It tries to solve a problem in a too complex way, i agree. Why couldn't people just use a different solution?
Just theoretically, what if the picture would present clearly readable text, but with different parameters, like size, boldness, etc. Then the page would ask you to input the "text on the bottom, on the top, the green text, the bold one" or something like this or the combination of this. It would be more simple than the 3D-wizardry. I guess someone would try to identify the keywords, but it would be hard to recognize for a computer to use the descriptions. Im sure this idea is crackable but still better than the one proposed by the guy in the article.
It's the administrator, not the distribution that matters the most. A different administrator might like a different system. There is no absolute objective "good".
My opinion is that there is no god or creator of the universe as in a intelligent being, although i do not deny the possibility that somewhere in the universe intelligence exists way higher than the average humans. Despite on my beliefs that there is no such thing as god, i think that religiousness served a purpose, in the timeframe between first human settlements 6-10 thousand years ago and the 19th century. It caused a lot of war and bloodshed but still it united people to form a community, the first laws were religion based (mostly). I think, that since the beginning of the 20th century, the era of science started, or should have started. Now, religiousness lost most of it's purpose, but to show us the most important ethical and moralist (never mind grammer) values. It's time to step on a higher level for humanity, which is the level of science. I believe in christian VALUES but not christianity as a RELIGION. This is the most important thing, to see the distinction. Religion is something to step through while keeping the positive elements from it. I believe everyone has the right to believe in whatever he/she wishes to, but i also feel like pointing out that it's utter bullshit and we should step through the religious thinking while keeping some of it's values. To be honest, anyone who read Isaac Asimov, when he wrote the Fundation, he was writing about the same progress as i described. Religion served a purpose for a while but it became obsolete (as a tool for the society's progress). I think CmndrTaco's comment is quite acceptable, because when you consider the other viewpoint: would you consider seriously in the 21th century that the Child of GOD came down to earth then went through a lot of miracles and left his imprint on a holy sheet? Sure, you've got a right to believe in that, but most people still consider for example the Amish religious zealots based on the same thing. For the rest of us (some people for sure in case someone would pick on this sentence), it's perfectly okay to mock some of the more hilarious pieces of religious beliefs like the one in the article.
I wish michael would stop ACCEPTING submissions from Roland. I'm getting fedup with spammers like him. Why link to him when there are the originals which ARE a bigger source of info. I wouldn't like this middleman stuff even if his primdi thing would be without advertisements in an easy to read format, but i refuse to make him live from this kind of spam.
Still the question surfaces, why did the people who discovered the flaw sit on the vulnerability for two months without notifying security@microsoft.com? Well, either this or they DID notify Microsoft way before dec 22 which Microsoft fails to mention. MS did this before( put the notified date to a later time) to doctor their statistics before and get more time. I don't trust neither companies tbh.
"In October 2004 it was discovered by MaxPatrol team that it is possible to defeat Microsoft® Windows® XP SP2 Heap protection and Data Execution Prevention mechanism."
This is too much time to fix something. I can agree with some delayed disclosure but not anything above a month.
Where is the base for michael's claims? Sure, common sense or something, but no matter how strongly i believe in the pro-global warming science, i still find it questionable that this slashticle was posted. If michael wants to write an article about the pr efforts, and links it, fine, but as this story stands now, its 0% newsworthy as it's stuffed with bias from the editor. Mod me down for it, i want to post this as not an AC.
As people pointed out Britain isn't, but Sweden is, with 10mbit unlimited or 100mbit/300GB/mo and extra fee for every extra 100GB data and such low population density...
Listen to some Sting. You know, the guy who sings. It's a quote from his lyrics.
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Actually, no. I'm not a paranoid anti-goverment lunatic, if that's what you mean. I'm not using pot either. What i did though, was to read 1984, and i have to tell that it makes you recognize some patterns you know? I don't like selective privacy.
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This whole thing reminds me to 1984(no, seriously!) when the guy affiliated with the party can switch off his camera/tv.
