Microsoft released yesterday a whole bunch of critical security updates.
Their new policy is to release monthly updates unless an exploit already exists, in which case a patch is immediately released.
Out of these, MS03-043 is a flaw in the Windows Messenger Service... Of course a firewall will offer some protection but shouldn't be relied on
You don't know what you're talking about, submitter Dynamoo. Please, tell us why one shouldn't rely on a firewall? If you read the technical documentation about the flaw you see "If users have blocked the NetBIOS ports (ports 137-139) - and UDP broadcast packets using a firewall, others will not be able to send messages to them on those ports." (under "Technical Descriptions"). I think I'll ignore your advice and keep a firewall in place, no matter what OS I'm using.
A rocket? Capsule? Training? What a waste of money.
Think about it. According to the CIA Factbook China has about 1,286,975,468 people. Figure the average person is 5' tall and you've got 1,218,726 miles worth of people. The moon at apogee is about 251,655 miles away, so they've got enough people to build a ladder to the moon with a nice stable base, even figuring in the inevitable attrition. Hell, take a look at the prototype. Just start passing up building supplies and poof! Instant colony!
My boss said the same thing when I told him that we were in violation of numerous OSHA regulations.
And people wonder why there are labor unions...
How could you even compare the two? On one hand we have reading slashdot, chatting with a friend, make a joke about lesbian porn, all while at work. On the other hand we have health and safety violations.
Please, form a union that will lobby for the right to waste time on the clock, thus wasting the company's money. I'd love to see how well that works out. What, did you think he was in France?
Who cares? The important thing is the information is out there and available. The petty little remarks that show up in many submissions are tiresome and only serve to polarize people. When that happens, no one is willing to consider the other side's views.
And since the submitter wants to bring netcraft into it, check this out. As of this writing (it's a report over the last day so it may change), the top ranked server is running Win2k, followed by Solaris, then Linux. Of the top 20, 6 are running Windows, 4 Solaris, 5 BSD, and 5 Linux. Longest uptimes? BSD takes the prize, holding all 50 spots on the chart. The headline story at Netcraft states that for the month of September, in the category of fewest failed requests, Windows held the top spot and 3 of the top 6 places, and 7 of the top 13 are running FreeBSD.
So while you, submitter "limbicsystem", may be happy that the PLOS is running Linux on one of their web servers because you're a fan of Linux, maybe as a fan of science you should regret that and instead wish for a site on BSD or even Windows.
but I the first time I tried to do a little reading at night during a blackout I realized that the book wasn't backlit. I didn't want to illuminate the whole thing or project it on the wall. All I wanted to do was to do a little reading until the power came back on and I could visit Slashdot again.
The people making books have to realize that you just can't force people to act in a simple fashion so that it's easier for them. They have to realize that they have to find real and intelligent solutions that work and still allow Joe Legal user fair and useful access to the content that's being provided.
After doing a small search for a flashlight and not finding one because it was dark, I just ditched it and masturbated instead.
If it wasn't so late I might be motivated to write more - there are so many things wrong with this picture I don't know where to begin.
You'll notice, when you follow the link, that you're really getting submitter David H. Rothman's weblog, where he states, "Winston in effect provides some great insights into why "Microsoft" is a hated name among millions and why e-books sales for the whole bloody industry are a pathetic $10-million or so a year--a fraction of Tom Clancy's annual income."
Rothman has what's known as "target fixation" - he's so focused on the target (MS and DRM) that he'll fly his plane into the ground. Of course revenues are so little - no one wants to read books on a screen! Even in a convenient easy-to-carry PDA with super-font-res technology.
If you read all the material relating to "Winston", you'll find Rothman seems to hold him up as a sort of hero of the cause, whose insights we should all read and heed. If you read Winston's writings, you'll find he's rambling, immature, and ill-informed. He does have one real insight: "Lack of a college degree is a true impediment to getting hired."
I don't know how this stuff ends up on the front page of Slashdot. A link to a guy's weblog...timothy strikes again.
...welcome the new element Overlordium...blah blah blah...round up people to work in their underground physics labs.
