Preventing the RDS kernel module from loading is an effective workaround. This can be accomplished by executing the following command as root: echo "alias net-pf-21 off" >/etc/modprobe.d/disable-rds
I hate it when I see an advice like that. Linux is an open system. We should understand what are we doing when running a command like that as root. Running that command means that you tell to kernel module loading mechanism that it should not load module with name net-pf-21. My man page for modprobe says that it reads files with extensions ".conf" in/etc/modprobe.d/ directory. So I guess that the command won't do squat on my system because of missing.conf extension.
Next it also assumes that the particular functionality is compiled in module called "net-pf-21". No such module here. That would probably be the case because Kconfig files nor Makefiles in linux source code mention such module. And all that google returns is the same line that you repeated here. The name net-pf would suggest that the module should belong to "network packet filter", but the patch from Linus is not dealing with packet filter but rather with net/rds/page.c.
I did not deeper analysis but I assume that
net/rds/Kconfig: config RDS tristate "The RDS Protocol (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL ---help--- The RDS (Reliable Datagram Sockets) protocol provides reliable
You install pre-releases of software in the workplace?
If he thoroughly verified that the software works for him and his users, then what's your point? Does additional testing and "yes, it's ready" sentence from Canonical, make any difference? It makes sense to wait for the release version if you don't have resources to do the testing. OTOH having tests concluded by Canonical does not mean, that you don't have to do any testing yourself.
I guess that is still better than the plans of my bank: rewrite the whole internet-banking in... Flash. Yes, they have actually nice, secure, lightweight web a application that works in IE/FF/Opera/Chrome/Konqueror/... in Windows/Linux/PDA/iPhone/... and they intend to throw it away and write a new one. Requiring "Adobe ® Flash ® Player 10.0 or higher". They claim that it will improve the security. On the other hand my intent is to move to different bank as soon as they deploy it. To a bank that has this frightening mentality of "if it's not broken don't fix it".
How is believing in two inconsistent theories of the universe view not the sign of a mental illness?
Religion is not a theory of the universe. Here on slashdot "being religious" == "believing that the earth was created 6000 years ago". Religion as I met it, is a "moral code". It says "Don't steal. Don't kill. Be honest. Work hard. Keep trying. Be faithful to your wife. Obey an appreciate your parents. Help others without expecting anything in return. Forgive to others. From time to time think about your life, whether what you do is right or wrong, etc. etc". You can't really condemn that, can you?
On the second page of the first document are listed the authors - apparently tied to university in town Kosice in Slovakia. On behalf of other citizens of this country, I apologize. May be we should remind them about events that happened over 60 years ago when Slovak National Uprising happened and become the most significant activity of regular citizens against fascistic German army in Europe. This uprising happened despite the pro-German orientated government and would certainly not be possible with that level of surveillance as is proposed there.
Europa is not a country. But I'd say that Europeans are a nation because they share culture, ethnic origin, and often the language. If you say that those makers are too diverse in Europe, then I challenge calling US citizens "Americans" because the culture and ethnic origin of man living San Francisco china-town is different to one living in El Paso and that is different to New York. There is a difference between language used in Taxas and Washington or Alaska and I don't even go deeper into usage of spanish, chinese and other languages.
So I could switch to those providers, and know they wouldn't be messing with my server without talking to me just because some er "researcher" decided they thought the server might be some sort of C&C
I assume that the providers were just notified by the researcher and were able to see for themselves whether the server is doing something malicious or not. In addition every ISP I've dealt with, has a contract clause that allows them to cancel the service if you use it to violate the laws of the country - which is often the case when sending SPAM. You are then free to sue them if you believe that terminating the service was not justified.
The only difference between the two is the technology behind the first one.
But that is a major difference. The technology provides a scope that was not available before. The manager can stand behind my back and watch what I do. But he can't stand behind every employee all the time. The technology makes that possible.
