Just like any sort of crime. You don't have to be smart, just amoral. However, the stupid ones will almost surely get busted some day. The smart ones will stay one step ahead, or get out while the gettin's good. Say what you want about spammers in general, but they've come up with some damn crafty ideas to avoid filters, and even craftier ways of getting millions of emails sent without getting shut down. The few intelligent ones are the ones we really need to catch.
Third sentence of the article: "This was the case with a family member's computer running Windows XP Home." Further down, he also talks about putting XP SP 1a on the disc.
Yeah, honouring the original contract would be great. It's not like I can go into them and do what they do. "Hey, I just moved into a new house and my mortgage payments are higher, so we're going to be decreasing my bill by $3 a month. Thanks for your understanding." Your penalty idea would be nice. Or if you decide to go the cancel route, they should have to pay your number transfer fee so you can get service somewhere else. This whole "we're altering the deal now that you've signed it" scheme is total bullshit.
Or, we could all just RTFSite, which apparently our dear submitter didn't do, and see that they clearly state that they will still offer a free version. I read the news yesterday (since I've been waiting for the 3.0 release to install it) and was slightly disturbed by the "pricing scheme", but I actually read the whole thing, and it does state that they will still offer a free version (the google cache hasn't been updated since the new stuff has been posted, so it's pretty pointless to check it out).
Who said I made a comment about you being rude culturally? It's not *my* fault my joke got modded "insightful". Quite frankly, I was responding to your joke with a joke of my own.
In Canada we fill our water-cooling rigs with American beer, since it's pretty much water anyways. This helps lower the temperature and keeps the igloo from melting.
True, it appears as though his english is a little rough. He probably should have just written his answers in his native tongue and let you translate yourself.
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I think this falls under "a chain is only as strong as its weakest link". Having the absolute best AV software on the market is useless if you're going to run day to day operations as admin. I realize that sasser is an exception, since it's a remote root exploit (or system, I can't remember) but generally speaking a virus can only run with the permissions of the user who executed it. If AV was installed as admin and the system was being used by a less priveleged user, the AV shouldn't be disabled by the virus. Couple that with a decent hardware firewall to block off unneccessary services and you'd eliminate a huge majority of the problem. Then again, 99% of users don't know this and don't care.
I have a hotmail account that I've had for about three years now. The *only* reason I have it is because a great majority of my friends use MSN (since their friends use it...since their friends use it...). I use Trillian to connect, and I don't think I've ever actually checked the account for email. I wanted good email, so I purchased a domain and a hosting account and I take care of it all myself (as I'm sure many/.ers do).
I'm an artist - paid full time graphic designer by day, but I also do a fair bit of artwork on my own time (drawing, photography). Honestly, had this been my artwork, I'd be annoyed. Seems to me that a business that lives by the word of the GPL should have a little more respect for copyrights. Then again, if a linux distro came to me and said they wanted to use some of my work, I'd be more than happy to let them. The important thing is that they ask permission first. It's one thing to have someone contact you for permission, it's another to have a friend call you and say "hey, I was down at the record store today and one of your paintings is on the cover of a new cd".
And if you do nothing about it, your server is being used to facilitate copyright infringement, and probably the ddosing of other targets. I guess it depends on when the U.S. gov't decides to start going after irc servers for the actions of their users.
How is dcc bringing down irc as a whole? The only large scale filesharing I ever see on irc is on small networks, usually set up explicitly for filesharing. Even when it's on a major network (efnet, dalnet, undernet) if you're an admin and it pisses you off that much, k-line everyone in a filesharing channel and you'll just be helping your network (more room for chatters to connect). As for the actual file transfers, they don't have any effect on your network. They're sent straight from client to client without the network routing anything more than the original negotiation of finding each other.
Well obviously, if you want to send a file, you'll use a better method than DCC because you're much better than the rest of us. Some of us don't want to fuck around finding the most 1337 way to send a file. If I'm already on irc and I need to send a file to someone else on irc, dcc is the obvious first choice. *THEN*, when it fucks up, I'll email it or post it on my website or icq it or something else. But take your head out of your ass and realize that some of us need these tools, even if the "bad guys" will have access to them too.
Oh, well if YOU'RE willing to vouch for him, then sign me up! You're much less of a faceless, anonymous being at the other end of a keyboard somewhere in the world, since you have a/. UID;)
nevermind servers and workstations, I think it'd make a hell of a lot more sense to run this thing on a router. I have no intention of leaving anything other than that fully exposed to the public internet, but I wouldn't think it would be too hard to rig up snort to work similar to this worm detector and report back to the server with anything suspicious. And since my firewall (ipcop) is already running snort...
