If someone was facing felony charges for illegal wiretapping or stealing phones, would the defense be able to contend that only hicks without phones can be in the jury?
If the user only wiretapped fooBell could the defense say fooBell customers cannot be in jury? no I don't think so.
It is stupid, spam is spam is spam, unless it spam spam spam spam spam spam beans and spam, but again , we haven't got beans today.
No no no - it's nothing to do with that - they will be worried that AOL users are too dumb to turn up and if they do may not understand what's going on.
'You can have hundreds of features in a product, but you will only use what you understand'
With this in mind, if we cross reference the military with the average helpdesk scenario, taking into account that military personnel are people too, then I can imagine the sorts of calls the support techs get are along the lines of 'which end do the bullets come out of' while the finer points of operating motion sensors and interpreting the subsequent data go silently underused.
y feeling: the vast majority of administrators don't take advantage of the tools MS has provided. The one complaint I've heard ("We use programs that require special permissions, so we can't have staff run as limited users") is bollocks. Do what we do: take a few hours out during a deployment, contact the original software manufacturer (or figure it out in house) and set all the permissions correctly.
Hear Hear.
It's simple enough to write a group policy object to be distributed by Active Directory that can set permissions on any file / folder or registry key. One of my pet hates is lazy technicians (of which we have one) who can't be bothered working out why things don't work and their 'solution' is to give the user local admin rights.
Fortunately Active Directory can control all user groups too... which is amusing when the lazy tech gets confused as to why the user keeps dropping out of the local Administrators or Power Users group.
1 Tflops would place it anywhere between place 240 (if it were sustained) or 500+ (if it were peak) on the current top500.
Not THAT amazing.
That's 1 Tflop per cluster of 5 boxen - I expect they use many such clusters:
"A SAM-650 product is called a 192 GFLOPS DSP supercomputer by TMS. It is just 3U high and has 24 DSP chips and is positioned as a back-end number cruncher controlled by any standard server - a similar architecture to that used by Cray supercomputers. There are vast streams of information coming from recorded telephone conversations. The ability to have the DSPs work in parallel speeds up analysis enormously. Spinning hard drives can't feed the DSPs fast enough, nor are they quick enough for subsequent software analysis of the data. Consequently TMS uses its solid state technology to provide a buffer up to 32GB that keeps the DSPs operating at full speed.
A cluster of five SAM-650's provides a terra flop of processing power; one trillion floating point operations per second."
Because they get covered up - just like the OSX holes.
For example (please try to be objective here people - I am merely posting facts) if you recall the recent OSX / Safari serious vulnerabilities that basically meant clicking a link could run code of attackers choice (pretty damn serious if you ask me) never made the front page and were only viewable from apple.slashdot.org.
Bit weird that don't you think? Especially for an OS that allegedly has less problems with vulnerabilities? Surely that would be of interest to everyone? Kind of like if OpenBSD had another out of the box vuln - that would be news of interest to everyone.
I must correct myself - apparently the 'loophole' I refer to above when I say that the licence is only required for reception of broadcasts that originate from within the UK has now been closed due to the Communications Act 2003.
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Yes we know. See, we have this thing called "Software Update" that jumps up and down like a little yapper dog whenever there is an update available.
I think that depends on if he voted for Bush or not.
All this time I thought that most Americans were stupid.
It appears it's only just over half.
the US sent men to the moon in the late 60's and the entire spacecraft had less computer power then a 486 computer
That's allegedly sent men to the moon...
The page now states:
This article has been removed because many points made within it have been deemed unfactual.
"Unfactual" isn't even a word!
Did that myself two years ago with a bus and a satellite dish.
Is it the beginning of the end of a bad idea, or just more spin to dodge the remaining concerns?
No silly - there is an election coming up.
If someone was facing felony charges for illegal wiretapping or stealing phones, would the defense be able to contend that only hicks without phones can be in the jury?
If the user only wiretapped fooBell could the defense say fooBell customers cannot be in jury? no I don't think so.
It is stupid, spam is spam is spam, unless it spam spam spam spam spam spam beans and spam, but again , we haven't got beans today.
