Let's just look at this with statistics.
Iran hostages 1980
Marine barracks 1983
Berlin disco 1985
Pan Am airplane 1988
World Trade Center 1992
Khobar Towers 1996
US Embassy Bombings 1998
attempted Millenium celebration bombing 1999
USS Cole 2000
World Trade Center 2001
Pentagon 2001
Bali nightclub bombing 2002
Spanish train bombinbs 2004
Unabomber about 10 people
McVeigh about 200 people
Gee does anyone see an overwhelming statistical odd that a terrorist will be muslim???
Whoever modded parent as a troll was dead wrong. The person is making a valid point about possible hypocrisy on slashdot!! When IE had a remote code execution hole, people said to switch to mozilla. When mozilla had a remote code execution hole, people are now saying, oh its ok, they fixed a 2 year old bug as soon as someone else on the internet found out about it.
Are you guys crazy???!!! Mozilla had a remote code execution bug for ***2 years*** and no one fixed it! And, don't give me that junk about the OS shouldn't take the request so its really MS's fault - what do you think the OS is for?? It's there to execute programs, so of course it will have functionality built into it to execute code. Simply, a web browser should never, ever, ever pass a code execution event off to the OS just because a web site tells it to - that is really dumb! If the browser doesn't know what to do with an event, it should ignore it or give an error, don't just trust it and pass it on to the OS.
If you had read the article/post, you would see that the author specifically states that IE development has stagnated the past few years & that work on IE updates is picking back up again - starting with work on XP sp2 (popup blocking, extensions manager). In fact, here's the exact quote:
With respect to this discussion, it might help to provide a little context. After IE 6 shipped in the fall of 2001, parts of the IE team went off to focus on different web browsing challenges. For instance, the UI team went off and built MSN Explorer. While Microsoft's overall investment in the web and web browsing probably actually went up during this time, it's probably fair to say that we defocused on Internet Explorer proper. It's easy to Monday morning quarterback this set of decisions, but whatever, here we are.
Anyway, we've started the get the band back together as it were. So far, the new IE team really has been focused on security and taking care of key corporate customer issues. A big part of the security effort has been our push around XPSP2. This has been all-consuming to the point where we've essentially stopped our Longhorn work for now.
Who said anything about tabbed browsing coming to IE? I have SP2 release candidate installed on a test machine and IE definitely does not have tabbed browsing. IE has only added a popup blocker and extensions manager.
In the article, he talks about how Netscape wouldn't have died if management had let them release netscape 5. I don't agree - netscape 4 sucked scissors, and IE was already coming in and showing netscape how a web browser was supposed to be done. Netscape 5 would have continued this trend because it was based off of the same crappy code. Today, however, the situation is reversed - IE sux scissors, and Mozilla is showing IE how it should be done.
The net is not decentralized and it never will be. Look at what happened today - one root server goes down & it breaks the Internet for half of the US population & possibly others. I am unable to access the server listed above from various server locations spread across the country & using different ISP's.
The internet is completely vulnerable to virus attacks, terrorist attacks because of the single point of failures that still exist - despite everyone preaching to the contrary.
I'm in the US - east coast, and I can't get to a lot of site: www.yahoo.com, www.microsoft.com, www.akamai.com, and others. I keep getting DNS lookup failures.
Yeah, but are you going around manually installing spybot on every single machine? The time to manage that kind of setup is exponential to the number of machines you have. If you have a way to deploy spybot, push updates, & schedule scans remotely, I would love for you to post that method.
I don't understand why antivirus companies don't include spyware removal in the virus tables. It wouldn't require any additional programs - they just have to get a signature for each type of spyware and put it in the table. It seems like such a logical, easy step, that you have to wonder what would motivate the antivirus companies to not clean off spyware. Are they just big, slow, stupid corporations who can't see **THE NEXT BIG THING**? Are they afraid of a lawsuit from spyware companies like Claria (Gator)? Do they have an unwritten agreement with spyware companies to stay out of their territory?
