Sort of. You can know what they run, you can know you can exploit server A because it has a known vulnerability.
But servers B, C, D, E, F, G, etc are immune to your attacks on server A. To take down the root servers, you'd need to simultaneosly come up with 12 different exploits to knock each one of them out. Which makes it 12 times more difficult.
It's more proof of what I've always said, there is no "perfectly secure" OS in existence.
A decent tuner card (Hauppages WinTV-PVR 250) is 100 bucks by itself. Add 150 (cheap) for a small form factor motherboard and cpu, another 75-100 (cheap!) for a video card. Another 100 bucks for a VGA-TV converter, since I know of no video cards with RCA out that work under linux.
Case, PSU, HDDs, remote..
$399? Not even close. However, if done right, it could do a whole lot more than tape reruns of X Files. Gaming, web surfing, reading email, DVD-+RW etc..
VCR's will eventually be replaced, not by subscription-based services like Tivo (sorry charlie, I already pay 80 bucks a month for cable, no more montly fees, I dont care if it's only 10 bucks), but by DVD-+RW drives, which get cheaper by the minute.
It'll hang around for a long while, though. Hell, there's still plenty of analog music recording equipment in use, little 4-tracks and the like.
I never said the iPod skips when jogging. I said many people want a digital audio player that doesnt skip (ie; not a cd player, but that holds about as much content).
I suppose everyone who doesn't want or need an iPod is a troll on slashdot. Whatever.
Or are you talking about jumping through all the legal grey area of using that PlayFair to crack and then reencoding them, or the hassle of burning to a CD, then re-ripping it?
Myself, I couldn't imagine there's 20gigs of compressed music out there that I'd want to listen to. I'm a creature of habit, when I listen to recorded music, it's the same dozen punk and metal albums. Y'know, the ones with about 10 2 minute songs.
I don't enjoy recorded music, it's merely a distraction while I'm on the plane. In the car, I'd rather listen to the radio. I prefer live music, I'd rather listen to some local band jamming at the bar on friday than stay up late buying songs on iTunes to fill up a big HDD with RIAA horseshit. I'd rather hear some small band doing Rolling Stones covers for free beer, because they enjoy playing, than to own the entire Stones' discography.
To each their own. There's a huge market made up of people just like me. Not everyone has, or aspires to have, a 90000000 CD collection.
So, how about a compromise. You buy what you want to buy, I'll buy what I want to buy.
Not everyone needs or wants 15gigs. My cellphone plays mp3s, and a 128meg SD card is more than enough for me. It'll get me through a 3 hour plane flight, which is about the only situation I'd be in where I'd want to listen to music with headphones.
They want an affordable digital alternative to a walkman, that doesn't skip when they're jogging. They don't care if it can store 2 jillion hours of music. They just want their favorite workout tunes on it, or something to listen to riding the bus, etc.
That's an enormous market, and IMO Apple is positively stupid to ignore it. If they released an iPod that was under 100 bucks, that had say 64-256megs of flash, it'd sell like hotcakes and they'd increase the amount of iTunes customers 10 fold.
As a comparison, there is a niche market for those 100 disc DVD jukeboxes. But there's a much larger market for regular $50 DVD players for folks who maybe rent a movie a few times a month.
No, the CBC is a crown corporation, they sell advertisement to make money like any other network. Of course, like any other crown corporation, they hemmorage cash at the taxpayers expense, but I digress..
TVO, like PBS gets a grant from the province, but relies heavily on donations for funding. It's a non profit network (no commercial advertisements) like PBS.
Not only that, but it can magnify the image, and reduce the doctors movements.
That is, the doctor can do virtual surgery on a heart thats blown up to appear to him to be six feet across. He removes/cuts/does whatever to a managable six inch chunk of it, and the robot replicates that on the real heart, in sub-millimeter fashion.
Pretty cool stuff. Still very much in development though, but there have been some early trials.
