That sounds fantastic in an idealistic, theoretical way...but considering the volatility of Wikipedia just on a day-to-day (sometimes hour-to-hour) basis, what makes anyone think the content of Wikipedia in a decade, much less a century, will say anything about what we were like today?
Thats a good point. Perhaps the diff files from 100 yrs ago might show how certain events changed the story on wikipedia. I think that the face value content might not mean much but the overall changes and at what time did these changes take place might be a better mining find.
Maybe then events in our time won't "just be a comma" but a progression from controversy to historical fact.
Security and privacy is a concern. All the tech savvy bloggers, lawyers and post whores (us) have known for quite some time that what you search for or what you do on the internet directly relates to you. It can be stolen or used against your will. But the normal person blindly searches "teenage donkey porn" thinking since no one is watching over their shoulder no one can see.
Then comes AOL. A failing social network that Time Warner is struggling to keep above water. In this company is a person who convinces the higher ups that "we should distribute this for research purposes"...
Then bam. Everyone knows.. When you make a NYT article, that has deduced your searches to find you, you know you are in the public eye.
I am here to argue that AOL did us privacy advocates a favor (and further, maybe on purpose). Perhaps the next time the government (DOJ) says: "we are trying to get searches from yahoo, google and MS" Maybe someone who can defend us will remember this.
So why on purpose? The DoJ is pounding down googles door for searches. No one ever mentions AOL's searches because... they are hosted by google. (and 5% of AOL is owned by google). AOL releases 650k+ users searches, enough to notice. But Google has been rather quite in this whole argument.
The Point: Google used AOL to get main stream media attention on net privacy issues.
It seems to me that the poor secretary will be the one having to handle these 1000 calls.
Wouldn't it be much better to write a letter, put it in a manila envelope and send it directly to the RIAA exec. The key is to pay the extra dollar or so and get the Signature Confirmation service that the USPS offers. I think when an executive gets 1000 letters on his/her desk that ALL need signatures you tend to notice.
I could definately see it being used in the tablet market. I don't think shifting through file systems with a pen would be much fun.
On a more 'futuristic' note: Wouldn't it be cool to have a desk like in The Island where the doctor brought up their files ON his desk. Now image a big desk with a touch panel as its face. This technology would be pretty cool. Pile up your documents, open them and a virtual keyboard/mouse appears.
I think you have said it best: "Teach your children well"
There are two many parents in America who were raised ignorant and now are raising their children ignorant. The school systems, public or private, do not teach kids how to be active in the process. And now with the No Child Left Behind Act, we will be teaching the children less science and critical thinking and more time to Math and Reading so the children 3-8 can pass the annual Federal exam.
Ignorance is bringing the country down and in a world of A.D.D. news agencies and the apparent lack of true response to the current administrations activities, it is very likely we will not see a change soon.
This article gives a lot of good points in a short amount of time.
The jist of it is that *nix IS more secure. There is no doubt about it. But Social Engineering and other things of the great modern email scams can still penetrate in and run.
But I guess that goes without saying. The chain is only as strong as your weakest link and the computer system is only as secure as its stupidest user.
This wasn't discussed. All the article talks about is a virus that comes into your/home directory and destroys your data. Unix still runs, no downtime, start again. Really only the recent Karma Sutra virus goes around and destroys data. Most act as zombie drones.
But imagine this. A computer virus comes in your system and runs in your/home(user done). It doesn't destroy your computer but installs as a.bashrc line to execute in some common User priveldged library. Now, to us we might see that the file was modified or that there is a file that we didn't install hidden in our home directory. But really, who here knows whats in.firefox/default/aso8zx9mawmSOI/ ? I sure as hell don't. And there has to be some GUI linux programs that run background command lines so you know.bashrc will be executed. So the.css files that are in.firefox/default/aso8zx9mawmSOI/, name your virus chrome_main.css. When was the last time you checked that folder for executables?
Especially in an OSX enviroment where the users are tricked to believe that the system is secure. As a unix system it might never get any worms or other propigating viruses embedded deep into the system but there are still a ton of stupid users.
You can even imagine it being smart enough to update itself IF a OSX vulnerablility is known and then elevate itself to root and install deeper into the OS. I have no clue whats in/Library and I normally don't fool around with it. Or even/bin/gnuc and if you execute it without the proper switch it just prints out 'The program cannot be executed in the terminal, It must be called from another program'.
Either case good short read.( i think my comments are almost longer) No matter how good we think we are at knowing our systems there is someone who knows we don't look in/random/directory that is known to have write access to all users. This is where a virus can lay around and execute.
I read the review. I bought it for my office. Works really well.
The only problem I am having is with the windows backup software that was supposed to come with it. I only have 2 user licenses where it was promised 5. But with SMB, NFS and (i think) FTP there are many other solutions you could use besides the bundled software.
I just wanted to use it to make my life easier on the windows machines... sigh.
