Blu-Ray phones home though doesn't it? As in, the player has to be connected to the Internet and reports what you are watching and obtains updated crypto keys etc?
I can't see many people wanting their pr0n viewing habits tracked by Sony. Or anyone for that matter.
Note that this is third party software that all of the bugs seem to be stemming from. I guess Apple has made a fairly secure system but they can't expect all third party developers to follow the same rigorous standards."
Quicktime, Finder and iPhoto are third party now?
I guess the kernel is also third party by zealot logic then - or at least it will be after they start publishing the kernel level exploits. Kind of like what happens after a proof of concept virus gets announced for OSX - the zealots simply redefine what 'virus' means.
OK, so none of these work if the parent is phoning the child every five minutes and expecting them to actually answer
Using your option 5) get another SIM they could have another phone and forward calls from the tracked one to it. That way they can answer the calls and appear to be somewhere they are supposed to be at the same time.
Spammers are scum. Introduce the death penalty for them - I'll gladly throw the switch, however I would argue a new extra painful method of execution should be devised just for them.
How do you blueprint your entire IT infrastructure so that someone brand new could start and figure out what does what?
You must be new here.
If any admin were to document something so that someone brand new could just step into their shoes they just lost a serious advantage to not getting 'downsized' at the next opportunity.
Reasons for getting rid of good admins usually come down to the fact we are the proverbial housewives of organisations - the only way to show you what we do is not to do it. Many managers get complacent and start thinking along the lines of they never have problems so why do we need these people. That, and admin culture does actively encourage the denigration of users, often to their face which many take offence to. If they start getting big ideas about replacing the admins whenever they get upset by it being pointed out to them just how stupid they are, for example the lady this week who emailed us to complain her email was not working, then good documentation that anyone 'brand new' could follow is a Dangerous Thing.
Even with a high speed connection it takes quite a long time to download and install all of the Windows updates on a new PC. So the chances of getting infected are quite high.
Would that be a new PC running the current version of Windows, namely XP Service Pack 2 where the firewall is installed by default?
Runs a little "You now have Linux. Let us show you why you should keep it" demo at startup.
See that's where your idea falls down - that would require artistic and creative skill along with the ability to - heaven forbid - document something.
Skills that most programmers simply do not posess, unless you are talking about making ASCII porn pictures of anime characters, but I don't think that's going to sell Linux to the average Windows user.
I played with EZGPO a few years back with limited success - I suspect a lot of problems were due to our older hardware at the time. Things may have improved now - think I'll try it again.
Well a while back someone did a free thing called 'EZGPO' which was designed to address this, but it required an agent on the machines and in my experience it never worked too well, however that could have been down to our hardware at the time. I expect there may be alternatives out there now but you can bet they will be licensed by user or machine or some other false economy system - all energy saving tech should be free.
What they should do is allow machine power settings to be controllable from an Active Directory policy object. Network admins would then have fine control of the power usage of their desktops.
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Blu-Ray phones home though doesn't it? As in, the player has to be connected to the Internet and reports what you are watching and obtains updated crypto keys etc?
I can't see many people wanting their pr0n viewing habits tracked by Sony. Or anyone for that matter.
You mean like 'Windows'?
Note that this is third party software that all of the bugs seem to be stemming from. I guess Apple has made a fairly secure system but they can't expect all third party developers to follow the same rigorous standards."
Quicktime, Finder and iPhoto are third party now?
I guess the kernel is also third party by zealot logic then - or at least it will be after they start publishing the kernel level exploits. Kind of like what happens after a proof of concept virus gets announced for OSX - the zealots simply redefine what 'virus' means.
Corona Discharge could give you a cushion of air with no moving parts.
Do filing systems on Flash media benefit from being defragmented? No head seek remember.
...or 'Crack for VISTA ULTIMATE', ironically.
OK, so none of these work if the parent is phoning the child every five minutes and expecting them to actually answer
Using your option 5) get another SIM they could have another phone and forward calls from the tracked one to it. That way they can answer the calls and appear to be somewhere they are supposed to be at the same time.
Also I propose 6) hacking
I like the cut of your jib.
Spammers are scum. Introduce the death penalty for them - I'll gladly throw the switch, however I would argue a new extra painful method of execution should be devised just for them.
Dont worry - education users are not likely to be running Vista for at least three years.
not to mention that consumers wind up paying for an unwanted OS
I think it would be more accurate to say that consumers wind up paying for an OS that you don't want.
How do you blueprint your entire IT infrastructure so that someone brand new could start and figure out what does what?
You must be new here.
If any admin were to document something so that someone brand new could just step into their shoes they just lost a serious advantage to not getting 'downsized' at the next opportunity.
Reasons for getting rid of good admins usually come down to the fact we are the proverbial housewives of organisations - the only way to show you what we do is not to do it. Many managers get complacent and start thinking along the lines of they never have problems so why do we need these people. That, and admin culture does actively encourage the denigration of users, often to their face which many take offence to. If they start getting big ideas about replacing the admins whenever they get upset by it being pointed out to them just how stupid they are, for example the lady this week who emailed us to complain her email was not working, then good documentation that anyone 'brand new' could follow is a Dangerous Thing.
Even with a high speed connection it takes quite a long time to download and install all of the Windows updates on a new PC. So the chances of getting infected are quite high.
Would that be a new PC running the current version of Windows, namely XP Service Pack 2 where the firewall is installed by default?
How is that going to get infected please?
The likelihood of a young kid knowing a way to get ROOT (and not a more experienced programmer) is pretty hard to swallow.
What - they never heard of script kiddies?
...so if I snarl angrily and give the finger to the screen, with they finally get the message and stop throwing adverts in my face?
Runs a little "You now have Linux. Let us show you why you should keep it" demo at startup.
See that's where your idea falls down - that would require artistic and creative skill along with the ability to - heaven forbid - document something.
Skills that most programmers simply do not posess, unless you are talking about making ASCII porn pictures of anime characters, but I don't think that's going to sell Linux to the average Windows user.
What happened? It's a story with 'Apple' in the title and there is no FUD tag?
The zealots must be slipping.
No company has done more to further Open Source than Microsoft. Look at Windows for example - would you want that to be the only OS on the market?
Consider also the Monkey Boy video - I'm being deadly serious when I say I saw that, then immediately switched to Mac.
If Microsoft didn't suck, there would be no alternatives.
Amazing that this is news, yet the current serious DMG security problem presently affecting OSX does not appear on /. at all, not even buried in the Apple section. Strange huh? Even the BBC is reporting on it.
The Register is reporting that Apple have released some security updates, yet the DMG issue is unpatched.
/. positive OSX bias? Shurely not.
I played with EZGPO a few years back with limited success - I suspect a lot of problems were due to our older hardware at the time. Things may have improved now - think I'll try it again.
Well a while back someone did a free thing called 'EZGPO' which was designed to address this, but it required an agent on the machines and in my experience it never worked too well, however that could have been down to our hardware at the time. I expect there may be alternatives out there now but you can bet they will be licensed by user or machine or some other false economy system - all energy saving tech should be free.
No actually I'm pretty sure I meant that they should provide a GPO for managing power.
Unfortunately there is one tiny problem - I doubt more than 10% of our desktops would run Vista acceptably.
What they should do is allow machine power settings to be controllable from an Active Directory policy object. Network admins would then have fine control of the power usage of their desktops.
...what I've been looking for - I think I will be spending some time with this.
I might see if I can pump the data from an IDS into it too.