If I were a resident of the fine state of MA I would be very concerned about any or all of my personal tax info leaking. Linux on the desktop is bound to improve their security posture.
Well, it's not like they really teach English in school anymore. Sure, there are English classes, but that's almost entirely just literature, not language (literature is important too, of course). If a student doesn't grasp a concept, teachers don't have time to help them learn. Often, teachers in non-English classes won't even grade you down if you make spelling and grammar errors. Of course, if our school systems could afford to hire better teachers, that might help...
2) I thought the whole point of the Mac was consistancy. If there are (at least) 2 different ways of installing software, how is that consistant.
I only think of it as being one way. If the app has to be installed, it comes as an installer icon, which you double-click on and click Next a few times. Otherwise, you don't "install" it, you just put it where you want it to go (usually the Applications folder).
Wow, that is crap. The poor quality of the MP3 doesn't help either.
Just the other night I was listening to BOFH episodes while lying in bed, and although the pronunciation isn't always accurate, I've gotten used to what kinds of mistakes it makes, and can almost always understand it. It's far less monotonous than this, in any case.
If somebody decides they want to ping flood me, and I unplug my Internet connection, they're still using bandwidth, even though I'm unplugged. If my ISP billed me for receiving traffic, they'd bill me for this.
Worms indiscriminately spew traffic out onto the 'Net. Who pays to receive that traffic?
Why would someone committing computer-related illegal activities store anything on their ISP's servers? That's just begging for the systems administrator to find it themselves, and report you for something (assuming it violates their ethics code).
Every system administrator I've known who has done anything to crack down on users hosting illegal content has first checked to see if the user has any good MP3s or movies they don't have yet, and saved them before taking action against the user.
Do you really have no idea how much of a nightmare it would be to try to implement a whitelist of everyone who wants to send legitimate mail to an aol.com address? How big a holding queue do you suppose you'd need? Do you know how much legitimate mail is sent by automated systems? I can't imagine the tech support calls this would generate.
Besides, if you tried to implement a whitelist for all of AOL, the spammers would get around it pretty quickly - just sign up for a free trial, send yourself spam, add the spam to the whitelist, and away you go. It would have to be per-user to be meaningful, and if they implemented it, it would just mean most AOL users would start using Hotmail or Yahoo instead, as I'm sure many do already.
It is not the end of the world, because MacOS X people do not seem to have a problem distinguishing file management from web browsing.
Um, is this because Mac OS X doesn't have a combination web browser/file manager that users could find confusing? Why do both Gnome and KDE think they should imitate Microsoft on this retarded idea?
Now that we are on the topic of older lack distros, was it just me, or weren;t you able to order Slack way back in the day right from Patrick's site, and it came in a two CD set with Tux on the front? (I think it was 3.4)
I'm saying some corporate sponsorship may cause certain parties to press for a more liberal definition of exactly what constitutes "proof of innocence" in this case.
And which parties are you saying may press whom? Senators pressing judges? Yeah, judges love it when the legislature tells them how to do their jobs.
The main costs of spam are probably: 1) the increased bandwidth required to accept all that spam into AOL's network in addition to all the other Internet traffic coming in
2) the increased capacity of their mail servers to store and process all that spam in addition to the legitimate mail they have to process
3) the cost of employing an entire department of people whose job is to try to reduce the amount of spam going around
4) support costs from customers who complain about receiving spam that should have been blocked or about not receiving legitimate mail that was blocked by mistake
5) badwill (opposite of goodwill) due to the association of their company with spam (everybody knows - or thinks they know - AOL users receive more spam than users of many other ISPs)
Thanks for doing your part. I worked with the abuse department at DirecTV Broadband before they went out of business, and I know when our abuse department fell behind on shutting down spammers, AOL notified us that they were about to block some of our customers' IP blocks. This happened multiple times, and we were able to use the threat to convince management to give us some additional manpower to handle the work.
None of us will probably use AOL's service, but their abuse department certainly earned our respect.
== "sponsor" a few more senators to help smooth things out... Funny how incredibly rich corporations are treated slightly differently to normal people, huh?
Are you suggesting Congress is going to pass retroactive legislation that will make Rambus' actions legal?
I had root access on a particular web server. Somebody decided that I should no longer have root, so the root password was changed. However, my account was not deleted.
What nobody realized, and I hadn't thought of until then, was that there was a particular script in my home directory that was run as root by a cron job every night - something to do with updating the web site, I don't remember what it was. I copied/etc/passwd, replaced the root password with the old root password (no shadow file; it was an old system), and added a line to the script that would replace/etc/passwd with my copy. It worked, and I had root again. Naturally this caused some confusion, but it was fun.
