A: Sack APT, and get a backlash from opensource land.
B: Allow APT to exist, but don't give it any easier interface than what it comes with standard. Those geeky enough to understand it may have it, but those same people are likely too geeky to want to buy Lindows anyway.
Lindows' product is a closed source program that makes Linux a bit easier to use, frosted with a distribution of the open source programs it attempts to help you with. If you know enough to work around Lindows anyway... then what are you doing with Lindows in the first place?
The thing is, lauguage evolves by errors that survive without being corrected. That is to say, if a misuse of the word gets used too much, dictionairies report that meaning has now been associated with the word, and adds it to the definition.
Mozilla Mail in fact is subject to a Sobig-style attack, all that's missing is a virus that reads Mozilla's address book and goes. If your business installed Mozilla Mail, it'd still meet the mindless drones who will still open up the pif, scr, and exe attachments.
Part of the reason that MS Blaster is such an annoyance right now is that many college freshmen are buying new computers and hooking them up to the campus network which is the first time their machine has ever seen the Internet. In such a case, a new out-of-the-factory computer with Windows XP SP1 and any major brand of anti-virus pre-installed is still at risk! Worse yet, on average the machine will be hit with a virus attack much faster than the student can type www.windowsupdate.com, er, windowsupdate.microsoft.com and download the patch. The anti-virus program that ships preinstalled on a new PC won't have time to download its definition updates to find out what Blaster is either, so it's powerless.
Right now, Windows is so secure out of the box that even a wise-to-the-problem user has to use another computer to get the patch they need, because putting their new computer out on the Internet will surely lead to infection.
The article takes a cheap shoot implying that Windows users always run as Administrator, the Windows equal to the all-mighty root, while Mac and Linux users usually get this right and reserve their root use for important stuff, but spend most of their time on a limited user account.
Microsoft had this bad in the entire Windows 9x kernel OSes because there never was any concept of a restricted user... everybody was an Admin on those boxes. Insecurity at its worst, but it was always thought of as a single-user OS, if you wanted a secure user environment you were supposed to pay for the Windows NT-based OS of the time.
Windows XP, afterall, is a Windows NT-based operating system so half of the problem is now solved. Microsoft's consumer product finally has a restricted mode. The problem is, there's still a user problem... most people use an administrator account as their primary, sometimes only, Windows logon. So, even though the software has caught up, the users haven't.
The design flaw that the author is pointing out is that administrator-only functions like RPC and the administrator's message boxes are turned on in a default installation, when the world would be better off with such features in the OS but defaulting to an off position and only running the associated software if the user indicates they want the feature on.
This is not a design flaw that Apple and the various Linux distributors are immune from, just that they seem to violate this rule with less frequency. Let's face it, if Windows shipped with RPC turned off by default, Blaster would have a much smaller impact than it has now.
As for SoBig, there's really nothing preventing a SoBig for Mac or Linux. Afterall, all you need to do is trick the user into executing a program that isn't what they think it is, and then read their address book file. The only complicating factor is that there's an overwhelming market share for the Windows Address Book being used, that it's the only place most virus writers bother to check for addresses to use. In order to make such a virus with the same impact on another operating system, they'd have to check the address book location of about a dozen programs... bloatware for virus writers.
Fair enough. Afterall, right now, most of the time when Google is mentioned in the media, a mention of MSN Search is usually somewhere in the same article. According to search engine logic, that means MSN Search is a site that's very related to Google.
Has someone else noted the slight difference in numbers of hits? 542 on MSN vs some 59,300,000 on Google?
Ever read what site number 59,203,230 had to say about Linux? I bet you haven't, in part because you can't.
Google only returns the first 1000 hits for any search, even if there is a higher number returned according to its counter. In the standard 10-per-page view, you are not allowed to move past page number 100 where the 1000th result is revealed.
Afterall, if you have to by hand filter through 1000 results to see the info you want, your search engine isn't doing a very good job for you. Google's claim to fame has never been how many results it returns, but rather it's ability to make sure the first page it returns is the most useful. Nobody's been able to do it better yet, but plenty are trying. When one of Google's competitors suceeds, Google will have it's first real challenger in years.
