Y'know what's really so bad about all this? It's exactly what the terrorists want. They've got the masses so scared that they'll go along with anything under the guise of "protection from terrorists."
And no, government is no better than the idiots scrabbling around in caves hiding out. Both use fear to get what they want.
Yet, the government are obviously not idiots here. They are the winners, those who gain the most from the islamists' hard work.
And if we didn't know that Dubya is incapable of coming up with something that wicked, one could say that the Saudis (who are known to sponsor Osama) got prodded by your favourite villain. Cui bono, said the Romans. Thus, we should nuke US, not Iraq for 9/11! With someone brighter than Dubya, this could be more than a crackpot conspiracy theory. If you read Lenin's works, he made accurate predictions and plans for WW2 in 1914, when WW1 just only started. He knew that communism won't be able to win just yet and that it's incapable of winning during the time of peace. The plan involved pairing up with Germany and then stabbing them in the back. Stalin didn't have as much insight and let himself get caught with the pants down with Plan Barbarossa -- just as his troops finished demolishing their own defenses and started cutting down the barbed wire on the border. Read Lenin and Suvorov if you want to know more.
Islamists use terror tactics because it often works. If the target concedes, islamists win; if the target fights back, islamists get more support. UK and US governments piggyback on their successes, and thus have a vested interest in having them _not_ destroyed.
And I do mean it. They're bad, bad folks who use scare tactics and incite the fear of getting blown up to control the population into obeying their demands.
Yeah, that's right. Your beloved government fills all the requirements for the word "terrorists". Just like the other side of the pond.
Who logs out and in? Under XP, you can right click and select Runas, and then run it as if you were the administrator after giving it the admin password. You can do the same thing from the run box or a command prompt. Just write "runas/user:administrator "
Except, the moment you have a priviliged window on the same window station as an unpriviliged process, that process has basically free reign exploiting the priviliged window in any way it sees fit. It's so called "shatter attack", not fixable without throwing out a good part of the Win32 API and a significant part of the messaging logic.
Thus, all that little malware process you have running has to do is to wait hidden until you have an administrator window on, and it can do anything it wants.
It is easy to make the copyright notice be formed to be an advert, and it takes only a bit of ill will. And, once that popup (GUI) or even X lines of text spam (CLI) enter a program, they are unremovable except for certain very far-fetched tricks[1].
Even worse, we have seen it abused already, for GPLv2. For example, Hans Reiser put a list of sponsors into the copyright notice, and then argued that those who add a GUI over his software without showing the adverts beside their progress bar breach his copyright. This did take a Joerg Schilling-like intentional twisting of the GPL, but with GPLv3, the twisting won't be needed anymore.
[1]. Have a friend turn the program into a library or daemon, without interactive parts. Reimplement the GUI/CLI yourself and add it to the part your friend changed.
And, that 85kbps is more than you would get if the telcos would have free reign with their "500kbps". Because, if there is no competition around, telcos tend to sell cheap "broadband" that tends to go to 500Bps (there's no "k" here... at least the B is capital) anywhen between 16:00 and 24:00 or so.
Most customers don't know how to notice they got cheated due to overselling, and those who do, have no recourse except for building their own mesh.
But, once the telcos have real established competition in the area, the quality of links suddenly increases by over an order of magnitude.
Same reasons that Verisign's wildcard service was decried...
And, fortunately, the fix is exactly the same:
Here's the default named.conf:
// From the release notes: // Because many of our users are uncomfortable receiving undelegated answers // from root or top level domains, other than a few for whom that behaviour // has been trusted and expected for quite some length of time, we have now // introduced the "root-delegations-only" feature which applies delegation-only // logic to all top level domains, and to the root domain. An exception list // should be specified, including "MUSEUM" and "DE", and any other top level // domains from whom undelegated responses are expected and trusted. // root-delegation-only exclude { "DE"; "MUSEUM"; };
So, this option will preemptively avoid all jerkwads like Verisign and Cameroon. The only question is, why this isn't enabled by default.
