Tesla's request was so they could design and build a much cheaper electric family sedan; i personally believe that it is a good investment even if the car costs 50k.
Barring a revolution in battery technology, electric cars will always be a second car -- which means that at $50k, they will still be limited to a small proportion of the population.
Plug-in hybrids are the way to go. They have the key feature missing from pure electric cars -- range. The ability to travel long distances is vital if the cars are to replace our everyday transport vehicles. Meanwhile, plug-in hybrids offer the energy savings of an electric car.
So, that's why we should not back Tesla -- they are building vehicles that will always be toys.
Have people just never watched a World War II movie or what? How could you possibly not know that Germany and Japan were the two countries we were fighting?
Apparently you didn't watch the movies too carefully either, since there were more than 2 countries that the US was fighting.
Is this really a true statement? According to Wikipedia, only Windows 2000, SP3 is EAL4 certified. Since this is an obsolete and unsupported release (Win2k SP4 is still supported), is it correct to say that "Windows..[is] EAL 4+ certified"?
It would be more accurate to say either: "Windows 2000, SP3 is EAL4 certified" or "Windows used to be EAL4 certified".
Actually, no. The "experts" in this case weren't even aware of McColo was actually doing because the few people who did know never shared the information.
I just love getting contradicted by people who have no idea of the facts. Hint to mods: do some research before up-moddng!
So it wasn't due to unanswered complaints sent to upstream providers, it was because upstream providers were notified of the issues by security researchers (to whom I referred as "experts").
but she was so obsessed (i.e. stupid) that they simply couldn't.
Yeah, but she is going to get that money back within 2 years -- by selling the rights to her story..... but first, she has to put up a small investment to get the agent working.......
It is often the elephant in the cubicle, but there's really nothing that most people can do. For anybody outside Microsoft, and most people inside it, it's kind of like a bad Supreme Court decision.
There is plenty that people can do. I agree that it is probably very difficult, if not impossible for MS to fix the problem on XP and older OSes. However, that should not stop people from recognizing the root cause. Having identified the root cause, people can then modify their buying practices based upon that knowledge. At the moment, people are just ignoring the root cause while complaining about the symptoms.
Hmmm... one could argue that it is actually MS' customers who are the root cause, because, despite years of problems, they have not provided the necesssary incentive for MS to make real changes and make their OSes really secure.
Actually, to correct you, it tends to be more compromised online email accounts (like Gmail and Hotmail) with guessable passwords than it is end client email viruses.
You might have more success in correcting me, if you did not pull stuff out of your rear orifice.
First it was open relays, now it is compromized acccounts: you can't even be consistent.
There has been a lot of discussion of the automated or semi-automated creation and use of Gmail and Hotmail accounts on/., but there has been little to no discussion of utilizing hijacked accounts on a mass scale.
Anyway, just for you, I just checked my MTA's spam mail spool. It is relatively small, but I cannot find a single email in it that came from Google, gmail or Hotmail (yes, there are forged received lines claiming this, but no deliveries from those major email sites direct to my server).
On the other hand, there are many emails from servers that show up as "unknown" (ie, no reverse DNS), most of which one would assume are dynamic IPs -- most likely compromised desktops. Meanwhile my logs also show an order of magnitude more emails rejected through the use of Spamhaus' XBL -- which is a list of "hijacked PCs infected by illegal 3rd party exploits, including open proxies (HTTP, socks, AnalogX, wingate, etc), worms/viruses with built-in spam engines, and other types of trojan-horse exploits.". In other words, mostly those compromised Windows machines you seem to want to downplay.
Most Spam originates through incorrectly configured mail servers that allow mail relaying. In reality, it's much easier to leave on open relay on something like Sendmail on Unix than it probably is on Microsoft Exchange.
Did we just jump in back 5 (or more) years in time?
You are joking, right? Open relays have been oveshadowed by compromised destop machines as spam sources for a few years now. Plus, since SMTP MTAs tend to be on static IPs, the use of RBLs has effectively limited the reach of open relays as sources for any kind of email (SPAM or otherwise).
