Trust me, they're not going to go out of business because some Linux guys have faintly Mac-looking themes on their X window displays. If Windows hasn't driven the Apple out of business, Linux isn't even a threat on the horizon.
Well, that's another reason for me to dislike Apple, then:) 'Cause I can't stand those walking Gap and Old Navy billboards whom we used to know as "people". Especially around the 4th of July, when they're all wearing their T-shirts with the Old Navy Flag on it (used to be the U.S. flag, coincidentally).
Rant mode off. Really, I mean it this time. No, seriously.
Scary. This needs to be in a/. FAQ somewhere. Thanks for the link.
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But live updates are scary too - what if they break your homegrown middleware that you have running on that machine, or introduce worse holes that you don't know about? Although I can see a lot of MS shops using this as a quick safety net, it has its own spectacular failure modes as well.
Not to mention what happens if someone man-in-the-middles the update connection and sends you some bad updates...
So, you're putting machines on the public Internet which are stated to be not resistant to attack, and then your defense to your management is going to be "b-b-but they weren't supposed to attack us! It's illegal!!" ? Assigning blame is great, but at the end of the day you have to keep your systems running, and blame won't do it alone. Maybe use a product which is resistant to attack, and then you won't have to be called on the carpet about those attacks ever again.
That is exactly the point - if NT is unsecurable, then don't use it. Or don't complain when it fails because you couldn't secure it properly.
If your house was flimsy enough to fall down when a kid threw a rock at it, I think the police might have a different view of things. At that point, a strong wind would have taken it down anyway.
Except the user was right, of course - if you guys weren't using NT, or possibly just kept up on the patches from Microsoft and hoped that those patches didn't hose something else that was important, the Internet wouldn't be broken (or at least the only brokenness would be coming from machines outside of your site, which you could at least firewall off). Heaven forbid a user point out that you guys can't keep it together. The fact that you had to work really hard and still couldn't get things back up in a timely fashion doesn't fill me with sympathy at all, it just makes me wonder when you'll finally come to your senses and use a technology that doesn't let you down so badly. I'm guessing not too soon, though.
- ethereal, who bitches all the time about the Microsoftening of his workplace, because the IT team deserves to hear exactly how their "solutions" are working out. "Not well" is the answer.
Here's the problem with Salon jump-throughs: I usually spawn a bunch of windows with stories that I want to read, and then work through the stack from top to bottom. Whenever I see a full-page ad, I automatically close it on the assumption that it's a pop-up. This results in me closing Salon's stories while they're still in ad-mode.
Actually, I don't think MSNBC has a bad setup. They have a few lines of the story, then an ad or two, and so you scroll down to see the rest of the story. So you have to see it, but you can still get to the story quickly.
Your second case is ludicrous (not your fault, of course). A book publisher can't require that I resell their book in like-new condition; if I can find a buyer, I could sell a book that was marked up, dog-eared, and missing half the pages. You may license the software, but you're not licensing the user manuals, etc. are you? You've bought those physically, and you have the right to do whatever with them.
Which reminds me, wouldn't the transporter systems need to be newer than 300yrs for Bones to always be
worked up about the 'newfangled gadgets'? If something's been around for that long, I don't think someone
would have that sort of reaction.
But even in ST:TMP they had a transporter accident, so the technology is apparently still not perfect. If I were a doctor, with full knowledge of exactly what can go wrong with the human body, I'd be more than a little nervous too.
I seem to recall from the original series that Warp 3 was supposed to be the limiting point, without refined dilithium or something like that. Does that ring a bell? So the "Warp 5" limit seems a little off.
Also, what's up with the Klingon world being only 4 days away? So for years after this humans have edgy and sometimes warlike relations with a violent race that lives only 4 days away at Warp 4.5? Kirk would have had nothing to do but fly Earth patrols, it seems.
Interestingly enough, the doors aren't automatic either - I think I saw T'Pol actually press a switch to open the door to the Captain's bridge-level ready room.
Low tech, indeed. At least they made the comment about not having seat belts:)
Too bad last night's episode blew that out of the water, by showing pre-virus Klingons with the ridges.
My theory: there are multiple ethnic groups of Klingons. During TOS time, one of the previously-oppressed groups takes control of the others, and that's who Kirk and Spock have to deal with. Later the head-ridge Klingons take things back over, but institute a bloody "ethnic cleansing" that basically gets rid of the smooth-headed guys. The reason that Worf won't talk about it is because he's hip to human culture enough to realize that humans wouldn't really want to know that the Klingons destoyed an entire race of their kin within the last couple centuries. Or maybe just because Klingons have become civilized enough to realize that their actions were a mistake.
Not that my theory is borne out by any books or anything, but it does fit the series' pretty well.
Or even worse, train yourself to actually read the code rather than relying on the pretty colors to make it all legible. vi in an xterm is what you need, son:)
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It's too bad they didn't call it "Pathetically Eclectic Rubbish Lister" or one of its other, less printable acronyms, instead:)
"Boy, today's been my day for Simpsons quotes", he said, as he wasted time to avoid the postercomment compression filter. Amazing how much ASCII art slips through, but my Simpsons one-liner fails.
But the consumer still pays for merchant losses to fraud, whether it's 5-finger discount or stolen CC numbers. I don't see merchants just eating those costs out of the goodness of their hearts. Ultimately the consumer pays for just about everything in the system.
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If IIS gets r00ted in a forest where no one's around, can you still hear the nimda flood it unleashes?
Trust me, they're not going to go out of business because some Linux guys have faintly Mac-looking themes on their X window displays. If Windows hasn't driven the Apple out of business, Linux isn't even a threat on the horizon.