No no no - it's nothing to do with that - they will be worried that AOL users are too dumb to turn up and if they do may not understand what's going on.
I used to work for a company that violated the license of an open source piece of software.
...was it Microsoft?
As Steve Jobs wisely once said:
'You can have hundreds of features in a product, but you will only use what you understand'
With this in mind, if we cross reference the military with the average helpdesk scenario, taking into account that military personnel are people too, then I can imagine the sorts of calls the support techs get are along the lines of 'which end do the bullets come out of' while the finer points of operating motion sensors and interpreting the subsequent data go silently underused.
They won't need to supply drivers.
That is SO ordered.
Despatched in three days apparently. [WEG]
...until you forget to pay the phone bill.
Where did they admit that and what did they say? Can you post a link?
Satisfactory to whom?
y feeling: the vast majority of administrators don't take advantage of the tools MS has provided. The one complaint I've heard ("We use programs that require special permissions, so we can't have staff run as limited users") is bollocks. Do what we do: take a few hours out during a deployment, contact the original software manufacturer (or figure it out in house) and set all the permissions correctly.
Hear Hear.
It's simple enough to write a group policy object to be distributed by Active Directory that can set permissions on any file / folder or registry key. One of my pet hates is lazy technicians (of which we have one) who can't be bothered working out why things don't work and their 'solution' is to give the user local admin rights.
Fortunately Active Directory can control all user groups too... which is amusing when the lazy tech gets confused as to why the user keeps dropping out of the local Administrators or Power Users group.
From what I can see DomainKeys appears to be patented by Yahoo!
If Microsoft had done this the sky would be falling - what's the difference here?
1 Tflops would place it anywhere between place 240 (if it were sustained) or 500+ (if it were peak) on the current top500. Not THAT amazing.
That's 1 Tflop per cluster of 5 boxen - I expect they use many such clusters:
"A SAM-650 product is called a 192 GFLOPS DSP supercomputer by TMS. It is just 3U high and has 24 DSP chips and is positioned as a back-end number cruncher controlled by any standard server - a similar architecture to that used by Cray supercomputers. There are vast streams of information coming from recorded telephone conversations. The ability to have the DSPs work in parallel speeds up analysis enormously. Spinning hard drives can't feed the DSPs fast enough, nor are they quick enough for subsequent software analysis of the data. Consequently TMS uses its solid state technology to provide a buffer up to 32GB that keeps the DSPs operating at full speed.
A cluster of five SAM-650's provides a terra flop of processing power; one trillion floating point operations per second."
Bleeding TYPICAL - something like this comes out and you can bet it will never get ported to the Mac.
I wan't to run it on my PowerBook but I can't because they will only support Windows and maybe Linux.
I demand to be able to run OSX on my Ma... oh wait.
Because they get covered up - just like the OSX holes.
For example (please try to be objective here people - I am merely posting facts) if you recall the recent OSX / Safari serious vulnerabilities that basically meant clicking a link could run code of attackers choice (pretty damn serious if you ask me) never made the front page and were only viewable from apple.slashdot.org.
Bit weird that don't you think? Especially for an OS that allegedly has less problems with vulnerabilities? Surely that would be of interest to everyone? Kind of like if OpenBSD had another out of the box vuln - that would be news of interest to everyone.
Setting my local hosts file to read only stops DNS being compromised?
;)
Wow! Tell the BIND guys that quick!
I thougth iPods only came in sizes up to 40Gb?
I have 2Tb to back up.
I want to see if I can get a good notebook backpack ... My criteria: 1) Around $50
HAAA HA HA HA HA!!!!
Seriously - good luck!
In my experience 'good' and 'under $50' simply do NOT go together. You must pick only one.
Could be a good thing if it ultimately puts another thorn in the side of spammers who promote those pr0n web sites.
I must correct myself - apparently the 'loophole' I refer to above when I say that the licence is only required for reception of broadcasts that originate from within the UK has now been closed due to the Communications Act 2003.
Bugger.
What happens if your hosts file or DNS is compromised?