What is wrong with me? The only reason I'll follow this story is for the pending disaster that only comes with accomplishing a feat that is utterly useless. Balloon technology has peaked, there is nothing new to gain or explore, it's a meaningless record.
I have that same feeling as I do during hunting season as I await news of the first hunter to be killed (usually by stray from hunting buddy but I always root for the deer sighting induced heart attack).
And why can't innovation take place on Windows based systems?
To me innovation is new and exciting ideas. Regardless of platform it seems to me innovation is a seperate beast. I've seen some really innovative software for both MS and Linux bases systems. If you wanna talk about programming languages, lets talk about that, but I don't see the validity is blaming the OS in lack of new ideas of software.
Tracking the outpaying of social services, social security, disability, medication etc. Keep an accurate account of the numbers of the homeless and the economic trends that may affect those numbers. Althought without the economic means, how much do the homeless migrate? Even if its not state-to-state I would expect intra and inter city migration patterns would develop given time with this system.
Where is the breech of civil liberties? Where is the invasion of privacy if the Secret Service know a homeless person collected food from this shelter on Monday AND got soup from a different shelter cross town on Wednesday?
Honestly... I don't see the harm. They already track what I do based on my social security number, why should the homeless expect more privacy then I?
I've always wrestled with the liberals that kill unborn children, yet are against the death penalty for some serial rapist.
At least the conservatives give the innocent a chance at life, course if they grow up to be a killer they'll be more then happy to provide them a delayed abortion via lethal injection.
Woman's right to choose... why didn't they choose birth control if they didn't want to become pregnant? I don't object to abortion in cases that endanger a woman's health or in cases of incest & rape. But, for the most part, its used as birth control which is crap. Woman don't have the right to 'choose' to use herion or prosititute themselves or any number of illegal activities.
I also think there is a difference between pro-choice and pro-abortion. I've not met anyone that is pro-choice that thinks abortions are super and hope more women have them. Their stance is usually pro-safe --> as in keep it legal so we don't have them being done in basements and garages by unqualified practioners. Which is fine, but somehow they fail to articulate it in a way that is convincing so it becomes about a womens right's. If its about 'rights', woudn't the 'rights' of the father also be taken into consideration? Course, no one cares about the rights of the child yet since they can't vote or pay taxes. I now believe we need to reform the law to say life begins at taxation... that ought to settle it.
Forget that ferocious beast. Can you tell me what the land speed of an African Swallow is please?
Its funny, scientist are forced to create these hybrid concoctions to create stem cells for their research because the conservative religious front wants human stem cell research banned. I wonder how the conservative religious front feels about mixing their DNA with rodents. Can I get a Pat Buchanan Gerbil here please.
There was a ham radio guy in my old neighborhood, his damn antenna tower was 4 times taller then any of the poles carrying the hard lines. I'm not into it so I can't say how bad the interference is, but logically - wouldn't it only be near the surface around the poles. If their antenna were tall enough would they not escape the interference?
I've been pretty lucky with X. But I can certainly see your point.
Throw in - WINE, command line compiling, command line uncompressing,./make,./install, command line 'mounting' of network shares.
I'm learing my command line ways, but to make inroads in the desktop community, the masses needs GUIs and lots of them. From downloading and installing software to mapping drives, people needs to point and click to feel warm & fuzzy.
If I am the only source of the information I can keep it private. The fact that your information is in some giant database... its not really private anymore is it? The database owners, sysadmins, credit card companies, etc have access. Is it sensitive?, Yes. Private?, no.
Why is he being called a hacker? What did he hack? Copying and Pasting just isn't impressing me with 1337 skills. The guy prolly had the rights to the data anyway, you can't lock out every root, domain admin, DBAs, service account. An abuse of rights?, Hell yes. A hack?, no.
I think the point is, your RIM mobile device, talking with your company's BlackBerry server is useless since the service (and underlying network) that takes the message from your mailbox to your Crackberry ain't gonna be there. Making the device nothing more then a cool, but useless belt accessory, even if its only $5.
