Actually you can already do the "pause" thing with your workstation using Windows XP's Remote Desktop feature. True, it's basically a crippled version (1 user limit) of Windows Terminal Services, but it works great, even over the net.
Since its pretty rare these days to see either a computer attached to a hub (vs a switch) and its also unlikely to see a Windows based router, wouldn't this make the worms payload only applicable in most cases to the computer that gets infects. Also, I note it spreads through several other well known exploits, and you'd think people would have realized to patch and cleanup against these after MSBlast and Nimda.
While it won't do jack to stop a motivated criminal, one of those signs that "warns" that a home alarm is installed could help. If nothing more, it could make a potential theif decide to try an easier target instead of possibly having to deal with an alarm.
This really doesn't sound like anything that revolutionary, just another hack to speed up "multimedia" data on a WLAN. But the real interesting part is how they expect to put WiFi in, well, everything. Now I certainly have nothing against WiFi'ing everything, but I do worry that with so much WiFi, you could have some interfearence issues (much like UTexas had), and then you still have the problem that you loose pretty much all data security. Perhaps when they figure out a way to have WiFi APs automatically select the least used channel to reduce interfearance and they add in a good, strong, automatic, and mandatory encryption then perhaps we'll be seeing less ethernet ports and more WiFi antennas in products.
I'm really suprised that Congress would let such an important law lapse. There should be made a distinction between sport/protection weapons and high powered ones that could only be used for wrong. Don't get me wrong, we should keep our right to bear arms, but we shouldn't allow anyone to be able to get a high powered rifle just as we don't allow people to make their own nukes.
If I were you I'd stay away from an online course. From what I've found, they usually aren't much better than just reading and doing reseach on your own, the only diffrence is that they have exams and it adds to your GPA. Perhaps you should find a real class of some type (perhaps one of those weekend campy type deals) and get some real world hands on experience.
Technically I think it's pretty much unenforcable as I doubt they'll be running around sniffing out WiFi networks. I think its more of a "if your WiFi gets hacked you get blamed" type policy. Without such a policy, you really wouldn't have a clue who to hold responsible for their actions on their network.
SenderID really doesn't seem like that much of an improvement over SPF. Then you factor in the problem of licensing and you see how much of an big problem this really is. Even if you do get it accepted as some open source license (even the *gasp* GPL), I think we have way too many zealots/MS bashers working for the open source projects who wouldn't want to implement this.
Floppies have been been around for way too many years and are still standard in practically every desktop. Granted, they get used less and less (why with USB Flash drives getting so darned cheap and CDs), but when dealing with older technology sometimes a floppy is the only way to go.
Remember, floppies won't die, only the data on them.
Since it's quite likely that this guy was violating Australian copyright laws, though probably more leanant than any US ones, why does the US feel the need to punish him HERE??? Perhaps the more disturbing issue is will this case define the internet's legal jurisdiction to be that of the United States thus ignoring the world wide scope of the internet's audience?
It's not so easy to ditct VeriSign. They run the.com and.net registries and no matter what registrar you use, VeriSign still gets paid for each domain (I think its ~$5 or so). VeriSign doesn't control the root servers (atleast not more than a couple of them), but they do control the.com and.net roots, so if you stopped using them then your.com and.net stop working. In short, the only way to stop VeriSign is to get ICANN to revoke their contract somehow or just wait until it expires in a year or two.
With Nintendo's current "only about games" attitude, I highly doubt the DS will be able to be used as a WiFi VoIP phone out of the box. However, that does sound like some killer product that some 3rd party will/could come out with.
Seems to me like an obvious abuse of power. I mean, sure, it's an obvious privacy invasion to the delegates there, but they're public officials! Public officals can't and shouldn't expect alot of privacy simply because the people the represent need to be able to contact them.
Now on the other hand, things like this are probably the reason as to why many message boards (Slashdot included) only store logs for a day or two. You can suponea what doesn't exist anymore!
Last week actually I tried out NX server as it came on the new Knoppix cd. Compared to the alternative I once used (VNC), it's really fast and responsive. Infact it's just as good, if not better than Windows Terminal Services, which was suprisingly responsive under 56k. Just as a real world test, I hooked up the Knoppix NX server to my DSL line and then connected via Dialup on my laptop and It honestly felt like I was using a slightly laggy Linux workstation as opposed to a horribly laggy one that it was when I tried VNC. All in all, I'd say that NX is gonna give VNC, as well as Windows Terminal Services a run for it's money.
