I think that "Open Source" means something different to me..maybe I'm getting older... Does the whole idea of "Open Source" has been kidnaped by the corporate *bs* and rebranded with a new background, meaning and of course, new corporate "heroes"?
When i read this kind of oversimplifications, i wish i could go to a bookstore and find the FUD genre....a collection of MS sponsored books and magazines.
For example, those that wish to create open source software for release under any of the licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative could not permit usage of many of the licensing terms that would be required (and considered to be unobjectionable) by the companies involved in creating many types of standards today, or by the standards organizations within which such standards are being developed.
"But if a system is unjust then it should not be supported, and an unwillingness to strip undeserved privileges from a group, however noble their cause, is not sufficient reason to maintain the current dispensation."
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I guess every one of us choose wich privileges we want to "drop"....his argument agianst Open Source is quite handy against any other software license around...they keyword is "you have a choice" and I choose something else.
Ok, this time Sun is Ev!L because is not open sourcing a product they own..
Dude, asking a little more is good, asking too much is instantly very bad... companies who like the open source model would easily scare if a preacher starts asking them to open source every product they own.
I still don't see the point of a open source java...sorry, you can write open source code for it...that's good for me.
Today the details of a new mail system claimed as "Absolutely Secure" have been posted on Leader Kim Jong II weblog available at the same server where the new mail system is being implemented.
An undisclosed person who likes himself to be called JK2 reported that "today i read my...err his weblog, and i got the details nobody knows about the new system"
Analysts said the new method is "Brillant" to bring email access to ppl while keeping comunications secure.
The system, concived by Kim Jong II himself consists in his own computer acting as a server, umplugged from any network or communications device. The gracefull leader himself will answer phonecalls from the population and transcribe the messages for them, absolutely free of charge. The message is then keept in JK II "secure server" waiting for the recipient of the message to call using the toll free number and again, Kim Jong II himself will read the message for them.
The system is absolutely safe from net crackers and identity stealing since only Kim Jong II family have access to telephone services.
As stated by our misterious "JK2" source, many "free world" leaders have expressed interest in the new system including Chinese and Cuban leaders.
By yesterday, a very powerfull american software industry leader was analyzing in a emergency meeting held at company headquearters located in Redmond, the possibility to claim a patent on this great mail system while spokesman of a company who wanted to stay anonymous said that system is sure to use portions of intelectual property that belong to them, and they are analyzing charging Kim Jong II family a $600 license to use the system.
If the information shouldn't cross borders, we should all turn off our routers and servers and go back to do something usefull as growing crops or cattle, or make swords and shields.
Many jobs i used to do here are now done elsewhere in the world, and many jobs i do now, were done elsewhere in the globle.
The obvious solution is to conquer the world, then all jobs will be done here.
The problem is not overseas workers. The real issue here is sensitive information being processed by networks of subcontractors without the knowledge of the information owner.
Please, I just replyed to two other "MAYBE" Posts. Talk about facts:
The same that applies to somebody breaking into a open source code repository applies to a closed source repository.
If the trojaned code is inserted after the aditing and goes into a production/distribution state, then the consumer/user has NO WAYS to detect the problem.
You are talking about the same Microsoft that wants to take to court independant researchers that detect security flaws in MS products?
Or the same Microsoft that hides security problems on their products?
Personally I've seen many backdoors in closes source software, even more, as a programmer years ago, I was instructed to put backdoors on Banking software by my employer and the bank auditing team. And let me tell you that the security was so bad that I personally switched my bank account from that institution to another. I don't think the only irrelevant comment is thinking that bad things(r) happens only in one place. Like I said, on open source software, I Can Audit Myself The Code.
And if I don't remember, this happened befrore. Of course this is one of the biggest strenghts of the Open Source Model. Code is constantly audited, checked and corrected. If your closed source software has backdoors or trojans...well....who knows but on Open Source is easyly detected.
This ranking is just an indication of the mood of consulted journalists against the current political situation in every country.
I like journalists, but you got to agree that journalists have opinions for everything, even if they don't know what the hell they're talking about.
If the only news you read in the newspaper is something you know deeply, and the journalists information is biased and totally wrong....how can you trust the other 99 news in there?
No doubt about it....
well...my opinion may be a little biased since I only play quake3....
Anyway, I would like to see modern FPS engines like "Operation Flashpoint" to linux...
My "Wintendo" partition exists solely for OFP...wich is good, since having to reboot for playing it makes me stay in my working OS (linux obviously)
I'm starting to think that the fast world of internet content is developing it's own grammar ruleset.
It has only one rule: "If it's understandable, it's ok"
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Did not worked on a std 2.4.3 (linus, not ac).
Maybe I'm kinda stupid but running the exploit did nothing, even changing the sample code to be more 'expresive'....
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I think that "Open Source" means something different to me..maybe I'm getting older... Does the whole idea of "Open Source" has been kidnaped by the corporate *bs* and rebranded with a new background, meaning and of course, new corporate "heroes"?
I think the openwrt wiki is a bit outdated...at least i own a unsupported/wip router running openwrt without problems. Unpacked, flashed, worked.
I do all my stuff in the console anyway....wich shell does linus recommend?
When i read this kind of oversimplifications, i wish i could go to a bookstore and find the FUD genre....a collection of MS sponsored books and magazines.
