Microsoft is never going to try to really fix Windows
XP, which sits atop 2000, which sits atop NT, which sits atop Xenix (MS's attempt at Unix), can't be fixed. The relational diagrams look like spegetti. That is why Vista sits atop a whole new code base that looks like stacked blocks in a brick wall.
I'm betting a lot of them didn't have the money and were expecting to sell their shares ahead of purchasing them. For example, I have $0 in my bank account but I promise to pay $17 for 100,000 shares and they accept my offer. Then the stock goes up to $24 the next day. I offer to sell my contract for $23 per share. Bang, $600,000 in my pocket.
Back at the dawn of computing, system analysis consisted of nothing more than converting paper systems to electronic systems.
(1) Idenify all documents. Documents are converted to files and stored on tape/disc. They are index for retrieval.
(2) Convert all forms to electronic forms. Do all calculations normally done by hand by computer for better accuracy and speed. Check all entries to see if they are "in range" or "valid values".
(3) Route forms between desks and to/from storage.
That was it. That was systems analysis 40 years ago. Having read through this patent, all it consists of is an old fashion systems analysis of international sales, shipping and payment.
Now, when you consider then number of systems out there, and if this kind of analysis is patentable no matter how long the paper system has been in operation, the implications are staggering. Oh, don't for get to mention the Internet - thats the key to getting it past the uspto.
Social engineering is one of the Hacker's most important tools. As long as Mac users believe they are immune to viruses, worms, etc. they are easy targets for social engineering. So email born attachments, even if they require you enter the root password to execute, are waiting to descend on this overly smug group of computer users.
Most independent stores I have gone to shop for music in are charing $16+ for a CD. If you're buying it for $12 and making $4+ a CD I seriously believe that you are gouging us. I don't feel bad for you.
Obviously you have never been in business. Because of the risk involved with running a business, investers expect a 20% net profit (otherwise, they are better off putting their money in goverment bonds). To achieve that most businesses require a 40% margin. $4 out of $16 is only 25%, so this is far from gouging.
A while back, public schools were required to install content filters. These divert the intended porn web page to a web page saying "naughty, naughty". I guess this become both required and banned under Law.
It takes MUCH longer to code a program in Java than C# (business type programs with lots of screens, error checking and database access). Each language has it's place and C# approaches VB for RAD where Java is more like programming in C++ for speed of application development.
This type of claim can backfire on them. People are more likely to ignore a law if they think everyone else is ignoring it.
The MPAA might be better off saying the number of people downloading movies illegally is small and due to thier campaign it is getting smaller. Then people would be more inclined to think downloading movies wasn't the "cool" thing to do because the number of people downloading them was shrinking.
I replied to one of the mortgage spams just to see who would call. Intuit called. Maybe I should stop using Quickbooks and TurboTax.
A couple years ago someone hijacked my mail server. I kept some of the spams and called the company, a real brick and mortar business, and asked them why they had illegally hijacked my server. They put me in touch with the company they had hired to do the emailing. That company had subcontacted it out and gave me the phone number of the subcontractor who turned out to be a couple with a cable modem working from their home. They had bought some spam blaster program (from a spam) and had gone into business. After talking to them, I really don't think they knew how the program worked. They had just received a package telling them how to use the program and a list of email marketting companies that hired subcontractors.
So, should the dumb couple be sued for everything they own? Should I turn them over to the FTC? How do you separate the willful from the dumb?
You may be too young to remember, but several decades ago Congress decided to increase income taxes, take the additional money and send it back to the people through a Federal Community Grants program. In other words, they fattened the Pork Barrel so the incumbents would look like heroes when they gave the people back their own money. Boucher would be doing his district a huge disservice if he didn't play the game.
Two points: (1) the story never mentions Microsoft and (2) it says filters are 90% effective, not ineffective.
As an ISP our biggest OS problem is Linux. Proportionally it causes far more problems than Microsoft. Why? Because Linux users sit around saying "poor MS user" and don't even know they've been hacked. And the majority have been hacked. If you say "Oh, that can't be" then you've just joined the crowd:P
Buy a 15 db Omni and a 4W amplifier (both easily purchased online) and you should be able to knock down everything in a 20-25 mile radius by sitting in your car on top of a hill.
