at&t (remember its all lower case now, since the aquisition)=P, is not the only Internet provider. There are plenty of Tier1 providers that would be happy to take that business from at&t. Since the cable providers have their own fiber and cable infrastructure, all they need to do is get to a couple of providers at the MAE. So, I would not be too worried about residential services.
What I would be worried about, and I know I am, is the monopoly (once again) on business grade telecom services, like DSx and OCx type services. I know in Los Angeles I have seen a significant increase in local loop charges over the last 6-8 months. For instance, a DS3 I priced out 8 months ago at $1950/mo. is no coming in at around $5000/mo.; That's more than double!
"but does the community need to resort to using third-class promotional tactics with total downloads number?"
Didn't McDonalds use to post on their restraunts how many burgers they sold? Yeah, that's third rate alright. Just look how poorly that third rate chain has done! =)
Is that you Mr. Jobs? But seriously, I have no problem with Macs. In fact I think Apple has done well with the OS. Also, leaving the key under the mat, as this evaluation was, is not a true measure of security.
However, OpenBSD has had only one remote hole in over 8 years with the default install; an "install only what you need" installation would have zero. Macs have not been the targets of attacks because the percentage of Macs being used historically as Internet facing servers was much lower than any other OS. In fact, nobody really looked at Mac security in the past. Now that OSX is becoming more prevalent on the Internet, you will start to see, and already are, more attacks and scrutiny on this platform. Post just like yours and Mac users boasting how secure the OS is, may be just the invitation some "leets" were waiting for.
I think it is good to expose security holes in an OS. You can't fix it if you don't know its broken. Better to have "friendlys" find the exploits.
This is not unlike "open door" policies. Email has become as prominent a form of communication as speaking face-to-face, or more so to be more precise. Just with open door policies, it would not be appropriate for employees to be lined up all day outside the CEO's office. Only issues that -
- have been escalated through appropriate channels with not success
- are of a business critical nature
should be brought to this level. Anything regarding discrimination, harrasment, etc. should be channeled through HR. If HR is unresponsive, then perhaps this channel could be used. If all of these rules are being followed, I can not see how a CEO, even in a very large company, would get more than a dozen emails per day. I would be intersted in seeing just how many of these emails were forwards of "Fight Gas Prices", "Save Your Manhood", and other Spam of the Day mails.
~ With great power, comes.....hot women, fancy cars, and a fat bank account...Oh, and some responsibility too!
"...every schmoe can type "www.google.com" into their attack script?"
This is not a Google search engine clone. This tool uses Google and other search engines to index fake vunerabilities in order to entice would-be hackers into trying to exploit a vunderability. This tool then logs the activity and the IP and such can be added to a blacklist database that other site admins can use to block malicious user IP's, report to ISP of IP address...potentially.
That said, a hacker worth his salt most likely won't be performing any of these activities directly from their system or using their provider. Atleast this may flag some of the script kiddies.
Slashdot Mirror
at&t (remember its all lower case now, since the aquisition)=P, is not the only Internet provider. There are plenty of Tier1 providers that would be happy to take that business from at&t. Since the cable providers have their own fiber and cable infrastructure, all they need to do is get to a couple of providers at the MAE. So, I would not be too worried about residential services.
What I would be worried about, and I know I am, is the monopoly (once again) on business grade telecom services, like DSx and OCx type services. I know in Los Angeles I have seen a significant increase in local loop charges over the last 6-8 months. For instance, a DS3 I priced out 8 months ago at $1950/mo. is no coming in at around $5000/mo.; That's more than double!
Didn't McDonalds use to post on their restraunts how many burgers they sold? Yeah, that's third rate alright. Just look how poorly that third rate chain has done! =)
Is that you Mr. Jobs? But seriously, I have no problem with Macs. In fact I think Apple has done well with the OS. Also, leaving the key under the mat, as this evaluation was, is not a true measure of security. However, OpenBSD has had only one remote hole in over 8 years with the default install; an "install only what you need" installation would have zero. Macs have not been the targets of attacks because the percentage of Macs being used historically as Internet facing servers was much lower than any other OS. In fact, nobody really looked at Mac security in the past. Now that OSX is becoming more prevalent on the Internet, you will start to see, and already are, more attacks and scrutiny on this platform. Post just like yours and Mac users boasting how secure the OS is, may be just the invitation some "leets" were waiting for. I think it is good to expose security holes in an OS. You can't fix it if you don't know its broken. Better to have "friendlys" find the exploits.
- have been escalated through appropriate channels with not success - are of a business critical nature
should be brought to this level. Anything regarding discrimination, harrasment, etc. should be channeled through HR. If HR is unresponsive, then perhaps this channel could be used. If all of these rules are being followed, I can not see how a CEO, even in a very large company, would get more than a dozen emails per day. I would be intersted in seeing just how many of these emails were forwards of "Fight Gas Prices", "Save Your Manhood", and other Spam of the Day mails.
~ With great power, comes.....hot women, fancy cars, and a fat bank account...Oh, and some responsibility too!
"...every schmoe can type "www.google.com" into their attack script?"
This is not a Google search engine clone. This tool uses Google and other search engines to index fake vunerabilities in order to entice would-be hackers into trying to exploit a vunderability. This tool then logs the activity and the IP and such can be added to a blacklist database that other site admins can use to block malicious user IP's, report to ISP of IP address...potentially.
That said, a hacker worth his salt most likely won't be performing any of these activities directly from their system or using their provider. Atleast this may flag some of the script kiddies.