For example, those that wish to create open source software for release under any of the licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative could not permit usage of many of the licensing terms that would be required (and considered to be unobjectionable) by the companies involved in creating many types of standards today, or by the standards organizations within which such standards are being developed.
Hell NO
This is one of the signs of the apocalypsis
From the article...
"But if a system is unjust then it should not be supported, and an unwillingness to strip undeserved privileges from a group, however noble their cause, is not sufficient reason to maintain the current dispensation."
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I guess every one of us choose wich privileges we want to "drop"....his argument agianst Open Source is quite handy against any other software license around...they keyword is "you have a choice" and I choose something else.
So what's the point in hiding "public" information.
Its like banning "google maps".
Argentina and Brazil are developing countries that have it's own nuclear power technology and no nuclear weapons program.
Ok, this time Sun is Ev!L because is not open sourcing a product they own..
Dude, asking a little more is good, asking too much is instantly very bad... companies who like the open source model would easily scare if a preacher starts asking them to open source every product they own.
I still don't see the point of a open source java...sorry, you can write open source code for it...that's good for me.
Today the details of a new mail system claimed as "Absolutely Secure" have been posted on Leader Kim Jong II weblog available at the same server where the new mail system is being implemented.
An undisclosed person who likes himself to be called JK2 reported that "today i read my...err his weblog, and i got the details nobody knows about the new system"
Analysts said the new method is "Brillant" to bring email access to ppl while keeping comunications secure.
The system, concived by Kim Jong II himself consists in his own computer acting as a server, umplugged from any network or communications device. The gracefull leader himself will answer phonecalls from the population and transcribe the messages for them, absolutely free of charge.
The message is then keept in JK II "secure server" waiting for the recipient of the message to call using the toll free number and again, Kim Jong II himself will read the message for them.
The system is absolutely safe from net crackers and identity stealing since only Kim Jong II family have access to telephone services.
As stated by our misterious "JK2" source, many "free world" leaders have expressed interest in the new system including Chinese and Cuban leaders.
By yesterday, a very powerfull american software industry leader was analyzing in a emergency meeting held at company headquearters located in Redmond, the possibility to claim a patent on this great mail system while spokesman of a company who wanted to stay anonymous said that system is sure to use portions of intelectual property that belong to them, and they are analyzing charging Kim Jong II family a $600 license to use the system.
If the information shouldn't cross borders, we should all turn off our routers and servers and go back to do something usefull as growing crops or cattle, or make swords and shields.
Many jobs i used to do here are now done elsewhere in the world, and many jobs i do now, were done elsewhere in the globle.
The obvious solution is to conquer the world, then all jobs will be done here.
Blackmailing is a crime everywhere
No honoring comercial agreements is a crime everywhere
I don't see the big differences between "US" and "THEM" remember...after all, we are all ordinary men.
The problem is not overseas workers. The real issue here is sensitive information being processed by networks of subcontractors without the knowledge of the information owner.
Is there any tool to analyze source code as an antivirus scans a binary file?
For example, in this case, the program is running an external app and making changes to a system file.
This is the first kind of thing I would see if I audit the code quickly.
touch -t 200112101200 newbie.c
I think nobody included this patch oficially, even a student can detect something fishy in those lines.
Obviously the code slipped without the code maintainers knowledge, possibly someone found a way to circumvent security policies.
Please, I just replyed to two other "MAYBE" Posts. Talk about facts:
The same that applies to somebody breaking into a open source code repository applies to a closed source repository.
If the trojaned code is inserted after the aditing and goes into a production/distribution state, then the consumer/user has NO WAYS to detect the problem.
You are talking about the same Microsoft that wants to take to court independant researchers that detect security flaws in MS products?
Or the same Microsoft that hides security problems on their products?
And...Have you ever used CVS?
Of course you have never disected a rootkited server. Nobody trust the date stamps, not even my grandmother does it.
Have you ever changed the date of a file? It's quite easy.
Personally I've seen many backdoors in closes source software, even more, as a programmer years ago, I was instructed to put backdoors on Banking software by my employer and the bank auditing team. And let me tell you that the security was so bad that I personally switched my bank account from that institution to another.
I don't think the only irrelevant comment is thinking that bad things(r) happens only in one place. Like I said, on open source software, I Can Audit Myself The Code.
And if I don't remember, this happened befrore. Of course this is one of the biggest strenghts of the Open Source Model.
Code is constantly audited, checked and corrected. If your closed source software has backdoors or trojans...well....who knows but on Open Source is easyly detected.
I agree 100%
This ranking is just an indication of the mood of consulted journalists against the current political situation in every country.
I like journalists, but you got to agree that journalists have opinions for everything, even if they don't know what the hell they're talking about.
If the only news you read in the newspaper is something you know deeply, and the journalists information is biased and totally wrong....how can you trust the other 99 news in there?
No doubt about it....
well...my opinion may be a little biased since I only play quake3....
Anyway, I would like to see modern FPS engines like "Operation Flashpoint" to linux...
My "Wintendo" partition exists solely for OFP...wich is good, since having to reboot for playing it makes me stay in my working OS (linux obviously)
I'm starting to think that the fast world of internet content is developing it's own grammar ruleset.
It has only one rule: "If it's understandable, it's ok"
Did not worked on a std 2.4.3 (linus, not ac).
Maybe I'm kinda stupid but running the exploit did nothing, even changing the sample code to be more 'expresive'....