Or maybe they're just going to harvest all the funnies that get forwarded around each day to keep themselves entertained. I'm sure they'll have more than enough to keep them busy.:D
I'm assuming it is legal for an ISP or other hosting entity to browse whats on their machines, so going on that I guess it should be up to the ISP to make sure there isn't anything obviously dodgy going on on their networks. They should take an active role in making sure that no Bad Things are stored on their servers.
I get the feeling from the article though, that the main reason for the raid is because the ISP was hosting an IRC node. But with IRC, unless you're making logs, there is nothing 'saved'. There is nothing static about IRC.
Perhaps the FBI believed that bringing down the servers would stop the network from running? I don't know.
If Microsoft decides to support a product, piece of hardware, or whatever out of the box with their next version of Windows, that piece of technology starts to become very popular. That technology then gets refined and maybe, later on an integral part of a computer system.
USB comes to mind but I think Apple beat them to it?
"I'm already VERY wary of any Real-player-related product."
Tell me about it. If they had any idea of how bad their image is they'd market the thing under a new guise.
It's just like running pirate versions of software that requires registration keys issued from the vendor. They're not the ones that feel they've been treated like a criminal, they don't have to jump through hoops and prove their cause to a software company! The legitimate users end up feeling victimised (like me) after going though that more than once. Talk about getting your priorities wrong.
Instead of notice letters given to the wrong people, you now could get a SWAT team knocking down the door of the wrong house. That will go down well with the public!
Gee thats nasty. It's the artists work that people are buying, they should at least get 25% of the income for each purchase. Especially when you don't put the costs of physical production of CD's onto the price tag.
We're running Architectural Desktop on about twenty workstations. ADT uses C-Dilla to ensure that you're not doing anything dodgy, like we have the time to bother. Every week one workstation falls over and says the authorisation code is invalid and forces that machine to be re-registered REALLY quickly. Two days or so punch in another code before it refuses to load.
Because all our serial numbers have been registered multiple times because of this very problem, we have to send e-mails to Autodesk directly with an explanation as to why we should get another registration code. Feel like you're a crook yet? If you're lucky you'll get an answer that day. So make sure you add that reason otherwise it may take a while to get that machine running again!
They offered a patch on their website that supposedly fixes the problem but it changes absolutely nothing.:(
In regards to e-mail virii, the main problem is that people will open anything that shows up in their Inbox, no matter how many times you warn them that ones addressed from unknown people with unusual subject lines are probably malicious.
Word files it handles generally well. I found, at least in version 6, that it has a hard time reading and writing spreadsheets properly. A problem that kept coming up was that print ranges were being changed so as nothing printed by default, you had to go and manually assign certain sheets to be printable. Imagine trying to explain that to your users.
The biggest problem is when the documents are being accessed, modified and saved by both MS and Star users, things start to get progressively worse. Strange anomolies appear in the documents and some things disappear completely. If on the other hand you're handling the documents only in Star and you save them as MS formatted files, they retain their consistancy a lot better.
Thankfully the most that people want to do in my company is write letters to clients and StarOffice is very capable of doing that.
My old Duron survived quite well after the CPU fan failed. Took me half an hour to figure out why my machine was acting so strange and it was running approximately 90 degrees celcius the whole time. Still works now with a new fan.
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Or maybe they're just going to harvest all the funnies that get forwarded around each day to keep themselves entertained. I'm sure they'll have more than enough to keep them busy. :D
I'm assuming it is legal for an ISP or other hosting entity to browse whats on their machines, so going on that I guess it should be up to the ISP to make sure there isn't anything obviously dodgy going on on their networks. They should take an active role in making sure that no Bad Things are stored on their servers.
I get the feeling from the article though, that the main reason for the raid is because the ISP was hosting an IRC node. But with IRC, unless you're making logs, there is nothing 'saved'. There is nothing static about IRC.
Perhaps the FBI believed that bringing down the servers would stop the network from running? I don't know.
If Microsoft decides to support a product, piece of hardware, or whatever out of the box with their next version of Windows, that piece of technology starts to become very popular. That technology then gets refined and maybe, later on an integral part of a computer system.
USB comes to mind but I think Apple beat them to it?
My PC may run slower but at least I know that the virus scanner is working! Better than the alternative.
"I'm already VERY wary of any Real-player-related product." Tell me about it. If they had any idea of how bad their image is they'd market the thing under a new guise.
It's just like running pirate versions of software that requires registration keys issued from the vendor. They're not the ones that feel they've been treated like a criminal, they don't have to jump through hoops and prove their cause to a software company! The legitimate users end up feeling victimised (like me) after going though that more than once. Talk about getting your priorities wrong.
Instead of notice letters given to the wrong people, you now could get a SWAT team knocking down the door of the wrong house. That will go down well with the public!
Gee thats nasty. It's the artists work that people are buying, they should at least get 25% of the income for each purchase. Especially when you don't put the costs of physical production of CD's onto the price tag.
We're running Architectural Desktop on about twenty workstations. ADT uses C-Dilla to ensure that you're not doing anything dodgy, like we have the time to bother. Every week one workstation falls over and says the authorisation code is invalid and forces that machine to be re-registered REALLY quickly. Two days or so punch in another code before it refuses to load.
:(
Because all our serial numbers have been registered multiple times because of this very problem, we have to send e-mails to Autodesk directly with an explanation as to why we should get another registration code. Feel like you're a crook yet? If you're lucky you'll get an answer that day. So make sure you add that reason otherwise it may take a while to get that machine running again!
They offered a patch on their website that supposedly fixes the problem but it changes absolutely nothing.
In regards to e-mail virii, the main problem is that people will open anything that shows up in their Inbox, no matter how many times you warn them that ones addressed from unknown people with unusual subject lines are probably malicious.
Word files it handles generally well. I found, at least in version 6, that it has a hard time reading and writing spreadsheets properly. A problem that kept coming up was that print ranges were being changed so as nothing printed by default, you had to go and manually assign certain sheets to be printable. Imagine trying to explain that to your users. The biggest problem is when the documents are being accessed, modified and saved by both MS and Star users, things start to get progressively worse. Strange anomolies appear in the documents and some things disappear completely. If on the other hand you're handling the documents only in Star and you save them as MS formatted files, they retain their consistancy a lot better. Thankfully the most that people want to do in my company is write letters to clients and StarOffice is very capable of doing that.
My old Duron survived quite well after the CPU fan failed. Took me half an hour to figure out why my machine was acting so strange and it was running approximately 90 degrees celcius the whole time. Still works now with a new fan.
Virtual Reality? LG can't even sell an Internet Refridgerator, what use can a twenty kilo VR headset be?