It's a little different than that. Verizon had a deal with Yahoo that allowed Verizon users to keep their "@verizon.net" email addresses but use Yahoo's email servers. You could log into Yahoo with "user@verizon.net" and get your verizon.net email through Yahoo's webmail interface. In fact, logging into Verizon's portal just redirects to Yahoo. In addition, your POP server was "incoming.yahoo.verizon.net" instead of the normal Verizon server.
Fairpoint is not continuing this deal with Yahoo so now to access your new "@myfairpoint.net" email through a web browser you'll have to go to Fairpoint's web portal instead of Yahoo's and have to use Fairpoint's POP servers.
If you have an "@yahoo.com" email address nothing is changing as far as I can tell.
Yeah, that might work in a controlled environment. However, doing this in the home environment gets very difficult to the point of being unworkable it seems. It gets particularly tricky if the vulnerable service is in some piece of the networking stack, which in Windows probably includes IE.
Distribute an encrypted patch, and then once all clients have downloaded it reveal the key, which is short and can be sent in a single network packet.
How would you ever know when "all" the clients have downloaded it? How would you know when the LAST person downloaded it? Do we all have to wait for that one person on a 300 baud solar powered modem living under a rock in a cave? There's no way to totally eliminate this problem via the patch delivery mechanism. Things like Steam work because there's a defined public release date and many people willing to download it in advance. However there are also many people who download after the release date.
Holy tinfoil hat Batman, just because no one wants to buy it doesn't mean it's censorship. It's just a really badly written self-published piece of fiction.
How much do you pay for your DSL? Is it more than the $30 / month I pay to Verizon for 3.0MB down / 768K up? Do they have a low cost $20 / month option. I have a bad feeling some of us are going to be suffering from sticker shock.
No. The problem isn't the lack of a "tool". It's knowing what to do with the tool. A better hammer isn't going to help me build a house if I don't know how to build a house in the first place. I'll just be more efficient at creating a mess. Just like an being excellent coder doesn't guarantee that they can produce good software or having a better guitar makes one a better player.
i.e. The design detail mentioned in the grandparent refers to the Financial design not the technical design.
Actually, I think it's the "IBM" name Lenovo gets to use for 5 years. The Thinkpad name is Lenovo's to keep. See question #9 here http://www.pc.ibm.com/ww/customerqa.html/.
On the flipside, this could finally kill off the used textbook market for them. There's no way textbooks won't be protected by DRM and I'll bet the license does not include the right to resell. Of course, between your points and mine, all this probably means that electronic textbooks won't sell very well and paper will be here for a while longer.
Yes, the default is to download with iTunes but the above link is right there on the same page labeled as... QuickTime Standalone Installer (Darn that Apple, so evil).
So you're saying Apple has a monopoly on PCs? Obviously, you don't believe that. So you must think they have a monopoly on Operating Systems? No? Well, what exactly does Apple have a monopoly on then? OSX? A monopoly is defined based on controlling a market for a type of good or service, not based on being the sole producer of a particular product within that market. OSX is not a market. It's a product in a market, and has a pretty small market share at that.
So tell us. What does Apple have a monopoly on then? PC Hardware?..no. Operating Systems?..no.
I think you're implying Apple has a monopoly on OSX but that's like saying Ford has a monopoly on selling F150 pickup trucks. Monopolies are defined by controlling a market for a particular category of goods not any one particular implementation of that category.
So you're saying that by writing a virus we can get closer to God! That ought to make for interestingly named viruses. Forget CodeRed, watch out for that Holy Moses virus, it'll set your hard drive on fire and your computer will start speaking in tongues ( err, wait... mine does the latter already... darn BSOD). I had visions of the Virgin Mary too but it was just immaculate reception by my wireless card as I went past an unsecured hot-spot.
