OS dll hell, where developers had a party on operating system files. One developer would enhance an OS file replacing it with his/her cool extensions needed by their application. The next set of developers would extend the same OS file breaking the other applications needed extensions. With modern programming languages / OS developers inherit functionality and extend it making a new file, so the issue has been reduced.
I installed Google toolbar on Vista the other day to get my favorite site search tool and it broke internet explorer. Fortunately add/remove programs let me remove Google toolbar and my browser started to work again. My guess is Google compromised a file needed by windows for the browser to work.
Now if Google can't make an installer smart enough to detect my OS/browser to not install the browser plug-in or it wasn't tested properly, then when all the small software shops start making web plug-ins the consumer has no guarantee anything will work.
So how is this any worse than a windows application. If a non driver related windows program causes a dll problem and breaks another program the worst case scenario is a few programs are down. If a web application breaks my browser then every web application I run is down.
Discovery Institute smears Discovery Institute. News now on slashdot.
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If you ignore the fact that the Discovery Institute (DI) is a company that duplicated and distributed the content you may have a case to slam slashdot. If they took the content "as is" and used it as an educational device you may also have a case. The reality is DI the company took copyrighted content ripped out the copyright notice, renamed, edited and duplicated it for a profit. Despite the fact the DI is a non profit organization they still receive money from various sources to pay for its business expenses and content creation so indirectly this video is part of a commercial venture and therefore profit. At the vary least this is plagiarism, one of the worst things you can do in the academic environment.
With a Democate controlled congress we think everything thing the congress does is considered to be Democrate sponsered. Some bad moves have been their intiatives.
Its important to see the individuals who are supporting this kind of legislation so we can keep an eye on them and I think its poor reporting not to give all the facts.
The big question. Is there any way to stop an out of control US government. I can see it now. A small nuclear blast hits Africa (CIA scurry away). US blames Iran. US tells citizens if we don't stop them we are next. Defence manufactures raise champagne glasses in back rooms as the bombing of Iran starts. Money starts flowing to over seas bank accounts, relatives companies get rich. Welcome to the modern day capitalism.
A friend who is very anti-M$ is working for a medium sized business worth a few million dollars and had a Linux infastructure. Recently a new CIO was hired. The CIO then decided to move to Microsoft Technology and spent $500,000 to do it. I wonder if the CIO is aware of the M$ kickbacks.
His hand sent out a turn *REQUEST* to his sleeping neigbour's door knob. His hand said: "Can I have access to this house? Can I have the information I need to open this premise?"
To which the door replied: "Yes, you can twist the knob You can enter through the unlocked back door.
He *asked* to use the house, and the door knob said *yes*.
Location makes a big factor in green power. A non mountainous land locked state has fewer options, wind being one of them. A ocean state with mountains has more options.
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Here is a link to the goverment EPA website with green power links. Click on Oklahoma and notice the 3 wind options. Click on Washington state and notice the 15+ green power options (wind, PV, Hydro, landfill gas, Bio gas). http://www.epa.gov/greenpower/locator/index.htm.
The only way a company would locate a facility drawing lots of power in a state with less power options is cheaper cost.
In Ontario Canada the nuclear plants were publicly owned and in the process of being privatized. This required inspections. After the inspections it was found that many of these did not meet minimal safety requirements. I suspect if most of the nuclear plants were inspected they too would fall into this category and its only when a crisis arises that we find their real condition.
As far as I am concerned the only clean electracal sources are hydro, wind, solar and any other source where the output is not extremly dangerous materials(radioactive etc).
Yep some of your statements are correct for civialian frequencies (see the link freq Aloc chart). The FCC packs channels as tight as they can especially in the civilian space where there isn't that much bandwidth available. In the Avionics space the frequency spacing was based on the sensitivity of the filters at creation date and that was back in (1940s) for DME VOR TACAN (the cell phones nieghbour frequencies).
Example DME (distance measuring equipment) has 1 Mhz spacing in between channels. Thats huge when you look at how selective the modern filters are. Also the FCC puts a buffer between technologies example DME's lowest used frequency is 977 Mhz but the FCC alocated 960 as the lowest frequency. The highest frequency on the low band of cell is 850 Mhz,Thats 127 times the needed selectivity bandwidth.
And that would have to do with the type of modulation. FM has that nice thing called capture that will actively mute weaker signals. In airlines with ATC, you dont want this*. AM would be preferable, as it allows everybody to be heard.
