User: Jurily

Re:ok and?

On: Slackware 12.1 Released

Cool ad. Is the "STAY AWAY!!!" logo on the booting screen too?

Re:valid analogy invoked the first

On: PRO-IP Act Passes Judiciary Committee

Yet.

Re:Why should this upset them?

On: Malware Modification Contest Has Antivirus Vendors Upset

Sorry, I'm a Gentoo user with less than enough spare time. You have 5 minutes to explain SELinux if I'm going to use it, I have ten to implement it. Go ahead.

P.S. Last time I installed it, all sorts of nasty things happened to my pre-compiled stuff. What would you do about those? Clock is ticking.

Re:You're wrong about this one

On: Malware Modification Contest Has Antivirus Vendors Upset

if they can get you to download, chmod and run their code they can install an invisible rootkit capable of all the nastiness that Windows rootkits can do If I can convince an admin to install my rootkit, the problem is not with the OS. Difference is, *nix systems DO ask for permission to do nasty things as root.

Re:Ubuntu Instead?

On: Dell Will Offer XP Past Cutoff Date

3) Even if they didn't have "support" from microsoft, Dell was already handling some of the support for their XP machines, so it's not fair to say it's unsupported, just "unsupported by vendor"

How many critical security bugs has Dell fixed lately?

Well, that depends on how many bugs you count for Windows... http://dell.com/open/ Just in case you weren't trolling, the context made my point clear, I think.

Re:Why should this upset them?

On: Malware Modification Contest Has Antivirus Vendors Upset

Like I said, I'm lazy. /home/jurily/bin DOES have exec permissions. I like to keep my custom scripts away from portage.

And yes, this is a security/convenience trade-off. I'm a programmer. I don't have time to setup a user just for my executables, thank you.

Noexec is fine for an average user, but where should I, the programmer, put all my stuff?

Re:Why should this upset them?

On: Malware Modification Contest Has Antivirus Vendors Upset

I was going to moderate, but I can't let this one slide.

normal users don't run with the sort of privileges that would allow the virus (or trojan as in your example) to do very much damage or replicate itself. A normal user has access to the network and a home directory. How is that not enough for a virus?

Sure, it can't burn itself into the registry or equivalent, but it sure as hell can replicate itself. Hell, it can even cause a lot of headaches when you're lazy like me and have a whole drive mounted in /home/jurily/stuff with full write access.

Trojans are a different beast, of course, as they rely on the OS more heavily.

Re:Ubuntu Instead?

On: Dell Will Offer XP Past Cutoff Date

3) Even if they didn't have "support" from microsoft, Dell was already handling some of the support for their XP machines, so it's not fair to say it's unsupported, just "unsupported by vendor" How many critical security bugs has Dell fixed lately?

Re:This is how science works

On: Black Hole Particle Jets Explained

Actually, for GW to be tested, we would need another planet to play with.

Re:what other ideas of his will come to pass?

On: DARPA Working On Arthur C. Clarke Weapon Idea

What they need is the Total Perspective Vortex

Re:someone mod parent up please

On: Best Way To Avoid Keyloggers On Public Terminals?

Ever tried to swallow a defribrillator?

Re:this is why we need competition

On: Vuze Study Exposes P2P Throttling By Canadian ISP Cogeco

Yes, it has. Hence the need for anti-trust laws.

Re:Isnt fake meat called...

On: PETA Offers X-Prize for Artificial Meat

As always, it sounds good on paper. Can we possibly make it healthy enough without recreating the whole package? Also, can we make it healthy enough for regular consumption?

Alternatively, we could eat those PETA supporters so that we don't have to kill those poor livestock bred for precisely that purpose. Would they have a different flavor?

Re:A Few More Points to Weigh

On: The End of Non-Widescreen Laptops?

because my employer won't buy from China ... what with the phone home possibilities of hardware and all. Let me guess: this is a pure Open Source company, right?

Re:Wait..

On: CNN Website Targeted by DoS

Yeah, all those adblock and noscript users are a real burden on their servers.

Re:Sanctity of Tech?

On: A Tech Lover's Call to Arms

Saving human life in Darfur is more important. Sounds like a WoW quest to me.

Oblig.

On: Cybersecurity and Piracy on the High Seas

The U.S. government's inability to dictate a consistent cyber commerce protection policy is creating a financial burden on the U.S. private sector to maintain a status quo, when those resources could be used to mount a more-effective Internet-focused defense. BINGO!

Re:I believe the lack is intentional...

On: ISO Releases OOXML FAQ

Umm... duh?

The preview button has been there for as long as I can remember. It was sarcasm.

Re:I believe the lack is intentional...

On: ISO Releases OOXML FAQ

What we need is an append-only mode, with timestamps.

(Or maybe a preview button.)

Re:Yes, and yes.

On: Hardy Heron Making Linux Ready for the Masses?

2 years is a long time in computing. Don't let the MS release cycle fool you.

Re:I can think of no possible negative consequence

On: Laser Triggers Electrical Activity In Thunderstorm

They still need sharks, just to be on the safe side.

Re:Um, not so much of a newsflash

On: Brain Study Calls Free Will Into Question

Laplace's demon comes to mind.

While Laplace saw foremost practical problems for mankind to reach this ultimate stage of knowledge and computation, later interpretations of quantum mechanics, which were adopted by philosophers defending the existence of free will, also leave the theoretical possibility of such an "intellect" contested.

Re:SEI/Space Station Freedom anyone?

On: Russia To Build an Orbital Construction Plant

Like when the US spent a lot of money to develop a pen that can write without gravity, while the russians used pencils?

Awww. Wikipedia says it's just an urban legend. But that won't stop me from posting.

Re:Checklist for Slashdot

On: Virgin Media CEO Says Net Neutrality Is Already Gone

Make your own story with microsoft and goatse, but please keep them away from the internet.

Re:Is the USA still a democracy?

On: US To Employ Overhead Spying Domestically

They don't need to do that.

Corporations that have donated at least $500,000 to both Gore and Bush

[Source: Jim Hightower]

    AT&T
    Philip Morris
    Amer Financial Group
    Microsoft
    Atlantic Richfield Co.
    SBC Communications
    Enron
    Mirage Resorts
    Federal Express
    Citigroup
    Amer Airlines
    Bell Atlantic
    Anheuser-Busch
    Limited Inc.
    Pfizer
    Rite Aid
    Schering-Plough
    BellSouth
    Joseph E. Seagram & Sons
    Bristol-Myers Squibb
    Union Pacific
    Blue Cross & Blue
    Shield
    MBNA Corp
    America Online
    Amer Intl Group
    MCI Worldcom
    Ernst & Young
    Circus Circus
    Enterprises
    Sprint
    AFLAC
    Time Warner
    Boeing
    Prudential Insurance
    Ocean Spray Cranberries
    Paine Webber
    MGM Grand
    Archer Daniels Midland
    Walt Disney
    Coca-Cola
    Flo-Sun Sugar Co.
    Lockheed Martin
    Intl. Game Technology
    United Airlines
    Oracle
    Exxon Mobil
    United Technologies
    US West
    Pacific Gas & Electric
    Upjohn
    Owens Corning
    Chevron
    Park Place
    Entertainment
    Bacardi Martini USA
    Boston Capital Partners
    Eli Lilly & Co.
    Georgia-Pacific
    Amer Home Products
    Amer Express
    Bechtel Group
    Loews Corp
    Sunoco
    General Electric
    Northern Telecom
    General Dynamics
    New York Life Insurance
    United HealthCare
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