...and I run multiple Exchange boxen in multiple locations....of course I wouldn't do anything so clueless as leave the relays open or leave the default guest account active.
As far as open relays go, it actually pains me to have to close them off. I'd rather leave them open and help people out when their ISPs are dicking them around. Unfortunately a few assholes are ruining it for everyone else.
"Is public faith in the system more important than overall system security?"
Maybe...since "democracy" is an illusion anyway, maintained by those with power to give those without power the illusion (or delusion) that they actually have a say in what goes on...basically to keep them pacified. Maintaining that illusion better suits democracy's real purpose more so than blowing the whistle on technical voting "irregularities". Make no mistake: Those irregularities, coupled with influence peddling and all the other mechanisms that result in only carefully scripted "decisions" have existed long before black-box voting reared its ugly head. "The will of the people" is a myth.
What a wonderful breakthrough in law enforcement: assuming that an actual crime has been committed and acting accordingly. In a day and age when people can be automagically declared enemy combatants and permanently removed from the legal system, I guess this was the next step.
Welcome to the brave new world of pre-crime. I suggest you download a copy of Minority Report and watch it...after you've answered that rather insistent knock at your door.
"How long do the batteries last, anyway? It's not much good if they run out in, say, five minutes."
You know it's going to be said sooner or later so I'll get it out of the way:
The human body generates more bioelectricity than a 120 Volt battery and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat. Combined with a form of fusion, the machines had found all the energy they would ever need.
...mod me to hell, but don't say I didn't warn ya!
I was going to say it, but you beat me to it. Far from hitting you over the head with obvious answers, Revolutions left a lot of the deeper questions unanswered, or at least made you think about what clues might have been left that would lead you to conclude one way or the other, which after you got over the initial disappointment, was really a far more satisfying ending.
All of you who are whining about spoilers, take heart: The matrix-within-a-matrix question, or the multiple matrices question or the who is human and who isn't questions are far from answered, at least in an obvious way. Those who are asserting one way or another obviously weren't paying attention when they watched the movie.
...is it cheaper for MS to pay 250K to jail each person that writes a virus exploiting on of their security holes than it is to pay the developers to avoid creating them in the first place?
Troll troll troll!
You know damn well that if Linux enjoyed the sort of desktop ubiquity that M$ has right now, we'd all be bitching about the latest exploit/virus/worm and complaining about how it takes so long to get them patched and why in $#%^&$%@#&* couldn't it have been written correctly in the first place!
No sir I am not a racist, I am a culturist, seeings how Quebecois are considered to be white like I am. Furthermore, if you want to leave, don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. Oh and BTW you'll be taking with you a per capita share of the national debt! You're the one who'll be eating shit you son of a bitch!
Wouldn't that be illegal under something? The DMCA, or some Patriot Act whatnot?
Ummm...no, not in pinko, liberal, Canada, of which Quebrc is a part, thought they try to leave every few years but can't seem to bring themselves to wean themselves off of federal money. Actually, I think that the next time the Quebec frogs decide to have a referendum, the rest of Canada should have one to decide whether we are going to let them stay or not.
'89 Ford Crown Victoria...just rolled over 300,000 kilometers two days ago. Engine's still strong and no major leaks. When this one finally packs it in I'll just get another one like it. The cost of fuel is only one factor in determining a vehicle's economy. What good is 50 MPG if you're paying a couple of grand every year keeping the $%^$#@#& thing running?
...firewall off the entire United States, like they've done with Red China? I live outside the US and the odds of my complying with this asinine request are about...zero!
If I was an independant film maker, not working out of the US, couldn't I just tell Jackoff V. and the MPAA to shove their no-screener policy up their collective asses and send my own out myself? I know the obvious answer is i'd probably get "blackballed" but what if enough people started doing this...couldn't some sort of collective action render the whole MPAA more or less irrelevent?
Find out where they're currently pushing cards in a public place like the mall.
