I guess it depends on the judge deciding the case, as the article summary points out, GEICO went after google for the same thing. Searching GEICO in google will bring up paid listings by competing insurance companies. If you search for "rackspace" (a hosting company) the first result is a paid listing for netplan.co.uk.
No, forcing clients to use valid SMTP servers is the most of the reason SPF exists. The point is, most security measures on SMTP servers are moot because they can work around them simply by running their own SMTP process.
The idea is to force them to adhere to using authorized servers that are actually under someones control.
Now things like shutting down open relays, smtp auth, send limits, outgoing filters etc. are not just a wasted effort.
Right now if an infected box on our network is spamming someone we don't know till they contact us about it. If we force them to have to spam through a mail platform in our control we can almost automate this process.
I agree with you, the hardware power and software logic required to build something complex enough for us to call it AI is a long way out. Spending the money to try to build this now would be expensive. I think more would get more done spending the money on a more useful application.
eg. rather than try to design something to read books why not build a technology that makes simple decisions based on integrating large databases of already collected information?
That would strike me as a more practical use of technology and is brobably what will form the base of what in the future we will call "AI"
Any study that pulls a "random" cross section of the American population is usually equally as shocking. Few Americans could even tell you that it takes the earth 365.25 days to revolve around the sun, many don't know what makes the moon light up. Only like 25% op them can find Iraq on a globe. I am willing to bet that a greater percentage could tell you Britney Spears' middle name or name the entire cast of Sex In The City.
You wonder why Americans are so fat, when most of them think carbs are something are bad for you, when hardly any of them can explain what "callories from fat" means.
Meanwhile, insurance rates in this countly are through the roof for buisness getting sued into the ground becasue someone stupid hurt themselves with their product, because the warning label did not state something that should have been common sense.[/rant]
$55 might be alot for a game but some of the hard core Doom fans will still buy it. I know a guy that spent $2,000 on a Darth Vader costume (and not for halloween)!
The sadder fact is that most companies like this employ hundreds of people that barely have a clue and only a few shining stars pretty much lead the way on new projects. A good engineer is worth 6 bad ones, sometimes they even make another $2/hour.
They never ask them very good questions. Almost all the interviews I see are very generalized about things like security and progress of the "PC". I have some better questions:
We noticed that with the firewall in SP2 and the fewer services default services running on 2k3 server, that Microsoft has finally started to take notice to "the first rule" of computer security. But what was Microsoft thinking when they shipped XP RTM to non technical users with things like RPC and UPnP listening to connections from the internet?
We know hind site is 20/20, but there were many people who warned MS about the insecurities of XP long before it was shipped, what was the general response at MS to these warnings and would you say that you were "wrong" to ignore the early warnings?
Why are these services still running but now behind XP SP2's firewall, why not turn them off? Some people believe this is a ploy to add more "bloat" to windows to increase hardware (and by extention windows) sales, what is your response?
I could come up with about a 100 more, maybe Slashdot should try to get an interview with Bill Gates?:)
That is true, I am familiar with UNIX sockets, the syntax of the command on a unix system is different "netstat --inet -a" but it was mostly outside the scope of the post. The point remains though that most Linux distros ship today with a larger remote attack footprint than win98.
It is my opinion that no operating system should have any network service in listening state upon default install. This should be an undustry standard policy.
Actually most of XP's security problems with RPC, default services in listening state etc. all came from win2k. 98se was a brick wall (remotely) after you dissabled netbios. You could run "netstat -a" and get 0 results, try that on XP, 2K, or even Linux.
Now it might only reduce theft of some models by 89.995%, looks like it is back to the drawing board. Also, the RFID chips are powered by static from the ignition, so you would have to stand really close (about 3 inches) to someone with your little key cracking kit to get the correct key.
Well they sold 6.3 million copies of Halo 2. The games division posted a profit (for first time) of $84 million. Microsoft was not expecting to be turning a profit in that division till 2007.
One of the seasonal rhythms of the Usenet used to be the annual September influx of clueless newbies who, lacking any sense of netiquette, made a general nuisance of themselves. This coincided with people starting college, getting their first internet accounts, and plunging in without bothering to learn what was acceptable. These relatively small drafts of newbies could be assimilated within a few months. But in September 1993, AOL users became able to post to Usenet, nearly overwhelming the old-timers' capacity to acculturate them; to those who nostalgically recall the period before, this triggered an inexorable decline in the quality of discussions on newsgroups. Syn. eternal September
Re AC: except all the mom&pops and teenage girls won't ever move from frontpage anyways (unless there becomes a good open source alternative) and I promise they really don't care if firefox renders it right or not, if it doesn't they'll just tell their friends to use IE.
When will people ever understand that Linux is not intended for mom & pops and teenage girls?? I'd be happy enough with techs, engineers, developers, and power users myself. If you think Linux is going to reach mom & pop by skipping everyone in the middle you need to go back and retake business management 101.
I never got why so few Linux advocates understood this point. Maybe because you need the Slashdot hivemind to think this idea for you?
Only as far as vendor lock in. Having more non IE users forces webmasters to write more compatible web sites (and by extention easing the transition to another platform).
Being one way communication does not mean it does not use bandwidth. Even most internet radio stations use one way UDP data streams of information and still use alot of bandwidth. I think the word you are looking for is broadcast.
Beta software? They purchased and rebranded giant antspyware which is very much a mature product. It is only "beta" because they plan to make more changes before releasing it as their own.
And yes, I thought the article painted a pretty clear view on the state of Windows security and I think they need to do more. I think part of Microsoft does not care if people's computers become slow and unusable, because computers are appliances. People buy a new one only after theirs quits working.
Microsoft may own the desktop market share, but they do not own the internet and because of their careless decisions Windows boxes are constantly taken over and used for sending spam and DDoS's.
