Wrong on SOOOOOO many levels. Let me start with this line: "I realize that slashdot is mostly populated by high-school educated "IT people", who give a shit about logs and backups" You claim to be a programmer, I have been a programmer and am now a Sys Admin, as both the BEST way to troubleshoot was from the logs. Unless you are the supreme programmer whose code never needs debugging and whose users never mispunch something causing an error a log file will let you see and know what has happened.
Now for this line: "and restoring backup tapes is exhillirating and exciting." I have restored from tape backup. We had a "programmer" BS from Virginia Tec, Masters from UMass who was certain he knew exactly what he was doing when he blew away an entire production database. (Actually he was a really good guy who just made a simple mistake) Fortunately we had tapes to restore from. But if ANYONE thinks that a restore is "exhillirating" (yes I left your type/mistake in there) then they are just strange. That was one of the most tedious and boring things I have had to do. But we had been tedious in backing EVERYTHING up so production was not severely impacted.
Now for where you directly insult everyone: "I fully expect the PHBs and army of cable monkeys to get the network up and running in our new location." So as a systems admin do I become a cable monkey? or am I a PHB? Either way I would be VERY needed if a disaster strikes just as I am needed every day. As for the elitist attitude and your lack of knowledge and concern for the backend of systems I am glad you do not work anywhere near me as I hate IT personal that have to call me to run windows update on their system when the latest worm comes around or to show them how to NOT clik ignore when Norton tells them they have a virus. In short, Please show some respect for your coworkers and realize that these guys were prepared and did what their plan stated they could do. If not don't be alarmed if somehow your account gets disabled and everything blown away and surprisingly they won't have backups, cause you "just don't care" for them.
I think the most interesting point isn't that someone switched, but that this is a MICROSOFT writer that was using a Macintosh for 8 years. They just got her to convert. "*Editor's Note: Now that we've successfully converted our writer to a Windows PC, we will be working on getting her to try a Pocket PC. Stay tuned for more developments!" I think the better story would be "Bill forces last Mac user to switch!"
Hmmm No future sight there. What was the quote from the CEO at IBM, something like, "I believe worldwide there is a market for 25 computers." That was said in the 60's. And it did not sound ridiculous. As for the 50 inch monitor, for my desk NO, but damn would that be nice for a monitoring system on a wall. As for 10 GB RAM welcome to the minimum system specs for Windows (Insert random suffix here) in 10 years. Computers get more powerful. We force them to do more and more and expect them to be able to do more and more. Don't ever say technology has hit it's peak we will always advance.
I see something like this as very very limited. The roles they mention are kind of far fetched. If you are a stock broker a simple text messaging service with up to date prices would be so much better than a tooth implanted device reading you quotes during a movie. The role of eavesdropping and cheating on Jeopardy might be useful though. Imagine the advantage you could have in a "closed meeting" if you are also on a conference call with your whole team back at your buisiness. Of course this is done enough with regular cell phones accidentally left on. Although I would not want to get a phone put into my tooth only to have to change phones at the end of my contract and I wanted to switch to GSM from TDMA etc.
This will be easily fixed. Just make sure to call your cable and have the internet cutoff before it comes out. Just don't tell him until after it is cutoff. Then you will be all good. Or even better just accidentally steal his proc and tell him you are holding it hostage until you move.
One if you have no regulations on the spectrum what is to say I am not going to manufacture a 100 kw router to go in everyone's home? The theory being well as long as my device is the most powerful on the block I will be fine. If someone else has a receiver nearby it would be very likely I could cook their receiver. Also this is rf. The more you fill it the more likely we are going to have collisions etc. If you assume a set wave length will have perfectly coded packets with unique IDs so that only the desired machines will decode and understand the signal you will eventually hit a point where you are receiving so many packets that your machine has collisions decoding them (similar to running your standard network at 95% capacity it does weird things) For these reasons I see there having to be regulations for a long time to come.
Hilarious (as long as you weren't an investor)
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It just goes to show how easy it is to scam people when they want to believe. Think of all the things people are willing to buy into because they think it will make them tons of money. Now think of all the times this things turn out to be cons. You would think people would learn buy now to be a little more skeptical. I know I would never give my money to someone that "they overlooked Priest's demand -- his paranoia, even -- that no one so much as touch a keyboard." Then again I did buy Ericsson stock. Oh well I guess I should practice what I preach.. Wait heres this company called Enron...
