We need to stay focused on keeping the lead, instead of relaxing on our supposed invincibility.
Here's some statistics from wikipedia....
The United States military budget is larger than the military budgets of the next twenty biggest spenders combined, and six times larger than Russia's, which places second. The United States and its close allies are responsible for approximately two-thirds of all military spending on Earth (of which, in turn, the U.S. is responsible for two-thirds), dollar for dollar.
Military spending accounts for more than half of the United States' federal discretionary spending, which is all of the U.S. government's money not spoken for by pre-existing obligations. [1] (http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/ArmsTrade/Spending.asp)
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, in 2003 the United States spent approximately 47%, of the world's total military spending of $956,000,000,000 USD.
I think the US is doing everything to stay on top militarily.
According to MSN Encarta (hey, it was the first one I found on a google search) these are the past winners of the AFI Lifetime achievement award.
1973 John Ford
1974 James Cagney
1975 Orson Welles
1976 William Wyler
1977 Bette Davis
1978 Henry Fonda
1979 Alfred Hitchcock
1980 James Stewart
1981 Fred Astaire
1982 Frank Capra
1983 John Huston
1984 Lillian Gish
1985 Gene Kelly
1986 Billy Wilder
1987 Barbara Stanwyck
1988 Jack Lemmon
1989 Gregory Peck
1990 Sir David Lean
1991 Kirk Douglas
1992 Sidney Poitier
1993 Elizabeth Taylor
1994 Jack Nicholson
1995 Steven Spielberg
1996 Clint Eastwood
1997 Martin Scorsese
1998 Robert Wise
1999 Dustin Hoffman
2000 Harrison Ford
2001 Barbra Streisand
2002 Tom Hanks
2003 Robert De Niro
2004 Meryl Streep
There are some pretty serious names on that list. My point is, why now? The nostalgia for the first trilogy of films is good and all, but really, they were only 3 movies.
I worked in a small town library in high school (about 10 years ago). We had software in the back that wasn't in circulation because of the fear of lawsuits about copying. I said that was rediculous, because people could photocopy books, plus we had tons of movies available for checkout. It wasn't my decision though, so the software sat there collecting dust.
I personally think the local library should carry ALL software. It's copyrighted the same as books. How about tax software? People only need it once a year. Checking it out for a week and returning it makes sense. Think about how many programs you only need maybe once or twice a year. Partition Magic comes to mind. Almost all games get boring after a couple of weeks.
Of course software companies would have a fit about this because they percieve lost profits. I think most people that would check out software from a library would go without before buying it.
The real solution to the problem is open source software. I personall think linux is almost ready for the desktop for the average user. Hell, the evolution email client alone makes me want to switch (I'm dual booting now, mainly because my sound drivers play volume at 1/3 of the windows drivers and my USB flash keychain thingy doesn't work properly under linux. I'm running mandrake 10 with asus a7v8x-x mobo. any ideas??:).
But I'm getting offtopic. Libraries should have ALL software available for checkout, just as they have all other forms of media. Thank god libraries have existed for as long as they have in this country, because if they were suggested today, they would get vetoed by book, magazine, movie, music, and software publishers because of a percieved loss in profit. Think of all of the brilliant people throughout history that were not rich enough to have their own vast collection of books.
all in one story is not quite enough for a flamewar. If they were running this new service on SCO licensed servers donated by Microsoft in order to find oil on Mars, THEN you would have a story.
helps by being stealthy enough to travel through the forest canopy along specially-constructed cabling
I suppose a piece of metal crashing through tree branches hanging from a cable is more stealthy than, say a jackhammer. Wouldn't it be more quiet if many sensors were placed about the forest and used wifi to connect and send information? They could even still run linux to do so and get mentioned on slashdot!
Contrast this to your current methods which involve extorting protection money out of people who do NOT pirate your signals simply because they bought a programmable smart card with a wide range of possible uses, one of which *might* lead to the pirating of your signals.
True, but on the other hand if you bought your smartcard programmer from a site called www.hackdss.com I think there is a plausable argument that you might have purchaced said equipment to hack dss.
Why don't we combine this new idea of distributed computing with a P2P network? It should be technically feasable, and then the eff people could run an ad campain such as, "The RIAA is against Kazaa. Kazaa cures cancer. Therefore, RIAA is for cancer!" similar to the campain comercial in Head of State.
The biggest problem I have with strong passwords for logins is that everyone seems to have a different idea of what a strong password is. Some people require the first 2 characters to be letters, some require length to be greater than 6 chars while others are a max of 6 chars, and so on.
