Oh yeah, compare a commodity like service providers to video gaming devices. At best, that's asinine.
You could switch providers with little or no obvious effect on functionality and performance, while on the other end of the spectrum, we have video gaming devices with completely different games and publishers. Not to mention there aren't even any comparable video gaming devices.
This virus isn't affecting just IIS servers.. it's being spread by all Windows computers.
We don't have any IIS servers on our internal network and I'm seeing.EML files with the audio/x-wave and "readme.exe" being written to ALL of our node's writable network shares. I know of at least one computer that's performing the writing, but I don't see an ADMIN.DLL and there are no viruses detected by the most recent version of Norton. This is a computer running Windows 98 without IIS software.
Examining the.EML files written to each writable share shows that strings are being grabbed from the source computer's registry and used to name the.EML files to make them appear genuine. However, performing a virus scan on the.EML file shows no viruses present.
Oh yeah, I know what you mean... who cares about finding any patterns to pi. It's just like that whole damn mass and energy thing, who cares if there is a pattern between them or not? It's not like anything useful could come of it.
Ban it for Christian references? Amazing to see this on a site strongly supporting civil liberties...
Amazing how it's a violation of civil rights when the activity is politically correct (atheism or agnosticism) yet not when it's politically incorrect (Christianity).
If you don't like Christianity, don't see it. Mention to all your friends that they shouldn't see it. I hope you don't consider yourself a free speech advocate while calling for a banning.
Yeah, imagine a Palm Pilot or cellphones running off a battery the size of a laptop cell. Either that, or lets require customers to recharge their Palm Pilots and cellphones every 3 hours so they can use 802.11.
I'm a softare/hardware engineer in the RF (wireless) engineering business. Primarily, I work with embedded products, so I can tell you that I'd be willing to use both 802.11 and Bluetooth. Whichever one wins out on any individual product is entirely dependent on the requirements of the product.
Power, size and price are always the driving factors when it comes to embedded products, mainly because the products are often battery operated. RF transmit power is a major concern when it comes to power consumption, but not the only concern. Processing power (and thus, what you can handle in terms of network protocols and bandwidth) is the other major concern.
Bluetooth would be great for embedded products that don't require more than 10 meters of operating distance. Also, you don't require as much processing power for Bluetooth as the transmission speeds are much lower.
802.11, on the other hand, has higher transmission speeds AND longer distance specifications. I've used 802.11 transceivers and they pretty much require you to have access to the good old 60 Hz line power we all know and love. It is also very hard to process a 12 Mbps datastream on a microcontroller that runs at any speed less than ~200 MHz (do the math). Even a custom IC or ASIC optimized for I/O processing would consume a fair amount of power processing such a datastream. Don't expect to see 802.11b on a handheld device unless it has access to line-power a significant amount of time or is a bastardized version of 802.11.
The primary factor for Bluetooth's slow industry acceptance is the price. While it doesn't operate at 12 Mbps, it is significantly fast and, with its convoluted master-slave networking protocol, requires either a ton of engineering time or expensive "blackbox" transceivers. We are ready to adopt it as soon as a customer is willing to pay the price; so far, they've liked our custom solutions instead.
My my my, aren't we the pot calling the kettle black. By your very message you should own nothing other than basic shelter and basic staples. Why not sacrifice the money for ALL the hard drives you own and not just a couple?
Tell me not of the sliver in my arm, for you do not see the plank in your eye.
The fact that people are indicating who and who does not need money is very dangerous and reeks of socialism/communism. Where do you draw the line? $30k/year? $50k? $100k?
Given that our society is capitalistic, money is not guaranteed. When the job market wasn't looking good, I risked $25k (in loans, mind you) on a college education with the hope that it would pay off while my friend bought a Jeep Cherokee. I have health care, he doesn't. Is it charitable to give him health care, within the government's bounds, with part of my income, because it was beyond his control? Should he take care of himself, or should wealthier taxpayers? You mean I don't HAVE to risk a college tuition and still have health care? Count me in!
I don't mean to suggest that all poor people are responsible for their situations. I grew up with a blue collar single parent and one sibling. But it galls me to see people, some of whom I know, waste all of their money on frivolous items for short-term satisfaction without setting any of it aside for retirement or education. A friend of mine is almost 40 years old, makes $50k/year, and has no retirement fund because he cashed his 401k. And I know he'll be a needy one for Social Security and Medicare when he's older. He's put himself in that position. And I'll be paying for it.
Whether or not you think the rich should give to the poor is an issue that should not rest within government's hands. I care about people not having health care and food. But lets give them fishing poles, not fish. I'll help these people out, donate time and money, but _I_ want the control. I don't want my money being funneled and wasted by government bureaucracies that have practically zero accountability.
You may feel that the many of the rich aren't selfless enough to give their money to those that need it. But you know what? It doesn't matter. Just as you can't regulate ethics and morals and laws shouldn't serve as a moral foundation, you also cannot regulate selflessness. And you can bet it isn't going to help the relations between economic classes.
Yet again, stats are abused, point being the videogame industry is worth almost as much money as Hollywood. Poppycock. I think the key phrase is "movie box-office receipts". How about revenue from:
- pay per view
- rentals
- VHS and DVD sales
- collectors editions and directors cuts
- additional rape everytime a new video media is released (DVD2, whatever)
- pay cable stations
- network television and basic cable
- clothes and toys and crap (yeah sure, for videogames too, but to the same extent?)
The average consumer gets his balls busted on every rung of the ladder and most of them don't even realize it.
NOW let's compare revenue stats.
-Jason
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Oh yeah, compare a commodity like service providers to video gaming devices. At best, that's asinine.
You could switch providers with little or no obvious effect on functionality and performance, while on the other end of the spectrum, we have video gaming devices with completely different games and publishers. Not to mention there aren't even any comparable video gaming devices.
