From what I can tell a good majority of the traffic that my machine receives is worm traffic. Would these genetic routines be setup to disregard those as cache data? If that's the case would they be setup to just block that data?
That alone would save me quite a bit of traffic as people on my subnet hit me constantly with their infected machines.
66.41.161.120 hit my machine 57 different times (that isn't individual requests, that's total times).
Mainstream Web sites that employ unsigned ActiveX applets, downloads, pop-up windows, browser helper objects, and other code- or scripting-based functions may encounter difficulty with SP2 version IE 6. Most of these activities are prevented by default, and until thousands of Web sites and Web-based applications are upgraded to more gracefully deal with the new IE's many security precautions, a lot of Web stuff is going to be broken--or, at least, temporarily halted.
While a lot of people here are going to say, "wow, everyone is going to go to Mozilla/FireFox." I have serious doubts that we will see that. All we are going to see is a bunch of broken websites and people complaining. The solution is going to be to turn off the default security options and go back to browsing like they did before.
Microsoft just isn't that interested in upgrading Internet Explorer's feature set. As a result, it's unlikely we'll see tabbed browsing before Longhorn, and it's not even guaranteed for that release. No wonder so many people are jumping ship for Mozilla Firefox and Opera.
Nah, I really doubt that the single reason people are moving to Mozilla FF and Opera are for tabbed browsing. I surf daily and probably at greater lengths than the average person and I don't find tabbed browsing to be my #1 concern.
I found it particularly interesting that the "Windows Security Center (WSC)" didn't detect NAV or ZA for virus or firewall... While they assured the author that they would be detected by the time that XP SP2 comes out I just have to wonder why MS would force them to rewrite their software to work w/WSC. If MS was so concerned w/third parties being able to protect Windows users you would think that they would work with the companies to get it to work, not the other way around.
Microsoft also is working on the 5.0 version of Windows Update, its Windows-updating Web site, which handles a lot more than just critical updates. It's primarily a user-interface update, but one of the underlying improvements is that you'll no longer be required to restart your computer so often after applying updates.
Honestly, most of my most recent XP updates have been installed without a restart. It's really not a huge deal to *ME* and I am sure it's not a huge deal to most other non-technical users as they probably restart their computer almost daily because of various unknown reasons.
All in all, I look forward to it but I wonder how many will install it. Will it make a difference when it comes out? Will 100% of the XP users out there upgrade and stop the vunerabilities from spreading? I doubt it. We are going to suffer through this same shit because Windows users aren't the smartest bunch out there.
The activist, author and director told the Sunday Herald that, as long as pirated copies of his film were not being sold, he had no problem with it being downloaded.
"I don't agree with the copyright laws and I don't have a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it with people as long as they're not trying to make a profit off my labour. I would oppose that," he said.
"I do well enough already and I made this film because I want the world, to change. The more people who see it the better, so I'm happy this is happening."
Very few people download movies to make a profit off of them. We download the movies because it is convienient to do so (ala iTunes). We also download the movies because the theatres charge entirely too much money (anywhere from $8 to $11 from what I have seen) to watch it.
Let's stop making movies with tons of computer generated special effects, bad acting, and boring plots and then blaming the pirates when it doesn't do well.
Let's make a movie that is powerful, moving, and gets people into the theatres that didn't cost $200 million to make.
I mean, you average Joe probably isn't going to go to the internet to look for his favorite show that just came out on DVD. Most times I won't either, if it's worth watching, it's worth supporting, esp. if they throw in lots of extras like commentaries and whatnot.
And there's the exact problem. The industries know that what they put out is crap and that they aren't going to make money on it anyway so they must protect what little bit they MIGHT make back on what they wasted creating something they knew would probably bomb.
but we *used to* have the right to take their content and record it for our own use (such as watching it at a later time when it was conveinient for us).
While they own the content and we are unable to redistribute it as our own or for profit we are able to use it the way we want to.
Our right to fair use has ended. The conglomorates have convinced the dumbasses in the world that they have no right to fair use and the dumbasses are starting to believe them.
It would seem that the lawmakers are dumbasses too but unfortunately for us they are getting paid to make desicions that benefit the conglomorates.
Do NOT support law makers that support these corporations and do NOT support companies that sell devices with the broadcast flag. While we will likely NOT win please do you best to educate the rest of the dumbasses to their rights that they are slowly losing.
See, here in the fine State of Minnesota you have to be right behind the person in front of you at all times. You cannot even leave 1mm of space. If you do, some cheating asshole will try to move up the free flowing lane and cut over at the last possible moment to avoid the 35 minutes of backed up single lane traffic that you had to endure.
