It is all great and whatnot, as been mentioned above. Is it only me that sees this as the state wants to control who can access information? There have been several attempts to legislate that providers should retain data for the benefit of a state, and now they are also trying to legislate how much information should be freely accessible?
So if I have a access point in my house with a MAC filter, but it's still named "linksys" or "3Com", and then I walk into a shop that has an access point by the same name, running the default config, Windows Update will commit a felony on my behalf without me knowing it? Spooky.
...and when we have all these pervs, lets go after anyone having a copy of Ghost Recon, Counter Strike and GTA. Heck, lets take anyone who played ever PacMan, that's cannibalism, dots eating dots.
Seriously. If anyone uses any medium to exchange any real underage porn then go after that. I saw a few articles where the german prosecutors where quoted saying its as illegal when it is virtual as when it is real. That is disturbing, as I'm about to start good old AoE3 and make sure I annihilate a few civilisations... and I'm not going to the international cout in the Haugue anytime soon.
I fly a good bit and I have a large-ish thinkpad (T43p). This is an easy problem to solve:
1. If your battery is fully charged it should work fine in all airlines.
2. If you need to charge as well as run the machine and work, then use whateve tool your OS uses to make sure that the CPU speed handling is set to a minimum (typically "Conserve battery" on ThinkPads), lower the brightness of the screen and work along.
Yes, we have all been throgh the phase of not being able to come to a family gathering without being peppered with various things about why someones machine is doing bad things, told everyone about Windows Update and why someone's cold didn't come from a computer virus, but anti-virus is still nice to have.
Istead of seeing it all as freeloading, why not turn around and get favours back? A nice dinner every now and then, related to a plumber or lawyer, use their services back. But, this is all mundane. Why not use your spare time to contribute skills where it can do real good stuff?
This project on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/care2002/ for eaxmple. They're creating an open source Hospital Management system. It is being heavly deplyed in the thirs world where hospitals can easily cover 200k people and still do everything by paper.
I use my own cash to travel to this hospital in Tanzania: http://haydom.no/. It is run literally in the bush, it is in the middle of nowhere, yet covers patients in an area the size of Texas, has 400 beds and the whole hospital now has managed to get basic things like e-mail, a working installation of the system above, and on my last trip a month back I got to use their satelite link for the most down to earth thing:
Having all this hi tech wiz-stuff around, satelite links, a small server with IMAP and a few PC's I was summoned to the X-Ray dept, told to bring my digital camera so that I could snap a picture of an x-ray of a small kids chest, take it online and mail it to a colleague back home to get assistance on the diagnosis. This kid had never seen a digital camera, had no idea what the internet was, and better yet, even senior personell was baffled by having a kid's x-ray in a mondern hospital within ten minutes for diganosis.
There are plenty projects that cover this kind of donation of time and work, why not give back where it can really matter? After all, when's the last time you got to play hero geek and literally save a life?
but I'l *really* like to know how many/.'ers are in the 18-25 age bracket and are eligible for voting in the US that didn't vote. According to AP, the turnout from the younth was even worse this time than in 2000, and yet the youth is complaining the loudest about Bush.
But then, the shuttle didn't blow up; the piece of foam impacted the wing and made a dent big enough to cause areaodynamic problems, which at that speed eroded the structure up to the point that the wing failed. The shuttle didn't blow up, learn your english.
This specific problem isn't about wether M$ admins are good, bad, untrained, uninformed or if wether they are Gods(tm). This is a completely non-M$ issue.
However, it looks bad for us who build and maintain networks and their security (or inherent lack thereof).
Proper design is to have two or more DNS proxies in a DMZ (or better yet, two different DMZs facing two different ISPs), and they relay any proper queries, never let an internal client have direct access out in the wild.
Hiding all kinds of cruft beind NAT'ing gateways only hides design problems and exports your bad descision to anyone who might be in your path on the Net.
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Sure it protects. The publisher's revenues.
It is all great and whatnot, as been mentioned above. Is it only me that sees this as the state wants to control who can access information? There have been several attempts to legislate that providers should retain data for the benefit of a state, and now they are also trying to legislate how much information should be freely accessible?
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...KISS and my lower spine now. Strange.
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Should be not be welcoming our WWW-creating overlords at CERN for that?
