That's right. I, for one, look forward to the day when we can post on Slashdot about the longest time in space spent by a wheelchair-bound transgendered lesbian Jewish African-American/Native American mixed-race learning-disabled illegal immigrant astronaut! That day will surely go down in infamy!
Not only that, but those Windows is only certified on specific hardware, while the same is not true of the RHEL5 cert. Thanks for pointing that out. It shows once again that a solid stable system like RHEL5 is indeed more secure than Windows, even if only it is because the military believes it to be so. But I'm guessing that military IT might know a thing or two about good systems security.;)
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Every technology has their fanboys. There are Mac fanboys, Windows fanboys, Ubuntu Linux fanboys, Sony/PS3 fanboys, Nintendo/Wii fanboys, etc. To me a fanboy is someone who ignores reality to show everyone how 'great' their choice of tool is. Apple/Mac/iPod fanboys typically defend Apple even when Apple is being an asshat. Linux fanboys love to bash Microsoft even when they have actually produced something good and useful. Windows fanboys love to point out how BSODs on Windows 2000/XP/Vista are exceedlingly rare, while ignoring the fact that Windows is insecure mostly because the architecture favors usability over security and that poorly-written Windows applications, which are quite numerous, cause all sorts of other problems because the Windows monoculture encourages poor programming practices.
Myself, I tend to be ecumenical and use what works. For myself, I choose Ubuntu at home, with Windows 2000 running under QEMU for those Windows applications that I feel I cannot live without. I use Windows at work (not by choice) but still find its features to be useful and helpful at times. Mac OS X is a good, solid OS, but it comes with a larger price tag than either a Windows or Linux PC and really doesn't have good support for some types of applications (and not just gaming).
Hmmm...I'm getting conflicting information. According to this Microsoft White Paper (sorry, Word.DOC format), the EAL4 + Augmented with ALC_FLR.3 rating, which BTW, both Windows XP SP 2 and Windows 2003 Server SP 1 also have, is only equivalent to C2, which is the same rating that NT 4 received. IOW, this cert doesn't really mean that much.
See, now I just feel cynical. I think most already know this, and are in fact eager to share their thoughtful gems with the world-at-large. MySpace, Blogger, Livejournal, etc...it seems that one can make a fair bit of cash by encouraging folks to seek the attention of anonymous others.
Oh, I think that people are eager to share their thoughts, but many think they get to hide behind some degree of anonymity in doing so, and that's just not true. If it really came down to it, with the right court orders, I can determine the real-world identity of almost anybody on Slashdot or any other site like MySpace, Blogger, LJ, YouTube, etc. It's not like it hasn't been done before.
Except that isn't what you've created, you naive jackass. There is no anonymity in the town square: people speaking their "brilliant or foolish" (or slanderous and defamatory) thoughts are identifiable, and the repercussions for their actions can range from social disapproval to legal sanction.
You are 100% correct. When are people going to learn that typing stuff and putting it out on the public Internet is the electronic equivalent of shouting things to the world? There is no anonymity; everything can be traced back to somebody given the time and resources. If you say something in writing and allow it to be published to the world in order to damage someone's reputation, that's libel. Pure and simple. Hiding behind a pseudonym doesn't make it legal or right. If you can't stand by what you say, then don't say it, least of all in a public forum!
Thank you, we now return to you to your normally-scheduled incoherent Slashdot ramblings.
Yeah, but you could always start out using Ymodem-G and if you got disconnected you could grab the rest of the file with Zmodem's resume feature (thank you, Chuck Forsberg!) Also dsz's Ymodem-G also featured resume, IIRC.
Reminds me of when we were all arguing over which protocol was faster: Ymodem, Ymodem-G, Xmodem-1K or Zmodem. Now it all just seems so stupid and silly.
Better code = less bloat = better performance and security.
