... executes code on the stack?
buffer overflow vulnerabilities are the result of Intel Idiocy and the legacy of programmers who exploited the flaw to write l33t self-modifying code that resulted in "backwards compatibility" keeping us vulnerable even after they the default and not a particular language.
Law enforcement officers are screened (investigated, tested, fired for questionable behavior on or off the job, etc) to weed out such individuals.
You'll have to prove to me that the bureaucrats and contractors in charge of this screening process perform these functions better than the average bureaucrat and contractor. Not only do we need tight regulation of LE, every call to a scene should require the presence of a member of a public advocate (member of the press?) to document, witness and rate their actions. The extraordinary power given to LE will ALWAYS be abused sooner or later, whether through ignorance, incompetence or ill-temper from a bad hair day and they must be held accountable, it is the FUNDAMENTAL price they pay for those powers. Just this morning, despite plainly stated Illinois regulations regarding speed trap vehicles be in full view, Arlington Heights had a motorcycle cop stationed behind bushes with a radar gun, only 60 degrees of his front tire arc visible beyond the bushes. Unsurprisingly the priorities of revenue enhancement overrides the ethics of violating the regulations and the consequences of those violations are hugely under-enforced, which encourages more "easier to get forgiveness than permission" attitudes by Pointy-Haired Bureaucrats. We can't trust them, because they prove, time and time again that they can't be trusted.
100K deaths per year, thats more than an order of magnitude than the number of deaths attributed to terrorism in the last decade. Why are they telling us terrorists are dangerous? Imagine the lives saved if we poured half a trillion dollars to combat this, plus no armed forces casualties and no need to tap our phones or sniff our internet traffic.
They are already boosting it by a non integral value, 3.0->3.2 does not appear to be intuitively obvious to the casual observer, why not aim for a mnemonic association with 3.3.
Hopefully, in a corporate setting, having machine group policies to prevent execution from a USB driver, even better, restrict execution to designated drives and directories would stop this infection from spreading.
You're just far superior to anyone who would stand in line for something as crass as a (gasp!) commercially-available product.
If only we could all be so refined and intelligent as you, the world would be a much better place.
Sadly, they are too ashamed to publish the pricing, one has to assume the proposed solutions are economically infeasible. Literally, nothing to see here.
Too bad they have a useless, stupid-ass, flash interface. They can run their insecure code on their own flipping machine if they want me to see their products.
Although I am eagerly awaiting SAMBA4, it is currently only a Technology Preview, far from ready for a production takeover. An essential piece is duplicating the latest Distributed File Sysytem (replication) functionality in W2003 R2 and other AD bits like password encryption (although that should be in the forthcoming Alpha).
SAMBA3, IIRC, integrates well with a NT4 environment, as a member. Can even be PDC a but not a Backup Domain Controller, so you lose a bit of redundancy if you forswear MS servers entirely, from a business perspective that is a tough cookie to swallow unless you have someone on staff well versed and diligent in backups with offsite rotation. I would love to see some of the big names: RH, IBM, Sun throw some bucks and/or development resources their way to accelerate the process. There are few other projects that will as much of an impact on the current MS yoke than SAMBA4, represent a huge ROI. A whole spectrum of choice from simple clients and member servers sharing files to vampiring the entirety of an existing AD structure then replacing and retiring that MS infrastructure with F/OSS alternatives. I see the light at the of the tunnel, I just hope it's not a train.
artists such as Sir Paul McCartney and U2 have backed a call for an extension of copyright on sound recordings from 50 years to 95 years.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6216152.s tm
Not only is he an unabashed recipient of the current egregious copyright extensions and lopsided radio play tracking, the greedy git wants MORE. Since he fails to appreciate what he already has, I see no point in giving him anything further. There are far more deserving artists competing for my money and attention. I grew up with him and his cohorts music, but unfortunately he fails to "get it", and worse, abuses his position in the attempt to change the deal we agreed upon after the fact. If he truly deserved the "Sir" I would expect from him the good grace of something along the lines of "the public has been very good to me over the years and I look forward to having fulfilling my obligation to the public and releasing those works to be a lasting part of our culture and posterity". Perhaps, if he feels strongly about artists that MAY be dependent upon royalties and have neglected to invest, create new works or otherwise fend for themselve and their families he might start a trust with some small portion of of his hundreds of millions and identify those artists truly deserving of a stipend rather than calling for the theft (nay, piracy) of the public domain and asking us to shoulder the additional burden for himself, U2, Tull, et al to continue their over-privledged lives.
