...and it worked perfectly. I was able to get the invite in my Hotmail Inbox. So unless there are people with differing experiences, I'd say this is an over-reaction:)
Why does anyone still believe in these "analysts" any more? And I fail to see how an opinion piece by a former Microserf in a Microsoft-mouthpiece is news...just more of the good ol' FUD from the same ol' sources...
There are less worms affecting Linux becaues NO ONE USES IT.
Going by this logic, Apache, with 64.52% market share, should be exploited to hell and back by now. Why isn't it so? Has it occurred to you that maybe, just maybe, MS is easier to exploit?
Thats because, with linux, they're ingeniously called support fee's.
And you don't have to send support fees to MS if you want "premium" support? If you don't, let us know how you did it. At least I don't have to pay both license and support fees.
I change my hardware left and right and I've never had to enter an auth code on an XP box.
AFAIK, after you change 3 major pieces of hardware, you'll have to re-activate XP. Not an easy task if what my friends went through is any indication. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Right, only if you don't want support, in which case you never have to upgrade windoze either.
Really? How are you gonna patch it up then? For linux users, manual patches are still available. Try finding a win95 patch now.
Yeah, instead you have to hunt down and download 50 patches/packages.
Hunt down? If you use commercial distros like Red Hat, RHN provides one simple way of updating your machine. I don't even have to open my browser. And it's still easier than Windows, where I'll have to hunt down the CDs of the apps used, and the patches for those apps.
I'm no fanboy, but this is the reality of the situation. Just ask any admin worth his salt (not those paper MCSEs).
This specification addresses the issue of Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE) by providing coded tokens to identify mailing handling policies. It is possible for a sender to use a trusted MTA to transmit false tokens and thereby subvert an MTA's policies.
So it would be interesting if implemented with legislation rather than without; that way there is a serious disincentive for spammers who manage to subvert the policy.
Drawing solely on personal experience (family), these are the same bunch of people whose VCRs have been flashing 12:00 for years now. I don't think MS is going to be able to condition them to acquire better security habits.
Same experience; but my point replying to the parent post is that MS has to take their share of the blame; their OS design is inherently insecure.
This is all because of conditioning. MS releases windows, which doubtless is easy to use. So easy that users are conditioned to leave their brains at home when they use it. Fast forward to now...and you expect those same users to have a clue? Or new users when all they've heard about are from the same clueless bunch?
No, there is no excuse for stupidity, but that does not mean MS' design of windows is not flawed. It is. Deal with it. And until they improve the design of windows I for one would not be using it.
1. A royal smackdown in public, administered by IBM; 2. A long stay at a federal pound-you-in-the-ass prison, courtesy of the SEC; 3. A lifelong career as a sore, whiny loser.
Err...forget the last one. Darl's got that career path right on track...
But seriously, all this talk of "Let's sue SCO! Issue them C&D letters!" will bring us nowhere. Let them appear like the rabid dogs that they are and let IBM and Redhat smack them down...
In the meantime, we should focus on raising the profile of Linux. In a calm, Zen-like manner, unlike SCO's behaviour. This is a hearts-and-minds campaign, people...let's get to work...
RedHats early stuff is not ready for prime time, usually that takes until the.2 release
Redhat will not be releasing point versions for the consumer versions, not sure about the Enterprise versions though. So home users won't really have a choice but to use RH 10 if they want the latest and greatest from RH...
I've always loved the fact that I have lots of choices when it comes to linux distros, and the way debian has gone about assembling their packages into stable and unstable trees with minimal fuss is what I really like about this distro.
Of course, and the legendary apt-get...so Happy Birthday Debian!
A fake democracy or perfect dictatorship comes to my mind.
To which I only have one response: have you lived here before?
It boggles the mind as to why people in the US always think our democracy is an elaborate stage act, or that we live under a dictatorship. Such absolute terms in politics are no longer applicable in this day and age.
Come over; I'll show you that at least here, we cannot buy our politicians. And that to me, is good enough.
Disclaimer: I believe in Machiavellian theories, so you probably will disagree with me.
of an incident that happened here in Singapore. A student used his swank camera phone to film a teacher verbally abusing another student. Needless to say, the student got in trouble...
That comment stings of a baseless accusation. If I read you correctly, your message translates to "These pirates have no shame!"
Are you american? Because if you do then perhaps you do not understand the DMCA or laws like it.
The DMCA began life as a law to protect copyright and IP holders, but when companies like Adobe used it to prosecute people who exposed vulnerabilities in their proprietary software (Sklyarov, remember?), it doesn't quite limit itself to "protecting" the IP/copyright holder, it extends to limiting the ability to reverse-engineer or research or innovating for better products.
If I found a flaw in your product, then you are obliged to fix it; else the public should know and if your business suffers, then you deserve it. If I make a better product than yours, I should be allowed to sell it. And a competitor should strive to make a better product in order to beat the competition. These kind of laws serve to prevent that; all the incumbent needs to do is to sue their competitors, and they'll have no competition. Is _that_ what you want?
