I think AC#1 is incorrect. I read the details last night and you have to purchase a minimum of 100 shares at a projected IPO price of ~$16. So we are talking about ~$1600 on a potentially risky investment.
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I love vi, but I have always had a paste issue using vim. I typically use vim over ssh from a windows machine. I run into problems when I switch to insert mode and paste from (Windows) clipboard. Vim likes to insert a tab on every new line.
I end
up with text
that tends to format
like this.
It is very annoying and I end up either trying to find an old school vi binary or use pico or the old cat > foo.txt trick. Does anyone have any idea to stop the auto indent feature?
http://local.live.com/ has a "birds eye view" feature that blows away any satellite imagery I have seen to date. Multiple angles and super sharp resolution. It is not available everywhere and the images are not contiguous but it is still a great feature.
I highly doubt the redirect will do anything. The worms are trying to exploit your box, not read and parse http redirect headers. Good idea on principle though. I award you 10 points.
Mod parent up!! I love linux as much as next person but anyone who uses it on a regular basis can relate to this guy's problem. Sometimes I am up for the challenge and don't mind having to do the research when installing and configuring linux applications, but there are times when I don't have the spare time and I need things to "just work". This is where windows has the advantage, more than not, I can do what I have to do without a hassle.
As far as you folks who bash the security of windows. I for one don't have security issues. I used to, but running XP SP2 and a good antivirus program. I even use IE with no problems. Windows is not what it used to be.
Social Security has gained the status of a civil right in the United States although, as stated earlier, it has been decided constitutially no one is entitled to any payout. But to be fair there are millions who have been paying into the system and deserve to see what they put in. It would be nice to allow younger workers to opt out of the whole system, but since we are the ones keeping it going that is not going to happen. I think part of the solution to this diabocle is to make changes to keep the system in line with how it was intended to work. It was developed to support old people for a few years before they die. (ignoring the whole disablility aspect for now) The key point is that it wasn't developed to support retirees for 15-20 years. When Social Security was first instituted, the age you were eligable for benefits was roughly the average life expectency. (~65 in 1935) What should have happened, and what should be happening now is that the retirement age should have been kept in line current life expectency. Meaning they retirement age in 2005 should be 77.2. The right thing to do is treat SS as it was intended and raise the age of retirement to the current life expectency, and keep it that way.
Great commentary, and I understand where you are coming from. But you could do a few simple things to prevent the type of scenario you laid out. 1. Take the IE icon off the desktop and the start menu. Replace it with the firefox icon. 2. Make sure Firefox is associated with all html/and web documents.
Of course removing IE from the desktop != uninstalling IE, but sometimes you just have to give the impression that their only choice for the web is firefox.
3. Uninstall outlook express. Instead intall thunderbird and configure it for them.
4. Install AVG. Have it update AUTOMATICALLY on a regular basis.
5. Enable Windows update, have it AUTOMATICALLY UPDATE.
6. Install MS Spyware detection. Have it scan nighly and enable autoprotect.
7. In severe cases, give them only power user access. (this means you will have to install new apps for them)
The saying guys, if you make something idiot proof, they will make a better idiot, but still, this is a step in the right direction.
I think SixApart was fair in asking for ~$500 for multi user version that supports 70 users. If you were able to get donations for hardware and bandwidth, im sure another ~$7/ per user is not unreasonable. And like you mentioned they were allowing you to install individual instances of MT for free. Whats the big deal? Pony up 500 bucks or install 70 instances of MT for your users yourself if your users are not techincal enough.
Anyone else that does RSA Ace administration can confirm this for me, but you should be able to use the same RSA token for multiple accounts. That means ONE token for access to your bank, credit union, online stock broker, whatever. RSA tokens come with accompanying software (or a key) which is used to import the token to the ACE authentication server. With that software you can load one token into multiple RSA servers. With a token and its software, you could send your accompanying token software to Bank A and to Bank B, they load your RSA token and you can then use the same token to authenticate to both accounts. As an added measure of security, the usernames do not have to be the same, nor does the accompanying PIN for each account. The software I use now for importation imports batches of Ace tokens that we distribute to customers, but I am sure it wouldn't be difficult to supply one "key" per token. I have steadily been seeing more and more phishing schemes in my email and they look more and more legit every day. Two factor authentication needs to be implemented soon before more and more people lose their money to scammers. I would be more than happy to pay $50-$100 for a token and software that I could use to authenticate to all my online financial services.
