True, but it's better than proprietary software which gives no access to the source code at all, and only a trust in the good name of Microsoft (for example) to protect you.
Maybe many eyes make all deep trojans shallow? Many other people who develop, contribute to, and write plugins for a project read the code as part of their regular use of the product. *Everybody* would have to be in on it in order for, say, Gnumeric, to have a trojan that lasted more than a month or two from the release date. You'd think somebody would stumble upon an app that phones home or whatever, especially if they're running snort, nmap, firewalls, blah blah blah...
True, but it's the Government. If they're anything like the States, they have LOTS of people with nothing better to do...;-)
Hmmm... On the other hand, China has two billion people they can conscript into their evil trojaning code army. So which is bigger, the bloated number of redundant solitaire-champion secretaries in the Taiwan government, or two billion angry Chinese crackers? Hard to say - report at eleven.
"If there's any lesson from this experience, it is not to use software developed in China or hire Chinese computer programmers, because you're running the risk of having the software you use implanted with the Trojan-horse program," he said.
That's not the point. The point is not to use closed-source software anymore. If their software was supplied with source code, they could have scanned it thoroughly for trojans before implementing it.
The mpeg got my sister in law to ask me "What's Linux?". The commercial got her *asking questions*, and that's exactly what IBM wants. If I wasn't here to answer, she would've googled it - she wanted to find out more. But since I was here, I introduced her to Knoppix. What comes of it, I don't know. But it's a Very Good Thing.
And anyway, I find THE BEST ADS, the ones people remember, are either surreal or funny.
That's retarded. You won't consider buying a product because *the guy doesn't like Macs*?
And *you're* feeding an obvious troll? I liked your previous posts in this thread, enough to click your link to find THE REAL SETH FINKLESTEIN'S webpage, where he calls you a troll himself and says his ID number is xxxxxx (not yours).
What's up with that? Why are you copying this Seth guy?
We only accept PDF and text resumes. You send us Word, we MIGHT open it in a text editor if you sound good. Most likely, we won't open it at all. Our manager has actually emailed people back instructing them to resend their resumes in a non-proprietary format. We're pretty much immune where I work, but everyone else in the world is worried about MSOffice Macro viruses.
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Communist Russia did not fall on its own; they were "pushed" by aggressive US manipulation of international currencies and debt ratios. Google it if you don't believe me. Their system was as strong or stronger than ours (it's *designed* for incredible centralized strength), and we can fall just as easily if another superpower were to arise and be hostile towards our ethnocentric brand of capitalism. Yes, I hate communism, but alas, we are not invincible. Or even better. The pseudo-capitalist counterparts of East Germany and North Korea are better off solely because of Western money flowing in. And if you haven't found any "opportunities for corruption" in capitalism, you are from f**king Venus.
That's why I'm worried. He has crazy superpowers and the same CIA advisory team Dubya has. He'll find Weapons of Ass Destruction even if he has to put them up there himself.
[*shudder*] How low have I sunk? This is by far the worst post of my life.
Dude, the phrase "would have just worked" applies EVEN MORE to Mac OSes pre-OSX. OS X isn't NEARLY as "plug-and-play idiot proof" as the old Mac OSes. But they were less stable (about the same as 98), and a lot uglier GUI-wise than OSX. But plug and play really did work well back then.
Just my 2 cents, from experience. But yeah, Mac Zealots deserve a one-way trip to Camp XRay.
I've been burning CD's for years at work, and I still often use the earliest ones, the ones with drivers and old files on it. They ALL still work. But just in case, I'm gonna use this article to requisition a new backup device.
I think (correct me if I'm wrong), if you don't vote, the default is a 'Yea', which throws into doubt the 80% 'for' number... it's probably more like "20% voted, and they ALL voted NO, but 80% don't care, which are counted as YES votes...". PASSED WITH A GLORIOUS 80%!
It would be awesome if this happened in Politics, and the default vote was something really moronic to try to encourage voting....
"20% voted for Bush, 20% voted for Gore, but since 60% didn't vote, our new President AGAIN is a TI pocket calculator. ALL HAIL THE GREAT COSINE!!"
Well, that's it for me then - I'm going to buy Ernie Ball strings from now on. Actually, all strings seem pretty much the same to me, what with massive distortion and high volumes, so why not support people who have er.. Balls? (sorry)
I'm not an official tech guy, so I don't know what a "white box audit" entails, but they ran homemade software over everything to find backdoors and links to the outside, then manually checked everything that was flagged as possibly suspicious. They almost have more tech guys than traders here, and some of them do nothing but monitor the network and look for bugs. I don't know if they submit patches, but I think so. They're specifically looking for any malicious stuff and possible security holes. They check patches before they apply them, but they don't upgrade our systems much, they're more like appliances. Stripped down appliances, with most of the bloat gone. But they sure boot fast!