It's not a bit flip. It's a process which doesn't take place all at once. No catch 22 there, it worked like this from the first place. If the system has something to offer users will start using it, even if its not perfect. Then some users are stepping up to make it better. Mind you, this is taking place paralel(or whatever, duh grammar). More professional users were the first then the level needed to understand the system decreased. New users came(some of the improved the existing system), process repeated.
I personally do not welcome the day when 50'000 windows pcs will start hammering my openbsd/linux servers. Denying patches from 40-90% of ALL installed windows boxes is insane. MS is making a huge mistake with this, if he denies access to security patches. Those users are not only a danger to themselves, but to EVERYONE ELSE too. I mean, when a script kiddy can build up 10-50k of infected windows boxes in a few months, what stops him from using them? Helping the bad guys by making more boxes vulnerable is not the solution. Yeah, you can say that they can still Autoupdate, but denying people using illegal copies who are quite tech-savvy from security patches WILL leave more boxes vulnerable. I wish this would be the push for some people to switch to alternative operating systems, but this is never going to be entirely true.
a h/w firewall (openbsd), im running debian sid, to login i need a keychain + p/w. I use loop-aes to encrypt everything including the root partition. I run all services (that is apache and sshd) in jailed environments, im subscribed to bugtraq and lkml to know about the issues that could arise, i got my kernel patched with grsec+pax. I run my system most of the time as a non-priviledged user. Hm. I may be a bit average in paranoidness, but i learnt a lot while making this system work like this.
Well, actually, both wrong (parent & grand parent).
The dominance will stay for a while, but MS won't have large revenues either. Most people won't switch to *nix from windows just like that, BUT most people won't buy a new version of windows neither. That's why you see those weird statistics about win98 being still there in the top. Although, when these systems DO get really outdated (with hardware changes), most users WILL consider switching to linux if they know about it rather than buying windows.
Actually yes, when i was a kid we used to have snow every bloody winter. There was no proper snow in the last TWO-THREE years! Also, the weather is getting crazy in other seasons aswell. I went to my university in a t-shirt in october. When i was a schoolkid we used COATS in september already. Yea, sure it can be explained by non-regular weather but it's just too much anomalies for me.
I'm planning for a while now to make a website about slashdot's articles. To list stories that gets marked as lie/misinformation/slashvertising/dupe/tripe in the first few posts on a page with possible user action to mark them, etc. I might even code a dupecheck.pl. Any ideas/suggestions/solutions are welcome or an url which points me to an already existing site like this. I'm fedup with the poor editorial work and i want to back up my reasoning with statistics. You could even see on the long run who posts the most dupes, or even implement a game to guess who's the next dupe poster:) This is all fantasy yet, if i get positive feedback im going to definately do this.
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I'm sure you'd like to point us out how is "IRC usage" illegal? You're not trading on the IRC server itself files. The thing most warez servers are doing is to dump their traffic log via a (ro)bot to the specific irc channel. I don't see how's that illegal. Sure it generates more IRC traffic than any other channels, except for example trivia ones, but it's not illegal in any ways.
It can breach the IRC network's terms of usage where "warez" channels are prohibited, but breaking those rules are not a crime just an offense which can result in the removal of your priviledges to use that given server/network.
On a sidenote i would mention that downloading music or mp3 in my country is PERFECTLY legal, if you're downloading it for home usage, as, not making replicas of it on cd etc. The one who commits the crime here is the uploader. There is one exception though, software, where if you download pirated software you can be accused of breaking the law. I just wanted to point out that IRC is international and not only US law applies to it.
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It tries to solve a problem in a too complex way, i agree. Why couldn't people just use a different solution?
Just theoretically, what if the picture would present clearly readable text, but with different parameters, like size, boldness, etc. Then the page would ask you to input the "text on the bottom, on the top, the green text, the bold one" or something like this or the combination of this. It would be more simple than the 3D-wizardry. I guess someone would try to identify the keywords, but it would be hard to recognize for a computer to use the descriptions. Im sure this idea is crackable but still better than the one proposed by the guy in the article.
