[ale] glibc vulnerability
Michael H. Warfield
mhw at WittsEnd.com
Tue Feb 3 13:22:13 EST 2015
On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 00:57 -0500, Steve Nicholas wrote:
> I can understand another round coming. WTF is below and how does it
> relate to Linux?? We just had 258 boxes upgraded. Comics are not
> appreciated.
Guess that leaves me out.
>
> Steve
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> Close...
>
> 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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> James P. Kinney III
>
> Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.
> What you
> gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog
> on his
> own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
> - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
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