You almost got it, but what *really* takes to kill the ipod is quite simple:
Hype
Plain and simple, what the iPod has is a lot of marketing and hype. As you stated there already are portable digital players with hell more features than the iPod (personally I preffer the iRiver series since I got my frist cd-mp3 player imp-300 a long time ago).
I can think of at least one reason why Microsoft is not the/adequate/ company to come up with the killer. I believe it is more likely to come from a telephone company like Motorola that have more idea on how to make cool design products.
Nope, everybody understood that WinXP would be under VMWare running in a FreeBSD box with linux compatibility... you were the only one that did not get it.
Darn, the last 5 stories in the homepage come straight from digg uhuhhuh!
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Sorry pal, I am not breaking the law, in my country (I do not live in USA) it is legal to import legal products that you legally purchased in other countries.
It is Funny though that, with your post you are the one promoting to brake the law, as those "high quality release groups" ARE ILLEGAL in their country (USA) while the "Russia Mafia" thing is just urban legend...
I am curious to know how much anger you have towards Europe and Asia being different continents. If you feel like talking down, at least treat everyone equally. Any excuse to berate the USA gets boring to me, and eventually makes alot of US citizens who may be on the side of your cause bored also.
C'mon world. Everything we do and every action we take is hated and deemed wrong. If we are always wrong, why bother trying to be right? Why should we care what you might think? Might as well just fuck 'em all, they are gonna bitch anyway.
You got me wrong, I do not hate people from USA, I have pretty nice friends over there and some of my relatives also live there (and have family). Really, people is not bad, similarly people from China or Sudan, India etc is not bad, I have a good friend (who just finished his PhD) that is from Sudan. My girlfriend boss is from Iran (and yes, he even teased her about the football game) and is really nice.
I repeat, what I have repeated again and again, I hate USA government. I really do, I really hate how are they pushing to [blo][fu]ck their immigrants when they do all the work that even black people do not like doing (apolgies go to Afroamerican people, these words are from the quite-less-than-lucid Mexican president... darn GWB and Fox are both cowboys, but that is another story).
If I am right there was a march some days ago in Chicago, darn even the employers of these people helped to drive them to the march place. Even the USA farmers are against these regulations because WE PROVIDE CHEAP HAND WORK.
Come on, some of you shurely have a latin or mexican maiden who cleans your house and washes your clothes every day no?,
You may get very angry at her because she did something wrong, but you should live in the UK for some time without that commodity and you will begin to appreciate that. I have lived in UK for almost 2 years and I miss to have a maiden that cleans all my disaster so I can just do what I like and forget washing plates/cleaning house etc.
The average time for an ordinary CD to appear on p2p networks is about 6 minutes after it appears on store shelves.
I love how people gets statistics right out of their asses.
Do you work for any statistical analysis company? care to explain how did you get to those numbers.
Let me give you another number,
"The average time for an ordinary CD to appear on p2p networks is about -15 mintues after it appears on the store shelves"
Now, unlike you I would give you a reason, the majority of time I have downloaded something from a p2p network is when an album has not been released to store shelves but only some special demos, the case now can be Joe Satriani's Super Colossal which was released on March 14, 2006 but TPB had it uploaded on March 10 , 2006.
Of course my -15 mintues statistic is plain bullshit as yours but hey, at least I am giving a reason
keep them in a box somewhere are your "license" to have the song, then download a high quality version from a p2p network.
You have a problem right there, and it is that, while you have the license to listen to the music or whatever you do not have the license to distribute it and, unless you are using this p2p network with the upload traffic blocked you will be infringing copyright. You could use a service like mp3.com (or what they wanted to do) to download a copy of your preowned CD (it maysound stupid but I have used allofmp3 to do this).
The average song downloaded from a online retailor is of terrible quality, usually 192kbps or less,
I recommend you this site, you can choose between mp3, ogg, wma among other lossy formats and you can also choose between a lot of lossless format including raw WAV.
I still buy CDs because I like having the "tangible" product (and my collection looks nice) and because I enjoy the booklet
Nowadays it's hard to identify compression artifects, but to my ears compressed music just sounds shallow, especially pay attention to cymbal and snare drums. I also find it more difficult to identify what instrument is playing what part by ear, when the music is compressed.