If the full costs associated with an activity or good are not included in the price, it can lead to inefficient overconsumption, as in the case of gasoline, resulting in more pollution and global warming and less conservation than is socially optimal.
Interesting. I always thought that government has set up the gas tax because... it can. Over here (central Europe) is gas tax always discussed as significant budget income source. Never as environment pollution or scarce resource management tool.
pride in some arbitrary signifier, above your basic humanity, is the opening move in the game of dehumanizing all other...
Reminds me of a fairy tale movie that is well known in my country, where three princes are competing for a princess. One of them is a military type in armor and with a big sword, the other one is dressed expensively and with lots of jewelery and the last one looks nothing special but is smart. They introduce themselves to the king:
Prince 1: I'm prince A, son of the king X who has the largest army in the world.
King: Very well.
Prince 2: I'm prince B, son of the king Y who is the riches ruler in the world
King: Oh, Interesting. And what about you? (asks the last one)
Prince 3: I'm prince C.
King: Ah, yes. Son of...?
Prince 3:... son of my father.
Yes. Be a human first. Be proud of what you achieved, not of where you were born.
Believing that Microsoft knows or cares if your machine has a virus is flat out ignorant.
Really? Even after Microsoft - this zillion dollar company - comes up with a service that promises to
"Protect, maintain, and manage your computer with Windows Live OneCare, the always-on PC-care service from Microsoft. Working quietly in the background on your computer, OneCare protects against viruses, spyware, hackers, and other unwanted intruders."
Today's attitude is "if it could be slightly dangerous, it shouldn't be allowed, and if a minor is doing it, punish the parent."
So true. I've bought a microscope for my son. The slides were made of... plexiglass. Probably to protect from cut wounds if they break. Who cares that they get scratched within a day.
I did not use signature in my posts during last 10+ years, but now I'm thinking about starting again:
For me, I'd have to inform the electric company that they have to pull the money from another account, phone company the same, gas company the same. I'd have to pay the early termination fee for my investment funds and loans (if I had any loans), I'd have to move the equivalent of my 401k to different bank (and there are laws preventing doing that too often), I'd have to make sure that regular payments that goes to my ISP stop at the right time at the old bank and start at the right time in the new bank (yes, they are absolutely capable of screwing that up), etc. etc.
Yeah, it all could be done. It is just not so hassle-free as you describe. The main reason though is, that the all of 5 + banks that I can choose from, it is the same shitty customer service.
And Verizon should be shamed for this asinine handling of the situation. Not only was he actively serving and quite busy... but he fucking died for Christ's sake. Assholes
You know what I saw in the news today? A flood damaged a 3-generation house. The family spent last 30 years building, improving and investing in the house. Two weeks of intensive, heavy rain (not in typical flood area) caused a landslide, the walls cracked and the house was declared dangerous. The family is broke and homeless. And they were ordered to pay for... demolition of the house. They can get prosecuted if then don't and they won't get a dime from insurance until they do.
Imagine if facial recognition software got to the point where as soon as you stepped out into public, you could be immediately recognized and your movements tracked? Minority Report presents a decent idea of how that would go over. What about the grocery that had a security camera with a nice, clear view of your child's elementary school? The ATM across the street from Taylor Swift's apartment building? Street-level cameras streaming data that Google could use to track individual license plates and datamine their traveling habits? A fundamental religious group who sets up shop across the street from the strip club your bachelor party is at? Realtime viewing by your boss, your mother, your shady government organization, your terrorist attacker, and everyone in between? Like I said, I'm not certain that full public disclosure is the goal here.
I don't understand your position. Apparently you are against invasion of privacy. But you cite examples where the invasion of privacy happens. It looks like that someone can invade our privacy but not everyone. So is there same selected class of citizens that is entitled to invade our privacy? Who gave them that right, and why the public does not deserve the same?
These days all of the old farts that call themselves programmers don't appreciate how much more they get done thanks to abstraction, pre built libraries/modules, nicely designed IDEs, and interpreted languages.