While I was building a secure internal web site at my last job, I set it up so if you were in the admin group, it would let you run a script (I named it su.pl) that would take any username you specified and log you in as them. When I showed this to the other developers, there was some hesitation about whether this was a good idea or could get us into any trouble, but it soon became apparent that this was absolutely essential to development - how can we write and debug a tool that only a manager has access to, if we're not managers and therefore don't have access to it? It was a hell of a lot more secure than creating a traditional backdoor, since I had to log in as myself first and I didn't know anyone else's password.
A neat trick I heard suggested once: if you're concerned about getting fired and you want to get revenge if you do, put something like a log rotation script in your home directory. If your account gets deleted, chances are your home directory will be rm -r'd as well, and the script will no longer work. Without log rotation, the logs fill the disk and the server bites the dust - and it wasn't your fault at all.;-)
They aren't very good at soda out there, most likely because they call it "pop," and they call frappes "milkshakes" and who knows what they call milkshakes.
I'm pretty sure we don't have whatever the hell weird crap you Easterners call milkshakes.:-P
um, they're not limited to New York, nimrod. I've started seeing ClearChannel's name on billboards here in the Portland area as well, and they own five radio stations (KEX, Z100, K103, The River, and KTLK) according to their web site. They don't own any television stations in Portland yet, although they do own the NBC affiliate in Eugene. (Here in Portland the FOX and UPN affiliates merged as soon as it became legal for them to do so, but they're owned by some other national media conglomerate.)
This is repeated every single time Apple behaves like a corporation (since that's what it is) instead of a lovable gang of fashionable geeks.
Yes, but I haven't seen anybody bitching about how Apple should port Mac OS X to the IA-32 platform, which is always repeated in every OTHER article about Apple.;-)
And BTW, why didn't the SNORT hole make it to the/. front page?
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If I were a resident of the fine state of MA I would be very concerned about any or all of my personal tax info leaking. Linux on the desktop is bound to improve their security posture.
Uhhh, you don't think Wisconsin uses Windows?
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Well, it's not like they really teach English in school anymore. Sure, there are English classes, but that's almost entirely just literature, not language (literature is important too, of course). If a student doesn't grasp a concept, teachers don't have time to help them learn. Often, teachers in non-English classes won't even grade you down if you make spelling and grammar errors. Of course, if our school systems could afford to hire better teachers, that might help...
How many did I miss?
This cranky old software validation manager smells either cluelessness (MSFT) or cheating (Intuit) or some combination of the above.
I vote A.
You're looking for the Internet Content Rating Association, perhaps?
2) I thought the whole point of the Mac was consistancy. If there are (at least) 2 different ways of installing software, how is that consistant.
I only think of it as being one way. If the app has to be installed, it comes as an installer icon, which you double-click on and click Next a few times. Otherwise, you don't "install" it, you just put it where you want it to go (usually the Applications folder).
Uhh.
You get DoubleClick popup banners in Usenet?
You know in Mozilla you can disable images and JavaScript in mail & newsgroups?
Wow, that is crap. The poor quality of the MP3 doesn't help either.
Just the other night I was listening to BOFH episodes while lying in bed, and although the pronunciation isn't always accurate, I've gotten used to what kinds of mistakes it makes, and can almost always understand it. It's far less monotonous than this, in any case.
If somebody decides they want to ping flood me, and I unplug my Internet connection, they're still using bandwidth, even though I'm unplugged. If my ISP billed me for receiving traffic, they'd bill me for this.
Worms indiscriminately spew traffic out onto the 'Net. Who pays to receive that traffic?
Why would someone committing computer-related illegal activities store anything on their ISP's servers? That's just begging for the systems administrator to find it themselves, and report you for something (assuming it violates their ethics code).
Every system administrator I've known who has done anything to crack down on users hosting illegal content has first checked to see if the user has any good MP3s or movies they don't have yet, and saved them before taking action against the user.
Do you really have no idea how much of a nightmare it would be to try to implement a whitelist of everyone who wants to send legitimate mail to an aol.com address? How big a holding queue do you suppose you'd need? Do you know how much legitimate mail is sent by automated systems? I can't imagine the tech support calls this would generate.
Besides, if you tried to implement a whitelist for all of AOL, the spammers would get around it pretty quickly - just sign up for a free trial, send yourself spam, add the spam to the whitelist, and away you go. It would have to be per-user to be meaningful, and if they implemented it, it would just mean most AOL users would start using Hotmail or Yahoo instead, as I'm sure many do already.
