You are now a suspect because you're the only one who has unaccounted time
Yes, but what does this have to do with the Bill Of Rights. Does being a suspect due to a db entry mean that the warrant is unnecessary?
This thread is about whether this violates the Bill Of Rights article that guarantees you protection from search and siezure in your own house. I say that this doesn't violate the Bill of Rights. You still have to have a warrant to search your property, and make an arrest, even if the lead came from a database, right?
to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,
How does this database cause unreasonable searches and seizures? OK, so someone knows that I eat Papa Johns 3 times a week. Fine, I'd still expect that they'd need a warrant to come in and seize the empty pizza boxes.
Here's how it works. I order a pizza, and Papa Johns makes a record of my order. They sell it to Nexis-Dexis, and someone looks it up. Am I less secure? Did someone search my house? Was something seized without an oath? No, no, and no.
So this really has nothing to do with the Bill Of Rights. It's merely a data mining program.
It would give you more choice in terms of OS vendor, and much of the commercial Linux is PC only. PowerPC is a nice chip, but an Athlon will be as quick, for similar money.
On AMD I have a choice of NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, XP, and maybe Solaris. I'm pretty sure I haven't missed any.
On Mac, you get the choice of NetBSD, Linux, and OS X. Again, I don't think I missed any.
OpenBSD and FreeBSD really aren't that much different from NetBSD, FWIW. That means that you choose between XP and OS X. And I'd rather have OS X, hands down.
That's why I'd dual-boot a Mac, rather than an AMD.
Really, I have nothing to hide. However, I think that we should be able to get a copy of our own report, just like a credit report. That'd help ensure some accountability.
Loading up a DVD with commercials for other DVD's in such a way you can't skip them is.
Ok fine, so you may have to have up to 5 minutes of time to spend on something else. You still shouldn't have your time scheduled that tightly. Spend that time chatting with friends, or reading a longer article, or making a sandwich.
The fast-paced society that people have bought into these days is overwhelming. Why do people have such a problem with relaxing and waiting a few minutes.
The Warning message isn't that long. Just pick up your copy of Reader's Digest or something and browse through it while you're waiting. Actually, you probably won't have time for even that. Use the time to microwave popcorn. Or even just spend the time in reflective silence.
It won't hurt you to have to wait 30 seconds. If you have your schedule so tight that you can't even spend an extra 30 seconds, then you should force yourself to sit down and waste some time. You need it:)
Yeah, that bothered me as well when I first saw it. Here slashdot is, leading the Microsoft-bashing bandwagon, and yet they can and have been bought(rented) my Microsoft for ad space. I'm not trying to troll here, it's just that this seems really hypocritical. Does this mean anyone can advertise on slashdot for the right price? If so, Microsoft certainly occupies a higher rung on the ladder of business ethics.
As I explained this to another friend, Microsoft probably doesn't know that they are advertising on a "hate MS" site. This is a doubleclick campaign. Microsoft probably went to doubleclick and told them to run this ad on tech sites that get a certain number of hits and some other criteria.
On the other hand, when Slashdot signed up with doubleclick, they probably said that they were a tech site, had X hits per month, and a few other things. Doubleclick probably doesn't have a "Check here if you hate Microsoft" option.:) Doubleclick also can't check everysite for themselves to match ad campaigns.
So, Microsoft pays Doubleclick to run an ad campaign on tech sites. Doubleclick inserts the ad into their tech rotation, and viola! we see it on Slashdot.
So, in a way, Microsoft funds their greatest enemy. It's probably the weakest campaign they've ever had:)
Having larger coffee cup sizes is better than a trend of smaller sizes. As long as the price per volume remains about the same (accounting for inflation), there's nothing to complain about. Besides, this sort of thing is determined largely by economics - the smaller cups must not have been selling as well.
I'll drink to that. At the local convenience store I can buy a 20 oz bottle of coke for $1.17. Or I can fill up a 64oz glass of coke for only $0.74. What do you think I'm going to do? Even if I only want 25oz, I'm still way ahead. I could sip on it for most of the day. And the fountain also has Energy Drinks for even better drinking choices. Whee!
