The GPL specifically separates libraries from a program and thus allows a program to implement a series of GPL-ed libraries while using any licence they want. There is no grey area unless Sony decided to try and implement the library directly into their code base (which would be a huge waste of man power and would entirely defeat the point of using a library).
The GPL does do to things which might apply in this case: 1) Require you to show the GPL licence in some form 2) Require you to publish any changes you made to the GPL-ed code base (if there have been any)
All this talk about releasing code to the entire project is why so many programming houses are so scared of using GPL libraries etc even if it could save them thousands and as a result create better products.
Is it shocking that the US Military accidentally forgot to remove live Warheads before the Cruise Missiles were moved? Yes.
But there was so little chance of accident detonation that it is a far smaller story than one might immediately think.
Modern Nuclear Weapons are one of those things you have to really WANT to detonate... You can't just accidentally set them off. If the plane had crashed more than likely the weapons would have been destroyed in a fairly inert manor.
Plus considering even the military didn't know they were moving Nuclear Weapons, the chances of someone attempting to steal them is next to nill.
If you read how that "index" is created basically they go out and ask a bunch of people who likely have no idea where Iraq is which countries they think are more likely to be corrupt.
So if they haven't been told good things about your country on their TV in the last few years you're going to get a bad score.
I love how it rates Japan as one of the worst places, when it is actually a richer country than the US / Aus / UK. Assuming of course that you believe wealth solves corruption.
Prior to the US IRAQ invasion there were weekly stories focusing around how evil Iraq is... Iraq "might" be responsible for this, Iraq "might" have helped with that... The sort of "Iraq hurts kittens and little children for fun" but more subtle kind of stuff...
Now we have weekly Iran stories... There is no real evidence ever... For example there was this wonderful "Iran plans on executing girl for defending herself from rape" story... Completely fake, no known source, but yet got the internet all up in arms..
I feel this is yet another one of these stories... No proof... Can't be proven either way, perfect propaganda.
I think World of Warcraft has shown that a good mix of both is a nice compromise. With simple classes (e.g. Priest, Warrior, Hunter etc) but allowing players to further customise those roles for their play style (E.g. Priest healer or Priest for damage).
You don't need to pick black or white, good or evil... Better to have a compromise between the two... A shade of grey as it were.
Perhaps Blizzard's ability to stay in the "Shades of Grey" is why it has 50% of the MMPORPG market at the minute?
This isn't at all a shocker. The authentication problem is only one piece of a very complex puzzle. But in this case simple and common SSL certificate verification would work to stop such a man-in-the-middle attack.
Further down the road though, this is why technology leaders need to standardise authentication tokens to include some kind of two way verification... So when you enter your token into the browser, first the browser checks the web-site is the "owner" of that token and if it is not then it warns the user, after verification the browser then sends the token and the user is verified to the site.
Something like this:
mybankcom - 9 -
The browser implements a "token box," when a post is attempted with said box the domain gets stripped of all special characters (up to the path) and then compared to the first part of the token. If they are case insensitively identical then the browser will submit the rest of the token (the pseudo random number) to the web-site.
The token box would have to look unique and be very difficult to clone... Which might require it to jump out from the main content window, but that is a problem for browser UI developers and beyond the scope of the problem.
Before the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, American researchers actually knew it was coming but didn't have a way to worn the people in its path. They literally in the same position you or I would be in if we too knew it was going to happen.
Who would you phone, in a couple of minutes? The embassies? That is about as effective as standing out on the front lawn and yellowing "There's a tsunami coming!"
So as I said, this is great news. It will allow international researchers to warn places of the impending wave, and helpfully save a few lives.
The ad isn't racist, nor are the people looking at it. The ONLY people that seem to be racist are the hyper-sensitive Americans looking at the ad and applying their own screwed up values to it.
Some, albeit high end, motherboards support a visual warning message that alerts the user to a program, or the OS trying to modify the boot sector on the hard disk. If you had this enabled it would stop this rootkit dead in its tracks. It's just a shame that more bioses / motherboards don't offer this support by default.
