I read the article but it really doesn't address much.
It is clearly a Linux slanted piece. There are plenty of myths on both sides and he only examines a few, all in a specific effort to make Linux look better, but even then some of the reasoning is not that solid.
He brings up attacks on Apache as being proof that Linux is attacked as much as windows, but virtually all security breeches these days are done on the desktop and Windows does get attacked here more verociously than Linux because of it's ubiquitouness(SP?).
If you really do pay attention to Security Focus and to the security bullitins of your favorite distro, you'd be hard pressed to say that Windows or Linux had any demonstrative lead in security patches. I get just as many securiy bullitins from Red Hat as I do from Micorosft. I mean it's nearly 1:1
A small sampling (These are kind of old now, RH kicked me off their service for some unexplained reason and I've gotten no alerts for months now)
I really hate to see these kinds of articles that try to play into the "Relax: Linux is secure by [Design|default]" mindset because it actually hurts Linux' overall security. The mass mind set will not even think they have to pay attention to keeping their systems up to date and actually secure because the mantra is dangerously overriding real information.
Yes, it goes both ways, but is FUD vs FUD better than FUD vs Honest reality?
Too true, in fact, here in the California, the water districts are required to give out water quality charts to the residents once a year. Take a look at the levels of "Coloform Bacteria". Check out the "safe" limits. Where does that come from eh?!?!? We are drinking shit now!
If the "newater" levels are the same or lower than what we currrently drink, then what is all the fuss about?
Here, there are currently annoying political ads slamming a certain candidate because they dare to even support research in this area. The closed mindedness of the human race is hard to be believed at times.
That is sort of done now (at least where I live) with watering large areas of City property along roads and such. But for residential use, it requires running multiple pipes to everyones house and that is NOT going to happen any time soon.:(
Surely you know that the price for XP loaded onto a Dell machine costs Dell something like $85. No where near the $300 that only a total clown would pay in a store. Hell Linux is "for sale" for $99 and even as much as $299 in the store!!!
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You say that as if it's a bad thing.
If the wheel wasn't reinvented constantly, we'd all be driving our cars on stone and wood!
The wheel gets reinvented all the time and it gets better with each reinvention, why not TCP?
There is nothing in Linux other than market share protecting it from spyware.
If every windows user was a Linux user today then Linux would be beset with just as much spyware.
The question is. Will Linux use the information gained from Microsofts current problems to avoid being a future spyware target?
Or will people continue to chant "this is purely a problem with Microsoft Windows" and ignore the Linux vunerability to the very same problem till they get hit in the face with it?
Well that's nice, but the REAL problem now and always has been the near infinate storage of the spent fuel and any and all material that even gets near the fuel which over time become just as radioactive and needs to be "taken care of" somehow.
All the reactors built in the US were done so at a time when there was zero plan for dealing with the spent fuel and radioactive parts. The idea was that by the time we really needed it, a plan would be devised. To this day there is still no real plan! Most spent fuel is still sitting at the reactor sites.
There are very real problems still with the handling of the fuel that has nothing to do with exploding reactors or "Cold War era stereotypes". Until the entire chain of fuel mining, refining, transportation, use and disposal is completely planned out, safe, and efficient, nuclear power is still not ready for prime time.
It's only about 800 PSI room temperature. In fact, at refigerator temperatures that drops to about 400 PSI. That's probably "High Pressure" but it's not anywhere near "Incredibly High Pressure":)
O2 and Argon gas are typically stored at 2000-3000 psi and that doesn't even liquify the gas.
1) Coal is made from organic substances. 2) Organic subtances collect and store radioactive material during their lifetime. Ever hear of "Carbon dating"? 3) Burning coal releases the radioactive material into the atmosphere. As much as 100 *pounds* of radioactive material is released every day into the atmosphere from *each* coal fired plant.
