My experience has been the opposite of this story summary. Have a 2 year old Dell (warranty expired) that needed Windows (XP Media Center) reloaded on it. Two weeks ago I look for the CDs and couldn't find them, realized they never came with the system. Googled around to this page[1] and ordered the recovery disks. Free of charge. Arrived 2 days later.
This is where services like Amazon's S3 makes sense (http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=16427261).
Traffic on demand and you only pay for what you use. Pricing is under $0.18 per GB transferred.
For example, Microsoft & Cisco, two of the richest companies on the planet generally don't pay taxes because they've been able to expense all the stock options they grant.
Yeah right. Take a look at MSFT's last 10-k filing. In 2002 MS paid over 3 Billion in corporate income taxes.
(b) Any person who commits an offense under section 506(a)(1) of title 17--
(1) shall be imprisoned not more than 5 years, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both, if the offense consists of the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of at least 10 copies or phonorecords, of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $2,500;
And check here:
http://www.cybercrime.gov/ipcases.htm
For the list of people who definately now understand it is a criminal matter.
Another experience. Since my state (Kansas) enacted theirs my calls have gone down enormously. "Surveys" however still slip through. They pitch a small 3 question survey about something meaningless, and then the next day I'm miraculously a "winner" of some cheap crap for having participated. Only catch is that they want to deliver it in person and sit down for a chat about some exciting travel opportunities in the comfort of my own home. Rediculous.
My question is, what happens if they violate this agreement? I mean what could MS possibly do the Chinese government is they (China) decides to modify, redistribute, or simply publish it? Are they (MS) gonna file lawsuits, pursuade the US to go after them, what? An American corp has essentually zero scare power when it comes to a foreign nation.
You bet. As a Windows user and former Netscape convert, I've been using the Mail side of Mozilla since day one. I connect it to a local imap server and am in email bliss. No other clients really stack up. Sure you have spellchecker problem, but hell the people I talk to regurlarly could give a flying fsck if the email was grammatically correct and spelling error free.
The bundling of the browser and email client has always appealed to me. When are you doing one and not doing the other? If surfing, I want to be notified of any new messages, and when reading email, I'll invariably have to click a link in a message to visit some site someone thinks is cool.
For you Win32 users, what email client do you use if not Mozilla mail? I once tried to read email in Oulook Express, but it had some kinda weird problem with my imap server and kept dropping the connection.
Lobbying againt the right wing republicans and ashcroft is a good thing
I don't think it's the republicans you have to worry about. The democrats have been the ones pushing this legislation. A couple recent examples including the p2p bill in question:
CBDTPA (Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act) -
Sponsored by Sen. Hollings (D-SC), co-sponsored by 4 other dems and one
republican.
P2P Bill - Sponsered by Rep. Howard Berman (D-Cal)
Also take a look at how the Music/Movie industry spends their money. 17 of the top 20 recipients are Democrat.
I'm familiar with dsniff, but I think you'll agree it's use is silly in an IDS/commercial web context (MITM with user getting cert doesn't match pop ups). I hadn't considered the SSL acceleration device though, that's a good point.
Suppose you run a website. You WILL be permitting 80/tcp through your firewall, probably also 443/tcp. Along comes the next worm that uses only http to gain entry to a system (Think CodeRed, Nimda && friends). How exactly is your firewall going to stop that sort of traffic? The answer you're searching for is, "it won't."
Ahh but if you are allowing 443/tcp, how exactly is your IDS going to detect that sort of traffic? Seeing how the session is encrypted. The answer you're searching for is, "it won't."
"Use of Mozilla's "quicklaunch" (AKA "turbo") mode may cause the deletion of user preferences. It is recommended that you do not run quicklaunch until this bug is fixed."
Checking bugilla shows a patch in the queue, here's hoping it makes it to one of the nightly's.
From the patent: the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for controlling the forwarding of data packets from a network device...
Seems obvious to me that this would affect a broad range of devices from switches to load-balancers to firewalls and would probably benefit a large group of corporations to begin either investigating prior art or ask Bay nicely to license the tech.
