I think Firefox users are still more likely to perform those updates along the way. The majority of Firefox early adopters tend to have a high enough technical knowledge to perform updates. I would imagine that share of users using outdated Firefox versions are very small. Regarding your point about Linux users, if they aren't updating their systems regularly, the problem is between the keyboard and chair.
But I would also like to apply your point to IE users. I've run into tons of people that still use IE6 with no security updates. With the tons of security exploits out there for that, I would say they are more vulnerable. I would say there are more users of outdated IE versions than there are of older Firefox versions and that makes the IE users a juicier target for attackers.
In fact I inherited a dozen keyboards once and they were all a mess. Tossed 'em in my dishwasher and dried on my drier rack for 24 hours. They all worked perfectly. Real easy and hardly any work. I then used them on some budget system builds for people. They still work a year later.
Errata
Errata has developed another network sniffer that looks for traffic using 25 protocols
Wire Shark
Hundreds of protocols are supported, with more being added all the time.
Wireshark's most powerful feature is its vast array of display filters (over 51000 as of version 0.99.5).
Something isn't adding up for Errata having more.
Normally people complain that Wireshark looks at too many protocols and presents a network vulnerability.
"That way you could point someone at a quote, or a section, or a page, even just a phrase, without the need for them to download the entire thing."
I could see some real value in what you are saying. I would love to be able to link to portions of s technical book or favorite fiction book. I could see how that would be a good selling attribute. It would really pique my interest in purchasing a book, if I saw some good parts linked on a blog or other online medium.
The Wii will get DVD playback in 2007. It appears Nintendo decided to save money for the initial consoles. Sonic Solutions, makers of Roxio CD- and DVD-burning software will be making the software to enable DVD playback on the Wii.
Most congressional districts are so gerrymandered that there are only a handful of seats that are truly in competition.
There is only so much hacking of votes one could do without it being obvious, in this election.
The few districts that have actual competition is where I'd watch out for.
If you really want to show your discontent with how corrupt the system is: Vote Libertarian.
The best part is, you can point out how corrupt both parties are and go away with a clean conscience.
Military IT guy here. I saw the article before it was on slashdot and just laughed.
To the majority of the military anything not Wintell is evil. In addition P2P software? Do you have any idea how closed military networks are? This is just funny. This software would never be used directly by the military.
The only case I can imagine this being used would be by a contrator. Even then if we need processing of that magnitude we get contrators with the apropriate resources.
I have no worries that this will be effecting the US military any time soon.
Google had the opportunity to buy MySpace before NewsCorp. Deals dissolved and I remember Google stating it wasn't anything they couldn't do themselves.
Makes you think if anyone is kicking themselves in the butt over not buying them as opposed to paying just to be the sole search and ad provider.
From the start I felt MySpace and Google are a perfect match. A site that needs good search capability and a provider that can provide it (and needs millions of people to look at their ads).
In addition I hate the MySpace ads. Maybe some content oriented Google ads will be less evasive.
And it includes Gunfire, Melee, Bows and all sorts of other combat.
There are ways to make the combat systems work. Sci-Fi MMORPG's haven't succeded due to crappy development and ugly player experience. If someone made a unique concept sci-fi game and created a nice player experience... then the players would arrive. In addition it seems to take a certain critical mass of players for a MMORG to self sustain it's customer base. Until a MMORPG does, it requires a large amount of advertising to reach out to potential players.
Actually as I look at the NCsoft site, they have three recent SciFi games that look good.
http://www.plaync.com/us/games/
Only time will tell if any of them take of as much as some of thier other titles.
It's amazing the lengths we have to go through to keep a windows pc secure.
On my Windows XP box I run Firefox with Adblock installed and Spybot and I edit my host file to block sites that get past any of those. That's not even counting my virus utilities and a firewall.
The amount of computer knowledge that is needed to keep a windows pc secure is much more advanced than what it takes to run an install of just about any Linux distro out there.
At least with the popularity of MySpace and this exploit, I'll finally convince my less tech savy co-workers to update windows and run a spyware detector. It will freak them out when I tell them their beloved MySpace installed that adware/trojan.
Firefox and Spybot for them all! The thought makes me smile!
Communication is pretty much line of sight in Iraq.
When can we get a few of these out here?
It would be great for tactical reasons. It would make it much easier to maintain radio como. It would also be cool if they could piggy back Radio and TV on it. There are still many blackout areas in this country.
There is not only one but there are two military nets. NIPPERnet and SIPPERnet. Wach out that might blow his mind.
