Valve made a great game four or five years ago, and someone else made an even better game by modifying it.
Exactly. I never played Half-life but I played TFC and Counter-strike religiously for 3 years. I wouldn't buy HL2 for HL2, only if there was a counter-strike 2 mod for it.
I don't have an XBox personally, but if I did, I'd be hacking it.
Why bother unless you're looking to play pirated games? You can get a much better PC system for a couple hundred bucks that'll be faster and not have to "hack" it.
The problem with your analogies are that the likelihood of any of those activities interacting and/or interfering with someone else doing the same thing are extremely low. Just sitting in a car riding with someone else isn't going to cause the car to suddenly go out of control and cause a 100 car pileup. Just reading your e-mail on a Microsoft Windows machine CAN cause your machine to be infected with a virus that can be propogated to bring down not only your entire business network, but other networks beyond that. When business stand to lose hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars an hour without Internet connectivity it stands to reason it is a valuable medium.
In fact you do - people can DoS it, or hijack it, or whatever, it's just like a random act of violence.
A hijacked computer is far worse than stealing anything off of it. They can use it in an effort to DDOS other people, to break into other systems, or to trade child pornography! Do you want to be associated with child pornography? No? I didn't think so. Now install OpenBSD you morons.
...but this is the dumbest suggestion I've heard in a long time. A security expert recommends more security. Shocking. News at 11.
Not more security, more training. On the Internet today a user can cause just as much damage as an inexperienced driver getting into an accident. Blind ignorance is the major reason worms spread so far and fast. If people were held responsible for their Internet connectivity you can be damn sure they would patch their systems. If they couldn't patch their systems then they would not have access to the Internet. Either way, problem solves itself. I see people every day who seriously say they don't care about making any upgrades or installing anti-virus software. These are the kinds of people who have no business on a cooperative network.
The trick is to build the power plants in the same area that the load is located in. This reduces the amount of power that must be imported or exported from any given area.
No, the trick is to USE the power plants in the same area that the load is located in. First Energy has at least 2 nuclear power plants in Northern Ohio and one of them was shut down. Energy companies are finding it cheaper to buy electricity on the open market instead of generating their own. Yes kids, de-regulation was a horrible mistake when you do it to public utility monopolies.
Any domain setups that I've done allows you free reign to type in anything you like. I think most people don't realize that
Or they do and realize an enemy could use that to his advantage to snatch away your domain. Providing false information is reason to lose your domain... or at least used to be in the carefree days when.edu domains were actually educational institutions,.com were businesses,.org were non-profit orgs and individuals, and.net were ISPs. *sigh* The good old days 10 years ago.
Then again, there are those of us that use Speakeasy that are not running clueless open Windows boxes on our connections so why punish everyone? I would be seriously pissed if Speakeasy, or any other ISP I was using, blocked any of my outbound ports without giving me the option of opting out. I WILL take responsibility for the security of my systems and if I violate your AUP then cut me off. Too many ISPs offer no choice though, Speakeasy does.
Were the architects of the common Internet mail utilities just plain stupid? What other conclusion can possibly be drawn? Who taught these epsilon-minus lackwits to use a computer, and why?
Why don't you go ask him:
SIMPLE MAIL TRANSFER PROTOCOL
Jonathan B. Postel
August 1982
Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
4676 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, California 90291
(213) 822-1511
I'm sure many of us would love it if you met up with him and had a spirited debate about the issue very soon.
Did you ever stop to think that many of the Internet's protocols were designed when there were no fuckwits running operating systems that are a virtual "petri dish" for viruses and worms?
Rather than rewarding people for knowingly or unknowingly breaking the law, lets put our money towards promoting services that keep things cheap&legal, like Apples Itunes. At $.99/song that little girl could score a lot more music
with Itunes than she could at $15/cd at her local Sam Rippy.
I've said it once and I'll say it again. If I'm going to pay for music I want a losslessly compressed format or the "real thing" (CD). I wouldn't pay you a shiny nickel for the average crappy MP3 I get off of Kazaa, much less $.99 for your AAC formatted songs. Why not use something better like FLAC or just sell the files in WAV format?
