Well the firewall won't help you with this vulnerability because even after the message is handled though the other mail gateway it can still be a threat. It is however very common to not let exchange speak directly the the outside world. I for one block all smtp at my edge firewall except to and from a cluster of Barracuda Spam filters. They also used to be configured as a smart host in the E2K3 world. In 2k7 i simply don't use the edge transport rule and let the hub transport server treat them as a send connector, for * address space.
E2k7 is a major leap forward in terms of scalability and touch requirement's. Its probably easier to architect correctly as well compared with e2k3. E2k3 and prior could actually scale pretty well but you had to be an exchange guru to do it right and spend a lot of energy managing the environment. They also worked ok for small single server shops out of box with little touch. It was the vast space in the middle they handled poorly.
E2K7 strikes me as something that would be a bit of bare for anyone not and IT professional to handle. Its architecture is much better and encourages better deployment design so a non expert can probably do a good job with it, even as things get pretty big. I doubt many part time admins in the small business would would have much success at all though.
I think it utimately is in their best interests to develop a storage system, however complex. I don't know of a sigle wind or solar operation that would be profitable in the USA without massive government subsidies. The truth is frankly we are not wealthy enough as a nation dispite what the politians would have to think to be so wasteful.. This is we can't run around building gernerating plants of inadequate capactiy that don't fill our need for constant power because its green and it feels good.
The people doing green energy right now are the worst kind of snake oil salesmen. The have something that could be real, could really work, and rather than be upfrount about the problems and seek solutions they present the idea as the solution. Solar, Wind, and tidle power are only workable to do in the contect of power being availble for traditional sources. Solar and wind plants can't handle peaks in demand power must be generated elsewhere and povided to customers; they can't handle peaks in supply so the excess has to get burned off what the TFA is about. So really these things don't work at all without a big nasty, coal, gas, or nuke plant to back them up. The energy they do produce is not even economical without the government handouts.
As a society we need to do the engieering and solve the storage problem so we can handle the peaks and use these things productively. Until thats done we should not be building them at all outside of the experimental test stations to work on the solution. We keep wasteing time and money so people can feel better about being green.
Keep the lights on with coal today and use the green energy money to get the RandD done se we can actually have renewable power tomorow.
The current crop of x86 chips really are not x86 at all anymore, other then they present the same instruction set. Most of them are RISC machines with an x86 decoder, and a programable one at that bolted on. This is what microcode is all about. Intel and AMD can probably take their latest CPUs and with very minimal reworking make them act like a PPC if they wanted to do so. Which is not to say the architecture and features of the under line chip would be effecient for that, the designs are optimized for 86 decoders.
The reason for targeting Ubuntu is simple. Its getting attention as a credible desktop alternative by the main stream. If one Linux destop is a credible alternative than its only a short leap for the public to make that any Linux desktop solution might be a credible alternative. At that point products start getting evaluated on the merrits and how well they suit a the purchasers organization or individual needs. Windows may or may not come out on top if subjected to any rigor in the decision process.
Apple is one company and the sole provider of a Mac OS solution. They can be controled; there is a specific target to go after if they become more of a problem. Microsoft can deal Apple a good deal of hurt buy just shutting down their own Mac Business unit. Ubuntu on the other hand if allowed to become to popular can't be stopped so easily. If that popularity speads to Linux desktop distributions more generally then Microsoft no longer has a specific entity to go after. The want to make sure desktop a meaningful desktop Linux business remains something that is going to be still born so to speak.
Provided the musican is more then just a performer but also a composer I don't have a problem with them using any tool in their art. Where I take issue with something like this is when they start using it all the time. Its one thing to do it on a few songs you want to sound a certain way for asthetic reasons because its "neat, interesting, creates a certain mood whatever", if you are doing it everywhere though then its no longer an artistic tool its just a cruch.
Take Andy Whorhol and the other pop artists, or the Marcel Duchamp and the Daddas before them. They were experimenting with adding elements for mass production to visal arts. They did this in a way that created things which were new and different. It was creatative; they were not simply doing because they were otherwise not talented painters and sculptors. If a musican can learn to walk the same line I am all for it.