But on to my main responce. This whole net neutrality arguement should be a non issue. The main basis for the verizon and Bell's claim is that they own the "last mile". Which they don't. The last mile was largly constructed not by the present Bells, but the Bell System. When it was a government regulated monoploy, that wouldn't have been able to build that "last mile" without that government protection. Sence the break up of the Bells this is all shared property and can't be resold. The present Bells are stretching on a limb for ownership.
Over the years the government has poured money it to the telecoms through Tax breaks and partnerships. The ISP's should be giving me 45 MB/s before they ask for more. *SEE* http://muniwireless.com/community/1023
The government needs to stop taking it up the butt from the telcos. The U.S. is far behind other countries in bandwidth and it's not due to a lack of funding. Everytime I hear how the Telcos want to double or triple tap the costomer for money, it just makes me sick.
Write your representative... hopefully they know how to open an e-mail. Tell them to say no to the telcoms stealing more money from the American people.
Back in '99 I drove an EV 1 a bit. I found it to be very "futuristic feeling". It also had great acceleration and handeling. My only holdbacks were passenger/baggage space and distance. I couldn't even really drive the thing to work and back without a charge. If I needed to carry a few things there was no space for it.
There were many factors that lead to the collapse of the EV1 and all are debateble. Al I can say is, that I as a consumer would only buy an electric car under a few circumstances. 1. Improved range. 2. Quick charging 3. Improved cargo/passenger space. 4. Wide infastructure of charging units in place. I don't fore see any of those factors happening soon. I can sooner imagine fuel cell and hybrid technology further advancing. Heck the US would probabily start refining oil shale before it built an infrastructure of charging stations.
As a government employee,I often find myself needing to search various sites for regulations and policies. Often these sites are outdated and have many broken links. I hope that as Google is making.gov web administrators aware of this, that those administrators might update their content occasionally. It's astounding how often I have to search through pages of bogus outdated content. I can understand a few months old, but 4-6 years! I hope as they realize their content is being used, that they will update it for guys like me.
Ultra Precision - nope
Ultra Clickable - nope (only needed when I play Diablo II)
Overpriced Aesthetics - I'm a geek, if I want aesthetics I'll mod it somehow.
More buttons than a mouse can possibly hold - Definitely needed for lot's of key binds.
This mouse meets none of my criterion. I think it would do just as well as any other mouse. It would probabily be less usable than the five button Intellimouse I got four years ago.
My review: Stick with what you have.
This is a joke, only a joke!
I'm surprised more people on/. haven't seen this guy before.
I found his Linux reviews funnier.
I imagine this is what happens when a geek get's high on something.
http://weblog.henrytheadequate.com/?cat=5
"Also, if you have any version of Microsoft Windows on the computer it's best to choose the option to wipe the entire drive. This is because the viral nature of Windows will cause it to leak over onto the Fedora partition. That would be very dangerous, and might even result in an explosion, or a fire. Fire is beautiful. I love fire.... Anyway..." -Henry
Well as another soldier in the sandbox, I felt I should check all those links. All worked with the exception of www.alfrankenshow.com for which I received our standard network answer:
Access Denied (policy denied)Your system policy has denied access to the requested URL. For assistance, contact your network support team.
I'm an Army sergeant on an Air Force network in southern Iraq. I am one of the Computer Support Administrators on the Air Force net. I find that most of our network rules are for COMSEC (communication security) and bandwidth saving rules. Heavy emphasis on bandwidth saving. Internet service out here is limited and expensive. The personal internet I have in my trailer was set up by a local Sheik and costs us 1,500 a month for a slow satellite connection split 30 ways. I have not run into any site that won't load there. The internet at work is for work purposes primarily. So I can understand why we have to block many of the bandwidth intensive sites and applications that are not work related. I don't believe there are any preference made for political bias.
While it would be cool if Google released it's own OS commercially.... I highly doubt it will in the near future. I'd wait to see if Ubuntu adopts GPL 3. With Googles heavy investments in it's DRM dependent services it would need a Linux distro without GPL 3. But on another note... this does make a nice semi-endorsement for Ubuntu. I just ordered that distro the other day and I'm anxious for it to arrive. I'm using a satelite connection in Iraq so downloading it was out of the question.
-I started using a cell phone and cable connection a year ago and havn't looked back.
All my friends thought I was wierd but I all ways told them it was the way of the future.
