I'm going to leave your NASA kicking and go for the paragraph that turns you from ontopic, but misinformed into an out & out troll.
If you're afraid for the climate or the environment, donate your money voluntarily to commercial or not-for-profit businesses to create research wings. Asking me to pick up the tab for your toys, against my will, is really not acceptible anymore to me....
Climate & environmental research is not a toy. Perhaps its not appropriate for it to be in NASA, but without research of this sort, US agriculture (and by extension, the US economy and presumably you) would suffer.
Then I must ask why then is Apple selling the hell out of iPods when the average joe doesn't know the difference and could easily buy a generic mp3 player at Wal-Mart?
To your average iPod buyer, no amount of accessories will make another player as attractive as the iPod.
Nope. Choose either:
To your average apple fanboy no amount of accessories will make another player as attractive as the iPod
or
To your average mp3 buyer, no amount of explanation will make them understand the difference between another player and an iPod
You see - to your average joe, an mp3 player is an ipod - they no more understand the difference between an ipod and *generic mp3player* then they do the difference between kleenex and tissues.
The average public is not as discerning as you think it is.
Yes, there are local privilege escalation vulnerabilities; likely some that are "unpublished". But this machine was not hacked from the outside just by being on the Internet. It was hacked from within, by someone who was allowed to have a local account on the box. That is a huge distinction.
Whilst I agree that this is not the same as a remote exploit, do not underestimate the seriousness of local privilege escalation.
For instance, an unpatched local privilege escalation, used in conjuction with the vulnerability discussed in this article could result in a rooted machine - simply from visiting a hostile website (or even a website you visit regularly, that runs IIS and has been hacked itself)
I don't believe (as some pundits seem to) that Mac OS is a Microsoft style security disaster only awaiting the attention of hackers to happen - but I do believe that Mac owners are going to have to start paying a little more attention to security matters then they currently are.
While the protocol was originally designed for telephony signaling...
In other words, it started out in the hands of AT&T, Bell Labs, Northern Telecom, Alcatel, et. al.
Utterly incorrect.
If you had only taken ten seconds to check wikipedia's sctp page you would have found it was developed by the Internet Engineering Taskforce's SIGNTRAN working group.
The IETF is an open, all-volunteer standards organization and couldn't be further in spirit from the monopolies you mention.
Give credit where it is due indeed.
(oh and this protocol was defined in 2000 - far later then the telephone signalling I suspect you're thinking of)
Unfortuniatly, we're competing with Asia, which doesn't value things such as human rights. As long as we're at an inherant disadvantage because our standard of living is higher, we don't have a chance. Assuming all thing are equal, though, you're right.
Of course, there might be something I'm missing. Feel free to point it out.
1) Asia is not a country. It has different human rights values depending on where you are.
2) You equate standard of living and human rights - quite incorrectly. (Singapore for instance has a higher standard of living then the US, with less attention to human rights)
How about upgrading the windows version without leaving the old version number in the add/remove programs? I have to update 40 or 50 machines at a time and it's a pain uninstalling before installing.
This blog suggests that the issue your complaining about was fixed around a year ago.
I'm probably just very very dense, but... out of the description, how is that a security hole?
Basically - you don't want someone to be able to send you javascript that will execute when you read a message. It can allow the attacker far to much leeway (within the confines of your browser)
Here's an (old) example that affected Microsoft's hotmail service that gives you an idea of why you don't want want javascript sent to you to execute.
Less seriously - it makes it trivial for spammer to verify that someone is opening their spam.
Someone with as much "real world experience" as you should know it doesn't work that way, sport. Call a couple of your local AERs and ask for quotes on the Desktop Package - the one with the core CAL, Winders upgrade license, and Office Pro CAL.
OK - if you think there's no set pricing for Academic software, I don't see how you can set any sort of upper limit.
Please. Licensing costs for 14 copies of XP Pro Academic Upgrade would run just under a grand.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
You forgot to add:
1) Fees for lawyer to determine that an upgrade license is not legimate: 2) Licenses for XP Pro Academic edition (full, not OEM or upgrade) 3) Licenses for anti-spyware. 4) Licenses for anti-virus. 5) Hardware upgrades to make the machines capable of running XP.
People like you are either shills or have no real world experience running windows.
For 14 machines running XP, you are going to be lucky to get away with anything less then $10,000 USD.
Miso is a paste made from soy beans, and its most common use is as a base for soup. However, it can be used for pretty much everything, here's a guy who uses it mixed with sweetcorn as a spread (presumably for sandwiches).
Get your asian foods straight before you keep making yourself look like an ass.
