And get some script kiddies in trouble, he'd just post the executable, and not tell anyone that it also emails authorities around the world information about the computer you run it from. While this may "brown-out" some servers as the article says, it would leave a nice trail to the luser who started the whole mess.
having preemptive multitasking, or multitasking period is NOT a requirement for being an OS. Neither is having memory protection. All an OS has to do control (allow) execution of programs and *may* provide various services such as accessing hardware. Now, this doens't mean that an OS without multitasking or memory space protection is any "good", but it is still an OS.
I can't think of any easy ways you could get around a system using this security method - let alone even know that a system is implimenting it.
I can... you packet-sniff while someone's going through their knock and just follow the port sequence. Once you get the magic knock, you're once step closer to getting through the door. Now with hundreds of people connecting at once, you'll just have to organize your packet-sniffing log by source, port, and time (just to make sure you do it fast enough). This just gives the script kiddies something else to look for with their scripts.
As an employee of a cell phone company, I can tell you that many of the camera phones coming out now have a CCD and the percentage will increase. With this increase will come camera phones capable of > 1 Megapixel images. As for the lenses, I don't think anyone's found a good lense that will fit into the 1/4th the width of a phone (since most go into "clamshell" phones) and still be cheap enough to make it into the bill of materials, but I'm sure it's on the way. Besides most of the distortion you're seeing is due to the low-quality CMOS's being used. You have to start somewhere, and IIRC, the first digital cameras weren't that great either.
Let's see, they just spent some money to figure out that if something embarrasses people (i.e. not the norm), they'll charge more to let you know what it is. Sounds more like someone had some extra budget left over that they needed to clear out before the next fiscal year.
RedHat taking action to fix bugs in short order, while Microsoft drags their feet and doesn't even fix some holes deemed "low-risk." I'll take the OS from the company which has shown the commitment to supporting their customers over the one from the company that *says* they will.
they understand that that's how you keep customers coming back when they need something new. Pissing-off a customer is no way to entice them to buy more.
"Make sure that your expectations are appropriate to what a product is marketing,"
Every company I've heard of with poor customer service has an attitude similar to the one reflected in this statement. When people start moving to a "we know what you want better than you do" or a "you need to expect the right things" instead of a "tell us what you want" or "what do you want to make this product better," then the customer is put-off, because you're not catering to the customer's needs. Let's face it, in a capitalist society the customer is always right, and if you don't think so, you'll find your sales lagging.
...Or is this just yet another way to force us into a new upgrade cycle?
Since most users are using Microsoft products, and Microsoft seems to be keen at using lots of memory and cpu cycles where sometimes not necessary, they seem to be handling the issue of forcing people into a new upgrade cycle quite well. For many of us gamers, new titles like ut2 and the coming Doom III are forcing the upgrades. Given this, I don't think that PCI Express will create more "upgrade pressure" than many people already feel.
What ever happened to DUE PROCESS? Say Joe Bloe comes into my house/dorm room to borrow my PC and starts downloading copyrighted material and Führer.. er I mean Senator Hatch's computer-killer destroys my machine. Well then I'm punished for a crime I didn't commit without ever being formally accused or tried in court. So they let the copyright owner's do it... that makes them guilty of destruction of private property at a MINIMUM, not to mention a slew of those new-fangled computer crime laws. Elect officials with half a brain so we can stop this dretch from wasting time and tax dollars.
As far as music goes, as long as there's a wire carrying a signal to a speaker, ripping music will be do-able. As far as that goes, as long as there are regular TV's (i.e. we don't require *special* DRM TVs) which can display the video images, DVD's will be rippable too. For that matter, as long as we're using a CRT or any of the current LCD or Plasma displays, we could break open the box to get to the signal. It may be harder and require some soldering and what-not, but it WILL be do-able.
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As soon as I read that there are 7 chapters on M$, I knew the M$ flames would be abundant in this thread of comments. I'd like to take a different approach to this; rather than adamently bash microsoft, I'll be more subtle about it. I see securing MS products as a challenge. Yes, they're buggy (release early / often,) and I love my Unixees more, but this could be a fun game. Anyone can RTFM and secure *nix boxen, but someone who can make a windows box truely secure... now they've done something!!
Great, now we'll have to learn to type abbreviations for "10-4 good buddy" and "LostSheep to Shepheard, LostSheap to Shepheard, come-in", as well as see handles like "Trukin' Buck" and "BadassBubba." I just can't wait for someone to host a website from their rig. Something like "www.earls-peterbuilt.com"
It's hard for us to understand, sometimes, how a group of people can be so stupid. I mean REALLY, at some point SCO decided, "Hey, we're not gonna make money on this, so let's just sue the shit out of everybody." Then, their P.R. department had to be dumb enough to say, "Hey, this wont affect our image THAT much, so go ahead." Then, their lawyers had to be dumb enough to believe someone who said, "Well, we'll figure out what code to say is ours if it comes-up, but we wont worry about that now" AND they went ahead with this. Is there NO sane person with a voice in this company saying, "Hey, this is the biggest dumbass idea EVER... including that moronic Microsoft Bob shit! This is WORSE!" It's amazing that this company's dumbshit filters have let this happen.
