The legislation makes the creation or distribution of a computer virus without a reasonable cause punishable by up to three years in prison or 500,000 yen in fines, and the acquisition or storage of one punishable by up to two years in prison or 300,000 yen in fines.
I hope it's a bit more defined than that, because getting infected with a virus could lead up to a $3700 USD fine if it isn't.
Ah yes, imagine having an editor pick the best of a few articles each day and spend some time reading them, perhaps adding some value. Now we have another slashdot system to game.
who tries to overthrow the government by running in the elections
Well we certainly would not want candidates with opposing view points participating in elections, that would be inconvenient.
An opposing viewpoint in politics would be "If I am elected I will do something about X", not "I will burn down the system to the ground, completely. All of it. Possibly your homes too. Yay me!"
They have Toyama Koichi who tries to overthrow the government by running in the elections, smile doctor Mack Akasa, oh and Yuya Uchida with his love ando peacu movemento. I think it's safe to say they have enough whack job politicians to be sure that some get elected, just like any other country.
There's more videos on youtube if you do a little searching on the political broadcasts for the elections, but most of 'm aren't translated.
At Debian, we do care about binary blob firmware without source. We put them in "non-free", and we don't consider it's part of the OS (it wont go in the released CD, etc.).
Does your installer still insist on installing grub onto the memory stick typically used to provide such firmware for your netinstall CDs instead of the hard drive, or can I finally stop cursing under my breath every single time I'm trying to install a DL360 and I forget to remove the memory stick ?
That is perhaps my biggest complaint about Debian, which is to say that it's been a positive experience for the most part.
I can understand some of the political debate here, especially if it has an impact on technology or science, and such things as world shaking events (like the Fukushima earthquake, no pun intended) because that's actual news that has a global impact. Hell, the nuclear debate sprung up, and there are global economical repercussions that have somewhat affected our profession. So it's not like I'm arguing for a complete lack of "other" news.
It's one of the last few places I can go to read comments that are not clearly based on a political agenda
In an article about a man who assisted in suicide you're going to have three camps: people for, people against, with a hand full of people leaning towards a shade of gray in a black and white discussion. This discussion has been had over and over, and for many countries (including my own) it's one of those touchy debates that every politician gets upset about, but most people regard with "common sense". Here, the old policy for euthanasia (which is a case of assisted suicide for the most part) was with a really sick and dying person to give them a shot of morphine (or other a suitable dose of another painkiller) to "ease the pain" if the family or patient requested it and not to ask any questions. If the doctor refused, another doctor was asked. Then politics got involved and now there's forms, waivers, hospitals and/or doctors can refuse (thus ending the option to go to another doctor in the same hospital), the family can refuse the patients wish, and it can even go to court dragging out for months while the patient is probably going to die in pain before the lawyers finish writing the invoice.
The debate is in general tiresome in my opinion since it always boils down to a set of values people have, and there really is no right or wrong. You could debate that it's murder, and you'd be right technically, but is this kind of murder wrong? And so we give it another name : euthanasia, assisted suicide, giving the patient something for the pain... I think that despite the current legislation for euthanasia in my country the situation has devolved for the worst. Due to the legal mess that the whole legislation has created doctors and patients aren't sure any more if they are allowed to perform/request the option, and at any time third parties can intervene for whatever reason they can think of. Compare this to a sick person saying his goodbyes and then asking "Relieve me from this pain, I've only got 2 weeks of prolonged suffering ahead of me at this point". Completely outlawing the practice would be dumb in my opinion since it's not in our nature to let people suffer needlessly, especially if we care about them, so the practice will be a lot more crude.
The same thing goes for the abortion debate. It's various points of view that are as different as black and white, and if it's a right or wrong point of view depends on whatever your own opinion on the matter is. There is no middle ground in these kinds of debate because they're ethical issues, and thus we get religion, politics and everything possible involved. However, all of this has no scientific or technological impact. We're not going to invent futurama-style suicide booths any time soon, nor does any side of the debate want these kinds of devices (aside from perhaps a few misguided "wouldn't it be cool" geeks). We're also not going to be doing much scientific research into the "other side", the soul or whatever your local flavour of religion calls it for obvious reasons.
I can read a discussion from an educated audience that is generally willing to converse intelligently and not just flame people that are the outliers on a school of thought.
There's an educated audience alright, but only a few of them are willing to converse intelligently. The first reply I got to my previous message was one telling me to fuck off. I'd be happy to oblige, unfortunately the author gave no good reason to do so, so I'll continue posting with an air of sarcasm until he does.
