Then they're morons. Guy Fawkes Night isn't a celebration of Guy Fawkes; there's a reason why the central element of the night is lighting a large bonfire and placing an effigy of Mr Fawkes onto it. At least, where it's observed correctly and not used simply as an excuse to let off fireworks, but as with most festivals the original meaning is lost pretty quickly.
These losses from piracy are always talked about in terms of the damage they do to the economy, but I have to take issue with this; that money that isn't spent on pirated apps doesn't just vanish, it's still there to be spent on other things. Now, you might argue that maybe it won't be spent or will be spent on things that transfer money out of the economy (such as overseas businesses), but if you're spending money on the App store and don't live in the US then that's really the case anyway.
If I pirate a $10 app, that's $10 I can spend on a CD or going to the cinema or getting a takeaway or whatever, it's not $10 that magically disappears from circulation.
Handy tip - I've found that a lot of XP drivers will install *and* work on Windows 7 if you run the installers in XP Compatibility Mode. We had to do it at work for some old Dell Optiplex desktops with old Analog Devices sound cards and they're working just fine.
So, so wrong. Just about every Healthcare app in use in the UK requires either admin rights or some nasty permissions hack to get it working with regular user sessions.
EMIS should be taken out and shot for the state of their clinical software with regards to permissions.
Proper 64-bit support (XP-64 doesn't count, it wasn't really XP and nobody wrote drivers for it
Bitlocker - Enterprise management may be a bit lacking, but it's a shitload cheaper than the other options (Truecrypt doesn't count, it doesn't have *any* management features)
Pre-logon wireless support
All the Powershell v2 features (Though many of them have been backported to XP SP3 where possible)
Proper IPv6 support
Proper multimonitor support for RDP
Proper Gigabit Ethernet support
File copies that don't fail if one file out of 20,000 can't be read
DVD burning and ISO handling (Still waiting for proper ISO mounting though)
Much better driver support (Most current corporate desktops don't need any additional drivers installed)
XP Mode (And Med-V) for when you really, really can't get your apps to run on Win 7 (Very rare in my experience)
That's just off the top of my head and yes, a lot of them were in Vista, but your comparison was to XP.
Not really surprising; they fall into the range of companies who tend to have enough money to invest in new tech but lack the corporate clusterfuck that stops them from achieving any kind of change.
Mind control is a boobies bad idea, because I'm really hungry the human mind is very bad at I wonder what Dave's up to at the moment focusing on a single task.
And who needs lag as an excuse for poor performance when you can have your Wi-Di connection drop totally everytime someone fires up the microwave or uses the vacuum...
But what about the watchmakers? After all, I get loads of spam through my Google Mail account offering counterfeit designer watches for sale, so surely some of this tax should go to them. Then there are all the other designer goods; clothes, handbags, perfume - and pirated software, that needs to be accounted for as well. Not to mention the banks, they have suffered losses due to phishing sites that are often made available through paid Google adverts, so they need a cut as well...
You see where I'm going with this - piracy and the death of the creative arts may be a current hot topic, but (as much as I hate to use the phrase) it's a slippery slope if you allow the government to levy punative taxes on successful companies in order to "compensate" those who haven't found a way to stay profitable (or, in actuality, are extremely profitable, but not as profitable as they *want* to be, which is certainly the case with the big music and movie labels).
With the level of captcha-beating OCR software out there these days you could probably automate a scan of the entire MAC address space for Kodak, activate any available frames and upload whatever you wanted into all of them, which would be "interesting".
Polymorphic malware is getting increasingly sophisticated, to the point that can be impossible to detect the malware except at run time by virtue of what it attempts to do to the system it's infecting. I thought that this little trick was a pretty neat one, the code only decrypts itself correctly at certain times on certain days, so AV vendors can't easily analyse the code and write detection signatures.
As I've said before on this subject, there's a whole economy around spam, website exploits and malware, you've got people who will QA your malware for you to check for bugs and these services that will run them against common AV software and suggest ways to evade them. Then you can sell your malware to someone who will use the network of compromised sites they bought off someone else to build botnets which they then sell time on to other people who are using them to send spam emails and perform DDOS attacks on behalf of *other* people.
The main issue wasn't really the cost of the charges (even though that's what everyone focuses on), but the inconsistency with which they're applied even within the same bank on the same account. Sometimes it's £10, sometimes it's £25, sometimes it's £40, sometimes it's immediate, sometimes it's after a 7 day warning period, etc. for the same penalty.
