What happens when someone suggests that we go and 'eliminate' the president of Venezuela? Nothing.
The funny thing is that if the same guy had said the same words at the same time and place (i.e. public television), except he had talked about the president of the USA, chances are there would've been a major shitstorm, at least one arrest and very probably another proposal to restrict free speech.
I guess even some presidents are more equal than others.
Obviously, the dude is a lazy slacker. Otherwise, the fact that he can't use his machine (VM or not) to do his work would get more than a simple "Ah, well" from him.
When something is classified as "top secret", it requires the President to say, "hey this can now be released to the public"
This wasn't about going public. It was about a criminal investigation by a branch specifically designed to be able to investigate even top secret affairs.
Bush is acting like someone who has no responsibility and nothing to lose or gain. Which is exactly what's the case - he won't be re-elected anyways, so why act responsibly? His only hope of continuing to be in power is to become a de-facto dictator, by declaring some emergency situation and delaying the next presidential election, potentially forever.
And it's not like the "checks and balances" would work anymore. The same country that once almost impeached a president because he had an extramarital blowjob sits on its hands in regards to one who intentionally deceived the nation, started a war based on lies, essentially raped the Constitution and pissed on the Bill of Rights.
You did nothing about that so far. So Bush - who has nothing to gain from acting responsibly, remember - will continue down that road, and at this time I give it a 50:50 chance that there will be no presidential election in 2008.
"By denying [...], President Bush has effectively blocked the [...] investigation into the matter of who exactly authorized the illegal actions to take place."
Technically, yes. Pragmatically, he has made it very, very obvious that it was either he himself or someone very close to him.
No, actually as far as I read it (and IANAL, but I have some law experience) it's the judge's way to tell the government "you lie, and we know it." - as a judge you don't write stuff like "if the government has been truthful" if it's not to hint at something.
It was used for about a year, but there were continuing complaints from people who "knew how to work with MS Office and had no time to learn OpenOffice". Those were often higher-paid employees and external consultants working in the company, and when their claims about lost hours were really true, one could argue that no money was ever saved by switching.
The ugly truth of a monopoly, yes. Specifically requiring OpenOffice knowledge would eliminate that problem, and especially with regards to consultants, it is very possible to do so. Otherwise, negotiate a lower fee, to make up for the additional time and reduced quality of whatever documentation they deliver in the system they claim to be unfamiliar with.
I have no mercy for consultants. Make it their problem, not yours.
Oh, the article was longer than that? Weird, there isn't much to say. I know this: If I had been able to see into the driver future two years ago, I would've bought a different notebook, one with an NVidia card.
Right, you wouldn't have to worry about survival anymore, that much is true and for many people that in itself is a huge step forward.
The problem with the 10x more is that according to my experiences prices rise faster the "upper" you go. Once you move from necessity to luxury, prices simply explode. Look at what 1st class flights cost, compared to economy.
I do happen to own two flats and parts of a house. There are recurring expenses, even after you've paid it off, and while they are lower than rent would be, they are still non-trivial. In one of my flats, the recurring costs for me, the owner, are about 300 a month, while typical rent for flats identical to it in the same house are around 450.
But yes, buying stuff would certainly be the smart thing to do with that amount of cash. I'd go for a 2nd house before the car, though. Lasting value and all that.
This is going to fail and fail badly. For one simple reason anyone who still remembers there childhood knows: Nothing specifically designed to appeal to teens ever does.
Teens are way, way, way more interested in stuff made for adults.
You greatly overestimate the value of money. $7m, for starters, will not elevate you much beyond your current life style.
If you invest it with a 10% return, and taxes only take a third of that, you'll make less than half a million a year. Certainly enough for comfortable living, definitely enough for a bigger house and a second car and not having to work anymore. Definitely not enough for supermodels, coke, yachts or private islands.
Please read the other 10 or so/. articles on this topic, and the multitude of replies to stupid ideas like yours. As a shortcut, hop over to Wikipedia and check which one is the bigger market, the EU or the USA. (hint: Answer starts with an E).
Now since we're talking 700 boxes with probably 10 tapes each, we have to multiply by 10, then correct downwards somewhat for a more realistic sampling rate, etc. - so we're talking on the order of magnitude of 500 TB. That's quite a bit of data they lost.
Blackhats have been doing this and other work like it for years. The current state of security is defined better by ignorance than by safety. Patching is a workaround, not a solution. To use an analogy: Patching means we built more hospitals in response to car crashes, instead of inventing air bags.
I'll enjoy the show. It's a very good demonstration that "oh, we'll fix whatever comes along as soon as we learn about it" is not a viable method in security. It's making closing the barn door after the horse has left a standard business procedure. I've been waiting for just such a "one exploit every day" event for a long time now, and I'll enjoy it a lot. If anything, I hope they can keep it up for more than one month. After this, everyone hopefully realizes that patching isn't enough and you can't fix up the plane after takeoff, in mid-flight.
