How do you feel when hearing about the behavior of companies like Mandrake begging for money and Can you rule out the possibility to act the same when your business might go the same way? In case this question gets moderated high enough, I'd like to see an answer which covers the differences of software developlemnt models like debian or microsoft compared to this in-between thing of Mandrake.
I don't agree with the intention of the message. While it is true that this bug allows the execution of commands, it does this only with the rights of the owner of the user account. In Unixian, this is not a remote root exploit.
Nevertheless, my last sentence becomes quite irrelevant, as Windows user tend to work as $root.
Many servers hosting the web site of the US armed forces don't seem to be running the OS they are claiming to run. However, this *could* also be the result of some sort of load balancing.
Ignoring errors in the several implementation, current encryption algorithms software provides everyone the chance to keep information secure as it is simply impractial to break the encryption in a reasonable amount of time and enough money provided. Nevertheless, I notice that the overall awareness about keeping information secret is pretty low (I'm too young to say that it has been higher some time). Anybody, who wants to get encrypted information simply attacks not the data itself but the people with legitimate access to this data. Sometimes, even this is not nescessary (I get unencrypted but highly confidential information (No Nigeria Spam!) almost daily due to a popular internet domain from my government with a simiar spelling. Those people are just guessing the email adress of their friends and sometimes they fail.) So, my question is this:
Has cryptography to include the human factor itself into the calculation or is it still only about mathematics? Can you imagine a strong encryption system with a special focus on people with low awareness?
But if it must be so, the people should receive something in return, such as requiring the code to be open source or at least have it revert to open source after some specified period of time.
Slashdot has already covered this but in this context, a link to the Kroupware Project(working title) mith be interesting and still ontopic. This is not exactly "games" but close enough.
In any case I wish someone would fix the damn America's Army bug that still occasionally causes "General Protection Fault" even with GeForce cards, and get the game to work on other cards as well. If it was open source I bet it would be fixed by now.
Imagine a "bug fix" which allows you to play the Taleban *and* actually win the game. Imagine a bug fix "China's Army". Of course, it is possible to create your own game "Taleban's Army" and your own flight simulator for hijacking airplanes but it would be very hard to tell the Joe Sixpack that these "hostile" software was co-sponsored by US taxpayers. This argument is weak, since altering binaries is still possible (thanks to TCPA not being implemented yet) but this is not about arguments, it's about propaganda. Are my prejudices against the non-geeks out there too strong?
(Disclaimer: there might be bad physics involved in this posting)
When I startet this posting, I realized, that all bad jokes about Seti@home were already made and there is nothing more to invent left. Let's try a new approach:
Recounting? That reminds me of something... Florida, I hear you calling. Will the number of Aliens found increase or decrease when you recount the number of blibs and blurbs coming out from the Universe? Will the Federal Court of the Universe stop this recount by a 5:3?
After a rough check, I'm still clueless. What PHP version does this book refer to? (PHP 4.3.0/.1 still smells like new). In those days, paper always suffers actuality.
Blessings and ethernal love for everybody who eventually enlightens me in this matter.:)
"propaganda" has been a neutral term for promoting someones point of view by peaceful means. While sitting in a train (i.e. plenty of time but nothing to do), i listened to some speeches by Noam Chomsky about Propaganda and Control of the Public Mind. I am aware of the fact that Noam does not always represent the mainstream opinion but at least informationen by him seems to be reliable. My English is too bad so I'll better quote from the transscript:
The term "propaganda," incidentally, did not have negative connotations in those days. It was during the second World War that the term became taboo because it was connected with Germany, and all those bad things. But in this period, the term propaganda just meant information or something like that. So he wrote a book called Propaganda around 1925, and it starts off by saying he is applying the lessons of the first World War.
Governments are already involved in the gaming industry. America's Army is just one example of computer games produced for state PR (read: propaganda).
There has always been a long tradition of anti hate-games in Germany, funded by the ministry of the interior. The game series is called "Dunkle Schatten" (dark shadows").
If Peter wants funding "just for fun", he might think of giving something back to the one who funds him.
Oh, that reminds me of one question. Are the ads and banners in sport games (for making the game more realistic) sponsored by real companies?
My favourite word has always been "vapurware" so I'm very confused. How do you call things that arrive at the market *before* the exspected release date? HurryWare? ChronitonWare?
I won't start an "ask slashdot"-Session for this but I'd like to invite you for collecting new words for this phenomenon.
Disclaimer: PS3 has still chances to become VapourWare:)
This one here can actually rely on an existing word "koogle". And besides that, it's kosher!
Koogle.net was promoted by the newsletter of the Israeli Embassy in Germany. When I last checked, it had changed its layout to alienize it from google (slightly).
IIRC, the third generation (G3) was also called UMTS. Two years ago, the German Gov't sold some licences for UMTS via auction (there is no such thing as ebay.germany.de *yet*). The total sale went up to 50 Billion Euros (That was 50 Billion US-$ (German: Millarde, English: Billion).
This System works still on paper and in some experimental installations (Isle of Man, Austria *g*).
UK's Vodafone announced last week that the official start of UMTS will delay for several month.
So this debate is about G5 and everbody is still happy with his/her GSM 900/1800 while marketing campains for G3 will start in a couple of weeks?
This is so stange.
Disclaimer: Usually, everybody is invited to call me neophile but not in this particular situation.
Are rumors correct that in several parts of the US, analog mobile phone is still in use?
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Even 2.0.X is still maintained. It currently stands at 2.0.40-rc6 (almost one year old).
Well, at least I feel good because I took the right topic
How do you feel when hearing about the behavior of companies like Mandrake begging for money and Can you rule out the possibility to act the same when your business might go the same way?
