OpenBSD brags that there have only been a few remote holes in the default install in so many years. But if that is the metric of overall security, Ubuntu is the most secure OS out there. By default, there are ZERO listening ports on an Ubuntu installation
Default install or default installation set. I thought OpenBSD claimed the latter, which is something quite different.
C'mon in, the water's warm. pfSense 2.0 is an excellent improvement over 1.2.3, which I thought was pretty grand itself. You might wait for 2.1, though, if you're in no rush, as it will have some new infrastructure and better IPv6 support.
Great dev. team and community, and they're finally starting to push most of their BSD patches upstream.
The ultimate justification for patents is not moral, but economical. Does the ability to patent a work actually stimulate innovation? If it does, then patents are useful. If it does not, then patents are harmful. It is on these merits that we should decide what industires should honor patent law.
If I want to deprive you of your watch, I shall certainly have to fight for it; if I want to buy your watch, I shall have to pay for it; and if I want a gift, I shall have to plead for it; and, according to the means I employ, the watch is stolen property, my own property, or a donation.
They say, 'means are, after all, means'. I would say, 'means are, after all, everything'. As the means so the end.
How so? What about having all of your email passing through the servers of a 3rd party make it "extra high security"? Email passing between Android phones and iPhones using ActiveSync or IMAP/SMTP+SSL are already encrypted during transfer.
Yes, but remember to set up your SSL trust properly so a government can't force your CA (or another trusted-by-default CA) to issue a cert with your server's name to MitM your traffic. Many people skip this step, making Blackberry about as secure (when it ought to be far less secure).
Do I have to start paying $1 for every 100 searches I do over 1000 a month?
How about $1 per 1000 searches over 25,000? (less bandwidth-heavy than Maps) I think that would be great. It would let people with ancillary business ideas leverage Google's search data. Right now, there's a hard limit and then you're cut off. That precludes many business models, and many potential Google incubators (companies Google might want to buy).
Price rationing is a superior business model for all involved.
They've only narrowed down the class of sounds, but not why we would find those sounds so annoying.
Some video I watched in high school bio class said that the sounds are coincidentally almost the same waveform as primate danger screeches. Hard-wired aversion.
The unity interface turns every computer into a netbook interface that just isn't appropriate for regular computer use or users....
Bah, I accidentally downloaded a recent release of UNR and I couldn't even set up my daughter's favorites - the launcher was complete crap. I blew that away and got UNR 10.4 and everything is great again.
I use Fedora/KDE myself but a/decent/ netbook interface is still worthwhile.
Have you ever had to call RH support? If yes have you ever talked with an idiot?
The only problem I ever ran into was with which parts of the distro Redhat deigns 'supported'. I advised a client to buy a RHEL license for a server once, and we only ever needed that support one time. They had a big firewire-connected drive that kept going offline, but worked fine attached to a Mac.
Calling Redhat, I was told that firewire wasn't 'supported' and that they wouldn't help. Somewhere on the website was a list of supported tech that they could point to to back that, but it wasn't what we expected. We figured if it was in their linux, they'd help. It's hard to know what exactly is being purchased with a RHEL support contract - general assumptions aren't at all useful here.
I finally found the answer through community support, and it wasn't all that complicated a fix.
So, yes there are no idiots, but a dumb tech isn't the only way for customer service to fail.
There is no such thing as a "one-time issue" with RHEL.
No, but rumor has it that Redhat will be happy to take your money and help you install redhat-release on your about-to-be-former CentOS system.
On one hand, they don't benefit from people waiting to buy support until they need it. On the other hand, if you're in that position, they've likely acquired a new customer who would likely not have been a potential customer if they had to pay up front, and will likely renew.
I use Fedora, RHEL and CentOS, and think they're all great for their own purposes. Redhat is the model of what open source companies should strive to be.
Yes, this is pure legal eagle stuff... but it means the difference between passing an audit, or perhaps getting a contract terminated.
It also means your audit criteria are stupid, unless the support system is integral to the validation. Without knowing the details it's hard to say.
This doesn't mean CentOS is bad. It just means that having the certificates that come with the commercial version of RedHat may mean success or failure when the CPAs and the JDs are done extracting their pounds of flesh.
The correct question to ask is "is it more addictive, or is addiction to it more harmful to the victim or others, than other legal substances?" For example, alcohol. Or for that matter, video games or gambling, both of which can be addictive.
