Come on...this series needs a course devoted to it. I mean mechs, spirituality, politics, culture? I'm sure everyone else here will probably either say Lain or Neon Genisis Evangelion.
of course...the anime art form is something that should be studied. for one, it offers some great content and social/political messages that wouldn't be accepted in "mainstream" media. second, artwork and story telling go hand in hand. after all, isn't that what artwork (of any form) is supposed to do, to speak to the viewer and convey some message/story?
anyone who flames me saying that hollywierd puts out decent artwork hasn't been to the theaters lately. most of it is tripe. it's entertaining yes, but it's still tripe in an artistic sense. of course there is the rare gem out there, but it's not often that people can (or care to) recognize the difference. for this reason film classes in general (including anime classes) are a way to help people gain some perspective and recognize art for art, and not just art for the sake of entertainment.
after my first film class i couldn't watch any movie in "pan and scan" anymore. it helped me understand composition, writing, story telling, and substance...something which is lacking in most of the "modern" world.
ok...most of us know all of this already. we all know that nano tech can be a great service...longer battery life, clothes that clean themselves, etc...
what they don't mention are the possible negitive effects. it's like atomic power...great benifit, possibly nasty applications. to apply nano tech to consumer goods is one thing, but to use it to make weapons is quite another (on a morality scale). this technology is more highly adaptive than anything else we have seen before.
governments the world over have been toying with nano tech to make weapons that kill more efficently, are more easily hidden, etc. what happens when common street thugs can "make" their own weapons with nano tech? what happens when countries that have firearms bans (uk, australia, others) have people running arround with nanotech weapons that are small and more leathal than the standard lead slug fired by a gun today? how do you track things like this? what happens when the government/corperation/etc decides to make a nanotech listening device out of the paint in your home?
this is a tech that is to be truly feared and respected. remember...technology is only as good as those who use it.
yes the article is inacurate. what does that matter? this is like telling apple 5 years ago that they should move to a kernel that is unix based and open source (bsd anyone?). of course, they would have laughed in your face.
microsoft is like any capitalist entity...they are there to make $$$. apple has gone the way of an open and stable kernel. they decided to forgo the waste of money that is kernel development and use a system that is currently open, supported, and doesn't have to be bought. apple figured that they shouldn't have to spend money on something they clould have for free. why not M$? apple doesn't make their money based upon the kernel. they make their money because their proprietary interface (and hardware...yada, yada, yada...). same is true with windows. if the the NT kernel changes to an open source kernel, the interface is what will matter. instead of useing X11 they use their own GUI server...
on another note...if M$ becomes more compatible with open source software (on a kernel level), then one of 2 things are going to happen. either 1.) M$ will expand because they will have the ability to run and develop software that will work on open systems (even if the binaries are closed), or 2.) they will open the door for open source os's to penitrate the market.
correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't the digital cable signal mpg2 at a lower bit-rate than dvd? shitty bit-rate in any medium sux of course...
i just wanted to make sure i was correct in assuming format.
and moderators...don't mod me down...i know i'm off topic...doesn't mean you need to be assholes...
a bit more on topic...i don't have a tivo, but i have a SGI indigo2 (for fun and nastalgia), a desktop with an AMD Athalon (with bundled heatsink, 2 HD's, GForce2 Ti, and 4 80mm fans moving a total of 320 cubic ft/min of air through the case), a server with case fans and PS fan...all humming in my little military provided dorm room 24-7, and i still sleep fine...
geeks like computer noises to an extent...they make us feel comfortable:-)
Oh, and the soviets spied on their own people "to protect them." this has to be a troll...but i'll bite...
centralized control is good for very few things, and communications is NOT one of them. why is this different than say...centralizing control of all news and broadcast media? surely you would complain about that. oh, but this time they truly want to be "hands off." excuse me if i don't believe it.
a history note on how much to trust our government: the NSA was busted in the 70's for spying on americans without any kind of warrent. the NSA claimed it was doing it for "national security reasons". hell, the NSA charter is still classified top-secret, and has been since the orginization's inception in 1947 (national security act). all they told the NSA was "naughty orginization...don't do it again." this isn't knee jerk...it's been happening to our country for at least the past 60 years. oh, interesting tid-bit for those who don't know...the NSA is a DOD orginization. the director is always a military 4 star officer.
