Imagine standing outside your local mac tech shop. Their network runs ZeroConf, when you open your iBook you are greeted on to their corporate LAN. It may be secure but it sounds likely that it is more Zero Security and lots of Conf to make it secure.
Just my 2 cents. I havent tried this product yet, certainly DHCP was enough to get my iBook up and running on the lan. ZeroConf WOULD be cool if it could detect things like open SMB shares, unsecured WLAN connections etc. I am doubtful it has this capability.
I'm not trying to post a flame, just saying that this product probably needs serious examination.
Umm... almost none of the companies that use apache source code market it as apache, and it looks to me like Clean Flicks simply edits the video for the customer, or provides pre-edited videos, which they inform the customer of. They are not just reselling a different version as their own. What is the difference between Clean Flicks and the fast forward button?
Really, if they are placing a beard on Captain Kirk why not? I mean people have paid for this work. It's theirs.
If someone buys software from me and takes a chunk out. And resells it why should I care, I'm getting paid for my work. If they were buying one copy editing it and reselling it a million times sure sue em.
But isn't this what we bitch at MS for every week. The ability to not be able to make changes to suit you needs. Freedom isn't about protecting what we like, it's about protecting what we don't like.
We become just as bad as the people we complain about when we oppose companies like clean flicks.
I'm sure if MS was taking someone to court because they were removing Win32 from it and replacing it with X and Gnome and all the things we like we would be vehemetly opposed. You cannot set arbitary limits on freedom.
The rules we set have to be applied in a broad and general sense.
"I do not agree with what you say but I defend to my death your right to say it" -- Voltaire
I'd have to side with Clean Flicks on this, its not as if they are copying the films, and its not as if they are forcing people to watch the edited versions, they are simply making them available. If you want to cut out the last 30 pages of a book or the last 30 minutes of a movie. Or maybe you just ask your kids to close their eyes during a part of a movie. Is this really a bad thing? Do we no longer have the right to edit the the things we purchase?
Heh, shared hosting servers are a cess pool of insecurity generally, infact most admins fail to recognize that in a shared hosting environment local exploits become remote exploits because lots of users put plainly dumb scripts on a server. Thus, admins fail to patch local security problems, and voila people have root.
Of course it matters, OS determines what kind of things you can do on your page. The distribution and testing that goes into the distribution determines how stable it will be, as far as I can see Debian has lot more stringent guidelines for stability then Red Hat, compare version numbers in Debian 3.0 to Red Hat 7.3, Red Hat contains alot newer code, which means generally more unstable.Personally, I provide my clients with OpenBSD when they do not have a preference.
The difference between most free products and most microsoft products is, that when a problem arises with a free products (ie. Apache / OpenSSL), the vendors of these products rarely say "Oh, thats only exploitable in these situations..." rate it a minnimal threat and then dont patch it until someone releases a worm. Also, things like apache have huge problems once every few years or so. Take a look at security focus and check the IIS exploits, there are bad ones every year or so. And at least running UNIX I don't have to worry about some user exploiting a Win32 hole when I log on breifly as root to admin things. Yes, you have to patch your systems, thinking any operating system is invulnerable to attack is ludicrous. What counts is, the total number of hours that your system is exposed to vulnerability. Maintaining a secure system isn't rocket science (designing secure systems may be). You just have to follow a few simple rules. Subscribe to applicable vuln lists, disable or uninstall programs that are not used, and patch religiously. Generally these few steps will solve most of your problems. Unless your a security nut, a directed attack will probably get thru anyways, but how many of us are facing directed attacks? Most of the shit i pick off my firewall is just standard port scanning for signs of stupidity.
I was reading today about Doom 3's new editor being integrated into the engine, and was thinking if you developed a BSP tree server you could assign permissions to nodes on the tree and allow people to infinitely edit spaces they "own". I'm not sure if BSP would allow such a thing. ie. would the BSP tree not put rooms in a building below the cube representing the building itself?
But all in all i think BSP would be a good technology for building a real time editable metaverse.
