It's had the microsoft "embrace and extend" applied to it.
It's flooding across the world, the idea that copyright was once a workable solution but now is gradually being more and more perverse
Thanks to many commercial interests, companies are applying pressure to have copyright strengthened in a radical sense
More and more they want not only full control over who makes copies (the original idea) but how you use the copies you get. how you watch them, who you watch them with, what you do with the information on those copies
A home user making a copy of a DVD to have it on their upstares computer as well as their DVD player in the living room is one thing, and is meaninglless in the scheme of things
"they" however want to control you and sya you can't do 'x' or 'y'. when you want to do 'z'
I hate to break it to you but Microsoft is popular, and hence they will be all the more targets of these worms. Every tiny fault will be implemented, and all operating systems have these.
When another OS is popular, you'll see it happen to it too. I believe nobody is immune, only the popularity decides what is a vector for transmission
Not necessarily bad coding or seciryty. Many other operating systems could be almost said to be 'hiding' in their obscurity
Security by obscurity is no defence.
Look at a recent article on Macintosh virus attacks. They used to be none-existent. Now with OSX they are up to half as common as Microsoft.
And apple still only has a minor market share. That bares thinking about
You might be interested then to learn of the history of photoshop
An app which was only picked 'up' by adobe due to a contract dispute after it had become succesful
before adobe photoshop 3, Microsoft obtained development of photoshop in versions 1 and 2. You can look it up if you like.
Besides, photoshop was a simple ripoff of dpaint, a program that had been released on Amiga quite a while before. interesting where the real innovations were.
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I think the left brain right brain thing is a load of crock.
The myth about males and women having communication problems because of different ways of thinking sounds like just theory to me
Do you really think there is such a difference?
More than anything is a persons education and social skills and life that affect communication
Not the size of the side of their head
Remember this is all theory and you're just repeating something you heard.
While they are producing some good stuff now (lets not talk about the past will we) they are a commercial company. That much won't change any time soon
As such their "priorities" so to speak are different and opposed to those of open source, linux, and software.
We could end up just feeding apple a lot in the way of open source projects, all up and dancing in a hoohaa of joy.
What happens when apple change their mind? Suddenly they're not so supportive of OSS. The commercial climate is fickle, and it WILL change
hehe actually i think you will fgind the amiga revolutionised the desktop gui and graphics in personal computers. It was the first for them all, and quite a ways before the rest.
in many ways i still think linux and MAC and windows have a long way to go to catch up to its intuition
So many new cards seem to accentuate their 3D performance, is there anything done to really make for excellent 2D performance, or is that langiushing?. I know there is a much bigger market for 3D and its the sexy exciting thing, but is there more than can be done for the 2D work too?
That makes me wonder, which current bands have a history going back so far that their music, some of which is currently played too would be then free to use?
when it comes to rolling stones i think some of their oldest stuff is whats still defining them, but i dont know if they go back 28 years
Can anyone give a good reason for needing files larger than 2gb? The seek times alone withinr these files must be huge, and it smacks a bit of inefficienecy
sure its just as bad to have an app use hundreds of say 4kb files or so, but two GIGABYTES???
Kevin Mitnick is allowed back on the net and the net goes fubar
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compared to ms-sql then yes it probably would be if its been targeted less, and if there is just as much of it installed then expect it to be targeted next, that much is obvious
hrm kevin mitnick is allowed back o the net and the net goes fubar
hrmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm????
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piss off with the goddamned MS bashing will you all? This could have happened to ANY server out there, but once again due only to the POPULARITY of mssql is it targeted. It would hardly make sense from an attacker point of view to spend all the time finding a vulnerability in a rarely used system now would it?
heh I dont think they know the power of proper good filtering software. I used to use a package on my amiga which could reconstruct less noise from a bad sample, ie one on a bad microphone or at bad level input, and get a very good sounding sample from it. I'm sure someone could write a decent one nowadays
so all i can say is bring it on, they'll be sharing just what they don't want to be?
SUCKED IN to them!
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It's had the microsoft "embrace and extend" applied to it.
It's flooding across the world, the idea that copyright was once a workable solution but now is gradually being more and more perverse
Thanks to many commercial interests, companies are applying pressure to have copyright strengthened in a radical sense
More and more they want not only full control over who makes copies (the original idea) but how you use the copies you get. how you watch them, who you watch them with, what you do with the information on those copies
A home user making a copy of a DVD to have it on their upstares computer as well as their DVD player in the living room is one thing, and is meaninglless in the scheme of things
"they" however want to control you and sya you can't do 'x' or 'y'. when you want to do 'z'
something to think about
Well if I have to do your research for you I will, take a look at this then
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I hate to break it to you but Microsoft is popular, and hence they will be all the more targets of these worms. Every tiny fault will be implemented, and all operating systems have these.
