Another possible reason for collecting this additional info is that they could avoid updating a DLL if they know this breaks some third-party software.
Or if this third-party software is a competitor (Opera, anyone ?), they could send a specific patch to break it...
Do Linux, Windows, or any specific programs for them let you set something permanently on or off by having Scroll Lock set on or off?
Well, X-window considers Scroll-Lock as a modifier, so many window managers will not respond to a keyboard mapping if Scroll-Lock is active. So I can have Alt-Tab mapped to "switch to next window" in my window manager, but still send the Alt-Tab to the underlying application by activating Scroll-Lock. This already has sometimes been useful to me, without having configured anything special.
My cable modem ISP blocks port 25, so my outgoing mail has to go through their SMTP relaying server. As long as I can trust them to have it always available, I'm not annoyed at all. The only drawback is that they limit the size of emails to a few MB. But I also have a colocated server with its MTA, and I can exchange mail with it with UUCP, or I could make it listen to an alternate port (not 25).
My ISP also blocks all incoming ports <1024 and outgoing ports 25 and 80 (so all surfing goes through their proxy). At first, I thought it would annoy me, but in fact, I am delighted they do, because CodeRed, Nimda and other IIS worms never threatened the bandwidth quality of my ISP, nor do I have to worry about sendmail, bind or ssh vulnerabilities. And I can still have servers on ports above 1024: my sshd only runs on a non standard port, which also means it is less visible to scanning tools
For other needs, I have my colocated server of course, which I share with friends, and I believe there is a place for other net services than Web hosting (SMTP/UUCP/POP3/IMAP) for those that have a need for it
While reading the article, I was pretty sure such a delay was simply not true. So I tried "bush nuclear" as keywords (a current hot topic). Guess what ? The first 6 links were less than 12 hours old. So maybe "Months" should be understood as "Hours". I also used to use Altavista. A very long time ago...
This sounds like a terrible plan. As mentioned, a simple counter would blow this thing out immediately.
Well, I am not convinced spammers could do this without cost. In fact, they mostly use open relaying MTAs to send their spam once to thousands of recipients. So adding a counter to the body of their e-mail would force them to send it once per recipient, breaking the cost-effectiveness of spam.
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Another possible reason for collecting this additional info is that they could avoid updating a DLL if they know this breaks some third-party software.
Or if this third-party software is a competitor (Opera, anyone ?), they could send a specific patch to break it...
Do Linux, Windows, or any specific programs for them let you set something permanently on or off by having Scroll Lock set on or off?
Well, X-window considers Scroll-Lock as a modifier, so many window managers will not respond to a keyboard mapping if Scroll-Lock is active. So I can have Alt-Tab mapped to "switch to next window" in my window manager, but still send the Alt-Tab to the underlying application by activating Scroll-Lock.
This already has sometimes been useful to me, without having configured anything special.
My cable modem ISP blocks port 25, so my outgoing mail has to go through their SMTP relaying server. As long as I can trust them to have it always available, I'm not annoyed at all. The only drawback is that they limit the size of emails to a few MB. But I also have a colocated server with its MTA, and I can exchange mail with it with UUCP, or I could make it listen to an alternate port (not 25).
My ISP also blocks all incoming ports <1024 and outgoing ports 25 and 80 (so all surfing goes through their proxy). At first, I thought it would annoy me, but in fact, I am delighted they do, because CodeRed, Nimda and other IIS worms never threatened the bandwidth quality of my ISP, nor do I have to worry about sendmail, bind or ssh vulnerabilities. And I can still have servers on ports above 1024: my sshd only runs on a non standard port, which also means it is less visible to scanning tools
For other needs, I have my colocated server of course, which I share with friends, and I believe there is a place for other net services than Web hosting (SMTP/UUCP/POP3/IMAP) for those that have a need for it
TiVo's Thursday press release in which they assure us that "every TiVo Series2 DVR contains a unique public/private key pair.
If both the public and private keys are in the TiVo, there is no more need for distributed.net key cracking...
How long will it take to "DeCSS" your own recordings ?
While reading the article, I was pretty sure such a delay was simply not true. So I tried "bush nuclear" as keywords (a current hot topic). Guess what ?
The first 6 links were less than 12 hours old. So maybe "Months" should be understood as "Hours".
I also used to use Altavista.
A very long time ago...
Well, I am not convinced spammers could do this without cost. In fact, they mostly use open relaying MTAs to send their spam once to thousands of recipients. So adding a counter to the body of their e-mail would force them to send it once per recipient, breaking the cost-effectiveness of spam.
Just my two eurocents.