I have developed a password that I use on systems I can control that consists of 13 characters, both letters and numbers, and a & sign in for good measure. It makes perfect sense to me, I will NEVER forget this password, and you would litterally have to be able to read my mind in order to guess it. But most systems wont accept it for whatever reason or another, so I vary it slightly to conform to whatever rules are in effect. This creates a problem of about 5 variations of what I want my password to be.
I think people need to be educated on how to make a strong password. It should be up to the user to provide a strong enough password, because if the user can't remember it, then the entire process is pointless. We're supposed to show photo id at school to have our password retrieved for us, but it happens so often, that the people behind the counter just do it. How many other places do this same thing, because EVERYONE forgets their password?
Sorry for the long rant, but I felt the need to get all this off my chest:)
Here's the problem I see with this type of advanced bios. How long will it be until a virus is written that exploits bios code? Imagine the horror of having to flash your bios to rid yourself of the latest internet worm.
Do these people remember that BIOS stands for Basic Input-Output System? It is designed to be the foundation of the computer system, not the latest futile gesture to stop piracy.
I give the "security features" 6 months to get hacked, and then all we are left with security holes and bugs that could theoretically destroy hardware. This is progress?????
If you want to read any book for free, just ask your local library to order it and they will. Libraries guess at what books people want to read, so if anyone shows any interest in any book, they order it. They loose their federal funding if they don't spend the money they are allocated, so they are generally VERY willing to buy as much as possible.
"If the guest account is enabled (on Exchange 5.5 and 2000), even if your login fails, you can send mail, because the guest account is there as a catchall,"......... The guest account is a way for administrators to let visitors use a mail server anonymously, but because of security issues, the feature is generally not enabled.
Why on earth does a guest account even EXIST anymore????? I would think it is obvious that guest access on any machine is a bad thing.
Exchange servers that had been infected by the Code Red worm and subsequently cleaned will still have the guest account enabled, Greenspan said.
Why does this have to be brought up every time something comes out about RFID tags? If "Big Brother" cared enough about you to track you, they would bring up your credit/debit card purchases and find everything about you that an RFID tag would tell them. You know that cell phone you carry around? Your position can be determined quite easily from that. Existing technology allows anyone to track you already. Anonimity has already been traded for convenience.
Don't worry though, nobody is watching and tracking you as an individual. Truth be told, Big Brother just doesn't care about you.
Why don't they just go ahead and have a clean, reimplementation of Windows started while they work on Longhorn?
2 reasons. First, support for legacy apps has to be included in any new OS Microsoft developes. Second, imagine how long that would take to complete. It took what, 5 or 6 years, for the NT kernel to be able to reliably run 95/98/ME apps. Imagine the press release, "Longhorn to arrive in 2009".
Starting over would render close to a decade of work worthless. That kind of suggestion is hard to justify.
It's odd that you had problems with sony. Recently, my roommate moved out. We had 300 cd-r's that contained divx movies that were pretty much community property. I found a deal on 2 160 gig hard drives on pricewatch, so I bought the hard drives and copied all the cd's to harddrive (yes it took forever). It was an interesting experiment though because we have all major brand cd-r's in the collection. About 20 or so of the disks are dead after maybe 1.5 - 2 years. The sony disks faired better than any other brand we used.
We didn't use cheap bulk cd-r's because I know from experience they flake fast. The real interesting thing i noticed was that PNY didn't fair as well as I had expected over time. As far as I could tell, PNY works best in standalone CD players as far as being able to read, and always seemed to last awhile (at least long enough that I got tired of the CD and gave it away).
These are just my observations. BTW, half of these cdr's were burned on a plextor 8x4x2 and half on a sony dru-500a.
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides
By the inequities of Microsoft Windows and the tyranny of Bill Gates.
Blessed is he who, in the name of open source and good will,
Shepherds the newbie through the screens of blue,
For he is trulely a computer scientist, and the finder of lost productivity.
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger
Those who spread virii and worms throughout my networks.
And you will know my name is the Guru when I lay my code upon thee."
Now, why the HELL do ISPs allow these packets on the wire, as they are a LAN service only, is beyond me
Not that I totally disagree with you in this instance, but one could also say, "why the HELL do users allow these packets from the internet, as they are a LAN service only, is beyond me". I'd rather have the freedom to decide what I can do with my connection than have someone else "secure" it for me.
Slashdot Mirror
No.
And whats even funnier is when I hit reply slashdot told me "This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original...".
I'm holding out on the 64 bit systems until amd starts naming the chips commodore.
We need to stay focused on keeping the lead, instead of relaxing on our supposed invincibility.
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Here's some statistics from wikipedia....
