It's been my experience that all consumer grade access points come with all security features turned off. WEP and MAC filtering are not enabled until the user/admin turns them on. Realistically I don't see this situation changing any. What's the alternative - setting a default WEP password that ships with thousands of identical AP's?
Part of this is an ease of use issue. When you install your first access point you just want to get the thing working. After the initial joy of a succesfull installation it's up to you to turn on WEP and enable MAC filtering. Even then your WiFi network won't be truly secure.
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You are incorrect. Prior to this release of Mozilla you could NOT authenticate against an NTLM service w/Mozilla. If you were doing any authentication at all against IIS it would have been basic authentication.
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This is actually a great thing. I frequently work with clients who run IIS on their intranets. As it stands now I have no choice but to switch to IE when accessing areas that use NTLM authentication. This is one less reason for me to fire-up IE.
Ultimately this could contribute to a wider deployment of Mozilla in corporate environments.
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This must be the definition of marketing insanity. On one hand, providing a scaled-down free service is an interesting approach to building a user-base. On the other hand, anyone who's gonna pay $1500 for this thing isn't gonna to blink at the cost of the lifetime subscription. If this were $200 machine this would be an entirely different story.
Also, as a happy TiVo owner I wonder whether or not the value of this PVR would be as obvious in the scaled down service. The product category is so new that the masses won't necessarily think in terms of upgradability. Seems like they'll have to force some annoying upsell adverts onto the unit in order to reach their target conversion ratio.
Except that this 'bug' also affects outlook. For better or worse that's become the defacto standard email client in corporate america. So it seems like it wouldn't take much for someone to bring down a lot of mail clients by inserting this code into an HTML mail message. At that point people might start to see this as a serious vulnerability.
No, it's not a slow news day, this problem could actually be quite serious. If for no other reason it could effectively cause a DOS for most corporate help desks.
A few years back the RIAA made a $100+ million settlement with MP3.com. At the time they claimed that the settlement money would be distributed to artists. Last I heard the money was still sitting in some account somewhere completely undistributed (collecting interest for the labels, but certainly not the artists).
- Creedence Clearwater Revival - the Kinks - Van Morrison - Ray Charles - John Coltrane - Miles Davis - Thelonious Monk - Charles Mingus - John Lee Hooker (don't know him? ask ZZ Top) - Bill Evans - Yo La Tengo - Sonic Youth - Pavement - Joe Strummer - Rancid - Bad Religion - Camper Van Beethoven - George Carlin - the Violent Femmes - the Cramps - Lightnin' Hopkins - Albert King - Bob Marley - 50 cent - Isaac Hayes (yes, the Chef) - Otis Redding
I could go on. The point is that while you won't find every single artist you're looking for at emusie, you will find an incredible selection of quality music without DRM restrictions at a very reasonable price.
emusic is more of a service for music lovers with a large musical vocabulary and a willingness to experiment with genres. It's clearly not for individuals who are looking to duplicate their FM radio experience.
I see emusic as being entirely different from Apple's new offering in many ways. Apple may do well with consumers who want individual hits from top 40 artists. That type of consumer typically has a much smaller music collection than old vinyl nerds who tend to listen to every genre imaginable.
One person I have working for me actually used to be a hacker -- he's British -- and we persuaded him there was a career to be had.
He goes on to explain how Microsoft built a team of MS hackers to hack their own system. He never explains why it was important that the guy was British. I suppose doing so might divulge too much about some important new MS security protocol.
Well around here we actually have a rebate department. Our rebate department handles all rebate request processing and keeps track of any pending requests. If a company fails to send a check in a reasonable period of time, our Rebate Department tracks them down and harrasses them until they send us the money.
Over the past four years this system has worked pretty well. We've only had one rebate deadbeat. Microsoft kept kicking back our request for a $75 rebate on Win2K. It was kind of odd, actually. They'd return the paperwork with a form claiming the request was incomplete and asking for the proof of purchase from the product box (included in our request and in the envelope they repeatedly sent back to our company). After four tries we finally got a check. Somehow I think a lot of people didn't get their $75 rebate. Of course, not everyone has a rebate department.