If you could break up the tree into multiple files you could put it up on a CVS server that at the end of the night would compile all the changes and update the metaverse.
The best way to search slashdot is by using site:slashdot.org in google. I havent figured out a way to just search articles and not comments, but it works pretty good.
Well, if 1 of three disks is bad, you can choose to install packages that dont reside on that disk theoretically, however i have had experience with bad Win2k disks, it doesnt recover more gracefully it just continues to prompt for Ignore, Rety, Skip, if you choose skip your more then likely looking at a situation of random crashing because some file missing, you should really check your media before installing. Data loss is invetiable make backups
I wonder if my ISP is going to get arrested for running NNTP servers. Those DARN network nodes. In other news, several owners of BGP routers were arrested for operating Network Nodes
Isn't the requirement for a MS Passport a furthering of their anti-competitive practices, I mean really what does a MS passport do more then just leaving a form for you to submit your address to. Also, I dont agree that whatever is in my passport is the property of Microsoft, why should I submit my information to an insecure service, if it wasnt blantantly insecure they wouldn't be agreeing to make it secure according to the FTC. The first steps of getting to the NDA further their monopoly, and are anti-competitive. Why should furthering their monopoly be part of their settlement? It makes no sense
I believe this XDR vulnerabilty stems from a more serious problem in most implimentations of calloc() The problem is created when the size of the ADT * numElements > a machine word I'm parphrasing from this advisory on bugtraq
They already have a processor benchmark, its called SPECint or SPECfp, and i dont see any apple results on that. Probably a reason for that,
check this link I think that will give you a bit of insight into why they don't publish benchmarks, I mean even with their Altivec improvments they still lag far far behind AMD, as apple says, it doesn't matter how fast your chip runs, or how many instructions per second it does, it matters how fast it runs applications and for how much. And clearly the G4 is loosing this battle.
I am reading slashdot right? Some how this question feels like it would be best answered by Dear Abby, this question is more about picking up women/men then computers, and as usual...if the person asking the question had searched google they would probably already have a pretty good answer.
Is there any way to have a RTFM / FSGYI (Fucking search google you idiot) policy?
One of my favorite tricks to do when clicking a license, is to highlight the text in the box and press CTRL-X... voila no more anonying EULA, then press Print Screen for a screenshot for legal reasons, So far I haven't found a single software package that checks that the EULA hasn't been modified.
When is the last time you got a new car from GM for free? If your not buying a product, then you shouldn't really expect a warranty, also, even the MS EULA disclaims your right to damages
The onus is on the company to make good products not on the individual to not talk about bad products, there is no wrong doing in law to publish an exploit. Using it is wrong, but publishing an exploit is not illegal, nor should it be. It is really the responsibility of the company to make secure products. I admit that it is very inappropriate for people to release exploits with out notifiying the vendor, but in reality there should be no requirement to give the vendor notification. The company should employ their own resources to secure their products, this is what all other industries do, they rigorously test their products before releasing them.
Yeah, i banged my head against the wall with that one for a long time before figuring it out. One language indivisible by architechure, where no two objects are created equal
If european ISP's are really that concerned with the traffic generated by portals, they should buy a few 100 Gig drives a RAID controller, download squid and setup a transparent proxy. Problem solved. On average a proxy server will save 50% of your traffic, btw these are real stats from major ISP's that run HTTP proxies. The major amount of traffic comes from P2P networks, when FastTrack was still running port 1214 traffic accounted for more then 50% of the traffic
I can't believe im even responding to this, but there is a reason for that, its so that people don't do first post crap because no one wants to read FIRST POST!!!!!, well im sure someone does, maybe I should setup a mirror of the/. front page with my own SQL back end for those that wish to have a first second... ninety ninth post competition. I'm hoping that your post was a joke
The article says the informed HP about these vuln's a year earlier, in reality it is up to the company to secure their products, mistakes happen, but should Ralph Nader be put in jail for telling people that the Pinto's gas tank would explode on impact?
