Agreed. I'm sure there are even games that support uPnP so when you host a game, the appropriate port is automatically forwarded. IMO, if you keep a tidy computer network with virus scanners on your computers and scan for malware, then it's not much of an issue. It's still better than hooking up your computer directly to the internet and having window's services exposed. You have to compromise the computer before you can use UPnP to allow the attacker in anyways. What's so bad about having a lock thats easy to disable from the inside? It basically comes down to ease of use versus security. I happen to think the benefits of having programs being able to quickly do port forwarding themselves so I don't have to outweigh the possibility that someone can use the same ability to make a trojan work because I feel I am relatively safe (I'm not an idiot and acknowledge nothing is 100% foolproof) against such security breaches.
The selling point to get my father to switch to open office was that he could easily put it on new/other computers. He hated calling me up, asking me where that Office XP CD was only to have me tell him I have no idea. The idea of having 0 hassle when it comes to licenses and activation keys was the biggest selling point I can think of. Most people just want their computer to work and don't want to jump through a million hoops and keep track of that one cd-case whenever they want to install software on their new laptop.
"You mean I don't need a cd key for this? What happens if I lose the disc?"
"Uh, just download it again, it'll probably take 10 minutes or less on a good internet connection"
"Can I put this on your mother's computer?"
"You can put it on as many computers as you like, for free, have fun."
Switchgrass just got pwned by a quick google. Thats right, algae all the way. Just need to spend a bit of time developing the technologies to harvest it agriculturally because we've had little reason to do so earlier. Couple this to a CO2 producing coal plant and you've got a gold mine. Ofcourse, someone needs to make the initial investment. ..perhaps oil companies?
Could somebody give a link to a good description of the differences between the two? My understanding was the GPL v3 essentially made it so that once code was committed, the committer implicitly gave up rights to any patentable material relevant to what they committed. I can understand that this would make people wary of committing code because they might inadvertently give an algorithm to the public domain. What would happen with the GPL v2 then? The company could order a cease and desist to the open source project because it violated one of their patents, even if they themselves provided the code?
No, it does not mean it's "perfect". That seems to be a common misconception among both believers and non-. The Bible has many deletions, later additions, mistranslations, and deliberate tampering (which is, in large part, why there are so many different denominations all based on the same book). Doesn't invalidate the message though -- you can watch an old VHS tape of Dune with static, rainbows, dropouts, and tracking issues and still get the basic concepts of Frank Herbert's masterpiece.
So if sandworms were replaced with flying spaghetti monsters? I think your analogy is flawed. ..A friend of mine was telling me that the hebrew word for "day" used in genisis had a secondary meaning close to "epoch" or any arbitrarily long measurement of time. I have no idea if he is right or not but teeny things like that drastically change the meanings of things. It's not like a little static or dropped frames on a VHS tape. It's like adding in new scenes, deleting old ones and swapping characters and/or dialoge. The problem I've always understood with picking and choosing passages to "believe" from the bible is there is no divine guidance, you just go with your gut. In that case why bother with the bible at all and just go with your gut in the first place.
Fighting over turf won't get you far in a corporate environment in the long term.
Nor will complacency and ceding to other's demands. Best to stick with social engineering and make people that want "your" turf to think it was their idea to move elsewhere:)
No, seriously, I don't think it's the urine that's a problem. For instance, if I were to take 100mL of human urine in a sealed container outside and dump it, would there be a different set of laws broken than if it were 100mL of dog urine I was dumping? Essentially I believe it is the act of urination that is an arrestable offense, not the environmental contamination caused by the urine. The reason for that is it's definitely a social norm that one goes to the bathroom, well, in the bathroom, preferably in a toilet. Expecting all dogs to adhere to the same standards is unrealistic, and the law reflects that. I can't believe I spent time thinking about this. . .
I have so many things I'd like to say but I hate ranters so I'll keep it brief. I'm not supporting piracy but I don't think two wrongs make a right, only three lefts. I sure hope the RIAA paid local news stations to air this thing, because if they used some sort of professional courtesy agreement I would truly loath their propaganda strategies (even more). I love how they attacked the quality of the CD's, "atrocious" sounding? What a load of bull, I guess these guys aren't really into the way in which digital information theory works (Perfect copies) so they blatantly lie. Oh sure some yahoo could transcode to mp3, real audio, vorbis, then CD and have something that sounds like crap, but I'd think any mildly professional pirate would know this.
Most of all I'm just sick of all the time the RIAA is wasting on this, I think it's quite inevitable that this propaganda won't do anything, I hope they know it too. VHS, cassette tapes. ..all these new technologies gets the industry to wig out over. Imagine if the RIAA spent time on investigating new ways of utilizing the internet and digital information instead of fighting this. If it starts to rain in the desert you shouldn't try to spend every penny you have on keeping your bottled water business afloat.
I highly doubt that the names of the companies will be part of the show. They'll probably just say: "A electric utilitiy company based in the northeast." or somesuch.