Great point, but since most corporate clients are behind a firewall that will block such RPC requests I'm betting the larger problem is with broadband users plugged into their modems with no protection and fast spreading capabilities.
One of the other replies mentioned ISP's taking action and blocking the port.... I hope they do. My ISP after several days of slooooooow traffic finally started disabling connections of those users who were not patching thier machines for Code Red many moons ago.
It could be bad if the Windows admins out there aren't paying attention. But, most sysadmins in MS shops realize the frequency of these kind of patches and are good about applying them timely. This was released over 10 days ago (I got notified on the 19th), and have already applied it to the 350+ MS servers on our network. If the lazy admin has configured auto-update they are protected as well.
The primary vehicle for spreading this type of exploit, are all the MS clients of broadband users, many untechy PC owners will be to blame if this things hits hard. And yes, I think it could be worst then slammer/code red because its RPC. Pretty much all the MS client out there are going to have it running (versus an IIS exploit).
Seriously, Fight Club theology aside, what is wrong with being a consumer and an employee?
Should I be leading a revolution somewhere, and if we were all off leading revolutions who would we be revolting against? My linux development contributions just don't seem to provide for my family, silly bastards demand food and housing on a regular basis.
The author also stressed (repeatedly) to be reasonable during the process. Are there a large number of refund seekers out there acting like raging monkeys?
As both a consumer and an employee of a large corporation, somehow I act reasonable without constantly being told to do so.
Why would you believe that the government couldn't take your computer?
Yes, once they have possession they are going to tread lightly and copy because the kiddie pr0nster's tricks are to wipe the HDD if a security precaution isn't followed during boot/login. But hell yes, they can take anything (including you) with the correct paperwork (warrants and whatnot).
Many countries do this, of course those same countries usually declare a national holiday and most business are closed allowing the population the time to carefully weigh all the candidates and dutifully select the nominee they want. Yes I'm lobbying for a day off
I got burned by this when my cruise ship pulled into harbor in Belize, only to find everything was closed until the polls closed at 6pm. Imagine my distain when I found out our ship pulled anchor at 5pm, the bastards!!!
I am on call 24/7. That is the experience I'm speaking from. When it comes down to doing real work, the screen is too small or there is enough functionality lost that it becomes a waste of time. I grew tired of trying, until someone out there develops a real solution.
Not sure what you are required to lug, but the laptop I have is small, light, and I happily carry it rather the fight the limitations currently offered by blackberry, my phone, or PDA. Course, I admin a Windows environment so we may be speaking about 2 different arenas.
Agreed. As well, the charities are starting to get aggresive. At least with that female inmate calling to lower my AT&T rates, they accept getting hung up on. I have a charity (the freaking FOP to boot) call back 'well sir, sorry about that, we must have gotten disconnected'. I feared the same routine if I didn't sit there and listen to his sad story about police officers and.... OK, I didn't listen, but I did have to go back and hang the phone back up when it started its never-ending-diconnected-beeping!
And seriously, that's about all. I've tried remote administration via my phone (Sprint A500 has a VNC client as well), Crackberry, and PDA. SSH is the best (IMHO), VNC screen rendering is impractical on such a small device (so are the other alternatives like RDesktop and TermServ). I also tried SonicAdmin without much fan fare from me.
With VPN and so many computers available at cafes, libraries, etc... I think real remote admining via portable devices is just for the 'way I'm cool' factor.
Anyone else having trouble taking them seriously? Of course I base this solely on their mickey-mouse FrontPage(c) web site.
In this day and age, people will judge the compentcy/integrity of your business based on your web presence.
I agree again, books have the power and I think my impression, translation, and interpretation is what is ultimatly responsible for that. No camera can create the the images as well as my imagination. But I digress, in cinema, there have been movies that have provoked thought, debate, and elightenment in my life. But after seeing movieX, they all faded away. To this day, the movie that has prompted the most self reflection and changing in myself has been Schindler's List
I agree with everything you said, but I don't believe the parent was trying to say Pixar/Disney movies are trying to compete with the type of film you describe.
