But doesn't this imply owners of the legal software are also being spied upon?
How is this spying? They are merely checking if the customer payed for the software, that's a very reasonable thing for a program to do. This is nothing like the spyware that checks your moves in the internet etc.
I don't understand this hate against the publisher. I would think they are simply protecting their software. They are in no way harming legitimate paying customers. Even when phoning home about a pirated copy there is no harm, it is the pirate who is harming the publisher.
I don't see how detecting a pirated copy is spying on a system. They should have the right to do that.
If you don't use pirated software why would you even care about this?
I have a similar problem but in this case it is because of spam mail. Some spammer sends spam and puts in the From: the address of some other victim. Then the reply from the spam filter arrives to someone who did not send the mail. I have received several mails lately from Yahoo indicating that my email could not be delivered to several users that don't exist anymore, attached is a spam mail which I didn't send. I contacted yahoo but their support is awful.
Hehe you surely don't know what you are talking about. First San Jose Costa Rica is not foggy or a jungle, it is a big city.
Now the 3% profit margin is probably just a figure to fool you, we costa ricans know for a fact that these people are moving amazingly large sums of money, 3% is ridiculous. You have to see it. Gambling is probably second only to porn in the internet.
As for the stress this is actually a nice place to live in if you can adapt to a few things.
As for too much drink,..., hmm, well ok you got us there.
No seriously, I once was regarded by friends and family as the guy who could fix their computers. Now they call like crazy saying their PC is rebooting and I don't know what the hell they are talking about. Then I read about the virus and tell them what to do but of course I wouldn't know if it will work (or why it didn't work) since I dont have an infected machine to try it. This has made me look like an idiot plus I'm here working all day while my friends enjoy a couple days of forced vacations while someone has time to fix their machines. Grrrr..
You are right I guess I got confused. Someone posted the wrong patch somewhere and I picked it up. Now I see:
"While you should have the MS03-010 [microsoft.com] patch installed, it is the wrong one for this worm. Make sure you use MS03-026 [microsoft.com]. This is the patch that it links to in the removal tool [symantec.com] link."
If you read the instructions provided by symantec they ask you to install a patch for the RPC vulnerability. That one patch was available since late March. Why M.S. issued the security bulletin in July I don't know. But it makes no difference, the admin should have installed the pack when it was available not when M.S. explicitly said it was "Critical". Goes to show you can't wait to be told what to do, it's your job to know patch is available and determine wethere it is a good idea or not to install it.
I'm not sure this is a good idea. Since finishing it at the end would be faster than doing it first thing in the morning. Plus if you finish it wou'll be able to think about the next task overnight and maybe come in the morning ready for it. I don't know, I just don't see how that could make one more productive. I will try it sometime.
Counting pennies is not always good, in real financial applications the resolution is to 4 decimals since sometimes you can get 4 decimals when calculating percentages, and if you ignore it someone somewhere eventually will not get as much as he expected and will come down to hunt you.
Edwards grew suspicious because some of the spam being issued to him was also addressed only to a number of users within the bigpond.com domain
That means nothing. I usually get some spams which are addressed to several people on my mail domain. This is a small private mail domain I know nobody sold these addresses as a group to the spammers, it just so happens that spammers group by mail domain and send the email at once to all the addresses they have on that domain.
protester #1: Dude, they've gone too far, let's go protest against evil evil SCO! protester #2: You're on! both: (singing protests in SCO's front lawn) protester #1: Hey is that McBride? McBride: So how are you guys? protester #2: Cool man! Can we take a picture with you? McBride: Sure protester #1: Your rock man! Thanks for the drinks too!
being able to digest lactose became a survival advantage after dairy farming was invented.
So at some point some humans said:
"Hey lets invent dairy farming!" "Hmm, but we're all lactose intolerant..." "What the heck, if we take this crap every day we'll eventually mutate and some generations down they will be thanking us."
I never read the articles and jump straight to the posting as everyone else here. But this seemed interesting so I went and read it. waste of 20 seconds of my time. There are no details! Why not wait until there is something to see before posting these stories?
I haven't verified your claim about eash fraternity at MIt having a class B but that is just plain wrong. I live in Costa Rica and IP addresses here are simply running out and they are VERY expensive now, which hinders the ability of small businesses to grow, which hurts the economy etc. All this just so some frat boys have public ips to use I have no clue where?
IPV6?, forget it, we need the rest of the world to adopt it and then debate for 2 years and then wait another 2 years for a multinational to install it. Sad.
I think the difference is that new technologies which affect the music industrie's old biz models are actually improvements to the user experience. While in this case I see no real use for these DVD's. So they are f-cking the rentals for no apparent reason.
You got it nailed, you wait and wait and wait and someday you will need to care. Or in my case I hope by the time IPv6 is widely used I'll be long over with this computer-geek crap I'm pulling now.
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If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.
So all suspects are guilty? That doesn't make any sense to me.
But doesn't this imply owners of the legal software are also being spied upon?
How is this spying? They are merely checking if the customer payed for the software, that's a very reasonable thing for a program to do. This is nothing like the spyware that checks your moves in the internet etc.
I don't understand this hate against the publisher. I would think they are simply protecting their software. They are in no way harming legitimate paying customers. Even when phoning home about a pirated copy there is no harm, it is the pirate who is harming the publisher.
