The hijacked HTTP request might come in the middle of a Gentoo build, or as you mirror a Web site and have a page replaced with an advertisement.
Then your authentication of the server will fail. You do such things by authenticating the server, right? SSL works for this, as does PGP (or GPG). Then your software will alert you to a possible attack. Which is what this is. This is as criminal as hacking a million machines and installing a spam proxy that way. The method of deception is irrelevant.
Is there any project which has as its goal providing tha coherent network-distributed (or fibre-channel distributed) filesystem that Linus intelligently realizes is a critical need?
By providing no way to authenticate themselves in a secure manner and by contacting their customers asking for sensitive information. Happens to me all the time. I never got a scam attempt that was even remotely plausible.
On some occasions I have said I would call back so that I would be sure of their identity, and they get upset. (Yes, from a legitimate business calling for a legitimate reason).
Notice that the blacked out text is always negative, where positive text is left in. This makes the redacted official version a deliberate deception. The people responsible should be held accountable.
I'm surprised that no one has recommended the Linux md driver. It performs extremely well even with IDE disks. You don't get hot-swap without special hardware, but you probably don't need that for a home machine
Yeah, this is all perfectly legal. Installing any updates however you get from subscribing to the updates service, violates your RHN contract.
The company that is party to the contract is distributing the updates, which is perfectly legal. (Redhat can not prohibit it for GPL stuff and does not try to prohibit it for other licensed stuff). You, the individual installing it on his machine at home without being subject to any support agreement.
Just because the individual distributing it on behalf of the company is distributing it to himself does not change that it has been distributed from one legal entity to another.
From what I've read in the past, it's legal, but it's a violation of your support contract to distribute the binary copies.
No. It is a violation of the support contract to install it on more machines than I have support for.
They can not legally prevent me from distributing binaries, and they make no attempt to do so.
The support contract states "If Customer wishes to increase the number of Installed System, then Customer will purchase from Red Hat additional Services for each additional Installed System.". Someone I redistribute the software to is not the "Customer" under this contract.
By bundling RHEL with a support contract that restricts redistribution, RHEL itself violates the GPL.
They do not restrict redistribution. They void the support contract if you are *using* more instances of it than you pay for. You still have every right to redistribute the software, and if you redistribute it to someone outside your organization they can install it and use it and you will not even be in violation of the support agreement.
This electronic voting is the most serious threat to America that we have seen in our lifetimes. Most here realize that no computer voting system can be secure without serious efforts that are not even being hinted at here. Compromising the secrecy of the vote offers many ways to secure these sysetms. A more reasonable compromise would be a voter-verified paper ballot that is re-inserted into the machine.
Since the most basic steps to provide security are not provided here, it is clear that the intention is to make a system that has completely compromised the validity of US elections. For some reason the mainstream media has not taken note of how serious an issue this is. The people involved in the current electronic voting plans can not be trusted AT ALL. They either want to subvert the voting process themselves, or want to create a system that is easy to subvert at a vastly lower cost than current systems.
What can be done to raise awareness of this issue? How can people be convinved that we need elections that are not trivial to subvert? Is the American public so apathetic as to make this an impossible task? Are we completely doomed?
Children in public schools in the US are given textbooks that are full of inaccuracy. It ranges from the misleading, to the incomplete, to the completely incorrect. There is no proper system to have the books reviewed by intelligent people with the interests of truly educating the students. Feynman tells an interesting story in one of his books about what really goes on. Of course this isn't how they screw it up every time. The other half of the time they don't even pretend to have a review process.
Because nobody is checking to make sure their data isn't silently corrupted. And the corruption might be extremely minor - one bit flipped in audio or video might never be noticed. Or it might corrupt data that won't ever be looked at, or at least not for years. Or it might introduce a wrong answer one someone's homework, and they never realize why they got it wrong. Or it crashes a random application and no one suspects a thing.
