Time to get really freaky, there are other things that hide themselves too. At work try pressing ctrl+alt+del, go to the task manager (assuming it's not locked out) and go to processes..., yeah, iTunes runs on a PC all the time. Now if you're really brave press windows key +L and take a look at all the security features built into Windows. So now all of you KaZaa users, see if yu can find out how many extra processes are running on your computer. AOL users do the same, and if you run both, it's kinda surprising your computer still runs..... That's it: She can blame the computer manufacturer for building a computer that runs the two at the same time.
copyright has it's problems, i agree, but there's one more which is missing.. try to get a copyright on something.. it's not so easy for the average Joe... Then there's service marks a and trade marks.. just disasters waiting to happen... and it seems that the only ones willing to help you in dealing with the government are Lawyers... yup, there goes your profit!
Aanyway. A few people have mentioned the ISP not blocking the file transfer angle and it not being the responsibility of the ISP to monitor traffic and prevent anything (as it should be, being a service provider). Now I don't know about overseas, but here in Oz, many ISPs have implemented P2P traffic throttling, which makes me wonder how large a step it is (legally) to say that a company is monitoring and reacting to the type of traffic compared to being responsible for the actual traffic itself, and thus legally obligated to do something about it.
You know, it's sad, but this is really feasible, and the majority of America under 45 will be really pissed about it, but not do anything about it... in short if this describes you (any reader) go out and make a difference!
I was just going to say "If you get in a car, and you crash it up because you don' t know how to drive it, are you still liable?"... An earlier post mentioned that KazAA doesn't end when you click on the close button (for real n00bs:the red 'X') that the program continues to run in the background. Thus the user tries to stop the illegal activity, but it is written to not listen you.. hmm. don't you think the blue and green "K" by your clock might mean something?
The law is only as good (or as bad) as the lawyers arguing it. This only becomes a piece of case law of other lawyers are smart enough to argue it in the future, and other judges apply in such a way that it causes ISP's to change. (cost of policing users
Think of it this way, if the movement for the XXX TLD can cum as far as it does, then it COULD set a precedent. however I think it will be very unlikely due to the structure of the agreements that accompany using your ISP.
I was working at my college when someone doing road word deciding that Call before you Dig was wrong about something... they took a 10" gas powered saw and started to cut through a 400 pair trunk connecting the two main sections of campus.... the resulting shorts shorted out equipment on both sides. our network admin was splicing together cables in a manhole under the main street through campus in the poring rain wile others had to replace the equipment on both sides.
makes you think.. going with wireless is just so much easier!
Vista does suffer from many problems that give these opinions weight. On up to date PC's with 2 GB of RAM and fancy dedicated graphics cards, Vista still performs slow.. that is slower than XP. If you disable Aero and go with the classic look, we still experience the same problems. Open up the control panel, or worse yet, the add/remove programs wizard (appwiz.cpl), and see how ong it takes to get it to list. The UI is less intuitive than XP, and furthermore the OS asks you if you initiated a task.. really what's the point of that? If it's a security feature, I'm surprised it's not compromised as of yet. I was also asks by th OS no less than 4 times if i was sure i wanted to delete a cache of temporary files. I'm advising many of my offices to look into switching everything to mac as opposed to vista.
The clients i have with Windows Vista are receiving all types of errors. I've had a much higher instance of failed windows updates render the system unusable. I needed to low level the disk to get the windows installer to install again. I've had bluescreen errors that aren't even documented by reputable sources (like Microsoft). Running Vista is more of a liability than running Windows Me.. that is a sore topic for some of us i know.
So yes i feel that the Olympic committee ha s may reasons for not going over to Vista, software developmental reasons aside. i don't want to hear "A new world record was set today.. This was the first time that the athletes began to beat the hell out of the officials because the computers lost all of the records for the day's events."
lastly, every town in America has at least 100 geeks who end up tell everyone they can to stay away from Vista. Microsoft can no longer get away with releasing garbage for an OS, they've got to step up and give people a reason to stick with this outdated PC model, or else Mac will take over that market sector in 10 years, and everything else that a PC is good for (games) will be left to Microsoft only good (dare i say it) Xbox 360 and competitors like Sony.
well, normally I'd say RTFA, but i think we can go back to the old adage RTFM. Sideshow's right. What's your admin password set to on your mac. do you have other unsecured accounts? and please tell me you're running OSX. Also, I'd like to make a note, that i have personally worked in mixed windows domain, Mac environments. Macs handle the role of windows domain controllers better than windows machines. (over 5000 users)
The problem with it is the security, you're right. with something like the election, someone is going to be wiling to put their resources into rigging the election, look what's spent campaigning. Bribe the guy that sits there to watch the machines and make sure no one gets in, and boom, you have all the access you need if you're a black hat. Or better yet, get a job working in polling place, and just be that guy. now those locks are not there, then sell you services to the highest bidder.
because we can't trust our politicians, we can't trust an all electronic voting system. I see the need for one, but there should also be a paper backup.. you know just in case the server cluster crashes on election day, or it's compromised electrically.
