Even worse, the blame once again has to spread somewhat to application developers. I'm a corporate IT guy, and I can't count the number of hours I've had to spend with dozens of applications, tracing down one stupid.ini file or.log file that they try to place in SYSTEM folders, where normal users don't have write perms.
While it's a case of chicken before the egg, if MS just denied users admin perms by default, a LOT of software would fall down, and Joe User would be clueless why. They'll log onto the admin user and it'd work, so they'd stay there.
Developers have to clue in and participate in the security cycle. Unfortunately, devs writing code sit there, testing, as administrator themselves. Fix that, and we'll talk about OS defaults.
Their Windows Security Alerts interface isn't compatible with my corporate Norton I have from my work place. It isn't a big whoop, but I am surprised they don't work together.
Symantec Client Security 2.0 DOWNLOAD NOW Symantec Client Security 2.0 Business Packs DOWNLOAD NOW Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 9.0 DOWNLOAD NOW Symantec AntiVirus 9.0 Business Packs DOWNLOAD NOW
Symantec Client Security 1.1.1 August 18 - 31, 2004 Symantec Client Security 1.1.1 Small Business September 1 - 15, 2004 Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 8.1.1 August 18 - 31, 2004 Symantec AntiVirus 8.1.1 Small Business September 1 - 15, 2004 Symantec Client Security 1.0.1 August 23 - September 6, 2004 Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 8.0.1 August 23 - September 6, 2004 Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition 7.61 September 7 - 21, 2004
So, current products are supported already. Older versions, Symantec will roll out patches for in the upcoming weeks. Sounds reasonable. Feel free to point this out to your administrator in case they're not aware of this patch requirement.
but they don't think that way. They're also the producers of little-heard-of JumpGate. That's the last of the Wing-Commander/Freespace style games still alive, and the only one that went MMORPG while not being point-and-click.
If you care, http://www.jossh.com has info and a demo download.
*Disclosure: I am (as is likely obvious) a player of JumpGate. I am not affilliated with NetDevil in any way. I am, sadly, hoping to be responsible for the jossh server melting down moments from now.
As I recall it, it had nothing to do with labels. There was a legal agreement between Intel and AMD wherein AMD was to be given access to the schematics for the x86 series processors. This agreement dated back to when Intel needed AMDs manufacturing capacity to augment their own. Intel wished to terminate this agreement, and could not, as long as their chips were still x86 series. Hence the P5 Pentium.
You could view it that way. Or you could look at some of the products HP has rolled out in the printer category the last couple years.
For instance, the HP Laserjet 3330mfp. It's a multifunction device just like everyone else's. Only... you can throw an IP print server on it, and make ALL of its functions available to everyone on your network. Oh, and ALL of its functions work simultaneously. So one of your users can be faxing through the unit while another is scanning from the glass and a third is printing.
In a world full of USB-only multifunction devices where you're lucky if you can share the printer function peer-to-peer due to proprietary "status monitor/sender" panels and such (Canon L6000 for instance CANNOT be redirected), this product is astonishingly innovative.
I should state that I am an HP-authorized warranty repair tech. I don't work for HP, but I do service their gear.
You mean, how many people do I know other than myself?
Fact is that dual processors are a very nice thing when doing video encoding. Converting from one codec to another, or doing transforms on existing encoded data, with the right software (ie. most of it) will take advantage of both of my processors.
Please keep in mind that some people do run more than Unreal Quakement 3D Ultra 2005 Extreme.
As for cooling, there is in fact an economy of scale. The larger a heatsink we can use, the larger our fans get, and ultimately, the quieter they get. Small high-RPM fans make lots of noise. Large medium-RPM fans can move more air and make less noise.
[I]That's my own criteria for using a cell phone. That is, if I'm in a situation where I feel it's appropriate to talk to a "real" person, it's fine to talk on a cellphone, as long as it can be done at a "normal" volume level (normal for the context.)[/I]
Not good enough. People on cell phones that are at a "normal" volume level rarely annoy others. Fact is that people on cell phones rarely talk at a "normal" volume level. They raise their voices so their fingernail-sized flip-phone can actually pick them up, and secondly because it's a natural human reaction when you yourself can't hear well. Reception and phone quality being what it is, people generally broadcast very prominently when on their cell phones. Watch for it and see if I'm wrong.
