Nevermind that Microsoft has been shipping security lockdown and analysis tools for their own OS for YEARS now:( (Since at least Win2k)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/ de fault.mspx
Not that many IT people can pull their head out of their asses long enough to bother with them though:(
Locked down, admined and patched Windows machines do not get hacked. But don't let facts get in the way of a good MS bash.
Re:I don't get it
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Linux Cookbook
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True, it didn't even seem to actually be a "Cookbook" at all. At least as far as the review/TOC went.
It looks more like a "How to use Linux" book than anything else.
A "Linux Cookbook" would have chapters more like "How to setup Linux as a: Dedicated firewall, HTTP Proxey, DNS server, HTTP Server, Database server, graphics workstation, PVR" etc and leave out things like "How to upgrade the kernel" completely.
In a less utopian view of the future, crackers will also use the technique to flood the torrents with fake versions of Linux isos and everything else "just for fun" or "revenge" like they always do, thus bringing the entire thing to a crashing halt.
Well, till 2 seconds later when the p2p program is modified to use a better hash, then the illegal file sharing will be back in force.
It's pretty much all or nothing. What affects one will affect the other, there isn't a viewpoint or a behavior in the world that doesn't have an opposite one held by someone who is willing to take up arms over it.
1) Linus has admitted using plenty of closed source software in the past. (How was he playing those DVDs?) and unlike RMS and a lot of other major philosophical kooks, Linus is a reasonable man.
2) There is nothing else that even comes close to being as usable and productive on Linux as Linus has recently pointed out.
If there is a "Best Tool For The Job", the BK is it on Linux, free or not. Till someone else steps up to the plate and bests it and is independantly wealthy enough to not need to make any money from it, there is no reason to not use it, even if *GASP* you have to pay for it.
You mean "Helping to destroy both Google and FF as they are now both completely untrustworthy".
Do you not see the huge evil that is the downloading of webpages that you never wanted or intended to click on?
The utter wasted bandwidth?
The unintentional DL or porn at a work site?
The fact that the FBI is asking for connect logs to certain sites they don't like and now your machine or your work may unintentionally be in those logs?
The only rational thing for anyone to do would be to immediately disable this "feature". So why bother implementing it in the first place?
Answer: Because most people probably wont disable it and when it is enabled, Google's paid ads will get more "clicks" and google can make more money of course.
Is this something we really want to participate in? It's "Synergy" allright, but the results are positively evil.
But just like Mac (now) and Linux it is off by default.
One main reason is that in order to use it (on any OS) you have to use your brain. Basically you have to rememeber to properly handle your user data before mucking about with user accouts or you can permanetly lose everything. This problem has already been demonstrated repeatedly in the Mac user space WRT iTunes downloads which are pinned to used accounts. Destroy a user account before transferring ownership of the data and yo ulose your songs.
Of course, this is the point. But what happens is, 99 out of 100 people that lose everything do so in situations where they didn't really want to.
Thus, use of the systems by people that don't know how they work or what the drawbacks are are more likely to have problems with their data by using the system than by not using it. So, in all cases, the EFS remains turned off by default.
That only applies after you have been served notice of investigation, not before.
Before that, keeping or not keeping logs is entirely up to the site admin with no legal consequences whatsoever. (Other than what the logs, if they exist, might contain of course.)
That is... until there is a federal law passed that requires all site operators (not just ISPs) to keep logs for 30 days or some other bullshit.
No single search engine had won out so yo uhad a bank of search engines that you always scrolled through. What one engine didn't have another would.
Well a hell of a lot of those "old" search engines are still around! And they have become better over time. Google at one time was so much nicer than the others that people sort of got "lazy" and stopped browsing qround the engines. But everyone else didn't just curl up and die.
So just start engine hopping again. Try Google first if you must, but then try Yahoo, search.msn, alltheweb or search.com or other meta search engines that search all the real search engines for you.