Man, what are you doing listening to that fugly and outdated CD technology? The only way I can listen to music without my ears hurting is with SACD/sarcasm
No, they are part of North America. The United States of America has America in it's name. Canada doesn't, Mexico doesn't, Brazil doesn't, Argentina doesn't. TTBOMK, no other country has "America" in it. Mexico has a definite claim to be aggrivated when "we" simply call ourselves the "United States". But, guess what? We got there first. "We" were the United States for 34 years before Mexico was. So, in the spirit of "first come, first served": stuff it, Mexico. As a gesture of friendship, though: how about we rename That State which bears a part of your name?
MMmm that depends where you live I guess. I am from Mexico and America is and always have been a continent, no, we do not feel aggrivated when you call youserlves the "United States", as it just describes a property of your country.
Sadly, I have to tell you that the problem with your country is that it does not have a name, see, the name United States of America comes from as you said being one of the first countries formed by "uniting states" and it was made in America (the continent).
The North Amercia and South America split was just made up by the USA, in a kind of elitist way but, again North and South are just properties (in the north emisphere and south emisphere.
So you are right, America is a name, it is a name of the continent, that is why (living in the UK) I usually refer to people from the USA as darn... as that as "people from the usa", usually I would call them "gringos" but a lot of people do not understand.
Of course it all ends in how your government wants you to know, as, you will swear that North America and South America are two different continents because you saw it in your basic school but then again who do you thing is in control of that?.
I like notepad.exe in the same way I like pbrush.exe. MS Paint may be a very basic product, it may not have multiple layers or whatever else but it is designed as that, as a straight forward easy to use drawing program.
One of the things for what I use Paint for example is to transform something to an image (like text or powerpoint drawings. It is so easy to CTRL+A CTRL+C CTRL+TAB CTRL+V and you have an Image.
Also, it is a great program to make kids spend time, it is very easy to use for them, I mean, even after comparing tuxpain with MS Paint I find the Linux alternative quite confusing or at least overwhelming.
Notepad is the same, it is great for text buffers, or to write emails (or slashdot comments) before pasting them to the web form.
As someone else kind of pointed out, Microsoft could "update" any of these two programs but they would not be Notepad or Pbrush anymore, they would be other programs. And, as everybody has noted there are tons and tons of programs available already, so why bother?
oh man unfortunately I do not have mod points but I would really mod you up, I have not laughed in some time because of a slashdot comment, yours is a nice one =-)
Although your post has been refuted quite a lot of times now, and that you have been moded troll (which I think is not good for slashdot discussion as, it is your personal POV) I just have to make one comment.
Imagine if lets say, I have a homepage. In that homepage I list the address of all the crack houses, coke houses, weed providers, etc etc etc.
Will my page be illegal?, will the police try to put it down?. I am sure if I had that information the governmetn will be interested in telling me how did I know that. Imagine then, if it is a Wiki, where anyone can write that information. Is my page still illegal?, granted, on those places illegal activity is going (similar to the torrent network where some illegal activities are going on).
Now for another similarity, now lets assume the page only lists weed dealers/houses. My wiki is on the Internet, what happens if my server is in the Netherlands? of course people from USA can go there and read/write information about those houses. But neither I or the people writing the addresses is doing anything wrong. Also, by the eyes of the Dutch government the people on those houses is not doing anything wrong.
Who is doing wrong then?, well, it is the people smoking weed, but only if the address happens to be in a country where it is prohibited. So, lets say if people is sharing things in France (where it is legal) then, they are not making anything illegal.
I will not get into the theft thing because already a lot of people tried to explain you the difference. Although I thing you and a lot of people find it hard to understand. Let me explain it this way. Theft (the unlawful taking and carrying away of personal property with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it PERMANENTLY;) and Copyright infringement (violation of the rights secured by a copyright ). THey are both something like rotten fruits, they are ugly and bad for your body, but theft is a rotten ORANGE and copyright infringement is a rotten APPLE.
Of course, who says that it is bad for your body is the government.
Another interesting place for similar statistics is Distrowatch where the 3 most popular distributions are: 1st. Ubunty 2nd. Mandriva 3rd. SuSE, 4th. Fedora.
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Lol that's a good one.
I refuse to pay the overpriced monopoly tithe. I do not watch television and anybody that tells me that tithing the government prevents advertizing is lying (there are advertisments on UK).
