Theoretical security aside, the practical security of macs is obviously higher. There aren't as many people who know how to crack macintosh boxes and there aren't as many who write viruses for them. If the system itself is more secure is really an academic question - in practice, they are more secure.
that's an odd list of countries... or rather, one of the countries on the list is odd.
India, Israel, Korea, Russia, Turkey
alright, all countries that have had problems with terrorism in recent years (Israel, Russa, India, Turkey) or a country that's just nuts (I'm assuming Korea = N. Korea).
But what the hell does Finland want with land mines?
i *know* i'll get modded down for this, but it's my opinion and i'll stand behind it anyway... seems to be the standard disclaimer for people who are posting something that is indeed offtopic or flamebait or trolling or whatever - but if you put that at the top of your post, you're pretty much protected from being modded down... you may even be modded up! Am I the only person who has noticed this?
2. Ending - how can the future effect the past? As I understand it the majority of the movie takes place in the 27th century (or something like that). So at the end when he goes back to the 21st century how can there be a memorial to General Thade when he doesn't exist until the 27th century?
I believe the idea is that after Wahlberg leaves the planet, Thade finds a way to escape, and eventually regains power among the apes and conqueors the humans... And he (somehow) uses the ship's technology (and the gun) to set the apes along a line of technological and cultural development that is exactly parallel to humans'.
I don't think the movie is that bad. If you go to every movie expecting to see something mind-shatteringly good, then you'll be dissapointed alot. It is worth keeping in mind that I don't have the baggage that goes along with the *original* planet of the apes, but I think the show was pretty good... It didn't have any major plot holes. It's feasable that in the future computers are developed that could last thousands of years... why not? Also, as for the horses... parallel evolution? It all depends on wether you're looking for reasons the movie is bad or you're looking for (semi)-believable explainations. It is sci-fi.
Yes, the Internet is in a dire state of vulnerability, and nerd parroting "just update BIND" isn't going to help a thing. DDoS attacks against major web sites, stolen credit cards, hijacked identities - tech news reads like devil's brew of disaster. People need to wake up and face the hard truth.
First off - don't be so sensationalistic. You're being as bad as the news that "reads like devil's brew" - everybody on the internet is NOT going to get broken into, everybody's identity isn't going to get stolen, and satan is not going to come to earth. The news sounds like a devil's brew of disaster because the news media only reports the bad things when it comes to security - "major corporation not hacked into" doesn't make very good headlines. Just because some holes pop up here and there doesn't mean we need to have the government pop in and take it all back - it just means we need to work on it a little.
The private sector has failed. It was supposed to be a grand experiment in freedom, as academia and the business world allied apart from government control. It was supposed to be an electronic utopia. Instead, it a war zone rife with terrorism.
Maybe in your mind. To me, the internet is both a place to be and a tool - nothing more, nothing less. I don't think anyone ever intended it to be an "electronic utopia" - and I certianly don't think it is a "war zone rife with terrorisim." The internet isn't a war zone until I'm afraid to log onto IRC or AIM for fear of some marauding bad guy getting my IP, finding out where I live, and murdering me in my sleep. And I think we're pretty far off from that.
The governments of the world need to take the Internet back, at least until it can be secured. Desperate times demand desperate measures, and if the Internet doesn't give up freedom for a little while, it will be utterly destroyed.
Bzzzzt. Wrong. First, I agree with Ben Franklin in that anyone who gives up freedom for a little temporary saftey deserves neither. Second, Bueracracy is NOT the way to fix a problem - It's even more ineffecient than the private sector... If the government had control over the internet, it would be quite a censored, wiretapped shithole, instead of the neutral ground that it is today. I don't think it would even be possible for the government to *get* control of the internet... and I *certianly* don't think it will be destroyed... not today, not tomorrow, not ever.
Old McDonald had a farm, EIEIO
And on his farm he had a crypto, EIEIO
With a cipher cipher here and a cipher cipher there
Here a cipher, there a cipher, everywhere a cipher cipher
Old McDonald had a farm, EIEIO
Seriously though, Crypto is everywhere these days, and it's use proliferates more as internet use rises. The article mentions companies being reluctant to implement the fix because of computational intensity - that's silly, the only way you are going to secure *anything* is by using good crypto, and good crypto is inherently computationally intensive. It's also absurd to keep using an insecure method of doing anything beacuse the fix takes too much CPU time to implement - if what you are doing is insecure, STOP, before someone gets compromised, and fix it... of course, it's easy for me to say this, because i'm not in their situation.
