This should also be carried over to agents and brokers that work in the field or make house calls - whether it is real estate, financial planners or insurance - these people have extensive personal data being carried on the laptops about their clients. These laptops get lost or stolen at a staggering rate!
If proper measures are not being taken to secure/encrypt that data - then they should be liable. The technologies exist - there is NO excuse.
Are we assuming that having a program continue to run after parsing bad code is a good thing? Yes, it keeps running until someone can find a way to malform the code enough that they can take complete control over your machine.
This actually looks like a good lite version of Microsoft's Infopath product!
Great work - over time, google might actually be able to build this product up to knock Infopath righ out of Microsoft's catalog! or perhaps force them to release it into open source...
Why would anyone pay for a product that they can get free from google?
I think a lot of th 'weight' in these distro today is their attempt to offer options to the less technical user-base. So, I think that we are seeing that it takes a lot of code and a lot of horsepower to create operating systems for the lowest common denominator.
21 ways to be a good fasci -- I mean Conservative:
1.) You have to believe that the AIDS virus was not a disease but a cure - until it somehow got spread to heterosexual women who don't use drugs. 2.) You have to believe that a bare breast on TV is the height of evil but Jerry Springer is just good clean entertainment. 3.) You have to believe that guns in the hands of any American who plunks their $200 down are the only way to stop black people from shooting white people. 4.) You have to believe that there is no art below a 7.6 Neilsen rating. 5.) You have to believe that global temperatures changes are far less important than 3rd quarter profits. 6.) You have to believe that a man would chose to have sex with another man without some pretty hefty homonal urging. 7.) You have to believe the right to life begins at conception and ends at birth. 8.) You have to believe that a rising gap between haves and have-nots has nothing to do with societal decay. 9.) You have to believe that nature is best apprecated through a 30x gun sight from the window of your Hummer. 10.) You have to believe that self-esteem is best expressed by stomping on someone with a lower income than yours. 11.) You have to believe that the military's ability to destroy the world 38.4 times over is needed to "defend your country". 12.) You have to believe that guns don't kill people - video games kill people. 13.) You have to believe that taxes are immoral when used to pay for education but essential when used to pay for stealth bombers. 14.) You have to believe that Ronald Reagan was the greatest American who ever lived, closely followed by Rush Limbaugh. 15.) You have to believe that if a kid in a slum was really all that smart, he'd match the standardised test scores of a kid from the most expensive private school in the country. 16.) You have to believe that George Dubya Bush has a brain. 17.) You have to believe that supply side economics has worked somewhere at some time. 18.) You have to believe that a Democrat getting his knob shined by an intern was a far worse breach of national trust than selling arms to Iran and using the revenue to fund the Contras. 19.) You have to believe that shooting doctors who perform abortions is justified by the commandment "thou shalt not kill.". 20.) You have to believe that funding of the Republican party by Enron was somehow in the best interest to the United States. 21.) You have to believe that the media is a vast Left Wing conspiracy (even though it's owned by powerful right wingers...)
I don't think that niche PC builds/designs are just limited to gamers. There are also corporations that want to portray a more elite computing image than the generic IBM/HP/Dell boxes that every other company has sitting on their desks. Companies such as Liebermann Inc: http://www.go-l.com/home/index.htm work to offer upscale PCs that appeal to design and advertising firms that want a more prestige look.
This item raised my curiosity on something - I had always thought that a light-year was used as a measurement of distance with a light-year being the distance that light travels in the span of a year. I was under the impression that the year was a year - based on our 1 earth year. So if the light we are seeing is coming from 13 billion light-years away, then what we are seeing would be 13 billion years old. Am I right or did I miss something in the glossary on this one?
It would be interesting to find out who out there would infect their own machines or allow their machines to be infected and not clean the virus out just because they WANT to take part in a DDOS of SCO. For all those that agree that SCO is a basket full of idiots and want to do something that will 'fight back' but don't quite have the means to do a DOS themselves - This may be an option for them...
Extensive hits to e-mail, web and database systems throughout many ministries in Ontario.
I thought it was interesting that a member of the Justice system in Ontario was complaining that 'Microsoft is not providing the proper tools to properly manage an enterprise with 1000 servers spread throughout the province and ensure that patches and service packs are kept up to date. The cost of maintaining these manually is too high'
To which I asked 'How much is it costing you to scramble and fix this problem now?'