Perhaps the reason HP is doing this is so that it can perhaps bundle the iPod with some back-to-school computer they'll be selling. Though I think they'd probably get more buyers if they had some sort of "limited edition HP branded iPod".
I distinctly remember seeing someone selling "RAM Buddies" at a local art fair around here awhile ago. They basically took that really old ram chips (the one that used rectangular sockets), bent the pins outward, and stuck eyes on the front and a tail in the back so they kinda resembled little caterpillars.
You'd almost think these two associations would rather spend money figuring out how to intice people to pay money for something through a new business model instead of futilely throwing it away sueing your customers and not really putting much of a dent in peoples P2P ways. Besides, the question isn't did you break the law today but rather how many laws did you break today?
While their system would be pretty good (supposing it can withstand a slashdotting) for cacheing large files, it's not very useful for websites. Websites usually have lots of additional images, links, and whatnot, and as is currently, the system doesn't rewrite URLs.
Perhaps this has to do with the general (and incorrect I might add) assumption that people on the internet are anonymous. These anonymous cowards think they can say anything without any serious consequences, and so far they have, but perhaps this will change...
Maybe it's just me, but it sure doesn't sound like the PSP is going to be that energy efficient with specs like that. What good is an impressive portable system that sucks batteries worse than a Sega Game Gear?
Incase the justice department doesn't know, the internet is worldwide. Sure you shut down a few of the big pirates in the US, they can't do much about those servers overseas. Other than temporarily causing a little drop in pirate traffic (and punishing 5 people), at the end of the day, does it really matter?
Seriously, does Microsoft think that highly of themselves that they can dictate a standard that requires a license from them? Sure they have a majority of the OS and E-mail clients, but I doubt they have a majority of the Mail Servers out there.
So does this imply that that there is finally a legal way to play a DVD on Linux? Granted it's not open source, but isn't something better than nothing?
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Actually you can already do the "pause" thing with your workstation using Windows XP's Remote Desktop feature. True, it's basically a crippled version (1 user limit) of Windows Terminal Services, but it works great, even over the net.
Since its pretty rare these days to see either a computer attached to a hub (vs a switch) and its also unlikely to see a Windows based router, wouldn't this make the worms payload only applicable in most cases to the computer that gets infects. Also, I note it spreads through several other well known exploits, and you'd think people would have realized to patch and cleanup against these after MSBlast and Nimda.
While it won't do jack to stop a motivated criminal, one of those signs that "warns" that a home alarm is installed could help. If nothing more, it could make a potential theif decide to try an easier target instead of possibly having to deal with an alarm.
This really doesn't sound like anything that revolutionary, just another hack to speed up "multimedia" data on a WLAN. But the real interesting part is how they expect to put WiFi in, well, everything. Now I certainly have nothing against WiFi'ing everything, but I do worry that with so much WiFi, you could have some interfearence issues (much like UTexas had), and then you still have the problem that you loose pretty much all data security. Perhaps when they figure out a way to have WiFi APs automatically select the least used channel to reduce interfearance and they add in a good, strong, automatic, and mandatory encryption then perhaps we'll be seeing less ethernet ports and more WiFi antennas in products.
I'm really suprised that Congress would let such an important law lapse. There should be made a distinction between sport/protection weapons and high powered ones that could only be used for wrong. Don't get me wrong, we should keep our right to bear arms, but we shouldn't allow anyone to be able to get a high powered rifle just as we don't allow people to make their own nukes.
If I were you I'd stay away from an online course. From what I've found, they usually aren't much better than just reading and doing reseach on your own, the only diffrence is that they have exams and it adds to your GPA. Perhaps you should find a real class of some type (perhaps one of those weekend campy type deals) and get some real world hands on experience.
Technically I think it's pretty much unenforcable as I doubt they'll be running around sniffing out WiFi networks. I think its more of a "if your WiFi gets hacked you get blamed" type policy. Without such a policy, you really wouldn't have a clue who to hold responsible for their actions on their network.