Not sure what you are saying here as Analog cell phones use FM modulation and they are pretty clean also no Air Traffic Communication (ATC) frequency band is close to the cell bands of 800, 850 or 1900 Mhz. The most commonly used Aircraft com device is the VHF radio at with the highest used freq of 108 MHz - 88Mhz.
I used to work on Aircraft avionics in my earlier days. Unless a pilot has an electrical engineering degree, Pilots generaly don't know to much about the actual working of the electronics on board that they use. The FCC alots frequencies to civilian and gouverment agencies. A hug chunk of the available frequencies go to Avionics/Gouverment leaving only a few frequencies for civilian use (Notice how overused 2.4 GHz is). When frequencies are assigned the useable ones are far enough away from each other so no interferance happens. The electronic equipment is also designed to filter out any other frequency outside its selected range. Example if you talk on one VHF channel you don't hear the VHF channels beside it.
The strongest source of the cell signal is the cell tower which planes fly through all the time. So how would a cell phone effect other systems on a plane? They would not.
The thinking is the MAFIA talks to schools about the piracy. The schools say we don't have enough money to setup monitoring and the money we have can't be used for monitoring. The MAFIA talks to it's lobbied politicians who then change the rule to allow money be spent on monitoring.
The problem is the MAFIA's interests are coming before the interests of the students. The students being vulnerable in our society (no time or money to fight back) have lost any sort of social support from the political system.
Not a good idea. The large corporations use the H-1B workers as indentured workers, usually applying for green cards for them after they receive their H1Bs. This keeps a highly skilled worker at a company for years at a lower salary. Companies like M$ would gladly pay premium dollar for the cheap skilled labour and smaller US business would lose the ability to find workers and compete.
I am all for the school system teaching creationism as the real truth. Within the diverse traditions of Hinduism, creation of the universe and life itself is generally believed to have occurred due to the will of a supreme consciousness or intelligence, often referred to as Brahman.
It's conceivable, though highly unlikely, that one day evolution will be disproven completely.
Yes it will be the day when weak minded presidents and leaders have allowed religions to get a strangle hold on country politics and all the scientists are bought and paid for.
The churches can go back and write version 295 of the existing religious texts, adding chapter 2 where Adam fights the dinosaurs with his apple tree club to bring back some raptor burgers for Eve.
As a business that represents other companies it's in their best interest to create a profit and stop Internet piracy. They are trying a few greasy tricks to make money.
Try and get standard settlements that more than recoup court costs, like the ridiculous $750 per song fines.
Attack those who don't have the time and money to defend them selves like students.
Yet another tactic is to try and blanket charge a whole lot of folks hoping some will cough up the money with no court date.
Attack folks with little or no evidence hoping for an out of court settlement then back out if the defendant gets a lawyer.
This is business at its worst. Someone should go after these guys with a class action suit or set up a fake file sharing site to lure them into a case they will lose.
There are four issues here The number of code vulnerabilities (will never be known). The number of code vulnerabilities that have been exploited by hackers (will never be known). The number of exploited code vulnerabilities or bugs that have been found by security experts. (known). The number of exploited code vulnerabilities (security bugs) that get fixed.
Since the real security measure of an OS is actual number of code vulnerabilities and this is based on the number of lines of code, the language, the known exploits types, the experience in security of the programmers, how much time programmers have to make the OS, security testing, the security tools used and many more items. This means the actual security of an OS is unmeasureable.
The next best step to try and measure OS security is to see the number of code vulnerabilities that have been exploited. The more hackers focused on an OS given the same number of code vulnerabilities will result in more exploits found. Since the imagination of the hacker and the OS surface area for exploitation on these OS are so large the number of exploited code vulnerabilities can't be found. This means your PC is never safe when connected to the internet because the number of exploits will always be more than the number of known security bugs which will always be more than the number of fixed security bugs.
Looking for known exploits is next best step to see how secure a OS is. What is being measured here is exploited code vulnerabilities that have been found and this in no way determines the security of an OS, but just a guesstimate. 90+% of the hackers and security experts are focused on Windows OS. This is driven by the business community. This means the database tools used by security analysis are filled with mostly Windows bugs. Using these databases gives you a unbalanced picture of Windows security when compared to other OS. It will make the other OS look better than they are due to the lack of non Windows bugs (example Messenger service bugs).
