Wow, they knew AOL was bad in 1995! Too bad they didn't warn the masses.
If I recall correctly, AOL and AOL Users were always been considered bad. Even back then. I did briefly use it before my campus apartment was wired into the University LAN back in the day. It was like just connecting to a big gateway instead of the internet. I am not sure if its still like that or not.
SBC purchased AT&T and then SBC changed its name to AT&T. So its not Ma Bell buying back all its children. Its SBC the strongest child who bought Ma Bell and is now trying to buy up its siblings.
Ma Bell as everyone remembers it was put in a nursing home awhile back. It's really SBC running the show now.
From the requirements listed it doesn't appear this is just for Windows systems. I would also disagree with just encrypting home directory of your users on Linux systems. If you are going to go with a software encryption on Linux you need to encrypt more than just the home directory. That being said software encryption is just weak and doesn't even compare to FDE.
HA! It was a silent rebirth. I didn't know they had trailers out there. The clips do look very slick. Great, "Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me right back in." I gotta play Team Fortress 2 now.
It actually looks a lot different than the original TF2 clips. Looks more like the original TFC running on the HL2 engine. But damn it looks good.
Nah, Duke Nukem Forever is the king of vaporware. If the 3D Realms had just dropped the idea of Duke Nukem Forever then the joke would be old. However, they claim to still be developing it which is what makes it so damn funny. DKF should have gone the way of Team Fortress II and just let it die a silent death but 3D Realms continues to keep promising it.
By the way I still want to play Team Fortress II.
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The company has more incentive to make products that will break after 2 years of use so that you will be forced to purchase a new product from them. Why make a TV that will last 25 years when I can sell you a high end plasma that you will have to replace in 5 years? By making products that break it ensures that customers will continue to buy from the manufacturers.
This is good news we will have gridlock for the next 2 years. The bad news is we may have a Democratic president and congress without checks and balances. Then we are back in the same boat with a different captain.
Funny how the open source movement is about choice until you decide not to use them. For example, any article on here that mentions Photoshop, without fail there's always someone who stands up and says, "stop Adobe's monopoly! Use Gimp!" This sort of myopic zealotry is childish at best. People aren't always going to use what you think is best. They may have different requirements than you. Heck, they may just want to get stuff done without dragging ridiculous debates on software distribution into everything.
This was just a choice the charity made. Perhaps it isn't what this crowd wants to hear. Instead of complaining about it, figure out what made them be dissuaded, and evaluate whether their complaints are legitimate. If they are, then fix the underlying problem. If they aren't, then disregard it and move on. You don't need to sit there and whine endlessly about it.
Finally, the voice of reason. Slashdot can be a little to zealous when it comes to OSS. The attitude of "Do as I say because I know whats best for you" tends to shows its ugly head here to much.
I won't preface this with my usual "Mark Cuban is an idiot" response to anything he says,
I will, Mark Cuban is an idiot!
However, with that being said this article does make a lot of sense. I was wondering how Google was going to avoid the major lawsuit liablity that youtube has become. Google will just buy off the lawsuits and crush their competition. Hmmmm... This kind of sounds like how Microsoft does business.
IIRC hell.com had that introduction that came off to me as the snottiest website I have ever visited. It mentioned about being invited to some exclusive content from the website, or links ot other websites.
Does anyone remember what I'm talking about? You had to click through it sentence by sentence while it berates you for bothering to visit it.
Yeah, gimme the domain name to a website with THAT reputation. {david spade voice} Ooh look we hopped on a cool domain name! {/david spade voice}
I remember what you are talking about. I only went there once back in 1997. I got the same feeling you did and never went back.
Whenever a Republican brings up the "you want the terrorists to win" talking point, I usually ask them "would you want Hillary Clinton to declare anyone an enemy combatant and detain them indefinately?"
Hey, you stole my reply to the same talking point. It drives me nuts how short sighted Republican Kool-Aid drinkers have become. What will they do when one day they have the terrorist label thrown at them and the tables turned? Damn fools!
Connect an unpatched Windows XP SP0 machine to the router and make sure it has web access. Don't use that computer. See how long it takes to get rooted/malware. Answer? It NEVER will
The key phrase you used is "Don't use that computer." Your right if it sits behind a simple out of the box router it will probably not be infected. The only problem is who buys a computer and never uses it? As soon as the kiddies jump online and go to myspace that unpatched box will get owned.
You have an interesting point. This goes back to Inequity Theory where an employee who feels he is being slighted in pay will do something to make himself feel better about being underpaid. Such as slack of at work (hang out on slashdot all day), steal from the company or in this case commit corporate espionage.
It is not an impossible task to monitor your ACL's to know when they have been modified but it does take a lot of diligence. The biggest problems with undocumented ACL's are lazy administrators. Now as far as administrators themselves abusing their access rights that is much harder to track. In this situation the best you can hope for is your administrator views this type of abuse as unethical and uses self restraint not to abuse his rights.