Unfortunately we do not currently support Windows; the paravirtualized approach we use to get such high performance has not been usable directly for Windows to date. However recently announced hardware support from Intel and AMD will allow us to transparently support Windows XP & 2003 Server in the near future. We are working on this and intend to have support available by the time the new processors are available.
Duo is that new processor.
VT and Xen 3.0 will
virtualize Windows XP... From PR: The demonstration features a pre-release version of Xen 3.0 virtualizing both Linux and Microsoft Windows XP SP2. Support for unmodified guests, such as Windows, is made possible by Intel's VT technology, which provides a privileged mode of execution that allows Xen to share platform resources between both modified and unmodified guest operating systems, providing CPU, memory and I/O resource guarantees.
'We will continue to see this type of vulnerabilities in every major application for the foreseeable future... It is not just images, but any type of complex file format. This is something that security researchers and hackers have realized to be a weak point in many applications.'
In a later interview:"Only one known product suite on the market can protect you from these ongoing threats. MS-AntiVirus and MS-AntiSpyware. Only these two programs are equipt with the proper image handling algorithims to detect these known flaws inherent in all programs."
This seems like a big scheme to get people on their proprietary AV and AntiSpyware programs. Lets see... Find hole, fix hole, release press release about hole, plug product, patch hole for product users.
I wrote one too. (probably from your suggestion:) ) But I added a seeding process in so i can regenerate the hash table 'just in case'. Pros: Can regenerate. Cons: There is a password for my password table:)
In Python: choose2 = str(raw_input("Enter specific seed or None: ")) if choose2 == 'none' or choose2 == 'NONE' or choose2 == 'None':
random.seed else:
seedkey = binascii.b2a_hex(choose2)
random.seed(seedkey)
heh perhaps that NASA mission to the astroid where they shot the depleated uranium rod into the astroid was just a huge test for some new space weapons...
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That sounds fantastic in an idealistic, theoretical way...but considering the volatility of Wikipedia just on a day-to-day (sometimes hour-to-hour) basis, what makes anyone think the content of Wikipedia in a decade, much less a century, will say anything about what we were like today?
Thats a good point. Perhaps the diff files from 100 yrs ago might show how certain events changed the story on wikipedia. I think that the face value content might not mean much but the overall changes and at what time did these changes take place might be a better mining find.
Maybe then events in our time won't "just be a comma" but a progression from controversy to historical fact.
Something just dawned on me.
Security and privacy is a concern. All the tech savvy bloggers, lawyers and post whores (us) have known for quite some time that what you search for or what you do on the internet directly relates to you. It can be stolen or used against your will. But the normal person blindly searches "teenage donkey porn" thinking since no one is watching over their shoulder no one can see.
Then comes AOL. A failing social network that Time Warner is struggling to keep above water. In this company is a person who convinces the higher ups that "we should distribute this for research purposes"...
Then bam. Everyone knows.. When you make a NYT article, that has deduced your searches to find you, you know you are in the public eye.
I am here to argue that AOL did us privacy advocates a favor (and further, maybe on purpose). Perhaps the next time the government (DOJ) says: "we are trying to get searches from yahoo, google and MS" Maybe someone who can defend us will remember this.
So why on purpose? The DoJ is pounding down googles door for searches. No one ever mentions AOL's searches because... they are hosted by google. (and 5% of AOL is owned by google). AOL releases 650k+ users searches, enough to notice. But Google has been rather quite in this whole argument.
The Point: Google used AOL to get main stream media attention on net privacy issues.
we can have 1/3/37
heh.
Accuvote: As accurate as you want to be.
It seems to me that the poor secretary will be the one having to handle these 1000 calls.
Wouldn't it be much better to write a letter, put it in a manila envelope and send it directly to the RIAA exec. The key is to pay the extra dollar or so and get the Signature Confirmation service that the USPS offers. I think when an executive gets 1000 letters on his/her desk that ALL need signatures you tend to notice.
I could definately see it being used in the tablet market. I don't think shifting through file systems with a pen would be much fun.
On a more 'futuristic' note: Wouldn't it be cool to have a desk like in The Island where the doctor brought up their files ON his desk. Now image a big desk with a touch panel as its face. This technology would be pretty cool. Pile up your documents, open them and a virtual keyboard/mouse appears.
Good article but nothing beats a picture from This article
even better :)
[sarcasm]
Clearly no one has heard of situational ethics.
[/sarcasm]
Now all we need is Orlando Jones to read it to us. :-D
I think you have said it best: "Teach your children well"
There are two many parents in America who were raised ignorant and now are raising their children ignorant. The school systems, public or private, do not teach kids how to be active in the process. And now with the No Child Left Behind Act, we will be teaching the children less science and critical thinking and more time to Math and Reading so the children 3-8 can pass the annual Federal exam.
Ignorance is bringing the country down and in a world of A.D.D. news agencies and the apparent lack of true response to the current administrations activities, it is very likely we will not see a change soon.
This article gives a lot of good points in a short amount of time.
/home directory and destroys your data. Unix still runs, no downtime, start again. Really only the recent Karma Sutra virus goes around and destroys data. Most act as zombie drones.
