You know, you have a point there. Apt-getting as well as urpmi --update --auto --auto-select on rpm-based systems, not to mention all of the iso's that are downloaded for fresh systems. Compound that with all of the distros out there and that's a sizable chunk of bandwidth. I actually find that using outside-of-the-US servers, when a new release is out there, ends up being faster than using U.S. and Canada servers because they seem to be the first to fill up.
Last night I apt-"got" around 50mb of stuff...well...because I could. Then for about 4 hours I played quake 3 on a UK server because I haven't played q3 in forever (still love that game). Oh, and that's just one of my six machines at home that are running 24/7 that all have apt-get running daily for updates or urpmi doing the same for the rpm-based systems...and I don't have a local repository for LAN apt-getting or rpms because I'm a bandwidth hog that likes to slow down the internet;P
So yeah, add my legit bandwidth to all of that p2p stuff the press is reporting on.
For the record - I used to use p2p for downloading music occasionally, but alas, the music has sucked so bad over the last few years, it's not even worth my time to download it. Let alone shell out a few bucks to have it legitimately...
As much as I dislike spammers, is 640 years appropriate for one man? He didn't even kill anyone. Maybe he should have gotten something more brutal, like 64000 hours of community service...as a tech support operator!
I agree. I hate spammers just as much as the next person, but computer crime sentences can get way out of hand. I think the punishment should be related to the crime. It would be much different if he DDoS'd a hospital network or something, which could've costed lives, but this is spam...more of an annoyance than anything.
As far as the 64000 hours of community service goes, something like that is a good idea. Don't just make him any tech support operator though...make him go to work as an AOL tech support operator. Mwahahaha!
LAMP is built for the do-it-yourself/tinkerer crowd, and therefore the average person will never be able to install, configure, or maintain a LAMP environment or application.
Does this mean all accounts are root users?! I'm referring to this screenshot. I've never used FreeBSD, but I would assume it uses a similar user structure as Linux. Someone enlighten me as to whether my assumptions are correct and if it's just this distro of BSD that handles user accounts this way.
This is one of the reasons why most home users have problems with Windows - everyone has admin access.
1. Create OS 2. React slowly when mass mailing worms affect said OS 3. Sue spammer because your OS was widely used as a spam host via worms 4. ??? 5. Profit!!!
Say a guy breaks into another guy's house, steals his gun, shoots the owner of the house with it (doesn't kill him) then shoots himself in the head. Does this mean the owner of the gun can now be held responsible for one count of suicide and attempted homocide? Let's not forget about charging the gun manufacturer too...and the bullet manufacturer...and the place that ored the metal to create the gun and the bullet...and then the NAACP will sue the gun manufacturer for allegedly making it too easy for criminals to get guns...and then my head will explode...and...
Just putting it in persepective. Yeah, it's a crazy scenario, but this is a crazily vague law too.
Microsoft was unable to comment in time for this article.
Quote from MS after discovery of vulnerability: "well, it *is* still in beta...and it's like...more secure than Windows XP...and did we mention it's still in beta and stuff like this doesn't happen after beta and...uh...ummmm...shit"
Just last week, I was going through my mail and found, like I do all the time, a set of balance transfer/cash/etc. checks for one of my credit cards. I opened it since I always shred these checks, and was surprised to find not only a set of my checks, but also someone else's.
Heh, earlier this morning, I threw up an article on my blog about junk mail - that crap is the WORST! It takes time out of my day to shred that kind of crap. I know a bit about mass mailers and how they work, so I threw this up. I'm hoping some will follow suit. Pardon the shameless plug. The most recent two articles pertain to junk mail.
I've created a PDF'd form letter I add with my return envelopes too which is also downloadable there. Enjoy.
but the chilling part is how your identity will now be dependent on multiple institutions protecting your personal information
The way I see it, all personal information I send to a particular company should be confidential and protected. Some if it they simply don't need. For instance, why the hell did the clerk at Hollywood Video ask for my SSN to open a damn account to rent movies?! They did not need my SSN and I sure as hell didn't give it to him either, but it makes me wonder how many people actually *have* given out their SSN just for a Hollywood Video account. Not good.