There is no way in hell my own software would be free as in speech if it were not also free as in beer. Once I start demanding payment for it, I might as well use a proprietary license.
Not true. You don't give away your time, do you? Would you set up and support an NT based solution in a small shop for free? Well, then why should you set up a Linux based solution for free? When a company wants you to do a project for them, they pay for your time. Why should they not pay for your time, just because you write their database in Access, instead of MySQL?
Since this is an RPC vulnerability, I thought I'd point out this RPC blooper I ran across recently.
The phrase, "lost in the translation," is made to fit the global marketplace. In today's multicultural IT workplace, water cooler conversations may take place simultaneously in several different languages. IT professionals and their software, however, need to speak a common tongue. The subject of this "true IT blooper" learned that lesson the hard way.
Every story in our bloopers series comes to us directly from a SearchWindowsManageability user. For obvious reasons, some contributors -- including this tale's author -- choose to remain anonymous. So, we'll call him Kim Chung.
When Chung was a rookie security engineer, he was asked to handle his company's annual security audit. Anxious to make a positive impression on co-workers in his new department, Chung offered to stay late and run a few seemingly simple and routine system checks.
One of Chung's chores was setting up a new security policy on 14 different Windows servers. As Chung set about changing this configuration, he was prompted by the system regarding its Remote Procedure Call service, "I didn't know much about RPC," He admits now. "All that I knew was there are tons of vulnerabilities concerning RPC services."
After careful consideration of how to handle these settings, Chung said he came to this conclusion: "RPC? You evil!" So, he stopped all RPC-related services until two the next morning.
As he continued to check additional RPC settings, Chung's system asked him to select a startup type. Well, he'd shut down RPC-related services. Also, he didn't have a high opinion of RPC. So, he chose 'never in use.'
Looking back, Chung realizes that he didn't know what the heck "never in use" meant. Before taking the job in question, he'd only used Windows in Korean, and never the English edition. Even so, he thought he understood the command in the English version and carried on. He'd stayed late to do this job, by golly. He wasn't going to let that evil RPC stop him!
Unaware that he had fouled up the configuration, Chung then restarted all of the systems. Around 2 a.m., he turned out the lights, locked the server room door for the night, and headed for home. "I was so sleepy!" he recalled.
Before reviewing the rest of the evidence against Chung, a few words in his defense. Numerous studies show that sleep loss impairs the ability to perform tasks involving logical reasoning. () So, it's logical that Chung left without making sure that the restarted systems were operating properly.
Sleep deprivation also affects memory. So, Chung didn't remember failing to check the systems. Indeed, he returned to work early the next morning with a spring in his step. His co-workers would thank him, he thought, for staying late so that they could go home. His boss would pat him on the back for getting up to speed on the predominately English network so quickly.
What awaited him was complete disaster.
"I had re-installed all the systems," Chung said. Selecting the 'never in use' option for the server's RPC services had caused the carefully constructed new configurations to be overwritten to their default settings upon his reboot.
Was he embarrassed? Red in the face? Perhaps a little concerned about keeping his job? "It seemed that the earth was rocking and thunder was roaring to me," he said. That could be construed as a deep concern for one's job, don't you think?
With the earth rocking beneath him and thunder roaring in his hears, our hero knocked on his administrator's door and turned the knob. Luckily, his boss chalked Chung's blooper up to lack of experience. So, Chung got off with little more than an `A' for effort and a stern warning: Watch your language!
I still think it would be nice to assign additional points to people with a high karma so that I can view their (probably) insightful views even though several idiots have marked it as "Redundant" or "Flamebait".
You can! Notice the little pushpin looking doodad at the end of the username/date line, right after the message number. Click on it. Now, make that person your friend. Next go into your preferences and put a +6 in the friends box. Wala!! Every post that your friend makes now looks like a very insightful 5 post.