Multiple sources of info have always been and always will be better than one giant conclomerate of info such as Google is becoming.
Re:Mac Advocacy & Bias on Slashdot
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Return of the Mac
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And it's not the same with Linux vs Windows?
Mac "people" are now doing to Linux "people" exactly what Linux "people" have been doing to Windows "people" on this very site for years.
I don't mean to be severe but, did you not notice this before? Or only now that you are on the thin end of the stick for once?
Maybe this could be taken as a lesson for the Linux fanatics (no that's not every Linux user, just he "fantical" ones) on this site as well to lay off the FUD and censorship modding all over this site.
"[Parents are allowing their] children [to play] a game that encourages them to have sex with prostitutes and then murder them..."
That's the begining and ending of the entire argument.
How many kids have access to alcohol, drugs, guns, nudie mags and cigarrettes as well?
Why is everything everyone else's problem? When was "Personal Responsibility", especially when it relates to having kids, completely removed from existance?
I did read it, but you failed to come to a conclusion on the price. I did it for you. I was just wondering in your mind what price you though it might come to. I belive it would be no more than $1. The actual number is probably much less.
$99 is the full OEM price. Larger OEMs get it from something like $69. $149 is the full retail price that maybe one in 10,000 people pay for it.
Considering the entiretly of code in the standard windows home install for $99, I'd guess maybe a fair price would be $98 for the N version?
Does that really make sense? WMP is downloaded free to older installed OSes anyway and will be DLed free to N versions. (Or should they start charging $1 to download it to N versions? but leave it free for non N versions?!?!?)
Does that really make any sense? Virtually everyone who gets an N version will DL WMP for free from Windows Update anyway and end up with the exact same package. The entire N debacle is just ludacris from the start.
By starting the article summery off with "You may remember that 70% of the time, people will reveal their passwords for chocolate", you make it hard to take anything else seriously.
I do remember/something/like that, but what I actually remember is that no one had actually verifed any of the data. It could just as easily been "70% of people are willing to lie and give a fake password to the person asking, then laugh as the sucker actually believed them as they walk away eating their chocolate."
Such statements in either direction are 100% speculative, inflammatory rubbish and hardly worth even discussing further...
The article submission posits a lot of negativity over the police having your DNA on file but utterly fails to mention why this is a bad thing. It's like the submitter takes it as a given that it is pure evil without even thinking about it at all.
Unless you believe that police are going to start planting evidece in every unsolved case, having our DNA on file with them would more than likely have the benefit of being EXCLUDED from suspiciion without even having to go though the ugliness of becoming a suspect in the first place.
In Ca they already have every single licensed driver's finger print on file. Where's the outrage with that? They could easily fake up evidence based on that as well.
The only real thing that is likely to come out of this is that the ratio of criminals to innocents that will sit in future jail cells may improve a bit from what we have today.
The only reason that the y2k computer problem was such a media event is because the year 2000 was such a media event. People were expecting the world to end, the y2k computer bug fit neatly into that hysteria.
There is nothing about 2038 that will grab media attention. So no boob tube watchers will ever know anything about the date rollover problem.
Then, because there will be no public panic about it, it won't be taken seriously by the PHBs and no matter how much the coders scream about it, no money will be given to the project and it will end up being a much bigger problem than y2k turned out to be.
[\PutsOnNostradamusHat]
Re:Petition to Stop IE7's Lack of Standards
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IE7 Details Emerge
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How about doing something a little closer to home?
How about petitioning to stop Slashdot's lack of standards compliance?
Maybe we could come up with a petition to "Stop Slashdot's Arrogance".
If we can't do that, how (and why) should we bother with bitching about Microsoft and IE?
Such cameras are readily available from Frys and home automation stores everywhere. During the day they work as regular CCD cameras, then at night a ring of IR LEDS around the camera lens turns on and illuminates the area where the cameras unfiltered CCD can then pick it up.
