What they're really saying is that "a computer being connected to the internet is a security threat."
I believe calling SETI a risk is going a bit far, and I also don't believe that is their point. The point is about the user's behavior. Installing unauthorized software on their computer systems _is_ a risk.
1. Did you know "gullible" is a commonly used English word, yet it is not actually defined in any dictionary?
2. The plug-in download technology will only be available to Windows users. ("This Mac sucks, it doesn't have smart links")
3. M$ will no doubt turn words on a site like eBay, where I have observed many middle-class people earning part of their livelihood into links to their/their partners/their advertisers competing eCommerce sites. Prices will be much better at first. Once the competition is extinguished, well, if you think gasoline prices are out of hand now, wait until every consumer good you want to purchase undergoes the same artificial constriction of supply.
4. Wait til AOL/TW comes up with their competing answer.
anyone got the 411 on this supposed meta tag? i tried searching on google and microsoft.com, no luck. funny, every page on microsoft.com that has the words disable and smart tags is turning up a 404 now.
BITD John use to produce some thought provoking columns. It seems now that his job has turned to focusing on the problems in our industry, and I believe his first-person anecdotes are hardly representative of what the typical individual will experience.
Sure, I have my own DSL sagas circa 1998-2000 that I certainly do not want to relive. Lately though, my experiences with PacBell Internet have been a lot different. Fast, reliable connections, 75% of my questions getting answered (they still need to work on that), low hold times for tech support. I actually get roughly 5.5Mbps download (it's enhanced DSL) and the full 384K up, and my pre-war apartment builing is wired with farily oxidized Cat 3 cable, (and the C.O. is about 1.5 miles away as the crow flies)!
I characterize my earlier DSL experiences as those of dealing with an emerging technology and a provider experiencing massive growth pains. I still hear DSL horror stories, and yes, when I design a website, it is still with an 8 second load time@48K in mind, but I would not count DSL out. The fact the dialup is growing faster than broadband suggests that broadband will grow, because dialup is a stepping stone to broadband for the newbie, and let's face it, at this point _ALL_ growth in consumer access is due to newbies. Where I live, you have to be completely insane to pay $10 less a month (compared to DSL) to get the second phone line so you can talk and surf. Maybe time isn't worth much to some people...
Dude, I agree the FMII facelift totally blows and has caused fewer page views from my IP. I would like to gently point out that the themes.org break-in is not the real news here...The news is the hax0r who did it claims to have rooted admin machines at Exodus some 5 months ago. Exodus hosts a lot of big sites, this could be a really big deal if the claims are true.
other than letting admins SSH in from shell accounts on other systems that they didn't control
I must say this is somewhat understated. Dude, I'm not trying to flame you here, I am way more upset with by the stupidity of the Apache developer that gave up his password. So I am apologizing in advance, this is just the "right" place for my comment.
Guys with access to ASF machines should never under any circumstance feed their password into an untrusted system. With Apache running on 60%+ of the WWW it is way too fucking big of a risk. Since fluffy bunny claims s/he rooted machines at Exodus 5 months ago, the question now exists, um geez, are all my Apache boxes trojaned?.
The ASF is right to verify the integrity of their source by going back to the many many distributed copies of the source they have, however, I believe this might be an insufficient effort because the source could have been trojaned way in the past.
Right...The real probem here is that it turns out the license is not what your typical/.'er wants to have in a license.
Aside from that, it seems rather comical that Darren slipped this under the nose of the BSD Gurus. They should have never allowed this into their distros in the first place. Basically, it amounts to unmaintainable code.
I disagree with Chris re: the characters doing things they were against their established morals . Sure, Janeway disregarding the Temporal Prime Directive appears to be in conflict with her previously established morals, yet I believe she would defer to the wisdom of an older self come to visit from the future. Harry Kim allowing the future Admiral Janeway to embark on the mission in the first place is consistent with his established morals; he previously time-travelled to rescue Voyager from being buried on the ice planet.
I do agree though that the writing seemed somewhat flimsy. I was disappointed by them actually returning home, I felt there would be good opportunities for Voyager movies if they left the ship in the Delta quadrant. I guess in the next 20 years, we'll get some more TNG movies, then it will be only "Enterprise". I have always been willing to watch Star Trek series from the start until they get up and running and get good. I am not so sure I will want to watch Enterprise. In my mind, its kind of like going for a ride in a `55 Chevy after being used to a `95 GTI. Sure, it's a cool ride, but I like my power windows and air conditioning.
Obviously, not all of us _get_ The Lone Gunmen. Take a little Vaudeville, mix in some elitist fun-poking at a technophobic society that believes _everything_ it reads, sprinkle with some hot chicks, and there you have it. The way it "reaches the geeks" are the impossible things that transpire. We know at the same time, millions of the clueless not only believe it will happen, their spare moments are occupied thinking about how they will respond when it does happen.
Hack the flight control system of a commercial airliner and land it. =) Not over the phone...
From the news.com article:...said rumor control professional Diane Carlini...But investments at this point in time are a little trickier because the VCs are not putting out as much as they were six months ago.
VCs not putting out? Seems to me like they're having a field day fucking people lately...
