The proper responce (in the majority of cases) is, image the compromised file system. Reinstall the production system from source media and patches. Get the system back in production but change all the passwords, ssl keys etc, give it some other ip then where your dns points and only let the people who *absolutely* need it know how to get at it. Remember time is money and getting back in production fast is important, even if its more limited production. Now analyize that filesystem image and figureout what happend. Go to the porduction system and patch the hole. Move to full production. This is almost always my policy, thankfully I have only had to evoke it once.
"Microsoft is rarely successful, at least in the short term." --True but they are highly successful in the long run because they just throw money at it until they win. See internet expolore, it sucked at first still sux now but they created an arms race NS could not match mostly for reasons of finance.
Xbox -- did very poorly agains PS2 at first but since MS can affort to subsidize the thing more then Nintendo and to a lessor degree Sony can they can keep the comsumer cost down and just hang in the market place long enough to muscle the software developers into priciply supporting their platform. Its working look the releative number of titles for the consoles PS2 leads, but that lead is slipping FAST and Nintendo is trailing bad.
"still a two-product show - with Windows and Office. And the Office monopoly is dependent upon the Windows monopoly" --Hell no they are a many product show and Office not Windows is at the center. They makes tons of money on Exchange and Great Plains, and lots of other stuff as well, but it all depends on office. I don't think many business would stick with Windows if not for Office.
Its not the operating system that lets the console games work so well its the console. PCs are always an unkown because the hardware is wide and varied now you can help matters by abstracting things with the operating system, like OSS for sound and Open GL for video and SDL on top of all that to make it even simpler but even with the best abstraction to solve the portablity problems software wise, you run into an issue of you can't optimize for anything so it runs like crap even on the fastest hardware. Console gameing will always be a step above PC gaming and HD TVs becoming ubiquitous will be the finaly nail in the coffin for PC games, as resolution was the only remaining advantage the PC had. Now certain things like MPROGS can benifit from a keyboard but even keyboards are becomeing availible for consoles now so its over people. Start using your PCs for development ofnovel projects and actual work. Let the console do what it does best play.
No they did nothing of the sort, as soon as the network started getting very large, ie most people started to get phones and they wanted to be able to a call out side the local exchange with high frequency the invented technologies like PCM and the Time division multiplexing so they could packetize voice communications. Why did they do this because the Circut-switched network was becoming to costly to manage. The internet also has a nother reality, unlike most phone calls prior to packetizing most netusers want multiple concurent connections to hosts or many brief connections in rapid succession. Most pre-prepacket phone users never wanted to talk to more then one person at a time and only required call setup operations every few moments at most not hundreds of times in an instant loading some web page the pulls from many hosts or playing a video game and needing to update all clients.
They blame the packet nature of the network for lots of the problems but I see not other perposal given. How on earth do you build a network as large as the internet based on a non-packet archetecture? I am studing computer science right now at school and haveing completed two telcom courses and nobody has ever discused a conection-oriented technology that or even a conection-oriented concept that could cope with a network as large as the internet with as many hosts. Do any of you in slashdot land have a clue how they might even start to go about doing this? The other posibility is its a new twist on a conectionless network but how on earht is that possible with out some sort of packet archetecture to send over it, otherwise you'd have no way to change path with conditions and changeing conditions are UNAVOIDABLE on any network I have ever seen.
well, do what most smart people do and creat a little 5 or 10 meg partion somewhare on your drive and install free dos to it. Then make it a LILO boot option. Lilo can even do some devices mapping if its not the first partion of your first disk. Although I usually recomend makeing it that becase Linux really does not care what partions its on at least not on x86 IDE systems and if you are really really borked and have to use fdisk from the dos partion for any reason it will stay bootable. Put a basic set of dos utils on it so you can do some emergency stuff if you need to is also good. Now the kicker is you can mount it under linux and put your firmware updates on it. Then just boot to it and run it.
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"There are other systems being suggested that would include monetary stamps and people could decide on accepting an e-mail based off the value of the stamp."
A: Did you get my E-mail? B: I saw you sen't me something but I judged you did not pay nearly enough for the privilage of communication with me. So my mail filter rejected it. A: F@&% you !
