Or the fact that in our panic driven society the nature of the conviction has become VERY expansive. We had a high schooler near here recently who managed to get convicted of a 4th degree felony sex offense for snapping a girl's bra on school grounds. So basically the kid's life is over. He'll be taking the bus to his Jiffy Lube job when he's 50.
Sure you could build your own firewall appliance and shove it in a DMZ on your home LAN. And you could implement hardware dongles for wireless. And you could sandbox everything and so on and so on and so on.
But is that reasonable? Do you really have content on your machines that's so valuable that it has to be preserved at all costs? Is it really worth the time, effort and money to do so? Did you remember to back it up? People should take reasonable precautions such as a good software firewall, a real time AV scanner, a few spyware tools, a good registry cleaner, etc. Run them once or twice a month unless you see obvious artifacts of some problem. Keep the OS patched on a more or less regular basis but avoid chucking everything on all the time ASAP. Let someone else debug it. That should keep you running.
More than that you should evaluate the rationale for it, just like building a business case at work. If protecting the machines takes as much effort at using the machines, you might have missed the mark.
We have officially invested more brainpower, money and technology into correcting and restricting technology compared to simply using it to its own best expression.
Why can't someone somewhere do something like this for identity theft? Oh yeah I forgot, because WE'RE ALL FUCKING SHEEP BEING LEAD AROUND BY CORPORATE ATTORNEYS !!!
I'm not sure - you can have PRE paid plans. There are also plans such as they are with little if any minutes and you pay for each minute as you say. Those are fairly expensive minutes though and you still pay a flat rate over that each month to maintain the 'contract'. So it's more expensive for us, maybe $10-20/month plus call time.
Xbox live was offline October 17,18 and part of 19 to 'implement' just this. Kicking modders off. Honestly though most of the online community that's vocal about this likes it because it kicks off cheaters.
Now the problem is that they're banning IPs so if you have one modded and one unmodded box you are SOL for both of them,
Will be the next turn of the crank for all the machines at Casa gelfling. Since I have a miserly tendency to keep OS's installed for 8+ years. I figure I can wait out MS for another 5 years while Linux or Mac get up to speed.
Of course this is all commercial applications development and maintenance, not rocket brain surgery so all the work is in Brazil and India. There's simply no way, as an employer to compete with that differential.
Since I can get a flip phone with internet and maybe even a camera for free or near free. Unless there's an actual plausible advantage that getting fewer features than those can get for almost nothing already then there's not benefit.
Read the article closely. Half of it is some boring marketspeak about the display. The other half is the business case for why the display makes sense - In INDIA WHERE YOU CAN'T READILY RECHARGE THE PHONE AND WHERE PEOPLE WHO CAN'T READ STILL NEED A MOBILE PHONE.
Of course it's only a matter of time before MITs Media Lab declares a new project for a hand cranked phone that costs $5 to make or something like that, and it's going to jumpstart the whole third world.
I'm not sure I do unless RH is harmed to the point that it no longer can support or develop any code that ISN'T joined at the hip to Oracle applications. See? I really don't care either way unless my RH servers can no longer support anyone else's application because let's face facts - it's unlikely that Oracle will make generalized RH code that is 'best' for Oracle apps and 'best' for everyone else too. In other words isn't this going to result in another RH fork?
I tend to think that MS cranks out fixes the same way that AV vendors crank out new sigs. Maybe the actual risk of not patching is less than the operational cost of micromanaging your machines? Is MS planning on some built in compatibility issues that would make SP3 or Vista necessary? If not then it probably doesn't make much sense to do it.
I'm pretty sure that by the time I'm forced to abandon XP, desktop *nix of some kind will the only rational alternative. I think Vista is headed for the corporate supported OS/Suite arena. If my employer wants to supply it to me, fine. But I don't think it will have anything much to offer in terms of features or compatibility that are locked in.
64bit Windows will see deployment in the server room on corporate data centers. In this area security is secondary to audit compliance. Server ops will turn on the default Win64 kernel security and it will do whatever it does. Auditors will check the AV box and move on to the next server. Everyone is happy. Server ops has one less thing to do and auditors have an easier job of auditing. I know that's cynical but that's how it works.
Let's remember that the reason Windows is in the server room in the first place is because MS sold it on the premise that's easier to run. Not faster, not with less hardware, not even with fewer people but with a lower skill set. Cheaper. So embedded security is not about security, it's about skill sets. Set it, forget it, hope for the best. If it smashes on the rocks then everyone did their best anyway and no one can be held accountable.
But FF2.0 goes out and tries to find them and apply them automatically so it tells you right away what's no longer working. So far FasterFox and MediaWrap and Google Send2Phone don't work. I haven't worked with it enough to discover what it is that DOES work better. I hope general IEishness and compatibility are improved.
Sorry but is anyone running that company anymore? Is there any vision or is it just about what everyone else dabbles in. Oracle database appliances that run Linux? Are they serious? And who is going to buy this? The 10 million customers who already have sweat blood and tears invested in running mission critical Oracle applications on big assed Unix server clusters? And after they buy it, who are they going to hire to admin yet one more OS? Because we weren't having enough fun juggling AIX, SUN, HPUX, Tandem and Teradata. Sure toss in a one off Oracleinux too. What the hell. And lets change DB ops and admin sufficiently to put a big obstacle and learning curve in our way and let's discover a whole new portfolio of patches to fix and weird interactive behaviors to accomodate.
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Or the fact that in our panic driven society the nature of the conviction has become VERY expansive. We had a high schooler near here recently who managed to get convicted of a 4th degree felony sex offense for snapping a girl's bra on school grounds. So basically the kid's life is over. He'll be taking the bus to his Jiffy Lube job when he's 50.
Seems reasonable, no?
