A billion computers running Windows at one time? How many are in the process of rebooting at any one time?
Does that count as running?:)
Or are they counting the number of copies of Windows they have sold? In that case the actual number of systems running windows today is going to be much less.
This will prompt development of personal proxies, computer programs that will simulate YOU and provide the same or similar answers like you would if you could interact in real time. The person on Mars would IM the proxy and get a response. The conversation would then be sent to you on Earth. With the 20 minute delay you would then review the results and concur or send a revised response. Assuming they are good enough the proxies response would not get revised that often if at all.
Of course some people would be easier to simulate than others.:)
Microsoft just painted a huge bullseye on Vista. If the hackers were not interested in spending time finding exploits they will now. Waving red flags and yelling watch this are things you should not do unless you know for sure the bull is in the other corral or that you are an expert at the stunt you are about to try and pull. Microsoft is in the same corral with the hackers and they are not experts on OSes based on past performance.
From my favorite FarSide cartoon: Two deer standing in the woods, one has a bullseye on his chest, the other one says, "Bummer of a birth mark Hal."
This is a good start. Just couple this with zoneminder http://www.zoneminder.com/ and have it page the border patrol when activity is detected and you have a realtively inexpensive monitoring solution. That way you don't have to rely on potentially bogus phone calls to alert the border patrol.
Really surprised the news media has not positioned cameras and broadcasts the illegal crossings on the news. Oh, right, most of the media is to the left and welcome the illegal aliens. Guess they are trying to get enough votes to actually win an election next time around.
The ruling is a victory for every crooked politician in the United States
Is there any other kind of politician other than crooked? I guess maybe first term politicians might be naive but they must be crooked to get into office to start with.
Fine. Let's outlaw the 30-year mortgage, since it is directly tied to the concept of job security.
It costs one million dollars to raise a child to the age of 18 and send them to college.
One million dollars.
Actually neither of those has anything to do with job security. A mortgage is a contract between you and the bank to borrow a large sum of money. How you repay that is your problem. Obviously keeping a job helps, hitting the lotto would do the trick too. If plan correctly you will have enough saved to carry you through any time you are looking for a job. I have been there and done that so I know what it is to be without a job for and extended period of time. And by managing what money I had wisely I made it through with out any problems.
As to raising a child, buy generic cereal and cheap sneakers and make the kid earn his own spending money. And have them apply for numerous scholarships and grants to pay for college. Between the several small scholarships and grants I received and the money I saved from working I was able to pay for all of my tuition and books at college. Giving kids everything is IMHO a bad thing. Making them earn teaches a lot about life and what things are worth.
Why has the past of working for one company for your entire career been over for several decades?
That one is easy. Companies today are forced to look no further than the next quarter in order to get the stock price as high as possible. As such, a company that long ago would work to build a really good or innovative product would take the time to get it all right. Now if it looks like they won't make the analysists numbers they fire a bunch of people to get the numbers to add up to what is expected. Of course this has caused a spiral affect in many companies, every quarter they fire more people trying to keep the numbers as expected. Eventually they run out of people and don't have the skill sets left to actually produce a good quality product. And for the past few decades companies have been shipping jobs overseas since they can hire more people for the same money over there.
Which actually means a lot of companies are in the business of firing people more than they are in the business of making and selling a product or service. Whatever it takes to make Wall Street happy is the tune of the day.
Uh, if you work for a union, yeah, there is. A lot more than without one, anyway. Which is one reason unions exist.
Really? I have an uncle that ended up out of work for several years when the union went on strike with International Harvester. They eventually just closed the plant down and walked away. He currently works a union job for Colgate. Guess what, they are getting ready to shut that plant down also. Guess the costs of dealing with a union make it easier to just shut entire plants down and fire everyone instead of being able to trim the fat here and there to keep the majority of people working. But it is all good for the people in other countries where those jobs are being exported to.
Like I said, there is not job security. The new incentive plan is WORK OR GET FIRED. Your choice.
I understand how unions were needed early on. The reasons the unions came to being have pretty much been eliminated. Conditions are nothing like they were back when unions were needed. Anymore the unions act as more of a drag on companies than anyting else. And probably account for one of the major reasons companies are outsourcing jobs overseas at an every increasing rate.
It sucks, but that is just the way it is. There is no such thing as job security. The past of working for one company for your entire career has been over for several decades. You should plan around that. Find a job and work it as long as you can stand being there. Then look for something new. Possibly in a different field entirely.
If they get some decent illegal immigration laws passed and actually enforced there should be plenty of jobs opening up shortly. Stuff that just about anybody can do. You will just need to work hard at it.
This is being addressed by things like selinux, where you can assign mandatory access controls to specific files/applications.