Because there is not nearly enough dishonesty in the world we need mass marketed tools, which are designed for no other use but to fascilitate your lies. Geez are there not enough legitimate tools and equipment out there already that can be missued or subverted for your poor reasons. This is why so many good technologies like CD recorders get a bad rap people use them for bad things. It really won't help when manufacturers start makeing stuff that really is bad in nature.
Well yea but, its more like $60 a season for most programs other then the cartoons. If I watch more then say four programs the savings over cable/sat are not that big only about 50% and I don't get any of the other benifets like access to news anytime I want and decent coverage of local stuff like city council meetings. Cable TV is one of the few things I pay for that I actually feel is worth the money I spend on it. I will grant you I might not be watching the same stuff the majority are.
Its not capitalism run amok at all its government run amok. The idea of capitalism is to create a free market to that end some protections like patents and copyright were put into place to ensure fare competion between large and small inteties, these were mostly simple rules for short term periods. Its the crazy stuff that government has done since that is the problem, extending copyright for umpteen million years and makeing it renewable, giving patents for things that are not remotely novel, impeeding the diffusion of ideas with the DMCA, the list goes on. All these things are what is amok, the government for all intents and perpouses isssueing an edict that only amazon can sell books on line utilizing hyper links is not even close to the capitalist ideal.
3. The requirement that end-users read documentation is a sign of UI design failure. Is my UI design a failure?
I don't agree with this. You imply in your later question that some taks do require documentation but which ones. I think that too many people have a pointless aversion to reading the docs. The docs are good and people should read at least the man page or like basic refecence before using any pice of software for the first time. Take CD buring there are God only knows howmany software packages that do it or provide a front end for it. I can click and drag in windows and copy files to a disk, but what happend Did it packet write, disk at once, close the session ???? I would not know without haveing read the docs. So sure any fool can put files on a cd, but when they get surpriesed that the OLD sparc workstation in the computer lab won't read their disk and they can't submint their assignment that is not ease of use either. Forceing people to read at least a quick reference is a good thing, it makes them at least able to evaluate if your program is the correct tool to be using and will save them endless headaches later. No an interface should not be needlessly complicated but should present all the features and if that forces users to not be lazy/stupid and read the docs all the better.
Then you are a fool. Keep in mind that while M$ man not have patented and locked down the technology they still control it. Anyone who develops with mono or mono itself is an idot sorry but its true. M$ is not stupid for a product like.net/C# to be successful its gota be cross platform to compete with java so what do they do they work hard at the windows version which they no best how to do and maybe do some work on UNIX and Mac all while the do backburrner development on the Linux and truely portable versions. In the mean time they have they can sell there windows compiler and development tools make their money and tell their customers their application will be supported on other platforms (Thank you mono). When they are good and ready the are just gonna add a patented feature to.net/c# and release the linux development tools for sale. This is there classic embrace and extend move the only twist is they are extending their own technology for once. Mono will now be legaly prevented from developing a truly competitive alternative and will become insignifigant and die. C# is a good langue and if you are doing work on strickly M$ supported platforms by all means uses it where its the best tool but mono is a dead end why people can't see that escapes me. I am gonna keep saying this until people listen.
temperature, is really not the problem. The problem is stabilization. Different gates "stabilize" that is produce consitant output high or low at different rates, gates are strung together into circuits on the chip and thouse circuits then take a certain amount of time to stabilize, this is critical because the output of one circuit will be the input to another be it on the same IC or interfacing with something else. The reason you can overclock is in most cases ICs in computers the CPU in particular are underclocked to begin with. The clock cycle is longer then the stabiliation time when the chip is cool. However the voltage running though the traces and the swiches meets some resistence and part of it is disipated as heat, when silicon-eletric gates heat the respond slower and the stabilization time becomes longer, so the clock cycle must be longer if you want correct output. This is why if you take special meausers to keep the chip cooler you can often run it faster. Fiberoptics are not perfect and can heat too, the smaller you make them that problem is likely to exacerbate. The question I can't answer for you is wether that is a problem at all. silicon-optic gates may not vary in stabilization time in the same way that the electric counter parts do? They may and then the same rules apply or they could have some optimal temp where a cold chip does not work as well as a warm one? It might be they work perfectly up to a certain failure point? I would love some answers form an engineer who is working with this stuff.