By definition, if people around you are being annoyed by you, you're being annoying. If you were truly carrying on a conversation as though a person was with you, almost nobody would notice you.
[I]I wonder, if as a bi-product of releasing the Microsoft code, that hackers will write more viruses and worms after seeing the source code, if I can sue the person who let out the code because it will increase the time I have to spend securing my system.[/I]
Not likely at all. If the person is found, they will be prosecuted for the distribution by Microsoft and/or the government. As I understand it, you couldn't sue them for the same crime afterwards.
Regardless, and this is my main point, I suspect that every worm or exploit from this moment on is going to be blamed on this code leak. We will NEVER know if any increase in malware is a result of this leak, or merely increased activity on the black hats' part.
Am I the only one here who actually thought SiteFinder was good? I mean, quite a few times, if I was typing in a domain, like say Homestarrunner.com, and I misspelled it, I'd get a "no server found" error, have to go back into the URL and try and figure out where I screwed up. Not exactly a challenge, but still annoying. With SiteFinder, I just have to click the link that popped up. And it always popped up.
As I understand the functionality of SiteFinder, it tries to find resolution for false lookups. My problem with this is that in business, if a customer dials my phone number incorrectly, they'll get one of two things; either a "this number is not in service" message, or a RANDOM incorrect answer. With something like SiteFinder, it's the net equivalent of that same customer dialing incorrectly and getting either my actual number or... MY COMPETITORS' numbers. I want people to KNOW they've gone to the wrong place.
That's on top of all of the other things resolving lookups that aren't supposed to resolve breaks.
If you consider computer security like the human immune system, then perhaps it may be seen that these people (while malicious) allow security to keep up with that hacks that can be done. If you kept a person in a bubble for twenty years and then promptly released him into the dirty, disease-ridden world he'd likely get sick and potentially die pretty quickly, as his body has no capacity to survive the world. However, with immunizations (i.e. intentional delivery of malicious agents in small doses, possibly on some schedule) and just general exposure to the germs in the world, most people have no problem surviving this world.
There's a simple problem with your viewpoint. Without the security-challenging input of these malware creators, there would be a corresponding reduction of the need for security efforts.
What you're really suggesting is that biochemists should be to some degree appreciated, because significant numbers of new, previously non-existing diseases and sicknesses will force us to spend more money and effort on immunology and cure-finding efforts. Um. Sorry, but I have to disagree with the wisdom of this.
Further, the assumption that good virus-prevention and reaction policies have significant impact on intrusion-detection and hijacking counter-efforts is... overzealous.
I do understand that many virii exploit one security flaw or another and that a good whack of MSBlaster has a decent likelihood of encouraging CompanyCo to patch their SQL server. What I don't understand is the suggestion that more relatively non-destructive virii result in less real-life data-compromising acts.
Final thought. With these worms and virii, a "hacker" doesn't have to do anything special to find a list of vulnerable sites/services. Log accesses to a web server of your choice... instant list of vulnerable web servers, each trying to hack YOU. With a simple firewall, it's EASY to find victims and exploit them. Without a virus out there, a port/IP scan would be required, which would leave traces.
Re:The Militarization Of Space
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· Score: 2, Insightful
>He's also free to vote the bastards out of office.
This is such a fundamentally inadequate but common viewpoint that I've got to comment. Mr. Anderson, what good is a phone call if you have no mouth? The ONLY way you can vote "the bastards" out is to vote someone else in. As it seems these days, invariably the "someone else" are also bastards, or idiots, or both.
The methodology we use to select our electoral candidates is flawed. Currently, in effect, money breeds power, power breeds money, and we have an inscestuous government.
It's time to not only get Internet/phone voting in place, but to revamp the documents that form our nations, such that all major decisions get approved/declined by the masses. Picking one person every four/five years to make all the decisions on our behalf for that period is... insane. I will invariably disagree with a large portion of the things even the "best" candidiate thinks are good policy.
As it stands, they're looking to levy media because it MIGHT be used for copyright violation. It's legal to use CDRs etc for data storage. It's legal to use CDRs etc to make "fair use" backup copies, even of copyright-protected data. It's only illegal to use CDRs etc to make copies of copyrighted data and distribute said CDRs.
