Hmm, Why would they nog milk the source code for every penny that it is worth? To write the code again will cost ebay some millions, but eBya will loose much more, becuase the new software will not have the look and feel and will loose customers. ebay they only bought the brand, not the network (???)
The skype founders could license the code again and again, for huge amounts. I bet eBay could license it again, but refuses to pay the amount asked. Since the founders already got 2.6 gziilion for air, they are not stupid.
The source code does not help you to imange what happens in peer to peer network with very large amounts of cleints that have a different kind of environment. Not to mention software that has bugs.
BTW... who is the first to post to the xkcd comic about it normal people have aquaria
Under European law you might be correct and it might be possible to open source the database.
However from a USA point of view, as soon al you sell the data in the USA they might sue you, claiming copyright and claim excessive statutory damages . Since there is not database law in USA it might fall under copyright there. Since neither me or you are USA copyright lawyer it is not safe to draw conclusions,
CA's take a long time to get revoked. Check google for Comodo as an exmple of a lazy CA.
"and taking almost a month to revoke the certificate has to change. The excuse that everyone else does it, so we do it too else we lose business, is weak at best. "
But the whole point is that people do not really understand certificates. There are big warnings, but people are kept in the dark what they should do. Also people are clueless what the small lock actually means. The fact is that if there is a certificate you should be able to idntifiy the people behind it. That does not help you if those people are international scammers in a country where the police does not care. (Maybe because there are bigger problems in that country , like speeding violations)
Whole disk encryption makes the data unusable. But to truly brick it you need a laptop/notebook where there is a bios password that lock the hard disk and cannot be CMOS resetted.
The solution is simple this, build a passkey alike system that will light up in the apropioate microwave oven. Nobody will tamper with it because "IT'S A FREAKING MICROWAVE"
However when looking at the video there is the posibilty they get other elements of the escape capsule on their head after a succesful landing.
Also i am a bit subrised they do not escape sideways. In the final system they have a rocket under their feet that is pushing up. escaping in that direction might not be the safest direction if they already have altitude.
The article points out however that to get "jamie thomas" kind of damages you will need registration. or else you can only go for actual damages (that are very hard too prove).
This type is already known as "attack by a 1000 snails" type attack. It is harder to defned against than you would think. A user can be slow, but coders are hesitant to drop users that ar too slow or too fast.
A user kan just keep the TCP/IP alive by sending one byte every x seconds. If this is patched at http header level, you will see you can do the same kind of attack on the application, that can have limited php or perl sessions.
The main problem is that wolfram alpha does not state it sources, so you cannot fact check. google is closer to the orinal search engine that it points to links.
But you should not overlook the fact that NO virtulisation beats the performance of a virtulisation solution in 9 out of 10 times. If you load your servers already to 100% virtulisation will only add load.
If you have multiple lightly loaded servers you can consolidate those in a virtulized solution and safe money.
IF you have some server that are under full load you do not want to add anything that adds load.
jail is a solution, but the fact that they did major apllicaiotn changes it could also be done in the application instead, ginving each run a seperate configuration set.
Same support nightmare. Instead of running 2 windows you now run unix and windows.
This is a problem for any virtualized platform. You still have to maintain every virutal machine. Increasing the number of VM machines does not decrease the maintenanace on software (but might decrease the required hardware)
However the fact that the XP VM havely interacts with the windows 7 OS also makes you loose the advantage that a guest OS cannot infect a host os.
BTW, i am supprised you are not running reactOS instead of XP in your QUMA environment. A new version (still alpha) was recently released.
You only have to hide the small secret, like the youtube video's on pyramids. The big one (of trillions of dollars) are so big noone will believe them.
But the main reason for not bothering is that the benefit was minuscule compared to the cost. Nobody wants floppy drives to spin up as soon as a disk is inserted. That just makes them think they've been attacked by a computer virus. It'd all just be a lot of work for a feature nobody wants. And then you'd all be posting, "I can't believe Microsoft wasted all this effort on floppy insertion detection when they should have fixed insert favorite bug here."
Clearly wrong reasoning here.
This is exactly how MS defined how a cd would react to a drive insertion. About now there is a problem that the autorun stuff is an inidation of a virus. PTrue: people worries a lot because the hard disk was showing all kind of activity wihtout they doing something. But extending that behaviour to floppy would be no problem.
At least they should have had an option to enable autodetection somewhere in the settings.
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They just need a potion +100% vitality. That is all. A better build class would be nice as well.
From the Lojack compatibility list here is a list of company:
ASUS, Dell Fujitsu, GammaTech, Gateway, GD Itronix, Getac, HP, Lenovo,,Motion, Panasonic, Toshiba
You can find a list of models on the "bios compatibility list"
Hmm, Why would they nog milk the source code for every penny that it is worth? To write the code again will cost ebay some millions, but eBya will loose much more, becuase the new software will not have the look and feel and will loose customers. ebay they only bought the brand, not the network (???)
The skype founders could license the code again and again, for huge amounts. I bet eBay could license it again, but refuses to pay the amount asked. Since the founders already got 2.6 gziilion for air, they are not stupid.
