Hear hear! I second that. Until Microsoft PROVES that they are playing well with others without having to be cajoled or forced by a government organization, then I will believe it.
Which leads me to my questions.
In the recent times Microsoft has been hit with many lawsuits with the same story. Basically it's been going down like this:
1) Company A shows Microsoft new technology X 2) Microsoft shuns new technology X, tells Company A to go to hell 3) Microsoft releases new technology X as Microsoft Y (or includes it in existing product) 4) Company A sues Microsoft for IP violations & damages
With Microsoft's stance against even looking at GPL'd software, is the GPL the only way to protect ones intellectual property against Microsoft? Or will Microsoft eventually steal from everyone indiscriminately?
The teaser trailer seems to say that the discovery the of last 10 percent of the human genome is what makes the creatures into what they are. No mention of hell or portals at all. Hmmf.
Watch the last few seconds of the trailer. There is most definately a portal and a demon walking through it.
A "Beta" does not have to be feature complete. It's a TEST version.
No, you just described an Alpha or a proof of concept. Some groups differentiate the two, use a POC written in one language and write the final in another.
A beta is supposed to have full features. It is supposed to go through a "beta test", where bugs are found and fixed. Nothing else should happen but fixes at this point in time.
A "Release Candidate" is feature complete.
No, a release candidate is a beta + some clean ups. Nothing but bug fixes should be made from beta to release candidate to release.
Yes. So you want to get rid of all the redundancies between different components. However when your "server" has a bug, it's not just your computer. It's your TV, your Stereo, your PS4, and your computer.
In addition this sounds like a jack of all trades and a master of none, trying to get all that functionality into one device will make it convoluted and hard to use.
Oh oh, and you want to clog up the little free wireless spectrum we have left. All around this thing you describe has many fundamental flaws.
Maybe one day those flaws will be addressed, but you had stated "near future" in your post. To me that means within 10 years MAX, and I don't see that kind of convergance happening within that time frame.
Then again, I never thought I'd own a Mac either so I have been wrong before;)
1. Desktops will be replaced with Browser simulations of a Desktop that can work anytime, anywhere.
Highly unlikely. With hardware getting cheaper it makes no sense to outsource your applications to a server.
Having your data available everywhere is not going to outweigh the inherent security risks associated with putting your data on the public internet. And encryption can only go so far, without you locking yourself out. No company is going to implement proper encryption due to the irreversable nature of a lost password.
Combined with the fact that this will probably cost money. Free e-mail is one thing, ads are part of the business. No one is going to want to be blasted with ads while trying to write a paper or a report. Why pay for a company to have your word processing docs and other stuff when disk is so cheap. Why pay monthly for a word processor when you can get OO.o for free or buy Office and be done with it? In addition I've had server unavailable messages from Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo. I don't know any business or person who would take that risk with their word documents.
2. The traditional PC will then be replaced by a home server through which all activity will happen.
So desktops will become servers? Huh? I'm just not sure what you are talking about.
3. Components for Music, Television, Desktop, and Video Game consoles will (in many cases wirelessly) interact with this server.4. The server itself will run an OS based on a managed code environment, making remote attacks difficult if not impossible. (Many Unix concepts would probably be reused in this system, but it won't *be* Unix.)
Possible, although what the server will run is anyones guess since I'm still not clear on what you mean by the server.
Let me connect a few dots for you:... I moved from the midwest (South Dakota where literally 99.8% of the population is white)...
My step-daughter (100% Vietnamese) is 17 and tells me the same things about her high school. Kids generally tend to separate into ethnic clichs instead of the nerds/jocks/popular clichs I had when I was a kid...
Don't be an ass, turnstyle had a legitimate point. This used to be a problem that a "small number" of black hats could exploit, now it's a problem that a million script kiddies know about. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to claim that cisco was fixing the issue promptly enough, but dissmissing people who point out the problems with full disclosure is just plain irresponsible.
Script kiddies aren't smart enough to do anything without automated tools (refer to bitchchecker) I contend that it doesn't matter how many script kiddies know because they just don't have the knowledge to implement an attack.