Now, this may not seem that bad but... This cheating asshole fucks up the speed of those in the free flowing lane, causes people to mash on their breaks in the traffic lane, and pisses me off that a) this asshole cheated and b) that some cell phone talking dumbass (I don't know who these people talk to at 7am but it better be damn good) who has been waiting 35+ minutes to get to this point has let the cheater in!
Jerry Garcia (quoted during an interview with Rolling Stone in 1991):
Psychedelics showed me a whole other universe, hundreds and millions of universes. So that was an incredibly positive experience. But on the other hand, I can't take psychedelics and perform as a professional. I might go out onstage and say, 'Hey, fuck this, I want to go chase butterflies!'
I understand that they are a great device and I have even thought once or twice about buying one but I certainly don't think that every article that gets put into the queue with an iPod in the title should be accepted.
Let's show some class and end the blatant iPod advertising.
Oh and this is an acceptable fix to a serious bug? Upgrade to an unstable version? Why not have it immediately merged into the stable tree and release 0.9.2 and have one less site that renders like shit?
A close friend of mine who's 18 and getting ready to go off to college still isn't allowed on the computer when her mom is at work during the day. The computer is password protected so the mom has to be around when they're on it. They just accept it and deal with it. She doesn't sit and watch over their shoulder now that they're older, but she's at least around and able to glance at the screen occasionally.
That's a bit strange and I can't imagine that would have done anything for me other than made me mad enough to figure out a way around the password or a way to get access elsewhere.
Supervision is one thing... Psychotic babying is another.
I'm speaking here about an average user, rather than the tech-saavy crowd that populates Slashdot.
And the people that need to be encrypting their emails wouldn't be leaving them out in the open before this ruling anyway.
Those that were concerned about privacy would have encrypted them or used their own service to deliver messages. I am *sure* ISPs are going to just love grepping through emails to look for whatever it is they are looking for.
I seriously hope that ISPs have something better to do than that.
[tinfoilhat] If anything, this was funded by the RIAA/MPAA/US Government to find out the subversive terrorists at the expense of those people that don't send important shit in email anyway. [/tinfoilhat]
I actually have read some of Cosmo's crap and I find it racier than Maxim. The stories seriously sound like Penthouse's reader's letters and the "sex discussions" are more like alt.sex.stories.moderated than anything.
Sex does sell and it sells well. I don't see what the big surprise is. So what? Are we all supposed to subscribe to boring publications like the New Yorker?
I have only subscribed to one magazine ever... Maxim. The first time I picked up Maxim I said to myself, "what a joke." I didn't realize just how right I was! I have subscribed most of the way through college and it continues now. The stack on the shelf behind the toilet is chock full of great articles, beautiful women, and some of the best "toys" that you could find. I wish I could afford all the goodies they list.
The best part of Maxim is that my gf enjoys reading it as well and doesn't complain about the half-naked hotties that dot its pages.
It's inexpensive (generally under $17.00/year), it's funny, it's well put together, the articles are worth reading, and the women are plentiful and gorgeous. The only thing that I wish it had that it does not are the 1000+ line BASIC programs for me to type in that Byte used to. Now *THAT* was HOT!:)
For its part, Google is shrugged off Affinity Engines' allegations.
"Affinity Engines has not provided any evidence to Google that their source code was used in the development of Orkut.com," wrote David Krane, the company's director of corporate communications, in a statement to Wired News. "We have repeatedly offered to allow a neutral expert to compare the codes in the two programs and evaluate Affinity's claims, but Affinity has rejected that offer. We have investigated the claims... thoroughly and concluded that the allegations are without merit."
I want to know why Orkut is rejecting the netural expert. It doesn't exactly make their claims look valid when they do that. Are they learning from SCO here? Perhaps if we make shit up and don't let anyone examine the claims thoroughly we can defame Company X and get money from them!
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From what I can tell a good majority of the traffic that my machine receives is worm traffic. Would these genetic routines be setup to disregard those as cache data? If that's the case would they be setup to just block that data?
That alone would save me quite a bit of traffic as people on my subnet hit me constantly with their infected machines.
66.41.161.120 hit my machine 57 different times (that isn't individual requests, that's total times).
I don't know if you work in Corporate IT but I have heard here (and in my own personal experience) that Corporate users don't like upgrades.
Hell, most Corporate settings went down with the spreading of worms months after patches were released.
