nmap seems to think they are running Sun Solaris. You can not tell me there is not at least one open source application on that service with that list of ports.
PORT STATE SERVICE 20/tcp closed ftp-data 21/tcp open ftp 25/tcp open smtp 80/tcp open http 110/tcp open pop3 113/tcp closed auth 143/tcp open imap 443/tcp open https 587/tcp open submission 636/tcp open ldapssl 993/tcp open imaps 995/tcp open pop3s 50000/tcp closed iiimsf 50002/tcp closed iiimsf
As someone that has been around the block with running a lot of web sites (well, a couple thousand at least) for say the last 10 years, I have learned the hard way to not put all your eggs in one basket. Registries come and go, even the big boys (at least service comes and goes, policies change), hosting providers can go bad for all kinds of reasons, and your DNS services are your keys to the castle in terms of just how much damage an outage can do to a buisness (backup DNS severs people).
I have lived and worked in developing countries for years. Never ever seen censorship of any sort like they have in most "developed" countries, with the exception of China.
5,000 years from now people or aliens can just Google it.
I am only half joking. Google does (or is capable) doing what in some respect government offices use to do like the library of congress. The only problem is that it is not clear just how long Google keeps its data. Does it really not have a backup of what it crawled and cached of any sort from say 2 years ago or 5 years ago somewhere in a bunker under a mountain?
I have 3 channels on direct TV in south America dedicated to just the olympics, plus a channel with interactive guide with result, events, medal standing by country. Not sure if other parts of the world are getting that.
I wonder if I could use that as defense to legally download all the crappy music and movies on bittorrent I want. I am almost 100% certain no creativity went in to most of it (at least in recent years).
I am not sure about that particular State's laws, but there are a lot of States where this would be considered felony on the part of the school because they need either something like the permission of the parents to record in their house, and also to record a minor child. I don't think you are going to find any courts that see this as the school having a right to record children in the privacy of their bedroom (regardless of what the parents thought they signed, or the wording of the agreement when the laptop was issued).
I bet what their agreement is seen more by a court as a notebook lease, not that it was the property of the school and thus they have the right to sniff it anytime they want.
This is one of those cases where the school district needs to be slapped down and hard, for going way over the line before more start thinking that is a good idea.
I have started and ran a few biz with various success and a few total wrecks over the years. I totally agree with being able to put a bad idea down fast, in a don't throw 'good money after bad' sense.
I recall reading some stat or quote years ago about how only 1 in 7 new biz make it. So, I needed to start a new biz fast, but could not afford to fail at it for lack of money to anything else. So, I started 7 different ones all at once. 3 of them where complete dogs, and I shut them down in the first couple of month. 1 made money and showed promise, but was just no fun. So I killed that. I was left with 3 working and making money two years later. I killed one that took too much of my time, relative to the money. One took off and has made real money, and the other one is still alive and kicking but takes almost no resources.
Sounds like a guy that does not have sufficient biz experience to even know that he should be filing for bankruptcy, but instead leaves a mess of law suits everywhere he goes.
Not exactly where anyone would be inclined to park their venture capital. If I had the money and really thought the technology they are pushing was unique and viable, I would be more inclined to buy out the intellectual property and such rather than buy someone else's legal headache, bad debts, broken contracts, and so on. What would be in the company for an investor?
Don't forget that the executive branch has in recent years taken to stopping cases going up the chain of appeal so that at least the judicial branch might function. Congress has cut off the funding for the judicial branches at both the federal and state levels, while the attorney generals would rather not fight any case that might lead to a definitive ruling against what the executive branch wants to do.
So the U.S. has three of its four branches completely clipped. You ask what is the forth branch? The Federal Reserve. They seem to be the only ones able to function, because of lack of official constitutional oversight from the other branches.
Yea, I was just thinking the plot sucks so bad I would not even pay to see the movie.
A real "cyber" whatever that gets the United States will likly be very very slow. So slow no one will bother setting up a command post. It will happen over days, weeks, months, and possibly years. It will cripple our ability to communicate by clogging computers and networks all around the World. In fact, it will kind of look like, well, spam.
I would settle for making it impossible for corporations to own copyrights. Copyrights are first and foremost the rights of the public licensed to individuals, for the creative work of an individual human, and only for their lifetime.
