hmm...If only there were a way you could plug those holes in your network.....a box that would act like a WALL. One that would filter out packets from connections that weren't initiated from behind this WALL server...one that could keep script kiddies from FIRING off scripts into it....I know, I'll call this a Firing Wall!! I'll make millions
I know that this doesn't protect againt trojans in MP3s or e-mail virus, but if one were to implement a Virus Scanner at Firing Wall, you could keep most of that crap off your network, and when something new hit the network, auto-remove all attachments from incoming e-mail until norton puts out a patch and you can scan the mail properly again.
degrades security by not letting you do what you want with your own content on your own machine
First, you blast Microsoft for being able to do too much, then in the next sentence you blast them for not doing enough? And I think that if the Government wants to run Missile Tracker 3.0 (which is unsigned), since they are the largest consumer of Microsoft software, I think they might be able to get Microsoft to find a way around it reaaaal quick.
Alright, so they have some small security holes. The fact remains, however, that if you keep your security patches up to date, you'll be about as secure as one can be on the internet.
The reason that everyone (including the federal guvnment) still uses Microsoft is because, It Just Works(TM). I can pull windows out of its box, put it in my computer, and have it running in about 30 minutes. I don't have to manually pick out kernel drivers like with debian, I don't have to worry about RedHat not recognizing half my hardware (like my ATI or my AC97 sound chip). I can take any lance corporal off the field, and with windows, he's most likely to know how to at least do basic stuff like surf the web, read e-mail, etc. If the guvment were to use Linux, they would have to spend additional manpower on installation, more man power keeping those boxes up to date (or pay money for RedHats up2date service), not to mention retraining a lot of staff on how to use these computers.
Another reason for the Government choosing Windows is that they probally already have a majority of their services on windows, and to ask a Four Star General to approve a massive budget to switch away from what works to what might not work will take quite a bit of effort.
(I've been a Linux user since *day one* of its existence)
At first, I thought you were full of crap. Another little 1337 h4x0r on slashdot who just managed to get SuSe to install on his computer and was trying to act big and tough by posting on slashdot.
Then I saw your Slashdot UID *bows down and offers a Jolt Cola Sacrafice*
It is official; Slashdot confirms: Gecko Browser Engine is toast One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Gecko Browser Engine community when IDC confirmed that Gecko Browser Engine market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Slashdot survey which plainly states that Gecko Browser Engine has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Gecko Browser Engine is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Einstein to predict Gecko Browser Engine's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Gecko Browser Engine faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Gecko Browser Engine because Gecko Browser Engine is toast. Things are looking very bad for Gecko Browser Engine. As many of us are already aware, Gecko Browser Engine continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Netscape Navigator is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Netscape Navigator developers Linus Travolds only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Netscape Navigator is toast.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Netscape Communicator leader Alan Cox states that there are 7000 users of Netscape Communicator. How many users of Mozilla Beta are there? Let's see. The number of Netscape Communicator versus Mozilla Beta posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Mozilla Beta users. Mozilla 1.0 posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Mozilla Beta posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Mozilla 1.0. A recent article put Netscape Navigator at about 80 percent of the Gecko Browser Engine market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Netscape Navigator users. This is consistent with the number of Netscape Navigator Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Netscape, abysmal sales and so on, Netscape Navigator went out of business and was taken over by AOL who sell another troubled OS. Now AOL is also toast, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Gecko Browser Engine has steadily declined in market share. Gecko Browser Engine is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Gecko Browser Engine is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Gecko Browser Engine continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Gecko Browser Engine is toast.