So, only offering 542 returns is actually a feature in some circles... and Google's 59,300,000 number is a falacy anyway when it can only show us 1000.
This has been one of the oldest tricks in the book in search engine land. Searching an edited search engine for the name of a competitor will always lead to a half-hearted results page. Of course, as Google has set the trend with automated web crawling this has quieted down, but even Google has been known to intentionally throw in an easter egg of a result page on queries for its competition.
Afterall, who in their right mind would need to use Yahoo! to look for Lycos. Ask Jeeves a silly question and he will return you a silly answer...
I don't consider a backup copy kept within 3 yards of the original copy to be a real backup. Afterall, the point of a backup copy is to survive whatever clamity may befall the original copy.
So please, don't call an HD that is in the same computer, or even the same server rack, your backup. However, a network connected machine on the other side of your building will do just fine.
And the moral of the story is that "buying your gross" won't work anymore, so don't bother trying it. Gigli's studio gave up on that movie, hardly promoted it, and released it just so Ben and Jen wouldn't complain.
Faster communications may cause flops to post lower box office numbers than ever seen before, but the fact is most people diverted from seeing the flop will end up still going to see another movie with their date on the opening Friday night. In the end, the industry doesn't lose anything, there's just a redistribution of the week's movie revenues. Every studio will have it's share of duds, so in time it all comes out in the wash.
The loser here is the marketing people. The underlying message is that since word-of-mouth is now faster and stronger, a marketing blitz can no longer recover a bad movie. There's no point on wasting the money on marketing when nobody's going to see the movie anyway. Even the producers of Gigli recognized that, as they canceled all ads for the movie after opening weekend and used the already paid for ad time to promote movies that still had a chance.
The judges hit the gong, the embarassed loser is escorted off the stage, and another act comes out...
Having Fox News station their entertainment reporter outside a movie theater all day to interview people who walk out during the middle of showings couldn't have helped either...
Every means of communication out there was being used to say "This movie stinks!" No marketing effort can ever recover from that.
Card counting is legal, but in Vegas at least the casinos have the legal right to throw out anybody they want. In other places where they can't throw out a card counter, they can annoy that person by shuffling after every hand which wipes out the advantage.
Because he had no right to be in possession of the customer e-mail list. In e-mailing anything to the customers, he proved that he had illegally taken private company information and held onto it after he left the company. Game over.
Forget about that old saying about it's easier to beg for forgiveness later than to ask before doing something. He straight up broke the law here by overreaching his authority... when you're not sure you have the authority to do something, ask first.
Stealing the customer list from an employer, leaving the company, and then using the list is cause enough to throw someone in jail. Normally such people are fined, but when coupled with a "I know how to hack into you." threat, it gives a justification
If you don't wanna be thrown in jail, don't be a criminal.
The power industry would love for everybody to have power natural power generation systems like windmills or solar panels in their yard, and then connect to the grid to either buy more or sell back when the backyard system can power the house with room to spare. It'd be a win-win for everybody, because it's a known fact that the less wire distance you have to move power, the less you end up losing in the transfer process.
The problem is, there's an annoying group of "environmentalists" who call windmills eyesores... and that's why this idea isn't taking off.
The problem is, hardly anybody's willing to go for it.
Yeah, but Gray Davis was the govenor in California who signed the deregulation bill that allowed Enron to manipulate the market in a house-of-cards sham.
The fact is, there's plenty of dumb regulatory moves on both sides to go around here. There all of the "rules" that apply to interconnecting grids are just industry standards, there's no punishment for breaking them. When such a weak regulatory system is in place, nothing much stops an Enron-like group of cheaters from stepping in and making a profit off of the mess at the expense of the public.
So, segment, you don't need to worry about off topic mods... it's -1 Flamebait that you posted. There's no room for either party to blame this on the other, they all failed and better get their act together and come up with something that keeps this from happening again.
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Smart biz move, because here were their options:
A: Sack APT, and get a backlash from opensource land.
