As a Java-skeptic, what strikes me is that Java can't seem to make it's mind up about what it wants to be. Is a general purpose applications language? Is it a server-side glue? Is it a VM based "Compile once, run anywhere" language?
Is it a topping? Is it a floor wax? No, it's both.
The question for end users is, "when the fark will people implementing Java speed it up?!" Java takes forever to start and do anything whether Windows or Linux. Any complex Java programs and my systems crawl.
When they fix the speed and efficiency issues, then it will be deserving of further usage. Until then...
Don't get me wrong, there are tons of liberal wacko's too, but they're more about giving you more freedom to do what you want rather than forcing you to obey their views.
Exactly the opposite is true. Leftists always proceed from a POV that they are more intelligent, enlightened, caring, warm, etc., than others and thus their ideas can, should, and must be followed or else you are a know-nothing imbecile who needs to be controlled for the good of society and yourself. They are the only ones who know what is going on and everyone else is stupid.
They even feel free to engage in massive sneering religious intolerance, smearing Christians, treating religious Jews with condescention, and knocking aside peaceful Muslims in order to hold up radicals and terrorists as "authentic". They quite often proceed right past arrogance to "holy effrontery" without noticing how absurd they look.
It wasn't conservatives who invented political correctness. At worst conservatives are given to annoying passive "everyone can survive or fail on their own with no help whatsoever" neglect. I say worst because the fiery ones are obviously laughable and despite portrayal by liberals to the contrary, have no real influence. Liberals more often embrace an arrogant refusal to accept anyone not bowing before their views and worshipping the ground they walk on and fight like mad to get their way no matter what the cost to others, as long as they win and their ideas are enshrined.
Seems like the kind of mindset I see among Linux zealots who sputter and foam in befuddlement that the masses didn't listen to them five or more years ago and adopt Linux and put Microsoft out of business. Just to give it understanding for the/. overzealous. "But we're the techies and you should listen to us, because we know!"
BTW, since when is it not hypocrisy to decry bigotry on one side, yet practice it freely on the other? Anti-Christian rhetoric on this board is fairly free flowing and thick and utterly without redeeming value. It has no proper place here. But like the rest of the incessant "we're smarter than you" leftist weenie nonsense, it seems to be part and parcel of the stereotype. It needs to stop, really. Or we can have these political discussions ad nauseum.
Maybe to you, but I'd rather deal with cable issues which are the majority of time on my property where I can fix them versus DSL where the majority of time they are on the loop where you're at the mercy of the phone company getting around to fixing it.
If I had the money, I'd get a T1 and keep my cable as back-up. Just haven't found that 1, 2, 3, etc. 5. profit sequence yet.
Cox gives me 5Mbps x 512Kbps for an acceptable $60 or so a month and is rarely down. I've found that although you can technically get up to 7Mbps x 1Mbps ADSL at my short distance, it is also a matter of anyone being at the central office who offers it. Covad is pretty much the only other DSL presence in my central office after the telecom collapse and they don't even offer their 3Mbps service there.
Before the collapse, Covad and several carriers offered up to the 7x1 speed but they wanted as much as $750/month for it. You're not going to get that when you have total coverage by a cable company whose business class 5Mbps x 768Kbps service is not even $150/month.
Besides that, most of the problems with cable modems are with customer premises wiring and that is easily dealt with by customers who know how to RTFM on cable. With DSL, the majority of issues are loop issues where you're at the mercy of the phone company getting off their backsides to fix.
Utah isn't going to be getting extradition for arrests of spammers in other states. Flat out not going to get it. The other jurisdictions don't even care to enforce their own junk fax laws, never mind anti-spam laws. Now Utah has an idea that they'll get other states to go along?
No, not really. But the public will think they are doing something and go back to watching Survivor or whatever until their next wave of "government must do X about Y" feelings comes over them.
You can blame a wide-spectrum group of people, but mostly those on the left, sad to say, who've totally lost touch with what it means to be "human" despite constantly harping on words like "humanitarian".
Discovery and the thrill it brings are part and parcel of who we are as a species, but so to is survival at all costs and these go hand in hand.
We have the knee-jerk anti-corporatists who fight tooth and nail any business involvement, yet basically, humans always work on the basis of self-interest and as business has far more money and interest than government, their involvement is not only natural but vital. What NASA discovers, they often in commerce put into products we use sooner or later in one form or another. Your taxis and cars aren't made or operated by your government, neither will your civilian space transports in the future.
We have the social socialists who insist that all things be focused on down here and right now, and are in the end as bad as people who pollute endlessly as if it will never come back to haunt. Always thinking of now, never of then. Then will come around and become now. And where will we be then?