Holy crap, what part of the country do YOU live in? I want to syat 500 miles away from there.
Where I live on the other hand, we have good roads, good schools, lots of good new as well as old municipal and educational libraries with modern equipment and council members that ask for raises but don't get them unless they deserve it.
Sorry you seem to live in the most butt-ass part of the entire cuntinent, but don't drag everyone else down in to your shit hole with you please.
After Ring the Fing A, it looks like their "pondering" is in the direction of letting some as yet unknown company rent space on their light and electric poles.
Said company would charge people say 20$ a month for a password to connect to the service (or something like that) and said company would pay the city "rent" for the pole space.
This is in no way the free municipal wifi that people are daydreaming of. This is merely a city trying to find a way to cash in on the wifi craze by renting their property.
The only reason it matters is because the headline "Linus switches to Mac" it a great sensationalist sound-bite, sure to draw readership and masses of commentary.
Unlike other advertising, web pages can be updated instantly along with the menus. How often do the menu prices change anyway? Is it completely unreasonable to expect that the information on a companies website be atleast somewhat accurate?
With print, yes, a 6 month old magazine in a doctor's office might contain outdated info. A website should not, ever, contain outdated info. Especially realted to pricing. It is inexcusable under any circumstances. People expect that a websites prices are in fact the real prices.
I have to say that having a commercial website with out of date prices is dangerously close to bait and switch. I sure don't want to see websites all over the net suddently doing things like advertising the latest nvidia graphics card for $49 with a tiny disclaimer at the bottom saying "prices may not be accurate".
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Nevermind that Microsoft has been shipping security lockdown and analysis tools for their own OS for YEARS now :( (Since at least Win2k)
/ de fault.mspx
:(
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools
Not that many IT people can pull their head out of their asses long enough to bother with them though
Locked down, admined and patched Windows machines do not get hacked. But don't let facts get in the way of a good MS bash.
True, it didn't even seem to actually be a "Cookbook" at all. At least as far as the review/TOC went.
It looks more like a "How to use Linux" book than anything else.
A "Linux Cookbook" would have chapters more like "How to setup Linux as a: Dedicated firewall, HTTP Proxey, DNS server, HTTP Server, Database server, graphics workstation, PVR" etc and leave out things like "How to upgrade the kernel" completely.
Of course everyone knows that Methane has no smell and the Methane in farts has nothing to do with the odor...
Right?
That reads a bit like you are joking, but...
In a less utopian view of the future, crackers will also use the technique to flood the torrents with fake versions of Linux isos and everything else "just for fun" or "revenge" like they always do, thus bringing the entire thing to a crashing halt.
Well, till 2 seconds later when the p2p program is modified to use a better hash, then the illegal file sharing will be back in force.
It's pretty much all or nothing. What affects one will affect the other, there isn't a viewpoint or a behavior in the world that doesn't have an opposite one held by someone who is willing to take up arms over it.
1) Linus has admitted using plenty of closed source software in the past. (How was he playing those DVDs?) and unlike RMS and a lot of other major philosophical kooks, Linus is a reasonable man.
2) There is nothing else that even comes close to being as usable and productive on Linux as Linus has recently pointed out.
If there is a "Best Tool For The Job", the BK is it on Linux, free or not. Till someone else steps up to the plate and bests it and is independantly wealthy enough to not need to make any money from it, there is no reason to not use it, even if *GASP* you have to pay for it.
"Helping" each other out?
You mean "Helping to destroy both Google and FF as they are now both completely untrustworthy".
Do you not see the huge evil that is the downloading of webpages that you never wanted or intended to click on?
The utter wasted bandwidth?
The unintentional DL or porn at a work site?
The fact that the FBI is asking for connect logs to certain sites they don't like and now your machine or your work may unintentionally be in those logs?
The only rational thing for anyone to do would be to immediately disable this "feature". So why bother implementing it in the first place?