And here in Singapore the government is almost fanatical in protecting IP and copyright holders. Get your facts right. It's one major reason why so many tech companies have their regional headquarters here, and not in some other cheaper locale like Malaysia or China. M$, Oracle, Siebel, Sun are some examples.
I felt the need to clear this up before everyone here on/. thinks Singapore are filled with pirates who don't care about IP/copyrights, even though you might be a troll getting your paycheck from M$.
(I hate to get angry before I get my triple espresso to begin the day...)
This lawsuit reeks of the USL vs BSDI lawsuit years ago. What's more important than testing the GPL (as someone has said, if it doesn't work then we can always re-write it), is that we keep raising the profile of Linux and OSS in general to non-geek friends and co-workers.
That way we can help Linux avoid BSDs fate after their lawsuit was settled. But please do it in an even, unbiased manner, if not you'll freak people out...
I stay in Singapore, and with the recent signing of an Free Trade Agreement with the US, the biggest fear is that broad laws like the DMCA will get passed here. If Europe does something like that, then it is only a matter of time before such silly laws get passed here.
Let's hope this idiocy ends soon, although I'm not too optimistic...
Because advertisers pay good money for airtime, which in turn provides the cable people with funds to give you more tv shows.
But then again...I guess you think those wares peddled by spammers work. In which case you are part of the problem.
Let me start off by saying I'm not American, or white, or christian.
Has there ever been a non-brutal armed campaign? Are you saying middle-easterners (or any other race for that matter) don't kill each other, even in the count of millions?
While I agree that war in Iraq could be avoided, we all need a little perspective on this. The Iraqis looted their own museums, and Saddam probably killed more of his own people than the Americans did. The changes brought about by this war won't be seen for years, so let's not judge too quickly.
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I found that sitting down greatly improves my comfort and the quality of my pr0n surfing.
What, you meant real work? Well...ok...
...and it worked perfectly. I was able to get the invite in my Hotmail Inbox. So unless there are people with differing experiences, I'd say this is an over-reaction :)
Why does anyone still believe in these "analysts" any more? And I fail to see how an opinion piece by a former Microserf in a Microsoft-mouthpiece is news...just more of the good ol' FUD from the same ol' sources...
Suing a 12-year old? If this is not ridiculous I don't know what is. It's not even funny anymore; we should all just boycott the RIAA and their crap.
I've stopped buying CDs, and even ripping those that I own. This lunacy has got to stop. Let's hit them where it hurts most: their wallets.
Possible troll; I'll bite nonetheless.
There are less worms affecting Linux becaues NO ONE USES IT.
Going by this logic, Apache, with 64.52% market share, should be exploited to hell and back by now. Why isn't it so? Has it occurred to you that maybe, just maybe, MS is easier to exploit?
Thats because, with linux, they're ingeniously called support fee's.
And you don't have to send support fees to MS if you want "premium" support? If you don't, let us know how you did it. At least I don't have to pay both license and support fees.
I change my hardware left and right and I've never had to enter an auth code on an XP box.
AFAIK, after you change 3 major pieces of hardware, you'll have to re-activate XP. Not an easy task if what my friends went through is any indication. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Right, only if you don't want support, in which case you never have to upgrade windoze either.
Really? How are you gonna patch it up then? For linux users, manual patches are still available. Try finding a win95 patch now.
Yeah, instead you have to hunt down and download 50 patches/packages.
Hunt down? If you use commercial distros like Red Hat, RHN provides one simple way of updating your machine. I don't even have to open my browser. And it's still easier than Windows, where I'll have to hunt down the CDs of the apps used, and the patches for those apps.
I'm no fanboy, but this is the reality of the situation. Just ask any admin worth his salt (not those paper MCSEs).
I'll go back to my cave now...
From the Draft:
This specification addresses the issue of Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE) by providing coded tokens to identify mailing handling policies. It is possible for a sender to use a trusted MTA to transmit false tokens and thereby subvert an MTA's policies.
So it would be interesting if implemented with legislation rather than without; that way there is a serious disincentive for spammers who manage to subvert the policy.
Drawing solely on personal experience (family), these are the same bunch of people whose VCRs have been flashing 12:00 for years now. I don't think MS is going to be able to condition them to acquire better security habits.
Same experience; but my point replying to the parent post is that MS has to take their share of the blame; their OS design is inherently insecure.
This is all because of conditioning. MS releases windows, which doubtless is easy to use. So easy that users are conditioned to leave their brains at home when they use it. Fast forward to now...and you expect those same users to have a clue? Or new users when all they've heard about are from the same clueless bunch?
No, there is no excuse for stupidity, but that does not mean MS' design of windows is not flawed. It is. Deal with it. And until they improve the design of windows I for one would not be using it.