> If all of the specifications for these chips are kept secret
Ahh, security by obscurity. Even in the military I doubt you'll find that depth of control generally implemented. The interest in this information is pretty high, the seekers wily, clever and motivated. The "secret" of interfacing with the hardware has to be distributed to the manufacturers. I wouldn't think your average OEM technician is going to be very trainable to that level of security consciousness either. Given the number of possible of leak sources, at some point a combination of social engineering, bribery, WEP cracking, dumpster diving, laptop loss, etc. will bring it into the public purview.
FLOSS is based primarily on GIVING, not on TAKING of source code and the ideas which it expresses to those who will treat it in the same fashion. If their business model fails to take that objective into account, their business will fail. The profit (if any) lies in servicing customers uninterested in actively interacting with the developers and willing to pay for that intermediacy and handholding, not greedily trying to usurp efforts and intentions of others with unsubstantiated IP (imaginary property) claims.
So whats your point? He has still said far more than 10 dumb things and it would not hurt the public to be reminded of that fact regardless of who published them.
What kind of femtocortex would depend on PC World for anything? Can you say "overblown sense of self-importance"? Maybe it is a reasonable resource, (haven't read the rag in years, even so it was far outclassed by BYTE) I would not recommned its use as the sole basis for any PC decision.
The difference between a router and a firewall is primarily the default intent:
router: do your darnedest to forward any traffic not specifically denied. A poorly configured ACL can leave you swinging in the breeze. Logging is usually off by default.
Fer instance: a ping sweep on a default setup will expose all hosts active and responding and log nothing about someone rattling your doorknobs.
Firewall: do your darnedest to block anything not specifically allowed. A poorly designed ACL is less likely to be unsafe. Logging of violations is usually enabled by default.
Fer instance: a ping sweep on a default setup should not reveal any hosts but should log the sweep attempt.
In a pinch, with some extra effort and understanding, you can configure a router to behave like a firewall and vice versa. You can use a screwdriver as a chisel too, it's just not the correct tool for the job, if you want consistent, professional job.
Wake me when this schmuck actually does something more than flap his lips. He has absolutely no idea about the underpinnings FOSS, instead it's "OMG! (some other) company might be able to leverage the largess of these developers and maybe even make a couple bucks". YAIATH (Yet another idiot at the helm).
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... executes code on the stack? buffer overflow vulnerabilities are the result of Intel Idiocy and the legacy of programmers who exploited the flaw to write l33t self-modifying code that resulted in "backwards compatibility" keeping us vulnerable even after they the default and not a particular language.
Has anyone else noticed that working in a IT environment means being perpetually involved in combobulation of the user base.
We can't trust them, because they prove, time and time again that they can't be trusted.
100K deaths per year, thats more than an order of magnitude than the number of deaths attributed to terrorism in the last decade. Why are they telling us terrorists are dangerous? Imagine the lives saved if we poured half a trillion dollars to combat this, plus no armed forces casualties and no need to tap our phones or sniff our internet traffic.
They are already boosting it by a non integral value, 3.0->3.2 does not appear to be intuitively obvious to the casual observer, why not aim for a mnemonic association with 3.3.
Hopefully, in a corporate setting, having machine group policies to prevent execution from a USB driver, even better, restrict execution to designated drives and directories would stop this infection from spreading.
Sadly, they are too ashamed to publish the pricing, one has to assume the proposed solutions are economically infeasible.
Literally, nothing to see here.
Too bad they have a useless, stupid-ass, flash interface. They can run their insecure code on their own flipping machine if they want me to see their products.
"Gave up my civil liberties and all I got was this lousy president."
