"The hungry and cold unemployed masses aren't going to continue giving away their intellectual labor on the Internet in the speculative hope that they might get some 'back end' revenue," says Keen."
No, the hungry and cold unemployed IT guys will invest their time into open source projects, because it 's a good way to keep their curriculum in shape. And the hungry and cold unemployed will keep using linkedin and facebook to extend their network inorde to find a job. And ofcourse, businesses in difficulties will stop throwing money away for overrated software when they can get a free and open equivalent.
I think a crisis will definately have a positive impact on open source and web 2.0
I think the fact that a detection mechanism can be found for each vm rootkit is very plausible. However, won't rootkits always find a way to circomvent the detection mechanisms? In that case, we'll probably end up in a new hacker - security war with hackers tweaking vm's to bypass detection and security folks who keep finding new detection mechanisms.
While the article clearly indicates that finding detection mechanisms is much easier than finding ways to bypass or fool the detection mechanism, it doesn't really give a sound prouf why vm rootkits won't pose a threat. The complexity of vm rootkits are indeed a drawback, but that will greatly depend on which detection mechanisms are available and how well they are implemented.
If you got root at your pc at work, I suggest creating an additional account for you "personal recreation". An if you're really don't want anybody to see it, encrypt the home directory. I think that's a good protection against accidentally revealing uncomfortable information on your pc.
However, You have to take into account that all your internet traffic passes through IT-departments gateway. So you better check wich policy they got on non-workrelated internet traffic. Best thing you can do is set-up an encrypted tunnel to some server outside your network (use HTTP-encapsulation if you can only use HTTP).
I fail to see the benefit of using a supposedly secure browser. Any reasonably competent IT guy will see right trough it.
Eisenstein notes that, using the length of the sound waves as a cosmic ruler, astronomers can calculate the universe's expansion. Both of the new studies agree with earlier reports that cosmic expansion is speeding up. The universe's first symphony therefore provides independent evidence that the cosmos is filled with dark energy, which causes the acceleration.
But when you use a normal user account, many programs will not work properly.
In my experience, this is just a program design issue. I'm using linux, and I've never had any problem with it. Allmost every program in linux doesn't need root priveliges anyway. And the ones who do (like XCdroast) provide a special interface for it. Still not satisfied? Use su or sudo to run it temporairly in as root.
However, I had this one problem with firefox search plugins. The reason why most users can't update the searchplugins is because the dir containing the searchplugins is global, and a standard installation doesn't allow uses to write in it. This is rather unacceptable behaviour in Linux. Bugs like that just prove how some developers are unaware of multiple users and priveleges.
In Windows, the situation is rather different. Most users don't need multiple accounts on one desktop. So it's not a big problem (they think), because they are in charge anyway. This way, a lot of programs running on Windows don't bother providing a multi-user interface, but just stick to a global configuration. With this attitude, it's just asking for problems
The test called 'First Light' has a budget of $474.3 million in the fiscal year 2005 and is part of a larger $10 billion dollar missile defense system."
Jeezes, if you would invest that kind of money in international / intercontinental relations and human aid, the world would be a much better place!
This starwars project sure cost a lot of money to combat a non-existing threat.
Well, it's not like gnome will be unavailable on slackware. Dropline Gnome does a great job in packaging gnome for slackware. It's plain and easy to install, and without gnome in the standard slackware the maintainers of slackware can focus on more important stuff
Oh, but i'm sure our dearest president bush will come up with some sort of aeronautic tidal wave shield, which will automagically save us from that dreadful threat. (and as a small side-effect pump billions of dollars into the weapon-industry just for safety precautions).
No it's not. Allright, not every soundcard is fully covered. And yes, that's mostly the manufacturers fault for not revealing the specifications and refusing to implement a driver themselves.
But on the other hand, unlike windows, linux has a lot more configuration options. Some year ago, i usually argued that my live! soundblaster just sounded _better_ in windows. Until i discoverd i could costomize the build-in 5-band equalizer in linux (i didn't even know it was there because windows didn't mention it). Hell, you can even root the mixer inputs to the card's output yourself if you want to (which is very neat if you want to fully exploit/dev/dsp2 capabilities).