You also get the neoluddites who want to take everyone technologically back and not forward based on nothing more than their rice and sandals politics. Sorry, but anti-technology communal hippie rhetoric would not have saved the dinosaurs either.
Outside of all of them you get the lever being pushed back and forth, the public. Apathy and the above mentioned idiots on one end of the fulcrum and decreasing numbers of dreamers and scientists on the other.
We cannot afford to wait for the verge of extinction. We cannot afford to wait for ET to rescue us. We cannot afford to adopt inane population management to satisfy the egos of social theorists. Mankind wants to be fruitful and multiply. We want our wildlife and environment to remain self-sustaining. Space colonization is the only answer. We need to get back into space and we can't do it on razor thin budgets, having to try to justify every little thing to people who really don't care and don't want it to succeed in the first place for their own petty Earth-bound reasons.
I guarantee you this. Were a sizeable portion of the Earth nations to back a concerted move towards space colonization, any terrorism directed at it would bring a swift, harsh, and unified response as nothing before. Once the self-interest of survival is at stake, the sort of crimes that various nations tolerate as long as it is against someone other than them would no longer be tolerable.
Dear Monica,
I did what last night? Man, I must have been smashed. You sure? ROTFLMAO...
Yours truly,
Bill
Seriously, we're archiving every little tiny 1 and 0 for what reason? There's some things that can just go in a zip file and be put on a CD and that's it. Want them to stick around forever? Have files put out every so often in leftover space on AOL CDs. They'll never be gone forever.
The trouble of course with wiki-hardware is that the system adminstration is left to the community.
So not that much different that driver development on Linux.
More seriously, I am not sure what the wikimania online is about since having had to read whole sections of school encyclopedias was enough in junior high. I have no interest in writing articles in them. I also don't find myself to be enough of an expert on anything to do it with a straight face. Much of it seems to be ego boosting more than truly contributing to the breadth of mankind's knowledge.
OTOH, much of what the government does is no different and this isn't costing me any money, so go to it people. Have your wiki fun.
People miss this right off the bat in an attempt at ignoring their lack of skills and admitting their need to beef up same in favor of bashing Microsoft.
Who cares what game requires admin? That's not the point.
The point is that dangerous portals to unknown code content should not be run as admin. If it is possible to run IE as anything but admin, it should be, no code should execute that the user does not agree to. IE should check by default the content and see what it does and tell the user flat out, "hey, this stuff says it is needed to display the page properly but it is also trying to install this other stuff...".
The point is that users and Microsoft are lax in their security mindset. Games won't install or run without admin? Who cares. Anything that will have inheritance to code started by it should not be bequeathing admin status.
But even then, LUA still doesn't eliminate the fact that the MS model is bad and doesn't truly have a cleavage between root and everyone else. It is easy for background system processes to be the progenitors of the inheritance and off go running the viruses as system level processes.
And if you want a look at how inane WinXP Home is set-up for security consider you have to log in using Safe Mode to get to the folder ACLs. Changing them by the command prompt is the only other way and that's a crap shoot. I find Windows ignores command line permissions changes about half the time. Not good when you're trying to run *nix-style apps like SSH.
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Mount the drives on the ends of arms on axles as part of a mobile with the fans immediatelly behind with slip-ring contact assemblies providing power. Maybe sixteen of them all flying around in different directions as a modern art exercise. And with wireless connections from each sending data back and forth making them functional if kooky.
I'm not sure what the point of gigabit Ethernet is through a bus than can never pump a gigabit across it. Like putting a Fast Token Ring card on an ISA bus, what is the point if that bandwidth can never be approached by the system interface?
Other than that, the rest of the notice is of little interest as I had my fill of Lucas years ago. He should have done more work after RotJ, but instead faded into the background with ILM. Other studios instead produced the big glitzy works while we waited like idiots for the imagined sequence of wonderful sequels to the first SW movies.
...because they just prove P.T. Barnum over and over again.
Every one of these weird controls I see, when I try them out, they utterly fail to do anything for me and instead require me to learn a whole new layout. It's far easier just to learn to touch type.
Multiple levels would make recovery impossible by any known technology on this planet.
1. Hardware Level - There are Triple DES controllers now availible which sit between your IDE interface and the drive which transparently encrypt/decrypt everything going to/from the drive. Even the boot sector. Without the USB-like dongle, the drive is useless. Destroy that key and the drive's contents are forever lost.
2. Bootloader Level - loop-aes and so on are essentially in this category and everything from boot onward is encrypted/decrypted by the code.
3. Containers - these files can even appear as drives to the file management and you store what you want within. Sort of like a super zip/tar file with super encryption by comparison.
4. Files - encrypt the individual files you want to protect.
5. Steganography, etc. - The first part of breaking encryption is knowing it is there. Don't know, can't attack.
Has anyone got a solid example of a maximum strength PGP file being cracked without compromising the passphrase? Anyone know of two levels of encryption being cracked? What about multiple levels of software with hardware?
