Proprietary formats are a doubled-edged sword though.
As governments, businesses and individuals realize that access to their data (their preciousss IP) is not controlled by themselves but by one or more fickle for-profit organization(s), open standard formats start looking pretty damn attractive for a number of reasons.
Push for de-coupling your software, whining because various email software doesn't also support calendaring, coffee making or car washing seems... blinkered.
Consider the frequently-resurrected drive to "become a republic". Repeatedly, the Ausralian public has said "No!" Yet the question still gets raised again and again. Why?
The public have only said no once, when a loaded question was asked. If the repbulic referendum hadn't included a known unsavoury method for selecting the head of state, the result may well have been different.
Don't forget to mention that you actually enjoy recieving the odd piece of unsolicited email and don't understand why some people throw a pink fit when they get one or two a day.
If the user knows it is there, shouldn't it be called a translucent proxy?
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Dear MoonBuggy,
We're sorry there is no metaphysical finish line for you to judge winners and losers.
Procreate or die.
Yours sincerely, Reality(TM).
PS: All requests for rule-changes or source-code are automatically routed to/dev/boohoohoo_itissounfair. We have a monopoly to protect and don't need any fourth rate hacks attempting to create their own multiverses.
There is a big difference between spending a little money on space exploration and spending no money on it.
For space colonization to be possible it will require well established, reliable technologies. The only way to create these is long years of trial and error. The work being done now (and in the past) is laying the foundations for future space colonizers, whether they are leaving in ten years or ten centuries. There is no short-cut for avoiding these baby steps, and there is no fast-forward button to get them out of the way quickly. If these steps aren't taken now, then they will have to be taken later, perhaps when humanity doesn't have the luxury of time...
I hestitate to guess what technologies will be available in 50 years, let alone 500, however, I will guarantee that all the problems plaguing the world now, will be still around in a thousand years. Unless you plan on borging the entire human population, it just has to be accepted that humans will behave like humans.
Close. it is actually the government doing the dodging. Telstra is currently partially owned by said government (they have already managed to sell half of it) and various political machinations are involved in selling the other half.
Many people outside of the major population centres are concerned that a fully private company would have little interest in supplying them services. Said company would get much greater return on their investment by solely targeting capital spenditure in the few major cities.
The only two real assets that Telstra has is the enormous physical infrastructure constructed by tax payers dollars and its current customer base. As the current government has already partially privatised Telstra, they can no longer do the only sensible thing and split the company such that the physical infrastructure remains publically owned and (partially) funded. All service providers would then stand on a more level playing field.
He was talking about connecting from the comprised machine back to your own machine. If the key is already on the comprimised machine and not password protected, the attacker is home and hosed.
Err, yeah, because you can trust anything you run on a rooted box...
>./checkrootkits "There are no rootkits here... honest." >ls "There are no rootkits here... I swear" > cd/ "I didn't recompile the kernel... these are not the system calls you are looking for."
(I'm not trying to completely devalue these projects, but... horse... barn door... etc).
Err, I thought the default behaviour was to completely fence users off from attachments. This breaks their email, so the first thing they do is turn it off...
(Actually the first thing many people do is ring their ISP/helpdesk and complain that the ISP/helpdesk has broken their email. That is OK of course, because Microsoft pays these support costs.)
Try this: telnet 66.45.42.237 21 Trying 66.45.42.237... Connected to 66.45.42.237. Escape character is '^]'. 220-Hello Port80Software. 220 WFTPD 3.1 service (by Texas Imperial Software) ready for new user QUIT 221-Goodbye Port80Software! 221 Windows FTP Server (WFTPD, by Texas Imperial Software) says goodbye Connection closed by foreign host
I guess they need to release a new product, FTPMask;)
Just one of the things the author of the article failed to mention was the various security and privacy concerns of passing your email through an external handler (who has a vested interest in your email content), which is what a number of the products reviewed do...
A lot of the functionality you mention is already available (eg: save everthing in a folder, select all, select open), but the overall concept seems very sound and desirable.
However, what I really want is the ability to file things in several places at once, virtually. For example, Article A talks about "Turning gold into lead" so I wish to save it to my TGIL bit bucket, however it also talks about some general chemistry tips which means I want to also save it in my 'Smarter Alchemy' bit bucket.
This is not just something for files either, many emails/webpage bookmarks/etc have me wanting to organize them into several places at once...
For (innovative?) eye candy, it's hard to beat 3D-Desktop.
As for the Windows look and feel, I think this is done to make it easier for new converts. Plenty of users (Linux and otherwise) are quite happy to run window mangers like blackbox, which certainly does not have Windows L&F.
Ruling the software world is all about Embrace and Extend, just ask Microsoft. I believe this is something OSS does well and many projects that start as "clones" become something more.
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Proprietary formats are a doubled-edged sword though.
As governments, businesses and individuals realize that access to their data (their preciousss IP) is not controlled by themselves but by one or more fickle for-profit organization(s), open standard formats start looking pretty damn attractive for a number of reasons.
Push for de-coupling your software, whining because various email software doesn't also support calendaring, coffee making or car washing seems ... blinkered.
The public have only said no once, when a loaded question was asked. If the repbulic referendum hadn't included a known unsavoury method for selecting the head of state, the result may well have been different.
How is the internet a free resource???
