To be news, they need to say what proportion of computers use each OS, and what apps were hacked. It even says third party software accounts for a lot of the Linux hacks.
Nothing to see here except some meaningless statistics. Yawn.
A chess game can't be endless, because repeating the same position three times makes it a draw...
The number of possible games however, is absolutely huge. Mindnumbingly vast. The number of possible positions is big, but when you think about combining them into a game, it starts to get silly.
This isn't actually particularly surprising. Think about, for example, eating snack food. When you grab each handful you get to pick which hand you use. Suppose you're eating for a while -- fifty grabs in all, choosing a hand each time. That means there are 2^50 possible ways you could have eaten it!... eat two or three bags, and there are more ways than atoms in the universe.
Or giving out 60 named invitations to your 60 friends... there are 60 factorial = ~ 10^81 different combinations in which you could give them out, and only one is correct! More possibilities than atoms in the universe (or thereabouts), and yet no trouble at all.
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Well, it's the guy's job, so he has a good reason.
And he wants advice, particularly from people with experience, so he asks the Slashdot community.
And people who feel helpful will answer.
I don't see a problem -- I think you're using this as an opportunity to voice an opinion which isn't entirely related. Fair enough:-)
In reply to your opinion -- well, lots of people want to see open source software succeed, because they envision things being better when it does. I'd tend to agree; open source software everywhere would be great.
And commercial takeup is very important, because people will often use the software they use at work, and because the commercial world has a lot of spending power. Network effects and so on.
So, really, when people do work for open source with no obvious immediate gain -- well, that's the spirit of free software, isn't it?
Hmm. Do any of your licence agreements allow any liability whatsoever to reside with the suppliers of the software? (AFAIK it's fairly standard to disclaim everything possible.)
And if not -- has anyone pointed this out to your lawyers?
I think the important point is 'other vendors'. With free software there will always be other options, which means companies have to play nice, whether they want to or not.
Hmm, you're missing the meaning of 'free'... that's free as in freedom. Linux won't try and hide what it's doing or why, and you're always welcome to change it...
Linux won't try and screw you over for the next dollar, ever.
Note designs have been replaced in the UK several times to make them harder to forge; it's not a particularly difficult task, since bank notes suffer regular wear and tear and need replacing from time to time anyway. The infrastructure is already there.
The fact that the ones we no longer use are harder to forge than the ones you still use should tell you something...
We're actually very well off in the UK when it comes to private information. Companies dealing with America have to have their American counterparts agree to abide by the same rules, otherwise they can't share data.
Hmm, lots of people have pointed this out, but it's easy to set up a system of one-time passwords... provided it's done in a cryptographically secure way, there's little point in sniffing for combinations.
Of course, you can still sniff to see what ports are actually in use...
That's easy to fix -- just use one-time passwords. A good analogy would be the keyrings used to open car doors remotely; they would be incredibly susceptible to sniffing if they didn't use a different code each time.
Hmm, can't say I have... but maybe Microsoft is partially responsible, I don't know.
A lot of companies seem to say "we're a business, we have to be profitable, ethics don't apply to us"... the world would be a better place if people realised that money isn't a valid reason to ignore morality.
Er... do they really mean that? Perhaps non-linearly? Disproportionately?
Does 'asymmetric' imply there's a higher cost if you're overweight than underweight, for example? In which case distance from the norm isn't really the right measure...
No, I didn't RTFA, I'm lazy and want someone to explain the summary for me;-)
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You know, that statement would work a lot better if you gave an actual punishment rather than slang...
e.g. virus writing will put you in jail
Although personally I find it hard to justify jail for virus writers... maybe...
virus writing will lose you your right to use computers for a while, along with a hefty sum of cash
To be news, they need to say what proportion of computers use each OS, and what apps were hacked. It even says third party software accounts for a lot of the Linux hacks.
Nothing to see here except some meaningless statistics. Yawn.
That's exactly what tools like nessus are for.
They can only think of two sensible uses for it, and they're both examples of spam.
