The up side is that countries like Cuba would be welcomed, after all aren't these sort of countries famous for freedom and privacy and the general good treatment of peoples right?:(
I doubt it. VMS is simpler all the way around, there is less to break, kernel wise.
If you need a bulletproof environment, host it in a bad ass datacenter like Andover just did. Make it all redundant and always stay 30 ahead of capacity.
You can get the source from DEC, oops Compaq if you are a large customer, also I beleive it comes when you purchase their mission critical support service.
On the otherhand you can get basically the same product by going with FreeVMS which has about 2 dozen links posted here in this thread.
Oh, I disagree, and for the record, I didn't mean to imply that. I work with ISS frequently and view them to be a very professional and ethical firm.
As for some of the up and coming AV firms, I wouldn't put it past them, however in this case I think it's just kiddies having fun with a mechanism that someone else wrote, doing it just for grins and bragging rights.
Not to be a conspiracy theory promoter, but I'll bet companies like ISS and also the AV companies are just lovin' all this exposure.
During the last couple of months, firms like ISS had a huge increase in sales. With the Love Bug and copycat viruses I'm sure the AV companies are also seeing increased profits. I wonder how much @stake consulting rates are for helping a firm defend against this sort of thing. I'm sure they're not cheap.
We're going to end up very soon with any 3 letters being accepted as a TLD. It's unavoidable. With time a few will rise and become standards, much the way we use 'com, org' gov etc now.
.god is just another step. Who knows what TLD's will come next. . .
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So in other words, It the "advanced" term really meand poorly designed. Right
This is a prime example of PHB's mis managing technology. For one they over-leveraged the value of the environment, as most startup dot coms do. Secondly they screwed up by making the site either unreliable or to tough to navigate.
But, initially at least, a large proportion of its potential market was unable to access Boo's site because the website design was too advanced for most computers.
I wonder what they meant by that? I went to the site before it got/.ed and it seemed fairly ordinary to me. Malmsten and Hedelin did a good job with the mechanics of the site from what I can tell, but it sure looks like their rent-an-exec management staff made some very poor choices such as betting the farm on the value of board member relationships as the vehicle for capital, rather than raising capital by not overselling the value of the site/product.
"Microsoft's proposed remedy would leave it free to continue the very practices which the evidence at trial showed, and this court found, to be unlawful and would do nothing to restore competition."
With this as a starting shot across the bow of M$, I don't see their appeal having a chance. I think they are just going to tie it up in the courts for years and try to force a stalemate.
This was allways a billion dollar game of chicken between the Clinton administration and M$. Clinton and Co. succumbed to the pressures of lobbyists shortly after the infomas Netscape letter which just happened to be in line with Gore and Ms. Clinton campaign supporters. Gates and M$ formally have NEVER backed either party. Gates was invited to the White House on several occcaisions and courted in hopes he and M$ would contribute. They did not.
Shortly after the bulldog Reno was sicked on M$ and a modified special investigator statute was passed to look into the anti-trust issues Netscape brought up.
I firmly beleive that this is a little payback to M$ for not being a Gore or H. Clinton supporter in the upcoming campains.
That was supposed to be my point, guess I didn't word it very well. IMO the movie was hyped to be "the answers to all the open plots" and in actuality it blew chunks. It closed the "are there really aliens" plot line but didn't address the inter twined relationship stuff which made the show interesting. I stopped watching after the movie came out, most of the shows now just seem silly.
I'm curious about the timing with the port to the Exodus environment, was there any indication the attack was timed to take advantage of the different environment? Not saying that the security measures were better or worse than the old site, just that the timing seems rather convienent.
Once they got away from the "Criecheck(sp?) and CSM" style plots, the show seemed to suffer. The ongoing saga of the government conspiracy to hide alien experiments and such was at least entertaining. Now the story lines just seem weird and unconnected. They should have stopped with the release of the movie.
Stewart says that "[a]ll the information is secure, it's encrypted.
Encrypted does not mean secure. Now that everyone knows it's out there, it will only be a matter of time till some 1337 haxor goes and cracs it, just for bragging rights if nothing else. Housing this information in just one place seems like a dumb move to me. I think it would be much more secure if they warehoused it in a more diverse manner.
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I do, ranked right up there with the fish cam. Lame, but somehow I couldn't look away.
The VC's get their money back from the infrastructure companies. Remember back in the gold rush days, the minors didn't make much money overall. The folks who made the gazillions were the folks selling shovels and building railroads. Todays methodology is no different. Yeah, they make money in the long run from the end consumer, but the big payoff is in value trades from the infrastructure parties. They have all the power and they know it. Power is the commodity and the currency, not the electronic dollar.
The good ones are expecting their consumers to pay them back, the bad ones are trying to IPO.
What does this mean? Do the Ciscos of the world expect to stay in business by having end consumers a penny at a time repay their VC debt? I wouldn't think so. And only bad companies IPO? Thats a rather shallow view isn't it?
