It would be much more interesting to see average compromise times for a vanilla install of various different OS versions (with no ISP protection, of course). In the mean time, the name should be changed, in my view.
Worms target my Linux machine via port 80 about every 35 seconds (at least in the past two days, I don't feel like looking further back). I have blocked most of the local Comcast customers in my area through *A LOT* of/24 and/16. It doesn't seem to help too much. Either there are more and more infected machines or they just keep finding new hosts to attempt infection.
I'm surprised that Microsoft fixed a bug that would have anything to do with OS/2. If anything I figured they would continue to break interoperability with other OSs (namely in the SMB code).
That';s the bit most of the big boys don't get. "The software is free! Free for anyone else to use! Free for all! Free and they can copy it!". True. But you the service company knows that your services are not free. Your time is not free, and you spend your time keeping your customers running smoothly and you earn from that.
The "Big Boys" are used to making their cake, selling it, and then feeding it to the customers too.
They make profit on the sale of the software and then the expensive service contracts to go w/it. This eliminates one side of their profit stream.
Apple's iTIMS plays small samples from longer audio streams. I really wish they would pick better sections of the original stream though... I don't ever get a good idea of what the song is because it never has time to really get going.
Modest Mouse has a song Float On that really doesn't get cooking until the middle. I would never have purchased it if I had only the iTMS sample to try.
Must there be an "overwhelming" response to any product in order to consider it a success? Why does every movie have to be Spider-Man? Why does every game console have to be a PlayStation? Why does every book have to be Harry Potter?
Instant gratification for everything except the movies.
Many, many, movies suck fucking ass and the MPAA complains about how piracy is the reason that their money is slipping down the drain. Perhaps if they weren't so cocky about their work and they made better shit instead of complaining about outside forces when their products suck they would also be in the instant gratification category.
Not unless a computer was my main attraction in life. It seems that marketing this device to people who can't read would make me think that these people wouldn't exactly have the desire for a computer.
They may want a DVD player but who's going to pay for the media that they are going to watch? 14% of your yearly Salary is a lot. To add another $20 per DVD is asking a bit much.
Are they going to sign them up for Internet service and cable too?
well I half-explained this in another post but... "The radio" is different than "radio". Thus "television" is different than "a television" (or "the television").
So while we only have one Internet we also only have one Radio and one Television. We do, OTOH, have different radios and televisions.
Why? The simple answer is because there is no earthly reason to capitalize any of these words. Actually, there never was.
Well there was never any reason to capitalize "net" for the simple fact that it is really 'net which is a shortened version of "Internet". I consider the Internet a specific place and thus deserving of capitalization.
If It's Capitalized, It Must Be Important.
There are a lot of things that are important that aren't capitalized. Take for example "air" and "water". Most people don't capitalize either one of those. I suppose there may be some groups out there like "wateries" or "airheads" that may refute my claims but they can write their own damn non-sense. I'd prefer they save it for 4/1/2005 though.
That it transformed human communication is beyond dispute. But no more so than moveable type did in its day. Or the radio. Or television.
Small nitpick here... If you are talking about "the radio" instead of radio there is a slight difference. Radio is talking about the medium where "the radio" is talking about the big box over in the corner of the living room that talks.
I will continue to refer to it as "Internet" as it is my all knowing God. Maybe that's why Google is capitalized?:)
Now, let's be fair here, we all know that after the first couple of trades you lose your priority status that you had when you first joined and you are relegated to the rack of bullshit that is either so miserable or foreign that no one wants them.
I can goto the video store, rent a movie for $2.99 and have it back the next night by midnight for a dollar credit (on select titles). That beats Netflix.
You don't go to the opera or the latest polka festival (if you do, lets assume you don't). Its not becuase there is a lack of competition in those areas but its because you have better things to do with your time.
No, it has nothing to do with that at all.
It's because I don't like most opera and polka. I do like movies at times. I would especially like it if more good movies were put out onto the screen and home-use formats. Because there is little competition in that market there are only a few movies that will get released because there just isn't the monitary backing to fund a bunch of special effects and bad acting.
Perhaps if there were more than a handful of major players more of what I liked would be released.
Used DVDs from Hollywood Video are beginning to partially fuel the burning desire I have for expanding my movie collection.
Three DVDs for $25 is an excellent deal. My fiancee and I regularly end up paying $25+ for a night at the movies (between possible parking fees, tickets, and a box of popcorn). I get to see three movies without issue forever.
Works for me. Check your local rental stores and see what sort of deal they may have. The one I buy from has a 1 year guarantee on all the for-sale used DVDs.
The customers own the movie industry and if Hollywood continues putting out crap films, studio execs will only have themselves to blame for the fall of Hollywood.
