I'm not trying to troll or anything but other than the "Cool" factor what does this service do? How is knowing the most common attack types going to help me? The common ones are already patched by clued-in admins. I mean did you see the common attack list? If you're open to SNMP GET you have problems.
Are they going to try and find new attacks with the data or something?
This was one of their main points, if people don't watch ads then they lose the revenue to sustain the shows.
Wrong. This is no diffrent from VCRs. The reason that people will still watch the ads is because they are broadast with the ads. If i'm watching a show I can't fast forward the real-time broadcast. You either get real-time or you can tape the whole show and watch it when its done. Or are you going to wait until the game has been on for 30 minutes before starting to watch it? And then what if you catch up? Stare at a paused screen while it buffers just so you can skip some ads you won't pay attention to anyway?
The "revolution" hasn't given you what you wanted *YET*? So wait. This massive change - which BTW has only just BARELY begun - is not about any one person, or issue, or race, or creed, or government. And is not going to be stopped by any one person, or country, or global corporation, or whatever. The Info-genie is out and can't be put back in. It's almost like you forgot that The Information Age is about providing information to everyone that wants it - not about any of the little things you mentioned. Napster? So what. Taxes? So what.
You want an accurate picture of the relevance of these things? Speed limits. The laws are there but no one cares. No one follows them. And no one would DARE make a car that only went 55MPH. Wait! Before you say DVD let me say again - so what? Once massive bandwith is everywhere who will care? Your DVD player will be as relevant as an old laserdisk player.
including a hyperlink to a page is little different from providing a bibliographic reference in a paper document
That's the thing right there. It IS different to everyone else out there. A hyperlink in the eyes of the masses is similar, not to a footnote that says "go look in the June issue of Time", but to actually HAVING the June issue of Time stapeled on the back of the paper. You and I and everyone else on the site might "get" how this thing works but how many people out there do? How many think that AOL and the Internet are the same thing?
At the risk of flying off-topic even more here let me say that problems with the laws and such are TEMPORARY and will be fixed SOMEDAY - like the traffic laws were fixed. Remember that they used to have 10mph speed limits on highways. And for the people who cry "speed limits? that's taking away my freedom!" - Think about it. Can you really tell me you want people who take 10 minutes to decide on a PASSWORD driving as fast as THEY think is safe?
Got that right. If you REALLY wanted to buy your partner a book, you should look into one that has positions. Get in the true spirit of the day.:)
Or go the non-physical lust route (yes, it exists:) and buy them POETRY. And read it to them by candlelight while they soak in a nice hot bath. Of course doing this will most likely lead back to physical lust. If you're lucky.
First a review of the worthless movie "Saving Silverman" and now this piece of Cosmo fluff?
Please tell me slashdot is not falling to MSN standards?
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Jon you can't have an absolute answer to a question of morality. You might as well have asked "Is Islam better than Christanity?" It would almost seem that this post is designed to provoke people into flaming each other == "Yes it is you morally-challenged SLUT!" "No it's not, you closed-minded fascist!"
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G.H.
Just because I'm better than you doesn't make me right.
The reason they should NOT continue to get paid the same amout is because of the reduced cost of digital publishing. Because now that the PUBLISHERS don't need to produce PHYSICAL copies of books (don't need to store them in a huge warehouse, don't need to ship them)each copy of a book should cost on the order of a dollar.
I'll take it another step. Publishers want to get paid? Keep their profits up? Then charge the SAME thing they do now. That makes them a tidy profit. Don't want people shareing the books? Fine. Have them installed on a PC.
But whatever it takes EVERYONE must try and keep libraries the way they are now - free access to information for everyone.
I think this is pretty scary... just from the privacy implications alone
Buddy, that ain't the half of it.
The REALLY scary thing here is that these are just kids. They grow up with it this way and they'll never ever question it. The invasions of privacy and other abuses will just become "normal".
Worse, he wants HIGHER standards for the internet than exist for dead trees. Government factual checking? C'mon, what government agency is cracking down on the Weekly World News for running the "Bat-Boy" story?
I did notice how he was able to mention his new book so many times. Must just be a wacky coincidence...
G.H.
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So what? What are YOU going to do about it?
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In my job I hear that "attacks from within" line a lot.
My question for you is - how are you SURE that the attacker came from within? Valid User ID in log files? Attack from an "inside" IP?
You can't trust either one.
I'd say that most of the attacks that are labeled "inside" are actually attacks that came from a compromised user account and/or a hacked internal box ala what happened to M$.
"There are very few real hackers in the entire world. You've never heard of them and you never will."
I have a PS2. I don't have a stand alone DVD.
I just rented Matrix on DVD from Blockbuster.
I like DVD better than my VHS.
I will keep using my PS2 as a DVD player.
See the point of having DVD now?
Sure the masses CAN buy a cheap DVD they question is "Have they?" is the answer now is "Yes."