Anyway, I have changed my TV with www.ess.tv they have everything I like to see, they have no advertising and it is cheap ($5 us a month). I've got 45 channels full of great programs (great for me anyway) like
simpsons, family guy, southpark, futurama, that 70 show, xfiles, smallvile, arrested development, seinfield, invader zim, angel, mustek, ren and stimpy, pinky and the brain, STAR TREK, firefly, lost, 24, xmen, csi
among others.
Anyway, I almost only watch the Simpsons sometimes as I do not have too much time. I refuse to spend my time watching commercials.
If you keep your system updated, use a firewall, and just generally understand how the typical virus/worm/trojan works,
There was a time when antivirus software was *really* useful. When viruses where hidden in boot sectors and they used technologically saavy tactics to duplicate.
Nowadays the deffiniton of viruses are mostly worms and trojans. Worms are defeated by using a firewall (I have an openbsd firewall standalone pentium pro machine), trojans are defeated not opening those OMG_BRITNEY_TITTS.JPG.EXE files.
I still miss the good old day virsuses, I found cool when my computer said i was "Stoned", hehe, or when the freaking ball started bouncing trhough the screen... but I always find it fascinating the methods used by the viruses, I even once created a virus (the darn thing just beeped the buzzer when an infected file was launched... after some time I found my Win3.11 was unusable as it got infected =-S).
I started to lose respect of viruses when the so called Word Macro viruses started, from my point of view that was not a virus...
what do you do to protect yourself from automatic updates that go bad...
Doh! Turn of automatic updates.
Hehe, kidding aside, seriously that is what I do. I do not do auto upgrades because I find it a bit disturbing that any of my systems installs something else which I have not seen what is it. Granted, sometimes I do not read the Microsoft KB12312412412 patches information but at least I just patch what I believe is worth patching.
However in a big network it may not be trivial to update manually. Although maybe sysadmins should have a script that allow them to distribute and apply the patches after they have reviewed them. If that is not possible then as somebody else wrote, System Restore is your friend or even DAT tapes!
You only need that headless pentium 3 (even a pentium pro could make it!) that you are using to rest your feet;-), plus you will be able to forget the burden of whatever "ANTI-*.* " software that wastes your precious resources.
Of course that is if you use Windows (for whatever reason, I also do it).
I am waiting for the Linux version... at least they should just make a closed API that worked on Linux and let the Open Source developers make the GUIs etc... I would love that.
The sad fact seems to be that hackers aren't keeping up with the technology. Faith that someone will just crack stuff is misplaced.
You know, that is a very sad thing to read. Back in my days at the University (mid 1990s) I dedicated my free time to crack software, just for fun, I did not relased any of my cracks although I must accept that I once sold my services to a company that needed a crack of a program that was expensive for them (it was a program in Spanish, made in Mexico, so there was no crack available).
Anyway, one of the things I remember is that there was *no* protection or technolgy that was uncrackable, at least it felt like that. We had all the tools(Sice, Wdasm, IDA, darn even plain HIEW!), I even studied a cracking mechanism which I believe was the best one I have seen, the program contacted an authentification server to validate the key, what the crack did is just simulate the server at your localhost and then you selected a proxy connection and pointed it to your localhost.
But now I believe the new generation of kids are too busy chating on their messenger or telling who installed the most cryptic linux distro... there are a few really good crackers and REAL hackers (in the broad meaning of the word).
Well, at least I believe that if they implement something like a "blacklist oneline database" there is no way to defeat it.
It is something like with encryption, the fact that openSSH source code is available does not make the encryption algorithms less secure, it is the design of the algorithms what is secure.
Sorry I don't believe you. Living standards in western countries are now much higher than they were (say) 50 years ago.
I think you did not understand parent. Although the "living standard" in western countries are higher the gap between the rich and poor is growing bigger and bigger.
It is like my statistics professor told me, the mean (average) is the least informative of all the statistical equations, you can have two sets {$10,$10,$0,$0} and ($5,$5,$5,$5} and they will give you the same average. Guess which one of those groups of people are better.
As I saw it from outside (I am from Mexico but was in UK when it happened) it seemed that Katrina came to show the extreme poverty that exists in the USA (the $0 in the sets). Those are the people that won't move from their homes, as it is the only thing they have. I know that because I lived in Campeche, which is a city that is struck by hurricanes quite often (Gilbert, Isadore, etc) and there are plenty of very poor people over there. People that has only their houses and what is inside them. When a hurrican comes they fear that, if they leave they will lose everything they have.
