It's the biggest, most lucrative market there is and they control the entrance and distribution of media in that market. Nevermind outlying entities like cdbaby. They are there by the good graces of the RIAA members, mere window dressing to give the impression of alternatives.
There's a reason why they're "losing" money Entertainment accounting has no relationship with the money they are collecting. It's impossible to know other than what's already been prosecuted in court. (price fixing, payola and others)
It goes without saying that there are a large number of low-end sensors disguised as excellent front-ends to biometric authentication. You need to segregate two things.
1. the sensor itself.
2. the implementation of the sensor. (e.g. sensor as a front end)
There are two legitimate sensor manufacturers in the U.S. and one very well-known French company all of whom do not sell to just anyone anywhere and at prices absolutely out of range for a TV show and the average company.
Another thing to keep in mind is even IF there was budget for a good device, (oh to dream) there are implementation issues that can make the hardware worthless. As is often the case, meaningful implementations tend to complicate practically all business/operations matters which is why no company bothers.
To generalize that all fingerprint scanners suck is just wrong.
Hardware security methods just aren't as secure as software-based encryption.
You couldn't be more wrong about biometric authentication. You probably haven't seen the Sagem or Cogent sensors implemented well. It is the very rare organization who would actually spend the money to do the job right. A revision is necessary to make your statement accurate.
Cheap and dirty hardware security methods just aren't as secure as software-based encryption.
1. Take a look at this estimate of who builds laptops for what brand. http://tuxmobil.org/laptop_oem.html The brands like Sony might change vendors, but the manufacturers listed haven't changed, so re-arrange the check marks if you want to pretend.
2. Many of the OEM's are marketing barebones laptops which are going to eat into Sony's laptop business in unpleasant ways. MSI and Asus are two notables. http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=23
If they are using some version of their tried-and-true diesel engine, yes. Lost among all of the shouting about energy independence rhetoric is the fact that the VW TDI's have been bio-diesel certified for years.
Better still, they make **excellent** grease car conversions. The next car we buy will be a TDI. The grease conversion kit isn't that expensive and doing a good job on the conversion looks like a weekend's work.
And do what exactly? Restore the volume shadow? I know that's what Microsoft is selling, but 1. It doesn't "just" work. It's most definitely not some kind of DR solution. 2. We also ran into a nasty issue on our clusters where volume shadow brings the whole cluster down in situations where there's some load. Imagine that, peak traffic and the cluster locks. Both nodes... Poof. I know. You've never heard of that and I'm making it up because there's no one else reporting the issue on the web. I lived it twice too much. Volume shadow service is off.
pretty good fine-grained sercurity system. Apologizing for a security system that would make Rube Goldberg proud remains an outstanding issue for which there is no fix.
Really? 2TB isn't enough for you? Nope. Not enough.
Hmm I had never heard anyone complaining about any AD limits Of which there are many. Too many to have it be the authentication core of a heterogeneous environment.
See NTFS Now you've made the Baby Jesus cry! The fact that I still have to defrag a server is ridiculous. No one pays much attention to file systems but there are far better ones for server environments.
They'll do with Windows Server Core what they did with that home server garbage. You can't upgrade, migrate or otherwise get out of it. A quick and dirty search for an eula for Windows Server Core came up empty. Please, post one!
As is always the case with Microsoft, the first few features are free. It's the rest they'll screw you on.
Yes, for the unwashed masses this would be a high-water mark in "system security." And judging by the lack of informative comments on the topic of key storage, it appears none of you have ever heard of a smart card.
Smart cards store keys quite reliably, among other very valuable tasks. Another fabulous task is to shift authenticating out of the OS all-together and use two smart cards. The first provides peer authentication, the second is the first token's peer and user authentication. It's not a simple task to pass truecrypt through the smart card, but well within most programmer capabilities. The entirety of which is way, way outside the capabilities of your average black hat or law enforcement agent.
