When you have the ability to send the same data over and over again without any form of authentication or obfuscation - yes, it can be copied and used by anyone else.
There are ways to prevent this:
Use a rolling code, like my garage door, key fob, and online banking fob uses.
Use another form of authentication, like color of vehicle, plate number, or something else easily identifiable on the car.
These are about as secure as my Speedpass fob that I can use to purchase fuel and snacks at Mobil stations. If its stolen, anyone can use it.
When a no-cd crack or hacked exe for a game I purchased is released, I usually use it instead of carrying the CDs around with my laptop.
Kudos to Valve's Steam letting me download and install the game on multiple machines without treating me like a frickin' crook.
And the occasional time I've actually downloaded and ran a pirate game just to see if it was worth buying. I've been burned on way too many awesome demos and lackluster final games to drop $50 on a whim.
1. Lose the damn copy protection. 2. Use Steam or develop a system where people aren't chained to a CD or Jewel case with a cryptic serial number on it. 3. Release honest demos. 4. Don't get bought by EA, they have no honor.
If Steve grew a fourth testicle, could bend spoons with his mind, and released another iPhone from his rectum, I don't think I would read the news story.
Any sysadmin worth their nuts should be able to call home and have their significant other plug the forgotten laptop into a power source and turn it on to allow remote access from anywhere.
How many here would be talking to mom when they made that call? heh, thought so.
I think nintendo's choice to leave the 4MB ram upgrade chip out of the original N64 was to make the console as cheap as possible, knowing that most developers wouldn't be using it. Another consideration was that their original game development equipment wasn't using it.
Today 4MB is worthless but back then it was an expensive bit of hardware.
Funny you should mention "never seeing a CRT again"... I was just in the phone room with the Nortel PBX for our campus - hooked up to a terminal with a orange phosphor CRT monitor.
To show you how green our school is, someone hand scrawled on the CRT's front bezel "Turn this off when you're leaving... this ain't no fancy shmancy Energy Star monitor" with a big arrow pointing at the toggle power switch.
Indeed. I was a big GoDaddy fan until I found out they are the largest domain squatters in the world. Then I did some shopping around and found out I was paying $20/year for WhoIS privacy protection that my webhost / registrar includes for free with every domain.
I've attempted many times to migrate my main domain away from GoDaddy to my current webhost and for some reason it fails. The webhost says that GoDaddy is blocking the transfer - even though I've unlocked the domain and followed the rules.
Come to find out, it's due to the fact that I renewed it less than 60 days ago... now I get to wait.
This story is just another reason to suspect the largest and most visible company in the particular market - absolute power corrupts.
I can drink a soda and watch the road. I can eat a sandwich and watch the road. I can change the station and volume on my radio without looking at it.
If you can text someone without looking at your phone - bravo, you're better than the 99% of the other morons out there.
If you can't text without looking at your phone - don't! Keep your fucking eyes on the road when you're driving - my wife and kids might be in that car ahead of you. Cause them harm while doing something stupid like that, and I'll hunt you down.
IF you're an IT manager, you must be managing some IT people. Spend some time with them, learn from them, learn with them. Go to seminars, conventions, and training sessions that support your technology.
Companies with full data centers and in need of more servers are turning to virtualization technologies to increase their server density, reduce their physical server deployment, and improve efficiency in cooling, hardware maintenance, and administration.
It's amazing to see the differences VMware has made in my career in just a few short years... going from deploying hardware servers in weeks to a virtual in seconds.
Mozilla developers did try to fix it, but the patch failed a regression test and didn't make it for Gecko 1.9 (Firefox 3). I'm sure that for every release of Firefox, you can find some serious bug fix that didn't make the release. Likewise, I'm sure you can do the same for any major software project. Insert obligatory Vista joke here.
Multi-touch isn't going to help me do my job any easier and I really don't want users pinching and dragging their dirty mits around the new LCD monitors...
In the end though, these features will be in the Ultimate Uber Windows 7, not the version I'll be getting for our desktop users due to costs. We'll end up with yet more of the same features, renamed, and shuffled around in the OS just enough to justify retraining.
So what does that leave me with Windows 7? Looking for desktop alternatives or hoping they extend the XP licensing and support for a few more years.
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I'd mod you up, but I read on Fox News that Slashdot was full of Chinese hackers.
This is Windows we're talking about. The actual text reads "You may feel a slight prick."
When you have the ability to send the same data over and over again without any form of authentication or obfuscation - yes, it can be copied and used by anyone else.
There are ways to prevent this:
Use a rolling code, like my garage door, key fob, and online banking fob uses.
Use another form of authentication, like color of vehicle, plate number, or something else easily identifiable on the car.
These are about as secure as my Speedpass fob that I can use to purchase fuel and snacks at Mobil stations. If its stolen, anyone can use it.
That would be a great movie... old cold war era tanks and soldiers vs. rednecks in pickup trucks with equal firepower...
And a corrupt sheriff in there somewhere...
