"and all you have to do to stop it is reboot your server/pc. Is this really as bad as they are saying?"
Well, yes.
You could reboot to stop it, but once you're online, its highly probable that you're machine will get infected again.
So it isn't that easy.
Besides, n number of servers (as n-> infected IIS server numbers) sending packets out to an IP addy at a given time is enough to make sure/. doesn't load quickly enough for you to check you're KARMA every m seconds (shudder).
"Steve Lipner, head of Microsoft's security response centre, said the company was looking for new ways to distribute patches more efficiently."
So they're going to provide upgrades^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H patches at more locations?
"The government relies on Microsoft and other technology companies to secure everything from defence networks to financial systems. "
Defence networks secured by MS (and others...)?
Well, the FBI might as well give up counter-intelligence, 'cause the 'farners' already have easier access. Who needs cumbersome Dead Letter Boxes when you have MS.
Hmmmm.
I believed quantum interference WOULD occur at such small scales, regardless of the material used (electrons are the same everywhere). Does this material have any properties by which a workaround for the above problem can be achieved? And how the heck does that happen?
Why would users want to purchase bonds?
If a user has enough money, he'll hire programmers. If he does not, he probably doesn't need a program so special, it needs to be developed i.e. doesn't exist. I cannot understand the logic behind this assumption.
"That act was approved with considerable discussion and the members absolutely knew the balances they were advancing. The DMCA allowed the Internet to grow and by and large the act has worked," Holleyman said.
I want a lot of what this guy has been smoking.
When will these ducks get their bills out of their arses and smell something different for a change? The internet grew on its own, and people like you leeched on it, Mr. Robert Holleyman.
"The Tree of Liberty must, from time to time, be watered with the blood of patriots"
#end of quote
Well, sir, would you care to step this way? And please roll up those sleeves. No, don't worry, those pipes aren't as large as they seem, and that is a very low power suction pump. No, donating some blood does not hurt.
maybe it's a good thing (long term) that he's not being released.
# End of quote
I don't think this is very fair on him. Lets try this. You claim you did everything he's charged with, lie so that he's aquited, and then you can fight the battle out, hoping that the courts will throw the DMCA out. It's easy, my friend, to see people fighthing. The fun begins when you get close enough to smell blood - you're own blood.
What you're more afraid of, is having to compete with people who'll work for peanuts.
Considering the complexities of software today, do you honestly think anyone will be able to actually compile code on a 486 or pentium even, in realistic times? Or will they transmit code to some other developed country, where it will be compiled, and errors reported back?
Besides, if the poor kid is going to work in a code shop for a bowl of rice, you shouldn't go and close the shop. If you do that, you make sure the kid finds it extremely difficult to get a bowl of rice. If you really want to do something, you try and improve the whole situation.
Voting in Australia is compulsory. If you don't vote you can go to prison.
# End Quote
This is interesting, and would make a lot of sense in a country (India) where most middle and upper class blokes do not go out and vote because 'We're educated, and we're in no position to choose (we don't have the percentages), so why waste time?'. Ofcourse, with a population of 60% of a billion eligible to vote (might be even more), putting people in jails becomes a real problem.
Security through the way of open source:Write the specs of you pc on it. Atleast nobody will want to steal a P200MMX with a measley 32MB RAM, will they?
#quoted from the page... please read the page when you have the time...
, first. Google examines link structures all over the web. By doing so, it can give every page a popularity rating known as "PageRank" (named after Google cofounder Larry Page). When you do a search, URLs with high PageRanks are more likely to be listed first. However, this will only happen if the pages also match other criteria, such as containing your search terms or being identified as being relevant to your search terms by analyzing the context of links.
Teoma operates in an opposite fashion. When you do a search, Teoma looks across the entire web to find pages that contain your search terms or which are considered relevant to those terms based on link context. After finding a matching set of documents, which it calls a "community, Teoma then examines the links between just this set, to determine which are the most popular.
#end quote.
I don't see how this can infringe on any patents, unless google patented the method of ranking pages by external linkages (can they patent that?).
The most important result of this, as I see it, will be competition. And that is good. Both will be innovating, spending more on R&D, and giving us better value for no money.
Alas, if only someone had done this to Microsoft in the times of MSDOS, computing would've been different (and maybe even better).
Well, can you afford going to this disneyland?
The Russians are in dire need of cash. And their getting it this way is many times better than selling thermonuclear devices to rogue states, or worse still, private individuals. Imagine Osama Bin Laden, with his $300 Million fortune going shopping, cart filled with a NNN Megaton thermonuclear device. Come to think of it, Shuttleworth is doing a goodish thing:)
"2. Africans should concentrate on more important things, like food and education."
What about people from other regions?