I agree. But I also hope that all this rhetoric from the MPAA gets seen by the population, and more importantly, the courts and politicians for the horseshit it is.
One day, I sat reading slashdot. There was a story about Lucas whining, and the MPAA talking about how cinemas were dying because noone was going, piracy, blah blah.
I went to the movies that night. They have those advertisement slides before the movie starts. One of the slides is an ad for the slides themselves (Pro-Motion Inc or something). This slide proclaims that theatre attendence has never been higher and now is the time to get your companies logo onto one of these slides.
So... Umm... Declining, and all cinemas will be closed, vs Record attendance, the future couldn't be brighter... Uhh..
I myself, have never and will never believe that these shitty homemade handycam movies on the internet will ever hurt theatre attendance. I see movies that interest me, and frankly couldn't imagine watching Spiderman 2 on my computer monitor (hell, even on my TV through my xbox) with a shaky cam, seeing the backs of people heads, people getting up to take a piss, etc..
I could never imagine taking a date out to "dinner and a shitty-telesync-with-portugese-subtitles".
Even the "high quality" DVD rips are chock full of compression artifacts and bullshit. It's an imaginary problem they're leveraging to try and get some tighter legal controls, and no more.
The only movies worth downloading are porn. That's only because the porn industry charges ridiculous prices (like 50 bucks for a new release around here.. bah tits are tits whether they were filmed a decade or a week ago!)
That Doom 3 is two year old news. Cramak missed the boat, sorry pal. I've already forgotten about this game.
Same goes for Half Life 2. Too much hype, too little actual product.
Seriously.. All the promise of this amazing visual quality, amazing evironments.. I *was* excited to see the next frontier of gaming..
But CryTech beat you to it! FarCry is, IMO, *the* FPS right now. It's got it all.. Amazingly *huge* detailed environments - you see those little islands wayyy out on the water, that look like a background matte? Nope, you can swim to 'em.. And the underwater seascape is as lush and detailed as the landscape.. It has great enemy AI, cool weapons, great sound, and enough plot to make you feel like you're doing something.
Gameplay is fantastic, with elements of stealth and strategy a la Splinter Cell mixed in with fast paced gunplay a la Serious Sam or Painkiller..
Patch 1.2 will support SM3.0 for nVidia fanboys, 1.3 will sport 3Dc texture compression for the ATI crowd.. So we have cutting-edge rendering technology.
Valve, Cramak, you pulled a Netscape. Too much time pontificating and whining, and you got unseated from your place at the top of the heap.
Once upon a time I was thoroughly impressed with Quake and Quake II.... Then Unreal came out, and I forgot all about them.. It's happened again.
If you're the gamer type, and have a boss-ass video card, you owe it to yourself to get FarCry. All the game that Valve and ID are promising tomorrow - today!
That said, I've watched various incarnations of comic books on TV an movies, and I've watched Spiderman since I was a kid.. From the old campy 70s show to the movies..... hey, this movie has the same problem.. WHAT THE FUCK IS HE SWINGING FROM? Conveniently located blimps?
I digress.. Hey, anyone remember Spidey on "the electric company?"
I digress again..
In some show, somewhere, I saw Peter Parker making up little canisters of the webbing, and stocking his suit up.. It was something he cooked up in his lab (being a genious scientist) to keep with the Spider theme.. Kind of like Batman keeps his Bat theme going..
Anyhow, in the movie, it's apparent that creating webbing is one of his powers.
So my question.. In the original comic, does the webbing actually come from his body, or is it an invention of Peter Parkers?
They aren't "happy about XP". I didnt read this as an "XP is awesome! buy it!" piece at all. I read it as a "wake up you zealots, you could be every bit as vulnerable as anyone else" piece.
A false sense of security is not your friend. Especially if it's only based on fanaticism and not any sort of facts.
I'd say most Mac owners know nothing whatsoever about computers, and bought a Mac based on it's reputation for being easy to use and that it "just works".
