you can "what if" lots of features. As near as I can tell from the quick searching I did, it's not like it's on by default. I didn't think it would be, but I haven't fooled with Win7 wireless much.
Is there an article on Network World that condemns Linux for having this ability? Well I did find this when I searched for Linux and HostAP. Don't see anything in the article mentioned that it too, could be a security risk if used incorrectly. It's not called Beware the rogue Wi-Fi access point in Linux Kernel 2.6.26 and up.
Yes, it rarely happens but I'm on Microsoft's side. "Shooting the messenger" is the best way to put this. The same beef would have existed with XP or Vista had it been implemented then. All the battery data is READ-ONLY. Period. The tin foil hats can come off now. It is not a conspiracy to between Microsoft and battery manufacturers.
All that being said: It IS a little confusing to an average user to see a 100% battery charge AND say your battery needs replacing. 100% means the same thing to everybody. "Perfect".
Microsoft has thrown everyone for a loop and released a fairly solid OS (IMHO). I just hope we aren't trying to hard to find a fault..... you know... because it's Microsoft..
* Manufacture Year: "09" represents the 2-character year of manufacture.
* Manufacture Month: "11" represents the 2-character month code.
* Manufacture Day?: "19" represents the 2-character day code (NB: This could be wrong, one sample had a value of "34" here, need more data).
* Sequential Identifier: "00891" represents the 5-character sequential identifier code.
Based on this assessment, we can determine that the password selection for the MiFi default is weak. Instead of 11 numeric values with an effective entropy of approximately 36 bits, the MiFi password only has an effective entropy of less than 17 bits for a given 6-byte prefix. If the concept of a manufacture date-stamp is true for the 6-byte prefix, then we have a relatively small search space to find the default MiFi PSK.
Weak? maybe....but as far as DEFAULT passwords go that seems above average to me! You mean it's not EXACTLY THE SAME on every device manufactured? That's a good thing! In many cases I'd think that's a better password choice than many users would choose for themselves.
All it shows is that Linux is vulnerable to trojan horses. ALL operating systems are vulnerable to trojan horses. When you show me a Linux or OS X computer that's vulnerable to something like the slammer worm, get back to me.
EXACTLY! I think it's safe to say that every person that is replying to this thread would have fallen for this. Admit it. I would have if for some reason I wanted to download a new screensaver.
I think that's a valid point. To be fair, a more "intelligent" pirate would try to keep up to date manually or with an external application (AutoPatcher comes to mind but I believe it's dead). The "torrent kiddiez" probably aren't going to bother. The "computer smart" grandkid who throws together a PC so Gramps and Gran-Gran can send email to the family isn't going to bother showing them how to do updates.
I can buy that... but don't report on something that you yourself can FIX Microsoft! I'd like to see a report from Microsoft on how many copies of XP were sold because of WGA nag screens. I would bet it's a fairly low percentage. (If anybody can find it please share it, i'm too lazy to look right now) Getting rid of WGA would be a good start. It may be hard to work through the fear of Windows Update that users of a pirated copy of Windows have, but it's a start.
Apparently those few XP sales generated by WGA are more important than their own reputation as the Kings of Malware.
WARNING: incoming car analogy.
So I buy a Nissan, which has a Rockford Fosgate stereo. Nissan wires it incorrectly, and I get no audio. I install a Kenwood. Everything works.
Using the methodology you applied above, the reponse is: Fuck Rockford Fosgate. The answer actually, is Fuck Nissan for hooking it up wrong.
A product is as good as is it's implementation. Lots of people seem to be pointing fingers at PA for EVERY problem they have with audio. SOME (but not all) of the issues should be owned by the various distros, for not following the directions given by PA because "our way is better"
The New Testament of the Codex Sinaiticus appears in Koine Greek, the original vernacular language, and the Old Testament in the version, known as the Septuagint, that was adopted by early Greek-speaking Christians.
I just hope they aren't using Recaptcha to digitize the text....My Koine Greek is a little rusty, and I'd like to be able to join forums..
Why is the surveillance done only by "a private nonprofit group?" In a truly transparent society such an array of cameras would be accessible by anyone, not just a select few.
