Things weren't bad under the old Ma Bell??? Your WAY too young to be saying they weren't bad if you can't even remember it.
You had to pay Ma Bell a montly rental for the telephone in your house. Want to have a few different phones in the house for convienience? Pay a rental fee for each of them. What? You say you want to buy your own phone? *NO*. You have to use Ma Bell phones and pay the rental fee.
That's just one tiny example of the way things were under Ma Bell. Still think they were OK?
Because if they won't bother upgrading to SP2, they probably didn't bother to turn on the firewall that came in XP that's off by default (until SP2). Lots of machines on the internet without firewalls means more infected machines on the internet. That more useless traffic clogging things up. More virus/worm traffic. More spam. More phishing sites to trap your less tech-savy friends and family members. More zombie machines being used to DDOS servers (some of which you may actually want to use). etc, etc. Lots more bad stuff.
That's why you should care, even if you never run a MS machine yourself. More patched machines on the internet is better for all of us. Whether we use the same OS or not.
But in most real world applications, a supercharger *is* always on. That's one of the benifits of it vs a turbocharger. More power at the low end of the RPM scale. If you are going to use a centrifugal clutch on it, you might as well use a turbo where you normally have to wait for it to spool up.
Plenty of us have been in accidents and lived. Helmets and a full set of leathers or body armor make it a lot safer than you might think. Folks who don't dress for riding make the statistics much worse than they should be.
Plus weight. You are going to have more mass if you have any type of heat recovery/steam engine in it. More mass = worse handling, faster tire wear, etc, even if you do have better fuel efficiency.
Everything you listed is a problem with *some* 3rd party applications. None are a problem with windows itself. There are also lots of other 3rd party apps that install wherever you like, and run fine as a normal user.
Yes, there are a lot of sucky developers who make windows apps. There are also plenty of sucky developers working on *nix software. I've installed plenty of stuff off sourceforge that was badly written.
This is a developer issue, not a windows issue.
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"all the peoples that did contribute to the project?"
Almost no one contributed. That was the problem. They were doing all the work coding it plus try to run a business supporing it, while other leaches only had to slap a new name on it and support it.
If others had really been doing some serious contributing to the project so that it wasn't all falling on the Tenable folks shoulders, they wouldn't have switched licenses.
You mean like back in the old days when Lucille Ball would have a commercial break in her show where she would talk about how great Sanka or Phillip Morris cigarrettes were? Been there done that. This is nothing new.
Oh please. Apple's big thing is the overal 'user experience'. Ease of use. Do you really think they are going to put an interface abomination like the Gimp on it? (yeah, I know I'm going to be modded troll to oblivion for daring to say that the Gimp's interface sucks).
If Apple can't install an application with a great interface in their base install, I don't think they'd want to add it at all.
If the user wants to add it themselves later, fine. It's easy, but they probably think it's better than folks complaining about the crappy interface of 'that mac software'. I think that's the reason they give a pass to most of the free stuff out there.
These result of all of these factors is that the Air Force is frequently on the receiving end of script kiddies, hackers, and viruses. This new missions statement indicates to me that the AF leadership have reached the unfortunate conclusion that they merely need to fight harder to protect our information assets rather than wake up and realize that they really just need to bring in some I.T. people and vendors with a clue.
The upside is that it might result in air-strikes on the homes of known spammers and virus writers.:)
If so, doesn't this get tedious, especially if you are using it in an enterprise "Sorry folks, no internet access for 5minutes while we change permissions.
No, because at the enterprise level, you'd be using CARP (another great OpenBSD tool) to have a live redundant firewall going, just in case you had a hardware failure on your primary firewall box. If you need to reboot the main firewall to make a change, go ahead and do it. All the traffic will be routed through the redundant secondary firewall while the first one reboots. It's transparent to the users, no internet interruption. Then you can make the change to the secondary firewall and reboot it, after the primary comes back up.
being savvy about opening attachments in emails from folks you know & trust ONLY
Yeah, because lord knows no viruses might send themselves with a 'from' address as some address they found in an address book of an infected friend of both you and the person you trust. Sending itself to you seemingly from the person you trust. Right. Very savvy of you.
All email attachments are suspect. Whether you know the supposed sender is a responsible computer user or not.
I belive the thinking is that people who are in bad financial shape might be more tempted to steal from their employer/sell information to competitors, etc. This isn't to say that all people in bad financial shape steal, or that those who already have money don't (just look at U.S. congressmen for an example). It's just that a higher percentage of this in financial trouble might compared to people in stable financial situations.
What happens if the driver of the vehicle you're passing is an asshole and speeds up?
That has happened to me before. I backed off and got back behind him. Then he slowed down again. So I tried to pass again. And he sped up again. That's when the car behind me, which happened to be a cop, lit up his lights and pulled the idiot over to give him a ticket and a tounge lashing.
