key-stroke loggers ? Heck even the virus scan logs that almost everyone has can provide a great deal of info regarding what comes in and out... The only thing you derive from using an environment like that is a chance at physical anonimity.
This has potential but eventually your traffic passes to a wired network of some business that DOES keep logs.... Given the desire and a fictional legal front, or say the patriot act you could narrow down the area in a reasonably short time, not that you or I have the resources for this but we all have a relative that does:(
If you sell your used hardware to someone, then from the corporate viewpoint, YOU are depriving them of their right to sell NEW hardware to that person, hence you are infringing on the rights of a corporation !?! Lordie this country is hosed in the head....
Have you NOT figured it out yet...THERE IS NO ANONYMOUS on the net...sorry guys, I assure you SOMEONE has logs, your ISP the border routers along the way, If someone, say the government or a deep pockets corp wants that, they will pull an RIAA and get it...If you want to REALLY be anonymous go to the library, use a type writer, send a snail mail from another zip code and DON'T go into the post office to do it...otherwise just get a business license and approach them as a LICENSED contractor with a proposal at the business level...or just watch it all FALL TO PIECES...
Remember even LAME infant like encryption is now a federally protected item:( Thanks DMCA, brought to you by the US Gestapo, protecting our homeland from ourselves...
I think it is the EXPECTATION of privacy, and you should have NONE when using a corporate computer resource. If what you are doing requires privacy of a greater nature then you should do it on your OWN machine on your OWN time. Don't get me wrong I think it SUCKS as well but it is THEIR equipment on THEIR SITE, used by you FOR THEIR WORK. NOTE : I am at work surfing on the corporate dime, while working, but I don't expect them to NOT record my 'personal' traffic while using their network. Now if your work loaned you a machine for home and it had this issue I could see the problem, but honestly this is like complaining that someone is listening in on your conversation in a public place....
Just like patent court, theses bozo's have made things operly comlpicated to ensure their usefulness and survival. No matter how good of a guy this person is, don't expect him to slit his own throat. I love when someone uses the you just don't know enough excuse, which really implies DON'T LOOK AT THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN....
BTW thanks for taking the time to at least spread some FUD, it is better than the general ignore we usually get.
how can it be spy-ware when IT IS THEIR BOXEN ? The one thing in our enterprise that MUST be present to access ANY shared resource is the Tivoli agent with the config checksum matching, much with it and you don't get anything from the network. Don't get me wrong I hate the crap too but it IS a place of employment....
A public clearing house in which you report the prices you were offered, the aggregate data will allow the consumer to press the margin, just like the vendor is doing now. Information is our friend if access is unfettered, it is only when a single group controls access that the potential for abuse really becomes a great threat. A universal DB that tracked EVERYONE, would be fine by me if I had access just like the authorities. If I could track Joe police officer's location, just like they could track me then so be it:)
But the Elderly #1 Vote, #2 have lots of time top write their Elderly congressional reps, #3 Vote, while Teenagers, #1 have NO MONEY, #2 don't vote, #3 can't vote, #4 are teenagers, and by that definition heniously evil beings from another world put here to annoy old people, in the eyes of most old people:)
Could you imagine the lawsuits that would ensure if you offered at young people ONLY community, no one over 55 allowed ?!? and yet having one that allows ONLY people ver 55 is OK:)
as long as you are not the lowest common denominator, the creator of a HOSTILE environment or the cause of some financial liability, you will slide through. The schools are interested in MINIMUM acheivment, federal funds for those students in attendance, and additional federal funds they can derive by ID'ing a student as needed 'special care'. As one who failed to fit any of the standard profiles I was a pot smoking hippie, who ran the computer lab, the physics lab, and was the district computer resource, while regularly cutting an english clash and acing the finals. Today I'd be on a 'mood evening' drug and under observation as a 'suspected terrorist' When will we realize that a sanitized, standardized education system produces standardized vanilla think in a cardboard box people, while unique indiviuals respond differently, produce new ideas and growth, which lead to profit and growth. I guess the corporate consumer drone society doesn't leave much room for independent thought, just consume what is placed before you in a reflexive action, and DO NOT QUESTION......
the basics of privacy, and securing yourself to go online 101. It should be a REQUIREMENT to get your community lab drivers license so to speak...
