I was thinking this could really help a lot of slashdot old-timers, except they're too Luddite to use it.
Now I see where I was wrong, and adoption is likely to be high!
I remember when the local library first got a computerized card catalog system; it was a bunch of dumb terminals hooked up to VAX server! It was such a huge leap into the future! We jumped straight from having to search the list of titles for each possible section hoping for one with an informative enough title to let us know it is relevant, straight to full keyword search including dozens of words of description! Incredible. Yeah, stick a modem up my ass and my doctor can use a VAXstation to search for my meds! It makes perfect sense. The future is here. I'll be on the roof waiting for my flying taxi! Oh, wait, RS232 cable... anyways, I'll be on the porch.
Pretty good try, but you conflated accusing somebody of libel with confronting a witness against you.
In the right to confront a witness, that is dealing with the rights of the person accused of libel to confront the person accusing them! It is about legal rights in court, it is not a right to confront people generally who purportedly said things about you.
Anonymity is a goal, it is not something you can declare.
Just like a secret is not a thing that you told people not to tell anybody; that's only an attempt at secrecy. If it is actually secret depends on if they actually tell anybody.
So for example a legally-protected Trade Secret, you have to keep it secret. It only protects you if somebody violates the law (including civil law, such as a contract) in disclosing it. But if you forget to make somebody sign an NDA and they tell everybody, guess what? It stopped being a secret as soon as you told them!
A lot of people believe, "If I can't see them, they can't see me" and so when they go online, they think they're anonymous; after all, they can't see any of the people with access to their activities!
If you don't want your publisher to be exposed to lawsuits intending to unmask your identity, don't tell your publisher your identity! In this case, that would mean both lying about your name, and also using a VPN.
Personally, if I say your business sucks online and you want to sue me over it, I wouldn't want to hide behind anonymity, I'd want to roast you in the media for it really hard. People don't like it when businesses do that, it is very bad PR!
In general, the choice of software was not a government decision, but a prime contractor decision. Not sure how much we want Congress dictating to contractors what they put into their products.
To the exact same extent that it has become a contractor decision! That is the extent to which Government should re-impose controls over what the Government buys. Congress is the best our country has come up with to make those decisions.
This has nothing to do with the software they buy.
This has to do with the software they write or have written.
Microsoft doesn't mind writing open source software if you're paying them the same for it; this isn't the type of contract where they would get residuals, this is the type where they get paid for their time doing the work. Stuff with residuals where they're licensing the software to DoD, that would all be unchanged.
Remember it wasn't that long ago when all you had to do was hit Backspace 28 times and you could bypass login security on almost all Linux distros....
No, I don't remember that at all. What I do remember is that on some systems, before the OS was loaded, you could drop into a GRUB bootloader rescue shell by connecting a keyboard emulator that could spam the keyboard buffer with backspaces during boot. If you're actually pressing a backspace key as you describe then no, that isn't actually likely.
Generally speaking, if you have keyboard access during boot you can get to that sort of rescue screen on a computer, unless it has been locked down. Note that unless you have advanced *nix skills you still don't have access to anything; you just have a command line that doesn't do anything. It is obviously a problem for internet cafes and places like that, since people could use it to steal access. But important computers do not normally give you access and let you plug in keyboards.
If you were using the bootloader for security you were already screwed. What if they reset the BIOS? I mean, they have physical access already. So they can book from a USB flash drive by resetting the BIOS, or otherwise tampering with the computer.
So in the end it was actually, "If you have a keyboard emulator, physical access to the computer, and are a sysadmin you can get access to most linux computers." Yeah, but any sysadmin could tell you that!
In your example, it means that if you send out a search party, and you have a lot of people, you can easily cover the whole area. It doesn't even speak to what is happening when you're not searching; when you don't know you have a bug.
The whole premise of Linus' Law is that you have a bug; it has been reported. And you're trying to fix it. If you have enough people involved in the search, it becomes almost guaranteed that you'll find it. If you only have a few people searching, it might be very hard and who knows how long it will take.
