because it's harder to hack a site, not by much, though a proxy. and since GW's site is running on Windows 2000, they have to do everything to protect it.
My real question is why is the world whining about this. They don't get to choose The American President, I can tell you I have never visited Tony Blairs website, nor Jock Sherok, or any site that doesn't have to do with somebody that will directly effect me.
To be blunt: You don't have a vote in this election and your are not going to sway it either way, so back off and let the US take the course that it wants. And for peat sakes stop all your whining at every little thing.
I have a theory this has to do with people defacing the site in the last week of the campaign. It's probably nothing personal, and besides, to be blunt the world has no say in the American president so this really isn't an issue. People shouldn't take offense to this, because if some 17 year old kid defaces the site in the last days of the election it is going to be broadcast around the world and make W look bad.
By limiting access you are only allow 1/24 (300,000,000/6,000,000,000) of the world to see the site and thus limiting the chance of attack by 23/24.
This doesn't surprise me since most of Europe has let it be known that they don't like W.
The article doesn't have enough data for all the schools. For instance Penn State, my alma mater, is pretty much in the dark ages according to Forbes. Penn State meets all of the questions, so they should all be yes. And the computer to student ratio is about 1/3 (one computer for every three students).
You know you actually understand something that the libral media over at the NY Times doesn't.
"Even if I could vote (I can't, I'm British), democracy at the national level in the US is such a farce it's not worth participating in."
Because they are always saying if the world could vote, they would vote for Kerry. I SAY THE WORLD CAN'T VOTE, SO IT IS NON-SENSE, JUST LIKE YOUR WASHED UP PAPER. I just hate how this processes has been turned into a glorified American-Idol.
I really don't agree with Bush domestically, he is a little to libral for me there with all the spending, however I know it would be 10x worse with Kerry domestically. So it's like picking the poisen that won't kill your pocket book the quikest.
But isn't that what Kerry is bitching about right now, about a back-door draft. His plans just sounds like the presidents only with out all the buzz words.
Well there is none and it probably did happen pre-history. But we as a society have decided not to practice that any more, to "forget" if you will. But that really isn't the point, the point is we are talking about monogmous marriage, and we are dating it back before marrige. How many societies before the 20th century do you know that had or wanted a union between same sex couples. There are none, it is totally a new thing to have a commited relationship between same sex couples. It however isn't a new thing for an aristocrat to take a male concubine, the Greeks did it, as well as many other cutlures. So I say if they want to be in a commited relationship take over the work civil union, and make that the gay marriage.
All that the gay movement wants to do is force their culture onto a culture that doesn't want to embrase it. In America the people decide what is best for the people, that is why the consitution starts off "We the people...". And we the people don't want gay marraige, at least 90 or so percent of us, so it is really unfair to force something on a culture through activist judges that we the people don't want.
yeah I agree somewhat, but all that Kerry did is say he had a plan but never told us what it is. He said he is going to increase the Military by 40,000 people, and then he went on about why it is nessisary. He never told us how he was going to increase the military by 40,000 people, is he going to draft them, create them out of thin air, kidnap them, what John what?
On a side note anybody count how many times Kerry said "I have a plan"?
you *might* have3 a grain of respect for the man?????
So you actively support somebody that commited War crimes against innocent civilians in Vietnam. And you also want a guy in office that shot himself in the a$$ inorder to get out of the military 8 months early in a year tour of duty.
Hell it even pre-dates recorded history as a union between a man and a woman. You can't trace it back to any single point, it was most likely pegan in origin that developed in many different civilizations pre-history. You can come to this conclusion because every religion in the world has a cermony for and nobody can find a reference to when the first time was that a man commited to a woman.
Just look twords McCain-Finegold Campaign Finance Reform, where they restricted a canidate from running any ads one month before the election. But all these other groups such as the MediaFund, MoveOn.org, VietnamVets, etc. don't have to abide by those rules. So in essence the canidate can't go out and use free speech to promote him/her self (i.e. bash the other guy with attack ads at the time it matters the most). But groups that don't nessisary relay what the campaign beleives can go out and bash the other guy.
