Her fat ass takes forever to move stuff around (file copying), she needs to use the shitter at inopportune times & makes everyone in the room wait until she's back (random hard drive access), and she pesters you every time you leave the house since you might do something unsafe (UAC).
Bush: Alright, let's do this, let's kick some ass! Officer: Ah, George, the war is over. Bush: What? Officer: Yeah, it's done. Bush: Get outta here, you serious? Officer: Yeah. Bush: Oh man, Ahh, I just got your messages (stumbling). I'm sorry. Officer: George it's been over for a while. Bush: Really? Officer: It's 1981. Bush: Oh, oh wow, so, I'm way late. Oh boy. Well, you wanna do something else? Officer: I got some blow. Bush: Son-of-a-bitch, it took you this long to tell me. Break it out man!
Here's an idea... Instead of all of these AV vendors spending (between them) thousands of man-hours to find holes so they could reverse-engineer a way to decrypt such files, maybe they should create a multi-company "decryption slush fund". This fund would be there to buy decryption keys from virus authors, posing as lowly home users from da Intarweb. I can imagine such authors would offer to sell the keys relatively cheaply ($1000 - $10,000) to stay under the radar. (A $1 million ransom would even catch the attention of Nigerian authorities). Once the key is in-hand and it works, that key would be made public to the entire Internet and any additional decryption details shared with all member companies, for quick inclusion in updated AV/malware signatures.
Now, I'm personally against paying virus writers extortion money. But there are some huge positives. Such a fund would 1) minimize the potential income to such authors, 2) quickly end the threat within hours/days, 3) give law enforcement an opportunity to track the money trail... Of course, the negative is that authors could now author the same virus with new keys--but that's counteracted by the fact that such authors would want to "lay low" after putting out new viruses. (Put out new versions every day and someone will take notice...)
If you look at the screen prints from the article, the stupid author decided to use a "@yahoo.com" e-mail address. Call me crazy but Yahoo is probably already monitoring that e-mail box after the AV vendors let them know--long before any $$$ changes hands.
Unfortunately, 2 years from now, some poor soul will get bit by this... By then the Yahoo e-mail address will be long-dead, and the key might still be known only to the author...
Just for the hell of it, I've got Firefox 3 RC1 running on an ancient Toshiba Libretto 110CT with 64MB RAM running W2K on a Pentium-MMX 233. Looking at JS benchmarks online, with Firefox 3 (presently) leading the way, I figured it was worth a try... FF3 is way more usable than Firefox 2.0.0.14... In fact, the full version of GMail actually runs on the Libretto! (Firefox 2 would go into JS hell with the CPU pegged at 100% for 10-20 seconds at a time...)
One can only hope that we could squeeze some more JS performance...
My money's on this being the result of some moron tech writer who completely misunderstood what was going on when Toshiba announced something like a new line of up-converting DVD players...
Yeah, they're called HD-DVD players. Seriously, the R&D has already been done--the hardware has been developed, a base format's in place. My personal feeling is that a firmware update is all that's needed for existing HD-DVD players to support this new format. (After all, the compression would probably be less intense than HD-DVD or Blu-Ray).
Toshiba's R&D costs may be limited to programming a new firmware for existing hardware... Pennies, in the grand scheme of things.
Don't forget to fill the trench after you've installed the conduit!
Failing to do so, may turn this solution into a bigger problem than simple "internet access"...
Where I live, the government must provide electricity, water, and telephone service to any legal building built, no matter how far into the boondocks it is built.
Yes, that's true--for "essential services". At this point in time, however, Internet access is definitely not considered to be an essential service. The cable & phone/DSL companies are fighting tooth & nail to prevent Internet access from being considered as such.
Well, if you're in the mood to piss people off, why not do... while 1=1
select bt.* from big_table bt, bigger_table bbt, biggest_table bbbt where bt.id=bbt.bt_id order by non_indexed_column;
This way, you'll get under the skin of both the DBAs & the network guys.