Bikes ARE ILLEGAL on the sidewalks in the US. However many parents don't teach their kids that bikes have to follow ALL traffic laws. I say this as someone who has gotten a speeding ticket and been threatened with a DWI while riding my bike across town. Word of advice if you are on a bike don't produce your driver's license, in many states you will still get the ticket but it will not go on your driving record so no insurance increase.
"Once the Coil and its power plant have been fully developed, the USAF hopes to fit it to a whole range of manned and unmanned aircraft, such as the Predator reconnaissance probe, which is fitted with Hellfire missiles and has been used in CIA operations in Afghanistan. "
That is cool.
Of course also mentioned in the article is that this is a secret program and they have no idea how far along this has progressed. But how much fun would it be to have a predator with a laser on it. Probably could only have 50-100 shots at the very most but that would still be so much more fun than two or three missles. Granted that is probably several years(decades) off. But it just sounds cool.
Everyone is bashing this for several reasons. Many of them are wrong.
One person claims that when in one country you have that countries rights and no other countries rights. The US is constantly muddling in other countries affairs to change rights of people everywhere. Also every country has embassies for other countries. Those embassies tend to be regarded as sovereign soil of another country, within the host country. Also there is the issue of dual citizenship. While the US (we are too arrogant) doesn't official recognize dual citizenship of people above 18 many countries do. Ireland does. Therefore why couldnt I be a dual citizen of the country X and Norrath? (where x!=USA)
As for the guy that starts off with "THERE IS NO ACTIVE GOD" Oh boy. Don't tell that to a certain old guy who is the head of a country only because of a little thing called the Catholic Church. The Vatican City is not a country as much a location for the Catholic Church so that "no country" will have authority over the Pope.
Anyway. Was his idea a standard hyperbole that is only allowable on/.? Yes. Would he get laughed out of the UN right now? Yes. But we all know corporations are gaining ridiculous amounts of power how long before they buy the "land mass" needed? Namely some small island somewhere and get it deemed a sovereign nation under the protection of the USA? Don't believe that can happen? Tell it to that to Dean Kamen (segway guy) Dumpling Island
WOw
that was one of the better deals I have gotten in a long time. And given that most companies have just been settling these price problems. As long as they don't try to say that this was a pre-pay. But it did not say that anywhere on the website. SO slashdotter's make bestbuy's stock go down. Happy Shopping.
This guy is not a martyr. He was stupid and chose to piss in the US gov's wheaties. If you disagree with policies in the US we can still voice or beliefs freely. What noone is allowed to do and should not do is encite a riot. He was trying to do just this. He has messages claiming for everyone to unite and overthrow the US gov. Does that make him a threat? YES. Should the gov have reacted to him as a threat, YES. Did they need to go in their fully armed to and ready for battle? Yes. Police have information that they are to bust someone who has attacked multiple sites and attempted to attack military targets, plus he has been trying to get other people to use violence and weapons to overthrow the gov. He also instructs how to create bombs and other weapons on his site. They had to assume he would be armed. The only way to deal with that is with overwhelming force.
As long as the go ahead and press charges in a timely manner the gov has done the right thing in this case.
The WSJ was what was trying to crack this file. We all know how to crack a win2k password. Especially a local password. A search on google will reveal several ways to brute force a password for the system. I know that when I didnt get some guy from Compaq(we outsourced our helpdesk) to give me local admin rights i simply left a brute force cracker going came in the next day and had the local admin account. The desc in the article sounds like all they had done was used another username so these people could not see it. But once again maybe it was good a techie didnt get it. Since the first thing most of us would have done with these PCs is formated and then installed Linux:)
Here is their comment:
UMG has authorized all retailers to accept returns. If you have experienced any of the following problems, you may return the CD (even if the package is opened) accompanied by the receipt, to the retailer that the CD was originally purchased from for a full refund:
The CD is not playing in your CD or DVD player.
The CD is not playing in your computer.
The audio has audible problems.
The songs did not start and stop when the skip button was pushed.
The fast forward and rewind functions did not work.
You are not able to play all of the songs on the CD.
There are long delays between the songs or after you press a button for a particular function (fast forward, rewind, etc.).
At least they seem like they will be glad to take them back. I for one have plenty of free time to buy one of these and then return it every day for a while. If 5k people buy CDs and return them repeatedly Universal will have to wonder about this plan.
"The guys at Google thought, 'How cool that we can offer this to our users' without thinking about security. If you want to do this right, you have to think about security from the beginning and have a very solid approach to software design and software development that is based on what bad guys might possibly do to cause your program grief."