Or is this like... "you've got the hungry mouths in your region, you deal with it"?
#Rant mode = on
I guess Africa would've been a better place had the arms dealers refrained from encouraging different factions/tribes/peoples to go to war, and then cashing in on them.
It certainy would have been better off if the imperialists of the 19th and 20th century had stayed away.
#End Rant mode
And why should a private individual donate money earned (maybe not hard-earned) by him to any charity? Altruism? Ha ! Then why don't you donate a month's salary to some cause?
Generalisations should be avoided like the plague. Now maybe I'll be able to do something about the cliches:)
"Not to mention the fact that the guy is a South African. The Russian/South African rivalry is well known - "
Well, as long as he's paying them in $$$, the Russkies won't give a flying fuck which part of the world he's from. Money talks, and everyone understands that language.
but the Hundu religion prevalent in India is much more open about sexuality than the Christian religion
Two corrections.
It is the Hindu religion (Hin as in the Hindenberg and Du as in Du Hast).
Yes, the religion is open about sexuality, but society here isn't. People do not talk about anything remotely close to sexuality - call it the effect of 1000 years of decadence and lack of education.
I stand corrected - I should have said "The first written (recorded) use of the zero was made by Aryabhatta around 700 BC - it was probably discovered in India earlier.
Um, the zero was invented by the Indian astronomer Aryabhatta around 700BC. It was taken up by the Arabs from India, and from the Arabs by Europeans sometime later.
I'm not quite sure, but I think the random characters are text strings from a different font maybe? Have you ever tried seeing some document without the requisite font?
The ideal alternative would be to have paper ballot. The voter marks a cross (or a/. if you're so inclined) on the idiot he wants to vote for. This can be hand counted, does not lead to ambeguities. Who knows, the supreme court may not understand the system long enough for the recount to be finished. Besides, you people don't have problems like booth capturing. Here in India, there are instances of voting booths being taken over (by bribery or by force) and all the available ballots being marked for the bastard indulging into it.
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"and all you have to do to stop it is reboot your server/pc. Is this really as bad as they are saying?"
/. doesn't load quickly enough for you to check you're KARMA every m seconds (shudder).
Well, yes.
You could reboot to stop it, but once you're online, its highly probable that you're machine will get infected again.
So it isn't that easy.
Besides, n number of servers (as n-> infected IIS server numbers) sending packets out to an IP addy at a given time is enough to make sure
"Steve Lipner, head of Microsoft's security response centre, said the company was looking for new ways to distribute patches more efficiently."
...)?
So they're going to provide upgrades^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H patches at more locations?
"The government relies on Microsoft and other technology companies to secure everything from defence networks to financial systems. "
Defence networks secured by MS (and others
Well, the FBI might as well give up counter-intelligence, 'cause the 'farners' already have easier access. Who needs cumbersome Dead Letter Boxes when you have MS.
Hmmmm.
I believed quantum interference WOULD occur at such small scales, regardless of the material used (electrons are the same everywhere). Does this material have any properties by which a workaround for the above problem can be achieved? And how the heck does that happen?
Why would users want to purchase bonds?
If a user has enough money, he'll hire programmers. If he does not, he probably doesn't need a program so special, it needs to be developed i.e. doesn't exist. I cannot understand the logic behind this assumption.
Imagine there are no IP laws,
It's easy if you try,
No DMCA to fear below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine no politicians,
Screwing our today, Oh ohhh,
You may say, I'm a dreamer,
And you're probably right on that one,
I hope some day you'll assasinate someone,
Either democrat or republican.
Post it somewhere anonymous, like freenet (I do hope that _IS_ anon, or I'm in deep shit). Atleast untill someone does something about the DMCA.
"That act was approved with considerable discussion and the members absolutely knew the balances they were advancing. The DMCA allowed the Internet to grow and by and large the act has worked," Holleyman said.
I want a lot of what this guy has been smoking.
When will these ducks get their bills out of their arses and smell something different for a change? The internet grew on its own, and people like you leeched on it, Mr. Robert Holleyman.
#quote
"The Tree of Liberty must, from time to time, be watered with the blood of patriots"
#end of quote
Well, sir, would you care to step this way? And please roll up those sleeves. No, don't worry, those pipes aren't as large as they seem, and that is a very low power suction pump. No, donating some blood does not hurt.
# Quoted
maybe it's a good thing (long term) that he's not being released.
# End of quote
I don't think this is very fair on him. Lets try this. You claim you did everything he's charged with, lie so that he's aquited, and then you can fight the battle out, hoping that the courts will throw the DMCA out. It's easy, my friend, to see people fighthing. The fun begins when you get close enough to smell blood - you're own blood.