Or sugar. I quit about a year and a half ago and had intense physical cravings for about 3 weeks. I had psychological cravings for more than a year. Truth be told, just thinking about a mocha chip ice cream cone with chocolate jimmies still gives me a quaver. But, I put on my big-boy pants and don't indulge. Or, should I say, my little-boy pants, 65 lbs later.
Now, think about all the medical costs associated with obesity and the Supreme Court's ludicrous Rational Basis Test, and any justification for Prohibition on marijuana can be multiplied many times over for a Prohibition on Sugar. "Lollipops fund terrorists" yanno.
Are you counting any rate of return for your money in an alternate investment?
assuming the cost of wood does not rise (which it will).
Yeah, faster than the rate of inflation around here. I've seen it nearly double in about 10 years (currently $250). But then again, so have all the other commodities, so perhaps the price is stable, it's just the Dollar and wages which have tanked.
In which case, I will be solely responsible for the "damage" to my reputation, for having failed to secure my computers.
No, you'd be solely to blame for the failure to secure your computers, but you wouldn't be responsible for the attack which is the action of an unassociated third party - you'd not be guilty of aiding them or being part of a conspiracy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea Perhaps people would do a better job at security if this was different, but that has large risks as well.
The more troubling bit to me, though, is that you feel that if the White House's computers respond poorly to a certain pattern of signaling on a wire, they're justified in sending men with guns to your house and violently breaking in.
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OpenBSD brags that there have only been a few remote holes in the default install in so many years. But if that is the metric of overall security, Ubuntu is the most secure OS out there. By default, there are ZERO listening ports on an Ubuntu installation
Default install or default installation set. I thought OpenBSD claimed the latter, which is something quite different.
Someday I'll just switch over to pfsense.
C'mon in, the water's warm. pfSense 2.0 is an excellent improvement over 1.2.3, which I thought was pretty grand itself. You might wait for 2.1, though, if you're in no rush, as it will have some new infrastructure and better IPv6 support.
Great dev. team and community, and they're finally starting to push most of their BSD patches upstream.
Turbo Pascal 3 was really minimalistic. Turbo Pascal 4, then 5 were really useful, like a webpage in a browser vs. a wget.
5.5 added all that object crud that confused me at the time (yay for Software Engineering in college).
The ultimate justification for patents is not moral, but economical. Does the ability to patent a work actually stimulate innovation? If it does, then patents are useful. If it does not, then patents are harmful. It is on these merits that we should decide what industires should honor patent law.
- MK Gandhi
t takes a company somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 mil USD to make a new drug for the market.
Don't patch bad government with more bad government.
How so? What about having all of your email passing through the servers of a 3rd party make it "extra high security"? Email passing between Android phones and iPhones using ActiveSync or IMAP/SMTP+SSL are already encrypted during transfer.
Yes, but remember to set up your SSL trust properly so a government can't force your CA (or another trusted-by-default CA) to issue a cert with your server's name to MitM your traffic. Many people skip this step, making Blackberry about as secure (when it ought to be far less secure).
Do I have to start paying $1 for every 100 searches I do over 1000 a month?
How about $1 per 1000 searches over 25,000? (less bandwidth-heavy than Maps) I think that would be great. It would let people with ancillary business ideas leverage Google's search data. Right now, there's a hard limit and then you're cut off. That precludes many business models, and many potential Google incubators (companies Google might want to buy).
Price rationing is a superior business model for all involved.
Anyone know why the Army wants a robot that respires, sweats and changes skin temp? Weird...
The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look human... sweat, bad breath, everything. Very hard to spot.
They've only narrowed down the class of sounds, but not why we would find those sounds so annoying.
Some video I watched in high school bio class said that the sounds are coincidentally almost the same waveform as primate danger screeches. Hard-wired aversion.
Seems plausible.
Is it possible to mod the base post down as flamebait?
But it's not just a strawman, it's Mark Shuttleworth's strawman.
The unity interface turns every computer into a netbook interface that just isn't appropriate for regular computer use or users ....
Bah, I accidentally downloaded a recent release of UNR and I couldn't even set up my daughter's favorites - the launcher was complete crap. I blew that away and got UNR 10.4 and everything is great again.
I use Fedora/KDE myself but a /decent/ netbook interface is still worthwhile.
