Law enforcement has had a way to get records from banks for many years, think "drug related money laundering". This is called removing the profit motive for a crime. They show probable cause to a judge who orders the records turned over. Just like trying to get a phone tap, same proceedure. The only thing newsworthy in this whole thing is that they are getting the records from a worldwide clearinghouse of this kind of information. The rest is just standard proceedure. Most European governments have fewer restrictions on this than the U. S. does.
The side I'm on is the one that is always against terrorists. I am a veteran and I vote, deal with it.
If you check a bit further you will find that this has been done with warrants legally issued. Thats what the WSJ article said yesterday. Anytime they can show probable cause they can get a warrant, same as always. The big question is releasing this info to the public so the terrorists can find a different way to move money without getting caught. If you can track the money you can find the bad guys, cut off the money and the bad guys have to find more, slows down their plans. Makes me wonder who's side these papers are on, it's not the same one I'm on.
This is what the U. S. has turned into, nobody is responsible for their own actions. Everything is someone elses fault. If we hold people reponsible for their own actions it might injure their self-esteem, have to protect that at all costs. Common sense is dead. This falls in with the lady that got burned by the coffee at McD's and won the suite, before an appeals court overturned the judgement on the grounds that coffee is suposed to be hot. Duh. This is why the Darwin awards are so popular.
Most of us produce something of value to somebody, that's how you make a living. What do trial lawyers produce? Courts clogged with mindless lawsuits to get recompense for someones stupidity. This has resulted in billions of dollars spent on methods of avoiding liability for the misuse of a product by some fool, companies have to protect themselves. In most of these suites it's the lawyers on both sides that take home most of the money, the so-called victims get a minor percentage. Trial lawyers produce money for trial lawyers.
If you do something stupid, bad things can happen, learn from your mistake and move on.
They are using vector instead of the old.bmp design. Since Windows has always been a memory hog with nobody in Redmond even capable of spelling "memory management", why are you suprised?
Then again there is nobody in Redmond that can spell "security" and we wonder why Windows has none!
This is a business, you need a land line anyway. The yellow page ad is more effective than anything but the sign on the building. Four years later there is no desire to change because RR in this area is not any faster than DSL and never has been worth the price charged.
"speeds of 3 and 6 Mbps aren't uncommon" Unless you are stuck with TimeWarner's RoadRunner. They don't invest enough in their hardware and if to many people in your neighborhood are on it the speed drops through the floor, it is "shared bandwidth" after all. The computer store where I work had RR and is one block away from a high end neighborhood. Four years ago we tried to download a few drivers in the summer with all the kids at home. It was so slow, I went home, downloaded 6 drivers and put them on 2 floppies. Got back to the store and RR was on download 3! At the time I still had dial up at home! Two days later RR wanted to raise the price by 25%! The next day the local phone company installed DSL at half the business price of RR and equal speed of RR at it's best. Haven't thought of changing since. This is in the Triad area of NC.
It adds a supposidly fancy graphic interface and that is all if you don't count unlimeted DRM. Vista is still going to be ME revisited.
Of course you need to remember that to run any M$ OS at an acceptable speed you need to take the high end requirement and double it at minimum, especially for RAM. Remember the pain of trying to run XP with 128MB? XP nerver ran decent without 512MB no matter what processor was used.
But with the bribery machine they have now they won't even get a wrist slap. They will countersue under DMCA or some vague patent and win, not through legal merit just throwing enough money at the right people. The times have changed in a big way and it's not for the better!
You are thinking the same way Sony did about the rootkit. In the words from a deputy director of Homeland Security about Sony, "it may be your IP, but it's NOT your computer"! The same applies here, Gates didn't pay for the computer or the electricity to run it, so what's on it is none of his business. A M$ piece of spyware reporting home in realtime is just setting the stage for remote control over your software choices. Think about the RIAA/MPAA asking M$ to dis-able Limewire on all computers for a big enough bribe. Or M$ deciding that they don't want Open Office to run on their OS. It will happen! There has never been a reason to trust M$ and I don't see that changing.
For a mid size case look at Antec's 640 TX. Plenty of fan spots, room for 3 HDD's, and a nice Antec 400W power supply. I've built 2 AMD 3800 X2's in this case, one with Asus SLI board and both video cards, 2 x 250GB Sata drives, and it cools just fine. With the 120mm exhaust fan set on medium it's pretty quiet too.