It's fairly swift, but not at all painless. If you have ever stuck your head in a vessel containing pure co2 and made the mistake of breathing in just once you would realize that it burns like hell on your internal tissues like lungs throat and nose. Actually, take a half empty two liter bottle of soda, shake it and take a quick sniff at the top to get a sample of it. It's quite painful, imagine having to live with that feeling inside your lungs for about 2 minutes till you pass out. You also feel like your eyeballs are starting to boil. I would hate to die that way. By comparison, Carbon Monoxide is much more pleasent.
Thrust/weight ratio, fuel capacity, heat shielding, attitude control in varying thickness of atmosphere and the like contribute to a crafts operational ceiling.
Maybe, or maybe not. He could just get tired one day of all the "leechers" and turn it off.
The point is, you are not dealing with a service company where you are generally protected by laws, where they HAVE to inform you before shutting off your service. OR where you can be reasonably assured that interruptions in service will be taken care of ASAP. This is just like some guy, you know? Who the hell knows what he will or won't do?
Horray for "free" but I'd much rather pay for something that was a known quantity than be at the mercy of some guy down the street.
So if EVERYONE in Canada were obeying the law, where would you be downloading all this "free for me" content then?
Fact is, if you are DLing content from someone else that is breaking the law (and you just admitted that you know they would be), the law usually considers you guilty as well.
It does not matter if YOU stole that stereo, if you bought it at a swap meet where you knew all the people there were criminals, you are also guilty of a crime.
Laws or no, you are certinaly also morally bankrupt. You surely know that all those people that created that music surely didn't mean for you to have it all for free. Or do you?
It's amazing the twisted logic people will use to remove themselves from all responsibility for their own actions.
" Best quote 'It's almost as if having lost its bitterly fought case against the p2p application owners and failed in its many obvious (and expensive) attempts to disrupt the p2p networks, the music industry is now determined to vent its wrath on helpless men, women and children who can't hope to stand up to it with its tremendous political and financial power.'" "
The RIAA should have never even gone after P2P application writers. Being able to share a file with someone (or everyone) is not in itself any crime at all! They should ALWAYS have gone after the infringers of the (C) themselves. If sharing a (C) file with someone (or everyone) is a crime, then the sharer is certainly the main guilty party here. Secondly, anyone knowingly DLing and using (C) works is a secondary culprit. Running (or writing) a P2P client itself is NOT A CRIME AND SHOULD NEVER BE!
Though to add to that, the typical green laser looks 4 times brighter than the typical red laser. This is because your eyes are 4x more sensitive to the green wavelengths. The power may be the same (and the damage potential), but a persons perception of a green laser is almost always that is it "more powerful". Plus high power lasers usually ARE green. It's relatively easy to make a highpower argon laser, but high power red/orange (Gold vapor) lasers are much less common.
1) Looking down a laser beam towards its source, it is very easy to "see the beam" of even a 1 mw laser. Any dust in the air, or moisture is enough to cause bits of the beam to deflect at the slight angle you are looking back at it.
2) No, the pilot can see down to the ground (at an angle). All it would take is someone in the viewing angle (like near the airport) and the would have a straight shot to the pilots eye.
3 and 4) Lasers diverge, and it may be suprising to some to learn how much the diverge. At 5 miles, the beam would be several feet across (Varies from laser to laser). Laser pointers are the worst for divergence. Which bring up the point, if this WERE a 5mw laser pointer, the divergence at 5 miles would have been such that the total power reaching the pilots eye would have been about 1/1000th the 5mw of emitted power, completely harmless. Either this was a 5 WATT laser, or the pilot is a screaming baby.
There is a mechanism which more or less works like you are suggesting, and it's been worked on for a couple of decades now. Remember "holographic" memory? First it was in cube format, then a disk format, but it never really panned out.
Still you could have a multi layer read merely by having multiple lasers and pickups. Might even be able to fire them all through the same focusing optics (trickey) but better would be to have mutiple "heads" so that they could also independantly seek. Imagine a device with 8 heads that could read any layer. The completely abysmal seek times of DVD players might approach respectability!
If you are talking about the executable in the abstract, compiled against dynamically linked library, then no, it is only linked AGAINST the lib (Or linked with the lib header). It only gets linked WITH the lib itself at run-time.
