I'm sorry, and it's probably petty of me, but I have a hard time getting past a messenger who uses a lesser known word like "forfend" in an attempt to draw out the grammar nazis. Such behavior is an outstandingly reliable touchstone for excessive feelings of intellectual superiority, demonstrating an absolute and fundamental lack of charm that results in a loss of effectiveness due to the immediate departure of the intended audience.
If such a person works in another company, I'll ignore him. If he works in my company, I'll avoid him. I'll avoid him. If, God forbid, he works for me, I'll quickly and visibly out him as an intellectual charlatan and terminate him immediately.
So, here's a balanced and well-considered opinion: I can't hear his message because his asshat nature covers the ass he's clearly talking out of.
You do realize that the product is IIS, not ISS, right? Clearly you do not have the capability to discuss the issue at hand from a relevant frame of reference if you don't even know the _name_ of the package you are discussing. Beyond that, your point is mainly valid but during the period of time that MS was installing IIS by default on damn near everything...most Linux distributions were doing the same with Apache. So that's mostly an error of omission. That still does not take into account the number of publicized flaws in Apache over the course of the past 2 years vs. the utter lack of published flaws in IIS 6.0. I'm still waiting to hear someone explain that one without resorting to "The source is closed so how can we know for sure? There could be hundreds of holes there!!!" in an effort to obscure the facts at hand.
IMHO, the biggest problem is that Windows has remained relatively unchanged since Win95.
Ok, seriously now...
Do you have any clue what you're talking about? Insightful? This has to be the most uninformed comment in the entire thread. Relatively speaking, Windows has undergone more radical changes since Windows 95 than any other operating system during the same period, with the sole exception of Mac OSX.
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If said countries would be so kind as to send me my tax dollars back, I'd be more than happy to address the issue with my elected representatives. Until then, piss off. How's that for American arrogance?
Now see, this is what I like. A liberal who knows how to make a well reasoned (and I'll admit, convincing) argument. Unfortunately all too rare these days.
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Well, a lot of terms have been twisted to mean many different things in our current political climate. So this particular discussion could go on forever. If you're trying to "out" a Republican troll, I'm sorry to disappoint you. I am an independent conservative who does not believe in party politics or groupthink. I tend to agree with Republicans more often than not, so I suppose you could take a few swipe with a wide brush and get some paint on me. I suppose I would be considered a strict constructionist by many. That's the best I can come up with.
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Who says I am a Republican?
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No. We make every effort to ensure that others have the opportunity to choose the "American way of life" if they desire. There's a key difference between forcing someone to do something and empowering them to do something.
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You know what young canuck? You probably will never have any say in what we do down south unless move in and become one of us. Of course, you'll see things a bit differently then...
I am so sick of foreigners implying that they should have a say in how we run our country. I am a conservative. I tend to disagree with liberals most of the time and have little patience with them. They feel the same about me. Our disagreement borders on pure hatred at times. But know this, I care a whole lot more about what they think than a bunch of jealous foreigners who simply hate America because we succeed where they fail. The whole lot of you can just fuck right off as far as I'm concerned. You American liberals are, of course, encouraged to keep screeching because that is your right. Hell, sometimes I even agree with you.
Don't you understand that corporations do NOT pay taxes? You and I pay them for the corporations who simply build the cost of operating (taxes included) into their prices. That's where the whole corporate taxation thing just falls apart, and for some reason, most people just don't get it.
Mission Critical machines should not have remote applications running on them without a major firewall between the application and the kernal.
Well, since everyone else is being diplomatic and trying to give you a clear explanation for why they disagree with you, I'll just cut right to the chase...
You don't know what the hell you're talking about and you should probably shut the hell up now rather than embarassing yourself further.
You might feel cocky talking that shit on the Internet, safely hidden behind your online identity, but I'd bet a year of my salary that you wouldn't have the cojones to spout off like that in front of a room full of my brother Marines. Either way, I win...because you wouldn't survive to collect. So, as another poster so eloquently put it...
Verisign approved? You miss the point the AC was making. All verisign is saying is that you are who you say you are. If a spyware author signs their stuff with a certificate issued to "Spyware Inc." then you can say with a reasonable level of certainty that the signed file came from them. Seriously, you need to read up on how all this works...
