Even, for an IE hole, this is pretty severe - now worms just have to send html emails with an img tag that points to a specific bitmap and voila: anyone who uses an mshtml based email client(including webmail) and hasn't updated for a while gets infected just by opening the message.
Sure, sooner or later hotmail will stop showing bmps in messages and issue a warning like "if you get a message, do not open it, but delete immediatly", but hey, I bet the amount of worm emails in my Junk mailbox will increase drastically in the next couple of weeks.
I think most damage is done when the head skips down and scratches the platter.
Of course this won't protect the hdd from a hit strong enough to cause some mechanical damage, but in that case it should at least make sure the data is still on the drive.
Some yamaha burners can actually burn a picture onto the media side of the cd. Its pretty useless but it looks very very cool.
Actually, I can understand their decision. When the market is flooded with companies that make a product, R&D can become very costly if you want to keep your marketshare. It's much easier to go after new technologies with more potential(like DVD recording)
But, if the criminal law doesn't prosecute the non-profitable users, that means that any court case that the record company may start will be lost by them on the first day. They won't have any way of proving possesion of the data - any sort of seizure of hdds or busts will be illegal. That means they have to prove that the defender not only downloaded the mp3, but listened to them and kept them, which would be pretty much impossible.
Whew! At least some politicians are showing intelligence.
US always tries to do the "Good Thing" but goes all backwards about it - ie during the War On Drugs they didn't focus enough on the source of the drugs, and too much on the "end-user", during the War On Terrorism, they are overthrowing political regimes(I'm not saying they shouldn't but thats the wrong way to go about it), while they should be cutting off the money supply to terrorism that flows from America itself. Now they do do some of the right stuff too, but primarily US politians loose focus too quickly.
Lets hope that EU will set a good example, by targeting the source of the disease instead of the symptoms.
I am suprised that this list doesn't have Vendetta on it. Even though still in beta stage, the game is very very very enjoyable and has amazingly beautiful graphics and great linux support. Granted, it's not Open Source, but roughly half the players use it under linux.
Plus, it is a great experience to play with the developers and take a real part in the development of the game.
I think you're missing the point. Variaty does not automatically exclude standarts.
Right now there is basically only three app add/remove standarts - deb, rpm, tar.gz, deb being the best, but the most unsupported. Pretty much every distro has RPM, even if its not the primary packaging format(slackware, for example, has rpm installed by default, and, although it's labeled "unsupported" and dependancies don't work, I use it all the time, never had any problems). So rpm is pretty much the standard, with deb and tar.gz being the alternative. If your distro doesn't have rpm, install it and no problemo.
About desktops... how are they mutually incompatible? you can't run QT programs from Window Maker, or GTK programs from kde? So you have to install a few more libraries. I for example can't stand qt, and love gtk and other people have opposite preferences. If one is accepted as the standard and everyone stops supporting everything else, then someone is always gonna be pissed. X Windows protocol is the standard and thats good enough. And just because some people like GUI doesn't GUI has to be adpated as the standard. I use CLI for many things(nothing beats MC at file management) and like it.
Variaty is always good. Windows has alternative desktops that are very very good(Talisman for example) but nobody uses them and know about them, simply because the regular windows gui is the standard. Users have to be given alternatives always.
Well, the thing with directv is although it's encoded, all the codes are on the internet, although the directv people change them about once a week. I have a friend who has an old pentium hooked up to his reciever through the card slot, and it gets new codes real-time. The card emulator-thingie costs $100. So I don't see why you couldn't combine all that into a pvr that would decode the stream.
disclaimer: this is all fiction, all my friends are law-obiding citizens that pay for their sattelite tv.
Alright, I agree with the fact that wifi is insecure and it should be regulated, but please please is it really necessary to make everything a terrorist threat in order to convince the US masses nowadays. Why not just give reasonable arguments, facts, instead of saying "it's a terrorist threat, that's all you need to know". Instead of outlining the real dangers, like stolen or falsified information, they have to go on and make a statement that to any half-smart person seems a blatant attempt to get quick public support.
It's bullshitting like that which undermines the trust of intelligent people into the administration.
Sorry to be a bit offtopic, but does anyone know of a good bbs client for linux that understnads RIP graphics? Even windows 2000 telnet does, but linux telnet tries to display wrong characters...
I don't think switching on the toaster when you're not at home is a very good idea. That's a fire waiting to happen.
But imagine if someone's robbing your house and you happen to switch on the lights or something from the web or turn on the music or the tv. If the robbers won't have a heart attack, your house will forever be free of any disturbances.
"Hey, that house looks good, look at that TV! Let's take it!" "Are you crazy? Haven't you heard? it's the 'haunted' house!"
