Your ISP charges you according to the bandwidth you use.
The problem is that if the spammer is using a relay that is very far up stream, then not only will the spammer not pay for the spam, but it will be almost impossible for the intermediate networks to track him down.
I would consider a better analogy to be the health inspectors demanding to see the "trade secrets" (or something along that line) of the food packaging facility.
From what I read of this motion, it looks more like the feds wanting to check up on an ingredient that has been found to be harmful to the public. The leveraging of the Windows monopoly to get an internet monopoly was found to be harmful. So, it's not unreasonable for the government to make sure you can't keep windows without removing IE.
What if a filler in sausage was carcenagenic? Is it unreasonable for an inspector to review the packing process to see if it really can't be done away with?
Aren't you really saying that those security flaws are less critical because script kiddies and crackers are less likely to come across a Linux box than a Windows one?
Actually, I think leonbev was refering the psychology of the script kiddie/script kiddie tool writer. They tend to target MS targets out of politiccal/cultural affiliation w/ Free Software, Open Source, anarchist, whatever.
This would be the same thing as not wearing red of blue back when the bloods and cryps targeted people wearing the other color.
You're right about the pedestrian installs being way too feature filled; however, I'd like to point out the obvious caviot that Windows* does this as well. Very often the options added in Windows* are poorly documented, if at all, so you get into much the same situation as a newbie Linux user w/o an experienced Linux friend to ask. What do you deinstall? What do you keep?
Personally, I'd like to see a more OpenBSD like install for all the consumer products. Although the user would have to work a little harder to get what they want, they would (presumably) learn a bit more about the system. If that fails, then they would at least have to admit liability for braindead configurations (er... most of em).
IANAP (I am not a physicist), but suppose various non-carbon dust/debris attatched to the cable, down in the low end of the atmosphere. Now imaging that the elevator spread these out over the length of the cable. Now suppose high winds created a charge on the cable that spread along the portion that had foreign materials on it.
I haven't worked out the math, but wouldn't this put a force on both the satellite and the anchor? I'm sure this could be calculated into the tol. of the cable. What about keeping the satillite in position? Would you need to extend the cable out beyond it and charge it on purpose to keep it in orbit?
Since the charge would be small, it won't have to be much, but couldn't it cause a variable drag on the satillite as it moves through the light and dark side of the earth rel. to the Sun (think magnetosphere)?
I'm a mathematician, not a physicist or planetary scientist. CAn anyone add to this?
From what I read about your comment's parent; the author was stating that more regulation was *NOT* the answer. You seem to have missed his point.
Although I agree with your ending point, that parents need to wake up and take responsibility for the little horrors that they've brought into the world; it doesn't belong as a responce of the parent post that simply stated that new laws shouldn't be enacted when there's no *REAL* change in the system (eg. Arcades by any other name work the same).
I briefly worked for a company that did geolocation. It works up to the granularity of area codes in big cities, but gets rather fuzzy as you go out into rural areas where the path to your nearest backbone isn't obvious from your area code.
Like many things, the founders of the company didn't have "Big Brother" in mind (except for the marketing department who wanted to license it to the FBI so they could track kiddy porn). They assumed it would be used be marketing departments for isolating different markets.
It's really giving me a sickening feeling to see the subject coming back up. Especially when I realized that I help this technology (or tried to - the CTO didn't like current AI technology:). I keep trying to come up with a way to work around it - I guess so I can help pay for my crime of helping them.
I also agree with you. It has been said many times before that in order for a kid to learn how to act in society, the kid needs to take some part in society; and that begins with the parents.
Any children with minimal human contact at a social level will not function well when they hit the teen years. My brothers and friends and I were playing AD&D, choping people up in an old C=64 Frankenstein game, and generally doing everything that "should" turn us into psycho serial killers. But we're not. We're rather quiet, very peaceful people.
I still think the best sound is a mic in front of the amp
I agree (as do most producers out there), but the thing I do see from this is the ability to record the guitars dry and send them back through the stack on mix down (which would be miced). That way you don't have to print the effects. Granted you will have to send the guitar through the rig for some tracks, you might be able to keep some avenues open to explore later in mix down.
