Common people, you are clever guys, what is going on????
Tired of people that do not know arithmetic
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Hacking the XBox
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If you don't buy anything related to the Xbos MS earns 0, nada, zilch, nil.
If you buy only the Xbox they are recouping 140 or wahtever dollars. Do the maths wise one.
Now, don't be stupid. This argument is the most idiotic one in the history of/.
If you want to hurt MS don't buy their products. If you want to hurt them even more, don't use their products at all (i.e. don't buy second hand, don't pirate stuff you criminal, drop their stuff as fast as you can).
I try to avoid people with shoddy legal and ethical records when making business. MS is no different on this respect.
The issues are staring you straight in the eyes and you choose to ignore them.
Society puts far more pressure in women to toe the true line of how a woman should look. Any visit to a magazine shop should convince anybody that women are portrayed mainly as sex objects whose only tasks in life are to keep an eye on their weight and how to find their blue prince.
Men do not have to suffer such humiliation.
Regarding games the problem is one of violence and generalized lack of imagination from the part fo the game makers. It seems like they are addicted to violence in the first place, to make it a possible choice to beat and kill women and be rewarded for it, in spite of the amount of domestic violence everywhere, is frankly crass and irresponsible.
Since its beginnings action games are depended heavely on violence to sell, obviously the talent of most game companies to figure out new ways to entertain people while at the same time promoting positive values (or at least stop promoting negative ones) is sorely lacking.
If porno gaming is your thing, fine, but many females are uncomfortable knowing that strong industries like the gaming one can't come with better ideas but the stereotyping of women as sexual animals.
If you are the best example of how today's philosophers, technologists and writers reason there is no hope for humanity.
As a technologist I am sure you know Linux is selling nothing, there is not such commercial entity called Linux.
You have companies that comercilize Linux and whose costs in doing so are not zero. The cost to get hold of the source code of Linux may be close to zero, but the cost to put up a distribution, support it, commercialize it and distribute it is clearly not zero. If you consider in the picture Debian they are selling nothing. They are a group of enthusiasts that re not bent in commercially competing with anybody but in solving a need they have, namely to ensure free access to a stable computer platform.
Sorry but as a technologist you frankly suck.
As a writer you are hopelessly innacurate. Granting you the grace to equate "Linux" with "companies that commercialize Linux" it is easy to check that the companies don't sell their wares for zero. They make available unssoported copies of their product for free but if you need support you are charged for the privilege. They are just using a different business model, but in no way they are thinking about shout out a competitor.
If oblitearating the competition was their main aim they would be osing closed source software, applying for patents like if there i no tomorrow and making their products completely incompatible with other products. Which they are not.
Switching back to your attempts to be a technologist, you are missing completely the point. In a hypotetical world in which Linux was the only game in town you will have far many more advantages as a user of computer infrastructure.
You will not be dictated when your systems are obsolete, that is a decision that you could take on your own,
You could hire support to correct or enhance your software without depending 100% on the software manufacturer.
Your access to your own data would not be compromised by the demise of a company or by its whims in regards to licensing.
You would not be submitted to unwelcomed external software audits by dubious organizations backed by IT consortiums.
Heck, I wish I could post the details. Where I work (A big company, its name almost sinonimous of capitalism itself) we have a team of developpers modyfing Open Source software to our own internal needs and deploying it globally. We know exactly what is in the code, we can fix it when required, we can fine tune it to our needs.
How for the love of the Chipmunks do you do that with MS or any other closed source software?
Enough. I am really tired of people that claim expertise but that are clearly uninformed.
If you think that crackers are going to have pity of you because you are an small company you are more deluded than the people that think the Matrix has a religious undertone.
Lets see:
-Hire a security team to secure your systems.
What is so intractable about that? It is a one of cost that could save the very existence of your company. These companies (or a consultant with a good trackable record) will charge you a few hundred bucks for an assesment and then will charge you the normal hourly rate of any IT person. If you r company is small the work needed is proportionaly smaller.
-Make sure they remove all existing accounts on all systems, and start with new ones, with very secure passwords. This is a good time to require a password rotation policy, and password length & strenght requirements as well.
The point here is that you should take steps towards securing your use accounts. That costs you nothing, specially if you make a policy and stick to it. Most modern OSs provide enough tools to have sane policies out of the box.
-No non-secure connections to non-public systems from outside the company, period. Or at all, if you can get away with it. No connections from dynamic-IP connections to internal systems, either. (make sure all allowable connections to internal systems are from a list of known IPs).
This is only policy for goodness sake. Use ssh. Enforce policies regarding who can connect. One of cost implementing the policy (albeit small since it should have been done in the first place).
-Make sure PHYSICAL access is secured! Lots of ex-employees keep security cards, keys, etc, and can often get back in after the fact.
How much does a good lock costs? How long does it take to write down a list of people authorized to acces your small computer room? Or your small company's installations? This should have been done anyway in the first place.
