You are wrongly assuming all vendors treat security issues with the same level of priority. I agree that overall, vendors are more security aware but every vendor is not treating security flaws and bugs the same.
I'd also like to add that knowing the seriousness and amount of flaws helps a consumer make an informed buying decision. Of course Cisco all but owns the networking market but there are quite a few vendors making inroads. Soon people will have a choice and people will need to rely on more then some PR marketing material supplied by the company to make a decision on what equipment to buy. Responsible disclosure (definition of which varies widely by opinion) is good for consumers and helps to maintain a good balance of power between the users and vendors. Using the legal system or using any type of mask to prevent or limit disclosure only helps the bottom line of the vendor.
Each has unveiled a series of features designed to keep users loyal and grab a bigger share of the lucrative search-engine market.
I doubt many internet companies still around today are still going to try to rely on the "loyal customer" attempt. Everyone who has ever browsed the internet knows it only takes a few seconds to check a competitors site. I'd also assume every company that was around during the internet bubble would know that as well. Google and MS are definately improving their products but I don't think it is some attempt to suck people in early and hope they will stay.
How long does the battery life last... in lifetime?
Well, according the the Wal-Mart description, the player has a Lithium Polymer battery. According to Wikipedia, this type of battery has a recharge cycle anywhere from 500-10000 cycles depending on the type. Your guess is as good as mine. I'd assume from my reading, a poor quality charging system could be very harmful to this type of battery, more damage then a poor quality charger for other common types of rechargable batteries.
I'm confused. I am making an assumption here of a typical WoW player, may not apply to you specifically. You play this game at LEAST a minimum of a 5-10 hours a week for let's say the last 75 weeks. You did not consider any of the previous time a "waste", how suddenly could one week be such a big deal and such a let down?
All in all, I'd say it's a pretty fair DRM system.
You do not notice as they chip away your rights a little at a time. There is no such thing as fair DRM when dealing with copyrighted material. Copyright laws are designed to give people rights to distibute copyrighted works. DRM goes well above and beyond that distribution protection right and controls what you can do with your legally aquired license to the media. DRM assumes everyone is a criminal, everyone is stealing from the media companies, and everyone would violate copyright laws if given the chance. Basically EVERYONE using DRM suffers from loss of useability that has absolutely nothing to do with illegal redistribution at all.
Maintaining MS servers is sometimes more then point and click and hoping it works. I know that goes against the belief of many in the business and what MS would like you to believe but it is a fact that seperates a GOOD sysadmin from a regular run of the mill sysadmin (certifications with little experience come to mind here).
Basically, there are two types of sysadmins. Those that prepare, understand the system and the patch that is required, if something goes wrong, they understand the nature of the problem and can work towards a fix in a logical manner or can come up with work arounds. The second type of sysadmin tries random things until the system suddenly starts working again, not really having any idea what caused the failure and what really caused it to start working again. They can always seperate themselves from the problem by blaming the problem on the "patch".
I understand that many sysadmins are also tied and limited to the corporate environment they are in so the sysadmin is not always the person to blame directly.
I'm not arguing either way or advocating exclusive use of a non country tld to a specific country either. gov.us would be the most logical for the us government but would be a change from existing practice. Of course either way would be better then to use the country as the second level domain that the parent of my first reply suggested.
You want to see those as second level after gov and mil? Who would be responsible to maintain those? How about gov.fr or mil.de. IMHO, that would seem more logical based on existing practice.
Like Xbox live? Like what features? I guess it has some features that are somewhat useful for some people but I am online to PLAY online, not to track buddies and message specific people all the time. I have no problem with the current PS2 online offerings and very few games charge a fee to play online.
How do you connect abusing the TOS with warez homos? Are they monitoring packets and realize your downloading copyrighted software?
People who abuse deserve to be capped. Define abuse. If you do, that would be a definition that OOL does not provide to anyone. That in itself is the problem. From what I;ve read, I've drawn the conclusion they cap the highest bandwidth users that has no relevance to the TOS or warez. Without defining what "too much" really is.
DSLreports is full of OOL capping incedents. You can draw your own theory on why they are getting capped.
