"Until the housing market can recover, we expect Florida's economy to struggle. This process will not take years to unfold, but it will be several more quarters before this process has fully played itself out. We are likely at or closing in on the nadir of housing starts."
Either you don't fully understand what cron is and how it works or you do and are just putting to much importance into root permissions.
cron allows any user to schedule jobs on a UNIX system. This is not a feature exclusive to shared hosting servers. Every UNIX system supports this out of the box.
Regarding root permissions, malware doesn't need root permissions to connect to a botnet, so root doesn't really matter in regards to whether or not malware can latch onto and use a unix system's resources.
I'm not sure that having the user specifically install a software package that specifically runs downloaded programs is the same class of malware as windose user are typically plagued by anyways.
The vast majority of Windows malware is installed via social engineering. Exploits are certainly used but dancing bunnies and fake virus warnings seem to be easier method for the bot herders out there.
cron would be pretty useless in a multi-user system if multiple users couldn't use it. I actually wrote a shell script that "infected" my FreeBSD box using.*rc files and crontab once. There really is no need to release the software though as the concept is not rocket science. Just write up a description of how it's done. Anyone with UNIX knowledge could replicate it based on the description alone.
All of the Blackberries and Windows Mobile (HTC) phones I've owned have worked without the SIM inserted. The Carriers SIM locking phones (even if you buy them at FULL price) sucks, but our legislators (even the "progressive" Democrats) are beholden to big business so we don't have the pro-consumer regulations that other countries do.
You don't need cell service for GPS to work on smartphones, and there a several good navigation programs available for both Windows mobile and the iPhone which come with come with built on maps - eliminating the need for a data connection. Standalone navigation is one market that I think phones are definitely going to either eliminate or severly cut into very soon.
My Touch Pro 2 with a dash mount makes a fantastic navigation tool.
And by the way, you need to get over the "Clinton/Carter/CRM" caused the housing bubble, bullshit. The entire housing bubble is the direct result of the Gramm Leach Bliley Act of 1999. It allowed banks to shed themselves of the risk of any mortgage they gave out.
I'm going through the same thing. Bought my house in Feb and am paying taxes on 2006 value, which is 150K more than I paid for it. If they are dragging their feet in reassessing your property, I would recommend contacting your local representative.
In this budget crisis, it is interesting to see the states in the biggest mess financially are the ones with the highest taxes.
That would be a good argument if it were based on reality. In reality, states financial distress right now directly correlates to the impact of the housing crises. See Nevada and Florida - two very tax friendly states.
...copyright infringement isn't stealing something physical as in all your cases.
The parent mentioned stocks, which are not something physical. They represent ownership in corporations which only exist because of our laws and are worth a market determined amount of money which is also a symbolic object created by our laws. Copyright is just another "thing" that would not exists if not for our laws.
I lived in Santa Cruz for a year, and I absolutely love the entire area. Now I'm reminiscing and want to take my kids to visit the San Lorenzo River near the Felton area.
I've never had problems with the flash and shockwave msi pakcages, but I have experienced problems with java not uninstalling properly. We ended up witha situation where the old java would not install and the new java was partially installed. My solution was to write a start up script (assigned by GPO). It would check for the existence of a file that was specific to the old version of java and if found would call another script to clean up the mess.
REM - Fix broken java 1.5 issue if exist "C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_13\bin" call "\\domain.com\machine_conf\scripts\nuke_java_6.cmd"
Here is the script that does the nuking of the old version...
here is the reg entry that is imported by the previous script. It removes the new java version from grou policy so that the machine will reinstall it on next boot. You would have to adjust it to fix your environment.
They supply their software as.msi packages which can be deployed via active directory GPOs. That's how I deploy, flash, shockwave and reader. I'll be deploying the new shockwave tomorrow. They make you sign up for a "license" in order to get access to the msi packages, which is extremely annoying.