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I think Firefox users are still more likely to perform those updates along the way. The majority of Firefox early adopters tend to have a high enough technical knowledge to perform updates. I would imagine that share of users using outdated Firefox versions are very small. Regarding your point about Linux users, if they aren't updating their systems regularly, the problem is between the keyboard and chair.
But I would also like to apply your point to IE users. I've run into tons of people that still use IE6 with no security updates. With the tons of security exploits out there for that, I would say they are more vulnerable. I would say there are more users of outdated IE versions than there are of older Firefox versions and that makes the IE users a juicier target for attackers.
I've done this many times.
In fact I inherited a dozen keyboards once and they were all a mess. Tossed 'em in my dishwasher and dried on my drier rack for 24 hours. They all worked perfectly. Real easy and hardly any work. I then used them on some budget system builds for people. They still work a year later.
Errata Errata has developed another network sniffer that looks for traffic using 25 protocols
Wire Shark Hundreds of protocols are supported, with more being added all the time.
Wireshark's most powerful feature is its vast array of display filters (over 51000 as of version 0.99.5).
Something isn't adding up for Errata having more.
Normally people complain that Wireshark looks at too many protocols and presents a network vulnerability.
"That way you could point someone at a quote, or a section, or a page, even just a phrase, without the need for them to download the entire thing."
I could see some real value in what you are saying. I would love to be able to link to portions of s technical book or favorite fiction book. I could see how that would be a good selling attribute. It would really pique my interest in purchasing a book, if I saw some good parts linked on a blog or other online medium.
...Looks under T.V. and notices a $27.99 Progressive DVD player. Yeah I know what you mean.
Link to the article.
And to think I have no mod points at the moment to mod you up. That really deserves a +5 funny. Or I might just be easily amused.
Most congressional districts are so gerrymandered that there are only a handful of seats that are truly in competition.
There is only so much hacking of votes one could do without it being obvious, in this election.
The few districts that have actual competition is where I'd watch out for.
If you really want to show your discontent with how corrupt the system is: Vote Libertarian.
The best part is, you can point out how corrupt both parties are and go away with a clean conscience.
Military IT guy here. I saw the article before it was on slashdot and just laughed.
To the majority of the military anything not Wintell is evil. In addition P2P software? Do you have any idea how closed military networks are? This is just funny. This software would never be used directly by the military.
The only case I can imagine this being used would be by a contrator. Even then if we need processing of that magnitude we get contrators with the apropriate resources.
I have no worries that this will be effecting the US military any time soon.
Google had the opportunity to buy MySpace before NewsCorp. Deals dissolved and I remember Google stating it wasn't anything they couldn't do themselves.
Makes you think if anyone is kicking themselves in the butt over not buying them as opposed to paying just to be the sole search and ad provider.
From the start I felt MySpace and Google are a perfect match. A site that needs good search capability and a provider that can provide it (and needs millions of people to look at their ads).
In addition I hate the MySpace ads. Maybe some content oriented Google ads will be less evasive.
I know it's in it's own catagory but...
I like playing City of Heroes.
And it includes Gunfire, Melee, Bows and all sorts of other combat.
There are ways to make the combat systems work. Sci-Fi MMORPG's haven't succeded due to crappy development and ugly player experience. If someone made a unique concept sci-fi game and created a nice player experience... then the players would arrive. In addition it seems to take a certain critical mass of players for a MMORG to self sustain it's customer base. Until a MMORPG does, it requires a large amount of advertising to reach out to potential players.
Actually as I look at the NCsoft site, they have three recent SciFi games that look good.
http://www.plaync.com/us/games/
Only time will tell if any of them take of as much as some of thier other titles.
It's amazing the lengths we have to go through to keep a windows pc secure.
On my Windows XP box I run Firefox with Adblock installed and Spybot and I edit my host file to block sites that get past any of those. That's not even counting my virus utilities and a firewall.
The amount of computer knowledge that is needed to keep a windows pc secure is much more advanced than what it takes to run an install of just about any Linux distro out there.
At least with the popularity of MySpace and this exploit, I'll finally convince my less tech savy co-workers to update windows and run a spyware detector. It will freak them out when I tell them their beloved MySpace installed that adware/trojan.
Firefox and Spybot for them all! The thought makes me smile!
Communication is pretty much line of sight in Iraq.
When can we get a few of these out here?
It would be great for tactical reasons. It would make it much easier to maintain radio como. It would also be cool if they could piggy back Radio and TV on it. There are still many blackout areas in this country.
Sorry typing quickly from my NIPRnet connection and spelled it phonetically.
