The reason for the existence of your universe is to not be rendered on someone's computer game. Thanks for playing but your universe will not be needed.
Wrong, he excluded gimp and open-office not really clear why and included everything else in the standard install.
And of course vulnerabilities is not the same as actual in-the-wild automated exploits. How many of those for linux desktops?
As for vulnerabilities the linux ones are all publicly available because that is the way linux is. The Microsoft vulnerabilities we'll have to take his word for it. MS could fix vulnerabilities and never tell anyone.
They weren't counting vulnerabilities, they were counting successful attacks. When you count successful attacks windows still loses really big time. Vulnerabilities, meh.
Ah, the old malware is only on windows because of its market share argument. That's why Linux Apache servers have so many viruses is it?
The fact that there are no viruses on systems with a 5% market share would say you're wrong. Even 5% is enough to make lots of money on malware but there's not even one?
The reason there is so much malware on windows it's has so many easily exploited vulnerabilities and it's internal environment is so homogenous among versions.
Does anyone else see an inconsistency in these two sentences?
This is happy news, but the 'time backbone' of the Internet, provided for free by volunteers operating NTP servers, requires still more servers in order to cope with the demand. Millions of users are synchronizing their PC's system clock from the pool and a number of popular Linux distributions are using the NTP pool servers as a time source in their default ntp configuration.
If you have a static IP address and your PC is always connected to the Internet, please consider joining the pool. Bandwidth is not an issue and you will barely notice the extra load on your machine."
They haven't got enough because of the amount of traffic but if you join the pool you will hardly notice the extra load?
Actually there are lots of distributions that are AV-less and are quite secure from viruses and malware. Microsoft itself said that Vista wouldn't be subject to viruses. A distro should be reasonably secure out of the box. If it's necessary to add security software (and usually expensive security software) just to make a distribution secure then it is not fit for the purpose for which it's sold.
They used to say pay TV, cable TV had no ads - it's not true now is it, so now you pay for it - pay TV, cable TV and get ads. You pay for the ads. When I go to the cinema I pay AU$26 and I have to sit through ads. Advertising is purely opportunistic. The argument that advertising pays for TV is not true. There are other business models, I don't have to support a business model based on opportunism.
In addition some of the videos they've put take-down notices on are private videos, nothing to do with Viacom. How do they justify that?
1) You have to open hundreds of special ports. Which makes forwarding this stuff a nightmare and means you have to open all this crap in your firwall.
No. You have to open two. The control port & the data port. The fact that RTP (the data port) is usually set to use any port in a large range is irrelevent.
Not true. I was talking about external firewalls not personal software firewalls. All those ports have to be opened on external firewalls unless you do complex client configurations. If you are running a layer 4 firewall with SIP tracking it might do this, the trouble is that some parts of SIP ahs H323 are not easily exposed at the router firewall because of the IP addresses in the data.
2) Each company uses different ports. Ports don't seem to be a part of the standard.
No they don't, SIP and H.323 have a standard port, RTP is dealt with a-la the Sun RPC portmapper.
And not all companies use the same port.
3) The source and destination address are in the data not in the headers (how hard is it to use standard IP source and destination addresses?) Which makes any system with NAT a real pain when it should just be transparent, it should just work.
This is becuase the two connections (data & control) may be to two totally different machines. eg a PBX that doesn't handle media would result in two phones with the data connection between each other and a control connection to the PBX.
How hard is it to put the correct addresses in the headers to the machines you want to send the data to?
I would prefer an open standards solution but the trouble is that SIP and H323 are really crap protocols.
1) You have to open hundreds of special ports. Which makes forwarding this stuff a nightmare and means you have to open all this crap in your firwall.
2) Each company uses different ports. Ports don't seem to be a part of the standard.
3) The source and destination address are in the data not in the headers (how hard is it to use standard IP source and destination addresses?) Which makes any system with NAT a real pain when it should just be transparent, it should just work.
At least skype works with almost any firewall and if you have a firewall, almost any firewall skype will never make your system a supernode. That wasn't that hard was it?
Some group should create an open standards base protocol for sound and video that works properly.
Some of the issues about skype payments are going to be a problem with any company say gizom or wengo.
So the analogy is quite a reasonable one. A CD can be thought of as a large number. So buying a CD is just gettting a number. A number which you are not allowed to tell anyone else or you'll be considered a pirate!!
But, as far as I know there is no equation for which the answer would be the machine code for a word processing program.
A program is just an series of calculations, a very complex kind of equation. A compiler is a series of equations which could produce (among other things) a word processor. A word processor itself is a series of equations, which can with the right input, produce documents.
The movie industry is a monopoly? That's funny, I thought there were a lot of competing studios (and lots more competition from Hong Kong, India, Japan, and Europe.)
Copyright law gives a government created monopoly to the copyright owner. You really did sleep through those classes.