When I run a third party program I am essentially letting them inside, but as a non-priviledged user I'm confining them to a specific area. But if this ability to elevate privileges turn out to be a fact, then any program I run can have full access.
I agree and I believe one of the dangers of a nonpriviledged application being able to elevate its privileges can be for example if it is used to install rootkit like software. I mean, nothing stop one of those DRM rootkit companies from using those exploits to do it no?
WOW from the story you linked, all the comments I have read and the main slashdot story it seems as in USA they preach the "Everybody is Guilty until proven Innocent" ideal.
I would not feel free in a country like that. Of course my definition of freedom may not be the same as the definition of freedom that people from USA have. Usually in Mexico (where I am from) everybody is inocent until it has ben proven in a court that their are guilty. Granted, this may make a lot of drug dealers and other people feel more free but, likewise I myself am not paranoic during my daylife. That must suck.
This reminds me of something, I have a cousin who lives in Alaska, her mother (who lives in Mexico City) went once to visit her and after returning she told me that she won't want to drive over there (Alaska) even though everything seemed more "ordered" there unlike Mexico City were the streets are a complete mess. Her reasoning was that, in Mexico City people can do more or less whatever they want and that, there are implied rules that people with cars follow (including one or two police officer "bites" here and there) but she was very affraid of driving in Alaska as she thought that is she made any little mistake she would have been stopped (like for example making a U turn on a forbiden place) and heavy fined.
As someone else said before in this thread, when you have a lot of "laws" they surely tend to diminish your freedom. I guess the same thing is happening to you with the copyright laws, as all the corporations continue passing laws, citizens will keep losing their freedom.
So sad... hopefully I will never have to be there =o) (crosses fingers)
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You almost got it, but what *really* takes to kill the ipod is quite simple:
/adequate/ company to come up with the killer. I believe it is more likely to come from a telephone company like Motorola that have more idea on how to make cool design products.
Hype
Plain and simple, what the iPod has is a lot of marketing and hype. As you stated there already are portable digital players with hell more features than the iPod (personally I preffer the iRiver series since I got my frist cd-mp3 player imp-300 a long time ago).
I can think of at least one reason why Microsoft is not the
Nope, everybody understood that WinXP would be under VMWare running in a FreeBSD box with linux compatibility... you were the only one that did not get it.
=oP
Darn, the last 5 stories in the homepage come straight from digg uhuhhuh!
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Sorry pal, I am not breaking the law, in my country (I do not live in USA) it is legal to import legal products that you legally purchased in other countries.
It is Funny though that, with your post you are the one promoting to brake the law, as those "high quality release groups" ARE ILLEGAL in their country (USA) while the "Russia Mafia" thing is just urban legend...
I am curious to know how much anger you have towards Europe and Asia being different continents. If you feel like talking down, at least treat everyone equally. Any excuse to berate the USA gets boring to me, and eventually makes alot of US citizens who may be on the side of your cause bored also.
C'mon world. Everything we do and every action we take is hated and deemed wrong. If we are always wrong, why bother trying to be right? Why should we care what you might think? Might as well just fuck 'em all, they are gonna bitch anyway.
You got me wrong, I do not hate people from USA, I have pretty nice friends over there and some of my relatives also live there (and have family). Really, people is not bad, similarly people from China or Sudan, India etc is not bad, I have a good friend (who just finished his PhD) that is from Sudan. My girlfriend boss is from Iran (and yes, he even teased her about the football game) and is really nice.
I repeat, what I have repeated again and again, I hate USA government. I really do, I really hate how are they pushing to [blo][fu]ck their immigrants when they do all the work that even black people do not like doing (apolgies go to Afroamerican people, these words are from the quite-less-than-lucid Mexican president... darn GWB and Fox are both cowboys, but that is another story).
If I am right there was a march some days ago in Chicago, darn even the employers of these people helped to drive them to the march place. Even the USA farmers are against these regulations because WE PROVIDE CHEAP HAND WORK.
Come on, some of you shurely have a latin or mexican maiden who cleans your house and washes your clothes every day no?,
You may get very angry at her because she did something wrong, but you should live in the UK for some time without that commodity and you will begin to appreciate that. I have lived in UK for almost 2 years and I miss to have a maiden that cleans all my disaster so I can just do what I like and forget washing plates/cleaning house etc.
