This has been illegal in the USA for decades. Not sure how this is news. When I worked in fast food almost 20 years ago we purchased rights to play music for our customers. The place I work for now does it also. Today, we get it bounced from a satellite service.
How is this even possibly news? Might was well be a headline "Get married, go to jail?" With the guts of the story actually being a hillbilly in Arkansas didn't realize marrying your cousin was illegal and went to jail for filing a false marriage license.
So HTC makes the Tornado. Mine says T Mobile SDA. In other countries it's an SDA Music or SDA Music 2. It's also sold with slight variation as i-mate SP5m, QTEK 8300, and Xda Xphone.
What's to stop Apple from creating an EUPhone which is similar to the iPhone but not really the same product? Is Apple tied on all of it's phones world wide to AT&T or just the iPhone models? Or can they release a different phone in EU?
>>as if their environment were the same then as it is now, when we find their fossils in those harsh conditions.
I live in Missouri, which was under water much of that time. We have sea shells all over the place. Of course, that was likely due to the global flood around 4000 years ago.
I've always wondered if bones millions of years old are perfectly preserved, or if they all go through some sort of change such as shrinking or enlarging that just takes millions of years to occur.
>>If someone is pirating windows, why would they self identify and then agree to an eternal audit of their infrastructure?
Not everyone who pirates Windows did so intentionally. What about those of us who spent $80,000 on Microsoft licenses from a VAR in which case the VAR pirated the software? See, some of us are stuck with pirated software that we paid for but Microsoft will not allow us to use.
My gut just tells me that we will find out he loaded up spyware on these PC's to get the advertising dollars to feed his...... nah, I'm just being cynical again.
Sure, it's different. Why would I pay $250 for Vista Business and expect they same? I have years of tuning into my 600 XP stations. GPO's, ZenApps, et al. I'm going to have to invest some time getting my network ready for Vista.
But so far most things work, or there are work arounds to get them working. iSeries Access V5R4 works. My VB 6 apps work. My legacy imaging system, which we bought in 1991 and uses an ancient bTrieve database & DDE still works. My new imaging system works. Zenworks 10 works.
Sure, I don't want to be prompted 5 times when I change an INI in %windir%. But I can change that setting.
The same FUD was being said about XP when it came out. Many praised Windows 2000. I run both today and think XP is much better (workstation PRO editions.) I'm sure there will be a learning curve for Vista, as there always is. And I'm sure I'll like it even more than XP once I pass that curve.
It's deceptive. If I sign up for a $49/mo plan and incur no extra expenses (MMS, minutes, downloads) then why is my bill $63/mo give or take a few bucks? Why does it vary when I never have extra charges?
If the plan costs $63/mo then advertise it as that. Not $49/mo.
And then all these "free phone" deals. I keep asking them for that free phone, but they won't give it to me without money. The sign says "free phone." and it doesn't have an *. If it says free, then why can't I have it free?
I have a free phone you can have, just sign here. What did you sign? A contract for a variable monthly fee service which I can change the fee structure at any time and an agreement to pay $300 if you cancel. I reserve the right to increase your fee's at any time. And I can add $20 worth of monthly fee's if I feel like it with no recourse on your side.
So when John calls down to the helpdesk and says he is Bob, needing his password reset, should we verify? With thousands of employees, should we?
John's calling down and telling the helpdesk that a certain order is screwed up. It needs to be changed so that he can finish it. What the helpdesk doesn't realize is that John's getting changes made so that he can take order incentive away from Bob. The changes are minute, so Bob doesn't catch on for a while. He's new.
So why does Bob's password always get locked out in the morning anyway?
The older I get, the more I realize that odd crap like this often happens to help someone increase their incentive.
My kids have a old racing game where they can play a boat, air plane, car, etc.
"Little Tikes 3D Cruiser"
It uses a racing wheel that came with the game.
When I replaced my nVidia 440MX to a 6600GT, the video no longer works right. It's unplayable. The only thing I changed was the video card, and thus the drivers.
So now they have to play on my wife's laptop because the Intel drivers for the embedded Intel video card actually play the game, while my nVidia ones do not.
So give me a piece of paper that has my SSN, a unique identifier, and who and what I voted for.
