maybe you missed history class, but the U.S. tried that with Japaneese Americans during WWII, as did others around the same time. It was as ignorant a plan then as it is now.
Taking away certain goups of american citizen's freedom would make your own freedom worthless and false.