Ehh... People on slashdot don't really know what they're talking about. Your point regarding physical access negating security is spot-on. This really is nothing interesting, except in the corner case of business travelers who: have valuable data, on a laptop, with an enabled firewire port, with the correct drivers installed and lacking a patch for this vulnerability, AND they leave their valuable piece of equipment unattended for long enough to break in and infect the box/steal the data.
Then again, assuming the laptop is unattended anyways, there are many other ways of getting access to the information on it, including dressing like a bum and stealing the thing to pay for a crack habit.
The US can easily afford to feed, clothe, and fully care for every one of its citizens. We--that is, the tyrannical majority--choose not to because of a mutated form of selfishness and an irrational fear of anything that sounds "socialist". Talk to people in the US, and ask them if they agree with this statement:
"I don't want my money going to pay for the healthcare of some welfare-queen mother of six who mooches off the state."
A rational person rightly sees that entire statement as a strawman. The typical american is nodding his or her head right now, because that single worthless human is the entirety of their understanding of the poor. Americans, to make a generalization, are retarded. (and I do apologize to any mentally handicapped people reading this, I shouldn't compare you to Americans) I am, by the way, a shamed citizen of the United States of America, but only until a more sane country opens her doors to me.
Are you insane? Linux and HIV working together would end the WORLD. Besides, NetBSD would work better. But what we really need to do, we need to boot Vista on HIV. It would take 50 years to infect a single cell, and then it would popup "HIV wants to give you AIDS, cancel or allow?"
Insertion sort isn't the most naive route. That would be bubble sort. However, in the correct context, insertion sort is useful. If your data is largely pre-sorted, or you are memory-limited, insertion sort will shine, operating in O(n) time and O(1) space.
That said. 99% of the code you'll write is NOT algorithm code in a formal sense. If you find yourself re-inventing a sort algorithm on a modern platform, it's a sign that you've gone wrong somewhere. Libaries and APIs contain the algorithms, the code you should--and likely will--be writing is glue.
I didn't pay for Linux, Firefox, Apache, PHP, or The GIMP. Was that stealing? I don't pay for air and sunshine. Is that stealing? I don't pay for the music I listen to on the radio. Is that stealing?
I don't pay for the music I listen to. Is that really stealing?
It also provides a good opportunity to test a new missile system, and shows the Chinese that the US can play at their game, too.
If it was for that purpose, I'd want to see this kept much quieter. The PRC test occurred at an altitude of roughly 500km, whereas USA-193 is reportedly a mere 250 km above the ground. If the USA is trying to prove they're not behind the PRC in space warfare, they would definitely need to one-up, not come in a distant second....not that I know anything about this, I'm only an armchair general.
What, pray tell would you replace SQL with? Bear in mind you have to make it capable of replacing BILLIONS of lines of stored procedures and db code. And whatever magnificent replacement you invent also has to be a great enough improvement over SQL to be worth the TRILLIONS of dollars necessary to retrain the entire SQL economy.
Go ahead, let's hear your awesome idea! Or were you just being an idiot?
Low-hanging fruit. Defense in depth. Most people can't sniff wifi. Etc. If you can't see the value of a particular security tactic, then you shouldn't be talking about it.
I think, regardless of law or morals, if you're on the side opposing the RIAA, then you're the good guy. The honest acceptance of pure tribalism makes life so much simpler.
Nobody blames the manufacturer when a shitty winmodem or onboard graphics chip doesn't work in Linux. Nope, they blame Torvalds and his band of merry dorks. "Oh, Linux doesn't work with my computer, maybe when they fix it it won't suck eggs."
Those two issues with software/runtime libraries being ported are completely irrelevant to a bug in a display module of a clock built in native code. Don't trust the first Google link you get if you don't understand the topic.
"I'm saying these are not end-user functions, they are development and/or system administration functions."
B.S. World of Warcraft--you may have heard of it--has a built-in display of the memory currently being used by any extension, as well as built-in functionality to determine if an addon is causing a game-play slowdown. Would you call World of Warcraft a "development and/or system adminstration" tool?
The important difference between ActiveX and D-Bus is that ActiveX (with the right settings, DEFAULT in some windows versions) will automatically download code from the Internet and execute it with no warning or prompt. There's no scenario in which D-Bus--a mechanism for pre-existing installed applications to interact--can do the same.
Or do what I do. Mod AC -6 in your posting interface, and THEN read at 0. Not brave enough to own your own words? Then I don't care what you have to say.
I want to mod you troll, but you're exactly right. So I'll reply to you instead and remove the temptation.
XP is genuinely a fairly competent system. If you like closed source. And six-year-old privilege-escalation vulnerabilities. And Defective Restriction Management. And a vendor that tries to destroy every free alternative to their product with BS patent/copyright lawsuits. And supporting a convicted monopolist. And...
Also, how on earth do you have such high uptime if every monthly patch requires a reboot? You're not...unpatched, are you?
Right. 'cause working on OSX, Linux, Windows, Unix, some smart phones, and more than a few PDAs isn't even a little bit cross-platform. No, you have to hit the greats first: Amiga, Atari, and BeOS. God, heaven forfend that anything should be cross-platform on systems that people actually use.
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Ehh...
People on slashdot don't really know what they're talking about. Your point regarding physical access negating security is spot-on. This really is nothing interesting, except in the corner case of business travelers who: have valuable data, on a laptop, with an enabled firewire port, with the correct drivers installed and lacking a patch for this vulnerability, AND they leave their valuable piece of equipment unattended for long enough to break in and infect the box/steal the data.
Then again, assuming the laptop is unattended anyways, there are many other ways of getting access to the information on it, including dressing like a bum and stealing the thing to pay for a crack habit.
