Re:27.025 puts your ham weenie stuff to shame...
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Yeah, and we HAM folk also help the FCC and random anonymous truckers track your asses down when you disrupt critical emergency communications. There is a good reason why HAM stuff on HF is capped at 1500W--you don't need more than that.
What kind of idiot are you? Windows' DNS is more likely to be hacked than any of the above by the peoople whom have the technical saavy to be doing anything except using a klez virus derivative to DoS the White House. I dare say that you have little to no idea what you are talking about. The idea of a firewall is that you can have lax internal security policies, but have strong external policies. Not that it works out that way if any of the programs that you actually let talk to the real world are buggy--but at least you segmented out your security domains from each other. That is the main ideal of personal firewall software today--it only really checks to see what programs are using the network. That doesn't encourage bad habbits from people whom aren't likely to have formed any yet!! Therefore, a good firewall is a good thing for 99.99% of all users, just because it handles things that they don't comprehend.
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Not only is it possible.......IT HAPPENS! I have worked on a friends machine where some guy from the ISP(RoadRunner) was using port 53 (yes, the nameserver) to force him to log onto the ISP's network--thus allowing the intrepid sikko to download kiddie porn through this guy's machine via a trojan horse + buffer overflow (use the buffer overflow to place the trojan) attack. This is on WinXP, WinME, and Win98. I know this because I did the packet trace & analysis of what happened when he booted the machine. When he switched to my local nameserver running on my laptop, mind you, he got spared. So, not only is it possible, it is being done. I now run UNIX as much as possible--especially since one of my idiot roommates just switched us to RoadRunner (even after I told her about this happening......). This guy whose machine I worked on was behind a firewall, and he still got hacked. UNIX it is for me, thank you.
Why is it that people continue to confuse 'nation' and 'state'? A 'nation' is a group of people whom share common language, history, ideas, customs, and often territorial homelands. A 'state' is a political entity that often represents one nation (sometimes more, like the USA--one of few true multinational 'states'; ok so the USA is actually a republic of independent states that have given up true autonomy to prevent the chaos of our 1861-1865 war--but that is another issue) and controls some land-based territory.
The people of the various Arab countries (read states here) are all of onenation.
I have two really nice quality digital output CMOS cameras that I got for a reasonable price. There are similar (possibly the same) cameras available at: http://www.electronics123.com/amazon/catalogue/c3- 1-5.htm I got the color with digital output. The units are based on chips made by OmniVision Technologies Limited (http://www.ovt.com).
"2) The reason they settled is because the case
for breaking up MS was irreprably harmed. The
appelate court laughed it out the door."
Yes, and there was really no good reason for the case itself to get laughed out of the door, except that Judge P. Jackson acted improperly (I don't think that anybody would dispute this).
"Literally. Besides a breakup the only other
remedies are fines and behaviour modification. A
fine against MS is useless. Therefore, they
needed a behavior remedy."
As if behavior modification is going to do us, the citizens of the USA, any good whatsoever. It worked so great before. I don't much like structure remedies myself, but like in the case of a big powerful company such as MS, Bell Telephone, Standard Oil, or even Carnegie Steel, structure remedies are sometimes needed. It really is a sad thing, in my humble little opinion, that structure remedies have gotten such a bad rap. No matter what has been said about there being a possibility of consumers being harmed if MS is dealt a stiff penalty, I think that we should again take a good look at history. Ahh yes, now we see.....the customers won't know any better either way! This is important. It means that they won't percieve harm from MS being split of dealt with in some other stiff manner. In fact, prices may well go down as competition returns to the market (remember, MS-DOS didn't cost what a clean MS install costs today, and MS-DOS works better--yes you get other stuff in Windows, but if MS wants to claim that is it "all part of the OS," then that is their loss).
"Now, since thats the
remedy on the table, the DOJ realized that
there was no way to prove actual damage was done
to consumers - only competitors."
In a free market economy such as ours, it can be easily proved that wiping out competition is damage done to consumers. This concept is bolstered by the fact that at various state courts MS has already been convicted or ruled against in various ways.
Once opon a time everybody only used plaintext files. Then came things like Wordstar. Most word processing programs remained more compatible than not for a long time. Now most people who use computers have never heard of ClarisWorks, WordPerfect, WordStar, or even AppleWorks--only MS Office. This has nothing to do with compatibility, it has all to do with bundling of software. People have been hurt by MS--they have lost their ability to know that they can choose the best program in the market for themselves--and not to be afraid of MS bullying whomever it wishes.
