What if the backup company goes out of business? Does anyone remember the company harddrive.com (or something like that)? They gave customers 72 hours notice to remove all their data. Be very careful with your business model.
It's the average Joes and Julies. Most folks haven't a clue about firewalls or Windows Update and patches. Users just want to get on-line. They don't want to buy AV software and those that do purchase or have a friend install it don't know about configuring for auto updates.
Many SlashDot users are unlikely to be infected, nor are their close relatives who have a guardian angel to look after their machines. The crux of the virus problem is ordinary users who aren't computer experts or can't be bothered with maintaining their system. We shouldn't blame them. After all, this
The real problem is the inherently poor design of Microsoft Windows. It's OLE and Visual Basic Scripting that grants full machine privileges to applications, something Java was intended to protect against.
It's stupid Microsoft programmers who think the best way to grant memory to a program is with DIMENSION ARRAY_X[1..10000000]. It programmers who have no clue about boundary checking each and every use of variables or not trusting user input, by assuming that input is intent on breaking system security or the application.
It doesn't matter that new PCs now ship with SP2. Over 100 million systems are running pre-SP2 software or Windows 95/Me/98/2000. As the price of DSL comes down, these older machines go on-line to become infected in 12 minutes or less.
Whoever said 12 minutes is a "mean" has a misunderstanding of statistics. The distribution is almost certainly nonstandard or nonuniform. Mean is average. Median is middle: 50% are less than 12 minutes and 50% are greater than 12 minutes, which could be years. That's not an average.
One and a half tons of cooling capacity is rather paltry. You need around 3 tons to cool a typical house. One ton will cool a 600 square-foot room, maybe a little more if well insulated.
My employer found that 90% of all spam and viruses originated from zombie PC's on DSL connections. We previously blocked any SMTP gateway whose reverse DNS entry resolved to a hostname that looked like a dyanic DSL/dialup address. We felt that a reputable business would ask their ISP to create a reverse DNS entry for their gateway.
Alas, a number of small business owners or home experts wouldn't pay the fee for the reverse DNS entry (cheap bastards they are).
As of this writing, any filter relying on the SBL is now marking email with the url "paulgraham.com" as spam. Why? Because the guys at the SBL want to pressure Yahoo, where paulgraham.com is hosted, to delete the site of a company they believe is spamming.
The SBL is used to blacklist SMTP gateways, not URL's appearing in the body of an e-mail message. The SpamAssassin process used
SRBL
to scan messages for "spammy" URLs. It has nothing to do with SBL blacklisting of gateways.
When criticizing a tool as unreliable, verify your facts.
Don't switch to a key layout that promises a modest speed improvement and makes it impossible for anyone else to use your system, like tech support. Get yourself a decent under-surface keyboard holder and make your desk surface 28 inches high. Get rid of the jelly bean shaped MS mouse and get the original MS Mouse II or something traditionally shaped. I had wrist troubles years ago but no longer since changing offices where they have real office furniture and keyboard holders.
Penn & Teller's Bullshit! is hardly the pinnacle of fair and unbiased journalism. Those episodes are carefully edited to make the guests appear foolish. Obviously, editing is unnecessary to make many of them appear foolish. The editor's choice of who gets interviewed is also biased. Just because Penn says they asked for a representative does not mean the search for balance was fair.
Many bird owners are aware of the dangers of Teflon. Cooking with Teflon cookware will kill your birds. Not cooking their food, but any food. Teflon delaminates from the cookware and gets into the air. This isn't from crazy environmentalists; it's a real danger.
A very reputable, very careful group of scientists at the University of Los Angeles (Brian Naranjo, Jim Gimzewski, Seth Putterman) has initiated a fusion reaction using a laboratory device that's not much bigger than a breadbox, and works at roughly room temperature.
Reputable institutions usually have a physical existence. No such place as University of Los Angeles; however, we have place named University of California, Los Angeles.
The federal government's own studies show that air travel is no safer after homeland security took over passenger and luggage screening. Federal agents perform just as poorly as their prior airline counterparts, missing just as many weapons. This all the while with much meightened sensitivity and screening procedures. For $38,000,000,000 we get federal take-over of airport security, a jelly bean color of the day, increased delays and annoyances at the airport and exactly how has life improved just one iota?
