When Microsoft talks about "security" they're talking about securing the property&rights of digital rights owners (BSA, MPAA, etc) from the untrustworthy users who licensed the software and DVD.
It's not at all about keeping the computer user safe.
It's about keeping data safe from the computer user.
Website owners can probably make a pretty good first-guess at how compromised a system is, if it's running some obsolete and/or insecure web browser ( Firefox 3, IE 6, 7, 8, 9:-) ).
If it has a certificate where Microsoft digitally signed that the machine indeed has IE6, do you really gain that much?
Plenty of FUSE to expose a database as a file system projects:
http://www.open.hr/~dpavlin/fuse_dbi.htmlhttp://yiannnos.com/dumbofs
Can't imagine why you'd actually want one. If you want an exotic way of accessing data, Reiser4 is pretty convenient for file-system-like access.
Look at what happened to many tech companies (Intel, HP, Yahoo, etc) when they replaced the tech-founder-CEOs with suits. Growth stopped and the company stagnates.
Same with Microsoft.
For high-end systems with a hardware raid controller (battery-backed write caches are nice for databases) this shouldn't be a problem; or am I missing something.
Yet in the end, didn't Pixar's CEO became Disney's largest shareholder.
Though I don't really think the whole thing was more of an executive-recruiting play, where the shareholders were trying to get someone competent on their board that they could trust.
Doesn't prove it's a "total" fabrication.
It may be the case that just some rail specs descended from horses, and other perhaps from donkey asses, shovel sizes, misread specs or the whims or crazy designers..
As others point out, these motherboards don't need to be scraped, but could rather be resold as cheaper models with only the fast (6Gbps) SATA ports and none of the slow (3Gbps) ports by simply putting duct tape over the connectors connecting to the flaky circuits.
I wonder if Intel's worried that similar problems may be scattered elsewhere across the chips, and therefor is budgeting for the cost of a full recall.
I prefer the approach of Searchfuscate.com - which continually does random searches that Google can not distinguish from your human powered searches - and you can code review the javascript yourself to prove the automated searches are indistinguishable from the human ones.
If you are searching for suspicious content, you'd probably never show up in the radar thanks to the zillions of innocent searches "you" also perform; and if you're asked, you have a nice plausible deniable activity excuse "it wasn't me, it was my screen saver that searched for donkey porn".
Yeah "sudo emacs", etc and anything similar was frowned upon just as much as sudo bash.
The policy was that if they couldn't tell that you were doing something useful that needed sudo, they'd come interrogate you; so sed one-liners became a habit.
I'm sure you could subvert it somehow (sneak in your own perl script called sed or something silly); but for the most part just the idea that they trusted you with root; and also watched what people did with it; kept honest people honest.
And one more thing to add - extensive logging of anything done with administrative privileges.
I worked at a place where everyone had sudo privileges; but any command done using it was logged to a couple different remote servers not administered by the same person. Worked out well; and anyone misusing it (say, running sudo bash) got noticed and talked to pretty quickly).
If they have a self-sufficient moon base, the whole "mutually assured destruction" (MAD) theory of avoiding nuclear war with the soviets go away.
As they described it to us -- since both the commies and the US had enough nukes to kill everyone, noone would be crazy enough to launch.
However if one country has a colony on the moon; the whole MAD equation changes. Suddenly instead of "everyone dies", the result is "hey, if everyone on earth dies; I and my 144000 other colonists on this base will own everything!!!!"
But more seriously - it would make far more sense to buy this as an e-book that I can search on my computer wherever I am.
I do enough of my programming from home or from a coffee shop that it'd be rather useless to have these things stuck on my office bookshelf (except, perhaps to look a bit pretentious).
So long as the US is willing to overthrow countries who want to trade in other currencies (like Iraq and the Euro), the US dollar will still have value.
It's backed by depleted uranium bullets, and non-depleted uranium in it's nukes.
Even a gold standard would have a hard time matching that.
It'd be weird if one of those dark planets zoomed through our solar system closely enough to have it's gravity affect the earth.
Imagine one zipping by and touching one of our oceans, and a bunch of the water'll & a few people, etc might be sucked up into that dark-gravity-source.
While I'm not a huge fan of Macs, I loved his Apple ][ and NeXT computers.
And I imagine he did far more than "stay out of [pixar's] way"; but was rather key to making sure Pixar had all the right people in the right positions.
It seems to me that most tasks that seem good for C++ would be better handled using a mix of an easier-to-program language (Ruby, Python, heck even lisp or smalltalk or anything else) with C extensions.