Hate to break it to you, but a mall is not a public place...it is not "commons". It is private property owned by some corporation and so your "rights" don't apply there! They would likely get the mall security to toss you out (if they didn't charge you with something first). Think about that for a minute...we as a society have exchanged our "commons" and all the activities that were fought for by our forefathers (free speech, assembly etc) for mindless consumption in a corporate-held space where we have few rights at all! Where do people go when they have free time? To the town square to hold assemblies discuss their issues/concerns/greviences with their neighbours? Does such a thing even exist anymore? Where are all your neighbours...at the mall right? Try engaging in one of these "freedoms" in a mall and see how far you get!
What you do is you take the form away with you and shred it into itty-bitty pieces. If they don't like it you tear it up right in front of them. Paranoid? Sure, but if you'd seen the number of dumpster-divers that go through our alley in any given day you'd be paranoid too! I wouldn't trust ANYONE to not use the info on the form even if I wrote VOID on it, especially if they had stated up front that they were harvesting info. Sure it might give you a legal lever to apply but who wants the hassle?
I don't even like tossing ATM receipts in the garbage...they come home and get run through the (confetti cut) shredder.
and connect a battery to a model-rocket solar igniter
Forget lugging a battery around and wasting rocket igniters...I'll go you one better! Go to a hardware store and get a gas barbecue igniter (the kind with the pushbutton that you click and it sparks) and drill a hole in the side and screw the igniter in.
I also use a 2" pipe for the barell and a 2" to 6 or 8" adapter with a short length of the large diameter and a cap. Works real good!
It might come as a shock to some.here's a whole lot of this planet that doesn't come under the auspices of either America or the DMCA. I piss with great force on your DMCA! Within a day there'll be a fix for this that the rest of the (non-American) world will be able to use and enjoy! Ha!
What the (IMHO idiotic) Denver Judge fails to understand is that my personal telephone is not a public forum. As such, it is not subject to any First Amendment considerations.
You may be correct in the second part, that your phone isn't subject to the 1st amendment, but the first part...that your phone is not a public forum may not be entirely true. Your phone is a public utility, with a publically available directory and an unrestricted ability for other users to dial any number listed in that directory. Telephone users have lived with that reality for years now.
If my telephone is a free-speech public forum, then one could easily argue that anyone should be able to knock on my front door and demand to be allowed into my house to make their sales pitch under the U.S. Constitution. They're not -- and neither is my phone.
Here's where your analogy loses its validity. No-one would argue that anyone should, because of free speech, be allowed to force himself into your home and force you to listen to his speech. However, what I AM allowed to do is walk up to your front door, knock on it, and state my business (I'm not sure if "free speech" should even enter into the discussion here...more like limits to property ownership). I have that right in many jurisdictions, whether there are "No Trespassing" signs posted or not. You may at that point, ask me to leave, which I am then obliged to do. You might liken your phone to your sidewalk/front door, which is publicly accessable, just like your phone is. When a telemarketer calls, you can simply tell them you don't wish to talk to them...the entire exercise should take all of 15-20 seconds. Or you could do what I do: Let the answering machine answer all of the incoming calls. I haven't talked to a telemarketer in years.
Don't get me wrong, I despise telemarketers. However, I despise that much more politicians who legislate away more of our freedoms, especially when I don't believe that this legislation is necessary. I'd much rather see them try to take on spam...telemarketers don't bother me enough to warrant IMO any sort of regulation.
The traces do act like a waveguide with no sides. Just a top and bottom to propagate the wave. The problem is fringing effects. That is why its such an accomplishment when they move the spacing closer and closer.
Give yourself a pat on the back...you're obviously a real geek and clearly understand the issues raised by the parent poster a hell of a lot better than the other clueless idiots (geek wanabes...they should be ashamed!) that have responded so far. You've also answered a question that I've often wondered about.
It's my house, I should be allowed to block ALL calls coming into it. Thus, no distinctions between commerical, religious, or political. It's all harrassment as far as I'm concerned.