Well, that's another reason for me to dislike Apple, then :) 'Cause I can't stand those walking Gap and Old Navy billboards whom we used to know as "people". Especially around the 4th of July, when they're all wearing their T-shirts with the Old Navy Flag on it (used to be the U.S. flag, coincidentally).
Rant mode off. Really, I mean it this time. No, seriously.
Scary. This needs to be in a /. FAQ somewhere. Thanks for the link.
But live updates are scary too - what if they break your homegrown middleware that you have running on that machine, or introduce worse holes that you don't know about? Although I can see a lot of MS shops using this as a quick safety net, it has its own spectacular failure modes as well.
Not to mention what happens if someone man-in-the-middles the update connection and sends you some bad updates...
So, if there are recommendations on how to set it up securely, why isn't that the default? Still sounds like a faulty product to me.
So, you're putting machines on the public Internet which are stated to be not resistant to attack, and then your defense to your management is going to be "b-b-but they weren't supposed to attack us! It's illegal!!" ? Assigning blame is great, but at the end of the day you have to keep your systems running, and blame won't do it alone. Maybe use a product which is resistant to attack, and then you won't have to be called on the carpet about those attacks ever again.
That is exactly the point - if NT is unsecurable, then don't use it. Or don't complain when it fails because you couldn't secure it properly.
If your house was flimsy enough to fall down when a kid threw a rock at it, I think the police might have a different view of things. At that point, a strong wind would have taken it down anyway.
Except the user was right, of course - if you guys weren't using NT, or possibly just kept up on the patches from Microsoft and hoped that those patches didn't hose something else that was important, the Internet wouldn't be broken (or at least the only brokenness would be coming from machines outside of your site, which you could at least firewall off). Heaven forbid a user point out that you guys can't keep it together. The fact that you had to work really hard and still couldn't get things back up in a timely fashion doesn't fill me with sympathy at all, it just makes me wonder when you'll finally come to your senses and use a technology that doesn't let you down so badly. I'm guessing not too soon, though.
- ethereal, who bitches all the time about the Microsoftening of his workplace, because the IT team deserves to hear exactly how their "solutions" are working out. "Not well" is the answer.
Here's the problem with Salon jump-throughs: I usually spawn a bunch of windows with stories that I want to read, and then work through the stack from top to bottom. Whenever I see a full-page ad, I automatically close it on the assumption that it's a pop-up. This results in me closing Salon's stories while they're still in ad-mode.
Actually, I don't think MSNBC has a bad setup. They have a few lines of the story, then an ad or two, and so you scroll down to see the rest of the story. So you have to see it, but you can still get to the story quickly.
FUD season!
Your second case is ludicrous (not your fault, of course). A book publisher can't require that I resell their book in like-new condition; if I can find a buyer, I could sell a book that was marked up, dog-eared, and missing half the pages. You may license the software, but you're not licensing the user manuals, etc. are you? You've bought those physically, and you have the right to do whatever with them.
Microsoft Rules of Acquisition Number 17: Version 3 is the good one, but that doesn't mean not to sell 1.x and 2.x first.
But even in ST:TMP they had a transporter accident, so the technology is apparently still not perfect. If I were a doctor, with full knowledge of exactly what can go wrong with the human body, I'd be more than a little nervous too.
Does he have the bare chest for it, or would that be considered over-the-top nowadays?
I seem to recall from the original series that Warp 3 was supposed to be the limiting point, without refined dilithium or something like that. Does that ring a bell? So the "Warp 5" limit seems a little off.
Also, what's up with the Klingon world being only 4 days away? So for years after this humans have edgy and sometimes warlike relations with a violent race that lives only 4 days away at Warp 4.5? Kirk would have had nothing to do but fly Earth patrols, it seems.
Interestingly enough, the doors aren't automatic either - I think I saw T'Pol actually press a switch to open the door to the Captain's bridge-level ready room.
Low tech, indeed. At least they made the comment about not having seat belts :)
Too bad last night's episode blew that out of the water, by showing pre-virus Klingons with the ridges.
My theory: there are multiple ethnic groups of Klingons. During TOS time, one of the previously-oppressed groups takes control of the others, and that's who Kirk and Spock have to deal with. Later the head-ridge Klingons take things back over, but institute a bloody "ethnic cleansing" that basically gets rid of the smooth-headed guys. The reason that Worf won't talk about it is because he's hip to human culture enough to realize that humans wouldn't really want to know that the Klingons destoyed an entire race of their kin within the last couple centuries. Or maybe just because Klingons have become civilized enough to realize that their actions were a mistake.
Not that my theory is borne out by any books or anything, but it does fit the series' pretty well.
Or even worse, train yourself to actually read the code rather than relying on the pretty colors to make it all legible. vi in an xterm is what you need, son :)
It's too bad they didn't call it "Pathetically Eclectic Rubbish Lister" or one of its other, less printable acronyms, instead :)
I imagine that she will quickly train the boys to yell "Not in the face, not in the face!" ;)
CBG: ...I had a mouse!
"Boy, today's been my day for Simpsons quotes", he said, as he wasted time to avoid the postercomment compression filter. Amazing how much ASCII art slips through, but my Simpsons one-liner fails.
Man: I think I'll vote for a third-party candidate.
Kang, in Bob Dole costume: Sure if you want to throw your vote away.
[later]
Homer: Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
But the consumer still pays for merchant losses to fraud, whether it's 5-finger discount or stolen CC numbers. I don't see merchants just eating those costs out of the goodness of their hearts. Ultimately the consumer pays for just about everything in the system.
Or the Invisible Man (the TV show).