It is official; Netcraft confirms: Gecko Browser Engine is dying One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Gecko Browser Engine community when IDC confirmed that Gecko Browser Engine market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Gecko Browser Engine has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Gecko Browser Engine is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Einstein to predict Gecko Browser Engine's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Gecko Browser Engine faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Gecko Browser Engine because Gecko Browser Engine is dying. Things are looking very bad for Gecko Browser Engine. As many of us are already aware, Gecko Browser Engine continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Netscape Navigator is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Netscape Navigator developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Netscape Navigator is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Netscape Communicator leader Theo De Raadt states that there are 7000 users of Netscape Communicator. How many users of Mozilla Beta are there? Let's see. The number of Netscape Communicator versus Mozilla Beta posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Mozilla Beta users. Mozilla 1.0 posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Mozilla Beta posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Mozilla 1.0. A recent article put Netscape Navigator at about 80 percent of the Gecko Browser Engine market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Netscape Navigator users. This is consistent with the number of Netscape Navigator Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Netscape, abysmal sales and so on, Netscape Navigator went out of business and was taken over by AOL who sell another troubled OS. Now AOL is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Gecko Browser Engine has steadily declined in market share. Gecko Browser Engine is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Gecko Browser Engine is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Gecko Browser Engine continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Gecko Browser Engine is dead.
From that article: Weiss said the recording industry should lobby for special taxes on CD burners and Internet access
Makes perfect sense to me. Since everyone who has an internet connection uses it to pirate music, we should all be forced to pay for this! Its not people out there use the internet for things like....oh, I don't know...shopping, or for information.
If I'm going to be treated like a criminal (and I already am, seeing as how I buy CD-Rs for data backup and mixing my own albums from music I legally own), I'm going to at least act like a criminal. Hoist the Jolly Rogers, it's time to sail the IRCs! Yaaaarrrrrrr!
One of the best games I've ever played has dealt with and eliminated these problems. I'm talking about A Tale in the Desert by eGenesis. The players are helpful, the project manager gave out his cell phone number to call if there's ever a problem with the game (like a server crash) If you ever get stuck and need a GM, they'll be there in a matter of a few seconds to help you out. The people are friendly and always willing to help out a new player (one of the 'tests' in the games is to mentor 7 new players).
I'm hoping that Linux vendors will start offering the test kernels as installation alternatives
All I see is badness coming from this. If someone is good enough with unix to want to use the 2.6 kernel to develop software, odds are they already know how to download and install the kernel themselves. If, on the other hand, we have someone new to Linux see 2.6 and think "that must be better than that old 2.4 kernel POS", and proceed to choose that one, odds are is that the 2.6 kernel is going to result in a less-than-stable system, and is going to look badly upon linux in the future.
After they continued to bill my account after they told me I had canceled, I found it easier to go right to my bank and I issue a stop payment. I replied with a goatse printout when they sent me a 'Why aren't we getting your money'. Never heard from them again.
What's interesting is with their 100 year copy rights, disney coudln't have made thier rip-off of the brothers Grimms' Snow White without paying royalities to the Grimms' descendants.
This may be a good article to show your family, friends and congressmen."
I'll have to do that quickly. They get suspecious if I turn off the Telescre^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HFreedomScreens or the PatriotSpeaker off for more than 30 minutes.
I'm in favor of the USS Bill Clinton. Much more fearsome. When enemies see it, they know they're going to go down.... not to mention it will be deploying sea men into the enemy ship afterwards
It works like this. Pretend that you have an assault rifle. Suddenly, legislation is passed that bans them. Are you likely to just turn over the expensive rifle to the nice government? No, you're going to try to find a way to sell it to someone who doesn't care about the legality of owning an assault rifle. And that someone who doens't care about how legal it is to own a rifle of that type is more likely to use it.
Let me put it another way. A law abiding citizen won't own a banned gun, even though he would only use it to defend himself. Someone who is wanted to armed robbery isnt' going to care about a little gun offence, and so he will probally be looking for the most powerful thing he can get his hands on.
All of that security....DRM....encryption....requiring a connection to Infinium Labs' own computers....
I give it 3 weeks before it's completly cracked and reverse engineered. Thanks, Infinium Labs', for giving me (and dozens of other nerds) something to do this semester!
But the people making spam just change their methods. Maybe they start hijacking machines overseas, or using Trojans to spam from others machines.