Windos is the worst offender, by far. But as Hughes said at HAL2001: "My spaceship will surely not be running Linux." - we're still very far away from reliable and secure software, and these two aspects are closer together than most people realize.
I'd really like to know how much Terrabytes? Picobytes? More? 700 boxes full of high-definition tape will eat up. From the pictures in the.pdf there are at least 9, probably 10 rolls per box, so we're talking 7000 rolls of film.
Everyone speaks about this thing accidentally shooting down a passenger aircraft.
What about it shooting one down intentionally? If I were a terrorist, I'd be more than happy to see such a system deployed. Saves me bringing my own bombs, now all I need is taking control of one and bringing someone who's good at playing SDI (the computer game).
Patch count means nothing. You'd need to have to examine patch content, what was patched (core OS? default install? other software?) Debian, for example, contains what, 20,000 packages? That's a little more than your windos install CD contains, even if you install everything from minesweeper to paint.
Also, MS has moved to regular patch cycles and every patch is actually a container with many patches inside, which you don't see unless you check the details.
So in short: You simply can not compare these numbers, because the methods and contents are too different to make any comparison meaningful. Maybe comparing with OSX would work better.
Windos security problems were seldom rooted in theoretical shortcomings, but in what we call the "real world". You know, the one where people are too lazy to create a second, non-admin account. Where IT staff is too busy to bother with the full feature set of Active Directory, and where developers are too careless and still write software that doesn't work unless you run it as admin.
There's a 95% probability that Vista will fall into the same traps, and will be just about as insecure as any other windos because of these problems and because Outlook still executes binaries sent by mail, and users can still be tricked by calling your virus.exe virus.jpg.exe and providing the proper icon.
Is this the first of a number of announcements that push the release date further back? We've seen the same before from them, when the release date for Longhorn slipped from 2005 to 2006.
There's one major issue here: How does the ISP know the names or numbers it gets are "guilty" in any sense? Who checks what these lobby groups send you? Who verifies that they indeed shared copyrighted material and not something that's perfectly legal to share (say, a Linux.iso)?
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What happens when someone suggests that we go and 'eliminate' the president of Venezuela? Nothing.
The funny thing is that if the same guy had said the same words at the same time and place (i.e. public television), except he had talked about the president of the USA, chances are there would've been a major shitstorm, at least one arrest and very probably another proposal to restrict free speech.
I guess even some presidents are more equal than others.
Obviously, the dude is a lazy slacker. Otherwise, the fact that he can't use his machine (VM or not) to do his work would get more than a simple "Ah, well" from him.
When something is classified as "top secret", it requires the President to say, "hey this can now be released to the public"
This wasn't about going public. It was about a criminal investigation by a branch specifically designed to be able to investigate even top secret affairs.
Exactly!
Bush is acting like someone who has no responsibility and nothing to lose or gain. Which is exactly what's the case - he won't be re-elected anyways, so why act responsibly? His only hope of continuing to be in power is to become a de-facto dictator, by declaring some emergency situation and delaying the next presidential election, potentially forever.
And it's not like the "checks and balances" would work anymore. The same country that once almost impeached a president because he had an extramarital blowjob sits on its hands in regards to one who intentionally deceived the nation, started a war based on lies, essentially raped the Constitution and pissed on the Bill of Rights.
You did nothing about that so far. So Bush - who has nothing to gain from acting responsibly, remember - will continue down that road, and at this time I give it a 50:50 chance that there will be no presidential election in 2008.
"By denying [...], President Bush has effectively blocked the [...] investigation into the matter of who exactly authorized the illegal actions to take place."
Technically, yes. Pragmatically, he has made it very, very obvious that it was either he himself or someone very close to him.
No, actually as far as I read it (and IANAL, but I have some law experience) it's the judge's way to tell the government "you lie, and we know it." - as a judge you don't write stuff like "if the government has been truthful" if it's not to hint at something.
It was used for about a year, but there were continuing complaints from people who "knew how to work with MS Office and had no time to learn OpenOffice".
Those were often higher-paid employees and external consultants working in the company, and when their claims about lost hours were really true, one could argue that no money was ever saved by switching.
The ugly truth of a monopoly, yes. Specifically requiring OpenOffice knowledge would eliminate that problem, and especially with regards to consultants, it is very possible to do so. Otherwise, negotiate a lower fee, to make up for the additional time and reduced quality of whatever documentation they deliver in the system they claim to be unfamiliar with.
I have no mercy for consultants. Make it their problem, not yours.
"poor"
Oh, the article was longer than that? Weird, there isn't much to say. I know this: If I had been able to see into the driver future two years ago, I would've bought a different notebook, one with an NVidia card.
Right, you wouldn't have to worry about survival anymore, that much is true and for many people that in itself is a huge step forward.
The problem with the 10x more is that according to my experiences prices rise faster the "upper" you go. Once you move from necessity to luxury, prices simply explode. Look at what 1st class flights cost, compared to economy.
