NO. it only violates free speech if the GOVERNMENT is curtailing your speech rights. as belkin is a private company, they are entitled to do whatever they want like this. and you are entitled to buy a different brand.
again. if government is not involved, then it cannot be a free speech/censorship/1st amendment issue.
It's a matter of giving people the tools, it's people not understanding the design of APIs where you get vulnerabilities. Certainly there are whole classes of vulnerabilities like buffer overruns that are very well understood at this point, and the scanning tools are very good and the compiler switches are very good.
Not everybody has changed their code and done the recompilations to get rid of those things. But fortunately the main system that's under attack today is the latest operating system.
So he mentions buffer overruns, he really doesnt address them. I stand by my original statement.
did you even read the blurb at the top of the page? and I quote: "The engineered virus is not contagious and does not affect humans"
even so..... lets say we did not work on this stuff at all.... sooner or later Osama or some Osama wannabe will get around to making something like this. I would rather we research it before he or anyone else does, so we might be able to counteract the effects. You create anti-venom from venom you know... same with vaccines against things like this.
>"Well, you probably won't like the answer but I have it on good authority that in case of emergency, (i.e. the Govt. really enforcing anti-trust laws) the buildings on the MS campus will transform into giant robots, march on Washington D.C. and install Bill Gates as our new overlord."
I wouldnt worry too much. It will take them at least 3 patches to get Bill stable....
"Hell, just have them read/. !!! Same stuff, only it's free, has stories that are continuously duplic^H^H^H^H^H^Hupdated, and a lively and informative userbase... why go for a book instead?"
Because with the book, you arent accidentally going to see the goatse guy.
>Because you made a claim to be able to show some nonsensical correlation, presumably based on finding a single isolated incident that fits your pattern.
well exactly. Through my example, I was making that same point about the original article. taking some arbitrary correlation then finding data to back it up.
and even with my more extreme example, im sure i could get a sample group in the tens of thousands, given the proper resources.
Slashdot Mirror
im surprised i havent seen anything regarding Alan Cox yet...
>IANAL but couldn't this violate free speech?
NO. it only violates free speech if the GOVERNMENT is curtailing your speech rights. as belkin is a private company, they are entitled to do whatever they want like this. and you are entitled to buy a different brand.
again. if government is not involved, then it cannot be a free speech/censorship/1st amendment issue.
well once i forgot to put the parking brake on and my car autonomously rolled down the hill and crashed into a couple of cars in a new car dealership.
can I have a million dollars? please? aw come on...
Sygate Rocks.
"Authorities detain YOU"?
No, in this case you would use something like:
In Soviet Russia, Internet Essayists detain YOU!
So he mentions buffer overruns, he really doesnt address them. I stand by my original statement.
Okay, thanks for posting.
Buffer Overflow.
did you even read the blurb at the top of the page? and I quote: "The engineered virus is not contagious and does not affect humans"
even so..... lets say we did not work on this stuff at all.... sooner or later Osama or some Osama wannabe will get around to making something like this. I would rather we research it before he or anyone else does, so we might be able to counteract the effects. You create anti-venom from venom you know... same with vaccines against things like this.
im shocked you didnt hit -1 in a hurry...
nice post (grandparent), i agree with everything...
especially about how it would be nice to have a tech site that isnt so political...
>"Well, you probably won't like the answer but I have it on good authority that in case of emergency, (i.e. the Govt. really enforcing anti-trust laws) the buildings on the MS campus will transform into giant robots, march on Washington D.C. and install Bill Gates as our new overlord."
I wouldnt worry too much. It will take them at least 3 patches to get Bill stable....
well on osama's last audiotape, he credited saddam and his sons for all their help. close enough for me. :)
Yes, I like to put up Van Gogh on the wall, as soon as Joe Millionaire is over....
yep.
Developers in this situation should examine this type of arrangement:
in soviet russia, YOU hack AOL....
and with all those russian hackers, thats probably a true statement....
"Hell, just have them read /. !!! Same stuff, only it's free, has stories that are continuously duplic^H^H^H^H^H^Hupdated, and a lively and informative userbase ... why go for a book instead?"
Because with the book, you arent accidentally going to see the goatse guy.
I am forever scarred.
>Because you made a claim to be able to show some nonsensical correlation, presumably based on finding a single isolated incident that fits your pattern.
well exactly. Through my example, I was making that same point about the original article. taking some arbitrary correlation then finding data to back it up.
and even with my more extreme example, im sure i could get a sample group in the tens of thousands, given the proper resources.
whatever.
5 years of pac man and im still afraid of ghosts. 10 years of tetris and im still afraid of falling bricks. probably even moreso.
>Any study without proper statistical sampling (which you don't seem to be familiar with) and on what do you base that (incorrect) assumption?
im sure i could do a study to figure out that brown eyed left handed one legged people make more money than blue eyed right handed two legged people.
can i have a grant now?