Yes, yes, the will all only have themselves to really blame but who will they blame instead? Any outside force that they can; the weather, the people, the pirates, the actors, the staff, Microsoft, the theatres, the lavish party planners, whatever.
Bad movies are put out because people still go and watch them either in the theatre or later on DVD. They will always have a market because there really isn't competition out there. It's not exactly as if we have a large group of movies to choose from every week...
Microsoft views these deals as thawing its icy relations with Hollywood and eradicating old stereotypes about Microsoft software being buggy.
Well of course it can't as it has been proven time and time again that it is indeed buggy and exploitable. It seems to me that the current methods for playing movies in theatres works pretty damn well and it isn't exactly as if MS' deals are going to make distribution inexpensive enough to become attractive.
Yet Microsoft can't quite shake fears that its real intention is to use its monopoly position to charge Hollywood outrageous fees to access the computer desktop.
They charge everyone else astronomical licensing fees and speculation that it will only get worse is running rampant - probably justifiably so. Would they really cut Hollywood such a sweet deal as to protect them forever from licensing fees that would make this cost prohibitive? I doubt it. I would really like to know exactly how MS is trying to sell this to them.
To be honest though, I am fairly impressed that Hollywood is actually making a stand and telling them off. I don't know too many other businesses that would be so wary.
...studios say they need to encourage competition so they won't be held hostage by one company.
That is one hysterical comment that was only for the benefit of those that won't RTFA.
To be fair, if you installed a stock version of Slackware from 1996 on the net, without a firewall, you would be subject to known exploits either in the kernel or the userland programs that were included in the stock distribution.
Actually, I'm playing devil's advocate here, since I do think there is a loss of purity to the games, but I thought that ever since the "Dream Team" jumped in the game and started beating up on the true amatures.
Communist countries didn't have "true" amateurs. In fact, we were far more pure in that sense than most of the other major powers in the Olympics. The current "Dismal Team" is just that. They are performing terribly against other countries because they have forgotten the essentials we were stressing 30+ years ago (teamwork and passing).
Why should they be ashamed? It's their bodies. It's not like I have any money riding on the outcome.
Large monies gained from endorsements and sometimes awards in excess of $1 million for a gold medal. Michael Phelps (USA swimming) is looking for quite a chunk *IF* (big IF) he sets the gold metal count record. You may not have any but everyone else sure does.
Greed is a powerful thing. This sort of thing has been going on for years and it will always continue to go on.
At least with the Communist (German and Chinese) swimmers that were doping in the 80s and 90s everyone knew they were cheating and it was just accepted that eventually they would be caught.
Sadly, at times, the athletes themselves didn't know they were being fed something other than vitamins. Let's just hope that the athletes that are doing gene doping know that they should be ashamed of their actions.
Finding a vulnerability is like finding a fish. If the pond is overfished, it's harder to find them. Hackers are rather evenly split between running Linux and running Mac OSX. As much as few professional NASCAR drivers drive Dodge Neons, a negligible amount of skilled hackers use Windows as their primary OS.
Hmm, I don't see any source listed for this particular tidbit. I have a feeling that there are plenty of "skilled hackers" out there that do run Windows as their primary OS. Perhaps he means "skilled programmers" that refer to themselves as "skilled hackers".
Notably, this protection does not prevent Linux from being 0wned when a third party program is installed.
I try to read on in his document but I keep coming to "0wned" and I realize that I am not dealing with a professional. I suppose his intended audience (Bugtraq) might be familiar with how 31337 he is but I just can't believe he would bother to spend the time writing up a "paper" with those stupid misspellings.
Any head on collision has serious risks for fatalities. It's sad that all the hard work of a student who likely had a bright and shining future had to have his life ended so young but I didn't see the need for the comment about Hummers sharing the roads...
I have seen plenty of accidents with 15 passenger vans, two ton service vans, semis (which seem more common than Hummers), etc, that have just as bad (if not worse) impacts with other vehicles.
Since the BBC's model is going to be encode once, then let the public download at will, this is fine by them.
Personally I would think that this should be a goal for a lot of codecs. People want to fit movies onto a single CD with the best picture quality. Most people are interested in moving this video from a remote source (ahem BT) and put it on permanent storage for multiple views.
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It would be much more interesting to see average compromise times for a vanilla install of various different OS versions (with no ISP protection, of course). In the mean time, the name should be changed, in my view.
/24 and /16. It doesn't seem to help too much. Either there are more and more infected machines or they just keep finding new hosts to attempt infection.
Worms target my Linux machine via port 80 about every 35 seconds (at least in the past two days, I don't feel like looking further back). I have blocked most of the local Comcast customers in my area through *A LOT* of
I'm surprised that Microsoft fixed a bug that would have anything to do with OS/2. If anything I figured they would continue to break interoperability with other OSs (namely in the SMB code).
