Well, from my experience, a small company doesn't like spending its already pretty restricted resources on teens wanting work experience. This is probably a pretty sizable company, and any company interested in lasting more than a few months in the technological climate of today is probably going to hire both a security 'guy' of some description, and a janitor, so he doesn't have to waste his time.
So I guess what I'm saying is, they can't have come off too badly (at least not catastrophically), at the end of the day. However, the kid caught doing the mail bomb should definitely have some kind of penalty placed on him.
That's funny, I could have sworn there was something called chkrootkit that had its last update 3 days ago, and is shipped with every Linux distro that has ViM (that is, all the ones I know).
As is to be expected with Slashdot, the article only discusses the current situation in the USA. Can anyone shed some light on whether this is being reflected elsewhere in the world?
What's important to realise is that this power isn't just being consumed by servers doing the flops, but (as anyone living in Las Vegas will well know) it's cooling that's soaking up all the juice. The article's probably right about the cost soaring in the near future, but mainly because cooling systems will rely ever more heavily on liquid and active cooling measures.
On an unrelated note, I wonder if anyone (like our good friends Microsoft) will do some studies into which OS will consume the most energy? Would it be Windows, turning up the thermostat with it's multiple unused processes, or Linux, it's kernel threading model making it the most efficient multi-purpose space-heater?
"In both Darwin's and Einstein's correspondence and today's email we find that most responses take short time, but sometimes the responses take a very long time, Oliveira told LiveScience. "In other words, for both email and mail communication, the response times exist in a very broad range of values, and there is no typical response time for which we could say that all response times are around (and close to) that value."
Well, well. This really is specific stuff. I mean, usually these such stories, you get a fake statisic or two thrown in, but this is pushing it.
The upshot: Einstein and Darwin exhibited a "fundamental pattern of human dynamics" that plays out every morning when you check your inbox.
Oh, I suppose Einstien was 'just like me(tm)'? Who really gets 16,500 legitimate emails, even in their entire lives? Let alone sends 14,500?
I don't reckon this should really go into the science category.
Hell, if you were really serious about it (and nobody read your expense reports) you could just go to somewhere like Voodoo and get yourself a carbon fibre model costing anywhere from $2500 to about $7500. Which I understand is small money to the bigger suits.
Oh my god. This is mad. Surely nobody can be this useless. A 'hardware' man? That thinks you need some extreme 'master programming' skills to run x11?
I mean, this is just unreal (and not the good kind made by Epic Games). I was 13 when I first installed my first Fedora Core 1, and even then I realised it was free as in beer, not some 'pirate' version I acquired with my 1337 H4><0r skills.
Anyway, I'd just like to suggest that this blog isn't very good in demonstrating how Linux is being suppressed by the big boys - this guy just isn't smart enough to count as an idiot. Unless I've been duped to all hell here.
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Personally, I found both Emacs and ViM unhelpful. They had a lot of 'features' and 'shortcuts' - and frankly, I have better things to do with my time (such writing code and other such activities) than to spend God knows how long to add myself to the 1% bracket using ViM (according to whatsisname back there). That's why I just stuck to the default text editor (which happened to be gedit, since my first Linux experience was Fedora avec Gnome), which automatically picked up on which language I was coding in and highlighted variables, functions and so on, and didn't ask for a lot of screwing around with the minibuffer when I tried to mess with the text colour or background.
So basically, I'd rather be doing something else than argue or read endless docs and tutorials.
I make about $25/hour. Now, if I really want equipment X, and it's on eBay for $50, what makes more sense? Spend 6 hours farming/questing for it, or put another two hours in at the office and call it even?
I think most people would just go and buy another game with an extra $50 in their pocket.
nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws....
A child molester has been granted the benefit of due process. Due process has found him guilty, and has therefore restricted his rights for the safety of society. This is within the constraints of the stated amendment.
This vunerability is yet another heap based attack. Another attack that could have been avoided if people compiled the programs with the various heap/stack protection switchs. Please don't bitch about how it makes pointer arithmetic too slow. It just isn't true, what you should be doing is compiling the entire program with the switch then if it turns out to be too slow, factor out the code in to a seperate library and compile it without the switch. You can then do focused code reviews on this unsafe code to hunt out overflows/heap.
