Quad core is all well and good, but are there really that many apps as of yet that can take advantage of it? TFA claims this is for servers and for desktops, and I'm not certain of its utility on the latter just yet...
It may have something to do with the fact that you're knowingly providing your credit card information to AOL when you sign up. By doing business with BestBuy, you don't expect to be entering into a business relationship with Microsoft.
No kidding. I get pissed when companies do it to their product e-mailing lists (spam is about consent, not content), actually charging my credit card (provided to ANOTHER COMPANY) is inexcusable.
While it wasn't prosecuted under RICO, there have been similar issues with a number of adult website memberships. "Sign up for this for free, the credit card is for age verification only." Three days later, they bill you for a "recurring membership" for their affiliate sites that are just this side of impossible to opt out of. (This happened to a client-- I don't pay for my porn.)
In fairness, you kinda expect this from the seedier side of the web.
You don't expect it from Best Buy and the largest software company on the planet.
The problem isn't remote desktop, it's doing things en masse. I can push out a group policy to 5000 machines, go on a coffee break, and be done with it. Doing that one by one is... challenging, to say the least.
I work for a university, and we had the same problem. It became less of one once we refused to forward messages our spam filter determined was spam-- cut back the outgoing traffic by at least 80%.
As TFA states, it's easy for someone to create a security product which they themselves cannot break. Hiring external testers can be a huge expense if done right, and when companies rely more on hype than on technical brilliance, they end up getting screwed. SecuStick is rare only in that its crappy security made headlines.
Our boss dismissed the idea of outsourcing to Google or anybody else based SOLELY upon the fact that they reserved the right to advertise in the future to our students. We don't view our students as a commodity to be sold, so that kinda killed the whole "outsource the email" idea.
Yes, it CAN get you life in prison. How often does it? Generally unless it's a second offense, or a police officer, or a severely screwed up crime, it doesn't...
Open Source may largely be available for free, but the ads do go to show that the bills still have to get paid. I wish like crazy that there were a better way to make money off of open source rather than charging like crazy for support or constant maintenance. Closed source companies provide craptastic support in many cases, but their licensing is more or less a permit to print money...
I'm more concerned that ONE COUNT of copyright infringement plus conspiracy to commit same can get you more time in prison than if you'd committed any number of violent crimes, up to and including some instances of first degree murder...
Oh? In real life I assure you "my" domain has SPF records, and ~60K users. My private domain is in a state of flux, and will have one shortly once DNS stabilizes.
I'm also not the only one who feels this way. SMTP callbacks ARE abusive, and they can and do take servers offline
Doesn't matter. If a spammer pulls a joe-job and sends out 100K messages with my email address as the forged sender, then I get idiots like you doing the callback thing. I block such sites at the firewall as soon as I see 'em.
A horrible solution, Challenge Response is... Let's assume, for a minute, that it's all handled server-side and the user doesn't have to deal with misdirected bounces. Realize that with the advent of botnets, bandwidth and computational power is something spammers have in spades-- far more so than legitimate mailers.
Let's also consider mailing lists. I manage a site that has tens of thousands of users, running on two MX boxes and one outbound SMTP box. I'd have to get a whole new RACK to handle the load you're suggesting...
...are they being charged with violating this new law, or with other laws that are already on the books? Since they haven't done anything but own stock in the company since 2005, one would think that they couldn't be accused of crimes they committed before they were classed as illegal...
And you must have missed the part that it's not the timestamp he measures, but the change in timestamp over a period of time that correlates to what he has the remote server do. That's a lot more telling.
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Quad core is all well and good, but are there really that many apps as of yet that can take advantage of it? TFA claims this is for servers and for desktops, and I'm not certain of its utility on the latter just yet...
...thinks that datacenters should be open to ANYONE besides critical staff? At work, we don't even let the janitor in...
It may have something to do with the fact that you're knowingly providing your credit card information to AOL when you sign up. By doing business with BestBuy, you don't expect to be entering into a business relationship with Microsoft.
