"It's the main reason I will work for FooCo until it goes bankrupt".
Or "It's the main reason I will work for FooCo until I get a better offer (from say, Google!).
Most people swing back and forth between these two alternatives while the world continues to turn underneath their feet. It's a phenomenon known as FooCo's Pendulum.
Because I'm more comfortable with buyers and sellers coming to mutually-agreeable terms for the transfer rather than some centralized bureaucracy decided what constitutes "well-utilized" and seizing them against the consent of the owners. Besides the general dislike for top-down authority, the decentralized decision-making process will likely yield (overall) better results for determining what is "well-utilized" and what isn't based on the preferences of the stakeholders.
Then you should run, not walk, away from your computer and never access the Internet ever again.
I don't know if you're aware of it, but oligarchic cliques of so-called 'scientists' and 'researchers' from ivory tower elitist academic institutions have been controlling your Internet since its inception. Not too long ago, one man (one man) was responsible for ccTLD management. The hubris!
It's because of this cabal of anti-market conspirators that the Internet is such a ramshackle digital hodge-podge driven by socialist ideologies that allow people access to anything - anything! - for free.
Happily, the Captains of Commerce are working even as we speak to save us from this intolerable freedom to share.
I'll bet that lots of enterprise use of Open Source tools is due to the price tag, not the ability to fiddle with the source code.
That's fine as far as it goes, but one of the major arguments for choosing a Free tool chain is the ability of anyone at all to improve it, which means that improved quality can be had effectively for free.
So you're essentially asking us to decide between 'less filling' and 'great taste'. It's a useless distinction, because the software wouldn't be free if it weren't open.
The fact that the majority of people/companies can simply act as freeloaders is one of the magical outcomes of the gift economy on which Free Software is based.
"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads" - Has there ever been a brief description that describes so well the technological time we live in? Hammerbacher should write a book or two.
Wow, if the measure of a man's literary talent is the ability to bastardise the poetry of a latter-day Walt Whitman wanna-be, then we surely are seeing an intellectually lost generation.
(Bonus points to anyone who spots allusion to Gertrude Stein, and double-bonus points to anyone who realises that the statement was a description of one of the most energetic and fascinating group of writers in American history.)
As a career Perl hacker, I sympathise, but you're enthusiasm is misplaced in this situation.
First, system() only gives you the return value of the command you executed, so you haven't got anything useful. Backticks would work, but they're horribly insecure if you're doing variable interpolation.
Second, a more realistic example would look like this:
for DIR in `find/home/ -maxdepth 1 -mtime -7 -type d`; do du -sh ${DIR} | grep '\d+G'; done;
This, too, is easily done in Perl, but why bother when you're just dropping to bash and running various command-line utilities anyway?
For anything that requires data collection and reorganisation, or which implies non-trivial logic (e.g. finding duplicate files across multiple file systems/machines), I agree that Perl is a tremendously powerful tool. Inline POD documentation and input validation are also extremely useful for the long-term health of the system. Most of the glue logic on my production systems is written in it. But as always, it's horses for courses, and for short, simple laps, bash rules.
Honestly, if you're angry because RIM, or Google, or Microsoft, or whoever isn't trying to stick it to every dictatorship, you're an idiot. If the US government goes and tries to say a dictator is being too mean (perhaps by killing them), they're the terrible World Police. But if RIM refuses to do the same thing, you get angry. You're an angry, fickle group of people.
RIM is Canadian. I'm Canadian. Canadians don't do the World Police thing. Canadians do the Constable Rescuing the Kitten thing. Now, in this case, RIM is rescuing the kitten, then selling it to the dodgy-looking restaurant on the corner. We Canadians don't like that.
Worse, by walking out on the BBC (the BBC!) they're acting impolitely. In Canada, acting impolitely results in terrible punishment.... Well actually, it mostly just results in frosty stares - we're too polite to actually punish someone. But those stares, man - we can stare frostier than just about anyone. Except the Russians. The Russians are pretty frosty starers. And the Swedes. Their stare is actually known as The Frost.
Mod down if you disagree.
That would be rude and unfair. As a Canadian, I'd much prefer to tell you to take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut instead. I'd prefer it, but as a Canadian, I'm limited to suggesting that you kindly launch yourself toward that fallen dessert and embrace it with passion and vigour.
They examine the shadows of the ones and zeros that make up the email. In some cases, you can notice discrepancies in the shadows that can only be explained if the bits were forged.