That was supposed to be: "Oh, I'm John from tech co, <boss's name> is having me lead this team from <media company> around about IT in the modern world."
Wonder how they socially engineer away the presence of a camera team in the air vents.
Ok, airvents yes, but social engineering would probably benefit from these cameras. A secretary might not stop a guy in an IT suit walking out with a computer, but you think he/she'd be more likely to stop a guy carrying out a computer while he's talking to a 3 man camera team with boom microphones etc. "Hey, where are you going with that computer?" "Oh, I'm John from tech co, is having me lead this team from around about IT in the modern world." (turns to camera) "One thing paramount to security is patching your systems, this machine here has been exhibiting bizzare behavior on the network, most likely due to spyware and that is why it has been removed from the network to undergo analysis in the IT lab." Really, I think the hardest part would be getting the crew to go along with whatever quick responses you give to anyone who really questions you. It only takes 1 guy that acts a bit suspicious and unsure to ruin the whole thing.
I was curious, can you deduct money you give to the apache foundation as a charitable donation? They are a not-for-profit organization aren't they? It certainly would be an interesting way for companies to mess with their books.
So, thanks to american corporate giants history was rewritten again.
If I recall correctly Lilienfeld never actually constructed the transistor. So I think it is safe to say it is the 60th anniversary of the first physically-existent transistor and not the 60th anniversary of the idea of a transistor.
As every electrical engineer knows, the frequency response of a transistor-based amplifier can be modified to mimic virtually anything, including tubes. Especially with new-fangled DSP's of today. ..Seriously though, anyone have a good technical paper about why tubes are better suited for some tasks? The only thing I can come up with is their resilience to voltage spikes, cosmic rays, and ability to dimly illuminate the immediate area, not to mention a way to visually detect dead units:-p
podcaster Klaatu (of thebadapples.info) posted this on the discussion.apple.com site, only to have his post removed by Apple.
Ah, well, see, so long as Apple makes sure no knows about this, it won't be a problem. Surly everyone on Slashdot sees the validity of this strategy. (God I love my sig)
So keeping your password on a stickynote next to your computer IS better. ..Damn I've had it all wrong; I'm sure plenty other IT guys out there are as shocked as I.
See I would have thought it'd go the other way. I feel like I can safely ignore email since if it were urgent I would receive a phone call. I suppose being the curious gentleman that I am I would be tempted to check my email more frequently with the blackberry. Wouldn't the problem be in how the employee handles the email? If you can ignore the temptation to read your email on your time or simply don't act on it until you're on the clock what's the harm? If an employer expects you to always be on call and to respond quickly to emails even when you aren't working you need to renegotiate your wages/hours.
As a side note I do have a cellphone that I use to read my emails (HTC Hermes) but I read them during boring meetings usually:-p
Hardly sounds like a long term solution though, eventually you'll just go to work and not do anything, only to come home and then start working. ..? In your case I think it's more important to keep work and pleasure separate rather than trying to keep them balanced. Otherwise you end up spending all your time "working" but accomplishing little.
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Agreed. I'm sure there are even games that support uPnP so when you host a game, the appropriate port is automatically forwarded. IMO, if you keep a tidy computer network with virus scanners on your computers and scan for malware, then it's not much of an issue. It's still better than hooking up your computer directly to the internet and having window's services exposed. You have to compromise the computer before you can use UPnP to allow the attacker in anyways. What's so bad about having a lock thats easy to disable from the inside? It basically comes down to ease of use versus security. I happen to think the benefits of having programs being able to quickly do port forwarding themselves so I don't have to outweigh the possibility that someone can use the same ability to make a trojan work because I feel I am relatively safe (I'm not an idiot and acknowledge nothing is 100% foolproof) against such security breaches.
"Uh, just download it again, it'll probably take 10 minutes or less on a good internet connection"
"You can put it on as many computers as you like, for free, have fun."
Switchgrass just got pwned by a quick google. Thats right, algae all the way. Just need to spend a bit of time developing the technologies to harvest it agriculturally because we've had little reason to do so earlier. Couple this to a CO2 producing coal plant and you've got a gold mine. Ofcourse, someone needs to make the initial investment. . .perhaps oil companies?
Could somebody give a link to a good description of the differences between the two? My understanding was the GPL v3 essentially made it so that once code was committed, the committer implicitly gave up rights to any patentable material relevant to what they committed. I can understand that this would make people wary of committing code because they might inadvertently give an algorithm to the public domain. What would happen with the GPL v2 then? The company could order a cease and desist to the open source project because it violated one of their patents, even if they themselves provided the code?
So if sandworms were replaced with flying spaghetti monsters? I think your analogy is flawed. .
Seems to me you are just describing Second Life.
Because dogs and humans are different.
