It's not about protecting the consumer, and it never has been.
Utter rot ! If there were no consumers, there would be no browsers anyway. If you allow MS to basically lock the doors to other providers of software, then those other providers are going to struggle in the market. If they can't compete, they go under and you as a consumer are left with one option - microsoft internet explorer. This is what the laws against monopolies are all about.
So it is ALL about the consumer. Everybody expects low prices, but without fair competition the monopolist can charge anything they want,their prices never go down and the quality really doesn't matter, because what ya gonna do about it ? There is no competition to run to. No business can run without consumers, not even microsoft. The protection of the consumer is WHY we have trade laws regarding monopoly status.
Does Ubuntu only have one web browser, one text editor, one desktop environment, one office replacement, one media player, all produced by Ubuntu ?
Oh, it doesn't. You get to choose which one you use. Unlike Windows, which ships with one web browser, one crappy text editor, one crappy graphics editor, no office suite, one media player, one desktop environment, all produced by microsoft.
Can you spot the difference ?
In a world where most computers sold to the public come pre-loaded with microsoft software, every other software maker is immediately at a disadvantage. Unless they deal with MS, they struggle to get market share. MS IS a convicted monopolist, they have a duty to ease access to their competitors, not block them at every turn. Ensuring that the first experience a person gets of the internet is through IE (for example) goes a long way to ensuring that that person sticks to their software. Fortunately MS don't own the internet, so why should they be allowed to restrict a persons first experience of it to MS brand software ? If they allowed OEMs to bundle other browsers and remove IE from the default position as THE software, then maybe we wouldn't be here now.
The term is danegeld, and it was paid to the Vikings. Yes it was extortion, but "Danish Mafia" is disingenuous, and it was early medieval not dark age.
Nobody's forcing you to go, so STFU whining. It's obvious money is the only thing on your mind, so stay here and spend it on shit. And when the population hits 15 billion, and you are starving and constantly at war, you can look up to the skys and wonder how the others are getting on.
I'm left wondering how they managed to get those astronauts off the moons surface. No construction, no launch facilities, no assembly needed.
If we are to establish a base on Mars, then crew changes will be necessary I presume. Leave the "command module" in orbit and use a lander. One crew gets out, another gets in. It's not rocket sci... hang on, maybe it is, but it has been done before.
I get tired of the whining about small issues regarding Mars habitation. Nothing is that big an issue if we are prepared to give it an honest go. Even the long periods in space to get there aren't that bad. How long did it take to sail around the globe the first few time ? Nearly 3 years. Ok, they stopped here and there, but not for that long. The scientific challenge is to get the travellers there without being nuked by the cosmic rays, but if we build a ship in space then the heavy shielding can be done little by little, which will keep the costs down.
Of course there is. Even on earth we have a day side and a night side. Neither is permanently in the same place, just the same as on mars. Otherwise it wouldn't be day or night would it ?
You can simulate the night side or winter of mars by going to antarctica, and the day side or summer by going to an earth desert in winter, maybe peru or the steppes of Russia. Nobody said you have to do them both twice a day ! Plus the maximum temp. on mars is around 20C not 0C, and the minimums can reach -140C.
My keyboard (logitech y-sv39) has an Alt Graphic key on the right which does not double as Alt. I could probably change it, but by default it doesn't work as you describe.
The Dvorak layout can't claim anything by itself, it needs an actor. So "Dvorak layout has been claimed (not to be)", or "Dvorak layout is claimed (not to be)" would just about work. Both of those imply an actor. Typical newspaper crap headline.
People complain about grammar nazis wasting so much time on things that seem so petty, but I think it's only fair when you consider how much of your life is taken up by trying to understand what something means when you should be able to just read it and get on with your life. This is why there are so many arguments at times, merely because the poster didn't make themselves clear, and time is wasted going down the path of misunderstanding. And those who prefer the retort "language changes, get over it" are just idly proclaiming their own ignorance, as well as missing the great subtlety and nuance that the English language can impart - when used correctly. Otherwise, things get worse as fewer words have to impart greater meaning. So sue me if I try to at least educate those who make genuine mistakes. Typos happen, but if the word is completely wrong contextually, that makes whoever wrote it look foolish and takes away from whatever argument they were trying to make. Surely the right thing to do when spotting an genuine error is to inform the person so they know for next time ? Or is that too communistic ?
