...and disk space. 100,000 concurrent users? That's scalability. 100,000 bugs? That's disk space.
You'd do well to think a moment before putting the most positive spin possible on your pet projects and display a little objectivity.
...only outlaws will have strong crypto.
See also: it's nigh impossible to stuff that genie back in that teensy weensy bottle.
That said, if every politician was willing to come clean with every lobbyist they talk to and every single red cent of soft money their pockets are lined with, I might be a bit more willing to listen to them try and take away my selfsame right to freedom.
In the absence of that, they can, with all due respect, go frick themselves silly.
Logan was horrible for security.
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The definition of unnerving? Walking through metal detectors in Logan with enough change that I was jingling and not hearing the detector go off when I walked through it as it does when I try to go into federal buildings around me.
If you're determined and trained, you can kill someone with a pen: puncturing arteries does wonders for one's lifespan. Indeed it's mightier than the sword.
Which is to say that there's a great deal of seemingly innocuous everyday items that can be put to insalubrious use. You can't eradicate risk, you can only minimize damage. It sounds callous, but if the pilots had never left the cockpit when flight attendants were being killed, we'd have murderers on our hands rather than the charred remains of mass murderers buried in a tower of rubble.
Take a second and finish reading my sentence?
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> I'd say it's time to outlaw religion and save
> some lives but the cynic in me wants
> to remind me that small-minded people will
> invariably find another way to rationalize
> killing people that have never harmed them.
To put it another way, I've heard it. Religion's just the obvious scapegoat for what can more accurately be attributed to the failings of (human) nature.
I guess it's just a fact of life that violence has gone hand in hand with existence on this planet since organisms evolved beyond single-cell photosynthetic organisms; at least then there was no explicit demonstration of violence as a survival mechanism, although I'm probably wrong about that assumption as well.
So it goes.
Christians manage to bastardize "God's words", too
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Religious fanatics are religious fanatics. If you look hard enough for a justification for your irrational hatred, you'll be able to find it in thousand year old books or hundred year old "visionaries" (*cough* Nostradomous *cough*).
Some blow up abortion clinics (is that turning the other cheek?), have little Inquisitions, some declare war on faraway countries, some blow up buildings.
It's really pathetic that the invention of religion has led to more deaths than any weapon of mass destruction we've ever created, isn't it? I'd say it's time to outlaw religion and save some lives, but the cynic in me wants to remind me that small-minded people will invariably find another way to rationalize killing people that have never harmed them.
So it goes.
Why not sonic weapons?
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OK, maybe not the most beautiful solution inasmuch as you'll be hitting everyone on the plane, but I'd rather be nauseated and in pain for 10 minutes than dead.
It shouldn't be impossible to retrofit sonic weapons inside of the plane, insulating the pilot's cockpit. We've developed a whole bunch of non-lethal weaponry, so why don't we start to intelligently apply it rather than beefing up futile methods?
Two aircraft crash into World Trade Center
NDTV Correspondent
Tuesday, September 11, 2001 (New York):
Two aircraft smashed into the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center at 9 am (1300 GMT) today. One tower has reportedly collapsed. Television footage showed smoke and flames billowing from the buildings even as firefighters reached the spot. There have been reports that a third plane has crashed into the Pentagon.
Six people are reported to have been killed and over a thousand have been injured. Reports say all three were hijacked and one of them was an American Airlines aircraft. The Federal Aviation Administration has meanwhile shut down all aircraft takeoffs in the US. People are being evacuated from the Pentagon and the White House.
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine has taken responsibility for the crashes. US President George W Bush has said that the crashes were "an apparent terrorist attack on our country'' and that it was a "difficult moment for America''.
The first aircraft that crashed was a Boeing 737 and as people watched, another plane rammed into the second tower of the trade center 18 minutes later. The crashes by the two planes into each of the twin towers have raised concerns that terrorists may have launched an attack on the tallest buildings in the city. The New York airport is close to the towers and there are also rumours that the crash may have been caused due to a communication or navigation failure.
More than 40,000 people work at the World Trade Center. The downtown Manhattan complex comprises two buildings, with more than 400 firms from over 25 countries. More than 100,000 visitors come to New York's Twin Towers every day.
The New York Stock Exchange, located in lower Manhattan near the trade center where many financial offices are kept, has indefinitely suspended trading.
Apparently, the Pentagon's been hit by a plane as well.
Unsubstantiated reports (aside from what I heard on NPR) of the Washington Mall and White House (the latter "smoking") being hit as well.
And the WTC's southern tower's collapsed. So glad to not be working in NYC anymore.