Both articles were pretty light on details. If it turns out Cisco sat on this exploit for a really long time, then he probably did do the right thing for the greater good. If Cisco was going to release a fix within the next couple of days, well then he did a bitch move.
If you use php, and a roun robin server, you should have no trouble. Use sessions, store session data in a central DB. Store all critical data in session variables. Voila, round-robin load balancing working with server side web apps.
I'm pretty sure that isn't a php specific way to do things. However I agree, this approach would work for load balanced solutions.
Me: IIRC Microsoft had distributed a warez version of Visual Basic 6.0 with a warez group nfo file due to the wrong cd going to the presses.
You: Do you have any proof of this?
Well, I can't seem to find the information regarding the incident that I was referring to. Mostly because I don't remember the exact product.
I thought it was Visual Studio 6, but I did put IIRC because I didn't know for sure. However I can find proof of a similar incident, in which Microsoft distributed a virus (too easy guys, let it go. ..) in it's software.
I can't speak for bluetooth, since I never cared for it until about 2 months ago when work upgraded my phone to support it. But as far as:
Those wifi 802.11g dongles are just now in the $20 price range. 8 months ago, they were all over $40. My girlfriend settled on an 802.11b dongle because it was $25. Now the 802.11g ones are cheaper. So yes, prices were higher for longer in the US, and are now starting to come in line more with what you find in the EU.
No! You just weren't searching hard enough. I upgraded almost a year and a half ago to all 802.11g for $23 per card. I live in the states and I bought from http://www.shopampm.com/. Free shipping no less. Since then, the manufacturer of the cards has released many upgraded drivers and this card is fully WPA2 compatible.
Another, more effective approach, is to deliberately distribute 2 versions of each software package: (1) regular and (2) deliberately virus infected (i.e. boobytrapped by Microsoft itself).
IIRC Microsoft had distributed a warez version of Visual Basic 6.0 with a warez group nfo file due to the wrong cd going to the presses.
I've never tried NTFS on it; but trying to work NTFS on non-NT-based systems is awkward at best--though it is definately better in the newer Linuxes.
I have! A Mac can open and browse NTFS drives just fine. It's read only though.
So what filesystem do you have on an external FireWire drive that Windows is perfectly happy to mount, but Mac OS X won't touch?
Considering that XP only supports NTFS & Fat16/32 by default, it must be one of the two. Otherwise the parent poster is a troll or using a third party hack for support.
And can you explain why I can take the internal IDE drive out of a Mac, plop it in a FireWire box, and use it on any other Mac I want... but if I take the internal IDE drive out of an Intel PC (Linux or Windows), plop it in a FireWire or USB box, the very same system does not recognize the partition table?
Never had that problem on any PC, and yes I move a lot of drives around. I work on clusters by day and do data forensics as a consultant.
Let's face it, we're still pretty much stuck with FAT32 for cross-platform filesystem interoperation, even if you aren't using Windows. And every camera is using it, or at least FAT16, for the flash cards--it may suck, but it's a known system, and everything can deal with it.
I've been using ext3 a lot. There are drivers for OSX and Windows. FreeBSD and Linux support it natively. It doesn't experience issues with Windows (even XP), which wants all fat32 partitions to be smaller than 32 gigs even though fat32 can go to 4tb.
Your information is correct. This is not the US. And it is not legal to sell cell-phones without regsteringing who buys them in this country. But apart from that, it's just like any other "free" EU country.
How about pointing to some proof of this? As far as i know there is no law that says providers must have accurate registered information.
There are providers who won't even ask you for an address, unless you pay extra for a paper bill (MetroPCS.com).
That's roughly 8 minutes of the day that you won't be able to use your phone. Given that unavailability is usually related to demand, you won't be able to use your phone for 8 minutes during the hours that you'd really like to.
Actually the report is light on facts. The metrics just aren't there for you to make this assumption. This report doesn't even separate incoming vs. outgoing calls being dropped.
Also, consider that for a bit more money you can get a land line with better voice quality and unlimited calling as well.