Well, without evolutionary biology we would all be blissfully unaware of the possiblity of avian flu mutating from a bird-to-human virus to a human-to-human virus. We'd just be scratching our heads wondering why an especially virulent flu started speading around the world. Evolutionary biology allows scientists to think about how the "here-and-now" might look in the future and to be able to prepare for it.
I wouldn't be so annoyed with the intelligent design croud if they didn't take advantage of the advances made by the very theories they declare to be invalid. So if all the fundamentalists want to show that they really believe in what they say they do, then they should give up vaccinations because modern virology is rooted in evolutionary biology. I don't expect that to happen because that would require a faith that I frankly don't think most of them are actually capable of.
I guess I didn't understand what you were trying to say, sorry. I do agree that all this illegitimate traffic has a real impact on the global communication environment. It seems the real lesson in all this is that human nature has changed very little. There's always a small minority that is willing to abuse the system for their own personal gain. It's like an extreme case of bad manners / unsportmanlike conduct / anti-social behaviour... whatever you want to call it.
Not French in fact. Agreement could not be reached on whether to use the abbreviation of the English word order, CUT (coordinated universal time), or the French word order, TUC (temps universel coordonné). So they compromised and picked UTC.
Well then, I suppose you don't mind when we take your computer and internet away. And your phone... and your paper and pencil. These all COULD be used for "subversive" activities. You know, it was much easier to control the serfs when they were illiterate and never traveled more than a days journey from where they were born and it was easy to spot an outsider.
In case you can't get past my sarcasm... I actually do think that there are some rights worth dying for. Obviously, you don't. Yes, the world can be a scary place but it's much better to be a little scared than to hide under a rock. We need to keep going out and enjoying the world and each other and spreading hope and good cheer in spite of ( or maybe I mean "to spite" )those that want to take this away from us. If you give in, you give up. If you give up, they win.
Nintendo said it would not discuss the details of how it works in an effort to prevent competitors from copying the design.
If this controller is a big hit it won't be too hard for Sony and MS to add one to their systems. Nintendo then loses what might be their main selling point. So in the end, it's still all about the games.
Ballmer: (to Bill via bad cell phone connection) Billy-boy, what are we going to do? They're getting more press than us this week.
Gates: Eh? Oh hell! ( as he spills his coffee on his lap and hangs up)
Ballmer: Well, ok if you say so.
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It's a little different than that. Verizon had a deal with Yahoo that allowed Verizon users to keep their "@verizon.net" email addresses but use Yahoo's email servers. You could log into Yahoo with "user@verizon.net" and get your verizon.net email through Yahoo's webmail interface. In fact, logging into Verizon's portal just redirects to Yahoo. In addition, your POP server was "incoming.yahoo.verizon.net" instead of the normal Verizon server. Fairpoint is not continuing this deal with Yahoo so now to access your new "@myfairpoint.net" email through a web browser you'll have to go to Fairpoint's web portal instead of Yahoo's and have to use Fairpoint's POP servers. If you have an "@yahoo.com" email address nothing is changing as far as I can tell.
Yeah, that might work in a controlled environment. However, doing this in the home environment gets very difficult to the point of being unworkable it seems. It gets particularly tricky if the vulnerable service is in some piece of the networking stack, which in Windows probably includes IE.
Holy tinfoil hat Batman, just because no one wants to buy it doesn't mean it's censorship. It's just a really badly written self-published piece of fiction.
How much do you pay for your DSL? Is it more than the $30 / month I pay to Verizon for 3.0MB down / 768K up? Do they have a low cost $20 / month option. I have a bad feeling some of us are going to be suffering from sticker shock.
OpenBSD will prevent the "sweet girl from procurements" from stealing toner cartridges (#9)??? Wow! Is it made by Ronco or the Swiss Army?
And the little answer is....
yes.
(and AIX and Windows too!)
No. The problem isn't the lack of a "tool". It's knowing what to do with the tool. A better hammer isn't going to help me build a house if I don't know how to build a house in the first place. I'll just be more efficient at creating a mess. Just like an being excellent coder doesn't guarantee that they can produce good software or having a better guitar makes one a better player.
i.e. The design detail mentioned in the grandparent refers to the Financial design not the technical design.
