OpenBSD is widely regarded as the most secure OS there is, due to its open security audit model.
I wonder where OpenBSD ranked in this survey ? Apparently there has not been a remote root exploit in the out-of-the-box configuration for over four years.
Despite all the BSD is dying trolls out there, BSD is alive and kicking Linux and NTs asses (in security terms)
No OBVIOUSLY I don't... Perhaps that is why I used the acronym AFAIK. Look it up. And if you want to be helpful instead of simply insulting, post the details of how it is done in OpenBSD.
Interesting to see Microsoft doing something right for a change. However I suspect that this is simply so they can use 'design patterns' in their marketing literature. I doubt that anyone well-versed in design patterns could have come up with something so fundamentally stupid as the 'Registry'.
Why windows does not run off a ramdrive. I mean, modern PCs all have at least 512MB ram, why not load up Windows once, and then never access the
disk drive again?
AFAIK Linux and Open BSD cannot do this either. It seems amazing to me that people have missed this idea.
The UK has such a high cost of living (in part due to the socialistic policies of Tony Blair) with a DSL connection costing $70/month (single user) its hard to see how the UK can compete with other high tech countries such as Singapore.
It seems to me like VMWare does everything Lindows is supposed to do, but in a stable secure fashion.
I'm not convinced there is a big market for running windows apps on Linux, but if thats what you want to do, VMware is the painless way to do it, and it lets you run other OSs as well, or multiple instances of the same OS on the same machine, and with RAM prices as low as they are, this approach makes a lot of sense, especially if you need to do cross-platform development.
Linux Zealots are constantly going on about how Windoze and Micro$oft 'suck', and yet they get all excited every time a Linux distro looks a bit more like the aforementioned OS.
Linux Zealots seem schozophrenic. On the one hand they detest Windows. On the other hand they are furiously trying to turn Linux into a Windows clone.
Can anyone explain this rather absurd phenomenon to me ?
I've seen some pretty cool stuff that the Japanese have been doing with lasers and nano-polymers. Also with the revolution in quantum optics, and positron-lepton diodes, it looks like we could be in for some real coon technology real soon.
Just about everything we own could become intelligent!
The block exemption runs out this september but you can expect the manufacturers to be lobbying for an extension (last granted in 1995).
It will be pretty difficult for them to justify this. I think the major manufacturures know the writing is on the wall for their extortionate prices in a market that is saturated.
If the block exemption gets renewed, it will be just one more reason why the UK should leave the EU as soon as possible.
Consider this DSL router/hub. In the USA it costs $139+tax. In the United Kingdom, it costs the equivalent of $300 inc tax. For the same bit of hardware. And when we look at bestsystemdirect.com, we find to our "surprise" that they don't ship outside the USA.
Draytek is clearly charging an enormous premium to its European customers. Its just another example of the way capitalism fails us.
Never mind, it will be very easy to get one brought back from the USA:-)
They have traveled to Afghanistan because they were ordered to carry out a mission.
Exactly. Not because it is the right thing to do but because they were ordered to go there.
And when they are ordered to drop bombs on people, that is what they will do. You cannot support the soldiers on the ground 'right or wrong'. That just means you have switched off your critical thinking.
The 'war against terrorism' like the 'war on drugs' and the 'war on poverty' is unwinnable. Throughout history, asymmetric warfare has given huge advantages to the guerilla armies against regular troops. Consider the British. They were able to defeat an Argentinian invasion of a group of islands over 10000 miles away (Malvinas/Falklands) and yet faced with a few Irish bigots with fertilizer bombs in trucks, they caved in (good Friday agreement). If we consider that the UK was one of the top 10 superpowers, for it to be defeated by a group of 'terrorists' (some of whom are now sitting in the British Parliament) is a salutory lesson which the USA would do well to learn from.
What the USA is doing to Afghanistan is much like what the British did in Northern Ireland, and the end result for the USA will probably be the same. An embarassing climbdown after lots of pointless loss of life.
Fundamentally, joining the Army means that your job is to kill people when someone else tells you to. You can dress it up with 'honor' and 'patriotism' but it does not change the facts. You get paid for killing other human beings.
Also, your "just following orders" threory here doesn't pan out either. The Uniform Code of Military Justice has a regulation that states that if I am given an unlawful order (such as killing an unarmed civilian), not only am I obligated NOT to follow the order, but it is my duty to report the incident to a superior officer.
