I dont understand why this would be considered unhackable.
Exploits have already been released for windowed 7.
It is quite simple: Microsoft said that it was unhackable, so as far as the idiot politicians were concerned it must be true.
What grates with me is that the Australian Federal Government is spending money training kids to use MS s/ware - something that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. The MS marketing department must be overjoyed.
What education should be about is understanding, if you just train someone in one version of s/ware many just adopt a point and click approach with little understanding of what they are doing. You need different sorts of s/ware to make them think. Schools should use a mixture of: MS, Mac & Linux PCs.
We have heard that tired, old argument before, a few idiot CIOs will swallow it, happy to pay top dollar for something that the free s/ware does better. Let them, as long as Nominum sticks to the RFCs and doesn't fork the spec - we don't care.
There is a great deal of difference between publishing the recipe in a book, where it can be made by people at home, and someone selling something that has not been produced in Malaysia.
The recipe for Stilton Cheese is well known, but you can only call it Stilton if it has been made in the three Counties of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire. It cannot be made in the village of Stilton that gave it its name since, at the time the EU came up with the definition, it had been forgotten that it had ever been produced there!
This is something that I wrote and use myself and for my customers. It is easy to set up and use.
The backups on the archive server appear as complete copies of directories of
the backed up machines. There will appear to be one complete backup for each
day - this lets you find/restore a consistent set of files from a particular
day.
The script cleverly avoids copying files that have not changed. It economises
on disk use by only keeping one copy of each file - but makes that one copy
appear in the various daily archives.
The idea is that one central archive server initiates backups on several other
machines.
This script works well where you have many files that do not change from day to
day, eg word processing documents. It is not so good where most of your files
change frequently - but will still work.
Yeah, everyone in the world knows their legal system is busted. Why do they even have free speech, if they can silence people with lawsuits?
The legal system is run by parasites called solicitors and barristers who are only interested in transferring as much of your money into their pockets.
Some of them have done so for much longer than this plant, eg Bdelloid rotifers. Smaller organisms, eg bacteria do not reproduce sexually, although through conjugation they can swap genes with other bacteria so you might say that it is not the same thing as it was before.
I am a ''loyal'' listener[**], they take current numbers in the news and put them under the microscope. I wish they were part of the main newsrooms - it could result in some really interesting questions being put to some of the politicians who spout numbers without any justification.
[**] You need to be a loyal listener to understand the choice of phrase.
Canute tried and failed, so now some judge will be asked to let water lap round his heels.
I don't want global climate change, I don't want to have to change my ways, but but unless I change my kids & grand kids will have a hard time.
You can't legislate against nature.
Well if this means that those in the USA start to be unable to do what the rest of the world does, to not compete and thus loose market share... then this may be good: it might lead to having these stupid laws changed.
It will be a tough way to do it, but I can't see any other that might work.
It is almost impossible for a consumer to negotiate a change to these contracts, the utility/supplier/... will generally just say ''if you don't agree you don't get to use our electricity/phone/bank/...''. This is OK in a truly competitive market - you go elsewhere.
However in many markets there are a small number of suppliers who know that they can dictate any terms that they like since their few competitors are just as bad and it is almost impossible for a new entrant to come in giving the consumer a better deal. This is the sort of situation where the government ought to step in and regulate contracts; I propose that:
when a provider of services to the public has more than 10% of a market[**] that their contracts be drawn up by some independent body that is charged with ensuring that the agreement is fair to both parties.
They won't like it, but it is the only way that we can stop being shafted by the large corporates.
[**] They may provide 5% of the national market, but if they provide >10% in a small region that would be sufficient condition. To be fair we need to say that this only applies when they have at least 1,000 customers.
Do you think that someone ought to tell them that was just a game -- ie not real ? You don't suppose that that revelation would cause them psychological damage do you ?
The only reason for trying to claim copyright on what it generates is in case the output is really valuable -- in which case he will want a cut. Presumably he will only want this cut some time later once the output has shown itself (or rather others have shown it) to be useful.
