Two lines coming out of the main router. Line one goes straight to a NAT which is then on a seperate physical network. Line two another NAT, which is also on it's on physical network. Hell, have a NAT on every floor if they need to, peoples lives are at stake, they can set up as many seperate networks as needed to make sure a device will never be cracked. Regardless of OS on the device, this is basic network set up.
This could be because MOST public companies pay their profits every quarter to investors rather than store it in the bank. Microsoft begins to actually give their profits to their investors, which off the top of my head Redhat has always done (should they make a profit), and it's something "(I'll) never see Redhat do". I don't get the reasoning.
Oooooh, a flame war on a powder keg, I want some. I've been maxed Karma for years, I could use a -1 mod.
Ex 21:22-25 "When men fight, and one of them pushes a pregnant woman and a miscarriage results, but no other misfortune ensues, the one responsible shall be fined according as the woman's husband may exact from him, the payment to be based on reckoning, But if other misfortune ensues, the penalty shall be life for a life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foor, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise."
The fetus is the property of the husband is merely worth a fine if destroyed. If the woman is killed, the person who killed her is to be killed.
I'm pro-life, not a Christian, Muslim or Jew. The Christian Bible is silent on abortion and it can be inferred that at least one source writer of the Tanak saw a difference between the life of a fetus and the mother. Get your religion straight, it's embarassing.
"And if you need a lot of RAM to figure out which house on my block has the Porsche parked in front of it, methinks you need to spend some time away from the computer."
No, but you can figure out exactly where ALL of the Porches are. Any self respecting car theft ring (yes they do exist) steal specific makes and models, not just expensive cars.
Even putting this aside, the Gnome Liberation Front would love to know where to get 5000 gnomes very quickly.
" Worrying that this system will lead to increased targeted crime is silly."
Cars are typically stolen because there is a demand for them on the market. There usually are favorite makes and models. Local crime stats and house values don't tell you they are driving the stolen car of the year, just which nieghborhoods to start scanning in. Hence my origonal comment that this image system combined with research can make stealing more efficient.
"Still, this would be a great way to find out who has lawn gnomes, plastic flamingos, and those fat-lady-bending-over things in their gardens.
Funny, but you make a very good point. Should this database leak into the "wrong hands" that has access to a competent programmer, targeted robberies could increase. Cross correlations are you friend. Get enough RAM and find the neighborhoods with new sports cars and a little more research and in one night a crew can have at it. Who knew theft could be so efficient?
"his deliberate action to sort through the seeds to find the Monsanto ones is what was found to be actionable under Canadian law."
Then the law is clearly broken, because the seeds are his and if he wanted to set them on fire while doing the disco duck around, he should feel free to do so.
"It was the seed saving, of known patented seeds that was considered an infringement."
Patents gives one the right to reproduce something. When the object that is patented reproduces itself on MY land, then the resulting product is MINE. That simple. You have NEVER needed a license to USE a patented product. Don't let companies convice you that one does. Copyright people have already come close to convincing the US that you need a license to use software.
The goal of the plant is to grow and reproduce. When it does that, the patented object is doing EXACTLY what the company intened it to do and hence no patent protection should be violated. That simple.
Something that is specifically designed to self replicate, does EXACTLY what it is meant to do and the person who owns the land and air it happens on is the one sued? Backwards thinking, if you ask me.
Lets say, I make a robot that makes an exact replica of itself from simple nuts and bolts. The way it makes a replica of itself is patented. One day that robot escapes and makes 100 copies of itself over at the local hardware store. Does that mean THEY are liable for my ineptness? I can sue them?
In my mind, it should be the other way around, the guy who had this patented crop end up on his land should be able to sue the patent holders for screwing up his property.
Good thoughts, it's a shame that Microsoft's bundling of IE with Windows makes anything the WWW Consortium largely irrelevent, even when the specs come from MS themselves (CSS).
That being said, relying on publisher embedded meta-data to be relevent on the WWW is probabally wrong. Someone, somewhere, is going to try to lie in that metadata as a way of making money.