No, better than 1:100 - that's what <1% means. It's actually around the 1:500
And thus still 200 times worse than the acceptable rate.
Usually, anti-spam solutions which give more than 1:100000 are considered worthless
Got links, or is that just your opinion?
There was a massive flamefest on debian-devel about spam filtering recently, but false positive ratios in that range were something commonly used by most participants in the discussion. I don't have the time to find a bunch of such posts right now, but the most recent thread is "greylisting on debian.org". This particular thread deals mostly with acceptable delays, but it does include quite a bit of statistics.
However, note that we are talking about two separate scenarios:
a home server for an user with no responsibilities
a project/ISP-wide mail server
In the former, delaying mail for weeks may be acceptable -- but even then, I wouldn't touch something with a 1:500 false positive ratio with a long stick.
The copyright holder can not restrict use, just distribution (copying). No amount of small print can change this. To restrict use, they would have to get you to enter a valid contract with them.
And those who can afford the money for a system that is for most cases inferior anyway, can obviously afford to pay for Oracle support.
Oracle, compared to Postgres, is: about as fast[1] con: prohibitely expensive for own use con: can't be used for replicated software at all[2] pro: handles big clusters better con: criminally memory-hungry con: requires a dedicated DBA just to keep it running[3] pro: can be used as a ploy to give executives a bonus[4]
[1]. In fact, in most cases Postgres is FASTER. It takes some cherry-picking to create tests which "prove" Oracle's superiority -- so guess why Oracle forbids publishing any unapproved benchmarks? [2]. One of products of our company, a HR system, is priced at $600, another one, invoicing+stocks, #330 (Poland, so it's way less than it would be in the US). A glance at Oracle's pricing shows that they start at $5000 for the minimal license. This isn't just "expensive", this is "no business". [3]. If one system needs separate staff for basic operations, and the other just works, which one is better? [4]. I guess this is pretty much the only reason to use Oracle, ever. And in that case, you do have the money to donate a bit to the Free Software project that handles your mission-critical app, and frankly, the donation needed will be lost in underflow for you.
You don't realize what "Democrats" are capable of. We have a nearly identical party that was at the feeding trough recently in Poland, and the results are frightening. If you ever wanted to learn how to create corruption, you can get a wonderful example here.
It is really hard to get worse. No one suspected that Dubya can make it. But yeah, we underestimated his capabilities:p
Beh. I personally managed to stop an entire datacenter of washing machines. As a toddler.
The thing is, in communism there is a shortage of everything, including places in kindergarten. So, my mom used to take me to work, just like many of her friends. And one day, I decided to run around, reaching up and flipping every disk power switch -- the disks had separate power switches, on about the height of the panel of a washing machine. That is, within the reach of a stretched out hand of a kid.
Every disk gets full after about 1-1.5 month. It's an unbreachable law, true for every disk that sees some use.
A kid will fill it with games, a teenager will fill it with pr0n, most my friends will fill it with movies. I will fill it with random versions of package sources; molecular biologists I once built a 17TB array for filled it with copies of already processed detector output -- instead of deleting them, they left them "just in case".
Capacity is irrelevant, the time is pretty much constant.
Only if the secret keys belong to a different set than those owned by Intel, Microsoft and co. And since we're talking about purchases from private companies, this is not the case.
Well, the US military is nearly a bunch of freaking angels compared to, let's say, Polish (to a small extent) or Russian one.
The majority of Polish soldiers are elementary school dropouts who weren't able to skip the service. The service is nominally mandatory, but it is so easy to avoid it that you have to be either a fanatic or a moron to join it. As one can expect, the hazing is a rule rather than an exception, and when a group of soldiers get released, you better not have to go anywhere by a train.
