How much of that money is coming from MS using it's monopoly and predatory practices?
Even if we were talking about money that were aquired that way, then there is no undoing the aquisition of the money. Even if it was blood money, then $37 billion being put to good use can never be a bad thing.
Using an extreme example: If a drug baron donated a million dollars to charity it would still be a million dollars and would still make the world a better place.
Even at progressive hosts that have RoR installed, like dreamhost and textdrive, people are currently having immense difficulty getting RoR apps working (look at all of the topics in their respective forums.)
Funny, a quick google for RoR hosting turns up quite a few places where rails could be hosted from... In some places for free, even!
Being a sys admin for a small hosting company myself I have all the RoR hosting I want, and would probably convince my boss to start selling RoR hosting if a marked for it starts to pop up...
So if you have a million tabs open the one containing the bad url will say "problem loading page" and contain some friendly text, in stead of saying "untitled" and being blank.
keyloggers aren't really that dangerous by themselves... if you attach a keylogger to my machine you will get the passphrase I encrypted my private key with, but you won't get my private key... and in this case the private key would be stored on the blackdog device (which I'm taking with me when I leave), so the passphrase would be pretty useless.
Basically it won't always *need* to beat keyloggers. There are lot's of other means to security than simple passwords. For instance you won't get my private key out of the blackdog device without cutting off my thumb...
hopefully you will be able to answer a few quick questions then, please:
does it use autorun (as hinted elsewhere in this thread) on windows?
how does it auto-launch on linux?
does it work on mac os x?
Incomming isn't free?! How about I look you up in the phone book and send you 9827349234234 messages? How is it fair that you should pay for that? I would never accept a plan where I should pay for use I wasn't in control of...
Welcome to why OSS never took off in the desktop market. The attitude that user feedback is useless and that users should just do everything their own damn selves.
Since when is "They want every OSS effort to be splintered and fragmented" usable feedback? That was pure flamebait and was replied to as such. There is a lot of feedback going on and a lot of responding to that feedback going on as well.
I'm more wondering why they bothered figuring this out in the first place. What is gained by announcing to the world that an easily guarded threat might no longer be a threat?
Actually the good news is that if worms and email propagating troyans are decreasing in volume then we might be saving a lot of bandwidth. One mail server I'm administrating recieves approx. 500 emails per day, and approx. 80 percent of that is spam/worms/troyans. Even though my spamassassin kills most of it it still consumes bandwidth (which I pay for).
I set it to 65536 which should be the max size of an integer right? For some reason it lets me go over that though. wtf?"
Max size of a 16 bit unsigned integer is 65535. Today most integers are 32 bits or larger leaving you with a maximum of at least 4294967295 though I wouldn't recommend a max line length that high since lynx most likely (I didn't look at the lynx source) allocates memory enough to store the entire line and a 4gb memory footprint per line of output seems a bit excessive.
In the mean time the company I work for has been selling 10mbit connections for quite a while and just sold their first 20mbit connections last week. </shameless plug>
I have seen VS Express 2005 and have to agree. But with Doom3 for linux out I should think that it would be apropriate (sp?) with a SDK that works under linux.
This is an American law affecting American companies, american citizens, and american institutions. Set up shop outside the border and you're immune, sadly.
Luckily, I should say. You US people would do well to remember that US is not and should not be all powerful. The rest of the world should not bend to the will of the US.
Partial classes lets you split class definition over several files. That way you can hide all the ugly autogenerated code from your gui building tools in seperate files. Partial classes definitely go in the "nice to have" - not the "must have" category.
and if someone else is from my aunt's network is spammin you then that is ok? bringing proof of sender id into this discussion seems to be a mistake. using a vpn to send mail from inside my own network is NOT the right solution. should I want to use my own SMTP server then I should have a ssh tunnel, or even better authenticated smtp. But all of this has nothing to with prooving who I am. SPF is all about where I am. Nothing else. Don't go ahead and force me to be somewhere to send mail. All in all SPF forces me to change the way my business works right now, technology should adapt to my business, not the other way around.
As far as I'm concerned, if I were receiving your untrusted, unauthenticated email I would certainly want as many mechanisms in place to verify where it came from as is humanly possible.
In that case I recommend that you look into e-mail signing in stead. SPF does nothing to proove who I am, merely where I am.
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Even if we were talking about money that were aquired that way, then there is no undoing the aquisition of the money. Even if it was blood money, then $37 billion being put to good use can never be a bad thing.
Using an extreme example: If a drug baron donated a million dollars to charity it would still be a million dollars and would still make the world a better place.
In other news: 87.3% of all surveys are made up on the spot.