So I guess I see this as more useful for the wealthier musician who can use 2 or 3 ADATs just for the guitars; send the raw guitar straight to ADAT, use the monitor to go through the amp during tracking and print just those effects that the guitarist needs to bring in and out while playing...
That said, I don't think I'll be buying one just yet (read as : poor).
Wouldn't the throughput in your example actually be measured as 5 exabytes per 3 days, since you wouldn't actually be receiving 34 GB/s in San Francisco, it would just be all at once.
Well, no. Throughput is the expected (or average) data you will see per time unit. In probability terms, this can either be the given data each and every time unit, or it can be huge spikes of data once and a while. It's all washed out in the average.
If so, then anyone who have access to software in high demand could give out a discustingly huge number of licenses and take care of their taxes with almost *NO* real cost to them...
Their lack of market share is due to their management. The discounts to schools *did* give them loyal followers (my brother was one until the rest of their lame-brained non-marketing took over).
If Apple followed the indoctrination in the schools with some good viral marketing (kinda like MS's software did without them - how many copys of Windows 3.1/3.11 were actually sold vs. used?), and let other hardware into the picture, they would probably have been a decent contender for a common marketplace 300lb gorilla.
...imagine that ANY time you change your class in C# YOU NEED TO REBOOT THE APPLICATION SERVER...
It seems that most of the MS IIS admins I know don't think anything of it. Here at UCLA, they bring the whole URSA (student services) website down for hours on end during the weekend for maintainence and improvements (it runs on MS, IIS). My suggestion that you shouldn't need to bring your whole site down to tweak it didn't even get a reply.
Funny, but it seems to be the culture. I wonder if most people would care whether MS's stuff stayed up even if they made it as good as a Tandem (?).
Name one thing in that article that is about the technical aspects of privacy and security.
"Microsoft's security record is nothing to brag about. Windows is the most widely used yet one of the least
secure operating systems around. Microsoft programs have shown themselves vulnerable to worms,
viruses, and break-ins, on Microsoft's own computers and on everybody else's. The Melissa virus spread
through Microsoft's word processing and e-mail programs, sending itself to the first 50 people in each of
the infected machine's address lists. A year later the ILOVEYOU virus infected the Web through a
different part of Microsoft's e-mail package. More recently Microsoft's own internal systems were
hacked, and the intruders spent over a month accessing system source code, likened to Microsoft's
"crown jewels," before their unlawful entry was discovered.
"Why should Passport be any different? Early security analyses show that compromises made for the sake
of universal availability make Passport less secure than it might have been, less secure than it should be,
and perhaps just plain insecure. The My Services databases will be a particularly ripe target for hackers.
(Since all users of Microsoft's free Hotmail service have Passports, many unknowingly, there are already
160 million Passport users.)"
...to a corporate on a multi national stage - it has to be perfectly compatible...
That's actually a good point. I remember that Countrywide Home Loans uses Lotus Notes strictly because the CEO loves it. He apparently doesn't like doing much of anything outside of it. Most of the VPs and CEOs like what they like and want the rest of the company to bend to them (not the good VPs and CEOs, though).
However, I think it's not that difficult to have Linux/Unix creep in to the office. In any job that either has technical competence or a limited number of tasks, it should be easy to create a *nix platform that would allow the wage slave to do their work in security and ease. As long as you're setting up a new system, it should be fine.
Then again, if your company writes Windows applications, this whole point is moot. I've never like cross platform developement; and (from my experience) it should only be done when there's no real alternative.
I think I saw one of these things around the neck of my boss. Looks like corporate america's already tracking the "bad people" for us. Just look for this thin, flat, noose like thing around peoples necks...:)
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The problem is that if the spammer is using a relay that is very far up stream, then not only will the spammer not pay for the spam, but it will be almost impossible for the intermediate networks to track him down.