If you have this on your motherboard I highly recommend you turn it on, it isn't too often that you reinstall the OS and pressing F9 isn't that much of an inconvenience even if you did it once a day.
PS - All of the "My favorite OS is secure" posts below this are wrong if the Operating System supports some type of driver, or root program (running in the kernels memory space).
Some people's fingerprints can't be scanned by these machines... Last year I went to Florida and they have fingerprint machines at all the big theme parts and at the airport.
None of these machines could pick up my prints... And every second time I used them I got rejected... So this flawless technology is anything but... I do nothing special with my hands, so it must be one of those "from birth" things... But if you're unlucky like I am then don't expect to be paying with your fingers any time soon.
I am not looking forward to going back though American customs as I know the fingerprint machine will reject my prints and I'll get sent home or something crazy.
Does anyone else worry that the USA might use its intelligent services to give its corporate entities an advantage over foreign ones?
If they use the information purely to look for money laundering or terrorism then that's cool, it would be 99% automated anyway... Looking for patterns and the like... But what if the security services use that information to give helpful hints to US companies over the international counterparts? Is that fair?
We are talking about large amounts of money, and most of us know that money can lead people to act less than morally, so it isn't a far stretch to believe that they might do that... Even be authorised to do that.
There is something very wrong with our copyright system when people have to attach a licence to all media they create in order for others to use it... Perhaps I should start wearing a badge that reads "Your eyes and ears have permission to consume my copyright material (e.g. My voice, and face."
Why isn't media created free/public domain unless its creator wants it protected?... ?
I donate anyway... But would have ordered some t-shirts, but they are ALL so ugly... Sorry, but I just can't stand the GNU mascot... I love Tux and the BSD Devil, and would happily wear them on me... But the cow, the cow!...
Seriously that thing needs to be replaced by something cute...
The only nice t-shirt they sell is the "Happy Hacking" / generic one. Why don't they do a design competition and bring in some money?
So Richard Stallman approached the French Prime Minister's delegation, and tried to force their way though to have a private word with him about DRM laws?...
Even outside of politics that isn't acceptable behaviour. How would you feel if you ran a business and as you left the office the CEO of another company was trying to convince you to sell your shares to him, following you about and such?... That just isn't normal behaviour.
Normal people make a meeting... Or if failing that they write the grievance down and hand deliver it. They don't make a run at the guy, and try and get it words and then act like a victim when it doesn't work.
Damn right the security pushed him back... He should have been asked to leave if he acts like that.
Wrong! Only a court can set a legal precedent... Out of court settlements are just that, out of court agreements to "Not sue, if X, Y and Z terms are met." Common Law allows a judge / court to make decisions that have to be examined when the same (or similar) cases come before it or a lower court again, and thus how a precedent is formed.
You can't use this case to even defend against Blizzard themselves suing you unfortunately, let alone anyone else... If Blizzard had gone to court and lost then it would have set a new precedent for unofficial gaming guides, but you can't use an out-of-court settlement because for one thing the court often isn't even aware of the terms of that settlement.
I don't want to be overly simplistic, but I believe the problem stems from the fact that the movie industry is run by a bunch of 50+ old guys that still think it is 1970, and things work the same way that they did then. Unlike the game industry who's average age is lower than 30... They are in fact their own customers...
It remains to be seem how well they will keep in touch with their customers as the industry ages, but that is neither here nor there.
The music industry changed, but kicking and screaming, they ended up loosing billions because of their inability to change to the new climate. The movie industry still is loosing billions but they aren't ready to change... It's hard to tell if its arrogant, stupidity, or something in the middle of the two.
I think mail order DVDs should be a very clear indication of just how big Internet movie rental and or purchase markets are... It's clearly what the consumer wants... I say they should fire off these old middle managers and hire in some fresh blood...
This is NOT a privacy issue... These people's location, and place of work is already known as is when and how they cross the border... This is actually a human RIGHTS issue... Why should someone force you or even ask you to put an electronic device under your skin? The human body, and what you choose to do with it is your choice, that is an absolutely fundamental freedom... It is *the* fundamental freedom!
