From what I've seen, Volvo uses fairly solid engineering. Why would they do this using Windows 98 unless they had it on hand? Even that's not a good reason... $10 mil, and they run it off an unsupported buggy OS? Somehow, I doubt it. If they really did use that for the prototype, I doubt that they would use it for the production version.
No, the enemy is the script kiddies and worms that prey on low-hanging fruit. To defend against them, you need to know when an exploit is in the wild. Knowing when a vendor and/or Symantec made the problem the exploit exploits public is useless if it's too late. You want the most current information you can get... at least that way, you can just disable a service or do a work-around until a patch comes out. Do I trust a large corporation not to brush things under the rug in exchange for keeping other large corporations from being embarassed? No. Should you? Personal choice, I guess. I'll stick to IRC and the more arcane sites for info until I'm proved wrong. Word spreads fast these days, what with the internet and all...
Ok, you'll know when you read it in print six months later how your box got rooted. Actually, that could happen with the buyout of bugtraq too. Spend some time on IRC, on the blackhat sites, and talking to script kiddies instead of hanging out on Slashdot all day. You'll be just as well informed. It won't change anything for the 'kiddies, and it shouldn't for you either unless you just like being uninformed.
Read earlier post... they don't exactly define responsible disclosure, do they? A week? Two weeks? A month? A year? I think it was Fyodor who independantly came up with a framework for responsible disclosure. It will be interesting to see if Symantec is more interested in making potential problems public knowledge or protecting companies that could be embarrased by them.
Deviant is saying anything far right wing on Slashdot. So I avoid that. Not because I'll get modded down, just in hopes that others will at least get to see and read between the lines. I'm not railing against group-think, by the way, that's part of the reason I hang out here. Other people more or less think the way I do about technology and it's application. But the side effects are at least worth considering, don't you think?
I don't think that they teamed up... it's more that big business would rather have consumers than customers, and would like government to protect them. Politicians running for office want money, and if you think there's no payback you're naive. It's more of a symbiotic relationship than a partnership... maybe, along with getting rid of soft money, we should make it illegal for lawyers to hold office. Never happen, I know, but think of the possibilities...
It's not just the policy makers you have to be concerned about. Private companies and the lawyers are worth worrying about too. Which private company announced that their network monitoring system could detect Peek-a-booty? What was their reason/excuse? A company could get sued because they didn't know what their network was being used for. I'm all for capitalism and the American way, but lawyers will always piss me off:) When in doubt, hire a mean one who swears a lot when on the phone with prosecuters. That way, you at least know he's sincere.
I hate to say this again, but you have to take human nature into account when evaluating a political model. Socialism has worked to an extent (although only wedded with capitalism). Communism failed, and with the rate China's rearming we all have a chance of being affected by those death throes when they finally roll over. Yes, most of Europe is socialist, but I don't see them doing much lately. And providing money to whoever they feel sorry for at the moment doesn't count, either. I know a guy who works for a U.N. mission in Africa, he admits that they would do just as well dumping the money (yes, greenbacks by the pallet) out of helicopters as they do delivering it personally to whoever the local big man is.
In other words, "I'm not attacking my pet theory on how society should be, I'm attacking the way is currently being implemented". The problem is that people are people, human nature hasn't changed recently, and unlimited power will be abused. Communism and socialism were nice theories, but they should have stayed that way. Why do you think hippie communes never worked out? Human nature intervened, plus people had the ability to leave and they DID.
I'm hoping this is sarcasm. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt. If this is sarcasm, I agree. Totalitarian governments are bad, it doesn't matter what label you put on them. On the other hand, the holocaust thing was in bad taste... you should have been more obviously sarcastic if you want to use that reference. It's sort of like making fun of the epitaph on tombstone, you see... you can only get away with it if everyone there knew the person, understands the inside joke, and at least has a chance of seeing the humor in your insightful comment.
The problem with non-elected governments is human nature. That is, and always has been, the problem with any theory that promises utopia. Put one guy in charge who doesn't have to worry about consequences and it doesn't matter if the government is Communist, Fascist, or just a general dictatorship. The comparison between communism and Stalinism is valid because such a political environment will enivitably develop such a tyrant. Spare me the "in a perfect world", "the theory says", and all that crap. Governmental models can be judged by their results, and in a nutshell the societies without much freedom have sucked ass. Still do. Unless you want to live there, don't defend them. If you still feel like arguing, you are of course free to provide an example of totalitarian country doing the people any good.
