It is silly. I can't believe you people modded the caveman post up to +5.
What is to come is entirely unprecedented in all of human history. To discount the peril that faces us by lamely asserting that we've been through it all before is simply false. We haven't. Not even close.
Now imagine all the opportunities overseas programmers will have to vent that hate. To truly screw over American business.
This really isn't as bad as everybody is making it out to be. It's just another classic example of how American CEO's have lost the ability to think long-term. Companies that do this are going to get burned, badly. And when they come running back to good ole American programming know-how, just remember these golden rules:
1) Everything needs to be rewritten.
2) Every estimate gets padded out to ten times what you think it will really take.
3) Our salary now has to be based on the anticipation that these idiots are going to make the same mistake all over again. Ergo, charge three times what you would normally.
4) There are no cubicles for programmers. Only corner-offices.
And finally...
5) Every one of these corner-offices comes equipped with a foot rest.
(When the CEO complains that he doesn't have time to be a foot rest is the perfect opportunity to inform him about your twelve weeks of vacation every year and three-hour lunch breaks.)
Basically, with Atkins all you get to eat is meat and vegetables.
A wok makes making a meal out of meat and vegetables fast, easy and fun. Twenty minutes, including clean up, and you get a cheap and nutritious meal.
Best of all, you don't need a cookbook! Half the fun is just picking shit at random out of the grocery and throwing it in the wok and then experimenting with how to spice it up so it tastes the best.
They ratchet up security procedures, requiring everybody to show ID when flying, but when they decide that the aircraft went down not because of terrorism but because of a design flaw, do they roll back the tightened security?
It's a good analogy but it doesn't apply to individual machines.
Think of your computer as a cell, and the network as the biological system.
The network can continue running when infected, but not the cell. When the cell is infected, it dies (or worse.)
Ergo, I think intrusion tolerance is a meritless approach.
I think an interesting option for powerfull machines would be to 'fall on the sword' if complete failure was immenent.
This idea I like. Call this intrusion intolerance. Require the system to meet a comprehensive suite of invariant conditions, or cease operating. A much more practical and effective solution.
The RIAA is driving the development of superior P2P technology.
It would be funny if it wasn't so sad. They keep doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
First Napster, now Kazaa & Co., and so forth and so on, until they encounter Freenet or SneakerNet or some similarly impervious means of securely trading files.
What this really is is the encryption debate all over again. And as was the case with encryption, these people simply need to get over it. Encryption is here to stay! Any fool can create a one-time-pad using nothing more than the toss of a coin or the roll of the dice, OK?
Just deal with it, because we don't have time for this bullshit. There are too many real problems we *can* do something about to be wasting time worrying about those that are forgone conclusions.
Sweden are rabid drug warriors, for instance. They are almost alone in Europe in advocating zero tolerance with vicious prison terms for those caught possessing/using/etc.
Imagine my shock!
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Just wait until Apple has market share. You think this is bad? This is nothing.
First will come smart gun technology that only lets the owner fire the weapon.
After that will be smart gun technology that lets law enforcement remotely disable the gun regardless of who is firing it.
Only then will we see smart gun technology that causes the weapon to discharge on the person wielding it.
Whatever. This is what everybody gets for letting the war on drugs fester in our society for so long. These monsters don't think twice about using violence.
At some point we're going to have to stand up to them.
(Preferably before they have the technology to remotely disable our guns.)
Defending Windows 2000?
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Now with smart brick technology, we can write a whole new ending to that slimy tale, and turn it into a TV series.
Why not? No matter which grimy hole in the wall our hero gets stuffed in, there will be a smart brick complete with ssh (or maybe a dumb brick equipped with AOL Instant Messenger) and so the chode gets rescued, every single time!
Or, use the tale as an advertising gimmick. Show the "Can you hear me now?" guy getting bricked in the vault, but with a Sprint smart brick.
They will mandate that all new buildings be constructed using these bricks; that the bricks be addressable by law enforcement and have built-in surveillance capabilities.
And then they will charge us, the dweller, for the cost.
Definitely not just another brick in the wall.
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And this time, let's do more than just hearing the lizard-people belch after a meal of human. I want to see somebody get eaten. I want to know what kind of wine goes best with human. Do the lizard-people have anything like the Atkins Diet? How many carbs are in a human anyways?
but if a bug is sourced in the public domain it should be disclosed there as well
I see nothing in the draft that forbids this.
Indeed, this is going to propel OSS onto the desktops of the masses.
Once the vendors get to control what information gets disseminated about their bugs the cost-effective way of dealing with these bugs will not be to fix them, but rather to just sweep them under the rug.
Yeah, some minor security holes might be patched, but something major, like the MIME/filetype exploit in Windows, or gaining administrator privilege though using window events -- the suckers that are tough to fix -- count on this class of vulnerability to stay hidden.
All OSS has to do is be cool. Do honest work, if you find a bug, report it to everybody and get the fix out quick. I'd rather anyone hacking my system to have a tiny window of opportunity than be able to exploit at will.
Or to put it another way, OIS mandates that more black hats are looking at the holes than white hats.
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It is silly. I can't believe you people modded the caveman post up to +5.
What is to come is entirely unprecedented in all of human history. To discount the peril that faces us by lamely asserting that we've been through it all before is simply false. We haven't. Not even close.
Remember that everybody in the world hates us.
Now imagine all the opportunities overseas programmers will have to vent that hate. To truly screw over American business.
This really isn't as bad as everybody is making it out to be. It's just another classic example of how American CEO's have lost the ability to think long-term. Companies that do this are going to get burned, badly. And when they come running back to good ole American programming know-how, just remember these golden rules:
1) Everything needs to be rewritten.