To your specific point though, they probably should simply not do thoes songs live. They should be upfront about it with the audience too. Whats wrong with saying "you know what that particular work is a studio pice; I thought was fun and my audience would appreciate its not something I can do live; without kit."
I would loose no respect for them if they admitted that.
The only concerts I have been dissapointed in are the ones where what the artist advertised; was not delivered.
You know you could probably write a class in almost any OO language on almost any OS to do that for your right... Wait Wait then you could stick in library and just link it any time you need it in any of your apps.
You say that as if you have some better idea. What exactly can you do if you are regular unprivilaged process. You try, you fail, ideally sleep your I/O thread for a little while and then try again. That is all you can do; after some number of revolutions you might as well abort and tell the user sorry.
I am sure the ad haters wont agree but I think HULU is doing it right. The have to make revenue to provide a good service, which must cost a fortune in bandwidth. Their advertisers want some reasonable assurance that users are seeing their ads, before the fork over the cache. Hulu so far has kept the total amount of adds and their length to what I find reasonable. I too hope they don't go over board.
The most important thing though is their "security" relies on flash player which "I" not "they" put on my machine. They seem to be as platform agnostic as flashplayer will allow them to be as well; support all the major browser back ends and operating systems. They seem to be pretty respectful to their viewers and advertisers alike so far...
Don't forget even if people don't follow the link directly on the web add it does get your product noticed. Sometime that is all you need to do. That person might not be buying a wonderwidget today but when they do need on letter yours is the one they have seen somewhere before. The familiarity last s longer then the aggravation at being interrupted when the ad was seen for most people. It probably boosts sales that way too.
That has been my experience with low income people as well.. They are either so attached to the low quality media on cable that they are willing to pay for it or don't understand the value of money. I know alot more middle class people who earn a good salary and certainly could divert a little money from savings to cable and choose not to do so.
I agree with you to a point but I do think that by and large animals like children are inoccent where as people (adults at least) we might make a value judgement on. I would certainly try and save my neighbors children before rescuing my cat; and my neighbor to for that matter but there are other people I would certainly choose the cat over. I would help someone I don't know from danager I would help 99.9% of people I do know but there is thaty.01% that frankly I think both I and every thing else on this planet would be better off with out. If harm is headed there way and I am not the cause I don't think I would feel obligated to interceed.
Similarly if say someone tried to harm my cat for no reason, well I consider the cat part of my family I would consider it the action the same as if they acted against me and I would respond just as visciosly.
I am a cat person and trust me we are every bit as much attached to our cats as you are to your dogs. I grew up with dogs and cats. I don't personally care to have a dog myself but I certainly understand your attachment. Pets do become a part of the family. My cat is certainly one of my best friends and when she is gone I will miss her terribly and grieve for her just like the cats I grew up with and still miss today, just like a people in my life that have gone.
Still I don't think I would ever want to have her cloned. There are plenty of other cats that deserve to have a good home and if there is ever a vacancy in mine I would surely adopt one of them and make a new friend; rather than selfishly try and cling to the old.
No there is no need to assume the student of the future will be able to understand the operation of the machine without someone to explain it to them. At least no only 50 years from now anyway. See in most human societies people have access to these rather amazing resources where knowlege of the recent ent past is concerned. They are often refered to as parents and grandparents. There is even the suggestion that great grandparents may in many cases still be able to speak and interact with the most recent generations.
Sorry I just felt I better clear that up for space alienies like yourself.
Does anyone know if this is actual LAW, as in enacted by Congress and signed by the President; some sort of well defined bylaw or just a Policy? In any of those cases it seems like there could be an equal protection question if some other streaming video provider felt like doing a law suit.
I say go with raid 5 even in the three disk situation n-1 is better use of money. For larger arrays the performance will be better then a mirror. Make backups of whats important your data and config files. The rest you can reinstall. Backups are way less of a chore this way; which means you are more likely to do them. If you are not willing to invest in a little redundancy and make a backup at least once a week then at these prices your data must be worthless anyway.
Do you really have to go elsewhere and where? It seems to mean this is not exactly a quality issue. Its a firmware problem that only shows up under some conditions. Perhaps stricter QA might have caught this but thats hard to be sure of. Your points are not incorrect; but then you should have backs right? If you had backups most of your arguments go away. As for Seagate they seem to be doing the best they can to make good. They are offering free data recovery and to repair / replace the drives. Most companies would probably only do the latter.