Hopefully this will be similar to the wireless spectrum auction. It will just kick a few of the cheap and lazy isp's in to overdrive. Google spends a 100 million, and we get a billion worth of fiber out of fear that Google will beat them to the market. Hopefully.
"Eleven of our respondents are in academia, including six Ph.D. students, four faculty members and one visiting scholar, all in AI or allied fields."
Let's see I spent 12 years studying Philosophy of Language and AI, and that sure as hell does not sound like a group of "experts". Not one big gun in AI was named in that article. Really, no one was named in that article.
After 12 years in AI finding consensus on exactly what AI is would be a major accomplishment. One consensus that real experts seem to agree on is that faster computers alone, doing more useful work, is not the same as AI. There does seem to be a fairly good agreement that natural language is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for AI. So a computer that can drive your car, mow your lawn, pick up your mail, will likly not qualify just because it can do that.
We are pumping ( or will pump ) more money in to AI research than almost any other project in human history (in one form or another), based on little more than 'we will know it when we see it' criteria rather than a solid objective. At least when we split the atom, we kind of knew we wanted something that would make a big bang, or when we landed on the moon we could look up and see the big round thing in the sky. Where is the big round thing in the sky of AI? Where is the big bang of AI?
I went looking for someone that had already stated the obvious.
I second your, 'who gives a shit' and will raise you a 'shove it up the moderators'....'.
How in God's name did this even make it on to/.?
Really people, you are telling me there is not one piece of more worthy, important, or at least interesting piece of IT or other news today? That the cancellation of a feature in some obscure failed piece of MS technology (even in MS land) is the most news worthy thing out there?
Really, until this thread, I was not aware that such a thing existed, nor would I give a shit that such a thing existed. So, I really really do not give a shit that such a thing was canceled.
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nmap seems to think they are running Sun Solaris. You can not tell me there is not at least one open source application on that service with that list of ports.
PORT STATE SERVICE
20/tcp closed ftp-data
21/tcp open ftp
25/tcp open smtp
80/tcp open http
110/tcp open pop3
113/tcp closed auth
143/tcp open imap
443/tcp open https
587/tcp open submission
636/tcp open ldapssl
993/tcp open imaps
995/tcp open pop3s
50000/tcp closed iiimsf
50002/tcp closed iiimsf
As someone that has been around the block with running a lot of web sites (well, a couple thousand at least) for say the last 10 years, I have learned the hard way to not put all your eggs in one basket. Registries come and go, even the big boys (at least service comes and goes, policies change), hosting providers can go bad for all kinds of reasons, and your DNS services are your keys to the castle in terms of just how much damage an outage can do to a buisness (backup DNS severs people).
RULES OF IT:
1. The boss is always right.
2. IF the boss is wrong (and they normally are), see rule one above.
Lets lobby governments all over the world to make it a tax credit.
Yea, I wish we could get mother nature to stop that evolution crap. It is a well proven failed model for building quality systems.
a big fat EMP over the enemy sure would be cool however. Just hope that enemy is not next door to your house.
As I recall many did jump on board for the post 911 hacking of the middle east for a while.
Until it cost them 100 billion a day in cost and they are making billions in profits every day from it, the executives are right to ignore the IT guy.
Problem is that much of the United States online biz is really offshore biz.
I have lived and worked in developing countries for years. Never ever seen censorship of any sort like they have in most "developed" countries, with the exception of China.
Yea, if someone is going to solve this problem it will be the Mormons. They got to be throwing millions at it.
5,000 years from now people or aliens can just Google it.
I am only half joking. Google does (or is capable) doing what in some respect government offices use to do like the library of congress. The only problem is that it is not clear just how long Google keeps its data. Does it really not have a backup of what it crawled and cached of any sort from say 2 years ago or 5 years ago somewhere in a bunker under a mountain?
I have 3 channels on direct TV in south America dedicated to just the olympics, plus a channel with interactive guide with result, events, medal standing by country. Not sure if other parts of the world are getting that.
I wonder if I could use that as defense to legally download all the crappy music and movies on bittorrent I want. I am almost 100% certain no creativity went in to most of it (at least in recent years).
I am not sure about that particular State's laws, but there are a lot of States where this would be considered felony on the part of the school because they need either something like the permission of the parents to record in their house, and also to record a minor child. I don't think you are going to find any courts that see this as the school having a right to record children in the privacy of their bedroom (regardless of what the parents thought they signed, or the wording of the agreement when the laptop was issued).