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Imagine standing outside your local mac tech shop. Their network runs ZeroConf, when you open your iBook you are greeted on to their corporate LAN. It may be secure but it sounds likely that it is more Zero Security and lots of Conf to make it secure.
Just my 2 cents. I havent tried this product yet, certainly DHCP was enough to get my iBook up and running on the lan. ZeroConf WOULD be cool if it could detect things like open SMB shares, unsecured WLAN connections etc. I am doubtful it has this capability.
I'm not trying to post a flame, just saying that this product probably needs serious examination.
Umm... almost none of the companies that use apache source code market it as apache, and it looks to me like Clean Flicks simply edits the video for the customer, or provides pre-edited videos, which they inform the customer of. They are not just reselling a different version as their own. What is the difference between Clean Flicks and the fast forward button?
Really, if they are placing a beard on Captain Kirk why not? I mean people have paid for this work. It's theirs.
If someone buys software from me and takes a chunk out. And resells it why should I care, I'm getting paid for my work. If they were buying one copy editing it and reselling it a million times sure sue em.
But isn't this what we bitch at MS for every week. The ability to not be able to make changes to suit you needs. Freedom isn't about protecting what we like, it's about protecting what we don't like.
We become just as bad as the people we complain about when we oppose companies like clean flicks.
I'm sure if MS was taking someone to court because they were removing Win32 from it and replacing it with X and Gnome and all the things we like we would be vehemetly opposed. You cannot set arbitary limits on freedom.
The rules we set have to be applied in a broad and general sense.
"I do not agree with what you say but I defend to my death your right to say it" -- Voltaire
I'd have to side with Clean Flicks on this, its not as if they are copying the films, and its not as if they are forcing people to watch the edited versions, they are simply making them available. If you want to cut out the last 30 pages of a book or the last 30 minutes of a movie. Or maybe you just ask your kids to close their eyes during a part of a movie. Is this really a bad thing? Do we no longer have the right to edit the the things we purchase?
Heh, shared hosting servers are a cess pool of insecurity generally, infact most admins fail to recognize that in a shared hosting environment local exploits become remote exploits because lots of users put plainly dumb scripts on a server. Thus, admins fail to patch local security problems, and voila people have root.
Of course it matters, OS determines what kind of things you can do on your page. The distribution and testing that goes into the distribution determines how stable it will be, as far as I can see Debian has lot more stringent guidelines for stability then Red Hat, compare version numbers in Debian 3.0 to Red Hat 7.3, Red Hat contains alot newer code, which means generally more unstable.Personally, I provide my clients with OpenBSD when they do not have a preference.
The difference between most free products and most microsoft products is, that when a problem arises with a free products (ie. Apache / OpenSSL), the vendors of these products rarely say "Oh, thats only exploitable in these situations..." rate it a minnimal threat and then dont patch it until someone releases a worm. Also, things like apache have huge problems once every few years or so. Take a look at security focus and check the IIS exploits, there are bad ones every year or so. And at least running UNIX I don't have to worry about some user exploiting a Win32 hole when I log on breifly as root to admin things. Yes, you have to patch your systems, thinking any operating system is invulnerable to attack is ludicrous. What counts is, the total number of hours that your system is exposed to vulnerability. Maintaining a secure system isn't rocket science (designing secure systems may be). You just have to follow a few simple rules. Subscribe to applicable vuln lists, disable or uninstall programs that are not used, and patch religiously. Generally these few steps will solve most of your problems. Unless your a security nut, a directed attack will probably get thru anyways, but how many of us are facing directed attacks? Most of the shit i pick off my firewall is just standard port scanning for signs of stupidity.
I was reading today about Doom 3's new editor being integrated into the engine, and was thinking if you developed a BSP tree server you could assign permissions to nodes on the tree and allow people to infinitely edit spaces they "own". I'm not sure if BSP would allow such a thing. ie. would the BSP tree not put rooms in a building below the cube representing the building itself? But all in all i think BSP would be a good technology for building a real time editable metaverse. If you could break up the tree into multiple files you could put it up on a CVS server that at the end of the night would compile all the changes and update the metaverse.
