A real solution would be end to end authentication and encryption. I wonder why none of the supreme innovators have thought of this yet. But then again the NoSuchAgency wouldn't be able to monitor our inbox or product vendors spam our inboxs.
"Among the evidence produced were transcripts of conversations which Microsoft claimed took place between a test purchaser, Kenneth Anderson, and Edward Hill"
How were these transcripts obtained? Did either of the parties know they were being recorded. Did the test purchaser lead Edward Hill into making incriminating statements.
Earlier this month, Japan, South Korea and China announced plans to band together to createa Linux-based alternativeto Windows - Mary Jo Foley - Sep 2003
'When the Japanese government announced it would install BTRON PC in Japanese schools, the U.S. government objected. It called the Japanese initiativeactual and potential market interventionand threatened the move with sanctions.`
"Microsoft's decision to join the T-Engine Forum is not without irony. The company was the main beneficiaryof U.S. government actions against the TRON project in 1989."
"Is it just me or does the report actually fail to mention to mention Linux even once?"
That is correct, the article quotes Graham Cluley as saying that Macs will be safer for 'computer' users.
MS going into the AV business threatening their revenue stream and despite this Sophos depend on Microsoft for business. Linux on the other hand is considered a greater threat than the Mac, both to Sophos and MS. The Mac is seen as a niche player so talking it up is not such a big deal. Previous utterances from Sophos:
"Why not go out to the desert, somewhere like Arizona, to launch these things?"
Because, in the event of an accident they don't want 1,018,181.8 gallons of liquid oxygen and kerosene crashing into some highly populated city instead of the Atlantic.
It isn't rain but lightning that is the problem. The column of ionized gases ejected from a vehicle in assent is highly conductive and makes for a very good earth. Apollo 12 was hit twice in just such an incident. The strike affected the parachute deployment system among other things. They didn't know for sure if it would actually work until the final moments of the descent.
I hope you do feel safe while the last of your freedoms is taken from you. Freedom of speach this is. The real reason for such monitoring is to supress political dissent. You see a monitored populace is a complient one.
Festival is a free text-to-speech (TTS) system written in C++ that'll work. If you're on a Debian-based system, apt-get install festival should do the trick. Others should follow the installation instructions on Festival's Web site.
"Microsoft Office has built-in.. such as voice synthesizers, special screen readers and enlargers,"
Technically speaking such support is a function of the OS and as such is transparient to the application. As for
'OpenDocument-based products do not yet` this is also inaccurate. Makes one wonders just where he is getting his fastfacts from?
The Gnopernicus project.. allow low-vision and blind users access to standard.. applications via speech and braille output..
"Microsoft Office has built-in help for people with disabilities.. .. OpenDocument-based products do not yet" - John Winske
Why a document standard would affect a screen reader defies logic. Could you list any functionality that Microsoft Office provides the disabled that you believe does not exist in Open Source. May I remind you that the American Foundation of the Blind (AFB) awarded Gnome and Sun the Helen Keller Achievement Award in 2002. Sun being one of the originators of Open Office.
In this document we have Adobe answering some of the points raised in the "Joint Statement on Open Source & Open Documents in Massachusetts" released by your Disability Policy Consortium and the Bay State Council of the Blind.
"I could see the truth that most Americans never think of. I knew who the next likely enemy was after the cold war ended"
I know you won't hear about this on Fox news, but both Saddam Hussein and bin Laden were at one time US intelligence assets in the middle east. Bin Laden sent into Afghanistan to ferment opposition to the Soviets and Hussein, a one time hit man for the CIA put up to organizing a coup against his own Ba'ath Party. Their chief crime being trying to organize unification with Syria. You see a fragmented middle east is much easier to control that a united Arab front. Of course one of the side effects of this policy is out of control 'freedom fighters` organizing suicide bombings. This wasn't considered a problem until they attacked the US.
The war against terror being largely bogus as once the USSR collapsed the US had to create another pretext to occupy the worlds mineral rich territories. You see we here in the gap have been suffering from terrorism for a long time (the Lockerbie bombing, Canary Wharf etc) the difference is we never saw the need to cancel democracy.
"My world was a world of security fences and guards carrying AK47s"
Are you sure what continent your grew up on. The AK47 was designed by Timofeevich Kalashnikov and used primarily by the Red Army.
'"They keep telling themselves that. "Oh it'll be all right, the government is protecting us."`
You should consider that these 'class` of people are librarians and anti-war protestors and when they come after you, there will be no one left to speak out.
"isn't it possible that the real problem is piss-poor programmers"
No the problem is, as the article actually states that it is Microsoft wilfull witholding of information rather than any sub-par performance as you so misleadingly imply.
"Brussels also ordered Microsoft to provide rivals with enough information to develop software that could run as smoothly as its own on servers running Microsoft's Windows operating system."