How exactly is the hardware support in Linux in any way inferior to that of Mac OSX? I love OSX just as much as any other unix geek, but to pretend that it's hardware support is superior seems a bit misguided considering the fact that they only support the hardware that they themselves build, along with a few peripherals tossed in. Linux on the other hand, will run quite nicely on their hardware, along with 85-90% of the rest of what's on the market.
Where does this idea come from? You'll get one bounce for each message that uses your address. I personally received 423 advertis^H^H^Hbounces during the outbreak. I only received 366 copies of Sobig.F. Sure, administrators could have disabled notification and I believe that responsible admins probably did, once they got finished with their latest game of whack-a-mole. Say what you want, but sending any sort of notification based on a known forged address is not just a case of ignorance. The AV vendors were fully aware that the headers were forged. They should have tailored their signatures to account for this and exempt these messages from notification. The fact that they didn't tells me that they considered it a free shot at email marketing...otherwise known as SPAM. I don't think a case can be made that they did this deliberately since the product was already configured to send the alerts. However, they were more than willing to look the other way while their products marketed themselves. The possibility that they were too short sighted to see this problem ahead of time remains a possibility, but that carries other implications that I really don't want to get into.
But Clancy does have - or is said to have - more access to the military than you will ever get.
This is a fact. I was a member of the 26th MEU(SOC) onboard the USS WASP when Clancy was doing research for his book, "Marine. A guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit" (ISBN: 0425154548) and I can tell you without a doubt that he had access to all levels of the unit, both during training and real world operations. I can't remember exactly how long he was there, but it was at least a week or two. Trust me, 99% of what the man writes is accurate. He does his homework.He's also a super nice guy.
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I'm sorry, and it's probably petty of me, but I have a hard time getting past a messenger who uses a lesser known word like "forfend" in an attempt to draw out the grammar nazis. Such behavior is an outstandingly reliable touchstone for excessive feelings of intellectual superiority, demonstrating an absolute and fundamental lack of charm that results in a loss of effectiveness due to the immediate departure of the intended audience.
If such a person works in another company, I'll ignore him. If he works in my company, I'll avoid him. I'll avoid him. If, God forbid, he works for me, I'll quickly and visibly out him as an intellectual charlatan and terminate him immediately.
So, here's a balanced and well-considered opinion: I can't hear his message because his asshat nature covers the ass he's clearly talking out of.
Let me get this straight, you're saying that the person who makes more money should not have more money to spend? Mmmmmkay...
How about we just use the products?
You should probably do a little research on the meaning of the word "concurrent."
You do realize that the product is IIS, not ISS, right? Clearly you do not have the capability to discuss the issue at hand from a relevant frame of reference if you don't even know the _name_ of the package you are discussing. Beyond that, your point is mainly valid but during the period of time that MS was installing IIS by default on damn near everything...most Linux distributions were doing the same with Apache. So that's mostly an error of omission. That still does not take into account the number of publicized flaws in Apache over the course of the past 2 years vs. the utter lack of published flaws in IIS 6.0. I'm still waiting to hear someone explain that one without resorting to "The source is closed so how can we know for sure? There could be hundreds of holes there!!!" in an effort to obscure the facts at hand.
Seriously.
IMHO, the biggest problem is that Windows has remained relatively unchanged since Win95.
Ok, seriously now...
Do you have any clue what you're talking about? Insightful? This has to be the most uninformed comment in the entire thread. Relatively speaking, Windows has undergone more radical changes since Windows 95 than any other operating system during the same period, with the sole exception of Mac OSX.
If said countries would be so kind as to send me my tax dollars back, I'd be more than happy to address the issue with my elected representatives. Until then, piss off. How's that for American arrogance?
Now see, this is what I like. A liberal who knows how to make a well reasoned (and I'll admit, convincing) argument. Unfortunately all too rare these days.
Well, a lot of terms have been twisted to mean many different things in our current political climate. So this particular discussion could go on forever. If you're trying to "out" a Republican troll, I'm sorry to disappoint you. I am an independent conservative who does not believe in party politics or groupthink. I tend to agree with Republicans more often than not, so I suppose you could take a few swipe with a wide brush and get some paint on me. I suppose I would be considered a strict constructionist by many. That's the best I can come up with.