So when people are talking about programs as they exist on disk such as in a distribution or as they are being doanloaded, then it's usually talked about as the code has been linked against the lib, in that state it is not linked with the lib. (Course there are programs that ARE "statically" linked WITH libraries at compile time, but not in this case)
If you install it as the default browser, then it breaks updates (completely for Office). If you don't install it as default, then it frequently doesn't come up (any time a URL is launched via a shell command, which is more often that you might think)
In the end, I feel like I now need to maintain TWO seperate browsers with constant security updates (Yes, for FF too) and security settings to cover 99% the same functionality. I opined before that I also don't believe that FF is all that secure. Several surprising default settings and demonstrably anti-security minded UI features make it a little frightning.
In the end, all I really want is a browser to look at webpages, period. This was in fact a main factor for the creation of FF, to have a simple fast browser based on the Moz engine. Well it is so simple and so virtually identical to IE that there really doesn't seem to be a point in using it on Windows...
On Linux though, It's the shiz-nit! Well, with tightened security settings (hust like IE) and as long as you don't go DLing 500 plugins, it only took one to crash it for me:(
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I read the article but it really doesn't address much.
It is clearly a Linux slanted piece. There are plenty of myths on both sides and he only examines a few, all in a specific effort to make Linux look better, but even then some of the reasoning is not that solid.
He brings up attacks on Apache as being proof that Linux is attacked as much as windows, but virtually all security breeches these days are done on the desktop and Windows does get attacked here more verociously than Linux because of it's ubiquitouness(SP?).
If you really do pay attention to Security Focus and to the security bullitins of your favorite distro, you'd be hard pressed to say that Windows or Linux had any demonstrative lead in security patches. I get just as many securiy bullitins from Red Hat as I do from Micorosft. I mean it's nearly 1:1
A small sampling (These are kind of old now, RH kicked me off their service for some unexplained reason and I've gotten no alerts for months now)
* RHN Errata Alert: Updated OpenOffice packages fix security vulnerability in neon
* RHN Errata Alert: Updated libpng packages fix crash
* RHN Errata Alert: Updated mc packages resolve several vulnerabilities
* RHN Errata Alert: Updated utempter package fixes vulnerability
* RHN Errata Alert: An updated LHA package fixes security vulnerabilities
* RHN Errata Alert: An updated X-Chat package fixes vulnerability in Socks-5 proxy
* RHN Errata Alert: Updated httpd packages fix mod_ssl security issue
* RHN Errata Alert: Updated kernel packages resolve security vulnerabilities
* RHN Errata Alert: Updated Subversion packages fix security vulnerability in neon
* RHN Errata Alert: Updated cadaver package fixes security vulnerability in neon
* RHN Errata Alert: Updated CVS packages fix security issue.
And so on...
I really hate to see these kinds of articles that try to play into the "Relax: Linux is secure by [Design|default]" mindset because it actually hurts Linux' overall security. The mass mind set will not even think they have to pay attention to keeping their systems up to date and actually secure because the mantra is dangerously overriding real information.
Yes, it goes both ways, but is FUD vs FUD better than FUD vs Honest reality?
Too true, in fact, here in the California, the water districts are required to give out water quality charts to the residents once a year. Take a look at the levels of "Coloform Bacteria". Check out the "safe" limits. Where does that come from eh?!?!? We are drinking shit now!
If the "newater" levels are the same or lower than what we currrently drink, then what is all the fuss about?
Here, there are currently annoying political ads slamming a certain candidate because they dare to even support research in this area. The closed mindedness of the human race is hard to be believed at times.
That is sort of done now (at least where I live) with watering large areas of City property along roads and such. But for residential use, it requires running multiple pipes to everyones house and that is NOT going to happen any time soon. :(
Surely you know that the price for XP loaded onto a Dell machine costs Dell something like $85. No where near the $300 that only a total clown would pay in a store. Hell Linux is "for sale" for $99 and even as much as $299 in the store!!!
You say that as if it's a bad thing.
If the wheel wasn't reinvented constantly, we'd all be driving our cars on stone and wood!
