12A (cinema)/ 12 (video) - Must be over 12 to watch it.(I think 12 used to be a guide, and then 12A was the legally enforcable one)
No, 12 was not allowed to be seen by under 12s at all, 12A is over 12s or under 12s with a parent. I presume they're now phasing out PG as it's actually a harsher rating than the "higher" 12A (legally, you can't let a 17 year old in to a PG film without a parent), and 12A certainly exists for videos.
The jail time is what I'm outraged about. Sure, it's against the law - but words cannot express how ridiculous it is to even suggest it's severe enough to deserve jail time.
I shopped around and other than going for a more expensive server board which probably wouldn't have the useful integrated stuff (yeah, onboard sound is crappy, but my speakers aren't good enough to appreciate anything better anyway) I really couldn't see anyone offering one with more than 2 DIMMs. I was looking specifically for socket 754 which probably limited my choice a fair bit, but I'd still expect to be able to find one if they existed.
Reject packets from machines which have attempted an attack known to be one used by this virus. But then you possibly knock out too many legit users. Allow them if they didn't attempt the most recent attack, I suppose.
I have the basics of such a virus stashed somewhere secure. Once you're good enough to do something like you're suggesting you've usually grown out of wanting to release it.
Re:Hard to admit, but that is quite clever
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If they've discovered how it's stored, a new pad won't help any, unless it's done only minutes from the attack - as soon as they have one copy with the new pad, symantec et al can find the new URLs.
They're violating the spec, but that doesn't seem to be the cause of the problem. It's Opera/Safari caching this 302 so when they get 302ed back to the same place they assume it's an infinite 302 loop and display the blank page. It is, in fact, Opera and Safari who are breaking the spec by caching a 302 redirect.
They didn't run anything. They served up a file in the normal way in response to a normal http request. No trickery, no buffer overflows or anything like that. If someone chooses to download and execute the file that's their business.
Most usual reason for a crash is when a program tries to access a random(ish) memory location - it has no right to, so it segfaults. But if it's doing that it's often only one more step to making it access a particular memory location - in particular, to jump into the data you've just given it.
If it's a hardware firewall, just look at the flashy lights. They could be rooted by someone careful, sure - but there's nothing you can do to stop a sufficiently motivated and skillful attacker. If there was any run-of-the-mill virus/spyware on any of the machines I've done this with you'd notice.
You jest, but how long is emerge system on a 486 supposed to take? I had to turn it off after a week, by which stage it was only at ncurses (3 of 59). This is with distcc which should be offloading stuff to my main (faster) box.
It's not just people in charge who'll be able to create articles -- it's anyone who's registered. As others have pointed out, that only takes a few seconds.
Yes, but many people can't or don't want to register, for any number of reasons.
To make a/. comparison, they're just not letting ACs start threads.
If I wanted just articles on what the people in charge thought was worth having them on I've got Encarta for that. I go to Wikipedia for the article on a small-time foreign singer whose one obsessive fan was able to write a great bio via his public library's net connection. I *want* there to be articles on everything. What makes wikipedia so great is the anonymous stuff. Has anyone actually counted how much of the good contributions come from anonymous people? I know I never went to the trouble of making an account. There are three pretty good articles (they were barely more than stubs when I started them, but the internet has worked its magic and they're pretty darn good now) that wouldn't be there if this policy had been effect in the past.
Until there's Picase for Mac or Aperture for Windows, I'm not sure your complaint that the two tools seem to do the same thing makes any sense.
Read his post again. They're claiming that Apeture is the first of its kind - which, if there is another application that does the same thing, is simply false.
The user base is growing because of distros like ubuntu.
True, but Debian doesn't need to care directly about Ubuntu growing, new users needing to learn etc. will be handled by Ubuntu. They need to make plans for how the growth of derivatives will affect them, but that's not the same as planning for their own growth.
If their objective is to make the OS freely avaliable to anyone then growing becomes an objective by proxy.
Not really. They already have enough ftp mirrors for anyone who wants to be able to get Debian to be able to do so pretty easily. They're freely available to anyone with an internet connection, and anyone with a spare fiver can get a CD which is still free in the GNU sense. (I'm not sure if that's their only objective or they also want free-as-in-beer availability wherever possible). Growing isn't going to help for anyone outside those categories in any way I can see.
PS: An operating system is different from a football team...
If you don't plan to grow, you won't, regardless of markets and statistics. Based on your logic, if a college football team is ranked at the bottom of a poll before the season starts they should forfeit every game.
A college football team is always aiming to win the league. Debian IIRC has repeatedly stated they are not trying to become the OS everyone uses, just to make a good OS for the people who make it to use, and make it freely available for anyone who wants to use/improve it. So they don't need to plan to grow because growing isn't an important objective for them.
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Java is ridiculous, it's a joke that nobody's got yet. Don't let it put you off programming. Try python - hello world is simply 'print "hello world"', no {} getting in the way, classes are there for when you want/need them (and at a very deep level, you can metaclass which I don't think you can do in e.g. java) but will stay out of your face until then. You can do anything you want to, without it getting more complicated than absolutely necessary.