In Russia, the soldiers are hardly provided with food, not to say a word about any actual organisation. Thus, their military is a savage mob of robbers, rapists and bullies rather than a civilised army. When they invaded Poland in 1939-40 and 1942-89, we could get a good glance at thugs who hardly know what a toilet is. After, let's say, 50ties, the government started isolating Russian troops from the civilians for this very reason -- the typical setup was a detachment of Russians surrounded by a number of Polish military encampments, with the ground between full of mines, trenches and watchmen who shot people on sight -- in the times of peace! Polish soldiers weren't ever sent into Russian camps, all orders were passed by selected Russians sent outside. An average soldier wasn't even allowed to go to town during his entire service.
I'm repeating what my grandparents said (about WW2) and my dad said about his military service in the end of 60ties -- but note that in that time, the Soviet Union was "powerful". Now, as they can't even afford to supply the troops with basic necessities, I don't expect it could be better. No one ever bothers to guard nuclear facilities -- so what are the chances that the army has any discipline?
BTW, I have a lot of respect for the Army as I have a lot of friends on active duty, and almost became a soldier myself. Still, I couldn't pass up a chance to make a military joke)
The US army includes a load of good folks (and a much smaller number of bad ones). The soldiers are not the problem, their superiors are.
To be exact, the problem is that one of their superiors got bribed by a criminal company. If someone whose duty is to manage security doesn't recognize snake oil and backholes in TPM even with all the publicly available opinions, it's either the person guilty of sabotage or is unfit for that position -- and if his superiors allowed such an inept person on such an important position, at least one of the superiors is guilty of sabotage as well.
No doubt they are all busy helping repress the freedom fighters in the Iraq and making it part of the American Empire.
Wait... so people who spend most of their time blowing up mosques are suddenly "freedom fighters"?
They deserve to be named anything else than "terrorists" about as much as Kerry deserves to be named something else than "corrupt populist" or your fearless leader "despot", "liar" and "criminal" (yeah, I may be a dirty foreigner, but I can read the Constitution he swore on or the laws he broke).
PS - You dont need to make military jokes, the military are a joke.
The military is fine, the mafia that controls it from above is not.
If your neighbour has an apple tree that overhands over the fence, the fruits on your side are yours. Applying any other logic to open WiFi that _advertises_ itself around proves that the lawmakers should be be educated.
And on the other hand, Debian takes the (entirely reasonable) viewpoint that documentation with unmodifiable parts and unremovable advertising clauses, lacks the required freedoms, therefore not everything that FSF says is reasonable.
But yeah, I do agree that _naming_ the non-free repositories something else than *.debian.org would be a good idea, even if they are hosted from the same machines.
There have been 64bit debian packages for some time now, they just haven't been on the stable branch.
The entire article is a troll. Sarge has amd64 since r1 -- it just didn't make it into r0, even though not-officially-blessed packages were provided since the day r0 was released, including official security support. The unofficial sarge-amd64 just didn't get official until a point release.
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To humans, very little or not at all. But, try sitting in your bed with a laptop...
Adamantium as a metal? If I recall correctly, it's a rare form of unpure diamond, with the black color coming from... carbon.
I'm not sure if what I'm thinking of isn't called adamant, though. Wikipedia has only a stub listing fictional references.
And if we didn't know that Dubya is incapable of coming up with something that wicked, one could say that the Saudis (who are known to sponsor Osama) got prodded by your favourite villain. Cui bono, said the Romans. Thus, we should nuke US, not Iraq for 9/11! With someone brighter than Dubya, this could be more than a crackpot conspiracy theory.
If you read Lenin's works, he made accurate predictions and plans for WW2 in 1914, when WW1 just only started. He knew that communism won't be able to win just yet and that it's incapable of winning during the time of peace. The plan involved pairing up with Germany and then stabbing them in the back. Stalin didn't have as much insight and let himself get caught with the pants down with Plan Barbarossa -- just as his troops finished demolishing their own defenses and started cutting down the barbed wire on the border. Read Lenin and Suvorov if you want to know more.
Islamists use terror tactics because it often works. If the target concedes, islamists win; if the target fights back, islamists get more support. UK and US governments piggyback on their successes, and thus have a vested interest in having them _not_ destroyed.