The number of exploited code vulnerabilities that get fixed is a good measure to see how serious a company is about security, which in turn will reflect in a reduction of code vulnerabilities due to security vidulance. OSX is now using Unix and there are a lot of good hackers who love Unix/Linux, OSX is now very vulnerable due to the low number of Mac security experts vs the large number of Unix/Linux hackers. There are a lot of Unix bugs that have been fixed by the open source community that haven't been fixed in OSX. Apple has generally refused to discuss the security of its Mac OS X operating system with the media, which should raise some eyebrows. It also has been very slow in fixing known security bugs. Here is an article that shows a Mac security expert getting hit with an exploit at a hackers conference. The exploit was an unknown. http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11375
The reason Microsoft needs H1B visas is because most Americans don't want to work for the company as the pay/stock options are weak and the hours are long.
Washington State is very behind in green card processing, so as a side bonus M$ takes the H1B immigrant workers waves green cards in front of their faces and then has indentured workers for up to 5 years.
During those 5 years they can work the snot out of the immigrants with out fear of them going else where.
past concentrations of carbon dioxide were much higher than they are today Yes during the Cretaceous period the levels of carbon dioxide where higher. The pole temperatures where 77 degrees Fahrenheit higher than today and there was no ice on them. If we returned to those carbon dioxide levels most sea level cities would be under water.
I have also seen a great rejection of the global warming panic in the scientific community
Actually you haven't. You quoted a open letter but you did not quote the source. The letter came from ECO (Environmental Conservation Organization). They were formed in 1988 to battle environmental regulations and have been linked to Exxon.
I have also seen a growing political backlash against scientifically-unfounded runaway global warming panic Nope you haven't. You quoted politicaly motivated web site as your proof.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybercast_News_Servic e
The Vice President and President aligned themselves with unethical companies like Exxon and Halliburton, who put money above the trust of the US people. Profit rules the day in the US, with many companies breaking ethics and laws to obtain more wealth.
Dispite Coast guard security concerns, the US gouverment tried to give control of the US ports to a company in the United Arab Emirates, in which Dubai is the capital. Now it seems that a top US defense contractor is moving to Dubai. With a lot of Muslim countires at war there is a lot of money to be made.
The State Department describes the UAE as a vital partner in the fight against terrorism. But the UAE, a loose federation of seven emirates on the Saudi peninsula, was an important operational and financial base for the hijackers who carried out the attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the FBI concluded.
Where will US military technolgy end up? Will the US gouverment allow the shipping / storage of weapons in Dubai. The US legal system keeps these unethical companies in check. Who will keep them in check when they operate on foriegn soil.
Sorry but I do not trust this gouverment or it's supported companys with my safety.
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OS dll hell, where developers had a party on operating system files. One developer would enhance an OS file replacing it with his/her cool extensions needed by their application. The next set of developers would extend the same OS file breaking the other applications needed extensions. With modern programming languages / OS developers inherit functionality and extend it making a new file, so the issue has been reduced.
I installed Google toolbar on Vista the other day to get my favorite site search tool and it broke internet explorer. Fortunately add/remove programs let me remove Google toolbar and my browser started to work again. My guess is Google compromised a file needed by windows for the browser to work.
Now if Google can't make an installer smart enough to detect my OS/browser to not install the browser plug-in or it wasn't tested properly, then when all the small software shops start making web plug-ins the consumer has no guarantee anything will work.
So how is this any worse than a windows application. If a non driver related windows program causes a dll problem and breaks another program the worst case scenario is a few programs are down. If a web application breaks my browser then every web application I run is down.
If you ignore the fact that the Discovery Institute (DI) is a company that duplicated and distributed the content you may have a case to slam slashdot. If they took the content "as is" and used it as an educational device you may also have a case. The reality is DI the company took copyrighted content ripped out the copyright notice, renamed, edited and duplicated it for a profit. Despite the fact the DI is a non profit organization they still receive money from various sources to pay for its business expenses and content creation so indirectly this video is part of a commercial venture and therefore profit. At the vary least this is plagiarism, one of the worst things you can do in the academic environment.
I will be buying a Kodak if the cost of both toner and printers is low as well as a minimum reliability.
With a Democate controlled congress we think everything thing the congress does is considered to be Democrate sponsered. Some bad moves have been their intiatives.
This bill is not one of them. This bill is sponsered by the Republicans "Rep Towns, Edolphus" and 36 of his republican collegues see http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:H.R.Its important to see the individuals who are supporting this kind of legislation so we can keep an eye on them and I think its poor reporting not to give all the facts.