This is really about what kind of relationship you have with the client. Lunches, gifts, etc. will get you the open ear when needed. Continued lunches and contact, even though they are not buying anything today might put you in front of their face when they begin to realize the error of their ways. This is the opportunity for you to become a problem solving resource.
Many a time my clients have come up with some Great Idea[tm]. My initial response is to agree with it, no matter how bad I know it is. Later I ask questions and present information, each of these really being another slice with the X-acto knife, until their Great Idea dies the death of a thousand cuts. I try to shy away from the "X is bad, so don't use X". Instead my focus is on affirming what I know the right solution to be. Most of the people I work for are smart enough to know that if all I can do is slam the other guys solution it is because I don't know how good my own solutions are. So, if you've already burned all your launch fuel telling these people how bad NT is, instead of how great Linux is, take your lessons and move along.
In any case, you will just look like a poor loser if you take a proactive stance here. This contacting their "webmaster"...What is that? Don't TELL THEM HOW TO FIX IT! When and if they come back to you, THEN you pull out all the Bugtraq messages the other guys should have known about.
It's absurd to talk about the declines in AD's profitability without considering it in the context of what the industry as a whole is seeing. Plenty of companies are seeing losses and having to lay people off. Plenty are just folding up and dying completely.
Yeah, but =) If you look at what is happening Industry-wide, co.'s are biting the big one for betting big on things they really could not bank on. Phillip's philosophy on running aD was to take smaller risks, and create the illusion of living large.
Sure, the loss of clientbase "flush with cash", as you put it, would have meant some growing pains for aD. Still, it is possible for smaller software companies to weather the storm by focusing on service and providing _real_ value. I worked for one suche company in the late 80s that's still in business today.
What's happening in the industry now is not a big downturn. It is the end of the cycle. We are just "shakin' the spot". In essence, getting rid of the proverbial riffRaff, those who know only of greed, not of technology. In about a year or so, we'll kiss them all goodbye (most of them anyway). Let's face it, if you're not providing real value in this industry now, your days are numbered. As the next cycle begins, we'll get down to some serious business for a few years. Later in the cycle, the next "big" thing will be upon us, followed shortly by a new glut of riffRaff. You can count on that as sure as the sun rises every morning.
The only thing I would add is to have all the conduit lead back close to where your phone demarc is. Don't mess around with anything less than 1" conduit either. Have the installers leave some strings and make sure to pull a new string _every_ time.
Other than that, maybe a nice closet with some power so you can stuff the server/router/hub in there. Put the telco demarc in there too. Don't forget about cooling too.
Nope. This isn't about the USAF as much as it is about NASA. This is NASA's method to continue saying "we don't develop military hardware". Drop the ball and then let the DOD recover the fumble. NASA management can now look all their engineers in the eye and say "we didn't make the killing machines, they did."
It's not a new market. It is the same market - radio listeners. We listen over the net in the NOC because we can't pickup a radio signal in there. I also believe their Union is doing a great disservice to the DJ's. Now the only DJ's that will get to go National will have to rely on the old-style busines as usual (i.e. hand out some blow jobs first).
Although it is removing the ten-user limit, Microsoft said last Friday that NT Server is still the best bet for running Web servers and that it will introduce a "compelling upgrade" for Workstation users that want to migrate to NT Server.
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I liked the old arm-stretchers (sewing machines, luggables, whatever) BITD. After that, everything they touched turned to shit.
Switch is the word you are looking for.
Looks like they spent it well, too. Not that $600K is anything to call mom about. Profit is profit.
I believe calling SETI a risk is going a bit far, and I also don't believe that is their point. The point is about the user's behavior. Installing unauthorized software on their computer systems _is_ a risk.
2. The plug-in download technology will only be available to Windows users. ("This Mac sucks, it doesn't have smart links")
3. M$ will no doubt turn words on a site like eBay, where I have observed many middle-class people earning part of their livelihood into links to their/their partners/their advertisers competing eCommerce sites. Prices will be much better at first. Once the competition is extinguished, well, if you think gasoline prices are out of hand now, wait until every consumer good you want to purchase undergoes the same artificial constriction of supply.
4. Wait til AOL/TW comes up with their competing answer.
anyone got the 411 on this supposed meta tag? i tried searching on google and microsoft.com, no luck. funny, every page on microsoft.com that has the words disable and smart tags is turning up a 404 now.
Sure, I have my own DSL sagas circa 1998-2000 that I certainly do not want to relive. Lately though, my experiences with PacBell Internet have been a lot different. Fast, reliable connections, 75% of my questions getting answered (they still need to work on that), low hold times for tech support. I actually get roughly 5.5Mbps download (it's enhanced DSL) and the full 384K up, and my pre-war apartment builing is wired with farily oxidized Cat 3 cable, (and the C.O. is about 1.5 miles away as the crow flies)!
I characterize my earlier DSL experiences as those of dealing with an emerging technology and a provider experiencing massive growth pains. I still hear DSL horror stories, and yes, when I design a website, it is still with an 8 second load time@48K in mind, but I would not count DSL out. The fact the dialup is growing faster than broadband suggests that broadband will grow, because dialup is a stepping stone to broadband for the newbie, and let's face it, at this point _ALL_ growth in consumer access is due to newbies. Where I live, you have to be completely insane to pay $10 less a month (compared to DSL) to get the second phone line so you can talk and surf. Maybe time isn't worth much to some people...
