but it also has a huge disadvantage - it does not run x86 programs
Not necessarily a problem at all. If the user chooses Ubuntu, then synaptec, ( or apt-get, aptitude, etc.) will install an application successfully with something that works, transparently.
Why would 100,000 people [with valid Dell site user-registrations] who don't care show up on Dell's webpage to click on that arrow?
100,000 registered folks seems compelling to me, and most anyone listening, Dell. I tried to click the up arrow, but user-registration is required first.
Still, I think M$ forces Dell's & Asus' (etc.) hand by hidden fees & bulk-discounts related to the M$ tax.
Since they can't really censor content, the most they CAN do is monitor it, if it is something like terrorist chatter, kiddie porn, etc. But I am not a lawyer; just a technician.
Having studied this issue at length professionally, supporting client-offices: the best solution I have found was using the web service Passpack (www.passpack.com). Every single requirement I was faced with, Passpack has met from a security standpoint.
On a user-friendly perspective, I'm having trouble with training folks like my mother how to be more secure with greater user-friendliness, and I am still looking forward to Passpack improving on their initial one-click-button; but essentially passpack is the most realistic to use solution I have found to-date.
Really? Just ENJOY it? But what is one supposed to do when someone's machine goes PING! and no one is there to monitor it the event? Have you carefully considered the implications and subsequent risk? [Possessive's changed to protect the innocent and un-implicated].
RadioShack announced it will be the primary sponsor for Lance Armstrong and Johan Bruyneel's new cycling team.
"Lance Armstrong will compete for Team RadioShack as a cyclist, runner and triathlete in events around the world, including the 2010 Tour de France," the company said in a statement.
Seriously, The [Radio]Shack has just replaced the United States Postal Service, and the nation of Kazakhstan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astana as the most interesting cycling team to follow in the Tour de France!
Hey, if that's all you want, I'll give you a signed certificate, and my mother will recognize the signature too. No bribe required, but tips will be graciously accepted, of course.
The philosophy that has been applied to Debian development has served it well over the years. Consider using either it, or a derivative like Ubuntu. Since I have chosen this path, I've had no regrets.
Wired magazine wrote a fascinating piece called Hacker Tourist in one of their early issues that described much of this in detail. Including historical cable & society references from well over 100 years ago.
I have to change my password every 4 months to a moderately strong password.
http://passpack.com/ has been my tool of choice for managing all my accounts, in addition to client accounts I must manage per my role. I especially like the method they offer, of 'securely mailing & sharing passwords'. The first 100 passwords are held free, and once I'm full I'll pay, but I haven't quite saturated my free limit; and I'm a happy guy; thanks to this web application/tool. (not paid to shill, just a happy customer sharing what makes me happy with the./ folks)
crowdsourced news is all that stuff being sent out from Iran, right? Where can I tune into that?
P.S., I am a busy guy, so can I have some digestible bite-sized chunks of meat please. Not too raw, but well done please.
Hey lookie, the NYT doesn't cost much, and I can read it while I commute home. (More people should try reading during the commute, methinks). Or podcasts like NPR offers, etc. (note, haven't tried any podcasts myself).
And is this a higher percentage than Digg's article/quality-comment ratio? Mind you, the comments on digg are often so inane, if it wasn't for the articles, what's the point? In fact let me continue. It seems the comments by John & Jane Q. Public left on various 'news' articles are often rather mindless, semi-anonymous comments mostly of shock value. Who bothers reading those? What does one hope to gain.
At least on/. I can learn to hack cheap routers from the comments left by readers.
But is it honest to make those damn things As Difficult To Read As Possible? Let's be clear, there's the legal rights claimed and supposed, and then there's the blatent attempt to obscure as much intent as possible by hiding it on hard to navigate to pages, (for example a google telephone number maybe, or at least the process to request some kind of verbal reply, for the press perhaps, I don't know), or the classic microtype, tiny scrolling window, etc., etc. etc.
Ads are also readable, hard to ignore in-fact. But Our Rights?
The change to current tax system has not only increased the tax rate by 3% on the top bracket. It also removed tax-deductions for charitable contributions by those people.
