For a spoofing attempt to work, a surfer would need to have both the attacker's Web site and a trusted Web site open in different windows. A click on a link on the malicious site would then display the attacker's content in a frame on the trusted Web site, Secunia said. The company advised people not to visit trusted and untrusted Web sites at the same time.
Gee, do you think?!
Who are these people surfing in multiple windows and tabs to trusted, sort-of-trusted, and untrusted sites simultaneously while doing critical transactions with personal information and finances? We need to know, we need to identify them, we need to prevent them from polluting the gene pool without having their common sense upgraded to "semi-conscious of surroundings" first.
Actually, I've seen people load their machines with cr*pware on "free" pr0n sites all day long and among the many open pop-up windows they've merely reduced to the taskbar, they open another IE session and start doing online banking. It makes me cringe.
Y'know, this better behave and not require a cooler assembly that could liquefy nitrogen. I want performance on my desk, not a space heater. So I'm a little leery of anything from Intel right at the moment.
What we need are chips that get along with each other in an SMP configuration perfectly, don't cost a lot to make quad boards, and whose boards also don't cost a lot and can be rack mounted. Then we can have a household cluster and remote terminal in a nice cool place like the basement instead of putting hulking tower cases everywhere sucking up cat hair and dust into the cooling system, sitting by the desk waiting for a teen to kick it and fark the hard drive during a write operation, etc.
Instead I'll probably see quad core single processors where each core hyperthreads at some absurd new level, confuses Windows altogether, makes Linux cry and and needs to have a case with a volume greater than one cubic yard to avoid melting it due to proximity to the heat pile.
Never mind that if you have one core dead and the other not, you can't simply replace it by itself. It's like welding your transmission and engine to each other and the frame of your car. Just replace everything at once if there's a problem. Hey, let's stick all the other chipset functions and sell a giant monolithic chip that does everything. If it fails, you can keep pumping power to it, mount it horizontally, and cook tea on it; call it Open Hotplate or Intellicooker.
They need to fix ReiserFS is what they need to do, not keep mutating FAT further. With all their brains, they've gotta have someone who can figure out how to keep it fast and make it bulletproof. Oops, failure. FFR...
Congratulations to the entire Debian Project! Sarge is a Modern Distro Desktop Distro. I wonder what the people who complain that Debian is outdated will say now?
Just wait another two years when others are running things like Fedora Core 7 and Sarge is looking like he needs a furlough.
Encrypted anonymous remailers, Usenet, PGP, and work at a distance in cells. Publish the source and let people download and compile it themselves. No web site to take down, no domain to seize.
DRM must continue to be fought. Given the continuing march of government in lockstep with business with apparently not the slightest nod toward fair use, traditional goals of IP protection as opposed to venal abuse, guerilla tactics can and should be used to fight it. Non-violent non-co-operation has to be the rule of the day here.
...who's going to write the open-source simulator code to model the Fritos crumbs, dirty socks, and body soil and sweat for the sim-bacteria to feed on, and who's going to write the sim anti-bacterial spray to clean it up and... will anyone get the message?
However, that doesn't mean that I'm dead set against this split. I just want to be able to count on Red Hat sticking the best and most stable things that come up in the Fedora world into Red Hat. I also don't want to see a skill forking here where the two diverge so much that they become totally different distros and require doubling my learning load.
I'm happy with FC3 as is, a lot of neat stuff still hasn't been ported from FC2 (./configure, make, make install, lather, rinse, repeat, nope no luck), and now FC4 is on the verge of official dump into the clutches of the users. If this makes things better without making it all less stable and more wonky, then fine.
As an addition, KDE's guts start and run just fine for most KDE based apps while in Gnome and they run their little windows full of goodness just perfectly. I even have various KDE based things start up at logon to Gnome. Not sure what the muss and fuss are other than KDE has superior controls over the desktop and some neat special effects.
Does it matter? I've followed every permutation of every instruction I could find and while it installs just fine by way of yum, it never ever runs.
Same notation for Real Player. In fact, just like with Windows, the latest version installs just fine, but it opens and then immediately dies less than one second later.
Xine on the other hand actually has a better track record at running everything than VLC does. As long as I have Xine and the codec package I'm plenty happy.
Of course, by the time we build any such things...
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...some wiseass physics research team will unveil inertia/gravity control systems capable of turning old oil tankers and freighters into space capable cargo vessels and start hefting whole space stations at once with the greatest of ease.
some of us are busy doing things with our first life, like writing and supporting the code, installing and supporting the networks, that others wasting their first lives in favor of this second life depend on.
