I vote for XP. People can watch videos, edit their digital camcorder stuff and listen to a whole bunch of Internet radio stuff, as well as download iTunes.
Hell, yes!. How else can one get pwned for under $100 (previous Windows version required)?
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because until then, I'll keep making fun of you.
...and in this context your would be the appropriate spelling; furthermore, it would seem that the OP meant this in their post. Which leads me to believe that, not only is the egg on your face, but you also come across as a moronic jerk. Congrats, you dickless wonder!
For sure, but it becomes rather difficult to perform a dictionary attack on the password hashes if they can't be read. That is the hole which shadowing plugs.
I don't really see your point. Postfix and sendmail, two commonly used mail servers on linux and unix also, if not correctly administered, allow SPAM to be forwarded through them as well.
Ah, my child, but they are not Micro$oft products. Therein lies the nub of the matter, the delineation between yin and yang.
This really suprises me, because in theory, one shouldn't need read-access to that file. I just tried to chmod 600/etc/passwd and I had linux complain, there really should be a workaround to disable passwd from being readable, because it IS a security risk...
Do a Google for password shadowing. Rinse and repeat.
But the name is listed in/etc/passwd, which is world-readable. How does this help you?
What, you've never heard of security through hubris? Its identical to security through obscurity in all respects, apart from the fact that implementer has to regard himself/herself as a 1337 h4x0r.
Have you actually read RFC 821? If so, perhaps you could point out exactly where the functionality of the guest-level account is specified? Or are you just talking out of your arse?
Windows isn't exactly Apple's speciality after all.
If this were the case, then what the fuck are Apple doing by releasing Windows software in the first place? This must be the lamest excuse I've ever heard for a poor product. C'mon, Apple isn't some $10 start-up run by preteens; it's a large, experienced software/hardware company, and they shouldn't be screwing things like this up. If MS were shown this much latitude, people would be screaming blue murder.
You mean like those non-Linux versions of Debian, like Debian GNU/Hurd, Debian GNU/NetBSD, Debian GNU/FreeBSD, Debian GNU/Win32 and the upcoming Debian GNU/ELKS (based on the ELKS kernel for 8086 and 80286 et al), right? What is your point again?
My point is that which you have reiterated above: When the Linux kernel is removed from the GNU/Linux operating system, and replaced with another kernel, the OS does not remain GNU/Linux (as the author of the Forbes article maintained), but becomes GNU/<SomethingElse>. This small excercise in pedantry is all I was pointing out in the initial paragraph of my original post.
I'm rather taken aback by the number of poeple, including you, which appear to have taken such offense at my original post. While I'm a staunch supporter of Linux and the free software movement, I think its important that the community remains somewhere where dissenting opinions can be voiced without being shouted down with cries of "heretic". In fact, this aspect is vital to the continued health of the community; otherwise, we end up with software which is driven by dogma rather than free debate.
To this end, and as an addendum to my original post, I happen to have a huge amount of professional respect for RMS, but at the same time I regard him as an egotistical jerk. This is my opinion; many others in the free software community share it, and it shouldn't be considered heresy to voice such an opinion.
...all the while ignoring the fact that many frequency ranges are already used by astronomers to observe and study the universe. By polluting our window on the Cosmos, we risk losing the chance to discover how it all began. *Sigh*.
Stallman's GNU/Linux operating system is not the target of SCO's suit. Linux, the program SCO is targeting, is not an operating system, but only the kernel of the GNU/Linux operating system, which could run using a different kernel.
Nope, the press is still wrong-headed about this. Firstly, the operating system is not RMS's, although he certainly made valuable contributions toward it. Secondly, if the GNU/Linux operating system were to use a different kernel, then it would be the GNU/XXXXX operating system. This bolsters my impression that RMS is always trying to keep the positive associations of the word 'Linux', while at the same time insisting that the work of Linus et al. is a disposable commodity. Weasel words, if you ask me.
Public-key crypto might be a good idea for this... although it would depend on Ritz's ability to keep the secret key secret. All it would take is one bored, low-wage camera shop employee to leak the secret key, and all would be lost.
Not if there were unique public/private key pairs for each camera. Ritz holds the master look-up table, which gives the private key corresponding to each public key. Cracking or leaking a key then only results in a single camera being open to the hacking described. And the master table itself can be protected by allowing employees to perform single-key look-ups only; no downloading of the whole table.
Of course, having unique key pair for each camera means that the cameras are idetifiable, which many people won't like -- witness the (understandable) fuss over the Intel CPU ID.
It is possible, but commodity networking cards generally don't support it (for a reason)
I beg to differ, every card I've tried allows MAC spoofing. Just try "ifconfig hw ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX" on your card to see if it works (I'm assuming that Linux is being used).
