In previous wars, it was typically a symbol of honor to cut off some part of an enemy that you killed or tortured and wear it or keep it like a trophy.
I always wondered why my Dad kept that pickled Nazi penis! Thanks for clearing that mystery up for me...
And the fact that porn does not lack redeeming qualities does not alter the fact that it promotes the objectification of women and appeals to one's prurient interests.
And somehow, I can hear this conversation 2500 years ago:
And the fact that erotic pottery does not lack redeeming qualities does not alter the fact that it promotes the objectification of women and appeals to one's prurient interests.
People are people are people and they have been since we have had a culture to define us. It's not "Objectifying" women. It's answering a need that comes right after food and shelter.
If the exploit is in a component that runs as a limited user, you'll need an additional local root exploit to get System rights - same as in any other OS.
But the problem is (if you read the article...) that there are far more processes in Windows that run with privilege than those that are restricted.
To quote TFA:
RPCs are potential security risks because they are designed to let other computers somewhere on a network to tell your computer what to do. Whenever someone discovers a flaw in an RPC-enabled program, there is the potential for someone with a network-connected computer to exploit the flaw in order to tell your computer what to do. Unfortunately, Windows users cannot disable RPC because Windows depends upon it, even if your computer is not connected to a network. Many Windows services are simply designed that way. In some cases, you can block an RPC port at your firewall, but Windows often depends so heavily on RPC mechanisms for basic functions that this is not always possible. Ironically, some of the most serious vulnerabilities in Windows Server 2003 (see table in section below) are due to flaws in the Windows RPC functions themselves, rather than the applications that use them. The most common way to exploit an RPC-related vulnerability is to attack the service that uses RPC, not RPC itself.
It is important to note that RPCs are not always necessary, which makes it all the more mysterious as to why Microsoft indiscriminately relies on them.
THAT is what makes Windows different from any other OS and thus more vulnerable.
Anyway, fat and gasoline have about the same energy content...
It's a symptom of my warped imagination that I saw that, thought of Liposuction and then imagined pulling into a gas station for a tank of Super Fatty...
What if you are guilty? That's why there are trials and juries and all that.
To see such optimism really warms my old heart... can I quote that above to these guys?
If you don't like the way the law and courts work, I would agree. It doesn't mean that what the RIAA is doing is wrong.
Don't you think that being sued in a civil court and running up thousands of dollars in legal fees is a threat? One that the RIAA/MPAA uses all the time. And even if you are innocent, stand your ground and defend yourself, the penalties that could be applied if you are wrongly convicted (see above) will ruin your life.
When the RIAA starts doing the right thing, then I'll start supporting their actions against those that infringe. Until then, this looks too much like a big criminal shaking down a smaller one.
That's because the military forbids service members from speaking out against the chain of command, especially the President. We're sworn to uphold the Constitution, the saying goes, not practice it.
Specifically, the UCMJ prevents political activity while in uniform. Otherwise, you do not give up your right to speak out as you wish at the appropriate time and place. A leter to the editor is perfectly legal, for instance, but appearing in uniform in a political ad (for or against the current president) is not.
The WTC was designed to withstand the impact of a commercial airliner, but it was contemporary commercial airliners that were designed for, not the ones that would be in the sky 20 or 30 years later.
Just to be a pedantic idiot, I have to point out that 747s first flew commercially in 1969. The towers were finished in 1972 for Tower One and 1973 for Tower Two.
The planes that hit were smaller than 747s. The collapse was not caused by the impact of the airliners. The towers collapsed becuase the secondary fires from the collision buckled the steel because the insullation was ripped off in the initial collisions. It was the secondary effects of the collisions that caused the collapse.
The above is of course splitting hairs, but let's give the architects/engineers some slack. After all, I'm sure that they never designed the towers to survive an intentional collision with an airliner.
LOL. I tried for a moment to come up with a good vaporware OS, but nothing came to me.:-)
Longhorn? Or a secure MS-OS?
AmigaOS?
I think most of those are in the same world where I'm sitting on the fantail of my yacht, playing DukeNukem Forever! on my OQO while Natalie Portman is in the galley whipping up a batch of hot grits!
Well, IBM unfortunately mentions some taken over features explicitly on their own website...
Which begs the question... if it is on IBM's website, why did SCO have to find this through discovery? Why go through all those documents when you could just tell the judge to point their browser to IBM's page?
While I applaud your zeal, might I suggest that you use an absentee ballot instead? This will bypass the eletronic voting booth and, if enough people request them, prove your point without a sledgehammer.
This will never happen. Even if Novell didn't make it impossible for Sun, IBM could easily outbid Sun. I think they have learned their lesson from Microsoft and DOS, but obviously Sun hasn't. Just because Sun buys one distro doesn't mean that IBM coldn't roll their own.
