Now what makes you think hospitals, private doctors, etc. are going to be able to protect their data any better? They have less money then the credit card companies.
They're not rich enough to pay for the same Get out of Jail Cards.
I'll say this, like I always say it: there is no magic bullet when it comes to security. Even an operating system written from the ground up around security like OpenBSD can be configured incorrectly. Even an operating system written from the ground up around security can have security bugs.
OpenBSD was not written securely from the ground up. It was secured from an inherited codebase over a long, long time. And they have witnessed, time after time, how they combed over the source code for a specific class of bugs, cleaned it, and two versions later the same bug appeared from upstream because the programmer did not fully grok the API he was using.
that last crucial bit of code that is the microkernel itself is probably going to end up being written in C with ASM snippets, simply because at some point you need to explicitly state what the hardware is doing.
At which point you cannot get more secure than the hardware, so there's not much you can do at OS level.
The answer to whether kernels are stable enough depends on your requirements.
If the Linux kernel is not stable enough, you'd better roll your own because you obviously know better.
Monitoring, isolation and restarting is used in things like engine management systems, where failures are even less welcome and a full OS with this level of reliability is bound to have applications in medicine, industry, "defence", etc.
Linux does just the opposite. They test driver reliability before they release it. Seems to be working so far.
And if you need something that goes down less than the power grid, I suggest multiple computers on multiple locations.
And by older I mean everything tailored for XP, either 1 or 7 years ago.
How many times have we been through this? 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, and now this. How many legacy apps did Linux broke since then? Oh, right, they're still working because the code is open and there's always someone to fix that one function call that no longer exists.
Wanna bet? In five years the Win 7 apps will be either obsolete, or better supported on Linux than Windows 7++.
When you do that with a war game based on a real war, with real people, you run the risk of dishonoring their memories and sacrifices, and I think that this game has a dangerous potential to do that.
As opposed to imaginary wars like World War 2 and Vietnam?
You don't get it. This is the Crusade Of Our Generation, and as such, sacred. And everyone involved a saint. Even that lady who took pictures with the naked prisoners.
How about releasing a non-webapp client as well? Yes, you now completely defeated the purpose of the webapp, but at least RMS will shut up. I think it's worth it.
"within the bounds of the law, you need to do what your boss asks you to do whether or not you necessarily agree with it.
Nope. Within the bounds of the law, I need to do what's in my job description. If the network is my responsibility, and I decide I can make better cable, cheaper, while also attending to all my other duties, the boss should not be in a position to stop me.
Since when is the boss paid to be an expert on ethernet cable manufacturing?
What I want to know is, what are the limits? If I find a way to improve service (say, lifting a bandwidth cap), would they still be supportive and boastful? Or would I go from volunteer tech support status to dangerous hacker criminal?
You think improving their service is something they would want? They'd have already done that.
Also, I wonder how long these lead users will continue to do their thing once they find out they're being used like this.
While it may be cost effective to crimp and cut your own cable when you are making less than 20 dollars an hour once you are making 20 dollar+ just buy it.
So this is how you get the low-UID people to post. Congratulations. Also to OP.
With more and more content being sent via internet connections rather than traditional connections, ie cable, phone, satellite, pony express, Operating Systems in order to provide mainstream support will need to be able to provide support for these types of media.
Which is why we must force them to use open standards. The problem today is everyone and their dog has their own streaming implementaion, for whatever reasons. Which is of course incompatible not only across operating systems in general, but often across Windows versions as well.
Gods yes. And not to mention that 80% of them are from 2006 or earlier.
To be fair, if you don't work primarily with software, information does not get outdated at this rate. Schrödinger's work is still useful today. IANAQP, of course.
That said, is there a way to blacklist all the Ubuntu forums in my Google profile?
IE (data analysis for human comprehension) and Google would make one fierce - and useful - blend.
Finding relevant information other than the Wikipedia page for any specialist topic is a pain in the ass. If these guys can find a way to index only the good stuff, i.e. not based on general popularity but content accuracy, they could have a future.
