DirectAccess is actually much more VPNy than Microsoft like to claim, it's just more transparent to the user. Authentication can be simply an AD username/password if you want or two-factor authentication like any other VPN and it's not like users can just connect into your network without any control on your part (unless you're an incompetent admin, ditto on the auditing). I'm not sure about the split tunnelling aspect; I would be very surprised if you *can't* disable it when authenticated, but I haven't dug into it in enough detail to say for sure.
Microsoft have somewhat shot themselves in the foot by making all the "it's not a VPN" claims; it *is* a VPN really, just without the need for a dedicated concentrator and additional software on the clients.
As other people have pointed out, China is already openly and unashamedly blocking and censoring political and cultural information it doesn't like; this is actually primarily about porn, which the government sees as corrupting and immoral.
It's not like we're "allowing" it. We've got an unelected Prime Minister who appointed an unelected (and twice resigned) megalomaniac as Secretary of State (amongst other things) and a population who are largely technically illiterate and apathetic about everything that doesn't involve the X-Factor.
In short, we're buggered until at least May (when the next lot will at least have to pretend to do what they promised during the elections for 6 months or so).
The British Isles are a group of islands off the northwest coast of continental Europe that include Great Britain, Ireland and over six-thousand smaller islands. There are two sovereign states located on the islands: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Ireland. The British Isles also include the Crown Dependencies of the Isle of Man and, by tradition, the Channel Islands, although the latter are not physically a part of the island group.
Though a lot of people get upset about including Ireland (ROI, not Northern Ireland) as part of the British Isles for obvious reasons.
Who said anything about it being beneficial? That's a rather piss-poor strawman.
The argument is that despite Hollywood decrying piracy as being be downfall of the movie industry, that they were losing money hand over fist, that ordinary people in the industry were losing their jobs left, right and centre because of it, that the entire economy of America was in danger because of these dangerous pirates, who were probably also funding international terrorism and all paedophiles as well, they've somehow managed to make record profits during a substantial recession.
It was easy, in days gone by, to try demos before you bought games, but these days you're lucky to get a demo at all, let alone one that's available before the game is actually released.
Add to that the fact that if there is a demo available prior to release then unless it's on Steam you're usually stuck between buying a magazine with a coverdisc containing the demo or queuing for hours on one of the many slow and difficult to navigate download sites (Fileplanet and the like).
The only demos I've played in recent memory were L4D2 and Football Manager 2010 (although the latter was mostly to satisfy my craving until the game was released rather than to try it out), both available on Steam.
GROUPAMA is not offended at seing the bailiff JEAN-CLAUDE DAIGREMONT and the judicial expert JEAN-MARIE HUOT in charge of the seizure of September 7th, 2005 at 22-28 Joubert street PARIS 9th, refusing to seize evidences pretexting that they did not exist (they reported that the 10.249.x.x network did not exist) -a fact that their own official report denies (a FINAMA bank router returned the 10.249.80.49 network address -FOUR TIMES).
They do appear to be referring to the internal network of FINAMA bank.
The EU Council of Ministers is an unelected body of the usual group of money-grabbing power-hungry and our of touch morons who do whatever you want if you've got the cash. The EU parliament (which *is* an elected body) on the other hand, has thus far been pretty good at representing the wishes of its constituents and has managed to thwart the CoM's attempts to force through some corporate-sponsored legislation against the wishes of the citizenry on several occasions.
As much as I dislike the Lisbon Treaty, one good thing to come out of it is increased power for the parliament at the expense of the CoM. The sooner they are removed from any kind of decision making the better.
I've read quite a lot of articles about these link farms and associated spam emails, some are designed to spread malware to create botnets which can then be resold á la CPU time on supercomputers and others are designed to send traffic to websites of dubious repute such as Canadian Pharmacy. Some of these sites pay a shitload of money to people who can refer traffic to them, claims of $100,000 a day being made by some of these link spammers.
There's a whole economy around spam, website hacks and malware these days, you've even got people who will QA your malware for you to check for bugs and others who 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 on behalf of *other* people.
The saddest thing is they're generally a lot more efficient than legit businesses, because they have to be to stay profitable and out of jail.