The whole idea of Sun buying Novell for their Linux distro is absurd. There are otehr, cheaper distros or Sun could roll their own much more cheaply and effectively for their own hardware.
This is nothing more than business plan testing by public opinion.
Umm you're only partially correct, viruses are ok, but its not just Windows that is vulenarable to DDoS attacks.
True, but it's the number of compromised Windows machines that allow for large DDos attacks in the first place. Get rid of those (if that's from better security practices or eliminating them) and you cripple DDoS attackers.
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I always wondered why my Dad kept that pickled Nazi penis! Thanks for clearing that mystery up for me...
SP2 for what? IE 6? I'm already on SP4 for my Win 2K boxes. Or do we have to all buy XP and apply SP2 for us to brwose safely?
And somehow, I can hear this conversation 2500 years ago:
People are people are people and they have been since we have had a culture to define us. It's not "Objectifying" women. It's answering a need that comes right after food and shelter.
Actually, for Windows XP Home Edition or XP Professional not part of a domain, it is still true.
Have you tried adding a printer?
Well, then just disable that pesky RPC service on your workstation and then write back and let us know how that works.
Far too many services in Windows depend on that RPC service. So many so that you can't even use the system effectively without it.
But the problem is (if you read the article...) that there are far more processes in Windows that run with privilege than those that are restricted.
To quote TFA:
THAT is what makes Windows different from any other OS and thus more vulnerable.A gentleman, son, always lets a lady enter a room first. You never know what might be waiting in there...
It's a symptom of my warped imagination that I saw that, thought of Liposuction and then imagined pulling into a gas station for a tank of Super Fatty...
I have got to stop watching Fight Club so much...
Now I have to clean baked bean and ham sandwich splatter off my monitor...
When it has been installed in your house for about 16 years, it will overclock with no intervention on your part...
To see such optimism really warms my old heart... can I quote that above to these guys?
Don't you think that being sued in a civil court and running up thousands of dollars in legal fees is a threat? One that the RIAA/MPAA uses all the time. And even if you are innocent, stand your ground and defend yourself, the penalties that could be applied if you are wrongly convicted (see above) will ruin your life.
Copyright law needs to exist to protect the rights of the artists that produce the content , not the industry that doesn't compensate them and screws consumers, then blatantly thumbs their nose at the court ordered fix.
When the RIAA starts doing the right thing, then I'll start supporting their actions against those that infringe. Until then, this looks too much like a big criminal shaking down a smaller one.
Specifically, the UCMJ prevents political activity while in uniform. Otherwise, you do not give up your right to speak out as you wish at the appropriate time and place. A leter to the editor is perfectly legal, for instance, but appearing in uniform in a political ad (for or against the current president) is not.
Just to be a pedantic idiot, I have to point out that 747s first flew commercially in 1969. The towers were finished in 1972 for Tower One and 1973 for Tower Two.
The planes that hit were smaller than 747s. The collapse was not caused by the impact of the airliners. The towers collapsed becuase the secondary fires from the collision buckled the steel because the insullation was ripped off in the initial collisions. It was the secondary effects of the collisions that caused the collapse.
The above is of course splitting hairs, but let's give the architects/engineers some slack. After all, I'm sure that they never designed the towers to survive an intentional collision with an airliner.
Where's that +5, Extremely Intelligent moderation when you need it?
So when the harddrive goes, it's like getting two! , two! users out of work for the price of one!
Longhorn? Or a secure MS-OS?
AmigaOS?
I think most of those are in the same world where I'm sitting on the fantail of my yacht, playing DukeNukem Forever! on my OQO while Natalie Portman is in the galley whipping up a batch of hot grits!
Which begs the question... if it is on IBM's website, why did SCO have to find this through discovery? Why go through all those documents when you could just tell the judge to point their browser to IBM's page?
While I applaud your zeal, might I suggest that you use an absentee ballot instead? This will bypass the eletronic voting booth and, if enough people request them, prove your point without a sledgehammer.
No, Slashdot doesn't. But I'll bet SCO does.
It figures. Someone makes a comment that is both insightful and informative and I have no mod points...
I think we've already proven that here on Earth...
The whole idea of Sun buying Novell for their Linux distro is absurd. There are otehr, cheaper distros or Sun could roll their own much more cheaply and effectively for their own hardware.
This is nothing more than business plan testing by public opinion.
True, but it's the number of compromised Windows machines that allow for large DDos attacks in the first place. Get rid of those (if that's from better security practices or eliminating them) and you cripple DDoS attackers.
A spell checker won't help you if you can't express a coherent thought.