Did PC's always come with MS Windows installed? Hell no! Do most people know that? Surprisingly to some, they do not even know that MS makes Windows, and not Dell, Compaq, or IBM! Therefore, is the average consumer going to know much about computers? No. Are they going to know about OS's other than Windows? No. Do they even know that Windows isn't actually the machine itself? No.
What consumers do know is that every year the price of an upgrade or new installation goes up. This is about all that some people knew about Bell Telephone, or even Standard Oil. Then, at least with Bell, came the issue of compatibility. Sure, MS isn't as dumb as Bell (requiring you to use their products exclusively to use any of the system at all), but they are sure harming consumers in a similar fashion--they are working actively to make their monopoly product family work the best with other products from this family, and then they are claiming that the competition just doesn't write comparable software. This is false advertising, abuse of monopoly power, and implementing a classic bussiness trust, all in one. Bell got forced to allow outsiders full compatibility, and MS should also.
"This pretty much
removed all teeth from their bargaining
position. "
The government only needs to address the priors committed by MS and their lack of will to comply with previous court settlements to have a strong barganing position.
"Finally, the Bush administration
campaigned against a continuation of the trial."
Here, now we address the real issue. The White House can say what it wants--Bush didn't need to tell them what to do, he appoints, fires, and recommends for advancement/termination in the DOJ at will. Get a grip on this simple reality of working for the executive branch.
"These factors combined to put MS in a great
bargaining position."
In short, only 2 things gave MS a leg to stand on at the barganing table: Judge Jackson's excesses, and the presidential election.
It is worth noting that among the "other" category are things such as Concurrent CPM, CPM, and the old-fashioned NCR-UNIX versions, that run on 25 to 35 year old CommTen backplane systems--many of which have been running X.25 and Frame Relay services for their entire lifetimes, in some cases without ever being taken down. Not more than a few months ago my dad took down a CommTen system for its first time ever in 25 years, and then put it back on-line when finished.
I have never run in to a case where re-imaging was the answer--period. If you are good enough to get paid what you do then you are good enough to know what some "dipshit inexperienced mindless youngster" 21-year-old like myself can figure out. If you spend time to fix it the first time it happens, then you can find the real cause and make sure that it doesn't happen again. I worked for a public school, and despite all of the time that the net administator kept telling the students "Those who do not learn their history are condemned to repeat it," the he didn't learn anything because he refused to spend the time to root out the real problems (same applies to most of the rest of the school district, with some honest and notable exceptions).
Also, if you think that it is a problem for a work order to be open for more than 72 hours, you are in need of a good wake-up call. In the school I worked at, it was a good thing if a problem got properly reported (using a work order form) within 72 hours of the first occurance--lest it be fixed within a month.
The real solution is to become more organized, cut-out the bureaucratic bullshit, and trust the right people.
As our Vice-Principal said in high-school freshman orientation: "All things in your life can be reduced to two words--Respect and Responsibility" (not exact quote, fall 1995).
The inevitable question is "Will IT want to manage my virtual PC too?" As for VMWare requiring admin privs, I have no idea about it--I'm a plex86 developer.
Although this sounds like a great idea, it really isn't practical on the standard 10BaseT network that most facilities in the real world have these days. I know, I've done IT work in the real world before. Also, another problem is that image files are large and cumbersome--and that you can't re-load the image files under anything except for DOS in many environments. That is a BIG problem. Granted, things like r-dist do exist for windows, but they are meant for doing the more practical things, like deleting old user information, keeping application data up-to-date, and keeping file trees (directory trees in Windows) in some semblance of universal order. The best solution is really to use and write good software.
If you can come up with the $$$ to get this case to the Supreme Court then more power to you. The fact of the matter is that the Government of the USA has never, ever been really interested in protecting the rights of anyone who wasn't very downright dirty rich. People died for the rights that we have (had) so that the rich can decide that those who died didn't deserve them anyway.The truth is ugly, but it is the truth.
Agreed. As soon as you forget what your freedoms are for someone will try to take them away. Can you say WWII? Try to tell me that Corporate Greed wasn't part of that. Don't ever take your freedoms for granted--PEOPLE DIED so that you can sit at home in peace with your kids and decide for them yourself what is best.
North & South America are geographical designations that were created by scientists & politicians looking to better describe location than just to say "America". Also, remember that outside the USA (of which many people out there don't know what the 'A' is for) America really does mean the _pair_ of continents, North & South. The Panama Canal no more created the designation between North & South America (which is some 50 miles south of the cananl anyway) than the Erie canal made upstate and downstate NY two separate continents.....
