please tell me you're just a kid playing, and not really a server admin.
There's not much difference in the harm he can do with his one system and the harm anyone else is doing with their XP Home. The cracker brings their own tools to both.
Also, as the recent download ject scandal shows, there's not much more the "grown up", well funded, M$ admin pros can do to protect themselves against malice. You should be happy if someone is running 2003 at home rather than at a fortune 500 bank. Microsoft was not ready for the internet back in 1995 and they still are not.
Even if new computers were "almost up to date out of the box," the typical user gets creamed soon anyway. It may not happen right away, but someone always comes up with a bigger better nasty that exploits M$'s poorly designed software. All of these "patches" firewalls and other bandaids just don't work. By the time the user's computer is bogged down enough for them to notice, their computer has been used to send out all sorts of garbage and their original software is hoplessly out of date. Email bombs and malicious websites cut right through that cheap little hardware firewall just like they do virus filters and all the other expensive failed solutions that have been advocated. The average store puts the same out of date stuff right back on and sends them out to be owned all over again. They can not keep and distribute M$ patches, even if they did want to spend the hour or two required to install them all. The user does not want to pay for those extra two hours either as it might be cheaper to buy a newer version of Winblows at that point, if only the new version supported their hardware. It's totally miserable.
You can compare that experience to any modern Linux distribution and wonder why people use Windoze at all.
Walk down the street in downtown Detroit counting $20 dollar bills and see how long it takes for you to get mugged. Then do the same on mainstreet in West Bumblefuck, Iowa (population 15, if'n Pastor Smith isn't out of town). Betcha you last longer in Iowa. In other words that time is probably dependant on how nasty the computing environment is.
Ah yes, but money does not turn a neighborhood into a slum like M$ makes a nasty computing environment. In real life, the more money a neighborhood has the nicer it looks. The more M$ you put on a network, the more run down it looks, the slower your network goes and the more likely you are to get jumped regardless of OS. Hardware firewalls are better at containing the ghetto than they are protecting it.
Looking good is what it's all about. Her tricks involve looking good without exerting effort.
Note that she did not recommend privatization of the public utility she works for. Does she really expect opportunity in the nationalized industry that exists to employ her overeducated self? What does she expect from economics and international relations even from the country's elite National Foundation of Political Sciences, or a doctorate in psychoanalysis besides a go nowhere state job? When most of the economy is like that, the state is free to push it's victims to all sorts of stupid work and effort in exchange for fewer rewards. See the Worker's Paradise for where this kind of attitude gets you.
XP gets wiped out the same way, but the user does not notice it as soon. XP is generally running on better hardware and the "slowness" is not as evident. The software and design is mostly the same, so most of the same hacks apply. Just do an "upgrade" at a fortune 500 company and you will see that the best M$ can deliver for the money and kept up by dedicated professionals is still totally owned. Small offices and home users are just as wiped out.
They also get owned through dial up. Just as fast. Once again, the slowness of the connection itself masks the fact that the thing is broken. It makes the user think that dial up is unusable, when I've shared a dial up connection with my wife under Linux without problems. Dial up users are also targeted by a special class of worms, porn dialers, which can cost the user plenty. I've heard users tell me about their computers dialing on their own in the middle of the night. Nasty.
With all the broken Windoze boxes out there able to launch all manner of attacks, the web is a really ugly place right now.
What's the best survival knife? The absolute best? It's the one you have with you. All the others are useless.
The Linux survival knife comes with a cell phone, fits into a shirt button and costs much less than commercial versions and regular shirt buttons. Yes, the retracting monomolecular sword and fusion powered fire starter might be handy in a pinch, but I've never been out of Linux springer rescue and ambulance range. I have one sewn onto every shirt I own. I pity all those wackos I see who lug around those huge pieces of M$ sharpened steel and think they are secure. Their ignorance is a menace to themselves and others.
reports that it doesn't block outgoing connections from your computer! Really?
Really, that sucks. Windoze users will continue to polute the internet. They will keep being auto rooted by email bombs and this new "firewall" will let their zombie box spew. The user will remain clueless.
It does point out that Windows responds when certain standard port connections are attempted.
Windoze and "standard" are two words that don't belong together.
I'm too lazy to read an article about an OS I have no intention of running. Would you tell me which ports are still open and how many known exploits there are for M$ junk that listens to them? Thanks, the exercise will do you some good. It will do me some good if you quit deploying windoze.
