The attacks that we see today are more targeted and more silent and their objective is to create true financial harm as opposed to visibility for the attackers.
this is not true. people still want to attack and 0wn boxes just for spam relays.
China would be forced to switch to Linux. Then, when China takes over the world, Linux will be spread by force. Excellent, excellent.
this has no effect on linux, what-so-ever, ever. what has an effect is linux being a good choice for people. what this might mean is the bigger companies in china have to buy their licenses from the USA, the smaller companies just continue as they are, it's going to change anything. it just means that msft will not be targeting the chinese people (they're lucky).
imo, colleges and schools might start to use linux more actively, if they are forced to comply, otherwise they're not going to be bothered. i think the police have better things to do than to catch pirates, as much as i loathe them, i can understand they have bigger fish to fry.
it's all a matter of what people's motives are, there is little reason for the chinese to start paying for software as there is little threat. so if they at least have a better chance of being taught on the unix way of things then there's a better chance of them using it later in life.
Hm, I didn't think of that. I've always got internet, and I can't even imagine limiting myself to local FM radio.
theres lots of times when people have to travel that they cannot get an internet connection. it's ok in your cossy room, but for lots of people that travel using hotels etc, it's not possible to get that vital connection.
ms dont really care about pirates, because the consumer buys some part of their family of products. allow people to copy 70% of the system and you sell 30% to a much wider audience.
time to store all my money under the mattress now.
its not really easy to get money out the banks though. they open after i start work, close before i finish, they're difficult during the lunch hour. hell, they only people they're accessible to is bank robbers.
then you're telling me it's justified for a hippie to jump onto their bicycle with a shotgun and pop every SUV driver out there cause they're making "the world worse for everyone" by destroying the ozone?.. that's *ONE* of the.. HUNDREDS of things that's making the world worse for everyone over spam
true. but the SUV is not illegal just yet, it will be soon, and in the UK there are talks to heavily tax the things off the road, which i agree with, totally. but, it's illegal to spam. so its about time we treated it so.
Firefox 2 is translated to 34 languages. IE 7, on the other hand..."The short version is that we will be releasing IE7 in all languages available for each version of Windows - twenty-four fully localized languages in total. In two to three weeks, we'll ship the Arabic, Finnish, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish language versions. The remaining languages will be released in phases between November and January.
And then the IE7 install checks if your computer is a legal XP copy. But most of desktop users just don't own a legal copy. So, in the long run, even if you can crack the license checking, most of desktop people won't be able to install IE7. But they will want a IE7-like browser. And people will tell them to install firefox 2, which doesn't require a legal XP copy.
so what you're saying then is that in a moral world ff should check that ie7 is a legal copy also. personally i'm in favour of that, i really hate people who pirate software, and then complain that linux has some bugs. that's kind of ironic really, to complain that something is not up to scratch and still use pirate software.
hmmm, it is plausible that spam costs a lot of time/effort/money... but you can't be arguing that it takes more resources to filter emails than to generate and send those. Lets not forget that although you've spent all this.. work on spam filters, all your spam doesn't originate from one person. So you can hardly blame the one guy/company alone in Australia. It does have to start somewhere... but lets try another analogy.. if you've got a steamy pie sitting on a windowsill and there's flies flying around it... if you take one aside and pull its wings out and torture it... it *might* discourage other flies (yes I'm comparing the brainpower of a spammer to a fly's attraction to desert), but after all! it's hardly fair to that one fly who was just one of the many flies buzzing around.
some insects give off a scent when they die, warning others to avoid possible danger.
make one spammer take some wrap and it will deter some. personally they should get the chair. we cant let people just go around making the world worse for everyone.
well I'm sure your spam filters are ringing up quite the electricity bill.. but I'm sure it takes him a lot more resources to send you that email than it does for you to block it. going back to my flyer example.. it's like saying you're ticked off at the work you have to put in to drag those flyers to the recycling bin (if you have any sort of conscience and dont just throw in the trash)..
not true. back in the day we could run 20x the email, now we have to filter it and virus check... that reduces the amount we can run hugely. so mail cluster is now 20x bigger. that's not really growth as moores law is applied here, the computers are a higher spec etc.
the flyers are being delivered door to door, that means it's little effort going from number 10 to 12. it's just part of the round.
YES! Jail! and the next time I seen them damn kids dropping flyers on my front porch.. I'll be waiting with my shotgun. Spam is annoying for me just as it is for the next person, but you still have to carry those flyers from the mailbox to the recycling bin (or put a recycling bin at my front door saying "Yes Flyers Please!") but that'd hardly the point.. I think jail-time would be somewhat extreme
why exactly? running a spam filter costs me, the companies etc extra money in loss of CPU idle cycles. why should that punk be running up the electricity bill for free? for all we know, that punk could have shares in the power companies for this reason...
Apt just barely has concurrent downloads and you're worried about torrent sources?
well just using torrent sources for the iso images would be cool, but i guess i can do the same by getting the image from torrent and then mount it with loopback. never mind.
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looks like it will be a while. has torrent sources been thought about for apt?
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its also wise to take up drinking at this point and to stop changing your clothes so regularly.
tried google: dummies guide to internet security http://www.google.com/search?hs=Cz6&hl=en&lr=&safe =off&client=opera&rls=en&q=internet+security+for+d ummies&btnG=Search
imo, colleges and schools might start to use linux more actively, if they are forced to comply, otherwise they're not going to be bothered. i think the police have better things to do than to catch pirates, as much as i loathe them, i can understand they have bigger fish to fry.
it's all a matter of what people's motives are, there is little reason for the chinese to start paying for software as there is little threat. so if they at least have a better chance of being taught on the unix way of things then there's a better chance of them using it later in life.
ms dont really care about pirates, because the consumer buys some part of their family of products. allow people to copy 70% of the system and you sell 30% to a much wider audience.
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time to store all my money under the mattress now.
its not really easy to get money out the banks though. they open after i start work, close before i finish, they're difficult during the lunch hour. hell, they only people they're accessible to is bank robbers.
it would encourage better use of computers.
i preferred phoenix anyways
make one spammer take some wrap and it will deter some. personally they should get the chair. we cant let people just go around making the world worse for everyone.
the flyers are being delivered door to door, that means it's little effort going from number 10 to 12. it's just part of the round.
vms, as in virtual machines.. not as in openvms.. what's the point of vms these days anyway. who uses it still, and why?
you sir, failed to read the quoted text. the AP suggested that it would have been funny if the bug made it to the release.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com mand=printArticleBasic&articleId=9004437
praise the lord for snapshot vms!
997 upgraded, 158 newly installed, 26 to remove and 31 not upgraded.
Need to get 659MB of archives.
After unpacking 238MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
looks like it will be a while. has torrent sources been thought about for apt?