OK: so what happens when it generates nonsense and I waste a lot of my time; or someone dies as a result of acting on what Wolfram Alpha told me ? Will he 'fess up, say "mea culpa" and open his cheque book to compensate me ? I doubt it.
All very interesting, but why did the sound track have to have some crap music playing the whole time ? Is the expected audience so vacuuous of mind that unless they have some noise running under the words they won't listen ? What is wrong with silence ?
Or at least that is what I thought M$ meant when it said that the Linux kernel infringed some of its patents. In fact is this not worse? The supposedly infringing ideas in the Linux kernel were independently developed by kernel developers, but when it comes to working out how its stores should look MS deliberately goes and ''profiles'' other stores ''for ideas'' on how to design its own stores.
I cannot really see the difference here, other than MS has used the broken US-PTO to ''protect its IP'', whereas the profiled stores have not done this.
Don't get me wrong -- I think that looking at how others do things is a great way of helping with a new project, however M$ claims that you must not do that when it comes to its software, so why is it doing it here ?
The second question is, with processors coming with 8 cores, why have some separate specialized controller that handles RAID and not just do it in software?
I much prefer s/ware raid (Linux kernel dm_mirror), it removes a complicated piece of h/ware which is just another thing to go wrong. It also means that you can see the real disks that make up the mirror and so monitor it with the smart tools.
OK: if you do raid5 rather than mirroring (raid1) you might want a h/ware card to offload the work to, but for many systems a few terabyte disks are big and cheap enough to just mirror.
The exploit involves getting a browser inside your network to connect to the broadband modem at a URL that is broken. Modems are usually set to reject any connection for admin purposes from the outside (Internet facing) but accept connections from inside for sysadmin purposes.
In my setup I have my modem connected to my main machine, this runs a firewall and other machines are connected to it (from a second ethernet card). A few firewall rules fix it:
BBModem=192.168.0.1
# Direct comms with modem forbidden:
iptables -A FORWARD -d $BBModem -j DROP
# Forbid access to the modem except for pings (nagios needs this) and the modem manager user:
iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -d $BBModem -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -j ACCEPT
iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -d $BBModem --match owner ! --uid-owner modemu -j DROP
The connections to the modem are forbidden except from the main machine (this is what the FORWARD rule does). Connections to the modem are only permitted from the user modemu, a user that I only ever use for the rare occasions when I need to tweak the modem.
I knew that something like this would happen and took care to avoid it.
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if I placed it between the 2 units ? I'm not sure that I like the sound of that. Got kids, how long would they survive before being cooked ?
I dont understand why this would be considered unhackable. Exploits have already been released for windowed 7.
It is quite simple: Microsoft said that it was unhackable, so as far as the idiot politicians were concerned it must be true.
What grates with me is that the Australian Federal Government is spending money training kids to use MS s/ware - something that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. The MS marketing department must be overjoyed.
What education should be about is understanding, if you just train someone in one version of s/ware many just adopt a point and click approach with little understanding of what they are doing. You need different sorts of s/ware to make them think. Schools should use a mixture of: MS, Mac & Linux PCs.
My New Spell Checker
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly Marx four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew
(Sauce unknown)
We have heard that tired, old argument before, a few idiot CIOs will swallow it, happy to pay top dollar for something that the free s/ware does better. Let them, as long as Nominum sticks to the RFCs and doesn't fork the spec - we don't care.
The recipe for Stilton Cheese is well known, but you can only call it Stilton if it has been made in the three Counties of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire. It cannot be made in the village of Stilton that gave it its name since, at the time the EU came up with the definition, it had been forgotten that it had ever been produced there!
The backups on the archive server appear as complete copies of directories of the backed up machines. There will appear to be one complete backup for each day - this lets you find/restore a consistent set of files from a particular day.
The script cleverly avoids copying files that have not changed. It economises on disk use by only keeping one copy of each file - but makes that one copy appear in the various daily archives.
The idea is that one central archive server initiates backups on several other machines.
This script works well where you have many files that do not change from day to day, eg word processing documents. It is not so good where most of your files change frequently - but will still work.