Most of the DDOS traffic originates from compromised Windows PCs. Most SPAM originates from Windows machines. There is lots of hand-wringing about the issue, but the fundamental cause of several serious Internet problems appears to be the insecurity of Windows (before anyone mentions "clueless users" -- the OS should not allow the users to make these mistakes -- since Windows is marketed to these very types -- it's like selling a car that does not have seatbelts and airbags to people who can't drive).
So, when are people going to ask Microsoft the hard questions? Yes, I know MS has taken some steps, but, clearly those steps have not been sufficient.
Their prices and selection always sucked in my experience, and it does not look like the liquidation will change that.
This weekend, I went into a Circuit City store that is closing and the discounts were "up to 20%". A lousy 20%, that's it for a closing down sale? Well, not really -- a lot of stuff was only 10% off.
Also, you can do use "ma" to mark the beginning line, "mb" to mark the ending line, and then:
Or, you can use "V" (in command mode) to mark a range: Hit "V" (at the bottom of the screen, it will show "-- VISUAL LINE --") move the cursor to the end of the range, then hit ":" and type the rest of the command (the range will be indicated by "'<,'>").
The reason you never want to search, is that you could find prior art
True, but you also might find a patent that an existing product might violate. That could put your company in the position of having to pay triple damages for willful infringement.
This aspect of patent law shows how broken the system is. The concept of a patent is publication in exchange for a limited monopoly. If no-one can actually read the patent (because of the willful infringement problem), then publication is really a myth.
I've never understood why so many web programmers insist on parsing E-mail addresses, very few are capable of doing it correctly. I usually use splab+someidentification@mydomain.tld
I ran across one website where the front end accepted my "me+domainname@mydomain" style email address, but the "+" in the email address broke the back end of the website. It never sent any confirmation emails, etc..
Having used to work installing alarms systems, jamming wouldn't work. A lost communication with a device triggers a fault same as if you were to cut a wire.
1. Find a target house,
2. Use jamming enough times that the owner turns off the alarm.
3. Break in.
4. ???
5. Profit!
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Barring a revolution in battery technology, electric cars will always be a second car -- which means that at $50k, they will still be limited to a small proportion of the population.
Plug-in hybrids are the way to go. They have the key feature missing from pure electric cars -- range. The ability to travel long distances is vital if the cars are to replace our everyday transport vehicles. Meanwhile, plug-in hybrids offer the energy savings of an electric car.
So, that's why we should not back Tesla -- they are building vehicles that will always be toys.
Isn't that what the "async" option (to exportfs) is for? To allow the server to respond to the client before the write is complete?
This appears to be a default judgment against a non-US entity. Is this so much different from the much-derided judgment against Spamhaus?
And then, after disabling Autorun, iTunes whines at you about it.
Apparently you didn't watch the movies too carefully either, since there were more than 2 countries that the US was fighting.
It's not so much eliminating those bodies with a working right hand as eliminating those with a right hand that is not otherwise engaged.
Is this really a true statement? According to Wikipedia, only Windows 2000, SP3 is EAL4 certified. Since this is an obsolete and unsupported release (Win2k SP4 is still supported), is it correct to say that "Windows..[is] EAL 4+ certified"?
It would be more accurate to say either: "Windows 2000, SP3 is EAL4 certified" or "Windows used to be EAL4 certified".
I just love getting contradicted by people who have no idea of the facts. Hint to mods: do some research before up-moddng!
Some evidence to support my position: McColo, a Californian-based company played house to some of the world's worst online criminal gangs and was booted off the internet following an investigation by Washington Post security researcher Brian Krebs. The company's online presence was extinguished after Krebs alerted McColo's access providers Global Crossing and Hurricane Electric earlier this week to the criminal material it was pumping out over their networks .
Or how about this: McColo's termination followed closely on the heels of an incendiary report released by researchers from numerous security organizations and companies, including McAfee, Trend Micro and Arbor Networks, detailing shady criminal practices of ISPs like McColo and their connection with spam and cybercrime.
So it wasn't due to unanswered complaints sent to upstream providers, it was because upstream providers were notified of the issues by security researchers (to whom I referred as "experts").
