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From their terms and conditions:
"In the event of technical problems or data loss which
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You can't claim until it gets to $50, and your account can be reset to $0 at any time.
This leads me to believe he identifies with the Left or with liberals.
You're probably right, but it could also mean that he assumes his reader to be left leaning and not say anything in particular about his personal beliefs.
The way I feel about windows and patches is you're never going to be secure enough to connect a windows box directly to the internet. Outlook and Outlook express aren't secure enough to be used to receive email. IE isn't secure enough to browse random web sites.
So, if you can afford it, have two computers. Get your email and do your work on a Linux box or a OSX laptop, and save Windows for games, windows development, and those gems of applications you've found that only runs on Windows. Install firefox and use that to browse if you must.
Always keep your Windows box behind a hardware firewall, that tends to stop most of the remote "I just plugged in my computer and now it has a virus" sort of things. Keep any OSX or Linux boxes behind a firewall too if you can.
Oh well...rant over...that's my "what people should know about computers before using them" speech. It really doesn't matter how many of these exploits are patched. These were from 2003, and I'm sure there's another dozen waiting in the wings. Just assume your box is insecure and act appropriately.
Oh, one more thing. I miss the days when you could listen to your computer's hard drive and know what it was doing. If it started up and a odd time you'd know something wasn't right. These days on windows the hard drive seems to randomly grind a way for a second every once and a while...it's...disconcerting. My mac doesn't seem to do that, can't remember if Linux does.
yes...but if someone "worms out" your system, and changes things in ways you can't detect or fix, your screwed either way. Doesn't matter if you're automatically patching, manually patching, or running some command in a shell if you can't trust your system no matter what you do you could be running arbitrary code.
And what if I'm not using the defaut client, and my client defaults to save the logs? I guess law enforcement will have to be sure to use Trillian or Proteus or iChat or something when they try to entrap pedophiles (on AOL).
That's just like in the Grapes of Wrath where all the farmers went to California to pick fruit during the great depression and found that the promises they were getting in Oaklahoma were just to drive down the cost of labour for the fruit growers. Facinating that this still goes on ~75 years later, of course now I suppose people who do this get arrested for RICO violations...if they are caught.
No...I actually didn't know you could do that, I don't use KDE very often:)
It's not just removing the menu from sight though. The tricky thing about removing that menu though is whether you can find all your installed apps easily without it. It kind of defeats the purpose if I cant. On OSX there's the applications folder, where the whole folder is basically links to all your installed apps, but genearally windows (and linux?) apps don't work that way. There was that story a week ago or so about bundling apps OSX style, so it might be doable.
"Use KXDocker to get a MacOSX-style dock, with animated scaling icons!"
Woo hoo! As I recall from the last time I used linux, you can have the menu bar at the top of the screen too...now, if I can only get rid of the stupid "K" menu, and have a unified system preferences in the OSX style.
I finally won't have to use something that looks like a windows clone on a x86 box (I can use something that looks like a OSX clone, which is EXACTLY what I want (I'm tying this on a powerbook)).
Sometimes the choice is either work in a sweatshop, starve, or be a prostitute and probably die of AIDS. I have no problem with sweatshops, at least until the overall standard of living in the third world improves. When public pressure closes them it can cause serious damage to the workers. Besides, it's not like the west didn't have exactly the same living conditions when it was industrializing.
Any user in the admin group can copy something into the Applications folder. On a Mac, that's as good as "installed".
Well, someone still has to go in there a double click on it, so really it's as good as a.exe sitting on your desktop on windows.
it can pop up a graphical sudo prompt to acquire the user's password
If it was going to do that, it may as well just use the regular method to try to elevate it's privledges, I mean, the OS pops that open for you anyway. It's up to the user not to be completly clueless and only type that in when they are doing something that requires super user. Now, if it was really clever, it could hide in the background and wait for me to try to do a software update or something. If it could detect that and beat the expected prompt to the punch, it might have a chance...but i'd be pretty suspicious if the window just popped up for no reason, or if I saw two of them.
Funny thing, I just had an exam this morning where eliptic curve encryption was one of the topics. Here's a little tidbit from the course notes about brute forcing these things that some may find interesting, as it compares to RSA:
An ECC key size of 106 bits should take 10^4 MIP years to compute, corresponding to a RSA key size of 512 bits.
An ECC key size of 160 bits should take 10^12 MIP years to compute, corresponding to a RSA key size of 1024 bits.