Keep in mind that this is the company which started development of the Iloo which was later revealed not be a hoax, but a project they pulled the plug on shortly after its announcement because of the blatent stupidity of the idea then tried to pass off as a hoax. This MSKB article probably is quite reall but I bet the will claim it is not after a week or so when it gets out.
Yea, the reality is it will just be forked. The other thing is I bet wether anyone at Xfree will admit it or not this is more about credit and credit where its due then anything else. The sad part is this will cost them dearly. The probably would have been the premier FOSS X server and remained well know for many more years but now Free desktop.org and their Xserver will undoubtably take the cake which is what I think Xfree thinks their tryin to prevent with this misguided attempt. The figure and correctly that if Xserver stays mostly compatible archetecture wise then they would simply integrate every good patch against Xfree and basicly the core server software is developed for them, leaving them free to focus on extensions which Xfree could never keep up with. Sooner or later, (though much later then the scared folks at Xfree think) one of the major distros would package Xserver and the dominos would fall from there. By doing this the probably can discorage or even prevent the reuse of their code in Xserver and other projects(not exactly the spirt of OSS asside) and I can understand why the don't want to see their position at the top threatened. The sad part is I Think people would have stuck with them even with marginally better options out there out of familiarity and trust. They might well have been able to pull in changes from Xserver and eventually "unfork" the project, not going to happen now. What will happen is people will abandon them in droves to aviod and uncertain legal situation in favor of alternatives be them more or less mature. We have seen this before with GTK/QT. KDE and QT remain popular but most of the largest platers SUSE/Novell excluded clearly place their chips on GTK which at the time though not anymore IMHO was not nearly as refined/ready for general consumption as QT. My prediction is XFree will rethink this and end up back pedaling or fade in to obscurity with other once great but now hardly thought of things like Dr.Dos and *BSD(just kidding, pleas mods try and take a joke.)
True, and false collusion would be illegal but there is nothing stoping Disney from racheting up the price of license for the video stores. That would force all the video stores to charge higher rates in order to maintain their contribution margin. The isses is at what point will consumers simply say screw it I don't wan't to see a Disney movie that badly no matter how good it is I won't pay $15 to rent it, and then the video stores just quit carring Disney disks. I think most of the money a movie makes is at the box office but rental revenue must be important too, I doubt very much any of the big house could survice on box office profit alone.
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>>you've have the same idiots saying terrorists did >>it.
I would classify this as terrorism. Its economic terrorism. I work in IT at a technology company and these things cost us money and if we can't keep our servers form melting and filter the crap form or slaes reps mail fast enough then few others can, and that could be lost of lost dollars. These worms especiall code red, nimda, and blaster most likely are impacting the national economy. The authors should be held responsible and treated like the terrorists they are, ship them off to camp X-ray. As much as I hate to say this its not fair to blame M$ either, they are simply enablers its irresponsible users that are at fault, with a good security policy, proper firewalling, and systems management even windows servers and desktops can be secure. People should be ticketed for running un pached unfirewalled systems and opening unkown binary attachments, In the same way you are ticketed for your headlights being out on your car or running a red light.
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See, that makes no sense at all. I attend a small college as well and I can tell you that the sys/admins (whom I have met) would ssh into the swich and kill your port if your box is emiting tons of packet. They would then ask if you have a friend or roommate who could download the patches for you and copy them to CD or have one sent over then let you back on the network.
For $1USD I can buy a four pack of thoes chemical hand warmer things that last 7.5 hours each. Why would I want to buy really expensive gloves that won't keep me nearly as confortable.
Lets suppose that as a student I take some classes out of interest in the subject. Now I am assigned to write a paper for class. I write an honest paper by myself without copying anyones work site all my sources etc etc. Now by the time I am done, I feel I have writen something good of academic value others who are interested in the topic might like to read. I post it to the web. The plagiarism cheking service happens to crawls my site. Days later I turn my paper in, to the prof who runs a check on it. Do I get busted for copying my own work?