This data all goes into a central server. A copy of which, without SSN, is placed online. I can use my unique identifier to verify that my vote was registered correctly and not misplaced or miscounted.
An independent agency or two or three can run an SQL compare against the two databases looking to verify they are in sync, one sans the SSN.
The only thing that doesn't cover is stuffed votes. Votes for people who didn't actually vote. I'm not sure what you do about that. Random polling verification?
Anyway, that's a "next" step towards better accountability.
Truth be told, it probably doesn't matter much to me who wins. Being low man on the pole, I suffer regardless.
I use WSUS and approve patches, or don't approve them. Normally Automatic Update patches are done through WSUS. They've updated this service several times.
Imagine my surprise when a lot of my workstation, with no one signed on, all started updating over my slow Internet connection & not over my 1Gb/s WSUS server.
I have 64 kilobit/second pipes to some networks with a dozen or so computers. It does appear that this update respected my BITS policy of using no more than 1kilobyte/second. My MRTG charts show no burst. My QoS device rate limits HTTP to the Internet at a higher rate than my WSUS server, so it could have caused some late night calls.
My first thought following the link is that this is a virus. When I follow a link that says "Good bye Windows" which wants to launch an.EXE with no explanation, what else would I think?
I run Ubuntu in VMware. I thought from the article that perhaps I could run Windows programs inside Linux with this. Another WINE.
Dump the past? The problem is here in rural America many areas are covered only by the old digital cell towers. You go off the main highway, and there is no GSM nor CDMA. Only D-AMPS. This is true of about 90% of the land around here.
While my phone is a 4 channel GSM phone, my relatives that live out in the country are with a carrier that provides CDMA & fallback to D-AMPS on many of their phones. Some of them still have D-AMPS only phones.
We need this because the carriers would otherwise just dump these customers.
I have a dedicated 1Gb/s connection to a core capable of 85Gb/s in it's fabric.
That means I can hit my various servers as fast as Windows can get the data from the disk to the network.
Wireless is a SHARED connection, right? I don't get full speed. Plus, 1Gb/s wired 1Gb/s wireless due to overhead such as encryption.
Wired will exist until the bandwidth of wireless becomes so great that I can not ever over utilize it. I'd never say never, as I no longer have a wired phone.
I switched from CA's eTrust to Nod32 on 600 computers. It was as if I'd given them a much faster processor and faster hard drives. The speed difference was amazing. eTrust now uses many 3rd party programs. It uses Apache Tomcat for the GUI which is slow the way they did it. Any time a Secunia warning came out for any of the 3rd party software they used, there was typically a huge eTrust update a week later.
Nod has a small foot print and is easy to manage. It doesn't have as nice of an admin interface, however I find myself spending 1/20th the time administrating Nod as I did with eTrust.
Nod has anti spyware, anti rootkit, smtp/pop3/http scanning, etc in a single client product. eTrust had only antispyware/antivirus and that was in three products (Pest Patrol, Inoculan, and Vet.)
My vote is for Nod32. I also enjoy Pidgin, Ad-Aware, Truecrypt, PGP, HDTune, Thunderbird, Firefox, UltraVNC and IrfanView.
>>This isn't something that will come in the form of an Automatic Update
Sorry Charlie -- this is something that showed up in my WSUS server as an automatic update last night. Along with over 4000 other updates. Guess they wanted to try and hide it. Oddly, setting it to approved doesn't install it.
We use a popular web content filter. The way it works is by doing the same thing. So when we are blocking traffic, we block it by issuing a forged RST. It's either do this, or place the content filter inline ACTIVE. Right now it is passive It does packet capturing and RST to block. If it's down, then traffic still flows. If it were active, we could simply drop the traffic and not forge the RST. But performance and uptime are horrible on many products when these are inline.
>>"an argument's already been made to the Supreme Court, and they said it was reasonable."
Yea, I saw this on COPS one day where an arrest was made because someone didn't show ID. A passenger. I did some Google searching as I didn't think in Free America we had to show our papers. But such is not the case. If the police state wants you to show your papers, you have to if you don't want to risk being hauled to jail. Though they won't always..
Reminds me of my schooling in the 80's where we were told how bad USSR was. That the police could stop you on the street and ask for your papers. If you didn't have them, you could go to jail.
