Quite useful (or just entertaining to play with) and
quite illegal to posess just about anywhere I know of in the US, except to licensed locksmiths.
Now I'm pretty sure that in the event that someone turns me in for having a few 6" long pieces of spring steel that I use for fun will not generate Official Trouble[TM]. A slide-hammer which had been modifided to destructively remove the lock-cylinder would presumably be another matter;-).
To extend the analogy, look at switchblade knives. I could consider one to be a 'useful tool', however in the US (with the sole exception I think of Portland OR?) law considers that there are not sufficient benign uses for this to justify that as a buyer I can find a functionally equal cutting tool with a legal form-factor
In general laws apply the same way to all sizes of entities. To my knowlege the fundamental differences would be speech and other individual rights that are definitely construed differently in the context of corporate entities. Also in explicitly anti-trust it was determined long ago that simply being large does not an illegal monopoly make.
So (generally) you can't write laws that grant rights to an individual and not also grant them to a company.
In any case whether I get to buy a less expensive version of a de-bundled software from an individual or a corporation I see that as a benefit to the buyer.
win[nt|2k] has something like half the web service presence of linux/apache, but accounts for 80% of the defaced web sites.
Gartner recently advised against running IIS. The folks at Gartner have never been accused of being pro-linux.
The last worm that hit the 'net at the severity of CodeRed/Nimda was the Morris worm of '88.
I read bugtraq, most of the linux/unix problems these days have been non-root or local access compromises. Many corporations had to shut down their *internal* networks due to Nimda, nothing like this has ever been caused by a linux compromise.
> "Security Through Obscurity" seems to be working fairly well for Bill & Company...
ymmv, not how it looks from where I sit. Many corporate lans were effectively shut down behind Firewall and NAT systems. STO is fine until someone gets past the O and then it tends to fail very badly.
Yes, and being in an adverse position with the government is a wonderful stimulus. For instance when FDA threatens to close you down ALL other work stops until you are in compliance.
Microsoft has been found by the courts to be a monopoly. This changes the rules substantially: for instance monopolies are generally required to license their IP - which I can only imagine would be anathema for the folks at Redmond. Also the AOL/Timewarner suit is going ahead on the basis of the results in federal courts. As usual related private suits are going forward after DOJ has won a prescedent.
In a very real way the sharks are circling and MS's PR state could hardly be worse at this point. Nimda proved to be the worst shutdowns of the internet since Morris, and many MS customers had their operations shut down for a day or more, and Gartner grp. has
advised against using IIS.
This is the environment in which MS is playing
today, and the timing comes as even many of their best customers are beginning to push back. Also it comes at a time when the economy is limiting their ability to push new / bug ridden systems anyway. I would be very surprised if their enterprise customers weren't pushing back very hard indeed on security and overall systems reliability at this time.
Yes, an aggregate across Linuxen, and in an open-source environment. Win32 bugs get found by reverse-engineering, Linux bugs by working with source.
Especially in opensource the bugs are mostly found by analysts working on the code. Also the security flaws being found in Linux are generally less serious at this point than those in win32, because of the open source process. As is seen in the numbers of systems actually being compromised.
much as this sure sounds like snake oil and I won't be buying any stock in this puppy:
their claim is for 10:1 on something 'random' and short. And for ca. 10 x better sometime in the future.
10:1 on the 'average' traffic that passes 'net channels or stores on disk would be a surprising thing. I don't think it's the level of impossible that/. consensus is hanging on it.
My guess is.. If it's real it's something that needs to be implemented in hardware to be fast.
certainly all the existing algorithms suck plenty of cpu cycles. If there's a solution here that's that much more space-efficient I very much doubt it's gonna be time-efficient.
I think Gartner's analyst is seeing this with the bias of assuming a large existing investment in MS systems and network protocols(sic).
I don't know in detail but I very much doubt that PRC taken as a whole has anywhere near the degree of investment in MS as US or european economies.
And as Chinese by some predictions will be the predominant language on the 'Net in a decade or less, it makes sense that china can choose a Linux-centric path today, in a way that would be more difficult for western orgainizations.
Who knows, perhaps this may be the dynamic that finaly puts linux into the desktop in meaningful numbers.
I believe I remember the Easter Egg story from back in the '95 days, between that and Gates' long-standing whining about piracy (again, other posts have covered this well) - It's not hard to see PRC snubbing MS <chuckle>.
I have nothing at all against closed-source. It exists, and for many applications it's the more sensible economic model. There will always be a degree of piracy, and there will be ways to manage that. Neither writing angry letters to 'the community', nor pushing this agenda the way MS likes to today is my idea of the best way to manage the problem but then I don't make policy at MS.
