If you admin a server with cPanel, run/scripts/upcp to apply the patch.
Otherwise, so long as you have not turned off the nightly UPCP update, then your server will be patched overnight tonight automatically.
...we can inspect the source on the actual machines prior to their use (like, before they are locked down 24 hours before the election starts). Better yet, if the entire compile operation has to be done in front of the public so observers can see if any "special libraries" are added in at the last second.
The concern here is that since it is open source, any neer-do-well with a compiler could set up a backdoor to do evil things with the software, and then [Diebold, Microsoft, Satan, etc.] can claim that "oh noes! open source is open to attack!" and scare people back into the dark.
This has to be done in a completely transparent manner or else it could be disasterous.
Ok, I'm going to go out on a very far far limb and say that this is may not be getting a higher priority on purpose. Bear with me.
What are the side-effects of this? Perhaps whistle-blowers have easier access to "restricted" information because the systems aren't kept up to date? Or maybe there is an opportunity for some under-the-table independent verification of internal information because the doors are left unlocked unwittingly or on purpose?
With all the emphasis put on this issue for all this time and little meaningful progress has been made, you have to wonder. Would this actually be benefitial for some purpose? I guess I'm hoping this isn't complete incompetence.
IDN will be disabled by default in the upcoming releases from this current trunk freeze (Firefox 1.0.1, Thunderbird 1.0.1, Mozilla 1.7.6) but it has been explicitly said many times if you bothered to look on planet.mozilla.org that a permanent solution for this problem is upcoming and hopefully will make it into Firefox 1.1. Users will be able to change this setting (with an extention and a warning dialog that explains the situation) and this should be included with most of the internationalized builds.
Saying that Mozilla has dropped support for IDN is completely wrong.
A Xerox researcher says that the number-embedding chip lies 'way in the machine, right near the laser' and that 'standard mischief won't get you around it.'
Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) are putting a 21st century spin on a 19th century technology to make the nation's ports and coastal waters safer. Airships -- known today mainly for advertising flyovers at football games -- are the core of a new coastal surveillance system in development for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) of the U.S. Department of Defense. But the new models will bear little resemblance to their predecessors. These High Altitude Stratospheric Airships (HASAs) will be unmanned, stationary platforms 14 to 16 miles above the ground. At 500 feet long and 150 feet in diameter with a volume of 5 million cubic feet, the HASAs will be 25 times the size of a Goodyear blimp.
The airships will be equipped with an array of cutting-edge equipment for remote sensing, communications, and risk analysis of suspected threats -- and that's where NJIT comes in. The university is partnering with StratCom International LLC to serve as the academic research and development base for the project.
NJIT's component of the project is under the direction of Donald H. Sebastian, PhD, vice president of research and development and director of the university's Homeland Security Technology Center. Sebastian says the project is a natural fit for NJIT. "We have expertise in the whole range of applicable technologies -- terahertz imaging, advanced materials technology for the airship skin, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), intermodal freight transportation through our transportation centers, wireless telecommunications, and information-assurance systems. We're also an agile university with a strong entrepreneurial character that allows us to respond quickly to an emerging need such as homeland security."
While the airship technology is driven by important defense applications, the impact on civilian life may be far greater. When production can be scaled to meet the need of widespread deployment, the airships will become an important layer of our telecommunications infrastructure, empowering a wide variety of applications based on mobile, bi-directional exchange of voice, video and data -- broadband access anywhere at any time. Closer in time, homeland-security applications ranging from first-responder communications for emergency response and command through border security and surveillance systems will be important markets for HASA technology.
One area of development that has been proposed to the federal Transportation Security Administration concerns "maritime domain awareness" -- pushing the national boundaries out to sea where problem cargo can be identified and handled far from our populated port cities. The primary focus of the project is shipping containers, considered to be among the most serious potential threats to homeland security. More than half of all U.S. trade travels in sealed containers 20 to 40 feet long, piled by the thousands onto ships for delivery to ports, where they are often transferred, unopened, to trucks and trains for shipping to secondary destinations. Some six to eight million containers arrive in U.S. ports annually, and fewer than four percent are ever inspected for contraband or dangerous materials.
"The threat is a serious one, but container traffic is also one of the keystones of the global economy," Sebastian says. According to recent statistics, $728 billion in goods were shipped in containers, accounting for nearly seven percent of the gross domestic product. Many American businesses are dependent on materials and components shipped from other nations. Equipped to scan quickly and remotely, the airships won't disrupt commerce."