An ECC key size of 211 bits should take 10^20 MIP years to compute, corresponding to a RSA key size of 2048 bits.
An ECC key size of 320 bits should take 10^36 MIP years to compute, corresponding to a RSA key size of 5120 bits.
An ECC key size of 600 bits should take 10^78 MIP years to compute, corresponding to a RSA key size of 2100 bits.
Now, if I only knew a way to make a table on slashdot:)
Tell them not to double click on the music they download, just try an import it into iTunes, or drag it to the iTunes icon on the doc? I've never clicked on a mp3 in my life, I'm not overly concerned.
Re:Uh...anyone see a double-standard?
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I signed up as a developer over a year ago (unpaid) just to get the email...and I think so I could download something...forget what. Never actually developed anything, but if I ever think of something I want and can't find....
I'm sure there are a fair number of people like me on that list, unless that's the paid developer number...guess I should RTFA.
Oh, I am a programmer in real life, just not for OSX.
You distribute the message by snail mail, or get someone to take it by hand.
If they had any sense, these emails would be encryped with a 256 bit eliptic curve algorithm, pretty sure even the NSA can't crack that. Oh well, now that someone has been arrested they know to tighten their security.
If the war was about liberating people they should have had enough forces to protect all the hospitals, police stations, museums, and generally keep law and order enforced. It was extreamly irresponsible to invade with any less than that, and as a result has cost many innocent lives.
Further, it has greatly reinforced perceptions that the US invaded a muslim country for oil, and that the US does not care about the lives of anyone other than it's own citizens. This is exactly what terrorist leaders have been saying about the US for years. Now they have proof, and as a result, far more support.
First, for over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula, plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people, terrorizing its neighbors, and turning its bases in the Peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples.
If some people have in the past argued about the fact of the occupation, all the people of the Peninsula have now acknowledged it. The best proof of this is the Americans' continuing aggression against the Iraqi people using the Peninsula as a staging post, even though all its rulers are against their territories being used to that end, but they are helpless.
Second, despite the great devastation inflicted on the Iraqi people by the crusader-Zionist alliance, and despite the huge number of those killed, which has exceeded 1 million... despite all this, the Americans are once against trying to repeat the horrific massacres, as though they are not content with the protracted blockade imposed after the ferocious war or the fragmentation and devastation.
So here they come to annihilate what is left of this people and to humiliate their Muslim neighbors.
Third, if the Americans' aims behind these wars are religious and economic...
Probably the worst thing I've ever seen a US leader do on an international stage was when Bush painted the war on terror as good versus evil. By doing this he did not have to examine the motivation behind the "evildoers", and he could simply say that they are evil and are attacking the US because the US is "good". This is exactly the same mindset that terrorists have, and exactly the same mindset that has led to some of the worst atrocities that human beings have ever committed.
Seems OK to me, that's a 10x improvement, and that was the theoretical high end example. Since they said it would commonly increase speed by 2x, and 15% for databases, it seems right in line.
I suppose that since database data is generally grouped together and read in a big chunk there's less room for improvment.
Hmmm...but in a world where everyone hates you, and some countries hate each other, what stops (for example) China from making it look like North Korea did it? Or is it just that if someone does it, the bombs that will be dropped will end the world anyway? Is it a good idea to end the world, even if there may be some nuclear missles coming for you?
I suppose the increased number of viruses, and the killing off of competitors, are probably because it's becoming more and more profitable to write a virus to turn a machine into a zombie and sell the zombie to spammers.
Maybe windows will get its act together in the next service patch and stop making it so easy for the virus writers, but even then there will be a lot of computers on older versions. It would probably be more cost effective to go after the spammer's money source with a serious law enforcement effort than to allow the current virus situation to continue...of course more money to policing efforts means getting that money in a budget, which means public awareness of the problem.
I would love to be able to plug in a digital camera directly and have the pictures copied automatically directly to the iPod. Then there would be no need to carry around a laptop on vacation to store pictures, just bring the iPod and you have an instand 20-40 gig memory card.
If linux on the iPod could do that I'd install it...at least for vacations...
Na, I've heard it used at least a dozen times. Canadians more than just about anyone else take exception to being called americans, so you'd never hear someone called african-american here. Whether the term african-american/african-canadian is a good one is another question, but it does get used on occasion.
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From their terms and conditions:
"In the event of technical problems or data loss which causes a loss of account information, your account will be reset at $0.00, and you hereby waive any and all claims for any amount previously accrued but not yet disbursed."