SenderID really doesn't seem like that much of an improvement over SPF. Then you factor in the problem of licensing and you see how much of an big problem this really is. Even if you do get it accepted as some open source license (even the *gasp* GPL), I think we have way too many zealots/MS bashers working for the open source projects who wouldn't want to implement this.
Floppies have been been around for way too many years and are still standard in practically every desktop. Granted, they get used less and less (why with USB Flash drives getting so darned cheap and CDs), but when dealing with older technology sometimes a floppy is the only way to go.
Remember, floppies won't die, only the data on them.
Since it's quite likely that this guy was violating Australian copyright laws, though probably more leanant than any US ones, why does the US feel the need to punish him HERE??? Perhaps the more disturbing issue is will this case define the internet's legal jurisdiction to be that of the United States thus ignoring the world wide scope of the internet's audience?
Sure, I know that I can completely trust a monkey that works for a completely unbiased software company ;-)
It's not so easy to ditct VeriSign. They run the .com and .net registries and no matter what registrar you use, VeriSign still gets paid for each domain (I think its ~$5 or so). VeriSign doesn't control the root servers (atleast not more than a couple of them), but they do control the .com and .net roots, so if you stopped using them then your .com and .net stop working. In short, the only way to stop VeriSign is to get ICANN to revoke their contract somehow or just wait until it expires in a year or two.
With Nintendo's current "only about games" attitude, I highly doubt the DS will be able to be used as a WiFi VoIP phone out of the box. However, that does sound like some killer product that some 3rd party will/could come out with.
Seems to me like an obvious abuse of power. I mean, sure, it's an obvious privacy invasion to the delegates there, but they're public officials! Public officals can't and shouldn't expect alot of privacy simply because the people the represent need to be able to contact them.
Now on the other hand, things like this are probably the reason as to why many message boards (Slashdot included) only store logs for a day or two. You can suponea what doesn't exist anymore!
Last week actually I tried out NX server as it came on the new Knoppix cd. Compared to the alternative I once used (VNC), it's really fast and responsive. Infact it's just as good, if not better than Windows Terminal Services, which was suprisingly responsive under 56k. Just as a real world test, I hooked up the Knoppix NX server to my DSL line and then connected via Dialup on my laptop and It honestly felt like I was using a slightly laggy Linux workstation as opposed to a horribly laggy one that it was when I tried VNC. All in all, I'd say that NX is gonna give VNC, as well as Windows Terminal Services a run for it's money.
Perhaps the reason HP is doing this is so that it can perhaps bundle the iPod with some back-to-school computer they'll be selling. Though I think they'd probably get more buyers if they had some sort of "limited edition HP branded iPod".
I distinctly remember seeing someone selling "RAM Buddies" at a local art fair around here awhile ago. They basically took that really old ram chips (the one that used rectangular sockets), bent the pins outward, and stuck eyes on the front and a tail in the back so they kinda resembled little caterpillars.
You'd almost think these two associations would rather spend money figuring out how to intice people to pay money for something through a new business model instead of futilely throwing it away sueing your customers and not really putting much of a dent in peoples P2P ways. Besides, the question isn't did you break the law today but rather how many laws did you break today?
While their system would be pretty good (supposing it can withstand a slashdotting) for cacheing large files, it's not very useful for websites. Websites usually have lots of additional images, links, and whatnot, and as is currently, the system doesn't rewrite URLs.
And I used to figure, if it's on the internet it must be true! There goes that theory...
Perhaps this has to do with the general (and incorrect I might add) assumption that people on the internet are anonymous. These anonymous cowards think they can say anything without any serious consequences, and so far they have, but perhaps this will change...
Maybe it's just me, but it sure doesn't sound like the PSP is going to be that energy efficient with specs like that. What good is an impressive portable system that sucks batteries worse than a Sega Game Gear?
Incase the justice department doesn't know, the internet is worldwide. Sure you shut down a few of the big pirates in the US, they can't do much about those servers overseas. Other than temporarily causing a little drop in pirate traffic (and punishing 5 people), at the end of the day, does it really matter?
Seriously, does Microsoft think that highly of themselves that they can dictate a standard that requires a license from them? Sure they have a majority of the OS and E-mail clients, but I doubt they have a majority of the Mail Servers out there.
So does this imply that that there is finally a legal way to play a DVD on Linux? Granted it's not open source, but isn't something better than nothing?