These full-body scanning systems are called X-ray machines. I wonder how much will be the increase in cancer risk for air travelers?
I agree to a large degree with your observations but think you fall into the same category for dispariging the disparagers. It's all about the "casting of stones." It's also known as schadenfreude.
When we laugh at others, we are often laughing at ourselves, "but there for the grace of God go I." It's as though we're saying, "I'm glad I didn't make that mistake this time. I'm glad they caught someone else's mistake instead of mine."
IBM's tactic is utterly useless because the vast majority of spam originates from zombie PCs. Those zombie system may have an SMTP engine to generate spam, but they most likely do not have port 25 open. Bouncing the spam back will be futile. It is more likely to generate a new denial-of-service attack: send a spam to IBM and watch them fight in vain attempting to bounce back the message.
With only 65,534 ports available, I don't think we want to start allocating *too* many of them to individual applications beyond the well-known port numbers below 1024. Use whatever ports you like. However, if your activity is disruptive to the ISP's ability to provide a minimal level of service to all their customers--not just you--they have every right to place limitiations. Free reign over the Internet is not an inherent right. Free speech doesn't even come close to applying here as it is a private network...boo hoo hoo.
What, no mention of ReplayTV? They beat Tivo to the market by a few days/weeks. ReplayTV handles some features better than Tivo and some worse:
ReplayTV doesn't store content which you don't specifically request. No Tivo commercials or content taking space you allocated to a show you wanted to record.
Tivo's season pass works better than ReplayTV which doesn't understand episode repeats.
ReplayTV has the 30 second skip missing from cable/dish PVRs
One ReplayTV model had the commercial skip feature.
Newer ReplayTV models let you share content with other ReplayTV boxes or PCs.
I've been considering the Dish 921 PVR with two HD tuners. You can record two shows and watch stored content from a third. They recently cut their price in half to about $500. I'm told the menuing sucks and the record function works like a VCR by time and misses a show if the time changes after programming. Anyone else using the Dish 921?
Before you make claims that the Bible forbids homosexuality, you may want to consider the origin of the word. Let's put a few facts together to see if we can draw a conclusion that reasonable thinkers will adopt. By my quick search, the King James version of the Bible was first published in 1611. The Random House Dictionary to the English Language, 2nd Edition, Unabridged, indicates that the word homosexual originated in 1890-1895. Some searches through Google indicate its origin in 1869. Considering how the word did not exist when the KJV Bible was written, how could it possibly have used the word "homosexual?"
In Virtually Normal, Andrew Sullivan writes that the Story of Soddom and Gamorrah was a tale about lack of hospitality rather than sex. Biblical scholars such as John Boswell, et al., have drawn similar conclusions after studying the original texts.
If God is infallible, then everything he makes must be good. God created homosexuals.
The primary biblical argument used today against homosexuality is that such a union cannot procreate. Yet we do not condemn male/female couples who are unable to produce children or those who have no desire. This singles out one group against all others. The Old Testament goes as far as condemning masturbation yet 97% of you males out there practice it regularly. That too is a mortal sin.
So we enter moral relativism where we humans rank the various sins against one another. As others have argued, Christians can pretty much ignore Leviticus because that comes from the Old Testament. Yet Jesus makes no mention of homosexuals in the four Gospels. He does spend a lot of time with the outcasts and chastises those who want to throw stones. He chastises the Rabbis who openly preach on the street corners. He has nothing to say about homosexuality.
In my conversations with Christians, I have found that nearly all believe it is more important to take the oath of accepting Jesus Christ than to live a "Christian life." In other words, what I say is more important than what I do. What a strange way to live one's life.
I persuaded my university to drop our Usenet server because the S/N ratio was low and we had an average daily user base of maybe 25 out of 30,000 students and 2500 employees. Those 25 users were reading primarily the alt.binaries.sex.*, alt.mst3k or alt.binaries.somethingelse groups. Hardly any of those 20 users followed the text groups (I was one of less than a handful of exceptions). The UseNet feed was consuming 50% of our T1 feed. I imagine it would use a large percentage of our current OC3C feed. We expended such a termendous effort maintaining the server and decided to direct our users to DEJA.COM (now Google Groups). Result: no more headaches. I can still Google one of my posts going back to 1992.
Another way would be to make it part of the inspection process. When you take your car in for inspection they take down the mileage.
