Sure, most of this stuff never makes it past the filters in my demarcation routers, much less past my inner firewalls. But it does burn a lot of resources. Not only do those useless packets burn bits on my access links, but they also waste bits, routing cycles, and buffers on every hop that those useless packets traverse.
Conspiracy to support the tax theorists in Florida?
Re:Truly P2P if SOBIG.G contains the spam message
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P2P Spam?
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Of course there could be a downside to all this, once the blacklist
people start cutting off EVERY ISP in the world because of spam messages SOBIG
would defeat itself because no one would be getting mail.
Before that happens there will a lot of lawsuits like the one on AOL helping virii like SOBIG, the situation you forsee is very unlikely to happen.
If windows is so bad why do we keep trying to copy it?
You gotta remember when someone says windows is bad, it is the internal design not the outer GUI, which is good and the sole reason why windows is popular among the non-geek end users. I dont see why it is bad to imitate the user friendly features of it while keeping the strong internals of linux.
Linux businesses are doomed to fail according to this.
If you follow the link above it says
Microsoft thinks Linux is doomed, and predicts that many Linux businesses will falter and fail before the end of the year.
and the article is dated 02:00 AM Jan. 31, 2001 PT. Looks like they are only trying to draw in the fools to their side, and with the image of Bill Gates fantasizing of taking the penguin from behind, LMAO
However, SCO's public relations (PR) department has had a busy few months. McBride proudly dumped two phone-book-sized binders of press clippings on the stage during his SCO Forum keynote on Monday as proof that his company had become more relevant in the high technology industry. SCO has issued 46 press releases since filing suit against IBM on March 7. Last year it issued only 29 press releases between March and August.
With the equipment, the user can walk at a speed of four kilometres (2.5 miles) per hour with little physical exertion and avoid the jerky stop-go moves of ordinary robots.
Yay! We can now have better races, those damn wheelchairs were no fun!
But seriously this is an amazing thing worth applauding and encouraging.
The upgrade is required because of "security issues" with the older versions of the Messenger clients, he said, declining to specify those issues.
Do we read this as: The upgrade is required because "we can't track the behavior of our Messenger users " with the older versions of the Messenger clients and third party clients, he said, declining to specify those issues.?
A similar action by talkcity.com about 4 years ago killed the activity in its chat rooms, wonder if Microsoft will let that happen or use strong arm techniques to keep the users!
What about the advantage MSN Messenger has?
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In January 2001, the FCC ruled that the combination of AOL and Time Warner could pose problems for competitors trying to develop their own IM products. Regulators and rivals were concerned that combining AOL's leading Internet subscriber base with Time Warner's entertainment content and regional cable monopoly would create an unfair advantage in the market.
Microsoft bundles the MSN messenger with their OS getting an unfair advantage over the other IM providers. Most workplaces don't allow their employees to install any software on them, thus they turn to MSN messenger which is already on their Windows systems. Has the FCC done anything to stop Microsoft from doing that? Anyone know?
No, the executives are not blaming such bombs as The Hulk, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle or Gigli on poor quality, lack of originality, or general failure to entertain. There's absolutely nothing new about that.
Looks like, someone responsible for investigating the bad summer took a shortcut.
An American company, Sage Systems, for example, has created a software program that allows utilities to "shed load instantly" if the system is at its peak and stressed to the limit, by "setting back a few thousand customers' thermostats by 2 degrees... [with] a single command over the internet"
We are all living through the nightmares of security problems brought in by the internet, do we take that along too?
Problem with a PhD I would see is that it narrows your field. Unless you are damn sure your PhD topic is what you want to work on its probably not worth it, but then if you end up working in the University after that you still have considerable flexibility. The problem would be if you want to get into the industry and find a 'job', some companies will invariably consider you to be over qualified mostly due to insecurities of the company (you might leave or be more qualified than your boss and hence have lesser respect for him yada yada..)
I have a master's myself and have been contemplating a PhD, but haven't been able to make the move due to the doubts regarding my need for it
But now is that a good security measure? Having a remote website downlooad stuff on your machine and even install it without the users knowledge?
I still think the idea might be a good one for the novice home user, but it would be good if MS can clarify how the setup would work securely and take some input from the geek community on it by bringing it up for discussion.
The biggest question is the amount of data we will be handling on computers 10 years down the line, while the hardware is getting better and smaller the amount of data we handle is growing much faster. I can see that in the future each individual would have his/her own central data storage (provided the data networks make the much needed advancement) and multiple devices to access this central data storage. For e.g.,
1. Computer at home (probably integrated with your entertainment center)
2. Computer in your car.
3. A cell phone with some basic access (it would replace the PDAs completely)
Of course this list is not complete (and my mind is going blank), so please add to it.
Are people in third world countries more likely to endager their lives because their life expectancy is only half that of the first world?
YES
But the question that strikes to me most is that when you are living at the age of 300 or whatever the number (over 100), how likely is it that your body becomes a medium for some wild disease to move from animals to human beings?