of course there is executive order 9066 (japanese-americans during ww2), the tuskegee experiment, the list goes on...if you want centralized control, move to a 3rd world dictatorship. personaly, i fight for freedom. i believe in the principals of our founding fathers. i don't, however, believe we are still living up to those principals. i believe it is better to be exposed to terrorists and the like than to loose some of my freedom. your chances of dieing in a terrorist attack are far less than the chance of you dieing on the way to the corner store. if for some reason i'm one of the unlucky few...so be it. we are all going to die sooner or later, and if i get taken out because this country still believes in freedom, then it's a small price to pay.
of course...but that doesn't mean that everything comercial is tripe. there are those who think so, but i happen to enjoy some of the entertainment to be had. it's similer to the open vs closed source argument. a free (or open source) product is not always superior to commercial alternatives. same goes for the entertainment industry.
i'm sure this will be modded down as redundant, but what we need is to make a legal difference. we need congress to enact laws that protect our freedom. the only way we can do that is to make the law makers, not RIAA or the MPAA, feel the financial pull. either make it too expensive for them to ignore (campaign contributions, national public debate, etc...), or to donate time and money to the org's that are fighting for us...EFF, and ACLU to name a few. we need to gain the kind of media attention that can bring about change. let's face it, no massive media campaign, no chance at change. why do political canidates spend an ungodly sum on airtime arround election time? without a means to mass distribute your message, people accept the status quo.
of course the problem is that the media companies belong to RIAA...but with enough money, they will have to listen to us...or at least we might be able to buy our own politician...
further proof that the/. editors don't READ the site before posting a story:-). didn't i read somewhere in the FAQ that we should take the time to search the site to make sure we don't duplicate story submissions???
I think Larry Niven is one of those people that doesn't get as much attention. Those who know his work appriciate it. Not to downplay Howard Rheingold's work, but it is more mainstream I have found...again, not passig judegment on quality, just catigory...
often...um...yeah...it has to be...UDP (or TCP) wouldn't work if IP didn't provide the means to get there. TCP and UDP are (for a lack of a better term) linked to IP. IP provides the method of addressing and routing (think IP address), while TCP provides a means of flow control, error checking, and generaly making sure the packets get there. X.25 and ATM are Data Link layer, just like Ethernet. The datalink Layer provides a method for sending datagrams over some kind of physical means. it provides the method and means for transmiting formated data, error checking of the transmistion (just checksuming the bits) etc. Data Link layer is phyiscal medium dependant, in other words, you run Ethernet over UTP, ATM over fiber, etc (and yes i know that there is some flexibility in there). TCP/IP is NOT medium dependant. TCP/IP can be transmitted over barbed wire for all it cares. It is always in a wrapper of some kind. TCP/IP in Ethernet Datagrams, TCP/IP in ATM cells, or for that matter Appletalk or IPX/SPX over Ethernet Datagrams. Again, Layer 3 and higher protocols DON'T CARE about the first two (or last two depending on your perspective) layers of the OSI model WHATSOEVER. ATM and X.25 are layer 2...TCP/IP, Appletalk, and IPX/SPX (to name a few) are in layers 3 and 4...
I know this is offtopic, but i have to make a correction:
A chaotic telecommunications industry that is at odds with Internet systems (ATM and X.25 vs TCP/IP)...
um...ATM and X.25 are on a different layer of the OSI model than TCP/IP. ATM and X.25 are layer 2, IP is layer 3, and TCP is layer 4 remember? Granted they usually bundle TCP and IP together and call it layers 3&4 together...but in either case it hardly matters. What you said might as well have been "you can't run IPX/SPX or TCP/IP over Ethernet." come on...
of course...if you have a linux system with a compitent admin...you wouldn't have to worry about this:-). i know offices i did some work for that have uptimes of well over a year on their linux servers...
Running Linux 4 ed. and Learning Debian GNU/Linux however the debian book is availible only on-line. i found people new to linux can very easily manage with debian with this book as a refereance.
let us also not forget Linux docs can be an invaluble reference for the newbie (and experianced alike;-)
truly amazing. next thing you know, they will discover a silicon based life form (besides pamala anderson), and call in mulder and scully...wait...i already saw that episode...
