[ale] glibc vulnerability

[Jim Kinney]

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On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 08:55 -0500, Jonathan Meek wrote:
> The U.S Tax Code is pretty simple:
> If you're an individual that makes money, pay taxes.

If you're an individual that makes some money, pay taxes. 
If you makes lots of money, like more each year than most people earn in
a lifetime, you win the game and pay very little.

> If you're a corporation that makes money, hide it somewhere.

If you employ very few people and can't leave town on vacation, you pay
taxes and fees on nearly everything. 
If you employ a large number of people, and they are all in the US, you
pay some taxes but get some perks.
If you employ large numbers of people you get huge tax breaks especially
if you contract with the federal and state governments on projects that
used to be done by public service employees.
If you have a gigantic number of employees and most used to be in the US
but now are in other countries after tax-incentive "right sizing", you
get special bonus perks of a designated ear in Congress and a free bank
account in the Caymans. You pay very, very little tax money but use the
court system like crazy to defend "property" that is owned by a tiny
firm in the Caymans that you hid your profits in.

> If you're an individual that doesn't make money,  then recieve money. 

If you're an individual that makes very little money, you get some money
handed to you so Walmart doesn't have to pay you enough to survive.
If you're an individual that makes no money, you probably live in the
street or with family and have no access to resources at all since you
have no address, or ID, or ability to get either. And you can't vote.
> 
> *ducks for the punch being thrown*

+1

> 
> On Jan 31, 2015 11:32 AM, "Michael B. Trausch" <mike at trausch.us>
> wrote:
>         On 01/30/2015 05:26 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>         
>         > Hogwash. Where there's a will, there's a probate court.
>         
>         Hah, hah.  Very funny.  :-)
>         
>         I've been involved in a few projects lately where it's been
>         more important to prove workability and robustness than to
>         have every feature in the world, so I've not been using glibc
>         much lately.  I certainly can't audit it.
>         
>         Then again, I cannot audit the Linux kernel, either.
>         
>         But, the more code in my system I can read through and audit
>         for my own personal satisfaction—or any other reason in the
>         world—the closer I get to the goal of understanding every line
>         of code in the system.
>         
>         I didn't think that was a terribly important thing to be able
>         to do, but several projects working with microcontrollers have
>         shown me different.  While the world from that perspective is
>         a very different place, the concepts are the same, and it's
>         rather liberating when you can point to something and know why
>         it broke because you have a very clear understanding of your
>         entire set of code.
>         
>         That's something which is impossible on any modern
>         general-purpose operating system today.  I'd almost be willing
>         to bet that Linux and the U.S. Tax Code are just as complex as
>         the other one (though at least Linux can be compiled!).
>         
>             — Mike
>         
>         
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