On vuln-dev (vulnerability development, a list on security-focus.com) there has been a discussion going on about this for over a week, and people are pointing out all the stores that have problems, and its getting to the point where it is easier to say who DOESN'T have a problem than who does.
What the hell are you doing quoting someone off a slashdot interview to your bosses? Honestly, I don't think he took this interview expecting to win over PHBs. Just answer some questions from the community that already supports them.
There are plenty of good open source keynotes out there, look at some of the keynotes from past O'REilly conferences.
If you are gonna take a quote off a geek site and expect that to persuade your boss to buy something than you don't really have a shot to begin with.
ICMP echo has perfectly legitimate uses. However the fact is that the misuse of it causes tons of ISP to block it in order to ensure they aren't ping flooded off the net. The same holds true for p2p (in my opinion). It may have its valid uses but its invalid uses greatly outweigh the valid.
Even blocking p2p altogether your 2 of your examples are moot (2. You can just rip it yourself since you already own it, takes a little longer but its not like you don't have the ability. 3. That ISO you are getting, regardless of whether you are using it for harmless pruposes, is being distributed illegally if it weren't MS would just make the ISO available to rely on you purchasing a key for it from them) and i would argue that 1 is probably moot because if the band is making the music available free of copyright you will most likely have no problem finding it elsewhere on a non-p2p system.
I don't particularly like the policy of blocking things outbound (especially if you are an ISP) and much prefer shaping the traffic however reliable high speed shaping is expensive and sometimes this is the only way to guarantee any sort of bandwidth quality.
Simply changing ports wont do you any good (at least not in the long run), ISP will just start getting content filtering firewalls that block based on the packet content and not just ip/port (or buy packeteers and just wait a few days forthem to update their signatures for the newest p2p app).
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Unless I use your paintbrushes and paint to come up with the new invention, which is normally the case with these "you created X on our time". You are using company resources to do create this magical product. Its one thing to do it on your own time on your own machines, a completely other to do it on your employers time on your employers machines.
The Hollings bill has drawn the support of major recording companies, who believe fast Internet connections and an array of digital devices such as MP3 players and CD burners, as well as Napster and other file-sharing services, were partly responsible for a decline in album sales last year
Didn't sales go up when napster started and then descreased when RIAA went and shutdown napster?
Hell I know people who used to get Mp3's so they could decide whether to buy an album who now just get them to piss off RIAA.
We used to have BZFlag tournaments in the CS dept at Stetson. Order a couple of pizza nad then go in rounds of 6-8 for 20 minutes. Then take the winners and play a final. Winner usually got like 20 bucks or a free pizza.
I think his point is that he is really just guessing.
You can't know you are very close to something unless you've done it before. I drive to work so I know when I am very close to work. We haven't found another planet like ours so how can he say we are close to finding another if he doesn't even know if one exists?
He's not trying to discredit, as I'm sure he is a very smart person, however that claim is poorly worded (unless of course he does know of another planet that noone else does).
You are welcome to be completely ignorant of other countries laws if you plan on never leaving the us. However if you are gonna ever travel abroad you may wish to keep track of what is and isn't legal elsewhere when it comes to computers. It would be a shame for you to portscan a computer while on a trip to china and be put to death.
Yeah but usually part of the business class is also faster speeds, my old dsl provider was 1.5 down 128 up for residential and 2.0 down 384 up for business class and was almost twice as much as a residential line.
Well the company does technically have a point that it is a residential line, etc. However I wouldn't be surprised that as things like this start to become news we don't see either a drop in the cost of business class, OR a new 'commuter' class which would hopefully be only a little more a month (than residential) and would come with some sort of uptime guarantee.
According to dictionary.com
LinkThus the entire security of RSA depends on the difficulty of factoring; an easy method for factoring large prime numbers would break RSA.
So it looks like we've been going about it all wrong. We should be concentrating on factoring large prime numbers.:)
Followup: From reading the MS Site it looks licensing is based of the EULA of the software being used, so if you are using win2kpro you have to have a copy of win2kpro for each machine etc etc.
Licensing would seem to be the first thing that comes to mind. Software costs for 100 linux machines are close to nill. Software costs for 100 Windows machines probably won't be. Granted I have read the licensing on the MS Clustering link but if it like anything else you'll need either a license of some kind on every machine.
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On vuln-dev (vulnerability development, a list on security-focus.com) there has been a discussion going on about this for over a week, and people are pointing out all the stores that have problems, and its getting to the point where it is easier to say who DOESN'T have a problem than who does.
What the hell are you doing quoting someone off a slashdot interview to your bosses? Honestly, I don't think he took this interview expecting to win over PHBs. Just answer some questions from the community that already supports them.
There are plenty of good open source keynotes out there, look at some of the keynotes from past O'REilly conferences.