Yep, you can save $18 and year and pay an extra hundred today. Sounds great for something like a TV that is only going to be used for 5 years or so anyway these days. Never mind that time value of money consideration. Thank you Nanny State for saving me from high energy bills, and myself.
No there are people in this nation who are interested and participatory in politics; that also have a strong enough moral compass and will to stand by their ideals to make a difference from the office of President. The trouble is the system has been cooped to make certain non of these people can ever get into that office.
Obama is a first class looser all he ever does; ever has done in stick a moistened finger into the air to see which way the wind is blowing. He has given us so far no reason to think that isn't all he ever will do. I guess you can say that it is an improvement over the criminals we have had in the past but I think that is pretty sad in itself. Personally I will be SHOCKED if Obama turns out to be a better leader then Bush Jr, has been. Bush has been wrong on a whole lot of things but he really meant well. I don't think Obama does; I think he does whats good for Obama which may prove to work better then Bushes bumbling, maybe but don't hold your breath.
You are totally wrong giving the problem to governments does nothing to address the trust issue. Is a cert from Libia as good as one from the UK? How could the average person know other then by using applying the same international prejudices we use today for other things? How is that any different then trusting Godaddy more or less then Verisign?
The problem is a certain popular web browser shipping with windows and the most popular open source browser for following the behavior of the former ilk. They scare uses with big warning dialogs and traffic signal colors rather then educate them on what certificates are and how they really work. They don't even educate users on what they are actually used for and ignore the fact that multiple uses exist.
For instance there are lots of cases where I don't need or care to positively identify the entity on the other end. I just want to encrypt what I am sending to keep my activities a little more secret from prying eyes. In that case a cert from any place is a good as the next the only thing that matters is key length and cipher employed.
Positive identification for or B2B site? The best cert is the self signed one our sales staff physically hands the customer out-of-band. They know who gave it to them! They saw them in person there is no doubt of the validity of the public key. That is much stronger then a third party CA which at best used a automated telephone dial back system to validate me; no matter how much the bribed browser makers to scare folks with red and yellow address bars.
SSL as it exists to day is a RACKET and nothing more these companies should be investigated for RICO and conspiracy with browser authors and each other. That is what government should be doing.
You are correct that right now at the start of 2009; with the data we have being Muslim is a pretty good predictor of the likely hood your or I are would be terrorists. I agree with you that it therefore makes sense to focus some additional attention on Muslims(when that can be identified) around high value targets like airports. That does not however mean its at all unlikely that a non-muslim terrorist with attack. Yes the data says we should focus more attention on Muslims but we would be doing a HUGE disservice if we for even one moment forget we are fighting terrorism and think we are fighting Muslim terrorism. Experience can teach us where trouble is most likely in many situations it can't eliminate other possiblilites.
Sure look at the Muslims first; but don't stop looking after you are done there.
I don't think that does work. Some of the older DRM schemes on media like DVD-RAM use a special code on the disk that is not accesable via the ide/sata/scsi interface and must be recoved from a special register on the drive. Later this became availibles as an ioctl command when compters got fast enough to play video. I suspect higher-end proffessional stuff support such an access method before I saw it in consumer equipment. I don;t have a BD drive so I don't know but I would guess there is something like that in place so that you can't just do play back from an ISO image.
In anycase most "network" access is not going to let you send special commands to the drive. Some custom interface like network-block device (nbd) might make it possible but you aint doin it out of the box on your average Windows PC; not sure if anything is able to decrypt yet in the Opensource relm. Since I don't have a BD drive I have not looked.
People tend to dismiss all the good things about prohibition. Its fact the rate of domestic violence decreased by more the 50% in that period. The divorce rate decreased as well. If you really study the history of alcohol and the temperance movement you will find that it did a great deal of other good as well. Its difficult to say the bad out weighed the good but; since it was ultimately defeated by ballot we know the general public felt that way at the time.
All and all there is much more to it then the "prohibition bad" sound byte.
