"More education is necessary. One form of education is lawsuits."
LOL. Lawsuits are educational in the same way that public flogging is educational. It doesn't teach you anything in a positive way, that's fer dang sure!
50 million users? That's like 1 in 6 Americans! I think I have to call bullshit on that. Maybe 1 in 6 in certain demographics but definitely no way it's 1 in 6 period.
I'd tend to agree that it's the lawyers who are getting rich (way to go, modern society!)
OTOH if a CD costs say $20 on average then a $3k settlement is worth 150 CDs. Ouch. That's more CDs than I own.
The whole thing is just lame. Stealing is wrong. The industry is majorly screwed up (like ALL entertainment industries today, including most pro-sports). What a mess. I certainly don't have the answer.
For my part, I don't steal music. I don't buy much either though.
"I have a car to sell you. It has a great safety record."
Space travel is dangerous. What NASA does is even more dangerous: that is lifting off from the surface into space. Driving a car is a hell of a lot simpler. For starters if it breaks down, you can get out and wait for help. Do not compare space flight of any kind to driving car. It's apples and elephants.
Yeah, the article is bogus. There would have to be something extra and surely someone can design a mail system that works and doesn't require every single mail server in the world to be named foo.bar.mail.
I was sorely tempted but by this time I already had an identical projector from another vendor (cheaper!) and since Dell had my CC number I'm sure they would have eventually figured it out.
Also I'm kind of an honest schmuk most of the time.
>> What he is saying is: "You are are against Terrorism or you are a supporter of Terrorism. There is no middle ground".
This is the kind of wonderful rhetoric politicians are famous for and votes are simple enough to buy into. What if I said "you are either against killing babies or you are a supporter of killing babies!" Obviously, killing babies is bad. But what about the right to choose? And what about abortion after violent rape? Or suppose there is a 95% chance both mother and child will die during birth? There will always be at least a few cases where "killing a baby" is actually the right thing to do.
NOTHING is black and white, EVER. I do not support any form of terrorism that I have ever heard about but that does not mean that some day in the future I might be forced to condone it. Like suppose if the US were to invade my country. Sounds crazy but there is precendent.:)
The US has carpet-bombed the odd country in the past. Many Americans probably feel those actions were justified but I guarantee you some of the residents of those countries probably didn't feel the same way. They probably feel they were terrorized by a rather evil goverment/army!
I would tend to agree BUT apparently the people who came up with Freedom Fries were stupid enough to think people would take it seriously. Scary stuff!
"Birnbaum (Morgan Stanley CTA)...busy replacing 4,000 high-powered servers running traditional software with much cheaper machines running Linux. Projected five-year savings: up to $100 million."
"High-powered servers" and "cheaper machines"... sounds like SUN to me. A savings of $25,000 per machine would be about right.
Microsoft-bashers may stay out of this thread, k thanks.:)
Most people mean murder or some other human intervention when they mean someone died from unnatural causes. Since man wasn't around when the dinosaurs croaked I would say that they died from natural causes.;)
HD speed is way overrated by gamers. The games that I play do not hit the HD very much while the game is running. YMMV but if your game does not load a lot of stuff from the HD while the game is running then all a faster HD will do is speed up load time. That may be important to you but personally I value high framerates more than shaving a little time off loading.
If you think windows commonly consumes a lot of memory with "bullshit services" you need to spend a few minutes looking around in task manager. And if you don't like the bullshit services, just disable them and stop whining.
RAM oftem helps gaming performance a lot but that's because a lot of games are memory hogs. E.g. you need 512 MB of RAM minimum to run a lot of MMORPG clients these days. These games don't need all that RAM just cuz they run on Windows - they need it because they allocate a hell of a lot of memory.
Once you have the minimum required memory, as dictate by the people who wrote the game, adding more memory is usually not going to impact performance a heck of a lot. So my ordering for where to spend your money on a gaming rig would be more like:
1) RAM, until the game can run optimally 2) Graphics card 3) More RAM, if it will help the game run better, YMMW 4) CPU
But that is assuming that your CPU is above the minimum specs required by the game to start with. If your CPU sucks ass then obviously you have a problem from the get-go.
I ordered a projector from them earlier this year. 10 days later I get an email saying that the projector would ship in about 3 more weeks. Screw that, so I called Dell and cancelled the order (45 minutes on the phone!!) A week later I get an email that the order has shipped. WTF? I have to spend almost another hour on the phone to be told to refused delivery. The projector arrives early, while I am at work. DHL dumps it on my front doorstep, in plain view of the street! WTF? This is a $1500 package and Dell had it shipped without signature required? Jesus, what morons. It took me almost another hour on the frigging phone to get the projector picked up and returned to Dell. I'm still waiting for Dell to mistakenly charge my CC for the projector so I can spend a few more quality hours with their GD out-sourced customer service folks.