We have 2 new snap servers here at work. They STILL do not support SMB ACL's except through the web interface (!!!), also they do not have full NFS support - no hard links (!!!), so we had to use the servers for less important tasks due to their lack of functionality. So, on paper, the snap server looks great, but when we tried to use it, we were quickly disillusioned with it.
Unfortunately, the UN is about as anti-US as they come. The move to take control of the Internet goes along with the rest of the UN's practices - to break down boundaries of countries and slowly form a single world government. While that sounds like a good idea, the UN is a little too socialist for my likes. They openly state in their charter that all humans have certain rights, like freedom of speech, as long as using that right doesn't interfere with a stated goal of the UN. This will mean censorship of the Internet and probably will cause coutries to isolate themselves from the rest of the world to avoid the negative effects of a UN run Internet.
The Senate just approved an anti-spam bill 97-0 and the House is working on a similar bill (story here). Hopefully this will keep normal people from getting duped into buying the crap that floods our inboxes.
I work as tech support at a university. It is my experience that most people actually read spam messages and then actively consider the promotion. I guess they are still naive to the ways of the internet and believe they are actually seeing a good deal sent to them. People always ask me about the "send your bank account info to nigeria" scam because they don't ever think that *they* could be the target of a scam. I'm afraid to think of what kinds of scams these people fall for in the real world if they believe everything they read on their computer screen.
The IIS hits/sec are virtually nonexistant because the updates are only downloaded once a day. Even during the peak load, there is no noticeable slowdown. The CPU load is about 5% constant. The memory use is about 190MB out of 512MB.
As far as the specs go, I am using it on a dual p2-400 xeon with 512mb ram. This computer is a domain controller and a SUS server. I am having no trouble with it slowing down. I don't think this qualifies as a supercomputer. I am serving updates to about 400 computers and I never experience any slowdown on the server.
I tried using group policies to push out patches, but it is such a pain to do and keep up with. I think that if you tried SUS on your domain controller, you would be happy with it.
The one thing that I didn't like about SUS was the fact that by default, you have to send the administrator password over a cleartext web page to use it. So, I installed Certificate Service on the server, generated a certificate, and installed it on the web page. Now when I go to https://someserver/susadmin, I get an error that the certificate could not be validated. However, I choose to continue, and then I get to use the administrative page with 128 bit encryption!:-)
They've been saying that for a while, and I haven't seen any evidence of that. I really hope that 1.5 is their last integrated release, and they can focus on thunderbird/firebird. I use both of these at home and at work now, and I am very please with their simple gui interface and small download sizes (I'm on 56K at home).
Yeah, I'm getting the same thing. Earlier today, I ran windows update on a sersver, rebooted and windows update showed this message. I tried it on my workstation, and it is doing the same thing. Of course, I am running IE 6 on both machines when I using windows update.
Looks like the wonderful windows update site has failed again.
This sounds exactly like what happened with Netscape. Microsoft ignored the Internet for years as Netscape built up clients, then they came in and destroyed them.
With viruses, Microsoft has ignored them for years - blaming virus writers and people who didn't patch their systems every 30 seconds. Now they have finally awoken to the fact that they have to take some responsibility for abuses of their system due to shoddy programming.
How will Norton, McAfee, etc. survive this? Microsoft will force their product down our throats and will kill more competition.
Q&A: SCO's Chris Sontag on Linux, Unix and brewing legal fights
'There is inappropriate intellectual property in Linux,' he says
By PATRICK THIBODEAU
MAY 29, 2003
Content Type: Story
Source: Computerworld
SCO's Linux Suit
Q&A: SCO's Chris Sontag on Linux, Unix and brewing legal fights
SCO's licensing deal with Microsoft raises user doubts
Users Outraged as SCO Stakes Linux Legal Claim
Novell calls on SCO to prove allegations about Linux
SCO quits German Linux group after it sought proof of Unix claims
Linux Vendors Reject SCO's Legal Claims
SCO confirms Microsoft has licensed its Unix technology
German software group threatens to sue SCO on Linux
Update: SCO warns commercial Linux users of potential 'legal liability'
In two weeks, The SCO Group Inc. intends to begin showing analysts
where the Unix code it owns has been illegally copied into the Linux
kernel. The source code will be made available to parties who agree not
to disclose the Unix source code, but they will be able to share
publicly their assessments of SCO's claim. SCO has filed a $1 billion
lawsuit against IBM alleging misappropriation of trade secrets and
other claims and has warned some 1,500 businesses that they may be
using Linux at their legal peril.