INFIDEL! religious extreamism is OK when it comes to your operating system/editor (obligitory reference to vi/emacs flame wars) of choice! we shall torture you until you admit that there is only one true god, and his name is Linus!
</JOKE>
seriously though, i would venture to say that most linux geeks don't worry about making their production servers do "everything". hell, many servers at a busey company are dedicated to a single task. in which case to say that one solution is better than another has merit, as each system does have it's strengths and weaknesses. the "make it do everything" is usually limited the the people who are using it at home who are trying to live on the bleading edge. trying to get the latest codecs/plugins for (enter your favorite media player package here), wine, or whatever.
seriously though...the switching to linux by bigger and more mainstream companies has always been a topic arround here. the comments will come about how linux "is finaly making it". i guess people ARE starting to realize that there are some benifits not paying the SGI premium prices to do awesome 3d rendering, compositing, rotoscoping, etc. don't get my wrong, i love sgi hardware...but i hate the price.
But if a LAN Admin is stupid enough to leave his access points open (with access to the outside world), then the company gets what it deserves for hiring an MSCE to do its network design.
exactly. these are probably the same companies that wouldn't ever know if they were hacked, allow your password to be your first name, etc. hell, the admins probably wouldn't know a good firewall rule set from a hole in the ground. ANY admin should review ANY type of new electonic device they want to put on their network to see if it posses a security risk. it's common sense. but i guess common sense ain't that common anymore.
oh, yeah...and should it be illegal to leave my car unlocked with the keys in it. no, it shouldn't. it's a really stupid thing to do, but it should never be a crime to be stupid. after all, if we start makeing stupidity illegal, we couldn't build enough prisons to hold 98% of the world. well, on second thought...maybe would should try that:-)
from the article: "There's just not a lot of technology out there right now that can be used to secure the technology in place,"
um, encryption, authentication, and no dhcp over WIFI would be a good place to start...
i particularly like:
"Companies throughout the country have networks that are wide open because of wireless LANs.... Millions of houses are getting connected, which means that more and more are getting vulnerable,"
and tell me how this is just a wifi problem? millions of people are getting on the net, wifi or no. joe shmo at home very rarely if ever patches or runs anything but a virus scanner. corperations don't always secure their wire networks, let alone wifi. so with all these targets, and with anyone at home able to exploit them, why don't we just shut down all telecom operations...no phone, no internet...that should stop those terrorists! fucking idiots...someone get GW a REAL internet/computing/security person as a "cyberczar"...clark is a dumbass
and people wonder why network security is such a problem...
granted security fixes may have to go through some kind of verification...the thing is, it shouldn't take that much time. many of the latest problems in MS have been cross site scripting issues in IE and IIS. patches for this kind of thing are usually for better data checks (properly formated strings, etc). if you are using some software that breaks when this kind of patch is applied, then you have bigger issues.
with *nix, the security alerts have been more varried in type and service, but again, a quick check of the problem and the fix should let you know if it *might* break something. i have found it rare that a security fix (as opposed to a bug fix) rarely breaks anything, and my orginization would rather be without even a necissary service temporarily than leave them open to data theft. some companies out there would rather the patch be applied than remain open because a patch may or may not break some service. it's a risk management type thing. oh, yeah...and if some of your software breaks because of a security patch...it might be time to fix your shitty software...
honestly? i could be wrong, but how many times has a security patch caused a problem?
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Come on...this series needs a course devoted to it. I mean mechs, spirituality, politics, culture? I'm sure everyone else here will probably either say Lain or Neon Genisis Evangelion.
of course...the anime art form is something that should be studied. for one, it offers some great content and social/political messages that wouldn't be accepted in "mainstream" media. second, artwork and story telling go hand in hand. after all, isn't that what artwork (of any form) is supposed to do, to speak to the viewer and convey some message/story?
anyone who flames me saying that hollywierd puts out decent artwork hasn't been to the theaters lately. most of it is tripe. it's entertaining yes, but it's still tripe in an artistic sense. of course there is the rare gem out there, but it's not often that people can (or care to) recognize the difference. for this reason film classes in general (including anime classes) are a way to help people gain some perspective and recognize art for art, and not just art for the sake of entertainment.
after my first film class i couldn't watch any movie in "pan and scan" anymore. it helped me understand composition, writing, story telling, and substance...something which is lacking in most of the "modern" world.