2) Every estimate gets padded out to ten times what you think it will really take.
3) Our salary now has to be based on the anticipation that these idiots are going to make the same mistake all over again. Ergo, charge three times what you would normally.
4) There are no cubicles for programmers. Only corner-offices.
And finally...
5) Every one of these corner-offices comes equipped with a foot rest.
(When the CEO complains that he doesn't have time to be a foot rest is the perfect opportunity to inform him about your twelve weeks of vacation every year and three-hour lunch breaks.)
A wok is the Atkin's dieter's best friend.
Basically, with Atkins all you get to eat is meat and vegetables.
A wok makes making a meal out of meat and vegetables fast, easy and fun. Twenty minutes, including clean up, and you get a cheap and nutritious meal.
Best of all, you don't need a cookbook! Half the fun is just picking shit at random out of the grocery and throwing it in the wok and then experimenting with how to spice it up so it tastes the best.
They ratchet up security procedures, requiring everybody to show ID when flying, but when they decide that the aircraft went down not because of terrorism but because of a design flaw, do they roll back the tightened security?
Not on your life.
Face it lads, we're property. Nothing more.
If they're that strapped for cash they should be looking at open source.
If they kill it, or more likely, make it so I can't run non-MS OS's, I will be severely bummed.
OTOH, if they kill it, I will be tempted to pay the big bucks and go with VMWare and host it using Linux.
And then deal with the fact that I don't get to play as many games. Sigh.
Think of your computer as a cell, and the network as the biological system.
The network can continue running when infected, but not the cell. When the cell is infected, it dies (or worse.)
Ergo, I think intrusion tolerance is a meritless approach.
This idea I like. Call this intrusion intolerance. Require the system to meet a comprehensive suite of invariant conditions, or cease operating. A much more practical and effective solution.
The RIAA is driving the development of superior P2P technology.
It would be funny if it wasn't so sad. They keep doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
First Napster, now Kazaa & Co., and so forth and so on, until they encounter Freenet or SneakerNet or some similarly impervious means of securely trading files.
What this really is is the encryption debate all over again. And as was the case with encryption, these people simply need to get over it. Encryption is here to stay! Any fool can create a one-time-pad using nothing more than the toss of a coin or the roll of the dice, OK?
Just deal with it, because we don't have time for this bullshit. There are too many real problems we *can* do something about to be wasting time worrying about those that are forgone conclusions.
Copyright is dead.
...and benchmark different too!
This is important! The people must know!
(want to piss her off? mod this post insightful!)
To refer to this sort of behavior as self-proctology is a common mistake.
This was really about Gemstar having their head up their ass.
Eulogies and post mortems should strive to be accurate.
Sweden are rabid drug warriors, for instance. They are almost alone in Europe in advocating zero tolerance with vicious prison terms for those caught possessing/using/etc.
Just wait until Apple has market share. You think this is bad? This is nothing.
First will come smart gun technology that only lets the owner fire the weapon.
After that will be smart gun technology that lets law enforcement remotely disable the gun regardless of who is firing it.
Only then will we see smart gun technology that causes the weapon to discharge on the person wielding it.
Whatever. This is what everybody gets for letting the war on drugs fester in our society for so long. These monsters don't think twice about using violence.
At some point we're going to have to stand up to them.
(Preferably before they have the technology to remotely disable our guns.)
He means, Uninstalling Windows 2000, doesn't he?
Or IRS for International Radio Service?
Or PMS for Portable Media System?
Or any of a thousand other shit-poor choices for acronyms?
Now with smart brick technology, we can write a whole new ending to that slimy tale, and turn it into a TV series.
Why not? No matter which grimy hole in the wall our hero gets stuffed in, there will be a smart brick complete with ssh (or maybe a dumb brick equipped with AOL Instant Messenger) and so the chode gets rescued, every single time!
Or, use the tale as an advertising gimmick. Show the "Can you hear me now?" guy getting bricked in the vault, but with a Sprint smart brick.
Or maybe not.
They will mandate that all new buildings be constructed using these bricks; that the bricks be addressable by law enforcement and have built-in surveillance capabilities.
And then they will charge us, the dweller, for the cost.
Definitely not just another brick in the wall.
That's The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer.
And this time, let's do more than just hearing the lizard-people belch after a meal of human. I want to see somebody get eaten. I want to know what kind of wine goes best with human. Do the lizard-people have anything like the Atkins Diet? How many carbs are in a human anyways?
Indeed, this is going to propel OSS onto the desktops of the masses.
Once the vendors get to control what information gets disseminated about their bugs the cost-effective way of dealing with these bugs will not be to fix them, but rather to just sweep them under the rug.
Yeah, some minor security holes might be patched, but something major, like the MIME/filetype exploit in Windows, or gaining administrator privilege though using window events -- the suckers that are tough to fix -- count on this class of vulnerability to stay hidden.
All OSS has to do is be cool. Do honest work, if you find a bug, report it to everybody and get the fix out quick. I'd rather anyone hacking my system to have a tiny window of opportunity than be able to exploit at will.
Or to put it another way, OIS mandates that more black hats are looking at the holes than white hats.
OSS means exactly the opposite.
Thinking of story I saw on other site.
How about the I-am-an-idiot mod. I don't know, have the player hold the weapon backwards or something.
Puts everybody in the tournament to sleep.
Then, I strike.
OK, so instead of 2% of material surviving the early 1900's, we're looking at losing at best 2% of the material being created during the digital age.
The point survives, I think.
Or does anyone here believe the sound, pictures and video won't be slathered with DRM bloat?