From what I read of this motion, it looks more like the feds wanting to check up on an ingredient that has been found to be harmful to the public. The leveraging of the Windows monopoly to get an internet monopoly was found to be harmful. So, it's not unreasonable for the government to make sure you can't keep windows without removing IE.
What if a filler in sausage was carcenagenic? Is it unreasonable for an inspector to review the packing process to see if it really can't be done away with?
Actually, I think leonbev was refering the psychology of the script kiddie/script kiddie tool writer. They tend to target MS targets out of politiccal/cultural affiliation w/ Free Software, Open Source, anarchist, whatever.
This would be the same thing as not wearing red of blue back when the bloods and cryps targeted people wearing the other color.
You're right about the pedestrian installs being way too feature filled; however, I'd like to point out the obvious caviot that Windows* does this as well. Very often the options added in Windows* are poorly documented, if at all, so you get into much the same situation as a newbie Linux user w/o an experienced Linux friend to ask. What do you deinstall? What do you keep?
Personally, I'd like to see a more OpenBSD like install for all the consumer products. Although the user would have to work a little harder to get what they want, they would (presumably) learn a bit more about the system. If that fails, then they would at least have to admit liability for braindead configurations (er... most of em).
IANAP (I am not a physicist), but suppose various non-carbon dust/debris attatched to the cable, down in the low end of the atmosphere. Now imaging that the elevator spread these out over the length of the cable. Now suppose high winds created a charge on the cable that spread along the portion that had foreign materials on it.
I haven't worked out the math, but wouldn't this put a force on both the satellite and the anchor? I'm sure this could be calculated into the tol. of the cable. What about keeping the satillite in position? Would you need to extend the cable out beyond it and charge it on purpose to keep it in orbit?
Since the charge would be small, it won't have to be much, but couldn't it cause a variable drag on the satillite as it moves through the light and dark side of the earth rel. to the Sun (think magnetosphere)?
I'm a mathematician, not a physicist or planetary scientist. CAn anyone add to this?
-RB
...Duh.... Yeah. It says that right there.... Sorry about that...
"ile systems would become plug-ins for a raw, native relational data store. "
This reminds me of the IBM AS400 setup, where the fs is an RDB. Any AS400 people care to comment?
From what I read about your comment's parent; the author was stating that more regulation was *NOT* the answer. You seem to have missed his point.
Although I agree with your ending point, that parents need to wake up and take responsibility for the little horrors that they've brought into the world; it doesn't belong as a responce of the parent post that simply stated that new laws shouldn't be enacted when there's no *REAL* change in the system (eg. Arcades by any other name work the same).
Actually, I was thinking of my favorite Godzilla movie, cause no matter who wins, you know Tokyo is going to be decimated :)
I briefly worked for a company that did geolocation. It works up to the granularity of area codes in big cities, but gets rather fuzzy as you go out into rural areas where the path to your nearest backbone isn't obvious from your area code.
:). I keep trying to come up with a way to work around it - I guess so I can help pay for my crime of helping them.
Like many things, the founders of the company didn't have "Big Brother" in mind (except for the marketing department who wanted to license it to the FBI so they could track kiddy porn). They assumed it would be used be marketing departments for isolating different markets.
It's really giving me a sickening feeling to see the subject coming back up. Especially when I realized that I help this technology (or tried to - the CTO didn't like current AI technology
I also agree with you. It has been said many times before that in order for a kid to learn how to act in society, the kid needs to take some part in society; and that begins with the parents.
Any children with minimal human contact at a social level will not function well when they hit the teen years. My brothers and friends and I were playing AD&D, choping people up in an old C=64 Frankenstein game, and generally doing everything that "should" turn us into psycho serial killers. But we're not. We're rather quiet, very peaceful people.
-RB
I agree (as do most producers out there), but the thing I do see from this is the ability to record the guitars dry and send them back through the stack on mix down (which would be miced). That way you don't have to print the effects. Granted you will have to send the guitar through the rig for some tracks, you might be able to keep some avenues open to explore later in mix down.