The average time for an ordinary CD to appear on p2p networks is about 6 minutes after it appears on store shelves.
I love how people gets statistics right out of their asses.
Do you work for any statistical analysis company? care to explain how did you get to those numbers.
Let me give you another number,
"The average time for an ordinary CD to appear on p2p networks is about -15 mintues after it appears on the store shelves"
Now, unlike you I would give you a reason, the majority of time I have downloaded something from a p2p network is when an album has not been released to store shelves but only some special demos, the case now can be Joe Satriani's Super Colossal which was released on March 14, 2006 but TPB had it uploaded on March 10 , 2006.
Of course my -15 mintues statistic is plain bullshit as yours but hey, at least I am giving a reason
keep them in a box somewhere are your "license" to have the song, then download a high quality version from a p2p network.
You have a problem right there, and it is that, while you have the license to listen to the music or whatever you do not have the license to distribute it and, unless you are using this p2p network with the upload traffic blocked you will be infringing copyright. You could use a service like mp3.com (or what they wanted to do) to download a copy of your preowned CD (it maysound stupid but I have used allofmp3 to do this).
The average song downloaded from a online retailor is of terrible quality, usually 192kbps or less,
I recommend you this site, you can choose between mp3, ogg, wma among other lossy formats and you can also choose between a lot of lossless format including raw WAV.
I still buy CDs because I like having the "tangible" product (and my collection looks nice) and because I enjoy the booklet
Nowadays it's hard to identify compression artifects, but to my ears compressed music just sounds shallow, especially pay attention to cymbal and snare drums. I also find it more difficult to identify what instrument is playing what part by ear, when the music is compressed.
/sarcasm
Man, what are you doing listening to that fugly and outdated CD technology? The only way I can listen to music without my ears hurting is with SACD
No, they are part of North America.
The United States of America has America in it's name. Canada doesn't, Mexico doesn't, Brazil doesn't, Argentina doesn't. TTBOMK, no other country has "America" in it.
Mexico has a definite claim to be aggrivated when "we" simply call ourselves the "United States". But, guess what?
We got there first. "We" were the United States for 34 years before Mexico was. So, in the spirit of "first come, first served": stuff it, Mexico. As a gesture of friendship, though: how about we rename That State which bears a part of your name?
MMmm that depends where you live I guess.
I am from Mexico and America is and always have been a continent, no, we do not feel aggrivated when you call youserlves the "United States", as it just describes a property of your country.
Sadly, I have to tell you that the problem with your country is that it does not have a name, see, the name United States of America comes from as you said being one of the first countries formed by "uniting states" and it was made in America (the continent).
The North Amercia and South America split was just made up by the USA, in a kind of elitist way but, again North and South are just properties (in the north emisphere and south emisphere.
So you are right, America is a name, it is a name of the continent, that is why (living in the UK) I usually refer to people from the USA as darn... as that as "people from the usa", usually I would call them "gringos" but a lot of people do not understand.
Of course it all ends in how your government wants you to know, as, you will swear that North America and South America are two different continents because you saw it in your basic school but then again who do you thing is in control of that?.
I agree with you.
I like notepad.exe in the same way I like pbrush.exe. MS Paint may be a very basic product, it may not have multiple layers or whatever else but it is designed as that, as a straight forward easy to use drawing program.
One of the things for what I use Paint for example is to transform something to an image (like text or powerpoint drawings. It is so easy to CTRL+A CTRL+C CTRL+TAB CTRL+V and you have an Image.
Also, it is a great program to make kids spend time, it is very easy to use for them, I mean, even after comparing tuxpain with MS Paint I find the Linux alternative quite confusing or at least overwhelming.
Notepad is the same, it is great for text buffers, or to write emails (or slashdot comments) before pasting them to the web form.
As someone else kind of pointed out, Microsoft could "update" any of these two programs but they would not be Notepad or Pbrush anymore, they would be other programs. And, as everybody has noted there are tons and tons of programs available already, so why bother?
oh man unfortunately I do not have mod points but I would really mod you up, I have not laughed in some time because of a slashdot comment, yours is a nice one =-)
Although your post has been refuted quite a lot of times now, and that you have been moded troll (which I think is not good for slashdot discussion as, it is your personal POV) I just have to make one comment.