When another OS is popular, you'll see it happen to it too. I believe nobody is immune, only the popularity decides what is a vector for transmission
Not necessarily bad coding or seciryty. Many other operating systems could be almost said to be 'hiding' in their obscurity
Security by obscurity is no defence.
Look at a recent article on Macintosh virus attacks. They used to be none-existent. Now with OSX they are up to half as common as Microsoft.
And apple still only has a minor market share. That bares thinking about
Everyone makes noises about Linux on the space shuttle
Now the shuttle has self nuked.
You have to wonder I think, about whether there's some relation or not. After all, look at 1986
Something to ponder over
fecophobia sounds like a 'safe' description of an album i once heard.
it was called "shitscared"
I think you'll find that instead FPS means Field Personnel Systems or Field Personnel Supplies, either of which contains weaponrty dickwad
I fail to see the link with games
Who has an estimate on how long it will take for the Army to outfit its troops with anti-personnel rocket launchers?
We don't really need more anti-personnel equipment
War nowadays is more about accuretley knocking out specific enemy targets. Communications and flight and aircraft and the like
Not just killing everybody
America had developed small antipersonnel nukes during the cold war. These are well known of, but they don't see the light of day
Some things are better left unbuilt.
You might be interested then to learn of the history of photoshop
An app which was only picked 'up' by adobe due to a contract dispute after it had become succesful
before adobe photoshop 3, Microsoft obtained development of photoshop in versions 1 and 2. You can look it up if you like.
Besides, photoshop was a simple ripoff of dpaint, a program that had been released on Amiga quite a while before. interesting where the real innovations were.
I think the left brain right brain thing is a load of crock.
The myth about males and women having communication problems because of different ways of thinking sounds like just theory to me
Do you really think there is such a difference?
More than anything is a persons education and social skills and life that affect communication
Not the size of the side of their head
Remember this is all theory and you're just repeating something you heard.
I think care needs to be taken around Apple.
While they are producing some good stuff now (lets not talk about the past will we) they are a commercial company. That much won't change any time soon
As such their "priorities" so to speak are different and opposed to those of open source, linux, and software.
We could end up just feeding apple a lot in the way of open source projects, all up and dancing in a hoohaa of joy.
What happens when apple change their mind? Suddenly they're not so supportive of OSS. The commercial climate is fickle, and it WILL change
I dont see ever an australian using a term like 'gasoline' or hell even gallons.
otherwise you sound ignorant
hehe actually i think you will fgind the amiga revolutionised the desktop gui and graphics in personal computers. It was the first for them all, and quite a ways before the rest.
in many ways i still think linux and MAC and windows have a long way to go to catch up to its intuition
So many new cards seem to accentuate their 3D performance, is there anything done to really make for excellent 2D performance, or is that langiushing?. I know there is a much bigger market for 3D and its the sexy exciting thing, but is there more than can be done for the 2D work too?
Hey if you compress all of your mail with gzip then it all looks like foreign spam anyway!
That makes me wonder, which current bands have a history going back so far that their music, some of which is currently played too would be then free to use?
when it comes to rolling stones i think some of their oldest stuff is whats still defining them, but i dont know if they go back 28 years
Oh I see now raw video is larger than I thought, oops
Good answer. A 2gb movie would have to go for nearly 4 hours and that includes audio. Explain?
a 20mb mp3 can go well into an hour. Explain?
If you really need a movie which hits tjhat many hours you would be breaking it up into cd sized chunks anyway
Can anyone give a good reason for needing files larger than 2gb? The seek times alone withinr these files must be huge, and it smacks a bit of inefficienecy
sure its just as bad to have an app use hundreds of say 4kb files or so, but two GIGABYTES???
yeah cool hey!
Kevin Mitnick is allowed back on the net and the net goes fubar
compared to ms-sql then yes it probably would be if its been targeted less, and if there is just as much of it installed then expect it to be targeted next, that much is obvious
hrm kevin mitnick is allowed back o the net and the net goes fubar
hrmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm????
piss off with the goddamned MS bashing will you all? This could have happened to ANY server out there, but once again due only to the POPULARITY of mssql is it targeted. It would hardly make sense from an attacker point of view to spend all the time finding a vulnerability in a rarely used system now would it?
this is fud
heh I dont think they know the power of proper good filtering software. I used to use a package on my amiga which could reconstruct less noise from a bad sample, ie one on a bad microphone or at bad level input, and get a very good sounding sample from it. I'm sure someone could write a decent one nowadays so all i can say is bring it on, they'll be sharing just what they don't want to be? SUCKED IN to them!