Yeah, story arcs like Dallas, which decided to throw out an entire season's worth of shows as a 'dream' because they could get back a popular actor that way. That's real dedication to a prewritten story arc. Not.
None of those had anything like the complete prewritten story arc of B5. Nothing.
They might have been giving time for Sony to prepare a real uninstall utility for release to cleanse machines quickly, before any wild expoits were released. Yes, this is very different from the IE bug in that it was willful, but F-Secure might have realized Sony didn't have a un-installer waiting in the wings, and tried to wait a bit to give them a chance to write one, to lessen the time between public disclosure the ability to quickly remove the software. Giving the hackers less of a window to exploit it. I can't fault F-Secure for waiting a few weeks. All the fault on this one is squarely on Sony's shoulders.
Why are you talking about backup tapes at work vs RAID at home? RAID is *not* a backup. RAID doesn't save you when you delete a file you shouldn't have. RAID doesn't save you when the there is a lightening strike or your power supply fails and fries your running hard drives.
If all you are using is RAID, your home machine is not backed up. Get some backup media, even if it's cheap hard drives you can backup to, then sit on a shelf somewhere.
Your making a big assumption that another set of OSS developers WILL fork the project and continue development of it. Sourceforge is littered with dead projects that the original creators have stopped working on, and no one else had touched the code. FOR YEARS!
Even if some OSS deveopers do pick it up. Your making another huge assumption that they will be as good of coders as the original developer, and work on it as hard as someone who's trying to base his living on it.
His failure to compete is because he has to do two things, develop the code AND support it, while his competitors only have to do one thing. Support it.
I dont' think he's cut his own throat at all. He's proven that his program is a very real asset. Lots of folks use it. He's also shown that there is no one out there who's totally committed to improving it, because he hasn't received any help from other OSS developers. Looks like he's sitting pretty to me.
When no one else is helping out and your competitors are living off your work, doing what he did is absolutely the smartest thing he could do.
So he closes the source? So what? Just because he speeds up Nessus by a factor of five, does he think no one else will? If somebody forks version 2 and speeds it up by 5, his competitors can use that version to continue to compete with him. It's totally irrelevant whether the source is closed or not in that regard.
It certainly is relevant. Now his competitors have to put in the effort to try to figure out how to speed it up by 5 and spend a LOT of their time coding. That puts it on a much more even level than him doing all the work for them.
OSS *IS* the problem with his previous business model.
Her Serial Endosymbiosis Theory (the idea that chloroplasts and bacteria were once free-living organisms) was rejected a dozen times(!), before finally ending up in Journal of Theoretical Biology.
OK, the reviewer in me has to correct this. It's the idea that chlorplasts and mitochondria were once free-living organisms.
If you are trying to promote an idea that goes directly against dogma, you shouldn't be surpised that you need to do a lot of convincing. As the saying goes "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.". That's because it's a lot more common for someone to make a mistake in an experiment (happens ALL the time) than to make new discoveries which entirely shift an area of research.
Believe me, lots of us before have put forth ideas that go against current dogma in our respective fields to some degree or other. It's generally expected that if you are going to do this you be prepared to back it up with a lot more evidence than general paper which shows agreement with current theories. You papers that propose shifts in thinking are generally longer because you've done a lot more experiments to show that what you are looking at is real, and not some mistake (or crazy-half baked idea by some crazy crank).
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You had to pay Ma Bell a montly rental for the telephone in your house. Want to have a few different phones in the house for convienience? Pay a rental fee for each of them. What? You say you want to buy your own phone? *NO*. You have to use Ma Bell phones and pay the rental fee.
That's just one tiny example of the way things were under Ma Bell. Still think they were OK?
That's why you should care, even if you never run a MS machine yourself. More patched machines on the internet is better for all of us. Whether we use the same OS or not.
But in most real world applications, a supercharger *is* always on. That's one of the benifits of it vs a turbocharger. More power at the low end of the RPM scale. If you are going to use a centrifugal clutch on it, you might as well use a turbo where you normally have to wait for it to spool up.
Plenty of us have been in accidents and lived. Helmets and a full set of leathers or body armor make it a lot safer than you might think. Folks who don't dress for riding make the statistics much worse than they should be.
Plus weight. You are going to have more mass if you have any type of heat recovery/steam engine in it. More mass = worse handling, faster tire wear, etc, even if you do have better fuel efficiency.
And as others have said, 'Twin' stars are by no means identical.
Yes, there are a lot of sucky developers who make windows apps. There are also plenty of sucky developers working on *nix software. I've installed plenty of stuff off sourceforge that was badly written.
This is a developer issue, not a windows issue.
Almost no one contributed. That was the problem. They were doing all the work coding it plus try to run a business supporing it, while other leaches only had to slap a new name on it and support it.