Myself, I am diving into Unix for two reasons: side business I want to explore and for the inevitable time when I get Unix related support calls at my telecom job.
From what I've seen over the years, there is less of a gulf between Unix and Windows people than between Client/Server people and Mainframe people with midrangers in between where Unix has penetrated deeply while Microsoft hasn't bothered to really seriously try. Say what you will about Cluster**** Server which/. has already beaten into the ground.
I'v also noted a wide variety of Unix being used with corporate non OSS leading easily, and a sizeable presence of BSD adherents. You hear more about Linux, but I don't tend to run into those in server land as BSD. If BSD were as easy to use as Red Hat I rather think Linux would have had its butt kicked by now in the corporate server farm. Heck, it would be doing better if it was as easy as Gentoo so you know that says something.
Of the non OSS, Solaris seems to be most common where I've been short of the solid IBM shops where their Unix variant is common. Of course, IBM often seems schitzo at the market boundry between midrange and big server so there's an ocean shore flotsam and jetsam effect there with Windows.
Oh yeah, cross skilling is a must. If VMWare were less expensive and better marketed, more people might be using five or six operating systems at the same time to get their skills going. I recall a multi-language training idea that was used largely with kids where five or six languages would be taught simultaneously. If how to do basic things in every common major OS were taught on a rotating basis, it would probably be a good idea. Windows on Monday, Red Hat on Tuesday, MacOSX on Wed., etc...
I don't see what the big deal about that is, pr0n producers have already had to have very detailed documentation about their performeres... There was that one case where a 16-17 year old pretended to be 19 back in the 60's or 70's... All of her photos had to be destroyed, but hundreds of photos were in magazines all over the country, as well as the videos.
First, it requires documentation be kept duplicate of that already made or the porn in question not be transmitted. Insanely, this means an obviously 73 year old grandma in an old woman sex magazine (they exist) without documentation may not be published and if already published may not be distributed. I expect this law to be struck down.
Second, it wasn't the 60's or 70's, it was the mid 80's. It was Traci Lords who paid for her own fake ID, sent nudes in to a modelling agency, worked her way to being the Penthouse Pet of the Month in the same issue that they published the lesbian sex shots of Vanessa Williams (guess how many people do not realize they bought that issue for Williams and got unintended kiddie pr0n in the centerfold?). She progressed to being a pr0n starlet, and basically got busted because someone who knew and said nothing finally spilled it (IIRC, family and not someone in the pr0n biz). The authorities stuck to their "the woman/child is always a victim" and tried to prosecute. Some people did time. Ginger Lynn Allen lost her house over it defending herself.
She presented fake ID at every step, which some cops who saw it said would have fooled them, nevermind knownothing pr0n biz secretaries. She used said fake ID to get a US passport which is a felony but was never prosecuted for it. She destroyed a lot of people in pr0n. My brother was working a video store when the news broke and police departments across the nation started staging SWAT-style raids of adult sections across the country in front of cameras.
There's a big difference between her and actual felonious kiddie pr0n production, much of which is actually carried out these days in the former Soviet republics. The sites impacted by this law aren't related. I've found almost no illegal stuff on American web sites in years and by default Americans doing web searches probably won't come across web based content showing things like Germany's Seventeen. Usenet on the other hand...
Now, will this satisfy most "real" geeks? Hell no! But except for SSH'ing directly into my masquerading gateway from the outside, it provides 99% of the functionality and security.
The problem is that the "real geeks" in networking aren't Linux weenies. They're the equally horrid Cisco Clowns. Given to polo shirts and dockers with $300 leather loafers, prominently putting CCNA on their business cards at twice the font size of their name, turning into snobbish twits the instant they get their certificate.
Joe Sixpack has it right and the geeks who want to make money and do right will cater to all that and just make it work. I must say that the latest crop of Linux distributions are working with most Ethernet chipsets I give them. On that note, BSD is totally secure by comparison because not one version I've tried on my personal Dell has worked right with any of the five different NICs I've thrown at it. Can't have a problem if you can't reach the network in the first place...
Oh yeah, SSH should be an option for power users on every home gateway router. Be much easier than futzing with OpenSSH on Linux OR Windows.
Linksys make great routers, they run linux, you can flash them and use them for a variety of things. Likewise I also love Cisco products, very reliable, always great performance.
The number one name that comes up when problems with customer owned equipment past my ISP's equipment occur, is the word Linksys. I've had people with $3000 T1 CSU/DSU/routers hook $199 Linksys pieces of **** to them and then wonder why it doesn't work and why we won't support their equipment.