;) and Copyright infringement (violation of the rights secured by a copyright ). THey are both something like rotten fruits, they are ugly and bad for your body, but theft is a rotten ORANGE and copyright infringement is a rotten APPLE.
Imagine if lets say, I have a homepage. In that homepage I list the address of all the crack houses, coke houses, weed providers, etc etc etc.
Will my page be illegal?, will the police try to put it down?. I am sure if I had that information the governmetn will be interested in telling me how did I know that. Imagine then, if it is a Wiki, where anyone can write that information. Is my page still illegal?, granted, on those places illegal activity is going (similar to the torrent network where some illegal activities are going on).
Now for another similarity, now lets assume the page only lists weed dealers/houses. My wiki is on the Internet, what happens if my server is in the Netherlands? of course people from USA can go there and read/write information about those houses. But neither I or the people writing the addresses is doing anything wrong. Also, by the eyes of the Dutch government the people on those houses is not doing anything wrong.
Who is doing wrong then?, well, it is the people smoking weed, but only if the address happens to be in a country where it is prohibited. So, lets say if people is sharing things in France (where it is legal) then, they are not making anything illegal.
I will not get into the theft thing because already a lot of people tried to explain you the difference. Although I thing you and a lot of people find it hard to understand. Let me explain it this way. Theft (the unlawful taking and carrying away of personal property with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it PERMANENTLY
Of course, who says that it is bad for your body is the government.
Yeah, I have listened that Y distro will *really* replace Linux since the Caldera or Corel linux times.
The Linux distribution that will really fight against Windows is one like Ubuntu that just expands and expands without nobody noticing.
For the slasdhot editors, it would be a nice poll to see which are the most used Linux distributions. The only poll I found is this and it seems quite outdated.
Another interesting place for similar statistics is Distrowatch where the 3 most popular distributions are: 1st. Ubunty 2nd. Mandriva 3rd. SuSE, 4th. Fedora.
Lol that's a good one.
I refuse to pay the overpriced monopoly tithe. I do not watch television and anybody that tells me that tithing the government prevents advertizing is lying (there are advertisments on UK).
Anyway, I have changed my TV with www.ess.tv they have everything I like to see, they have no advertising and it is cheap ($5 us a month). I've got 45 channels full of great programs (great for me anyway) like
simpsons, family guy, southpark, futurama, that 70 show, xfiles, smallvile, arrested development, seinfield, invader zim, angel, mustek, ren and stimpy, pinky and the brain, STAR TREK, firefly, lost, 24, xmen, csi
among others.
Anyway, I almost only watch the Simpsons sometimes as I do not have too much time. I refuse to spend my time watching commercials.
If you keep your system updated, use a firewall, and just generally understand how the typical virus/worm/trojan works,
There was a time when antivirus software was *really* useful. When viruses where hidden in boot sectors and they used technologically saavy tactics to duplicate.
Nowadays the deffiniton of viruses are mostly worms and trojans. Worms are defeated by using a firewall (I have an openbsd firewall standalone pentium pro machine), trojans are defeated not opening those OMG_BRITNEY_TITTS.JPG.EXE files.
I still miss the good old day virsuses, I found cool when my computer said i was "Stoned", hehe, or when the freaking ball started bouncing trhough the screen... but I always find it fascinating the methods used by the viruses, I even once created a virus (the darn thing just beeped the buzzer when an infected file was launched... after some time I found my Win3.11 was unusable as it got infected =-S).
I started to lose respect of viruses when the so called Word Macro viruses started, from my point of view that was not a virus...
what do you do to protect yourself from automatic updates that go bad...
:-)!
Doh! Turn of automatic updates.
Hehe, kidding aside, seriously that is what I do. I do not do auto upgrades because I find it a bit disturbing that any of my systems installs something else which I have not seen what is it. Granted, sometimes I do not read the Microsoft KB12312412412 patches information but at least I just patch what I believe is worth patching.
However in a big network it may not be trivial to update manually. Although maybe sysadmins should have a script that allow them to distribute and apply the patches after they have reviewed them. If that is not possible then as somebody else wrote, System Restore is your friend or even DAT tapes!
ps. with your PIN number in your ATM Machine
What about a *nix firewall with antivirus software on it?