MAC spoofing is only really useful on subnets, however, since (IIRC) ARP data doesn't get broadcast through gateways. For the immoral, however, such spoofing is a great way to get around licensing software such as FlexLM.
Thermodynamics also says that you lose non-heat energy in reversable systems as well. If you throw a ball into the air, you lose some energy from wind resistance, from converting chemical energy in your arm into mechanical energy, etc.
Sure, but mechanical losses can always be recovered and put back into a system. Heat losses can't, which is the point of the second law of thermodynamics.
but they did it by requiring every mobile number to start 07...
This has its advantages, however. If any number can be a cellphone number, then telcos are reluctant to place the financial burden of calling a cellphone on the person making the call. Instead, you end up with the situation over here in the USA, where the person receiving the call has to pony up. Which leads to a ridiculous TCO for cellphones here. On moving from the UK to the USA, my cellphone bill (Cingular) went from approx. 20 pounds ($30) per month to $175 per month. Which is why I ditched my cellphone after the first month.
Huh? First Poster is the most overpaid job? That's news to me, I thought the pay was pretty lousy. Which is a pity, since/. would clearly disintegrate without the terrific work of those unsung heroes, the First Post ACs.
Yes, you are right - apologies for my original error. The Taurids are peaking from the 4th to the 7th, while the Leonids won't peak until the 17th to the 19th.
It's worth also pointing out that tonight we will be experiencing the Leonids meteor shower. This is one of the stronger showers of the year, and back in 1998 it produced around 200 meteors per hour. While its not possible to predict how many meteors there will be this year, the fact that the shower is combined with a lunar eclipse makes it rather special, IMHO. Interestingly enough, the same conincidence happened last year!
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I vote for XP. People can watch videos, edit their digital camcorder stuff and listen to a whole bunch of Internet radio stuff, as well as download iTunes.
Hell, yes!. How else can one get pwned for under $100 (previous Windows version required)?
because until then, I'll keep making fun of you.
...and in this context your would be the appropriate spelling; furthermore, it would seem that the OP meant this in their post. Which leads me to believe that, not only is the egg on your face, but you also come across as a moronic jerk. Congrats, you dickless wonder!
For sure, but it becomes rather difficult to perform a dictionary attack on the password hashes if they can't be read. That is the hole which shadowing plugs.
I don't really see your point. Postfix and sendmail, two commonly used mail servers on linux and unix also, if not correctly administered, allow SPAM to be forwarded through them as well.
Ah, my child, but they are not Micro$oft products. Therein lies the nub of the matter, the delineation between yin and yang.
This really suprises me, because in theory, one shouldn't need read-access to that file. I just tried to chmod 600 /etc/passwd and I had linux complain, there really should be a workaround to disable passwd from being readable, because it IS a security risk...
Do a Google for password shadowing. Rinse and repeat.
But the name is listed in /etc/passwd, which is world-readable. How does this help you?
What, you've never heard of security through hubris? Its identical to security through obscurity in all respects, apart from the fact that implementer has to regard himself/herself as a 1337 h4x0r.
Turns out its actually a problem in SMTP's RFC
Have you actually read RFC 821? If so, perhaps you could point out exactly where the functionality of the guest-level account is specified? Or are you just talking out of your arse?
This was not done on purpose; it was buy a sole developer, and not a decision by Apple.
If this is true, then it's a pretty damning indictment of Apple's software development model.
Windows isn't exactly Apple's speciality after all.
If this were the case, then what the fuck are Apple doing by releasing Windows software in the first place? This must be the lamest excuse I've ever heard for a poor product. C'mon, Apple isn't some $10 start-up run by preteens; it's a large, experienced software/hardware company, and they shouldn't be screwing things like this up. If MS were shown this much latitude, people would be screaming blue murder.
If I called myself an emperor just because some moistened bink lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away'
<pedant>I think you'll find the word is "bint", a derogatory British phrase for a woman of loose morals</pedant>.
You mean like those non-Linux versions of Debian, like Debian GNU/Hurd, Debian GNU/NetBSD, Debian GNU/FreeBSD, Debian GNU/Win32 and the upcoming Debian GNU/ELKS (based on the ELKS kernel for 8086 and 80286 et al), right? What is your point again?
My point is that which you have reiterated above: When the Linux kernel is removed from the GNU/Linux operating system, and replaced with another kernel, the OS does not remain GNU/Linux (as the author of the Forbes article maintained), but becomes GNU/<SomethingElse>. This small excercise in pedantry is all I was pointing out in the initial paragraph of my original post.