The big question. Is there any way to stop an out of control US government. I can see it now. A small nuclear blast hits Africa (CIA scurry away). US blames Iran. US tells citizens if we don't stop them we are next. Defence manufactures raise champagne glasses in back rooms as the bombing of Iran starts. Money starts flowing to over seas bank accounts, relatives companies get rich. Welcome to the modern day capitalism.
A friend who is very anti-M$ is working for a medium sized business worth a few million dollars and had a Linux infastructure. Recently a new CIO was hired. The CIO then decided to move to Microsoft Technology and spent $500,000 to do it. I wonder if the CIO is aware of the M$ kickbacks.
His hand sent out a turn *REQUEST* to his sleeping neigbour's door knob. His hand said: "Can I have access to this house? Can I have the information I need to open this premise?"
To which the door replied: "Yes, you can twist the knob You can enter through the unlocked back door.
He *asked* to use the house, and the door knob said *yes*.
Location makes a big factor in green power. A non mountainous land locked state has fewer options, wind being one of them. A ocean state with mountains has more options.
Here is a link to the goverment EPA website with green power links. Click on Oklahoma and notice the 3 wind options. Click on Washington state and notice the 15+ green power options (wind, PV, Hydro, landfill gas, Bio gas).
http://www.epa.gov/greenpower/locator/index.htm.
The only way a company would locate a facility drawing lots of power in a state with less power options is cheaper cost.
In Ontario Canada the nuclear plants were publicly owned and in the process of being privatized. This required inspections. After the inspections it was found that many of these did not meet minimal safety requirements. I suspect if most of the nuclear plants were inspected they too would fall into this category and its only when a crisis arises that we find their real condition.
As far as I am concerned the only clean electracal sources are hydro, wind, solar and any other source where the output is not extremly dangerous materials(radioactive etc).If googles energy useage is hidden, the state can give them cheaper electricity than everyone else and the taxpayers pick up another corporate bill.
With the greener thinking of the world, Oklahoma's power may be from nuclear/coal plants, making Google a not so green business.Yep some of your statements are correct for civialian frequencies (see the link freq Aloc chart). The FCC packs channels as tight as they can especially in the civilian space where there isn't that much bandwidth available. In the Avionics space the frequency spacing was based on the sensitivity of the filters at creation date and that was back in (1940s) for DME VOR TACAN (the cell phones nieghbour frequencies).
Example DME (distance measuring equipment) has 1 Mhz spacing in between channels. Thats huge when you look at how selective the modern filters are. Also the FCC puts a buffer between technologies example DME's lowest used frequency is 977 Mhz but the FCC alocated 960 as the lowest frequency. The highest frequency on the low band of cell is 850 Mhz,Thats 127 times the needed selectivity bandwidth.
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Not sure what you are saying here as Analog cell phones use FM modulation and they are pretty clean also no Air Traffic Communication (ATC) frequency band is close to the cell bands of 800, 850 or 1900 Mhz. The most commonly used Aircraft com device is the VHF radio at with the highest used freq of 108 MHz - 88Mhz.
I used to work on Aircraft avionics in my earlier days. Unless a pilot has an electrical engineering degree, Pilots generaly don't know to much about the actual working of the electronics on board that they use. The FCC alots frequencies to civilian and gouverment agencies. A hug chunk of the available frequencies go to Avionics/Gouverment leaving only a few frequencies for civilian use (Notice how overused 2.4 GHz is). When frequencies are assigned the useable ones are far enough away from each other so no interferance happens. The electronic equipment is also designed to filter out any other frequency outside its selected range. Example if you talk on one VHF channel you don't hear the VHF channels beside it.
The strongest source of the cell signal is the cell tower which planes fly through all the time. So how would a cell phone effect other systems on a plane? They would not.
The thinking is the MAFIA talks to schools about the piracy. The schools say we don't have enough money to setup monitoring and the money we have can't be used for monitoring. The MAFIA talks to it's lobbied politicians who then change the rule to allow money be spent on monitoring.
The problem is the MAFIA's interests are coming before the interests of the students. The students being vulnerable in our society (no time or money to fight back) have lost any sort of social support from the political system.
The US as a country is broken.Not a good idea. The large corporations use the H-1B workers as indentured workers, usually applying for green cards for them after they receive their H1Bs. This keeps a highly skilled worker at a company for years at a lower salary. Companies like M$ would gladly pay premium dollar for the cheap skilled labour and smaller US business would lose the ability to find workers and compete.