Okay, how's this: don't levy the blank media. Levy the SOURCE MATERIAL. That's right. Throw an additional 20% levy on the original CD or DVD. Since a certain percentage of the originals are clearly being used to generate pirate MP3s or illegal CDs, bill the purchasers of the originals.
This is EXACTLY what is done in the case of shoplifting. Raise the price on the originals. Everyone who buys product X from store Y helps pay for those who steal product Z at store Y. So have me pay a little extra for my NotCrap Live CD to offset the thefts other people do of TeenBait in Concert CDs.
Same thing really in that the innocent pay for the guilty except it stays within an industry/store. I don't understand how it's legitimate to force corporations who buy bulk CD for data backup (think of a newspaper who back up daily advertisement/classified ad artwork on CDs) to pay for a different industry's losses.
How is this any different from the phone company deciding that any time I accidentally dial a number that's no longer in service, they guess what number I really wanted, and connect me to that instead. Heck, if nobody's home at this new number, I might not ever find out it's wrong... just like automated e-mail servers don't know incoming spam domains are wrong with Sitefinder in place. Meh.
Because I host my personal domain with _two_ users hung off a Win32 system?
But no, while that's a valid answer for me, the fact is that you've addressed one protocol (not that I'm even sure of that, having not read the full Exim documentation set), and we both know there's an awful lot of other traffic that I can't reasonably throw over SSL or a VPN. None of which the guy next-door has any use for.
For instance, I'd rather he didn't get to see my HTTP GET commands, and know I'm looking to buy a new , and then that I'm looking to take a vacation on , which might be a good time for his to acquire my .
Yeah, screw it. The rest of the family can run crappy old machines I'll never have to upgrade or administer, and I'll run everyone off a Citrix box. One computer. Congratulations, you've stopped me.
Nonetheless, I think I'll just keep my 1.3Mbps down/800kbps up DSL link which DOESN'T require me to send things like say... POP3 authentication, or say... all the traffic coming in to my SMTP server in clear, sniffable text. The guy next door can have his cable, thank you very much.
Regardless of how "fast" cable is, it's not a viable option for anything more than casual use.
>*no* change in the rate of serious piracy >because serious pirates just laugh at the >stupid copy protection schemes being used >(audio patch cord and decent soundcard >anyone?)
Um. http://www.totalrecorder.com/
Neat little utility that lets you grab things digitally at the driver level. Streaming audio? Proprietary players? No problem. Let's face it; the software decodes the data, then sends raw audio to your sound card. It's child's play to intercept that data, as it turns out.
I predict a new newsgroup... alt.binaries.cdimage.copyprotected.n o.longer
>But as you don't actually steal something >physical, but you steal the IP, >you could pose the question as: >what fine do you get when you listen to a cd >in a shop, or read a book/magazine in the shop >without buying it ?
As most people do not have photographic memory, this argument is somewhat pointless. A single use of intellectual property is orders of magnitude lower than the number of uses one, on average, applies to purchased CDs.
Blank CDs without any IP on them are sold for $.50 ea, and include the "value" of being recordable. Audio CDs that are NOT recordable are sold around $15 ea. At best logic, we determine that the store value of the IP is approximately $14.50
What I'd like to know is what the range of punishments are for shoplifting a CD. I imagine it wouldn't be all that much. It would make sense to scale punishments against P2P music-theft accordingly, based on number of CDs stolen. Simply offering "three years" is senseless, regardless of if you agree with punishing downloaders or not.
>NASA space flights should stay suspended until >they can develop a next generation launch >vehicle that is safe.
What does "safe" mean? Launching people into orbit and returning them again isn't fundamentally a proposition.
A next-generation spaceframe may very well take advantage of lessons we've learned with the Shuttle, and certainly won't be vulnerable to any issues found to be fatal in it. Nonetheless, I'm sure, this being reality, that brand new flaws and weaknesses will be exposed.
Please note: upgrade to the latest Microsoft operating system because it's finally safe.
NASA should resume flights as soon as they determine that whatever actually was the catalytic element in the Columbia loss isn't a structural issue. If it's a "there a 1% chance of it happening on any given flight" issue, flights should resume immediately, while parallel efforts are made to reduce that chance, if practical, and also while further parallel efforts work towards a future spaceframe.
