Automatic Updates + Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall + AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition + a couple of spyware scan/remove apps + running Firefox instead of IE and being careful about what I click + hiding behind a NAT router keeps me pretty safe, for the most part. And uses what percentage of your clock ticks? 20, 30, 70?
True enough and I agree with you, but that's the point of the "hide replys" link. Just collapse the entire tree of the religious thread and be done with it. I for one enjoy the aimless ramblings sometimes... -nB
No, they can not. Some can, sure, and that's the bloat our government has built. There are some services that a free market would be a disaster for. Granted my example is a state level example but here: There was a time when fire departments were independent. There were times when more than one unit would show up to a fire and end up arguing who's fire it was to fight. While they were arguing, the fire continued to burn. Other times, because the fire was in a poor area, who likely couldn't pay, the response would be much slower.
In another example: (not from the US) A person died in the hospital while in Central America. They died because the doctor wouldn't provide services without a guarantee of payment. While a family member rushed to the bank, the patient expired from a relatively simple to fix, but horrifically painful problem: Appendicitis.
Do you really want to bring these kinds of issues (back) to the US? Takes pay the firefighters and hospitals when the individual can not. Taxes pay for a police force that (at least in theory) is less prone to corruption than a private force would be. Taxes pay for a standing armed forces *(arguable, though the coast guard and boarder patrol at least are requisite).
Taxes and government are required. Not at the level they are today, but they are required at a more basic level. Our founding fathers were not idiots. (I would argue they were advanced aliens from another place, sent here to build our country).
Ahhh, But the distro isn't the dog food, the notebook is. In this case I would think that the LT release would be the ideal distro for them to distribute to customers, but hey... -nB
I'm responsible for a refresh on a complete video editing system, complete with a couple cameras. Guess what brand is conspicuously missing? Sony. Management wanted sony and I told them no. When asked why I explained the rootkit and how that would compromise our operation, and showed that Sony had a history of these antics. I won out, the gear is now Canon and JVC
While I agree with your sentiment, and what they are really due is a lot less than what they take, the pragmatic answer is that we all enjoy (assuming you are paying taxes) common services and infrastructure funded by taxes. These are due to and remitable to the US treasury department via the IRS.
It's a fact of life. On a side note: DO NOT address your taxes to the Infernal Revenue Service. My dad did that once and was audited. I said "funny" and did it . . . and was audited:( -nB
Yeah like that would work. Your above average American has issues budgeting their finances for the month. Your average American would be completely hosed. The deductions are simply a forced budgeting system to ensure the IRS gets paid at least most of what they're due. -nB
Yeah, I filed a year late once. They don't care if they owe you money (you have up to three years). Other way round though and it's called Tax Evasion / non payment penalties... -nB
I never used the word fault, you came up with that on your own. Irrespective, My whole point is that an open connection that is broadcasting it's availability (default or not) is, by definition of the standard the equipment is designed against, an invitation to connect. That the default config of at least Fujitsu notebooks automagically connects without a dialog is ancillary to that, just pointing out that a less tech savy user may never even know they are not on their own WiFi connection. -nB
Yes that is, in fact my point. All modern routers can be secured. Most say to do so as part of the documentation. Some (2Wire notably) force you to do so.
Fact is, an open AP when broadcasting it's SSID is doing so as an invitation to connect. Again, as I've said before, I'm not condoning it, but it should not be illegal. Heck I've been in BFE and lost. I drove around till I found an open AP and hopped onto google maps to get un-lost. Does that make me a bad person? -nB
However if said hose was watering the lawn and there was overspray onto the shoulder of the road, then yes, it was like that.
I'm not excusing that his actions were unsavory, just that they (IMHO/IANAL) did not break the law. I can go to a park near my house and see at least three WiFi connections. More than once I've been tempted to mount a low power pc in an obscure corner of the park that got a connection and chain it to something, coming back to swap batteries once a day or so. Let it torrent stuff.
Even better, hide it in something with power but rarely inspected and have it run a server.
