Once one person gets past your firewall they'll find the vulnerable kernel and get into your machine
Really? And how were they planning on doing that, short of breaking into my house physically? I run decent firewall on a dedicated box that is totally locked down. I seriously doubt anyone could breach it without some hard-core time investment. And besides, why would they? On my cable neighborhood there is so much more lower-hanging fruit...
So, for the sake of security, throw some damned boxers on and maybe even a cup
It's not like the box is completely open even once you're into my network, I'm just saying I'm not all that keyed up about upgrading kernels now, now NOW because of a couple of security issues that could only maybe be a factor to someone if they had already breached my not-insubstantial front security.
And as for my sister watching my house and throwing up a WAP for her convenience:
1) She's so far down on the list of people I'd ask to house-sit that I'd probably sell the house first.
2) She doesn't know what a WAP is, so I doubt she'd be installing one anywhere...
3) Re the ibook: She has a Mac-zealot for a neighbor who is so rabid about the things it's pretty much guaranteed that she'll never buy one. She fears that shit might be contagious.
4) And finally, I'd just have whoever use my WAP instead. Which does filtering based on MAC addresses. If you're not on the list it doesn't even acknowledge your existance.
As long as it's secure (behind a NAT) and does what they want it to, why upgrade? The constant "latest and greatest" mentality is what M$ and a ton of other people are counting on to drive their revenue. Office 95, 97,2000, 2002(xp) really, what is the huge gotta have it feature(s) over the last iteration? NHL 200x, Maddden 200x, NBA200x, same thing...
Step off the treadmill of upgrade upgrade upgrade!!!!
I think that wouldn't be a wise step to take, career-wise
What career? He's 63. Who the hell is going to hire him for more than a short term thing anyway? Better to sue, if he gets a final settlement for just 3x his annual salary, he's ahead and can at least pack away something else for retirement in his RRSPs. What would be even better is if he won his final 2 years of salary, and got any pension bennys restored and started now.
At this point I think he has nothing to lose by suing.
Or that it took a major media blitz and a class-action suit to get them off their asses? Sounds rather like the old "Hmm.. which one of these will cost us more?" discussion was had around the boardroom table. If this could have been swept under the rug, it would have been. Trust me.
So you run that puppy 24/7 then? Because only if that was the case would it be a straight companrison.
If not, let's presume you use it 30 minutes per day (to be on the high side). That means it uses.6 kWh per day. Your computers, on the other hand, you say around 550 watts, but let's round that down to 500 just to be conservative. So, your computers use.5 kWh x 24 hours (if on 24/7) = 12 kWh / day. If they're only on 8 hours a day, that's still 4 kWh/day.
Conclusion: Unless you have a constant parade of people coming through your house making poptarts, toast, and mini-pizzas constantly, there is no way in hell your toaster uses anywhere near what your computers are.
The crock is you thinking all of the rejected stories had anything to do with "TECH".
The Diebold story is interesting because of the computerized voting angle. Not sure where the "news for nerds" aspect is in the "Iraq Diary" story, or the "Quick exit" story.
If I want to read 100 stories about Iraq daily, there's tons of other sites spewing them out by the ton. I come to Slashdot for tech-related stories.
Why not one, or one part time Oh yeah, a part time tech. What a wonderful idea. Maybe you can take advantage of that iCrashwhenyouwant software to schedule the problems around when the part-timer is in? Or are you only planning on hiring Mac techs who live a 2 minute walk from the office?
since OS X needs so little support? And that's pretty damn funny. Real life case at a place I once worked, there was 40 PCs deployed, and three Macs. Fully a quarter of the support tickets generated for the whole company came from the three Macs. I especially got a kick out of how often the graphics guy would curse that his Mac crashed on him - again! and he lost what he was working on.
How much energy does the sun deliver to say a in^2? Well it's a lot more than a cell phone or most in^2 not actually on radio towers where they're concerned. So the em-radiation probably isn't causing cancer
Not the same thing at all. There's a lot of lower spectrum coming from the sun, but almost no upper spectrum. Take your own words at face value for an instant. If what you said was true and the sun was putting out a lot more em radition in the same spectrum as radio, radio wouldn't work because it would be drowned out...
I am sure that there are segments of the car driving population that still adhere to this.