There is not only one but there are two military nets. NIPPERnet and SIPPERnet. Wach out that might blow his mind.
But on to my main responce. This whole net neutrality arguement should be a non issue. The main basis for the verizon and Bell's claim is that they own the "last mile". Which they don't. The last mile was largly constructed not by the present Bells, but the Bell System. When it was a government regulated monoploy, that wouldn't have been able to build that "last mile" without that government protection. Sence the break up of the Bells this is all shared property and can't be resold. The present Bells are stretching on a limb for ownership.
Over the years the government has poured money it to the telecoms through Tax breaks and partnerships. The ISP's should be giving me 45 MB/s before they ask for more. *SEE* http://muniwireless.com/community/1023
The government needs to stop taking it up the butt from the telcos. The U.S. is far behind other countries in bandwidth and it's not due to a lack of funding. Everytime I hear how the Telcos want to double or triple tap the costomer for money, it just makes me sick.
Write your representative... hopefully they know how to open an e-mail. Tell them to say no to the telcoms stealing more money from the American people.
Back in '99 I drove an EV 1 a bit. I found it to be very "futuristic feeling". It also had great acceleration and handeling. My only holdbacks were passenger/baggage space and distance. I couldn't even really drive the thing to work and back without a charge. If I needed to carry a few things there was no space for it. There were many factors that lead to the collapse of the EV1 and all are debateble. Al I can say is, that I as a consumer would only buy an electric car under a few circumstances. 1. Improved range. 2. Quick charging 3. Improved cargo/passenger space. 4. Wide infastructure of charging units in place. I don't fore see any of those factors happening soon. I can sooner imagine fuel cell and hybrid technology further advancing. Heck the US would probabily start refining oil shale before it built an infrastructure of charging stations.
As a government employee,I often find myself needing to search various sites for regulations and policies. Often these sites are outdated and have many broken links. I hope that as Google is making .gov web administrators aware of this, that those administrators might update their content occasionally. It's astounding how often I have to search through pages of bogus outdated content. I can understand a few months old, but 4-6 years! I hope as they realize their content is being used, that they will update it for guys like me.
Ultra Precision - nope Ultra Clickable - nope (only needed when I play Diablo II) Overpriced Aesthetics - I'm a geek, if I want aesthetics I'll mod it somehow. More buttons than a mouse can possibly hold - Definitely needed for lot's of key binds. This mouse meets none of my criterion. I think it would do just as well as any other mouse. It would probabily be less usable than the five button Intellimouse I got four years ago. My review: Stick with what you have.
This is a joke, only a joke! I'm surprised more people on /. haven't seen this guy before.
I found his Linux reviews funnier.
I imagine this is what happens when a geek get's high on something.
http://weblog.henrytheadequate.com/?cat=5
"Also, if you have any version of Microsoft Windows on the computer it's best to choose the option to wipe the entire drive. This is because the viral nature of Windows will cause it to leak over onto the Fedora partition. That would be very dangerous, and might even result in an explosion, or a fire. Fire is beautiful. I love fire.... Anyway..." -Henry
Well as another soldier in the sandbox, I felt I should check all those links. All worked with the exception of www.alfrankenshow.com for which I received our standard network answer: Access Denied (policy denied)Your system policy has denied access to the requested URL. For assistance, contact your network support team. I'm an Army sergeant on an Air Force network in southern Iraq. I am one of the Computer Support Administrators on the Air Force net. I find that most of our network rules are for COMSEC (communication security) and bandwidth saving rules. Heavy emphasis on bandwidth saving. Internet service out here is limited and expensive. The personal internet I have in my trailer was set up by a local Sheik and costs us 1,500 a month for a slow satellite connection split 30 ways. I have not run into any site that won't load there. The internet at work is for work purposes primarily. So I can understand why we have to block many of the bandwidth intensive sites and applications that are not work related. I don't believe there are any preference made for political bias.
While it would be cool if Google released it's own OS commercially .... I highly doubt it will in the near future. I'd wait to see if Ubuntu adopts GPL 3. With Googles heavy investments in it's DRM dependent services it would need a Linux distro without GPL 3. But on another note... this does make a nice semi-endorsement for Ubuntu. I just ordered that distro the other day and I'm anxious for it to arrive. I'm using a satelite connection in Iraq so downloading it was out of the question.
-I started using a cell phone and cable connection a year ago and havn't looked back. All my friends thought I was wierd but I all ways told them it was the way of the future.