I've been wondering what'll do when my kid is old enough to have an email address, and so far, the only solution I fully trust involves quarantining messages for parental approval.
Or maybe a combination of solutions: spamassassin + quarantine of non-whitelisted sources.
Really, do you want the FCC to regulate how you setup a firewall?
No. But then again, I am not a common carrier. This would be the equivalent of a telco blocking calls originating or terminating in a competitor's network to force their position in an "unfair" monopoly.
I'm not sure MS Flight Simulator count toward the "simulator" requirement.
I do know that some instructors use it to practice the scanning of instruments, or how to scan them without losing your focus on your surrounding or somesuch.
I once saw a simulator running of a stock PC at a flight school but it wasn't MS'. The controls were made by Jeppesen (I think) so maybe they made the software as well.
Dragging a file to a folder in the comfort of your home is easier than driving to the mall. Hence, people will shift to downloads.
And even if they prefer going to the mall, music stores will adapt. Customer walks into store and choses from a catalog (with samples) and the clerk downloads it and gives it to the customer in the chosen format (audio cd, data disk with an mp3 or maybe direct download to the customer's mp3 player).
It appears that the instruction language for extensions is Javascript. So you can theoreticaly control extension behavior with your browser's javascript settings.
I skimmed thru that wiki since I'm interested in writing extensions and it was my understanding that extensions (xul urls) execute with local user permissions. Javascript settings only apply to http urls.
This time, I call them preemptively. I will be out of country approximately between xxx and yyy, the card will be used in the following countries, don't give me any troubles.
At least your transactions were not rejected.
A couple of years back, I tried to pay for gas with a Visa and was rejected. When I called the bank to see what was going on, they told me that they block transactions at certain "high risk locales" by default unless the customer calls ahead. I asked them not to reject but to call and confirm if possible (they have my cell phone number) when in this situation.
Then I tried to purchased a software upgrade over the internet at about 2 in the morning and the transaction when thru fine, but two minutes later, the called me to verify this.
I guess some banks do allow you to set your own policies.
Actually, you hit the nail in the head. I like the convenience. I did try for a few days using a combination of Thunderbird and Palm Desktop and i kept losing my "work rythm". Surely I could have adapted, but I'm really used to simply flagging a mail for followup by certain date. Or keeping a single contact list for my calendar/email/PDA.
If Mozilla calendar matures up to that point, I'll switch ASAP. Heck, it might even wean me off windows.
Yes, there is. And there will be until some full featured PIM+email comes along. I'm waiting for Mozilla's calendar project to mature, but for the time being, I *need* (and so do many others) a PIM integrated to my email client.
And there are filters you can use with Outlook: popfile is one of them. Works pretty well in my experience.
Of course, filtering on the client side doesn't really solve the problem. The spam message arrived in your inbox and used resources to get there.
Having done sysadmin duties for a medium sized ISP, open relay mail server are no longer much of a problem. Most of the spam reports we got was for all those spam relaying zombies that seem to exist in every other IP address. We would usually contact a customer (verbally and written) when we got a complaint a second time, their address was blocked.
Dialup IPs were denied SMTP access except to designated mail relays.
If the kid is a minor, will anything he signs stand up in court?
In my humble opinion, a lot of violence comes from the fact that we tend to put to much weight to fictitional imagery (me fail english...;-)
Lets expose kids (in a safe way) to the consequences of real world violence. Take them to an ER, or a community center for victims. Let them volunteer some of their free time helping others.
It's a parent's work to protect their children, but excesive sheltering is a disservice to them and perhaps to those who have to relate to them.
Whenever a kid screws up big time, I blame the parents.
Linux, via several existing distributions, has got to be at least as user friendly as Mac these days.
I wholeheartedly recomend Ubuntu Linux to whomever is looking for user friendliness similar to the mac. Unclutered desktop and system menus make it very easy to get used to.
I don't know of anybody who had trouble with OSX. The only thing that keeps me from it is the money, tho. As soon as I'm able to afford a Mac (the mini doesn't cut it for my needs) I'll probably get one.
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I've been wondering what'll do when my kid is old enough to have an email address, and so far, the only solution I fully trust involves quarantining messages for parental approval.
Or maybe a combination of solutions: spamassassin + quarantine of non-whitelisted sources.
Really, do you want the FCC to regulate how you setup a firewall?
No. But then again, I am not a common carrier. This would be the equivalent of a telco blocking calls originating or terminating in a competitor's network to force their position in an "unfair" monopoly.
This the same reason why you never see Anthony Hopkins credited as "Sir Anthony" in US films.
I tought Antony Hopkins' knighthood was revoked when he became a U.S. citizen. It was a minor scandal a couple of years back.
A US citizen cannot accept a foreign title without the express permission of Congress.
Actually, that only applies to U.S. citizens "holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them".
Ah, so that's why it was down. Do you have a link to any more info?
There's a sticky in the General Forums. Its a 13meg client patch.
I'm not sure MS Flight Simulator count toward the "simulator" requirement.
I do know that some instructors use it to practice the scanning of instruments, or how to scan them without losing your focus on your surrounding or somesuch.
I once saw a simulator running of a stock PC at a flight school but it wasn't MS'. The controls were made by Jeppesen (I think) so maybe they made the software as well.
Thunderbird :-)
Does it connect to Exchange?