In an interview with Computerworld reporter Patrick Thibodeau, SCO's
Chris Sontag, a senior vice president and general manager of SCOsource
Division, the group within SCO in charge of enforcing the company's
intellectual property, discussed the company's position.
Why should Linux users take your claim seriously? Think about if I was
the CIO of a company and I'm going to be running my business on an
operating system that has an intellectual property foundation that, by
almost everyone's admission, is built on quicksand. There is no
mechanism in Linux to ensure [the legality of] that intellectual
property of the source code being contributed by various people. We
fully believe there are many contributions made by good, hard-working
individuals into Linux that are not of issue. But based on the research
that we have done, we have identified specific Unix System V code for
which we have ownership rights that have ended up in Linux against our
wishes. There is inappropriate intellectual property in Linux. The
development process has no one that is ensuring that inappropriate code
is not getting into Linux. All that's there is an honor system, and
obviously there are a few, at least, that have broken that honor.
Chris Sontag of The SCO Group Inc.
Your letter to 1,500 end-user companies outlining your claim was vague.
What is it that you want from these companies? The one thing that we
specifically want from those 1,500 companies that we directly sent
those letters to is for them to not take our word on the warning that
we sent... but to seek an opinion of their legal counsel as to the
issues that we raised.
What do you see as a company's options in the face of your warning? I
would suspend any new Linux-related activities until this is all sorted
out. But first get that opinion of your legal counsel. If they say
there is no problem and no issue, then you probably have nothing to
worry about. But I doubt there is any attorney worth his salt that is
going to say there is no potential of an issue here. There is a big
issue.
Should companies remove Linux from their systems? We're not making any
specific recommendations at this time. We're still getting our arms
around the size of this problem. We're still identifying more and more
code from Unix System V that is in Linux, and so we haven't even fully
scoped the problem. It's hard to come up with solutions until you have
the full problem identified, and as you may guess, it's a very big
problem.
Are you considering suing Linux users that you notified? Anything is
always a possibility. If you are going to enforce
Well, if you believe that, then the laptop isn't for you. They say in the article that it is meant for people who work in hazardous areas and need a working laptop that can stand up to whatever they can throw at it, not a fast & cheap laptop.
I don't think I'd buy one of these laptops either because I'm not likely to be fighting a chemical spill or a fire while working on my laptop.
With going to a movie theater, I can understand paying that price because I can watch a good movie on a huge screen with great sound.
Now, with a video game, why would I pay $10 (or whatever) to play with the same kind of setup I have at home? I would imagine that the people who would be interested in this already have a very good setup at home and this would be a waste of time for a lot of people.
This isn't an arcade where one game is a quarter - the price they are asking is prohibitively expensive for what is received. I would rather even rent a game and play it at home or at a lan party.
Slashdot Mirror
Iran hostages 1980
Marine barracks 1983
Berlin disco 1985
Pan Am airplane 1988
World Trade Center 1992
Khobar Towers 1996
US Embassy Bombings 1998
attempted Millenium celebration bombing 1999
USS Cole 2000
World Trade Center 2001
Pentagon 2001
Bali nightclub bombing 2002
Spanish train bombinbs 2004
Unabomber about 10 people
McVeigh about 200 people
Gee does anyone see an overwhelming statistical odd that a terrorist will be muslim???
Are you guys crazy???!!! Mozilla had a remote code execution bug for ***2 years*** and no one fixed it! And, don't give me that junk about the OS shouldn't take the request so its really MS's fault - what do you think the OS is for?? It's there to execute programs, so of course it will have functionality built into it to execute code. Simply, a web browser should never, ever, ever pass a code execution event off to the OS just because a web site tells it to - that is really dumb! If the browser doesn't know what to do with an event, it should ignore it or give an error, don't just trust it and pass it on to the OS.
