... until the wireless providers find out. We will finally break the speed of light when all of their lawyers run crying to the FCC and FTC. "OmG, unfair competition!"
This, combined with municipal wi-fi, could lead to a much less expensive wireless future for us all. Yay!
The majority of internet users throughout the world are still using dial-up. And, most people who have broadband simply don't have the time to upload gigabytes of pirated HD quality video to p2p networks. I have met far more people who make legitimate copies of backup DVDs than those who pirate.
It is a fact that most people who pirate movies simply download them, and do not upload to the networks. The people who do upload to the networks will not be stopped by any content scrambling. As horrible of a solution as it is, if they had to aim a video camera at a projection screen and film a movie just to get it online, they probably would.
It may be the strongest encoding out there, but who cares? What stops me from plugging the video output of a dvd player into my video capture card and recording off of it? Sure, the quality won't be as good, but it will still work.
I wish they simply wouldn't scramble content in the first place. 99.9% of the people who buy the dvd and would need to break the encoding have a LEGITIMATE reason to break said encoding (backup, copying to laptop so it's not necessary to carry discs on trips, etc).
I am absolutely appalled at this decision to create more TLDs. Not only will they create more confusion for the end user, but they will also make it much more expensive for companies to secure their name on the Internet. Why should I have to buy 10 domains with different TLDs to make sure that nobody will try and rip off my company's name online? Anyhow... how many sites do you actually *trust* with a.info domain? Most of them appear to be stupid advertisement link sites. There is no reason that we need any more than the basic TLDs we've always had....com,.net,.org,.edu..gov and of course the country domains (.uk,.nz, etc).
It seems to me as though ICANN is being motivated to do this for unethical reasons. I can only hope that the community will understand how stupid this is and fight back.
Someone who spends $1000 on a mid-range audio system is probably not going to get any benefit from monster cables. However, those people who see audio as a very important thing and spend $5000 on a high-end audio system will probably be able to justify buying $250 worth of cables. No, I don't personally use Monster cables. I can't justify the cost. But, if I had spent extrodinarily large amounts of money on a stereo, I would most definately use some form of high-end cable.
I'm not sure why this particular newspaper chose this action in the first place... it was only getting them more website hits, and more publicity. Google didn't have any legal defense in this issue, unfortunately. Seems as though the AFP is just cutting off their nose to spite their face; fun.
Anybody with access to a phone switch can easily spoof Caller ID. It should NOT be used by companies as a form of verification, since it is so easy to spoof. Companies should utilize internal IDs or passwords for sensitive information. It's just plain stupid to depend on Caller ID as a form of verification.
It looks nice, and I'm certainly glad that it's being developed, as competition is always good for that sort of industry. Anyhow, are there any compelling reasons to move over from Pocket IE (please omit OMG MICROSOFT SUXORZ flames, please)? I'm perfectly happy with it at the moment.
I'd hope that it still doesn't ban other non-profit groups from offering free WIFI. I live in a small town in West-Central Missouri, where free wifi has been available throughout the entire town for quite a while now. It's provided by a local nonprofit organization, although they do receive resources from the state's "MoreNET" program. It would be incredibly sad if they lost their state-funded T1 connection due to some stupid anticompetition law.
The United States likes to claim that we're the "most free" country in the world. If so, then our legislators need to be on the side of the general public, not the corporations.
A good point, indeed. Apache a very secure, great piece of software. However, the source code for an operating system is *much* more complex than that of a web server; hence, there is more probability for bugs to occur.
I'd like to note that with many Windows exploits, people only begin using them AFTER Microsoft has announced that the problem exists and has released a patch. No operating system is perfect.
Also, we must take into account the fact that most Windows users are fairly inexperienced people on their first or second PC. They often don't know that various security vulerabilities exist, and simply ignore the threat. However, most Linux/BSD/whatever users are experienced enough to protect themselves from threats. This makes Windows users even more of a target, because, for the most part, they don't know what they're doing.