I can TOTALLY see why you (and others) are saying this. Free access to imformation, etc. But do you realize what a HORRIBLE idea it is put that kind of information into the public hands? I think my girlfriend is cheating, so I fire up the streaming web feed (or even an archive feed) and watch every move she makes. Sooner or later she changes her routine one day, and she innocently pops in on an old friend she just caught up with on facebook, and they go to the park and chat. As soon as she comes home, and argument ensues (or worse) and a relationship is over. He starts stalking her with the public camera system. Kids ducking school.. Adults ducking work... Children fibbing to their parents about where they are going after school... Drug addicts exposed... you get the idea yet? The whole community would destroy itself from inside out.
There is no good way to do this.
I've just spent five minutes trying to come up with one of the classic slashdot "song rewrite" memes for Eric Clapton's Layla.. and i'm coming up short.
OK.. so after flipping through it the only thing related to 9/11 is the cover and ONE page. The rest of the coloring book doesn't refer to any specific events, just "disaster". It looks to me like a good effort at educating children about disaster and coping with it.
Why can't they change the cover, change the image on that page, and MOVE ON!
Other times it's because they get unrealistic bonuses for unbroken uptime, and they are greed cretins who'd rather see their work go down the tubes for money.
Bonuses based on uptime?
Interviewer: Also, we'll give you a bonus based on the unbroken uptime of the systems you are responsible for. *snicker*
Interviewee: That sounds nice... errr.. wait... is this a Windows or Linux shop?
Interviewer: *starts to sweat*.. umm.. Windows.
Interviewee: Thanks, but no thanks...
'I asked you before to remove me from your mailing list. I supported your bill but because of the harassment will not again..'
That's not a good reason to NOT support a bill. That's kinda childish.
I've known a few people that were complete and utter TOOLS, but had some damn good ideas. Poor presentation shouldn't affect his judgment, the CONTENTS of the bill should.
I agree 100%. I've seen this a million time at smaller companies, that I've gone into as a contractor. As a contractor I've had to refuse requests to install software. It was usually one copy of Office '97 that a husband brought in to install on 10 or so PCs.
The sad part is MOST small business don't even realize what they are doing is illegal. Then when you analyze what they have and what the cost of going legit is, they say "Thanks!" and show you the door.
In your case I would hope asking for a CYA letter from the higher powers would at least throw up a red flag and make them realize the seriousness of the situation.
I'd be interested to know what legal position that puts you in however, since you know what you are doing is illegal, CYA letter or not. If your boss said to shoot his secretary and gave you a letter saying he told you to do it... I don't think it would hold up in court (A little extreme, but still..)
hmm.. years ago with I created an IE CD for an ISP I worked at, I edited the EULA and added my own content at the very bottom. Something to the effect of:
By agreeing to this EULA you agree to pay $1,000,000 dollars to *Name Withheld*.
Maybe I should try to collect.. a few hundred people installed it..
I do not agree with that. DNS hijacking should be considered illegal criminal activity, regardless of what the reason was.
I wouldn't say REGARDLESS what the reason. I think using DNS hijacking for good reasons is acceptable. Dodging malware for one. I've done it in the past to block phishing sites and sites propogating worms, back when I was Sys Admining for some smaller ISPs, and got good feedback.
Not disagreeing with you.. just with the blanket statement that every form should be criminal.
but maybe i'm just picking nits..
I care:( I got a post marked as redundant and i'm been in the crapper with Karma ever since. Now all my posts are below everyones threshold so I have no chance.
If you can read this, rescue a fellow Slashotter and mod me up!
I just hope they incorporate Deadpool's "fourth wall" antics in the movie, even in some subtle way.
In the comic books it gives his character alot of depth and turns him into a bit of comic relief.
As long as they don't take it too far.. but Ryan Renoylds needs to face the camera just once to narrate a bit and i'll be satisfied.
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you can "what if" lots of features. As near as I can tell from the quick searching I did, it's not like it's on by default. I didn't think it would be, but I haven't fooled with Win7 wireless much.
Domain Administrators can do this.
Is there an article on Network World that condemns Linux for having this ability? Well I did find this when I searched for Linux and HostAP. Don't see anything in the article mentioned that it too, could be a security risk if used incorrectly. It's not called Beware the rogue Wi-Fi access point in Linux Kernel 2.6.26 and up.
