Many people may not realize that it's much more likely that SCO will settle
That presumes that IBM will let them. IMB is currently in the process of dropping Microsoft operating systems. They have a lot invested in Linux, including the future of their company. Any kind of settlement will only substitute SCO for Microsoft as their lords and masters.
IBM has vowed to crack SCO's bones and suck them dry of marrow, and has considerable incentive to do so. And considerable ability to do so, as well.
I agree. For concret examples, just look at the dot.com-dot.bomb cycle. There are lost of fools playing the market (or being played by the market) then.
I just set up a Dell for a coworker. It had the latest service patch, and many of the later critical updates. But not all. I suspect that most computer makers updated their disk images every few months or so. You always need to hit the update sight on a new computer, to see what's needed.
As for safe mode, last time I tried, safe mode disabled all networking, period. That was Win98, however. Perhaps XP is better on that score.
I'd rather see a law requiring 40,000 volts be hooked up to all computers, that can be sent through all exterior surfaces of the computer, with any other computer being able to activate it.
Then, I could just tape the "shock the piss out of the other end" button down on my mail server.
Be a few false positives, but well under 1%. I can live with that.
It looks like they only made 12 infiltrator models, so the rest are presumabably "more robotic". It is possiable that those 12 are going to be destroyed after humanity is finished off.
There is a comment somewhere about the chrome models, that implies very strongly that they are the freaks, and the human-looking models are the norm. "They still have their uses."
I donno, that one makes more sense. It is much much harder for an attacker to subvert a non networked computer, they need to gain physical access to it.
Horseshit. If you don't want the bad guys to subvert your network, don't hook it up to your radios. You can network to your heart's content, if it's not connected to the outside world.
Of corse non-networked computers are also less useful. "What is the most reliable, simplest to debug, and cheapest to produce component of any system?" "the one that isn't there"
Galactica is large and complicated enough it would likely be a chaotic system - you can't predict how everything will interact. Without a network, you also can't respond to unexpected events.
Besides, in the end, the only believable reponse the top brass would have to Adama's "This will will never have a networked computer while I'm in command" would be "Then you are relieved of your command, and under arrest for mutiny."
The only digital back I've ever seen that even came close to what a large format camera is capable of cost $25,000 - twice what my last car cost. A top quality large format camera - assuming you don't make your own - is an order of magnitude less.
That back could produce a final print of about 30" x 45" without interpolation, with an image file size of about 600 mb. An 8" x 10" negative can produce a final print without visible grain an order of magnitude larger.
And that doesn't even begin to address the differences in contrast range (film wins, hands down, by about 2 or 3 f/stops) or color saturation levels (film wins, with slide film winning hands down).
Digital is damned useful, but it ain't film. For most commercial work, it's clearly the way to go. for the kind of art that Adams did, no way in hell.
Since Ansel Adams worked primarily with large format cameras - 4" x 5" or 8" x 10" negatives - which digital cannot even begin to match, I think that Mr. LoPinto is smoking dope if he thinks Adams would have bothered with digital for serious work.
An officer boffing an enlisted man under her command. Yeah, that's realistic.
A training officer boffing a cadet under her command, and falsifying test results. And she's one of the heroes. Yeah, sure.
Cylons that hate humanity to the point of genocide, but they deliberately evolve themselves to be so much like us it takes chemical analysis to detect them. Sure, that's believeable.
Cylons so much like us that we can't detect them without chemical analysis, but if one of them dies, its consciousness is immediately transfered to a new body. Guess I missed that part of my biology glass.
The whole "anti-computer network" thing was just shit.
It sucked. Not as bad as Battlefield Earth, but nearly as bad as Meteor Man.
If you want to run a server, DSL. www.dslextreme.com is a good start. If you local phone company is SBC, it will suck, but there's nothing to be done about that.
I live in Orange County, CA, too. Get a real ISP. Seriously. Cox is run by idiots. It's hard to imagine they lied to you, because they'd have to know how full of shit they were to realize they were lying.
Why on earth are you using Cox? Do you enjoy the pain?
So long as they are reasonable about opening up ports on request, I would agree. As someone else noted, they also have to have reasonable policies set up on using their own SMTP server, and that server needs to work. And should have virus scanning of some kind on it.
As to other ports, 137-139 should simply be blocked, period, with no exceptions. They are used only by Windows networking, and should be non-routable across the entire internet. There is no excuse for them ever being open to the internet. If you need to use those ports, you need to be using some kind of VPN tunnel.
So where is the regulation on the blacklist services?
The market regulates it. A blacklist that is too aggressive doesn't get used. It's really that simple. If your ISP blocks stuff you don't want blocked, compalin to them, or switch. If someone's blocking your mail, it's up to them to complain to their ISP. If they don't, they obviously don't object.