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Possibly...but that is for a different reason. :-)
(insert your favorite NZ/Scottish/Whomever "sheep joke" here)
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ok...most of us know all of this already. we all know that nano tech can be a great service...longer battery life, clothes that clean themselves, etc...
what they don't mention are the possible negitive effects. it's like atomic power...great benifit, possibly nasty applications. to apply nano tech to consumer goods is one thing, but to use it to make weapons is quite another (on a morality scale). this technology is more highly adaptive than anything else we have seen before.
governments the world over have been toying with nano tech to make weapons that kill more efficently, are more easily hidden, etc. what happens when common street thugs can "make" their own weapons with nano tech? what happens when countries that have firearms bans (uk, australia, others) have people running arround with nanotech weapons that are small and more leathal than the standard lead slug fired by a gun today? how do you track things like this? what happens when the government/corperation/etc decides to make a nanotech listening device out of the paint in your home?
this is a tech that is to be truly feared and respected. remember...technology is only as good as those who use it.
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yes the article is inacurate. what does that matter? this is like telling apple 5 years ago that they should move to a kernel that is unix based and open source (bsd anyone?). of course, they would have laughed in your face.
microsoft is like any capitalist entity...they are there to make $$$. apple has gone the way of an open and stable kernel. they decided to forgo the waste of money that is kernel development and use a system that is currently open, supported, and doesn't have to be bought. apple figured that they shouldn't have to spend money on something they clould have for free. why not M$? apple doesn't make their money based upon the kernel. they make their money because their proprietary interface (and hardware...yada, yada, yada...). same is true with windows. if the the NT kernel changes to an open source kernel, the interface is what will matter. instead of useing X11 they use their own GUI server...
on another note...if M$ becomes more compatible with open source software (on a kernel level), then one of 2 things are going to happen. either 1.) M$ will expand because they will have the ability to run and develop software that will work on open systems (even if the binaries are closed), or 2.) they will open the door for open source os's to penitrate the market.
admit it...you really use pico or nano...
correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't the digital cable signal mpg2 at a lower bit-rate than dvd? shitty bit-rate in any medium sux of course...
:-)
i just wanted to make sure i was correct in assuming format.
and moderators...don't mod me down...i know i'm off topic...doesn't mean you need to be assholes...
a bit more on topic...i don't have a tivo, but i have a SGI indigo2 (for fun and nastalgia), a desktop with an AMD Athalon (with bundled heatsink, 2 HD's, GForce2 Ti, and 4 80mm fans moving a total of 320 cubic ft/min of air through the case), a server with case fans and PS fan...all humming in my little military provided dorm room 24-7, and i still sleep fine...
geeks like computer noises to an extent...they make us feel comfortable
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Oh, and the soviets spied on their own people "to protect them." this has to be a troll...but i'll bite...
centralized control is good for very few things, and communications is NOT one of them. why is this different than say...centralizing control of all news and broadcast media? surely you would complain about that. oh, but this time they truly want to be "hands off." excuse me if i don't believe it.
a history note on how much to trust our government:
the NSA was busted in the 70's for spying on americans without any kind of warrent. the NSA claimed it was doing it for "national security reasons". hell, the NSA charter is still classified top-secret, and has been since the orginization's inception in 1947 (national security act). all they told the NSA was "naughty orginization...don't do it again." this isn't knee jerk...it's been happening to our country for at least the past 60 years. oh, interesting tid-bit for those who don't know...the NSA is a DOD orginization. the director is always a military 4 star officer.
of course there is executive order 9066 (japanese-americans during ww2), the tuskegee experiment, the list goes on...if you want centralized control, move to a 3rd world dictatorship. personaly, i fight for freedom. i believe in the principals of our founding fathers. i don't, however, believe we are still living up to those principals. i believe it is better to be exposed to terrorists and the like than to loose some of my freedom. your chances of dieing in a terrorist attack are far less than the chance of you dieing on the way to the corner store. if for some reason i'm one of the unlucky few...so be it. we are all going to die sooner or later, and if i get taken out because this country still believes in freedom, then it's a small price to pay.