Is the future of competitive sports an elite cadre of genetically engineered athletes?"
According to "Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers", yes but they will be banned because they make things boring. The point of no return comes when you get goalies who exactly fill the goal.
I've done it on a 760LD by mistake but letting the battery go to zero. It came back up where it was at the dselect menu!
It also has been reported to work on Thinkpad T600. It does it well enough so that XMMS will resume playing were it was. I have not tried it yet because the battery is dead.
My general impression is that APM works well ACPI is buggy but fixable. ACPI reminds me of Winmodems. The bugs are in all systems, though you can disable them in Linux and have hardware that works. We shall see if having a vendor in the works makes things better. I bet it does. I've had at least one machine where all sorts of problems vanished with an ACPI bios upgrade.
This is clearly a mainstream push to be announced in the SFGate.
Cool stuff all around. It looks like fewer and fewer companies are willing to do Microsoft's "careful dance". That's one more company in the revolt. With each entry, M$ is rendered less potent.
The article is talking about using capacitive coupling, not RF, though the two are related. The idea is to build the transmitters and the receivers directly onto the chip in place of wire connection pads. They can be much smaller, so you go from having hundreds of connectors to having thousands all much faster than wires. Interestingly enough, this exploits one of the main problems of wire signal transmission, field generation. As you may know, the longer the wire the harder it is to switch, which is why you still have sub 100MHz wire busses like PCI and people use fiber optics to move data long distances. The Sun approach has the potential to speed things up by several orderer of magnitude compared to wires.
This is a very cool idea and it's the kind of thing I expect from Sun. Once it's stated, the solution almost looks obvious. While there's lots of work needed to make the idea practical, I admire the way they took a big noise problem and used it to propagate signal. It's too bad they are run by someone who thinks that they are going to make their money by licensing software instead of selling chips and licenses to very cool and real inventions.
I've heard this cross-licensing song and dance before presented in a very self serving way. They present themselves as "enablers" without which big companies would not be able to make "complex" technical products. Of course, without absurd laws everyone would be able to make those complex things and there would be no need for cross licensing.
The fact that Phelps is saying these things shows that he has his doubts. I have to wonder if the change from very specific pieces of cut and bent metal that works to very broad software nonsense bother him. The AT bus specifications did not preclude people from making nbins. Goofey software patents on things like "one click shopping", long filenames and business methods will keep people from doing what they have every right to do.
I hope that Phelps remembers that patents are for inventions and revolts.
A computer virus compared to nuking a city? OK, the capital and effort lost to computer viruses might kill people by creating demands and activities that would not exist. You can say that activity kills people, just as you can compare the number of people who die by various means of producing electricity. More people die moving coal per megawatt than die from moving Uranium. It's more likely, however, that virus writers saving existing lives by reducing the overall economic activity. Destruction is waste. The overall human population will decline under bad a relatively worse off economy, so the net effect of Netsky is to reduce human life and make it more tedious because people are forced to do things they would rather not. A war, in which people and everything they depend on are deliberately targeted is orders of magnitude worse than anything ever created any single script kiddie. Microsoft's efforts at intentional waste, which pervade allmost all production today, might be only a single order of magnitude off from a real war. In short, it's foolish to compare the two.
SUN doesn't mean Suse -- they know that IBM uses Red Hat as well. SUN means System V Unix and AIX. [and they could do bad things to IBM with the things Novel has]
Holy mother of FUD, batman. The "rights" Novel purchased did Ma Bell and Unix System Labs little good against BSD or Sun for that matter. SCO's bogus claims to those rights and even more bogus claims to Linux by spooky interaction at a distance are even less tenable. SCO's court cases are collapsing and it won't be long before they are gone. Idiots like McBride are going to be fending off Federal charges of racketeering. The whole SCO fiasco made nothing but bad press that fooled no one, do you really think it can be prolonged in anything but reality void Intel rags?
I suppose, if you were a desperate dying company like M$, you would spin things that way. You might even give your other desperate dino pals $2 billion of the $2.4 billion purchase price too. I expect we will see more FUD from them along these lines but the reporter did not put it together.
The reporter clearly thought of this in terms of Suse:
Schwartz said in a log posting on Sunday that IBM relies on Novell's Suse Linux as a competition to keep No. 1 Linux seller Red Hat from growing too strong.