The Challenger "O" ring issue was one of shoddy workmanship by the lowest bidder, that would have raised its ugly head time and time again. Columbia... was the foam flawed? Was it wind-sheer? Fluke? The investigation will tell us.
I've got a water-cooled dual-P3 system that was running IDE hardware RAID in striped mode. Two arrays, four drives. Then I bought new desks. When finalizing placement of the radiator, a nipple broke off, and because I was almost done, the pump was already running. Spew, spew, spew. Very little actually got inside my system. I checked, checked again, mopped up a tiny bit. Turned it on. "Pop". Nasty noise from a hard drive. No boot. Shut down, diagnosed. Hard drive failure. Was sitting in a puddle. Actually, two of them were. One from each array.
Well, one came back once it dried off. The other one wouldn't spin up. Swapped boards, drive still dead. Got annoyed. Whacked it. It spun up. Clearly stiction.
I actually was able to recover the data from both arrays before the stictioned drive died, a month later. I'm still running on one of the arrays while the other drive is being sent to IBM for RMA.
Yes, it was a Deskstar. Yes, it was one of those 75GXPs that are notorious for dying. Still, it deserved to die after that. Its twin works great still.
Re:Not to be a troll here but...
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· Score: 5, Funny
You're right; football-watching isn't particularly patriotic. On the other hand, insulting anyone who likes soccer (ie. the rest of the world)is.
What constitutes an ISP? A reseller of bandwidth? How do you decide who keeps logs of what? For instance, should Sprintlink and MCI (the two feeds for my ISP) track all web traffic consumed by said ISP? Okay, should my ISP track all web traffic consumed by my static IP and domain? Simply stated: what if I'm a smaller ISP? Wouldn't that mean I would be the party required to do the logging? And what if my logs are... incomplete?
Why would you probe her anus? Last time I checked that body part was used to extrude fecal matter. You know. Poop. Doesn't sound terribly appealing to me.
You might find a more natural orifice in that general vicinity though, if you look hard enough. Please get back to us with a detailed description of your research.
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Even worse, the blame once again has to spread somewhat to application developers. I'm a corporate IT guy, and I can't count the number of hours I've had to spend with dozens of applications, tracing down one stupid .ini file or .log file that they try to place in SYSTEM folders, where normal users don't have write perms.
While it's a case of chicken before the egg, if MS just denied users admin perms by default, a LOT of software would fall down, and Joe User would be clueless why. They'll log onto the admin user and it'd work, so they'd stay there.
Developers have to clue in and participate in the security cycle. Unfortunately, devs writing code sit there, testing, as administrator themselves. Fix that, and we'll talk about OS defaults.
Their Windows Security Alerts interface isn't compatible with my corporate Norton I have from my work place. It isn't a big whoop, but I am surprised they don't work together.
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As per
http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/enterprise/sp2/c
Symantec Client Security 2.0 DOWNLOAD NOW
Symantec Client Security 2.0 Business Packs DOWNLOAD NOW
Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 9.0 DOWNLOAD NOW
Symantec AntiVirus 9.0 Business Packs DOWNLOAD NOW
Symantec Client Security 1.1.1 August 18 - 31, 2004
Symantec Client Security 1.1.1 Small Business September 1 - 15, 2004
Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 8.1.1 August 18 - 31, 2004
Symantec AntiVirus 8.1.1 Small Business September 1 - 15, 2004
Symantec Client Security 1.0.1 August 23 - September 6, 2004
Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 8.0.1 August 23 - September 6, 2004
Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition 7.61 September 7 - 21, 2004
So, current products are supported already. Older versions, Symantec will roll out patches for in the upcoming weeks. Sounds reasonable. Feel free to point this out to your administrator in case they're not aware of this patch requirement.
but they don't think that way. They're also the producers of little-heard-of JumpGate. That's the last of the Wing-Commander/Freespace style games still alive, and the only one that went MMORPG while not being point-and-click.
If you care, http://www.jossh.com has info and a demo download.
*Disclosure: I am (as is likely obvious) a player of JumpGate. I am not affilliated with NetDevil in any way. I am, sadly, hoping to be responsible for the jossh server melting down moments from now.
