as soon as you ask, they might send lawyers saying you're "squatting", even if you had the domain before their trademark was registered. ICANN heavily favors trademark owners over anybody else. If you don't want to sell, don't even respond... not even to say it's not for sale.
so this behavior is OK because the government hasn't crossed "X" line yet? We know where this leads, they know where this leads, and they do it anyway. Call them all traitor, while there's fewer of them. After all, that's what THEY'RE doing by singling out people like this! A Dickinson style class war is already started but only one side is making their move.
boy do you miss the boat. Microsoft still has 75% of the web browsing market. Pages built for IE6 are still expected to work for banks, hotels, and intranets. When Microsoft changes a default 80% of the world suffers because internal developers write ONLY for IE. The original promise what that IE8 would render in W3C standards mode by default unless another page mode was triggered. This would have been huge, allowing people to properly write pages for Opera, Firefox, & Safari and have IE render them according the standard method. If IE8 kicks to "IE standards" first, then web programmers still have to modify their pages just for IE8 by putting the code to "kick" IE into the proper mode. This will put IE with 3 separate versions of compatibility just for IE "standards"... when the goal is to write 1 HTML page that works for everybody with no changes. Intranets make the whole thing worse because internal apps simply won't move unless they have to. At my work we are still using one web app that requires Microsoft Java and IE6 and won't work with anything SUN. This is where Microsoft is so entrenched and any changes cause their "customers" great pain. So every time they talk about web standards they back of because of the entrenched developers.
yes, I agree with that. What ACID tests do is test the error handling of the elements. Supposedly, if you hit all the same "bumpers" going down the course the web pages should render more or less the same.
The trouble is that HTML/CSS is not intended to render pixel perfect, it's simply not a design focus, HTML is designed to get at content, the words and images in as many devices as possible. The web went the wrong way a long time ago, and nobody really seems to want to fix it by tightening up spec and rendering to HTML5 only.
we do, but few banks have the good version you describe. Most banks or companies have some little difference in the process, when you have to keep 7 different bill schedules because they won't pick the days you ask for it gets frustrating. Also, banks hit accounts a lot harder for overdraft fees, heck they charge nearly as much now for "failover to savings" as for an overdraft. I think part of the issue is that banks all have credit cards they'd rather have you use. They're all in on it, so there's no reason to make the banking any simpler if they don't have to.
not all banks offer that type of online banking. That is the trouble. Of the two Credit Unions I would use in my town (that don't rob you blind like the banks) My bank doesn't offer true online banking, and the other offers only "mail a check".
Issue's I've seen: Some bank's "online" is merely putting thru and ACH electronic check when you suggest. Some are better than others but they almost always want to wire the money on THEIR terms so they can float the transit.
The companies that want you to give them your info vary greatly. One of my bills takes the bill out exactly on the date you say, every time. My telco wants to vary by 5 days either way, whenever they choose... that totally humps you when you expect it to come after your paychecks direct deposit in to checking.
Personally I think the banks like it to be hard, after all, most of the people paying overdraft charges and late fees on credit cards could eliminate those things if the banks evened out their systems. Personally, the banks are still making money on "floating the check" in the US and don't want the big flux of money on the first & fifteenth, they want the money spread out so they can earn interest on it for a few days.
Apache is an excellent example because it gained enough ground that to recreate it would cost any company too much money. It's far better to let the experts handle it and chip them a little money to put the system on your hardware too.
I think that OSS lends itself to the consulting business, but it's not quite there yet. Companies that get paid for results and not for software directly, like web hosts. I think that ERP systems and business software could be the next frontier if companies changed over. Everybody buys $100k+ business systems, only to toss the actual support contract 3 years in because the original company only "sells" and does not develop. So they pay small consultant firms to customize code for their business but still get beat up for license fees and support from time to time. I think it's a market primed for Open Source as nobody in business cares if the consultants use code at more than 1 customer as long as they get their updates more cheaply. There's stuff to work out, but the market is primed to be wiped out by OSS or Microsoft.
if your admins have backup tapes and can "magically" restore those files when you delete them, then they have access. It's pretty hard to cut admins out of the loop simply because they are the ones called in to find lost files or reset passwords and rebuild servers. Heck, even in the strongest systems if they have power to reset your password they can be you and open whatever you've got.