Forget what it's called now, but you build bridges and run trains across them.
It's Tetris for the new generation. Not that there's anything wrong with Tetris or they shouldn't be playing Tetris, because they should.
This was displayed in response to an article on the MS breakup; an anonymous coward somehow went from 0 to -1 with 3 offtopic mods? In an message that the "code" attached to the wrong article?
This is mis-threaded, too. Again 4, offtopic mods pulled it down to -1; even posting at 2, could someone explain to me how this is even possible?
Between this and seeing the "code" here inexplicably bleed 20+ karma points out of my UID without any of my posts actually being modded.... fuggit.
So I'm looking forward to finally releasing the security bug I discovered in Slashcode this weekend (RFPolicy and all that) and then never coming back here to see that they didn't report on flaws in their own system.
Enough of this Alfred E. Neumann "What? Me journalist?" tripe.
Mind you, it's not all-encompassing (yet), just a means to simplify things a little bit. But when Big Brother's doing it, hey! It's cool! Ha ha!
If you don't see anything disturbing about this possibility, mind letting me borrow your rose-colored glasses for a while?
Now that I've provided you with a link, you may have figured it out, but in the meantime you've provided nothing but conjecture and infuriated hand-waving to disprove the razor.
Do you have any concrete evidence that there's a definite reason behind the ramping up of bugs or is this just a zealot's opinion masquerading as a quantified observation?
"None not out intrepid slashdot poster."
???
The sort of legit version and the fact that Floridian nudie clubs were getting around indecent exposure statutes by having their "thespians" recite Shakespeare while gyrating.
Occam's Razor states that (basically), "when you have two competing theories which make exactly the same predictions, the one that is simpler is the better."
Literally (translated), his razor states that plurality should not be posited without necessity." Interprete as you may.
I'll probably get modded down for daring to ask this, but am I missing something here? Why stored procs in Perl and not in, say... SQL?
Or is being server-agnostic a Bad Thing now?
I know I'll get modded down for this, but so be it.
Who was it that came down hard on Microsoft running closed source? What tired cliches about the fallibility of closed source can you trot out now, kettle?
Just for old time's sake, I'll trot this one out: first jobs.osdn.com, now this. Can't wait for VA Linux to become a fully closed-source sellin' shop running on top of open source software, preaching the ardline open source mantra.
Unless they want to make money, get something done, or play some games, in which case they're secretly sort of OK with Microsoft.
Now who do I sue for the never-ending wu-ftpd/telnetd/sendmail exploits? I never accepted an EULA, so I feel some cash should be lining my pockets right quickly.
> For example, in the USA, white people used to have the right to own slaves.
Actually, everyone had the right to own slaves. Blacks owned black slaves. Whites owned white slaves. Slavery wasn't abolished until the tensions between north and south flared up; in the absence of those, who knows where we'd be today?
Not a question of race, it's a question of wealth. Rich people owned poor people. Same as it is now, except it was literal then.
We sit on it and pretend it never happened, then wonder why our servers are defaced?
Scenario 4: I'm an admin and I can't bring down my production servers because I'm unsure of how this new, untested patch might affect my systems. Thankfully, eEye or whomever has indicated mitigating factors and released a tool to test my machine for vulnerabilities. I remove the mappings and test my machine, reassuring myself that I'm safe from this.
I can see that you might not like "exploit" (proof of concept?) code, but for some folks (not just crackers), it's very, very valuable.
It'll give you ideas that Martha Stewart could never dream up.
If you're too lazy to watch, here's one tip: bring in a power screwdriver. Taking out a wall or two really opens up the place.
Information may be a BAD THING, but so are the patches: all a clueful SUPERHACKER has to do is sit on their hands and then take a look at the files updated in a patch. Diffing the two of them will reveal what's changed and have them well on their way to recreating the hole that they knew absolutely nothing about. This is, of course, running with the faulty assumption that the person who found and the person/people who fixed the hole are the only ones in the entire world who knew the details of the flaw.
On the other hand, you can distribute information on what you've found after working with the vendor to see a patch get put out, then release details on the flaw so that administrators can patch their systems as well as be on the lookout for people trying to exploit them. Without information, where do IDS makers get their signatures from?
Locks have a similar fatal flaw: they don't work unless you use them. Let's go find some locksmiths to string up for this horrible oversight.
Doubly so when you realize that while CPUs have been picking up pace according to the seemingly speedy Moore's Law, graphic accelerators have been picking up pace at Moore's Law cubed.
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...and disk space. 100,000 concurrent users? That's scalability. 100,000 bugs? That's disk space.