Excellent arcticle... if the same thing happened again (overly successful biowar, for example) I'm sure the landscape would be a lot different in 200 years. I've lived in Central America... the jungle takes everything back very, very quickly once people leave.
I'm assuming that this is a troll... you let your secretary update her own machine? Did she also double as your system admin? If so,then give her credit for that. If not, you might have other problems. If it looks like a troll, acts like a troll, and sounds like a troll it probably is a troll.
FUD won't matter when we run out of gasoline, will it? Of course, alcohol is a pretty easy conversion but only hot rodders will bother with that. Ordering 55 gallon drums of it for racing is a pain. I know. I've done it. I always stored mine at the track, until someone stole it. Then I converted back to gasoline.
My ancient ninja 1000 has 0-60 times in the 3 second range, and easily breaks 100 mph in the eighth mile (on the track, so there's better traction). You just have to have it pointed in the right direction before you kicked it down three gears and whack the throttle open:) I doubt any fuel cell car will come anywhere near that level of performance for quite a while.
My current daily driver (66 mustang fastback) has 650 HP (roots blower on a bored and stroked ford v8). Yes, it burns rubber... but it also get 3 mpg. Power is good, paying for all that fuel is not. I'd try something like this if the price were reasonable... of course, the government would have to subsidize part of the cost to make them affordable in the beginning the way they do with alternative fuel vehicles now. BTW, I can run off of ethanol by changing jets in the carb, but then the fuel mileage drops even further (even if the engine seems to run a little better).
Plus, if you are in an accident, large vehicles are good... I had a 73 Mercedes 450 SEL... the damn thing weighed about as much as a Suburban, and got about the same mileage. I always wondered what would happen if a small car car pulled out in front of me. Fortunatly, I never got the chance to find out but I bet it would have been spectacular.
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From what I've seen, Volvo uses fairly solid engineering. Why would they do this using Windows 98 unless they had it on hand? Even that's not a good reason... $10 mil, and they run it off an unsupported buggy OS? Somehow, I doubt it. If they really did use that for the prototype, I doubt that they would use it for the production version.
Me too. Someone call Stephenson and tell him he's behind schedule... but leave out the crazy Eskimo with the nuke, will you?
And if it were possible to come back from the dead and avenge wrongs, you should be rather hard to prosecute :)
I'll sell them some advance space. Or someone else's... or... how long before someone noticed, anyway? Anyone know what they're paying?
yet to see it, though... you would have thought that they would have hammered that one out before the deal was signed...
No, the enemy is the script kiddies and worms that prey on low-hanging fruit. To defend against them, you need to know when an exploit is in the wild. Knowing when a vendor and/or Symantec made the problem the exploit exploits public is useless if it's too late. You want the most current information you can get... at least that way, you can just disable a service or do a work-around until a patch comes out. Do I trust a large corporation not to brush things under the rug in exchange for keeping other large corporations from being embarassed? No. Should you? Personal choice, I guess. I'll stick to IRC and the more arcane sites for info until I'm proved wrong. Word spreads fast these days, what with the internet and all...
Ok, you'll know when you read it in print six months later how your box got rooted. Actually, that could happen with the buyout of bugtraq too. Spend some time on IRC, on the blackhat sites, and talking to script kiddies instead of hanging out on Slashdot all day. You'll be just as well informed. It won't change anything for the 'kiddies, and it shouldn't for you either unless you just like being uninformed.
Only on Windows... and I use macafee anyway on my gaming box. Ever heard of Snort? They DID port that to windows, you know :)
Read earlier post... they don't exactly define responsible disclosure, do they? A week? Two weeks? A month? A year? I think it was Fyodor who independantly came up with a framework for responsible disclosure. It will be interesting to see if Symantec is more interested in making potential problems public knowledge or protecting companies that could be embarrased by them.
Or, will we be seeing less if Symantec institutes a policy of "the vendor has a year to respond before this can be made public, so don't post that?"
Deviant is saying anything far right wing on Slashdot. So I avoid that. Not because I'll get modded down, just in hopes that others will at least get to see and read between the lines. I'm not railing against group-think, by the way, that's part of the reason I hang out here. Other people more or less think the way I do about technology and it's application. But the side effects are at least worth considering, don't you think?
I don't think that they teamed up... it's more that big business would rather have consumers than customers, and would like government to protect them. Politicians running for office want money, and if you think there's no payback you're naive. It's more of a symbiotic relationship than a partnership... maybe, along with getting rid of soft money, we should make it illegal for lawyers to hold office. Never happen, I know, but think of the possibilities...