Programmers might not get the satisfaction of building something useful and might not experience the artistic delight of design, but we at least don't have to work as hard. And when it comes to the bottom line, that's all that counts.
What are you talking about? Programming (for me, anyway) is ALL about the satisfaction from building something useful and the artistic delight of design - in programming, you build something from quite literally nothing - you create order from chaos. Programming is speech, but it's much more than that - to be a good programmer, you have to think in abstract ways and be able to think truly dynamically - static thinkers have no places in the art of programming. Anyone who says they are programming for *just* money is NOT an artist. Good code is truly poetry, and good programmers are truly artists.
If I was benefitting from something horrendous that people had done before I was born in my country, then i'd do what *I* could to set it right - because in that case, it wouldn't be what my ancestors had done, it would be what they had done, and how it was affecting me and others now. I also realize it's easy for me to say that because i'm not in that situation and if I was my rationialization might be quite different. Also, if we behave like monsters, we are directly responsible for OUR actions - that's one of the points I was trying to make, we shouldn't take time being responsible for the actions of others, when it takes all the time we have to be responsible for ourselves.
Maybe you shouldn't speak as though you're holding an individual responsible for their country - If i was in charge, the country i live in (America) would be *vastly* different - but i'm not, and as such, I can't be held accountable for the actions of America or other Americans, and the same stands to reason for any citizen of any country that is not the absolute dictator of their country.
Ok Americans, you don't have anyone destroying the first amendment? Why Stalin and first amendment here? When did Stalin stepped on first amendment? When do you stop thinking that the world starts in New England and ends in Alaska?
Alright, first off - Stalin abridged the personal rights of the Russians just as most dictators do. He's not especially known for it, it just comes with the job - so he may not be the best example, but he's certianly *a* valid example. Second, why don't you stop thinking that all Americans are ignorant? And stop taking the words of one American to represent them all?
Stalin was a butcher. But he was a Soviet butcher who lead Soviet Union and not America. And there were no First or Last Amendments of the likes. Pick up you OWN people for that and point out and leave Stalin alone. If anyone has anything to say about Stalin then it is Germans, Poles, Czecks, Slovaks, Yougoslavians, Chinese, Koreans, Georgians, Azeris, Tatarians, Russians and a several other tens of nations that lived in the grip of the Butcher of Nations. But you should THANK GOD that there was Stalin as he saved the world and YOU from being swallowed by the Nazi machinery. And NEVER DARE to forget about that!
Ahh. So being a citizen of America disqualifies me as a citizen of the world? There are not many of "our OWN" people that compare to Stalin - the system doesn't allow for it, and we haven't had as much time. Also - I could think god for "Stalin saving the world." OR I could thank god for Turing and the COLOSSUS, or I could thank god that the Nazis didn't make more U-boats, or I could thank god they used the enigma insecurely, or I could thank god for any of the thousands of factors that contributed to the winning of the war - Saying that one factor out of thousands saved the world is showing a very narrow view of the situation.
Pick up you McCarthy's, Hoover's, Nixon's for that First Amendment of yours... And never forget History. And if you have any troubles about this then go and pick some old films of the 50's and look at your First Amendment and how it worked. Btw, on Slashdot someone, not long ago, published a link to such type of archive. I took some of those films and OH MY. How you loved Uncle Joe in the 40's... And how you HATED him and Russia in the 50's. You hated SO MUCH that you could not say a correct thing about Russia's History or say Lenin's true name...
Whatever. I'm tired of typing, and I can't be held accountable for what people did in my country before I was born.
And another thing, you and I know as much what a cow is like from the inside as we do about an ear of corn
last time i checked, we know plenty about the inside of a cow - we know they have brains and central nervous systems, so we can guess they feel things in a way comparable to ours - and they can feel pain. Corn, on the other hand, does not have a central nervous system. Corn doesn't have complex biological structures either, and as such, probably "feels" it's environment MUCH more simply than a cow.
I am a vegetarian myself, and my general guidline is: If it has a nervous system, i don't eat it.
(yes i realize this does not include *all* animals - technically spounges are animals without nervous systems, but would you want to eat a spounge? ick.)
