... what the article proposes is something near a monoculture of software... and thats is exactly what can cause the problem... "ok, now all follow that way of program" is a good recipe for a future disaster. Heh, maybe a better solution is to close down microsoft, or open code windows, or whatever that neutralizes that single point of failure.
With software diversity an unified attack will be at least harder, and with freedom on discussing the problems (thing that goes a bit against what is proposed in the article) certainly helps to avoid or minimize their effects.
Those that sacrifice freedom for security deserves to lose both, and that could be particulary true in the digital world.
consider YOURSELF lucky:) in Uruguay residential ADSL (256/64k, ip changes every 12 hs) costs more than US$50/month, and enterprise adsl (384/128k, fixed IP) costs more than US$130.
With those prices relatively few people have residential adsl (most still connecting dialup or thu cybercafes to internet) and most companies that have permanent internet connection or self-hosted internet presence have the enterprise adsl.
But the worst part of it is that I think that we have a not so bad price/connectivity (uh, I forgot, 300+ ping time to most sites) here compared with the majority of countries in the world
Or less propietary formats. avi/asf is pretty widely supported, helix (from realnetworks) is open. Quicktime depends too much on apple players that are not available for all plataforms, even when mplayer can cope with it i'm not sure how much will be left out.
After all, the company that makes the movie and the trailer want that us buy their product, or speak about it, or reccomend it to friends. The whole idea of the trailer is that the people have a hint on how it will be. Putting things in a way that make difficult to see for a lot of people is against the objetive of making a trailer.
By the times it come out, one of the favorite arguments against it was really a computer virus was "there is no way to automatically being infected with a computer virus simply reading a mail".
Luckily Microsoft proved that assumption was false.
... is what I call a site made with parts of other programs, where you have different authentication/user base for each part, different way to be managed, different look&feel, etc. You could had choosen very good programs for each section (gallery, phpnuke, drupal, etc) but they are different worlds each one. That make things more difficult to learn and use.
If I suggest something, i would try to give or a from the start integrated solution (i.e. TikiWiki) or components that mix and match almost seamlessy (i.e. all they can share the same authentication system, very similar themes or one being plugin of another, and things like that)
SCO don't work that way... would be more like: If you are infected by a virus, then you will be liable.
At least that could be a way to get rid of ancient worms that still are very widely spread, lets ask for US$ 700 to everyone infected with virus like nimda or msblaster to see if they worry a bit about that. A lot will be grateful with SCO for that.
In the same line... maybe the first properly called spam comes from an UNIX system (I think it was in usenet history in google), maybe SCO could sue all spammers for doing it.
Hey! In the near/visible space, where would be the place more like hell? And where (d)evil lives? The sun is the root of all evil, with axis or not.
I think that should be destroyed to preserve human life, in fact, when the sun (a.k.a. hell) freezes, a good amount of good things will happens, maybe even the next Duke 3D will be released.
I think the device is already invented, you know... "Press to solve your problems... release to detonate". When not even yourself can know what really solve your problems unless going to religious matters, is hard that an automatic device knows that, unless the answer is the final solution... at least after that you will not worry anymore about problems.
So in UPNP the people that worked there were C-Class players... ok, but then, where are the A-Class players for Microsoft? In the NBA? Because they don't seems to be working on Windows neither.
With that argument, then... Where is Linux? Where is Apache? Some open source applications should be so known that showing them there would be a waste of space.
If I would to choose just by popularity on that list, I would show KDE, gimp and OpenOffice, they are not new and are fairly known, but are between the more known open source applications of that list and won a lot of times awards like in LinuxJournal.
But, in the other hand, I would like to give some light to not so known applications to a wider audience, things could change. I surely would put there mplayer, but about the others is less clear. Maybe phpMyAdmin and GNUCash to cover different areas.
Also, the proposed projects are not so uniformly dispersed in the open source space. There are 3 projects that manage content in the web, like MoinMoin, Plone and Zope, instead of this I would propose TikiWiki that have a bit of each one. There are 2 that are just for developers, like SubVersion and Eclipse, and not sure if that will count for the "general public" or whatever goes to that kind of events. And there a some proposed programs that are fairy similar to widely know ones in the windows world, like Evolution and XMMS, that the general public will think that are Outlook and winamp and will not ask, and could give the false impression that open source is just copying other program features and not creating things completely new.