The presence of Heartbleed being an excellent example that belies this claim.
No, you clearly didn't understand him. Heartbleed exemplifies his claim.
As soon as people knew about Heartbleed, there were fixes available. The bug was proven shallow almost instantly upon discovery, and numerous were the workarounds. People even re-implemented the whole software package to make sure it was fixed! And their fixes worked, the bug was indeed gone. You can't get a shallower bug.
Every example you can even find of a deep bug, a bug that is known to exist but that people don't know how to fix, it is a bug where either there are nearly zero users of the code, or the code is closed source and there are few people with access. Any bug that has even a moderate number of eyes will be very very shallow.
Not really, because the exploits would likely be data that is stored in a system for managing exploits. The system for managing the data would be the open source part. It is the (new) DoD tools that would be opened, not the data stored in them.
Key information that a person should see right when they load the page, and before they start deciding to credulously receive information from them:
Posted on 2011-07-12
And then
5468 views this month; 5468 overall
OMG!!!! His page statistics got reset at the beginning of the month. Wow, that really means that the ideas inside are not worth considering. I mean, it's like if you had a science book, but discounted the contents because the cover was torn. OMG! What to do?
No, the more obvious point would be that it is a personal blog, not some sort of source of information. A source of personal opinions.
I stopped reading your reply at that point. If you're trying that hard not to comprehend, I can guarantee you'll succeed.
But I will take a moment to paste in what I observed prior:
if you look at his first chart you can see a long steady linear increase in the past, and then the most recent ~50 years has a totally different slope. And he draws a red line that fits for 200 years from ~1700-1900 and then flies over the actual recent values. So it is a good line for estimating the historical usage in a particular year that hasn't had a specific workup, but it is hogwash to extend it into the future when it already stopped fitting the line in the past.
Uh... don't forget to include a point in your comment.
Also, your list is not even of different things in the same category. You might as well throw in Hobbits and sealing wax. And what activities do you imagine that German households are engaging in that they would be a significant source of CO2? Or are you just double-counting electricity by using a mixed list that double-counts coal-sourced electricity?
You didn't even manage to attempt to say anything, but you still managed to be self-inconsistent.
They also export a lot of unmarried women, and bitch plywood. "Baltic" birch is code for "imported" birch, it is mostly from Russia.
The also export a lot of vodka. The quality sucks, but casual drinkers assume it is just a "genuine" flavor, and not the result of any lack of QA.
They're also a world leader in vacuum amplifier tubes. China is starting to take over both the high end and low end market segments, but Russia is still the king of "tube amplifiers that sound like genuine Soviet amplifiers from the 1960s." This is very important to Punk Rock snobs who insist that their low-fi sound like shit entirely because of the expensive retro analog gear and not from just fucking up the mixer settings the easy way.
What happens if they appoint a Special Council and then have to admit to the world that it is legal for government officials to encourage other governments to give to charity. What then?!
This is the stupidest sort of accusation; the sort that if true, only proves somebody did some good in the world by forcing bad people to give to charity.
If by "leadership" you actually mean, favored by certain classes of snobby intellectuals, then sure!
I don't think America being regarded as a world leader was ever on that basis, though. So no.
When we talk about "American leadership" we're generally talking about physical events that go even beyond the phenomenology of sonorific gasses expressed by those who consider brutality a virtue worth signaling.
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I was thinking this could really help a lot of slashdot old-timers, except they're too Luddite to use it.
Now I see where I was wrong, and adoption is likely to be high!
I remember when the local library first got a computerized card catalog system; it was a bunch of dumb terminals hooked up to VAX server! It was such a huge leap into the future! We jumped straight from having to search the list of titles for each possible section hoping for one with an informative enough title to let us know it is relevant, straight to full keyword search including dozens of words of description! Incredible. Yeah, stick a modem up my ass and my doctor can use a VAXstation to search for my meds! It makes perfect sense. The future is here. I'll be on the roof waiting for my flying taxi! Oh, wait, RS232 cable... anyways, I'll be on the porch.