The movie 'takes place' mid-series if I recall. It was really cheating most of the US to show them the complete series first- the movie should have been timed to premiere in the US around ep 20 or so, but well before the last episodes.
Just one problem with this comment. The movie was actually made AFTER the series. That means even the Japanese audiences didn't see it until after the entire series had run.
I'd be interested in hearing resports from individuals who've succesfully sued after receiving unsolicited commercial faxes. If you won, were you able to collect?
No, as others have stated you can use an older RealPlayer client. I listened most of last season with v.8 and had no problems. The same seems to be true this year with the spring training games. But I agree, if they ever do require RealOne, I'll cancel my subscription immediately. A more ill behaved media client has not yet been created (although I'm sure WiMP will get there one day).
BTW, in response to the root article, there's no way in hell I would pay MLB to watch games online. It's an absolute certainty that they'll screw it up. Their new media offerings last season (condensed games, etc.) were pretty bad. If I wanna watch that much baseball I'll shell out a few extra bucks and buy the DirectTV package -- Baseball on TiVo rules!
one last BTW, the various posters who've commented on/.ers lack of interest in sports are missing the point -- Baseball is the ultimate geek sport.
I disagree. Good fiction has a very long shelf life. And this particular book may not have been on the radar of many/.ers when it was first released, so it's entirely possible that this book may actually be new to many -- even at this late date. How many/.ers do you think are avid consumers of literary fiction? Some, certainly, but I'd bet they are in the minority.
Plus the topic of the book (war, good vs. evil, etc.) is very timely.
Except that, while he's currently the sysadmin that may not always be the case. Knowing the way knowledge transfer works in most organizations I doubt that information about the backdoor will be passed along to the next sysadmin. And once this sysadmin is a "former sysadmin" he becomes a security risk.
Actually emusic rates drop to less than $10/mo if you're willing to commit for a longer term. It's a tremendous bargain and all songs are playable on any device that plays MP3s.
It's not clear to me that the new Apple service will allow me to play songs on my Audiotron. This morning's LA Times refers to a requirement that users will have register their iPods with the service in order to play songs on their portable. Still sounds too restrictive to me.
Or use a wireless bridge like the Linksys wet11 (same price as the wireless converter referenced above). The advantage with a bridge is that it can handle more than one component for about the same price.
On the contrary, if you prefer the single window single site model you can just open multiple instances of Mozilla. The same cannot be said for tabs. If you prefer tabs and they aren't there - well there's no alternative but to use another browser.
Personally I find tabs exceptionally useful while doing web development. I frequently have to work in multiple areas of the same application and bounce between them. If I'm focused on one page in particular I can make that the active tab and then return to it instantly by opening the Mozilla window - which is much quicker than cycling through all open windows.
I never have fewer than three pages open at any given time. For me tabs are essential and there is no acceptable substitute.
Brilliant. Do they realize that you actually *PAY* for Pay Per View? Seems like that payment should give me the right to watch the show a week later if I don't get around to it sooner.
I know we're talking about a different industry here, but this sounds suspiciously like something Hillary Rosen would dream up. 'I know, let's kill off our business by screwing our paying customers.'
The challenge is getting your universal remote to work with those slow moving monsters. They're usually watching some Mulan crap, but now we'll have the option of switching to adult swim.
A new wave of freeway IR remote hacking is upon us. Rejoice!
Yep, this is exactly the direction they should be going. I find that I actually order pay-per-view MORE now that I've got a TiVo. I record stuff in the middle of the night and watch it two weeks later. In the past it was always too much of a pain to sit down and watch PPV programming when it was on. Not to mention the fact that you're pretty much locked to the TV watching a show you've paid for for a 2 hour period. Now I can pause PPV, rewind, etc.
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It's been my experience that all consumer grade access points come with all security features turned off. WEP and MAC filtering are not enabled until the user/admin turns them on. Realistically I don't see this situation changing any. What's the alternative - setting a default WEP password that ships with thousands of identical AP's?
Part of this is an ease of use issue. When you install your first access point you just want to get the thing working. After the initial joy of a succesfull installation it's up to you to turn on WEP and enable MAC filtering. Even then your WiFi network won't be truly secure.