And you're bumped to 3!
Yeah, but does the poor sod he hits when he blows off the road deserve to crash as well?
This is the point. Are you still missing it?
I forgot this header from the .EML files:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/related;
type="multipart/alternative";
boundary="====_ABC1234567890DEF_===="
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Unsent: 1
--====_ABC1234567890DEF_====
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="====_ABC0987654321DEF_===="
--====_ABC0987654321DEF_====
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
--====_ABC0987654321DEF_====--
--====_ABC1234567890DEF_====
Content-Type: audio/x-wav;
name="readme.exe"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-ID:
This virus isn't affecting just IIS servers.. it's being spread by all Windows computers.
We don't have any IIS servers on our internal network and I'm seeing
Examining the .EML files written to each writable share shows that strings are being grabbed from the source computer's registry and used to name the .EML files to make them appear genuine. However, performing a virus scan on the .EML file shows no viruses present.
What's going on here?!
Oh yeah, I know what you mean... who cares about finding any patterns to pi. It's just like that whole damn mass and energy thing, who cares if there is a pattern between them or not? It's not like anything useful could come of it.
Hmm, I missed the "Re:".
Sorry.
Ban it for Christian references? Amazing to see this on a site strongly supporting civil liberties...
Amazing how it's a violation of civil rights when the activity is politically correct (atheism or agnosticism) yet not when it's politically incorrect (Christianity).
If you don't like Christianity, don't see it. Mention to all your friends that they shouldn't see it. I hope you don't consider yourself a free speech advocate while calling for a banning.
Yeah, imagine a Palm Pilot or cellphones running off a battery the size of a laptop cell. Either that, or lets require customers to recharge their Palm Pilots and cellphones every 3 hours so they can use 802.11.
Come off it yourself.
I'm a softare/hardware engineer in the RF (wireless) engineering business. Primarily, I work with embedded products, so I can tell you that I'd be willing to use both 802.11 and Bluetooth. Whichever one wins out on any individual product is entirely dependent on the requirements of the product.
Power, size and price are always the driving factors when it comes to embedded products, mainly because the products are often battery operated. RF transmit power is a major concern when it comes to power consumption, but not the only concern. Processing power (and thus, what you can handle in terms of network protocols and bandwidth) is the other major concern.
Bluetooth would be great for embedded products that don't require more than 10 meters of operating distance. Also, you don't require as much processing power for Bluetooth as the transmission speeds are much lower.
802.11, on the other hand, has higher transmission speeds AND longer distance specifications. I've used 802.11 transceivers and they pretty much require you to have access to the good old 60 Hz line power we all know and love. It is also very hard to process a 12 Mbps datastream on a microcontroller that runs at any speed less than ~200 MHz (do the math). Even a custom IC or ASIC optimized for I/O processing would consume a fair amount of power processing such a datastream. Don't expect to see 802.11b on a handheld device unless it has access to line-power a significant amount of time or is a bastardized version of 802.11.
The primary factor for Bluetooth's slow industry acceptance is the price. While it doesn't operate at 12 Mbps, it is significantly fast and, with its convoluted master-slave networking protocol, requires either a ton of engineering time or expensive "blackbox" transceivers. We are ready to adopt it as soon as a customer is willing to pay the price; so far, they've liked our custom solutions instead.My my my, aren't we the pot calling the kettle black. By your very message you should own nothing other than basic shelter and basic staples. Why not sacrifice the money for ALL the hard drives you own and not just a couple?
Tell me not of the sliver in my arm, for you do not see the plank in your eye.
The fact that people are indicating who and who does not need money is very dangerous and reeks of socialism/communism. Where do you draw the line? $30k/year? $50k? $100k?
Given that our society is capitalistic, money is not guaranteed. When the job market wasn't looking good, I risked $25k (in loans, mind you) on a college education with the hope that it would pay off while my friend bought a Jeep Cherokee. I have health care, he doesn't. Is it charitable to give him health care, within the government's bounds, with part of my income, because it was beyond his control? Should he take care of himself, or should wealthier taxpayers? You mean I don't HAVE to risk a college tuition and still have health care? Count me in!
I don't mean to suggest that all poor people are responsible for their situations. I grew up with a blue collar single parent and one sibling. But it galls me to see people, some of whom I know, waste all of their money on frivolous items for short-term satisfaction without setting any of it aside for retirement or education. A friend of mine is almost 40 years old, makes $50k/year, and has no retirement fund because he cashed his 401k. And I know he'll be a needy one for Social Security and Medicare when he's older. He's put himself in that position. And I'll be paying for it.
Whether or not you think the rich should give to the poor is an issue that should not rest within government's hands. I care about people not having health care and food. But lets give them fishing poles, not fish. I'll help these people out, donate time and money, but _I_ want the control. I don't want my money being funneled and wasted by government bureaucracies that have practically zero accountability.
You may feel that the many of the rich aren't selfless enough to give their money to those that need it. But you know what? It doesn't matter. Just as you can't regulate ethics and morals and laws shouldn't serve as a moral foundation, you also cannot regulate selflessness. And you can bet it isn't going to help the relations between economic classes.
Yet again, stats are abused, point being the videogame industry is worth almost as much money as Hollywood. Poppycock. I think the key phrase is "movie box-office receipts". How about revenue from: - pay per view - rentals - VHS and DVD sales - collectors editions and directors cuts - additional rape everytime a new video media is released (DVD2, whatever) - pay cable stations - network television and basic cable - clothes and toys and crap (yeah sure, for videogames too, but to the same extent?) The average consumer gets his balls busted on every rung of the ladder and most of them don't even realize it. NOW let's compare revenue stats. -Jason