You know I can think of only one other writer to beat Heinlein in the totally weirded out stakes that being Philip K. Dick. Don't take my word for it, just sit down to the PKD reader in one sitting. The Turning Wheel set in a post-apocalyptic future is uncannily prescient where the 'Caucs` are at the bottom of the social pile and everyone gives praise to the church of Elron (clearness be upon him) another lunatic.. er visionary of the SF world. Who knows PKD might have made a fine mainstream writer if he only laid off the amphetamines.
hasn't been done before ..Re:Not really surpris ..
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"what they are trying to do hasn't really been done before"
The following might have something to do with why they failed..
01. The OEMs were forbidden to display non-Microsoft systems.
02. Booting to BeOS required the use of a floppy.
03. Microsoft leaned on Hitchai to remove BeOS from its pcs in Japan.
04. BeOS went broke suing Microsoft.
"IE 7+.. has a feature that essentially runs the browser as a very low privs user.. This is actually fairly innovative and will undoubtedly make it far more difficult to exploit and holes in IE""
What's innovative about copying what has for years been standard in nix land. Renaming it low-rights, Least-Privilege User Account (LUA) or User Account Protection (UAP) doesn't change this fact. By what standard of logic is low privs any different.
Currently a standard Linux installation and a combination of sudo, chroot, chown, chmod and standard user gives you the same innovative feetures. Now where do I click?
"[IIS is ] "one of the most secure products on the market"
Slashdot Mirror
A real solution would be end to end authentication and encryption. I wonder why none of the supreme innovators have thought of this yet. But then again the NoSuchAgency wouldn't be able to monitor our inbox or product vendors spam our inboxs.
The US, in its case for extradition, said Mr McKinnon caused more than $700,000 £375,235 worth of damage.
US prosecutors claim he caused $700,000 £375,000 worth of damage.
Gary McKinnon, 40, is accused of causing damage to 97 US government computers estimated at £370,000. - Feb 2006
"Among the evidence produced were transcripts of conversations which Microsoft claimed took place between a test purchaser, Kenneth Anderson, and Edward Hill"
How were these transcripts obtained? Did either of the parties know they were being recorded. Did the test purchaser lead Edward Hill into making incriminating statements.
Re:Out of Context? You screwed buddy
Marcus J. Ranum .. is recognized as the inventor of the proxy firewall, and the implementor of the first commercial firewall product.
Is it a combination of WinCE and TRON - Oct 2003
Earlier this month, Japan, South Korea and China announced plans to band together to create a Linux-based alternative to Windows - Mary Jo Foley - Sep 2003
'When the Japanese government announced it would install BTRON PC in Japanese schools, the U.S. government objected. It called the Japanese initiative actual and potential market intervention and threatened the move with sanctions.`
"Microsoft's decision to join the T-Engine Forum is not without irony. The company was the main beneficiary of U.S. government actions against the TRON project in 1989."
"Is it just me or does the report actually fail to mention to mention Linux even once?"
That is correct, the article quotes Graham Cluley as saying that Macs will be safer for 'computer' users.
MS going into the AV business threatening their revenue stream and despite this Sophos depend on Microsoft for business. Linux on the other hand is considered a greater threat than the Mac, both to Sophos and MS. The Mac is seen as a niche player so talking it up is not such a big deal. Previous utterances from Sophos:
a Mac has no more inherent security when it comes to malware than a PC
"Linux has a better history for security than Microsoft, and hackers are more focused on Microsoft.
These are not attacking any kind of vulnerability in the computer They are attacking the vulnerability of people's brains.
http://www.distrowatch.com/
"Why not go out to the desert, somewhere like Arizona, to launch these things?"
Because, in the event of an accident they don't want 1,018,181.8 gallons of liquid oxygen and kerosene crashing into some highly populated city instead of the Atlantic.
"Shuttle has to worry about rain because .."
It isn't rain but lightning that is the problem. The column of ionized gases ejected from a vehicle in assent is highly conductive and makes for a very good earth. Apollo 12 was hit twice in just such an incident. The strike affected the parachute deployment system among other things. They didn't know for sure if it would actually work until the final moments of the descent.
I hope you do feel safe while the last of your freedoms is taken from you. Freedom of speach this is. The real reason for such monitoring is to supress political dissent. You see a monitored populace is a complient one.
xfs_check checks whether an XFS filesystem is consistent
Festival is a free text-to-speech (TTS) system written in C++ that'll work. If you're on a Debian-based system, apt-get install festival should do the trick. Others should follow the installation instructions on Festival's Web site.
"There basically is no fsck for XFS .."
..In the event of a system crash .. Recovery is performed automatically at file system mount time ..
XFS provides journaling for file system metadata
"Microsoft Office has built-in .. such as voice synthesizers, special screen readers and enlargers,"
.. allow low-vision and blind users access to standard .. applications via speech and braille output ..
Technically speaking such support is a function of the OS and as such is transparient to the application. As for 'OpenDocument-based products do not yet` this is also inaccurate. Makes one wonders just where he is getting his fastfacts from?
The Gnopernicus project
Why a Windows-Only Argument Is A Bad Idea
Open Source Accessibility
"Microsoft Office has built-in help for people with disabilities ..
