I see a major reason -- the people coming in from the side. So, what if they are not speeding and their light changes automatically. They are going to drive under it only to see some suped up Honda Civic comes, whose light changed while he was speeding, nail them right in the side.
This is for the security of your network, not just that computer. WITH those tools, COMES the security -- even Windows has its share of security tools.
I wonder how this will fare against Knoppix STD? Knoppix, as the world knows, is an awesome LiveCD distro of Linux that comes with an assortment of tools. This... just seems to come with a lot more. I guess it just matters about that user-friendliest though, as an Elite Linux user could boot up with Slackware CD 2, the LiveCD and do just as much or more. But yet, Slackware is as user friendly as a rabid wolf.
Some of my lazy, hacker buddies love hockey, so that just goes to show how geeks aren't all inactive.
I'm pretty much in shape, even though I never do anything. I can outrun and outjump almost everyone I know, yet I spend the majority of my non-working hours at the computer.
And for another example, look at Tsumo Shimomura, the guy who caught Kevin Mitnick. He jogged and rollerbladed a lot, yet he's one of the world's greatest white hat hackers.
"Is it also possible that the quality of music is not as great as in the past or that a lot of music is "more of the same?""
That's actually on my mind. So it decreased 7%. I'm sure it decreased that much or more before P2P was even thought of. The RIAA is just blaming it because they want to have something to tell the recording companies. They can't face the music that their new line of albums from all of their pretty rap/pop artists suck ass now.
I think the ultimate hack has already been done. That code was written in 1962, eh? Whose to say that someone doesn't already have their hands on it? Such as a really good social engineer. After all, that was 40+ years ago and security wasn't that tight back then. If you had the code then, you have it now and I believe that's a bad idea to use the same software again.
No, even with the W, it sounds a lot like Lindows still when said really fast. So it doesn't actually SAY Lindows, but neither did Mike Rowe say Microsoft. It's all the same -- Microsoft won't care.
Well, I don't think there will be a grave when SCO loses to IBM. It'll be more like... a HUGE Kamehameha attack from Gohan kiling Cell -- there won't be anything at all left.
SCO has WAY too many lawsuits out right now. I think their lawyers would get pissed if they kept coming to them to ask them first.
Once IBM wins though, it's all over folks. None of the other cases will matter and if needed, they could all bind together for one large (many different) counter-sue on SCO. I'm sure Microsoft would have to pay off SCO's negatives once again...
Yes, installing patches does help security, but what also creates more bugs and holes? Patches. I think the key here is that you want your patch to make less holes than your code orignally had. At least this way, no one knows where they are right off the bat.
1. Exactly. Besides, what the hell can they do? Make you rebuy it!? You already own it! The worse that they can do is void your warranty. Big fucking deal!
2. Very true. Even though it does make a lot of artists complain. But after all, a lot of musicians don't write their own stuff, so who are they to claim it as their own? As long as it doesn't effect sales, what are they bitching about? It's all about the benjamins, remember...?
This doesn't really surprise me. Asia has always been ahead of us with technology, and by them making this move, it just goes to show how it's not all about their main focus on technology itself, but the good decisions they make.
And the first thing I hear about eliminating competition... I will hit someone with a detached pay phone. Look at how many distributions of the Linux operating system there are. Not only are there commercial ones, but there are community projects also. It's going to be a huge race to get to the top, running operating systems such as RedHat, Fedora, SuSE, Mandrake, Sun Java Desktop, and such. I'm sure that a lot of smaller companies will embrace this move with a few community projects on some lesser boxes also. Sure, they won't rise to fame, but it's some extra cash!
I bet all of those years ago, Linus Torvalds never expected anything like this.
I don't really think that they are trying to be the "good guy" or trying to embrace the open-source movement -- they just know that hardly no one that is a big Linux developer visits the Microsoft website often, and well, has anything to do with it in general. What better way to get the word out fast than to give it to an open-source website? Besides, it'll look good to the EU on how fast it is spreading. I'm sure they would be pretty angry if Microsoft released some source code to the world that never spread.
It's only looked as a stupid comment by people too arrogant to understand it's meaning. It's a joke. Deal with it. I don't think it will be a good idea in the long run, because not a lot of people can draw complex shapes. They would have to sketch out easier shapes and spend a lot more time going through all of the choices that came back, instead of drawing something semi-complex and finding it instantly.
But hey, didn't Lindows try something like this? And look what is happening to them right now. I think the world just needs to learn how to use Linux, not relearn Windows XP.
I on the other hand, have been a pretty big fan of SuSE. And you're correct, it doesn't look too much different, other than a completely new Kernal. With the new Linux 2.6 kernal though, we're going to see bugs, but once it's all over, we're going to see a more stable system also. And the world can count on that!