Vigilantism would be action like that employed by the Lad Vampire. This was just a bunch of experts asking companies to enforce their TOS.
So.....
what does this mean for copyright of the Parrot Sketch?
4. ... Divorce husband and move away.
Yeah, but she is going to get that money back within 2 years -- by selling the rights to her story..... but first, she has to put up a small investment to get the agent working.......
Hey, that's unfair! I'm sure that she will tell you that there is a continent called China if you ask her about it!
There is plenty that people can do. I agree that it is probably very difficult, if not impossible for MS to fix the problem on XP and older OSes. However, that should not stop people from recognizing the root cause. Having identified the root cause, people can then modify their buying practices based upon that knowledge. At the moment, people are just ignoring the root cause while complaining about the symptoms.
Hmmm... one could argue that it is actually MS' customers who are the root cause, because, despite years of problems, they have not provided the necesssary incentive for MS to make real changes and make their OSes really secure.
You might have more success in correcting me, if you did not pull stuff out of your rear orifice.
/., but there has been little to no discussion of utilizing hijacked accounts on a mass scale.
First it was open relays, now it is compromized acccounts: you can't even be consistent.
There has been a lot of discussion of the automated or semi-automated creation and use of Gmail and Hotmail accounts on
Anyway, just for you, I just checked my MTA's spam mail spool. It is relatively small, but I cannot find a single email in it that came from Google, gmail or Hotmail (yes, there are forged received lines claiming this, but no deliveries from those major email sites direct to my server).
On the other hand, there are many emails from servers that show up as "unknown" (ie, no reverse DNS), most of which one would assume are dynamic IPs -- most likely compromised desktops. Meanwhile my logs also show an order of magnitude more emails rejected through the use of Spamhaus' XBL -- which is a list of "hijacked PCs infected by illegal 3rd party exploits, including open proxies (HTTP, socks, AnalogX, wingate, etc), worms/viruses with built-in spam engines, and other types of trojan-horse exploits.". In other words, mostly those compromised Windows machines you seem to want to downplay.
Did we just jump in back 5 (or more) years in time?
You are joking, right? Open relays have been oveshadowed by compromised destop machines as spam sources for a few years now. Plus, since SMTP MTAs tend to be on static IPs, the use of RBLs has effectively limited the reach of open relays as sources for any kind of email (SPAM or otherwise).
Most of the DDOS traffic originates from compromised Windows PCs. Most SPAM originates from Windows machines. There is lots of hand-wringing about the issue, but the fundamental cause of several serious Internet problems appears to be the insecurity of Windows (before anyone mentions "clueless users" -- the OS should not allow the users to make these mistakes -- since Windows is marketed to these very types -- it's like selling a car that does not have seatbelts and airbags to people who can't drive).
So, when are people going to ask Microsoft the hard questions? Yes, I know MS has taken some steps, but, clearly those steps have not been sufficient.
That's going to be fun for the millions of PC users who did not get a Windows CD with their PC and did not bother to burn a re-install CD.
This weekend, I went into a Circuit City store that is closing and the discounts were "up to 20%". A lousy 20%, that's it for a closing down sale? Well, not really -- a lot of stuff was only 10% off.
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Or, you can use "V" (in command mode) to mark a range: Hit "V" (at the bottom of the screen, it will show "-- VISUAL LINE --") move the cursor to the end of the range, then hit ":" and type the rest of the command (the range will be indicated by "'<,'>").
True, but you also might find a patent that an existing product might violate. That could put your company in the position of having to pay triple damages for willful infringement.
This aspect of patent law shows how broken the system is. The concept of a patent is publication in exchange for a limited monopoly. If no-one can actually read the patent (because of the willful infringement problem), then publication is really a myth.
I ran across one website where the front end accepted my "me+domainname@mydomain" style email address, but the "+" in the email address broke the back end of the website. It never sent any confirmation emails, etc..
1. Find a target house,
2. Use jamming enough times that the owner turns off the alarm.
3. Break in.
4. ???
5. Profit!
I think it is this San Seriffe. Perhaps Donald Knuth is a Grauniad reader?