Note that you can also do this with your foes, and put a -6 in the prefs.
I don't think anyone actually enjoys using real player, but it's pretty firmly entrenched for now.
I have one Windows box and all audio and video streaming as well as MP3's are played with it. I enjoy RealOne and actually make an effort to return associations to RealOne every time Windows Media Player tries to steal them.
Before time limited apps there was missing functionality (what the parent was refering to).
As far as I know, Kylix isn't time-limited either. So missing functionality must be the determining feature for which constitutes "shareware". I would still maintain though that this isn't shareware, because it's released for a specific purpose with a specific feature set. Next thing you know, someone will be complaining that Borland releases a "Personal" edition for less money, but with less features.
Sometimes I think that borland confuses free software for shareware..
Really? Shareware has nag screens. I haven't seen any nag screens in Kylix 2 yet. Care to elaborate? Kylix OE appears to be a free version of Kylix Pro to me.
How about if you had no display on your phone, as the voting machines evidently have no method of feedback/confirmation?
Well, to use your analogy, my phone doesn't have anyway to verifying that Qwest completed the number as dialed. As in, I get a wrong number and I look at my display, it says 777-666-9999. Well, that's the number I wanted. So, I want to be able to audit Qwests switching software to make sure that that's the number that they completed. Oh, they won't let me do that? Well, I'm going to protest. I'm just sure that if a number contains 666, that their software replaces it with 333. I demand Qwest let me audit their software.
In answer to your analogy, the votes machines displayed what the user voted. They pressed the button on the screen for their candidate, and it lit up, or returned some other feedback. Al Bore, it said. Then they clicked the next button. So their vote was recorded, right? Just like when I looked at the lcd on my screen, it showed the number I dialed. And if I dialed the wrong number, or a voted voted for the wrong candidate, that's their own fault, not the fault of the machine.
I think what they are claiming is that the machine takes votes, and forgets to record them. But I'd wager that that's a little far-fetched to believe that the machine is burping and losing votes. I'd expect an Exchange server to have a higher rate of losing emails then a voting machine to lose votes. Unless, of course, the voting machine is run on Windows.
I thinks it just a poor loser who can try to blaim a machine for his lose.
Are people really complaining that their votes aren't being counted? How could they find out? If I push the button, the vote is counted, it's that simple.
For people to claim that they voted but their vote isn't counted is ludicrious. The only way for a vote not to count is to *not* vote. I can't believe the gall of people to claim that they voted, and their vote wasn't counted.
On the other hand, if you don't have a large download pipe MS charges you $20 to send the service pack on a CD. OUCH!!
-Brent
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I really hope Apple comes to their senses soon --.Mac is a neat idea, but charging money for it?
Why shouldn't Apple charge money for their services? You say yourself that you've standardised your email around it. It must be worth something to you. Specifically, it must be worth $50 for the first year:)
Anyways, I don't understand what the big deal is. Apple has something you want, you have something Apple wants. That's capitalism. I can't understand how it could be a dumb move.
First of all, if you can play it on any platform, encode on any platform, and stream from any platform -- Apple will have a leg up on Microsoft
Microsoft has a streamer server that only runs on their OS. Apple has a streaming server that only runs on their OS. Now by Apple porting their streaming server to MS's OS, they will have a leg up on MS, how?
corel makes wordperfect, IBM makes lotus smart suite... i'm sure you can think of others. and by a competitor,
It's been years since I've seen Lotus SmartSuite around, and Corel is a maybe on the Windows side. So use Wordperfect then, fine.
perhaps i meant a competitor of SUN in general, not just of StarOffice.
Actually, that's what I was getting at. That kind of attitude is kind of hocky. Any competitor of Sun, would also be a competitor of Microsoft. So, I ask you, before Open Office, what did you run? Certainly not MS Office. Please assure me you wouldn't buy MS Office.
But yet many people who would use the "competition" excuse would have no problem buying MS products. It's astounding to me. I'd much rather buy from Sun as a competitor then MS.