I wonder what would have happened had he not had identification with him?
--- We've Seen the Enemy, and He is Us. (http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0714-01.htm)
Security patches out the wazzo - in which they are very slow to patch. Unlike Quicktime, Media Player M$, and others - Real almost always forces you to go to each machine any manually run through the update process. But you must register an e-mail address with each machine before you can do this. They only accept real@aol.com so many times.
With the other media players I can use GPOs, Zen, SMS, and automate the patching.
If you are lucky, they will provide a full installer with the update eventually. But you must navigate using an unsupported browser to find it.
Real players gets removed any time I see it, and the new file name blocked as soon as I find it. Real's in our untrusted zone in IE too.
Why would we not spend $100,000 to get $100,000+++ worth of business? We have few customers who spend lots of money each.
I didn't say "any" customer. Just "one" customer. It's not going to be the one doing $3000 worth of business. The fact is large customers do require us to use the latest version of Excel to get millions of dollars of business.
I counter with we would be dead in 5 years if we didn't accommodate our customers.
Anonymous doesn't mean we don't know their e-mail address. We've had this happen on other types of complaints. The person sends an e-mail from a valid e-mail address, but we have no idea who that person is. Usually a secondary AOL screen name or YaHoo account.
FWIW we do not send back bounce notifications after the fact anymore. We check at submission time, not later on.
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>>If people want problems (yes, I do consider them to be problems) like SecuROM to go away, they need to vote with their wallets and pocketbooks.
Um -- I've done that. I don't buy these games, even though I would otherwise, because of the sucky copy protection.
Doesn't seem to be working.
This has been illegal in the USA for decades. Not sure how this is news. When I worked in fast food almost 20 years ago we purchased rights to play music for our customers. The place I work for now does it also. Today, we get it bounced from a satellite service.
http://www.xmradio.com/commercial/
How is this even possibly news? Might was well be a headline "Get married, go to jail?" With the guts of the story actually being a hillbilly in Arkansas didn't realize marrying your cousin was illegal and went to jail for filing a false marriage license.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
So HTC makes the Tornado. Mine says T Mobile SDA. In other countries it's an SDA Music or SDA Music 2. It's also sold with slight variation as i-mate SP5m, QTEK 8300, and Xda Xphone.
What's to stop Apple from creating an EUPhone which is similar to the iPhone but not really the same product? Is Apple tied on all of it's phones world wide to AT&T or just the iPhone models? Or can they release a different phone in EU?
>>as if their environment were the same then as it is now, when we find their fossils in those harsh conditions.
I live in Missouri, which was under water much of that time. We have sea shells all over the place. Of course, that was likely due to the global flood around 4000 years ago.
I've always wondered if bones millions of years old are perfectly preserved, or if they all go through some sort of change such as shrinking or enlarging that just takes millions of years to occur.
>>If someone is pirating windows, why would they self identify and then agree to an eternal audit of their infrastructure?
Not everyone who pirates Windows did so intentionally. What about those of us who spent $80,000 on Microsoft licenses from a VAR in which case the VAR pirated the software? See, some of us are stuck with pirated software that we paid for but Microsoft will not allow us to use.
My gut just tells me that we will find out he loaded up spyware on these PC's to get the advertising dollars to feed his...... nah, I'm just being cynical again.
Sure, it's different. Why would I pay $250 for Vista Business and expect they same? I have years of tuning into my 600 XP stations. GPO's, ZenApps, et al. I'm going to have to invest some time getting my network ready for Vista.
But so far most things work, or there are work arounds to get them working. iSeries Access V5R4 works. My VB 6 apps work. My legacy imaging system, which we bought in 1991 and uses an ancient bTrieve database & DDE still works. My new imaging system works. Zenworks 10 works.
Sure, I don't want to be prompted 5 times when I change an INI in %windir%. But I can change that setting.
The same FUD was being said about XP when it came out. Many praised Windows 2000. I run both today and think XP is much better (workstation PRO editions.) I'm sure there will be a learning curve for Vista, as there always is. And I'm sure I'll like it even more than XP once I pass that curve.