Did you forget what was TFA about? We, old farts, don't appreciate all that, because users complain about bloat. We have to find the balance between usage of "abstraction, pre built libraries/modules, nicely designed IDEs and interpreted languages" and "developing applications that users like".
I make now a comparatively enormous amount of money doing a job that's also done by two collegues; both of whom have PhDs.
So yes, it is indeed possible to do pretty much what you want without any sort of degree at all (the usual academic exceptions apply here), but the caveat is that you have to actually do a lot of work. And that's the trick, see?
Somehow I have the feeling that your colleagues are younger than you. Am I right? If yes, than in your age they will have your experience and PhD.
In my opinion the school should provide theoretical background that saves you making mistakes by taking purely empirical approach. Thus allowing to reach the same level of quality in less time.
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I hate it when I see an advice like that. Linux is an open system. We should understand what are we doing when running a command like that as root. Running that command means that you tell to kernel module loading mechanism that it should not load module with name net-pf-21. My man page for modprobe says that it reads files with extensions ".conf" in /etc/modprobe.d/ directory. So I guess that the command won't do squat on my system because of missing .conf extension.
Next it also assumes that the particular functionality is compiled in module called "net-pf-21". No such module here. That would probably be the case because Kconfig files nor Makefiles in linux source code mention such module. And all that google returns is the same line that you repeated here. The name net-pf would suggest that the module should belong to "network packet filter", but the patch from Linus is not dealing with packet filter but rather with net/rds/page.c.
I did not deeper analysis but I assume that
together with
indicates that my system is safe.
If he thoroughly verified that the software works for him and his users, then what's your point? Does additional testing and "yes, it's ready" sentence from Canonical, make any difference? It makes sense to wait for the release version if you don't have resources to do the testing. OTOH having tests concluded by Canonical does not mean, that you don't have to do any testing yourself.
I'm afraid they actually are that stupid. Do you know what percentage passes a suicide bomber training course?
I guess that is still better than the plans of my bank: rewrite the whole internet-banking in ... Flash. Yes, they have actually nice, secure, lightweight web a application that works in IE/FF/Opera/Chrome/Konqueror/... in Windows/Linux/PDA/iPhone/... and they intend to throw it away and write a new one. Requiring "Adobe ® Flash ® Player 10.0 or higher". They claim that it will improve the security. On the other hand my intent is to move to different bank as soon as they deploy it. To a bank that has this frightening mentality of "if it's not broken don't fix it".
Based on the TFA you could conclude that they only did not come to get him - yet. Don't worry. He is in the queue.
Religion is not a theory of the universe. Here on slashdot "being religious" == "believing that the earth was created 6000 years ago". Religion as I met it, is a "moral code". It says "Don't steal. Don't kill. Be honest. Work hard. Keep trying. Be faithful to your wife. Obey an appreciate your parents. Help others without expecting anything in return. Forgive to others. From time to time think about your life, whether what you do is right or wrong, etc. etc". You can't really condemn that, can you?
On the second page of the first document are listed the authors - apparently tied to university in town Kosice in Slovakia. On behalf of other citizens of this country, I apologize. May be we should remind them about events that happened over 60 years ago when Slovak National Uprising happened and become the most significant activity of regular citizens against fascistic German army in Europe. This uprising happened despite the pro-German orientated government and would certainly not be possible with that level of surveillance as is proposed there.
Because it usually does. Voluntarily (at least as far as lawmakers are concerned). And it's actually not restricted only to IP either.
You mean ... If you ring a bell and no one can hear it, does it make a sound?
Europa is not a country. But I'd say that Europeans are a nation because they share culture, ethnic origin, and often the language. If you say that those makers are too diverse in Europe, then I challenge calling US citizens "Americans" because the culture and ethnic origin of man living San Francisco china-town is different to one living in El Paso and that is different to New York. There is a difference between language used in Taxas and Washington or Alaska and I don't even go deeper into usage of spanish, chinese and other languages.
