I totally agree that small, fast-growing businesses that generate lines out the door with every store they open should keep their capital to reinvest it all. This is not the case with the big Silicon Valley companies, and it's daft to think I would prefer that they sit on the cash in some savings account. I should be able to chose what to do with my cash, not them.
I have no doubt that's part of it. If I made $0.75/hr I could not afford a retail copy of Vista, so I would pirate. But I wouldn't visit their update site, cause their "genuine advantage" crap might lock me out of my system. Result: tons of unpatched systems in the third world.
Microsoft feeds the botnet operators with their policies.
Any company with ssh or, really, any common password-protection scheme exposed to the net is going to see thousands of brute-force attempts per day. The majority of the botnet may be in China or Eastern Europe, but that does not indicate that the actual hackers are either Chinese or Russian. It just means those countries have crap IT security overall.
There is nothing special to see here. The NYPD is inflating its importance, probably for more funding.
Actually, shareholders DO make a company money. If a company has a good business model and room to grow, it can sell shares to finance that expansion--if the shares have any significant value.
Oh go back to your compound. Gold is subject to bubbles and crashes just like any other commodity. Personally, I see gadgets as being more fashionable than jewelry among the younger generations. That does not make me feel at all confident about the long term value of gold. It has crashed catastrophically in the past, and it will again. It's purchasing power is near a high right now. This is likely the worst possible time to buy it. It also has no yield and its value is constantly being diluted by the miners.
Intel takes care of its owners; AMD scoffs at them. To me as an investor, that's more important than who has a slightly faster chip at a given point in time. If AMD starts paying its shareholders their money, maybe it will get some buying interest.
Cisco and NVidia, you guys listening? Your shareholders are why you exist. Give us our money.
I think our Oracle severs run on Solaris. And at any rate, soon we will be simply buying Oracle appliances from OraSun, so the question becomes even less important.
"the Somali pirates are doing what they do because other nations illegal fishing (worth an estimated 300 million) in the region have depleted [freerepublic.com] their fish stocks while the UN turned a blind eye. To add insult to injury, there's been some toxic waste dumping off the coast."
Oh spare us the BS. The pirates aren't hijacking fishing vessels or garbage barges to police their waters. They're hijacking cargo ships and ransoming them. They're doing it 100% for greed, which is motivated by a lack of consequences (little rule of law there) and lack of alternatives (crap economy there).
When they stop taking tankers and start taking fishing boats and garbage barges, you can speak in their defense. Until then, STFU.
I really disagree with your assertion that Oracle is the most common use of linux servers. Apache is clearly the #1 use. We also use linux servers for Samba, syslog, Postgres/MySQL databases, security scanners, and a few other purposes.
Your point 1 is VERY wrong. Cracking an 8-character password when given access to the hash is much much much much easier than cracking a 20-character encryption passphrase or a smartcard-based encryption system. Furthermore, a crypto system which relies on Windows authentication to cough up the crypto key does not even require knowledge of the password. Just bypass the authentication and you get the key. I KNOW this is the case for Checkpoint WIL disk encryption.
Your point 2: encrypted disks tend to be an issue with laptops, where they are stolen quite often. In this most common scenario, keyloggers don't enter into it.
Thanks. The problem with "preview" is that the brain tends to read what it thought it wrote, rather than what it actually did write. It is my hope that Slashdot would allow post-preview editing at some point. Ah, well.
Some disk encryption solutions, such as Checkpoint, rely on windows authentication to decrypt the disk. If this can be bypassed easily, it makes this disk encryption worthless.
It was obvious to crypto pros that it is theoretically worthless, but this is a practical attack against it.
Real disk encryption DOES protect them machine even with physical access. But "enterprise" software companies like Checkpoint sell snake-oil encryption quite well because engineers can "prove" it's flawed to management without a working exploit.
If it weren't opensource, nobody ever would have heard of MySQL. It's creators made real money when they sold it. Sounds like they got things right and you got things wrong.
