The article does not mention anything about how they read them the rico act... Where does the poster get this information, because it is not from the article.
I block about 99% of my incoming spam simply by doing a whois on each incoming IP and then firewalling the netblock if it originates from APNIC (asia), LACNIC (south america), and RIPE (europe). This works good for me, because I don't expect anyone from overseas providers sending me email. The other 1% is handled by spamassassin and DSPAM.
Using robots.txt helps, and another thing is you can hide content behind clickable interfaces... Search engines only index what you allow them to index, nothing more.
Bellsouth DSL is slow and goes up and down like a yo-yo. The only way to get a DSL connection that doesnt either go up or down like a yo-yo or doesnt have bigtime packet loss all the time or doesnt get saturated by next-door neighbors is to be physically located less than a block away from the Central Office. DSL is just really a half assed solution to begin with.
I was given one of those stylish iPod devices recently as a gift and after much frustration, returned it back to the store for a refund. Not only is the iTunes software backdoored with spyware, it is also completely unusable. I firmly believe the iPod is a great idea for someone that has little or no computer experience and little or no current MP3 music collection. Granted, you can get around these restrictions with some free software hacks available at various places, but I should not have to hack a device just to be able to copy my music to it... Thats wack.
Anyone who has greater than a 30 IQ will quickly learn the fact that the Apple people went to great lengths to take a perfectly good USB mass storage device and bastardize it by adding an artificial software layer on top of it called "iTunes". In order to use the device you have to use the iTunes client, which forbids shared access to the device, prevents copying mp3 files to device from multiple computers, prevents importation of native directory structures into the device -- it strips directory structures off the imported filenames and you wind up with John Denver, Slayer and Dieselboy in the same directory. Also transferring files to the device takes about 5-10 times longer than a similar USB drive.
What concerned me the most about Apple's braindead design choices with the iPod was that they were expecting people to spend two or three times the price that you would pay for a similar sized Archos Jukebox device. I just cannot justify spending two or three times the money for narrow minded crippleware that attempts to force their users into this thinking is "normal".
No thanks, Apple. I'll buy a $45.00 Archos Jukebox 6000 on ebay, pull out the 6GB drive, plug in a 100GB toshiba notebook drive for $133.00 and flash the firmware with rockbox.org firmware. Adding music is as simple as plugging it into the USB and drag/drop all your files to it.
Microsoft is no different than many other large publicly traded companies. They hire inexperienced programmers right out of college who have little or no programming experience background. These people wind up writing insecure applications that become widely exploited by external individuals, groups, corporations and the very programmers that Microsoft hired. Its hard to sit back and assume that these programming errors are indeed actual mistakes. A whole cottage industry has formed around these programming mistakes, the "anti-virus industry".
Microsoft is driven by profit, has made private agreements with other companies behind closed doors. I would not be surprised if in years to come it is exposed that Microsoft has purposefully made their various software insecure to allow the anti-virus industry to thrive and prosper. I'm sure that put in the same position of a powerful software company, most people would do the same thing. Whoever said capitalism was supposed to be moral?
Besides this, Microsoft is in no rush to fix their software problems. Why should they? You already paid for their product. They have your money. It makes no sense for them to fix it after they have already been paid.
This story comes on the heels of "Windows wont play with old DVD drives". Windows has a habbit of breaking driver compatibility with hardware as it relates to their business relationships with other companies. Another example of doublespeak propaganda from Microsoft. They're only releasing this bit of nonsense to attempt to show that they are not guilty of the above mentioned article.
This same story has been hashed and rehashed about once every year for the last 10 years (at least). This year its called the "Z-Machine". Last year it was called "Project Greenglow", and the year before that it was called "NASA Breakthrough Jet Propulsion" and "antigravity". Notice how they always say they are five years away from designing a test implementation. They need to put their money where their mouth is and put this vaporware to rest once and for all.
I buy/sell on ebay all the time too, big items sometimes too. When doing analysis on a potential purchase, looking at the sellers feedback score and feedback is useful, yes. Look at the people who have bought from them, look at their feedback history. What I've noticed is that alot of times fraudsters will use multiple accounts and pass feedback back and forth and when you start digging a little deeper into the feedback history of the various people involved, you start to notice that alot of them are no longer subscribers...
If this discussion is really about *attempting* to block porn at the router, doing so at the network level is a bad idea, impossible to implement with any level of accuracy. A better idea would be to require HTML header tags, JPG header tags, PNG tags, mp3 tags, avi/mpg video header tags, etc that *identify* porn. An 8-bit unsigned integer from 0-255 would identify the type of porn that the image file contains. 0x00 would mean no porn, 0x01 would mean bikini shots, 0x9a would designate incest beastiality gang rape pr0n. RFC anyone?
What about using sensor networks of lasers to destroy insects? A carefully designed system would be mindful of non-insect targets, and could last for many decades without needing repair...
