I'd suggest reading both advisories again. But I'll be nice and spell it out. It seems neither OS's repositories were compromised. From the Fedora advisory: "Among our other analyses, we have also done numerous checks of the
Fedora package collection, and a significant amount of source verification as well, and have found no discrepancies that would indicate any loss of package integrity." From the RHEL advisory: "Based on these efforts, we remain highly confident that our systems and processes prevented the intrusion from compromising RHN or the content distributed via RHN and accordingly believe that customers who keep their systems updated using Red Hat Network are not at risk.".
Fedora is changing their key as a precaution "because Fedora packages are distributed via multiple third-party mirrors and repositories". While it seems Red Hat doesn't care as much about people getting packages from non-RHN sources, so they just issued an advisory.
It seems pretty much the same thing happened to each. However, "In connection with the incident, the intruder was able to sign a small
number of OpenSSH packages relating only to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
(i386 and x86_64 architectures only) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86_64
architecture only)."
I'm assuming Microsoft uses EWF for their free Windows Disk Protection software. It uses the disk rather than the memory for the cache, though. Which makes more sense IMO, as you're expecting to write to disk anyway and you have much more disk space than memory space available.
I'm assuming this still doesn't protect you if the malicious code gains administrative privileges though.
Mediocre resolutions? Like 640x480? That's not that bad, certainly beats not having a monitor at all. Plenty of people use displays with resolutions less than that, albeit on mobile devices rather than desktops. And that's certainly enough for SD TV feeds (did you mean that?).
Those careless creditors should be charged with negligence. All that information is a matter of public record. Thieves would also be guaranteed good information from the sex offender database. Do sex offenders get their identity stolen more often? Although their identities might not be as desirable as others.
Southwestern Bell Corporation, actually (at least according to Wikipedia).
I'm assuming the GP also considers the current CBS to be a similarly different company?
Are you talking about the outage in the Midwest at approximately 1 AM EDT Friday? I'd cite that as an example of an ISP not telling customers the cause of a problem. All I've heard is that it was a regional problem, probably caused by some problems with maintenance. I thought it might have something to do with patching the DNS servers which, according to DoxPara, were vulnerable for quite some time after the exploit surfaced but now appear not to be. They'll never tell us the cause, though.
Unless someone has some information I don't.
Why shouldn't the government pay for a database of files? Say, at the Library of Congress? Or maybe it could be delegated to one of the other libraries/library systems in the United States.
Although, as you mention, this isn't really a problem for audio as most of it is available without DRM anyway. It seems software (including games) is much more likely to be released only with DRM, and thus should be a bigger concern.
Microsoft seems to be getting away with shutting down the DRM servers for their MSN music store just fine. I think some people are even buying DRM'd music from their new Zune music store.
Perhaps we have Microsoft to thank for the current trend of music without DRM? I can't imagine retailers selling these DRM'd WMAs were too happy when Microsoft stabbed them in the back by creating a new DRM system that only worked with Zune. Well, I think they sell music that works on other players, but allow no one else to sell DRM'd music that works on the Zune.
As far as I know, the federal government is helping people switch to digital TV. They don't have any problem with stations broadcasting in 480i, indeed some religious channels around here do just that. It would make sense if they used the money from the action for the spectrum freed by the switch to pay for the converter box program and commercials, but I'm not sure if they're doing that.
But the Dr. Who episode that just finished isn't. Worse, instead of broadcasting it in fullscreen 480p (or an upconversion of that), they encode it with black bars on all sides. Do they not know how to zoom things?
Still better than the channels that stretch a 4:3 picture to 16:9, though. Especially if it was originally letterboxed. I'm looking at you, History Channel. Airing actual 4:3 content letterboxed is probably the best (IMO) way to handle it. Zooming the picture in a bit (but not to fill up a 16:9 screen) like the Discovery networks isn't bad either.
Facebook and MySpace do allow you to send private messages. I've never used Twitter, but I'd imagine most other "social" sites allow that as well. Of course, people don't mind if some things are seen by everyone.
I prefer instant messaging for informal communication and email for (more) formal communication or something I want to have a record of.
No, the problem (well, one of them) here is that Windows Media Player IS determining the file type from actual content rather than extension. Hence why it's playing ASF files with a MP3 extension. Read the last line of the summary.
Of course, the real problem is people choosing to execute code from an unknown source. I'm curious, is this using the option to "Download Codecs Automatically" in WMP?