If a company does not protect my personal information and it gets stolen and/or misused, you bet your ass they'd see some backlash from me. The only bad thing is, it's hard to figure out exactly *which* company that held your personal information was compromised. It's certainly not like they're going to volunteer the fact that they were comprimised, otherwise you might take your business elsewhere (to a more responsible company). Just look at the millions of people who had their information on backup tapes "misplaced" by a UPS driver (posted on slashdot a while back) after the company was stupid enough to send that info via UPS to begin with.
Companies that have our personal information need to be held accountable on how they handle it and should be prosecuted to the fullest when they mishandle it.
Seriously, what does this even mean? Of the 250,000 that are vulnerable, 230,000 are vulnerable, 60,000 are vulnerable, and 13,000 are vulnerable.
You beat me to the punch. 10% of 2.5 million is 250,000. While the person who wrote the article might be a good writer, it stands to reason because they are terrible at math.
Anyways, that aside, if they identified 250,000 DNS servers with their rating scale, couldn't they at least let the admins of each of the 250,000 DNS servers know? Yeah, I know I'm going to hear "that's like 250,000 emails! OMGWTFBBQ!!1!", but obviously some people took the time to scan 250,000 DNS servers didn't they?
Yes, I know, the admins should be patching their servers, but for the greater good, maybe someone should let these morons (and their bosses) know that their servers might be vulnerable.
Doing a search under the "MP3" secion of the web site for Metallica, it appears that you have all sorts of items for your downloading pleasure.
Anyways, FTA:
Beijing New Picture Film Co., copyright owner of ``House of Flying Daggers,'' filed suit last month against Baidu for allowing users to download the movie for a fee...
So what they're saying is, they should've let them download it for free, right?
No, I'd say you're pretty close to right on - espeically when it comes to IT classes (my field). An example of how I got screwed is that you had to pay $170.00 for a Cisco learning packet, but it covered the part I class in the Fall and the part II class in the Winter. The thing is, they ended up not having the part II class in the Winter due to not enough people signing up. What they did next was really shitty - they made everyone buy a new book that next Fall as the "old one" was considered non-usable in the class. $170.00 for a 2 credit hour class:(
But last term, just about all of the books I needed were new editions (one had yet to even arrive at the bookstore for the first week of class).
Sounds like my last term. Books kick my ass when it comes to the overall cost of schooling.
Additionally, not everyone is willing to part with their books after taking a course (my dad for example still has ALL of his textbooks from university) Waterloo actually has a far lower turnover than other universities.
I keep ALL of my books - why should I spend $100.00 on a book when they'll only give me 25% of bookstore credit if I turn it back in to them...so they can turn around and sell the book for $70.00 as "used". Screw that noise. Besides, the IT books could still come in handy.
Anyways, my point was really just that they don't need the newest books there and used books (even a year or two old) would more than suffice compared to nothing at all. I wonder if halfoff really would ship there...
Why doesn't/. just mirror such links to sites where possible to prevent the/. effect from crashing the sites. Listing a site on/. is becoming a defacto DOS attack on it.
I think we will make a lot of progress against that in IE7 through our goal of removing the worst painful bugs that make our platform difficult to use for web developers.
However, all of the other painful bugs for everyone else will remain in place.
What is the most challenging part of your job? What keeps you up at night?
MacGibbon: Wrongdoing upsets me. It did when I was in the Australian Federal Police for 15 years and upsets me still: normal people don't get up in the morning and wonder how they can steal or trick someone. I won't rest until we can eliminate wrongdoing.
Yep, this is one huge PR session for eBay and "how they're doing everything to bring down fraudulent activity". The statistic of 1/100 of 1% is bullshit too. I've been scammed twice with what I thought were legit bids - not receiving my product and unable to get a refund (thanks PayPal).
Though I understand they can't stop all fraudulent activity on eBay, how about just cutting to the chase and saying "well, we hope it doesn't happen, but let's face it - it just does and half the time we can't do shit about it".
