Indeed. I've been working with MySQL for a long time now, and while learning Postgres would be fairly easy for me (I know various DBMSes already and besides, learning a new one is just learning its special cases once you know SQL in general), the problem is actually finding hosts that use it. I try to keep applications that I write for release as modular as possible, including the database type (take a look at Pear::DB if you're using PHP), but MySQL support is always the priority simply because it's what the vast majority of people use.
Yeah, that's what I'd do. Release it to certain anonymous FTP servers where it's likely to be noticed, and do so through one or many (preferably many, a la Tor) anonymizing proxies, so even if they track it back to the source FTP server, they wouldn't be able to trace it back to you.
Even if the onus of proof is on the prosecution, that won't stop them from creating a long, drawn-out trial that will bankrupt the defendant before the case even gets close to providing justice. So yes, in an idealistic world where lawyers don't require money and time is not an issue, the onus is on the prosecution. However, we don't live in that world, and unless he can prove very quickly that the case has no merit, he's going to get the legal crap beat out of him, regardless of whether or not he's done anything wrong.
Well, being in Canada, I only saw normal Global ads (as the CRTC had blacked out all American feeds and replaced them with Global rebroadcasts... what a waste of our tax dollars), so I guess the advertisers lost there because I never saw any of them.
Therefore, the ads should have been pulled, as they were being illegally deceptive. That it's "common practice" does not excuse the fact. If it were common practice to murder your enemies, should that then be legal?
Amen, he crossed a line in insinuating that if you didn't agree with him, you were a traitor to your country ("I question your patriotism"). Even if I agreed with him, I would have modded him down flamebait.
How do you know they were between a foreign enemy and someone else? How do you know they weren't spying on normal US citizens who had piqued the interest of the government for whatever reason? Because that's exactly what Bush's executive order allowed.
While on the whole your argument has value, there are a few problems, the main one of which is this: in order for such a model to exist, the IRA or a new IRA-like government institution would have to exist to keep track of when you made your money back from said product. Also, I don't think "investment + 10%" is enough of an incentive for companies to use this model. Investment + 50% maybe, or perhaps investment * 2.
In the end, I think copyright should exist, but be vastly more limited than it is now, especially in time span; life + 70 years is WAY too long, especially considering that 50% of businesses fail in their first year of operation. Something like the Creative Commons Founders' Copyright would do much better and allow things to enter the public domain naturally, while still allowing businesses to be profitable as long as they're providing value to the public.
Oddly enough I have a P233MMX running Gentoo, took about a week to get a working system + Apache + MySQL + PHP. So I'd imagine that the jokes about it taking so long don't really apply when you have a semi-modern system.
I get a lot of mockups in Photoshop format, and while loading up Photoshop is a bitch and the files often won't load because they were created in a different version, that works too.
Also, try not to make generalizations about how development people can't create decent designs and vice versa, they're often incorrect.
(I chose this nick because Spoon was taken in a game I was signing up for way, way back when, and at the time I had no idea it was actually used as a word or acronym. I kept it because it's unique.)
You can open the Find Fast Control Panel icon to create additional indexes (for example, on a network drive), delete indexes, and set other options. Although you can use Find Fast in the Control Panel, Find Fast indexes Office documents automatically and requires no user interaction.
It can index other filetypes, but it indexes only Office documents by default.
There's also the section in that article that you linked to that's taken way out of context in the FuckMicrosoft article:
When you specify the type of documents to index in the Create Index dialog box, Find Fast includes the document types that are listed in the following table.
FindFast only indexes all files if you tell it to!
You've got a very narrow view and a very small base of evidence. You'd get a much better view if you took in more sites than just the ones that match your current world view. Who knows, maybe you'd actually post arguments that are factually correct!
Scores pretty well actually, but I still doubt it'll prevent it unless there's some big move toward default-deny in a way that forces people to consider it (i.e. Microsoft shipping the next version of Outlook Express with it on by default).
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it (x) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers (x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches ( ) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering (x) Outlook (x) Average users' reluctance to change their thinking (added)
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck (x) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
(Note: Yes, I realize it's about phishing, not spam, but it's very similar.)