What inspection? CA ended annual inspections after Proposition 13 in 1976, the newcomer pays more tax law. Don't get me started on that tax fairness debate.
I love all these arguments that assume someone wealthy enough to purchase a $27,000 system is not about to steal DVDs, especially since many are probably movie stars already. Have you forgotten about the SAG member in 2004 who gave away his screeners? What about Martha Stewart and her attempt to save $30,000 with her ImClone stock. Winona Ryder convicted of shoplifting. The list goes on and on.
People at all income levels can be thieves. I doubt you could find any correlation between income level and thievery. As one poster commented, why not just add every NetFlix rental to their jukebox?
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and now the review makes sense.
What if the backup company goes out of business? Does anyone remember the company harddrive.com (or something like that)? They gave customers 72 hours notice to remove all their data. Be very careful with your business model.
It's the average Joes and Julies. Most folks haven't a clue about firewalls or Windows Update and patches. Users just want to get on-line. They don't want to buy AV software and those that do purchase or have a friend install it don't know about configuring for auto updates.
Many SlashDot users are unlikely to be infected, nor are their close relatives who have a guardian angel to look after their machines. The crux of the virus problem is ordinary users who aren't computer experts or can't be bothered with maintaining their system. We shouldn't blame them. After all, this
The real problem is the inherently poor design of Microsoft Windows. It's OLE and Visual Basic Scripting that grants full machine privileges to applications, something Java was intended to protect against.
It's stupid Microsoft programmers who think the best way to grant memory to a program is with DIMENSION ARRAY_X[1..10000000]. It programmers who have no clue about boundary checking each and every use of variables or not trusting user input, by assuming that input is intent on breaking system security or the application.
It doesn't matter that new PCs now ship with SP2. Over 100 million systems are running pre-SP2 software or Windows 95/Me/98/2000. As the price of DSL comes down, these older machines go on-line to become infected in 12 minutes or less.
Whoever said 12 minutes is a "mean" has a misunderstanding of statistics. The distribution is almost certainly nonstandard or nonuniform. Mean is average. Median is middle: 50% are less than 12 minutes and 50% are greater than 12 minutes, which could be years. That's not an average.
One and a half tons of cooling capacity is rather paltry. You need around 3 tons to cool a typical house. One ton will cool a 600 square-foot room, maybe a little more if well insulated.
My employer found that 90% of all spam and viruses originated from zombie PC's on DSL connections. We previously blocked any SMTP gateway whose reverse DNS entry resolved to a hostname that looked like a dyanic DSL/dialup address. We felt that a reputable business would ask their ISP to create a reverse DNS entry for their gateway.
Alas, a number of small business owners or home experts wouldn't pay the fee for the reverse DNS entry (cheap bastards they are).
The SBL is used to blacklist SMTP gateways, not URL's appearing in the body of an e-mail message. The SpamAssassin process used SRBL to scan messages for "spammy" URLs. It has nothing to do with SBL blacklisting of gateways.
When criticizing a tool as unreliable, verify your facts.
When you purchase an automobile in California, the sales tax rate is determined by the customer's home address, not the dealer location.
Don't switch to a key layout that promises a modest speed improvement and makes it impossible for anyone else to use your system, like tech support. Get yourself a decent under-surface keyboard holder and make your desk surface 28 inches high. Get rid of the jelly bean shaped MS mouse and get the original MS Mouse II or something traditionally shaped. I had wrist troubles years ago but no longer since changing offices where they have real office furniture and keyboard holders.
Penn & Teller's Bullshit! is hardly the pinnacle of fair and unbiased journalism. Those episodes are carefully edited to make the guests appear foolish. Obviously, editing is unnecessary to make many of them appear foolish. The editor's choice of who gets interviewed is also biased. Just because Penn says they asked for a representative does not mean the search for balance was fair.
Many bird owners are aware of the dangers of Teflon. Cooking with Teflon cookware will kill your birds. Not cooking their food, but any food. Teflon delaminates from the cookware and gets into the air. This isn't from crazy environmentalists; it's a real danger.
Reputable institutions usually have a physical existence. No such place as University of Los Angeles; however, we have place named University of California, Los Angeles.
It looks like the grammar nannies missed a second error: The highlighted word should be the pronoun "their."