B: Allow APT to exist, but don't give it any easier interface than what it comes with standard. Those geeky enough to understand it may have it, but those same people are likely too geeky to want to buy Lindows anyway.
Lindows' product is a closed source program that makes Linux a bit easier to use, frosted with a distribution of the open source programs it attempts to help you with. If you know enough to work around Lindows anyway... then what are you doing with Lindows in the first place?
It's vaporware. RTFA.
The thing is, lauguage evolves by errors that survive without being corrected. That is to say, if a misuse of the word gets used too much, dictionairies report that meaning has now been associated with the word, and adds it to the definition.
Mozilla Mail in fact is subject to a Sobig-style attack, all that's missing is a virus that reads Mozilla's address book and goes. If your business installed Mozilla Mail, it'd still meet the mindless drones who will still open up the pif, scr, and exe attachments.
Part of the reason that MS Blaster is such an annoyance right now is that many college freshmen are buying new computers and hooking them up to the campus network which is the first time their machine has ever seen the Internet. In such a case, a new out-of-the-factory computer with Windows XP SP1 and any major brand of anti-virus pre-installed is still at risk! Worse yet, on average the machine will be hit with a virus attack much faster than the student can type www.windowsupdate.com, er, windowsupdate.microsoft.com and download the patch. The anti-virus program that ships preinstalled on a new PC won't have time to download its definition updates to find out what Blaster is either, so it's powerless.
Right now, Windows is so secure out of the box that even a wise-to-the-problem user has to use another computer to get the patch they need, because putting their new computer out on the Internet will surely lead to infection.
The article takes a cheap shoot implying that Windows users always run as Administrator, the Windows equal to the all-mighty root, while Mac and Linux users usually get this right and reserve their root use for important stuff, but spend most of their time on a limited user account.
Microsoft had this bad in the entire Windows 9x kernel OSes because there never was any concept of a restricted user... everybody was an Admin on those boxes. Insecurity at its worst, but it was always thought of as a single-user OS, if you wanted a secure user environment you were supposed to pay for the Windows NT-based OS of the time.
Windows XP, afterall, is a Windows NT-based operating system so half of the problem is now solved. Microsoft's consumer product finally has a restricted mode. The problem is, there's still a user problem... most people use an administrator account as their primary, sometimes only, Windows logon. So, even though the software has caught up, the users haven't.
The design flaw that the author is pointing out is that administrator-only functions like RPC and the administrator's message boxes are turned on in a default installation, when the world would be better off with such features in the OS but defaulting to an off position and only running the associated software if the user indicates they want the feature on.
This is not a design flaw that Apple and the various Linux distributors are immune from, just that they seem to violate this rule with less frequency. Let's face it, if Windows shipped with RPC turned off by default, Blaster would have a much smaller impact than it has now.
As for SoBig, there's really nothing preventing a SoBig for Mac or Linux. Afterall, all you need to do is trick the user into executing a program that isn't what they think it is, and then read their address book file. The only complicating factor is that there's an overwhelming market share for the Windows Address Book being used, that it's the only place most virus writers bother to check for addresses to use. In order to make such a virus with the same impact on another operating system, they'd have to check the address book location of about a dozen programs... bloatware for virus writers.
Fair enough. Afterall, right now, most of the time when Google is mentioned in the media, a mention of MSN Search is usually somewhere in the same article. According to search engine logic, that means MSN Search is a site that's very related to Google.
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Has someone else noted the slight difference in numbers of hits? 542 on MSN vs some 59,300,000 on Google?
Ever read what site number 59,203,230 had to say about Linux? I bet you haven't, in part because you can't.
Google only returns the first 1000 hits for any search, even if there is a higher number returned according to its counter. In the standard 10-per-page view, you are not allowed to move past page number 100 where the 1000th result is revealed.
Afterall, if you have to by hand filter through 1000 results to see the info you want, your search engine isn't doing a very good job for you. Google's claim to fame has never been how many results it returns, but rather it's ability to make sure the first page it returns is the most useful. Nobody's been able to do it better yet, but plenty are trying. When one of Google's competitors suceeds, Google will have it's first real challenger in years.
