I'm not sure what the problem is. Judging from my connection speeds, I doubt it's loads of users - I consistently eat up 200, 250KB/sec of bandwidth on downloads with no trouble.
i just use DNS2Go to keep my domain name pointed straight and all is well.
I just searched over the Comcast website - they appear to be using @home, and the TOS link directs you the the standard @home TOS service agreement. There's nothing in there about owning IP that goes over the network - the section that may have confused you is Title, ownership rights, and intellectual property rights in the Software shall remain in @Home and/or it licensors. The Software is protected by copyright laws and treaties. Title and related rights in the content accessed through the Software is the property of the applicable content owner and may be protected by applicable law. This License gives you no rights to such content
Which applies to the @home network software, not content you're sending over the pipe.
I'm really happy with my service from them too, but my IP changes up to 3 times a day - and sometimes the DHCP server seems to clog and I lose my connection for an hour or so. Annoying.
Some genius a few years back decided that green was more noticable than red. Thats why they repainted all the fire trucks that ugly yellow-green-piss color. Fire truck accidents jumped by some huge percentage, everyone silently agreed it was a stupid idea, and painted the trucks red again. I guess they never bothered to change the exit sign spec, tho.
Lets contrast something else: Swordmaking, or weaponsmithing in general. A sword (or program) can be dull, unembellished and brutally functional. It also can be highly ornamented, with gems and gold and what have you, and be of no practical use at all. Or, it can be elegent and strong and flexible, a work of the swordmakers art, and also be an excellent and highly functional weapon. Just because something is practical doesn't mean that it's creation isn't an art.
Umm... part of the whole POINT of this thread is that MS doens't tell people about it's vulnerabilities, prefering to hide them and fix them (or not!) in the next version.
Some other numbers from securityfocus.com:
Number of OS Vulnerabilities by Year
OS 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
RedHat 6 10 47 95 54
Windows NT/2000 10 8 78 97 42
I managed to break a win95 machine using an old version of Netscape (4.x?) once, by doing something stupid at the install window for a program i was downloading - I managed to redefine the the file assosciation for.exe files. Was a huge pain in the butt (can't fire up regedit.exe, etc, etc....)
BUT, all versions of windows to date ship with this option turned OFF, it's difficult to find for the casual user, who most often doesn't even know it exists.
Trivial example: Joe sixpack goes to some porn site, say autopr0n.com. Joe is responsible and well informed for a member of the Sixpack family. He decides to buy a membership, but makes sure to read the privacy policy first. As is the case in a few sites I've seen, documents such as the privacy policy are PDF files. Joe clicks on the link, clicks "Open" (because he knows that PDF files can be shown in his browser, and does't feel like tracking down the downloaded file) and gets owned.
You could do this much easier simply by having a complaint form on your local intranet, and then you don't need to worry about your users getting Outlook viruses.
Features are great, and all, but if you're implementing things in such a way that your users are explosed to security risks, when there are easier(or at least AS easy) alternatives without the risk, you need to review YOU policies.
As for disabling scripting, one of the reason these viruses spread so far and so fast is that the VAST majority of users don't know that theres an issue, don't know what setting addresses the issue, don't know where to find the setting, and don't assume that thier software will wipe thier machine in it's out of the box configuration.
One of my biggest issues with the FF series, and, to a lesser degree Chrono Cross/Trigger, is that in order to get all the neat stuff, you have to ignore the plot. For example, when some Renoa gets sick in FF 8, you'd think that you'd be hurrying back to wherever you're supposed to go to fix her up. But theres all kinds of exploring and card gaming and items to get that you can only get at that time. Or just before then end, when you're "in a rush" to save the world - it's one of the best times to spend a couple years of game time hauling around the map killing stuff and picking up anything you forgot.
So make your own LOTR movie, post it on some fanboy site somewhere, and wait for everyone to rip YOU a new asshole about how much it sucks. I never like the LOTR books anyway - Tolkien was a linguistics professor and wrote like one. The characters are dry, the interpersonal conflict and relationships are marginal at best, and the dialoge is dreary. The books are important in that they added a whole new realm to the fantasy genre, and the story is epic and fascinating, but a better author could have written a much more engaging story.
I saw one of these parked in front of Freedom Park in SF a few years ago. There was a huge crowd of punks hanging out in front of it that kept shoving it every time it turned off. Great fun. I always wondered what the guy who owned the car did when he came back and found 30 punks molesting his car.
You made the parent's point very well - because basketball is socially acceptable, i.e., people approve of you playing it and will spend money to see you do it, it's okay.
As a side note, what would you think of someone who was obessessed with half-life, knew the entire game, payed (lots) of money to watch pro half-life players play (they do exist), and yet hardly ever actually played half-life and was no good at it? A no-life loser, probably. And yet, substitude {football|baseball|hockey|basketball} for half-life and you get Joe Sixpack.
