IIRC, Bush was very pro-Microsoft during his campaign. He said that he didn't support the anti-trust ruling against it, while Gore did. Lo and behold, after Bush's election the appeals court suddenly strained its logic to find Microsoft 'still guilty' but not deserving of punishment. I'm not surprised he switched everything to MS after he got in.
I'm surprised nobody brings up The Shockwave Rider, which is the book from where the Worm got its name.
The protagonist wrote his own worms to reverse the worms of his enemies. They'd send worms to hack into his bank accounts or disable his electricity, and he'd write counter-worms to undo it.
I wonder if Reiser will still be able to develop in prison. I doubt they'll give him the internet, but if he was seriously committed, could he mail out typed code? I have my doubts; the staff will think that C++ is some kind of encrypted message.
Well, on the Mac it's much faster and integrated with the OS. I believe the Windows version beats Firefox in benchmarks too. And it makes fonts look spiffy.
That brings up a good point about news. Biased news sources rarely make stuff up, but they are careful about what they cover. I'm surprised he didn't mention that in the interview.
1. Usually it's implied that if you're using someone else's network (ie that of an employer), they generally have the right to peer at what you're doing. At least, that's the general consensus among the/. crowd in the states.
2. The reason given sounds quite shoddy. Who launches terrorist attacks from a work computer?
Everything2, which predates Wikipedia IIRC, had a fairly long drawn out fight on whether to keep or remove "how to slit your wrists." (No, I'm not linking to it)
I don;t think you really have to search for the word suicide. I think they kept most of the article in the end, although it was highly downvoted.
I don't see how defense and attack in the IT world work that well together. If I'm setting up firewalls and VPN systems, it doesn't mean I'd know any more than the basics about launching my own DDoS or a man-in-the-middle attack.
On a related note, I wonder if the military would build their own botnet from scratch.
That's only the first round of an arms race. Imagine if the earlier threads came true, and then there was poking into the audible range. By that point you'd need to start introducing a hiss or some audible sound to disrupt such communications. Consider a 1984 scenario where all steganography is blocked. Heck, the US government pushed for key escrow for a long time, this sounds like a logical next step.
Correct, Apple has said in the past that they will not actively prevent people from installing apps (they didn't say the word jailbreak, but it wasnt a common term at the time), BUT they would work to prevent unlocking of the phone itself. They just won't support it if you do.
I'm guessing that they cannot allow unlocking both for profit issues and also because ATT probably put it in their contract. For example, Apple's iTunes contract with the record labels says that Apple MUST patch any DRM-circumvention within weeks or all that label's music would be pulled from the store.
Apple's SDK is in beta, and no applications can be installed on the iPhone/iPod touch UNLESS that person has a $99 Apple certificate key to install that app for testing purposes. Until June, when Apple releases the 2.0 software upgrade, nothing can be installed for anyone.
To correct the parent, there are zero legitimate applications that have been released into the wild. The link you gave is for source code or something that can be run on an emulator. By June, there will be more than the hundreds that the jailbroken installer.app has
Do you think that Joe sixpack will understand the intracacies of a background app's polling of the transceiver and thus its drain on power? No, he'll blame Apple for his iPhone "not working long."
Not everyone is as smart as you claim to be. If you want to lord your intelligence over everyone, go get a blackberry or something.
Apple said they will allow free apps to be distributed (the developer sets the price), so unless someone is going to charge for their distro of ssh, I wouldn't worry too much.
Last I heard, background processes were banned because they seriously harmed battery life (anything that uses the antenna or transmits data is like talk time on the battery), and Apple didn't want to be blamed when angry customers would complain about the inability to hold a long charge.
Let's see when Apple's 3G iPhone (with conceivably longer battery life to compensate) comes out, whether Apple updates their policy
You're spouting a double standard. Pat Robertson said America should assasinate someone, essentially murder a leader, how is that any different? Pat Robertson never apologized, heck he never even did for saying that 9/11 was feminists and gays' fault (his apology at the time was an "I'm sorry you're fat" sort) If you have proof of his apology, I'd like to see it.
Terrorism is not a part of Islamic doctrine nor accepted practice. Scholars worldwide have condemned terrorism, and public opinion polls in the Muslim world show that support of killing civilians is even less than that of American polls. Three times as many Americans said that bombing civilians can ever be "justified". (source)
Oh you're stuffed full of hyperbole. MILLIONS riot in the streets? Show me proof of that, or just concede you're exaggerating.
I'm aware of Turkey's woes. I get the feeling that if they just let people have the freedom to wear headscarves or pray without being bothered, they'd be fine. Dubai works that way, and you could wear a bikini or a niqab without problems.
