Actually, there is overhead to decrypt data. It doesn't matter how efficient you can make that process, it requires either the CPU to do the decodes or some chip in some device to do the decodes. Both take power. As technology gets better over time, the ability to run the HD discs on a laptop will become more and more feasible. Its just how things work. How many first generation DVD drives in laptops had stellar battery performance?
I also have Comcast, I was able to send email over SMTP (port 25) any time I pleased. That was until my brother decided to bring over his virus ridden, spam spewing, zombified windows machine over and hook it up to my network (while he was house sitting). They promptly blocked port 25, I got home and couldn't send email.
I had to call their very rude Security Something Department, they said my options were 1. 'Use a different port because other ports can be secured while port 25 cannot be secured.' 2. Use the Comcast alternate port SMTP-AUTH Server (of which I don't know my login/password for)
I told them I wanted option 3: 3. Re-open port 25.
They decided to tell me that they could as a ONE TIME courtesy re-open the port, but 'it will probably be blocked again because the problem that caused it to be blocked probably wasn't fixed' (even after I told them that I had found the problem and fixed it, in addition to monitored all transmissions over port 25 for an hour)... So I fixed my OpenBSD firewall pf rules to only allow 'trusted' computers to only be able to contact MY email server, and access the whole internet unfettered, the 'guest' machines have access to web and a handful of other ports (none of which is 25)...
Moral of the story: Stop using windows.../flamebait
OEMs love Vista so much because its probably slightly cheaper and has a longer 'supported' lifetime compared to XP Home. If I were building OEM machines (I do sometimes), I would sell Vista Home Premium (~$110 from newegg) instead of XP Pro (~$140 from newegg), both of which would be supported and have bugs patched for a longer period of time. XP Home has always sucked and with its end of life, I wouldn't be caught dead supporting something that has been dropped by Microsoft.
Bottom Line: It's because XP support is being dropped by Microsoft in the near future.
If I remember correctly, the SSID is also part of the encryption scheme, even if it is not, it is yet one more detail that somebody would have to figure out to connect to your wireless network. This keeps most of the casual script kiddies off your network. Most consumer models wouldn't help to much in keeping your network secure against somebody who is talented in the black art of network penetration.
By the way, Vista will show (or something like that, going off of memory) for WANs with SSID broadcast disabled.
I don't know everything, nor do I usually claim to...
You sound like you are in the wrong type of company. I believe that most every startup company would be looking for somebody who can wear many different hats and be proficient at each hat. You should consider sitting down and thinking through problems that you could solve that will make you money and start pursuing that after finding a buddy or two to go down that route with you...
One of the most important things about startup employees is the ability to do many different things well, not to be a specialist.
Of the 700 or so that was guilty "of something", none were found to be "terrorists".
This reminds me of the whole NSA's illegal "secret closets" of analysis equipment located in major telcos across the US. Does anybody remember the ongoing AT&T lawsuit that the government keeps trying to quell?
The NSA has put all this "spying" equipment in the telcos to look for terrorists. How many terrorists have they caught with this system? I would say near-zero, if anything above zero, its pure luck.
Hmm, sounds like somebody didn't have parent's like mine, when being home 5 minutes late caused 2 weeks of grounding. God knows what would have happened if I ended up in detention...
We need more upset corporations starting to hate Microsoft in order for things to change. I know many people that buy a Windows PC at home because they use Windows at work (my father is one of them, I have however managed to get them a Macbook and a Linux box instead of more XP machines I would have to routinely fix every 2 months). Corporate switches to Linux because of bad MS practices will bring a level of adoption to Linux and other OSes higher.
I don't understand how this 'patch' would cause WGA to fail, as this is just a hook into the system that cleans up a call to ShellExecute(). It isn't like a patch to an existing DLL or something that would cause checksums to fail on your system.
Anyway, I'm glad to see that somebody tried to do something because of Microsoft's inaction. There are people out there that are forced to use Windows and this patch could definitely help hold them over until Microsoft gets their crap together. This patch just registers a DLL and a hook into the system, easily installed and easily removed (assuming it doesn't actually bork your system).
Anyway, Microsoft would be stupid to fail WGA on people if anything is hooked into the system (think of Antivirus scanners, sysinternals tools (which were only recently acquired/purchased my MS), and other system utilities and hooks)
Don't forget that lawsuits and appeals cost a large sum of MONEY. Which they were ordered to pay said large sum of money to Verizon and Sprint. I'm sure they may go this route due only to the fact that they don't have the liquid cash to appeal.