OK so in North Carolina here are the big issues:
Funding for eVoting. Check
Funding to track every sex offender real time, 24/7 everywhere on Earth forever and ever. Check
We're good to go.
Yeah that's fine. For some people.
They're both about proving something. A right, an identity. Technically they're the same thing.
Sure you could build your own firewall appliance and shove it in a DMZ on your home LAN. And you could implement hardware dongles for wireless. And you could sandbox everything and so on and so on and so on.
But is that reasonable? Do you really have content on your machines that's so valuable that it has to be preserved at all costs? Is it really worth the time, effort and money to do so? Did you remember to back it up? People should take reasonable precautions such as a good software firewall, a real time AV scanner, a few spyware tools, a good registry cleaner, etc. Run them once or twice a month unless you see obvious artifacts of some problem. Keep the OS patched on a more or less regular basis but avoid chucking everything on all the time ASAP. Let someone else debug it. That should keep you running.
More than that you should evaluate the rationale for it, just like building a business case at work. If protecting the machines takes as much effort at using the machines, you might have missed the mark.
We have officially invested more brainpower, money and technology into correcting and restricting technology compared to simply using it to its own best expression.
Why can't someone somewhere do something like this for identity theft? Oh yeah I forgot, because WE'RE ALL FUCKING SHEEP BEING LEAD AROUND BY CORPORATE ATTORNEYS !!!
My bad.
I'm not sure - you can have PRE paid plans. There are also plans such as they are with little if any minutes and you pay for each minute as you say. Those are fairly expensive minutes though and you still pay a flat rate over that each month to maintain the 'contract'. So it's more expensive for us, maybe $10-20/month plus call time.
Xbox live was offline October 17,18 and part of 19 to 'implement' just this. Kicking modders off. Honestly though most of the online community that's vocal about this likes it because it kicks off cheaters.
Now the problem is that they're banning IPs so if you have one modded and one unmodded box you are SOL for both of them,
Yes of course with a plan. What good is a phone with no service?
Will be the next turn of the crank for all the machines at Casa gelfling. Since I have a miserly tendency to keep OS's installed for 8+ years. I figure I can wait out MS for another 5 years while Linux or Mac get up to speed.
Of course this is all commercial applications development and maintenance, not rocket brain surgery so all the work is in Brazil and India. There's simply no way, as an employer to compete with that differential.
Since I can get a flip phone with internet and maybe even a camera for free or near free. Unless there's an actual plausible advantage that getting fewer features than those can get for almost nothing already then there's not benefit.
Read the article closely. Half of it is some boring marketspeak about the display. The other half is the business case for why the display makes sense - In INDIA WHERE YOU CAN'T READILY RECHARGE THE PHONE AND WHERE PEOPLE WHO CAN'T READ STILL NEED A MOBILE PHONE.
Of course it's only a matter of time before MITs Media Lab declares a new project for a hand cranked phone that costs $5 to make or something like that, and it's going to jumpstart the whole third world.
I'm not sure I do unless RH is harmed to the point that it no longer can support or develop any code that ISN'T joined at the hip to Oracle applications. See? I really don't care either way unless my RH servers can no longer support anyone else's application because let's face facts - it's unlikely that Oracle will make generalized RH code that is 'best' for Oracle apps and 'best' for everyone else too. In other words isn't this going to result in another RH fork?
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I tend to think that MS cranks out fixes the same way that AV vendors crank out new sigs. Maybe the actual risk of not patching is less than the operational cost of micromanaging your machines? Is MS planning on some built in compatibility issues that would make SP3 or Vista necessary? If not then it probably doesn't make much sense to do it.
I'm pretty sure that by the time I'm forced to abandon XP, desktop *nix of some kind will the only rational alternative. I think Vista is headed for the corporate supported OS/Suite arena. If my employer wants to supply it to me, fine. But I don't think it will have anything much to offer in terms of features or compatibility that are locked in.
So did your interview in a cow suit go?
So that would include
Belize, South Africa, India, Israel, Oz, NZ
64bit Windows will see deployment in the server room on corporate data centers. In this area security is secondary to audit compliance. Server ops will turn on the default Win64 kernel security and it will do whatever it does. Auditors will check the AV box and move on to the next server. Everyone is happy. Server ops has one less thing to do and auditors have an easier job of auditing. I know that's cynical but that's how it works.
Let's remember that the reason Windows is in the server room in the first place is because MS sold it on the premise that's easier to run. Not faster, not with less hardware, not even with fewer people but with a lower skill set. Cheaper. So embedded security is not about security, it's about skill sets. Set it, forget it, hope for the best. If it smashes on the rocks then everyone did their best anyway and no one can be held accountable.
It may be incurable but it's not unmanageable. see http://wamu.org/programs/dr/diane_rehm/
But FF2.0 goes out and tries to find them and apply them automatically so it tells you right away what's no longer working. So far FasterFox and MediaWrap and Google Send2Phone don't work. I haven't worked with it enough to discover what it is that DOES work better. I hope general IEishness and compatibility are improved.
Still hasn't paid.
Do you suck at the internet?
Sorry but is anyone running that company anymore? Is there any vision or is it just about what everyone else dabbles in. Oracle database appliances that run Linux? Are they serious? And who is going to buy this? The 10 million customers who already have sweat blood and tears invested in running mission critical Oracle applications on big assed Unix server clusters? And after they buy it, who are they going to hire to admin yet one more OS? Because we weren't having enough fun juggling AIX, SUN, HPUX, Tandem and Teradata. Sure toss in a one off Oracleinux too. What the hell. And lets change DB ops and admin sufficiently to put a big obstacle and learning curve in our way and let's discover a whole new portfolio of patches to fix and weird interactive behaviors to accomodate.