If anyone currently embroiled in that space wants to give up some excess first life, feel free to direct it to me. I'd love to take thirty or forty years at a time on and live for a few centuries.
That marked the OpenSSH 1.2.2 release, which was shipped with OpenBSD 2.6 in December 1, 1999.
Further...
With the OpenBSD 2.6 release out of the way, Markus Friedl decided to pursue SSH 2 protocol support. Slaving away for months, he managed to keep OpenSSH slim and lean, while at the same time managing to turn it into a single piece of software that could do both the SSH 1 and SSH 2 protocols. This version, called OpenSSH 2.0, shipped with OpenBSD 2.7 on June 15, 2000.
That would make it over five years old, much older if you count the groundwork laid with OSSH, and 2.0 is coming up on its fifth birthday.
I use ports of it with public key authentication on Windows and Linux. I salute the people who've worked so hard on making and keeping this going. OpenSSH is at the top of my "must have working or it's a no-go" list of tools for remote access and security.
Okay, dripping sarcasm aside, maybe there's a couple/.ers who haven't crawled out from under the glare of their monitors to look around and see what's new, but I am pretty sure most know that these things are out.
Yeah, you could go with a standard CRT, but I moved a 32 inch television the other day and used to roll out 21 inchers to coders at a former job and I really don't need to finally get a hernia. Personally, I'm waiting for laser based projectors to come down in cost.
Did someone say another version of Knoppix came out? Oh, they did. Hmmm...
Difficulty installing? No, not hardly. Difficulty using and making work every day? Yeah, a little. With Knoppix Hacks, a whole lot less.
Debian release slowness? Sure. Well known. My grandchildren will probably be multibooting the stable version two removed from the most recent along with Red Hat and whatever iteration of Windows.
Must have? Only for the Linux evangelists looking to put eye candy out before the Windows world, but they'll still likely not have the computer skills to make it work for them as no, it is not easier than Windows and most of the people the eye candy goes before are barely able to install AOL and think that the Internet can be downloaded.
The people most apt to run with this for any length of time without prior weenieness are those who vividly remember their DOS skills and doing stupid Doom tricks. Unfortunately, those aren't current skills.
Will I grab it and install it? Probably for kicks. Right now, I'm studying for RHCT/RHCE and can't fork my learning energies. Later, I'll probably give it more of a test.
All in all, this goes in my "Definite Maybe for Interest" category.
If they connect and download, does it count because they downloaded or not count because they own or oversee the IP and thus are only receiving their own property? IOW, do they have to catch a third party who doesn't have the right to the IP getting a copy?
This ruling is important in one respect in that they have no proof that the person with it sitting on their server has no right to it and no laws prohibit you from making your property open to theft/downloading. IOW, the *AA have no proof of the server copy being illegitimate and no standing to require the owner of that copy to keep it from being easily accessible. Is their a law against leaving your house wide open with the tacit expectation of someone taking some of your stuff and leaving some of theirs?
The mob wanted MP3s. Back when Napster came out, they were rare as gold.
I don't know how this could be where you were, but I had a lot more MP3s before Napster when MP3 ripping very first began. People were ripping everything they could no matter how bad. I had CD after CD jammed with MP3s from FTP servers hosted on home DSL and cable modem accounts, indexed on well known search engines.
Have we all forgotten when those who were later to become major Internet presences thought nothing of being trackers for MP3 servers as if piracy was not involved?
Cartoon Network's ongoing travesties laughingly called cartoons. Not since Hanna Barberra has anything been designed from day one to be so easily made in Flash that eventually, some web graphics nerd from nowhere could come up with an animated web cartoon in Flash that the ordinary CN viewer would easily mistake for being something that took a crew of six hundred contractors in SE Asia and a thousand yes men and money people in Hollyweird to produce.
First time I saw Samurai Jack all I could think was, "this is Flash, right? What hard times has Mako fallen on to lend his voice to a Flash production?" Flash: it makes two-dimensional as easy as Star Trek writers do.
This is similar to Steven Wright's joke that he tried using his car key to unlock his house and it started up so he took it for a spin. Then he parked it on the highway and told everyone to get the hell off his driveway. Of course, Wright was joking. SCO seemed to think this sort of thing could work which is hugely bizarre.
I once watched a couple geeks, pretty decent looking, going on about how despite being real techno-nerds, they knew martial arts, could wrestle, were physically fit... and then got their asses totally creamed by a slightly not-so-fit non-geek who unlike them had a real instinct and taste for violence first, clear logical thought dead last; this man they'd made the idiot mistake of putting down for not understanding how to do something on DOS.
