Exactly why do so many (or is it a vocal few?) people seem to have a problem with the fact that we went to war and WON?
Uhhm, because it was an unjust war ? Because it was opposed by everyone (outside the USA) ?? Because it was done for OIL ? Because the USA is using Israeli tactics there now, punishing people for cellective guilt ? Do you need more reasons ?
What if Bush creates funding for research that leads to a cure for cancer, is the left then going to complain about Bush's henchmen in lab-coats invading the soverign territory owned by the tumors?
This is called the "straw-man" argument. You build yourelf a straw-man to attack. Please try to be more logical in your speach.
They support terrorists because terrorists are useful to them. Terrorists attack the very people they most want to see done in, namely anyone...
There are no terrorists in Iraq.. Or at least there were'nt before the USA started bombing everything there and puting the country's future wealth in it's pockets. (In the form of reconstruction-contracts).
Wasn't there some guy who once said "As you sow, so shall you reap ?"
If cracking tools are widely available, they will be used to more quickly exploit whatever vulnerabilities exist, giving the author less time to patch. It's better for everyone if these tools are hard to come by.
There are a number of things wrong with your last statement. The biggest is that most people don't patch at all, and if they do, it is often only after some news media has reported major exploitation going on in the wild.
Another thing is that software companies don't release patches unless there is an exploit (This is changing for the better though), and often the so called "fix" only stops that particular exploit from working.
And thirdly, in order for exploit tools to be "hard to come by", you have to stop telling people that there is a problem/bug (otherwise, there is always some kid who will create a exploit, in order to educate himself about security problems, and then release it for the recognition by peers).
In short, you would have to go back to the "good old days" of ~1990 where very few people had access to security information and the few that had the exploits could walk in and out of whatever systems that interested them. The print spooler exploit existed for at least two years before the problem was patched (three years for Sun systems because they patched it a year after everybody else) !!
I haven't read the article (this is/.), but i would have expected they reverse engineered, or read the documentation for AMD64 to implement their x86-64 cause it's apparently very nearly the same ISA.
The point is that the big hairy gorilla reverse-engineered the little guy's mouse trap so it could improve it's own design.
Try to s/Intel/Microsoft/ and s/AMD/X/ where "X" is your favorite little OS.
Even on a 200mhz box, you can still use X forwarding.
Yes you can, but if you try to run something like a fancy network capturing software that processes 8 megabits of data in realtime and creates statistics and manipulates linked lists and fancy on-scree images, you risk loosing more than a few packets.
So, when you're looking for a problem, that's not acceptable.
I tend to use tcpdump when I am watching a box using a specific filter and expecting very little traffic,
Having a fancy machine with X running isn't always an option. We have a old 200Mhz Celeron machine attached to our 8Mb Internet link (With a Network interface that doesn't have a IP) and that machine can captured whatever traffic I am looking for with just tcpdump.
There are options to exclude and include whatever traffic you want..
For example, we had a problem with a governament agency in Canada that couldn't send us emails.. Their connections didn't get anywhere..
So, on that machine I wrote:
tcpdump -i eth1 host our-IP and host Canadian-IP
Similarly, if you have only 1 network card on the machine you are connected to and you want to collect traffic to a file for later analysis except that you don't want to include your own SSH/whatever traffic:
tcpdump -w DumpFile -s 1500 not host My-IP
The article claims travel benefits, going from New York to London in 2 hours. But honestly, travelling that fast, if anything went wrong you're toast.
I imagine this is almost exactly what was claimed when the combustion engine was being developed..
Just think about it:
The inventors claim travel benefits, going from New York to Bostin in 3 hours. But honestly, travelling that fast, if anything went wrong you're toast.
I'm a Windows user, and therefore I have no way of knowing what the HECK your signature means. Would you mind if I dropped you an e-mail at rikardur@sky.fr and ask you to tell me what it does?
I didn't know they had Internet terminals at the Special Olympics..
So, what genetic defect do you have ?
France? Has freedoms? Care to discuss Nazi's and the like on a french based website?
Although I agree with you that banning discussions about a topic is not the best way, the French view is that the Nazi ideology is so far off, that it's simply off-topic..
Like if you would put up a site anywhere in the world about the pros, cons and pleasures of Phedophily. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't stay up very long.
Or, try to put up a website in the USA, that justifies the 3000 dead in the twin towers...
You would be lucky not to be killed...
And that's just the internet.. Try to show some French commercials on American TV and they would be X-rated for nudity..
Think about it, normal breasts and legs.... And The first thing that pops into the mind of Americans is "Porn", "Sex" and "Censorship"..