Where is the ability for *genuine* (provably genuine) companies to register their services in such a way that rather than getting blacklisted immediately, they have the opportunity to respond to the issue raised?
Most mail admins don't give a flying fuck whether you are a "genuine" company or not. I got spammed relentlessly by American Express, until I block their entire IP block until the heat death of the universe. If you don't want to be blocked, don't spem. It's not that difficult. Really.
I guess you have nothing to say that I'm interested in hearing. I block all dynamic IPs. It's 100% spam, with no false positives, because so far as I'm concerned, if my mother were sending direct-to-MX from a dial-up account, it's spam.
True, they don't charge you for this, now. However, if they start getting a hundred fold increase in fraudulent charge claims, what do you think they'll do?
Rejoice, most likely. Chargebacks are a profit center for credit card companies. They take the money directly out of the merchant's account, and tack on a fee of $20-50 on top of that, which is far more than the process costs them. They profit from credit card fraud.
You didn't think the bank eats all that fraud, did you? How gullible can someone be?
The reason Felton's case was tossed was that the other side swore, under oath, in court, that there was no dispute. In other words, they swore under penalty of perjury that no DMCA violations, no copyright violations, took place.
Once Best Buy, or anyone else, says that under oath, they don't dare ever bring the subject up again, at FatWallet, or anywhere else, because their statements become part of the public record.
That's as good as an outright victory. In fact, it's better, because they can't change their story later.
I sure has hell hope so. If someone is too goddamn stupid to keep their anti-virus software current, they need to be driven off the internet with a sharp stick.
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Many people may not realize that it's much more likely that SCO will settle
That presumes that IBM will let them. IMB is currently in the process of dropping Microsoft operating systems. They have a lot invested in Linux, including the future of their company. Any kind of settlement will only substitute SCO for Microsoft as their lords and masters.
IBM has vowed to crack SCO's bones and suck them dry of marrow, and has considerable incentive to do so. And considerable ability to do so, as well.
Actually, what you propose would be fraud, and extortion.
Which would be less serious crimes than impersonating a police officer, fraud, and extortion, which may well be what the RIAA is doing.
I'd love to be around when they tried it. California has some pretty draconian laws regarding the making of a citizen's arrest.
4 gigabytes, announced today. NASA could've spent $50 extra and gotten the 15 gigabyte one, but budget cuts et cetera et cetera. You know how it goes.
The first bounce produces an estimated 40 g's, IIRC. Not exactly something the average Wester Digital can handle.
I've already seen that claim. Apparently, the helliday season puts a lot of additional stress on the mentally ill
Take your digital camera out and slam it against a wall hard enough to generate 40gs of deceleration, and see how many megapixiels it has left.
I agree. For concret examples, just look at the dot.com-dot.bomb cycle. There are lost of fools playing the market (or being played by the market) then.
I just set up a Dell for a coworker. It had the latest service patch, and many of the later critical updates. But not all. I suspect that most computer makers updated their disk images every few months or so. You always need to hit the update sight on a new computer, to see what's needed.
As for safe mode, last time I tried, safe mode disabled all networking, period. That was Win98, however. Perhaps XP is better on that score.
I'd rather see a law requiring 40,000 volts be hooked up to all computers, that can be sent through all exterior surfaces of the computer, with any other computer being able to activate it.
Then, I could just tape the "shock the piss out of the other end" button down on my mail server.
Be a few false positives, but well under 1%. I can live with that.
Since those addresses will all be in China, Korea, or South America, it will hardly matter.
Like spammers who are already committing wire fraud with ever run are going to care about a new law that won't be enforced.
It looks like they only made 12 infiltrator models, so the rest are presumabably "more robotic". It is possiable that those 12 are going to be destroyed after humanity is finished off.
There is a comment somewhere about the chrome models, that implies very strongly that they are the freaks, and the human-looking models are the norm. "They still have their uses."
I donno, that one makes more sense. It is much much harder for an attacker to subvert a non networked computer, they need to gain physical access to it.
Horseshit. If you don't want the bad guys to subvert your network, don't hook it up to your radios. You can network to your heart's content, if it's not connected to the outside world.
Of corse non-networked computers are also less useful. "What is the most reliable, simplest to debug, and cheapest to produce component of any system?" "the one that isn't there"
Galactica is large and complicated enough it would likely be a chaotic system - you can't predict how everything will interact. Without a network, you also can't respond to unexpected events.
Besides, in the end, the only believable reponse the top brass would have to Adama's "This will will never have a networked computer while I'm in command" would be "Then you are relieved of your command, and under arrest for mutiny."