I suspect a lot of people who post here would cheerfully direct a foreign tourist to the wrong place 'for a laugh'. Having been a foreign tourist myself, I don't find it funny in the least. If they are making an effort to be understood in your language, at least have the decency to help out. Unless your hovercraft really is full of eels.
As a result of a routine internal security analysis, a vulnerability was detected which allowed certain communications between the Layered Tech help desk and clients to be vulnerable to interception. While normal help desk communications are not a source of concern, occasionally LT clients submit unencrypted passwords via e-mail or the help desk ticketing system which could result in unauthorized system access by 3rd parties.
So that shows that simple precautions could have prevented access to your server.
Another poster on that thread mentioned brute force root access through ssh. Any admin worth his salt disables root logins immediately. And the next thing is to set up authorized key access for any admin account, so no passwords are ever exchanged online.
At the end of the day, you have no proof to suggest anything other than your server admins somehow gave away your login details. If logging in using the correct password is an exploit, maybe I'd agree with you.
Every single PHP file on the system was infected. Each PHP app can only write to the files under that user account's folder (the server had multiple websites/domains). So I'm guessing the system was hacked.
You're guessing ? So your inexperienced musings count as fact do they ? "Linux is the bad because I am so used to windows that I blame everything on the OS." If you are sharing a server, it is highly probably that you are sharing an ip address. Bad guy pings the ip address for certain php files, and if they are found, automated injection takes place. No "hacking" required. Read up on php, particularly safe_mode and register_globals. Do you allow comments on your blog ? Does each site on this server come with pre-installed blogging software ?
If it was a badly coded PHP app, why is one badly coded PHP app able to infect the whole system? Of course, the same question can be asked of Acrobat Reader: why is a badly coded app able to infect the whole system?
Because the "whole system" wasn't "infected". Several text files contained malicious javascript. Unless you actively run those commands nothing happens. Contrast that to windows getting infected, when everything windows touches gets affected. In your case it was just php code not system binaries. That's the whole point - Linux does not allow php to affect system files. Linux does not allow the user to affect system files. You can't run a web app as root, unless you go way out of your way to set it up like that. And that is most unlikely in your case.
Do you have a copy of an "infected" php file we can look at ? Or a link that describes the same issue happening to others ? Because it seems more likely that it was due to third party banners or a XSS attack. I assume you are on a shared server, so the reinstall was probably either a clean virtual machine image or your chrooted environment was wiped and replaced. Who else on the same machine had these issues ? You realise that a lot of php apps are attacked by cracking the apps admin passwords not by rooting the server. And if your pc got 0wned then any saved passwords on it might have been sent off to a remote site as well.
Mind you, your server management guys probably made some cash out of you. And you put the same software back on straight away.... cool. Either way, you have not demonstrated that linux had anything to do with this. PHP maybe, the php app itself more likely. Are you blaming windows for the acrobat issue ?
Remember how I mentioned my Linux server got hacked? Well, it invoked a javascript code that redirected to a PDF file on all my sites, and when I visited my blog, Acrobat automatically opened it without even prompting (bad Acrobat! Bad!) which contained an exploit with Acrobat itself that infected my PC. Had to format. Ditched Reader and installed FoxIt instead.
WTF has that got to do with Linux ? How did this malicious pdf get on "all your sites" in the first place ? How did the javascript get onto your sites ?
It sounds more like your pc was infected anyway. Especially as the only remedial action you mention taking is to get rid of Acrobat.
And of course, they did this even before he had a decent role...
He is successful because he is successful not because he is well known. But hey, jump on the Keanu bandwagon, hate the person who does what you cannot. Who do you imagine as "the one" ? Val Kilmer ? Reeves has done more for SciFi than Will Smith, that's for sure. At least he doesn't bastardise the script to make sure it is a summer blockbuster. Would Johnny Mnemonic ever have been made without his name on top ? Or many others. All the films he has appeared in I was pleased to see dramatised. Even if he didn't play the best character. He should have starred in the film Equilibrium - it suited his style exactly. Bale merely imitates Reeves in that film, badly. No, I'm not saying Reeves is a great actor, but neither am I and yet I have to endure life as it comes. Being loud and false doesn't entertain me. I'd rather confused and cautious than Mr Ed any day.