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Yeah, and we HAM folk also help the FCC and random anonymous truckers track your asses down when you disrupt critical emergency communications. There is a good reason why HAM stuff on HF is capped at 1500W--you don't need more than that.
We call it Bochs.
http://Bochs.sf.net to be exact.
What kind of idiot are you? Windows' DNS is more likely to be hacked than any of the above by the peoople whom have the technical saavy to be doing anything except using a klez virus derivative to DoS the White House. I dare say that you have little to no idea what you are talking about.
The idea of a firewall is that you can have lax internal security policies, but have strong external policies. Not that it works out that way if any of the programs that you actually let talk to the real world are buggy--but at least you segmented out your security domains from each other.
That is the main ideal of personal firewall software today--it only really checks to see what programs are using the network. That doesn't encourage bad habbits from people whom aren't likely to have formed any yet!! Therefore, a good firewall is a good thing for 99.99% of all users, just because it handles things that they don't comprehend.
Not only is it possible.......IT HAPPENS! I have worked on a friends machine where some guy from the ISP (RoadRunner) was using port 53 (yes, the nameserver) to force him to log onto the ISP's network--thus allowing the intrepid sikko to download kiddie porn through this guy's machine via a trojan horse + buffer overflow (use the buffer overflow to place the trojan) attack. This is on WinXP, WinME, and Win98. I know this because I did the packet trace & analysis of what happened when he booted the machine. When he switched to my local nameserver running on my laptop, mind you, he got spared.
So, not only is it possible, it is being done.
I now run UNIX as much as possible--especially since one of my idiot roommates just switched us to RoadRunner (even after I told her about this happening......). This guy whose machine I worked on was behind a firewall, and he still got hacked. UNIX it is for me, thank you.
Why is it that people continue to confuse 'nation' and 'state'? A 'nation' is a group of people whom share common language, history, ideas, customs, and often territorial homelands. A 'state' is a political entity that often represents one nation (sometimes more, like the USA--one of few true multinational 'states'; ok so the USA is actually a republic of independent states that have given up true autonomy to prevent the chaos of our 1861-1865 war--but that is another issue) and controls some land-based territory.
The people of the various Arab countries (read states here) are all of one nation.
The Argentine film La Historia Official should become required viewing the the USA.....
I have two really nice quality digital output CMOS cameras that I got for a reasonable price. There are similar (possibly the same) cameras available at: http://www.electronics123.com/amazon/catalogue/c3- 1-5.htm
I got the color with digital output. The units are based on chips made by OmniVision Technologies Limited (http://www.ovt.com).
Yes, and there was really no good reason for the case itself to get laughed out of the door, except that Judge P. Jackson acted improperly (I don't think that anybody would dispute this).
"Literally. Besides a breakup the only other remedies are fines and behaviour modification. A fine against MS is useless. Therefore, they needed a behavior remedy."
As if behavior modification is going to do us, the citizens of the USA, any good whatsoever. It worked so great before. I don't much like structure remedies myself, but like in the case of a big powerful company such as MS, Bell Telephone, Standard Oil, or even Carnegie Steel, structure remedies are sometimes needed. It really is a sad thing, in my humble little opinion, that structure remedies have gotten such a bad rap. No matter what has been said about there being a possibility of consumers being harmed if MS is dealt a stiff penalty, I think that we should again take a good look at history. Ahh yes, now we see.....the customers won't know any better either way! This is important. It means that they won't percieve harm from MS being split of dealt with in some other stiff manner. In fact, prices may well go down as competition returns to the market (remember, MS-DOS didn't cost what a clean MS install costs today, and MS-DOS works better--yes you get other stuff in Windows, but if MS wants to claim that is it "all part of the OS," then that is their loss).
"Now, since thats the remedy on the table, the DOJ realized that there was no way to prove actual damage was done to consumers - only competitors."
In a free market economy such as ours, it can be easily proved that wiping out competition is damage done to consumers. This concept is bolstered by the fact that at various state courts MS has already been convicted or ruled against in various ways.
Once opon a time everybody only used plaintext files. Then came things like Wordstar. Most word processing programs remained more compatible than not for a long time. Now most people who use computers have never heard of ClarisWorks, WordPerfect, WordStar, or even AppleWorks--only MS Office. This has nothing to do with compatibility, it has all to do with bundling of software. People have been hurt by MS--they have lost their ability to know that they can choose the best program in the market for themselves--and not to be afraid of MS bullying whomever it wishes.
Did PC's always come with MS Windows installed? Hell no! Do most people know that? Surprisingly to some, they do not even know that MS makes Windows, and not Dell, Compaq, or IBM! Therefore, is the average consumer going to know much about computers? No. Are they going to know about OS's other than Windows? No. Do they even know that Windows isn't actually the machine itself? No.
