Also, I know I need to clean out my computer case of massive dust, but what is the flamability of dust? Its dry, composed of the remnants of other flamable materials, like pollen, lint, dead skin etc. If it was coating your chips and or motherboard, would that increase the risk of overheating causing combustion? If it was dangerous, youd probably have heard cases about, but if there was ever a case of melted or fuming hardware, how did the presense of dust affect it?
Clearly FedEx shipping co. only has 'FedEx' and the 'FedEx' logo trademarked as it applies to shipping containers, and within the realm of package delivery. As we can clearly see, Jose is using the term FedEx (displayed prominently on his work), in reference to a Furniture line, which FedEx shipping co. has no trademark rights within.
I move for dismissal:)
politics was an example, and if i came to your house telling you not religious zealotry but saying, "and by the way, the codes to shutdown the government are *****" and had all real knowledge of this info, you wouldnt be concerned as to why id be telling you this? the open source security model Lynn is following in his announcement is not well understood by the majority of people, including the relatively old fashion FBI.
if he stated his opinion on something and got fired, id be mad, if he whistle-blew on corporate shinanigans of his company and got fired, id boycott Cisco, but he has done neither of these things.
And btw, i dont live in your country, and dont care if it is fair or not that more are investigated for less, but if that is the case, arent there more unambiguous cases of government spying going on? perhaps taking more interest in US out-of control politics then work break slashdot posting is in order.
sure he settled with his company beforehand, their scope on the issue goes no further then a violation of trade secrets and treats it accordingly.
just because you arent in the army, as you so put it doesnt mean you might not be privy to information that keeps it, or any other organization afloat.
keep in mind that the US government probably uses alot of Cisco equipment, and is probably critical to its continued operation. Now this person tells anyone interested on disabling their networks how to do so. regardless of the intention on Mr Lynn's behalf, the FBI sees this as an open invitation for interested parties to shut down these networks.
if you contracted out work to be done on something critical to your business, and the outside worker then tells everyone a way to basically screw you over afterwards, without mentioning it to you beforehand, to let you get a handle on any potential issues the new info could bring, you wouldn't feel pissed? well the US goverment does, and probably sees this as a very serious problem, now they want to make sure he doesnt have more of these goodies up his sleeve.
i understand the need to question government just as much as you, but framing every action by them as some kind of totalitarian oppression kind of nullifies your point. if you cant see the issues this Lynn's expose' conjure's, then you have one eye open, but another one closed
yes, but what he is talking about isnt exactly his opinions on politics or what have you, he is expressing information on no doubt private corporate information, or a vunerability thereof. if I worked at a company, and decided to 'practice free speech' by harping all of my employers trade secrets, i would no doubt be fired for screwing over the company, based on non-disclosure agreements. considering the impact this vunerability has on the infrastucture (think about the ramifications of shutting down the internet, including government networks, etc) The FBI sees this particular information as akin to 'speaking freely' about architectural flaws in the majority of large buildings that could bring them down with little effort, incuding government facilities. maybe a little overboard, but hey, they have been investigating more people for alot less recently.
the issue is also about how he reported the flaw, not just tha he did. Cisco has its own vunerability submission protocols in house, be he instead showed his findings at a Black Hat conference instead, exposing it to any savvy hacker willing to act on them.
When you consider the kind of information this independent group has shown can be found using Google, consider what the engineers at Google who designed the various search systems and web-bots can garner from it, for all we know, the data that can be gleaned from this book may only be a glimpse of the restricted information Google could potentially gather, kept from the web-surfing masses. We hear about blackmail cases involving compromised data occuring all the time, and coupled with corperate espionage, a group like google could stand to see far greater profits then mere 'advertising'
for those preparing to mod me down, consider this:
Knowledge is Power, and as far as everyone is Conserned, Google is probably at this moment, the source of more human knowlege then has ever been compiled before, all cached on their wonderful servers, and through their extensive knowledge of where any data they may need to see in the future resides. Absolute Power corrupts absolutely: in a case where such secret information is availiable, no person or group is every above the incentive to gain from this power, including Google, or if not that, inticed individual employees
people really need to start analizing the Power Google has over information and take its immense position seriously. at least books like this can only open more light on this growing problem
sounds like your phone might have an additional button, the one that will accept calls so long as its pressed. as a convienent feature, it is normally toggled in the 'on' position by the placement of the hand-set. To disable, place the handset off the hook.
