Ah yes, but you forgot that there was a story of IBM switching VoIP stuff over to Linux. Therefore, the "Switching to Linux" modifier changes the check to 0 (20 - 20). Therefore, by your game, we're forced to like IBM.:)
The web is usually an "alias" for the internet. I'd say a program like apt-get that uses FTP or anything like that must use the internet; therefore, problems.
And if apt-get is in trouble, then so is emerge. So that would screw Debian AND Gentoo users.
Very good recollection, but in Uplink, it's "Elliptic Curve Cipher", but it's basically the same name. Probably not the same process -- decrypting an Elliptic Curve CIPHER in Uplink is a matter of finding two numbers that are exactly the same and setting them both to 0 somehow. (yes, this process is explained in-game, and no, it can't be done by hand)
It was used in Mainframes, Banks, and to some extent LANs (Uplink v1.2+ I believe - starting from Project Nakatomi). ARC also used voice analysis on their mainframe.
1. I go to site.
2. Site redirects me to Gator.
3. I click 'back' but nothing at all happens.
Extra: even the back menu is gone no matter what website I visit for that session of Mozilla.
Now, someone please explain to me how these two "goals" (less spam and more privacy) can co-exist with each other.
Certainly. Less spam = more privacy.
To me, privacy is both the ability to do something that isn't truly dangerous or anything without people looking at it/knowing about it (for example, making a hex to ascii conversion), because you know as well as I do that someone is going to get the wrong idea. That kind of privacy avoids the need for questions and being bothered for "creating the world's next terrorist threat" when you were really just "making a hex to ascii converter for the hell of it". Which somewhat leads to this: privacy is also the ability to NOT be bothered with trivial things if you don't want to be bothered with such trivial things (like spam).
Spam e-mails do invade privacy because they're turning something you can keep to yourself into something they can use to make a quick buck or two, at the price of your convenience.
Finally, spam filters don't contradict user privacy, because the user usually sets them. Besides, if the server is as trustworthy as you think, it'll only filter out spam. If a human doesn't do the filtering it's fine. If a computer does it, it's still fine as long as the computer doesn't also flag e-mails as being suspicious. But that's just my opinion.
Someone inform me, does Microsoft still fund astroturf? This guy must be getting castrated for biting the hand that feeds him. Or paid more.:)
People are a bad reason for not switching away from an operating system. If you don't like the people and don't think they'll give you support, go with something else.
As for the "holier-than-thou cultist dweeb" comment... dude, I know quite a few Windows followers like that. Hell, you contradicted yourself by posting this message.
Now why did I waste my time replying to this when I could have just said "mod parent down"... ah well... bad karma is apparently my destiny.
"If you can't afford broadband, you don't deserve to have a computer." -Something I've heard many times.
What a bullshit thing to say. Everyone definitely needs a way to the internet, and the mass influx of information. Plus, certain schools and businesses require you to have a computer to do certain things.
The reason I mention this is that the reason people are still using dialup is because dialup is still cheaper than broadband. Maybe in the future, when broadband prices go on because it's easier to have here, then and possibly only then will dialup ever be replaced.
(and don't give me that Comcast offer BS where it's about the same price as dialup - that only works for a month or so, after that they jack up the price to normal).
Yeah, yeah, the X-Box is an x86 PC, what's the big deal in that?
Well, the X-Box is indeed x86, but it's far from ordinary. As explained by the X-Box Linux website, the X-Box has security features out of the ying-yang (a first from M$?). The challenge was not porting to an architecture, but making it work under new undocumented functions that've been added to it. See: embrace and extend (if you think about it, that's what Microsoft did for the X-Box, it applies to hardware now!).
The second thing about this being a big deal: it really strikes a blow in the whole "Trusted Computing" idea. Remember those security features? Those could easily mean that the X-Box is a "prototype" for TCPA (as someone else pointed out).
Perhaps I shouldn't have spent so much time on this, but... *shrugs*.
I'm scared, too. Think about it. It's gotten to the point where Congress may be making laws that will end up making corporations stronger through litigation and money and power than Congress itself.
What are companies after? Profit. What is the easiest (not the best or most morally right) way to get profit? Keep customers under your hand, and make sure you have such a tight leash on everybody that you know you can get all the money you can.
