Nowadays, the new stuff is the old stuff. The Dixie Chicks are covering Fleetwood Mac, some teenyboppers are covering Abba. . . hell, even bell-bottoms have made a comeback.
It could be - or it could be that consumers are willing to spend more money for the convenience of random access to music vs. sequential access. When was the last time you saw a cassette player with a "random" feature?
"Downplaying"? A 1 x 10-6 is about equal to the "1 in 909,000" cited in the BBC article. In fact, the BBC article actually gives higher odds, since 1 x 10-6 == 1 in 1,000,000.
Who said anything about who was to blame? No matter whom you blame for the intrusion, you're just as fucked--therefore you're better off trying to prevent the intrusion in the first place than whining about it after the fact.
Where does it say that you now have the right to fuck with it? Do you somehow think that by buggering it up, you're "helping" me? No, how you help is by leaving it the hell alone!
All true; but have you considered that securing your system, like securing your house, is the best method of helping yourself? No, others don't have the right to break into your system; but if you don't care about it enough to at least make it inconvenient for hackers and thieves, don't expect anyone else to shed a tear for you when you get owned.
When police catch drug runners, they seize the drug runners possesions (house and car). Why couldn't it be the same for spammy??
Think about it -- if they would lose their computers, they would have a difficult time spamming. Couple that with some pound-me-in-the-butt federal prison time, they might get the freakin' message the they are not liked
All you would need to do is catch a handful and make an example of them.
Sure, the remaining spammies might move to another country, but at least they would be on the run.
Yeh, and I'd be leaving with them. I'd rather live in a country where I have to deal with spam than live in a police state like the one you just described. Of course, maybe your sense of irony is akin to that of Swift's "modest proposal," but in this medium, that's kinda hard to tell.
If you're talking about government measures, no. If you're talking about citizens' initiatives, on the other hand. . . well, still no, but only because I don't like agreeing with anything that has the words "anything," "everything," etc.
I dunno. I just saw someone else's signature line say it's a guaranteed +5 Funny, so I figured I'd do a one-shot experiment to see for myself. 'Course, it only got to +3, so I guess the guy wasn't right after all.:)
Yeah, after I posted it, I realized it probably hadn't been two months after all. D'oh!
In the first place, there are too many patches. At some point, you gotta blame the sloppy code. Maybe more than one major vulnerability per month this year is below your threshold, but it's above mine.
Like I said, I'm not trying to defend Microsoft. Their Windows source code for the NT family (including 2000 and XP) is beyond the point where it can be reasonably maintained, I'm sure - that's why Microsoft stopped supporting NT, they just can't patch it any more. I do believe they need to reengineer the Windows operating system.
In the meantime, admins who are leery of Microsoft patches ought to have a couple of testbed machines where they can install a patch and thoroughly test the system before pushing the patch the rest of the way down the network. This would be my strategy whether I were running Windows, UNIX, Linux, or any other OS on my network. Two weeks is a fairly short timetable, but not so short that the testing process can't at least guarantee a patch does what it says it's going to do and doesn't break any other critical systems.
Microsoft has $40 fucking billion dollars (so much money that it transcends "dollars"). Why don't they make more effort to educate their customers in the use of their products?
Because their business is selling software, not teaching dummies how to use Windows. Maybe they should offer that training, but they don't; and in the meantime, plenty of other companies to.
Yeah, cars are dangerous, but do you expect the dealership to teach you how to drive?
Right, Bill Gates personally wrote this worm and released it into the wild.
I'm no fan of Microsoft, but cut them some slack. They released a fix for this vulnerability two months ago. If people are still vulnerable, it's their own damned fault.
Can they pass the ASVAB on their first try? If so, they may be overqualified. . .:p
All levity aside, Air Force cops are chronically overworked and underappreciated. Anything that helps them do their jobs and makes their jobs a bit easier is well worth the money.
You know, computer crimes are considered terrorism under the USA PATRIOT Act. Until that silly law gets repealed, lets hunt down those terrorists for their, umm, denial of service...
An immoral law is no less immoral just because you can find a practical use for it. If you don't like the PATRIOT Act, don't support it, period.
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Nowadays, the new stuff is the old stuff. The Dixie Chicks are covering Fleetwood Mac, some teenyboppers are covering Abba. . . hell, even bell-bottoms have made a comeback.
-1, Tinfoil Hat Conspiracy.
For that matter, are they African or European? :-)
It could be - or it could be that consumers are willing to spend more money for the convenience of random access to music vs. sequential access. When was the last time you saw a cassette player with a "random" feature?