Home *nix admins, btw, think they know everything. Most are complete morons if you peek under the veil - hell, just read slashdot objectively and tell me what you think the IQ of the average gentoo (debian, whatever) zealot is.
Spin it however you want, you're just as wrong as anyone in MSFT's marketting dept.
There is no secure OS. The word "security" wasn't even brought up with regards to OS design until 5-10 years ago. Not until we hooked all the computers together on the internet was a "remote exploit" a worry. The focus was on ease of use, and making the computer do useful things.
Now, cryptology is a booming field, people are looking hard into replacing old insecure protocols. FTP and telnet were "good enough" for a long, long time.
The message here is "all you fanboys shut the hell up, none of you know what you're talking about. All OS's suck from a security viewpoint."
The biggest security hole on any machine is the person administrating it. No OS is immune to a moron.
They really do respond quickly, usually the first time I hear of a new exploit is when automatic update prompts me to download and isntall it. Usually a few days before it's posted on Slashdot for the second time.
You can't compare to the OSS project directly. You have to compare to the distro. How long does it take for patched fixed code to be available by an emerge or apt-get? I know the OSS community is pretty good too.
Frankly though, typing emerge -u samba (if say, it was a samba bug) takes about 6 months to complete on some of my less capable machines.
I'm called a troll, and will be modded down again. But the plain truth is there is no perfect OS out there. Windows isn't perfect, linux isn't perfect, BSD isn't perfect, BeOS isn't perfect, OSX isn't perfect, Solaris isn't perfect.. Etc, etc.
I tire of all the idiocy around OS's bandied about on slashdot. For a "news for nerds" site, people here sure don't know what the fuck they're talking about. It blows my mind how little they know about computers or the industry at times.
Oh well.
All modern OS's suck from a security standpoint. Why? Because we've only really GIVEN A FUCK about security for the last half a decade or so. Before that 99% of the worlds PCs were by themselves on a desk, or on some small 10mbit lan with a couple others.
When a virus hit, it'd spread like wildfire across the sneakernet.
Noone worried about remote exploits, because there was no "remote", for the most part. Now, in the age of the internet, it's a big deal. But everyone's still learning. Hell, the internet began with completely insecure protocols (http, ftp, smtp, telnet). Our security was basically mutual trust and good faith.
Find someone who uses a computer, but isn't necessarily a nerd. Replace their IE with Firefox, don't say a word.
Watch... 10:1 says they get pissed off, ask who " "fucked up" their computer, and how to put it back to the way it was.
I use Firefox, and can put up with its quirks. Most regular folks will find its braindead UI choices annoying. They don't know about security issues or dhtml, they just know this other browser is fucked up.
For instance: - the default "theme" looks stupid, and without some experience, it's hard to figure out what the icons are supposed to be. Especially the Add Tab and "Display the progress of downloads" (what the fuck do I need that on the toolbar for anyways?)
- the google bar is about.25 of an inch long, and you cant drag/stretch it. Braindead and useless, unless I want to google something 20 characters or less.
And some real usability bugs: - Some times it stops resolving hosts, for no reason. I'll click a link and it'll say "xxxxx cannot be found". Same if I type in an address. At this point it must be shut down and restarted.
- I've installed Flash Player about 20 times, and some sites still ask for it.
IE is not just ubiquitious, it is popular, because it frankly works.
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You're right. Akamai runs that shitty linux system. No wonder they were so easily knocked out.
Sort of. You can know what they run, you can know you can exploit server A because it has a known vulnerability.
But servers B, C, D, E, F, G, etc are immune to your attacks on server A. To take down the root servers, you'd need to simultaneosly come up with 12 different exploits to knock each one of them out. Which makes it 12 times more difficult.
It's more proof of what I've always said, there is no "perfectly secure" OS in existence.
