Some crops of grapes are better than others. The same vineyard will produce different tasting wine each year because of the differences in weather over the growth of the crop.
So you might be able to make a newer bottle taste aged, it won't be the same as an authentic aged bottle from a "good year".
The value is also determined by year as well. The value of a "good year" will increase the more it's aged, not just because the aging process in the wine, but also because other bottles of the same year are being consumed, or lost, thus making your bottle more rare.
It would be interesting to see what this would do to the wine market. Will your $500 bottle of wine now be worth $50 because you can make another bottle that is close enough to it that only wine people would care about the difference?
What happens if you burn your finger(s) on your vacation?
Biometrics sounds like a good idea, but I can never justify the single point of failure involved with it. It seems like it would be very easy to get false negetives.
I use usb keys to authenticate on my desktops, and if a key were ever to fail, i have a backup in the safe. The key responds to the encryption keys stored on the flash disk, and uses the serial number of the device as an added protection against copying. This is a simple setup of pam_usb and udev.
I do woodworking as a hobby, and occasionally cook. It's not uncommon to cut/burn a finger. Also with they usb keys I only have two, one on my key ring, and one in a safe. I don't leave my keys or my passwords lying around, but compare that to your fingerprint. How many places do you leave your fingerprint throughout a day? A google search, $20, and a trip to the hardware store is all you need to lift a print.
I hear a lot of people promote biometrics as a huge breakthrough in security, but I just don't see how it can be practical.
My parents owned a Commodore VIC-20, and when they got a hand-me-down Tandy TRS-80 Color, the VIC-20 went to me.:)
I had Cosmic Cruncher, Omega Race, Radar Rat Race, Lunar Lander, Gorf, and a hand full of others that I can't remember. I'm sure I had a pong or breakout game on it as well. My favorite was Omega Race by far. I wasted many hours on that game, until I my parents gave me a book on video games written in BASIC. Later I inherited the TRS-80 when they got a Wang, and the Wang eventually followed suit. I didn't have any games for the TRS-80 or the Wang, but they were still fun to program on.
If I am a hacker, why would I use a PC in a hacked corporate network to store my porn?
If I was a hacker, the last place I would store anything incriminating, is my own PC.
One of the big reasons to store off site is to use the hacked PC for free/illegal hosting. This makes it harder to trace back to the hacker, and doesn't waist resources of the hacker's PC (storage/bandwidth). Think of how long it would take to find something on a PC if it was just used as a web server, serving files stored in some rootkit hidden directory. Virus scanners wouldn't find it, as the files aren't viral. Unless a firewall log audit, or internal port scan picked up the web server application, it could go unnoticed for months, or maybe years. Now do this to about 20 hacked systems, and you have a semi-reliable distributed network for all your hosting needs.
Sounds like a reasonable thing for a hacker to do to me.
I've got to disagree; in my experience hackers tend to be pretty damn egotistical. Average hackers think they're good. Good hackers think they're great. Great hackers think they're on a higher plane of existence.
That's not true... I don't think I'm on a higher plane of existence.
Just out of curiosity, how would one exploit these bugs from user space? Are we talking an attacker can compromise a remote machine? e.g. an apache/php or ssh connection through a buffer overflow? Or does an attacker need local executable access, and if so, can any executable be potentially used to compromise the system, or would they need a specially crafted binary?
And how would this effect a system running advanced security, like grsecurity, PaX or SELinux? Theo mentioned that a potential buffer overflow could bypass a no-exec, or write protected memory space, but would address space layout randomization help to control that?
K-4: The Foundation. This should be where you learn to speak, write and basic math, and include a lot of social activities. Teach them to interact with others. This should also be a moral grounding period. Teach them what's right and wrong, you'll have a _far_ easier time teaching them now than when they hit their teens. There isn't a need to have a ton of work involved in these years.
5-9: Mandatory Classes. This is where the majority of their "book" learning should be. It's also a time where you should be able to see who is falling behind, and be able to give more help where it's needed. You should be able to do algebra, read novels, etc.
10-12: Choices. Let them make their own choices. If they screw up now, it's not as bad as if they do it in college, or later. Explore new things, and figure out what you want to spend $nK of your parents money on for college. There shouldn't be a whole lot of hand holding going on. The students should be eased into doing things for themselves, and not always relying on an instructor to point out each step. These years are a prep for college and the working world more than anything.
Note that not a lot of that was actual book learning, but focused more on developing as a person. Being able to memorize facts and pass a test is good, but where will that get you in life? If you can't interact with others, make your own informed decisions, how far up the ladder do you really think you're going to get?
The system breaks down when instructors guide struggling students through the entire grade, or when students are trained to ace any test given but still can't think for themselves. If you want specific, in-depth knowledge of something, go to college, that's what they're for.