Do you only have 9 fingers?
Actually, I think it's the "IBM" name Lenovo gets to use for 5 years. The Thinkpad name is Lenovo's to keep. See question #9 here http://www.pc.ibm.com/ww/customerqa.html/.
On the flipside, this could finally kill off the used textbook market for them. There's no way textbooks won't be protected by DRM and I'll bet the license does not include the right to resell. Of course, between your points and mine, all this probably means that electronic textbooks won't sell very well and paper will be here for a while longer.
"One doesn't have any games, people keep saying the other will become the ultimate do everything media device."
You decide which is which.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/standalone .html/
Yes, the default is to download with iTunes but the above link is right there on the same page labeled as... QuickTime Standalone Installer (Darn that Apple, so evil).
So you're saying Apple has a monopoly on PCs? Obviously, you don't believe that. So you must think they have a monopoly on Operating Systems? No? Well, what exactly does Apple have a monopoly on then? OSX? A monopoly is defined based on controlling a market for a type of good or service, not based on being the sole producer of a particular product within that market. OSX is not a market. It's a product in a market, and has a pretty small market share at that.
I think you're implying Apple has a monopoly on OSX but that's like saying Ford has a monopoly on selling F150 pickup trucks. Monopolies are defined by controlling a market for a particular category of goods not any one particular implementation of that category.
So you're saying that by writing a virus we can get closer to God! That ought to make for interestingly named viruses. Forget CodeRed, watch out for that Holy Moses virus, it'll set your hard drive on fire and your computer will start speaking in tongues ( err, wait... mine does the latter already... darn BSOD). I had visions of the Virgin Mary too but it was just immaculate reception by my wireless card as I went past an unsecured hot-spot.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I wouldn't be so annoyed with the intelligent design croud if they didn't take advantage of the advances made by the very theories they declare to be invalid. So if all the fundamentalists want to show that they really believe in what they say they do, then they should give up vaccinations because modern virology is rooted in evolutionary biology. I don't expect that to happen because that would require a faith that I frankly don't think most of them are actually capable of.
For another view this is a good read: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-intro-to-biolo gy.html/
I guess I didn't understand what you were trying to say, sorry. I do agree that all this illegitimate traffic has a real impact on the global communication environment. It seems the real lesson in all this is that human nature has changed very little. There's always a small minority that is willing to abuse the system for their own personal gain. It's like an extreme case of bad manners / unsportmanlike conduct / anti-social behaviour... whatever you want to call it.
I think there's some US soldiers that would take issue with that statement! As much as you think fragging imaginary opponents is intense, it's not.
For more info see here: http://tf.nist.gov/general/misc.htm#Anchor-14550/
This concludes todays (off-topic) broadcast. Have a good evening.
Well then, I suppose you don't mind when we take your computer and internet away. And your phone... and your paper and pencil. These all COULD be used for "subversive" activities. You know, it was much easier to control the serfs when they were illiterate and never traveled more than a days journey from where they were born and it was easy to spot an outsider. In case you can't get past my sarcasm... I actually do think that there are some rights worth dying for. Obviously, you don't. Yes, the world can be a scary place but it's much better to be a little scared than to hide under a rock. We need to keep going out and enjoying the world and each other and spreading hope and good cheer in spite of ( or maybe I mean "to spite" )those that want to take this away from us. If you give in, you give up. If you give up, they win.
Oracle buys Siebel.
eBay buys Skype.
Ballmer: (to Bill via bad cell phone connection) Billy-boy, what are we going to do? They're getting more press than us this week.
Gates: Eh? Oh hell! ( as he spills his coffee on his lap and hangs up)
Ballmer: Well, ok if you say so.
You've never been on a Snipe hunt? You don't know what fun you're missing! I do feel for those poor little Snipe though...