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of course...but that doesn't mean that everything comercial is tripe. there are those who think so, but i happen to enjoy some of the entertainment to be had. it's similer to the open vs closed source argument. a free (or open source) product is not always superior to commercial alternatives. same goes for the entertainment industry.
i'm sure this will be modded down as redundant, but what we need is to make a legal difference. we need congress to enact laws that protect our freedom. the only way we can do that is to make the law makers, not RIAA or the MPAA, feel the financial pull. either make it too expensive for them to ignore (campaign contributions, national public debate, etc...), or to donate time and money to the org's that are fighting for us...EFF, and ACLU to name a few. we need to gain the kind of media attention that can bring about change. let's face it, no massive media campaign, no chance at change. why do political canidates spend an ungodly sum on airtime arround election time? without a means to mass distribute your message, people accept the status quo.
of course the problem is that the media companies belong to RIAA...but with enough money, they will have to listen to us...or at least we might be able to buy our own politician...
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further proof that the /. editors don't READ the site before posting a story :-). didn't i read somewhere in the FAQ that we should take the time to search the site to make sure we don't duplicate story submissions???
:-)
maybe rob just likes being flamed
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don't forget the (-1 Redundant)
:-)
I can't go with the (-1 Spelling)...i would have the worst damn karma that way...well...maybe not as bad as Taco's
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flash crowd...um...you mean /.ing right? :-)
I think Larry Niven is one of those people that doesn't get as much attention. Those who know his work appriciate it. Not to downplay Howard Rheingold's work, but it is more mainstream I have found...again, not passig judegment on quality, just catigory...
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no...everyone know true geeks can neither spell, nor use capital letters...look at taco...
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but IP is also often encapsulated in UDP packets
often...um...yeah...it has to be...UDP (or TCP) wouldn't work if IP didn't provide the means to get there. TCP and UDP are (for a lack of a better term) linked to IP. IP provides the method of addressing and routing (think IP address), while TCP provides a means of flow control, error checking, and generaly making sure the packets get there. X.25 and ATM are Data Link layer, just like Ethernet. The datalink Layer provides a method for sending datagrams over some kind of physical means. it provides the method and means for transmiting formated data, error checking of the transmistion (just checksuming the bits) etc. Data Link layer is phyiscal medium dependant, in other words, you run Ethernet over UTP, ATM over fiber, etc (and yes i know that there is some flexibility in there). TCP/IP is NOT medium dependant. TCP/IP can be transmitted over barbed wire for all it cares. It is always in a wrapper of some kind. TCP/IP in Ethernet Datagrams, TCP/IP in ATM cells, or for that matter Appletalk or IPX/SPX over Ethernet Datagrams. Again, Layer 3 and higher protocols DON'T CARE about the first two (or last two depending on your perspective) layers of the OSI model WHATSOEVER. ATM and X.25 are layer 2...TCP/IP, Appletalk, and IPX/SPX (to name a few) are in layers 3 and 4...
does that clarify anything?
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I know this is offtopic, but i have to make a correction:
A chaotic telecommunications industry that is at odds with Internet systems (ATM and X.25 vs TCP/IP)...
um...ATM and X.25 are on a different layer of the OSI model than TCP/IP. ATM and X.25 are layer 2, IP is layer 3, and TCP is layer 4 remember? Granted they usually bundle TCP and IP together and call it layers 3&4 together...but in either case it hardly matters. What you said might as well have been "you can't run IPX/SPX or TCP/IP over Ethernet." come on...
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of course...if you have a linux system with a compitent admin...you wouldn't have to worry about this :-). i know offices i did some work for that have uptimes of well over a year on their linux servers...
Running Linux 4 ed. and Learning Debian GNU/Linux however the debian book is availible only on-line. i found people new to linux can very easily manage with debian with this book as a refereance.
;-)
let us also not forget Linux docs can be an invaluble reference for the newbie (and experianced alike
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Oh, right. Forgot that no one reads the article anymore...