Similarly, in my time in broadband and telecom, the number one name that comes up in failed major communications equipment is far and away without a close second, Cisco.
As I like to say, you don't need a certification in a given hardware platform if it is truly easy to use and reliable. I use to spend about 75% of my co-location repair work fixing Cisco issues.
I'd really like to know which planet Stinksys and Crisco are selling good stable equipment so I can have some imported here to replace the junk they sell on this planet. Really, I would. It would save me hours and hours of hassles.
For anyone considering moving states and buying a house, this is going to make them think very carefully about buying a home close to a business park, strip mall or hotel.
Simple. Find the addresses of the most liberal left wing people in local politics. I GUARANTEE in any small city in CT, they will be living in the wealthiest, whitest, best policed section of town. Move next door to them. For years people have bought the bunk that only those evil Republicans are living in priviledge, but it isn't true. The other side is every bit as given to having NOTHING in common with the common people and it is all the more galling for they being the ones who live and die on class politics rhetoric.
This smacks of Robocop 3, but instead of being due to privatization of a city, it is actual elected officials farking the people, and they are doing it in the worst mix of socialism, nimbyism, and elitism, and without any real facade. Out in the open, out and out statist confiscation of private property. Nimbyism you wonder? This would NEVER have been going in the THEIR neighborhoods.
The leftists are the ones most given to seizing private property and giving it to someone else. They've been doing it for years with the tax and welfare scam, and this is no different than the sort of things that occur in countries where socialists and communists seize power. First thing, eliminate the right to private property and seize it all under a thin veneer of "common good".
I am totally unsurprised at who voted against this. This was pure and simple an attack on the lowest economic rung of property owners not by big business which was sitting on the far side of the whole thing, but THE STATE, which waved the "public good" flag around. New London isn't a lot different from the CT city I live in and believe me, it is the most left wing of the politicians who see no problem with seizing private property for their own whims and interests. They believe that if you aren't wealthy enough to afford the legal team to keep your property, you shouldn't have it and go live in the projects on welfare. The wealthier can keep theirs until the revolution when it gets inevitably seized.
I would also note that NONE of the leftist politicians in town live ANYWHERE NEAR the neighborhoods they claim to represent. They live in the affluent southern section where the police concentrate their presence and harass people who don't look like they should be there, keeping "those other people" up in the north end.
And where do they want to harass struggling homeowners on the lower economic end? Whose homes do they try to condemn? Where do they want to demolish everything and put up retail stores? Our neighborhood, not theirs.
Whoever wins, we lose. Fight the lie people. Socialism is bunk. The Constitution is being assaulted heavily and worst by the people who claim the loudest and longest to be protectors of civil rights. Whoever you vote for, vote FREEDOM FIRST.
Outsourcing isn't going away and we in the USA do more insourcing than outsourcing. It's a matter of what we outsource can cause disruption if the people working it are dim bulbs and not dedicated which is largely a function of the company that took the contract, their hiring practices, and job conditions. McDonald's level practices and conditions doing something that should have IBM level practices and conditions in other words.
As the global network grows and data is flitting about, we're going to need international treaties to start getting drafted recognizing certain rights to security of personal data, and probably a strenghtened international police organization with official rights in signatories' jurisdictions where specific crimes are involved.
It's a good thing I'm moving my mortgage to another company. My present one has outsourced all customer phone service to India and made actual American personel at company headquarters IMPOSSIBLE to reach on the phone. Their Indian call center is under orders to refuse to redirect to the American office under any circumstances. It's gotten so that I would have to file a formal protest with the banking regulators to get them live on the phone.
McDonald's service from an organization whose work nature should be more like a major corporate financial institution.
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To which I say, "GOOD!"
If they want a protected file format, let them create a digital format of their own. Let them try to sell it and watch the public refuse to adopt it. Will they? No. More likely insist on crippling current industry standards and equipment to suit their paranoia.
It's been said before but bears repeating. This isn't about reality. Logically they know every copied file is not a loss of money as most people would not have spent their money on it in the first place because most of what is being traded is craptastic fluff to distract them from their lives.
As long as they can keep repeating their lie long and loud enough however, they know the short attention span and lack of dedication to careful thought on the part of their audience will let it essentially become the truth and allow them the coveted mantle of victimhood.
The people who resisted the VCR for the surface reason that it would result in piracy and financial loss but in reality did so because they feared having to meet a new standard in product quality to avoid their materials being rejected at the theater and sent straight to video with lower immediate proceeds are not victims.
I must get around to buying this book for the amusement.
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As a Java-skeptic, what strikes me is that Java can't seem to make it's mind up about what it wants to be. Is a general purpose applications language? Is it a server-side glue? Is it a VM based "Compile once, run anywhere" language?
