I agree the moderation seems to have been done by one of the AC idiots on this one. The post was certainly not a troll. Redundant I could understand, but not troll.
I really would like to know why the person submitting was so excited by this card.
Anyone here know what the OSHA regs are on people who travel for their job? Is your company responsible for you to get a nice safe hotel? Does it have to be in a good part of town? Does OSHA say they have to buy/rent/lease you a car with all the airbags it can carry?
What about smokers? Are you required to leave the room and go smoke in another room of the house during business hours?
What if you did get hurt but can't get up/down the stairs? Is the employer responsible for converting your home to be handicapped accessable?
The government is trying to save us from ourselves, who can save us from the government?
Motor Trend is notorious for 'selling out' their car of the year to the highest bidding car company. Basically, the car manufacturer that promises the biggest amount of advertising dollar spent gets to have one of their new vehicles named car of the year. Maybe TIME is doing the same thing? Anyone know if Bezos has sent them a large check?
I think the point here is we are facing a technology that has no forseeable limits and no controls over it. Much like the way the internet came about, lots of scientists working together. No one planned how the internet should be regulated and now we have politicians trying to make laws about what they don't understand. Genome technology, from what I've seen as a researcher myself, will eventually be at the point where computers are today. We will have a database of how everything is put together by the genes in each cell type. We'll know every control pathway. At that point the DNA is just part of a bio-machine that we have total control over. You want a blue-eyed boy with dark hair and a penchant for swasitkas? No problem. Will it happen in our life time? Probably not. Should we leave it as a type of garbage dump problem for future generations to sort through our mistakes? I'd rather not.
Good point. I'm thinking maybe carry a plug with it that connects it to a recharging station and have the 'bot carry rechargable AA's. I guess I could also have it signal me saying "I'm Hungry" on the LCD.
Does anyone know if the brick can meter the power level of the battery? I'd like to build a robot that can hook itself up to a recharger when it gets low.
Let me see, someone logs onto your site to buy your widgets. This costs your company money. Do you A) Suck up the cost of doing business or B) Pass the cost on to your customers?
Sounds just like the taxes we pay on consumer goods. It just happens to be a flat tax for use versus a percentage. I'm sure it won't be long before M$ tries to change that though.
And M$ claims to provide what the consumer wants and that they are good for consumers. They're going to be costing me money even if I use Linux to go to a site to buy stuff!
I certainly see the point of an MPAA fiasco being a pain, etc. What I think would be good though is some form of zoning. Face it, the web is just not going to replace current community structure without having to mimic current community structure. If I know there is a neighborhood that has porn I can choose to go there or not. I can also easily choose to not drive my kids past it in my car. As it is right now, most sites do have something to do with sex in their name so it isn't too hard to avoid. But the reality is that if I wanted to block a kid from seeing something for adults only there is no good way to do that.
Why can't we just use some new top level domain names like.xxx or.sex or.cum or something? Then all the sex sites can get lumped together. Anyone who wants to block them can block the whole lot of them without problem. Yeah, a few would stick with the.com, etc. but why? Most are businesses out to make money. What do they care? All the lawmakers have to do is pass a law saying that if you run a website with x% naked people you have to get a.xxx (or whatever) domain name.
This way, you leave the decision in the hands of the consumer WHERE IT SHOULD BE. Right now, I can choose to go to a store and buy this stuff or not. Why not make the web work that way too?
Here's how I see it. You have Linux which has only gained popular use within the last couple of years. How many admins have more than a couple of years or less experience with Linux or *NIX in general? With the number of jobs available and the lack of people to fill them all it takes to be a *NIX admin is to have used PINE or something and you're in!
Now, even assuming the admin DID go look at bugtraq, the exploit is listed as a LOCAL exploit. So, the admin who does not have source to the CGI of the AD program figures, "well I have to use it and trust it to be secure." Is an admin going to think that local buffer overflows could be remotely exploitable? I don't think so, at least not without more than a couple years experience. It just reinforces the fact that you need to plug every hole, regardless of the way it can be exploited. Also, how much time was given to the admin to set the box up? A month, a week, 3 days? I guess its hard to be careful if you don't really understand how careful you need to be. Everyone that wants to blame the admin needs to deal with the fact that Linux popularity is a dual edged sword. The more popular it is, the more people use it. The more people use it, the more people who don't understand it use it. This leads to security problems. NT is the same way.