Personally, I don't see public, or private schools really excelling lately. They both have their strengths and weaknesses, and in the end it's up to the parents to decide what they want for their child(ren). Best thing to do is get involved, know your child's teachers, and watch them. It's easier said than done, but it's the best thing you can do. If you don't have children and you care that much about the quality of education in your area, try volunteering some of your time to help out.
One more thing. Beginning at (INSERT APPROXIMATE MAY 19 SCREENING TIME), [NAME] will be unreachable for about two hours, thirteen minutes and eleven seconds. [HE/SHE] will be feeling really bad at this time.
Wow, does this mean they are showing the first two movies that day too?
Can't you just disable the built in USB Hub in the device manager? Might not work with 9x, but with 2k and XP you need to be admin to change hardware. Is this really a new feature, or just new to their marketing drones?
I think they ment that of the $15 mil they spent in the last 2 quaters total (as in employee salaries, state/federal taxes, operating expenses, etc, etc), amost half of all of that is legal fees. Not that this is much better, very few companies can just wake up one day and say "I think we should double our expennses" and live very long to tell about it. So in 2 quarters they spent ~$7 mil, so to spend $31 mil it should be another 6 give or take. So by this estimate we still have another year and a half of this BS to deal with. *sigh*
IANAL, but my understanding is that any contract that allows one of the parties to break a law without penalties is thrown out in court. So a contract that allows M$ to continue overpricing and maintaining an illegal monopoly would not be valid, and in 2 years or so they could go back and do it again.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you can't write a contract that breaks a law and expect it to hold up in court for your defense.
IANAA/P (I am not an astronomer/physicist), but I beleave the theory is that time is relative, and as you get closer to a black hole, time slows down. So depending on where your taking your calculations from, the results would be different.
Hey Microsoft! You have GPL code in your secret Win2K code! I mean... not that we've seen your code or anything... Just guessing.
Why not? Isn't this what SCO is doing?
Hey IBM! You have SCO IP in your secret AIX code, and then you put it into Linux! I mean... not that we've seen your code or anything... Just guessing.
The messy Dell battle would be fought on two fronts.
User vs Dell: The user can claim that Dell offered to sell something at a lower cost than the original document details.
Dell vs User: If there were special agreements on the purchase order/contract, Dell could change the original and claim that the User's copy was hacked and modified and therefore not a binding agreement.
Not to point the finger at Dell or anything, but I can think of a few companies that could and would take advantage of this flaw.
If you want security, trust encryption/pgp-gpg/md5sum/etc, don't trust any system where the "key to the vault" is taped to the side of the door during transit.
I'm no expert, but my guess is that hardware goes through this because, if it is faulty under certain situations it can burn your house/office down.
Although, software can destroy 20 years of business data and bring down the whole company anyway, but it's easier to mirror/backup your data than it is to mirror/backup your house/office.
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Some crops of grapes are better than others. The same vineyard will produce different tasting wine each year because of the differences in weather over the growth of the crop.
So you might be able to make a newer bottle taste aged, it won't be the same as an authentic aged bottle from a "good year".
The value is also determined by year as well. The value of a "good year" will increase the more it's aged, not just because the aging process in the wine, but also because other bottles of the same year are being consumed, or lost, thus making your bottle more rare.
It would be interesting to see what this would do to the wine market. Will your $500 bottle of wine now be worth $50 because you can make another bottle that is close enough to it that only wine people would care about the difference?
setfacl -m u::r,g::r,u:bob:rw,o::000 afile
There you go, the user (owner) has read, the specific user (bob) has read/write, the group has read, and others have nothing. Looks easy to me...
What happens if you burn your finger(s) on your vacation?
Biometrics sounds like a good idea, but I can never justify the single point of failure involved with it. It seems like it would be very easy to get false negetives.
I use usb keys to authenticate on my desktops, and if a key were ever to fail, i have a backup in the safe. The key responds to the encryption keys stored on the flash disk, and uses the serial number of the device as an added protection against copying. This is a simple setup of pam_usb and udev.
I do woodworking as a hobby, and occasionally cook. It's not uncommon to cut/burn a finger. Also with they usb keys I only have two, one on my key ring, and one in a safe. I don't leave my keys or my passwords lying around, but compare that to your fingerprint. How many places do you leave your fingerprint throughout a day? A google search, $20, and a trip to the hardware store is all you need to lift a print.
I hear a lot of people promote biometrics as a huge breakthrough in security, but I just don't see how it can be practical.
Just my $0.02
I had Cosmic Cruncher, Omega Race, Radar Rat Race, Lunar Lander, Gorf, and a hand full of others that I can't remember. I'm sure I had a pong or breakout game on it as well. My favorite was Omega Race by far. I wasted many hours on that game, until I my parents gave me a book on video games written in BASIC. Later I inherited the TRS-80 when they got a Wang, and the Wang eventually followed suit. I didn't have any games for the TRS-80 or the Wang, but they were still fun to program on.
If I was a hacker, the last place I would store anything incriminating, is my own PC.
