Tell me again who's the real winner when it takes a 5 billion dollar nuclear aircraft carrier to deploy a 20 million dollar plane flown by a pilot with a million dollar education, dropping a ten thousand dollar bomb just to kill some Iraqi kid hiding in a hole with a $20 russian surplus rifle?
Ah, this could probably be used as a heuristic in attaining the number of exploits on your machine. Staticticaly, it seems the amount of exploitable Microsoft software on your machine is directly proportional to the amount of Microsoft software on your machine.
Just add up how much MS software you have installed, multiply by factor X, being the average rate of exploits per package, and you know how many you have to find and correct.
Given this example of it though, many other common applications and APIs could also be thought of as HALs, such as OpenGL for instance.
From what I've read of this project though, they seem to have developed a userspace messaging scheme to bring up configuration tools upon hardware changes, I just don't see this as being all that innovative - nor particularly useful for the most part, I mean: do you plug in a new printer often enough to justify running a daemon to poll for one twice a second?
Spam is still a problem untill you are *sure* you've gotten every e-mail you were supposed to.
E-mail was designed as a resillient, adaptable form of communication to ensure that everything sent to you, got to you. Do you *know* that all your messages are getting through to you now?
Not toasted yet - it's still quite possible it'll be accepted as its own little beastie; free from the *need* to conform... unlikely, but possible.... we can live in hope. Personally, I'd kind of like to see the day when the Tech support guys from my telco ask what OS I'm runing, not what Windows version...
Yes, software patents are evil - yes, copyight is great for protecting an implementation, yet allowing precious operability.
However, isn't it the case that one of the major problems with protecting, by patent or otherwise, your (or your team's/company's/whatever's) software is a matter of juristiction? For software contributed to by dozens of programmers across the Intaarweb, and hosted on probably whatever cheap, offshore server will take it - who has juristiction? The country of origin of the project mantainer?
If GNUXyz, hosted in Brazil, mantained by a Hungarian hacker, infringes a US patent, whom do you sue? Can you extradite them? Seize their host's servers?
I don't know. Up with globalization under communisim!
Playground monitors, at least here - allow all the little kiddes to play whatever games they like. Their role is, as it should be, to stop them from beating up on each other. They are also recognized by those under their care as a valid supervisor, with morality, integrity, and importantly the juristiction to assert their legal authourity. Why do 'you' have authority over European nations?
>I refer to those citizens of The United States of America by whatever I choose to; and, at least untill 'you' come up with and agree upon an 'official' noun unique to your country, government, juristiction, and social values, I will continue to exercise my intellectual freedom to do so.
I believe they 'sneak' over 'your' borders to get 'your' mecical and welfare benefits because they are superior to those where they came from. No, I don't believe they are entitled to your taxpayer-funded ordinances, but from their perspective I'm sure they're better off cheating to get them than starving and dying at home. Arresting, detaining, incarcerating, or extraditing them is not going to change this.
Maybe you should invade and occupy their countries to free them from their legal and soverign government, because their people are not 'happy' or 'free' under it; but 'you' won't, because they have no vast supply of easy to extract oil, because you complain about paying $2/gallon for it (btw, that's still 30% cheaper than 'my country'), as you should have been since the sixties.
Or maybe 'you' could use 'your' authority while they are in 'your' country to employ them (no preference over 'native' citizens, just fairly according to their abilities, as I hear the job-finding portion of the USAs welfare system works, ICBW), give them citizenship, and fund the medical and welfare needs of your 'native' citizent from *their* taxes. Because they are not 'American', or at least, not as 'American' as 'you', does not mean they could not function as a valuable member of 'your' society.
What gives 'you' the right to impose your freedoms upon other nations? Invasion and occupation is still an act of war as far as I know - what provocation do you have?
Enjoy your biometric passports and RFID credit cards. You can keep them.
85% of the ~50% (guess) that use the Internet from the 1% that have a computer...
Put this way, we (those reading this online) are all well within the top percentile of the worlds population, at least technology-wise. makes ya feel kinda warm and fuzzy, don't it...
Easy to forget those people we don't see are members of the same population.
<flamebait> Kind of like the United States of Americans proclaiming themselves as 'world leaders', when they certainly don't lead the world in population (China, everyone knows that), consumer technology (Japan), or education and healthcare (South Korea apparently are excellent here...).
The only thing I can think of United States of Americans as leading the world in, as far as the figures available to me show, is in the size, strength and trainining of their military. Congratulations, you can maim and kill with the best of 'em. "War does not determine who is right, only who is left." -- Bertrand Russel (War and Peace)
btw: I refer to those citizens of The United States of America not as 'Americans', because I don't believe the Mexicans, nor the Canadians (even the French ones;) deserve the stigma of being associated with them. </flamebait></rant>
Possibly, just possibly, DoSing the masetr DNS server for the TLDs.com and.net could be a BAD thing.
hmmm... militant action...
hmmm... blond office assistants...
I like your thinking, though.
btw: for those who feel like conversing with verisign (no, really... don't spam them... seriously... well... maybe just a little;) ) you can find some addresses on this related post.
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Also, a majority of people using C++ don't trust Microsoft, and signify this by using emacs and gcc (a vastly superior concept to anyone who has tried it).
I used to be a VB programmer, then I got better. However, after my transition to C *AND* Java, I recognize that BOTH these languages could (or could have, during their evolution) take a page from VB's book of inheritance and ease of using code components.
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Believe it or not, the one who's not dead.
Really, it would be far easier and cheaper for them to build their own/get plans for a `modern'-style bomb.
