The problem is, the common threat for most organisations is that an employee only needs full access to only one or a couple of critical assets, not all systems.
I've been in security for over 10 years and I tell you know, if you have an employee with enough access and dedication to bring down the company down to its knees, they will probably succeed.
IT policies and practices won't save a company against criminal activity, the law handles that just fine.
I do, but home users aren't their primary target I'd say. I think the BSA would bend more for home users but businesses make a living off software so they are considered more of a target. Years ago it was hard to track software licenses but these days its not hard too if you really want to. However I do believe companies deserve a chance to mend their ways and you'll probably find the 90k they were "fined" was equal to the software they used without a license. I could be wrong but I think you'll find BSA will only target large vendor software company products.
As a side note I use True Crypt on my USB drives - its free, cross platform, and is even more flexible than PGP Disk (which I used prior until my license expiring). http://www.truecrypt.org/.
we're congratulating a company for copying software from major vendors and they got caught, and they should be treated like some savour? I'm sick to death of hearing companies feel they are the victim when they COPY software without paying for it. You can bet your bottom dollar Ernie Ball wouldn't work for free by giving out guitars so why should a software company?
The fact is, they willingly copied software and got caught and they paid the consequences. Although it seems based on the article it was only 8% unauthorised, they only changed over when they were caught, if they were really supportive of open source they would of moved off their propriety systems long ago.
I work in IT, and I pay for software that I use, if I can't afford it I find something else - its no excuse to copy it.
You're implying that salting on UNIX makes attacking the hash infeasible, this is simply not true.
There are only 4096 different combinations in the salting algorithm in crypt() will use which a brute forcer can easily iterate. [regardless of encryption technique md5 or des]
Salting a known algorithm is almost pointless because as I just described salted passwords can be just as easily defeated if you know the mechanism, this is why NT doesn't include salt. Also salt was used on UNIX only because when shadow passwords didn't exist the system had to be protected against users that had the same password and could easily read the password file to compare.
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Transaction (Process ID 666) was summoned by an evil deadlocked process in order to lock up and throw away the key to any IT resources process to request any reasonable requirement for open source software chosen by the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction with Microsoft products next time and this threat will disappear into thin air - Steve Balmer, Head Deadlocker.
You can take the comments offline, but as part of the GNU Free Documentation License which all articles are written under I demand to see the diffs.
The fact is the government need only put this under a flag of "protecting national security" and all bets on civil liberty and rights are white washed.
This is a HUGE discount, you must earn under 200k per year to get that, and for most small businesses that is easy to do. If you are earning more than that then sure you can should pay for the license to reap the benefits because you should be able to afford it.
I've thrown out GTK, wxwigets because its just not there in terms of a consistant approach to GUI programming, vast amount of excellent libraries etc.
I'd prefer to *pay* for licenses for a decent toolkit if it will reap benefits.
"A new 3G (European) version of the iPhone will be launched Monday in the UK by Apple - in a join promotion with Vodafone, T-Mobile of Germany, and Carphone Warehouse. It should answer the disappointment with the US version of the iPhone which has been widely slammed for its poor performance as a phone."
This is the most ridiculous comment I've heard on Slashdot in a while.
The reason why the interest in the broadband is because each party now feels that if they can clinch the outer seats it will tip the balance in the votes.
The Libs want to spend money on wireless ($900 million), Labour want to spend the money on fibre ($4.7 billion (!)).
Labour love wasting money, taking 4.7 billion from the Future Fund is a direct abuse of powers....
At least the Libs want private sector to fund it, it shouldn't come from our pockets.
Regardless if a user accepts a EULA, its actually against the law to unlawfully restrict their rights in tapping into some legal protection for sale of faulty goods. Well it is in Australia, I'm sure the US has similar laws to protect consumers.
Don't accept this garbage - I'm glad his fighting for his rights to receive what was intended - a working product.
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Check out the MD5 hashes, as best as you'll get:
http://download.openoffice.org/2.4.0/md5sums.html
Frankly, flash / shockwave totally sucks on OS X. Its a CPU hog which affects battery, when I run any flash CPU spikes to 100%.
It's not to say its Apple's fault, but I think Adobe is at fault and I think their position won't change in any time soon.
Too bad the library is written in VB....
The problem is, the common threat for most organisations is that an employee only needs full access to only one or a couple of critical assets, not all systems.
I've been in security for over 10 years and I tell you know, if you have an employee with enough access and dedication to bring down the company down to its knees, they will probably succeed.
IT policies and practices won't save a company against criminal activity, the law handles that just fine.
It illustrates that Novell can no longer be trusted to push Linux technologies beyond that which is offered by Microsoft.
when they gain back some serious users - specifically the ones they decided weren't important enough to continue to support.
Check out the following for more in-depth information to this national ID system.
http://www.privacy.org.au/Campaigns/ID_cards/HSAC.html
I am pleased to see Rudd taking responsibility and listening to Australians, something Howard refused to do which ultimately lead to his demise.
I know she's retired, but is she single?
