I agree that it's not weird information to collect, it's just that in this particular case, there doesn't seem to be much that protects the usage of the database other than "staff professionalism"... oh goody.
I can't really say that I trust Canadian government department employees' professionalism: Fishing for smut --
In Canada, around 1990, it was revealed by the oversight committee that the CSIS (the Canadian equivalent of the CIA) has dossiers on 10% of the population. This doesn't include the files of course of the CSE (the equivalent of the NSA) or RCMP domestic intelligence, or military intelligence. The Canadian Government likes to watch.
It will still prevent the macro viruses spreading on computers that don't have MS Office -- this last one hit both Outlook and Outlook Express address books, and was writen in a scripting language run by MS Windows Scripting host, which all computers with MS IE4 and above have. See, less people have Office than WSH, so if you take away the ability with WSH, then it's harder to spread.
"No, in the case of ILOVEYOU, this would have stopped the spread of the virus pretty quickly. Imagine if a user had to push "Yes" for each of the several hundred mail messages he/she was sending out. And MAPI.DLL should have similiar protection. "
I think on most ISP's, "mail", when looked up, gives the address of the mail server, where mail can be sent directly by SMTP.
Alternatively, in Windows, a virus could stay search (like netstat can) for connections to servers with "mail" in their names, assume they are mail servers, and try to send via SMTP through them. Although, this may not work with MSEXCH servers on corporate LANs.
Object Model Guard prompts customers with a dialog box when an external program attempts to access their Outlook address book or send e-mail on their behalf, which is how insidious viruses such as I Love You spread.
'Cuz we know you READ all those dialog boxes. "Spell check cancelled. Continue anyway?" "Mouse device moved. Move on-screen pointer?" The problem is not programmitic sending of email--after all, a virus could just call MAPI.DLL itself.
They're really only addressing accessing the address book through easy VB extensions. A virus can also open address books raw and search for text strings that look like email addresses i.e. (whitespace)*@*.[com|net|org|uk|ch|de etc...].
Much less is spent on NASA than professional sports, and professional sports has negative productivity (wastes time), although it does keep the masses in line.
It's not like a project like this would be more expensive than the Space Plane^h^h^h^h^h Shuttle, which probably 90% of the American public thinks is a real space ship -- it can't even get 5% of the radius of the earth in altitude.
I'm sure you're just a troll, but that concept of yours depends highly on where the focal point is. With a solar sail, I think it would be at infinity.
Competition is a good thing -- this way, they're not merely "chasing someone's tail" (from the Halloween Document), but are also driving each other to constant improvement.
As others have pointed out, a lot of the apps and API's that are coming up seem to be chasing Microsoft's tail.
i.e. Outlook look-alikes Start buttoms and menu bars
I urge everyone to use other registrars. If NSI is claiming this on behalf of all domains in the Internic database, then a class action lawsuit is going to be needed.
Alternatively, perhaps people should start using the location based prefixes... i.e..us and.(state).us for the United States, and.ca in Canada, for example, instead of the almightly.com. Here in Canada, at least,.ca registration is free to incorporated businesses and non-profit agencies, and also to propieterships if a trademark or name is established.
(by the way, is someone launching DDoS's against parts of/.? Yesterday and today, the main server, the ad server, and the image server have sporadically been unavailable. Wired reported that there have been some DDoS's in progress.)
Why can't the KDE/qt people and the Gnome/gtk+ people link up and stop wasting time on two competing API's for a market that is two small to support 2?
By the way, I think the email program to be released with KDE 2.0 is Magellan, which looks much more slick than Evolution (which is for Gnome).
Don't mean to flame, but isn't there a step of usibility beyond the look and feel of MS Outlook?
There's also other projects, like Magellan, which also looks a lot like Outlook, and is for KDE. You know, if the KDE and Gnome camps could get together, there'd be a lot of less duplication of effort. I wish I could find a screen shot, but alas, I can't.
I really hope that programs like Evolution and Magellan allow some customization of those toolbar buttons, so that I can run then as icons only or something---the default look of Outlook and clones may be pretty, but it's not so functional.
I don't think these will help you tell much beyond what stepping number of processor you have. Since 650 and 700 are probably produced on the same process (and the better quality ones are marked 700), it probably won't help.