It's deceptive. If I sign up for a $49/mo plan and incur no extra expenses (MMS, minutes, downloads) then why is my bill $63/mo give or take a few bucks? Why does it vary when I never have extra charges?
If the plan costs $63/mo then advertise it as that. Not $49/mo.
And then all these "free phone" deals. I keep asking them for that free phone, but they won't give it to me without money. The sign says "free phone." and it doesn't have an *. If it says free, then why can't I have it free?
I have a free phone you can have, just sign here. What did you sign? A contract for a variable monthly fee service which I can change the fee structure at any time and an agreement to pay $300 if you cancel. I reserve the right to increase your fee's at any time. And I can add $20 worth of monthly fee's if I feel like it with no recourse on your side.
Sucks. But they all do it.
So when John calls down to the helpdesk and says he is Bob, needing his password reset, should we verify? With thousands of employees, should we?
John's calling down and telling the helpdesk that a certain order is screwed up. It needs to be changed so that he can finish it. What the helpdesk doesn't realize is that John's getting changes made so that he can take order incentive away from Bob. The changes are minute, so Bob doesn't catch on for a while. He's new.
So why does Bob's password always get locked out in the morning anyway?
The older I get, the more I realize that odd crap like this often happens to help someone increase their incentive.
Who is asking for this? I would be one person.
My kids have a old racing game where they can play a boat, air plane, car, etc.
"Little Tikes 3D Cruiser"
It uses a racing wheel that came with the game.
When I replaced my nVidia 440MX to a 6600GT, the video no longer works right. It's unplayable. The only thing I changed was the video card, and thus the drivers.
Here is the thread;
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia/browse_thread/thread/a05656a38515b8a8/03993b1ac1ba8ee2?lnk=st&q=edavid3001+nvidia+Little+Tikes+3D&rnum=1&hl=en#03993b1ac1ba8ee2
So now they have to play on my wife's laptop because the Intel drivers for the embedded Intel video card actually play the game, while my nVidia ones do not.
So give me a piece of paper that has my SSN, a unique identifier, and who and what I voted for.
This data all goes into a central server. A copy of which, without SSN, is placed online. I can use my unique identifier to verify that my vote was registered correctly and not misplaced or miscounted.
An independent agency or two or three can run an SQL compare against the two databases looking to verify they are in sync, one sans the SSN.
The only thing that doesn't cover is stuffed votes. Votes for people who didn't actually vote. I'm not sure what you do about that. Random polling verification?
Anyway, that's a "next" step towards better accountability.
Truth be told, it probably doesn't matter much to me who wins. Being low man on the pole, I suffer regardless.
I'm one of those guys that monitor all our users traffic -- that log is output from such a monitor.
I use WSUS and approve patches, or don't approve them. Normally Automatic Update patches are done through WSUS. They've updated this service several times.
Imagine my surprise when a lot of my workstation, with no one signed on, all started updating over my slow Internet connection & not over my 1Gb/s WSUS server.
Here is a log file from one such machine;
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1109/1373440155_1800168f54_o.jpg
I have 64 kilobit/second pipes to some networks with a dozen or so computers. It does appear that this update respected my BITS policy of using no more than 1kilobyte/second. My MRTG charts show no burst. My QoS device rate limits HTTP to the Internet at a higher rate than my WSUS server, so it could have caused some late night calls.
My first thought following the link is that this is a virus. When I follow a link that says "Good bye Windows" which wants to launch an .EXE with no explanation, what else would I think?
I run Ubuntu in VMware. I thought from the article that perhaps I could run Windows programs inside Linux with this. Another WINE.
Dump the past? The problem is here in rural America many areas are covered only by the old digital cell towers. You go off the main highway, and there is no GSM nor CDMA. Only D-AMPS. This is true of about 90% of the land around here.
While my phone is a 4 channel GSM phone, my relatives that live out in the country are with a carrier that provides CDMA & fallback to D-AMPS on many of their phones. Some of them still have D-AMPS only phones.
We need this because the carriers would otherwise just dump these customers.
I have a dedicated 1Gb/s connection to a core capable of 85Gb/s in it's fabric.
That means I can hit my various servers as fast as Windows can get the data from the disk to the network.
Wireless is a SHARED connection, right? I don't get full speed. Plus, 1Gb/s wired 1Gb/s wireless due to overhead such as encryption.
