Actually, I see a reason for this that isn't all that obvious. It's one thing to hear that someone has found a vulnerability in a piece of software you helped write. It's a lot different to actually see them do it, and how they do it. Maybe the higher-ups at MS realize that and this is their way of giving that kind of experience to their developers.
I agree that Linux being fragmented makes it versatile, which is a good thing. Windows is like that too in that there are so many different "flavors" of each release. However, the difference is that MS makes all of the different flavors of Windows, so when something needs updated or changed in a big way there is usually one universal packages which can be downloaded and installed which will fix that problem for all of the flavors. Linux doesn't have that, nor does it have any kind of standardized package system.
Don't get me wrong, I use Linux exclusively except for the two games I own which won't run under Wine, but I do think the fragmentation is bad in that each new distro has it's own learning curve since most things a user would want to do are not done the same way with each distro. There needs to be some kind of optional standard. Like maybe when I install Slackware I get asked if I'd like to also install Emedre so I can use Portage as well. Something to that effect, and then have one tool which can deal with all those package formats so there's a universal interface everyone can familiarize themselves with.
I think it's just because nobody takes computer security seriously. People can remember phone numbers, addresses, their SSN, and all sorts of other information they take seriously, but not passwords?
That was actually a pretty good series. However, this genre is actually a lot less "untapped" than you might imagine.
The Deadlands RPG put out by Pinacle Etertainment Group was set in 1800's America in the "Weird West". The game features demons (manitou), werewolves, zombies, mad scientists, wizards in the form of magicla card sharks, and yes, undead gun fighters. Granted, it was a tabletop RPG, akin to D&D, but it's worth mentioning here.
(yes I still don't know how to uninstall a generic packages..like when I download something, untar; make; make install : where can I find out where it put all it's stuff?).
I had the same problem for a long time until I found out about checkinstall.
Basically, you install it and do your whole build process as normal except you type checkinstall insetad of make install. It makes a package for your distro from the newly compiled software and then installs it. That way, you can later uninstall such software using your distro's built-in tools.
I believe it currently supports the package systems for Debian, Red Hat, and Slackware.
I might spend that much on a graphics card. That is, of course, because I do 3D animation with Maya and a lot of the "workstation" cards typically used for that have prices in that ballpark. However, if I were spending a grand on a graphics card, it would be for a FireGL or a Quadro, not a GeForce.
Why is this innovative shop against the "law?" Is this something analogous to the Sklyarov case where US media laws were extended to russia? Why the hell should we be locked into iTunes et al? Whose law was it anyway?
That's a really good question. The point of democracy is that the majority decides what the laws should be. So, how many of you think file sharing should be illegal? Come on, don't be shy, raise your hands.... I think I've made my point.
I'm sorry if I offend anyone, but reading the Bible and actually doing what it says is probably not a good idea. Otherwise we'd be killing a lot of people with alternatve religious views (the "suffer not a witch to live" thing), we'd have really bad over population, and it would slow down scientific progression in many areas to a crawl, namely genetic research.
Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with the Bible in and of itself, as long as you're reading a copy that has been translated correctly, and you understand that many of the stories in there are parables, not things which have actually happened.
This has already been an issue once. I don't know if anyone else does, but I remember the frenzy about people being able to record television using a VCR.
All that aside, what do they really have to lose from people recording TV shows and showing them to other people? It's not like all TV is pay-per-view or anything like that. Yeah, so people who don't have cable or satellite might see some TV without paying for a subscription. These people wouldn't be paying for a subscription anyway, so no one is really at a loss. If anything, I think it might cause people to be more likely to switch to cable or satellite.
For about two years I administered a network for a Boys and Girls Club, and pop-ups, spyware, and such were a large problem, especially since we had a computer lab which members (kids ranging K through 12) could use if they wanted. I taught a few classes there as well to members, including an internet safety course.
Aside from covering the usual chatrooms and stuff, I mentioned pop ups and that sort of thing, since many of them are highly unsuitable for minors. After that class, about 50% of the kids (out of maybe 500 total which used the lab) used firefox on their own without prompting. I didn't need to bother forcing them to. They'd show their friends, and then their friends would start using it. I actually ended up getting many of the other staff using it too.
Aside from that, I'm living with my girlfriend and her mother (who is 60 or so years old) and got her using Firefox. She's totally computer illiterate, can't even turn it on and off by herself. She was always complaining about "those damn windows that show up all the time". I showed her Firefox and she's used it since.
I have to say, I actually live with one of said addicts, my girlfriend's mother. She plays the game at least 12 hours a day, and talks about nothing but Neopets. She is 64 years old.
