Security needs to be designed in from the ground up.
Well OpenBSD it practically is. Some articles claim it is written ground up for security, but in reality they audited the entire BSD codebase many years ago, rewriting large parts and all new code is ground-up secure. In practice it is extremely secure, many of the bugs that occur in other BSDs or linux turn out to have been fixed months or years before in openBSD
What an unfortunate name... from the article you linked: "But the Sheila Dikshit government refuted the party's claim."
Its pronounced Dixit or Dixhit (probably closest English pronunciation),. If that were my surname I would spell it that way too, ISO 15919 notwithstanding.
Very often it is difficult to see at a glance whether a project is mature and stable or just dead. It would be interesting to see whether this type of visualisation can tell you at a glance how healthy the project is. If so it would be nice to have this view on sourceforge, etc.
The history of post-War British technology has been a long succession of failed innovations which shortly afterwards have been appropriated and successfully marketed by American companies: Jet airliners, liquid crystal displays, public key encryption, home computers, the Web, and Pop Idol.
Having them take pop-idol almost makes up for them getting all the others.
How is that obtuse? Ethics is indeed related to everything we do.
So it becomes a default, only worth mentioning if there is some special significance. Just like walking is often involved in things so you don't say "I went to the shop and this involved walking from my car to the store, then walking in the store". You would only mention it when there is some significance like "you have to walk to the cafe and it's a mile from the nearest car-park".
It gets worse! There's places that charge you for making dinner! That's right! There's actually people who go out to these places to have meals made FOR them! WHAT FOOLS!
I think that buying the PS3 is like going to a restaurant for a meal, and the upgrade charge is more like a charge added to the menu price to cover the chef buying a new recipe book.
Only in the obtuse way that you could say that everything has something to do with ethics (should you be working for charity instead of reading Slashdot now,,,,,).
It may be sleazy thing to do, but the ethic of a business is to make money.
Sleazy, yes, but I'm not seeing the ethical angle, unless they are somehow preventing people from shopping somewhere else or preventing them from finding the information about the update elsewhere.
If you don't have the decency to refer to a group of people as "Muslims" and insist on using the derisive term "mozzies", why the fuck should anyone listen to what you say?
And who keeps modding those who (politely) disagree with you "troll"? And the anti-Muslim ferver on Slashdot really that high?
Dear Canadian court. Your BILLION DOLLARS is currently in an account in Bahrain. Unfortunately I am unable to get to it without bank fees of $5,000. If you transfer the money into this account.....
I think the reason why the Brits can pull it off is in many cases they were actually better to/for the local population and country than the local rulers were...
Particularly India, where they took over from the Mhoguls, who were mozzies and naturally tried to follow the Qur'an and make non-Muslims feel subdued.
Then you wind up in court for breach of contract. Of course, don't expect to win, as they have armies of lawyers paid to ensure that their method of making a living remains.
The only way to deal with these types. First, if you did a bank debit, call yourself fucked. If you had them on a credit card, have the card flagged as stolen. Eventually they will demand one last sum through a bill collection agency, but at least they are out of your wallet.
You obviously have never had court dealings with a company. They will threaten all the way up to appearing in court, but back down. Actually I would easily expect to win a case like this it would be open and shut, but as soon as you make your case clear and make it clear that you will report the outcome to the media I can almost guarantee that they will back down.
Court and publicity would be a lose-lose situation for them - even if they win everyone will know about their scam. BTW I have had court threats several times and in one case taken a scam company to court myself (they settled as soon as they received the summons)
Which would be a breach of contract if they play their cards right, leaving you even more fucked up than in the previous situation.
Not if key details of the contract were only in the fine print, and the cancellation number unavailable. You would have two defences: 1) The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977, and 2) You made reasonable attempts to notify the company about the cancellation.
I would be very surprised if they even took you as far as the court for that.
We've a scam company here in the UK called London Mint Office. It's not affiliated with the real mint at all, but somehow they get away with it. It's just on the right side of legal - the standard 'didn't read the small print,' where the customer is offered what looks like a good deal on a product (A commorative coin) but isn't clearly told that in accepting the agreement they are also agreeing to be direct-debited for a case full of overpriced junk coins every month... and the only way to get out of the deal is via a phone line that is always unavailable.
If its a direct debit then it is clearly not the only way. Cancel your direct debit - most banks let you do it online.
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Worse than the american, Randy Bumgardner?
I once worked with a guy called Alex Dix (I must be careful he was a slashdotter) which when said quickly sounds the same as "Al licks dicks"
Well OpenBSD it practically is. Some articles claim it is written ground up for security, but in reality they audited the entire BSD codebase many years ago, rewriting large parts and all new code is ground-up secure. In practice it is extremely secure, many of the bugs that occur in other BSDs or linux turn out to have been fixed months or years before in openBSD
Got any sources? Because I've got one that says it ain't so, and that's for damn sure.
What an unfortunate name... from the article you linked: "But the Sheila Dikshit government refuted the party's claim."
Its pronounced Dixit or Dixhit (probably closest English pronunciation),. If that were my surname I would spell it that way too, ISO 15919 notwithstanding.
