No, they will change the title - eg "Harry and the Philosopher's Stone" vs the American title "Harry and the Sorcerer's Stone" - not so good is it??.
Now's a good chance to run a naming competition. Let's see, "United We Stand, Divided We're Cooked", if they concentrate on potatoes and carrots they could call it "Tales from the Underground".
I imagine this technology will find its way onto billboards - no external power requried, just a small solar cell or battery. How about luminescent posters - this will do wonders for political candidates and rock bands!
Yet another example of technology working for the good of all./end sarcasm/
GNU/Linux systems may be more resistant, but are not immune to cracking
There is a steady flow of exploits from almost all platforms. It is quite misleading to treat non-Windows systems as monolithic -- or Windows even for that matter, they are composed of many subsystems which from time to time contain exploits.
Linux, FreeBSD, HPUX, IRIX and the rest have heaps of explits out in the wild. Sure patches are developed, but there are quite a few lame users that just install *nix off the CD, just like they do with Windows.
you can reboot the bloody win box with a click of the mouse button! Who cares about minimal performance gains when the system is crashing daily?
You can also easily back the things up and recover from crashes -- we use VMWare and the entire win system is just a large file. You can have a 'read-only' system, ie no changes are kept between reboots. This gives you a much more stable environment.
Over the last few years we've had legacy win apps that constantly crash with cc:mail routers the worst. We ran about 25 instances of these on four virtual machines. All we then need do is click on that friendly Power Off / Power On button.
It also lets you put all those crappy win apps that HR and marketing come up with on one box.
A single connection request often indicates an automated scanner. Particularly with the linux worms, I will get a single packet every few days to different address in our range.
Whether I chase it up depends on the port. Current favourites are 53, 111, 515, 21 etc. I mostly avoid querying something that could be legit, for example port 25 connections to our web server or the now infamous ident query.
I do send an email to obvious scanners, mostly the owner hasn't a clue what is going on, and hopefully they will learn a bit about security and close the more targeted holes. In this case notification helps the user and (very slightly) reduces the easy meat for crackers.
.net,.com,.org, etc are meant to be international, ie appling to entities that span multiple countries. If an entity lives within a single country, well that country domain should apply. But (typically;-) the US stuffed up their namespace by inserting the state name, making it so uselessly complex everyone went to international domains. I'm sure there is a *good* reason why you can't have acme.com.us, isn't there??
I am currently taking a c programming class (remedial education;) and my 13 year old daughter looks at my tortoise & hare text game and thinks I'm daft. She associates computers with *graphics*, not text. She has shown some very slight interest in web pages, so maybe she might have a go at HTML, but BASIC???? Forget it.
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Now's a good chance to run a naming competition. Let's see, "United We Stand, Divided We're Cooked", if they concentrate on potatoes and carrots they could call it "Tales from the Underground".
Yet another example of technology working for the good of all. /end sarcasm/
There is a steady flow of exploits from almost all platforms. It is quite misleading to treat non-Windows systems as monolithic -- or Windows even for that matter, they are composed of many subsystems which from time to time contain exploits.
Linux, FreeBSD, HPUX, IRIX and the rest have heaps of explits out in the wild. Sure patches are developed, but there are quite a few lame users that just install *nix off the CD, just like they do with Windows.
Please, please, please be more objective!
You can also easily back the things up and recover from crashes -- we use VMWare and the entire win system is just a large file. You can have a 'read-only' system, ie no changes are kept between reboots. This gives you a much more stable environment.
Over the last few years we've had legacy win apps that constantly crash with cc:mail routers the worst. We ran about 25 instances of these on four virtual machines. All we then need do is click on that friendly Power Off / Power On button.
It also lets you put all those crappy win apps that HR and marketing come up with on one box.
Whether I chase it up depends on the port. Current favourites are 53, 111, 515, 21 etc. I mostly avoid querying something that could be legit, for example port 25 connections to our web server or the now infamous ident query.
I do send an email to obvious scanners, mostly the owner hasn't a clue what is going on, and hopefully they will learn a bit about security and close the more targeted holes. In this case notification helps the user and (very slightly) reduces the easy meat for crackers.
Yeah, but there is a pattern -- same credit card number, same checking account (same name even!). These things can be traced if the will is there.
This also doesn't answer the question why they don't jump on amazon.
The answer to both these points is they make money from these people, so they won't try too hard to stop them.
You might try NGOs such as Oxfam or Medicine San Frontiers (sp?).
No doubt the many anti-landmine organisations could use some help.
There is also Project Gutenberg if you feel like typing.
I am currently taking a c programming class (remedial education ;) and my 13 year old daughter looks at my tortoise & hare text game and thinks I'm daft. She associates computers with *graphics*, not text. She has shown some very slight interest in web pages, so maybe she might have a go at HTML, but BASIC???? Forget it.