I'm rather taken aback by the number of poeple, including you, which appear to have taken such offense at my original post. While I'm a staunch supporter of Linux and the free software movement, I think its important that the community remains somewhere where dissenting opinions can be voiced without being shouted down with cries of "heretic". In fact, this aspect is vital to the continued health of the community; otherwise, we end up with software which is driven by dogma rather than free debate.
To this end, and as an addendum to my original post, I happen to have a huge amount of professional respect for RMS, but at the same time I regard him as an egotistical jerk. This is my opinion; many others in the free software community share it, and it shouldn't be considered heresy to voice such an opinion.
They will find uses for each frequency range.
...all the while ignoring the fact that many frequency ranges are already used by astronomers to observe and study the universe. By polluting our window on the Cosmos, we risk losing the chance to discover how it all began. *Sigh*.
"Your Honor, see how fragmented and uncontrolled they are!"
What more evidence do we need that $CO is going to employ the Chewbacca Defense:
"RMS did not contribute to Linux. This does not make sense. Chewbacca lives on Endor. That does not make sense. Therefore, you must acquit!"
Stallman's GNU/Linux operating system is not the target of SCO's suit. Linux, the program SCO is targeting, is not an operating system, but only the kernel of the GNU/Linux operating system, which could run using a different kernel.
Nope, the press is still wrong-headed about this. Firstly, the operating system is not RMS's, although he certainly made valuable contributions toward it. Secondly, if the GNU/Linux operating system were to use a different kernel, then it would be the GNU/XXXXX operating system. This bolsters my impression that RMS is always trying to keep the positive associations of the word 'Linux', while at the same time insisting that the work of Linus et al. is a disposable commodity. Weasel words, if you ask me.
Public-key crypto might be a good idea for this... although it would depend on Ritz's ability to keep the secret key secret. All it would take is one bored, low-wage camera shop employee to leak the secret key, and all would be lost.
Not if there were unique public/private key pairs for each camera. Ritz holds the master look-up table, which gives the private key corresponding to each public key. Cracking or leaking a key then only results in a single camera being open to the hacking described. And the master table itself can be protected by allowing employees to perform single-key look-ups only; no downloading of the whole table.
Of course, having unique key pair for each camera means that the cameras are idetifiable, which many people won't like -- witness the (understandable) fuss over the Intel CPU ID.
It is possible, but commodity networking cards generally don't support it (for a reason)
I beg to differ, every card I've tried allows MAC spoofing. Just try "ifconfig hw ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX" on your card to see if it works (I'm assuming that Linux is being used).
MAC spoofing is only really useful on subnets, however, since (IIRC) ARP data doesn't get broadcast through gateways. For the immoral, however, such spoofing is a great way to get around licensing software such as FlexLM.
Thermodynamics also says that you lose non-heat energy in reversable systems as well. If you throw a ball into the air, you lose some energy from wind resistance, from converting chemical energy in your arm into mechanical energy, etc.
Sure, but mechanical losses can always be recovered and put back into a system. Heat losses can't, which is the point of the second law of thermodynamics.
but they did it by requiring every mobile number to start 07...
This has its advantages, however. If any number can be a cellphone number, then telcos are reluctant to place the financial burden of calling a cellphone on the person making the call. Instead, you end up with the situation over here in the USA, where the person receiving the call has to pony up. Which leads to a ridiculous TCO for cellphones here. On moving from the UK to the USA, my cellphone bill (Cingular) went from approx. 20 pounds ($30) per month to $175 per month. Which is why I ditched my cellphone after the first month.
First poster!
Huh? First Poster is the most overpaid job? That's news to me, I thought the pay was pretty lousy. Which is a pity, since /. would clearly disintegrate without the terrific work of those unsung heroes, the First Post ACs.
Yes, you are right - apologies for my original error. The Taurids are peaking from the 4th to the 7th, while the Leonids won't peak until the 17th to the 19th.
this is one of the most stereotypical and pointless comments yet constantly gets modded funny.
I see irony still hasn't reached Oklahoma. Maybe next year...
It's worth also pointing out that tonight we will be experiencing the Leonids meteor shower. This is one of the stronger showers of the year, and back in 1998 it produced around 200 meteors per hour. While its not possible to predict how many meteors there will be this year, the fact that the shower is combined with a lunar eclipse makes it rather special, IMHO. Interestingly enough, the same conincidence happened last year!
And thank you, OCG, for being a TWAT as usual. If you don't like ./, then piss of somewhere else, ya nonce.
Yeah, I got infected by some nasty grey goo last week, and now my tinfoil hat doesn't appear to work. Darn!
I had a Profy in our freshmen year by the name Dalton. He would always refer to "Quantum Numbers" as "Condom Numbers"
You may have misheard him say Condon, as in the Condon-Shortley phase convention for spherical harmonics.