I-co. has just filed patented for a process of extracting oxygen from air. This process involves two organic sacs with tissues to facilitate the exchange of oxygen into a liquid distribution medium.
Upon granting of the patent by the U.S. patent office, ico. plans to file patent infringement lawsuits against every citizen of the United States and any other country that still respecys US patent laws.
In other words, what's next a patent on breathing?
It seems to me that something patentable should be something that is more complex than a queue of something which when you return one of the items you have you get the top one on you list. Who runs the patent office a million monkey's?
Hi Paul -> Thanks for the kudos.;^) I should have been more clear when I described write protecting the hard drive with the software described.
This software virtually write protects the drive. As far as the OS/software/user is concerned the drive is writeable. I don't know if you've seen PowerQuest's v2i protector the performs online imaging of the while requiring no server downtime. What these software applications do is use their own swap area to write all changes done during a session by the OS/user/application/etc.
In the case of Driveshield and DeepFreeze the changes are then discarded on reboot. In the case of v2i protector the changes are commited to the disk once the image of the system is created.
The concept is brilliant and keeps your machines from being broken by viruses/spyware and my favorite end-users. While not restricting end-users from exploring their machine in any way, they can actually delete OS files, this software actually puts everything back to the way it was set up initially. Actually, in reality it never lets it be changed to begin with since it uses the virtually swap area for all changes during the session.
Please spread the word this technology can save LAN administrators countless hours of work so that they can concentrate on implementing new technologies to better serve their end-users.
There is a company out there selling a network appliance with custom ASIC that will monitor Layers 1-7 for virus, content and spyware/malware. This could feasibly stop the entry into the network of any of these items for which signatures exist.
However, I have an alternative solution for any environment that has server based or independent storage options to the internal harddrive -- Write-protect the harddrive. What exactly do I mean? Well using a product like Driveshield from Centurian Technologies or DeepFreeze by Faronics you can cause your computers hard drive to reset itself to a known state when the computer is rebooted. Think of it as automatic instant reimaging of the machine upon reboot.
Yes, this means that you'll need to save data onto removable storage or a server but think of it this way. If you force all your computers to shutdown at night when users come in, in the morning they'll be rewarded with a PC that runs as good as the day you set it up.
If you want to make changes to the PC like installing new software, patches, etc. simply reboot and turn off the protection, make the changes and turn the protection back on.
This is really the only current way to keep machines completely clean. All reactive solutions will fail when new threats are not listed in the database of threats. Yes, the machines can become infected and with the security holes in Microsoft Windows you'll still need to apply OS patches to keep virus that spread automaticelly across the network from propigating if they breach the firewall. But imagine how much easier it will be to clean up afterwards, fix the firewall, reboot all machines and apply the daily service pack.
This should be the last straw for reasonable web denizens. As a DJ I buy many CDs and use Napster to only legally save time in turning them all into MP3s. If you believe as strongly as I do that the music industry has be ripping us off for years. Charging $10 a tape and $20 a CD in many stores then it is time for us to boycott. What I suggest is buying only CDs that can easily be identified as home grown or CDs from MP3.COM for at least 6 months. Let's all do our part to send a message to the music industry.
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I-co. has just filed patented for a process of extracting oxygen from air. This process involves two organic sacs with tissues to facilitate the exchange of oxygen into a liquid distribution medium.
Upon granting of the patent by the U.S. patent office, ico. plans to file patent infringement lawsuits against every citizen of the United States and any other country that still respecys US patent laws.
In other words, what's next a patent on breathing?
It seems to me that something patentable should be something that is more complex than a queue of something which when you return one of the items you have you get the top one on you list. Who runs the patent office a million monkey's?
Hi Paul -> Thanks for the kudos. ;^) I should have been more clear when I described write protecting the hard drive with the software described.
This software virtually write protects the drive. As far as the OS/software/user is concerned the drive is writeable. I don't know if you've seen PowerQuest's v2i protector the performs online imaging of the while requiring no server downtime. What these software applications do is use their own swap area to write all changes done during a session by the OS/user/application/etc.
In the case of Driveshield and DeepFreeze the changes are then discarded on reboot. In the case of v2i protector the changes are commited to the disk once the image of the system is created.
The concept is brilliant and keeps your machines from being broken by viruses/spyware and my favorite end-users. While not restricting end-users from exploring their machine in any way, they can actually delete OS files, this software actually puts everything back to the way it was set up initially. Actually, in reality it never lets it be changed to begin with since it uses the virtually swap area for all changes during the session.
Please spread the word this technology can save LAN administrators countless hours of work so that they can concentrate on implementing new technologies to better serve their end-users.
-Nyle
There is a company out there selling a network appliance with custom ASIC that will monitor Layers 1-7 for virus, content and spyware/malware. This could feasibly stop the entry into the network of any of these items for which signatures exist.
However, I have an alternative solution for any environment that has server based or independent storage options to the internal harddrive -- Write-protect the harddrive. What exactly do I mean? Well using a product like Driveshield from Centurian Technologies or DeepFreeze by Faronics you can cause your computers hard drive to reset itself to a known state when the computer is rebooted. Think of it as automatic instant reimaging of the machine upon reboot.
Yes, this means that you'll need to save data onto removable storage or a server but think of it this way. If you force all your computers to shutdown at night when users come in, in the morning they'll be rewarded with a PC that runs as good as the day you set it up.
If you want to make changes to the PC like installing new software, patches, etc. simply reboot and turn off the protection, make the changes and turn the protection back on.
This is really the only current way to keep machines completely clean. All reactive solutions will fail when new threats are not listed in the database of threats. Yes, the machines can become infected and with the security holes in Microsoft Windows you'll still need to apply OS patches to keep virus that spread automaticelly across the network from propigating if they breach the firewall. But imagine how much easier it will be to clean up afterwards, fix the firewall, reboot all machines and apply the daily service pack.
These products are available for PC and Mac.
I am not affiliated with either company.
This should be the last straw for reasonable web denizens. As a DJ I buy many CDs and use Napster to only legally save time in turning them all into MP3s. If you believe as strongly as I do that the music industry has be ripping us off for years. Charging $10 a tape and $20 a CD in many stores then it is time for us to boycott. What I suggest is buying only CDs that can easily be identified as home grown or CDs from MP3.COM for at least 6 months. Let's all do our part to send a message to the music industry.