Is it a topping? Is it a floor wax? No, it's both.
The question for end users is, "when the fark will people implementing Java speed it up?!" Java takes forever to start and do anything whether Windows or Linux. Any complex Java programs and my systems crawl.
When they fix the speed and efficiency issues, then it will be deserving of further usage. Until then...
Don't get me wrong, there are tons of liberal wacko's too, but they're more about giving you more freedom to do what you want rather than forcing you to obey their views.
/. overzealous. "But we're the techies and you should listen to us, because we know!"
Exactly the opposite is true. Leftists always proceed from a POV that they are more intelligent, enlightened, caring, warm, etc., than others and thus their ideas can, should, and must be followed or else you are a know-nothing imbecile who needs to be controlled for the good of society and yourself. They are the only ones who know what is going on and everyone else is stupid.
They even feel free to engage in massive sneering religious intolerance, smearing Christians, treating religious Jews with condescention, and knocking aside peaceful Muslims in order to hold up radicals and terrorists as "authentic". They quite often proceed right past arrogance to "holy effrontery" without noticing how absurd they look.
It wasn't conservatives who invented political correctness. At worst conservatives are given to annoying passive "everyone can survive or fail on their own with no help whatsoever" neglect. I say worst because the fiery ones are obviously laughable and despite portrayal by liberals to the contrary, have no real influence. Liberals more often embrace an arrogant refusal to accept anyone not bowing before their views and worshipping the ground they walk on and fight like mad to get their way no matter what the cost to others, as long as they win and their ideas are enshrined.
Seems like the kind of mindset I see among Linux zealots who sputter and foam in befuddlement that the masses didn't listen to them five or more years ago and adopt Linux and put Microsoft out of business. Just to give it understanding for the
BTW, since when is it not hypocrisy to decry bigotry on one side, yet practice it freely on the other? Anti-Christian rhetoric on this board is fairly free flowing and thick and utterly without redeeming value. It has no proper place here. But like the rest of the incessant "we're smarter than you" leftist weenie nonsense, it seems to be part and parcel of the stereotype. It needs to stop, really. Or we can have these political discussions ad nauseum.
Maybe to you, but I'd rather deal with cable issues which are the majority of time on my property where I can fix them versus DSL where the majority of time they are on the loop where you're at the mercy of the phone company getting around to fixing it.
If I had the money, I'd get a T1 and keep my cable as back-up. Just haven't found that 1, 2, 3, etc. 5. profit sequence yet.
Cox gives me 5Mbps x 512Kbps for an acceptable $60 or so a month and is rarely down. I've found that although you can technically get up to 7Mbps x 1Mbps ADSL at my short distance, it is also a matter of anyone being at the central office who offers it. Covad is pretty much the only other DSL presence in my central office after the telecom collapse and they don't even offer their 3Mbps service there.
Before the collapse, Covad and several carriers offered up to the 7x1 speed but they wanted as much as $750/month for it. You're not going to get that when you have total coverage by a cable company whose business class 5Mbps x 768Kbps service is not even $150/month.
Besides that, most of the problems with cable modems are with customer premises wiring and that is easily dealt with by customers who know how to RTFM on cable. With DSL, the majority of issues are loop issues where you're at the mercy of the phone company getting off their backsides to fix.
Utah isn't going to be getting extradition for arrests of spammers in other states. Flat out not going to get it. The other jurisdictions don't even care to enforce their own junk fax laws, never mind anti-spam laws. Now Utah has an idea that they'll get other states to go along?
No, not really. But the public will think they are doing something and go back to watching Survivor or whatever until their next wave of "government must do X about Y" feelings comes over them.
You can blame a wide-spectrum group of people, but mostly those on the left, sad to say, who've totally lost touch with what it means to be "human" despite constantly harping on words like "humanitarian".
Discovery and the thrill it brings are part and parcel of who we are as a species, but so to is survival at all costs and these go hand in hand.
We have the knee-jerk anti-corporatists who fight tooth and nail any business involvement, yet basically, humans always work on the basis of self-interest and as business has far more money and interest than government, their involvement is not only natural but vital. What NASA discovers, they often in commerce put into products we use sooner or later in one form or another. Your taxis and cars aren't made or operated by your government, neither will your civilian space transports in the future.
We have the social socialists who insist that all things be focused on down here and right now, and are in the end as bad as people who pollute endlessly as if it will never come back to haunt. Always thinking of now, never of then. Then will come around and become now. And where will we be then?
You also get the neoluddites who want to take everyone technologically back and not forward based on nothing more than their rice and sandals politics. Sorry, but anti-technology communal hippie rhetoric would not have saved the dinosaurs either.
Outside of all of them you get the lever being pushed back and forth, the public. Apathy and the above mentioned idiots on one end of the fulcrum and decreasing numbers of dreamers and scientists on the other.