(Historical precedent: Anyone who's ever bought a retail box with a CD key that was already revoked before the box was shipped, because teh warez d00dz were using keygens that mapped onto the set of actual, legitimate keys.)
Yes, this reminds of when Valve started keeping legitimate gamers from playing on Steam. That was such a pain I quit playing Counter Strike.
Microsoft also is adding ways to more closely monitor for piracy among big corporate users, who tend to buy licenses in bulk.
Microsoft plans to take similar tough measures with the forthcoming version of its Windows server software, dubbed "Longhorn," and to incorporate it into other products down the road.
What happens when Microsoft comes up with false-positives with corporate desktops and servers who use an enterprise license? I don't imagine large corporations would tolerate this happening. This could possibly create some serious backlash.
In this way, the line-item veto violates the separation of powers and vastly increases the power of the Executive. Personally, I think the Executive is way too powerful already.
I agree the line-item veto would throw off the separation of powers. We can already see this happening with his use of Signing Statements the line-item veto would be much worse. The problem is with both parties controlling the legislative and executive branch there is no opposition from either branch concerning outrageous spending. We need different parties to control each branch. This will create gridlock and that should slow down spending. The database will not put any pressure to stop the spending.
How about he veto some of the Pork Barreling that has been going on for the past 6 years instead? Oh, wait he wouldn't do that Republicans control the congress why would a Republican President veto a bill from a Republican controlled congress. AHHHHH...
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If I recall correctly, AOL and AOL Users were always been considered bad. Even back then.
I did briefly use it before my campus apartment was wired into the University LAN back in the day. It was like just connecting to a big gateway instead of the internet. I am not sure if its still like that or not.
SBC purchased AT&T and then SBC changed its name to AT&T. So its not Ma Bell buying back all its children. Its SBC the strongest child who bought Ma Bell and is now trying to buy up its siblings.
Ma Bell as everyone remembers it was put in a nursing home awhile back. It's really SBC running the show now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT&T
Swap, data is passed through swap and not just admins will push sensitive information through it.
From the requirements listed it doesn't appear this is just for Windows systems. I would also disagree with just encrypting home directory of your users on Linux systems. If you are going to go with a software encryption on Linux you need to encrypt more than just the home directory.
That being said software encryption is just weak and doesn't even compare to FDE.
HA! It was a silent rebirth. I didn't know they had trailers out there. The clips do look very slick. Great, "Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me right back in." I gotta play Team Fortress 2 now. It actually looks a lot different than the original TF2 clips. Looks more like the original TFC running on the HL2 engine. But damn it looks good.
Nah, Duke Nukem Forever is the king of vaporware. If the 3D Realms had just dropped the idea of Duke Nukem Forever then the joke would be old. However, they claim to still be developing it which is what makes it so damn funny. DKF should have gone the way of Team Fortress II and just let it die a silent death but 3D Realms continues to keep promising it.
By the way I still want to play Team Fortress II.
The company has more incentive to make products that will break after 2 years of use so that you will be forced to purchase a new product from them. Why make a TV that will last 25 years when I can sell you a high end plasma that you will have to replace in 5 years? By making products that break it ensures that customers will continue to buy from the manufacturers.
You might want to give Gentoo a try. They have some very good documentation. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86 .xml It is a better way to immerse yourself into Linux than just
a Fedora install.
This is good news we will have gridlock for the next 2 years. The bad news is we may have a Democratic president and congress without checks and balances. Then we are back in the same boat with a different captain.
They already do this. I worked for a major call center. They had multiple call centers in India.
I will, Mark Cuban is an idiot!
However, with that being said this article does make a lot of sense. I was wondering how Google was going to avoid the major lawsuit liablity that youtube has become. Google will just buy off the lawsuits and crush their competition. Hmmmm... This kind of sounds like how Microsoft does business.
I run Sophos AV on linux and it does a pretty decent job at scanning the system.
The key phrase you used is "Don't use that computer." Your right if it sits behind a simple out of the box router it will probably not be infected. The only problem is who buys a computer and never uses it? As soon as the kiddies jump online and go to myspace that unpatched box will get owned.
You have an interesting point. This goes back to Inequity Theory where an employee who feels he is being slighted in pay will do something to make himself feel better about being underpaid. Such as slack of at work (hang out on slashdot all day), steal from the company or in this case commit corporate espionage.
It is not an impossible task to monitor your ACL's to know when they have been modified but it does take a lot of diligence. The biggest problems with undocumented ACL's are lazy administrators. Now as far as administrators themselves abusing their access rights that is much harder to track. In this situation the best you can hope for is your administrator views this type of abuse as unethical and uses self restraint not to abuse his rights.
Same thing happened to me when I upgraded to FC4. Not that it really matters what is the real motivating factor to switch to FC6?
Not much really.
How about he veto some of the Pork Barreling that has been going on for the past 6 years instead? Oh, wait he wouldn't do that Republicans control the congress why would a Republican President veto a bill from a Republican controlled congress. AHHHHH...