What you're more afraid of, is having to compete with people who'll work for peanuts.
Considering the complexities of software today, do you honestly think anyone will be able to actually compile code on a 486 or pentium even, in realistic times? Or will they transmit code to some other developed country, where it will be compiled, and errors reported back?
Besides, if the poor kid is going to work in a code shop for a bowl of rice, you shouldn't go and close the shop. If you do that, you make sure the kid finds it extremely difficult to get a bowl of rice. If you really want to do something, you try and improve the whole situation.
# Quoted
Voting in Australia is compulsory. If you don't vote you can go to prison.
# End Quote
This is interesting, and would make a lot of sense in a country (India) where most middle and upper class blokes do not go out and vote because 'We're educated, and we're in no position to choose (we don't have the percentages), so why waste time?'. Ofcourse, with a population of 60% of a billion eligible to vote (might be even more), putting people in jails becomes a real problem.
Please mod this guy up - this is one of the funniest comments I've read today on /.
Cheers.
Security through the way of open source:Write the specs of you pc on it. Atleast nobody will want to steal a P200MMX with a measley 32MB RAM, will they?
#quoted from the page ... please read the page when you have the time ...
, first. Google examines link structures all over the web. By doing so, it can give every page a popularity rating known as "PageRank" (named after Google cofounder Larry Page). When you do a search, URLs with high PageRanks are more likely to be listed first. However, this will only happen if the pages also match other criteria, such as containing your search terms or being identified as being relevant to your search terms by analyzing the context of links.
Teoma operates in an opposite fashion. When you do a search, Teoma looks across the entire web to find pages that contain your search terms or which are considered relevant to those terms based on link context. After finding a matching set of documents, which it calls a "community, Teoma then examines the links between just this set, to determine which are the most popular.
#end quote.
I don't see how this can infringe on any patents, unless google patented the method of ranking pages by external linkages (can they patent that?).
The most important result of this, as I see it, will be competition. And that is good. Both will be innovating, spending more on R&D, and giving us better value for no money.
Alas, if only someone had done this to Microsoft in the times of MSDOS, computing would've been different (and maybe even better).
"yes, now it is disneyland."
:)
Well, can you afford going to this disneyland?
The Russians are in dire need of cash. And their getting it this way is many times better than selling thermonuclear devices to rogue states, or worse still, private individuals. Imagine Osama Bin Laden, with his $300 Million fortune going shopping, cart filled with a NNN Megaton thermonuclear device. Come to think of it, Shuttleworth is doing a goodish thing
"2. Africans should concentrate on more important things, like food and education."
... "you've got the hungry mouths in your region, you deal with it"?
:)
What about people from other regions?
Or is this like
#Rant mode = on
I guess Africa would've been a better place had the arms dealers refrained from encouraging different factions/tribes/peoples to go to war, and then cashing in on them.
It certainy would have been better off if the imperialists of the 19th and 20th century had stayed away.
#End Rant mode
And why should a private individual donate money earned (maybe not hard-earned) by him to any charity? Altruism? Ha ! Then why don't you donate a month's salary to some cause?
Generalisations should be avoided like the plague. Now maybe I'll be able to do something about the cliches
"Not to mention the fact that the guy is a South African. The Russian/South African rivalry is well known - "
Well, as long as he's paying them in $$$, the Russkies won't give a flying fuck which part of the world he's from. Money talks, and everyone understands that language.
So where is the problem? He's not hitch hiking or something...And the Russians, well, they aren't Vogons :)
Two corrections.
It is the Hindu religion (Hin as in the Hindenberg and Du as in Du Hast).
Yes, the religion is open about sexuality, but society here isn't. People do not talk about anything remotely close to sexuality - call it the effect of 1000 years of decadence and lack of education.
I agree and second that. Most girls really _ARE_ rude. Maybe, someday, there'll be a girl who goes "That is nice, thank you. But I'd rather not"
I stand corrected - I should have said "The first written (recorded) use of the zero was made by Aryabhatta around 700 BC - it was probably discovered in India earlier.
Um, the zero was invented by the Indian astronomer Aryabhatta around 700BC. It was taken up by the Arabs from India, and from the Arabs by Europeans sometime later.
I'm not quite sure, but I think the random characters are text strings from a different font maybe? Have you ever tried seeing some document without the requisite font?
The ideal alternative would be to have paper ballot. The voter marks a cross (or a /. if you're so inclined) on the idiot he wants to vote for. This can be hand counted, does not lead to ambeguities. Who knows, the supreme court may not understand the system long enough for the recount to be finished. Besides, you people don't have problems like booth capturing. Here in India, there are instances of voting booths being taken over (by bribery or by force) and all the available ballots being marked for the bastard indulging into it.