This has been my experience as well. Cisco hardware seems to be rock solid once you get it configured. However it often times falls into the, "If it ain't broke, don't even think about fucking touching it." mentality.
I missed the part that the original installer is encrypted and requires an unlock key. So it isn't the typical setup where you install the software and then it phones home. Instead this one works the other way around, where it phones home first to verify your right to install it, then it installs.
If you were new to the BBS scene, you had to either pay a sysop for download credit, or find someway of finding something relevant you can upload before you could download a single bit.
Mod this post to oblivion. Megagames.com serves up Javascript malware. I'm not going anywhere near Gamecopyworld.com because I figure it's the same deal.
From reading the summary, it says that once the game has been authenticated it never needs to phone home again. It seems to me like that should be pretty easy to circumvent. How does the authentication scheme really work? On some level, there has to be a function that checks whether or not the authentication was successful, right? What is to stop someone from firing up a debugger, finding the call to the authentication validation, and then patching it?
More often than not, what the managers care about is the support. They want to know that they can call someone when the implementation goes sideways and get solutions. They like the fact that Microsoft or IBM can point a finger at a previous deployment and say, "We did the exact same thing that you want to do for this other client over here, and it works. Go ahead, call them." The Microsoft and IBM people have the consulting resources and implementation teams to throw at the project. They have the roadmaps, and whitepapers and case studies. All of those seemingly insignificant things (from a purely technical implementation point of view) add up to give the management warm fuzzies.
Managers do not want to be guinea pigs. They do not want to be the first person on the block to roll out a new technology. In many cases, while FOSS may be capable of doing something, it might not have the track record of doing it. The proven track record is what sells large scale software projects.
You can play semantics with the issue and try to rephrase the language all that you want. Last I checked, the FBI was of the opinion that reproduction of copyrighted works, even if not for personal profit, was punishable as a felony. I don't particularly agree with the law, or the punishment, but a judge isn't going to listen to any sort of nonsense about, "It wasn't piracy because I didn't make any money doing it."
I'm a fairly long time Blackberry user with AT&T. The network performance and internet browsing from the Blackberry devices was fine up until AT&T rolled out the iPhone. Once the iPhones were on the network, the internet browsing went straight to hell on the Blackberry. Page loads are easily over a minute and in the past they used to be reasonably fast.
Stop sharing music over P2P networks. If you engage in piracy, you're part of the problem and you're giving organizations like the RIAA justification to do what they do. If you people could simply resist the urge to download music that you haven't paid for, all of the "problems" would go away. If the record labels really suck so much, then stop demanding their products. If you want their products, then pay what they want you to pay. Otherwise, suck it up and deal with the consiquences for not doing so. The "opt out" solution is the best solution. They can't prosecute you if you aren't consuming their content.
I agree with this post. If I had a child and internet access was an issue, I would setup a proxy server so that I can log their web browsing. Then I would have a discussion with them about what is and isn't acceptable. After a month, I'd go over the proxy logs. If there were questionable site visits in there, we'd have a talk. Even if there weren't any questionable sites, we would still have a talk and I'd let the kid know that I'm proud of them for behaving responsibly.
I think on some level, parents have to realize that children are curious. As a kid, I didn't have the internet but I had a modem and a list of BBS numbers. I spent most of my online time reading Phrack, swapping warez and doing all sorts of questionable things with phone systems. Kids these days aren't any different. They are going to use the computer to access things that interest them. Rather than blocking them outright, I think it's better to have discussions with them about what they are interested in. When my dad found out that I was pirating software, he went out and bought me a book on x86 ASM. It wasn't that he necessarily wanted to encourage me to crack software. As a programmer himself, he was excited that I was interested in computers.
What kind of douche bag spends that much time writing a review on a stupid bag? Of course he's a Mac user, who cares about crap like fashion accessories and who makes his bag. I can hear it now, "Oh yeah, so I had my NEW, BIHN BAG... and have I mentioned HOW COOL I AM yet?"
I don't know how you got moderated insightful for what you posted. I'm an admitted fan of Microsoft, but I won't in a million years say that they offer long term reliability. The Microsoft business model is focused on forced upgrades. They don't want their customers staying on a single platform in the long term. They want them to upgrade to Windows 200x, or Office 20xx, or Exchange 20xx. You get the idea. Sooner or later they are going to EoL whatever platform you might currently be on, no matter whether or not it works perfectly fine for you or not.
