I would like to know just how the FUCK that is off-topic. It doesnt have much to say. It may be "overrated", but it is _NOT_ fucking "off-topic". Those were my thoughts on the matter, and it is not your job as a moderator to mod-down something because you have a different opinion.
This seems to go very well with the spirit of the GPL. The GPL says you are allowed to use this code, provided you dont try to restrict anyone else's use of this code or contributions you make to this code.
This new Apache License says you are allowed to use these patents, provided you dont try to restrict anyone else's use of these patents.
I dont see the incompatability here. It seems just to be saying "This is GPLd(ish) code, and you can't get around the GPL(ish) by having patents. We thought that was obvious, but their seemed to be some confusion so here it is in plain english"
Should feel confident that IE doesnt have some back door? Did you not read the summary?:)
Remember that many worms will simply go away when the computer is rebooted. There is no need for Admin Rights/Installation if you can just post a message on a popular site with an image in your signature.
As for MacOSX, you may want to note that Microsoft did it first. That is, they made it an available option, and it's trivial to impliment. Programs don't always use that option, of course, usually (in my experience) waiting until an install is half-completed before noticing that admin rights are required, then telling the user to do it by hand. The option is available to developers, though. They can all check their privs and display a password box up front if they get off their asses.
Of course, I wouldnt call such a thing "secure", since it then becomes trivial to distribute a program which prompts for administrative password, then says "incorrect password" and goes on to display the real password box. Later asking for an e-mail address, coupled with people tending to use the same password everywhere- well, making things easy and making things secure is always going to be a trade-off somewhere.
Yeah, things arent destructive as much anymore, but I think most people would prefer ~/finance/ stays more secure than/etc/shadow (which, seriously, who gives a fuck about?)
Allow perfect scanning, perfect printing, and simply don't allow an exact-scale bill to be printed. All other arguments aside, I don't see how anyone would be hurt by not allowing a bill to be printed within 10% of its true scale. All else being the same, what's wrong with this?
This is an exploit which effects Users, running a WEB BROWSER. Please tell me one single (however insignificant) thing a Normal User who is running a web BROWSER could possibly give half a fuck about which requires administrator privledges.
Seperate user accounts, securing the system itself, etc, that is _ONLY_ security-related when you are the administrator of a server and require your box be up 24/7 (or at least somewhat often)
Think about it for two seconds: You're a normal user, you're using your personal computer. Hell, you're using it to surf the web, this isnt any system which other people are dependent on having a high uptime or anything. You go to a webpage, and some arbitrary code gets executed. What files could be effected? Well, you're running as a normal user, so luckily for you only the files which you give a shit about will be harmed, while the easily replaceable part of the system remains intact.
This whole "multiple accounts == security" line is pure bullshit extract. The files which a USER, not a System Administrator, cares about, are files which that USER created, downloaded, edited, etc. Files which the User has access to. If some malicious code executes as root/Admin, so what? Your important files are trashed and you need to spend an extra hour reconfiguring your system? That extra hour or two doesnt mean squat compared to the years it may take to restore the files which you created personally.
"You Should Keep Backups anyway" is Irrelevant. As that can just as easily be applied to root-accessible files, the point is that non-admin privs are just as bad as admin privs on a personal system. And this exploit _is_ talking about a personal system, unless you're in the habit of running IE5 on a high-priority server instead of the laptop sitting next to it.
While we're still decades away from consideration of such things being worthwhile (this would be like thinking about how you'd allocate swap-space on your linux cluster when you were pretty close to figuring out how to make bronze), I must warn now against the annoyance associated with having clothing which outgrows you. Soviet Russia jokes aside.
With Linux-power in a collar, we don't just count cards, we perform advanced statistical analysis live and calculate mass probability facotrs based on trends on tables across the city!
What do you mean thankfully? If you were certain, it would mean that all your time and money had been compensated by the other side. No problem there, right?
Whoops, I stopped writing there. There just wasnt anything else to say. I guess it has something to do with you being a complete fucking moron, but I really can't go into it.
