I somewhat agree with the you on the sentiment shown here. The introduction of high speed internet at home has really increased the waez scene. I've diluded myself into believing that I warez responsibly, and I believe that it has allowed me to support decent products. I work for a small, but highly technical company with a $250,000 IT budget. That may seem like an awful lot of money, but half of that goes to liscencing fees.
With half of my budget eaten up by software liscences, I simply don't have enough money to buy garbage software, and the demo's released by the companies are generally lacking. The last full product I bought without testing it fully was MS Project. One department direly needed it to work, and needed it yesterday. So I bought ten copies, installed it, then listened to the complaints of how it was a giant waste of time, it didn't work as easy as they wanted, or didn't do what they expected. Since that fateful day I am really picky about the products which I choose to purchase or upgrade. I download the full version off of morpheus at home, play around with it, and if it's a good product, I buy it. And yes, every copy is liscenced.
This way, I am rewarding the companies which release a good product, shunning the companies who release software with features nobody will use and expect you to upgrade, and am no longer spending my budget needlessly. I suggest everyone else do the same.
But if you could get spam to originate from only a few spam havens by ongoing legislation, it would be much easier to bully the remaining countries who allow spamming to change their minds. Blocking off ip ranges from the internet is a relatively easy task, and if people hate spam that much, the majority of ISP's would be on-board. Is it right to do this, perhaps not. Is it possible, definately!
Personally, when my network receives spam from a company, I send them a bill. Sure it costs me minimum 35 cents for postage, and the bills average only 12 cents, and I have yet to receive payment, but it's the principle of the issue. And more often than not, I receive a letter or a phone call back regarding the charges, so in some way I get my money.
Furthermore, cut this in half, as the teachers pay about %50 of their wages in a myriad of taxes. I realize that they do not all go to the same branches of government, but they all go to governmnet, and not back in the teacher's pocket.
The system holding the data didn't have to be on the internet. Just as an example, say the webserver was an NT server. The server could be configured in a trust relationship with another NT server to make data transfer easier. This would easily allow a single point of entry into a variety of networks. Even Apache's website was defaced because a script kiddie managed to hack into a trusted server, then get to apache.org by means of ssh.
It is not the easiest task to scale your network with new technology. Firewalls and DMZ's weren't implemented, most likely because it would have meant a large scale redesign. A large network that was never really meant to be put on the internet is inherently insecure, as there are no clear boundaries where the trusted network and the untrusted network coincide.
I am not advocating the severe mismanagement of the network, the shoddy passwords, the poor design, the lack of monitoring, or the apparent inability to get even the simplest tasks done, I am just stating that the scope of the project was beyond the capabilities or the budget to which the task was given. A billion dollar start-up, 20 million dollar annual budget, and 36 months of lead time, and I'd have the network humming along. What would you say if I gave you this proposal?
If the computers were so wide open as we are led to believe in the article, any security consultant worht his wage would have pulled the plug. Any computer that has been breached is considered untrustable, and should be taken off the network, have non-volitile data backed up, formatted, and reinstalled from trusted source. In this case, I'd say the original CD's.
It runs Win16 natively, the WorkPlace version will have Connectix's Virtual PC that can run any flavour of Windows and Linux.
Although if I understand VPC correctly, it will still have to run the windows sofware, hence the bluescreen. Oh well, back to Wine.
Not to be a M$ advocate, but/. has/.'ed Linux servers as well. Hell even/. has been/.'ed. What I'd like to see is a "Hacked by Chinese... F&cK PoizonBox" on the main page. That's more of a testament.
What was a second before Cesium 133 was discovered? Apparantly an astonishing coincidence. The second was based on 365 days in a year, 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute. The cesium thing came close, and was more accurate a measurement, as the orbit of the earth can vary, making a second a little longer or shorter than the year before it. And I'm sure that there was a near equivalant measurement before it, perhaps the intervals between a caveman's heartbeat, or the time it takes you to say "Ugh" in a reasonable pace. Just because we define time as a property of cesium, barium, boron, calgon, or whatever, does not mean that those properties have not changed over the millenia when the only reference we have is a decade or so of being able to measure it.
For a laugh, ask a physicist to explain gravity, and don't let him get away with saying "two bodies of mass attract each other"... Ask him why they attract!
But Microsoft released their XP Embedded.... Surely this could mean that you could have XP running on the X-box, PS2, Gamecube, etc...
Maybe that's going to be the new strategy for market dominance. Why build the X-box when you could just port your OS to the PS3?
This post was intended as a joke and not a market strategy. Any duplication or interpretation of this transmission by Mr. Gates or his subsidiary holdings (including all programmers souls) is in direct violation of the DMCA and will be pursued as such!
I've been to the UK and it's a hell of a lot better transportation than here. Cheap gas and cheap cars have essentially labelled anyone who uses public transportation as convicts, elderly, or poor. And because everything is spread out so far, it isn't economical to provide much inter-city transport.
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250 hours of working on his computer case could have obviously been better used revamping his network connection.
Thank you Slashdot effect!
I somewhat agree with the you on the sentiment shown here. The introduction of high speed internet at home has really increased the waez scene. I've diluded myself into believing that I warez responsibly, and I believe that it has allowed me to support decent products. I work for a small, but highly technical company with a $250,000 IT budget. That may seem like an awful lot of money, but half of that goes to liscencing fees.