See there is a big difference between what you are doing and what the service is doing. You wrote a script to help you do your job. The only money you make off of it is your salary. The papers you get might be stored on your harddisk for future referance and checking but your not effectively using them as any sort of asset. If you were out there running ads "Over 5000 papers to varify against" and selling the service then it could be argued that you were using student papers to make money, becase the papers would be assets to your business. There is nothing wrong with automaticly checking for plagiarism there is something worng with you makeing money off work I did without my consent.
There are two reasons why IBM would be juditious in how public they make this. The first big reason is IBM and M$ have a strained relationship to say the least. The big bit of control M$ uses to manipulate PC vendors to do their will is windows and office licensing. Even if you are IBM or Dell if M$ decides to pull your dirt cheap licensing of windows and office and make you pay like they do all the little people your bottom line just got crushed. IBM most likely has no interest in seeing one of there cash crops get killed and knows M$ would tolerate misbehaivor from them least of all their big partners. The seccond reason is IBMs server business is becoming more and more dependant on Linux and its related technologies. Even though desktop and server Linux tech are not always related, IE what is good for a big server is not always good on my PC and the other way around, and sometimes the same thing is good on both, a failure is a failure. If they have to back pedal and go to windows again for any reason its a failure for Linux and PHBs will hear about it. The conversation will go like this.
"We want to sell you this Linux server."
"I heared you guys tried Linux and had to swich back, why would I want to go through that."
"No we use Linux on lots of server systems its desktops that we had to go back to windows for."
"So windows works better then I want a windows server!"
"No Linux is a better server OS most of the time."
"I am calling HP bye."
If I was IBM I would much rather make the swich under the radar incase things don't work out and then tell the world what a great success the swich has been if it does. If not then it never happend.
Nope, been there in PA, did that and learned its just another hidden tax. There is no way I or most people for that matter would risk driving a car which would fail that inspection, or most that pass. Quite honestly if you don't take good enough care of your car to pass, then you don't take any care at all.
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The proper responce (in the majority of cases) is, image the compromised file system. Reinstall the production system from source media and patches. Get the system back in production but change all the passwords, ssl keys etc, give it some other ip then where your dns points and only let the people who *absolutely* need it know how to get at it. Remember time is money and getting back in production fast is important, even if its more limited production. Now analyize that filesystem image and figureout what happend. Go to the porduction system and patch the hole. Move to full production. This is almost always my policy, thankfully I have only had to evoke it once.
Two problems with your post as I see it,
"Microsoft is rarely successful, at least in the short term." --True but they are highly successful in the long run because they just throw money at it until they win. See internet expolore, it sucked at first still sux now but they created an arms race NS could not match mostly for reasons of finance.
Xbox -- did very poorly agains PS2 at first but since MS can affort to subsidize the thing more then Nintendo and to a lessor degree Sony can they can keep the comsumer cost down and just hang in the market place long enough to muscle the software developers into priciply supporting their platform. Its working look the releative number of titles for the consoles PS2 leads, but that lead is slipping FAST and Nintendo is trailing bad.
"still a two-product show - with Windows and Office. And the Office monopoly is dependent upon the Windows monopoly" --Hell no they are a many product show and Office not Windows is at the center. They makes tons of money on Exchange and Great Plains, and lots of other stuff as well, but it all depends on office. I don't think many business would stick with Windows if not for Office.
Its not the operating system that lets the console games work so well its the console. PCs are always an unkown because the hardware is wide and varied now you can help matters by abstracting things with the operating system, like OSS for sound and Open GL for video and SDL on top of all that to make it even simpler but even with the best abstraction to solve the portablity problems software wise, you run into an issue of you can't optimize for anything so it runs like crap even on the fastest hardware. Console gameing will always be a step above PC gaming and HD TVs becoming ubiquitous will be the finaly nail in the coffin for PC games, as resolution was the only remaining advantage the PC had. Now certain things like MPROGS can benifit from a keyboard but even keyboards are becomeing availible for consoles now so its over people. Start using your PCs for development ofnovel projects and actual work. Let the console do what it does best play.
Wow, at this rate intel is going to lift AMD's entire playbook. AMD must be doing something right.
