I don't use Kazaa, but I do let people download stuff from me, should they find something they want. I'm just saying that you are supposedly hosting some other company's media files and/or ads on your computer, and who knows how many times they are going to be send out?
This actually sounds like a really cool thing, but my qualm with it lies in tha fact that they would be using MY bandwidth to "to host and distribute other companies' content, such as advertising or music. Alternatively, it might borrow people's unused processing power to help with other companies' complicated computing tasks."
I don't like the idea of this network siphoning MY bandwidth (that some may have a monthly limit on) for their purposes. And yes, I do understand that they said "with the owner's permission" but what's to say they're not just saying that as a "cover my ass" line?
GameFAQs did a funny April Fool's joke where they turned themselves into GameFAXs (with the X being the X-box X), claiming they went all X-box, since "it's the only system that matters"
But I don't think it would really work well in practice, unless it becomes government mandatory. Seems to me that it's like blocking spammers or virus spreading, you actually have to make the sysadmin care to do this.
The problem I forsee is how are they going to identify these high priority packets and data transmissions? If they just flag it with a special flag, how long before some haxor figures it out and suddenly everybody has high priority/. reading or pr0n surfing?
The other cost is that, statistically, there will be other 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl, etc., incidents.
Chernobyl was caused by stupidity (turning off safety systems) and poor reactor design. If the plant had a containment building at all, much less one that is required by US plants, then the devistating spread of nuclear waste and radiation would not have happened. US plants can contain a very large explosion inside the containment building.
The Three Mile Island "disaster" (hardly) lead to improvements in the equipment used to monitor and oversee the reactor, as well as other safety and emergency procedures.
Re:Most shareware these days isn't really sharewar
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· Score: 3, Interesting
It seems most "shareware" these days has forgot the true meaning of the word. True shareware just used to have a screen at the beginning that says (basically) "Hey, if you like this program, how about send some $$$ the developer's way for his troubles... and pass this on to a friend if you'd think they'd like it!" and let you go on your merry way... If you didn't want to send them money, then you didn't have to, unless the program expired after X days, or X uses and you wanted to continue using it.
One of my friends is the co-developer of Cover Your Tracks and I joked with him once that he made it to the "big time" when there were cracks published for his program's licensing code algorithm.
There was some show on TLC once, and I only caught the end of it, but the part I did catch made me laugh. (memory fuzzy, so if I get a detail wrong sorry)
These guys were hackers turned security consultants and were consulting for a financial company. They were "wardialing" the company's phone service looking for a computer that would answer, and when they got one, they entered "root" for the username, and (get this) "password" (!!!) for the password... and got in.
You would think anybody who has the semi-intelligence to be a Unix sysadmin for that company would know to NOT USE "password" AS YOUR ROOT PASSWORD!
I hope somebody got fired for that... sheesh
Re:Totally tech ignorant yet "brave" stupod people
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Good idea in theory, but it probably would not work well in practice.
First of all, there's debris. LOTS of debris. It would smash the plane to bits long before it got into the vortex of a large tornado.
Second, there's often hail in the general area of a tornado.
Third, it was tried with a helicoptor, but it was realized what the hail around the tornado would do to the blades (namely they wouldn't exist anymore)
Seems to me this is more like a proof of concept virus, like that one that was written in Flash a while back, demonstrating the kinds of things that COULD happen should Outlook's holes and bugs not be patched up.
The message body is actually a very misleading one though... I mean, who wouldn't wanna speed up Windows by 50% and make it more secure? We can't get that kind of update, even out of Microsoft!
As if I don't get enough wrong numbers on my cell phone already, coupled with the large volume of spam I already recieve via e-mail, this would drive me CrAzY!