Use an electronic voting machine with a paper receipt. one goes to the voter, the other one is displayed through a glass window to the voter to make sure that the system "tallies" it correctly. If there ever is a question, check the paper copy of the output.
It is true that a voting machine is not an ATM. Our voting should be just that, anonymous. In the computer world, figuring out who pushed what button is normally tied back into accountability. An example: Windows domains using a proper active directory and the right logging tools will tell us who's trying to screw around with documents. How can we be sure the results of the ATM.. i mean voting machine are accurate?
Earlier on in the string of posts, one comment suggested paper receipts with a number system. I didn't fully understand the explanation of the number system, but i think it's a good option. Imagine if it printed two receipts, one it hands to the voter, the other the voter can see printed through a glass window. It can provide a BACKUP in case the machine CRASHES and doest get the votes over to the tabulating back end, or if there's reason to believe that the machine was tampered with. A dedicated black hat I'm sure can still find a way to break into the system as a whole and change votes, but the printed ballot would be verified by the voter, and certifiably not tampered with by the voting administrators.
every system has a flaw, indeed even this one does, a team can can try to hack the system knowing they would go to paper backups, then pay off voting administrators to replace the paper ballots with loaded ones. Complicated to coordinate rigging the presidential election, but local elections CAN now be bought....
The presidential elections are still a big concern to me, We've seen how the voting machines themselves are vulnerable, but I haven't seen anything about security upstream when votes are tallied to coordinate the electoral college, This is the most likely target, and has not been past any public review that I have seen.
It really has to back to the whole idea of unlawful search and seizure, and hard vs circumstantial evidence. we'll see how the first judge rules, and prey till it gets to the supreme court. President Schwarzenegger, please appoint good justices.
When was the last time you tired to use a PDA. I've been trying to use them for six years. I found the touch screens would be finicky, and on certain models (mostly windows based ones) i would need to calibrate the display every time i used it... lame. I also needed to use the stylus, using my finger just screwed up the calibration more. So yeah it has a touch screen, but it's in how it's used. Using the slider, for instance to lock, unlock, turn off, and other things, is NOT something done yet.
Truthfully, i have yet to see a nice laptop that offers true touchscreen. They have tablets, and poorly designed tablets. a good tablet (i bought an acer convertible tablet in 2004) used a magnetic system to pick up the stylus, and the pressure of my hand or a finer do not affect the display. Some other tablets are not picky about the stylus, and you could get away with using your finger, however the touch screen was designed around using the stylus. Use you finger when you have the resolution set high enough to actually view a whole web page, you fingers won't fit.
These are all problems associated with lack of synergy between the hardware and the software. Where apple is different then the rest of the electronics market, they don't say "here's a platform, find ways of using it, it might fit you needs" they say "here's a solution, use it"
being the mis-represented group of computer scientists that we are,why don't we just right the machines to vote CowboyNeal in as President, and the top moderators of slashdot to the legislature. this way, we can fix all these damn issues!
I have to agree that there are a lot of huge flash files out on the net which when stopped, cause everything to just go quicker, but the majority of these appear to be coming from people who have the nerve to call themselves flash developers. There are TONS of things you can do to keep a flash site small in size, or even manage the bandwidth more effectively. I sued to use a lot of flash when I was in college (flash 5). Now I'm an IT monkey.
As an user, i like the fact that flash is easy to use. I install this nice small flash phugin which works with my open source (or IE based) browser, and i have access to all that rich content. If i want to use Silverlight, it looks like i need to install IE7 (oops, my copy of windows is a copy), the.NET framework, and some Silverlight plugin. All because someone wants to cut costs on site development. If those money grubbers want people to view their rich content on their site, make it so the audience can access it. Perosnally, most of the sites that relay heavily on ASP2.0 are even slow, I'd hate to see what would happen after Silverlight, then think of the security exploits.