The fact that this guy claims the responsibility lies with google for not allowing this type of search is just plain crazy. If you are publishing critical information on a site that is not at least secure and preferaby encrypted you are just asking for trouble. It should not be google's responsibility in any way shape or form to not find this information. If the content providers wish it they can put the robot file out but that is not fixing anything merely sidesteping one super easy hack. They still need to have a decent or at least SOME security design.
Oh well.
Not a 767.
From CNN
"An American Airlines plane has crashed in the Queens borough of New York City. The FAA identifies the flight as American flight 587, an Airbus A300 from JFK airport to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Thick smoke was billowing over the area, and local media reported several houses on fire."
And we can choose which picture we want to look at. Granted they are in digital and in various sources but more are there. In the past you had the picture the main papers chose and maybe one or two others that the AP put out. That was it. Look at how many different renditions all of your coworkers have of the WTC on their desks at work. Look at how many of those are sent in those damn emails we get every day(Yea some of them may be funny but damn it. I am guessing I am not the only person that archives all of my old email. I have most of my email archived back from college days. I plan on continuing to do this as well. So instead of knowing I can go to the library and find a picture from the back issues of the NY Times I'll have tons of pictures in my old email. From a more personal note all of the real photographs I had in college got lost, destroyed, or thrown out. I have about 400 megs of old digital photos that short of two HDs and a CDR failure I'll never lose. Oh well. Enough of me ranting about people ranting about change.
changing?
It says it goes in and changes everything from "Quake" to "Quack". Could this also be mudging up the code just a little? I know that if I am writing a game(not that I have I deal mainly in crap code for manufacturing) I would think that I would tweak the ever holy shit out of it. This tweaking of the game requires everything to be perfect for it to work best. I know that if I change directories after installing, renaming whatever, some games don't even work and some just work real flaky. In summary I doubt that they have code in their driver saying If quake3 then overclock
else underclock. or something. That would make no sense.
Wow this author really does have this thing doing everything. Of course here we only think of cooling our new P4 etc etc. In the article they mention everything from only cooling parts of the chip, cool no need for that huge piece of metal, to controling the temp in the production on RNA and other proteins. Basically this guy is saying that this stuff will cool your PC, cure health problems and save the world. Wow. And I would have just been happy with no fan on my proc.
Don't worry though th VB script uses ROT13 twice so that noone will notice that THIS IS JUST A SCRIPT. This is the exact same as most of the other virii going around. Just if you have adobe writer(not just reader which is all most people have) and you clik to execute a script within the document it can execute itself and spread. Yes this is kind of interesting but as far as worms go the number of people that are going to spread this is much less than the danger by one spread from acrobat reader.
First the judges did not disable the monitoring software. The judges had the IT dept disable the software. Also these judges say in there that the only reason they took issue with this monitoring is because the employees were not clearly notified. Where I work we have started firing people on third shift for looking at porn all night. It pisses me off as I am the guy who has to track them down via IP and a log file from a firewall. While I disagree with firing people for the first offense here it was clearly stated in the employment handbook that everyone here signed. It says basically use of company computer resources will be monitoring and going to non buisiness related sites can result in termination. Since it is clearly stated they, the judges, would have no problem with this. Basically, as long as your company tells you that they are monitoring you they can. Same as video surveillance in the workplace. As long as they tell the employees they can tape all they want.
If you have a company with 25 computers it is easy to know that you have all of your licenses (or are running some other OS but we all know that no true company would ever do that or something) stored in a nice easy access place. Now when you have 10k PCs in different locations and some at people's houses for dialup access etc. It gets real hard to ensure your site licenses cover all of those then whether or not you can use the bundled license. So if you are a medium to large corp the audit to find out if you are compliant can easily run more than just buying a bigger site license. But then you have to worry if that made some of your other licenses out of compliance. Either way you throw money at Microsoft. Anyway just my rant since I got stuck counting PCs at my last job to ensure we had enough MS licenses.
"However, this couldn't be used to conduct an effective denial of service attack, as the IIS 5.0 service automatically restarts itself after a failure. " If it takes me like one packet to shutdown the service(Hence the restart). I can generate lets say 4 packets per minute? (I really do have a better connection but) If I can not keep an IIS server thoroughly enough pissed with a small attack to prevent users Im confused. Not that I would but I just refuse to believe that while IIS is automatically restarting itself users would not be denied service. Oh well
two cents. minus a dollar.
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Wrong on SOOOOOO many levels.