Who said anything about tabbed browsing coming to IE? I have SP2 release candidate installed on a test machine and IE definitely does not have tabbed browsing. IE has only added a popup blocker and extensions manager.
In the article, he talks about how Netscape wouldn't have died if management had let them release netscape 5. I don't agree - netscape 4 sucked scissors, and IE was already coming in and showing netscape how a web browser was supposed to be done. Netscape 5 would have continued this trend because it was based off of the same crappy code. Today, however, the situation is reversed - IE sux scissors, and Mozilla is showing IE how it should be done.
The internet is completely vulnerable to virus attacks, terrorist attacks because of the single point of failures that still exist - despite everyone preaching to the contrary.
Anybody know what's going on with DNS today??
I don't understand why antivirus companies don't include spyware removal in the virus tables. It wouldn't require any additional programs - they just have to get a signature for each type of spyware and put it in the table. It seems like such a logical, easy step, that you have to wonder what would motivate the antivirus companies to not clean off spyware. Are they just big, slow, stupid corporations who can't see **THE NEXT BIG THING**? Are they afraid of a lawsuit from spyware companies like Claria (Gator)? Do they have an unwritten agreement with spyware companies to stay out of their territory?
We have 2 new snap servers here at work. They STILL do not support SMB ACL's except through the web interface (!!!), also they do not have full NFS support - no hard links (!!!), so we had to use the servers for less important tasks due to their lack of functionality. So, on paper, the snap server looks great, but when we tried to use it, we were quickly disillusioned with it.
Their power supplies are really quiet too after a good slashdotting!
Unfortunately, the UN is about as anti-US as they come. The move to take control of the Internet goes along with the rest of the UN's practices - to break down boundaries of countries and slowly form a single world government. While that sounds like a good idea, the UN is a little too socialist for my likes. They openly state in their charter that all humans have certain rights, like freedom of speech, as long as using that right doesn't interfere with a stated goal of the UN. This will mean censorship of the Internet and probably will cause coutries to isolate themselves from the rest of the world to avoid the negative effects of a UN run Internet.
Here is one of the images - it shows the pumpkin with the linux penguin carved into it. Pumpkin
I work as tech support at a university. It is my experience that most people actually read spam messages and then actively consider the promotion. I guess they are still naive to the ways of the internet and believe they are actually seeing a good deal sent to them. People always ask me about the "send your bank account info to nigeria" scam because they don't ever think that *they* could be the target of a scam. I'm afraid to think of what kinds of scams these people fall for in the real world if they believe everything they read on their computer screen.
The IIS hits/sec are virtually nonexistant because the updates are only downloaded once a day. Even during the peak load, there is no noticeable slowdown. The CPU load is about 5% constant. The memory use is about 190MB out of 512MB.
I tried using group policies to push out patches, but it is such a pain to do and keep up with. I think that if you tried SUS on your domain controller, you would be happy with it.
The one thing that I didn't like about SUS was the fact that by default, you have to send the administrator password over a cleartext web page to use it. So, I installed Certificate Service on the server, generated a certificate, and installed it on the web page. Now when I go to https://someserver/susadmin, I get an error that the certificate could not be validated. However, I choose to continue, and then I get to use the administrative page with 128 bit encryption! :-)
They've been saying that for a while, and I haven't seen any evidence of that. I really hope that 1.5 is their last integrated release, and they can focus on thunderbird/firebird. I use both of these at home and at work now, and I am very please with their simple gui interface and small download sizes (I'm on 56K at home).
http://progressive.stream.aol.com/newline/gl/newli ne/lordoftherings/TheTwoTowers-tlr_fs.zip
Looks like the wonderful windows update site has failed again.
I don't think I would get near it if that gross hand comes with it.
With viruses, Microsoft has ignored them for years - blaming virus writers and people who didn't patch their systems every 30 seconds. Now they have finally awoken to the fact that they have to take some responsibility for abuses of their system due to shoddy programming.