Actually a landline is a LOT more money. Packet8 has unmetered access for $20. In addition you can go for metered accesss and call nationwide for 1.7 cents a minute via SixTel.net or something. I use my home voip phone a lot and I spend about 12 bucks a month with lots of long distance use.
Also the call quality is better on VoIP than landlines. There is a small tad of latency, but it is no wose than a cell phone. I've never had a line as clear as my voip. But then again phone wiring in San Francisco appears to be very substandard. When I had dialup, I wasn't even able to make a 33.6 connection, only 26.4. I swear I could hear the radio in the background whenever I used that phone, and yes I did call for the phone company to send out a guy and run tests.
Although it got magically clearer when I got dsl, go figure. (Those lying SBC bastards just didn't want to fix it, even though the problem was on their end!!!)
Seriously. 94.8% means there's a one in 20 chance that when you pick up your phone, it's not going to work. That is the equivalent of playing Russian Roulette in an emergency.
True but there is also a 19 in 20 chance that the second time around will work. Dialing 911 doesn't magically save your life, help still has to arrive. If hanging up and dialing a second time took too long, then you probably didn't have a chance of living to begin with.
In addition this report doesn't say if this is 94.9% chance of incoming calls failing or 94.9% chance of outgoing calls failing. I've been using voip for over 2 years now and none of my outgoing calls have ever been rejected. Only issues I've had were with incoming calls going straight to voicemail, and those were rare based on the feedback I've gotten from friends and family. No worse than a cell phone.
In addition to the issue you mentioned, you forgot about a simple power failure.
If power fails, the stations that provide power to the phone systems will eventually fail after prolonged period of time. Even then, most people these days have a cordless phone which will result in the same thing. In a day where most people who use voip also have cell phones, this is probably not a big deal.
It's not even about apache, it's about a third party apache-utils. That package isn't even part of my distro. i have no such script called check_forensics.
The only other unpatched issue with apache is this one:
Which is rated as non-critical. And it says it's confirmed for 2.0.46 and lower. The latest version is 2.0.54.
Regardless IIS6 & Apache have both been really good. A lot of IIS's reputation comes from IIS5, and let's face it, it is really well deserved. IIS5 is horribly unsecure without first running the lockdown tool, which not all Win Admin's do!
Everything I've read is saying Apple obtains the G5 ships for less than the going rate for comparable Pentium chips.
Wow, so Apple buying G5 Proc's in bulk pays less than we do for Intel procesors retail. I bet they will be paying even less buying the Intel procs in bulk.
If I do upgrade it will be to VIA. (hate their chipsets but love their CPUs)
What's a good package distribution that supports the VIA CPU? I run mine with a stripped down CentOS 3 and I'll be damned if ssl didn't break on each upgrade.
it opens a port for remote desktop IF you enable remote desktop.
so, the question is, does this exploit affect xp sp2 if rdp has never been enabled ?
I guess that all depends on whether there is a vulnerability on "Remote Assistance" as well. Since "Remote Assistance" is enabled and unblocked in the firewall by default.
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Hear hear! I second that. Until Microsoft PROVES that they are playing well with others without having to be cajoled or forced by a government organization, then I will believe it.
Which leads me to my questions.
In the recent times Microsoft has been hit with many lawsuits with the same story. Basically it's been going down like this:
1) Company A shows Microsoft new technology X
2) Microsoft shuns new technology X, tells Company A to go to hell
3) Microsoft releases new technology X as Microsoft Y (or includes it in existing product)
4) Company A sues Microsoft for IP violations & damages
With Microsoft's stance against even looking at GPL'd software, is the GPL the only way to protect ones intellectual property against Microsoft? Or will Microsoft eventually steal from everyone indiscriminately?
The teaser trailer seems to say that the discovery the of last 10 percent of the human genome is what makes the creatures into what they are. No mention of hell or portals at all. Hmmf.
Watch the last few seconds of the trailer. There is most definately a portal and a demon walking through it.
A "Beta" does not have to be feature complete. It's a TEST version.