It already has. I wish I could find the article but I believe that Motorola lost a multi-million $$$ contract to a European competior simply because (I believe) the Chinese executives could not get visas to enter the US.
Another article I read about a year ago said that multi-national companies, even those based in the US, are intentionally scheduling their conferences outside the US, in countries with more favorable immigration rules. The economic impact is already happening. This was also discussed on Slashdot. to add, this is also happening in academia.
[...] A few big name AV scanners had serious problems finding and removing active rootkits, such as Microsoft Windows Live OneCare 1.6.2111.32 and McAfee VirusScan 2008 11.2.121.
Yes, I know there's a comma, but it really sounds like both products are rootkits themselves. (I guess given that M$ created the rootkit market in Win32, they can do whatever they want with it...)
...from an organization with a noble cause to a right-wing, Prohibitionist, Evangelical, whiny group that would desire a socialist nanny-state with breathalyzers in every car? I mean, sheeeesh!!!
While IANAL, if you read the EFF brief & the judgement in depth, an interesting defense is being promulgated... Even if the defendants specifically allowed MediaSentry to download these files, as authorized agents of the copyright holders, no copyright infringement actually took place!!! There's case law that says that a copyright holder (or their agent) cannot infringe on their own copyright... Hence the new, stupid, "making available" claim...
What does that mean? Assuming this argument is valid (which I can't see how it couldn't be), the plaintiffs would have to go back to square one and find someone else on Kazaa who downloaded specific files from the defendants--specifically infringing on copyright law. And for anyone who has used P2P before, how often do you know (or remember) who you're downloading from? Personally, I think that borders on impossible to prove--unless Kazaa keeps some sort of detailed log data file that MediaSentry would have to gain access to...
Seriously, when it became obvious that this guy was homeless (what, he totes around a laptop, getting mobile Internet access using Sprint or AT&T???), the RIAA should have dropped the case as this is an amazing case of "getting blood from a turnip." The RIAA seems dumber by the day. Let's see...
1) RIAA physically finds homeless man to sue. Serves with papers.
2) RIAA extorts (er, "offers settlement") to homeless man.
3) Homeless man appears in court for trial, maybe even with pro-bono attorney. (Free heat, maybe even free food. Could judge offer temporary housing--like sequestering a jury???)
4) Homeless man loses case big time, owing hundreds of thousands of $$$.
5) Homeless man declares bankrupcy.
6) Homeless man sues RIAA for mental stress.
Seriously, under what circumstance could the RIAA win? Bragging rights?
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Bush: Alright, let's do this, let's kick some ass!
Officer: Ah, George, the war is over.
Bush: What?
Officer: Yeah, it's done.
Bush: Get outta here, you serious?
Officer: Yeah.
Bush: Oh man, Ahh, I just got your messages (stumbling). I'm sorry.
Officer: George it's been over for a while.
Bush: Really?
Officer: It's 1981.
Bush: Oh, oh wow, so, I'm way late. Oh boy. Well, you wanna do something else?
Officer: I got some blow.
Bush: Son-of-a-bitch, it took you this long to tell me. Break it out man!
Or better yet, some sort of "wire" where data travels at "fire"-blazing speeds!
Here's an idea... Instead of all of these AV vendors spending (between them) thousands of man-hours to find holes so they could reverse-engineer a way to decrypt such files, maybe they should create a multi-company "decryption slush fund". This fund would be there to buy decryption keys from virus authors, posing as lowly home users from da Intarweb. I can imagine such authors would offer to sell the keys relatively cheaply ($1000 - $10,000) to stay under the radar. (A $1 million ransom would even catch the attention of Nigerian authorities). Once the key is in-hand and it works, that key would be made public to the entire Internet and any additional decryption details shared with all member companies, for quick inclusion in updated AV/malware signatures.
Now, I'm personally against paying virus writers extortion money. But there are some huge positives. Such a fund would 1) minimize the potential income to such authors, 2) quickly end the threat within hours/days, 3) give law enforcement an opportunity to track the money trail... Of course, the negative is that authors could now author the same virus with new keys--but that's counteracted by the fact that such authors would want to "lay low" after putting out new viruses. (Put out new versions every day and someone will take notice...)