But that does not change the fact that in most cases (not all) if a user executes malicious code on a unix like system that code will not be able to jump to root privileges without some additional exploit being utilized. On a windows system if a user executes malicious code that code will have administrator privileges without having to exploit any additional holes. (again this is not in all cases, a windows system can be secured, just most are not.)
It is partially a numbers game. However, if linux systems (or any unix system) had easily exploited security flaws then there would be huge numbers of worms and viruses targetting those systems that are out there. If nothing else they would be excellent platforms to launch attacks on the huge numbers of windows systems.
The real reason you don't see that many viruses or worms directed at linux systems is that the concept of least privilege was implemented at the start. Unlike most windows systems which users run with administrator privileges that allow a virus to do whatever it wants once it executes, linux systems users typically don't run everyday applications with admin or root privileges. As such it is much more difficult for a code that is executed on a linux system to gain complete control of the system.
There are exceptions to all this, some windows users have locked down there systems and some linux users run as root all the time. Both cases are relatively small groups.
And with the introduction of selinux security is getting even better on linux systems. But no matter how good the security tools are that are made available nothing can prevent a bad adminstrator from setting up an insecure system. The last few compromised linux systems I heard of all of them were owned because users utilized very poor passwords on the systems. Maybe someday when we can get rid of the users we can have real security.:)
In many states if they have a drivers license they are registered to vote. Florida does this. And they don't ask for photo ids at the polls. And as I understand it a lot of illegal aliens manage to get a drivers license which allows them to open bank accounts and get access to such things as welfare and health care. California was trying to make this even easier, and California considered a drivers license a primary form of ID.
Can you imagine the spin off technology? Instead of just censoring peoples speech you could alter it to say politically correct things. Imagine someone speaking in public and the system automatically changing their speech from one that makes the oil companies look bad to one that extols the oil companies virtues in the on going oil crisis. No one gets to hear the actual speech the person intended to deliver. Talk about being able to spin something before anyone gets to hear the damaging speech.
If they grant them amnesty then they have an instant 12 million voters on their side. Actually they would probably have more than that since most of that 12 million have friends and family that are already citizens. I am sure the Democrats are wetting themselves trying to figure out how to get all of them to vote for them.
Besides, you don't have to prove you are a citizen to vote. You just have to have a drivers license or a voter registration card. Apparently those are fairly easy to come by. So those 12 million illegal aliens probably are voting, or will in the next election. And they will vote for whom ever promises to make them legal.
Personally, the country needs to make a decision. Either build a wall and deploy enough forces to secure the borders or stop giving lip service to security. You can't have it both ways. There are legal avenues for people to immigrate to this country. They just need to use them.
And if you are one of the few that have funded your congresscritter with thousands of dollars, they might actually listen to you. If you are part of the vast electorate your letters, emails, and phone messages will be dumped in the big circular file in area 51. Your representive will never see or hear your complaint. And the only time they will do what you want is if one of the big lobbys happen to want the same thing you do. In other words only by coincidence will your representive seem to support your ideas.
And to get an idea of just how little they consider your vote they are busy trying to position themselves to get 12 million votes from the illegal aliens in the country by figuring out how they can personally be seen as the ones that grant immunity for breaking the law by illegally crossing the boarder or over stayting their visas. So even the voters are replacable if the congresscritters can find a large enough one issue voters that they can get on their side.
So what do you propose people do? Not like I can go out and buy a congresscritter of my own. Voting for any of them just seems to encourage the bad behavior we have been getting.
But how long will it be once they have DRMed everything before there is a hack to decrypt/remove the flags? Face it, if they put flags in the data stream and count on the hardware to detect it and refuse to perform certain operations it should be relatively easy to patch around such a check. Even if it requires a hardware hack to do it, it will be done. Then is will only take a repeal of the law to get things back on the right track.
Yes, but, only on 'blessed' hardware sold to you by the corporations.
Isn't this part of what eventually got AT&T in trouble? Renting phone equipment to everyone. They finally allowed people to buy their own phone equipment which opened up huge businesses for a lot of companies.
Electronics only have a life of 3 years? Wow, the electronics around here last much longer than that. That includes the TV, DVD player, computers, and other gear.
There is not much you can do about the future. They keep heaping shit on you until you die. That is just the way it is. The likely hood that they would be able to pass such a thing is minimal. And if they do there is no way they would go door to door searching for such things. And they sure as hell would not REPLACE them, the costs would be to much.
If/when they come knocking on my door looking for my mythtv box they will wish they had confiscated the guns first. Without doing that first it will be much more dangerous to try and confiscate the electronics.
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A billion computers running Windows at one time? How many are in the process of rebooting at any one time?
:)
Does that count as running?
Or are they counting the number of copies of Windows they have sold? In that case the actual number of systems running windows today is going to be much less.