The wheel gets reinvented all the time and it gets better with each reinvention, why not TCP?
Purely... for the moment.
There is nothing in Linux other than market share protecting it from spyware.
If every windows user was a Linux user today then Linux would be beset with just as much spyware.
The question is. Will Linux use the information gained from Microsofts current problems to avoid being a future spyware target?
Or will people continue to chant "this is purely a problem with Microsoft Windows" and ignore the Linux vunerability to the very same problem till they get hit in the face with it?
Well that's nice, but the REAL problem now and always has been the near infinate storage of the spent fuel and any and all material that even gets near the fuel which over time become just as radioactive and needs to be "taken care of" somehow.
All the reactors built in the US were done so at a time when there was zero plan for dealing with the spent fuel and radioactive parts. The idea was that by the time we really needed it, a plan would be devised. To this day there is still no real plan! Most spent fuel is still sitting at the reactor sites.
There are very real problems still with the handling of the fuel that has nothing to do with exploding reactors or "Cold War era stereotypes". Until the entire chain of fuel mining, refining, transportation, use and disposal is completely planned out, safe, and efficient, nuclear power is still not ready for prime time.
It's only about 800 PSI room temperature. In fact, at refigerator temperatures that drops to about 400 PSI. That's probably "High Pressure" but it's not anywhere near "Incredibly High Pressure" :)
O2 and Argon gas are typically stored at 2000-3000 psi and that doesn't even liquify the gas.
1) Coal is made from organic substances.
2) Organic subtances collect and store radioactive material during their lifetime. Ever hear of "Carbon dating"?
3) Burning coal releases the radioactive material into the atmosphere. As much as 100 *pounds* of radioactive material is released every day into the atmosphere from *each* coal fired plant.
It's fairly swift, but not at all painless. If you have ever stuck your head in a vessel containing pure co2 and made the mistake of breathing in just once you would realize that it burns like hell on your internal tissues like lungs throat and nose. Actually, take a half empty two liter bottle of soda, shake it and take a quick sniff at the top to get a sample of it. It's quite painful, imagine having to live with that feeling inside your lungs for about 2 minutes till you pass out. You also feel like your eyeballs are starting to boil. I would hate to die that way. By comparison, Carbon Monoxide is much more pleasent.
Orgasmo! Their best film of all. Not available on DVD yet though (Some rumor of "soon")
Size has nothing to do with altitude.
Thrust/weight ratio, fuel capacity, heat shielding, attitude control in varying thickness of atmosphere and the like contribute to a crafts operational ceiling.
He should?
Maybe, or maybe not. He could just get tired one day of all the "leechers" and turn it off.
The point is, you are not dealing with a service company where you are generally protected by laws, where they HAVE to inform you before shutting off your service. OR where you can be reasonably assured that interruptions in service will be taken care of ASAP. This is just like some guy, you know? Who the hell knows what he will or won't do?
Horray for "free" but I'd much rather pay for something that was a known quantity than be at the mercy of some guy down the street.
So if EVERYONE in Canada were obeying the law, where would you be downloading all this "free for me" content then?
Fact is, if you are DLing content from someone else that is breaking the law (and you just admitted that you know they would be), the law usually considers you guilty as well.
It does not matter if YOU stole that stereo, if you bought it at a swap meet where you knew all the people there were criminals, you are also guilty of a crime.
Laws or no, you are certinaly also morally bankrupt. You surely know that all those people that created that music surely didn't mean for you to have it all for free. Or do you?
How about "Make your own music and distribute it without (C) and leave other peoples property alone"?
If you want to abandon (C) then start by creating (C)less works! Not by tearing down other peoples hard work.
It's amazing the twisted logic people will use to remove themselves from all responsibility for their own actions.
