About your last link, #4 is wrong. Allowing to upload a program and allowing to run it is a very different thing.
A bad guy can upload files on your web site, if he isn't allowed to run them, you've nothing to fear (except if YOU run them afterwards, of course, but it's covered by #1)
That and people, listen, stop running windows as root. Make yourself a less privileged user and learn to work in a non-root environment!!!
What about developers ? Lots of apps -- essentially games -- don't run well in unprivileged environments. I run as unprivileged user but usually need to use runas when I didn't took the time to adjust braindead defaults program settings. And you can't ask the average user to tweak file and register permissions. BTW I've seen apps opening data files rw when only ro was needed. How do you avoid security flaws then ? Editing binary to change call parameters isn't an option...
lets get these two big networks to talk to each other and settle all the messing about!
Great! More cross-IM malware to come ! Spammers and others won't have to spam multiple IM networks. They would only need to infect one, probably the weakest link...:D
Supposedly, storage is on their servers, and it's right that their 15 000 rpm SCSI disks will be faster that your 7 200 rpm ATA one.
What will be transfered however is, on your side, mouse and keyboard events (basically, almost nothing), and on their side, graphic commands, textures,... That is, what's fair is not comparing your disk transfer speed but your AGP/PCIe transfer speed against network speed.
PCIe 16x can achieve 4000 MB/s (100x your hard disk speed)...
Buyers of the subsidized routers can classify themselves as 'Linuses', whereby they also get free access to all other Fon hotspots, or 'Bills', where they receive 50% of the revenue made by on-selling their Wi-Fi to other Fon users.
Linuses Torvalds and Bills Gates ? I'm sure there's some hidden message here, but I'm not sure what it means...:) And what about Steves (Jobs, not Ballmers) ? Is he behind the masked black alien face ?
"On the banks of the windswept Columbia River [in Oregon], NSA is working on a secret weapon in its quest to dominate the next generation of Internet computing. But it is hard to keep a secret when it is a computing center as big as two football fields, with twin cooling plants protruding four stories into the sky...' What's the goal of this new complex? Expanding NSA's raw computer power. It's one more piece in the NSAplex, the massive global computer network that is estimated to span 25 locations and 450,000 servers.'
Makes sense to me... Is "Google" the friendly name of "NSA" ?:)
(anyone need a bilingual CSS coder?) three blogs I run and the 762 that I read every day.
I'm not sure I would want a CSS coder reading 762 blogs every day;) Even if you're never sleeping it means more than 30 blogs an hour. AND you're reading Slashdot...
However, the important word from your quote is "that". "That" swap space.
I bet having your swap space on a rack disk and hot-swapping that hard drive won't let your system in a functional state : where would you get the swapped out pages again ?
A hot-swappable swap space can only store redundant data : data that is already on disk. The incentive being that reading flash memory is faster than reading hard disk. You could still imagine storing any file opened read-only on it, but writing flash memory is time expensive, you better not write often to it.
So my opinion is that it's only useful to store program code and static data (textures...), allowing for faster applications swap-in (and you're only swapping-out once), that kind of data not requiring any confidentiality.
You may have experienced sluggish behavior after booting your machine, after performing a fast user switch, or even after lunch. Although too many carbohydrates might slow you down after lunch, your computer slows down for different reasons.
A Microsoft desperate attempt at humor ?
BTW NeXTSTEP had a similar feature back in 1989 (still present in Mac OS X) : You just don't close an app you opened... Of course it's not "Intelligent Prioritization Scheme" (TM) but at least it works...
I'm also impressed by the "Windows ReadyBoost"... Wow ! Adding memory is hard, so use a USB thumb drive with its impressive write speed (hope MS "Intelligent Algorithms" don't make mistakes), and last but not the least, that swap space is encrypted ! What's the point of encrypting that swap space ? If you're storing user data in that space, it means you will write often to it, that's slower than HD and your USB key will die quickly. And of course, if you're removing the drive "at any time" you're losing data.
Non-free is not supported by Debian, but it is distributed anyway.
The "fight" is about licensing issues caused by Debian distributing java, as discussed in the thread, as a follow-up to the comment linked by Slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
About your last link, #4 is wrong. Allowing to upload a program and allowing to run it is a very different thing.
A bad guy can upload files on your web site, if he isn't allowed to run them, you've nothing to fear (except if YOU run them afterwards, of course, but it's covered by #1)
That and people, listen, stop running windows as root. Make yourself a less privileged user and learn to work in a non-root environment!!!
What about developers ? Lots of apps -- essentially games -- don't run well in unprivileged environments. I run as unprivileged user but usually need to use runas when I didn't took the time to adjust braindead defaults program settings. And you can't ask the average user to tweak file and register permissions. BTW I've seen apps opening data files rw when only ro was needed. How do you avoid security flaws then ? Editing binary to change call parameters isn't an option...
lets get these two big networks to talk to each other and settle all the messing about!
:D
Great! More cross-IM malware to come ! Spammers and others won't have to spam multiple IM networks. They would only need to infect one, probably the weakest link...
404 File Not Found
The requested URL (linux/06/07/11/0218250.shtml) was not found.
If you feel like it, mail the url, and where ya came from to pater@slashdot.org.
What's the difference between that and "Nothing for you to see here, move along" ?
BTW the item wasn't present on the linux page at the time I got that...