Do I have to remind everyone how annoying it is to search for technical documentation for something vaguely Linux-related, only to find the first 30 hits are various forums with more or less clueless newbies discussing installation difficulties and the syntax of apt-get?
and saves you from the negative word-of-mouth opt-out causes.
If everyone else does it as well, there is no negative fallout like that. Any opt-in thing gets a huge bonus, though, just by virtue of being different.
RapidShare is a Swiss-owned one-click hosting pay- and free-service (with certain restrictions and limitations) website that operates from Switzerland and is financed by the subscriptions of paying users.
RapidShare has two different websites, but both sites claim to be entirely different organizations and entities. The original site is RapidShare.de, which uses the German top-level domain ".de", and the organization has its central office in Cham, Switzerland.[2]
A month later, Rapidshare stated on their website that "we will not spy out the files that our clients faithfully upload onto RapidShare, not now nor in future. We are against upload control and guarantee you that your files are safe with us and will not be opened by anyone else than yourself, unless you distribute the download link." [12]
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If you don't understand security it wont matter what language you write in, it will still be crap.
Sounds good on paper, doesn't it? How about this: "The easier it is to make mistakes, the more people will."
Now what makes you think hospitals, private doctors, etc. are going to be able to protect their data any better? They have less money then the credit card companies.
They're not rich enough to pay for the same Get out of Jail Cards.
I'll say this, like I always say it: there is no magic bullet when it comes to security. Even an operating system written from the ground up around security like OpenBSD can be configured incorrectly. Even an operating system written from the ground up around security can have security bugs.
OpenBSD was not written securely from the ground up. It was secured from an inherited codebase over a long, long time. And they have witnessed, time after time, how they combed over the source code for a specific class of bugs, cleaned it, and two versions later the same bug appeared from upstream because the programmer did not fully grok the API he was using.
Just google for strlcpy().
that last crucial bit of code that is the microkernel itself is probably going to end up being written in C with ASM snippets, simply because at some point you need to explicitly state what the hardware is doing.
At which point you cannot get more secure than the hardware, so there's not much you can do at OS level.
The answer to whether kernels are stable enough depends on your requirements.
If the Linux kernel is not stable enough, you'd better roll your own because you obviously know better.
Monitoring, isolation and restarting is used in things like engine management systems, where failures are even less welcome and a full OS with this level of reliability is bound to have applications in medicine, industry, "defence", etc.
Linux does just the opposite. They test driver reliability before they release it. Seems to be working so far.
And if you need something that goes down less than the power grid, I suggest multiple computers on multiple locations.
And by older I mean everything tailored for XP, either 1 or 7 years ago.
How many times have we been through this? 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, and now this. How many legacy apps did Linux broke since then? Oh, right, they're still working because the code is open and there's always someone to fix that one function call that no longer exists.
Wanna bet? In five years the Win 7 apps will be either obsolete, or better supported on Linux than Windows 7++.
When you do that with a war game based on a real war, with real people, you run the risk of dishonoring their memories and sacrifices, and I think that this game has a dangerous potential to do that.
As opposed to imaginary wars like World War 2 and Vietnam?
You don't get it. This is the Crusade Of Our Generation, and as such, sacred. And everyone involved a saint. Even that lady who took pictures with the naked prisoners.
more about creating something that, even if it might have implementation bugs today is fundamentally, conceptually more secure.
So they're dropping C?
And Slashdot has the same 'news' as it had a month ago?
You must be new here.
What other steps might you take?
How about releasing a non-webapp client as well? Yes, you now completely defeated the purpose of the webapp, but at least RMS will shut up. I think it's worth it.
What incentive do they have to use open standards? Unless it makes them more money, they will not do it.
Reaching the ever-growing crowd that's not win32-based. Also, standard tools make for better applications, and ultimately, happy users.
I'm no RMS fan (GPL2 all the way) but isn't this shit obvious?