Enterprises either need to bear the cost of a 3rd party tool to maintain patches through the enterprise or find the money and resources to keep things up to date properly on an ongoing basis. Otherwise, they will find it costs 2-3 times that amount of money to respond to patching and cleaning large pools of servers in this type of worm situation.
So, if anyone can submit a cd to to be sold song by song on iTunes, listen.com, etc... Then this is starting to sound like it's going to be cutting into MP3.COM's business model!
The requirements of the organization and the specifc application need to be considered. In the consumer line, there will be a lot less rigourous testing and many more kernel and patch updates and version releases than on the enterprise side. The Enterprise package will be tested more throughly, and have a higher level of support than the consumer edition. Also enterprise offers more higher-end tools and utils for disk mgmt, clustering etc.
So if your org is fanatic about applying the latest patches and upgrades and running the latest version, then Enterprise could be a lot less work and mych more stable. As Kernel updates tend to require application re-compiles, frequent kernel upgrades could become a lot more work on the consumer edition of the product.
If your company has a lot of internal resources and you likely don't require Red Hat's assistance with troubleshooting, then the Consumer edition may work for you. Typically you see a lot of fire and forget servers being built anyway. Usually if you get a machine up and running with the app and everything is working fine, consensus tends to be don't mess with it and they will sit for years without kernel updates or patches being applied unless a specific vulnerability is being exploited.
If you enjoyed Snowcrash, you may also enjoy Neal Stephenson's other book Cryptonomicon. Lots of crypto cracking intrigue in both modern day and World War II as you follow the main characters and their grandchildren in two parallel stories.
I think 'Refuses' is a little different than 'architectural limitation'. They aren't refusing to fix it - they claim that they cannot. The title of this item is a little mis-leading.
Slashdot Mirror
... and keep in mind that this vulnerability exists in IE7, IE6 and IE5 - and hasn't been patched by Microsoft in 5 years...
This should also be carried over to agents and brokers that work in the field or make house calls - whether it is real estate, financial planners or insurance - these people have extensive personal data being carried on the laptops about their clients. These laptops get lost or stolen at a staggering rate!
If proper measures are not being taken to secure/encrypt that data - then they should be liable. The technologies exist - there is NO excuse.
Risk is great - but what about axis & allies? Supremacy?
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/implementation/arch ives/003999.asp
There has been a lot of interesting speculation on the item - a good collection here:
r ch ives/002939.asp
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/implementation/a
'Sophos' has some good blog postings over at ITToolbox on the emerging market of "Digital Snake Oil" in the antivirus/antispyware product sector...
h ives/001997.asp
h ives/002284.asp
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/implementation/arc
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/implementation/arc
A more eloquent arguement posted here:
r ch ives/002013.asp
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/implementation/a
The world is going to end tomorrow - who cares about 2006?!?
Are we assuming that having a program continue to run after parsing bad code is a good thing? Yes, it keeps running until someone can find a way to malform the code enough that they can take complete control over your machine.
I think I'd rather use a browser that abends.
Gary was either really naive or a complete ass that everyone wanted to screw over...
This actually looks like a good lite version of Microsoft's Infopath product!
Great work - over time, google might actually be able to build this product up to knock Infopath righ out of Microsoft's catalog! or perhaps force them to release it into open source...
Why would anyone pay for a product that they can get free from google?
you can backup your machine while you're disassembling it!
I would have thought stopping slackers from smoking dope would have the same effect...
I think a lot of th 'weight' in these distro today is their attempt to offer options to the less technical user-base. So, I think that we are seeing that it takes a lot of code and a lot of horsepower to create operating systems for the lowest common denominator.
This could just as easily be turned around to...
21 ways to be a good fasci -- I mean Conservative:
1.) You have to believe that the AIDS virus was not a disease but a cure - until it somehow got spread to heterosexual women who don't use drugs.
2.) You have to believe that a bare breast on TV is the height of evil but Jerry Springer is just good clean entertainment.
3.) You have to believe that guns in the hands of any American who plunks their $200 down are the only way to stop black people from shooting white
people.
4.) You have to believe that there is no art below a 7.6 Neilsen rating.
5.) You have to believe that global temperatures changes are far less important than 3rd quarter profits.
6.) You have to believe that a man would chose to have sex with another man without some pretty hefty homonal urging.
7.) You have to believe the right to life begins at conception and ends at birth.
8.) You have to believe that a rising gap between haves and have-nots has nothing to do with societal decay.
9.) You have to believe that nature is best apprecated through a 30x gun sight from the window of your Hummer.