If others had really been doing some serious contributing to the project so that it wasn't all falling on the Tenable folks shoulders, they wouldn't have switched licenses.
You mean like back in the old days when Lucille Ball would have a commercial break in her show where she would talk about how great Sanka or Phillip Morris cigarrettes were? Been there done that. This is nothing new.
If Apple can't install an application with a great interface in their base install, I don't think they'd want to add it at all.
If the user wants to add it themselves later, fine. It's easy, but they probably think it's better than folks complaining about the crappy interface of 'that mac software'. I think that's the reason they give a pass to most of the free stuff out there.
Many of the folks using windows at work have a *nix machine of some sort at home, but most /.'ers do use windows for most of their /. viewing.
The upside is that it might result in air-strikes on the homes of known spammers and virus writers. :)
No, because at the enterprise level, you'd be using CARP (another great OpenBSD tool) to have a live redundant firewall going, just in case you had a hardware failure on your primary firewall box. If you need to reboot the main firewall to make a change, go ahead and do it. All the traffic will be routed through the redundant secondary firewall while the first one reboots. It's transparent to the users, no internet interruption. Then you can make the change to the secondary firewall and reboot it, after the primary comes back up.
Yeah, because lord knows no viruses might send themselves with a 'from' address as some address they found in an address book of an infected friend of both you and the person you trust. Sending itself to you seemingly from the person you trust. Right. Very savvy of you.
All email attachments are suspect. Whether you know the supposed sender is a responsible computer user or not.
Check your math. I think you mena a thousand thieves.
And yes, I know. There are a lot more than a thousand in the U.S.
I belive the thinking is that people who are in bad financial shape might be more tempted to steal from their employer/sell information to competitors, etc. This isn't to say that all people in bad financial shape steal, or that those who already have money don't (just look at U.S. congressmen for an example). It's just that a higher percentage of this in financial trouble might compared to people in stable financial situations.
Why are you doing a big project somewhere where you can't make backups of the data??? Seems kind of a dumb idea to me.
That has happened to me before. I backed off and got back behind him. Then he slowed down again. So I tried to pass again. And he sped up again. That's when the car behind me, which happened to be a cop, lit up his lights and pulled the idiot over to give him a ticket and a tounge lashing.
Yeah, story arcs like Dallas, which decided to throw out an entire season's worth of shows as a 'dream' because they could get back a popular actor that way. That's real dedication to a prewritten story arc. Not.
None of those had anything like the complete prewritten story arc of B5. Nothing.
They might have been giving time for Sony to prepare a real uninstall utility for release to cleanse machines quickly, before any wild expoits were released. Yes, this is very different from the IE bug in that it was willful, but F-Secure might have realized Sony didn't have a un-installer waiting in the wings, and tried to wait a bit to give them a chance to write one, to lessen the time between public disclosure the ability to quickly remove the software. Giving the hackers less of a window to exploit it. I can't fault F-Secure for waiting a few weeks. All the fault on this one is squarely on Sony's shoulders.
If all you are using is RAID, your home machine is not backed up. Get some backup media, even if it's cheap hard drives you can backup to, then sit on a shelf somewhere.
Even if some OSS deveopers do pick it up. Your making another huge assumption that they will be as good of coders as the original developer, and work on it as hard as someone who's trying to base his living on it.
His failure to compete is because he has to do two things, develop the code AND support it, while his competitors only have to do one thing. Support it.
I dont' think he's cut his own throat at all. He's proven that his program is a very real asset. Lots of folks use it. He's also shown that there is no one out there who's totally committed to improving it, because he hasn't received any help from other OSS developers. Looks like he's sitting pretty to me.
When no one else is helping out and your competitors are living off your work, doing what he did is absolutely the smartest thing he could do.
It certainly is relevant. Now his competitors have to put in the effort to try to figure out how to speed it up by 5 and spend a LOT of their time coding. That puts it on a much more even level than him doing all the work for them.
OSS *IS* the problem with his previous business model.
OK, the reviewer in me has to correct this. It's the idea that chlorplasts and mitochondria were once free-living organisms.
If you are trying to promote an idea that goes directly against dogma, you shouldn't be surpised that you need to do a lot of convincing. As the saying goes "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.". That's because it's a lot more common for someone to make a mistake in an experiment (happens ALL the time) than to make new discoveries which entirely shift an area of research.
Believe me, lots of us before have put forth ideas that go against current dogma in our respective fields to some degree or other. It's generally expected that if you are going to do this you be prepared to back it up with a lot more evidence than general paper which shows agreement with current theories. You papers that propose shifts in thinking are generally longer because you've done a lot more experiments to show that what you are looking at is real, and not some mistake (or crazy-half baked idea by some crazy crank).
If the editors rejected it outright before it went to reviewers, you obviously sent it to the wrong journals.