No, you just described an Alpha or a proof of concept. Some groups differentiate the two, use a POC written in one language and write the final in another.
A beta is supposed to have full features. It is supposed to go through a "beta test", where bugs are found and fixed. Nothing else should happen but fixes at this point in time.
A "Release Candidate" is feature complete.
No, a release candidate is a beta + some clean ups. Nothing but bug fixes should be made from beta to release candidate to release.
Read it again. I said that development of Unix would take it through the near future. I said the long-term future belongs to something else. :-)
:-)
:-)
I misread this line:
That's my thoughts anyway. Sometime in the near future, I'll get them blogged down in detail.
I read it as:
That's my thoughts anyway, sometime in the near future. I'll get them blogged down in detail.
Punctuation makes a big difference. Not sure what was going through my mind actually.
Pfff. We'll have the first offering of this sort of home entertainment in 5 years.
Good luck getting all of those vendors to agree on standards. Sony will always push their own crazy shit.
Does that clarify the idea? :-)
;)
Yes. So you want to get rid of all the redundancies between different components. However when your "server" has a bug, it's not just your computer. It's your TV, your Stereo, your PS4, and your computer.
In addition this sounds like a jack of all trades and a master of none, trying to get all that functionality into one device will make it convoluted and hard to use.
Oh oh, and you want to clog up the little free wireless spectrum we have left. All around this thing you describe has many fundamental flaws.
Maybe one day those flaws will be addressed, but you had stated "near future" in your post. To me that means within 10 years MAX, and I don't see that kind of convergance happening within that time frame.
Then again, I never thought I'd own a Mac either so I have been wrong before
1. Desktops will be replaced with Browser simulations of a Desktop that can work anytime, anywhere.
Highly unlikely. With hardware getting cheaper it makes no sense to outsource your applications to a server.
Having your data available everywhere is not going to outweigh the inherent security risks associated with putting your data on the public internet. And encryption can only go so far, without you locking yourself out. No company is going to implement proper encryption due to the irreversable nature of a lost password.
Combined with the fact that this will probably cost money. Free e-mail is one thing, ads are part of the business. No one is going to want to be blasted with ads while trying to write a paper or a report. Why pay for a company to have your word processing docs and other stuff when disk is so cheap. Why pay monthly for a word processor when you can get OO.o for free or buy Office and be done with it? In addition I've had server unavailable messages from Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo. I don't know any business or person who would take that risk with their word documents.
2. The traditional PC will then be replaced by a home server through which all activity will happen.
So desktops will become servers? Huh? I'm just not sure what you are talking about.
3. Components for Music, Television, Desktop, and Video Game consoles will (in many cases wirelessly) interact with this server.4. The server itself will run an OS based on a managed code environment, making remote attacks difficult if not impossible. (Many Unix concepts would probably be reused in this system, but it won't *be* Unix.)
Possible, although what the server will run is anyones guess since I'm still not clear on what you mean by the server.
Let me connect a few dots for you: ... I moved from the midwest (South Dakota where literally 99.8% of the population is white) ...
...
My step-daughter (100% Vietnamese) is 17 and tells me the same things about her high school. Kids generally tend to separate into ethnic clichs instead of the nerds/jocks/popular clichs I had when I was a kid
This concludes my lesson for today.
Don't be an ass, turnstyle had a legitimate point. This used to be a problem that a "small number" of black hats could exploit, now it's a problem that a million script kiddies know about. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to claim that cisco was fixing the issue promptly enough, but dissmissing people who point out the problems with full disclosure is just plain irresponsible.
Script kiddies aren't smart enough to do anything without automated tools (refer to bitchchecker) I contend that it doesn't matter how many script kiddies know because they just don't have the knowledge to implement an attack.
Both articles were pretty light on details. If it turns out Cisco sat on this exploit for a really long time, then he probably did do the right thing for the greater good. If Cisco was going to release a fix within the next couple of days, well then he did a bitch move.
If you use php, and a roun robin server, you should have no trouble. Use sessions, store session data in a central DB. Store all critical data in session variables. Voila, round-robin load balancing working with server side web apps.