Someone needs show their work on these numbers...
Why did they choose GPL V3? Why not choose GPL V2?
This will prompt development of personal proxies, computer programs that will simulate YOU and provide the same or similar answers like you would if you could interact in real time. The person on Mars would IM the proxy and get a response. The conversation would then be sent to you on Earth. With the 20 minute delay you would then review the results and concur or send a revised response. Assuming they are good enough the proxies response would not get revised that often if at all.
:)
Of course some people would be easier to simulate than others.
Microsoft just painted a huge bullseye on Vista. If the hackers were not interested in spending time finding exploits they will now. Waving red flags and yelling watch this are things you should not do unless you know for sure the bull is in the other corral or that you are an expert at the stunt you are about to try and pull. Microsoft is in the same corral with the hackers and they are not experts on OSes based on past performance.
From my favorite FarSide cartoon: Two deer standing in the woods, one has a bullseye on his chest, the other one says, "Bummer of a birth mark Hal."
This is a good start. Just couple this with zoneminder http://www.zoneminder.com/ and have it page the border patrol when activity is detected and you have a realtively inexpensive monitoring solution. That way you don't have to rely on potentially bogus phone calls to alert the border patrol.
Really surprised the news media has not positioned cameras and broadcasts the illegal crossings on the news. Oh, right, most of the media is to the left and welcome the illegal aliens. Guess they are trying to get enough votes to actually win an election next time around.
The ruling is a victory for every crooked politician in the United States
Is there any other kind of politician other than crooked? I guess maybe first term politicians might be naive but they must be crooked to get into office to start with.
Fine. Let's outlaw the 30-year mortgage, since it is directly tied to the concept of job security. It costs one million dollars to raise a child to the age of 18 and send them to college. One million dollars.
Actually neither of those has anything to do with job security. A mortgage is a contract between you and the bank to borrow a large sum of money. How you repay that is your problem. Obviously keeping a job helps, hitting the lotto would do the trick too. If plan correctly you will have enough saved to carry you through any time you are looking for a job. I have been there and done that so I know what it is to be without a job for and extended period of time. And by managing what money I had wisely I made it through with out any problems.
As to raising a child, buy generic cereal and cheap sneakers and make the kid earn his own spending money. And have them apply for numerous scholarships and grants to pay for college. Between the several small scholarships and grants I received and the money I saved from working I was able to pay for all of my tuition and books at college. Giving kids everything is IMHO a bad thing. Making them earn teaches a lot about life and what things are worth.
Why has the past of working for one company for your entire career been over for several decades?
That one is easy. Companies today are forced to look no further than the next quarter in order to get the stock price as high as possible. As such, a company that long ago would work to build a really good or innovative product would take the time to get it all right. Now if it looks like they won't make the analysists numbers they fire a bunch of people to get the numbers to add up to what is expected. Of course this has caused a spiral affect in many companies, every quarter they fire more people trying to keep the numbers as expected. Eventually they run out of people and don't have the skill sets left to actually produce a good quality product. And for the past few decades companies have been shipping jobs overseas since they can hire more people for the same money over there.
Which actually means a lot of companies are in the business of firing people more than they are in the business of making and selling a product or service. Whatever it takes to make Wall Street happy is the tune of the day.
Uh, if you work for a union, yeah, there is. A lot more than without one, anyway. Which is one reason unions exist.
Really? I have an uncle that ended up out of work for several years when the union went on strike with International Harvester. They eventually just closed the plant down and walked away. He currently works a union job for Colgate. Guess what, they are getting ready to shut that plant down also. Guess the costs of dealing with a union make it easier to just shut entire plants down and fire everyone instead of being able to trim the fat here and there to keep the majority of people working. But it is all good for the people in other countries where those jobs are being exported to.
Like I said, there is not job security. The new incentive plan is WORK OR GET FIRED. Your choice.
I understand how unions were needed early on. The reasons the unions came to being have pretty much been eliminated. Conditions are nothing like they were back when unions were needed. Anymore the unions act as more of a drag on companies than anyting else. And probably account for one of the major reasons companies are outsourcing jobs overseas at an every increasing rate.
Life is hard, then you die.
It sucks, but that is just the way it is. There is no such thing as job security. The past of working for one company for your entire career has been over for several decades. You should plan around that. Find a job and work it as long as you can stand being there. Then look for something new. Possibly in a different field entirely.
If they get some decent illegal immigration laws passed and actually enforced there should be plenty of jobs opening up shortly. Stuff that just about anybody can do. You will just need to work hard at it.
This is being addressed by things like selinux, where you can assign mandatory access controls to specific files/applications.
But that does not change the fact that in most cases (not all) if a user executes malicious code on a unix like system that code will not be able to jump to root privileges without some additional exploit being utilized. On a windows system if a user executes malicious code that code will have administrator privileges without having to exploit any additional holes. (again this is not in all cases, a windows system can be secured, just most are not.)
