We can only hope these tapes have been misplaced or actually lost rather than stolen for the information they contain.
All backups should be done on VERY obscure hardware to reduce the danger of things like this;) If the crooks can't read the tapes theres no problem (same goes for strong encryption)
Heres why (from the apple site): Don't let its elegant and easy-to-use interface fool you. Beneath the surface of Mac OS X lies an industrial-strength UNIX foundation hard at work to ensure that your computing experience remains free of system crashes and compromised performance. Time-tested security protocols in Mac OS X keep your Mac out of harm's way.
Apples just seem to ummmm you know, like errrr work. Also, they look good, perform reasonably and have more commercial stuff on them than Linux.
I think thats a losing battle. People just don't do that much stuff, so they simulate others and post random crap thats important in their day - winning a victory over the cat, preparing for a house move, going for a job interview. The word has different meaning to lots of people and I think its a losing battle to try to force the critical mass of people from using blogs in the way you describe.
Well before the internet, catalog shopping took off in a big way in the UK. You got a big catalog sent to you twice a year, and picked out what you wanted when you wanted, the goods were usually delivered quickly and returns generally weren't a problem.
This involved exactly the same logistical problems you are describing and they managed it quite well. Its probably still available, the only change I see is that the online catalog is more upto date with stock and fads.
When have you ever had a problem with a prerecorded dvd? Have you ever considered if its + or - ? Does it even enter the equation, or are commercial dvds standardised.
I agree with you. It should be upto the person who was spammed to prove the company he is suing is guilty of the actions he claims they are.
How would you go about that with a spam email sent via a random home users' computer controlled via a command issued on an IRC server somewhere by someone we don't know borrowing control of a botnet built up from activations on a dodgy image file served up from an even dodgier porn website at the request of a person we don't know supposedly because of a backhander given by a middle manager of a company whilst drunk at a weekend junkit?
Another poster mentions a paper trail, good luck with that one.
Put this in perspective, we are talking about an insigificant electronic message coming from ANYWHERE in the world randomly and taking up fractions of a second of processing time and which costs at most fractions of a pence to send and receive anywhere worldwide.
We are not talking about anything as serious as you mention, of fucking course the police would investigate a murder properly and not be thrown by a calling card.
The differences don't even need clarifying suffice to say I most certainly don't think what you suggest, but merely that spam is overrated. I just deleted 500 messages from the last couple of days, I'm absolutely devistated and am about to sue for willful bombardment of my mailbox.
Perhaps sites should start to sue slashdot for sending too many unsolicited visitors their way.
To add to this, the exploit may be in more than one image file viewer, it could be a common handling problem with WMF files in Windows. If you can remove ALL associations to the fileformat (at least until the extent is known) this would be beneficial.
Users of webbrowsers (all) must be careful when saving image files of type WMF. Once saved on your computer the associated image viewer is used to display the file.
Take care with IM and email attachments as well, because this is another possible vector.
Since I happened to try it and was confronted by the login screen I can only assume that either they changed the page since I looked or its served demographically (I would have just read the article and not bothered finding and posting additional links).
It annoys me that I cannot view simple free content pages without logging in (whether real or not) and even more so if there is no need to (if they aren't checking it and crap can go there, then just what purpose does it serve?)
Premium content is one thing and access to subscribers only is a valid model, but for free news content that just requires additional faffing in certain circumstances to get to goes against the normal web model.
You answered your own observation there. ISPs already include caching servers and can continue giving static content even when the original site is offline (as long as at least one person has been there before).
Its the webmasters who create dynamic pages (for adverts mainly) that prevent this from working.
Your personalised slashdot webpage is not the same as mine, so you would NEED to go to the server for rendering (I have things set which its unlikely you do).
This is MS, its being put into Internet Explorer, and hence its in the OS.
Looking properly however, I can actually see some niceness if a proper API can be developed. Things like checking for software updates, event notification, scanning the security audit logs (subscribe to the domain login failure event list for instance).
Just because the blog world has abused it for headlines doesn't mean thats its only use.
I'm still not convinced by all this quantum connectivity business, but then again you look at a wall of clocks with their pendulums all in sync (because of vibrations in the wall) and you think hmmmm maybe its possible.