Oh yeah. Anyone with an older Little British Car (Triumph, Rover, MG, Austin Healey, etc) knows all about self-maintenance. Perhaps we know a bit too much.;). If you have one of those cars, you're either a mechanic yourself (pro or hobby), or have way too much disposable income going to support a British car mechanic.
Skytrain. Yeah... I'd love to see everyone get up and all take mass transit one day just like Larry Campbell's saying we should. BC Transit would be crippled by the load. My big bitch with it all is that they are fighting this war on cars, but not providing any realistic alternative plans for people that do leave their cars at home. I take the skytrain downtown to arrive at my office at 10:30 AM, and most trains are still sardine cans on wheels an hour after the "rush" has allegedly ended. Cars are the only viable option as long as the population keeps heading out to the 'burbs....
It's perhaps not the most expensive place, but it's close. If you want a freestanding house on its own lot in Vancouver proper, you'd better be prepared for a half million CDN mortgage. Further out in the GVRD (Greater Vancouver Regional District), the prices drop, but you'll never see a house with a decent commute to downtown for under $300000. With a 2 hour commute you can get one for like $150000. Compare that with a place like Edmonton where a house on a lot can be yours for less than $100K... Oh, and did I mention the city planners in Vancouver seem to have a hate-on for cars and are eternally doing everything in their power to discourage people from using them? This of course means they just make it more expensive. Currently they're trying to make parking meter hours extend until midnight, and are looking at a "congestion" fee to enter downtown for cars like London has.
Changing one regime in the middle of the worst neighborhood and hoping like hell the domino theory kicks in was the best available option.
Are you joking? I'd say it was one of the worst options. Maybe the intended lesson was "Don't screw with us or we'll invade you", but it seems that North Korea and Iran heard it as "We'll invade you if we don't like you unless you have nukes, so you better get some if you want to keep your country"
Yeah, that worked out real well. 4 more years of that and maybe Syria and Egypt will be part of the nuclear club as well...
It might be a troll, it might not. I kinda doubt it. I've thought a lot about this issue, and things *are* headed back that way. I think of unions today as just as big leeches as what they were created to fight, but 60-80 years ago they were needed. Companies had all the power and treated employees like slaves. Now unions are sometimes driving the companies out of business. It's like a pendulum, and now that it's been on the unions' side long enough to erode a lot of their usefulness, and their making inroads into new fields, we're starting to see it swinging back toward the companies. And the downturn only speeds it along.
This is that wonderful "free market" "self correction" in action. Things get really bad in one way until pressures force things the opposite way. Too bad it's only generally good for a lot of us when the pendulum is in the middle, not at the extremes. But hey, if we hang on 20 more years, good times, good times!
I did that too. I was doing support for a Windows 3.1 program, and my usual trick was rather than get the customer to try manipulating things through file manager, I just take them to the DOS prompt and they type exactly what I say. I almost always followed along on a DOS prompt of my own, just for reference. A little slower, but more accurate. Well, this one time the caller had a bunk database that was taking up a large chunk of their hard drive. So, after verifying the directory it was located in, I had them change directories to that location, got distracted for a second by something the other support guy was doing at his desk, and then told the customer to do a "del *.*" while I did the same. Everything worked out well on the customer's side, but I had managed to nuke my windows directory (since I failed to change directories after opening the prompt), and about 15 seconds after I did that, my machine barfed and died.
There is loss. Loss in seeing the value of the movie being diluted because some cretin put it on the internet for free.
Oh, bullshit. You mean MARKETED for free. The first Spiderman was one of the most blatantly posted movies ever, and it was one of the biggest takers at the box office. You think anyone who would have paid to see that movie is going to look at a washed out, bad sounding, shaky cam-movie and decide not to see it? Half the point to these movies is the special effects, none of which are coming across to the little low-res tape.
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Once one person gets past your firewall they'll find the vulnerable kernel and get into your machine
Really? And how were they planning on doing that, short of breaking into my house physically? I run decent firewall on a dedicated box that is totally locked down. I seriously doubt anyone could breach it without some hard-core time investment. And besides, why would they? On my cable neighborhood there is so much more lower-hanging fruit...
So, for the sake of security, throw some damned boxers on and maybe even a cup
It's not like the box is completely open even once you're into my network, I'm just saying I'm not all that keyed up about upgrading kernels now, now NOW because of a couple of security issues that could only maybe be a factor to someone if they had already breached my not-insubstantial front security.
