He's saying the guy uses some zero-day exploit to penitrate your system, then installs the trojan as admin, edits the logs, and disappears from your system. Vala! Infectecado!
Hopefully your AV will catch it in a few days as the exploit is discovered elseware on the net. Though it could take longer if he is only installing them by hand.
You know that Gentoo checks the SHA256 SHA512 and WHIRLPOOL digests of the downloaded sources before compiling right? You also know that the digests stored in Gentoo's repository are signed using a PGP key of the package maintainer, right?
Yes, but if you are hosting the sources, you also control whatever checksum also appears on your website.
Besides, hosting precompiled Windows binaries is a great way to trick lazy admins. First, a lot of open-source hosts / projects do not provide easy access to Windows binaries, and many admins don't have compilers (they don't program and so consider compiling out of their job description), and finally since there really is no automated way to check the checksums they avoid doing it. (Though automating checking MD5's etc. would obviate using them in the first place) So it's just easier to trust a host with their binaries.
Of course all this could be avoided by using only trusted sources. But I said they were lazy, not smart.
Sure, it's temporary, but this is what happens without the right weather to blow the pollution elsewhere. I'm sure the same would happen in any large US city in similar conditions.
Their other methods of defeating the Open Source movement and the GPL licence (among others) has so far failed. Why not try the EEE on a licencing model?
One step at a time. It's more useful than a Death Star.
What? An inacheavable goal like a death star would provide gainful employment for tens, if not hundreds, of generations and thousands of jobs. (Assuming automation is kept to a minimum.)
A more reasonable, shorter term project , like the rocket, would produce, at best, only two generations of work for hundreds.
There is basically no inefficient way to generateheat. It's just energy. One hundred 10 watt speakers are the sameas ten 100 watt lightbulbs are the same as 1 kilowatt heater. The only way you lose energy is if it leaves your home. This is basic stuff.
I beleve that you mean to say that there is no waste heat while you are heating your structure. But just because the heat is not waste, does not mean it was created efficiently.
You make it sound like every method of producing heat will require the same amount of energy. Do you have any science to back that up?
Currently fusion is an inefficient way of creating heat. IE more energy goes into the fusion than comes out in the form of useable heat. If this were not true, we would have fusion plants powering our nation.
Also, if wood burning stoves are just as efficient as any other method of generating heat, why do no nations, cities or individuals use them to create electricity? Perhaps there are more efficient methods?
E may = MC^2, but that does not mean that all methods of conversion are equil. If all methods of conversion were equil, lighting a match would result in a mushroom cloud. (And rubbing your hands together would cause brushfires.)
All they need to do is follow the CIA's phylosphy:
If it didn't happen in-country, it didn't happen. If someone is not a citizen, they have no rights.
So the REAL question is why even bother leagilizing it?
Just target computers outside Australia, no privacy problems, no breaking and entering problems, no search-and-seazure problems, no civil rights issues.
All because it didn't happen in Australia. And it wasn't us anyway, prove it was.
I am an Australian. Assume this passes. How can I harden my computer against being used as a node in an ASIO botnet?
Don't worry, they'll make doing that illegal.
Besides, why do you hate Australia? Any Australian patriot should be proud to help their country in the new cyber-war against terrorism. Even if that does put you in the cross-hairs of any retaliation.
Facebook is known to not delete anything. In Europe people have been requesting all the info Facebook has about them - and also found many comments they thought they deleted to still be present.
What Facebook calls "delete" merely means "hide".
This is why my profile contains my BD, where I went to school, and little else. Nothing I wouldn't be bothered with an employer or collegue knowing. It's also why I won't let U-Tube post my real name. Or slashdot for that matter.
It's nice to have there as an option if you want it, if you don't care for it, don't use it.
Yes, hopefully the manufacturers will put an option in bios to turn off this 'feature'. I can immanine environments in which a touch-screen goes beserk. It happens on my tablet when my hands sweat, even when I'm not touching the screen, even when the tablet is inside a leather case!
You already have a Windows 7 license? Awesome, you'll be able to put that on your new touch enabled laptop and use it's inbuilt touch capabilities too. The future has never looked brighter for you:-)
AFAIK, touch screens have historically been serial / USB devices that emulated mouse clicks, with no more incompatibility problems than (possibly) installing a new driver. I do know that I've seen them on W95 machines with wires running to the mouse / serial ports.
We're not talking about a young man with an IQ of 65 on death row for a crime he may not understand. Aaron Schwartz was by every reckoning a very smart man.
Mental illness is no respector of intelligence, and intelligence is thought by some to contribute to depression in some cases, and that has a direct bearing on compenticy.
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He's saying the guy uses some zero-day exploit to penitrate your system, then installs the trojan as admin, edits the logs, and disappears from your system. Vala! Infectecado!
Hopefully your AV will catch it in a few days as the exploit is discovered elseware on the net. Though it could take longer if he is only installing them by hand.
You know that Gentoo checks the SHA256 SHA512 and WHIRLPOOL digests of the downloaded sources before compiling right? You also know that the digests stored in Gentoo's repository are signed using a PGP key of the package maintainer, right?
Yes, but if you are hosting the sources, you also control whatever checksum also appears on your website.
Besides, hosting precompiled Windows binaries is a great way to trick lazy admins. First, a lot of open-source hosts / projects do not provide easy access to Windows binaries, and many admins don't have compilers (they don't program and so consider compiling out of their job description), and finally since there really is no automated way to check the checksums they avoid doing it. (Though automating checking MD5's etc. would obviate using them in the first place) So it's just easier to trust a host with their binaries.
