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Re:Since when is copying innovation?
I'm sorry but the attitude on
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4058472/Samsung-set-to-sue-Asian-phone-makers-says-report - http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Content_And_Downloads/Industry/X8M9G5T9 - http://consumerist.com/2010/05/samsung-sues-journalist-for-satirically-pointing-out-that-its-chairman-keeps-getting-convicted-of-cr.html - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/07/samsung_sues_matsushita/ - http://www.crn.com.au/News/114322,samsung-sues-polaroid-and-westinghouse-over-patent-infringement.aspx - http://www.cn-c114.net/578/a294176.html
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Re:Opt-out
Nice try, but this has nothing to do with the Australian Government.
Telstra and other ISPs are implementing a blacklist that is managed by Interpol.
The same system is in use by some ISPs in the UK and other European countries.
And as far as the list goes, it is actually very conservative in its definition of child pornography, only classifying sites depicting minors under 13, not under 18.
Nothing to do with the Australian Government? You've go to be fucking joking. Do you think that Interpol asked Telstra and Optus to please start filtering this list of sites? It was the government who 'requested' the ISP's to start filtering. Interpol just happen to have a list that the Australian Government has decided to use. Interpol has a lot less power than you seem to think.
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Re:Opt-out
Nice try, but this has nothing to do with the Australian Government.
Telstra and other ISPs are implementing a blacklist that is managed by Interpol.
The same system is in use by some ISPs in the UK and other European countries.
And as far as the list goes, it is actually very conservative in its definition of child pornography, only classifying sites depicting minors under 13, not under 18.
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Re:Process/Objective Inversion
There are two different objectives here [...]
I can think of a third objective.
Imagine Microsoft and RSA, the security division of EMC seeing the Cloud as the latest cache of IT gold, and imagine those players identifying security (particularly security compliance) as the only real barrier to that gold. Now its easy to see the third objective - those players doing their utmost to remove that barrier.
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Re:AU government are jerks
Guy #6 thinks Google should filter YouTube.
Oh wait
http://apcmag.com/now-conroy-wants-google-to-filter-youtube-in-australia.htm
http://www.crn.com.au/News/166677,conroy-meets-with-google-for-youtube-filtering.aspx
http://www.securecomputing.net.au/News/166754,google-cold-on-voluntary-youtube-filtering.aspx -
Re:A Very Shortsighted Article
I'd need some actual uptime data to make a real judgment on their service vs their competitors,
I did an extensive interview with the Backblaze CEO. No hard data on uptime but he says they lose one drive a week from the whole 1.5petabyte system and have never had a pod fail. They've been running for a year. Here's the link to the story. Also comments about the designing/testing process. http://www.crn.com.au/News/154760,want-a-petabyte-for-under-us120000.aspx
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Is your data imortant?
It all depends how sensitive the data is.
You can choose to wipe the entire system remotely if you are using the right software and yes, we all know the best approach is to encrypt the data in the first place.
You can choose to use tools to recover it if the laptop doesn't get immediately formatted by the thief. Webcam screenshot capture, video capture, desktop snapshot collection, browser history collection, audio to mp3 recording, key loggers etc can all be done silently in the background and their data can be sent up to a central server so long as the system connects to the internet (Windows or OS X, I've pieced the scripts together for most of these). Personal data can be remotely browsed and returned as well.
On my personal experience with this....Over the years a number of our customers have used our software have tracked down and recovered stolen laptops and in turn allowed the police to recover other stolen items. Currently we've got someone who is hopefully going to get a warrant to recover a laptop among other things that were simultaneously stolen (TV, WWII memorabilia including firearms) thanks to the overwhelming evidence he is able to present to the police. Another recent case I worked on was with a gentleman in Australia who recovered a stolen laptop and in turn helped the police apprehend two other suspects and recover 50+ items. Story is here: http://www.crn.com.au/News/153253,kaseya-tracks-down-stolen-laptop-in-melbourne.aspx (I am the 'tech guy' mentioned...) -
Re:It probably is chold pornography
In Australia, we call this "unwanted content".
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Re:Brilliant Digital Entertainment?
Yep they sure were, and Michael Speck, now head media whore for Brilliant Digital Entertainment, was the head of MIPI, the attack dog of ARIA (Aust RIAA) that took KaZaA to court http://www.crn.com.au/News/14179,kazaa-applies-for-anton-piller-order-to-be-set-aside.aspx. It looks like everyone has their price.
