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Not that someone would think that any Microsoft products could have bugs, but... well
shit happens.... maybe is for that that the house has no bathroom
Suppose you want your desktop to look in some specific way, without worrying about resolution. If you have a big monitor and/or an extra-high resolution maybe your standard sized icons will look very small, and, in the other hand, they could look pixelated if they are "standard" icons magnified.
With this you have icons that looks good and in the same aparent size in any resolution
It works, but they don't know how. Looks like a recipe to future problems.
If this works, in a production environment when it exposed to certain radiation, radio signals, heat/cold, etc it not, will be dangerous to rely in that kind of things.
"It's Magic!" is ok for childrens, but not if you want do to something serious.
Ok, so have a share named "Humanity" with files with this 3Gb+randomized that 0.2%. After 6 hundred millon of files, you have an interesting file collection, you can even generate random names for each file, and the ones that check your file collection will allucinate with this:)
Maybe this
NTBugTrack article shows you how "easy" would be for competent administrators to be patched. Patching MS SQL Server only not was a fix, as a lot of products, from Microsoft and other companies, are based in the same and have the same problem.
Worst than this, lets suppose that you want to be patched at any cost, as soon at it appears. Another patch coming from microsoft for another MS SQL problem disabled this patch (this is in the CNN article linked in this story), so you must be half responsible, half not, to have one patch applied and not the later one, to be safe.
But in a different way. You have Microsoft This, and Microsoft That, all tighly integrated, all sold as there is the only altenative, and all sharing the same funny idea about how safe is doing things in an unsafe way.
With Linux you have... see... the Linux kernel, and... well that stops there. Also you have a lot of alternative apps mostly multiplataform, with a few Linux that are linux only. If MySQL have a security problem, should not be counted as "linux fault", same with ssh, apache, sendmail, bind, etc.
But, if you want to count, don't know, mplayer security problems as it is not available under windows, well, you must also count all security problems of windows programs as windows security problems.
from Theodore Sturgeon, is a classic science fiction tale where all get connected and sound a lot like this, but more integrated with us than using external devices.
Buying work time/expertisement from a company outside USA can be seen as buying a product from outside. Denying it would be like deny imported products, and doing that is a call to others to not import goods/work time from USA. It's ok if you think that a closed country could survive or advance in a world like this.
And buying work from outside because is cheaper enables US companies to do more work/goods, or even exists, things that in fact are good for US citizens.
Frankly, sound a bit like hypocrisy to cry when someone from USA hires someone or buy something from outside but is ok or better it if someones from outside do the same from USA.
If an accident happens where the RAID is stored I have problems, also this looks cheaper:)
I was thinking in a not very small place, but if bombing, a plane, a meteor, whatever, wipe out an entire building or more, well, distributing the backup across internet will be better.
For internal networks where you have a lot of fast connected servers, sparing a bit of bandwidth and disk space to have a distributed backup across the LAN could be useful, specially when you can backup servers data in workstations and so on.
They are trying to find authors, but the first problem is how to avoid that happens in the first time, before they hit, and after they hit, well, avoid that they continue to spread and/or being exploited further (like with codered/nimda).
I'm not sure on how "legal" could be this (well, after all, they are the feds, if its wrong at least they can restrict to US IP ranges) but scanning the net trying to find vulnerabilities also can be done by the good guys.
The other thing that they must do is effectively warn, help and maybe even force (this could be misused) to fix vulnerabilities and worm infections on internet connected computers, maybe with a legal backup to make ISPs to find users with dynamic IP or to find real address/phones of individuals with that kind of problems. This can or cannot be related with the net scanning thing.
A lot of vulnerabilities and worms infection announces themselves on the net, so at least warning and helping this kind of users is an easy step forward and not very intrusive.
Is almost the same (in a smaller scale) that do a proxy like squid. It can even be part of a cache hierarchy, to distribute load or things like that. Of course, doing this at internet level would imply a lot of open proxies, something not very nice.
Sharing directly browser's cache content, without much care, will share also webmail messages, personal data, slashdot preferences, whatever you don't want to share.
If that network don't have any kind of moderation (and as a p2p network, not sure how exactly that can be done right), what will stop people to post or ensure that is not downloading a trojanized versions of programs? Or a new way to distribute viruses, like the ones that are already for kazaa and similars.
Well, in fact, maybe DNA is "designed" (by evolution forces) to not make exact copies. But biologically engeneered information storage "devices" (that reproduce, and preserves exact copies of information, in dna, rna or some other kind of molecular structure.
Of course, using this kind of mechanisms must be used for real important things. If happens some kind of extintion-level event, like the big meteor in Deep Impact or a nuclear war, well, would be nice to send a message thru ants, amoebas or things of that kind to who will come after us.(yea, I know, too much science fiction and not applicable to the actual discussion:)
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... was a tale from Philip K. Dick where music was encoded to animals or dna or something like that.
If you want to preserve something forever, encode it in a DNA form (I think that most of DNA code is inactive, so there are plenty of space), grow an live thing from it, and while descendents last, your software will survive.
A word of caution: don't try this with Microsoft software, the world have enough bugs already.
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Not that someone would think that any Microsoft products could have bugs, but... well shit happens.... maybe is for that that the house has no bathroom
Suppose you want your desktop to look in some specific way, without worrying about resolution. If you have a big monitor and/or an extra-high resolution maybe your standard sized icons will look very small, and, in the other hand, they could look pixelated if they are "standard" icons magnified.