I've got broadband so downloading a 50 meg song isn't a big deal for me in order to get a perfect copy that I can encode as I choose. I'd pay the $.99 to cover the bandwidth for your hosting, but only for perfect rips. Otherwise if P2P goes away I'll just go back to what we did in the old days and copy a friend's CD. And before anyone complains that I'm trolling, I'm not intending to. I just think that the music distributed online for money by vendors should be the same thing you'd get if you bought the CD in a store, especially when you're paying about the same price per track.
I disagree. If a person shows a willingness to stay with a company that is very obviously doing the Wrong Thing, I wouldn't want to work with them.
So should companies start blacklisting employees who work for RIAA member companies? Ah right, they're working for companies that are just trying to protect their copyrights so they are fine. Did you ever wonder that SCO may be doing the same thing? Just because we find it really inconvenient that SCO may in fact have a legitimate case against Linux doesn't make it any less valid. Now, I'm not writing any $699 checks anytime soon, but if they do win the IBM lawsuit then we're going to have egg all over our face for being such children about this whole situation.
I wonder how this will affect Sidewinder. It's tightly integrated around BSD/OS for it's type-enforcement technology. They're even quoted in a Wind River press release from last year. I guess people should just migrate to FreeBSD and be done with it. It's not going anywhere.
...but he didn't take down the NYT site, or make it unavailable. He trespassed. Would trespassing in the NYT building cause $25K in damages?.. even if he rifled through file cabinets? I doubt it.
Oh most definitely. The minute the system is compromised you have to assume everything on it is suspect. He could've planted false stories or stolen business information that wasn't for public consumption to sell to rival newspapers. The fact is you don't know so you must assume the worst.
In this day and age the only people that should be cracking into systems are those who have a pre-signed agreement with the company in question authorizing them to do so. Anybody else is a criminal and should get the book thrown at them. There are no "good" hackers.
Why block them at all? Shut them down. Child pornography is illegal in every civilized country in the world... even on Sealand! No respectable ISP would refuse a request to shut off a child porn site based on simply reviewing the site. So contact the ISP, tell them to look at their customer's site and see if it agrees with their AUP. If not then the ISP has a responsibility to shut the site down. This whole idea of blocking shit is like playing whack-a-mole. It doesn't work for spam and it won't work for child porn.
Did you read the article? Legitimate businesses, and other sites are being blocked by these filters. If they want to remove these sites, they need to do it by prosecution, not by technical workarounds.
If I had a legitimate business sharing an IP address on a web server hosting child pornography I would expect the ISP to be busted anyway. Why is this such a crazy idea? The ISP should stop hosting child pornography on the shared webserver or delete the offending user's site.
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Well, geez. If I kept the SPARC on all day I think it'd melt right through the table. To say nothing of the fact that I couldn't hold a conversation without yelling.
What kind of SPARC system are you talking about that gets that hot or is that loud ISN'T left on all day as a server? Do you have an E10000 in your basement that you power on once in awhile for shits and grins until it starts burning a hole in the rug? You should have that looked at.;-)
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who says we will be running windows by then?
What else would you be running on a PC? When SCO wins their case against IBM you won't have many options for affordable operating systems. You could use Windows or MacOS X (if they don't sue them as well). Everything else requires expensive proprietary hardware. Linux/*BSD/etc. will be much too expensive to run on a desktop at home. I know, I know, that's not going to happen, but it is just as likely to happen as people will suddenly decide not to run Windows in the next 10 years.
Also has Sun really innovated anything in the last decade? Java and in the 80's large mainframe like capabilities with server level hardware. That is it.
You're right. No, they haven't done anything interesting lately. Their CPUs are horribly slow compared to even the lowest end AMD x86 line. They made awesome workstations and servers, but the days of corporate IT being able to spend $30k on a mid-range server died with the tech stock bubble. Sure, they're not going to die anytime soon, but they're also not going to introduce anything new and exciting that blows the doors off of the PC world.
you are mixing things up.... MS would be better off without that idiot ballmer at the wheel.