It is not the end of the world, because MacOS X people do not seem to have a problem distinguishing file management from web browsing.
Um, is this because Mac OS X doesn't have a combination web browser/file manager that users could find confusing? Why do both Gnome and KDE think they should imitate Microsoft on this retarded idea?
Now that we are on the topic of older lack distros, was it just me, or weren;t you able to order Slack way back in the day right from Patrick's site, and it came in a two CD set with Tux on the front? (I think it was 3.4)
It's now a four CD set.
I'm saying some corporate sponsorship may cause certain parties to press for a more liberal definition of exactly what constitutes "proof of innocence" in this case.
And which parties are you saying may press whom? Senators pressing judges? Yeah, judges love it when the legislature tells them how to do their jobs.
Counting multiple e-mail addresses skews the statistics bit. How many spams do you receive per day per e-mail address?
What the hell are you talking about?
The main costs of spam are probably:
1) the increased bandwidth required to accept all that spam into AOL's network in addition to all the other Internet traffic coming in
2) the increased capacity of their mail servers to store and process all that spam in addition to the legitimate mail they have to process
3) the cost of employing an entire department of people whose job is to try to reduce the amount of spam going around
4) support costs from customers who complain about receiving spam that should have been blocked or about not receiving legitimate mail that was blocked by mistake
5) badwill (opposite of goodwill) due to the association of their company with spam (everybody knows - or thinks they know - AOL users receive more spam than users of many other ISPs)
Did I miss anything?
Thanks for doing your part. I worked with the abuse department at DirecTV Broadband before they went out of business, and I know when our abuse department fell behind on shutting down spammers, AOL notified us that they were about to block some of our customers' IP blocks. This happened multiple times, and we were able to use the threat to convince management to give us some additional manpower to handle the work.
None of us will probably use AOL's service, but their abuse department certainly earned our respect.
== "sponsor" a few more senators to help smooth things out... Funny how incredibly rich corporations are treated slightly differently to normal people, huh?
Are you suggesting Congress is going to pass retroactive legislation that will make Rambus' actions legal?
I had root access on a particular web server. Somebody decided that I should no longer have root, so the root password was changed. However, my account was not deleted.
/etc/passwd, replaced the root password with the old root password (no shadow file; it was an old system), and added a line to the script that would replace /etc/passwd with my copy. It worked, and I had root again. Naturally this caused some confusion, but it was fun.
;-)
What nobody realized, and I hadn't thought of until then, was that there was a particular script in my home directory that was run as root by a cron job every night - something to do with updating the web site, I don't remember what it was. I copied
While I was building a secure internal web site at my last job, I set it up so if you were in the admin group, it would let you run a script (I named it su.pl) that would take any username you specified and log you in as them. When I showed this to the other developers, there was some hesitation about whether this was a good idea or could get us into any trouble, but it soon became apparent that this was absolutely essential to development - how can we write and debug a tool that only a manager has access to, if we're not managers and therefore don't have access to it? It was a hell of a lot more secure than creating a traditional backdoor, since I had to log in as myself first and I didn't know anyone else's password.
A neat trick I heard suggested once: if you're concerned about getting fired and you want to get revenge if you do, put something like a log rotation script in your home directory. If your account gets deleted, chances are your home directory will be rm -r'd as well, and the script will no longer work. Without log rotation, the logs fill the disk and the server bites the dust - and it wasn't your fault at all.
Think root^2
No, just root. Think root/2 when you see an Administrator account.
They aren't very good at soda out there, most likely because they call it "pop," and they call frappes "milkshakes" and who knows what they call milkshakes.
:-P
I'm pretty sure we don't have whatever the hell weird crap you Easterners call milkshakes.
um, they're not limited to New York, nimrod. I've started seeing ClearChannel's name on billboards here in the Portland area as well, and they own five radio stations (KEX, Z100, K103, The River, and KTLK) according to their web site. They don't own any television stations in Portland yet, although they do own the NBC affiliate in Eugene. (Here in Portland the FOX and UPN affiliates merged as soon as it became legal for them to do so, but they're owned by some other national media conglomerate.)
Jobs doesn't just say "You're fired." He throws things at people. Like old Newton MessagePads.
This is repeated every single time Apple behaves like a corporation (since that's what it is) instead of a lovable gang of fashionable geeks.
;-)
/. front page?
Yes, but I haven't seen anybody bitching about how Apple should port Mac OS X to the IA-32 platform, which is always repeated in every OTHER article about Apple.
And BTW, why didn't the SNORT hole make it to the
What's SNORT?