Large prime numbers are used in cryptography because it gives you massive amounts of digits that are not divisible by any other number. There's types of crypto that use multiple large prime numbers to build the keys from. If you use one of these as your seeds it will take a long time to crack anything encrypted as the number is huge and has no smaller factors. At 10 million digits you're going to take a long time to "guess" what it is.
no, I think you missed it also. MediaSentry can do what they want.. but if you or I went to court after following slashdot users around the internet for a week, we'd get in trouble for stalking laws. This case is all about whether they can legally spy on people, there's no "new rules" being made. If I am a licensed insurance fraud investigator, I can do many things that would get me harassed by the police, but only have to show my card... but that card comes with the responsibility to follow the laws.
MediaSentry is not any different than if I did these things, they have no legal standing, nor oversight of their practices by the court. But they are being taken as gospel truth by the RIAA lawyers as expert witnesses when they are not legally qualified for that distinction. On top of that, they are being insulated from direct cross examination of their methods by defendant's lawyers... that aren't documented or tested in any court. THAT is why people are upset. Some of the things they have done involve spoofing and hacking servers to put up false files. IF you or I admitted to doing those things we would be in jail by the police at request of the telcos for hacking their customers' computers and abusing their networks. We have a way of authorizing citizens for investigation.. and they are refusing to follow it. There's no new laws needed here, just forcing people accusing thousands of people in court to follow existing laws.
this new "GPU" is not a discrete part, but a new type of CPU that's extremely multi-core. They'll take part of the cores for graphic and part for general ops and let the "northbridge" handle drawing pretties on your screen. They won't over charge and lose to ATI because ATI doesn't make CPUS and Intel will be creating a new bus with new patents so there won't be other integrated sets.
You don't need an example to investigate your own property if you get robbed, vandalized, etc.. on the other hand your opinion from breaking out your junior Grissom CIS CSI SCIence kit doesn't mean squat in court until the police or lawyers make sure you followed proper rules of evidence. If you collect information on say cheating spouses from your garage, you're a creepy stalker.. if you are a licensed PI then you MUST follow more legal terms, but your results are automatically accepted for discussion.
In the same way, your companies network person for practical purposes is investigating "your" property... which means exactly squat in court except for making police point to somebody quicker and take the credit. Once your network people cross into other networks they have no "training" to properly secure evidence, nor to report what they find to the police as anything other than hearsay. A company like MediaSentry can "investigate" all they want, but they have no more credibility than you or I in a court of law, not even a decent promise to follow professional standards. When it comes to snooping PI's have some extra ability to "spy" that would get you arrested if you tried to steal trash or to hide in a van and take pictures but insurance PIs wave their card and get a free pass.
most importantly Doom sold PCs because it could easily be pirated and used on computers normally used for boring work. Then it's the snowball effect, people develop for what sells, if it's easy to 'cheat' then people buy that hardware because there's so much "free" software.
DOS is just fine against Citizens, YOU don't have much value.. and you were probably breaking the law anyway. If you DOS'd them, it would be thousands of dollars a minute damages.. the law cares about the MONEY damages not the act of damage.
they are investigating for money. That is the difference. They are contracted to investigate, this is not their company's logs, or the RIAA's. They have also admitted in the past to using "more" than just passive techniques.. perhaps illegal techniques to obtain information.
ATI's new 4800 boards worked with out-of-the box current linux drivers on release day. That's a first for either ATI or Nvidia. AMD has made an overnight grab at Nvidia's Linux territory while nvidia is "monologuing".