Ok, for the security-minded and technically able like you or me, that might not sound like such a big deal. Sure, change a compilation option here or there. But to the regular user, or the one not installing the software, which I suppose at a rough guess would make up around 97% at least of the user demographic (hey, feel free to correct me there, I don't really know), you may as well tell them to eat a skipload of tutti-frutti ice-cream - which won't work because they probably don't have the time, patience, skill, or stomach to get the task done in that situation. And to be honest, without at least a brief tutorial, I wouldn't know how to do what you're suggesting either.
So essentially, what you're suggesting isn't really going to help, unless it happens automatically at some point, or it's part of the default install (which, in essence, makes it a packaged work-around - not a terribly good thing to make part of an update).
To get security you have to spend a metric-fuckton of CPU cycles. Fact. [...] Remember, "Security costs CPU cycles"
Then again, so does cracking. So come to think of it, if we just used lots of CPU cycles to safeguard us, instead of well-written, thouroughly checked code, then won't the whole battle turn into some big CPU cycle arms race? I realise that what you're arguing here is that these little compilation quirks and bit tweaks should only be used as extra protection, and to throw a spanner into the intruder's works, but in the end, all the aces in the world up your sleeve isn't going to count for one line of well-thought out code.
Well thanks a bunch, captian obvious. P2P software encourages illegal filesharing? I would never have guessed it! Next thing you'll be telling me that rampant unprotected sex causes you to catch unpleasant diseases!
Slashdot: Hey, guess what! The RIAA hates P2P! Slashdotter #1: It must be because the RIAA is a bunch of communists! Let's give them a witty nickname, like... uhh... 'RIAAH! We're communists!' Slashdotter #2: Yuck. You should go to hell and die. Slashdotter #3: GNAA FROST PIST Slashdotter #4: [Highly insightful and well-thought out comment revealing the extent of the hypocrisy and corruption within the RIAA, ending unsurprisingly with a [NO CARRIER]] Slashdotter #5: You must be new here Slashdotter #6: I like Bittorrent Slashdotter #7: THERE'S BUTTER ON MY FACE
The comments thenceforth start to degrade from the pristine quality I am used to reading.
Experts have also mentioned the possibility of terrorists piggybacking these events for their own PR, though it's coincedence with the opening of the G8 summit does not necessarily mean it is extremist anti-globalisationists. Obviously, security has been reduced in London due to their drafting to Gleneagles.
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That's assuming the accused ever respected their victims in the first place.
Well, chances are, that's what's going to happen, but there's always hope.
So I guess what I'm saying is, they can't have come off too badly (at least not catastrophically), at the end of the day. However, the kid caught doing the mail bomb should definitely have some kind of penalty placed on him.
That's funny, I could have sworn there was something called chkrootkit that had its last update 3 days ago, and is shipped with every Linux distro that has ViM (that is, all the ones I know).
What's important to realise is that this power isn't just being consumed by servers doing the flops, but (as anyone living in Las Vegas will well know) it's cooling that's soaking up all the juice. The article's probably right about the cost soaring in the near future, but mainly because cooling systems will rely ever more heavily on liquid and active cooling measures.
On an unrelated note, I wonder if anyone (like our good friends Microsoft) will do some studies into which OS will consume the most energy? Would it be Windows, turning up the thermostat with it's multiple unused processes, or Linux, it's kernel threading model making it the most efficient multi-purpose space-heater?
Well, well. This really is specific stuff. I mean, usually these such stories, you get a fake statisic or two thrown in, but this is pushing it.
The upshot: Einstein and Darwin exhibited a "fundamental pattern of human dynamics" that plays out every morning when you check your inbox.
Oh, I suppose Einstien was 'just like me(tm)'? Who really gets 16,500 legitimate emails, even in their entire lives? Let alone sends 14,500?
I don't reckon this should really go into the science category.
Good point, but what would you be running on those Minis that would be worth the power anyway? :)
And prestigious has two 'i's, luckily.
Hell, if you were really serious about it (and nobody read your expense reports) you could just go to somewhere like Voodoo and get yourself a carbon fibre model costing anywhere from $2500 to about $7500. Which I understand is small money to the bigger suits.
I mean, this is just unreal (and not the good kind made by Epic Games). I was 13 when I first installed my first Fedora Core 1, and even then I realised it was free as in beer, not some 'pirate' version I acquired with my 1337 H4><0r skills.
Anyway, I'd just like to suggest that this blog isn't very good in demonstrating how Linux is being suppressed by the big boys - this guy just isn't smart enough to count as an idiot. Unless I've been duped to all hell here.
