Wow... they walk up to the car that already stopped, wait for quite a while and then they just all start shooting at it. They better have some video evidence the guy in the car started shooting at them, or they'll all be facing murder charges.
So what exactly makes this so special? It's a step for one of the many virtualization solutions in the market these days.
I for one wouldn't trust Oracle with any part of my infrastructure if I can help it. Citrix to me still is a company that makes an expensive Xclient for MicroSoft products and a niche product they bought, Xen, with no apparent synergy with their windows products, and who else really cares?
No matter who you're calling the asshats here, it's a major breach. Sony may have been bad. They may or may not deserve the wrath of a group of "hackers" for whatever reason. The "hackers" may act irresponsibly. The fact is and remains that for some reason the security of multiple large Sony websites is not up to standard. If anything, Sony should be treated as an "insecure area" of the Internet until they have proven they have had a redesign and implementation of their entire Internet presence. As long as they are treating these hacks as incidents, they will get hacked again and again.
It doesn't require an Internet connection to get infected. The most useful approach I've seen so far in power plants is 2 separated networks. One reserved for control with no external media or Internetconnection and one with internet and functioning drives, USB ports and all that. People are going to try to use the computer on their desk to do stuff they want, unless you provide them with an alternative. Lock the control computer down as best as you can, and leave the other one as open as possible.
Metric people, please...55 meters per second or 200 km/h. That is about 108 knots, if you want to use avionic Empiric measurement units. If you're comparing to US road speeds, 136 Mph. Try driving your car into a stack of water barriers at 136 Mph and figure what happens to it and the people inside if you want to make it sound dramatic. Coming up with feet per second just so you can dramatize the story with a large number, is something that should be reserved for FOX news.
They were selling almost nothing. 80 million more revenue per quarter wouldn't mean anything significant to IBM, Dell or HP. For Oracle it's about 10 percent growth.
The power you have from your dual core and graphics card, can now be had for half the electricity bill, probably less. True, if they could, they'd double performance and have you choose which one you wanted, but they did find a place where they could improve.
It may not mean much to you, but here, in Europe, we have significant taxes on electricity and it can save you US$100/month if you just turn off one of those heavy computers of yours. I used to have a few servers running in the meter closet for firewalling and fileserving. Right now, I have a WRTG for firewalling and a popcorn with a USB drive for files. This has taken my electricity bill down by over US$1000 per year.
Although I agree that game development has stalled and hardly uses the extra RAM and cores, I do think they will do so in the future. The better the physics models of the cars you emulate are, the longer you'll want to play the game. The more variation in any form of AI, the more fun you'll have playing. Running things like physics models or AI on separate cores will eventually make game play better. It's just a matter of time before game companies figure that out. Regarding revenue, I think WoW has figured out how to keep on making money from a game that essentially isn't that special.
It's also about 2500 tall giraffes high, or 1/25000th of the distance to the moon, on average. Get used to metric so you won't need comparison figures that make no sense. Or did you climb Mt Everest yourself?
So basically, every application, evil or not, can now request ports to open on the firewall? You may as well run everything as root and turn off SELinux as well. It will not only make it easier for the user to make changes, but also make the local firewall no longer a restriction for evildoers. Yes, I know, "SELinux access restrictions are also planned." but that is security added as a feature later on, not designed into the main architecture of the daemon. Right now, it's a big leak and I'd disable it first thing after installation. Fedora/RedHat should do that as well, until it has proper security features.
Because MicroSoft can map it to to a MSN account, Skype account or software or service registration they have on you as well. Once they can do that, they can map your traveling with your windows device and essentially know exactly where you drink your coffee, go for business and all that. Maybe it's not automatically considered proof in a court room anymore, but who said legal proof is ever required for invasion of privacy?
BtrFS is essentially moving towards ZFS regarding features. EXT4 has a few features that make it more scalable than ext3. You'd want this on your boot partition so you can remove support for legacy filesystems that are "only good for boot partitions" from your kernel.
The weapons industry would have found something else to spin so they could continue to sell their products. They needed a new "enemy of the state" after the cold war was over and OBL fitted the bill just fine. Russia, nor OBL were the cause of spending the money, the US people were. They let themselves be suckered into the theory that there was one or another big enemy that needed to be fought with lots of weapons. The truth is, the enemy is within.
Evidently, this is what people like? I for one don't and I'd like some governments (not just the USA, but how about the EU?) to give people an "opt in" for this sort of behavior. Yes, I'm talking legislation here to mandate such an option for all searches. The "don't follow me" tag currently hyped for some browsers hardly scratches the surface of this phenomenon.
I myself stopped using teh goggles and went to duckduckgo as my primary Internet search provider. Only if they don't give me the info I'm looking for, I use teh goggles or M$ search. With those two, I prefer to make my results as anonymous as possible, but it's hard when you're on someone elses link/computer and if you consistently do it on your own with a static IP, it doesn't help a lot...
So it must all be a lie!
Really, who is going to believe all these stories if they won't show the world proof they actually found and killed the man? The average Jihad terrorist won't believe stuff like this and only get more infuriated because of it.
This is turning into a PR nightmare for the USA. Fist no trial, then no proof and now slander after they (supposedly) killed him. Don't you just love the way the USA justice system works? Would you want the government that you chose treat you the same if they feel you've done them wrong?
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Wow... they walk up to the car that already stopped, wait for quite a while and then they just all start shooting at it. They better have some video evidence the guy in the car started shooting at them, or they'll all be facing murder charges.
So what exactly makes this so special? It's a step for one of the many virtualization solutions in the market these days.
