I've been staring so hard at a computer screen for so many years that not only my eyes, but my mother's and grandmother's eyes, started deteriorating when they were around 30, too.
CRT or no, if your eyes are gonna go, you're hitting just the right age for it. That may just be a factor.
Well, there you go. Obviously the job of professionals.
If they'd been amateurs, they would have used something bigger and more cumbersome, like a Sendmail config.
Re:ICMP flaw #1 on Linux: it's in the kernel
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How the heck did this get modded insightful?
ICMP runs on a different layer than all of the services you mentioned. ICMP is a network layer protocol (like IP and IPv6, also called "layer 3"), and all the protocols you mentioned are application layer (layer 7) protocols. There's no direct comparison to be made to any of the protocols (HTTP, SMB, FTP and NFS) you mentioned.
If you want to compare having ICMP in the kernel to other sinilar protocols, your best argument (if you can call it that) is that we should have *IP*, another layer 3 protocol, "running as an ordinary user process, not root, and especially not as a kernel process." Obviously, IP *is* included in the kernel, for plenty of good reasons. Comparing ICMP to application-layer protocols like HTTP holds no weight whatsoever, unless you're completely ignorant of network fundamentals.
How it got modded to +5 Insightful baffles me. I'd have thought this crowd would have a better handle on the basics.
If you're basing a decision on which OS to run on its history, rather than your ability to keep it secure, you shouldn't do it at all. You're asking for trouble.
Another sign you're way ahead of yourself: you don't have a clue how to handle intrusions. Before you start any business, online or otherwise, you need to know the laws where you are, and maybe where your cusomers are, as well.
You've got a lot of research to do, and frankly, asking on Slashdot is a very bad start.
If I were an ISP considering signing this thing, I think I'd have to take into account the effect of a good-sized chunk of my subscribership running continuous downloads of random crap, just to increase bandwidth usage and screw with the music industry.
Remember, ISPs: Most of us have never gotten an RIAA subpoena, and are still under the impression that it might be a cool souvenir.
Tnat's not the case at all. Google's not getting their news directly from AFP; they're consolidating stuff published by people that buy stories from AFP.
Unless AFP starts requiring all of their customers to also start blocking Googlebot requests, it ain't gonna work.
Ack. I meant "independent clause" when I said "dependent clause."
It's a karmic thing, I think. Seems like every time a grammar cop tries to stomp on someone else's writing, he makes a worse screw-up for the next one who comes by.
Actually, it's not a comma splice because the fragment in question is not a dependent clause. There doesn't need to be a period, semicolon, or anything else. A comma would be perfectly acceptable, though, since the whole thing is a prepositional phrase.
It was a valiant attempt, rookie, but when you've got a few years of this under your belt you learn not to draw at anything that sounds like a dependent clause.
While your example's not bad in a sort of hypothetical sense, the Japanese patent you're referring to doesn't exist.
That patent (which belongs to Matsushita) covers a process whereby you click a help icon, then drag it over another item. On dropping the help icon, you are given context-sensitive help about the second item.
The patent is here (albeit in Japanese) with further explanation in English here. It's not nearly as simple as "ANY help icon linked to ANY help file."
For open source projects, especially projects as large as a full OS, advocacy can be critical. The more people know about, and care about, your project, the bigger your developer pool.
And, in the words of the guy who posted the image:
What the hell does it say for slashdot that this nonsense made it to their "news" pages? Just what kind of far out shit has CmdrTaco been smoking lately? Doesn't he even bother to check these things out before he posts them? Or even to read the frickin thread? Too funny.
You've got to love that, even after stuff like this in the very thread they linked to, the closest thing to a retraction the editors can come up with is "several have pointed out that it is likely fake."
> I can imagine the outrage there would be here if > Microsoft announced that software had to be one of > three specific licenses to be "Windows certified".
Outrage? You'd hardly notice it among the flying pigs and overwhelming chill emanating from the bowels of hell.
Microsoft may be a lot of things, but getting ideological about how best to share your code just ain't their thing.