We cannot afford to wait for the verge of extinction. We cannot afford to wait for ET to rescue us. We cannot afford to adopt inane population management to satisfy the egos of social theorists. Mankind wants to be fruitful and multiply. We want our wildlife and environment to remain self-sustaining. Space colonization is the only answer. We need to get back into space and we can't do it on razor thin budgets, having to try to justify every little thing to people who really don't care and don't want it to succeed in the first place for their own petty Earth-bound reasons.
I guarantee you this. Were a sizeable portion of the Earth nations to back a concerted move towards space colonization, any terrorism directed at it would bring a swift, harsh, and unified response as nothing before. Once the self-interest of survival is at stake, the sort of crimes that various nations tolerate as long as it is against someone other than them would no longer be tolerable.
Dear Monica,
I did what last night? Man, I must have been smashed. You sure? ROTFLMAO...
Yours truly,
Bill
Seriously, we're archiving every little tiny 1 and 0 for what reason? There's some things that can just go in a zip file and be put on a CD and that's it. Want them to stick around forever? Have files put out every so often in leftover space on AOL CDs. They'll never be gone forever.
Could this open some eyes and increase interest in alternative (Linux, Mac) offerings?
/. cliches, I think.
We can add this to the list of
American television program production back ends grew in Linux usage by a similar amount.
The trouble of course with wiki-hardware is that the system adminstration is left to the community.
So not that much different that driver development on Linux.
More seriously, I am not sure what the wikimania online is about since having had to read whole sections of school encyclopedias was enough in junior high. I have no interest in writing articles in them. I also don't find myself to be enough of an expert on anything to do it with a straight face. Much of it seems to be ego boosting more than truly contributing to the breadth of mankind's knowledge.
OTOH, much of what the government does is no different and this isn't costing me any money, so go to it people. Have your wiki fun.
People miss this right off the bat in an attempt at ignoring their lack of skills and admitting their need to beef up same in favor of bashing Microsoft.
Who cares what game requires admin? That's not the point.
The point is that dangerous portals to unknown code content should not be run as admin. If it is possible to run IE as anything but admin, it should be, no code should execute that the user does not agree to. IE should check by default the content and see what it does and tell the user flat out, "hey, this stuff says it is needed to display the page properly but it is also trying to install this other stuff...".
The point is that users and Microsoft are lax in their security mindset. Games won't install or run without admin? Who cares. Anything that will have inheritance to code started by it should not be bequeathing admin status.
But even then, LUA still doesn't eliminate the fact that the MS model is bad and doesn't truly have a cleavage between root and everyone else. It is easy for background system processes to be the progenitors of the inheritance and off go running the viruses as system level processes.
And if you want a look at how inane WinXP Home is set-up for security consider you have to log in using Safe Mode to get to the folder ACLs. Changing them by the command prompt is the only other way and that's a crap shoot. I find Windows ignores command line permissions changes about half the time. Not good when you're trying to run *nix-style apps like SSH.
Mount the drives on the ends of arms on axles as part of a mobile with the fans immediatelly behind with slip-ring contact assemblies providing power. Maybe sixteen of them all flying around in different directions as a modern art exercise. And with wireless connections from each sending data back and forth making them functional if kooky.
Now that would belong on Slashdot.
I'm not sure what the point of gigabit Ethernet is through a bus than can never pump a gigabit across it. Like putting a Fast Token Ring card on an ISA bus, what is the point if that bandwidth can never be approached by the system interface?
Other than that, the rest of the notice is of little interest as I had my fill of Lucas years ago. He should have done more work after RotJ, but instead faded into the background with ILM. Other studios instead produced the big glitzy works while we waited like idiots for the imagined sequence of wonderful sequels to the first SW movies.
...because they just prove P.T. Barnum over and over again.
Every one of these weird controls I see, when I try them out, they utterly fail to do anything for me and instead require me to learn a whole new layout. It's far easier just to learn to touch type.
Is it a humiliation or triumph for mankind that it can build a machine that can defeat itself?
I'll let you know when Skynet challenges me to a TuxRacer championship.
Multiple levels would make recovery impossible by any known technology on this planet.
1. Hardware Level - There are Triple DES controllers now availible which sit between your IDE interface and the drive which transparently encrypt/decrypt everything going to/from the drive. Even the boot sector. Without the USB-like dongle, the drive is useless. Destroy that key and the drive's contents are forever lost.
2. Bootloader Level - loop-aes and so on are essentially in this category and everything from boot onward is encrypted/decrypted by the code.
3. Containers - these files can even appear as drives to the file management and you store what you want within. Sort of like a super zip/tar file with super encryption by comparison.