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No, 12 was not allowed to be seen by under 12s at all, 12A is over 12s or under 12s with a parent. I presume they're now phasing out PG as it's actually a harsher rating than the "higher" 12A (legally, you can't let a 17 year old in to a PG film without a parent), and 12A certainly exists for videos.
Which is best for AC/DC
The jail time is what I'm outraged about. Sure, it's against the law - but words cannot express how ridiculous it is to even suggest it's severe enough to deserve jail time.
I shopped around and other than going for a more expensive server board which probably wouldn't have the useful integrated stuff (yeah, onboard sound is crappy, but my speakers aren't good enough to appreciate anything better anyway) I really couldn't see anyone offering one with more than 2 DIMMs. I was looking specifically for socket 754 which probably limited my choice a fair bit, but I'd still expect to be able to find one if they existed.
Reject packets from machines which have attempted an attack known to be one used by this virus. But then you possibly knock out too many legit users. Allow them if they didn't attempt the most recent attack, I suppose.
I have the basics of such a virus stashed somewhere secure. Once you're good enough to do something like you're suggesting you've usually grown out of wanting to release it.
If they've discovered how it's stored, a new pad won't help any, unless it's done only minutes from the attack - as soon as they have one copy with the new pad, symantec et al can find the new URLs.
Surely "ah, well may I take you up on it then?"0
Ahem, so does Konqueror. And people seem to care even less about supporting it. (see e.g. google maps)
They're violating the spec, but that doesn't seem to be the cause of the problem. It's Opera/Safari caching this 302 so when they get 302ed back to the same place they assume it's an infinite 302 loop and display the blank page. It is, in fact, Opera and Safari who are breaking the spec by caching a 302 redirect.
So people know things to look for when analysing other viruses?
They didn't run anything. They served up a file in the normal way in response to a normal http request. No trickery, no buffer overflows or anything like that. If someone chooses to download and execute the file that's their business.
And that's why you're not infected. We're targeting the people who are.
Most usual reason for a crash is when a program tries to access a random(ish) memory location - it has no right to, so it segfaults. But if it's doing that it's often only one more step to making it access a particular memory location - in particular, to jump into the data you've just given it.
If it's a hardware firewall, just look at the flashy lights. They could be rooted by someone careful, sure - but there's nothing you can do to stop a sufficiently motivated and skillful attacker. If there was any run-of-the-mill virus/spyware on any of the machines I've done this with you'd notice.
You jest, but how long is emerge system on a 486 supposed to take? I had to turn it off after a week, by which stage it was only at ncurses (3 of 59). This is with distcc which should be offloading stuff to my main (faster) box.
Yes, but many people can't or don't want to register, for any number of reasons.
To make a /. comparison, they're just not letting ACs start threads.
You don't think that wouldn't ruin slashdot?
Ssh. Now that all the trendy kiddies have gone off to bittorrent, it's actually pretty good again.
If I wanted just articles on what the people in charge thought was worth having them on I've got Encarta for that. I go to Wikipedia for the article on a small-time foreign singer whose one obsessive fan was able to write a great bio via his public library's net connection. I *want* there to be articles on everything. What makes wikipedia so great is the anonymous stuff. Has anyone actually counted how much of the good contributions come from anonymous people? I know I never went to the trouble of making an account. There are three pretty good articles (they were barely more than stubs when I started them, but the internet has worked its magic and they're pretty darn good now) that wouldn't be there if this policy had been effect in the past.
Maybe he feels Apple getting a kick in the pants from a software flop would be better in the long run than them gradually improving it?
Read his post again. They're claiming that Apeture is the first of its kind - which, if there is another application that does the same thing, is simply false.
True, but Debian doesn't need to care directly about Ubuntu growing, new users needing to learn etc. will be handled by Ubuntu. They need to make plans for how the growth of derivatives will affect them, but that's not the same as planning for their own growth.
If their objective is to make the OS freely avaliable to anyone then growing becomes an objective by proxy.
Not really. They already have enough ftp mirrors for anyone who wants to be able to get Debian to be able to do so pretty easily. They're freely available to anyone with an internet connection, and anyone with a spare fiver can get a CD which is still free in the GNU sense. (I'm not sure if that's their only objective or they also want free-as-in-beer availability wherever possible). Growing isn't going to help for anyone outside those categories in any way I can see.
PS: An operating system is different from a football team...
Agreed. It's not my analogy.
A college football team is always aiming to win the league. Debian IIRC has repeatedly stated they are not trying to become the OS everyone uses, just to make a good OS for the people who make it to use, and make it freely available for anyone who wants to use/improve it. So they don't need to plan to grow because growing isn't an important objective for them.
Java is ridiculous, it's a joke that nobody's got yet. Don't let it put you off programming. Try python - hello world is simply 'print "hello world"', no {} getting in the way, classes are there for when you want/need them (and at a very deep level, you can metaclass which I don't think you can do in e.g. java) but will stay out of your face until then. You can do anything you want to, without it getting more complicated than absolutely necessary.
Come now, you know it doesn't count to slashdot unless it's in the US.