So, what's holding us off from just blackholing the entire country until they get their political act together?
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If a worm actually destroyed it's target in a short period of time, it would be unable to spread to very many machines. Some worm coders have attempted to solve this problem by waiting until a certain date(s) to actually fire, but many/most infected machines are usually contained by then (seems that deadlines make people update their virus defs and patches). Now if a worm could spread in complete stealth until it's destruction date...
Forgive me if I am being naive here, but why all this Slashdot animosity towards Intel? For a very long time, Intel has produced rock solid, high performance processors. It took AMD a very long time to catch up to Intel's performance figures and now that they have been fairly even keeled in the desktop market, it's still taken several more years to catch up in actual sales volumes. I use Intel's processors mostly in the high-end server realm where even the slightest processor/os incompatibility could be a real headache. Intel has performed slendidly and at the right price. I certainly hope they aren't going away.
We've been using a voicemail-in-the-inbox solution from Avaya (Unified Messenger) for about 5 years at a 100 user company. It's extremely stable and reliable. Interestingly... it's fully integrated with Exchange. It uses the Information Store as it's voicemail storage. When you dial into the voicemail system from a regular phone, it says "you have x new voicemails, x new emails, and x new faxes". It then gives you options to access all of those (read your email with a text->speech, or forward your emails (with attachements) or faxes to another fax machine.
It's really cool technology and continues to amaze everyone we show it to, so I'm surprised that it's not yet fully commonplace.
I don't know, maybe this should bother me more, but it doesn't. Imagine yourself in the leadership position of having to manage all these different avenues of terrorist interest as well as deal with PR, special interest groups, economical concerns, and the public's need to be transported around the world. Sadly, as with most terrorist contermeasures, the great majority of people suffer through obnoxious security mesaures just because of the off-chance that a terrorist would try something crazy that day. I believe that the more options we have to safely shift this balance away from public annoyance while maintaining safety, the better.
The airlines have it doubly bad, in that they were originally designed to piss off the masses even before security was an issue (think first class, those highly un-useful people behind the counter (for "the steerage in back" only), the quality of the food, and the size of the seat).
The airline industry is merely one of many options that terrorists have to choose from. If security fails on an airplane, the consequences are wide-scale. To me, this "color coding system" looks like another attempt (of many and more to come) to perfect the balance between terrorists easily crashing planes and "the other concerns" (PR, economics, usefulness of airline system)
For the moment, this may be the lowest impact option that retains a certain level of security. But understand that there are a lot of other variables to the equation.
Allowing the airline to submit my name to a gov't entity every time I fly is a lot easier than suffering through a huge line of people taking off their shoes and pulling tweezers from their purses. Why would I care that the government knows that I am flying from LAX to BOS on 1/15/04 on flight 25? Why would they care? Do you think that the goverment, in all it's conspiring, is going to do something about it? I have nothing to hide. Besides, if I really needed to fly and hide something, I could just charter a jet or go rent a C-172 and fly myself.
So, in short, I'm not seeing what the problem here is. This sounds like a good deal to me.
In my organization, we have been using Computrace which serves the same function. The software installs into the computer's boot sector and is nearly invisible if you don't know to look for it. It contacts the Computrace NOC frequently over IP or modem and reports it's IP address (or caller ID). We now have a pretty nice log of where all our laptops go. The software isn't capable to destroying or disbling the PC, but it's invisibility and reporting features are enough to make it useful.
Computrace reports having retrieved a number of stolen computers based on the data reported by the software. It's definitely useful for any corporate IT department!
I wouldn't purchase a PVR unless it had a commercial skipping feature.
I also would never purchase a ReplayTV, purely on the basis of their EULA. Ever read it? It grants them the right to change the feature set on your device whenever they choose. So curent owners may see useful features dissapearing at anytime!
Uh.... I live in Washington state and happen to be a Verizon customer. They have a fairly humongus presence here. Maybe you should consider getting your facts straight about getting your facts straight?
It all comes down to Microsoft's development tools. They waste anything Linux has to offer.
In the.NET development environment, I can whip up a web application that pulls information out of a database and displays it in a nicely formatted table with about 5 clicks and without looking at one piece of code.
Now, you might argue that it costs a lot of money the purchase Windows, SQL server, and Visual Studio.NET, and you'd be right, but how does that compare to spending a couple of weeks developing an application versus a month or more with Linux? Then consider the testing and rollout phases. If huge amounts of the code has already been written and tested before you even open your development environment, you're substantially farther ahead in the game. Developers are going to choose Windows over and over because Microsoft's lure is very enticing.
Ultimately, consumers purchase and use Windows over Linux because it offers a complete picture. It works, there are more applications, and there is more support. Consumers realize they have to pay upfront, but realize the benefits down the road when they are way ahead of their Linux counterparts.
If Linux really wants to compete on the desktop or server level, then Linux really needs to get moving on a competitor to the development tools.
Might be about time for another Boston tea party. If the states can't operate on their current budgets, should we just be forced to pay more to make ends meet? I think not. Maybe their breadth is already a little too inflated.
In this one, Dilbert doesn't read the "EULA" and unknowingly signs his life away to be "Bill Gates' Towel Boy".
Awesome stuff: Click here for the comic
Microsoft has had this report potsted on their Exchange website for a while. http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/techinfo/outlook/FerrisOutlook.asp.
Some research company with "evidence" suggests that you're less vulnerable to getting hit by email viruses if you use Outlook rather than anything else. This report is shoddy, even for Microsoft. I'm amazed they would even post this!
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Yeah, that would be preyty cool :)
So, what's holding us off from just blackholing the entire country until they get their political act together?