Yes, it's not allways as user friendly. But i rather have the ability to costomize than none at all. Normal users aren't going to bother anyway.
Given the fact that they claimed to release parts of solaris as open source I seriously doubt the honesty of Sun (both their pro and contra opensource actions). It looks to me as if they are trying to make a fuss about it in order to get in the news. I really hope i am wrong, and that this is the result of a doubting management at Sun, lost in the dilemma to encorporate opensource or not.
This is an simple dna-extraction example, in which the dna of a coli bacteria is extracted:
DNA Extraction
I tried the test myself in college, and it wasn't any harmfull.
For your information, E. coli is a bactery which lives inside your intestines and are even necessary for us to remain healthy. However, there are some variants of this bacteria that are indeed very harful (E. coli O157:H7) but there is not a single article who reports that the bacteria in this case were deed the harmfull ones.
read more
Your quote of the leading DNA researcher is indeed correct, given the fact that bactery can mutulate themselve very quickly, and become dangerous. We experience that in our everyday lives because this is the cause of rotten food. The professor had bacteria in a jar that you could as easely obtain by scraping in from your thongue. To me, that's no quite a basis for terorrism
It got the impresison that this news is jet another FUD to keep people under the constant pressure of the "biological threat".
I will try to give a clear view on the situation here, because not everyone is getting the full picture here.
This is a sensibilisation project around genetically modified food. They try to inform the public about the misjudgements and myths of gentechnology.
To express the commodoty of genetically modified food, you can bring some food you bought and let it be analysed in a mobile lab. The only thing they do there is perform some dna-test. It has little to do about hasardous materials. The charges are mainly related to some equipment used to extract dna. You can't do anything harmfull with them
dude, the only thing they do is provide a test, so people can check if their food contains genetically modified food. That's not exactly vandalism or destruction of somedy else's property. You can't do any harm with the equipment they use.
well, the picture doesn't quite give a realistic view on the scenery. It's actually a vast landscape without large hills that pose obstacles for the road. There is one main river in the area the Tarn. It's not a large river, but it has cut itself into the chalk soil for centuries. The "nice valley" is actually a rather broad canion. You can't just push a road through it, because the borders of the canion are far to steep to cross right downwards. And you can't just build a small bridge in the middle, because the soil isn't stable enough for such a large construction.
On the other hand, this bridge is quite an overdoer actually:)
Is't that what plugin's are all about?
extending the functionality of a basic application with the things you really need, leaving out all the crap you don't use anyway.
Righto,it works for me....
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No, the hungry and cold unemployed IT guys will invest their time into open source projects, because it 's a good way to keep their curriculum in shape. And the hungry and cold unemployed will keep using linkedin and facebook to extend their network inorde to find a job. And ofcourse, businesses in difficulties will stop throwing money away for overrated software when they can get a free and open equivalent.
I think a crisis will definately have a positive impact on open source and web 2.0
I think the fact that a detection mechanism can be found for each vm rootkit is very plausible. However, won't rootkits always find a way to circomvent the detection mechanisms? In that case, we'll probably end up in a new hacker - security war with hackers tweaking vm's to bypass detection and security folks who keep finding new detection mechanisms. While the article clearly indicates that finding detection mechanisms is much easier than finding ways to bypass or fool the detection mechanism, it doesn't really give a sound prouf why vm rootkits won't pose a threat. The complexity of vm rootkits are indeed a drawback, but that will greatly depend on which detection mechanisms are available and how well they are implemented.
However, You have to take into account that all your internet traffic passes through IT-departments gateway. So you better check wich policy they got on non-workrelated internet traffic. Best thing you can do is set-up an encrypted tunnel to some server outside your network (use HTTP-encapsulation if you can only use HTTP).
I fail to see the benefit of using a supposedly secure browser. Any reasonably competent IT guy will see right trough it.
A new website has been lauched, dedicated to fairplay soccer:
joghurt.com
Pigeons!
http://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc_press/archives /12/slashdot_darksideofwireless.htm
It must be the dark side of The Force.
In my experience, this is just a program design issue. I'm using linux, and I've never had any problem with it. Allmost every program in linux doesn't need root priveliges anyway. And the ones who do (like XCdroast) provide a special interface for it. Still not satisfied? Use su or sudo to run it temporairly in as root.