Slashdot Mirror
Well the firewall won't help you with this vulnerability because even after the message is handled though the other mail gateway it can still be a threat. It is however very common to not let exchange speak directly the the outside world. I for one block all smtp at my edge firewall except to and from a cluster of Barracuda Spam filters. They also used to be configured as a smart host in the E2K3 world. In 2k7 i simply don't use the edge transport rule and let the hub transport server treat them as a send connector, for * address space.
I know lots of other people with the same setup.
E2k7 is a major leap forward in terms of scalability and touch requirement's. Its probably easier to architect correctly as well compared with e2k3. E2k3 and prior could actually scale pretty well but you had to be an exchange guru to do it right and spend a lot of energy managing the environment. They also worked ok for small single server shops out of box with little touch. It was the vast space in the middle they handled poorly.
E2K7 strikes me as something that would be a bit of bare for anyone not and IT professional to handle. Its architecture is much better and encourages better deployment design so a non expert can probably do a good job with it, even as things get pretty big. I doubt many part time admins in the small business would would have much success at all though.
I think it utimately is in their best interests to develop a storage system, however complex. I don't know of a sigle wind or solar operation that would be profitable in the USA without massive government subsidies. The truth is frankly we are not wealthy enough as a nation dispite what the politians would have to think to be so wasteful.. This is we can't run around building gernerating plants of inadequate capactiy that don't fill our need for constant power because its green and it feels good.
The people doing green energy right now are the worst kind of snake oil salesmen. The have something that could be real, could really work, and rather than be upfrount about the problems and seek solutions they present the idea as the solution. Solar, Wind, and tidle power are only workable to do in the contect of power being availble for traditional sources. Solar and wind plants can't handle peaks in demand power must be generated elsewhere and povided to customers; they can't handle peaks in supply so the excess has to get burned off what the TFA is about. So really these things don't work at all without a big nasty, coal, gas, or nuke plant to back them up. The energy they do produce is not even economical without the government handouts.
As a society we need to do the engieering and solve the storage problem so we can handle the peaks and use these things productively. Until thats done we should not be building them at all outside of the experimental test stations to work on the solution. We keep wasteing time and money so people can feel better about being green.
Keep the lights on with coal today and use the green energy money to get the RandD done se we can actually have renewable power tomorow.
The current crop of x86 chips really are not x86 at all anymore, other then they present the same instruction set. Most of them are RISC machines with an x86 decoder, and a programable one at that bolted on. This is what microcode is all about. Intel and AMD can probably take their latest CPUs and with very minimal reworking make them act like a PPC if they wanted to do so. Which is not to say the architecture and features of the under line chip would be effecient for that, the designs are optimized for 86 decoders.
The reason for targeting Ubuntu is simple. Its getting attention as a credible desktop alternative by the main stream. If one Linux destop is a credible alternative than its only a short leap for the public to make that any Linux desktop solution might be a credible alternative. At that point products start getting evaluated on the merrits and how well they suit a the purchasers organization or individual needs. Windows may or may not come out on top if subjected to any rigor in the decision process.
Apple is one company and the sole provider of a Mac OS solution. They can be controled; there is a specific target to go after if they become more of a problem. Microsoft can deal Apple a good deal of hurt buy just shutting down their own Mac Business unit. Ubuntu on the other hand if allowed to become to popular can't be stopped so easily. If that popularity speads to Linux desktop distributions more generally then Microsoft no longer has a specific entity to go after. The want to make sure desktop a meaningful desktop Linux business remains something that is going to be still born so to speak.
Provided the musican is more then just a performer but also a composer I don't have a problem with them using any tool in their art. Where I take issue with something like this is when they start using it all the time. Its one thing to do it on a few songs you want to sound a certain way for asthetic reasons because its "neat, interesting, creates a certain mood whatever", if you are doing it everywhere though then its no longer an artistic tool its just a cruch.
Take Andy Whorhol and the other pop artists, or the Marcel Duchamp and the Daddas before them. They were experimenting with adding elements for mass production to visal arts. They did this in a way that created things which were new and different. It was creatative; they were not simply doing because they were otherwise not talented painters and sculptors. If a musican can learn to walk the same line I am all for it.
