Since you do network engineering for a living, can I hit you up for a bit of free advice?
Someone earlier made the suggestion that, for a small group ( 30 users) a linksys (or similar consumer broadband product) router would suffice. If an office is sitting on a frac-T1, is the consumer-level router sufficient? For many companies, the cost of a cisco router is prohibitive, to say nothing of the expertise often required.
There are two very fundamental statements that need to be made. First, yes, someone could develop a malware plugin for Mozilla (or Opera or whatever). The major difference is that only IE allows BHOs to be installed unbeknownst to the user. Furthermore, IE makes it very easy for a user to be duped into allowing a plugin to be installed. Also, IE makes it difficult and confusing to raise the security settings for the browser. Watch an average user try it some day.
Second, it's not that there are so many users that are upset with having to deal with a crappy browser, it's that they don't *know* that IE is a crappy browser. Every time that I have to clean malware off of a machine, I make sure that I let them know (and prove to them by explaining the logs to them) that the spyware was installed via IE. Then, they know that they are using a crappy browser.
I wasn't aware that I had raised an objection. In fact, I don't have any objections to it, other than the fact that it is a matter better left to the states - one that does not merit federal enforcement. The point of my post is that this is a waste of resources and a distraction (or is it an excuse) from the more pertinent problems facing this country.
As for "overstuffing trolls", you truly are deluded if you think that the invasion of Iraq is "just" and "handsomely won". The fact that even after two years, after the evidence that has surfaced that (surprise, surprise) there were no weapons, there was no connection to Al-Qaeda, and there was no imminent threat to the US, suggests that you are either naiive, misinformed, uneducated or, how did you put it, oh yes, a "sheeple" yourself. The basis of this was is simple: profiteering. Don't believe everything that Fox News and Ann Coulter tells you. You have been lied to. A simple Google search will open your eyes.
You assertion that the economy is working just fine...How fortunate you are to not be affected by the worst economic conditions that the US has seen in 70 years. Take a look around this forum, however, and you will see that not everyone has been as lucky as you.
As for your statement that you "dread the thought of the Government taking interest in affecting my way of life" and how that relates to healthcare, you overlook the fact that it is the Government that has allowed the US healthcare system to get into the sad condition that it is. If they insist on regulating it (and by that I mean deriving tax revenue from it and demanding even more tax revenue to support it) then they had better well take care of it. They have assumed the responsibility of its management - they are responsible for it. If you think that the healthcare system is doing great, then you are either not providing insurance for your family with premiums that easily exceed $1,000 a month, you are oblivious to the realities of insurance costs since your employer pays for it (it still costs you but it's difficult to do the math when your eyes are held so tightly shut), or you are still on your parents' policy.
>> predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
This seems to be exactly what the government is doing. Not so much in enacting a camcorder law (it's theft, no matter what the silly kiddies who paid their $10 and want to time-shift a theatrical exhibition might tell you) but in the daily reduction in our civil liberties (as in speech and general freedom, not mp3s). As right as a law like this is, it still does not excuse the fact that interests of the entertainment industry continue to take priority over more important national concerns. For Christ's sake, it's fucking television! That is what it amounts to. MP3s, CSS, broadcast bits...all federally regulated and it's just TELEVISION.
People are dying, the country's debt is rising at a rate that cannot be repaid, states are going bankrupt (yes, read the news), taxes and laws are being introduced that are robbing future revenues as far as 40 years ahead...it's great that you think you are doing well and that the economy "Works fine, thank you very much", but your kids are going to be in for a world of hurt when they get punished for the current legislature's greed, deceit and misguided actions and your naivity and unearned trust in that legislature. And you don't see that the government's priorities are screwed up?
This is not flamebait. This is not a troll. This is life. Welcome to it. Sign in please.
>>How does the person sitting next to you in the cinema feel about this....
Probably not all that great since once you have been arrested, if your neighbor did not turn you in, he could be charged as an accessory.
Just remember, folks, that this is the sort of problems that our appointed leaders are spending their time and energy (and your tax money) on. Not on fixing the economy, not on getting us out of a ficticious war, not on improving healthcare or our general way of life. But making the world safe for movie-goers and **AA members alike.
You get the government that you (do or don't) vote for.
Do people who write malicious software really tremble any time some dillusional congress critter gets it in his head to attempt something like this? Are people really deterred by any (alleged) action taken by ANY goverment, let alone the US?