Ah, this could probably be used as a heuristic in attaining the number of exploits on your machine. Staticticaly, it seems the amount of exploitable Microsoft software on your machine is directly proportional to the amount of Microsoft software on your machine.
Just add up how much MS software you have installed, multiply by factor X, being the average rate of exploits per package, and you know how many you have to find and correct.
Given this example of it though, many other common applications and APIs could also be thought of as HALs, such as OpenGL for instance.
From what I've read of this project though, they seem to have developed a userspace messaging scheme to bring up configuration tools upon hardware changes, I just don't see this as being all that innovative - nor particularly useful for the most part, I mean: do you plug in a new printer often enough to justify running a daemon to poll for one twice a second?
What, like a kernel?
Spam is still a problem untill you are *sure* you've gotten every e-mail you were supposed to.
E-mail was designed as a resillient, adaptable form of communication to ensure that everything sent to you, got to you. Do you *know* that all your messages are getting through to you now?
The solution is clear? wt... ohhh.... a beowulf cluster of IP lawyers... OF COURSE!!!
Not toasted yet - it's still quite possible it'll be accepted as its own little beastie; free from the *need* to conform... unlikely, but possible. ... we can live in hope. Personally, I'd kind of like to see the day when the Tech support guys from my telco ask what OS I'm runing, not what Windows version...
Yes, software patents are evil - yes, copyight is great for protecting an implementation, yet allowing precious operability.
However, isn't it the case that one of the major problems with protecting, by patent or otherwise, your (or your team's/company's/whatever's) software is a matter of juristiction? For software contributed to by dozens of programmers across the Intaarweb, and hosted on probably whatever cheap, offshore server will take it - who has juristiction? The country of origin of the project mantainer?
If GNUXyz, hosted in Brazil, mantained by a Hungarian hacker, infringes a US patent, whom do you sue? Can you extradite them? Seize their host's servers?
I don't know. Up with globalization under communisim!
Mmm... a beowulf of Slashdot herd mentalities...
'I could blow up the whole damn world with that thing.' - RvB
Playground monitors, at least here - allow all the little kiddes to play whatever games they like. Their role is, as it should be, to stop them from beating up on each other. They are also recognized by those under their care as a valid supervisor, with morality, integrity, and importantly the juristiction to assert their legal authourity. Why do 'you' have authority over European nations?
>I refer to those citizens of The United States of America by whatever I choose to; and, at least untill 'you' come up with and agree upon an 'official' noun unique to your country, government, juristiction, and social values, I will continue to exercise my intellectual freedom to do so.
I believe they 'sneak' over 'your' borders to get 'your' mecical and welfare benefits because they are superior to those where they came from. No, I don't believe they are entitled to your taxpayer-funded ordinances, but from their perspective I'm sure they're better off cheating to get them than starving and dying at home. Arresting, detaining, incarcerating, or extraditing them is not going to change this.
Maybe you should invade and occupy their countries to free them from their legal and soverign government, because their people are not 'happy' or 'free' under it; but 'you' won't, because they have no vast supply of easy to extract oil, because you complain about paying $2/gallon for it (btw, that's still 30% cheaper than 'my country'), as you should have been since the sixties.
Or maybe 'you' could use 'your' authority while they are in 'your' country to employ them (no preference over 'native' citizens, just fairly according to their abilities, as I hear the job-finding portion of the USAs welfare system works, ICBW), give them citizenship, and fund the medical and welfare needs of your 'native' citizent from *their* taxes. Because they are not 'American', or at least, not as 'American' as 'you', does not mean they could not function as a valuable member of 'your' society.
What gives 'you' the right to impose your freedoms upon other nations? Invasion and occupation is still an act of war as far as I know - what provocation do you have?
Enjoy your biometric passports and RFID credit cards. You can keep them.
85% of the ~50% (guess) that use the Internet from the 1% that have a computer...
;) deserve the stigma of being associated with them. </flamebait></rant>
Put this way, we (those reading this online) are all well within the top percentile of the worlds population, at least technology-wise. makes ya feel kinda warm and fuzzy, don't it...
Easy to forget those people we don't see are members of the same population.
<flamebait> Kind of like the United States of Americans proclaiming themselves as 'world leaders', when they certainly don't lead the world in population (China, everyone knows that), consumer technology (Japan), or education and healthcare (South Korea apparently are excellent here...).
The only thing I can think of United States of Americans as leading the world in, as far as the figures available to me show, is in the size, strength and trainining of their military. Congratulations, you can maim and kill with the best of 'em. "War does not determine who is right, only who is left." -- Bertrand Russel (War and Peace)
btw: I refer to those citizens of The United States of America not as 'Americans', because I don't believe the Mexicans, nor the Canadians (even the French ones
uhm, how abut requiring authentication for 'man' ?
For all those with an IPTABLES gateway/firewall, imperialviolet.org has a fix :D
Possibly, just possibly, DoSing the masetr DNS server for the TLDs .com and .net could be a BAD thing.
;) ) you can find some addresses on this related post.
hmmm... militant action...
hmmm... blond office assistants...
I like your thinking, though.
btw: for those who feel like conversing with verisign (no, really... don't spam them... seriously... well... maybe just a little
Also, a majority of people using C++ don't trust Microsoft, and signify this by using emacs and gcc (a vastly superior concept to anyone who has tried it).
I used to be a VB programmer, then I got better. However, after my transition to C *AND* Java, I recognize that BOTH these languages could (or could have, during their evolution) take a page from VB's book of inheritance and ease of using code components.
Microsoft IS completely evil.