...running a dictionary file filled with common last names and append one or two letters after.
That could very well be the case, but have you also considered that the harvested email db the spammer is using is simply sorted alphabetically? They aren't 'generated' but rather bought from a harvester and sorted by alpha by domain and sent in chunks. I personally witness this behavior because my home email is not in a dictionary or a common name but a creation spawned by my wife's and my intials. So I see spam addressed to me that is in the middle of a sorted group that contains address that are much more dissimilar than the last two letters.
... As for stability, I think this report is correct, the only IDS I've used that didn't crash consistanty was snort (with ACID)
I can vouch for this also. About six months ago I setup a snort logging to mysql box at work to monitor our class-C and have had zero problems. It does take a while to tweak and prune things to eliminate all the portscan misdetects (any/any is certainly not advised) and such, but overall it's performed sweet. The price is right certainly, comparing it to those listed in the article. As far as console analysis, you simply cannot do without ACID as the parent said. Head to CERT and download a copy. My only complaint is that the db lookups perform a little sluggishly on the p2-233.:-)
b. Evidence of Registration and Use in Bad Faith. For the purposes of Paragraph 4(a)(iii), the following circumstances, in particular but without limitation, if found by the Panel to be present, shall be evidence of the registration and use of a domain name in bad faith:
(i) circumstances indicating that you have registered or you have acquired the domain name primarily for the purpose of selling, renting, or otherwise transferring the domain name registration to the complainant who is the owner of the trademark or service mark or to a competitor of that complainant, for valuable consideration in excess of your documented out-of-pocket costs directly related to the domain name; or
(ii) you have registered the domain name in order to prevent the owner of the trademark or service mark from reflecting the mark in a corresponding domain name, provided that you have engaged in a pattern of such conduct; or
(iii) you have registered the domain name primarily for the purpose of disrupting the business of a competitor; or
(iv) by using the domain name, you have intentionally attempted to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to your web site or other on-line location, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the complainant's mark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of your web site or location or of a product or service on your web site or location.
Why does everyone assume that WCOME is now going to go bankrupt?
Well for one reason their customers are going to put their business elsewhere. The CEO has made a big stink about how they haven't lost any of their big customers yet. The reason? It's too soon. Switching providers takes time, not only for planning but for waiting on contracts to expire. The company I work for (who spends tens of thousands every month on frame relay and long distance) is currently in the process of looking elsewhere and inviting reps from largish telecoms in to discuss how we move our business to them. Forget about the debt and "cash on hand" that the news stories are spewing. When their customer base is shaken as it is now they have an obligation to put their business in a company that appears more stable.
PaceBlade gave it the name "any key" because it solved the problem of having to hit a key during a blue screen. The screen, which sometimes reads "Hit any key to continue" can only be removed by hitting a key on a keyboard, which is difficult to do on a keyboard-less tablet PC. The "any key" button solves that problem.
I thought the "any key" was going to be a gimmicky conversation piece, but after reading the article it appears to simply be in anticipation of Win XP.
The settlement page indicates that you have to prove damages by producing a receipt showing that your computer was screwed up / unstable / unable to dial any other isp / etc. and you had to have it fixed. What money does a person get if they fix it themselves, or their granddaughter comes over and makes it all better?
Telco in general is cratering within the United States. The internet is crushing the old to make way for the new.
An example of this in my hometown (not necessarily being crushed by the Internet) but surely a sign of things to come, is that the local Cable company has begun offering digital voip for some time now, at significant cost savings, utilizing your existing phone wiring and simply replacing the box that hangs on the side of your house.
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My experience has been the opposite of this story summary. Have a 2 year old Dell (warranty expired) that needed Windows (XP Media Center) reloaded on it. Two weeks ago I look for the CDs and couldn't find them, realized they never came with the system. Googled around to this page[1] and ordered the recovery disks. Free of charge. Arrived 2 days later.
At least for Dell this appears to be a non-story.
[1]http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dellcare/en/backupcd_form?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&redirect=1
And at Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=558365
This is where services like Amazon's S3 makes sense (http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=16427261).
