Replace Linux with Windows and "Open a term, we need to edit a conf file" with "Open the registry editor we need to fix some registry keys" and watch her run away then as well. People who are scared of computers are scared of them regardless of which operating system is on them. Computers and the operating systems they run are complex beasts and not everyone is going to understand everything about them. When things break on computers for non-computer experts, typically they will go and seek out someone who is. Mind you it sure easier to find someone who deals with Windows instead of Linux, but that is another issue entirely.
Let's see you pull a full tractor trailer full of goods...on a bicycle. Or an entire train of iron ore...on a bicycle. Not all oil used in transportation is used by people commuting back and forth in their cars you know...
I can think of plenty of things that are more motivating and visionary to spend taxpayer money on. Things like AIDS research and cancer research, just to name two off the top of my head.
This assumes that spending more money on these things is going to suddenly find cures for said things. Science doesn't work like that.
I believe that the people lacking vision are those that want to spend billions of dollars rocketing a team of 8 people to a giant red rock in the sky when we haven't figured out how to fix problems at home first.
All of the problems here on earth are not ever going to be solved, ever. So by your logic, we should just junk the space program completely because of the problems here on earth. Thank god you aren't in charge...
A lot of ISPs do block outbound port 25 to combat spam coming from within their networks. You could perhaps use the submission port 587 as described in RFC2476.
When Japan and China recall all the loans made to the USA, let's see who's economy will turn into a carbon copy of what happened to the USSR.
Not only would the US economy go that way, but the economies of China, Japan, Europe and well pretty much everywhere. It would likely make the Great Depression look like nothing..
Well one could mount/tmp on its own filesystem or perhaps using tmpfs so that it ends up effectively using swap space for/tmp. Then you mount it with the noexec flag which in simple terms tells the operating system not to run executables from here. However this does not stop people from being able to run shell or perl scripts from here as they could simply do/bin/sh/tmp/somescript.sh or/usr/bin/perl/tmp/someperlscript.pl or so.
Perhaps you should read the other posts here because you could not be further from the truth. Non-root users cannot just exit out of their chroot any time they want to and they certainly don't automagically be a super user. Now if they somehow elevated their privs via some method(kernel flaw or something) then yes root can typically break out of the chroot.
Candy cigarettes have reportedly been restricted or banned in many countries, including Canada, the United Kingdom, Finland, Norway, Australia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. In the United States, legislation banning candy cigarettes has been proposed unsuccessfully at the federal level in 1970 and in 1990, in 11 states, and in New York City. Only one US jurisdiction, North Dakota, has ever banned candy cigarettes. (That ban in 1953 was repealed in 1967.)
Yes it is - just download the OpenSSL source code and use the already developed source. Takes no time and we all know how good the OpenBSD is with regards to security.
Again...the only thing OpenSSL has in common with OpenBSD is the word Open. That is it. OpenSSL is not developed by the OpenBSD people at all. I wish people would stop saying this...
Yes, but the code also isn't likely to exist yet. So you are going to have to hire someone to write it. And then they own the code (depending on your contract), and may not open-source it.
If you are hiring someone to write code for you, you could have the contract such that, they have rights to the code AND you receive your copy of the finished code under a open source license. I think that ends up being a win/win situation.
What the fuck does Theo have to do with it? A lot of people seem to be under the false impression that OpenSSL has something to do with the OpenBSD project. It doesn't...
The difference is the source by which they claim to derive their authority. Religions claim to derive their authority from god(s) while governments claim to derive their authority from the people.
Republics claim to derive their authority from the people. Most monarchs have traditionally claimed their authority to rule came from God as well, thus the establishment of state sponsored religions...
Let's not jump to doomsday conclusions about civil liberties just yet!
You must be new here:P
Seriously though, a lot of people seem to forget that the job of military planners is to sit and think about the worse case scenario and have some sort of plan to deal with that. It is part of their job. But, alas, around here, its cause for people to break out their tin foil hats.
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Replace Linux with Windows and "Open a term, we need to edit a conf file" with "Open the registry editor we need to fix some registry keys" and watch her run away then as well. People who are scared of computers are scared of them regardless of which operating system is on them. Computers and the operating systems they run are complex beasts and not everyone is going to understand everything about them. When things break on computers for non-computer experts, typically they will go and seek out someone who is. Mind you it sure easier to find someone who deals with Windows instead of Linux, but that is another issue entirely.
Play WoW enough and you will!
You mean such things as being the wrong color? Oh wait..schools have been desegregated. Nevermind...
I guess some of us have different standards on beauty...
It sounds like they are using whatever ciphers in ECB mode. ECB or electronic codebook mode is generally one of the most insecure ways of using any sort of block cipher. See the example in this wikipedia article as to how much information ECB can leak: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_modes_of_operation#Electronic_codebook_.28ECB.29
Let's see you pull a full tractor trailer full of goods...on a bicycle. Or an entire train of iron ore...on a bicycle. Not all oil used in transportation is used by people commuting back and forth in their cars you know...
This assumes that spending more money on these things is going to suddenly find cures for said things. Science doesn't work like that.
All of the problems here on earth are not ever going to be solved, ever. So by your logic, we should just junk the space program completely because of the problems here on earth. Thank god you aren't in charge...
A lot of ISPs do block outbound port 25 to combat spam coming from within their networks. You could perhaps use the submission port 587 as described in RFC2476.
Well one could mount /tmp on its own filesystem or perhaps using tmpfs so that it ends up effectively using swap space for /tmp. Then you mount it with the noexec flag which in simple terms tells the operating system not to run executables from here. However this does not stop people from being able to run shell or perl scripts from here as they could simply do /bin/sh /tmp/somescript.sh or /usr/bin/perl /tmp/someperlscript.pl or so.
Perhaps you should read the other posts here because you could not be further from the truth. Non-root users cannot just exit out of their chroot any time they want to and they certainly don't automagically be a super user. Now if they somehow elevated their privs via some method(kernel flaw or something) then yes root can typically break out of the chroot.
IRC networks like EFnet *do* police themselves.
You failed..again.
People who say this have clearly never lived on one side of a valley and then had to go somewhere on the other side of the valley.
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As somebody else who codes an ircd, you're not alone in your drunken coding. I think its the only way one can willingly code ircd :P
Again...the only thing OpenSSL has in common with OpenBSD is the word Open. That is it. OpenSSL is not developed by the OpenBSD people at all. I wish people would stop saying this...
No, its 60Hz in the US. In Europe and a lot of other parts of the world it is 50Hz.
If you are hiring someone to write code for you, you could have the contract such that, they have rights to the code AND you receive your copy of the finished code under a open source license. I think that ends up being a win/win situation.
Damnit..you people...The OpenSSL project has *nothing* to do with OpenBSD other than starting with the word Open.
What the fuck does Theo have to do with it? A lot of people seem to be under the false impression that OpenSSL has something to do with the OpenBSD project. It doesn't...
I for one welcome our new joke playing out overlords.
Republics claim to derive their authority from the people. Most monarchs have traditionally claimed their authority to rule came from God as well, thus the establishment of state sponsored religions...
You must be new here
Seriously though, a lot of people seem to forget that the job of military planners is to sit and think about the worse case scenario and have some sort of plan to deal with that. It is part of their job. But, alas, around here, its cause for people to break out their tin foil hats.