"This article at XYZ Computing takes a look at Slashdot's strange naming practices. When compared to their Web 2.0's equivalents, the names of many Slashdot URLs are difficult to recognize and even tougher to say. This may seem like splitting hairs, but it is actually an important usability issue. Just think, if you had to do a bit of news which would be easier to tell your friend on the phone, digg.com slash technology or linux dot slash dot dot org slash, no not linux dot slash dot dot org, i said linux fullstop ess ell aye ess haych dee oh tee fullstop oh arr gee? The article is a bit thin, but it raises an excellent point.
Santa has time to get around the world because of this fact. When people ask how he manages to get around so quickly, you have to remember all the houses he doesn't deliver to. Listen to the commentry for the videos, it explains that he must do a flyby for the few children isolated wherever they are, but doesn't need to spend ages in each country.
This leaves him plenty of time to fly around and deliver at the countries who need him.
Slashdot Mirror
We can only hope these tapes have been misplaced or actually lost rather than stolen for the information they contain.
;)
All backups should be done on VERY obscure hardware to reduce the danger of things like this
If the crooks can't read the tapes theres no problem (same goes for strong encryption)
Heres why (from the apple site):
Don't let its elegant and easy-to-use interface fool you. Beneath the surface of Mac OS X lies an industrial-strength UNIX foundation hard at work to ensure that your computing experience remains free of system crashes and compromised performance. Time-tested security protocols in Mac OS X keep your Mac out of harm's way.
Apples just seem to ummmm you know, like errrr work. Also, they look good, perform reasonably and have more commercial stuff on them than Linux.
I think thats a losing battle.
People just don't do that much stuff, so they simulate others and post random crap thats important in their day - winning a victory over the cat, preparing for a house move, going for a job interview.
The word has different meaning to lots of people and I think its a losing battle to try to force the critical mass of people from using blogs in the way you describe.
Blogs should not be used for trivial diaries, and that I fear is what the AOL users will use them for.
No, blogs can be used for whatever people want to use them for.
Its how they are indexed and linked that matters.
If 10 bazillion people all want to talk about their fuzzy heads and broken dreams, then so be it.
In an ideal world, we would not be forced to look at them.
Google still needs tweaking to remove them.
Well before the internet, catalog shopping took off in a big way in the UK.
You got a big catalog sent to you twice a year, and picked out what you wanted when you wanted, the goods were usually delivered quickly and returns generally weren't a problem.
This involved exactly the same logistical problems you are describing and they managed it quite well.
Its probably still available, the only change I see is that the online catalog is more upto date with stock and fads.
I use the slashboxes on the slashdot page quite extensively.
It allows me to browse slash and keep ontop of the main sites I visit.
RSS works for me in this context and I haven't ever seen the need to get a dedicated reader or investigate RSS further.
Ring Ring. Ring Ring. "Hello?"
"Hello, I am your pusher robot. I am here to protect you from the terrible secret of space. Please go to the top of the stairs"
Oh, I almost forget, Happy new year everyone.
It probably is a slow news day.
Why the hell would anyone want to announce new things or release viruses on new years eve?
Expect tush n piffle articles whilst most people *worldwide* are all off work.
Well bloody said!
When have you ever had a problem with a prerecorded dvd?
Have you ever considered if its + or - ?
Does it even enter the equation, or are commercial dvds standardised.
I am 100% with you for home recordable media.
I agree with you.
It should be upto the person who was spammed to prove the company he is suing is guilty of the actions he claims they are.
How would you go about that with a spam email sent via a random home users' computer controlled via a command issued on an IRC server somewhere by someone we don't know borrowing control of a botnet built up from activations on a dodgy image file served up from an even dodgier porn website at the request of a person we don't know supposedly because of a backhander given by a middle manager of a company whilst drunk at a weekend junkit?
Another poster mentions a paper trail, good luck with that one.
Why should a company stop selling goods based upon email referals?
How would they know the sale came from a spam run, or from a friendly word of mouth email, or from a slashvertisement or anywhere?
Get a spam filter and stop whining.