-Make sure your people know about 'social engineering'!
Cost: neglegible. Just direct people to many of the fine articles in the net about the topic.
-Don't use inherently-insecure technology from companies who don't give a rat's ass about your security. No bonus points for correctly guessing which company I'm talking about. This becomes stupendously more important if you're the sort of silly-ass company that only has one techie on staff at a time. Lots of updates are to be applied, no matter what platform you go with.
Moan as you wish, but this is true. You have to invest the time and money to get this right or go out of business. If your comapny relies in any way on IT to do business you need to carefuly select what you use. Knee-jerk "buy X or buy Y because is what everybody else is using" is irresponsible and unprofessional.
-Now's the time to separate systems if you host stuff. Hosting stuff should go in a co-lo facility (since you obviously don't have the staffing resources to handle your own data center), and you should have separate systems for business needs, like e-mail, etc., in case your website gets DOS'd, it won't impact your e-mail, etc.
Let assume your company is so pitifully small that can't do this. Still you can get a 2nd hand computer to handle your email or to handle your vital operational data. The principle is the same. 200 bucks for a second hand machines is nothing, even for an small firm.
I am tired. I think you are just writing out of ignorance. Even 1 person shops have to be mindful about sefety and security of their data, the size of a company is no excuse to avoid investing the time and money necessary to maintain data and systems as secure as possible.
If you belive those superstitious proclamations should not be there, you should make this known to your representatives, people in charge of issuing currency, etc.
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But you are not the world.
Many of us are very happy to have the machine separated from the storage. ANd software RAID is perfectly adequate for many applications.
No please, do not thank me for enligthening you.
That version of SolarisNT in those machines comoditizes the whole thing.
Congrats.
No.
No.
No.
Checking weather reports before living home each morning.
Checking public transport reports.
Writing emails while in the move and sending them with one click when I get home.
epr0n in more comofrotable places than my computer's chair....
We are /.ers.
You lose your money *and* MS recovers some.
Common people, you are clever guys, what is going on????
If you don't buy anything related to the Xbos MS earns 0, nada, zilch, nil.
/.
If you buy only the Xbox they are recouping 140 or wahtever dollars. Do the maths wise one.
Now, don't be stupid. This argument is the most idiotic one in the history of
If you want to hurt MS don't buy their products. If you want to hurt them even more, don't use their products at all (i.e. don't buy second hand, don't pirate stuff you criminal, drop their stuff as fast as you can).
I try to avoid people with shoddy legal and ethical records when making business. MS is no different on this respect.
... you made almost a good point.
Any of the kernel hackers could claim that SCO is difamating him/her/they with their obviously libelous remarks.
The reputataion of poepl like L. Torvalds, A. Cox et al is clearly been damaged by this baseless allegations (that they may be stealing code).
... give this site a bad name.
Slurs, inuendos, rumours, all of a libelous nature.
Way to go.
Costumers run scared from companies with *cough*MS*cough* legal problems!
Aaaaaahhhhhh! Sky, falling, kaput.
The words "laptop" and "server" are mutually exclusive.
Don't blame others for that hole in your foot. Is that a smoking gun in your hand?
In the US unemployment is around 6% (thank Bush for making it worse than it was when he stole office).
That is a very low unemployment, in such an economy there are not enough people to cover for all jobs (due to inefficent allocation of jobs).
Enter illegal immigrants and underground work (that by serious accounts could ammount by up to 30% of the US economy).
Stop whining! In the US you have it quite easy.
Don't you dare to forget the terrorists! There! THERE! The sky is falling!
Aaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!
... the stupid mentality of sexist people.
The issues are staring you straight in the eyes and you choose to ignore them.
Society puts far more pressure in women to toe the true line of how a woman should look. Any visit to a magazine shop should convince anybody that women are portrayed mainly as sex objects whose only tasks in life are to keep an eye on their weight and how to find their blue prince.
Men do not have to suffer such humiliation.
Regarding games the problem is one of violence and generalized lack of imagination from the part fo the game makers. It seems like they are addicted to violence in the first place, to make it a possible choice to beat and kill women and be rewarded for it, in spite of the amount of domestic violence everywhere, is frankly crass and irresponsible.
Since its beginnings action games are depended heavely on violence to sell, obviously the talent of most game companies to figure out new ways to entertain people while at the same time promoting positive values (or at least stop promoting negative ones) is sorely lacking.
If porno gaming is your thing, fine, but many females are uncomfortable knowing that strong industries like the gaming one can't come with better ideas but the stereotyping of women as sexual animals.
... is if this site reamins ethical and unbiased.
I don't care who pays the bills, I care if those monies are used to impare free discussion of ideas.
If you are the best example of how today's philosophers, technologists and writers reason there is no hope for humanity.
As a technologist I am sure you know Linux is selling nothing, there is not such commercial entity called Linux.
