Microsoft allows people other than the owners of computers to run malicious programs without the owners consent or knowlege. This is not a controversial statement. Microsoft has released patch after patch to supposedly fix problems that were supposedly fixed long ago. I understand that bugs happen, and sometimes old ones even get reintroduced, but the sheer number of patches coming out of Redmond indicates that there is a far more pervasive problem than a few borked buffers.
Kazaa allows people to knowingly trade files among computers, and not just copyrighted ones either: all kinds of files can be traded. It's true that many people choose to use kazaa to break the law by publishing illegal copies of copyrighted works but how, exactly, is that Kazaa's fault? Furthermore, how does the common criteria of 'having a legitimate use' not apply when determining it's legal status? Please be precise.
There's no catching Microsoft when it comes to bloat. ArsTechnica says that the full install of Longhorn comes in at over 5 GB. That's 5 gigs! Count 'em, five!!
Confusion, war, and terror is the normal state of the world. It is peace and understanding that is fleeting.
We can only hope that the world will one overcome over the normal state of affairs and outbreaks of peace will be more than just pleasant footnotes in history.
This is funny, but not new
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I actually had some last night. The guy put two lemon skittles in each bottle during the bottling process. The remaining yeast in the bottle eats all the skittle so there are no pieces left.
It really is quite tasty. But it's not much different than any other type of flavored beer, it just uses skittles instead of rasberry juice or something like that.
If, and this is a very big if, Microsoft were compelled to remove plugin support then OEMs would have futher incentive to bundle their products with alternative browsers. Agreements not withstanding, OEMs would see a clear competitive advantage in providing browsers that continue to operate unimpeded.
The problem is that there aren't any 'domain not found' messages for.com and.net domains anymore, friendly or not. They all result in 'domain found', which is wrong, and breaks things. By longstanding custom, top level DNS servers have always returned 'domain not found' errors and many applications and protocols have been developed that rely on that. Breaking that tradition, while technically valid as far as the specification goes, means big problems for just about everybody.
Here, have a loot at the IAB's point of view. They make a powerful case against the use of wildcarding in top level zones. The big thing is that it breaks a whole lot of protocols. HTTP isn't really that big a deal. ISPs could easily handle that in their DNS systems. Currently there are so many public and private protocols being used that nobody, not even Verisign, can properly provide for them using a wildcarding sytem, yet that is what Verisign is actually doing. And they are doing it very badly.
It increases network traffic, incurring more cost to ISPs and consumers. It makes it very difficult to present proper error codes for protocols that Verisign did not anticipate such as IRC. It breaks old protocols for which clients are not being developed but still provide a valuable function. For protocols that are still supported, it incurs higher costs for those users since the developers will need to update their software. There are so many problems with wildcarding that even the IAB gave up listing them after a dozen or so.
I argue that spammers are forcing ISPs, and through them me, to carry unwanted and irresponsible traffic over our networks. That, it seems to me, provides all the justification the goverment needs to regulate this activity. Further justification arises from the nature of many of these messages, and the fact that virtually no effort is made to protect minors from them. While I admire the libertarians on some issues, particularly their stance on individual freedom and civil rights, I can't agree with their policy on limited governance, unlimited corporate freedom, and unregulated commerce.
That's the whole point of this article. Buy using organic plastics, they can reduce the price considerably. As they further their research, expect the price to drop further. A few more advances like this one and we'll have our affordable solar. These greens you disparage may not be working with ideal technology, but they are working, and making progress.
Look at history. In the 60's the idea of a 'personal computer' was probably pretty laughable.
>> If some one fails to deliver, another vendor can pick up whrer they left off with minimum disruption.
> And maximum cost.
How do you mean? If the source code for the project is open, then I would think a replacement vender would have an easier time completing the project than if the source were closed. Re-inventing the wheel and all that. If a closed source vendor packs up and leaves before a given project is completed, then the gov't is stuck with nothing, and must start over. With open source, at least the possibility exists to pick up where the previous vender left off.
Good points. Let's not forget that corporations are beholden to their stock holders. This means that a corporation must look after the interests of it's investors before those of it's employees or those of the community at large. This is codified into law. If a corporation fails to put the interests if it's investors above everything except the letter of the law, it's officers can be sued for lack of due diligence.
The very design of corporations is flawed. The ultimate power goes to the investors, yet the ultimate responsibility goes to the officers. IMO, we should find some way to mitigate the unfair protections afforded to investors. When investors get rich by supporting companies that mistreat their employees, the public, or the environment, they should pay. Dearly. It may be the only way to ensure that large corporations maintain a certain level of responsibility to the people that let them operate. That is to say, us.