I'll give the friendliest geek this link and see if he wants to respond.
Excellent points, and I agree. But I guess I didn't make myself clear. They don't let us run any Windows software at work - but the management does see their "shared source" thing as being a step in the right direction (openness), one which Apple should take in order to get access to the corporate setting, governments, etc. We don't care what license Apple puts their stuff under, as long as our techies can see all of it.
But no, we'll never use Windows, shared source or not. Can't see it.
What if he wants 100% open source? Linux won't boot on the new 17" PowerBooks yet, Apple's screwed with the Bios or something, I think to kill OS9.
And really, if he wants to run Gnu.Linux, he can get a better power/price ratio elsewhere. True, the PBs are cool as hell, but so are the IBM ThinkPads and some Toshibas and Sony's I've played with. I own a ThinkPad A31P, which is this big fat bastard with everything possible built into it -bluetooth, dual wireless antennas, sidebar numericpad addon, etc. I run Gentoo on it and it absolutely KILLS a top of the line PowerBook. I wouldn't recommend it for size, though - the IBM X Series rocks for that (no personal experience beyond picking it up in amazement).
For security reasons, the company I'm at won't let me run a Mac there because they can't PROVE there's no backdoors in OSX. They're paranoid (rightly so, being a large banking interest) and they won't run ANYTHING that their code monkeys haven't scanned every line of code or they haven't written themselves. They've got OpenBSD and Linux on servers, another handrolled Linux on the desktops. If Apple would do something like Microsoft's "shared source" where the freaking BILLIONAIRE who owns this thing could have his guys just look at the *complete* source (not GPL it or distribute it; JUST INSPECT IT), they'd be in. But Apple as usual ignored our many requests (I've been pushing for Macs for a long time, but Apple's so stupid and stubborn I just gave up on them one day), so then my manager realized they were incompetent (they're less incompetent now, but not much) and had us short Apple hard in 2001 and we made a huge wad for the company when they fell apart.
...ever since I went to a newsgroup that was called alt.binaries.pictures.chimera when the browser first came out, and it wasn't screenshots of the browser, it was guys having sex with fish.
I will certainly dread going to a Camino newsgroup in case it's.. uhh... guys with exhaust pipes or something.
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True, but it's better than proprietary software which gives no access to the source code at all, and only a trust in the good name of Microsoft (for example) to protect you.
Maybe many eyes make all deep trojans shallow? Many other people who develop, contribute to, and write plugins for a project read the code as part of their regular use of the product. *Everybody* would have to be in on it in order for, say, Gnumeric, to have a trojan that lasted more than a month or two from the release date. You'd think somebody would stumble upon an app that phones home or whatever, especially if they're running snort, nmap, firewalls, blah blah blah...
True, but it's the Government. If they're anything like the States, they have LOTS of people with nothing better to do... ;-)
Hmmm... On the other hand, China has two billion people they can conscript into their evil trojaning code army. So which is bigger, the bloated number of redundant solitaire-champion secretaries in the Taiwan government, or two billion angry Chinese crackers? Hard to say - report at eleven.
That's not the point. The point is not to use closed-source software anymore. If their software was supplied with source code, they could have scanned it thoroughly for trojans before implementing it.
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The mpeg got my sister in law to ask me "What's Linux?". The commercial got her *asking questions*, and that's exactly what IBM wants. If I wasn't here to answer, she would've googled it - she wanted to find out more. But since I was here, I introduced her to Knoppix. What comes of it, I don't know. But it's a Very Good Thing.
And anyway, I find THE BEST ADS, the ones people remember, are either surreal or funny.
I like this ad. It works for me.
Jeez, dude, get Debian. Your life will be a lot easier and you won't be so bitter.
I read it, but I don't understand it. Why the charade? You're intelligent enough to get respect without being someone else...
That's retarded. You won't consider buying a product because *the guy doesn't like Macs*?
And *you're* feeding an obvious troll? I liked your previous posts in this thread, enough to click your link to find THE REAL SETH FINKLESTEIN'S webpage, where he calls you a troll himself and says his ID number is xxxxxx (not yours).
What's up with that? Why are you copying this Seth guy?
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We only accept PDF and text resumes. You send us Word, we MIGHT open it in a text editor if you sound good. Most likely, we won't open it at all. Our manager has actually emailed people back instructing them to resend their resumes in a non-proprietary format. We're pretty much immune where I work, but everyone else in the world is worried about MSOffice Macro viruses.
It doesn't run on Linux. No good to me. Sorry.
Communist Russia did not fall on its own; they were "pushed" by aggressive US manipulation of international currencies and debt ratios. Google it if you don't believe me. Their system was as strong or stronger than ours (it's *designed* for incredible centralized strength), and we can fall just as easily if another superpower were to arise and be hostile towards our ethnocentric brand of capitalism. Yes, I hate communism, but alas, we are not invincible. Or even better. The pseudo-capitalist counterparts of East Germany and North Korea are better off solely because of Western money flowing in. And if you haven't found any "opportunities for corruption" in capitalism, you are from f**king Venus.