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JavaOne's Urban Adventure was similar. Teams were given 2 cell phones and had to run around SF gathering information to answer questions (or if you wanted a break, answer questions about Java). There were also actions to perform to get an answer - my team had to find the right person waiting for a cable car, join hands around that person and sing "You are my sunshine". You received questions based on your location (GPS phone) so you didn't get a question that required your team to travel across the city.
It was more fun than I probably made it sound. Definitely a highlight of this year's JavaOne (along with Borland's party, where they rented a nightclub, hired a great band, and paid for all the drinks. BYOC (bring your own chick)). Oh yeah, there was something about Java at JavaOne as well...
At least I'd believe that over a credit card marketing company risking MAJOR lawsuit (forgery, fraud).
I'm sure it's not company policy to fish out applications; it's probably a case of a minimum wage employee trying to meet some incentive. "Get 100 applications today and get an extra $50", or a free duffle bag, or movie tickets, or whatever. I could see someone forging a signature in that situation.
I'm with you. I hate that it renders faster, uses less memory and is generally more stable than other free browsers that don't make you look at ads to use it.
While you received great reviews for Rumblefish, you followed that up with a role in The Flamingo Kid. Do you think TFK was the reason for a downturn in your career and will "Employee of the Month" revive it?
Better to work with: Christina Applegate, Cameron Diaz, Neve Campbell, or Bronson Pinchot?
I for one welcome our new data-recovering article-buying overlords. I'd like to remind them as a trusted Slashdot poster I can round up other readers to work in their underground infomercial mines.
Or something to that effect...
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So if knowingly inserting GPL code into commercial software is not a violation...
...then telling the programmers to do so is not a violation...
...and advertising the software can't be a violation...
...and neither can taking money...
...so it looks like the shipping department is on the hook here, or UPS, or the web server for ESD...
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You should be fired for using Hungarian notation. That's more gimp-like than using "this." to excess.
I also just finished burning a CD with the last dev version that has all sorts of GPL-infringing code. We'll see who has the last laugh in this one, which I guess is me already anyway...
As presumably one of the developers who wrote the code, I doubt you'll be laughing when you incriminate yourself. You also won't be laughing when the company sues you for violating your employment agreement by taking their code with you. Higgins might find it amusing though...
For what it's worth, I never take deliver of a car with a badge. I make them put it into the purchase contract. One time the car did have a badge...so I sued. Ok, I didn't. They removed it, cleaned the spot, and that was that.
That's why I think this suit is frivolous. You're as likely to see an ad on a newly registered domain as you are of seeing a dealer badge on a car that hasn't been driven around yet.
"Second, for that "coming soon" page to show up, they MUST have propagated an IP address into the DNS servers. This suggests they could have just as easily propagated YOUR IP address instead of theirs. Which gives them incentive to delay your processing."
You're confusing domain registration with hosting. Just because a person registers a domain does not mean that person has an IP address ready to go into the DNS servers. I hardly think it's worthwhile to trade customer service (by delaying processing) for "free advertising" (on a "coming soon" page for a new domain that will probably get close to zero traffic). The most effective way to promote a business is by having satisfied customers, not an ad on a domain no one has ever heard of.
Thrid, if they received ANY revenue off the advertising on your domain, aren't you entitled?
Why? Do you wear clothes with labels on the outside? Drive a car with a dealer badge or license plate frame? Why not get paid for those as well?
For example, the owner can send an email instruction to AIBO asking it to take an unsuspecting picture of the owner's children and send it back to the mobile telephone.
What is this, the x-10 camera for pedophiles? Then there's that "pink bone" thing:
Finally, AIBO's clever new behaviour has been rewarded with a new toy, the 'AIBOne'. In the form of a pink bone, AIBO can, for the first time ever, pick it up in its mouth.
Yes, AIBO, pick up the pink bone, again and again. Mmmm....good robot dog. I think the engineers who designed this were spending just a little too much time in the lab.
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Microsoft released yesterday a whole bunch of critical security updates.
... Of course a firewall will offer some protection but shouldn't be relied on
Their new policy is to release monthly updates unless an exploit already exists, in which case a patch is immediately released.