As I recall it, it had nothing to do with labels. There was a legal agreement between Intel and AMD wherein AMD was to be given access to the schematics for the x86 series processors. This agreement dated back to when Intel needed AMDs manufacturing capacity to augment their own. Intel wished to terminate this agreement, and could not, as long as their chips were still x86 series. Hence the P5 Pentium.
You could view it that way. Or you could look at some of the products HP has rolled out in the printer category the last couple years.
For instance, the HP Laserjet 3330mfp. It's a multifunction device just like everyone else's. Only... you can throw an IP print server on it, and make ALL of its functions available to everyone on your network. Oh, and ALL of its functions work simultaneously. So one of your users can be faxing through the unit while another is scanning from the glass and a third is printing.
In a world full of USB-only multifunction devices where you're lucky if you can share the printer function peer-to-peer due to proprietary "status monitor/sender" panels and such (Canon L6000 for instance CANNOT be redirected), this product is astonishingly innovative.
I should state that I am an HP-authorized warranty repair tech. I don't work for HP, but I do service their gear.
You mean, how many people do I know other than myself?
Fact is that dual processors are a very nice thing when doing video encoding. Converting from one codec to another, or doing transforms on existing encoded data, with the right software (ie. most of it) will take advantage of both of my processors.
Please keep in mind that some people do run more than Unreal Quakement 3D Ultra 2005 Extreme.
As for cooling, there is in fact an economy of scale. The larger a heatsink we can use, the larger our fans get, and ultimately, the quieter they get. Small high-RPM fans make lots of noise. Large medium-RPM fans can move more air and make less noise.
[I]That's my own criteria for using a cell phone. That is, if I'm in a situation where I feel it's appropriate to talk to a "real" person, it's fine to talk on a cellphone, as long as it can be done at a "normal" volume level (normal for the context.)[/I]
Not good enough. People on cell phones that are at a "normal" volume level rarely annoy others. Fact is that people on cell phones rarely talk at a "normal" volume level. They raise their voices so their fingernail-sized flip-phone can actually pick them up, and secondly because it's a natural human reaction when you yourself can't hear well. Reception and phone quality being what it is, people generally broadcast very prominently when on their cell phones. Watch for it and see if I'm wrong.
By definition, if people around you are being annoyed by you, you're being annoying. If you were truly carrying on a conversation as though a person was with you, almost nobody would notice you.
[I]I wonder, if as a bi-product of releasing the Microsoft code, that hackers will write more viruses and worms after seeing the source code, if I can sue the person who let out the code because it will increase the time I have to spend securing my system.[/I]
Not likely at all. If the person is found, they will be prosecuted for the distribution by Microsoft and/or the government. As I understand it, you couldn't sue them for the same crime afterwards.
Regardless, and this is my main point, I suspect that every worm or exploit from this moment on is going to be blamed on this code leak. We will NEVER know if any increase in malware is a result of this leak, or merely increased activity on the black hats' part.
Am I the only one here who actually thought SiteFinder was good? I mean, quite a few times, if I was typing in a domain, like say Homestarrunner.com, and I misspelled it, I'd get a "no server found" error, have to go back into the URL and try and figure out where I screwed up. Not exactly a challenge, but still annoying. With SiteFinder, I just have to click the link that popped up. And it always popped up.
As I understand the functionality of SiteFinder, it tries to find resolution for false lookups. My problem with this is that in business, if a customer dials my phone number incorrectly, they'll get one of two things; either a "this number is not in service" message, or a RANDOM incorrect answer. With something like SiteFinder, it's the net equivalent of that same customer dialing incorrectly and getting either my actual number or... MY COMPETITORS' numbers. I want people to KNOW they've gone to the wrong place.
That's on top of all of the other things resolving lookups that aren't supposed to resolve breaks.
If you consider computer security like the human immune system, then perhaps it may be seen that these people (while malicious) allow security to keep up with that hacks that can be done. If you kept a person in a bubble for twenty years and then promptly released him into the dirty, disease-ridden world he'd likely get sick and potentially die pretty quickly, as his body has no capacity to survive the world. However, with immunizations (i.e. intentional delivery of malicious agents in small doses, possibly on some schedule) and just general exposure to the germs in the world, most people have no problem surviving this world.