You are incorrect. Prior to this release of Mozilla you could NOT authenticate against an NTLM service w/Mozilla. If you were doing any authentication at all against IIS it would have been basic authentication.
This is actually a great thing. I frequently work with clients who run IIS on their intranets. As it stands now I have no choice but to switch to IE when accessing areas that use NTLM authentication. This is one less reason for me to fire-up IE.
Ultimately this could contribute to a wider deployment of Mozilla in corporate environments.
This must be the definition of marketing insanity. On one hand, providing a scaled-down free service is an interesting approach to building a user-base. On the other hand, anyone who's gonna pay $1500 for this thing isn't gonna to blink at the cost of the lifetime subscription. If this were $200 machine this would be an entirely different story.
Also, as a happy TiVo owner I wonder whether or not the value of this PVR would be as obvious in the scaled down service. The product category is so new that the masses won't necessarily think in terms of upgradability. Seems like they'll have to force some annoying upsell adverts onto the unit in order to reach their target conversion ratio.
Except that this 'bug' also affects outlook. For better or worse that's become the defacto standard email client in corporate america. So it seems like it wouldn't take much for someone to bring down a lot of mail clients by inserting this code into an HTML mail message. At that point people might start to see this as a serious vulnerability.
No, it's not a slow news day, this problem could actually be quite serious. If for no other reason it could effectively cause a DOS for most corporate help desks.
A few years back the RIAA made a $100+ million settlement with MP3.com. At the time they claimed that the settlement money would be distributed to artists. Last I heard the money was still sitting in some account somewhere completely undistributed (collecting interest for the labels, but certainly not the artists).
Try searching for
- Creedence Clearwater Revival
- the Kinks
- Van Morrison
- Ray Charles
- John Coltrane
- Miles Davis
- Thelonious Monk
- Charles Mingus
- John Lee Hooker (don't know him? ask ZZ Top)
- Bill Evans
- Yo La Tengo
- Sonic Youth
- Pavement
- Joe Strummer
- Rancid
- Bad Religion
- Camper Van Beethoven
- George Carlin
- the Violent Femmes
- the Cramps
- Lightnin' Hopkins
- Albert King
- Bob Marley
- 50 cent
- Isaac Hayes (yes, the Chef)
- Otis Redding
I could go on. The point is that while you won't find every single artist you're looking for at emusie, you will find an incredible selection of quality music without DRM restrictions at a very reasonable price.
emusic is more of a service for music lovers with a large musical vocabulary and a willingness to experiment with genres. It's clearly not for individuals who are looking to duplicate their FM radio experience.
I see emusic as being entirely different from Apple's new offering in many ways. Apple may do well with consumers who want individual hits from top 40 artists. That type of consumer typically has a much smaller music collection than old vinyl nerds who tend to listen to every genre imaginable.
From the Rob Short Interview:
One person I have working for me actually used to be a hacker -- he's British -- and we persuaded him there was a career to be had.
He goes on to explain how Microsoft built a team of MS hackers to hack their own system. He never explains why it was important that the guy was British. I suppose doing so might divulge too much about some important new MS security protocol.
Well around here we actually have a rebate department. Our rebate department handles all rebate request processing and keeps track of any pending requests. If a company fails to send a check in a reasonable period of time, our Rebate Department tracks them down and harrasses them until they send us the money.
Over the past four years this system has worked pretty well. We've only had one rebate deadbeat. Microsoft kept kicking back our request for a $75 rebate on Win2K. It was kind of odd, actually. They'd return the paperwork with a form claiming the request was incomplete and asking for the proof of purchase from the product box (included in our request and in the envelope they repeatedly sent back to our company). After four tries we finally got a check. Somehow I think a lot of people didn't get their $75 rebate. Of course, not everyone has a rebate department.
Is anyone else concerned about the increasing number of government sanctioned Czars in America? At what point did we become a Czarist nation?
The movie 'takes place' mid-series if I recall. It was really cheating most of the US to show them the complete series first- the movie should have been timed to premiere in the US around ep 20 or so, but well before the last episodes.