The internet has made it vastly easier for sexual predators to stalk children. Of course, the answer to the problem is education and diligent enforcement of current law, not more unwieldy regulation. Microsoft is free to close it's free services, and it can even play the liability card (I think it's valid), but nobody should imply from that that all unmoderated chat systems should be regulated. Far from it. Unmoderated chat systems offer a valid means of free and open communication. The obvious social advantages of that outweigh the risks, IMO.
No, I didn't RTFA. But I'll share my opinion anyway;)
The article hints at something interesting:
"It's a signal that some of the joyful early days of the Internet have moved on a bit. Chat was one of those things that was a bit hippyish. It was free and open. But a small minority have changed that for everyone. It's very sad," Sutton said.
Heh, that small minority is Microsoft. After all, it's Microsoft that is closing this service, making it no longer free and open. I have no doubt that they would do that to the entire internet if they could. It is very sad.
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In order for Van Eck phreaking to log the turning on and off of the LED indicators, something would have to be visible on screen that could be associated with it. The program that Randy used (as was carefully explained) did not print any data to the screen, so the Van Eck phreaking didn't pick it up. Maybe it could have if it was listening for a signature indicating those lights, but it wasn't, it was reading the magnetic field of the monitor.
Besides, how can someone monitor a communication medium if they don't know it exists?
It all comes down to the skill and thouroughness of the developer. I could certainly program PHP to call 911 in that example. It might even be easier to do it in ASP if I'm on an MS platform. However, if I wanted to be able to handle a situation where millions of users are cutting bread at the same time using many different cutting mechanisms, I would start to think about Java. It's not that PHP couldn't be written to handle that, but Java already has many well developed classes that can make such a thing easier.
Name "main::DIETY" used only once: possible typo at./universe.pl line 3. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at./universe.pl line 3.
Actually they intercept any traffic that attemts to resolve.net and.com addresses against their DNS servers. This could break all sorts of things, internet search engines, FTP clients, IRC server networks and clients, some mirroring services, and the list goes on. This move by Verisign represents a major change in the basic functioning of the internet, and many of the repercussions may not be completely apparent for some time. For instance, what is the additional cost of transfering relatively big (in bytes) webpages as opposed to efficient error responses?
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Microsoft allows people other than the owners of computers to run malicious programs without the owners consent or knowlege. This is not a controversial statement. Microsoft has released patch after patch to supposedly fix problems that were supposedly fixed long ago. I understand that bugs happen, and sometimes old ones even get reintroduced, but the sheer number of patches coming out of Redmond indicates that there is a far more pervasive problem than a few borked buffers.
Kazaa allows people to knowingly trade files among computers, and not just copyrighted ones either: all kinds of files can be traded. It's true that many people choose to use kazaa to break the law by publishing illegal copies of copyrighted works but how, exactly, is that Kazaa's fault? Furthermore, how does the common criteria of 'having a legitimate use' not apply when determining it's legal status? Please be precise.
Who modded this flamebait insightful anyway?
There's no catching Microsoft when it comes to bloat. ArsTechnica says that the full install of Longhorn comes in at over 5 GB. That's 5 gigs! Count 'em, five!!
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http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,136846
Hey, glad you could make it. The more the merrier says I.
They just find a new bridge to hang out under. Looks like this one figured out how to use the search-and-replace feature.
Maybe it's just the slash. I mean, having a slash in the name is pretty dumb. Not clever at all.
Confusion, war, and terror is the normal state of the world. It is peace and understanding that is fleeting.
We can only hope that the world will one overcome over the normal state of affairs and outbreaks of peace will be more than just pleasant footnotes in history.
I actually had some last night. The guy put two lemon skittles in each bottle during the bottling process. The remaining yeast in the bottle eats all the skittle so there are no pieces left.
It really is quite tasty. But it's not much different than any other type of flavored beer, it just uses skittles instead of rasberry juice or something like that.
Gotta love the name though.
OEMs.
If, and this is a very big if, Microsoft were compelled to remove plugin support then OEMs would have futher incentive to bundle their products with alternative browsers. Agreements not withstanding, OEMs would see a clear competitive advantage in providing browsers that continue to operate unimpeded.
The problem is that there aren't any 'domain not found' messages for .com and .net domains anymore, friendly or not. They all result in 'domain found', which is wrong, and breaks things. By longstanding custom, top level DNS servers have always returned 'domain not found' errors and many applications and protocols have been developed that rely on that. Breaking that tradition, while technically valid as far as the specification goes, means big problems for just about everybody.
It's neither. It's a DNS issue. Full stop.
Here, have a loot at the IAB's point of view. They make a powerful case against the use of wildcarding in top level zones. The big thing is that it breaks a whole lot of protocols. HTTP isn't really that big a deal. ISPs could easily handle that in their DNS systems. Currently there are so many public and private protocols being used that nobody, not even Verisign, can properly provide for them using a wildcarding sytem, yet that is what Verisign is actually doing. And they are doing it very badly.
