Such functions have been available for years on Windows and Unix, such as the Cisco security agent (formly Okena). When properly configured, you can run a Windows system without apply a patch for a whole year and not get exploited (which is very hard to set up).
The problem is that administrating these permissions is a real pain in the ass. It's not simple at all, and is usually more of a hassle than its worth. Different version of the same product may require different rule sets. Even a simple, small patch can break existing rules. Usually these products are destined for servers in static environments.
It just moves the cases from state to federal court under certain circumstances, and limits lawyer fees in coupon settlements. You know, those ones where, if you win, you get $5 off your next purchase, assuming you make a next purchase that is. I'm still waiting to redeem my CRT monitor settlement from the early 90s.
It was passed in the Senate 72-26, with 8 Democrats sponsoring the bill. That's a veto proof majority. That's bipartisan dude.
"Installing Service Pack 2 will not affect Norton AntiVirus." source: symantec.com "Installing Service Pack 2 will not affect Norton SystemWorks." source: symantec.com McAfee support site shows how to load their web downloaded products with SP2. It's just an approval of an activeX control. "BlackICE PC Protection and BlackICEServer Protection work fine with Windows XP's Service Pack 2." source: iss.custhelp.com "All ZoneAlarm products (5.1 and higher) are compatible with XP SP2." source: zonealarm.com
The "problem" with RedHat and SuSE is that they are "kitchen sink" distros; i.e., they throw everything and the kitchen sink onto their CDs.....Having 20 different programs for each of those (most of them crap) can be very confusing.
Novell, in desktop linux 9, decided to install only a very base set of stuff. Just the OS, office, web and email. Everything else should be optional installs. Blow off about 2 gigs and store it in a compressed special directory, to be installed later, without needing the CDs. It would be nice for a distribution to choose the best programs out there and just include those select few, with much better organization. How do you find an MP3 player in Fedora? It's not that clear or simple. List common functions "I want an MP3 player", "I want a spreadsheet program", "I want a graphics program", and it list all appropriate programs.
Most likely you'll get redhat or Suse near the top of the list. The number probably isn't too big of a deal, as the majority of distributions are essentially irrelevant and miniscule in comparison.
What'd be nice is if there was a set standard between all distros for file location, system layout, base installed libraries, universal package format, standard config tools, and a universal format for configuration text files. LSB should help with some of these, but I'd like even more unity.
There are some places, mostly fast or quick service food, that include taxes in the price. Businesses won't go for it because then the product looks more expensive. Deception in numbers.
Taxes are automatically taken out of the paychecks of all but self employed people in the US. The problem is that an employer can't take out the exact amount from your paycheck because we don't have flat tax brackets, and have tax deductions. A part time job in addition to your main one may bump you up to a higher tax bracket. Your employer won't know how many dollars you deducted in mortgage interest, student loan interest, medical expenses and so forth. Most middle class and poor people either get a refund or end up paying a small amount at tax time.
If we had a flat tax or got rid of deductions, then the need to file would be almost nonexistent.
Not getting cable companies on board was a big blunder on Tivo's part. I was considering buying a Tivo, but opted not to. Instead, I just rent a DVR from Time Warner Cable. Is it as good? Not really, but it's good enough. No up front costs. No need to write checks to another company every month. And if anything breaks, like the hard drive, I can replace it for free. Why lay out several hundred dollars plus monthly fees, when I can just get it all from my cable company for less?
With the exception of a few places in the Southwestern desert, most Americans can't legally drive faster than 80mph anyways. Most Americans look towards other features than top speed.
I think I see your goal, or at least what you're suggesting, but the solution you presented would be horribly complex and expensive as you add more nodes. You're proposing putting every Windows machine behind a port blocking firewall/NAPT, right?
I don't have a link handy, but they now sell PCI based hardware firewalls on a card. The card has its own operating system, merely draws a small amount of power (no data transferred) from the PCI bus, and has real centralized management/reporting. It won't solve all problems, as layer 4 firewalls aren't tremendously helpful, if at all, against many trojan horses, email worms and IE exploits.