Mainstream Web sites that employ unsigned ActiveX applets, downloads, pop-up windows, browser helper objects, and other code- or scripting-based functions may encounter difficulty with SP2 version IE 6. Most of these activities are prevented by default, and until thousands of Web sites and Web-based applications are upgraded to more gracefully deal with the new IE's many security precautions, a lot of Web stuff is going to be broken--or, at least, temporarily halted.
While a lot of people here are going to say, "wow, everyone is going to go to Mozilla/FireFox." I have serious doubts that we will see that. All we are going to see is a bunch of broken websites and people complaining. The solution is going to be to turn off the default security options and go back to browsing like they did before.
Microsoft just isn't that interested in upgrading Internet Explorer's feature set. As a result, it's unlikely we'll see tabbed browsing before Longhorn, and it's not even guaranteed for that release. No wonder so many people are jumping ship for Mozilla Firefox and Opera.
Nah, I really doubt that the single reason people are moving to Mozilla FF and Opera are for tabbed browsing. I surf daily and probably at greater lengths than the average person and I don't find tabbed browsing to be my #1 concern.
I found it particularly interesting that the "Windows Security Center (WSC)" didn't detect NAV or ZA for virus or firewall... While they assured the author that they would be detected by the time that XP SP2 comes out I just have to wonder why MS would force them to rewrite their software to work w/WSC. If MS was so concerned w/third parties being able to protect Windows users you would think that they would work with the companies to get it to work, not the other way around.
Microsoft also is working on the 5.0 version of Windows Update, its Windows-updating Web site, which handles a lot more than just critical updates. It's primarily a user-interface update, but one of the underlying improvements is that you'll no longer be required to restart your computer so often after applying updates.
Honestly, most of my most recent XP updates have been installed without a restart. It's really not a huge deal to *ME* and I am sure it's not a huge deal to most other non-technical users as they probably restart their computer almost daily because of various unknown reasons.
All in all, I look forward to it but I wonder how many will install it. Will it make a difference when it comes out? Will 100% of the XP users out there upgrade and stop the vunerabilities from spreading? I doubt it. We are going to suffer through this same shit because Windows users aren't the smartest bunch out there.
They can start their list of legally downloadable music right here. I suggest you support the freedom of music!
Check out Sharing the Groove as well for BitTorrent downloads of Spring tours!
The activist, author and director told the Sunday Herald that, as long as pirated copies of his film were not being sold, he had no problem with it being downloaded.
"I don't agree with the copyright laws and I don't have a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it with people as long as they're not trying to make a profit off my labour. I would oppose that," he said.
"I do well enough already and I made this film because I want the world, to change. The more people who see it the better, so I'm happy this is happening."
Very few people download movies to make a profit off of them. We download the movies because it is convienient to do so (ala iTunes). We also download the movies because the theatres charge entirely too much money (anywhere from $8 to $11 from what I have seen) to watch it.
Let's stop making movies with tons of computer generated special effects, bad acting, and boring plots and then blaming the pirates when it doesn't do well.
Let's make a movie that is powerful, moving, and gets people into the theatres that didn't cost $200 million to make.
I shouldn't be required to buy a device to defeat something put in place to block my fair use rights.
Macrovision...
I cannot use my old DVD player w/the combo TV/VCR in my bedroom. I plug the DVD player in and immediately the Macrovision kicks in.
The device is immediately thinking that I am trying to record a DVD to VHS instead of waiting for me to hit record.
I mean, you average Joe probably isn't going to go to the internet to look for his favorite show that just came out on DVD. Most times I won't either, if it's worth watching, it's worth supporting, esp. if they throw in lots of extras like commentaries and whatnot.
And there's the exact problem. The industries know that what they put out is crap and that they aren't going to make money on it anyway so they must protect what little bit they MIGHT make back on what they wasted creating something they knew would probably bomb.
We get the blame for their stupidity.
but we *used to* have the right to take their content and record it for our own use (such as watching it at a later time when it was conveinient for us).
While they own the content and we are unable to redistribute it as our own or for profit we are able to use it the way we want to.
Our right to fair use has ended. The conglomorates have convinced the dumbasses in the world that they have no right to fair use and the dumbasses are starting to believe them.
It would seem that the lawmakers are dumbasses too but unfortunately for us they are getting paid to make desicions that benefit the conglomorates.
Do NOT support law makers that support these corporations and do NOT support companies that sell devices with the broadcast flag. While we will likely NOT win please do you best to educate the rest of the dumbasses to their rights that they are slowly losing.
See, here in the fine State of Minnesota you have to be right behind the person in front of you at all times. You cannot even leave 1mm of space. If you do, some cheating asshole will try to move up the free flowing lane and cut over at the last possible moment to avoid the 35 minutes of backed up single lane traffic that you had to endure.