"Hmmm, a huge database of digital mugshots and digital fingerprints, which will be kept forever - hope we have enough RAM to search through it quickly and constantly."
Imagine what kind of trouble the US could be in if a social engineer could get his hands on that. Any social engineer in general, even a master Arabic identify stealer... terrorist counts could raise.
I still don't see the point in creating a gaming laptop. Why not just buy a Falcon Fragbox? Those look pretty cool and have a lot more power than any laptop.
See, the thing about laptops, is that companies like VoodooPC and Alienware do not know how to go about making them. They pack a lot of power into the system -- uping the processor speed, RAM, video card, and harddrive space, but in turns, you still have the same refresh rate as you did without the extra power. You just have a lot faster notebook with it. That's always the downer on LCD monitors though -- the refresh rate. With CRTs, we can get some really high frames per second (FPS), but LCDs just don't put out enough. So until the day when a laptop can ship with a mini-CRT monitor or an LCD with a decent refresh rate (higher than 60), I'm sticking to my desktop computer for gaming.
I don't believe that it's an April Fools joke, but I don't think it will sell really well for the price that it is. It looks really nice though. I wouldn't mind having one... I think I would just go for a $200 PDA with Linux installed though.
"The client will be completely undetectable and unremovable by even the most skilled hacker."
That's a crock of shit. Even that quote makes the software a bigger target that it already is. Even if it's impossible to find out if you have it or not, to disable it, who's to say that a Hacker or a Social Engineer couldn't get their hands on it before hand? With it, they wouldn't have to disable it because they would have enough information about it as if they actually wrote it.
"So if your computer randomly blows up in the next while, you can put the blame on this."
I guess that'll take away some of the Microsoft Windows critics, eh?
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I see a major reason -- the people coming in from the side. So, what if they are not speeding and their light changes automatically. They are going to drive under it only to see some suped up Honda Civic comes, whose light changed while he was speeding, nail them right in the side.
Sounds too much like a stupid police prank to me.
This is for the security of your network, not just that computer. WITH those tools, COMES the security -- even Windows has its share of security tools.
I wonder how this will fare against Knoppix STD? Knoppix, as the world knows, is an awesome LiveCD distro of Linux that comes with an assortment of tools. This... just seems to come with a lot more. I guess it just matters about that user-friendliest though, as an Elite Linux user could boot up with Slackware CD 2, the LiveCD and do just as much or more. But yet, Slackware is as user friendly as a rabid wolf.
Some of my lazy, hacker buddies love hockey, so that just goes to show how geeks aren't all inactive.
I'm pretty much in shape, even though I never do anything. I can outrun and outjump almost everyone I know, yet I spend the majority of my non-working hours at the computer.
And for another example, look at Tsumo Shimomura, the guy who caught Kevin Mitnick. He jogged and rollerbladed a lot, yet he's one of the world's greatest white hat hackers.
"Is it also possible that the quality of music is not as great as in the past or that a lot of music is "more of the same?""
That's actually on my mind. So it decreased 7%. I'm sure it decreased that much or more before P2P was even thought of. The RIAA is just blaming it because they want to have something to tell the recording companies. They can't face the music that their new line of albums from all of their pretty rap/pop artists suck ass now.
I think the ultimate hack has already been done. That code was written in 1962, eh? Whose to say that someone doesn't already have their hands on it? Such as a really good social engineer. After all, that was 40+ years ago and security wasn't that tight back then. If you had the code then, you have it now and I believe that's a bad idea to use the same software again.
No, even with the W, it sounds a lot like Lindows still when said really fast. So it doesn't actually SAY Lindows, but neither did Mike Rowe say Microsoft. It's all the same -- Microsoft won't care.
Well, I don't think there will be a grave when SCO loses to IBM. It'll be more like... a HUGE Kamehameha attack from Gohan kiling Cell -- there won't be anything at all left.
Yeah, but big deal. Who's to say that Microsoft or Yahoo can't just randomly send off your information?
Besides, they shouldn't give too much info if they don't want it given out. Anonymity on the Internet... learn it.
SCO has WAY too many lawsuits out right now. I think their lawyers would get pissed if they kept coming to them to ask them first.
Once IBM wins though, it's all over folks. None of the other cases will matter and if needed, they could all bind together for one large (many different) counter-sue on SCO. I'm sure Microsoft would have to pay off SCO's negatives once again...
Yes, installing patches does help security, but what also creates more bugs and holes? Patches. I think the key here is that you want your patch to make less holes than your code orignally had. At least this way, no one knows where they are right off the bat.