Wine in bags. Is this the sign of getting old ?. Do you realise that a lifetime is nothing in terms of society ? My great-grandmother was born in the late 1890's, and my grandfather has just died. So I represent the 3rd from last in my line (my sister has 3 kids and they have 2 kids between them). It really isn't that far back you know. How much change have you seen in 10 years ? 20 years, 30 years, 100 years ? It is not inconceivable that todays people still have the instincts of their forbears, and so technology is largely irrelevant. You make it seem like the cave men were using "skins" instead of bottles ! How primitive !
Read some history with this perspective and realise how little we as a species have advanced. New toys, sure, but new "philosophy" - no chance.
tosser ! There is no truth anymore, there are too many assholes who know better. That is why "philosophy" has the same status as science. As I said before, prove it or fuck off. You can say or think anything you like, but without science you're nothing but a looney.
But that choice was made using science, not philosophy.
Please don't mistake personal thought for philosophy. Philosophy is about what "I" am rather than about what "it" is. The bigger picture if you will. If your species survive because you act a certain way, that is not philosophical, but trial and error, ie. scientific. No matter what you think...
Otherwise we wouldn't be here. Unless you're God, and we had to believe in you to exist. Are chemicals, chemicals - or only if you think of them as such ? Do you think that matter is just imagination or has it been proved ?
Philosophy is all about what you believe, not truth. Without science, your thoughts are nothing.
Without science, philosophy is worthless babble, fit for afternoon tv shows and idiots. Prove what you say or fuck off... (if you have to take a time out to get the data together or to perform an experiment, you've already lost.)
It amazes me that anybody with a clue thinks that suspending income tax will be a boost to the economy. How many people work for government depts. ? Are you going to let them go without pay completely ? Are the army just going to disband for the duration, and the various regulatory organisations stop inspecting food and drugs for poisons ? Are the armies of accountants going to just shut up shop because they have nothing to do ?
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Utter rot !
If there were no consumers, there would be no browsers anyway. If you allow MS to basically lock the doors to other providers of software, then those other providers are going to struggle in the market. If they can't compete, they go under and you as a consumer are left with one option - microsoft internet explorer. This is what the laws against monopolies are all about.
So it is ALL about the consumer. Everybody expects low prices, but without fair competition the monopolist can charge anything they want,their prices never go down and the quality really doesn't matter, because what ya gonna do about it ? There is no competition to run to.
No business can run without consumers, not even microsoft. The protection of the consumer is WHY we have trade laws regarding monopoly status.
I've never used Windows Update through the web site, ever. But I'm all patched up anyway. Maybe that Automatic update thing does it ?
No, let's take a step back.
Does Ubuntu only have one web browser, one text editor, one desktop environment, one office replacement, one media player, all produced by Ubuntu ?
Oh, it doesn't. You get to choose which one you use. Unlike Windows, which ships with one web browser, one crappy text editor, one crappy graphics editor, no office suite, one media player, one desktop environment, all produced by microsoft.
Can you spot the difference ?
In a world where most computers sold to the public come pre-loaded with microsoft software, every other software maker is immediately at a disadvantage. Unless they deal with MS, they struggle to get market share. MS IS a convicted monopolist, they have a duty to ease access to their competitors, not block them at every turn. Ensuring that the first experience a person gets of the internet is through IE (for example) goes a long way to ensuring that that person sticks to their software. Fortunately MS don't own the internet, so why should they be allowed to restrict a persons first experience of it to MS brand software ? If they allowed OEMs to bundle other browsers and remove IE from the default position as THE software, then maybe we wouldn't be here now.
The term is danegeld, and it was paid to the Vikings. Yes it was extortion, but "Danish Mafia" is disingenuous, and it was early medieval not dark age.
Nobody's forcing you to go, so STFU whining.