Pixar/Disney are about box office and merchandise, which they do very well at. I like their movies because when my 4 year old drags me into a theatre, I get some entertainment out of it as well. They do a great job of adding enough for the adults which many animated features (big screen or small) don't do.
I'm not the movie buff I'm betting you are, but I'd love to hear what movies for you sparked a debate amongst you and your friends. Of course I have my own list, but I think many are because of the place in my life I was in and the events of the world around me at that time.
I know just stating the obvious, but after saying that 5% of Windows boxes crash twice a day, does it not make more sense to provide more (and more accurate) updates for free? Of course that means they'd have to track down the mirade of reasons that cause the crashes, but still.
Owning the gun wouldn't be evidence that you commited a murder with the gun. Theres stuff like gun shot residue, some sort of evidence that you were physically there when the act was committed, you know things like that.
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I have that same feeling as I do during hunting season as I await news of the first hunter to be killed (usually by stray from hunting buddy but I always root for the deer sighting induced heart attack).
To me innovation is new and exciting ideas. Regardless of platform it seems to me innovation is a seperate beast. I've seen some really innovative software for both MS and Linux bases systems. If you wanna talk about programming languages, lets talk about that, but I don't see the validity is blaming the OS in lack of new ideas of software.
Tracking users who provide value?
You mean like keeping track of poster through karma ratings?
I also think its a good idea.
Tracking the outpaying of social services, social security, disability, medication etc. Keep an accurate account of the numbers of the homeless and the economic trends that may affect those numbers. Althought without the economic means, how much do the homeless migrate? Even if its not state-to-state I would expect intra and inter city migration patterns would develop given time with this system.
Where is the breech of civil liberties? Where is the invasion of privacy if the Secret Service know a homeless person collected food from this shelter on Monday AND got soup from a different shelter cross town on Wednesday?
Honestly... I don't see the harm. They already track what I do based on my social security number, why should the homeless expect more privacy then I?
At least the conservatives give the innocent a chance at life, course if they grow up to be a killer they'll be more then happy to provide them a delayed abortion via lethal injection.
Woman's right to choose... why didn't they choose birth control if they didn't want to become pregnant? I don't object to abortion in cases that endanger a woman's health or in cases of incest & rape. But, for the most part, its used as birth control which is crap. Woman don't have the right to 'choose' to use herion or prosititute themselves or any number of illegal activities.
I also think there is a difference between pro-choice and pro-abortion. I've not met anyone that is pro-choice that thinks abortions are super and hope more women have them. Their stance is usually pro-safe --> as in keep it legal so we don't have them being done in basements and garages by unqualified practioners. Which is fine, but somehow they fail to articulate it in a way that is convincing so it becomes about a womens right's. If its about 'rights', woudn't the 'rights' of the father also be taken into consideration? Course, no one cares about the rights of the child yet since they can't vote or pay taxes. I now believe we need to reform the law to say life begins at taxation... that ought to settle it.
Its funny, scientist are forced to create these hybrid concoctions to create stem cells for their research because the conservative religious front wants human stem cell research banned. I wonder how the conservative religious front feels about mixing their DNA with rodents. Can I get a Pat Buchanan Gerbil here please.
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2. So no matter how tall the antenna, they'll still get interfernce...... gotcha, thanks.
There was a ham radio guy in my old neighborhood, his damn antenna tower was 4 times taller then any of the poles carrying the hard lines. I'm not into it so I can't say how bad the interference is, but logically - wouldn't it only be near the surface around the poles. If their antenna were tall enough would they not escape the interference?
Throw in - WINE, command line compiling, command line uncompressing, ./make, ./install, command line 'mounting' of network shares.
