Sadly this is getting all too common. Energy companies pay PR firms to make feature spots panning ethanol production, ethanol producers countering with feature spots of their own, the Bush administration making fake news stories in support of No Child Left Behind and the Iraq war, the military does it, pharmaceuticals, Microsoft PR is quite active in print media and tech publications, the Men's Warehouse is famously behind the yearly "suits are back" media blitz every year...it's quite the trend in PR. No surprise RIAA would want to get in on the act. But, like everything else they do, they do it badly.
Perhaps if they laid off the cocaine the world might make more sense.
The clear majority of the really high end computer security people I know are driving Macs. On the military side Army and Marines seem to be tinkering more with Linux. The Marines less so because of NMCI, but there was a demo of battlefield information system that was Linux based. Navy and Marines have pretty much locked themselves into Windows desktops managed by EDS on the administrative side. A move I believe will go down as one of the great defeats in Naval history, with casualties of 250 million American taxpayers.
Don't know about the Air Force but the few AF people I've met at conferences seemed pretty on the ball and struck me as Linux curious if not outright supporters.
i use Firefox with NoScript for general purpose browsing
That's what I'm doing. Firefox with NoScript on Linux. I never access secure systems from a Windows box.
It may be a false sense of security but so are anti-virus programs. Every Windows machine I've ever cleaned had some type anti-virus program running, many with up to date signatures.
This is so retarded it's hard to find the right words to express the expanse of stupidity it represents. Not to mention the 20,000 or so people in the stands texting and emailing pictures. Or are they going to take everyone's cell phone away and frisk them at the door?
They are widely despised by the Australian internet community. Oh for the days when natural monopolies were retained by the state and rented to companies/individuals at fair rates... (I know, I must be a socialist or something, right?)
When does a service become so common it is, in essence, a utility?
This is so painfully obvious that I'm somewhat concerned that it took so long for a judge to rule in this manner.
Obvious to you and I maybe, but Scalia, Roberts, Alito, and Thomas never met an unreasonable search.
If prosecutors can jail reporters indefinitely until they hand over their sources, how is it that much different for the government to imprison someone for not turning over their encryption keys? The only difference I see is one may incriminate someone else and the other may incriminate you.
Of course, the smart thing would be not to mount the encrypted drive when you're not using it. And for the police not to shut the device off until they've secured enough of the data to obtain a conviction. Otherwise it's hearsay. I could claim I saw the plans for a nuclear bomb on your computer. And if we're admitting hearsay then anyone could claim you had anything on your computer. Would that be compelling enough to make you hand over encryption keys to prove there's nothing incriminating on your computer?
Now we're getting into the territory of having an encrypted partition is probable cause. Just like having a pager or cell phone is probable cause for a vehicle search on a traffic stop. Sadly that's true, or used to be.
Makes the paranoid among us utilize hidden volumes. Some people go three or four layers deep. Keep something mildly incriminating in the normal layer and let them think that's the big prize. Try to take the water boarding for 30 or 40 seconds before you give it up to sell it.
When you put safety and security ahead of freedom there's no bottom to the privacy slide.
Nevertheless, that's not to say the db caused the murder.
If I knew my neighbor was a hot head and his kid had a history of abuse, and I start feeding him made up material indicating the other neighbor...let's say that was you...was a child molester and unstable neighbor goes off the beam and kills you, wouldn't I be culpable in the murder?
But when the state does it that's all okay. So as long as it's the state giving out erroneous information, all in a good cause, then it's okay when people set their house on fire, harass them or kill them.
Another idea would be to appoint block captains to keep tabs on everyone in a particular neighborhood. Got that idea from the East German Stasi.
It's a long downward slope when we make decisions from fear and hate. We can't ever get that ground back.
Basically my approach to security on my home machines is I wipe them and rebuild them every 6 months or so, in case there is some hidden malware on there that has turned my machine into a zombie.
I find it shocking that Windows users just accept that as part of the cost of doing business. Can you imagine a Linux distro suggesting you reinstall every six months? No cracks from Ubuntu users which releases on a six month cycle. You get my point. MS would have a field day with that.
