In long term (hundreds of years) we will have excelent quality open source software available for almost everything, so there will be little point in reimplementing something as a commercial software. Good software does not get obsolete, if it is maintained, it can function perfectly for ever. Take TeX for example, or vi (or emacs;), or Unix...
Undoubtedly there will always areas where commercial software will work better (e.g. areas where specification changes often and rapidly, or areas where clear accountability for the software is important), but those are exceptions.
Yeah, in fact anyone could have copied it, and possibly also did. That is why the admins should be definitely held responsible, since it is their fault that the data was accessible. You could maybe also punish people who downloaded the data and did not tell anyone about the security problem (if you can find them). But to punish only the single person in the whole cause who did the right thing is really stupid. You are just teaching people that next time when they find about a security problem, they should better keep it to themselves.
In fact, I think you are right. I can probably find a separate reason to boycott each day of the Games even now. Doping, commercialization, the new swimsuit controversy, human rights, Tibet, Avery Brundage reaction to Munich attacks, bribes deciding who will host the games, Moscow and L.A. "half-games"... and of course also the Berlin propaganda games (remember, you broke the law first;)
Now I don't know whether to boycott the Olympic Games because of China ignoring human rights or because it was converted to a festival of commerce. If it goes on like this, I may be soon able to boycott each day of Olympics for a different reason.
In that case the problem lies in installing the recovery console. If someone gives you admin access to his computer in this way, you already have all the rights you need. Renaming some files afterwards is not an exploit, it is just something you do once you have already gained access to the system.
If you can rename cmd.exe to Utilman.exe, you must be already an Administrator. An Administrator owns the computer, by definition. There is no "higher level" of access, there are even documented ways how Administrator can gain access to System account.
Why don't you do the "right thing" with North Korea as well? The Cuban embargo is plainly stupid, I just don't understand how anyone could not see it. You are effectively helping Castro to isolate the people in Cuba from the free world. The only thing they know about the free world is what Castro tells them. If they could meet real live US-ans on their family vacation in Cuba, they would at least be able to compare. If US businesses started operating in Cuba, Castro would have to be the bad guy who bans them, since otherwise his planned economy would quickly become irrelevant. As it is now, Castro can easily claim that the bad guys live in USA.
Bullshit, that was not "only because", those modules and spares could have just as easily been hauled up by Russian spacecraft. You could say that the ISS still exists only because the Russians hauled up and down stuff when shuttle operations were shut down. That would be true. And no, I am not Russian, you could say that I am an unbiased third party:).
Umm, no one in Europe would write "kms", since we know from school that the correct abbreviation is "km" even in plural. I would say that only someone from a country that does not use metric system would write "kms", since in metric country you see "km" writen everywhere, so you know better.
...what the hell is the point of taking something that everyone does know and declaring it to be wrong?
It is called the scientific progress, maybe you have heard of it.
You did the math, now you should do the thinking as well. The Moon is a moon. I mean, the other moons are called after the Moon. If there is a definition of moon that makes the Moon not a moon, then we need to change the definition.
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In long term (hundreds of years) we will have excelent quality open source software available for almost everything, so there will be little point in reimplementing something as a commercial software. Good software does not get obsolete, if it is maintained, it can function perfectly for ever. Take TeX for example, or vi (or emacs ;), or Unix...
Undoubtedly there will always areas where commercial software will work better (e.g. areas where specification changes often and rapidly, or areas where clear accountability for the software is important), but those are exceptions.
Yeah, in fact anyone could have copied it, and possibly also did. That is why the admins should be definitely held responsible, since it is their fault that the data was accessible. You could maybe also punish people who downloaded the data and did not tell anyone about the security problem (if you can find them). But to punish only the single person in the whole cause who did the right thing is really stupid. You are just teaching people that next time when they find about a security problem, they should better keep it to themselves.
...is a huge step for mankind. Really!
"Obvious, easy and quick way for consumers to opt-out of any call" is to hang up ;).
I can do that for you, since I live in Europe and we have no NBC on the cable :)
In fact, I think you are right. I can probably find a separate reason to boycott each day of the Games even now. Doping, commercialization, the new swimsuit controversy, human rights, Tibet, Avery Brundage reaction to Munich attacks, bribes deciding who will host the games, Moscow and L.A. "half-games"... and of course also the Berlin propaganda games (remember, you broke the law first ;)
Now I don't know whether to boycott the Olympic Games because of China ignoring human rights or because it was converted to a festival of commerce. If it goes on like this, I may be soon able to boycott each day of Olympics for a different reason.
The "It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway" series:
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2007/09/20/5002739.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2007/08/07/4268706.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/05/08/592350.aspx
In that case the problem lies in installing the recovery console. If someone gives you admin access to his computer in this way, you already have all the rights you need. Renaming some files afterwards is not an exploit, it is just something you do once you have already gained access to the system.
If you can rename cmd.exe to Utilman.exe, you must be already an Administrator. An Administrator owns the computer, by definition. There is no "higher level" of access, there are even documented ways how Administrator can gain access to System account.
Administrator owns a Windows box. News at 11.
Why don't you do the "right thing" with North Korea as well? The Cuban embargo is plainly stupid, I just don't understand how anyone could not see it. You are effectively helping Castro to isolate the people in Cuba from the free world. The only thing they know about the free world is what Castro tells them. If they could meet real live US-ans on their family vacation in Cuba, they would at least be able to compare. If US businesses started operating in Cuba, Castro would have to be the bad guy who bans them, since otherwise his planned economy would quickly become irrelevant. As it is now, Castro can easily claim that the bad guys live in USA.
You must be new to English. He said "interface at link level", in other words "linking with".
Does universe run 32-bit or 64-bit operating system?
Bullshit, that was not "only because", those modules and spares could have just as easily been hauled up by Russian spacecraft. You could say that the ISS still exists only because the Russians hauled up and down stuff when shuttle operations were shut down. That would be true. And no, I am not Russian, you could say that I am an unbiased third party :).
Nice things about Slashdot #54: Whatever location you mention in your comment, you'll get an immediate reply from someone living there.
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Greetings from Bratislava
The question is, how do you vacuum in a vacuum? Seriously. Vacuum cleaners work by sucking in air, but that would not quite work in space.
Umm, no one in Europe would write "kms", since we know from school that the correct abbreviation is "km" even in plural. I would say that only someone from a country that does not use metric system would write "kms", since in metric country you see "km" writen everywhere, so you know better.
...my hard drive turns 7200!
...what the hell is the point of taking something that everyone does know and declaring it to be wrong?
It is called the scientific progress, maybe you have heard of it.
You did the math, now you should do the thinking as well. The Moon is a moon. I mean, the other moons are called after the Moon. If there is a definition of moon that makes the Moon not a moon, then we need to change the definition.
At least we will see how was the Debian update infrastructure improved since last time, when it brought the server down on its knees.