a) The drop in bandwidth costs from windows update
b) The drop in CD-production costs to produce and mail service packs
c) The favourable media and user attention if, say, ie went one year without a critical exploit
Microsoft has _every_ incentive to make secure software, it's just not very good at it
Slightly related, someone recently posted to the Full Disclosure mailing list, with a guide for how to get the Pharos GPS-360 (as sold in the "Microsoft Streets & Trips 2005 with GPS locator" package) working under linux. Might be useful to some people
Wee, flaming!
He said it was worth it to him. He did _not_ say it was fair. To him, paying the license fee is worth it, to keep his child happy - he didn't say that was a rationale for you to pay...
Subscribing to this service will cost you $15 a month. Not subscribing will cost you $1600. Those are your only choices. Take your pick.
Uh, not entirely correct. You can choose not to have a TV at all, and therefore pay nothing...
I think the UK's TV-licensing system is quite sensible - we pay a fee once per year, which goes to the bbc, and in turn we are able to recieve both the BBC's terrestrial channels, it's digital channels (around 6 more, I believe), and the license fee also funds the BBC's 6 national radio channels, and all the local radio stations around the country. All advert free, 24/7. That doesn't sound like such a bad deal to me...
Not so for everyone
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Whilst the concept is interesting (more choice, more sales), what the article doesn't take into account, is that for many people, they'll only spend a limited amount per month/week/year/whatever on films or music. I live in a small city, with a smallish HMV. I know that if I lived in a much larger city, with a record store with more choice, I wouldn't spend more money on records - I'd spend the same - that's all I can afford. I might choose different records, but the total spent wouldn't change.
It may well be that documentaries are selling more on netflix, but one can't assume that these documentaries are 'as well as' another film - they might just replace a 'top 100' film, and so the company doesn't gain any more...
Which isn't really that helpful, however, there's space for 2500 bytes of shell code (ie, lots of space left in the example on k-otik) for writing something with a reverse-shell - in fact, this has already been done, it just isn't public
There's also a newer example on k-otik Which adds an administrator account to the system it runs on, however, you'll have to edit some of the code yourself - script-kiddy-proof.
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There's no incentive to do it? Um, apart from...
a) The drop in bandwidth costs from windows update
b) The drop in CD-production costs to produce and mail service packs
c) The favourable media and user attention if, say, ie went one year without a critical exploit
Microsoft has _every_ incentive to make secure software, it's just not very good at it
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Another reason to use gentoo linux
Slightly related, someone recently posted to the Full Disclosure mailing list, with a guide for how to get the Pharos GPS-360 (as sold in the "Microsoft Streets & Trips 2005 with GPS locator" package) working under linux. Might be useful to some people
Wee, flaming! He said it was worth it to him. He did _not_ say it was fair. To him, paying the license fee is worth it, to keep his child happy - he didn't say that was a rationale for you to pay...
Subscribing to this service will cost you $15 a month. Not subscribing will cost you $1600. Those are your only choices. Take your pick.
Uh, not entirely correct. You can choose not to have a TV at all, and therefore pay nothing...
I think the UK's TV-licensing system is quite sensible - we pay a fee once per year, which goes to the bbc, and in turn we are able to recieve both the BBC's terrestrial channels, it's digital channels (around 6 more, I believe), and the license fee also funds the BBC's 6 national radio channels, and all the local radio stations around the country. All advert free, 24/7. That doesn't sound like such a bad deal to me...
Whilst the concept is interesting (more choice, more sales), what the article doesn't take into account, is that for many people, they'll only spend a limited amount per month/week/year/whatever on films or music. I live in a small city, with a smallish HMV. I know that if I lived in a much larger city, with a record store with more choice, I wouldn't spend more money on records - I'd spend the same - that's all I can afford. I might choose different records, but the total spent wouldn't change. It may well be that documentaries are selling more on netflix, but one can't assume that these documentaries are 'as well as' another film - they might just replace a 'top 100' film, and so the company doesn't gain any more...
Which isn't really that helpful, however, there's space for 2500 bytes of shell code (ie, lots of space left in the example on k-otik) for writing something with a reverse-shell - in fact, this has already been done, it just isn't public There's also a newer example on k-otik Which adds an administrator account to the system it runs on, however, you'll have to edit some of the code yourself - script-kiddy-proof.