So I guess I see this as more useful for the wealthier musician who can use 2 or 3 ADATs just for the guitars; send the raw guitar straight to ADAT, use the monitor to go through the amp during tracking and print just those effects that the guitarist needs to bring in and out while playing...
That said, I don't think I'll be buying one just yet (read as : poor).
-RB
Well, no. Throughput is the expected (or average) data you will see per time unit. In probability terms, this can either be the given data each and every time unit, or it can be huge spikes of data once and a while. It's all washed out in the average.
-RB
Hmm... okay. Can then can someone tell me if there's ever been an intelligently built system that been the subject of a life-threatening hack?
-RB
Can someone please give me an example of *ONE* "life-threatening [felony]" that has been committed as a resulkt of a hack?
I don't remember ever reading about one...
If so, then anyone who have access to software in high demand could give out a discustingly huge number of licenses and take care of their taxes with almost *NO* real cost to them...
Does anyone know?
-RB
Their lack of market share is due to their management. The discounts to schools *did* give them loyal followers (my brother was one until the rest of their lame-brained non-marketing took over).
If Apple followed the indoctrination in the schools with some good viral marketing (kinda like MS's software did without them - how many copys of Windows 3.1/3.11 were actually sold vs. used?), and let other hardware into the picture, they would probably have been a decent contender for a common marketplace 300lb gorilla.
...Just a few thoughts.
It seems that most of the MS IIS admins I know don't think anything of it. Here at UCLA, they bring the whole URSA (student services) website down for hours on end during the weekend for maintainence and improvements (it runs on MS, IIS). My suggestion that you shouldn't need to bring your whole site down to tweak it didn't even get a reply.
Funny, but it seems to be the culture. I wonder if most people would care whether MS's stuff stayed up even if they made it as good as a Tandem (?).
I still haven't figured this one out.
-RB
Where's any mention of Sun? I haven't even heard of Sun being involved. Did you read the article?
Hehehe. I wish I had a mod point. Kudos
Actually, I believe your innocent contact wouldn't be a terrorist under this law - *you* still would.
-RB
"Microsoft's security record is nothing to brag about. Windows is the most widely used yet one of the least secure operating systems around. Microsoft programs have shown themselves vulnerable to worms, viruses, and break-ins, on Microsoft's own computers and on everybody else's. The Melissa virus spread through Microsoft's word processing and e-mail programs, sending itself to the first 50 people in each of the infected machine's address lists. A year later the ILOVEYOU virus infected the Web through a different part of Microsoft's e-mail package. More recently Microsoft's own internal systems were hacked, and the intruders spent over a month accessing system source code, likened to Microsoft's "crown jewels," before their unlawful entry was discovered.
"Why should Passport be any different? Early security analyses show that compromises made for the sake of universal availability make Passport less secure than it might have been, less secure than it should be, and perhaps just plain insecure. The My Services databases will be a particularly ripe target for hackers. (Since all users of Microsoft's free Hotmail service have Passports, many unknowingly, there are already 160 million Passport users.)"
Perhaps a bit more that one thing...
That's actually a good point. I remember that Countrywide Home Loans uses Lotus Notes strictly because the CEO loves it. He apparently doesn't like doing much of anything outside of it. Most of the VPs and CEOs like what they like and want the rest of the company to bend to them (not the good VPs and CEOs, though).
However, I think it's not that difficult to have Linux/Unix creep in to the office. In any job that either has technical competence or a limited number of tasks, it should be easy to create a *nix platform that would allow the wage slave to do their work in security and ease. As long as you're setting up a new system, it should be fine.
Then again, if your company writes Windows applications, this whole point is moot. I've never like cross platform developement; and (from my experience) it should only be done when there's no real alternative.
-RBHeh. That funny, I've been a programmer for 6 years and I still don't show up on time! Hmmmm.... I wonder if I have a future in gang banging.... :)
I think I saw one of these things around the neck of my boss. Looks like corporate america's already tracking the "bad people" for us. Just look for this thin, flat, noose like thing around peoples necks... :)