A decent tuner card (Hauppages WinTV-PVR 250) is 100 bucks by itself. Add 150 (cheap) for a small form factor motherboard and cpu, another 75-100 (cheap!) for a video card. Another 100 bucks for a VGA-TV converter, since I know of no video cards with RCA out that work under linux.
Case, PSU, HDDs, remote..
$399? Not even close. However, if done right, it could do a whole lot more than tape reruns of X Files. Gaming, web surfing, reading email, DVD-+RW etc..
I used throwup as a verb once. But I didn't mean to, I had just fuckupped my space bar.
VCR's will eventually be replaced, not by subscription-based services like Tivo (sorry charlie, I already pay 80 bucks a month for cable, no more montly fees, I dont care if it's only 10 bucks), but by DVD-+RW drives, which get cheaper by the minute.
It'll hang around for a long while, though. Hell, there's still plenty of analog music recording equipment in use, little 4-tracks and the like.
I never said the iPod skips when jogging. I said many people want a digital audio player that doesnt skip (ie; not a cd player, but that holds about as much content).
I suppose everyone who doesn't want or need an iPod is a troll on slashdot. Whatever.
These can play Apple's DRM'ed stuff?
Or are you talking about jumping through all the legal grey area of using that PlayFair to crack and then reencoding them, or the hassle of burning to a CD, then re-ripping it?
Cuz frankly, fuck all that.
That's fine for you then.
Myself, I couldn't imagine there's 20gigs of compressed music out there that I'd want to listen to. I'm a creature of habit, when I listen to recorded music, it's the same dozen punk and metal albums. Y'know, the ones with about 10 2 minute songs.
I don't enjoy recorded music, it's merely a distraction while I'm on the plane. In the car, I'd rather listen to the radio. I prefer live music, I'd rather listen to some local band jamming at the bar on friday than stay up late buying songs on iTunes to fill up a big HDD with RIAA horseshit. I'd rather hear some small band doing Rolling Stones covers for free beer, because they enjoy playing, than to own the entire Stones' discography.
To each their own. There's a huge market made up of people just like me. Not everyone has, or aspires to have, a 90000000 CD collection.
So, how about a compromise. You buy what you want to buy, I'll buy what I want to buy.
I can explain it!
Apple PATENTED it.
Not everyone needs or wants 15gigs. My cellphone plays mp3s, and a 128meg SD card is more than enough for me. It'll get me through a 3 hour plane flight, which is about the only situation I'd be in where I'd want to listen to music with headphones.
Many people don't want a large-capacity player.
They want an affordable digital alternative to a walkman, that doesn't skip when they're jogging. They don't care if it can store 2 jillion hours of music. They just want their favorite workout tunes on it, or something to listen to riding the bus, etc.
That's an enormous market, and IMO Apple is positively stupid to ignore it. If they released an iPod that was under 100 bucks, that had say 64-256megs of flash, it'd sell like hotcakes and they'd increase the amount of iTunes customers 10 fold.
As a comparison, there is a niche market for those 100 disc DVD jukeboxes. But there's a much larger market for regular $50 DVD players for folks who maybe rent a movie a few times a month.
... these aren't iPods ...
They don't even have apples DRM nor work with iTunes.
So why is this on slashdot?
No, the CBC is a crown corporation, they sell advertisement to make money like any other network. Of course, like any other crown corporation, they hemmorage cash at the taxpayers expense, but I digress..
TVO, like PBS gets a grant from the province, but relies heavily on donations for funding. It's a non profit network (no commercial advertisements) like PBS.
Not only that, but it can magnify the image, and reduce the doctors movements.
That is, the doctor can do virtual surgery on a heart thats blown up to appear to him to be six feet across. He removes/cuts/does whatever to a managable six inch chunk of it, and the robot replicates that on the real heart, in sub-millimeter fashion.
Pretty cool stuff. Still very much in development though, but there have been some early trials.
I agree. But I also hope that all this rhetoric from the MPAA gets seen by the population, and more importantly, the courts and politicians for the horseshit it is.
