Should convicted felons on probation have privacy rights over their DNA?
Hell, yeah! Felony, in many common law legal systems, is the term for a "very serious" crime; misdemeanors are considered to be less serious. Crimes which are commonly considered to be felonies include: aggravated assault, arson, burglary, murder, and rape.
Debian should address security problems of vintage distros such as woody (stable).
Good example is a PHP exploit (well known trough phpBB) that hasn't been patched because Woody has PHP v4, and that version of PHP is not patched or supported anymore by PHP developers because it ancient.
Although Konfabulator sounds like a nice idea I think that Objectdock widget's (startools) do exactly same thing on Windows machines. You can get weather, transparency, Mac-like-skins etc.
I don't know about the results but this 'security company' has been in the news before and as far as I know it was labeled as bunch of charlatans by real security experts at security focus.
Read more about mig2 at:
http://www.attrition.org/errata/charlatan/mi2g-his tory.html
Why not publish *one* review? I guess more reviews give you more attention/advertising but for the rest of us users and normal people, its a bit of a drag.
Eric Sink mentions in this article how he gave up development of AbhiWord, an open source application. He mentions that Hadar Pedhazur, in his words, "probably the most "clueful" venture capital guy I've ever known" helped him made the decision to abandon AbiWord as a business because "Lesson learned: Investors don't like low-margin business models."
I wish he explained this one a little more. I don't understand it.
Ps.
Eric Sink's web servers are Windows 2000. HE migrated recently (about a year ago). I wonder if he abadoned Open Source completley and what make him to that.
Quote from the article: "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".
I mean Mac OS 9 support. This is legacy OS. There is plenty of stuff for Mac OS X, but some lab's are still stuck with OS 9 for a while (budgets are cut etc)
Linus said some time ago that: "Quite frankly, Sun is doomed. And it has nothing to do with their engineering practices or their coding style." (URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transhumantech/messa ge/9453)
I did take that with grain of salt till I read this interview. I wouldn't want this guy to wash my car, let alone be CEO of Sun.
Is this the same person who some time ago said that: "Windows has won. Face it. The market is not driven by a technically superior kernel, or an OS that avoids its crashes a few times a day. Users don't (mostly) care. They just reboot and get on with it. They want apps. If the apps they want and like aren't there, it's a lose-lose. Windows has the apps. Linux does not. Its life on the desktop is limited to nice areas (video production, though Mac is very strong and with a UNIX core now will probably end up ruling the roost). The only place you are likely to see Linux is the embedded space."
Slashdot article is also available here:
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/07/20/1342205.shtm l?tid=106
Apple is stealing important resources from OSS community. Instead of having developers working on Linux related products and have them improve current state of pck/updates on Linux we have Apple doing it again. Stealing. They stole PR and based all the FUD on 'Based on Unix', it jsut goes on an on.
Well... perhaps somebody can enlighten me on this but I was thought that SSH tunnels, and even https are nothing but VPN's. I know VPNs can initiate trough IPSec (among other things) but in principle there is no difference between VPN, SSH, and SHTTP... or am I wrong?
Anybody knows if FCC has some advisories about wireless devices touching your body for long periods of time? A booklet I have (from my wireless router) states that "The FCC with its action in ET Docket 96-8 has adopted safety standard for human exposure to RF energy emitted:
1) Do not touch or move antennas while unit is transmitting or receiving."
It is clear that SCO has no case; their purpose is simply to destabilize Open source community and make investors weary of future work/investment with Open Source and specifically with Linux. The big game players and not SCO are behind it.
In security you have to have a well rounded education and experience simply because the job demands it. A good start would be probably 5 years in network administration with large user group enviroments, fluent programming skills (java, c, c++, perl), some experience in web server farm administration etc. I don't know any security or computer fornesic who worked for our company who is under 35 yo.
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I meant to say: HELL NO! Felonies are serious crimes and people that commit them should have no rights to DNA privacy.
Should convicted felons on probation have privacy rights over their DNA?
Hell, yeah! Felony, in many common law legal systems, is the term for a "very serious" crime; misdemeanors are considered to be less serious. Crimes which are commonly considered to be felonies include: aggravated assault, arson, burglary, murder, and rape.
Debian should address security problems of vintage distros such as woody (stable). Good example is a PHP exploit (well known trough phpBB) that hasn't been patched because Woody has PHP v4, and that version of PHP is not patched or supported anymore by PHP developers because it ancient.