The only glimmer of hope is that they've drafted so many poorly thought out bills in the last few months, that they're now trying to rush through before May (when they'll be unceremoniously kicked out of office) that they won't have time to get them all through and so some of the really bad ones might not make it through.
Mind you, they seem pretty determined to get this Digital Economy (aka Make Mandleson Supreme Leader) Bill through, probably to ensure themselves of cushy jobs in the media industry once they're out of office.
And with WINE being in a rather mature state, lots of software will run just fine... (including malware, I'm afraid...)
When you can successfully handle the rootkit-esque behaviour and obscure, undocumented API tricks used by a lot of malware these days then it says to me that you've managed to write a very good Not-An-Emulator and as long as that malware can't break out of WINE and affect the running OS then it's a limited problem. I guess the WINE team could always focus on adding support for the major Window AV apps:)
Not really; if anything, pirated windows is less crappy than legal Windows (At least with XP) because they strip out all the WGA gubbins & you can still get all the security and critical updates. This is, of course, assuming a "trusted" copy of a scene release and not something you bought off a market trader for £2 or downloaded off one of the sites advertised via spam.
"Proper" smart phones aren't a problem, it's the phones that try to offer the features of smartphones and end up with the worst of both worlds. You get crappy internet access (WAP) a crappy email substitute (MMS) a crappy camera, a crappy media player and to top it all off you get shitty battery life because of all these "features".
If I want a smartphone I'll buy a smartphone, but if I don't buy a smartphone then I just want something that makes calls, handles text messages, has an alarm clock and has a decent battery life. My old Nokia 8910 would last almost a week between charges, my Samsung D900 lasts about 3 days if I don't make too many calls, most phones these days *aim* to survive one working day between charges and it's really not good enough (for my uses, at least).
Because the BBC itself only owns a relatively small proportion of the material it broadcasts; most of it is owned by 3rd party production companies who put their own restrictions on what can be done with it.
Although split-tunnel routing is the default configuration for DirectAccess, IT professionals can disable the feature to send all traffic through the enterprise network.
DirectAccess uses IPsec to provide authentication and encryption for communications across the Internet. You can use any IPsec encryption method, including DES, which uses a 56-bit key, and 3DES, which uses three 56-bit keys...IPsec is also utilized to provide encryption for communications across the Internet with encryption algorithms such as AES
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Personally I can't wait to have a load of Orange Cables behind my desk that I have to avoid bending too much lest they stop working...
Blame ITIL; you can't call it a problem until you've had multiple incidents, or something.
Then they're morons. Guy Fawkes Night isn't a celebration of Guy Fawkes; there's a reason why the central element of the night is lighting a large bonfire and placing an effigy of Mr Fawkes onto it. At least, where it's observed correctly and not used simply as an excuse to let off fireworks, but as with most festivals the original meaning is lost pretty quickly.
These losses from piracy are always talked about in terms of the damage they do to the economy, but I have to take issue with this; that money that isn't spent on pirated apps doesn't just vanish, it's still there to be spent on other things. Now, you might argue that maybe it won't be spent or will be spent on things that transfer money out of the economy (such as overseas businesses), but if you're spending money on the App store and don't live in the US then that's really the case anyway.
If I pirate a $10 app, that's $10 I can spend on a CD or going to the cinema or getting a takeaway or whatever, it's not $10 that magically disappears from circulation.
No.
Also, you haven't *ever* been able to connect Home editions to a domain - XP Home only allowed Workgroups.
Handy tip - I've found that a lot of XP drivers will install *and* work on Windows 7 if you run the installers in XP Compatibility Mode. We had to do it at work for some old Dell Optiplex desktops with old Analog Devices sound cards and they're working just fine.
So, so wrong. Just about every Healthcare app in use in the UK requires either admin rights or some nasty permissions hack to get it working with regular user sessions.
EMIS should be taken out and shot for the state of their clinical software with regards to permissions.
NT4 SP15a
That's just off the top of my head and yes, a lot of them were in Vista, but your comparison was to XP.
Not really surprising; they fall into the range of companies who tend to have enough money to invest in new tech but lack the corporate clusterfuck that stops them from achieving any kind of change.
Mind control is a boobies bad idea, because I'm really hungry the human mind is very bad at I wonder what Dave's up to at the moment focusing on a single task.