It's not just the policy makers you have to be concerned about. Private companies and the lawyers are worth worrying about too. Which private company announced that their network monitoring system could detect Peek-a-booty? What was their reason/excuse? A company could get sued because they didn't know what their network was being used for. I'm all for capitalism and the American way, but lawyers will always piss me off :) When in doubt, hire a mean one who swears a lot when on the phone with prosecuters. That way, you at least know he's sincere.
I hate to say this again, but you have to take human nature into account when evaluating a political model. Socialism has worked to an extent (although only wedded with capitalism). Communism failed, and with the rate China's rearming we all have a chance of being affected by those death throes when they finally roll over. Yes, most of Europe is socialist, but I don't see them doing much lately. And providing money to whoever they feel sorry for at the moment doesn't count, either. I know a guy who works for a U.N. mission in Africa, he admits that they would do just as well dumping the money (yes, greenbacks by the pallet) out of helicopters as they do delivering it personally to whoever the local big man is.
In other words, "I'm not attacking my pet theory on how society should be, I'm attacking the way is currently being implemented". The problem is that people are people, human nature hasn't changed recently, and unlimited power will be abused. Communism and socialism were nice theories, but they should have stayed that way. Why do you think hippie communes never worked out? Human nature intervened, plus people had the ability to leave and they DID.
I'm hoping this is sarcasm. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt. If this is sarcasm, I agree. Totalitarian governments are bad, it doesn't matter what label you put on them. On the other hand, the holocaust thing was in bad taste... you should have been more obviously sarcastic if you want to use that reference. It's sort of like making fun of the epitaph on tombstone, you see... you can only get away with it if everyone there knew the person, understands the inside joke, and at least has a chance of seeing the humor in your insightful comment.
The problem with non-elected governments is human nature. That is, and always has been, the problem with any theory that promises utopia. Put one guy in charge who doesn't have to worry about consequences and it doesn't matter if the government is Communist, Fascist, or just a general dictatorship. The comparison between communism and Stalinism is valid because such a political environment will enivitably develop such a tyrant. Spare me the "in a perfect world", "the theory says", and all that crap. Governmental models can be judged by their results, and in a nutshell the societies without much freedom have sucked ass. Still do. Unless you want to live there, don't defend them. If you still feel like arguing, you are of course free to provide an example of totalitarian country doing the people any good.
Excellent arcticle... if the same thing happened again (overly successful biowar, for example) I'm sure the landscape would be a lot different in 200 years. I've lived in Central America... the jungle takes everything back very, very quickly once people leave.
I'm assuming that this is a troll... you let your secretary update her own machine? Did she also double as your system admin? If so,then give her credit for that. If not, you might have other problems. If it looks like a troll, acts like a troll, and sounds like a troll it probably is a troll.
I thought the problem was price and a fuel network (if you use hydrogen and not a conversion process), not performance.
FUD won't matter when we run out of gasoline, will it? Of course, alcohol is a pretty easy conversion but only hot rodders will bother with that. Ordering 55 gallon drums of it for racing is a pain. I know. I've done it. I always stored mine at the track, until someone stole it. Then I converted back to gasoline.
My ancient ninja 1000 has 0-60 times in the 3 second range, and easily breaks 100 mph in the eighth mile (on the track, so there's better traction). You just have to have it pointed in the right direction before you kicked it down three gears and whack the throttle open :) I doubt any fuel cell car will come anywhere near that level of performance for quite a while.
My current daily driver (66 mustang fastback) has 650 HP (roots blower on a bored and stroked ford v8). Yes, it burns rubber... but it also get 3 mpg. Power is good, paying for all that fuel is not. I'd try something like this if the price were reasonable... of course, the government would have to subsidize part of the cost to make them affordable in the beginning the way they do with alternative fuel vehicles now. BTW, I can run off of ethanol by changing jets in the carb, but then the fuel mileage drops even further (even if the engine seems to run a little better).
Plus, if you are in an accident, large vehicles are good... I had a 73 Mercedes 450 SEL... the damn thing weighed about as much as a Suburban, and got about the same mileage. I always wondered what would happen if a small car car pulled out in front of me. Fortunatly, I never got the chance to find out but I bet it would have been spectacular.
I think the general consensus is that Marque_Off is a bot of some kind.