I'm pretty sure that isn't a php specific way to do things. However I agree, this approach would work for load balanced solutions.
Me:
.) in it's software.
IIRC Microsoft had distributed a warez version of Visual Basic 6.0 with a warez group nfo file due to the wrong cd going to the presses.
You:
Do you have any proof of this?
Well, I can't seem to find the information regarding the incident that I was referring to. Mostly because I don't remember the exact product.
I thought it was Visual Studio 6, but I did put IIRC because I didn't know for sure. However I can find proof of a similar incident, in which Microsoft distributed a virus (too easy guys, let it go. .
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-935994.html
I can't speak for bluetooth, since I never cared for it until about 2 months ago when work upgraded my phone to support it. But as far as:
Those wifi 802.11g dongles are just now in the $20 price range. 8 months ago, they were all over $40. My girlfriend settled on an 802.11b dongle because it was $25. Now the 802.11g ones are cheaper. So yes, prices were higher for longer in the US, and are now starting to come in line more with what you find in the EU.
No! You just weren't searching hard enough. I upgraded almost a year and a half ago to all 802.11g for $23 per card. I live in the states and I bought from http://www.shopampm.com/. Free shipping no less. Since then, the manufacturer of the cards has released many upgraded drivers and this card is fully WPA2 compatible.
Good buy considering that the encore cards on this page are Ralink Chipset AND have linux source drivers availalbe at the manufacturers website.
Another, more effective approach, is to deliberately distribute 2 versions of each software package: (1) regular and (2) deliberately virus infected (i.e. boobytrapped by Microsoft itself).
IIRC Microsoft had distributed a warez version of Visual Basic 6.0 with a warez group nfo file due to the wrong cd going to the presses.
I'm just saying . . .
Given that Windows is the only friggin' OS to which ctr-alt-del means anything I believe it would specifically imply Windows wasn't the 'good' OS. :-P
I guess your inittab doesn't have this in it, like mine:
# Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
But Windows isn't the only OS that does something when hit with the three finger salute
I've never tried NTFS on it; but trying to work NTFS on non-NT-based systems is awkward at best--though it is definately better in the newer Linuxes.
I have! A Mac can open and browse NTFS drives just fine. It's read only though.
So what filesystem do you have on an external FireWire drive that Windows is perfectly happy to mount, but Mac OS X won't touch?
Considering that XP only supports NTFS & Fat16/32 by default, it must be one of the two. Otherwise the parent poster is a troll or using a third party hack for support.
And can you explain why I can take the internal IDE drive out of a Mac, plop it in a FireWire box, and use it on any other Mac I want... but if I take the internal IDE drive out of an Intel PC (Linux or Windows), plop it in a FireWire or USB box, the very same system does not recognize the partition table?
Never had that problem on any PC, and yes I move a lot of drives around. I work on clusters by day and do data forensics as a consultant.
Let's face it, we're still pretty much stuck with FAT32 for cross-platform filesystem interoperation, even if you aren't using Windows. And every camera is using it, or at least FAT16, for the flash cards--it may suck, but it's a known system, and everything can deal with it.
I've been using ext3 a lot. There are drivers for OSX and Windows. FreeBSD and Linux support it natively. It doesn't experience issues with Windows (even XP), which wants all fat32 partitions to be smaller than 32 gigs even though fat32 can go to 4tb.
Your information is correct. This is not the US. And it is not legal to sell cell-phones without regsteringing who buys them in this country. But apart from that, it's just like any other "free" EU country.
How about pointing to some proof of this? As far as i know there is no law that says providers must have accurate registered information.
There are providers who won't even ask you for an address, unless you pay extra for a paper bill (MetroPCS.com).
That's roughly 8 minutes of the day that you won't be able to use your phone. Given that unavailability is usually related to demand, you won't be able to use your phone for 8 minutes during the hours that you'd really like to.
Actually the report is light on facts. The metrics just aren't there for you to make this assumption. This report doesn't even separate incoming vs. outgoing calls being dropped.
