It could be, if you run XP in qemu and don't know how to expand the NTFS file system within an enlarged.img file. But save for this minor point, you're absolutely right.
Get a grip, the plug was pulled because it wasn't popular enough to warrant keeping.
If popularity were the only metric w.r.t. archiving, a LOT of our human cultural heritage would have disappeared by now, or never have been preserved at all. Having said that, not everything is worth preserving...
Actually, it's not such a bad idea. The concept of putting important components in user-space has been around for a while, and it still has potential w.r.t. reliability. But the real question is: are only microkernel architectures capable of self-healing?
Maybe they are just the symptoms of a more profound disease: political carelessness of average people, which ultimately results in bad laws being passed by corrupt politicians, tolerated by the population, (ab)used by those who bought the laws, and ultimately enforced by lawyers. The real problem is people not caring about politics that enact the laws in their name.
Why do you assume I'm comparing Unix with Windows? I'm not (being a Unix hacker for over 20 years). Personally, I wouldn't touch Windows with a 10 ft pole, but that's totally beside the point. Just have a look at bugtraq: there are HUGE number of vulnerabilities in 3rd party software, and if the DL's staff wants to keep intruders out, they'd be better advised to be minimalistic: install a secure OS (like, say, OpenBSD, SE-Linux, etc...), and only the smallest possible set of 3rd party programs. And then, monitor all those full disclosure lists, and update frequently. Oh, and steer clear of binary blobs of unknown security record (like closed-source GPU device drivers, proprietary Flash viewers etc).
A better approach would be to use UDP packets where the source IP address is spoofed or erased.
Nothing prevents network operators to do egress filtering on their backbone networks, and your beautifully crafted UDP packets will die a horrible death in/dev/null, somewhere out there on an edge router. This solution isn't one, because it can be easily thwarted by a couple (okay, 10 to 20) NOCs working together.
If you want security, be minimalistic w.r.t. the number of programs that you install.
Considering the OS, OpenBSD is probably one of the most secure OSes today, but still: as soon as you start installing 3rd party apps, you open yourself up to an increasing number of vulnerabilities.
Regarding the Dalai Lama: the less software they install (on an otherwise secure OS), the less they open up to foreign attacks. It's as simple as that.
Heh... there are what... 6 en-route ATC centers across the US, and they all use phone for coordinating between themselves and local ATC centers.
Funnily though, if they cut the wrong cables, they'd also lose phone connectivity between themselves.
It reminds me of NOC administration: you can easily cut the NOC itself out by applying a buggy ACL to its backbone routers. Recovering from this mistake is every NOC's worst nightmare, esp. if the ACL went to a huge number or routers.
It actually happens all the time: worms and viruses often knock each others out, because each of them is competing for scarce resources (like outbound bandwidth, hooks to the keyboard etc.). There's no reason why a white-hat worm shouldn't exist.
The Worm-Wars have already begun.
I'm interested in your thoughts. What about a completely ad-free town? Is there a small town somewhere that is willing to go completely ad-free (maybe there already is one)?
Perhaps not real towns, but how about a rick752 Memorial Day, where website owners take down their ads completely? Something like a no ads day?
In the olden days, files were actually transferred this way. Check out UUCP. But you were not anonymous, even if you encrypted the files.
The situation hasn't changed much today, except that most people go through the bottleneck (or should we say choke- and surveillance points) of ISPs instead of calling each others with modems directly. But the problem of privacy and anonymity is just the same.
Believe it or not the now overturned Jammie Thomas verdict was for $9250 per song file. Even the presiding judge has pointed out how ridiculous it was.
But where does "ridiculous" begin, in the eyes of a judge? 10x, 100x, 1000x?
The problem is that an attacker won't shutdown the machine, but just power-cycle it immediately. The OS has no chance to scramble the memory before this happens.
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Still, good to know.
Multiprocessing is difficult, because soon the number or cores will exceed the IQ of our most talented developers.