Warning: Put at least 4m between yourself and the antenna as that much power is not save to be near.
It will give people a chance to try Linux apps without installing Linux. Once they feel comfortable with Linux apps, they will feel better about switching from Windows.
Verisign not only holds the domains for several *weeks* after they expire, they also lock them for several weeks *before* they expire so they cannot be transferred to another registrar. They do the latter because they charge twice as much as just about anyone else and once you get your bill from them, they know you will jump ship. By locking the domain you are stuck with either paying them or having your domain resolution halted for several weeks. Now, with a waiting list, Verisign can also threaten you with losing the domain altogether.
30% of the spam comes from trojaned boxes sending through their owners ISPs
There is also a cure for this. If the ISP puts a limit - any limit - on outgoing messages people are allowed to send per day, the server becomes useless to spammers. Doesn't matter how many, 100, 500, 1000, etc. Most commercial email servers can handle this.
In the SOA record used in DNS, the @ sign in the hostmaster's email address is replaced by a ".". So this correspondense between URL's and email addresses at the third and second level domains has been in use for a many years.
It would be much simpler to add a record type to DNS servers to identify **outgoing** mail servers. Email proxies, where 60% of all spam comes from, would be immediately eliminated. Spammers with fixed servers and addresses are easily taken care of by the RBLs. Why introduce something that is more complicated and less reliable?
I own one of the oldest computer stores in North America - we started in the Spring of 1982 - and we have been building White Boxes since 1985. We have seen a lot of Dells and Gateways come and go over that time.
The big weakness of such companies is their size and thin margins. These companies cannot take a sales hit for any reason without bleeding red ink all over the place. Lets face it, cheap Packard Bells killed Leading Edge,..., cheap Compaq's killed Gateway and Micron, cheap HP's killed Compaq, cheap eMachines killed HP, cheap Dells killed eMachines and cheap what is going to kill Dell? Oh yah, some of these companies still exist but they will either be sold to someone else, find specialized nitches or the product lines simply dropped.
Many of these companies helped in their own demise. After a while they found they had to support the cheap c**p they sold and that is expensive, very expensive. When you are growing rapidly and most your computers out there are right out of the box, it seems manageable. But when sales start peeking and machines start aging it becomes a real problem, an expensive problem. (Why do you think Dell has moved it's customer support to India?) These companies' heydays rarely last more than 2-3 years.
And selling White Boxes? Well, we can sell twice the machine a similarly priced Dell sells for - so Tom is right. And we can save people's data if the HD starts going bad - something the Dell's won't even try. But frankly, most people can't see value when it is staring them in the face. So everytime a new Dell comes along, sales slump and then steadily grow as people become disenchanted. Then another Dell comes along and it starts all over again. Few people ever learn. Even people who have bought our computers will buy a Dell, eventually admit their mistake and buy another of our computers. But they bought the hype and the Dell anyway. They can't tell the difference until after the sale. And they'll do it again, you can bet on it.
So, if you want to be big, at least for a couple years, put a fast processor in the cheapest (slowest) box you can find and pay the pc magazines to rave about your box and company. Stuff your money in a foreign bank account and close the company as soon as repairs exceed profits.
But I have a question for you all. People don't believe a small store can match or beat the big boys for value even though they can easily do it. So people don't even ask or look. If we advertise like they do, then we would have to sell the same c**ppy computers. So what is the solution? You might say "amazing support" (which we have) but the average person doesn't think about support until they need it - after the sale. So, what is the solution?
** For those of you who take things too literally, I'm using the word "Dell" to represent any company that has reached the top, however short that stay was.
I don't see that Dell's business model is any different than Gateway's and Gateway seems to be in steep decline. Dell is just the flavor of the month and can lose it all when the new flavor hits the Internet.
Anyone care to go back through PC Magazine's Editor's Choice Awards for PC's for the last 15 years and see how many of the companies are still in the business of making PC's?
If you want to know if Dell will survive then you must ask if they can downsize without going bankrupt.
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XP, which sits atop 2000, which sits atop NT, which sits atop Xenix (MS's attempt at Unix), can't be fixed. The relational diagrams look like spegetti. That is why Vista sits atop a whole new code base that looks like stacked blocks in a brick wall.