It's obvious money is the only thing on your mind, so stay here and spend it on shit. And when the population hits 15 billion, and you are starving and constantly at war, you can look up to the skys and wonder how the others are getting on.
I've never met a bigger bunch of whiney kids !
Really ?
I'm left wondering how they managed to get those astronauts off the moons surface. No construction, no launch facilities, no assembly needed.
If we are to establish a base on Mars, then crew changes will be necessary I presume. Leave the "command module" in orbit and use a lander. One crew gets out, another gets in. It's not rocket sci...
hang on, maybe it is, but it has been done before.
I get tired of the whining about small issues regarding Mars habitation. Nothing is that big an issue if we are prepared to give it an honest go. Even the long periods in space to get there aren't that bad. How long did it take to sail around the globe the first few time ? Nearly 3 years. Ok, they stopped here and there, but not for that long. The scientific challenge is to get the travellers there without being nuked by the cosmic rays, but if we build a ship in space then the heavy shielding can be done little by little, which will keep the costs down.
Of course there is. Even on earth we have a day side and a night side. Neither is permanently in the same place, just the same as on mars. Otherwise it wouldn't be day or night would it ?
You can simulate the night side or winter of mars by going to antarctica, and the day side or summer by going to an earth desert in winter, maybe peru or the steppes of Russia. Nobody said you have to do them both twice a day !
Plus the maximum temp. on mars is around 20C not 0C, and the minimums can reach -140C.
Land of the free, home of the brave ...
My keyboard (logitech y-sv39) has an Alt Graphic key on the right which does not double as Alt. I could probably change it, but by default it doesn't work as you describe.
I claim, you claim, he/she claims, they claimed.
The Dvorak layout can't claim anything by itself, it needs an actor. So "Dvorak layout has been claimed (not to be)", or "Dvorak layout is claimed (not to be)" would just about work. Both of those imply an actor. Typical newspaper crap headline.
People complain about grammar nazis wasting so much time on things that seem so petty, but I think it's only fair when you consider how much of your life is taken up by trying to understand what something means when you should be able to just read it and get on with your life. This is why there are so many arguments at times, merely because the poster didn't make themselves clear, and time is wasted going down the path of misunderstanding.
And those who prefer the retort "language changes, get over it" are just idly proclaiming their own ignorance, as well as missing the great subtlety and nuance that the English language can impart - when used correctly. Otherwise, things get worse as fewer words have to impart greater meaning. So sue me if I try to at least educate those who make genuine mistakes. Typos happen, but if the word is completely wrong contextually, that makes whoever wrote it look foolish and takes away from whatever argument they were trying to make. Surely the right thing to do when spotting an genuine error is to inform the person so they know for next time ? Or is that too communistic ?
I suspect a lot of people who post here would cheerfully direct a foreign tourist to the wrong place 'for a laugh'. Having been a foreign tourist myself, I don't find it funny in the least. If they are making an effort to be understood in your language, at least have the decency to help out. Unless your hovercraft really is full of eels.
So that shows that simple precautions could have prevented access to your server.
Another poster on that thread mentioned brute force root access through ssh. Any admin worth his salt disables root logins immediately. And the next thing is to set up authorized key access for any admin account, so no passwords are ever exchanged online.
At the end of the day, you have no proof to suggest anything other than your server admins somehow gave away your login details. If logging in using the correct password is an exploit, maybe I'd agree with you.
You're guessing ? So your inexperienced musings count as fact do they ? "Linux is the bad because I am so used to windows that I blame everything on the OS." If you are sharing a server, it is highly probably that you are sharing an ip address. Bad guy pings the ip address for certain php files, and if they are found, automated injection takes place. No "hacking" required. Read up on php, particularly safe_mode and register_globals. Do you allow comments on your blog ? Does each site on this server come with pre-installed blogging software ?
Because the "whole system" wasn't "infected". Several text files contained malicious javascript. Unless you actively run those commands nothing happens. Contrast that to windows getting infected, when everything windows touches gets affected. In your case it was just php code not system binaries. That's the whole point - Linux does not allow php to affect system files. Linux does not allow the user to affect system files. You can't run a web app as root, unless you go way out of your way to set it up like that. And that is most unlikely in your case.
