I'm glad you mentioned speculative fiction as this opens the door to a couple of authors worth noting.
John Crowley is an excellent writer and should be included in anyone's list of important writers. Little, Big should be on everyone's must read list.
James Blaylock's tales, most based in Orange County, CA, are excellent as well. I recommend "The Christian Trilogy" highly.
This will also give them pause when hiring former hackers. They might think "Is this guy going to give extortionists inside info?"
I think the days of companies hiring former hackers to bolster internal security is gone. Organized crime has taken over the field and any company that thinks a former hacker will be good for security is in for a big surprise.
Back in the 1981/1982 timeframe, I was in the U.S. Air Force and was stationed at Gunter AFS in Montgomery, AL. We used a system called NLS/DNLS. This system emplyed special terminals with a mechanical 3-button mouse and a five key keyset attached to a terminal. The keyset could synthesize any printable ASCII character. Anyway, we used the mouse and keyset to manipulate doumentation and traverse help trees. The mouse and the keyset could both be chorded and I believe the mouse could be double-clicked to perorm a different function.
Does anyone else out there have better recollections regarding the use of the mouse NLS/DNLS?
You missed my point. These cheap printers contain toxic materials in the plastics, ink cartridges and printed circuit boards. It's irresponsible of us to just to throw the printers in the trash every time we need a new cartridges just because it's less expensive. Eventually we'll end up with landfills just oozing toxic waste into our environment. And that hurts everyone!
We use a Fortinet FG-60 to scan for viruses at the network layer. This has the advantage of also scanning HTTP, VPN, POP3, IMAP, SMTP and FTP traffic and strips the viruses from those streams before it hits your network!
These devices provide VPN support as well as full firewall features. The Fortinet devices start at $500 USD and go all the way up to data center class devices costing >$40,000 USD. Very easy configuration. Worth the cost.
Point well taken. I was just tryng to remind the original poster that this court has handed down some surprising decisions given the apparent right bias.
I think that Microsoft is now in the early stages of SCOitis. Our products suck but we have some questionable IP and we're going to make that our major source of revenue.
... Intel and AMD lead, hell, even Apple's CPUs are more popular than IBM's.
More popular by whose standard? Their market share may be negligle but it is definitely high-end. Companies (banking, FAA, etc.) will pay top dollar for machines that simply don't fail.
I work for an orgainzation that requires a minimum of 99.9999% uptime. We have been using IBM RISC-based gear since the RT came out because of this. We used some Sun gear for a while but those just didn't cut the mustard.
I agree with the previous poseter. Mike was simply trying to recoup his development cost. To that end, the fee was more than reasonable. I don't think MS has a leg to stand on in this case.
Also, his paper claims that this device, upon detecting a suspicious message can either block it outright or let it pass. Either way, though, it uses windows messaging to tell the targetted user that he has something bad sent his way and it was/was not blocked. Fortinet makes no such claims that I see. I wager they just drop 'bad' packets.
As I understand it, from direct discussion with Fortinet, their product examines the datastream (HTTP, POP, SMTP and IMAP) and removes malware from the datastream itself. For example, if a web page contains some known bad ActiveX control, then just that bit is removed from the datastream. the remaining page is transmitted to the user. I also believe that the malware can actually be replaced with text of your choosing so that the user can be informed that something bad was on the page. Similarly, email-born viruses can be weeded out.
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I'm glad you mentioned speculative fiction as this opens the door to a couple of authors worth noting. John Crowley is an excellent writer and should be included in anyone's list of important writers. Little, Big should be on everyone's must read list. James Blaylock's tales, most based in Orange County, CA, are excellent as well. I recommend "The Christian Trilogy" highly.
This will also give them pause when hiring former hackers. They might think "Is this guy going to give extortionists inside info?"
I think the days of companies hiring former hackers to bolster internal security is gone. Organized crime has taken over the field and any company that thinks a former hacker will be good for security is in for a big surprise.
