On a related note, I took a Network Security class by one of the team members (William Arbaugh) at the University of Maryland, and he spent an entire lecture on covering some of the Diebold security flaws. At one point he opened to floor up to the students, and getting some basic information on how the system stored and communicated the voting results the class had come up with around a dozen plausable exploits (and quite a few less plausable ones as well).
Umm... what's to stop iDefense from sitting on the details of the flaw?
They say the submission must be exclusive and to get the cash Microsoft must issue a critical advisory. If iDefense does whatever they want with it and doesn't tell Microsoft, doesn't that mean Microsoft can't issue an advisory on a flaw they don't know about and iDefense doesn't have to give the submitter jack?
Yeah, I admit it's far-fetched but I'd be reading the fine print to say the least.
I know of no country in the world that has a voucher system..not even close.
And I don't know any 26 year old Frenchmen, but I don't automatically belive they don't exist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_vouchers seems to indicate that Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Poland all have school voucher programs.
I agree that they may not be as widespread as the grandparent indicates, but automatically ping-ponging to the other extreme is just as wrong.
"What makes the "Extreme Edition" processor different from a regular Pentium D processor? A regular Pentium D processor has two cores which Windows XP sees as two physical processors. The Extreme Edition processors adds hyper-threading to each core! This allow Windows XP to run 4 simultaneous threads at once!"
Maybe someone can correct me on this, but I though the difference between the regular Pentiums and the Extreme Edition was a fuckton of cache. Does Intel intentionally disable hyperthreading on the non-Extreme Pentium Ds?
Pre-ordering has been kind of sticky with the 360, from what In understand. I was at a GameStop the other night talking to the manager while waiting or my credit card to ring up, and he said although he couldnt give any exact numbers they'd gotten well over 100 preorders, were receiving less than a dozen units at launch, and were expecting weekly shipments of similar (less than a dozen units) through the end of the year.
Pre-ordering and getting a day or two after eBay sales would have had to been set up months ago.
No, he's just assuming enough of them do to make it profitable. I'd say there's a higher-than-average correlaition between Star Trek fans and male programmers.
Advertising is a lot like spewing bad pickup lines in a bar. You're going to get slapped a lot, but it's the rare time you don't get slapped that makes it worthwhile.
I'm a big fan of the Apple AirPort Express at $129. It'll stream audio over 802.11g or ethernet, will do standard 3.5 or optical minijack out. Granted, you have to use iTunes to stream to it and it may or may not be what you're looking for in terms of having to stream to a specific unit, but it's an option. As an added bonus, it's can act as a wireless router or print server.
I don't know how it's feature set compared to the SqueezeBox everybody keeps mentioning, but it's really a top-notch piece of off-the-shelf hardware for about half the price. May or may not work for you, but I like it.
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Employees really don't need the license records because it doesn't take proof to get you in hot shit, just the allegations of wrongdoing. All it takes is a disgruntled employee to drop a note to the BSA, and their auditors will deal with all the license records. The BSA isn't a legal body, and burden of proof tend to fall on you.
I can't seem to access the website, so I can't get anything in the way of background data. Does the 6 in the article's title imply there are 5 others, or does it have some other significance?
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Just because you're confident in the platform doesn't mean you need a 50 lb hammer to hang a frame. I've got a mini and it does everything I need it to do for a quarter of the price of a PowerMac. I don't edit videos and I don't game on my mac (that's what I've got a console for).
I'm also remembering a made for TV movie based on Tom Clancy's NetForce (of the same name) in which a very Bill Gates-esk figure attempts to gain control of the Internet by mallicious code in his next-gen product, Janus.
Given the circumstances, I think we can say that Janus IS mallicious code. Life imitates art...
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Actually I'd think they would do just the reverse. The key is NOT the game. You have the legal right to transfer the game (aka disks, manuals, whatever) but have no right to transfer the key, since it isn't the game itself. Granted, the transfer of everything else without the key is utterly useless, but nobody ever claimed lawyers made sense.
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I've had one of the Scott eVest 2.0s for at least two years now. Last time I went to the Smithsonian (American History) they actually had me empty out the pockets after puting it on the belt. Must have taken me about 8 minutes unwireing the headphones and all.
Don't count on security just scanning the thing and letting you through. Chances are that if you DO have a lot of stuff in it (PDA, headphones, etc), the xray is just going to make them more suspicious.
We know the email address that the trojan sends it's feedback to. Rather than attempting to slashdot the site, why don't we just flood the email box. It'll eat bandwidth, dilute any useful data the SOB who set this up will get, and maybe stop future dipshit admins from getting whacked.
So... anybody want to work out the format of a message telling whatever lameass came up with this scheme that microsoft.com just got rooted?:-)
I checked out my school, University of Maryland - College Park. They got more wrong then right:
No wireless access? We've had wireless coverage since I started here in 2001.
Does the school stream audio or video of any courses? The Engineering department streams many classes through the online Blackboard system. Some are then broadcast to the Frostburg and Eastern Shore campuses.