4. Files - encrypt the individual files you want to protect.
5. Steganography, etc. - The first part of breaking encryption is knowing it is there. Don't know, can't attack.
Has anyone got a solid example of a maximum strength PGP file being cracked without compromising the passphrase? Anyone know of two levels of encryption being cracked? What about multiple levels of software with hardware?
Myself, I am diving into Unix for two reasons: side business I want to explore and for the inevitable time when I get Unix related support calls at my telecom job.
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From what I've seen over the years, there is less of a gulf between Unix and Windows people than between Client/Server people and Mainframe people with midrangers in between where Unix has penetrated deeply while Microsoft hasn't bothered to really seriously try. Say what you will about Cluster**** Server which
I'v also noted a wide variety of Unix being used with corporate non OSS leading easily, and a sizeable presence of BSD adherents. You hear more about Linux, but I don't tend to run into those in server land as BSD. If BSD were as easy to use as Red Hat I rather think Linux would have had its butt kicked by now in the corporate server farm. Heck, it would be doing better if it was as easy as Gentoo so you know that says something.
Of the non OSS, Solaris seems to be most common where I've been short of the solid IBM shops where their Unix variant is common. Of course, IBM often seems schitzo at the market boundry between midrange and big server so there's an ocean shore flotsam and jetsam effect there with Windows.
Oh yeah, cross skilling is a must. If VMWare were less expensive and better marketed, more people might be using five or six operating systems at the same time to get their skills going. I recall a multi-language training idea that was used largely with kids where five or six languages would be taught simultaneously. If how to do basic things in every common major OS were taught on a rotating basis, it would probably be a good idea. Windows on Monday, Red Hat on Tuesday, MacOSX on Wed., etc...
I don't see what the big deal about that is, pr0n producers have already had to have very detailed documentation about their performeres... There was that one case where a 16-17 year old pretended to be 19 back in the 60's or 70's... All of her photos had to be destroyed, but hundreds of photos were in magazines all over the country, as well as the videos.
First, it requires documentation be kept duplicate of that already made or the porn in question not be transmitted. Insanely, this means an obviously 73 year old grandma in an old woman sex magazine (they exist) without documentation may not be published and if already published may not be distributed. I expect this law to be struck down.
Second, it wasn't the 60's or 70's, it was the mid 80's. It was Traci Lords who paid for her own fake ID, sent nudes in to a modelling agency, worked her way to being the Penthouse Pet of the Month in the same issue that they published the lesbian sex shots of Vanessa Williams (guess how many people do not realize they bought that issue for Williams and got unintended kiddie pr0n in the centerfold?). She progressed to being a pr0n starlet, and basically got busted because someone who knew and said nothing finally spilled it (IIRC, family and not someone in the pr0n biz). The authorities stuck to their "the woman/child is always a victim" and tried to prosecute. Some people did time. Ginger Lynn Allen lost her house over it defending herself.
She presented fake ID at every step, which some cops who saw it said would have fooled them, nevermind knownothing pr0n biz secretaries. She used said fake ID to get a US passport which is a felony but was never prosecuted for it. She destroyed a lot of people in pr0n. My brother was working a video store when the news broke and police departments across the nation started staging SWAT-style raids of adult sections across the country in front of cameras.
There's a big difference between her and actual felonious kiddie pr0n production, much of which is actually carried out these days in the former Soviet republics. The sites impacted by this law aren't related. I've found almost no illegal stuff on American web sites in years and by default Americans doing web searches probably won't come across web based content showing things like Germany's Seventeen. Usenet on the other hand...
Now, will this satisfy most "real" geeks? Hell no! But except for SSH'ing directly into my masquerading gateway from the outside, it provides 99% of the functionality and security.
The problem is that the "real geeks" in networking aren't Linux weenies. They're the equally horrid Cisco Clowns. Given to polo shirts and dockers with $300 leather loafers, prominently putting CCNA on their business cards at twice the font size of their name, turning into snobbish twits the instant they get their certificate.
Joe Sixpack has it right and the geeks who want to make money and do right will cater to all that and just make it work. I must say that the latest crop of Linux distributions are working with most Ethernet chipsets I give them. On that note, BSD is totally secure by comparison because not one version I've tried on my personal Dell has worked right with any of the five different NICs I've thrown at it. Can't have a problem if you can't reach the network in the first place...
Oh yeah, SSH should be an option for power users on every home gateway router. Be much easier than futzing with OpenSSH on Linux OR Windows.
Linksys make great routers, they run linux, you can flash them and use them for a variety of things. Likewise I also love Cisco products, very reliable, always great performance.
The number one name that comes up when problems with customer owned equipment past my ISP's equipment occur, is the word Linksys. I've had people with $3000 T1 CSU/DSU/routers hook $199 Linksys pieces of **** to them and then wonder why it doesn't work and why we won't support their equipment.
