So, I suppose you wouldn't care if someone took your GPL'ed work, violated the license, and released it - with their name on it, deleting all credit and the GPL license?
The copyright owner of the code may not be losing the code itself, but that doesn't change the fact that they have the right to say how their code is used and who gets it.
I'm personally hoping for a properly done Star Wars RTS. The Star Wars: New Rebellion mod for Homeworld was a nice start, but it suffered from not having access to a lot of stuff in the HW engine... it'll be interesting to see what they can do with it now!
Dictionary.com gives many other, more relevant definitions. Only 4 and 7 fit your definition - 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 fit mine.
1. Free from danger or attack: a secure fortress.
2. Free from risk of loss; safe: Her papers were secure in the vault.
3. Free from the risk of being intercepted or listened to by unauthorized persons: Only one telephone line in the embassy was secure.
4. Free from fear, anxiety, or doubt.
5.
a. Not likely to fail or give way; stable: a secure stepladder.
b. Firmly fastened: a secure lock.
6. Reliable; dependable: secure investments.
7. Assured; certain: With three goals in the first period they had a secure victory, but somehow they lost.
8. Archaic. Careless or overconfident.
If the public can't review something, they can't know it's safe.
No, but they certainly can (and will!) assume. Look at Windows users, and look at the Linux zealots who'll gleefully tell you that Linux is invulnerable.
If there truly are zero vulnerabilities, security holes, bugs, etc., it's secure - whether the users trust it to be or not doesn't change that. It just changes whether they're likely to use it.
Why do you seek to portray Verisign as such a sleazy company?
If you ever had a domain with them, you'd think they're sleazy too.
I spent months trying to transfer a domain away from them, and when I finally thought I'd be able to do it, they told me "You can't transfer your domain when there are less than 30 days to the renewal date" - essentially, they made me pay $35 for 4 more days. Luckily, easyDNS is nice enough to honor the remaining time on your domains.
I always assumed he collapsed gasping from air because he knew how close he'd come to being discovered, not from exhaustion.
After all, you do see him doing upside down sit-ups with a heavy weight... surely he can handle the run, just with a higher heart rate than his "perfect" DNA should have resulted in.
Even if an end user executed an attachement under Linux, it would only run as an that user, not Administrator or root. The worst that would happen is the users home directory being deleted.
First off, the home directory is the important thing. I could care less if gcc gets deleted - I'll just fix that. If some virus goes through and deletes all my e-mail, my documents, etc., though, I'm gonna be pissed.
Not only that, but I seem to remember a node on everything2 describing a couple steps to get root access on a Linux box. It's not impenetrable.
See a difference? You need mark a program as executable on Linux.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but you've gotta do that on Windows too. Double clicking a virus renamed *.txt isn't going to infect your computer. It's gonna have to be an executable - *.exe, *.vbs, etc.
If popularity is what makes Windows insecure, then why is IIS being hit many more times than Apache even while Apache runs 60% of the websites out there?
Windows' popularity ensures that the vast majority of script kiddies run Windows. They'd probably be lost trying to hack something running on Linux just because of their lack of familiarity with it.
Mine was booted sep 1 when I got home from a vacation, which means it has been running for almost three weeks straight without crashes.
Current uptime on my XP box: six weeks.
Thank god I'm not using one of those windows systems that some people need to play computer games and have to reinstall all the time.
Uh, when I install a computer game I don't have to reinstall it after that. If you mean reboot - well, I just installed Homeworld 2 and it didn't even suggest a reboot.
Try using a recent version of Windows before you spout off about how awful it is.
Whats wrong with Linux? Linux isnt the operating system with a new worm coming out for it every week.
Linux isn't the operating system with 95% of the users.
I feel pretty damn safe under Linux, how do you feel worrying about when the next worm will take over your entire machine? How do you feel about viruses, hows that Zone Alarm treating you?
8 years using Windows. 0 viruses and worms. No virus scanner, no firewall software. Just some common sense and WindowsUpdate set to notifiy me when there are critical updates.
And that's having used Outlook and IE up until Mozilla Firebird / Thunderbird came out.
Honestly, zealots love to say how awful Windows is, but most people get infected because of social engineering - like the one this article's about. You can't do anything about someone who compulsively opens all attachments - whether they're using Windows or Linux (barring banning them from attachments at the mail server, of course).
Having a few socialist policies does not make one a socialist. The US has some socialist aspects - if we didn't, there'd be no taxes and no public services.
Anyways, a socialist is better than a fascist anyday.
They won't if filesharing is legal, or at least if there is no risk of getting sued. Look at Napster - centralized database, millions of users. As long as there's no risk to them, people don't generally give a shit about privacy.
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So, I suppose you wouldn't care if someone took your GPL'ed work, violated the license, and released it - with their name on it, deleting all credit and the GPL license?
The copyright owner of the code may not be losing the code itself, but that doesn't change the fact that they have the right to say how their code is used and who gets it.
I'm personally hoping for a properly done Star Wars RTS. The Star Wars: New Rebellion mod for Homeworld was a nice start, but it suffered from not having access to a lot of stuff in the HW engine... it'll be interesting to see what they can do with it now!
Imagine a world without copyright.
Imagine a world without any good games.
It was special, in that I felt very good to get it when I finally got away from Verisign. easyDNS's customer support was (is) wonderful, too.
