Large numbers of corporate users are at the mercy of the IT department's update/upgrade schedule. In my environment, there are a large number of applications that will break if IE7 is installed, and the schedule to update and test those dependencies is lengthy.
Furthermore, we've spent so much time training users to ignore messages that say "Your $FOO is out of date! Click here to install the latest version because it's almost always malware, and now you want to turn around and do the exact opposite?
What's astonishing to me is the number of AOL users I encounter who continue to use AOL even after switching to broadband, not because they like AOL's features, but because they think that's the only way to the internet.
"You mean I don't have to use AOL to browse the intarwebs? I don't understand!"
Practically everyone else and it's like pulling teeth.
That's because with practically everyone else, you're dealing with people who can't figure out change for a dollar. It takes 45 minutes of explaining the problem before you get to the end of their script and they escalate you to someone capable of understanding what's wrong.
Well, thankfully (for now) FIOS is unmetered and most certainly will be hyped by Verizon. The cable companies may rake in money for a year or two, but their greed will get the best of them and they won't know when to stop. By that time, Verizon's FIOS infrastructure will be pretty much complete in most markets and everyone will be switching.
Yeah. FiOS is great if you happen to live in a major metropolitan area. If you live in one of the 34 states where it's not available, you're still screwed.
In my state, for example, it's only available in three cities. All three of those have been in "trial" for at least two years. I don't know where you get the idea that Verizon's infrastructure will be complete in a few years.
since when "what they were thinking" is an excuse to break law?
It's not an excuse and that's why they should be charged with something. However, intent is a huge factor when determining what to charge someone with. For example, it's the difference between first degree murder and involuntary manslaughter. Either way, someone's dead, but one crime involves a possible death penalty for the perpetrator.
It was a terrorist attack intended to disrupt a major part of the infrastructure, period.
Oh, really? You were there? You know what they were thinking? How do you know it wasn't a couple of punk kids just screwing around and not realizing what they were getting themselves into?
I never said they shouldn't be charged. I (and the parent I responded to) both just said that they will likely be charged with much more than the crime warrants.
How much do you bet the feds will come down hard on the kids and charge then with felony, cyber-"terrorism" or some other preposterous computer crime? I used to do harmless hacks for fun in years past, but these days it's not really wise.
That was hardly a "harmless hack". There is a lot of money tied to that domain and when it's down, it's a serious problem for a lot of people. That said, I agree that charging them as cyber-terrorists would be severe overkill.
Yeah - Alfred Hitchcock made a famous statement about it, that suspense is a bomb that does not go off.
That's brilliant! I've never heard that, but yes, that's exactly it. Who would have guessed that a master of suspense would grasp the concept so well?:-)
Still the Doom 3 is one of the few games that actually made me jump.
Personally, I'm getting sick to death of game designers (and movie makers, for that matter) who confuse "startling" me with "scaring" me. Any hack can startle someone. All you have to do is have a cat jump out from behind a curtain or something. It's not scary, it's just annoying. It takes a real talent to actually scare somebody with a movie, and especially with a game.
AT&T has three more days to throw the big blue switch on the broadcast TV service which includes a $15/month unlimited Mobile TV access plan."
They forgot to mention that you also need the $20/month unlimited data plan, and you'll have to pay $3/month per channel that you subscribe to or you can buy individual shows for $1 each. C'mon, this is AT&T. They will nickel and dime you to death at every opportunity.
Any given Fortune 500 company is big enough to justify having their own mail servers that handle all their traffic for them. Internal users will use the server as relay to the outside world, and all internal machines will naturally be "trusted". How do you suggest the admins are supposed to know which traffic passing out from inside their own network is legitimate and which is botnet traffic? Yes, you could filter all traffic, but that isn't going to be much of a help when a new infection springs up inside your own network.
How about "don't trust your users" and "don't set up your server as an uncontrolled relay for them"? It certainly possibly, if nothing else, to limit the number of connections/minute or the number of recipients/message to at least contain the damage rather than allow your users unfettered access to your mail subsystems.
Yet another reason why you shouldn't be opening e-mail on a production server. Even if you are, the server admin at a Fortune 500 company ought to be smart enough to not click on the latest "Anna Kournikova pics!" e-mail.
Maybe this is my MS says that Outlook on an Exchange server is an unsupported configuration.
1. Never tell you how you know if you're infected, and
If you don't know whether you're infected or not, you are. Or rather, you should assume you are and take whatever steps are necessary to prevent the spread (like blocking port 25 on your firewall, for example).
The fact remains that you were trying to be a smart son of a bitch and you fucked up. Only a tiny-dick-owner tries to deflect criticism from that. You are a failure, boy -- man up and cop to how stupid you made yourself look.
Wow. Yeah. You're right. My blatant error of typing "internet" instead of "www" completely changes everything and utterly invalidates my point! Thanks so much for pointing that out.
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based on whether the last digit of their license plates is even or odd
Sucks for the guys whose plates end with a zero.
Wait, your server is so bad that is crashes when it's accessed by Firefox?! And you're blaming FIREFOX for that?!!
Large numbers of corporate users are at the mercy of the IT department's update/upgrade schedule. In my environment, there are a large number of applications that will break if IE7 is installed, and the schedule to update and test those dependencies is lengthy.
Furthermore, we've spent so much time training users to ignore messages that say "Your $FOO is out of date! Click here to install the latest version because it's almost always malware, and now you want to turn around and do the exact opposite?