Similarly, in my time in broadband and telecom, the number one name that comes up in failed major communications equipment is far and away without a close second, Cisco.
As I like to say, you don't need a certification in a given hardware platform if it is truly easy to use and reliable. I use to spend about 75% of my co-location repair work fixing Cisco issues.
I'd really like to know which planet Stinksys and Crisco are selling good stable equipment so I can have some imported here to replace the junk they sell on this planet. Really, I would. It would save me hours and hours of hassles.
For anyone considering moving states and buying a house, this is going to make them think very carefully about buying a home close to a business park, strip mall or hotel.
Simple. Find the addresses of the most liberal left wing people in local politics. I GUARANTEE in any small city in CT, they will be living in the wealthiest, whitest, best policed section of town. Move next door to them. For years people have bought the bunk that only those evil Republicans are living in priviledge, but it isn't true. The other side is every bit as given to having NOTHING in common with the common people and it is all the more galling for they being the ones who live and die on class politics rhetoric.
This smacks of Robocop 3, but instead of being due to privatization of a city, it is actual elected officials farking the people, and they are doing it in the worst mix of socialism, nimbyism, and elitism, and without any real facade. Out in the open, out and out statist confiscation of private property. Nimbyism you wonder? This would NEVER have been going in the THEIR neighborhoods.
The leftists are the ones most given to seizing private property and giving it to someone else. They've been doing it for years with the tax and welfare scam, and this is no different than the sort of things that occur in countries where socialists and communists seize power. First thing, eliminate the right to private property and seize it all under a thin veneer of "common good".
I am totally unsurprised at who voted against this. This was pure and simple an attack on the lowest economic rung of property owners not by big business which was sitting on the far side of the whole thing, but THE STATE, which waved the "public good" flag around. New London isn't a lot different from the CT city I live in and believe me, it is the most left wing of the politicians who see no problem with seizing private property for their own whims and interests. They believe that if you aren't wealthy enough to afford the legal team to keep your property, you shouldn't have it and go live in the projects on welfare. The wealthier can keep theirs until the revolution when it gets inevitably seized.
I would also note that NONE of the leftist politicians in town live ANYWHERE NEAR the neighborhoods they claim to represent. They live in the affluent southern section where the police concentrate their presence and harass people who don't look like they should be there, keeping "those other people" up in the north end.
And where do they want to harass struggling homeowners on the lower economic end? Whose homes do they try to condemn? Where do they want to demolish everything and put up retail stores? Our neighborhood, not theirs.
Whoever wins, we lose. Fight the lie people. Socialism is bunk. The Constitution is being assaulted heavily and worst by the people who claim the loudest and longest to be protectors of civil rights. Whoever you vote for, vote FREEDOM FIRST.
95% warnings of new Windows vulnerabilities and ranting about same, 5% advertising the all new Google Commercials.
Outsourcing isn't going away and we in the USA do more insourcing than outsourcing. It's a matter of what we outsource can cause disruption if the people working it are dim bulbs and not dedicated which is largely a function of the company that took the contract, their hiring practices, and job conditions. McDonald's level practices and conditions doing something that should have IBM level practices and conditions in other words.
As the global network grows and data is flitting about, we're going to need international treaties to start getting drafted recognizing certain rights to security of personal data, and probably a strenghtened international police organization with official rights in signatories' jurisdictions where specific crimes are involved.
It's a good thing I'm moving my mortgage to another company. My present one has outsourced all customer phone service to India and made actual American personel at company headquarters IMPOSSIBLE to reach on the phone. Their Indian call center is under orders to refuse to redirect to the American office under any circumstances. It's gotten so that I would have to file a formal protest with the banking regulators to get them live on the phone.
McDonald's service from an organization whose work nature should be more like a major corporate financial institution.
To which I say, "GOOD!"
If they want a protected file format, let them create a digital format of their own. Let them try to sell it and watch the public refuse to adopt it. Will they? No. More likely insist on crippling current industry standards and equipment to suit their paranoia.
It's been said before but bears repeating. This isn't about reality. Logically they know every copied file is not a loss of money as most people would not have spent their money on it in the first place because most of what is being traded is craptastic fluff to distract them from their lives.
As long as they can keep repeating their lie long and loud enough however, they know the short attention span and lack of dedication to careful thought on the part of their audience will let it essentially become the truth and allow them the coveted mantle of victimhood.
The people who resisted the VCR for the surface reason that it would result in piracy and financial loss but in reality did so because they feared having to meet a new standard in product quality to avoid their materials being rejected at the theater and sent straight to video with lower immediate proceeds are not victims.
I must get around to buying this book for the amusement.