Every virus infected Windows machine I've fixed the owners all said the same thing. They had AV and had automatic updates enabled, and usually that was true. They got infected anyway. The ultimate irony is that I use Knoppix to resurrect the deaders and retrieve their data.
According to Fortune's legal blogger Roger Parloff
Who would be in a better position to determine the definition of "fair" as it applies to SCO? A seasoned federal judge who spent years listening to SCO's side of the case? Or paid blogger who pulls his legal opinions out of his wazzu?
If you inform Adobe about your situation, they might be able to hook you up with newer versions of trialware or educational software. It would seem to me that it would pay to at least ask before proceeding with Photoshop 5.5 or 6, both of which are seriously out of date. You're giving them the chance to get their products in front of and established with potentially life long users. It would seem to be in their interest to work with your budget limitations.
I personally use Gimp and like it, but the learning curve is fairly steep. It would almost warrant a separate class all by itself.
What's interesting is Wal-Mart is a big MS shop. I think their CIO used to work for MS, if memory serves. So Wal-Mart telling them to ditch wma for mp3 is a big deal, for the politics if nothing else.
I'm guessing there were some people frowning over their lattes in Redmond over this one.
...that says the Bush administration is behind this somewhere. No stone unturned when it comes to spying on people. Follow the money and it'll lead to a no-bid DoD contract or a marriage of convenience with some gov agency.
Whether it's illegal or not is debatable. If you believe IRC is a commons, then there's no expectation of privacy in the first place. I put IRC, unencrypted email and web postings in the same category as billboards.
Microsoft funneled money beyond the licenses to SCO. This whole affair was beneath the dignity of a professional company. Getting in bed with a company like SCO...what does that say about MS?
If Microsoft put the effort into providing value to their customers that they put in trying to undermine competitors they wouldn't need to worry about their market.
You see this is the problem with the anti-nuclear moment. They have become so obsessed with ending everything that contains a nucleus that they see it as acceptable to dismiss any science to the contrary as "biased".
I used to do research on the biological effects of ionizing radiation and we knew decades ago that most of the commonly held views of radiation exposure stem from 1950's vintage sci-fi movies. Not helped by later movies like China Syndrome, which had all the scientific accuracy of The Matrix. The anti-nuclear movement is one actor in a parade of misinformation.
One thing that challenges even knowledgeable people was that in population dosimetry studies the low dose groups would consistently out-live the controls. A little bit of radiation exposure was frequently better than none at all.
I always thought it was funny the public idly tolerates 500 people dying on the nation's highways on the average weekend but would chain themselves to a fence to protest a nuclear power plant in their state. I'd live next door to a nuke plant, provided it wasn't down wind from one of the old Russian carbon-core reactors. Your lifetime exposure would present a lower risk than a single trip to grandma's over the holidays.
You could use this set up to help show athletes how to improve their form, be it in the weight room, on the golf course, ski slope, or any other place where repetitive precision movement is needed and a refinement of form could improve performance.
You can just say "porn." We all know that's where this is going.
No, I won't. I built a new PC this weekend and it runs Ubuntu 7.10.
What really chaps my undies about this whole thing is if you buy a new PC that ships with Vista, I'll guarantee it ships with Home Crippled version. So the first thing you'd have to do to play those high end games is dig out the credit card and pay Microsoft more money directly for the functionality you didn't get out of the box.
I think with XP there was sort of an inevitability about switching. Even I bought a retail copy after it was out five years. But I don't get that sense with Vista. I'm sensing Vista resistance from the business and consumer world and Apple is gaining traction beating the living snot out of Microsoft in the advertising wars.
In my opinion the mindset that Vista is somehow inevitable is whistling past the graveyard.
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Sadly this is getting all too common. Energy companies pay PR firms to make feature spots panning ethanol production, ethanol producers countering with feature spots of their own, the Bush administration making fake news stories in support of No Child Left Behind and the Iraq war, the military does it, pharmaceuticals, Microsoft PR is quite active in print media and tech publications, the Men's Warehouse is famously behind the yearly "suits are back" media blitz every year...it's quite the trend in PR. No surprise RIAA would want to get in on the act. But, like everything else they do, they do it badly.
Perhaps if they laid off the cocaine the world might make more sense.