PS: as to vegetarians being scrawny, i'm 6'3" and weigh 190 pounds, and am far from scrawny
At the high school i go to (Classen SAS in Oklahoma City) we have a web filter on all of the speed demon 486 internet terminals at our school, it is called WebSense, and like many others, it has a list of "bad" sites that you are not allowed to go to. I tested this web filter out, and several cracker pages were blocked, alright, no problem there. But bugtraq and rootshell were also blocked, and that annoyed me just a little. But what really ticked me off (and suprised the heck out of) me was that norml.org and aclu.org were blocked! NORML (national orginization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) and the ACLU (Americal Civil Liberties Union) were blocked! god forbid that some unsuspecting high-schooler wander into one of those pages and start thinking for himself!
Of course, you can always take the conventional "My OS is better than yours and that makes me god" approach, be a raging bitch to newbies, and be the most self righteous and arrogant person in the world, as a lot of experienced linux users are... (sorry i get this way from hanging around IRC #Linux channels too much). But i prefer to answer newbie questions as well as i can, no matter how stupid the questions sound, because not everyone knows everything about all the things they use. Im sure not all of you know how to take your dryer apart and put it back together, or your car, or your house. So i beg you, do not be mean to newbies, it casts a bad image on Linux and the Linux community in general.
Yes. Linux torvalds did name it after himself. The problem lies in your english pronunciation of his name. Linus is finnish. Finnish pronunciation differs from english pronunciation; Linus prononuces his name "lihn-us"
Wow, i have never seen so many slashdot readers respond in such volume to a story so quickly. This poses interesting implications. If microsoft is convicted of using its monopoly to gain another , or to keep the existing one, will it be split up as was done with Ma bell a while back? I think it would be interesting to see microsoft split up into 2 or more divisions, nameley an OS division, and a software division. that would be an interesting turn of events.
Actually, it is how open source is. You think linux was designed by an R&D team? Open source works because the pepole who write for it are, for the most part, devoted hackers who like coding and making things work.
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Theoretical security aside, the practical security of macs is obviously higher. There aren't as many people who know how to crack macintosh boxes and there aren't as many who write viruses for them. If the system itself is more secure is really an academic question - in practice, they are more secure.
You forgot about the part where, instead of going back to the shire and enjoying drinks together, they all get arrested at the end.
that's an odd list of countries... or rather, one of the countries on the list is odd.
India, Israel, Korea, Russia, Turkey
alright, all countries that have had problems with terrorism in recent years (Israel, Russa, India, Turkey) or a country that's just nuts (I'm assuming Korea = N. Korea).
But what the hell does Finland want with land mines?
i *know* i'll get modded down for this, but it's my opinion and i'll stand behind it anyway...
seems to be the standard disclaimer for people who are posting something that is indeed offtopic or flamebait or trolling or whatever - but if you put that at the top of your post, you're pretty much protected from being modded down... you may even be modded up! Am I the only person who has noticed this?
2. Ending - how can the future effect the past? As I understand it the majority of the movie takes place in the 27th century (or something like that). So at the end when he goes back to the 21st century how can there be a memorial to General Thade when he doesn't exist until the 27th century?
I believe the idea is that after Wahlberg leaves the planet, Thade finds a way to escape, and eventually regains power among the apes and conqueors the humans... And he (somehow) uses the ship's technology (and the gun) to set the apes along a line of technological and cultural development that is exactly parallel to humans'.
I don't think the movie is that bad. If you go to every movie expecting to see something mind-shatteringly good, then you'll be dissapointed alot. It is worth keeping in mind that I don't have the baggage that goes along with the *original* planet of the apes, but I think the show was pretty good... It didn't have any major plot holes. It's feasable that in the future computers are developed that could last thousands of years... why not? Also, as for the horses... parallel evolution? It all depends on wether you're looking for reasons the movie is bad or you're looking for (semi)-believable explainations. It is sci-fi.
lol... that reminds me of the simpsons episode where the teachers go on strike... "Lisa! In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
heh.
It was pretty obvious that this guy *was* a troll... I just needed something to do.
Yes, the Internet is in a dire state of vulnerability, and nerd parroting "just update BIND" isn't going to help a thing. DDoS attacks against major web sites, stolen credit cards, hijacked identities - tech news reads like devil's brew of disaster. People need to wake up and face the hard truth.