While I can see your point (but don't necessarily agree) that some poeple may not release their code if OSI can't get behind some one-shot custom license, your opening analogy has so little to do with anything resembling a possible scenario, the topic at hand, or anything resembling reality that I couldn't leave it alone.
Worst comes to worst (or is it best comes to best?), there may not be any one open text server that "everyone" uses, but a diffuse network of hundreds of 'em, one or two in every city.
The same link you provided also gives these definitions for "cartoon" right after the one you quoted:
animated cartoon: n. a motion picture made from a series of drawings simulating motion by means of slight progressive changes in the drawings
Sound more like anime now?
Second nit: It drives me nuts when people refer to a dictionary as "Webster's," as if that conveyed any kind of authority whatsoever. There are about a gazillion different "Webster's" dictionaries, from many different publishers. The quality of them varies from very good to total garbage.
The link you provided isn't for "the" Webster's dictionary. It's the Miriam-Webster Online Dictionary, just one of way too many "Webster's."
I'm a liberal socialist hacker... well, no, I resent being called *that* too, but it's pretty low on the list of things I, as a liberal socialist hacker, resent these days.
However, if someone tells me I'm bad and wrong for spending my money on something other than starving children, he's getting whacked upside the head by the nearest heavy chunk of metal I can find. I've got an old full-height 10-meg MFM hard drive here, and I'm not afraid to use it.
Sure, the starving children of the world need food. I'm all for sending stuff to them, if that's what you feel like doing. However, if you feel like buying an iPod, a sports car, a virtual island, or whatever else you feel like conspicuously consuming, go for it! Guess what? If you do, you're *helping people*. People make a living building and selling iPods, sports cars, and virtual islands. You're putting food on *their* tables. They may not be pitiful starving wretches, but that's only because people like you buy their (sometimes dubious) stuff instead of living like a hermit in a cave (or cardboard box, for those of you in urban areas) and sending all your hard-earned cash overseas to starving kids.
People who think it's some sort of sin to spend money on something other than "saving the world" need to get a grip. If we all spent money the way they think we should, this whole friggin' planet would fall apart.
In Palm Quick Install.. Click on "Add" then select files of type "All Files (*.*)".
And this accomplishes what, exactly?"
Well, for one, it solves the problem the original poster was complaining about:
"Also there seems to be no way to copy arbitrary files to the Palm - all files must be "owned" by an application. With a 256MB SD card I expected to use it to copy files between work and home."
The method described does exactly what he's complaining can't be done.
Select the files you want to install (don't worry about whether the files are "owned" by an app. It's totally irrelevant).
Select the files you want to install. Non-Palm apps and databases will default to installing to your expansion card.
Sync.
If you know anything about installing *anything* to a Palm, you may have noticed that this is the exact same process for installing apps and databases, except for the part where you specify the file type.
"Revocation can help contain some attacks by preventing future titles from playing on a pre-chosen set of players. For example, if studios learn that pirates have hacked a player with a specific serial number, revocation makes it possible to author future titles so they will never play on that player.
Revocation is completely ineffective, however, if pirates develop tools or instructions for hacking a popular player model. This is the most common kind of security failure in consumer devices, because attackers who have figured out how to compromise one device can repeat the same technique against others with the same design. While some revocation technologies could shut off all players in an entire model line, the harm caused to legitimate consumers makes this unacceptable."
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You think that's bad?
I've been staring so hard at a computer screen for so many years that not only my eyes, but my mother's and grandmother's eyes, started deteriorating when they were around 30, too.
CRT or no, if your eyes are gonna go, you're hitting just the right age for it. That may just be a factor.
Well, there you go. Obviously the job of professionals.
If they'd been amateurs, they would have used something bigger and more cumbersome, like a Sendmail config.
How the heck did this get modded insightful?
ICMP runs on a different layer than all of the services you mentioned. ICMP is a network layer protocol (like IP and IPv6, also called "layer 3"), and all the protocols you mentioned are application layer (layer 7) protocols. There's no direct comparison to be made to any of the protocols (HTTP, SMB, FTP and NFS) you mentioned.