Likewise, if the Evil Bit i set on even one of them, it's likely a fraud.
Advice to would-be felons: Un-set the Evil Bit before pressing send. Outlook used to do this, but Ballmer had it changed when all his emails started disappearing.
Wikileaks might have committed a crime. If they conspired with Manning in any way in order to encourage or enable or further manings crime, they have committed a conspiracy to commit the same crime regardless of where they are located at.
Perhaps, and if the crime was espionage, they might have a case. But anything short of that would come up empty. Wikileaks is not based in the United States, and most of its membership is non-American. Assange in particular could not be charged with any crime short of espionage, as he is not a US national and his alleged acts occurred on European soil.
So yeah, this Justice Department witch hunt feels a lot like a case of shooting the messenger. Unless, that is, you honestly believe that what Assange did could somehow be construed as spying for a foreign power....
Most people with pre-paid phones need voice and text messaging...not data plans.
Oh, so it's okay to rip off the ones who actually do need data, then? Or maybe poor peoples' bandwidth actually does cost orders of magnitude more than that of others?
Choice is not always a good thing. Would you be better off if you had a "choice" of different voltages and socket types for your various household appliances?
Uh, you don't travel much, do you? North America is about the only place in the world with consistent voltage and plug (and lightbulb, and mobile and TV, etc.) formats.
If every country in the world were a Linux distro, you would have a situation exactly parallel to the state of their software formats.
... On the other hand, if every country were a Linux distro, I'd have a ball running emerge -Upv world....
Hell yeah! In a few years, I will be able to play Super Mario on a quantum computer!
Yes, but then you'll have to deal with Bowser's Peach Paradox -- The game will start with the Princess being both captured and not captured, and you'll only find out which if you complete the game and observe the ending.
Downside: Quantum superposition allows every event in the game to occur simultaneously and in parallel to the others, so the game is -quite literally- over before you know it.
which sites are vulnerable? are there any more precise information than "outdated CMS and blog systems" ??
As others have noted, the original article is much more informative.
First, only MS SQL Server seems to be affected. This isn't because of a flaw in SQL Server, but because the injection seems only to work on a web app that's designed to run this DBMS in the back end, The article authors note that they don't know which application this is, however. This seems a little surprising, given that they should be able to spot the commonality between all the infected sites.
Second, to determine whether your server is affected, just check to see whether your site now has an URL like http://domainname/ur.php. If it does, you're infected. If you run on Linux and Apache, it looks like you're safe from this particular attack.
I'm curious - do you have a source for the assertion that Kennedy was a rum runner?
Joseph Kennedy was widely reputed to have been in cahoots with the Canadian Bronfman brothers. They made their fortune running rum from Cuba and elsewhere in the Caribbean up to Canada and then slipping it across the US border from there.
Canadian Club whiskey is a legacy of that trade route. 'Canadian' clubs tended to have the best booze, you see. The families involved in this trade became extremely wealthy. The Bronfmans founded Seagrams distillery and one of their scions actually owned entertainment giant Vivendi/Universasl for a while.
It is possible to force air through a series of organic apertures in order to cause atmospheric vibrations which can then be interpreted into data. This can be used as the physical layer for a number of existing communication protocols.
Yep. I hacked one of these onto my cockatoo to provide fault tolerance for my IP Over Avian Carrier Network.
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"It's the main reason I will work for FooCo until it goes bankrupt".
Or "It's the main reason I will work for FooCo until I get a better offer (from say, Google!).
Most people swing back and forth between these two alternatives while the world continues to turn underneath their feet. It's a phenomenon known as FooCo's Pendulum.
(... explanation here for the humour-impaired.)
You can not be convicted of a crime for leaving your wireless router open, no matter if Osama Bin Laden himself comes...
Yeah!
...and personally uses a stolen credit card...
Amen, brother!
...to download child porn...
Tell it like it is!
... and stream some hollywood movies...
Burn in Hell, you America-hating Communist Pig!
Because I'm more comfortable with buyers and sellers coming to mutually-agreeable terms for the transfer rather than some centralized bureaucracy decided what constitutes "well-utilized" and seizing them against the consent of the owners. Besides the general dislike for top-down authority, the decentralized decision-making process will likely yield (overall) better results for determining what is "well-utilized" and what isn't based on the preferences of the stakeholders.
Then you should run, not walk, away from your computer and never access the Internet ever again.