Let me start with this line:
"I realize that slashdot is mostly populated by high-school educated "IT people", who give a shit about logs and backups"
You claim to be a programmer, I have been a programmer and am now a Sys Admin, as both the BEST way to troubleshoot was from the logs. Unless you are the supreme programmer whose code never needs debugging and whose users never mispunch something causing an error a log file will let you see and know what has happened.
Now for this line:
"and restoring backup tapes is exhillirating and exciting."
I have restored from tape backup. We had a "programmer" BS from Virginia Tec, Masters from UMass who was certain he knew exactly what he was doing when he blew away an entire production database. (Actually he was a really good guy who just made a simple mistake) Fortunately we had tapes to restore from. But if ANYONE thinks that a restore is "exhillirating" (yes I left your type/mistake in there) then they are just strange. That was one of the most tedious and boring things I have had to do. But we had been tedious in backing EVERYTHING up so production was not severely impacted.
Now for where you directly insult everyone:
"I fully expect the PHBs and army of cable monkeys to get the network up and running in our new location."
So as a systems admin do I become a cable monkey? or am I a PHB? Either way I would be VERY needed if a disaster strikes just as I am needed every day. As for the elitist attitude and your lack of knowledge and concern for the backend of systems I am glad you do not work anywhere near me as I hate IT personal that have to call me to run windows update on their system when the latest worm comes around or to show them how to NOT clik ignore when Norton tells them they have a virus.
In short, Please show some respect for your coworkers and realize that these guys were prepared and did what their plan stated they could do.
If not don't be alarmed if somehow your account gets disabled and everything blown away and surprisingly they won't have backups, cause you "just don't care" for them.
I think the most interesting point isn't that someone switched, but that this is a MICROSOFT writer that was using a Macintosh for 8 years. They just got her to convert.
"*Editor's Note: Now that we've successfully converted our writer to a Windows PC, we will be working on getting her to try a Pocket PC. Stay tuned for more developments!"
I think the better story would be "Bill forces last Mac user to switch!"
Hmmm
No future sight there.
What was the quote from the CEO at IBM, something like,
"I believe worldwide there is a market for 25 computers." That was said in the 60's. And it did not sound ridiculous. As for the 50 inch monitor, for my desk NO, but damn would that be nice for a monitoring system on a wall. As for 10 GB RAM welcome to the minimum system specs for Windows (Insert random suffix here) in 10 years.
Computers get more powerful. We force them to do more and more and expect them to be able to do more and more.
Don't ever say technology has hit it's peak we will always advance.
I see something like this as very very limited. The roles they mention are kind of far fetched. If you are a stock broker a simple text messaging service with up to date prices would be so much better than a tooth implanted device reading you quotes during a movie. The role of eavesdropping and cheating on Jeopardy might be useful though. Imagine the advantage you could have in a "closed meeting" if you are also on a conference call with your whole team back at your buisiness. Of course this is done enough with regular cell phones accidentally left on. Although I would not want to get a phone put into my tooth only to have to change phones at the end of my contract and I wanted to switch to GSM from TDMA etc.
This will be easily fixed.
Just make sure to call your cable and have the internet cutoff before it comes out. Just don't tell him until after it is cutoff. Then you will be all good. Or even better just accidentally steal his proc and tell him you are holding it hostage until you move.
Just when we got over our MUDing addiction EverCrack came along. Then now this. How do they ever expect geeks to get a life and go outside?
One if you have no regulations on the spectrum what is to say I am not going to manufacture a 100 kw router to go in everyone's home? The theory being well as long as my device is the most powerful on the block I will be fine. If someone else has a receiver nearby it would be very likely I could cook their receiver. Also this is rf. The more you fill it the more likely we are going to have collisions etc. If you assume a set wave length will have perfectly coded packets with unique IDs so that only the desired machines will decode and understand the signal you will eventually hit a point where you are receiving so many packets that your machine has collisions decoding them (similar to running your standard network at 95% capacity it does weird things) For these reasons I see there having to be regulations for a long time to come.
It just goes to show how easy it is to scam people when they want to believe.
Think of all the things people are willing to buy into because they think it will make them tons of money. Now think of all the times this things turn out to be cons. You would think people would learn buy now to be a little more skeptical. I know I would never give my money to someone that "they overlooked Priest's demand -- his paranoia, even -- that no one so much as touch a keyboard."
Then again I did buy Ericsson stock. Oh well I guess I should practice what I preach.. Wait heres this company called Enron...
Bikes ARE ILLEGAL on the sidewalks in the US.