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Re:Took their time
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Re:Billion Dollar Repair Bill's First Victim
the [xbox 360] console has turned out to be the most poorly designed console in history. Nothing even comes close to the 30 to 40 percent failure rate of the 360.
Ha, its even worse than that: 30-40% is the PRfluff figure they are currently spinning but that is the current failure rate over 12 months. Microsofts own projected failure rate over three years is 100%. Yeah if you have a console now it will need to repaired over the next three years, unless you are win-the-lottery lucky or live in an igloo.
All 11.6 million Xbox 360s are faulty
Software giant admits there are 11.6 million faulty consoles sold in the past 19 months, will have to be fixed
EB Games in Australia has issued a recall on every single premium Xbox 360 its stores had in stock - July 16, 2007!!!!
First, XBox sucked up one billion dollars from our company and broke that division's wallet. Now is 360 going to break our heart, too? The Long $1,000,000,000 Kiss Goodnight: now come on, how can you have to put aside $1,000,000,000 to cover faulty Xbox 360s - minimsft - who'da'punk (microsoft insider blog) -
the last big Windows worm .."The last big Windows worm was quite a while ago. They are still alive thanks to the unaware"
`The 'big one' is coming. A major worm attack is just days away. It's no drill, say the security experts
"Windows has a lot of ports open compared to other machines mostly because it was designed to operate in a operate in an Active directory enviornment...and because RPC is overally relied upon"
Is it possible to design a directory service and still be secure. For instance where are all the in-the-wild exploits for Novell eDirectory.
"Yes you can get a virus delivered by email, but this is true of any OS where the user is running as root ( admin ( if the os even supports it ) ) and opens up an attachment
The typos are a nice touch. Opening an attachment in Linux or OS X is not the dangourious activity it is on Windows as open does not equate to execute. Even running as root, which you don't have to do, unlike Windows where running as non-admin makes the machine unusable.
"Nobody likes to mention that Windows file security is far more advanced then Linux's will be for quite sometime"
The reason 'nobody likes to mention' it is that it isn't even true. 'User Account Control' was know as SUDO on Linux long before it put in an appearance in Vista. The rest of the Vista 'security' features are not even needed under Linux.
"I won't be suprised to see a mac mode in Vista sometime soon. It wouldn't really be that hard for Windows to stick the file menu up on the top of the screen when a Window takes focus"
The Linux Mac lookalike desktop is called Xfce and has been out for years. What is it with this computer innovation begins and ends with Vista.
"The fact of the matter that no ones wants to talk about is MS is becoming fairly secure if installed with it's patches and stuck behind a firewall"
Who are these people who don't want to talk about MS becoming fairly secure and why would this be deemed worthy of mention.
"Imagie you installed Redhat 3.0 and then put yourself on the network. I'm sure someone out there could right a worm for Redhat 3.0 right?"
ROFL
"ActiveX has as well which was a stupid idea to compete with Java which was poorly executed"
It's Javas' fault that ActiveX is so insecure
"The NYT guy could say Mac OSx and Linux have less threats so switching to them is a solution, but getting yourself a firewall is the best. Go to Bestbuy and pay the whatever fee for the geek squad to come install it.
I don't know what he could have said only what he actually said:
"Using a non-Windows-based PC may be one defense against these programs, known as malware"
"Use a firewall program that warns you about outgoing connections that botnets make to communicate with control software"
And with dot.NET and it's JIT compiler and COM over HTML, a firewall isn't going to be of much use.
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Re:Probably Not Going To Happen...
They also know those fans aren't that large of a market.
You're kidding, right? I wouldn't be so sure.
According to this Washington Post article:. With some analysts estimating the Japanese geek market to be worth as much as $19 billion a year, companies are jostling to cash in.
This telephony online article is 4 years old, but believe me, the love is still there.
This CRN article underscores the current hotness of the geek market.
Look at all the advertising on Slashdot, Linux.com, Digg, and other geek hangouts...believe me, marketeers care about the geek market, and if AMD has any smarts at all, so do they. -
Re:MSFT will say noMicrosoft may say yes if it's a non-GPL-compatable patenty-encumbered "Open Source" (or OSI approved, at least) license.
Remember, they have no problem with that "Open OS" from the other member of "The Unholly Alliance".
Their war is against the GPL (they like BSD & CDDL because they need to "borrow" code from these projects to stay competitive, and like it that they can keep this "borrowed" code proprietary).
Theh more they can divide and conquer the open source community the better for them.