Currently, Linux x86-64 offerings are cheaper and faster than Oracle SPARC Servers, and Dell and RedHat will welcome their money to make the migration.
Oracle are pushing sun customers onto their upgrade treadmill. The smart ones will see this coming and jump ship right away, the stupid ones will be bled dry.
What oracle is doing to sun is a tragedy but sun has run its course. Oracle brought sun knowning it was a company with a dim long term future.
The second is worse. And someone who kills my family in front of me and then burns me alive is worse than that. Your point?
I thought my point was obvious. Lulzsec have drawn attention to security issues that can be easily fixed. This might just encourage people with these kinds of security issues to fix them before the really bad guys turn up.
Granted that may not have been their intention, we will never be sure.
Their point was never that 'nothing is secure'. They used simple well known attacks and a lot of humor.
I see their points as:
1) Validate user input. 2) Don't reuse passwords. 3) The first two rules apply to everyone including government contractors. 4) If we can get your details so can, and so have, other groups. 5) So called whitehats are corrupt by nature. 6) It's still possible to be anonymous on the internet if you know what you are doing. 7) Cloudflare works well. 8) We are laughing at you. 9) j3st3r ( or however you spell it ) is a script kiddie who writes very bad PHP. 10) Send us some cash via bitcoin. 11) PROFIT!
Are you sure the UK doesn't extradite to countries that allow torture? There have been plenty of cases of them extraditing suspects to the US over the years.
PCI isn't security. No set of rules mandated by people that don't understand IT could be. PCI, SOx, and all the other government mandated rules are just well intentioned attempts to tell people how to get security. It can't cover every aspect needed so it's doomed to failure.
Slashdot. News for pirates. Stuff that's anti private property rights.
If this site is going to keep featuring stories that are only of interest to the Marxist thief contingency among us, then just go ahead and make it official already.
You are missing the real point.
1) They block the child porn. Few people will defend that. 2) They block 'copyright material'. 3) They block whatever they feel like, suppressing critical stories on themselves and allowing critical stories on their political enemies. After all they really do believe that they know what's best for the public and they desire power above all else. 4) The country is in the hands of a few corrupt people who will abuse the situation for all they can take out of it. - Massive profit!
They have setup their infrastructure at stage 1 and are now working on implementing stage 2.
I'm reading that some how the money was given to them via a donation, at least thats what is being hinted at on the forums.
Whether or not he sent it to them himself and wants to deny it, or if he was hacked and they stole it, if they have it then it's safe to say it's lost forever.
0.33734 bitcoins went to lulzsec. It was a token donation.
Why risk using a currency that has no acceptance for a transaction when I can just click on a PayPal button?
Because paypal are dodgy as hell. You must have heard some of the stories. Bitcoin has about the same protection at a lower chance of being robbed. Combined with an ebay like feedback system bitcoin makes perfect sense.
Well of course. That's what these groups do (LulzSec, Anonymous, etc.). They aren't heroic crusaders against "the man". They are immature idiots who happen to know how to use hacking tools (and I'm sure some of them are experts). It doesn't make them people to admire or emulate. Hopefully these tools will get caught.
Yes, because once these idiots are locked up we can feel safe as only proper criminals will steal our personal data from careless multinationals.
The real problem is that multinationals and governments care about compliance with dumb regulations and not about security. They therefore suck big time at security.
LulzSec just showed their hand that they are operating like a schoolyard bully. "Do what we want / act like we want, or we'll hack you."
You might think they are standing up to a bully (USA), but taking down 3 different Sony companies smells of a bully, kicking them while they are down.
Organizations that don't protect against SQL injection or don't use decent authentication are going to get cracked by someone sooner or later. Lulzsec may be publicly embarrassing various groups but they don't seem to be involved in any crime above and beyond that. You call them bullies but what if credit card scammers got hold of Sony's data and quietly started robbing everyone involved? The situation would be way more messy.
Bill Gates is not the answer for Microsoft, but changing leadership is. They have become sloth-like in their old age and have become a market follower rather than a market leader.
Become? They have been a market follower since always.
Eh, you elected them. Go ahead and whine about how corrupt they are, you put them into power. You were the ones that said "I want these people running my government." If the most protesting about it you're going to do is to make some stupid joke on Slashdot then you got what you deserved as far as I'm concerned.
Maybe these wicked guys are better than the alternative so the GP did the right thing voting them in?