So, only offering 542 returns is actually a feature in some circles... and Google's 59,300,000 number is a falacy anyway when it can only show us 1000.
This has been one of the oldest tricks in the book in search engine land. Searching an edited search engine for the name of a competitor will always lead to a half-hearted results page. Of course, as Google has set the trend with automated web crawling this has quieted down, but even Google has been known to intentionally throw in an easter egg of a result page on queries for its competition.
Afterall, who in their right mind would need to use Yahoo! to look for Lycos. Ask Jeeves a silly question and he will return you a silly answer...
I don't consider a backup copy kept within 3 yards of the original copy to be a real backup. Afterall, the point of a backup copy is to survive whatever clamity may befall the original copy.
So please, don't call an HD that is in the same computer, or even the same server rack, your backup. However, a network connected machine on the other side of your building will do just fine.
Do a full backup once a year and a 20 month lifespan for the media doesn't matter...
And the moral of the story is that "buying your gross" won't work anymore, so don't bother trying it. Gigli's studio gave up on that movie, hardly promoted it, and released it just so Ben and Jen wouldn't complain.
When did anybody see an ad for Gigli?
Faster communications may cause flops to post lower box office numbers than ever seen before, but the fact is most people diverted from seeing the flop will end up still going to see another movie with their date on the opening Friday night. In the end, the industry doesn't lose anything, there's just a redistribution of the week's movie revenues. Every studio will have it's share of duds, so in time it all comes out in the wash.
The loser here is the marketing people. The underlying message is that since word-of-mouth is now faster and stronger, a marketing blitz can no longer recover a bad movie. There's no point on wasting the money on marketing when nobody's going to see the movie anyway. Even the producers of Gigli recognized that, as they canceled all ads for the movie after opening weekend and used the already paid for ad time to promote movies that still had a chance.
The judges hit the gong, the embarassed loser is escorted off the stage, and another act comes out...
Having Fox News station their entertainment reporter outside a movie theater all day to interview people who walk out during the middle of showings couldn't have helped either...
Every means of communication out there was being used to say "This movie stinks!" No marketing effort can ever recover from that.
Bad movies text you!
Industry credits texting with helping hit movies bring in large box office...
Card counting is legal, but in Vegas at least the casinos have the legal right to throw out anybody they want. In other places where they can't throw out a card counter, they can annoy that person by shuffling after every hand which wipes out the advantage.
Because he had no right to be in possession of the customer e-mail list. In e-mailing anything to the customers, he proved that he had illegally taken private company information and held onto it after he left the company. Game over.
Forget about that old saying about it's easier to beg for forgiveness later than to ask before doing something. He straight up broke the law here by overreaching his authority... when you're not sure you have the authority to do something, ask first.
Stealing the customer list from an employer, leaving the company, and then using the list is cause enough to throw someone in jail. Normally such people are fined, but when coupled with a "I know how to hack into you." threat, it gives a justification If you don't wanna be thrown in jail, don't be a criminal.
The power industry would love for everybody to have power natural power generation systems like windmills or solar panels in their yard, and then connect to the grid to either buy more or sell back when the backyard system can power the house with room to spare. It'd be a win-win for everybody, because it's a known fact that the less wire distance you have to move power, the less you end up losing in the transfer process.
The problem is, there's an annoying group of "environmentalists" who call windmills eyesores... and that's why this idea isn't taking off.
The problem is, hardly anybody's willing to go for it.
Yeah, but Gray Davis was the govenor in California who signed the deregulation bill that allowed Enron to manipulate the market in a house-of-cards sham.
The fact is, there's plenty of dumb regulatory moves on both sides to go around here. There all of the "rules" that apply to interconnecting grids are just industry standards, there's no punishment for breaking them. When such a weak regulatory system is in place, nothing much stops an Enron-like group of cheaters from stepping in and making a profit off of the mess at the expense of the public.
So, segment, you don't need to worry about off topic mods... it's -1 Flamebait that you posted. There's no room for either party to blame this on the other, they all failed and better get their act together and come up with something that keeps this from happening again.
Uhm... the price of oil might be a pretty good indicator...