Your web design philosophy died in the previous decade. It is damn hard to read extremely long lines. Good web design should set a fixed (perhaps using em) width for text lines. Try reading slashdot on a 26 inch display and see if you think having arbitrarily long lines is a feature or not (it is not).
What you want was a good idea when we were scraping together money to upgrade to 15 inch CRTs. That time is long dead.
Is that a joke? We use Ubuntu servers for the large software repositories available via apt, and the ease of upgrading and maintaining the systems. CentOS is much worse in these essential categories, and RedHat requires licensing.
He's serious. I found this on some Bioshock support forum. Apparently it fixes some Vista64 problem, but it didn't fix mine.
I even filed a support ticket with 2k, including the dxdiag output (as their ticket system requested). Their support personnel got back to me and said "please include the dxdiag output." That's when I gave up and bought a different game. I suspect this is their standard "go away, we already have your money" response to ticket, and that they never actually read the support tickets.
It's a whole new class of vulnerabilities. In addition to remote code execution and privilege escalation vulnerabilities, we now have privilege equalization vulnerabilities. Scary stuff.
That's the wrong way to do it. That's a built-in DoS vulnerability. You should NEVER auto-lockout accounts. The frequency between authentication attempts should be increased with every failed attempt, and multiple failed attempts should alert security personnel (who may decide to block the IP address causing trouble).
Auto-lockout is BAD BAD BAD. I don't care that it's the default config for Windows. You use it, you fail.
Will this work with Vista 64? Bioshock is the only game I have that just plain fails on Vista64. I never got to finish it. I kinda want my money back. How could a game publisher overlook such a widely-deployed platform?
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I totally agree that small, fast-growing businesses that generate lines out the door with every store they open should keep their capital to reinvest it all. This is not the case with the big Silicon Valley companies, and it's daft to think I would prefer that they sit on the cash in some savings account. I should be able to chose what to do with my cash, not them.
I have no doubt that's part of it. If I made $0.75/hr I could not afford a retail copy of Vista, so I would pirate. But I wouldn't visit their update site, cause their "genuine advantage" crap might lock me out of my system. Result: tons of unpatched systems in the third world.
Microsoft feeds the botnet operators with their policies.
Any company with ssh or, really, any common password-protection scheme exposed to the net is going to see thousands of brute-force attempts per day. The majority of the botnet may be in China or Eastern Europe, but that does not indicate that the actual hackers are either Chinese or Russian. It just means those countries have crap IT security overall.
There is nothing special to see here. The NYPD is inflating its importance, probably for more funding.
Actually, shareholders DO make a company money. If a company has a good business model and room to grow, it can sell shares to finance that expansion--if the shares have any significant value.
Oh go back to your compound. Gold is subject to bubbles and crashes just like any other commodity. Personally, I see gadgets as being more fashionable than jewelry among the younger generations. That does not make me feel at all confident about the long term value of gold. It has crashed catastrophically in the past, and it will again. It's purchasing power is near a high right now. This is likely the worst possible time to buy it. It also has no yield and its value is constantly being diluted by the miners.
Gold. Bah.
AMD has no dividend. INTC's is a nice phat 3.6%.
Intel takes care of its owners; AMD scoffs at them. To me as an investor, that's more important than who has a slightly faster chip at a given point in time. If AMD starts paying its shareholders their money, maybe it will get some buying interest.
Cisco and NVidia, you guys listening? Your shareholders are why you exist. Give us our money.
GPUs are where the real action is. Look at video games ten years ago. Then look at Left 4 Dead on a GTX280. WOW.
I think our Oracle severs run on Solaris. And at any rate, soon we will be simply buying Oracle appliances from OraSun, so the question becomes even less important.
Did you read this part?
"the Somali pirates are doing what they do because other nations illegal fishing (worth an estimated 300 million) in the region have depleted [freerepublic.com] their fish stocks while the UN turned a blind eye. To add insult to injury, there's been some toxic waste dumping off the coast."