There's this thing for windows called "MCL", that is, "Mike's Command-Line" It rolls up to a small button in the corner of your screen, and when you click it, you can type out whatever command you want- it has basic macro ability, etc. I'd love this sort of thing in Linux, it would be great to have it combined with full scripting support, bash-completion, etc. Still, in windows it is good enough. I enjoy typing a letter or two, getting what I want, and having MCL roll back up to a tiny dot I dont need to care about. I dont tend to use it anymore, though. Mostly I just have everything I use frequently start automatically at boot:)
I'm not saying the question has no merit whatsoever, but too many articles are of the form: [News Item/Question] [Completely Fucking Stupid Comment/Extra Question which has been "tacked on" and has no redeeming value whatsoever]
They're editors. Would it kill them to edit every now and then?
These guys who make the headphones, they sort of do this for a living, so they probably know more about it than you. That is: Anything you can come up with in the first five minutes after hearing about the idea, they rely on already having come up with. This isnt something that somebody decided one weekend would be neat, and so slapped three headphones together with duct-tape and started talking to magazines. They developed, designed, tested, talked to various manufacturers, looked into methods of distribution. Do you think that in all that time, nobody would have considered how surround sound would be best implimented in a pair of headphones?
Editors need to stop accepting stories with these bullshits tacked on. If you want to make a completely uninformed comment, post a comment after[if] the article is accepted.
SCO has released some of the code it claims to own. Is there some website which tracks this code and has information on it, some place developers can post to with counter-claims? eg: "SCO Claims to own this peice of code. bob@scuz.net has also claimed to have authored this code. Here is a history of bob@scuz.net's development regaurding this code, and a link to a document regaurding standard system calls (in the public domin since 1987, see link here for explanation) apon which bob@scuz.net claims his code was based"
Something really thorough for every line of code- you know, it's entirely possible that at least some of the code, if only by coincidence, actually does infringe on somebody's IP. It would be worth having such a site to track such things both now and in the future.
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I would like to know just how the FUCK that is off-topic. It doesnt have much to say. It may be "overrated", but it is _NOT_ fucking "off-topic". Those were my thoughts on the matter, and it is not your job as a moderator to mod-down something because you have a different opinion.
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Well then I hope you feel fulfilled in your quest when I tell you that your comma-placement fucking sucks.
This seems to go very well with the spirit of the GPL.
The GPL says you are allowed to use this code, provided you dont try to restrict anyone else's use of this code or contributions you make to this code.
This new Apache License says you are allowed to use these patents, provided you dont try to restrict anyone else's use of these patents.
I dont see the incompatability here. It seems just to be saying "This is GPLd(ish) code, and you can't get around the GPL(ish) by having patents. We thought that was obvious, but their seemed to be some confusion so here it is in plain english"
The Foundation stories were great. Read 'em.
Should feel confident that IE doesnt have some back door? Did you not read the summary? :)
/etc/shadow (which, seriously, who gives a fuck about?)
Remember that many worms will simply go away when the computer is rebooted. There is no need for Admin Rights/Installation if you can just post a message on a popular site with an image in your signature.
As for MacOSX, you may want to note that Microsoft did it first. That is, they made it an available option, and it's trivial to impliment. Programs don't always use that option, of course, usually (in my experience) waiting until an install is half-completed before noticing that admin rights are required, then telling the user to do it by hand. The option is available to developers, though. They can all check their privs and display a password box up front if they get off their asses.
Of course, I wouldnt call such a thing "secure", since it then becomes trivial to distribute a program which prompts for administrative password, then says "incorrect password" and goes on to display the real password box. Later asking for an e-mail address, coupled with people tending to use the same password everywhere- well, making things easy and making things secure is always going to be a trade-off somewhere.
Yeah, things arent destructive as much anymore, but I think most people would prefer ~/finance/ stays more secure than
Allow perfect scanning, perfect printing, and simply don't allow an exact-scale bill to be printed. All other arguments aside, I don't see how anyone would be hurt by not allowing a bill to be printed within 10% of its true scale. All else being the same, what's wrong with this?
This is an exploit which effects Users, running a WEB BROWSER. Please tell me one single (however insignificant) thing a Normal User who is running a web BROWSER could possibly give half a fuck about which requires administrator privledges.
Seperate user accounts, securing the system itself, etc, that is _ONLY_ security-related when you are the administrator of a server and require your box be up 24/7 (or at least somewhat often)
Think about it for two seconds: You're a normal user, you're using your personal computer. Hell, you're using it to surf the web, this isnt any system which other people are dependent on having a high uptime or anything. You go to a webpage, and some arbitrary code gets executed.