Just so you all know, I'm not trying to pick sides on the whole Linux vs. Windows war here... I use both Linux AND Windows (linux on my servers, windows on my desktops).
Windows XP Service Pack 2
Attacks: 16
Results: Survived all attacks
Windows is *obviously* attacked more, simply because it is the most popular operating system. If I was a malicious coder, why would I want to spend time writing code that would only attack the 10% of computer users not running windows in the first place? It's simply more logical for those evil people to write software that attacks Windows... secure or not secure, it's going to be the primary target until it loses it's market dominance.
It doesn't matter how hardcore a gamer is, if they can't afford 2 uber-graphics cards, they're not going to buy 2. I own one Geforce 6800 GT, and it doesn't seem to have problems in any game I play. As long as frame rate >= refresh rate, it doesn't matter anyway. Instead of buying an elite SLI system now, I saved that money... in a year or so, prices will fall and I'll be able to buy a new motherboard AND top of the line graphics card instead of having an old system with 2 obsolete cards.
People should stop with the mythical excuse that popularity == vulnerable
I'm going to go ahead and disagree with that. I thank you for your analogy which does a good job of proving that popularity DOES cause vulnerability. If everybody used a tank for transportation, car-thieves would eventually develop a more efficient method of stealing them. Obviously, there are more Toyotas on the road today than Tanks; more Toyotas are stolen each year than tanks.
The fact that windows is popular simply makes it a target of more attacks. Why would a malicious coder create a trojan for Linux if it is only usable on 1% of the computers in the world?? If Linux had a superior market-share to Windows, then there would be a reason to spend time attacking it and finding vulnerabilities.
Another point:
How often do you see security vulnerabilities about Windows 3.1 posted? Not often. That doesn't mean that the vulerabilities aren't there, it's just that nobody cares about them. The same goes for Linux, etc.
Windows, when configured correctly, does not suck. Windows is used ALL OVER the world for mission-critical applications. It is simply the target of many more attacks because of it's popularity. If Linux ever surpasses Windows in popularity, it will also have quite a few previously-unknown vulnerabilities exposed.
Today, my Mother had Lasik eye surgery. The computer which controlled the laser was running Windows XP. The authors of the laser-control software didn't choose windows at random, they chose it due to it's stability. If the computer was to crash during the procedure, a patient could be blinded for life. Apparrently, they trusted Windows over any other OS for that application.
I work at a small chain of radio stations in west-central Missouri. We use a total of 4 computers in the studios, all running Windows XP Professional. Our primary satellite control/automation computer has several months of uptime. It has never crashed, and was rebooted most recently due to the installation of updates.
Although it is extremely popular these days to insult and bash Windows simply because it is popular, 99% of the problems that people have with windows aren't because of windows... it's because of either the user's inability to use the operating system correctly, or the installation of some kind of malicious software. The majority of Linux users are intelligent enough to know what is safe to do and what is not. Most Windows users (the general population) are not computer experts, and therefore don't know. If you picked a random person from the general population and sat them down in front of a computer running the latest, most secure, most user-friendly distribution of Linux, they would probably encounter problems within a short period of time.
I refuse to switch to Apple hardware/Mac OS until Dark Age of Camelot is ported. I just can't get enough of that game; and it's the last thing holding me to my Windows PC (daoc doesn't run well on Linux).
just set up an irc server, give out the IP address, and let the conversations begin!
i've had some good experiences with bircd (http://www.xs4all.nl/~beware3/irc/), it's quite lightweight, and works well
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... until the wireless providers find out. We will finally break the speed of light when all of their lawyers run crying to the FCC and FTC. "OmG, unfair competition!" This, combined with municipal wi-fi, could lead to a much less expensive wireless future for us all. Yay!
The majority of internet users throughout the world are still using dial-up. And, most people who have broadband simply don't have the time to upload gigabytes of pirated HD quality video to p2p networks. I have met far more people who make legitimate copies of backup DVDs than those who pirate.