You forgot the huge friggin' battery needed to drive all of this. Unless of course you only intend to run the unit for 5 minutes.
Umm... I don't have a scroll wheel under my middle finger. I'm using one-button Apple wireless mouse.
I'm guessing that 15GB disks are getting harder to find.
Back in the 1981/1982 timeframe, I was in the U.S. Air Force and was stationed at Gunter AFS in Montgomery, AL. We used a system called NLS/DNLS. This system emplyed special terminals with a mechanical 3-button mouse and a five key keyset attached to a terminal. The keyset could synthesize any printable ASCII character. Anyway, we used the mouse and keyset to manipulate doumentation and traverse help trees. The mouse and the keyset could both be chorded and I believe the mouse could be double-clicked to perorm a different function.
Does anyone else out there have better recollections regarding the use of the mouse NLS/DNLS?
What's a floppy??? Don't they have pills or something to fix it??
You missed my point. These cheap printers contain toxic materials in the plastics, ink cartridges and printed circuit boards. It's irresponsible of us to just to throw the printers in the trash every time we need a new cartridges just because it's less expensive. Eventually we'll end up with landfills just oozing toxic waste into our environment. And that hurts everyone!
when your landfile/dump/wherever you put your trash get full???
We use a Fortinet FG-60 to scan for viruses at the network layer. This has the advantage of also scanning HTTP, VPN, POP3, IMAP, SMTP and FTP traffic and strips the viruses from those streams before it hits your network!
These devices provide VPN support as well as full firewall features. The Fortinet devices start at $500 USD and go all the way up to data center class devices costing >$40,000 USD. Very easy configuration. Worth the cost.
Point well taken. I was just tryng to remind the original poster that this court has handed down some surprising decisions given the apparent right bias.
You might be surprised. I don't think that th court is so far to the right that the outcome is predetermined.
I think that Microsoft is now in the early stages of SCOitis. Our products suck but we have some questionable IP and we're going to make that our major source of revenue.
... Intel and AMD lead, hell, even Apple's CPUs are more popular than IBM's.
More popular by whose standard? Their market share may be negligle but it is definitely high-end. Companies (banking, FAA, etc.) will pay top dollar for machines that simply don't fail.
I work for an orgainzation that requires a minimum of 99.9999% uptime. We have been using IBM RISC-based gear since the RT came out because of this. We used some Sun gear for a while but those just didn't cut the mustard.
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Nice sig! But isn't there an easier way to create a Sierpinski Gasket ?
But the typing is entirely different!
I agree with the previous poseter. Mike was simply trying to recoup his development cost. To that end, the fee was more than reasonable. I don't think MS has a leg to stand on in this case.
You've hit the nail on the head here. I just hope that Google has the balls to stand up to this extortion.
Got a nice ring to it doesn't it?
The guys an idiot no question. I do however feel for his partially invalid wife.
There's a marketing hook in here somewhere...
Ahah! QRIO Cherrios. With little marshmallow robot droppings.
He certainly would go postal seeing what the park service has done to Yosemite!
Also, his paper claims that this device, upon detecting a suspicious message can either block it outright or let it pass. Either way, though, it uses windows messaging to tell the targetted user that he has something bad sent his way and it was/was not blocked. Fortinet makes no such claims that I see. I wager they just drop 'bad' packets.
As I understand it, from direct discussion with Fortinet, their product examines the datastream (HTTP, POP, SMTP and IMAP) and removes malware from the datastream itself. For example, if a web page contains some known bad ActiveX control, then just that bit is removed from the datastream. the remaining page is transmitted to the user. I also believe that the malware can actually be replaced with text of your choosing so that the user can be informed that something bad was on the page. Similarly, email-born viruses can be weeded out.
Didn't Fortinet already do this???
However while pretending to be an informed /.'er, you should really read the whole law as it aplies to monopolies, not just the small section 2.
/.'er " an oxymoron?
Hmmm, isn't "informed