I'm not in financial services, so I really don't know your reasoning, but why would you think this means don't trust Baystar? This has only happened in less than.25% of their investments, and they're doing it because SCO allegedly broke one of the contract stipulations. If anything, I would say the moral is "don't fuck with an investor who has the legal grounds to take their money back".
he's willing to remove himself from a position which forced him to violate his own sense of what's right
So yeah. I stopped wearing clothes because the military does that, and doing something that they did forced me to violate my own sense of what's right. Or, he's an idiot. People have been killed with screwdrivers, but I don't stop using them. If this had *really* been about making an anti-war statement (and not the publicity stunt that it looks like) he could have tried writing some software that HELPS humankind. Do some work with freenet. Build a cluster to run distributed cancer drug research. It's not like they took something that he made and used it in a way he didn't like, they took something that he *uses*. Big difference.
perhaps you didn't understand me. cgiproxy is great IF YOU HAPPEN TO HAVE YOUR OWN FUCKING WEBSERVER TO RUN IT ON. otherwise, it's nowhere near optimal, since YOU NEED A FUCKING WEBSERVER TO INSTALL THE FUCKER ON. point made?
Um, that's just fine if *web* access is forced through a proxy server, but he's talking about using Putty for *ssh* to his home machine, then running a text based browser in the shell. Seems like it'd work just fine to me.
Well the police already have the right to bust down my door if they have a warrant, but I won't be giving them a key any time soon. They already have *legal* channels to go about getting into the luggage. This is just stupid. Breaking the lock on every suitcase they come across? What's the advantage? Between xrays and chemical detectors and geiger counters, why do they even need to be able to go through the luggage? And why is this being done after it's checked if it's so important? Why not when it's checked in, so at least the owner can open the lock with the key instead of having it destroyed, or at least know that their lock is being broken.
To work with your analogy, a good album *should* be put together like a good book. The album is better listened to in order just like the chapters of the book make more sense when read in order. Your analogy for not reading the author's other works is more like not listening to the artist's other albums. Mind you, very few musicians work this way now, but try it some time with some techno albums, or, as I'm sure many others will point out, some Pink Floyd.
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Just like any sort of crime. You don't have to be smart, just amoral. However, the stupid ones will almost surely get busted some day. The smart ones will stay one step ahead, or get out while the gettin's good. Say what you want about spammers in general, but they've come up with some damn crafty ideas to avoid filters, and even craftier ways of getting millions of emails sent without getting shut down. The few intelligent ones are the ones we really need to catch.
Third sentence of the article: "This was the case with a family member's computer running Windows XP Home." Further down, he also talks about putting XP SP 1a on the disc.
Yeah, honouring the original contract would be great. It's not like I can go into them and do what they do. "Hey, I just moved into a new house and my mortgage payments are higher, so we're going to be decreasing my bill by $3 a month. Thanks for your understanding." Your penalty idea would be nice. Or if you decide to go the cancel route, they should have to pay your number transfer fee so you can get service somewhere else. This whole "we're altering the deal now that you've signed it" scheme is total bullshit.
Or, we could all just RTFSite, which apparently our dear submitter didn't do, and see that they clearly state that they will still offer a free version. I read the news yesterday (since I've been waiting for the 3.0 release to install it) and was slightly disturbed by the "pricing scheme", but I actually read the whole thing, and it does state that they will still offer a free version (the google cache hasn't been updated since the new stuff has been posted, so it's pretty pointless to check it out).
Who said I made a comment about you being rude culturally? It's not *my* fault my joke got modded "insightful". Quite frankly, I was responding to your joke with a joke of my own.
Well good! If this trend continues, I'll be able to use my 1000 watt grow lamps to make money growing legal plants!
In Canada we fill our water-cooling rigs with American beer, since it's pretty much water anyways. This helps lower the temperature and keeps the igloo from melting.
True, it appears as though his english is a little rough. He probably should have just written his answers in his native tongue and let you translate yourself.
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I think this falls under "a chain is only as strong as its weakest link". Having the absolute best AV software on the market is useless if you're going to run day to day operations as admin. I realize that sasser is an exception, since it's a remote root exploit (or system, I can't remember) but generally speaking a virus can only run with the permissions of the user who executed it. If AV was installed as admin and the system was being used by a less priveleged user, the AV shouldn't be disabled by the virus. Couple that with a decent hardware firewall to block off unneccessary services and you'd eliminate a huge majority of the problem. Then again, 99% of users don't know this and don't care.