Unfortunately, it's a long-standing tradition that IP addresses should be used as a unique identifier; we've got 1.3 million people behind a handful of IP addresses at work and it causes no end of fun when people like Microsoft decide to blacklist them within Live Mail for sending too high a volume of email and therefore being a spam bot, which they've done twice this year so far..
As I posted above, over 50% of the UK mobile phone market is made up of pre-paid phones; it would be utterly devastating to the industry to do away with PAYG phones.
During the first six months of the year, state Department of Transportation workers faced 101 significant IT outages totaling 4,677 hours: an average of more than 46 hours per outage. One took 360 hours to fix.
That's 27 weeks of downtime in the space of 26 weeks, which raises a much more important question than why there's no network redundancy and that question is: What kind of fucking morons have they got running their systems?
I've never had any problems getting my laptop in and out of the US when I travel there, despite the potential problems - I guess I just don't look suspicious enough.
The best part of RIPA is that if you genuinely do no know the encryption key then the onus is on you to prove it, otherwise the assumption is that you do know and are simply witholding the information; off to jail for 5 years...
They'll have taken the standard approach of asking the brokers to verify that all the data had been collected legally (for example, by people ticking or forgetting to tick the tiny box in the middle of all the small print at the bottom of a form they filled out), the brokers would have lied - or already been "lied" to by the T-Mobile staff and everyone would have carried on as before.
I very much doubt that the ICO can or will do much to sanction the other providers.
The point is that it requires a hard reboot; the machine becomes unresponsive and doesn't throw a BSOD so you can't restart it with a three finger salute.
If anything, Microsoft is moving *more* stuff to the CLI. Look at Exchange 2007; half the management tasks can *only* be carried out from the Powershell management interface and it looks like they're headed the same way with most of the new versions of their core apps (including Server core, obviously).
Not that it's a bad thing (I love Powershell, having been stuck with VBScript for automating Windows admin tasks for years).
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DirectAccess is actually much more VPNy than Microsoft like to claim, it's just more transparent to the user. Authentication can be simply an AD username/password if you want or two-factor authentication like any other VPN and it's not like users can just connect into your network without any control on your part (unless you're an incompetent admin, ditto on the auditing). I'm not sure about the split tunnelling aspect; I would be very surprised if you *can't* disable it when authenticated, but I haven't dug into it in enough detail to say for sure.
Microsoft have somewhat shot themselves in the foot by making all the "it's not a VPN" claims; it *is* a VPN really, just without the need for a dedicated concentrator and additional software on the clients.
As other people have pointed out, China is already openly and unashamedly blocking and censoring political and cultural information it doesn't like; this is actually primarily about porn, which the government sees as corrupting and immoral.
It's not like we're "allowing" it. We've got an unelected Prime Minister who appointed an unelected (and twice resigned) megalomaniac as Secretary of State (amongst other things) and a population who are largely technically illiterate and apathetic about everything that doesn't involve the X-Factor.
In short, we're buggered until at least May (when the next lot will at least have to pretend to do what they promised during the elections for 6 months or so).
The British Isles are a group of islands off the northwest coast of continental Europe that include Great Britain, Ireland and over six-thousand smaller islands. There are two sovereign states located on the islands: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Ireland. The British Isles also include the Crown Dependencies of the Isle of Man and, by tradition, the Channel Islands, although the latter are not physically a part of the island group.
Though a lot of people get upset about including Ireland (ROI, not Northern Ireland) as part of the British Isles for obvious reasons.
Who said anything about it being beneficial? That's a rather piss-poor strawman.
The argument is that despite Hollywood decrying piracy as being be downfall of the movie industry, that they were losing money hand over fist, that ordinary people in the industry were losing their jobs left, right and centre because of it, that the entire economy of America was in danger because of these dangerous pirates, who were probably also funding international terrorism and all paedophiles as well, they've somehow managed to make record profits during a substantial recession.
It was easy, in days gone by, to try demos before you bought games, but these days you're lucky to get a demo at all, let alone one that's available before the game is actually released.
Add to that the fact that if there is a demo available prior to release then unless it's on Steam you're usually stuck between buying a magazine with a coverdisc containing the demo or queuing for hours on one of the many slow and difficult to navigate download sites (Fileplanet and the like).
The only demos I've played in recent memory were L4D2 and Football Manager 2010 (although the latter was mostly to satisfy my craving until the game was released rather than to try it out), both available on Steam.
