Because most patches to fix bugs and the like are trivial, a simple skimming will usually suffice. If it's a buffer overflow (or even several), a patch can weigh in a couple of lines. That's easy for those of us who read code to check. On the other hand, some black box patch coming from MS may fix the bug, or it may not. It may even introduce even more bugs.
Besides, I trust the noname chinese cracker far more more than Microsoft anyway.
"Anyone know where I can buy a tinfoil hat?"
Make your own. After all, where better to put a brainwave monitoring device than in mass-produced tinfoil hats? The foil will actually _amplify_ the brainwaves. To be as safe as possible, use tinfoil from a varieety of different sources to make your hat, and be sure to use different parts of the roll, to further reduce the likelyhood of any monitoriting devices.
Ok, what about a usercontent.css for mozilla? Render the ads invisible (but still loaded) at a browser level.
Ads have evolved, Ad blockers have evolved, but there is only so far you can evolve. This system, even if it worked, would fail because eventually the blockers will reach the point where they can't be detected.
"Find specific instances of people who are ok with violations of the RIAA's copyright but not with violations of Linux's copyright and then you will have something to say."
I'll bite. I have little problems with violations of copyright infringement against the RIAA, and have problem with SCO vs. Linux.
Why? A couple of reasons. For one thing, I consider SCO and the RIAA to be evil (or at the very least bad). I have a hard time rooting for the bad guy, whether they are "right" or not. Secondly, few would dispute that the RIAA does in fact have the rights (rightly, or wrongly) to the music they sell. For better or worse, they own them. SCO is trying to take the rights away from everybody else.
Finally, I believe "piracy" (like everything else) has positive and negative aspects. There are a number of pieces of software that I own, that I used before I owned it. A number of my associates have purchased software solely on my recommendation. I personally don't buy audio (and didn't even before napster/kazaa), but I suspect in many cases it's similar.
As for the RIAA being evil, I'm not so much convinced by how they treat their "customers" - They are a company, and the primary job of a company is to make money. I'm primarily upset by their hypocracy, and their poor treatment of their artists, the very source of their income.
Pick the lock, it's really not that hard. After a little playing around (about 10 minutes), I can get 95% of the cabinet locks out there in under 60 seconds using nothing more than a single paperclip (applying a little sideways pressure, and using my finger to keep pressure). A couple of minutes could possibly solve your problem.
There was a "gator on steroids" running around one of our networks a year or so ago. I suspect it was one of their "partners", not gator themselves who made it. Not only would it survive a profile reload, somehow it managed to make it so it would install gator for every user on the system, even Administrator. Never did figure that one out, especially as on some of the machines, no administrator had ever logged in.
Just get mozilla. Plop in a nice usercontent.css, and most ads go away automagically, without needing any 3rd party kludges, like proxies (transparent or otherwise). Plus, it's unwanted popup blocker is far better than any external one - popups are a browser function, and blocking them should be too. As an added bonus, most spyware is totally incompatible with mozilla, and it won't automatically install plugins when you load a page (or try to get you to).
Deep Freeze. Once it's installed on a machine, unless they use a boot disk, all changes are transitory. You could even reformat the HD, and it would look like you really did, but after you restart, all changes are gone. You can even define "safe" folders where this doesn't happen, like a shared documents folder.
It's a pain for end users, but if you are already re-imaging daily, it's the same effect without the work.
I don't think it does, but the environment variables are reset at logon, so it really doesn't matter.
You could also probably put the library in/lib, and run ldconfig.
Personally, I've seen more of my freedoms sacrificed by Bush then taken by Saddam or Osama. As Benjamin Franklain said, "He who would sacrifice essential liberty for temporary security deserves neither security nor liberty".
The poll is for weasley people, not murders. For what it's worth, Baddam would beat Bush hands down in a Murderous poll.
It's been tried. In South America, as I recall. It led to a lot of "chain-voting" fraud.
Nice thought, though. The problem is: if it's encrypted, or otherwise not normally readable, how does the person know that what the paper says is really what they voted for?
Why the new desktops and servers? There are standalone units, like the Cisco IP Phone (yeah, it's cisco, but they aren't too horribly priced). Start switching the phones out, a few at a time.
Well, run linux on your 64-bit Opteron, and get an even better deal. Costs a little less, has an even lower TCO, running an OS that many say is better than UNIX (SCO doesn't count), is better configured security-wise, and is less of a target for virus writers than your precious MacOS, and is often patched within hours of holes being found, where your digital camera will probably plug and play too.
Actually, that's not entirely correct. Transparent proxies usually do little more than hijack port 80. As such, outgoing connections will come from the IP of the proxy. If mandrakesoft is using IPs, the user gets the torrent, and the proxy's IP would be authorized, but when the client directly connects (from it's IP, not the proxies), it would fail.
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I've networked a sno cone machine, does that count?
Because most patches to fix bugs and the like are trivial, a simple skimming will usually suffice. If it's a buffer overflow (or even several), a patch can weigh in a couple of lines. That's easy for those of us who read code to check. On the other hand, some black box patch coming from MS may fix the bug, or it may not. It may even introduce even more bugs.
Besides, I trust the noname chinese cracker far more more than Microsoft anyway.