Well, out of the many bugs listed as being fixed thirteen were repaired that could cause code execution...
;)
Were these bugs found internally by their team or were these found by outsiders and then patched months later because knowledge was never released?
Not Prompted to Obtain a Digital Rights Management License for Installations Created by Using Sysprep
This was one bug they could have left unfound
That';s the bit most of the big boys don't get. "The software is free! Free for anyone else to use! Free for all! Free and they can copy it!". True. But you the service company knows that your services are not free. Your time is not free, and you spend your time keeping your customers running smoothly and you earn from that.
The "Big Boys" are used to making their cake, selling it, and then feeding it to the customers too.
They make profit on the sale of the software and then the expensive service contracts to go w/it. This eliminates one side of their profit stream.
Apple's iTIMS plays small samples from longer audio streams. I really wish they would pick better sections of the original stream though... I don't ever get a good idea of what the song is because it never has time to really get going.
Modest Mouse has a song Float On that really doesn't get cooking until the middle. I would never have purchased it if I had only the iTMS sample to try.
Must there be an "overwhelming" response to any product in order to consider it a success? Why does every movie have to be Spider-Man? Why does every game console have to be a PlayStation? Why does every book have to be Harry Potter?
Instant gratification for everything except the movies.
Many, many, movies suck fucking ass and the MPAA complains about how piracy is the reason that their money is slipping down the drain. Perhaps if they weren't so cocky about their work and they made better shit instead of complaining about outside forces when their products suck they would also be in the instant gratification category.
I personally liked the convergence of the PS2 and a DVD player. For $15 extra I had a fully functioning DVD player with remote *and* a gaming console.
This was at a time when DVD players were well over $150/ea. Seemed like a great bargain to me.
Not unless a computer was my main attraction in life. It seems that marketing this device to people who can't read would make me think that these people wouldn't exactly have the desire for a computer.
They may want a DVD player but who's going to pay for the media that they are going to watch? 14% of your yearly Salary is a lot. To add another $20 per DVD is asking a bit much.
Are they going to sign them up for Internet service and cable too?
well I half-explained this in another post but... "The radio" is different than "radio". Thus "television" is different than "a television" (or "the television").
So while we only have one Internet we also only have one Radio and one Television. We do, OTOH, have different radios and televisions.
Why? The simple answer is because there is no earthly reason to capitalize any of these words. Actually, there never was.
:)
Well there was never any reason to capitalize "net" for the simple fact that it is really 'net which is a shortened version of "Internet". I consider the Internet a specific place and thus deserving of capitalization.
If It's Capitalized, It Must Be Important.
There are a lot of things that are important that aren't capitalized. Take for example "air" and "water". Most people don't capitalize either one of those. I suppose there may be some groups out there like "wateries" or "airheads" that may refute my claims but they can write their own damn non-sense. I'd prefer they save it for 4/1/2005 though.
That it transformed human communication is beyond dispute. But no more so than moveable type did in its day. Or the radio. Or television.
Small nitpick here... If you are talking about "the radio" instead of radio there is a slight difference. Radio is talking about the medium where "the radio" is talking about the big box over in the corner of the living room that talks.
I will continue to refer to it as "Internet" as it is my all knowing God. Maybe that's why Google is capitalized?
Now, let's be fair here, we all know that after the first couple of trades you lose your priority status that you had when you first joined and you are relegated to the rack of bullshit that is either so miserable or foreign that no one wants them.
I can goto the video store, rent a movie for $2.99 and have it back the next night by midnight for a dollar credit (on select titles). That beats Netflix.
You don't go to the opera or the latest polka festival (if you do, lets assume you don't). Its not becuase there is a lack of competition in those areas but its because you have better things to do with your time.
No, it has nothing to do with that at all.
It's because I don't like most opera and polka. I do like movies at times. I would especially like it if more good movies were put out onto the screen and home-use formats. Because there is little competition in that market there are only a few movies that will get released because there just isn't the monitary backing to fund a bunch of special effects and bad acting.
Perhaps if there were more than a handful of major players more of what I liked would be released.
Used DVDs from Hollywood Video are beginning to partially fuel the burning desire I have for expanding my movie collection.
Three DVDs for $25 is an excellent deal. My fiancee and I regularly end up paying $25+ for a night at the movies (between possible parking fees, tickets, and a box of popcorn). I get to see three movies without issue forever.
Works for me. Check your local rental stores and see what sort of deal they may have. The one I buy from has a 1 year guarantee on all the for-sale used DVDs.
If Microsoft had their way there would be:
no selling of their software on EBay.
no ownership of the software after you purchase it (they really own it you just license it from them)
I guess MS has two outputs: Software and bugs?