Please excuse the expression but I'll have an RFID implantation over my dead body.
Then people will be able to search all these rubbish that goes on day to day by one convenient tag.
I did see this coming... But frankly am unhappy about it none the less. The funny thing is that this wouldn't reveal anything we don't already know.. All it would do is confirm facts and everyone who knows anything about politics and law should be aware that confirmed facts are a dangerous weapon.
If you think that is bad (having to provide DNA after being *convicted*) you must not have been to jail in the United Kingdom...
Over here if you are arrested for things like littering, speeding, drunkenness and other minor infractions the police are legally entitled to take a DNA sample (and they DO from just about everyone).
You can refuse the order either... If they want a sample they are getting a sample...
If I wanted this pushed though I would use the olde' children argument... If all of your 'bad' sites are under one TLD it is far easier to block and or filter them out so young eyes don't see them.
Sucks that the Internet is under the control of these religious fundermentalists...
In an ironic twist most people in the UK (home of the BBC) won't get to see this as we don't receive BBC World and it isn't being broadcast on any of the "normal" BBC channels.
A little ironic don't you think... Kind of like the yanks not getting something created by ABC or Fox but letting the rest of the world have it.
I have a ViewSonic monitor in front of me from a couple of years ago, it is mixed black and silver... Personally I find the look of this large CRT monitor to be superior to that thin acer one.
The black plastic, beyond looking cheap, also has sharp edges which is very old fashioned... As is the polished base... The thing looks like a late 80's television...
I wouldn't buy that monitor just because of the way it looks. Dell, Apple and some of ViewSonic's range look far more attractive. As do some of the other monitors in Acer's range.
Slashdot Mirror
Pretty much in the title.
The GPL specifically separates libraries from a program and thus allows a program to implement a series of GPL-ed libraries while using any licence they want. There is no grey area unless Sony decided to try and implement the library directly into their code base (which would be a huge waste of man power and would entirely defeat the point of using a library).
The GPL does do to things which might apply in this case:
1) Require you to show the GPL licence in some form
2) Require you to publish any changes you made to the GPL-ed code base (if there have been any)
All this talk about releasing code to the entire project is why so many programming houses are so scared of using GPL libraries etc even if it could save them thousands and as a result create better products.
Is it shocking that the US Military accidentally forgot to remove live Warheads before the Cruise Missiles were moved? Yes.
... You can't just accidentally set them off. If the plane had crashed more than likely the weapons would have been destroyed in a fairly inert manor.
But there was so little chance of accident detonation that it is a far smaller story than one might immediately think.
Modern Nuclear Weapons are one of those things you have to really WANT to detonate
Plus considering even the military didn't know they were moving Nuclear Weapons, the chances of someone attempting to steal them is next to nill.
If you read how that "index" is created basically they go out and ask a bunch of people who likely have no idea where Iraq is which countries they think are more likely to be corrupt.
So if they haven't been told good things about your country on their TV in the last few years you're going to get a bad score.
I love how it rates Japan as one of the worst places, when it is actually a richer country than the US / Aus / UK. Assuming of course that you believe wealth solves corruption.
Prior to the US IRAQ invasion there were weekly stories focusing around how evil Iraq is... Iraq "might" be responsible for this, Iraq "might" have helped with that... The sort of "Iraq hurts kittens and little children for fun" but more subtle kind of stuff...
Now we have weekly Iran stories... There is no real evidence ever... For example there was this wonderful "Iran plans on executing girl for defending herself from rape" story... Completely fake, no known source, but yet got the internet all up in arms..
I feel this is yet another one of these stories... No proof... Can't be proven either way, perfect propaganda.
I think World of Warcraft has shown that a good mix of both is a nice compromise. With simple classes (e.g. Priest, Warrior, Hunter etc) but allowing players to further customise those roles for their play style (E.g. Priest healer or Priest for damage).
You don't need to pick black or white, good or evil... Better to have a compromise between the two... A shade of grey as it were.