Things like DO NOT INSTALL COMET CURSOR, YOU DON'T REALLY HAVE A URGENT MESSAGE even though that popup says you do, Broadcasting an IP address is NOT A BAD THING even though the OTHER popup says it is, How NOT TO respond to spam, what a GOOD password is, and the survival tools needed, such as a popup blocker, purging histories and the implications of using a SHARED computer. In a similar situation in Yuma, AZ, the snowbirds like email, you could not get an ID until you passed their very basic course, and the heightened awareness gets things reported.
Having 2 or 3 game engines good enough to start a debate like this:) I REALLY hope they ALL ROCK. Not that I have any figures but how many games are licensing the Unreal engine vs the Q3 these days. Competition is prolly pretty heavy at that level:) WOOOOHOOOO I WANT DOOM3, HL2, and EQ2 NOW !!!!!!:)
Maybe you should try a nick and then do a wee bit of research. Even the M$ folks acknowlege a build issue that they've NEVER been able to isolate or solve. If you think you can build better feel free to try and apply I have an open position. Although based on your knee-jerk reaction I doubt you'd qualify on any of the issues I support, Linux, Unix, Win2k/2003/XP. Perhaps you'd like to address the issue with our M$ cluster certification manager as you need all the vendors blessings to get M$ to support clustering any hardware:) Cheers....
of mysterious windows crash during system build, BEFORE there are any apps to mess it up. I've heard 10% but never seen that high, more like 8% from my view, and I've built 1000's of pc's and servers, and more using our new image process, so these are similar models, with standard equipment that for some strange reason get a variety of errors during the build process. 99% of those go along there merry after a reboot, and the remaining 1% is almost ALWAYS disk or memory errors.
We WILL have or maybe EVEN DO HAVE hardware capable of turning the needed numbers, the problem lies in software, WE ARE NO-WHERE CLOSE to understanding even the basics of the human brains storage method....
Half of the fortune 500 companies board members live and die by Gartner recommendations. Note, that does NOT invalidate your statement about half-brains and such, but I can honestly say THE ONLY reason we have apache as a web server in our organization was the Gartner report on the TCO of IIS. It does not matter what us tech's know, it is the PHB's that make all the decisions....and the further south they get the wierder and more implausable their views get,...
and I still disagree I'd have to point to the Unreal engine games for the BEST performing FPS, Q3 is like saturday morning cartoons, although there is no way we are gonna ever convince each other:) I can't argue the popularity of the Q3 games. In my honest opinion it took Star Trek Elite force to bring out the true potential in the Q3 engine. As far as consoles you hit that one on the head:)
errr try looking at servers...Q3 is merely an engine for others to use, as a FPS it blows...HL was THE GAME until some of the squad based games came out. HL2 WILL ROCK, I really hope DOOM3 ROCKS too:)
I already paid, the content providers need to talk to the ISP's and the ones collecting everything and demand a cut, or block access to certain domains. This is like HBO coming to me and asking for money the day after I pay my cable bill. Not that I don't pay for a few sites, but those are very specific, and I'd consider those more akin to a donation.
set-up, the guide is horribly slow, it takes almost 2 full seconds to actually change a channel, and I get black screen during the interim, not to mention the pixelization that shows up because the cheap bastards just utilized the added space to jam 3 more signals in...
COMCAST just PLAIN BLOWS. I often resort to watching the baseball games on my rabbit-ears from the local station and I get better reception. The higher resolution the program is in the worse it looks on their system. I won't even begin to talk about NOVA in HDTV or Monday Night football.....
Yes I do have a cable modem thru COMCRAP, an SDSL line thru covad, and a T1 via work, covad as well. I bet you don't even have a clue what the TOS changes from AT&T to comcrap were do ya ?? Well you just run along and play, let the adults talk, have a peice of candy maybe. AC's should not be seen or HEARD:)
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key-stroke loggers ? Heck even the virus scan logs that almost everyone has can provide a great deal of info regarding what comes in and out...
The only thing you derive from using an environment like that is a chance at physical anonimity.