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Yes, but what does this have to do with the Bill Of Rights. Does being a suspect due to a db entry mean that the warrant is unnecessary?
This thread is about whether this violates the Bill Of Rights article that guarantees you protection from search and siezure in your own house. I say that this doesn't violate the Bill of Rights. You still have to have a warrant to search your property, and make an arrest, even if the lead came from a database, right?
-BrentIf I'm going to dual-boot, why not get it pre-loaded? Especially if it doesn't cost anymore, and it saves me the time and trouble.
Again, I just can't see a major benefit here, other than just more people selling linux pre-installed.I thought that's what everyone wanted? Linux preloaded on computers.
-BrentHow does this database cause unreasonable searches and seizures? OK, so someone knows that I eat Papa Johns 3 times a week. Fine, I'd still expect that they'd need a warrant to come in and seize the empty pizza boxes.
Here's how it works. I order a pizza, and Papa Johns makes a record of my order. They sell it to Nexis-Dexis, and someone looks it up. Am I less secure? Did someone search my house? Was something seized without an oath? No, no, and no.
So this really has nothing to do with the Bill Of Rights. It's merely a data mining program.
-BrentOn AMD I have a choice of NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, XP, and maybe Solaris. I'm pretty sure I haven't missed any.
On Mac, you get the choice of NetBSD, Linux, and OS X. Again, I don't think I missed any.
OpenBSD and FreeBSD really aren't that much different from NetBSD, FWIW. That means that you choose between XP and OS X. And I'd rather have OS X, hands down.
That's why I'd dual-boot a Mac, rather than an AMD.
-Brent
Really, I have nothing to hide. However, I think that we should be able to get a copy of our own report, just like a credit report. That'd help ensure some accountability.
-Brent
Instead of thinking of it as a theft of time, why not think of it as a time you get to spend with your kids?
-Brent
Ok fine, so you may have to have up to 5 minutes of time to spend on something else. You still shouldn't have your time scheduled that tightly. Spend that time chatting with friends, or reading a longer article, or making a sandwich.
The fast-paced society that people have bought into these days is overwhelming. Why do people have such a problem with relaxing and waiting a few minutes.
-Brent
The Warning message isn't that long. Just pick up your copy of Reader's Digest or something and browse through it while you're waiting. Actually, you probably won't have time for even that. Use the time to microwave popcorn. Or even just spend the time in reflective silence.
:)
It won't hurt you to have to wait 30 seconds. If you have your schedule so tight that you can't even spend an extra 30 seconds, then you should force yourself to sit down and waste some time. You need it
-Brent
As I explained this to another friend, Microsoft probably doesn't know that they are advertising on a "hate MS" site. This is a doubleclick campaign. Microsoft probably went to doubleclick and told them to run this ad on tech sites that get a certain number of hits and some other criteria.
On the other hand, when Slashdot signed up with doubleclick, they probably said that they were a tech site, had X hits per month, and a few other things. Doubleclick probably doesn't have a "Check here if you hate Microsoft" option. :) Doubleclick also can't check everysite for themselves to match ad campaigns.
So, Microsoft pays Doubleclick to run an ad campaign on tech sites. Doubleclick inserts the ad into their tech rotation, and viola! we see it on Slashdot.
So, in a way, Microsoft funds their greatest enemy. It's probably the weakest campaign they've ever had :)
-Brent
I'll drink to that. At the local convenience store I can buy a 20 oz bottle of coke for $1.17. Or I can fill up a 64oz glass of coke for only $0.74. What do you think I'm going to do? Even if I only want 25oz, I'm still way ahead. I could sip on it for most of the day. And the fountain also has Energy Drinks for even better drinking choices. Whee!
-Brent
Not true. You don't give away your time, do you? Would you set up and support an NT based solution in a small shop for free? Well, then why should you set up a Linux based solution for free? When a company wants you to do a project for them, they pay for your time. Why should they not pay for your time, just because you write their database in Access, instead of MySQL?