I assume that the providers were just notified by the researcher and were able to see for themselves whether the server is doing something malicious or not. In addition every ISP I've dealt with, has a contract clause that allows them to cancel the service if you use it to violate the laws of the country - which is often the case when sending SPAM. You are then free to sue them if you believe that terminating the service was not justified.
But that is a major difference. The technology provides a scope that was not available before. The manager can stand behind my back and watch what I do. But he can't stand behind every employee all the time. The technology makes that possible.
Interesting. I always thought that government has set up the gas tax because ... it can. Over here (central Europe) is gas tax always discussed as significant budget income source. Never as environment pollution or scarce resource management tool.
Reminds me of a fairy tale movie that is well known in my country, where three princes are competing for a princess. One of them is a military type in armor and with a big sword, the other one is dressed expensively and with lots of jewelery and the last one looks nothing special but is smart. They introduce themselves to the king:
Prince 1: I'm prince A, son of the king X who has the largest army in the world. ...? ... son of my father.
King: Very well.
Prince 2: I'm prince B, son of the king Y who is the riches ruler in the world
King: Oh, Interesting. And what about you? (asks the last one)
Prince 3: I'm prince C.
King: Ah, yes. Son of
Prince 3:
Yes. Be a human first. Be proud of what you achieved, not of where you were born.
If her memory is so good ... the study explains why that's the case. In fact it seems that hers is better than yours which means ... I'm sorry.
Really? Even after Microsoft - this zillion dollar company - comes up with a service that promises to
"Protect, maintain, and manage your computer with Windows Live OneCare, the always-on PC-care service from Microsoft. Working quietly in the background on your computer, OneCare protects against viruses, spyware, hackers, and other unwanted intruders."
?
So true. I've bought a microscope for my son. The slides were made of ... plexiglass. Probably to protect from cut wounds if they break. Who cares that they get scratched within a day.
I did not use signature in my posts during last 10+ years, but now I'm thinking about starting again:
I'm not afraid of terrorists!
Good if that is so easy for you.
For me, I'd have to inform the electric company that they have to pull the money from another account, phone company the same, gas company the same. I'd have to pay the early termination fee for my investment funds and loans (if I had any loans), I'd have to move the equivalent of my 401k to different bank (and there are laws preventing doing that too often), I'd have to make sure that regular payments that goes to my ISP stop at the right time at the old bank and start at the right time in the new bank (yes, they are absolutely capable of screwing that up), etc. etc.
Yeah, it all could be done. It is just not so hassle-free as you describe. The main reason though is, that the all of 5 + banks that I can choose from, it is the same shitty customer service.
You know what I saw in the news today? A flood damaged a 3-generation house. The family spent last 30 years building, improving and investing in the house. Two weeks of intensive, heavy rain (not in typical flood area) caused a landslide, the walls cracked and the house was declared dangerous. The family is broke and homeless. And they were ordered to pay for ... demolition of the house. They can get prosecuted if then don't and they won't get a dime from insurance until they do.
a) Life is not fair. b) Assholes are everywhere.
It's not if you skip the pr0n.
But they did not count in *your* collection, did they?
o.O why? And why I was not told this before?
I don't understand your position. Apparently you are against invasion of privacy. But you cite examples where the invasion of privacy happens. It looks like that someone can invade our privacy but not everyone. So is there same selected class of citizens that is entitled to invade our privacy? Who gave them that right, and why the public does not deserve the same?
Did you forget what was TFA about? We, old farts, don't appreciate all that, because users complain about bloat. We have to find the balance between usage of "abstraction, pre built libraries/modules, nicely designed IDEs and interpreted languages" and "developing applications that users like".
Somehow I have the feeling that your colleagues are younger than you. Am I right? If yes, than in your age they will have your experience and PhD.
In my opinion the school should provide theoretical background that saves you making mistakes by taking purely empirical approach. Thus allowing to reach the same level of quality in less time.