I really hope for the sake of every other VoIP provider and consumer out there in the world that this fight could be continued and these 'patents' overturned because they are not valid.
God love the Government, it is actually common practice for people in the Govt (my experience was with the US Air Force) to send an email out that literally said: "Email is currently down, we will let you know when it has come back up" - and they do of course send out another email later when Email comes back up. You get 2 emails right after another, one saying Email is down ("No freaking way!") and one saying Email is up...
Remember the outage affects the western part of the US, last I checked Washington DC is on the EAST coast, which probably means you weren't affected...
I personally agree that it is very easy to get running with beagle on Ubuntu (I use Ubuntu 6.06LTS currently), type a few commands, click a few options, buttons, etc and presto: you have beagle on your deskbar.
However this is how you have to setup this in OSX:
Click the spotlight icon, start typing
You cannot deny the fact that the whole premise behind OSX is making useful things dead simple to use - if you have to install it, set it up, drag stuff somewhere, it isn't dead simple. Think about dashboard, same concept, double click the wdgt file downloaded from the internet, it switches you to dashboard where you get a preview of the widget and are allowed to accept or deny the installation. All this took was 1 double click on the wdgt file, and one click on accept or deny.
I agree with the whole treat your employees as people is the best way to gain loyalty. It also helps to keep burocracy out of the picture, it seems when a company starts bringing in the "Experienced" managers, the free beer goes out the window and loyalty takes a huge nose dive. Mainly because it is no longer fun to work there anymore. When you become a slave to a paycheck, the company's risk of an inside job increases.
BTW, I have the pleasure of working for a beer in the fridge workplace...
The biggest reason why a person with a Business degree will succeed better than one with a CS degree is that most software is written in a business context. It does you no good knowing your Calculus and Linear Algebra when you are developing an ERP system. Knowing about customer relationship management, marketing, business economics, accounting, etc offers more insight into this business software than the usual Computer Science courses.
Of course those working at a lower level of software (OS, Kernel, CLib, etc) the Computer Science courses make more sense. An Electrical Engineer will offer a lot of knowledge and succeed better in the realm of hardware and software interfaces (drivers, etc) because it is what they learned in school.
Bottom line, a Computer Science degree is almost entirely based on theory, which provides a great base to work from, these people missing crucial training that will help them succeed in the world of software. Personally I think that CS + Business (Higher Level Lang based, i.e. Java), or CS + EE (Lower level lang, i.e. ASM, C/C++, etc) hybrids would be much more useful. Both of these programs should be primarily focused on programming in the problems space with healthy doses of EE or Business classes to supplement and tie into the programming classes.
The entire reason why Barnes and Noble can let their customers read the books and put them back up on the shelf is because the average human being would rather do the reading at home. Most books are reasonably priced and allows the customer to take it home and read in the comfort of their own home.
On the other hand, if Hollywood gives consumers 'free' downloads and previews of movies, there will be no incentive to buy it because the consumer is already at home and comfortable. As the article said, Hollywood needs to make it so that consumers WANT to buy the movie. Bring the screenwriters out from behind the veil and give them more reward because they are the original concept artists in the movie industry. Since the quality coming out of Hollywood these days is pretty low (in my opinion), there is less satisfaction from forking out the $20 for a DVD. Why support crap? I am personally all for supporting the industry (buying DVDs and going to the theater) when there is awesome content on the screen (Pixar movies anyone?). But I refuse to buy garbage (Stranded - worst movie I've ever seen).
I completely agree, the internet is completely like Harlem at 3 in the morning. Switching from windows to OSX, Linux, BSD, etc will only cut down on the automatically propagating viruses and trojans. There will still be problems with adware and spyware, even botnets, however I don't think botnets are going to be the biggest problem if everybody switched. This is because only the 'bad' websites would have the botnet downloads - then prompt for a password to install.
Basically it becomes a stupid user trick. People need to stop clicking on stuff that they don't need and aren't looking for. Moving people off windows will only stop the automatically propagating 'baddies'.
It didn't work because the ruby code didn't complete execution, it failed on an IOError. The ruby script basically sets up the memory, creating NOP sled and other various things that setup the exploit. This is probably also where the command is setup in memory. Since the ruby script didn't work, the exploit failed to execute anything.
dan@Reykjavik:~/Desktop$ ruby MOAB-01-01-2007.rb MOAB-01-01-2007.rb:58:in `close': closed stream (IOError) from MOAB-01-01-2007.rb:58:in `open' from MOAB-01-01-2007.rb:58 dan@Reykjavik:~/Desktop$/Applications/QuickTime\ Player.app/Contents/MacOS/QuickTime\ Player pwnage.qtl sh: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"' sh: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file Illegal instruction
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Actually, there is overhead to decrypt data. It doesn't matter how efficient you can make that process, it requires either the CPU to do the decodes or some chip in some device to do the decodes. Both take power. As technology gets better over time, the ability to run the HD discs on a laptop will become more and more feasible. Its just how things work. How many first generation DVD drives in laptops had stellar battery performance?
