You paint a picture of an evil corporate-controlled society with black helicopters and spotlights swarming in the night to take away your cherished freedoms.
Have you even been paying attention to the crap congress is up to?
Sure, no black helicopters and spotlights, but only because it's not as effective as passing laws in congress.
I couldn't decide whether to mod you as funny or insightful. The longer I thought about it, the sadder I got, and as I couldn't find a sad moderation, I figure'd I'd post instead.
We are headed to hell, and most of this country is blindly following those who are leading us there.
It's a quite nice handbasket I'm getting out of it tho.
Is it up to the government to be "parenting" our young? I mean, christ, think about that for a second. Does that even remotely sound like a good idea?
Instead of focusing on video games and the banning thereof, how about we focus on making the nation's parents better. We get parents more involved in parenting, we'll see marked improvement across the board.
...they either a) Have some balls. Or b) are dumb as rocks.
Given their past behavior, I've gotta go with b. For a while, I was expecting ( but certainly not hoping for ) them to pull the rabbit out of their hat and set us all back on our heels. Their claims just seemed too silly not to be justified by *something*.
Now of course, we've all got a pretty good idea what kind of clowns these really are.
Still, to steal from groklaw...whew...that's just stunning in my opinion. You gotta respect the lengths these guys will go to.
I never understood how these things work: Do some lawyers wake up in the morning and decide, "Hey! I need a new pool. Hmmmm, I think I sue HP today. Now, let's find a reason.".
That's really how it looks, and it would make me feel slimy to take part in something like that.
not that HP doesn't deserve, but that's not my point.
A lot of zombifying malwares DO spread by direct infection of unpatched machines. Those 30 mins it takes to download patches are the time in which NAT is a lifesaver. Of course it should always be accompanied by software firewalling to control outgoing connections.
Got some data to back that up?
Email is the primary attack vector, followed by vulnerable browsers.
NAT isn't going to do anything to slow this down. ISPs can make a dent by blocking proven virus/trojan ports.
To take that one step further: I'd like to see ISPs adopt a more secure mind set: Only allow port 80 ( and maybe aol/icq... ect ) out to the world. Then, if a customer calls in to complain, they simply find out which app it is, and open it up, FOR THAT CUSTOMER.
That's how I'd do it. Nice, simple, no real problems, and bot nets would virtually disappear
Seeing how most spams come from zombies, I'm not quite sure what we're after; It's cool that we'll chew up the bandwidth so it limits the amount of spam he can send, but it's not like that's actually hurting the spammer.
I will be interested to see if this significantly limits the amount of spam at all.
Even most of us in the industry rarely even consider coding to be 'art'
And which industry would that be?
Most of the coders I know and work with call it more an art form than science. Feels more like art to me.
Of course, were it a science, you wouldn't get as many variations in code that you do. It's kinda like how they call phsycology a science, when it really isn't.
Seriously: Look at all the crap we do to ourselves, just in the technology arena alone. It's only a matter of time before we are sitting here, argueing with each other, trying to screw everybody else to get the sweet deal for ourselves, when some small previously third world country blows by us and takes the lead.
Quite frankly, I'm disgusted by all the crap I have seen, and it's no wonder why other countries dislike us. I mean, if we are willing to do this to ourselves, what would we do to other countries?
Hopefully though it doesn't add fuel to the various ??AA organization's fire of declaring IRC a scourge on humanity.
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but they have been for a while now. I poked my head in a few a while back, and..well, granted, it was early on a school night, but for being a supposed linux help channel, it was sure full of geek talking about tits. I hung around for close to 2 hours, and one guy even got yelled at for asking a question.
...I will start a white list. And I will only accept phone calls from people on my white list. I meet you, you give me your phone number, and I make sure I can recieve your calls when I get home.
Spammers will find their way around that too, I have no doubts. I can already change my outgoing callerid #, so i don't see why they can't either.
What's to stop a hacker from turning your visit to slashdot into a nightmare? Security, well thought out and gone over with a fine toothed comb ( apache ).
Big projects get more eyes, critical projects ( ie: stop lights ) get more experienced eyes.
I'll tell you what, i wish most of the lights in my town were controlled by something I helped bug test. Most of the time, you sit there and wait for the damn thing to cycle. I see the sensors in the road, but it doesn't seem to do anything. Even the ones that seem to have sensors seem to only do partial reads of the sensors. It's absurd.
I think this is not really a case to bring up the whole open source debate. The application is probably too specific (a traffic management system for tunnels) that open sourcing it wouldn't have helped society too much (any geek here with a tunnel in his backyard?).
I beg to differ: Had the government had an opensource policy in place ( yeah yeah, 10+ years ago ), this would have obviously negated at least this whole silly episode, saving quite a bit in cash: Thus helping society out by saving it.
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You paint a picture of an evil corporate-controlled society with black helicopters and spotlights swarming in the night to take away your cherished freedoms.
Have you even been paying attention to the crap congress is up to?
Sure, no black helicopters and spotlights, but only because it's not as effective as passing laws in congress.
I've been playing with this this morning, and all i can say is wow. There is some cool code and tech behind that, to be sure.
I couldn't decide whether to mod you as funny or insightful. The longer I thought about it, the sadder I got, and as I couldn't find a sad moderation, I figure'd I'd post instead.
We are headed to hell, and most of this country is blindly following those who are leading us there.
It's a quite nice handbasket I'm getting out of it tho.
...this guy, bankrupt as he claims to be, has more than I will ever make many times over.
Crouching lawsuit, hidden assets
Is it up to the government to be "parenting" our young? I mean, christ, think about that for a second. Does that even remotely sound like a good idea?
