I think what you meant to say is that every song purchased from the iTunes music store can be burned to CD. In the non-apple world, there are a varietyofsubscriptionservices built on microsoft DRM (of which this new service is basically another). Their business model depends on having the music only work as long you pay your monthly fee.
With these services, you can certainly burn (and re-rip) every song you purchase, but you also have the option of legally downloading music which you haven't purchased, and which you have limited rights for.
You can think of it as a superset of iTunes, if thats easier.
two separate commenters have complained about "H16O", when, using their mis-interpertation of what you wrote, it would be HO16. So even if they were right, they'd be wrong.
No, you are thinking of the Total Information Awareness program, which was very different. That (and its associated programs) were/are datamining everybody's credit reports, public records, etc to find "terrorist patterns".
This program is unrelated. It's not datamining anything. All this is is a centralized database of threats to DoD installations and personnel. Sure, it has its potential for abuse, but its a very different animal from TIA, and confusing the two does't help anyone.
I've never understood why more people don't complain about this discrepancy.
The HTML containing a form and the URL the form is submitted to, can have completely different levels of security. The "yellow padlock" means the form itself was served with https, when whats important is that the form data is going to be submitted via https. Nothing to do with live or microsoft, why is this considered acceptable in general?
J&J is going up against the Geneva Convention and International law. They are is not going to win this.
You were going great up until the end. It's the American Red Cross thats going agaisnt this by licensing (for profit) the red cross symbol. IMHO, J&J is actually in the right here. They have the exclusive (basically grandfathered) right to use the red cross on commercial products.
Its the ARC that is diluting the value of the symbol to make money.
Actually, as cool as the "birds-eye view" is, Microsoft already did this exact thing (street-level view) last year... Although it looks like they haven't touched it since launch:
If you link to something from there, I'd expect Newsweek to get the byline, not MSNBC.
Ya know, with all the hype around Creative Commons, I'd expect slashdot editors (I know, I know) to pay more attention to getting the attribution right....
CNN is just reprinting a Business 2.0 article - how hard is it to attribute things properly? It's not quite as bad as crediting "Yahoo" for AP news stories, but still...
Gun buyers have to be thinking of defeating body armor when purchasing these weapons
Yeah, right.... And all those purchasers of 300hp cars are thinking of outrunning the cops?
If I was going up against multiple assailants with body armor, none of your listed weapons would be on my list, for one reason - good luck getting a followup shot in from those hand cannons. And I don't even want to think about firing a "scandium-alloy.44 magnum wheelgun"... That sounds like that would break your wrist on the first shot, let alone allow for a followup shot.
And the "tungsten buckshot" popularity is due to lead free hunting laws, not any sort of desire to defeat armor. If you want to go through any armor known to man with a shotgun, just use a good old slug round.
Take your anti-gun trolling claims of "cop killer" elsewhere...
Windows on the other hand, gets more and more obscure with each passing day. Starting from XP it reboots instead of letting you see the BSOD, so without considerable effort you can't even find what went wrong. You go to make tea, come back, and the box mysteriosly rebooted meanwhile.
Sorry, thats just because you're an idiot. Or at least, not on the same level as someone capable of writing drivers.
On win2k, XP or Vista now, you can decide what the system does with a "bluescreen" (under My Computer->Properties). Rebooting immediately is the default since thats preferable for 99% of users, but there's a checkbox to display the bluescreen anyways, and write out a full or partial memory dump. Using microsoft's free kernel debugger, you can then analyze that crashdump. It's relatively easy to pin down which module caused the crash...
Oh, and I love "gets more and more obscure with each passing day" - starting two years ago or so, microsoft set up a symbol server so you can automatically load operating system debugging symbols for the exact binaries you are running with. Makes the above debugging process a lot easier....
"It is most unfortunate that at least one agency has been inserting personally identifiable information into this database for a number of years," [Gary Bass, executive director of OMB Watch] said. "I'm amazed that, all these years, no one at the Department of Agriculture noticed that they were putting Social Security numbers into a public database."
Uhhh, dude, if your organization is called "OMB Watch" and hosting a mirror of the database, shouldn't you have noticed that the database contained SSNs??? Not watching too closely, are you?;)
to not have Dell (or Toshiba or HP or whoever) bundle in all the damn crap that comes with a new machine these days. Give me the bare OS, not full of crappy trial apps slowing everything down.