Oh spare us the BS. The pirates aren't hijacking fishing vessels or garbage barges to police their waters. They're hijacking cargo ships and ransoming them. They're doing it 100% for greed, which is motivated by a lack of consequences (little rule of law there) and lack of alternatives (crap economy there).
When they stop taking tankers and start taking fishing boats and garbage barges, you can speak in their defense. Until then, STFU.
I really disagree with your assertion that Oracle is the most common use of linux servers. Apache is clearly the #1 use. We also use linux servers for Samba, syslog, Postgres/MySQL databases, security scanners, and a few other purposes.
Your point 1 is VERY wrong. Cracking an 8-character password when given access to the hash is much much much much easier than cracking a 20-character encryption passphrase or a smartcard-based encryption system. Furthermore, a crypto system which relies on Windows authentication to cough up the crypto key does not even require knowledge of the password. Just bypass the authentication and you get the key. I KNOW this is the case for Checkpoint WIL disk encryption.
Your point 2: encrypted disks tend to be an issue with laptops, where they are stolen quite often. In this most common scenario, keyloggers don't enter into it.
Crypto is only as good as the weakest link.
Thanks. The problem with "preview" is that the brain tends to read what it thought it wrote, rather than what it actually did write. It is my hope that Slashdot would allow post-preview editing at some point. Ah, well.
Some disk encryption solutions, such as Checkpoint, rely on windows authentication to decrypt the disk. If this can be bypassed easily, it makes this disk encryption worthless.
It was obvious to crypto pros that it is theoretically worthless, but this is a practical attack against it.
Real disk encryption DOES protect them machine even with physical access. But "enterprise" software companies like Checkpoint sell snake-oil encryption quite well because engineers can "prove" it's flawed to management without a working exploit.
If it weren't opensource, nobody ever would have heard of MySQL. It's creators made real money when they sold it. Sounds like they got things right and you got things wrong.
Your web design philosophy died in the previous decade. It is damn hard to read extremely long lines. Good web design should set a fixed (perhaps using em) width for text lines. Try reading slashdot on a 26 inch display and see if you think having arbitrarily long lines is a feature or not (it is not).
What you want was a good idea when we were scraping together money to upgrade to 15 inch CRTs. That time is long dead.
Is that a joke? We use Ubuntu servers for the large software repositories available via apt, and the ease of upgrading and maintaining the systems. CentOS is much worse in these essential categories, and RedHat requires licensing.
Unless they support the same PDF functionality as their proprietary cousins, they aren't alternatives.
The FOSS Flash player, for example, is simply not an alternative to Adobe flash, because it doesn't work with a large quantity of flash files.
He's serious. I found this on some Bioshock support forum. Apparently it fixes some Vista64 problem, but it didn't fix mine.
I even filed a support ticket with 2k, including the dxdiag output (as their ticket system requested). Their support personnel got back to me and said "please include the dxdiag output." That's when I gave up and bought a different game. I suspect this is their standard "go away, we already have your money" response to ticket, and that they never actually read the support tickets.
Your post indicates that you are suffering from the wooosh vulnerability.
It's a whole new class of vulnerabilities. In addition to remote code execution and privilege escalation vulnerabilities, we now have privilege equalization vulnerabilities. Scary stuff.
Viruses which only accept RSA-signed commands can be made more and more capable while being far less vulnerable.
Your reductionism is overdone.
That's the wrong way to do it. That's a built-in DoS vulnerability. You should NEVER auto-lockout accounts. The frequency between authentication attempts should be increased with every failed attempt, and multiple failed attempts should alert security personnel (who may decide to block the IP address causing trouble).
Auto-lockout is BAD BAD BAD. I don't care that it's the default config for Windows. You use it, you fail.
Will this work with Vista 64? Bioshock is the only game I have that just plain fails on Vista64. I never got to finish it. I kinda want my money back. How could a game publisher overlook such a widely-deployed platform?
If the government were to, for example, grant one private individual 100% ownership of all industry, would you call that a capitalist society, then?