At one point her account was frozen because they thought she was using an automated program to buy things in the games. She was so upset over it she actually cried.
In my opinion, there are a lot more things wrong with Neopets than the obvious. I think the games actually have a serious potential to traumatize young children. It takes a long time (so I hear) to accumulate enough points in the game to actually do much. The games become more of a chore than something fun. So you work for months, literally, to get the points you want, and then it suddenly dissapears due to some monster or another randomly stealing your stuff.
That happens frequently enough that I'd be willing to bet it causes some sort of complex in children over a long period of time, making them think that working for anything is pointless because it'll just randomly dissappear.
IMHO, security patches, for a web browser of all things, should NOT be a selling point for spending like $200.00 on an OS upgrade. A company should always provide security updates to all of their users for free. It should be a criminal action not to.
Honestly though, why spend like 200 dollars just for access to updates for a browser that's behind the times anyway? If I wanted to spend money on a browser I could spend a lot less and just get Opera, which doesn't suffer from the same issues as IE. Assuming I don't just install firefox for free...
I have always sort of wondered why adware and spyware have not been lumped into the same category as malicious viruses. It is easy to say that they're not malicious, in that they don't delete files or make damaging configuration changes to a computer. However, they do create a huge performance decrease.
From what I have seen the average Windows user who uses Internet Explorer seems to have between 100 and 600 spyware items (according to ad-aware) on their computer. I see this because I do computer repair in my area and almost all of the times a computer is brought to me for repair it is spyware that is causing the problem. There's usually nothing else wrong.
In light of that, I think congress would do better just to redefine the laws already in place which deal with computer viruses. How about classifying any piece of software which installs on a person's computer without prompting them, or which has a primary function other than the one stated, as a virus (I mean in legal terms, not technical).
I used to have a Verizon phone (don't remember the make and model) which had 3G net connectivity and a USB port so it could be connected to a computer and used as a "modem" for 3G access to the internet. Therefore, I really do not see why this is all that special.
About a year and a half ago my dad's boss wanted me to set up a network for them in their office. Basically, they had an old computer in the office and had been using dial-up. Well, they got a brand new computer from Dell and weanted to network them together and get broadband.
When I arrived they hadn't even opened the box with the Dell in it, so I got it out and hooked it up and everything (except for plugging the network card into the network). I pushed the power button and it started to go through the usual new Dell and then blue screened for no apparent reason at all.
I mean, no one touched anything at all. It started up and then without even touching the mouse or keyboard, BSOD. Upon a reboot it was fine. No idea why on earth a brand new computer would do that on the first boot.
You don't know how right you are. I think he was the best character from the whole game. I don't mean best as in to have in your party, I mean it as in he was just really cool. It always made me mad that they never explained much about his story. Maybe the movie will shed some light.
I never fully understood whether he was supposed to be a demon or a vampire. I was pretty sure he was a vampire exept for the transformation he did into a thing looking very much like a demon. I guess in Japanese mythology vampires are a kind of demon though.
This is not simply a matter of a company giving preferential treatment to paying customers.
Many of the systems we rely on daily run some variant of a Microsoft product. If there is something wrong with a product which could cause a failure, especially in a case like this, everyone should be notified as soon as the manufacturer finds out about the bug.
How would you like to find out that there's a remote DoS in the version of Windows the equipment at the local hospital uses, but that hospital didn't feel the need to pay MS for early warnings? In many of the cases (dare I say most) that a security related bug is found in a software product it's not the mfg that finds it. That is why there end up being so many worms and such that exploit these sorts of holes long before anyone releases a patch.
Again, I say that this is not a simple matter of a corporation giving preferance to paying customers. I think congress would do well to pass a law that makes it manditory for all software vendors to release security related bug reports to all known customers as soon as they discover or are notified of the bug themselves. Also, maybe as an additional clause to that, customers should be able to register (for free) to receive such reports.
So many times with a product like this they will boast something amazing, but then in the small print you find something to the effect of "for this product to function as described, you must meet the following requirements....". Such requirements always seem to be very obscure or hard to meet, leading to a product which does not do exactly what it says it does.
A somewhat related example is Unreal Tournament 2003 for Linux. It works, but only if you have a GeForce. Granted, that's not an outlandish requirement since nVidia cards work well on Linux anyway, but you get the idea.
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Actually, I see a reason for this that isn't all that obvious. It's one thing to hear that someone has found a vulnerability in a piece of software you helped write. It's a lot different to actually see them do it, and how they do it. Maybe the higher-ups at MS realize that and this is their way of giving that kind of experience to their developers.