I'm betting a lot of them didn't have the money and were expecting to sell their shares ahead of purchasing them. For example, I have $0 in my bank account but I promise to pay $17 for 100,000 shares and they accept my offer. Then the stock goes up to $24 the next day. I offer to sell my contract for $23 per share. Bang, $600,000 in my pocket.
I am a domain name registrar, and you are wrong. I can easily change ownership during a transfer.
Back at the dawn of computing, system analysis consisted of nothing more than converting paper systems to electronic systems.
(1) Idenify all documents. Documents are converted to files and stored on tape/disc. They are index for retrieval.
(2) Convert all forms to electronic forms. Do all calculations normally done by hand by computer for better accuracy and speed. Check all entries to see if they are "in range" or "valid values".
(3) Route forms between desks and to/from storage.
That was it. That was systems analysis 40 years ago. Having read through this patent, all it consists of is an old fashion systems analysis of international sales, shipping and payment.
Now, when you consider then number of systems out there, and if this kind of analysis is patentable no matter how long the paper system has been in operation, the implications are staggering. Oh, don't for get to mention the Internet - thats the key to getting it past the uspto.
Social engineering is one of the Hacker's most important tools. As long as Mac users believe they are immune to viruses, worms, etc. they are easy targets for social engineering. So email born attachments, even if they require you enter the root password to execute, are waiting to descend on this overly smug group of computer users.
You don't need to pay for Dameware. Just turn off your firewall and it will appear on your computer all by itself.
Most independent stores I have gone to shop for music in are charing $16+ for a CD. If you're buying it for $12 and making $4+ a CD I seriously believe that you are gouging us. I don't feel bad for you. Obviously you have never been in business. Because of the risk involved with running a business, investers expect a 20% net profit (otherwise, they are better off putting their money in goverment bonds). To achieve that most businesses require a 40% margin. $4 out of $16 is only 25%, so this is far from gouging.
A while back, public schools were required to install content filters. These divert the intended porn web page to a web page saying "naughty, naughty". I guess this become both required and banned under Law.
It takes MUCH longer to code a program in Java than C# (business type programs with lots of screens, error checking and database access). Each language has it's place and C# approaches VB for RAD where Java is more like programming in C++ for speed of application development.
Enough said.
This type of claim can backfire on them. People are more likely to ignore a law if they think everyone else is ignoring it.
The MPAA might be better off saying the number of people downloading movies illegally is small and due to thier campaign it is getting smaller. Then people would be more inclined to think downloading movies wasn't the "cool" thing to do because the number of people downloading them was shrinking.
I replied to one of the mortgage spams just to see who would call. Intuit called. Maybe I should stop using Quickbooks and TurboTax.
A couple years ago someone hijacked my mail server. I kept some of the spams and called the company, a real brick and mortar business, and asked them why they had illegally hijacked my server. They put me in touch with the company they had hired to do the emailing. That company had subcontacted it out and gave me the phone number of the subcontractor who turned out to be a couple with a cable modem working from their home. They had bought some spam blaster program (from a spam) and had gone into business. After talking to them, I really don't think they knew how the program worked. They had just received a package telling them how to use the program and a list of email marketting companies that hired subcontractors.
So, should the dumb couple be sued for everything they own? Should I turn them over to the FTC? How do you separate the willful from the dumb?
You may be too young to remember, but several decades ago Congress decided to increase income taxes, take the additional money and send it back to the people through a Federal Community Grants program. In other words, they fattened the Pork Barrel so the incumbents would look like heroes when they gave the people back their own money. Boucher would be doing his district a huge disservice if he didn't play the game.
Then we'd separate the ones who had experience AND the cert, and talk to them
Okay, if everyone used your hiring rule, how would anyone get experience?
Two points: (1) the story never mentions Microsoft and (2) it says filters are 90% effective, not ineffective.
:P
As an ISP our biggest OS problem is Linux. Proportionally it causes far more problems than Microsoft. Why? Because Linux users sit around saying "poor MS user" and don't even know they've been hacked. And the majority have been hacked. If you say "Oh, that can't be" then you've just joined the crowd
Enough said.
Buy a 15 db Omni and a 4W amplifier (both easily purchased online) and you should be able to knock down everything in a 20-25 mile radius by sitting in your car on top of a hill.
Warning: Put at least 4m between yourself and the antenna as that much power is not save to be near.
