2. That this appeared in a paper published in the shadow of Redmond's campus.
Looking at the total number of listed vulnerabilities for Linux-based server daemons and comparing it to the number of requisite CORE patches for Windows 2000/03 server is silly. A linux server typically does not run all of those services. Likewise, a Windows server doesn't either. But head-to-head, Apache vs IIS? I'd like to see a bake-off for which can get cracked the fastest.
Aside from the fact that this is a complete invasion of citizen privacy and rather silly altogether, wouldn't it be easier to just assess a tax based on the mileage of the car between annual inspections? To account for road trips out of state, a few receipts from gas stations and a form for exemption/deductions wouldn't be too difficult--at least easier than a billion dollar electronic GPS infrastructure. It would be a cheaper way to collect assess taxes without spying on people.
I fail to see how society is protected by allowing journalists to be co-conspirators in the violation of privacy--that does more harm than good to society. That's not journalism, that's rumor mongoring and ratings whoredom. The very foundations of journalism evidently need to be fixed if they're allowed invade the privacy of others and air it to the world. They can protect the snitch all they want, but they should be held accountable when they do the wrong thing.
My mantra: just because you can doesn't mean you should. The spirit of the law is far more important than the letter of it. If it were you secret published, I'm sure you'd find fault with the "journalism" card being played as well.
Excellent points, amigo. The rights to free speech do not include spreading gossip or violating the expected privacy of others--others includes corporations. Publishing that information is irresponsible, unethical, and devoid of any integrity.
Journalists who publish "leaked" private information are not and should not be protected under the First Amendment--unless they are blowing the whistle on illegal activities.
What if it was YOUR privacy that was violated? Readers here seem to think that spyware is the baneful scourge of the 'net. So is reading others' private information is fair game?
If a "journalist" has the right to publish information he knows was either illegally obtained or violates the expected privacy of others (including corporations), then where is the integrity in this so-called journalism? Unless the information reports illegal or unethical activities, their reporting is tantamount to slander, libel, or just plain gossip.
So, if somebody leaks private information to a news source and then it's broadcast over some medium, then the "news" is nothing more than an amplifyer for illegal and/or unethical activity.
Protecting the unethical person who leaked information that was expected and agreed upon to remain private is a chicken shit excuse for selling gossip and calling it journalism. There is no integrity in that.
I find it interesting that we pick on MS for this while other corporations in the US do this daily to individuals, companies, states, countries, and even other corporations.
The irony is, unless you're a self-sustaining hippie commune in rural Idaho, you're probably going to be a corporate consumer if you like it or not. Our entire way of life is at the mercy of corporations. You're a tool of the man, man.
Hey--I'm not stupid! I'm Just not that anal-retentive about detail. [grin]. Any product that actually works well isn't selling out. It's selling out when it sucks and you use it anyway AND you paid for it!
I think a large-wheeled vehicle would have navigated the terrain a bit better. The BigFoot might have worked better....and saved you a half pint of blood.
I fail to see how this differs from any of their own in-house attitudes towards patents, prior art, or the property of others.
It's kind of like the Mafia putting out an ad that looks like this:
Wanted: Large, ugly males of Italian/Sicilian heritage. Duties include helping proprietor(s) enforce business agreements. No business degree/experience required.
My client data reads: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/125.5.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.12
Well, what do you know! I am both posessing and consuming the proverbial cake.:-)
Actually, IE and Windows both come with a very heavy price: your soul.
Hyperbole aside, Windows is expensive in terms of time if not money. Time spent fortifying a PC against spyware, viruses, and exploits is time I'd surely rather spend elsewhere.
Of course, I could run Linux as my desktop and spend even more time trying to make the damn thing work as smoothly as my Mac. [For my servers, though, I totally prefer Linux but not for my desktop and browsing.] Again, YMMV. It's an opinion, not necessarily yours.
I'm all for OpenSource and Free Software, but you do have a point. I don't really benefit by having access to the source code either way because I'm not a programmer. With my car, I don't change my own oil. I don't really care how hard it is to reach the plug as long as I like the car and the filters aren't too expensive. I just don't care as long as I don't have to waste my Saturday morning getting dirty when I can pay somebody to do it for me. I suppose I'm just as ambivalent about source code and browsers. IE on the Mac is now a moot point and Safari seems to be filling in the gap nicely for me.