Of course all this could be avoided by using only trusted sources. But I said they were lazy, not smart.
No, it still won't make a sound, it'll make a call.
This is the Medic Alert equivalent for trees! "Help! I'm felled, and I can't get up!"
Do you honestly think that offices will be fitted with HEPA rated air purifiers?
I don't know about Hairy Feet, but I think in those conditions that a dirty shirt could improve the air quality, if used as a filter.
How about Salt Lake City from two days ago?
http://www.todaysthv.com/news/article/244922/288/Right-now-Salt-Lake-City-has-worst-air-quality-in-US
Sure, it's temporary, but this is what happens without the right weather to blow the pollution elsewhere. I'm sure the same would happen in any large US city in similar conditions.
I'm sorry, but to be a real spelling nazi, wouldn't you have to spell it in German?
Hauptstadt = capital
Kapitol = capitol
8-p
And you know they won't reduce reduce their prices at all, which aleady have the CC surcharges factored in to them.
Interesting, but how does the Pi shake it?
... standing IEEE policy for industry dominance and compitition minimazation:
I (will always) Embrace, Extend then Extinguish your protocol, program, or method.
Their other methods of defeating the Open Source movement and the GPL licence (among others) has so far failed. Why not try the EEE on a licencing model?
I certainly wouldn't put it past them.
One step at a time. It's more useful than a Death Star.
What? An inacheavable goal like a death star would provide gainful employment for tens, if not hundreds, of generations and thousands of jobs. (Assuming automation is kept to a minimum.)
A more reasonable, shorter term project , like the rocket, would produce, at best, only two generations of work for hundreds.
There is basically no inefficient way to generateheat. It's just energy. One hundred 10 watt speakers are the sameas ten 100 watt lightbulbs are the same as 1 kilowatt heater. The only way you lose energy is if it leaves your home. This is basic stuff.
I beleve that you mean to say that there is no waste heat while you are heating your structure. But just because the heat is not waste, does not mean it was created efficiently.
You make it sound like every method of producing heat will require the same amount of energy. Do you have any science to back that up?
Currently fusion is an inefficient way of creating heat. IE more energy goes into the fusion than comes out in the form of useable heat. If this were not true, we would have fusion plants powering our nation.
Also, if wood burning stoves are just as efficient as any other method of generating heat, why do no nations, cities or individuals use them to create electricity? Perhaps there are more efficient methods?
E may = MC^2, but that does not mean that all methods of conversion are equil. If all methods of conversion were equil, lighting a match would result in a mushroom cloud. (And rubbing your hands together would cause brushfires.)
Damn it!
Right. Because, look how fan-fiction has ruined everything.
All they need to do is follow the CIA's phylosphy:
If it didn't happen in-country, it didn't happen.
If someone is not a citizen, they have no rights.
So the REAL question is why even bother leagilizing it?
Just target computers outside Australia, no privacy problems, no breaking and entering problems, no search-and-seazure problems, no civil rights issues.
All because it didn't happen in Australia.
And it wasn't us anyway, prove it was.
The CIA?
I am an Australian. Assume this passes. How can I harden my computer against being used as a node in an ASIO botnet?
Don't worry, they'll make doing that illegal.
Besides, why do you hate Australia? Any Australian patriot should be proud to help their country in the new cyber-war against terrorism. Even if that does put you in the cross-hairs of any retaliation.
I'll pitch in $10 just to get a copy of the video.
Say, why not start a web page to take donations that will allow people to contribute to an email to him?
On second thought, maybe I should make a website to allow people to abuse me for money...
Facebook is known to not delete anything. In Europe people have been requesting all the info Facebook has about them - and also found many comments they thought they deleted to still be present.
What Facebook calls "delete" merely means "hide".
This is why my profile contains my BD, where I went to school, and little else. Nothing I wouldn't be bothered with an employer or collegue knowing. It's also why I won't let U-Tube post my real name. Or slashdot for that matter.
It's nice to have there as an option if you want it, if you don't care for it, don't use it.
Yes, hopefully the manufacturers will put an option in bios to turn off this 'feature'. I can immanine environments in which a touch-screen goes beserk. It happens on my tablet when my hands sweat, even when I'm not touching the screen, even when the tablet is inside a leather case!
I just cant bare to move to Win 8
Nobody is asking you to take your clothes off. We couldn't bear that.
Yes, that would be a Boo-Boo.
You already have a Windows 7 license? Awesome, you'll be able to put that on your new touch enabled laptop and use it's inbuilt touch capabilities too. The future has never looked brighter for you :-)
AFAIK, touch screens have historically been serial / USB devices that emulated mouse clicks, with no more incompatibility problems than (possibly) installing a new driver. I do know that I've seen them on W95 machines with wires running to the mouse / serial ports.
I just cant bare to move to Win 8
Nobody is asking you to take your clothes off. We couldn't bear that.
I suppose it's good news to know he doesn't need to strip in order to 'upgrade' to Windows 8.
And I don't want to know why he considered it might have been manditory to strip. [shudder]
We're not talking about a young man with an IQ of 65 on death row for a crime he may not understand. Aaron Schwartz was by every reckoning a very smart man.
Mental illness is no respector of intelligence, and intelligence is thought by some to contribute to depression in some cases, and that has a direct bearing on compenticy.
I hear you get to pick where it goes, either in your face, or in the back of your hand.
Are you saying he's homophonbic?