I cancelled my PayPal account quite some time ago because their "fees" are rediculous. eBay seems to be able to "double dip" all activity and that's not considered a bad deal - charging to put up an ad, then PayPal (owned by eBay) charging a portion of the sale to handle the transaction (which does *not* guarantee the transaction is truly legit). I guess that's how they pay for their security/PR manager though...
"The company is already taking $20,000 deposits for the estimated $200,000 seats on their new spaceships. You can reserve your seat today at the Virgin Galactic web site."
Will they accept a personal check the day of the launch?;)
In the past, I've found this list to be very handy in figuring out which services are simply unnecessary. While I don't agree that you want to shut down *all* services (I wanted my USB key to work...stuff like that), You can shut down a LOT of unnecessary garbage to help speed up the system and boot time...not to mention make things a little more secure.
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You know, you have a point there. Apt-getting as well as urpmi --update --auto --auto-select on rpm-based systems, not to mention all of the iso's that are downloaded for fresh systems. Compound that with all of the distros out there and that's a sizable chunk of bandwidth. I actually find that using outside-of-the-US servers, when a new release is out there, ends up being faster than using U.S. and Canada servers because they seem to be the first to fill up.
;P
Last night I apt-"got" around 50mb of stuff...well...because I could. Then for about 4 hours I played quake 3 on a UK server because I haven't played q3 in forever (still love that game). Oh, and that's just one of my six machines at home that are running 24/7 that all have apt-get running daily for updates or urpmi doing the same for the rpm-based systems...and I don't have a local repository for LAN apt-getting or rpms because I'm a bandwidth hog that likes to slow down the internet
So yeah, add my legit bandwidth to all of that p2p stuff the press is reporting on.
For the record - I used to use p2p for downloading music occasionally, but alas, the music has sucked so bad over the last few years, it's not even worth my time to download it. Let alone shell out a few bucks to have it legitimately...
I agree. I hate spammers just as much as the next person, but computer crime sentences can get way out of hand. I think the punishment should be related to the crime. It would be much different if he DDoS'd a hospital network or something, which could've costed lives, but this is spam...more of an annoyance than anything.
As far as the 64000 hours of community service goes, something like that is a good idea. Don't just make him any tech support operator though...make him go to work as an AOL tech support operator. Mwahahaha!
Nothing compared to what comes out of my butt on a daily basis...
Perhaps you've never heard of XAMPP?
This is one of the reasons why most home users have problems with Windows - everyone has admin access.
1. Create OS
2. React slowly when mass mailing worms affect said OS
3. Sue spammer because your OS was widely used as a spam host via worms
4. ???
5. Profit!!!
Just putting it in persepective. Yeah, it's a crazy scenario, but this is a crazily vague law too.
Quote from MS after discovery of vulnerability: "well, it *is* still in beta...and it's like...more secure than Windows XP...and did we mention it's still in beta and stuff like this doesn't happen after beta and...uh...ummmm...shit"
Heh, earlier this morning, I threw up an article on my blog about junk mail - that crap is the WORST! It takes time out of my day to shred that kind of crap. I know a bit about mass mailers and how they work, so I threw this up. I'm hoping some will follow suit. Pardon the shameless plug. The most recent two articles pertain to junk mail.
I've created a PDF'd form letter I add with my return envelopes too which is also downloadable there. Enjoy.
The way I see it, all personal information I send to a particular company should be confidential and protected. Some if it they simply don't need. For instance, why the hell did the clerk at Hollywood Video ask for my SSN to open a damn account to rent movies?! They did not need my SSN and I sure as hell didn't give it to him either, but it makes me wonder how many people actually *have* given out their SSN just for a Hollywood Video account. Not good.
If a company does not protect my personal information and it gets stolen and/or misused, you bet your ass they'd see some backlash from me. The only bad thing is, it's hard to figure out exactly *which* company that held your personal information was compromised. It's certainly not like they're going to volunteer the fact that they were comprimised, otherwise you might take your business elsewhere (to a more responsible company). Just look at the millions of people who had their information on backup tapes "misplaced" by a UPS driver (posted on slashdot a while back) after the company was stupid enough to send that info via UPS to begin with.
Companies that have our personal information need to be held accountable on how they handle it and should be prosecuted to the fullest when they mishandle it.