Performance is not the only factor that is important. ext2 seems to be there as a point of reference to show a non-journaling filesystem, so if jfs scores 50/50 against ext2, i would say that is the big winner.
The official press release, from the start of the week, didn't specify the country list:(
I think people in every country not specifically named in the announcement (well, they listed cities in usa, england, rusia and japan) will be in doubt for some time more, at least I have the same question but for Uruguay.
Linux is the kernel, an application like the one you describe are or generic, or very associated with the actual distribution you have installed, like redhat up2date, debian apt-get, and suse you. I'm using the later one, and for desktop users is nice to have an icon in the tray saying that there are updates availables (it could apply patches automatically, but i prefer to take that responsability).
Yesterday was the day of openssh, and today for sendmail (whats next? bind? apache?). More than the usual rant about using alternatives like postfix/qmail/exim/etc instead of sendmail, I see that as a positive thing, could be a signal that more testing, auditing, and usage is being done, and by the open source nature of those tools, that this kind of things will be fixed or the programs will evolve to avoid this kind of things with (really) safer practices.
Just english? and for all words?
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Can this assumptions be false for other kind of languages or a priori is universal? At least in spanish after a few tries looked to me less clear than in english.
Also... what happen when the scrambled word is another valid word? Or a misspelled valid words?
Remember the last webdav vulnerability for Microsoft/IIS?
Black hats knew about the vulnerability before Microsoft
Widespread attacks come some days after Microsoft finally get know of it, but don't releases any advise of the danger because they had no patch ready, so it took final users by surprise.
With linux at least you could have the warning even before the patch (like one of the latest apache vulnerabilities) so you can take measures before the patch is ready/tested/approved/signed/whatever.
Until now (well, Oct 15) there was a lot of multi-IM software, like jabber with transports in the server side, or trillian, gaim, kopete, centericq, everybuddy and a lot more, where one can do a single logon and be connected to a lot of IM networks.
This kind of measures only will isolate MSN users from the others, of course, unless the updated protocol is widely implemented by alternative software. If people have the choice to connect to the world, or just to MSN users, hopely will swich to more open alternatives.
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... what the article proposes is something near a monoculture of software... and thats is exactly what can cause the problem... "ok, now all follow that way of program" is a good recipe for a future disaster. Heh, maybe a better solution is to close down microsoft, or open code windows, or whatever that neutralizes that single point of failure.
With software diversity an unified attack will be at least harder, and with freedom on discussing the problems (thing that goes a bit against what is proposed in the article) certainly helps to avoid or minimize their effects.
Those that sacrifice freedom for security deserves to lose both, and that could be particulary true in the digital world.
Could be a win-win for all.
With those prices relatively few people have residential adsl (most still connecting dialup or thu cybercafes to internet) and most companies that have permanent internet connection or self-hosted internet presence have the enterprise adsl.
But the worst part of it is that I think that we have a not so bad price/connectivity (uh, I forgot, 300+ ping time to most sites) here compared with the majority of countries in the world
I downloaded them with mencoder directly
mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy mms://longurl/video.asf myvideo.asf
as I could not get enough download speed to watch them comfortably, i first download, and then watch locally.
After all, the company that makes the movie and the trailer want that us buy their product, or speak about it, or reccomend it to friends. The whole idea of the trailer is that the people have a hint on how it will be. Putting things in a way that make difficult to see for a lot of people is against the objetive of making a trailer.
Luckily Microsoft proved that assumption was false.
If I suggest something, i would try to give or a from the start integrated solution (i.e. TikiWiki) or components that mix and match almost seamlessy (i.e. all they can share the same authentication system, very similar themes or one being plugin of another, and things like that)
At least that could be a way to get rid of ancient worms that still are very widely spread, lets ask for US$ 700 to everyone infected with virus like nimda or msblaster to see if they worry a bit about that. A lot will be grateful with SCO for that.