Who says I am a Republican?
No. We make every effort to ensure that others have the opportunity to choose the "American way of life" if they desire. There's a key difference between forcing someone to do something and empowering them to do something.
You know what young canuck? You probably will never have any say in what we do down south unless move in and become one of us. Of course, you'll see things a bit differently then...
I am so sick of foreigners implying that they should have a say in how we run our country. I am a conservative. I tend to disagree with liberals most of the time and have little patience with them. They feel the same about me. Our disagreement borders on pure hatred at times. But know this, I care a whole lot more about what they think than a bunch of jealous foreigners who simply hate America because we succeed where they fail. The whole lot of you can just fuck right off as far as I'm concerned. You American liberals are, of course, encouraged to keep screeching because that is your right. Hell, sometimes I even agree with you.
Don't you understand that corporations do NOT pay taxes? You and I pay them for the corporations who simply build the cost of operating (taxes included) into their prices. That's where the whole corporate taxation thing just falls apart, and for some reason, most people just don't get it.
Mission Critical machines should not have remote applications running on them without a major firewall between the application and the kernal.
Well, since everyone else is being diplomatic and trying to give you a clear explanation for why they disagree with you, I'll just cut right to the chase...
You don't know what the hell you're talking about and you should probably shut the hell up now rather than embarassing yourself further.
You might feel cocky talking that shit on the Internet, safely hidden behind your online identity, but I'd bet a year of my salary that you wouldn't have the cojones to spout off like that in front of a room full of my brother Marines. Either way, I win...because you wouldn't survive to collect. So, as another poster so eloquently put it...
Fuck you!
Verisign approved? You miss the point the AC was making. All verisign is saying is that you are who you say you are. If a spyware author signs their stuff with a certificate issued to "Spyware Inc." then you can say with a reasonable level of certainty that the signed file came from them. Seriously, you need to read up on how all this works...
...get onboard with this, those polar icecaps on Mars might be saved!!!
What you are witnessing is the death of Mapquest. Waiting for Netcraft confirmation...
Will someone PLEASE mod this up.
How exactly is the hardware support in Linux in any way inferior to that of Mac OSX? I love OSX just as much as any other unix geek, but to pretend that it's hardware support is superior seems a bit misguided considering the fact that they only support the hardware that they themselves build, along with a few peripherals tossed in. Linux on the other hand, will run quite nicely on their hardware, along with 85-90% of the rest of what's on the market.
You probably haven't collected your winnings from the latest Amsterdam lotto or ordered any magic penis enlargement dust either.
As said earlier, at MOST 1 email is generated.
Where does this idea come from? You'll get one bounce for each message that uses your address. I personally received 423 advertis^H^H^Hbounces during the outbreak. I only received 366 copies of Sobig.F. Sure, administrators could have disabled notification and I believe that responsible admins probably did, once they got finished with their latest game of whack-a-mole. Say what you want, but sending any sort of notification based on a known forged address is not just a case of ignorance. The AV vendors were fully aware that the headers were forged. They should have tailored their signatures to account for this and exempt these messages from notification. The fact that they didn't tells me that they considered it a free shot at email marketing...otherwise known as SPAM. I don't think a case can be made that they did this deliberately since the product was already configured to send the alerts. However, they were more than willing to look the other way while their products marketed themselves. The possibility that they were too short sighted to see this problem ahead of time remains a possibility, but that carries other implications that I really don't want to get into.
Mod parent up. Two factor authentication is the only real solution to this problem.
But Clancy does have - or is said to have - more access to the military than you will ever get.
This is a fact. I was a member of the 26th MEU(SOC) onboard the USS WASP when Clancy was doing research for his book, "Marine. A guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit" (ISBN: 0425154548) and I can tell you without a doubt that he had access to all levels of the unit, both during training and real world operations. I can't remember exactly how long he was there, but it was at least a week or two. Trust me, 99% of what the man writes is accurate. He does his homework.He's also a super nice guy.