I don't use evolution myself at the moment (currently preferring mozilla-mail for some weird reason) but vfolders are supposed to be good at handling your kind of situation, where you want to classify certain mails in more than one way. Just put everything in a big archive folder and have various vfolders set up to categorise mail in different ways.
Yes, it seems like a panacea. But, as has previously been posted, your control over what people do with information stops when they decrypt it, even if the application is perfectly written. Unless you have a perfect operating system that locks down all system RAM, video RAM, swap partitions (and come on, what are the chances of MS ever making such an OS?) a cracker can write an app to take screenshots or read the file from system RAM and then any script kiddie can run it, either to get permanent access to documents they don't have permission to print or save, or perhaps in the same way as BackOrifice so they can get access to documents other people have legitimate access to. And if the BO-alike has a function whereby it dies and removes all traces of its existence, when some document of yours gets cracked and leaked it's going to be harder to prove it wasn't you that leaked it.
well, google returns a likely candidate as the very first result if you search for "windows security flaw patch finally released". A link to the story is here.
It got Microsoft's "critical" rating as it allowed local or remote users to execute code with operating system privileges.
Now admittedly this one (MS02-024) "only" took five months to be patched but that's still completely unacceptable - and that's just the first result out of 9.720 search matches. FUD? I don't think so.
Those 44+ fixes for Redhat were generally released promptly, openly and efficiently. With linux, when word gets out of problems, especially security related ones, they tend to get fixed quite quickly by the relevant maintainer or by one of the distros. People are on the look-out for this kind of thing (remember the huge security audit on RedHat done by Chris Evans a few years back?)
Whereas with Windows it seems bugs are left hidden under the carpet for six months while all the script kiddies exploit them, then some patch is pushed into a service pack that half the time creates more problems than it fixes. There is no security in obscurity.
I would argue with your assertion that "the pursuit of Happiness" is equivalent to "the protection of property". And that still doesn't address my point about public-funded road building. Perhaps they should all be built by Ford, Nissan etc. and paid for by higher car prices?
An individual should not be forced to pay taxes to fund a program for the benefit of others. Yet an uneducated populace is an easy target for propaganda and dictatorship.
i) Why not? That is what being a citizen of a country is all about.
ii) It benefits you that there are libraries around that you can use, just as much as everyone else. Exactly the same argument could be made about public funding of road building, or public funding of the police (the police is a program that benefits others). Except that if you claimed that you shouldn't have to pay taxes to fund the police you'd sound ridiculous.
iii) If the majority of people get their education from public libraries, be worried!
Eigen is a fairly well-established prefix in quantum mechanics (eigenvalues, eigenvectors, eigenstates etc.) An eigenstate is one of an infinite set of orthogonal solutions to a set of equations, an eigenvalue is a unique value (often energy) corresponding to a particular eigenstate.
Thus I suspect in this case the term is supposed to mean something like "unique radio", which seems at least reasonably appropriate, if rather skewed. I suspect you're wrong about it being a comment on the state of the music industry, at least primarily. It seems like they're just using radio stations as a source of material 'cos it happens to be readily available. 'Course, the fact that it can't be much/worse/ than commercial radio is pretty ironic;-)
Yawn. This is another tedious suit who doesn't get it. Does he think people are suddenly going to stop developing icewm, WindowMaker, AfterStep, enlightenment, mwm, 3dwm etc.? Of course not. And it doesn't matter.
Most people don't need to choose between different desktops even today, because distributions tend to come with a standard desktop and other optional ones. I suppose different distros could agree on which desktop to have as standard (but they won't!), but that really doesn't matter; for the home user any of the usual desktops will be fine, and for people using linux at work they ought to be using the One True Desktop (ie the one their IT manager tells them to) anyway.
If you'd bothered looking on Mandrake's website...
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This has been out for ages. I would have played with it over a week ago but I couldn't face grabbing ISOs over a 56k line:-)
Actually, I'd just be finishing about now...
This is a great thing. Well, obviously it's bad news for innovation in popular music, but look on the bright side. It means tuneless geeks like myself will never again have to fear the embarrassment of karaoke evenings.