With this you have icons that looks good and in the same aparent size in any resolution
What about replacing flash animations in web sites with something really standard?
It works, but they don't know how. Looks like a recipe to future problems.
If this works, in a production environment when it exposed to certain radiation, radio signals, heat/cold, etc it not, will be dangerous to rely in that kind of things.
"It's Magic!" is ok for childrens, but not if you want do to something serious.
So now the only meaning for name resolving is to use IE, no other browsers, nor other protocols (i.e mail).
Buying that kind of domains from Verisign is a very bad idea.
I can't wait to see the next O'Reilly book: "Verisign DNS vs BIND"
Ok, so have a share named "Humanity" with files with this 3Gb+randomized that 0.2%. After 6 hundred millon of files, you have an interesting file collection, you can even generate random names for each file, and the ones that check your file collection will allucinate with this :)
Something of this was posted in this recent slashdot story.
Worst than this, lets suppose that you want to be patched at any cost, as soon at it appears. Another patch coming from microsoft for another MS SQL problem disabled this patch (this is in the CNN article linked in this story), so you must be half responsible, half not, to have one patch applied and not the later one, to be safe.
But in a different way. You have Microsoft This, and Microsoft That, all tighly integrated, all sold as there is the only altenative, and all sharing the same funny idea about how safe is doing things in an unsafe way.
With Linux you have... see... the Linux kernel, and... well that stops there. Also you have a lot of alternative apps mostly multiplataform, with a few Linux that are linux only. If MySQL have a security problem, should not be counted as "linux fault", same with ssh, apache, sendmail, bind, etc.
But, if you want to count, don't know, mplayer security problems as it is not available under windows, well, you must also count all security problems of windows programs as windows security problems.
from Theodore Sturgeon, is a classic science fiction tale where all get connected and sound a lot like this, but more integrated with us than using external devices.
Buying work time/expertisement from a company outside USA can be seen as buying a product from outside. Denying it would be like deny imported products, and doing that is a call to others to not import goods/work time from USA. It's ok if you think that a closed country could survive or advance in a world like this.
And buying work from outside because is cheaper enables US companies to do more work/goods, or even exists, things that in fact are good for US citizens.
Frankly, sound a bit like hypocrisy to cry when someone from USA hires someone or buy something from outside but is ok or better it if someones from outside do the same from USA.
If an accident happens where the RAID is stored I have problems, also this looks cheaper :)
I was thinking in a not very small place, but if bombing, a plane, a meteor, whatever, wipe out an entire building or more, well, distributing the backup across internet will be better.
For internal networks where you have a lot of fast connected servers, sparing a bit of bandwidth and disk space to have a distributed backup across the LAN could be useful, specially when you can backup servers data in workstations and so on.
They are trying to find authors, but the first problem is how to avoid that happens in the first time, before they hit, and after they hit, well, avoid that they continue to spread and/or being exploited further (like with codered/nimda).
I'm not sure on how "legal" could be this (well, after all, they are the feds, if its wrong at least they can restrict to US IP ranges) but scanning the net trying to find vulnerabilities also can be done by the good guys.
The other thing that they must do is effectively warn, help and maybe even force (this could be misused) to fix vulnerabilities and worm infections on internet connected computers, maybe with a legal backup to make ISPs to find users with dynamic IP or to find real address/phones of individuals with that kind of problems. This can or cannot be related with the net scanning thing.
A lot of vulnerabilities and worms infection announces themselves on the net, so at least warning and helping this kind of users is an easy step forward and not very intrusive.
If the game changes as we play it, well, a combination of actions or a way to play it could make it trivial (or impossible).
I suppose that very much of the strength of the AI is to avoid this kind of things.
all the ip packets they got were discarded by the firewall as martian.
also was launched into space (or near?), even by linux fans. Sky is not as far as it used to be.
Sometimes it gives more "reality" to the game, like the Sims Online someone else posted.
And, of course, there is never enough money.
Is almost the same (in a smaller scale) that do a proxy like squid. It can even be part of a cache hierarchy, to distribute load or things like that. Of course, doing this at internet level would imply a lot of open proxies, something not very nice.
Sharing directly browser's cache content, without much care, will share also webmail messages, personal data, slashdot preferences, whatever you don't want to share.
If that network don't have any kind of moderation (and as a p2p network, not sure how exactly that can be done right), what will stop people to post or ensure that is not downloading a trojanized versions of programs? Or a new way to distribute viruses, like the ones that are already for kazaa and similars.
Well, in fact, maybe DNA is "designed" (by evolution forces) to not make exact copies. But biologically engeneered information storage "devices" (that reproduce, and preserves exact copies of information, in dna, rna or some other kind of molecular structure.
:)
Of course, using this kind of mechanisms must be used for real important things. If happens some kind of extintion-level event, like the big meteor in Deep Impact or a nuclear war, well, would be nice to send a message thru ants, amoebas or things of that kind to who will come after us.(yea, I know, too much science fiction and not applicable to the actual discussion
10 PRINT "Hello World!"
... was a tale from Philip K. Dick where music was encoded to animals or dna or something like that.
If you want to preserve something forever, encode it in a DNA form (I think that most of DNA code is inactive, so there are plenty of space), grow an live thing from it, and while descendents last, your software will survive.
A word of caution: don't try this with Microsoft software, the world have enough bugs already.
"Hey! I have 10.000 CDs with software to share!"