29% to 63% *of Steam users*
My usual typo is .copm
From the open letter to the French president (Google Docs PDF), although the English takes some effort to comprehend:
GROUPAMA is not offended at seing the bailiff JEAN-CLAUDE DAIGREMONT and the judicial expert JEAN-MARIE HUOT in charge of the seizure of September 7th, 2005 at 22-28 Joubert street PARIS 9th, refusing to seize evidences pretexting that they did not exist (they reported that the 10.249.x.x network did not exist) -a fact that their own official report denies (a FINAMA bank router returned the 10.249.80.49 network address -FOUR TIMES).
They do appear to be referring to the internal network of FINAMA bank.
The EU Council of Ministers is an unelected body of the usual group of money-grabbing power-hungry and our of touch morons who do whatever you want if you've got the cash. The EU parliament (which *is* an elected body) on the other hand, has thus far been pretty good at representing the wishes of its constituents and has managed to thwart the CoM's attempts to force through some corporate-sponsored legislation against the wishes of the citizenry on several occasions.
As much as I dislike the Lisbon Treaty, one good thing to come out of it is increased power for the parliament at the expense of the CoM. The sooner they are removed from any kind of decision making the better.
I've read quite a lot of articles about these link farms and associated spam emails, some are designed to spread malware to create botnets which can then be resold á la CPU time on supercomputers and others are designed to send traffic to websites of dubious repute such as Canadian Pharmacy. Some of these sites pay a shitload of money to people who can refer traffic to them, claims of $100,000 a day being made by some of these link spammers.
There's a whole economy around spam, website hacks and malware these days, you've even got people who will QA your malware for you to check for bugs and others who 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 on behalf of *other* people.
The saddest thing is they're generally a lot more efficient than legit businesses, because they have to be to stay profitable and out of jail.
Unfortunately, it's a long-standing tradition that IP addresses should be used as a unique identifier; we've got 1.3 million people behind a handful of IP addresses at work and it causes no end of fun when people like Microsoft decide to blacklist them within Live Mail for sending too high a volume of email and therefore being a spam bot, which they've done twice this year so far..
As I posted above, over 50% of the UK mobile phone market is made up of pre-paid phones; it would be utterly devastating to the industry to do away with PAYG phones.
And lose a *huge* chunk of their revenue. According to Ofcom 55% of mobile phones in the UK are pre-paid or PAYG (Look under the "Telecoms" section).
During the first six months of the year, state Department of Transportation workers faced 101 significant IT outages totaling 4,677 hours: an average of more than 46 hours per outage. One took 360 hours to fix.
That's 27 weeks of downtime in the space of 26 weeks, which raises a much more important question than why there's no network redundancy and that question is: What kind of fucking morons have they got running their systems?
I've never had any problems getting my laptop in and out of the US when I travel there, despite the potential problems - I guess I just don't look suspicious enough.
*Any* Jonas Brothers CDs should be considered a serious issue.
*Northern* Ireland
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2275
The best part of RIPA is that if you genuinely do no know the encryption key then the onus is on you to prove it, otherwise the assumption is that you do know and are simply witholding the information; off to jail for 5 years...
They'll have taken the standard approach of asking the brokers to verify that all the data had been collected legally (for example, by people ticking or forgetting to tick the tiny box in the middle of all the small print at the bottom of a form they filled out), the brokers would have lied - or already been "lied" to by the T-Mobile staff and everyone would have carried on as before.
I very much doubt that the ICO can or will do much to sanction the other providers.
139 is NETBIOS, 445 is SMB.
139 is used for discovery and browsing of network shares (Primarily on legacy machines), 445 is the "current" port for accessing network shares.
The point is that it requires a hard reboot; the machine becomes unresponsive and doesn't throw a BSOD so you can't restart it with a three finger salute.
If anything, Microsoft is moving *more* stuff to the CLI. Look at Exchange 2007; half the management tasks can *only* be carried out from the Powershell management interface and it looks like they're headed the same way with most of the new versions of their core apps (including Server core, obviously).
Not that it's a bad thing (I love Powershell, having been stuck with VBScript for automating Windows admin tasks for years).
You forgot about the critical function they perform in trolling and rickrolling.