The United States military budget is larger than the military budgets of the next twenty biggest spenders combined, and six times larger than Russia's, which places second. The United States and its close allies are responsible for approximately two-thirds of all military spending on Earth (of which, in turn, the U.S. is responsible for two-thirds), dollar for dollar. Military spending accounts for more than half of the United States' federal discretionary spending, which is all of the U.S. government's money not spoken for by pre-existing obligations. [1] (http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/ArmsTrad
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, in 2003 the United States spent approximately 47%, of the world's total military spending of $956,000,000,000 USD.
I think the US is doing everything to stay on top militarily.
You could have saved yourself a couple of minutes by just reading the linked article which included that exact information.
Dude, this is slashdot. Where have you been?
According to MSN Encarta (hey, it was the first one I found on a google search) these are the past winners of the AFI Lifetime achievement award.
1973 John Ford
1974 James Cagney
1975 Orson Welles
1976 William Wyler
1977 Bette Davis
1978 Henry Fonda
1979 Alfred Hitchcock
1980 James Stewart
1981 Fred Astaire
1982 Frank Capra
1983 John Huston
1984 Lillian Gish
1985 Gene Kelly
1986 Billy Wilder
1987 Barbara Stanwyck
1988 Jack Lemmon
1989 Gregory Peck
1990 Sir David Lean
1991 Kirk Douglas
1992 Sidney Poitier
1993 Elizabeth Taylor
1994 Jack Nicholson
1995 Steven Spielberg
1996 Clint Eastwood
1997 Martin Scorsese
1998 Robert Wise
1999 Dustin Hoffman
2000 Harrison Ford
2001 Barbra Streisand
2002 Tom Hanks
2003 Robert De Niro
2004 Meryl Streep
There are some pretty serious names on that list. My point is, why now? The nostalgia for the first trilogy of films is good and all, but really, they were only 3 movies.
I worked in a small town library in high school (about 10 years ago). We had software in the back that wasn't in circulation because of the fear of lawsuits about copying. I said that was rediculous, because people could photocopy books, plus we had tons of movies available for checkout. It wasn't my decision though, so the software sat there collecting dust.
:).
I personally think the local library should carry ALL software. It's copyrighted the same as books. How about tax software? People only need it once a year. Checking it out for a week and returning it makes sense. Think about how many programs you only need maybe once or twice a year. Partition Magic comes to mind. Almost all games get boring after a couple of weeks.
Of course software companies would have a fit about this because they percieve lost profits. I think most people that would check out software from a library would go without before buying it.
The real solution to the problem is open source software. I personall think linux is almost ready for the desktop for the average user. Hell, the evolution email client alone makes me want to switch (I'm dual booting now, mainly because my sound drivers play volume at 1/3 of the windows drivers and my USB flash keychain thingy doesn't work properly under linux. I'm running mandrake 10 with asus a7v8x-x mobo. any ideas??
But I'm getting offtopic. Libraries should have ALL software available for checkout, just as they have all other forms of media. Thank god libraries have existed for as long as they have in this country, because if they were suggested today, they would get vetoed by book, magazine, movie, music, and software publishers because of a percieved loss in profit. Think of all of the brilliant people throughout history that were not rich enough to have their own vast collection of books.
all in one story is not quite enough for a flamewar. If they were running this new service on SCO licensed servers donated by Microsoft in order to find oil on Mars, THEN you would have a story.
Internet Protocol Address Verifier? Is this Carnivore in action?
This could effectively stop spam, at least in conjunction with additional laws. Would it be worth it?
Do a search on kazaa for banned commercials. It's too bad they are banned from tv because most are hilarious.
helps by being stealthy enough to travel through the forest canopy along specially-constructed cabling
I suppose a piece of metal crashing through tree branches hanging from a cable is more stealthy than, say a jackhammer. Wouldn't it be more quiet if many sensors were placed about the forest and used wifi to connect and send information? They could even still run linux to do so and get mentioned on slashdot!
Contrast this to your current methods which involve extorting protection money out of people who do NOT pirate your signals simply because they bought a programmable smart card with a wide range of possible uses, one of which *might* lead to the pirating of your signals.
True, but on the other hand if you bought your smartcard programmer from a site called www.hackdss.com I think there is a plausable argument that you might have purchaced said equipment to hack dss.
Why don't we combine this new idea of distributed computing with a P2P network? It should be technically feasable, and then the eff people could run an ad campain such as, "The RIAA is against Kazaa. Kazaa cures cancer. Therefore, RIAA is for cancer!" similar to the campain comercial in Head of State.
Goes to show that united geeks carry weight.
Hey, I'm on a diet you insensitive clod!!!
The biggest problem I have with strong passwords for logins is that everyone seems to have a different idea of what a strong password is. Some people require the first 2 characters to be letters, some require length to be greater than 6 chars while others are a max of 6 chars, and so on.