You beat me to the punch. 10% of 2.5 million is 250,000. While the person who wrote the article might be a good writer, it stands to reason because they are terrible at math.
Anyways, that aside, if they identified 250,000 DNS servers with their rating scale, couldn't they at least let the admins of each of the 250,000 DNS servers know? Yeah, I know I'm going to hear "that's like 250,000 emails! OMGWTFBBQ!!1!", but obviously some people took the time to scan 250,000 DNS servers didn't they?
Yes, I know, the admins should be patching their servers, but for the greater good, maybe someone should let these morons (and their bosses) know that their servers might be vulnerable.
Just my two pennies.
Dupe...and 12 minutes before the next article was posted. Me thinks someone hit the "Submit" button a bit prematurely.
Anyways, FTA:
Beijing New Picture Film Co., copyright owner of ``House of Flying Daggers,'' filed suit last month against Baidu for allowing users to download the movie for a fee...
So what they're saying is, they should've let them download it for free, right?
No, I'd say you're pretty close to right on - espeically when it comes to IT classes (my field). An example of how I got screwed is that you had to pay $170.00 for a Cisco learning packet, but it covered the part I class in the Fall and the part II class in the Winter. The thing is, they ended up not having the part II class in the Winter due to not enough people signing up. What they did next was really shitty - they made everyone buy a new book that next Fall as the "old one" was considered non-usable in the class. $170.00 for a 2 credit hour class :(
But last term, just about all of the books I needed were new editions (one had yet to even arrive at the bookstore for the first week of class).
Sounds like my last term. Books kick my ass when it comes to the overall cost of schooling.
Additionally, not everyone is willing to part with their books after taking a course (my dad for example still has ALL of his textbooks from university) Waterloo actually has a far lower turnover than other universities.
I keep ALL of my books - why should I spend $100.00 on a book when they'll only give me 25% of bookstore credit if I turn it back in to them...so they can turn around and sell the book for $70.00 as "used". Screw that noise. Besides, the IT books could still come in handy.
Anyways, my point was really just that they don't need the newest books there and used books (even a year or two old) would more than suffice compared to nothing at all. I wonder if halfoff really would ship there...
Maybe they can use their new PDA's to surf over to halfoff.com and buy some cheap books, eh?
Hmmmmm...this gives me an idea ! ;P
However, all of the other painful bugs for everyone else will remain in place.
Was it 1 volt? 1 watt? Call me shallow, but it could be much less impressive depending on the aforementioned questions.
Inquiring minds want to know...
MacGibbon: Wrongdoing upsets me. It did when I was in the Australian Federal Police for 15 years and upsets me still: normal people don't get up in the morning and wonder how they can steal or trick someone. I won't rest until we can eliminate wrongdoing.
Yep, this is one huge PR session for eBay and "how they're doing everything to bring down fraudulent activity". The statistic of 1/100 of 1% is bullshit too. I've been scammed twice with what I thought were legit bids - not receiving my product and unable to get a refund (thanks PayPal).
Though I understand they can't stop all fraudulent activity on eBay, how about just cutting to the chase and saying "well, we hope it doesn't happen, but let's face it - it just does and half the time we can't do shit about it".
I cancelled my PayPal account quite some time ago because their "fees" are rediculous. eBay seems to be able to "double dip" all activity and that's not considered a bad deal - charging to put up an ad, then PayPal (owned by eBay) charging a portion of the sale to handle the transaction (which does *not* guarantee the transaction is truly legit). I guess that's how they pay for their security/PR manager though...
Tinfoil suit, my friend...tinfoil suit.
If they request the money be set aside, it'll force SCO to put it's money where it's legal mouth is.
Will they accept a personal check the day of the launch? ;)
In the past, I've found this list to be very handy in figuring out which services are simply unnecessary. While I don't agree that you want to shut down *all* services (I wanted my USB key to work...stuff like that), You can shut down a LOT of unnecessary garbage to help speed up the system and boot time...not to mention make things a little more secure.
Now, let's talk BBS's - woohoo!
Hey, don't just assume us "old" people only use email and IM. I happen to use IRC which is about as "old" as me. ;)