The entire linux kernel has been constructed from SCO's IP, by judicious copying and pasting of the individual ASCII symbols that form SCO UNIX' source.
In related news, SCO will also be suing Logitech, Cherry and Microsoft under the DMCA: the keyboards made by these leading manufacturers, among others, are in fact blatant copy-prevention mechanism circumvention devices designed to allow 'programmers', or pirates as we like to call them, to re-use SCO's valuable ASCII IP one character at a time. "It's just so easy," said McBride. "You just press the buttons, and tiny fragments of the SCO UNIX source appear. People making devices like this are worse than baby-murderers."
SCO refused to comment on speculation that they may ask for a retroactive injunction against distribution of the Bible, which can also be represented in ASCII.
Mmm, I can see how that would be convenient for me to carry up mountains an' stuff. I'll just stick with my bombproof Canon weatherproof compact and my EOS-10, and Velvia. Ah well, horses for courses as they say. That's the nice thing about photography; there/is/ no perfect one-size-fits-all supercamera, as well as the skill of taking decent pictures, which can be learnt with pretty much any old cheapo camera with manual settings, there's the skill of selecting the equipment that'll get the job done most easily (and affordably...)
First things first, get your fingerprints removed. A good big bucket of nitric acid should do the trick. Next up: those pesky iris patterns. I recommend you gouge out your eyeballs with a spoon and use the sockets to mount a pair of webcams. There was a story on slashdot a while back about a neural interface for these puppies. Remember, if you don't have eyeballs they can't steal your iris patterns!
So far, so good. The next problem is your DNA. The bad news is, this is a cinch to steal and there isn't much you can do about it short of going round in a giant body condom for the rest of your life. The good news is, it's quite hard to use. However, before the time when ATMs authenticate you by taking a cheek cell sample I recommend you look into the latest in DNA resequencing technology and splice in a good long GPG public key somewhere. You'll have to memorize the secret key, all 4096 bits of it, and then wear a metal Faraday cage round your skull to prevent people reading it right out of your brain.
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There's a bunch of loonies in here. Loonies, I tell you!
What if (and this is a big "if", just for the exercise) SCO's copyrights were infringed upon and it unwittingly distributed those infringments via the Linux kernel. Does that mean that their copyrights are automatically invalidated and GPL-ized? No, of course not.
If the court perceives this as a possibility (ie, SCO says they didn't know "their" code was contributed to linux and accidentally GPL'd it via distrubution), then the court may rule against the GPL, setting a negative precedent.
The court may, at worst, rule that SCO acted unwittingly and its code doesn't have to be released under the GPL, in which case it will be removed from the kernel. They might be able to distribute binary-only modules in the same way as nVidia do for their graphics cards, but there would be big complications with that if any of the code in question has been patched by 3rd parties since SCO submitted it to Linus.
However, while all this would be a bad outcome it seems it wouldn't be a ruling against the GPL itself, merely against whether SCO has the right to alter the license to something they've already been distributing. FWIW, my opinion would be that no, of course they shouldn't have the right to do that. If the IP meant so much to them they should have been more careful with it in the first place. It reminds me of when I was a kid and sold a toy AT-AT in a car boot sale for 5, and then went round whining for a couple of days when I realised I could have got more for it, it's just childish.
The traditional reason for not listening to anonymous sources has been that they tend to be unreliable; however, if you provide a working exploit when you write to the school, press and/or officials they will have no reason to doubt the veracity of your claims. They might doubt your motives, but that's a different matter - if there's something broken and it's been proved to them, then regardless of the source they may wish to pursue the matter.
Use one of the anonymous remailers to inform the software company of the exploit (and any ideas you have for a fix), with a promise that if a fix isn't forthcoming within a reasonable (and specified) timeframe the exploit (and any ideas you have for a fix) will be posted to a full-disclosure mailing list.
You what? you could also just hold your mouse so that the index finger lies over the scroll {ball|wheel} and move your index finger from side to side, pivoting around the knuckle where it joins the hand. I'd been doing this subconsciously while reading the above posts, and it seems pretty comfortable.