IE has password memory. So does Mozilla / Firefox, Opera, Safari, and a host of other browsers. It's a feature to make it easier to access sites, but users with high authentication should know that that ease comes at a cost of security. Admittedly many non-IE browsers have a "master password" structure whereby you type one password for it to remember all of your passwords on demand (as mentioned by a sibling post about Safari), but said poster also recognized that most of these systems ship with the feature off by default, and even if it is on, you're still doing a balancing act with security and ease -- if a cracker finds your master password, they've found ALL your passwords.
And I believe you're referring to FindFast, Microsoft's indexing tool that they shipped with Office. As I remember it, FindFast indexed documents (i.e. Microsoft Word, Excel, etc. files) so they could be found easier later, as well as have quicker in-file searching (i.e. searching for a word inside all your documents). It never stored your domain passwords or any such security-related tokens. Once again, though, you're only screwed if you put your password inside a Word file in your system... and why the hell would you do that if you're concerned about security? (P.S.: Anyone who had even a bit of technical acument would turn FindFast off back in the time when it was used, as it made your system horribly slow when it was indexing and tended to do so at inopportune times.)
Passport only works on sites that explicitly choose to support it, and generally only if you register yourself that way: most will give you an option for a registration in their site database only (eBay did this previously if I remember correctly). Several alternatives have been attempted at Passport-like solutions as well, to be fair, including some open source options. Once again, Microsoft isn't forcing you to use their solution, and I doubt a lot of systems use Passport authentication for high-level access anyway.
Normally I wouldn't be so argumentative, but you made a sweeping generalization when you said that "non Microsoft tools have taken local and remote attack into consideration". You made your bias quite clear in that statement. Next time you want to post attacks, at least back them up with some proof or evidence.
Anyway, I have yet to form an opinion on this InfoCard thing, but seeing as how it'll likely be Microsoft-proprietary and they'll probably have something to gain from it, I doubt I'll be either signing up for one (unless I have to in order to access a system, and even then I'll resist quite vocally) or deploying it on my own login systems.
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Indeed. I've been working with MySQL for a long time now, and while learning Postgres would be fairly easy for me (I know various DBMSes already and besides, learning a new one is just learning its special cases once you know SQL in general), the problem is actually finding hosts that use it. I try to keep applications that I write for release as modular as possible, including the database type (take a look at Pear::DB if you're using PHP), but MySQL support is always the priority simply because it's what the vast majority of people use.
Indeed, and if you don't even like the result of this class action, you can always opt out and sue them on your own.
Yeah, that's what I'd do. Release it to certain anonymous FTP servers where it's likely to be noticed, and do so through one or many (preferably many, a la Tor) anonymizing proxies, so even if they track it back to the source FTP server, they wouldn't be able to trace it back to you.
Even if the onus of proof is on the prosecution, that won't stop them from creating a long, drawn-out trial that will bankrupt the defendant before the case even gets close to providing justice. So yes, in an idealistic world where lawyers don't require money and time is not an issue, the onus is on the prosecution. However, we don't live in that world, and unless he can prove very quickly that the case has no merit, he's going to get the legal crap beat out of him, regardless of whether or not he's done anything wrong.
Indeed.
IM = one to one
IRC = one to many
(Disclaimer: Yes, I know MSN et al can do multiperson chats, but IRC is much, much better at it, with fine-tuned controls and access levels.)
Well, being in Canada, I only saw normal Global ads (as the CRTC had blacked out all American feeds and replaced them with Global rebroadcasts... what a waste of our tax dollars), so I guess the advertisers lost there because I never saw any of them.
Ooo, we could so convince this guy to ban DHMO. That would be awesome.
case FUNNY:
// use insightful rather than funny so poster doesn't suffer
// net karma loss if they get modded down
karma += 0;
case INSIGHTFUL:
karma += 1;
Is it deceptive? (Yes, by your own admission.)
Is deceptive advertising illegal? (Usually yes.)
Therefore, the ads should have been pulled, as they were being illegally deceptive. That it's "common practice" does not excuse the fact. If it were common practice to murder your enemies, should that then be legal?
"Goddammit, I didn't expect a BSOD when I took the red pill!"
Only grammar nazis fight easier pronunciations of the English language with harder ones.
I'll call it OS Ecks if I want to, thanks.
I thought that just after I posted it, but too late. Who knows, maybe Martians will have evolved and escaped to other worlds before that happened ;^)
Dude, when Duke Nukem Forever comes out, the sun will have gone nova and they'll be aiming at the 18-25 Martian market.
"Hello?"