I would not be surprised if this was an employee using tactics to sell packages to the Tax Preparer... wouldn't that be a twist.
LOL surely that day will come!
Pretty good try, but you conflated accusing somebody of libel with confronting a witness against you.
In the right to confront a witness, that is dealing with the rights of the person accused of libel to confront the person accusing them! It is about legal rights in court, it is not a right to confront people generally who purportedly said things about you.
Anonymity is a goal, it is not something you can declare.
Just like a secret is not a thing that you told people not to tell anybody; that's only an attempt at secrecy. If it is actually secret depends on if they actually tell anybody.
So for example a legally-protected Trade Secret, you have to keep it secret. It only protects you if somebody violates the law (including civil law, such as a contract) in disclosing it. But if you forget to make somebody sign an NDA and they tell everybody, guess what? It stopped being a secret as soon as you told them!
A lot of people believe, "If I can't see them, they can't see me" and so when they go online, they think they're anonymous; after all, they can't see any of the people with access to their activities!
If you don't want your publisher to be exposed to lawsuits intending to unmask your identity, don't tell your publisher your identity! In this case, that would mean both lying about your name, and also using a VPN.
Personally, if I say your business sucks online and you want to sue me over it, I wouldn't want to hide behind anonymity, I'd want to roast you in the media for it really hard. People don't like it when businesses do that, it is very bad PR!
In general, the choice of software was not a government decision, but a prime contractor decision. Not sure how much we want Congress dictating to contractors what they put into their products.
To the exact same extent that it has become a contractor decision! That is the extent to which Government should re-impose controls over what the Government buys. Congress is the best our country has come up with to make those decisions.
BRL-CAD 4evR!!!!!!!!!!!
This has nothing to do with the software they buy.
This has to do with the software they write or have written.
Microsoft doesn't mind writing open source software if you're paying them the same for it; this isn't the type of contract where they would get residuals, this is the type where they get paid for their time doing the work. Stuff with residuals where they're licensing the software to DoD, that would all be unchanged.
Remember it wasn't that long ago when all you had to do was hit Backspace 28 times and you could bypass login security on almost all Linux distros....
No, I don't remember that at all. What I do remember is that on some systems, before the OS was loaded, you could drop into a GRUB bootloader rescue shell by connecting a keyboard emulator that could spam the keyboard buffer with backspaces during boot. If you're actually pressing a backspace key as you describe then no, that isn't actually likely.
Generally speaking, if you have keyboard access during boot you can get to that sort of rescue screen on a computer, unless it has been locked down. Note that unless you have advanced *nix skills you still don't have access to anything; you just have a command line that doesn't do anything. It is obviously a problem for internet cafes and places like that, since people could use it to steal access. But important computers do not normally give you access and let you plug in keyboards.
If you were using the bootloader for security you were already screwed. What if they reset the BIOS? I mean, they have physical access already. So they can book from a USB flash drive by resetting the BIOS, or otherwise tampering with the computer.
So in the end it was actually, "If you have a keyboard emulator, physical access to the computer, and are a sysadmin you can get access to most linux computers." Yeah, but any sysadmin could tell you that!
No, you're not understanding it.
In your example, it means that if you send out a search party, and you have a lot of people, you can easily cover the whole area. It doesn't even speak to what is happening when you're not searching; when you don't know you have a bug.
The whole premise of Linus' Law is that you have a bug; it has been reported. And you're trying to fix it. If you have enough people involved in the search, it becomes almost guaranteed that you'll find it. If you only have a few people searching, it might be very hard and who knows how long it will take.
The presence of Heartbleed being an excellent example that belies this claim.
No, you clearly didn't understand him. Heartbleed exemplifies his claim.