If you want to compare having ICMP in the kernel to other sinilar protocols, your best argument (if you can call it that) is that we should have *IP*, another layer 3 protocol, "running as an ordinary user process, not root, and especially not as a kernel process." Obviously, IP *is* included in the kernel, for plenty of good reasons. Comparing ICMP to application-layer protocols like HTTP holds no weight whatsoever, unless you're completely ignorant of network fundamentals.
How it got modded to +5 Insightful baffles me. I'd have thought this crowd would have a better handle on the basics.
If you're basing a decision on which OS to run on its history, rather than your ability to keep it secure, you shouldn't do it at all. You're asking for trouble.
Another sign you're way ahead of yourself: you don't have a clue how to handle intrusions. Before you start any business, online or otherwise, you need to know the laws where you are, and maybe where your cusomers are, as well.
You've got a lot of research to do, and frankly, asking on Slashdot is a very bad start.
If I were an ISP considering signing this thing, I think I'd have to take into account the effect of a good-sized chunk of my subscribership running continuous downloads of random crap, just to increase bandwidth usage and screw with the music industry.
Remember, ISPs: Most of us have never gotten an RIAA subpoena, and are still under the impression that it might be a cool souvenir.
Oh my God...
Someone slap the cuffs on Cirque du Soleil. I think they're about to take Las Vegas.
Tnat's not the case at all. Google's not getting their news directly from AFP; they're consolidating stuff published by people that buy stories from AFP.
Unless AFP starts requiring all of their customers to also start blocking Googlebot requests, it ain't gonna work.
Ack. I meant "independent clause" when I said "dependent clause."
It's a karmic thing, I think. Seems like every time a grammar cop tries to stomp on someone else's writing, he makes a worse screw-up for the next one who comes by.
[Flashing grammar police badge.]
Actually, it's not a comma splice because the fragment in question is not a dependent clause. There doesn't need to be a period, semicolon, or anything else. A comma would be perfectly acceptable, though, since the whole thing is a prepositional phrase.
It was a valiant attempt, rookie, but when you've got a few years of this under your belt you learn not to draw at anything that sounds like a dependent clause.
While your example's not bad in a sort of hypothetical sense, the Japanese patent you're referring to doesn't exist.
That patent (which belongs to Matsushita) covers a process whereby you click a help icon, then drag it over another item. On dropping the help icon, you are given context-sensitive help about the second item.
The patent is here (albeit in Japanese) with further explanation in English here. It's not nearly as simple as "ANY help icon linked to ANY help file."
For open source projects, especially projects as large as a full OS, advocacy can be critical. The more people know about, and care about, your project, the bigger your developer pool.
And, in the words of the guy who posted the image:
What the hell does it say for slashdot that this nonsense made it to their "news" pages? Just what kind of far out shit has CmdrTaco been smoking lately? Doesn't he even bother to check these things out before he posts them? Or even to read the frickin thread? Too funny.
You've got to love that, even after stuff like this in the very thread they linked to, the closest thing to a retraction the editors can come up with is "several have pointed out that it is likely fake."
Or if you put a male in and female together, would the result be Barry Manilow's "Let's get it on"
*shudder*
"Let's Get It On" was sung by Marvin Gaye. Either you were thinking of Barry White, or you've got some issues.
> I can imagine the outrage there would be here if
> Microsoft announced that software had to be one of
> three specific licenses to be "Windows certified".
Outrage? You'd hardly notice it among the flying pigs and overwhelming chill emanating from the bowels of hell.
Microsoft may be a lot of things, but getting ideological about how best to share your code just ain't their thing.
While I can see your point (but don't necessarily agree) that some poeple may not release their code if OSI can't get behind some one-shot custom license, your opening analogy has so little to do with anything resembling a possible scenario, the topic at hand, or anything resembling reality that I couldn't leave it alone.
Guess now we know which movie's going to get the prestigious Palm d'Merde this year.