Sadly though, no one really wants anything like it, much less are they willing to pay for it. It's fun to talk about and everything, but that's about it.
congressmen aren't going to waste their time worrying about my one vote
1. If you put pen to paper and write a concise and reasonable paragraph or two about why it matters to you and send it to your representatives, you bet they will listen. Why? Because they know it's coming from a warm body as opposed to all of the anonymous electronic spam that Political Action Committees stir up. The letter becomes a bellwether of sorts if it is similar to other handwritten letters on the same topic.
2. The U.S. is a Republic, not a Democracy. Your one vote isn't really designed to matter as much as common knowledge would suggest.
3. Maintaining the Republic requires participation. Participation means putting pen to paper, talking to people in and out of the political system. Once you know a few people and have a couple of interests it can be very satisfying.
4. No, majority does not rule. More pablum that passes for common sense.
Making up excuses like yours is simply lazy and unpatriotic.
I'm calling you on this because I think it's very improbable without a laptop in the physical location. Sure it broadcasts like crazy in a LAN, but there's a HUGE leap from getting on the printer to turning it into your bot from a remote destination. Did the print server have a public IP?
Some details please.
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is that it know the hardware it's running on better.
Xorg does this just fine on vaguely modern hardware that doesn't need extra hacks. (Intel, I'm looking at your graphics chipset!) It's the distro's configure script that isn't up to the job.
Of course, you COULD contribute a better script...
It may be shocking to some, but some VERY not-so-good-for-you solvents give off strange and oddly pleasing smells.
I clearly remember using trichlorethelene(sp?) as a teenager working on cars and remember the smell being not-so-bad. (Don't ask how we got it.) Automobile coolant is another one. Grease car owners also have the pleasure of french fries smell.
In the non-technical world your statements are generally inconceivable.
1. If you are running windows like most consumers in the world, you cannot do that without a fresh install of the OS. As more of these users are forced into Vista, this gets harder as there are license restrictions preventing this.
2. Regardless of OS, you understand that the bits and bobs are roughly interchangeable. You are in the minority.
3. the vast majority of computer users are not you and generally don't mind over paying for their hardware, OS and HP peripherals for the same reasons Intel is being investigated.
Your argument is perfectly logical and reasonable, it's just that it applies to practically no one compared to the average computer user.
if they wish to sell only the crap from Intel, why shouldn't they be allowed to?
This kind of mentality wrongly assumes that there is a sort of perfect market state that translates into people switching retailers/PC's as features/price change. This is totally untrue. Consumers of all kinds normally suffer all kinds of bad product based on a number of factors that can be generalized into the herd mentality. Look at how much consumers have been overcharged for CD's and DVD's.
Intel isn't the only one doing it, that's for sure. But good on the EU for cracking down on the well-known abuse. I just wish we had an FTC/DOJ with the cajones to do it in the U.S.
Linux's networking stack is in the kernel. Firewall too.
So, your concern may not be kernel-levelness, but maybe the privilege with which networking runs? Or, perhaps if the networking kernel component can bring the whole OS to a screeching halt?
OS's are complicated, so it's easy to nit-pick from./. That's a bad habit though because the more different OS's are out there being worked on the better off we all are.
As an example to all, I'll fire up qemu this afternoon and install haiku on my trusty old thinkpad. If 100./'ers did it and provided feedback to the project, it's a benefit to all.
I made the mistake of sending a CV over to a Panda Antivirus office.
After chatting with some people, I was given a "personality test." I filled it out and left. I googled the people I spoke with only to discover they were all scientologists.
You may be wrongly assuming the acquisitions will improve microsoft's bottom line. It is a widely observed M&A fact that most acquisitions result in no net gain to the acquiring party.
In other words, you have no substantive reply Your inference is false. There are many substantive points to discuss. Your belligerence leaves no room for discussion.
Also, I never said AD was perfect Oh really? You sure implied it while you were shouting me down. "Huh? Of course it does" to a couple of big-time Linux/Win gotchas sounds like a ringing endorsement to me.
though it really is a good product. Keep telling yourself that. Your biggest employers/customers will be hiring me to clean up your mess.