And as for my sister watching my house and throwing up a WAP for her convenience:
1) She's so far down on the list of people I'd ask to house-sit that I'd probably sell the house first.
2) She doesn't know what a WAP is, so I doubt she'd be installing one anywhere...
3) Re the ibook: She has a Mac-zealot for a neighbor who is so rabid about the things it's pretty much guaranteed that she'll never buy one. She fears that shit might be contagious.
4) And finally, I'd just have whoever use my WAP instead. Which does filtering based on MAC addresses. If you're not on the list it doesn't even acknowledge your existance.
As long as it's secure (behind a NAT) and does what they want it to, why upgrade? The constant "latest and greatest" mentality is what M$ and a ton of other people are counting on to drive their revenue. Office 95, 97,2000, 2002(xp) really, what is the huge gotta have it feature(s) over the last iteration? NHL 200x, Maddden 200x, NBA200x, same thing...
Step off the treadmill of upgrade upgrade upgrade!!!!
I think that wouldn't be a wise step to take, career-wise
What career? He's 63. Who the hell is going to hire him for more than a short term thing anyway? Better to sue, if he gets a final settlement for just 3x his annual salary, he's ahead and can at least pack away something else for retirement in his RRSPs. What would be even better is if he won his final 2 years of salary, and got any pension bennys restored and started now.
At this point I think he has nothing to lose by suing.
Or that it took a major media blitz and a class-action suit to get them off their asses? Sounds rather like the old "Hmm.. which one of these will cost us more?" discussion was had around the boardroom table. If this could have been swept under the rug, it would have been. Trust me.
So you run that puppy 24/7 then? Because only if that was the case would it be a straight companrison.
.6 kWh per day. Your computers, on the other hand, you say around 550 watts, but let's round that down to 500 just to be conservative. So, your computers use .5 kWh x 24 hours (if on 24/7) = 12 kWh / day. If they're only on 8 hours a day, that's still 4 kWh/day.
If not, let's presume you use it 30 minutes per day (to be on the high side). That means it uses
Conclusion: Unless you have a constant parade of people coming through your house making poptarts, toast, and mini-pizzas constantly, there is no way in hell your toaster uses anywhere near what your computers are.
I particularily enjoy paying $26 to watch a half dozen commercials before the previews.
And the antipiracy ads even more so.
Not.
That's one of the reasons I stopped going to theaters for the most part.
The crock is you thinking all of the rejected stories had anything to do with "TECH".
The Diebold story is interesting because of the computerized voting angle. Not sure where the "news for nerds" aspect is in the "Iraq Diary" story, or the "Quick exit" story.
If I want to read 100 stories about Iraq daily, there's tons of other sites spewing them out by the ton. I come to Slashdot for tech-related stories.
Well, in this instance, if you don't know what a PBX is, you don't need one. Nothing to see here... move along.
Hey! Some people still think that was a staged murder....
Indeed. Aopen even went so far as to make a P4 motherboard with a tube in the circuit for the onboard audio. Crazy...
I suppose the plot to assassinate George Herbert Walker Bush did not constitute a threat?
Strictly speaking, no it isn't a threat to the US. It's a threat to Mr. Bush senior, but not one to the country.
Why not one, or one part time
Oh yeah, a part time tech. What a wonderful idea. Maybe you can take advantage of that iCrashwhenyouwant software to schedule the problems around when the part-timer is in? Or are you only planning on hiring Mac techs who live a 2 minute walk from the office?
since OS X needs so little support?
And that's pretty damn funny. Real life case at a place I once worked, there was 40 PCs deployed, and three Macs. Fully a quarter of the support tickets generated for the whole company came from the three Macs. I especially got a kick out of how often the graphics guy would curse that his Mac crashed on him - again! and he lost what he was working on.
How much energy does the sun deliver to say a in^2? Well it's a lot more than a cell phone or most in^2 not actually on radio towers where they're concerned. So the em-radiation probably isn't causing cancer
Not the same thing at all. There's a lot of lower spectrum coming from the sun, but almost no upper spectrum. Take your own words at face value for an instant. If what you said was true and the sun was putting out a lot more em radition in the same spectrum as radio, radio wouldn't work because it would be drowned out...
Columbus wasn't first across the ocean either. Leif Erickson beat him.
