OpenBSD is built with security well into the design. It takes every care to minimize security risks in the system. This does not mean OpenBSD is lead-plated secure; just that security is one of their major considerations when making decisions on coding, configuration, etc.
Most unices are like that - very little runs under root or kernel privileges.
The article is arguing that Windows is designed without even considering security, with it being tacked on as an afterthought... and to a certain extent it's right. Who needed security or root-shells or whatnot when running DOS and Windows 3.1?
Besides, before doing any comparisons on Debian vs. Gentoo they should have compared Gentoo vs. Gentoo on different optimizations. Like using -O2, -Osize, -mfp-math=sse. Comparing video drivers. Trying different filesystem types. And a whole gaggle of other configurables at compile-time.
You'd be yelling bloody murder if Microsoft sponsored a study without doing this sort of research before pitting Windows vs. Linux.
Until software companies are held to the same level of accountability as product manufacturers, warranty doesn't matter. I supose volume licensees don't read EULAs either.
Warranty on a car covers things that break inside the car during the period caused by manufacturer defect. Warranty on software is subject to "Microsoft is not liable for any damages."
But aren't trademarks protected despite copyright expiration anyway? Mickey Mouse could well be a registered trademark.
So Steamboat Mickey or whatever it's called becomes public domain and the entire clip be used as educational, entertainment, or dirtied and made obscene, but the general public release could be blocked by trademark law?
This will either get +5 Insightful or (more likely) -1 Wrong.
"Medical science" can solve all our problems, from excessive acne and greasy hair, to obesity from excessive pizza and Coke, to the inability to get it up, and the consequences of getting it up, all by popping pills!
If you feel guilty feeling happy, we could probably fix that too.
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Do we know why eating chocolate is pleasurable? Probably, since we can do CAT scans on people while they eat chocolate, and probably identify what chemicals get released in the brain when eating it.
Do we know why being online is pleasurable? The article says it's a dopamine rush, similar to narcotics.
In one sense, we understand both. In another, we understand neither.
We've seen Linux scale from as small as wristwatches to mainframes (both courtesy of IBM, oddly enough). So porting Linux to any particular handheld with an MMC is almost blase now:|
Now if only they could make it usable beyond 15min...
FireGL drivers support the OpenGL extension that allow UT2K3 to run. Probably why ATI released the drivers too - every last Linux gamer needed an nVidia card to play it before.
Please give the output of glxinfo and ensure you are actually using DRI.
A "properly" installed DRI does not use 0666 so you may not have permission to access the DRI devices, in which case your glxgears run is testing your CPU.
A Dell Inspiron @800MHz with a Mobility M3 (R128 model) pumps out 450-500fps on glxgears, but only 180 without DRI.
Assuming you have a default ALLOW policy. I'd find it hard to attack an MSSQL server behind a firewall that autodrops all traffic to 1433/1434(udp). (Why I'd want an MSSQL server is another matter.)
It still doesn't stop attacks against kernel-level packet handling but it'll take down most unknown service-level attacks.
As groundless as the accusations may be, and as much as I spit at the feet of SCO for their tactics, I cannot agree with a system that rewards the richest litigant, instead of the one that deserves to win on the merit of the case.
I guess the US has gotten used to having corporations possessing so much power that it's considered normal to wave it around like a plush toy.
One thing about "rights" is that for normal people to get them usually involves war, death, revolution, and lots of beheadings.
Rights like the access to a fair trial in a reasonable amount of time. To be represented in court with a competent lawyer in the field. To be proven of guilt by a jury of peers.
Rights like anonymous freedom of speech. Anonymous freedom of association. And anonymous dissemination and learning of information.
What rights we lose now we will eventually regain in the mass deaths of some group. But that's just a "terrorist" act in and of itself.
In Windows, the main user is often Administrator, and all services run either as Administrator or System. In Unix, most of us use a non-root account (though we may have access to root) and most services are run by its own user, like httpd, or nobody. Combine this with default world-write permissions of "allow" in Windows and "0644" in Unix.
This still doesn't mean much for a script kiddie h4x0r with a rootkit ready to go, but damage is at least slightly mitigated.
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If they're going to use a computer to judge the content, than I'm not going to hesitate to use a computer to write my essay.
I think he means "computer generated essay" not "hand written essay."
But how many frames per second does it get on Doom III?
Software written by humans is insecure by design.
OpenBSD is built with security well into the design. It takes every care to minimize security risks in the system. This does not mean OpenBSD is lead-plated secure; just that security is one of their major considerations when making decisions on coding, configuration, etc.
Most unices are like that - very little runs under root or kernel privileges.
The article is arguing that Windows is designed without even considering security, with it being tacked on as an afterthought... and to a certain extent it's right. Who needed security or root-shells or whatnot when running DOS and Windows 3.1?
that these corporate entities bow down to.