And yet many of these same places have no problem outsourcing the same work half-way around the globe. Judging by the poor quality of some of the code I've seen from these outsourceing places (not all), there are a fair amount of communication issues, and then places aren't getting the work done properly.
Exactly why the outsourcing is being done to India primarily and not China, the medium of communication for higher education in India is *English*, and there are plenty of programmers trained in Engineering schools who still happen to make the best money in comparison to the other professions there.
To say the corporations are showing double standards is simply preposterous.
Finally, we believe that a fully integrated and feature-full upgrade mechanism should exist to allow end users and system operators of all walks of life to easily maintain their systems. Debian Linux has shown us the way, but it is possible to do better.
Oh no! Who will pay the administrators the big bucks now?
What I found is basically what many suspected all along: extending and strengthening copyright terms has little effect on actual innovation.
Well you have to also analyze the quality of the those extensions. A well thought out extension to the copyright terms could certainly have a positive effect on innovation, but sadly the viewpoint of the bodies making those extensions is only to protect. Little thought is given as to how it could be used to effect innovation positively.
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Conspiracy to support the tax theorists in Florida?
Before that happens there will a lot of lawsuits like the one on AOL helping virii like SOBIG, the situation you forsee is very unlikely to happen.
You gotta remember when someone says windows is bad, it is the internal design not the outer GUI, which is good and the sole reason why windows is popular among the non-geek end users. I dont see why it is bad to imitate the user friendly features of it while keeping the strong internals of linux.
If you follow the link above it says
Microsoft thinks Linux is doomed, and predicts that many Linux businesses will falter and fail before the end of the year.and the article is dated 02:00 AM Jan. 31, 2001 PT. Looks like they are only trying to draw in the fools to their side, and with the image of Bill Gates fantasizing of taking the penguin from behind, LMAO
Proud of it? Of course you are Mr. McBride
Yay! We can now have better races, those damn wheelchairs were no fun!
But seriously this is an amazing thing worth applauding and encouraging.
Do we read this as: The upgrade is required because "we can't track the behavior of our Messenger users " with the older versions of the Messenger clients and third party clients, he said, declining to specify those issues.?
A similar action by talkcity.com about 4 years ago killed the activity in its chat rooms, wonder if Microsoft will let that happen or use strong arm techniques to keep the users!
Microsoft bundles the MSN messenger with their OS getting an unfair advantage over the other IM providers. Most workplaces don't allow their employees to install any software on them, thus they turn to MSN messenger which is already on their Windows systems. Has the FCC done anything to stop Microsoft from doing that? Anyone know?
Looks like, someone responsible for investigating the bad summer took a shortcut.
We are all living through the nightmares of security problems brought in by the internet, do we take that along too?
Problem with a PhD I would see is that it narrows your field. Unless you are damn sure your PhD topic is what you want to work on its probably not worth it, but then if you end up working in the University after that you still have considerable flexibility. The problem would be if you want to get into the industry and find a 'job', some companies will invariably consider you to be over qualified mostly due to insecurities of the company (you might leave or be more qualified than your boss and hence have lesser respect for him yada yada..)
I have a master's myself and have been contemplating a PhD, but haven't been able to make the move due to the doubts regarding my need for it
But now is that a good security measure? Having a remote website downlooad stuff on your machine and even install it without the users knowledge?
I still think the idea might be a good one for the novice home user, but it would be good if MS can clarify how the setup would work securely and take some input from the geek community on it by bringing it up for discussion.
The biggest question is the amount of data we will be handling on computers 10 years down the line, while the hardware is getting better and smaller the amount of data we handle is growing much faster. I can see that in the future each individual would have his/her own central data storage (provided the data networks make the much needed advancement) and multiple devices to access this central data storage. For e.g.,
1. Computer at home (probably integrated with your entertainment center)
2. Computer in your car.
3. A cell phone with some basic access (it would replace the PDAs completely)
Of course this list is not complete (and my mind is going blank), so please add to it.
YES
But the question that strikes to me most is that when you are living at the age of 300 or whatever the number (over 100), how likely is it that your body becomes a medium for some wild disease to move from animals to human beings?
If the system relies on honest and virtuous politicians, that should first be recalled by its creators. What were they thinking!
Someone implemented on the idea from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels after all. Here is a link to the famous quote from the movie.
That would also be a mighty good progress in the field of Artificial intelligence.
Hmm.. I wonder! How about that its not natural?
Exactly why the outsourcing is being done to India primarily and not China, the medium of communication for higher education in India is *English*, and there are plenty of programmers trained in Engineering schools who still happen to make the best money in comparison to the other professions there.
To say the corporations are showing double standards is simply preposterous.
Do I have to sign away my soul to Bill Gates for this?
I see dead and demented people!
But then one can turn that argument around on the grounds of privacy
Go back to the non-trusted model and bring in bureaucracy for the machines!
Oh no! Who will pay the administrators the big bucks now?
Well you have to also analyze the quality of the those extensions. A well thought out extension to the copyright terms could certainly have a positive effect on innovation, but sadly the viewpoint of the bodies making those extensions is only to protect. Little thought is given as to how it could be used to effect innovation positively.