The merger had come under increasing criticism because its value -- tied to Corel's stock price on Nasdaq -- has shrunk 73 percent since the deal was announced.
'nuff said. This is what happens when PHB's don't harness in the venture cap yoyo's and allow them to inflate absolutely everything in the trades despite the fact that the value in the company is nil. Didn't anyone realize the eighties were over. Under current left wing capitalism this sort of economics, like that of Amazon are allowed to go on. Sooner or later it will cascade and pull not only the US economy down to the cellar but also that of most of Europe and China as well. When will the capatalistic inmates be banned from running the words economy.
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The up side is that countries like Cuba would be welcomed, after all aren't these sort of countries famous for freedom and privacy and the general good treatment of peoples right? :(
Good call, that's quite correct. It's a shame that it works that way. Aside from lobby's all they seem to look at are the inacurate polls.
If you need a bulletproof environment, host it in a bad ass datacenter like Andover just did. Make it all redundant and always stay 30 ahead of capacity.
Simple enough, but it'll cost a fortune.
You can get the source from DEC, oops Compaq if you are a large customer, also I beleive it comes when you purchase their mission critical support service.
On the otherhand you can get basically the same product by going with FreeVMS which has about 2 dozen links posted here in this thread.
Microchannel wasn't all that bad. It was just backed up by a pathetic business and marketing plan.
Don't ever run from the law. . . You'll only end up going to jail tired.
As for some of the up and coming AV firms, I wouldn't put it past them, however in this case I think it's just kiddies having fun with a mechanism that someone else wrote, doing it just for grins and bragging rights.
During the last couple of months, firms like ISS had a huge increase in sales. With the Love Bug and copycat viruses I'm sure the AV companies are also seeing increased profits. I wonder how much @stake consulting rates are for helping a firm defend against this sort of thing. I'm sure they're not cheap.
.god is just another step. Who knows what TLD's will come next. . .
So in other words, It the "advanced" term really meand poorly designed. Right
But, initially at least, a large proportion of its potential market was unable to access Boo's site because the website design was too advanced for most computers.
I wonder what they meant by that? I went to the site before it got /.ed and it seemed fairly ordinary to me. Malmsten and Hedelin did a good job with the mechanics of the site from what I can tell, but it sure looks like their rent-an-exec management staff made some very poor choices such as betting the farm on the value of board member relationships as the vehicle for capital, rather than raising capital by not overselling the value of the site/product.
Just watch out so you don't get "bitchslapped", It would be a shame to have to dig for your posts at -2 again.
"Microsoft's proposed remedy would leave it free to continue the very practices which the evidence at trial showed, and this court found, to be unlawful and would do nothing to restore competition."
With this as a starting shot across the bow of M$, I don't see their appeal having a chance. I think they are just going to tie it up in the courts for years and try to force a stalemate.
Shortly after the bulldog Reno was sicked on M$ and a modified special investigator statute was passed to look into the anti-trust issues Netscape brought up.
I firmly beleive that this is a little payback to M$ for not being a Gore or H. Clinton supporter in the upcoming campains.
ASCI art $ 100
Trollmastah $1,000
Hot Grits $10,000
First Post $100,000
We could all be rich.
That was supposed to be my point, guess I didn't word it very well. IMO the movie was hyped to be "the answers to all the open plots" and in actuality it blew chunks. It closed the "are there really aliens" plot line but didn't address the inter twined relationship stuff which made the show interesting. I stopped watching after the movie came out, most of the shows now just seem silly.
I'm curious about the timing with the port to the Exodus environment, was there any indication the attack was timed to take advantage of the different environment? Not saying that the security measures were better or worse than the old site, just that the timing seems rather convienent.
Once they got away from the "Criecheck(sp?) and CSM" style plots, the show seemed to suffer. The ongoing saga of the government conspiracy to hide alien experiments and such was at least entertaining. Now the story lines just seem weird and unconnected. They should have stopped with the release of the movie.
Encrypted does not mean secure. Now that everyone knows it's out there, it will only be a matter of time till some 1337 haxor goes and cracs it, just for bragging rights if nothing else. Housing this information in just one place seems like a dumb move to me. I think it would be much more secure if they warehoused it in a more diverse manner.
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I do, ranked right up there with the fish cam. Lame, but somehow I couldn't look away.
Period!
PERIOD!
Well said! +5 We could use a few more MC's.
The good ones are expecting their consumers to pay them back, the bad ones are trying to IPO.
What does this mean? Do the Ciscos of the world expect to stay in business by having end consumers a penny at a time repay their VC debt? I wouldn't think so. And only bad companies IPO? Thats a rather shallow view isn't it?
'nuff said. This is what happens when PHB's don't harness in the venture cap yoyo's and allow them to inflate absolutely everything in the trades despite the fact that the value in the company is nil. Didn't anyone realize the eighties were over. Under current left wing capitalism this sort of economics, like that of Amazon are allowed to go on. Sooner or later it will cascade and pull not only the US economy down to the cellar but also that of most of Europe and China as well. When will the capatalistic inmates be banned from running the words economy.