Well, Microsoft did prove that even a monkey can run the company and it'd still be profitable. I'd hate to imagine what they're capable of if they actually had a real businessman running the show instead of a bunch of college dropout dorks.
If you install software that show's you a competitors ads every time to go to Uhaul.com, then you've CHOSEN (however unwisely or naively) to make your computer display those ads.
What if you didn't? What if you just went to a web site that used an IE exploit to install the spyware onto your computer? Is it still your choice since you were using an exploitable browser?
I guess some company needs to bring up a suit against makers of those types of adware (e.g. Xupiter) that use an exploit to auto-install themselves then won't go away short of manually ripping it out.
This is what I don't get. A guy writes a blaster worm variant, gets caught, and they want to practically lynch him on the White House lawn. People write these god damn spyware programs which do exactly the same thing except under the veil of being adware and they get away with it? How are these spyware programs any different than the trojans and viruses that get spread around?
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Exactly. I never played Half-life but I played TFC and Counter-strike religiously for 3 years. I wouldn't buy HL2 for HL2, only if there was a counter-strike 2 mod for it.
Meanwhile, Microsoft shrugged and pulled the money out of petty cash.
Why bother unless you're looking to play pirated games? You can get a much better PC system for a couple hundred bucks that'll be faster and not have to "hack" it.
The problem with your analogies are that the likelihood of any of those activities interacting and/or interfering with someone else doing the same thing are extremely low. Just sitting in a car riding with someone else isn't going to cause the car to suddenly go out of control and cause a 100 car pileup. Just reading your e-mail on a Microsoft Windows machine CAN cause your machine to be infected with a virus that can be propogated to bring down not only your entire business network, but other networks beyond that. When business stand to lose hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars an hour without Internet connectivity it stands to reason it is a valuable medium.
A hijacked computer is far worse than stealing anything off of it. They can use it in an effort to DDOS other people, to break into other systems, or to trade child pornography! Do you want to be associated with child pornography? No? I didn't think so. Now install OpenBSD you morons.
Not more security, more training. On the Internet today a user can cause just as much damage as an inexperienced driver getting into an accident. Blind ignorance is the major reason worms spread so far and fast. If people were held responsible for their Internet connectivity you can be damn sure they would patch their systems. If they couldn't patch their systems then they would not have access to the Internet. Either way, problem solves itself. I see people every day who seriously say they don't care about making any upgrades or installing anti-virus software. These are the kinds of people who have no business on a cooperative network.
No, the trick is to USE the power plants in the same area that the load is located in. First Energy has at least 2 nuclear power plants in Northern Ohio and one of them was shut down. Energy companies are finding it cheaper to buy electricity on the open market instead of generating their own. Yes kids, de-regulation was a horrible mistake when you do it to public utility monopolies.
Or they do and realize an enemy could use that to his advantage to snatch away your domain. Providing false information is reason to lose your domain... or at least used to be in the carefree days when .edu domains were actually educational institutions, .com were businesses, .org were non-profit orgs and individuals, and .net were ISPs. *sigh* The good old days 10 years ago.
Then again, there are those of us that use Speakeasy that are not running clueless open Windows boxes on our connections so why punish everyone? I would be seriously pissed if Speakeasy, or any other ISP I was using, blocked any of my outbound ports without giving me the option of opting out. I WILL take responsibility for the security of my systems and if I violate your AUP then cut me off. Too many ISPs offer no choice though, Speakeasy does.
Yes he did. Now reread my message with that in mind.
OpenBSD users yet again roll their eyes and continue working without incident. :-)
Why don't you go ask him:
SIMPLE MAIL TRANSFER PROTOCOL
Jonathan B. Postel
August 1982
Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
4676 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, California 90291
(213) 822-1511
I'm sure many of us would love it if you met up with him and had a spirited debate about the issue very soon.
Did you ever stop to think that many of the Internet's protocols were designed when there were no fuckwits running operating systems that are a virtual "petri dish" for viruses and worms?