It's real simple my friend...don't answer the phone when it rings. Even better, let your answering machine answer it for you. I don't run to the phone every time it rings and guess what? I haven't had to talk to a telemarketer in years as they (or their dialer thingys) are trained to hang up when a machine answers the phone. All our friends are trained to start speaking when the machine answers and if we are available, we just pick the phone up. No problem!
I used to think this "Do Not Call" list was a good thing. However I have a real problem with some politician telling me that I don't have the right to call someone using a public utility and state the purpose of my calling. If they don't want to listen they can say so and I'll be happy to leave them alone at that point, but the bloody bureaucrats and politicians can butt out. Free speech cuts both ways sometimes, but I'm not ready to trade it because of a problem that can be fixed with a $30 answering machine.
to take her on contingincy and sue the shit out of both he ISP and the frigging RIAA! Let them have taste of their own medicine and give the ISPs reason not to play along with their little game
3.) Use anti-virus software and update the definitions often
Define "often", please. It could be once a month, once a quarter. I'm sure they have change control plans.
I've been using Norton Corporate Edition on my networks quite successfully for some time now. A server is config'd to be the update server and all the clients are managed from it. You can push updates to all the clients either manually or schedule them to update automatically. You can even force clients that come on the network to accept an AV client install package before they are allowed to participate.
I also would recommend putting the laptops on a separate node and firewalling them off from the rest.
No, it's just that it's easier to assume that you are smarter than them and assume you know their network and systems.
Not necessarily. Whenever you get into larger bureaucracies, there's always a level of friction with respect to implementing IT changes/updates. Any number of things could be causing it. It could be clueless, IT staff used to screwing the pooch in gov't service, it could be difficulties in getting anything approved, it could simply be toxic office politics. It could be little dictators building mini-kingdoms for themselves...refusing to implement any suggestions because THEY didn't come up with it (I've seen that one many times!). I don't think it's the nature of their networks and systems that's the issue here at all, after all it's a Windows virus/worm that took them out. How unusual is that?
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...and I run multiple Exchange boxen in multiple locations. ...of course I wouldn't do anything so clueless as leave the relays open or leave the default guest account active.
As far as open relays go, it actually pains me to have to close them off. I'd rather leave them open and help people out when their ISPs are dicking them around. Unfortunately a few assholes are ruining it for everyone else.
"Is public faith in the system more important than overall system security?"
Maybe...since "democracy" is an illusion anyway, maintained by those with power to give those without power the illusion (or delusion) that they actually have a say in what goes on...basically to keep them pacified. Maintaining that illusion better suits democracy's real purpose more so than blowing the whistle on technical voting "irregularities". Make no mistake: Those irregularities, coupled with influence peddling and all the other mechanisms that result in only carefully scripted "decisions" have existed long before black-box voting reared its ugly head. "The will of the people" is a myth.
What a wonderful breakthrough in law enforcement: assuming that an actual crime has been committed and acting accordingly. In a day and age when people can be automagically declared enemy combatants and permanently removed from the legal system, I guess this was the next step.
Welcome to the brave new world of pre-crime. I suggest you download a copy of Minority Report and watch it...after you've answered that rather insistent knock at your door.
You know it's going to be said sooner or later so I'll get it out of the way:
I was going to say it, but you beat me to it. Far from hitting you over the head with obvious answers, Revolutions left a lot of the deeper questions unanswered, or at least made you think about what clues might have been left that would lead you to conclude one way or the other, which after you got over the initial disappointment, was really a far more satisfying ending.
All of you who are whining about spoilers, take heart: The matrix-within-a-matrix question, or the multiple matrices question or the who is human and who isn't questions are far from answered, at least in an obvious way. Those who are asserting one way or another obviously weren't paying attention when they watched the movie.
...is it cheaper for MS to pay 250K to jail each person that writes a virus exploiting on of their security holes than it is to pay the developers to avoid creating them in the first place?
Troll troll troll!
You know damn well that if Linux enjoyed the sort of desktop ubiquity that M$ has right now, we'd all be bitching about the latest exploit/virus/worm and complaining about how it takes so long to get them patched and why in $#%^&$%@#&* couldn't it have been written correctly in the first place!
