Why backdoor just one brand of compiler (since there are several), when you could backdoor the architecture?
I'm pretty sure there is a special sequence of intel instructions which open the unicorn gate, and pipe a copy of all memory writes to NSA's server.
"One thing they cannot do is reveal statistical manipulation in climate-change studies that require a PhD in a related field to understand."
Hmm, that must explain why Freeman Dyson is so skeptical! He has no PhD either!
I wonder if they are taking any bets on the probability of an "oops" incident.
Source: July 16, 1945: Trinity Blast Opens Atomic Age @ Wired
"The Trinity test, as it was known, was the culmination of the American effort to win the race against Germany (and, ultimately, the Soviet Union) in building an atomic bomb. A mere three weeks after the test, the United States used atomic bombs to destroy the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
But prior to the 16th, none of those involved in the project knew if they had built a devastating new weapon or a spectacular dud.
With gallows humor, the Los Alamos physicists got up a betting pool on the possible yield of the bomb. Estimates ranged from zero to as high as 45,000 tons of TNT. Enrico Fermi, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1938 for his work on nuclear fission, offered side odds on the bomb destroying all life on the planet."
Fermi did have a sense of humor. Offering a side bet for a contingency in which you can never collect sounds like classic scientist humor to me.
There are a billion people! Anyone with any decent income there can afford a maid, take your pick of any of the starving masses and throw them your change and you have a maid. The cost of living "break" is what lines the pockets of the people who choose to send our jobs there. They're the ones you should be mad at, not the Indian who worked in a very competitive field to earn his CS degree, don't begrudge him the 3000 dollars a year a full time programmer can make in India.
this doesn't bother me in slightest. Why? My payments are processed through a third party, customers will be redirected for payment processing to my merchant service, where the flag will promptly turn green. Frankly, I don't see how much this will do to prevent fraud. I don't sell goods, but allow customers to pay for my services online, and I can't anticipate them ever seeing white. An e-commerce vendor who did sell goods would simply establish a relationship with a larger eligible company and inform the customer that they will follow a link to complete the transaction at which point their phishing alert will go from white to green.
This will make simply generate a market for LLC's (read that LIMITED LIABILITY) who can act as clearinghouses for smaller businesses and also...yes, for would be phishers
I think the confusion is a result of using the terms "unlicensed linux" when that's not the case. They're referring specifically to the way a linux server or desktop would interact with Windows machines CIFS/SMB etc. Also, many of the Windows desktop features emulated in KDE/Gnome could be patented by Microsoft...like old Apple/MS lawsuits over the GUI in the first place.
Personally, I think Novell has the touch of death for everything it gets involved in. It's not enough for them anymore to issue grossly untested patches and releases of their own propietary Netware/Groupwise crap any longer (I'm referring to modern incarnations of Novell software, yes they used to be good a long time ago), overcharge and overprice for their software and lousy support; now they have to take a formerly good linux distro, send all the good developers and managers from it running and now create potential legal issues for the entire OSS world!
Very true. I worked as a tech for BB for about a year. One day I'm walking in and I see the home theater supervisor kicking the s*** out of a big screen. I'm thinking "WTF" but figure it's none of my business and go on to the tech bench. Later I ask a co-worker who'd been there for a few years about it. He said, "You really don't know?" I said I didn't. He said, "That unit got returned, he's kicking it so he can say it was accidentally damaged and send it back to service so it doesn't hurt his margins going out the door at the cut open box rate."
the managers were the worst. they would constantly harass and threaten you to push those PSP's. If you were part time they'd threaten to cut your hours. If you were full time, they'd juggle your schedule to make it so you never know when you were working. They had all kinds of tactics.
Where'd those numbers come from? There was a thread on the groklaw page that suggested that if they did implement a scheme it would be like that, but as far as anyone know this is just an idea...no prices or solid figures on how much they would pay or discount to what...in fact, nothing solid, like their case (sorry, couldn't resist)
for a personal website. Aside from wasting bandwidth on Nimda and Code Red blind attacks you're just asking to be scanned. I run three sites and two Groupware web access sites out of my home network and I've never seen a valid reason to have any of them sit on port 80.
I work in a local consulting firm. Most of our work is Novell/Microsoft stuff and I've been trying since I started to push more Linux solutions but the one thing I can't get past is lack of a good Linux alternative to Novell's Groupwise or MS Exchange.
One alternative I've found is Suse's OpenExchange which though it sounds Open really isn't. You still have to pay out the Wazoo and what good is a Linux solution you have to pay for? However, if you're willing to pay, it does do everything an Exchange server does.
The poster is right, there is a severe lack of a competing Groupware component for Linux. One thing people can't get over is the fact that you HAVE to have MS on the desktop in the corporate world, a good deal of the alternatives I've researched are completely *nix, both client and server.
