This fact alone would make it worth to use life imprisonment. However: look at the suicide statistics in prison for people with life sentences, obviously a lot of them thinks that death is better than serving their 50 years in jail.
If it's a more human but still "worse" punishment to use life long imprisonment, then why not use them?
Someone who can stick a price on human life, or argument for improving the economy by killing people deserves no respect from me.
This "journalist" did just that.
The article is pure flamebait. I don't even start telling about the collective responsibility of software makers and the lazy sysadmins. The sasser worm was like a polite burglar: if it found the front door open, it went in. If it found it closed, it went away. Well, newsflash dear analysts: until you start paying attention to security there always will be a guy who writes a crappy virus (95% of them is _crude_) which wreaks havoc only because users and vendors like Microsoft of ignoring security.
If someone checks the last slashtickle, i kind of predicted that the EU will respond something like this.
Seriously, without even trying to hurt anybody's feelings this is the direct result of the USA's behaviour. People from the USA said there is no reason why should the USA give up control on the root dns servers and basically said i was trolling when i said it's another opposition of international contributions from the USA, but now it seems that some europeans agree with my assessment.
As a matter of fact, after this noone can say a word about the course the EU took, based on the fact that everyone has a right for free speech and that the internet is not even dominantly american. Only 1/3rd or less is the number of internet users who live in the USA, and it's declining, since the internet penetration is around the double as it is in Asia and slightly bigger than it is in Europe.
We don't need your toys USA, if you're not willing to share them due to your beliefs, then we'll get our own. In the meantime, you lose out compared to the world and not vica versa.
Before around '98 you needed only 'antivirus' software mainly. Then with the broadband spreading came the 'personal firewall'. In the last few years came Ad-Aware which is 'needed' if you want to get rid of spyware. In the last year and a half i was starting to see reports about needing both Ad-Aware and S&D, and now people are starting to suggest that someone needs 3 independent spyware/adware removal tools to clean up!!! Not to prevent infection, but to clean up!
Seriously folks, when will the madness stop? You can't patch a broken design combined with user unawareness by semi-working cannot be trusted commercial programs!
Personally i stopped using windows around the time XP arrived in 2001. I just had enough. I don't need no antivirus software, firewall software, ad and spyware removal and detection software and to fight an uphill battle trying to contain IE with an alternative browser. It is absolutely ridicoulus what someone needs to put up with.
Based on the world's 3rd largest data recovery firm's statistics, where they have the record of more than 30'000 recoveries (according to an auditor giving a lecture about data recovery and system failures a year ago).
Sorry to take a stab at this, but using linux in itself is NOT a guarantee to get rid of luser stupidity and ignorance. The biggest weakness, around 40-50% of all insecurities in a given system is the user, statistically. We can mitigate the other risks, but the user factor is the worst problem.
That was mainly the point of my GP (sorry if my sarcasm wasn't apparent enough).
It is fairly plausible to assume that there are some platform specific bugs or design flaws, where a specific browser is not at fault, like in the case of this zlib bug or the case of the demonstrated windows image bug, therefor we cannot say that firefox sucks or ie sucks, just that "hey look, there is a bug in zlib which is used by this and that" or "hey look, there is a bug in this windows component/design which causes the whole system to halt when it encounters a bug in a device driver!".
Btw, Opera 8.x is said to be immune from this windows crashing design flaw because it uses it's own image rendering library (afaik).
Warning: the link causes BSOD because of a flaw in the image rendering algorithm of some windows component when it tries to render a huge image, the waiting times out and the kernel decides its better just to panic.
The link causes no problems on linux, as it's implementation is not faulty.
I think there is a patch for this fault on windowsupdate, but i can't be certain as i'm not using windows.
1936 ophthalmologist Frank Burch suggests iris-based identification
We would have done it without patent or not.
Anyway, just to correct some misleading posts:
Pros for iris recognition:
FAR (false acceptance rate) is 10^-78 (earth population 10^10 at max)
For most of the work this guy, John Daugman is responsible. He identified 400(!!!) different and measurable(!!!) parameters on the iris and gave the statistical error model for them.
The iris' patterns form in young age and then it doesn't really change.
Cons:
Quite expensive at the moment (partly due to patent problems).
The infection factor: it has to be kept really hygienic. There is the story of the american military base, where one guy had an eye infection and they used an iris scanner. The guy infected around half of the total personnel at that base, through the iris scanner.
They made companies _complimentary_ to file their tax form through that online system, and optional for the average citizen.
We went (Hungarian Unix Portal and a few linux associations) in Hungary to the ombudsman with it, but they said it's "a technical thing" (despite the letter clearly stating whats wrong with using only windows, which is a priced product) and forwarded it to the financial ministry (d'oh, the ministry which runs the tax collection!), so we basically ended up with 0 result.
