Hook into your ftp server to access the stuff you need and you're good to go
on any machine with a CD and an internet connection.
... and enough memory to unpack the downloaded stuff into. Maybe you are suggesting
to use empty space on the hard drive? I wouldn't risk it with NTFS.
I dont want to think that if i dont show up to my 9-5 job on time and get married by the time im 28 and own 1.75 SUV's im flagges as possible terrorist.
You won't be flagged as possible terrorist just for that. However, if the data e.g. from your credit card company indicates that you consistently travel to the same destinations and on the same dates as a suspected terrorist, then you may be in trouble. The authorities can find the top ten people with the highest correlation to the suspect and then check them in more detailed way.
Whether it's good or bad depends on your trust to the government.
Re:This "news" article being posted on slashdot...
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Right, the compost bin should at least be made
from Lego bricks and run Linux to be interesting to the/. population.
That rock orbits the L4 and L5 points of the Sun-Earth system and never comes closer than 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers) to Earth, as the story you linked to clearly says. The Moon is 0.4 million kilometers from Earth, and so are the L4 and L5 points of the Earth-Moon system.
I wonder how many moderators would consider your comment "informative" is you posted it earlier.
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http://www.symphony.seattle.wa.us is a lot easier to remember than whatever the Seattle Symphony uses for their website.
People outside the US would have a problem remembering the "wa" part.
That page doesn't explain how the kernel knows that
it's the same binary and that it's not
"under influence" of corrupted shared libraries
or environment.
There are measures in the kernel and in libc that
restrict potentially harmful influence on the suid binaries, even from the user who runs them.
Those programs don't get some signals from the user, they ignore most of the environment, and they are usually not writable by the user unless the sysadmin is an idiot.
When running a suid program, you know what you are running. Except there are serious bugs in the code, the program will drop its privileges or exit.
Now, with security elevation, somebody starts something, and that something says to the kernel -
hey, I'm Apache, I want to write to the Apache logs. And then it fills the logs with some garbage. Unless there is a serious mechanism
in place to authenticate the binary, I don't see
how this is safer that running software designed to work safely when it's suid.
Sorry for stupid question, but I cannot
find any explanation of how the policy is
configured. What should the program do
to authenticate with the kernel and get
the permissions defined in the policy?
Using the executable file of the process
would be dangerous because the attacker could
use compromized shared libraries. Any passwords
would require changes in the software (i.e.
you'll have to recompile apache so that it
could authenticate).
The only thing I can think of is a token
in the process environment that can only be
set by root (maybe an additional group ID). So apache would still have
to be run by a program with root permissions
(init script) to be able to listen to port 80.
So in fact black holes DO have a radius, but considering the tremendous size quoted here, I imagine they are in fact referring to the Swartzchild radius.
I think you didn't read the story. "3 times that of our solar system" or 17 light-hours refers to the radius of the star's orbit. That means that the radius of interior object is at most as large as the radius orbit, or the star would "get stuck" in the dence material.
This limitation excludes any other explanations, such as a dense cluster of stars or a cloud of stellar material. That much mass in that little space would inevitable collapse and become a black hole.
Actually, the distributions that really care about user experience don't rush to include the latest
versions of the GUI software without sufficient
testing, let alone wait for the next version to be released. That's why Mandrake 9.0 didn't include
KDE 3.0 while Red Hat 8.0 did.
He could have stayed here, hell he could have stayed here in a nice cozy little jail for free...
If my kid gets home after curfue I don't care that he got held up at the train tracks
Terms "repulsion" and "attraction" are not applicable to interactions with the carriers of the force, such as photons and W bosons. These are macroscopic terms.
An interaction between a photon and an electron is neither repulsion nor attraction. But the exchange of photons between electons tends on the average to change their momentum in such way that we can talk about repulsion.
The same in the weak interaction. Interaction with W bosons is neither repulsion nor attraction, but the "macroscopic" effect can be considered as one. An important difference is that it's not just the momentum that changes, it's the kind of the particles. It cannot be otherwise since W bosons are charged.
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So, a guy from Iran who breaks into just one military computer is a recreational terrorist, right?
Maybe he was armed by an AK77?
Yes, Knoppix is much friendlier, although it requires a full-size CD, not a business card.
Whether it's good or bad depends on your trust to the government.
Right, the compost bin should at least be made from Lego bricks and run Linux to be interesting to the /. population.
You may lose your karma if you don't act NOW.
I wonder how many moderators would consider your comment "informative" is you posted it earlier.
That page doesn't explain how the kernel knows that it's the same binary and that it's not "under influence" of corrupted shared libraries or environment.
When running a suid program, you know what you are running. Except there are serious bugs in the code, the program will drop its privileges or exit.
Now, with security elevation, somebody starts something, and that something says to the kernel - hey, I'm Apache, I want to write to the Apache logs. And then it fills the logs with some garbage. Unless there is a serious mechanism in place to authenticate the binary, I don't see how this is safer that running software designed to work safely when it's suid.
Using the executable file of the process would be dangerous because the attacker could use compromized shared libraries. Any passwords would require changes in the software (i.e. you'll have to recompile apache so that it could authenticate).
The only thing I can think of is a token in the process environment that can only be set by root (maybe an additional group ID). So apache would still have to be run by a program with root permissions (init script) to be able to listen to port 80.
This limitation excludes any other explanations, such as a dense cluster of stars or a cloud of stellar material. That much mass in that little space would inevitable collapse and become a black hole.
Actually, the distributions that really care about user experience don't rush to include the latest versions of the GUI software without sufficient testing, let alone wait for the next version to be released. That's why Mandrake 9.0 didn't include KDE 3.0 while Red Hat 8.0 did.
That would be an Å-size battery.
An interaction between a photon and an electron is neither repulsion nor attraction. But the exchange of photons between electons tends on the average to change their momentum in such way that we can talk about repulsion.
The same in the weak interaction. Interaction with W bosons is neither repulsion nor attraction, but the "macroscopic" effect can be considered as one. An important difference is that it's not just the momentum that changes, it's the kind of the particles. It cannot be otherwise since W bosons are charged.
Your knowledge of physics is seriously out of date.
"first post"
This gives the word "vaporware" an entirely new meaning.
Yes, that's why commercial spaceports are starting to open. Space has become less interesting to the US government.
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