My reaction to Microsoft offering its own anti-spyware is the same as my reaction to the MS firewall in XP SP2: Would you trust Microsoft for your security?
control-D will log me out of all the unix shells I use. In which unix shell will control-D not do that - or is it a configuration issue?
Ummm, only if it's the first character on a commandline, in other places it does different things. And only if your shell variable/option is set to allow it (ignoreeof).
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-- Lloyd Biggle, Jr. Analog, Apr 1961
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The reason for the existence of your universe is to not be rendered on someone's computer game. Thanks for playing but your universe will not be needed.
Wrong, he excluded gimp and open-office not really clear why and included everything else in the standard install. And of course vulnerabilities is not the same as actual in-the-wild automated exploits. How many of those for linux desktops? As for vulnerabilities the linux ones are all publicly available because that is the way linux is. The Microsoft vulnerabilities we'll have to take his word for it. MS could fix vulnerabilities and never tell anyone.
They weren't counting vulnerabilities, they were counting successful attacks. When you count successful attacks windows still loses really big time. Vulnerabilities, meh.
Yeah, like it doesn't already specify image formats and audio formats (bgsound).
Ah, the old malware is only on windows because of its market share argument. That's why Linux Apache servers have so many viruses is it?
The fact that there are no viruses on systems with a 5% market share would say you're wrong. Even 5% is enough to make lots of money on malware but there's not even one?
The reason there is so much malware on windows it's has so many easily exploited vulnerabilities and it's internal environment is so homogenous among versions.
Actually there are lots of distributions that are AV-less and are quite secure from viruses and malware. Microsoft itself said that Vista wouldn't be subject to viruses. A distro should be reasonably secure out of the box. If it's necessary to add security software (and usually expensive security software) just to make a distribution secure then it is not fit for the purpose for which it's sold.
Looks like a lot of oil money being spent on slashdot accounts, to post and to moderate. I wonder what the IP ranges they're coming from look like?
You know the scientific model that predicted that cod in the Grand Banks would continue to be plentiful was wrong.
Saying a scientific model is wrong is a given. The question is really in which direction is it wrong.
Instead of getting stupid client deniers' videos that have already been debunked, try reading Tim Flannery's "The Weather Makers".
There's a lot of oil money in astroturfing these days. Seems concentrated on slashdot too.
Then it's not a standard is it if it requires certification to work?
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jim/2007/02/02/the-vi acom-international-copyright-dmca-debacle-about-yo utube-videos-should-we-counter-sue/
They used to say pay TV, cable TV had no ads - it's not true now is it, so now you pay for it - pay TV, cable TV and get ads. You pay for the ads. When I go to the cinema I pay AU$26 and I have to sit through ads. Advertising is purely opportunistic. The argument that advertising pays for TV is not true. There are other business models, I don't have to support a business model based on opportunism.
In addition some of the videos they've put take-down notices on are private videos, nothing to do with Viacom. How do they justify that?
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And can you have more than one SIP phone behind a firewall with NAT?
And not all companies use the same port. How hard is it to put the correct addresses in the headers to the machines you want to send the data to?
I would prefer an open standards solution but the trouble is that SIP and H323 are really crap protocols.
1) You have to open hundreds of special ports. Which makes forwarding this stuff a nightmare and means you have to open all this crap in your firwall.
2) Each company uses different ports. Ports don't seem to be a part of the standard.
3) The source and destination address are in the data not in the headers (how hard is it to use standard IP source and destination addresses?) Which makes any system with NAT a real pain when it should just be transparent, it should just work.
At least skype works with almost any firewall and if you have a firewall, almost any firewall skype will never make your system a supernode. That wasn't that hard was it?
Some group should create an open standards base protocol for sound and video that works properly.
Some of the issues about skype payments are going to be a problem with any company say gizom or wengo.
A program is just an series of calculations, a very complex kind of equation. A compiler is a series of equations which could produce (among other things) a word processor. A word processor itself is a series of equations, which can with the right input, produce documents.
Yeah: hypercolor shirts that changed colour when you changed temperature - showed where you were sweaty etc.
A car that has a big red splotch on the bonnet just above the engine when it warms up.
That's got to be useful for something, NOT.
I'm not expecting to get modded up for this comment!
Wrong, viruses have been evolving for millions of years to use other life forms to survive and reproduce.
There is a law of biology that says something like: any parasite evolves to be less harmfull to its host(s).
The movie industry is a monopoly? That's funny, I thought there were a lot of competing studios (and lots more competition from Hong Kong, India, Japan, and Europe.)
Copyright law gives a government created monopoly to the copyright owner. You really did sleep through those classes.
My reaction to Microsoft offering its own anti-spyware is the same as my reaction to the MS firewall in XP SP2: Would you trust Microsoft for your security?
And no I haven't RTFA.
Democracy imposed from without is the severest form of tyranny. -- Lloyd Biggle, Jr. Analog, Apr 1961