HR 2471 is slated to be voted on in committee at 10am EST on Thursday, November 29th.
Here is the list of House Judiciary Committee Members and their contact numbers: http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/press.cfm.
Just want to say thanks for having the balls to go into a miserable situation and put your ass on the line for a bunch of people you don't know and then had to stay for reasons very few knew about.
In the Marine Corps, we called it the "off-limits liberty" list. It ended up being a shopping list for all those places you really actually want to go. I know the Marines had the best intention, but c'mon. If I am 20 years old and told, "here is a list of places where they serve underage and where one can 'find a good time'," it's a no-brainer how I am going to use that list.
I am a reservist. My full time job is a sys admin for a fairly large engineering firm. When I deployed to Iraq last year, I spent my time providing security for a small FOB in Anbar. My job in the Marine Corps is Data. The government sent me to six months (of ultimately unnecessary) training in 29 palms. Yet, when I finally got the chance to deploy, I was a glorified MP. Instead, the Active Duty component and contractors supported the network infrastructure. Even when I pointed out areas they could improve the network, I was told to shut up and do the job I was deployed to do.
Upon returning, I tried transferring to a reserve component where my skills as a sys admin could actually be used. I was told, "The training I had received and the investment the Corps made in me was too much to allow me to transfer."
The Military could do a lot more at finding qualified reservists and leveraging their professional experience and expertise to help in areas where the military generally has problems finding qualified personnel.
My $0.02... For what it's worth... I am proud to wear the uniform. I am proud to have served my country. Yet, I am constantly frustrated by the inefficiencies and lack of common sense. I guess they just needed a body with rifle.
Well, "el lobo" means wolf. So !ellobo means it is not a wolf. Perhaps, not a wolf in sheeps clothing. See the wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf_in_Sheep's_Clothing.
From that article:
In English, "a wolf in sheep's clothing" has become a common metaphor for any hidden danger, or for any enemy putting on a false display of friendship. Not sure what the fuck this has to do with anything.
The biggest problem here is the lack of file system support in Windows. On a linux box, it is trivial to add support for virtually any file system type: NTFS, HFS, FAT, etc... The list goes on.
Since MacOSX is BSD based, I would be willing to bet that similar projects and support can be found (but, I Am Not A Mac Fanboy).
Damn. I thought they were talking about a recorder. I was really hoping to see pictures of monkeys in space playing them. Whoever sabotaged the recorder must burn!
By the end of March, Vista was used by 2.04% of computers connected to the Internet, according to the Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based company. That's up from 0.93% of PCs in February.
At this rate, in 100 more months Vista will have 101% of the market! I guess I should sell my Apple shares.
Wonder if MS is going to patent this "new" technology. Oh, wait... Prior art. A Google container project was mentioned about a year and a half ago.
From TFA:
The probable answer lies in one of Google's underground parking garages in Mountain View. There, in a secret area off-limits even to regular GoogleFolk, is a shipping container. But it isn't just any shipping container. This shipping container is a prototype data center. Google hired a pair of very bright industrial designers to figure out how to cram the greatest number of CPUs, the most storage, memory and power support into a 20- or 40-foot box. We're talking about 5000 Opteron processors and 3.5 petabytes of disk storage that can be dropped-off overnight by a tractor-trailer rig. The idea is to plant one of these puppies anywhere Google owns access to fiber, basically turning the entire Internet into a giant processing and storage grid.
There's a difference between a quick hack and a properly-written and -tested patch. Obviously. That is why I said "four months". MS has known about this for four months and only seems to be giving it attention now that the community at large knows about it. MS has all the source to windows and still has taken over three months to release a patch. Sure, the community patches are not as well tested as something MS can put out. Its MS's lack of any sort of urgency that is the problem.
How many more vuln's are out there that MS knows about? There are quite a few that are publicly known. What about those that have been privately reported to MS? Are we just supposed to sit by and hope MS releases patches for them? It seems that MS doesn't take a threat seriously until there is publicity surrounding it. Then, there is MS swooping in from above like a hero. How nice of them to release a patch out-of-cycle. Perhaps they could have realized the threat this vuln posed and released a patch before exploit code was all over the net.
