The Unix crowd gets excited about non-Administrators in Windows every now and then. In fact, it's fairly pointless. The root user was designed for multi-user systems (hence the administrator). Single-user systems don't need it. On a single-user system, the most important thing is not the system files: those can be recovered from the factory install disk—it's the user files.
There are a lot of advantages that Linux and Mac security have over Windows. It's sad that anyone thinks that their most useless security tool for home users (the root user) is actually responsible for any of that security advantage. How often do you hear about a Linux user who has lost user data from a non-root exploit? Pretty rare, huh? So it can't be the root user that saves the day. It's the Unix security design philosophy that's the real advantage. (And low popularity...)
Not that Microsoft doesn't have some cool stuff coming out. IE 7 runs in a sandbox on Vista. This is an impressive security advantage. IE 7 won't even have the privileges of the user running it. It's an application of least privilege; that's a security model that I'd like to see a lot of software use. Least privilege philosophy is leap ahead of root versus user-level privilege, and is what real security people are debating.
Microsoft is being pretty good about this. They're just talking about the warrenty. Apple would be cursing the evil hacking pirate terrorists at this point.
I can't wait until my XBox 360 gets repaired. The 3 red light circle started flashing the first time I plugged it into Xbox Live.
95% of the people on Slashdot, I said. And with TS so small a portion of the population, it's sort of interesting that one replied to my comment here. Proves one of my points, really.
The attacks on Bailey that you link to are a huge mischaracterization of him and his book. They originate from some in the TS community who were highly offended, and not from other scientists. Actually mischaracterization is wrong. Conway and others flat out lied about him. Read his book and you'll be angry at them for the lies they told you about it.
I am sort of interested that you claim to fall into neither of Bailey's groups. Let me get this straight: 1) you are only and always have been sexually attracted to women, and 2) you never have had an urge to try on women's undergarments?
You haven't read many Slashdotter's journals, or you would have included #3 transexual. Option #3 seems to be enormously high on Slashdot compared to the rest of the population. (Read Michael Bailey to figure out why. The ones here are probably 95% the autogynephilic sort. The link from that to random paraphilias explains the rest.)
The DDT necessary to save thousands of lives in the world's malarial hellholes is miniscule compared to that required for the crops of even a medium farm.
And DDT-hate on the part of international aid organizations (international aid is the entire health budget for some impoverished African countries) has led to countries refraining from using DDT.
Not using DDT kills poor Africans.
DDT is the cheapest, most effective way of protecting against the world's deadliest disease. Anti-malarial netting is somewhat effective, but simply does not compare to DDT.
America? Pshaw. Where the hell is China? A huge nation with a 10-point IQ advantage should be dominating these sorts of contests. Also, how do Ashkenazi Jews (highest IQ ethnic group in the world -- though low visual-spatio IQ, but well-represented in Math and Physics) do in these sorts of things? My impression is that they are under-represented.
Like the NBA, these sorts of contests require a lot of training and effort on behalf of the participants. But also like the NBA, racial genetics is the dominating factor in the end. (Caveat—while I'm sure that "quality of schooling" will have no part in a comprehensive explanation of the results, opportunity may matter. A group where the options are Doctor, Lawyer, Scientist, or Computer (pseudo) Scientist, will produce far fewer CS majors than a group with fewer options.)
Yeah, but like the submitter, you're a doormat. By the way, I need to borrow your car tonight to take your wife out someplace nice while you fix my computer. I spilled beer all over the keyboard again.
Didn't you read the original question? He just ended a long-term relationship. What this man needs isn't money, it's sex. He should demand a night with a nubile female relative in exchange for continued support. And he should do it as brazenly and obnoxiously as possible. Either he gets the sex or he offends the other partly so badly that he never hears from him again. Whichever way it goes, the submitter's real problem is solved: he's learned not to be such a doormat for once.
Sounds like Apple has an improperly supervised legal department. Lawyers are like engineers. Management needs to understand what they're doing, otherwise they'll ruin the company.
Luckily law is easier to understand than engineering (but harder to get into due to their unions^H^H^H^H^H^H bar associations). Any properly managed company can keep its lawyers in check easily enough. Sounds like Apple has some management issues.