Since it only takes about 30 minutes to set up network wide single signon with LDAP and kerberos
Ah yes, I remember this particular book: "Setting up LDAP in 30 minutes". You'd expect it to be a technical manual, but it's actually a novella about a sysadmin who set up LDAP in 15 minutes. Driven by his passion for a single sign on solution and pressed for time he did a quick setup, and things were great. That is until he was supposed to link those userids back to e-mail accounts for the e-mail server, which coincidentally didn't support his particular LDAP layout.
"It's okay," he spoke, "I've still got 15 minutes to spare. In that time I'm sure I can read the manpages for sendmail, qmail and postfix and still have time to stroke my manly beard.".
And thus he read the manpages, setup his particular mailserver of choice properly, and stroked his manly beard. Now that every user could connect with SSH to the servers they needed to be on, mail was being delivered, and the manly beard was stroked his manager approached him.
"Hey, I was trying to access www.testyourmanagementskills.com, but I get this weird error saying Access Denied. I think the Internets are broken, I've never been denied access to the Internets before. Could you come have a look?"
"Sure thing, I'll be with you in a sec.", the sysadmin answered still enjoying the rough sensation of stroking his manly beard.
Sure enough, the squid proxy server was not configured yet to authenticate through the LDAP server and was now broken. "I'll be right back," the sysadmin told his manager, "I have to fix the internets". And sure enough, once the sysadmin had dug through the manpages of his clustered setup of squid proxy servers a few hours later everything was up and running smoothly except for those few glitches, but the url for testyourmanagementskills.com passed through the proxy logs so the most important part was taken care of.
"Time to stroke my manly beard again", the sysadmin thought, but before he had the chance to grab for his manly attribute he was quickly interrupted by the secretary who was trying to update the intranet. "I think the intranets are broken too," she complained in a nagging voice, "I was trying to upload pictures of kittens to improve the mood now that half of the IT stuff isn't working, but if the intranets are down I can't do that. FIX MY KITTENS!". Sure enough, the apache server running the intranet site hadn't loaded mod_ldap, hadn't set up in any other way than ye olde htpasswd password files, and sure enough some of the applications on the intranet site needed to be reprogrammed as well to handle the new and improved magnificent single sign on. Luckily for him the mod_ldap page explained pretty well what needed to be changed, so after a quick lunchbreak the apache server was up and running again (except for a few nasty PHP errors, but the kittens were back on the intranets, so who cares?)
"You know, " spoke the accountant, "I've got to hand it to you. You managed to fix a lot of stuff today that broke all of a sudden, but I still can't access the accounting excel sheets. I need to update the invoices and I just can't seem to do that.". Sure enough, the samba server hosting the accounting files wasn't configured for LDAP either. The sysadmin quickly went to work, and grabbed the samba documentation, and that is where the real problem began. You see, gentle reader, the documentation for samba isn't just a 3 page document saying "put this here, this here, and that there, and then/etc/init.d/smb restart" but a hefty document gently introducing you into the world of "domain controllers" and "shares" and the various quircks and oddities, such things as WINS servers and all that fun jazz. Oh, the original setup was never anything complicated, but a good LDAP setup for samba (or rather a good samba setup for LDAP) requires a bit of planning and care especially if you have a lot of users.
After reading through the various manuals and the small hand
Perhaps the solution, is some kind of crypto on the streams that clients must negotiate the key for via unicast before getting the stream. But then its scarily close to drm.
The best part of this encryption scheme is that the encryption key is the same for everyone since well... the encrypted data is sent over multicast and is the same for everyone. So the moment a pirate sets sail on the high seas and copy pastes the stream info and encryption key to his buddies there will be tons of people watching the stream for free. If the key changes every X minutes you could setup a program that simply distributes the keys (perhaps using something like UDP multicast, since we have all that address space anyway).
You have a very twisted sense of humor, and I salute you for trying to sell snake-oil to an industry bent on selling you the exact same thing.
I have to right-click twice to get the context menu. Haven't seen this before today and I've had ff4 for awhile now..
I've had the same issue with FF4 on Win 7. This changed recently. Before this I had the issue that when clicking on a link the parents of the post would expand one by one each click, until the OP was reached, Then I could finally click the link.
The new slashdot webdesign is made out of fail. Who ever made it shouldn't get paid for the terrible job they did.
The Japanese currently sure don't... HAR HAR HARHAR
Has it come to this?
Sadly yes. The site does tend to more fluff, slashvertising, idle shit and biased politics articles than anything really interesting. I'm betting that by 2012 we'll have videos of cats on here.