Unlike Nvidia and AMD, intel can bundle whatever it wants and cover the costs in CPU and chipset manufacturing. If intel wants, they can give away whatever specs needed in order to corner the market, a la Microsoft and bend the software industry to it's will. In some way even AMD can bundle GPU and CPUs in value packs but Nvidia is out cold for now and that scares the piss out of them.
that's why many IT departments block as much crap as possible, because THEY don't want to be that in that kind of investigation, so they cut off outside email, IM, myspace, etc so people can't make those mistakes with THEIR toys. Sure people will try, but then you have policies in place long before their actions become "illegal" and police get involved.
no, there is quite a bit of liability involved in IT now. Not properly protecting salary and HR files can be a criminal offense to the company owners.. you have to do it. But you are correct, security is not really about "preventing" wrongdoing, because somebody that wants to get you will. On the other hand one part is to make enough noise that the honest people know you're watching and aren't lead astray. The other part is logging and auditing what's going on... just like a physical security guard, to know who belongs and who doesn't, then able to prove that in court if you need to.
Good security also keeps people from accidentally messing up your data, and that's the most common and disastrous thing that happens. To only give people the minimum they need, then when 2 months of TPS reports are missing you have a short list of who had access rather than entire departments, and find out the boss deleted them not "some hacker". You also keep unqualified people from screwing things up.
good IT security is not about following anybody's agenda but about securing the property. It's like being the night watchman responsible to lock the doors, close the windows, and be on look out for strangers. IT security is not "policing", nor should it be. In my company our guys work hard to keep their jobs non-political. They'll provide facts but not run around snooping on people for the boss. There's a big difference in the two.
the better word is "anyone". There's the saying you can't fight city hall... imagine dealing with the FBI snooping around. Like you said they can't snoop everyone.. so once they spend X amount of resources on YOU then they have to find SOMETHING to look busy. And being as anybody can "nominate" you without court oversight this will cause trouble.
The 21 drinking age didn't come into effect until the mid-70's in most places. The damn hippies (now judges) got "theirs" at Woodstock and changed the rules for everybody else. That's why there's a push in the university administrators to put the age back at 18 and expect voting adults to act like adults.
I can't wait until we take driving away from everybody over 60!!! It's not a right, it's a privilege.
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as soon as you ask, they might send lawyers saying you're "squatting", even if you had the domain before their trademark was registered. ICANN heavily favors trademark owners over anybody else. If you don't want to sell, don't even respond... not even to say it's not for sale.
did they do anything with Enterprise or the new Trek movie? Seems they don't have much material that's not pushing 10 years old.
because Microsoft didn't treat the PC that way and Apple's not treating the iPhone that way.... Right.
so this behavior is OK because the government hasn't crossed "X" line yet? We know where this leads, they know where this leads, and they do it anyway. Call them all traitor, while there's fewer of them. After all, that's what THEY'RE doing by singling out people like this! A Dickinson style class war is already started but only one side is making their move.
we give requests to HR to deal with at certain point. That makes people male better requests. We also have more mature bosses most of the time.
boy do you miss the boat. Microsoft still has 75% of the web browsing market. Pages built for IE6 are still expected to work for banks, hotels, and intranets. When Microsoft changes a default 80% of the world suffers because internal developers write ONLY for IE. The original promise what that IE8 would render in W3C standards mode by default unless another page mode was triggered. This would have been huge, allowing people to properly write pages for Opera, Firefox, & Safari and have IE render them according the standard method. If IE8 kicks to "IE standards" first, then web programmers still have to modify their pages just for IE8 by putting the code to "kick" IE into the proper mode. This will put IE with 3 separate versions of compatibility just for IE "standards"... when the goal is to write 1 HTML page that works for everybody with no changes.
Intranets make the whole thing worse because internal apps simply won't move unless they have to. At my work we are still using one web app that requires Microsoft Java and IE6 and won't work with anything SUN. This is where Microsoft is so entrenched and any changes cause their "customers" great pain. So every time they talk about web standards they back of because of the entrenched developers.
yes, I agree with that. What ACID tests do is test the error handling of the elements. Supposedly, if you hit all the same "bumpers" going down the course the web pages should render more or less the same.