Soon (if not now), the corps will own the U.S. We'll have that futuristic wasteland that's been written about...
"I know if I asked somebody for proof that my systems were insecure I would be thinking more along the lines of "please describe in detail the vulnerability" not "please try to crack my system"."
I know that the sysadmins at my school don't fucking listen when you give them a well-documented list of vulnerabilities. The only way to get them to listen is do totally break something and then get in trouble for it.
I think you have a very narrow view of morality then. Greater harm justifications only work if the questionable action was the only way to prevent the greater harm. Why didn't you just document the vulnerability and work your way up the chain?
See above reason: they might not have LISTENED.
The biggest problem with telling a sysadmin about a vulnerability is that they don't listen too often. Indeed, the sysadmins at my high school have a certain disdain for the students, which is slightly understandable, but there are just certain times when they should listen to a vulnerability (i.e. I know a couple of ways to break Fortres) rather than just telling the student to keep it quiet and don't use it.
As we all know, keeping it quiet doesn't fix it. If another student finds out on his own, he could do the damage, and the egg would be on the face of the sysadmin who refused to listen. It's really in their best interests to listen and fix things...
Wild guess, but it might be because they can't be arsed to remove it.
Well, that and the fact that you get like 1024 hours free when you get a promotional AOL disk, and they want you to know how many minutes/hours have been taken away already (why not just illustrate that directly?)... I dunno. Your guess is as good as mine.
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My friend has a problem with Windows and nVidia drivers as well. As in, the nVidia drivers were recently "upgraded" by Microsoft and no longer work. :P
Yet it works perfectly in Linux. But he can't do that because the other people who use his comp would bitch.
Ah yes, but you forgot that there was a story of IBM switching VoIP stuff over to Linux. Therefore, the "Switching to Linux" modifier changes the check to 0 (20 - 20). Therefore, by your game, we're forced to like IBM. :)
Note to self: find out who this AC is and cause bad things to mysteriously happen for him.
My God, what has happened to Slashdot? Everyone used to blast Microsoft, and now we've got people saying that those who do blast Microsoft are trolls?
... is that "Astroturf" thing STILL going?
The web is usually an "alias" for the internet. I'd say a program like apt-get that uses FTP or anything like that must use the internet; therefore, problems.
And if apt-get is in trouble, then so is emerge. So that would screw Debian AND Gentoo users.
... why'd you post as an AC?
Actually, Microsoft's own abbreviation for themselves is MS - MicroSoft. Criticize THEIR capitalization, not his.
Besides, MSAA looks better somehow than MAA.
Very good recollection, but in Uplink, it's "Elliptic Curve Cipher", but it's basically the same name. Probably not the same process -- decrypting an Elliptic Curve CIPHER in Uplink is a matter of finding two numbers that are exactly the same and setting them both to 0 somehow. (yes, this process is explained in-game, and no, it can't be done by hand)
It was used in Mainframes, Banks, and to some extent LANs (Uplink v1.2+ I believe - starting from Project Nakatomi). ARC also used voice analysis on their mainframe.
Sure it's off-topic, but eh.
SegaNet?
Are you sure you're not referring to the Sega Channel once offered by cable companies in conjunction with Sega?
Man, I miss that... I wish it was still around...
Well, maybe they just don't want to look like sluts.
(it feels so good to give into temptation...)
More like:
:)
1. I go to site.
2. Site redirects me to Gator.
3. I click 'back' but nothing at all happens.
Extra: even the back menu is gone no matter what website I visit for that session of Mozilla.
NOW explain.
Holy hell, what did you do to Mozilla?...
I went to that URL and my back button suddenly did not work. WTF? heh...
I must be listening to the X in Pittsburgh too much - I thought you were talking about the DJ Alan Cox. The fact that you mentioned X made it worse. :P
:)
By the way, I have no qualms with being modded down for offtopic, so go for it.
Speaking of inept administrators, there's one at my school who didn't even know how to work the command line. *sigh*
To me, privacy is both the ability to do something that isn't truly dangerous or anything without people looking at it/knowing about it (for example, making a hex to ascii conversion), because you know as well as I do that someone is going to get the wrong idea. That kind of privacy avoids the need for questions and being bothered for "creating the world's next terrorist threat" when you were really just "making a hex to ascii converter for the hell of it". Which somewhat leads to this: privacy is also the ability to NOT be bothered with trivial things if you don't want to be bothered with such trivial things (like spam).