Answer: Because most people probably wont disable it and when it is enabled, Google's paid ads will get more "clicks" and google can make more money of course.
Is this something we really want to participate in? It's "Synergy" allright, but the results are positively evil.
Yes and it has been for years.
But just like Mac (now) and Linux it is off by default.
One main reason is that in order to use it (on any OS) you have to use your brain. Basically you have to rememeber to properly handle your user data before mucking about with user accouts or you can permanetly lose everything. This problem has already been demonstrated repeatedly in the Mac user space WRT iTunes downloads which are pinned to used accounts. Destroy a user account before transferring ownership of the data and yo ulose your songs.
Of course, this is the point. But what happens is, 99 out of 100 people that lose everything do so in situations where they didn't really want to.
Thus, use of the systems by people that don't know how they work or what the drawbacks are are more likely to have problems with their data by using the system than by not using it. So, in all cases, the EFS remains turned off by default.
That only applies after you have been served notice of investigation, not before.
Before that, keeping or not keeping logs is entirely up to the site admin with no legal consequences whatsoever. (Other than what the logs, if they exist, might contain of course.)
That is... until there is a federal law passed that requires all site operators (not just ISPs) to keep logs for 30 days or some other bullshit.
That is a distinction that is completely lost on (C) law.
The fact that you are denying someone else money is the same thing as far as (C) is concerned.
They are BOTH wrong.
No single search engine had won out so yo uhad a bank of search engines that you always scrolled through. What one engine didn't have another would.
Well a hell of a lot of those "old" search engines are still around! And they have become better over time. Google at one time was so much nicer than the others that people sort of got "lazy" and stopped browsing qround the engines. But everyone else didn't just curl up and die.
So just start engine hopping again. Try Google first if you must, but then try Yahoo, search.msn, alltheweb or search.com or other meta search engines that search all the real search engines for you.
Multiple sources of info have always been and always will be better than one giant conclomerate of info such as Google is becoming.
And it's not the same with Linux vs Windows?
Mac "people" are now doing to Linux "people" exactly what Linux "people" have been doing to Windows "people" on this very site for years.
I don't mean to be severe but, did you not notice this before? Or only now that you are on the thin end of the stick for once?
Maybe this could be taken as a lesson for the Linux fanatics (no that's not every Linux user, just he "fantical" ones) on this site as well to lay off the FUD and censorship modding all over this site.
How about a nice slice of Humble Pie for all?
Well sure. I guess...
/all/ us geeks would be using a mac. Till then though...
If:
* Apple was willing to give everyone a free computer like Linus got.
* If you then wiped out OS X like Linus did.
* You then installed Linux or BSD installed on it like Linus did.
Well, sure, then maybe
"[Parents are allowing their] children [to play] a game that encourages them to have sex with prostitutes and then murder them..."
That's the begining and ending of the entire argument.
How many kids have access to alcohol, drugs, guns, nudie mags and cigarrettes as well?
Why is everything everyone else's problem? When was "Personal Responsibility", especially when it relates to having kids, completely removed from existance?
I did read it, but you failed to come to a conclusion on the price. I did it for you. I was just wondering in your mind what price you though it might come to. I belive it would be no more than $1. The actual number is probably much less.
$99 is the full OEM price. Larger OEMs get it from something like $69. $149 is the full retail price that maybe one in 10,000 people pay for it.
So how much should they reduce the price?
Considering the entiretly of code in the standard windows home install for $99, I'd guess maybe a fair price would be $98 for the N version?
Does that really make sense? WMP is downloaded free to older installed OSes anyway and will be DLed free to N versions. (Or should they start charging $1 to download it to N versions? but leave it free for non N versions?!?!?)
Does that really make any sense? Virtually everyone who gets an N version will DL WMP for free from Windows Update anyway and end up with the exact same package. The entire N debacle is just ludacris from the start.