There are a lot of service providers and hardware suppliers who have heavily bet the farm on Intel, and therefore it is in their interest to slag AMD's products. As far as I'm aware, the Athlon has no problems as far as heat/power consumption that Intel's processors also do not have, and in fact, runs cooler.
I'd like to see NASA devoting more time and money to real Science, like the NEAR probe, or the mars missions, instead of having committed most of it's budget to the space plane, err, I mean shuttle.
If it wasn't for the shuttle, the program of large rockets (i.e. Saturn V) probably wouldn't have been mothballed, and we'd perhaps have gone to Mars by now. And for those that point out that the Shuttle came around in the late 70's/early 80's -- there is a concept drawing done at NASA around that uses the Saturn V bottom stage as a booster for a shuttle orbiter, so it was definitely on the minds of those responsible at the time of the Saturn series cancellation, since they considered using the Saturn booster for it at the time. --
I'd like to see NASA devoting more time and money to real Science, like the NEAR probe, or the mars missions, instead of having committed most of it's budget to the space plane, err, I mean shuttle.
If it wasn't for the shuttle, the program of large rockets (i.e. Saturn V) probably wouldn't have been mothballed, and we'd perhaps have gone to Mars by now. And for those that point out that the Shuttle came around in the late 70's/early 80's -- there is a design around that uses the Saturn V bottom stage as a booster for a shuttle orbiter, so it was definitely on the minds of those responsible at the time of the Saturn series cancellation, since they considered using the Saturn booster for it.
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I can't really say that I trust Canadian government department employees' professionalism: Fishing for smut
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In Canada, around 1990, it was revealed by the oversight committee that the CSIS (the Canadian equivalent of the CIA) has dossiers on 10% of the population. This doesn't include the files of course of the CSE (the equivalent of the NSA) or RCMP domestic intelligence, or military intelligence. The Canadian Government likes to watch.
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cat database | grep -E "18 years old|blonde|big boobs|loves Linux" > /dev/me
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Well, everyone uses UBB on cgi now anyways: http://www.infopop.com/services_ubb/services_ubb.h tml
But perhaps someone can use it.
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It will still prevent the macro viruses spreading on computers that don't have MS Office -- this last one hit both Outlook and Outlook Express address books, and was writen in a scripting language run by MS Windows Scripting host, which all computers with MS IE4 and above have. See, less people have Office than WSH, so if you take away the ability with WSH, then it's harder to spread.
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"No, in the case of ILOVEYOU, this would have stopped the spread of the virus pretty quickly. Imagine if a user had to push "Yes" for each of the several hundred mail messages he/she was sending out. And MAPI.DLL should have similiar protection. "
I think on most ISP's, "mail", when looked up, gives the address of the mail server, where mail can be sent directly by SMTP.
Alternatively, in Windows, a virus could stay search (like netstat can) for connections to servers with "mail" in their names, assume they are mail servers, and try to send via SMTP through them. Although, this may not work with MSEXCH servers on corporate LANs.
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GNOME's VB-compatible scripting host is sandboxed; scripts can't touch anything outside their sandbox.
Can anyone explain why GNOME would need VB compatiable scripting?
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A virus can also open address books raw ...
By this I meant, even in VBS you can open files raw.
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Object Model Guard prompts customers with a dialog box when an external program attempts to access their Outlook address book or send e-mail on their behalf, which is how insidious viruses such as I Love You spread.
'Cuz we know you READ all those dialog boxes. "Spell check cancelled. Continue anyway?" "Mouse device moved. Move on-screen pointer?" The problem is not programmitic sending of email--after all, a virus could just call MAPI.DLL itself.
They're really only addressing accessing the address book through easy VB extensions. A virus can also open address books raw and search for text strings that look like email addresses i.e. (whitespace)*@*.[com|net|org|uk|ch|de etc...].
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Much less is spent on NASA than professional sports, and professional sports has negative productivity (wastes time), although it does keep the masses in line.
It's not like a project like this would be more expensive than the Space Plane^h^h^h^h^h Shuttle, which probably 90% of the American public thinks is a real space ship -- it can't even get 5% of the radius of the earth in altitude.
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I'm sure you're just a troll, but that concept of yours depends highly on where the focal point is. With a solar sail, I think it would be at infinity.
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Competition is a good thing -- this way, they're not merely "chasing someone's tail" (from the Halloween Document), but are also driving each other to constant improvement.