I don't see how detecting a pirated copy is spying on a system. They should have the right to do that.
If you don't use pirated software why would you even care about this?
I have a similar problem but in this case it is because of spam mail. Some spammer sends spam and puts in the From: the address of some other victim. Then the reply from the spam filter arrives to someone who did not send the mail. I have received several mails lately from Yahoo indicating that my email could not be delivered to several users that don't exist anymore, attached is a spam mail which I didn't send. I contacted yahoo but their support is awful.
How can one protect from this?
Hehe you surely don't know what you are talking about. First San Jose Costa Rica is not foggy or a jungle, it is a big city.
..., hmm, well ok you got us there.
Now the 3% profit margin is probably just a figure to fool you, we costa ricans know for a fact that these people are moving amazingly large sums of money, 3% is ridiculous. You have to see it. Gambling is probably second only to porn in the internet.
As for the stress this is actually a nice place to live in if you can adapt to a few things.
As for too much drink,
No seriously, I once was regarded by friends and family as the guy who could fix their computers. Now they call like crazy saying their PC is rebooting and I don't know what the hell they are talking about. Then I read about the virus and tell them what to do but of course I wouldn't know if it will work (or why it didn't work) since I dont have an infected machine to try it. This has made me look like an idiot plus I'm here working all day while my friends enjoy a couple days of forced vacations while someone has time to fix their machines. Grrrr..
You are right I guess I got confused. Someone posted the wrong patch somewhere and I picked it up. Now I see:
"While you should have the MS03-010 [microsoft.com] patch installed, it is the wrong one for this worm. Make sure you use MS03-026 [microsoft.com]. This is the patch that it links to in the removal tool [symantec.com] link."
Thanks.
If you read the instructions provided by symantec they ask you to install a patch for the RPC vulnerability. That one patch was available since late March. Why M.S. issued the security bulletin in July I don't know. But it makes no difference, the admin should have installed the pack when it was available not when M.S. explicitly said it was "Critical". Goes to show you can't wait to be told what to do, it's your job to know patch is available and determine wethere it is a good idea or not to install it.
Not that I care, just a comment.
But the patch was released on 3/26/2003. How much time do you need to test a patch? 3 months?
Patch was pusblished 3/26/2003.
If the universe expands forever then the temperature will be very very low, not a "heat death" exactly.
I'm not sure this is a good idea. Since finishing it at the end would be faster than doing it first thing in the morning. Plus if you finish it wou'll be able to think about the next task overnight and maybe come in the morning ready for it. I don't know, I just don't see how that could make one more productive. I will try it sometime.
But of course there will be nothing left of SCO to sue after that.
Well I can think of a couple:
1-SCO is *evil*, while Linux is nice and friendly
2-Linux will be around for at least a few more years
Any one has a url to the map itself?
Counting pennies is not always good, in real financial applications the resolution is to 4 decimals since sometimes you can get 4 decimals when calculating percentages, and if you ignore it someone somewhere eventually will not get as much as he expected and will come down to hunt you.
Edwards grew suspicious because some of the spam being issued to him was also addressed only to a number of users within the bigpond.com domain
That means nothing. I usually get some spams which are addressed to several people on my mail domain. This is a small private mail domain I know nobody sold these addresses as a group to the spammers, it just so happens that spammers group by mail domain and send the email at once to all the addresses they have on that domain.
protester #1: Dude, they've gone too far, let's go protest against evil evil SCO!
protester #2: You're on!
both: (singing protests in SCO's front lawn)
protester #1: Hey is that McBride?
McBride: So how are you guys?
protester #2: Cool man! Can we take a picture with you?
McBride: Sure
protester #1: Your rock man! Thanks for the drinks too!
Most... stupid... protest... ever.
being able to digest lactose became a survival advantage after dairy farming was invented.
So at some point some humans said:
"Hey lets invent dairy farming!"
"Hmm, but we're all lactose intolerant..."
"What the heck, if we take this crap every day we'll eventually mutate and some generations down they will be thanking us."
Nice long-term thinking there, thanks!
I never read the articles and jump straight to the posting as everyone else here. But this seemed interesting so I went and read it. waste of 20 seconds of my time. There are no details! Why not wait until there is something to see before posting these stories?
I haven't verified your claim about eash fraternity at MIt having a class B but that is just plain wrong. I live in Costa Rica and IP addresses here are simply running out and they are VERY expensive now, which hinders the ability of small businesses to grow, which hurts the economy etc. All this just so some frat boys have public ips to use I have no clue where?
IPV6?, forget it, we need the rest of the world to adopt it and then debate for 2 years and then wait another 2 years for a multinational to install it. Sad.
How would you feel if you got sued because of what you did for _FUN_.
If I'm getting sued for something I sure hope I at least had a fun time doing it!
Windows can do nonrectangular windows since many years ago, but I have seen few applications and even fewer tat actually looked good/worked well.
I think the difference is that new technologies which affect the music industrie's old biz models are actually improvements to the user experience. While in this case I see no real use for these DVD's. So they are f-cking the rentals for no apparent reason.
You got it nailed, you wait and wait and wait and someday you will need to care. Or in my case I hope by the time IPv6 is widely used I'll be long over with this computer-geek crap I'm pulling now.