I am all for the school system teaching creationism as the real truth. Within the diverse traditions of Hinduism, creation of the universe and life itself is generally believed to have occurred due to the will of a supreme consciousness or intelligence, often referred to as Brahman.
Yes it will be the day when weak minded presidents and leaders have allowed religions to get a strangle hold on country politics and all the scientists are bought and paid for.
The churches can go back and write version 295 of the existing religious texts, adding chapter 2 where Adam fights the dinosaurs with his apple tree club to bring back some raptor burgers for Eve.
This is business at its worst. Someone should go after these guys with a class action suit or set up a fake file sharing site to lure them into a case they will lose.
There are four issues here
The number of code vulnerabilities (will never be known).
The number of code vulnerabilities that have been exploited by hackers (will never be known).
The number of exploited code vulnerabilities or bugs that have been found by security experts. (known).
The number of exploited code vulnerabilities (security bugs) that get fixed.
Since the real security measure of an OS is actual number of code vulnerabilities and this is based on the number of lines of code, the language, the known exploits types, the experience in security of the programmers, how much time programmers have to make the OS, security testing, the security tools used and many more items. This means the actual security of an OS is unmeasureable.
The next best step to try and measure OS security is to see the number of code vulnerabilities that have been exploited. The more hackers focused on an OS given the same number of code vulnerabilities will result in more exploits found. Since the imagination of the hacker and the OS surface area for exploitation on these OS are so large the number of exploited code vulnerabilities can't be found. This means your PC is never safe when connected to the internet because the number of exploits will always be more than the number of known security bugs which will always be more than the number of fixed security bugs.
Looking for known exploits is next best step to see how secure a OS is. What is being measured here is exploited code vulnerabilities that have been found and this in no way determines the security of an OS, but just a guesstimate. 90+% of the hackers and security experts are focused on Windows OS. This is driven by the business community. This means the database tools used by security analysis are filled with mostly Windows bugs. Using these databases gives you a unbalanced picture of Windows security when compared to other OS. It will make the other OS look better than they are due to the lack of non Windows bugs (example Messenger service bugs).
The number of exploited code vulnerabilities that get fixed is a good measure to see how serious a company is about security, which in turn will reflect in a reduction of code vulnerabilities due to security vidulance. OSX is now using Unix and there are a lot of good hackers who love Unix/Linux, OSX is now very vulnerable due to the low number of Mac security experts vs the large number of Unix/Linux hackers. There are a lot of Unix bugs that have been fixed by the open source community that haven't been fixed in OSX. Apple has generally refused to discuss the security of its Mac OS X operating system with the media, which should raise some eyebrows. It also has been very slow in fixing known security bugs. Here is an article that shows a Mac security expert getting hit with an exploit at a hackers conference. The exploit was an unknown. http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11375
Hackers focus on Windows http://www.globalcontinuity.com/current_headlines
The reason Microsoft needs H1B visas is because most Americans don't want to work for the company as the pay/stock options are weak and the hours are long.
Washington State is very behind in green card processing, so as a side bonus M$ takes the H1B immigrant workers waves green cards in front of their faces and then has indentured workers for up to 5 years.
During those 5 years they can work the snot out of the immigrants with out fear of them going else where.
lol. love this ringtone.
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Actually you haven't. You quoted a open letter but you did not quote the source. The letter came from ECO (Environmental Conservation Organization). They were formed in 1988 to battle environmental regulations and have been linked to Exxon.
ECO link to open letter http://www.citizenreviewonline.org/april2006/15/w
ECO link to Exxon http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php? id=82
I have also seen a growing political backlash against scientifically-unfounded runaway global warming panic Nope you haven't. You quoted politicaly motivated web site as your proof. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybercast_News_ServiThe Vice President and President aligned themselves with unethical companies like Exxon and Halliburton, who put money above the trust of the US people. Profit rules the day in the US, with many companies breaking ethics and laws to obtain more wealth.
Dispite Coast guard security concerns, the US gouverment tried to give control of the US ports to a company in the United Arab Emirates, in which Dubai is the capital. Now it seems that a top US defense contractor is moving to Dubai. With a lot of Muslim countires at war there is a lot of money to be made.Where will US military technolgy end up? Will the US gouverment allow the shipping / storage of weapons in Dubai. The US legal system keeps these unethical companies in check. Who will keep them in check when they operate on foriegn soil.
Sorry but I do not trust this gouverment or it's supported companys with my safety.Students who don't have the money or time to fight the mafia are a easy target.