I almost died of laughter...
Yes, my operating system is Microsoft Office 2007...
I also have Comcast, I was able to send email over SMTP (port 25) any time I pleased. That was until my brother decided to bring over his virus ridden, spam spewing, zombified windows machine over and hook it up to my network (while he was house sitting). They promptly blocked port 25, I got home and couldn't send email.
/flamebait
I had to call their very rude Security Something Department, they said my options were
1. 'Use a different port because other ports can be secured while port 25 cannot be secured.'
2. Use the Comcast alternate port SMTP-AUTH Server (of which I don't know my login/password for)
I told them I wanted option 3:
3. Re-open port 25.
They decided to tell me that they could as a ONE TIME courtesy re-open the port, but 'it will probably be blocked again because the problem that caused it to be blocked probably wasn't fixed' (even after I told them that I had found the problem and fixed it, in addition to monitored all transmissions over port 25 for an hour)... So I fixed my OpenBSD firewall pf rules to only allow 'trusted' computers to only be able to contact MY email server, and access the whole internet unfettered, the 'guest' machines have access to web and a handful of other ports (none of which is 25)...
Moral of the story: Stop using windows...
OEMs love Vista so much because its probably slightly cheaper and has a longer 'supported' lifetime compared to XP Home. If I were building OEM machines (I do sometimes), I would sell Vista Home Premium (~$110 from newegg) instead of XP Pro (~$140 from newegg), both of which would be supported and have bugs patched for a longer period of time. XP Home has always sucked and with its end of life, I wouldn't be caught dead supporting something that has been dropped by Microsoft.
Bottom Line: It's because XP support is being dropped by Microsoft in the near future.
If I remember correctly, the SSID is also part of the encryption scheme, even if it is not, it is yet one more detail that somebody would have to figure out to connect to your wireless network. This keeps most of the casual script kiddies off your network. Most consumer models wouldn't help to much in keeping your network secure against somebody who is talented in the black art of network penetration.
By the way, Vista will show (or something like that, going off of memory) for WANs with SSID broadcast disabled.
I don't know everything, nor do I usually claim to...
You sound like you are in the wrong type of company. I believe that most every startup company would be looking for somebody who can wear many different hats and be proficient at each hat. You should consider sitting down and thinking through problems that you could solve that will make you money and start pursuing that after finding a buddy or two to go down that route with you...
One of the most important things about startup employees is the ability to do many different things well, not to be a specialist.
This reminds me of the whole NSA's illegal "secret closets" of analysis equipment located in major telcos across the US. Does anybody remember the ongoing AT&T lawsuit that the government keeps trying to quell?
The NSA has put all this "spying" equipment in the telcos to look for terrorists. How many terrorists have they caught with this system? I would say near-zero, if anything above zero, its pure luck.
Hmm, sounds like somebody didn't have parent's like mine, when being home 5 minutes late caused 2 weeks of grounding. God knows what would have happened if I ended up in detention...
Anybody else think that the Luna theme looks like it came from the Fisher-Price toy factory?
We need more upset corporations starting to hate Microsoft in order for things to change. I know many people that buy a Windows PC at home because they use Windows at work (my father is one of them, I have however managed to get them a Macbook and a Linux box instead of more XP machines I would have to routinely fix every 2 months). Corporate switches to Linux because of bad MS practices will bring a level of adoption to Linux and other OSes higher.
Hmm, so we can attribute global warming to the Nazis at the RIAA/MPAA? Less pirates, warmer climates. We should sick Al Gore on them...
Also works if you use Keynote too!
I don't understand how this 'patch' would cause WGA to fail, as this is just a hook into the system that cleans up a call to ShellExecute(). It isn't like a patch to an existing DLL or something that would cause checksums to fail on your system.
Anyway, I'm glad to see that somebody tried to do something because of Microsoft's inaction. There are people out there that are forced to use Windows and this patch could definitely help hold them over until Microsoft gets their crap together. This patch just registers a DLL and a hook into the system, easily installed and easily removed (assuming it doesn't actually bork your system).