Check the last sentence on his page.
"Patents pending."
Tyvm, but no.
Nah, it takes less. Believe me, i DID it.
It's the administrator, not the distribution that matters the most. A different administrator might like a different system. There is no absolute objective "good".
idiot.
My opinion is that there is no god or creator of the universe as in a intelligent being, although i do not deny the possibility that somewhere in the universe intelligence exists way higher than the average humans. Despite on my beliefs that there is no such thing as god, i think that religiousness served a purpose, in the timeframe between first human settlements 6-10 thousand years ago and the 19th century. It caused a lot of war and bloodshed but still it united people to form a community, the first laws were religion based (mostly). I think, that since the beginning of the 20th century, the era of science started, or should have started. Now, religiousness lost most of it's purpose, but to show us the most important ethical and moralist (never mind grammer) values. It's time to step on a higher level for humanity, which is the level of science. I believe in christian VALUES but not christianity as a RELIGION. This is the most important thing, to see the distinction. Religion is something to step through while keeping the positive elements from it. I believe everyone has the right to believe in whatever he/she wishes to, but i also feel like pointing out that it's utter bullshit and we should step through the religious thinking while keeping some of it's values. To be honest, anyone who read Isaac Asimov, when he wrote the Fundation, he was writing about the same progress as i described. Religion served a purpose for a while but it became obsolete (as a tool for the society's progress). I think CmndrTaco's comment is quite acceptable, because when you consider the other viewpoint: would you consider seriously in the 21th century that the Child of GOD came down to earth then went through a lot of miracles and left his imprint on a holy sheet? Sure, you've got a right to believe in that, but most people still consider for example the Amish religious zealots based on the same thing. For the rest of us (some people for sure in case someone would pick on this sentence), it's perfectly okay to mock some of the more hilarious pieces of religious beliefs like the one in the article.
I wish michael would stop ACCEPTING submissions from Roland. I'm getting fedup with spammers like him. Why link to him when there are the originals which ARE a bigger source of info. I wouldn't like this middleman stuff even if his primdi thing would be without advertisements in an easy to read format, but i refuse to make him live from this kind of spam.
Well, new information obviously. Don't get me wrong, im reading at 0. Some are just too lazy/don't have time/have no need to formulate an own opinion.
Still the question surfaces, why did the people who discovered the flaw sit on the vulnerability for two months without notifying security@microsoft.com? Well, either this or they DID notify Microsoft way before dec 22 which Microsoft fails to mention. MS did this before( put the notified date to a later time) to doctor their statistics before and get more time. I don't trust neither companies tbh.
"Published 28th January 2005."
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"In October 2004 it was discovered by MaxPatrol team that it is possible to defeat Microsoft® Windows® XP SP2 Heap protection and Data Execution Prevention mechanism."
This is too much time to fix something. I can agree with some delayed disclosure but not anything above a month.
it's like putting on a second condom AFTER sex when the first one proved to be leaking.
Where is the base for michael's claims? Sure, common sense or something, but no matter how strongly i believe in the pro-global warming science, i still find it questionable that this slashticle was posted. If michael wants to write an article about the pr efforts, and links it, fine, but as this story stands now, its 0% newsworthy as it's stuffed with bias from the editor. Mod me down for it, i want to post this as not an AC.
As people pointed out Britain isn't, but Sweden is, with 10mbit unlimited or 100mbit/300GB/mo and extra fee for every extra 100GB data and such low population density...
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Listen to some Sting. You know, the guy who sings. It's a quote from his lyrics.
Actually, no. I'm not a paranoid anti-goverment lunatic, if that's what you mean. I'm not using pot either. What i did though, was to read 1984, and i have to tell that it makes you recognize some patterns you know? I don't like selective privacy.