The programming/programmer isn't what made the iPod an iPod. When I turn on one of my 3 iPods, I don't say "man, that coder sure r00leZ!".
Something to do with style, quality, user interface,...
What? You don't think user interface has anything to do with programming?
From TFA
Samsung executives said they had engaged Mr. Mercer and Iventor to design a user interface for the Z5 because they were hoping to offer an ease of use that matched that of the iPod,
I'd also say that style & quality in a mp3 player are also heavily influenced by programming.
How is that different from Sony, which produces content and has an online store?
Because pixar sells content we actually like?
Seriously - Apple has dominace in one market (online content sales) and probably wants to be careful being percieved as attemping to use that to extend into other markets.
Its just standard (large) business practice (tm) - sony are probably careful about it too...
Ubuntu Linux comes with these applications; uninstalling them removes the 'ubuntu-desktop' meta-package. Subsiquently, upgrading to the next release of Ubuntu without having 'ubuntu-desktop' installed breaks Ubuntu.
You've answered your own complaint right there in your first paragraph.
Removing python does not break ubuntu (you can still happily run apache, php, your c/c++ dev environment, etc etc. It simply breaks packages dependant on python.
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I'm going to leave your NASA kicking and go for the paragraph that turns you from ontopic, but misinformed into an out & out troll.
If you're afraid for the climate or the environment, donate your money voluntarily to commercial or not-for-profit businesses to create research wings. Asking me to pick up the tab for your toys, against my will, is really not acceptible anymore to me....
Climate & environmental research is not a toy. Perhaps its not appropriate for it to be in NASA, but without research of this sort, US agriculture (and by extension, the US economy and presumably you) would suffer.
How does this compare with Linux Network Block Device? Sounds very similar
It doesn't compare at all.
From my (quick) scan of the article - think of NBD as a replacement for NFS (well, sorta) & this as a sort of network RAID (kinda, not realtime).
They're not really alike - for linux drbd is probably closer.
Then I must ask why then is Apple selling the hell out of iPods when the average joe doesn't know the difference and could easily buy a generic mp3 player at Wal-Mart?
1) Because walmart sells ipods.
2) Average joe walks into CE shop & asks for an 'ipod' meaning 'generic mp3 player' - what do you think he's going to get?
3) Advertising. To average joe, a brand you've heard of is better then any other brand.
To your average iPod buyer, no amount of accessories will make another player as attractive as the iPod.
Nope. Choose either:
To your average apple fanboy no amount of accessories will make another player as attractive as the iPod
or
To your average mp3 buyer, no amount of explanation will make them understand the difference between another player and an iPod
You see - to your average joe, an mp3 player is an ipod - they no more understand the difference between an ipod and *generic mp3player* then they do the difference between kleenex and tissues.
The average public is not as discerning as you think it is.
Yes, there are local privilege escalation vulnerabilities; likely some that are "unpublished". But this machine was not hacked from the outside just by being on the Internet. It was hacked from within, by someone who was allowed to have a local account on the box. That is a huge distinction.
Whilst I agree that this is not the same as a remote exploit, do not underestimate the seriousness of local privilege escalation.
For instance, an unpatched local privilege escalation, used in conjuction with the vulnerability discussed in this article could result in a rooted machine - simply from visiting a hostile website (or even a website you visit regularly, that runs IIS and has been hacked itself)
I don't believe (as some pundits seem to) that Mac OS is a Microsoft style security disaster only awaiting the attention of hackers to happen - but I do believe that Mac owners are going to have to start paying a little more attention to security matters then they currently are.
Utterly incorrect.
If you had only taken ten seconds to check wikipedia's sctp page you would have found it was developed by the Internet Engineering Taskforce's SIGNTRAN working group.
The IETF is an open, all-volunteer standards organization and couldn't be further in spirit from the monopolies you mention.
Give credit where it is due indeed.
(oh and this protocol was defined in 2000 - far later then the telephone signalling I suspect you're thinking of)
Unfortuniatly, we're competing with Asia, which doesn't value things such as human rights. As long as we're at an inherant disadvantage because our standard of living is higher, we don't have a chance. Assuming all thing are equal, though, you're right.
Of course, there might be something I'm missing. Feel free to point it out.
1) Asia is not a country. It has different human rights values depending on where you are.
2) You equate standard of living and human rights - quite incorrectly. (Singapore for instance has a higher standard of living then the US, with less attention to human rights)
Seriously however - story summary is "Big business says others need big business." Not really surprising is it.
Lastly, he doesn't even get cause & effect right:Should read:Larry - stick to what you're good at - Amusing Bill Gates quotes
How about upgrading the windows version without leaving the old version number in the add/remove programs? I have to update 40 or 50 machines at a time and it's a pain uninstalling before installing.