Yeah, the adware/malware has adapted to be content inside a user's profile. Staying inside of the user's profile avoid the triggering of UAC in Vista, and malware doesn't need admin rights to do the things they are designed to do anyway. Limited permissions still make life much easier though as it is quite easy to clean up a malware that is limited to a users profile.
You mean big government lefties like Reagan, H.W. Bush and W. Bush who's administrations oversaw the compilation of about 75% of our current federal debt?
-The Great Depression lasted from Oct. 24, 1929 until about 1940.
The depression lasted until 1940 only if you redefine what an economic depression is. Before the 'the new deal failed' crowd started trying to rewrite history, a depression was defined as a period of very rapid economic contraction. By the classic definition the great depression ended in 1933.
You do realize many people believe that the Fed actually created the Depression to consolidate power for themselves right?
Lots of people believe stupid things. For example, people today think that our economic collapse of 2008 was caused by poor people buying houses they could not afford. The fact that some (or a bunch) of people believe something doesn't automatically lend credence to it.
If you found an application on Linux that "required" root privileges just because it violated the published and standard security guidelines for UNIX-based systems you would definitely blame the application developer. If that application developer ran as "root" while developing that application you would also admonish them. When people elect to ignore the guidelines and the safe practices in the name of convenience they get exactly what they deserve.
The game America's Army comes to mind. AA used to have both a Windows and Linux version. Despite regular complaints from a vocal minority of Windows users, the anti-cheating software that the game used required Administrator privileges in Windows. In the Linux port, root was not required.
By putting a label on you make it way to easy to dismiss.
I am putting a label on the "government is always bad" mantra. It is a staple of conservative thought. I'm sure that many liberal minded people buy into it though.
The people right now have decided that freedom of speech is important.
Notice how the government suddenly becomes "the people" when they come to a decision you agree with?
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According to people from Florida, you are wrong.
"Until the housing market can recover, we expect Florida's economy to struggle. This process will not take years to unfold, but it will be several more quarters before this process has fully played itself out. We are likely at or closing in on the nadir of housing starts."
Either you don't fully understand what cron is and how it works or you do and are just putting to much importance into root permissions.
cron allows any user to schedule jobs on a UNIX system. This is not a feature exclusive to shared hosting servers. Every UNIX system supports this out of the box.
Regarding root permissions, malware doesn't need root permissions to connect to a botnet, so root doesn't really matter in regards to whether or not malware can latch onto and use a unix system's resources.
I'm not sure that having the user specifically install a software package that specifically runs downloaded programs is the same class of malware as windose user are typically plagued by anyways.
The vast majority of Windows malware is installed via social engineering. Exploits are certainly used but dancing bunnies and fake virus warnings seem to be easier method for the bot herders out there.
cron would be pretty useless in a multi-user system if multiple users couldn't use it. I actually wrote a shell script that "infected" my FreeBSD box using .*rc files and crontab once. There really is no need to release the software though as the concept is not rocket science. Just write up a description of how it's done. Anyone with UNIX knowledge could replicate it based on the description alone.
compare the price of an iPod Touch to the price of an iPhone in those countries whose law requires phones to be availabe without subsidies.
The subsidies aren't the part that hurts consumers. It's the SIM locking and lack of standardization.
All of the Blackberries and Windows Mobile (HTC) phones I've owned have worked without the SIM inserted. The Carriers SIM locking phones (even if you buy them at FULL price) sucks, but our legislators (even the "progressive" Democrats) are beholden to big business so we don't have the pro-consumer regulations that other countries do.
No, you don't. Carriers will sell you smart phones with no service at the un-subsidized price.
You don't need cell service for GPS to work on smartphones, and there a several good navigation programs available for both Windows mobile and the iPhone which come with come with built on maps - eliminating the need for a data connection. Standalone navigation is one market that I think phones are definitely going to either eliminate or severly cut into very soon.
My Touch Pro 2 with a dash mount makes a fantastic navigation tool.
Your point?
