Use Peer Guardian, or a program like it. It's a special-purpose firewall designed to block the IP ranges of law enforcement, media companies, their 'vigilante' contractors. The blocklist is updated frequently and automatically.
From what I've seen of the logs, certain companies make sweeps of p2p networks at semi-regular intervals; if you do not block some of these connections then you are going on a list, somewhere. Kazaa Lite will not mask you (think packet sniffers here). If a 'vigilante' connects to your machine and downloads part of an illegal file, you are potentially Busted with hard evidence. So wisen up, protect yourself, and let the unlucky stupid get caught.
It is true in the (northeast) US as well. A plumber's hourly wage is usually double that of the IT worker. You'll have to climb into IT management to beat the plumbers...that is strangely appropriate, eh?
I won't say there are easy answers, but by far the largest number of horror stories seem to all be about one specific category: people that believe they can get new or practically new electronic gadgets for substantially below the new price.
The same holds true in the physical retail world. Here in NYC, all the tourist destinations are crammed with dirty electronics markets. Besides cameras and cell phones, all of these stores sell old and new laptops for vastly-or-slightly inflated prices, respectively; price tags (big, colorful) are placed over any and all indentifying marks other than brand. All 'Intel Pentium-x' and 'Made for Windows x' stickers are scraped off. Accidentally done at each store, I am sure.
Whatever urge fools people into buying consumer goods on vacation is probably the same urge that drives people onto Ebay . Unfortunately, I do not see those folks leaving the population anytime soon...after all, you can still make money selling fake watches out of briefcases, and who hasn't heard of that one? The scams will continue, and smart people will simply use eBay for it's original purpose: allowing regular people and small merchants to sell unretailable goods.
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I'm guessing that GWB's feelings about Microsoft may be *directly* related to the size of some campaign contributions he's received...
I suspect that George W. Bush doesn't have a problem with 'anticompetitive practices' if they are done in the name of a higher good (billion dollars profits are, by God, a higher good). An executive that proclaims his right to a preemptive doctrine is not really one that cares about fairness, only about keeping his company (to use the word loosely) on top of world.
For the past few years it has been unsafe to have the radio on while driving a child to school.
You are totally right! Forcing children to listen to 30+ minutes of nonstop commercials is abuse, pure and simple. What kind of life are you preparing them for?
So here is a product that is successful in exactly the way that Apple intended: it is penetrating the market for Windows users as well as Apple users.
Apple's stated goal is to use the iPod/iTunes combination to introduce PC users to the OSX interface, and the Macintosh philosophy in general. Once they are familiarized they will hopefully purchase a Mac and fully enter the Apple lifestyle. If Windows users just purchase an iPod, Apple's profits will be negligible. There would not be 'red ink flowing like blood,' but there would not be any revenue growth, either.
Check the web, the words practically fell from Steve Job's mouth.
That is a different situation. I suspect the OfficeX components (especially Entourage) were designed to be inferior to the PC version of the suite. Microsoft does not want Apples replacing PCs as business desktops, and the broken features and curious inconsistencies will ensure that it does not happen. A good example is Entourage's calendar, helpfully displayed as a collection of message events (like the Inbox!) instead of anything that resembles a calendar. Just awful....so awful that it had to be done on purpose.
I've seen those people, chattering away all day. It's ok to talk as long as they want, right, because it's not like they're using the company phones. The waddling ass in the office next to me spends AT LEAST 4 hours a day playing tetris on his cell phone.
Sounds like a Management problem. As in the employees are not being managed. Treating employees like children only works on the immature and the stupid. Everyone else gets annoyed, and (eventually) leaves.
There's no constitutional right to having a cellphone at work.
There is no Constitutional right to sick time off, either. Would you want a "pity parade" if your job suddenly cut sick time because a few people were abusing the system?
Sure- having a ton of choices is great for development and customization, but for Joe User it is hell to have to learn so much crap to get things working. And if he asks his friend for help, chances are the friend will be using something entirely different and not be able to give much if any.
So everyone that enjoys Linux as it is will instead be forced to use a system of limited choice designed for the average computer user. You know, Linux made it pretty damn far without pandering to Joe User....why shift focus now? The other operating systems on the market fill that need well enough.
I mean, isn't this why people hate the US two-party political system? Too much similarities and not enough choice? You know, some might argue that too many political choices just confuse poor 'Joe Citizens' like you and me.....
Why the hell don't people staticly link this stuff? The APIs for many libraries are so unstable that the idea of "What if I wanna update libBlah later on?" doesn't work and it's not all that important that save on transit or hard drive space any more.
Another aspect to consider is system security. If every app on a linux system came with static libraries, then you have multiple libraries scattered all over the drive. Will all those application authors update their program to include library updates? What if a nasty buffer overflow turns up in libBlah...do you want to leave all the dependent programs around for crackers to stumble upon?
I am not saying that the convenience factor is not important; rather I think that an altogether different approach is needed, one that tackles the problem at a different level. Development on ports systems (Gentoo) is one interesting direction, autopackage another. Better that than applying static libraries to a problem they were never designed to fix.