Perhaps Blizzard's ability to stay in the "Shades of Grey" is why it has 50% of the MMPORPG market at the minute?
This isn't at all a shocker. The authentication problem is only one piece of a very complex puzzle. But in this case simple and common SSL certificate verification would work to stop such a man-in-the-middle attack.
... So when you enter your token into the browser, first the browser checks the web-site is the "owner" of that token and if it is not then it warns the user, after verification the browser then sends the token and the user is verified to the site.
Further down the road though, this is why technology leaders need to standardise authentication tokens to include some kind of two way verification
Something like this:
mybankcom - 9 -
The browser implements a "token box," when a post is attempted with said box the domain gets stripped of all special characters (up to the path) and then compared to the first part of the token. If they are case insensitively identical then the browser will submit the rest of the token (the pseudo random number) to the web-site.
The token box would have to look unique and be very difficult to clone... Which might require it to jump out from the main content window, but that is a problem for browser UI developers and beyond the scope of the problem.
Before the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, American researchers actually knew it was coming but didn't have a way to worn the people in its path. They literally in the same position you or I would be in if we too knew it was going to happen.
Who would you phone, in a couple of minutes? The embassies?
That is about as effective as standing out on the front lawn and yellowing "There's a tsunami coming!"
So as I said, this is great news. It will allow international researchers to warn places of the impending wave, and helpfully save a few lives.
What the heck are you going on about?! ...
The ad isn't racist, nor are the people looking at it. The ONLY people that seem to be racist are the hyper-sensitive Americans looking at the ad and applying their own screwed up values to it.
The above comment is a perfect example of that.
Some, albeit high end, motherboards support a visual warning message that alerts the user to a program, or the OS trying to modify the boot sector on the hard disk. If you had this enabled it would stop this rootkit dead in its tracks. It's just a shame that more bioses / motherboards don't offer this support by default.
If you have this on your motherboard I highly recommend you turn it on, it isn't too often that you reinstall the OS and pressing F9 isn't that much of an inconvenience even if you did it once a day.
PS - All of the "My favorite OS is secure" posts below this are wrong if the Operating System supports some type of driver, or root program (running in the kernels memory space).
Do you have copyright permission to use the Futurama theme in that sound recording you made? ... And are you scared of the RIAA?
Some people's fingerprints can't be scanned by these machines... Last year I went to Florida and they have fingerprint machines at all the big theme parts and at the airport. None of these machines could pick up my prints... And every second time I used them I got rejected ... So this flawless technology is anything but... I do nothing special with my hands, so it must be one of those "from birth" things... But if you're unlucky like I am then don't expect to be paying with your fingers any time soon.
I am not looking forward to going back though American customs as I know the fingerprint machine will reject my prints and I'll get sent home or something crazy.
Does anyone else worry that the USA might use its intelligent services to give its corporate entities an advantage over foreign ones?
If they use the information purely to look for money laundering or terrorism then that's cool, it would be 99% automated anyway... Looking for patterns and the like... But what if the security services use that information to give helpful hints to US companies over the international counterparts? Is that fair?
We are talking about large amounts of money, and most of us know that money can lead people to act less than morally, so it isn't a far stretch to believe that they might do that... Even be authorised to do that.
There is something very wrong with our copyright system when people have to attach a licence to all media they create in order for others to use it... Perhaps I should start wearing a badge that reads "Your eyes and ears have permission to consume my copyright material (e.g. My voice, and face."
... ?
Why isn't media created free/public domain unless its creator wants it protected?
I donate anyway... But would have ordered some t-shirts, but they are ALL so ugly... Sorry, but I just can't stand the GNU mascot... I love Tux and the BSD Devil, and would happily wear them on me... But the cow, the cow! ...
Seriously that thing needs to be replaced by something cute...
The only nice t-shirt they sell is the "Happy Hacking" / generic one. Why don't they do a design competition and bring in some money?
So Richard Stallman approached the French Prime Minister's delegation, and tried to force their way though to have a private word with him about DRM laws? ...