Is network access available in dormitory lounges? This one is a maybe, depending on the dorm. Honestly though, most of the dorms have at least one yahoo running an unsecured access point that'll be accessable...
Does the school stream its campus radio or TV stations? Whoa, this guy must not exist. May bad...
There are other cases, but most of them are closer to marginal errors. Seriously though, it seems like these guys just don't do thier homework.
The cost of buying new books? Phhh... 20 bucks to buy a new PH.
$20 if you get it from Amazon. Nearly every other place on the planet sells it for the $30 retail. 3.5 didn't have the $20 "introductory" period 3.0 did. Can make a good bit of a diffrence if you're looking to replace a full 3.0 set, and come up short $30...
The product isn't being targeted at your "average student." I would say that students are one of the most tech-savvy groups demographically, which doesn't make much sense given the "Starter Edition" label. Think a family's first (and quite possibly only/last) computer.
Heck, my grandparents didn't know you could run three applications at the same time under Windows95 for YEARS, and they're some of the least impoverished people I know... and that's not so say that now they really do run more than three applications anyway. I can't really imagine them doing web browsing, word processing, and thier email at the same time, and they use a web-based email service....
I'm not saying that the three apps limit is a good idea, only that I can understand the thinking behind the decision to implement it. It may not be the absolute dealbreaker people are making it out to be, given the target audience.
Yes, primarily because of Microsoft Project Web Access. I would really have no problems packaging up Firefox here at work and distributing it in the next upgrade cycle all over the company if it wasn't for Project. Project is a Must-Have here as it's the system we all use for entering our billable time.
Do I expect Firefox to be able to use the Project server? No, the interface is purely ActiveX driven. None the less, there's no way I could switch over our company to a browser that doesn't work on the single most important site on our Intranet.
I don't know about games, but there are few apps here at work we haven't been able to get to run as nonadmin. The key is to install as admin and then give the user read/write access to the registry subtree of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Palm Desktop is a little tricky because it imports some entries into the CURRENT_USER branch, but if you export those to file from the installing administrator account and them import them as the user you want to run Palm Desktop as, it works fine.
There is always the Run As... option in the context menu for executables, as well. It's not hard to make a shortcut and small wrapper to run individual apps as an administrator. A hassle, yes. But it can be done 98% of the time. Closest thing you're going to get to su for a while, at least.
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On a related note, I took a Network Security class by one of the team members (William Arbaugh) at the University of Maryland, and he spent an entire lecture on covering some of the Diebold security flaws. At one point he opened to floor up to the students, and getting some basic information on how the system stored and communicated the voting results the class had come up with around a dozen plausable exploits (and quite a few less plausable ones as well).
Umm... what's to stop iDefense from sitting on the details of the flaw? They say the submission must be exclusive and to get the cash Microsoft must issue a critical advisory. If iDefense does whatever they want with it and doesn't tell Microsoft, doesn't that mean Microsoft can't issue an advisory on a flaw they don't know about and iDefense doesn't have to give the submitter jack? Yeah, I admit it's far-fetched but I'd be reading the fine print to say the least.
Assumptions aside, that would be the cost if one key was $100, not three. $3367 is still pricey, though.
I know of no country in the world that has a voucher system..not even close.
And I don't know any 26 year old Frenchmen, but I don't automatically belive they don't exist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_vouchers seems to indicate that Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Poland all have school voucher programs.
I agree that they may not be as widespread as the grandparent indicates, but automatically ping-ponging to the other extreme is just as wrong.
"What makes the "Extreme Edition" processor different from a regular Pentium D processor? A regular Pentium D processor has two cores which Windows XP sees as two physical processors. The Extreme Edition processors adds hyper-threading to each core! This allow Windows XP to run 4 simultaneous threads at once!"
Maybe someone can correct me on this, but I though the difference between the regular Pentiums and the Extreme Edition was a fuckton of cache. Does Intel intentionally disable hyperthreading on the non-Extreme Pentium Ds?
I wouldn't be surprised if the mouse plugs into the keyboard so they can use the same radio. It's hard to tell where that wire is going in the pic.
Pre-ordering has been kind of sticky with the 360, from what In understand. I was at a GameStop the other night talking to the manager while waiting or my credit card to ring up, and he said although he couldnt give any exact numbers they'd gotten well over 100 preorders, were receiving less than a dozen units at launch, and were expecting weekly shipments of similar (less than a dozen units) through the end of the year.
Pre-ordering and getting a day or two after eBay sales would have had to been set up months ago.
No, he's just assuming enough of them do to make it profitable. I'd say there's a higher-than-average correlaition between Star Trek fans and male programmers.
Advertising is a lot like spewing bad pickup lines in a bar. You're going to get slapped a lot, but it's the rare time you don't get slapped that makes it worthwhile.