Wait, you got a dialog? My factory build Fujitsu with WinXP simply connects. Doesn't ask or anything. Furthermore, if a signal degrades below "fair" and there is a "excellent"-"fair" signal available, it will automagically hop. Thus, if your AP is broadcasting an SSID for an unencrypted AP, then my notebook will use it. FACTORY SETUP.
Now, all it takes is something as simple as 40bit WEP and I'm not connecting to your system, am I? It should not be a crime to use an open AP, it should be trespass to use an AP that does not broadcast an SSID but is otherwise unsecured, and it is a DMCA violation to bypass any encryption on an AP.
-nB
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Intel need stuff for their fabs to manufacture or they cost a lot of money. I was responding to that statement, thus that they are FAB incompatible is contradictory to your initial post, at least as far as using it as a FAB filler. -nB
Specifically I was proving to my buddy how insecure the locker locks were. Not that I had a reputation for breaking into things and/or lying, just picked a damn unlucky locker to pop open. But pragmatically I broke in, then discovered the VCR, hence my open admission of B&E, though the VP didn't care or register that, she could have just used that against me with or without the VCR. Her fixation on the VCR ultimately saved my ass as the cop(s) realized that I was scared enough and there was no case on the point of VCR. -nB
Anyway, when dealing with children you need to understand on average they are smarter than you are. If you are of average intelligence, then yes it is likely that half the class has a higher intelligence. It's not that they are smarter than you, in fact they likely are not (on average) as you have more experience as an adult, but rather that adults have a seemingly inescapable compulsion to think kids lack the ability to reason, when they do not.
IMO the problem with public schools is they operate under the assumption that children are stupid and need extremely simple explanations. your opinion. I would propose that the problem instead, is that public schools teach to the lowest common denominator (that is the slowest, dumbest, brick headed kid who is not actually retarded) in the class. It is sad because by teaching to the lowest level we are dooming ourselves. I would propose instead that we teach to an expectation, one that is reasonable to the average ability of the class, and be unafraid to hurt some parents feelings and hold kids back. Finally, at 10th grade or 17 years of age a child should be allowed to choose: Continue with academic education, or drop high school and go into vocational school to be a welder, plumber, ASE tech, framer, ditch digger, fruit picker, etc.
My ISP does this by default, and I sure noticed when they did as I could no longer reach my mailserver. A (not so) quick call to support got the port re-opened, but there is no reason why you can't have a block port25 by default and open on request. 99.9% of home internet users would likely never notice. -nB
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Not to burst your bubble, but PRAM and processors are incompatible at a FAB level. AFAIK Intel has spun their flash FABs off under their memory devision, and only produce flash at these FABs, presumably they will do PRAM there as well. -nB
As an aside, the usual issue is the user/client borked something, doesn't know it, and has no reason to think they did it. Last night I'm at the in-law's house and I'm asked to call DirecTV (Dish? I dunno what they've got). The preview channel wasn't working and they'd "tried everything" but did not want to call customer support, because they were "largely unhelpful and rude".
I fiddled with the setup for about 5 minutes and bingo, all was well. The receiver had coughed up a hairball and lost the zip code, which apparently is required to get a local channel list. Re-entered that and all was well.
I happen to know the user was not at fault, because the only remote in the house that can access setup has no batteries in it, simply so they can't accidentally mess up the settings. Never the less, they swore the problem was at the provider end and it wasn't. I have a feeling that this is the most common support call.
On a separate note, having them not think you've ever been a customer could be a good thing no? Get the new subscriber discount over again? (Unless you had one of those awesome lifetime deals, then yeah, that'd suck). -nB
Back in my HS days I found a VCR in a locker. The VCR had been stolen from a classroom. I reported it to the administration office. The VP promptly accused me of getting "cold feet" about the theft and called the cops on me, even though I was in class when the supposed theft occurred two days prior (there was an exam, thus I had a reasonable alibi). None of my explanations mattered, nor apparently did the B&E that I committed in opening the locker. She was fixated that I (or my buddy who was with me) had stolen the VCR. Cops were called and we were separated and interviewed by the sheriff.