We need to admit that an "email solution" doesn't mean pop/smtp anymore. You need full calendaring/appointment scheduling etc. and right now no one provides this in the OSS world. Hell, there aren't many that make a proprietary product that will do this on Linux.
I first saw this story posted this morning on Ask Slashdot and went to read another story first..when I came back it was gone! I searched to find it but to no avail. Now it's back!)
"The Windows viewer, for example, has an option on its menu to send a Ctrl-Alt-Del to the remote host. In some situations, you will find that something like Ctrl-Alt-Backspace or Ctrl-Alt- may work instead. Screensavers sometimes use a different resolution and so can disconnect you when they stop or start - see the next question."
I don't think so. As machines get more and more powerful and bandwidth availability increases at some forms of scanning will reemerge. I realize the magnitude of IPv6 (or at least I think I do) but how long will it take Moore's Law and whatever lays beyond gigabit ethernet to catch up? and remember we're talking a protocol that will probably be in use for hundreds of years. This will only stop scanning as we currently know it.
I work for a local small business IT consulting firm and have been trying to push my boss into offering more Linux solutions to our customers...We also do a LOT of Novell work. Every time I try to tell him that we can give them everything Microsoft or Novell can he throws groupware in my face. Let's face it folks, there's nothing in the free software world (I say free software rather than open source because Suse makes OpenExchange and they charge for it) that can compare with the full groupware capabilities of Exchange or Groupwise that Joe Enduser can use from his Winblows box.
Another thing that's been holding linux adoption back is the ease of administration. Customers won't take linux because they have to pay someone more than they can pay a crappy MSCE...well, Novell networks are far easier to administer than Linux (yes, I know, not for you and me, but they ARE for other people).
Maybe I'm a little too excited, but finally, we'll have good competition for Exchange, a solid, robust directory structure in NDS/eDir and a vendor name you can tell your manager that he'll actually know who you're talking about!
This is the nail in the coffin for BillG
but had no idea how much. AOL single handedly killed the dotcom boom. Really, some of the dotcoms actually had potential.
which means you can also blame AOL for the recession, and the war and Bush and gas prices...
"By late 1999, many companies seeking to do business with AOL were no longer viewed as potential partners. They were a target, to be used. The first order of business was for AOL deal makers to find out how much money the dot-coms had raised in venture capital funding, then try to extract as much as possible from them in online ad deals. Informally, AOL's goal was to get a minimum of 50 percent of a dot-com's venture capital funding.
" '[F-word] 'em,' that was our mantra," said an AOL official. "We'd say that all the time. We took it to heart. 'Destroy them. [F-word] 'em.' You lived by that."
"
I'd really like to know what he was paying thousands of dollars for that crashed every day.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I should think it wouldn't be too difficult to have your own mail server that concealed its location rather than scanning for open relays...which he mentioned he also paid a lot for software that did that. These spammers he was talking about obviously don't know too much about what they do.
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So now we know what he uses
Why backdoor just one brand of compiler (since there are several), when you could backdoor the architecture? I'm pretty sure there is a special sequence of intel instructions which open the unicorn gate, and pipe a copy of all memory writes to NSA's server.
Right, in fact, Theo de Raadt specifically warned about exploitable bugs in the Intel Core2 cpu. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118296441702631
"One thing they cannot do is reveal statistical manipulation in climate-change studies that require a PhD in a related field to understand." Hmm, that must explain why Freeman Dyson is so skeptical! He has no PhD either!
I wonder if they are taking any bets on the probability of an "oops" incident.
Fermi did have a sense of humor. Offering a side bet for a contingency in which you can never collect sounds like classic scientist humor to me.
There are a billion people! Anyone with any decent income there can afford a maid, take your pick of any of the starving masses and throw them your change and you have a maid. The cost of living "break" is what lines the pockets of the people who choose to send our jobs there. They're the ones you should be mad at, not the Indian who worked in a very competitive field to earn his CS degree, don't begrudge him the 3000 dollars a year a full time programmer can make in India.
This will make simply generate a market for LLC's (read that LIMITED LIABILITY) who can act as clearinghouses for smaller businesses and also...yes, for would be phishers
Personally, I think Novell has the touch of death for everything it gets involved in. It's not enough for them anymore to issue grossly untested patches and releases of their own propietary Netware/Groupwise crap any longer (I'm referring to modern incarnations of Novell software, yes they used to be good a long time ago), overcharge and overprice for their software and lousy support; now they have to take a formerly good linux distro, send all the good developers and managers from it running and now create potential legal issues for the entire OSS world!
p.s. I hate Provo
fruition
From Prelude to
Foundation:
"You rich Outworlders have credit
tiles, right? Just hand them over""
No."