The parent's point is that in code where it makes a difference, the code is already thoroughly optimized, in general. Slimming down the code for Microsoft Word or XEmacs or Firefox or Nautilus or iTunes (there, now we've slaugthered everyone's sacred cow!) isn't likely to make much of a difference because apps like these already run plenty fast on modern hardware. Sure, bloat is bad, but it's a lot harder to remove bloat from existing code without removing features than it sounds. If bloat is an issue, use an equivalent app with less features -- nano instead of XEmacs, for instance.
Um, no. Neither IE6 nor Firefox 2 block 3rd-party cookies by default. In IE6, one can turn off 3rd party cookies with Tools -> Internet Options -> Privacy Tab -> Advanced. Check override automatic cookie handling, and then under Third Party choose Block or Prompt.
In FF 2.0, you need to do an about:config and set network.cookie.cookieBehavior to 1.
I'd say he has a good case, unless he intentionally put an electronic sign on his files, saying "Copy These Please!!!"
Didn't he do just that by putting them in a shared folder and leaving the permissions wide open? How is that different from putting them on a public ftp server, adding them to the shared folder of a P2P program, or tossing them on a web site?
Yes. Older versions of Quicken run okay if already installed (the installer doesn't work right).
WINE still needs lots of TLC before it will mature enough to run something that needs to run very reliably, like Quicken. Personally, I use Quicken under a Windows 2000 version running under QEMU on top of Ubuntu 7.04.
Prohibition of wireless networks for use in voting systems Prohibition of voting systems connected to the Internet Excludes the use of COTS hardware and software (what about embedded OSes?)
Some Congresscritters and/or their staff must be reading Slashdot. These are all things that more than one of us has suggested.
Now just one more thing, guys: make the entire system run on Linux or other F/OSS operating system. That will eliminate the use of viruses targeted at the easily-cracked Windows operating system from the McDonald's of operating system vendors (Microsoft).
Frankly, I blame this on religion, which has a stranglehold on many aspects of our existence here.
This may not sound right to some, but it's dead on! Especially certain religions, which seem focused on the 'fact' that their God beats all and and that makes them right and everyone else wrong. No comment on which ones.
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That's right. I, for one, look forward to the day when we can post on Slashdot about the longest time in space spent by a wheelchair-bound transgendered lesbian Jewish African-American/Native American mixed-race learning-disabled illegal immigrant astronaut! That day will surely go down in infamy!
Hello? Bill Clinton? Is that you?!
"I did NOT have sexual relations with those Blockbuster co-eds!"
I have. They're usually the ones behind the counter.
Not only that, but those Windows is only certified on specific hardware, while the same is not true of the RHEL5 cert. Thanks for pointing that out. It shows once again that a solid stable system like RHEL5 is indeed more secure than Windows, even if only it is because the military believes it to be so. But I'm guessing that military IT might know a thing or two about good systems security. ;)
Every technology has their fanboys. There are Mac fanboys, Windows fanboys, Ubuntu Linux fanboys, Sony/PS3 fanboys, Nintendo/Wii fanboys, etc. To me a fanboy is someone who ignores reality to show everyone how 'great' their choice of tool is. Apple/Mac/iPod fanboys typically defend Apple even when Apple is being an asshat. Linux fanboys love to bash Microsoft even when they have actually produced something good and useful. Windows fanboys love to point out how BSODs on Windows 2000/XP/Vista are exceedlingly rare, while ignoring the fact that Windows is insecure mostly because the architecture favors usability over security and that poorly-written Windows applications, which are quite numerous, cause all sorts of other problems because the Windows monoculture encourages poor programming practices.
Myself, I tend to be ecumenical and use what works. For myself, I choose Ubuntu at home, with Windows 2000 running under QEMU for those Windows applications that I feel I cannot live without. I use Windows at work (not by choice) but still find its features to be useful and helpful at times. Mac OS X is a good, solid OS, but it comes with a larger price tag than either a Windows or Linux PC and really doesn't have good support for some types of applications (and not just gaming).
Hmmm...I'm getting conflicting information. According to this Microsoft White Paper (sorry, Word .DOC format), the EAL4 + Augmented with ALC_FLR.3 rating, which BTW, both Windows XP SP 2 and Windows 2003 Server SP 1 also have, is only equivalent to C2, which is the same rating that NT 4 received. IOW, this cert doesn't really mean that much.