Out of these, MS03-043 is a flaw in the Windows Messenger Service
You don't know what you're talking about, submitter Dynamoo. Please, tell us why one shouldn't rely on a firewall? If you read the technical documentation about the flaw you see "If users have blocked the NetBIOS ports (ports 137-139) - and UDP broadcast packets using a firewall, others will not be able to send messages to them on those ports." (under "Technical Descriptions"). I think I'll ignore your advice and keep a firewall in place, no matter what OS I'm using.
Since there aren't any moving parts inside the processor
Oh yeah? What about the electrons?
Pak chooie.
A rocket? Capsule? Training? What a waste of money.
Think about it. According to the CIA Factbook China has about 1,286,975,468 people. Figure the average person is 5' tall and you've got 1,218,726 miles worth of people. The moon at apogee is about 251,655 miles away, so they've got enough people to build a ladder to the moon with a nice stable base, even figuring in the inevitable attrition. Hell, take a look at the prototype. Just start passing up building supplies and poof! Instant colony!
My boss said the same thing when I told him that we were in violation of numerous OSHA regulations.
And people wonder why there are labor unions...
How could you even compare the two? On one hand we have reading slashdot, chatting with a friend, make a joke about lesbian porn, all while at work. On the other hand we have health and safety violations.
Please, form a union that will lobby for the right to waste time on the clock, thus wasting the company's money. I'd love to see how well that works out. What, did you think he was in France?
How did parent get modded insightful? Where's the FUD in the article? It definitely has spin but it's also factual.
Rush is a universal constant
No, that's not it. Geddy Lee's voice is definitely lower now than on Rush or Fly By Night.
In Soviet Rush, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you.
Wouldn't it be "you get high on today's Tom Sawyer"?
munch man is the best!!!
Funny, your wife told me the same thing...
Who cares? The important thing is the information is out there and available. The petty little remarks that show up in many submissions are tiresome and only serve to polarize people. When that happens, no one is willing to consider the other side's views.
And since the submitter wants to bring netcraft into it, check this out. As of this writing (it's a report over the last day so it may change), the top ranked server is running Win2k, followed by Solaris, then Linux. Of the top 20, 6 are running Windows, 4 Solaris, 5 BSD, and 5 Linux. Longest uptimes? BSD takes the prize, holding all 50 spots on the chart. The headline story at Netcraft states that for the month of September, in the category of fewest failed requests, Windows held the top spot and 3 of the top 6 places, and 7 of the top 13 are running FreeBSD.
So while you, submitter "limbicsystem", may be happy that the PLOS is running Linux on one of their web servers because you're a fan of Linux, maybe as a fan of science you should regret that and instead wish for a site on BSD or even Windows.
but I the first time I tried to do a little reading at night during a blackout I realized that the book wasn't backlit. I didn't want to illuminate the whole thing or project it on the wall. All I wanted to do was to do a little reading until the power came back on and I could visit Slashdot again.
The people making books have to realize that you just can't force people to act in a simple fashion so that it's easier for them. They have to realize that they have to find real and intelligent solutions that work and still allow Joe Legal user fair and useful access to the content that's being provided.
After doing a small search for a flashlight and not finding one because it was dark, I just ditched it and masturbated instead.
If it wasn't so late I might be motivated to write more - there are so many things wrong with this picture I don't know where to begin.
You'll notice, when you follow the link, that you're really getting submitter David H. Rothman's weblog, where he states, "Winston in effect provides some great insights into why "Microsoft" is a hated name among millions and why e-books sales for the whole bloody industry are a pathetic $10-million or so a year--a fraction of Tom Clancy's annual income."
Rothman has what's known as "target fixation" - he's so focused on the target (MS and DRM) that he'll fly his plane into the ground. Of course revenues are so little - no one wants to read books on a screen! Even in a convenient easy-to-carry PDA with super-font-res technology.
If you read all the material relating to "Winston", you'll find Rothman seems to hold him up as a sort of hero of the cause, whose insights we should all read and heed. If you read Winston's writings, you'll find he's rambling, immature, and ill-informed. He does have one real insight: "Lack of a college degree is a true impediment to getting hired."
I don't know how this stuff ends up on the front page of Slashdot. A link to a guy's weblog...timothy strikes again.
Ah...if I only had mod points. Thanks for the only post to make me laugh out loud tonight... +2 clever for you.