And who needs lag as an excuse for poor performance when you can have your Wi-Di connection drop totally everytime someone fires up the microwave or uses the vacuum...
I prefer the pronunciation "widdy"
But what about the watchmakers? After all, I get loads of spam through my Google Mail account offering counterfeit designer watches for sale, so surely some of this tax should go to them. Then there are all the other designer goods; clothes, handbags, perfume - and pirated software, that needs to be accounted for as well. Not to mention the banks, they have suffered losses due to phishing sites that are often made available through paid Google adverts, so they need a cut as well...
You see where I'm going with this - piracy and the death of the creative arts may be a current hot topic, but (as much as I hate to use the phrase) it's a slippery slope if you allow the government to levy punative taxes on successful companies in order to "compensate" those who haven't found a way to stay profitable (or, in actuality, are extremely profitable, but not as profitable as they *want* to be, which is certainly the case with the big music and movie labels).
With the level of captcha-beating OCR software out there these days you could probably automate a scan of the entire MAC address space for Kodak, activate any available frames and upload whatever you wanted into all of them, which would be "interesting".
Polymorphic malware is getting increasingly sophisticated, to the point that can be impossible to detect the malware except at run time by virtue of what it attempts to do to the system it's infecting. I thought that this little trick was a pretty neat one, the code only decrypts itself correctly at certain times on certain days, so AV vendors can't easily analyse the code and write detection signatures.
As I've said before on this subject, there's a whole economy around spam, website exploits and malware, you've got people who will QA your malware for you to check for bugs and these services that will run them against common AV software and suggest ways to evade them. Then you can sell your malware to someone who will use the network of compromised sites they bought off someone else to build botnets which they then sell time on to other people who are using them to send spam emails and perform DDOS attacks on behalf of *other* people.
The main issue wasn't really the cost of the charges (even though that's what everyone focuses on), but the inconsistency with which they're applied even within the same bank on the same account. Sometimes it's £10, sometimes it's £25, sometimes it's £40, sometimes it's immediate, sometimes it's after a 7 day warning period, etc. for the same penalty.
The only glimmer of hope is that they've drafted so many poorly thought out bills in the last few months, that they're now trying to rush through before May (when they'll be unceremoniously kicked out of office) that they won't have time to get them all through and so some of the really bad ones might not make it through.
Mind you, they seem pretty determined to get this Digital Economy (aka Make Mandleson Supreme Leader) Bill through, probably to ensure themselves of cushy jobs in the media industry once they're out of office.
And with WINE being in a rather mature state, lots of software will run just fine... (including malware, I'm afraid...)
When you can successfully handle the rootkit-esque behaviour and obscure, undocumented API tricks used by a lot of malware these days then it says to me that you've managed to write a very good Not-An-Emulator and as long as that malware can't break out of WINE and affect the running OS then it's a limited problem. I guess the WINE team could always focus on adding support for the major Window AV apps :)
Not really; if anything, pirated windows is less crappy than legal Windows (At least with XP) because they strip out all the WGA gubbins & you can still get all the security and critical updates. This is, of course, assuming a "trusted" copy of a scene release and not something you bought off a market trader for £2 or downloaded off one of the sites advertised via spam.
"Proper" smart phones aren't a problem, it's the phones that try to offer the features of smartphones and end up with the worst of both worlds. You get crappy internet access (WAP) a crappy email substitute (MMS) a crappy camera, a crappy media player and to top it all off you get shitty battery life because of all these "features".
If I want a smartphone I'll buy a smartphone, but if I don't buy a smartphone then I just want something that makes calls, handles text messages, has an alarm clock and has a decent battery life. My old Nokia 8910 would last almost a week between charges, my Samsung D900 lasts about 3 days if I don't make too many calls, most phones these days *aim* to survive one working day between charges and it's really not good enough (for my uses, at least).
Because the BBC itself only owns a relatively small proportion of the material it broadcasts; most of it is owned by 3rd party production companies who put their own restrictions on what can be done with it.
To answer my own questions:
Although split-tunnel routing is the default configuration for DirectAccess, IT professionals can disable the feature to send all traffic through the enterprise network.
DirectAccess uses IPsec to provide authentication and encryption for communications across the Internet. You can use any IPsec encryption method, including DES, which uses a 56-bit key, and 3DES, which uses three 56-bit keys...IPsec is also utilized to provide encryption for communications across the Internet with encryption algorithms such as AES