Funny thing, we both told the sheriff the same story, but when pressed we both confessed to the B&E portion (which was a crime as there was a lock on the locker). I actually did it, but out of some sense of loyalty he confessed to it. Ultimately the VPs single mindedness that we stole it was in our favor, as once the unit was dusted for prints, ours were nowhere to be found. No charges on the B&E because the VP continued to insist that we must have stolen it somehow, and simply wiped our prints off it. You can't argue with people like that. They're nearly as fanatical as those FSM creationist folks:-)
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-nB
Wait what now?
Food fight with accordions?
Right then, I'm in.
True enough and I agree with you, but that's the point of the "hide replys" link. Just collapse the entire tree of the religious thread and be done with it. I for one enjoy the aimless ramblings sometimes...
-nB
No, they can not.
Some can, sure, and that's the bloat our government has built. There are some services that a free market would be a disaster for. Granted my example is a state level example but here:
There was a time when fire departments were independent. There were times when more than one unit would show up to a fire and end up arguing who's fire it was to fight. While they were arguing, the fire continued to burn. Other times, because the fire was in a poor area, who likely couldn't pay, the response would be much slower.
In another example: (not from the US)
A person died in the hospital while in Central America. They died because the doctor wouldn't provide services without a guarantee of payment. While a family member rushed to the bank, the patient expired from a relatively simple to fix, but horrifically painful problem: Appendicitis.
Do you really want to bring these kinds of issues (back) to the US? Takes pay the firefighters and hospitals when the individual can not. Taxes pay for a police force that (at least in theory) is less prone to corruption than a private force would be. Taxes pay for a standing armed forces *(arguable, though the coast guard and boarder patrol at least are requisite).
Taxes and government are required. Not at the level they are today, but they are required at a more basic level. Our founding fathers were not idiots. (I would argue they were advanced aliens from another place, sent here to build our country).
-nB
Ahhh,
But the distro isn't the dog food, the notebook is.
In this case I would think that the LT release would be the ideal distro for them to distribute to customers, but hey...
-nB
I'm responsible for a refresh on a complete video editing system, complete with a couple cameras.
Guess what brand is conspicuously missing? Sony.
Management wanted sony and I told them no. When asked why I explained the rootkit and how that would compromise our operation, and showed that Sony had a history of these antics. I won out, the gear is now Canon and JVC
While I agree with your sentiment, and what they are really due is a lot less than what they take, the pragmatic answer is that we all enjoy (assuming you are paying taxes) common services and infrastructure funded by taxes. These are due to and remitable to the US treasury department via the IRS.
:(
It's a fact of life. On a side note: DO NOT address your taxes to the Infernal Revenue Service. My dad did that once and was audited. I said "funny" and did it . . . and was audited
-nB
Yeah like that would work.
Your above average American has issues budgeting their finances for the month. Your average American would be completely hosed. The deductions are simply a forced budgeting system to ensure the IRS gets paid at least most of what they're due.
-nB
Yeah, I filed a year late once.
They don't care if they owe you money (you have up to three years).
Other way round though and it's called Tax Evasion / non payment penalties...
-nB
I never used the word fault, you came up with that on your own.
Irrespective, My whole point is that an open connection that is broadcasting it's availability (default or not) is, by definition of the standard the equipment is designed against, an invitation to connect.
That the default config of at least Fujitsu notebooks automagically connects without a dialog is ancillary to that, just pointing out that a less tech savy user may never even know they are not on their own WiFi connection.
-nB
Yes that is, in fact my point.
All modern routers can be secured.
Most say to do so as part of the documentation.
Some (2Wire notably) force you to do so.
Fact is, an open AP when broadcasting it's SSID is doing so as an invitation to connect.
Again, as I've said before, I'm not condoning it, but it should not be illegal. Heck I've been in BFE and lost. I drove around till I found an open AP and hopped onto google maps to get un-lost. Does that make me a bad person?
-nB
However if said hose was watering the lawn and there was overspray onto the shoulder of the road, then yes, it was like that.
I'm not excusing that his actions were unsavory, just that they (IMHO/IANAL) did not break the law.