The best way to search slashdot is by using site:slashdot.org in google. I havent figured out a way to just search articles and not comments, but it works pretty good.
Well, if 1 of three disks is bad, you can choose to install packages that dont reside on that disk theoretically, however i have had experience with bad Win2k disks, it doesnt recover more gracefully it just continues to prompt for Ignore, Rety, Skip, if you choose skip your more then likely looking at a situation of random crashing because some file missing, you should really check your media before installing. Data loss is invetiable make backups
I wonder if my ISP is going to get arrested for running NNTP servers. Those DARN network nodes. In other news, several owners of BGP routers were arrested for operating Network Nodes
Isn't the requirement for a MS Passport a furthering of their anti-competitive practices, I mean really what does a MS passport do more then just leaving a form for you to submit your address to. Also, I dont agree that whatever is in my passport is the property of Microsoft, why should I submit my information to an insecure service, if it wasnt blantantly insecure they wouldn't be agreeing to make it secure according to the FTC. The first steps of getting to the NDA further their monopoly, and are anti-competitive. Why should furthering their monopoly be part of their settlement? It makes no sense
I believe this XDR vulnerabilty stems from a more serious problem in most implimentations of calloc()
The problem is created when the size of the ADT * numElements > a machine word
I'm parphrasing from this advisory on bugtraq
They already have a processor benchmark, its called SPECint or SPECfp, and i dont see any apple results on that. Probably a reason for that, check this link I think that will give you a bit of insight into why they don't publish benchmarks, I mean even with their Altivec improvments they still lag far far behind AMD, as apple says, it doesn't matter how fast your chip runs, or how many instructions per second it does, it matters how fast it runs applications and for how much. And clearly the G4 is loosing this battle.
I am reading slashdot right? Some how this question feels like it would be best answered by Dear Abby, this question is more about picking up women/men then computers, and as usual...if the person asking the question had searched google they would probably already have a pretty good answer.
Is there any way to have a RTFM / FSGYI (Fucking search google you idiot) policy?
Umm... the best people finding utility I know of is google, try hiding from google.
One of my favorite tricks to do when clicking a license, is to highlight the text in the box and press CTRL-X... voila no more anonying EULA, then press Print Screen for a screenshot for legal reasons, So far I haven't found a single software package that checks that the EULA hasn't been modified.
When is the last time you got a new car from GM for free? If your not buying a product, then you shouldn't really expect a warranty, also, even the MS EULA disclaims your right to damages
Umm... what about the DeCSS case against 2600
The onus is on the company to make good products not on the individual to not talk about bad products, there is no wrong doing in law to publish an exploit. Using it is wrong, but publishing an exploit is not illegal, nor should it be. It is really the responsibility of the company to make secure products. I admit that it is very inappropriate for people to release exploits with out notifiying the vendor, but in reality there should be no requirement to give the vendor notification. The company should employ their own resources to secure their products, this is what all other industries do, they rigorously test their products before releasing them.
Yeah, i banged my head against the wall with that one for a long time before figuring it out.
One language indivisible by architechure, where no two objects are created equal
It looks pretty cool, and seems to work on my debian system. Doesn't look like anyone else has used it tho.
If european ISP's are really that concerned with the traffic generated by portals, they should buy a few 100 Gig drives a RAID controller, download squid and setup a transparent proxy. Problem solved. On average a proxy server will save 50% of your traffic, btw these are real stats from major ISP's that run HTTP proxies. The major amount of traffic comes from P2P networks, when FastTrack was still running port 1214 traffic accounted for more then 50% of the traffic
I can't believe im even responding to this, but there is a reason for that, its so that people don't do first post crap because no one wants to read FIRST POST!!!!!, well im sure someone does, maybe I should setup a mirror of the /. front page with my own SQL back end for those that wish to have a first second... ninety ninth post competition. I'm hoping that your post was a joke
The article says the informed HP about these vuln's a year earlier, in reality it is up to the company to secure their products, mistakes happen, but should Ralph Nader be put in jail for telling people that the Pinto's gas tank would explode on impact?