There just is no good reason not to start moving everything over to cloud computing and SaS.
Lets see....there's too much data flowing over the Internet, and it's going to cause slowdowns.
And your solution is to move all data and software to the Internet, therefore causing even more data flow over the Internet, and more slowdowns.
Brilliant.
Not to mention that when your computer "jitters and freezes" you'll have to tell your boss "Sorry. We can't get that sales report out in time, because the cloud is down......Yeah, that means we can't get the proposal for that $10 million project out before deadline, either. Sucks to be us, I guess."
But if they "do not have any functions or resemblance similar to Taser products" then they're not diluting a brand.
Remember the whole Apple Computer/Apple Records spat? They decided there was no chance for confusion, as computers and music were completely different products, so Apple Records left Apple Computer alone, and allowed them to keep the name. Can't remember whether that was a court decision, or not.
But then, iTunes comes along, and all of a sudden Apple Computer, and Apple Records (the older company, BTW) are both selling music under the Apple name.
Apple Records wrote some very strongly worded letters to Apple Computer, and I believe might have sued them, but I'm not going to look up the details.
The end lesson, though, is if you're selling a product that has no relation to another company's product, even with the same name, there is no legal problem at all. So a non-Taser-like item could be sold in real life with the Taser name, and the only thing Taser the company would be able to do is say "Stop using our name!"
To which the other company could respond "Don't Tase me bro!" and carry on their business.
A 486SX had a math co-processor. It was just disabled at the factory.
The 487SX was a full 486DX with a different pinout, so if you installed a 487SX, you actually had a pair of 486DX procs, but the original one with the disabled co-proc was completely disabled when you added the 487SX.
Man, that would have been a dream for my first install.
4MB RAM, with a 1.2GB HD. Replacing Windows 3.1 on the machine, because it couldn't use the full 1.2GB. (The drive had already been replaced when it failed. The original was about 250MB.)
Belonged to a friend of mine when the drive was swapped, and they gave it to me a while later. It was identical to my other machine at the time, other than the drive, because we'd both bought them from the same place about the same time, and taken advantage of the same promotion.
It let me do some really good comparisons between Linux/Windows, though, because of the hardware similarity.
I think it was 1996 for me, and I tried RH, the installer crashed, then downloaded 14 install floppies for Debian 2.x.
Over dialup. Took a couple of overnights.
Then I installed it on a spare machine (yes, had spare machines in 1996) and took about a weeks worth of overnights downloading all the needed packages over the same dialup.
My biggest problem at the time was trying to figure out how to turn the damned thing off from the command line. Seems pretty obvious in hindsight - "poweroff" - but it wasn't to me at the time.
And in the context of my post, "Everything" means:
a network port with a cable plugged into it, and that cable allows physical (logical connection not necessary - only physical) connection with the Internet somewhere along the line.
No, you can't hack the small ball of lint in my back pocket. But that wasn't the context of my post, and you know it.
The solution is obvious, get a 'computer' that can't be hijacked to be used as part of a botnet, to launch DDOS attacks, to me co-opted in a spam farm, to be used to steal online identity and steal all your money from your bank account.
I think I've got a calculator watch somewhere that might meet your qualifications.
Seriously, if you think there is anything capable of being connected to the Internet that "cannot" be used for any of this nefarious crap, you're either seriously delusional, or woefully uneducated in security.
Everything can be hacked somehow. If it's got a network port with a cable plugged into it, and that cable allows physical (logical connection not necessary - only physical) connection with the Internet somewhere along the line, then it can be hacked and abused.
Sure, there are systems that are more resistant than others, but everything is vulnerable to some degree.
The problem is, the idiots that control said vulnerable and exposed systems are either doing it with our money, or feel that they should be able to put anything on the Internet, and it's completely the other guy's fault for hacking it.
Nobody in the west takes this shit seriously enough.
I have a Pentium 1 system running NT4, and a 486SX running WfW3.11, although I haven't used that one for a while. I've got a pile of Debian Etch machines (latest release is Lenny) and I don't think any of them are faster than 800MHz P3s.
My fastest Linux machine has an 8x4x32 CD-RW in it.
Why should they care if their computer's a zombie? It still works well enough to do whatever it is they're online to do.
In my experience, it's worse than that. It's not that they don't care. They don't even believe it.
"My computer works fine. It can't be infected. I have Norton 2003 that came with the computer, so I'm fine. It's maybe a little slow, but that's because it's getting old and wearing out. I'M NOT INFECTED!I'MNOTINFECTED!I'MNOTINFECTED!LALALALALA"
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There just is no good reason not to start moving everything over to cloud computing and SaS.
Lets see....there's too much data flowing over the Internet, and it's going to cause slowdowns.
And your solution is to move all data and software to the Internet, therefore causing even more data flow over the Internet, and more slowdowns.
Brilliant.
Not to mention that when your computer "jitters and freezes" you'll have to tell your boss "Sorry. We can't get that sales report out in time, because the cloud is down......Yeah, that means we can't get the proposal for that $10 million project out before deadline, either. Sucks to be us, I guess."
$50 says there's a connection between this group and a major ISP in the USA.
Cynical? You bet I am. I'd say I've got good reason to be, though....
Well, no...I haven't seen it.
I figured it was just some weird /. immature pervert comment. Which, considering it came from SNL, isn't really that much different.
We need to design web pages properly, because Iraq has weapons of mass destruction!
Chewbacca!
Dude. You've got some really weird fetish, there....
But if they "do not have any functions or resemblance similar to Taser products" then they're not diluting a brand.
Remember the whole Apple Computer/Apple Records spat?
They decided there was no chance for confusion, as computers and music were completely different products, so Apple Records left Apple Computer alone, and allowed them to keep the name. Can't remember whether that was a court decision, or not.