I like the plainer cases and all the ones in the endless Tom's article were ugly IMHO.
As a tech at a white box store I remove more virus/trojans from boxes with "Norton protection" than all others put together. Nortons home products are worthless. For a paid anti-virus I recomend F-prot and for free try AVG. When I get a slow box at check in I will disable Norton and reboot in front of the customer, they always want it removed as part of the clean/tune up.
Party affiliation is a joke. The democraps add just as much waste to every spending bill as the repulipricks do. They ALL spend worse than a "drunken sailor", I should know since I used to be one! USN Submarine Service 1976 - 1980.
Until something like this makes the major network news, nothing will happen. Could you imagine a network anchor trying to interview someone from defctive by design? It would be hilarious becuse the talking head wouldn't have a clue what was going on. When it comes to computing few reporters either TV or print know anything about computers or the web, beyond basic use.
Of course we will not see this because the media companies control the networks.
The problem is the various thundering herds of dumbass we call congress and the state legislatures. They have never seen a nickle they can't waste. Remember, they vote for all the spending bills, the President or Governor only signs them. So who is really at fault? Look at Federal spending bills and see what little extras get tacked on to each one as ammendments, most of which have nothing to do with the original bill. That is your so called representatives at work. If OUR money was being spent wisely, the federal budget could be 30% - 50% smaller. Most states have a similar problem.
"If you send it, they WILL spend it" - GWB spring 2001 pushing for tax cuts.
My Grandfather bought some land in NM in the 1940's and put it in a trust for the kids and grandkids. Now whenever the trust has a disbursment you are supposed to file a NM tax return. It doesn't matter where you live. This law was passed without my input since I have no representation in NM as I am not a resident. It has so far cost the residents of NM more than they have collected since any NM tax is done after the state income tax where you live and nobody in the family has paid a nickle yet, but they have to process the extra paperwork. No I will never e-file this one, they have to go through the paper and spend the payroll. I will gladly join any lawsuit against NM for taxation without representation. I hope everyone that has this issue with any state will do the same.
Of course the post has the word "wiretap" in to sensationalize the story. There have not been any wiretaps. The records are - who called who and when. The 1996 law on this says the Govt. can ask for these records at any time. The telcos are NOT obligated to turn them over unless a warrant is obtained.
All the blame goes to spinless execs at the telcos that folded.
That is absolutly correct. Anyone that thinks that one party is less "for sale" than the other is a fool, any one of those politicians can be had for the right campaign donation, speaking fee, hooker, or whatever they want at the moment. Party affiliation has never mattered. After all that great Democrat Lyndon Johnson is the one that said "I like an honest politician, once he's bought he stays bought".
Everything about Vista is going to be a big headache. From the initial sale, think of the sales clerk trying to explain the differences between 6 or 7 versions, with minimal actual differences and major price differences. Add DRM, the usual raft of bugs, and even worse security problems than ever... it's going to be ugly folks. All white box stores need to stock up on XP or start the shift to Linux for all customers. Train them now and end this stupidity.
With the "Big Brother" possibilities of this tecnology maybe that kind of "knee jerk" reaction is appropriate? I think that the implications of someone being able to moniter everything I do is just wrong. The information WILL be shared with entities that we don't authorize and used for purposes we don't approve of.
I'm one of the few left that won't carry a cell phone. If I'm not at work or home, I don't want to talk to anyone on a phone and have no desire to be on someones leash. My time is my time, not anyone elses, and what I do is only my business.
Just like last year when ATI came out with the first card with 512MB on it. When asked what the use was for this an Exec. said "none, we did it because we could and it makes a great ad campaign".
Someone will make use of the capabilities but it will never be mainstream.
The real bottleneck on systems is still the buss, when buss speed is closer to CPU speed that will disappear. Of course any time you access the hard drive it seems like a 486. That is still a major bottleneck for those with less than 1GB of RAM. With the RAM prices today that is not much of an excuse though.
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Law enforcement has had a way to get records from banks for many years, think "drug related money laundering". This is called removing the profit motive for a crime. They show probable cause to a judge who orders the records turned over. Just like trying to get a phone tap, same proceedure. The only thing newsworthy in this whole thing is that they are getting the records from a worldwide clearinghouse of this kind of information. The rest is just standard proceedure. Most European governments have fewer restrictions on this than the U. S. does.