Hmmm. In theory you are correct. In practice however, unarmed civilians are often slaughtered by US military (and that of other countries). The Geneva convention is disregarded by the USA. The USA is found guilty of war crimes but carries on as if nothing has happened.
Your country is slaugtering thousands and thousands of innocent civilians. Where are all the soldiers "reporting the incident to a superior officer". Of course they are not. It goes against the team spirit of the Army, and would be a career limiting move.
The average grunt has a low IQ (or he would not put himself in the firing line in the first place) and only follows orders. Basic training is designed to produce someone programmed to follow orders. There's no point pretending otherwise.
That's not to say that I disapprove of the USA's actions in the war against militant Islam, just that the hypocracy is a bit hard to stomach. War is a nasty business. It's hard to see why anyone would voulanteer for it, unless they truly had no alternative, or had been brainwashed.
soldiers don't choose the places they go, the missions they do, or the reasons why they do them. Their job is one simple task. Get it done.
Soldiers do have a choice about joining the killing machine in the first place though, don't they ?
I mean, sure 'soldier' sounds like a better job title than 'indiscriminate professional killer', but we all know that at the end of the day, your average soldier who is 'just following orders' will do exactly as he is told, even if that means slaughtering innocent civilians as so often happens when the US Army gets its panties in a bunch.
Why am I not surprised you are also a
Linux Zealot ?
You could try adequacy.org. They don't tolerate trolls, they have a largish user base and there are occasional technical articles there. Either that or kuro5hit.
You know, slashdot moderation is broken. But what are the alternatives ? The only way I can think of for slashdot to improve the signal levels would be for them to introduce a strict no trolling policy.
Adequacy seems to have remained troll-free since day one despite having some of the most controversial content on the Internet. Perhaps CmdrTaco and the rest of the editors could learn from their example. Editors at adequacy simply delete trolls and crapfloods with no hesitation. It makes for a much more pleasant user experience.
What you Americans fail to realise is that in MOST cultures, unbridled freedom of speech is considered a bad thing. It leads to disrespect for Authority, blasphemy against religion, and even pornography.
Its hardly surprising that most countries practice some form of censorship or e-mail scanning.
Taco and the rest all moderate comments when it suits them. Sometimes even whole threads.
My point is, that censorship is not Fascism. Censorship is simply one of a wide range of tools available to governments and organizations in order to ensure a stable and healthy society.
If America censored its TV violence a bit more, then maybe we would not keep seeing all these gun rampages at schools and colleges.
Every time a controversial cartoon appears, there are always threats and lawsuits flying around. This is because corporations must protect their intellectual property otherwise it will be deemed to be in the public domain and cannot be protected by the law.
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I wonder where OpenBSD ranked in this survey ? Apparently there has not been a remote root exploit in the out-of-the-box configuration for over four years.
Despite all the BSD is dying trolls out there, BSD is alive and kicking Linux and NTs asses (in security terms)
No OBVIOUSLY I don't... Perhaps that is why I used the acronym AFAIK. Look it up. And if you want to be helpful instead of simply insulting, post the details of how it is done in OpenBSD.
Interesting to see Microsoft doing something right for a change. However I suspect that this is simply so they can use 'design patterns' in their marketing literature. I doubt that anyone well-versed in design patterns could have come up with something so fundamentally stupid as the 'Registry'.
AFAIK Linux and Open BSD cannot do this either. It seems amazing to me that people have missed this idea.
The UK has such a high cost of living (in part due to the socialistic policies of Tony Blair) with a DSL connection costing $70/month (single user) its hard to see how the UK can compete with other high tech countries such as Singapore.
This is just what the community needs to give it a bit more focus, and a more professional image.
I'm not convinced there is a big market for running windows apps on Linux, but if thats what you want to do, VMware is the painless way to do it, and it lets you run other OSs as well, or multiple instances of the same OS on the same machine, and with RAM prices as low as they are, this approach makes a lot of sense, especially if you need to do cross-platform development.
Linux Zealots seem schozophrenic. On the one hand they detest Windows. On the other hand they are furiously trying to turn Linux into a Windows clone.
Can anyone explain this rather absurd phenomenon to me ?
Just about everything we own could become intelligent!
It will be pretty difficult for them to justify this. I think the major manufacturures know the writing is on the wall for their extortionate prices in a market that is saturated.
If the block exemption gets renewed, it will be just one more reason why the UK should leave the EU as soon as possible.