You'd do well to think a moment before putting the most positive spin possible on your pet projects and display a little objectivity.
...only outlaws will have strong crypto.
See also: it's nigh impossible to stuff that genie back in that teensy weensy bottle.
That said, if every politician was willing to come clean with every lobbyist they talk to and every single red cent of soft money their pockets are lined with, I might be a bit more willing to listen to them try and take away my selfsame right to freedom.
In the absence of that, they can, with all due respect, go frick themselves silly.
The definition of unnerving? Walking through metal detectors in Logan with enough change that I was jingling and not hearing the detector go off when I walked through it as it does when I try to go into federal buildings around me.
If you're determined and trained, you can kill someone with a pen: puncturing arteries does wonders for one's lifespan. Indeed it's mightier than the sword.
Which is to say that there's a great deal of seemingly innocuous everyday items that can be put to insalubrious use. You can't eradicate risk, you can only minimize damage. It sounds callous, but if the pilots had never left the cockpit when flight attendants were being killed, we'd have murderers on our hands rather than the charred remains of mass murderers buried in a tower of rubble.
> I'd say it's time to outlaw religion and save
> some lives but the cynic in me wants
> to remind me that small-minded people will
> invariably find another way to rationalize
> killing people that have never harmed them.
To put it another way, I've heard it. Religion's just the obvious scapegoat for what can more accurately be attributed to the failings of (human) nature.
I guess it's just a fact of life that violence has gone hand in hand with existence on this planet since organisms evolved beyond single-cell photosynthetic organisms; at least then there was no explicit demonstration of violence as a survival mechanism, although I'm probably wrong about that assumption as well.
So it goes.
Religious fanatics are religious fanatics. If you look hard enough for a justification for your irrational hatred, you'll be able to find it in thousand year old books or hundred year old "visionaries" (*cough* Nostradomous *cough*).
Some blow up abortion clinics (is that turning the other cheek?), have little Inquisitions, some declare war on faraway countries, some blow up buildings.
It's really pathetic that the invention of religion has led to more deaths than any weapon of mass destruction we've ever created, isn't it? I'd say it's time to outlaw religion and save some lives, but the cynic in me wants to remind me that small-minded people will invariably find another way to rationalize killing people that have never harmed them.
So it goes.
OK, maybe not the most beautiful solution inasmuch as you'll be hitting everyone on the plane, but I'd rather be nauseated and in pain for 10 minutes than dead.
It shouldn't be impossible to retrofit sonic weapons inside of the plane, insulating the pilot's cockpit. We've developed a whole bunch of non-lethal weaponry, so why don't we start to intelligently apply it rather than beefing up futile methods?
Downtown NYC '01 or Dresden '45?j pg for the goat-paranoid, courteousy of NDTV.com.
http://www.ndtv.com/images/topstories/wtcdebri.
IndyMedia also has some news reports trickling in.
Two aircraft crash into World Trade Center
NDTV Correspondent
Tuesday, September 11, 2001 (New York):
Two aircraft smashed into the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center at 9 am (1300 GMT) today. One tower has reportedly collapsed. Television footage showed smoke and flames billowing from the buildings even as firefighters reached the spot. There have been reports that a third plane has crashed into the Pentagon.
Six people are reported to have been killed and over a thousand have been injured. Reports say all three were hijacked and one of them was an American Airlines aircraft. The Federal Aviation Administration has meanwhile shut down all aircraft takeoffs in the US. People are being evacuated from the Pentagon and the White House.
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine has taken responsibility for the crashes. US President George W Bush has said that the crashes were "an apparent terrorist attack on our country'' and that it was a "difficult moment for America''.
The first aircraft that crashed was a Boeing 737 and as people watched, another plane rammed into the second tower of the trade center 18 minutes later. The crashes by the two planes into each of the twin towers have raised concerns that terrorists may have launched an attack on the tallest buildings in the city. The New York airport is close to the towers and there are also rumours that the crash may have been caused due to a communication or navigation failure.
More than 40,000 people work at the World Trade Center. The downtown Manhattan complex comprises two buildings, with more than 400 firms from over 25 countries. More than 100,000 visitors come to New York's Twin Towers every day.
The New York Stock Exchange, located in lower Manhattan near the trade center where many financial offices are kept, has indefinitely suspended trading.
Apparently, the Pentagon's been hit by a plane as well.
Unsubstantiated reports (aside from what I heard on NPR) of the Washington Mall and White House (the latter "smoking") being hit as well.
And the WTC's southern tower's collapsed. So glad to not be working in NYC anymore.
Forget what it's called now, but you build bridges and run trains across them.