No sir I am not a racist, I am a culturist, seeings how Quebecois are considered to be white like I am. Furthermore, if you want to leave, don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. Oh and BTW you'll be taking with you a per capita share of the national debt! You're the one who'll be eating shit you son of a bitch!
Wouldn't that be illegal under something? The DMCA, or some Patriot Act whatnot?
Ummm...no, not in pinko, liberal, Canada, of which Quebrc is a part, thought they try to leave every few years but can't seem to bring themselves to wean themselves off of federal money. Actually, I think that the next time the Quebec frogs decide to have a referendum, the rest of Canada should have one to decide whether we are going to let them stay or not.
'89 Ford Crown Victoria...just rolled over 300,000 kilometers two days ago. Engine's still strong and no major leaks. When this one finally packs it in I'll just get another one like it. The cost of fuel is only one factor in determining a vehicle's economy. What good is 50 MPG if you're paying a couple of grand every year keeping the $%^$#@#& thing running?
...firewall off the entire United States, like they've done with Red China? I live outside the US and the odds of my complying with this asinine request are about...zero!
America we hardly new ye!
If I was an independant film maker, not working out of the US, couldn't I just tell Jackoff V. and the MPAA to shove their no-screener policy up their collective asses and send my own out myself? I know the obvious answer is i'd probably get "blackballed" but what if enough people started doing this...couldn't some sort of collective action render the whole MPAA more or less irrelevent?
Find out where they're currently pushing cards in a public place like the mall.
Hate to break it to you, but a mall is not a public place...it is not "commons". It is private property owned by some corporation and so your "rights" don't apply there! They would likely get the mall security to toss you out (if they didn't charge you with something first). Think about that for a minute...we as a society have exchanged our "commons" and all the activities that were fought for by our forefathers (free speech, assembly etc) for mindless consumption in a corporate-held space where we have few rights at all! Where do people go when they have free time? To the town square to hold assemblies discuss their issues/concerns/greviences with their neighbours? Does such a thing even exist anymore? Where are all your neighbours...at the mall right? Try engaging in one of these "freedoms" in a mall and see how far you get!
What you do is you take the form away with you and shred it into itty-bitty pieces. If they don't like it you tear it up right in front of them. Paranoid? Sure, but if you'd seen the number of dumpster-divers that go through our alley in any given day you'd be paranoid too! I wouldn't trust ANYONE to not use the info on the form even if I wrote VOID on it, especially if they had stated up front that they were harvesting info. Sure it might give you a legal lever to apply but who wants the hassle?
I don't even like tossing ATM receipts in the garbage...they come home and get run through the (confetti cut) shredder.
Why don't you build a frigging shrine and start lighting candles and burning incense?
Oh wait...you already have!
and connect a battery to a model-rocket solar igniter
Forget lugging a battery around and wasting rocket igniters...I'll go you one better! Go to a hardware store and get a gas barbecue igniter (the kind with the pushbutton that you click and it sparks) and drill a hole in the side and screw the igniter in.
I also use a 2" pipe for the barell and a 2" to 6 or 8" adapter with a short length of the large diameter and a cap. Works real good!
...doing so would be illegal under the DMCA...
It might come as a shock to some.here's a whole lot of this planet that doesn't come under the auspices of either America or the DMCA. I piss with great force on your DMCA! Within a day there'll be a fix for this that the rest of the (non-American) world will be able to use and enjoy! Ha!
Yeah...how much do you want to bet the real perps are Israeli?
What the (IMHO idiotic) Denver Judge fails to understand is that my personal telephone is not a public forum. As such, it is not subject to any First Amendment considerations.
You may be correct in the second part, that your phone isn't subject to the 1st amendment, but the first part...that your phone is not a public forum may not be entirely true. Your phone is a public utility, with a publically available directory and an unrestricted ability for other users to dial any number listed in that directory. Telephone users have lived with that reality for years now.