The side I'm on is the one that is always against terrorists. I am a veteran and I vote, deal with it.
If you check a bit further you will find that this has been done with warrants legally issued. Thats what the WSJ article said yesterday. Anytime they can show probable cause they can get a warrant, same as always. The big question is releasing this info to the public so the terrorists can find a different way to move money without getting caught. If you can track the money you can find the bad guys, cut off the money and the bad guys have to find more, slows down their plans. Makes me wonder who's side these papers are on, it's not the same one I'm on.
You have less than a tenth of the risk with a cell phone than of using a landline during a thunderstorm.
Actually the quote is "even God has trouble hitting a one iron". I know because Lee told me, I met him 28 years ago.
After legal fees, will SCO have enough money to buy a 4 cylinder BMW?
This is what the U. S. has turned into, nobody is responsible for their own actions. Everything is someone elses fault. If we hold people reponsible for their own actions it might injure their self-esteem, have to protect that at all costs. Common sense is dead. This falls in with the lady that got burned by the coffee at McD's and won the suite, before an appeals court overturned the judgement on the grounds that coffee is suposed to be hot. Duh. This is why the Darwin awards are so popular.
Most of us produce something of value to somebody, that's how you make a living. What do trial lawyers produce? Courts clogged with mindless lawsuits to get recompense for someones stupidity. This has resulted in billions of dollars spent on methods of avoiding liability for the misuse of a product by some fool, companies have to protect themselves. In most of these suites it's the lawyers on both sides that take home most of the money, the so-called victims get a minor percentage. Trial lawyers produce money for trial lawyers.
If you do something stupid, bad things can happen, learn from your mistake and move on.
They are using vector instead of the old .bmp design. Since Windows has always been a memory hog with nobody in Redmond even capable of spelling "memory management", why are you suprised?
Then again there is nobody in Redmond that can spell "security" and we wonder why Windows has none!
This is a business, you need a land line anyway. The yellow page ad is more effective than anything but the sign on the building. Four years later there is no desire to change because RR in this area is not any faster than DSL and never has been worth the price charged.
"speeds of 3 and 6 Mbps aren't uncommon"
Unless you are stuck with TimeWarner's RoadRunner. They don't invest enough in their hardware and if to many people in your neighborhood are on it the speed drops through the floor, it is "shared bandwidth" after all. The computer store where I work had RR and is one block away from a high end neighborhood. Four years ago we tried to download a few drivers in the summer with all the kids at home. It was so slow, I went home, downloaded 6 drivers and put them on 2 floppies. Got back to the store and RR was on download 3! At the time I still had dial up at home! Two days later RR wanted to raise the price by 25%! The next day the local phone company installed DSL at half the business price of RR and equal speed of RR at it's best. Haven't thought of changing since. This is in the Triad area of NC.
It adds a supposidly fancy graphic interface and that is all if you don't count unlimeted DRM. Vista is still going to be ME revisited.
Of course you need to remember that to run any M$ OS at an acceptable speed you need to take the high end requirement and double it at minimum, especially for RAM. Remember the pain of trying to run XP with 128MB? XP nerver ran decent without 512MB no matter what processor was used.
But with the bribery machine they have now they won't even get a wrist slap. They will countersue under DMCA or some vague patent and win, not through legal merit just throwing enough money at the right people. The times have changed in a big way and it's not for the better!
You are thinking the same way Sony did about the rootkit. In the words from a deputy director of Homeland Security about Sony, "it may be your IP, but it's NOT your computer"! The same applies here, Gates didn't pay for the computer or the electricity to run it, so what's on it is none of his business.
A M$ piece of spyware reporting home in realtime is just setting the stage for remote control over your software choices. Think about the RIAA/MPAA asking M$ to dis-able Limewire on all computers for a big enough bribe. Or M$ deciding that they don't want Open Office to run on their OS. It will happen!
There has never been a reason to trust M$ and I don't see that changing.
For a mid size case look at Antec's 640 TX. Plenty of fan spots, room for 3 HDD's, and a nice Antec 400W power supply. I've built 2 AMD 3800 X2's in this case, one with Asus SLI board and both video cards, 2 x 250GB Sata drives, and it cools just fine. With the 120mm exhaust fan set on medium it's pretty quiet too.