The hand of capitalism has decreed that movies that suck will not make money.
And the solution? Ban capitalism. No, seriously, make movies that don't suck.
An innovative and creative exercise for those in Hollywood these days.
No, it's time to short.
The *AA can't have it all.
Besides, before doing any comparisons on Debian vs. Gentoo they should have compared Gentoo vs. Gentoo on different optimizations. Like using -O2, -Osize, -mfp-math=sse. Comparing video drivers. Trying different filesystem types. And a whole gaggle of other configurables at compile-time.
You'd be yelling bloody murder if Microsoft sponsored a study without doing this sort of research before pitting Windows vs. Linux.
You'd think the RIAA would target people sharing the good music.
Or is it that the RIAA is being pestered by the bad artists to go chase down the people sharing their "art"? I guess not.
Until software companies are held to the same level of accountability as product manufacturers, warranty doesn't matter. I supose volume licensees don't read EULAs either.
Warranty on a car covers things that break inside the car during the period caused by manufacturer defect. Warranty on software is subject to "Microsoft is not liable for any damages."
Disclaim: IANAL.
But aren't trademarks protected despite copyright expiration anyway? Mickey Mouse could well be a registered trademark.
So Steamboat Mickey or whatever it's called becomes public domain and the entire clip be used as educational, entertainment, or dirtied and made obscene, but the general public release could be blocked by trademark law?
This will either get +5 Insightful or (more likely) -1 Wrong.
After all, we knew the DMCA would have this effect on companies and software, where bugfixes are unnecessary by litigation.
Why fix software when we can send lawyers and make examples and burning effigies instead?
Information is already banned under DMCA and Patriot Act.
"Medical science" can solve all our problems, from excessive acne and greasy hair, to obesity from excessive pizza and Coke, to the inability to get it up, and the consequences of getting it up, all by popping pills!
If you feel guilty feeling happy, we could probably fix that too.
Do we know why eating chocolate is pleasurable? Probably, since we can do CAT scans on people while they eat chocolate, and probably identify what chemicals get released in the brain when eating it.
Do we know why being online is pleasurable? The article says it's a dopamine rush, similar to narcotics.
In one sense, we understand both. In another, we understand neither.
Lint only deals with indentation and some semantics, certainly not lexical correction.
You call that l33t translation? I'd have thought you'd need a few phonetic rules programmed in too: hacker -> h4x0Rz
We've seen Linux scale from as small as wristwatches to mainframes (both courtesy of IBM, oddly enough). So porting Linux to any particular handheld with an MMC is almost blase now :|
Now if only they could make it usable beyond 15min...
FireGL drivers support the OpenGL extension that allow UT2K3 to run. Probably why ATI released the drivers too - every last Linux gamer needed an nVidia card to play it before.
Hmm....
Please give the output of glxinfo and ensure you are actually using DRI.
A "properly" installed DRI does not use 0666 so you may not have permission to access the DRI devices, in which case your glxgears run is testing your CPU.
A Dell Inspiron @800MHz with a Mobility M3 (R128 model) pumps out 450-500fps on glxgears, but only 180 without DRI.
Only if "modern" meant "known."
Assuming you have a default ALLOW policy. I'd find it hard to attack an MSSQL server behind a firewall that autodrops all traffic to 1433/1434(udp). (Why I'd want an MSSQL server is another matter.)
It still doesn't stop attacks against kernel-level packet handling but it'll take down most unknown service-level attacks.
Isn't that why the system is broken?
As groundless as the accusations may be, and as much as I spit at the feet of SCO for their tactics, I cannot agree with a system that rewards the richest litigant, instead of the one that deserves to win on the merit of the case.
I guess the US has gotten used to having corporations possessing so much power that it's considered normal to wave it around like a plush toy.
I've put together a site with a lot of information on the cases.
/. is an invitation to gouge triple your usual bandwidth costs.
Saying that on
and do the following:
s/communism/terrorism;
s/USSR/Al Qaeda;
s/Russia/Iraq;
and you will see what the United States is about to become again.
One thing about "rights" is that for normal people to get them usually involves war, death, revolution, and lots of beheadings.
Rights like the access to a fair trial in a reasonable amount of time. To be represented in court with a competent lawyer in the field. To be proven of guilt by a jury of peers.
Rights like anonymous freedom of speech. Anonymous freedom of association. And anonymous dissemination and learning of information.
What rights we lose now we will eventually regain in the mass deaths of some group. But that's just a "terrorist" act in and of itself.
It's about default reality.
In Windows, the main user is often Administrator, and all services run either as Administrator or System. In Unix, most of us use a non-root account (though we may have access to root) and most services are run by its own user, like httpd, or nobody. Combine this with default world-write permissions of "allow" in Windows and "0644" in Unix.
This still doesn't mean much for a script kiddie h4x0r with a rootkit ready to go, but damage is at least slightly mitigated.