I don't know if you're aware of it, but oligarchic cliques of so-called 'scientists' and 'researchers' from ivory tower elitist academic institutions have been controlling your Internet since its inception. Not too long ago, one man (one man) was responsible for ccTLD management. The hubris!
It's because of this cabal of anti-market conspirators that the Internet is such a ramshackle digital hodge-podge driven by socialist ideologies that allow people access to anything - anything! - for free.
Happily, the Captains of Commerce are working even as we speak to save us from this intolerable freedom to share.
I'll bet that lots of enterprise use of Open Source tools is due to the price tag, not the ability to fiddle with the source code.
That's fine as far as it goes, but one of the major arguments for choosing a Free tool chain is the ability of anyone at all to improve it, which means that improved quality can be had effectively for free.
So you're essentially asking us to decide between 'less filling' and 'great taste'. It's a useless distinction, because the software wouldn't be free if it weren't open.
The fact that the majority of people/companies can simply act as freeloaders is one of the magical outcomes of the gift economy on which Free Software is based.
... You're welcome, by the way. 8^)
"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads" - Has there ever been a brief description that describes so well the technological time we live in? Hammerbacher should write a book or two.
Wow, if the measure of a man's literary talent is the ability to bastardise the poetry of a latter-day Walt Whitman wanna-be, then we surely are seeing an intellectually lost generation.
(Bonus points to anyone who spots allusion to Gertrude Stein, and double-bonus points to anyone who realises that the statement was a description of one of the most energetic and fascinating group of writers in American history.)
I used to pal around with Firefox 6 when we were in high school.
Meh, Firefox 6 let me fuck his sister.
It's trivial to do it in perl!
#!/usr/bin/perl
system("du -x / | sort -n");
As a career Perl hacker, I sympathise, but you're enthusiasm is misplaced in this situation.
First, system() only gives you the return value of the command you executed, so you haven't got anything useful. Backticks would work, but they're horribly insecure if you're doing variable interpolation.
Second, a more realistic example would look like this:
for DIR in `find /home/ -maxdepth 1 -mtime -7 -type d`; do du -sh ${DIR} | grep '\d+G'; done;
This, too, is easily done in Perl, but why bother when you're just dropping to bash and running various command-line utilities anyway?
For anything that requires data collection and reorganisation, or which implies non-trivial logic (e.g. finding duplicate files across multiple file systems/machines), I agree that Perl is a tremendously powerful tool. Inline POD documentation and input validation are also extremely useful for the long-term health of the system. Most of the glue logic on my production systems is written in it. But as always, it's horses for courses, and for short, simple laps, bash rules.
Are you suggesting that ~40% of Canadians lack a sense of humour?
Not very polite of you.
Au contraire. I was just too polite to single out Torontonians.
RIM is Canadian. I'm Canadian. Canadians don't do the World Police thing.
Um. WW1. WW2. Korea. Cyprus. Golan. Bosnia. Kosovo. Somalia. Afghanistan. Haiti.
I can tell you're Canadian - you don't know shit about our history, or our current events. Most people here are WAY too focused on the US.
And you must be from Ontario: not even the ghost of a sense of humour.
Would you kindly launch yourself toward that fallen dessert and embrace it with passion and vigour?
... And have a nice day!
... And nothing of value was lo
Honestly, if you're angry because RIM, or Google, or Microsoft, or whoever isn't trying to stick it to every dictatorship, you're an idiot. If the US government goes and tries to say a dictator is being too mean (perhaps by killing them), they're the terrible World Police. But if RIM refuses to do the same thing, you get angry. You're an angry, fickle group of people.
RIM is Canadian. I'm Canadian. Canadians don't do the World Police thing. Canadians do the Constable Rescuing the Kitten thing. Now, in this case, RIM is rescuing the kitten, then selling it to the dodgy-looking restaurant on the corner. We Canadians don't like that.
Worse, by walking out on the BBC (the BBC!) they're acting impolitely. In Canada, acting impolitely results in terrible punishment.... Well actually, it mostly just results in frosty stares - we're too polite to actually punish someone. But those stares, man - we can stare frostier than just about anyone. Except the Russians. The Russians are pretty frosty starers. And the Swedes. Their stare is actually known as The Frost.
Mod down if you disagree.
That would be rude and unfair. As a Canadian, I'd much prefer to tell you to take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut instead. I'd prefer it, but as a Canadian, I'm limited to suggesting that you kindly launch yourself toward that fallen dessert and embrace it with passion and vigour.
