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Cisco Working to Block Viruses at the Router
macmouse writes "The San Francisco Chronicle has an article about Cisco and Anti-Virus companies working together to block viruses at the ISP (Router) level. It sounds like they will be using traffic shaping to block malicious traffic. Looking at it in an negative light however, it might mean that your required to have anti-virus software installed in order to use the internet. This can be a *big* problem for *nix/mac users which normally don't need or use AV software. Not to mention, being forced to purchase software from 'company x,y or z' in order to get online, regardless of platform. Hopefully, this is not going to happen."
Don't forget... ...to pay your $1499 licensing fee you cock-smoking teabaggers.
Remember, the price went up November 1st.
it might mean that your required to have anti-virus software installed in order to use the internet.
If only one would be required to know the difference between "your" and "you're" to use the internet...
I am Sartre of the Borg. Existence is futile.
Fucked?
In a word: yes.
The more I read about stuff like the DCMA (now some uber-DCMA is in force in the UK and other parts of Europe too), the more I long to move to a country where this kind of shit just isn't going on, where the government represents it's people (not it's corporate backers) and where true democracy reigns.
The only problem is that I'm pretty much certain that such a place is merely a figment of my imagination, and that actually the whole world is just one big fucked up place in this day and age.
We're stuck with this shit now, so we either have to deal with it (actively or passively), ignore it (bad idea), stop being such idealists (not necessarily possible) or kill ourselves.
Personally, I'm trying hard to go with the "doing something about it while not getting too depressed over it all" angle, but it's not easy. We have to fight for the stuff that we believe in, and that can be both rewarding and taxing on a daily basis.
(So, the razor blades it is then...)
Organic free-range music... yum!
In the Guardian...
To GW Bush
From Frederick Forsyth...
You will find yourself assailed on every hand by some pretty pretentious characters collectively known as the British left. They traditionally believe they have a monopoly on morality and that your recent actions preclude you from the club. You opposed and destroyed the world's most blood-encrusted dictator. This is quite unforgivable.
I beg you to take no notice. The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Adolf Hitler and worshipped the other genocide, Josef Stalin.
It has marched for Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov. It has slobbered over Ceausescu and Mugabe. It has demonstrated against everything and everyone American for a century. Broadly speaking, it hates your country first, mine second.
Eleven years ago something dreadful happened. Maggie was ousted, Ronald retired, the Berlin wall fell and Gorby abolished communism. All the left's idols fell and its demons retired. For a decade there was nothing really to hate. But thank the Lord for his limitless mercy. Now they can applaud Saddam, Bin Laden, Kim Jong-Il . . . and hate a God-fearing Texan. So hallelujah and have a good time.