Microsoft Bashing for Fun and [karmatic] profit.
"Anyone know where I can buy a tinfoil hat?" Make your own. After all, where better to put a brainwave monitoring device than in mass-produced tinfoil hats? The foil will actually _amplify_ the brainwaves. To be as safe as possible, use tinfoil from a varieety of different sources to make your hat, and be sure to use different parts of the roll, to further reduce the likelyhood of any monitoriting devices.
So what does an encrypted photon look like? Is it any different looking than a non-encrypted photon?
Ok, what about a usercontent.css for mozilla? Render the ads invisible (but still loaded) at a browser level.
Ads have evolved, Ad blockers have evolved, but there is only so far you can evolve. This system, even if it worked, would fail because eventually the blockers will reach the point where they can't be detected.
"Find specific instances of people who are ok with violations of the RIAA's copyright but not with violations of Linux's copyright and then you will have something to say."
I'll bite. I have little problems with violations of copyright infringement against the RIAA, and have problem with SCO vs. Linux.
Why? A couple of reasons. For one thing, I consider SCO and the RIAA to be evil (or at the very least bad). I have a hard time rooting for the bad guy, whether they are "right" or not. Secondly, few would dispute that the RIAA does in fact have the rights (rightly, or wrongly) to the music they sell. For better or worse, they own them. SCO is trying to take the rights away from everybody else.
Finally, I believe "piracy" (like everything else) has positive and negative aspects. There are a number of pieces of software that I own, that I used before I owned it. A number of my associates have purchased software solely on my recommendation. I personally don't buy audio (and didn't even before napster/kazaa), but I suspect in many cases it's similar.
As for the RIAA being evil, I'm not so much convinced by how they treat their "customers" - They are a company, and the primary job of a company is to make money. I'm primarily upset by their hypocracy, and their poor treatment of their artists, the very source of their income.
Basic rights fight against the ACLU?
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Pick the lock, it's really not that hard. After a little playing around (about 10 minutes), I can get 95% of the cabinet locks out there in under 60 seconds using nothing more than a single paperclip (applying a little sideways pressure, and using my finger to keep pressure). A couple of minutes could possibly solve your problem.
There was a "gator on steroids" running around one of our networks a year or so ago. I suspect it was one of their "partners", not gator themselves who made it. Not only would it survive a profile reload, somehow it managed to make it so it would install gator for every user on the system, even Administrator. Never did figure that one out, especially as on some of the machines, no administrator had ever logged in.
Just get mozilla. Plop in a nice usercontent.css, and most ads go away automagically, without needing any 3rd party kludges, like proxies (transparent or otherwise). Plus, it's unwanted popup blocker is far better than any external one - popups are a browser function, and blocking them should be too. As an added bonus, most spyware is totally incompatible with mozilla, and it won't automatically install plugins when you load a page (or try to get you to).
Deep Freeze. Once it's installed on a machine, unless they use a boot disk, all changes are transitory. You could even reformat the HD, and it would look like you really did, but after you restart, all changes are gone. You can even define "safe" folders where this doesn't happen, like a shared documents folder.
It's a pain for end users, but if you are already re-imaging daily, it's the same effect without the work.
I don't think it does, but the environment variables are reset at logon, so it really doesn't matter. You could also probably put the library in /lib, and run ldconfig.
Waste. Pain to set up, works greeat, encrypted too.
Personally, I've seen more of my freedoms sacrificed by Bush then taken by Saddam or Osama. As Benjamin Franklain said, "He who would sacrifice essential liberty for temporary security deserves neither security nor liberty".
The poll is for weasley people, not murders. For what it's worth, Baddam would beat Bush hands down in a Murderous poll.
Yeah, so they just use "chain-voting" means to buy votes.
In addition, if the voter can't read what's on the paper, how does the voter know what the paper _really_ says?
It's been tried. In South America, as I recall. It led to a lot of "chain-voting" fraud. Nice thought, though. The problem is: if it's encrypted, or otherwise not normally readable, how does the person know that what the paper says is really what they voted for?
Well, maybe now, they'll only be servicing ".com"
It's been done. It was actually _more_ agressive, and caused more problems then the worm that it was trying to fix.
Why the new desktops and servers? There are standalone units, like the Cisco IP Phone (yeah, it's cisco, but they aren't too horribly priced). Start switching the phones out, a few at a time.
Sure you do. I hear it all the time. "Using non-[Cisco] products will [save us $300,000]". I just don't usually hear it put together quite this way.
Well, run linux on your 64-bit Opteron, and get an even better deal. Costs a little less, has an even lower TCO, running an OS that many say is better than UNIX (SCO doesn't count), is better configured security-wise, and is less of a target for virus writers than your precious MacOS, and is often patched within hours of holes being found, where your digital camera will probably plug and play too.
You can have your little semitransparent apple.
Not really, they filter their tracker by IP. You could open the torrent, you just couldn't connect.
Actually, that's not entirely correct. Transparent proxies usually do little more than hijack port 80. As such, outgoing connections will come from the IP of the proxy. If mandrakesoft is using IPs, the user gets the torrent, and the proxy's IP would be authorized, but when the client directly connects (from it's IP, not the proxies), it would fail.