I won't be ordering from Dell again unless the price is rock bottom. They've lost me as a regular customer.
I'm not going to bother refuting any of that logic. It's BS, obviously and seriously you have to ask yourself: do you really want to live in a country where the govt is only honest because citizens have guns? Fuck, that's some scary shit there!
My $0.02 on gun control always has been and always will be: look around you at your fellow citizens. The USA is filled with nuts/idiots/criminals. All kinds of wack jobs. Do you want all of the people to own, carry, and inevitably use guns?
"I have very little respect for the human race myself" does not equate to "I do not value human life".
I may consider you to be an idiot, but if you were about to die I would still save your life if it was in my power. Lack of respect does not make someone evil. You need to stop being such a moronic extremist and realize that we aren't all either Darth Vader or Luke Skywalker.
Anyways, you sir, are a troll. I'm sorry that Gates (and me apparently) fall into the "blackest of evil" groups in your mental utopia. I wish you well. I hope you one day get the therapy you deserve.;)
"If they don't check referers, a much simpler and more reliable attack is to embed a 1px by 1px iframe in your own high-traffic website."
That's silly. For one thing, how many of us own a high-traffic website? For another, if you're going to do that why not just write a script to hammer google with requests? Would google really care about the difference? If they see a high-traffic website hammering them and suspect foul play they'll examine the source and see that it is malicious. In the end they'll consider you as bad as the script kiddie.
Security through obscurity is not bad. But if a system relies upon it as a main line of defense, the system is flawed. The moment the obscurity is broken, the system is compromised.
Obscurity can be broken trivially. But security cannot be broken by a simple discovery of a hole in the algorithm.
Why should we "brainstorm" against a system that is secure only through obscurity? Because someone *will* break the "security" and then all users will be screwed. Better to do it sooner than later and force it to be improved.
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RTFP :)
"I've seen numbers that claim 50,000,000 people in the US use P2P applications."
Note "in the US". I don't know if these numbers are accurate, I was just responding to the post.
Don't worry about it. In 10 years we'll have flying cars with voice recognition.
(Yeah, I wish!)
That's the coward's solution. :)
If everyone did that the RIAA would win, wouldn't they?
"More education is necessary. One form of education is lawsuits."
LOL. Lawsuits are educational in the same way that public flogging is educational. It doesn't teach you anything in a positive way, that's fer dang sure!
50 million users? That's like 1 in 6 Americans! I think I have to call bullshit on that. Maybe 1 in 6 in certain demographics but definitely no way it's 1 in 6 period.
IMHO, of course.
I'd tend to agree that it's the lawyers who are getting rich (way to go, modern society!)
OTOH if a CD costs say $20 on average then a $3k settlement is worth 150 CDs. Ouch. That's more CDs than I own.
The whole thing is just lame. Stealing is wrong. The industry is majorly screwed up (like ALL entertainment industries today, including most pro-sports). What a mess. I certainly don't have the answer.
For my part, I don't steal music. I don't buy much either though.
The best you can hope for is to thwart 90% of the idiots. You'll never get them all though. A determined idiot is a fearsome fo.
Are you kidding? What's wrong with duct tape? I'd just my life to it in a heartbeat!
"I have a car to sell you. It has a great safety record."
Space travel is dangerous. What NASA does is even more dangerous: that is lifting off from the surface into space. Driving a car is a hell of a lot simpler. For starters if it breaks down, you can get out and wait for help. Do not compare space flight of any kind to driving car. It's apples and elephants.
Reverse DNS? I assume you mean PTR queries. Bullshit.
You're stupid too. Headers can be forged.
Yeah, the article is bogus. There would have to be something extra and surely someone can design a mail system that works and doesn't require every single mail server in the world to be named foo.bar.mail.
I was sorely tempted but by this time I already had an identical projector from another vendor (cheaper!) and since Dell had my CC number I'm sure they would have eventually figured it out.
Also I'm kind of an honest schmuk most of the time.
>> What he is saying is: "You are are against Terrorism or you are a supporter of Terrorism. There is no middle ground".
:)
This is the kind of wonderful rhetoric politicians are famous for and votes are simple enough to buy into. What if I said "you are either against killing babies or you are a supporter of killing babies!" Obviously, killing babies is bad. But what about the right to choose? And what about abortion after violent rape? Or suppose there is a 95% chance both mother and child will die during birth? There will always be at least a few cases where "killing a baby" is actually the right thing to do.
NOTHING is black and white, EVER. I do not support any form of terrorism that I have ever heard about but that does not mean that some day in the future I might be forced to condone it. Like suppose if the US were to invade my country. Sounds crazy but there is precendent.