Traffic on demand and you only pay for what you use. Pricing is under $0.18 per GB transferred.
For example, Microsoft & Cisco, two of the richest companies on the planet generally don't pay taxes because they've been able to expense all the stock options they grant.
Yeah right. Take a look at MSFT's last 10-k filing. In 2002 MS paid over 3 Billion in corporate income taxes.
MSFT 2002 10-K
Yeah right. I suggest you read this:
http://www.cybercrime.gov/18usc2319.htm
(b) Any person who commits an offense under section 506(a)(1) of title 17--
(1) shall be imprisoned not more than 5 years, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both, if the offense consists of the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of at least 10 copies or phonorecords, of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $2,500;
And check here:
http://www.cybercrime.gov/ipcases.htm
For the list of people who definately now understand it is a criminal matter.
So, what you are saying is that "i" in the begining of any word is a trademark of Apple, right? Since when?
Yeah, that's as silly as saying McDonald's will sue anyone trying to use anything beginning with "Mc". Oh wait...
Another experience. Since my state (Kansas) enacted theirs my calls have gone down enormously. "Surveys" however still slip through. They pitch a small 3 question survey about something meaningless, and then the next day I'm miraculously a "winner" of some cheap crap for having participated. Only catch is that they want to deliver it in person and sit down for a chat about some exciting travel opportunities in the comfort of my own home. Rediculous.
My question is, what happens if they violate this agreement? I mean what could MS possibly do the Chinese government is they (China) decides to modify, redistribute, or simply publish it? Are they (MS) gonna file lawsuits, pursuade the US to go after them, what? An American corp has essentually zero scare power when it comes to a foreign nation.
You bet. As a Windows user and former Netscape convert, I've been using the Mail side of Mozilla since day one. I connect it to a local imap server and am in email bliss. No other clients really stack up. Sure you have spellchecker problem, but hell the people I talk to regurlarly could give a flying fsck if the email was grammatically correct and spelling error free. The bundling of the browser and email client has always appealed to me. When are you doing one and not doing the other? If surfing, I want to be notified of any new messages, and when reading email, I'll invariably have to click a link in a message to visit some site someone thinks is cool. For you Win32 users, what email client do you use if not Mozilla mail? I once tried to read email in Oulook Express, but it had some kinda weird problem with my imap server and kept dropping the connection.
Lobbying againt the right wing republicans and ashcroft is a good thing
I don't think it's the republicans you have to worry about. The democrats have been the ones pushing this legislation. A couple recent examples including the p2p bill in question:
CBDTPA (Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act) - Sponsored by Sen. Hollings (D-SC), co-sponsored by 4 other dems and one republican.
P2P Bill - Sponsered by Rep. Howard Berman (D-Cal)
Also take a look at how the Music/Movie industry spends their money. 17 of the top 20 recipients are Democrat.
TV/Movies/Music: Top 20 Recipients
Now who would you say is in the back pocket of the Movie/Music business?
I'm familiar with dsniff, but I think you'll agree it's use is silly in an IDS/commercial web context (MITM with user getting cert doesn't match pop ups). I hadn't considered the SSL acceleration device though, that's a good point.
Suppose you run a website. You WILL be permitting 80/tcp through your firewall, probably also 443/tcp. Along comes the next worm that uses only http to gain entry to a system (Think CodeRed, Nimda && friends). How exactly is your firewall going to stop that sort of traffic? The answer you're searching for is, "it won't."
Ahh but if you are allowing 443/tcp, how exactly is your IDS going to detect that sort of traffic? Seeing how the session is encrypted. The answer you're searching for is, "it won't."
Might check the following when Slashdot did an earlier article on a "Geek Food" cookbook by arstechnica.
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/01/14232
"Use of Mozilla's "quicklaunch" (AKA "turbo") mode may cause the deletion of user preferences. It is recommended that you do not run quicklaunch until this bug is fixed."
Checking bugilla shows a patch in the queue, here's hoping it makes it to one of the nightly's.
From the patent: the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for controlling the forwarding of data packets from a network device...