One of the big reasons to store off site is to use the hacked PC for free/illegal hosting. This makes it harder to trace back to the hacker, and doesn't waist resources of the hacker's PC (storage/bandwidth). Think of how long it would take to find something on a PC if it was just used as a web server, serving files stored in some rootkit hidden directory. Virus scanners wouldn't find it, as the files aren't viral. Unless a firewall log audit, or internal port scan picked up the web server application, it could go unnoticed for months, or maybe years. Now do this to about 20 hacked systems, and you have a semi-reliable distributed network for all your hosting needs.
Sounds like a reasonable thing for a hacker to do to me.
That's not true... I don't think I'm on a higher plane of existence.
/It's funny, laugh
//fark slashie
Just out of curiosity, how would one exploit these bugs from user space? Are we talking an attacker can compromise a remote machine? e.g. an apache/php or ssh connection through a buffer overflow? Or does an attacker need local executable access, and if so, can any executable be potentially used to compromise the system, or would they need a specially crafted binary?
And how would this effect a system running advanced security, like grsecurity, PaX or SELinux? Theo mentioned that a potential buffer overflow could bypass a no-exec, or write protected memory space, but would address space layout randomization help to control that?
Really? So my macro that creates a new top level menu in Word will still work? Where will it go without a menubar to be placed on?
K-4: The Foundation. This should be where you learn to speak, write and basic math, and include a lot of social activities. Teach them to interact with others. This should also be a moral grounding period. Teach them what's right and wrong, you'll have a _far_ easier time teaching them now than when they hit their teens. There isn't a need to have a ton of work involved in these years.
5-9: Mandatory Classes. This is where the majority of their "book" learning should be. It's also a time where you should be able to see who is falling behind, and be able to give more help where it's needed. You should be able to do algebra, read novels, etc.
10-12: Choices. Let them make their own choices. If they screw up now, it's not as bad as if they do it in college, or later. Explore new things, and figure out what you want to spend $nK of your parents money on for college. There shouldn't be a whole lot of hand holding going on. The students should be eased into doing things for themselves, and not always relying on an instructor to point out each step. These years are a prep for college and the working world more than anything.
Note that not a lot of that was actual book learning, but focused more on developing as a person. Being able to memorize facts and pass a test is good, but where will that get you in life? If you can't interact with others, make your own informed decisions, how far up the ladder do you really think you're going to get?
The system breaks down when instructors guide struggling students through the entire grade, or when students are trained to ace any test given but still can't think for themselves. If you want specific, in-depth knowledge of something, go to college, that's what they're for.
Personally, I don't see public, or private schools really excelling lately. They both have their strengths and weaknesses, and in the end it's up to the parents to decide what they want for their child(ren). Best thing to do is get involved, know your child's teachers, and watch them. It's easier said than done, but it's the best thing you can do. If you don't have children and you care that much about the quality of education in your area, try volunteering some of your time to help out.
Just my $0.02...
Wow, does this mean they are showing the first two movies that day too?
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Because most of them can't spell that, let alone know what it means.
Can't you just disable the built in USB Hub in the device manager? Might not work with 9x, but with 2k and XP you need to be admin to change hardware. Is this really a new feature, or just new to their marketing drones?
I think they ment that of the $15 mil they spent in the last 2 quaters total (as in employee salaries, state/federal taxes, operating expenses, etc, etc), amost half of all of that is legal fees. Not that this is much better, very few companies can just wake up one day and say "I think we should double our expennses" and live very long to tell about it. So in 2 quarters they spent ~$7 mil, so to spend $31 mil it should be another 6 give or take. So by this estimate we still have another year and a half of this BS to deal with. *sigh*
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IANAL, but my understanding is that any contract that allows one of the parties to break a law without penalties is thrown out in court. So a contract that allows M$ to continue overpricing and maintaining an illegal monopoly would not be valid, and in 2 years or so they could go back and do it again.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you can't write a contract that breaks a law and expect it to hold up in court for your defense.
IANAA/P (I am not an astronomer/physicist), but I beleave the theory is that time is relative, and as you get closer to a black hole, time slows down. So depending on where your taking your calculations from, the results would be different.
Why not? Isn't this what SCO is doing?
IANAL, but I beleave that was 30 working days...
User vs Dell: The user can claim that Dell offered to sell something at a lower cost than the original document details.
Dell vs User: If there were special agreements on the purchase order/contract, Dell could change the original and claim that the User's copy was hacked and modified and therefore not a binding agreement.
Not to point the finger at Dell or anything, but I can think of a few companies that could and would take advantage of this flaw.
If you want security, trust encryption/pgp-gpg/md5sum/etc, don't trust any system where the "key to the vault" is taped to the side of the door during transit.
Bloated?
...I cried all night.
Me too, the pain was unreal, and the nightmares still haunt my mind...
Although, software can destroy 20 years of business data and bring down the whole company anyway, but it's easier to mirror/backup your data than it is to mirror/backup your house/office.
But SCSI has controllers... *gasp*