The US has carpet-bombed the odd country in the past. Many Americans probably feel those actions were justified but I guarantee you some of the residents of those countries probably didn't feel the same way. They probably feel they were terrorized by a rather evil goverment/army!
I would tend to agree BUT apparently the people who came up with Freedom Fries were stupid enough to think people would take it seriously. Scary stuff!
"Birnbaum (Morgan Stanley CTA)...busy replacing 4,000 high-powered servers running traditional software with much cheaper machines running Linux. Projected five-year savings: up to $100 million."
:)
"High-powered servers" and "cheaper machines"... sounds like SUN to me. A savings of $25,000 per machine would be about right.
Microsoft-bashers may stay out of this thread, k thanks.
Most people mean murder or some other human intervention when they mean someone died from unnatural causes. Since man wasn't around when the dinosaurs croaked I would say that they died from natural causes. ;)
HD speed is way overrated by gamers. The games that I play do not hit the HD very much while the game is running. YMMV but if your game does not load a lot of stuff from the HD while the game is running then all a faster HD will do is speed up load time. That may be important to you but personally I value high framerates more than shaving a little time off loading.
If you think windows commonly consumes a lot of memory with "bullshit services" you need to spend a few minutes looking around in task manager. And if you don't like the bullshit services, just disable them and stop whining.
RAM oftem helps gaming performance a lot but that's because a lot of games are memory hogs. E.g. you need 512 MB of RAM minimum to run a lot of MMORPG clients these days. These games don't need all that RAM just cuz they run on Windows - they need it because they allocate a hell of a lot of memory.
Once you have the minimum required memory, as dictate by the people who wrote the game, adding more memory is usually not going to impact performance a heck of a lot. So my ordering for where to spend your money on a gaming rig would be more like:
1) RAM, until the game can run optimally
2) Graphics card
3) More RAM, if it will help the game run better, YMMW
4) CPU
But that is assuming that your CPU is above the minimum specs required by the game to start with. If your CPU sucks ass then obviously you have a problem from the get-go.
Dell has gotten very weird these days.
I ordered a projector from them earlier this year. 10 days later I get an email saying that the projector would ship in about 3 more weeks. Screw that, so I called Dell and cancelled the order (45 minutes on the phone!!) A week later I get an email that the order has shipped. WTF? I have to spend almost another hour on the phone to be told to refused delivery. The projector arrives early, while I am at work. DHL dumps it on my front doorstep, in plain view of the street! WTF? This is a $1500 package and Dell had it shipped without signature required? Jesus, what morons. It took me almost another hour on the frigging phone to get the projector picked up and returned to Dell. I'm still waiting for Dell to mistakenly charge my CC for the projector so I can spend a few more quality hours with their GD out-sourced customer service folks.
I won't be ordering from Dell again unless the price is rock bottom. They've lost me as a regular customer.
I'm not going to bother refuting any of that logic. It's BS, obviously and seriously you have to ask yourself: do you really want to live in a country where the govt is only honest because citizens have guns? Fuck, that's some scary shit there!
My $0.02 on gun control always has been and always will be: look around you at your fellow citizens. The USA is filled with nuts/idiots/criminals. All kinds of wack jobs. Do you want all of the people to own, carry, and inevitably use guns?
Hm... I suspect you are right and I am wrong. I could never get the hang of Mondays.
"I have very little respect for the human race myself" does not equate to "I do not value human life".
;)
I may consider you to be an idiot, but if you were about to die I would still save your life if it was in my power. Lack of respect does not make someone evil. You need to stop being such a moronic extremist and realize that we aren't all either Darth Vader or Luke Skywalker.
Anyways, you sir, are a troll. I'm sorry that Gates (and me apparently) fall into the "blackest of evil" groups in your mental utopia. I wish you well. I hope you one day get the therapy you deserve.
"If they don't check referers, a much simpler and more reliable attack is to embed a 1px by 1px iframe in your own high-traffic website."
That's silly. For one thing, how many of us own a high-traffic website? For another, if you're going to do that why not just write a script to hammer google with requests? Would google really care about the difference? If they see a high-traffic website hammering them and suspect foul play they'll examine the source and see that it is malicious. In the end they'll consider you as bad as the script kiddie.
Security through obscurity is not bad. But if a system relies upon it as a main line of defense, the system is flawed. The moment the obscurity is broken, the system is compromised.
Obscurity can be broken trivially. But security cannot be broken by a simple discovery of a hole in the algorithm.
Why should we "brainstorm" against a system that is secure only through obscurity? Because someone *will* break the "security" and then all users will be screwed. Better to do it sooner than later and force it to be improved.