If my telephone is a free-speech public forum, then one could easily argue that anyone should be able to knock on my front door and demand to be allowed into my house to make their sales pitch under the U.S. Constitution. They're not -- and neither is my phone.
Here's where your analogy loses its validity. No-one would argue that anyone should, because of free speech, be allowed to force himself into your home and force you to listen to his speech. However, what I AM allowed to do is walk up to your front door, knock on it, and state my business (I'm not sure if "free speech" should even enter into the discussion here...more like limits to property ownership). I have that right in many jurisdictions, whether there are "No Trespassing" signs posted or not. You may at that point, ask me to leave, which I am then obliged to do. You might liken your phone to your sidewalk/front door, which is publicly accessable, just like your phone is. When a telemarketer calls, you can simply tell them you don't wish to talk to them...the entire exercise should take all of 15-20 seconds. Or you could do what I do: Let the answering machine answer all of the incoming calls. I haven't talked to a telemarketer in years.
Don't get me wrong, I despise telemarketers. However, I despise that much more politicians who legislate away more of our freedoms, especially when I don't believe that this legislation is necessary. I'd much rather see them try to take on spam...telemarketers don't bother me enough to warrant IMO any sort of regulation.
...likely to fly along at between 5GHz to 7GHz...
...and Windows 2005 (Code named Canyonero) will still manage to slow it to a crawl!
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The traces do act like a waveguide with no sides. Just a top and bottom to propagate the wave. The problem is fringing effects. That is why its such an accomplishment when they move the spacing closer and closer.
Give yourself a pat on the back...you're obviously a real geek and clearly understand the issues raised by the parent poster a hell of a lot better than the other clueless idiots (geek wanabes...they should be ashamed!) that have responded so far. You've also answered a question that I've often wondered about.
No, no, no... "Klingon"
What...are there Klingons around Uranus?
It's my house, I should be allowed to block ALL calls coming into it. Thus, no distinctions between commerical, religious, or political. It's all harrassment as far as I'm concerned.
It's real simple my friend...don't answer the phone when it rings. Even better, let your answering machine answer it for you. I don't run to the phone every time it rings and guess what? I haven't had to talk to a telemarketer in years as they (or their dialer thingys) are trained to hang up when a machine answers the phone. All our friends are trained to start speaking when the machine answers and if we are available, we just pick the phone up. No problem!
I used to think this "Do Not Call" list was a good thing. However I have a real problem with some politician telling me that I don't have the right to call someone using a public utility and state the purpose of my calling. If they don't want to listen they can say so and I'll be happy to leave them alone at that point, but the bloody bureaucrats and politicians can butt out. Free speech cuts both ways sometimes, but I'm not ready to trade it because of a problem that can be fixed with a $30 answering machine.
to take her on contingincy and sue the shit out of both he ISP and the frigging RIAA! Let them have taste of their own medicine and give the ISPs reason not to play along with their little game
3.) Use anti-virus software and update the definitions often
Define "often", please. It could be once a month, once a quarter. I'm sure they have change control plans.
I've been using Norton Corporate Edition on my networks quite successfully for some time now. A server is config'd to be the update server and all the clients are managed from it. You can push updates to all the clients either manually or schedule them to update automatically. You can even force clients that come on the network to accept an AV client install package before they are allowed to participate.
I also would recommend putting the laptops on a separate node and firewalling them off from the rest.
No, it's just that it's easier to assume that you are smarter than them and assume you know their network and systems.
Not necessarily. Whenever you get into larger bureaucracies, there's always a level of friction with respect to implementing IT changes/updates. Any number of things could be causing it. It could be clueless, IT staff used to screwing the pooch in gov't service, it could be difficulties in getting anything approved, it could simply be toxic office politics. It could be little dictators building mini-kingdoms for themselves...refusing to implement any suggestions because THEY didn't come up with it (I've seen that one many times!). I don't think it's the nature of their networks and systems that's the issue here at all, after all it's a Windows virus/worm that took them out. How unusual is that?
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.
...or Skynet?
But wouldn't that make them a Beowulf cluster?