There should be a mechanism to moderate those who post articles. Don't want to go offtopic too much but there is the firehose and the/. staff these things have to get through first. It's not a good system (I don't know of any that are), but it's there.
SELECT * FROM customers; I'm curious to know how they could screw up a simple thing like database security to the point where some windows laptop on their network can just connect and do the above.
It's not a correct statement either. If the distance of everything from the big bang was equal, someone would've noticed and found that point using simple trigonometry by now. Also the universe as we see it would be 2D.
Get a few hundred of these, sprinkle them around town, set them to autoconnect to open APs with a certain SSID and you get free volunteer-run Wi-fi for everyone. Provided enough people change their SSID when you ask them.
However, until it's in Linus's tree (or even the MM tree), the violation is not by "linux", but the contributor, Jiri Slaby. That's a great thing about using a decentralised thing like Git - when an OpenBSD developer does the same thing, you can say "Hey, these OpenBSD guys are fscking stealing Linux code!", and the blame goes to OpenBSD directly.
A blacklist for IPs that disobey RFCs? Whoops, there goes 255.255.255.255/0 for ignoring the IPv6 RFC. Whoops, there goes::/0 for deliberately ignoring the Type 0 header spec in the IPv6 RFC. Utterly retarded idea, and an utterly worthless list.
On the other hand I do use noscript. That way the sites that go out of their way to bombard me with obnoxious animated (or even worse: audio) flash ads never get any of my screen space, whereas the ones with a bit more respect for the user still show up.
Yeah, but at least with a kernel driver you _know_ it's crashed.
If that X server hangs is the display just frozen, has X hard-locked the console, or is the whole thing hosed requiring a hard reset? In times like that you're left with crashing the kernel manually using the reset button because there's no other way out. KGI/GGI was supposed to solve that particular problem, but nobody seems to care.
I've had USB devices hang the machine too, but X11 is a really bad offender.
Ha! I've got you beat with a 2GHz Athlon. Now just wait until the PCIe x86-64s start getting thrown in the trash...
For me pirated software is only doing free software good. The warez kidz screw up their windows installation with junk, inevitably break something, then just throw the whole PC out because they're too lazy to fix it. So I stick Ubuntu on them and give them away for free.
will leave cable companies in a rough spot -- after spending over $100 billion in the last decade on infrastructure improvements. Maybe their infrastructure improvements should involve more infrastructure in the network for customers then, and less infrastructure for the CEOs in expensive suburbs of foreign countries.
The thing is, what would they replace it with that they can sell? The only choices are emulation or translating code on the fly, both of which have sunk already.
It was at least 200 last time I read - and the source was an 80486 programming book. I think there's at least that many more in the different versions of SSE.
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I'm curious to know how they could screw up a simple thing like database security to the point where some windows laptop on their network can just connect and do the above.
It's not a correct statement either. If the distance of everything from the big bang was equal, someone would've noticed and found that point using simple trigonometry by now. Also the universe as we see it would be 2D.
(Not my idea, mind you)
Get a few hundred of these, sprinkle them around town, set them to autoconnect to open APs with a certain SSID and you get free volunteer-run Wi-fi for everyone. Provided enough people change their SSID when you ask them.
A quick check (ls -1 /usr/portage/licenses | wc -l) gives me 861. Not over 1000, but not exactly nowhere close either.
A blacklist for IPs that disobey RFCs? Whoops, there goes 255.255.255.255/0 for ignoring the IPv6 RFC. Whoops, there goes ::/0 for deliberately ignoring the Type 0 header spec in the IPv6 RFC.
Utterly retarded idea, and an utterly worthless list.
The majority of bloatware writers these days seem to prefer Python...
Well without it, we'd have nothing to stress-test bandwidth, CPU and the user all at once!
A lot of car stereos already have a "Loudness" button. I don't think all of them run software either.
Hmm, I always thought meat _was_ layer 8.
Heh, it's not just the US. I get SMS spam in the UK from the phone company. And yes, I have to pay for it.
How does one "outsource" a public open-source project anyway? It's global by definition.
Fox Fux Fax? Doesn't sound right.
How about a DRM-related excuse? You could claim damages for the cost of cleaning up RIAA DRM infections on your PC(s).
On the other hand I do use noscript. That way the sites that go out of their way to bombard me with obnoxious animated (or even worse: audio) flash ads never get any of my screen space, whereas the ones with a bit more respect for the user still show up.
Seriously. What reason could anyone possibly want to use WLID for when OpenID already exists?
How many [orders of magnitude] more people use MP3 for the same purpose?
ISR jokes are old. By now (even more so given this story) everyone should have upgraded to "In RIAA America" jokes.
Now that you mention it, that worked for Apple...
Yeah, but at least with a kernel driver you _know_ it's crashed.
If that X server hangs is the display just frozen, has X hard-locked the console, or is the whole thing hosed requiring a hard reset? In times like that you're left with crashing the kernel manually using the reset button because there's no other way out. KGI/GGI was supposed to solve that particular problem, but nobody seems to care.
I've had USB devices hang the machine too, but X11 is a really bad offender.
Ha! I've got you beat with a 2GHz Athlon. Now just wait until the PCIe x86-64s start getting thrown in the trash...
For me pirated software is only doing free software good. The warez kidz screw up their windows installation with junk, inevitably break something, then just throw the whole PC out because they're too lazy to fix it. So I stick Ubuntu on them and give them away for free.
The thing is, what would they replace it with that they can sell? The only choices are emulation or translating code on the fly, both of which have sunk already.
It was at least 200 last time I read - and the source was an 80486 programming book. I think there's at least that many more in the different versions of SSE.