Although I am eagerly awaiting SAMBA4, it is currently only a Technology Preview, far from ready for a production takeover. An essential piece is duplicating the latest Distributed File Sysytem (replication) functionality in W2003 R2 and other AD bits like password encryption (although that should be in the forthcoming Alpha). SAMBA3, IIRC, integrates well with a NT4 environment, as a member. Can even be PDC a but not a Backup Domain Controller, so you lose a bit of redundancy if you forswear MS servers entirely, from a business perspective that is a tough cookie to swallow unless you have someone on staff well versed and diligent in backups with offsite rotation. I would love to see some of the big names: RH, IBM, Sun throw some bucks and/or development resources their way to accelerate the process. There are few other projects that will as much of an impact on the current MS yoke than SAMBA4, represent a huge ROI. A whole spectrum of choice from simple clients and member servers sharing files to vampiring the entirety of an existing AD structure then replacing and retiring that MS infrastructure with F/OSS alternatives. I see the light at the of the tunnel, I just hope it's not a train.
Not only is he an unabashed recipient of the current egregious copyright extensions and lopsided radio play tracking, the greedy git wants MORE.
Since he fails to appreciate what he already has, I see no point in giving him anything further. There are far more deserving artists competing for my money and attention.
I grew up with him and his cohorts music, but unfortunately he fails to "get it", and worse, abuses his position in the attempt to change the deal we agreed upon after the fact.
If he truly deserved the "Sir" I would expect from him the good grace of something along the lines of "the public has been very good to me over the years and I look forward to having fulfilling my obligation to the public and releasing those works to be a lasting part of our culture and posterity". Perhaps, if he feels strongly about artists that MAY be dependent upon royalties and have neglected to invest, create new works or otherwise fend for themselve and their families he might start a trust with some small portion of of his hundreds of millions and identify those artists truly deserving of a stipend rather than calling for the theft (nay, piracy) of the public domain and asking us to shoulder the additional burden for himself, U2, Tull, et al to continue their over-privledged lives.
> If all of the specifications for these chips are kept secret
Ahh, security by obscurity. Even in the military I doubt you'll find that depth of control generally implemented. The interest in this information is pretty high, the seekers wily, clever and motivated. The "secret" of interfacing with the hardware has to be distributed to the manufacturers. I wouldn't think your average OEM technician is going to be very trainable to that level of security consciousness either. Given the number of possible of leak sources, at some point a combination of social engineering, bribery, WEP cracking, dumpster diving, laptop loss, etc. will bring it into the public purview.
FLOSS is based primarily on GIVING, not on TAKING of source code and the ideas which it expresses to those who will treat it in the same fashion. If their business model fails to take that objective into account, their business will fail. The profit (if any) lies in servicing customers uninterested in actively interacting with the developers and willing to pay for that intermediacy and handholding, not greedily trying to usurp efforts and intentions of others with unsubstantiated IP (imaginary property) claims.
I am breathlessly waiting to see which direction my HDMI jab tips.
fit the HDMI connector on a screen that size?
(With Chicaga twang) Like Kansas and Kentucky, Dey're over by dere.
PS to parent, how's the cat? (Betcha never heard that before)
So whats your point?
He has still said far more than 10 dumb things and it would not hurt the public to be reminded of that fact regardless of who published them.
What kind of femtocortex would depend on PC World for anything?
Can you say "overblown sense of self-importance"?
Maybe it is a reasonable resource, (haven't read the rag in years, even so it was far outclassed by BYTE) I would not recommned its use as the sole basis for any PC decision.
The difference between a router and a firewall is primarily the default intent:
router: do your darnedest to forward any traffic not specifically denied. A poorly configured ACL can leave you swinging in the breeze. Logging is usually off by default.
Fer instance: a ping sweep on a default setup will expose all hosts active and responding and log nothing about someone rattling your doorknobs.
Firewall: do your darnedest to block anything not specifically allowed. A poorly designed ACL is less likely to be unsafe. Logging of violations is usually enabled by default.
Fer instance: a ping sweep on a default setup should not reveal any hosts but should log the sweep attempt.
In a pinch, with some extra effort and understanding, you can configure a router to behave like a firewall and vice versa. You can use a screwdriver as a chisel too, it's just not the correct tool for the job, if you want consistent, professional job.
Wake me when this schmuck actually does something more than flap his lips. He has absolutely no idea about the underpinnings FOSS, instead it's "OMG! (some other) company might be able to leverage the largess of these developers and maybe even make a couple bucks". YAIATH (Yet another idiot at the helm).