For instance, they have a firewall on but all the services are still in listening state behind it. Email based worms have been successfully using the SAME TRICK for over 10 years now. This is clearly a problem that is not going to be fixed by antivirus companies. Instead of MS releasing a free secured email client, they mostly ignore the problem creating a cash cow for AV companies whose software is intentionally designed to keep users in the dark.
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Why can't we sell it or donate it to another country as a gift if they are willing to take over upkeep?
This is common practice.
No, forcing clients to use valid SMTP servers is the most of the reason SPF exists. The point is, most security measures on SMTP servers are moot because they can work around them simply by running their own SMTP process.
The idea is to force them to adhere to using authorized servers that are actually under someones control.
Now things like shutting down open relays, smtp auth, send limits, outgoing filters etc. are not just a wasted effort.
Right now if an infected box on our network is spamming someone we don't know till they contact us about it. If we force them to have to spam through a mail platform in our control we can almost automate this process.
And before SPF you could get more done running the SMTP server on the infected box. Maybe this is a sign that SPF works.
eg. rather than try to design something to read books why not build a technology that makes simple decisions based on integrating large databases of already collected information?
That would strike me as a more practical use of technology and is brobably what will form the base of what in the future we will call "AI"
Just think of it this way, with the new computing power you should be able to design the perfect tin foil hat.
You wonder why Americans are so fat, when most of them think carbs are something are bad for you, when hardly any of them can explain what "callories from fat" means.
Meanwhile, insurance rates in this countly are through the roof for buisness getting sued into the ground becasue someone stupid hurt themselves with their product, because the warning label did not state something that should have been common sense.[/rant]
$55 might be alot for a game but some of the hard core Doom fans will still buy it. I know a guy that spent $2,000 on a Darth Vader costume (and not for halloween)!
The sadder fact is that most companies like this employ hundreds of people that barely have a clue and only a few shining stars pretty much lead the way on new projects. A good engineer is worth 6 bad ones, sometimes they even make another $2/hour.
We noticed that with the firewall in SP2 and the fewer services default services running on 2k3 server, that Microsoft has finally started to take notice to "the first rule" of computer security. But what was Microsoft thinking when they shipped XP RTM to non technical users with things like RPC and UPnP listening to connections from the internet?
We know hind site is 20/20, but there were many people who warned MS about the insecurities of XP long before it was shipped, what was the general response at MS to these warnings and would you say that you were "wrong" to ignore the early warnings?
Why are these services still running but now behind XP SP2's firewall, why not turn them off? Some people believe this is a ploy to add more "bloat" to windows to increase hardware (and by extention windows) sales, what is your response?
I could come up with about a 100 more, maybe Slashdot should try to get an interview with Bill Gates? :)
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It is my opinion that no operating system should have any network service in listening state upon default install. This should be an undustry standard policy.
Actually most of XP's security problems with RPC, default services in listening state etc. all came from win2k. 98se was a brick wall (remotely) after you dissabled netbios. You could run "netstat -a" and get 0 results, try that on XP, 2K, or even Linux.
Now it might only reduce theft of some models by 89.995%, looks like it is back to the drawing board. Also, the RFID chips are powered by static from the ignition, so you would have to stand really close (about 3 inches) to someone with your little key cracking kit to get the correct key.
Well they sold 6.3 million copies of Halo 2. The games division posted a profit (for first time) of $84 million. Microsoft was not expecting to be turning a profit in that division till 2007.
This is sort of the aim of the google pagerank feature currently in the google toolbar. Some people think the feature is intrusive though.
What you can do in that case is take a random quote from the article that is distinct and use a -"exact unique text here"
One of the seasonal rhythms of the Usenet used to be the annual September influx of clueless newbies who, lacking any sense of netiquette, made a general nuisance of themselves. This coincided with people starting college, getting their first internet accounts, and plunging in without bothering to learn what was acceptable. These relatively small drafts of newbies could be assimilated within a few months. But in September 1993, AOL users became able to post to Usenet, nearly overwhelming the old-timers' capacity to acculturate them; to those who nostalgically recall the period before, this triggered an inexorable decline in the quality of discussions on newsgroups. Syn. eternal September
When will people ever understand that Linux is not intended for mom & pops and teenage girls?? I'd be happy enough with techs, engineers, developers, and power users myself. If you think Linux is going to reach mom & pop by skipping everyone in the middle you need to go back and retake business management 101.
I never got why so few Linux advocates understood this point. Maybe because you need the Slashdot hivemind to think this idea for you?
Only as far as vendor lock in. Having more non IE users forces webmasters to write more compatible web sites (and by extention easing the transition to another platform).
Try kmeleon.sourceforge.net and here is the download link.
I spotted the dupe right away also. Maybe Timothy is busy picking up the slack for the company I work for while I read slashdot...?
Dude, you said ogg in a discussion about audio encoding on slashdot. I envy the size of your karma.
Being one way communication does not mean it does not use bandwidth. Even most internet radio stations use one way UDP data streams of information and still use alot of bandwidth. I think the word you are looking for is broadcast.
And yes, I thought the article painted a pretty clear view on the state of Windows security and I think they need to do more. I think part of Microsoft does not care if people's computers become slow and unusable, because computers are appliances. People buy a new one only after theirs quits working.
Microsoft may own the desktop market share, but they do not own the internet and because of their careless decisions Windows boxes are constantly taken over and used for sending spam and DDoS's.
For instance, they have a firewall on but all the services are still in listening state behind it. Email based worms have been successfully using the SAME TRICK for over 10 years now. This is clearly a problem that is not going to be fixed by antivirus companies. Instead of MS releasing a free secured email client, they mostly ignore the problem creating a cash cow for AV companies whose software is intentionally designed to keep users in the dark.