This is a huge problem, because the power has shifted from groups that tried to accomplish something (i.e. NAACP, AARP, etc.) no longer are in the power seats of the campaign. Now it is a group that only wants to accomplish getting the other guy out of the way and putting their guy in office.
McCain-Finegold was a big slap across the face of the founders, because John McCain didn't want to be critized so much like he was in the 2000 election.
So this is nothing new, the people just have to throw these guys out of office that want to limit any kind of free speech. Howard Stern has just as many rights to be on the radio as Rush Limbaugh, and the option to change the channel is always there if you don't like what the person is saying. WE NEED TO STOP LOOKING TWORDS THE WHINY PEOPLE THAT WANT TO GET RID OF SOMETHING INSTEAD OF CHANGING THE CHANNEL.
I say send a message, by hitting them where it hurts, their wallet. Don't listen to the show, so the advertising numbers will go down and pull out.
I am starting to think it would be a lot better if we paid polititions to stay out of office.:)
Kodak was one of the top leaders in patents for year before they started haveing to consolidate their business because of digial media. I beleive Kodak was in the top 10 with the likes of Bell Labs and IBM. So it doesn't surprise me that they might hold a patent for this, somebody had too.
See these are the typical statements that I get back from zealots. Defacto standards are standards because everybody is using them. Defacto standards are better from a portability standpoint because I can send them to anybody around the world and have a 95% (just made that up, but probably pretty close) chance of getting somebody that can open the file.
If you standarized OpenOffice format what do you have? You still have a format that probably only 15% of people can read even though it is not a standard. You people just have to face it capilizism makes better standards than some oversight board.
I read this and the only thing that went through my mind is that people really don't understand why people use Microsoft products. People don't use Microsoft products because they have an ISO standard, they don't use them because they are not-Microsoft (obviously), and they don't really care they just want something that works. I personally use Office, because it is hands down the best office suite out there, and I use it because I can share my documents with other MS Office users. Personally ISO standards are great but Defacto-Standards are better, that is something that the Linux people just haven't grasped yet.
I don't totally think it's a 100%, because I saw a story a while back on/. about a admin that had some hacker uploading a program through a hole in Apache/Linux and sending out e-mail.
Why isn't there an easy to hook in filter for these service providers that is realitivly cheap that won't let you send more than 50 e-mails an hour or soemthing like that. I know that would still perpetuate SPAM, but it would only be at about 1/16th the rate.
What is the percentage of OS broken down. Is it consistant with the OS spread. Such as 90% Windows, 7% Linux, 3% Mac? Anybody know of a break down? What does everybody think it is?
Why is this news? It is a good thing, because I will be able to use USB devices on my work desktop now. Because of right now USB is disabled on my desktop because network security is scared about information leaking out via these storage devices. I know this isn't a norm for everybody, but there is enough of a demand out there, that Microsoft has decided to add it to their product.
At least in the world of Microsoft they impliment features that enough of their user base is calling for. I have personally found in the Linux world it is a crap shoot to get a feature that is useful to me and most of my peers.
By the way don't tell me to go impliment it, I hate that comment, because it doesn't provide anything useful to the conversation. Also using a device, or in this case not using one, doesn't require me to know the specification of the device down the the SDK.
It's easy to wire a small country like sweaden, with a very small population. It is a little bit different for a country that is 20-30 times bigger than sweaden. Much like everything else, it's just the media hoping for a story where there really isn't one. Second of all, we would be able to watch HD Media over our current broadband if networks like NBC would get off of their arss and stop limiting the growth like they did with the Olympics.
Where did you get the statement that it has led to no arrests? Do you have any facts to back that up or are you just pulling statements out of thin air?
Well this rulling did come from the 9th Circus. This is the most over turned court in the country. And it is called a circus, because cases are usually overturned, and they base everything more on feelings than actual law. But what do you expect from the most liberal court in the US.
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They are protecting against DoS attacks don't take it personally.
because it's harder to hack a site, not by much, though a proxy. and since GW's site is running on Windows 2000, they have to do everything to protect it.