I've always wished my handwriting didn't suck so hard. Now I feel even worse. Thanks, Slashdot!
How about the Tripod Trilogy?
What's astonishing to me is the number of AOL users I encounter who continue to use AOL even after switching to broadband, not because they like AOL's features, but because they think that's the only way to the internet.
"You mean I don't have to use AOL to browse the intarwebs? I don't understand!"
Practically everyone else and it's like pulling teeth.
That's because with practically everyone else, you're dealing with people who can't figure out change for a dollar. It takes 45 minutes of explaining the problem before you get to the end of their script and they escalate you to someone capable of understanding what's wrong.
Here's another pro-sumer level twin-wan router: http://www.xincom.com/twinwan.php
Flea markets are much, much better. No waiting while a background check is performed and absolutely no registration afterward!
My state has no registration regardless.
Well, thankfully (for now) FIOS is unmetered and most certainly will be hyped by Verizon. The cable companies may rake in money for a year or two, but their greed will get the best of them and they won't know when to stop. By that time, Verizon's FIOS infrastructure will be pretty much complete in most markets and everyone will be switching.
Yeah. FiOS is great if you happen to live in a major metropolitan area. If you live in one of the 34 states where it's not available, you're still screwed.
In my state, for example, it's only available in three cities. All three of those have been in "trial" for at least two years. I don't know where you get the idea that Verizon's infrastructure will be complete in a few years.
since when "what they were thinking" is an excuse to break law?
It's not an excuse and that's why they should be charged with something. However, intent is a huge factor when determining what to charge someone with. For example, it's the difference between first degree murder and involuntary manslaughter. Either way, someone's dead, but one crime involves a possible death penalty for the perpetrator.
It was a terrorist attack intended to disrupt a major part of the infrastructure, period.
Oh, really? You were there? You know what they were thinking? How do you know it wasn't a couple of punk kids just screwing around and not realizing what they were getting themselves into?
I never said they shouldn't be charged. I (and the parent I responded to) both just said that they will likely be charged with much more than the crime warrants.
How much do you bet the feds will come down hard on the kids and charge then with felony, cyber-"terrorism" or some other preposterous computer crime? I used to do harmless hacks for fun in years past, but these days it's not really wise.
That was hardly a "harmless hack". There is a lot of money tied to that domain and when it's down, it's a serious problem for a lot of people. That said, I agree that charging them as cyber-terrorists would be severe overkill.
You'll have a lot of trouble getting by without it on a lot of websites. .... http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
Wait, you need flash on many websites or you can't even navigate, so the solution is to...block it? I'm confused.
Yeah - Alfred Hitchcock made a famous statement about it, that suspense is a bomb that does not go off.
:-)
That's brilliant! I've never heard that, but yes, that's exactly it. Who would have guessed that a master of suspense would grasp the concept so well?
I unloaded a full clip of ammo and several grenades into the walls.
Did you manage to kill the gazebo?
Still the Doom 3 is one of the few games that actually made me jump.
Personally, I'm getting sick to death of game designers (and movie makers, for that matter) who confuse "startling" me with "scaring" me. Any hack can startle someone. All you have to do is have a cat jump out from behind a curtain or something. It's not scary, it's just annoying. It takes a real talent to actually scare somebody with a movie, and especially with a game.
AT&T has three more days to throw the big blue switch on the broadcast TV service which includes a $15/month unlimited Mobile TV access plan."
They forgot to mention that you also need the $20/month unlimited data plan, and you'll have to pay $3/month per channel that you subscribe to or you can buy individual shows for $1 each. C'mon, this is AT&T. They will nickel and dime you to death at every opportunity.
Based on his open responses to the community, if you really think a petition will make him stop then I have this lovely bridge I'd like to sell you...
Any given Fortune 500 company is big enough to justify having their own mail servers that handle all their traffic for them. Internal users will use the server as relay to the outside world, and all internal machines will naturally be "trusted". How do you suggest the admins are supposed to know which traffic passing out from inside their own network is legitimate and which is botnet traffic? Yes, you could filter all traffic, but that isn't going to be much of a help when a new infection springs up inside your own network.
How about "don't trust your users" and "don't set up your server as an uncontrolled relay for them"? It certainly possibly, if nothing else, to limit the number of connections/minute or the number of recipients/message to at least contain the damage rather than allow your users unfettered access to your mail subsystems.
Infected Exchange server?
Yet another reason why you shouldn't be opening e-mail on a production server. Even if you are, the server admin at a Fortune 500 company ought to be smart enough to not click on the latest "Anna Kournikova pics!" e-mail.
Maybe this is my MS says that Outlook on an Exchange server is an unsupported configuration.
1. Never tell you how you know if you're infected, and
If you don't know whether you're infected or not, you are. Or rather, you should assume you are and take whatever steps are necessary to prevent the spread (like blocking port 25 on your firewall, for example).
There are still Fortune 500 companies that allow unimpeded outbound SMTP traffic from their general userbase?
The fact remains that you were trying to be a smart son of a bitch and you fucked up. Only a tiny-dick-owner tries to deflect criticism from that.
...says the A.C....
You are a failure, boy -- man up and cop to how stupid you made yourself look.
Wow. Yeah. You're right. My blatant error of typing "internet" instead of "www" completely changes everything and utterly invalidates my point! Thanks so much for pointing that out.