Also, consider that for a bit more money you can get a land line with better voice quality and unlimited calling as well.
Actually a landline is a LOT more money. Packet8 has unmetered access for $20. In addition you can go for metered accesss and call nationwide for 1.7 cents a minute via SixTel.net or something. I use my home voip phone a lot and I spend about 12 bucks a month with lots of long distance use.
Also the call quality is better on VoIP than landlines. There is a small tad of latency, but it is no wose than a cell phone. I've never had a line as clear as my voip. But then again phone wiring in San Francisco appears to be very substandard. When I had dialup, I wasn't even able to make a 33.6 connection, only 26.4. I swear I could hear the radio in the background whenever I used that phone, and yes I did call for the phone company to send out a guy and run tests.
Although it got magically clearer when I got dsl, go figure. (Those lying SBC bastards just didn't want to fix it, even though the problem was on their end!!!)
You know not what you're talking about. They can be hacked to allow a network connection, but they can't use the network without voiding the warranty.
According to this, you only get a 90 day warranty anyways. So wait 3 months and then hack the box.
Seriously. 94.8% means there's a one in 20 chance that when you pick up your phone, it's not going to work. That is the equivalent of playing Russian Roulette in an emergency.
True but there is also a 19 in 20 chance that the second time around will work. Dialing 911 doesn't magically save your life, help still has to arrive. If hanging up and dialing a second time took too long, then you probably didn't have a chance of living to begin with.
In addition this report doesn't say if this is 94.9% chance of incoming calls failing or 94.9% chance of outgoing calls failing. I've been using voip for over 2 years now and none of my outgoing calls have ever been rejected. Only issues I've had were with incoming calls going straight to voicemail, and those were rare based on the feedback I've gotten from friends and family. No worse than a cell phone.
In addition to the issue you mentioned, you forgot about a simple power failure.
If power fails, the stations that provide power to the phone systems will eventually fail after prolonged period of time. Even then, most people these days have a cordless phone which will result in the same thing. In a day where most people who use voip also have cell phones, this is probably not a big deal.
RTFA, nitwit. They're lobbying the FCC to have this revoked. It does not say that the government will go ahead and do so.
Odd that they are going through the FCC, considering that the FTC is the group that runs the DNC List.
My personal favorite number to give out is 8675309.
Jenny? Is that you?
Have agreed to pay? They get a choice?
Yes, they can pay the fine OR they can pay a lawyer, go to court, and lose the cost of the lawyer + cost of fine + court costs + incurred penalties.
Umm IIS6 has less exploits and no unpatched vunerabilities compared to Apache 2.0.x which still has unpatched vunerabilities.
- 2004-1387
Have you looked at the apache security vulnerabilities? There was only one in 2005, and here is the link to the cve:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN
It's not even about apache, it's about a third party apache-utils. That package isn't even part of my distro. i have no such script called check_forensics.
The only other unpatched issue with apache is this one:
http://secunia.com/advisories/11176/
Which is rated as non-critical. And it says it's confirmed for 2.0.46 and lower. The latest version is 2.0.54.
Regardless IIS6 & Apache have both been really good. A lot of IIS's reputation comes from IIS5, and let's face it, it is really well deserved. IIS5 is horribly unsecure without first running the lockdown tool, which not all Win Admin's do!
Everything I've read is saying Apple obtains the G5 ships for less than the going rate for comparable Pentium chips.
Wow, so Apple buying G5 Proc's in bulk pays less than we do for Intel procesors retail. I bet they will be paying even less buying the Intel procs in bulk.
If I do upgrade it will be to VIA. (hate their chipsets but love their CPUs)
What's a good package distribution that supports the VIA CPU? I run mine with a stripped down CentOS 3 and I'll be damned if ssl didn't break on each upgrade.
it opens a port for remote desktop IF you enable remote desktop.
so, the question is, does this exploit affect xp sp2 if rdp has never been enabled ?
I guess that all depends on whether there is a vulnerability on "Remote Assistance" as well. Since "Remote Assistance" is enabled and unblocked in the firewall by default.