As far as not using flash on non x86 on Linux, I know how it can be frustrating. I'm using Firefox and i have a bill that I'd like to pay online that "is only supported in IE6" according to company sending me the bill. If enough people start requesting flash plug ins for non x86, then i think will WILL see that come up to date. i doubt Silverlight will ever work on open source at all, (with the exception of Darwin, Thank you apple)
I think that it's about time that some leader of a nation appointed themselves to clean up the Internet. I mean after Al Gore set it up, he sat back and watched, WATCHED as half of it became pornography and gambling. I think that it's about time that the conservative moms who don't understand anything about the Internet finally get what they want, government controlled censorship to protect the virgin eyes and ears of their kids. Instead of surfing for porn, the kids can go listen to gangsta rap and death metal. So i guess, all that's left for me to do is to find something to do with all that time that I spend downloading porn at home, or my office, or on my PDA.
well let's get to it...
1) set up proxies and terminal servers for Canadians who want download pornography 2) let it be known by word of mouth 3) ??? 4) $profit$
the correlation between greenhouse gases and temperatures are well known... this is true... (Props to IwannabeanAC)
On the other hand elsewhere on the threads here it discusses that ancient ice shows us that a temperature increase was preceded by temperature change by 400 to 600 years... and now we are comparing Earth to Mars, where we have 100+ years of modern meteorological data (improving in quality in more recent years, no doubt), and were comparing it to a planet in which we have very little data on, in comparison...
the end result is it's a gigantic matrix. We predict weather with the assistance of using models fed into a computer, which takes weather data from balloons, buoys, and ground based weather stations. This data is interpolated to fit a grid, and the computer gives a prediction for 5 minutes from now... Multiply that by a few thousand times and we're getting somewhere.. Obvoulsy chaos theory takes over. These models are then looked at by local meteorologists who take into account historical trends and local geography to give a more accurate prediction.. and we all know the joke that results here. It is difficult to predict the weather, and i give props to meteorologists.
Now climatology.. we don't have all the pieces to the puzzle, and knowing that the sun is heating up other planets is helpful, but why? is it just the Sun? can it be Mars's orbit? (good chance there)this warming trend may not be entirely our fault, but, the present position of the land masses seem to be assisting Chaos theory in throwing our weather out of whack, and we are entering the hottest period on record. That's for certain. We can't solve the matrix if we don't have enough values to fill in rows.
This evidence shows that it may not entirely be our fault, but it's no negation for the global warming theory either.
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You're right. it's jsut the current administration's way of making the rich richer.
Well, this is why we pay thousands for Visual Studio, with coding that is differnt from the rest world. just so we can compile for windows. That's fair, right?
I whole heartedly agree that as these technologies become more cost effective to produce, and as electric company rates are going up, we will see more of a change to renewable resources, but it will take time.
I was 8 (or somewhere around there) years old when I first heard about renewable energy, global warming and the like, that was 1992. It was possible to get wind turbines, and Photo-Voltaic Cells then, but they were very costly. now they are falling, woo-hoo. Our electric companies adopting these will be able to generate power on good days where there is wind or sun, but they will have a varying energy output. It is not really cost effective to store this energy locally, so this leads us back to the stressed power grid again. We have the ability to generate electricity, but not necessarily enough to keep with the demand. We need the means of getting the electricity from point A to point B.
The other major thing is the cool gadget factor. I am 21 years old, and I would like to build my house after I finish school and get an "actual" job, and of course, if I don't have the ability to make my own power right away, I'm going to have the wiring in place to retrofit everything. Hypothetically: I get a wind turbine, put it up in the yard, and I ran the wires back to my utility room, there is huge cost associated with hooking it up. I don't know the proper names of the equipment needed, but I imagine you would need something similar to a transfer switch to hook it up. Like what you have in your server room to plug in your equipment that does not have two power supplies.
Bottom line, this is the first year it is an economically feasible alternative, but unfortunately, this doesn't mean everybody will be jumping on the bandwagon this year.
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Time to get really freaky, there are other things that hide themselves too. At work try pressing ctrl+alt+del, go to the task manager (assuming it's not locked out) and go to processes..., yeah, iTunes runs on a PC all the time. Now if you're really brave press windows key +L and take a look at all the security features built into Windows. So now all of you KaZaa users, see if yu can find out how many extra processes are running on your computer. AOL users do the same, and if you run both, it's kinda surprising your computer still runs..... That's it: She can blame the computer manufacturer for building a computer that runs the two at the same time.
copyright has it's problems, i agree, but there's one more which is missing.. try to get a copyright on something.. it's not so easy for the average Joe... Then there's service marks a and trade marks.. just disasters waiting to happen... and it seems that the only ones willing to help you in dealing with the government are Lawyers... yup, there goes your profit!
I'll bid $5.00 for the company..
...What? it's not worth even that much?...
You know, it's sad, but this is really feasible, and the majority of America under 45 will be really pissed about it, but not do anything about it... in short if this describes you (any reader) go out and make a difference!
