Any way you look at it, it is totally irresponsible to make software whose default installation has an easy administrator access exploit.
Oracle default system password: manager. I have dealt with customers who still have that set for production systems. And what exactly is Larry Ellison trying to do with a national id database?
So how many windows managers _are_ there now? 134? Not to put down freedom of choice, but do we really need YAWM (yet another window manager) ? Oh, _this_ one is lean and unbloated (don't they all start out this way?).
i have esp, so i knew that this article was going to be posted three days ago.
What _really_ happened: you've been reading/. for so long, that you saw the article, and just knew it was destined for/. because it's just so much baloney. And it generates more comments than most stories.
Yes I've heard similar explanations for NDEs, but that doesn't speak to cases where people have recalled conversations that took place in other rooms of a hospital while they were being operated on. Unfortunately, it all seems anecdotal for now until people can first accept the possibility and then research it. I've read enough to at least be open to the possibility.
One problem seems to be that if it doesn't fit the status quo as defined by the science establishment, then it's all "anecdotal" and "unsubstantiated" and "from a bunch of crackpots". The establishment always has a stake in the status quo, and scientists, being human, are susceptible to the same temptations we all are.
Of course, eyewitness accounts are very useful; in a court of law, which is not science, testimony is what counts. You don't run experiments to test the testimony (but you can probe for lies, etc.). The whole point of this is that what is "scientific" does not circumscribe all of reality.
Vote for candidates running on anti-corporate platforms (hint: that's not Harry Browne).
I'd be more comfortable with changing the laws on corporations (so they're not like "people") than with empowering anti-corporate statists. Boy, was _that_ bad news last century...let's not try it again.
I live in Torquay, and used to work in Plymouth, and in that 20 mile drive I used to see about fifty of these things. Mainly the lose weight ones though. 'Size 12 in two weeks', etc.
Now, if we all could just lose those 30 pounds, we'd kill their market...
Why is it that some people always try to get karma just for posting clickable links?
Maybe it's because they always _get_ karma points for posting clickable links. I think someone should hack/. and give everybody 50 karma points, so there'd be no more karma whoring...
The use of the the word "must" indicates a moral imperative. If you don't replace your proprietary software - you won't be free, you will be enslaved. You are free to choose to be enslaved but you still have a moral responsibility to choose freedom.
Since liberty is a foundational right, it's not something that you can properly choose to give up. Whoever "receives" your liberty (that is, you have enslaved yourself to them) is in violation of human rights, regardless of your sincerity or earnestness.
That this _can_ and _does_ happen does not mean it is legitimate.
Thanks to your obsessiveness about netcraft & pretty much useless arguments which web server you use to serve static web pages, we are actually able to make many CIO/CTO's register & have a look at what we have to offer in replacing big-irons hosting databases & directory servers(not web servers serving static web pages, in case you still havn't got it)
I know your post is just a joke, but the reality is that we're hammering the web site, and Microsoft & Unisys will think, "Wow! Look at the hits!" and all that's happening is they're getting/.ed by a bunch of people at work not working.
Things I enjoy about paper:
+ It doesn't crash
+ It rarely loses data
+ 100% availability with proper care
I have a friend who printed out his Outlook Contact book and has the stack of paper stuffed in his freezer in the garage, just in case there's some disaster (I guess it doesn't change much). I told him to copy the file to a zip disk and put the disk in his desk at work, a bit easier I think.
I probably won't be prioritizing government traffic on any of my routers.
Yeah, those gov't packets are mostly overhead. The "gov" layer header is 512 Bytes alone. It's too much bloat.
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Ship twirls around and fires. Misses. Fires again. Hits a large asteroid. Fires again and hits a flying saucer. Keeps firing. Hits a small asteroid. Fires four times in rapid succession. Oh-oh, tiny fast-moving rock: hyperspace. Re-enters close to the screen. Oh oh oh, dangerous, moves closer to the middle. Tiny spaceship comes out. Ship fires and hits it. 1000 points. Fires. Misses. Fires again. Another tiny spaceship fires back and hits him.
Funny, I switched from RedHat to FreeBSD due to a seemingly endless line of RPM dependancy issues, config files that seem to defy all logic, and a directory structure that feels like your totally lost in a video game maze.
I switched to OpenBSD because I needed a codebase that had been audited for security, and a proven track record of security. And I got tired of RPM-hell, too.