If you want the free version you can still use v28 on FreeBSD and Solaris Express (no upgrades in over 1 year).
or linux.
Have you ever had to call RH support? If yes have you ever talked with an idiot?
The only problem I ever ran into was with which parts of the distro Redhat deigns 'supported'. I advised a client to buy a RHEL license for a server once, and we only ever needed that support one time. They had a big firewire-connected drive that kept going offline, but worked fine attached to a Mac.
Calling Redhat, I was told that firewire wasn't 'supported' and that they wouldn't help. Somewhere on the website was a list of supported tech that they could point to to back that, but it wasn't what we expected. We figured if it was in their linux, they'd help. It's hard to know what exactly is being purchased with a RHEL support contract - general assumptions aren't at all useful here.
I finally found the answer through community support, and it wasn't all that complicated a fix.
So, yes there are no idiots, but a dumb tech isn't the only way for customer service to fail.
There is no such thing as a "one-time issue" with RHEL.
No, but rumor has it that Redhat will be happy to take your money and help you install redhat-release on your about-to-be-former CentOS system.
On one hand, they don't benefit from people waiting to buy support until they need it. On the other hand, if you're in that position, they've likely acquired a new customer who would likely not have been a potential customer if they had to pay up front, and will likely renew.
I use Fedora, RHEL and CentOS, and think they're all great for their own purposes. Redhat is the model of what open source companies should strive to be.
Yes, this is pure legal eagle stuff ... but it means the difference between passing an audit, or perhaps getting a contract terminated.
It also means your audit criteria are stupid, unless the support system is integral to the validation. Without knowing the details it's hard to say.
This doesn't mean CentOS is bad. It just means that having the certificates that come with the commercial version of RedHat may mean success or failure when the CPAs and the JDs are done extracting their pounds of flesh.
Yeah, this isn't a computing problem.
The correct question to ask is "is it more addictive, or is addiction to it more harmful to the victim or others, than other legal substances?" For example, alcohol. Or for that matter, video games or gambling, both of which can be addictive.
Or sugar. I quit about a year and a half ago and had intense physical cravings for about 3 weeks. I had psychological cravings for more than a year. Truth be told, just thinking about a mocha chip ice cream cone with chocolate jimmies still gives me a quaver. But, I put on my big-boy pants and don't indulge. Or, should I say, my little-boy pants, 65 lbs later.
Now, think about all the medical costs associated with obesity and the Supreme Court's ludicrous Rational Basis Test, and any justification for Prohibition on marijuana can be multiplied many times over for a Prohibition on Sugar. "Lollipops fund terrorists" yanno.
You really think that a cyber attack on the White House is going to be prosecuted in civil court?
I'm not arguing that it shouldn't be, but I'm certain it won't be.
How long until deer evolve to not walk in front of my car?
They already have. Those are in the woods, safe and sound. You're doing your part to help clean up the evolutionary dead ends.
I have a 15Kw Solar Panel on my roof
What was the actual power production from it?
My Electric bill last year was £-126.00.
How long does that make your payback period?
That is evolution...
I'm glad to see somebody was awake in Freshman biology class.
So what happens to the animals that eat them and that aren't immune to the PCB?
Depends - have you had the new PCB-binding protein spliced in yet?
Granny Smith, then?
Steve is dead, the white is a decade out of fashion.
getting me to the break-even point in 40 years
Are you counting any rate of return for your money in an alternate investment?
assuming the cost of wood does not rise (which it will).
Yeah, faster than the rate of inflation around here. I've seen it nearly double in about 10 years (currently $250). But then again, so have all the other commodities, so perhaps the price is stable, it's just the Dollar and wages which have tanked.
I have 26 acres of forest as a backup plan.
In which case, I will be solely responsible for the "damage" to my reputation, for having failed to secure my computers.
No, you'd be solely to blame for the failure to secure your computers, but you wouldn't be responsible for the attack which is the action of an unassociated third party - you'd not be guilty of aiding them or being part of a conspiracy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea Perhaps people would do a better job at security if this was different, but that has large risks as well.
The more troubling bit to me, though, is that you feel that if the White House's computers respond poorly to a certain pattern of signaling on a wire, they're justified in sending men with guns to your house and violently breaking in.
Have we abstracted away common sense?
Man up? Might be a more credible exhortation if not posted AC, no?
OK, 'kermidge' (don't get me wrong, I find an AC slapfight as funny as anybody else).