If they could make this work it would cut down the size of the object to be launched drastically. That would be a great thing, which in itself would make spaceflight more profitable. No more 3T fuel, fuel tanks, etc.
Re:ICMP flaw #1 on Linux: it's in the kernel
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Examining ICMP Flaws
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· Score: 5, Insightful
The scary thing is that the parent is talking about ICMP without actually knowing what it is.
You see, this is one of the failures of the moderation system: when someone posts something like this, it seems intelligent because it mentions a lot of familiar things, but overally it's not even making sense. The problem is that moderators work like this:
Argument: check
Clear line of thinking: check
Windows comparison: check
The problem is that this checklist does not include VERIFYING THINGS like what ICMP is. This is how the parent got +5, insightful while it's one of the most misinformed posts i've seen in a while.
Actually, if you would have watched "Super Size Me", they listed what is "chicken nuggets" on a half A4 sized page.
When i see advertisements like "the best part of the chicken" advertising those nuggets, i always get automatically reminded that they are made from the industrial byproducts of food processing, which essentially contains some waste from chickens aswell. That's the only connection with chickens. It's a way to sell waste to people.
By the same line of thinking Microsoft is as responsible for insecurities in software allowing viruses to spread as someone who writes a virus to exploit those en masse.
That's how these think. They try to create impressions. "Downloading is illegal" where in most cases it is not (uploading is), "modding is punished severly" when we don't have a solid basis for that statement yet.
For example in Hungary, you don't have to verify the source of legality if it's not explicitly forbidden (so if you come across an mp3 file, you can download it, but for example you cannot redistribute an mp3 from a website if there is an accompanying text (copyright notice) forbidding it from reproducing which of course is uploading already).
It is mostly accepted in Europe that the legality of a download has to be verified from the upload side - the one which reproduces the copyrighted content.
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Simple: make them work in prison.
This fact alone would make it worth to use life imprisonment. However: look at the suicide statistics in prison for people with life sentences, obviously a lot of them thinks that death is better than serving their 50 years in jail.
If it's a more human but still "worse" punishment to use life long imprisonment, then why not use them?
Someone who can stick a price on human life, or argument for improving the economy by killing people deserves no respect from me.
This "journalist" did just that.
The article is pure flamebait. I don't even start telling about the collective responsibility of software makers and the lazy sysadmins. The sasser worm was like a polite burglar: if it found the front door open, it went in. If it found it closed, it went away. Well, newsflash dear analysts: until you start paying attention to security there always will be a guy who writes a crappy virus (95% of them is _crude_) which wreaks havoc only because users and vendors like Microsoft of ignoring security.
That would be consistent with the quality decrease Phrack is showing for the last few years now. ;)
I guess theoretically the copyright holder can tell you when you can start selling something with his/her copyright on it.
Disclaimer: not that i agree with this procedure, this is just a stupid fuss about an overrated book.
If someone checks the last slashtickle, i kind of predicted that the EU will respond something like this.
Seriously, without even trying to hurt anybody's feelings this is the direct result of the USA's behaviour. People from the USA said there is no reason why should the USA give up control on the root dns servers and basically said i was trolling when i said it's another opposition of international contributions from the USA, but now it seems that some europeans agree with my assessment.
As a matter of fact, after this noone can say a word about the course the EU took, based on the fact that everyone has a right for free speech and that the internet is not even dominantly american. Only 1/3rd or less is the number of internet users who live in the USA, and it's declining, since the internet penetration is around the double as it is in Asia and slightly bigger than it is in Europe.
We don't need your toys USA, if you're not willing to share them due to your beliefs, then we'll get our own. In the meantime, you lose out compared to the world and not vica versa.
Honestly, how long will this continue?
Before around '98 you needed only 'antivirus' software mainly. Then with the broadband spreading came the 'personal firewall'. In the last few years came Ad-Aware which is 'needed' if you want to get rid of spyware. In the last year and a half i was starting to see reports about needing both Ad-Aware and S&D, and now people are starting to suggest that someone needs 3 independent spyware/adware removal tools to clean up!!! Not to prevent infection, but to clean up!
Seriously folks, when will the madness stop? You can't patch a broken design combined with user unawareness by semi-working cannot be trusted commercial programs!
Personally i stopped using windows around the time XP arrived in 2001. I just had enough. I don't need no antivirus software, firewall software, ad and spyware removal and detection software and to fight an uphill battle trying to contain IE with an alternative browser. It is absolutely ridicoulus what someone needs to put up with.
Based on the world's 3rd largest data recovery firm's statistics, where they have the record of more than 30'000 recoveries (according to an auditor giving a lecture about data recovery and system failures a year ago).