I'm learing my command line ways, but to make inroads in the desktop community, the masses needs GUIs and lots of them. From downloading and installing software to mapping drives, people needs to point and click to feel warm & fuzzy.
Why is he being called a hacker? What did he hack? Copying and Pasting just isn't impressing me with 1337 skills. The guy prolly had the rights to the data anyway, you can't lock out every root, domain admin, DBAs, service account. An abuse of rights?, Hell yes. A hack?, no.
I think the point is, your RIM mobile device, talking with your company's BlackBerry server is useless since the service (and underlying network) that takes the message from your mailbox to your Crackberry ain't gonna be there. Making the device nothing more then a cool, but useless belt accessory, even if its only $5.
One of the other replies mentioned ISP's taking action and blocking the port.... I hope they do. My ISP after several days of slooooooow traffic finally started disabling connections of those users who were not patching thier machines for Code Red many moons ago.
The primary vehicle for spreading this type of exploit, are all the MS clients of broadband users, many untechy PC owners will be to blame if this things hits hard. And yes, I think it could be worst then slammer/code red because its RPC. Pretty much all the MS client out there are going to have it running (versus an IIS exploit).
Should I be leading a revolution somewhere, and if we were all off leading revolutions who would we be revolting against? My linux development contributions just don't seem to provide for my family, silly bastards demand food and housing on a regular basis.
As both a consumer and an employee of a large corporation, somehow I act reasonable without constantly being told to do so.
Yes, once they have possession they are going to tread lightly and copy because the kiddie pr0nster's tricks are to wipe the HDD if a security precaution isn't followed during boot/login. But hell yes, they can take anything (including you) with the correct paperwork (warrants and whatnot).
I got burned by this when my cruise ship pulled into harbor in Belize, only to find everything was closed until the polls closed at 6pm. Imagine my distain when I found out our ship pulled anchor at 5pm, the bastards!!!
Not sure what you are required to lug, but the laptop I have is small, light, and I happily carry it rather the fight the limitations currently offered by blackberry, my phone, or PDA. Course, I admin a Windows environment so we may be speaking about 2 different arenas.
Agreed. As well, the charities are starting to get aggresive. At least with that female inmate calling to lower my AT&T rates, they accept getting hung up on. I have a charity (the freaking FOP to boot) call back 'well sir, sorry about that, we must have gotten disconnected'. I feared the same routine if I didn't sit there and listen to his sad story about police officers and .... OK, I didn't listen, but I did have to go back and hang the phone back up when it started its never-ending-diconnected-beeping!
With VPN and so many computers available at cafes, libraries, etc... I think real remote admining via portable devices is just for the 'way I'm cool' factor.
Anyone else having trouble taking them seriously? Of course I base this solely on their mickey-mouse FrontPage(c) web site. In this day and age, people will judge the compentcy/integrity of your business based on your web presence.
I agree again, books have the power and I think my impression, translation, and interpretation is what is ultimatly responsible for that. No camera can create the the images as well as my imagination. But I digress, in cinema, there have been movies that have provoked thought, debate, and elightenment in my life. But after seeing movieX, they all faded away. To this day, the movie that has prompted the most self reflection and changing in myself has been Schindler's List
Pixar/Disney are about box office and merchandise, which they do very well at. I like their movies because when my 4 year old drags me into a theatre, I get some entertainment out of it as well. They do a great job of adding enough for the adults which many animated features (big screen or small) don't do.
I'm not the movie buff I'm betting you are, but I'd love to hear what movies for you sparked a debate amongst you and your friends. Of course I have my own list, but I think many are because of the place in my life I was in and the events of the world around me at that time.
I know just stating the obvious, but after saying that 5% of Windows boxes crash twice a day, does it not make more sense to provide more (and more accurate) updates for free? Of course that means they'd have to track down the mirade of reasons that cause the crashes, but still.
Owning the gun wouldn't be evidence that you commited a murder with the gun. Theres stuff like gun shot residue, some sort of evidence that you were physically there when the act was committed, you know things like that.