I like the plainer cases and all the ones in the endless Tom's article were ugly IMHO.
As a tech at a white box store I remove more virus/trojans from boxes with "Norton protection" than all others put together. Nortons home products are worthless. For a paid anti-virus I recomend F-prot and for free try AVG. When I get a slow box at check in I will disable Norton and reboot in front of the customer, they always want it removed as part of the clean/tune up.
Party affiliation is a joke. The democraps add just as much waste to every spending bill as the repulipricks do. They ALL spend worse than a "drunken sailor", I should know since I used to be one! USN Submarine Service 1976 - 1980.
Until something like this makes the major network news, nothing will happen. Could you imagine a network anchor trying to interview someone from defctive by design? It would be hilarious becuse the talking head wouldn't have a clue what was going on. When it comes to computing few reporters either TV or print know anything about computers or the web, beyond basic use.
Of course we will not see this because the media companies control the networks.
The problem is the various thundering herds of dumbass we call congress and the state legislatures. They have never seen a nickle they can't waste. Remember, they vote for all the spending bills, the President or Governor only signs them. So who is really at fault? Look at Federal spending bills and see what little extras get tacked on to each one as ammendments, most of which have nothing to do with the original bill. That is your so called representatives at work. If OUR money was being spent wisely, the federal budget could be 30% - 50% smaller. Most states have a similar problem.
"If you send it, they WILL spend it" - GWB spring 2001 pushing for tax cuts.
My Grandfather bought some land in NM in the 1940's and put it in a trust for the kids and grandkids. Now whenever the trust has a disbursment you are supposed to file a NM tax return. It doesn't matter where you live. This law was passed without my input since I have no representation in NM as I am not a resident. It has so far cost the residents of NM more than they have collected since any NM tax is done after the state income tax where you live and nobody in the family has paid a nickle yet, but they have to process the extra paperwork. No I will never e-file this one, they have to go through the paper and spend the payroll. I will gladly join any lawsuit against NM for taxation without representation. I hope everyone that has this issue with any state will do the same.
Let's bring back the spirit of 1776!
They can ask but without a warrant/court order, no telco HAS to turn over anything. Use your head.
Wow! I'm not the only cold warrior around here.
Of course the post has the word "wiretap" in to sensationalize the story. There have not been any wiretaps. The records are - who called who and when. The 1996 law on this says the Govt. can ask for these records at any time. The telcos are NOT obligated to turn them over unless a warrant is obtained.
All the blame goes to spinless execs at the telcos that folded.
That is absolutly correct. Anyone that thinks that one party is less "for sale" than the other is a fool, any one of those politicians can be had for the right campaign donation, speaking fee, hooker, or whatever they want at the moment. Party affiliation has never mattered. After all that great Democrat Lyndon Johnson is the one that said "I like an honest politician, once he's bought he stays bought".
Me 2007
Everything about Vista is going to be a big headache. From the initial sale, think of the sales clerk trying to explain the differences between 6 or 7 versions, with minimal actual differences and major price differences. Add DRM, the usual raft of bugs, and even worse security problems than ever... it's going to be ugly folks. All white box stores need to stock up on XP or start the shift to Linux for all customers. Train them now and end this stupidity.
It still seems like Me revisited.
With the "Big Brother" possibilities of this tecnology maybe that kind of "knee jerk" reaction is appropriate? I think that the implications of someone being able to moniter everything I do is just wrong. The information WILL be shared with entities that we don't authorize and used for purposes we don't approve of.
I'm one of the few left that won't carry a cell phone. If I'm not at work or home, I don't want to talk to anyone on a phone and have no desire to be on someones leash. My time is my time, not anyone elses, and what I do is only my business.
Just like last year when ATI came out with the first card with 512MB on it. When asked what the use was for this an Exec. said "none, we did it because we could and it makes a great ad campaign".
Someone will make use of the capabilities but it will never be mainstream.
The real bottleneck on systems is still the buss, when buss speed is closer to CPU speed that will disappear. Of course any time you access the hard drive it seems like a 486. That is still a major bottleneck for those with less than 1GB of RAM. With the RAM prices today that is not much of an excuse though.