Sorry to take a stab at this, but using linux in itself is NOT a guarantee to get rid of luser stupidity and ignorance. The biggest weakness, around 40-50% of all insecurities in a given system is the user, statistically. We can mitigate the other risks, but the user factor is the worst problem.
I am writing this from my debian desktop.
Yes! Exactly.
That was mainly the point of my GP (sorry if my sarcasm wasn't apparent enough).
It is fairly plausible to assume that there are some platform specific bugs or design flaws, where a specific browser is not at fault, like in the case of this zlib bug or the case of the demonstrated windows image bug, therefor we cannot say that firefox sucks or ie sucks, just that "hey look, there is a bug in zlib which is used by this and that" or "hey look, there is a bug in this windows component/design which causes the whole system to halt when it encounters a bug in a device driver!".
Btw, Opera 8.x is said to be immune from this windows crashing design flaw because it uses it's own image rendering library (afaik).
please visit this link:
http://www.hunger.hu/win.html
Warning: the link causes BSOD because of a flaw in the image rendering algorithm of some windows component when it tries to render a huge image, the waiting times out and the kernel decides its better just to panic.
The link causes no problems on linux, as it's implementation is not faulty.
I think there is a patch for this fault on windowsupdate, but i can't be certain as i'm not using windows.
So long with the zealotry of IE's safeness.
My sarcasm detector just exploded.
1936 ophthalmologist Frank Burch suggests iris-based identification
We would have done it without patent or not.
Anyway, just to correct some misleading posts:
Pros for iris recognition:
- FAR (false acceptance rate) is 10^-78 (earth population 10^10 at max)
- For most of the work this guy, John Daugman is responsible. He identified 400(!!!) different and measurable(!!!) parameters on the iris and gave the statistical error model for them.
- The iris' patterns form in young age and then it doesn't really change.
Cons:The hungarian e-tax thing requires windows too.
They made companies _complimentary_ to file their tax form through that online system, and optional for the average citizen.
We went (Hungarian Unix Portal and a few linux associations) in Hungary to the ombudsman with it, but they said it's "a technical thing" (despite the letter clearly stating whats wrong with using only windows, which is a priced product) and forwarded it to the financial ministry (d'oh, the ministry which runs the tax collection!), so we basically ended up with 0 result.
If they could make this work it would cut down the size of the object to be launched drastically. That would be a great thing, which in itself would make spaceflight more profitable. No more 3T fuel, fuel tanks, etc.
The scary thing is that the parent is talking about ICMP without actually knowing what it is.
You see, this is one of the failures of the moderation system: when someone posts something like this, it seems intelligent because it mentions a lot of familiar things, but overally it's not even making sense. The problem is that moderators work like this:
Argument: check
Clear line of thinking: check
Windows comparison: check
The problem is that this checklist does not include VERIFYING THINGS like what ICMP is. This is how the parent got +5, insightful while it's one of the most misinformed posts i've seen in a while.
Actually, if you would have watched "Super Size Me", they listed what is "chicken nuggets" on a half A4 sized page.
When i see advertisements like "the best part of the chicken" advertising those nuggets, i always get automatically reminded that they are made from the industrial byproducts of food processing, which essentially contains some waste from chickens aswell. That's the only connection with chickens. It's a way to sell waste to people.
"But then unis would need to chuck out 75% of people in the first year..."
;)
Oh they do that here hehe, this semester 6 people passed the very first introductory question from Analysis II out of 104.
By the same line of thinking Microsoft is as responsible for insecurities in software allowing viruses to spread as someone who writes a virus to exploit those en masse.
When is Bill Gates' execution?
The downloader doesn't have to verify what does he download. That's the uploader's job.
Mod parent up.
That's how these think. They try to create impressions. "Downloading is illegal" where in most cases it is not (uploading is), "modding is punished severly" when we don't have a solid basis for that statement yet.
'Paedophiles to fix children abuse problem'
'Oil companies to fix Kyoto treaty'
'Microsoft to fix GPL'
Um, news at $time_of_news_at_local_location?
It is not exactly so.
For example in Hungary, you don't have to verify the source of legality if it's not explicitly forbidden (so if you come across an mp3 file, you can download it, but for example you cannot redistribute an mp3 from a website if there is an accompanying text (copyright notice) forbidding it from reproducing which of course is uploading already).
It is mostly accepted in Europe that the legality of a download has to be verified from the upload side - the one which reproduces the copyrighted content.
It's a ban on downloading unauthorized copyright materials.
If you really want to be picky you'd say: It's a ban on unauthorized downloading of copyrighted materials.
They are still not hosting any copyrighted material, so i don't get what changed since they opened that site.