That graph shows Kerry with a 20 point lead in Pennsylvania. That's a landslide. Yet all the polls taken prior to the election (go back two months) didn't have Kerry anywhere near that. The final poll of PA had Kerry up less than 4%. That's nowhere near 20%. Of all the states where Kerry seems to lose a lot of ground, state polls taken just before the election are nearly identical with the final result.
I wonder if those were the final exit polls, but they don't make much sense when compared to the pre-election polls.
I'll use electoral-vote.com Nov 1 data as an example (since it's run by a Kerry supporter). Final and Exit are as close as I can figure from the posted link, since the bar graphs aren't labeled well.
North Carolina Exit: Bush +3 Final: Bush +13 Poll: Bush +10
New Hampshire Exit: Kerry +15 Final: Kerry +1 Poll: Tie
That shows that either the exit polls were way off or were preliminary exit polls (midday polls instead of final exit polls). There's no way Kerry was up 20 points in Penn. No poll taken a month before the election had Kerry up even 10 points, and in the final two weeks he was up no more than 5 points.
The US election had about 3 times as many voters as your country. That could have an effect. However, don't forget timezones. The US polls started closing at 7pm EST, with all but Alaska closed at 11pm EST. Ohio had such a high turnout that people were still voting past the offical poll closing time (Ohio law states that you have to be standing in line by close time, not vote by close time). By 2am, we were pretty sure of who would be president. I had about 8 elections to vote for as well, so all of those races need to be added up too before a precinct reports in.
If we were going with straight popular vote as the winner, the election could of been called by 11p.
You need to know where people live for state and local elections. Personally I think a drivers license (or create a special picture 'voter license' for free if you can't afford/get a drivers license) check would be enough to make me happy.
Well there was that little genocide of the Sith about a thousand years before Episode 1 takes place, where the Jedi kill off almost all Sith. I think that pissed them off a bit.
All they're saying is that they record the Referrer information from an HTTP header. That doesn't say they collect "all of your web browsing data". Just sites that link to their homepage from browsers that have the referrer enabled.
There is also nothing in the Bible that says life in itself is unique to this world. The only thing it says is that man has dominance over the other creatures of the Earth. That doesn't give us an unlimited license to abuse or torture lower lifeforms, but I think it justifies our selective killing and domestication as needed for food, safety, work or companionship (by way of Christian/Jewish dogma. Other religions may disagree with this, but I'm sticking with the Christian belief system at hand).
I think if we found advanced intelligent life on other planets, that would lead to a bunch of interesting religious questions. Do they have dominance over us, or do we have dominance over the non-intelligent life on their planet? Would we be permitted to interfere with said planet's development? Do they have souls? Finding non-intelligent life, like bacteria or simple organisms, would be much less controversial. After all, if God has the power to create life on Earth, he certainly has the power to do so elsewhere.
I believe the Pope was quoted as saying if there was life on other planets, those lifeforms would also be the children of God. I don't know if Pope John Paul II made any formal declarations whether it'd be in conflict with Bible teachings, or if life on other planets was possible/impossible by religious dogma, but I have a feeling he'd side on the possible side. Didn't he recently say creationism and evolution aren't in complete conflict (despite what a small group of highly vocal people claim)?
Networld+Interop used to use mag stripe too. This year, however, they switched to bar code. Vendors would use a bar code reader to scan your card as opposed to swipe. The advantage here is cost. Printing a bar code is cheaper than dealing with magnetic stripe. You can use plain paper instead of plastic cards.
I read both linked articles. I've searched them for patriot as well as 817. No hits. It sounds like this guy is being charged with a law signed 15 years ago, brought to attention by a mysterious death of his wife. From the Wired writeup, I'd say he's done activities which would make me slightly suspicious. Enough to warrant an investigation at least.
So where's the PATRIOT act charges come from? Because Slashdot isn't showing it.
A year? Heck you can do all that with public records. Just look up house prices, school taxes and crime rate per 100K. There's half your information right there. Or just drive around a city for an hour. Worrying that this system will lead to increased targeted crime is silly.
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Such functions have been available for years on Windows and Unix, such as the Cisco security agent (formly Okena). When properly configured, you can run a Windows system without apply a patch for a whole year and not get exploited (which is very hard to set up).
