There is a lot of excitement around Lindows. Especially for people who use Windows, but are too afraid to start into Linux.
Exactly for this reason, they *should* release the code. The have no chance at beating or "harming" M$ in a one-to-one fight, with rules that M$ not only masters, but over the time suggested, improved, and outright invented.
Microsoft is afraid of GPL, you can see this. GPL may have it's shortcomings, but on the short run, whatever is seen as a threat by M$ - and is not illegal, obviously - must be used against them.
companies historically have a tendency to support any given "community" only when it serves the company's best interests
Good point.
Seems that now, living in really rough times, the GPL started to be really put to test by more and more companies. I don't want to plunge (again) in a discussion that ends in a flamewar, but don't forget that inherently, the GPL is totally counter-intuitive to any classic capitalist; and although GPL'd software *can* be used to make profit in the standard way, it's *less* profit than one could make if they used other people's code and just "forgot" to release their code - even for some limited time (gives them the upper hand/pole position in the field).
I'm waiting for the first court-test. A lot of things can be different depending on how a real judge sees this.
Can you also spell "HUGE single point-of-failure"? After all, I'd like to be able to call (as in phone-call) if the CATV or internet access goes down...
Eliminating mailto alone would probably help in mot of my spam problems
You're 100% right. And fighting against spambots by relying on UserAgent is akin to... well.... security thru obscurity, albeit somehow in reverse.
What also looks strange is that he doesn't consider that one can get a link directly to a page on the n-th level: as human browsers don't usually download robots.txt either, sounds like he's gonna ban some poor guys who got a link from a friend...
Well, the Matrix has us anyway, doesn't it? Which doesn't mean you're not 100% right...
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Maybe someone can explain why half the article is about mentioning this doesn't matter?
Maybe because there are far more dangerous things going on, like this, where mplayer "phones home" when playing a dvd, and uniquely identifies itself... now that's something that gives me the creeps.
Hmmm... call me paranoid, but CNN carrying such an article in a time when a lot of limitations and regulations are attempted on everything even remotely connected to "digital", "internet" and "infrastructure" can't be good.
What better reason to sniff all the traffic, on the backbone? Oh yes, they'll get the mails also, but hey - nobody's gonna read it...
We get them constantly- some intentional, some not. It's really a pain.
Does slashdot get slashdotted?
How comes that the hordes that usually take down everything but the reallly big boys trough the (largely adverised) slashdot effect don't take down slashdot itself?
Ok, then why not more often? Reload, people, reload!
Rather than filtering incoming mails and taking the legal route with the spammers, I'd like to remind you 2 excellent services that can be used to avoid getiing your email address on spammers' list in the first place: www.spammotel.com and sneakemail.com
If you run your own mail server you can do this stuff yourself - I mean "one-time acounts" and so on. But sneakemail is just too convenient (or I'm too lazy and tired by the time I get home...)
You don't understand how the token bucket works.[...]
Actually, I do understand... and so do you obviously. But the facts remain the same: I would be *extremely* pissed-off if my redhat.iso download - which takes now around 37 minutes, btw - would slow down to a crawl after 225Mb. Or if the second.iso would.
My point is that I didn't come with the contract - they did. And it says "unlimited" traffic, and 2.5Mbps. So I expect it to be like this.
Don't get me wrong, I never "abused" the system and most of the time I'm well below the average (no spam, no huge mail attachments - not home, at least, no p2p sharing). But for the rare cases I really need it - I expect it to deliver as stated in the contract, not more, not less.
with a "peak" and "sustained" rating (e.g., 512kb peak and 56kb sustained.)
You make a slight confusion here (or make it sound confusing), what do you mean by 56kb sustained? Because if it's 56 kbit, that's dial-up speed, and I don't think anybody would be stupid enough to pay "broadband" price for dial-up speed. I wouldn't, for sure.
Also, why call "offenders" people who just use what they paid for? Do you also call people drinking all the coke before trashing the can "offenders"?
(ok, maybe this sounds too harsh; the technical point and the link to Cisco are ok, and you actually deserve +5, informative)
www.ritlabs.com is down, so I can't download the plugin.
Anyway, I gave up on finding a decent windows mail-reader a looong time ago. The discussion appeared again briefly last autumn, when some friends of mine asked me to look into this.
Maybe the bat! deserves a second, no - third, actually - look. Thanks for bringing this up.
if one password is cracked, you've left yourself wide open...so start with a password you're convinced is secure!
This is far from enough. If someone r00tz one of your boxes they can get your raw keystrokes when you logon to the [serial] console, for example. And no matter how strong your password, it takes them the time you type it to crack.
Slashdot Mirror
... is a little less optimistic (and a lot more realistic :)
BT to launch cheaper 'no frills' ADSL service followed by BT goes for broadband broke
Being handled by huge monopolies doesn't help...
We're not disagreeing on any point; I was just trying to say that a central database won't benefit anyone besides the company having it.
there are many competing banks, all interoperable due to common standards
It's more like the "clearinghouse" does it's stuff for all the major cc's - you don't have separate entities for amex, visa etc.
How do you persuade online businesses to use third-party repository?
How were they persuaded to use banks? Oh, wait, that's where the users keep their money...
Same thing here: why use crude means of tracking user's habits? Just get everything from a central location...
Let me give you a simple answer: control. It's all about control.
And nothing thats currently being put out by the recording industry is worth listening to.
Arguably, this was already valid 10 years ago (many would say even 20-25, but I'm not that drastic). Don't buy crap at ever increasing price.