The federal government's own studies show that air travel is no safer after homeland security took over passenger and luggage screening. Federal agents perform just as poorly as their prior airline counterparts, missing just as many weapons. This all the while with much meightened sensitivity and screening procedures. For $38,000,000,000 we get federal take-over of airport security, a jelly bean color of the day, increased delays and annoyances at the airport and exactly how has life improved just one iota?
These full-body scanning systems are called X-ray machines. I wonder how much will be the increase in cancer risk for air travelers?
If this is such a big problem today, why aren't the folks on NANOG (North American Network Operators Group) discussing it?
When we laugh at others, we are often laughing at ourselves, "but there for the grace of God go I." It's as though we're saying, "I'm glad I didn't make that mistake this time. I'm glad they caught someone else's mistake instead of mine."
IBM's tactic is utterly useless because the vast majority of spam originates from zombie PCs. Those zombie system may have an SMTP engine to generate spam, but they most likely do not have port 25 open. Bouncing the spam back will be futile. It is more likely to generate a new denial-of-service attack: send a spam to IBM and watch them fight in vain attempting to bounce back the message.
With only 65,534 ports available, I don't think we want to start allocating *too* many of them to individual applications beyond the well-known port numbers below 1024. Use whatever ports you like. However, if your activity is disruptive to the ISP's ability to provide a minimal level of service to all their customers--not just you--they have every right to place limitiations. Free reign over the Internet is not an inherent right. Free speech doesn't even come close to applying here as it is a private network...boo hoo hoo.
When did we send reporters to Mars to get the news?
- ReplayTV doesn't store content which you don't specifically request. No Tivo commercials or content taking space you allocated to a show you wanted to record.
- Tivo's season pass works better than ReplayTV which doesn't understand episode repeats.
- ReplayTV has the 30 second skip missing from cable/dish PVRs
- One ReplayTV model had the commercial skip feature.
- Newer ReplayTV models let you share content with other ReplayTV boxes or PCs.
I've been considering the Dish 921 PVR with two HD tuners. You can record two shows and watch stored content from a third. They recently cut their price in half to about $500. I'm told the menuing sucks and the record function works like a VCR by time and misses a show if the time changes after programming. Anyone else using the Dish 921?In Virtually Normal, Andrew Sullivan writes that the Story of Soddom and Gamorrah was a tale about lack of hospitality rather than sex. Biblical scholars such as John Boswell, et al., have drawn similar conclusions after studying the original texts.
If God is infallible, then everything he makes must be good. God created homosexuals.
The primary biblical argument used today against homosexuality is that such a union cannot procreate. Yet we do not condemn male/female couples who are unable to produce children or those who have no desire. This singles out one group against all others. The Old Testament goes as far as condemning masturbation yet 97% of you males out there practice it regularly. That too is a mortal sin.
So we enter moral relativism where we humans rank the various sins against one another. As others have argued, Christians can pretty much ignore Leviticus because that comes from the Old Testament. Yet Jesus makes no mention of homosexuals in the four Gospels. He does spend a lot of time with the outcasts and chastises those who want to throw stones. He chastises the Rabbis who openly preach on the street corners. He has nothing to say about homosexuality.
In my conversations with Christians, I have found that nearly all believe it is more important to take the oath of accepting Jesus Christ than to live a "Christian life." In other words, what I say is more important than what I do. What a strange way to live one's life.
And sending your hard drive to Rome isn't?
I persuaded my university to drop our Usenet server because the S/N ratio was low and we had an average daily user base of maybe 25 out of 30,000 students and 2500 employees. Those 25 users were reading primarily the alt.binaries.sex.*, alt.mst3k or alt.binaries.somethingelse groups. Hardly any of those 20 users followed the text groups (I was one of less than a handful of exceptions). The UseNet feed was consuming 50% of our T1 feed. I imagine it would use a large percentage of our current OC3C feed. We expended such a termendous effort maintaining the server and decided to direct our users to DEJA.COM (now Google Groups). Result: no more headaches. I can still Google one of my posts going back to 1992.
What inspection? CA ended annual inspections after Proposition 13 in 1976, the newcomer pays more tax law. Don't get me started on that tax fairness debate.
People at all income levels can be thieves. I doubt you could find any correlation between income level and thievery. As one poster commented, why not just add every NetFlix rental to their jukebox?