Yeah, but it doesn't HAVE that long to track you. They want to use it on mortar shells with a 20 second window. Assuming that you can cut even 50% of the power down, that means they've only got 10 seconds to destroy your mortar shell. On a side note, how fast can this thing pivot and focus? If it takes, say, 5 seconds to blow up a mortar shell, all you need to do is toss 5 shells at it (3 if you put chrome on em) and you've just taken out an enormously expensive laser for the cost of 5 mortar shells.
Just about the single common factor in software EULAs and licenses of all types is the disclaimer of warranty, even the implied warranty of "fitness for a purpose". I think this is fine for free software (You get what you pay for), but as soon as someone charges you money for it, especially the big money they charge in enterprise solutions, I think that shield should go right out the window. I gave you money for a product, and if that product does not perform as advertised, then you owe me a refund. I think there needs to be some sort of limit to liabilty (some multiple of the purchase price, perhaps), otherwise the commercial software industry would immediatly shoot down the tubes, but SOME measure of responsibility (NOT "Service Agreements" that you pay extra for) would have a vastly benefical effect on the industry.
IANA(copyright)L, but I believe that this would fall under fair use, just as if you photocopied a book into a larger resolution for someone who was blind. Of course, this being digital and all, all bets are off. Since the sorenson codec is proprietary, could it be considered encryption?
In my (fairly limited) experience, a spook is a intelligence operative. THerefore, it can be CIA, NSA, even Secret Service. Anyone who operates in secret and who's job is intelligence.
Fremen: Think Jewish culture/history with Arabic religious beliefs. Fremen mythology is taken more or less whole cloth from medieval Islam, but the culture of the peoples (Outcasts, constant traveling, persecution making them hard and pragmatic, fanatical tribal loyalty) are taken from Judaism.
There are NO Wierding Modules in the book. Theres the Wierding Way, which is the Fremen name for the martial arts/internal control taught by the Bene Gesserit.
"Wierding Modules" were David Lynch's hack to try to make an totally interior ability something he could show in a film.
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That doesn't mean that mass has nothing to do with it. It just means that if you apply sufficent braking power(friction), you can stop anything. But a fully loaded train will need more braking power, or take longer to stop, than an unloaded one. Mass.
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Ran without a hitch on my win2k system. Maybe it's you.
I'm not sure what the problem is. Judging from my connection speeds, I doubt it's loads of users - I consistently eat up 200, 250KB/sec of bandwidth on downloads with no trouble.
i just use DNS2Go to keep my domain name pointed straight and all is well.
I just searched over the Comcast website - they appear to be using @home, and the TOS link directs you the the standard @home TOS service agreement. There's nothing in there about owning IP that goes over the network - the section that may have confused you is
Title, ownership rights, and intellectual property rights in the Software shall remain in @Home and/or it licensors. The Software is protected by copyright laws and treaties. Title and related rights in the content accessed through the Software is the property of the applicable content owner and may be protected by applicable law. This License gives you no rights to such content
Which applies to the @home network software, not content you're sending over the pipe.
I'm really happy with my service from them too, but my IP changes up to 3 times a day - and sometimes the DHCP server seems to clog and I lose my connection for an hour or so. Annoying.
I've seen condoms where they used featureless "tubes", unattached to the body for the instructions. Musta been german.
Some genius a few years back decided that green was more noticable than red. Thats why they repainted all the fire trucks that ugly yellow-green-piss color. Fire truck accidents jumped by some huge percentage, everyone silently agreed it was a stupid idea, and painted the trucks red again. I guess they never bothered to change the exit sign spec, tho.
Lets contrast something else: Swordmaking, or weaponsmithing in general. A sword (or program) can be dull, unembellished and brutally functional. It also can be highly ornamented, with gems and gold and what have you, and be of no practical use at all. Or, it can be elegent and strong and flexible, a work of the swordmakers art, and also be an excellent and highly functional weapon. Just because something is practical doesn't mean that it's creation isn't an art.
Well, with IE 5.5sp2(NT4.0), the vulnerability works exactly as described in the article.
Umm... part of the whole POINT of this thread is that MS doens't tell people about it's vulnerabilities, prefering to hide them and fix them (or not!) in the next version.
Some other numbers from securityfocus.com:
Number of OS Vulnerabilities by Year
OS 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
RedHat 6 10 47 95 54
Windows NT/2000 10 8 78 97 42
And unformatted because of silly slashdot *bonk*
I managed to break a win95 machine using an old version of Netscape (4.x?) once, by doing something stupid at the install window for a program i was downloading - I managed to redefine the the file assosciation for .exe files. Was a huge pain in the butt (can't fire up regedit.exe, etc, etc....)
Well, if it's NOT a fundamental design flaw I want to know why it's taking them 18 months(!) to patch it.
BUT, all versions of windows to date ship with this option turned OFF, it's difficult to find for the casual user, who most often doesn't even know it exists.