You know, this is the sort of troll I just don't get.
That's how trolls function.. Put out outrageus statements that about a third of the readers doesn't understand, a third thinks is "informative" and the last thinks is insulting..
And then maybe a few %'s see as troll.
This guy is just trolling on the fact that very few/. users will ever see this code run, let alone install a Beowulf cluster.
It's like if/. had an article on new state regulations on buying rocket fuel, and I would say how glad I was I bought my 8 tons of rocket propellant last week, just in time.. And then make up some numbers about how long it could be stored and under what conditions. I'm sure it would look "informative" to a lot of people.
Whoa. MySQL is only good at "performance" under very simplistic use cases (single table selects, low insert/update load). Which describes a web board, but not that many real world applications.
So I guess you're saying MySQL AB customers should only be web boards and people who don't know better ??
Just for your enlightenment, This company runs entirely on MySQL, and no, they're not into web boards, they sell statistics:-)
2. "Ewwww, Java, it sucks, you should rewrite in PHP" I explain it has been continually developed since 96, no way to stop the engine and write in PHP.
It looks to me that your "25 year old self proclaimed web genius" is exactly that. And doesn't know the first thing about databases, let alone operating systems, process slots, filehandles, semaphore locks, interrupts or Context switches. And is absolutely clueless about how to debug DB performance problems.
There *is* one thing that MySQL is good at and that is performance. The problem is, people often put MySQL on crappy hardware and have no clue about how the system realy works or how to tune it.
the "10x better" means 10x lower failure rate. The wording almost seems meant to deceive. The idea is that if you misidentify 10 messages out of 100, the filter would only misidentify 1. Since you made 10x as many mistakes, the filter was 10x as accurate as you were.
The problem with that is that "Spam" is defined by humans and not computers. "Anti-Spam" software is programmed to *try to* filter out what the human would consider Spam..
So if a human says Email X is Spam, then it is that human's Spam. But then again, One man's Spam may be another human's newsletter he subscribed to (as I learned when I installed SpamAssassin at the company where I work).
The bottom line is, "No software can ever be better than a human in defining Spam".
"Any report that we made a cash payment of seven figures is highly exaggerated, and it disappoints me that that quote is out there in the media," Marsh said. "The contract that we signed with SCO specifically prohibits any party from discussing the economics of the transaction.
Look buddy, SCO has been lying through their teeth from day one in this case.
So the fact that SCO can't even be trusted to honour their own contracts, should come as a surprise to no one.
You choose to go in bed with SCO's so please, just try to enjoy the ride.
Not only does AutoZone have $ enough to pay a handsome fine to SCO, but they might actually have some $'s to fight the extortion.
(b) large enough to get noticed,
Yeah, like when you hit that 5 tonne elephant, with a stick, across the balls, the whole jungle knows both your name, and how fast you died/ran.
(c) with a documented relationship with IBM,
IBM will *not* let one of their customers get sued for something IBM sold them.. SCO is soon going to have a giant, bad tempered, Gorilla screaming at them.
(d) AND a documented relationship with SCO
That point may be the only smart thing in the whole mess.
(e) non-technical enough so that they are more easily intimidated.
SCO is not exactly doing this quietly in a corner.. They have positioned themselves in the middle of the arena with their big mouth and whoever they take on will be risking his Job if he just "folds in" to SCO's demands.
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If you think about it, that'd be why France and Germany were so opposed to the war and why they didn't join in...
Nice work Sherlock, now you only have to figure out why practically the rest of the world was also against the war..
The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"
- Donald Rumsfeld.
So Doland Rumsfeld thinks there might be a Moon there after all ??
When will G.W. announce a manned mission to look for oil?
Like when he says everything else: "When he is told to do so by companies with financial interests."
Exactly why do so many (or is it a vocal few?) people seem to have a problem with the fact that we went to war and WON?
Uhhm, because it was an unjust war ? Because it was opposed by everyone (outside the USA) ?? Because it was done for OIL ? Because the USA is using Israeli tactics there now, punishing people for cellective guilt ? Do you need more reasons ?
What if Bush creates funding for research that leads to a cure for cancer, is the left then going to complain about Bush's henchmen in lab-coats invading the soverign territory owned by the tumors?
This is called the "straw-man" argument. You build yourelf a straw-man to attack. Please try to be more logical in your speach.
They support terrorists because terrorists are useful to them. Terrorists attack the very people they most want to see done in, namely anyone ...