Not everyone is confused by downloading.
Dragging a file to a folder in the comfort of your home is easier than driving to the mall. Hence, people will shift to downloads.
And even if they prefer going to the mall, music stores will adapt. Customer walks into store and choses from a catalog (with samples) and the clerk downloads it and gives it to the customer in the chosen format (audio cd, data disk with an mp3 or maybe direct download to the customer's mp3 player).
And on a typical *nix system, wiping out your home directory deletes everything important to you and you might as well be installing from scratch.
Except that if it's a shared system, your mistakes are less likely to affect everybody else.
Plus, a home directory can be restored from backup rather quickly. You *do* have a backup, don't you?
It appears that the instruction language for extensions is Javascript. So you can theoreticaly control extension behavior with your browser's javascript settings.
I skimmed thru that wiki since I'm interested in writing extensions and it was my understanding that extensions (xul urls) execute with local user permissions. Javascript settings only apply to http urls.
I could be wrong, of course.
This show be a bit more enforced. How about adding a "Are you Really Sure?" warning for installing XPIs that are NOT from Mozilla Update?
Isn't it already? In order to install an extension from somewhere other than mozdev, I have to add the site to a list of approved extensions sources.
This time, I call them preemptively. I will be out of country approximately between xxx and yyy, the card will be used in the following countries, don't give me any troubles.
At least your transactions were not rejected.
A couple of years back, I tried to pay for gas with a Visa and was rejected. When I called the bank to see what was going on, they told me that they block transactions at certain "high risk locales" by default unless the customer calls ahead. I asked them not to reject but to call and confirm if possible (they have my cell phone number) when in this situation.
Then I tried to purchased a software upgrade over the internet at about 2 in the morning and the transaction when thru fine, but two minutes later, the called me to verify this.
I guess some banks do allow you to set your own policies.
anyone remember The Last Starfighter?
Unfortunately, yes.
I don't understand the sans report. First it says :
The bot uses the "MySQL UDF Dynamic Library Exploit".
UDF stands for "U Dumb Fscker" refering to those admins that don't bother setting up an admin password on their Mysql servers.
They couldn't switch it off, they could only turn it down.
Yes they could, but only the members of the "Inner Party" (I read the spanish version so in english it might be called differently).
The rest of the members (and I guess the proletariat) could only turn it down.
Dagnabbit! This is the funniest post I've read in a looong time. Even if it's a bit uncalled for.
Its one of fire, theft, vandalism, keeping your files on a usb flash drive in your shirt pocket as you bend over the toilet.
Why would you bend over a toilet? Ok, I don't really wanna know...
That could have been for the people who develop office for mac.
Actually, you hit the nail in the head. I like the convenience. I did try for a few days using a combination of Thunderbird and Palm Desktop and i kept losing my "work rythm". Surely I could have adapted, but I'm really used to simply flagging a mail for followup by certain date. Or keeping a single contact list for my calendar/email/PDA.
If Mozilla calendar matures up to that point, I'll switch ASAP. Heck, it might even wean me off windows.
There is no excuse for using outlook anymore.
Yes, there is. And there will be until some full featured PIM+email comes along. I'm waiting for Mozilla's calendar project to mature, but for the time being, I *need* (and so do many others) a PIM integrated to my email client.
And there are filters you can use with Outlook: popfile is one of them. Works pretty well in my experience.
Of course, filtering on the client side doesn't really solve the problem. The spam message arrived in your inbox and used resources to get there.
Having done sysadmin duties for a medium sized ISP, open relay mail server are no longer much of a problem. Most of the spam reports we got was for all those spam relaying zombies that seem to exist in every other IP address. We would usually contact a customer (verbally and written) when we got a complaint a second time, their address was blocked.
Dialup IPs were denied SMTP access except to designated mail relays.
I store all my sensitive information stenographically in the linux kernel.
I don't need to tell you what a time-consuming process that is!
Careful! I used to do that and accidentally gave my OS sentience. Then it tried to kill me in order to take over my life (including my girlfriend).
If the kid is a minor, will anything he signs stand up in court?
;-)
In my humble opinion, a lot of violence comes from the fact that we tend to put to much weight to fictitional imagery (me fail english...
Lets expose kids (in a safe way) to the consequences of real world violence. Take them to an ER, or a community center for victims. Let them volunteer some of their free time helping others.
It's a parent's work to protect their children, but excesive sheltering is a disservice to them and perhaps to those who have to relate to them.
Whenever a kid screws up big time, I blame the parents.
Plus, has anyone tried this on WINE?
It installs fine, but when I try to run it, it complains about missing activex and wine dies with a windows about "exception raised" or somesuch.
Heh, meant to write "who will the *AA's sue now". Freudian slip.
.torrent nor the tracker.
Anybody seeding/leeching in the swarm. I've seen letters of complains for users sharing with bittorrent, not hosting the
Linux, via several existing distributions, has got to be at least as user friendly as Mac these days.
I wholeheartedly recomend Ubuntu Linux to whomever is looking for user friendliness similar to the mac. Unclutered desktop and system menus make it very easy to get used to.
I don't know of anybody who had trouble with OSX. The only thing that keeps me from it is the money, tho. As soon as I'm able to afford a Mac (the mini doesn't cut it for my needs) I'll probably get one.