If I use any gpl'ed code in my software, I HAVE to distribute the sources with the binaries. ffmpeg was lgpl, mplayer was gpl. They used code from both, which means they have to distribute the source.
They are the ones that used some of ffmpeg's and mplayer's code a couple of month ago and refused to open their source code(as required by gpl). They only opened it after two weeks of fighting. If you're curious, the details are on the mplayer homepage(just scroll down a bit).
Visa convinced a Las Vegas federal court to prevent the small business JSL Corp. from using the term 'evisa' by presenting all court official with visa credit cards to demonstrate their ownership of the visa trademark.
Later that day, the judge assigned to the case was seen in a Jaguar dealership, obviously conducting an investigation into the visa case by using the above mentioned cards. He refused to comment.
I think everyone here is overestimating the size of those things. They are really very very very small. There would be no visual evidence of the impact, not even microscopical - the particles would just rip through, and then the material they went through would collapse back onto itself.
for any sort of aircraft actually used in passenger airlines - I mean, it may be able to have enough lift to carry a small Cesna (or whatever's on the picture), but not even the smallest jet...
It'll have just as much effect as giving Red Bull to all passengers, i.e. none
Well, the original article is slashdotted, but here are my two cents:
I tend to view any such "inside" source very suspiciously - the halloween paper about how to bring linux down was fairly believable, but this... Well, the register says:
...but concludes that the company ought to set the right example by ensuring that each division "should eat its own dogfood."
... Huh? what kind of an official document would claim that their product is crap? This suggests that the paper is of an unofficial status. Well, then, why the hell does it matter. If I worked for microsoft and said things like 'yeah, windows sucks, unix rules' would that make a bit of difference to the company's policy(internal and external)? And the fact that securityfocus "dicovered on a poorly protected server" adds more doubt. Were they hacking into MS servers searching for compromising documents?
Now, I didnt read the paper itself, so I apologize if this post is missing the point.
Well, as a matter of fact, I did [mbln.org]. Don't worry -- we'll march on in there together, burn the book, and declare a victory for the Society of the Repression of Information! Let's stand up for the principles of freedom by making sure knowledge is reserved for only a select few!
Ok, meet you today at 7:00pm. Bring torches.
well, if this analogy is transferred back to software, the tools are there and the only thing to stop anyone from doing dumb things is the lack of information.
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Even, for an IE hole, this is pretty severe - now worms just have to send html emails with an img tag that points to a specific bitmap and voila: anyone who uses an mshtml based email client(including webmail) and hasn't updated for a while gets infected just by opening the message.
Sure, sooner or later hotmail will stop showing bmps in messages and issue a warning like "if you get a message, do not open it, but delete immediatly", but hey, I bet the amount of worm emails in my Junk mailbox will increase drastically in the next couple of weeks.
I think most damage is done when the head skips down and scratches the platter.
Of course this won't protect the hdd from a hit strong enough to cause some mechanical damage, but in that case it should at least make sure the data is still on the drive.
Perhaps you should read the link before posting.
Some yamaha burners can actually burn a picture onto the media side of the cd. Its pretty useless but it looks very very cool.
Actually, I can understand their decision. When the market is flooded with companies that make a product, R&D can become very costly if you want to keep your marketshare. It's much easier to go after new technologies with more potential(like DVD recording)
If it wasn't for those meddling kids!
But, if the criminal law doesn't prosecute the non-profitable users, that means that any court case that the record company may start will be lost by them on the first day. They won't have any way of proving possesion of the data - any sort of seizure of hdds or busts will be illegal. That means they have to prove that the defender not only downloaded the mp3, but listened to them and kept them, which would be pretty much impossible.
Now, IANAL, but I think thats how it works...
Whew! At least some politicians are showing intelligence.
US always tries to do the "Good Thing" but goes all backwards about it - ie during the War On Drugs they didn't focus enough on the source of the drugs, and too much on the "end-user", during the War On Terrorism, they are overthrowing political regimes(I'm not saying they shouldn't but thats the wrong way to go about it), while they should be cutting off the money supply to terrorism that flows from America itself. Now they do do some of the right stuff too, but primarily US politians loose focus too quickly.
Lets hope that EU will set a good example, by targeting the source of the disease instead of the symptoms.
I am suprised that this list doesn't have Vendetta on it. Even though still in beta stage, the game is very very very enjoyable and has amazingly beautiful graphics and great linux support. Granted, it's not Open Source, but roughly half the players use it under linux.
Plus, it is a great experience to play with the developers and take a real part in the development of the game.
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I think you're missing the point. Variaty does not automatically exclude standarts.