Put this in perspective, we are talking about an insigificant electronic message coming from ANYWHERE in the world randomly and taking up fractions of a second of processing time and which costs at most fractions of a pence to send and receive anywhere worldwide.
We are not talking about anything as serious as you mention, of fucking course the police would investigate a murder properly and not be thrown by a calling card.
The differences don't even need clarifying suffice to say I most certainly don't think what you suggest, but merely that spam is overrated.
I just deleted 500 messages from the last couple of days, I'm absolutely devistated and am about to sue for willful bombardment of my mailbox.
Perhaps sites should start to sue slashdot for sending too many unsolicited visitors their way.
The entire fucking thing is a joke.
Suppose you own a company, Tlacuache Inc.
If I decided to commission a detailed spam campaign on your behalf (but without your knowledge - lets call it a 'gift' from the members of my botnet).
How could you prove you DIDN'T instigate the run, and how could you prove its not your fault?
Do you enjoy giving your money away?
This fine hopefully won't set off a trend.
This is the internet, the place where women are women, and some men are women too.
To add to this, the exploit may be in more than one image file viewer, it could be a common handling problem with WMF files in Windows.
If you can remove ALL associations to the fileformat (at least until the extent is known) this would be beneficial.
Users of webbrowsers (all) must be careful when saving image files of type WMF.
Once saved on your computer the associated image viewer is used to display the file.
Take care with IM and email attachments as well, because this is another possible vector.
Since I happened to try it and was confronted by the login screen I can only assume that either they changed the page since I looked or its served demographically (I would have just read the article and not bothered finding and posting additional links).
It annoys me that I cannot view simple free content pages without logging in (whether real or not) and even more so if there is no need to (if they aren't checking it and crap can go there, then just what purpose does it serve?)
Premium content is one thing and access to subscribers only is a valid model, but for free news content that just requires additional faffing in certain circumstances to get to goes against the normal web model.
You answered your own observation there.
ISPs already include caching servers and can continue giving static content even when the original site is offline (as long as at least one person has been there before).
Its the webmasters who create dynamic pages (for adverts mainly) that prevent this from working.
Your personalised slashdot webpage is not the same as mine, so you would NEED to go to the server for rendering (I have things set which its unlikely you do).
Problem: If you can't read it on the porcelein throne, it isn't perfect.
Solution: The Nokia 770 internet tablet.
Price is about right and resolution is good, hell even the OS is up there (yes, it does run Linux).
I'm just waiting to get my hands on one before final purchasing decision is made (reviews say slow, but slow is still better than none).
ERROR 6. Overflow
I think we just found found the first realworld use for 64bit processors.
GO AMD!
This is MS, its being put into Internet Explorer, and hence its in the OS.
Looking properly however, I can actually see some niceness if a proper API can be developed. Things like checking for software updates, event notification, scanning the security audit logs (subscribe to the domain login failure event list for instance).
Just because the blog world has abused it for headlines doesn't mean thats its only use.
its a bit shit expecting to give your firstborn away just to read an article.
I found an alternative link.
I'm still not convinced by all this quantum connectivity business, but then again you look at a wall of clocks with their pendulums all in sync (because of vibrations in the wall) and you think hmmmm maybe its possible.
"This article at XYZ Computing takes a look at Slashdot's strange naming practices. When compared to their Web 2.0's equivalents, the names of many Slashdot URLs are difficult to recognize and even tougher to say. This may seem like splitting hairs, but it is actually an important usability issue. Just think, if you had to do a bit of news which would be easier to tell your friend on the phone, digg.com slash technology or linux dot slash dot dot org slash, no not linux dot slash dot dot org, i said linux fullstop ess ell aye ess haych dee oh tee fullstop oh arr gee?
The article is a bit thin, but it raises an excellent point.
Santa has time to get around the world because of this fact.
When people ask how he manages to get around so quickly, you have to remember all the houses he doesn't deliver to.
Listen to the commentry for the videos, it explains that he must do a flyby for the few children isolated wherever they are, but doesn't need to spend ages in each country.
This leaves him plenty of time to fly around and deliver at the countries who need him.