Drivers are fine. Rather good, given what they have to deal with, actually. The whole userland server/client with hacks (DRI? Plueeeze!) on top GUI model is not. Ubuntu is rather unlikely to rewrite and fix mess left by wet dreams of thousands of masturbating academics.
There is no such thing as responsible e-mail marketing. Nether there is thing called responsible telephone marketing. Anything, _ANYTHING_ you shove at me is spam. In any form. Even if you tricked me into subscribing into something by re-selecting your fucking checkbox or whatever on form reload. There is no distinction.
(Hint. If you want to gain my attention - position yourself somwhere where I might encounter ad for your shitty services when I am in a good mood. And make sure that it doesn't comes even near invading anything I might perceive my personal space or resources. Screen estate in my inbox is My Personal Space. View from my window is My Personal Space. Die You Scum.)
What the public really wants is to see the whole X11 monster to die away and soon. Once linux gains anything that could be called a reasonable GUI layer there might be some actual improvements - until then linux desktop will still remain only an attempt to paint a nice gui on top of a dead sickening turd with a string, ducktape and spit on her tied ass. If there is something microsoft did right, it was windows NT GUI layer. MacOSX made it even nicer. Linux still lives in some research fantasies from 60s.
root is often not good enough in enviroments that actually monitor for rootkits. Now dynamic monitoring of RAM contents of every machine you have in your server room is a bit more of a challenge than regulary bringing down a mirrored VM to checksum system files.
I still prefer the good old shadow machine on the network that simply dumps all network traffic and triggers on non-whitelisted connections. But even that will fail if someone is determined enough to compromise upstream router and just appear to be coming from microsoft update servers.
yes. And let's forget the DQ35 - it is rather unlikely that Intel would have done something specific for any particular board. Chipsets generally follow same core logic, just with different 'peripheral' configuration. Attack _might_ be specific to the board configuration, but the underlying logic is rather likely to be present in the supposedly validated, tested and signed off 'reusable part' that is copy-pasted into any subsequent 'solutions'.
You are missing the big point here - escalating above any virtualization layers. And that is a VERY BIG deal in enviroments where you are talking about server farms, thousands of hosted "secure and isolated" VMs and root access to your supposedly isolated machine.
Linux can be pwnd too, no problem. OS is pointless to discuss. What is MILES more interesting - how exactly anyone who might have a clue of what fiber is, know 18 locations where to deal with it and actually have some balls and know-how (you now, some of the shit that is used for main fiber lines is far from being just a hacksaw job) how to disable em - how he could be so stupid to do anything from a traceable machine?
C'moon - anything as simple as prepaid off-the-shelf sim would have made it miles more interesting. Just so... dissapointing.
Easy solution - define a power envelope background apps have to operate. Something as in average cpu/network load/battery drain over 5 minutes, or in those lines. Easy to define, clearly communicable to developers and measurable in runtime and clearly killable if required.
I would surely appreciate clear limits to operate within and even if they are... all but unattainable for mere mortals, fine. If I have an application that needs some network in background (not IM, btw), but keeping a socket open is too expensive - fine - I'll implement a partial disconnection strategy, apple push or whatever. Just Give Me The Option And Clear Limits.
bad news. Mainframe != speed. More apropriate would be to say that Vista crashes more predictably and across all mirrored hardware CPU's at the same time.
well, java deals with the issue of security just by preventing any code to run. (check out spec for anonymous inner classes and this-> to just get worked up...;))
well.. here we have underground. and I mean - Under Ground. Go figure. (then again I am currently reading Underground by Murakami. Just a detail, thou.)
I actually recall downloading their source about a year ago - couldn't find the link on the spot thou, but it certainly is there. Not to mention the fact that they are the ultimate solution if you just want to repurpose an old box at network entry point.
I was under impression that majority of government contracts fall under the 'I have X million here that you can get if you send me Y thousand.' type...
Err, no. The main reason they are held in Guantanemo was for a jurisdictional dodge about holding them at all. One that didn't work out, as it turns out; the courts didn't buy the idea that they were beyond the reach of US courts just because they weren't within the boundaries of the United States.
My policy as the chief prosecutor for the military commissions at Guantanamo was that evidence derived through waterboarding was off limits. That should still be our policy. To do otherwise is not only an affront to American justice, it will potentially put prosecutors at risk for using illegally obtained evidence.
Emphasis mine.
Eeerhm.... Ether I am missing something or you are replying to a correction regarding issue -A- by proving that there existed (rather unrelated) issue -B-. My basic preschool-level logic is pretty bad these days thou, so I might be mistaken...
The very fact that you are posting on slashdot means that you are a waka-waka tree-hugging lunatic with no understanding for nether human behavior, how society operates and hopefully will have no kids - as they will have extremely miserable childhoods. The fact that anyone would even think about questioning this is mind-boggling.
I am surprised that this is the third comment that attempts to deal with the [potential] problem at neighbours place. For all I care some careful directional noise centered around neighbours channel preferences might be the best way to solve the problem - force him to switch to cables! Problem solved. (as an alternative, crack his wireless key, crack his management password and just set the damn thing to lowest power level available. And change the pasword as well)
Well, French girls smothered in ketchup sounds just about right. But what if there is shortage of the significant sex on the ship? You just can't go without 4chan, you know...
Yes, of course. As long as you warn me of possibility that you will need to send me that warning and politely ask ME for any data you might need. And then I'll take my business elsewhere. If it'll explode... sell better products.
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About 6-10 high-end models (generally medium format backs).
Hallelujah?
Drivers are fine. Rather good, given what they have to deal with, actually. The whole userland server/client with hacks (DRI? Plueeeze!) on top GUI model is not. Ubuntu is rather unlikely to rewrite and fix mess left by wet dreams of thousands of masturbating academics.
