Call me an insane fucktard, but I think the penalty as listed is too lame. My plan:
First offense: lose net for one week.
Second Offense: lose net for one month.
Third Offense: suspension for one month, automatic 1-GPA point deduction on all current classes taken.
Forth Offense: explusion with prejudice (no readdmittance.)
These "kids" today think that the University is their private network and that bandwidth is infinite and there's no penalty for abuse...time for a surprise. Can't wait for them to tell mom and dad that they got busted for downloading pr0n and illegal MP3s and now get kicked out of college. As far as I am concerned, it's their problem and the University has to mitigate the possibility of lawsuits as well as catering to the genuine student that is not violating the laws. All I can say to those foolish students that do get hammered is "It sucks to be you!"
"The Yorktown lost control of its propulsion system because its computers
were unable to divide by the number zero... The Yorktown's Standard
Monitoring Control System administrator entered zero into the data field for
the Remote Data Base Manager program. That caused the database to overflow
and crash all LAN consoles and miniature remote terminal units. The program
administrators are trained to bypass a bad data field and change the value
if such a problem occurs again."
See that part about the administrator? That's a PERSON. Yes it was USER ERROR. If I crash a car, does that make all cars so flawed as to be outlawed? No. Same with this incident. A user fucked up. By the way, Linux doesn't devide by 0 very well either, so this is a math implimentation error done by the user.
More proof? This time from Scientific American:
"The controversy began when the USS Yorktown, a guided-missile cruiser that
was the first to be outfitted with Smart Ship technology, suffered a
widespread system failure off the coast of Virginia in September last year.
After a crew member mistakenly entered a zero into the data field of an
application, the computer system proceeded to divide another quantity by
that zero. The operation caused a buffer overflow, in which data leak from a
temporary storage space in memory, and the error eventually brought down the
ship's propulsion system. The result: the Yorktown was dead in the water for
more than two hours."
'Others insist that NT was not the culprit. According to Lieutenant
Commander Roderick Fraser, who was the chief engineer on board the ship at
the time of the incident, the fault was with certain applications that were
developed by CAE Electronics in Leesburg, Va. As Harvey McKelvey, former
director of navy programs for CAE, admits, "If you want to put a stick in
anybody's eye, it should be in ours."...
There again, USER error combined with faulty equipment that wasn't manufactured by MS. Also take note that this was a TEST. That's the point. If all systems that fail a test are scrapped, you'd have no computers, no cars, no planes, etc.
From the article post: "Should Microsoft's software be treated any differently than, say, automobiles?"
Only when software is the cause for either serious bodily injury or death. Using automobiles as an anaolgy is flawed on so many levels...people need to get a better example.
Right now, it's a clear lead for Scaled Composites, at 57%, according to the poll. I admit, I haven't followed this really closely--except for the occasional Armadillo story--but I think I'm going to have to look into Scaled Composites a bit more. Although it would be really cool to see Carmack win, I kind of doubt it will happen that way.
I think Slashdot should temporarily mirror every site they link to just to prevent the deaths that we keep inflicting upon hapless sites. It really is unfortunate.
Put this in a generic plastic lunchbox, replace the front with a smallish (say 10") LCD, room in there for a laptop hard drive and a CD/DVD... Pc on the go. Only "big" part is the mouse and the keyboard, and those aren't that big anymore.
Don't even bother reading it. You learn nothing and it's filled with assumptions rather than hard coded facts. Their assumption that MS products (specifically Windows) is filled to the brim with vulnerabilities to the tone of ~10x to ~35x the other operating systems is insane. That would mean that *nix(es) would have no more than 1 full vulnerability per year--clearly not true. A vulnerability only exists once it's discovered. And once discovered if a patch exists then it become the user's fault for not applying the patch, not the OS vendor. To apply a reverse logic makes every OS vendor equally guilty of this "crime."
The only way to correctly interpret this document is to accept that reliance on any OS is a mistake with regard to security. Beit MS, Linux, or otherwise.
...and when they scrape you guys off the pavement with a wet sponge because you were doing 143MPH, hit a wall out of control, or kill someone and you end up in cuffs in a real-live fuck-you-in-the-ass prison, I won't require motivation to point and laugh. Those signs on the side of the road, you know, the ones that say really retarded things like "Speed Limit 55"? Yeah, that's not just a suggestion, it's the law. The fact that Denver has problems is immaterial. The fact that your cars may be able to handle that speed and are built for it is equally immaterial. Tell me, did you get formal, rigorous, professional training to drive that those speeds? Do you know, off the top of your head, how long it will take your car to go from 143MPH to 0? No? Well then you're a fool and ill equipped to deal with the situation.
Can't wait to read of your deaths. I need a good laugh.
"I don't know if I feel comfortable with ANYONE installing software on my hardware without asking permission first."