One day, I sat reading slashdot. There was a story about Lucas whining, and the MPAA talking about how cinemas were dying because noone was going, piracy, blah blah.
I went to the movies that night. They have those advertisement slides before the movie starts. One of the slides is an ad for the slides themselves (Pro-Motion Inc or something). This slide proclaims that theatre attendence has never been higher and now is the time to get your companies logo onto one of these slides.
So... Umm... Declining, and all cinemas will be closed, vs Record attendance, the future couldn't be brighter... Uhh..
I myself, have never and will never believe that these shitty homemade handycam movies on the internet will ever hurt theatre attendance. I see movies that interest me, and frankly couldn't imagine watching Spiderman 2 on my computer monitor (hell, even on my TV through my xbox) with a shaky cam, seeing the backs of people heads, people getting up to take a piss, etc..
I could never imagine taking a date out to "dinner and a shitty-telesync-with-portugese-subtitles".
Even the "high quality" DVD rips are chock full of compression artifacts and bullshit. It's an imaginary problem they're leveraging to try and get some tighter legal controls, and no more.
The only movies worth downloading are porn. That's only because the porn industry charges ridiculous prices (like 50 bucks for a new release around here.. bah tits are tits whether they were filmed a decade or a week ago!)
Practice what?
It's the same as any other FPS with snazzier graphics. Practicing against ID's braindead AI bots isn't going to help you against real humans.
That Doom 3 is two year old news. Cramak missed the boat, sorry pal. I've already forgotten about this game.
Same goes for Half Life 2. Too much hype, too little actual product.
Seriously.. All the promise of this amazing visual quality, amazing evironments.. I *was* excited to see the next frontier of gaming..
But CryTech beat you to it! FarCry is, IMO, *the* FPS right now. It's got it all.. Amazingly *huge* detailed environments - you see those little islands wayyy out on the water, that look like a background matte? Nope, you can swim to 'em.. And the underwater seascape is as lush and detailed as the landscape.. It has great enemy AI, cool weapons, great sound, and enough plot to make you feel like you're doing something.
Gameplay is fantastic, with elements of stealth and strategy a la Splinter Cell mixed in with fast paced gunplay a la Serious Sam or Painkiller..
Patch 1.2 will support SM3.0 for nVidia fanboys, 1.3 will sport 3Dc texture compression for the ATI crowd.. So we have cutting-edge rendering technology.
Valve, Cramak, you pulled a Netscape. Too much time pontificating and whining, and you got unseated from your place at the top of the heap.
Once upon a time I was thoroughly impressed with Quake and Quake II.... Then Unreal came out, and I forgot all about them.. It's happened again.
If you're the gamer type, and have a boss-ass video card, you owe it to yourself to get FarCry. All the game that Valve and ID are promising tomorrow - today!
No, it's a P2P multiplayer system, and last I read it scaled up to 16 or so.. Higher if ping times/bandwidth allow (ie; on a LAN)
I am not, nor have ever been, a comic book guy.
That said, I've watched various incarnations of comic books on TV an movies, and I've watched Spiderman since I was a kid.. From the old campy 70s show to the movies..... hey, this movie has the same problem.. WHAT THE FUCK IS HE SWINGING FROM? Conveniently located blimps?
I digress.. Hey, anyone remember Spidey on "the electric company?"
I digress again..
In some show, somewhere, I saw Peter Parker making up little canisters of the webbing, and stocking his suit up.. It was something he cooked up in his lab (being a genious scientist) to keep with the Spider theme.. Kind of like Batman keeps his Bat theme going..
Anyhow, in the movie, it's apparent that creating webbing is one of his powers.
So my question.. In the original comic, does the webbing actually come from his body, or is it an invention of Peter Parkers?
What does it matter? The fact is, there is no OS out there that's immune from attack. The end. No need for hurt feelings or zealotry.
They ALL suck. The end.