It is a fact that most people who pirate movies simply download them, and do not upload to the networks. The people who do upload to the networks will not be stopped by any content scrambling. As horrible of a solution as it is, if they had to aim a video camera at a projection screen and film a movie just to get it online, they probably would.
It may be the strongest encoding out there, but who cares? What stops me from plugging the video output of a dvd player into my video capture card and recording off of it? Sure, the quality won't be as good, but it will still work.
I wish they simply wouldn't scramble content in the first place. 99.9% of the people who buy the dvd and would need to break the encoding have a LEGITIMATE reason to break said encoding (backup, copying to laptop so it's not necessary to carry discs on trips, etc).
I am absolutely appalled at this decision to create more TLDs. Not only will they create more confusion for the end user, but they will also make it much more expensive for companies to secure their name on the Internet. Why should I have to buy 10 domains with different TLDs to make sure that nobody will try and rip off my company's name online? Anyhow... how many sites do you actually *trust* with a .info domain? Most of them appear to be stupid advertisement link sites. There is no reason that we need any more than the basic TLDs we've always had... .com, .net, .org, .edu. .gov and of course the country domains (.uk, .nz, etc).
It seems to me as though ICANN is being motivated to do this for unethical reasons. I can only hope that the community will understand how stupid this is and fight back.
Linux can boot in 10 seconds on a dual-WD Raptor raid array. It can also boot in over a minute on an old 4500rpm drive.
Someone who spends $1000 on a mid-range audio system is probably not going to get any benefit from monster cables. However, those people who see audio as a very important thing and spend $5000 on a high-end audio system will probably be able to justify buying $250 worth of cables. No, I don't personally use Monster cables. I can't justify the cost. But, if I had spent extrodinarily large amounts of money on a stereo, I would most definately use some form of high-end cable.
I'm not sure why this particular newspaper chose this action in the first place... it was only getting them more website hits, and more publicity. Google didn't have any legal defense in this issue, unfortunately. Seems as though the AFP is just cutting off their nose to spite their face; fun.
Anybody with access to a phone switch can easily spoof Caller ID. It should NOT be used by companies as a form of verification, since it is so easy to spoof. Companies should utilize internal IDs or passwords for sensitive information. It's just plain stupid to depend on Caller ID as a form of verification.
Ok, I'm a moron. I posted my session ID, along with the wrong URL. Remind me not to copy/paste when I'm drunk.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/17/152925 8&tid=126&tid=95&tid=113
Pay more attention to your own fucking site.
Yeah, I always wondered what those red/green/blue color bars I see at night were. Now, I know!
Heh... no picture, just the usual red/green/blue dashes indicating "no signal", i.e. "the camera melted" Doesn't sound fun.
It looks nice, and I'm certainly glad that it's being developed, as competition is always good for that sort of industry. Anyhow, are there any compelling reasons to move over from Pocket IE (please omit OMG MICROSOFT SUXORZ flames, please)? I'm perfectly happy with it at the moment.
Three more important letters: MIS. With a CS degree + MIS, you can do ANYTHING. And I mean ANYTHING.
Somebody with mod points... MOD PARENT UP
I'd hope that it still doesn't ban other non-profit groups from offering free WIFI. I live in a small town in West-Central Missouri, where free wifi has been available throughout the entire town for quite a while now. It's provided by a local nonprofit organization, although they do receive resources from the state's "MoreNET" program. It would be incredibly sad if they lost their state-funded T1 connection due to some stupid anticompetition law. The United States likes to claim that we're the "most free" country in the world. If so, then our legislators need to be on the side of the general public, not the corporations.
A good point, indeed. Apache a very secure, great piece of software. However, the source code for an operating system is *much* more complex than that of a web server; hence, there is more probability for bugs to occur.
I'd like to note that with many Windows exploits, people only begin using them AFTER Microsoft has announced that the problem exists and has released a patch. No operating system is perfect.