;-), plus you will be able to forget the burden of whatever "ANTI-*.* " software that wastes your precious resources.
You only need that headless pentium 3 (even a pentium pro could make it!) that you are using to rest your feet
Of course that is if you use Windows (for whatever reason, I also do it).
I am waiting for the Linux version... at least they should just make a closed API that worked on Linux and let the Open Source developers make the GUIs etc... I would love that.
The sad fact seems to be that hackers aren't keeping up with the technology. Faith that someone will just crack stuff is misplaced.
You know, that is a very sad thing to read. Back in my days at the University (mid 1990s) I dedicated my free time to crack software, just for fun, I did not relased any of my cracks although I must accept that I once sold my services to a company that needed a crack of a program that was expensive for them (it was a program in Spanish, made in Mexico, so there was no crack available).
Anyway, one of the things I remember is that there was *no* protection or technolgy that was uncrackable, at least it felt like that. We had all the tools(Sice, Wdasm, IDA, darn even plain HIEW!), I even studied a cracking mechanism which I believe was the best one I have seen, the program contacted an authentification server to validate the key, what the crack did is just simulate the server at your localhost and then you selected a proxy connection and pointed it to your localhost.
But now I believe the new generation of kids are too busy chating on their messenger or telling who installed the most cryptic linux distro... there are a few really good crackers and REAL hackers (in the broad meaning of the word).
Well, at least I believe that if they implement something like a "blacklist oneline database" there is no way to defeat it.
It is something like with encryption, the fact that openSSH source code is available does not make the encryption algorithms less secure, it is the design of the algorithms what is secure.
Sorry I don't believe you. Living standards in western countries are now much higher than they were (say) 50 years ago.
I think you did not understand parent. Although the "living standard" in western countries are higher the gap between the rich and poor is growing bigger and bigger.
It is like my statistics professor told me, the mean (average) is the least informative of all the statistical equations, you can have two sets {$10,$10,$0,$0} and ($5,$5,$5,$5} and they will give you the same average. Guess which one of those groups of people are better.
As I saw it from outside (I am from Mexico but was in UK when it happened) it seemed that Katrina came to show the extreme poverty that exists in the USA (the $0 in the sets). Those are the people that won't move from their homes, as it is the only thing they have. I know that because I lived in Campeche, which is a city that is struck by hurricanes quite often (Gilbert, Isadore, etc) and there are plenty of very poor people over there. People that has only their houses and what is inside them. When a hurrican comes they fear that, if they leave they will lose everything they have.
Yep, and one of the comments in that story was made by the original author of the challenge:
Dave Schroeder
I do not know why that comment was not in the main summary.
When I run a third party program I am essentially letting them inside, but as a non-priviledged user I'm confining them to a specific area. But if this ability to elevate privileges turn out to be a fact, then any program I run can have full access.
I agree and I believe one of the dangers of a nonpriviledged application being able to elevate its privileges can be for example if it is used to install rootkit like software. I mean, nothing stop one of those DRM rootkit companies from using those exploits to do it no?
WOW from the story you linked, all the comments I have read and the main slashdot story it seems as in USA they preach the "Everybody is Guilty until proven Innocent" ideal.
I would not feel free in a country like that. Of course my definition of freedom may not be the same as the definition of freedom that people from USA have. Usually in Mexico (where I am from) everybody is inocent until it has ben proven in a court that their are guilty. Granted, this may make a lot of drug dealers and other people feel more free but, likewise I myself am not paranoic during my daylife. That must suck.
This reminds me of something, I have a cousin who lives in Alaska, her mother (who lives in Mexico City) went once to visit her and after returning she told me that she won't want to drive over there (Alaska) even though everything seemed more "ordered" there unlike Mexico City were the streets are a complete mess. Her reasoning was that, in Mexico City people can do more or less whatever they want and that, there are implied rules that people with cars follow (including one or two police officer "bites" here and there) but she was very affraid of driving in Alaska as she thought that is she made any little mistake she would have been stopped (like for example making a U turn on a forbiden place) and heavy fined.
As someone else said before in this thread, when you have a lot of "laws" they surely tend to diminish your freedom. I guess the same thing is happening to you with the copyright laws, as all the corporations continue passing laws, citizens will keep losing their freedom.
So sad... hopefully I will never have to be there =o) (crosses fingers)