Isn't it ironic how the biggest peddlers of spyware and spam on the internet today would be the ones pushing an anti-spyware initiative. Seems like they are trying to clean the dirt off their own names.
The only way they will prevent this is to require plugs that install directly into your brain and encrypt the data directly to your neurons which are synthetically generated and proprietary only to the RIAA, which if reverse-engineered would be a DMCA violation.
He should talk about LSB and standard build configs across distributions... glibc has caused many headaches to many people because of conflicting versions, directory locations, library issues, etc...
Everyone knows that DeVry, like all diploma mills, churns out more morons every year than all the community colleges combined. When I'm going through the stack of resumes looking for qualified candidates, when I see "DeVry" on the resume, it usually gets a quick laugh before getting thrown in the trash.
In this industry, no one cares about degrees or certifications. If you cant answer simple questions on a 30 second phone interview, you're not going to last the rest of the five minutes. The bottom line is do you have experience with x,x,z? When stuff breaks, are you going to be able to fix it fast? When problems happen, are you going to be able to engineer the most efficient, robust, stable, fault tolerant solution? These things have nothing to do with a PhD in computer science.
This sounds alot like what Net2Pnone tried unsuccessfully to do in 1998. They eventually gave the made the service free. Its hard to justify the cost of P2P voice calls over the internet.
I remember reading that story and thinking to myself , ya they are going to have a real hard time proving theft when the door was wide open and essentially "public". The same is true with a web server whose web pages are accessible via google. Is it "theft" to traverse a publicly accessible web page which is indexed via google? I think not.
Theo is a smart guy, but the facts speak for themselves. The fact is that Linux supports more hardware than openbsd, and has performance gains several times faster than OpenBSD or FreeBSD or MacOSX and of course windows. If I wanted to lock down linux, I'll use grsecurity.net jumbo patch, which is what I use and it does all that I would expect. I think most people care about hardware compatibility, user friendlyness, support and performance. OpenBSD is lacking on all of those fronts. Sorry Theo, hate to bust your bubble. I think most people who care about security already know about grsec.
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Its pretty easy to tell who owns copyright in any open source project. Most open source projects come with a tar.gz released archive containing one or more of the following files: README, INFO, CREDITS, AUTHORS, COPYING, etc... Any one of these files, in addition to the actual source code, shows clear evidence about who owns copyright in an open source project. Sometimes there is one person, sometimes more than one. The author of the article forgot to bring up these facts, and instead relies on spreading FUD.
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The article does not mention anything about how they read them the rico act... Where does the poster get this information, because it is not from the article.
The chips are way over priced and too under performance for people to spend the money. No marketing campaign can fix that.
I block about 99% of my incoming spam simply by doing a whois on each incoming IP and then firewalling the netblock if it originates from APNIC (asia), LACNIC (south america), and RIPE (europe). This works good for me, because I don't expect anyone from overseas providers sending me email. The other 1% is handled by spamassassin and DSPAM.
Using robots.txt helps, and another thing is you can hide content behind clickable interfaces... Search engines only index what you allow them to index, nothing more.
Bellsouth DSL is slow and goes up and down like a yo-yo. The only way to get a DSL connection that doesnt either go up or down like a yo-yo or doesnt have bigtime packet loss all the time or doesnt get saturated by next-door neighbors is to be physically located less than a block away from the Central Office. DSL is just really a half assed solution to begin with.
Anyone who has greater than a 30 IQ will quickly learn the fact that the Apple people went to great lengths to take a perfectly good USB mass storage device and bastardize it by adding an artificial software layer on top of it called "iTunes". In order to use the device you have to use the iTunes client, which forbids shared access to the device, prevents copying mp3 files to device from multiple computers, prevents importation of native directory structures into the device -- it strips directory structures off the imported filenames and you wind up with John Denver, Slayer and Dieselboy in the same directory. Also transferring files to the device takes about 5-10 times longer than a similar USB drive.
What concerned me the most about Apple's braindead design choices with the iPod was that they were expecting people to spend two or three times the price that you would pay for a similar sized Archos Jukebox device. I just cannot justify spending two or three times the money for narrow minded crippleware that attempts to force their users into this thinking is "normal". No thanks, Apple. I'll buy a $45.00 Archos Jukebox 6000 on ebay, pull out the 6GB drive, plug in a 100GB toshiba notebook drive for $133.00 and flash the firmware with rockbox.org firmware. Adding music is as simple as plugging it into the USB and drag/drop all your files to it.
Microsoft is no different than many other large publicly traded companies. They hire inexperienced programmers right out of college who have little or no programming experience background. These people wind up writing insecure applications that become widely exploited by external individuals, groups, corporations and the very programmers that Microsoft hired. Its hard to sit back and assume that these programming errors are indeed actual mistakes. A whole cottage industry has formed around these programming mistakes, the "anti-virus industry".