I'd like to join your Active Directory chapter of the Right Thinking Fellows Club. That's right. I see the hideous errors of my years of misguided ways. From big companies to little, Active Directory just works! There isn't a single limitation with the product.
I will need a new job though, as my current line of work is fixing the mess that my new friends in the Active Directory chapter of the Right Thinking Fellows Club make. And it looks like I'll need to get paid less too, which will cut into my family's standard of living and create a great deal of uncertainty. But that's okay because Active Directory just works and is everything to everyone.
Okay, okay. I'm tired of going rounds with people that don't understand how UAC actually works.
Furthermore, it's likely you are a faith-based user/admin. That is, you take Microsoft's security claims as fact rather than the hyperbole they are. The sieve that is UAC is very well known and documented on the Microsoft developer side. You have been sold the PHB/consumer pablum that UAC == sudo. I will not reply again, so read the following carefully.
it's a very necessary privilege barrier. You clearly don't understand the CF that Microsoft calls privilege and their other CF integrity levels.
If they didn't display something, things would be silently elevating 1. If they didn't display something, they can't shift the blame to you. Sucks to be you. 2. The OS is already silently elevating. "Vista makes tradeoffs between security and convenience, and both UAC and Protected Mode IE have design choices that required paths to be opened in the Integrity Levels wall for application compatibility and ease of use. " Bolding for emphasis. Sucks to be you again.
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They control the Pop Culture media distribution.
It's the biggest, most lucrative market there is and they control the entrance and distribution of media in that market. Nevermind outlying entities like cdbaby. They are there by the good graces of the RIAA members, mere window dressing to give the impression of alternatives.
There's a reason why they're "losing" money
Entertainment accounting has no relationship with the money they are collecting. It's impossible to know other than what's already been prosecuted in court. (price fixing, payola and others)
It may be fun to win one small battle, but the RIAA companies still control media distribution.
From the RIAA's perspective, this has been a wildly successful strategy because it successfully struck fear into the hearts and minds of consumers.
It goes without saying that there are a large number of low-end sensors disguised as excellent front-ends to biometric authentication. You need to segregate two things.
1. the sensor itself.
2. the implementation of the sensor. (e.g. sensor as a front end)
There are two legitimate sensor manufacturers in the U.S. and one very well-known French company all of whom do not sell to just anyone anywhere and at prices absolutely out of range for a TV show and the average company.
Another thing to keep in mind is even IF there was budget for a good device, (oh to dream) there are implementation issues that can make the hardware worthless. As is often the case, meaningful implementations tend to complicate practically all business/operations matters which is why no company bothers.
To generalize that all fingerprint scanners suck is just wrong.
Hardware security methods just aren't as secure as software-based encryption.
You couldn't be more wrong about biometric authentication. You probably haven't seen the Sagem or Cogent sensors implemented well. It is the very rare organization who would actually spend the money to do the job right. A revision is necessary to make your statement accurate.
Cheap and dirty hardware security methods just aren't as secure as software-based encryption.
That's better.
than just this one product.
1. Take a look at this estimate of who builds laptops for what brand. http://tuxmobil.org/laptop_oem.html The brands like Sony might change vendors, but the manufacturers listed haven't changed, so re-arrange the check marks if you want to pretend.
2. Many of the OEM's are marketing barebones laptops which are going to eat into Sony's laptop business in unpleasant ways. MSI and Asus are two notables. http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=23
Talk amongst yourselves....
If they are using some version of their tried-and-true diesel engine, yes. Lost among all of the shouting about energy independence rhetoric is the fact that the VW TDI's have been bio-diesel certified for years.
Better still, they make **excellent** grease car conversions. The next car we buy will be a TDI. The grease conversion kit isn't that expensive and doing a good job on the conversion looks like a weekend's work.
Socialize costs.