It will give people a chance to try Linux apps without installing Linux. Once they feel comfortable with Linux apps, they will feel better about switching from Windows.
Verisign not only holds the domains for several *weeks* after they expire, they also lock them for several weeks *before* they expire so they cannot be transferred to another registrar. They do the latter because they charge twice as much as just about anyone else and once you get your bill from them, they know you will jump ship. By locking the domain you are stuck with either paying them or having your domain resolution halted for several weeks. Now, with a waiting list, Verisign can also threaten you with losing the domain altogether.
30% of the spam comes from trojaned boxes sending through their owners ISPs
There is also a cure for this. If the ISP puts a limit - any limit - on outgoing messages people are allowed to send per day, the server becomes useless to spammers. Doesn't matter how many, 100, 500, 1000, etc. Most commercial email servers can handle this.
In the SOA record used in DNS, the @ sign in the hostmaster's email address is replaced by a ".". So this correspondense between URL's and email addresses at the third and second level domains has been in use for a many years.
It would be much simpler to add a record type to DNS servers to identify **outgoing** mail servers. Email proxies, where 60% of all spam comes from, would be immediately eliminated. Spammers with fixed servers and addresses are easily taken care of by the RBLs. Why introduce something that is more complicated and less reliable?
I own one of the oldest computer stores in North America - we started in the Spring of 1982 - and we have been building White Boxes since 1985. We have seen a lot of Dells and Gateways come and go over that time.
..., cheap Compaq's killed Gateway and Micron, cheap HP's killed Compaq, cheap eMachines killed HP, cheap Dells killed eMachines and cheap what is going to kill Dell? Oh yah, some of these companies still exist but they will either be sold to someone else, find specialized nitches or the product lines simply dropped.
The big weakness of such companies is their size and thin margins. These companies cannot take a sales hit for any reason without bleeding red ink all over the place. Lets face it, cheap Packard Bells killed Leading Edge,
Many of these companies helped in their own demise. After a while they found they had to support the cheap c**p they sold and that is expensive, very expensive. When you are growing rapidly and most your computers out there are right out of the box, it seems manageable. But when sales start peeking and machines start aging it becomes a real problem, an expensive problem. (Why do you think Dell has moved it's customer support to India?) These companies' heydays rarely last more than 2-3 years.
And selling White Boxes? Well, we can sell twice the machine a similarly priced Dell sells for - so Tom is right. And we can save people's data if the HD starts going bad - something the Dell's won't even try. But frankly, most people can't see value when it is staring them in the face. So everytime a new Dell comes along, sales slump and then steadily grow as people become disenchanted. Then another Dell comes along and it starts all over again. Few people ever learn. Even people who have bought our computers will buy a Dell, eventually admit their mistake and buy another of our computers. But they bought the hype and the Dell anyway. They can't tell the difference until after the sale. And they'll do it again, you can bet on it.
So, if you want to be big, at least for a couple years, put a fast processor in the cheapest (slowest) box you can find and pay the pc magazines to rave about your box and company. Stuff your money in a foreign bank account and close the company as soon as repairs exceed profits.
But I have a question for you all. People don't believe a small store can match or beat the big boys for value even though they can easily do it. So people don't even ask or look. If we advertise like they do, then we would have to sell the same c**ppy computers. So what is the solution? You might say "amazing support" (which we have) but the average person doesn't think about support until they need it - after the sale. So, what is the solution?
** For those of you who take things too literally, I'm using the word "Dell" to represent any company that has reached the top, however short that stay was.
ATM failed? ATM runs over 90% of all DSL circuits and the rest are being quickly converted to ATM. It is bigger now than it has ever been.
Sorry guy, but lose an IP packet and something has to be retransmitted. Lose 15% of packets and TCP comes to a screeching halt.
I don't think you can compare IP and ATM anyway. ATM and Ethernet maybe, in which case ATM wins hands down.
I don't see that Dell's business model is any different than Gateway's and Gateway seems to be in steep decline. Dell is just the flavor of the month and can lose it all when the new flavor hits the Internet.
Anyone care to go back through PC Magazine's Editor's Choice Awards for PC's for the last 15 years and see how many of the companies are still in the business of making PC's?
If you want to know if Dell will survive then you must ask if they can downsize without going bankrupt.