Is the ignorance of the slashdot community at times. Terrorism is now a catch phrase? I guess it was really (sarcasm) suicide Republican pilots that crashed those planes into the World Trade Center. (/sarcasm)
Do you really think the U.S. is going to reveal all of its intelligence, so that the enemy can deduce how and where we got our information from? So that they can stop using these methods in the future?
I know its very "hip" in communities like Slashdot to be very anti-war and anti-government, but in this case, you are flat out wrong. And the divisiveness hurts the morale of the soldiers, limiting their effectiveness, and increasing their chances of injury and death. So, please, put your personal ideology to rest until the effort/attack/war has concluded, for the well-being of the country and for the safety of our men and women in uniform.
Then we can debate ad-nauseum about 900 pound gorillas.
OBL and his followers place their sensitive comunications encrypted onto ZIP disks, and then ship the ZIP disks via hand by a member of their organization. No amount of electronic surveillance, or encryption back doors will prevent that.
I agree with the pointsideas out by RMS, but they are worded in such a childish manner, that it is hard to take seriously.
As someone who has been through this, I assure you that major insurance companies do indeed offer this type of insurance. And as for simplifying the premium based on what OS you use, it goes much deeper than that. I spent two full days with the auditors going over everything from what OS we use to how many servers, what types of firewalls, where do we host, climate controls, how do we dispose of information (both paper and electronic), how much experience the staff has, etc., ad nauseum.
The OS a company uses is just one TINY part of the overall pricing.
Samba is in use EVERYWHERE. From small shops to huge multination financial conglomerates like Credit Suisse First Boston. Why? Because it works, and it works well, and for file serving, why on earth would ANYONE pay Microsoft and thei rediculous licensing fees.
1. In order to vote one needed a unique PIN #, plus know the answer to at least two other pieces of personal information about the user.
2. SSL was used in the transmission of the vote. Additionally, the java applet encrypted the sers vote prior to it "leaving" the voter's PC.
3. The vote tallying was not done by election.com, it was done by an independent accounting/auditing firm which also oversaw the eniter application develoment process as well as the hardening and security measures in place at the hosting site. Also, the table keeping track of who had or had not voted was kept separate from the table that recorded the votes. Only the independent auditors had the private key to decrypt the votes themselves. The passwords to access the database servers were not known by any one person...half of the password was typed in by a member of election.com and the other half was typed in by a member of the auditing firm.
it has less bugs because you havent found a bug? What kind of logic is that? W2K has 40 million lines of code or so, I guarantee there are MORE bugs, based on size alone, then there are in other MS products.
The final is still buggy and incomplete. Its a very "slick" distribution, but is not worthy of 1.0 versioning. IMHO, it is more like 0.9. Just one example:the progress meter in the GUI install will progress quite rapidly to 98%, but then sit there for about 10 minutes, making no "progress". I have already heard stories of people rebooting at this point because they thought the install had hung. As a distribution that is geared at the newer/inuexcperienced Linux user, I think that is a very bad thing.
3 - 6 weeks more in the beta cycle would have worked wonders, but Corel was intent to rush the product out the door in time for Comdex. Being part of the beta teams for both Corel and for MS Windows 98/98 SE, it saddens me to say this, but MS has a much better grip on how the beta process should be run. The Corel beta was sloppy and rushed.
I don't see why Corel could not have done what SuSE did, and simply "previewed" their distro at Comdex and not release the final until it was ready.
>Obviously you've only been using the Internet for >a few weeks (how are those 50 free hours holding >up?) so I'll do you a favor and fill you in.
Ah, childish comments. Bravo.
That aside, somehow posting the entire Good Times hoax, and then stating "ah yes. it's true what they say about fiction becoming reality. and we have microsoft to thank.:)" doesn't strike me as particularly 'insightful'.
Maybe I am wrong, but, to me, that looks like a post that has a great chance of confusing those readers that are less enlightened than yourself. Why do you think the Good Times hoax has ended up in your mailbox so many times? Literally, your post says "The Good Times virus is no longer fiction, but fact, thanks to MS". That is much different from "It is no longer true that you can't get a virus by simply reading an email." Things that are obvious to you, aren't obvious or even "fairly obvious" to others. I think it is wiser to write with specificity, and not make assumptions that the readership will be able to "read between your lines".
PS - Try to refrain from the immature little attacks in the future. Oops, gotta go, that "You've got mail" wav file just went off...
Why is this moderated up as 'insightful'? This is a HOAX. The FCC does NOT release statements regarding virus threats. "Warn your friends and local system users of this newest threat to the Internet! It could save them a lot of time and money." The aboive is a sure fire tip off to a hoax. Now break out your moderation points and blast that sucker down to -1, where it belongs.
Two, Sun may be jumpy about the whole licensing issue in the wake of the DOJ lawsuit against M$. M$ was partially picked out because it gave away Internet Explorer for free, whereas NetScrape was still being sold commercially. If Sun tries the same aggressive "push-out" with free software that M$ did to NetScrape, we may see another lawsuit in our news headlines. Why do people always get this wrong? They were not picked out because of giving the browser away for free, but for BUNDLING IT into the OS, thereby leveraging their dominant/monopoly position in the OS market to obtain an unfair advantage in the browser market.