In a recent opinion poll measuring what people in Turkey perceive as the country's biggest threat, the United States was first and Iraqi Kurds were second. Leyla Tausanoglu, a political columnist for the independent Cumhuriyet newspaper, says many Turks are skeptical of American plans because of the Iraq war, and are now suspicious of U.S. ties with Iraqi Kurdish leaders.'
Many Turks reason that the US is the military power in Iraq, and if 5,000 PKK guerrillas have safe harbor in Iraqi Kurdistan, it must mean that the US supports the PKK. (In fact, it is on the State Department list of terrorist organizations).
Before W. got into the White House and ruined the world, 56% of Turks had a favorable view of the United States and the country was a firm NATO ally. Last I knew, the favorability rating had fallen to 12%, largely because Turks are afraid Bush's misadventure in Iraq will blow back on them. Now they think the US is a greater threat to them than the major terrorist organization that has menaced them for the past 30 years! It would be like the English public saying the US is a greater threat than the Irish Republican Army, or the French public saying the US is a greater threat than the Algerian Armed Islamic Group (Groupe Islamique Armé). (analysis shamelessly stolen from Prof. Cole)
Give me a break. A right-wing newspaper in a DICTATORSHIP publishes something and you accuse all Muslims of intolerance and hypocrisy? Never mind the fact that Muslims around the world condemn the very same things.
You're blind to the way things are, and you're part of the problem, not the solution.
You have a mistranslated source there. The arabic term is 'wali" which does not translate as friend. A mideast professor agrees with me here. The actual translation here would be "O believers, take not Jews and Christians as tribal protectors over you; they are tribal protectors of each other. Those of you who make them his tribal protector is one of them." - 5:54
As for the second, your source is completely mistranslated. Here's what mine says when I look up 9:123 "123. O ye who believe! fight the unbelievers who gird you about, and let them find firmness in you: and know that Allah is with those who fear Him." It's referring to the polytheist Meccans who had laid siege to the city of Medina, not a blanket statement here. Murder is a clear sin according to the Quran.
The fact of the matter is, you could yank many of these things out of context or improperly interpret them through the language barrier. People have been doing it to Christianity and Judaism for years.
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I say we go with Neil Patrick Harris. He would lack some of Richard Dean Anderson's charm, but would make up for it because, he's NPH!
IIRC, Bush was very pro-Microsoft during his campaign. He said that he didn't support the anti-trust ruling against it, while Gore did. Lo and behold, after Bush's election the appeals court suddenly strained its logic to find Microsoft 'still guilty' but not deserving of punishment. I'm not surprised he switched everything to MS after he got in.
But don't your hands get tired?
I wonder if you can do it from a politically neutral country, like Sealand. Would that erase all liability?
I'm surprised nobody brings up The Shockwave Rider, which is the book from where the Worm got its name.
The protagonist wrote his own worms to reverse the worms of his enemies. They'd send worms to hack into his bank accounts or disable his electricity, and he'd write counter-worms to undo it.
I wonder if Reiser will still be able to develop in prison. I doubt they'll give him the internet, but if he was seriously committed, could he mail out typed code? I have my doubts; the staff will think that C++ is some kind of encrypted message.
That was in the 1.1.1 version, last year. Apple patched it up pretty quickly and the mobile apps are also running as a different, non-root user.
Well, on the Mac it's much faster and integrated with the OS. I believe the Windows version beats Firefox in benchmarks too. And it makes fonts look spiffy.
That brings up a good point about news.
Biased news sources rarely make stuff up, but they are careful about what they cover. I'm surprised he didn't mention that in the interview.
1. Usually it's implied that if you're using someone else's network (ie that of an employer), they generally have the right to peer at what you're doing. At least, that's the general consensus among the /. crowd in the states.
2. The reason given sounds quite shoddy. Who launches terrorist attacks from a work computer?
Everything2, which predates Wikipedia IIRC, had a fairly long drawn out fight on whether to keep or remove "how to slit your wrists." (No, I'm not linking to it)
I don;t think you really have to search for the word suicide. I think they kept most of the article in the end, although it was highly downvoted.
You know, if you stare at it head-on, it'll burn your eyes out...
I don't see how defense and attack in the IT world work that well together. If I'm setting up firewalls and VPN systems, it doesn't mean I'd know any more than the basics about launching my own DDoS or a man-in-the-middle attack.
On a related note, I wonder if the military would build their own botnet from scratch.
That's only the first round of an arms race. Imagine if the earlier threads came true, and then there was poking into the audible range. By that point you'd need to start introducing a hiss or some audible sound to disrupt such communications. Consider a 1984 scenario where all steganography is blocked. Heck, the US government pushed for key escrow for a long time, this sounds like a logical next step.
Correct, Apple has said in the past that they will not actively prevent people from installing apps (they didn't say the word jailbreak, but it wasnt a common term at the time), BUT they would work to prevent unlocking of the phone itself. They just won't support it if you do.