And if you haven't run windows in 5 years, you really wouldn't miss it, because you can't even comprehend how far its come.
As someone who supports more modern Windows releases, I can say that on a desktop-to-desktop basis the difference is, basically, less needless crashes and fewer unnecessary reboots. Better management systems, yes, and a robust email system...but it is still a version of the NT systems he remembers. Beyond the operating system, too, there are still many, many business applications, that were birthed in the late '80s and early '90s, or are running on obscure programming libraries that aren't nearly as robust as the Windows operating system (say what you will about that statement). Supporting the sort of Management Culture that Windows invites can be...challenging, even today.
So I can easily understand why he wouldn't want to use it at home...InstallShield and all.
This is a world where you may have to replace your team of trained administrators because they just got killed, and you need them replaced immediately or more people will die.
If back-office systems administrators are being killed in a hypothetical attack, then there are bigger problems to worry about than getting email running again. Could you have chosen a little less hysterical of an example to support your point? "Servicemen will DIE if they use Linux!" sounds vaguely trollish.
Why buy a book on shell scripting? Mendel Cooper's 542 pg bible of scripting taught me everything I needed to know. It is a free download, found here. You can find it in an easy-to-print PDF as well.
From the site:
This tutorial assumes no previous knowledge of scripting or programming, but progresses rapidly toward an intermediate/advanced level of instruction (...all the while sneaking in little snippets of UNIX wisdom and lore). It serves as a textbook, a manual for self-study, and a reference and source of knowledge on shell scripting techniques. The exercises and heavily-commented examples invite active reader participation, under the premise that the only way to really learn scripting is to write scripts.
In this war, it sometimes seems that we're using a gun and Microsoft is committed to using its whole arsenal. Can you win with just a gun? Yeah, if you're a good shot and take out a key leader. But the odds favor the person with more weapons.
An interesting analogy. But would American Revolutionaries, the Viet Cong, or Al-Queda agree with you? Even more appropriately -- would Gandhi (the man who won a war without ever firing a shot)? How about the Iraqis when Britian invaded them in the early 20th century?
The complacency of the superior power often nullifies its own advantage. I do not see Microsoft deviating from this venerable axiom.
It may not work. My parents took the 'Play Something, Damnit' attitude with me while growing up, and I tried my hand/foot at a few. Unfortunately it did not help with learning how to lose; my fury was unmatched whenever things did not go well in those sports. The tendancy did not change over the years that I played, either.
So the point is, your cousin's problem is far more complex than you might think. A slapdash solution for your future children might only lead to the same problem, with a good dose of resentment thrown in. Have them do sports for sports sake, and not as character development. P.===---===
Caffeine dialates your blood vessels; that will help stop a headache, which is commonly caused by too much blood trying to circulate through the head. Coffee won't help with, say, eye-strain headaches, but it will help with the sort I mentioned. But put that little bit of caffeine in with a pain-killer.....and you have brand-name Alieve. They put it in there for a reason....
Having said all that, the beauty of water is that when you use it, you get to use it again.
Would you want to be drinking the "again" water after a trip through the fabrication plant? Or how about the water from the steel foundry that does the "bending metal" you referred to?
From eweek: Blake Stowell, SCO's director of communications, acknowledged that the leaked memo is real. But, Stowell claimed that pundits had mischaracterized the memo's context.
if we are considering someone leaked the memo must have been a recipient. That's not exactly a business wide e-mail. No one that high up would go try to shoot themselves in the foot at this point.
You severely underestimate the access power IT technicians have over the contents of their network, including email. A disgruntled (or subversive) IT employee could trivially access these emails on any Windows or Unix system.
You never make generalized statements about lawyers, politicians, doctors, bankers, or the like, right? Cuz if you do, I have a nice "hypocrite" stamp for your forehead...
(4) The snake-oil software company shilling the copy-protection/P2P-tracking software walks away with tens (hundreds?) of thousands of dollars of RIAA money. The wasted money is proof-positive for the RIAA that piracy hurts the bottom line.
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From what I've seen of the logs, certain companies make sweeps of p2p networks at semi-regular intervals; if you do not block some of these connections then you are going on a list, somewhere. Kazaa Lite will not mask you (think packet sniffers here). If a 'vigilante' connects to your machine and downloads part of an illegal file, you are potentially Busted with hard evidence. So wisen up, protect yourself, and let the unlucky stupid get caught.
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The same holds true in the physical retail world. Here in NYC, all the tourist destinations are crammed with dirty electronics markets. Besides cameras and cell phones, all of these stores sell old and new laptops for vastly-or-slightly inflated prices, respectively; price tags (big, colorful) are placed over any and all indentifying marks other than brand. All 'Intel Pentium-x' and 'Made for Windows x' stickers are scraped off. Accidentally done at each store, I am sure.