I am sure that there are segments of the car driving population that still adhere to this.
;). If you have one of those cars, you're either a mechanic yourself (pro or hobby), or have way too much disposable income going to support a British car mechanic.
Oh yeah. Anyone with an older Little British Car (Triumph, Rover, MG, Austin Healey, etc) knows all about self-maintenance. Perhaps we know a bit too much.
Skytrain. Yeah... I'd love to see everyone get up and all take mass transit one day just like Larry Campbell's saying we should. BC Transit would be crippled by the load. My big bitch with it all is that they are fighting this war on cars, but not providing any realistic alternative plans for people that do leave their cars at home. I take the skytrain downtown to arrive at my office at 10:30 AM, and most trains are still sardine cans on wheels an hour after the "rush" has allegedly ended. Cars are the only viable option as long as the population keeps heading out to the 'burbs....
It's perhaps not the most expensive place, but it's close. If you want a freestanding house on its own lot in Vancouver proper, you'd better be prepared for a half million CDN mortgage. Further out in the GVRD (Greater Vancouver Regional District), the prices drop, but you'll never see a house with a decent commute to downtown for under $300000. With a 2 hour commute you can get one for like $150000. Compare that with a place like Edmonton where a house on a lot can be yours for less than $100K...
Oh, and did I mention the city planners in Vancouver seem to have a hate-on for cars and are eternally doing everything in their power to discourage people from using them? This of course means they just make it more expensive. Currently they're trying to make parking meter hours extend until midnight, and are looking at a "congestion" fee to enter downtown for cars like London has.
Just by Boundary and Canada Way....
No, we're just pro-Canada. And they film it 1000 meters from my house. No joking...
Changing one regime in the middle of the worst neighborhood and hoping like hell the domino theory kicks in was the best available option.
Are you joking? I'd say it was one of the worst options. Maybe the intended lesson was "Don't screw with us or we'll invade you", but it seems that North Korea and Iran heard it as "We'll invade you if we don't like you unless you have nukes, so you better get some if you want to keep your country"
Yeah, that worked out real well. 4 more years of that and maybe Syria and Egypt will be part of the nuclear club as well...
It depends... Are we talking old or new? Old, red. New yellow. Really new/old (depending on how you call it), yellow.
Nothing says fun like inexplicably changing the colors..
It might be a troll, it might not. I kinda doubt it. I've thought a lot about this issue, and things *are* headed back that way. I think of unions today as just as big leeches as what they were created to fight, but 60-80 years ago they were needed. Companies had all the power and treated employees like slaves. Now unions are sometimes driving the companies out of business.
It's like a pendulum, and now that it's been on the unions' side long enough to erode a lot of their usefulness, and their making inroads into new fields, we're starting to see it swinging back toward the companies. And the downturn only speeds it along.
This is that wonderful "free market" "self correction" in action. Things get really bad in one way until pressures force things the opposite way. Too bad it's only generally good for a lot of us when the pendulum is in the middle, not at the extremes. But hey, if we hang on 20 more years, good times, good times!
Cool! They give you all combadges and different colors denoting your general field ? Gold for IT, red for managerial, blue for research, etc?
I did that too. I was doing support for a Windows 3.1 program, and my usual trick was rather than get the customer to try manipulating things through file manager, I just take them to the DOS prompt and they type exactly what I say. I almost always followed along on a DOS prompt of my own, just for reference. A little slower, but more accurate.
Well, this one time the caller had a bunk database that was taking up a large chunk of their hard drive. So, after verifying the directory it was located in, I had them change directories to that location, got distracted for a second by something the other support guy was doing at his desk, and then told the customer to do a "del *.*" while I did the same.
Everything worked out well on the customer's side, but I had managed to nuke my windows directory (since I failed to change directories after opening the prompt), and about 15 seconds after I did that, my machine barfed and died.
Oops.
There is loss. Loss in seeing the value of the movie being diluted because some cretin put it on the internet for free.
Oh, bullshit. You mean MARKETED for free. The first Spiderman was one of the most blatantly posted movies ever, and it was one of the biggest takers at the box office. You think anyone who would have paid to see that movie is going to look at a washed out, bad sounding, shaky cam-movie and decide not to see it? Half the point to these movies is the special effects, none of which are coming across to the little low-res tape.