Email to "root" usisally gets a response for me...
If you can't get satisfaction, write a letter to the board. In Aussie law at least (and it would probably be the same in the US) the letter must be read at the next board meeting. Since this tends to make the CEO look stupid if the problem has not been solved, it is a very good bet that the problem will be solved BEFORE the next board meeting.
You know, while the Aussie govt. has stuffed up all IT here, MS has got it wrong too. Remember there are only 20 million people here. Just how many of those can be in IT? Sure we have problems. It has been called "the tyranny of distance". Infrastructure is *expensive* here.
But why should Billy boy have such an interest as he has displayed recently in this tiny market? Perhaps he is planning on buying Australia? Maybe he'll name it New Redmond.
There are only two countries, empires in all but name, that could afford a sustained space effort. America and China. When it was the USSR who leaped in front of America with Sputnik, America promptly "put a man on the moon". Once the race was won, America lost serious interest in space. The Chinese appear to be taking space seriously and putting in a long sustained (and apparently sucessful) effort. My guess is that there will soon be serious talk about American properties in space or a manned Mars mission.
So, I'll buy the very best Magnesium Alloy wheels for my car. Totally disregarding the fact that they have five stud holes and my undercarriage has four studs (per wheel).
Go and fill your automobile up with diesel fuel. Diesel is cheaper.
What difference is that going to make? Do you really think that some one hasn't sequestered away a copy of it already? Is a purchaser going to ask too many questions? The information is out there and will likely remain so.
"information wants to be free", remember? Actually, information wants to be expensive, thus increasing its chance of survival. Valuable information has a habit of being kept around.
No, I consider your "honest opinion" to be that of someone of doubtful intelligence..
If you don't have a list of those dll's, their versions, sizes and timestamps (checksum might be handy too) then your security is not doing it's job.
I am a Unix flake with complete ignorance of M$ products (as much ignorance as I can preserve anyway!). However, it would not take me very long to get that list regularly and build an automated check. If it *isn't* being done, how do you know you aren't sitting on a Trojan.
So I am sure you would find it useful. Question is, why don't you have it. My shared libs are checked nightly. So should everyones.
You are talking about 100000+ PCs. A nice "coup" for a DDOS freak. You are advertising them as being "insecure". Is your employer aware of this?
Well, maybe I am a socialist at heart. As much as the founders of the US anyway
A certain amount of competition and choices is good for people. Too much competion and too many choices is counter-productive. I really don't want to spend my time on research efforts on the best breakfast cereal, phone service or the best toothpaste - and I don't. Unfortunately this means I get an inferior product because I don't have *time* to research everything I buy. Too many choices.
How many *educated* choices can you make in a day?
This is exactly why M$ has always had dominance, no one in business really has time to check out the oposition and how it might be integrated. They are too busy getting on with work.
Well, I guess the Aussie government doesn't look so stupid anymore. At least they only legislated to restrict their ISPs. They didn't presume to legislate on what sent only on what was relayed.
Anyone who doesn't see this is a disaster isn't looking very far.
The solution I would like to have seen implimented was for the cabal to remove all French Internet Address allocations. Then no one in France would be able to see the auctions - or anything else. France could have a national 'intranet'. This would be an appropriate action. -OR- Every IP connection into france could be sent to the routers of the two organisations that laid suit. Then they could do the filtering for the whole country. Should they be unwilling or incapable of doing this, then the rest of the French will end this stupidity.
Bear in mind the the repeated, demonstrated French contempt for international law and the law of other countries. This can be seen as yet another francophile attempt to prove they are a more important nation than any other.
If this is "Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive" and gets moderated, then I am sorry, but I consider the French Courts actions and Yahoo's response to fit into ALL those categories.
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If you can't get satisfaction, write a letter to the board. In Aussie law at least (and it would probably be the same in the US) the letter must be read at the next board meeting. Since this tends to make the CEO look stupid if the problem has not been solved, it is a very good bet that the problem will be solved BEFORE the next board meeting.
Zero Sum (doesn't amount to much).
But why should Billy boy have such an interest as he has displayed recently in this tiny market? Perhaps he is planning on buying Australia? Maybe he'll name it New Redmond.
There are only two countries, empires in all but name, that could afford a sustained space effort. America and China. When it was the USSR who leaped in front of America with Sputnik, America promptly "put a man on the moon". Once the race was won, America lost serious interest in space. The Chinese appear to be taking space seriously and putting in a long sustained (and apparently sucessful) effort. My guess is that there will soon be serious talk about American properties in space or a manned Mars mission.
Go and fill your automobile up with diesel fuel. Diesel is cheaper.
Got the point?
That's not a shot at American's in general
"information wants to be free", remember? Actually, information wants to be expensive, thus increasing its chance of survival. Valuable information has a habit of being kept around.
Zero Sum
If you don't have a list of those dll's, their versions, sizes and timestamps (checksum might be handy too) then your security is not doing it's job.
I am a Unix flake with complete ignorance of M$ products (as much ignorance as I can preserve anyway!). However, it would not take me very long to get that list regularly and build an automated check. If it *isn't* being done, how do you know you aren't sitting on a Trojan.
So I am sure you would find it useful. Question is, why don't you have it. My shared libs are checked nightly. So should everyones.
You are talking about 100000+ PCs. A nice "coup" for a DDOS freak. You are advertising them as being "insecure". Is your employer aware of this?
Zero Sum [Vescere bracis meis]
They are talking specificaly about Whistler.
Does that mean that Bill Gates is "Whistler's mother"?
Zero Sum.
A certain amount of competition and choices is good for people. Too much competion and too many choices is counter-productive. I really don't want to spend my time on research efforts on the best breakfast cereal, phone service or the best toothpaste - and I don't. Unfortunately this means I get an inferior product because I don't have *time* to research everything I buy. Too many choices.
How many *educated* choices can you make in a day?
This is exactly why M$ has always had dominance, no one in business really has time to check out the oposition and how it might be integrated. They are too busy getting on with work.
Zero Sum. [ Vescere bracis meis ]
Well, I guess the Aussie government doesn't look so stupid anymore. At least they only legislated to restrict their ISPs. They didn't presume to legislate on what sent only on what was relayed.
Anyone who doesn't see this is a disaster isn't looking very far. The solution I would like to have seen implimented was for the cabal to remove all French Internet Address allocations. Then no one in France would be able to see the auctions - or anything else. France could have a national 'intranet'. This would be an appropriate action. -OR- Every IP connection into france could be sent to the routers of the two organisations that laid suit. Then they could do the filtering for the whole country. Should they be unwilling or incapable of doing this, then the rest of the French will end this stupidity. Bear in mind the the repeated, demonstrated French contempt for international law and the law of other countries. This can be seen as yet another francophile attempt to prove they are a more important nation than any other. If this is "Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive" and gets moderated, then I am sorry, but I consider the French Courts actions and Yahoo's response to fit into ALL those categories. Zero Sum [ Vescere bracis meis]