Wow! if true, and I have no reason to doubt you, this aspect has been very under-reported. I am one for requiring those folks with higher incomes for paying a higher percentage of tax, as clearly they have benefited from all our country offers, and we all have to pay our bills to move forward, but removing charitable incentives by so much? Why haven't I heard about this before, and I thought I was paying attention. I will study this further.
Thank you for your enlightening and detailed technical comments.
It is often my job, as a manager, to try to understand and then to mitigate risks which you have explained and detailed well. I see in a network you have setup, I would be blocked from doing many cool things with Backtrack as OS in a browser.
How about another classic trick to watch out for? How would you prevent someone running standard OS in a browser (or of a USB stick, etc.) from running an SSH proxy, on port 443, to their home dd-wrt router (or something more sinister?)? Assuming they could configure the SSH client to run somewhere on your network, and you did deep-packet inspection, all you'd see would be encrypted traffic going out on acceptable port 443, albeit probably to a single IP address, which we *might* be able to block with the router after noticing the pattern and traffic volume; especially if its just a single employee proxying to their home router.
I do understand what you mean about Microsoft IE being locked down in a corporate environment. But please understand if I have anything to say in the office architecture, I view IE, and Windows as RISK to be avoided whenever possible, especially for common 'office workstations'. I support Firefox on Ubuntu, (and web-services). PCI-DSS backs up my views about MS-avoidance too, and this is what I explain to my boss who has charged me with ensuring compliance to this standard. We want to mitigate risks, while following a Plan.
Sure I want to 'lock-down' the network and staff with rules, but within reason, and I want everyone to know *why*. I KNOW I can't lock-down the technical staff always, so I try to discuss these things in the open, as a team where everyone shares responsibility.
I'm certainly not an advocate of locking everyone to IE on Windows as a 'security measure'. What if I knew of an exploit that was unpublished? I could craft a targeted virus (with no 'pattern' known to the anti-vir vendors), use a little social engineering to get my virus running on-site, and I'd be 'in'. Sure that's a minor feat, but it shows the relative risk of Windows, while Windows offers us nothing in a common office workstation that can't be done in Ubuntu & Firefox & Open Office for the most part. The value of Windows isn't worth the risk.
Well, it does make prominent use of Microsoft Sharepoint, so color me skeptical on this point too.
[the] XP [car -edited] is basing its collaborative space around the Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server and also partnering with Autodesk
Too bad. Otherwise, I like the concept & business-model. I guess I'll have to wait for the open-source linux model to be developed. But as someone else commented, there's a so many Microsoft buzzwords thrown around, this could just be a hoax. The CEO's name is Redmond, and they use SharePoint prominently, and they make cars too? I'd like to see a prospectus.
Possibly get bought buy a larger rival. Or, the way things are going... build up resources until a 'larger' competitor with access to markets is bought.
No tears for GM or Chrysler, please; I'm a stockholder and I want to see honest, prudent, and environmentally responsible returns.
Wait! before I thought only the NSA by statute and Google (because Google is truly eViL by supplying the NSA (& NASA!) with technology & staff), could listen to my phone calls, transcribe, translate, & index them into perpetuity. But now I'm reading the Italian mafia can listen in too?
Of course this explains why the Italian mafia learned awhile ago to encrypt their own calls. On the job training if you ask me.
I agree with you about the many lawyers that earn well under 100K a year. But how long did it take for this guy to let his fees climb so high, (was it less than a year for example?), and did he believe in her case enough to truly invest himself in it? (And maybe he was looking for a way out himself, and found it?)
At least the new lawyer does seem to have invested himself in this case.
Still, its very clear why he chose to represent her - the publicity on this high profile case could make him and give his career a hell of a head start.
Good point. Also, please recall her previous lawyer allowed fees to climb to $150,000 and then pulled the lawyering services when Jammie couldn't pay-up. But then that lawyer didn't seem to have the wisdom to construct Jammie's case as well as her current lawyer either.
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Mmmmmm, cheeseburger! With grilled onions too. Mmmmm.
Not necessarily a problem at all. If the user chooses Ubuntu, then synaptec, ( or apt-get, aptitude, etc.) will install an application successfully with something that works, transparently.