-Brent
The phrase, "lost in the translation," is made to fit the global marketplace. In today's multicultural IT workplace, water cooler conversations may take place simultaneously in several different languages. IT professionals and their software, however, need to speak a common tongue. The subject of this "true IT blooper" learned that lesson the hard way.
Every story in our bloopers series comes to us directly from a SearchWindowsManageability user. For obvious reasons, some contributors -- including this tale's author -- choose to remain anonymous. So, we'll call him Kim Chung.
When Chung was a rookie security engineer, he was asked to handle his company's annual security audit. Anxious to make a positive impression on co-workers in his new department, Chung offered to stay late and run a few seemingly simple and routine system checks.
One of Chung's chores was setting up a new security policy on 14 different Windows servers. As Chung set about changing this configuration, he was prompted by the system regarding its Remote Procedure Call service, "I didn't know much about RPC," He admits now. "All that I knew was there are tons of vulnerabilities concerning RPC services."
After careful consideration of how to handle these settings, Chung said he came to this conclusion: "RPC? You evil!" So, he stopped all RPC-related services until two the next morning.
As he continued to check additional RPC settings, Chung's system asked him to select a startup type. Well, he'd shut down RPC-related services. Also, he didn't have a high opinion of RPC. So, he chose 'never in use.'
Looking back, Chung realizes that he didn't know what the heck "never in use" meant. Before taking the job in question, he'd only used Windows in Korean, and never the English edition. Even so, he thought he understood the command in the English version and carried on. He'd stayed late to do this job, by golly. He wasn't going to let that evil RPC stop him!
Unaware that he had fouled up the configuration, Chung then restarted all of the systems. Around 2 a.m., he turned out the lights, locked the server room door for the night, and headed for home. "I was so sleepy!" he recalled.
Before reviewing the rest of the evidence against Chung, a few words in his defense. Numerous studies show that sleep loss impairs the ability to perform tasks involving logical reasoning. () So, it's logical that Chung left without making sure that the restarted systems were operating properly.
Sleep deprivation also affects memory. So, Chung didn't remember failing to check the systems. Indeed, he returned to work early the next morning with a spring in his step. His co-workers would thank him, he thought, for staying late so that they could go home. His boss would pat him on the back for getting up to speed on the predominately English network so quickly.
What awaited him was complete disaster.
"I had re-installed all the systems," Chung said. Selecting the 'never in use' option for the server's RPC services had caused the carefully constructed new configurations to be overwritten to their default settings upon his reboot.
Was he embarrassed? Red in the face? Perhaps a little concerned about keeping his job? "It seemed that the earth was rocking and thunder was roaring to me," he said. That could be construed as a deep concern for one's job, don't you think?
With the earth rocking beneath him and thunder roaring in his hears, our hero knocked on his administrator's door and turned the knob. Luckily, his boss chalked Chung's blooper up to lack of experience. So, Chung got off with little more than an `A' for effort and a stern warning: Watch your language!
-Brent
My 9 year-old Nephew's comment: "What's different between this Summer and last?"
Too Many Capitalizations.
-Brent
I still think it would be nice to assign additional points to people with a high karma so that I can view their (probably) insightful views even though several idiots have marked it as "Redundant" or "Flamebait".
You can! Notice the little pushpin looking doodad at the end of the username/date line, right after the message number. Click on it. Now, make that person your friend. Next go into your preferences and put a +6 in the friends box. Wala!! Every post that your friend makes now looks like a very insightful 5 post.
Note that you can also do this with your foes, and put a -6 in the prefs.
-Brent
Wow, you gotta be one of the few that actually uses real player ... all I ask is why?
It's clean, easy to use, intuitive, and I like listening to streaming radio.
-Brent
I don't think anyone actually enjoys using real player, but it's pretty firmly entrenched for now.
I have one Windows box and all audio and video streaming as well as MP3's are played with it. I enjoy RealOne and actually make an effort to return associations to RealOne every time Windows Media Player tries to steal them.
