I wish the RIAA would remember that... well, at least they can't subpeona anything and everything they want anymore.
Re:Report SCO's license fraud to the police!
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Germany Muzzles SCO
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· Score: 1
Translation of the bottom part:
In my opinion, SCO is a case for a district attorney. Someone should cite them for fraud; sadly, we can't do that in Germany. The advantage of a complaint would be that the DA would take over the investigation, so that we don't have to pay anything. In other European countries we should file such complaints together with allied organisations.
Ouch, actually that felt a bit rough... but my translations tend to be, anyway.
Sadly, that won't upgrade everything... just the packages recorded in the "world" file, which means if you let emerge figure out your dependancies somewhere along the line, rather than explicitly mentioning them on the command line, they might be skipped here, depending on how good the -D detection works.
I use a series of awk and sed scripts to make sure my world file contains a list of all my installed packages to make it easier to keep track of what's been changed recently.
I'm sorry, but the operation of YoYo's is a trade secret. We're awaiting a ruling from Danish courts, but in the meantime, the YYIA is suing you for everything you've got!
She does make a good point about how arbritrary perceptions are. I think the most interesting thing she said was that the brain ceases to interpret pain as pain, because this indicates some understanding that the signals are still being processed, just not in the normal way. Thing about it for a second. That's not even the normal "ignore your pain" ideal, it goes even further. What if we really do have the ability to interpret our senses as we see fit?
Re:Conflict of interest..
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The Virus Squad
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Well, the article hints at some sort of collusion between spammers and the author of MyDoom, but it seems like this would be the exception, even if it's true. The virus writers are in it for the fun, of course (not to mention revenge).
It also seems possible that the antivirus companies themselves are writing the viruses, then charging to protect users against them, but this also seems unlikely, given the police investigations that inevitably follow major virus outbreaks.
But how often do you run across a computer you have to service with expired virus subscriptions? It seems to happen to me quite a bit. I suppose M$'s virus scanner mentioned earlier on/. might help, but that reeks even more of conspiracy than the current "protection money" setup does.
Rather than bundling a questionably legal virus scanner into their next service pack, Microsoft should perhaps add a tool that helps to lock down permissions on NTFS volumes, creates unpriveleged accounts for users and various services, etc. Even with the multitude of security holes, Windows can be made a lot harder to mess with, if you put a little work into. The key here is privelege seperation.
Also very true. The antivirus companies themselves aren't interested in fixing everything wrong with computer security; what new false dichotomy do they come up with once "pay us for a subscription or your computer becomes a slave to every halfway-savvy hacker out there"?
Well, I have to wonder how well the whole antivirus industry is handling the problem; why release virus signatures instead of just changing the entire underlying security system in the operating system? It's things like viruses that make SELinux seem like a very good idea to me.
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Right, but the banks only forward it to the treasury anyway. This just cuts out the middleman (and the convenience).
I wish the RIAA would remember that... well, at least they can't subpeona anything and everything they want anymore.
Translation of the bottom part:
In my opinion, SCO is a case for a district attorney. Someone should cite them for fraud; sadly, we can't do that in Germany. The advantage of a complaint would be that the DA would take over the investigation, so that we don't have to pay anything. In other European countries we should file such complaints together with allied organisations.
Ouch, actually that felt a bit rough... but my translations tend to be, anyway.
Sadly, that won't upgrade everything... just the packages recorded in the "world" file, which means if you let emerge figure out your dependancies somewhere along the line, rather than explicitly mentioning them on the command line, they might be skipped here, depending on how good the -D detection works.
I use a series of awk and sed scripts to make sure my world file contains a list of all my installed packages to make it easier to keep track of what's been changed recently.
I'm sorry, but the operation of YoYo's is a trade secret. We're awaiting a ruling from Danish courts, but in the meantime, the YYIA is suing you for everything you've got!
She does make a good point about how arbritrary perceptions are. I think the most interesting thing she said was that the brain ceases to interpret pain as pain, because this indicates some understanding that the signals are still being processed, just not in the normal way. Thing about it for a second. That's not even the normal "ignore your pain" ideal, it goes even further. What if we really do have the ability to interpret our senses as we see fit?
Well, the article hints at some sort of collusion between spammers and the author of MyDoom, but it seems like this would be the exception, even if it's true. The virus writers are in it for the fun, of course (not to mention revenge).
It also seems possible that the antivirus companies themselves are writing the viruses, then charging to protect users against them, but this also seems unlikely, given the police investigations that inevitably follow major virus outbreaks.
But how often do you run across a computer you have to service with expired virus subscriptions? It seems to happen to me quite a bit. I suppose M$'s virus scanner mentioned earlier on /. might help, but that reeks even more of conspiracy than the current "protection money" setup does.
Rather than bundling a questionably legal virus scanner into their next service pack, Microsoft should perhaps add a tool that helps to lock down permissions on NTFS volumes, creates unpriveleged accounts for users and various services, etc. Even with the multitude of security holes, Windows can be made a lot harder to mess with, if you put a little work into. The key here is privelege seperation.
Also very true. The antivirus companies themselves aren't interested in fixing everything wrong with computer security; what new false dichotomy do they come up with once "pay us for a subscription or your computer becomes a slave to every halfway-savvy hacker out there"?
Well, I have to wonder how well the whole antivirus industry is handling the problem; why release virus signatures instead of just changing the entire underlying security system in the operating system? It's things like viruses that make SELinux seem like a very good idea to me.