Just goes to show... the Board of Education will end up doing more damage to the US than any terrorist group could ever have hoped for. "Get 'm while they're young..."
... and it's spreading... (any errors in translation from the french are my responsibility)
Montreal, Quebec Tuesday, November 8, 2005
A Ste-Rose resident plans to appeal a ruling by the Canadian government denying his group tax-exempt status. Monsieur Maurice Duplessis, who now insists on going by the name "Chef Boy-R-Dee", has stated that unless the government reverses its decision, his so-called "Pastafarians" will sue the government for infringing their constitutional right to freedom of religion.
Apparently, M. Duplessis claims that his sister-in-law saw the face of Jesus as she was finishing a plate of spaghetti. She said, jokingly, that they should offer it on eBay. M. Duplessis claims that when he saw the plate, he felt "an epiphany, a revelation", and that a quick search on the internet revealed the Cult of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
"They were offering a reward of $1,000,000 if someone could prove that Jesus was not the son of FSM, so I knew that I was not the only one," said M. Duplessis.
When asked about his new title, he said "I was named after one of the worst premiers in the history of this province; nobody would take me seriously with a name like that. I had another revelation while we were shopping at Provigo - so now I am Boy-R-Dee".
Apparently, M. Duplessis has had several meetings with supporters, including their first "church service", held in their home. "Think about it - even the Catholic Church acknowledges the central importance of the breaking of bread and drinking of wine, and the communion by eating of the body of Jesus; these are all elements of pastafarianism"
When asked how many supporters he had, he declined to give an exact figure, saying it was "more than 10, less than 20".
Government sources had no comment, citing privacy legislation.
For example, people assume that something can only take 2 valid values, so they set a variable based on that.
However, a boolean that is not initialized should reflect that it is neither true nor false, but in an indeterminate state (and no, the default initialization should not count - you're then depending on default behaviour that may very well mask a mistake in your logic).
In other words, while it may hold either TRUE or FALSE, it may not accurately reflect what you think it does.
Its dangerous to keep looking at it... I lost one eyeball, half the time, already.
But there's one dude who's so into it that half the time he's not even there... mind you, he was never all there to begin with. He says he used to be president of some place in a past life.
quantum boxers. Hmm.. No, I think I like it better my way.
You mean that, half the time, when you look in your boxers, there's nothing there... and you like it better that way? Okay, whatever turns your crank... (oops, its not there half the time - how about "whatever floats your boat" instead:-)
switch (result) { case TRUE: do_stuff(); break; case FALSE: do_some_other_stuff(); break; default: WTF_went_wrong(); }
That would solve a LOT of programming errors that assume that anything that isn't FALSE is TRUE:
if (a !=FALSE) {
do_stuff();// executes, even if a is not TRUE, a really stupid idea in some cases.
}
A cpu using trinary or quad logic would allow us to write code that's less bug-prone.
Most words with regional variations have synonyms that don't have any.;)
Ever notice how "fuck" and "shit" have entered the vocab as anglicisms in a LOT of languages. Different spelling, but pronounced like the english word, but with a local accent?
Its funny because the word for "seal" in french is "phoque", pronounced - yes - "fock". But when a fenchman is swearing, you'll also hear stuff like "hostie fock tabernac calise shit".
So that brings us back to SCO, who are going to say that their demand for the 2.7 kernel was mis-heard, they meant "2.7 colonel" - the person, papers, etc., in charge of directing FUTURE development directions at IBM.
And why? I have it on good authority that he plans to utilize the Linux kernel in every computer to pull off a mass DDoS attack with millions of machines in unison against the American nations of the world.
That's okay, they'll send FEMA to... uh, no, they'll get the Department of Homeland Security to... uh - WATCH THE AIRPORTS and STOP PEOPLE AT RANDOM N THE SUBWAY...
... no, wait, that won't work... they'll RAISE THE THREAT LEVEL... mmmm - no can't do that, the computers are down...
I know - they'll hire MafiaBoy and DVD Johanson!... uh, okay, I know! They'll pass the RIAA/MPAA anti-bittorrent bill! That'll keep those nasty dirty semlly linux freaks from distributing their OS.