The customers own the movie industry and if Hollywood continues putting out crap films, studio execs will only have themselves to blame for the fall of Hollywood.
Yes, yes, the will all only have themselves to really blame but who will they blame instead? Any outside force that they can; the weather, the people, the pirates, the actors, the staff, Microsoft, the theatres, the lavish party planners, whatever.
Bad movies are put out because people still go and watch them either in the theatre or later on DVD. They will always have a market because there really isn't competition out there. It's not exactly as if we have a large group of movies to choose from every week...
Microsoft views these deals as thawing its icy relations with Hollywood and eradicating old stereotypes about Microsoft software being buggy.
...studios say they need to encourage competition so they won't be held hostage by one company.
Well of course it can't as it has been proven time and time again that it is indeed buggy and exploitable. It seems to me that the current methods for playing movies in theatres works pretty damn well and it isn't exactly as if MS' deals are going to make distribution inexpensive enough to become attractive.
Yet Microsoft can't quite shake fears that its real intention is to use its monopoly position to charge Hollywood outrageous fees to access the computer desktop.
They charge everyone else astronomical licensing fees and speculation that it will only get worse is running rampant - probably justifiably so. Would they really cut Hollywood such a sweet deal as to protect them forever from licensing fees that would make this cost prohibitive? I doubt it. I would really like to know exactly how MS is trying to sell this to them.
To be honest though, I am fairly impressed that Hollywood is actually making a stand and telling them off. I don't know too many other businesses that would be so wary.
That is one hysterical comment that was only for the benefit of those that won't RTFA.
To be fair, if you installed a stock version of Slackware from 1996 on the net, without a firewall, you would be subject to known exploits either in the kernel or the userland programs that were included in the stock distribution.
Actually, I'm playing devil's advocate here, since I do think there is a loss of purity to the games, but I thought that ever since the "Dream Team" jumped in the game and started beating up on the true amatures.
Communist countries didn't have "true" amateurs. In fact, we were far more pure in that sense than most of the other major powers in the Olympics. The current "Dismal Team" is just that. They are performing terribly against other countries because they have forgotten the essentials we were stressing 30+ years ago (teamwork and passing).
Why should they be ashamed? It's their bodies. It's not like I have any money riding on the outcome.
Large monies gained from endorsements and sometimes awards in excess of $1 million for a gold medal. Michael Phelps (USA swimming) is looking for quite a chunk *IF* (big IF) he sets the gold metal count record. You may not have any but everyone else sure does.
Greed is a powerful thing. This sort of thing has been going on for years and it will always continue to go on.
At least with the Communist (German and Chinese) swimmers that were doping in the 80s and 90s everyone knew they were cheating and it was just accepted that eventually they would be caught.
Sadly, at times, the athletes themselves didn't know they were being fed something other than vitamins. Let's just hope that the athletes that are doing gene doping know that they should be ashamed of their actions.
Yeah, and the post was a joke (as some people have so kindly noticed). Sadly most people are too clueless to see the humor.
Finding a vulnerability is like finding a fish. If the pond is overfished, it's harder to find them. Hackers are rather evenly split between running Linux and running Mac OSX. As much as few professional NASCAR drivers drive Dodge Neons, a negligible amount of skilled hackers use Windows as their primary OS.
Hmm, I don't see any source listed for this particular tidbit. I have a feeling that there are plenty of "skilled hackers" out there that do run Windows as their primary OS. Perhaps he means "skilled programmers" that refer to themselves as "skilled hackers".
Notably, this protection does not prevent Linux from being 0wned when a third party program is installed.
I try to read on in his document but I keep coming to "0wned" and I realize that I am not dealing with a professional. I suppose his intended audience (Bugtraq) might be familiar with how 31337 he is but I just can't believe he would bother to spend the time writing up a "paper" with those stupid misspellings.
Any head on collision has serious risks for fatalities. It's sad that all the hard work of a student who likely had a bright and shining future had to have his life ended so young but I didn't see the need for the comment about Hummers sharing the roads...
I have seen plenty of accidents with 15 passenger vans, two ton service vans, semis (which seem more common than Hummers), etc, that have just as bad (if not worse) impacts with other vehicles.
I only wonder if this will mean that Allnold will be moderating his anti-Canadian rhetoric any time soon?
I think he's more concerned with attempting to keep Hollywood spending money right here in our fine country rather than outsourcing locations.
but then we got hiiiiiigh!
Just goes to show kids that the evils of marijuana make you fail at everything! Even making yourself fly high!
Since the BBC's model is going to be encode once, then let the public download at will, this is fine by them.
Personally I would think that this should be a goal for a lot of codecs. People want to fit movies onto a single CD with the best picture quality. Most people are interested in moving this video from a remote source (ahem BT) and put it on permanent storage for multiple views.