At an altitude of 70,000 feet, a HASA's advanced radar would provide surveillance coverage over a surface area of 500,000 square miles. Advanced sensory technology in each cargo container would be in communication with the airship to ensure the integrity of the ship's contents during transit. Unmanned air and sea craft would
Is there no shame left? These are our children who are watching these sorts of things.
Your kids were going to go looking on the internet for puppet sex anyway! You might as well have had the chance to influence their thinking about it before they did! Now you have a bunch of intraverted puppet fettish perverts on your hands. Lawsuit!
it would seem as if the bug was first realised on the 23rd of September
To me, it seems like the original bug report was made on 9/15 and committed to private. I did the crude little method of figuring this out, go to bug+1 and bug-1 and see the dates those were posted (they are unrelated bugs) since bugzilla assigns bug numbers chronologically, it would seem that the original date is 9/15.
If that were true, then it took roughly 2 weeks for security to review, work out a patch, QA, and release. We won't know for sure until the final report is released as you mentioned.
I've found the experiences of dancing and programming to have a great deal in common.
Why not just say, "I hate dancing, but want to get laid eventually, and just hang around nightclubs hoping that some chick is drunk enough to not notice?"
Well, TFA is interesting if you're into music composition in any case.:D
NBCUniversal is rolling in cash, the latest ratings show they've been winning most nights. They have no reason to change, even if there are absolutely zero people watching the games in person, that's the organizing city's problem, not theirs as far as they are concerned.
I can finally say that people living in the gutter in India have a better internet connection than I do.
(By reading this post you agree to not take the previous sentence seriously. This agreement takes effect the instant your eyes meet the words in this post. No, you can not reject this agreement! Too late!)
Writing Software for Worldwide Distribution Proves Difficult
In order to assist our beloved editors with coming up with more accurate titles, I have included a list of other titles that they can use for articles at thier discretion:
Light Speed Turns Out to be Really Fast Windows Security Hole Discovered, Disavowed Fall Elections May Descend into Chaos Script Kiddies Demand More H@x, Fewer Firewalls, Higher Salaries Microsoft PR Campaigns Foolish, Ineffective Hot Grtis Proven to Make ANYONE More Attractive
Actually it sounds more like "Real Capitalism" as opposed to this phoney, monopolistic system we have right now. Innovation is only used when a competitor that you couldn't shut out of the market forces you to keep up (sound like Microsoft?). People will eventually demand real free markets instead of "free" markets built by and run by a few selected corporations who can set up toll booths at their choosing (like the Microsoft tax, for example).
This interview is especially interesting because it outlines some specifics about HOW this can proceed, using technology as a tool to force social progress. Hopefully governments won't start fucking with things to protect their client corporations and realise that everyone needs to adapt. Otherwise they might as well be full-blown communists.
Stopping file sharing will make the US fall behind? By definition file sharing would be pointless if the US wasn't so anal about copyrights and IP. You have mass file sharing because of the US. The US will crumble without file sharing???... how the heck did this guy make that connection? Someone please enlighten me... I'm not following the logic.
We could get into a long discussion about how the US patent model conflicts with the EU patent model, and how perhaps they are starting to merge together depending on what you believe, and that would probably turn into a flamefest. The point that he is trying to make is that if there is going to be some sort of technogically-inspired shift in social matters beyond the kind of thing we see now, that having goverenments interfere will ultimately be useless and only slow progress (falling behind so to say instead of stopping completely). He explains further:
"Never before in history have we been able to see incumbent businesses protect business models based on old technology against creative destruction by new technologies. And they're doing it by manipulating the political process. The telegraph didn't prevent the telephone, the railroad didn't prevent the automobile. But now, because of the immense amounts of money that they're spending on lobbying and the need for immense amounts of money for media, the political process is being manipulated by incumbents."
So I would guess that his message is to let the technology happen and adapt.
I'm curious, did Microsoft do any QA testing with SP2 before releasing it this way? Everything from telnet to FTP to multiplayer games are all broken by default. And then this from the MS KB:
Sometimes, when Windows Firewall blocks a program, a Windows Firewall Security Alert dialog box appears.
Sometimes? Jesus H. Christ, even if you buy something like Norton Internet Security it will tell prompt you to set up every program the first time it is run.
If I put something like this on a project I would be immediately shot. Twice.