Personally, I found both Emacs and ViM unhelpful. They had a lot of 'features' and 'shortcuts' - and frankly, I have better things to do with my time (such writing code and other such activities) than to spend God knows how long to add myself to the 1% bracket using ViM (according to whatsisname back there). That's why I just stuck to the default text editor (which happened to be gedit, since my first Linux experience was Fedora avec Gnome), which automatically picked up on which language I was coding in and highlighted variables, functions and so on, and didn't ask for a lot of screwing around with the minibuffer when I tried to mess with the text colour or background. So basically, I'd rather be doing something else than argue or read endless docs and tutorials.
Holy Jesus! Last time I saw something as ugly as that it came out of Frontpage Express.
I think that should be, "Yes, like the 82-year old guy shouting "Nonsense!"".
I think most people would just go and buy another game with an extra $50 in their pocket.
nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. ...
A child molester has been granted the benefit of due process. Due process has found him guilty, and has therefore restricted his rights for the safety of society. This is within the constraints of the stated amendment.
What he means is that it is not usually considered socially unacceptable to visit lots of coffee houses, but it is to visit lots of chatrooms.
I suppose it would have been more understandable if he had said 'coffee house after coffee house after coffee house'.
Oh my goodness! He's stolen some AOL source code!
Or is it a transcript of the meeting?
You have a point, but then again, not all Slashdotters have iPods.
And now that's dead. Is there anywhere else to get this precious information?
This vunerability is yet another heap based attack. Another attack that could have been avoided if people compiled the programs with the various heap/stack protection switchs. Please don't bitch about how it makes pointer arithmetic too slow. It just isn't true, what you should be doing is compiling the entire program with the switch then if it turns out to be too slow, factor out the code in to a seperate library and compile it without the switch. You can then do focused code reviews on this unsafe code to hunt out overflows/heap.
Ok, for the security-minded and technically able like you or me, that might not sound like such a big deal. Sure, change a compilation option here or there. But to the regular user, or the one not installing the software, which I suppose at a rough guess would make up around 97% at least of the user demographic (hey, feel free to correct me there, I don't really know), you may as well tell them to eat a skipload of tutti-frutti ice-cream - which won't work because they probably don't have the time, patience, skill, or stomach to get the task done in that situation. And to be honest, without at least a brief tutorial, I wouldn't know how to do what you're suggesting either.
So essentially, what you're suggesting isn't really going to help, unless it happens automatically at some point, or it's part of the default install (which, in essence, makes it a packaged work-around - not a terribly good thing to make part of an update).
To get security you have to spend a metric-fuckton of CPU cycles. Fact. [...] Remember, "Security costs CPU cycles"
Then again, so does cracking. So come to think of it, if we just used lots of CPU cycles to safeguard us, instead of well-written, thouroughly checked code, then won't the whole battle turn into some big CPU cycle arms race? I realise that what you're arguing here is that these little compilation quirks and bit tweaks should only be used as extra protection, and to throw a spanner into the intruder's works, but in the end, all the aces in the world up your sleeve isn't going to count for one line of well-thought out code.
...will they run Linux? (Oh, alright, GNU/Linux, you uptight bastards)
Well thanks a bunch, captian obvious. P2P software encourages illegal filesharing? I would never have guessed it! Next thing you'll be telling me that rampant unprotected sex causes you to catch unpleasant diseases!
Slashdot: Hey, guess what! The RIAA hates P2P!
Slashdotter #1: It must be because the RIAA is a bunch of communists! Let's give them a witty nickname, like... uhh... 'RIAAH! We're communists!'
Slashdotter #2: Yuck. You should go to hell and die.
Slashdotter #3: GNAA FROST PIST
Slashdotter #4: [Highly insightful and well-thought out comment revealing the extent of the hypocrisy and corruption within the RIAA, ending unsurprisingly with a [NO CARRIER]]
Slashdotter #5: You must be new here
Slashdotter #6: I like Bittorrent
Slashdotter #7: THERE'S BUTTER ON MY FACE
The comments thenceforth start to degrade from the pristine quality I am used to reading.
YAHARRR
As far as I know, South Kensington Station is fine.
Experts have also mentioned the possibility of terrorists piggybacking these events for their own PR, though it's coincedence with the opening of the G8 summit does not necessarily mean it is extremist anti-globalisationists. Obviously, security has been reduced in London due to their drafting to Gleneagles.