I'm not gay, but he is.
That's why I'm worried. He has crazy superpowers and the same CIA advisory team Dubya has. He'll find Weapons of Ass Destruction even if he has to put them up there himself.
[*shudder*] How low have I sunk? This is by far the worst post of my life.
Dude, the phrase "would have just worked" applies EVEN MORE to Mac OSes pre-OSX. OS X isn't NEARLY as "plug-and-play idiot proof" as the old Mac OSes. But they were less stable (about the same as 98), and a lot uglier GUI-wise than OSX. But plug and play really did work well back then.
Just my 2 cents, from experience. But yeah, Mac Zealots deserve a one-way trip to Camp XRay.
Forget the Thing, I'd be worried about GayCactusDickMan, myself.
That's GNU/Hippie, thankyouverymuch!
LOL!!
I've been burning CD's for years at work, and I still often use the earliest ones, the ones with drivers and old files on it. They ALL still work. But just in case, I'm gonna use this article to requisition a new backup device.
I think (correct me if I'm wrong), if you don't vote, the default is a 'Yea', which throws into doubt the 80% 'for' number... it's probably more like "20% voted, and they ALL voted NO, but 80% don't care, which are counted as YES votes...". PASSED WITH A GLORIOUS 80%!
It would be awesome if this happened in Politics, and the default vote was something really moronic to try to encourage voting....
"20% voted for Bush, 20% voted for Gore, but since 60% didn't vote, our new President AGAIN is a TI pocket calculator. ALL HAIL THE GREAT COSINE!!"
Well, that's it for me then - I'm going to buy Ernie Ball strings from now on. Actually, all strings seem pretty much the same to me, what with massive distortion and high volumes, so why not support people who have er.. Balls? (sorry)
Excellent and informative post. Damn, I love people who think! (and *no*, that's not an invitation of any kind)
If by "open source", you mean IBM, then YES. :-)
I'm not an official tech guy, so I don't know what a "white box audit" entails, but they ran homemade software over everything to find backdoors and links to the outside, then manually checked everything that was flagged as possibly suspicious. They almost have more tech guys than traders here, and some of them do nothing but monitor the network and look for bugs. I don't know if they submit patches, but I think so. They're specifically looking for any malicious stuff and possible security holes. They check patches before they apply them, but they don't upgrade our systems much, they're more like appliances. Stripped down appliances, with most of the bloat gone. But they sure boot fast!
I'll give the friendliest geek this link and see if he wants to respond.
Excellent points, and I agree. But I guess I didn't make myself clear. They don't let us run any Windows software at work - but the management does see their "shared source" thing as being a step in the right direction (openness), one which Apple should take in order to get access to the corporate setting, governments, etc. We don't care what license Apple puts their stuff under, as long as our techies can see all of it.
But no, we'll never use Windows, shared source or not. Can't see it.
What if he wants 100% open source? Linux won't boot on the new 17" PowerBooks yet, Apple's screwed with the Bios or something, I think to kill OS9.
And really, if he wants to run Gnu.Linux, he can get a better power/price ratio elsewhere. True, the PBs are cool as hell, but so are the IBM ThinkPads and some Toshibas and Sony's I've played with. I own a ThinkPad A31P, which is this big fat bastard with everything possible built into it -bluetooth, dual wireless antennas, sidebar numericpad addon, etc. I run Gentoo on it and it absolutely KILLS a top of the line PowerBook. I wouldn't recommend it for size, though - the IBM X Series rocks for that (no personal experience beyond picking it up in amazement).
For security reasons, the company I'm at won't let me run a Mac there because they can't PROVE there's no backdoors in OSX. They're paranoid (rightly so, being a large banking interest) and they won't run ANYTHING that their code monkeys haven't scanned every line of code or they haven't written themselves. They've got OpenBSD and Linux on servers, another handrolled Linux on the desktops. If Apple would do something like Microsoft's "shared source" where the freaking BILLIONAIRE who owns this thing could have his guys just look at the *complete* source (not GPL it or distribute it; JUST INSPECT IT), they'd be in. But Apple as usual ignored our many requests (I've been pushing for Macs for a long time, but Apple's so stupid and stubborn I just gave up on them one day), so then my manager realized they were incompetent (they're less incompetent now, but not much) and had us short Apple hard in 2001 and we made a huge wad for the company when they fell apart.
...ever since I went to a newsgroup that was called alt.binaries.pictures.chimera when the browser first came out, and it wasn't screenshots of the browser, it was guys having sex with fish.
I will certainly dread going to a Camino newsgroup in case it's.. uhh... guys with exhaust pipes or something.
(*shudders*)