Trivial example: Joe sixpack goes to some porn site, say autopr0n.com. Joe is responsible and well informed for a member of the Sixpack family. He decides to buy a membership, but makes sure to read the privacy policy first. As is the case in a few sites I've seen, documents such as the privacy policy are PDF files. Joe clicks on the link, clicks "Open" (because he knows that PDF files can be shown in his browser, and does't feel like tracking down the downloaded file) and gets owned.
You could do this much easier simply by having a complaint form on your local intranet, and then you don't need to worry about your users getting Outlook viruses.
Features are great, and all, but if you're implementing things in such a way that your users are explosed to security risks, when there are easier(or at least AS easy) alternatives without the risk, you need to review YOU policies.
As for disabling scripting, one of the reason these viruses spread so far and so fast is that the VAST majority of users don't know that theres an issue, don't know what setting addresses the issue, don't know where to find the setting, and don't assume that thier software will wipe thier machine in it's out of the box configuration.
One of my biggest issues with the FF series, and, to a lesser degree Chrono Cross/Trigger, is that in order to get all the neat stuff, you have to ignore the plot. For example, when some Renoa gets sick in FF 8, you'd think that you'd be hurrying back to wherever you're supposed to go to fix her up. But theres all kinds of exploring and card gaming and items to get that you can only get at that time. Or just before then end, when you're "in a rush" to save the world - it's one of the best times to spend a couple years of game time hauling around the map killing stuff and picking up anything you forgot.
the FMV of the dance at the Garden is really great, tho. I've saved a game just before that so I can watch it as much as i want (awwww)
So make your own LOTR movie, post it on some fanboy site somewhere, and wait for everyone to rip YOU a new asshole about how much it sucks. I never like the LOTR books anyway - Tolkien was a linguistics professor and wrote like one. The characters are dry, the interpersonal conflict and relationships are marginal at best, and the dialoge is dreary. The books are important in that they added a whole new realm to the fantasy genre, and the story is epic and fascinating, but a better author could have written a much more engaging story.
I saw one of these parked in front of Freedom Park in SF a few years ago. There was a huge crowd of punks hanging out in front of it that kept shoving it every time it turned off. Great fun. I always wondered what the guy who owned the car did when he came back and found 30 punks molesting his car.
You made the parent's point very well - because basketball is socially acceptable, i.e., people approve of you playing it and will spend money to see you do it, it's okay.
As a side note, what would you think of someone who was obessessed with half-life, knew the entire game, payed (lots) of money to watch pro half-life players play (they do exist), and yet hardly ever actually played half-life and was no good at it? A no-life loser, probably. And yet, substitude {football|baseball|hockey|basketball} for half-life and you get Joe Sixpack.
Yeah, but it doesn't HAVE that long to track you. They want to use it on mortar shells with a 20 second window. Assuming that you can cut even 50% of the power down, that means they've only got 10 seconds to destroy your mortar shell. On a side note, how fast can this thing pivot and focus? If it takes, say, 5 seconds to blow up a mortar shell, all you need to do is toss 5 shells at it (3 if you put chrome on em) and you've just taken out an enormously expensive laser for the cost of 5 mortar shells.
Just about the single common factor in software EULAs and licenses of all types is the disclaimer of warranty, even the implied warranty of "fitness for a purpose". I think this is fine for free software (You get what you pay for), but as soon as someone charges you money for it, especially the big money they charge in enterprise solutions, I think that shield should go right out the window. I gave you money for a product, and if that product does not perform as advertised, then you owe me a refund. I think there needs to be some sort of limit to liabilty (some multiple of the purchase price, perhaps), otherwise the commercial software industry would immediatly shoot down the tubes, but SOME measure of responsibility (NOT "Service Agreements" that you pay extra for) would have a vastly benefical effect on the industry.
IANA(copyright)L, but I believe that this would fall under fair use, just as if you photocopied a book into a larger resolution for someone who was blind. Of course, this being digital and all, all bets are off. Since the sorenson codec is proprietary, could it be considered encryption?
In my (fairly limited) experience, a spook is a intelligence operative. THerefore, it can be CIA, NSA, even Secret Service. Anyone who operates in secret and who's job is intelligence.
Fremen: Think Jewish culture/history with Arabic religious beliefs. Fremen mythology is taken more or less whole cloth from medieval Islam, but the culture of the peoples (Outcasts, constant traveling, persecution making them hard and pragmatic, fanatical tribal loyalty) are taken from Judaism.
There are NO Wierding Modules in the book. Theres the Wierding Way, which is the Fremen name for the martial arts/internal control taught by the Bene Gesserit.
"Wierding Modules" were David Lynch's hack to try to make an totally interior ability something he could show in a film.
That doesn't mean that mass has nothing to do with it. It just means that if you apply sufficent braking power(friction), you can stop anything. But a fully loaded train will need more braking power, or take longer to stop, than an unloaded one. Mass.