Seriously, just what is it that the DHS does that will actually have a hope in hell of preventing the next attack that couldn't have been handled better AND cheaper with more humint on the ground? Oh, right, that would have meant no wars, no fat contracts to CheneyBurton, etc.
I cut-n-pasted the spelling from the original poster. My bad:-(
Guess I should have listened to all the trolls who said that Linux doesn't support cut-n-paste! - or use mod-speling (and yes, its "mis-speled on porpoise" - I know, lousy pun:-)
Dude! Duke Nukem forever is so old-school. We stopped running that on the last generation of optical processors. Its "Duke Nukem: The Heisenberg Incident" thats all the rage on our quantum boxes.
The only problem is, half the time when I try to play it, I get "file not found". Damn Schrodinger!
No, not the nice soft stuff. The nasty cheap English stuff, that'll scrape open their bleeding haemorhoids, because its obvious these guys have been sitting on their brains for too long...
And while you're at it, sprinkle some fibreglass insulation fibres in the box, to give them "the itch you can't scratch in public." Hopefully, they'll think they caught anal gonorhea (you gotta catch *something* after trying to fuck over millions of people).
... and if your box stops working, you've probably been pwned. If your updated anti-virus software doesn't detect a virus, you're pwned! Better reformat, just to be sure...
er, where exactly do you think these "attempts" are coming from? It's been classified as a worm for a reason.
it was mis-classified as a "linux" worm, even though it has zero to do with linux. It's a bug in several php 3rd-party scripts, it was fixed months ago, and today is Troll Tuesday, and the editors are messing with your heads.
sure, if I want I could set a box up to partake in the fun (get an older distro, make sure it has the right files, and put it on the net... and wait pretty much forever for it to get wormed. It's not that prevailent, it's not that capable of propagating itself (there aren't that many vulnerable hosts out there), yadda yadda yadda...
Remember, symantec and Mcafee and the rest are looking at their market pretty much disappearing over the next 2 years. Microsoft is going to be selling their own anti-virus, and most people will go with that as a default, even if there are much better products out there.
It's the same situation with firefox and openoffice - both much better products than Internet Exploder and Word, but people stick with what they've got because they're lazy and/or stupid and/or timid and/or its "good enough".
So just who are the antivirus vendors going to sell to in the future? Its not like you need any special tools to clean up a unix box with a bad script - last I looked, vi and/or rm came with every system. As for bad binaries, well, unlike certain OTHER systems, we have the source... we're not dependent on vendors for patching binaries, nor on antivirus vendors for "cleaning" infected binaries.
So, again, the antivirus vendors are looking at a diminishing market base over the next few years. Time for them to start hiring some black hats and creating as many worms as they can.
Hey, look through your logs - you'll also see slapper in there, and code red, and all sorts of other stuff - but if it doesn't affect you, why give a shit?
The number of affected machines is going to be VERY low. Fixes for one of the flaws have been out since February. My distro updates itself every couple of days. I'm not worried.
Now:
If you haven't updated your machine in years
If you have those particular scripts installed
If you allow files in/tmp to be run by processes from user "nobody"
... that's a LOT of ifs...
In other words, nothing to see here but more antivirus vendor fud.
Linux has a smaller Market Share than Mac OS X, yet it's still getting targetted by virus writers?
is a derivative of the Linux/Slapper worm which also exists for BSD, just to be crossplatform
... just so you don't need to feel left out.
But really, this article is just more anti-virus vendor FUD. Seems they're trolling non-windows users on a weekly basis (Maybe they enjoy Troll Tuesday?) because they know that their time is almost up:
People switching to a mac won't need their productx
People running linux won't need their products
The 800-lb - oops - 1600 lb gorilla in the Window marketspace - Microsoft - is coming out with their own antivirus
If you were in their situation, what would you do?
From the Security Focus article: Affected systems will need to be wiped and have the OS reinstalled, in most cases.
Apche usually runs as user nobody with very limited privileges. I doubt you'd need to wipe and reinstall the OS. That's why lupper runs in/tmp.
While you're right in principle, wouldn't it be an indication that maybe its time to upgrade the box? Its not like there haven't been fixes for these problems for months and months (one of them since February).
Now, unlike Windows, its usually quicker to install a fresh copy than it is to do an upgrade (you *do* have backups of your data, right?).