I can go to a park near my house and see at least three WiFi connections. More than once I've been tempted to mount a low power pc in an obscure corner of the park that got a connection and chain it to something, coming back to swap batteries once a day or so. Let it torrent stuff.
Even better, hide it in something with power but rarely inspected and have it run a server.
-nB
Wait, you got a dialog?
My factory build Fujitsu with WinXP simply connects. Doesn't ask or anything. Furthermore, if a signal degrades below "fair" and there is a "excellent"-"fair" signal available, it will automagically hop. Thus, if your AP is broadcasting an SSID for an unencrypted AP, then my notebook will use it. FACTORY SETUP.
Now, all it takes is something as simple as 40bit WEP and I'm not connecting to your system, am I? It should not be a crime to use an open AP, it should be trespass to use an AP that does not broadcast an SSID but is otherwise unsecured, and it is a DMCA violation to bypass any encryption on an AP.
-nB
-nB
Specifically I was proving to my buddy how insecure the locker locks were. Not that I had a reputation for breaking into things and/or lying, just picked a damn unlucky locker to pop open. But pragmatically I broke in, then discovered the VCR, hence my open admission of B&E, though the VP didn't care or register that, she could have just used that against me with or without the VCR. Her fixation on the VCR ultimately saved my ass as the cop(s) realized that I was scared enough and there was no case on the point of VCR.
-nB
-nB
Nah, she needs to be forced to issue a complete public apology, only after she spends 12 days in a county lockup.
-nB
Blame the NSA mind control lasers instead!
Block port 25.
Done.
My ISP does this by default, and I sure noticed when they did as I could no longer reach my mailserver. A (not so) quick call to support got the port re-opened, but there is no reason why you can't have a block port25 by default and open on request. 99.9% of home internet users would likely never notice.
-nB
Not to burst your bubble, but PRAM and processors are incompatible at a FAB level.
AFAIK Intel has spun their flash FABs off under their memory devision, and only produce flash at these FABs, presumably they will do PRAM there as well.
-nB
That was funny.
As an aside, the usual issue is the user/client borked something, doesn't know it, and has no reason to think they did it.
Last night I'm at the in-law's house and I'm asked to call DirecTV (Dish? I dunno what they've got). The preview channel wasn't working and they'd "tried everything" but did not want to call customer support, because they were "largely unhelpful and rude".
I fiddled with the setup for about 5 minutes and bingo, all was well. The receiver had coughed up a hairball and lost the zip code, which apparently is required to get a local channel list. Re-entered that and all was well.
I happen to know the user was not at fault, because the only remote in the house that can access setup has no batteries in it, simply so they can't accidentally mess up the settings. Never the less, they swore the problem was at the provider end and it wasn't. I have a feeling that this is the most common support call.
On a separate note, having them not think you've ever been a customer could be a good thing no? Get the new subscriber discount over again? (Unless you had one of those awesome lifetime deals, then yeah, that'd suck).
-nB
Why, yes they are!
:-)
Back in my HS days I found a VCR in a locker. The VCR had been stolen from a classroom. I reported it to the administration office. The VP promptly accused me of getting "cold feet" about the theft and called the cops on me, even though I was in class when the supposed theft occurred two days prior (there was an exam, thus I had a reasonable alibi). None of my explanations mattered, nor apparently did the B&E that I committed in opening the locker. She was fixated that I (or my buddy who was with me) had stolen the VCR. Cops were called and we were separated and interviewed by the sheriff.
Funny thing, we both told the sheriff the same story, but when pressed we both confessed to the B&E portion (which was a crime as there was a lock on the locker). I actually did it, but out of some sense of loyalty he confessed to it. Ultimately the VPs single mindedness that we stole it was in our favor, as once the unit was dusted for prints, ours were nowhere to be found. No charges on the B&E because the VP continued to insist that we must have stolen it somehow, and simply wiped our prints off it. You can't argue with people like that. They're nearly as fanatical as those FSM creationist folks
-nB
Stockton
You tried booting windows from USB flash?
BartPE is good but it's no server. Damn PITA.
-nB