Perhaps the new dysfunctional slashdot design should've clued most of us in that we should be leaving for something new.
When interviewing people for QA positions, I routinely ask "Do you know what an SQL injection attack is?"
Hahaha, reminds me of what I used to do to interns. We used to get a bunch of interns every year, and every year we'd have them develop small web applications for internal use. They'd work on their project and after a few weeks we'd come in and evaluate their work, steer them in the right direction (if that wasn't necessary earlier) and do a few tests.
The first thing I always asked was "Do you have a backup?" and after the inevitable googling of the mysqldump command I'd be an utter bastard and sneak in a DROP TABLE, or DELETE FROM statement in the URL bar, right after id=x, and surely enough most of the times it would work.
"It looks really great, but I think there's a problem with it. Maybe you want to check the logfiles to see what happened." to see if they'd see what was the problem, and if they didn't I would explain an SQL injection attack to them. Few of them managed to find the solution on google, but most immediately suggested such things as "I'll check for ; in the string" which inevitably led to me trashing their tables about 10 minutes later. I have to say, once they had their tables dropped twice they became real careful of permissions and handling SQL statements.
In a way I hope they learned something from having a complete bastard as a mentor, although I'm sure that a few of them have already forgotten about that one time a single statement ruined their database. Oh well...
Slashdot Mirror
People still believe that Bill Gates is going to pay you for forwarding email.
Well, there goes that lucrative 2nd income. I hope Santa doesn't skimp this year, I could really use some money.
The legislation makes the creation or distribution of a computer virus without a reasonable cause punishable by up to three years in prison or 500,000 yen in fines, and the acquisition or storage of one punishable by up to two years in prison or 300,000 yen in fines.
I hope it's a bit more defined than that, because getting infected with a virus could lead up to a $3700 USD fine if it isn't.
It's called the firehose.
Ah yes, imagine having an editor pick the best of a few articles each day and spend some time reading them, perhaps adding some value. Now we have another slashdot system to game.
all the extra land required to build these alternatives.
No worries, nothing bad has ever happened because Germany decided they needed more land.
Don't mention the war
who tries to overthrow the government by running in the elections
Well we certainly would not want candidates with opposing view points participating in elections, that would be inconvenient.
An opposing viewpoint in politics would be "If I am elected I will do something about X", not "I will burn down the system to the ground, completely. All of it. Possibly your homes too. Yay me!"
is this video in actual time or some kind of sped up
Sped up, if you click the link you'll find out everything.
Japan has no whack job libertarian lobby.
They have Toyama Koichi who tries to overthrow the government by running in the elections, smile doctor Mack Akasa, oh and Yuya Uchida with his love ando peacu movemento. I think it's safe to say they have enough whack job politicians to be sure that some get elected, just like any other country.
There's more videos on youtube if you do a little searching on the political broadcasts for the elections, but most of 'm aren't translated.
Have fun
At Debian, we do care about binary blob firmware without source. We put them in "non-free", and we don't consider it's part of the OS (it wont go in the released CD, etc.).
Does your installer still insist on installing grub onto the memory stick typically used to provide such firmware for your netinstall CDs instead of the hard drive, or can I finally stop cursing under my breath every single time I'm trying to install a DL360 and I forget to remove the memory stick ?
That is perhaps my biggest complaint about Debian, which is to say that it's been a positive experience for the most part.
I appreciate the other news on slashdot.
I can understand some of the political debate here, especially if it has an impact on technology or science, and such things as world shaking events (like the Fukushima earthquake, no pun intended) because that's actual news that has a global impact. Hell, the nuclear debate sprung up, and there are global economical repercussions that have somewhat affected our profession. So it's not like I'm arguing for a complete lack of "other" news.
It's one of the last few places I can go to read comments that are not clearly based on a political agenda
In an article about a man who assisted in suicide you're going to have three camps: people for, people against, with a hand full of people leaning towards a shade of gray in a black and white discussion. This discussion has been had over and over, and for many countries (including my own) it's one of those touchy debates that every politician gets upset about, but most people regard with "common sense". Here, the old policy for euthanasia (which is a case of assisted suicide for the most part) was with a really sick and dying person to give them a shot of morphine (or other a suitable dose of another painkiller) to "ease the pain" if the family or patient requested it and not to ask any questions. If the doctor refused, another doctor was asked. Then politics got involved and now there's forms, waivers, hospitals and/or doctors can refuse (thus ending the option to go to another doctor in the same hospital), the family can refuse the patients wish, and it can even go to court dragging out for months while the patient is probably going to die in pain before the lawyers finish writing the invoice.