I have a hotmail account that I've had for about three years now. The *only* reason I have it is because a great majority of my friends use MSN (since their friends use it...since their friends use it...). I use Trillian to connect, and I don't think I've ever actually checked the account for email. I wanted good email, so I purchased a domain and a hosting account and I take care of it all myself (as I'm sure many /.ers do).
You could always just drop them into envelopes and blanket the city / country with free cds. Everyone loves getting free cds in the mail!
I'm an artist - paid full time graphic designer by day, but I also do a fair bit of artwork on my own time (drawing, photography). Honestly, had this been my artwork, I'd be annoyed. Seems to me that a business that lives by the word of the GPL should have a little more respect for copyrights. Then again, if a linux distro came to me and said they wanted to use some of my work, I'd be more than happy to let them. The important thing is that they ask permission first. It's one thing to have someone contact you for permission, it's another to have a friend call you and say "hey, I was down at the record store today and one of your paintings is on the cover of a new cd".
And if you do nothing about it, your server is being used to facilitate copyright infringement, and probably the ddosing of other targets. I guess it depends on when the U.S. gov't decides to start going after irc servers for the actions of their users.
How is dcc bringing down irc as a whole? The only large scale filesharing I ever see on irc is on small networks, usually set up explicitly for filesharing. Even when it's on a major network (efnet, dalnet, undernet) if you're an admin and it pisses you off that much, k-line everyone in a filesharing channel and you'll just be helping your network (more room for chatters to connect). As for the actual file transfers, they don't have any effect on your network. They're sent straight from client to client without the network routing anything more than the original negotiation of finding each other.
Well obviously, if you want to send a file, you'll use a better method than DCC because you're much better than the rest of us. Some of us don't want to fuck around finding the most 1337 way to send a file. If I'm already on irc and I need to send a file to someone else on irc, dcc is the obvious first choice. *THEN*, when it fucks up, I'll email it or post it on my website or icq it or something else. But take your head out of your ass and realize that some of us need these tools, even if the "bad guys" will have access to them too.
Oh, well if YOU'RE willing to vouch for him, then sign me up! You're much less of a faceless, anonymous being at the other end of a keyboard somewhere in the world, since you have a /. UID ;)
nevermind servers and workstations, I think it'd make a hell of a lot more sense to run this thing on a router. I have no intention of leaving anything other than that fully exposed to the public internet, but I wouldn't think it would be too hard to rig up snort to work similar to this worm detector and report back to the server with anything suspicious. And since my firewall (ipcop) is already running snort...
I'm not in financial services, so I really don't know your reasoning, but why would you think this means don't trust Baystar? This has only happened in less than .25% of their investments, and they're doing it because SCO allegedly broke one of the contract stipulations. If anything, I would say the moral is "don't fuck with an investor who has the legal grounds to take their money back".
he's willing to remove himself from a position which forced him to violate his own sense of what's right
So yeah. I stopped wearing clothes because the military does that, and doing something that they did forced me to violate my own sense of what's right. Or, he's an idiot. People have been killed with screwdrivers, but I don't stop using them. If this had *really* been about making an anti-war statement (and not the publicity stunt that it looks like) he could have tried writing some software that HELPS humankind. Do some work with freenet. Build a cluster to run distributed cancer drug research. It's not like they took something that he made and used it in a way he didn't like, they took something that he *uses*. Big difference.
perhaps you didn't understand me. cgiproxy is great IF YOU HAPPEN TO HAVE YOUR OWN FUCKING WEBSERVER TO RUN IT ON. otherwise, it's nowhere near optimal, since YOU NEED A FUCKING WEBSERVER TO INSTALL THE FUCKER ON. point made?
optimal only if you happen to have a web server running at home. for the rest of the world, the Putty/ssh idea is much more...optimal.
Um, that's just fine if *web* access is forced through a proxy server, but he's talking about using Putty for *ssh* to his home machine, then running a text based browser in the shell. Seems like it'd work just fine to me.
Well the police already have the right to bust down my door if they have a warrant, but I won't be giving them a key any time soon. They already have *legal* channels to go about getting into the luggage. This is just stupid. Breaking the lock on every suitcase they come across? What's the advantage? Between xrays and chemical detectors and geiger counters, why do they even need to be able to go through the luggage? And why is this being done after it's checked if it's so important? Why not when it's checked in, so at least the owner can open the lock with the key instead of having it destroyed, or at least know that their lock is being broken.
To work with your analogy, a good album *should* be put together like a good book. The album is better listened to in order just like the chapters of the book make more sense when read in order. Your analogy for not reading the author's other works is more like not listening to the artist's other albums. Mind you, very few musicians work this way now, but try it some time with some techno albums, or, as I'm sure many others will point out, some Pink Floyd.