Very often it is difficult to see at a glance whether a project is mature and stable or just dead. It would be interesting to see whether this type of visualisation can tell you at a glance how healthy the project is. If so it would be nice to have this view on sourceforge, etc.
This is horrifiyng news. What would happen to Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign?
They will be replaced by windows paint, microsoft viseo and microsoft publisher. PDF will be replaced by XPS
one researcher has provided a provocative new theory
So have I. My theory is that it was caused by God mooning uranus.
The history of post-War British technology has been a long succession of failed innovations which shortly afterwards have been appropriated and successfully marketed by American companies: Jet airliners, liquid crystal displays, public key encryption, home computers, the Web, and Pop Idol.
Having them take pop-idol almost makes up for them getting all the others.
How is that obtuse? Ethics is indeed related to everything we do.
So it becomes a default, only worth mentioning if there is some special significance. Just like walking is often involved in things so you don't say "I went to the shop and this involved walking from my car to the store, then walking in the store". You would only mention it when there is some significance like "you have to walk to the cafe and it's a mile from the nearest car-park".
It gets worse! There's places that charge you for making dinner! That's right! There's actually people who go out to these places to have meals made FOR them! WHAT FOOLS!
I think that buying the PS3 is like going to a restaurant for a meal, and the upgrade charge is more like a charge added to the menu price to cover the chef buying a new recipe book.
Hmm. Making money has nothing to do with ethics.
Sure it does. Why would you say it doesn't?
Only in the obtuse way that you could say that everything has something to do with ethics (should you be working for charity instead of reading Slashdot now,,,,,).
It may be sleazy thing to do, but the ethic of a business is to make money.
Sleazy, yes, but I'm not seeing the ethical angle, unless they are somehow preventing people from shopping somewhere else or preventing them from finding the information about the update elsewhere.
I think you are mixing up capitalism with ethics.
Armstrong - pretty stereotypically a U.S. English name
It is actually a Reiver name. Reivers were warrior clans who occupied the lawless English/Scottish border lands in the early 16th century.
Who the hell keeps modding this troll up?
If you don't have the decency to refer to a group of people as "Muslims" and insist on using the derisive term "mozzies", why the fuck should anyone listen to what you say?
And who keeps modding those who (politely) disagree with you "troll"? And the anti-Muslim ferver on Slashdot really that high?
After all the Mozzies show great tollerance to everyone else don't they
I wonder if that's more than the number of AOL disks that have been mailed...
No less by about 50.
forget grey goo, I have this nightmare end of world scenario where all of the Earth's matter is converted into AOL disks
Sorry, but "Quebecois" is the French spelling. "Quebecker" is the English one. There are still a few anglophones left in Quebec.
Making it the third most used language after Arabic and French
Dear Canadian court. Your BILLION DOLLARS is currently in an account in Bahrain. Unfortunately I am unable to get to it without bank fees of $5,000. If you transfer the money into this account .....
Nude man: $0.25 Nude woman: $50
Isn't that gender discrimination
Why would you discourage people from linking to your website?
Its a local website for local people.
but what difference does it make when you can find said webcams with a simple Google search?"
You could get paid £1000 for your voyeurism.
Try telling that to the Sikhs. The murdering mozzies killed thousands
I think the reason why the Brits can pull it off is in many cases they were actually better to/for the local population and country than the local rulers were...
Particularly India, where they took over from the Mhoguls, who were mozzies and naturally tried to follow the Qur'an and make non-Muslims feel subdued.
Then you wind up in court for breach of contract. Of course, don't expect to win, as they have armies of lawyers paid to ensure that their method of making a living remains.
The only way to deal with these types. First, if you did a bank debit, call yourself fucked. If you had them on a credit card, have the card flagged as stolen. Eventually they will demand one last sum through a bill collection agency, but at least they are out of your wallet.
You obviously have never had court dealings with a company. They will threaten all the way up to appearing in court, but back down. Actually I would easily expect to win a case like this it would be open and shut, but as soon as you make your case clear and make it clear that you will report the outcome to the media I can almost guarantee that they will back down.
Court and publicity would be a lose-lose situation for them - even if they win everyone will know about their scam. BTW I have had court threats several times and in one case taken a scam company to court myself (they settled as soon as they received the summons)
Which would be a breach of contract if they play their cards right, leaving you even more fucked up than in the previous situation.
Not if key details of the contract were only in the fine print, and the cancellation number unavailable. You would have two defences: 1) The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977, and 2) You made reasonable attempts to notify the company about the cancellation.
I would be very surprised if they even took you as far as the court for that.
We've a scam company here in the UK called London Mint Office. It's not affiliated with the real mint at all, but somehow they get away with it. It's just on the right side of legal - the standard 'didn't read the small print,' where the customer is offered what looks like a good deal on a product (A commorative coin) but isn't clearly told that in accepting the agreement they are also agreeing to be direct-debited for a case full of overpriced junk coins every month... and the only way to get out of the deal is via a phone line that is always unavailable.
If its a direct debit then it is clearly not the only way. Cancel your direct debit - most banks let you do it online.
Just what Android needs, more fragmentation.
Yea its terrible ... like having more than one shop in a mall or something