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And get some script kiddies in trouble, he'd just post the executable, and not tell anyone that it also emails authorities around the world information about the computer you run it from. While this may "brown-out" some servers as the article says, it would leave a nice trail to the luser who started the whole mess.
having preemptive multitasking, or multitasking period is NOT a requirement for being an OS. Neither is having memory protection. All an OS has to do control (allow) execution of programs and *may* provide various services such as accessing hardware. Now, this doens't mean that an OS without multitasking or memory space protection is any "good", but it is still an OS.
I can... you packet-sniff while someone's going through their knock and just follow the port sequence. Once you get the magic knock, you're once step closer to getting through the door. Now with hundreds of people connecting at once, you'll just have to organize your packet-sniffing log by source, port, and time (just to make sure you do it fast enough). This just gives the script kiddies something else to look for with their scripts.
Now Aschcroft's going to be coming affter us all for being affiliated with the "terrorist" organization called "Linux".
As an employee of a cell phone company, I can tell you that many of the camera phones coming out now have a CCD and the percentage will increase. With this increase will come camera phones capable of > 1 Megapixel images. As for the lenses, I don't think anyone's found a good lense that will fit into the 1/4th the width of a phone (since most go into "clamshell" phones) and still be cheap enough to make it into the bill of materials, but I'm sure it's on the way. Besides most of the distortion you're seeing is due to the low-quality CMOS's being used. You have to start somewhere, and IIRC, the first digital cameras weren't that great either.
Let's see, they just spent some money to figure out that if something embarrasses people (i.e. not the norm), they'll charge more to let you know what it is. Sounds more like someone had some extra budget left over that they needed to clear out before the next fiscal year.
So I'm gonna sue YOU!... oh wait.. i'm not SCO, hell, I'm not even a vulture! sorry.
how many of them called their smart buddies to find the efficient way because they were sleeping in class?
However unlikely, it is entirely possible to find such a rock... the kicker would be finding a dinosaur fossil from earth on Mars!
With a theme song that sounds like Dawson's Creek, all us geeks hear it and change to see what's coming on sci-fi.
RedHat taking action to fix bugs in short order, while Microsoft drags their feet and doesn't even fix some holes deemed "low-risk." I'll take the OS from the company which has shown the commitment to supporting their customers over the one from the company that *says* they will.
The Commonwealth of Virginia!
Rochester, NY may become a ghost-town if Kodak cuts because of this.
Smooth, last for EVER, sturdy metal construction, cheap refils (about $1 each), about 3 bucks each pen, and they look GREAT.
they understand that that's how you keep customers coming back when they need something new. Pissing-off a customer is no way to entice them to buy more.
Every company I've heard of with poor customer service has an attitude similar to the one reflected in this statement. When people start moving to a "we know what you want better than you do" or a "you need to expect the right things" instead of a "tell us what you want" or "what do you want to make this product better," then the customer is put-off, because you're not catering to the customer's needs. Let's face it, in a capitalist society the customer is always right, and if you don't think so, you'll find your sales lagging.
But they can't force me to buy a sealed home theatre system, can they?
a beowulf cluster of these?
Since most users are using Microsoft products, and Microsoft seems to be keen at using lots of memory and cpu cycles where sometimes not necessary, they seem to be handling the issue of forcing people into a new upgrade cycle quite well. For many of us gamers, new titles like ut2 and the coming Doom III are forcing the upgrades. Given this, I don't think that PCI Express will create more "upgrade pressure" than many people already feel.
Does it have a transporter? Really, though, what happened to phones that make calls (and hold them) with good reception?
What ever happened to DUE PROCESS? Say Joe Bloe comes into my house/dorm room to borrow my PC and starts downloading copyrighted material and Führer.. er I mean Senator Hatch's computer-killer destroys my machine. Well then I'm punished for a crime I didn't commit without ever being formally accused or tried in court. So they let the copyright owner's do it... that makes them guilty of destruction of private property at a MINIMUM, not to mention a slew of those new-fangled computer crime laws. Elect officials with half a brain so we can stop this dretch from wasting time and tax dollars.
As far as music goes, as long as there's a wire carrying a signal to a speaker, ripping music will be do-able. As far as that goes, as long as there are regular TV's (i.e. we don't require *special* DRM TVs) which can display the video images, DVD's will be rippable too. For that matter, as long as we're using a CRT or any of the current LCD or Plasma displays, we could break open the box to get to the signal. It may be harder and require some soldering and what-not, but it WILL be do-able.
As soon as I read that there are 7 chapters on M$, I knew the M$ flames would be abundant in this thread of comments. I'd like to take a different approach to this; rather than adamently bash microsoft, I'll be more subtle about it. I see securing MS products as a challenge. Yes, they're buggy (release early / often,) and I love my Unixees more, but this could be a fun game. Anyone can RTFM and secure *nix boxen, but someone who can make a windows box truely secure... now they've done something!!
It's hard for us to understand, sometimes, how a group of people can be so stupid. I mean REALLY, at some point SCO decided, "Hey, we're not gonna make money on this, so let's just sue the shit out of everybody." Then, their P.R. department had to be dumb enough to say, "Hey, this wont affect our image THAT much, so go ahead." Then, their lawyers had to be dumb enough to believe someone who said, "Well, we'll figure out what code to say is ours if it comes-up, but we wont worry about that now" AND they went ahead with this. Is there NO sane person with a voice in this company saying, "Hey, this is the biggest dumbass idea EVER... including that moronic Microsoft Bob shit! This is WORSE!" It's amazing that this company's dumbshit filters have let this happen.