The argument should be, what is unlimited and why is unlimited advertised but then limited provided.
Linux is open source. That does not mean every and all applications have to be. If there is a demand and people will pay for it, it will sell. On the flip side, I can run open source software on Windows. Why should I use open source on Windows when I can buy and use closed souces, after all, the OS is closed source? That agruement does not make sense, just as yours does not.
Why not use an actual Windows environment? IMHO, if Linux is meeting an acceptable % of your daily computing needs, it is not convienent to run and support another OS for the other small % you may need if you don't have to. A lot of people are past the tipping % point with Linux.
Every single car made and sold in the USA can exceed the posted speed limit in every state. Car manufactors readily post the performacnce numbers and brag about the speed and power of the cars. More often then not they also have a commercials showing the car and driver doing something that would be illegal on any public road anywhere in the US. Zoom Zoom Zoom, the Mustang driver with a frozen smile, WRX on a winding road, a Dodge hemi pickup truck street racing an old Plymouth Duster, a Cadillac flying around and bragging about the low 0-60 time. The list goes on and on. Bottom line? The person using the car is responsible for any illegal actions they take while driving those cars, not the manufactor. How many people are buying these cars only to drive them on a track where they may hit the 186mph electronic speed limiter?
Kind of like the Comcast and Verizon commercials detailing how fast you can download movies and music.. The ruling did not really clear anything up or set any type of precident because the question of promotion and majority legal use would have to be determined by a long and drawn out court case and layers. This provides a definate advantage to those that can afford the litigation like the larger media organizations.
Why not sign up for a bunch of junkmail lists with each ISP and see which one clobbers the most?
I would think that would give very unreliable results for a spam blocking test. You signed up and those list maintainers that support legitimate opt-in lists may actually send real unmodified header information, use real and acknowledged or non blacklisted mail servers, use less junk or mime tricks, and the mail may actually be addressed to you (not cc'd or bcc'd). I would hope that something I signed up for would actually get through.
Sometimes the testing is worth it because there are MANY government suppliers that would supply absolute junk if they could. I worked on this in a much smaller scale with computer parts in the military. There was a local vendor that would always win every bid for parts we had for basic computer parts like hard drives, zip drives, mother boards etc... In the two years we dealt with this vendor, I don't think we ever received the correct parts or all working parts. The guy knew how the system worked and knew how to manipulate it. We would order 10 zip disks, we would receive 5, we got MBs with dead serial ports, mice with the serial cable wired incorrectly, dead floppy and HDs. It was comical. The amount of paper work overhead and the constant turnover of people we had made his junk supply system work.
My amplifiers were from circa 1993. Reverse polarity protection was not used as much as it is now and I did not test these specific amplifiers for obvious reasons. Although... I'd still be happy enough knowing that they would continue to blow fuses. I also put my parents name and address (I move to much to have used mine) on the inside of one of the amps along with a big note saying "If this amplifier is being brought in for repair, and not the by the name above, it is stolen, please contact the above number etc.." or something like that. Now the ONLY reason I did that was because I had a sharpie handy when I had the amplifier apart to replace two of the output stage transistors that were defective. I really doubt anyone would actually call though.
I can not directly relate this to a HD so this is probably somewhat off topic.. I created some user induced destructing car stereo amplifiers. I removed the painted on "Pos(+)" and "Neg(-)" markings from the power terminals and painted new labels on them that were backwards. I also used a black wire for the positive wire and a red for the negative. I used stencils from some old electronic hobby kits I had laying around and they matched perfectly. Jump ahead about 5 years and sure enough, those amplifiers were stolen as well. I can only hope that the person that attempted to hook them up the first time fried them in the process. Yes, I had some free time on my hands back then but I was so frustrated when my stereo was taken the first time that the relabeling the replacement equipment did not seem like a such a waste of time. The fact that there is a good chance this equipment will be ruined does make me feel a little bit better.
As are most home routers althoug I have found the Linksys routers to be less of a problem then other brands. In fact some other brands are borderline useless. I could give specifics of at least 4 different brands from my own direct experience but the bottom line is many of them have odd quarks and frequent lockups during typical home use. I started years back with a homebrew Linux box doing NAT and rules. I changed gears and went to the home router applicance and tried several different models and brands over about a two year period. With so many problems and lack of configurability, I went back to the headless white box but instead of rolling my own again, I took the easy route and used Smoothwall.