The problem is that administrating these permissions is a real pain in the ass. It's not simple at all, and is usually more of a hassle than its worth. Different version of the same product may require different rule sets. Even a simple, small patch can break existing rules. Usually these products are destined for servers in static environments.
It just moves the cases from state to federal court under certain circumstances, and limits lawyer fees in coupon settlements. You know, those ones where, if you win, you get $5 off your next purchase, assuming you make a next purchase that is. I'm still waiting to redeem my CRT monitor settlement from the early 90s.
It was passed in the Senate 72-26, with 8 Democrats sponsoring the bill. That's a veto proof majority. That's bipartisan dude.
"Installing Service Pack 2 will not affect Norton AntiVirus." source: symantec.com
"Installing Service Pack 2 will not affect Norton SystemWorks." source: symantec.com
McAfee support site shows how to load their web downloaded products with SP2. It's just an approval of an activeX control.
"BlackICE PC Protection and BlackICEServer Protection work fine with Windows XP's Service Pack 2." source: iss.custhelp.com
"All ZoneAlarm products (5.1 and higher) are compatible with XP SP2." source: zonealarm.com
The "problem" with RedHat and SuSE is that they are "kitchen sink" distros; i.e., they throw everything and the kitchen sink onto their CDs.....Having 20 different programs for each of those (most of them crap) can be very confusing.
Novell, in desktop linux 9, decided to install only a very base set of stuff. Just the OS, office, web and email. Everything else should be optional installs. Blow off about 2 gigs and store it in a compressed special directory, to be installed later, without needing the CDs. It would be nice for a distribution to choose the best programs out there and just include those select few, with much better organization. How do you find an MP3 player in Fedora? It's not that clear or simple. List common functions "I want an MP3 player", "I want a spreadsheet program", "I want a graphics program", and it list all appropriate programs.
Most likely you'll get redhat or Suse near the top of the list. The number probably isn't too big of a deal, as the majority of distributions are essentially irrelevant and miniscule in comparison.
What'd be nice is if there was a set standard between all distros for file location, system layout, base installed libraries, universal package format, standard config tools, and a universal format for configuration text files. LSB should help with some of these, but I'd like even more unity.
What was the Dasani furore? It's not about that 1mg of sodium, is it?
There are some places, mostly fast or quick service food, that include taxes in the price. Businesses won't go for it because then the product looks more expensive. Deception in numbers.
Taxes are automatically taken out of the paychecks of all but self employed people in the US. The problem is that an employer can't take out the exact amount from your paycheck because we don't have flat tax brackets, and have tax deductions. A part time job in addition to your main one may bump you up to a higher tax bracket. Your employer won't know how many dollars you deducted in mortgage interest, student loan interest, medical expenses and so forth. Most middle class and poor people either get a refund or end up paying a small amount at tax time.
If we had a flat tax or got rid of deductions, then the need to file would be almost nonexistent.
Not getting cable companies on board was a big blunder on Tivo's part. I was considering buying a Tivo, but opted not to. Instead, I just rent a DVR from Time Warner Cable. Is it as good? Not really, but it's good enough. No up front costs. No need to write checks to another company every month. And if anything breaks, like the hard drive, I can replace it for free. Why lay out several hundred dollars plus monthly fees, when I can just get it all from my cable company for less?
With the exception of a few places in the Southwestern desert, most Americans can't legally drive faster than 80mph anyways. Most Americans look towards other features than top speed.
I think I see your goal, or at least what you're suggesting, but the solution you presented would be horribly complex and expensive as you add more nodes. You're proposing putting every Windows machine behind a port blocking firewall/NAPT, right?
I don't have a link handy, but they now sell PCI based hardware firewalls on a card. The card has its own operating system, merely draws a small amount of power (no data transferred) from the PCI bus, and has real centralized management/reporting. It won't solve all problems, as layer 4 firewalls aren't tremendously helpful, if at all, against many trojan horses, email worms and IE exploits.
That graph shows Kerry with a 20 point lead in Pennsylvania. That's a landslide. Yet all the polls taken prior to the election (go back two months) didn't have Kerry anywhere near that. The final poll of PA had Kerry up less than 4%. That's nowhere near 20%. Of all the states where Kerry seems to lose a lot of ground, state polls taken just before the election are nearly identical with the final result.