It's sad to see this kind of thing going forward because there are too many forces arrayed against it for it to actually be successful.
see volume shadow copy
And do what exactly? Restore the volume shadow? I know that's what Microsoft is selling, but
1. It doesn't "just" work. It's most definitely not some kind of DR solution.
2. We also ran into a nasty issue on our clusters where volume shadow brings the whole cluster down in situations where there's some load. Imagine that, peak traffic and the cluster locks. Both nodes... Poof. I know. You've never heard of that and I'm making it up because there's no one else reporting the issue on the web. I lived it twice too much. Volume shadow service is off.
pretty good fine-grained sercurity system.
Apologizing for a security system that would make Rube Goldberg proud remains an outstanding issue for which there is no fix.
Really? 2TB isn't enough for you?
Nope. Not enough.
Hmm I had never heard anyone complaining about any AD limits
Of which there are many. Too many to have it be the authentication core of a heterogeneous environment.
See NTFS
Now you've made the Baby Jesus cry! The fact that I still have to defrag a server is ridiculous. No one pays much attention to file systems but there are far better ones for server environments.
They'll do with Windows Server Core what they did with that home server garbage. You can't upgrade, migrate or otherwise get out of it. A quick and dirty search for an eula for Windows Server Core came up empty. Please, post one!
As is always the case with Microsoft, the first few features are free. It's the rest they'll screw you on.
you don't leave the key in memory
Yes, for the unwashed masses this would be a high-water mark in "system security." And judging by the lack of informative comments on the topic of key storage, it appears none of you have ever heard of a smart card.
Smart cards store keys quite reliably, among other very valuable tasks. Another fabulous task is to shift authenticating out of the OS all-together and use two smart cards. The first provides peer authentication, the second is the first token's peer and user authentication. It's not a simple task to pass truecrypt through the smart card, but well within most programmer capabilities. The entirety of which is way, way outside the capabilities of your average black hat or law enforcement agent.
Sadly though, no one really wants anything like it, much less are they willing to pay for it. It's fun to talk about and everything, but that's about it.
Slightly OT: This guy in particular is doing great things with smart cards. http://snakecard.com/Logical_access.html
congressmen aren't going to waste their time worrying about my one vote
1. If you put pen to paper and write a concise and reasonable paragraph or two about why it matters to you and send it to your representatives, you bet they will listen. Why? Because they know it's coming from a warm body as opposed to all of the anonymous electronic spam that Political Action Committees stir up. The letter becomes a bellwether of sorts if it is similar to other handwritten letters on the same topic.
2. The U.S. is a Republic, not a Democracy. Your one vote isn't really designed to matter as much as common knowledge would suggest.
3. Maintaining the Republic requires participation. Participation means putting pen to paper, talking to people in and out of the political system. Once you know a few people and have a couple of interests it can be very satisfying.
4. No, majority does not rule. More pablum that passes for common sense.
Making up excuses like yours is simply lazy and unpatriotic.
I'm calling you on this because I think it's very improbable without a laptop in the physical location. Sure it broadcasts like crazy in a LAN, but there's a HUGE leap from getting on the printer to turning it into your bot from a remote destination. Did the print server have a public IP?
Some details please.
is that it know the hardware it's running on better.
Xorg does this just fine on vaguely modern hardware that doesn't need extra hacks. (Intel, I'm looking at your graphics chipset!) It's the distro's configure script that isn't up to the job.
Of course, you COULD contribute a better script...
It may be shocking to some, but some VERY not-so-good-for-you solvents give off strange and oddly pleasing smells.
I clearly remember using trichlorethelene(sp?) as a teenager working on cars and remember the smell being not-so-bad. (Don't ask how we got it.) Automobile coolant is another one. Grease car owners also have the pleasure of french fries smell.
Burning auto brakes is gross though.
I find it surprising that we would expect more backbone out of corporations dealing with the American government
./er. Clearly I set my expectations too high.
You probably think the domestic surveilence was initiated because of Bush & Co's "War on Terror." Government doesn't act that quickly.
What basement have you been living in for the last 30 years? Seriously! I expect a bit more out of a
When management is completely disconnected from how their company creates value.
Hopefully nothing changes though. That would be the best case scenario for the entire industry.
In the non-technical world your statements are generally inconceivable.