I was just going to say "If you get in a car, and you crash it up because you don' t know how to drive it, are you still liable?"... An earlier post mentioned that KazAA doesn't end when you click on the close button (for real n00bs :the red 'X') that the program continues to run in the background. Thus the user tries to stop the illegal activity, but it is written to not listen you.. hmm. don't you think the blue and green "K" by your clock might mean something?
Think of it this way, if the movement for the XXX TLD can cum as far as it does, then it COULD set a precedent. however I think it will be very unlikely due to the structure of the agreements that accompany using your ISP.
makes you think.. going with wireless is just so much easier!
The clients i have with Windows Vista are receiving all types of errors. I've had a much higher instance of failed windows updates render the system unusable. I needed to low level the disk to get the windows installer to install again. I've had bluescreen errors that aren't even documented by reputable sources (like Microsoft). Running Vista is more of a liability than running Windows Me.. that is a sore topic for some of us i know.
So yes i feel that the Olympic committee ha s may reasons for not going over to Vista, software developmental reasons aside. i don't want to hear "A new world record was set today.. This was the first time that the athletes began to beat the hell out of the officials because the computers lost all of the records for the day's events."
lastly, every town in America has at least 100 geeks who end up tell everyone they can to stay away from Vista. Microsoft can no longer get away with releasing garbage for an OS, they've got to step up and give people a reason to stick with this outdated PC model, or else Mac will take over that market sector in 10 years, and everything else that a PC is good for (games) will be left to Microsoft only good (dare i say it) Xbox 360 and competitors like Sony.
well, normally I'd say RTFA, but i think we can go back to the old adage RTFM. Sideshow's right. What's your admin password set to on your mac. do you have other unsecured accounts? and please tell me you're running OSX. Also, I'd like to make a note, that i have personally worked in mixed windows domain, Mac environments. Macs handle the role of windows domain controllers better than windows machines. (over 5000 users)
Very good point... Thank god for peer review. funny how no one else is talking about the rest of the ideas set forth.
because we can't trust our politicians, we can't trust an all electronic voting system. I see the need for one, but there should also be a paper backup.. you know just in case the server cluster crashes on election day, or it's compromised electrically.
Use an electronic voting machine with a paper receipt. one goes to the voter, the other one is displayed through a glass window to the voter to make sure that the system "tallies" it correctly. If there ever is a question, check the paper copy of the output.
Earlier on in the string of posts, one comment suggested paper receipts with a number system. I didn't fully understand the explanation of the number system, but i think it's a good option. Imagine if it printed two receipts, one it hands to the voter, the other the voter can see printed through a glass window. It can provide a BACKUP in case the machine CRASHES and doest get the votes over to the tabulating back end, or if there's reason to believe that the machine was tampered with. A dedicated black hat I'm sure can still find a way to break into the system as a whole and change votes, but the printed ballot would be verified by the voter, and certifiably not tampered with by the voting administrators.
every system has a flaw, indeed even this one does, a team can can try to hack the system knowing they would go to paper backups, then pay off voting administrators to replace the paper ballots with loaded ones. Complicated to coordinate rigging the presidential election, but local elections CAN now be bought....
The presidential elections are still a big concern to me, We've seen how the voting machines themselves are vulnerable, but I haven't seen anything about security upstream when votes are tallied to coordinate the electoral college, This is the most likely target, and has not been past any public review that I have seen.
It really has to back to the whole idea of unlawful search and seizure, and hard vs circumstantial evidence. we'll see how the first judge rules, and prey till it gets to the supreme court. President Schwarzenegger, please appoint good justices.
Truthfully, i have yet to see a nice laptop that offers true touchscreen. They have tablets, and poorly designed tablets. a good tablet (i bought an acer convertible tablet in 2004) used a magnetic system to pick up the stylus, and the pressure of my hand or a finer do not affect the display. Some other tablets are not picky about the stylus, and you could get away with using your finger, however the touch screen was designed around using the stylus. Use you finger when you have the resolution set high enough to actually view a whole web page, you fingers won't fit.
These are all problems associated with lack of synergy between the hardware and the software. Where apple is different then the rest of the electronics market, they don't say "here's a platform, find ways of using it, it might fit you needs" they say "here's a solution, use it"
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country
I think the best thing i can do for my country is to shake up the political arena so we can get things done... other than put lame ducks into office.
being the mis-represented group of computer scientists that we are,why don't we just right the machines to vote CowboyNeal in as President, and the top moderators of slashdot to the legislature. this way, we can fix all these damn issues!