In case this question gets moderated high enough, I'd like to see an answer which covers the differences of software developlemnt models like debian or microsoft compared to this in-between thing of Mandrake.
/methoden/hanf equals www.hanfbroschuere.de
:)
the posted IP is not the IP of the grub client but of the somewhat strange ISP tool
this is a grep over my mylogfile.txt for 'grup.org' from Feb 2002 to Feb 2003.
In this heise-article from 15 minutes ago, Intel has withdrawn the release of the new CPU. A google-crappy translation can be found here.
This page from my website shows some interesting thing. How often are pictures recycled?
I don't agree with the intention of the message. While it is true that this bug allows the execution of commands, it does this only with the rights of the owner of the user account. In Unixian, this is not a remote root exploit.
Nevertheless, my last sentence becomes quite irrelevant, as Windows user tend to work as $root.
Yes, this idea is great, this system is not perfect and it might fit into some purposes. Does this program deserve more than this sentence?
Btw. someone has states somewhere in this discussion that this is some kind of wiki: It is not. Wiki is simultanious but not real time.
This is something which confused me last month:
ZDF (2nd state owned German TV) removed signs on a door plate.
Google has a fair enogh translation of this.
with the current fee of US $200 Thank you for committing this crime. Your local Police Department.
Changing the appearance of your machine might irritate people and *might* discourage them to try further closer looks at this machine.
So: What would your facourite OS of choice to pretend be and why aren't you using it anyway?
Many servers hosting the web site of the US armed forces don't seem to be running the OS they are claiming to run. However, this *could* also be the result of some sort of load balancing.
IBM has released a notification that they finally understood the argument in the SCO paper.
Ignoring errors in the several implementation, current encryption algorithms software provides everyone the chance to keep information secure as it is simply impractial to break the encryption in a reasonable amount of time and enough money provided. Nevertheless, I notice that the overall awareness about keeping information secret is pretty low (I'm too young to say that it has been higher some time). Anybody, who wants to get encrypted information simply attacks not the data itself but the people with legitimate access to this data. Sometimes, even this is not nescessary (I get unencrypted but highly confidential information (No Nigeria Spam!) almost daily due to a popular internet domain from my government with a simiar spelling. Those people are just guessing the email adress of their friends and sometimes they fail.)
So, my question is this:
Has cryptography to include the human factor itself into the calculation or is it still only about mathematics? Can you imagine a strong encryption system with a special focus on people with low awareness?
Slashdot has already covered this but in this context, a link to the Kroupware Project(working title) mith be interesting and still ontopic. This is not exactly "games" but close enough.
Imagine a "bug fix" which allows you to play the Taleban *and* actually win the game. Imagine a bug fix "China's Army". Of course, it is possible to create your own game "Taleban's Army" and your own flight simulator for hijacking airplanes but it would be very hard to tell the Joe Sixpack that these "hostile" software was co-sponsored by US taxpayers. This argument is weak, since altering binaries is still possible (thanks to TCPA not being implemented yet) but this is not about arguments, it's about propaganda. Are my prejudices against the non-geeks out there too strong?
(Disclaimer: there might be bad physics involved in this posting)
When I startet this posting, I realized, that all bad jokes about Seti@home were already made and there is nothing more to invent left. Let's try a new approach:
Recounting? That reminds me of something...
Florida, I hear you calling. Will the number of Aliens found increase or decrease when you recount the number of blibs and blurbs coming out from the Universe? Will the Federal Court of the Universe stop this recount by a 5:3?
Well, if someone could finish this pointe.
After a rough check, I'm still clueless. What PHP version does this book refer to? (PHP 4.3.0/.1 still smells like new). In those days, paper always suffers actuality.
:)
Blessings and ethernal love for everybody who eventually enlightens me in this matter.
Governments are already involved in the gaming industry. America's Army is just one example of computer games produced for state PR (read: propaganda).
There has always been a long tradition of anti hate-games in Germany, funded by the ministry of the interior. The game series is called "Dunkle Schatten" (dark shadows").
If Peter wants funding "just for fun", he might think of giving something back to the one who funds him.
Oh, that reminds me of one question. Are the ads and banners in sport games (for making the game more realistic) sponsored by real companies?
My favourite word has always been "vapurware" so I'm very confused. How do you call things that arrive at the market *before* the exspected release date? HurryWare? ChronitonWare?
:)
I won't start an "ask slashdot"-Session for this but I'd like to invite you for collecting new words for this phenomenon.
Disclaimer: PS3 has still chances to become VapourWare
This one here can actually rely on an existing word "koogle". And besides that, it's kosher!
Koogle.net was promoted by the newsletter of the Israeli Embassy in Germany. When I last checked, it had changed its layout to alienize it from google (slightly).
Have fun,
Mathias
but if you want coverage in the middle of nowhere you still need to support analog.
Middle of nowhere? Why don't you use satelites for digital communication? Let's call it "Iridium".... Oh, wait...
IIRC, the third generation (G3) was also called UMTS. Two years ago, the German Gov't sold some licences for UMTS via auction (there is no such thing as ebay.germany.de *yet*). The total sale went up to 50 Billion Euros (That was 50 Billion US-$ (German: Millarde, English: Billion).
This System works still on paper and in some experimental installations (Isle of Man, Austria *g*).
UK's Vodafone announced last week that the official start of UMTS will delay for several month.
So this debate is about G5 and everbody is still happy with his/her GSM 900/1800 while marketing campains for G3 will start in a couple of weeks?
This is so stange.
Disclaimer: Usually, everybody is invited to call me neophile but not in this particular situation.
Are rumors correct that in several parts of the US, analog mobile phone is still in use?