Seems obvious to me that this would affect a broad range of devices from switches to load-balancers to firewalls and would probably benefit a large group of corporations to begin either investigating prior art or ask Bay nicely to license the tech.
...running a dictionary file filled with common last names and append one or two letters after.
That could very well be the case, but have you also considered that the harvested email db the spammer is using is simply sorted alphabetically? They aren't 'generated' but rather bought from a harvester and sorted by alpha by domain and sent in chunks. I personally witness this behavior because my home email is not in a dictionary or a common name but a creation spawned by my wife's and my intials. So I see spam addressed to me that is in the middle of a sorted group that contains address that are much more dissimilar than the last two letters.
I can vouch for this also. About six months ago I setup a snort logging to mysql box at work to monitor our class-C and have had zero problems. It does take a while to tweak and prune things to eliminate all the portscan misdetects (any/any is certainly not advised) and such, but overall it's performed sweet. The price is right certainly, comparing it to those listed in the article. As far as console analysis, you simply cannot do without ACID as the parent said. Head to CERT and download a copy. My only complaint is that the db lookups perform a little sluggishly on the p2-233.
b. Evidence of Registration and Use in Bad Faith. For the purposes of Paragraph 4(a)(iii), the following circumstances, in particular but without limitation, if found by the Panel to be present, shall be evidence of the registration and use of a domain name in bad faith:
(i) circumstances indicating that you have registered or you have acquired the domain name primarily for the purpose of selling, renting, or otherwise transferring the domain name registration to the complainant who is the owner of the trademark or service mark or to a competitor of that complainant, for valuable consideration in excess of your documented out-of-pocket costs directly related to the domain name; or
(ii) you have registered the domain name in order to prevent the owner of the trademark or service mark from reflecting the mark in a corresponding domain name, provided that you have engaged in a pattern of such conduct; or
(iii) you have registered the domain name primarily for the purpose of disrupting the business of a competitor; or
(iv) by using the domain name, you have intentionally attempted to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to your web site or other on-line location, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the complainant's mark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of your web site or location or of a product or service on your web site or location.
Tab completion is one of my favorite interface inventions ever.
Agreed. But you can have this in windows too. A simple registry change will enable this functionality on win2k for example by changing the following:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Command Processor/CompletionCharacter
Set this to 9 and you'll be be command completion heaven.
Why does everyone assume that WCOME is now going to go bankrupt?
Well for one reason their customers are going to put their business elsewhere. The CEO has made a big stink about how they haven't lost any of their big customers yet. The reason? It's too soon. Switching providers takes time, not only for planning but for waiting on contracts to expire. The company I work for (who spends tens of thousands every month on frame relay and long distance) is currently in the process of looking elsewhere and inviting reps from largish telecoms in to discuss how we move our business to them. Forget about the debt and "cash on hand" that the news stories are spewing. When their customer base is shaken as it is now they have an obligation to put their business in a company that appears more stable.
PaceBlade gave it the name "any key" because it solved the problem of having to hit a key during a blue screen. The screen, which sometimes reads "Hit any key to continue" can only be removed by hitting a key on a keyboard, which is difficult to do on a keyboard-less tablet PC. The "any key" button solves that problem.
I thought the "any key" was going to be a gimmicky conversation piece, but after reading the article it appears to simply be in anticipation of Win XP.
What a non-news article. I've had more meat at a PETA convention.
The settlement page indicates that you have to prove damages by producing a receipt showing that your computer was screwed up / unstable / unable to dial any other isp / etc. and you had to have it fixed. What money does a person get if they fix it themselves, or their granddaughter comes over and makes it all better?
Dell still sells boxes preloaded with RedHat. Although I only find it on there "Precision" line. http://www.dell.com/us/en/bsd/products/minicat_pre cn_340l.htm
Telco in general is cratering within the United States. The internet is crushing the old to make way for the new.
An example of this in my hometown (not necessarily being crushed by the Internet) but surely a sign of things to come, is that the local Cable company has begun offering digital voip for some time now, at significant cost savings, utilizing your existing phone wiring and simply replacing the box that hangs on the side of your house.