There are no terrorists in Iraq .. Or at least there were'nt before the USA started bombing everything there and puting the country's future wealth in it's pockets. (In the form of reconstruction-contracts).
Wasn't there some guy who once said "As you sow, so shall you reap ?"
If cracking tools are widely available, they will be used to more quickly exploit whatever vulnerabilities exist, giving the author less time to patch. It's better for everyone if these tools are hard to come by.
There are a number of things wrong with your last statement. The biggest is that most people don't patch at all, and if they do, it is often only after some news media has reported major exploitation going on in the wild.
Another thing is that software companies don't release patches unless there is an exploit (This is changing for the better though), and often the so called "fix" only stops that particular exploit from working.
And thirdly, in order for exploit tools to be "hard to come by", you have to stop telling people that there is a problem/bug (otherwise, there is always some kid who will create a exploit, in order to educate himself about security problems, and then release it for the recognition by peers).
In short, you would have to go back to the "good old days" of ~1990 where very few people had access to security information and the few that had the exploits could walk in and out of whatever systems that interested them. The print spooler exploit existed for at least two years before the problem was patched (three years for Sun systems because they patched it a year after everybody else) !!
I haven't read the article (this is
The point is that the big hairy gorilla reverse-engineered the little guy's mouse trap so it could improve it's own design.
Try to s/Intel/Microsoft/ and s/AMD/X/ where "X" is your favorite little OS.
Even on a 200mhz box, you can still use X forwarding.
Yes you can, but if you try to run something like a fancy network capturing software that processes 8 megabits of data in realtime and creates statistics and manipulates linked lists and fancy on-scree images, you risk loosing more than a few packets.
So, when you're looking for a problem, that's not acceptable.
I tend to use tcpdump when I am watching a box using a specific filter and expecting very little traffic,
Having a fancy machine with X running isn't always an option. We have a old 200Mhz Celeron machine attached to our 8Mb Internet link (With a Network interface that doesn't have a IP) and that machine can captured whatever traffic I am looking for with just tcpdump.
There are options to exclude and include whatever traffic you want..
For example, we had a problem with a governament agency in Canada that couldn't send us emails.. Their connections didn't get anywhere..
So, on that machine I wrote:
tcpdump -i eth1 host our-IP and host Canadian-IP
Similarly, if you have only 1 network card on the machine you are connected to and you want to collect traffic to a file for later analysis except that you don't want to include your own SSH/whatever traffic:
tcpdump -w DumpFile -s 1500 not host My-IP
You know, today is the day you get the funny picture with a phpinfo(); call
Interesting, I didn't know about that.
For those that haven't seen it I put it up HERE
I'm an attorney in a medium size corporation.
...
These are intelligent, wealthy people, and they did not get that way by filing groundless lawsuits.
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Somehow I doubt you are an attorney, or that you have much real-world experience.
In business environment, the most important part is if the lawsuit fits whatever agenda it's filers have and it's mostly about politics.
The article claims travel benefits, going from New York to London in 2 hours. But honestly, travelling that fast, if anything went wrong you're toast.
I imagine this is almost exactly what was claimed when the combustion engine was being developed..
Just think about it:
The inventors claim travel benefits, going from New York to Bostin in 3 hours. But honestly, travelling that fast, if anything went wrong you're toast.
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D727
I'm a Windows user, and therefore I have no way of knowing what the HECK your signature means. Would you mind if I dropped you an e-mail at rikardur@sky.fr and ask you to tell me what it does?
I didn't know they had Internet terminals at the Special Olympics ..
So, what genetic defect do you have ?
Whenever you append "&partner=google" to the end of a NYTimes URL, you're in sans registration.
Well, whenever you append "&partner=[Anything]" you are in ...
Try http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/24/technology/24sof t.html?ex=1080709200&en=81be83eda9c09dad&ei=5062&p artner=AlQaida
France? Has freedoms? Care to discuss Nazi's and the like on a french based website?
Although I agree with you that banning discussions about a topic is not the best way, the French view is that the Nazi ideology is so far off, that it's simply off-topic..
Like if you would put up a site anywhere in the world about the pros, cons and pleasures of Phedophily. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't stay up very long.
Or, try to put up a website in the USA, that justifies the 3000 dead in the twin towers ...
You would be lucky not to be killed...
And that's just the internet.. Try to show some French commercials on American TV and they would be X-rated for nudity..
Think about it, normal breasts and legs.... And The first thing that pops into the mind of Americans is "Porn", "Sex" and "Censorship" ..
You know, this is the sort of troll I just don't get.