Sure Twitter is just a large botnet, but is anyone really in control?
100,000 registered folks seems compelling to me, and most anyone listening, Dell. I tried to click the up arrow, but user-registration is required first.
Still, I think M$ forces Dell's & Asus' (etc.) hand by hidden fees & bulk-discounts related to the M$ tax.
Since they can't really censor content, the most they CAN do is monitor it, if it is something like terrorist chatter, kiddie porn, etc. But I am not a lawyer; just a technician.
Having studied this issue at length professionally, supporting client-offices: the best solution I have found was using the web service Passpack (www.passpack.com). Every single requirement I was faced with, Passpack has met from a security standpoint.
On a user-friendly perspective, I'm having trouble with training folks like my mother how to be more secure with greater user-friendliness, and I am still looking forward to Passpack improving on their initial one-click-button; but essentially passpack is the most realistic to use solution I have found to-date.
Really? Just ENJOY it? But what is one supposed to do when someone's machine goes PING! and no one is there to monitor it the event? Have you carefully considered the implications and subsequent risk? [Possessive's changed to protect the innocent and un-implicated].
http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/tdf2009/news/story?id=4349772
Hey look! An ESPN citation on Slashdot too!
Seriously, The [Radio]Shack has just replaced the United States Postal Service, and the nation of Kazakhstan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astana as the most interesting cycling team to follow in the Tour de France!
Enjoy it while it lasts, because I plan to charge exorbitant rates soon, just like Verisign.
Credibility? Fine. Mine vs. Theirs.
Sincerely, Operator Error.
Hey, if that's all you want, I'll give you a signed certificate, and my mother will recognize the signature too. No bribe required, but tips will be graciously accepted, of course.
The philosophy that has been applied to Debian development has served it well over the years. Consider using either it, or a derivative like Ubuntu. Since I have chosen this path, I've had no regrets.
This is a complete debacle for CentOS.
Probably not gonna be considering CentOS for anymore projects. But the Debian based stuff always works out; so far for me anyways.
Wired magazine wrote a fascinating piece called Hacker Tourist in one of their early issues that described much of this in detail. Including historical cable & society references from well over 100 years ago.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html (same thing, but single page, for printing.)
http://passpack.com/ has been my tool of choice for managing all my accounts, in addition to client accounts I must manage per my role. I especially like the method they offer, of 'securely mailing & sharing passwords'. The first 100 passwords are held free, and once I'm full I'll pay, but I haven't quite saturated my free limit; and I'm a happy guy; thanks to this web application/tool. (not paid to shill, just a happy customer sharing what makes me happy with the ./ folks)
crowdsourced news is all that stuff being sent out from Iran, right? Where can I tune into that?
P.S., I am a busy guy, so can I have some digestible bite-sized chunks of meat please. Not too raw, but well done please.
Hey lookie, the NYT doesn't cost much, and I can read it while I commute home. (More people should try reading during the commute, methinks). Or podcasts like NPR offers, etc. (note, haven't tried any podcasts myself).
But who on /. bothers to RTFA anyway?
And is this a higher percentage than Digg's article/quality-comment ratio? Mind you, the comments on digg are often so inane, if it wasn't for the articles, what's the point? In fact let me continue. It seems the comments by John & Jane Q. Public left on various 'news' articles are often rather mindless, semi-anonymous comments mostly of shock value. Who bothers reading those? What does one hope to gain.
At least on /. I can learn to hack cheap routers from the comments left by readers.
But is it honest to make those damn things As Difficult To Read As Possible? Let's be clear, there's the legal rights claimed and supposed, and then there's the blatent attempt to obscure as much intent as possible by hiding it on hard to navigate to pages, (for example a google telephone number maybe, or at least the process to request some kind of verbal reply, for the press perhaps, I don't know), or the classic microtype, tiny scrolling window, etc., etc. etc.
Ads are also readable, hard to ignore in-fact. But Our Rights?