However many parents don't teach their kids that bikes have to follow ALL traffic laws. I say this as someone who has gotten a speeding ticket and been threatened with a DWI while riding my bike across town. Word of advice if you are on a bike don't produce your driver's license, in many states you will still get the ticket but it will not go on your driving record so no insurance increase.
"Once the Coil and its power plant have been fully developed, the USAF hopes to fit it to a whole range of manned and unmanned aircraft, such as the Predator reconnaissance probe, which is fitted with Hellfire missiles and has been used in CIA operations in Afghanistan. "
That is cool.
Of course also mentioned in the article is that this is a secret program and they have no idea how far along this has progressed. But how much fun would it be to have a predator with a laser on it. Probably could only have 50-100 shots at the very most but that would still be so much more fun than two or three missles. Granted that is probably several years(decades) off. But it just sounds cool.
Everyone is bashing this for several reasons. Many of them are wrong. One person claims that when in one country you have that countries rights and no other countries rights. The US is constantly muddling in other countries affairs to change rights of people everywhere. Also every country has embassies for other countries. Those embassies tend to be regarded as sovereign soil of another country, within the host country. Also there is the issue of dual citizenship. While the US (we are too arrogant) doesn't official recognize dual citizenship of people above 18 many countries do. Ireland does. Therefore why couldnt I be a dual citizen of the country X and Norrath? (where x!=USA) As for the guy that starts off with "THERE IS NO ACTIVE GOD" Oh boy. Don't tell that to a certain old guy who is the head of a country only because of a little thing called the Catholic Church. The Vatican City is not a country as much a location for the Catholic Church so that "no country" will have authority over the Pope. Anyway. Was his idea a standard hyperbole that is only allowable on /.? Yes. Would he get laughed out of the UN right now? Yes. But we all know corporations are gaining ridiculous amounts of power how long before they buy the "land mass" needed? Namely some small island somewhere and get it deemed a sovereign nation under the protection of the USA? Don't believe that can happen? Tell it to that to Dean Kamen (segway guy) Dumpling Island
WOw
that was one of the better deals I have gotten in a long time. And given that most companies have just been settling these price problems. As long as they don't try to say that this was a pre-pay. But it did not say that anywhere on the website. SO slashdotter's make bestbuy's stock go down. Happy Shopping.
This guy is not a martyr. He was stupid and chose to piss in the US gov's wheaties. If you disagree with policies in the US we can still voice or beliefs freely. What noone is allowed to do and should not do is encite a riot. He was trying to do just this. He has messages claiming for everyone to unite and overthrow the US gov. Does that make him a threat? YES. Should the gov have reacted to him as a threat, YES. Did they need to go in their fully armed to and ready for battle? Yes. Police have information that they are to bust someone who has attacked multiple sites and attempted to attack military targets, plus he has been trying to get other people to use violence and weapons to overthrow the gov. He also instructs how to create bombs and other weapons on his site. They had to assume he would be armed. The only way to deal with that is with overwhelming force.
As long as the go ahead and press charges in a timely manner the gov has done the right thing in this case.
The WSJ was what was trying to crack this file. We all know how to crack a win2k password. Especially a local password. A search on google will reveal several ways to brute force a password for the system. I know that when I didnt get some guy from Compaq(we outsourced our helpdesk) to give me local admin rights i simply left a brute force cracker going came in the next day and had the local admin account. The desc in the article sounds like all they had done was used another username so these people could not see it. But once again maybe it was good a techie didnt get it. Since the first thing most of us would have done with these PCs is formated and then installed Linux :)
Here is their comment:
UMG has authorized all retailers to accept returns. If you have experienced any of the following problems, you may return the CD (even if the package is opened) accompanied by the receipt, to the retailer that the CD was originally purchased from for a full refund:
The CD is not playing in your CD or DVD player.
The CD is not playing in your computer.
The audio has audible problems.
The songs did not start and stop when the skip button was pushed.
The fast forward and rewind functions did not work.
You are not able to play all of the songs on the CD.
There are long delays between the songs or after you press a button for a particular function (fast forward, rewind, etc.).
At least they seem like they will be glad to take them back. I for one have plenty of free time to buy one of these and then return it every day for a while. If 5k people buy CDs and return them repeatedly Universal will have to wonder about this plan.
"The guys at Google thought, 'How cool that we can offer this to our users' without thinking about security. If you want to do this right, you have to think about security from the beginning and have a very solid approach to software design and software development that is based on what bad guys might possibly do to cause your program grief."