If a worm actually destroyed it's target in a short period of time, it would be unable to spread to very many machines. Some worm coders have attempted to solve this problem by waiting until a certain date(s) to actually fire, but many/most infected machines are usually contained by then (seems that deadlines make people update their virus defs and patches). Now if a worm could spread in complete stealth until it's destruction date...
Forgive me if I am being naive here, but why all this Slashdot animosity towards Intel? For a very long time, Intel has produced rock solid, high performance processors. It took AMD a very long time to catch up to Intel's performance figures and now that they have been fairly even keeled in the desktop market, it's still taken several more years to catch up in actual sales volumes. I use Intel's processors mostly in the high-end server realm where even the slightest processor/os incompatibility could be a real headache. Intel has performed slendidly and at the right price. I certainly hope they aren't going away.
We've been using a voicemail-in-the-inbox solution from Avaya (Unified Messenger) for about 5 years at a 100 user company. It's extremely stable and reliable. Interestingly... it's fully integrated with Exchange. It uses the Information Store as it's voicemail storage. When you dial into the voicemail system from a regular phone, it says "you have x new voicemails, x new emails, and x new faxes". It then gives you options to access all of those (read your email with a text->speech, or forward your emails (with attachements) or faxes to another fax machine.
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It's really cool technology and continues to amaze everyone we show it to, so I'm surprised that it's not yet fully commonplace.
For an open source solution? Hmmm... good luck?
I don't know, maybe this should bother me more, but it doesn't. Imagine yourself in the leadership position of having to manage all these different avenues of terrorist interest as well as deal with PR, special interest groups, economical concerns, and the public's need to be transported around the world. Sadly, as with most terrorist contermeasures, the great majority of people suffer through obnoxious security mesaures just because of the off-chance that a terrorist would try something crazy that day. I believe that the more options we have to safely shift this balance away from public annoyance while maintaining safety, the better.
The airlines have it doubly bad, in that they were originally designed to piss off the masses even before security was an issue (think first class, those highly un-useful people behind the counter (for "the steerage in back" only), the quality of the food, and the size of the seat).
The airline industry is merely one of many options that terrorists have to choose from. If security fails on an airplane, the consequences are wide-scale. To me, this "color coding system" looks like another attempt (of many and more to come) to perfect the balance between terrorists easily crashing planes and "the other concerns" (PR, economics, usefulness of airline system)
For the moment, this may be the lowest impact option that retains a certain level of security. But understand that there are a lot of other variables to the equation.
Allowing the airline to submit my name to a gov't entity every time I fly is a lot easier than suffering through a huge line of people taking off their shoes and pulling tweezers from their purses. Why would I care that the government knows that I am flying from LAX to BOS on 1/15/04 on flight 25? Why would they care? Do you think that the goverment, in all it's conspiring, is going to do something about it? I have nothing to hide. Besides, if I really needed to fly and hide something, I could just charter a jet or go rent a C-172 and fly myself.
So, in short, I'm not seeing what the problem here is. This sounds like a good deal to me.
Hey, we could start landing rovers here on earth! Then if it doesn't respond to the communications, we can go and kick it a bit.
Learn your greek - the X stands for "Christos", or Christ. Xmas means Christmas...
Agreed - I hear it all the time too. That is such an awesome sound...
In my organization, we have been using Computrace which serves the same function. The software installs into the computer's boot sector and is nearly invisible if you don't know to look for it. It contacts the Computrace NOC frequently over IP or modem and reports it's IP address (or caller ID). We now have a pretty nice log of where all our laptops go. The software isn't capable to destroying or disbling the PC, but it's invisibility and reporting features are enough to make it useful.
Computrace reports having retrieved a number of stolen computers based on the data reported by the software. It's definitely useful for any corporate IT department!
I wouldn't purchase a PVR unless it had a commercial skipping feature.
I also would never purchase a ReplayTV, purely on the basis of their EULA. Ever read it? It grants them the right to change the feature set on your device whenever they choose. So curent owners may see useful features dissapearing at anytime!
Good luck!
Uh.... I live in Washington state and happen to be a Verizon customer. They have a fairly humongus presence here. Maybe you should consider getting your facts straight about getting your facts straight?
It all comes down to Microsoft's development tools. They waste anything Linux has to offer.
.NET development environment, I can whip up a web application that pulls information out of a database and displays it in a nicely formatted table with about 5 clicks and without looking at one piece of code.
.NET, and you'd be right, but how does that compare to spending a couple of weeks developing an application versus a month or more with Linux? Then consider the testing and rollout phases. If huge amounts of the code has already been written and tested before you even open your development environment, you're substantially farther ahead in the game. Developers are going to choose Windows over and over because Microsoft's lure is very enticing.
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Now, you might argue that it costs a lot of money the purchase Windows, SQL server, and Visual Studio
Ultimately, consumers purchase and use Windows over Linux because it offers a complete picture. It works, there are more applications, and there is more support. Consumers realize they have to pay upfront, but realize the benefits down the road when they are way ahead of their Linux counterparts.
If Linux really wants to compete on the desktop or server level, then Linux really needs to get moving on a competitor to the development tools.
Might be about time for another Boston tea party. If the states can't operate on their current budgets, should we just be forced to pay more to make ends meet? I think not. Maybe their breadth is already a little too inflated.
In this one, Dilbert doesn't read the "EULA" and unknowingly signs his life away to be "Bill Gates' Towel Boy". Awesome stuff: Click here for the comic
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Microsoft has had this report potsted on their Exchange website for a while. http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/techinfo/outlook /FerrisOutlook.asp.
Some research company with "evidence" suggests that you're less vulnerable to getting hit by email viruses if you use Outlook rather than anything else. This report is shoddy, even for Microsoft. I'm amazed they would even post this!