Dumb stuff all around, but that's what I expect from ZDnet. He even make it look like Schwartz was dumb enough to think "owning" Suse would do bad things to IBM or anyone else. To me, it's just another reason to avoid proprietary software. It's nothing at all to Red Hat.
Microsoft simply offered them a deal with better cost-benefit ratio.
There's a benefit to running Windoze? That's funny right? Let me know what it is. If you can't you can get back to hating Telstra with a new passion because someone was either very stupid or bribed. 40,000 M$ desktops, oh my aching head, what a nightmare.
Good luck finding a network that's free of that virus, however. The kinds of people so clueless as to not understand the root cause of DoS attacks demand it because they are ignorant of alternatives and usually don't want to hear about them.
I think its common wisdom to isolate grids from the internet and other potentially hostile networks.
So you want to build a third internet? Sounds great, so long as you let me into internet 2, which was built specifically for grid computing on university sites. When you migrate to internet 3, will you promise to keep it windoze free as a demonstration? Sooner or later people might understand how insecure commercial junk degrades a network.
a patent without the backing to fight for it is worthless, and I am sorry to say I have no answer for that. Perhaps finding some white knight (IBM) to help underwrite that would be worthwhile.
I no more want to ruled by IBM than Microsoft. If you are dependent on someone in the way you propose, they own you.
The only useful answer is to eliminate patents for software and business methods. Both are absurd and a tremendous waste of money.
None of the anti-patent rhetoric bandied about these days ever addresses the topic of actually making software patents sensible by only granting patents for non-obvious, non-trivial, complete software inventions. Why? Because any kind of software patent threatens open source's competitive advantage and the anti-software patent brigade wants all software to be open source regardless of the rest of the world.
More than free software coders are worried about software patents. If you read the article you would have seen that big dumb companies are spending billions of dollars on patents of dubious value that none would ever want to use except against small companies. That opinion came from a software engineer at one of those big dumb companies who felt that most of his peers felt the same way.
Clearly, this is a larger problem for big dumb companies than it is for free software coders who incur none on the same cost. Nothing short of the destruction of free press and socialism can perpetuate the relative position of those companies pushing for "IP" protection. Companies like IBM are driving out of it a most productive way.
Also, if you look around, you will see most people telling you why software patents are bogus. "Non-obvious" software is an application of mathematics, something that's discovered not invented. "non-trivial" software does not exist, it just takes longer to write. Implementing ideas and business methods into the abstraction that software represents is not the inventive process you pretend it is. Free software writers think they get more out of the world by sharing their code with everyone instead of locking it up with expensive government "protection" from other people doing the same thing they do. Why would you expect people who don't believe what you think to reassure you in your wrongness?
This article doesn't say anything we don't already know.
Did you know how much it was costing these big dumb companies to act so stupid? $8,000 bonus for each patent granted as an incentive for engineers to waste their time. $50,000 to $200,000 for each filing. That the average engineer can generate more than a million dollars costs in two or three hours so that the company can earh what the insider called "dubious value" patents. These are shocking numbers in an economy where people who cost the firm $100,000 a year and do real things are not thought worth keeping. Think of it that way when your company is downsizing again. No, I had no idea just how stupid the whole thing was.
I also was unaware of how honest these companies were within themselves about what they were doing. "keep down small company competition", "Don't worry about whether you think the idea is worthy of patenting - that's for us to decide," "patent all the ways other people might do them as well, not so that we could actually do these things ourselves, but so we could prevent others from doing them." It's all very disturbing language.
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There's not much difference in the harm he can do with his one system and the harm anyone else is doing with their XP Home. The cracker brings their own tools to both.
Also, as the recent download ject scandal shows, there's not much more the "grown up", well funded, M$ admin pros can do to protect themselves against malice. You should be happy if someone is running 2003 at home rather than at a fortune 500 bank. Microsoft was not ready for the internet back in 1995 and they still are not.
Why do you care?
