Welcome to the Internet. You're obviously new here so let me introduce you to one of the neat things about it. You're able to converse with people from all over the world, not just your local neighborhood or town.
It's not the reliability that is the issue, you can get very reliable server machines. It is the benefits that the ASIC's bring to the various platforms from Cisco, Juniper, HP and whatnot. You can get away without them because for a great number of usage scenarios you don't need them, but when you do, the dedicated hardware will reliably out perform a general purpose OS on a general purpose machine. There is also the benefit that a Juniper router or a Cisco switch use a whole lot less power then that tower.
Linux and OpenBSD do have a place, probably more places then they are deployed (but a lot of that will be support reasons), but you can not ignore the fact that the more traditional networking devices from traditional networking vendors also has their place. Picking a tower running Linux when you really did need what that Cisco/Juniper device can do will hurt you more than putting that Cisco/Juniper where you could have used Linux.
And they suck hard in very large parts of the US. Digital Only distributions would make it so those parts of the US wouldn't consider buying the consoles.
6 days to download TERA, I'm not doing that again.
"In recent years, due to increased cooperation with Arab states of the Persian Gulf, various branches of the U.S. armed forces have issued directives to their members to use the "Arabian Gulf" when operating in the area ("Persian Gulf" is still used in official publications and websites), partially to follow local conventions, or simply to follow local laws that ban the use of "Persian Gulf", e.g. in the United Arab Emirates."
As it's bordered roughly on half by Arabian countries and half by Persian (Iran), there's a strong case for either.
Well I suppose if you ignore everything else, including the fact that up until the 60's those Arabian countries were perfectly fine with the name, then yes, they have just a strong claim.
It has been called the Persian Gulf since around 550 BC.
The joke reply seems more appropriate what I would expect from Apple. I'm surprised that they hadn't put something in place like this from the beginning.
Its a good thing SMS is guaranteed realtime with guaranteed delivery. I've never had a text show up hours after it was sent while I'm now standing next to the person who sent it. Yep, its a beautiful service, one I'm happy to put my life in the care of.
SOP not trusting the server and therefore reimaging it without question is a very different position then the conspiracy theory 'they must have turned the server into a honeypot.'
I'm sorry, are we supposed to take you seriously? First, you use a made-up word 'muggles' which makes you sound like a damn tard, but on top of that, you use it incorrectly in a rant about using a word incorrectly.
Aside from this, the general public does not seem vulnerable:
Security researchers have uncovered yet another Mac Trojan in the wild, this time hiding inside pirated versions of the Mac OS X image editing application GraphicConverter.
Yep, idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots. The OS doesn't protect you from yourself., when you tell it to install something it does it.
Actually it used to be called industrial espionage, but that just makes it sound like some evil corporation is on the loosing end and doesn't get the little people's blood boiling.
I see this a lot, and it is really just silly. If they don't want to hire black people, they won't hire a black dude that came in for an interview and just say he wasn't what they were looking for. Same for a disabled guy or a woman (or man depending on the place). Only long-term illness and religious affiliation are protected statuses, well and sexual orientation in places that too is protected, that would be opened up looking at your profile and really that would probably become evident during your probation. They'd just let you go at the end of that because you 'weren't working out' for things of that nature.
Looking at your facebook profile hasn't really opened any new avenues for discrimination that would get the company in trouble.
I do not have a Facebook profile or the like. If I was asked for login credentials, I would simply say no you can not have them, state that I would not want to work for a company that believed this was a legitimate request and walk out.
Whether you have a profile somewhere or not, the request for credentials tells you everything you need to know about a place.
I'm not saying they're not, but the distinction is important for the targets. A course of 'Stop being a dick' might be enough to stop being a target of this group of people.
Slashdot Mirror
Welcome to the Internet. You're obviously new here so let me introduce you to one of the neat things about it. You're able to converse with people from all over the world, not just your local neighborhood or town.