I wouldn't call the gp poster a troll. I'd say its more like the antivirus company trolling us. The only reason the risk is rated "low" is because their rating scale doesn't go below that.
More alarmist shit (and old news at tht - The Reg reported this last week).
Some php scripts that have as much to do with linux as a vulnerability in, say, photoshop, has to do with xp.
The anti-virus writers are publicity whores looking to sensationalize their product, because in a few years nobody will be using them (Windows users will be stuck with the "free" verison from Microsoft, and BSD/OSX/Linux users don't need an anti-virus.
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Just goes to show ... the Board of Education will end up doing more damage to the US than any terrorist group could ever have hoped for. "Get 'm while they're young ..."
... and it's spreading ... (any errors in translation from the french are my responsibility)
Is there no end to this, [tt]abernac?!?Lets try again ...
A lot of errors are based on faulty assumptions.
For example, people assume that something can only take 2 valid values, so they set a variable based on that.
However, a boolean that is not initialized should reflect that it is neither true nor false, but in an indeterminate state (and no, the default initialization should not count - you're then depending on default behaviour that may very well mask a mistake in your logic).
In other words, while it may hold either TRUE or FALSE, it may not accurately reflect what you think it does.
Its dangerous to keep looking at it ... I lost one eyeball, half the time, already.
But there's one dude who's so into it that half the time he's not even there ... mind you, he was never all there to begin with. He says he used to be president of some place in a past life.
Must be a french or scottish thing, "rollin' yer rrrrs"?
... except on "talk like a pirate day ..."
You mean that, half the time, when you look in your boxers, there's nothing there ... and you like it better that way? Okay, whatever turns your crank ... (oops, its not there half the time - how about "whatever floats your boat" instead :-)
Funny thing is I've always thought that boolean values SHOULD have a 3rd state:
and that they should always be initialized to WTFThat would solve a LOT of programming errors that assume that anything that isn't FALSE is TRUE: if (a !=FALSE) { do_stuff();A cpu using trinary or quad logic would allow us to write code that's less bug-prone.
Ever notice how "fuck" and "shit" have entered the vocab as anglicisms in a LOT of languages. Different spelling, but pronounced like the english word, but with a local accent?
Its funny because the word for "seal" in french is "phoque", pronounced - yes - "fock". But when a fenchman is swearing, you'll also hear stuff like "hostie fock tabernac calise shit".
So that brings us back to SCO, who are going to say that their demand for the 2.7 kernel was mis-heard, they meant "2.7 colonel" - the person, papers, etc., in charge of directing FUTURE development directions at IBM.
That's okay, they'll send FEMA to ... uh, no, they'll get the Department of Homeland Security to ... uh - WATCH THE AIRPORTS and STOP PEOPLE AT RANDOM N THE SUBWAY ...
... no, wait, that won't work ... they'll RAISE THE THREAT LEVEL ... mmmm - no can't do that, the computers are down ...
I know - they'll hire MafiaBoy and DVD Johanson! ... uh, okay, I know! They'll pass the RIAA/MPAA anti-bittorrent bill! That'll keep those nasty dirty semlly linux freaks from distributing their OS.
Seriously, just what is it that the DHS does that will actually have a hope in hell of preventing the next attack that couldn't have been handled better AND cheaper with more humint on the ground? Oh, right, that would have meant no wars, no fat contracts to CheneyBurton, etc.
I cut-n-pasted the spelling from the original poster. My bad :-(
Guess I should have listened to all the trolls who said that Linux doesn't support cut-n-paste! - or use mod-speling (and yes, its "mis-speled on porpoise" - I know, lousy pun :-)
Dude! Duke Nukem forever is so old-school. We stopped running that on the last generation of optical processors. Its "Duke Nukem: The Heisenberg Incident" thats all the rage on our quantum boxes.
The only problem is, half the time when I try to play it, I get "file not found". Damn Schrodinger!
Kind of off-topic, but your signature is also a bit embarassing:
Last I looked, Referrer is spelled with 4 "r"s, not one OR 2.
R - e - f - e - R - R - e - R
(capitalized/capitalised* so you can't miss them)
*spelling varies depending on continent :-)
Better yet, a box of toilet paper.