That's how trolls function.. Put out outrageus statements that about a third of the readers doesn't understand, a third thinks is "informative" and the last thinks is insulting..
And then maybe a few %'s see as troll.
This guy is just trolling on the fact that very few /. users will ever see this code run, let alone install a Beowulf cluster.
It's like if /. had an article on new state regulations on buying rocket fuel, and I would say how glad I was I bought my 8 tons of rocket propellant last week, just in time.. And then make up some numbers about how long it could be stored and under what conditions. I'm sure it would look "informative" to a lot of people.
I guess that means US citizens can finally submit patches, and that distributions like RedHat/Fedora can now include it in their distribution.
Ahh, u mean ze citisenz of ze USA can finally have ze same freedom as ze French Bastardz have had for yearz ?
the Humane Society...2!!!! Now accepting unwanted pets and animals from the community which we will be selling to be used in scientific research!
Amnesty International 2, Selling human-rights reports in dictator-friendly format ..
Red Cross 2, now collecting blood and other body parts to sell on the free market.
Whoa. MySQL is only good at "performance" under very simplistic use cases (single table selects, low insert/update load). Which describes a web board, but not that many real world applications.
So I guess you're saying MySQL AB customers should only be web boards and people who don't know better ??
Just for your enlightenment, This company runs entirely on MySQL, and no, they're not into web boards, they sell statistics :-)
2. "Ewwww, Java, it sucks, you should rewrite in PHP" I explain it has been continually developed since 96, no way to stop the engine and write in PHP.
It looks to me that your "25 year old self proclaimed web genius" is exactly that. And doesn't know the first thing about databases, let alone operating systems, process slots, filehandles, semaphore locks, interrupts or Context switches. And is absolutely clueless about how to debug DB performance problems.
There *is* one thing that MySQL is good at and that is performance. The problem is, people often put MySQL on crappy hardware and have no clue about how the system realy works or how to tune it.
the "10x better" means 10x lower failure rate. The wording almost seems meant to deceive. The idea is that if you misidentify 10 messages out of 100, the filter would only misidentify 1. Since you made 10x as many mistakes, the filter was 10x as accurate as you were.
The problem with that is that "Spam" is defined by humans and not computers. "Anti-Spam" software is programmed to *try to* filter out what the human would consider Spam..
So if a human says Email X is Spam, then it is that human's Spam. But then again, One man's Spam may be another human's newsletter he subscribed to (as I learned when I installed SpamAssassin at the company where I work).
The bottom line is, "No software can ever be better than a human in defining Spam".
Because Postgresql cannot compete with MySQL in terms of features that count for the target scenarios.
Or as economics say it: "The quality of a product is determined by the consumer of the product."
"Any report that we made a cash payment of seven figures is highly exaggerated, and it disappoints me that that quote is out there in the media," Marsh said. "The contract that we signed with SCO specifically prohibits any party from discussing the economics of the transaction.
Look buddy, SCO has been lying through their teeth from day one in this case.
So the fact that SCO can't even be trusted to honour their own contracts, should come as a surprise to no one.
You choose to go in bed with SCO's so please, just try to enjoy the ride.
Bruce Willis as 'Eric S. Raymond' in ...
"Legal Weapon IV"
rated NC17 for strong language and gore.
4. SCO is to provide and identify with specificity all lines of code in Linux that it claims rights to.
PDF: http://sco.tuxrocks.com/Docs/IBM/IBM-109.pdf
I can't wait to see the answer to this one...
Almost certainly, SCO will claim those lines are industrial secret, and ask the judge to seal it (Giving access only to IBM).
So even if this advances the smilblic one step, it's not the great thing many think it is.
I.e. I think it is as good as impossible, we will be reading "SCO's" answer to this request.
They wanted someone:
a) large enough to have $,
Not only does AutoZone have $ enough to pay a handsome fine to SCO, but they might actually have some $'s to fight the extortion.
(b) large enough to get noticed,
Yeah, like when you hit that 5 tonne elephant, with a stick, across the balls, the whole jungle knows both your name, and how fast you died/ran.
(c) with a documented relationship with IBM,
IBM will *not* let one of their customers get sued for something IBM sold them.. SCO is soon going to have a giant, bad tempered, Gorilla screaming at them.
(d) AND a documented relationship with SCO
That point may be the only smart thing in the whole mess.
(e) non-technical enough so that they are more easily intimidated.
SCO is not exactly doing this quietly in a corner .. They have positioned themselves in the middle of the arena with their big mouth and whoever they take on will be risking his Job if he just "folds in" to SCO's demands.