Wow! if true, and I have no reason to doubt you, this aspect has been very under-reported. I am one for requiring those folks with higher incomes for paying a higher percentage of tax, as clearly they have benefited from all our country offers, and we all have to pay our bills to move forward, but removing charitable incentives by so much? Why haven't I heard about this before, and I thought I was paying attention. I will study this further.
Thank you for your enlightening and detailed technical comments.
It is often my job, as a manager, to try to understand and then to mitigate risks which you have explained and detailed well. I see in a network you have setup, I would be blocked from doing many cool things with Backtrack as OS in a browser.
How about another classic trick to watch out for? How would you prevent someone running standard OS in a browser (or of a USB stick, etc.) from running an SSH proxy, on port 443, to their home dd-wrt router (or something more sinister?)? Assuming they could configure the SSH client to run somewhere on your network, and you did deep-packet inspection, all you'd see would be encrypted traffic going out on acceptable port 443, albeit probably to a single IP address, which we *might* be able to block with the router after noticing the pattern and traffic volume; especially if its just a single employee proxying to their home router.
I do understand what you mean about Microsoft IE being locked down in a corporate environment. But please understand if I have anything to say in the office architecture, I view IE, and Windows as RISK to be avoided whenever possible, especially for common 'office workstations'. I support Firefox on Ubuntu, (and web-services). PCI-DSS backs up my views about MS-avoidance too, and this is what I explain to my boss who has charged me with ensuring compliance to this standard. We want to mitigate risks, while following a Plan.
Sure I want to 'lock-down' the network and staff with rules, but within reason, and I want everyone to know *why*. I KNOW I can't lock-down the technical staff always, so I try to discuss these things in the open, as a team where everyone shares responsibility.
I'm certainly not an advocate of locking everyone to IE on Windows as a 'security measure'. What if I knew of an exploit that was unpublished? I could craft a targeted virus (with no 'pattern' known to the anti-vir vendors), use a little social engineering to get my virus running on-site, and I'd be 'in'. Sure that's a minor feat, but it shows the relative risk of Windows, while Windows offers us nothing in a common office workstation that can't be done in Ubuntu & Firefox & Open Office for the most part. The value of Windows isn't worth the risk.
Or be in when it goes "blue screen"...
Well, it does make prominent use of Microsoft Sharepoint, so color me skeptical on this point too.
[the] XP [car -edited] is basing its collaborative space around the Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server and also partnering with Autodesk
Too bad. Otherwise, I like the concept & business-model. I guess I'll have to wait for the open-source linux model to be developed. But as someone else commented, there's a so many Microsoft buzzwords thrown around, this could just be a hoax. The CEO's name is Redmond, and they use SharePoint prominently, and they make cars too? I'd like to see a prospectus.
Develop a plan.
Execute it well.
Possibly get bought buy a larger rival. Or, the way things are going... build up resources until a 'larger' competitor with access to markets is bought.
No tears for GM or Chrysler, please; I'm a stockholder and I want to see honest, prudent, and environmentally responsible returns.
Release the Cruft.
God-speed!
As others have said, this would probably get everyone killed, ...but still, the NeoPwn is all open moku, with bigger balls. www.neopwn.com
Wait! before I thought only the NSA by statute and Google (because Google is truly eViL by supplying the NSA (& NASA!) with technology & staff), could listen to my phone calls, transcribe, translate, & index them into perpetuity. But now I'm reading the Italian mafia can listen in too?
Of course this explains why the Italian mafia learned awhile ago to encrypt their own calls. On the job training if you ask me.
FWIW, there's an asterisk module for pretty good privacy: http://www.zfoneproject.com/prod_asterisk.html
http://www.securitymanagement.com/article/new-voip-encryption-challenges-005680
Why not?
I agree with you about the many lawyers that earn well under 100K a year. But how long did it take for this guy to let his fees climb so high, (was it less than a year for example?), and did he believe in her case enough to truly invest himself in it? (And maybe he was looking for a way out himself, and found it?)
At least the new lawyer does seem to have invested himself in this case.
Good point. Also, please recall her previous lawyer allowed fees to climb to $150,000 and then pulled the lawyering services when Jammie couldn't pay-up. But then that lawyer didn't seem to have the wisdom to construct Jammie's case as well as her current lawyer either.