There's a simple problem with your viewpoint. Without the security-challenging input of these malware creators, there would be a corresponding reduction of the need for security efforts.
What you're really suggesting is that biochemists should be to some degree appreciated, because significant numbers of new, previously non-existing diseases and sicknesses will force us to spend more money and effort on immunology and cure-finding efforts. Um. Sorry, but I have to disagree with the wisdom of this.
Further, the assumption that good virus-prevention and reaction policies have significant impact on intrusion-detection and hijacking counter-efforts is... overzealous.
I do understand that many virii exploit one security flaw or another and that a good whack of MSBlaster has a decent likelihood of encouraging CompanyCo to patch their SQL server. What I don't understand is the suggestion that more relatively non-destructive virii result in less real-life data-compromising acts.
Final thought. With these worms and virii, a "hacker" doesn't have to do anything special to find a list of vulnerable sites/services. Log accesses to a web server of your choice... instant list of vulnerable web servers, each trying to hack YOU. With a simple firewall, it's EASY to find victims and exploit them. Without a virus out there, a port/IP scan would be required, which would leave traces.
>He's also free to vote the bastards out of office.
This is such a fundamentally inadequate but common viewpoint that I've got to comment. Mr. Anderson, what good is a phone call if you have no mouth? The ONLY way you can vote "the bastards" out is to vote someone else in. As it seems these days, invariably the "someone else" are also bastards, or idiots, or both.
The methodology we use to select our electoral candidates is flawed. Currently, in effect, money breeds power, power breeds money, and we have an inscestuous government.
It's time to not only get Internet/phone voting in place, but to revamp the documents that form our nations, such that all major decisions get approved/declined by the masses. Picking one person every four/five years to make all the decisions on our behalf for that period is... insane. I will invariably disagree with a large portion of the things even the "best" candidiate thinks are good policy.
Fix it. Fix it now.
As it stands, they're looking to levy media because it MIGHT be used for copyright violation. It's legal to use CDRs etc for data storage. It's legal to use CDRs etc to make "fair use" backup copies, even of copyright-protected data. It's only illegal to use CDRs etc to make copies of copyrighted data and distribute said CDRs.
Okay, how's this: don't levy the blank media. Levy the SOURCE MATERIAL. That's right. Throw an additional 20% levy on the original CD or DVD. Since a certain percentage of the originals are clearly being used to generate pirate MP3s or illegal CDs, bill the purchasers of the originals.
This is EXACTLY what is done in the case of shoplifting. Raise the price on the originals. Everyone who buys product X from store Y helps pay for those who steal product Z at store Y. So have me pay a little extra for my NotCrap Live CD to offset the thefts other people do of TeenBait in Concert CDs.
Same thing really in that the innocent pay for the guilty except it stays within an industry/store. I don't understand how it's legitimate to force corporations who buy bulk CD for data backup (think of a newspaper who back up daily advertisement/classified ad artwork on CDs) to pay for a different industry's losses.
Oh, and yes, I'm Canadian, and livid.
How is this any different from the phone company deciding that any time I accidentally dial a number that's no longer in service, they guess what number I really wanted, and connect me to that instead. Heck, if nobody's home at this new number, I might not ever find out it's wrong... just like automated e-mail servers don't know incoming spam domains are wrong with Sitefinder in place. Meh.
Because I host my personal domain with _two_ users hung off a Win32 system?
But no, while that's a valid answer for me, the fact is that you've addressed one protocol (not that I'm even sure of that, having not read the full Exim documentation set), and we both know there's an awful lot of other traffic that I can't reasonably throw over SSL or a VPN. None of which the guy next-door has any use for.
For instance, I'd rather he didn't get to see my HTTP GET commands, and know I'm looking to buy a new , and then that I'm looking to take a vacation on , which might be a good time for his to acquire my .
Yeah, screw it. The rest of the family can run crappy old machines I'll never have to upgrade or administer, and I'll run everyone off a Citrix box. One computer. Congratulations, you've stopped me.
That's nice.
Nonetheless, I think I'll just keep my 1.3Mbps down/800kbps up DSL link which DOESN'T require me to send things like say... POP3 authentication, or say... all the traffic coming in to my SMTP server in clear, sniffable text. The guy next door can have his cable, thank you very much.
Regardless of how "fast" cable is, it's not a viable option for anything more than casual use.