Yes, it rarely happens but I'm on Microsoft's side. "Shooting the messenger" is the best way to put this. The same beef would have existed with XP or Vista had it been implemented then. All the battery data is READ-ONLY. Period. The tin foil hats can come off now. It is not a conspiracy to between Microsoft and battery manufacturers.
All that being said: It IS a little confusing to an average user to see a 100% battery charge AND say your battery needs replacing. 100% means the same thing to everybody. "Perfect".
Microsoft has thrown everyone for a loop and released a fairly solid OS (IMHO). I just hope we aren't trying to hard to find a fault..... you know... because it's Microsoft..
* Manufacture Year: "09" represents the 2-character year of manufacture. * Manufacture Month: "11" represents the 2-character month code. * Manufacture Day?: "19" represents the 2-character day code (NB: This could be wrong, one sample had a value of "34" here, need more data). * Sequential Identifier: "00891" represents the 5-character sequential identifier code. Based on this assessment, we can determine that the password selection for the MiFi default is weak. Instead of 11 numeric values with an effective entropy of approximately 36 bits, the MiFi password only has an effective entropy of less than 17 bits for a given 6-byte prefix. If the concept of a manufacture date-stamp is true for the 6-byte prefix, then we have a relatively small search space to find the default MiFi PSK.
Weak? maybe....but as far as DEFAULT passwords go that seems above average to me! You mean it's not EXACTLY THE SAME on every device manufactured? That's a good thing! In many cases I'd think that's a better password choice than many users would choose for themselves.
sounds like a GREAT Mozy commercial.
All it shows is that Linux is vulnerable to trojan horses. ALL operating systems are vulnerable to trojan horses. When you show me a Linux or OS X computer that's vulnerable to something like the slammer worm, get back to me.
EXACTLY! I think it's safe to say that every person that is replying to this thread would have fallen for this. Admit it. I would have if for some reason I wanted to download a new screensaver.
Kinda scary..
I think that's a valid point. To be fair, a more "intelligent" pirate would try to keep up to date manually or with an external application (AutoPatcher comes to mind but I believe it's dead). The "torrent kiddiez" probably aren't going to bother. The "computer smart" grandkid who throws together a PC so Gramps and Gran-Gran can send email to the family isn't going to bother showing them how to do updates.
I can buy that... but don't report on something that you yourself can FIX Microsoft! I'd like to see a report from Microsoft on how many copies of XP were sold because of WGA nag screens. I would bet it's a fairly low percentage. (If anybody can find it please share it, i'm too lazy to look right now) Getting rid of WGA would be a good start. It may be hard to work through the fear of Windows Update that users of a pirated copy of Windows have, but it's a start.
Apparently those few XP sales generated by WGA are more important than their own reputation as the Kings of Malware.
WARNING: incoming car analogy.
So I buy a Nissan, which has a Rockford Fosgate stereo. Nissan wires it incorrectly, and I get no audio. I install a Kenwood. Everything works.
Using the methodology you applied above, the reponse is: Fuck Rockford Fosgate. The answer actually, is Fuck Nissan for hooking it up wrong.
A product is as good as is it's implementation. Lots of people seem to be pointing fingers at PA for EVERY problem they have with audio. SOME (but not all) of the issues should be owned by the various distros, for not following the directions given by PA because "our way is better"
The New Testament of the Codex Sinaiticus appears in Koine Greek, the original vernacular language, and the Old Testament in the version, known as the Septuagint, that was adopted by early Greek-speaking Christians.
I just hope they aren't using Recaptcha to digitize the text....My Koine Greek is a little rusty, and I'd like to be able to join forums..
Why is the surveillance done only by "a private nonprofit group?" In a truly transparent society such an array of cameras would be accessible by anyone, not just a select few.
