Yes, you should definitely try to prevent a lawsuit. Lawsuits can take an almost infinite amount of time and cost lots of lots of money. You can easily go bankrupt long before you might eventually win the battle.
Money spent for Internet ads is constantly increasing. And guess what, it's the same money that was spent for advertisement in print media a few years ago. New York Times as a print media has good reasons to scare people away from Internet ads. However, it's less the privacy of their readers what they are concerned of. They're more interested in their share in the advertisement market, which they have to watch breaking away rapidly.
The problem is that helium is lighter than air. You you'll hardly find
any of it here near the ground that you could extract. I was once even
told that helium released into the air will move up and up and up... and
eventually leave our atmosphere. Gone. Forever.
can any science-types here list some important uses of helium? Cooling is a very important use. No other gas can bring you to temperatures
near 0K. Most of the gas used for cooling could be recycled after use.
I know that research labs in Europe do that. Here in the U.S., unfortunately,
I only know of labs that don't.
Contrary to common belief, Vertica did not invent "column-based storage". The idea has been around since decades, MonetDB being one of the most advanced and efficient implementations of it.
Daisy-chaining is the usual setup in Germany as well, for the same reason that was already mentioned here: to prevent eavesdropping.
But there are also other useful setups. If an answering machine, e.g., is placed after the phone in the chain, then you can just pick up the phone when the answering machine already started to run. Another use is modems. Put them early in the chain, then nobody can accidentally pick up the phone and interrupt the Windows update that is already running for 17 hours;-).
It is quite surprising how long the rumor keeps circulating that the
German BKA plans to send its trojan as an email attachment. Of course,
those folks are not that stupid.
What they is actually going to happen is that they will most likely
break into a suspects house the conventional secret service style.
During such a visit, they will figure out the best approach to place
the trojan on the suspects machine. Then, they will tailor-make the
trojan for this specific machine. Different methods are conceivable
to actually place the trojan onto the machine. Could be a second break-in
into the apartment -- or indeed an email attachment. What they will
definitely not do is send random-guess emails that depend on the suspect's
stupidity.
See http://www.focus.de/digital/computer/chip-exklusiv /chip-exklusiv_aid_68603.html (in German) for some information.
In that light, what is happening in Germany is actually not that
new. Spy equipment is being used since ages. It is only a little step
to also cover suspects' PCs -- and it is happening most likely already
today and in many countries.
/etc has not always been just configuration files
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Define - /etc?
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Old Unix systems (at least I remember this for SCO OpenServer) also had a bunch of executables in/etc. This is still the case to a limited extent. Think of/etc/init.d/*.
I'm absolutely not surprised that up-to-date systems survive current attacks. I'd even expect that from the vendor/distributor.
The behavior of a not exactly up-to-date system would give much more insight in the overall security of an operating system. The authors tested Windows XP SP1. But what about outdated Linux distributions?
My personal experience is that it is virtually impossible to install Windows XP today on a system that is connected to the internet. You don't even have the chance to install SP2 fast enough. The article confirms this with its SP1 experiment (it survived 18 minutes).
In contrast, I'd expect any of the Linux distributions to survive way longer unpatched than Windows does. The distros I've seen (SuSE, Gentoo) have turned any useless service off on a default install since years (I wonder about/. readers that tell something different for Fedora). And I think you can safely do a default install on these systems and then pull your patches from the internet.
A few, say, one or two year old Linux distros would have been a very interesting contrast to the authors SP1 experience.
I only do text processing on my PC. So do I really need a graphics card at all?
(I've actually read this question in a magazine some years ago.)
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Why type when you can just point and click?
Well, for me it's more like ``Why point and click when you can just type.''
Pointing and clicking seems to be quick and productive only on the first view. Have you ever seen somebody who really knows how to work in a text terminal?
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Yes, you should definitely try to prevent a lawsuit. Lawsuits can take an almost infinite amount of time and cost lots of lots of money. You can easily go bankrupt long before you might eventually win the battle.
I work for a major U.S. company with hundreds of lawyers. I bet they won't dare to search the company-owned machine.
Money spent for Internet ads is constantly increasing. And guess what, it's the same money that was spent for advertisement in print media a few years ago. New York Times as a print media has good reasons to scare people away from Internet ads. However, it's less the privacy of their readers what they are concerned of. They're more interested in their share in the advertisement market, which they have to watch breaking away rapidly.
It's already there. Simply point your browser to http://www.monetdb.org/.
Contrary to common belief, Vertica did not invent "column-based storage". The idea has been around since decades, MonetDB being one of the most advanced and efficient implementations of it.
Not just a Swedish thing.
;-).
Daisy-chaining is the usual setup in Germany as well, for the same reason that was already mentioned here: to prevent eavesdropping.
But there are also other useful setups. If an answering machine, e.g., is placed after the phone in the chain, then you can just pick up the phone when the answering machine already started to run. Another use is modems. Put them early in the chain, then nobody can accidentally pick up the phone and interrupt the Windows update that is already running for 17 hours
It is quite surprising how long the rumor keeps circulating that the German BKA plans to send its trojan as an email attachment. Of course, those folks are not that stupid.v /chip-exklusiv_aid_68603.html (in German) for some information.
What they is actually going to happen is that they will most likely break into a suspects house the conventional secret service style. During such a visit, they will figure out the best approach to place the trojan on the suspects machine. Then, they will tailor-make the trojan for this specific machine. Different methods are conceivable to actually place the trojan onto the machine. Could be a second break-in into the apartment -- or indeed an email attachment. What they will definitely not do is send random-guess emails that depend on the suspect's stupidity.
See http://www.focus.de/digital/computer/chip-exklusi
In that light, what is happening in Germany is actually not that new. Spy equipment is being used since ages. It is only a little step to also cover suspects' PCs -- and it is happening most likely already today and in many countries.
Old Unix systems (at least I remember this for SCO OpenServer) also had a bunch of executables in /etc. This is still the case to a limited extent. Think of /etc/init.d/*.
Driver's licenses don't expire here in Germany, they remain valid life-long.
One of the first rules I teach my students:
Never, never ever, call a program test.
I've just seen too many people wondering that their nice new program appears to just do nothing...
I'm absolutely not surprised that up-to-date systems survive current attacks. I'd even expect that from the vendor/distributor.
/. readers that tell something different for Fedora). And I think you can safely do a default install on these systems and then pull your patches from the internet.
The behavior of a not exactly up-to-date system would give much more insight in the overall security of an operating system. The authors tested Windows XP SP1. But what about outdated Linux distributions?
My personal experience is that it is virtually impossible to install Windows XP today on a system that is connected to the internet. You don't even have the chance to install SP2 fast enough. The article confirms this with its SP1 experiment (it survived 18 minutes).
In contrast, I'd expect any of the Linux distributions to survive way longer unpatched than Windows does. The distros I've seen (SuSE, Gentoo) have turned any useless service off on a default install since years (I wonder about
A few, say, one or two year old Linux distros would have been a very interesting contrast to the authors SP1 experience.
I only do text processing on my PC. So do I really need a graphics card at all?
(I've actually read this question in a magazine some years ago.)