Lovely... I'm going to pay 250GBP so companies can send more effective spam!
Yeah, so, anyway, I agree with the other 10000 posts saying this is a stupid idea.
The number of possible games however, is absolutely huge. Mindnumbingly vast. The number of possible positions is big, but when you think about combining them into a game, it starts to get silly.
This isn't actually particularly surprising. Think about, for example, eating snack food. When you grab each handful you get to pick which hand you use. Suppose you're eating for a while -- fifty grabs in all, choosing a hand each time. That means there are 2^50 possible ways you could have eaten it!... eat two or three bags, and there are more ways than atoms in the universe.
Or giving out 60 named invitations to your 60 friends... there are 60 factorial = ~ 10^81 different combinations in which you could give them out, and only one is correct! More possibilities than atoms in the universe (or thereabouts), and yet no trouble at all.
18 horsepower = 13.5Kw
70 foot pounds = 95 Newton metres
Give it time :-)
Well, it's the guy's job, so he has a good reason.
And he wants advice, particularly from people with experience, so he asks the Slashdot community.
And people who feel helpful will answer.
I don't see a problem -- I think you're using this as an opportunity to voice an opinion which isn't entirely related. Fair enough :-)
In reply to your opinion -- well, lots of people want to see open source software succeed, because they envision things being better when it does. I'd tend to agree; open source software everywhere would be great.
And commercial takeup is very important, because people will often use the software they use at work, and because the commercial world has a lot of spending power. Network effects and so on.
So, really, when people do work for open source with no obvious immediate gain -- well, that's the spirit of free software, isn't it?
And if not -- has anyone pointed this out to your lawyers?
I think the important point is 'other vendors'. With free software there will always be other options, which means companies have to play nice, whether they want to or not.
Linux won't try and screw you over for the next dollar, ever.
It's good for peace of mind
I agree... this is no more a respectable article than the one blaming MyDoom on the Linux community. It's just an opinion piece portrayed as fact.
Come on BBC, you can do better than this...
Note designs have been replaced in the UK several times to make them harder to forge; it's not a particularly difficult task, since bank notes suffer regular wear and tear and need replacing from time to time anyway. The infrastructure is already there.
The fact that the ones we no longer use are harder to forge than the ones you still use should tell you something...
We're actually very well off in the UK when it comes to private information. Companies dealing with America have to have their American counterparts agree to abide by the same rules, otherwise they can't share data.
If it's hurting businesses then maybe the US should do what every other country in the world has done and make banknotes that are hard to forge?
Trying to solve the problem at the printer level is ridiculous; it's like trying to solve the spam problem with intelligent monitors.
Hmm, lots of people have pointed this out, but it's easy to set up a system of one-time passwords... provided it's done in a cryptographically secure way, there's little point in sniffing for combinations.
Of course, you can still sniff to see what ports are actually in use...
That's easy to fix -- just use one-time passwords. A good analogy would be the keyrings used to open car doors remotely; they would be incredibly susceptible to sniffing if they didn't use a different code each time.
Except it hides that the port is open at all, which is useful.
Click 'feedback' at the bottom of the page, fill in the article URL, and explain why this really isn't on.
Keep it civil, folks, and with any luck we can get an apology or at least a retraction.
Hmm, can't say I have... but maybe Microsoft is partially responsible, I don't know.
A lot of companies seem to say "we're a business, we have to be profitable, ethics don't apply to us"... the world would be a better place if people realised that money isn't a valid reason to ignore morality.
Actually I was just annoyed that the headline implies something quite different from the article.
Hmm, but Amnesty International isn't saying that... it's just the slashdot headline.
Amensty International are saying Microsoft 'should take more responsibility', not 'are violating human rights'... there's quite a big difference.
It's not Microsoft doing the violating, it's the people using their software.
Is open source software never used for anything bad?
Does 'asymmetric' imply there's a higher cost if you're overweight than underweight, for example? In which case distance from the norm isn't really the right measure...
No, I didn't RTFA, I'm lazy and want someone to explain the summary for me