Whatever urge fools people into buying consumer goods on vacation is probably the same urge that drives people onto Ebay . Unfortunately, I do not see those folks leaving the population anytime soon...after all, you can still make money selling fake watches out of briefcases, and who hasn't heard of that one? The scams will continue, and smart people will simply use eBay for it's original purpose: allowing regular people and small merchants to sell unretailable goods.
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I suspect that George W. Bush doesn't have a problem with 'anticompetitive practices' if they are done in the name of a higher good (billion dollars profits are, by God, a higher good). An executive that proclaims his right to a preemptive doctrine is not really one that cares about fairness, only about keeping his company (to use the word loosely) on top of world.
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You are totally right! Forcing children to listen to 30+ minutes of nonstop commercials is abuse, pure and simple. What kind of life are you preparing them for?
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Apple's stated goal is to use the iPod/iTunes combination to introduce PC users to the OSX interface, and the Macintosh philosophy in general. Once they are familiarized they will hopefully purchase a Mac and fully enter the Apple lifestyle. If Windows users just purchase an iPod, Apple's profits will be negligible. There would not be 'red ink flowing like blood,' but there would not be any revenue growth, either.
Check the web, the words practically fell from Steve Job's mouth.
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More precisely, they are bots that report to law enforcement.
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Sounds like a Management problem. As in the employees are not being managed. Treating employees like children only works on the immature and the stupid. Everyone else gets annoyed, and (eventually) leaves.
There's no constitutional right to having a cellphone at work.
There is no Constitutional right to sick time off, either. Would you want a "pity parade" if your job suddenly cut sick time because a few people were abusing the system?
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So everyone that enjoys Linux as it is will instead be forced to use a system of limited choice designed for the average computer user. You know, Linux made it pretty damn far without pandering to Joe User....why shift focus now? The other operating systems on the market fill that need well enough.
I mean, isn't this why people hate the US two-party political system? Too much similarities and not enough choice? You know, some might argue that too many political choices just confuse poor 'Joe Citizens' like you and me.....
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Another aspect to consider is system security. If every app on a linux system came with static libraries, then you have multiple libraries scattered all over the drive. Will all those application authors update their program to include library updates? What if a nasty buffer overflow turns up in libBlah...do you want to leave all the dependent programs around for crackers to stumble upon?
I am not saying that the convenience factor is not important; rather I think that an altogether different approach is needed, one that tackles the problem at a different level. Development on ports systems (Gentoo) is one interesting direction, autopackage another. Better that than applying static libraries to a problem they were never designed to fix.
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As someone who supports more modern Windows releases, I can say that on a desktop-to-desktop basis the difference is, basically, less needless crashes and fewer unnecessary reboots. Better management systems, yes, and a robust email system...but it is still a version of the NT systems he remembers. Beyond the operating system, too, there are still many, many business applications, that were birthed in the late '80s and early '90s, or are running on obscure programming libraries that aren't nearly as robust as the Windows operating system (say what you will about that statement). Supporting the sort of Management Culture that Windows invites can be...challenging, even today.
So I can easily understand why he wouldn't want to use it at home...InstallShield and all.
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If back-office systems administrators are being killed in a hypothetical attack, then there are bigger problems to worry about than getting email running again. Could you have chosen a little less hysterical of an example to support your point? "Servicemen will DIE if they use Linux!" sounds vaguely trollish.
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From the site:
This tutorial assumes no previous knowledge of scripting or programming, but progresses rapidly toward an intermediate/advanced level of instruction (...all the while sneaking in little snippets of UNIX wisdom and lore). It serves as a textbook, a manual for self-study, and a reference and source of knowledge on shell scripting techniques. The exercises and heavily-commented examples invite active reader participation, under the premise that the only way to really learn scripting is to write scripts.
You are an Emacs user, aren't you...
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An interesting analogy. But would American Revolutionaries, the Viet Cong, or Al-Queda agree with you? Even more appropriately -- would Gandhi (the man who won a war without ever firing a shot)? How about the Iraqis when Britian invaded them in the early 20th century?
The complacency of the superior power often nullifies its own advantage. I do not see Microsoft deviating from this venerable axiom.
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It may not work. My parents took the 'Play Something, Damnit' attitude with me while growing up, and I tried my hand/foot at a few. Unfortunately it did not help with learning how to lose; my fury was unmatched whenever things did not go well in those sports. The tendancy did not change over the years that I played, either. So the point is, your cousin's problem is far more complex than you might think. A slapdash solution for your future children might only lead to the same problem, with a good dose of resentment thrown in. Have them do sports for sports sake, and not as character development. P.===---===
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Would you want to be drinking the "again" water after a trip through the fabrication plant? Or how about the water from the steel foundry that does the "bending metal" you referred to?
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Blake Stowell, SCO's director of communications, acknowledged that the leaked memo is real. But, Stowell claimed that pundits had mischaracterized the memo's context.
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You severely underestimate the access power IT technicians have over the contents of their network, including email. A disgruntled (or subversive) IT employee could trivially access these emails on any Windows or Unix system.
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