In my experience with windows update is that many of the patches can actually mess up some systems
Hell, one of my clients actually caught Nimda from a patch downloaded from Microsoft's own Windows Update site. I've expected little from them in the past, but I couldn't have been more surprised. Every precaution was taken. It was a fresh install of W2K Server, service packs and hotfixes were applied from MSDN CDs before the system had its first ethernet cable connected, IIS was disabled, and NAV was installed on the server before it went live. After it was connected (behind a firewall), it went directly to Windows Update to get the latest fixes, and according to the NAV logs, one of those files was infected with Nimda.
The next day, Microsoft refreshed at least three weeks worth of updates on that site, most likely because they'd been compromised. Unfortunately, that was a day too late.
-- "We seem to be experiencing technical difficulties... and crap like I've never seen!"
- Linda {Futurama}
The shallowness is part of the point. Maybe they are just being ironic?
Indeed; that's why it's "comforting." If nothing else, FLCL is all about irony. It doesn't really present things in terms as simple as black and white, so some people tend to get confused by the lack of simple character distinctions and story resolution.
-- "Where'd you get that one from, anime?"
- Nandaba Naota {FLCL}
The actual reason that this is not a new issue, per se, is because this limitation (the inevitable consequence of the crosstalk prevention mechanism that's introduced in mixed mode) was discovered, tested, and posted by independent sources months before the pre-official 802.11g devices were released to the general public. Even then it was acknowledged by the vendors, who did not deny that this particular problem would most likely continue to exist after the imminent standardization of this protocol.
Stay off the soil; stick to the high seas for your "piracy".
Bart: "Wow, you can do anything out here!"
Homer: "That's right. See that ship over there? They're rebroadcasting Major League Baseball with implied oral consent, not express written consent... or so the legend goes."
I think all university officials should be singing this tune:
"If you agree that you're liable in any way, then you have no alternative to monitor the networks. You're putting yourself in a position that you can't possibly fulfill. Even if that were technically possible with the staff the universities have, monitoring the flow of information on college networks is contrary to everything schools of higher education are about. We're providing this access as part of an environment for learning and teaching. It's used by a growing, learning community."
- Virginia Rezmierski, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Michigan School of Information and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
I hear they had a sequel?! As if the first wasn't ENOUGH?!
Hey, no one's video collection should be considered anywhere near complete without Tetsuo the Iron Man and Tetsuo II: Body Hammer. The sequel is like the original... 'cept diff'rent, which alone justifies its existence.
Makes me want to take off my pants, for some reason. But perhaps I'm going too far... for too little.
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We're doing this Iraq thing, the senate has approved it, the president obviously has made up his mind long ago, protesting over and over isn't going to help morale at this point.
Regardless of how much I choose to support the troops (which I do), it's not my duty to help morale. It is, however, my absolute responsibility as a citizen to act purely in accordance with my conscience. If anything, that is the truly patriotic thing to do.
--
"So the right path might be a sinful path?"
"Isn't it always? Ask anyone who's ever fought a war." - Micheal Miner & A.E. Eyre
I remember watching the war start live on the evening news -- they were talking to their correspondant in Bagdad and he said all was quiet. They were just about ready to break away when he started hearing explosions. They stayed on the story the rest of the night.
See also, Live From Baghdad, a cleverly portrayed dramatization of said event (and the events leading up to them).
Well, I don't think any C programmer can look you in the eye and say "No, really, this software has no bugs. No buffer overflow exploits, no memory leaks, no overrunning pointers. Well, maybe just one. Or two."
"And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you receive any bug-reports on it, you know they are just evil lies." - Linus Torvalds
"I must admit that bug fixes would be an issue, although I don't see that searching your hard drive (or at least the program folders) for every copy of a library would be a problem if you had an updated version. It doesn't take that long to search a hard drive (esp. if indexed, but even if not)."
How much work do you do with systems, data storage, and applications at the enterprise level? I mean, I don't want to just presume that you're completely unaware of why it would be a really bad idea to actively search terabytes (or even gigabytes) worth of disks attached to active, mission-critical systems each and every time you want to upgrade an app or apply a simple bug fix, but....
I could be wrong, but it looks to me like all that Hemos wrote there was
Ah, what a classic game.
The rest was all written by the submitter of the story. Does everything have to be about the Slashdot editors?
There are two answers to that question, actually.
osiris@elysium:~$ dict editor
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Editor \Ed"i*tor\, n. [L., that which produces, from edere to
publish: cf. F. ['e]diteur.]
One who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends,
revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc.,
for publication.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]:
editor
n 1: a person responsible for the editorial aspects of
publication
The traditional definition says that the editors are responsible for editorial content and making revisions to the verbiage of posted stories. However, the reality conflicts with the theory. Slashdot editors are, by their very definition, a bit of a misnomer. They don't actually edit per se, and it is thus up to us to make snarky comments like this in response to the content of the stories.
So how then does one (legally) play the game without paying Micro$oft? If a mandatory payment isn't a tax, then how do you define the word "tax"?
osiris@elysium:~$ dict tax
From WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]:
tax
n : charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government [syn: {taxation}, {revenue enhancement}]
Besides, this isn't at all manadatory; this is merely a box spec prerequisite of a game that you don't ever have to play. Hey, I hate Microsoft as much as the next Slashdotter, but I hate them for [at least what I think are] all the right reasons. This story didn't have anything to do specifically with Microsoft or their misdeeds; it was just a seemingly now-obligatory dig.
