Someone else probably said so already but I'll take the risk of being redundant. The truth of the matter is that the vulnerabilities of systems is based almost entirely on maintenance. Code Red is a great example of this because long before the breakouts there were fixes in place to close the hole that Code Red needed to propagate. Code Red was so big because lazy or ignorant sysadmins failed to properly maintain their systems. *nix users are much more anal about having all the latest patches installed so I bet a majority of the *nix boxes out there tend to get exploits closed in a timely manner. This means that the holes are closed before someone has time to write a worm for that hole. Heh, ?worm holes?. I know its possible to run a relatively secure windows box if you keep up with maintenance. I know because I keep some windows boxes running without suffering attacks, but the key to my sucess has been keeping up with updates. Again the point here is maintenance. I think as Linux moves into the hands of more casual users, it too will have many machines all over the place that are not properly maintained, and when that time comes it too will have its fair share of attacks.
The station I listen to 93.5 WARQ in Columbia SC, is owned by clear channel and they just played "bodies" like five minutes ago, but they have also been taking donations for requests as a Red Cross fundraiser so if somone donated $10 to bodies the DJ's here would probably say "Hey $10 for playing 'Bodies'. Woulda played it for free."
I am a firm believer in the right to bear encryption.
The right to bear arms is there to protect us from the goverenment from becoming a tyranny. Tyrant in charge? Shoot em! Big brother in charge? Encrypt!
Oh, It most certainly would. If MPAA's ISP's DMCA Enforcment Dept. Suddenly fealt the wrath of the slashdot effect (I.E. thousands of/.ers submitting complaints that their rights had been violated.)
On a side note, Most MP3's are created from compact discs without any kind of copy protection on them, so if they don't have copy protection, can they violate the DMCA? (It would still be piracy, but not a DMCA violation is my take on the question.) This probably applies to movies made from VHS (which also has no digital copy protection.)
It seems to me that the DMCA is being used against any old piracy and not 'copy protection circumvention'. Hey I like this argument. They would probably charge that I had violated the DMCA, when infact I had not. I had only violated piracy laws. The MPAA in all their DMCA hysteria would probably forget to make a seperate non-DMCA charge against me!
How many weekend coders have access to an AS400?
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You know there may be a reason that linux doesn't run well on big iron. Because for the most part Joe Random Hacker doesn't have one. Perhaps it would to IBM a whole lot of good to set up a couple of these in some metropolitan areas so that Joe Random Hacker could come in try out his latest kernel build on one. The could probably declare it a public service and get a tax write off. I'm sure their accountants could figure out how to do this.
Re:Sorry, my fault they went under
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I seem to have a curse. Two of my last three employers are no longer (and the third is in critical condition).
Have you applied for a job at microsoft yet? From the people I know that work with them it doesn't seem to be that hard.
Do us all a favor and visit http://www.microsoft.com/jobs/
I'm not surprised. All he really did here was provide just enough funding so that regulations the feds will be able to impose 'guidlines'. All they have to do is add a stiputlation that anyone that recieves funding must not create any new cell lines, ect, ect, ect.
Its a joke really. Those that oppose the research feal like he did a good thing by putting a block in front of uncontrolled research. Those that support the research feel it is a victory because it was anything other than a total ban on the research.
I have a feeling that cloning is going to fall into a similar result. Since people are going to do it, you might as well make it legal, but impose strict guidelines to make sure it doesn't get out of hand. God forbid some cloning accident in montana results in 497 million billion Lintilla's
That URL is damaged it should be
http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/instruct/mcclean/plsc431/cellcycle/cellcycl1.htm without the space after 431
Because of companies like Qwest's Business model
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Ok, here is the real secret. Qwest didn't start out as a communications company. Rather they kinda squeezed their way into it. Origionally they contracted out cable running jobs to telecoms like AT&T. AT&T would pay them to run 30 strands of fiber from say baltimore to DC. Well the expensive part is digging the hole. Now pay attention cause here is the trick. Since the ground was already open Qwest said, "Lets throw some extra fiber in there for us." The result is that instead of the 30 strands the AT&T paid for there were now like 200 strands. This leaves some rediculous amount of fiber belonging to qwest less than 10cm from everyone elses.
Now for the really sad part. Most of this fiber isn't even lit. Thats right 1000's of strands of fiber all over the US are dark right now. Why? My guess is because Qwest doesn't want to upset supply and demand.
This really seems to fall again into the Last-Mile issue. It always bothered me that Even though I pay the phone/cable company to install a line into my home, on my land, and that I pay them to maintain the line, I don't own it. Shit on me huh?
I can't figure out why communites don't form Co-Ops for their phone/cable like some communites do with their electric grid. Makes sense to me. Thats what is so great about Co-Ops. The customers are the owners so the profit motive pretty much goes away and is replaced.It becomes a matter of providing acceptable service for the lowest possible cost.
The other good thing here is that co-ops almost never get bought. Sure I'd sell my cheap phone/cable/broadband service to a company out to screw me.
You might argue that this exludes other "free" licenses, but IMHO the GPL is the only way this could have been done.
Personally, I figure they are cutting their losses on Kylix. Their trouble is making sure that the license a developer chooses is compatible with the CLX license. They probably don't want to spend a whole lot of time (and money) trying to figure out which licenses are OK. Short and sweet, they likely just said "GPL Only. End of story" to avoid spening any more than they had to on something which they probably lost money on.
Oh well, at least they gained karma (you know what I mean.)