To your specific point though, they probably should simply not do thoes songs live. They should be upfront about it with the audience too. Whats wrong with saying "you know what that particular work is a studio pice; I thought was fun and my audience would appreciate its not something I can do live; without kit."
I would loose no respect for them if they admitted that.
The only concerts I have been dissapointed in are the ones where what the artist advertised; was not delivered.
You know you could probably write a class in almost any OO language on almost any OS to do that for your right... Wait Wait then you could stick in library and just link it any time you need it in any of your apps.
You say that as if you have some better idea. What exactly can you do if you are regular unprivilaged process. You try, you fail, ideally sleep your I/O thread for a little while and then try again. That is all you can do; after some number of revolutions you might as well abort and tell the user sorry.
I am sure the ad haters wont agree but I think HULU is doing it right. The have to make revenue to provide a good service, which must cost a fortune in bandwidth. Their advertisers want some reasonable assurance that users are seeing their ads, before the fork over the cache. Hulu so far has kept the total amount of adds and their length to what I find reasonable. I too hope they don't go over board.
The most important thing though is their "security" relies on flash player which "I" not "they" put on my machine. They seem to be as platform agnostic as flashplayer will allow them to be as well; support all the major browser back ends and operating systems. They seem to be pretty respectful to their viewers and advertisers alike so far...
Don't forget even if people don't follow the link directly on the web add it does get your product noticed. Sometime that is all you need to do. That person might not be buying a wonderwidget today but when they do need on letter yours is the one they have seen somewhere before. The familiarity last s longer then the aggravation at being interrupted when the ad was seen for most people. It probably boosts sales that way too.
That has been my experience with low income people as well.. They are either so attached to the low quality media on cable that they are willing to pay for it or don't understand the value of money. I know alot more middle class people who earn a good salary and certainly could divert a little money from savings to cable and choose not to do so.
I agree with you to a point but I do think that by and large animals like children are inoccent where as people (adults at least) we might make a value judgement on. I would certainly try and save my neighbors children before rescuing my cat; and my neighbor to for that matter but there are other people I would certainly choose the cat over. I would help someone I don't know from danager I would help 99.9% of people I do know but there is thaty .01% that frankly I think both I and every thing else on this planet would be better off with out. If harm is headed there way and I am not the cause I don't think I would feel obligated to interceed.
Similarly if say someone tried to harm my cat for no reason, well I consider the cat part of my family I would consider it the action the same as if they acted against me and I would respond just as visciosly.
I am a cat person and trust me we are every bit as much attached to our cats as you are to your dogs. I grew up with dogs and cats. I don't personally care to have a dog myself but I certainly understand your attachment. Pets do become a part of the family. My cat is certainly one of my best friends and when she is gone I will miss her terribly and grieve for her just like the cats I grew up with and still miss today, just like a people in my life that have gone.
Still I don't think I would ever want to have her cloned. There are plenty of other cats that deserve to have a good home and if there is ever a vacancy in mine I would surely adopt one of them and make a new friend; rather than selfishly try and cling to the old.
No there is no need to assume the student of the future will be able to understand the operation of the machine without someone to explain it to them. At least no only 50 years from now anyway. See in most human societies people have access to these rather amazing resources where knowlege of the recent ent past is concerned. They are often refered to as parents and grandparents. There is even the suggestion that great grandparents may in many cases still be able to speak and interact with the most recent generations.
Sorry I just felt I better clear that up for space alienies like yourself.
Does anyone know if this is actual LAW, as in enacted by Congress and signed by the President; some sort of well defined bylaw or just a Policy? In any of those cases it seems like there could be an equal protection question if some other streaming video provider felt like doing a law suit.
Seems to me that is good advice no matter which sex you are.
I say go with raid 5 even in the three disk situation n-1 is better use of money. For larger arrays the performance will be better then a mirror. Make backups of whats important your data and config files. The rest you can reinstall. Backups are way less of a chore this way; which means you are more likely to do them. If you are not willing to invest in a little redundancy and make a backup at least once a week then at these prices your data must be worthless anyway.
Do you really have to go elsewhere and where? It seems to mean this is not exactly a quality issue. Its a firmware problem that only shows up under some conditions. Perhaps stricter QA might have caught this but thats hard to be sure of. Your points are not incorrect; but then you should have backs right? If you had backups most of your arguments go away. As for Seagate they seem to be doing the best they can to make good. They are offering free data recovery and to repair / replace the drives. Most companies would probably only do the latter.