They aren't "happy about XP". I didnt read this as an "XP is awesome! buy it!" piece at all. I read it as a "wake up you zealots, you could be every bit as vulnerable as anyone else" piece.
A false sense of security is not your friend. Especially if it's only based on fanaticism and not any sort of facts.
I'd say most Mac owners know nothing whatsoever about computers, and bought a Mac based on it's reputation for being easy to use and that it "just works".
Home *nix admins, btw, think they know everything. Most are complete morons if you peek under the veil - hell, just read slashdot objectively and tell me what you think the IQ of the average gentoo (debian, whatever) zealot is.
Spin it however you want, you're just as wrong as anyone in MSFT's marketting dept.
There is no secure OS. The word "security" wasn't even brought up with regards to OS design until 5-10 years ago. Not until we hooked all the computers together on the internet was a "remote exploit" a worry. The focus was on ease of use, and making the computer do useful things.
Now, cryptology is a booming field, people are looking hard into replacing old insecure protocols. FTP and telnet were "good enough" for a long, long time.
The message here is "all you fanboys shut the hell up, none of you know what you're talking about. All OS's suck from a security viewpoint."
The biggest security hole on any machine is the person administrating it. No OS is immune to a moron.
They really do respond quickly, usually the first time I hear of a new exploit is when automatic update prompts me to download and isntall it. Usually a few days before it's posted on Slashdot for the second time.
You can't compare to the OSS project directly. You have to compare to the distro. How long does it take for patched fixed code to be available by an emerge or apt-get? I know the OSS community is pretty good too.
Frankly though, typing emerge -u samba (if say, it was a samba bug) takes about 6 months to complete on some of my less capable machines.
I'm called a troll, and will be modded down again. But the plain truth is there is no perfect OS out there. Windows isn't perfect, linux isn't perfect, BSD isn't perfect, BeOS isn't perfect, OSX isn't perfect, Solaris isn't perfect.. Etc, etc.
I tire of all the idiocy around OS's bandied about on slashdot. For a "news for nerds" site, people here sure don't know what the fuck they're talking about. It blows my mind how little they know about computers or the industry at times.
Oh well.
All modern OS's suck from a security standpoint. Why? Because we've only really GIVEN A FUCK about security for the last half a decade or so. Before that 99% of the worlds PCs were by themselves on a desk, or on some small 10mbit lan with a couple others.
When a virus hit, it'd spread like wildfire across the sneakernet.
Noone worried about remote exploits, because there was no "remote", for the most part. Now, in the age of the internet, it's a big deal. But everyone's still learning. Hell, the internet began with completely insecure protocols (http, ftp, smtp, telnet). Our security was basically mutual trust and good faith.
Anyways, the end.
Try this.
.25 of an inch long, and you cant drag/stretch it. Braindead and useless, unless I want to google something 20 characters or less.
Find someone who uses a computer, but isn't necessarily a nerd. Replace their IE with Firefox, don't say a word.
Watch... 10:1 says they get pissed off, ask who "
"fucked up" their computer, and how to put it back to the way it was.
I use Firefox, and can put up with its quirks. Most regular folks will find its braindead UI choices annoying. They don't know about security issues or dhtml, they just know this other browser is fucked up.
For instance:
- the default "theme" looks stupid, and without some experience, it's hard to figure out what the icons are supposed to be. Especially the Add Tab and "Display the progress of downloads" (what the fuck do I need that on the toolbar for anyways?)
- the google bar is about
And some real usability bugs:
- Some times it stops resolving hosts, for no reason. I'll click a link and it'll say "xxxxx cannot be found". Same if I type in an address. At this point it must be shut down and restarted.
- I've installed Flash Player about 20 times, and some sites still ask for it.
IE is not just ubiquitious, it is popular, because it frankly works.
It specifies shareware and freeware, freely downloaded binary form softwares.
It says nothing about incorporating BSD licensed code in their in-house development.