Just one problem with this comment. The movie was actually made AFTER the series. That means even the Japanese audiences didn't see it until after the entire series had run.
I'd be interested in hearing resports from individuals who've succesfully sued after receiving unsolicited commercial faxes. If you won, were you able to collect?
No, as others have stated you can use an older RealPlayer client. I listened most of last season with v.8 and had no problems. The same seems to be true this year with the spring training games. But I agree, if they ever do require RealOne, I'll cancel my subscription immediately. A more ill behaved media client has not yet been created (although I'm sure WiMP will get there one day).
/.ers lack of interest in sports are missing the point -- Baseball is the ultimate geek sport.
BTW, in response to the root article, there's no way in hell I would pay MLB to watch games online. It's an absolute certainty that they'll screw it up. Their new media offerings last season (condensed games, etc.) were pretty bad. If I wanna watch that much baseball I'll shell out a few extra bucks and buy the DirectTV package -- Baseball on TiVo rules!
one last BTW, the various posters who've commented on
I disagree. Good fiction has a very long shelf life. And this particular book may not have been on the radar of many /.ers when it was first released, so it's entirely possible that this book may actually be new to many -- even at this late date. How many /.ers do you think are avid consumers of literary fiction? Some, certainly, but I'd bet they are in the minority.
Plus the topic of the book (war, good vs. evil, etc.) is very timely.
Except that, while he's currently the sysadmin that may not always be the case. Knowing the way knowledge transfer works in most organizations I doubt that information about the backdoor will be passed along to the next sysadmin. And once this sysadmin is a "former sysadmin" he becomes a security risk.
Actually emusic rates drop to less than $10/mo if you're willing to commit for a longer term. It's a tremendous bargain and all songs are playable on any device that plays MP3s.
It's not clear to me that the new Apple service will allow me to play songs on my Audiotron. This morning's LA Times refers to a requirement that users will have register their iPods with the service in order to play songs on their portable.
Still sounds too restrictive to me.
Except this Safari came first. They've been online for well over a year.
The second page of photos is here:
. ht ml
http://homepage.mac.com/aaronsteele/PhotoAlbum7
You can clearly see OS9 has booted. I think there might have been less damage if she were running OSX.
The Zend Studio PHP debugger is not that bad. It's part of an integrated IDE which includes nice support for remote debugging.
Or use a wireless bridge like the Linksys wet11 (same price as the wireless converter referenced above). The advantage with a bridge is that it can handle more than one component for about the same price.
On the contrary, if you prefer the single window single site model you can just open multiple instances of Mozilla. The same cannot be said for tabs. If you prefer tabs and they aren't there - well there's no alternative but to use another browser.
Personally I find tabs exceptionally useful while doing web development. I frequently have to work in multiple areas of the same application and bounce between them. If I'm focused on one page in particular I can make that the active tab and then return to it instantly by opening the Mozilla window - which is much quicker than cycling through all open windows.
I never have fewer than three pages open at any given time. For me tabs are essential and there is no acceptable substitute.
Brilliant. Do they realize that you actually *PAY* for Pay Per View? Seems like that payment should give me the right to watch the show a week later if I don't get around to it sooner.
I know we're talking about a different industry here, but this sounds suspiciously like something Hillary Rosen would dream up. 'I know, let's kill off our business by screwing our paying customers.'
The challenge is getting your universal remote to work with those slow moving monsters. They're usually watching some Mulan crap, but now we'll have the option of switching to adult swim.
A new wave of freeway IR remote hacking is upon us. Rejoice!
Yep, this is exactly the direction they should be going. I find that I actually order pay-per-view MORE now that I've got a TiVo. I record stuff in the middle of the night and watch it two weeks later. In the past it was always too much of a pain to sit down and watch PPV programming when it was on. Not to mention the fact that you're pretty much locked to the TV watching a show you've paid for for a 2 hour period. Now I can pause PPV, rewind, etc.
I believe UMG now owns emusic. Also, this past summer quite a bit of UMG's back catalog began turning up on emusic. I wonder how long this will last?