"Downplaying"? A 1 x 10-6 is about equal to the "1 in 909,000" cited in the BBC article. In fact, the BBC article actually gives higher odds, since 1 x 10-6 == 1 in 1,000,000.
They didn't get to where they are today by being a charity.
That's what metamoderation's for, though, right? :)
Who said anything about who was to blame? No matter whom you blame for the intrusion, you're just as fucked--therefore you're better off trying to prevent the intrusion in the first place than whining about it after the fact.
"That which doesn't kill Windows will wait and try again tomorrow."
Where does it say that you now have the right to fuck with it? Do you somehow think that by buggering it up, you're "helping" me? No, how you help is by leaving it the hell alone!
All true; but have you considered that securing your system, like securing your house, is the best method of helping yourself? No, others don't have the right to break into your system; but if you don't care about it enough to at least make it inconvenient for hackers and thieves, don't expect anyone else to shed a tear for you when you get owned.
When police catch drug runners, they seize the drug runners possesions (house and car). Why couldn't it be the same for spammy?? Think about it -- if they would lose their computers, they would have a difficult time spamming. Couple that with some pound-me-in-the-butt federal prison time, they might get the freakin' message the they are not liked All you would need to do is catch a handful and make an example of them. Sure, the remaining spammies might move to another country, but at least they would be on the run.
Yeh, and I'd be leaving with them. I'd rather live in a country where I have to deal with spam than live in a police state like the one you just described. Of course, maybe your sense of irony is akin to that of Swift's "modest proposal," but in this medium, that's kinda hard to tell.
If you're talking about government measures, no. If you're talking about citizens' initiatives, on the other hand. . . well, still no, but only because I don't like agreeing with anything that has the words "anything," "everything," etc.
This has precisely shit to do with the MPAA/RIAA and Australian imports. Mods, the "offtopic" selection isn't always a bad thing.
I dunno. I just saw someone else's signature line say it's a guaranteed +5 Funny, so I figured I'd do a one-shot experiment to see for myself. 'Course, it only got to +3, so I guess the guy wasn't right after all. :)
Yeah, after I posted it, I realized it probably hadn't been two months after all. D'oh!
In the first place, there are too many patches. At some point, you gotta blame the sloppy code. Maybe more than one major vulnerability per month this year is below your threshold, but it's above mine.
Like I said, I'm not trying to defend Microsoft. Their Windows source code for the NT family (including 2000 and XP) is beyond the point where it can be reasonably maintained, I'm sure - that's why Microsoft stopped supporting NT, they just can't patch it any more. I do believe they need to reengineer the Windows operating system.
In the meantime, admins who are leery of Microsoft patches ought to have a couple of testbed machines where they can install a patch and thoroughly test the system before pushing the patch the rest of the way down the network. This would be my strategy whether I were running Windows, UNIX, Linux, or any other OS on my network. Two weeks is a fairly short timetable, but not so short that the testing process can't at least guarantee a patch does what it says it's going to do and doesn't break any other critical systems.
Microsoft has $40 fucking billion dollars (so much money that it transcends "dollars"). Why don't they make more effort to educate their customers in the use of their products?
Because their business is selling software, not teaching dummies how to use Windows. Maybe they should offer that training, but they don't; and in the meantime, plenty of other companies to.
Yeah, cars are dangerous, but do you expect the dealership to teach you how to drive?
Neutrinos as TCP/IP packet carriers? I guess it could happen. . . :)
You're new here, aren't you?
Right, Bill Gates personally wrote this worm and released it into the wild.
I'm no fan of Microsoft, but cut them some slack. They released a fix for this vulnerability two months ago. If people are still vulnerable, it's their own damned fault.
Imagine that, a sensible idea to get the best of both worlds that doesn't involve putting a blanket ban on HTML mail.
The "sensible" bit must be why it took Microsoft five years to come up with it.
Can they pass the ASVAB on their first try? If so, they may be overqualified. . . :p
All levity aside, Air Force cops are chronically overworked and underappreciated. Anything that helps them do their jobs and makes their jobs a bit easier is well worth the money.
. . .but a beautiful human woman +5 (Insightful) is a whole different story.
I have learned to be sceptical when people speak of 'progress' - progress to what?
Actually, just more of a general term - progress, as in the opposite of Congress.
Or would you say that ignoring the corpses in the gutters would be a solution to the problem of violence on the streets?
Ignore? P'shaw, I'd do no such thing! Mmmmm, soylent green. . .
You know, computer crimes are considered terrorism under the USA PATRIOT Act. Until that silly law gets repealed, lets hunt down those terrorists for their, umm, denial of service ...
An immoral law is no less immoral just because you can find a practical use for it. If you don't like the PATRIOT Act, don't support it, period.