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Someone else probably said so already but I'll take the risk of being redundant. The truth of the matter is that the vulnerabilities of systems is based almost entirely on maintenance. Code Red is a great example of this because long before the breakouts there were fixes in place to close the hole that Code Red needed to propagate. Code Red was so big because lazy or ignorant sysadmins failed to properly maintain their systems. *nix users are much more anal about having all the latest patches installed so I bet a majority of the *nix boxes out there tend to get exploits closed in a timely manner. This means that the holes are closed before someone has time to write a worm for that hole. Heh, ?worm holes?. I know its possible to run a relatively secure windows box if you keep up with maintenance. I know because I keep some windows boxes running without suffering attacks, but the key to my sucess has been keeping up with updates. Again the point here is maintenance. I think as Linux moves into the hands of more casual users, it too will have many machines all over the place that are not properly maintained, and when that time comes it too will have its fair share of attacks.
The station I listen to 93.5 WARQ in Columbia SC, is owned by clear channel and they just played "bodies" like five minutes ago, but they have also been taking donations for requests as a Red Cross fundraiser so if somone donated $10 to bodies the DJ's here would probably say "Hey $10 for playing 'Bodies'. Woulda played it for free."
Ok, I am replying to myself, but ....
"Encryption doesn't kill people, Terrorist kill people."
I am a firm believer in the right to bear encryption.
The right to bear arms is there to protect us from the goverenment from becoming a tyranny. Tyrant in charge? Shoot em! Big brother in charge? Encrypt!
What makes you think congressmen know how to read?
Oh, It most certainly would. If MPAA's ISP's DMCA Enforcment Dept. Suddenly fealt the wrath of the slashdot effect (I.E. thousands of /.ers submitting complaints that their rights had been violated.)
On a side note, Most MP3's are created from compact discs without any kind of copy protection on them, so if they don't have copy protection, can they violate the DMCA? (It would still be piracy, but not a DMCA violation is my take on the question.) This probably applies to movies made from VHS (which also has no digital copy protection.)
It seems to me that the DMCA is being used against any old piracy and not 'copy protection circumvention'. Hey I like this argument. They would probably charge that I had violated the DMCA, when infact I had not. I had only violated piracy laws. The MPAA in all their DMCA hysteria would probably forget to make a seperate non-DMCA charge against me!
You know there may be a reason that linux doesn't run well on big iron. Because for the most part Joe Random Hacker doesn't have one. Perhaps it would to IBM a whole lot of good to set up a couple of these in some metropolitan areas so that Joe Random Hacker could come in try out his latest kernel build on one. The could probably declare it a public service and get a tax write off. I'm sure their accountants could figure out how to do this.
I seem to have a curse. Two of my last three employers are no longer (and the third is in critical condition).
Have you applied for a job at microsoft yet? From the people I know that work with them it doesn't seem to be that hard.
Do us all a favor and visit http://www.microsoft.com/jobs/
I'm not surprised. All he really did here was provide just enough funding so that regulations the feds will be able to impose 'guidlines'. All they have to do is add a stiputlation that anyone that recieves funding must not create any new cell lines, ect, ect, ect.
Its a joke really. Those that oppose the research feal like he did a good thing by putting a block in front of uncontrolled research. Those that support the research feel it is a victory because it was anything other than a total ban on the research.
I have a feeling that cloning is going to fall into a similar result. Since people are going to do it, you might as well make it legal, but impose strict guidelines to make sure it doesn't get out of hand. God forbid some cloning accident in montana results in 497 million billion Lintilla's
That URL is damaged it should be1 /cellcycle/cellcycl1.htm
http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/instruct/mcclean/plsc43
without the space after 431
Ok, here is the real secret. Qwest didn't start out as a communications company. Rather they kinda squeezed their way into it. Origionally they contracted out cable running jobs to telecoms like AT&T. AT&T would pay them to run 30 strands of fiber from say baltimore to DC. Well the expensive part is digging the hole. Now pay attention cause here is the trick. Since the ground was already open Qwest said, "Lets throw some extra fiber in there for us." The result is that instead of the 30 strands the AT&T paid for there were now like 200 strands. This leaves some rediculous amount of fiber belonging to qwest less than 10cm from everyone elses.
Now for the really sad part. Most of this fiber isn't even lit. Thats right 1000's of strands of fiber all over the US are dark right now. Why? My guess is because Qwest doesn't want to upset supply and demand.
This really seems to fall again into the Last-Mile issue. It always bothered me that Even though I pay the phone/cable company to install a line into my home, on my land, and that I pay them to maintain the line, I don't own it. Shit on me huh? I can't figure out why communites don't form Co-Ops for their phone/cable like some communites do with their electric grid. Makes sense to me. Thats what is so great about Co-Ops. The customers are the owners so the profit motive pretty much goes away and is replaced.It becomes a matter of providing acceptable service for the lowest possible cost. The other good thing here is that co-ops almost never get bought. Sure I'd sell my cheap phone/cable/broadband service to a company out to screw me.
You might argue that this exludes other "free" licenses, but IMHO the GPL is the only way this could have been done.
Personally, I figure they are cutting their losses on Kylix. Their trouble is making sure that the license a developer chooses is compatible with the CLX license. They probably don't want to spend a whole lot of time (and money) trying to figure out which licenses are OK. Short and sweet, they likely just said "GPL Only. End of story" to avoid spening any more than they had to on something which they probably lost money on.
Oh well, at least they gained karma (you know what I mean.)