In my twenties a bunch of friends (about 10 of us) had a Death of the 486 Party.
This was when Intel decided to focus on the Pentium chips.
We couldn't afford to sacrifice a 486 at the time, they were still too expensive but we did hold a sacrifice of a 286.
We had a ceremony, bon fire and tossed the hardware in the fire.
Flamed by alcohol and good times, it was an absolute riot!
Can anybody explain the commercial benefit to space travel?
Given the significant resources spend for NASA, is this monies better off spent elsewhere or is this spent responsibly?
I do, but home users aren't their primary target I'd say. I think the BSA would bend more for home users but businesses make a living off software so they are considered more of a target. Years ago it was hard to track software licenses but these days its not hard too if you really want to. However I do believe companies deserve a chance to mend their ways and you'll probably find the 90k they were "fined" was equal to the software they used without a license. I could be wrong but I think you'll find BSA will only target large vendor software company products.
As a side note I use True Crypt on my USB drives - its free, cross platform, and is even more flexible than PGP Disk (which I used prior until my license expiring). http://www.truecrypt.org/.
we're congratulating a company for copying software from major vendors and they got caught, and they should be treated like some savour? I'm sick to death of hearing companies feel they are the victim when they COPY software without paying for it. You can bet your bottom dollar Ernie Ball wouldn't work for free by giving out guitars so why should a software company?
The fact is, they willingly copied software and got caught and they paid the consequences. Although it seems based on the article it was only 8% unauthorised, they only changed over when they were caught, if they were really supportive of open source they would of moved off their propriety systems long ago.
I work in IT, and I pay for software that I use, if I can't afford it I find something else - its no excuse to copy it.
Nothing to see here move along.
You're implying that salting on UNIX makes attacking the hash infeasible, this is simply not true.
There are only 4096 different combinations in the salting algorithm in crypt() will use which a brute forcer can easily iterate. [regardless of encryption technique md5 or des]
Salting a known algorithm is almost pointless because as I just described salted passwords can be just as easily defeated if you know the mechanism, this is why NT doesn't include salt. Also salt was used on UNIX only because when shadow passwords didn't exist the system had to be protected against users that had the same password and could easily read the password file to compare.
No his not, his talking a band from Australia.
Austria is another place.
eating cheese burgers and drinking copious amounts of piss....
Can anybody explain what a gaslight is? I presume its a term used frequently in the usa.
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Transaction (Process ID 666) was summoned by an evil deadlocked process in order to lock up and throw away the key to any IT resources process to request any reasonable requirement for open source software chosen by the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction with Microsoft products next time and this threat will disappear into thin air - Steve Balmer, Head Deadlocker.
Is there any DRM garbage in this cable that works with Bluray etc? I'd like to stay clear of that shit.
You can take the comments offline, but as part of the GNU Free Documentation License which all articles are written under I demand to see the diffs.
The fact is the government need only put this under a flag of "protecting national security" and all bets on civil liberty and rights are white washed.
God bless America!!
The land of the free!!
This is complete and utter FUD.
n g/smallbusiness
Say its $3k without explaining anything is just adding fuel to the fire.
Most people may not know this, but if you are a small business, you can get a 65% reduction in the price of QT.
http://trolltech.com/products/qt/licenses/licensi
This is a HUGE discount, you must earn under 200k per year to get that, and for most small businesses that is easy to do. If you are earning more than that then sure you can should pay for the license to reap the benefits because you should be able to afford it.
I've thrown out GTK, wxwigets because its just not there in terms of a consistant approach to GUI programming, vast amount of excellent libraries etc.
I'd prefer to *pay* for licenses for a decent toolkit if it will reap benefits.
"A new 3G (European) version of the iPhone will be launched Monday in the UK by Apple - in a join promotion with Vodafone, T-Mobile of Germany, and Carphone Warehouse. It should answer the disappointment with the US version of the iPhone which has been widely slammed for its poor performance as a phone."
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http://www.newswireless.net/index.cfm/article/346
If this is indeed true, it will certainly be what the market needs. I am surprised the US market would tolerate paying so much for a 2G phone.
Sounds like the US market is behind the 8 ball, with a couple of years to wait for a 3G - time will be indeed telling.
This is the most ridiculous comment I've heard on Slashdot in a while.
The reason why the interest in the broadband is because each party now feels that if they can clinch the outer seats it will tip the balance in the votes.
The Libs want to spend money on wireless ($900 million), Labour want to spend the money on fibre ($4.7 billion (!)).
Labour love wasting money, taking 4.7 billion from the Future Fund is a direct abuse of powers....
At least the Libs want private sector to fund it, it shouldn't come from our pockets.
Some awesome legalise there.
Regardless if a user accepts a EULA, its actually against the law to unlawfully restrict their rights in tapping into some legal protection for sale of faulty goods. Well it is in Australia, I'm sure the US has similar laws to protect consumers.
Don't accept this garbage - I'm glad his fighting for his rights to receive what was intended - a working product.
we want to see you update ya wiki from the point - mofo
Google should search for a visitor pass in their security procedures.