Dictionary.com gives many other, more relevant definitions. Only 4 and 7 fit your definition - 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 fit mine.
1. Free from danger or attack: a secure fortress.
2. Free from risk of loss; safe: Her papers were secure in the vault.
3. Free from the risk of being intercepted or listened to by unauthorized persons: Only one telephone line in the embassy was secure.
4. Free from fear, anxiety, or doubt.
5.
a. Not likely to fail or give way; stable: a secure stepladder.
b. Firmly fastened: a secure lock.
6. Reliable; dependable: secure investments.
7. Assured; certain: With three goals in the first period they had a secure victory, but somehow they lost.
8. Archaic. Careless or overconfident.
Yes, however, you're getting their additional features ("DNS-Plus") which would normally cost $15 of the registration fee for free for that year.
If CIPE were closed source, would he have even been able to write this article?
Yeah, 'cuz Windows being closed source prevents people from finding security vulnerabilities and writing articles on them...
If the public can't review something, they can't know it's safe.
No, but they certainly can (and will!) assume. Look at Windows users, and look at the Linux zealots who'll gleefully tell you that Linux is invulnerable.
If there truly are zero vulnerabilities, security holes, bugs, etc., it's secure - whether the users trust it to be or not doesn't change that. It just changes whether they're likely to use it.
Why do you seek to portray Verisign as such a sleazy company?
If you ever had a domain with them, you'd think they're sleazy too.
I spent months trying to transfer a domain away from them, and when I finally thought I'd be able to do it, they told me "You can't transfer your domain when there are less than 30 days to the renewal date" - essentially, they made me pay $35 for 4 more days. Luckily, easyDNS is nice enough to honor the remaining time on your domains.
Right - 'tis the spam arms race.
I suppose the filters that get tricked are the ones on big ISPs that look for completely identical e-mails going to large numbers of their users.
It's not encrypted data - it's merely random text intended to throw off spam filters.
I always assumed he collapsed gasping from air because he knew how close he'd come to being discovered, not from exhaustion.
After all, you do see him doing upside down sit-ups with a heavy weight... surely he can handle the run, just with a higher heart rate than his "perfect" DNA should have resulted in.
I'm aware of chmod, but the only time I've needed to do that is when installing CGI scripts on a remote web server.
When I untarred Mozilla to my home directory in Mandrake 8.0 it ran without any need to change permissions that I can remember.
Hmm.
Using Mandrake 8.0, I never had to set permissions on any executables that I can remember.
Even if an end user executed an attachement under Linux, it would only run as an that user, not Administrator or root. The worst that would happen is the users home directory being deleted.
First off, the home directory is the important thing. I could care less if gcc gets deleted - I'll just fix that. If some virus goes through and deletes all my e-mail, my documents, etc., though, I'm gonna be pissed.
Not only that, but I seem to remember a node on everything2 describing a couple steps to get root access on a Linux box. It's not impenetrable.
See a difference? You need mark a program as executable on Linux.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but you've gotta do that on Windows too. Double clicking a virus renamed *.txt isn't going to infect your computer. It's gonna have to be an executable - *.exe, *.vbs, etc.
If popularity is what makes Windows insecure, then why is IIS being hit many more times than Apache even while Apache runs 60% of the websites out there?
Windows' popularity ensures that the vast majority of script kiddies run Windows. They'd probably be lost trying to hack something running on Linux just because of their lack of familiarity with it.
Mine was booted sep 1 when I got home from a vacation, which means it has been running for almost three weeks straight without crashes.
Current uptime on my XP box: six weeks.
Thank god I'm not using one of those windows systems that some people need to play computer games and have to reinstall all the time.
Uh, when I install a computer game I don't have to reinstall it after that. If you mean reboot - well, I just installed Homeworld 2 and it didn't even suggest a reboot.
Try using a recent version of Windows before you spout off about how awful it is.
A lot of us just patched the vulnerability, as the patch had been out for several weeks.
Being behind a NAT would protect, too.
Whats wrong with Linux? Linux isnt the operating system with a new worm coming out for it every week.
Linux isn't the operating system with 95% of the users.
I feel pretty damn safe under Linux, how do you feel worrying about when the next worm will take over your entire machine? How do you feel about viruses, hows that Zone Alarm treating you?
8 years using Windows. 0 viruses and worms. No virus scanner, no firewall software. Just some common sense and WindowsUpdate set to notifiy me when there are critical updates.
And that's having used Outlook and IE up until Mozilla Firebird / Thunderbird came out.
Honestly, zealots love to say how awful Windows is, but most people get infected because of social engineering - like the one this article's about. You can't do anything about someone who compulsively opens all attachments - whether they're using Windows or Linux (barring banning them from attachments at the mail server, of course).
20+ 600x450 images?
Wow, this guy is just asking for a billion dollar bandwidth bill...
Trolling, but I'll bite.
Having a few socialist policies does not make one a socialist. The US has some socialist aspects - if we didn't, there'd be no taxes and no public services.
Anyways, a socialist is better than a fascist anyday.
Users demand anonymity
They won't if filesharing is legal, or at least if there is no risk of getting sued. Look at Napster - centralized database, millions of users. As long as there's no risk to them, people don't generally give a shit about privacy.
somebody has to explore it right? ... who better than NASA?
Private industry.
Appeals?