Small businesses and mom and pop at the craft show are not card vendors and do not store any information at all about the cards. They do thier transactions through a card vendor. That vendor is the one affected by these changes. Mom and pop do not have to change or do anything if I understand this correctly.
The merchant must provide detailed records of the transaction, and authentication of the card user. They are, basically, at the mercy of the card company. If they cannot prove that they verified the card, to the satisfaction of the card company, then the card company sticks the merchant with the bill.
As they should be. Are you impling that there is something wrong with that? I've had a fradulent charge on my card at a local eatery which I've was at a few days earlier. The bank stated that particular fradulent transaction was not a swipe of my card and my number was entered manually. No shit, I still have my card. I assume they can not verify it was a legitimate purchase and should be stuck with the bill.
I do not know the specifics to this piece of spyware but I;ve seen many pieces of spyware that run from the run section of the registry and monitor that same section and reinsert themselves if you remove it from there. One thing I have found that works create a bat file with nothing more then del c:\windows\bad_file.exe (the same bad_file.exe that gets called in the run section) and place that bat file as an entry under the runonce section of the registry. The runonce section runs before the run section and the spyware will not be able to run if you delete the inital starting mechanism, you can then remove the rest of the traces as the spyware as they will not be in use any longer as it is not running and remove the entry from the run section. Again, YMMV
Funny, I don't see calls to have BMW or Mercedes be able to drop their engines in a GM or Chrysler. Nor is there any real benefit to BMW or Mercedes to even do this.
I know, you were only trying to give an example but you chose a very bad one. Chrysler already has a car with a Mercedes engine, it is called the Crossfire. In many ways, it was an advantage to the customers for both of the companies to work together on one product.
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You are wrongly assuming all vendors treat security issues with the same level of priority. I agree that overall, vendors are more security aware but every vendor is not treating security flaws and bugs the same.
I'd also like to add that knowing the seriousness and amount of flaws helps a consumer make an informed buying decision. Of course Cisco all but owns the networking market but there are quite a few vendors making inroads. Soon people will have a choice and people will need to rely on more then some PR marketing material supplied by the company to make a decision on what equipment to buy. Responsible disclosure (definition of which varies widely by opinion) is good for consumers and helps to maintain a good balance of power between the users and vendors.
Using the legal system or using any type of mask to prevent or limit disclosure only helps the bottom line of the vendor.
Each has unveiled a series of features designed to keep users loyal and grab a bigger share of the lucrative search-engine market.
I doubt many internet companies still around today are still going to try to rely on the "loyal customer" attempt. Everyone who has ever browsed the internet knows it only takes a few seconds to check a competitors site. I'd also assume every company that was around during the internet bubble would know that as well. Google and MS are definately improving their products but I don't think it is some attempt to suck people in early and hope they will stay.
How long does the battery life last... in lifetime?
Well, according the the Wal-Mart description, the player has a Lithium Polymer battery. According to Wikipedia, this type of battery has a recharge cycle anywhere from 500-10000 cycles depending on the type. Your guess is as good as mine. I'd assume from my reading, a poor quality charging system could be very harmful to this type of battery, more damage then a poor quality charger for other common types of rechargable batteries.
assuming that Apache is more secure, when the opposite appears to be the case.
as if they are axioms with no need for any supporting evidence.
Your self included.
I'm confused. I am making an assumption here of a typical WoW player, may not apply to you specifically. You play this game at LEAST a minimum of a 5-10 hours a week for let's say the last 75 weeks. You did not consider any of the previous time a "waste", how suddenly could one week be such a big deal and such a let down?
All in all, I'd say it's a pretty fair DRM system.
You do not notice as they chip away your rights a little at a time. There is no such thing as fair DRM when dealing with copyrighted material. Copyright laws are designed to give people rights to distibute copyrighted works. DRM goes well above and beyond that distribution protection right and controls what you can do with your legally aquired license to the media. DRM assumes everyone is a criminal, everyone is stealing from the media companies, and everyone would violate copyright laws if given the chance. Basically EVERYONE using DRM suffers from loss of useability that has absolutely nothing to do with illegal redistribution at all.
