And with these kinds of application, the OS which it uses is of no concern anyways: these tools usually come with their own bootdisk, and there is absolutely no problem to duplicate a Windows partition using a Unix based tool!
Microsoft has 40 billion or so in the bank, but a buyout would involve buying *stock*, which is worth a lot less than that (though still worth a lot).
Actually, as of yesterday afternoon, Microsoft's market capitalization (number of outstanding shares times price of one share) was 282.44B, which is a tad more than the 40B in the bank.
Moreover, if there was a takeover bid, the price would certainly rise, makeing the deal even more expensive.
Google doesn't have to buy Microsoft in the physical property sense of paying the entire value of the item.
Actually, the book value (physical property: buildings, equipment, cash reserver, IP,...) would probably be less than market capitalization. If this were not the case, an enterprising businessman would already have bought MSFT and sold the parts... Such incidents where common during the 1970's oil crisis years in Europe.
So google would still need to pony up with 107B of cash (half MS market cap minus cash), which is still way out of their reach.
Even though in many cases 30% is considered to be a controlling interest (because the other shareholders are usually divided), it's not a sure thing and any bank will be wary to lend you the 50B if they are not 100% sure that you will be able to get them back.
They're upfront about censorship? BS. There are news blackouts on almost everything for the common person. Remember that 600K person march in Hong Kong a few months ago? Average Chinese had no idea it took place. They think their government tells them all the news that's fit to print. They believe the lies about Tibet, the lies about religion, the lies about Taiwan, because no one tells them different.
And how exactly is this different to the United States?
Average Merkins still think that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, and that Korea has none!
Average Merkins still think that Microsoft (tm) Windows (tm) is a state of the art operating system.
Average Merkins still think that their intelligence agency truely didn't see 911 coming.
Average Merkins still thing GWB has been elected democratically.
They did institute a new rule that the Simpsons, or any other non-news show on Fox, could not use an onscreen information scroll lest the audience become confused and think it was actual news.
Yes, or else, this event might happen again (but, admittedly such risk would be greater for Futurama than it would for the Simpsons...)
And what about your grandfather himself? Did he believe the show was real as well, or did he notice that it was just fiction? Did he try to inform his customers that it was just radio-play? What was the reaction of the customers after being told?
Don't tell me that nobody ever drove after smoking a joint, and that among those, nobody ever got into a deadly accident because of this!
A small (but non-zero) number of death (less than 100) might have been credible, but a nice round 0 is straining the reader's credulity a leetle bit too much!
One thing to do, then, would be to change the behavior of the traffic lights so that on receiving this signal, they go to four-way red. Since emergency vehicles can run red lights, it doesn't stop them, while simultaneously deterring civilians from using them.
The device is useful if the ambulance if stuck behind a line of other cars waiting for the light to turn green. So turning the lights red in its own direction would be kinda counterproductive.
Sure, cars are supposed to move to the side and make an additional "lane" to let the ambulance pass, but this takes time, especially if the situation is really congested...
So if you break your jig, or it gets stolen, you can phone up and ask for a replacement.
As stated in their FAQ they do indeed send you a new template if you break "yours":
I damaged my TemplateMasterTM while cutting a working template. Is there anything I can do?
Yes. Fill out the Honor Statement in the back of your User's Manual (or print it out from the User's Manual on the CD-ROM) and mail it to us. We will replace our damaged master for 1/2 the cost of your original purchase as long as you have registered your product with us.
Nope, the $cientology stuff (Fishman affidavit) was indeed deleted. However, soon afterwards it was reposted to random unrelated stories by lazarus. Many of those lazarus reposts have been deleted as well, as soon as they were spotted by the editors, but some went unnoticed.
However, to Slashdot's credit, this has been the only time that Slashdot has caved it. They once got some pretty stern cease & desist letters from Micro$oft about some dodgy republishing about some NDA'ed MS-Kerberos documents, and they resisted. Does this mean that David Miscarriage is more powerful than Bill Gates?
Back at the time, when restarting sshd was still problematic, I did indeed use such techniques... Which did work half of the time, and failed the other half, for various reasons. Another trick is to schedule another sshd start ten minutes later using at.
However, all this is pretty moot nowadays, as with the current SuSE, even a vanilla sshd restart works flawlessly.
That's because the daemon that's handling your current SSH session is still the old one.
That seems obvious... However, in the old days when doing/etc/init.d/sshd restart from an active ssh session, occasionnally the new copy would be prevented from starting up by the presence of an existing connection on port 22 (... your active session). In that day and age, it was indeed necessary to temporarily start up another sshd on a different port, or... gasp... to use telnet
I suppose this rule applies to telnet patches as well,
No, with telnet it works somewhat differently. There is no permanently running telnetd. Instead, telnetds are started by inetd for each session. Because of this, it is enough to install the new telnetd, no need to restart a daemon.