Now, this may not seem that bad but... This cheating asshole fucks up the speed of those in the free flowing lane, causes people to mash on their breaks in the traffic lane, and pisses me off that a) this asshole cheated and b) that some cell phone talking dumbass (I don't know who these people talk to at 7am but it better be damn good) who has been waiting 35+ minutes to get to this point has let the cheater in!
Jerry Garcia (quoted during an interview with Rolling Stone in 1991):
Psychedelics showed me a whole other universe, hundreds and millions of universes. So that was an incredibly positive experience. But on the other hand, I can't take psychedelics and perform as a professional. I might go out onstage and say, 'Hey, fuck this, I want to go chase butterflies!'
Yeah, it's your run of the mill iPod your Slashdot! article.
I understand that they are a great device and I have even thought once or twice about buying one but I certainly don't think that every article that gets put into the queue with an iPod in the title should be accepted.
Let's show some class and end the blatant iPod advertising.
Oh and this is an acceptable fix to a serious bug? Upgrade to an unstable version? Why not have it immediately merged into the stable tree and release 0.9.2 and have one less site that renders like shit?
Real standards implementation is worthless in a world where people don't follow them.
To be honest, the fact that you view such material at all speaks volumes about your attitute towards women.
Yeah, it says that I appreciate women's freedom. I appreciate women that are sure of themselves and their body.
It speaks volumes about you when you honestly believe that a naked woman is somehow demeaning.
A close friend of mine who's 18 and getting ready to go off to college still isn't allowed on the computer when her mom is at work during the day. The computer is password protected so the mom has to be around when they're on it. They just accept it and deal with it. She doesn't sit and watch over their shoulder now that they're older, but she's at least around and able to glance at the screen occasionally.
That's a bit strange and I can't imagine that would have done anything for me other than made me mad enough to figure out a way around the password or a way to get access elsewhere.
Supervision is one thing... Psychotic babying is another.
It may survive the 1 meter drop test but if the sound quality sucks will it survive the 1 meter SLAM test?
It will change when ISPs allow you to run your own.
I'm speaking here about an average user, rather than the tech-saavy crowd that populates Slashdot.
And the people that need to be encrypting their emails wouldn't be leaving them out in the open before this ruling anyway.
Those that were concerned about privacy would have encrypted them or used their own service to deliver messages. I am *sure* ISPs are going to just love grepping through emails to look for whatever it is they are looking for.
I seriously hope that ISPs have something better to do than that.
[tinfoilhat]
If anything, this was funded by the RIAA/MPAA/US Government to find out the subversive terrorists at the expense of those people that don't send important shit in email anyway.
[/tinfoilhat]
I actually have read some of Cosmo's crap and I find it racier than Maxim. The stories seriously sound like Penthouse's reader's letters and the "sex discussions" are more like alt.sex.stories.moderated than anything.
Sex does sell and it sells well. I don't see what the big surprise is. So what? Are we all supposed to subscribe to boring publications like the New Yorker?
I have only subscribed to one magazine ever... Maxim . The first time I picked up Maxim I said to myself, "what a joke." I didn't realize just how right I was! I have subscribed most of the way through college and it continues now. The stack on the shelf behind the toilet is chock full of great articles, beautiful women, and some of the best "toys" that you could find. I wish I could afford all the goodies they list.
:)
The best part of Maxim is that my gf enjoys reading it as well and doesn't complain about the half-naked hotties that dot its pages.
It's inexpensive (generally under $17.00/year), it's funny, it's well put together, the articles are worth reading, and the women are plentiful and gorgeous. The only thing that I wish it had that it does not are the 1000+ line BASIC programs for me to type in that Byte used to. Now *THAT* was HOT!
No, I don't work for Maxim but I wish I did.
Because the employee isn't worth nearly as much money as the company is.
For its part, Google is shrugged off Affinity Engines' allegations.
... thoroughly and concluded that the allegations are without merit."
"Affinity Engines has not provided any evidence to Google that their source code was used in the development of Orkut.com," wrote David Krane, the company's director of corporate communications, in a statement to Wired News. "We have repeatedly offered to allow a neutral expert to compare the codes in the two programs and evaluate Affinity's claims, but Affinity has rejected that offer. We have investigated the claims
I want to know why Orkut is rejecting the netural expert. It doesn't exactly make their claims look valid when they do that. Are they learning from SCO here? Perhaps if we make shit up and don't let anyone examine the claims thoroughly we can defame Company X and get money from them!
Ahh, when History repeats itself...
Because LCD panels don't kill you when your machine crashes.