" Best quote 'It's almost as if having lost its bitterly fought case against the p2p application owners and failed in its many obvious (and expensive) attempts to disrupt the p2p networks, the music industry is now determined to vent its wrath on helpless men, women and children who can't hope to stand up to it with its tremendous political and financial power.'" "
The RIAA should have never even gone after P2P application writers. Being able to share a file with someone (or everyone) is not in itself any crime at all! They should ALWAYS have gone after the infringers of the (C) themselves. If sharing a (C) file with someone (or everyone) is a crime, then the sharer is certainly the main guilty party here. Secondly, anyone knowingly DLing and using (C) works is a secondary culprit. Running (or writing) a P2P client itself is NOT A CRIME AND SHOULD NEVER BE!
When did we lose all our sanity anyway?
Though to add to that, the typical green laser looks 4 times brighter than the typical red laser. This is because your eyes are 4x more sensitive to the green wavelengths. The power may be the same (and the damage potential), but a persons perception of a green laser is almost always that is it "more powerful". Plus high power lasers usually ARE green. It's relatively easy to make a highpower argon laser, but high power red/orange (Gold vapor) lasers are much less common.
1) Looking down a laser beam towards its source, it is very easy to "see the beam" of even a 1 mw laser. Any dust in the air, or moisture is enough to cause bits of the beam to deflect at the slight angle you are looking back at it.
2) No, the pilot can see down to the ground (at an angle). All it would take is someone in the viewing angle (like near the airport) and the would have a straight shot to the pilots eye.
3 and 4) Lasers diverge, and it may be suprising to some to learn how much the diverge. At 5 miles, the beam would be several feet across (Varies from laser to laser). Laser pointers are the worst for divergence. Which bring up the point, if this WERE a 5mw laser pointer, the divergence at 5 miles would have been such that the total power reaching the pilots eye would have been about 1/1000th the 5mw of emitted power, completely harmless. Either this was a 5 WATT laser, or the pilot is a screaming baby.
"Why not write a technically detailed letter..."
"This approach has been tried for years - hasn't worked."
So acting like a colicy baby will work then?
Sorry, a level headed and informative tone is ALWAYS better then coming off like a brat, spoiled or otherwise.
There is a mechanism which more or less works like you are suggesting, and it's been worked on for a couple of decades now. Remember "holographic" memory? First it was in cube format, then a disk format, but it never really panned out.
Still you could have a multi layer read merely by having multiple lasers and pickups. Might even be able to fire them all through the same focusing optics (trickey) but better would be to have mutiple "heads" so that they could also independantly seek. Imagine a device with 8 heads that could read any layer. The completely abysmal seek times of DVD players might approach respectability!
Depends.
If you are talking about the executable in the abstract, compiled against dynamically linked library, then no, it is only linked AGAINST the lib (Or linked with the lib header). It only gets linked WITH the lib itself at run-time.
So when people are talking about programs as they exist on disk such as in a distribution or as they are being doanloaded, then it's usually talked about as the code has been linked against the lib, in that state it is not linked with the lib. (Course there are programs that ARE "statically" linked WITH libraries at compile time, but not in this case)
Are these things loaded from downloaded "skins"?
If so, we have our vector!
There is always a way.
This has been happening for quite some time. Like years.
:(
Sites (like Yahoo, IGN etc) are already making you step through ad pages before seeing content. Sometimes you can block that too, but sometimes not.
The more we fight against ads, the more annoying and intrusive the ads will become
Here's why not:
:(
If you install it as the default browser, then it breaks updates (completely for Office). If you don't install it as default, then it frequently doesn't come up (any time a URL is launched via a shell command, which is more often that you might think)
In the end, I feel like I now need to maintain TWO seperate browsers with constant security updates (Yes, for FF too) and security settings to cover 99% the same functionality. I opined before that I also don't believe that FF is all that secure. Several surprising default settings and demonstrably anti-security minded UI features make it a little frightning.
In the end, all I really want is a browser to look at webpages, period. This was in fact a main factor for the creation of FF, to have a simple fast browser based on the Moz engine. Well it is so simple and so virtually identical to IE that there really doesn't seem to be a point in using it on Windows...
On Linux though, It's the shiz-nit! Well, with tightened security settings (hust like IE) and as long as you don't go DLing 500 plugins, it only took one to crash it for me
There is no word search Have to use the search this page feature) This was a big negative for me too.