My real question is why is the world whining about this. They don't get to choose The American President, I can tell you I have never visited Tony Blairs website, nor Jock Sherok, or any site that doesn't have to do with somebody that will directly effect me.
To be blunt: You don't have a vote in this election and your are not going to sway it either way, so back off and let the US take the course that it wants. And for peat sakes stop all your whining at every little thing.
I have a theory this has to do with people defacing the site in the last week of the campaign. It's probably nothing personal, and besides, to be blunt the world has no say in the American president so this really isn't an issue. People shouldn't take offense to this, because if some 17 year old kid defaces the site in the last days of the election it is going to be broadcast around the world and make W look bad.
By limiting access you are only allow 1/24 (300,000,000/6,000,000,000) of the world to see the site and thus limiting the chance of attack by 23/24.
This doesn't surprise me since most of Europe has let it be known that they don't like W.
The article doesn't have enough data for all the schools. For instance Penn State, my alma mater, is pretty much in the dark ages according to Forbes. Penn State meets all of the questions, so they should all be yes. And the computer to student ratio is about 1/3 (one computer for every three students).
So I really question this article.
All hal Wal-Mart, the 3 ton elephant that everybody ignores until they move.
You know you actually understand something that the libral media over at the NY Times doesn't.
"Even if I could vote (I can't, I'm British), democracy at the national level in the US is such a farce it's not worth participating in."
Because they are always saying if the world could vote, they would vote for Kerry. I SAY THE WORLD CAN'T VOTE, SO IT IS NON-SENSE, JUST LIKE YOUR WASHED UP PAPER. I just hate how this processes has been turned into a glorified American-Idol.
I really don't agree with Bush domestically, he is a little to libral for me there with all the spending, however I know it would be 10x worse with Kerry domestically. So it's like picking the poisen that won't kill your pocket book the quikest.
But isn't that what Kerry is bitching about right now, about a back-door draft. His plans just sounds like the presidents only with out all the buzz words.
Well there is none and it probably did happen pre-history. But we as a society have decided not to practice that any more, to "forget" if you will. But that really isn't the point, the point is we are talking about monogmous marriage, and we are dating it back before marrige. How many societies before the 20th century do you know that had or wanted a union between same sex couples. There are none, it is totally a new thing to have a commited relationship between same sex couples. It however isn't a new thing for an aristocrat to take a male concubine, the Greeks did it, as well as many other cutlures. So I say if they want to be in a commited relationship take over the work civil union, and make that the gay marriage.
All that the gay movement wants to do is force their culture onto a culture that doesn't want to embrase it. In America the people decide what is best for the people, that is why the consitution starts off "We the people...". And we the people don't want gay marraige, at least 90 or so percent of us, so it is really unfair to force something on a culture through activist judges that we the people don't want.
yeah I agree somewhat, but all that Kerry did is say he had a plan but never told us what it is. He said he is going to increase the Military by 40,000 people, and then he went on about why it is nessisary. He never told us how he was going to increase the military by 40,000 people, is he going to draft them, create them out of thin air, kidnap them, what John what?
On a side note anybody count how many times Kerry said "I have a plan"?
you *might* have3 a grain of respect for the man?????
So you actively support somebody that commited War crimes against innocent civilians in Vietnam. And you also want a guy in office that shot himself in the a$$ inorder to get out of the military 8 months early in a year tour of duty.
Hell it even pre-dates recorded history as a union between a man and a woman. You can't trace it back to any single point, it was most likely pegan in origin that developed in many different civilizations pre-history. You can come to this conclusion because every religion in the world has a cermony for and nobody can find a reference to when the first time was that a man commited to a woman.
Just look twords McCain-Finegold Campaign Finance Reform, where they restricted a canidate from running any ads one month before the election. But all these other groups such as the MediaFund, MoveOn.org, VietnamVets, etc. don't have to abide by those rules. So in essence the canidate can't go out and use free speech to promote him/her self (i.e. bash the other guy with attack ads at the time it matters the most). But groups that don't nessisary relay what the campaign beleives can go out and bash the other guy.