It's Tetris for the new generation. Not that there's anything wrong with Tetris or they shouldn't be playing Tetris, because they should.
This was displayed in response to an article on the MS breakup; an anonymous coward somehow went from 0 to -1 with 3 offtopic mods? In an message that the "code" attached to the wrong article?
This is mis-threaded, too. Again 4, offtopic mods pulled it down to -1; even posting at 2, could someone explain to me how this is even possible?
Between this and seeing the "code" here inexplicably bleed 20+ karma points out of my UID without any of my posts actually being modded.... fuggit.
So I'm looking forward to finally releasing the security bug I discovered in Slashcode this weekend (RFPolicy and all that) and then never coming back here to see that they didn't report on flaws in their own system.
Enough of this Alfred E. Neumann "What? Me journalist?" tripe.
...and get back to practicing on your Strad. Rostropovich is catching up fast.
Mind you, it's not all-encompassing (yet), just a means to simplify things a little bit. But when Big Brother's doing it, hey! It's cool! Ha ha!
If you don't see anything disturbing about this possibility, mind letting me borrow your rose-colored glasses for a while?
Now that I've provided you with a link, you may have figured it out, but in the meantime you've provided nothing but conjecture and infuriated hand-waving to disprove the razor.
Do you have any concrete evidence that there's a definite reason behind the ramping up of bugs or is this just a zealot's opinion masquerading as a quantified observation?
"None not out intrepid slashdot poster."
???
The sort of legit version and the fact that Floridian nudie clubs were getting around indecent exposure statutes by having their "thespians" recite Shakespeare while gyrating.
Occam's Razor states that (basically), "when you have two competing theories which make exactly the same predictions, the one that is simpler is the better."
Literally (translated), his razor states that plurality should not be posited without necessity." Interprete as you may.
I'll probably get modded down for daring to ask this, but am I missing something here? Why stored procs in Perl and not in, say... SQL?
Or is being server-agnostic a Bad Thing now?
I know I'll get modded down for this, but so be it.
Who was it that came down hard on Microsoft running closed source? What tired cliches about the fallibility of closed source can you trot out now, kettle?
Just for old time's sake, I'll trot this one out: first jobs.osdn.com, now this. Can't wait for VA Linux to become a fully closed-source sellin' shop running on top of open source software, preaching the ardline open source mantra.
Unless they want to make money, get something done, or play some games, in which case they're secretly sort of OK with Microsoft.
Now who do I sue for the never-ending wu-ftpd/telnetd/sendmail exploits? I never accepted an EULA, so I feel some cash should be lining my pockets right quickly.
> For example, in the USA, white people used to have the right to own slaves.
Actually, everyone had the right to own slaves. Blacks owned black slaves. Whites owned white slaves. Slavery wasn't abolished until the tensions between north and south flared up; in the absence of those, who knows where we'd be today?
Not a question of race, it's a question of wealth. Rich people owned poor people. Same as it is now, except it was literal then.
We sit on it and pretend it never happened, then wonder why our servers are defaced?
Scenario 4: I'm an admin and I can't bring down my production servers because I'm unsure of how this new, untested patch might affect my systems. Thankfully, eEye or whomever has indicated mitigating factors and released a tool to test my machine for vulnerabilities. I remove the mappings and test my machine, reassuring myself that I'm safe from this.
I can see that you might not like "exploit" (proof of concept?) code, but for some folks (not just crackers), it's very, very valuable.
It'll give you ideas that Martha Stewart could never dream up.
If you're too lazy to watch, here's one tip: bring in a power screwdriver. Taking out a wall or two really opens up the place.
Information may be a BAD THING, but so are the patches: all a clueful SUPERHACKER has to do is sit on their hands and then take a look at the files updated in a patch. Diffing the two of them will reveal what's changed and have them well on their way to recreating the hole that they knew absolutely nothing about. This is, of course, running with the faulty assumption that the person who found and the person/people who fixed the hole are the only ones in the entire world who knew the details of the flaw.
On the other hand, you can distribute information on what you've found after working with the vendor to see a patch get put out, then release details on the flaw so that administrators can patch their systems as well as be on the lookout for people trying to exploit them. Without information, where do IDS makers get their signatures from?
Locks have a similar fatal flaw: they don't work unless you use them. Let's go find some locksmiths to string up for this horrible oversight.
But apparently, you can legislate human emotions. Fear comes to mind here.
Doubly so when you realize that while CPUs have been picking up pace according to the seemingly speedy Moore's Law, graphic accelerators have been picking up pace at Moore's Law cubed.