Worst comes to worst (or is it best comes to best?), there may not be any one open text server that "everyone" uses, but a diffuse network of hundreds of 'em, one or two in every city.
Back in my day we called that FidoNet.
A couple picked nits:
The same link you provided also gives these definitions for "cartoon" right after the one you quoted:
animated cartoon: n. a motion picture made from a series of drawings simulating motion by means of slight progressive changes in the drawings
Sound more like anime now?
Second nit: It drives me nuts when people refer to a dictionary as "Webster's," as if that conveyed any kind of authority whatsoever. There are about a gazillion different "Webster's" dictionaries, from many different publishers. The quality of them varies from very good to total garbage.
The link you provided isn't for "the" Webster's dictionary. It's the Miriam-Webster Online Dictionary, just one of way too many "Webster's."
Since when is a copy-and-paste of the article "insightful?"
If Sun didn't have a patent on big, heavy purple servers, I'd be whacking a moderator with one right now.
C'mon -- the guy's got the south pole on his back. That's bound to cause some shrinkage.
If you're looking for an external stimulus, try here.
Looks like someone's been pumping up Infinium's stock using fraudulant junk faxes.
Hey, I resent that!
I'm a liberal socialist hacker... well, no, I resent being called *that* too, but it's pretty low on the list of things I, as a liberal socialist hacker, resent these days.
However, if someone tells me I'm bad and wrong for spending my money on something other than starving children, he's getting whacked upside the head by the nearest heavy chunk of metal I can find. I've got an old full-height 10-meg MFM hard drive here, and I'm not afraid to use it.
Sure, the starving children of the world need food. I'm all for sending stuff to them, if that's what you feel like doing. However, if you feel like buying an iPod, a sports car, a virtual island, or whatever else you feel like conspicuously consuming, go for it! Guess what? If you do, you're *helping people*. People make a living building and selling iPods, sports cars, and virtual islands. You're putting food on *their* tables. They may not be pitiful starving wretches, but that's only because people like you buy their (sometimes dubious) stuff instead of living like a hermit in a cave (or cardboard box, for those of you in urban areas) and sending all your hard-earned cash overseas to starving kids.
People who think it's some sort of sin to spend money on something other than "saving the world" need to get a grip. If we all spent money the way they think we should, this whole friggin' planet would fall apart.
I'm not too familiar with Palm stuff on Macs, but I did a quick Google and found a ton of references to it, so it looks like it's there somewhere.
A couple places mention looking in an "install folder."
"Sorry but there's a bit of misinformation here.
In Palm Quick Install.. Click on "Add" then select files of type "All Files (*.*)".
And this accomplishes what, exactly?"
Well, for one, it solves the problem the original poster was complaining about:
"Also there seems to be no way to copy arbitrary files to the Palm - all files must be "owned" by an application. With a 256MB SD card I expected to use it to copy files between work and home."
The method described does exactly what he's complaining can't be done.
Solution to about 99% of the above complaints:
Open the Palm Install Tool.
Click "Add"
Change "Files of Type" to "All Files (*.*)"
Select the files you want to install (don't worry about whether the files are "owned" by an app. It's totally irrelevant).
Select the files you want to install. Non-Palm apps and databases will default to installing to your expansion card.
Sync.
If you know anything about installing *anything* to a Palm, you may have noticed that this is the exact same process for installing apps and databases, except for the part where you specify the file type.
This ain't rocket science, kids.
They address this in TFA:
"Revocation can help contain some attacks by preventing future titles from playing on a pre-chosen set of players. For example, if studios learn that pirates have hacked a player with a specific serial number, revocation makes it possible to author future titles so they will never play on that player.
Revocation is completely ineffective, however, if pirates develop tools or instructions for hacking a popular player model. This is the most common kind of security failure in consumer devices, because attackers who have figured out how to compromise one device can repeat the same technique against others with the same design. While some revocation technologies could shut off all players in an entire model line, the harm caused to legitimate consumers makes this unacceptable."