It increases network traffic, incurring more cost to ISPs and consumers. It makes it very difficult to present proper error codes for protocols that Verisign did not anticipate such as IRC. It breaks old protocols for which clients are not being developed but still provide a valuable function. For protocols that are still supported, it incurs higher costs for those users since the developers will need to update their software. There are so many problems with wildcarding that even the IAB gave up listing them after a dozen or so.
That depends on your definition of force.
I argue that spammers are forcing ISPs, and through them me, to carry unwanted and irresponsible traffic over our networks. That, it seems to me, provides all the justification the goverment needs to regulate this activity. Further justification arises from the nature of many of these messages, and the fact that virtually no effort is made to protect minors from them. While I admire the libertarians on some issues, particularly their stance on individual freedom and civil rights, I can't agree with their policy on limited governance, unlimited corporate freedom, and unregulated commerce.
That's the whole point of this article. Buy using organic plastics, they can reduce the price considerably. As they further their research, expect the price to drop further. A few more advances like this one and we'll have our affordable solar. These greens you disparage may not be working with ideal technology, but they are working, and making progress.
Look at history. In the 60's the idea of a 'personal computer' was probably pretty laughable.
>> If some one fails to deliver, another vendor can pick up whrer they left off with minimum disruption.
> And maximum cost.
How do you mean? If the source code for the project is open, then I would think a replacement vender would have an easier time completing the project than if the source were closed. Re-inventing the wheel and all that. If a closed source vendor packs up and leaves before a given project is completed, then the gov't is stuck with nothing, and must start over. With open source, at least the possibility exists to pick up where the previous vender left off.
What, you can't wait? It's not like you'll be going anywhere.
How about clay (er, plastic) pigeons?
Those shiny disks explode very satisfactorily when they get hit by 12 gauge buckshot. Now that'd be one geek conference that I would attend.
Good points. Let's not forget that corporations are beholden to their stock holders. This means that a corporation must look after the interests of it's investors before those of it's employees or those of the community at large. This is codified into law. If a corporation fails to put the interests if it's investors above everything except the letter of the law, it's officers can be sued for lack of due diligence.
The very design of corporations is flawed. The ultimate power goes to the investors, yet the ultimate responsibility goes to the officers. IMO, we should find some way to mitigate the unfair protections afforded to investors. When investors get rich by supporting companies that mistreat their employees, the public, or the environment, they should pay. Dearly. It may be the only way to ensure that large corporations maintain a certain level of responsibility to the people that let them operate. That is to say, us.
Software Engineers on the other hand are unlicensed and expected to ensure that their designs are not well known to anyone other than their employers.
It's so true.
*sniff, wipes tear*
I love perl.
The internet has made it vastly easier for sexual predators to stalk children. Of course, the answer to the problem is education and diligent enforcement of current law, not more unwieldy regulation. Microsoft is free to close it's free services, and it can even play the liability card (I think it's valid), but nobody should imply from that that all unmoderated chat systems should be regulated. Far from it. Unmoderated chat systems offer a valid means of free and open communication. The obvious social advantages of that outweigh the risks, IMO.
The article hints at something interesting:
Heh, that small minority is Microsoft. After all, it's Microsoft that is closing this service, making it no longer free and open. I have no doubt that they would do that to the entire internet if they could. It is very sad.
In order for Van Eck phreaking to log the turning on and off of the LED indicators, something would have to be visible on screen that could be associated with it. The program that Randy used (as was carefully explained) did not print any data to the screen, so the Van Eck phreaking didn't pick it up. Maybe it could have if it was listening for a signature indicating those lights, but it wasn't, it was reading the magnetic field of the monitor.
Besides, how can someone monitor a communication medium if they don't know it exists?
Actually, that pretty much describes entropy.
It all comes down to the skill and thouroughness of the developer. I could certainly program PHP to call 911 in that example. It might even be easier to do it in ASP if I'm on an MS platform. However, if I wanted to be able to handle a situation where millions of users are cutting bread at the same time using many different cutting mechanisms, I would start to think about Java. It's not that PHP couldn't be written to handle that, but Java already has many well developed classes that can make such a thing easier.
>dear $DIETY, will it ever stop?
./universe.pl line 3. ./universe.pl line 3.
Name "main::DIETY" used only once: possible typo at
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
Actually they intercept any traffic that attemts to resolve .net and .com addresses against their DNS servers. This could break all sorts of things, internet search engines, FTP clients, IRC server networks and clients, some mirroring services, and the list goes on. This move by Verisign represents a major change in the basic functioning of the internet, and many of the repercussions may not be completely apparent for some time. For instance, what is the additional cost of transfering relatively big (in bytes) webpages as opposed to efficient error responses?
Hackers could crack the DNS servers. The Internet could be seriously screwed. Better switch to Linux.
Yeah, that follows.