"The conditions though for all that is that you may not buy or download any extra software, but must only use the PC as you get it from the manufacturer."
Well, that's a rather silly condition. Would you pay money to have software you can download for free included on a PC you buy? By that logic, all the crapware included with many Windows PCs actually adds value.
In any case, I think buying a Windows PC with firewire and using Windows Movie Maker (included) might work.
No, the RIAA (actually the companies they pay to do their enforcement) don't connect to peers directly to verify they're actually sending infringing content. They just retrieve the list of peers and send DMCA to all of them. Read the paper, there was an article here on it a while back.
Bah, accidentally chose underrated instead of overrated. I generally don't approve of vigilantism, such as sites like perverted justice (although they're attacking supposed pedophiles rather than child porn). I thought the authorities were generally very good at shutting down child porn sites? What's to prevent you from attacking people who are actually innocent? Mobs generally don't make the wisest decisions.
It's been around for a while. The oldest item on the tracker is from March 24, 2004. Ther earliest version on archive.org is from December 12, 2003. I guess this is a "re-launch" though, it's no longer just a flat list of torrents.
That doesn't make much sense unless students were required to buy textbooks from the school bookstore. Were they? What school was this?
And if you didn't use the books, did you tell this to the students? I've had a couple professors list books as "required", but tell us that they actually weren't on the first day of class.
The article you linked to (as well as the original arstechnica article) say nothing about VOIP APIs being in the SDK. It only says Apple won't disallow VOIP over WiFi.
I am quite decided that I am very much indecisive. Like as to if I should add more to this comment or not (I decided I should). I have also decided that I use very many parentheses.
This isn't really a Google bomb though, at least not like the kind discussed in that article. Those aimed to return a site from an unrelated query, by doing something like miserable failure. This is aiming at queries of "John McCain" or "McCain", phrases the pages actually contain.
Although actually looking at the page, he does seem to be going at it in the same way: Linking "McCain" or "John McCain" to the articles. An earlier poster linked them as "article 1" and such, which might be less apt to trigger their Google bomb detection.
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I'd suggest reading both advisories again. But I'll be nice and spell it out. It seems neither OS's repositories were compromised.
From the Fedora advisory: "Among our other analyses, we have also done numerous checks of the Fedora package collection, and a significant amount of source verification as well, and have found no discrepancies that would indicate any loss of package integrity."
From the RHEL advisory: "Based on these efforts, we remain highly confident that our systems and processes prevented the intrusion from compromising RHN or the content distributed via RHN and accordingly believe that customers who keep their systems updated using Red Hat Network are not at risk.".
Fedora is changing their key as a precaution "because Fedora packages are distributed via multiple third-party mirrors and repositories". While it seems Red Hat doesn't care as much about people getting packages from non-RHN sources, so they just issued an advisory.
It seems pretty much the same thing happened to each. However, "In connection with the incident, the intruder was able to sign a small number of OpenSSH packages relating only to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (i386 and x86_64 architectures only) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86_64 architecture only)."
I'm assuming Microsoft uses EWF for their free Windows Disk Protection software. It uses the disk rather than the memory for the cache, though. Which makes more sense IMO, as you're expecting to write to disk anyway and you have much more disk space than memory space available.
I'm assuming this still doesn't protect you if the malicious code gains administrative privileges though.
Mediocre resolutions? Like 640x480? That's not that bad, certainly beats not having a monitor at all. Plenty of people use displays with resolutions less than that, albeit on mobile devices rather than desktops. And that's certainly enough for SD TV feeds (did you mean that?).
Those careless creditors should be charged with negligence. All that information is a matter of public record. Thieves would also be guaranteed good information from the sex offender database. Do sex offenders get their identity stolen more often? Although their identities might not be as desirable as others.
Southwestern Bell Corporation, actually (at least according to Wikipedia).
I'm assuming the GP also considers the current CBS to be a similarly different company?
Are you talking about the outage in the Midwest at approximately 1 AM EDT Friday? I'd cite that as an example of an ISP not telling customers the cause of a problem. All I've heard is that it was a regional problem, probably caused by some problems with maintenance. I thought it might have something to do with patching the DNS servers which, according to DoxPara, were vulnerable for quite some time after the exploit surfaced but now appear not to be. They'll never tell us the cause, though.
Unless someone has some information I don't.
Why shouldn't the government pay for a database of files? Say, at the Library of Congress? Or maybe it could be delegated to one of the other libraries/library systems in the United States.