"*in thick Indian accent* Sir, you are under arrest, please to be reporting to local police station for processing."
"What?"
"Umm... Under arrest, please to be reporting to police now."
"Look, I'm not interested in whatever you're selling." *click*
Amen, he crossed a line in insinuating that if you didn't agree with him, you were a traitor to your country ("I question your patriotism"). Even if I agreed with him, I would have modded him down flamebait.
How do you know they were between a foreign enemy and someone else? How do you know they weren't spying on normal US citizens who had piqued the interest of the government for whatever reason? Because that's exactly what Bush's executive order allowed.
While on the whole your argument has value, there are a few problems, the main one of which is this: in order for such a model to exist, the IRA or a new IRA-like government institution would have to exist to keep track of when you made your money back from said product. Also, I don't think "investment + 10%" is enough of an incentive for companies to use this model. Investment + 50% maybe, or perhaps investment * 2.
In the end, I think copyright should exist, but be vastly more limited than it is now, especially in time span; life + 70 years is WAY too long, especially considering that 50% of businesses fail in their first year of operation. Something like the Creative Commons Founders' Copyright would do much better and allow things to enter the public domain naturally, while still allowing businesses to be profitable as long as they're providing value to the public.
Oddly enough I have a P233MMX running Gentoo, took about a week to get a working system + Apache + MySQL + PHP. So I'd imagine that the jokes about it taking so long don't really apply when you have a semi-modern system.
You don't even have to anonymize yourself! ;^)
I get a lot of mockups in Photoshop format, and while loading up Photoshop is a bitch and the files often won't load because they were created in a different version, that works too.
Also, try not to make generalizations about how development people can't create decent designs and vice versa, they're often incorrect.
I prefer sailing without wind. ;^)
(I chose this nick because Spoon was taken in a game I was signing up for way, way back when, and at the time I had no idea it was actually used as a word or acronym. I kept it because it's unique.)
Secondly, take a look at Microsoft's own overview of FindFast (It's FindFast, not Fast Find, BTW):
It can index other filetypes, but it indexes only Office documents by default.
There's also the section in that article that you linked to that's taken way out of context in the FuckMicrosoft article:
FindFast only indexes all files if you tell it to!
You've got a very narrow view and a very small base of evidence. You'd get a much better view if you took in more sites than just the ones that match your current world view. Who knows, maybe you'd actually post arguments that are factually correct!
IE has password memory. So does Mozilla / Firefox, Opera, Safari, and a host of other browsers. It's a feature to make it easier to access sites, but users with high authentication should know that that ease comes at a cost of security. Admittedly many non-IE browsers have a "master password" structure whereby you type one password for it to remember all of your passwords on demand (as mentioned by a sibling post about Safari), but said poster also recognized that most of these systems ship with the feature off by default, and even if it is on, you're still doing a balancing act with security and ease -- if a cracker finds your master password, they've found ALL your passwords.
And I believe you're referring to FindFast, Microsoft's indexing tool that they shipped with Office. As I remember it, FindFast indexed documents (i.e. Microsoft Word, Excel, etc. files) so they could be found easier later, as well as have quicker in-file searching (i.e. searching for a word inside all your documents). It never stored your domain passwords or any such security-related tokens. Once again, though, you're only screwed if you put your password inside a Word file in your system... and why the hell would you do that if you're concerned about security? (P.S.: Anyone who had even a bit of technical acument would turn FindFast off back in the time when it was used, as it made your system horribly slow when it was indexing and tended to do so at inopportune times.)
Passport only works on sites that explicitly choose to support it, and generally only if you register yourself that way: most will give you an option for a registration in their site database only (eBay did this previously if I remember correctly). Several alternatives have been attempted at Passport-like solutions as well, to be fair, including some open source options. Once again, Microsoft isn't forcing you to use their solution, and I doubt a lot of systems use Passport authentication for high-level access anyway.
Normally I wouldn't be so argumentative, but you made a sweeping generalization when you said that "non Microsoft tools have taken local and remote attack into consideration". You made your bias quite clear in that statement. Next time you want to post attacks, at least back them up with some proof or evidence.
Anyway, I have yet to form an opinion on this InfoCard thing, but seeing as how it'll likely be Microsoft-proprietary and they'll probably have something to gain from it, I doubt I'll be either signing up for one (unless I have to in order to access a system, and even then I'll resist quite vocally) or deploying it on my own login systems.