When a no-cd crack or hacked exe for a game I purchased is released, I usually use it instead of carrying the CDs around with my laptop.
Kudos to Valve's Steam letting me download and install the game on multiple machines without treating me like a frickin' crook.
And the occasional time I've actually downloaded and ran a pirate game just to see if it was worth buying. I've been burned on way too many awesome demos and lackluster final games to drop $50 on a whim.
1. Lose the damn copy protection.
2. Use Steam or develop a system where people aren't chained to a CD or Jewel case with a cryptic serial number on it.
3. Release honest demos.
4. Don't get bought by EA, they have no honor.
I'm suffering from Apple News Overload...
If Steve grew a fourth testicle, could bend spoons with his mind, and released another iPhone from his rectum, I don't think I would read the news story.
And just to beat you all to the punch:
"Rectum? Damn near killed him!"
Email != a document repository. If you need to keep something, print as a PDF or store it somewhere more appropriate.
I couldn't agree more. If you got interesting or useful data - make a wiki, use sharepoint, or get it somewhere that will make it useful.
Any sysadmin worth their nuts should be able to call home and have their significant other plug the forgotten laptop into a power source and turn it on to allow remote access from anywhere.
How many here would be talking to mom when they made that call? heh, thought so.
I think nintendo's choice to leave the 4MB ram upgrade chip out of the original N64 was to make the console as cheap as possible, knowing that most developers wouldn't be using it. Another consideration was that their original game development equipment wasn't using it.
Today 4MB is worthless but back then it was an expensive bit of hardware.
The one thing I learned, the mention of unionization is a great way to score yourself a long vacation.
I'm currently a IT professional that is actually paid overtime for > 40 hours of work per week. Guess what - I don't have a blackberry.
If I want to earn more money, the next pay grade is exempt and (shocking) includes a blackberry.
It's like looking at crackpipe and trying to talk yourself into it. :\
Ditto... how the eff do you forget your laptop? Phone, maybe I can buy - the holster broke, it slipped out my pocket in the cab...
But a freakin' laptop? Me thinks someone just wants a new one and doesn't want to wait until the lease is up.
Put two of these in a room and see who wins.
Funny you should mention "never seeing a CRT again"... I was just in the phone room with the Nortel PBX for our campus - hooked up to a terminal with a orange phosphor CRT monitor.
To show you how green our school is, someone hand scrawled on the CRT's front bezel "Turn this off when you're leaving... this ain't no fancy shmancy Energy Star monitor" with a big arrow pointing at the toggle power switch.
OTPs are great, I would love to see something like this rolled into OpenID or some other 3rd party service that provides authentication.
Indeed. I was a big GoDaddy fan until I found out they are the largest domain squatters in the world. Then I did some shopping around and found out I was paying $20/year for WhoIS privacy protection that my webhost / registrar includes for free with every domain.
I've attempted many times to migrate my main domain away from GoDaddy to my current webhost and for some reason it fails. The webhost says that GoDaddy is blocking the transfer - even though I've unlocked the domain and followed the rules.
Come to find out, it's due to the fact that I renewed it less than 60 days ago... now I get to wait.
This story is just another reason to suspect the largest and most visible company in the particular market - absolute power corrupts.
I can drink a soda and watch the road.
I can eat a sandwich and watch the road.
I can change the station and volume on my radio without looking at it.
If you can text someone without looking at your phone - bravo, you're better than the 99% of the other morons out there.
If you can't text without looking at your phone - don't! Keep your fucking eyes on the road when you're driving - my wife and kids might be in that car ahead of you. Cause them harm while doing something stupid like that, and I'll hunt you down.
I've always found that it pays to like boring jobs ;-)
Which is why Oracle and SQL DBAs are paid so well.IF you're an IT manager, you must be managing some IT people. Spend some time with them, learn from them, learn with them. Go to seminars, conventions, and training sessions that support your technology.
He owns him until he wipes the laptop... then all evidence is gone.
After that, it's your word against his.
When did HP start charging licensing for iLo? Cheap fuckers, I already bought their servers - ding me another 200 bucks to get a remote console?
Thanks HP, that felt nice.
I think monkeys, even with reduced eye site, can create better code.
The InfoWorld web team is probably made up of a Drinking Bird tapping the keyboard of some Windows ME computer running FrontPage 98.
Companies with full data centers and in need of more servers are turning to virtualization technologies to increase their server density, reduce their physical server deployment, and improve efficiency in cooling, hardware maintenance, and administration.
It's amazing to see the differences VMware has made in my career in just a few short years... going from deploying hardware servers in weeks to a virtual in seconds.
Multi-touch isn't going to help me do my job any easier and I really don't want users pinching and dragging their dirty mits around the new LCD monitors...
In the end though, these features will be in the Ultimate Uber Windows 7, not the version I'll be getting for our desktop users due to costs. We'll end up with yet more of the same features, renamed, and shuffled around in the OS just enough to justify retraining.
So what does that leave me with Windows 7? Looking for desktop alternatives or hoping they extend the XP licensing and support for a few more years.