We have a locally owned cafe that roasts their own coffee. Their "House Blend" (mostly South American beans) has added caffine, this is advertised as a positive thing. It sells quite well. I'm a African coffee person myself, so it's never appealed to me.
Without the rise of the Sithe, the Jedi remain in power. Then one day. Palpatine manipulates the republic, an currently unknown number of Jedi (at least one of which is retired), and the Jedi council into handing him control of a clone army. Somehow Palpatine has all Jedi, but Yoda and Obi-Wan killed off, moving the force to the "dark side".
This act is important on several different levels: 1. Without all Jedi out of power, there can be no balance 2. It's fundamental to the nature of the problem in A New Hope 3. It makes for really fucking stupid internet arguments, which makes people feel all fluffy and enlightened inside (which is important for movie promotion).
Hence, my assumption that the name would relate to the rise of the Sithe and not he empire or have some stupid correlation to "A new hope" like "An old darkness".
Considering the theme parallels between the old and new movies, I assumed the name would relate to the culimination of the rise of the Sithe, not the Empire. If you want to get all pseudo-philosophical, the need "balancing of the force" is the theme, which is why the Sithe are needed.
"Windows, Linux, MacOS. 100% guaranteed that all have exploits.
We just haven't found them all yet.
Seriously, is this news?"
No, it's not. The news is that in all Operating Systems other than Microsoft Windows, the exploits are in services that are off by default and in a clear majority of cases remain off during the life time of the computer. If they are on the user is at least on some level aware of this fact, because they turned it on themselves.
It's a big difference. There is zero reason that an OS to have servers on by default. If that OS does have a server on by default, the vender should be damn sure that server has a near zero chance for exploits. That simple. If Microsoft were truely serious about security, it would take the following steps.
1. Turn off all servers by default 2. Create true users on the kernel level. This will allow any server that needs to be turned on to not be run at the root level. 3. Get rid of/repair Active-X. Which ever is easier is fine. 4. Make it 100% impossible to have a website to try to install anything.
As far as I can see, number 1 is VERY easy to do for MS and will quickly help a LOT of people. The rest of them wouldn't take that long.
And our first question today will come from Steven Levy with Newsweek. Steven Levy: Hi, Steve. Steve Jobs: Hi, Steven. How are you doing? Steven Levy: Good. How are you? Congratulations for the year. A couple questions, related questions, about the negotiations with the labels there. One, was there any discussion from their point of view of changing the price? We've been hearing about how the labels might want to get more for online songs. And second, did they ask you to make the songs purchased on the iTunes store playable from other devices? In other words, ask you to license FairPlay to other third parties? Steve Jobs: Great. Let me answer those two things. First one is the price for songs in the iTunes store is remaining 99 cents per song, and we think that's what customers want and that's what we're delivering. So the prices will remain 99 cents per song and any rumors to the contrary are simply not true. And secondly, no, it never came up in our discussions with the labels that they would like songs purchased on the iTunes Music Store played on other portable music players other than the iPod. Possibly that's because the iPod is the most popular portable digital music player in the world with close to a 50 percent market share of all MP3 players on the market, including even $50 Flash based players. So, as you know, the iPod has grown into a billion dollar business in a little over two years and we ship more than three million iPods to date with more than 800,000 iPods sold last quarter alone. So you know, it's hard to even say who number two would be. Steven Levy: And the 99 cents, that didn't come up either? Basically that was something that was assumed it would not change? Steve Jobs: Well, I'm not going to go into details about our negotiations with music companies except to say that Apple and the music companies are offering these songs on the iTunes Music Store for 99 cents a piece, same as always. Steven Levy: OK. Thanks, Steve.
Problem with this plan is all you have to do is stop making revenue ( or make next to none) on something so that you can keep the copyright on it. THe only way something like this would work if it one paid an increasing percentage tax of the HIGHEST revenue year paid regardless of revenue or not. But if you were going this far, might as well just go with the easier limit copyright to 15 year plan.
"On the other hand, if you're John Poweruser and you run a file server, download, install, and uninstall numerous times over a short period of time,"
I am now 100% convinced that a properly designed OS doesn't need installers. Applications should be self contained and not dump into the system. Making all of this moot.