#/sbin/ipchains -A input -p tcp -s 0/0 25 -d 0/0 -j ACCEPT # Outbound Email
...
Sweet, the above rule means I can connect to any tcp port I like, so long as I establish the connection from my own port 25
Control-k, works in bash, X support is ... typical, YMMV.
Don't forget to mention that you actually enjoy recieving the odd piece of unsolicited email and don't understand why some people throw a pink fit when they get one or two a day.
Yeah, calling all those people addicts is so biased.
I'm not a user, I can quit anytime.
If the user knows it is there, shouldn't it be called a translucent proxy?
Dear MoonBuggy,
/dev/boohoohoo_itissounfair. We have a monopoly to protect and don't need any fourth rate hacks attempting to create their own multiverses.
We're sorry there is no metaphysical finish line for you to judge winners and losers.
Procreate or die.
Yours sincerely,
Reality(TM).
PS: All requests for rule-changes or source-code are automatically routed to
There is a big difference between spending a little money on space exploration and spending no money on it.
For space colonization to be possible it will require well established, reliable technologies. The only way to create these is long years of trial and error. The work being done now (and in the past) is laying the foundations for future space colonizers, whether they are leaving in ten years or ten centuries. There is no short-cut for avoiding these baby steps, and there is no fast-forward button to get them out of the way quickly. If these steps aren't taken now, then they will have to be taken later, perhaps when humanity doesn't have the luxury of time...
I hestitate to guess what technologies will be available in 50 years, let alone 500, however, I will guarantee that all the problems plaguing the world now, will be still around in a thousand years. Unless you plan on borging the entire human population, it just has to be accepted that humans will behave like humans.
Close. it is actually the government doing the dodging. Telstra is currently partially owned by said government (they have already managed to sell half of it) and various political machinations are involved in selling the other half.
Many people outside of the major population centres are concerned that a fully private company would have little interest in supplying them services. Said company would get much greater return on their investment by solely targeting capital spenditure in the few major cities.
The only two real assets that Telstra has is the enormous physical infrastructure constructed by tax payers dollars and its current customer base. As the current government has already partially privatised Telstra, they can no longer do the only sensible thing and split the company such that the physical infrastructure remains publically owned and (partially) funded. All service providers would then stand on a more level playing field.
Nah, that was just their insistance that if "common people" could have 1kW microwave ovens, they should install 1MW microwaves in every lunch room.
It is a false argument anyway.
Cracker Ted crackes into MyBank's central servers and deletes everything.
Everyone knows Cracker Ted did it.
That still doesn't give MyBank back it's data.
No, there is no excuse for it. So stop giving these software developers any money, and their crappy products will go away.
Throwing money at lawyers is not the answer to this problem, sensible spending is.
Given that proprietary vendors are so open and honest about exploit information, how would you propose doing such a study?
We are talking about remote exploits here right?
How do I pass my smartcard through my modem to the internet???
Err, how does this help in the parents case?
He was talking about connecting from the comprised machine back to your own machine. If the key is already on the comprimised machine and not password protected, the attacker is home and hosed.
Err, yeah, because you can trust anything you run on a rooted box...
... honest." ... I swear" / ... these are not the system calls you are looking for."
... horse ... barn door ... etc).
>./checkrootkits
"There are no rootkits here
>ls
"There are no rootkits here
> cd
"I didn't recompile the kernel
(I'm not trying to completely devalue these projects, but
Err, I thought the default behaviour was to completely fence users off from attachments. This breaks their email, so the first thing they do is turn it off...
(Actually the first thing many people do is ring their ISP/helpdesk and complain that the ISP/helpdesk has broken their email. That is OK of course, because Microsoft pays these support costs.)
Nope, that snippet is to do with nmap.
;)
Try this:
telnet 66.45.42.237 21
Trying 66.45.42.237...
Connected to 66.45.42.237.
Escape character is '^]'.
220-Hello Port80Software.
220 WFTPD 3.1 service (by Texas Imperial Software) ready for new user
QUIT
221-Goodbye Port80Software!
221 Windows FTP Server (WFTPD, by Texas Imperial Software) says goodbye
Connection closed by foreign host
I guess they need to release a new product, FTPMask
sew, using a spelunking chequer will knot prevent ewe from looking lick a jackass.
If you can use OO to spell check your posts, why not use it for everyones posts?
Just one of the things the author of the article failed to mention was the various security and privacy concerns of passing your email through an external handler (who has a vested interest in your email content), which is what a number of the products reviewed do...
A lot of the functionality you mention is already available (eg: save everthing in a folder, select all, select open), but the overall concept seems very sound and desirable.
However, what I really want is the ability to file things in several places at once, virtually. For example, Article A talks about "Turning gold into lead" so I wish to save it to my TGIL bit bucket, however it also talks about some general chemistry tips which means I want to also save it in my 'Smarter Alchemy' bit bucket.
This is not just something for files either, many emails/webpage bookmarks/etc have me wanting to organize them into several places at once...
For (innovative?) eye candy, it's hard to beat 3D-Desktop.
As for the Windows look and feel, I think this is done to make it easier for new converts. Plenty of users (Linux and otherwise) are quite happy to run window mangers like blackbox, which certainly does not have Windows L&F.
Ruling the software world is all about Embrace and Extend, just ask Microsoft. I believe this is something OSS does well and many projects that start as "clones" become something more.