Although Konfabulator sounds like a nice idea I think that Objectdock widget's (startools) do exactly same thing on Windows machines. You can get weather, transparency, Mac-like-skins etc.
http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/
Most of the Fedora mirrors are maxed...already!
It is obvious that desktop users want a bleeding edge, eye candy, no frills, and stable distribution.
I wish Debian developers would pay more attention to these developments (especially to 'no-frills' and 'bleeding-edge' part.)
I don't know about the results but this 'security company' has been in the news before and as far as I know it was labeled as bunch of charlatans by real security experts at security focus. Read more about mig2 at: http://www.attrition.org/errata/charlatan/mi2g-his tory.html
Why not publish *one* review? I guess more reviews give you more attention/advertising but for the rest of us users and normal people, its a bit of a drag.
Eric Sink mentions in this article how he gave up development of AbhiWord, an open source application. He mentions that Hadar Pedhazur, in his words, "probably the most "clueful" venture capital guy I've ever known" helped him made the decision to abandon AbiWord as a business because "Lesson learned: Investors don't like low-margin business models." I wish he explained this one a little more. I don't understand it. Ps. Eric Sink's web servers are Windows 2000. HE migrated recently (about a year ago). I wonder if he abadoned Open Source completley and what make him to that.
not anymore. is been slashdoted. :-)
I have everything else. Thanks Santa.
Quote: "All the compromised machines were running recent kernels[1] and were
up-to-date with almost all security updates[2]."
Well, it seems that 'almost' just isn't good enough. Perhaps there is more to the break in (like unknown holes)?
Sniffing passwords? They must be using 'almost patched' version of SSHd.
Its not that simple beleive me you. :) A good forensics expert can slice and kill your false I-was-hacked defense in a matter of days.
Quote from the article: "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".
I mean Mac OS 9 support. This is legacy OS. There is plenty of stuff for Mac OS X, but some lab's are still stuck with OS 9 for a while (budgets are cut etc)
StarOffice is nice, its just too bad that it doesn't support Mac OS of any kind. There is a lot of edu's that are using Mac's (legacy issue I guess).
Linus said some time ago that: "Quite frankly, Sun is doomed. And it has nothing to do with their engineering practices or their coding style." (URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transhumantech/messa ge/9453)
I did take that with grain of salt till I read this interview. I wouldn't want this guy to wash my car, let alone be CEO of Sun.
Is this the same person who some time ago said that: "Windows has won. Face it. The market is not driven by a technically superior kernel, or an OS that avoids its crashes a few times a day. Users don't (mostly) care. They just reboot and get on with it. They want apps. If the apps they want and like aren't there, it's a lose-lose. Windows has the apps. Linux does not. Its life on the desktop is limited to nice areas (video production, though Mac is very strong and with a UNIX core now will probably end up ruling the roost). The only place you are likely to see Linux is the embedded space." Slashdot article is also available here: http://slashdot.org/articles/02/07/20/1342205.shtm l?tid=106
Setting up Corporate Network IDS Taps is on top of my list.
Apple is stealing important resources from OSS community. Instead of having developers working on Linux related products and have them improve current state of pck/updates on Linux we have Apple doing it again. Stealing. They stole PR and based all the FUD on 'Based on Unix', it jsut goes on an on.
haha... funny, and yet 'Interesting'. LOL
Anybody knows if there are COMMERCIAL 802.11b VPN routers that have been tested and are known to work with Linux clients (freeS/WAN for example)?
laptops ~~~> 802.11b VPN connection~~> Internet.
Well... perhaps somebody can enlighten me on this but I was thought that SSH tunnels, and even https are nothing but VPN's. I know VPNs can initiate trough IPSec (among other things) but in principle there is no difference between VPN, SSH, and SHTTP... or am I wrong?
Anybody knows if FCC has some advisories about wireless devices touching your body for long periods of time? A booklet I have (from my wireless router) states that "The FCC with its action in ET Docket 96-8 has adopted safety standard for human exposure to RF energy emitted: 1) Do not touch or move antennas while unit is transmitting or receiving."
It is clear that SCO has no case; their purpose is simply to destabilize Open source community and make investors weary of future work/investment with Open Source and specifically with Linux. The big game players and not SCO are behind it.
In security you have to have a well rounded education and experience simply because the job demands it. A good start would be probably 5 years in network administration with large user group enviroments, fluent programming skills (java, c, c++, perl), some experience in web server farm administration etc. I don't know any security or computer fornesic who worked for our company who is under 35 yo.