Before we all go wild at the thought of Sonic on the PS2 or the XBox get more info first!
Gameweek.com had a report on Sega's plans last Friday. Sega SPECIFICALY said they would not make games for competing platforms but for the PC and for "Internet and mobile play".
It's all well and good the there is proof that the internet isn't making us anti-social monsters.
Big DUH folks.
But how will this effect us? Will the politicains and the rest of america wake up tomorrow singing the praises of the Net? I doubt it.
What we need is sensational stories about how the Net made me lose 30lbs or saved my cat. Stuff Ma and Pa Kettel will see on Dateline. Cause once Stone Phillips says it's a good thing we can all rest easier.
There is a paper that describes MS AD service called "Implementing Directory Enabled Networks Using Windows 2000 Technology". It lives at http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/library/techn ologies/communications/denuse.asp. I hope this helps.
G.H.
"Cryptography is like literacy in the Dark Ages. Infinitely potent, for good and ill... yet basically an intellectual construct, an idea,
which by its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who deem only themselves worthy of such Privilege."
-- A Thinking Man's Creed for Crypto
You have to understand one thing to keep this article in context - when M$ says it will "fight to the death anything that threatens its intellectual property" what they mean is they will "fight to the death anything that threatens its ability to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!!"
Anyway..
One reason why they won't open the API because a LOT of MS software uses undocumented API calls to easily provide application and OS integration. If they opened the API up to everybody, MS would lose that (unfair) advantage. And since when will MS give up ANYTHING?
I know I've wasted countless hours watching forwarded e-mails. Does this count as a DoS? And if is send it to all my techie buddies am I causing a DDoS?
Look out Superfriends-"Wassup"-Guy! The DOJ will be coming after YOU!
Slashdot Mirror
I must have missed something.
I'm not trying to troll or anything but other than the "Cool" factor what does this service do? How is knowing the most common attack types going to help me? The common ones are already patched by clued-in admins. I mean did you see the common attack list? If you're open to SNMP GET you have problems.
Are they going to try and find new attacks with the data or something?
G.H.
So if I can hack into their database can I find out who keeps watching those god forsaken Fox police shows and have them killed?
And if I did that could I then tape it to sell back to Fox?
Wrong. This is no diffrent from VCRs. The reason that people will still watch the ads is because they are broadast with the ads. If i'm watching a show I can't fast forward the real-time broadcast. You either get real-time or you can tape the whole show and watch it when its done. Or are you going to wait until the game has been on for 30 minutes before starting to watch it? And then what if you catch up? Stare at a paused screen while it buffers just so you can skip some ads you won't pay attention to anyway?
I'm still looking forward to fiber running straight into the basement
So you're telling us that Fast Ethernet is too slow for you? Good lord man, how much pr0n do you need?
G.H
So will you guys be changing your name from Andover to Bend-over?
ROLCIOF
(Rolling on the floor cause I'm on fire)
The "revolution" hasn't given you what you wanted *YET*? So wait. This massive change - which BTW has only just BARELY begun - is not about any one person, or issue, or race, or creed, or government. And is not going to be stopped by any one person, or country, or global corporation, or whatever. The Info-genie is out and can't be put back in. It's almost like you forgot that The Information Age is about providing information to everyone that wants it - not about any of the little things you mentioned. Napster? So what. Taxes? So what.
You want an accurate picture of the relevance of these things? Speed limits. The laws are there but no one cares. No one follows them. And no one would DARE make a car that only went 55MPH. Wait! Before you say DVD let me say again - so what? Once massive bandwith is everywhere who will care? Your DVD player will be as relevant as an old laserdisk player.
That's the thing right there. It IS different to everyone else out there. A hyperlink in the eyes of the masses is similar, not to a footnote that says "go look in the June issue of Time", but to actually HAVING the June issue of Time stapeled on the back of the paper. You and I and everyone else on the site might "get" how this thing works but how many people out there do? How many think that AOL and the Internet are the same thing?
At the risk of flying off-topic even more here let me say that problems with the laws and such are TEMPORARY and will be fixed SOMEDAY - like the traffic laws were fixed. Remember that they used to have 10mph speed limits on highways. And for the people who cry "speed limits? that's taking away my freedom!" - Think about it. Can you really tell me you want people who take 10 minutes to decide on a PASSWORD driving as fast as THEY think is safe?
G.H.
Troll? Don't mind if I do!
Got that right. If you REALLY wanted to buy your partner a book, you should look into one that has positions. Get in the true spirit of the day. :)
:) and buy them POETRY. And read it to them by candlelight while they soak in a nice hot bath. Of course doing this will most likely lead back to physical lust. If you're lucky.
Or go the non-physical lust route (yes, it exists
G.H.
First a review of the worthless movie "Saving Silverman" and now this piece of Cosmo fluff?
Please tell me slashdot is not falling to MSN standards?
