> Because most average people don't understand what is going on and still have that 'i'm > not doing anything wrong' mentality.
I don't approve of government snooping (I don't approve of government at all) but the fact is, they are right. The fact is that for most people (including most of us) there is nothing in any of their email such that having it read by any agency of any government would affect their lives in any way.
A real danger, though, is that the governments will get sucked in to some sort of automated "suspicious activity" monitoring and then base pre-emptive action on it.
Previous versions of Firefox ran my old machine out of memory (512M) in three or four days and crashed about once a week. No other application I use comes close to that degree of instability. Firefox 3 isn't running me out of memory yet, but I've got 2.5G now. It has already crashed once.
> I think it just means its relatively solid, ie: non-gasious, plus they may deem it to be > in the proper "zone" to become an earth-like planet (not too close, not too far)
With orbital periods of less than three weeks around a sun-like star they are going to be hotter than Mercury: far too hot for life.
> I agree that it is older than 2000. But it is becoming less of an issue every day. As > the older machines fail, they will be replaced with newer ones with modern email clients.
Mutt and Gnus are both modern, well-maintained, and available for "modern" machines (unless "modern", to you, means "comes with built-in malware").
> We get concerned when we feel the use is more reproduction than reference, or when > others are encouraged to cut and paste.
Fair use. Learn to live with it.
> That's not good for original content creators; nor is it consistent with the link-based > culture of the Internet that you and others have cultivated so well
Whereas AP articles, of course, are just chockfull of links.
You misunderstand. They aren't looking for some sort of kill switch to be built into the aircraft, despite the reporter's use of that phrase. They want a "nonlethal" weapon to use against aircraft.
Set up honeypots to entrap the RIAA into sending bogus notices. Thoroughly document this and make the results available to those defending themselves against RIAA suits (and to those pursuing class action suits against the RIAA).
Also try to trick them into breaking into and/or DOSing bittorent trackers (preferably ones not being used to infringe any RIAA copyrights).
> Please remember these are consumer routers, not high-end fancy ones.
And therefor they have to have buggy firmware else why would anyone buy the fancy high-end ones? Besides, proper design and debugging costs tens of thousands of dollars: an intolerable expense in a product you are going to sell a few million of.
> Most home routers are configured through a web interface. That web interface has a reboot > button. In other words, a home router can be made to reboot by sending it a proper HTTP > request. This is not a bug, it's a feature:).
If the router can be reconfigured and/or rebooted without a password it is buggy.
> While I agree that a router shouldn't crash no matter what an attached computer does, > I completely disagree with the Windows fanboys who claim this is a non-story.
I claim it's a non-story and I sure as hell am not a "Windows fanboy".
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> Because most average people don't understand what is going on and still have that 'i'm
> not doing anything wrong' mentality.
I don't approve of government snooping (I don't approve of government at all) but the fact is, they are right. The fact is that for most people (including most of us) there is nothing in any of their email such that having it read by any agency of any government would affect their lives in any way.
A real danger, though, is that the governments will get sucked in to some sort of automated "suspicious activity" monitoring and then base pre-emptive action on it.
Previous versions of Firefox ran my old machine out of memory (512M) in three or four days and crashed about once a week. No other application I use comes close to that degree of instability. Firefox 3 isn't running me out of memory yet, but I've got 2.5G now. It has already crashed once.
Prosecutors and police can be sued.
Sounds like it may have been the previous user that got the machine infected.
... of working for Apple.
> I think it just means its relatively solid, ie: non-gasious, plus they may deem it to be
> in the proper "zone" to become an earth-like planet (not too close, not too far)
With orbital periods of less than three weeks around a sun-like star they are going to be hotter than Mercury: far too hot for life.
---they can't be very Earth-like. "Super-Mercury" would be more like it.
> Everyone knows that "tinfoil" hats must be made of aluminum to be effective, as tin is
> not sufficiently psychoactive.
Wrong: only tin is effective. Why do you think aluminum foil was invented? It only exists to mislead fools like you into believing you are protected.
> I agree that it is older than 2000. But it is becoming less of an issue every day. As
> the older machines fail, they will be replaced with newer ones with modern email clients.
Mutt and Gnus are both modern, well-maintained, and available for "modern" machines (unless "modern", to you, means "comes with built-in malware").
Unless they were to do the sensible thing and simply charge by the byte.
Not only will they grow whiskers if they are pure, but if you wear them outside in cold weather they may catch tin disease.
So a bunch of citiots tried to go onto private property without permission to have a party and got warned off. Why is this news?
> The current SDK supports the version of Open XML supported by Office 2007, which is not
> the same as that ratified as a standard by the ISO
No version of Microsoft's "Open XML" has been ratified as a standard by the ISO.
> Fair use might be two or three paragraphs, not an entire news article.
...don't link to their stories or photos.
What article might that be?
> Sour grapes much?
You think I want them to link to something of mine? ROFL.
> If you don't like it...
They needn't link if they don't want to, but but it seems hypocritical of them to attack others for not doing so.
>
I don't. I also don't link to anyone else's: I don't "blog".
> We get concerned when we feel the use is more reproduction than reference, or when
> others are encouraged to cut and paste.
Fair use. Learn to live with it.
> That's not good for original content creators; nor is it consistent with the link-based
> culture of the Internet that you and others have cultivated so well
Whereas AP articles, of course, are just chockfull of links.
So they would kill 500 passengers to keep them from flying over the White House.
I'm with the pilots.
You misunderstand. They aren't looking for some sort of kill switch to be built into the aircraft, despite the reporter's use of that phrase. They want a "nonlethal" weapon to use against aircraft.
> The Directorate's program managers don't mention how engineers might pull off such a kill ...why would they be asking?
> switch.
I wouldn't think that cracking the pc of the average Congressman would be all that challenging. A bit of spearphishing and you're in.
Set up honeypots to entrap the RIAA into sending bogus notices. Thoroughly document this and make the results available to those defending themselves against RIAA suits (and to those pursuing class action suits against the RIAA).
Also try to trick them into breaking into and/or DOSing bittorent trackers (preferably ones not being used to infringe any RIAA copyrights).
It makes no difference what Microsoft does. If software running on a connected computer crashes a router the router is buggy.
> Please remember these are consumer routers, not high-end fancy ones.
And therefor they have to have buggy firmware else why would anyone buy the fancy high-end ones? Besides, proper design and debugging costs tens of thousands of dollars: an intolerable expense in a product you are going to sell a few million of.
Any NIC that is damaged by this does not meet the spec (which is, unfortunately, almost all of them).
> Most home routers are configured through a web interface. That web interface has a reboot :).
> button. In other words, a home router can be made to reboot by sending it a proper HTTP
> request. This is not a bug, it's a feature
If the router can be reconfigured and/or rebooted without a password it is buggy.
> While I agree that a router shouldn't crash no matter what an attached computer does,
> I completely disagree with the Windows fanboys who claim this is a non-story.
I claim it's a non-story and I sure as hell am not a "Windows fanboy".