As an user, i like the fact that flash is easy to use. I install this nice small flash phugin which works with my open source (or IE based) browser, and i have access to all that rich content. If i want to use Silverlight, it looks like i need to install IE7 (oops, my copy of windows is a copy), the .NET framework, and some Silverlight plugin. All because someone wants to cut costs on site development. If those money grubbers want people to view their rich content on their site, make it so the audience can access it. Perosnally, most of the sites that relay heavily on ASP2.0 are even slow, I'd hate to see what would happen after Silverlight, then think of the security exploits.
As far as not using flash on non x86 on Linux, I know how it can be frustrating. I'm using Firefox and i have a bill that I'd like to pay online that "is only supported in IE6" according to company sending me the bill. If enough people start requesting flash plug ins for non x86, then i think will WILL see that come up to date. i doubt Silverlight will ever work on open source at all, (with the exception of Darwin, Thank you apple)
I think that it's about time that some leader of a nation appointed themselves to clean up the Internet. I mean after Al Gore set it up, he sat back and watched, WATCHED as half of it became pornography and gambling. I think that it's about time that the conservative moms who don't understand anything about the Internet finally get what they want, government controlled censorship to protect the virgin eyes and ears of their kids. Instead of surfing for porn, the kids can go listen to gangsta rap and death metal. So i guess, all that's left for me to do is to find something to do with all that time that I spend downloading porn at home, or my office, or on my PDA.
well let's get to it...
1) set up proxies and terminal servers for Canadians who want download pornography
2) let it be known by word of mouth
3) ???
4) $profit$
the correlation between greenhouse gases and temperatures are well known... this is true... (Props to IwannabeanAC)
On the other hand elsewhere on the threads here it discusses that ancient ice shows us that a temperature increase was preceded by temperature change by 400 to 600 years...
and now we are comparing Earth to Mars, where we have 100+ years of modern meteorological data (improving in quality in more recent years, no doubt), and were comparing it to a planet in which we have very little data on, in comparison...
the end result is it's a gigantic matrix. We predict weather with the assistance of using models fed into a computer, which takes weather data from balloons, buoys, and ground based weather stations. This data is interpolated to fit a grid, and the computer gives a prediction for 5 minutes from now... Multiply that by a few thousand times and we're getting somewhere.. Obvoulsy chaos theory takes over. These models are then looked at by local meteorologists who take into account historical trends and local geography to give a more accurate prediction.. and we all know the joke that results here. It is difficult to predict the weather, and i give props to meteorologists.
Now climatology.. we don't have all the pieces to the puzzle, and knowing that the sun is heating up other planets is helpful, but why? is it just the Sun? can it be Mars's orbit? (good chance there)this warming trend may not be entirely our fault, but, the present position of the land masses seem to be assisting Chaos theory in throwing our weather out of whack, and we are entering the hottest period on record. That's for certain. We can't solve the matrix if we don't have enough values to fill in rows.
This evidence shows that it may not entirely be our fault, but it's no negation for the global warming theory either.
You're right. it's jsut the current administration's way of making the rich richer.
nah, Samir works for me now, he speaks english well enough to satisfy my customers.
Well, this is why we pay thousands for Visual Studio, with coding that is differnt from the rest world. just so we can compile for windows. That's fair, right?
Awesome site, Thanks!! Research awaits me.
I was 8 (or somewhere around there) years old when I first heard about renewable energy, global warming and the like, that was 1992. It was possible to get wind turbines, and Photo-Voltaic Cells then, but they were very costly. now they are falling, woo-hoo. Our electric companies adopting these will be able to generate power on good days where there is wind or sun, but they will have a varying energy output. It is not really cost effective to store this energy locally, so this leads us back to the stressed power grid again. We have the ability to generate electricity, but not necessarily enough to keep with the demand. We need the means of getting the electricity from point A to point B.
The other major thing is the cool gadget factor. I am 21 years old, and I would like to build my house after I finish school and get an "actual" job, and of course, if I don't have the ability to make my own power right away, I'm going to have the wiring in place to retrofit everything. Hypothetically: I get a wind turbine, put it up in the yard, and I ran the wires back to my utility room, there is huge cost associated with hooking it up. I don't know the proper names of the equipment needed, but I imagine you would need something similar to a transfer switch to hook it up. Like what you have in your server room to plug in your equipment that does not have two power supplies.
Bottom line, this is the first year it is an economically feasible alternative, but unfortunately, this doesn't mean everybody will be jumping on the bandwagon this year.
we all know what this country thinks of sovereignty.
i'm suspired we just didn't take the other country's internet's and give them to one of our telecommunication companies.