Google is not trying to be corporate, really. That doesn't excuse the lost share or what have you, but you have to understand that the boys really want to do things their way, if that means giving interviews with Playboy that get published the day of their anaylst-puzzling IPO, then damn the torpedoes.
Will they survive doing things their own way? Let's hope so.
That's interesting. People are already saying that because of the auction format of the IPO, Google shares will probably not match their auction values any time in the short term. What an evil way to screw over Yahoo, use your own shares which are guarnteed to fall shortly thereafter.;-)
So until IE fades out of common usage or it is updated to support current standards, the development of the web be halted and we'll be stuck with 1990s web technology.
That's an especially important point. The culture in Microsoft is one of fervent belief in Innovation(TM) and all the rest of that politically-correct FUDdy nonsense. It is complete bullshit for Microsoft to claim that they are Innovating(TM) anything given the current state of affairs on the internet when their flagship is the browser of choi... default setting.
We're going to be hacking HTML/CSS presentation/layout fixes for a long time to come.
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If you admin a server with cPanel, run /scripts/upcp to apply the patch.
Otherwise, so long as you have not turned off the nightly UPCP update, then your server will be patched overnight tonight automatically.
SMED IS DEAD!!!!
...we can inspect the source on the actual machines prior to their use (like, before they are locked down 24 hours before the election starts). Better yet, if the entire compile operation has to be done in front of the public so observers can see if any "special libraries" are added in at the last second.
The concern here is that since it is open source, any neer-do-well with a compiler could set up a backdoor to do evil things with the software, and then [Diebold, Microsoft, Satan, etc.] can claim that "oh noes! open source is open to attack!" and scare people back into the dark.
This has to be done in a completely transparent manner or else it could be disasterous.
What are the side-effects of this? Perhaps whistle-blowers have easier access to "restricted" information because the systems aren't kept up to date? Or maybe there is an opportunity for some under-the-table independent verification of internal information because the doors are left unlocked unwittingly or on purpose?
With all the emphasis put on this issue for all this time and little meaningful progress has been made, you have to wonder. Would this actually be benefitial for some purpose? I guess I'm hoping this isn't complete incompetence.
IDN will be disabled by default in the upcoming releases from this current trunk freeze (Firefox 1.0.1, Thunderbird 1.0.1, Mozilla 1.7.6) but it has been explicitly said many times if you bothered to look on planet.mozilla.org that a permanent solution for this problem is upcoming and hopefully will make it into Firefox 1.1. Users will be able to change this setting (with an extention and a warning dialog that explains the situation) and this should be included with most of the internationalized builds.
Saying that Mozilla has dropped support for IDN is completely wrong.
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Although this specific campaign is over, you can still donate to the Mozilla Foundation at:
http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/donate.html
in any amount you choose...
19th Century Technology for Port Security
October 13, 2004
Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) are putting a 21st century spin on a 19th century technology to make the nation's ports and coastal waters safer. Airships -- known today mainly for advertising flyovers at football games -- are the core of a new coastal surveillance system in development for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) of the U.S. Department of Defense. But the new models will bear little resemblance to their predecessors. These High Altitude Stratospheric Airships (HASAs) will be unmanned, stationary platforms 14 to 16 miles above the ground. At 500 feet long and 150 feet in diameter with a volume of 5 million cubic feet, the HASAs will be 25 times the size of a Goodyear blimp.
The airships will be equipped with an array of cutting-edge equipment for remote sensing, communications, and risk analysis of suspected threats -- and that's where NJIT comes in. The university is partnering with StratCom International LLC to serve as the academic research and development base for the project.
NJIT's component of the project is under the direction of Donald H. Sebastian, PhD, vice president of research and development and director of the university's Homeland Security Technology Center. Sebastian says the project is a natural fit for NJIT. "We have expertise in the whole range of applicable technologies -- terahertz imaging, advanced materials technology for the airship skin, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), intermodal freight transportation through our transportation centers, wireless telecommunications, and information-assurance systems. We're also an agile university with a strong entrepreneurial character that allows us to respond quickly to an emerging need such as homeland security."
While the airship technology is driven by important defense applications, the impact on civilian life may be far greater. When production can be scaled to meet the need of widespread deployment, the airships will become an important layer of our telecommunications infrastructure, empowering a wide variety of applications based on mobile, bi-directional exchange of voice, video and data -- broadband access anywhere at any time. Closer in time, homeland-security applications ranging from first-responder communications for emergency response and command through border security and surveillance systems will be important markets for HASA technology.