The error rates on good hardware are pretty small, but guaranteed to be nonzero.
Everybody and their dog use systems without ECC ram, yet the world has not come to an end yet.
And they have random data corruption ALL THE TIME.
It's amazing that no one seems to care about random data corruption. Random, unexplainable crashes.
Guaranteed to happen. Your non-ECC memory flips bits all the time.
Solaris doesn't even log ECC corrections until it it happens repeatedly to the same bit. That's because bits get flipped all the time. Physics and all that.
Luckily this is about how to build a case in a well-equipped facility designed for doing such things. Not in your garage, where you lack the appropriate tools and raw materials.
Every informed person knows about those rapid prototyping machines. They have been mentioned on Slashdot several times.
Really, which part of this is news to you? That it's designed using CAD? That metal is made to the right shapes and attached together using rivets and welding? That it happens on an assembly line? That it is done in a country where labor is cheap?
When you drive drunk you are a danger to everyone around you, therefore the drivers licence can be revoked.
Actually, the legal basis in the US is somewhat different. Driving is a privilege, not a right. A privilege granted by the government that can be taken away for any reason at any time without due process, a right to appeal, or anything like that.
This is why your license can be taken away not only for driving drunk, but for other offenses that have nothing to do with driving. This is also why the DMV can require your social securitiy number (in violation of federal law), your fingerprint, and outrageous fees to get a license.
Here, one of the Chenbro employees is re-working the die to implement an engineering change required to improve product quality. Chenbro is continually looking for ways to improve the quality and consistency of their products.
Many of our readers have written us with the same request: "Can you please explain how computer cases are created?"
Shouldn't all literate people know how something simple like this is designed, tested, and constructed? If you can read this sentence but don't know how to fashion a trivial metal box, ask for a refund on your education.
I hate to break it to you, but when they talk about paying teachers more, they mean firing the current teachers and hiring better ones who cost more money.
That's how paying teachers more will result in better education. Not by paying the same people more money on the hopes that they will be less lazy.
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Then your authentication of the server will fail. You do such things by authenticating the server, right? SSL works for this, as does PGP (or GPG). Then your software will alert you to a possible attack. Which is what this is. This is as criminal as hacking a million machines and installing a spam proxy that way. The method of deception is irrelevant.
geom-gate is the same as the Linux DBD stuff. The problem is that only one machine can have it mounted unless everyone has it mounted read-only.
Is there any project which has as its goal providing tha coherent network-distributed (or fibre-channel distributed) filesystem that Linus intelligently realizes is a critical need?
By providing no way to authenticate themselves in a secure manner and by contacting their customers asking for sensitive information. Happens to me all the time. I never got a scam attempt that was even remotely plausible.
On some occasions I have said I would call back so that I would be sure of their identity, and they get upset. (Yes, from a legitimate business calling for a legitimate reason).
Notice that the blacked out text is always negative, where positive text is left in. This makes the redacted official version a deliberate deception. The people responsible should be held accountable.
I'm surprised that no one has recommended the Linux md driver. It performs extremely well even with IDE disks. You don't get hot-swap without special hardware, but you probably don't need that for a home machine
I saw several highly improbable hardware failures over the past week, particularly on the 22nd.
What is the likelyhood that this is related to recent unusual solar activity, as opposed to being a simple coincidence?
The company that is party to the contract is distributing the updates, which is perfectly legal. (Redhat can not prohibit it for GPL stuff and does not try to prohibit it for other licensed stuff). You, the individual installing it on his machine at home without being subject to any support agreement.
Just because the individual distributing it on behalf of the company is distributing it to himself does not change that it has been distributed from one legal entity to another.
No. It is a violation of the support contract to install it on more machines than I have support for.
They can not legally prevent me from distributing binaries, and they make no attempt to do so.
The support contract states "If Customer wishes to increase the number of Installed System, then Customer will purchase from Red Hat additional Services for each additional Installed System.". Someone I redistribute the software to is not the "Customer" under this contract.