What consumers do know is that every year the price of an upgrade or new installation goes up. This is about all that some people knew about Bell Telephone, or even Standard Oil. Then, at least with Bell, came the issue of compatibility. Sure, MS isn't as dumb as Bell (requiring you to use their products exclusively to use any of the system at all), but they are sure harming consumers in a similar fashion--they are working actively to make their monopoly product family work the best with other products from this family, and then they are claiming that the competition just doesn't write comparable software. This is false advertising, abuse of monopoly power, and implementing a classic bussiness trust, all in one. Bell got forced to allow outsiders full compatibility, and MS should also.
"This pretty much removed all teeth from their bargaining position. "
The government only needs to address the priors committed by MS and their lack of will to comply with previous court settlements to have a strong barganing position.
"Finally, the Bush administration campaigned against a continuation of the trial."
Here, now we address the real issue. The White House can say what it wants--Bush didn't need to tell them what to do, he appoints, fires, and recommends for advancement/termination in the DOJ at will. Get a grip on this simple reality of working for the executive branch.
"These factors combined to put MS in a great bargaining position."
In short, only 2 things gave MS a leg to stand on at the barganing table: Judge Jackson's excesses, and the presidential election.
It is worth noting that among the "other" category are things such as Concurrent CPM, CPM, and the old-fashioned NCR-UNIX versions, that run on 25 to 35 year old CommTen backplane systems--many of which have been running X.25 and Frame Relay services for their entire lifetimes, in some cases without ever being taken down. Not more than a few months ago my dad took down a CommTen system for its first time ever in 25 years, and then put it back on-line when finished.
I have never run in to a case where re-imaging was the answer--period. If you are good enough to get paid what you do then you are good enough to know what some "dipshit inexperienced mindless youngster" 21-year-old like myself can figure out. If you spend time to fix it the first time it happens, then you can find the real cause and make sure that it doesn't happen again. I worked for a public school, and despite all of the time that the net administator kept telling the students "Those who do not learn their history are condemned to repeat it," the he didn't learn anything because he refused to spend the time to root out the real problems (same applies to most of the rest of the school district, with some honest and notable exceptions).
Also, if you think that it is a problem for a work order to be open for more than 72 hours, you are in need of a good wake-up call. In the school I worked at, it was a good thing if a problem got properly reported (using a work order form) within 72 hours of the first occurance--lest it be fixed within a month.
The real solution is to become more organized, cut-out the bureaucratic bullshit, and trust the right people.
As our Vice-Principal said in high-school freshman orientation: "All things in your life can be reduced to two words--Respect and Responsibility" (not exact quote, fall 1995).
The inevitable question is "Will IT want to manage my virtual PC too?" As for VMWare requiring admin privs, I have no idea about it--I'm a plex86 developer.
Although this sounds like a great idea, it really isn't practical on the standard 10BaseT network that most facilities in the real world have these days. I know, I've done IT work in the real world before. Also, another problem is that image files are large and cumbersome--and that you can't re-load the image files under anything except for DOS in many environments. That is a BIG problem. Granted, things like r-dist do exist for windows, but they are meant for doing the more practical things, like deleting old user information, keeping application data up-to-date, and keeping file trees (directory trees in Windows) in some semblance of universal order. The best solution is really to use and write good software.
If you can come up with the $$$ to get this case to the Supreme Court then more power to you. The fact of the matter is that the Government of the USA has never, ever been really interested in protecting the rights of anyone who wasn't very downright dirty rich. People died for the rights that we have (had) so that the rich can decide that those who died didn't deserve them anyway.The truth is ugly, but it is the truth.
You should also note that this is not the original act, but the ammended version.
Bread and Circus. Just because Rome fell once already doesn't mean it can't again.
What, you think that somebody would oppose his nomination for helping to enforce the law (no matter how corrupt it is)?
Agreed. As soon as you forget what your freedoms are for someone will try to take them away. Can you say WWII? Try to tell me that Corporate Greed wasn't part of that. Don't ever take your freedoms for granted-- PEOPLE DIED so that you can sit at home in peace with your kids and decide for them yourself what is best.
North & South America are geographical designations that were created by scientists & politicians looking to better describe location than just to say "America". Also, remember that outside the USA (of which many people out there don't know what the 'A' is for) America really does mean the _pair_ of continents, North & South. The Panama Canal no more created the designation between North & South America (which is some 50 miles south of the cananl anyway) than the Erie canal made upstate and downstate NY two separate continents.....