"No point in saying no.
We'll just take them."
"You can't take them without killing me or hurting me and
they won't work without my voiceprint. My normal voiceprint."
the managers were the worst. they would constantly harass and threaten you to push those PSP's. If you were part time they'd threaten to cut your hours. If you were full time, they'd juggle your schedule to make it so you never know when you were working. They had all kinds of tactics.
yes, users will do anything and everything to circumvent controls. Khalid Kamal Alam
Where'd those numbers come from? There was a thread on the groklaw page that suggested that if they did implement a scheme it would be like that, but as far as anyone know this is just an idea...no prices or solid figures on how much they would pay or discount to what...in fact, nothing solid, like their case (sorry, couldn't resist)
worked like a charm last time.
for a personal website. Aside from wasting bandwidth on Nimda and Code Red blind attacks you're just asking to be scanned. I run three sites and two Groupware web access sites out of my home network and I've never seen a valid reason to have any of them sit on port 80.
One alternative I've found is Suse's OpenExchange which though it sounds Open really isn't. You still have to pay out the Wazoo and what good is a Linux solution you have to pay for? However, if you're willing to pay, it does do everything an Exchange server does.
The poster is right, there is a severe lack of a competing Groupware component for Linux. One thing people can't get over is the fact that you HAVE to have MS on the desktop in the corporate world, a good deal of the alternatives I've researched are completely *nix, both client and server.
We need to admit that an "email solution" doesn't mean pop/smtp anymore. You need full calendaring/appointment scheduling etc. and right now no one provides this in the OSS world. Hell, there aren't many that make a proprietary product that will do this on Linux.
I first saw this story posted this morning on Ask Slashdot and went to read another story first..when I came back it was gone! I searched to find it but to no avail. Now it's back!)
then..um...take the tape and put it in a linux box to....um...have an open source "solution"
I thought you could
from the VNC (uk.research.att.com) faq
"The Windows viewer, for example, has an option on its menu to send a Ctrl-Alt-Del to the remote host. In some situations, you will find that something like Ctrl-Alt-Backspace or Ctrl-Alt- may work instead. Screensavers sometimes use a different resolution and so can disconnect you when they stop or start - see the next question."
I don't think so. As machines get more and more powerful and bandwidth availability increases at some forms of scanning will reemerge. I realize the magnitude of IPv6 (or at least I think I do) but how long will it take Moore's Law and whatever lays beyond gigabit ethernet to catch up? and remember we're talking a protocol that will probably be in use for hundreds of years. This will only stop scanning as we currently know it.
"When addresses are not available, there will be no more addresses left for the whole world," he said." They have been stealing our IP in Asia!!!
I work for a local small business IT consulting firm and have been trying to push my boss into offering more Linux solutions to our customers...We also do a LOT of Novell work. Every time I try to tell him that we can give them everything Microsoft or Novell can he throws groupware in my face. Let's face it folks, there's nothing in the free software world (I say free software rather than open source because Suse makes OpenExchange and they charge for it) that can compare with the full groupware capabilities of Exchange or Groupwise that Joe Enduser can use from his Winblows box. Another thing that's been holding linux adoption back is the ease of administration. Customers won't take linux because they have to pay someone more than they can pay a crappy MSCE...well, Novell networks are far easier to administer than Linux (yes, I know, not for you and me, but they ARE for other people). Maybe I'm a little too excited, but finally, we'll have good competition for Exchange, a solid, robust directory structure in NDS/eDir and a vendor name you can tell your manager that he'll actually know who you're talking about! This is the nail in the coffin for BillG
but had no idea how much. AOL single handedly killed the dotcom boom. Really, some of the dotcoms actually had potential. which means you can also blame AOL for the recession, and the war and Bush and gas prices... "By late 1999, many companies seeking to do business with AOL were no longer viewed as potential partners. They were a target, to be used. The first order of business was for AOL deal makers to find out how much money the dot-coms had raised in venture capital funding, then try to extract as much as possible from them in online ad deals. Informally, AOL's goal was to get a minimum of 50 percent of a dot-com's venture capital funding. " '[F-word] 'em,' that was our mantra," said an AOL official. "We'd say that all the time. We took it to heart. 'Destroy them. [F-word] 'em.' You lived by that." "
I'd really like to know what he was paying thousands of dollars for that crashed every day. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I should think it wouldn't be too difficult to have your own mail server that concealed its location rather than scanning for open relays...which he mentioned he also paid a lot for software that did that. These spammers he was talking about obviously don't know too much about what they do.
the next time you get a ticket, does that mean you should never be allowed to drive again?