<ontopic>
Jon you can't have an absolute answer to a question of morality. You might as well have asked "Is Islam better than Christanity?" It would almost seem that this post is designed to provoke people into flaming each other == "Yes it is you morally-challenged SLUT!" "No it's not, you closed-minded fascist!"
</ontopic>
G.H.
Just because I'm better than you doesn't make me right.
There you go.
The reason they should NOT continue to get paid the same amout is because of the reduced cost of digital publishing. Because now that the PUBLISHERS don't need to produce PHYSICAL copies of books (don't need to store them in a huge warehouse, don't need to ship them)each copy of a book should cost on the order of a dollar.
I'll take it another step. Publishers want to get paid? Keep their profits up? Then charge the SAME thing they do now. That makes them a tidy profit. Don't want people shareing the books? Fine. Have them installed on a PC.
But whatever it takes EVERYONE must try and keep libraries the way they are now - free access to information for everyone.
I think this is pretty scary... just from the privacy implications alone
Buddy, that ain't the half of it.
The REALLY scary thing here is that these are just kids. They grow up with it this way and they'll never ever question it. The invasions of privacy and other abuses will just become "normal".
... isn't the Internet. It's an Encyclopedia.
Worse, he wants HIGHER standards for the internet than exist for dead trees. Government factual checking? C'mon, what government agency is cracking down on the Weekly World News for running the "Bat-Boy" story?
I did notice how he was able to mention his new book so many times. Must just be a wacky coincidence...
G.H.
---
So what? What are YOU going to do about it?
In my job I hear that "attacks from within" line a lot. My question for you is - how are you SURE that the attacker came from within? Valid User ID in log files? Attack from an "inside" IP? You can't trust either one. I'd say that most of the attacks that are labeled "inside" are actually attacks that came from a compromised user account and/or a hacked internal box ala what happened to M$. "There are very few real hackers in the entire world. You've never heard of them and you never will."
The Most Important Software?
You have obviously never played Starcraft...
G.H.
I don't see any benefit to allowing a monkey to control the limbs of a paralysis victim. Thoughts? Anyone?
I have a PS2. I don't have a stand alone DVD.
I just rented Matrix on DVD from Blockbuster.
I like DVD better than my VHS.
I will keep using my PS2 as a DVD player.
See the point of having DVD now?
Sure the masses CAN buy a cheap DVD they question is "Have they?" is the answer now is "Yes."
PEOPLE!!
Before we all go wild at the thought of Sonic on the PS2 or the XBox get more info first!
Gameweek.com had a report on Sega's plans last Friday. Sega SPECIFICALY said they would not make games for competing platforms but for the PC and for "Internet and mobile play".
Someone go find the link and post it.
Why is Sony losing on the PS2? Easy, the PS2 happens to be one of the cheap(est) DVD player on the market
And just how would that hurt Sony? Ever hear of Sony Pictures? They're a little branch of Sony that makes movies. And what do movies come on? DVD.
Do a little bit more research before spouting off nonsence like that.
It's all well and good the there is proof that the internet isn't making us anti-social monsters.
Big DUH folks.
But how will this effect us? Will the politicains and the rest of america wake up tomorrow singing the praises of the Net? I doubt it.
What we need is sensational stories about how the Net made me lose 30lbs or saved my cat. Stuff Ma and Pa Kettel will see on Dateline. Cause once Stone Phillips says it's a good thing we can all rest easier.
Zero emission my eye! Slap a HEPA filter on this thing are you've got LESS than ZERO emissions. How's THAT for cool.
There is a paper that describes MS AD service called "Implementing Directory Enabled Networks Using Windows 2000 Technology". It lives at http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/library/techn ologies/communications/denuse.asp. I hope this helps.
G.H.
"Cryptography is like literacy in the Dark Ages. Infinitely potent, for good and ill... yet basically an intellectual construct, an idea,
which by its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who deem only themselves worthy of such Privilege."
-- A Thinking Man's Creed for Crypto
I totally agree with this one.
I can move my personal web site to cantget.sex!
G.H.
ireally@cantget.sex
You have to understand one thing to keep this article in context - when M$ says it will "fight to the death anything that threatens its intellectual property" what they mean is they will "fight to the death anything that threatens its ability to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!!"
Anyway..
One reason why they won't open the API because a LOT of MS software uses undocumented API calls to easily provide application and OS integration. If they opened the API up to everybody, MS would lose that (unfair) advantage. And since when will MS give up ANYTHING?
G.H.
My Jesus is Better Than Your Jesus.
I know I've wasted countless hours watching forwarded e-mails. Does this count as a DoS? And if is send it to all my techie buddies am I causing a DDoS?
Look out Superfriends-"Wassup"-Guy! The DOJ will be coming after YOU!
This is silly. Why would anyone just accept the default password on a networked machine? If you don't change the defaults you deserve what you get.
"Gee, we didn't lock our car doors. But be a security flaw with the car!"
G.H.
"....Ok what now?"