MS's malware thing works OK for certain things. It's not meant to catch everything, Microsoft Security Essentials or the Onecare scanner is more for that.
Keep in mind they mainly created the removal tool to get severely broken computers up to the point that their security updates and service packs wouldn't make the situation worse.
Short version: He doesn't understand that tar -xzf uncompresses into the current working directory, and gets completely lost in terms of where he puts things.
He probably has a sheet of commands to copy/paste from and has little clue about how they actually work.
You actually believe that research and development funded with tax money winds up in the public domain? What a naive liberal.
The way it works is that public money is given to universities and such which have aggressive patent portfolio departments. They operate these patent portfolios in order to extract as much money from the private sector as possible licensing the IP that they "developed" using tax money.
Its the same with copyrights on software. Tax money funds the development of software which is then made into proprietary products.
If we went back to airlines handling security, the market would handle any rogue airline that required the security people to make people choose between groping and naked scanners. That's for sure.
By taking away the choice, we have all lost freedom.
You may be too young to know, but you used to not be allowed to own your own phone. You had to rent one from the government monopoly. It was a crime to hook an unapproved device to your telephone line.
Deregulation allowed people to do evil unapproved things like run BBSs in their houses and hook modems up to their phone lines. It allowed rogue networks to form like sprintnet which formed the backbone for services like AOL and compuserv.
None of this could have happened without deregulation of the telephone system. We wouldn't be having this conversation right now if we still have a government monopoly in telephone systems.
Just because the authoritarians have redefined "free market" to mean "laws to benefit corporations with government help" doesn't mean that the original concept no longer exists.
Airlines are constantly bailed out by the government (including the TSA, which was a huge airline subsidy), and they are only allowed to fly routes that the government(s) allows them to fly. They are hardly a free market.
If you really need to crunch a lot of numbers and are willing to spend a lot to do it, it often makes more sense to develop an ASIC or FPGA type solution. I know the EFF put together a key cracking system for $250,000 that would probably still blow modern supercomputers out of the water for that specific application.
Don't get me wrong, I use hosting myself for some things.
But I would never recommend that a small company outsource their file server. That's the kind of thing that needs to be local. Mail could go either way. Web hosting they could outsource unless they want to run that locally.
Right, which is why they just install a few servers, hire someone to run updates on them once a month or so, and call it a day.
What the fuck would a 20 person company need an "incident response team" for? When Bob clogs the fax machine trying to feed too many pages at once? You are a fucking joke.
Old message I know, but the energy you put into compressing the helium is probably more than you think.
The real first law of thermodynamics, there's no such thing as a free lunch.
I didn't even bring up the question of orbital mechanics. The simple version is that "being up high" doesn't actually get you much closer to being in orbit if your velocity in relation to the earth is still nearly zero. Getting into orbit requires a certain amount of delta V.
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MS's malware thing works OK for certain things. It's not meant to catch everything, Microsoft Security Essentials or the Onecare scanner is more for that.
Keep in mind they mainly created the removal tool to get severely broken computers up to the point that their security updates and service packs wouldn't make the situation worse.
People who disagree with your political ideology are not trolls.
Hah, most people wouldn't get that reference.
Older unix tar did that stuff too. Very annoying.
Probably. Magicians rely on much simpler effects than this. Most magic tricks have stupidly simple gimmicks.
I had a port of this on Commodore 64. Back then I was pretty young and not as good at typing... the "hunting" challenges were actually kind of hard.
It wasn't always BANG, it was one of a set of words that you had to type in pretty quickly or you'd miss.
It was an interesting game compared to a lot of the really bad interactive fiction games back then.
http://xkcd.com/606/
Short version: He doesn't understand that tar -xzf uncompresses into the current working directory, and gets completely lost in terms of where he puts things.
He probably has a sheet of commands to copy/paste from and has little clue about how they actually work.
You actually believe that research and development funded with tax money winds up in the public domain? What a naive liberal.
The way it works is that public money is given to universities and such which have aggressive patent portfolio departments. They operate these patent portfolios in order to extract as much money from the private sector as possible licensing the IP that they "developed" using tax money.
Its the same with copyrights on software. Tax money funds the development of software which is then made into proprietary products.
Carbon monoxide is flammable. Most people don't know this. You can directly burn carbon monoxide as a fuel.
If we went back to airlines handling security, the market would handle any rogue airline that required the security people to make people choose between groping and naked scanners. That's for sure.
By taking away the choice, we have all lost freedom.
The telcos are not a complete failure.
You may be too young to know, but you used to not be allowed to own your own phone. You had to rent one from the government monopoly. It was a crime to hook an unapproved device to your telephone line.
Deregulation allowed people to do evil unapproved things like run BBSs in their houses and hook modems up to their phone lines. It allowed rogue networks to form like sprintnet which formed the backbone for services like AOL and compuserv.
None of this could have happened without deregulation of the telephone system. We wouldn't be having this conversation right now if we still have a government monopoly in telephone systems.
"Shop for competitive rates" implies that there is a free market, at least somewhere in your equation.
The IEEE publishing a political editorial like this really discredits them as a professional organization.
A free market is one controlled by customers.
Just because the authoritarians have redefined "free market" to mean "laws to benefit corporations with government help" doesn't mean that the original concept no longer exists.
Airlines are constantly bailed out by the government (including the TSA, which was a huge airline subsidy), and they are only allowed to fly routes that the government(s) allows them to fly. They are hardly a free market.
People who get paid to maintain and build the grid... by charging for it. This isn't rocket science.
So far, recycling equipment has been a fool's errand.
The great experiment in reusable space craft turned out to be a massive money hole, holding back space exploration to a large extent.
If you really need to crunch a lot of numbers and are willing to spend a lot to do it, it often makes more sense to develop an ASIC or FPGA type solution. I know the EFF put together a key cracking system for $250,000 that would probably still blow modern supercomputers out of the water for that specific application.
If you have enough time to get under a desk after you see the flash, you are on the outskirts, so it makes good sense to attempt to do so.
What inspired you in the 6 hours between your two replies?
Did you just forget that you already replied to me once?
Sure, noble causes. Most hippie bullshit is a noble cause. :)
A surprisingly civil response to my flamefest. I have to have a little respect for you for that.
That doesn't sound like a "cloud" to me. Sounds like thin client architecture.
Don't get me wrong, I use hosting myself for some things.
But I would never recommend that a small company outsource their file server. That's the kind of thing that needs to be local. Mail could go either way. Web hosting they could outsource unless they want to run that locally.
Right, which is why they just install a few servers, hire someone to run updates on them once a month or so, and call it a day.
What the fuck would a 20 person company need an "incident response team" for? When Bob clogs the fax machine trying to feed too many pages at once? You are a fucking joke.
Old message I know, but the energy you put into compressing the helium is probably more than you think.
The real first law of thermodynamics, there's no such thing as a free lunch.
I didn't even bring up the question of orbital mechanics. The simple version is that "being up high" doesn't actually get you much closer to being in orbit if your velocity in relation to the earth is still nearly zero. Getting into orbit requires a certain amount of delta V.