The problem has never, and will never, be the availability of "weapons". The fact is, there are weapons all around us. Sitting here at my desk I have a multitude of tools that could easily be used to kill someone: a pen, a pencil, a flashlight, tape, an allen wrench, my keys, the lanyard on my keys, and the list goes on. Perhaps I should step outside... I'll add my car to the list of things that I could easily kill someone with. If I had a wood chipper, I'd add that as well. These items will never be outlawed.
Edged weapons, firearms, and bows/crossbows/compound-bows have real uses. If you want to go hunting, I would suggest bringing a knife and at least one firearm. Want to carve a turkey, you're going to need a knife (no, I do not support the electric knives). Marksmanship requires a firearm or bow of some sorts. I'll concede the fact that these items were originally designed for war, but they have found legitimate uses in every day society.
The real problem is the people who would wield these "weapons". Give a kid a piece of string an they might start playing Cat's Cradle. Give a serial killer that same piece of string and they'll strangle someone with it. The government (UK, US, etc) should be going after the criminals-- dare I say it, with a vengeance. Remove the people from society who would wish harm upon others. These people will find weapons where you might not think them to be; it's in their nature.
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Back when I worked at REI a coworker decided to grow a beard so his face would stay warm when he went snowshoeing. Unfortunately, the beard only managed to collect moisture, which consequently froze and only made him colder. I don't think his problem was quite as bad as the pictured gentleman, but it definitely was not pleasant.
Gee, I'm sorry. Guess working for one of the upstream providers and knowing for a fact we weren't contacted by any "experts", as you say, means very little. Note taken.
Actually, no. The "experts" in this case weren't even aware of McColo was actually doing because the few people who did know never shared the information. McColo was terminated because their providers received complaints that most likely went unanswered by McColo. The only "experts" involved here were the network engineers that executed the disconnects.
I really hate to do it, but I'm calling shenanigans. If you seriously have all that, I don't want my hardware there. No amount of your sales people promising my hardware wouldn't be swiss cheese after an incident could convince me otherwise.
Your armed response team is not the police, not even close, so they have to play by a slightly different set of rules. Laws regarding deadly force are pretty much the same (in California) for police and private citizens, but the repercussions are different. Shoot someone and you're a LEO, pat on the back for stopping the bad guy. Shoot someone in self-defense as a private citizen when they had a gun pointed at you, spend the night in jail. Oh, did I mention the whole lawsuit bit? Your fancy "armed response team" has been castrated before it even arrives. None of those people will risk their family's livelihood for their job.
Oh, and any decent thief can be in and out in less than four minutes.
Hahahaha! That was so funny I had to check something about that site...
Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP-CGI/0.1b
Yup, for all their hate of Linux, they use it. I wonder if they know?
How is Chewie getting on the plane? I doubt he has a driver's license, passport, or military ID. What about the metal detector? Hell, the bomb detector?!?! Wookies should not get preferential treatment in my not-so-humble opinion.
People who can form a coherent statement as to what they believe is wrong with GPLv3 are not whining. Everyone else that just doesn't like it, they're whining. I'm sorry if I offended you somehow.
...of a fork for a large and well known project like GCC can definitely shake things up. All the people involved just need to remember that if they do fork GCC, they've got a lot of work to do. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but some people just whine about licenses, threaten to fork, and hope for the developers to hear their cry.
I hate to say it, but GCC under GPLv3 is coming, and no amount of whining will change that.
All the research projects and archives from Area 51 are being moved the SGC. Sadly, this means the Air Force had to evict all the NORAD desk jockies. No, I'm not implying they just push paper; they push buttons too:-)
Pardon me for playing devil's advocate here, but... What was the average time taken to release a fix/patch for the security from the moment of discovery for both? I'm also curious how many of this vulnerabilities are still around? Without these bits of information the statistics you collected from the US-CERT are just numbers.
I seem to recall that Blizzard [blizzard.com] has been using the MPQ format to store its games data since Warcraft 2 (maybe earlier). "Woohoo! Look at all this music that came with this! *plays hissing and garbled sound* Ouchie..."
Also, what's to stop people from setting their sound system to record off the sound card what's being played, and save out the proprietary DRM'd music as OGG or MP3?
with an open source project [gentoo.org] many of the people I correspond with are outside of the US. For that matter, a good portion of the people who view and use what I work on are outside of the US. The people who helped me get started doing this, yes, not in the US.
It's apparent that the thing to be most largely hindered woud be international coopearation. Why the heck would we want to do that, or rather, advanced it? I see no tangable gains from this idea.
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The problem has never, and will never, be the availability of "weapons". The fact is, there are weapons all around us. Sitting here at my desk I have a multitude of tools that could easily be used to kill someone: a pen, a pencil, a flashlight, tape, an allen wrench, my keys, the lanyard on my keys, and the list goes on. Perhaps I should step outside... I'll add my car to the list of things that I could easily kill someone with. If I had a wood chipper, I'd add that as well. These items will never be outlawed.
Edged weapons, firearms, and bows/crossbows/compound-bows have real uses. If you want to go hunting, I would suggest bringing a knife and at least one firearm. Want to carve a turkey, you're going to need a knife (no, I do not support the electric knives). Marksmanship requires a firearm or bow of some sorts. I'll concede the fact that these items were originally designed for war, but they have found legitimate uses in every day society.