Seeing as how well the CAN-SPAM act has been working out, I'm not going to hold my breath expecting great things from this bit of rubbish, either.
Educating the masses on how to protect themselves is the only way to defeat spyware and viruses. (Well, that and don't use IE). But, then again, it's the educated masses that the government fears the most.
Aw, screw it. Maybe they should make you take a drivers test before you get on the Information Superhighway®.
1447? You do realize that AdAware reports cookies and registry entries as well as executables, right? I find it highly unlikely that there a single machine would be infected with 1447 individual applications.
Ignore the troll from Roman. I appreciated the info on JSyncManager. I'm not interested in an addressbook replacement (having been using DateBk for years) but have been very interested in an alternate conduit.
So, yeah, the post about JSync *is* the Ant's Pants.
Who said anything about forcing them to be internal? I would argue that the CD-ROM would not have gained widespread acceptance had it been forced to remain an *external* device. It wasn't until PC manufacturers started including them inside machines as a standard option that they gained widespread acceptance.
Ouch, horrible example. Great example, however, of just how screwed up the legal system is here. Whether you believe that OJ was innocent or guilty, his prosecution and trial illustrated so many different things that are wrong with our media-infatuated legal system. Regardless, he was found innocent. The fact that a civil suit was won against him, after being found innocent, was disgusting.
Ahhh, but you assume that the new discs will be the same form-factor. All they have to do is make the discs wide enough so that the reader/burner will not fit into a 5 1/4"-bay. That will ensure that the device will never become standard on PC's, thus limiting the market for pirated discs. As for the myth of downloading movies, the amount of physical storage required for a movie will make downloading impractical. In light of bandwidth and monthly data-transfer caps being imposed by some ISPs, it'll take you a couple of months worth of bandwidth allotment to download a single flick.
Voila! Illegal downloading is cured and the MPAA can go back to sleeping peacefully at night.
This will bode well for all those critics who complain that audio CDs don't offer enough fidelity, as well. For certain, as soon as the RIAA sees how well the new format works for movies, they'll start utilizing the higher definition format as well. Granted, they'll probably waste the extra storage on commercials for other artists and draconian DRM protection (just to be safe), but one of them could, conceivably, slip and use the extra space for a higher quality recording.
We all could win. With the question of file swapping finally rendered moot, the discussion topic of whether file swapping is legal will finally fade away in irrelevance and we can all get back to what we came to Slashdot for in the first place: trashing Microsoft.
Seriously, the **AA has just been sucking up too much of our time, anyway.;)
Actually, corporate protection applies to the assets of the officers, not to the officers themselves. It's a matter of liability protection, not criminal.
Not that what SCO has been doing is illegal - merely unethical.
>>If she had bought a camera, and the first time she tried to take a picture with it, it had dumped a gallon of boiling coffee in her lap, that would be the fault of the manufacturer.
That's rediculous and just indicative of how folks refuse to take responsibility for their own actions.
People, listen up! If you insist on modding consumer devices to do things that the manufacturer never intended (e.g. a camera that serves hot coffee), you cannot reasonably expect the manufacturer to be held accountable for any damage and loss said modification might cause.
Specifically, that particular McDonald's had been cited numerous times and had several complaints, on record, for it's coffee. Lawsuits against McDonald's because you claim ignorance of the health consequences of eating their food 2-3 times a day are garbage, and were judged as such. This single case, however, was legitimate.
It was all fun and games until someone lost an eye.
Luxury! We used to get out of the dorm at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lab, eat a handful of 'ot HP-65's, listen to booooring Calculus IV lectures for twenty hours a day at the Main Hall for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken Altair 8800 manual, if we were lucky!
And you try and tell the young people of today that..... they won't believe you.
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Since you do network engineering for a living, can I hit you up for a bit of free advice?
Someone earlier made the suggestion that, for a small group ( 30 users) a linksys (or similar consumer broadband product) router would suffice. If an office is sitting on a frac-T1, is the consumer-level router sufficient? For many companies, the cost of a cisco router is prohibitive, to say nothing of the expertise often required.
Thoughts?
>>a teen in a theater with a camcorder isn't much of a threat
No, he's a thief. And is being treated appropriately.
Mods, in accordance with Slashdot rules, please proceed and mod me as a troll for this opinion.
I use Opera so I must ask: What's a pop-up?