GPLed, get it from: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/Packages/RsyncBackup.html
Yeah, everyone in the world knows their legal system is busted. Why do they even have free speech, if they can silence people with lawsuits?
The legal system is run by parasites called solicitors and barristers who are only interested in transferring as much of your money into their pockets.
This is nothing new, Jonathan Swift talked about it in Gulliver's Travels.
OK: there are some honest & some good ones, but most that I have dealed with are not.
of having the CEO's PC out of use for a day ... or any one else's for that matter ?
Some of them have done so for much longer than this plant, eg Bdelloid rotifers. Smaller organisms, eg bacteria do not reproduce sexually, although through conjugation they can swap genes with other bacteria so you might say that it is not the same thing as it was before.
How long before I get spam talking about these things being able to improve my performance in bed ... ? :-)
[**] You need to be a loyal listener to understand the choice of phrase.
Well, I can't think of anything better than the UN, but I'm still not entirely happy with it.
Time to bring Al Gore out of retirement so that he can reinvent the Internet.
I was aware of that.
I don't want global climate change, I don't want to have to change my ways, but but unless I change my kids & grand kids will have a hard time. You can't legislate against nature.
I don't like filtering by protocol: I would get pissed off if my ssh sessions were slowed down.
It will be a tough way to do it, but I can't see any other that might work.
However in many markets there are a small number of suppliers who know that they can dictate any terms that they like since their few competitors are just as bad and it is almost impossible for a new entrant to come in giving the consumer a better deal. This is the sort of situation where the government ought to step in and regulate contracts; I propose that:
when a provider of services to the public has more than 10% of a market[**] that their contracts be drawn up by some independent body that is charged with ensuring that the agreement is fair to both parties.
They won't like it, but it is the only way that we can stop being shafted by the large corporates.
[**] They may provide 5% of the national market, but if they provide >10% in a small region that would be sufficient condition. To be fair we need to say that this only applies when they have at least 1,000 customers.
Do you think that someone ought to tell them that was just a game -- ie not real ? You don't suppose that that revelation would cause them psychological damage do you ?
OK: so what happens when it generates nonsense and I waste a lot of my time; or someone dies as a result of acting on what Wolfram Alpha told me ? Will he 'fess up, say "mea culpa" and open his cheque book to compensate me ? I doubt it.
Stephen: remember that things cut both ways!
Chuck a bottle of this over it - and all the stickiness is gone. I suppose that that assume that you spot the mat for what it is first.
All very interesting, but why did the sound track have to have some crap music playing the whole time ? Is the expected audience so vacuuous of mind that unless they have some noise running under the words they won't listen ? What is wrong with silence ?
I cannot really see the difference here, other than MS has used the broken US-PTO to ''protect its IP'', whereas the profiled stores have not done this.
Don't get me wrong -- I think that looking at how others do things is a great way of helping with a new project, however M$ claims that you must not do that when it comes to its software, so why is it doing it here ?
The second question is, with processors coming with 8 cores, why have some separate specialized controller that handles RAID and not just do it in software?
I much prefer s/ware raid (Linux kernel dm_mirror), it removes a complicated piece of h/ware which is just another thing to go wrong. It also means that you can see the real disks that make up the mirror and so monitor it with the smart tools.
OK: if you do raid5 rather than mirroring (raid1) you might want a h/ware card to offload the work to, but for many systems a few terabyte disks are big and cheap enough to just mirror.
In my setup I have my modem connected to my main machine, this runs a firewall and other machines are connected to it (from a second ethernet card). A few firewall rules fix it:
BBModem=192.168.0.1
# Direct comms with modem forbidden:
iptables -A FORWARD -d $BBModem -j DROP
# Forbid access to the modem except for pings (nagios needs this) and the modem manager user:
iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -d $BBModem -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -j ACCEPT
iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -d $BBModem --match owner ! --uid-owner modemu -j DROP
The connections to the modem are forbidden except from the main machine (this is what the FORWARD rule does). Connections to the modem are only permitted from the user modemu, a user that I only ever use for the rare occasions when I need to tweak the modem.
I knew that something like this would happen and took care to avoid it.