This whole thing reminds me to 1984(no, seriously!) when the guy affiliated with the party can switch off his camera/tv.
It's not a bit flip. It's a process which doesn't take place all at once. No catch 22 there, it worked like this from the first place. If the system has something to offer users will start using it, even if its not perfect. Then some users are stepping up to make it better. Mind you, this is taking place paralel(or whatever, duh grammar). More professional users were the first then the level needed to understand the system decreased. New users came(some of the improved the existing system), process repeated.
I personally do not welcome the day when 50'000 windows pcs will start hammering my openbsd/linux servers. Denying patches from 40-90% of ALL installed windows boxes is insane. MS is making a huge mistake with this, if he denies access to security patches. Those users are not only a danger to themselves, but to EVERYONE ELSE too. I mean, when a script kiddy can build up 10-50k of infected windows boxes in a few months, what stops him from using them? Helping the bad guys by making more boxes vulnerable is not the solution. Yeah, you can say that they can still Autoupdate, but denying people using illegal copies who are quite tech-savvy from security patches WILL leave more boxes vulnerable. I wish this would be the push for some people to switch to alternative operating systems, but this is never going to be entirely true.
a h/w firewall (openbsd), im running debian sid, to login i need a keychain + p/w. I use loop-aes to encrypt everything including the root partition. I run all services (that is apache and sshd) in jailed environments, im subscribed to bugtraq and lkml to know about the issues that could arise, i got my kernel patched with grsec+pax. I run my system most of the time as a non-priviledged user. Hm. I may be a bit average in paranoidness, but i learnt a lot while making this system work like this.
Well, actually, both wrong (parent & grand parent).
The dominance will stay for a while, but MS won't have large revenues either. Most people won't switch to *nix from windows just like that, BUT most people won't buy a new version of windows neither. That's why you see those weird statistics about win98 being still there in the top. Although, when these systems DO get really outdated (with hardware changes), most users WILL consider switching to linux if they know about it rather than buying windows.
Actually yes, when i was a kid we used to have snow every bloody winter. There was no proper snow in the last TWO-THREE years! Also, the weather is getting crazy in other seasons aswell. I went to my university in a t-shirt in october. When i was a schoolkid we used COATS in september already. Yea, sure it can be explained by non-regular weather but it's just too much anomalies for me.
I'm planning for a while now to make a website about slashdot's articles. To list stories that gets marked as lie/misinformation/slashvertising/dupe/tripe in the first few posts on a page with possible user action to mark them, etc. I might even code a dupecheck.pl. Any ideas/suggestions/solutions are welcome or an url which points me to an already existing site like this. I'm fedup with the poor editorial work and i want to back up my reasoning with statistics. You could even see on the long run who posts the most dupes, or even implement a game to guess who's the next dupe poster :) This is all fantasy yet, if i get positive feedback im going to definately do this.
I'm sure you'd like to point us out how is "IRC usage" illegal? You're not trading on the IRC server itself files. The thing most warez servers are doing is to dump their traffic log via a (ro)bot to the specific irc channel. I don't see how's that illegal. Sure it generates more IRC traffic than any other channels, except for example trivia ones, but it's not illegal in any ways.
It can breach the IRC network's terms of usage where "warez" channels are prohibited, but breaking those rules are not a crime just an offense which can result in the removal of your priviledges to use that given server/network.
On a sidenote i would mention that downloading music or mp3 in my country is PERFECTLY legal, if you're downloading it for home usage, as, not making replicas of it on cd etc. The one who commits the crime here is the uploader. There is one exception though, software, where if you download pirated software you can be accused of breaking the law. I just wanted to point out that IRC is international and not only US law applies to it.
This is what the security manual suggests aswell at debian.org.
Which could be called paranoid for linux may be strongly recommended for windows.
Didn't you listen to Narim? He said to Carter that quantum physics is tough to them as a disproved theory!
Geez...and i thought there are more enlightened people watching stargate here.