I was wondering what they meant about privacy too. What I came up with is that they are talking about privacy in terms of not holding a physical book. A person could be reading ANYTHING on a Kindle and the Kindle looks the same. However if a woman is reading some trashy romance novel, it will have the picture of Fabio on the cover.
I could be wrong, but I think that is the privacy context that the OP was referencing.
I'm not sure about the laws in other states, but here in California I refuse to sign a lot of the paperwork all of the time. I always refuse to sign the waiver that asks me to give up my rights to sue over medical malpractice.
I think that as Americans we get conditioned to sign everything and rarely think about not doing it. Every time I refuse, I get weird looks, but I've never once been denied service.
I will believe it when I see it though. It seems like IE has been so tightly integrated with the system that a number of applications rely on it. For example, a lot of the Office help files look to IE to render their HTML content. Under XP, even having Firefox installed as the default browser causes problems sometimes. I would really like to see IE decoupled from the OS though. It will be interesting to see what the security implications of removing it are. I figure that they will be pretty minimal since the browser itself is fairly well locked down at this point. Most of the exploits seem to be coming through Flash and other plugins.
The concept of a laser printer serving up MP3s isn't that far fetched. It could have an internal drive. Most high volume printers either have huge amounts of RAM (huge being in the low multi-gigabyte range) or internal drives. That space is used to cache large print jobs. Now granted, a couple of gigs isn't much in the grand scheme of things, but at about 10MB per MP3 file, you could easily fit a couple albums on your average high capacity network printer and still have some room left over.
The only Flex application that I've had occassion to use completely sucks. The vendor told us to go back to the HTML interface while they work out the bugs. I'm sure that is more a comment about the vendor than the application language itself. It does seem that there is a bit of a learning curve though.
Yet their RHEL and other Linux flavor SmartStart DVDs are just as good as the Windows ones. Go figure. HP is just an all around good company when it comes to enterprise hardware and software support. It makes me sad that the quality of their printers continues to plummet downward though.
Most large OEMs provide install disks that load all of the drivers for you. For example at the place I work, we use HP Proliant boxes. The Proliant install DVD handles all of the disk partitioning, setting the RAID/disk controllers as primary, driver support, etc. HP has a whole slew of great system tools for the enterprise.
I might be wrong here, but I was just looking at Samba because I wanted to try it out in my environment. From what I read, it seems that it does not integrate with Active Directory and requires manually duplicating user accounts and passwords onto the Samba box in order for Windows clients to access it. They promise to have that fixed in Samba 4.0, but there isn't a release date for that software yet.
One of the largest financial firms in the world is using Excel instead of Calc to manipulate their financial data. Damn Microsoft and their market dominance. We wouldn't be in the situation we're in if they had been using OSS and Calc!
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This has been my experience as well. Cisco hardware seems to be rock solid once you get it configured. However it often times falls into the, "If it ain't broke, don't even think about fucking touching it." mentality.
I missed the part that the original installer is encrypted and requires an unlock key. So it isn't the typical setup where you install the software and then it phones home. Instead this one works the other way around, where it phones home first to verify your right to install it, then it installs.
Back when zero day meant something.
Mod this post to oblivion. Megagames.com serves up Javascript malware. I'm not going anywhere near Gamecopyworld.com because I figure it's the same deal.
From reading the summary, it says that once the game has been authenticated it never needs to phone home again. It seems to me like that should be pretty easy to circumvent. How does the authentication scheme really work? On some level, there has to be a function that checks whether or not the authentication was successful, right? What is to stop someone from firing up a debugger, finding the call to the authentication validation, and then patching it?
More often than not, what the managers care about is the support. They want to know that they can call someone when the implementation goes sideways and get solutions. They like the fact that Microsoft or IBM can point a finger at a previous deployment and say, "We did the exact same thing that you want to do for this other client over here, and it works. Go ahead, call them." The Microsoft and IBM people have the consulting resources and implementation teams to throw at the project. They have the roadmaps, and whitepapers and case studies. All of those seemingly insignificant things (from a purely technical implementation point of view) add up to give the management warm fuzzies.
Managers do not want to be guinea pigs. They do not want to be the first person on the block to roll out a new technology. In many cases, while FOSS may be capable of doing something, it might not have the track record of doing it. The proven track record is what sells large scale software projects.
You can play semantics with the issue and try to rephrase the language all that you want. Last I checked, the FBI was of the opinion that reproduction of copyrighted works, even if not for personal profit, was punishable as a felony. I don't particularly agree with the law, or the punishment, but a judge isn't going to listen to any sort of nonsense about, "It wasn't piracy because I didn't make any money doing it."