Of course, the easiest place to point whenever you talk about management issues and Apple is Steve Jobs' huge ego. In this case, that may not be too far wrong. (Jobs is probably too busy writing nasty letters to six year-old girls with Ipod suggestions to supervise them.)
Americans are still reproducing themselves. Europeans aren't. They're demographically giving their countries away to the ha'jib wearers. The Europeans that are reproducing themselves are the dumbest segment of the population. (Sadly true in America as well.) Maybe it's the European attitude towards sex that is messed up.
Curious that Nintendo chooses a name that in Japanese becomes something like "Dubya good"...
A hidden meaning?
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So, the MBOT heartily welcomes everyone -- including HIV-positive customers.
Is it me, or is this a new line from the MBOT spambot? Wonderful business decision. I'm sure that they'll get lots of HIV-positive business to make up for the other 98% of the population that's HIV-negative and may have second thoughts about a whore that heartily welcomes "HIV-positive customers."
And is there some reason these spammers haven't been arrested yet?
There is nonfunctional and there is nonfunctional. Commenting out the wheel line can disable all root access (depending on your setup) and visudo won't help you with that.
There are benefits to using sudo, and depending on the situation some of those may become very important. But one con I'd like to point out is the dependence on the sudoers file. You can mangle a system (requiring a reboot to single-user) with one wrong entry. And if you are constantly editing it to give users fine-grained privileges, that risk is important to weigh against the benefits.
And if (as with my current job) you work someplace with:
Low employee turnover.
Lots of servers.
Few people with root access.
LDAP authentication for passwords to make changing the root password on all servers easy.
Then maintaining seperate sudoers files on every server is far more pain than it's worth.
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I invoke Godwin. Thread closed.
The Unix crowd gets excited about non-Administrators in Windows every now and then. In fact, it's fairly pointless. The root user was designed for multi-user systems (hence the administrator). Single-user systems don't need it. On a single-user system, the most important thing is not the system files: those can be recovered from the factory install disk—it's the user files.
There are a lot of advantages that Linux and Mac security have over Windows. It's sad that anyone thinks that their most useless security tool for home users (the root user) is actually responsible for any of that security advantage. How often do you hear about a Linux user who has lost user data from a non-root exploit? Pretty rare, huh? So it can't be the root user that saves the day. It's the Unix security design philosophy that's the real advantage. (And low popularity...)
Not that Microsoft doesn't have some cool stuff coming out. IE 7 runs in a sandbox on Vista. This is an impressive security advantage. IE 7 won't even have the privileges of the user running it. It's an application of least privilege; that's a security model that I'd like to see a lot of software use. Least privilege philosophy is leap ahead of root versus user-level privilege, and is what real security people are debating.
Microsoft is being pretty good about this. They're just talking about the warrenty. Apple would be cursing the evil hacking pirate terrorists at this point.
I can't wait until my XBox 360 gets repaired. The 3 red light circle started flashing the first time I plugged it into Xbox Live.
95% of the people on Slashdot, I said. And with TS so small a portion of the population, it's sort of interesting that one replied to my comment here. Proves one of my points, really.
The attacks on Bailey that you link to are a huge mischaracterization of him and his book. They originate from some in the TS community who were highly offended, and not from other scientists. Actually mischaracterization is wrong. Conway and others flat out lied about him. Read his book and you'll be angry at them for the lies they told you about it.
I am sort of interested that you claim to fall into neither of Bailey's groups. Let me get this straight: 1) you are only and always have been sexually attracted to women, and 2) you never have had an urge to try on women's undergarments?
You haven't read many Slashdotter's journals, or you would have included #3 transexual. Option #3 seems to be enormously high on Slashdot compared to the rest of the population. (Read Michael Bailey to figure out why. The ones here are probably 95% the autogynephilic sort. The link from that to random paraphilias explains the rest.)
The DDT necessary to save thousands of lives in the world's malarial hellholes is miniscule compared to that required for the crops of even a medium farm.