1. Exactly. Besides, what the hell can they do? Make you rebuy it!? You already own it! The worse that they can do is void your warranty. Big fucking deal!
2. Very true. Even though it does make a lot of artists complain. But after all, a lot of musicians don't write their own stuff, so who are they to claim it as their own? As long as it doesn't effect sales, what are they bitching about? It's all about the benjamins, remember...?
This doesn't really surprise me. Asia has always been ahead of us with technology, and by them making this move, it just goes to show how it's not all about their main focus on technology itself, but the good decisions they make.
And the first thing I hear about eliminating competition... I will hit someone with a detached pay phone. Look at how many distributions of the Linux operating system there are. Not only are there commercial ones, but there are community projects also. It's going to be a huge race to get to the top, running operating systems such as RedHat, Fedora, SuSE, Mandrake, Sun Java Desktop, and such. I'm sure that a lot of smaller companies will embrace this move with a few community projects on some lesser boxes also. Sure, they won't rise to fame, but it's some extra cash!
I bet all of those years ago, Linus Torvalds never expected anything like this.
I don't really think that they are trying to be the "good guy" or trying to embrace the open-source movement -- they just know that hardly no one that is a big Linux developer visits the Microsoft website often, and well, has anything to do with it in general. What better way to get the word out fast than to give it to an open-source website? Besides, it'll look good to the EU on how fast it is spreading. I'm sure they would be pretty angry if Microsoft released some source code to the world that never spread.
It's only looked as a stupid comment by people too arrogant to understand it's meaning. It's a joke. Deal with it. I don't think it will be a good idea in the long run, because not a lot of people can draw complex shapes. They would have to sketch out easier shapes and spend a lot more time going through all of the choices that came back, instead of drawing something semi-complex and finding it instantly.
Their workers might need to take some kind of art class then. Not all of us can draw...
As oxymoronish as that sounds, it's true.
But hey, didn't Lindows try something like this? And look what is happening to them right now. I think the world just needs to learn how to use Linux, not relearn Windows XP.
I think they just want to add more and more to the compatibility of Windows and Linux together.
I on the other hand, have been a pretty big fan of SuSE. And you're correct, it doesn't look too much different, other than a completely new Kernal. With the new Linux 2.6 kernal though, we're going to see bugs, but once it's all over, we're going to see a more stable system also. And the world can count on that!
"Hmmm, a huge database of digital mugshots and digital fingerprints, which will be kept forever - hope we have enough RAM to search through it quickly and constantly."
Imagine what kind of trouble the US could be in if a social engineer could get his hands on that. Any social engineer in general, even a master Arabic identify stealer... terrorist counts could raise.
I still don't see the point in creating a gaming laptop. Why not just buy a Falcon Fragbox? Those look pretty cool and have a lot more power than any laptop.
See, the thing about laptops, is that companies like VoodooPC and Alienware do not know how to go about making them. They pack a lot of power into the system -- uping the processor speed, RAM, video card, and harddrive space, but in turns, you still have the same refresh rate as you did without the extra power. You just have a lot faster notebook with it. That's always the downer on LCD monitors though -- the refresh rate. With CRTs, we can get some really high frames per second (FPS), but LCDs just don't put out enough. So until the day when a laptop can ship with a mini-CRT monitor or an LCD with a decent refresh rate (higher than 60), I'm sticking to my desktop computer for gaming.
Go to the movies. (I work there, so I get in free.) I LOVE movies. Also, this includes my date.
Seeing my girlfriend in general. Pretty weird for a geek to have a girlfriend, eh?
Radiohead concerts. Concerts in general though.
Hanging out with friends
Besides this, I stay at home programming/hacking/playing video games/talking online/talking on the phone/social engineering/etc.
Haha. Well, they won't have any computers if they lose that court battle to HP...
Don't forget the eMac.
I don't believe that it's an April Fools joke, but I don't think it will sell really well for the price that it is. It looks really nice though. I wouldn't mind having one... I think I would just go for a $200 PDA with Linux installed though.
"The client will be completely undetectable and unremovable by even the most skilled hacker."
That's a crock of shit. Even that quote makes the software a bigger target that it already is. Even if it's impossible to find out if you have it or not, to disable it, who's to say that a Hacker or a Social Engineer couldn't get their hands on it before hand? With it, they wouldn't have to disable it because they would have enough information about it as if they actually wrote it.
"So if your computer randomly blows up in the next while, you can put the blame on this."
I guess that'll take away some of the Microsoft Windows critics, eh?
How in the hell would they tax something that doesn't generate profit? April Fools joke... uh huh.