Consider this DSL router/hub. In the USA it costs $139+tax. In the United Kingdom, it costs the equivalent of $300 inc tax. For the same bit of hardware. And when we look at bestsystemdirect.com, we find to our "surprise" that they don't ship outside the USA.
Draytek is clearly charging an enormous premium to its European customers. Its just another example of the way capitalism fails us.
Never mind, it will be very easy to get one brought back from the USA :-)
Garden Grove is a nice suburb of LA. I've been there. There is no violence there.
Exactly. Not because it is the right thing to do but because they were ordered to go there.
And when they are ordered to drop bombs on people, that is what they will do. You cannot support the soldiers on the ground 'right or wrong'. That just means you have switched off your critical thinking.
The 'war against terrorism' like the 'war on drugs' and the 'war on poverty' is unwinnable. Throughout history, asymmetric warfare has given huge advantages to the guerilla armies against regular troops. Consider the British. They were able to defeat an Argentinian invasion of a group of islands over 10000 miles away (Malvinas/Falklands) and yet faced with a few Irish bigots with fertilizer bombs in trucks, they caved in (good Friday agreement). If we consider that the UK was one of the top 10 superpowers, for it to be defeated by a group of 'terrorists' (some of whom are now sitting in the British Parliament) is a salutory lesson which the USA would do well to learn from.
What the USA is doing to Afghanistan is much like what the British did in Northern Ireland, and the end result for the USA will probably be the same. An embarassing climbdown after lots of pointless loss of life.
Fundamentally, joining the Army means that your job is to kill people when someone else tells you to. You can dress it up with 'honor' and 'patriotism' but it does not change the facts. You get paid for killing other human beings.
Hmmm. In theory you are correct. In practice however, unarmed civilians are often slaughtered by US military (and that of other countries). The Geneva convention is disregarded by the USA. The USA is found guilty of war crimes but carries on as if nothing has happened.
Your country is slaugtering thousands and thousands of innocent civilians. Where are all the soldiers "reporting the incident to a superior officer". Of course they are not. It goes against the team spirit of the Army, and would be a career limiting move.
The average grunt has a low IQ (or he would not put himself in the firing line in the first place) and only follows orders. Basic training is designed to produce someone programmed to follow orders. There's no point pretending otherwise.
That's not to say that I disapprove of the USA's actions in the war against militant Islam, just that the hypocracy is a bit hard to stomach. War is a nasty business. It's hard to see why anyone would voulanteer for it, unless they truly had no alternative, or had been brainwashed.
Soldiers do have a choice about joining the killing machine in the first place though, don't they ?
I mean, sure 'soldier' sounds like a better job title than 'indiscriminate professional killer', but we all know that at the end of the day, your average soldier who is 'just following orders' will do exactly as he is told, even if that means slaughtering innocent civilians as so often happens when the US Army gets its panties in a bunch.
Why am I not surprised you are also a Linux Zealot ?
I guess you would prefer lawlessness like in Somalia and Afghanistan then ? That's the choice, take it or leave it.
You could try adequacy.org. They don't tolerate trolls, they have a largish user base and there are occasional technical articles there. Either that or kuro5hit.
Adequacy seems to have remained troll-free since day one despite having some of the most controversial content on the Internet. Perhaps CmdrTaco and the rest of the editors could learn from their example. Editors at adequacy simply delete trolls and crapfloods with no hesitation. It makes for a much more pleasant user experience.
Its hardly surprising that most countries practice some form of censorship or e-mail scanning.
Taco and the rest all moderate comments when it suits them. Sometimes even whole threads.
My point is, that censorship is not Fascism. Censorship is simply one of a wide range of tools available to governments and organizations in order to ensure a stable and healthy society.
If America censored its TV violence a bit more, then maybe we would not keep seeing all these gun rampages at schools and colleges.
True enough, but a large proportion of slashdot's readership do get their kicks this way
Whilst that is undoubtedly mildly amusing, I find this controversial cartoon much much funnier.
That must be how the most controversial site on the Internet gets away with infringing Linus' copyright of the 'Linux' name with their irritating 'Linux Zealot' cartoon.
Every time a controversial cartoon appears, there are always threats and lawsuits flying around. This is because corporations must protect their intellectual property otherwise it will be deemed to be in the public domain and cannot be protected by the law.
remember open source == good, microsoft == bad
And why the hell is it not tri-band ? Some of us Europeans do occasionally visit the USA, and we like to take our phones with us.