Allow me to compare: open source champions are kinda like the folks who like to work on their own cars--they want access to the pieces and parts they can use their own tools on. For the rest of us, we don't really care--IE comes with Windows for free and likewise Safari on the Mac. I don't care about tweaking it as long as it gets the job done. If I'd rather be a DIY kinda guy, then I can choose amongst the "kit cars" out there. I like the choice.
For my browser choice, a few fractions of a second rendering doesn't make me feel warm and fuzzy. I get my cyber jollies from using a browser that has the least number of vulnerabilities. Afterall, those few milliseconds don't add up to the all the down time you might otherwise be stuck with.
Well, I think it's ironic (funny ironic and sad ironic at the same time) that this article appears the same day as this one. It's difficult to be taken seriously about security when you're getting busted like this all the time.
I remember this story from one of the major aquaria. Fish were disappearing from display tanks. They couldn't figure it out. One keeper noticed a slime trail from the octopus's tank. It seems that at night, the little bugger was sneaking from tank to tank eating the display critters. As an aquarium keeper, I can attest to finding unexpected ingenuity in our aquatic little friends. Fascintating to watch them.
The two immediate pictures that come to mind are Doc Ock from Spiderman II and those crazy Sentinels in the Matrix trilogy. I'm not sure if this is the "Jules Verne/Arthur C. Clark" Effect but maybe there's a pattern here...
Nature's wonders observed and mimicked in fantasy and then made reality in technology. Hmmm.
We've all been saying the same thing all along--prove it or STFU. McBride's poker face is probably gonna crack now that he's gotta show his cards. It will be interesting to see what SCO ponies up next.
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I mean, I've been trying to remove "explorer.exe" forever but that damn virus just won't go away.
- 1. "ONE" Linux fan concedes yet few others have
- 2. That this appeared in a paper published in the shadow of Redmond's campus.
Looking at the total number of listed vulnerabilities for Linux-based server daemons and comparing it to the number of requisite CORE patches for Windows 2000/03 server is silly. A linux server typically does not run all of those services. Likewise, a Windows server doesn't either. But head-to-head, Apache vs IIS? I'd like to see a bake-off for which can get cracked the fastest.Aside from the fact that this is a complete invasion of citizen privacy and rather silly altogether, wouldn't it be easier to just assess a tax based on the mileage of the car between annual inspections? To account for road trips out of state, a few receipts from gas stations and a form for exemption/deductions wouldn't be too difficult--at least easier than a billion dollar electronic GPS infrastructure. It would be a cheaper way to collect assess taxes without spying on people.
I fail to see how society is protected by allowing journalists to be co-conspirators in the violation of privacy--that does more harm than good to society. That's not journalism, that's rumor mongoring and ratings whoredom. The very foundations of journalism evidently need to be fixed if they're allowed invade the privacy of others and air it to the world. They can protect the snitch all they want, but they should be held accountable when they do the wrong thing.
My mantra: just because you can doesn't mean you should. The spirit of the law is far more important than the letter of it. If it were you secret published, I'm sure you'd find fault with the "journalism" card being played as well.
I think privacy trumps free speech any day.
Excellent points, amigo. The rights to free speech do not include spreading gossip or violating the expected privacy of others--others includes corporations. Publishing that information is irresponsible, unethical, and devoid of any integrity.
Journalists who publish "leaked" private information are not and should not be protected under the First Amendment--unless they are blowing the whistle on illegal activities.
What if it was YOUR privacy that was violated? Readers here seem to think that spyware is the baneful scourge of the 'net. So is reading others' private information is fair game?
If a "journalist" has the right to publish information he knows was either illegally obtained or violates the expected privacy of others (including corporations), then where is the integrity in this so-called journalism? Unless the information reports illegal or unethical activities, their reporting is tantamount to slander, libel, or just plain gossip.
So, if somebody leaks private information to a news source and then it's broadcast over some medium, then the "news" is nothing more than an amplifyer for illegal and/or unethical activity.
Protecting the unethical person who leaked information that was expected and agreed upon to remain private is a chicken shit excuse for selling gossip and calling it journalism. There is no integrity in that.
I find it interesting that we pick on MS for this while other corporations in the US do this daily to individuals, companies, states, countries, and even other corporations.