...welcome the new element Overlordium...blah blah blah...round up people to work in their underground physics labs.
JavaOne's Urban Adventure was similar. Teams were given 2 cell phones and had to run around SF gathering information to answer questions (or if you wanted a break, answer questions about Java). There were also actions to perform to get an answer - my team had to find the right person waiting for a cable car, join hands around that person and sing "You are my sunshine". You received questions based on your location (GPS phone) so you didn't get a question that required your team to travel across the city.
It was more fun than I probably made it sound. Definitely a highlight of this year's JavaOne (along with Borland's party, where they rented a nightclub, hired a great band, and paid for all the drinks. BYOC (bring your own chick)). Oh yeah, there was something about Java at JavaOne as well...
How far away can in-flight IP/LASER broadband be?
Pretty damn far. I'm still waiting for a flying car.
At least I'd believe that over a credit card marketing company risking MAJOR lawsuit (forgery, fraud).
I'm sure it's not company policy to fish out applications; it's probably a case of a minimum wage employee trying to meet some incentive. "Get 100 applications today and get an extra $50", or a free duffle bag, or movie tickets, or whatever. I could see someone forging a signature in that situation.
Much as I cannot stand IE...
I'm with you. I hate that it renders faster, uses less memory and is generally more stable than other free browsers that don't make you look at ads to use it.
- While you received great reviews for Rumblefish, you followed that up with a role in The Flamingo Kid. Do you think TFK was the reason for a downturn in your career and will "Employee of the Month" revive it?
- Better to work with: Christina Applegate, Cameron Diaz, Neve Campbell, or Bronson Pinchot?
Thanks, I'll take my answers off the air.I for one welcome our new data-recovering article-buying overlords. I'd like to remind them as a trusted Slashdot poster I can round up other readers to work in their underground infomercial mines.
Or something to that effect...
So if knowingly inserting GPL code into commercial software is not a violation...
...then telling the programmers to do so is not a violation...
...and advertising the software can't be a violation...
...and neither can taking money...
...so it looks like the shipping department is on the hook here, or UPS, or the web server for ESD...
You should be fired for using Hungarian notation. That's more gimp-like than using "this." to excess.
I also just finished burning a CD with the last dev version that has all sorts of GPL-infringing code. We'll see who has the last laugh in this one, which I guess is me already anyway...
As presumably one of the developers who wrote the code, I doubt you'll be laughing when you incriminate yourself. You also won't be laughing when the company sues you for violating your employment agreement by taking their code with you. Higgins might find it amusing though...
For what it's worth, I never take deliver of a car with a badge. I make them put it into the purchase contract. One time the car did have a badge...so I sued. Ok, I didn't. They removed it, cleaned the spot, and that was that.
That's why I think this suit is frivolous. You're as likely to see an ad on a newly registered domain as you are of seeing a dealer badge on a car that hasn't been driven around yet.
"Second, for that "coming soon" page to show up, they MUST have propagated an IP address into the DNS servers. This suggests they could have just as easily propagated YOUR IP address instead of theirs. Which gives them incentive to delay your processing."
You're confusing domain registration with hosting. Just because a person registers a domain does not mean that person has an IP address ready to go into the DNS servers. I hardly think it's worthwhile to trade customer service (by delaying processing) for "free advertising" (on a "coming soon" page for a new domain that will probably get close to zero traffic). The most effective way to promote a business is by having satisfied customers, not an ad on a domain no one has ever heard of.
Thrid, if they received ANY revenue off the advertising on your domain, aren't you entitled?
Why? Do you wear clothes with labels on the outside? Drive a car with a dealer badge or license plate frame? Why not get paid for those as well?
For example, the owner can send an email instruction to AIBO asking it to take an unsuspecting picture of the owner's children and send it back to the mobile telephone.
What is this, the x-10 camera for pedophiles? Then there's that "pink bone" thing:
Finally, AIBO's clever new behaviour has been rewarded with a new toy, the 'AIBOne'. In the form of a pink bone, AIBO can, for the first time ever, pick it up in its mouth.
Yes, AIBO, pick up the pink bone, again and again. Mmmm....good robot dog. I think the engineers who designed this were spending just a little too much time in the lab.