I bet you're one of those bible-thumping lunatics who believes the world "hates you for your freedoms," you know, those freedoms you DON'T ACTUALLY FUCKING HAVE ANY MORE.
Or in some cases never had.. America can preach about freedom when it gets its prison population down to sane levels and when its cops stop electrocuting everyone who so much as looks at them funny.
I didn't say I liked the idea, I only said that it would be highly inefficient, and as such shouldn't be done if for no other reason than it wouldn't have the desired effect. If someone wants to get to the Pirate Bay badly enough they'll figure out how to do it, as it's only a Google search away.
If the bad guys have DNS they control who gets to see google.
That's always the problem with all the "america is as evil as islam" arguments : they have to equate unhealthy eating (which is what americans do) to child-molesting, slavery, forced prostitution (a part of islam), trade and sale of human beings, stonings, racist laws, and worse.
You are missing the point. The problem with American's eating to much is that large chunks of the world have not enough food and are actually starving. If you eat rice that you don't need and that could be shipped cheaply to someone who will die without it you are commeting some kind of indirect murder.
Sure American's are fat, that really doesn't matter.
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... but they can lose them.
Currently, Linux x86-64 offerings are cheaper and faster than Oracle SPARC Servers, and Dell and RedHat will welcome their money to make the migration.
Oracle are pushing sun customers onto their upgrade treadmill. The smart ones will see this coming and jump ship right away, the stupid ones will be bled dry.
What oracle is doing to sun is a tragedy but sun has run its course. Oracle brought sun knowning it was a company with a dim long term future.
The second is worse. And someone who kills my family in front of me and then burns me alive is worse than that. Your point?
I thought my point was obvious. Lulzsec have drawn attention to security issues that can be easily fixed. This might just encourage people with these kinds of security issues to fix them before the really bad guys turn up.
Granted that may not have been their intention, we will never be sure.
Their point is that they are dickheads.
Maybe. But what's better:
Lulzsec: A bad guy who steals a bunch of details and publicly laughs at the company who let them get stolen so easily.
Normal Hacker: A bad guy who steals your details and wipes out your internet banking account.
Their point was never that 'nothing is secure'. They used simple well known attacks and a lot of humor.
I see their points as:
1) Validate user input.
2) Don't reuse passwords.
3) The first two rules apply to everyone including government contractors.
4) If we can get your details so can, and so have, other groups.
5) So called whitehats are corrupt by nature.
6) It's still possible to be anonymous on the internet if you know what you are doing.
7) Cloudflare works well.
8) We are laughing at you.
9) j3st3r ( or however you spell it ) is a script kiddie who writes very bad PHP.
10) Send us some cash via bitcoin.
11) PROFIT!
Are you sure the UK doesn't extradite to countries that allow torture? There have been plenty of cases of them extraditing suspects to the US over the years.
PCI isn't security. No set of rules mandated by people that don't understand IT could be. PCI, SOx, and all the other government mandated rules are just well intentioned attempts to tell people how to get security. It can't cover every aspect needed so it's doomed to failure.
Is there anyone in any government anywhere with a brain?
Yes. Maybe their motivations are not what they claim they are.
Slashdot. News for pirates. Stuff that's anti private property rights.
If this site is going to keep featuring stories that are only of interest to the Marxist thief contingency among us, then just go ahead and make it official already.
You are missing the real point.
1) They block the child porn. Few people will defend that.
2) They block 'copyright material'.
3) They block whatever they feel like, suppressing critical stories on themselves and allowing critical stories on their political enemies. After all they really do believe that they know what's best for the public and they desire power above all else.
4) The country is in the hands of a few corrupt people who will abuse the situation for all they can take out of it. - Massive profit!
They have setup their infrastructure at stage 1 and are now working on implementing stage 2.
I'm reading that some how the money was given to them via a donation, at least thats what is being hinted at on the forums.
Whether or not he sent it to them himself and wants to deny it, or if he was hacked and they stole it, if they have it then it's safe to say it's lost forever.
0.33734 bitcoins went to lulzsec. It was a token donation.
Why risk using a currency that has no acceptance for a transaction when I can just click on a PayPal button?
Because paypal are dodgy as hell. You must have heard some of the stories. Bitcoin has about the same protection at a lower chance of being robbed. Combined with an ebay like feedback system bitcoin makes perfect sense.
Also paypal have high fees.