I was thinking smoke signals and the rumormill were the last truly anonymous methods of communication :)
This has potential but eventually your traffic passes to a wired network of some business that DOES keep logs.... :(
Given the desire and a fictional legal front, or say the patriot act you could narrow down the area in a reasonably short time, not that you or I have the resources for this but we all have a relative that does
If you sell your used hardware to someone, then from the corporate viewpoint, YOU are depriving them of their right to sell NEW hardware to that person, hence you are infringing on the rights of a corporation !?! Lordie this country is hosed in the head....
Have you NOT figured it out yet...THERE IS NO ANONYMOUS on the net...sorry guys, I assure you SOMEONE has logs, your ISP the border routers along the way, If someone, say the government or a deep pockets corp wants that, they will pull an RIAA and get it...If you want to REALLY be anonymous go to the library, use a type writer, send a snail mail from another zip code and DON'T go into the post office to do it...otherwise just get a business license and approach them as a LICENSED contractor with a proposal at the business level...or just watch it all FALL TO PIECES...
:( Thanks DMCA, brought to you by the US Gestapo, protecting our homeland from ourselves...
Remember even LAME infant like encryption is now a federally protected item
I think it is the EXPECTATION of privacy, and you should have NONE when using a corporate computer resource. If what you are doing requires privacy of a greater nature then you should do it on your OWN machine on your OWN time. Don't get me wrong I think it SUCKS as well but it is THEIR equipment on THEIR SITE, used by you FOR THEIR WORK. NOTE : I am at work surfing on the corporate dime, while working, but I don't expect them to NOT record my 'personal' traffic while using their network. Now if your work loaned you a machine for home and it had this issue I could see the problem, but honestly this is like complaining that someone is listening in on your conversation in a public place....
Just like patent court, theses bozo's have made things operly comlpicated to ensure their usefulness and survival. No matter how good of a guy this person is, don't expect him to slit his own throat. I love when someone uses the you just don't know enough excuse, which really implies DON'T LOOK AT THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN....
BTW thanks for taking the time to at least spread some FUD, it is better than the general ignore we usually get.
how can it be spy-ware when IT IS THEIR BOXEN ? The one thing in our enterprise that MUST be present to access ANY shared resource is the Tivoli agent with the config checksum matching, much with it and you don't get anything from the network. Don't get me wrong I hate the crap too but it IS a place of employment....
Not sure but if you come up with a way YOU'll be the LOCK :)
A public clearing house in which you report the prices you were offered, the aggregate data will allow the consumer to press the margin, just like the vendor is doing now. Information is our friend if access is unfettered, it is only when a single group controls access that the potential for abuse really becomes a great threat. A universal DB that tracked EVERYONE, would be fine by me if I had access just like the authorities. :)
If I could track Joe police officer's location, just like they could track me then so be it
But the Elderly #1 Vote, #2 have lots of time top write their Elderly congressional reps, #3 Vote, while Teenagers, #1 have NO MONEY, #2 don't vote, #3 can't vote, #4 are teenagers, and by that definition heniously evil beings from another world put here to annoy old people, in the eyes of most old people :)
:)
Could you imagine the lawsuits that would ensure if you offered at young people ONLY community, no one over 55 allowed ?!? and yet having one that allows ONLY people ver 55 is OK
I would consider my mission a success then, I've annoyed an AC :) I can die happy
as long as you are not the lowest common denominator, the creator of a HOSTILE environment or the cause of some financial liability, you will slide through. The schools are interested in MINIMUM acheivment, federal funds for those students in attendance, and additional federal funds they can derive by ID'ing a student as needed 'special care'. As one who failed to fit any of the standard profiles I was a pot smoking hippie, who ran the computer lab, the physics lab, and was the district computer resource, while regularly cutting an english clash and acing the finals. Today I'd be on a 'mood evening' drug and under observation as a 'suspected terrorist' When will we realize that a sanitized, standardized education system produces standardized vanilla think in a cardboard box people, while unique indiviuals respond differently, produce new ideas and growth, which lead to profit and growth.