The broad question is, does the fact that you can remain compatible with today's applications and data on hardware that is almost a decade old, impede PC sales?"
Perhaps if there were greater incentives for new computers besides "your computer only has n of x, now you can get n+1 for x!" Im not buying a new plasma TV until my 8 year old projection tv kicks the bucket, likewise if i can make due with old PC tech, why should i shell out more of my money?
Lets be thankful M$ didn't impose arbitrary blocks against what the FA quotes as 'specs it was never even meant to run on' with clippy saying "your computer is too slow, would you like directions to best buy to get a better computer?"
maybe i'll upgrade when that VR technology i heard about in the 80's gets here
I wonder how this lawsuit will affect Apple's decision do use Intel Chips? True, a case like this could stretch for years, but developing and integrating new chips into your product line could do the same. If Intel actually recieves a relevant anti-trust court decision, or greater, gets broken up, would this be better for apple (perhaps buy up the company) or might any instability hinder Apple's decision to use Intel?
35 pages mainly of history (some of the Net, and some of browsers) is almost self-indulgent. Certainly almost all buyers would not miss the information if it was reduced to two or three pages in the introduction or first chapter.
I think it honestly needs more of this. This book should act as an opener for non-techs that dont know the issues about IE, and therefore probably little of the history of how and why microsoft's browser got to where it is today. although this is published by O'Reilly, it seems thay they want a book that is more availiable to the masses (althought probably didnt go far enough) Afterall , anyone who uses firefox knows anything this book says anyways, while joe book-reader will never but a tech book to learn about FF.
This books seems in limbo between an eye-opener techs can give to their grandma's to clearly explain the IE vs FF debacle, and a techinical guide, and in the end, doesnt seem to fit either nieche.
What we really need is a non-fiction book detailing more about the industry, with the overarching themes about the corperate politics behind the browsers. People dont understand 'activeX vunerabilities' nor care to, but look how interested people are in politics of big companies and their ethics. get it into the 'new non-fiction' section of bookstores opposed to the tech section in the back, and you can guarantee the 80% IE users with no knowlage of the situation at least hear about it
I think Microsoft has stumbled onto a new stream of revenue here, much akin to 20's era protection rackets. For an spyware company to be successful, it just requires a tribute fee to MS to get on their 'Ignore list'. Considering the majority of unprotected users will be seeing no form of protection besides MS firewall and this MS-spyware, and have no other basis to determine what is spyware, the big spyware compaines that can afford this can be rest assured their software will go unhindered, while zombie-users will be content and oblivious, thinking their computer is clean. Think about the arguement made in MS anti-trust rulings about bundling IE, where prosecutors charged the price of development of IE was being added to the cost of windows, opposed to being truly free. This software has to generate revenue for microsoft in some capacity, and if they dont see quashing users fears about MS security holes as a significant justification for this software, then they will find other ways to pay back the cost of development.
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If you make something, and don't release it, you shouldn't be allowed to stop someone else from distributing it for no charge.
So you dont mind if I release those nude pictures of your sister on the net then? afterall, they are very good, and maybe if a few hundred thousand people saw them, she might even get some praise encouraging her to do more...
i dont find my example too particularily pleasing to myself either, but the point is that there will always be limits to freedoms within some capacity. imagine the class system generated in democracies today. vast separation of rich and poor has once again occured within the US. China has, although modestly in terms of the individual, overall saved the lives of untold millions of Chinese through abolition of starvation within their own country. They have done this through strict adherence to equalized rationing and work ethics, promoted by their socialist viewpoint. Expouting liberty is fun so long as you ignore historical trends showing the likelihood of the system gravitating towards class separation, which is exactly what they have been striving to remove themselves from, ie, communism. So long as the spectre of capitalism is pushing at their doors, they require some way to stop people from being lured to the idea of 'get rich fast! join capitalism!' This theory has enough flashy appeal to seduce the average, self-centric human being. If it were put into practice in China, only a handful would see the BMW's and LCD TV's, the rest would be right back into absolute poverty.