Microsoft is driven by profit, has made private agreements with other companies behind closed doors. I would not be surprised if in years to come it is exposed that Microsoft has purposefully made their various software insecure to allow the anti-virus industry to thrive and prosper. I'm sure that put in the same position of a powerful software company, most people would do the same thing. Whoever said capitalism was supposed to be moral?
Besides this, Microsoft is in no rush to fix their software problems. Why should they? You already paid for their product. They have your money. It makes no sense for them to fix it after they have already been paid.
This story comes on the heels of "Windows wont play with old DVD drives". Windows has a habbit of breaking driver compatibility with hardware as it relates to their business relationships with other companies. Another example of doublespeak propaganda from Microsoft. They're only releasing this bit of nonsense to attempt to show that they are not guilty of the above mentioned article.
This same story has been hashed and rehashed about once every year for the last 10 years (at least). This year its called the "Z-Machine". Last year it was called "Project Greenglow", and the year before that it was called "NASA Breakthrough Jet Propulsion" and "antigravity". Notice how they always say they are five years away from designing a test implementation. They need to put their money where their mouth is and put this vaporware to rest once and for all.
Here is the page as it used to look before it was brought down:w ww.holtmann.org/linux/bluetooth/devices.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20050310010832/http://
I buy/sell on ebay all the time too, big items sometimes too. When doing analysis on a potential purchase, looking at the sellers feedback score and feedback is useful, yes. Look at the people who have bought from them, look at their feedback history. What I've noticed is that alot of times fraudsters will use multiple accounts and pass feedback back and forth and when you start digging a little deeper into the feedback history of the various people involved, you start to notice that alot of them are no longer subscribers...
If this discussion is really about *attempting* to block porn at the router, doing so at the network level is a bad idea, impossible to implement with any level of accuracy. A better idea would be to require HTML header tags, JPG header tags, PNG tags, mp3 tags, avi/mpg video header tags, etc that *identify* porn. An 8-bit unsigned integer from 0-255 would identify the type of porn that the image file contains. 0x00 would mean no porn, 0x01 would mean bikini shots, 0x9a would designate incest beastiality gang rape pr0n. RFC anyone?
What about using sensor networks of lasers to destroy insects? A carefully designed system would be mindful of non-insect targets, and could last for many decades without needing repair...
Isn't it ironic how the biggest peddlers of spyware and spam on the internet today would be the ones pushing an anti-spyware initiative. Seems like they are trying to clean the dirt off their own names.
The only way they will prevent this is to require plugs that install directly into your brain and encrypt the data directly to your neurons which are synthetically generated and proprietary only to the RIAA, which if reverse-engineered would be a DMCA violation.
He should talk about LSB and standard build configs across distributions... glibc has caused many headaches to many people because of conflicting versions, directory locations, library issues, etc...
Everyone knows that DeVry, like all diploma mills, churns out more morons every year than all the community colleges combined. When I'm going through the stack of resumes looking for qualified candidates, when I see "DeVry" on the resume, it usually gets a quick laugh before getting thrown in the trash.
If I dont make at least $100K, it doesnt make sense to wake up in the morning.
In this industry, no one cares about degrees or certifications. If you cant answer simple questions on a 30 second phone interview, you're not going to last the rest of the five minutes. The bottom line is do you have experience with x,x,z? When stuff breaks, are you going to be able to fix it fast? When problems happen, are you going to be able to engineer the most efficient, robust, stable, fault tolerant solution? These things have nothing to do with a PhD in computer science.
selling them? http://rainbowtables.shmoo.com/ was giving out free torrents at defcon ... Its something like 30-60GB tho so watch out.
This sounds alot like what Net2Pnone tried unsuccessfully to do in 1998. They eventually gave the made the service free. Its hard to justify the cost of P2P voice calls over the internet.
Do what I do, drop packets to port 22!
I remember reading that story and thinking to myself , ya they are going to have a real hard time proving theft when the door was wide open and essentially "public". The same is true with a web server whose web pages are accessible via google. Is it "theft" to traverse a publicly accessible web page which is indexed via google? I think not.
Theo is a smart guy, but the facts speak for themselves. The fact is that Linux supports more hardware than openbsd, and has performance gains several times faster than OpenBSD or FreeBSD or MacOSX and of course windows. If I wanted to lock down linux, I'll use grsecurity.net jumbo patch, which is what I use and it does all that I would expect. I think most people care about hardware compatibility, user friendlyness, support and performance. OpenBSD is lacking on all of those fronts. Sorry Theo, hate to bust your bubble. I think most people who care about security already know about grsec.
Its pretty easy to tell who owns copyright in any open source project. Most open source projects come with a tar.gz released archive containing one or more of the following files: README, INFO, CREDITS, AUTHORS, COPYING, etc... Any one of these files, in addition to the actual source code, shows clear evidence about who owns copyright in an open source project. Sometimes there is one person, sometimes more than one. The author of the article forgot to bring up these facts, and instead relies on spreading FUD.