Maybe force companies who send cell phone spam to use cell phones for their business phones? I'd gladly call and listen to their sales pitch if I knew it was gonna cost them an arm and a leg to keep me on the line (evil grin)
I work for the college I attend, as the webmaster for one of the departments. I just got a raise to $7/hour, and I work about 15 hour weeks. I like my job because I work with a bunch of good people who are fun to be around, my boss is really fair (even if she doesn't always know what she's talking about), and I get pretty flexible hours (since they change each semester)
While I admit that getting paid $7/hour for doing the php programming and stuff I do is really damn cheap, they appreciate my work, and it gets my name out... building for a career once I graduate (CS major)
Run Linux on it, and with the built in broadband, it could be used as a decent MP3 player maybe? It has Dolby certified audio output if I remember correctly, which would be great to run through a home theatre system
That would be pretty cool to see... a game console that doubles as a self-contained MP3 player/server...
Here in Orlando, FL it was raining and cloudy pretty much since 2am... A few friends and I took a small road trip to almost the east coast of the state but no luck. Right place, right time, just that Mother Nature wasn't cooperating with us:-(
Anybody get some good pictures they have posted? I'll bet it was a good show!
I suspect this will end up being like the whole.cc thing a few years ago. I used to hear ads on the radio for Spot.cc "Register your new.cc domain now! All the good.com names are taken!" and now you don't hear anything about it. Why? Because people don't care about non-com names (well, maybe.net they care about). When you think Microsoft, or Dell, are you going to think Dell.biz, or Microsoft.biz? No Way!
It is standard practice to hold a lottery for contested domain names? I don't recall when the.com and.net started up, but did they run lotteries for "popular" domain names?
I say first come, first serve... just seems to be a way to make more money
There were some rumors posted on the original article that Microsoft was also infected with the virus. Assuming you were using Internet Explorer and they were still infected at the time of your attempt to patch, that could possibly explain why.
It's surprising... if Microsloth is so good, why is 60% of the webserver market running Apache? Now that they have a distribution on Windows, I don't know how much of that share is on Unix-based machines, but I'm sure it's a pretty darn big amount.
I installed Win2000 server on my home computer for IIS, which will be replaced with Apache as soon as I build my Linux web server and then I can get rid of it... But lemmie say, it's pretty stable as long as I don't try to play DVDs or some sort of movie file (video driver conflicts with the kernel)
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I don't use Kazaa, but I do let people download stuff from me, should they find something they want. I'm just saying that you are supposedly hosting some other company's media files and/or ads on your computer, and who knows how many times they are going to be send out?
This actually sounds like a really cool thing, but my qualm with it lies in tha fact that they would be using MY bandwidth to "to host and distribute other companies' content, such as advertising or music. Alternatively, it might borrow people's unused processing power to help with other companies' complicated computing tasks."
I don't like the idea of this network siphoning MY bandwidth (that some may have a monthly limit on) for their purposes. And yes, I do understand that they said "with the owner's permission" but what's to say they're not just saying that as a "cover my ass" line?
GameFAQs did a funny April Fool's joke where they turned themselves into GameFAXs (with the X being the X-box X), claiming they went all X-box, since "it's the only system that matters"
But I don't think it would really work well in practice, unless it becomes government mandatory. Seems to me that it's like blocking spammers or virus spreading, you actually have to make the sysadmin care to do this.
/. reading or pr0n surfing?
The problem I forsee is how are they going to identify these high priority packets and data transmissions? If they just flag it with a special flag, how long before some haxor figures it out and suddenly everybody has high priority
The other cost is that, statistically, there will be other 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl, etc., incidents.
Chernobyl was caused by stupidity (turning off safety systems) and poor reactor design. If the plant had a containment building at all, much less one that is required by US plants, then the devistating spread of
nuclear waste and radiation would not have happened. US plants can contain a very large explosion inside the containment building.
The Three Mile Island "disaster" (hardly) lead to improvements in the equipment used to monitor and oversee the reactor, as well as other safety and emergency procedures.
It seems most "shareware" these days has forgot the true meaning of the word. True shareware just used to have a screen at the beginning that says (basically) "Hey, if you like this program, how about send some $$$ the developer's way for his troubles... and pass this on to a friend if you'd think they'd like it!" and let you go on your merry way... If you didn't want to send them money, then you didn't have to, unless the program expired after X days, or X uses and you wanted to continue using it.