Finally, the person who did the exploit is more than just a script-kiddie. This took in depth understanding of Perl, the OS, and how to get from A to B through C, D, and J.
I still don't think this excuses RH from sending out 6.0 without being fixed if they knew about it in a previous release.
When in some countries you can't go anywhere/ do anything (ie rent a friggin' video tape) without your personal ID# (ie SSN equivalent) on a card or your passport? Where in the UK you have to give up samples of your DNA WITHOUT being a criminal? Where in countries like China and Australia you have content filtering initiated by the government? Sure, we have given up some freedoms in the name of 'security' and it sickens me. But to say other countries are flat out better. To me, no better and maybe no worse.
I think the NYT gave too much credit to the government to actually be this organized. The more likely scenario is that they are trying to get different government orgs to link their IDS systems together in an attempt to better respond to highly coordinated cyber-attack. Anyone else out in/. land work for the government, contractor or otherwise? If you work in a place as poorly managed and generally screwed up as I do you know how hard it is for them to get anything done.
Just wanted to point out that the link under Publisher says D3 but I have _no_ affiliation with New Riders publishing. Also, the proper link should be: www.newriders.com
I guess this wasn't clear from what I wrote. The examples he uses are compiled from real world incidents. He only cleans the data in some cases to keep you from knowing which real IP address it was.
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I agree the moderation seems to have been done by one of the AC idiots on this one. The post was certainly not a troll. Redundant I could understand, but not troll.
I really would like to know why the person submitting was so excited by this card.
1) No Linux drivers, win98 only.
2) Great DVD BUT no TV output.
3) Slower frames/s than GeForce and marginally better than TNT2 Ultra for some games.
Seems enough for me to leave it alone for a while.
How long until the IRS lists this and the equipment involved as a "benefit" provided by the employer which is then taxable compensation?
Anyone here know what the OSHA regs are on people who travel for their job? Is your company responsible for you to get a nice safe hotel? Does it have to be in a good part of town? Does OSHA say they have to buy/rent/lease you a car with all the airbags it can carry?
What about smokers? Are you required to leave the room and go smoke in another room of the house during business hours?
What if you did get hurt but can't get up/down the stairs? Is the employer responsible for converting your home to be handicapped accessable?
The government is trying to save us from ourselves, who can save us from the government?
Check here for the Post's version.
http://www.washing tonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A955-2000Jan3.html
I hope I remember to treat Linux newbies better than I treated AOL newbies when AOL opened the floodgates. :)
Motor Trend is notorious for 'selling out' their car of the year to the highest bidding car company. Basically, the car manufacturer that promises the biggest amount of advertising dollar spent gets to have one of their new vehicles named car of the year. Maybe TIME is doing the same thing? Anyone know if Bezos has sent them a large check?
Maybe attach the mindstorms controller to press the controls? Then a cron job to have it come out once a week? Jetson's here we come!
I think the point here is we are facing a technology that has no forseeable limits and no controls over it. Much like the way the internet came about, lots of scientists working together. No one planned how the internet should be regulated and now we have politicians trying to make laws about what they don't understand. Genome technology, from what I've seen as a researcher myself, will eventually be at the point where computers are today. We will have a database of how everything is put together by the genes in each cell type. We'll know every control pathway. At that point the DNA is just part of a bio-machine that we have total control over. You want a blue-eyed boy with dark hair and a penchant for swasitkas? No problem. Will it happen in our life time? Probably not. Should we leave it as a type of garbage dump problem for future generations to sort through our mistakes? I'd rather not.
Does anyone wonder if he looks like Mr. Roboto from that STYX video? (Apologies to anyone under 30 who doesn't get it) ;)
Good point. I'm thinking maybe carry a plug with it that connects it to a recharging station and have the 'bot carry rechargable AA's. I guess I could also have it signal me saying "I'm Hungry" on the LCD.
At least then the IP would have been different. Of course, still the same class C resolving to the same owners.
Does anyone know if the brick can meter the power level of the battery? I'd like to build a robot that can hook itself up to a recharger when it gets low.