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the cpu heat exchange block is probably the expensive part anyhow.... splitting the piping
would not likely get you even flow across the 2 cpus
the water - cooler is (nominally) letting you use a quieter fan, because you're getting the effective cooling-area of the the larger heat-exchanger, which can be located outside the case
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Now I'm pretty sure that in the event that someone turns me in for having a few 6" long pieces of spring steel that I use for fun will not generate Official Trouble[TM]. A slide-hammer which had been modifided to destructively remove the lock-cylinder would presumably be another matter;-).
To extend the analogy, look at switchblade knives. I could consider one to be a 'useful tool', however in the US (with the sole exception I think of Portland OR?) law considers that there are not sufficient benign uses for this to justify that as a buyer I can find a functionally equal cutting tool with a legal form-factor
Great you can hear it fine, your cat (or dog) however has been putting up with the 44khz for years and any day now they're going to get even.
So (generally) you can't write laws that grant rights to an individual and not also grant them to a company.
In any case whether I get to buy a less expensive version of a de-bundled software from an individual or a corporation I see that as a benefit to the buyer.
However they serve the page, then re-direct to an error page so you can actually save/read the sucker :-)
win[nt|2k] has something like half the web service presence of linux/apache, but accounts for 80% of the defaced web sites.
Gartner recently advised against running IIS. The folks at Gartner have never been accused of being pro-linux.
The last worm that hit the 'net at the severity of CodeRed/Nimda was the Morris worm of '88.
I read bugtraq, most of the linux/unix problems these days have been non-root or local access compromises. Many corporations had to shut down their *internal* networks due to Nimda, nothing like this has ever been caused by a linux compromise.
> "Security Through Obscurity" seems to be working fairly well for Bill & Company...
ymmv, not how it looks from where I sit. Many corporate lans were effectively shut down behind Firewall and NAT systems. STO is fine until someone gets past the O and then it tends to fail very badly.
Microsoft has been found by the courts to be a monopoly. This changes the rules substantially: for instance monopolies are generally required to license their IP - which I can only imagine would be anathema for the folks at Redmond. Also the AOL/Timewarner suit is going ahead on the basis of the results in federal courts. As usual related private suits are going forward after DOJ has won a prescedent.
In a very real way the sharks are circling and MS's PR state could hardly be worse at this point. Nimda proved to be the worst shutdowns of the internet since Morris, and many MS customers had their operations shut down for a day or more, and Gartner grp. has advised against using IIS.
This is the environment in which MS is playing today, and the timing comes as even many of their best customers are beginning to push back. Also it comes at a time when the economy is limiting their ability to push new / bug ridden systems anyway. I would be very surprised if their enterprise customers weren't pushing back very hard indeed on security and overall systems reliability at this time.
Especially in opensource the bugs are mostly found by analysts working on the code. Also the security flaws being found in Linux are generally less serious at this point than those in win32, because of the open source process. As is seen in the numbers of systems actually being compromised.
their claim is for 10:1 on something 'random' and short. And for ca. 10 x better sometime in the future.
10:1 on the 'average' traffic that passes 'net channels or stores on disk would be a surprising thing. I don't think it's the level of impossible that /. consensus is hanging on it.
My guess is .. If it's real it's something that needs to be implemented in hardware to be fast.
certainly all the existing algorithms suck plenty of cpu cycles. If there's a solution here that's that much more space-efficient I very much doubt it's gonna be time-efficient.
or maybe it's just smoke & mirrors
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I don't know in detail but I very much doubt that PRC taken as a whole has anywhere near the degree of investment in MS as US or european economies.
And as Chinese by some predictions will be the predominant language on the 'Net in a decade or less, it makes sense that china can choose a Linux-centric path today, in a way that would be more difficult for western orgainizations.
Who knows, perhaps this may be the dynamic that finaly puts linux into the desktop in meaningful numbers.
I believe I remember the Easter Egg story from back in the '95 days, between that and Gates' long-standing whining about piracy (again, other posts have covered this well) - It's not hard to see PRC snubbing MS <chuckle>.
I have nothing at all against closed-source. It exists, and for many applications it's the more sensible economic model. There will always be a degree of piracy, and there will be ways to manage that. Neither writing angry letters to 'the community', nor pushing this agenda the way MS likes to today is my idea of the best way to manage the problem but then I don't make policy at MS.
the cpu heat exchange block is probably the expensive part anyhow. ... splitting the piping
would not likely get you even flow across the 2 cpus
the water - cooler is (nominally) letting you use a quieter fan, because you're getting the effective cooling-area of the the larger heat-exchanger, which can be located outside the case