I still trying to figure out if the phrase "thoroughly contemplation" is the poster's attempt at subtle commentary on today's educational climate as a result of our current administration, or if it's just a grammatical error.
I know for a fact that most drug studies (brand X vs. generic) are generously funded by the pharmaceutical company itself! They do this in hopes that they're product will be proven to be the best choice. Many times, it is not, and the results are published anyway.
On the other hand, they fund those studies because without their money, the studies would not exist. Same deal here - if not M$, who would step in and fund this?
I hate M$ as much as the next guy, but this doesn't mean that the study was purposely biased.
On a single user level, this is true only if you would have paid for Windows otherwise. Most people interested in installing Linux are savvy enough to know how to get Windows for free. In that case, whether they installed Linux (free) or stole Windows (free), Microsoft loses.
On a corporate level, since companies can usually count on being sued for having unlicensed copied, this argument holds true. This is where M$ can really be hurt, because Corporations are where M$ makes their bread - but it would take some propgation of linux for Microsoft to begin really worrying about it. They know that Company A will not switch to Linux because then their stuff may be incompatible with Company B, and so on.
Which ushers in that whole "trying to be like Microsoft" debate that slashdotters are so fond of...
You can buy a range expander, or even a high-gain antenna to suit that purpose. Put the antenna on your roof. Open your connection up to the whole neighborhood!
FYI: Optimum Online is rated as having 10mb down and 1mb up. I personally have topped my connection out at around 8 mb/s down (hard wired ethernet) - it's pretty easy to saturate an 802.11b with internet downloads. My 11g is sufficient (mainly because I don't do large downloads wirelessly or play heavy network-oriented games from my laptop).
I found some people on DSL reports that report meeting and even exceeding these download speeds with Opto (our shortened term for Optimum Online). Heck, my brother's Opto connection beat mine. It's all relative.
Limited number of simultaneous incomplete outbound TCP connection attempts
Detailed description
The TCP/IP stack now limits the number of simultaneous incomplete outbound TCP connection attempts. After the limit has been reached, subsequent connection attempts are put in a queue and will be resolved at a fixed rate. Under normal operation, when applications are connecting to available hosts at valid IP addresses, no connection rate-limiting will occur. When it does occur, a new event, with ID 4226, appears in the system's event log.
Why is this change important? What threats does it help mitigate?
This change helps to limit the speed at which malicious programs, such as viruses and worms, spread to uninfected computers. Malicious programs often attempt to reach uninfected computers by opening simultaneous connections to random IP addresses. Most of these random addresses result in a failed connection, so a burst of such activity on a computer is a signal that it may have been infected by a malicious program.
While the reason is valid, I don't see anything about if/how this is user configurable. It would be nice if you could actively turn this off, and/or grant certain programs (doom3, kazaa lite, iTunes, etc.) to have "unlimited" access.
Then again, this is all conjecture, because I haven't installed it yet and don't know if this actually is possible. Someone care to comment?
I know a guy here at my job who has a bluetooth phone, and uses his bluetooth PDA to dial from it, without taking the phone out of his pocket. People who use this functionality (I'd imagine) would have to have bluetooth on, or it defeats the whole purpose of dialing from the PDA - if you can take it out of your pocket to turn on bluetooth, you can dial whoever you need to call.
While your argument is valid, I fail to see the usefulness of spending more time to strengthen a weak algorithm rather than using one that is inherently more secure. It's like putting more and more duct tape over the hole rather than just changing the pipe.
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The powerglove link has been throttled by geocities. Here's a Google Cache, but there are no pics. bummer...
Yes.
I still trying to figure out if the phrase "thoroughly contemplation" is the poster's attempt at subtle commentary on today's educational climate as a result of our current administration, or if it's just a grammatical error.
How right you are....
I didn't know a price range could be "slow."
Does having your encoder encoded make for faster / better encoding?
You're not talking about durability - you're talking about redundancy.
You're not talking about durability - you're talking about redundancy.
You're not talking about durability - you're talking about redundancy.
You're not talking about durability - you're talking about redundancy.
You work for Sony, right?
Dude... you realize that you don't have to watch the movies, right?
HAHA you said 'read the whole thing' LOL
Like that'll ever happen on slashdot...
I know for a fact that most drug studies (brand X vs. generic) are generously funded by the pharmaceutical company itself! They do this in hopes that they're product will be proven to be the best choice. Many times, it is not, and the results are published anyway.
On the other hand, they fund those studies because without their money, the studies would not exist. Same deal here - if not M$, who would step in and fund this?
I hate M$ as much as the next guy, but this doesn't mean that the study was purposely biased.
it's making you go blind.
At my job we refer to our two way pagers as 'birth control.' We may have been right all along...
I fail to see the reason why this is posted in response to my comment.
While it is a valid point, you seem to be trying to refute an argument that isn't there.
OK, I'm done burning karma.
On a single user level, this is true only if you would have paid for Windows otherwise. Most people interested in installing Linux are savvy enough to know how to get Windows for free. In that case, whether they installed Linux (free) or stole Windows (free), Microsoft loses.
On a corporate level, since companies can usually count on being sued for having unlicensed copied, this argument holds true. This is where M$ can really be hurt, because Corporations are where M$ makes their bread - but it would take some propgation of linux for Microsoft to begin really worrying about it. They know that Company A will not switch to Linux because then their stuff may be incompatible with Company B, and so on.
Which ushers in that whole "trying to be like Microsoft" debate that slashdotters are so fond of...
What were we talking about again?
Actually, communism is not bad during times of 'depression'. The problem is when the depression is over...
You can buy a range expander, or even a high-gain antenna to suit that purpose. Put the antenna on your roof. Open your connection up to the whole neighborhood!
FYI: Optimum Online is rated as having 10mb down and 1mb up. I personally have topped my connection out at around 8 mb/s down (hard wired ethernet) - it's pretty easy to saturate an 802.11b with internet downloads. My 11g is sufficient (mainly because I don't do large downloads wirelessly or play heavy network-oriented games from my laptop).
I found some people on DSL reports that report meeting and even exceeding these download speeds with Opto (our shortened term for Optimum Online). Heck, my brother's Opto connection beat mine. It's all relative.
Sorry, but I don't see your point. So outgoing raw socket data must be UDP, and the source address must be your NIC real IP, not spoofed.
If you really want to get around this, it's not hard. This just makes it hard to automate from within Windows which is the whole point, now isn't it?
While the reason is valid, I don't see anything about if/how this is user configurable. It would be nice if you could actively turn this off, and/or grant certain programs (doom3, kazaa lite, iTunes, etc.) to have "unlimited" access.
Then again, this is all conjecture, because I haven't installed it yet and don't know if this actually is possible. Someone care to comment?
They're not rebelling. They're just beta testing for the vendors.
It would also be really cool if you could plant a pre-determined bug from the laptop with a squeeze of the rifle trigger.
1) Look through rifle sight and find vulnerable phone
2) Pull trigger to plant bug (to whatever end)
3) ???
4) Profit?
I know a guy here at my job who has a bluetooth phone, and uses his bluetooth PDA to dial from it, without taking the phone out of his pocket. People who use this functionality (I'd imagine) would have to have bluetooth on, or it defeats the whole purpose of dialing from the PDA - if you can take it out of your pocket to turn on bluetooth, you can dial whoever you need to call.
While your argument is valid, I fail to see the usefulness of spending more time to strengthen a weak algorithm rather than using one that is inherently more secure. It's like putting more and more duct tape over the hole rather than just changing the pipe.
Which is why we have to invent an unrealistic encryption scheme. Then we can use it forever.