Maintaining MS servers is sometimes more then point and click and hoping it works. I know that goes against the belief of many in the business and what MS would like you to believe but it is a fact that seperates a GOOD sysadmin from a regular run of the mill sysadmin (certifications with little experience come to mind here).
Basically, there are two types of sysadmins. Those that prepare, understand the system and the patch that is required, if something goes wrong, they understand the nature of the problem and can work towards a fix in a logical manner or can come up with work arounds. The second type of sysadmin tries random things until the system suddenly starts working again, not really having any idea what caused the failure and what really caused it to start working again. They can always seperate themselves from the problem by blaming the problem on the "patch".
I understand that many sysadmins are also tied and limited to the corporate environment they are in so the sysadmin is not always the person to blame directly.
I'm not arguing either way or advocating exclusive use of a non country tld to a specific country either. gov.us would be the most logical for the us government but would be a change from existing practice. Of course either way would be better then to use the country as the second level domain that the parent of my first reply suggested.
You want to see those as second level after gov and mil? Who would be responsible to maintain those? How about gov.fr or mil.de. IMHO, that would seem more logical based on existing practice.
Like Xbox live? Like what features? I guess it has some features that are somewhat useful for some people but I am online to PLAY online, not to track buddies and message specific people all the time. I have no problem with the current PS2 online offerings and very few games charge a fee to play online.
I actually called them today and they told me I would be able to order fiber possibly as early as tomorrow.
HAHAHAHA, they have been telling me I could get DSL next month for the past 5 years. I hope you have better luck.
How do you connect abusing the TOS with warez homos? Are they monitoring packets and realize your downloading copyrighted software?
People who abuse deserve to be capped.
Define abuse. If you do, that would be a definition that OOL does not provide to anyone. That in itself is the problem. From what I;ve read, I've drawn the conclusion they cap the highest bandwidth users that has no relevance to the TOS or warez. Without defining what "too much" really is.
DSLreports is full of OOL capping incedents. You can draw your own theory on why they are getting capped.
The argument should be, what is unlimited and why is unlimited advertised but then limited provided.
Linux is open source. That does not mean every and all applications have to be. If there is a demand and people will pay for it, it will sell. On the flip side, I can run open source software on Windows. Why should I use open source on Windows when I can buy and use closed souces, after all, the OS is closed source? That agruement does not make sense, just as yours does not.
Why not use an actual Windows environment?
IMHO, if Linux is meeting an acceptable % of your daily computing needs, it is not convienent to run and support another OS for the other small % you may need if you don't have to. A lot of people are past the tipping % point with Linux.
Every single car made and sold in the USA can exceed the posted speed limit in every state. Car manufactors readily post the performacnce numbers and brag about the speed and power of the cars. More often then not they also have a commercials showing the car and driver doing something that would be illegal on any public road anywhere in the US. Zoom Zoom Zoom, the Mustang driver with a frozen smile, WRX on a winding road, a Dodge hemi pickup truck street racing an old Plymouth Duster, a Cadillac flying around and bragging about the low 0-60 time. The list goes on and on. Bottom line? The person using the car is responsible for any illegal actions they take while driving those cars, not the manufactor. How many people are buying these cars only to drive them on a track where they may hit the 186mph electronic speed limiter?
The promotion is the key part of that statement.
Kind of like the Comcast and Verizon commercials detailing how fast you can download movies and music.. The ruling did not really clear anything up or set any type of precident because the question of promotion and majority legal use would have to be determined by a long and drawn out court case and layers. This provides a definate advantage to those that can afford the litigation like the larger media organizations.
Why not sign up for a bunch of junkmail lists with each ISP and see which one clobbers the most?
I would think that would give very unreliable results for a spam blocking test. You signed up and those list maintainers that support legitimate opt-in lists may actually send real unmodified header information, use real and acknowledged or non blacklisted mail servers, use less junk or mime tricks, and the mail may actually be addressed to you (not cc'd or bcc'd). I would hope that something I signed up for would actually get through.
