No kernel updates or anything else has required a reboot
Hate to break this to you, but if you've updated your kernel and haven't rebooted, you're still running the old kernel. Use 'uname -a' to check for yourself. Might want to reboot that server, there have been some security updates for the kernel that you've installed but aren't actually running.
Well, I agree with what the other guy said about drilling the safe being hard. But you also assume that the water itself doesn't destroy the items you're trying to liberate (eg, your technique would work if you're trying to get gold bars out of the safe, but if you're looking for the secret plans...).
I agree with you completely. For me, the only time I ever used the.NET Single-Sign on is in gaim, when logging onto MSN. I don't use hotmail and I don't otherwise use passport *anywhere*, so the "Single Sign On" was really "Just Another Password To Remember" for me.
If something like this replaces physical keys, that'd be great (it would raise the bar for lockpicking... instead of petty thieves with a few sharpened hunks of metal illegitimately opening locks, you'd need cryptographers and massive amounts of computing power to do it.
As it is now, I have 4 keys -- one for my gate, one for the door to my apartment, and one for my bike lock -- as well as two proximity cards: one to get inside my building, and one to get into work. If these could all be replaced with one RSA key that does a challenge/response dealy, that'd be awesome.
The idea of linking will become increasingly irrelevant in the future;
LOL, I'm sure it will. Everybody is just going to give up libraries, each newly written application will contain a full rewrite of all the fundamental OS libraries. Goodbye, code re-use!
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Maybe I'm just stupid, but I'm not sure what the 1% of disagreement was between you and Dr. Evil.
I agree with you, and it's especially true if the submitter is the project leader from the *original* project, not the leader of the spinoff. In that situation, it's pretty hippocritical for somebody to fork your code, and then scream at you when you re-incorporate his changes -- afterall, he started his project by stealing 100% of your code, presumably because he wasn't happy with it. He should be happy to see that his improvements are making it back into the original project.
Well, I'm not aware of any specifics, but I'm sure there are nomadic tribes in africa or somewhere in which there are no lawyers (this role is perhaps filled by tribal elders or something, but that's still alright: a tribal elder isn't somebody who has devoted their career to simply knowing the rules of the society; everybody knows the rules, it's just that the tribal elder is respected for his age and wisdom).
I work for a large Canadian telecom, and in the staff lounge we have the "TV over the phoneline" thing. It's like watching a bad, partly corrupted DivX rip that was downloaded off kazaa or something. The picture constantly shows artifacts and the sound skips.
Overall, it's terrible. I'd like to say that you couldn't pay me to watch it, except that's exactly the case...
I'd rather sever all business relations with the telecom by subscribing to VoIP than the other way around.
You make the unfortunate assumption that EVERY person who buys this laptop is a techie who's out to install windows on it.
With prices so low for a laptop, there will be a lot of non-techies who buy this, notice how slow it is, and compare it to whatever other computers (likely running XP) they are exposed to. they'll just notice "oh, it's linux, and it's slower than windows on my 8GHz P6. stupid linux" or whatever.
So it may just be that your next Dell box has a big nasty looking Surgeon General's warning on it.
Canadian cigarette warning laws applied to computers would be hilarious. Imagine if 50% of each visible face of the software packaging was required to display graphic images of pain & suffering caused by software accompanied with a huge warning describing the various evils of the software inside.
If I was at all good at manipulating images, I'd put together a design for a WindowsXP box depicting bill gates swimming in money and laughing or something. Also showing computer bluescreens, frustrated users, etc. Heheh.
(not counting cookies, as even Firefox cannot easily and conveniently protect against these).
What are you talking about? My firefox is configured for default-deny of any cookies, with exceptions for a few sites that I visit regularly (slashdot, gmail, bank, etc). It can be a hassle when I visit a site that requires cookies just to access the page, but I typically don't return to those websites often (Hi BCOM! And you too, Staples! hahahahahhahah!!). Though it's nice to be able to surf with confidence that I'm not loading up on stupid cookies, and to simultaneously have slashdot work nicely with it's cookies.
(* yes, I know bittorrent's internal hash checking won't guarantee you get the same file from the distro, just that you get the same file that was originally posted to the tracker. That's what md5sums are for).
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I'm surprised the Film Actors Guild isn't on there.
No kernel updates or anything else has required a reboot
Hate to break this to you, but if you've updated your kernel and haven't rebooted, you're still running the old kernel. Use 'uname -a' to check for yourself. Might want to reboot that server, there have been some security updates for the kernel that you've installed but aren't actually running.
Perhaps I've seen one too many bad scifi movies, but where in the heck are the alien
;)
They're doing the exact same thing we're doing: financing crazy programs to listen for evidence of aliens who are likewise waiting to hear from us.
I say instead of building all this listening equipment, we build some broadcasting equipment! Announce our presence to the universe!
Duh, it's the seam where they cut the planet open to insert the cream filling. All planets have those.
Are you a hobiest? Does that mean you're the most hobi? I think you mean "hobbyist".
