Dion - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Waiting for SP1 before implementation? (Score 1) 231

by Dion on Sunday January 27 2008, @05:12PM (#22202280) Attached to: Vista SP1 Release May Be Near

Yes, it's commonly quoted as: "Wait for us, we're the leader!"

Trivial Remote Exploit on Sun Solaris 10

Submitted by

Jeremy Kister

on Monday February 12 2007, @01:01AM

Jeremy Kister writes "Errata Security reports about a bug found in the telnet daemon of Solaris 10. From the article:

Basically if you pass a "-fusername" as an argument to the -l option you get full access to the OS as the user specified. In my example I do it as bin but it worked for regular users, just not for root. This combined with a reliable local privilege escalation exploit would be devastating. Expect mass scanning and possibly the widespread exploitation of this vulnerability.

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FAA To Free Aircraft Hobbled By IP Laws 106

Posted by kdawson on Thursday February 08 2007, @05:25PM
from the maintain-it-but-we-won't-tell-you-how dept.

smellsofbikes writes "The FAA is attempting to develop a legal process that will allow them to release data about vintage aircraft designs that have obviously been abandoned. Existing laws restrict the FAA's ability to release this data because it is deemed to be intellectual property even though the owner of record has long since ceased to exist. This is fundamentally the same problem that copyright laws impose on people looking for out-of-print books. But in the case of vintage aircraft, the owners are legally required to maintain them to manufacturer specifications that the owners cannot legally obtain: an expensive and potentially lethal dilemma. If the FAA, notoriously hidebound and conservative, is willing to find a solution to this IP Catch-22, maybe the idea will catch on in other places."

Swedish Army to replace Windows NT with Red Hat

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2007, @04:08PM

An anonymous reader writes "Red Hat has entered in deal with the Swedish Army to its servers from Windows NT to Red Hat Enterprise Linux across its core IT infrastructure. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is already the operating system platform on nearly 200 servers running in-house developed software within the core IT infrastructure of the Swedish Armed Forces."

Steve Jobs writes about DRM

Submitted by on Tuesday February 06 2007, @04:05PM

An anonymous reader writes "Apple Inc. has put a link on their front page to an essay by Steve Jobs on iTunes DRM. Jobs describes why iTunes uses DRM (the music industry required it), then goes on to state that DRM is (a) bad for consumers, and (b) useless anyway. Jobs concludes by urging consumers to pressure the music industry to end DRM requirements. Yay!"

Apple reacts to DRM Europe Bru-ha-ha

Submitted by mgabrys_sf on Tuesday February 06 2007, @04:04PM

mgabrys_sf writes "Apple posts "Thoughts on Music" in reaction to recent developements regarding the iPod and iTunes in Europe:

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/"

MIT Professor on Hunger Strike

Submitted by Lisa Leone on Tuesday February 06 2007, @03:46PM

Lisa Leone writes "MIT Professor of Biological Engineering James Sherley began a hunger strike on Monday, February 5th (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti cle/2007/02/05/AR2007020501086.html). Dr. Sherley has stated that he is on strike because he was denied tenure at MIT because of racism. Noam Chomsky and 10 other MIT professors have circulated a letter (http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/blog/2007/0 2/chomsky_calls_f.html) stating that the grievance process that Sherley went through while appealing MIT's decision not to grant him tenure may have been flawed. They cite incidents such as "conflict of interest in tenure review," "space allocation," and "problems relating to mentorship and tenure review". It can also be noted that Dr. Sherley's research (http://web.mit.edu/be/people/sherley.htm) focuses on adult stem cells, and he considers the use of embryonic stem cells to be immoral. Predictably, the pro-life community has seized upon his tenure denial as evidence for discrimination of opposite viewpoints in the stem cell community (http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jan/07010206.htm l)"

HD-DVD vs DVD: Comparison with digital pictures

Submitted by kefler on Sunday January 07 2007, @06:17PM

kefler writes "Check out this real-world comparison of a DVD to an HD-DVD. Decide for yourself, I think it shows there is an increase in detail and contrast but it might require a big display to see it!"

Free Geolocation for Everyone

Submitted by Tom on Sunday January 07 2007, @03:02PM

Tom writes "IPligence released a new update for their free ip geolocation database, IPligence Community Edition enables any developer or webmaster to automatically recognize their applications the geographical origin of a connection allowing the customization of values such as language, timezones, currency, etc. It also can serve other purposes such as security. For more information and download: IPligence Community Edition."

Men who love Linux are Sexier

Submitted by

caluml

on Sunday January 07 2007, @01:16PM

caluml writes "A female's tongue-in-cheek look at men who love Linux finds some interesting results. Among them are: We're passionate (and that rubs off in the bedroom too), not shy about spending our earnings, are problem-solvers, and are deep thinkers.

We need to make sure sites that lots of women read know about this!"