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I don't use evolution myself at the moment (currently preferring mozilla-mail for some weird reason) but vfolders are supposed to be good at handling your kind of situation, where you want to classify certain mails in more than one way. Just put everything in a big archive folder and have various vfolders set up to categorise mail in different ways.
Yes, it seems like a panacea. But, as has previously been posted, your control over what people do with information stops when they decrypt it, even if the application is perfectly written. Unless you have a perfect operating system that locks down all system RAM, video RAM, swap partitions (and come on, what are the chances of MS ever making such an OS?) a cracker can write an app to take screenshots or read the file from system RAM and then any script kiddie can run it, either to get permanent access to documents they don't have permission to print or save, or perhaps in the same way as BackOrifice so they can get access to documents other people have legitimate access to. And if the BO-alike has a function whereby it dies and removes all traces of its existence, when some document of yours gets cracked and leaked it's going to be harder to prove it wasn't you that leaked it.
well, google returns a likely candidate as the very first result if you search for "windows security flaw patch finally released". A link to the story is here.
It got Microsoft's "critical" rating as it allowed local or remote users to execute code with operating system privileges.
Now admittedly this one (MS02-024) "only" took five months to be patched but that's still completely unacceptable - and that's just the first result out of 9.720 search matches. FUD? I don't think so.
Those 44+ fixes for Redhat were generally released promptly, openly and efficiently. With linux, when word gets out of problems, especially security related ones, they tend to get fixed quite quickly by the relevant maintainer or by one of the distros. People are on the look-out for this kind of thing (remember the huge security audit on RedHat done by Chris Evans a few years back?) Whereas with Windows it seems bugs are left hidden under the carpet for six months while all the script kiddies exploit them, then some patch is pushed into a service pack that half the time creates more problems than it fixes. There is no security in obscurity.
People are smarter than they ever were.
People have more knowledge than they used to. They're still just as dumb as ever though.
I would argue with your assertion that "the pursuit of Happiness" is equivalent to "the protection of property". And that still doesn't address my point about public-funded road building. Perhaps they should all be built by Ford, Nissan etc. and paid for by higher car prices?
An individual should not be forced to pay taxes to fund a program for the benefit of others. Yet an uneducated populace is an easy target for propaganda and dictatorship. i) Why not? That is what being a citizen of a country is all about. ii) It benefits you that there are libraries around that you can use, just as much as everyone else. Exactly the same argument could be made about public funding of road building, or public funding of the police (the police is a program that benefits others). Except that if you claimed that you shouldn't have to pay taxes to fund the police you'd sound ridiculous. iii) If the majority of people get their education from public libraries, be worried!
THe author did specify good beer...
Eigen is a fairly well-established prefix in quantum mechanics (eigenvalues, eigenvectors, eigenstates etc.) An eigenstate is one of an infinite set of orthogonal solutions to a set of equations, an eigenvalue is a unique value (often energy) corresponding to a particular eigenstate. Thus I suspect in this case the term is supposed to mean something like "unique radio", which seems at least reasonably appropriate, if rather skewed. I suspect you're wrong about it being a comment on the state of the music industry, at least primarily. It seems like they're just using radio stations as a source of material 'cos it happens to be readily available. 'Course, the fact that it can't be much /worse/ than commercial radio is pretty ironic ;-)
Yawn. This is another tedious suit who doesn't get it. Does he think people are suddenly going to stop developing icewm, WindowMaker, AfterStep, enlightenment, mwm, 3dwm etc.? Of course not. And it doesn't matter. Most people don't need to choose between different desktops even today, because distributions tend to come with a standard desktop and other optional ones. I suppose different distros could agree on which desktop to have as standard (but they won't!), but that really doesn't matter; for the home user any of the usual desktops will be fine, and for people using linux at work they ought to be using the One True Desktop (ie the one their IT manager tells them to) anyway.
This has been out for ages. I would have played with it over a week ago but I couldn't face grabbing ISOs over a 56k line :-)
Actually, I'd just be finishing about now...
This is a great thing. Well, obviously it's bad news for innovation in popular music, but look on the bright side. It means tuneless geeks like myself will never again have to fear the embarrassment of karaoke evenings.