Um, it's not just anyone, if the system phones home it's calling MS, right? So it's MS that's installing the patch, not someone like Valve or Activision.
There is no reason to have a car that will go that fast unless you're in NASCAR. Perhaps if auto manufacturers would focus not on power and speed but on efficiency we wouldn't be in the oil crush of the Middle East. No regular car has any reason for going over 85. National highway speed is nowhere near 215.
"These include development of reusable spacecraft for carrying people around in the Earth-Moon vicinity, including to the nearby Lagrange points; sending people to an Earth-crossing asteroid; establishing a lunar base, and sending people to Mars with a base on a Martian moon by 2024."
Unrealistic goals, if you ask me. There's no freaking way we'll have a base on Mars' moon by 2024. By 2100 maybe, but not that soon. Keep with what was taught to Jodie Foster in "Contact,"... small moves.
It was just a matter of time...
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Linux is portable...so porting it to a PS2 (or a sufficiently advanced toaster) is just a matter of exercising the will to do so. Not a surprise that it was done...Gentoo or otherwise, one distro or another eventually would have done it.
is everything that American's would truly want to have is only ever released in Japan? What is wrong with those fools, don't they realise that we want this kind of thing here? Sure they're overly priced for what it does, but come on, at least they could do is sell them here as well.
As you probably can tell, I'm not a big fan of things like DVD regions as well.
Dell currently has a deal on the Poweredge 400SC, with rebates that's ~$300, with free shipping. Celeron 2.2Ghz, 40GB Drive, 128MB RAM (buy more if you want it), no OS loaded, onboard 10/100 NIC (Intel, I think), AGP 8x, 800MHz bus speed.... Take a look. It's worth it.
I use KDE, I like it, it works for me; I don't like GNOME, it's kludgy, but there are parts of it that I wish KDE had. What I want is a merge of the two (Knome?). That would be cool.
The comparison to the GNU FTP site is specious. On the one hand, a million computers were compromised by a worm; on the other, one FTP server was compromised by an insider.
And how many people downloaded compromised source? How many *nix distros were subjected to compromised source? How many users? One FTP site? No, everyone who touched that site is potentially fucked. It's not just *one*.
If your IT person(s) can't do the patching on that few a number of computers in the span of a month then, yes, they're lazy. I deal with that number of systems, in MULTIPLE countries, every time there's a new patch/fix. The IT depertment that you are referring to either (a) is filled with incompetents, or (b) need to hire someone who knows what their doing.
...as they don't want to take down a critical production machine.
Why would you so foolishly have a purduction machine open to the Internet? Firewall, anyone? If you can't take that normal of a precaution then you should be fired.
Slashdot Mirror
Call me an insane fucktard, but I think the penalty as listed is too lame. My plan:
First offense: lose net for one week.
Second Offense: lose net for one month.
Third Offense: suspension for one month, automatic 1-GPA point deduction on all current classes taken.
Forth Offense: explusion with prejudice (no readdmittance.)
These "kids" today think that the University is their private network and that bandwidth is infinite and there's no penalty for abuse...time for a surprise. Can't wait for them to tell mom and dad that they got busted for downloading pr0n and illegal MP3s and now get kicked out of college. As far as I am concerned, it's their problem and the University has to mitigate the possibility of lawsuits as well as catering to the genuine student that is not violating the laws. All I can say to those foolish students that do get hammered is "It sucks to be you!"
More proof? This time from Scientific American: There again, USER error combined with faulty equipment that wasn't manufactured by MS. Also take note that this was a TEST. That's the point. If all systems that fail a test are scrapped, you'd have no computers, no cars, no planes, etc.
Get real.
From the article post: "Should Microsoft's software be treated any differently than, say, automobiles?"
Only when software is the cause for either serious bodily injury or death. Using automobiles as an anaolgy is flawed on so many levels...people need to get a better example.
There already was one. It was Wizardry for the Apple II....at least that is what I was told.
Right now, it's a clear lead for Scaled Composites, at 57%, according to the poll. I admit, I haven't followed this really closely--except for the occasional Armadillo story--but I think I'm going to have to look into Scaled Composites a bit more. Although it would be really cool to see Carmack win, I kind of doubt it will happen that way.
Yes, I probably should have listed that as well... silly me. Thanks dude.
IANAL, but 42USC2000aa protects the reporters against this sort of thing. Patriot Act or no, the subpoenas are illegal under that provision.
I think Slashdot should temporarily mirror every site they link to just to prevent the deaths that we keep inflicting upon hapless sites. It really is unfortunate.
Put this in a generic plastic lunchbox, replace the front with a smallish (say 10") LCD, room in there for a laptop hard drive and a CD/DVD... Pc on the go. Only "big" part is the mouse and the keyboard, and those aren't that big anymore.
