@bloodhawk: "If I start spending time contributing back to open source, then open source is no longer the cheapest and best option for the areas in which I use it."
Most bizarre logic fart I've ever seen on an online forum in ages...
How exactly were consumers compelled to buy iTunes and why couldn't they get the same music elsewhere. Like buying a music CD and uploading the tunes to their portable music playing device.
"a new analysis of the Prisoner's Dilemma played in a large, evolving population, they found that adding more flexibility to the game can allow selfish strategies to be more successful."
Only if there is an unlimited number of new prisoners to dupe, and there is no communication between the two groups. Besides which, all Prisoner's Dilemma demonstrates is that in a distorted environment such as a prision, it pays to assume the other prisoners are potentially hostile. In Prisoner's Dilemma the prisoner isn't playing the other prisoner, he's playing the prison guards. If there 'researchers' actually had any experience of a real life working environment, they might have realized this.
I've noticed a number of sites are hosted on some kind of content management platform, presumably aloft in the Cloud. Sometimes there's a noticable delay in getting the page to load.
Degrees are next to useless, by now unless you've written your own pet project, then you're wasting your time, else you should go and be a project manager...
Will this sophisticated malware work on anything other than Microsoft Windows:
"Symantec Security Response has not obtained the Regin dropper at the time of writing. Symantec believes that once the dropper is executed on the target’s computer, it will install and execute Stage 1. It’s likely that Stage 0 is responsible for setting up various extended attributes and/or registry keys and values that hold encoded versions of stages 2, 3, and potentially stages 4 and onwards". link
This 'highly advanced' computer worm will only work on Microsoft Windows:
"Symantec Security Response has not obtained the Regin dropper at the time of writing. Symantec believes that once the dropper is executed on the target’s computer, it will install and execute Stage 1. It’s likely that Stage 0 is responsible for setting up various extended attributes and/or registry keys and values that hold encoded versions of stages 2, 3, and potentially stages 4 and onwards". ref
"Dissenters within the National Security Agency.. warned in 2009 that the program to secretly collect American phone records wasn't providing enough intelligence to justify the backlash it would cause.. after an internal debate that has not been previously reported, NSA leaders, White House officials and key lawmakers opted to continue the collection and storage of American calling records"..
Retrospective ass covering by the management at NSA. What were the names of these top NSA officials. What was the nature of these concerns. How has it come to light at this time?
"New security updates released for the WordPress.. fix cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to take control of websites."
Embedded javascript in a comment box could trigger exploits on Microsoft Internet Explorer running on Microsoft Windows desktops.
"So for a variety of reasons (some related to recent events, some ongoing for a while) I've kinda soured on Linux and have been looking at giving BSD a shot on the desktop.. What's the most painless way to transition to BSD for this constellation of uses, and which variety of BSD would you suggest?"
It would be informative if you shared with us the reasons for your disenchantment with 'Linux', and what improvement BSD on the desktop would be?
"There's been many bold comments on slashdot about moving away from Linux, so I suspect I'm not the only one asking these questions"
@jones_supa: "Ubuntu 6.06 was my favorite. These days it's quite buggy distro. For example, on most laptops the brightness adjustment in Unity desktop goes in multiple steps as the backlight event has multiple listeners. Why don't they take care of such a simple and obvious thing?"
Deciding from the inability of Unity to set the brightness on laptops, that Ubuntu as a whole is a buggy distro, is sure one huge leap. Did you try any of the online solutions for your backlight problem. Did you post to any of the forums. If so what was the response?
"So now convincing people of your point of view is astroturfing? Nice try.
No, using false front organizations to promote fake grassroutes movements, then accusing the other fella of doing same - now that is astroturfing!
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'Due to technical difficulties inherent in the Internet.. Computer viruses or other destructive programs may also be inadvertently downloaded from the web site.'
This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Kerberos KDC that could allow an attacker to elevate unprivileged domain user account privileges to those of the domain administrator account"
How did they manage to write a security component, that of itself opens up the Operating System to exploition? I mean, and after all, this isn't the defective Apple OS or open source...
"One of the disadvantages to buying an Apple system is that it generally means less upgrade flexibility than a system from a traditional PC OEM".
Do please explain the logic in Apple not making it's own hardware working the best with it's own software and why there is nowhere on the planet where we can buy a 'traditional PC OEM' without Microsoft Windows being unwanted and included and why slashdot doesn't deem this as total vendor lockin.
Viruses and Malware are not a problem on Linux platforms as unlike the wintel platform, their is a clear differentiation between opening and running a file. As in the Linux desktop is virtually immune from the click-and-run type of malware that is rampant on the windows platform . How can 'computer scientists' even write a paper on malware without once mentioning Microsoft Windows !!!
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@bloodhawk: "If I start spending time contributing back to open source, then open source is no longer the cheapest and best option for the areas in which I use it."
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Most bizarre logic fart I've ever seen on an online forum in ages
Our CDN was unable to reach our servers
How exactly were consumers compelled to buy iTunes and why couldn't they get the same music elsewhere. Like buying a music CD and uploading the tunes to their portable music playing device.
What were the names of these companies and how exactly did hacking email accounts lead to a compromise of the Operating System?