I'm a big fan of the Apple AirPort Express at $129. It'll stream audio over 802.11g or ethernet, will do standard 3.5 or optical minijack out. Granted, you have to use iTunes to stream to it and it may or may not be what you're looking for in terms of having to stream to a specific unit, but it's an option. As an added bonus, it's can act as a wireless router or print server. I don't know how it's feature set compared to the SqueezeBox everybody keeps mentioning, but it's really a top-notch piece of off-the-shelf hardware for about half the price. May or may not work for you, but I like it. Andrew Beard
Employees really don't need the license records because it doesn't take proof to get you in hot shit, just the allegations of wrongdoing. All it takes is a disgruntled employee to drop a note to the BSA, and their auditors will deal with all the license records. The BSA isn't a legal body, and burden of proof tend to fall on you.
... and then users will start leaving their keys attatched to the USB ports along with their thumb drives.
I can't seem to access the website, so I can't get anything in the way of background data. Does the 6 in the article's title imply there are 5 others, or does it have some other significance? Andrew Beard
Just because you're confident in the platform doesn't mean you need a 50 lb hammer to hang a frame. I've got a mini and it does everything I need it to do for a quarter of the price of a PowerMac. I don't edit videos and I don't game on my mac (that's what I've got a console for).
Andrew Beard
This story seems straight out of last week's Law and Order: SVU.
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I'm also remembering a made for TV movie based on Tom Clancy's NetForce (of the same name) in which a very Bill Gates-esk figure attempts to gain control of the Internet by mallicious code in his next-gen product, Janus.
Given the circumstances, I think we can say that Janus IS mallicious code. Life imitates art...
Andrew Beard
Actually I'd think they would do just the reverse. The key is NOT the game. You have the legal right to transfer the game (aka disks, manuals, whatever) but have no right to transfer the key, since it isn't the game itself. Granted, the transfer of everything else without the key is utterly useless, but nobody ever claimed lawyers made sense.
Andrew Beard
I've had one of the Scott eVest 2.0s for at least two years now. Last time I went to the Smithsonian (American History) they actually had me empty out the pockets after puting it on the belt. Must have taken me about 8 minutes unwireing the headphones and all.
Don't count on security just scanning the thing and letting you through. Chances are that if you DO have a lot of stuff in it (PDA, headphones, etc), the xray is just going to make them more suspicious.
We know the email address that the trojan sends it's feedback to. Rather than attempting to slashdot the site, why don't we just flood the email box. It'll eat bandwidth, dilute any useful data the SOB who set this up will get, and maybe stop future dipshit admins from getting whacked. So... anybody want to work out the format of a message telling whatever lameass came up with this scheme that microsoft.com just got rooted? :-)
I checked out my school, University of Maryland - College Park. They got more wrong then right:
No wireless access? We've had wireless coverage since I started here in 2001.
Does the school stream audio or video of any courses? The Engineering department streams many classes through the online Blackboard system. Some are then broadcast to the Frostburg and Eastern Shore campuses.
Is network access available in dormitory lounges? This one is a maybe, depending on the dorm. Honestly though, most of the dorms have at least one yahoo running an unsecured access point that'll be accessable...
Does the school stream its campus radio or TV stations? Whoa, this guy must not exist. May bad...
There are other cases, but most of them are closer to marginal errors. Seriously though, it seems like these guys just don't do thier homework.
The cost of buying new books? Phhh... 20 bucks to buy a new PH. $20 if you get it from Amazon. Nearly every other place on the planet sells it for the $30 retail. 3.5 didn't have the $20 "introductory" period 3.0 did. Can make a good bit of a diffrence if you're looking to replace a full 3.0 set, and come up short $30...
...don't own anything worth stealing that isn't strapped to your back.
The product isn't being targeted at your "average student." I would say that students are one of the most tech-savvy groups demographically, which doesn't make much sense given the "Starter Edition" label. Think a family's first (and quite possibly only/last) computer.
Heck, my grandparents didn't know you could run three applications at the same time under Windows95 for YEARS, and they're some of the least impoverished people I know... and that's not so say that now they really do run more than three applications anyway. I can't really imagine them doing web browsing, word processing, and thier email at the same time, and they use a web-based email service....
I'm not saying that the three apps limit is a good idea, only that I can understand the thinking behind the decision to implement it. It may not be the absolute dealbreaker people are making it out to be, given the target audience.
Yes, primarily because of Microsoft Project Web Access. I would really have no problems packaging up Firefox here at work and distributing it in the next upgrade cycle all over the company if it wasn't for Project. Project is a Must-Have here as it's the system we all use for entering our billable time.
Do I expect Firefox to be able to use the Project server? No, the interface is purely ActiveX driven. None the less, there's no way I could switch over our company to a browser that doesn't work on the single most important site on our Intranet.
I don't know about games, but there are few apps here at work we haven't been able to get to run as nonadmin. The key is to install as admin and then give the user read/write access to the registry subtree of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Palm Desktop is a little tricky because it imports some entries into the CURRENT_USER branch, but if you export those to file from the installing administrator account and them import them as the user you want to run Palm Desktop as, it works fine. There is always the Run As... option in the context menu for executables, as well. It's not hard to make a shortcut and small wrapper to run individual apps as an administrator. A hassle, yes. But it can be done 98% of the time. Closest thing you're going to get to su for a while, at least.