You have companies that comercilize Linux and whose costs in doing so are not zero. The cost to get hold of the source code of Linux may be close to zero, but the cost to put up a distribution, support it, commercialize it and distribute it is clearly not zero. If you consider in the picture Debian they are selling nothing. They are a group of enthusiasts that re not bent in commercially competing with anybody but in solving a need they have, namely to ensure free access to a stable computer platform.
Sorry but as a technologist you frankly suck.
As a writer you are hopelessly innacurate. Granting you the grace to equate "Linux" with "companies that commercialize Linux" it is easy to check that the companies don't sell their wares for zero. They make available unssoported copies of their product for free but if you need support you are charged for the privilege. They are just using a different business model, but in no way they are thinking about shout out a competitor.
If oblitearating the competition was their main aim they would be osing closed source software, applying for patents like if there i no tomorrow and making their products completely incompatible with other products. Which they are not.
Switching back to your attempts to be a technologist, you are missing completely the point. In a hypotetical world in which Linux was the only game in town you will have far many more advantages as a user of computer infrastructure.
You will not be dictated when your systems are obsolete, that is a decision that you could take on your own,
You could hire support to correct or enhance your software without depending 100% on the software manufacturer.
Your access to your own data would not be compromised by the demise of a company or by its whims in regards to licensing.
You would not be submitted to unwelcomed external software audits by dubious organizations backed by IT consortiums.
Heck, I wish I could post the details. Where I work (A big company, its name almost sinonimous of capitalism itself) we have a team of developpers modyfing Open Source software to our own internal needs and deploying it globally. We know exactly what is in the code, we can fix it when required, we can fine tune it to our needs.
How for the love of the Chipmunks do you do that with MS or any other closed source software?
Enough. I am really tired of people that claim expertise but that are clearly uninformed.
Like ENRON.
If you think that crackers are going to have pity of you because you are an small company you are more deluded than the people that think the Matrix has a religious undertone.
Lets see:
-Hire a security team to secure your systems.
What is so intractable about that? It is a one of cost that could save the very existence of your company. These companies (or a consultant with a good trackable record) will charge you a few hundred bucks for an assesment and then will charge you the normal hourly rate of any IT person. If you r company is small the work needed is proportionaly smaller.
-Make sure they remove all existing accounts on all systems, and start with new ones, with very secure passwords. This is a good time to require a password rotation policy, and password length & strenght requirements as well.
The point here is that you should take steps towards securing your use accounts. That costs you nothing, specially if you make a policy and stick to it. Most modern OSs provide enough tools to have sane policies out of the box.
-No non-secure connections to non-public systems from outside the company, period. Or at all, if you can get away with it. No connections from dynamic-IP connections to internal systems, either. (make sure all allowable connections to internal systems are from a list of known IPs).
This is only policy for goodness sake. Use ssh. Enforce policies regarding who can connect. One of cost implementing the policy (albeit small since it should have been done in the first place).
-Make sure PHYSICAL access is secured! Lots of ex-employees keep security cards, keys, etc, and can often get back in after the fact.
How much does a good lock costs? How long does it take to write down a list of people authorized to acces your small computer room? Or your small company's installations? This should have been done anyway in the first place.
-Make sure your people know about 'social engineering'!
Cost: neglegible. Just direct people to many of the fine articles in the net about the topic.
-Don't use inherently-insecure technology from companies who don't give a rat's ass about your security. No bonus points for correctly guessing which company I'm talking about. This becomes stupendously more important if you're the sort of silly-ass company that only has one techie on staff at a time. Lots of updates are to be applied, no matter what platform you go with.
Moan as you wish, but this is true. You have to invest the time and money to get this right or go out of business. If your comapny relies in any way on IT to do business you need to carefuly select what you use. Knee-jerk "buy X or buy Y because is what everybody else is using" is irresponsible and unprofessional.
-Now's the time to separate systems if you host stuff. Hosting stuff should go in a co-lo facility (since you obviously don't have the staffing resources to handle your own data center), and you should have separate systems for business needs, like e-mail, etc., in case your website gets DOS'd, it won't impact your e-mail, etc.
Let assume your company is so pitifully small that can't do this. Still you can get a 2nd hand computer to handle your email or to handle your vital operational data. The principle is the same. 200 bucks for a second hand machines is nothing, even for an small firm.
I am tired. I think you are just writing out of ignorance. Even 1 person shops have to be mindful about sefety and security of their data, the size of a company is no excuse to avoid investing the time and money necessary to maintain data and systems as secure as possible.
Publish less books, concentrate in quality, raise prices.
If you belive those superstitious proclamations should not be there, you should make this known to your representatives, people in charge of issuing currency, etc.
The point of the Blair Witch Project was to make you feel physically ill.
No wonder there were so many reports of people vomiting during the movie. It was not sheer horror, it was just physycal discomfort.
.... Lord of the Rings' plot is dismal.
A lot of nonsense that unless you are a fan of the books will explain very little about what is going on...