I can TOTALLY see why you (and others) are saying this. Free access to imformation, etc. But do you realize what a HORRIBLE idea it is put that kind of information into the public hands? I think my girlfriend is cheating, so I fire up the streaming web feed (or even an archive feed) and watch every move she makes. Sooner or later she changes her routine one day, and she innocently pops in on an old friend she just caught up with on facebook, and they go to the park and chat. As soon as she comes home, and argument ensues (or worse) and a relationship is over. He starts stalking her with the public camera system. Kids ducking school.. Adults ducking work... Children fibbing to their parents about where they are going after school... Drug addicts exposed... you get the idea yet? The whole community would destroy itself from inside out. There is no good way to do this.
and yet if some guy came in and said "I'm Wil Wheaton!" you'd believe it!
2) a robot will never refuse a legal yet immoral order.
Nor would they refuse an illegal order.
:)
(or illegal operation, if you prefer..)
I've just spent five minutes trying to come up with one of the classic slashdot "song rewrite" memes for Eric Clapton's Layla.. and i'm coming up short.
Someone help me out.
Bitwise *snore* half a minute ago from twitterfic.
and noone can figure out what this strange figure is out in space...
Here's what it looks like What the heck is that?!?
OK.. so after flipping through it the only thing related to 9/11 is the cover and ONE page. The rest of the coloring book doesn't refer to any specific events, just "disaster". It looks to me like a good effort at educating children about disaster and coping with it.
Why can't they change the cover, change the image on that page, and MOVE ON!
Other times it's because they get unrealistic bonuses for unbroken uptime, and they are greed cretins who'd rather see their work go down the tubes for money.
Bonuses based on uptime?
Interviewer: Also, we'll give you a bonus based on the unbroken uptime of the systems you are responsible for. *snicker*
Interviewee: That sounds nice... errr.. wait... is this a Windows or Linux shop?
Interviewer: *starts to sweat*.. umm.. Windows.
Interviewee: Thanks, but no thanks...
'I asked you before to remove me from your mailing list. I supported your bill but because of the harassment will not again..'
That's not a good reason to NOT support a bill. That's kinda childish.
I've known a few people that were complete and utter TOOLS, but had some damn good ideas. Poor presentation shouldn't affect his judgment, the CONTENTS of the bill should.
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I agree 100%. I've seen this a million time at smaller companies, that I've gone into as a contractor. As a contractor I've had to refuse requests to install software. It was usually one copy of Office '97 that a husband brought in to install on 10 or so PCs.
The sad part is MOST small business don't even realize what they are doing is illegal. Then when you analyze what they have and what the cost of going legit is, they say "Thanks!" and show you the door.
In your case I would hope asking for a CYA letter from the higher powers would at least throw up a red flag and make them realize the seriousness of the situation. I'd be interested to know what legal position that puts you in however, since you know what you are doing is illegal, CYA letter or not. If your boss said to shoot his secretary and gave you a letter saying he told you to do it... I don't think it would hold up in court (A little extreme, but still..)
to run Wine for WoW
I'm not sure why he would want to run it from Windows..
hmm.. years ago with I created an IE CD for an ISP I worked at, I edited the EULA and added my own content at the very bottom. Something to the effect of:
By agreeing to this EULA you agree to pay $1,000,000 dollars to *Name Withheld*.
Maybe I should try to collect.. a few hundred people installed it..
I do not agree with that. DNS hijacking should be considered illegal criminal activity, regardless of what the reason was.
I wouldn't say REGARDLESS what the reason. I think using DNS hijacking for good reasons is acceptable. Dodging malware for one. I've done it in the past to block phishing sites and sites propogating worms, back when I was Sys Admining for some smaller ISPs, and got good feedback. Not disagreeing with you.. just with the blanket statement that every form should be criminal. but maybe i'm just picking nits..
I care :( I got a post marked as redundant and i'm been in the crapper with Karma ever since. Now all my posts are below everyones threshold so I have no chance.
If you can read this, rescue a fellow Slashotter and mod me up!
dumping and fly tipping;
fly tipping? I live in Virginia USA, and have done plenty of cow tipping... Fly tipping sounds ALOT more challenging. You brits are crazy!
I just hope they incorporate Deadpool's "fourth wall" antics in the movie, even in some subtle way. In the comic books it gives his character alot of depth and turns him into a bit of comic relief. As long as they don't take it too far.. but Ryan Renoylds needs to face the camera just once to narrate a bit and i'll be satisfied.