As soon as people knew about Heartbleed, there were fixes available. The bug was proven shallow almost instantly upon discovery, and numerous were the workarounds. People even re-implemented the whole software package to make sure it was fixed! And their fixes worked, the bug was indeed gone. You can't get a shallower bug.
Every example you can even find of a deep bug, a bug that is known to exist but that people don't know how to fix, it is a bug where either there are nearly zero users of the code, or the code is closed source and there are few people with access. Any bug that has even a moderate number of eyes will be very very shallow.
This is about DoD software tools, not the guidance system for the F-35! lol
Where contractors are writing it, the exact same contractors would be writing it. This doesn't change the procurement system at all.
...how many times were we told that ISIS is some kind of existential threat to the U.S.? And people beloved it?
At least three or four, but the FBI conveniently arranged for them to activate hoax devices.
Not really, because the exploits would likely be data that is stored in a system for managing exploits. The system for managing the data would be the open source part. It is the (new) DoD tools that would be opened, not the data stored in them.
In the past they gave us BRL-CAD.
And they built the internet, though it was Congress that gave it to us peons. Thanks Al!
And then they gave us SElinux.
And now they'll give us something new!
Thanks everybody! I don't want the military-industrial complex just to blow things up, I want them to also give us new technologies as a byproduct!
Blow things up, but remember the People.
OMG!!!! His page statistics got reset at the beginning of the month. Wow, that really means that the ideas inside are not worth considering. I mean, it's like if you had a science book, but discounted the contents because the cover was torn. OMG! What to do?
No, the more obvious point would be that it is a personal blog, not some sort of source of information. A source of personal opinions.
I stopped reading your reply at that point. If you're trying that hard not to comprehend, I can guarantee you'll succeed.
But I will take a moment to paste in what I observed prior:
Uh... don't forget to include a point in your comment.
Also, your list is not even of different things in the same category. You might as well throw in Hobbits and sealing wax. And what activities do you imagine that German households are engaging in that they would be a significant source of CO2? Or are you just double-counting electricity by using a mixed list that double-counts coal-sourced electricity?
You didn't even manage to attempt to say anything, but you still managed to be self-inconsistent.
The actual problem that Americans would notice is that in the above usage it should be The USA. In both cases.
I'll take
D) install *nix and move security monitoring to the network
They also export a lot of unmarried women, and bitch plywood. "Baltic" birch is code for "imported" birch, it is mostly from Russia.
The also export a lot of vodka. The quality sucks, but casual drinkers assume it is just a "genuine" flavor, and not the result of any lack of QA.
They're also a world leader in vacuum amplifier tubes. China is starting to take over both the high end and low end market segments, but Russia is still the king of "tube amplifiers that sound like genuine Soviet amplifiers from the 1960s." This is very important to Punk Rock snobs who insist that their low-fi sound like shit entirely because of the expensive retro analog gear and not from just fucking up the mixer settings the easy way.
What happens if they appoint a Special Council and then have to admit to the world that it is legal for government officials to encourage other governments to give to charity. What then?!
This is the stupidest sort of accusation; the sort that if true, only proves somebody did some good in the world by forcing bad people to give to charity.
There is no accusation in the accusation!
all evidence shown so far seems to indicate ... and I think most people SHOULD accept that with zero objections.
Idiot detected! See, that's me giving you the benefit of the doubt that you're not acting maliciously!
I'm listening, but I'm not quite to the point of pulling out that old motherboard and buying a new CPU fan!
So your thesis is that it is an act of war?
Right?
Climate scientists don't get their science from CNN, though.
Deniers do get their science from AM radio and cable news!
If by "leadership" you actually mean, favored by certain classes of snobby intellectuals, then sure!
I don't think America being regarded as a world leader was ever on that basis, though. So no.
When we talk about "American leadership" we're generally talking about physical events that go even beyond the phenomenology of sonorific gasses expressed by those who consider brutality a virtue worth signaling.