furthermore, you can during install, use chattr to set files immutable, and then set user:owner of chattr to user chattr and set permissions to only allow user chattr to read or execute chattr as well as making chattr immutable so root can't replace it.
So instead of entering the root password, they have to enter the password of user chattr.
If the user does not have access to the chattr password since they are on a managed system with a savvy administrator - then why did they get access to root in the first place?
I can see this is convenient if the root is needed to do something other than change system files, but it still strikes me as strange.
"Hey, I've got a brilliant idea for how to cheaply dispose of our trash! We just pay off a few researchers and convince the government that our waste products are actually beneficial for the environment!"
I've kept count, and it takes exactly seven clicks to get Windows to show file extensions, not counting the button that closes the settings window.
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Last I heard, they were arguing the exact opposite - non-Windows systems are too hard for the government to break into.
And who knows, perhaps Kraken is sending your data to HLS on the side? If I made a government spy virus, I'd disguise it as a spambot too... the signal is lost in the noise.
This, needless to say, could also explain the surprisingly low discovery rate on standard AV tools.
"the fact that the trick wasn't removed from SP1 suggests that Microsoft executives approved the back door as a way to make the price of Vista more appealing to sophisticated buyers."
Are you saying that MS deliberately levies an idiot tax on customers who are not smart enough to (well, partially) pirate their product?
Exactly, minus the whole millions-of-people-killed aspect that is inherent in nuclear weapons.
All in all, since both technologies can be used for good and evil, I say let them evolve until they become equivalent to magic. Other fields of technology may benefit from the research - it's an arms race that won't kill or irradiate anyone.
I had an ancient laptop many years ago whose hibernate mode could be interrupted only by pressing a key on the built-in keyboard, not the external keyboard. The internal keyboard had broken down long ago (the laptop was retired as a desktop), so the hibernation mode became a sleep of death.
Also, Epileptics need to build themselves a Firefox plugin that'll detect any harmful behaviour, and block it Adblock-style.
That is a very interesting idea, and probably a fascinating challenge for pattern recognition. Although it'd be beyond the scope of a browser plugin, the pattern recognition program could be integrated in a number of browsers using plugins.
Wikipedia says that.02% of people are diagnosed with photosensitive epilepsy, but I've heard from several otherwise healthy people that they also feel discomfort when looking at such trigger images. So there could be wide demand for such a protection tool.
There are almost as many people who don't want Wikileaks online as people who want to see it - and the former are vastly more powerful.
Surely the possibility that this is an attack rather than "interest" has crossed some people's minds? And if there is strong evidence that it isn't, why the hell isn't that evidence in the summary?
Given that we're exploring alternative histories here, wouldn't it be more accurate to say that if molybdenum had been more abundant, animal life might have evolved sooner? The normal state is after all what we're looking at.
This discovery could be useful for accelerating the terraforming of planets, eventually.
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Where would they be contractually required to stick said CD, then? ...
"I'm curious about this" ironically becomes "I CAT" in an acronym.
Doesn't the geometry of the universe have to be closed in order for expansion to reverse and turn into a collapse?
I remember that some calculations showed it to be either flat or almost so. Of course, the key could lie in the "almost"...
... is exactly the word I was looking for. Reading that exchange made me want to get popcorn yesterday!
So instead of entering the root password, they have to enter the password of user chattr.
If the user does not have access to the chattr password since they are on a managed system with a savvy administrator - then why did they get access to root in the first place?
I can see this is convenient if the root is needed to do something other than change system files, but it still strikes me as strange.
They are a bank. Have been since around 2004, I think. Am I missing something?
You're telling me! They act like they can't even hear you!
"Hey, I've got a brilliant idea for how to cheaply dispose of our trash! We just pay off a few researchers and convince the government that our waste products are actually beneficial for the environment!"
Who was it who said that for all we knew the Neanderthals were just a necessary part in the reproductive cycle of clay pots?
Same thing I thought, and then: "But what other internets are there?"
I've kept count, and it takes exactly seven clicks to get Windows to show file extensions, not counting the button that closes the settings window.
Last I heard, they were arguing the exact opposite - non-Windows systems are too hard for the government to break into.
And who knows, perhaps Kraken is sending your data to HLS on the side? If I made a government spy virus, I'd disguise it as a spambot too... the signal is lost in the noise.
This, needless to say, could also explain the surprisingly low discovery rate on standard AV tools.
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What you meant was surely:
"But... does it run Linux?"
Uh, bear with my ignorant optimism here, but I thought that along with the majority of college students attend lectures to learn, not to sleep.
"the fact that the trick wasn't removed from SP1 suggests that Microsoft executives approved the back door as a way to make the price of Vista more appealing to sophisticated buyers."
Are you saying that MS deliberately levies an idiot tax on customers who are not smart enough to (well, partially) pirate their product?
That sounds a bit implausible to me.
Wait... you can have a computer not connected to the internet? That's not what they show in the movies!
What's next - a weapons system that does not have a big red self-destruct button?
Exactly, minus the whole millions-of-people-killed aspect that is inherent in nuclear weapons.
All in all, since both technologies can be used for good and evil, I say let them evolve until they become equivalent to magic. Other fields of technology may benefit from the research - it's an arms race that won't kill or irradiate anyone.
That is what they call an evolutionary algorithm, I guess...
Indeed.
I had an ancient laptop many years ago whose hibernate mode could be interrupted only by pressing a key on the built-in keyboard, not the external keyboard. The internal keyboard had broken down long ago (the laptop was retired as a desktop), so the hibernation mode became a sleep of death.
Like they're already doing with webdesigners.
That is a very interesting idea, and probably a fascinating challenge for pattern recognition. Although it'd be beyond the scope of a browser plugin, the pattern recognition program could be integrated in a number of browsers using plugins.
Wikipedia says that
There are almost as many people who don't want Wikileaks online as people who want to see it - and the former are vastly more powerful.
Surely the possibility that this is an attack rather than "interest" has crossed some people's minds? And if there is strong evidence that it isn't, why the hell isn't that evidence in the summary?
Multiple UN resolutions ignored? So wait... doesn't that mean the US should be in for a regime change? Launch Operation American Freedom!
(There's even a bit of oil left in the US! And I'm pretty sure we're going to find WMD!)
Given that we're exploring alternative histories here, wouldn't it be more accurate to say that if molybdenum had been more abundant, animal life might have evolved sooner? The normal state is after all what we're looking at.
This discovery could be useful for accelerating the terraforming of planets, eventually.
Googlebomb "Olympics" to lead to pages about Tibet!