One infected machine on the LAN can make the shared files infected.
Close, but not exactly. I'm sure people here will corrent me if I'm wrong, but modern day "viruses" (worms, actually) don't normally infect valid files. If your computers are on the LAN with default administrator passwords, you are screwed. However, I have not seen a valid file infected with a virus in years. The malicious file may indeed copy itself over to a file share, but that is not necesarily an issue unless it finds a way to execute itself, or trick a user into executing it.
The recent worms have seen spread across the LAN by guessing at the default admin password. If you have the XP firewall enabled on the LAN machines, this should not be an issue. Filesharing enabled may open you up to port flooding, but I doubt that one machine can "infect" your shared files...
I'm completely in agreement with you. In fact, I don't think the punishment fits the crime. Jail is for violent offenders. Just trying to shed some light on how different terms work in the prison system.
I'm not sure how it works is his state, but 18 months in California generally works like this:
- 1-3 months in County jail awaiting transport
- Remaining 15-17 months can actually be served as 1/3 time, given good behavior. That leaves about 5 -6 months left
Total time: around 7 or 8 months.
I hate to play Devil's advocate here, but... you ever try installing just about anything in Linux? When I go to yum or urpmi a package, I am always given a list of 5-10 other items that must be installed first. I generally trust these dependencies in Linux more than I would in Windows, but it boils down to the same thing - the app you want depends on code in an existing program.
Nice link. I'm usually too lazy to make my signature match, so I just make an "X" on the receipts... even though my actual card has a real signature. The only time this back-fired was when I was signing a ticket for a police officer. He didn't think it was so funny and bent me over backwards on the side of the freeway.
I didn't mean to sound stiff in my post. It is an ok idea to write "SEE ID" on the card - I agree that it might deter some would-be-fraudsters. However, I think it is unfair to expect a merchant to live by some imaginary rule that consumers make up for themselves.
No, laws against requiring someone to show their Driver License to make a purchase. I'm not stating that there is such a law, only that it would make sense - particularly in light of the "identity theft" topic here.
I am not sure what you mean by "it", but there are no laws that I know of that require you to show ID when using a credit card to purchase an item. In fact, I would think that there would be laws against such a thing, as this would present the cashier not only with your credit card number, but with other identifying information (DL number) as well. That would be further inviting identity theft upon yourself.
Some cards have a saying on the back that goes something like "Card not valid if not signed". Writing "ASK FOR ID" is not a signature, and would render the card not valid.
I've worked in retail before and have seen many people do this. Personally, I find it amusing. Nowhere in either the store policy, or state law, did it mention anything about following cutomer direction on the back of a credit card. You are not only wasting your time, you are causing potential confusion for the poor $5/hr kid behind the counter.
Maybe I should start writing things on the back of my card - "Give 5% discount", "Shake hands and smile", or "I'm 17, too babe, it's legal".
Or just as bad, run Windows update in a corporate environment. Then watch the phone start to ring as users think that their Outlook profile has been deleted. Damn Outlook Express needs to put shortcuts to itself everywhere each time you install a service pack or IE upgrade...
Sorry, posted without thinking (and without checking tags, apparently).
This is from a conversation I just had online with Alice, an AI simulation. You can actually get some good laughs out of her.
I did a focus group with Intel over a year ago. They swore up and down that all Centrino laptops coming out in 2005 would be powered by fuel cells filled with methanol.
The group had mixed reactions. Basically no one wanted to become dependant on yet another fuel source. This doesn't really compare to gasoline, as we can manufacter the fuel ourselves in our own countries.
Their vision was that all laptops, PDAs, cell phones, etc would be powered this way before 2010. You would be able to stick a quarter in a vending machine at the airport, 7-11, etc, and fill up your device.
The idea of an instant charge is nice, but this would be one more thing that we would have to start paying for. I know electricity isn't free, but it sure feels that way when I plug my phone or laptop into the wall somewhere...
I went to try it out, but it looks like it comes standard with a newer version of kde than my distro (Mandrake 10.0) came with. Aftering adding in tons of urpmi sources, manually installing dependencies, etc, I gave up. Am I missing something?
Maybe I'll just wait for the next version of Mandrake.
Not trolling here, but...
I remember the old days of dialing into my shell account and using my little news reader ('tin' was it?) to read through my favorite groups. I even remember downloading multiple posts, linking them together, and using some archaic app (binhex, maybe) to turn them into little binary apps like hangman. I was a big fan of USENET back then - good discussions, helpful people, uncensored pr0n...
I tried to visit some groups recently and was sad to see more spam than a hotmail account, one-sentence off-topic posts, etc. Does anyone actually know of any more useful groups?
I've tried out maybe 5 or 6 media players for linux. I'm not interested in a lot of bells and whistles - I just think it is cumbersome to manually browse to a new file directory with each song I want to play. Creating playlists is also cumbersome. A centrally managed library isn't too much to ask, I don't think.
Am I the only one who think the XMMS interface sucks? Maybe I'm missing something here, but whatever happened to media players that organized your various songs in different folders into one logical media library, as in Musicmatch? Anyone know of any plugins to make XMMS do this?
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Did you post that simply because you felt like being tricky and throwing up a link? Do you really think they are that stupid?
This would actually be great for the Howard Stern show, which has no recorded (or live) Internet feed. At least not an "official" one.
Seriously, mod this hypocritcal, ipod spamming dick down. That will teach him...
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One infected machine on the LAN can make the shared files infected.