Exactly. If the problem is that you can hack a tower(??) then that step should be illegal, not the tool.
You can chrash a plane in to a cell tower, make planes illegal.
You can chrash a car into a cell tower, make cars illegal.
or just make fucking arround with cell towers illegal.
The source code does not help you to imange what happens in peer to peer network with very large amounts of cleints that have a different kind of environment. Not to mention software that has bugs.
BTW... who is the first to post to the xkcd comic about it normal people have aquaria
Well, it seems you did not download the gpl version, but an old version. I am unsure where you can find the gpl version.
Under European law you might be correct and it might be possible to open source the database.
However from a USA point of view, as soon al you sell the data in the USA they might sue you, claiming copyright and claim excessive statutory damages . Since there is not database law in USA it might fall under copyright there. Since neither me or you are USA copyright lawyer it is not safe to draw conclusions,
CA's take a long time to get revoked. Check google for Comodo as an exmple of a lazy CA.
"and taking almost a month to revoke the certificate has to change. The excuse that everyone else does it, so we do it too else we lose business, is weak at best. "
But the whole point is that people do not really understand certificates. There are big warnings, but people are kept in the dark what they should do. Also people are clueless what the small lock actually means. The fact is that if there is a certificate you should be able to idntifiy the people behind it. That does not help you if those people are international scammers in a country where the police does not care. (Maybe because there are bigger problems in that country , like speeding violations)
Whole disk encryption makes the data unusable. But to truly brick it you need a laptop/notebook where there is a bios password that lock the hard disk and cannot be CMOS resetted.
The solution is simple this, build a passkey alike system that will light up in the apropioate microwave oven. Nobody will tamper with it because "IT'S A FREAKING MICROWAVE"
Hey they allow links from slashdot again. that was blocked in the past.
This was cerntain;y true for explorere 5 , 6 and somewhat explorer 7. But for explorer 8 they were brave enough to break not compliant sites.
This NASA engineering. A backup of a backup!
However when looking at the video there is the posibilty they get other elements of the escape capsule on their head after a succesful landing.
Also i am a bit subrised they do not escape sideways. In the final system they have a rocket under their feet that is pushing up. escaping in that direction might not be the safest direction if they already have altitude.
Seen that, done that been Got the t-shirt in 1978
The article points out however that to get "jamie thomas" kind of damages you will need registration. or else you can only go for actual damages (that are very hard too prove).
well, memory and memroy is no the same...
I bet that chrome uses some kind of shared memory achitecture, where you cannot simply add up memory of different processes.
but you are right, performance vs memory use is more useful.
This type is already known as "attack by a 1000 snails" type attack. It is harder to defned against than you would think. A user can be slow, but coders are hesitant to drop users that ar too slow or too fast.
A user kan just keep the TCP/IP alive by sending one byte every x seconds. If this is patched at http header level, you will see you can do the same kind of attack on the application, that can have limited php or perl sessions.
The main problem is that wolfram alpha does not state it sources, so you cannot fact check. google is closer to the orinal search engine that it points to links.
Switch the physical keys arround so it looks like a foreign keyboard mapping. That will scare them off.
you can type blind so have no problem.
But you should not overlook the fact that NO virtulisation beats the performance of a virtulisation solution in 9 out of 10 times. If you load your servers already to 100% virtulisation will only add load.
If you have multiple lightly loaded servers you can consolidate those in a virtulized solution and safe money.
IF you have some server that are under full load you do not want to add anything that adds load.
jail is a solution, but the fact that they did major apllicaiotn changes it could also be done in the application instead, ginving each run a seperate configuration set.
When the suits cannot read /. they will have to get out of their builings.
Well..
Same support nightmare. Instead of running 2 windows you now run unix and windows.
This is a problem for any virtualized platform. You still have to maintain every virutal machine. Increasing the number of VM machines does not decrease the maintenanace on software (but might decrease the required hardware)
However the fact that the XP VM havely interacts with the windows 7 OS also makes you loose the advantage that a guest OS cannot infect a host os.
BTW, i am supprised you are not running reactOS instead of XP in your QUMA environment. A new version (still alpha) was recently released.
Well. a book of 900 pages is a formidable weapon. you can beat someone to death with it... Is it hardcover?
You only have to hide the small secret, like the youtube video's on pyramids. The big one (of trillions of dollars) are so big noone will believe them.
But the main reason for not bothering is that the benefit was minuscule compared to the cost. Nobody wants floppy drives to spin up as soon as a disk is inserted. That just makes them think they've been attacked by a computer virus. It'd all just be a lot of work for a feature nobody wants. And then you'd all be posting, "I can't believe Microsoft wasted all this effort on floppy insertion detection when they should have fixed insert favorite bug here."
Clearly wrong reasoning here.
This is exactly how MS defined how a cd would react to a drive insertion. About now there is a problem that the autorun stuff is an inidation of a virus. PTrue: people worries a lot because the hard disk was showing all kind of activity wihtout they doing something. But extending that behaviour to floppy would be no problem.
At least they should have had an option to enable autodetection somewhere in the settings.