Good points. I think Lycos had the right idea by hand picking the sites it wanted to target, but fell short by using a central means to distribute target information. Personally if I were to participate in something like this (as a user) I would expect that the targets would have to be hand picked and not automatically farmed from spam. If it is true that most of the Internet's spam comes from a small number of major offenders then those are the hand picked targets on which we need to focus.
DOS'ing spammers has potential to make a serious dent in spamming revenue and actually lessen the amount of spam we see in our mailboxes. This is why spammers fought back so quickly against Lycos; they saw their bottom line being compromised. A big company like Lycos is not best organization to lead an attack against spammers because they are an easy target for spammer retaliation on the internet and have a lot to lose legally and financially. Instead if a lose group of spam haters worked together to develop open source version of the "Make Love Not Spam" screensaver or something similar, you would end up with a much more formidable foe to spamming. The OSS version would need handle redirects (and not follow them) and would need to have a decentralized mechanism for distributing target information. If Lycos can put together 100,000 volunteers in a week or two, then it's not far fetched to see another similar open source project pulling similar numbers. Especially if it were available for both Windows and *NIX.
Along the lines of not voting, are write in's a valid option? I always thought that you could vote for whomever you want. (Mickey Mouse being a long time favorite of disenfranchized votors) Assuming you can write in anyone you see fit, whether they are on the ballot or not this may mean that you could write in "None of the above" as your vote. If everyone who didn't want to vote for Bush or Kerry, or Nadar for that matter actually voted and wrote in "None of the above," it could force a do-over in the states where "NOTA" wins the majority.
Stealing cars off the lot is also okay as long as you either take it back or buy it, right? A more accurate analogy would be that you didn't buy said car because someone was able to give you an exact copy.
Do PVRs just skip ahead 2 minutes to skip commericals? Not all commerical breaks are two minutes. Especially commercials during sporting events. Do these PVR's have a way to "sense" when a commercial block is ending or is it just timing? If so, how does it work?
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I think AC#1 is incorrect. I read the details last night and you have to purchase a minimum of 100 shares at a projected IPO price of ~$16. So we are talking about ~$1600 on a potentially risky investment.
I love vi, but I have always had a paste issue using vim. I typically use vim over ssh from a windows machine. I run into problems when I switch to insert mode and paste from (Windows) clipboard. Vim likes to insert a tab on every new line.
I end
up with text
that tends to format
like this.
It is very annoying and I end up either trying to find an old school vi binary or use pico or the old cat > foo.txt trick. Does anyone have any idea to stop the auto indent feature?
http://local.live.com/ has a "birds eye view" feature that blows away any satellite imagery I have seen to date. Multiple angles and super sharp resolution. It is not available everywhere and the images are not contiguous but it is still a great feature.
Sweet!
mark@stewie:~$ w
11:11:04 up 216 days, 19:50, 2 users, load average: 258.41, 767.84, 339.94
I highly doubt the redirect will do anything. The worms are trying to exploit your box, not read and parse http redirect headers.
Good idea on principle though. I award you 10 points.
Mod parent up!! I love linux as much as next person but anyone who uses it on a regular basis can relate to this guy's problem. Sometimes I am up for the challenge and don't mind having to do the research when installing and configuring linux applications, but there are times when I don't have the spare time and I need things to "just work". This is where windows has the advantage, more than not, I can do what I have to do without a hassle.
As far as you folks who bash the security of windows. I for one don't have security issues. I used to, but running XP SP2 and a good antivirus program. I even use IE with no problems. Windows is not what it used to be.
Yes that day is here, here is one (lame) example.3
http://home.planet.nl/~cruij087/vin3.mp
Social Security has gained the status of a civil right in the United States although, as stated earlier, it has been decided constitutially no one is entitled to any payout. But to be fair there are millions who have been paying into the system and deserve to see what they put in. It would be nice to allow younger workers to opt out of the whole system, but since we are the ones keeping it going that is not going to happen. I think part of the solution to this diabocle is to make changes to keep the system in line with how it was intended to work. It was developed to support old people for a few years before they die. (ignoring the whole disablility aspect for now) The key point is that it wasn't developed to support retirees for 15-20 years. When Social Security was first instituted, the age you were eligable for benefits was roughly the average life expectency. (~65 in 1935) What should have happened, and what should be happening now is that the retirement age should have been kept in line current life expectency. Meaning they retirement age in 2005 should be 77.2. The right thing to do is treat SS as it was intended and raise the age of retirement to the current life expectency, and keep it that way.
/note to self
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Great commentary, and I understand where you are coming from. But you could do a few simple things to prevent the type of scenario you laid out.