The trouble is that HTML/CSS is not intended to render pixel perfect, it's simply not a design focus, HTML is designed to get at content, the words and images in as many devices as possible. The web went the wrong way a long time ago, and nobody really seems to want to fix it by tightening up spec and rendering to HTML5 only.
we do, but few banks have the good version you describe. Most banks or companies have some little difference in the process, when you have to keep 7 different bill schedules because they won't pick the days you ask for it gets frustrating. Also, banks hit accounts a lot harder for overdraft fees, heck they charge nearly as much now for "failover to savings" as for an overdraft. I think part of the issue is that banks all have credit cards they'd rather have you use. They're all in on it, so there's no reason to make the banking any simpler if they don't have to.
not all banks offer that type of online banking. That is the trouble. Of the two Credit Unions I would use in my town (that don't rob you blind like the banks) My bank doesn't offer true online banking, and the other offers only "mail a check".
Issue's I've seen:
Some bank's "online" is merely putting thru and ACH electronic check when you suggest. Some are better than others but they almost always want to wire the money on THEIR terms so they can float the transit.
The companies that want you to give them your info vary greatly. One of my bills takes the bill out exactly on the date you say, every time. My telco wants to vary by 5 days either way, whenever they choose... that totally humps you when you expect it to come after your paychecks direct deposit in to checking.
Personally I think the banks like it to be hard, after all, most of the people paying overdraft charges and late fees on credit cards could eliminate those things if the banks evened out their systems. Personally, the banks are still making money on "floating the check" in the US and don't want the big flux of money on the first & fifteenth, they want the money spread out so they can earn interest on it for a few days.
Apache is an excellent example because it gained enough ground that to recreate it would cost any company too much money. It's far better to let the experts handle it and chip them a little money to put the system on your hardware too.
I think that OSS lends itself to the consulting business, but it's not quite there yet. Companies that get paid for results and not for software directly, like web hosts. I think that ERP systems and business software could be the next frontier if companies changed over. Everybody buys $100k+ business systems, only to toss the actual support contract 3 years in because the original company only "sells" and does not develop. So they pay small consultant firms to customize code for their business but still get beat up for license fees and support from time to time. I think it's a market primed for Open Source as nobody in business cares if the consultants use code at more than 1 customer as long as they get their updates more cheaply. There's stuff to work out, but the market is primed to be wiped out by OSS or Microsoft.
if your admins have backup tapes and can "magically" restore those files when you delete them, then they have access. It's pretty hard to cut admins out of the loop simply because they are the ones called in to find lost files or reset passwords and rebuild servers. Heck, even in the strongest systems if they have power to reset your password they can be you and open whatever you've got.
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Large prime numbers are used in cryptography because it gives you massive amounts of digits that are not divisible by any other number. There's types of crypto that use multiple large prime numbers to build the keys from. If you use one of these as your seeds it will take a long time to crack anything encrypted as the number is huge and has no smaller factors. At 10 million digits you're going to take a long time to "guess" what it is.
no, I think you missed it also. MediaSentry can do what they want.. but if you or I went to court after following slashdot users around the internet for a week, we'd get in trouble for stalking laws. This case is all about whether they can legally spy on people, there's no "new rules" being made. If I am a licensed insurance fraud investigator, I can do many things that would get me harassed by the police, but only have to show my card... but that card comes with the responsibility to follow the laws.
MediaSentry is not any different than if I did these things, they have no legal standing, nor oversight of their practices by the court. But they are being taken as gospel truth by the RIAA lawyers as expert witnesses when they are not legally qualified for that distinction. On top of that, they are being insulated from direct cross examination of their methods by defendant's lawyers... that aren't documented or tested in any court. THAT is why people are upset. Some of the things they have done involve spoofing and hacking servers to put up false files. IF you or I admitted to doing those things we would be in jail by the police at request of the telcos for hacking their customers' computers and abusing their networks. We have a way of authorizing citizens for investigation.. and they are refusing to follow it. There's no new laws needed here, just forcing people accusing thousands of people in court to follow existing laws.
this new "GPU" is not a discrete part, but a new type of CPU that's extremely multi-core. They'll take part of the cores for graphic and part for general ops and let the "northbridge" handle drawing pretties on your screen. They won't over charge and lose to ATI because ATI doesn't make CPUS and Intel will be creating a new bus with new patents so there won't be other integrated sets.