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Is the ignorance of the slashdot community at times. Terrorism is now a catch phrase? I guess it was really (sarcasm) suicide Republican pilots that crashed those planes into the World Trade Center. (/sarcasm)
Do you really think the U.S. is going to reveal all of its intelligence, so that the enemy can deduce how and where we got our information from? So that they can stop using these methods in the future?
I know its very "hip" in communities like Slashdot to be very anti-war and anti-government, but in this case, you are flat out wrong. And the divisiveness hurts the morale of the soldiers, limiting their effectiveness, and increasing their chances of injury and death. So, please, put your personal ideology to rest until the effort/attack/war has concluded, for the well-being of the country and for the safety of our men and women in uniform.
Then we can debate ad-nauseum about 900 pound gorillas.
OBL and his followers place their sensitive comunications encrypted onto ZIP disks, and then ship the ZIP disks via hand by a member of their organization. No amount of electronic surveillance, or encryption back doors will prevent that.
I agree with the pointsideas out by RMS, but they are worded in such a childish manner, that it is hard to take seriously.
As someone who has been through this, I assure you that major insurance companies do indeed offer this type of insurance. And as for simplifying the premium based on what OS you use, it goes much deeper than that. I spent two full days with the auditors going over everything from what OS we use to how many servers, what types of firewalls, where do we host, climate controls, how do we dispose of information (both paper and electronic), how much experience the staff has, etc., ad nauseum. The OS a company uses is just one TINY part of the overall pricing.
Samba is in use EVERYWHERE. From small shops to huge multination financial conglomerates like Credit Suisse First Boston. Why? Because it works, and it works well, and for file serving, why on earth would ANYONE pay Microsoft and thei rediculous licensing fees.
A profitable dot.com business anywhere.
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2. SSL was used in the transmission of the vote. Additionally, the java applet encrypted the sers vote prior to it "leaving" the voter's PC.
3. The vote tallying was not done by election.com, it was done by an independent accounting/auditing firm which also oversaw the eniter application develoment process as well as the hardening and security measures in place at the hosting site. Also, the table keeping track of who had or had not voted was kept separate from the table that recorded the votes. Only the independent auditors had the private key to decrypt the votes themselves. The passwords to access the database servers were not known by any one person...half of the password was typed in by a member of election.com and the other half was typed in by a member of the auditing firm.
it has less bugs because you havent found a bug? What kind of logic is that? W2K has 40 million lines of code or so, I guarantee there are MORE bugs, based on size alone, then there are in other MS products.
The final is still buggy and incomplete. Its a very "slick" distribution, but is not worthy of 1.0 versioning. IMHO, it is more like 0.9. Just one example:the progress meter in the GUI install will progress quite rapidly to 98%, but then sit there for about 10 minutes, making no "progress". I have already heard stories of people rebooting at this point because they thought the install had hung. As a distribution that is geared at the newer/inuexcperienced Linux user, I think that is a very bad thing.
3 - 6 weeks more in the beta cycle would have worked wonders, but Corel was intent to rush the product out the door in time for Comdex. Being part of the beta teams for both Corel and for MS Windows 98/98 SE, it saddens me to say this, but MS has a much better grip on how the beta process should be run. The Corel beta was sloppy and rushed.
I don't see why Corel could not have done what SuSE did, and simply "previewed" their distro at Comdex and not release the final until it was ready.
>Obviously you've only been using the Internet for >a few weeks (how are those 50 free hours holding >up?) so I'll do you a favor and fill you in.
:)" doesn't strike me as particularly 'insightful'.
Ah, childish comments. Bravo.
That aside, somehow posting the entire Good Times hoax, and then stating "ah yes. it's true what they say about fiction becoming reality. and we have microsoft to thank.
Maybe I am wrong, but, to me, that looks like a post that has a great chance of confusing those readers that are less enlightened than yourself. Why do you think the Good Times hoax has ended up in your mailbox so many times? Literally, your post says "The Good Times virus is no longer fiction, but fact, thanks to MS". That is much different from "It is no longer true that you can't get a virus by simply reading an email." Things that are obvious to you, aren't obvious or even "fairly obvious" to others. I think it is wiser to write with specificity, and not make assumptions that the readership will be able to "read between your lines".
PS - Try to refrain from the immature little attacks in the future. Oops, gotta go, that "You've got mail" wav file just went off...
Why is this moderated up as 'insightful'? This is a HOAX. The FCC does NOT release statements regarding virus threats. "Warn your friends and local system users of this newest threat to the Internet! It could save them a lot of time and money." The aboive is a sure fire tip off to a hoax. Now break out your moderation points and blast that sucker down to -1, where it belongs.
Two, Sun may be jumpy about the whole licensing issue in the wake of the DOJ lawsuit against M$. M$ was partially picked out because it gave away Internet Explorer for free, whereas NetScrape was still being sold commercially. If Sun tries the same aggressive "push-out" with free software that M$ did to NetScrape, we may see another lawsuit in our news headlines.
Why do people always get this wrong? They were not picked out because of giving the browser away for free, but for BUNDLING IT into the OS, thereby leveraging their dominant/monopoly position in the OS market to obtain an unfair advantage in the browser market.