Their shots were useless, he shrugged them off, tossed them around like dolls, and beat them stupid. They tried to counter his strikes, he didn't bother with dodging theirs, he simply brute psycho'd his way to a quick win. As I recall, they were luck to be barely breathing when he finished.
Humans have a sense of things much like other animals do and they can sense when someone isn't much of a predator and when someone is. It's never the ones you think, but statistically, it's almost never the geeks and nerds who are the dangerous ones. It's the ones the geeks and nerds look down on in their arrogant assumption of superiority based on intelligence. Smarts will only get you so far, your wrestling technique is nice, but someone doing a Hannibal Lecter on you with a steel trash can lid trumps it all.
Oh yeah, the guy went back to the library afterwards, took out a book on DOS, and went back out to the lot not far away. He opened the book and stood over the other two and opened it to the solution he needed and then asked, "you could'na just told me nicely what I wanted to know? F'n jerks."
If we went over to small butane powered gas turbine generators on beltpacks, I'm sure the PSP6 could be power adequately for at least ten or fifteen minutes.
Are they "unlikely to push" or "striking back"? The summary is confusing.
I thought the same thing. If past history is any guide, they'll publicly do the former and quitely behind the scenes do the latter. In the cameras, they will lay lower on this issue. In the offices of senators and representatives in Washington, they will jawbone to get their way.
The fat lady ain't sung yet. The RIAA lawyers threatened her and the MPAA anti-piracy thugs bound and gagged her and tossed her into a closet. We need to hear her belt one out so on goes the fight to make her sing on this issue and lay it to rest.
Actually, the original idea was either nature or G-d, whichever you'd rather believe in. Your own brain rewires itself over the course of its lifetime, tearing down and building new connections, the neurons actually physically moving their connections about slowly. So, as soon as we catch up with that ability, we'll have one massive new technique in our AI arsenal.
Come to think of it, isn't the software on our brains vaporware until experience has written it?
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For a spoofing attempt to work, a surfer would need to have both the attacker's Web site and a trusted Web site open in different windows. A click on a link on the malicious site would then display the attacker's content in a frame on the trusted Web site, Secunia said. The company advised people not to visit trusted and untrusted Web sites at the same time.
Gee, do you think?!
Who are these people surfing in multiple windows and tabs to trusted, sort-of-trusted, and untrusted sites simultaneously while doing critical transactions with personal information and finances? We need to know, we need to identify them, we need to prevent them from polluting the gene pool without having their common sense upgraded to "semi-conscious of surroundings" first.
Actually, I've seen people load their machines with cr*pware on "free" pr0n sites all day long and among the many open pop-up windows they've merely reduced to the taskbar, they open another IE session and start doing online banking. It makes me cringe.
Y'know, this better behave and not require a cooler assembly that could liquefy nitrogen. I want performance on my desk, not a space heater. So I'm a little leery of anything from Intel right at the moment.
What we need are chips that get along with each other in an SMP configuration perfectly, don't cost a lot to make quad boards, and whose boards also don't cost a lot and can be rack mounted. Then we can have a household cluster and remote terminal in a nice cool place like the basement instead of putting hulking tower cases everywhere sucking up cat hair and dust into the cooling system, sitting by the desk waiting for a teen to kick it and fark the hard drive during a write operation, etc.
Instead I'll probably see quad core single processors where each core hyperthreads at some absurd new level, confuses Windows altogether, makes Linux cry and and needs to have a case with a volume greater than one cubic yard to avoid melting it due to proximity to the heat pile.
Never mind that if you have one core dead and the other not, you can't simply replace it by itself. It's like welding your transmission and engine to each other and the frame of your car. Just replace everything at once if there's a problem. Hey, let's stick all the other chipset functions and sell a giant monolithic chip that does everything. If it fails, you can keep pumping power to it, mount it horizontally, and cook tea on it; call it Open Hotplate or Intellicooker.
More wait and see...
They need to fix ReiserFS is what they need to do, not keep mutating FAT further. With all their brains, they've gotta have someone who can figure out how to keep it fast and make it bulletproof. Oops, failure. FFR...
Congratulations to the entire Debian Project! Sarge is a Modern Distro Desktop Distro. I wonder what the people who complain that Debian is outdated will say now?
Just wait another two years when others are running things like Fedora Core 7 and Sarge is looking like he needs a furlough.
Encrypted anonymous remailers, Usenet, PGP, and work at a distance in cells. Publish the source and let people download and compile it themselves. No web site to take down, no domain to seize.