, if you're crazy enough to use telnet.
Telnet does have its uses. However you do indeed need to be careful to only use it on local networks which you trust. Telnet is interesting when
logging in from vanilla Windows boxes (if you still have some...)
logging in from a boot floppy system (a telnet client takes up far less space than a ssh client...)
I certainly didn't like patching OpenSSH on a machine I can only reach via SSH.
No problem. Just run a second sshd (old version) on a non-standard port:
sshd -P 5000
Or (if you have several machines on the same subnet) telnet in from another one on the same subnet (to avoid accidentally shooting off your backup sshd when you do an/etc/init.d/sshd stop). Webmin also comes in handy in such cases.
However, as you said, broken patches are usually quite rare in Linux/FreeBSD. On my SuSE boxes, I routenily do/etc/init.d/sshd restart, and amazingly this works even when executed from within an ssh session!
Do you really need to allow MS messenger service to be running outside your LAN?
Or for that matter, do you really need Windows to be running inside your LAN. Sure, you can firewall off the most obvious threats at the perimeter, but what about that stuff that you have to allow through:
Mail: any new Outlook virus that is not yet caught by your scanner will be able to wreak havoc. And with the new virii optimized for propagation speed (worldwide spread within hours), there is no way that Aymantec has an update ready before the virus knocks on your door.
Http: if you e-commerce app runs on a Winbox within your perimet, you have to allow HTTP traffic through... Opening it up all kinds of fun SQL-injection exploits, and buffer overflows in IIS. Better do away with Windows alltogether, and port your app to Linux or FreeBSD.
Notebooks: some idiot Accenture consultant is bound to bring in his virus-laden notebook and connect it inside your corporate LAN
To many people, however, that means that you wait to install a patch until it has been tested.
To others yet, it means that you ditch that bug ridden OS alltogehter, and upgrade to something it to something that is a little bit more appropriate for an enterprise environment, such as Solaris, or even Linux.
Have you guys looked at MS SUS 1.0 to automatically deliver critical updates? It's kinda lame--not the greatest management capabilities--but it does work.
Yeah, it's great. Until it applies that infamous update that breaks the corporate database server.
But I guess even that is a blessing in disguise: after explaining to the boss that these 3 days downtime could have been easily avoided with a more stable operating system, he was no longer as opposed to Linux as he used to be.
We run a secure shop. After the umpteenth virus/worm infection/buffer overflow, we decided that Windows was no longer affordable. We ditched our Windows machines, and replaced them with Linux and Solaris boxen, and since then, we haven't had a single security incident! Really, how difficult is it to understand?
>>Heh, excellent point:) >Not really. It's just his opinion.
Oh, and I naively though it was a joke. Silly me!
>>Its like microsoft, and linux.
Microsoft will attempt to give you a good user experience. Linux will actually deliver. >Again, I see no difference between what you say and what the parent says. They're just opinions.
Oh, and again I mistakenly that too was a joke. How could I confuse opinions with jokes?
The main component of our device is a ratchet wheel that can only turn in one direction, which we place inside a box containing a pressurised gas. As the gas molecules hit the ratchet they will cause it to turn in one direction only, and so small potentials can be genrated. The beauty of this device is that as the collisons are perfectly elastic there will be no energy losses and so no bulky power supply is needed.
And for people who are visually impaired, universal deployment of this system this makes email essentially impossible. Earthlink's page had a link "if you cannot see the picture, click here" and when you got to that they said to call their 1-800 number if you have any problems. Right.
And, did you call that 1-800 number? I'm sure they would have been able to solve your problem. And what's more, your call would have cost Earthlink a couple of cents, and if lots of people who experienced problems would have called that number, Earthlink might catch the idea that maybe this captcha nonsense was not such a bright idea after all...
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And with these kinds of application, the OS which it uses is of no concern anyways: these tools usually come with their own bootdisk, and there is absolutely no problem to duplicate a Windows partition using a Unix based tool!
Actually, as of yesterday afternoon, Microsoft's market capitalization (number of outstanding shares times price of one share) was 282.44B, which is a tad more than the 40B in the bank.
Moreover, if there was a takeover bid, the price would certainly rise, makeing the deal even more expensive.
Google doesn't have to buy Microsoft in the physical property sense of paying the entire value of the item.
Actually, the book value (physical property: buildings, equipment, cash reserver, IP, ...) would probably be less than market capitalization. If this were not the case, an enterprising businessman would already have bought MSFT and sold the parts... Such incidents where common during the 1970's oil crisis years in Europe.
Even though in many cases 30% is considered to be a controlling interest (because the other shareholders are usually divided), it's not a sure thing and any bank will be wary to lend you the 50B if they are not 100% sure that you will be able to get them back.
And how exactly is this different to the United States?
Average Merkins still think that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, and that Korea has none!