You can't claim until it gets to $50, and your account can be reset to $0 at any time.
This leads me to believe he identifies with the Left or with liberals.
You're probably right, but it could also mean that he assumes his reader to be left leaning and not say anything in particular about his personal beliefs.
The way I feel about windows and patches is you're never going to be secure enough to connect a windows box directly to the internet. Outlook and Outlook express aren't secure enough to be used to receive email. IE isn't secure enough to browse random web sites.
So, if you can afford it, have two computers. Get your email and do your work on a Linux box or a OSX laptop, and save Windows for games, windows development, and those gems of applications you've found that only runs on Windows. Install firefox and use that to browse if you must.
Always keep your Windows box behind a hardware firewall, that tends to stop most of the remote "I just plugged in my computer and now it has a virus" sort of things. Keep any OSX or Linux boxes behind a firewall too if you can.
Oh well...rant over...that's my "what people should know about computers before using them" speech. It really doesn't matter how many of these exploits are patched. These were from 2003, and I'm sure there's another dozen waiting in the wings. Just assume your box is insecure and act appropriately.
Oh, one more thing. I miss the days when you could listen to your computer's hard drive and know what it was doing. If it started up and a odd time you'd know something wasn't right. These days on windows the hard drive seems to randomly grind a way for a second every once and a while...it's...disconcerting. My mac doesn't seem to do that, can't remember if Linux does.
yes...but if someone "worms out" your system, and changes things in ways you can't detect or fix, your screwed either way. Doesn't matter if you're automatically patching, manually patching, or running some command in a shell if you can't trust your system no matter what you do you could be running arbitrary code.
But your OS would cost a million dollars, and I would be afraid to contribute to open source in case some company used my code and sued me.
And what if I'm not using the defaut client, and my client defaults to save the logs? I guess law enforcement will have to be sure to use Trillian or Proteus or iChat or something when they try to entrap pedophiles (on AOL).
That's just like in the Grapes of Wrath where all the farmers went to California to pick fruit during the great depression and found that the promises they were getting in Oaklahoma were just to drive down the cost of labour for the fruit growers. Facinating that this still goes on ~75 years later, of course now I suppose people who do this get arrested for RICO violations...if they are caught.
No...I actually didn't know you could do that, I don't use KDE very often :)
It's not just removing the menu from sight though. The tricky thing about removing that menu though is whether you can find all your installed apps easily without it. It kind of defeats the purpose if I cant. On OSX there's the applications folder, where the whole folder is basically links to all your installed apps, but genearally windows (and linux?) apps don't work that way. There was that story a week ago or so about bundling apps OSX style, so it might be doable.
"Use KXDocker to get a MacOSX-style dock, with animated scaling icons!"
Woo hoo! As I recall from the last time I used linux, you can have the menu bar at the top of the screen too...now, if I can only get rid of the stupid "K" menu, and have a unified system preferences in the OSX style.
I finally won't have to use something that looks like a windows clone on a x86 box (I can use something that looks like a OSX clone, which is EXACTLY what I want (I'm tying this on a powerbook)).
Sometimes the choice is either work in a sweatshop, starve, or be a prostitute and probably die of AIDS. I have no problem with sweatshops, at least until the overall standard of living in the third world improves. When public pressure closes them it can cause serious damage to the workers. Besides, it's not like the west didn't have exactly the same living conditions when it was industrializing.
Any user in the admin group can copy something into the Applications folder. On a Mac, that's as good as "installed".
.exe sitting on your desktop on windows.
Well, someone still has to go in there a double click on it, so really it's as good as a
it can pop up a graphical sudo prompt to acquire the user's password
If it was going to do that, it may as well just use the regular method to try to elevate it's privledges, I mean, the OS pops that open for you anyway. It's up to the user not to be completly clueless and only type that in when they are doing something that requires super user. Now, if it was really clever, it could hide in the background and wait for me to try to do a software update or something. If it could detect that and beat the expected prompt to the punch, it might have a chance...but i'd be pretty suspicious if the window just popped up for no reason, or if I saw two of them.
Funny thing, I just had an exam this morning where eliptic curve encryption was one of the topics. Here's a little tidbit from the course notes about brute forcing these things that some may find interesting, as it compares to RSA:
:)
An ECC key size of 106 bits should take 10^4 MIP years to compute, corresponding to a RSA key size of 512 bits.