In the same line... maybe the first properly called spam comes from an UNIX system (I think it was in usenet history in google), maybe SCO could sue all spammers for doing it.
In Earth's history existed prehistoric lizards :) The word "history" have several meanings, be sure to not mix them.
I think that should be destroyed to preserve human life, in fact, when the sun (a.k.a. hell) freezes, a good amount of good things will happens, maybe even the next Duke 3D will be released.
I think the device is already invented, you know... "Press to solve your problems... release to detonate". When not even yourself can know what really solve your problems unless going to religious matters, is hard that an automatic device knows that, unless the answer is the final solution... at least after that you will not worry anymore about problems.
So in UPNP the people that worked there were C-Class players... ok, but then, where are the A-Class players for Microsoft? In the NBA? Because they don't seems to be working on Windows neither.
With that argument, then... Where is Linux? Where is Apache? Some open source applications should be so known that showing them there would be a waste of space.
If I would to choose just by popularity on that list, I would show KDE, gimp and OpenOffice, they are not new and are fairly known, but are between the more known open source applications of that list and won a lot of times awards like in LinuxJournal.
But, in the other hand, I would like to give some light to not so known applications to a wider audience, things could change. I surely would put there mplayer, but about the others is less clear. Maybe phpMyAdmin and GNUCash to cover different areas.
Also, the proposed projects are not so uniformly dispersed in the open source space. There are 3 projects that manage content in the web, like MoinMoin, Plone and Zope, instead of this I would propose TikiWiki that have a bit of each one. There are 2 that are just for developers, like SubVersion and Eclipse, and not sure if that will count for the "general public" or whatever goes to that kind of events. And there a some proposed programs that are fairy similar to widely know ones in the windows world, like Evolution and XMMS, that the general public will think that are Outlook and winamp and will not ask, and could give the false impression that open source is just copying other program features and not creating things completely new.
What happened with the linux version? AFAIK Maya have a version for Linux, but don't seem to be included in the "for free" offer.
This sounded more like SciFi news. How much time before the same parents sue cellphone companies?
Performance is not the only factor that is important. ext2 seems to be there as a point of reference to show a non-journaling filesystem, so if jfs scores 50/50 against ext2, i would say that is the big winner.
I think people in every country not specifically named in the announcement (well, they listed cities in usa, england, rusia and japan) will be in doubt for some time more, at least I have the same question but for Uruguay.
Anyway, this sort of "Cryptonomicon: the previous generation" looks from outside a bit too much.
Of course, the book open some questions, like "Will the Shaftoe ancester invent mortars?" :)
Linux is the kernel, an application like the one you describe are or generic, or very associated with the actual distribution you have installed, like redhat up2date, debian apt-get, and suse you. I'm using the later one, and for desktop users is nice to have an icon in the tray saying that there are updates availables (it could apply patches automatically, but i prefer to take that responsability).
Yesterday was the day of openssh, and today for sendmail (whats next? bind? apache?). More than the usual rant about using alternatives like postfix/qmail/exim/etc instead of sendmail, I see that as a positive thing, could be a signal that more testing, auditing, and usage is being done, and by the open source nature of those tools, that this kind of things will be fixed or the programs will evolve to avoid this kind of things with (really) safer practices.
Also... what happen when the scrambled word is another valid word? Or a misspelled valid words?
Maybe MummyOS, by this time you don't see any skin, is all patches and bandages.
- Black hats knew about the vulnerability before Microsoft
- Widespread attacks come some days after Microsoft finally get know of it, but don't releases any advise of the danger because they had no patch ready, so it took final users by surprise.
With linux at least you could have the warning even before the patch (like one of the latest apache vulnerabilities) so you can take measures before the patch is ready/tested/approved/signed/whatever.This kind of measures only will isolate MSN users from the others, of course, unless the updated protocol is widely implemented by alternative software. If people have the choice to connect to the world, or just to MSN users, hopely will swich to more open alternatives.
Murphy's laws are also more observation than predictives, but I think that technology changes will not have effect on them.