I just can't wait to see the headline, "MS Releases Patch in 5 days for critical hole." When in fact, it should read, "MS Finally Patches Critical Hole Over Three Months After It Was Reported."
I am sure that MS will play this off as them being friendly and proactive by releasing a patch out of cycle. However, they have known about this vuln since December 2006. From the MS Security Response Center Blog:
[...] this issue was first brought to [Microsoft] in late December 2006 and we've been working on our investigation and a security update since then.
Wow! Thanks Microsoft! It seems that if a small group like ZERT can release a patch in a couple days, a company with purse strings like MS should be able to release a supported patch in less than four months!
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HR 2471 is slated to be voted on in committee at 10am EST on Thursday, November 29th. Here is the list of House Judiciary Committee Members and their contact numbers: http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/press.cfm.
Just want to say thanks for having the balls to go into a miserable situation and put your ass on the line for a bunch of people you don't know and then had to stay for reasons very few knew about.
You're welcome. ~Cheers!
Ummm... What do you mean by "undocumented"? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee330741(VS.85).aspx All these stupid articles are simply fanboys trying to get clicks on their sites. This is old news. Move along.
In the Marine Corps, we called it the "off-limits liberty" list. It ended up being a shopping list for all those places you really actually want to go. I know the Marines had the best intention, but c'mon. If I am 20 years old and told, "here is a list of places where they serve underage and where one can 'find a good time'," it's a no-brainer how I am going to use that list.
Just wait til they release their Times New Roman eBook reader.
I am a reservist. My full time job is a sys admin for a fairly large engineering firm. When I deployed to Iraq last year, I spent my time providing security for a small FOB in Anbar. My job in the Marine Corps is Data. The government sent me to six months (of ultimately unnecessary) training in 29 palms. Yet, when I finally got the chance to deploy, I was a glorified MP. Instead, the Active Duty component and contractors supported the network infrastructure. Even when I pointed out areas they could improve the network, I was told to shut up and do the job I was deployed to do. Upon returning, I tried transferring to a reserve component where my skills as a sys admin could actually be used. I was told, "The training I had received and the investment the Corps made in me was too much to allow me to transfer." The Military could do a lot more at finding qualified reservists and leveraging their professional experience and expertise to help in areas where the military generally has problems finding qualified personnel. My $0.02... For what it's worth... I am proud to wear the uniform. I am proud to have served my country. Yet, I am constantly frustrated by the inefficiencies and lack of common sense. I guess they just needed a body with rifle.
And all this time I thought it was free to do the right thing and not pirate software...
Since MacOSX is BSD based, I would be willing to bet that similar projects and support can be found (but, I Am Not A Mac Fanboy).
On Windows, you are pretty much stuck using either NTFS or FAT. FAT volumes can not be created in windows larger than 32GB. Although, you could create the partition using 3rd party tools to get beyond that limitation. I have had some success mounting ext3 partitions using Ext2 Installable File System For Windows or Ext2 File System Driver for Windows.
Personally, from my experience, VFAT or NTFS are about your only options.
Yeah, but does it run... uhhh... Windows?
Damn. I thought they were talking about a recorder. I was really hoping to see pictures of monkeys in space playing them. Whoever sabotaged the recorder must burn!
Phew... I was worried the internet got slashdotted.
I wonder what Ballmer was doing in SF? I didn't think chairs could cause that kind of damage.
It will be out later this year when MS releases Service Pack 1 for Unbuntu.
OpenOffice really does violate Microsoft patents. /ducks
Zenoss
Cacti
BixData
MRTG
etc, etc, etc...
This site has the biggest database of NMS's around.
getting around Windows 'mechanisms' and straight to Linux for years...
How many more vuln's are out there that MS knows about? There are quite a few that are publicly known. What about those that have been privately reported to MS? Are we just supposed to sit by and hope MS releases patches for them? It seems that MS doesn't take a threat seriously until there is publicity surrounding it. Then, there is MS swooping in from above like a hero. How nice of them to release a patch out-of-cycle. Perhaps they could have realized the threat this vuln posed and released a patch before exploit code was all over the net.
I just can't wait to see the headline, "MS Releases Patch in 5 days for critical hole." When in fact, it should read, "MS Finally Patches Critical Hole Over Three Months After It Was Reported."