LinuxOne is a scam, there's no need to mention them AT ALL, they're as worthy as consideration as any MLM SPAM. Those who possibly get hosed in their 'IPO' deserve what will happen to their money!!!
in my email and it took me roughly 10 minutes to figure what it was... or rather to figure that it was NOT yet another makee-$-fast scheme,.... oh wait what's the NASDAQ again... nevermind.
I know where they got my address (CPAN). It looks much like spam, honestly. I don't really understand why they felt the need to 'push' it onto us, instead of having us grab it from the site. On top of that, I'm apparently not eligible for it, being in France.
No seriously, it's obvious that the poster you're responding to is aware of the impossibility of finding an original manuscript from Plato... it was just a funny example...
In France, the penalty for snooping on someone's email, be he your boss, your ISP, your neighbour or a policeman (w/o a warrant, of course) is... jail time. If I remember properly, up to three years -- since according to the jurisprudence, which was established years ago thanks to the Minitel, it's considered to be the same as robbing one's snail mailbox.
They have to do their security home work anyway, so there's no reason to blame the cost of securing their network to the h4x0r.
I know good sysadmins are expensive, but $40k is quite high a price to restore from back up.
ALL the cases of computer crimes have over inflated damages. Like, when Sun claimed Mitnick had costed them $100k by stealing the Solaris source code, whereas they're now giving it away to students, and had anyway source licenses for much less at the time.
Back when folks actually sent each other letters in the post, a very different sort of communication occurred. This is particularly evident in those letters that went overseas, or which were composed before we had our mail delivered by high-speed aircraft. In these circumstances, a great deal more care was put into careful drafting and composition. The greater the latency in delivery, the more context would be provided, the more care taken.
Those were the good ole' days of litterate programming. Now people just throw a few lines of perl, w/o comments.
French/spanish designer Paco Rabanne is way into paranormal surnatural bullshit. Earlier this year he wrote a book (and sold it, and probably made a significant amount of money out of it) predicting (based on Nostradamus' writings) the fall of russian space station Mir over Paris, a major panick in the country, etc.. etc... for sometime in august this year. Weeeellllll, as you may know, it never happened. Some skeptics had organised a party under his parisian appartment, on the day and time of the predicted disaster, they called it 'the survivors' party' and they drunk on champagne there.
But do we want to ban them? Do we want to cross the line that Hitler crossed?
PLEASE!!!! Don't make that stupid comparison. DO NOT. There are plenty of BAD, HUMAN RIGHT-violating government out there which effectively ban legitimate religions AS WELL AS AND MORE PARTICULARLY atheists from expressing their views, and that IS admittedly BAD, HOWEVER it is generally NOTHING in comparison to what happened under the 3rd reich.
Now, The Cult of $cientology is NOT a legitimate religion, it does NOT do any good to anybody, it is an evil organization, a criminal organization that NEEDS be shut down.
I sincerely hope they'll be banned, just as the mafia is banned, the NSDAP is banned, the KKK is banned, and the fundamentalist muslims are banned. There is no room for misuderstanding what the Co$ is doing with religion. It has NOTHING to do with religion and EVERYTHING to do with robbery and crime.
Given their, ahem, lack of popularity here, the next time they try something such as what they did to xenu.net here in France (or anywhere else in the EU), they'll get KICK-BANNED big time.
Their headquarter is located close to where I live. It's a pretty scary sight. Every time I cross one of those idiots in the street, I fake punching them to scare them. I'm not a violent person (I can't remember punching anyone EVER), and curiously, I have so little respect for the SUCKERS who adhere and propagate this cult, that I would feel extremely proud of kicking one of them's bollocks. 'nuff said.
Don't they have server logs? Can't they tell thru which client someone is connecting? Can't they just aggregate this data and generate figures through this? Are they dumb?
Not releasing the source won't make a difference. People who want to send fake results badly will be able to do it, all it takes is to reverse engineer the communication protocols. TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS: GET A FSCKIN' CLUE!!!
The only proven way to provide any kind of security to the project, is provide some kind of check as to the accuracy of the data sent. That involves checking every client's data once in a while, obviously the more often the better, of course, that will take some raw processing power off.
A way to do it: get every client to register, assign a certified key back to the client, with which it signs its responses, and send 1/10th (for example) of the results back to some OTHER client, check that the results match, if not, investigate and shoot them down, possibly try some legal action if possible. Also add some checks WRT IP addresses, so as to check that the same key does not originate from too many different IPs, etc...
That can't be perfect, but it's almost impossible to defeat, at least compared to the current scheme. (Unless I missed something).