10.) You have to believe that self-esteem is best expressed by stomping on someone with a lower income than yours.
11.) You have to believe that the military's ability to destroy the world 38.4 times over is needed to "defend your country".
12.) You have to believe that guns don't kill people - video games kill people.
13.) You have to believe that taxes are immoral when used to pay for education but essential when used to pay for stealth bombers.
14.) You have to believe that Ronald Reagan was the greatest American who ever lived, closely followed by Rush Limbaugh.
15.) You have to believe that if a kid in a slum was really all that smart, he'd match the standardised test scores of a kid from the most expensive private school in the country.
16.) You have to believe that George Dubya Bush has a brain.
17.) You have to believe that supply side economics has worked somewhere at some time.
18.) You have to believe that a Democrat getting his knob shined by an intern was a far worse breach of national trust than selling arms to Iran and using the revenue to fund the Contras.
19.) You have to believe that shooting doctors who perform abortions is justified by the commandment "thou shalt not kill.".
20.) You have to believe that funding of the Republican party by Enron was somehow in the best interest to the United States.
21.) You have to believe that the media is a vast Left Wing conspiracy (even though it's owned by powerful right wingers...)
I don't think that niche PC builds/designs are just limited to gamers. There are also corporations that want to portray a more elite computing image than the generic IBM/HP/Dell boxes that every other company has sitting on their desks. Companies such as Liebermann Inc:
http://www.go-l.com/home/index.htm
work to offer upscale PCs that appeal to design and advertising firms that want a more prestige look.
....as thousands of slashdotters google "thx-1138 fansite" and slashdot all of the fan sites on the net...
This item raised my curiosity on something - I had always thought that a light-year was used as a measurement of distance with a light-year being the distance that light travels in the span of a year. I was under the impression that the year was a year - based on our 1 earth year. So if the light we are seeing is coming from 13 billion light-years away, then what we are seeing would be 13 billion years old. Am I right or did I miss something in the glossary on this one?
It would be interesting to find out who out there would infect their own machines or allow their machines to be infected and not clean the virus out just because they WANT to take part in a DDOS of SCO. For all those that agree that SCO is a basket full of idiots and want to do something that will 'fight back' but don't quite have the means to do a DOS themselves - This may be an option for them...
Just a thought...
And this is like assuming that anti-virus software developers aren't releasing viruses into the wild to boost the sales of their products...
Extensive hits to e-mail, web and database systems throughout many ministries in Ontario.
I thought it was interesting that a member of the Justice system in Ontario was complaining that 'Microsoft is not providing the proper tools to properly manage an enterprise with 1000 servers spread throughout the province and ensure that patches and service packs are kept up to date. The cost of maintaining these manually is too high'
To which I asked 'How much is it costing you to scramble and fix this problem now?'
Enterprises either need to bear the cost of a 3rd party tool to maintain patches through the enterprise or find the money and resources to keep things up to date properly on an ongoing basis. Otherwise, they will find it costs 2-3 times that amount of money to respond to patching and cleaning large pools of servers in this type of worm situation.
So, if anyone can submit a cd to to be sold song by song on iTunes, listen.com, etc... Then this is starting to sound like it's going to be cutting into MP3.COM's business model!
The requirements of the organization and the specifc application need to be considered. In the consumer line, there will be a lot less rigourous testing and many more kernel and patch updates and version releases than on the enterprise side. The Enterprise package will be tested more throughly, and have a higher level of support than the consumer edition. Also enterprise offers more higher-end tools and utils for disk mgmt, clustering etc.
So if your org is fanatic about applying the latest patches and upgrades and running the latest version, then Enterprise could be a lot less work and mych more stable. As Kernel updates tend to require application re-compiles, frequent kernel upgrades could become a lot more work on the consumer edition of the product.
If your company has a lot of internal resources and you likely don't require Red Hat's assistance with troubleshooting, then the Consumer edition may work for you. Typically you see a lot of fire and forget servers being built anyway. Usually if you get a machine up and running with the app and everything is working fine, consensus tends to be don't mess with it and they will sit for years without kernel updates or patches being applied unless a specific vulnerability is being exploited.
If you enjoyed Snowcrash, you may also enjoy Neal Stephenson's other book Cryptonomicon. Lots of crypto cracking intrigue in both modern day and World War II as you follow the main characters and their grandchildren in two parallel stories.
I think 'Refuses' is a little different than 'architectural limitation'. They aren't refusing to fix it - they claim that they cannot. The title of this item is a little mis-leading.