Even if new computers were "almost up to date out of the box," the typical user gets creamed soon anyway. It may not happen right away, but someone always comes up with a bigger better nasty that exploits M$'s poorly designed software. All of these "patches" firewalls and other bandaids just don't work. By the time the user's computer is bogged down enough for them to notice, their computer has been used to send out all sorts of garbage and their original software is hoplessly out of date. Email bombs and malicious websites cut right through that cheap little hardware firewall just like they do virus filters and all the other expensive failed solutions that have been advocated. The average store puts the same out of date stuff right back on and sends them out to be owned all over again. They can not keep and distribute M$ patches, even if they did want to spend the hour or two required to install them all. The user does not want to pay for those extra two hours either as it might be cheaper to buy a newer version of Winblows at that point, if only the new version supported their hardware. It's totally miserable.
You can compare that experience to any modern Linux distribution and wonder why people use Windoze at all.
Ah yes, but money does not turn a neighborhood into a slum like M$ makes a nasty computing environment. In real life, the more money a neighborhood has the nicer it looks. The more M$ you put on a network, the more run down it looks, the slower your network goes and the more likely you are to get jumped regardless of OS. Hardware firewalls are better at containing the ghetto than they are protecting it.
Note that she did not recommend privatization of the public utility she works for. Does she really expect opportunity in the nationalized industry that exists to employ her overeducated self? What does she expect from economics and international relations even from the country's elite National Foundation of Political Sciences, or a doctorate in psychoanalysis besides a go nowhere state job? When most of the economy is like that, the state is free to push it's victims to all sorts of stupid work and effort in exchange for fewer rewards. See the Worker's Paradise for where this kind of attitude gets you.
They also get owned through dial up. Just as fast. Once again, the slowness of the connection itself masks the fact that the thing is broken. It makes the user think that dial up is unusable, when I've shared a dial up connection with my wife under Linux without problems. Dial up users are also targeted by a special class of worms, porn dialers, which can cost the user plenty. I've heard users tell me about their computers dialing on their own in the middle of the night. Nasty.
With all the broken Windoze boxes out there able to launch all manner of attacks, the web is a really ugly place right now.
The Linux survival knife comes with a cell phone, fits into a shirt button and costs much less than commercial versions and regular shirt buttons. Yes, the retracting monomolecular sword and fusion powered fire starter might be handy in a pinch, but I've never been out of Linux springer rescue and ambulance range. I have one sewn onto every shirt I own. I pity all those wackos I see who lug around those huge pieces of M$ sharpened steel and think they are secure. Their ignorance is a menace to themselves and others.
Really, that sucks. Windoze users will continue to polute the internet. They will keep being auto rooted by email bombs and this new "firewall" will let their zombie box spew. The user will remain clueless.
It does point out that Windows responds when certain standard port connections are attempted.
Windoze and "standard" are two words that don't belong together.
I'm too lazy to read an article about an OS I have no intention of running. Would you tell me which ports are still open and how many known exploits there are for M$ junk that listens to them? Thanks, the exercise will do you some good. It will do me some good if you quit deploying windoze.
According to "Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers", yes but they will be banned because they make things boring. The point of no return comes when you get goalies who exactly fill the goal.
Just do something "newsworthy" and watch what M$NBC does to it. Coyote was a genius.
It also has been reported to work on Thinkpad T600. It does it well enough so that XMMS will resume playing were it was. I have not tried it yet because the battery is dead.
My general impression is that APM works well ACPI is buggy but fixable. ACPI reminds me of Winmodems. The bugs are in all systems, though you can disable them in Linux and have hardware that works. We shall see if having a vendor in the works makes things better. I bet it does. I've had at least one machine where all sorts of problems vanished with an ACPI bios upgrade.
This is clearly a mainstream push to be announced in the SFGate.
Cool stuff all around. It looks like fewer and fewer companies are willing to do Microsoft's "careful dance". That's one more company in the revolt. With each entry, M$ is rendered less potent.
This is a very cool idea and it's the kind of thing I expect from Sun. Once it's stated, the solution almost looks obvious. While there's lots of work needed to make the idea practical, I admire the way they took a big noise problem and used it to propagate signal. It's too bad they are run by someone who thinks that they are going to make their money by licensing software instead of selling chips and licenses to very cool and real inventions.
The fact that Phelps is saying these things shows that he has his doubts. I have to wonder if the change from very specific pieces of cut and bent metal that works to very broad software nonsense bother him. The AT bus specifications did not preclude people from making nbins. Goofey software patents on things like "one click shopping", long filenames and business methods will keep people from doing what they have every right to do.
I hope that Phelps remembers that patents are for inventions and revolts.