Cool.
Don't even bother reading it. You learn nothing and it's filled with assumptions rather than hard coded facts. Their assumption that MS products (specifically Windows) is filled to the brim with vulnerabilities to the tone of ~10x to ~35x the other operating systems is insane. That would mean that *nix(es) would have no more than 1 full vulnerability per year--clearly not true. A vulnerability only exists once it's discovered. And once discovered if a patch exists then it become the user's fault for not applying the patch, not the OS vendor. To apply a reverse logic makes every OS vendor equally guilty of this "crime."
The only way to correctly interpret this document is to accept that reliance on any OS is a mistake with regard to security. Beit MS, Linux, or otherwise.
...and when they scrape you guys off the pavement with a wet sponge because you were doing 143MPH, hit a wall out of control, or kill someone and you end up in cuffs in a real-live fuck-you-in-the-ass prison, I won't require motivation to point and laugh. Those signs on the side of the road, you know, the ones that say really retarded things like "Speed Limit 55"? Yeah, that's not just a suggestion, it's the law. The fact that Denver has problems is immaterial. The fact that your cars may be able to handle that speed and are built for it is equally immaterial. Tell me, did you get formal, rigorous, professional training to drive that those speeds? Do you know, off the top of your head, how long it will take your car to go from 143MPH to 0? No? Well then you're a fool and ill equipped to deal with the situation.
Can't wait to read of your deaths. I need a good laugh.
Craig built a neutron modulator (which slows down the emitted neutrons so they can be detected) out of a few hundred spare CDs.
I bet those were all AOL CDs, everyone has a few hundered of those lying around all the time.
"I don't know if I feel comfortable with ANYONE installing software on my hardware without asking permission first."
Um, it's not just anyone, if the system phones home it's calling MS, right? So it's MS that's installing the patch, not someone like Valve or Activision.
There is no reason to have a car that will go that fast unless you're in NASCAR. Perhaps if auto manufacturers would focus not on power and speed but on efficiency we wouldn't be in the oil crush of the Middle East. No regular car has any reason for going over 85. National highway speed is nowhere near 215.
"These include development of reusable spacecraft for carrying people around in the Earth-Moon vicinity, including to the nearby Lagrange points; sending people to an Earth-crossing asteroid; establishing a lunar base, and sending people to Mars with a base on a Martian moon by 2024."
... small moves.
Unrealistic goals, if you ask me. There's no freaking way we'll have a base on Mars' moon by 2024. By 2100 maybe, but not that soon. Keep with what was taught to Jodie Foster in "Contact,"
Linux is portable...so porting it to a PS2 (or a sufficiently advanced toaster) is just a matter of exercising the will to do so. Not a surprise that it was done...Gentoo or otherwise, one distro or another eventually would have done it.
is everything that American's would truly want to have is only ever released in Japan? What is wrong with those fools, don't they realise that we want this kind of thing here? Sure they're overly priced for what it does, but come on, at least they could do is sell them here as well.
As you probably can tell, I'm not a big fan of things like DVD regions as well.
(at least not always)
Dell currently has a deal on the Poweredge 400SC, with rebates that's ~$300, with free shipping. Celeron 2.2Ghz, 40GB Drive, 128MB RAM (buy more if you want it), no OS loaded, onboard 10/100 NIC (Intel, I think), AGP 8x, 800MHz bus speed.... Take a look. It's worth it.
I use KDE, I like it, it works for me; I don't like GNOME, it's kludgy, but there are parts of it that I wish KDE had. What I want is a merge of the two (Knome?). That would be cool.
In this interview he asserts that immunity is built by infection, and without it you would have a much weaker ecosystem.
If we didn't have viruses we wouldn't need immunity from them.
in the odd position of rooting for IBM. Never thought I'd be on Big Blue's side...in what strange times we live.
Palestinians, being semites themselves, can hardly be anti-semitics...
;)
Sure they could...they could be filled with self loathing.
The comparison to the GNU FTP site is specious. On the one hand, a million computers were compromised by a worm; on the other, one FTP server was compromised by an insider.
And how many people downloaded compromised source? How many *nix distros were subjected to compromised source? How many users? One FTP site? No, everyone who touched that site is potentially fucked. It's not just *one*.
If your IT person(s) can't do the patching on that few a number of computers in the span of a month then, yes, they're lazy. I deal with that number of systems, in MULTIPLE countries, every time there's a new patch/fix. The IT depertment that you are referring to either (a) is filled with incompetents, or (b) need to hire someone who knows what their doing.
...as they don't want to take down a critical production machine.
Why would you so foolishly have a purduction machine open to the Internet? Firewall, anyone? If you can't take that normal of a precaution then you should be fired.
You've never worked in IT, have you?
Apparently, I've been doing this longer than you.