The real problem is the people who would wield these "weapons". Give a kid a piece of string an they might start playing Cat's Cradle. Give a serial killer that same piece of string and they'll strangle someone with it. The government (UK, US, etc) should be going after the criminals-- dare I say it, with a vengeance. Remove the people from society who would wish harm upon others. These people will find weapons where you might not think them to be; it's in their nature.
Back when I worked at REI a coworker decided to grow a beard so his face would stay warm when he went snowshoeing. Unfortunately, the beard only managed to collect moisture, which consequently froze and only made him colder. I don't think his problem was quite as bad as the pictured gentleman, but it definitely was not pleasant.
I hope they obtained a license to do public performance of the music, otherwise they'll probably see some paperwork their way ;-)
Gee, I'm sorry. Guess working for one of the upstream providers and knowing for a fact we weren't contacted by any "experts", as you say, means very little. Note taken.
Actually, no. The "experts" in this case weren't even aware of McColo was actually doing because the few people who did know never shared the information. McColo was terminated because their providers received complaints that most likely went unanswered by McColo. The only "experts" involved here were the network engineers that executed the disconnects.
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At least she's got it facing the right direction...
Take Windows 7 seriously? You mean, like they took XP 64 seriously? Yup, we'll have this fully supported in no time ;-)
I really hate to do it, but I'm calling shenanigans. If you seriously have all that, I don't want my hardware there. No amount of your sales people promising my hardware wouldn't be swiss cheese after an incident could convince me otherwise.
Your armed response team is not the police, not even close, so they have to play by a slightly different set of rules. Laws regarding deadly force are pretty much the same (in California) for police and private citizens, but the repercussions are different. Shoot someone and you're a LEO, pat on the back for stopping the bad guy. Shoot someone in self-defense as a private citizen when they had a gun pointed at you, spend the night in jail. Oh, did I mention the whole lawsuit bit? Your fancy "armed response team" has been castrated before it even arrives. None of those people will risk their family's livelihood for their job.
Oh, and any decent thief can be in and out in less than four minutes.
This is why I SSH tunnel any truly sensitive traffic to as close as I can get to the destination.
No... I've run Apache under Windows before. I'd rather use Linux, but that's just me. Here's a server signature from a system I know is Linux:
Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) AuthMySQL/2.20 PHP/4.1.2 mod_gzip/1.3.19.1a mod_ssl/2.8.9 OpenSSL/0.9.6g
Still says Unix. So does Windows? Well, I install Apache on a Windows machine just now, just to find out. And...
Server: Apache/2.2.6 (Win32)
I think that says everything.
Hahahaha! That was so funny I had to check something about that site... Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP-CGI/0.1b Yup, for all their hate of Linux, they use it. I wonder if they know?
How is Chewie getting on the plane? I doubt he has a driver's license, passport, or military ID. What about the metal detector? Hell, the bomb detector?!?! Wookies should not get preferential treatment in my not-so-humble opinion.
People who can form a coherent statement as to what they believe is wrong with GPLv3 are not whining. Everyone else that just doesn't like it, they're whining. I'm sorry if I offended you somehow.
...of a fork for a large and well known project like GCC can definitely shake things up. All the people involved just need to remember that if they do fork GCC, they've got a lot of work to do. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but some people just whine about licenses, threaten to fork, and hope for the developers to hear their cry. I hate to say it, but GCC under GPLv3 is coming, and no amount of whining will change that.
is that you not use SPEWS. Oh the pain that "list" causes me.
Apparently I didn't get enough sleep. Thank you for the correct and addition.
Well, maybe it is. So "the article sites previous cases" does it? Tell me then, just what does it see? Ohh... You mean "cites". Gotchya.
Pardon my slaughtering of the English language, I forgot a "to" in my previous response.
All the research projects and archives from Area 51 are being moved the SGC. Sadly, this means the Air Force had to evict all the NORAD desk jockies. No, I'm not implying they just push paper; they push buttons too :-)
Pardon me for playing devil's advocate here, but... What was the average time taken to release a fix/patch for the security from the moment of discovery for both? I'm also curious how many of this vulnerabilities are still around? Without these bits of information the statistics you collected from the US-CERT are just numbers.
Hooray for OC-192's! That and Microsoft peering.
I seem to recall that Blizzard [blizzard.com] has been using the MPQ format to store its games data since Warcraft 2 (maybe earlier). "Woohoo! Look at all this music that came with this! *plays hissing and garbled sound* Ouchie..." Also, what's to stop people from setting their sound system to record off the sound card what's being played, and save out the proprietary DRM'd music as OGG or MP3?
Haha, sadly I almost agree with you. My obvious plug aside, open source as a whole would take a huge hit if the internet were regionalized.
with an open source project [gentoo.org] many of the people I correspond with are outside of the US. For that matter, a good portion of the people who view and use what I work on are outside of the US. The people who helped me get started doing this, yes, not in the US. It's apparent that the thing to be most largely hindered woud be international coopearation. Why the heck would we want to do that, or rather, advanced it? I see no tangable gains from this idea.