(eagerly awaiting the day that somebody calls himself a "hobbeast").
Perhaps if we develop an intricate system for determining which babies have the "sucker" gene, and then killing them.
;)
Failing that, we could just take our chances and kill one baby every minute.
Well, it's more clever than asking for change for a million dollar bill. I'll give them that.
Well, I agree with what the other guy said about drilling the safe being hard. But you also assume that the water itself doesn't destroy the items you're trying to liberate (eg, your technique would work if you're trying to get gold bars out of the safe, but if you're looking for the secret plans...).
I agree with you completely. For me, the only time I ever used the .NET Single-Sign on is in gaim, when logging onto MSN. I don't use hotmail and I don't otherwise use passport *anywhere*, so the "Single Sign On" was really "Just Another Password To Remember" for me.
ITYM Man, Bytes, Dog.
If something like this replaces physical keys, that'd be great (it would raise the bar for lockpicking... instead of petty thieves with a few sharpened hunks of metal illegitimately opening locks, you'd need cryptographers and massive amounts of computing power to do it.
As it is now, I have 4 keys -- one for my gate, one for the door to my apartment, and one for my bike lock -- as well as two proximity cards: one to get inside my building, and one to get into work. If these could all be replaced with one RSA key that does a challenge/response dealy, that'd be awesome.
It's just windows that's that way.
The idea of linking will become increasingly irrelevant in the future;
LOL, I'm sure it will. Everybody is just going to give up libraries, each newly written application will contain a full rewrite of all the fundamental OS libraries. Goodbye, code re-use!
Maybe I'm just stupid, but I'm not sure what the 1% of disagreement was between you and Dr. Evil.
here's the fixed link for those who care:
http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm
I agree with you, and it's especially true if the submitter is the project leader from the *original* project, not the leader of the spinoff. In that situation, it's pretty hippocritical for somebody to fork your code, and then scream at you when you re-incorporate his changes -- afterall, he started his project by stealing 100% of your code, presumably because he wasn't happy with it. He should be happy to see that his improvements are making it back into the original project.
No, I never got firefox from the official firefox website. The GPG signatures and md5sums came from the distro.
Well, I'm not aware of any specifics, but I'm sure there are nomadic tribes in africa or somewhere in which there are no lawyers (this role is perhaps filled by tribal elders or something, but that's still alright: a tribal elder isn't somebody who has devoted their career to simply knowing the rules of the society; everybody knows the rules, it's just that the tribal elder is respected for his age and wisdom).
I work for a large Canadian telecom, and in the staff lounge we have the "TV over the phoneline" thing. It's like watching a bad, partly corrupted DivX rip that was downloaded off kazaa or something. The picture constantly shows artifacts and the sound skips.
Overall, it's terrible. I'd like to say that you couldn't pay me to watch it, except that's exactly the case...
I'd rather sever all business relations with the telecom by subscribing to VoIP than the other way around.
How it is useful? You're one of those people that cares what actors are doing when they're not acting, aren't you?
You make the unfortunate assumption that EVERY person who buys this laptop is a techie who's out to install windows on it.
With prices so low for a laptop, there will be a lot of non-techies who buy this, notice how slow it is, and compare it to whatever other computers (likely running XP) they are exposed to. they'll just notice "oh, it's linux, and it's slower than windows on my 8GHz P6. stupid linux" or whatever.
So it may just be that your next Dell box has a big nasty looking Surgeon General's warning on it.
Canadian cigarette warning laws applied to computers would be hilarious. Imagine if 50% of each visible face of the software packaging was required to display graphic images of pain & suffering caused by software accompanied with a huge warning describing the various evils of the software inside.
If I was at all good at manipulating images, I'd put together a design for a WindowsXP box depicting bill gates swimming in money and laughing or something. Also showing computer bluescreens, frustrated users, etc. Heheh.
Installing Firefox requires downloading an unsigned binary from a random web server
Huh? I got firefox on my distro's CDs. CDs which passed:
* bittorrent's inherent hash checks
* an md5sum comparison from the official distro's website
* gpg signature on the ISOs
as well as the subsequent updates to the browser that were downloaded from the distro's official yum server and had a valid GPG signature.
What were you saying about unsigned, unverified, untrusted code?
(not counting cookies, as even Firefox cannot easily and conveniently protect against these).
What are you talking about? My firefox is configured for default-deny of any cookies, with exceptions for a few sites that I visit regularly (slashdot, gmail, bank, etc). It can be a hassle when I visit a site that requires cookies just to access the page, but I typically don't return to those websites often (Hi BCOM! And you too, Staples! hahahahahhahah!!). Though it's nice to be able to surf with confidence that I'm not loading up on stupid cookies, and to simultaneously have slashdot work nicely with it's cookies.
That's what hash checking is for*.
(* yes, I know bittorrent's internal hash checking won't guarantee you get the same file from the distro, just that you get the same file that was originally posted to the tracker. That's what md5sums are for).