If you look at the screen prints from the article, the stupid author decided to use a "@yahoo.com" e-mail address. Call me crazy but Yahoo is probably already monitoring that e-mail box after the AV vendors let them know--long before any $$$ changes hands.
Unfortunately, 2 years from now, some poor soul will get bit by this... By then the Yahoo e-mail address will be long-dead, and the key might still be known only to the author...
Just for the hell of it, I've got Firefox 3 RC1 running on an ancient Toshiba Libretto 110CT with 64MB RAM running W2K on a Pentium-MMX 233. Looking at JS benchmarks online, with Firefox 3 (presently) leading the way, I figured it was worth a try... FF3 is way more usable than Firefox 2.0.0.14... In fact, the full version of GMail actually runs on the Libretto! (Firefox 2 would go into JS hell with the CPU pegged at 100% for 10-20 seconds at a time...)
One can only hope that we could squeeze some more JS performance...
Toshiba's R&D costs may be limited to programming a new firmware for existing hardware... Pennies, in the grand scheme of things.
Well, if you're in the mood to piss people off, why not do...
while 1=1
select bt.* from big_table bt, bigger_table bbt, biggest_table bbbt where bt.id=bbt.bt_id order by non_indexed_column;
This way, you'll get under the skin of both the DBAs & the network guys.
...says the Air Force.
It already has. I wish I could find the article but I believe that Motorola lost a multi-million $$$ contract to a European competior simply because (I believe) the Chinese executives could not get visas to enter the US.
Another article I read about a year ago said that multi-national companies, even those based in the US, are intentionally scheduling their conferences outside the US, in countries with more favorable immigration rules. The economic impact is already happening. This was also discussed on Slashdot. to add, this is also happening in academia.
Just like 99% of the Iraqi population "voted" for Sadaam Hussein in 2002.
...from an organization with a noble cause to a right-wing, Prohibitionist, Evangelical, whiny group that would desire a socialist nanny-state with breathalyzers in every car? I mean, sheeeesh!!!
"You will disarm your command prompts and escort us into Linux as root. If you attempt to intervene, we will destroy you."
While IANAL, if you read the EFF brief & the judgement in depth, an interesting defense is being promulgated... Even if the defendants specifically allowed MediaSentry to download these files, as authorized agents of the copyright holders, no copyright infringement actually took place!!! There's case law that says that a copyright holder (or their agent) cannot infringe on their own copyright... Hence the new, stupid, "making available" claim...
What does that mean? Assuming this argument is valid (which I can't see how it couldn't be), the plaintiffs would have to go back to square one and find someone else on Kazaa who downloaded specific files from the defendants--specifically infringing on copyright law. And for anyone who has used P2P before, how often do you know (or remember) who you're downloading from? Personally, I think that borders on impossible to prove--unless Kazaa keeps some sort of detailed log data file that MediaSentry would have to gain access to...
Get an 8-ball and see what happens... (I'd pay to be a fly on the wall in that situation!)
Do you then make a sausage taco?
What's a phone booth?
Seriously, when it became obvious that this guy was homeless (what, he totes around a laptop, getting mobile Internet access using Sprint or AT&T???), the RIAA should have dropped the case as this is an amazing case of "getting blood from a turnip." The RIAA seems dumber by the day. Let's see...
1) RIAA physically finds homeless man to sue. Serves with papers.
2) RIAA extorts (er, "offers settlement") to homeless man.
3) Homeless man appears in court for trial, maybe even with pro-bono attorney. (Free heat, maybe even free food. Could judge offer temporary housing--like sequestering a jury???)
4) Homeless man loses case big time, owing hundreds of thousands of $$$.
5) Homeless man declares bankrupcy.
6) Homeless man sues RIAA for mental stress.
Seriously, under what circumstance could the RIAA win? Bragging rights?