Ask and you 'll receive: as said another poster before, it's _locally_ exploitable. But you know, physical access to a machine is not far from having all privileges. You can log on as root without knowing the password.
Anyway I agree it's a bug. But not exactly the same sort.
Tell that to the brute force attacks happening against my one box that is open to ssh every fucking night. (and every night is from a different IP address) Oh wait, don't tell me, tell someone with weak passwords, like a stupid ISP.
The simple solution is to let the people decide what they want....no amount of government intervention will stop the inevitable... It might slow it down for a few years, or even decades... but eventually the people will revolt in such huge numbers the government can't do anything about it...
I want to walk into a bank and walk out with a million dollars of someone else's money. I want to be able to walk into a grocery store, fill up my cart, and leave without paying. I want the house three doors up from mine. I also want their car. Give people what they want? Fucking please.
Yes, and as we all know, code reuse is a disgusting practice. As far as your logic goes, perhaps it should have been written entirely in machine language. Even assembler pneumonics obsfuscate the inner workings through abstraction. Please, get a clue.
I start every coding project with 50 tons of sand, some plastic, some iron ore, and a few other items including zinc.
Note that while you are saying this, you have your gmail address plain out for everyone on/. to read and abuse. I don't think you really dislike google...
I never said I disliked either Microsoft or Google. And the gmail address - that is for Slashdot only. I get replys/moderation/etc emails from Slashdot. The reason it is posted for all to see without anti-spam is merely an experiment to see how much spam I would get by making it public in this one and only place. And by the way, my name isn't really Neil Blender.
And beyond the people who cant make up their mind what color they want their car to be, what exactly is the point of this? It seems like it could facilitate car theft,
Yes, this will surely facilitate car theft. Oh, wait, they already have something that can do the same thing. It's called paint.
If you didn't have that 'LOL' tacked on at the end, you'd probably have a +5 Insightful comment here. However, since this has remained at 0 for more than an hour, I think you must have confused the moderators. "Hmmm, sounds insightful but it might be a trap! Better leave it alone lest my moderating priveledges be damned to hell by m2."
That is the cumulative impact probability. The probability of impact in 2037 is actually 1 in 526,316,000 chance. The more likely one is in 2044 and that is 1 in 83,000 chance.
Reading your post, I can feel even safer since I realized that if you do the math (83,000 * 526,316,000) there is only a 1 in 43,684,200,000,000 that it will hit us in both 2037 and 2044.
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Also this is a LOCAL exploit meaning you have to gain physical access to the machine
Local means user shell access, not physical access.
Have dibs on the ice shelf.
(I'm Polish, so I can make this joke.)
Ask and you 'll receive:
as said another poster before, it's _locally_ exploitable. But you know, physical access to a machine is not far from having all privileges.
You can log on as root without knowing the password.
Anyway I agree it's a bug. But not exactly the same sort.
Tell that to the brute force attacks happening against my one box that is open to ssh every fucking night. (and every night is from a different IP address) Oh wait, don't tell me, tell someone with weak passwords, like a stupid ISP.
Oh, now I get it. Nerds.
The simple solution is to let the people decide what they want....no amount of government intervention will stop the inevitable... It might slow it down for a few years, or even decades... but eventually the people will revolt in such huge numbers the government can't do anything about it...
I want to walk into a bank and walk out with a million dollars of someone else's money. I want to be able to walk into a grocery store, fill up my cart, and leave without paying. I want the house three doors up from mine. I also want their car. Give people what they want? Fucking please.
Didn't we all learn our lesson from "Pump up the Volume"?
In the end, they're both theives.
Yes, and as we all know, code reuse is a disgusting practice. As far as your logic goes, perhaps it should have been written entirely in machine language. Even assembler pneumonics obsfuscate the inner workings through abstraction. Please, get a clue.
I start every coding project with 50 tons of sand, some plastic, some iron ore, and a few other items including zinc.
but what will really bake your noodle later, is would the project still have failed, if I hadn't told you it would?
Dude, Oracle jokes are so next week.
When your project manager hands you a project started by a rookie and tells you, "It's 95% done. All you have to do is the final touches."
That usually means the UI isn't done. Unfortunately, the UI consists of 905% of the remaining work.
Note that while you are saying this, you have your gmail address plain out for everyone on /. to read and abuse. I don't think you really dislike google ...
I never said I disliked either Microsoft or Google. And the gmail address - that is for Slashdot only. I get replys/moderation/etc emails from Slashdot. The reason it is posted for all to see without anti-spam is merely an experiment to see how much spam I would get by making it public in this one and only place. And by the way, my name isn't really Neil Blender.
Or does Google sound like Microsoft more and more everyday?
And beyond the people who cant make up their mind what color they want their car to be, what exactly is the point of this? It seems like it could facilitate car theft,
Yes, this will surely facilitate car theft. Oh, wait, they already have something that can do the same thing. It's called paint.
To quote the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past: "It wasn't a holly jolly Christmas [this] year, for many were killed."
What'll that cover? A week?
Abridged
Abridged? Really?
Try 12 hours. You're missing the "Extended-Super-Duper-I-Have-No-Life" DVD edition.
" edition.
Well, for some people it's the "Extended-Super-Duper-Just-Scored-A-Quarter-Ounce
"What's all this then?"
ever since it went online. I even sent them a note saying as much when I cancelled my subscription.
a pair made for each other.
If you didn't have that 'LOL' tacked on at the end, you'd probably have a +5 Insightful comment here. However, since this has remained at 0 for more than an hour, I think you must have confused the moderators. "Hmmm, sounds insightful but it might be a trap! Better leave it alone lest my moderating priveledges be damned to hell by m2."
That is the cumulative impact probability. The probability of impact in 2037 is actually 1 in 526,316,000 chance. The more likely one is in 2044 and that is 1 in 83,000 chance.
Reading your post, I can feel even safer since I realized that if you do the math (83,000 * 526,316,000) there is only a 1 in 43,684,200,000,000 that it will hit us in both 2037 and 2044.
Slashdot editors didn't even bother to fix my typo. s/when/where .
Heh, they didn't even bother to capitalize Slashdot in your submission. Shows just how much they care.
That means it will make us stronger.
Turn images off. And filter on <img src=. And tell your Mom to.