And who's guilty of this all?
Terrorists!
And I do mean it. They're bad, bad folks who use scare tactics and incite the fear of getting blown up to control the population into obeying their demands.
Yeah, that's right. Your beloved government fills all the requirements for the word "terrorists". Just like the other side of the pond.
Except, the moment you have a priviliged window on the same window station as an unpriviliged process, that process has basically free reign exploiting the priviliged window in any way it sees fit. It's so called "shatter attack", not fixable without throwing out a good part of the Win32 API and a significant part of the messaging logic.
Thus, all that little malware process you have running has to do is to wait hidden until you have an administrator window on, and it can do anything it wants.
It is easy to make the copyright notice be formed to be an advert, and it takes only a bit of ill will. And, once that popup (GUI) or even X lines of text spam (CLI) enter a program, they are unremovable except for certain very far-fetched tricks[1].
Even worse, we have seen it abused already, for GPLv2. For example, Hans Reiser put a list of sponsors into the copyright notice, and then argued that those who add a GUI over his software without showing the adverts beside their progress bar breach his copyright. This did take a Joerg Schilling-like intentional twisting of the GPL, but with GPLv3, the twisting won't be needed anymore.
[1]. Have a friend turn the program into a library or daemon, without interactive parts. Reimplement the GUI/CLI yourself and add it to the part your friend changed.
And, that 85kbps is more than you would get if the telcos would have free reign with their "500kbps". Because, if there is no competition around, telcos tend to sell cheap "broadband" that tends to go to 500Bps (there's no "k" here... at least the B is capital) anywhen between 16:00 and 24:00 or so.
Most customers don't know how to notice they got cheated due to overselling, and those who do, have no recourse except for building their own mesh.
But, once the telcos have real established competition in the area, the quality of links suddenly increases by over an order of magnitude.
So, this option will preemptively avoid all jerkwads like Verisign and Cameroon. The only question is, why this isn't enabled by default.
However, note that we are talking about two separate scenarios:
- a home server for an user with no responsibilities
- a project/ISP-wide mail server
In the former, delaying mail for weeks may be acceptable -- but even then, I wouldn't touch something with a 1:500 false positive ratio with a long stick.Er, what? A false positive rate of 1:100!?!?
Usually, anti-spam solutions which give more than 1:100000 are considered worthless. What you're quoting is beyond words.
The copyright holder can not restrict use, just distribution (copying). No amount of small print can change this. To restrict use, they would have to get you to enter a valid contract with them.
And those who can afford the money for a system that is for most cases inferior anyway, can obviously afford to pay for Oracle support.
Oracle, compared to Postgres, is:
about as fast[1]
con: prohibitely expensive for own use
con: can't be used for replicated software at all[2]
pro: handles big clusters better
con: criminally memory-hungry
con: requires a dedicated DBA just to keep it running[3]
pro: can be used as a ploy to give executives a bonus[4]
[1]. In fact, in most cases Postgres is FASTER. It takes some cherry-picking to create tests which "prove" Oracle's superiority -- so guess why Oracle forbids publishing any unapproved benchmarks?
[2]. One of products of our company, a HR system, is priced at $600, another one, invoicing+stocks, #330 (Poland, so it's way less than it would be in the US). A glance at Oracle's pricing shows that they start at $5000 for the minimal license. This isn't just "expensive", this is "no business".
[3]. If one system needs separate staff for basic operations, and the other just works, which one is better?
[4]. I guess this is pretty much the only reason to use Oracle, ever. And in that case, you do have the money to donate a bit to the Free Software project that handles your mission-critical app, and frankly, the donation needed will be lost in underflow for you.
You don't realize what "Democrats" are capable of. We have a nearly identical party that was at the feeding trough recently in Poland, and the results are frightening. If you ever wanted to learn how to create corruption, you can get a wonderful example here.
:p
It is really hard to get worse. No one suspected that Dubya can make it. But yeah, we underestimated his capabilities
Beh. I personally managed to stop an entire datacenter of washing machines. As a toddler.