I agree that Linux being fragmented makes it versatile, which is a good thing. Windows is like that too in that there are so many different "flavors" of each release. However, the difference is that MS makes all of the different flavors of Windows, so when something needs updated or changed in a big way there is usually one universal packages which can be downloaded and installed which will fix that problem for all of the flavors. Linux doesn't have that, nor does it have any kind of standardized package system.
Don't get me wrong, I use Linux exclusively except for the two games I own which won't run under Wine, but I do think the fragmentation is bad in that each new distro has it's own learning curve since most things a user would want to do are not done the same way with each distro. There needs to be some kind of optional standard. Like maybe when I install Slackware I get asked if I'd like to also install Emedre so I can use Portage as well. Something to that effect, and then have one tool which can deal with all those package formats so there's a universal interface everyone can familiarize themselves with.
No, I think the reason we're bitching is because we're paying more for less.
I think it's just because nobody takes computer security seriously. People can remember phone numbers, addresses, their SSN, and all sorts of other information they take seriously, but not passwords?
The beta is already out. I've been using it for over a month now.
That was actually a pretty good series. However, this genre is actually a lot less "untapped" than you might imagine.
The Deadlands RPG put out by Pinacle Etertainment Group was set in 1800's America in the "Weird West". The game features demons (manitou), werewolves, zombies, mad scientists, wizards in the form of magicla card sharks, and yes, undead gun fighters. Granted, it was a tabletop RPG, akin to D&D, but it's worth mentioning here.
(yes I still don't know how to uninstall a generic packages..like when I download something, untar; make; make install : where can I find out where it put all it's stuff?).
I had the same problem for a long time until I found out about checkinstall. Basically, you install it and do your whole build process as normal except you type checkinstall insetad of make install. It makes a package for your distro from the newly compiled software and then installs it. That way, you can later uninstall such software using your distro's built-in tools.
I believe it currently supports the package systems for Debian, Red Hat, and Slackware.
I might spend that much on a graphics card. That is, of course, because I do 3D animation with Maya and a lot of the "workstation" cards typically used for that have prices in that ballpark. However, if I were spending a grand on a graphics card, it would be for a FireGL or a Quadro, not a GeForce.
Why is this innovative shop against the "law?" Is this something analogous to the Sklyarov case where US media laws were extended to russia? Why the hell should we be locked into iTunes et al? Whose law was it anyway?
That's a really good question. The point of democracy is that the majority decides what the laws should be. So, how many of you think file sharing should be illegal? Come on, don't be shy, raise your hands.... I think I've made my point.
I'm sorry if I offend anyone, but reading the Bible and actually doing what it says is probably not a good idea. Otherwise we'd be killing a lot of people with alternatve religious views (the "suffer not a witch to live" thing), we'd have really bad over population, and it would slow down scientific progression in many areas to a crawl, namely genetic research.
Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with the Bible in and of itself, as long as you're reading a copy that has been translated correctly, and you understand that many of the stories in there are parables, not things which have actually happened.
This has already been an issue once. I don't know if anyone else does, but I remember the frenzy about people being able to record television using a VCR.
All that aside, what do they really have to lose from people recording TV shows and showing them to other people? It's not like all TV is pay-per-view or anything like that. Yeah, so people who don't have cable or satellite might see some TV without paying for a subscription. These people wouldn't be paying for a subscription anyway, so no one is really at a loss. If anything, I think it might cause people to be more likely to switch to cable or satellite.
For about two years I administered a network for a Boys and Girls Club, and pop-ups, spyware, and such were a large problem, especially since we had a computer lab which members (kids ranging K through 12) could use if they wanted. I taught a few classes there as well to members, including an internet safety course.
Aside from covering the usual chatrooms and stuff, I mentioned pop ups and that sort of thing, since many of them are highly unsuitable for minors. After that class, about 50% of the kids (out of maybe 500 total which used the lab) used firefox on their own without prompting. I didn't need to bother forcing them to. They'd show their friends, and then their friends would start using it. I actually ended up getting many of the other staff using it too.
Aside from that, I'm living with my girlfriend and her mother (who is 60 or so years old) and got her using Firefox. She's totally computer illiterate, can't even turn it on and off by herself. She was always complaining about "those damn windows that show up all the time". I showed her Firefox and she's used it since.
I have to say, I actually live with one of said addicts, my girlfriend's mother. She plays the game at least 12 hours a day, and talks about nothing but Neopets. She is 64 years old.