One of my friends is the co-developer of Cover Your Tracks and I joked with him once that he made it to the "big time" when there were cracks published for his program's licensing code algorithm.
All your passwords are belong to us
There was some show on TLC once, and I only caught the end of it, but the part I did catch made me laugh. (memory fuzzy, so if I get a detail wrong sorry)
These guys were hackers turned security consultants and were consulting for a financial company. They were "wardialing" the company's phone service looking for a computer that would answer, and when they got one, they entered "root" for the username, and (get this) "password" (!!!) for the password... and got in.
You would think anybody who has the semi-intelligence to be a Unix sysadmin for that company would know to NOT USE "password" AS YOUR ROOT PASSWORD!
I hope somebody got fired for that... sheesh
Good idea in theory, but it probably would not work well in practice.
First of all, there's debris. LOTS of debris. It would smash the plane to bits long before it got into the vortex of a large tornado.
Second, there's often hail in the general area of a tornado.
Third, it was tried with a helicoptor, but it was realized what the hail around the tornado would do to the blades (namely they wouldn't exist anymore)
Seems to me this is more like a proof of concept virus, like that one that was written in Flash a while back, demonstrating the kinds of things that COULD happen should Outlook's holes and bugs not be patched up.
The message body is actually a very misleading one though... I mean, who wouldn't wanna speed up Windows by 50% and make it more secure? We can't get that kind of update, even out of Microsoft!
As if I don't get enough wrong numbers on my cell phone already, coupled with the large volume of spam I already recieve via e-mail, this would drive me CrAzY!
Maybe force companies who send cell phone spam to use cell phones for their business phones? I'd gladly call and listen to their sales pitch if I knew it was gonna cost them an arm and a leg to keep me on the line (evil grin)
I work for the college I attend, as the webmaster for one of the departments. I just got a raise to $7/hour, and I work about 15 hour weeks. I like my job because I work with a bunch of good people who are fun to be around, my boss is really fair (even if she doesn't always know what she's talking about), and I get pretty flexible hours (since they change each semester)
While I admit that getting paid $7/hour for doing the php programming and stuff I do is really damn cheap, they appreciate my work, and it gets my name out... building for a career once I graduate (CS major)
Run Linux on it, and with the built in broadband, it could be used as a decent MP3 player maybe? It has Dolby certified audio output if I remember correctly, which would be great to run through a home theatre system
That would be pretty cool to see... a game console that doubles as a self-contained MP3 player/server...
So when is this Linux for X-box coming out? heh
Here in Orlando, FL it was raining and cloudy pretty much since 2am... A few friends and I took a small road trip to almost the east coast of the state but no luck. Right place, right time, just that Mother Nature wasn't cooperating with us :-(
Anybody get some good pictures they have posted? I'll bet it was a good show!
I suspect this will end up being like the whole .cc thing a few years ago. I used to hear ads on the radio for Spot.cc "Register your new .cc domain now! All the good .com names are taken!" and now you don't hear anything about it. Why? Because people don't care about non-com names (well, maybe .net they care about). When you think Microsoft, or Dell, are you going to think Dell.biz, or Microsoft.biz? No Way!
It is standard practice to hold a lottery for contested domain names? I don't recall when the .com and .net started up, but did they run lotteries for "popular" domain names?
I say first come, first serve... just seems to be a way to make more money
There were some rumors posted on the original article that Microsoft was also infected with the virus. Assuming you were using Internet Explorer and they were still infected at the time of your attempt to patch, that could possibly explain why.
It's surprising... if Microsloth is so good, why is 60% of the webserver market running Apache? Now that they have a distribution on Windows, I don't know how much of that share is on Unix-based machines, but I'm sure it's a pretty darn big amount. I installed Win2000 server on my home computer for IIS, which will be replaced with Apache as soon as I build my Linux web server and then I can get rid of it... But lemmie say, it's pretty stable as long as I don't try to play DVDs or some sort of movie file (video driver conflicts with the kernel)