It's not the reliability that is the issue, you can get very reliable server machines. It is the benefits that the ASIC's bring to the various platforms from Cisco, Juniper, HP and whatnot. You can get away without them because for a great number of usage scenarios you don't need them, but when you do, the dedicated hardware will reliably out perform a general purpose OS on a general purpose machine. There is also the benefit that a Juniper router or a Cisco switch use a whole lot less power then that tower.
Linux and OpenBSD do have a place, probably more places then they are deployed (but a lot of that will be support reasons), but you can not ignore the fact that the more traditional networking devices from traditional networking vendors also has their place. Picking a tower running Linux when you really did need what that Cisco/Juniper device can do will hurt you more than putting that Cisco/Juniper where you could have used Linux.
And they suck hard in very large parts of the US. Digital Only distributions would make it so those parts of the US wouldn't consider buying the consoles.
6 days to download TERA, I'm not doing that again.
Or back in reality, actually known as 'Fedora 17.'
So you're saying less competition is in the public interest?
Ok, I'll ask the other question. How is monitoring content over the network "far out of line with the thinking of the Slashdot community?"
Persian Gulf naming dispute
"In recent years, due to increased cooperation with Arab states of the Persian Gulf, various branches of the U.S. armed forces have issued directives to their members to use the "Arabian Gulf" when operating in the area ("Persian Gulf" is still used in official publications and websites), partially to follow local conventions, or simply to follow local laws that ban the use of "Persian Gulf", e.g. in the United Arab Emirates."
Well I suppose if you ignore everything else, including the fact that up until the 60's those Arabian countries were perfectly fine with the name, then yes, they have just a strong claim.
It has been called the Persian Gulf since around 550 BC.
The joke reply seems more appropriate what I would expect from Apple. I'm surprised that they hadn't put something in place like this from the beginning.
[citation needed]
[citation needed] No seriously, anything at all to backup your claims?
What's going on here? The url says slashdot but the summary looks like cosmo.
Its a good thing SMS is guaranteed realtime with guaranteed delivery. I've never had a text show up hours after it was sent while I'm now standing next to the person who sent it. Yep, its a beautiful service, one I'm happy to put my life in the care of.
SOP not trusting the server and therefore reimaging it without question is a very different position then the conspiracy theory 'they must have turned the server into a honeypot.'
Think about getting a little closer
I'm sorry, are we supposed to take you seriously? First, you use a made-up word 'muggles' which makes you sound like a damn tard, but on top of that, you use it incorrectly in a rant about using a word incorrectly.
If you have a trojan keylogger, you probably don't have to worry about SSH bruteforcing.
Yep, idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots. The OS doesn't protect you from yourself., when you tell it to install something it does it.
It's a summary, not the whole article.
Scaremongering it is.
News for Nerds.
Don't be so lazy
Oh, and this is a news aggregator, not a news site, there are no journalists here.
Because no one will, the problem will increase.
This is not something that you can just rely on everyone else to do. Everyone has to stand up for their own privacy rights or they don't exist.
Does anyone other then the most diehard Oracle customers even use Unbreakable Linux? I doubt Oracle's offering has had much effect on Red Hat's sales.
Actually it used to be called industrial espionage, but that just makes it sound like some evil corporation is on the loosing end and doesn't get the little people's blood boiling.
I see this a lot, and it is really just silly. If they don't want to hire black people, they won't hire a black dude that came in for an interview and just say he wasn't what they were looking for. Same for a disabled guy or a woman (or man depending on the place). Only long-term illness and religious affiliation are protected statuses, well and sexual orientation in places that too is protected, that would be opened up looking at your profile and really that would probably become evident during your probation. They'd just let you go at the end of that because you 'weren't working out' for things of that nature.
Looking at your facebook profile hasn't really opened any new avenues for discrimination that would get the company in trouble.
I do not have a Facebook profile or the like. If I was asked for login credentials, I would simply say no you can not have them, state that I would not want to work for a company that believed this was a legitimate request and walk out.
Whether you have a profile somewhere or not, the request for credentials tells you everything you need to know about a place.
I'm not saying they're not, but the distinction is important for the targets. A course of 'Stop being a dick' might be enough to stop being a target of this group of people.