So long as these morals you speak of are not imbedded into the trade laws of your country, how can you expect a formation designed to generate profits (read: Microsoft corporation) to be more morally rightous then the laws of your representative government. If this activity angers you, dont go shouting at microsoft, maybe you should parcipitate in that human progress of yours.
If you are going to stand for freedom, you have to do it all the time, not just when it's financially attractive.
Why? i want the freedom to make as much money as possible unhindered. are you trying to limit my freedom to do so?
seriously the thing with freedom is that open-ended overarcing freedom will always anger someone. you say i shouldnt have the freedom to invest in foreign countries you find questionable. So right there you are advocating restrictions based on your personal views.
We are simply talking about a company here, which will always be forced to follow the laws of the land of whatever country it choses to operate in. If there was a country that had legal child porn and a company that peddled it wanted to operate in your country, you can be damn sure you wouldn't want them to have that content. Obviously the situation is based around what we determine are more timid, yet important examples of free speech censorship, but we are talking about a foreign country with international rights. It is not Microsoft's place to spark a rights battle with a sovern country, and they damn sure will chose to continue operations in China.
If you have a problem with China's free speech laws, well... call em up and tell em or something...
I rememeber when it had that functionality, you could specify; "remind me in 1 day (24 hours)" now i get the 'updates are ready to install' icon in the tray, but no hurried popups asking me to follow up on it, its simply when i click it and chose to. this is on winXP Prof, w/ sp2, however, so i guess you have to Orwellian version of windows (sp 84) that says: "Windows has decided what is best for your computer: you have 10 seconds to close all your programs and work so it may update. have a nice day"
Slashdot will remove the caption "stuff that matters" from their site after failing truth in advertising guildlines...
seriously, i know its the morning, but, a wannabe hacker story on the front page? assuming all nerds have read bash.org, this is not even new
actually, this is correct, you have to disable this auto reboot 'feature' in the system startup menu to get the blue screen instead. a garbage roxio driver needed for NetMD software would crash my computer at startup every time, i couldnt tell what the hell was going on on till i found this option... thanks XP!
Im not sure how often toronto city hall (dual concave towers enclosing a smaller dome structure) fills in for futuristic corporate buildings... although there was nothing like watching downtown toronto getting nuked in resident evil 2. My Friend going to UoT lived in a hotel-residence on chestnut strt. right next door, and he had to admit the sight of attack helicopters outside his window during filming was pretty alarming.
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Also, I know I need to clean out my computer case of massive dust, but what is the flamability of dust? Its dry, composed of the remnants of other flamable materials, like pollen, lint, dead skin etc. If it was coating your chips and or motherboard, would that increase the risk of overheating causing combustion? If it was dangerous, youd probably have heard cases about, but if there was ever a case of melted or fuming hardware, how did the presense of dust affect it?
time to clean my computer...
Clearly FedEx shipping co. only has 'FedEx' and the 'FedEx' logo trademarked as it applies to shipping containers, and within the realm of package delivery. As we can clearly see, Jose is using the term FedEx (displayed prominently on his work), in reference to a Furniture line, which FedEx shipping co. has no trademark rights within. I move for dismissal :)
politics was an example, and if i came to your house telling you not religious zealotry but saying, "and by the way, the codes to shutdown the government are *****" and had all real knowledge of this info, you wouldnt be concerned as to why id be telling you this? the open source security model Lynn is following in his announcement is not well understood by the majority of people, including the relatively old fashion FBI. if he stated his opinion on something and got fired, id be mad, if he whistle-blew on corporate shinanigans of his company and got fired, id boycott Cisco, but he has done neither of these things. And btw, i dont live in your country, and dont care if it is fair or not that more are investigated for less, but if that is the case, arent there more unambiguous cases of government spying going on? perhaps taking more interest in US out-of control politics then work break slashdot posting is in order.