There is no such thing as responsible e-mail marketing. Nether there is thing called responsible telephone marketing. Anything, _ANYTHING_ you shove at me is spam. In any form. Even if you tricked me into subscribing into something by re-selecting your fucking checkbox or whatever on form reload.
There is no distinction.
(Hint. If you want to gain my attention - position yourself somwhere where I might encounter ad for your shitty services when I am in a good mood. And make sure that it doesn't comes even near invading anything I might perceive my personal space or resources. Screen estate in my inbox is My Personal Space. View from my window is My Personal Space. Die You Scum.)
What the public really wants is to see the whole X11 monster to die away and soon. Once linux gains anything that could be called a reasonable GUI layer there might be some actual improvements - until then linux desktop will still remain only an attempt to paint a nice gui on top of a dead sickening turd with a string, ducktape and spit on her tied ass.
If there is something microsoft did right, it was windows NT GUI layer. MacOSX made it even nicer. Linux still lives in some research fantasies from 60s.
root is often not good enough in enviroments that actually monitor for rootkits. Now dynamic monitoring of RAM contents of every machine you have in your server room is a bit more of a challenge than regulary bringing down a mirrored VM to checksum system files.
I still prefer the good old shadow machine on the network that simply dumps all network traffic and triggers on non-whitelisted connections. But even that will fail if someone is determined enough to compromise upstream router and just appear to be coming from microsoft update servers.
yes.
And let's forget the DQ35 - it is rather unlikely that Intel would have done something specific for any particular board. Chipsets generally follow same core logic, just with different 'peripheral' configuration. Attack _might_ be specific to the board configuration, but the underlying logic is rather likely to be present in the supposedly validated, tested and signed off 'reusable part' that is copy-pasted into any subsequent 'solutions'.
You are missing the big point here - escalating above any virtualization layers. And that is a VERY BIG deal in enviroments where you are talking about server farms, thousands of hosted "secure and isolated" VMs and root access to your supposedly isolated machine.
Linux can be pwnd too, no problem. OS is pointless to discuss.
What is MILES more interesting - how exactly anyone who might have a clue of what fiber is, know 18 locations where to deal with it and actually have some balls and know-how (you now, some of the shit that is used for main fiber lines is far from being just a hacksaw job) how to disable em - how he could be so stupid to do anything from a traceable machine?
C'moon - anything as simple as prepaid off-the-shelf sim would have made it miles more interesting. Just so... dissapointing.
75k/pa? peanuts. Sorry, Just Does Not matter (against 5m/pa cost of dpt and estimated 750k of retraining/support/productivity impact estimated).
especially the ones users installed themselves ;)
Easy solution - define a power envelope background apps have to operate. Something as in average cpu/network load/battery drain over 5 minutes, or in those lines.
Easy to define, clearly communicable to developers and measurable in runtime and clearly killable if required.
I would surely appreciate clear limits to operate within and even if they are ... all but unattainable for mere mortals, fine. If I have an application that needs some network in background (not IM, btw), but keeping a socket open is too expensive - fine - I'll implement a partial disconnection strategy, apple push or whatever. Just Give Me The Option And Clear Limits.
bad news. Mainframe != speed.
More apropriate would be to say that Vista crashes more predictably and across all mirrored hardware CPU's at the same time.
well, java deals with the issue of security just by preventing any code to run. (check out spec for anonymous inner classes and this-> to just get worked up... ;))
raytraced. You forgot raytraced.
well.. here we have underground. and I mean - Under Ground. Go figure.
(then again I am currently reading Underground by Murakami. Just a detail, thou.)
I actually recall downloading their source about a year ago - couldn't find the link on the spot thou, but it certainly is there. Not to mention the fact that they are the ultimate solution if you just want to repurpose an old box at network entry point.
go figure, it seems.
I was under impression that majority of government contracts fall under the 'I have X million here that you can get if you send me Y thousand.' type...
Err, no. The main reason they are held in Guantanemo was for a jurisdictional dodge about holding them at all. One that didn't work out, as it turns out; the courts didn't buy the idea that they were beyond the reach of US courts just because they weren't within the boundaries of the United States.
Nope.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/opinion/17davis.html?_r=1&ex=1360990800&en=a3b1d35d17a4d480&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
My policy as the chief prosecutor for the military commissions at Guantanamo was that evidence derived through waterboarding was off limits. That should still be our policy. To do otherwise is not only an affront to American justice, it will potentially put prosecutors at risk for using illegally obtained evidence.
Emphasis mine.
Eeerhm.... Ether I am missing something or you are replying to a correction regarding issue -A- by proving that there existed (rather unrelated) issue -B-. My basic preschool-level logic is pretty bad these days thou, so I might be mistaken...
The very fact that you are posting on slashdot means that you are a waka-waka tree-hugging lunatic with no understanding for nether human behavior, how society operates and hopefully will have no kids - as they will have extremely miserable childhoods. The fact that anyone would even think about questioning this is mind-boggling.
Ain't this approach to reasoning beautiful?
He didn't meant mouse in the gui ;)
I am surprised that this is the third comment that attempts to deal with the [potential] problem at neighbours place. For all I care some careful directional noise centered around neighbours channel preferences might be the best way to solve the problem - force him to switch to cables! Problem solved.
(as an alternative, crack his wireless key, crack his management password and just set the damn thing to lowest power level available. And change the pasword as well)
Well, French girls smothered in ketchup sounds just about right. But what if there is shortage of the significant sex on the ship? You just can't go without 4chan, you know...
So, you are saying that tests reward those who realize how to beat them? Sounds just fair to me...
Yes, of course. As long as you warn me of possibility that you will need to send me that warning and politely ask ME for any data you might need. And then I'll take my business elsewhere.
If it'll explode... sell better products.