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It is not a problem since it's not from the government, right? And since this is a free market, you have a right to choose your harasser, eh. IOW: THERE ARE RIGHTS MORE IMPORTANT TO HUMANITY THAN THE PROPERTY OF BIG CORPORATIONS. Freedom, in particular.
when i saw the linux chroot("../../../../../../../..") hole i about fell out of my chair. truly no place is safe any more.
This "bug" pops up every other month on linux-kernel, and has been for several years. This is not a bug. This is the way chroot is supposed to work. If you make a chroot and run process as root inside, you deserve to what happens to you.
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I know where they got my address (CPAN). It looks much like spam, honestly. I don't really understand why they felt the need to 'push' it onto us, instead of having us grab it from the site. On top of that, I'm apparently not eligible for it, being in France.
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No seriously, it's obvious that the poster you're responding to is aware of the impossibility of finding an original manuscript from Plato ... it was just a funny example ...
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Me thinks it's appropriate ...
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This was long settled out of court. Now go back posting on-topic.
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Back when folks actually sent each other letters in the post, a very different sort of communication occurred. This is particularly evident in those letters that went overseas, or which were composed before we had our mail delivered by high-speed aircraft. In these circumstances, a great deal more care was put into careful drafting and composition. The greater the latency in delivery, the more context would be provided, the more care taken.
Those were the good ole' days of litterate programming. Now people just throw a few lines of perl, w/o comments.
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Amusing ...
I don't understand, that just does not compute.
Hope this helps ...
picket abortion clinics, or the muslim losers who threaten Salmann Rushdie, and then we'll talk; I'm not going to kill anyone, as opposed to *them*.
is ordinateur, which originally means 'he who organizes everything', IOW god.
that catholics are fucking stupid idiots, and I pee on them on a regular basis.
I fuck Jesus UP THE ASS. And christian stuck up moderators as well.
OK, the interesting thing here is that not a SINGLE ONE of these posts has had a kind thing to say about the Church.
Well Adolf Hitler might have got a bad influence from his friends, but he made lots of nice highways.
Personally I pee in the ass of all the Ayatollahs.
But do we want to ban them? Do we want to cross the line that Hitler crossed?
PLEASE!!!! Don't make that stupid comparison. DO NOT. There are plenty of BAD, HUMAN RIGHT-violating government out there which effectively ban legitimate religions AS WELL AS AND MORE PARTICULARLY atheists from expressing their views, and that IS admittedly BAD, HOWEVER it is generally NOTHING in comparison to what happened under the 3rd reich.
Now, The Cult of $cientology is NOT a legitimate religion, it does NOT do any good to anybody, it is an evil organization, a criminal organization that NEEDS be shut down.
Given their, ahem, lack of popularity here, the next time they try something such as what they did to xenu.net here in France (or anywhere else in the EU), they'll get KICK-BANNED big time.
Their headquarter is located close to where I live. It's a pretty scary sight. Every time I cross one of those idiots in the street, I fake punching them to scare them. I'm not a violent person (I can't remember punching anyone EVER), and curiously, I have so little respect for the SUCKERS who adhere and propagate this cult, that I would feel extremely proud of kicking one of them's bollocks. 'nuff said.
Is that an uncontrolled variable?
Don't they have server logs? Can't they tell thru which client someone is connecting? Can't they just aggregate this data and generate figures through this? Are they dumb?
'nuff said.
The only proven way to provide any kind of security to the project, is provide some kind of check as to the accuracy of the data sent. That involves checking every client's data once in a while, obviously the more often the better, of course, that will take some raw processing power off.
A way to do it: get every client to register, assign a certified key back to the client, with which it signs its responses, and send 1/10th (for example) of the results back to some OTHER client, check that the results match, if not, investigate and shoot them down, possibly try some legal action if possible. Also add some checks WRT IP addresses, so as to check that the same key does not originate from too many different IPs, etc ...
That can't be perfect, but it's almost impossible to defeat, at least compared to the current scheme. (Unless I missed something).
It is not a problem since it's not from the government, right?
And since this is a free market, you have a right to choose your harasser, eh.
IOW: THERE ARE RIGHTS MORE IMPORTANT TO HUMANITY THAN THE PROPERTY OF BIG CORPORATIONS. Freedom, in particular.
when i saw the linux chroot("../../../../../../../..") hole i about fell out of my chair. truly no place is safe any more.
This "bug" pops up every other month on linux-kernel, and has been for several years. This is not a bug. This is the way chroot is supposed to work. If you make a chroot and run process as root inside, you deserve to what happens to you.
I don't really understand why he wrote the above.