All I have to do then is start blocking all messages from asian domains (and eventually all non-us ones if they switch to another continent to send their stuff from).
I WANT them to start trojaning people's computers to send spam. This will (a) force clueless admins to start securing their networks better, and more importantly (b) as soon as it gets traced back that they hacked it, they'll be going to jail for a few years.
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Now 79%.
I know that this doesn't protect againt trojans in MP3s or e-mail virus, but if one were to implement a Virus Scanner at Firing Wall, you could keep most of that crap off your network, and when something new hit the network, auto-remove all attachments from incoming e-mail until norton puts out a patch and you can scan the mail properly again.
degrades security by not letting you do what you want with your own content on your own machine
First, you blast Microsoft for being able to do too much, then in the next sentence you blast them for not doing enough? And I think that if the Government wants to run Missile Tracker 3.0 (which is unsigned), since they are the largest consumer of Microsoft software, I think they might be able to get Microsoft to find a way around it reaaaal quick.
The reason that everyone (including the federal guvnment) still uses Microsoft is because, It Just Works(TM). I can pull windows out of its box, put it in my computer, and have it running in about 30 minutes. I don't have to manually pick out kernel drivers like with debian, I don't have to worry about RedHat not recognizing half my hardware (like my ATI or my AC97 sound chip). I can take any lance corporal off the field, and with windows, he's most likely to know how to at least do basic stuff like surf the web, read e-mail, etc. If the guvment were to use Linux, they would have to spend additional manpower on installation, more man power keeping those boxes up to date (or pay money for RedHats up2date service), not to mention retraining a lot of staff on how to use these computers.
Another reason for the Government choosing Windows is that they probally already have a majority of their services on windows, and to ask a Four Star General to approve a massive budget to switch away from what works to what might not work will take quite a bit of effort.
Wow....that karma just burned brightly....
At first, I thought you were full of crap. Another little 1337 h4x0r on slashdot who just managed to get SuSe to install on his computer and was trying to act big and tough by posting on slashdot.
Then I saw your Slashdot UID *bows down and offers a Jolt Cola Sacrafice*
Probally. He's forming an anti-ballon resistance movement. I got a box from him containing one dozen pea-shooters and a box of pins. Vive le Humans!
I did a quick search and replace. You can't ask for too much, here
You don't need to be a Einstein to predict Gecko Browser Engine's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Gecko Browser Engine faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Gecko Browser Engine because Gecko Browser Engine is toast. Things are looking very bad for Gecko Browser Engine. As many of us are already aware, Gecko Browser Engine continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Netscape Navigator is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Netscape Navigator developers Linus Travolds only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Netscape Navigator is toast.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Netscape Communicator leader Alan Cox states that there are 7000 users of Netscape Communicator. How many users of Mozilla Beta are there? Let's see. The number of Netscape Communicator versus Mozilla Beta posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Mozilla Beta users. Mozilla 1.0 posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Mozilla Beta posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Mozilla 1.0. A recent article put Netscape Navigator at about 80 percent of the Gecko Browser Engine market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Netscape Navigator users. This is consistent with the number of Netscape Navigator Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Netscape, abysmal sales and so on, Netscape Navigator went out of business and was taken over by AOL who sell another troubled OS. Now AOL is also toast, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Gecko Browser Engine has steadily declined in market share. Gecko Browser Engine is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Gecko Browser Engine is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Gecko Browser Engine continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Gecko Browser Engine is toast.