Well of course. That's what these groups do (LulzSec, Anonymous, etc.). They aren't heroic crusaders against "the man". They are immature idiots who happen to know how to use hacking tools (and I'm sure some of them are experts). It doesn't make them people to admire or emulate. Hopefully these tools will get caught.
Yes, because once these idiots are locked up we can feel safe as only proper criminals will steal our personal data from careless multinationals.
The real problem is that multinationals and governments care about compliance with dumb regulations and not about security. They therefore suck big time at security.
LulzSec just showed their hand that they are operating like a schoolyard bully. "Do what we want / act like we want, or we'll hack you."
You might think they are standing up to a bully (USA), but taking down 3 different Sony companies smells of a bully, kicking them while they are down.
Organizations that don't protect against SQL injection or don't use decent authentication are going to get cracked by someone sooner or later. Lulzsec may be publicly embarrassing various groups but they don't seem to be involved in any crime above and beyond that. You call them bullies but what if credit card scammers got hold of Sony's data and quietly started robbing everyone involved? The situation would be way more messy.
Why would apple want nokia? Do they want a piece of the "phones no one buys" market?
Seriously though, would it be to improve tech aspects that nokia does better than apple?
Or buy out a competitor only to destroy it?
Nokia have the basics of cell phone design down to a fine art. Apple is still new to this game and makes cock-ups. Remember the ariel problems?
Apple and Nokia could result in a killer new iphone.
And then Apple will swoop in and buy them up right under Microsoft's nose.
That would actually be pretty funny. I'm not sure what apple would get from the deal though.
Well, why would they? Bing is not a bad search engine.
'Not bad' doesn't cut it. Google is better. It's not a matter of MS being involved, it's a matter of what gives better results.
Bill Gates is not the answer for Microsoft, but changing leadership is. They have become sloth-like in their old age and have become a market follower rather than a market leader.
Become? They have been a market follower since always.
Bing actually has a good market share in US now - 30%. And by market demographics those who use Bing tend to be richer, better educated people.
You mean the kind of people who could afford to buy a computer or laptop but could not afford the time to change from the default MS recommended one?
Eh, you elected them. Go ahead and whine about how corrupt they are, you put them into power. You were the ones that said "I want these people running my government." If the most protesting about it you're going to do is to make some stupid joke on Slashdot then you got what you deserved as far as I'm concerned.
Maybe these wicked guys are better than the alternative so the GP did the right thing voting them in?
It's time to move away from centralized DNS, we can't leave the internet in the hands of the government. We need a compatible distributed DNS system.
I don't see how to implement such a thing when the bad guys can attach thousands of servers to the network and abuse the hell out of it.
DNS though is a single point of failure attached to the internet and replacing it with something less abusable would be better.
I bet you're one of those bible-thumping lunatics who believes the world "hates you for your freedoms," you know, those freedoms you DON'T ACTUALLY FUCKING HAVE ANY MORE.
Or in some cases never had.. America can preach about freedom when it gets its prison population down to sane levels and when its cops stop electrocuting everyone who so much as looks at them funny.
I didn't say I liked the idea, I only said that it would be highly inefficient, and as such shouldn't be done if for no other reason than it wouldn't have the desired effect. If someone wants to get to the Pirate Bay badly enough they'll figure out how to do it, as it's only a Google search away.
If the bad guys have DNS they control who gets to see google.
Didn't anyone warn them that just blocking a domain name doesn't work?
Yes. They didn't understand what a domain was or what blocking one meant.
I agree about the pointless brain-dead professional manager types that turn up everywhere. However:
If you want to be a productive citizen that actually does things? College is a good idea.
Education is a good idea. College is fine but it's only one way to get an education.
Or is there some secret in the VB6 code that the open source community can actually learn from?
Good IDE? Microsoft's IDE's seriously kick ass any open source IDE (and their lack of)
Really? Are you really sure that fancy GUIs result in good programmers producing better code?
From what I've seen anything fancier than vi or emacs may speed writing code but it won't improve its quality.
That's always the problem with all the "america is as evil as islam" arguments : they have to equate unhealthy eating (which is what americans do) to child-molesting, slavery, forced prostitution (a part of islam), trade and sale of human beings, stonings, racist laws, and worse.
You are missing the point. The problem with American's eating to much is that large chunks of the world have not enough food and are actually starving. If you eat rice that you don't need and that could be shipped cheaply to someone who will die without it you are commeting some kind of indirect murder.
Sure American's are fat, that really doesn't matter.