The clear majority of the really high end computer security people I know are driving Macs. On the military side Army and Marines seem to be tinkering more with Linux. The Marines less so because of NMCI, but there was a demo of battlefield information system that was Linux based. Navy and Marines have pretty much locked themselves into Windows desktops managed by EDS on the administrative side. A move I believe will go down as one of the great defeats in Naval history, with casualties of 250 million American taxpayers.
Don't know about the Air Force but the few AF people I've met at conferences seemed pretty on the ball and struck me as Linux curious if not outright supporters.
i use Firefox with NoScript for general purpose browsing
That's what I'm doing. Firefox with NoScript on Linux. I never access secure systems from a Windows box.
It may be a false sense of security but so are anti-virus programs. Every Windows machine I've ever cleaned had some type anti-virus program running, many with up to date signatures.
his replacement will be former Delta Airlines COO James Whitehurst.
Now that means all your cron jobs will run late and RedHat will stop giving out those little packages of peanuts.
This is so retarded it's hard to find the right words to express the expanse of stupidity it represents. Not to mention the 20,000 or so people in the stands texting and emailing pictures. Or are they going to take everyone's cell phone away and frisk them at the door?
Maybe I shouldn't give them any ideas.
They are widely despised by the Australian internet community. Oh for the days when natural monopolies were retained by the state and rented to companies/individuals at fair rates... (I know, I must be a socialist or something, right?)
When does a service become so common it is, in essence, a utility?
I cannot be the only one that REALLY does not want to see Cheney's "intimate moments"
At least it would be over quick, not like Iraq.
This is so painfully obvious that I'm somewhat concerned that it took so long for a judge to rule in this manner.
Obvious to you and I maybe, but Scalia, Roberts, Alito, and Thomas never met an unreasonable search.
If prosecutors can jail reporters indefinitely until they hand over their sources, how is it that much different for the government to imprison someone for not turning over their encryption keys? The only difference I see is one may incriminate someone else and the other may incriminate you.
Of course, the smart thing would be not to mount the encrypted drive when you're not using it. And for the police not to shut the device off until they've secured enough of the data to obtain a conviction. Otherwise it's hearsay. I could claim I saw the plans for a nuclear bomb on your computer. And if we're admitting hearsay then anyone could claim you had anything on your computer. Would that be compelling enough to make you hand over encryption keys to prove there's nothing incriminating on your computer?
Now we're getting into the territory of having an encrypted partition is probable cause. Just like having a pager or cell phone is probable cause for a vehicle search on a traffic stop. Sadly that's true, or used to be.
Makes the paranoid among us utilize hidden volumes. Some people go three or four layers deep. Keep something mildly incriminating in the normal layer and let them think that's the big prize. Try to take the water boarding for 30 or 40 seconds before you give it up to sell it.
When you put safety and security ahead of freedom there's no bottom to the privacy slide.
They just proved the premise at the beginning of Idiocracy on the dumbing down of the world.
Excuse me, waiter. There's a light beam in my nano soup!
I think you have that backwards... they'd fry targets first.
Should make Target stores rethink that logo. Would have to be tempting to melt that big 'ol bullseye. Look, no collateral damage!
The clock says WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHhhhhhhh-HOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Nevertheless, that's not to say the db caused the murder.
If I knew my neighbor was a hot head and his kid had a history of abuse, and I start feeding him made up material indicating the other neighbor...let's say that was you...was a child molester and unstable neighbor goes off the beam and kills you, wouldn't I be culpable in the murder?
But when the state does it that's all okay. So as long as it's the state giving out erroneous information, all in a good cause, then it's okay when people set their house on fire, harass them or kill them.
Another idea would be to appoint block captains to keep tabs on everyone in a particular neighborhood. Got that idea from the East German Stasi.
It's a long downward slope when we make decisions from fear and hate. We can't ever get that ground back.
Basically my approach to security on my home machines is I wipe them and rebuild them every 6 months or so, in case there is some hidden malware on there that has turned my machine into a zombie.
I find it shocking that Windows users just accept that as part of the cost of doing business. Can you imagine a Linux distro suggesting you reinstall every six months? No cracks from Ubuntu users which releases on a six month cycle. You get my point. MS would have a field day with that.