Right now there is basically only three app add/remove standarts - deb, rpm, tar.gz, deb being the best, but the most unsupported. Pretty much every distro has RPM, even if its not the primary packaging format(slackware, for example, has rpm installed by default, and, although it's labeled "unsupported" and dependancies don't work, I use it all the time, never had any problems). So rpm is pretty much the standard, with deb and tar.gz being the alternative. If your distro doesn't have rpm, install it and no problemo.
About desktops... how are they mutually incompatible? you can't run QT programs from Window Maker, or GTK programs from kde? So you have to install a few more libraries. I for example can't stand qt, and love gtk and other people have opposite preferences. If one is accepted as the standard and everyone stops supporting everything else, then someone is always gonna be pissed. X Windows protocol is the standard and thats good enough. And just because some people like GUI doesn't GUI has to be adpated as the standard. I use CLI for many things(nothing beats MC at file management) and like it.
Variaty is always good. Windows has alternative desktops that are very very good(Talisman for example) but nobody uses them and know about them, simply because the regular windows gui is the standard. Users have to be given alternatives always.
Well, the thing with directv is although it's encoded, all the codes are on the internet, although the directv people change them about once a week. I have a friend who has an old pentium hooked up to his reciever through the card slot, and it gets new codes real-time. The card emulator-thingie costs $100. So I don't see why you couldn't combine all that into a pvr that would decode the stream.
disclaimer: this is all fiction, all my friends are law-obiding citizens that pay for their sattelite tv.
Alright, I agree with the fact that wifi is insecure and it should be regulated, but please please is it really necessary to make everything a terrorist threat in order to convince the US masses nowadays. Why not just give reasonable arguments, facts, instead of saying "it's a terrorist threat, that's all you need to know". Instead of outlining the real dangers, like stolen or falsified information, they have to go on and make a statement that to any half-smart person seems a blatant attempt to get quick public support.
It's bullshitting like that which undermines the trust of intelligent people into the administration.
Can someone please explain WTF does that have to do with anything? Do they just throw that kind of stuff in as an onbligatery 9/11 reference?
48 rupees = 1 US dollar.
so that is about 15,437,500 that they are planning to spend. That's a fair amount, but it's not huge(if you compare it to US education spendings)
Sorry to be a bit offtopic, but does anyone know of a good bbs client for linux that understnads RIP graphics? Even windows 2000 telnet does, but linux telnet tries to display wrong characters...
PS DungeonBBS forever!!!
telnet dungeonbbs.org now!
You can clearly see winamp or xmms in this picture. Does that mean their kernel supports windows/elf binaries?
I don't think switching on the toaster when you're not at home is a very good idea. That's a fire waiting to happen.
But imagine if someone's robbing your house and you happen to switch on the lights or something from the web or turn on the music or the tv. If the robbers won't have a heart attack, your house will forever be free of any disturbances.
"Hey, that house looks good, look at that TV! Let's take it!"
"Are you crazy? Haven't you heard? it's the 'haunted' house!"
you're wrong, my friend.
If I use any gpl'ed code in my software, I HAVE to distribute the sources with the binaries. ffmpeg was lgpl, mplayer was gpl. They used code from both, which means they have to distribute the source.
They are the ones that used some of ffmpeg's and mplayer's code a couple of month ago and refused to open their source code(as required by gpl). They only opened it after two weeks of fighting. If you're curious, the details are on the mplayer homepage(just scroll down a bit).
So I wouldn't support them if I had an Xbox.
Visa convinced a Las Vegas federal court to prevent the small business JSL Corp. from using the term 'evisa' by presenting all court official with visa credit cards to demonstrate their ownership of the visa trademark.
Later that day, the judge assigned to the case was seen in a Jaguar dealership, obviously conducting an investigation into the visa case by using the above mentioned cards. He refused to comment.
I think everyone here is overestimating the size of those things. They are really very very very small. There would be no visual evidence of the impact, not even microscopical - the particles would just rip through, and then the material they went through would collapse back onto itself.
for any sort of aircraft actually used in passenger airlines - I mean, it may be able to have enough lift to carry a small Cesna (or whatever's on the picture), but not even the smallest jet...
It'll have just as much effect as giving Red Bull to all passengers, i.e. none
I tend to view any such "inside" source very suspiciously - the halloween paper about how to bring linux down was fairly believable, but this... Well, the register says:
Now, I didnt read the paper itself, so I apologize if this post is missing the point.
Well, as a matter of fact, I did [mbln.org]. Don't worry -- we'll march on in there together, burn the book, and declare a victory for the Society of the Repression of Information! Let's stand up for the principles of freedom by making sure knowledge is reserved for only a select few! Ok, meet you today at 7:00pm. Bring torches.
well, if this analogy is transferred back to software, the tools are there and the only thing to stop anyone from doing dumb things is the lack of information.