-Brent
Before time limited apps there was missing functionality (what the parent was refering to).
As far as I know, Kylix isn't time-limited either. So missing functionality must be the determining feature for which constitutes "shareware". I would still maintain though that this isn't shareware, because it's released for a specific purpose with a specific feature set. Next thing you know, someone will be complaining that Borland releases a "Personal" edition for less money, but with less features.
-Brent
Sometimes I think that borland confuses free software for shareware..
Really? Shareware has nag screens. I haven't seen any nag screens in Kylix 2 yet. Care to elaborate? Kylix OE appears to be a free version of Kylix Pro to me.
-Brent
How about if you had no display on your phone, as the voting machines evidently have no method of feedback/confirmation?
Well, to use your analogy, my phone doesn't have anyway to verifying that Qwest completed the number as dialed. As in, I get a wrong number and I look at my display, it says 777-666-9999. Well, that's the number I wanted. So, I want to be able to audit Qwests switching software to make sure that that's the number that they completed. Oh, they won't let me do that? Well, I'm going to protest. I'm just sure that if a number contains 666, that their software replaces it with 333. I demand Qwest let me audit their software.
In answer to your analogy, the votes machines displayed what the user voted. They pressed the button on the screen for their candidate, and it lit up, or returned some other feedback. Al Bore, it said. Then they clicked the next button. So their vote was recorded, right? Just like when I looked at the lcd on my screen, it showed the number I dialed. And if I dialed the wrong number, or a voted voted for the wrong candidate, that's their own fault, not the fault of the machine.
I think what they are claiming is that the machine takes votes, and forgets to record them. But I'd wager that that's a little far-fetched to believe that the machine is burping and losing votes. I'd expect an Exchange server to have a higher rate of losing emails then a voting machine to lose votes. Unless, of course, the voting machine is run on Windows.
I thinks it just a poor loser who can try to blaim a machine for his lose.
-BrentAre people really complaining that their votes aren't being counted? How could they find out? If I push the button, the vote is counted, it's that simple.
For people to claim that they voted but their vote isn't counted is ludicrious. The only way for a vote not to count is to *not* vote. I can't believe the gall of people to claim that they voted, and their vote wasn't counted.
-Brent>
So as I figure it, if Apple continues along this path, that's $130/year from each user.
No problem, just send the $130 yearly to Microsoft. They'll treat you well.
-Brent
I think it's more like paying $20 for SP1.
On the other hand, if you don't have a large download pipe MS charges you $20 to send the service pack on a CD. OUCH!!
-BrentI really hope Apple comes to their senses soon -- .Mac is a neat idea, but charging money for it?
Why shouldn't Apple charge money for their services? You say yourself that you've standardised your email around it. It must be worth something to you. Specifically, it must be worth $50 for the first year :)
Anyways, I don't understand what the big deal is. Apple has something you want, you have something Apple wants. That's capitalism. I can't understand how it could be a dumb move.
-Brent
First of all, if you can play it on any platform, encode on any platform, and stream from any platform -- Apple will have a leg up on Microsoft
Microsoft has a streamer server that only runs on their OS. Apple has a streaming server that only runs on their OS. Now by Apple porting their streaming server to MS's OS, they will have a leg up on MS, how?
-Brent
corel makes wordperfect, IBM makes lotus smart suite... i'm sure you can think of others. and by a competitor,
It's been years since I've seen Lotus SmartSuite around, and Corel is a maybe on the Windows side. So use Wordperfect then, fine.
perhaps i meant a competitor of SUN in general, not just of StarOffice.
Actually, that's what I was getting at. That kind of attitude is kind of hocky. Any competitor of Sun, would also be a competitor of Microsoft. So, I ask you, before Open Office, what did you run? Certainly not MS Office. Please assure me you wouldn't buy MS Office.
But yet many people who would use the "competition" excuse would have no problem buying MS products. It's astounding to me. I'd much rather buy from Sun as a competitor then MS.
-Brent