/. did you *actually* expect people to read something before shooting their mouths off??? where do you think you are? :-)
of course not...this is
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now maybe they'll find life on uranus...
ok, not funny, but it had to be said.
truly amazing. next thing you know, they will discover a silicon based life form (besides pamala anderson), and call in mulder and scully...wait...i already saw that episode...
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INFIDEL!
religious extreamism is OK when it comes to your operating system/editor (obligitory reference to vi/emacs flame wars) of choice! we shall torture you until you admit that there is only one true god, and his name is Linus!
</JOKE>
seriously though, i would venture to say that most linux geeks don't worry about making their production servers do "everything". hell, many servers at a busey company are dedicated to a single task. in which case to say that one solution is better than another has merit, as each system does have it's strengths and weaknesses. the "make it do everything" is usually limited the the people who are using it at home who are trying to live on the bleading edge. trying to get the latest codecs/plugins for (enter your favorite media player package here), wine, or whatever.
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HEY! we in New Mexico aren't up in the north-east with the other "New" states!
</FEIGNED INDIGNITY>
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no worries...it's what i get for not hitting preview and reviewing before i post :-)
#1: i recomend we commence the ./'ing
./ data? i think it would funny to see him lie twitching on the floor from an input overload ;-)
pickard: make it so...
btw...anyone know if it would be possible to
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At least MS didn't assimilate them...
seriously though...the switching to linux by bigger and more mainstream companies has always been a topic arround here. the comments will come about how linux "is finaly making it". i guess people ARE starting to realize that there are some benifits not paying the SGI premium prices to do awesome 3d rendering, compositing, rotoscoping, etc. don't get my wrong, i love sgi hardware...but i hate the price.
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But if a LAN Admin is stupid enough to leave his access points open (with access to the outside world), then the company gets what it deserves for hiring an MSCE to do its network design.
:-)
exactly. these are probably the same companies that wouldn't ever know if they were hacked, allow your password to be your first name, etc. hell, the admins probably wouldn't know a good firewall rule set from a hole in the ground. ANY admin should review ANY type of new electonic device they want to put on their network to see if it posses a security risk. it's common sense. but i guess common sense ain't that common anymore.
oh, yeah...and should it be illegal to leave my car unlocked with the keys in it. no, it shouldn't. it's a really stupid thing to do, but it should never be a crime to be stupid. after all, if we start makeing stupidity illegal, we couldn't build enough prisons to hold 98% of the world. well, on second thought...maybe would should try that
from the article:
"There's just not a lot of technology out there right now that can be used to secure the technology in place,"
um, encryption, authentication, and no dhcp over WIFI would be a good place to start...
i particularly like:
"Companies throughout the country have networks that are wide open because of wireless LANs.... Millions of houses are getting connected, which means that more and more are getting vulnerable,"
and tell me how this is just a wifi problem? millions of people are getting on the net, wifi or no. joe shmo at home very rarely if ever patches or runs anything but a virus scanner. corperations don't always secure their wire networks, let alone wifi. so with all these targets, and with anyone at home able to exploit them, why don't we just shut down all telecom operations...no phone, no internet...that should stop those terrorists! fucking idiots...someone get GW a REAL internet/computing/security person as a "cyberczar"...clark is a dumbass
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and people wonder why network security is such a problem...
granted security fixes may have to go through some kind of verification...the thing is, it shouldn't take that much time. many of the latest problems in MS have been cross site scripting issues in IE and IIS. patches for this kind of thing are usually for better data checks (properly formated strings, etc). if you are using some software that breaks when this kind of patch is applied, then you have bigger issues.
with *nix, the security alerts have been more varried in type and service, but again, a quick check of the problem and the fix should let you know if it *might* break something. i have found it rare that a security fix (as opposed to a bug fix) rarely breaks anything, and my orginization would rather be without even a necissary service temporarily than leave them open to data theft. some companies out there would rather the patch be applied than remain open because a patch may or may not break some service. it's a risk management type thing. oh, yeah...and if some of your software breaks because of a security patch...it might be time to fix your shitty software...
honestly? i could be wrong, but how many times has a security patch caused a problem?
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