"not run Scandisk every so often, not run Disk Defragmenter often"
Is this necissary on Windows anymore, I thought Windows did on the fly defragging like most major OS vendors do now? Serious question.
"make undescriptive folder names and put big unused files in them
Putting files into folders shouldn't bog your OS down. If it does, the OS you are using is seriously broken.
"as well as attempt to self-teach yourself how to hack into your own Windows OS"
This is legimate, fiddling with things you don't understand on the system level for learning purposes may from time to time require a reinstall, but never a format.
"do you remember where you put every installation program for each of your drives?"
No, because I can't remember the last time I used an installer to put something in/Applications
"Downloaded movies and mp3s? Those digital pictures you took from last vacation? "
They are in my home directory with is never touched by the OS installer. I also back them up to CD in case of drive failure.
"What about the 4 different revisions of your big company project?"
If you working on a "big company project" and don't have at least ONE offsite backup, you deserve any borking you get when your system fails.
"A reinstallation of an entire OS give a good opportunity (ie. excuse) to reformat your hard drive.
Why is formatting your harddrive a good thing? I can't think of a single reason why an harddrive would benifit from such a thing. Perhaps you could enlighten me.
"Because there were at least five or ten good songs in that archive!"
While humorous, it leaves out one important fact: folk music (as in the music of the people) is important anthropological evidence. This is the kind of stuff that we as a society should save, even if it's crap because it contains the art, concerns, desires, ramblings, etc of the people at a specific time. The loss of the mp3.com archive was a big deal for this very reason. The previously unknown archiving of this database is great and will be useful for historians and anthropologists in the future.
"see how talking chimp affects situations like workplace conflicts"
I'm no expert in Zoology, but I'm assuming you'll have the shit beat out of you by the end of the day. It would be about as bad as saying "someone has the case of the Mondays" on a construciton site.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, but the REAL question is:
How many Library of Congresses is that?
Two lines coming out of the main router. Line one goes straight to a NAT which is then on a seperate physical network. Line two another NAT, which is also on it's on physical network. Hell, have a NAT on every floor if they need to, peoples lives are at stake, they can set up as many seperate networks as needed to make sure a device will never be cracked. Regardless of OS on the device, this is basic network set up.
"Why is this even being posted here?"
On the flip side, how does one find positive proof of the absence of intelligent life outside or Earth?
"What else are you gonna use your gun for? A hammer?"
Actually, someone thought it was a good idea.
This could be because MOST public companies pay their profits every quarter to investors rather than store it in the bank. Microsoft begins to actually give their profits to their investors, which off the top of my head Redhat has always done (should they make a profit), and it's something "(I'll) never see Redhat do". I don't get the reasoning.
Oooooh, a flame war on a powder keg, I want some. I've been maxed Karma for years, I could use a -1 mod.
Ex 21:22-25
"When men fight, and one of them pushes a pregnant woman and a miscarriage results, but no other misfortune ensues, the one responsible shall be fined according as the woman's husband may exact from him, the payment to be based on reckoning, But if other misfortune ensues, the penalty shall be life for a life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foor, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise."
The fetus is the property of the husband is merely worth a fine if destroyed. If the woman is killed, the person who killed her is to be killed.
I'm pro-life, not a Christian, Muslim or Jew. The Christian Bible is silent on abortion and it can be inferred that at least one source writer of the Tanak saw a difference between the life of a fetus and the mother. Get your religion straight, it's embarassing.
"And if you need a lot of RAM to figure out which house on my block has the Porsche parked in front of it, methinks you need to spend some time away from the computer."
No, but you can figure out exactly where ALL of the Porches are. Any self respecting car theft ring (yes they do exist) steal specific makes and models, not just expensive cars.
Even putting this aside, the Gnome Liberation Front would love to know where to get 5000 gnomes very quickly.
" Worrying that this system will lead to increased targeted crime is silly."
Cars are typically stolen because there is a demand for them on the market. There usually are favorite makes and models. Local crime stats and house values don't tell you they are driving the stolen car of the year, just which nieghborhoods to start scanning in. Hence my origonal comment that this image system combined with research can make stealing more efficient.