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"Google" might be a trademark, but "google" isn't.
I hope you're not confusing Google, the trademark name for a search engine, with googol, the number.
...because there's a significant difference. "Google" will only exist as anything but a proper noun if Google doesn't defend its trademark, as it's quite appropriately doing now.
"If a huge company like that just spends tons of money on a certain product, and sells it a lot cheaper than it's competitors (who need to make profit of it) the competitors will be out of bussines."
Bringing this back from the point of an abstraction... since when has an Xbox been less expensive than its primary competitors?
4) the best way you can take action is probably by taking one of the toy applications that are currently available for the 'free' os's and turn it into something real, it's a level playingfield out there.
The article does discuss the Progeny Graphical Installer, which is being included in the next release. The last time I used this installer was roughly a year and a half ago. I could install a progeny 1.0 system in 25 minutes flat with this installer.
If this "25 minutes" is supposed to represent a typical use of PGI, then that's unfortunate. The first time I did a fresh install of Debian 3.0 on one of my workstations, start to finish (well, from the time I inserted a minimal CD until I was logged in and using Mozilla under X and WindowMaker) was approximately fifteen minutes. I hope a pretty graphical installer doesn't degrade the efficiency of my installation process.
seems like a better taste would be to dial out and use all 1000 free hours. A million people do *that* and I bet they'd stop filling our mailboxes with the landfill of tomorrow.
Honestly, you don't really think a million AOL CDs equals a million people, do you? With the bulk of AOL CDs that get delivered through various methods (I think they come disguised as the toy surprise inside boxes of Cracker Jacks these days, too), 50,000 people starting from scratch could probably pull this off over the course of a couple of months without even coming close to breaking a sweat.
If a live-action remake is to come anywhere close to touching the greatness of the original, they would need to have the Geinoh Yamashirogumi (English) create the soundtrack for it as well.
As far as I'm concerned, the Akira soundtrack is among the finest scores ever created for a film. It's quite perfect as the background discourse for the overall feel of the production.
This proposal simply intends to introduce novel new methods by which content providers can their copyrights. They plan to "modify the timing and modulation of the light used to create the displayed image such that frame-based capture by recording devices is distorted," and that certainly doesn't entail the enactment of Draconian legislation like the DMCA.
Therefore, what in the blue hell does this have to do with the DMCA (at least at this point)? If anything, this will give scientists the opportunity to attempt to overcome a new set of technologies. This is the type of thing they should be doing. It's better than having them take the litigious route, trying to force the government to protect their business model, and as this merely deals with video recording of projected films, it's hardly objectionable.
Slashdot Mirror
"Until the application is written, it runs at 0 MIPS, regardless of the hardware you've got."
- Steve Jobs
The next day, Microsoft refreshed at least three weeks worth of updates on that site, most likely because they'd been compromised. Unfortunately, that was a day too late.
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"We seem to be experiencing technical difficulties... and crap like I've never seen!"
- Linda {Futurama}
--
"Where'd you get that one from, anime?"
- Nandaba Naota {FLCL}
"When you see a John Woo film, it's comforting to know how shallow the world really is."
- Haruhara Haruko {FLCL}
The actual reason that this is not a new issue, per se, is because this limitation (the inevitable consequence of the crosstalk prevention mechanism that's introduced in mixed mode) was discovered, tested, and posted by independent sources months before the pre-official 802.11g devices were released to the general public. Even then it was acknowledged by the vendors, who did not deny that this particular problem would most likely continue to exist after the imminent standardization of this protocol.
Homer: "That's right. See that ship over there? They're rebroadcasting Major League Baseball with implied oral consent, not express written consent... or so the legend goes."
Well, someone had to say it.
Further:
Makes me want to take off my pants, for some reason. But perhaps I'm going too far... for too little.
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"So the right path might be a sinful path?"
"Isn't it always? Ask anyone who's ever fought a war."
- Micheal Miner & A.E. Eyre
Heh.
That's debatable.
osiris@elysium:~$ dict editor
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
From WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]: The traditional definition says that the editors are responsible for editorial content and making revisions to the verbiage of posted stories. However, the reality conflicts with the theory. Slashdot editors are, by their very definition, a bit of a misnomer. They don't actually edit per se, and it is thus up to us to make snarky comments like this in response to the content of the stories.From WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]:
tax
Besides, this isn't at all manadatory; this is merely a box spec prerequisite of a game that you don't ever have to play. Hey, I hate Microsoft as much as the next Slashdotter, but I hate them for [at least what I think are] all the right reasons. This story didn't have anything to do specifically with Microsoft or their misdeeds; it was just a seemingly now-obligatory dig.
UserFriendly actually beat Slashdot to this one by a couple of days. Will wonders never cease?
As far as I'm concerned, the Akira soundtrack is among the finest scores ever created for a film. It's quite perfect as the background discourse for the overall feel of the production.
This proposal simply intends to introduce novel new methods by which content providers can their copyrights. They plan to "modify the timing and modulation of the light used to create the displayed image such that frame-based capture by recording devices is distorted," and that certainly doesn't entail the enactment of Draconian legislation like the DMCA.
Therefore, what in the blue hell does this have to do with the DMCA (at least at this point)? If anything, this will give scientists the opportunity to attempt to overcome a new set of technologies. This is the type of thing they should be doing. It's better than having them take the litigious route, trying to force the government to protect their business model, and as this merely deals with video recording of projected films, it's hardly objectionable.