Average Merkins still think that Microsoft (tm) Windows (tm) is a state of the art operating system.
Average Merkins still think that their intelligence agency truely didn't see 911 coming.
Average Merkins still thing GWB has been elected democratically.
From:cn ERROR:"550 Support Falun Gong!"
Yes, or else, this event might happen again (but, admittedly such risk would be greater for Futurama than it would for the Simpsons...)
And what about your grandfather himself? Did he believe the show was real as well, or did he notice that it was just fiction? Did he try to inform his customers that it was just radio-play? What was the reaction of the customers after being told?
Yes, penguins are too honest to pull off these kinds of scams!
I dunno... use Linux, maybe?
Don't tell me that nobody ever drove after smoking a joint, and that among those, nobody ever got into a deadly accident because of this! A small (but non-zero) number of death (less than 100) might have been credible, but a nice round 0 is straining the reader's credulity a leetle bit too much!
The device is useful if the ambulance if stuck behind a line of other cars waiting for the light to turn green. So turning the lights red in its own direction would be kinda counterproductive.
Sure, cars are supposed to move to the side and make an additional "lane" to let the ambulance pass, but this takes time, especially if the situation is really congested...
As stated in their FAQ they do indeed send you a new template if you break "yours":
However, to Slashdot's credit, this has been the only time that Slashdot has caved it. They once got some pretty stern cease & desist letters from Micro$oft about some dodgy republishing about some NDA'ed MS-Kerberos documents, and they resisted. Does this mean that David Miscarriage is more powerful than Bill Gates?
However, all this is pretty moot nowadays, as with the current SuSE, even a vanilla sshd restart works flawlessly.
That seems obvious... However, in the old days when doing /etc/init.d/sshd restart from an active ssh session, occasionnally the new copy would be prevented from starting up by the presence of an existing connection on port 22 (... your active session). In that day and age, it was indeed necessary to temporarily start up another sshd on a different port, or ... gasp ... to use telnet
I suppose this rule applies to telnet patches as well,
No, with telnet it works somewhat differently. There is no permanently running telnetd. Instead, telnetds are started by inetd for each session. Because of this, it is enough to install the new telnetd, no need to restart a daemon.
, if you're crazy enough to use telnet.
Telnet does have its uses. However you do indeed need to be careful to only use it on local networks which you trust. Telnet is interesting when
No problem. Just run a second sshd (old version) on a non-standard port:
sshd -P 5000
Or (if you have several machines on the same subnet) telnet in from another one on the same subnet (to avoid accidentally shooting off your backup sshd when you do an /etc/init.d/sshd stop). Webmin also comes in handy in such cases.
However, as you said, broken patches are usually quite rare in Linux/FreeBSD. On my SuSE boxes, I routenily do /etc/init.d/sshd restart, and amazingly this works even when executed from within an ssh session!
Well, it doesn't matter anyways. This is what helped us to convince management to upgrade to Unix, so we are certainly not going to overanalyze it ;-)
Not if you use Pear. Pear emulates prepared statements on top of vanilla MySql, and prepared statements are immune to most forms of SQL injection.
With plain Php you'd either need to use addslashes, or a different database (such as Oracle) which supports prepared statements natively.
Or for that matter, do you really need Windows to be running inside your LAN. Sure, you can firewall off the most obvious threats at the perimeter, but what about that stuff that you have to allow through:
To others yet, it means that you ditch that bug ridden OS alltogehter, and upgrade to something it to something that is a little bit more appropriate for an enterprise environment, such as Solaris, or even Linux.
Yeah, it's great. Until it applies that infamous update that breaks the corporate database server.
But I guess even that is a blessing in disguise: after explaining to the boss that these 3 days downtime could have been easily avoided with a more stable operating system, he was no longer as opposed to Linux as he used to be.
We run a secure shop. After the umpteenth virus/worm infection/buffer overflow, we decided that Windows was no longer affordable. We ditched our Windows machines, and replaced them with Linux and Solaris boxen, and since then, we haven't had a single security incident! Really, how difficult is it to understand?
>Not really. It's just his opinion.
Oh, and I naively though it was a joke. Silly me!
>>Its like microsoft, and linux. Microsoft will attempt to give you a good user experience. Linux will actually deliver.
>Again, I see no difference between what you say and what the parent says. They're just opinions.
Oh, and again I mistakenly that too was a joke. How could I confuse opinions with jokes?
Indeed, but I think there is some prior art
Why am I speaking of prior art, btw? It's unpatentable anyways, because it's a perpetual motion machine of the second type!
And, did you call that 1-800 number? I'm sure they would have been able to solve your problem. And what's more, your call would have cost Earthlink a couple of cents, and if lots of people who experienced problems would have called that number, Earthlink might catch the idea that maybe this captcha nonsense was not such a bright idea after all...