No they did nothing of the sort, as soon as the network started getting very large, ie most people started to get phones and they wanted to be able to a call out side the local exchange with high frequency the invented technologies like PCM and the Time division multiplexing so they could packetize voice communications. Why did they do this because the Circut-switched network was becoming to costly to manage. The internet also has a nother reality, unlike most phone calls prior to packetizing most netusers want multiple concurent connections to hosts or many brief connections in rapid succession. Most pre-prepacket phone users never wanted to talk to more then one person at a time and only required call setup operations every few moments at most not hundreds of times in an instant loading some web page the pulls from many hosts or playing a video game and needing to update all clients.
They blame the packet nature of the network for lots of the problems but I see not other perposal given. How on earth do you build a network as large as the internet based on a non-packet archetecture? I am studing computer science right now at school and haveing completed two telcom courses and nobody has ever discused a conection-oriented technology that or even a conection-oriented concept that could cope with a network as large as the internet with as many hosts. Do any of you in slashdot land have a clue how they might even start to go about doing this? The other posibility is its a new twist on a conectionless network but how on earht is that possible with out some sort of packet archetecture to send over it, otherwise you'd have no way to change path with conditions and changeing conditions are UNAVOIDABLE on any network I have ever seen.
well, do what most smart people do and creat a little 5 or 10 meg partion somewhare on your drive and install free dos to it. Then make it a LILO boot option. Lilo can even do some devices mapping if its not the first partion of your first disk. Although I usually recomend makeing it that becase Linux really does not care what partions its on at least not on x86 IDE systems and if you are really really borked and have to use fdisk from the dos partion for any reason it will stay bootable. Put a basic set of dos utils on it so you can do some emergency stuff if you need to is also good. Now the kicker is you can mount it under linux and put your firmware updates on it. Then just boot to it and run it.
"There are other systems being suggested that would include monetary stamps and people could decide on accepting an e-mail based off the value of the stamp."
A: Did you get my E-mail?
B: I saw you sen't me something but I judged you did not pay nearly enough for the privilage of communication with me. So my mail filter rejected it.
A: F@&% you !
Yea that will be fun.
Because there is not nearly enough dishonesty in the world we need mass marketed tools, which are designed for no other use but to fascilitate your lies. Geez are there not enough legitimate tools and equipment out there already that can be missued or subverted for your poor reasons. This is why so many good technologies like CD recorders get a bad rap people use them for bad things. It really won't help when manufacturers start makeing stuff that really is bad in nature.
Well yea but, its more like $60 a season for most programs other then the cartoons. If I watch more then say four programs the savings over cable/sat are not that big only about 50% and I don't get any of the other benifets like access to news anytime I want and decent coverage of local stuff like city council meetings. Cable TV is one of the few things I pay for that I actually feel is worth the money I spend on it. I will grant you I might not be watching the same stuff the majority are.
Its not capitalism run amok at all its government run amok. The idea of capitalism is to create a free market to that end some protections like patents and copyright were put into place to ensure fare competion between large and small inteties, these were mostly simple rules for short term periods. Its the crazy stuff that government has done since that is the problem, extending copyright for umpteen million years and makeing it renewable, giving patents for things that are not remotely novel, impeeding the diffusion of ideas with the DMCA, the list goes on. All these things are what is amok, the government for all intents and perpouses isssueing an edict that only amazon can sell books on line utilizing hyper links is not even close to the capitalist ideal.
3. The requirement that end-users read documentation is a sign of UI design failure. Is my UI design a failure?
I don't agree with this. You imply in your later question that some taks do require documentation but which ones. I think that too many people have a pointless aversion to reading the docs. The docs are good and people should read at least the man page or like basic refecence before using any pice of software for the first time. Take CD buring there are God only knows howmany software packages that do it or provide a front end for it. I can click and drag in windows and copy files to a disk, but what happend Did it packet write, disk at once, close the session ???? I would not know without haveing read the docs. So sure any fool can put files on a cd, but when they get surpriesed that the OLD sparc workstation in the computer lab won't read their disk and they can't submint their assignment that is not ease of use either. Forceing people to read at least a quick reference is a good thing, it makes them at least able to evaluate if your program is the correct tool to be using and will save them endless headaches later. No an interface should not be needlessly complicated but should present all the features and if that forces users to not be lazy/stupid and read the docs all the better.