When the entertainment industry churns out some new content, we consume, breathlessly. And we complain about the price. How many of us would be willing to skip out on Star Wars Episode II to make a point? Zero? And we'll buy the CD-RWs etc., complaining all the way home about the price we just willingly paid for a product.
The first time I bought a copy of windows (95, and don't worry, I'm cured) I read through the licence. Why does it have to tell me specifically that nuclear fail-safes should not be run under windows, nor should any live-saving medical devices?
Because someone in the Government would think it's a great idea to manage a nuclear power plant with Windows 95, except that Microsoft said not to.
We need some laws that force work into the public domain if it wont be exploited for the private domain.
I like the word "force". I get all mushy-eyed thinking of Our State using more force.
Of course, under threat of force, companies will just stop developing stuff. Or should we force them to?
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Oppresssion is being shot because you supported the wrong political candidate, like in the U.S.S.R. under Stalin.
My friend, there were no wrong political canditates in Stalin's day. Because they were all dead.
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Oracle default system password: manager. I have dealt with customers who still have that set for production systems. And what exactly is Larry Ellison trying to do with a national id database?
So how many windows managers _are_ there now? 134? Not to put down freedom of choice, but do we really need YAWM (yet another window manager) ? Oh, _this_ one is lean and unbloated (don't they all start out this way?).
And then some goofball goes and mentions the Cambrian Explosion...
What _really_ happened: you've been reading /. for so long, that you saw the article, and just knew it was destined for /. because it's just so much baloney. And it generates more comments than most stories.
This has been under intense study in California universities since at least the '60s.
One problem seems to be that if it doesn't fit the status quo as defined by the science establishment, then it's all "anecdotal" and "unsubstantiated" and "from a bunch of crackpots". The establishment always has a stake in the status quo, and scientists, being human, are susceptible to the same temptations we all are.
Of course, eyewitness accounts are very useful; in a court of law, which is not science, testimony is what counts. You don't run experiments to test the testimony (but you can probe for lies, etc.). The whole point of this is that what is "scientific" does not circumscribe all of reality.
Two words: Dependency Hell.
It's an ironic play on DMCA--sue ahead of time, because it's inevitable.
Mostly because 1 or 2 do all the work, and the rest just coattail it.
I'd be more comfortable with changing the laws on corporations (so they're not like "people") than with empowering anti-corporate statists. Boy, was _that_ bad news last century...let's not try it again.
Now, if we all could just lose those 30 pounds, we'd kill their market...
Maybe it's because they always _get_ karma points for posting clickable links. I think someone should hack /. and give everybody 50 karma points, so there'd be no more karma whoring...
Since liberty is a foundational right, it's not something that you can properly choose to give up. Whoever "receives" your liberty (that is, you have enslaved yourself to them) is in violation of human rights, regardless of your sincerity or earnestness. That this _can_ and _does_ happen does not mean it is legitimate.
I know your post is just a joke, but the reality is that we're hammering the web site, and Microsoft & Unisys will think, "Wow! Look at the hits!" and all that's happening is they're getting /.ed by a bunch of people at work not working.
Hey, I was just figuring it out from all the excellent comments here on /. Are you telling me I may be led astray here?
I have a friend who printed out his Outlook Contact book and has the stack of paper stuffed in his freezer in the garage, just in case there's some disaster (I guess it doesn't change much). I told him to copy the file to a zip disk and put the disk in his desk at work, a bit easier I think.
Not since 1865.
Yeah, those gov't packets are mostly overhead. The "gov" layer header is 512 Bytes alone. It's too much bloat.
Stop...I'm starting to hyperventilate.
I switched to OpenBSD because I needed a codebase that had been audited for security, and a proven track record of security. And I got tired of RPM-hell, too.
When the entertainment industry churns out some new content, we consume, breathlessly. And we complain about the price. How many of us would be willing to skip out on Star Wars Episode II to make a point? Zero? And we'll buy the CD-RWs etc., complaining all the way home about the price we just willingly paid for a product.
Because the 20th Century was history's best century for tyrants and liberty-crushers of every kind.
Because someone in the Government would think it's a great idea to manage a nuclear power plant with Windows 95, except that Microsoft said not to.
I like the word "force". I get all mushy-eyed thinking of Our State using more force. Of course, under threat of force, companies will just stop developing stuff. Or should we force them to?
My friend, there were no wrong political canditates in Stalin's day. Because they were all dead.