Although, as you mention, this isn't really a problem for audio as most of it is available without DRM anyway. It seems software (including games) is much more likely to be released only with DRM, and thus should be a bigger concern.
Microsoft seems to be getting away with shutting down the DRM servers for their MSN music store just fine. I think some people are even buying DRM'd music from their new Zune music store.
Perhaps we have Microsoft to thank for the current trend of music without DRM? I can't imagine retailers selling these DRM'd WMAs were too happy when Microsoft stabbed them in the back by creating a new DRM system that only worked with Zune. Well, I think they sell music that works on other players, but allow no one else to sell DRM'd music that works on the Zune.
As far as I know, the federal government is helping people switch to digital TV. They don't have any problem with stations broadcasting in 480i, indeed some religious channels around here do just that. It would make sense if they used the money from the action for the spectrum freed by the switch to pay for the converter box program and commercials, but I'm not sure if they're doing that.
But the Dr. Who episode that just finished isn't. Worse, instead of broadcasting it in fullscreen 480p (or an upconversion of that), they encode it with black bars on all sides. Do they not know how to zoom things?
Still better than the channels that stretch a 4:3 picture to 16:9, though. Especially if it was originally letterboxed. I'm looking at you, History Channel. Airing actual 4:3 content letterboxed is probably the best (IMO) way to handle it. Zooming the picture in a bit (but not to fill up a 16:9 screen) like the Discovery networks isn't bad either.
Facebook and MySpace do allow you to send private messages. I've never used Twitter, but I'd imagine most other "social" sites allow that as well. Of course, people don't mind if some things are seen by everyone.
I prefer instant messaging for informal communication and email for (more) formal communication or something I want to have a record of.
No, the problem (well, one of them) here is that Windows Media Player IS determining the file type from actual content rather than extension. Hence why it's playing ASF files with a MP3 extension. Read the last line of the summary.
Of course, the real problem is people choosing to execute code from an unknown source. I'm curious, is this using the option to "Download Codecs Automatically" in WMP?
I do find it odd that in many places in the United States it's legal for an adult to have sex with a 16 year old but illegal to tape it.
I know of at least a couple that were released before.
"The conditions though for all that is that you may not buy or download any extra software, but must only use the PC as you get it from the manufacturer."
Well, that's a rather silly condition. Would you pay money to have software you can download for free included on a PC you buy? By that logic, all the crapware included with many Windows PCs actually adds value.
In any case, I think buying a Windows PC with firewire and using Windows Movie Maker (included) might work.
It's $50. What are you talking about?
I can confirm that alt.binaries.* has not yet been removed from the AT&T/SBC/Prodigy news servers.
No, the RIAA (actually the companies they pay to do their enforcement) don't connect to peers directly to verify they're actually sending infringing content. They just retrieve the list of peers and send DMCA to all of them. Read the paper, there was an article here on it a while back.
Bah, accidentally chose underrated instead of overrated.
I generally don't approve of vigilantism, such as sites like perverted justice (although they're attacking supposed pedophiles rather than child porn). I thought the authorities were generally very good at shutting down child porn sites?
What's to prevent you from attacking people who are actually innocent? Mobs generally don't make the wisest decisions.
It's been around for a while. The oldest item on the tracker is from March 24, 2004. Ther earliest version on archive.org is from December 12, 2003. I guess this is a "re-launch" though, it's no longer just a flat list of torrents.
That doesn't make much sense unless students were required to buy textbooks from the school bookstore. Were they? What school was this?
And if you didn't use the books, did you tell this to the students? I've had a couple professors list books as "required", but tell us that they actually weren't on the first day of class.
The article you linked to (as well as the original arstechnica article) say nothing about VOIP APIs being in the SDK. It only says Apple won't disallow VOIP over WiFi.
I am quite decided that I am very much indecisive. Like as to if I should add more to this comment or not (I decided I should). I have also decided that I use very many parentheses.
Get someone who controls a TLD to set up an A (or AAAA if you have IPv6 connectivity) record for it.
This isn't really a Google bomb though, at least not like the kind discussed in that article. Those aimed to return a site from an unrelated query, by doing something like miserable failure. This is aiming at queries of "John McCain" or "McCain", phrases the pages actually contain.
Although actually looking at the page, he does seem to be going at it in the same way: Linking "McCain" or "John McCain" to the articles. An earlier poster linked them as "article 1" and such, which might be less apt to trigger their Google bomb detection.