How will Norton, McAfee, etc. survive this? Microsoft will force their product down our throats and will kill more competition.
Q&A: SCO's Chris Sontag on Linux, Unix and brewing legal fights
... but to seek an opinion of their legal counsel as to the
issues that we raised.
'There is inappropriate intellectual property in Linux,' he says
By PATRICK THIBODEAU
MAY 29, 2003
Content Type: Story
Source: Computerworld
SCO's Linux Suit
Q&A: SCO's Chris Sontag on Linux, Unix and brewing legal fights
SCO's licensing deal with Microsoft raises user doubts
Users Outraged as SCO Stakes Linux Legal Claim
Novell calls on SCO to prove allegations about Linux
SCO quits German Linux group after it sought proof of Unix claims
Linux Vendors Reject SCO's Legal Claims
SCO confirms Microsoft has licensed its Unix technology
German software group threatens to sue SCO on Linux
Update: SCO warns commercial Linux users of potential 'legal liability'
In two weeks, The SCO Group Inc. intends to begin showing analysts where the Unix code it owns has been illegally copied into the Linux kernel. The source code will be made available to parties who agree not to disclose the Unix source code, but they will be able to share publicly their assessments of SCO's claim. SCO has filed a $1 billion lawsuit against IBM alleging misappropriation of trade secrets and other claims and has warned some 1,500 businesses that they may be using Linux at their legal peril.
In an interview with Computerworld reporter Patrick Thibodeau, SCO's Chris Sontag, a senior vice president and general manager of SCOsource Division, the group within SCO in charge of enforcing the company's intellectual property, discussed the company's position.
Why should Linux users take your claim seriously? Think about if I was the CIO of a company and I'm going to be running my business on an operating system that has an intellectual property foundation that, by almost everyone's admission, is built on quicksand. There is no mechanism in Linux to ensure [the legality of] that intellectual property of the source code being contributed by various people. We fully believe there are many contributions made by good, hard-working individuals into Linux that are not of issue. But based on the research that we have done, we have identified specific Unix System V code for which we have ownership rights that have ended up in Linux against our wishes. There is inappropriate intellectual property in Linux. The development process has no one that is ensuring that inappropriate code is not getting into Linux. All that's there is an honor system, and obviously there are a few, at least, that have broken that honor.
Chris Sontag of The SCO Group Inc.
Your letter to 1,500 end-user companies outlining your claim was vague. What is it that you want from these companies? The one thing that we specifically want from those 1,500 companies that we directly sent those letters to is for them to not take our word on the warning that we sent
What do you see as a company's options in the face of your warning? I would suspend any new Linux-related activities until this is all sorted out. But first get that opinion of your legal counsel. If they say there is no problem and no issue, then you probably have nothing to worry about. But I doubt there is any attorney worth his salt that is going to say there is no potential of an issue here. There is a big issue.
Should companies remove Linux from their systems? We're not making any specific recommendations at this time. We're still getting our arms around the size of this problem. We're still identifying more and more code from Unix System V that is in Linux, and so we haven't even fully scoped the problem. It's hard to come up with solutions until you have the full problem identified, and as you may guess, it's a very big problem.
Are you considering suing Linux users that you notified? Anything is always a possibility. If you are going to enforce
SCO's lawsuit against IBM does not involve patents or copyrights.
However, in the press release about the stock holder's conference call, they state this:
The SCO Group (NASDAQ: SCOX), the owner of the UNIX operating system...
Sounds like SCO is doing a little backpedaling in the Yahoo article. :-)
In fact, they say in the article that with "applications/games people really use", it is even harder to detect driver cheats.
I don't think I'd buy one of these laptops either because I'm not likely to be fighting a chemical spill or a fire while working on my laptop.
Now, with a video game, why would I pay $10 (or whatever) to play with the same kind of setup I have at home? I would imagine that the people who would be interested in this already have a very good setup at home and this would be a waste of time for a lot of people.
This isn't an arcade where one game is a quarter - the price they are asking is prohibitively expensive for what is received. I would rather even rent a game and play it at home or at a lan party.