... That just isn't normal behaviour.
Even outside of politics that isn't acceptable behaviour. How would you feel if you ran a business and as you left the office the CEO of another company was trying to convince you to sell your shares to him, following you about and such?
Normal people make a meeting... Or if failing that they write the grievance down and hand deliver it. They don't make a run at the guy, and try and get it words and then act like a victim when it doesn't work.
Damn right the security pushed him back... He should have been asked to leave if he acts like that.
Wrong! Only a court can set a legal precedent... Out of court settlements are just that, out of court agreements to "Not sue, if X, Y and Z terms are met." Common Law allows a judge / court to make decisions that have to be examined when the same (or similar) cases come before it or a lower court again, and thus how a precedent is formed.
You can't use this case to even defend against Blizzard themselves suing you unfortunately, let alone anyone else... If Blizzard had gone to court and lost then it would have set a new precedent for unofficial gaming guides, but you can't use an out-of-court settlement because for one thing the court often isn't even aware of the terms of that settlement.
I don't want to be overly simplistic, but I believe the problem stems from the fact that the movie industry is run by a bunch of 50+ old guys that still think it is 1970, and things work the same way that they did then. Unlike the game industry who's average age is lower than 30... They are in fact their own customers...
It remains to be seem how well they will keep in touch with their customers as the industry ages, but that is neither here nor there.
The music industry changed, but kicking and screaming, they ended up loosing billions because of their inability to change to the new climate. The movie industry still is loosing billions but they aren't ready to change... It's hard to tell if its arrogant, stupidity, or something in the middle of the two.
I think mail order DVDs should be a very clear indication of just how big Internet movie rental and or purchase markets are... It's clearly what the consumer wants... I say they should fire off these old middle managers and hire in some fresh blood...
This is NOT a privacy issue ... These people's location, and place of work is already known as is when and how they cross the border... This is actually a human RIGHTS issue... Why should someone force you or even ask you to put an electronic device under your skin? The human body, and what you choose to do with it is your choice, that is an absolutely fundamental freedom ... It is *the* fundamental freedom!
Please excuse the expression but I'll have an RFID implantation over my dead body.
I own a dedicated server and I have to pay per gig for bandwidth... So I have to ask how is this any different than what is already happening?
Are they just asking for more per gig? Or are they asking for money to flow up a chain (from hosts to network operators)?
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Then people will be able to search all these rubbish that goes on day to day by one convenient tag.
I did see this coming... But frankly am unhappy about it none the less. The funny thing is that this wouldn't reveal anything we don't already know.. All it would do is confirm facts and everyone who knows anything about politics and law should be aware that confirmed facts are a dangerous weapon.
If I had mod points I would give you -Troll, -Off Topic, -Redundant for that obvious troll Iraq reference.
If you think that is bad (having to provide DNA after being *convicted*) you must not have been to jail in the United Kingdom...
Over here if you are arrested for things like littering, speeding, drunkenness and other minor infractions the police are legally entitled to take a DNA sample (and they DO from just about everyone).
You can refuse the order either... If they want a sample they are getting a sample...
If I wanted this pushed though I would use the olde' children argument... If all of your 'bad' sites are under one TLD it is far easier to block and or filter them out so young eyes don't see them.
Sucks that the Internet is under the control of these religious fundermentalists...
In an ironic twist most people in the UK (home of the BBC) won't get to see this as we don't receive BBC World and it isn't being broadcast on any of the "normal" BBC channels.
A little ironic don't you think... Kind of like the yanks not getting something created by ABC or Fox but letting the rest of the world have it.
I have a ViewSonic monitor in front of me from a couple of years ago, it is mixed black and silver ... Personally I find the look of this large CRT monitor to be superior to that thin acer one.
The black plastic, beyond looking cheap, also has sharp edges which is very old fashioned... As is the polished base... The thing looks like a late 80's television...
I wouldn't buy that monitor just because of the way it looks. Dell, Apple and some of ViewSonic's range look far more attractive. As do some of the other monitors in Acer's range.