How something works, isn't interesting at all for some cases.
I believe the defender wanted to know how it works, just in order to know if they did it the correct way.
A certification (provided by a independent authorithy) should be as good as showing how it works.
Once you have a independent authority confirming it is working, this should be enough.
The authority has to explain the methods used in order to grant the certification in a public report.
If the device has been certified to work, all the rest doesn't matter.
"Some of the world's big media outlets (including CBC, CNN, Guardian, The Globe and Mail, The New York Times, Reuters, and -- as well as Amazon, AOL, Google and Yahoo) are appealing a Canadian court ruling threatening both free speech and the Net.
Freedom of speech, doesn't implement the freedom of publishing a lie.
The site I'm referring to: http://www.bipt.be/
They generate virus alerts by mail.
I have a subscription. I only get three our four times a year a mail, warning some old virus.
Better depend upon automatic updates of antivirus packages. Prefferably use antivirus packages of different vendors.
I can't think of any legitimate reason for a printer driver to know the current date, so there doesn't appear to be an immediate reason why this wouldn't work.
I can imagine the quality of the ink is decreasing over time. Just like the expiration date on food. A lower quality ink, could produce troubles on the printer level. I'm just wondering if it's a quality issue.
How on earth are the ISPs (and web hosts -- like my own very small-time and humble company) supposed to enforce this?
Create a cron job, performing a Google search on child porn every hour. Mail the results to the local police authority with a disclaimer refering to this particular law
Don't blame me, if they charge you for being a spammer!!
Look, I have nothing against the CentOS guys, but...
If everyone should starting to use CentOS instead of RHEL, RH (the company) will die. Someone has to pay the bills. I believe this will have it's impact on both CentOS and Fedora. Because they both need RH. The Fedora Project would be a car without engine. We would have to master our Fedora boxes as a Fred Flintstone.
A distribution just have to fit the needs you have. If you're quite a self supporting linux freak, CentOS will do. I dont use RHEL, but I hope they deliver a good support. That's what it's all about. Preserve stability in all domains.
About updating: You can't perform a kernel update without rebooting, even not using yum or apt-get. So, you could as well update using CD when it's necessary.
Alternatives are welcome, in case they perform better or give RH a drive to perform better.
And I'm using my imagination where you're translation of the word > in my mother tongue would be correct. I doubt.
I do speak/write 4 languages. Not always perfect. At least I try to speak/write in other people's language. It would be a lot easier not to communicate on slashdot and not making this mistakes. But I believe this is the point which matches you're imagination. This is not ment as a troll, only as a positive feedback to sharpen you're imagination. I bet you never had tought about it.
BTW: I do admit, I should have seen this error myself.
I could imagine he (or she?) visited google instead, did a search (internet or newsgroups), copy the link from the cache and download it. Just the idea that this is valid investigation... aaargh
You could get it from anyware. Just use you're imagination.
Anyway, this could only be usefull to caught some scriptkiddies.
First, one takes all relevant MS security bulletins. Next one invent some text around it. Publish it and makes people pay for it. So you make money from you're mistakes.
Funny: I doubt most hackers who contributed to this masterpiece will ever see a paycheck. Probably they are mention in the hall of shame. (As ought to be)
After the bombings by the US coalition, the iraqi fixing their houses have a desperate need for new windows. I'm sure somewhere, the translation to English got it wrong.
This is a somehow related story, about misdirected e-mails containg disclaimers
Since 5 years, I was happy with my e-mail address deliverd by my ISP. I profile myself as a typical home user. Until a year ago, my ISP had subscribed someone who's name is pronounced exactly as mine. Writting both names down, you should only see a difference of one space. So this confused many of the correspondends mailing my e-mail ego. Besides, he had a commercial profile. I'll receveid threats, porn and commercial offers which should be sent to him. Started to forward the trash and demanded explicitly to create a alias for his activities, which didn't interfer with my profile.
Never got any reply.
I was getting tired of it, until I received a business proposition with 25 % discount on common cdrom players. The proposition had a disclaimer, you should not distribute it blah, blah, blah.
Instead, I handled it like spam and published the entire message on the abuse forums of my provider, asking for advice how to solve this. I also wrote down, I already received threats, unwanted porn and other e-mails.(I definitly wan't give up my proper e-mail) Next mailed the originator of the mail back, writting him this was unwanted, and included a link to the posting on the forum. I also provided the correct e-mail address.
Never heard a word of it again, except it did solve my problem
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I'm dissapointed he didn't take the job. Somehow I'm convinced this would be a good thing for open source.
It was a completly disrespectfull answer.
I have the impression ESR is linux own open sourced version of FUD.
Hmmm
Where do you wanna go (switch) today?
How something works, isn't interesting at all for some cases.
I believe the defender wanted to know how it works, just in order to know if they did it the correct way.
A certification (provided by a independent authorithy) should be as good as showing how it works.
Once you have a independent authority confirming it is working, this should be enough.
The authority has to explain the methods used in order to grant the certification in a public report.
If the device has been certified to work, all the rest doesn't matter.
It's still a bit ironic.
AFAIK, AIX has been revoked by SCO
To be honest:
Ford Motor Co is working with Microsoft towards PC that can't crash.
Shouldn't this sound better?
Since the GPL is the cause he can't make profit with the programs he wrote,
I wonder which powerfull applications we missed.
Hello World??
Could somebody point me into the right direction?