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This is a huge problem, because the power has shifted from groups that tried to accomplish something (i.e. NAACP, AARP, etc.) no longer are in the power seats of the campaign. Now it is a group that only wants to accomplish getting the other guy out of the way and putting their guy in office.
McCain-Finegold was a big slap across the face of the founders, because John McCain didn't want to be critized so much like he was in the 2000 election.
So this is nothing new, the people just have to throw these guys out of office that want to limit any kind of free speech. Howard Stern has just as many rights to be on the radio as Rush Limbaugh, and the option to change the channel is always there if you don't like what the person is saying. WE NEED TO STOP LOOKING TWORDS THE WHINY PEOPLE THAT WANT TO GET RID OF SOMETHING INSTEAD OF CHANGING THE CHANNEL.
I say send a message, by hitting them where it hurts, their wallet. Don't listen to the show, so the advertising numbers will go down and pull out.
I am starting to think it would be a lot better if we paid polititions to stay out of office.
So does this take slashdot for the largest thread?
Kodak was one of the top leaders in patents for year before they started haveing to consolidate their business because of digial media. I beleive Kodak was in the top 10 with the likes of Bell Labs and IBM. So it doesn't surprise me that they might hold a patent for this, somebody had too.
See these are the typical statements that I get back from zealots. Defacto standards are standards because everybody is using them. Defacto standards are better from a portability standpoint because I can send them to anybody around the world and have a 95% (just made that up, but probably pretty close) chance of getting somebody that can open the file.
If you standarized OpenOffice format what do you have? You still have a format that probably only 15% of people can read even though it is not a standard. You people just have to face it capilizism makes better standards than some oversight board.
I read this and the only thing that went through my mind is that people really don't understand why people use Microsoft products. People don't use Microsoft products because they have an ISO standard, they don't use them because they are not-Microsoft (obviously), and they don't really care they just want something that works. I personally use Office, because it is hands down the best office suite out there, and I use it because I can share my documents with other MS Office users. Personally ISO standards are great but Defacto-Standards are better, that is something that the Linux people just haven't grasped yet.
Sounds like a Troll journalist. Much like the ones at the NY TImes.
I don't totally think it's a 100%, because I saw a story a while back on /. about a admin that had some hacker uploading a program through a hole in Apache/Linux and sending out e-mail.
Why isn't there an easy to hook in filter for these service providers that is realitivly cheap that won't let you send more than 50 e-mails an hour or soemthing like that. I know that would still perpetuate SPAM, but it would only be at about 1/16th the rate.
What is the percentage of OS broken down. Is it consistant with the OS spread. Such as 90% Windows, 7% Linux, 3% Mac? Anybody know of a break down? What does everybody think it is?
Why is this news? It is a good thing, because I will be able to use USB devices on my work desktop now. Because of right now USB is disabled on my desktop because network security is scared about information leaking out via these storage devices. I know this isn't a norm for everybody, but there is enough of a demand out there, that Microsoft has decided to add it to their product.
At least in the world of Microsoft they impliment features that enough of their user base is calling for. I have personally found in the Linux world it is a crap shoot to get a feature that is useful to me and most of my peers.
By the way don't tell me to go impliment it, I hate that comment, because it doesn't provide anything useful to the conversation. Also using a device, or in this case not using one, doesn't require me to know the specification of the device down the the SDK.
It's easy to wire a small country like sweaden, with a very small population. It is a little bit different for a country that is 20-30 times bigger than sweaden. Much like everything else, it's just the media hoping for a story where there really isn't one. Second of all, we would be able to watch HD Media over our current broadband if networks like NBC would get off of their arss and stop limiting the growth like they did with the Olympics.
Where did you get the statement that it has led to no arrests? Do you have any facts to back that up or are you just pulling statements out of thin air?
I think it is more of an automatic process for the checking of the names. At least I hope it is, or the service is pretty useless.
Well this rulling did come from the 9th Circus. This is the most over turned court in the country. And it is called a circus, because cases are usually overturned, and they base everything more on feelings than actual law. But what do you expect from the most liberal court in the US.