The debate is in general tiresome in my opinion since it always boils down to a set of values people have, and there really is no right or wrong. You could debate that it's murder, and you'd be right technically, but is this kind of murder wrong? And so we give it another name : euthanasia, assisted suicide, giving the patient something for the pain ... I think that despite the current legislation for euthanasia in my country the situation has devolved for the worst. Due to the legal mess that the whole legislation has created doctors and patients aren't sure any more if they are allowed to perform/request the option, and at any time third parties can intervene for whatever reason they can think of. Compare this to a sick person saying his goodbyes and then asking "Relieve me from this pain, I've only got 2 weeks of prolonged suffering ahead of me at this point". Completely outlawing the practice would be dumb in my opinion since it's not in our nature to let people suffer needlessly, especially if we care about them, so the practice will be a lot more crude.
The same thing goes for the abortion debate. It's various points of view that are as different as black and white, and if it's a right or wrong point of view depends on whatever your own opinion on the matter is. There is no middle ground in these kinds of debate because they're ethical issues, and thus we get religion, politics and everything possible involved. However, all of this has no scientific or technological impact. We're not going to invent futurama-style suicide booths any time soon, nor does any side of the debate want these kinds of devices (aside from perhaps a few misguided "wouldn't it be cool" geeks). We're also not going to be doing much scientific research into the "other side", the soul or whatever your local flavour of religion calls it for obvious reasons.
I can read a discussion from an educated audience that is generally willing to converse intelligently and not just flame people that are the outliers on a school of thought.
There's an educated audience alright, but only a few of them are willing to converse intelligently. The first reply I got to my previous message was one telling me to fuck off. I'd be happy to oblige, unfortunately the author gave no good reason to do so, so I'll continue posting with an air of sarcasm until he does.
News for nerds, stuff that matters
A slogan from a distant past I guess... Oh well.
Is that Read The Manual Fucker Protocol?
Really, Trust Macromedia Flash Protocol
Since it only takes about 30 minutes to set up network wide single signon with LDAP and kerberos
Ah yes, I remember this particular book: "Setting up LDAP in 30 minutes". You'd expect it to be a technical manual, but it's actually a novella about a sysadmin who set up LDAP in 15 minutes. Driven by his passion for a single sign on solution and pressed for time he did a quick setup, and things were great. That is until he was supposed to link those userids back to e-mail accounts for the e-mail server, which coincidentally didn't support his particular LDAP layout.
"It's okay," he spoke, "I've still got 15 minutes to spare. In that time I'm sure I can read the manpages for sendmail, qmail and postfix and still have time to stroke my manly beard.".
And thus he read the manpages, setup his particular mailserver of choice properly, and stroked his manly beard. Now that every user could connect with SSH to the servers they needed to be on, mail was being delivered, and the manly beard was stroked his manager approached him.
"Hey, I was trying to access www.testyourmanagementskills.com, but I get this weird error saying Access Denied. I think the Internets are broken, I've never been denied access to the Internets before. Could you come have a look?"
"Sure thing, I'll be with you in a sec.", the sysadmin answered still enjoying the rough sensation of stroking his manly beard.
Sure enough, the squid proxy server was not configured yet to authenticate through the LDAP server and was now broken. "I'll be right back," the sysadmin told his manager, "I have to fix the internets". And sure enough, once the sysadmin had dug through the manpages of his clustered setup of squid proxy servers a few hours later everything was up and running smoothly except for those few glitches, but the url for testyourmanagementskills.com passed through the proxy logs so the most important part was taken care of.
"Time to stroke my manly beard again", the sysadmin thought, but before he had the chance to grab for his manly attribute he was quickly interrupted by the secretary who was trying to update the intranet. "I think the intranets are broken too," she complained in a nagging voice, "I was trying to upload pictures of kittens to improve the mood now that half of the IT stuff isn't working, but if the intranets are down I can't do that. FIX MY KITTENS!". Sure enough, the apache server running the intranet site hadn't loaded mod_ldap, hadn't set up in any other way than ye olde htpasswd password files, and sure enough some of the applications on the intranet site needed to be reprogrammed as well to handle the new and improved magnificent single sign on. Luckily for him the mod_ldap page explained pretty well what needed to be changed, so after a quick lunchbreak the apache server was up and running again (except for a few nasty PHP errors, but the kittens were back on the intranets, so who cares?)