The thing is, in communism there is a shortage of everything, including places in kindergarten. So, my mom used to take me to work, just like many of her friends. And one day, I decided to run around, reaching up and flipping every disk power switch -- the disks had separate power switches, on about the height of the panel of a washing machine. That is, within the reach of a stretched out hand of a kid.
Every disk gets full after about 1-1.5 month. It's an unbreachable law, true for every disk that sees some use.
A kid will fill it with games, a teenager will fill it with pr0n, most my friends will fill it with movies. I will fill it with random versions of package sources; molecular biologists I once built a 17TB array for filled it with copies of already processed detector output -- instead of deleting them, they left them "just in case".
Capacity is irrelevant, the time is pretty much constant.
Only if the secret keys belong to a different set than those owned by Intel, Microsoft and co. And since we're talking about purchases from private companies, this is not the case.
Well, the US military is nearly a bunch of freaking angels compared to, let's say, Polish (to a small extent) or Russian one.
The majority of Polish soldiers are elementary school dropouts who weren't able to skip the service. The service is nominally mandatory, but it is so easy to avoid it that you have to be either a fanatic or a moron to join it. As one can expect, the hazing is a rule rather than an exception, and when a group of soldiers get released, you better not have to go anywhere by a train.
In Russia, the soldiers are hardly provided with food, not to say a word about any actual organisation. Thus, their military is a savage mob of robbers, rapists and bullies rather than a civilised army.
When they invaded Poland in 1939-40 and 1942-89, we could get a good glance at thugs who hardly know what a toilet is. After, let's say, 50ties, the government started isolating Russian troops from the civilians for this very reason -- the typical setup was a detachment of Russians surrounded by a number of Polish military encampments, with the ground between full of mines, trenches and watchmen who shot people on sight -- in the times of peace! Polish soldiers weren't ever sent into Russian camps, all orders were passed by selected Russians sent outside. An average soldier wasn't even allowed to go to town during his entire service.
I'm repeating what my grandparents said (about WW2) and my dad said about his military service in the end of 60ties -- but note that in that time, the Soviet Union was "powerful". Now, as they can't even afford to supply the troops with basic necessities, I don't expect it could be better. No one ever bothers to guard nuclear facilities -- so what are the chances that the army has any discipline?
To be exact, the problem is that one of their superiors got bribed by a criminal company. If someone whose duty is to manage security doesn't recognize snake oil and backholes in TPM even with all the publicly available opinions, it's either the person guilty of sabotage or is unfit for that position -- and if his superiors allowed such an inept person on such an important position, at least one of the superiors is guilty of sabotage as well. Wait... so people who spend most of their time blowing up mosques are suddenly "freedom fighters"?
They deserve to be named anything else than "terrorists" about as much as Kerry deserves to be named something else than "corrupt populist" or your fearless leader "despot", "liar" and "criminal" (yeah, I may be a dirty foreigner, but I can read the Constitution he swore on or the laws he broke). The military is fine, the mafia that controls it from above is not.
And this is why this law is bullshit.
If your neighbour has an apple tree that overhands over the fence, the fruits on your side are yours. Applying any other logic to open WiFi that _advertises_ itself around proves that the lawmakers should be be educated.
... or until the trojan makes a trivial change in FireFox's binary.
Once you're pwned, you're pwned. If you give someone free reign on your box, he can do anything to any file writeable by you.
And on the other hand, Debian takes the (entirely reasonable) viewpoint that documentation with unmodifiable parts and unremovable advertising clauses, lacks the required freedoms, therefore not everything that FSF says is reasonable.
But yeah, I do agree that _naming_ the non-free repositories something else than *.debian.org would be a good idea, even if they are hosted from the same machines.
Sarge has amd64 since r1 -- it just didn't make it into r0, even though not-officially-blessed packages were provided since the day r0 was released, including official security support. The unofficial sarge-amd64 just didn't get official until a point release.