This is a related problem, but it's not the same one:
This advisory documents changes to Cisco IOS® as a result of continued research related to the demonstration of the exploit for another vulnerability which occurred in July 2005 at the Black Hat USA Conference. Cisco addressed the IPv6 attack vector used in that demonstration in a separate advisory published on July 29, 2005.
Huh? 'Round these parts, oil isn't subsidised, it's taxed. Quite heavily. Is it different where you live?
You are talking about local sales tax, which is placed on the consumer, but the industry gets quite a few subsidies, in fact (quick google check), this page claims $USD 5b/year.
Rubbish. There are many domains where natural monopolies are inevitable (where a monopoly is taken to mean a >90% share of the market). Operating systems is an obvious one, but so are utilities.
Utilities are only a monopoly due to government intervention, that was the original point.
As far as operating systems, there is no monopoly, in fact there are almost too many choices. I have really hard time picking between RHEL, Fedora, Debian, SuSe, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X, not to mention dozens of systems I haven't even had time to play with.
OPEC is another example. People want a lot of oil, most of it is in the hands of a small number of producers, therefore an oligopoly develops.
There are a lot of other different sources of enegery, if oil wasn't so subsidized (by the government) and hence cheap, you would be using something else.
There is pretty much no way you can have a monopoly in a free market, government intervention on the other hand makes monopolies possible (see utility companies for example).
Here's a random question, if a compiler is licensed for non-commercial use, but the source code is GPL, does that mean that produced binary can not be used for commercial purposes?
But if it's GPL-ed souce, I don't think one can apply that kind of restriction to it.
In case someone is still reading this story, I know it's a few days old, you might be interested in the Free State Project
The FSP has recently selected New Hampshire as the state they are going to target for a "plan in which 20,000 or more liberty-oriented people will move to a single state of the U.S., where they may work within the political system to reduce the size and scope of government".
Depening on compiler used and optimizations used binaries are quite unlikely to be comparable, consider this:
$ cat test.c int main(){
int i = 0;
int j = 0;
for(i=0; i<765; i++)
{
j *= i;
}
return(0); }
$ gcc -o test test.c
$ gcc -o test1 -O test.c
$ gcc -o test2 -O2 test.c
$ ls -l test test1 test2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 seva seva 13457 Jun 10 19:54 test -rwxr-xr-x 1 seva seva 13409 Jun 10 19:54 test1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 seva seva 13393 Jun 10 19:54 test2
So, unless you know the exact compiler version and optimization options used, this is not useful./Seva
Well, let's see, they told you that they can't support Mandrake for you (which is a silly option for a server IMHO) and they delivered what you knew already -- No Support for something they weren't ready to support.
Look, there are 2 billion Linux Distributions, they cannot possibly support everything.
You want the speed when it comes to security fixes, all that regression testing is not going to help you a whole lot if someone else now has root/admin on your box.
I called them up as well, didn't talk to the supervisor, but the person said that there may be a Linux version in the future, because one of his documents said that "it's available for Windows and Machintosh only, at this time", but I doubt that they will have a Linux version ready.
That's a pisser because I have no Windows at work and have rebooting my home machine.
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If I recall correctly (I don't possess particularly great memory), the elections in the Soviet Union were not as you describe.
There was a single Communist Party candidate for each position and you would vote to "approve" or "not approve" the candidate.
-Seva
You are talking about local sales tax, which is placed on the consumer, but the industry gets quite a few subsidies, in fact (quick google check), this page claims $USD 5b/year.
Fossil Fuel Subsidies Fact Sheet
Utilities are only a monopoly due to government intervention, that was the original point.
As far as operating systems, there is no monopoly, in fact there are almost too many choices. I have really hard time picking between RHEL, Fedora, Debian, SuSe, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X, not to mention dozens of systems I haven't even had time to play with.
Diamond prices are total b.s., diamond is not a commodity, here is "the straight dope" on this for example.
OPEC is another example. People want a lot of oil, most of it is in the hands of a small number of producers, therefore an oligopoly develops.
There are a lot of other different sources of enegery, if oil wasn't so subsidized (by the government) and hence cheap, you would be using something else.
There is pretty much no way you can have a monopoly in a free market, government intervention on the other hand makes monopolies possible (see utility companies for example).
If you don't like a "Big Corporation" you can take your business elsewhere.
If you don't like your "Big Government" you can go to jail.
The Server that they have to post their PDF filings to runs Linux! (The webserver for the court.)
Actually, could this become a reason to appeal? I don't know how something like this would work, but perhaps one could argue that the court is biased.
Here's a random question, if a compiler is licensed for non-commercial use, but the source code is GPL, does that mean that produced binary can not be used for commercial purposes?
But if it's GPL-ed souce, I don't think one can apply that kind of restriction to it.
Yeah, this is completely off-topic, make my day..
;)
But uh, there are over 100 Score:5 messages, perhaps it's time to make the max score 7 or 10
The FSP has recently selected New Hampshire as the state they are going to target for a "plan in which 20,000 or more liberty-oriented people will move to a single state of the U.S., where they may work within the political system to reduce the size and scope of government".
You are kidding, right?
/Seva
Depening on compiler used and optimizations used binaries are quite unlikely to be comparable, consider this:
$ cat test.c
int main(){
int i = 0;
int j = 0;
for(i=0; i<765; i++)
{
j *= i;
}
return(0);
}
$ gcc -o test test.c
$ gcc -o test1 -O test.c
$ gcc -o test2 -O2 test.c
$ ls -l test test1 test2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 seva seva 13457 Jun 10 19:54 test
-rwxr-xr-x 1 seva seva 13409 Jun 10 19:54 test1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 seva seva 13393 Jun 10 19:54 test2
So, unless you know the exact compiler version and optimization options used, this is not useful.
If I recall correctly, one can not patent an idea only implementation of that idea... /Seva
It hasn't changed in years... 2 releases per year, 6 months apart... /Simon
I am confused, when I got my Palm Vx it already had PalmOS 3.5, I've updated it to 3.5.2 since then.
/Simon
The fact is that you can't tell from his post if this was a software of hardware problem, he thinks it's a hardware problem...
Well, let's see, they told you that they can't support Mandrake for you (which is a silly option for a server IMHO) and they delivered what you knew already -- No Support for something they weren't ready to support.
Look, there are 2 billion Linux Distributions, they cannot possibly support everything.
/Simon
No support, future games check for version and don't work with low ver until you replace it.
You call them, they tell you to upgrade before getting any support.
May be the dial-up service does the same.
/Simon
About half of slashdot is now about patents, laws, law suits, and censorhip.
Time for a new section?
How about "Slime" as the name of it?
You want the speed when it comes to security fixes, all that regression testing is not going to help you a whole lot if someone else now has root/admin on your box.
That sounds right, I never heard of anyone not being able to get in because they were under 18, I've been to COMDEX twice before I was 18.
This does sound like a PR stunt.
Yup... Never had a problem, I've been to COMDEX since I was 17 as well...
/Simon
I called them up as well, didn't talk to the supervisor, but the person said that there may be a Linux version in the future, because one of his documents said that "it's available for Windows and Machintosh only, at this time", but I doubt that they will have a Linux version ready.
That's a pisser because I have no Windows at work and have rebooting my home machine.
/Simon
I have a Pro with a pager card (OS 3.0.2.x) and saw a warning on the site about updated not being compatible with this... Any ideas?
/Simon