And by the way, you need to get over the "Clinton/Carter/CRM" caused the housing bubble, bullshit. The entire housing bubble is the direct result of the Gramm Leach Bliley Act of 1999. It allowed banks to shed themselves of the risk of any mortgage they gave out.
I'm going through the same thing. Bought my house in Feb and am paying taxes on 2006 value, which is 150K more than I paid for it. If they are dragging their feet in reassessing your property, I would recommend contacting your local representative.
In this budget crisis, it is interesting to see the states in the biggest mess financially are the ones with the highest taxes.
That would be a good argument if it were based on reality. In reality, states financial distress right now directly correlates to the impact of the housing crises. See Nevada and Florida - two very tax friendly states.
progressive consumption tax
That's an oxymoron.
...copyright infringement isn't stealing something physical as in all your cases.
The parent mentioned stocks, which are not something physical. They represent ownership in corporations which only exist because of our laws and are worth a market determined amount of money which is also a symbolic object created by our laws. Copyright is just another "thing" that would not exists if not for our laws.
I lived in Santa Cruz for a year, and I absolutely love the entire area. Now I'm reminiscing and want to take my kids to visit the San Lorenzo River near the Felton area.
Next summer!
Job security for you!? :)
I've never had problems with the flash and shockwave msi pakcages, but I have experienced problems with java not uninstalling properly. We ended up witha situation where the old java would not install and the new java was partially installed. My solution was to write a start up script (assigned by GPO). It would check for the existence of a file that was specific to the old version of java and if found would call another script to clean up the mess.
Here is the script that does the nuking of the old version...
here is the reg entry that is imported by the previous script. It removes the new java version from grou policy so that the machine will reinstall it on next boot. You would have to adjust it to fix your environment.
They supply their software as .msi packages which can be deployed via active directory GPOs. That's how I deploy, flash, shockwave and reader. I'll be deploying the new shockwave tomorrow. They make you sign up for a "license" in order to get access to the msi packages, which is extremely annoying.
Yeah, the adware/malware has adapted to be content inside a user's profile. Staying inside of the user's profile avoid the triggering of UAC in Vista, and malware doesn't need admin rights to do the things they are designed to do anyway. Limited permissions still make life much easier though as it is quite easy to clean up a malware that is limited to a users profile.
You mean big government lefties like Reagan, H.W. Bush and W. Bush who's administrations oversaw the compilation of about 75% of our current federal debt?
-The Great Depression lasted from Oct. 24, 1929 until about 1940.
The depression lasted until 1940 only if you redefine what an economic depression is. Before the 'the new deal failed' crowd started trying to rewrite history, a depression was defined as a period of very rapid economic contraction. By the classic definition the great depression ended in 1933.
You do realize many people believe that the Fed actually created the Depression to consolidate power for themselves right?
Lots of people believe stupid things. For example, people today think that our economic collapse of 2008 was caused by poor people buying houses they could not afford. The fact that some (or a bunch) of people believe something doesn't automatically lend credence to it.
If you found an application on Linux that "required" root privileges just because it violated the published and standard security guidelines for UNIX-based systems you would definitely blame the application developer. If that application developer ran as "root" while developing that application you would also admonish them. When people elect to ignore the guidelines and the safe practices in the name of convenience they get exactly what they deserve.
The game America's Army comes to mind. AA used to have both a Windows and Linux version. Despite regular complaints from a vocal minority of Windows users, the anti-cheating software that the game used required Administrator privileges in Windows. In the Linux port, root was not required.
Your simplistic view of how societies operate is quaint, and your 1:1 ratio of straw mans to sentences is impressive.
They already run it via regulation. Now, they just need to start paying for it like every other civilized nation in the world.
By putting a label on you make it way to easy to dismiss.
I am putting a label on the "government is always bad" mantra. It is a staple of conservative thought. I'm sure that many liberal minded people buy into it though.
The people right now have decided that freedom of speech is important.
Notice how the government suddenly becomes "the people" when they come to a decision you agree with?