That's where "sane" operating systems differ. User space and the OS are heavily separated, in fact, user space for each user is separated from other users, and almost all services run as a unique user. This intentional separation provides very robust security, and is absolutely necessary to creating a secure system.
Are you implying that is not the case with windows??? A quick look in task manager shows some system processes running as your user account, some as "LOCAL SERVICE", some as "NETWORK SERVICE", (both restricted accounts) and some as "SYSTEM" (=root). And a quick look at top on my linux box sure doesn't show "almost all" services running as unique users.
And sure, its up to the administrator to configure it so the user account is not an administrator, but I've never seen a government system where a domain user account has local admin rights.
In the specific case of this vulnerability, the word document was able to run arbitrary executable code as the current user. This presumably allowed access to network shares, and then sending the data back out (via HTTP most likely). That sort of thing would be possible with any operating system.
The only area you are correct in is that on linux the flaw could be patched quicker... But in a large organization, it likely could still be preferable to block the exploit with IDS/firewall rules than by rolling out a client patch...
In Pearl, Miss., in October 1997, Vice Principal Joel Myrick responded quickly to the sound of shots. Luke Woodham had slit his mother's throat before carrying a.30-30 deer rifle to school that day. Woodham fatally shot two students as Mr. Myrick dashed to his truck -- parked more than a quarter-mile away as required by law -- to recover and load his own Colt.45. He then captured and disarmed Woodham, holding a gun to his head for more than four minutes while waiting for police to arrive, thus almost certainly saving lives.
A browser mod would be helpful there; I believe both IE and Firefox now have built-in "probably phishing" detectors. In fact, those probably-phishing detectors could be more useful than a domain name, which is clearly trying to cram a hack on top of DNS.
You are describing something similar to Extended Validation SSL Certs. Extended Validation certs are actually better since they are built on an existing infrastructure, use public-key crypto, and there's no single point of failure hosting a list of secure sites.
Of course, since Verisign is involved, the plan is probably doomed.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.flexcar.com/
True, except that no-one calles WSU "Washington State". It's referred to most commonly as "Wazzu" or sometimes W.S.U.
I think what you meant to say is that every song purchased from the iTunes music store can be burned to CD. In the non-apple world, there are a variety of subscription services built on microsoft DRM (of which this new service is basically another). Their business model depends on having the music only work as long you pay your monthly fee.
With these services, you can certainly burn (and re-rip) every song you purchase, but you also have the option of legally downloading music which you haven't purchased, and which you have limited rights for.
You can think of it as a superset of iTunes, if thats easier.
two separate commenters have complained about "H16O", when, using their mis-interpertation of what you wrote, it would be HO16. So even if they were right, they'd be wrong.
No, you are thinking of the Total Information Awareness program, which was very different. That (and its associated programs) were/are datamining everybody's credit reports, public records, etc to find "terrorist patterns".
This program is unrelated. It's not datamining anything. All this is is a centralized database of threats to DoD installations and personnel. Sure, it has its potential for abuse, but its a very different animal from TIA, and confusing the two does't help anyone.
I've never understood why more people don't complain about this discrepancy.
The HTML containing a form and the URL the form is submitted to, can have completely different levels of security. The "yellow padlock" means the form itself was served with https, when whats important is that the form data is going to be submitted via https. Nothing to do with live or microsoft, why is this considered acceptable in general?
They were in a canister, but worms managed to survive the space shuttle Columbia explosion & subsequent crash to earth at high speeds:2 19.shtml
http://science.slashdot.org/science/06/01/04/0334
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-6016657-7.html
You were going great up until the end. It's the American Red Cross thats going agaisnt this by licensing (for profit) the red cross symbol. IMHO, J&J is actually in the right here. They have the exclusive (basically grandfathered) right to use the red cross on commercial products.
Its the ARC that is diluting the value of the symbol to make money.
The Casio G-Shock Atomic Solar is pretty damn ideal.
There's a world of difference between windows adding secret features for office, and an OS feature using functionality thats not exposed.
And, as the other commentor noted, the only slowdown is due to both searches running at once.
also known as Fitts' Law.