Every virus infected Windows machine I've fixed the owners all said the same thing. They had AV and had automatic updates enabled, and usually that was true. They got infected anyway. The ultimate irony is that I use Knoppix to resurrect the deaders and retrieve their data.
According to Fortune's legal blogger Roger Parloff
Who would be in a better position to determine the definition of "fair" as it applies to SCO? A seasoned federal judge who spent years listening to SCO's side of the case? Or paid blogger who pulls his legal opinions out of his wazzu?
If you inform Adobe about your situation, they might be able to hook you up with newer versions of trialware or educational software. It would seem to me that it would pay to at least ask before proceeding with Photoshop 5.5 or 6, both of which are seriously out of date. You're giving them the chance to get their products in front of and established with potentially life long users. It would seem to be in their interest to work with your budget limitations.
I personally use Gimp and like it, but the learning curve is fairly steep. It would almost warrant a separate class all by itself.
because this is the same Department of Justice that doesn't see anything wrong with waterboarding
Why aren't the right wing apologists stepping up in the face of yet another Bush administration insult to common sense to do the honorable thing...
...and blame Clinton?
WMA is just a codec
What's interesting is Wal-Mart is a big MS shop. I think their CIO used to work for MS, if memory serves. So Wal-Mart telling them to ditch wma for mp3 is a big deal, for the politics if nothing else.
I'm guessing there were some people frowning over their lattes in Redmond over this one.
...that says the Bush administration is behind this somewhere. No stone unturned when it comes to spying on people. Follow the money and it'll lead to a no-bid DoD contract or a marriage of convenience with some gov agency.
Whether it's illegal or not is debatable. If you believe IRC is a commons, then there's no expectation of privacy in the first place. I put IRC, unencrypted email and web postings in the same category as billboards.
Which high dollar lobbyist and party fund raiser would this benefit? And which high dollar lobbyist and party fund raiser would oppose it?
Microsoft funneled money beyond the licenses to SCO. This whole affair was beneath the dignity of a professional company. Getting in bed with a company like SCO...what does that say about MS?
If Microsoft put the effort into providing value to their customers that they put in trying to undermine competitors they wouldn't need to worry about their market.
Pathetic.
I suggest calling it gPorn, because you know that's what's going to be on there.
You see this is the problem with the anti-nuclear moment. They have become so obsessed with ending everything that contains a nucleus that they see it as acceptable to dismiss any science to the contrary as "biased".
I used to do research on the biological effects of ionizing radiation and we knew decades ago that most of the commonly held views of radiation exposure stem from 1950's vintage sci-fi movies. Not helped by later movies like China Syndrome, which had all the scientific accuracy of The Matrix. The anti-nuclear movement is one actor in a parade of misinformation.
One thing that challenges even knowledgeable people was that in population dosimetry studies the low dose groups would consistently out-live the controls. A little bit of radiation exposure was frequently better than none at all.
I always thought it was funny the public idly tolerates 500 people dying on the nation's highways on the average weekend but would chain themselves to a fence to protest a nuclear power plant in their state. I'd live next door to a nuke plant, provided it wasn't down wind from one of the old Russian carbon-core reactors. Your lifetime exposure would present a lower risk than a single trip to grandma's over the holidays.
You could use this set up to help show athletes how to improve their form, be it in the weight room, on the golf course, ski slope, or any other place where repetitive precision movement is needed and a refinement of form could improve performance.
You can just say "porn." We all know that's where this is going.
If you buy a new PC, you'll run Vista.
No, I won't. I built a new PC this weekend and it runs Ubuntu 7.10.
What really chaps my undies about this whole thing is if you buy a new PC that ships with Vista, I'll guarantee it ships with Home Crippled version. So the first thing you'd have to do to play those high end games is dig out the credit card and pay Microsoft more money directly for the functionality you didn't get out of the box.
I think with XP there was sort of an inevitability about switching. Even I bought a retail copy after it was out five years. But I don't get that sense with Vista. I'm sensing Vista resistance from the business and consumer world and Apple is gaining traction beating the living snot out of Microsoft in the advertising wars.
In my opinion the mindset that Vista is somehow inevitable is whistling past the graveyard.