IMHO C++ seems not very good at very low-level programming; since with C++ it's not always obvious what a compiler might want to do with '+' thanks to operator overloading and rather convoluted implicit casting rules. In C you're using a pretty good tool for low-level programmings (especially with a dialect where you can sneak in a few assembly calls where you need to). In Ruby you're using a reasonably nice and efficient to develop in OO language. With the incredible ease of writing C extensions for Ruby, it's easy to use the best tool for each part of the job you're doing. The only compelling reason to use C++ I can think of is if some political policy forces you to use a single language for an entire project; and then I guess C++ not quite as clunky as java or c#.
( though I'm kinda repeating myself - a longer rant I made on slashdot about the pains of C++ years ago is here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=100202&cid=8540772 . An even more condemning annoyance about C++ is that thanks to so many convoluted tricks in the language, most people who claim C++ knowledge don't actually know it, as evidenced by the comments in that old thread )
I seem to recall a business plan back in the late 1990's to do something similar adjacent to the alaska pipeline; complete with a refinery.
The argument was that it would have
* Free airconditioning with the clean dry cold alaska air. * Unparalleled physical security - with miles of visibility in all directions. * A well-protected network (if they could run their lines along the well-defended pipeline) * Unlimited backup-generator fuel (tapped directly into the pipeline)
I seem to recall they raised funds. Wonder what happened to them.
I thought it was a trademark of O'Reilly Media for hyping one of their internet conferences. Why people used it beyond that, I still don't understand. People have been doing "web-2.0"-like-stuff on the internet (user-contributed content on mailing lists & public FTP sites; appliances on the internet (like the CMU coke machines, where even the softdrink delivery guy could update the internet)) long before HTTP was invented.
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"The group has published a manifsto"
This one?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense_(pamphlet)
You're still not getting it.
Some individual published a manifesto and signed it as anonymous.
Is Thomas Paine's
Thomas Paine did that back in 1776. Some other kid did it a few weeks ago.
Neither one of those were involved in Scientology or HBGary in any way.
When Microsoft talks about "security" they're talking about securing the property&rights of digital rights owners (BSA, MPAA, etc) from the untrustworthy users who licensed the software and DVD.
It's not at all about keeping the computer user safe.
It's about keeping data safe from the computer user.
Website owners can probably make a pretty good first-guess at how compromised a system is, if it's running some obsolete and/or insecure web browser ( Firefox 3, IE 6, 7, 8, 9 :-) ).
If it has a certificate where Microsoft digitally signed that the machine indeed has IE6, do you really gain that much?
Plenty of FUSE to expose a database as a file system projects: http://www.open.hr/~dpavlin/fuse_dbi.html http://yiannnos.com/dumbofs Can't imagine why you'd actually want one. If you want an exotic way of accessing data, Reiser4 is pretty convenient for file-system-like access.
Already covered well in these slashdot stories from '06.
http://slashdot.org/story/03/01/06/1159207/Sendo-vs-Microsoft-The-Truth-Comes-Out
http://slashdot.org/story/02/12/26/1423247/Sendo-Accuses-MS-of-Stealing-Smartphone-IP
I suspect the same happens to Nokia.
Look at what happened to many tech companies (Intel, HP, Yahoo, etc) when they replaced the tech-founder-CEOs with suits. Growth stopped and the company stagnates. Same with Microsoft.
For high-end systems with a hardware raid controller (battery-backed write caches are nice for databases) this shouldn't be a problem; or am I missing something.
Yet in the end, didn't Pixar's CEO became Disney's largest shareholder. Though I don't really think the whole thing was more of an executive-recruiting play, where the shareholders were trying to get someone competent on their board that they could trust.
Doesn't prove it's a "total" fabrication. It may be the case that just some rail specs descended from horses, and other perhaps from donkey asses, shovel sizes, misread specs or the whims or crazy designers..
As others point out, these motherboards don't need to be scraped, but could rather be resold as cheaper models with only the fast (6Gbps) SATA ports and none of the slow (3Gbps) ports by simply putting duct tape over the connectors connecting to the flaky circuits. I wonder if Intel's worried that similar problems may be scattered elsewhere across the chips, and therefor is budgeting for the cost of a full recall.
> ... scroogle...
But then you have to trust Scroogle.
I prefer the approach of Searchfuscate.com - which continually does random searches that Google can not distinguish from your human powered searches - and you can code review the javascript yourself to prove the automated searches are indistinguishable from the human ones.
If you are searching for suspicious content, you'd probably never show up in the radar thanks to the zillions of innocent searches "you" also perform; and if you're asked, you have a nice plausible deniable activity excuse "it wasn't me, it was my screen saver that searched for donkey porn".