"You know, " spoke the accountant, "I've got to hand it to you. You managed to fix a lot of stuff today that broke all of a sudden, but I still can't access the accounting excel sheets. I need to update the invoices and I just can't seem to do that.". Sure enough, the samba server hosting the accounting files wasn't configured for LDAP either. The sysadmin quickly went to work, and grabbed the samba documentation, and that is where the real problem began. You see, gentle reader, the documentation for samba isn't just a 3 page document saying "put this here, this here, and that there, and then /etc/init.d/smb restart" but a hefty document gently introducing you into the world of "domain controllers" and "shares" and the various quircks and oddities, such things as WINS servers and all that fun jazz. Oh, the original setup was never anything complicated, but a good LDAP setup for samba (or rather a good samba setup for LDAP) requires a bit of planning and care especially if you have a lot of users.
After reading through the various manuals and the small hand
A simple check against known signatures
Mr Mouse, let me introduce Mr Cat. I'm sure you will be enjoying many games together.
What defence is there against the end users downloading and running MacDefender and giving up the Admin password?
Bricking the macbook? I don't mean fuck it up with some firmware update, but taking a brick to it and smashing it. You can't run MacDefender that way.
unicorns could fly out of your butt
Oh god no, that sounds extremely painful... With the horn and all.
But they can cat an image and see a picture of a cat with a caption! That is totally more usable! ;)
I can has xterm?
Will I be dumb enough to become one of those muppets again?
I don't know. How long do you remember stuff like this and when is the next Playstation coming out?
it hadn't really been abused all that much when Tolkien wrote LotR.
Well, there was that Jesus fellow, but the story wasn't nearly as good.
Some folks are (almost) calling for Hotz' head. And people think Apple's fans drink the KoolAid...
And I'm pretty sure that Sony isn't posting comments on their own website. Right? They would never do such a thing.
Perhaps the solution, is some kind of crypto on the streams that clients must negotiate the key for via unicast before getting the stream. But then its scarily close to drm.
The best part of this encryption scheme is that the encryption key is the same for everyone since well... the encrypted data is sent over multicast and is the same for everyone. So the moment a pirate sets sail on the high seas and copy pastes the stream info and encryption key to his buddies there will be tons of people watching the stream for free. If the key changes every X minutes you could setup a program that simply distributes the keys (perhaps using something like UDP multicast, since we have all that address space anyway).
You have a very twisted sense of humor, and I salute you for trying to sell snake-oil to an industry bent on selling you the exact same thing.
I have to right-click twice to get the context menu. Haven't seen this before today and I've had ff4 for awhile now..
I've had the same issue with FF4 on Win 7. This changed recently. Before this I had the issue that when clicking on a link the parents of the post would expand one by one each click, until the OP was reached, Then I could finally click the link.
The new slashdot webdesign is made out of fail. Who ever made it shouldn't get paid for the terrible job they did.
I guess WWV has been down for a while now, because 2012 happened 1.5 years ago.
Well, that's a serious case of clock drift right there. Damn you Japan!
I know it's late
The Japanese currently sure don't... HAR HAR HARHAR
Has it come to this?
Sadly yes. The site does tend to more fluff, slashvertising, idle shit and biased politics articles than anything really interesting. I'm betting that by 2012 we'll have videos of cats on here.
Perhaps the new dysfunctional slashdot design should've clued most of us in that we should be leaving for something new.
When interviewing people for QA positions, I routinely ask "Do you know what an SQL injection attack is?"
Hahaha, reminds me of what I used to do to interns. We used to get a bunch of interns every year, and every year we'd have them develop small web applications for internal use. They'd work on their project and after a few weeks we'd come in and evaluate their work, steer them in the right direction (if that wasn't necessary earlier) and do a few tests.
The first thing I always asked was "Do you have a backup?" and after the inevitable googling of the mysqldump command I'd be an utter bastard and sneak in a DROP TABLE, or DELETE FROM statement in the URL bar, right after id=x, and surely enough most of the times it would work.
"It looks really great, but I think there's a problem with it. Maybe you want to check the logfiles to see what happened." to see if they'd see what was the problem, and if they didn't I would explain an SQL injection attack to them. Few of them managed to find the solution on google, but most immediately suggested such things as "I'll check for ; in the string" which inevitably led to me trashing their tables about 10 minutes later. I have to say, once they had their tables dropped twice they became real careful of permissions and handling SQL statements.
In a way I hope they learned something from having a complete bastard as a mentor, although I'm sure that a few of them have already forgotten about that one time a single statement ruined their database. Oh well...
Requires an OS reboot, even on Windows 7, for installation.
I didn't have to reboot. It just installed without a hitch for me.
"Block images from this site" has disappeared as a right-click option.
Didn't even notice, with adblockplus and all that.