They do not restrict redistribution. They void the support contract if you are *using* more instances of it than you pay for. You still have every right to redistribute the software, and if you redistribute it to someone outside your organization they can install it and use it and you will not even be in violation of the support agreement.
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This electronic voting is the most serious threat to America that we have seen in our lifetimes. Most here realize that no computer voting system can be secure without serious efforts that are not even being hinted at here. Compromising the secrecy of the vote offers many ways to secure these sysetms. A more reasonable compromise would be a voter-verified paper ballot that is re-inserted into the machine.
Since the most basic steps to provide security are not provided here, it is clear that the intention is to make a system that has completely compromised the validity of US elections. For some reason the mainstream media has not taken note of how serious an issue this is. The people involved in the current electronic voting plans can not be trusted AT ALL. They either want to subvert the voting process themselves, or want to create a system that is easy to subvert at a vastly lower cost than current systems.
What can be done to raise awareness of this issue? How can people be convinved that we need elections that are not trivial to subvert? Is the American public so apathetic as to make this an impossible task? Are we completely doomed?
Children in public schools in the US are given textbooks that are full of inaccuracy. It ranges from the misleading, to the incomplete, to the completely incorrect. There is no proper system to have the books reviewed by intelligent people with the interests of truly educating the students. Feynman tells an interesting story in one of his books about what really goes on. Of course this isn't how they screw it up every time. The other half of the time they don't even pretend to have a review process.
Why would you use XFS when there is no fsck for it?
If that test kernel corrupts your filesystem, will you fix it by hand?
assert(1==sizeof(char))
It's not something you need to "buy". Linux does it. Redhat lets you configure it at install time.
Because nobody is checking to make sure their data isn't silently corrupted. And the corruption might be extremely minor - one bit flipped in audio or video might never be noticed. Or it might corrupt data that won't ever be looked at, or at least not for years. Or it might introduce a wrong answer one someone's homework, and they never realize why they got it wrong. Or it crashes a random application and no one suspects a thing.
The error rates on good hardware are pretty small, but guaranteed to be nonzero.
And they have random data corruption ALL THE TIME.
It's amazing that no one seems to care about random data corruption. Random, unexplainable crashes.
Guaranteed to happen. Your non-ECC memory flips bits all the time.
Solaris doesn't even log ECC corrections until it it happens repeatedly to the same bit. That's because bits get flipped all the time. Physics and all that.
Luckily this is about how to build a case in a well-equipped facility designed for doing such things. Not in your garage, where you lack the appropriate tools and raw materials.
Every informed person knows about those rapid prototyping machines. They have been mentioned on Slashdot several times.
Really, which part of this is news to you? That it's designed using CAD? That metal is made to the right shapes and attached together using rivets and welding? That it happens on an assembly line? That it is done in a country where labor is cheap?
Actually, the legal basis in the US is somewhat different. Driving is a privilege, not a right. A privilege granted by the government that can be taken away for any reason at any time without due process, a right to appeal, or anything like that.
This is why your license can be taken away not only for driving drunk, but for other offenses that have nothing to do with driving. This is also why the DMV can require your social securitiy number (in violation of federal law), your fingerprint, and outrageous fees to get a license.
Here, one of the Chenbro employees is re-working the die to implement an engineering change required to improve product quality. Chenbro is continually looking for ways to improve the quality and consistency of their products.
Shouldn't all literate people know how something simple like this is designed, tested, and constructed? If you can read this sentence but don't know how to fashion a trivial metal box, ask for a refund on your education.
Can Linux do this? If not, Windows is better than Linux.
I hate to break it to you, but when they talk about paying teachers more, they mean firing the current teachers and hiring better ones who cost more money.
That's how paying teachers more will result in better education. Not by paying the same people more money on the hopes that they will be less lazy.
In my school, we weren't allowed to go to our lockers between classes.