Dude, I agree the FMII facelift totally blows and has caused fewer page views from my IP. I would like to gently point out that the themes.org break-in is not the real news here...The news is the hax0r who did it claims to have rooted admin machines at Exodus some 5 months ago. Exodus hosts a lot of big sites, this could be a really big deal if the claims are true.
I must say this is somewhat understated. Dude, I'm not trying to flame you here, I am way more upset with by the stupidity of the Apache developer that gave up his password. So I am apologizing in advance, this is just the "right" place for my comment.
Guys with access to ASF machines should never under any circumstance feed their password into an untrusted system. With Apache running on 60%+ of the WWW it is way too fucking big of a risk. Since fluffy bunny claims s/he rooted machines at Exodus 5 months ago, the question now exists, um geez, are all my Apache boxes trojaned?.
The ASF is right to verify the integrity of their source by going back to the many many distributed copies of the source they have, however, I believe this might be an insufficient effort because the source could have been trojaned way in the past.
Aside from that, it seems rather comical that Darren slipped this under the nose of the BSD Gurus. They should have never allowed this into their distros in the first place. Basically, it amounts to unmaintainable code.
DS9 was a much better finale in terms of closure.
Yeah dude, and Number One was HOT! I think Majel is much more attractive as a brunette.
I do agree though that the writing seemed somewhat flimsy. I was disappointed by them actually returning home, I felt there would be good opportunities for Voyager movies if they left the ship in the Delta quadrant. I guess in the next 20 years, we'll get some more TNG movies, then it will be only "Enterprise". I have always been willing to watch Star Trek series from the start until they get up and running and get good. I am not so sure I will want to watch Enterprise. In my mind, its kind of like going for a ride in a `55 Chevy after being used to a `95 GTI. Sure, it's a cool ride, but I like my power windows and air conditioning.
fuck that!
Hack the flight control system of a commercial airliner and land it. =) Not over the phone...
VCs not putting out? Seems to me like they're having a field day fucking people lately...
Many a time my clients have come up with some Great Idea[tm]. My initial response is to agree with it, no matter how bad I know it is. Later I ask questions and present information, each of these really being another slice with the X-acto knife, until their Great Idea dies the death of a thousand cuts. I try to shy away from the "X is bad, so don't use X". Instead my focus is on affirming what I know the right solution to be. Most of the people I work for are smart enough to know that if all I can do is slam the other guys solution it is because I don't know how good my own solutions are. So, if you've already burned all your launch fuel telling these people how bad NT is, instead of how great Linux is, take your lessons and move along.
In any case, you will just look like a poor loser if you take a proactive stance here. This contacting their "webmaster"...What is that? Don't TELL THEM HOW TO FIX IT! When and if they come back to you, THEN you pull out all the Bugtraq messages the other guys should have known about.
pathologically eclectic rubbish lister?
Yeah, but =) If you look at what is happening Industry-wide, co.'s are biting the big one for betting big on things they really could not bank on. Phillip's philosophy on running aD was to take smaller risks, and create the illusion of living large.
Sure, the loss of clientbase "flush with cash", as you put it, would have meant some growing pains for aD. Still, it is possible for smaller software companies to weather the storm by focusing on service and providing _real_ value. I worked for one suche company in the late 80s that's still in business today.
What's happening in the industry now is not a big downturn. It is the end of the cycle. We are just "shakin' the spot". In essence, getting rid of the proverbial riffRaff, those who know only of greed, not of technology. In about a year or so, we'll kiss them all goodbye (most of them anyway). Let's face it, if you're not providing real value in this industry now, your days are numbered. As the next cycle begins, we'll get down to some serious business for a few years. Later in the cycle, the next "big" thing will be upon us, followed shortly by a new glut of riffRaff. You can count on that as sure as the sun rises every morning.
Other than that, maybe a nice closet with some power so you can stuff the server/router/hub in there. Put the telco demarc in there too. Don't forget about cooling too.
WTF! How did "Total World Domination" become something the M$ is working on? I thought that was Linus' battle cry...
256 > default Apache .conf
Nope. This isn't about the USAF as much as it is about NASA. This is NASA's method to continue saying "we don't develop military hardware". Drop the ball and then let the DOD recover the fumble. NASA management can now look all their engineers in the eye and say "we didn't make the killing machines, they did."
It's not a new market. It is the same market - radio listeners. We listen over the net in the NOC because we can't pickup a radio signal in there. I also believe their Union is doing a great disservice to the DJ's. Now the only DJ's that will get to go National will have to rely on the old-style busines as usual (i.e. hand out some blow jobs first).
Put this in your pipe and smoke it: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-311875.html?t ag=rltdnws
Here's the key excerpt from that article:
Although it is removing the ten-user limit, Microsoft said last Friday that NT Server is still the best bet for running Web servers and that it will introduce a "compelling upgrade" for Workstation users that want to migrate to NT Server.