There are two very fundamental statements that need to be made. First, yes, someone could develop a malware plugin for Mozilla (or Opera or whatever). The major difference is that only IE allows BHOs to be installed unbeknownst to the user. Furthermore, IE makes it very easy for a user to be duped into allowing a plugin to be installed. Also, IE makes it difficult and confusing to raise the security settings for the browser. Watch an average user try it some day.
Second, it's not that there are so many users that are upset with having to deal with a crappy browser, it's that they don't *know* that IE is a crappy browser. Every time that I have to clean malware off of a machine, I make sure that I let them know (and prove to them by explaining the logs to them) that the spyware was installed via IE. Then, they know that they are using a crappy browser.
> And kiosks for getting money in a bank does seem novel to me.
They even have a novel name for them..."ATM".
I wasn't aware that I had raised an objection. In fact, I don't have any objections to it, other than the fact that it is a matter better left to the states - one that does not merit federal enforcement. The point of my post is that this is a waste of resources and a distraction (or is it an excuse) from the more pertinent problems facing this country.
As for "overstuffing trolls", you truly are deluded if you think that the invasion of Iraq is "just" and "handsomely won". The fact that even after two years, after the evidence that has surfaced that (surprise, surprise) there were no weapons, there was no connection to Al-Qaeda, and there was no imminent threat to the US, suggests that you are either naiive, misinformed, uneducated or, how did you put it, oh yes, a "sheeple" yourself. The basis of this was is simple: profiteering. Don't believe everything that Fox News and Ann Coulter tells you. You have been lied to. A simple Google search will open your eyes.
You assertion that the economy is working just fine...How fortunate you are to not be affected by the worst economic conditions that the US has seen in 70 years. Take a look around this forum, however, and you will see that not everyone has been as lucky as you.
As for your statement that you "dread the thought of the Government taking interest in affecting my way of life" and how that relates to healthcare, you overlook the fact that it is the Government that has allowed the US healthcare system to get into the sad condition that it is. If they insist on regulating it (and by that I mean deriving tax revenue from it and demanding even more tax revenue to support it) then they had better well take care of it. They have assumed the responsibility of its management - they are responsible for it. If you think that the healthcare system is doing great, then you are either not providing insurance for your family with premiums that easily exceed $1,000 a month, you are oblivious to the realities of insurance costs since your employer pays for it (it still costs you but it's difficult to do the math when your eyes are held so tightly shut), or you are still on your parents' policy.
>> predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
This seems to be exactly what the government is doing. Not so much in enacting a camcorder law (it's theft, no matter what the silly kiddies who paid their $10 and want to time-shift a theatrical exhibition might tell you) but in the daily reduction in our civil liberties (as in speech and general freedom, not mp3s). As right as a law like this is, it still does not excuse the fact that interests of the entertainment industry continue to take priority over more important national concerns. For Christ's sake, it's fucking television! That is what it amounts to. MP3s, CSS, broadcast bits...all federally regulated and it's just TELEVISION.
People are dying, the country's debt is rising at a rate that cannot be repaid, states are going bankrupt (yes, read the news), taxes and laws are being introduced that are robbing future revenues as far as 40 years ahead...it's great that you think you are doing well and that the economy "Works fine, thank you very much", but your kids are going to be in for a world of hurt when they get punished for the current legislature's greed, deceit and misguided actions and your naivity and unearned trust in that legislature. And you don't see that the government's priorities are screwed up?
This is not flamebait. This is not a troll. This is life. Welcome to it. Sign in please.
>>How does the person sitting next to you in the cinema feel about this....
Probably not all that great since once you have been arrested, if your neighbor did not turn you in, he could be charged as an accessory.
Just remember, folks, that this is the sort of problems that our appointed leaders are spending their time and energy (and your tax money) on. Not on fixing the economy, not on getting us out of a ficticious war, not on improving healthcare or our general way of life. But making the world safe for movie-goers and **AA members alike.
You get the government that you (do or don't) vote for.
>> "world's oldest sea water -- a vast, still pool unstirred for millennia, walled by steep ridges and lidded with ice."
Until we came along and screwed up yet another ecosystem beyond repair. Can't we just leave shit alone?
Be warned. FreeNote contains MySearchBar which is spyware.
Do people who write malicious software really tremble any time some dillusional congress critter gets it in his head to attempt something like this? Are people really deterred by any (alleged) action taken by ANY goverment, let alone the US?