SUN doesn't mean Suse -- they know that IBM uses Red Hat as well. SUN means System V Unix and AIX. [and they could do bad things to IBM with the things Novel has]
Holy mother of FUD, batman. The "rights" Novel purchased did Ma Bell and Unix System Labs little good against BSD or Sun for that matter. SCO's bogus claims to those rights and even more bogus claims to Linux by spooky interaction at a distance are even less tenable. SCO's court cases are collapsing and it won't be long before they are gone. Idiots like McBride are going to be fending off Federal charges of racketeering. The whole SCO fiasco made nothing but bad press that fooled no one, do you really think it can be prolonged in anything but reality void Intel rags?
I suppose, if you were a desperate dying company like M$, you would spin things that way. You might even give your other desperate dino pals $2 billion of the $2.4 billion purchase price too. I expect we will see more FUD from them along these lines but the reporter did not put it together.
The reporter clearly thought of this in terms of Suse:
Schwartz said in a log posting on Sunday that IBM relies on Novell's Suse Linux as a competition to keep No. 1 Linux seller Red Hat from growing too strong.
Dumb stuff all around, but that's what I expect from ZDnet. He even make it look like Schwartz was dumb enough to think "owning" Suse would do bad things to IBM or anyone else. To me, it's just another reason to avoid proprietary software. It's nothing at all to Red Hat.
There's a benefit to running Windoze? That's funny right? Let me know what it is. If you can't you can get back to hating Telstra with a new passion because someone was either very stupid or bribed. 40,000 M$ desktops, oh my aching head, what a nightmare.
I think its common wisdom to isolate grids from the internet and other potentially hostile networks.
So you want to build a third internet? Sounds great, so long as you let me into internet 2, which was built specifically for grid computing on university sites. When you migrate to internet 3, will you promise to keep it windoze free as a demonstration? Sooner or later people might understand how insecure commercial junk degrades a network.
Kind of a waste because it has exactly the same text as scienceblog. same text as the scienecblog.
I no more want to ruled by IBM than Microsoft. If you are dependent on someone in the way you propose, they own you.
The only useful answer is to eliminate patents for software and business methods. Both are absurd and a tremendous waste of money.
None of the anti-patent rhetoric bandied about these days ever addresses the topic of actually making software patents sensible by only granting patents for non-obvious, non-trivial, complete software inventions. Why? Because any kind of software patent threatens open source's competitive advantage and the anti-software patent brigade wants all software to be open source regardless of the rest of the world.
More than free software coders are worried about software patents. If you read the article you would have seen that big dumb companies are spending billions of dollars on patents of dubious value that none would ever want to use except against small companies. That opinion came from a software engineer at one of those big dumb companies who felt that most of his peers felt the same way.
Clearly, this is a larger problem for big dumb companies than it is for free software coders who incur none on the same cost. Nothing short of the destruction of free press and socialism can perpetuate the relative position of those companies pushing for "IP" protection. Companies like IBM are driving out of it a most productive way.
Also, if you look around, you will see most people telling you why software patents are bogus. "Non-obvious" software is an application of mathematics, something that's discovered not invented. "non-trivial" software does not exist, it just takes longer to write. Implementing ideas and business methods into the abstraction that software represents is not the inventive process you pretend it is. Free software writers think they get more out of the world by sharing their code with everyone instead of locking it up with expensive government "protection" from other people doing the same thing they do. Why would you expect people who don't believe what you think to reassure you in your wrongness?
Shrink copyright, patents and trademark all into one universal law? How about everything into one simple law, "do as I say"?
Did you know how much it was costing these big dumb companies to act so stupid? $8,000 bonus for each patent granted as an incentive for engineers to waste their time. $50,000 to $200,000 for each filing. That the average engineer can generate more than a million dollars costs in two or three hours so that the company can earh what the insider called "dubious value" patents. These are shocking numbers in an economy where people who cost the firm $100,000 a year and do real things are not thought worth keeping. Think of it that way when your company is downsizing again. No, I had no idea just how stupid the whole thing was.
I also was unaware of how honest these companies were within themselves about what they were doing. "keep down small company competition", "Don't worry about whether you think the idea is worthy of patenting - that's for us to decide," "patent all the ways other people might do them as well, not so that we could actually do these things ourselves, but so we could prevent others from doing them." It's all very disturbing language.