I've said it once and I'll say it again. If I'm going to pay for music I want a losslessly compressed format or the "real thing" (CD). I wouldn't pay you a shiny nickel for the average crappy MP3 I get off of Kazaa, much less $.99 for your AAC formatted songs. Why not use something better like FLAC or just sell the files in WAV format?
I've got broadband so downloading a 50 meg song isn't a big deal for me in order to get a perfect copy that I can encode as I choose. I'd pay the $.99 to cover the bandwidth for your hosting, but only for perfect rips. Otherwise if P2P goes away I'll just go back to what we did in the old days and copy a friend's CD. And before anyone complains that I'm trolling, I'm not intending to. I just think that the music distributed online for money by vendors should be the same thing you'd get if you bought the CD in a store, especially when you're paying about the same price per track.
So should companies start blacklisting employees who work for RIAA member companies? Ah right, they're working for companies that are just trying to protect their copyrights so they are fine. Did you ever wonder that SCO may be doing the same thing? Just because we find it really inconvenient that SCO may in fact have a legitimate case against Linux doesn't make it any less valid. Now, I'm not writing any $699 checks anytime soon, but if they do win the IBM lawsuit then we're going to have egg all over our face for being such children about this whole situation.
I wonder how this will affect Sidewinder. It's tightly integrated around BSD/OS for it's type-enforcement technology. They're even quoted in a Wind River press release from last year. I guess people should just migrate to FreeBSD and be done with it. It's not going anywhere.
Oh most definitely. The minute the system is compromised you have to assume everything on it is suspect. He could've planted false stories or stolen business information that wasn't for public consumption to sell to rival newspapers. The fact is you don't know so you must assume the worst.
In this day and age the only people that should be cracking into systems are those who have a pre-signed agreement with the company in question authorizing them to do so. Anybody else is a criminal and should get the book thrown at them. There are no "good" hackers.
Why block them at all? Shut them down. Child pornography is illegal in every civilized country in the world... even on Sealand! No respectable ISP would refuse a request to shut off a child porn site based on simply reviewing the site. So contact the ISP, tell them to look at their customer's site and see if it agrees with their AUP. If not then the ISP has a responsibility to shut the site down. This whole idea of blocking shit is like playing whack-a-mole. It doesn't work for spam and it won't work for child porn.
If I had a legitimate business sharing an IP address on a web server hosting child pornography I would expect the ISP to be busted anyway. Why is this such a crazy idea? The ISP should stop hosting child pornography on the shared webserver or delete the offending user's site.
What kind of SPARC system are you talking about that gets that hot or is that loud ISN'T left on all day as a server? Do you have an E10000 in your basement that you power on once in awhile for shits and grins until it starts burning a hole in the rug? You should have that looked at. ;-)
What else would you be running on a PC? When SCO wins their case against IBM you won't have many options for affordable operating systems. You could use Windows or MacOS X (if they don't sue them as well). Everything else requires expensive proprietary hardware. Linux/*BSD/etc. will be much too expensive to run on a desktop at home. I know, I know, that's not going to happen, but it is just as likely to happen as people will suddenly decide not to run Windows in the next 10 years.
You're right. No, they haven't done anything interesting lately. Their CPUs are horribly slow compared to even the lowest end AMD x86 line. They made awesome workstations and servers, but the days of corporate IT being able to spend $30k on a mid-range server died with the tech stock bubble. Sure, they're not going to die anytime soon, but they're also not going to introduce anything new and exciting that blows the doors off of the PC world.
Those were the conditions of the agreement he signed with SCO to avoid being sued for violating their intellectual property.
Well, Microsoft did prove that even a monkey can run the company and it'd still be profitable. I'd hate to imagine what they're capable of if they actually had a real businessman running the show instead of a bunch of college dropout dorks.
What if you didn't? What if you just went to a web site that used an IE exploit to install the spyware onto your computer? Is it still your choice since you were using an exploitable browser?
This is what I don't get. A guy writes a blaster worm variant, gets caught, and they want to practically lynch him on the White House lawn. People write these god damn spyware programs which do exactly the same thing except under the veil of being adware and they get away with it? How are these spyware programs any different than the trojans and viruses that get spread around?