Spam e-mails do invade privacy because they're turning something you can keep to yourself into something they can use to make a quick buck or two, at the price of your convenience.
Finally, spam filters don't contradict user privacy, because the user usually sets them. Besides, if the server is as trustworthy as you think, it'll only filter out spam. If a human doesn't do the filtering it's fine. If a computer does it, it's still fine as long as the computer doesn't also flag e-mails as being suspicious. But that's just my opinion.
Another good use for spam e-mails is (surprise) they can nab you a very good list of proxy servers if you look at the headers. :)
Someone inform me, does Microsoft still fund astroturf? This guy must be getting castrated for biting the hand that feeds him. Or paid more. :)
People are a bad reason for not switching away from an operating system. If you don't like the people and don't think they'll give you support, go with something else.
As for the "holier-than-thou cultist dweeb" comment... dude, I know quite a few Windows followers like that. Hell, you contradicted yourself by posting this message.
Now why did I waste my time replying to this when I could have just said "mod parent down"... ah well... bad karma is apparently my destiny.
Guess who's daddy never taught him to be courageous and post under his own name? That's right!!!! This anonymous coward's daddy! :)
"If you can't afford broadband, you don't deserve to have a computer." -Something I've heard many times.
What a bullshit thing to say. Everyone definitely needs a way to the internet, and the mass influx of information. Plus, certain schools and businesses require you to have a computer to do certain things.
The reason I mention this is that the reason people are still using dialup is because dialup is still cheaper than broadband. Maybe in the future, when broadband prices go on because it's easier to have here, then and possibly only then will dialup ever be replaced.
(and don't give me that Comcast offer BS where it's about the same price as dialup - that only works for a month or so, after that they jack up the price to normal).
Yeah, yeah, the X-Box is an x86 PC, what's the big deal in that?
Well, the X-Box is indeed x86, but it's far from ordinary. As explained by the X-Box Linux website, the X-Box has security features out of the ying-yang (a first from M$?). The challenge was not porting to an architecture, but making it work under new undocumented functions that've been added to it. See: embrace and extend (if you think about it, that's what Microsoft did for the X-Box, it applies to hardware now!).
The second thing about this being a big deal: it really strikes a blow in the whole "Trusted Computing" idea. Remember those security features? Those could easily mean that the X-Box is a "prototype" for TCPA (as someone else pointed out).
Perhaps I shouldn't have spent so much time on this, but... *shrugs*.
I know I might get flamed for this one, but...
I'm scared, too. Think about it. It's gotten to the point where Congress may be making laws that will end up making corporations stronger through litigation and money and power than Congress itself.
What are companies after? Profit. What is the easiest (not the best or most morally right) way to get profit? Keep customers under your hand, and make sure you have such a tight leash on everybody that you know you can get all the money you can.
Soon (if not now), the corps will own the U.S. We'll have that futuristic wasteland that's been written about...
*dons flame-proof suit*
Yeah, but Apache gained some ground too. Admittedly, not as much as IIS, but still.
Well, ya gotta wonder how many of those were due to dumb admins.
A misconfiguration can be just as bad as a bug in the code... somewhat worse because anyone can do it.
See above reason: they might not have LISTENED.
The biggest problem with telling a sysadmin about a vulnerability is that they don't listen too often. Indeed, the sysadmins at my high school have a certain disdain for the students, which is slightly understandable, but there are just certain times when they should listen to a vulnerability (i.e. I know a couple of ways to break Fortres) rather than just telling the student to keep it quiet and don't use it.
As we all know, keeping it quiet doesn't fix it. If another student finds out on his own, he could do the damage, and the egg would be on the face of the sysadmin who refused to listen. It's really in their best interests to listen and fix things...
Okay... that's the end of my rant.
Wild guess, but it might be because they can't be arsed to remove it.
Well, that and the fact that you get like 1024 hours free when you get a promotional AOL disk, and they want you to know how many minutes/hours have been taken away already (why not just illustrate that directly?)... I dunno. Your guess is as good as mine.