No, seriously, I don't think it's the urine that's a problem. For instance, if I were to take 100mL of human urine in a sealed container outside and dump it, would there be a different set of laws broken than if it were 100mL of dog urine I was dumping? Essentially I believe it is the act of urination that is an arrestable offense, not the environmental contamination caused by the urine. The reason for that is it's definitely a social norm that one goes to the bathroom, well, in the bathroom, preferably in a toilet. Expecting all dogs to adhere to the same standards is unrealistic, and the law reflects that.
I can't believe I spent time thinking about this. . .
Actually, the spoon project did fork into a knife project.
I have so many things I'd like to say but I hate ranters so I'll keep it brief. I'm not supporting piracy but I don't think two wrongs make a right, only three lefts. I sure hope the RIAA paid local news stations to air this thing, because if they used some sort of professional courtesy agreement I would truly loath their propaganda strategies (even more). I love how they attacked the quality of the CD's, "atrocious" sounding? What a load of bull, I guess these guys aren't really into the way in which digital information theory works (Perfect copies) so they blatantly lie. Oh sure some yahoo could transcode to mp3, real audio, vorbis, then CD and have something that sounds like crap, but I'd think any mildly professional pirate would know this.
.all these new technologies gets the industry to wig out over. Imagine if the RIAA spent time on investigating new ways of utilizing the internet and digital information instead of fighting this. If it starts to rain in the desert you shouldn't try to spend every penny you have on keeping your bottled water business afloat.
Most of all I'm just sick of all the time the RIAA is wasting on this, I think it's quite inevitable that this propaganda won't do anything, I hope they know it too. VHS, cassette tapes. .
I highly doubt that the names of the companies will be part of the show. They'll probably just say: "A electric utilitiy company based in the northeast." or somesuch.
That was supposed to be: "Oh, I'm John from tech co, <boss's name> is having me lead this team from <media company> around about IT in the modern world."
Ok, airvents yes, but social engineering would probably benefit from these cameras. A secretary might not stop a guy in an IT suit walking out with a computer, but you think he/she'd be more likely to stop a guy carrying out a computer while he's talking to a 3 man camera team with boom microphones etc. "Hey, where are you going with that computer?" "Oh, I'm John from tech co, is having me lead this team from around about IT in the modern world." (turns to camera) "One thing paramount to security is patching your systems, this machine here has been exhibiting bizzare behavior on the network, most likely due to spyware and that is why it has been removed from the network to undergo analysis in the IT lab." Really, I think the hardest part would be getting the crew to go along with whatever quick responses you give to anyone who really questions you. It only takes 1 guy that acts a bit suspicious and unsure to ruin the whole thing.
I was curious, can you deduct money you give to the apache foundation as a charitable donation? They are a not-for-profit organization aren't they? It certainly would be an interesting way for companies to mess with their books.
Yes, it's recursive sarcasm.
If I recall correctly Lilienfeld never actually constructed the transistor. So I think it is safe to say it is the 60th anniversary of the first physically-existent transistor and not the 60th anniversary of the idea of a transistor.
Feel free to send me my 20 whenever you get the chance. What sort of transistors are these? MOSFETs? BJTs? N-channel, P-channel? I like them all.
As every electrical engineer knows, the frequency response of a transistor-based amplifier can be modified to mimic virtually anything, including tubes. Especially with new-fangled DSP's of today. . .Seriously though, anyone have a good technical paper about why tubes are better suited for some tasks? The only thing I can come up with is their resilience to voltage spikes, cosmic rays, and ability to dimly illuminate the immediate area, not to mention a way to visually detect dead units :-p
If you are about to mod me down, keep in mind that this post was most likely sarcastic.
I hope this doesn't get modded informative.
Ah, well, see, so long as Apple makes sure no knows about this, it won't be a problem. Surly everyone on Slashdot sees the validity of this strategy. (God I love my sig)
So keeping your password on a stickynote next to your computer IS better. . .Damn I've had it all wrong; I'm sure plenty other IT guys out there are as shocked as I.
See I would have thought it'd go the other way. I feel like I can safely ignore email since if it were urgent I would receive a phone call. I suppose being the curious gentleman that I am I would be tempted to check my email more frequently with the blackberry. Wouldn't the problem be in how the employee handles the email? If you can ignore the temptation to read your email on your time or simply don't act on it until you're on the clock what's the harm? If an employer expects you to always be on call and to respond quickly to emails even when you aren't working you need to renegotiate your wages/hours.
:-p
As a side note I do have a cellphone that I use to read my emails (HTC Hermes) but I read them during boring meetings usually
Hardly sounds like a long term solution though, eventually you'll just go to work and not do anything, only to come home and then start working. . .? In your case I think it's more important to keep work and pleasure separate rather than trying to keep them balanced. Otherwise you end up spending all your time "working" but accomplishing little.
No problemo bud, here is a google cache (I posted a different mirror this time, so it's not redundant)
See, my life just got better because I have a great excuse to karma whore. Yay nyud mirror