If you are gonna take a quote off a geek site and expect that to persuade your boss to buy something than you don't really have a shot to begin with.
ICMP echo has perfectly legitimate uses. However the fact is that the misuse of it causes tons of ISP to block it in order to ensure they aren't ping flooded off the net. The same holds true for p2p (in my opinion). It may have its valid uses but its invalid uses greatly outweigh the valid.
Even blocking p2p altogether your 2 of your examples are moot (2. You can just rip it yourself since you already own it, takes a little longer but its not like you don't have the ability. 3. That ISO you are getting, regardless of whether you are using it for harmless pruposes, is being distributed illegally if it weren't MS would just make the ISO available to rely on you purchasing a key for it from them) and i would argue that 1 is probably moot because if the band is making the music available free of copyright you will most likely have no problem finding it elsewhere on a non-p2p system.
I don't particularly like the policy of blocking things outbound (especially if you are an ISP) and much prefer shaping the traffic however reliable high speed shaping is expensive and sometimes this is the only way to guarantee any sort of bandwidth quality.
Simply changing ports wont do you any good (at least not in the long run), ISP will just start getting content filtering firewalls that block based on the packet content and not just ip/port (or buy packeteers and just wait a few days forthem to update their signatures for the newest p2p app).
Register at http://www.spamcop.net and setup a bookmark to the report page. Not quite a magic 'F' but pretty close.
Unless I use your paintbrushes and paint to come up with the new invention, which is normally the case with these "you created X on our time". You are using company resources to do create this magical product. Its one thing to do it on your own time on your own machines, a completely other to do it on your employers time on your employers machines.
The Hollings bill has drawn the support of major recording companies, who believe fast Internet connections and an array of digital devices such as MP3 players and CD burners, as well as Napster and other file-sharing services, were partly responsible for a decline in album sales last year
Didn't sales go up when napster started and then descreased when RIAA went and shutdown napster?
Hell I know people who used to get Mp3's so they could decide whether to buy an album who now just get them to piss off RIAA.
We used to have BZFlag tournaments in the CS dept at Stetson. Order a couple of pizza nad then go in rounds of 6-8 for 20 minutes. Then take the winners and play a final. Winner usually got like 20 bucks or a free pizza.
I think his point is that you don't have to have the computer right next to the tv in order for you to output to tv.
I think his point is that he is really just guessing.
You can't know you are very close to something unless you've done it before. I drive to work so I know when I am very close to work. We haven't found another planet like ours so how can he say we are close to finding another if he doesn't even know if one exists?
He's not trying to discredit, as I'm sure he is a very smart person, however that claim is poorly worded (unless of course he does know of another planet that noone else does).
They get everything from CNN.
How else can you explain all the "Turn on CNN" scenes in all those Government TV shows and movies.
:)
and at only $11K its a steal.
Or rather, thats the only way I'm getting one, theft.
You are welcome to be completely ignorant of other countries laws if you plan on never leaving the us. However if you are gonna ever travel abroad you may wish to keep track of what is and isn't legal elsewhere when it comes to computers. It would be a shame for you to portscan a computer while on a trip to china and be put to death.
it may be illegal in other countries.
legal but highly frowned upon when used on machines you aren't responsible for.
Yeah but usually part of the business class is also faster speeds, my old dsl provider was 1.5 down 128 up for residential and 2.0 down 384 up for business class and was almost twice as much as a residential line.
Well the company does technically have a point that it is a residential line, etc. However I wouldn't be surprised that as things like this start to become news we don't see either a drop in the cost of business class, OR a new 'commuter' class which would hopefully be only a little more a month (than residential) and would come with some sort of uptime guarantee.
Not on the three copies of Win2k SP2 I just tried.
Sorry.
:)
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According to dictionary.com Link Thus the entire security of RSA depends on the difficulty of factoring; an easy method for factoring large prime numbers would break RSA. So it looks like we've been going about it all wrong. We should be concentrating on factoring large prime numbers. :)
I thought the kmart thing was because the attendent was drunk or the guy buying the gun was obviously drunk and shouldn't have been sold a gun.
We also have a campus license however it doesn't cover the server licenses only the cals.
Followup:
From reading the MS Site it looks licensing is based of the EULA of the software being used, so if you are using win2kpro you have to have a copy of win2kpro for each machine etc etc.
Licensing would seem to be the first thing that comes to mind.
Software costs for 100 linux machines are close to nill.
Software costs for 100 Windows machines probably won't be.
Granted I have read the licensing on the MS Clustering link but if it like anything else you'll need either a license of some kind on every machine.
what you don't know is that the client was hunted down and shot.
The best is when they are talking about 'the new guy linux (Detlef Shrempf)' and how he plays for peanuts.