7. Parental controls: There's no parental control that I could find in Tiger, I'll have to give Vista that.
Use Spotlight to find them (really!). Type in 'Parental Controls' and you'll end up at the account settings. http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/family/
Point taken. I have updated my page accordingly.
I posted 10 reasons to buy OSX Tiger in response.
Even at progressive hosts that have RoR installed, like dreamhost and textdrive, people are currently having immense difficulty getting RoR apps working (look at all of the topics in their respective forums.)
Funny, a quick google for RoR hosting turns up quite a few places where rails could be hosted from... In some places for free, even!
Being a sys admin for a small hosting company myself I have all the RoR hosting I want, and would probably convince my boss to start selling RoR hosting if a marked for it starts to pop up...
Agreed, sueing MS for trying to secure their platform... that's gotta be a first...
Not in new tabs, but inline in the page...
So if you have a million tabs open the one containing the bad url will say "problem loading page" and contain some friendly text, in stead of saying "untitled" and being blank.
I kinda like it.
keyloggers aren't really that dangerous by themselves... if you attach a keylogger to my machine you will get the passphrase I encrypted my private key with, but you won't get my private key... and in this case the private key would be stored on the blackdog device (which I'm taking with me when I leave), so the passphrase would be pretty useless.
Basically it won't always *need* to beat keyloggers. There are lot's of other means to security than simple passwords. For instance you won't get my private key out of the blackdog device without cutting off my thumb...
hopefully you will be able to answer a few quick questions then, please: does it use autorun (as hinted elsewhere in this thread) on windows? how does it auto-launch on linux? does it work on mac os x?
Incomming isn't free?! How about I look you up in the phone book and send you 9827349234234 messages? How is it fair that you should pay for that? I would never accept a plan where I should pay for use I wasn't in control of...
Welcome to why OSS never took off in the desktop market. The attitude that user feedback is useless and that users should just do everything their own damn selves.
Since when is "They want every OSS effort to be splintered and fragmented" usable feedback? That was pure flamebait and was replied to as such. There is a lot of feedback going on and a lot of responding to that feedback going on as well.
I'm more wondering why they bothered figuring this out in the first place. What is gained by announcing to the world that an easily guarded threat might no longer be a threat?
Actually the good news is that if worms and email propagating troyans are decreasing in volume then we might be saving a lot of bandwidth. One mail server I'm administrating recieves approx. 500 emails per day, and approx. 80 percent of that is spam/worms/troyans. Even though my spamassassin kills most of it it still consumes bandwidth (which I pay for).
I set it to 65536 which should be the max size of an integer right? For some reason it lets me go over that though. wtf?"
Max size of a 16 bit unsigned integer is 65535. Today most integers are 32 bits or larger leaving you with a maximum of at least 4294967295 though I wouldn't recommend a max line length that high since lynx most likely (I didn't look at the lynx source) allocates memory enough to store the entire line and a 4gb memory footprint per line of output seems a bit excessive.
In the mean time the company I work for has been selling 10mbit connections for quite a while and just sold their first 20mbit connections last week.
</shameless plug>
... just use lynx --dump.
Not too long ago there was a campaign here in Denmark where you could get a billion (no kidding) free SMS a month.
Why would you ever use a signed int in a voting machine?
Perhaps they were using java, which didn't have unsigned types last time I checked.
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would be 'mkfs /dev/hda1' vs 'format c:'
Patent the wheel like this guy did?
I have seen VS Express 2005 and have to agree. But with Doom3 for linux out I should think that it would be apropriate (sp?) with a SDK that works under linux.
This is an American law affecting American companies, american citizens, and american institutions. Set up shop outside the border and you're immune, sadly.
Luckily, I should say. You US people would do well to remember that US is not and should not be all powerful. The rest of the world should not bend to the will of the US.
I'm done, mod me down.
Partial classes lets you split class definition over several files. That way you can hide all the ugly autogenerated code from your gui building tools in seperate files. Partial classes definitely go in the "nice to have" - not the "must have" category.
and if someone else is from my aunt's network is spammin you then that is ok? bringing proof of sender id into this discussion seems to be a mistake. using a vpn to send mail from inside my own network is NOT the right solution. should I want to use my own SMTP server then I should have a ssh tunnel, or even better authenticated smtp. But all of this has nothing to with prooving who I am. SPF is all about where I am. Nothing else. Don't go ahead and force me to be somewhere to send mail. All in all SPF forces me to change the way my business works right now, technology should adapt to my business, not the other way around.
As far as I'm concerned, if I were receiving your untrusted, unauthenticated email I would certainly want as many mechanisms in place to verify where it came from as is humanly possible.
In that case I recommend that you look into e-mail signing in stead. SPF does nothing to proove who I am, merely where I am.