Doubtful. While MS's offerings are sometimes bulgey, I don't think Bulger's the guy who got shafted by them. Murder's not really their style...
No kidding. I get pissed when companies do it to their product e-mailing lists (spam is about consent, not content), actually charging my credit card (provided to ANOTHER COMPANY) is inexcusable.
While it wasn't prosecuted under RICO, there have been similar issues with a number of adult website memberships. "Sign up for this for free, the credit card is for age verification only." Three days later, they bill you for a "recurring membership" for their affiliate sites that are just this side of impossible to opt out of. (This happened to a client-- I don't pay for my porn.)
In fairness, you kinda expect this from the seedier side of the web.
You don't expect it from Best Buy and the largest software company on the planet.
The problem isn't remote desktop, it's doing things en masse. I can push out a group policy to 5000 machines, go on a coffee break, and be done with it. Doing that one by one is... challenging, to say the least.
Same text, same perspective, same details, slightly crappier?
Yeah, good luck suing your way out of this one, dude...
Most definitely, but try selling that idea to faculty who've come to expect it...
I work for a university, and we had the same problem. It became less of one once we refused to forward messages our spam filter determined was spam-- cut back the outgoing traffic by at least 80%.
As TFA states, it's easy for someone to create a security product which they themselves cannot break. Hiring external testers can be a huge expense if done right, and when companies rely more on hype than on technical brilliance, they end up getting screwed. SecuStick is rare only in that its crappy security made headlines.
I do work as a mail admin for a university.
Our boss dismissed the idea of outsourcing to Google or anybody else based SOLELY upon the fact that they reserved the right to advertise in the future to our students. We don't view our students as a commodity to be sold, so that kinda killed the whole "outsource the email" idea.
Yes, it CAN get you life in prison. How often does it? Generally unless it's a second offense, or a police officer, or a severely screwed up crime, it doesn't...
It almost seems like intellectual property is valued far more highly than human life. I don't think that's right, in a moral sense.
Open Source may largely be available for free, but the ads do go to show that the bills still have to get paid. I wish like crazy that there were a better way to make money off of open source rather than charging like crazy for support or constant maintenance. Closed source companies provide craptastic support in many cases, but their licensing is more or less a permit to print money...
I'm more concerned that ONE COUNT of copyright infringement plus conspiracy to commit same can get you more time in prison than if you'd committed any number of violent crimes, up to and including some instances of first degree murder...
Oh? In real life I assure you "my" domain has SPF records, and ~60K users. My private domain is in a state of flux, and will have one shortly once DNS stabilizes.
I'm also not the only one who feels this way. SMTP callbacks ARE abusive, and they can and do take servers offline
Doesn't matter. If a spammer pulls a joe-job and sends out 100K messages with my email address as the forged sender, then I get idiots like you doing the callback thing. I block such sites at the firewall as soon as I see 'em.
Using SMTP callbacks is abusive, given that most of the headers in an email are forged...
A horrible solution, Challenge Response is... Let's assume, for a minute, that it's all handled server-side and the user doesn't have to deal with misdirected bounces. Realize that with the advent of botnets, bandwidth and computational power is something spammers have in spades-- far more so than legitimate mailers.
Let's also consider mailing lists. I manage a site that has tens of thousands of users, running on two MX boxes and one outbound SMTP box. I'd have to get a whole new RACK to handle the load you're suggesting...
...are they being charged with violating this new law, or with other laws that are already on the books? Since they haven't done anything but own stock in the company since 2005, one would think that they couldn't be accused of crimes they committed before they were classed as illegal...
This should be interesting, to see how foreign countries react to the detention of their citizens for something so paltry...
And you must have missed the part that it's not the timestamp he measures, but the change in timestamp over a period of time that correlates to what he has the remote server do. That's a lot more telling.
Foxit reader has a crap-ton less overhead.
Well, he TYPES like an MS MVP...