"State House frustrating efforts of the Mayor of Freetown to curb Ebola"
"Exploring Safe and Dignified Burial Public Response"
"How Muslims Wash, Bury Their Dead"
"Taking Care of Someone with Suspected Ebola"
"a new analysis of the Prisoner's Dilemma played in a large, evolving population, they found that adding more flexibility to the game can allow selfish strategies to be more successful."
Only if there is an unlimited number of new prisoners to dupe, and there is no communication between the two groups. Besides which, all Prisoner's Dilemma demonstrates is that in a distorted environment such as a prision, it pays to assume the other prisoners are potentially hostile. In Prisoner's Dilemma the prisoner isn't playing the other prisoner, he's playing the prison guards. If there 'researchers' actually had any experience of a real life working environment, they might have realized this.
I've noticed a number of sites are hosted on some kind of content management platform, presumably aloft in the Cloud. Sometimes there's a noticable delay in getting the page to load.
Why the reluctance to mention the Operating System?
Degrees are next to useless, by now unless you've written your own pet project, then you're wasting your time, else you should go and be a project manager ...
Headline corrected for accuracy ...
"politicians are desperate to find a solution to the long-running anti-competitive dispute with Google."
And we all know who's really behind this 'dispute'.
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Will this sophisticated malware work on anything other than Microsoft Windows:
"Symantec Security Response has not obtained the Regin dropper at the time of writing. Symantec believes that once the dropper is executed on the target’s computer, it will install and execute Stage 1. It’s likely that Stage 0 is responsible for setting up various extended attributes and/or registry keys and values that hold encoded versions of stages 2, 3, and potentially stages 4 and onwards". link
@benjymouse: "Any particular reason you chose to call it a worm, despite that it was described as a trojan in the summary as well as in TFA?"
.. bears some resemblance to .. the computer worm and trojan that was programmed to disrupt Iran's nuclear program"
"Backdoor Regin
This 'highly advanced' computer worm will only work on Microsoft Windows:
"Symantec Security Response has not obtained the Regin dropper at the time of writing. Symantec believes that once the dropper is executed on the target’s computer, it will install and execute Stage 1. It’s likely that Stage 0 is responsible for setting up various extended attributes and/or registry keys and values that hold encoded versions of stages 2, 3, and potentially stages 4 and onwards". ref
"Dissenters within the National Security Agency .. warned in 2009 that the program to secretly collect American phone records wasn't providing enough intelligence to justify the backlash it would cause .. after an internal debate that has not been previously reported, NSA leaders, White House officials and key lawmakers opted to continue the collection and storage of American calling records" ..
Retrospective ass covering by the management at NSA. What were the names of these top NSA officials. What was the nature of these concerns. How has it come to light at this time?
"New security updates released for the WordPress .. fix cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to take control of websites ."
Embedded javascript in a comment box could trigger exploits on Microsoft Internet Explorer running on Microsoft Windows desktops.
"So for a variety of reasons (some related to recent events, some ongoing for a while) I've kinda soured on Linux and have been looking at giving BSD a shot on the desktop.. What's the most painless way to transition to BSD for this constellation of uses, and which variety of BSD would you suggest?"
It would be informative if you shared with us the reasons for your disenchantment with 'Linux', and what improvement BSD on the desktop would be?
"There's been many bold comments on slashdot about moving away from Linux, so I suspect I'm not the only one asking these questions"
This wouldn't be a wind-up by any chance?
@jones_supa: "Ubuntu 6.06 was my favorite. These days it's quite buggy distro. For example, on most laptops the brightness adjustment in Unity desktop goes in multiple steps as the backlight event has multiple listeners. Why don't they take care of such a simple and obvious thing?"
Deciding from the inability of Unity to set the brightness on laptops, that Ubuntu as a whole is a buggy distro, is sure one huge leap. Did you try any of the online solutions for your backlight problem. Did you post to any of the forums. If so what was the response?
"So now convincing people of your point of view is astroturfing? Nice try.
.. Computer viruses or other destructive programs may also be inadvertently downloaded from the web site.'
No, using false front organizations to promote fake grassroutes movements, then accusing the other fella of doing same - now that is astroturfing!
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'Due to technical difficulties inherent in the Internet
@cirby: "...and Greenpeace... Does the same."
Do you any evidence from verifiable third party sources for that?
@AC: "I finally gave up on Chrome on Windows 7 64 bit. Flash ran terrible and stuttered all the time"
Chrome works fine here on Ubuntu 64 bit.
This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Kerberos KDC that could allow an attacker to elevate unprivileged domain user account privileges to those of the domain administrator account"
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How did they manage to write a security component, that of itself opens up the Operating System to exploition? I mean, and after all, this isn't the defective Apple OS or open source
What's the correlation between being on the current State Department shitlist and getting accused of 'hacking'?
"One of the disadvantages to buying an Apple system is that it generally means less upgrade flexibility than a system from a traditional PC OEM".
Do please explain the logic in Apple not making it's own hardware working the best with it's own software and why there is nowhere on the planet where we can buy a 'traditional PC OEM' without Microsoft Windows being unwanted and included and why slashdot doesn't deem this as total vendor lockin.
Viruses and Malware are not a problem on Linux platforms as unlike the wintel platform, their is a clear differentiation between opening and running a file. As in the Linux desktop is virtually immune from the click-and-run type of malware that is rampant on the windows platform . How can 'computer scientists' even write a paper on malware without once mentioning Microsoft Windows !!!