1. Take the IE icon off the desktop and the start menu. Replace it with the firefox icon.
2. Make sure Firefox is associated with all html/and web documents.
Of course removing IE from the desktop != uninstalling IE, but sometimes you just have to give the impression that their only choice for the web is firefox.
3. Uninstall outlook express. Instead intall thunderbird and configure it for them.
4. Install AVG. Have it update AUTOMATICALLY on a regular basis.
5. Enable Windows update, have it AUTOMATICALLY UPDATE.
6. Install MS Spyware detection. Have it scan nighly and enable autoprotect.
7. In severe cases, give them only power user access. (this means you will have to install new apps for them)
The saying guys, if you make something idiot proof, they will make a better idiot, but still, this is a step in the right direction.
I think SixApart was fair in asking for ~$500 for multi user version that supports 70 users. If you were able to get donations for hardware and bandwidth, im sure another ~$7/ per user is not unreasonable. And like you mentioned they were allowing you to install individual instances of MT for free. Whats the big deal? Pony up 500 bucks or install 70 instances of MT for your users yourself if your users are not techincal enough.
Anyone else that does RSA Ace administration can confirm this for me, but you should be able to use the same RSA token for multiple accounts. That means ONE token for access to your bank, credit union, online stock broker, whatever.
RSA tokens come with accompanying software (or a key) which is used to import the token to the ACE authentication server. With that software you can load one token into multiple RSA servers. With a token and its software, you could send your accompanying token software to Bank A and to Bank B, they load your RSA token and you can then use the same token to authenticate to both accounts. As an added measure of security, the usernames do not have to be the same, nor does the accompanying PIN for each account.
The software I use now for importation imports batches of Ace tokens that we distribute to customers, but I am sure it wouldn't be difficult to supply one "key" per token.
I have steadily been seeing more and more phishing schemes in my email and they look more and more legit every day. Two factor authentication needs to be implemented soon before more and more people lose their money to scammers.
I would be more than happy to pay $50-$100 for a token and software that I could use to authenticate to all my online financial services.
Thanks, had the file downloaded in less than 40 seconds.
I think hand picking targets, as Lycos did, will avoid DOSing off the innocent (or ignorant as the case may be)
Good points. I think Lycos had the right idea by hand picking the sites it wanted to target, but fell short by using a central means to distribute target information. Personally if I were to participate in something like this (as a user) I would expect that the targets would have to be hand picked and not automatically farmed from spam. If it is true that most of the Internet's spam comes from a small number of major offenders then those are the hand picked targets on which we need to focus.
DOS'ing spammers has potential to make a serious dent in spamming revenue and actually lessen the amount of spam we see in our mailboxes. This is why spammers fought back so quickly against Lycos; they saw their bottom line being compromised. A big company like Lycos is not best organization to lead an attack against spammers because they are an easy target for spammer retaliation on the internet and have a lot to lose legally and financially.
Instead if a lose group of spam haters worked together to develop open source version of the "Make Love Not Spam" screensaver or something similar, you would end up with a much more formidable foe to spamming. The OSS version would need handle redirects (and not follow them) and would need to have a decentralized mechanism for distributing target information. If Lycos can put together 100,000 volunteers in a week or two, then it's not far fetched to see another similar open source project pulling similar numbers. Especially if it were available for both Windows and *NIX.
I caught a few baseball games on MLB.com and the resolution looked pretty good, even in full screen mode.
24.0.0.0/8? I think not. I know for a fact that Comcast and Cox have a peice of that pie.
Along the lines of not voting, are write in's a valid option? I always thought that you could vote for whomever you want. (Mickey Mouse being a long time favorite of disenfranchized votors)
Assuming you can write in anyone you see fit, whether they are on the ballot or not this may mean that you could write in "None of the above" as your vote. If everyone who didn't want to vote for Bush or Kerry, or Nadar for that matter actually voted and wrote in "None of the above," it could force a do-over in the states where "NOTA" wins the majority.
Will it air on Disney?
Although it may not air on Disney, it may air on ABC which is owned by Disney. I dare say would be a tad ironic.
I know for sure it won't be airing on FOX.
Stealing cars off the lot is also okay as long as you either take it back or buy it, right?
A more accurate analogy would be that you didn't buy said car because someone was able to give you an exact copy.
Sounds like you need one of these
Isn't it possible that the domain was registered in 95 but bought by google sometime later from the original buyer?
Do PVRs just skip ahead 2 minutes to skip commericals? Not all commerical breaks are two minutes. Especially commercials during sporting events. Do these PVR's have a way to "sense" when a commercial block is ending or is it just timing? If so, how does it work?