Nope, You should read
Microsoft States a crapy Windows is Too Dangerous.
No offenses included. This has been written on a secure OS without full TCP/IP support
You mean the ISP's who don't care what there customers are doing is legal under terms of there internet subscriptions?
"Some of the world's big media outlets (including CBC, CNN, Guardian, The Globe and Mail, The New York Times, Reuters, and -- as well as Amazon, AOL, Google and Yahoo) are appealing a Canadian court ruling threatening both free speech and the Net.
Freedom of speech, doesn't implement the freedom of publishing a lie.
In this case the French governement is only capable of stopping exploits being published in France.
Never admit you've find a exploit by reverse engineering. You'll found it by coïncidence.
Make someone else publish it in some other country.
Actually what's the difference between this and consumer testing toothpaste? They publish also the bad results?
The site I'm referring to: http://www.bipt.be/ They generate virus alerts by mail. I have a subscription. I only get three our four times a year a mail, warning some old virus. Better depend upon automatic updates of antivirus packages. Prefferably use antivirus packages of different vendors.
Not that I'm a specialist in this area.
I can't think of any legitimate reason for a printer driver to know the current date, so there doesn't appear to be an immediate reason why this wouldn't work.
I can imagine the quality of the ink is decreasing over time. Just like the expiration date on food.
A lower quality ink, could produce troubles on the printer level.
I'm just wondering if it's a quality issue.
How on earth are the ISPs (and web hosts -- like my own very small-time and humble company) supposed to enforce this?
Create a cron job, performing a Google search on child porn every hour. Mail the results to the local police authority with a disclaimer refering to this particular law
Don't blame me, if they charge you for being a spammer!!
Look, I have nothing against the CentOS guys, but ...
If everyone should starting to use CentOS instead of RHEL, RH (the company) will die. Someone has to pay the bills. I believe this will have it's impact on both CentOS and Fedora. Because they both need RH.
The Fedora Project would be a car without engine.
We would have to master our Fedora boxes as a Fred Flintstone.
A distribution just have to fit the needs you have.
If you're quite a self supporting linux freak, CentOS will do.
I dont use RHEL, but I hope they deliver a good support. That's what it's all about.
Preserve stability in all domains.
About updating: You can't perform a kernel update without rebooting, even not using yum or apt-get.
So, you could as well update using CD when it's necessary.
Alternatives are welcome, in case they perform better or give RH a drive to perform better.
Not only French are using AZERTY.
The common Belgian (dutch language) keyboard is also AZERTY. It has minor differences compared with a french keyboard.
And I'm using my imagination where you're translation of the word > in my mother tongue would be correct. I doubt.
I do speak/write 4 languages. Not always perfect.
At least I try to speak/write in other people's language. It would be a lot easier not to communicate on slashdot and not making this mistakes. But I believe this is the point which matches you're imagination. This is not ment as a troll, only as a positive feedback to sharpen you're imagination. I bet you never had tought about it.
BTW: I do admit, I should have seen this error myself.
Geert
I could imagine he (or she?) visited google instead, did a search (internet or newsgroups), copy the link from the cache and download it. Just the idea that this is valid investigation... aaargh
You could get it from anyware. Just use you're imagination.
Anyway, this could only be usefull to caught some scriptkiddies.
First, one takes all relevant MS security bulletins.
Next one invent some text around it.
Publish it and makes people pay for it.
So you make money from you're mistakes.
Funny:
I doubt most hackers who contributed to this masterpiece will ever see a paycheck. Probably they are mention in the hall of shame. (As ought to be)
Seriously, this might be a good book.
I would consider "Comical Ali" as a better understatement.
It would probably Linus who would say "SCO doesn't exist anymore".
Specific if you are looking the way IBM is dealing with SCO.
Unless someone overthere decides to change gears..
You never know.
First flying taxis, then, like the Jetsons, personal flying cars.
Rubbing my crystall bol...
The future would look more like the Flintstones instead of the the Jetsons. I wonder if they ever counted the always raising price of oil products.
George W. Bush
Darl McBride
All pilots of United Airlines
After the bombings by the US coalition, the iraqi fixing their houses have a desperate need for new windows. I'm sure somewhere, the translation to English got it wrong.
This is a somehow related story, about misdirected e-mails containg disclaimers
Since 5 years, I was happy with my e-mail address deliverd by my ISP.
I profile myself as a typical home user.
Until a year ago, my ISP had subscribed someone who's name is pronounced exactly as mine. Writting both names down, you should only see a difference of one space.
So this confused many of the correspondends mailing my e-mail ego.
Besides, he had a commercial profile.
I'll receveid threats, porn and commercial offers which should be sent to him.
Started to forward the trash and demanded explicitly to create a alias for his activities, which didn't interfer with my profile.
Never got any reply.
I was getting tired of it, until I received a business proposition with 25 % discount on common cdrom players.
The proposition had a disclaimer, you should not distribute it blah, blah, blah.
Instead, I handled it like spam and published the entire message on the abuse forums of my provider, asking for advice how to solve this.
I also wrote down, I already received threats, unwanted porn and other e-mails.(I definitly wan't give up my proper e-mail)
Next mailed the originator of the mail back, writting him this was unwanted, and included a link to the posting on the forum. I also provided the correct e-mail address.
Never heard a word of it again, except it did solve my problem
New Windows HPC viruses anounced!!
- They will infect other pc's quicker
- apply more dammage
- Be able to perform a DOS using only one cluster