First off - don't be so sensationalistic. You're being as bad as the news that "reads like devil's brew" - everybody on the internet is NOT going to get broken into, everybody's identity isn't going to get stolen, and satan is not going to come to earth. The news sounds like a devil's brew of disaster because the news media only reports the bad things when it comes to security - "major corporation not hacked into" doesn't make very good headlines. Just because some holes pop up here and there doesn't mean we need to have the government pop in and take it all back - it just means we need to work on it a little.
The private sector has failed. It was supposed to be a grand experiment in freedom, as academia and the business world allied apart from government control. It was supposed to be an electronic utopia. Instead, it a war zone rife with terrorism.
Maybe in your mind. To me, the internet is both a place to be and a tool - nothing more, nothing less. I don't think anyone ever intended it to be an "electronic utopia" - and I certianly don't think it is a "war zone rife with terrorisim." The internet isn't a war zone until I'm afraid to log onto IRC or AIM for fear of some marauding bad guy getting my IP, finding out where I live, and murdering me in my sleep. And I think we're pretty far off from that.
The governments of the world need to take the Internet back, at least until it can be secured. Desperate times demand desperate measures, and if the Internet doesn't give up freedom for a little while, it will be utterly destroyed.
Bzzzzt. Wrong. First, I agree with Ben Franklin in that anyone who gives up freedom for a little temporary saftey deserves neither. Second, Bueracracy is NOT the way to fix a problem - It's even more ineffecient than the private sector... If the government had control over the internet, it would be quite a censored, wiretapped shithole, instead of the neutral ground that it is today. I don't think it would even be possible for the government to *get* control of the internet... and I *certianly* don't think it will be destroyed... not today, not tomorrow, not ever.
Old McDonald had a farm, EIEIO
And on his farm he had a crypto, EIEIO
With a cipher cipher here and a cipher cipher there
Here a cipher, there a cipher, everywhere a cipher cipher
Old McDonald had a farm, EIEIO
Seriously though, Crypto is everywhere these days, and it's use proliferates more as internet use rises. The article mentions companies being reluctant to implement the fix because of computational intensity - that's silly, the only way you are going to secure *anything* is by using good crypto, and good crypto is inherently computationally intensive. It's also absurd to keep using an insecure method of doing anything beacuse the fix takes too much CPU time to implement - if what you are doing is insecure, STOP, before someone gets compromised, and fix it... of course, it's easy for me to say this, because i'm not in their situation.
Wouldn't it be nasa.gov?
(nice try)
Programmers might not get the satisfaction of building something useful and might not experience the artistic delight of design, but we at least don't have to work as hard. And when it comes to the bottom line, that's all that counts.
What are you talking about? Programming (for me, anyway) is ALL about the satisfaction from building something useful and the artistic delight of design - in programming, you build something from quite literally nothing - you create order from chaos. Programming is speech, but it's much more than that - to be a good programmer, you have to think in abstract ways and be able to think truly dynamically - static thinkers have no places in the art of programming. Anyone who says they are programming for *just* money is NOT an artist. Good code is truly poetry, and good programmers are truly artists.
If I was benefitting from something horrendous that people had done before I was born in my country, then i'd do what *I* could to set it right - because in that case, it wouldn't be what my ancestors had done, it would be what they had done, and how it was affecting me and others now. I also realize it's easy for me to say that because i'm not in that situation and if I was my rationialization might be quite different. Also, if we behave like monsters, we are directly responsible for OUR actions - that's one of the points I was trying to make, we shouldn't take time being responsible for the actions of others, when it takes all the time we have to be responsible for ourselves.
Maybe you shouldn't speak as though you're holding an individual responsible for their country - If i was in charge, the country i live in (America) would be *vastly* different - but i'm not, and as such, I can't be held accountable for the actions of America or other Americans, and the same stands to reason for any citizen of any country that is not the absolute dictator of their country.
Ok Americans, you don't have anyone destroying the first amendment? Why Stalin and first amendment here? When did Stalin stepped on first amendment? When do you stop thinking that the world starts in New England and ends in Alaska?
Alright, first off - Stalin abridged the personal rights of the Russians just as most dictators do. He's not especially known for it, it just comes with the job - so he may not be the best example, but he's certianly *a* valid example. Second, why don't you stop thinking that all Americans are ignorant? And stop taking the words of one American to represent them all?