sure he settled with his company beforehand, their scope on the issue goes no further then a violation of trade secrets and treats it accordingly. just because you arent in the army, as you so put it doesnt mean you might not be privy to information that keeps it, or any other organization afloat. keep in mind that the US government probably uses alot of Cisco equipment, and is probably critical to its continued operation. Now this person tells anyone interested on disabling their networks how to do so. regardless of the intention on Mr Lynn's behalf, the FBI sees this as an open invitation for interested parties to shut down these networks. if you contracted out work to be done on something critical to your business, and the outside worker then tells everyone a way to basically screw you over afterwards, without mentioning it to you beforehand, to let you get a handle on any potential issues the new info could bring, you wouldn't feel pissed? well the US goverment does, and probably sees this as a very serious problem, now they want to make sure he doesnt have more of these goodies up his sleeve. i understand the need to question government just as much as you, but framing every action by them as some kind of totalitarian oppression kind of nullifies your point. if you cant see the issues this Lynn's expose' conjure's, then you have one eye open, but another one closed
yes, but what he is talking about isnt exactly his opinions on politics or what have you, he is expressing information on no doubt private corporate information, or a vunerability thereof. if I worked at a company, and decided to 'practice free speech' by harping all of my employers trade secrets, i would no doubt be fired for screwing over the company, based on non-disclosure agreements. considering the impact this vunerability has on the infrastucture (think about the ramifications of shutting down the internet, including government networks, etc) The FBI sees this particular information as akin to 'speaking freely' about architectural flaws in the majority of large buildings that could bring them down with little effort, incuding government facilities. maybe a little overboard, but hey, they have been investigating more people for alot less recently.
the issue is also about how he reported the flaw, not just tha he did. Cisco has its own vunerability submission protocols in house, be he instead showed his findings at a Black Hat conference instead, exposing it to any savvy hacker willing to act on them.
sPed ths of in the cecends b4 bolting of from wrk, soi su me :)
When you consider the kind of information this independent group has shown can be found using Google, consider what the engineers at Google who designed the various search systems and web-bots can garner from it, for all we know, the data that can be gleaned from this book may only be a glimpse of the restricted information Google could potentially gather, kept from the web-surfing masses.
We hear about blackmail cases involving compromised data occuring all the time, and coupled with corperate espionage, a group like google could stand to see far greater profits then mere 'advertising'
for those preparing to mod me down, consider this:
Knowledge is Power, and as far as everyone is Conserned, Google is probably at this moment, the source of more human knowlege then has ever been compiled before, all cached on their wonderful servers, and through their extensive knowledge of where any data they may need to see in the future resides.
Absolute Power corrupts absolutely: in a case where such secret information is availiable, no person or group is every above the incentive to gain from this power, including Google, or if not that, inticed individual employees
people really need to start analizing the Power Google has over information and take its immense position seriously. at least books like this can only open more light on this growing problem
sounds like your phone might have an additional button, the one that will accept calls so long as its pressed. as a convienent feature, it is normally toggled in the 'on' position by the placement of the hand-set. To disable, place the handset off the hook.
Perhaps if there were greater incentives for new computers besides "your computer only has n of x, now you can get n+1 for x!" Im not buying a new plasma TV until my 8 year old projection tv kicks the bucket, likewise if i can make due with old PC tech, why should i shell out more of my money?
Lets be thankful M$ didn't impose arbitrary blocks against what the FA quotes as 'specs it was never even meant to run on' with clippy saying "your computer is too slow, would you like directions to best buy to get a better computer?"
maybe i'll upgrade when that VR technology i heard about in the 80's gets here
I wonder how this lawsuit will affect Apple's decision do use Intel Chips? True, a case like this could stretch for years, but developing and integrating new chips into your product line could do the same. If Intel actually recieves a relevant anti-trust court decision, or greater, gets broken up, would this be better for apple (perhaps buy up the company) or might any instability hinder Apple's decision to use Intel?
so now i can make a Human Fund for real? or at least justify handing these out at Christmas, and have a backup if someone gets wise...
I think it honestly needs more of this. This book should act as an opener for non-techs that dont know the issues about IE, and therefore probably little of the history of how and why microsoft's browser got to where it is today. although this is published by O'Reilly, it seems thay they want a book that is more availiable to the masses (althought probably didnt go far enough) Afterall , anyone who uses firefox knows anything this book says anyways, while joe book-reader will never but a tech book to learn about FF.
This books seems in limbo between an eye-opener techs can give to their grandma's to clearly explain the IE vs FF debacle, and a techinical guide, and in the end, doesnt seem to fit either nieche.