1. If you are running windows like most consumers in the world, you cannot do that without a fresh install of the OS. As more of these users are forced into Vista, this gets harder as there are license restrictions preventing this.
2. Regardless of OS, you understand that the bits and bobs are roughly interchangeable. You are in the minority.
3. the vast majority of computer users are not you and generally don't mind over paying for their hardware, OS and HP peripherals for the same reasons Intel is being investigated.
Your argument is perfectly logical and reasonable, it's just that it applies to practically no one compared to the average computer user.
if they wish to sell only the crap from Intel, why shouldn't they be allowed to?
This kind of mentality wrongly assumes that there is a sort of perfect market state that translates into people switching retailers/PC's as features/price change. This is totally untrue. Consumers of all kinds normally suffer all kinds of bad product based on a number of factors that can be generalized into the herd mentality. Look at how much consumers have been overcharged for CD's and DVD's.
Intel isn't the only one doing it, that's for sure. But good on the EU for cracking down on the well-known abuse. I just wish we had an FTC/DOJ with the cajones to do it in the U.S.
Linux's networking stack is in the kernel. Firewall too.
./. That's a bad habit though because the more different OS's are out there being worked on the better off we all are.
./'ers did it and provided feedback to the project, it's a benefit to all.
So, your concern may not be kernel-levelness, but maybe the privilege with which networking runs? Or, perhaps if the networking kernel component can bring the whole OS to a screeching halt?
OS's are complicated, so it's easy to nit-pick from
As an example to all, I'll fire up qemu this afternoon and install haiku on my trusty old thinkpad. If 100
This story is peanuts compared to the Sibel Edmonds saga.
http://www.amconmag.com/2008/2008_01_28/article1.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-giraldi/sibel-edmonds-must-be-hea_b_84781.html
I made the mistake of sending a CV over to a Panda Antivirus office.
After chatting with some people, I was given a "personality test." I filled it out and left. I googled the people I spoke with only to discover they were all scientologists.
http://www.rickross.com/reference/scientology/france/france17.html
You may be wrongly assuming the acquisitions will improve microsoft's bottom line. It is a widely observed M&A fact that most acquisitions result in no net gain to the acquiring party.
In other words, you have no substantive reply
Your inference is false. There are many substantive points to discuss. Your belligerence leaves no room for discussion.
Also, I never said AD was perfect
Oh really? You sure implied it while you were shouting me down. "Huh? Of course it does" to a couple of big-time Linux/Win gotchas sounds like a ringing endorsement to me.
though it really is a good product.
Keep telling yourself that. Your biggest employers/customers will be hiring me to clean up your mess.
I'd like to join your Active Directory chapter of the Right Thinking Fellows Club. That's right. I see the hideous errors of my years of misguided ways. From big companies to little, Active Directory just works! There isn't a single limitation with the product.
I will need a new job though, as my current line of work is fixing the mess that my new friends in the Active Directory chapter of the Right Thinking Fellows Club make. And it looks like I'll need to get paid less too, which will cut into my family's standard of living and create a great deal of uncertainty. But that's okay because Active Directory just works and is everything to everyone.
Thanks for straightening me out.
Okay, okay. I'm tired of going rounds with people that don't understand how UAC actually works.
Furthermore, it's likely you are a faith-based user/admin. That is, you take Microsoft's security claims as fact rather than the hyperbole they are. The sieve that is UAC is very well known and documented on the Microsoft developer side. You have been sold the PHB/consumer pablum that UAC == sudo. I will not reply again, so read the following carefully.
it's a very necessary privilege barrier.
You clearly don't understand the CF that Microsoft calls privilege and their other CF integrity levels.
If they didn't display something, things would be silently elevating
1. If they didn't display something, they can't shift the blame to you. Sucks to be you.
2. The OS is already silently elevating. "Vista makes tradeoffs between security and convenience, and both UAC and Protected Mode IE have design choices that required paths to be opened in the Integrity Levels wall for application compatibility and ease of use. " Bolding for emphasis. Sucks to be you again.