I guess the corporate consumer drone society doesn't leave much room for independent thought, just consume what is placed before you in a reflexive action, and DO NOT QUESTION......
the basics of privacy, and securing yourself to go online 101. It should be a REQUIREMENT to get your community lab drivers license so to speak...
Things like DO NOT INSTALL COMET CURSOR, YOU DON'T REALLY HAVE A URGENT MESSAGE even though that popup says you do, Broadcasting an IP address is NOT A BAD THING even though the OTHER popup says it is, How NOT TO respond to spam, what a GOOD password is, and the survival tools needed, such as a popup blocker, purging histories and the implications of using a SHARED computer. In a similar situation in Yuma, AZ, the snowbirds like email, you could not get an ID until you passed their very basic course, and the heightened awareness gets things reported.
Having 2 or 3 game engines good enough to start a debate like this :) I REALLY hope they ALL ROCK. Not that I have any figures but how many games are licensing the Unreal engine vs the Q3 these days. Competition is prolly pretty heavy at that level :) WOOOOHOOOO I WANT DOOM3, HL2, and EQ2 NOW !!!!!! :)
Maybe you should try a nick and then do a wee bit of research. Even the M$ folks acknowlege a build issue that they've NEVER been able to isolate or solve. If you think you can build better feel free to try and apply I have an open position. Although based on your knee-jerk reaction I doubt you'd qualify on any of the issues I support, Linux, Unix, Win2k/2003/XP. Perhaps you'd like to address the issue with our M$ cluster certification manager as you need all the vendors blessings to get M$ to support clustering any hardware :) Cheers....
of mysterious windows crash during system build, BEFORE there are any apps to mess it up. I've heard 10% but never seen that high, more like 8% from my view, and I've built 1000's of pc's and servers, and more using our new image process, so these are similar models, with standard equipment that for some strange reason get a variety of errors during the build process. 99% of those go along there merry after a reboot, and the remaining 1% is almost ALWAYS disk or memory errors.
We WILL have or maybe EVEN DO HAVE hardware capable of turning the needed numbers, the problem lies in software, WE ARE NO-WHERE CLOSE to understanding even the basics of the human brains storage method....
Half of the fortune 500 companies board members live and die by Gartner recommendations. Note, that does NOT invalidate your statement about half-brains and such, but I can honestly say THE ONLY reason we have apache as a web server in our organization was the Gartner report on the TCO of IIS. It does not matter what us tech's know, it is the PHB's that make all the decisions....and the further south they get the wierder and more implausable their views get,...
and I still disagree I'd have to point to the Unreal engine games for the BEST performing FPS, Q3 is like saturday morning cartoons, although there is no way we are gonna ever convince each other :) I can't argue the popularity of the Q3 games. In my honest opinion it took Star Trek Elite force to bring out the true potential in the Q3 engine. As far as consoles you hit that one on the head :)
errr try looking at servers...Q3 is merely an engine for others to use, as a FPS it blows...HL was THE GAME until some of the squad based games came out. HL2 WILL ROCK, I really hope DOOM3 ROCKS too :)
I already paid, the content providers need to talk to the ISP's and the ones collecting everything and demand a cut, or block access to certain domains. This is like HBO coming to me and asking for money the day after I pay my cable bill. Not that I don't pay for a few sites, but those are very specific, and I'd consider those more akin to a donation.
set-up, the guide is horribly slow, it takes almost 2 full seconds to actually change a channel, and I get black screen during the interim, not to mention the pixelization that shows up because the cheap bastards just utilized the added space to jam 3 more signals in...
COMCAST just PLAIN BLOWS. I often resort to watching the baseball games on my rabbit-ears from the local station and I get better reception. The higher resolution the program is in the worse it looks on their system. I won't even begin to talk about NOVA in HDTV or Monday Night football.....
giving a company WORLDWIDE rights ?!?! WTF Even as a US citizen that seems a bit off. I hope the rest of the world tells SCO where to go...
Yes I do have a cable modem thru COMCRAP, an SDSL line thru covad, and a T1 via work, covad as well. I bet you don't even have a clue what the TOS changes from AT&T to comcrap were do ya ?? Well you just run along and play, let the adults talk, have a peice of candy maybe. AC's should not be seen or HEARD :)