I bet what their agreement is seen more by a court as a notebook lease, not that it was the property of the school and thus they have the right to sniff it anytime they want.
This is one of those cases where the school district needs to be slapped down and hard, for going way over the line before more start thinking that is a good idea.
Sure. No problem.
I have started and ran a few biz with various success and a few total wrecks over the years. I totally agree with being able to put a bad idea down fast, in a don't throw 'good money after bad' sense.
I recall reading some stat or quote years ago about how only 1 in 7 new biz make it. So, I needed to start a new biz fast, but could not afford to fail at it for lack of money to anything else. So, I started 7 different ones all at once. 3 of them where complete dogs, and I shut them down in the first couple of month. 1 made money and showed promise, but was just no fun. So I killed that. I was left with 3 working and making money two years later. I killed one that took too much of my time, relative to the money. One took off and has made real money, and the other one is still alive and kicking but takes almost no resources.
Sounds like a guy that does not have sufficient biz experience to even know that he should be filing for bankruptcy, but instead leaves a mess of law suits everywhere he goes.
Not exactly where anyone would be inclined to park their venture capital. If I had the money and really thought the technology they are pushing was unique and viable, I would be more inclined to buy out the intellectual property and such rather than buy someone else's legal headache, bad debts, broken contracts, and so on. What would be in the company for an investor?
Don't forget that the executive branch has in recent years taken to stopping cases going up the chain of appeal so that at least the judicial branch might function. Congress has cut off the funding for the judicial branches at both the federal and state levels, while the attorney generals would rather not fight any case that might lead to a definitive ruling against what the executive branch wants to do.
So the U.S. has three of its four branches completely clipped. You ask what is the forth branch? The Federal Reserve. They seem to be the only ones able to function, because of lack of official constitutional oversight from the other branches.
Yea, I was just thinking the plot sucks so bad I would not even pay to see the movie.
A real "cyber" whatever that gets the United States will likly be very very slow. So slow no one will bother setting up a command post. It will happen over days, weeks, months, and possibly years. It will cripple our ability to communicate by clogging computers and networks all around the World. In fact, it will kind of look like, well, spam.
I would settle for making it impossible for corporations to own copyrights. Copyrights are first and foremost the rights of the public licensed to individuals, for the creative work of an individual human, and only for their lifetime.
Hopefully this will be similar to the wireless spectrum auction. It will just kick a few of the cheap and lazy isp's in to overdrive. Google spends a 100 million, and we get a billion worth of fiber out of fear that Google will beat them to the market. Hopefully.
I wonder how many people that do not use the web interface, but have gmail accounts, will not even know they are exposed.
Going back to using only my own email servers because who knows what stupid thing they are going to dump on the web next.
Sounds like geek fantasy circle jerk.
"Eleven of our respondents are in academia, including six Ph.D. students, four faculty members and one visiting scholar, all in AI or allied fields."
Let's see I spent 12 years studying Philosophy of Language and AI, and that sure as hell does not sound like a group of "experts". Not one big gun in AI was named in that article. Really, no one was named in that article.
After 12 years in AI finding consensus on exactly what AI is would be a major accomplishment. One consensus that real experts seem to agree on is that faster computers alone, doing more useful work, is not the same as AI. There does seem to be a fairly good agreement that natural language is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for AI. So a computer that can drive your car, mow your lawn, pick up your mail, will likly not qualify just because it can do that.
We are pumping ( or will pump ) more money in to AI research than almost any other project in human history (in one form or another), based on little more than 'we will know it when we see it' criteria rather than a solid objective. At least when we split the atom, we kind of knew we wanted something that would make a big bang, or when we landed on the moon we could look up and see the big round thing in the sky. Where is the big round thing in the sky of AI? Where is the big bang of AI?
I went looking for someone that had already stated the obvious.
I second your, 'who gives a shit' and will raise you a 'shove it up the moderators' ....'.
How in God's name did this even make it on to /.?
Really people, you are telling me there is not one piece of more worthy, important, or at least interesting piece of IT or other news today? That the cancellation of a feature in some obscure failed piece of MS technology (even in MS land) is the most news worthy thing out there?
Really, until this thread, I was not aware that such a thing existed, nor would I give a shit that such a thing existed. So, I really really do not give a shit that such a thing was canceled.