Sometimes the testing is worth it because there are MANY government suppliers that would supply absolute junk if they could. I worked on this in a much smaller scale with computer parts in the military. There was a local vendor that would always win every bid for parts we had for basic computer parts like hard drives, zip drives, mother boards etc... In the two years we dealt with this vendor, I don't think we ever received the correct parts or all working parts. The guy knew how the system worked and knew how to manipulate it. We would order 10 zip disks, we would receive 5, we got MBs with dead serial ports, mice with the serial cable wired incorrectly, dead floppy and HDs. It was comical. The amount of paper work overhead and the constant turnover of people we had made his junk supply system work.
My amplifiers were from circa 1993. Reverse polarity protection was not used as much as it is now and I did not test these specific amplifiers for obvious reasons. Although... I'd still be happy enough knowing that they would continue to blow fuses. I also put my parents name and address (I move to much to have used mine) on the inside of one of the amps along with a big note saying "If this amplifier is being brought in for repair, and not the by the name above, it is stolen, please contact the above number etc.." or something like that. Now the ONLY reason I did that was because I had a sharpie handy when I had the amplifier apart to replace two of the output stage transistors that were defective. I really doubt anyone would actually call though.
I can not directly relate this to a HD so this is probably somewhat off topic..
I created some user induced destructing car stereo amplifiers.
I removed the painted on "Pos(+)" and "Neg(-)" markings from the power terminals and painted new labels on them that were backwards. I also used a black wire for the positive wire and a red for the negative. I used stencils from some old electronic hobby kits I had laying around and they matched perfectly. Jump ahead about 5 years and sure enough, those amplifiers were stolen as well. I can only hope that the person that attempted to hook them up the first time fried them in the process. Yes, I had some free time on my hands back then but I was so frustrated when my stereo was taken the first time that the relabeling the replacement equipment did not seem like a such a waste of time. The fact that there is a good chance this equipment will be ruined does make me feel a little bit better.
Linksys routers are far from great.
As are most home routers althoug I have found the Linksys routers to be less of a problem then other brands. In fact some other brands are borderline useless. I could give specifics of at least 4 different brands from my own direct experience but the bottom line is many of them have odd quarks and frequent lockups during typical home use. I started years back with a homebrew Linux box doing NAT and rules. I changed gears and went to the home router applicance and tried several different models and brands over about a two year period. With so many problems and lack of configurability, I went back to the headless white box but instead of rolling my own again, I took the easy route and used Smoothwall.
Small businesses and mom and pop at the craft show are not card vendors and do not store any information at all about the cards. They do thier transactions through a card vendor. That vendor is the one affected by these changes. Mom and pop do not have to change or do anything if I understand this correctly.
The merchant must provide detailed records of the transaction, and authentication of the card user. They are, basically, at the mercy of the card company. If they cannot prove that they verified the card, to the satisfaction of the card company, then the card company sticks the merchant with the bill.
As they should be. Are you impling that there is something wrong with that? I've had a fradulent charge on my card at a local eatery which I've was at a few days earlier. The bank stated that particular fradulent transaction was not a swipe of my card and my number was entered manually. No shit, I still have my card. I assume they can not verify it was a legitimate purchase and should be stuck with the bill.
I do not know the specifics to this piece of spyware but I;ve seen many pieces of spyware that run from the run section of the registry and monitor that same section and reinsert themselves if you remove it from there. One thing I have found that works create a bat file with nothing more then del c:\windows\bad_file.exe (the same bad_file.exe that gets called in the run section) and place that bat file as an entry under the runonce section of the registry. The runonce section runs before the run section and the spyware will not be able to run if you delete the inital starting mechanism, you can then remove the rest of the traces as the spyware as they will not be in use any longer as it is not running and remove the entry from the run section. Again, YMMV
Funny, I don't see calls to have BMW or Mercedes be able to drop their engines in a GM or Chrysler. Nor is there any real benefit to BMW or Mercedes to even do this.
I know, you were only trying to give an example but you chose a very bad one. Chrysler already has a car with a Mercedes engine, it is called the Crossfire. In many ways, it was an advantage to the customers for both of the companies to work together on one product.