No, not the nice soft stuff. The nasty cheap English stuff, that'll scrape open their bleeding haemorhoids, because its obvious these guys have been sitting on their brains for too long ...
And while you're at it, sprinkle some fibreglass insulation fibres in the box, to give them "the itch you can't scratch in public." Hopefully, they'll think they caught anal gonorhea (you gotta catch *something* after trying to fuck over millions of people).
Everyone knows that linus is going "corporate", and playing the version game.
Next linux versions according to the roadmap:
Lets hope that biff, darl, and kevin don't read slashdot, or the jig is up!
... and if your box stops working, you've probably been pwned. If your updated anti-virus software doesn't detect a virus, you're pwned! Better reformat, just to be sure...
er, where exactly do you think these "attempts" are coming from? It's been classified as a worm for a reason.
it was mis-classified as a "linux" worm, even though it has zero to do with linux. It's a bug in several php 3rd-party scripts, it was fixed months ago, and today is Troll Tuesday, and the editors are messing with your heads.
sure, if I want I could set a box up to partake in the fun (get an older distro, make sure it has the right files, and put it on the net ... and wait pretty much forever for it to get wormed. It's not that prevailent, it's not that capable of propagating itself (there aren't that many vulnerable hosts out there), yadda yadda yadda ...
Remember, symantec and Mcafee and the rest are looking at their market pretty much disappearing over the next 2 years. Microsoft is going to be selling their own anti-virus, and most people will go with that as a default, even if there are much better products out there.
It's the same situation with firefox and openoffice - both much better products than Internet Exploder and Word, but people stick with what they've got because they're lazy and/or stupid and/or timid and/or its "good enough".
So just who are the antivirus vendors going to sell to in the future? Its not like you need any special tools to clean up a unix box with a bad script - last I looked, vi and/or rm came with every system. As for bad binaries, well, unlike certain OTHER systems, we have the source ... we're not dependent on vendors for patching binaries, nor on antivirus vendors for "cleaning" infected binaries.
So, again, the antivirus vendors are looking at a diminishing market base over the next few years. Time for them to start hiring some black hats and creating as many worms as they can.
How did we get stung? Not being dependent on Micro$hit to deliver fixes to buggy 3rd-party scripts, this was "fixed" back in February. *Yawn.*
The article got it wrong. It was a cruise ship, filled with old farts. That was no LRAD, it was fucking '70s DISCO!
I'll tell you what, anyone wants some practice exploiting the hole, here's the IP address of a vulnerable machine to practice on: http://127.0.0.1/
Knock yourselves out :-)
The key word is "attempts".
Hey, look through your logs - you'll also see slapper in there, and code red, and all sorts of other stuff - but if it doesn't affect you, why give a shit?
The number of affected machines is going to be VERY low. Fixes for one of the flaws have been out since February. My distro updates itself every couple of days. I'm not worried.
Now:
In other words, nothing to see here but more antivirus vendor fud.
Linux has a smaller Market Share than Mac OS X, yet it's still getting targetted by virus writers?
... just so you don't need to feel left out.But really, this article is just more anti-virus vendor FUD. Seems they're trolling non-windows users on a weekly basis (Maybe they enjoy Troll Tuesday?) because they know that their time is almost up:
- People switching to a mac won't need their productx
- People running linux won't need their products
- The 800-lb - oops - 1600 lb gorilla in the Window marketspace - Microsoft - is coming out with their own antivirus
If you were in their situation, what would you do?While you're right in principle, wouldn't it be an indication that maybe its time to upgrade the box? Its not like there haven't been fixes for these problems for months and months (one of them since February).
Now, unlike Windows, its usually quicker to install a fresh copy than it is to do an upgrade (you *do* have backups of your data, right?).
I wouldn't call the gp poster a troll. I'd say its more like the antivirus company trolling us. The only reason the risk is rated "low" is because their rating scale doesn't go below that.
More alarmist shit (and old news at tht - The Reg reported this last week).
Some php scripts that have as much to do with linux as a vulnerability in, say, photoshop, has to do with xp.
The anti-virus writers are publicity whores looking to sensationalize their product, because in a few years nobody will be using them (Windows users will be stuck with the "free" verison from Microsoft, and BSD/OSX/Linux users don't need an anti-virus.