You don't need an example to investigate your own property if you get robbed, vandalized, etc.. on the other hand your opinion from breaking out your junior Grissom CIS CSI SCIence kit doesn't mean squat in court until the police or lawyers make sure you followed proper rules of evidence. If you collect information on say cheating spouses from your garage, you're a creepy stalker.. if you are a licensed PI then you MUST follow more legal terms, but your results are automatically accepted for discussion.
In the same way, your companies network person for practical purposes is investigating "your" property... which means exactly squat in court except for making police point to somebody quicker and take the credit. Once your network people cross into other networks they have no "training" to properly secure evidence, nor to report what they find to the police as anything other than hearsay. A company like MediaSentry can "investigate" all they want, but they have no more credibility than you or I in a court of law, not even a decent promise to follow professional standards. When it comes to snooping PI's have some extra ability to "spy" that would get you arrested if you tried to steal trash or to hide in a van and take pictures but insurance PIs wave their card and get a free pass.
most importantly Doom sold PCs because it could easily be pirated and used on computers normally used for boring work. Then it's the snowball effect, people develop for what sells, if it's easy to 'cheat' then people buy that hardware because there's so much "free" software.
DOS is just fine against Citizens, YOU don't have much value.. and you were probably breaking the law anyway. If you DOS'd them, it would be thousands of dollars a minute damages.. the law cares about the MONEY damages not the act of damage.
they are investigating for money. That is the difference. They are contracted to investigate, this is not their company's logs, or the RIAA's. They have also admitted in the past to using "more" than just passive techniques.. perhaps illegal techniques to obtain information.
ATI's new 4800 boards worked with out-of-the box current linux drivers on release day. That's a first for either ATI or Nvidia. AMD has made an overnight grab at Nvidia's Linux territory while nvidia is "monologuing".
Unlike Nvidia and AMD, intel can bundle whatever it wants and cover the costs in CPU and chipset manufacturing. If intel wants, they can give away whatever specs needed in order to corner the market, a la Microsoft and bend the software industry to it's will. In some way even AMD can bundle GPU and CPUs in value packs but Nvidia is out cold for now and that scares the piss out of them.
that's why many IT departments block as much crap as possible, because THEY don't want to be that in that kind of investigation, so they cut off outside email, IM, myspace, etc so people can't make those mistakes with THEIR toys. Sure people will try, but then you have policies in place long before their actions become "illegal" and police get involved.
no, there is quite a bit of liability involved in IT now. Not properly protecting salary and HR files can be a criminal offense to the company owners.. you have to do it. But you are correct, security is not really about "preventing" wrongdoing, because somebody that wants to get you will. On the other hand one part is to make enough noise that the honest people know you're watching and aren't lead astray. The other part is logging and auditing what's going on... just like a physical security guard, to know who belongs and who doesn't, then able to prove that in court if you need to.
Good security also keeps people from accidentally messing up your data, and that's the most common and disastrous thing that happens. To only give people the minimum they need, then when 2 months of TPS reports are missing you have a short list of who had access rather than entire departments, and find out the boss deleted them not "some hacker". You also keep unqualified people from screwing things up.
good IT security is not about following anybody's agenda but about securing the property. It's like being the night watchman responsible to lock the doors, close the windows, and be on look out for strangers. IT security is not "policing", nor should it be. In my company our guys work hard to keep their jobs non-political. They'll provide facts but not run around snooping on people for the boss. There's a big difference in the two.
the better word is "anyone". There's the saying you can't fight city hall... imagine dealing with the FBI snooping around. Like you said they can't snoop everyone.. so once they spend X amount of resources on YOU then they have to find SOMETHING to look busy. And being as anybody can "nominate" you without court oversight this will cause trouble.
The 21 drinking age didn't come into effect until the mid-70's in most places. The damn hippies (now judges) got "theirs" at Woodstock and changed the rules for everybody else. That's why there's a push in the university administrators to put the age back at 18 and expect voting adults to act like adults.
I can't wait until we take driving away from everybody over 60!!! It's not a right, it's a privilege.