It is partially a numbers game. However, if linux systems (or any unix system) had easily exploited security flaws then there would be huge numbers of worms and viruses targetting those systems that are out there. If nothing else they would be excellent platforms to launch attacks on the huge numbers of windows systems.
:)
The real reason you don't see that many viruses or worms directed at linux systems is that the concept of least privilege was implemented at the start. Unlike most windows systems which users run with administrator privileges that allow a virus to do whatever it wants once it executes, linux systems users typically don't run everyday applications with admin or root privileges. As such it is much more difficult for a code that is executed on a linux system to gain complete control of the system.
There are exceptions to all this, some windows users have locked down there systems and some linux users run as root all the time. Both cases are relatively small groups.
And with the introduction of selinux security is getting even better on linux systems. But no matter how good the security tools are that are made available nothing can prevent a bad adminstrator from setting up an insecure system. The last few compromised linux systems I heard of all of them were owned because users utilized very poor passwords on the systems. Maybe someday when we can get rid of the users we can have real security.
Tell them to shut up and reboot. 99% of problems on windows systems are fixed by performing this operation.
They will mess up some way and there will be a hack that will break it.
In many states if they have a drivers license they are registered to vote. Florida does this. And they don't ask for photo ids at the polls. And as I understand it a lot of illegal aliens manage to get a drivers license which allows them to open bank accounts and get access to such things as welfare and health care. California was trying to make this even easier, and California considered a drivers license a primary form of ID.
Can you imagine the spin off technology? Instead of just censoring peoples speech you could alter it to say politically correct things. Imagine someone speaking in public and the system automatically changing their speech from one that makes the oil companies look bad to one that extols the oil companies virtues in the on going oil crisis. No one gets to hear the actual speech the person intended to deliver. Talk about being able to spin something before anyone gets to hear the damaging speech.
If they grant them amnesty then they have an instant 12 million voters on their side. Actually they would probably have more than that since most of that 12 million have friends and family that are already citizens. I am sure the Democrats are wetting themselves trying to figure out how to get all of them to vote for them.
Besides, you don't have to prove you are a citizen to vote. You just have to have a drivers license or a voter registration card. Apparently those are fairly easy to come by. So those 12 million illegal aliens probably are voting, or will in the next election. And they will vote for whom ever promises to make them legal.
Personally, the country needs to make a decision. Either build a wall and deploy enough forces to secure the borders or stop giving lip service to security. You can't have it both ways. There are legal avenues for people to immigrate to this country. They just need to use them.
Contact your representatives.
And if you are one of the few that have funded your congresscritter with thousands of dollars, they might actually listen to you. If you are part of the vast electorate your letters, emails, and phone messages will be dumped in the big circular file in area 51. Your representive will never see or hear your complaint. And the only time they will do what you want is if one of the big lobbys happen to want the same thing you do. In other words only by coincidence will your representive seem to support your ideas.
And to get an idea of just how little they consider your vote they are busy trying to position themselves to get 12 million votes from the illegal aliens in the country by figuring out how they can personally be seen as the ones that grant immunity for breaking the law by illegally crossing the boarder or over stayting their visas. So even the voters are replacable if the congresscritters can find a large enough one issue voters that they can get on their side.
So what do you propose people do? Not like I can go out and buy a congresscritter of my own. Voting for any of them just seems to encourage the bad behavior we have been getting.
But how long will it be once they have DRMed everything before there is a hack to decrypt/remove the flags? Face it, if they put flags in the data stream and count on the hardware to detect it and refuse to perform certain operations it should be relatively easy to patch around such a check. Even if it requires a hardware hack to do it, it will be done. Then is will only take a repeal of the law to get things back on the right track.
Yes, but, only on 'blessed' hardware sold to you by the corporations.
Isn't this part of what eventually got AT&T in trouble? Renting phone equipment to everyone. They finally allowed people to buy their own phone equipment which opened up huge businesses for a lot of companies.
One of my favorite sayings is:
Life is hard, then you die.
Electronics only have a life of 3 years? Wow, the electronics around here last much longer than that. That includes the TV, DVD player, computers, and other gear.
How ruff are you with your stuff?
You don't worry about the future much, do you?
There is not much you can do about the future. They keep heaping shit on you until you die. That is just the way it is. The likely hood that they would be able to pass such a thing is minimal. And if they do there is no way they would go door to door searching for such things. And they sure as hell would not REPLACE them, the costs would be to much.
The article itself is not much more than a troll.
If/when they come knocking on my door looking for my mythtv box they will wish they had confiscated the guns first. Without doing that first it will be much more dangerous to try and confiscate the electronics.