But then, iTunes comes along, and all of a sudden Apple Computer, and Apple Records (the older company, BTW) are both selling music under the Apple name.
Apple Records wrote some very strongly worded letters to Apple Computer, and I believe might have sued them, but I'm not going to look up the details.
The end lesson, though, is if you're selling a product that has no relation to another company's product, even with the same name, there is no legal problem at all. So a non-Taser-like item could be sold in real life with the Taser name, and the only thing Taser the company would be able to do is say "Stop using our name!"
To which the other company could respond "Don't Tase me bro!" and carry on their business.
Not only that:
props that have the Taser name, but do not have any functions or resemblance similar to Taser products.
Taser would be OK with actual Tasers being made and sold in SL?
WTF?
A 486SX had a math co-processor. It was just disabled at the factory.
The 487SX was a full 486DX with a different pinout, so if you installed a 487SX, you actually had a pair of 486DX procs, but the original one with the disabled co-proc was completely disabled when you added the 487SX.
Marketing. Go figure.
If I said:
"Modern cars are junk. Everything made in the past 10 years has no guts."
Would you take that to mean "Every car made in the past 10 years", or "Every manufactured good of any type at all"?
Of course you'd take the first meaning.
Stop being an idiot, and take comments in context. Otherwise, you sound like a politician with an agenda.
48MB?!
Man, that would have been a dream for my first install.
4MB RAM, with a 1.2GB HD.
Replacing Windows 3.1 on the machine, because it couldn't use the full 1.2GB. (The drive had already been replaced when it failed. The original was about 250MB.)
Belonged to a friend of mine when the drive was swapped, and they gave it to me a while later. It was identical to my other machine at the time, other than the drive, because we'd both bought them from the same place about the same time, and taken advantage of the same promotion.
It let me do some really good comparisons between Linux/Windows, though, because of the hardware similarity.
Aahhh, you all suck.
I had an AMD 486DX/40 overclocked to 50MHz.
None of this newfangled clock-doubling crap.
Kids today.
Get off my lawn.
I didn't give up that easily.
I think it was 1996 for me, and I tried RH, the installer crashed, then downloaded 14 install floppies for Debian 2.x.
Over dialup. Took a couple of overnights.
Then I installed it on a spare machine (yes, had spare machines in 1996) and took about a weeks worth of overnights downloading all the needed packages over the same dialup.
My biggest problem at the time was trying to figure out how to turn the damned thing off from the command line. Seems pretty obvious in hindsight - "poweroff" - but it wasn't to me at the time.
I first downloaded the installer for RedHat....4ish?
It crashed on my computer. Downloaded it again, and same thing.
Then I downloaded the 14 5 1/4 install disks for Debian 2.2 over dialup. Took a couple of overnights...
And the rest is history. Not very interesting history, but....
And in the context of my post, "Everything" means:
a network port with a cable plugged into it, and that cable allows physical (logical connection not necessary - only physical) connection with the Internet somewhere along the line.
No, you can't hack the small ball of lint in my back pocket. But that wasn't the context of my post, and you know it.
Stop being disingenuous.
Sure. Just unplug it.
But then it's not on the Internet, is it?
But look, you claim what I say is bullshit, but then you say "In practice that's impossible..."
Which is it? Is it possible, or not?
Anything of any practical use that's connected to the Internet can be hacked. Period. Seriously.
The solution is obvious, get a 'computer' that can't be hijacked to be used as part of a botnet, to launch DDOS attacks, to me co-opted in a spam farm, to be used to steal online identity and steal all your money from your bank account.
I think I've got a calculator watch somewhere that might meet your qualifications.
Seriously, if you think there is anything capable of being connected to the Internet that "cannot" be used for any of this nefarious crap, you're either seriously delusional, or woefully uneducated in security.
Everything can be hacked somehow. If it's got a network port with a cable plugged into it, and that cable allows physical (logical connection not necessary - only physical) connection with the Internet somewhere along the line, then it can be hacked and abused.
Sure, there are systems that are more resistant than others, but everything is vulnerable to some degree.
The problem is, the idiots that control said vulnerable and exposed systems are either doing it with our money, or feel that they should be able to put anything on the Internet, and it's completely the other guy's fault for hacking it.
Nobody in the west takes this shit seriously enough.
Nobody.
* Except maybe Bruce....
I have a Pentium 1 system running NT4, and a 486SX running WfW3.11, although I haven't used that one for a while.
I've got a pile of Debian Etch machines (latest release is Lenny) and I don't think any of them are faster than 800MHz P3s.
My fastest Linux machine has an 8x4x32 CD-RW in it.
Do I need a padded cell, too?
So the exploit sits and monitors for a process called sudo, su, gksu, or whatever.
When it sees it, it waits 30 seconds, then starts its loop.
A guy on slashdot has a wife, and you're going off on a spelling technicality?
What's with you man?!
Is that "chairmen", or "chairsman"?
Ok, so we know you can type it.
But can you say it?
I can't hear you!
Ok, I can hear you now!
(Geek points to anybody who gets the reference.)
So an American run site funded by American organizations shouldn't be focused on America?
Says the commenter in an article about Sweden.... :)
True, but now we know the bad guys suck at backups, too....
Why should they care if their computer's a zombie? It still works well enough to do whatever it is they're online to do.
In my experience, it's worse than that. It's not that they don't care. They don't even believe it.
"My computer works fine. It can't be infected. I have Norton 2003 that came with the computer, so I'm fine. It's maybe a little slow, but that's because it's getting old and wearing out. I'M NOT INFECTED!I'MNOTINFECTED!I'MNOTINFECTED!LALALALALA"