This blog suggests that the issue your complaining about was fixed around a year ago.
Or perhaps I misunderstood your problem?
I'm probably just very very dense, but ... out of the description, how is that a security hole?
Basically - you don't want someone to be able to send you javascript that will execute when you read a message. It can allow the attacker far to much leeway (within the confines of your browser)
Here's an (old) example that affected Microsoft's hotmail service that gives you an idea of why you don't want want javascript sent to you to execute.
Less seriously - it makes it trivial for spammer to verify that someone is opening their spam.
Indeed,
Depending on what use you have for your laptop, the G4, Macbook or Dell all have slight advantages over each other.
Frankly, I'm quite surprised that it appears that the Dell was the best choice for the consumer who wants to encode quicktime.
sing Bittorrent to download copyrighted content is
"stated that using Bittorrent to download copyrighted material is theft" isn't it?
I have never seen a better reason to use punctuation.
In answer to what I think is your question. No - copying something (even against the copyright owner's wishes) is neither morally nor legally theft.
Its not legally the same - you won't get charged with the same crime as a thief.
Not morally the same - you don't deprive the person you are 'stealing' from with the item you are 'stealing'.
Not the right thing to do - but not theft.
Someone with as much "real world experience" as you should know it doesn't work that way, sport. Call a couple of your local AERs and ask for quotes on the Desktop Package - the one with the core CAL, Winders upgrade license, and Office Pro CAL.
OK - if you think there's no set pricing for Academic software, I don't see how you can set any sort of upper limit.
http://www.apsitdiensten.nl/ There you go. It's in Dutch, too bad,
Dutch...gezelig
I see no pricing on the site you linked to.
You can get 200 academic licenses for XP Pro and Office Pro for under ten grand.
Please provide a link.
(Make sure you include the anti-virus subscription costs - running windows is not as cheap as buying the licenses alone)
I think you replied to the wrong comment.
I didn't mention linux, I was simply stating that $1000 for 14 windows machines is (hopelessly) unrealistic.
Please. Licensing costs for 14 copies of XP Pro Academic Upgrade would run just under a grand.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
You forgot to add:
1) Fees for lawyer to determine that an upgrade license is not legimate:
2) Licenses for XP Pro Academic edition (full, not OEM or upgrade)
3) Licenses for anti-spyware.
4) Licenses for anti-virus.
5) Hardware upgrades to make the machines capable of running XP.
People like you are either shills or have no real world experience running windows.
For 14 machines running XP, you are going to be lucky to get away with anything less then $10,000 USD.
Guess we need some more stakes. And garlic. Lots of garlic.
:-)
Ha! Made me laugh out loud...
Then I thought about it, realized you were posting on a blog and laughed some more
I'm sure boingboing used to be good,....
/, on /., it's someone complaining about some other blog on slashdot.
If there's one thing sadder then someone complaining about
I guess it could have been worse - you could have been talking about the wonders of digg...
Miso is used to make sauces, not sandwiches.
Miso is a paste made from soy beans, and its most common use is as a base for soup. However, it can be used for pretty much everything, here's a guy who uses it mixed with sweetcorn as a spread (presumably for sandwiches).
Get your asian foods straight before you keep making yourself look like an ass.
Hmmmmmn, no comment.
Something to do with style, quality, user interface,
What? You don't think user interface has anything to do with programming?
From TFAI'd also say that style & quality in a mp3 player are also heavily influenced by programming.
Let be honest, it's mainly not what's in the iPod that makes it sell, it's how it looks.
Lets be really honest, it not what's in the ipod or how it looks - it was the first mp3 player to be heavily marketed.
God - if looks was all it took, then Sony's new mp3 player would be dominating (it is gorgeous, buggy, slow & overpriced with sod-all storage)
How is that different from Sony, which produces content and has an online store?
Because pixar sells content we actually like?
Seriously - Apple has dominace in one market (online content sales) and probably wants to be careful being percieved as attemping to use that to extend into other markets.
Its just standard (large) business practice (tm) - sony are probably careful about it too...
Project Orimami?
:-)
With a name like that...
The project is destined to fold...
So close to a haiku
Ubuntu Linux comes with these applications; uninstalling them removes the 'ubuntu-desktop' meta-package. Subsiquently, upgrading to the next release of Ubuntu without having 'ubuntu-desktop' installed breaks Ubuntu.
You've answered your own complaint right there in your first paragraph.
Removing python does not break ubuntu (you can still happily run apache, php, your c/c++ dev environment, etc etc. It simply breaks packages dependant on python.