With half of my budget eaten up by software liscences, I simply don't have enough money to buy garbage software, and the demo's released by the companies are generally lacking. The last full product I bought without testing it fully was MS Project. One department direly needed it to work, and needed it yesterday. So I bought ten copies, installed it, then listened to the complaints of how it was a giant waste of time, it didn't work as easy as they wanted, or didn't do what they expected. Since that fateful day I am really picky about the products which I choose to purchase or upgrade. I download the full version off of morpheus at home, play around with it, and if it's a good product, I buy it. And yes, every copy is liscenced.
This way, I am rewarding the companies which release a good product, shunning the companies who release software with features nobody will use and expect you to upgrade, and am no longer spending my budget needlessly. I suggest everyone else do the same.
kinda like eliminating open relays. The spam-friendly ISP's are going to authenticate anyways.
And I wholehartedly agree. But hell, I don't own the Internet...
But if you could get spam to originate from only a few spam havens by ongoing legislation, it would be much easier to bully the remaining countries who allow spamming to change their minds. Blocking off ip ranges from the internet is a relatively easy task, and if people hate spam that much, the majority of ISP's would be on-board. Is it right to do this, perhaps not. Is it possible, definately!
Personally, when my network receives spam from a company, I send them a bill. Sure it costs me minimum 35 cents for postage, and the bills average only 12 cents, and I have yet to receive payment, but it's the principle of the issue. And more often than not, I receive a letter or a phone call back regarding the charges, so in some way I get my money.
it's not what they pay, it's who pays them. It's pretty easy to pay them a high wage when you can expect half back.
Furthermore, cut this in half, as the teachers pay about %50 of their wages in a myriad of taxes. I realize that they do not all go to the same branches of government, but they all go to governmnet, and not back in the teacher's pocket.
The system holding the data didn't have to be on the internet. Just as an example, say the webserver was an NT server. The server could be configured in a trust relationship with another NT server to make data transfer easier. This would easily allow a single point of entry into a variety of networks. Even Apache's website was defaced because a script kiddie managed to hack into a trusted server, then get to apache.org by means of ssh.
It is not the easiest task to scale your network with new technology. Firewalls and DMZ's weren't implemented, most likely because it would have meant a large scale redesign. A large network that was never really meant to be put on the internet is inherently insecure, as there are no clear boundaries where the trusted network and the untrusted network coincide.
I am not advocating the severe mismanagement of the network, the shoddy passwords, the poor design, the lack of monitoring, or the apparent inability to get even the simplest tasks done, I am just stating that the scope of the project was beyond the capabilities or the budget to which the task was given. A billion dollar start-up, 20 million dollar annual budget, and 36 months of lead time, and I'd have the network humming along. What would you say if I gave you this proposal?
Here's something from sony labs that might be of Interest. A watch that acts as an input device.
I wonder what the Goatse Guys would end up typing at 12:30 am....
Now I'll get run off the road by some guy playing Luigi's castle instead of reading his morning paper? Isn't progress grand?
If the computers were so wide open as we are led to believe in the article, any security consultant worht his wage would have pulled the plug. Any computer that has been breached is considered untrustable, and should be taken off the network, have non-volitile data backed up, formatted, and reinstalled from trusted source. In this case, I'd say the original CD's.
Be nice to him, otherwise you run the risk of prosecution...
What would be revolutinary would be that you could buy it for $0.50 like a newspaper.
Wow, subtlety must be one of your qualifications. And they're still running OS/2? What are they migrating to? Should I buy stock?
Actually, my voicemail server at work runs OS/2. Does a damned good job of it too. Just don't ask it to do too much else.
It runs Win16 natively, the WorkPlace version will have Connectix's Virtual PC that can run any flavour of Windows and Linux.
Although if I understand VPC correctly, it will still have to run the windows sofware, hence the bluescreen. Oh well, back to Wine.
If it won't bluescreen, then I'm sold!
Not to be a M$ advocate, but /. has /.'ed Linux servers as well. Hell even /. has been /.'ed. What I'd like to see is a "Hacked by Chinese... F&cK PoizonBox" on the main page. That's more of a testament.
What was a second before Cesium 133 was discovered? Apparantly an astonishing coincidence. The second was based on 365 days in a year, 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute. The cesium thing came close, and was more accurate a measurement, as the orbit of the earth can vary, making a second a little longer or shorter than the year before it. And I'm sure that there was a near equivalant measurement before it, perhaps the intervals between a caveman's heartbeat, or the time it takes you to say "Ugh" in a reasonable pace.
Just because we define time as a property of cesium, barium, boron, calgon, or whatever, does not mean that those properties have not changed over the millenia when the only reference we have is a decade or so of being able to measure it.
For a laugh, ask a physicist to explain gravity, and don't let him get away with saying "two bodies of mass attract each other"... Ask him why they attract!
No, I was merely making humor...
Just out of curiosity, why the date stipuation? I couldn't find anything at the fivemouse web site.
But Microsoft released their XP Embedded.... Surely this could mean that you could have XP running on the X-box, PS2, Gamecube, etc...
Maybe that's going to be the new strategy for market dominance. Why build the X-box when you could just port your OS to the PS3?
This post was intended as a joke and not a market strategy. Any duplication or interpretation of this transmission by Mr. Gates or his subsidiary holdings (including all programmers souls) is in direct violation of the DMCA and will be pursued as such!
I am neither a historian, nor a geographer, and am assuredly not Atlantean. I was merely pointing out that Atlantis has been found many times over.
My ignorance only furthers my point.
I've been to the UK and it's a hell of a lot better transportation than here. Cheap gas and cheap cars have essentially labelled anyone who uses public transportation as convicts, elderly, or poor. And because everything is spread out so far, it isn't economical to provide much inter-city transport.