What we really need is a non-fiction book detailing more about the industry, with the overarching themes about the corperate politics behind the browsers. People dont understand 'activeX vunerabilities' nor care to, but look how interested people are in politics of big companies and their ethics. get it into the 'new non-fiction' section of bookstores opposed to the tech section in the back, and you can guarantee the 80% IE users with no knowlage of the situation at least hear about it
I guess getting sued for infringement is in style too: no free samples
I think Microsoft has stumbled onto a new stream of revenue here, much akin to 20's era protection rackets. For an spyware company to be successful, it just requires a tribute fee to MS to get on their 'Ignore list'. Considering the majority of unprotected users will be seeing no form of protection besides MS firewall and this MS-spyware, and have no other basis to determine what is spyware, the big spyware compaines that can afford this can be rest assured their software will go unhindered, while zombie-users will be content and oblivious, thinking their computer is clean.
Think about the arguement made in MS anti-trust rulings about bundling IE, where prosecutors charged the price of development of IE was being added to the cost of windows, opposed to being truly free. This software has to generate revenue for microsoft in some capacity, and if they dont see quashing users fears about MS security holes as a significant justification for this software, then they will find other ways to pay back the cost of development.
i dont find my example too particularily pleasing to myself either, but the point is that there will always be limits to freedoms within some capacity. imagine the class system generated in democracies today. vast separation of rich and poor has once again occured within the US. China has, although modestly in terms of the individual, overall saved the lives of untold millions of Chinese through abolition of starvation within their own country. They have done this through strict adherence to equalized rationing and work ethics, promoted by their socialist viewpoint. Expouting liberty is fun so long as you ignore historical trends showing the likelihood of the system gravitating towards class separation, which is exactly what they have been striving to remove themselves from, ie, communism. So long as the spectre of capitalism is pushing at their doors, they require some way to stop people from being lured to the idea of 'get rich fast! join capitalism!' This theory has enough flashy appeal to seduce the average, self-centric human being. If it were put into practice in China, only a handful would see the BMW's and LCD TV's, the rest would be right back into absolute poverty.
So long as these morals you speak of are not imbedded into the trade laws of your country, how can you expect a formation designed to generate profits (read: Microsoft corporation) to be more morally rightous then the laws of your representative government. If this activity angers you, dont go shouting at microsoft, maybe you should parcipitate in that human progress of yours.
We are simply talking about a company here, which will always be forced to follow the laws of the land of whatever country it choses to operate in. If there was a country that had legal child porn and a company that peddled it wanted to operate in your country, you can be damn sure you wouldn't want them to have that content.
Obviously the situation is based around what we determine are more timid, yet important examples of free speech censorship, but we are talking about a foreign country with international rights. It is not Microsoft's place to spark a rights battle with a sovern country, and they damn sure will chose to continue operations in China.
If you have a problem with China's free speech laws, well... call em up and tell em or something...
I rememeber when it had that functionality, you could specify; "remind me in 1 day (24 hours)"
now i get the 'updates are ready to install' icon in the tray, but no hurried popups asking me to follow up on it, its simply when i click it and chose to. this is on winXP Prof, w/ sp2, however, so i guess you have to Orwellian version of windows (sp 84) that says:
"Windows has decided what is best for your computer: you have 10 seconds to close all your programs and work so it may update. have a nice day"
Slashdot will remove the caption "stuff that matters" from their site after failing truth in advertising guildlines... seriously, i know its the morning, but, a wannabe hacker story on the front page? assuming all nerds have read bash.org, this is not even new
Their server will no doubt be unfortuneately 'slashdotted' at 999,999 downloads....only to come back up on the fifth day.
actually, this is correct, you have to disable this auto reboot 'feature' in the system startup menu to get the blue screen instead. a garbage roxio driver needed for NetMD software would crash my computer at startup every time, i couldnt tell what the hell was going on on till i found this option... thanks XP!
Im not sure how often toronto city hall (dual concave towers enclosing a smaller dome structure) fills in for futuristic corporate buildings... although there was nothing like watching downtown toronto getting nuked in resident evil 2. My Friend going to UoT lived in a hotel-residence on chestnut strt. right next door, and he had to admit the sight of attack helicopters outside his window during filming was pretty alarming.