"Still, this would be a great way to find out who has lawn gnomes, plastic flamingos, and those fat-lady-bending-over things in their gardens.
Funny, but you make a very good point. Should this database leak into the "wrong hands" that has access to a competent programmer, targeted robberies could increase. Cross correlations are you friend. Get enough RAM and find the neighborhoods with new sports cars and a little more research and in one night a crew can have at it. Who knew theft could be so efficient?
"his deliberate action to sort through the seeds to find the Monsanto ones is what was found to be actionable under Canadian law."
Then the law is clearly broken, because the seeds are his and if he wanted to set them on fire while doing the disco duck around, he should feel free to do so.
"It was the seed saving, of known patented seeds that was considered an infringement."
Patents gives one the right to reproduce something. When the object that is patented reproduces itself on MY land, then the resulting product is MINE. That simple. You have NEVER needed a license to USE a patented product. Don't let companies convice you that one does. Copyright people have already come close to convincing the US that you need a license to use software.
The goal of the plant is to grow and reproduce. When it does that, the patented object is doing EXACTLY what the company intened it to do and hence no patent protection should be violated. That simple.
Something that is specifically designed to self replicate, does EXACTLY what it is meant to do and the person who owns the land and air it happens on is the one sued? Backwards thinking, if you ask me.
Lets say, I make a robot that makes an exact replica of itself from simple nuts and bolts. The way it makes a replica of itself is patented. One day that robot escapes and makes 100 copies of itself over at the local hardware store. Does that mean THEY are liable for my ineptness? I can sue them?
In my mind, it should be the other way around, the guy who had this patented crop end up on his land should be able to sue the patent holders for screwing up his property.
Good thoughts, it's a shame that Microsoft's bundling of IE with Windows makes anything the WWW Consortium largely irrelevent, even when the specs come from MS themselves (CSS).
That being said, relying on publisher embedded meta-data to be relevent on the WWW is probabally wrong. Someone, somewhere, is going to try to lie in that metadata as a way of making money.
We have a locally owned cafe that roasts their own coffee. Their "House Blend" (mostly South American beans) has added caffine, this is advertised as a positive thing. It sells quite well. I'm a African coffee person myself, so it's never appealed to me.
Without the rise of the Sithe, the Jedi remain in power. Then one day. Palpatine manipulates the republic, an currently unknown number of Jedi (at least one of which is retired), and the Jedi council into handing him control of a clone army. Somehow Palpatine has all Jedi, but Yoda and Obi-Wan killed off, moving the force to the "dark side".
This act is important on several different levels: 1. Without all Jedi out of power, there can be no balance 2. It's fundamental to the nature of the problem in A New Hope 3. It makes for really fucking stupid internet arguments, which makes people feel all fluffy and enlightened inside (which is important for movie promotion).
Hence, my assumption that the name would relate to the rise of the Sithe and not he empire or have some stupid correlation to "A new hope" like "An old darkness".
Considering the theme parallels between the old and new movies, I assumed the name would relate to the culimination of the rise of the Sithe, not the Empire. If you want to get all pseudo-philosophical, the need "balancing of the force" is the theme, which is why the Sithe are needed.
What do I know.
"Windows, Linux, MacOS. 100% guaranteed that all have exploits.
We just haven't found them all yet.
Seriously, is this news?"
No, it's not. The news is that in all Operating Systems other than Microsoft Windows, the exploits are in services that are off by default and in a clear majority of cases remain off during the life time of the computer. If they are on the user is at least on some level aware of this fact, because they turned it on themselves.
It's a big difference. There is zero reason that an OS to have servers on by default. If that OS does have a server on by default, the vender should be damn sure that server has a near zero chance for exploits. That simple. If Microsoft were truely serious about security, it would take the following steps.
1. Turn off all servers by default
2. Create true users on the kernel level. This will allow any server that needs to be turned on to not be run at the root level.
3. Get rid of/repair Active-X. Which ever is easier is fine.
4. Make it 100% impossible to have a website to try to install anything.
As far as I can see, number 1 is VERY easy to do for MS and will quickly help a LOT of people. The rest of them wouldn't take that long.
And our first question today will come from Steven Levy with Newsweek.