However, I had this one problem with firefox search plugins. The reason why most users can't update the searchplugins is because the dir containing the searchplugins is global, and a standard installation doesn't allow uses to write in it. This is rather unacceptable behaviour in Linux. Bugs like that just prove how some developers are unaware of multiple users and priveleges.
In Windows, the situation is rather different. Most users don't need multiple accounts on one desktop. So it's not a big problem (they think), because they are in charge anyway. This way, a lot of programs running on Windows don't bother providing a multi-user interface, but just stick to a global configuration. With this attitude, it's just asking for problems
Or how sending international diplomats for discussing potential conflicts (and thus availing an intervention by force) would be bribery too.
Can you blame them for hating you?
Jeezes, if you would invest that kind of money in international / intercontinental relations and human aid, the world would be a much better place!
This starwars project sure cost a lot of money to combat a non-existing threat.
Well, it's not like gnome will be unavailable on slackware. Dropline Gnome does a great job in packaging gnome for slackware. It's plain and easy to install, and without gnome in the standard slackware the maintainers of slackware can focus on more important stuff
ook?
You never can be sure enough! right?
No it's not. Allright, not every soundcard is fully covered. And yes, that's mostly the manufacturers fault for not revealing the specifications and refusing to implement a driver themselves.
But on the other hand, unlike windows, linux has a lot more configuration options. Some year ago, i usually argued that my live! soundblaster just sounded _better_ in windows. Until i discoverd i could costomize the build-in 5-band equalizer in linux (i didn't even know it was there because windows didn't mention it). Hell, you can even root the mixer inputs to the card's output yourself if you want to (which is very neat if you want to fully exploit /dev/dsp2 capabilities).
Yes, it's not allways as user friendly. But i rather have the ability to costomize than none at all. Normal users aren't going to bother anyway.
This is an simple dna-extraction example, in which the dna of a coli bacteria is extracted: DNA Extraction
I tried the test myself in college, and it wasn't any harmfull.
For your information, E. coli is a bactery which lives inside your intestines and are even necessary for us to remain healthy. However, there are some variants of this bacteria that are indeed very harful (E. coli O157:H7) but there is not a single article who reports that the bacteria in this case were deed the harmfull ones. read more
Your quote of the leading DNA researcher is indeed correct, given the fact that bactery can mutulate themselve very quickly, and become dangerous. We experience that in our everyday lives because this is the cause of rotten food. The professor had bacteria in a jar that you could as easely obtain by scraping in from your thongue. To me, that's no quite a basis for terorrism
It got the impresison that this news is jet another FUD to keep people under the constant pressure of the "biological threat".
I will try to give a clear view on the situation here, because not everyone is getting the full picture here.
This is a sensibilisation project around genetically modified food. They try to inform the public about the misjudgements and myths of gentechnology.
To express the commodoty of genetically modified food, you can bring some food you bought and let it be analysed in a mobile lab. The only thing they do there is perform some dna-test. It has little to do about hasardous materials. The charges are mainly related to some equipment used to extract dna. You can't do anything harmfull with them
dude, the only thing they do is provide a test, so people can check if their food contains genetically modified food. That's not exactly vandalism or destruction of somedy else's property. You can't do any harm with the equipment they use.
Don't you mean "run win98 during 4 years for very short periods of time" ? :)
hwo want's the gory details? The airforce fact sheet
well, the picture doesn't quite give a realistic view on the scenery. It's actually a vast landscape without large hills that pose obstacles for the road. There is one main river in the area the Tarn. It's not a large river, but it has cut itself into the chalk soil for centuries. The "nice valley" is actually a rather broad canion. You can't just push a road through it, because the borders of the canion are far to steep to cross right downwards. And you can't just build a small bridge in the middle, because the soil isn't stable enough for such a large construction. :)
On the other hand, this bridge is quite an overdoer actually
Is't that what plugin's are all about? extending the functionality of a basic application with the things you really need, leaving out all the crap you don't use anyway. Righto,it works for me....
by far the most useful plugin (next to mousegestures guess)
You got to be kidding.
I read this story years ago. I thought this was a _news_ portal