As others have pointed out, a lot of the apps and API's that are coming up seem to be chasing Microsoft's tail.
i.e. Outlook look-alikes
Start buttoms and menu bars
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I urge everyone to use other registrars. If NSI is claiming this on behalf of all domains in the Internic database, then a class action lawsuit is going to be needed.
.us and .(state).us for the United States, and .ca in Canada, for example, instead of the almightly .com. Here in Canada, at least, .ca registration is free to incorporated businesses and non-profit agencies, and also to propieterships if a trademark or name is established.
/.? Yesterday and today, the main server, the ad server, and the image server have sporadically been unavailable. Wired reported that there have been some DDoS's in progress.)
Alternatively, perhaps people should start using the location based prefixes... i.e.
(by the way, is someone launching DDoS's against parts of
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Any comments by anyone really in the know? It was inaccessible for about 2 hours in the morning and about 3 in the afternoon.
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Why can't the KDE/qt people and the Gnome/gtk+ people link up and stop wasting time on two competing API's for a market that is two small to support 2?
By the way, I think the email program to be released with KDE 2.0 is Magellan, which looks much more slick than Evolution (which is for Gnome).
Magellan: http://zamolxe.csis.ul.ie/Magellan/in dex.html
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Don't mean to flame, but isn't there a step of usibility beyond the look and feel of MS Outlook?
There's also other projects, like Magellan, which also looks a lot like Outlook, and is for KDE. You know, if the KDE and Gnome camps could get together, there'd be a lot of less duplication of effort. I wish I could find a screen shot, but alas, I can't.
I really hope that programs like Evolution and Magellan allow some customization of those toolbar buttons, so that I can run then as icons only or something---the default look of Outlook and clones may be pretty, but it's not so functional.
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In a related thing,
IIRC, the Trinoo distributed DoS attack system used ICMP packets to communicate...this is how it got past many detection schemes.
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I don't think these will help you tell much beyond what stepping number of processor you have. Since 650 and 700 are probably produced on the same process (and the better quality ones are marked 700), it probably won't help.
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There are a lot of service providers and hardware suppliers who have heavily bet the farm on Intel, and therefore it is in their interest to slag AMD's products. As far as I'm aware, the Athlon has no problems as far as heat/power consumption that Intel's processors also do not have, and in fact, runs cooler.
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The shuttle can't go above 300 km altitude or so, let along to the asteroid belt.
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Err, that should have read:
I'd like to see NASA devoting more time and money to real Science, like the NEAR probe, or the mars missions, instead of having committed most of it's budget to the space plane, err, I mean shuttle.
If it wasn't for the shuttle, the program of large rockets (i.e. Saturn V) probably wouldn't have been mothballed, and we'd perhaps have gone to Mars by now. And for those that point out that the Shuttle came around in the late 70's/early 80's -- there is a concept drawing done at NASA around that uses the Saturn V bottom stage as a booster for a shuttle orbiter, so it was definitely on the minds of those responsible at the time of the Saturn series cancellation, since they considered using the Saturn booster for it at the time.
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I'd like to see NASA devoting more time and money to real Science, like the NEAR probe, or the mars missions, instead of having committed most of it's budget to the space plane, err, I mean shuttle.
If it wasn't for the shuttle, the program of large rockets (i.e. Saturn V) probably wouldn't have been mothballed, and we'd perhaps have gone to Mars by now. And for those that point out that the Shuttle came around in the late 70's/early 80's -- there is a design around that uses the Saturn V bottom stage as a booster for a shuttle orbiter, so it was definitely on the minds of those responsible at the time of the Saturn series cancellation, since they considered using the Saturn booster for it.
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IIRC, they are releasing it on Laserdisc in Japan, so it could just be a confused guy mixing the two up.
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Here's an associated press article on this:
T ORYID=APIS73RF7J80
http:// wire.ap.org/APnews/main.html?FRONTID=TECHNOLOGY&S
Sorry to weasel into a reply to the first comment here...
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Since a link is only been given on the Wall Street Journal (pay site), Here's an associated press article on this:
T ORYID=APIS73RF7J80
http:// wire.ap.org/APnews/main.html?FRONTID=TECHNOLOGY&S
Sorry to weasel into a reply to the first comment here with this...
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