.. OpenDocument-based products do not yet" - John Winske
Why a document standard would affect a screen reader defies logic. Could you list any functionality that Microsoft Office provides the disabled that you believe does not exist in Open Source. May I remind you that the American Foundation of the Blind (AFB) awarded Gnome and Sun the Helen Keller Achievement Award in 2002. Sun being one of the originators of Open Office.
In this document we have Adobe answering some of the points raised in the "Joint Statement on Open Source & Open Documents in Massachusetts" released by your Disability Policy Consortium and the Bay State Council of the Blind.
FireStar Software, Inc. .. today announced a go-to-market agreement with Microsoft,
.. has been a consultant to .. Microsoft ..
Mark Eisner, CTO, FireStar
This has been a totally non MS shop since 2003 and I don't intend to ever have to wipe/reinstall/upgrade a Windows boxen ever again.
.. a personal .. assistant .. with experience of setting up a small network .. Some knowledge of French helpful ..
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Small luxury hotel seeks
"I could see the truth that most Americans never think of. I knew who the next likely enemy was after the cold war ended"
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I know you won't hear about this on Fox news, but both Saddam Hussein and bin Laden were at one time US intelligence assets in the middle east. Bin Laden sent into Afghanistan to ferment opposition to the Soviets and Hussein, a one time hit man for the CIA put up to organizing a coup against his own Ba'ath Party. Their chief crime being trying to organize unification with Syria. You see a fragmented middle east is much easier to control that a united Arab front. Of course one of the side effects of this policy is out of control 'freedom fighters` organizing suicide bombings. This wasn't considered a problem until they attacked the US.
The war against terror being largely bogus as once the USSR collapsed the US had to create another pretext to occupy the worlds mineral rich territories. You see we here in the gap have been suffering from terrorism for a long time (the Lockerbie bombing, Canary Wharf etc) the difference is we never saw the need to cancel democracy.
"My world was a world of security fences and guards carrying AK47s"
Are you sure what continent your grew up on. The AK47 was designed by Timofeevich Kalashnikov and used primarily by the Red Army.
'"They keep telling themselves that. "Oh it'll be all right, the government is protecting us."`
Who's going to protect us from your government.
"I want everyone to remember, why they need us!"
Adam Sutler
http://quotations.about.com/od/moviequotes/a/vend
"Can someone tell me what this means?"
Some systems analyst draws some connectors and boxes and you get to sit up till 4:00 am writing the code.
"... a replacement all seeing eye will be needed ..
.. to keep the same class of people in line ..."
Consider it done, it's called Operation TIPS and got its own all seeing eye as a logo.
You should consider that these 'class` of people are librarians and anti-war protestors and when they come after you, there will be no one left to speak out.
"isn't it possible that the real problem is piss-poor programmers"
... let the trolling begin.
No the problem is, as the article actually states that it is Microsoft wilfull witholding of information rather than any sub-par performance as you so misleadingly imply.
"Brussels also ordered Microsoft to provide rivals with enough information to develop software that could run as smoothly as its own on servers running Microsoft's Windows operating system."
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You know I can think of only one other writer to beat Heinlein in the totally weirded out stakes that being Philip K. Dick. Don't take my word for it, just sit down to the PKD reader in one sitting. The Turning Wheel set in a post-apocalyptic future is uncannily prescient where the 'Caucs` are at the bottom of the social pile and everyone gives praise to the church of Elron (clearness be upon him) another lunatic .. er visionary of the SF world. Who knows PKD might have made a fine mainstream writer if he only laid off the amphetamines.
"what they are trying to do hasn't really been done before"
The Hierarchical File System
DBFS
Project: OCFS
`next to ZERO file formats that are currently in widespread use by the computing world know anything about "metadata"'
ReiserFS
XFS
"pity they couldnt make a buisness of it."
..
The following might have something to do with why they failed
01. The OEMs were forbidden to display non-Microsoft systems.
02. Booting to BeOS required the use of a floppy.
03. Microsoft leaned on Hitchai to remove BeOS from its pcs in Japan.
04. BeOS went broke suing Microsoft.
A Crack in the Wall
He Who Controls the Bootloader
Be Inc sues Microsoft
My old man taught me never to stand in a bucket of water and put your hand in a light socket. Without this sound advice I mightn't be here today.
"IIS 6 is an excellent web server and is one of the most secure web servers you can use"
.. has a feature that essentially runs the browser as a very low privs user .. This is actually fairly innovative and will undoubtedly make it far more difficult to exploit and holes in IE""
As compared to what exactly?
"It's certainly the most secure application server you can use""
As compared to what exactly?
"It's had a total of 2 vulnerabilities since its release about 4 years ago""
Flash Video Showing Microsoft IIS Being Hacked
"IE 7+
What's innovative about copying what has for years been standard in nix land. Renaming it low-rights, Least-Privilege User Account (LUA) or User Account Protection (UAP) doesn't change this fact. By what standard of logic is low privs any different.
Currently a standard Linux installation and a combination of sudo, chroot, chown, chmod and standard user gives you the same innovative feetures. Now where do I click?
"[IIS is ] "one of the most secure products on the market"
As compared to what exactly?