The fact that this guy claims the responsibility lies with google for not allowing this type of search is just plain crazy. If you are publishing critical information on a site that is not at least secure and preferaby encrypted you are just asking for trouble. It should not be google's responsibility in any way shape or form to not find this information. If the content providers wish it they can put the robot file out but that is not fixing anything merely sidesteping one super easy hack. They still need to have a decent or at least SOME security design.
Oh well.
Not a 767.
From CNN
"An American Airlines plane has crashed in the Queens borough of New York City. The FAA identifies the flight as American flight 587, an Airbus A300 from JFK airport to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Thick smoke was billowing over the area, and local media reported several houses on fire."
And we can choose which picture we want to look at. Granted they are in digital and in various sources but more are there. In the past you had the picture the main papers chose and maybe one or two others that the AP put out. That was it. Look at how many different renditions all of your coworkers have of the WTC on their desks at work. Look at how many of those are sent in those damn emails we get every day(Yea some of them may be funny but damn it. I am guessing I am not the only person that archives all of my old email. I have most of my email archived back from college days. I plan on continuing to do this as well. So instead of knowing I can go to the library and find a picture from the back issues of the NY Times I'll have tons of pictures in my old email. From a more personal note all of the real photographs I had in college got lost, destroyed, or thrown out. I have about 400 megs of old digital photos that short of two HDs and a CDR failure I'll never lose. Oh well. Enough of me ranting about people ranting about change.
changing?
It says it goes in and changes everything from "Quake" to "Quack". Could this also be mudging up the code just a little? I know that if I am writing a game(not that I have I deal mainly in crap code for manufacturing) I would think that I would tweak the ever holy shit out of it. This tweaking of the game requires everything to be perfect for it to work best. I know that if I change directories after installing, renaming whatever, some games don't even work and some just work real flaky. In summary I doubt that they have code in their driver saying If quake3 then overclock
else underclock. or something. That would make no sense.
Wow this author really does have this thing doing everything. Of course here we only think of cooling our new P4 etc etc. In the article they mention everything from only cooling parts of the chip, cool no need for that huge piece of metal, to controling the temp in the production on RNA and other proteins. Basically this guy is saying that this stuff will cool your PC, cure health problems and save the world. Wow. And I would have just been happy with no fan on my proc.
I am looking at the moment. I just got back from an interview in Atlanta. Got any good job openings for a programmer?
Don't worry though th VB script uses ROT13 twice so that noone will notice that THIS IS JUST A SCRIPT. This is the exact same as most of the other virii going around. Just if you have adobe writer(not just reader which is all most people have) and you clik to execute a script within the document it can execute itself and spread. Yes this is kind of interesting but as far as worms go the number of people that are going to spread this is much less than the danger by one spread from acrobat reader.
First the judges did not disable the monitoring software. The judges had the IT dept disable the software. Also these judges say in there that the only reason they took issue with this monitoring is because the employees were not clearly notified. Where I work we have started firing people on third shift for looking at porn all night. It pisses me off as I am the guy who has to track them down via IP and a log file from a firewall. While I disagree with firing people for the first offense here it was clearly stated in the employment handbook that everyone here signed. It says basically use of company computer resources will be monitoring and going to non buisiness related sites can result in termination. Since it is clearly stated they, the judges, would have no problem with this. Basically, as long as your company tells you that they are monitoring you they can. Same as video surveillance in the workplace. As long as they tell the employees they can tape all they want.
If you have a company with 25 computers it is easy to know that you have all of your licenses (or are running some other OS but we all know that no true company would ever do that or something) stored in a nice easy access place. Now when you have 10k PCs in different locations and some at people's houses for dialup access etc. It gets real hard to ensure your site licenses cover all of those then whether or not you can use the bundled license. So if you are a medium to large corp the audit to find out if you are compliant can easily run more than just buying a bigger site license. But then you have to worry if that made some of your other licenses out of compliance. Either way you throw money at Microsoft. Anyway just my rant since I got stuck counting PCs at my last job to ensure we had enough MS licenses.
"However, this couldn't be used to conduct an effective denial of service attack, as the IIS 5.0 service automatically restarts itself after a failure. " If it takes me like one packet to shutdown the service(Hence the restart). I can generate lets say 4 packets per minute? (I really do have a better connection but) If I can not keep an IIS server thoroughly enough pissed with a small attack to prevent users Im confused. Not that I would but I just refuse to believe that while IIS is automatically restarting itself users would not be denied service. Oh well two cents. minus a dollar.