I do happen to own two flats and parts of a house. There are recurring expenses, even after you've paid it off, and while they are lower than rent would be, they are still non-trivial. In one of my flats, the recurring costs for me, the owner, are about 300 a month, while typical rent for flats identical to it in the same house are around 450.
But yes, buying stuff would certainly be the smart thing to do with that amount of cash. I'd go for a 2nd house before the car, though. Lasting value and all that.
This is going to fail and fail badly. For one simple reason anyone who still remembers there childhood knows: Nothing specifically designed to appeal to teens ever does.
Teens are way, way, way more interested in stuff made for adults.
You greatly overestimate the value of money. $7m, for starters, will not elevate you much beyond your current life style.
If you invest it with a 10% return, and taxes only take a third of that, you'll make less than half a million a year. Certainly enough for comfortable living, definitely enough for a bigger house and a second car and not having to work anymore. Definitely not enough for supermodels, coke, yachts or private islands.
Please read the other 10 or so /. articles on this topic, and the multitude of replies to stupid ideas like yours. As a shortcut, hop over to Wikipedia and check which one is the bigger market, the EU or the USA. (hint: Answer starts with an E).
Thanks for the data.
Now since we're talking 700 boxes with probably 10 tapes each, we have to multiply by 10, then correct downwards somewhat for a more realistic sampling rate, etc. - so we're talking on the order of magnitude of 500 TB. That's quite a bit of data they lost.
but he appears to be the only one enjoying it
Add at least me in there as well.
Blackhats have been doing this and other work like it for years. The current state of security is defined better by ignorance than by safety. Patching is a workaround, not a solution. To use an analogy: Patching means we built more hospitals in response to car crashes, instead of inventing air bags.
I'll enjoy the show. It's a very good demonstration that "oh, we'll fix whatever comes along as soon as we learn about it" is not a viable method in security. It's making closing the barn door after the horse has left a standard business procedure. I've been waiting for just such a "one exploit every day" event for a long time now, and I'll enjoy it a lot. If anything, I hope they can keep it up for more than one month. After this, everyone hopefully realizes that patching isn't enough and you can't fix up the plane after takeoff, in mid-flight.
Windos is the worst offender, by far. But as Hughes said at HAL2001: "My spaceship will surely not be running Linux." - we're still very far away from reliable and secure software, and these two aspects are closer together than most people realize.
I'd really like to know how much Terrabytes? Picobytes? More? 700 boxes full of high-definition tape will eat up. From the pictures in the .pdf there are at least 9, probably 10 rolls per box, so we're talking 7000 rolls of film.
Everyone speaks about this thing accidentally shooting down a passenger aircraft.
What about it shooting one down intentionally? If I were a terrorist, I'd be more than happy to see such a system deployed. Saves me bringing my own bombs, now all I need is taking control of one and bringing someone who's good at playing SDI (the computer game).
(n/t)
Who had that smart idea to make the webbrowser the local file manipulation tool, and why is he still alive?
I think the KDE team gave him refugee. At least they copied the idea. Idiots.
(disclaimer: I use KDE. I hate konqueror. If you're one of the konqueror designers, please go and drown yourself.)
Patch count means nothing. You'd need to have to examine patch content, what was patched (core OS? default install? other software?) Debian, for example, contains what, 20,000 packages? That's a little more than your windos install CD contains, even if you install everything from minesweeper to paint.
Also, MS has moved to regular patch cycles and every patch is actually a container with many patches inside, which you don't see unless you check the details.
So in short: You simply can not compare these numbers, because the methods and contents are too different to make any comparison meaningful. Maybe comparing with OSX would work better.
That's why there are so many Apache worms and so few IIS exploits, I guess.
Whoever modded parent "Insightful": Please shoot yourself. Thank you.
Windos security problems were seldom rooted in theoretical shortcomings, but in what we call the "real world". You know, the one where people are too lazy to create a second, non-admin account. Where IT staff is too busy to bother with the full feature set of Active Directory, and where developers are too careless and still write software that doesn't work unless you run it as admin.
There's a 95% probability that Vista will fall into the same traps, and will be just about as insecure as any other windos because of these problems and because Outlook still executes binaries sent by mail, and users can still be tricked by calling your virus.exe virus.jpg.exe and providing the proper icon.
(the other 5% are that Vista doesn't ship at all)
Which is why application-included icons are another dumb idea.
At the very least, there should be some obvious, non-fakeable indicator of executables.
Is this the first of a number of announcements that push the release date further back? We've seen the same before from them, when the release date for Longhorn slipped from 2005 to 2006.
My current bet is thus at late 2007.
There's one major issue here: How does the ISP know the names or numbers it gets are "guilty" in any sense? Who checks what these lobby groups send you? Who verifies that they indeed shared copyrighted material and not something that's perfectly legal to share (say, a Linux .iso)?