The entire linux kernel has been constructed from SCO's IP, by judicious copying and pasting of the individual ASCII symbols that form SCO UNIX' source.
In related news, SCO will also be suing Logitech, Cherry and Microsoft under the DMCA: the keyboards made by these leading manufacturers, among others, are in fact blatant copy-prevention mechanism circumvention devices designed to allow 'programmers', or pirates as we like to call them, to re-use SCO's valuable ASCII IP one character at a time. "It's just so easy," said McBride. "You just press the buttons, and tiny fragments of the SCO UNIX source appear. People making devices like this are worse than baby-murderers."
SCO refused to comment on speculation that they may ask for a retroactive injunction against distribution of the Bible, which can also be represented in ASCII.
Mmm, I can see how that would be convenient for me to carry up mountains an' stuff. I'll just stick with my bombproof Canon weatherproof compact and my EOS-10, and Velvia. Ah well, horses for courses as they say. That's the nice thing about photography; there /is/ no perfect one-size-fits-all supercamera, as well as the skill of taking decent pictures, which can be learnt with pretty much any old cheapo camera with manual settings, there's the skill of selecting the equipment that'll get the job done most easily (and affordably...)
First things first, get your fingerprints removed. A good big bucket of nitric acid should do the trick. Next up: those pesky iris patterns. I recommend you gouge out your eyeballs with a spoon and use the sockets to mount a pair of webcams. There was a story on slashdot a while back about a neural interface for these puppies. Remember, if you don't have eyeballs they can't steal your iris patterns! So far, so good. The next problem is your DNA. The bad news is, this is a cinch to steal and there isn't much you can do about it short of going round in a giant body condom for the rest of your life. The good news is, it's quite hard to use. However, before the time when ATMs authenticate you by taking a cheek cell sample I recommend you look into the latest in DNA resequencing technology and splice in a good long GPG public key somewhere. You'll have to memorize the secret key, all 4096 bits of it, and then wear a metal Faraday cage round your skull to prevent people reading it right out of your brain. -- There's a bunch of loonies in here. Loonies, I tell you!
What if (and this is a big "if", just for the exercise) SCO's copyrights were infringed upon and it unwittingly distributed those infringments via the Linux kernel. Does that mean that their copyrights are automatically invalidated and GPL-ized? No, of course not. If the court perceives this as a possibility (ie, SCO says they didn't know "their" code was contributed to linux and accidentally GPL'd it via distrubution), then the court may rule against the GPL, setting a negative precedent. The court may, at worst, rule that SCO acted unwittingly and its code doesn't have to be released under the GPL, in which case it will be removed from the kernel. They might be able to distribute binary-only modules in the same way as nVidia do for their graphics cards, but there would be big complications with that if any of the code in question has been patched by 3rd parties since SCO submitted it to Linus. However, while all this would be a bad outcome it seems it wouldn't be a ruling against the GPL itself, merely against whether SCO has the right to alter the license to something they've already been distributing. FWIW, my opinion would be that no, of course they shouldn't have the right to do that. If the IP meant so much to them they should have been more careful with it in the first place. It reminds me of when I was a kid and sold a toy AT-AT in a car boot sale for 5, and then went round whining for a couple of days when I realised I could have got more for it, it's just childish.
You can go about your business. Move along.
The traditional reason for not listening to anonymous sources has been that they tend to be unreliable; however, if you provide a working exploit when you write to the school, press and/or officials they will have no reason to doubt the veracity of your claims. They might doubt your motives, but that's a different matter - if there's something broken and it's been proved to them, then regardless of the source they may wish to pursue the matter.
Use one of the anonymous remailers to inform the software company of the exploit (and any ideas you have for a fix), with a promise that if a fix isn't forthcoming within a reasonable (and specified) timeframe the exploit (and any ideas you have for a fix) will be posted to a full-disclosure mailing list.
You what? you could also just hold your mouse so that the index finger lies over the scroll {ball|wheel} and move your index finger from side to side, pivoting around the knuckle where it joins the hand. I'd been doing this subconsciously while reading the above posts, and it seems pretty comfortable.