Also, we must take into account the fact that most Windows users are fairly inexperienced people on their first or second PC. They often don't know that various security vulerabilities exist, and simply ignore the threat. However, most Linux/BSD/whatever users are experienced enough to protect themselves from threats. This makes Windows users even more of a target, because, for the most part, they don't know what they're doing.
Just so you all know, I'm not trying to pick sides on the whole Linux vs. Windows war here... I use both Linux AND Windows (linux on my servers, windows on my desktops).
And I quote:
Windows XP Service Pack 2
Attacks: 16
Results: Survived all attacks
Windows is *obviously* attacked more, simply because it is the most popular operating system. If I was a malicious coder, why would I want to spend time writing code that would only attack the 10% of computer users not running windows in the first place? It's simply more logical for those evil people to write software that attacks Windows... secure or not secure, it's going to be the primary target until it loses it's market dominance.
It doesn't matter how hardcore a gamer is, if they can't afford 2 uber-graphics cards, they're not going to buy 2. I own one Geforce 6800 GT, and it doesn't seem to have problems in any game I play. As long as frame rate >= refresh rate, it doesn't matter anyway. Instead of buying an elite SLI system now, I saved that money... in a year or so, prices will fall and I'll be able to buy a new motherboard AND top of the line graphics card instead of having an old system with 2 obsolete cards.
Nah, they'll probably post the dupe tomorrow. Seems to be the trend lately :P
OMG! Broadcast flag...
People should stop with the mythical excuse that popularity == vulnerable
I'm going to go ahead and disagree with that. I thank you for your analogy which does a good job of proving that popularity DOES cause vulnerability. If everybody used a tank for transportation, car-thieves would eventually develop a more efficient method of stealing them. Obviously, there are more Toyotas on the road today than Tanks; more Toyotas are stolen each year than tanks.
The fact that windows is popular simply makes it a target of more attacks. Why would a malicious coder create a trojan for Linux if it is only usable on 1% of the computers in the world?? If Linux had a superior market-share to Windows, then there would be a reason to spend time attacking it and finding vulnerabilities.
Another point:
How often do you see security vulnerabilities about Windows 3.1 posted? Not often. That doesn't mean that the vulerabilities aren't there, it's just that nobody cares about them. The same goes for Linux, etc.
Windows, when configured correctly, does not suck. Windows is used ALL OVER the world for mission-critical applications. It is simply the target of many more attacks because of it's popularity. If Linux ever surpasses Windows in popularity, it will also have quite a few previously-unknown vulnerabilities exposed.
Today, my Mother had Lasik eye surgery. The computer which controlled the laser was running Windows XP. The authors of the laser-control software didn't choose windows at random, they chose it due to it's stability. If the computer was to crash during the procedure, a patient could be blinded for life. Apparrently, they trusted Windows over any other OS for that application.
I work at a small chain of radio stations in west-central Missouri. We use a total of 4 computers in the studios, all running Windows XP Professional. Our primary satellite control/automation computer has several months of uptime. It has never crashed, and was rebooted most recently due to the installation of updates.
Although it is extremely popular these days to insult and bash Windows simply because it is popular, 99% of the problems that people have with windows aren't because of windows... it's because of either the user's inability to use the operating system correctly, or the installation of some kind of malicious software. The majority of Linux users are intelligent enough to know what is safe to do and what is not. Most Windows users (the general population) are not computer experts, and therefore don't know. If you picked a random person from the general population and sat them down in front of a computer running the latest, most secure, most user-friendly distribution of Linux, they would probably encounter problems within a short period of time.
I refuse to switch to Apple hardware/Mac OS until Dark Age of Camelot is ported. I just can't get enough of that game; and it's the last thing holding me to my Windows PC (daoc doesn't run well on Linux).
just set up an irc server, give out the IP address, and let the conversations begin! i've had some good experiences with bircd (http://www.xs4all.nl/~beware3/irc/), it's quite lightweight, and works well