And your prizes include:
1. A royal smackdown in public, administered by IBM;
2. A long stay at a federal pound-you-in-the-ass prison, courtesy of the SEC;
3. A lifelong career as a sore, whiny loser.
Err...forget the last one. Darl's got that career path right on track...
I'm just busy laughing my ass off...
But seriously, all this talk of "Let's sue SCO! Issue them C&D letters!" will bring us nowhere. Let them appear like the rabid dogs that they are and let IBM and Redhat smack them down...
Then after they're done, we can hunt them like ducks and spammers.
In the meantime, we should focus on raising the profile of Linux. In a calm, Zen-like manner, unlike SCO's behaviour. This is a hearts-and-minds campaign, people...let's get to work...
Redhat will not be releasing point versions for the consumer versions, not sure about the Enterprise versions though. So home users won't really have a choice but to use RH 10 if they want the latest and greatest from RH...
To be honest I have no idea...got it off a trash-talking session on IRC...so I'm not sure if it is quoted correctly or not.
But it sounds cool...
But USB keys don't have enough space to store my pr0n...
I think eWeek needs the Opterons as well...and a bigger pipe...
I'm gonna wait for the standard "Here's the entire article" post now...
I've always loved the fact that I have lots of choices when it comes to linux distros, and the way debian has gone about assembling their packages into stable and unstable trees with minimal fuss is what I really like about this distro.
Of course, and the legendary apt-get...so Happy Birthday Debian!
A fake democracy or perfect dictatorship comes to my mind.
To which I only have one response: have you lived here before?
It boggles the mind as to why people in the US always think our democracy is an elaborate stage act, or that we live under a dictatorship. Such absolute terms in politics are no longer applicable in this day and age.
Come over; I'll show you that at least here, we cannot buy our politicians. And that to me, is good enough.
Disclaimer: I believe in Machiavellian theories, so you probably will disagree with me.
of an incident that happened here in Singapore. A student used his swank camera phone to film a teacher verbally abusing another student. Needless to say, the student got in trouble...
Story here.
my concern is the bandwidth consumption of these kind of worms. It may not eat bandwidth like Slammer did, but it still impacted my download speeds...
:(
My poor torrents
That comment stings of a baseless accusation. If I read you correctly, your message translates to "These pirates have no shame!" Are you american? Because if you do then perhaps you do not understand the DMCA or laws like it. The DMCA began life as a law to protect copyright and IP holders, but when companies like Adobe used it to prosecute people who exposed vulnerabilities in their proprietary software (Sklyarov, remember?), it doesn't quite limit itself to "protecting" the IP/copyright holder, it extends to limiting the ability to reverse-engineer or research or innovating for better products. If I found a flaw in your product, then you are obliged to fix it; else the public should know and if your business suffers, then you deserve it. If I make a better product than yours, I should be allowed to sell it. And a competitor should strive to make a better product in order to beat the competition. These kind of laws serve to prevent that; all the incumbent needs to do is to sue their competitors, and they'll have no competition. Is _that_ what you want? And here in Singapore the government is almost fanatical in protecting IP and copyright holders. Get your facts right. It's one major reason why so many tech companies have their regional headquarters here, and not in some other cheaper locale like Malaysia or China. M$, Oracle, Siebel, Sun are some examples. I felt the need to clear this up before everyone here on /. thinks Singapore are filled with pirates who don't care about IP/copyrights, even though you might be a troll getting your paycheck from M$.
(I hate to get angry before I get my triple espresso to begin the day...)
This lawsuit reeks of the USL vs BSDI lawsuit years ago. What's more important than testing the GPL (as someone has said, if it doesn't work then we can always re-write it), is that we keep raising the profile of Linux and OSS in general to non-geek friends and co-workers. That way we can help Linux avoid BSDs fate after their lawsuit was settled. But please do it in an even, unbiased manner, if not you'll freak people out...
I stay in Singapore, and with the recent signing of an Free Trade Agreement with the US, the biggest fear is that broad laws like the DMCA will get passed here. If Europe does something like that, then it is only a matter of time before such silly laws get passed here. Let's hope this idiocy ends soon, although I'm not too optimistic...
Because advertisers pay good money for airtime, which in turn provides the cable people with funds to give you more tv shows. But then again...I guess you think those wares peddled by spammers work. In which case you are part of the problem.
I still believe that we should have a hunting season for spammers, just like we do for ducks...
Explains why I get daily spam about toner, but none at all for booze!
Great...now we know the next lot of spam will feature booze...
Let me start off by saying I'm not American, or white, or christian.
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Has there ever been a non-brutal armed campaign? Are you saying middle-easterners (or any other race for that matter) don't kill each other, even in the count of millions?
While I agree that war in Iraq could be avoided, we all need a little perspective on this. The Iraqis looted their own museums, and Saddam probably killed more of his own people than the Americans did. The changes brought about by this war won't be seen for years, so let's not judge too quickly.
But then again, this is