There is a lot of excitement around Lindows. Especially for people who use Windows, but are too afraid to start into Linux.
Exactly for this reason, they *should* release the code. The have no chance at beating or "harming" M$ in a one-to-one fight, with rules that M$ not only masters, but over the time suggested, improved, and outright invented.
Microsoft is afraid of GPL, you can see this. GPL may have it's shortcomings, but on the short run, whatever is seen as a threat by M$ - and is not illegal, obviously - must be used against them.
companies historically have a tendency to support any given "community" only when it serves the company's best interests
Good point.
Seems that now, living in really rough times, the GPL started to be really put to test by more and more companies. I don't want to plunge (again) in a discussion that ends in a flamewar, but don't forget that inherently, the GPL is totally counter-intuitive to any classic capitalist; and although GPL'd software *can* be used to make profit in the standard way, it's *less* profit than one could make if they used other people's code and just "forgot" to release their code - even for some limited time (gives them the upper hand/pole position in the field).
I'm waiting for the first court-test. A lot of things can be different depending on how a real judge sees this.
Can you also spell "HUGE single point-of-failure"?
After all, I'd like to be able to call (as in phone-call) if the CATV or internet access goes down...
Eliminating mailto alone would probably help in mot of my spam problems
You're 100% right. And fighting against spambots by relying on UserAgent is akin to... well.... security thru obscurity, albeit somehow in reverse.
What also looks strange is that he doesn't consider that one can get a link directly to a page on the n-th level: as human browsers don't usually download robots.txt either, sounds like he's gonna ban some poor guys who got a link from a friend...
Well, the Matrix has us anyway, doesn't it?
Which doesn't mean you're not 100% right...
Maybe someone can explain why half the article is about mentioning this doesn't matter?
Maybe because there are far more dangerous things going on, like this, where mplayer "phones home" when playing a dvd, and uniquely identifies itself... now that's something that gives me the creeps.
So what? They'll find that yet another 45-years old woman from Afganistan with a $5/mo household income is interested to see their security policy...
No-no-no, you made a confusion: it's the NY mayor that enjoyed pot:r g.marijuana.ap/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/04/09/bloombe
Fat pipes are pipe dreams. No pipe is "fat" enough... it's just a matter of how many xDSL connected computers the attaker ()wnz.
Hmmm... call me paranoid, but CNN carrying such an article in a time when a lot of limitations and regulations are attempted on everything even remotely connected to "digital", "internet" and "infrastructure" can't be good.
What better reason to sniff all the traffic, on the backbone? Oh yes, they'll get the mails also, but hey - nobody's gonna read it...
We get them constantly- some intentional, some not. It's really a pain.
Does slashdot get slashdotted?
How comes that the hordes that usually take down everything but the reallly big boys trough the (largely adverised) slashdot effect don't take down slashdot itself?
Ok, then why not more often? Reload, people, reload!
Rather than filtering incoming mails and taking the legal route with the spammers, I'd like to remind you 2 excellent services that can be used to avoid getiing your email address on spammers' list in the first place: www.spammotel.com and sneakemail.com
If you run your own mail server you can do this stuff yourself - I mean "one-time acounts" and so on. But sneakemail is just too convenient (or I'm too lazy and tired by the time I get home...)
You don't understand how the token bucket works.[...]
.iso download - which takes now around 37 minutes, btw - would slow down to a crawl after 225Mb. Or if the second .iso would.
Actually, I do understand... and so do you obviously. But the facts remain the same: I would be *extremely* pissed-off if my redhat
My point is that I didn't come with the contract - they did. And it says "unlimited" traffic, and 2.5Mbps. So I expect it to be like this.
Don't get me wrong, I never "abused" the system and most of the time I'm well below the average (no spam, no huge mail attachments - not home, at least, no p2p sharing). But for the rare cases I really need it - I expect it to deliver as stated in the contract, not more, not less.
At least 2.2.2, that is.
with a "peak" and "sustained" rating (e.g., 512kb peak and 56kb sustained.)
You make a slight confusion here (or make it sound confusing), what do you mean by 56kb sustained? Because if it's 56 kbit, that's dial-up speed, and I don't think anybody would be stupid enough to pay "broadband" price for dial-up speed. I wouldn't, for sure.
Also, why call "offenders" people who just use what they paid for? Do you also call people drinking all the coke before trashing the can "offenders"?
(ok, maybe this sounds too harsh; the technical point and the link to Cisco are ok, and you actually deserve +5, informative)
[...] are relying on the fact that people tend to say 'Yes.'"
:)
...especially when drunk and/or horny.So most of the wimen rely on the same thing, unfortunately.
"Whenever I talk, people start off with blank faces," Lehman admits. "They say, 'But you haven't told us anything we didn't already know.'
:)
99% of the consultants do this for a living. Get used to it.
Is this a follow-up to the time travelling article?
I mean, these guys are at least 7 years too late...
www.ritlabs.com is down, so I can't download the plugin.
Anyway, I gave up on finding a decent windows mail-reader a looong time ago. The discussion appeared again briefly last autumn, when some friends of mine asked me to look into this.
Maybe the bat! deserves a second, no - third, actually - look. Thanks for bringing this up.
if one password is cracked, you've left yourself wide open...so start with a password you're convinced is secure!
This is far from enough. If someone r00tz one of your boxes they can get your raw keystrokes when you logon to the [serial] console, for example. And no matter how strong your password, it takes them the time you type it to crack.