I wonder if those were the final exit polls, but they don't make much sense when compared to the pre-election polls.
I'll use electoral-vote.com Nov 1 data as an example (since it's run by a Kerry supporter). Final and Exit are as close as I can figure from the posted link, since the bar graphs aren't labeled well.
North Carolina
Exit: Bush +3
Final: Bush +13
Poll: Bush +10
New Hampshire
Exit: Kerry +15
Final: Kerry +1
Poll: Tie
Pennsylvania
Exit: Kerry +20
Final: Kerry +2
Poll: Kerry +4
That shows that either the exit polls were way off or were preliminary exit polls (midday polls instead of final exit polls). There's no way Kerry was up 20 points in Penn. No poll taken a month before the election had Kerry up even 10 points, and in the final two weeks he was up no more than 5 points.
The US election had about 3 times as many voters as your country. That could have an effect. However, don't forget timezones. The US polls started closing at 7pm EST, with all but Alaska closed at 11pm EST. Ohio had such a high turnout that people were still voting past the offical poll closing time (Ohio law states that you have to be standing in line by close time, not vote by close time). By 2am, we were pretty sure of who would be president. I had about 8 elections to vote for as well, so all of those races need to be added up too before a precinct reports in.
If we were going with straight popular vote as the winner, the election could of been called by 11p.
You need to know where people live for state and local elections. Personally I think a drivers license (or create a special picture 'voter license' for free if you can't afford/get a drivers license) check would be enough to make me happy.
Federal Review does something similar.
And why not just give him some dentures?
Well there was that little genocide of the Sith about a thousand years before Episode 1 takes place, where the Jedi kill off almost all Sith. I think that pissed them off a bit.
All they're saying is that they record the Referrer information from an HTTP header. That doesn't say they collect "all of your web browsing data". Just sites that link to their homepage from browsers that have the referrer enabled.
There is also nothing in the Bible that says life in itself is unique to this world. The only thing it says is that man has dominance over the other creatures of the Earth. That doesn't give us an unlimited license to abuse or torture lower lifeforms, but I think it justifies our selective killing and domestication as needed for food, safety, work or companionship (by way of Christian/Jewish dogma. Other religions may disagree with this, but I'm sticking with the Christian belief system at hand).
I think if we found advanced intelligent life on other planets, that would lead to a bunch of interesting religious questions. Do they have dominance over us, or do we have dominance over the non-intelligent life on their planet? Would we be permitted to interfere with said planet's development? Do they have souls? Finding non-intelligent life, like bacteria or simple organisms, would be much less controversial. After all, if God has the power to create life on Earth, he certainly has the power to do so elsewhere.
I believe the Pope was quoted as saying if there was life on other planets, those lifeforms would also be the children of God. I don't know if Pope John Paul II made any formal declarations whether it'd be in conflict with Bible teachings, or if life on other planets was possible/impossible by religious dogma, but I have a feeling he'd side on the possible side. Didn't he recently say creationism and evolution aren't in complete conflict (despite what a small group of highly vocal people claim)?
I don't think MediaCo could use those fan scripts for free. Wouldn't that be against the Writers Union rules?
Of course, fans could write and submit scripts for consideration, but they can do that today.
Software Update Server is free. As in, doesn't cost any money.
Networld+Interop used to use mag stripe too. This year, however, they switched to bar code. Vendors would use a bar code reader to scan your card as opposed to swipe. The advantage here is cost. Printing a bar code is cheaper than dealing with magnetic stripe. You can use plain paper instead of plastic cards.
I read both linked articles. I've searched them for patriot as well as 817. No hits. It sounds like this guy is being charged with a law signed 15 years ago, brought to attention by a mysterious death of his wife. From the Wired writeup, I'd say he's done activities which would make me slightly suspicious. Enough to warrant an investigation at least.
So where's the PATRIOT act charges come from? Because Slashdot isn't showing it.
A year? Heck you can do all that with public records. Just look up house prices, school taxes and crime rate per 100K. There's half your information right there. Or just drive around a city for an hour. Worrying that this system will lead to increased targeted crime is silly.
What if a power spike blows up your system?