Actually, as cool as the "birds-eye view" is, Microsoft already did this exact thing (street-level view) last year... Although it looks like they haven't touched it since launch:
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http://preview.local.live.com/
http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2006/02/
Similar to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032542/site/newsweek/
If you link to something from there, I'd expect Newsweek to get the byline, not MSNBC.
Ya know, with all the hype around Creative Commons, I'd expect slashdot editors (I know, I know) to pay more attention to getting the attribution right....
CNN is just reprinting a Business 2.0 article - how hard is it to attribute things properly? It's not quite as bad as crediting "Yahoo" for AP news stories, but still...
Gun buyers have to be thinking of defeating body armor when purchasing these weapons
.44 magnum wheelgun"... That sounds like that would break your wrist on the first shot, let alone allow for a followup shot.
Yeah, right.... And all those purchasers of 300hp cars are thinking of outrunning the cops?
If I was going up against multiple assailants with body armor, none of your listed weapons would be on my list, for one reason - good luck getting a followup shot in from those hand cannons. And I don't even want to think about firing a "scandium-alloy
And the "tungsten buckshot" popularity is due to lead free hunting laws, not any sort of desire to defeat armor. If you want to go through any armor known to man with a shotgun, just use a good old slug round.
Take your anti-gun trolling claims of "cop killer" elsewhere...
This is just not an issue worth solving...
Wow - that is a big deal, I had no idea mercedes was practically in production with this:
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http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/sedan/112_050
So, whats new in the article?
Windows on the other hand, gets more and more obscure with each passing day. Starting from XP it reboots instead of letting you see the BSOD, so without considerable effort you can't even find what went wrong. You go to make tea, come back, and the box mysteriosly rebooted meanwhile.
Sorry, thats just because you're an idiot. Or at least, not on the same level as someone capable of writing drivers.
On win2k, XP or Vista now, you can decide what the system does with a "bluescreen" (under My Computer->Properties). Rebooting immediately is the default since thats preferable for 99% of users, but there's a checkbox to display the bluescreen anyways, and write out a full or partial memory dump. Using microsoft's free kernel debugger, you can then analyze that crashdump. It's relatively easy to pin down which module caused the crash...
Oh, and I love "gets more and more obscure with each passing day" - starting two years ago or so, microsoft set up a symbol server so you can automatically load operating system debugging symbols for the exact binaries you are running with. Makes the above debugging process a lot easier....
China is already going down this path:9 _334047.html
http://english.people.com.cn/200612/19/eng2006121
You're thinking of Fark...
Uhhh, dude, if your organization is called "OMB Watch" and hosting a mirror of the database, shouldn't you have noticed that the database contained SSNs??? Not watching too closely, are you?
to not have Dell (or Toshiba or HP or whoever) bundle in all the damn crap that comes with a new machine these days. Give me the bare OS, not full of crappy trial apps slowing everything down.
Are you implying that is not the case with windows??? A quick look in task manager shows some system processes running as your user account, some as "LOCAL SERVICE", some as "NETWORK SERVICE", (both restricted accounts) and some as "SYSTEM" (=root). And a quick look at top on my linux box sure doesn't show "almost all" services running as unique users.
And sure, its up to the administrator to configure it so the user account is not an administrator, but I've never seen a government system where a domain user account has local admin rights.
In the specific case of this vulnerability, the word document was able to run arbitrary executable code as the current user. This presumably allowed access to network shares, and then sending the data back out (via HTTP most likely). That sort of thing would be possible with any operating system.
The only area you are correct in is that on linux the flaw could be patched quicker... But in a large organization, it likely could still be preferable to block the exploit with IDS/firewall rules than by rolling out a client patch...
In Pearl, Miss., in October 1997, Vice Principal Joel Myrick responded quickly to the sound of shots. Luke Woodham had slit his mother's throat before carrying a .30-30 deer rifle to school that day. Woodham fatally shot two students as Mr. Myrick dashed to his truck -- parked more than a quarter-mile away as required by law -- to recover and load his own Colt .45. He then captured and disarmed Woodham, holding a gun to his head for more than four minutes while waiting for police to arrive, thus almost certainly saving lives.
You are describing something similar to Extended Validation SSL Certs. Extended Validation certs are actually better since they are built on an existing infrastructure, use public-key crypto, and there's no single point of failure hosting a list of secure sites.
Of course, since Verisign is involved, the plan is probably doomed.