By starting the article summery off with "You may remember that 70% of the time, people will reveal their passwords for chocolate", you make it hard to take anything else seriously.
/something/like that, but what I actually remember is that no one had actually verifed any of the data. It could just as easily been "70% of people are willing to lie and give a fake password to the person asking, then laugh as the sucker actually believed them as they walk away eating their chocolate."
I do remember
Such statements in either direction are 100% speculative, inflammatory rubbish and hardly worth even discussing further...
The article submission posits a lot of negativity over the police having your DNA on file but utterly fails to mention why this is a bad thing. It's like the submitter takes it as a given that it is pure evil without even thinking about it at all.
Unless you believe that police are going to start planting evidece in every unsolved case, having our DNA on file with them would more than likely have the benefit of being EXCLUDED from suspiciion without even having to go though the ugliness of becoming a suspect in the first place.
In Ca they already have every single licensed driver's finger print on file. Where's the outrage with that? They could easily fake up evidence based on that as well.
The only real thing that is likely to come out of this is that the ratio of criminals to innocents that will sit in future jail cells may improve a bit from what we have today.
Actually, My prediction is the opposite:
[PutsOnNostradamusHat]
The only reason that the y2k computer problem was such a media event is because the year 2000 was such a media event. People were expecting the world to end, the y2k computer bug fit neatly into that hysteria.
There is nothing about 2038 that will grab media attention. So no boob tube watchers will ever know anything about the date rollover problem.
Then, because there will be no public panic about it, it won't be taken seriously by the PHBs and no matter how much the coders scream about it, no money will be given to the project and it will end up being a much bigger problem than y2k turned out to be.
[\PutsOnNostradamusHat]
How about doing something a little closer to home?
How about petitioning to stop Slashdot's lack of standards compliance?
Maybe we could come up with a petition to "Stop Slashdot's Arrogance".
If we can't do that, how (and why) should we bother with bitching about Microsoft and IE?
Such cameras are readily available from Frys and home automation stores everywhere. During the day they work as regular CCD cameras, then at night a ring of IR LEDS around the camera lens turns on and illuminates the area where the cameras unfiltered CCD can then pick it up.
They must have named it "Gnome Love" using the same sense of irony that Murdoch used the catch phrase "Fair and Balanced" for Fox News.
P.S. Yes, he admited that he used that phrase as an inside joke to piss off the "Liberals".
Holy crap, what part of the country do YOU live in? I want to syat 500 miles away from there.
Where I live on the other hand, we have good roads, good schools, lots of good new as well as old municipal and educational libraries with modern equipment and council members that ask for raises but don't get them unless they deserve it.
Sorry you seem to live in the most butt-ass part of the entire cuntinent, but don't drag everyone else down in to your shit hole with you please.
After Ring the Fing A, it looks like their "pondering" is in the direction of letting some as yet unknown company rent space on their light and electric poles.
Said company would charge people say 20$ a month for a password to connect to the service (or something like that) and said company would pay the city "rent" for the pole space.
This is in no way the free municipal wifi that people are daydreaming of. This is merely a city trying to find a way to cash in on the wifi craze by renting their property.
The only reason it matters is because the headline "Linus switches to Mac" it a great sensationalist sound-bite, sure to draw readership and masses of commentary.
That's about it.
Unlike other advertising, web pages can be updated instantly along with the menus. How often do the menu prices change anyway? Is it completely unreasonable to expect that the information on a companies website be atleast somewhat accurate?
With print, yes, a 6 month old magazine in a doctor's office might contain outdated info. A website should not, ever, contain outdated info. Especially realted to pricing. It is inexcusable under any circumstances. People expect that a websites prices are in fact the real prices.
I have to say that having a commercial website with out of date prices is dangerously close to bait and switch. I sure don't want to see websites all over the net suddently doing things like advertising the latest nvidia graphics card for $49 with a tiny disclaimer at the bottom saying "prices may not be accurate".