Get real.
The only digital back I've ever seen that even came close to what a large format camera is capable of cost $25,000 - twice what my last car cost. A top quality large format camera - assuming you don't make your own - is an order of magnitude less.
That back could produce a final print of about 30" x 45" without interpolation, with an image file size of about 600 mb. An 8" x 10" negative can produce a final print without visible grain an order of magnitude larger.
And that doesn't even begin to address the differences in contrast range (film wins, hands down, by about 2 or 3 f/stops) or color saturation levels (film wins, with slide film winning hands down).
Digital is damned useful, but it ain't film. For most commercial work, it's clearly the way to go. for the kind of art that Adams did, no way in hell.
Since Ansel Adams worked primarily with large format cameras - 4" x 5" or 8" x 10" negatives - which digital cannot even begin to match, I think that Mr. LoPinto is smoking dope if he thinks Adams would have bothered with digital for serious work.
An officer boffing an enlisted man under her command. Yeah, that's realistic.
A training officer boffing a cadet under her command, and falsifying test results. And she's one of the heroes. Yeah, sure.
Cylons that hate humanity to the point of genocide, but they deliberately evolve themselves to be so much like us it takes chemical analysis to detect them. Sure, that's believeable.
Cylons so much like us that we can't detect them without chemical analysis, but if one of them dies, its consciousness is immediately transfered to a new body. Guess I missed that part of my biology glass.
The whole "anti-computer network" thing was just shit.
It sucked. Not as bad as Battlefield Earth, but nearly as bad as Meteor Man.
what do you recommend?
If you want to run a server, DSL. www.dslextreme.com is a good start. If you local phone company is SBC, it will suck, but there's nothing to be done about that.
I live in Orange County, CA, too. Get a real ISP. Seriously. Cox is run by idiots. It's hard to imagine they lied to you, because they'd have to know how full of shit they were to realize they were lying.
Why on earth are you using Cox? Do you enjoy the pain?
Using "he" as a generic 3rd person pronoun is deprecated, and has been so for a long time.
Maybe on your planet. In the English speaking world, however, it's still common usage.
So long as they are reasonable about opening up ports on request, I would agree. As someone else noted, they also have to have reasonable policies set up on using their own SMTP server, and that server needs to work. And should have virus scanning of some kind on it.
As to other ports, 137-139 should simply be blocked, period, with no exceptions. They are used only by Windows networking, and should be non-routable across the entire internet. There is no excuse for them ever being open to the internet. If you need to use those ports, you need to be using some kind of VPN tunnel.
Comcast is run by retards. Buy service from retards, you're likely to get retarded service.
So where is the regulation on the blacklist services?
The market regulates it. A blacklist that is too aggressive doesn't get used. It's really that simple. If your ISP blocks stuff you don't want blocked, compalin to them, or switch. If someone's blocking your mail, it's up to them to complain to their ISP. If they don't, they obviously don't object.
Where is the ability for *genuine* (provably genuine) companies to register their services in such a way that rather than getting blacklisted immediately, they have the opportunity to respond to the issue raised?
Most mail admins don't give a flying fuck whether you are a "genuine" company or not. I got spammed relentlessly by American Express, until I block their entire IP block until the heat death of the universe. If you don't want to be blocked, don't spem. It's not that difficult. Really.
The head of the Nevada Gaming Commission is named Bill Bible?
Somehow, that makes a good deal of sense.
If your IP address is known to be in a dynamic range, it won't get through if you send it direct.
It't not rocket science, and you're not nearly as clever as you think.
I guess you have nothing to say that I'm interested in hearing. I block all dynamic IPs. It's 100% spam, with no false positives, because so far as I'm concerned, if my mother were sending direct-to-MX from a dial-up account, it's spam.
True, they don't charge you for this, now. However, if they start getting a hundred fold increase in fraudulent charge claims, what do you think they'll do?
Rejoice, most likely. Chargebacks are a profit center for credit card companies. They take the money directly out of the merchant's account, and tack on a fee of $20-50 on top of that, which is far more than the process costs them. They profit from credit card fraud.
You didn't think the bank eats all that fraud, did you? How gullible can someone be?
The reason Felton's case was tossed was that the other side swore, under oath, in court, that there was no dispute. In other words, they swore under penalty of perjury that no DMCA violations, no copyright violations, took place.
Once Best Buy, or anyone else, says that under oath, they don't dare ever bring the subject up again, at FatWallet, or anywhere else, because their statements become part of the public record.
That's as good as an outright victory. In fact, it's better, because they can't change their story later.
I sure has hell hope so. If someone is too goddamn stupid to keep their anti-virus software current, they need to be driven off the internet with a sharp stick.