DRM must continue to be fought. Given the continuing march of government in lockstep with business with apparently not the slightest nod toward fair use, traditional goals of IP protection as opposed to venal abuse, guerilla tactics can and should be used to fight it. Non-violent non-co-operation has to be the rule of the day here.
...who's going to write the open-source simulator code to model the Fritos crumbs, dirty socks, and body soil and sweat for the sim-bacteria to feed on, and who's going to write the sim anti-bacterial spray to clean it up and... will anyone get the message?
However, that doesn't mean that I'm dead set against this split. I just want to be able to count on Red Hat sticking the best and most stable things that come up in the Fedora world into Red Hat. I also don't want to see a skill forking here where the two diverge so much that they become totally different distros and require doubling my learning load.
I'm happy with FC3 as is, a lot of neat stuff still hasn't been ported from FC2 (./configure, make, make install, lather, rinse, repeat, nope no luck), and now FC4 is on the verge of official dump into the clutches of the users. If this makes things better without making it all less stable and more wonky, then fine.
As an addition, KDE's guts start and run just fine for most KDE based apps while in Gnome and they run their little windows full of goodness just perfectly. I even have various KDE based things start up at logon to Gnome. Not sure what the muss and fuss are other than KDE has superior controls over the desktop and some neat special effects.
Does it matter? I've followed every permutation of every instruction I could find and while it installs just fine by way of yum, it never ever runs.
Same notation for Real Player. In fact, just like with Windows, the latest version installs just fine, but it opens and then immediately dies less than one second later.
Xine on the other hand actually has a better track record at running everything than VLC does. As long as I have Xine and the codec package I'm plenty happy.
...some wiseass physics research team will unveil inertia/gravity control systems capable of turning old oil tankers and freighters into space capable cargo vessels and start hefting whole space stations at once with the greatest of ease.
some of us are busy doing things with our first life, like writing and supporting the code, installing and supporting the networks, that others wasting their first lives in favor of this second life depend on.
If anyone currently embroiled in that space wants to give up some excess first life, feel free to direct it to me. I'd love to take thirty or forty years at a time on and live for a few centuries.
(insert eye roll here)
TFA is insufficient and history can be found here: http://www.openssh.com/history.html/.
That marked the OpenSSH 1.2.2 release, which was shipped with OpenBSD 2.6 in December 1, 1999.
Further...
With the OpenBSD 2.6 release out of the way, Markus Friedl decided to pursue SSH 2 protocol support. Slaving away for months, he managed to keep OpenSSH slim and lean, while at the same time managing to turn it into a single piece of software that could do both the SSH 1 and SSH 2 protocols. This version, called OpenSSH 2.0, shipped with OpenBSD 2.7 on June 15, 2000.
That would make it over five years old, much older if you count the groundwork laid with OSSH, and 2.0 is coming up on its fifth birthday.
I use ports of it with public key authentication on Windows and Linux. I salute the people who've worked so hard on making and keeping this going. OpenSSH is at the top of my "must have working or it's a no-go" list of tools for remote access and security.
I mean, no one has ever seen these over at http://www.tigerdirect.com/ and no one has ever visite http://www.9xmedia.com/. I am astounded that this stuff exists. Dual monitors. Wow.
/.ers who haven't crawled out from under the glare of their monitors to look around and see what's new, but I am pretty sure most know that these things are out.
Okay, dripping sarcasm aside, maybe there's a couple
Yeah, you could go with a standard CRT, but I moved a 32 inch television the other day and used to roll out 21 inchers to coders at a former job and I really don't need to finally get a hernia. Personally, I'm waiting for laser based projectors to come down in cost.
Did someone say another version of Knoppix came out? Oh, they did. Hmmm...
Difficulty installing? No, not hardly. Difficulty using and making work every day? Yeah, a little. With Knoppix Hacks, a whole lot less.
Debian release slowness? Sure. Well known. My grandchildren will probably be multibooting the stable version two removed from the most recent along with Red Hat and whatever iteration of Windows.
Must have? Only for the Linux evangelists looking to put eye candy out before the Windows world, but they'll still likely not have the computer skills to make it work for them as no, it is not easier than Windows and most of the people the eye candy goes before are barely able to install AOL and think that the Internet can be downloaded.
The people most apt to run with this for any length of time without prior weenieness are those who vividly remember their DOS skills and doing stupid Doom tricks. Unfortunately, those aren't current skills.
Will I grab it and install it? Probably for kicks. Right now, I'm studying for RHCT/RHCE and can't fork my learning energies. Later, I'll probably give it more of a test.