Oh, I think that people are eager to share their thoughts, but many think they get to hide behind some degree of anonymity in doing so, and that's just not true. If it really came down to it, with the right court orders, I can determine the real-world identity of almost anybody on Slashdot or any other site like MySpace, Blogger, LJ, YouTube, etc. It's not like it hasn't been done before.
You are 100% correct. When are people going to learn that typing stuff and putting it out on the public Internet is the electronic equivalent of shouting things to the world? There is no anonymity; everything can be traced back to somebody given the time and resources. If you say something in writing and allow it to be published to the world in order to damage someone's reputation, that's libel. Pure and simple. Hiding behind a pseudonym doesn't make it legal or right. If you can't stand by what you say, then don't say it, least of all in a public forum!
Thank you, we now return to you to your normally-scheduled incoherent Slashdot ramblings.
So? They said if someone else did it, they might accept it. So just write it. It's not like the specifications or C source code are any big secret.
Oh, we're gonna bring in HSLink, huh? What about Puma and Lynx? BiModem?
Yeah, but you could always start out using Ymodem-G and if you got disconnected you could grab the rest of the file with Zmodem's resume feature (thank you, Chuck Forsberg!) Also dsz's Ymodem-G also featured resume, IIRC.
Reminds me of when we were all arguing over which protocol was faster: Ymodem, Ymodem-G, Xmodem-1K or Zmodem. Now it all just seems so stupid and silly.
The parent's point is that in code where it makes a difference, the code is already thoroughly optimized, in general. Slimming down the code for Microsoft Word or XEmacs or Firefox or Nautilus or iTunes (there, now we've slaugthered everyone's sacred cow!) isn't likely to make much of a difference because apps like these already run plenty fast on modern hardware. Sure, bloat is bad, but it's a lot harder to remove bloat from existing code without removing features than it sounds. If bloat is an issue, use an equivalent app with less features -- nano instead of XEmacs, for instance.
Um, no. Neither IE6 nor Firefox 2 block 3rd-party cookies by default. In IE6, one can turn off 3rd party cookies with Tools -> Internet Options -> Privacy Tab -> Advanced. Check override automatic cookie handling, and then under Third Party choose Block or Prompt.
In FF 2.0, you need to do an about:config and set network.cookie.cookieBehavior to 1.
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Didn't he do just that by putting them in a shared folder and leaving the permissions wide open? How is that different from putting them on a public ftp server, adding them to the shared folder of a P2P program, or tossing them on a web site?
Yes. Older versions of Quicken run okay if already installed (the installer doesn't work right).
WINE still needs lots of TLC before it will mature enough to run something that needs to run very reliably, like Quicken. Personally, I use Quicken under a Windows 2000 version running under QEMU on top of Ubuntu 7.04.
Other things in the bill:
Prohibition of wireless networks for use in voting systems
Prohibition of voting systems connected to the Internet
Excludes the use of COTS hardware and software (what about embedded OSes?)
See the full HR-811 bill.
Some Congresscritters and/or their staff must be reading Slashdot. These are all things that more than one of us has suggested.
Now just one more thing, guys: make the entire system run on Linux or other F/OSS operating system. That will eliminate the use of viruses targeted at the easily-cracked Windows operating system from the McDonald's of operating system vendors (Microsoft).
Because Linus caught the FSF sleeping on the kernel work and showed the world that building a world-class OS kernel just isn't that hard?
Okay. That does it. I want in. Where do I sign up for the free Microsoft cash?
Dunno about you, but I was around on the Internet1 before the 'commercial interests' took hold.
All those things you listed predated the commercial interests, 'cept maybe skr1p7 k1dd13z.
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No, not all. But most of the ones that don't you probably haven't heard of.
This may not sound right to some, but it's dead on! Especially certain religions, which seem focused on the 'fact' that their God beats all and and that makes them right and everyone else wrong. No comment on which ones.
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