Then you are a fool. Keep in mind that while M$ man not have patented and locked down the technology they still control it. Anyone who develops with mono or mono itself is an idot sorry but its true. M$ is not stupid for a product like .net/C# to be successful its gota be cross platform to compete with java so what do they do they work hard at the windows version which they no best how to do and maybe do some work on UNIX and Mac all while the do backburrner development on the Linux and truely portable versions. In the mean time they have they can sell there windows compiler and development tools make their money and tell their customers their application will be supported on other platforms (Thank you mono). When they are good and ready the are just gonna add a patented feature to .net/c# and release the linux development tools for sale. This is there classic embrace and extend move the only twist is they are extending their own technology for once. Mono will now be legaly prevented from developing a truly competitive alternative and will become insignifigant and die. C# is a good langue and if you are doing work on strickly M$ supported platforms by all means uses it where its the best tool but mono is a dead end why people can't see that escapes me. I am gonna keep saying this until people listen.
temperature, is really not the problem. The problem is stabilization. Different gates "stabilize" that is produce consitant output high or low at different rates, gates are strung together into circuits on the chip and thouse circuits then take a certain amount of time to stabilize, this is critical because the output of one circuit will be the input to another be it on the same IC or interfacing with something else. The reason you can overclock is in most cases ICs in computers the CPU in particular are underclocked to begin with. The clock cycle is longer then the stabiliation time when the chip is cool. However the voltage running though the traces and the swiches meets some resistence and part of it is disipated as heat, when silicon-eletric gates heat the respond slower and the stabilization time becomes longer, so the clock cycle must be longer if you want correct output. This is why if you take special meausers to keep the chip cooler you can often run it faster. Fiberoptics are not perfect and can heat too, the smaller you make them that problem is likely to exacerbate. The question I can't answer for you is wether that is a problem at all. silicon-optic gates may not vary in stabilization time in the same way that the electric counter parts do? They may and then the same rules apply or they could have some optimal temp where a cold chip does not work as well as a warm one? It might be they work perfectly up to a certain failure point?
I would love some answers form an engineer who is working with this stuff.
Keep in mind that this is the company which started development of the Iloo which was later revealed not be a hoax, but a project they pulled the plug on shortly after its announcement because of the blatent stupidity of the idea then tried to pass off as a hoax. This MSKB article probably is quite reall but I bet the will claim it is not after a week or so when it gets out.
Yea, the reality is it will just be forked. The other thing is I bet wether anyone at Xfree will admit it or not this is more about credit and credit where its due then anything else. The sad part is this will cost them dearly. The probably would have been the premier FOSS X server and remained well know for many more years but now Free desktop.org and their Xserver will undoubtably take the cake which is what I think Xfree thinks their tryin to prevent with this misguided attempt. The figure and correctly that if Xserver stays mostly compatible archetecture wise then they would simply integrate every good patch against Xfree and basicly the core server software is developed for them, leaving them free to focus on extensions which Xfree could never keep up with. Sooner or later, (though much later then the scared folks at Xfree think) one of the major distros would package Xserver and the dominos would fall from there. By doing this the probably can discorage or even prevent the reuse of their code in Xserver and other projects(not exactly the spirt of OSS asside) and I can understand why the don't want to see their position at the top threatened. The sad part is I Think people would have stuck with them even with marginally better options out there out of familiarity and trust. They might well have been able to pull in changes from Xserver and eventually "unfork" the project, not going to happen now. What will happen is people will abandon them in droves to aviod and uncertain legal situation in favor of alternatives be them more or less mature. We have seen this before with GTK/QT. KDE and QT remain popular but most of the largest platers SUSE/Novell excluded clearly place their chips on GTK which at the time though not anymore IMHO was not nearly as refined/ready for general consumption as QT. My prediction is XFree will rethink this and end up back pedaling or fade in to obscurity with other once great but now hardly thought of things like Dr.Dos and *BSD(just kidding, pleas mods try and take a joke.)