>*no* change in the rate of serious piracy
n o.longer
>because serious pirates just laugh at the
>stupid copy protection schemes being used
>(audio patch cord and decent soundcard
>anyone?)
Um. http://www.totalrecorder.com/
Neat little utility that lets you grab things digitally at the driver level. Streaming audio? Proprietary players? No problem. Let's face it; the software decodes the data, then sends raw audio to your sound card. It's child's play to intercept that data, as it turns out.
I predict a new newsgroup...
alt.binaries.cdimage.copyprotected.
>But as you don't actually steal something
>physical, but you steal the IP,
>you could pose the question as:
>what fine do you get when you listen to a cd
>in a shop, or read a book/magazine in the shop
>without buying it ?
As most people do not have photographic memory, this argument is somewhat pointless. A single use of intellectual property is orders of magnitude lower than the number of uses one, on average, applies to purchased CDs.
Blank CDs without any IP on them are sold for $.50 ea, and include the "value" of being recordable. Audio CDs that are NOT recordable are sold around $15 ea. At best logic, we determine that the store value of the IP is approximately $14.50
What I'd like to know is what the range of punishments are for shoplifting a CD. I imagine it wouldn't be all that much. It would make sense to scale punishments against P2P music-theft accordingly, based on number of CDs stolen. Simply offering "three years" is senseless, regardless of if you agree with punishing downloaders or not.
>NASA space flights should stay suspended until
>they can develop a next generation launch
>vehicle that is safe.
What does "safe" mean? Launching people into orbit and returning them again isn't fundamentally a proposition.
A next-generation spaceframe may very well take advantage of lessons we've learned with the Shuttle, and certainly won't be vulnerable to any issues found to be fatal in it. Nonetheless, I'm sure, this being reality, that brand new flaws and weaknesses will be exposed.
Please note: upgrade to the latest Microsoft operating system because it's finally safe.
NASA should resume flights as soon as they determine that whatever actually was the catalytic element in the Columbia loss isn't a structural issue. If it's a "there a 1% chance of it happening on any given flight" issue, flights should resume immediately, while parallel efforts are made to reduce that chance, if practical, and also while further parallel efforts work towards a future spaceframe.
The Challenger "O" ring issue was one of shoddy workmanship by the lowest bidder, that would have raised its ugly head time and time again. Columbia... was the foam flawed? Was it wind-sheer? Fluke? The investigation will tell us.
I've got a water-cooled dual-P3 system that was running IDE hardware RAID in striped mode. Two arrays, four drives. Then I bought new desks. When finalizing placement of the radiator, a nipple broke off, and because I was almost done, the pump was already running. Spew, spew, spew. Very little actually got inside my system. I checked, checked again, mopped up a tiny bit. Turned it on. "Pop". Nasty noise from a hard drive. No boot. Shut down, diagnosed. Hard drive failure. Was sitting in a puddle. Actually, two of them were. One from each array.
Well, one came back once it dried off. The other one wouldn't spin up. Swapped boards, drive still dead. Got annoyed. Whacked it. It spun up. Clearly stiction.
I actually was able to recover the data from both arrays before the stictioned drive died, a month later. I'm still running on one of the arrays while the other drive is being sent to IBM for RMA.
Yes, it was a Deskstar. Yes, it was one of those 75GXPs that are notorious for dying. Still, it deserved to die after that. Its twin works great still.
You're right; football-watching isn't particularly patriotic. On the other hand, insulting anyone who likes soccer (ie. the rest of the world)is.
What constitutes an ISP? A reseller of bandwidth? How do you decide who keeps logs of what? For instance, should Sprintlink and MCI (the two feeds for my ISP) track all web traffic consumed by said ISP? Okay, should my ISP track all web traffic consumed by my static IP and domain? Simply stated: what if I'm a smaller ISP? Wouldn't that mean I would be the party required to do the logging? And what if my logs are... incomplete?
Why would you probe her anus? Last time I checked that body part was used to extrude fecal matter. You know. Poop. Doesn't sound terribly appealing to me.
You might find a more natural orifice in that general vicinity though, if you look hard enough. Please get back to us with a detailed description of your research.
Maybe because it's the OS family used by the vast majority of people, regardless of suckage?