It could be, if you run XP in qemu and don't know how to expand the NTFS file system within an enlarged .img file. But save for this minor point, you're absolutely right.
If popularity were the only metric w.r.t. archiving, a LOT of our human cultural heritage would have disappeared by now, or never have been preserved at all. Having said that, not everything is worth preserving...
Actually, it's not such a bad idea. The concept of putting important components in user-space has been around for a while, and it still has potential w.r.t. reliability. But the real question is: are only microkernel architectures capable of self-healing?
Maybe they are just the symptoms of a more profound disease: political carelessness of average people, which ultimately results in bad laws being passed by corrupt politicians, tolerated by the population, (ab)used by those who bought the laws, and ultimately enforced by lawyers. The real problem is people not caring about politics that enact the laws in their name.
Why do you assume I'm comparing Unix with Windows? I'm not (being a Unix hacker for over 20 years). Personally, I wouldn't touch Windows with a 10 ft pole, but that's totally beside the point. Just have a look at bugtraq: there are HUGE number of vulnerabilities in 3rd party software, and if the DL's staff wants to keep intruders out, they'd be better advised to be minimalistic: install a secure OS (like, say, OpenBSD, SE-Linux, etc...), and only the smallest possible set of 3rd party programs. And then, monitor all those full disclosure lists, and update frequently. Oh, and steer clear of binary blobs of unknown security record (like closed-source GPU device drivers, proprietary Flash viewers etc).
Nothing prevents network operators to do egress filtering on their backbone networks, and your beautifully crafted UDP packets will die a horrible death in /dev/null, somewhere out there on an edge router. This solution isn't one, because it can be easily thwarted by a couple (okay, 10 to 20) NOCs working together.
If you want security, be minimalistic w.r.t. the number of programs that you install.
Considering the OS, OpenBSD is probably one of the most secure OSes today, but still: as soon as you start installing 3rd party apps, you open yourself up to an increasing number of vulnerabilities.
Regarding the Dalai Lama: the less software they install (on an otherwise secure OS), the less they open up to foreign attacks. It's as simple as that.
And each one with its own set of vulnerabilities.
IANAL, but what makes you think that Sweden applies Case Law in their legal system?
Funnily though, if they cut the wrong cables, they'd also lose phone connectivity between themselves. It reminds me of NOC administration: you can easily cut the NOC itself out by applying a buggy ACL to its backbone routers. Recovering from this mistake is every NOC's worst nightmare, esp. if the ACL went to a huge number or routers.
It actually happens all the time: worms and viruses often knock each others out, because each of them is competing for scarce resources (like outbound bandwidth, hooks to the keyboard etc.). There's no reason why a white-hat worm shouldn't exist. The Worm-Wars have already begun.
Quite right. Even scientists fall prey to anthropocentrism sometimes; esp. when it comes to a species that is so close to ours.
<BOFH-Mode>Yes, because streaming is selfish. Instead, save it on a shared folder for all employees to see.</BOFH-Mode>
Perhaps not real towns, but how about a rick752 Memorial Day, where website owners take down their ads completely? Something like a no ads day?
Why would a hosting company waste CPU cycles and electricity to decrypt data it ultimately serves to the public?
In the olden days, files were actually transferred this way. Check out UUCP. But you were not anonymous, even if you encrypted the files.
The situation hasn't changed much today, except that most people go through the bottleneck (or should we say choke- and surveillance points) of ISPs instead of calling each others with modems directly. But the problem of privacy and anonymity is just the same.
But where does "ridiculous" begin, in the eyes of a judge? 10x, 100x, 1000x?
The first rule of USENET is not to talk about it.
And you'll have to wait a LONG time, to compensate for the lack of 2^10 cores that Windows would require to still barely boot.
With 50+ years of inflation, how much purchasing power would seventeen bucks still have?
Money decays too, not just electrolyte capacitors...
Slashdot hates COBOL:
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
The problem is that an attacker won't shutdown the machine, but just power-cycle it immediately. The OS has no chance to scramble the memory before this happens.