Do you have a copy of an "infected" php file we can look at ? Or a link that describes the same issue happening to others ? Because it seems more likely that it was due to third party banners or a XSS attack. I assume you are on a shared server, so the reinstall was probably either a clean virtual machine image or your chrooted environment was wiped and replaced. Who else on the same machine had these issues ? You realise that a lot of php apps are attacked by cracking the apps admin passwords not by rooting the server. And if your pc got 0wned then any saved passwords on it might have been sent off to a remote site as well.
.... cool. Either way, you have not demonstrated that linux had anything to do with this. PHP maybe, the php app itself more likely. Are you blaming windows for the acrobat issue ?
Mind you, your server management guys probably made some cash out of you. And you put the same software back on straight away
WTF has that got to do with Linux ? How did this malicious pdf get on "all your sites" in the first place ? How did the javascript get onto your sites ?
It sounds more like your pc was infected anyway. Especially as the only remedial action you mention taking is to get rid of Acrobat.
Oh, that was just dire.
Is InfraRed visible ?
And of course, they did this even before he had a decent role...
He is successful because he is successful not because he is well known. But hey, jump on the Keanu bandwagon, hate the person who does what you cannot. Who do you imagine as "the one" ? Val Kilmer ? Reeves has done more for SciFi than Will Smith, that's for sure. At least he doesn't bastardise the script to make sure it is a summer blockbuster. Would Johnny Mnemonic ever have been made without his name on top ? Or many others. All the films he has appeared in I was pleased to see dramatised. Even if he didn't play the best character. He should have starred in the film Equilibrium - it suited his style exactly. Bale merely imitates Reeves in that film, badly. No, I'm not saying Reeves is a great actor, but neither am I and yet I have to endure life as it comes. Being loud and false doesn't entertain me. I'd rather confused and cautious than Mr Ed any day.
Wine in bags. Is this the sign of getting old ?. Do you realise that a lifetime is nothing in terms of society ? My great-grandmother was born in the late 1890's, and my grandfather has just died. So I represent the 3rd from last in my line (my sister has 3 kids and they have 2 kids between them). It really isn't that far back you know. How much change have you seen in 10 years ? 20 years, 30 years, 100 years ? It is not inconceivable that todays people still have the instincts of their forbears, and so technology is largely irrelevant. You make it seem like the cave men were using "skins" instead of bottles ! How primitive !
Read some history with this perspective and realise how little we as a species have advanced. New toys, sure, but new "philosophy" - no chance.
Mod parent up !!! Without science, philosophy would be nothing.
Go on, mod me down for this ...
Language changes, get used to it !
tosser ! There is no truth anymore, there are too many assholes who know better. That is why "philosophy" has the same status as science. As I said before, prove it or fuck off. You can say or think anything you like, but without science you're nothing but a looney.
But that choice was made using science, not philosophy.
Please don't mistake personal thought for philosophy. Philosophy is about what "I" am rather than about what "it" is. The bigger picture if you will. If your species survive because you act a certain way, that is not philosophical, but trial and error, ie. scientific. No matter what you think...
Otherwise we wouldn't be here. Unless you're God, and we had to believe in you to exist. Are chemicals, chemicals - or only if you think of them as such ? Do you think that matter is just imagination or has it been proved ?
How can you be so wrong ?
Philosophy is all about what you believe, not truth. Without science, your thoughts are nothing.
Without science, philosophy is worthless babble, fit for afternoon tv shows and idiots. Prove what you say or fuck off...
(if you have to take a time out to get the data together or to perform an experiment, you've already lost.)
Not true, you have to form an opinion before you can make an assumption. You do that by experiment.
If you disagree on that then the universe does not exist, scientifically speaking. Without experimentation, you can make no assumptions.
In Soviet Carolina, Senator Ford fucks you !
It amazes me that anybody with a clue thinks that suspending income tax will be a boost to the economy. How many people work for government depts. ? Are you going to let them go without pay completely ? Are the army just going to disband for the duration, and the various regulatory organisations stop inspecting food and drugs for poisons ? Are the armies of accountants going to just shut up shop because they have nothing to do ?
Just think beyond your own pocket for 5 minutes.