/home(user done). It doesn't destroy your computer but installs as a .bashrc line to execute in some common User priveldged library. Now, to us we might see that the file was modified or that there is a file that we didn't install hidden in our home directory. But really, who here knows whats in .firefox/default/aso8zx9mawmSOI/ ? I sure as hell don't. And there has to be some GUI linux programs that run background command lines so you know .bashrc will be executed. So the .css files that are in .firefox/default/aso8zx9mawmSOI/, name your virus chrome_main.css. When was the last time you checked that folder for executables?
/Library and I normally don't fool around with it. Or even /bin/gnuc and if you execute it without the proper switch it just prints out 'The program cannot be executed in the terminal, It must be called from another program'.
/random/directory that is known to have write access to all users. This is where a virus can lay around and execute.
The jist of it is that *nix IS more secure. There is no doubt about it. But Social Engineering and other things of the great modern email scams can still penetrate in and run.
But I guess that goes without saying. The chain is only as strong as your weakest link and the computer system is only as secure as its stupidest user.
This wasn't discussed. All the article talks about is a virus that comes into your
But imagine this. A computer virus comes in your system and runs in your
Especially in an OSX enviroment where the users are tricked to believe that the system is secure. As a unix system it might never get any worms or other propigating viruses embedded deep into the system but there are still a ton of stupid users.
You can even imagine it being smart enough to update itself IF a OSX vulnerablility is known and then elevate itself to root and install deeper into the OS. I have no clue whats in
Either case good short read.( i think my comments are almost longer) No matter how good we think we are at knowing our systems there is someone who knows we don't look in
Yellow Machine
I read the review. I bought it for my office. Works really well.
The only problem I am having is with the windows backup software that was supposed to come with it. I only have 2 user licenses where it was promised 5. But with SMB, NFS and (i think) FTP there are many other solutions you could use besides the bundled software.
I just wanted to use it to make my life easier on the windows machines... sigh.
From the FAQ:
1.4. Does Xen support Microsoft Windows?
Unfortunately we do not currently support Windows; the paravirtualized approach we use to get such high performance has not been usable directly for Windows to date. However recently announced hardware support from Intel and AMD will allow us to transparently support Windows XP & 2003 Server in the near future. We are working on this and intend to have support available by the time the new processors are available.
Duo is that new processor.
VT and Xen 3.0 will
virtualize Windows XP...
From PR:
The demonstration features a pre-release version of Xen 3.0 virtualizing both Linux and Microsoft Windows XP SP2. Support for unmodified guests, such as Windows, is made possible by Intel's VT technology, which provides a privileged mode of execution that allows Xen to share platform resources between both modified and unmodified guest operating systems, providing CPU, memory and I/O resource guarantees.
New 3.0Ghz Pen4 has VT and Yonah being part of the 65nm tech... also has virtualization.
Xen... I think the Yonah (Duo) has SSE3 which allowed Xen to run with unmodified OSes.
1.Install Linux
2.Install Xen
3.Install OSX and Windows
4.Never dual boot again.
HA. That is the best thing I think I've ever read on /. Made me spit out my coffee.
'We will continue to see this type of vulnerabilities in every major application for the foreseeable future ... It is not just images, but any type of complex file format. This is something that security researchers and hackers have realized to be a weak point in many applications.'
In a later interview:"Only one known product suite on the market can protect you from these ongoing threats. MS-AntiVirus and MS-AntiSpyware. Only these two programs are equipt with the proper image handling algorithims to detect these known flaws inherent in all programs."
This seems like a big scheme to get people on their proprietary AV and AntiSpyware programs. Lets see... Find hole, fix hole, release press release about hole, plug product, patch hole for product users.
eesh.we will see.
That John Titor will need for time travel. :)
Shamefully only one president of the US had a PhD.
It would be interesting if this is where the recessive gene of modern dwarfs come from.
I've always thought this was a good solution to commercials. Its more subliminal but I think it would work better.
This might be the key to online sitcoms. I'd rather see someone drinking a pepsi or driving a VW than sit and watch new low rates commercials.
I wrote one too. (probably from your suggestion :) ) But I added a seeding process in so i can regenerate the hash table 'just in case'. :)
Pros: Can regenerate.
Cons: There is a password for my password table
In Python:
choose2 = str(raw_input("Enter specific seed or None: "))
if choose2 == 'none' or choose2 == 'NONE' or choose2 == 'None':
random.seed
else:
seedkey = binascii.b2a_hex(choose2)
random.seed(seedkey)
heh perhaps that NASA mission to the astroid where they shot the depleated uranium rod into the astroid was just a huge test for some new space weapons...
shamefully the future looks very scary
Heh, talk about an awesome way to beta test.
1)Leak OSX Tiger x86 slightly modified to send dmesg back to apple.com
2)See what hardware is out of the box properly supported.
3)Free Data mining.
You know hard core geeks will install OSX instantly if the torrent was available. Which means normally higher end equiptment.