Anyway, Microsoft would be stupid to fail WGA on people if anything is hooked into the system (think of Antivirus scanners, sysinternals tools (which were only recently acquired/purchased my MS), and other system utilities and hooks)
Don't forget that lawsuits and appeals cost a large sum of MONEY. Which they were ordered to pay said large sum of money to Verizon and Sprint. I'm sure they may go this route due only to the fact that they don't have the liquid cash to appeal.
I really hope for the sake of every other VoIP provider and consumer out there in the world that this fight could be continued and these 'patents' overturned because they are not valid.
God love the Government, it is actually common practice for people in the Govt (my experience was with the US Air Force) to send an email out that literally said: "Email is currently down, we will let you know when it has come back up" - and they do of course send out another email later when Email comes back up. You get 2 emails right after another, one saying Email is down ("No freaking way!") and one saying Email is up...
Hence the oxymoron: Military Intelligence
Remember the outage affects the western part of the US, last I checked Washington DC is on the EAST coast, which probably means you weren't affected...
I personally agree that it is very easy to get running with beagle on Ubuntu (I use Ubuntu 6.06LTS currently), type a few commands, click a few options, buttons, etc and presto: you have beagle on your deskbar.
However this is how you have to setup this in OSX:
Click the spotlight icon, start typing
You cannot deny the fact that the whole premise behind OSX is making useful things dead simple to use - if you have to install it, set it up, drag stuff somewhere, it isn't dead simple. Think about dashboard, same concept, double click the wdgt file downloaded from the internet, it switches you to dashboard where you get a preview of the widget and are allowed to accept or deny the installation. All this took was 1 double click on the wdgt file, and one click on accept or deny.
Simple - this is the whole point.
I would have to say that parking my Mini Cooper and getting a $75k Lexus in return would make me a happy camper - now does it come with keys?
I agree with the whole treat your employees as people is the best way to gain loyalty. It also helps to keep burocracy out of the picture, it seems when a company starts bringing in the "Experienced" managers, the free beer goes out the window and loyalty takes a huge nose dive. Mainly because it is no longer fun to work there anymore. When you become a slave to a paycheck, the company's risk of an inside job increases.
BTW, I have the pleasure of working for a beer in the fridge workplace...
The biggest reason why a person with a Business degree will succeed better than one with a CS degree is that most software is written in a business context. It does you no good knowing your Calculus and Linear Algebra when you are developing an ERP system. Knowing about customer relationship management, marketing, business economics, accounting, etc offers more insight into this business software than the usual Computer Science courses.
Of course those working at a lower level of software (OS, Kernel, CLib, etc) the Computer Science courses make more sense. An Electrical Engineer will offer a lot of knowledge and succeed better in the realm of hardware and software interfaces (drivers, etc) because it is what they learned in school.
Bottom line, a Computer Science degree is almost entirely based on theory, which provides a great base to work from, these people missing crucial training that will help them succeed in the world of software. Personally I think that CS + Business (Higher Level Lang based, i.e. Java), or CS + EE (Lower level lang, i.e. ASM, C/C++, etc) hybrids would be much more useful. Both of these programs should be primarily focused on programming in the problems space with healthy doses of EE or Business classes to supplement and tie into the programming classes.
The entire reason why Barnes and Noble can let their customers read the books and put them back up on the shelf is because the average human being would rather do the reading at home. Most books are reasonably priced and allows the customer to take it home and read in the comfort of their own home.
On the other hand, if Hollywood gives consumers 'free' downloads and previews of movies, there will be no incentive to buy it because the consumer is already at home and comfortable. As the article said, Hollywood needs to make it so that consumers WANT to buy the movie. Bring the screenwriters out from behind the veil and give them more reward because they are the original concept artists in the movie industry. Since the quality coming out of Hollywood these days is pretty low (in my opinion), there is less satisfaction from forking out the $20 for a DVD. Why support crap? I am personally all for supporting the industry (buying DVDs and going to the theater) when there is awesome content on the screen (Pixar movies anyone?). But I refuse to buy garbage (Stranded - worst movie I've ever seen).
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My 10 cents (2 pennies worth $0.05 each)...
I completely agree, the internet is completely like Harlem at 3 in the morning. Switching from windows to OSX, Linux, BSD, etc will only cut down on the automatically propagating viruses and trojans. There will still be problems with adware and spyware, even botnets, however I don't think botnets are going to be the biggest problem if everybody switched. This is because only the 'bad' websites would have the botnet downloads - then prompt for a password to install.
Basically it becomes a stupid user trick. People need to stop clicking on stuff that they don't need and aren't looking for. Moving people off windows will only stop the automatically propagating 'baddies'.
F**k HOOVER...
(Thought I heard a few clicks)