All in all, this goes in my "Definite Maybe for Interest" category.
If they connect and download, does it count because they downloaded or not count because they own or oversee the IP and thus are only receiving their own property? IOW, do they have to catch a third party who doesn't have the right to the IP getting a copy?
This ruling is important in one respect in that they have no proof that the person with it sitting on their server has no right to it and no laws prohibit you from making your property open to theft/downloading. IOW, the *AA have no proof of the server copy being illegitimate and no standing to require the owner of that copy to keep it from being easily accessible. Is their a law against leaving your house wide open with the tacit expectation of someone taking some of your stuff and leaving some of theirs?
Will they also clone a few hundred Daryl Hannah's to go along with these bears if they manage to recreate them?
The mob wanted MP3s. Back when Napster came out, they were rare as gold.
I don't know how this could be where you were, but I had a lot more MP3s before Napster when MP3 ripping very first began. People were ripping everything they could no matter how bad. I had CD after CD jammed with MP3s from FTP servers hosted on home DSL and cable modem accounts, indexed on well known search engines.
Have we all forgotten when those who were later to become major Internet presences thought nothing of being trackers for MP3 servers as if piracy was not involved?
Cartoon Network's ongoing travesties laughingly called cartoons. Not since Hanna Barberra has anything been designed from day one to be so easily made in Flash that eventually, some web graphics nerd from nowhere could come up with an animated web cartoon in Flash that the ordinary CN viewer would easily mistake for being something that took a crew of six hundred contractors in SE Asia and a thousand yes men and money people in Hollyweird to produce.
First time I saw Samurai Jack all I could think was, "this is Flash, right? What hard times has Mako fallen on to lend his voice to a Flash production?" Flash: it makes two-dimensional as easy as Star Trek writers do.
What is the relative heat output? Warms water, boils water? Fries eggs? Melts rings from Mordor? Given Intel, this is a definite must-know.
This is similar to Steven Wright's joke that he tried using his car key to unlock his house and it started up so he took it for a spin. Then he parked it on the highway and told everyone to get the hell off his driveway. Of course, Wright was joking. SCO seemed to think this sort of thing could work which is hugely bizarre.
I once watched a couple geeks, pretty decent looking, going on about how despite being real techno-nerds, they knew martial arts, could wrestle, were physically fit... and then got their asses totally creamed by a slightly not-so-fit non-geek who unlike them had a real instinct and taste for violence first, clear logical thought dead last; this man they'd made the idiot mistake of putting down for not understanding how to do something on DOS.
Their shots were useless, he shrugged them off, tossed them around like dolls, and beat them stupid. They tried to counter his strikes, he didn't bother with dodging theirs, he simply brute psycho'd his way to a quick win. As I recall, they were luck to be barely breathing when he finished.
Humans have a sense of things much like other animals do and they can sense when someone isn't much of a predator and when someone is. It's never the ones you think, but statistically, it's almost never the geeks and nerds who are the dangerous ones. It's the ones the geeks and nerds look down on in their arrogant assumption of superiority based on intelligence. Smarts will only get you so far, your wrestling technique is nice, but someone doing a Hannibal Lecter on you with a steel trash can lid trumps it all.
Oh yeah, the guy went back to the library afterwards, took out a book on DOS, and went back out to the lot not far away. He opened the book and stood over the other two and opened it to the solution he needed and then asked, "you could'na just told me nicely what I wanted to know? F'n jerks."
If we went over to small butane powered gas turbine generators on beltpacks, I'm sure the PSP6 could be power adequately for at least ten or fifteen minutes.
And after that it will simply say Borg Node # and be followed by an NSAP address in binary...
Are they "unlikely to push" or "striking back"? The summary is confusing.
I thought the same thing. If past history is any guide, they'll publicly do the former and quitely behind the scenes do the latter. In the cameras, they will lay lower on this issue. In the offices of senators and representatives in Washington, they will jawbone to get their way.
The fat lady ain't sung yet. The RIAA lawyers threatened her and the MPAA anti-piracy thugs bound and gagged her and tossed her into a closet. We need to hear her belt one out so on goes the fight to make her sing on this issue and lay it to rest.
Actually, the original idea was either nature or G-d, whichever you'd rather believe in. Your own brain rewires itself over the course of its lifetime, tearing down and building new connections, the neurons actually physically moving their connections about slowly. So, as soon as we catch up with that ability, we'll have one massive new technique in our AI arsenal.
Come to think of it, isn't the software on our brains vaporware until experience has written it?