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So if I have a access point in my house with a MAC filter, but it's still named "linksys" or "3Com", and then I walk into a shop that has an access point by the same name, running the default config, Windows Update will commit a felony on my behalf without me knowing it? Spooky.
...and when we have all these pervs, lets go after anyone having a copy of Ghost Recon, Counter Strike and GTA. Heck, lets take anyone who played ever PacMan, that's cannibalism, dots eating dots.
Seriously. If anyone uses any medium to exchange any real underage porn then go after that. I saw a few articles where the german prosecutors where quoted saying its as illegal when it is virtual as when it is real. That is disturbing, as I'm about to start good old AoE3 and make sure I annihilate a few civilisations... and I'm not going to the international cout in the Haugue anytime soon.
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I fly a good bit and I have a large-ish thinkpad (T43p). This is an easy problem to solve:
1. If your battery is fully charged it should work fine in all airlines.
2. If you need to charge as well as run the machine and work, then use whateve tool your OS uses to make sure that the CPU speed handling is set to a minimum (typically "Conserve battery" on ThinkPads), lower the brightness of the screen and work along.
Tested and tried on SK, SQ, BA, UA and others.
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Yes, we have all been throgh the phase of not being able to come to a family gathering without being peppered with various things about why someones machine is doing bad things, told everyone about Windows Update and why someone's cold didn't come from a computer virus, but anti-virus is still nice to have.
Istead of seeing it all as freeloading, why not turn around and get favours back? A nice dinner every now and then, related to a plumber or lawyer, use their services back. But, this is all mundane. Why not use your spare time to contribute skills where it can do real good stuff?
This project on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/care2002/ for eaxmple. They're creating an open source Hospital Management system. It is being heavly deplyed in the thirs world where hospitals can easily cover 200k people and still do everything by paper.
I use my own cash to travel to this hospital in Tanzania: http://haydom.no/. It is run literally in the bush, it is in the middle of nowhere, yet covers patients in an area the size of Texas, has 400 beds and the whole hospital now has managed to get basic things like e-mail, a working installation of the system above, and on my last trip a month back I got to use their satelite link for the most down to earth thing:
Having all this hi tech wiz-stuff around, satelite links, a small server with IMAP and a few PC's I was summoned to the X-Ray dept, told to bring my digital camera so that I could snap a picture of an x-ray of a small kids chest, take it online and mail it to a colleague back home to get assistance on the diagnosis. This kid had never seen a digital camera, had no idea what the internet was, and better yet, even senior personell was baffled by having a kid's x-ray in a mondern hospital within ten minutes for diganosis.
There are plenty projects that cover this kind of donation of time and work, why not give back where it can really matter? After all, when's the last time you got to play hero geek and literally save a life?
but I'l *really* like to know how many /.'ers are in the 18-25 age bracket and are eligible for voting in the US that didn't vote.
According to AP, the turnout from the younth was even worse this time than in 2000, and yet the youth is complaining the loudest about Bush.
So you say that preventing a human from existing, even though it was not a human at that time, qualifies as a bad thing?
Does that classify you in the league of Pol Pot the next time you do a right hand chaser?
But then, the shuttle didn't blow up; the piece of foam impacted the wing and made a dent big enough to cause areaodynamic problems, which at that speed eroded the structure up to the point that the wing failed. The shuttle didn't blow up, learn your english.
...but if the GPL is "viral", does that make the MS EULA "sudden death"?
And, ahem, *cough*cough* how does this make BCG so special in the consulting market?
...and so what, this is not uncommmon at all for any company I've done similar work at.
To but it in other words: Man bites dog, the sun shines, now move on.
Must have been a slow newsday.
This specific problem isn't about wether M$ admins are good, bad, untrained, uninformed or if wether they are Gods(tm). This is a completely non-M$ issue.
However, it looks bad for us who build and maintain networks and their security (or inherent lack thereof).
Proper design is to have two or more DNS proxies in a DMZ (or better yet, two different DMZs facing two different ISPs), and they relay any proper queries, never let an internal client have direct access out in the wild.
Hiding all kinds of cruft beind NAT'ing gateways only hides design problems and exports your bad descision to anyone who might be in your path on the Net.
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