:)
I have developed a password that I use on systems I can control that consists of 13 characters, both letters and numbers, and a & sign in for good measure. It makes perfect sense to me, I will NEVER forget this password, and you would litterally have to be able to read my mind in order to guess it. But most systems wont accept it for whatever reason or another, so I vary it slightly to conform to whatever rules are in effect. This creates a problem of about 5 variations of what I want my password to be.
I think people need to be educated on how to make a strong password. It should be up to the user to provide a strong enough password, because if the user can't remember it, then the entire process is pointless. We're supposed to show photo id at school to have our password retrieved for us, but it happens so often, that the people behind the counter just do it. How many other places do this same thing, because EVERYONE forgets their password?
Sorry for the long rant, but I felt the need to get all this off my chest
I've seen this one before. Except RFID tags were replaced by blue numeric tatoos, the picture was black and white, and the narration was in German.
Here's the problem I see with this type of advanced bios. How long will it be until a virus is written that exploits bios code? Imagine the horror of having to flash your bios to rid yourself of the latest internet worm.
Do these people remember that BIOS stands for Basic Input-Output System? It is designed to be the foundation of the computer system, not the latest futile gesture to stop piracy.
I give the "security features" 6 months to get hacked, and then all we are left with security holes and bugs that could theoretically destroy hardware. This is progress?????
If you want to read any book for free, just ask your local library to order it and they will. Libraries guess at what books people want to read, so if anyone shows any interest in any book, they order it. They loose their federal funding if they don't spend the money they are allocated, so they are generally VERY willing to buy as much as possible.
Well, since the reactor compartment will be built out of the same material as an airplane's black box, I demand that my nuclear car can fly.
"If the guest account is enabled (on Exchange 5.5 and 2000), even if your login fails, you can send mail, because the guest account is there as a catchall," ......... The guest account is a way for administrators to let visitors use a mail server anonymously, but because of security issues, the feature is generally not enabled.
Why on earth does a guest account even EXIST anymore????? I would think it is obvious that guest access on any machine is a bad thing.
Exchange servers that had been infected by the Code Red worm and subsequently cleaned will still have the guest account enabled, Greenspan said.
Was code red really just a tool for spammers?
Maybe they should sell voice-recognition software with it
Unfortunately, even voice recognition has flaws when dealing with the uneducated.
Contgradulations!! Big Brother is watching YOU.
Why does this have to be brought up every time something comes out about RFID tags? If "Big Brother" cared enough about you to track you, they would bring up your credit/debit card purchases and find everything about you that an RFID tag would tell them. You know that cell phone you carry around? Your position can be determined quite easily from that. Existing technology allows anyone to track you already. Anonimity has already been traded for convenience.
Don't worry though, nobody is watching and tracking you as an individual. Truth be told, Big Brother just doesn't care about you.
Why don't they just go ahead and have a clean, reimplementation of Windows started while they work on Longhorn?
2 reasons. First, support for legacy apps has to be included in any new OS Microsoft developes. Second, imagine how long that would take to complete. It took what, 5 or 6 years, for the NT kernel to be able to reliably run 95/98/ME apps. Imagine the press release, "Longhorn to arrive in 2009".
Starting over would render close to a decade of work worthless. That kind of suggestion is hard to justify.
It's odd that you had problems with sony. Recently, my roommate moved out. We had 300 cd-r's that contained divx movies that were pretty much community property. I found a deal on 2 160 gig hard drives on pricewatch, so I bought the hard drives and copied all the cd's to harddrive (yes it took forever). It was an interesting experiment though because we have all major brand cd-r's in the collection. About 20 or so of the disks are dead after maybe 1.5 - 2 years. The sony disks faired better than any other brand we used.
We didn't use cheap bulk cd-r's because I know from experience they flake fast. The real interesting thing i noticed was that PNY didn't fair as well as I had expected over time. As far as I could tell, PNY works best in standalone CD players as far as being able to read, and always seemed to last awhile (at least long enough that I got tired of the CD and gave it away).
These are just my observations. BTW, half of these cdr's were burned on a plextor 8x4x2 and half on a sony dru-500a.
WINE MOTHERFUCKER DO YOU SPEAK IT
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides By the inequities of Microsoft Windows and the tyranny of Bill Gates. Blessed is he who, in the name of open source and good will, Shepherds the newbie through the screens of blue, For he is trulely a computer scientist, and the finder of lost productivity. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger Those who spread virii and worms throughout my networks. And you will know my name is the Guru when I lay my code upon thee."
Now, why the HELL do ISPs allow these packets on the wire, as they are a LAN service only, is beyond me
Not that I totally disagree with you in this instance, but one could also say, "why the HELL do users allow these packets from the internet, as they are a LAN service only, is beyond me". I'd rather have the freedom to decide what I can do with my connection than have someone else "secure" it for me.