At one point her account was frozen because they thought she was using an automated program to buy things in the games. She was so upset over it she actually cried.
In my opinion, there are a lot more things wrong with Neopets than the obvious. I think the games actually have a serious potential to traumatize young children. It takes a long time (so I hear) to accumulate enough points in the game to actually do much. The games become more of a chore than something fun. So you work for months, literally, to get the points you want, and then it suddenly dissapears due to some monster or another randomly stealing your stuff.
That happens frequently enough that I'd be willing to bet it causes some sort of complex in children over a long period of time, making them think that working for anything is pointless because it'll just randomly dissappear.
I guess Ashcroft and friends were right, cyberwarfare can result in casualties!
There are no IT jobs in the US!
Homicide detectives don't stop people from killing. They find out who did it after it's already happened.
IMHO, security patches, for a web browser of all things, should NOT be a selling point for spending like $200.00 on an OS upgrade. A company should always provide security updates to all of their users for free. It should be a criminal action not to.
Honestly though, why spend like 200 dollars just for access to updates for a browser that's behind the times anyway? If I wanted to spend money on a browser I could spend a lot less and just get Opera, which doesn't suffer from the same issues as IE. Assuming I don't just install firefox for free...
I have always sort of wondered why adware and spyware have not been lumped into the same category as malicious viruses. It is easy to say that they're not malicious, in that they don't delete files or make damaging configuration changes to a computer. However, they do create a huge performance decrease.
From what I have seen the average Windows user who uses Internet Explorer seems to have between 100 and 600 spyware items (according to ad-aware) on their computer. I see this because I do computer repair in my area and almost all of the times a computer is brought to me for repair it is spyware that is causing the problem. There's usually nothing else wrong.
In light of that, I think congress would do better just to redefine the laws already in place which deal with computer viruses. How about classifying any piece of software which installs on a person's computer without prompting them, or which has a primary function other than the one stated, as a virus (I mean in legal terms, not technical).
I used to have a Verizon phone (don't remember the make and model) which had 3G net connectivity and a USB port so it could be connected to a computer and used as a "modem" for 3G access to the internet. Therefore, I really do not see why this is all that special.
About a year and a half ago my dad's boss wanted me to set up a network for them in their office. Basically, they had an old computer in the office and had been using dial-up. Well, they got a brand new computer from Dell and weanted to network them together and get broadband.
When I arrived they hadn't even opened the box with the Dell in it, so I got it out and hooked it up and everything (except for plugging the network card into the network). I pushed the power button and it started to go through the usual new Dell and then blue screened for no apparent reason at all.
I mean, no one touched anything at all. It started up and then without even touching the mouse or keyboard, BSOD. Upon a reboot it was fine. No idea why on earth a brand new computer would do that on the first boot.
You don't know how right you are. I think he was the best character from the whole game. I don't mean best as in to have in your party, I mean it as in he was just really cool. It always made me mad that they never explained much about his story. Maybe the movie will shed some light.
I never fully understood whether he was supposed to be a demon or a vampire. I was pretty sure he was a vampire exept for the transformation he did into a thing looking very much like a demon. I guess in Japanese mythology vampires are a kind of demon though.
If those measure are taken then this method is no different than the surveillance they use now, just more effective.
This is not simply a matter of a company giving preferential treatment to paying customers.
Many of the systems we rely on daily run some variant of a Microsoft product. If there is something wrong with a product which could cause a failure, especially in a case like this, everyone should be notified as soon as the manufacturer finds out about the bug.
How would you like to find out that there's a remote DoS in the version of Windows the equipment at the local hospital uses, but that hospital didn't feel the need to pay MS for early warnings? In many of the cases (dare I say most) that a security related bug is found in a software product it's not the mfg that finds it. That is why there end up being so many worms and such that exploit these sorts of holes long before anyone releases a patch.
Again, I say that this is not a simple matter of a corporation giving preferance to paying customers. I think congress would do well to pass a law that makes it manditory for all software vendors to release security related bug reports to all known customers as soon as they discover or are notified of the bug themselves. Also, maybe as an additional clause to that, customers should be able to register (for free) to receive such reports.
So many times with a product like this they will boast something amazing, but then in the small print you find something to the effect of "for this product to function as described, you must meet the following requirements....". Such requirements always seem to be very obscure or hard to meet, leading to a product which does not do exactly what it says it does.
A somewhat related example is Unreal Tournament 2003 for Linux. It works, but only if you have a GeForce. Granted, that's not an outlandish requirement since nVidia cards work well on Linux anyway, but you get the idea.