Close, but not exactly. I'm sure people here will corrent me if I'm wrong, but modern day "viruses" (worms, actually) don't normally infect valid files. If your computers are on the LAN with default administrator passwords, you are screwed. However, I have not seen a valid file infected with a virus in years. The malicious file may indeed copy itself over to a file share, but that is not necesarily an issue unless it finds a way to execute itself, or trick a user into executing it.
The recent worms have seen spread across the LAN by guessing at the default admin password. If you have the XP firewall enabled on the LAN machines, this should not be an issue. Filesharing enabled may open you up to port flooding, but I doubt that one machine can "infect" your shared files...
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I really hope you're not expecting any pats on the back for that conversation...
C'mon, he was trolling and you fell for it.
I agree. People that believe in this silliness are the same type of quacks that post Bible verses in their .sig...
Why, what are you - the "Punisher" ?
I'm completely in agreement with you. In fact, I don't think the punishment fits the crime. Jail is for violent offenders. Just trying to shed some light on how different terms work in the prison system.
I'm not sure how it works is his state, but 18 months in California generally works like this:
- 1-3 months in County jail awaiting transport
- Remaining 15-17 months can actually be served as 1/3 time, given good behavior. That leaves about 5 -6 months left
Total time: around 7 or 8 months.
I hate to play Devil's advocate here, but... you ever try installing just about anything in Linux? When I go to yum or urpmi a package, I am always given a list of 5-10 other items that must be installed first. I generally trust these dependencies in Linux more than I would in Windows, but it boils down to the same thing - the app you want depends on code in an existing program.
Nice link. I'm usually too lazy to make my signature match, so I just make an "X" on the receipts... even though my actual card has a real signature. The only time this back-fired was when I was signing a ticket for a police officer. He didn't think it was so funny and bent me over backwards on the side of the freeway.
I didn't mean to sound stiff in my post. It is an ok idea to write "SEE ID" on the card - I agree that it might deter some would-be-fraudsters. However, I think it is unfair to expect a merchant to live by some imaginary rule that consumers make up for themselves.
No, laws against requiring someone to show their Driver License to make a purchase. I'm not stating that there is such a law, only that it would make sense - particularly in light of the "identity theft" topic here.
I am not sure what you mean by "it", but there are no laws that I know of that require you to show ID when using a credit card to purchase an item. In fact, I would think that there would be laws against such a thing, as this would present the cashier not only with your credit card number, but with other identifying information (DL number) as well. That would be further inviting identity theft upon yourself.
Some cards have a saying on the back that goes something like "Card not valid if not signed". Writing "ASK FOR ID" is not a signature, and would render the card not valid.
I've worked in retail before and have seen many people do this. Personally, I find it amusing. Nowhere in either the store policy, or state law, did it mention anything about following cutomer direction on the back of a credit card. You are not only wasting your time, you are causing potential confusion for the poor $5/hr kid behind the counter.
Maybe I should start writing things on the back of my card - "Give 5% discount", "Shake hands and smile", or "I'm 17, too babe, it's legal".
Or just as bad, run Windows update in a corporate environment. Then watch the phone start to ring as users think that their Outlook profile has been deleted. Damn Outlook Express needs to put shortcuts to itself everywhere each time you install a service pack or IE upgrade...
Sorry, posted without thinking (and without checking tags, apparently).
This is from a conversation I just had online with Alice, an AI simulation. You can actually get some good laughs out of her.
From ALICE:
Human: Can you go get me some food? ALICE: Sorry my body isn't attached right now. I'm stuck inside this computer.
I did a focus group with Intel over a year ago. They swore up and down that all Centrino laptops coming out in 2005 would be powered by fuel cells filled with methanol.
The group had mixed reactions. Basically no one wanted to become dependant on yet another fuel source. This doesn't really compare to gasoline, as we can manufacter the fuel ourselves in our own countries.
Their vision was that all laptops, PDAs, cell phones, etc would be powered this way before 2010. You would be able to stick a quarter in a vending machine at the airport, 7-11, etc, and fill up your device.
The idea of an instant charge is nice, but this would be one more thing that we would have to start paying for. I know electricity isn't free, but it sure feels that way when I plug my phone or laptop into the wall somewhere...
I went to try it out, but it looks like it comes standard with a newer version of kde than my distro (Mandrake 10.0) came with. Aftering adding in tons of urpmi sources, manually installing dependencies, etc, I gave up.
Am I missing something?
Maybe I'll just wait for the next version of Mandrake.
Not trolling here, but...
I remember the old days of dialing into my shell account and using my little news reader ('tin' was it?) to read through my favorite groups. I even remember downloading multiple posts, linking them together, and using some archaic app (binhex, maybe) to turn them into little binary apps like hangman. I was a big fan of USENET back then - good discussions, helpful people, uncensored pr0n...
I tried to visit some groups recently and was sad to see more spam than a hotmail account, one-sentence off-topic posts, etc. Does anyone actually know of any more useful groups?
In speed reading your post, I saw that your critical data is stored in a "Keep Ass Plug."
I can't imagine that your average hacker would even try hacking that...
Hey, thanks, Juk looks pretty cool.
I've tried out maybe 5 or 6 media players for linux. I'm not interested in a lot of bells and whistles - I just think it is cumbersome to manually browse to a new file directory with each song I want to play. Creating playlists is also cumbersome. A centrally managed library isn't too much to ask, I don't think.
Am I the only one who think the XMMS interface sucks? Maybe I'm missing something here, but whatever happened to media players that organized your various songs in different folders into one logical media library, as in Musicmatch? Anyone know of any plugins to make XMMS do this?