... And have a nice day!
whats not fair is RIM backdooring their product to appease third word oppressive regimes.
They didn't. Prove it or shut up.
Uh, yeah. They did.
They examine the shadows of the ones and zeros that make up the email. In some cases, you can notice discrepancies in the shadows that can only be explained if the bits were forged.
Likewise, if the Evil Bit i set on even one of them, it's likely a fraud.
Advice to would-be felons: Un-set the Evil Bit before pressing send. Outlook used to do this, but Ballmer had it changed when all his emails started disappearing.
Perhaps, and if the crime was espionage, they might have a case. But anything short of that would come up empty. Wikileaks is not based in the United States, and most of its membership is non-American. Assange in particular could not be charged with any crime short of espionage, as he is not a US national and his alleged acts occurred on European soil.
So yeah, this Justice Department witch hunt feels a lot like a case of shooting the messenger. Unless, that is, you honestly believe that what Assange did could somehow be construed as spying for a foreign power....
Most people with pre-paid phones need voice and text messaging...not data plans.
Oh, so it's okay to rip off the ones who actually do need data, then? Or maybe poor peoples' bandwidth actually does cost orders of magnitude more than that of others?
Commenting to undo Slashdot's overzealous moderation bug...
You missed kurisuto's original question : are you better off because of that ? No, it's an unnecessary hassle.
I wasn't trying to invalidate the concern; I was suggesting that thinking things were different in other disciplines/areas was naive.
His wife must be excited!
I doubt it. Seriously:
What kind of lame-ass, geriatric sex do these people have?!?
Uh, you don't travel much, do you? North America is about the only place in the world with consistent voltage and plug (and lightbulb, and mobile and TV, etc.) formats.
If every country in the world were a Linux distro, you would have a situation exactly parallel to the state of their software formats.
... On the other hand, if every country were a Linux distro, I'd have a ball running emerge -Upv world....
Hell yeah! In a few years, I will be able to play Super Mario on a quantum computer!
Yes, but then you'll have to deal with Bowser's Peach Paradox -- The game will start with the Princess being both captured and not captured, and you'll only find out which if you complete the game and observe the ending.
Downside: Quantum superposition allows every event in the game to occur simultaneously and in parallel to the others, so the game is -quite literally- over before you know it.
which sites are vulnerable? are there any more precise information than "outdated CMS and blog systems" ??
As others have noted, the original article is much more informative.
First, only MS SQL Server seems to be affected. This isn't because of a flaw in SQL Server, but because the injection seems only to work on a web app that's designed to run this DBMS in the back end, The article authors note that they don't know which application this is, however. This seems a little surprising, given that they should be able to spot the commonality between all the infected sites.
Second, to determine whether your server is affected, just check to see whether your site now has an URL like http://domainname/ur.php. If it does, you're infected. If you run on Linux and Apache, it looks like you're safe from this particular attack.
I'm curious - do you have a source for the assertion that Kennedy was a rum runner?
Joseph Kennedy was widely reputed to have been in cahoots with the Canadian Bronfman brothers. They made their fortune running rum from Cuba and elsewhere in the Caribbean up to Canada and then slipping it across the US border from there.
Canadian Club whiskey is a legacy of that trade route. 'Canadian' clubs tended to have the best booze, you see. The families involved in this trade became extremely wealthy. The Bronfmans founded Seagrams distillery and one of their scions actually owned entertainment giant Vivendi/Universasl for a while.
It is possible to force air through a series of organic apertures in order to cause atmospheric vibrations which can then be interpreted into data. This can be used as the physical layer for a number of existing communication protocols.
Yep. I hacked one of these onto my cockatoo to provide fault tolerance for my IP Over Avian Carrier Network.
Unfortunately, it's not safe from crackers.
I propose an official back-up song. 'cause my daddy taught me good.
Nononono!
There's no call to get all clever like that. A simple call and response will do:
1: It's world backup day today!
2: It's world backup day today!
1: It's world backup day today!
2: It's world backup day today!
1: It's world backup day today!
2: It's world backup day today!
1: It's world backup day today!
2: It's world backup day today!
(Sing it over the phone with a friend if you need an off-site backup anthem.)
... And for the cynics in the house, who can forget that old chestnut, The RAID5 Song!
Where non-news confirmed to be non-news is news.
Not that I don't believe you, but I'm a gonna wait for confirmation, first....