What files could be effected? Well, you're running as a normal user, so luckily for you only the files which you give a shit about will be harmed, while the easily replaceable part of the system remains intact.
This whole "multiple accounts == security" line is pure bullshit extract. The files which a USER, not a System Administrator, cares about, are files which that USER created, downloaded, edited, etc. Files which the User has access to.
If some malicious code executes as root/Admin, so what? Your important files are trashed and you need to spend an extra hour reconfiguring your system? That extra hour or two doesnt mean squat compared to the years it may take to restore the files which you created personally.
"You Should Keep Backups anyway" is Irrelevant. As that can just as easily be applied to root-accessible files, the point is that non-admin privs are just as bad as admin privs on a personal system.
And this exploit _is_ talking about a personal system, unless you're in the habit of running IE5 on a high-priority server instead of the laptop sitting next to it.
I am certainly not against apt-getting every little thing I here about, no matter how little I need, know about, or can trust it!
While we're still decades away from consideration of such things being worthwhile (this would be like thinking about how you'd allocate swap-space on your linux cluster when you were pretty close to figuring out how to make bronze), I must warn now against the annoyance associated with having clothing which outgrows you.
Soviet Russia jokes aside.
Well, Google keeps trying to set up new services, like "Froogle". Culd it be that an official Booble is next? I am rooting for google on this one.
The obvious solution is to flood the net with lots of free high-quality porn, with no strings attached.
It's our civic duty.
Microsoft IS allowed to appeal against any judgement that goes against them.
With Linux-power in a collar, we don't just count cards, we perform advanced statistical analysis live and calculate mass probability facotrs based on trends on tables across the city!
If it uses the digital ink mentioned in the article, a computer with a bullet-hole in it is still a map, it just wont update anymore.
productivity is wasted on the productive. Or something. Possibly some other joke involving the word "reproductive".
You may now giggle.
What do you mean thankfully? If you were certain, it would mean that all your time and money had been compensated by the other side. No problem there, right?
Whoops, I stopped writing there. There just wasnt anything else to say. I guess it has something to do with you being a complete fucking moron, but I really can't go into it.
But you seem to have figured that out already.
There's this thing for windows called "MCL", that is, "Mike's Command-Line" :)
It rolls up to a small button in the corner of your screen, and when you click it, you can type out whatever command you want- it has basic macro ability, etc. I'd love this sort of thing in Linux, it would be great to have it combined with full scripting support, bash-completion, etc. Still, in windows it is good enough. I enjoy typing a letter or two, getting what I want, and having MCL roll back up to a tiny dot I dont need to care about.
I dont tend to use it anymore, though. Mostly I just have everything I use frequently start automatically at boot
I'm not saying the question has no merit whatsoever, but too many articles are of the form:
[News Item/Question] [Completely Fucking Stupid Comment/Extra Question which has been "tacked on" and has no redeeming value whatsoever]
They're editors. Would it kill them to edit every now and then?
These guys who make the headphones, they sort of do this for a living, so they probably know more about it than you. That is: Anything you can come up with in the first five minutes after hearing about the idea, they rely on already having come up with.
This isnt something that somebody decided one weekend would be neat, and so slapped three headphones together with duct-tape and started talking to magazines. They developed, designed, tested, talked to various manufacturers, looked into methods of distribution. Do you think that in all that time, nobody would have considered how surround sound would be best implimented in a pair of headphones?
Editors need to stop accepting stories with these bullshits tacked on. If you want to make a completely uninformed comment, post a comment after[if] the article is accepted.
care for some nostalgia. Here you go.
Sold!
SCO has released some of the code it claims to own. Is there some website which tracks this code and has information on it, some place developers can post to with counter-claims?
eg: "SCO Claims to own this peice of code. bob@scuz.net has also claimed to have authored this code. Here is a history of bob@scuz.net's development regaurding this code, and a link to a document regaurding standard system calls (in the public domin since 1987, see link here for explanation) apon which bob@scuz.net claims his code was based"
Something really thorough for every line of code- you know, it's entirely possible that at least some of the code, if only by coincidence, actually does infringe on somebody's IP. It would be worth having such a site to track such things both now and in the future.