Yep, you can save $18 and year and pay an extra hundred today. Sounds great for something like a TV that is only going to be used for 5 years or so anyway these days. Never mind that time value of money consideration. Thank you Nanny State for saving me from high energy bills, and myself.
No there are people in this nation who are interested and participatory in politics; that also have a strong enough moral compass and will to stand by their ideals to make a difference from the office of President. The trouble is the system has been cooped to make certain non of these people can ever get into that office.
Obama is a first class looser all he ever does; ever has done in stick a moistened finger into the air to see which way the wind is blowing. He has given us so far no reason to think that isn't all he ever will do. I guess you can say that it is an improvement over the criminals we have had in the past but I think that is pretty sad in itself. Personally I will be SHOCKED if Obama turns out to be a better leader then Bush Jr, has been. Bush has been wrong on a whole lot of things but he really meant well. I don't think Obama does; I think he does whats good for Obama which may prove to work better then Bushes bumbling, maybe but don't hold your breath.
You are totally wrong giving the problem to governments does nothing to address the trust issue. Is a cert from Libia as good as one from the UK? How could the average person know other then by using applying the same international prejudices we use today for other things? How is that any different then trusting Godaddy more or less then Verisign?
The problem is a certain popular web browser shipping with windows and the most popular open source browser for following the behavior of the former ilk. They scare uses with big warning dialogs and traffic signal colors rather then educate them on what certificates are and how they really work. They don't even educate users on what they are actually used for and ignore the fact that multiple uses exist.
For instance there are lots of cases where I don't need or care to positively identify the entity on the other end. I just want to encrypt what I am sending to keep my activities a little more secret from prying eyes. In that case a cert from any place is a good as the next the only thing that matters is key length and cipher employed.
Positive identification for or B2B site? The best cert is the self signed one our sales staff physically hands the customer out-of-band. They know who gave it to them! They saw them in person there is no doubt of the validity of the public key. That is much stronger then a third party CA which at best used a automated telephone dial back system to validate me; no matter how much the bribed browser makers to scare folks with red and yellow address bars.
SSL as it exists to day is a RACKET and nothing more these companies should be investigated for RICO and conspiracy with browser authors and each other. That is what government should be doing.
You are correct that right now at the start of 2009; with the data we have being Muslim is a pretty good predictor of the likely hood your or I are would be terrorists. I agree with you that it therefore makes sense to focus some additional attention on Muslims(when that can be identified) around high value targets like airports. That does not however mean its at all unlikely that a non-muslim terrorist with attack. Yes the data says we should focus more attention on Muslims but we would be doing a HUGE disservice if we for even one moment forget we are fighting terrorism and think we are fighting Muslim terrorism. Experience can teach us where trouble is most likely in many situations it can't eliminate other possiblilites.
Sure look at the Muslims first; but don't stop looking after you are done there.
I don't think that does work. Some of the older DRM schemes on media like DVD-RAM use a special code on the disk that is not accesable via the ide/sata/scsi interface and must be recoved from a special register on the drive. Later this became availibles as an ioctl command when compters got fast enough to play video. I suspect higher-end proffessional stuff support such an access method before I saw it in consumer equipment. I don;t have a BD drive so I don't know but I would guess there is something like that in place so that you can't just do play back from an ISO image.
In anycase most "network" access is not going to let you send special commands to the drive. Some custom interface like network-block device (nbd) might make it possible but you aint doin it out of the box on your average Windows PC; not sure if anything is able to decrypt yet in the Opensource relm. Since I don't have a BD drive I have not looked.
What if its a production terminal server you insensitive clod/.
People tend to dismiss all the good things about prohibition. Its fact the rate of domestic violence decreased by more the 50% in that period. The divorce rate decreased as well. If you really study the history of alcohol and the temperance movement you will find that it did a great deal of other good as well. Its difficult to say the bad out weighed the good but; since it was ultimately defeated by ballot we know the general public felt that way at the time.
All and all there is much more to it then the "prohibition bad" sound byte.