Instead of focusing on video games and the banning thereof, how about we focus on making the nation's parents better. We get parents more involved in parenting, we'll see marked improvement across the board.
Fuck the mods don't have a sense of humor tonight.
It's called humor. Look it up.
...they either a) Have some balls. Or b) are dumb as rocks.
Given their past behavior, I've gotta go with b. For a while, I was expecting ( but certainly not hoping for ) them to pull the rabbit out of their hat and set us all back on our heels. Their claims just seemed too silly not to be justified by *something*.
Now of course, we've all got a pretty good idea what kind of clowns these really are.
Still, to steal from groklaw...whew...that's just stunning in my opinion. You gotta respect the lengths these guys will go to.
Who was it that said, "Those who fight and run away live to fight another day"?
Seems strangly apt here.
What, Mozilla does security through lack of features?
If the "features" are insecure, would you want them?
Uh, if mozilla supports vbscript then it would be allowed in mozilla or any other web browser for that matter
Er...isn't that sorta the point?
I accept DRM as it is today.
Why? Because I don't *have* to subscribe to it. If the content owners want to sell their crap with DRM on it, then I don't want it.
It's when it's forced on me that I begin to revolt. Fuck you all if you think I'm going to sit idly by about the broadcast flag ( aimed at "them" ).
Other than that, go right ahead: DRM your crap into obscurity. By all means.
The real number to which your 911 call is forwarded is some sort of state secret
Bullshit. Call up the 911 business office ( NOT 911, look it up ), ask for the cell phone emergency number
BAM! You're gold.
Asterisk user here, and what do you know, 911 DOES work for me
I never understood how these things work: Do some lawyers wake up in the morning and decide, "Hey! I need a new pool. Hmmmm, I think I sue HP today. Now, let's find a reason.".
That's really how it looks, and it would make me feel slimy to take part in something like that.
not that HP doesn't deserve, but that's not my point.
A lot of zombifying malwares DO spread by direct infection of unpatched machines. Those 30 mins it takes to download patches are the time in which NAT is a lifesaver. Of course it should always be accompanied by software firewalling to control outgoing connections.
Got some data to back that up?
Email is the primary attack vector, followed by vulnerable browsers.
NAT isn't going to do anything to slow this down. ISPs can make a dent by blocking proven virus/trojan ports.
To take that one step further: I'd like to see ISPs adopt a more secure mind set: Only allow port 80 ( and maybe aol/icq... ect ) out to the world. Then, if a customer calls in to complain, they simply find out which app it is, and open it up, FOR THAT CUSTOMER.
That's how I'd do it. Nice, simple, no real problems, and bot nets would virtually disappear
Seeing how most spams come from zombies, I'm not quite sure what we're after; It's cool that we'll chew up the bandwidth so it limits the amount of spam he can send, but it's not like that's actually hurting the spammer.
I will be interested to see if this significantly limits the amount of spam at all.
Even most of us in the industry rarely even consider coding to be 'art'
And which industry would that be?
Most of the coders I know and work with call it more an art form than science. Feels more like art to me.
Of course, were it a science, you wouldn't get as many variations in code that you do. It's kinda like how they call phsycology a science, when it really isn't.
We really ARE out to fuck ourselves up.
Seriously: Look at all the crap we do to ourselves, just in the technology arena alone. It's only a matter of time before we are sitting here, argueing with each other, trying to screw everybody else to get the sweet deal for ourselves, when some small previously third world country blows by us and takes the lead.
Quite frankly, I'm disgusted by all the crap I have seen, and it's no wonder why other countries dislike us. I mean, if we are willing to do this to ourselves, what would we do to other countries?
MS complaining about broken standards.
It makes it all that much easier to find them, and a whole hell of a lot more enjoyable to fuck them up.
We don't know?
If someone is acting on "our" behalf, I think "we" should know fully what is going on before hand.
For all we know, this could be a scare tactic by MS to worry people back to their side of the fence.
Hopefully though it doesn't add fuel to the various ??AA organization's fire of declaring IRC a scourge on humanity.
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but they have been for a while now. I poked my head in a few a while back, and..well, granted, it was early on a school night, but for being a supposed linux help channel, it was sure full of geek talking about tits. I hung around for close to 2 hours, and one guy even got yelled at for asking a question.
...I will start a white list. And I will only accept phone calls from people on my white list. I meet you, you give me your phone number, and I make sure I can recieve your calls when I get home.
Spammers will find their way around that too, I have no doubts. I can already change my outgoing callerid #, so i don't see why they can't either.
What's to stop a hacker from turning your visit to slashdot into a nightmare? Security, well thought out and gone over with a fine toothed comb ( apache ).
Big projects get more eyes, critical projects ( ie: stop lights ) get more experienced eyes.
I'll tell you what, i wish most of the lights in my town were controlled by something I helped bug test. Most of the time, you sit there and wait for the damn thing to cycle. I see the sensors in the road, but it doesn't seem to do anything. Even the ones that seem to have sensors seem to only do partial reads of the sensors. It's absurd.
I think this is not really a case to bring up the whole open source debate. The application is probably too specific (a traffic management system for tunnels) that open sourcing it wouldn't have helped society too much (any geek here with a tunnel in his backyard?).
I beg to differ: Had the government had an opensource policy in place ( yeah yeah, 10+ years ago ), this would have obviously negated at least this whole silly episode, saving quite a bit in cash: Thus helping society out by saving it.
Correction: It'd be interesting if Penelope Cruz *wasn't* wearing them.