Stalin was a butcher. But he was a Soviet butcher who lead Soviet Union and not America. And there were no First or Last Amendments of the likes. Pick up you OWN people for that and point out and leave Stalin alone. If anyone has anything to say about Stalin then it is Germans, Poles, Czecks, Slovaks, Yougoslavians, Chinese, Koreans, Georgians, Azeris, Tatarians, Russians and a several other tens of nations that lived in the grip of the Butcher of Nations. But you should THANK GOD that there was Stalin as he saved the world and YOU from being swallowed by the Nazi machinery. And NEVER DARE to forget about that!
Ahh. So being a citizen of America disqualifies me as a citizen of the world? There are not many of "our OWN" people that compare to Stalin - the system doesn't allow for it, and we haven't had as much time. Also - I could think god for "Stalin saving the world." OR I could thank god for Turing and the COLOSSUS, or I could thank god that the Nazis didn't make more U-boats, or I could thank god they used the enigma insecurely, or I could thank god for any of the thousands of factors that contributed to the winning of the war - Saying that one factor out of thousands saved the world is showing a very narrow view of the situation.
Pick up you McCarthy's, Hoover's, Nixon's for that First Amendment of yours... And never forget History. And if you have any troubles about this then go and pick some old films of the 50's and look at your First Amendment and how it worked. Btw, on Slashdot someone, not long ago, published a link to such type of archive. I took some of those films and OH MY. How you loved Uncle Joe in the 40's... And how you HATED him and Russia in the 50's. You hated SO MUCH that you could not say a correct thing about Russia's History or say Lenin's true name...
Whatever. I'm tired of typing, and I can't be held accountable for what people did in my country before I was born.
And another thing, you and I know as much what a cow is like from the inside as we do about an ear of corn
last time i checked, we know plenty about the inside of a cow - we know they have brains and central nervous systems, so we can guess they feel things in a way comparable to ours - and they can feel pain. Corn, on the other hand, does not have a central nervous system. Corn doesn't have complex biological structures either, and as such, probably "feels" it's environment MUCH more simply than a cow.
I am a vegetarian myself, and my general guidline is: If it has a nervous system, i don't eat it.
(yes i realize this does not include *all* animals - technically spounges are animals without nervous systems, but would you want to eat a spounge? ick.)
PS: as to vegetarians being scrawny, i'm 6'3" and weigh 190 pounds, and am far from scrawny
At the high school i go to (Classen SAS in Oklahoma City) we have a web filter on all of the speed demon 486 internet terminals at our school, it is called WebSense, and like many others, it has a list of "bad" sites that you are not allowed to go to. I tested this web filter out, and several cracker pages were blocked, alright, no problem there. But bugtraq and rootshell were also blocked, and that annoyed me just a little. But what really ticked me off (and suprised the heck out of) me was that norml.org and aclu.org were blocked! NORML (national orginization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) and the ACLU (Americal Civil Liberties Union) were blocked! god forbid that some unsuspecting high-schooler wander into one of those pages and start thinking for himself!
I believe microsoft is planning to release a version of windows called "Windows Millineum" after they release 2000.
Of course, you can always take the conventional "My OS is better than yours and that makes me god" approach, be a raging bitch to newbies, and be the most self righteous and arrogant person in the world, as a lot of experienced linux users are... (sorry i get this way from hanging around IRC #Linux channels too much). But i prefer to answer newbie questions as well as i can, no matter how stupid the questions sound, because not everyone knows everything about all the things they use. Im sure not all of you know how to take your dryer apart and put it back together, or your car, or your house. So i beg you, do not be mean to newbies, it casts a bad image on Linux and the Linux community in general.
Yes. Linux torvalds did name it after himself. The problem lies in your english pronunciation of his name. Linus is finnish. Finnish pronunciation differs from english pronunciation; Linus prononuces his name "lihn-us"
Wow, i have never seen so many slashdot readers respond in such volume to a story so quickly. This poses interesting implications. If microsoft is convicted of using its monopoly to gain another , or to keep the existing one, will it be split up as was done with Ma bell a while back? I think it would be interesting to see microsoft split up into 2 or more divisions, nameley an OS division, and a software division. that would be an interesting turn of events.
Actually, it is how open source is. You think linux was designed by an R&D team? Open source works because the pepole who write for it are, for the most part, devoted hackers who like coding and making things work.