I for one wouldn't trust Oracle with any part of my infrastructure if I can help it. Citrix to me still is a company that makes an expensive Xclient for MicroSoft products and a niche product they bought, Xen, with no apparent synergy with their windows products, and who else really cares?
No matter who you're calling the asshats here, it's a major breach. Sony may have been bad. They may or may not deserve the wrath of a group of "hackers" for whatever reason. The "hackers" may act irresponsibly. The fact is and remains that for some reason the security of multiple large Sony websites is not up to standard. If anything, Sony should be treated as an "insecure area" of the Internet until they have proven they have had a redesign and implementation of their entire Internet presence. As long as they are treating these hacks as incidents, they will get hacked again and again.
It doesn't require an Internet connection to get infected. The most useful approach I've seen so far in power plants is 2 separated networks. One reserved for control with no external media or Internetconnection and one with internet and functioning drives, USB ports and all that. People are going to try to use the computer on their desk to do stuff they want, unless you provide them with an alternative. Lock the control computer down as best as you can, and leave the other one as open as possible.
But will it run DNF?
Come on, this is supposed to be a site for smart people....
Metric people, please...55 meters per second or 200 km/h. That is about 108 knots, if you want to use avionic Empiric measurement units. If you're comparing to US road speeds, 136 Mph. Try driving your car into a stack of water barriers at 136 Mph and figure what happens to it and the people inside if you want to make it sound dramatic. Coming up with feet per second just so you can dramatize the story with a large number, is something that should be reserved for FOX news.
as a free lunch. Especially from Google!
They were selling almost nothing. 80 million more revenue per quarter wouldn't mean anything significant to IBM, Dell or HP. For Oracle it's about 10 percent growth.
The power you have from your dual core and graphics card, can now be had for half the electricity bill, probably less. True, if they could, they'd double performance and have you choose which one you wanted, but they did find a place where they could improve.
It may not mean much to you, but here, in Europe, we have significant taxes on electricity and it can save you US$100/month if you just turn off one of those heavy computers of yours. I used to have a few servers running in the meter closet for firewalling and fileserving. Right now, I have a WRTG for firewalling and a popcorn with a USB drive for files. This has taken my electricity bill down by over US$1000 per year.
Although I agree that game development has stalled and hardly uses the extra RAM and cores, I do think they will do so in the future. The better the physics models of the cars you emulate are, the longer you'll want to play the game. The more variation in any form of AI, the more fun you'll have playing. Running things like physics models or AI on separate cores will eventually make game play better. It's just a matter of time before game companies figure that out. Regarding revenue, I think WoW has figured out how to keep on making money from a game that essentially isn't that special.
It's also about 2500 tall giraffes high, or 1/25000th of the distance to the moon, on average. Get used to metric so you won't need comparison figures that make no sense. Or did you climb Mt Everest yourself?
So basically, every application, evil or not, can now request ports to open on the firewall? You may as well run everything as root and turn off SELinux as well. It will not only make it easier for the user to make changes, but also make the local firewall no longer a restriction for evildoers.
Yes, I know, "SELinux access restrictions are also planned." but that is security added as a feature later on, not designed into the main architecture of the daemon. Right now, it's a big leak and I'd disable it first thing after installation. Fedora/RedHat should do that as well, until it has proper security features.
In the Netherlands.... I guess it really is a local event for the US then
Because MicroSoft can map it to to a MSN account, Skype account or software or service registration they have on you as well. Once they can do that, they can map your traveling with your windows device and essentially know exactly where you drink your coffee, go for business and all that. Maybe it's not automatically considered proof in a court room anymore, but who said legal proof is ever required for invasion of privacy?
BtrFS is essentially moving towards ZFS regarding features. EXT4 has a few features that make it more scalable than ext3. You'd want this on your boot partition so you can remove support for legacy filesystems that are "only good for boot partitions" from your kernel.
So you can boot a live CD and fix grub just like you did with lilo. It would save you a lot of time posting complaints about it on forums.
The weapons industry would have found something else to spin so they could continue to sell their products. They needed a new "enemy of the state" after the cold war was over and OBL fitted the bill just fine. Russia, nor OBL were the cause of spending the money, the US people were. They let themselves be suckered into the theory that there was one or another big enemy that needed to be fought with lots of weapons. The truth is, the enemy is within.
Either that, or the Higgs bogon will be discovered.
They couldn't get to the bottom block. It was protected by a balrog.
Evidently, this is what people like? I for one don't and I'd like some governments (not just the USA, but how about the EU?) to give people an "opt in" for this sort of behavior. Yes, I'm talking legislation here to mandate such an option for all searches. The "don't follow me" tag currently hyped for some browsers hardly scratches the surface of this phenomenon.
I myself stopped using teh goggles and went to duckduckgo as my primary Internet search provider. Only if they don't give me the info I'm looking for, I use teh goggles or M$ search. With those two, I prefer to make my results as anonymous as possible, but it's hard when you're on someone elses link/computer and if you consistently do it on your own with a static IP, it doesn't help a lot...
Before Disney does that as well....
So it must all be a lie! Really, who is going to believe all these stories if they won't show the world proof they actually found and killed the man? The average Jihad terrorist won't believe stuff like this and only get more infuriated because of it. This is turning into a PR nightmare for the USA. Fist no trial, then no proof and now slander after they (supposedly) killed him. Don't you just love the way the USA justice system works? Would you want the government that you chose treat you the same if they feel you've done them wrong?
I thought the Kibbutz method was fairly successful until the seventies? It still is, there's just less of a committee thing going on.