It flew for 14 seconds [...] However it landed with a bit of a crash
Is that their server being slashhunted that they're talking about ?
Things actually are worse.
...
Supposedly, storage is on their servers, and it's right that their 15 000 rpm SCSI disks will be faster that your 7 200 rpm ATA one.
What will be transfered however is, on your side, mouse and keyboard events (basically, almost nothing), and on their side, graphic commands, textures,
That is, what's fair is not comparing your disk transfer speed but your AGP/PCIe transfer speed against network speed.
PCIe 16x can achieve 4000 MB/s (100x your hard disk speed)...
YouOS
:P
Too Many Users Online
I just experienced a good reason why it won't work
They turned off their automatic lawsuit generator.
Quite the opposite, actually.
Now they have upgraded to a distributed automatic lawsuit generator !
(But well, they might have turned off the old one, if that's what you meant...)
Buyers of the subsidized routers can classify themselves as 'Linuses' , whereby they also get free access to all other Fon hotspots, or 'Bills' , where they receive 50% of the revenue made by on-selling their Wi-Fi to other Fon users.
:) And what about Steves (Jobs, not Ballmers) ? Is he behind the masked black alien face ?
Linuses Torvalds and Bills Gates ?
I'm sure there's some hidden message here, but I'm not sure what it means...
Yeah, exactly what I was thinking of too, I can't wait for Microsoft ED-209 :)
And beware the stairs...
Worst ? Best ?
:)
It's really the same once you're accounting for PR spin.
Yahoo is the worst filter as XP SP2 has the best firewall.
"On the banks of the windswept Columbia River [in Oregon], NSA is working on a secret weapon in its quest to dominate the next generation of Internet computing. But it is hard to keep a secret when it is a computing center as big as two football fields, with twin cooling plants protruding four stories into the sky...' What's the goal of this new complex? Expanding NSA's raw computer power. It's one more piece in the NSAplex, the massive global computer network that is estimated to span 25 locations and 450,000 servers.'
:)
Makes sense to me... Is "Google" the friendly name of "NSA" ?
AFAIK "while" structures are not available with MS batch files. You don't need a conditional anyway. Just use "goto" :
label: wgatray.exe
goto label
(anyone need a bilingual CSS coder?)
;) Even if you're never sleeping it means more than 30 blogs an hour. AND you're reading Slashdot...
three blogs I run and the 762 that I read every day.
I'm not sure I would want a CSS coder reading 762 blogs every day
I would agree for conventional swap space.
However, the important word from your quote is "that". "That" swap space.
I bet having your swap space on a rack disk and hot-swapping that hard drive won't let your system in a functional state : where would you get the swapped out pages again ?
A hot-swappable swap space can only store redundant data : data that is already on disk. The incentive being that reading flash memory is faster than reading hard disk. You could still imagine storing any file opened read-only on it, but writing flash memory is time expensive, you better not write often to it.
So my opinion is that it's only useful to store program code and static data (textures...), allowing for faster applications swap-in (and you're only swapping-out once), that kind of data not requiring any confidentiality.
Windows SuperFetch
You may have experienced sluggish behavior after booting your machine, after performing a fast user switch, or even after lunch. Although too many carbohydrates might slow you down after lunch, your computer slows down for different reasons.
A Microsoft desperate attempt at humor ?
BTW NeXTSTEP had a similar feature back in 1989 (still present in Mac OS X) : You just don't close an app you opened... Of course it's not "Intelligent Prioritization Scheme" (TM) but at least it works...
I'm also impressed by the "Windows ReadyBoost"... Wow ! Adding memory is hard, so use a USB thumb drive with its impressive write speed (hope MS "Intelligent Algorithms" don't make mistakes), and last but not the least, that swap space is encrypted ! What's the point of encrypting that swap space ? If you're storing user data in that space, it means you will write often to it, that's slower than HD and your USB key will die quickly. And of course, if you're removing the drive "at any time" you're losing data.
Especially since Vista will still run Adobe...
Don't give them ideas...
"Vista isn't done until Adobe Acrobat won't run"
Excuse me, in what order did you write that date ?
When all numbers are below 12, it's quite hard to get a clue
Is it even 2006 ? 1906 and 1006 fits in too...
Then probably were they measuring admins downtimes ?
Innocent user asking for something...
Linux beginner admin not answering, occupied reading "Linux for Dummies".
User reports admin being down.
But who ever said they would consider to pull out of China except muellerr1 (the submitter) ?
I quickly RTFA and didn't find mention of that...
Non-free is not supported by Debian, but it is distributed anyway.
The "fight" is about licensing issues caused by Debian distributing java, as
discussed in the thread, as a follow-up to the comment linked by Slashdot.
educate someone about the existence of a product...
The verb you're seeking is "advertise", not "educate"
The biggest thing that Apple could do is educate its users
:)
Educate them how ? Like Bob or Clippy ? Like Vista (à la "You need more privileges to move that file") ? No, thanks !
> but perhaps yEnc, MD5, AES, H.264, and GPG are some potential technologies that could be used together.
> So, he doesn't know how to fix email, but here is a list of acronyms to get you excited about it.
It's quite blatant he doesn't know what he is talking about when you know H.264 is a video codec.
Oh, and yEnc is a binary to text encoder, like uuencode, so it hasn't its place here either.
Bienvenue en France !
So-called droits d'auteur are not (completely) transferrable.