* One year in Iraq.
* "Filet mignon" healthcare for every single American citizen for five years.
About the same amount of money. not really a source, but a very informative read.
The US can easily afford to feed, clothe, and fully care for every one of its citizens. We--that is, the tyrannical majority--choose not to because of a mutated form of selfishness and an irrational fear of anything that sounds "socialist". Talk to people in the US, and ask them if they agree with this statement:
"I don't want my money going to pay for the healthcare of some welfare-queen mother of six who mooches off the state."
A rational person rightly sees that entire statement as a strawman. The typical american is nodding his or her head right now, because that single worthless human is the entirety of their understanding of the poor. Americans, to make a generalization, are retarded. (and I do apologize to any mentally handicapped people reading this, I shouldn't compare you to Americans) I am, by the way, a shamed citizen of the United States of America, but only until a more sane country opens her doors to me.
Are you insane? Linux and HIV working together would end the WORLD. Besides, NetBSD would work better. But what we really need to do, we need to boot Vista on HIV. It would take 50 years to infect a single cell, and then it would popup "HIV wants to give you AIDS, cancel or allow?"
Insertion sort isn't the most naive route. That would be bubble sort. However, in the correct context, insertion sort is useful. If your data is largely pre-sorted, or you are memory-limited, insertion sort will shine, operating in O(n) time and O(1) space.
That said. 99% of the code you'll write is NOT algorithm code in a formal sense. If you find yourself re-inventing a sort algorithm on a modern platform, it's a sign that you've gone wrong somewhere. Libaries and APIs contain the algorithms, the code you should--and likely will--be writing is glue.
I didn't pay for Linux, Firefox, Apache, PHP, or The GIMP. Was that stealing?
I don't pay for air and sunshine. Is that stealing?
I don't pay for the music I listen to on the radio. Is that stealing?
I don't pay for the music I listen to. Is that really stealing?
It also provides a good opportunity to test a new missile system, and shows the Chinese that the US can play at their game, too.
...not that I know anything about this, I'm only an armchair general.
If it was for that purpose, I'd want to see this kept much quieter. The PRC test occurred at an altitude of roughly 500km, whereas USA-193 is reportedly a mere 250 km above the ground. If the USA is trying to prove they're not behind the PRC in space warfare, they would definitely need to one-up, not come in a distant second.
Would you go back to Digg or Youtube or whatever other hell-hole you crawled out of, please?
Advanced, yes.
I believe GP actually meant "easiest". Odd how so many people make that mistake.
I've never seen the original MS-DOS 6 floppies. I have multiple copies floating around, and I'm fairly sure they're at least third-generation copies.
DOS got pirated a LOT.
Oh wise and mighty Qbertino,
What, pray tell would you replace SQL with? Bear in mind you have to make it capable of replacing BILLIONS of lines of stored procedures and db code. And whatever magnificent replacement you invent also has to be a great enough improvement over SQL to be worth the TRILLIONS of dollars necessary to retrain the entire SQL economy.
Go ahead, let's hear your awesome idea! Or were you just being an idiot?
Low-hanging fruit. Defense in depth. Most people can't sniff wifi. Etc. If you can't see the value of a particular security tactic, then you shouldn't be talking about it.
And Texans have a proud history of only fearing for their lives when they happen to have a shotgun handy.
I think, regardless of law or morals, if you're on the side opposing the RIAA, then you're the good guy. The honest acceptance of pure tribalism makes life so much simpler.
Nobody blames the manufacturer when a shitty winmodem or onboard graphics chip doesn't work in Linux. Nope, they blame Torvalds and his band of merry dorks. "Oh, Linux doesn't work with my computer, maybe when they fix it it won't suck eggs."
Apply the same standard to Vista.
Those two issues with software/runtime libraries being ported are completely irrelevant to a bug in a display module of a clock built in native code. Don't trust the first Google link you get if you don't understand the topic.
Wrong.
dwarfurl is used as nothing more than a spam-link hiding service, and xkcd doesn't block referrers from Slashdot.
+1, Sad but True.
Whoever modded the parent as a troll is a retard.
...and I thank them every time. They built my computing cluster.
"I'm saying these are not end-user functions, they are development and/or system administration functions."
B.S.
World of Warcraft--you may have heard of it--has a built-in display of the memory currently being used by any extension, as well as built-in functionality to determine if an addon is causing a game-play slowdown. Would you call World of Warcraft a "development and/or system adminstration" tool?
The important difference between ActiveX and D-Bus is that ActiveX (with the right settings, DEFAULT in some windows versions) will automatically download code from the Internet and execute it with no warning or prompt. There's no scenario in which D-Bus--a mechanism for pre-existing installed applications to interact--can do the same.
Or do what I do.
Mod AC -6 in your posting interface, and THEN read at 0.
Not brave enough to own your own words? Then I don't care what you have to say.
Well, duh. That's pretty much the whole point of my comment.
I want to mod you troll, but you're exactly right. So I'll reply to you instead and remove the temptation.
XP is genuinely a fairly competent system. If you like closed source. And six-year-old privilege-escalation vulnerabilities. And Defective Restriction Management. And a vendor that tries to destroy every free alternative to their product with BS patent/copyright lawsuits. And supporting a convicted monopolist. And...
Also, how on earth do you have such high uptime if every monthly patch requires a reboot? You're not...unpatched, are you?
Right.
'cause working on OSX, Linux, Windows, Unix, some smart phones, and more than a few PDAs isn't even a little bit cross-platform. No, you have to hit the greats first: Amiga, Atari, and BeOS. God, heaven forfend that anything should be cross-platform on systems that people actually use.
Why on EARTH is parent's post not +5 already?