I checked e-toys, same price. I think LEGO has a lock on how much they can charge for it.
Let me see, someone logs onto your site to buy your widgets. This costs your company money. Do you A) Suck up the cost of doing business or B) Pass the cost on to your customers?
Sounds just like the taxes we pay on consumer goods. It just happens to be a flat tax for use versus a percentage. I'm sure it won't be long before M$ tries to change that though.
And M$ claims to provide what the consumer wants and that they are good for consumers. They're going to be costing me money even if I use Linux to go to a site to buy stuff!
The best reason to get 2.2.13 is that it is no longer vulnerable to a STACK SMASH bug which effected the previous 2.2.12 and possibly earlier kernels.
I certainly see the point of an MPAA fiasco being a pain, etc. What I think would be good though is some form of zoning. Face it, the web is just not going to replace current community structure without having to mimic current community structure. If I know there is a neighborhood that has porn I can choose to go there or not. I can also easily choose to not drive my kids past it in my car. As it is right now, most sites do have something to do with sex in their name so it isn't too hard to avoid. But the reality is that if I wanted to block a kid from seeing something for adults only there is no good way to do that.
Why can't we just use some new top level domain names like .xxx or .sex or .cum or something? Then all the sex sites can get lumped together. Anyone who wants to block them can block the whole lot of them without problem. Yeah, a few would stick with the .com, etc. but why? Most are businesses out to make money. What do they care? All the lawmakers have to do is pass a law saying that if you run a website with x% naked people you have to get a .xxx (or whatever) domain name.
This way, you leave the decision in the hands of the consumer WHERE IT SHOULD BE. Right now, I can choose to go to a store and buy this stuff or not. Why not make the web work that way too?
Here's how I see it. You have Linux which has only gained popular use within the last couple of years. How many admins have more than a couple of years or less experience with Linux or *NIX in general? With the number of jobs available and the lack of people to fill them all it takes to be a *NIX admin is to have used PINE or something and you're in!
Now, even assuming the admin DID go look at bugtraq, the exploit is listed as a LOCAL exploit. So, the admin who does not have source to the CGI of the AD program figures, "well I have to use it and trust it to be secure." Is an admin going to think that local buffer overflows could be remotely exploitable? I don't think so, at least not without more than a couple years experience. It just reinforces the fact that you need to plug every hole, regardless of the way it can be exploited. Also, how much time was given to the admin to set the box up? A month, a week, 3 days? I guess its hard to be careful if you don't really understand how careful you need to be. Everyone that wants to blame the admin needs to deal with the fact that Linux popularity is a dual edged sword. The more popular it is, the more people use it. The more people use it, the more people who don't understand it use it. This leads to security problems. NT is the same way.
Finally, the person who did the exploit is more than just a script-kiddie. This took in depth understanding of Perl, the OS, and how to get from A to B through C, D, and J.
I still don't think this excuses RH from sending out 6.0 without being fixed if they knew about it in a previous release.
When in some countries you can't go anywhere/ do anything (ie rent a friggin' video tape) without your personal ID# (ie SSN equivalent) on a card or your passport? Where in the UK you have to give up samples of your DNA WITHOUT being a criminal? Where in countries like China and Australia you have content filtering initiated by the government? Sure, we have given up some freedoms in the name of 'security' and it sickens me. But to say other countries are flat out better. To me, no better and maybe no worse.
I think the NYT gave too much credit to the government to actually be this organized. The more likely scenario is that they are trying to get different government orgs to link their IDS systems together in an attempt to better respond to highly coordinated cyber-attack. Anyone else out in /. land work for the government, contractor or otherwise? If you work in a place as poorly managed and generally screwed up as I do you know how hard it is for them to get anything done.
Just wanted to point out that the link under Publisher says D3 but I have _no_ affiliation with New Riders publishing. Also, the proper link should be: www.newriders.com
Yes, Northcutt points out a couple of free ones in the book. Good to see the links for these as well.
I guess this wasn't clear from what I wrote. The examples he uses are compiled from real world incidents. He only cleans the data in some cases to keep you from knowing which real IP address it was.
OJ
The Menendez Brothers
Leon Lett
There is no real justice in America. I'm only thankful the case wasn't tried in California.