Wired will exist until the bandwidth of wireless becomes so great that I can not ever over utilize it. I'd never say never, as I no longer have a wired phone.
I switched from CA's eTrust to Nod32 on 600 computers. It was as if I'd given them a much faster processor and faster hard drives. The speed difference was amazing. eTrust now uses many 3rd party programs. It uses Apache Tomcat for the GUI which is slow the way they did it. Any time a Secunia warning came out for any of the 3rd party software they used, there was typically a huge eTrust update a week later.
Nod has a small foot print and is easy to manage. It doesn't have as nice of an admin interface, however I find myself spending 1/20th the time administrating Nod as I did with eTrust.
Nod has anti spyware, anti rootkit, smtp/pop3/http scanning, etc in a single client product. eTrust had only antispyware/antivirus and that was in three products (Pest Patrol, Inoculan, and Vet.)
My vote is for Nod32. I also enjoy Pidgin, Ad-Aware, Truecrypt, PGP, HDTune, Thunderbird, Firefox, UltraVNC and IrfanView.
>>This isn't something that will come in the form of an Automatic Update
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Sorry Charlie -- this is something that showed up in my WSUS server as an automatic update last night. Along with over 4000 other updates. Guess they wanted to try and hide it. Oddly, setting it to approved doesn't install it.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1119/1338400500_df
We use a popular web content filter. The way it works is by doing the same thing. So when we are blocking traffic, we block it by issuing a forged RST. It's either do this, or place the content filter inline ACTIVE. Right now it is passive It does packet capturing and RST to block. If it's down, then traffic still flows. If it were active, we could simply drop the traffic and not forge the RST. But performance and uptime are horrible on many products when these are inline.
Initially this sounded a lot worse to me.
>>I grew my own heart valve once. (ha ha)
:P
For this to be scientific, you have to be able to reproduce the results and grow it again
>>"an argument's already been made to the Supreme Court, and they said it was reasonable."
Yea, I saw this on COPS one day where an arrest was made because someone didn't show ID. A passenger. I did some Google searching as I didn't think in Free America we had to show our papers. But such is not the case. If the police state wants you to show your papers, you have to if you don't want to risk being hauled to jail. Though they won't always..
Reminds me of my schooling in the 80's where we were told how bad USSR was. That the police could stop you on the street and ask for your papers. If you didn't have them, you could go to jail.
I wonder what would have happened had he not had identification with him?
---
We've Seen the Enemy, and He is Us. (http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0714-01.htm)
Why I don't use Real Player is the same reason most people here don't.
& sort_by=date
But I also manage around 500 computers. I block real player and install MPlayerC with the add ons if someone must play real content.
Why? This is why;
http://secunia.com/search/?search=real+player&w=0
Security patches out the wazzo - in which they are very slow to patch. Unlike Quicktime, Media Player M$, and others - Real almost always forces you to go to each machine any manually run through the update process. But you must register an e-mail address with each machine before you can do this. They only accept real@aol.com so many times.
With the other media players I can use GPOs, Zen, SMS, and automate the patching.
If you are lucky, they will provide a full installer with the update eventually. But you must navigate using an unsupported browser to find it.
Real players gets removed any time I see it, and the new file name blocked as soon as I find it. Real's in our untrusted zone in IE too.
While I haven't tried this iteration, these have always not worked just right in the past.
Usually these are complex Excel workbooks with macro's and formulas and thousands of rows.
Thank you for the link, though.
>>then your shares are worthless
We're not public, so...
Why would we not spend $100,000 to get $100,000+++ worth of business? We have few customers who spend lots of money each.
I didn't say "any" customer. Just "one" customer. It's not going to be the one doing $3000 worth of business. The fact is large customers do require us to use the latest version of Excel to get millions of dollars of business.
I counter with we would be dead in 5 years if we didn't accommodate our customers.
Anonymous doesn't mean we don't know their e-mail address. We've had this happen on other types of complaints. The person sends an e-mail from a valid e-mail address, but we have no idea who that person is. Usually a secondary AOL screen name or YaHoo account.
FWIW we do not send back bounce notifications after the fact anymore. We check at submission time, not later on.