I'm guessing that they cannot allow unlocking both for profit issues and also because ATT probably put it in their contract. For example, Apple's iTunes contract with the record labels says that Apple MUST patch any DRM-circumvention within weeks or all that label's music would be pulled from the store.
Who modded the troll up?
Apple's SDK is in beta, and no applications can be installed on the iPhone/iPod touch UNLESS that person has a $99 Apple certificate key to install that app for testing purposes. Until June, when Apple releases the 2.0 software upgrade, nothing can be installed for anyone.
To correct the parent, there are zero legitimate applications that have been released into the wild. The link you gave is for source code or something that can be run on an emulator. By June, there will be more than the hundreds that the jailbroken installer.app has
Leopard supposedly sandboxes many of their apps too. Let's wait and see how this exploit works.
Do you think that Joe sixpack will understand the intracacies of a background app's polling of the transceiver and thus its drain on power? No, he'll blame Apple for his iPhone "not working long."
Not everyone is as smart as you claim to be. If you want to lord your intelligence over everyone, go get a blackberry or something.
Apple said they will allow free apps to be distributed (the developer sets the price), so unless someone is going to charge for their distro of ssh, I wouldn't worry too much.
Last I heard, background processes were banned because they seriously harmed battery life (anything that uses the antenna or transmits data is like talk time on the battery), and Apple didn't want to be blamed when angry customers would complain about the inability to hold a long charge.
Let's see when Apple's 3G iPhone (with conceivably longer battery life to compensate) comes out, whether Apple updates their policy
You paid $2000 for an iPhone? The thing sells for $400 at the Apple store.
You're spouting a double standard. Pat Robertson said America should assasinate someone, essentially murder a leader, how is that any different? Pat Robertson never apologized, heck he never even did for saying that 9/11 was feminists and gays' fault (his apology at the time was an "I'm sorry you're fat" sort) If you have proof of his apology, I'd like to see it.
Terrorism is not a part of Islamic doctrine nor accepted practice. Scholars worldwide have condemned terrorism, and public opinion polls in the Muslim world show that support of killing civilians is even less than that of American polls. Three times as many Americans said that bombing civilians can ever be "justified". (source)
Oh you're stuffed full of hyperbole. MILLIONS riot in the streets? Show me proof of that, or just concede you're exaggerating.
I'm aware of Turkey's woes. I get the feeling that if they just let people have the freedom to wear headscarves or pray without being bothered, they'd be fine. Dubai works that way, and you could wear a bikini or a niqab without problems.
In a recent opinion poll measuring what people in Turkey perceive as the country's biggest threat, the United States was first and Iraqi Kurds were second. Leyla Tausanoglu, a political columnist for the independent Cumhuriyet newspaper, says many Turks are skeptical of American plans because of the Iraq war, and are now suspicious of U.S. ties with Iraqi Kurdish leaders.'
Many Turks reason that the US is the military power in Iraq, and if 5,000 PKK guerrillas have safe harbor in Iraqi Kurdistan, it must mean that the US supports the PKK. (In fact, it is on the State Department list of terrorist organizations).
Before W. got into the White House and ruined the world, 56% of Turks had a favorable view of the United States and the country was a firm NATO ally. Last I knew, the favorability rating had fallen to 12%, largely because Turks are afraid Bush's misadventure in Iraq will blow back on them. Now they think the US is a greater threat to them than the major terrorist organization that has menaced them for the past 30 years! It would be like the English public saying the US is a greater threat than the Irish Republican Army, or the French public saying the US is a greater threat than the Algerian Armed Islamic Group (Groupe Islamique Armé). (analysis shamelessly stolen from Prof. Cole)
Give me a break.
A right-wing newspaper in a DICTATORSHIP publishes something and you accuse all Muslims of intolerance and hypocrisy? Never mind the fact that Muslims around the world condemn the very same things.
You're blind to the way things are, and you're part of the problem, not the solution.
You have a mistranslated source there. The arabic term is 'wali" which does not translate as friend. A mideast professor agrees with me here. The actual translation here would be "O believers, take not Jews and Christians as tribal protectors over you; they are tribal protectors of each other. Those of you who make them his tribal protector is one of them." - 5:54
As for the second, your source is completely mistranslated. Here's what mine says when I look up 9:123
"123. O ye who believe! fight the unbelievers who gird you about, and let them find firmness in you: and know that Allah is with those who fear Him." It's referring to the polytheist Meccans who had laid siege to the city of Medina, not a blanket statement here. Murder is a clear sin according to the Quran.
The fact of the matter is, you could yank many of these things out of context or improperly interpret them through the language barrier. People have been doing it to Christianity and Judaism for years.