And DDT-hate on the part of international aid organizations (international aid is the entire health budget for some impoverished African countries) has led to countries refraining from using DDT.
Not using DDT kills poor Africans.
DDT is the cheapest, most effective way of protecting against the world's deadliest disease. Anti-malarial netting is somewhat effective, but simply does not compare to DDT.
And you think height is decided by what, wishing to be taller? Say it with me: "genes."
America? Pshaw. Where the hell is China? A huge nation with a 10-point IQ advantage should be dominating these sorts of contests. Also, how do Ashkenazi Jews (highest IQ ethnic group in the world -- though low visual-spatio IQ, but well-represented in Math and Physics) do in these sorts of things? My impression is that they are under-represented.
Like the NBA, these sorts of contests require a lot of training and effort on behalf of the participants. But also like the NBA, racial genetics is the dominating factor in the end. (Caveat—while I'm sure that "quality of schooling" will have no part in a comprehensive explanation of the results, opportunity may matter. A group where the options are Doctor, Lawyer, Scientist, or Computer (pseudo) Scientist, will produce far fewer CS majors than a group with fewer options.)
Yeah, but like the submitter, you're a doormat. By the way, I need to borrow your car tonight to take your wife out someplace nice while you fix my computer. I spilled beer all over the keyboard again.
Didn't you read the original question? He just ended a long-term relationship. What this man needs isn't money, it's sex. He should demand a night with a nubile female relative in exchange for continued support. And he should do it as brazenly and obnoxiously as possible. Either he gets the sex or he offends the other partly so badly that he never hears from him again. Whichever way it goes, the submitter's real problem is solved: he's learned not to be such a doormat for once.
Sounds like Apple has an improperly supervised legal department. Lawyers are like engineers. Management needs to understand what they're doing, otherwise they'll ruin the company.
Luckily law is easier to understand than engineering (but harder to get into due to their unions^H^H^H^H^H^H bar associations). Any properly managed company can keep its lawyers in check easily enough. Sounds like Apple has some management issues.
Of course, the easiest place to point whenever you talk about management issues and Apple is Steve Jobs' huge ego. In this case, that may not be too far wrong. (Jobs is probably too busy writing nasty letters to six year-old girls with Ipod suggestions to supervise them.)
Americans are still reproducing themselves. Europeans aren't. They're demographically giving their countries away to the ha'jib wearers. The Europeans that are reproducing themselves are the dumbest segment of the population. (Sadly true in America as well.) Maybe it's the European attitude towards sex that is messed up.
Curious that Nintendo chooses a name that in Japanese becomes something like "Dubya good"...
A hidden meaning?
So, the MBOT heartily welcomes everyone -- including HIV-positive customers.
Is it me, or is this a new line from the MBOT spambot? Wonderful business decision. I'm sure that they'll get lots of HIV-positive business to make up for the other 98% of the population that's HIV-negative and may have second thoughts about a whore that heartily welcomes "HIV-positive customers."
And is there some reason these spammers haven't been arrested yet?
Would that make the girl in the song a "Tub Girl"?
My God, a Creative Commons song that's actually good. And makes fun of a fat computer programmer. I love it.
Slashdot has obviously been replaced by bizaro-Slashdot. I won't be able to relax until this story has been duped three times.
It may suck to be cartoon guy—but I'm sure glad that I don't live in your country.
Half the stuff mounted there was foreign binaries that she could have got from anywhere.
If they're talking about headgames.
There is nonfunctional and there is nonfunctional. Commenting out the wheel line can disable all root access (depending on your setup) and visudo won't help you with that.
And if (as with my current job) you work someplace with:
- Low employee turnover.
- Lots of servers.
- Few people with root access.
- LDAP authentication for passwords to make changing the root password on all servers easy.
Then maintaining seperate sudoers files on every server is far more pain than it's worth.Chocking everything up to individual responsibility has no explanatory power for social trends.
Yeah, the British freed a whole lot of American slaves in the 1890s... ... ...Why am I even arguing with the mental rejects here?
1970s era East Germany is justifiably worse than 1980s era Switzerland. Boom, statement disproved.