True, and false collusion would be illegal but there is nothing stoping Disney from racheting up the price of license for the video stores. That would force all the video stores to charge higher rates in order to maintain their contribution margin. The isses is at what point will consumers simply say screw it I don't wan't to see a Disney movie that badly no matter how good it is I won't pay $15 to rent it, and then the video stores just quit carring Disney disks. I think most of the money a movie makes is at the box office but rental revenue must be important too, I doubt very much any of the big house could survice on box office profit alone.
>>you've have the same idiots saying terrorists did >>it.
I would classify this as terrorism. Its economic terrorism. I work in IT at a technology company and these things cost us money and if we can't keep our servers form melting and filter the crap form or slaes reps mail fast enough then few others can, and that could be lost of lost dollars. These worms especiall code red, nimda, and blaster most likely are impacting the national economy. The authors should be held responsible and treated like the terrorists they are, ship them off to camp X-ray. As much as I hate to say this its not fair to blame M$ either, they are simply enablers its irresponsible users that are at fault, with a good security policy, proper firewalling, and systems management even windows servers and desktops can be secure. People should be ticketed for running un pached unfirewalled systems and opening unkown binary attachments, In the same way you are ticketed for your headlights being out on your car or running a red light.
See, that makes no sense at all. I attend a small college as well and I can tell you that the sys/admins (whom I have met) would ssh into the swich and kill your port if your box is emiting tons of packet. They would then ask if you have a friend or roommate who could download the patches for you and copy them to CD or have one sent over then let you back on the network.
For $1USD I can buy a four pack of thoes chemical hand warmer things that last 7.5 hours each. Why would I want to buy really expensive gloves that won't keep me nearly as confortable.
Lets suppose that as a student I take some classes out of interest in the subject. Now I am assigned to write a paper for class. I write an honest paper by myself without copying anyones work site all my sources etc etc. Now by the time I am done, I feel I have writen something good of academic value others who are interested in the topic might like to read. I post it to the web. The plagiarism cheking service happens to crawls my site. Days later I turn my paper in, to the prof who runs a check on it. Do I get busted for copying my own work?
See there is a big difference between what you are doing and what the service is doing. You wrote a script to help you do your job. The only money you make off of it is your salary. The papers you get might be stored on your harddisk for future referance and checking but your not effectively using them as any sort of asset. If you were out there running ads "Over 5000 papers to varify against" and selling the service then it could be argued that you were using student papers to make money, becase the papers would be assets to your business. There is nothing wrong with automaticly checking for plagiarism there is something worng with you makeing money off work I did without my consent.
There are two reasons why IBM would be juditious in how public they make this. The first big reason is IBM and M$ have a strained relationship to say the least. The big bit of control M$ uses to manipulate PC vendors to do their will is windows and office licensing. Even if you are IBM or Dell if M$ decides to pull your dirt cheap licensing of windows and office and make you pay like they do all the little people your bottom line just got crushed. IBM most likely has no interest in seeing one of there cash crops get killed and knows M$ would tolerate misbehaivor from them least of all their big partners. The seccond reason is IBMs server business is becoming more and more dependant on Linux and its related technologies. Even though desktop and server Linux tech are not always related, IE what is good for a big server is not always good on my PC and the other way around, and sometimes the same thing is good on both, a failure is a failure. If they have to back pedal and go to windows again for any reason its a failure for Linux and PHBs will hear about it. The conversation will go like this.
"We want to sell you this Linux server."
"I heared you guys tried Linux and had to swich back, why would I want to go through that."
"No we use Linux on lots of server systems its desktops that we had to go back to windows for."
"So windows works better then I want a windows server!"
"No Linux is a better server OS most of the time."
"I am calling HP bye."
If I was IBM I would much rather make the swich under the radar incase things don't work out and then tell the world what a great success the swich has been if it does. If not then it never happend.
Now, I want you to think very carefully about this... You are installing a beta version of a service pack?
Nope, been there in PA, did that and learned its just another hidden tax. There is no way I or most people for that matter would risk driving a car which would fail that inspection, or most that pass. Quite honestly if you don't take good enough care of your car to pass, then you don't take any care at all.