You don't need to be a Einstein to predict Gecko Browser Engine's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Gecko Browser Engine faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Gecko Browser Engine because Gecko Browser Engine is dying. Things are looking very bad for Gecko Browser Engine. As many of us are already aware, Gecko Browser Engine continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Netscape Navigator is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Netscape Navigator developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Netscape Navigator is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Netscape Communicator leader Theo De Raadt states that there are 7000 users of Netscape Communicator. How many users of Mozilla Beta are there? Let's see. The number of Netscape Communicator versus Mozilla Beta posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Mozilla Beta users. Mozilla 1.0 posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Mozilla Beta posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Mozilla 1.0. A recent article put Netscape Navigator at about 80 percent of the Gecko Browser Engine market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Netscape Navigator users. This is consistent with the number of Netscape Navigator Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Netscape, abysmal sales and so on, Netscape Navigator went out of business and was taken over by AOL who sell another troubled OS. Now AOL is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Gecko Browser Engine has steadily declined in market share. Gecko Browser Engine is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Gecko Browser Engine is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Gecko Browser Engine continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Gecko Browser Engine is dead.
Of course! It's not like they could be more reflective to make them easier to track via eye or anything. It MUST be big brother, right? Right?
If it bothers you that much, you can cover it up with some left over tin foil from your hat.
Let's just hope the rest of the world is the one getting courage (to stand up against us when we start to unilaterally throw our weight around)
Makes perfect sense to me. Since everyone who has an internet connection uses it to pirate music, we should all be forced to pay for this! Its not people out there use the internet for things like....oh, I don't know...shopping, or for information.
If I'm going to be treated like a criminal (and I already am, seeing as how I buy CD-Rs for data backup and mixing my own albums from music I legally own), I'm going to at least act like a criminal. Hoist the Jolly Rogers, it's time to sail the IRCs! Yaaaarrrrrrr!
One of the best games I've ever played has dealt with and eliminated these problems. I'm talking about A Tale in the Desert by eGenesis. The players are helpful, the project manager gave out his cell phone number to call if there's ever a problem with the game (like a server crash) If you ever get stuck and need a GM, they'll be there in a matter of a few seconds to help you out. The people are friendly and always willing to help out a new player (one of the 'tests' in the games is to mentor 7 new players).
All I see is badness coming from this. If someone is good enough with unix to want to use the 2.6 kernel to develop software, odds are they already know how to download and install the kernel themselves. If, on the other hand, we have someone new to Linux see 2.6 and think "that must be better than that old 2.4 kernel POS", and proceed to choose that one, odds are is that the 2.6 kernel is going to result in a less-than-stable system, and is going to look badly upon linux in the future.
After they continued to bill my account after they told me I had canceled, I found it easier to go right to my bank and I issue a stop payment. I replied with a goatse printout when they sent me a 'Why aren't we getting your money'. Never heard from them again.
What's interesting is with their 100 year copy rights, disney coudln't have made thier rip-off of the brothers Grimms' Snow White without paying royalities to the Grimms' descendants.
I'm going to be highly skeptical if a few months after this, Sony's seti@home ranking jumps through the roof.
...so that when I read "In an asexual organism I don't leave out an "ni", then procede to try to perform one myself.
I'll have to do that quickly. They get suspecious if I turn off the Telescre^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HFreedomScreens or the PatriotSpeaker off for more than 30 minutes.
"We don't know what it will be, but i'm sure we'll find ways to make it more....umm...programish
I'm in favor of the USS Bill Clinton. Much more fearsome. When enemies see it, they know they're going to go down.... not to mention it will be deploying sea men into the enemy ship afterwards
Let me put it another way. A law abiding citizen won't own a banned gun, even though he would only use it to defend himself. Someone who is wanted to armed robbery isnt' going to care about a little gun offence, and so he will probally be looking for the most powerful thing he can get his hands on.
Now I have this image of vending machines grabbing people by the ankles, hanging them upside down and shaking them. Like some bad sci-fi film.
I give it 3 weeks before it's completly cracked and reverse engineered. Thanks, Infinium Labs', for giving me (and dozens of other nerds) something to do this semester!
All I have to do then is start blocking all messages from asian domains (and eventually all non-us ones if they switch to another continent to send their stuff from).
I WANT them to start trojaning people's computers to send spam. This will (a) force clueless admins to start securing their networks better, and more importantly (b) as soon as it gets traced back that they hacked it, they'll be going to jail for a few years.