An ECC key size of 160 bits should take 10^12 MIP years to compute, corresponding to a RSA key size of 1024 bits.
An ECC key size of 211 bits should take 10^20 MIP years to compute, corresponding to a RSA key size of 2048 bits.
An ECC key size of 320 bits should take 10^36 MIP years to compute, corresponding to a RSA key size of 5120 bits.
An ECC key size of 600 bits should take 10^78 MIP years to compute, corresponding to a RSA key size of 2100 bits.
Now, if I only knew a way to make a table on slashdot
Tell them not to double click on the music they download, just try an import it into iTunes, or drag it to the iTunes icon on the doc? I've never clicked on a mp3 in my life, I'm not overly concerned.
nobody says anything
um...you just did. A bit self-defeating?
I signed up as a developer over a year ago (unpaid) just to get the email...and I think so I could download something...forget what. Never actually developed anything, but if I ever think of something I want and can't find....
I'm sure there are a fair number of people like me on that list, unless that's the paid developer number...guess I should RTFA.
Oh, I am a programmer in real life, just not for OSX.
You distribute the message by snail mail, or get someone to take it by hand.
If they had any sense, these emails would be encryped with a 256 bit eliptic curve algorithm, pretty sure even the NSA can't crack that. Oh well, now that someone has been arrested they know to tighten their security.
Further, it has greatly reinforced perceptions that the US invaded a muslim country for oil, and that the US does not care about the lives of anyone other than it's own citizens. This is exactly what terrorist leaders have been saying about the US for years. Now they have proof, and as a result, far more support.
From a World Islamic Front statement, 1998:
First, for over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula, plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people, terrorizing its neighbors, and turning its bases in the Peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples.
If some people have in the past argued about the fact of the occupation, all the people of the Peninsula have now acknowledged it. The best proof of this is the Americans' continuing aggression against the Iraqi people using the Peninsula as a staging post, even though all its rulers are against their territories being used to that end, but they are helpless.
Second, despite the great devastation inflicted on the Iraqi people by the crusader-Zionist alliance, and despite the huge number of those killed, which has exceeded 1 million... despite all this, the Americans are once against trying to repeat the horrific massacres, as though they are not content with the protracted blockade imposed after the ferocious war or the fragmentation and devastation.
So here they come to annihilate what is left of this people and to humiliate their Muslim neighbors.
Third, if the Americans' aims behind these wars are religious and economic...
Probably the worst thing I've ever seen a US leader do on an international stage was when Bush painted the war on terror as good versus evil. By doing this he did not have to examine the motivation behind the "evildoers", and he could simply say that they are evil and are attacking the US because the US is "good". This is exactly the same mindset that terrorists have, and exactly the same mindset that has led to some of the worst atrocities that human beings have ever committed.Look at the US during the depression too. Read The Grapes Of Wrath, it's a great book.
Seems OK to me, that's a 10x improvement, and that was the theoretical high end example. Since they said it would commonly increase speed by 2x, and 15% for databases, it seems right in line.
I suppose that since database data is generally grouped together and read in a big chunk there's less room for improvment.
no more run an unsupported OS than you would go to work without your pants
*looks down* - Oh crap, now I have to drive home.
Hmmm...but in a world where everyone hates you, and some countries hate each other, what stops (for example) China from making it look like North Korea did it? Or is it just that if someone does it, the bombs that will be dropped will end the world anyway? Is it a good idea to end the world, even if there may be some nuclear missles coming for you?
I suppose the increased number of viruses, and the killing off of competitors, are probably because it's becoming more and more profitable to write a virus to turn a machine into a zombie and sell the zombie to spammers.
Maybe windows will get its act together in the next service patch and stop making it so easy for the virus writers, but even then there will be a lot of computers on older versions. It would probably be more cost effective to go after the spammer's money source with a serious law enforcement effort than to allow the current virus situation to continue...of course more money to policing efforts means getting that money in a budget, which means public awareness of the problem.
I would love to be able to plug in a digital camera directly and have the pictures copied automatically directly to the iPod. Then there would be no need to carry around a laptop on vacation to store pictures, just bring the iPod and you have an instand 20-40 gig memory card.
If linux on the iPod could do that I'd install it...at least for vacations...
Na, I've heard it used at least a dozen times. Canadians more than just about anyone else take exception to being called americans, so you'd never hear someone called african-american here. Whether the term african-american/african-canadian is a good one is another question, but it does get used on occasion.
Interest is generally higher than inflation.