The irony is, unless you're a self-sustaining hippie commune in rural Idaho, you're probably going to be a corporate consumer if you like it or not. Our entire way of life is at the mercy of corporations. You're a tool of the man, man.
I hope it's better than my Microsoft Windows-based cat feeder.
Nice, guys. Touch of class. 4th grade I think.
Just keep Ben Affleck the hell away from it!
We should just build a teleporter and solve the whole transport problem!
Sounds like a job for something like one of those Mars rovers. Too bad they cost like a billion dollars.
Hey--I'm not stupid! I'm Just not that anal-retentive about detail. [grin]. Any product that actually works well isn't selling out. It's selling out when it sucks and you use it anyway AND you paid for it!
You should have used a Big Track! (Just kidding)
I think a large-wheeled vehicle would have navigated the terrain a bit better. The BigFoot might have worked better....and saved you a half pint of blood.
I fail to see how this differs from any of their own in-house attitudes towards patents, prior art, or the property of others.
It's kind of like the Mafia putting out an ad that looks like this:
My client data reads: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/125.5.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.12 :-)
Well, what do you know! I am both posessing and consuming the proverbial cake.
Actually, IE and Windows both come with a very heavy price: your soul.
Hyperbole aside, Windows is expensive in terms of time if not money. Time spent fortifying a PC against spyware, viruses, and exploits is time I'd surely rather spend elsewhere.
Of course, I could run Linux as my desktop and spend even more time trying to make the damn thing work as smoothly as my Mac. [For my servers, though, I totally prefer Linux but not for my desktop and browsing.] Again, YMMV. It's an opinion, not necessarily yours.
I'm all for OpenSource and Free Software, but you do have a point. I don't really benefit by having access to the source code either way because I'm not a programmer. With my car, I don't change my own oil. I don't really care how hard it is to reach the plug as long as I like the car and the filters aren't too expensive. I just don't care as long as I don't have to waste my Saturday morning getting dirty when I can pay somebody to do it for me. I suppose I'm just as ambivalent about source code and browsers. IE on the Mac is now a moot point and Safari seems to be filling in the gap nicely for me.
Allow me to compare: open source champions are kinda like the folks who like to work on their own cars--they want access to the pieces and parts they can use their own tools on. For the rest of us, we don't really care--IE comes with Windows for free and likewise Safari on the Mac. I don't care about tweaking it as long as it gets the job done. If I'd rather be a DIY kinda guy, then I can choose amongst the "kit cars" out there. I like the choice.
For my browser choice, a few fractions of a second rendering doesn't make me feel warm and fuzzy. I get my cyber jollies from using a browser that has the least number of vulnerabilities. Afterall, those few milliseconds don't add up to the all the down time you might otherwise be stuck with.
Well, I think it's ironic (funny ironic and sad ironic at the same time) that this article appears the same day as this one. It's difficult to be taken seriously about security when you're getting busted like this all the time.
I remember this story from one of the major aquaria. Fish were disappearing from display tanks. They couldn't figure it out. One keeper noticed a slime trail from the octopus's tank. It seems that at night, the little bugger was sneaking from tank to tank eating the display critters. As an aquarium keeper, I can attest to finding unexpected ingenuity in our aquatic little friends. Fascintating to watch them.
...or Science Friction as it were...
The two immediate pictures that come to mind are Doc Ock from Spiderman II and those crazy Sentinels in the Matrix trilogy. I'm not sure if this is the "Jules Verne/Arthur C. Clark" Effect but maybe there's a pattern here...
Nature's wonders observed and mimicked in fantasy and then made reality in technology. Hmmm.
I suppose a computer with Windows installed really is safer if you:
- cover it with aluminum foil (shiny side out--just in case)
- dip it in liquid latex (to keep the MS spores from getting out)
- add a 1-inch think lead jacket
- seal it in a re-inforced concrete sarcophagus
- drop in the Marianas Trench
- and don't forget to remove the network card first!!
(You can't be too careful!)
This should keep you virus, spyware, and cracker free. Mostly.If I had mod points, you'd get a Funny.
We've all been saying the same thing all along--prove it or STFU. McBride's poker face is probably gonna crack now that he's gotta show his cards. It will be interesting to see what SCO ponies up next.