That was in the third book, wasn't it? Been a while since I read them.
So he went from being a robot to being a disembodied robot. Besides, what's a robot, if not a computer with "limbs"? C3PO had arms and legs, HAL-9000 had booster rockets and creepy little red eyes all over the place.
In this case the availability of source code made no difference in the discovery of the vulnerability.
I meant in general. (Beg pardon, I may have misinterpreted the argument.)
I wrote a piece of software once, slapped the GPL on it, and stuck it on SourceForge. Within a month or so, someone had an exploit for it (which was really kind of funny, because nobody was really using it (what's really funny was that it was then picked up from bugtraq by a hell of a lot of other security sites like securiteam -- even for a later advisory that wasn't actually accurate, nor a bug, nor exploitable)).
I'm willing to bet that they a) wouldn't have bothered if it wasn't on SourceForge, and b) if I hadn't released the source, it'd just be a -- whoa, earthquake! I shit you not, we just got hit by an earthquake -- lot harder for them to have figured out some of the bugs.
Postfix has such a feature. I forget what they're called. "Per-user aliases" or something.
Basically, you tack on a "+foo" to the end of your email address (e.g., "user+nytimes@example.com"). Postfix will look for a ~/.forward+foo, then ~/.forward, then blah blah. I haven't slept in 24 hours, sorry I can't be more helpful.
This really is a good demonstration that availablity of the source code probably does not make it any easier for a black-hat to find an exploit, in this case it made no difference at all.
Erm. It certainly does make it easier to find vulnerabilities.
Supposedly the OSS advantage is that it will be fixed sooner, let's see.
The OSS advantage is that you can fix it yourself, if you're so inclined.
They have invented a successor to the abortion pill, RU486. It's called RUPentium, and causes embryo cells not to divide correctly.
One of the routers/firewalls at work is named ru486. When I got its backup box online (an F5 load balancer, now running Debian), I got to name it: ru487. Its coprocessor.:-)
Shouldn't that be the the other way around? The robots.txt file can use Follow, NoIndex to ask Google to go blind, while.htaccess can be used to block access.
Correct. Basically, robots.txt is client-side,.htaccess is server-side.
The latter is also far more powerful. robots.txt was created brain-dead.
Terrorism is old and busted, and is nothing but a political tool and soundbite op.
Those who respond, "tell that to the victims of 9-11", I submit that if all those people were here today they would be pretty fucking pissed at all the unconstitutional bullshit that has been done in their name.
Agreed. If I died in any manner, and someone used my death to justify fucking up my country, I'd be pretty god damned pissed. (Well, moreso.)
What are we doing about it?
I had this conversation once: I tended to pry the capslock key right the hell off my keyboards. The fellow I was having this conversation with then pointed out that capslock could be remapped to do other interesting things.
Why do we need this? Seriously. What do you have to watch that is so time-critical that you MUST see it real-time?
Seriously: The Simpsons.
or go to a sports bar.
...You're kidding, right? Maybe where you live sports bars aren't gatherings of drunken jock retards. I personally prefer the drunken punk rocker retards.
My next paycheck was already going to go for a pocket TV so I could snarf the Simpsons while I'm working late hours in the office.
I see what you're saying, but look at it this way: how much would you save later on? Take the patches this dude wrote. Is it worth $100k for better[0] security on your systems, or $500k later when your systems get cracked? (Maybe that's a bit exaggerated, but you get the idea.)
Even if you're paying for your competitors, you're still saving money. Maybe you could even come to some sort of agreement with them to chip in equally for the project.
So, a three year-old girl was hurt. While that truly is sad, I'm waiting for the first pedestrian fatality attributed to a Seqway.
This will come not from the driver of a Segway mowing someone down, but from the guy walking on the sidewalk who fails to repress the urge to beat the living shit out of the driver with his own scooter for looking like such a dork.
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That was in the third book, wasn't it? Been a while since I read them.
So he went from being a robot to being a disembodied robot. Besides, what's a robot, if not a computer with "limbs"? C3PO had arms and legs, HAL-9000 had booster rockets and creepy little red eyes all over the place.
Eh. He was the shipbrain. Suppose the ship was his body.
USGS says 5.2, I'm around Santa Ana...
Looks like it was pretty close. Cool. Shaking lasted a good 8 seconds. Not usually so noteworthy, but this was rather stronger than usual.
I wrote a piece of software once, slapped the GPL on it, and stuck it on SourceForge. Within a month or so, someone had an exploit for it (which was really kind of funny, because nobody was really using it (what's really funny was that it was then picked up from bugtraq by a hell of a lot of other security sites like securiteam -- even for a later advisory that wasn't actually accurate, nor a bug, nor exploitable)).
I'm willing to bet that they a) wouldn't have bothered if it wasn't on SourceForge, and b) if I hadn't released the source, it'd just be a -- whoa, earthquake! I shit you not, we just got hit by an earthquake -- lot harder for them to have figured out some of the bugs.
Postfix has such a feature. I forget what they're called. "Per-user aliases" or something.
Basically, you tack on a "+foo" to the end of your email address (e.g., "user+nytimes@example.com"). Postfix will look for a ~/.forward+foo, then ~/.forward, then blah blah. I haven't slept in 24 hours, sorry I can't be more helpful.
The OSS advantage is that you can fix it yourself, if you're so inclined. Agreed.
What's keeping you from hacking up ircd-hybrid?
Kind of makes me want to go to MIT.
The latter is also far more powerful. robots.txt was created brain-dead.
This would have made "Dude, Where's My Car" a much shorter movie.
:P)
I therefore think it rocks.
(Just kidding. I liked that movie, actually... I'll probably get modded troll just for saying I liked it, though.
I was going to say something about SCO, but I'll assume the rest of Slashdot has already done it for me.
Porn. Lots and lots of porn.
:P
Straight porn for the kids, kiddie porn for the church staff.
This is going to cost me some karma, isn't it.
I had this conversation once: I tended to pry the capslock key right the hell off my keyboards. The fellow I was having this conversation with then pointed out that capslock could be remapped to do other interesting things.
Long story short: change what you don't like.
My next paycheck was already going to go for a pocket TV so I could snarf the Simpsons while I'm working late hours in the office.
There was some post yesterday or so that predicted a story like this would show up.
"Jeez", it said, "what's the next story in the queue? Teens found to be downloading music online?"
He wasn't too far off...
Even if you're paying for your competitors, you're still saving money. Maybe you could even come to some sort of agreement with them to chip in equally for the project.
[0] As far as I know.