Do my rms-ian freedoms include deciding to use a website I know doesn't release the source code? Or is that more like the BSD freedom?
Seems uncannily like this story from a month ago: Richard Stallman Warns About Non-Free Web Apps
Newsflash! RMS has the same opinion he had a month ago!
"within the bounds of the law, you need to do what your boss asks you to do whether or not you necessarily agree with it.
Nope. Within the bounds of the law, I need to do what's in my job description. If the network is my responsibility, and I decide I can make better cable, cheaper, while also attending to all my other duties, the boss should not be in a position to stop me.
Since when is the boss paid to be an expert on ethernet cable manufacturing?
Depending on wages and such, the commercial cables could easily have 10x the labor and still be cheaper.
But those people don't work in the deployment environment, and they won't get the blame personally if they fail after a while.
What I want to know is, what are the limits? If I find a way to improve service (say, lifting a bandwidth cap), would they still be supportive and boastful? Or would I go from volunteer tech support status to dangerous hacker criminal?
You think improving their service is something they would want? They'd have already done that.
Also, I wonder how long these lead users will continue to do their thing once they find out they're being used like this.
While it may be cost effective to crimp and cut your own cable when you are making less than 20 dollars an hour once you are making 20 dollar+ just buy it.
So this is how you get the low-UID people to post. Congratulations. Also to OP.
[searchquery] -stupidforum1.com -stupidforum2.com -stupidforum3.com
You gave me an idea: there must be a Firefox plugin for this. After a bit of searching I found this.
Google truly does rock.
Where can I buy one of these time-shifted phones?
You'll call yourself in a decade with the answer, but you didn't pick the phone up yesterday.
With more and more content being sent via internet connections rather than traditional connections, ie cable, phone, satellite, pony express, Operating Systems in order to provide mainstream support will need to be able to provide support for these types of media.
Which is why we must force them to use open standards. The problem today is everyone and their dog has their own streaming implementaion, for whatever reasons. Which is of course incompatible not only across operating systems in general, but often across Windows versions as well.
We just need to make the producers realize this.
Gods yes. And not to mention that 80% of them are from 2006 or earlier.
To be fair, if you don't work primarily with software, information does not get outdated at this rate. Schrödinger's work is still useful today. IANAQP, of course.
That said, is there a way to blacklist all the Ubuntu forums in my Google profile?
When you want to push a package update out to all boxes, copy it from the public repository to the local one.
Assuming of course all boxes have the same version of the OS, the same packages installed, etc.
I suggest tentakel, and that OP could have found it in 2 minutes with Google. I did.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=multiple+linux+remote+administration The first hit mentions it.
IE (data analysis for human comprehension) and Google would make one fierce - and useful - blend.
Finding relevant information other than the Wikipedia page for any specialist topic is a pain in the ass. If these guys can find a way to index only the good stuff, i.e. not based on general popularity but content accuracy, they could have a future.
Do I have to remind everyone how annoying it is to search for technical documentation for something vaguely Linux-related, only to find the first 30 hits are various forums with more or less clueless newbies discussing installation difficulties and the syntax of apt-get?
and saves you from the negative word-of-mouth opt-out causes.
If everyone else does it as well, there is no negative fallout like that. Any opt-in thing gets a huge bonus, though, just by virtue of being different.
Why does this shit get modded up? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapidShare
RapidShare is a Swiss-owned one-click hosting pay- and free-service (with certain restrictions and limitations) website that operates from Switzerland and is financed by the subscriptions of paying users.
RapidShare has two different websites, but both sites claim to be entirely different organizations and entities. The original site is RapidShare.de, which uses the German top-level domain ".de", and the organization has its central office in Cham, Switzerland.[2]
A month later, Rapidshare stated on their website that "we will not spy out the files that our clients faithfully upload onto RapidShare, not now nor in future. We are against upload control and guarantee you that your files are safe with us and will not be opened by anyone else than yourself, unless you distribute the download link." [12]