Yeah "sudo emacs", etc and anything similar was frowned upon just as much as sudo bash.
The policy was that if they couldn't tell that you were doing something useful that needed sudo, they'd come interrogate you; so sed one-liners became a habit.
I'm sure you could subvert it somehow (sneak in your own perl script called sed or something silly); but for the most part just the idea that they trusted you with root; and also watched what people did with it; kept honest people honest.
And one more thing to add - extensive logging of anything done with administrative privileges.
I worked at a place where everyone had sudo privileges; but any command done using it was logged to a couple different remote servers not administered by the same person. Worked out well; and anyone misusing it (say, running sudo bash) got noticed and talked to pretty quickly).
More 9/11 hijackers were from Egypt than from Afghanistan and Iraq combined.
(but of course one shouldn't extrapolate too much from a sample of 1 data point)
Seems old slashdot let me find my old comments; by getting to my comments page and hitting next/next/next.
I was also able to archive them using wget.
With this Ajaxy interface; it seems like I can only see my most recent few dozen comments; not the hundreds I made in the last decade.
If they have a self-sufficient moon base, the whole "mutually assured destruction" (MAD) theory of avoiding nuclear war with the soviets go away.
As they described it to us -- since both the commies and the US had enough nukes to kill everyone, noone would be crazy enough to launch.
However if one country has a colony on the moon; the whole MAD equation changes. Suddenly instead of "everyone dies", the result is "hey, if everyone on earth dies; I and my 144000 other colonists on this base will own everything!!!!"
But more seriously - it would make far more sense to buy this as an e-book that I can search on my computer wherever I am.
I do enough of my programming from home or from a coffee shop that it'd be rather useless to have these things stuck on my office bookshelf (except, perhaps to look a bit pretentious).
... for paying the "Microsoft Tax" in addition to their own taxes, to prop up the US economy at their expense.
I can't imagine why they'd do it; but the US sure could use the money to pay off some of it's debt.
So long as the US is willing to overthrow countries who want to trade in other currencies (like Iraq and the Euro), the US dollar will still have value.
It's backed by depleted uranium bullets, and non-depleted uranium in it's nukes.
Even a gold standard would have a hard time matching that.
It'd be weird if one of those dark planets zoomed through our solar system closely enough to have it's gravity affect the earth.
Imagine one zipping by and touching one of our oceans, and a bunch of the water'll & a few people, etc might be sucked up into that dark-gravity-source.
While I'm not a huge fan of Macs, I loved his Apple ][ and NeXT computers.
And I imagine he did far more than "stay out of [pixar's] way"; but was rather key to making sure Pixar had all the right people in the right positions.
Is this guy some sort of libertarian or pre-reagan-republican or something?
It seems to me that most tasks that seem good for C++ would be better handled using a mix of an easier-to-program language (Ruby, Python, heck even lisp or smalltalk or anything else) with C extensions.
IMHO C++ seems not very good at very low-level programming; since with C++ it's not always obvious what a compiler might want to do with '+' thanks to operator overloading and rather convoluted implicit casting rules. In C you're using a pretty good tool for low-level programmings (especially with a dialect where you can sneak in a few assembly calls where you need to). In Ruby you're using a reasonably nice and efficient to develop in OO language. With the incredible ease of writing C extensions for Ruby, it's easy to use the best tool for each part of the job you're doing. The only compelling reason to use C++ I can think of is if some political policy forces you to use a single language for an entire project; and then I guess C++ not quite as clunky as java or c#.
( though I'm kinda repeating myself - a longer rant I made on slashdot about the pains of C++ years ago is here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=100202&cid=8540772 . An even more condemning annoyance about C++ is that thanks to so many convoluted tricks in the language, most people who claim C++ knowledge don't actually know it, as evidenced by the comments in that old thread )
I seem to recall a business plan back in the late 1990's to do something similar adjacent to the alaska pipeline; complete with a refinery.
The argument was that it would have
* Free airconditioning with the clean dry cold alaska air.
* Unparalleled physical security - with miles of visibility in all directions.
* A well-protected network (if they could run their lines along the well-defended pipeline)
* Unlimited backup-generator fuel (tapped directly into the pipeline)
I seem to recall they raised funds. Wonder what happened to them.
"Web 2.0- a buzzword with no meaning at all."
I thought it was a trademark of O'Reilly Media for hyping one of their internet conferences. Why people used it beyond that, I still don't understand. People have been doing "web-2.0"-like-stuff on the internet (user-contributed content on mailing lists & public FTP sites; appliances on the internet (like the CMU coke machines, where even the softdrink delivery guy could update the internet)) long before HTTP was invented.