man, you'd have every wannabe cra>0r attacking your site like billy-o... and maybe even some malicious folk with talent. particularly if you "guarantee 100%"... and this "bulletproof encryption" that you offer may be great now. but then again, enigma was great for the nazis in WW2. until someone came up with a new technology to crack it...
but ever since snowcrash he's been going down hill. cryptonomicon was merely good.
quicksilver is really impressive for teh depth of the research, but once you get past that, it's 800 pages of poilitics set in the 17th century.
i think the point made in the article that "this toold allows admins to play on the same level as the attackers" is a very valid point and should be paraded out in front of anyone who says "but this will only cause more attacks by making the attackes easier for the attackers to execute" newsflash; even the l4m0r-est script kiddie has a plethora of tools like this (most of which are usually loaded with trojan's and the like). giving admins legit, supported and just plain better tools means that admins have the ability to check their systems' vulnerability easily. and an admin equipped with a tool for automating exploits has a better chance of stumbling across an exploit no one has found yet, because he hasn't spent all night checking for vulnerabilities earlier.
good point... it'll probably be woefully detrimental to the red hat case, but hopefullythe red hat legal team will be able to learn from the mistakes of the IBM team.
also, IANAL/I don't keep up to date on who SCO's suing this week, but aren't the lawsuits over similar, but separate issues?
seems pretty cool. red hat don't have to pay for as much serious litigation as they would've done in the full on trial and they can sit back and relax while IBM pound away at SCO. and in the event that IBM actually lose, then they're ready and waiting with a second shot.
what's interesting is if you look at the stats for HEAnet.ie (which is the provider for the ILUG mailing list and also one of the mirrors for kernel.org and sourceforge), the peak traffic for today happened several hours before this story was posted on/. and when the/.ing did begin, it was only a marginal increase in traffic. you'll have to try harder/.ers!
why yes, let's give this "pimple-faced kid who couldn't join the military because his eyesight wasn't good enough" the authority to sign off on 160 million dollars...
The government is made up of people who couldn't get jobs in the private sector. They also have job security for life. This encourages the worst in government employees, attracting the laziest and least skilled among the working populace.
that's a stunningly ignorant remark...
however stupid the actions of governments may seem, it takes an awful lot of effort to get elected (system of checks and balances...?), particularly to the higher echelons of government.
i don't know about canada, but here in ireland, most of the members of our government are barristers or financiers or any one of hundreds of highly trained professions. yes, there are one or two wildcards, but that's the nature of a democracy!
Insightful? Flamebait...
So how the hell are you, as a patent clerk, going to tell which ideas are the ones that represent "actual useful inventions" and which ones are the ones that only might become "actual useful invetions"?
particularly since most patent clerks spend their time wondering about the motions of heavenly bodies at great speed.....
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man, you'd have every wannabe cra>0r attacking your site like billy-o...
and maybe even some malicious folk with talent. particularly if you "guarantee 100%"...
and this "bulletproof encryption" that you offer may be great now. but then again, enigma was great for the nazis in WW2. until someone came up with a new technology to crack it...
but ever since snowcrash he's been going down hill. cryptonomicon was merely good. quicksilver is really impressive for teh depth of the research, but once you get past that, it's 800 pages of poilitics set in the 17th century.
this sounds really cool...
but if its so secret, they better watch out... those pesky copyright lawyers might come after them....
"but we're just recording it for posterity, preserving the classics so that they can be enjoyed by future generations!"
"tell it to the "
indeed!
surely she's not that cheap...
my first thought was what will jennifer garner think...
(she's not *that* cheap)
i think the point made in the article that "this toold allows admins to play on the same level as the attackers" is a very valid point and should be paraded out in front of anyone who says "but this will only cause more attacks by making the attackes easier for the attackers to execute"
newsflash; even the l4m0r-est script kiddie has a plethora of tools like this (most of which are usually loaded with trojan's and the like).
giving admins legit, supported and just plain better tools means that admins have the ability to check their systems' vulnerability easily. and an admin equipped with a tool for automating exploits has a better chance of stumbling across an exploit no one has found yet, because he hasn't spent all night checking for vulnerabilities earlier.
It's Microsoft versus IBM. I'm pretty scared... how 'bout you?
scared???
dude, i wish i'd been selling tickets for this one!
good point... it'll probably be woefully detrimental to the red hat case, but hopefullythe red hat legal team will be able to learn from the mistakes of the IBM team. also, IANAL/I don't keep up to date on who SCO's suing this week, but aren't the lawsuits over similar, but separate issues?
seems pretty cool.
red hat don't have to pay for as much serious litigation as they would've done in the full on trial and they can sit back and relax while IBM pound away at SCO.
and in the event that IBM actually lose, then they're ready and waiting with a second shot.
this is a really intersting article when compared to this...
yeah, because those martin acoutsics from the 30's/40's (see here) are really beginning to go downhill now...
what's interesting is if you look at the stats for HEAnet.ie (which is the provider for the ILUG mailing list and also one of the mirrors for kernel.org and sourceforge), the peak traffic for today happened several hours before this story was posted on /. /.ing did begin, it was only a marginal increase in traffic. /.ers!
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it seems well and good, but i for one won't be convinced until i see them in the palm of my hand.
under my electron microscope....
this never would've happened if they didn't offer google in "hacker"
does this mean that canadians are now browsing /. with a -1 mod to a/c posts?
the more worrying aspect (for those of us who read the article... ;)) was that the preliminary tests were for "safety reasons"...
so the bots that weren't safe enough to enter the race can now enter...
although, this could be pretty cool when the bots go insane and start beating each other up...
why yes, let's give this "pimple-faced kid who couldn't join the military because his eyesight wasn't good enough" the authority to sign off on 160 million dollars...
i accept your point, but look at the context.
i'm sorry to fire you apu, but we need to use you as a scapegoat or... sacrificial lamb...
uh-huh, and if i could obtain for you these creatures...?
The government is made up of people who couldn't get jobs in the private sector. They also have job security for life. This encourages the worst in government employees, attracting the laziest and least skilled among the working populace.
that's a stunningly ignorant remark...
however stupid the actions of governments may seem, it takes an awful lot of effort to get elected (system of checks and balances...?), particularly to the higher echelons of government.
i don't know about canada, but here in ireland, most of the members of our government are barristers or financiers or any one of hundreds of highly trained professions. yes, there are one or two wildcards, but that's the nature of a democracy!
Insightful? Flamebait...
So how the hell are you, as a patent clerk, going to tell which ideas are the ones that represent "actual useful inventions" and which ones are the ones that only might become "actual useful invetions"?
particularly since most patent clerks spend their time wondering about the motions of heavenly bodies at great speed.....
well, he was a mortal, and he went by the name of stanley ipkiss, but when he put on his mask he became a super-mortal...
not trolling, but why is the law here different to the law that allows peopel to rip to their iPod or other personal device?
you've been watching ER...
his wife is missing a period?
when's he gonna start passing out the cigars?