Steven Levy: Hi, Steve.
Steve Jobs: Hi, Steven. How are you doing?
Steven Levy: Good. How are you? Congratulations for the year. A couple questions, related questions, about the negotiations with the labels there. One, was there any discussion from their point of view of changing the price? We've been hearing about how the labels might want to get more for online songs. And second, did they ask you to make the songs purchased on the iTunes store playable from other devices? In other words, ask you to license FairPlay to other third parties?
Steve Jobs: Great. Let me answer those two things. First one is the price for songs in the iTunes store is remaining 99 cents per song, and we think that's what customers want and that's what we're delivering. So the prices will remain 99 cents per song and any rumors to the contrary are simply not true.
And secondly, no, it never came up in our discussions with the labels that they would like songs purchased on the iTunes Music Store played on other portable music players other than the iPod. Possibly that's because the iPod is the most popular portable digital music player in the world with close to a 50 percent market share of all MP3 players on the market, including even $50 Flash based players. So, as you know, the iPod has grown into a billion dollar business in a little over two years and we ship more than three million iPods to date with more than 800,000 iPods sold last quarter alone. So you know, it's hard to even say who number two would be.
Steven Levy: And the 99 cents, that didn't come up either? Basically that was something that was assumed it would not change?
Steve Jobs: Well, I'm not going to go into details about our negotiations with music companies except to say that Apple and the music companies are offering these songs on the iTunes Music Store for 99 cents a piece, same as always.
Steven Levy: OK. Thanks, Steve.
Taken from the JPL site: "Toutatis is about 4.6 kilometers long"
Problem with this plan is all you have to do is stop making revenue ( or make next to none) on something so that you can keep the copyright on it. THe only way something like this would work if it one paid an increasing percentage tax of the HIGHEST revenue year paid regardless of revenue or not. But if you were going this far, might as well just go with the easier limit copyright to 15 year plan.
"On the other hand, if you're John Poweruser and you run a file server, download, install, and uninstall numerous times over a short period of time,"
/Applications
I am now 100% convinced that a properly designed OS doesn't need installers. Applications should be self contained and not dump into the system. Making all of this moot.
"not run Scandisk every so often, not run Disk Defragmenter often"
Is this necissary on Windows anymore, I thought Windows did on the fly defragging like most major OS vendors do now? Serious question.
"make undescriptive folder names and put big unused files in them
Putting files into folders shouldn't bog your OS down. If it does, the OS you are using is seriously broken.
"as well as attempt to self-teach yourself how to hack into your own Windows OS"
This is legimate, fiddling with things you don't understand on the system level for learning purposes may from time to time require a reinstall, but never a format.
"do you remember where you put every installation program for each of your drives?"
No, because I can't remember the last time I used an installer to put something in
"Downloaded movies and mp3s? Those digital pictures you took from last vacation? "
They are in my home directory with is never touched by the OS installer. I also back them up to CD in case of drive failure.
"What about the 4 different revisions of your big company project?"
If you working on a "big company project" and don't have at least ONE offsite backup, you deserve any borking you get when your system fails.
"A reinstallation of an entire OS give a good opportunity (ie. excuse) to reformat your hard drive.
Why is formatting your harddrive a good thing? I can't think of a single reason why an harddrive would benifit from such a thing. Perhaps you could enlighten me.
"Because there were at least five or ten good songs in that archive!"
While humorous, it leaves out one important fact: folk music (as in the music of the people) is important anthropological evidence. This is the kind of stuff that we as a society should save, even if it's crap because it contains the art, concerns, desires, ramblings, etc of the people at a specific time. The loss of the mp3.com archive was a big deal for this very reason. The previously unknown archiving of this database is great and will be useful for historians and anthropologists in the future.
Who would have thought they would extend it again this soon after extending it the first time?
"The study is in England."
Well....then..okay
They would have the BLOODY shit kicked out of them by the end of the day.
"see how talking chimp affects situations like workplace conflicts"
I'm no expert in Zoology, but I'm assuming you'll have the shit beat out of you by the end of the day. It would be about as bad as saying "someone has the case of the Mondays" on a construciton site.