Seeing as how well the CAN-SPAM act has been working out, I'm not going to hold my breath expecting great things from this bit of rubbish, either.
Educating the masses on how to protect themselves is the only way to defeat spyware and viruses. (Well, that and don't use IE). But, then again, it's the educated masses that the government fears the most.
Aw, screw it. Maybe they should make you take a drivers test before you get on the Information Superhighway®.
1447? You do realize that AdAware reports cookies and registry entries as well as executables, right? I find it highly unlikely that there a single machine would be infected with 1447 individual applications.
Ignore the troll from Roman. I appreciated the info on JSyncManager. I'm not interested in an addressbook replacement (having been using DateBk for years) but have been very interested in an alternate conduit.
So, yeah, the post about JSync *is* the Ant's Pants.
Whatever the hell *that* means.
DateBk5 by Pimlico Software is exactly what you are looking for and I cannot recommend it enough.
>>What next? A cell with a hole (or pole) to play even better games with?
Well, you know, they *do* say that Porn drives the technology industry...
Who said anything about forcing them to be internal? I would argue that the CD-ROM would not have gained widespread acceptance had it been forced to remain an *external* device. It wasn't until PC manufacturers started including them inside machines as a standard option that they gained widespread acceptance.
Ouch, horrible example. Great example, however, of just how screwed up the legal system is here. Whether you believe that OJ was innocent or guilty, his prosecution and trial illustrated so many different things that are wrong with our media-infatuated legal system. Regardless, he was found innocent. The fact that a civil suit was won against him, after being found innocent, was disgusting.
>>by teaching others about the dangers of the internet
Like what? Getting caught?
Ahhh, but you assume that the new discs will be the same form-factor. All they have to do is make the discs wide enough so that the reader/burner will not fit into a 5 1/4"-bay. That will ensure that the device will never become standard on PC's, thus limiting the market for pirated discs. As for the myth of downloading movies, the amount of physical storage required for a movie will make downloading impractical. In light of bandwidth and monthly data-transfer caps being imposed by some ISPs, it'll take you a couple of months worth of bandwidth allotment to download a single flick.
;)
Voila! Illegal downloading is cured and the MPAA can go back to sleeping peacefully at night.
This will bode well for all those critics who complain that audio CDs don't offer enough fidelity, as well. For certain, as soon as the RIAA sees how well the new format works for movies, they'll start utilizing the higher definition format as well. Granted, they'll probably waste the extra storage on commercials for other artists and draconian DRM protection (just to be safe), but one of them could, conceivably, slip and use the extra space for a higher quality recording.
We all could win. With the question of file swapping finally rendered moot, the discussion topic of whether file swapping is legal will finally fade away in irrelevance and we can all get back to what we came to Slashdot for in the first place: trashing Microsoft.
Seriously, the **AA has just been sucking up too much of our time, anyway.
Actually, corporate protection applies to the assets of the officers, not to the officers themselves. It's a matter of liability protection, not criminal.
Not that what SCO has been doing is illegal - merely unethical.
>>At least one eats Whoppers so the idea of eating run-off from those is slightly less gross...
Given the choice, I'll take the bird shit.
>>In that single sentence, you've summed up the root cause of almost everything wrong in today's society.
Hey! That's not my fault!
>>If she had bought a camera, and the first time she tried to take a picture with it, it had dumped a gallon of boiling coffee in her lap, that would be the fault of the manufacturer.
That's rediculous and just indicative of how folks refuse to take responsibility for their own actions.
People, listen up! If you insist on modding consumer devices to do things that the manufacturer never intended (e.g. a camera that serves hot coffee), you cannot reasonably expect the manufacturer to be held accountable for any damage and loss said modification might cause.
Just having a little fun today.
Specifically, that particular McDonald's had been cited numerous times and had several complaints, on record, for it's coffee. Lawsuits against McDonald's because you claim ignorance of the health consequences of eating their food 2-3 times a day are garbage, and were judged as such. This single case, however, was legitimate.
It was all fun and games until someone lost an eye.
Luxury! We used to get out of the dorm at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lab, eat a handful of 'ot HP-65's, listen to booooring Calculus IV lectures for twenty hours a day at the Main Hall for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken Altair 8800 manual, if we were lucky!
..... they won't believe you.
And you try and tell the young people of today that