One area of development that has been proposed to the federal Transportation Security Administration concerns "maritime domain awareness" -- pushing the national boundaries out to sea where problem cargo can be identified and handled far from our populated port cities. The primary focus of the project is shipping containers, considered to be among the most serious potential threats to homeland security. More than half of all U.S. trade travels in sealed containers 20 to 40 feet long, piled by the thousands onto ships for delivery to ports, where they are often transferred, unopened, to trucks and trains for shipping to secondary destinations. Some six to eight million containers arrive in U.S. ports annually, and fewer than four percent are ever inspected for contraband or dangerous materials.
"The threat is a serious one, but container traffic is also one of the keystones of the global economy," Sebastian says. According to recent statistics, $728 billion in goods were shipped in containers, accounting for nearly seven percent of the gross domestic product. Many American businesses are dependent on materials and components shipped from other nations. Equipped to scan quickly and remotely, the airships won't disrupt commerce."
At an altitude of 70,000 feet, a HASA's advanced radar would provide surveillance coverage over a surface area of 500,000 square miles. Advanced sensory technology in each cargo container would be in communication with the airship to ensure the integrity of the ship's contents during transit. Unmanned air and sea craft would
Your kids were going to go looking on the internet for puppet sex anyway! You might as well have had the chance to influence their thinking about it before they did! Now you have a bunch of intraverted puppet fettish perverts on your hands. Lawsuit!
To me, it seems like the original bug report was made on 9/15 and committed to private. I did the crude little method of figuring this out, go to bug+1 and bug-1 and see the dates those were posted (they are unrelated bugs) since bugzilla assigns bug numbers chronologically, it would seem that the original date is 9/15.
If that were true, then it took roughly 2 weeks for security to review, work out a patch, QA, and release. We won't know for sure until the final report is released as you mentioned.
submitter WROTE the article. you are the one who didn't read.
Why not just say, "I hate dancing, but want to get laid eventually, and just hang around nightclubs hoping that some chick is drunk enough to not notice?"
Well, TFA is interesting if you're into music composition in any case. :D
You need to stop reading /.
Take your promotion of your successful social life elsewhere pal!
NBCUniversal is rolling in cash, the latest ratings show they've been winning most nights. They have no reason to change, even if there are absolutely zero people watching the games in person, that's the organizing city's problem, not theirs as far as they are concerned.
But I concur nonetheless.
(By reading this post you agree to not take the previous sentence seriously. This agreement takes effect the instant your eyes meet the words in this post. No, you can not reject this agreement! Too late!)
In order to assist our beloved editors with coming up with more accurate titles, I have included a list of other titles that they can use for articles at thier discretion:
Light Speed Turns Out to be Really Fast
Windows Security Hole Discovered, Disavowed
Fall Elections May Descend into Chaos
Script Kiddies Demand More H@x, Fewer Firewalls, Higher Salaries
Microsoft PR Campaigns Foolish, Ineffective
Hot Grtis Proven to Make ANYONE More Attractive
This interview is especially interesting because it outlines some specifics about HOW this can proceed, using technology as a tool to force social progress. Hopefully governments won't start fucking with things to protect their client corporations and realise that everyone needs to adapt. Otherwise they might as well be full-blown communists.
We could get into a long discussion about how the US patent model conflicts with the EU patent model, and how perhaps they are starting to merge together depending on what you believe, and that would probably turn into a flamefest. The point that he is trying to make is that if there is going to be some sort of technogically-inspired shift in social matters beyond the kind of thing we see now, that having goverenments interfere will ultimately be useless and only slow progress (falling behind so to say instead of stopping completely). He explains further:
So I would guess that his message is to let the technology happen and adapt.
If I put something like this on a project I would be immediately shot. Twice.
Will they survive doing things their own way? Let's hope so.
That's interesting. People are already saying that because of the auction format of the IPO, Google shares will probably not match their auction values any time in the short term. What an evil way to screw over Yahoo, use your own shares which are guarnteed to fall shortly thereafter. ;-)
We're going to be hacking HTML/CSS presentation/layout fixes for a long time to come.
Build your own Duke Nukem Forever for the PS3!
Napster... so 1999...
Next story?
Longhorn is released, nearly bug-free, and crushes Linux once and for all... in Japan!