I'm a fairly long time Blackberry user with AT&T. The network performance and internet browsing from the Blackberry devices was fine up until AT&T rolled out the iPhone. Once the iPhones were on the network, the internet browsing went straight to hell on the Blackberry. Page loads are easily over a minute and in the past they used to be reasonably fast.
Booting from a clean environment to scan for viruses isn't exactly a new idea. You should be doing it already.
Stop sharing music over P2P networks. If you engage in piracy, you're part of the problem and you're giving organizations like the RIAA justification to do what they do. If you people could simply resist the urge to download music that you haven't paid for, all of the "problems" would go away. If the record labels really suck so much, then stop demanding their products. If you want their products, then pay what they want you to pay. Otherwise, suck it up and deal with the consiquences for not doing so. The "opt out" solution is the best solution. They can't prosecute you if you aren't consuming their content.
I agree with this post. If I had a child and internet access was an issue, I would setup a proxy server so that I can log their web browsing. Then I would have a discussion with them about what is and isn't acceptable. After a month, I'd go over the proxy logs. If there were questionable site visits in there, we'd have a talk. Even if there weren't any questionable sites, we would still have a talk and I'd let the kid know that I'm proud of them for behaving responsibly.
I think on some level, parents have to realize that children are curious. As a kid, I didn't have the internet but I had a modem and a list of BBS numbers. I spent most of my online time reading Phrack, swapping warez and doing all sorts of questionable things with phone systems. Kids these days aren't any different. They are going to use the computer to access things that interest them. Rather than blocking them outright, I think it's better to have discussions with them about what they are interested in. When my dad found out that I was pirating software, he went out and bought me a book on x86 ASM. It wasn't that he necessarily wanted to encourage me to crack software. As a programmer himself, he was excited that I was interested in computers.
You bring up a good point. The real issue comes down to Windows APPLICATIONS and not the underlying OS itself.
What kind of douche bag spends that much time writing a review on a stupid bag? Of course he's a Mac user, who cares about crap like fashion accessories and who makes his bag. I can hear it now, "Oh yeah, so I had my NEW, BIHN BAG... and have I mentioned HOW COOL I AM yet?"
Is this what I miss when I keep my score threshhold set too high?
I don't know how you got moderated insightful for what you posted. I'm an admitted fan of Microsoft, but I won't in a million years say that they offer long term reliability. The Microsoft business model is focused on forced upgrades. They don't want their customers staying on a single platform in the long term. They want them to upgrade to Windows 200x, or Office 20xx, or Exchange 20xx. You get the idea. Sooner or later they are going to EoL whatever platform you might currently be on, no matter whether or not it works perfectly fine for you or not.
I was wondering what they meant about privacy too. What I came up with is that they are talking about privacy in terms of not holding a physical book. A person could be reading ANYTHING on a Kindle and the Kindle looks the same. However if a woman is reading some trashy romance novel, it will have the picture of Fabio on the cover.
I could be wrong, but I think that is the privacy context that the OP was referencing.
IANAL, but a good one might be able to convince a jury that you signed under duress.
I'm not sure about the laws in other states, but here in California I refuse to sign a lot of the paperwork all of the time. I always refuse to sign the waiver that asks me to give up my rights to sue over medical malpractice.
I think that as Americans we get conditioned to sign everything and rarely think about not doing it. Every time I refuse, I get weird looks, but I've never once been denied service.
I will believe it when I see it though. It seems like IE has been so tightly integrated with the system that a number of applications rely on it. For example, a lot of the Office help files look to IE to render their HTML content. Under XP, even having Firefox installed as the default browser causes problems sometimes. I would really like to see IE decoupled from the OS though. It will be interesting to see what the security implications of removing it are. I figure that they will be pretty minimal since the browser itself is fairly well locked down at this point. Most of the exploits seem to be coming through Flash and other plugins.
The concept of a laser printer serving up MP3s isn't that far fetched. It could have an internal drive. Most high volume printers either have huge amounts of RAM (huge being in the low multi-gigabyte range) or internal drives. That space is used to cache large print jobs. Now granted, a couple of gigs isn't much in the grand scheme of things, but at about 10MB per MP3 file, you could easily fit a couple albums on your average high capacity network printer and still have some room left over.
The only Flex application that I've had occassion to use completely sucks. The vendor told us to go back to the HTML interface while they work out the bugs. I'm sure that is more a comment about the vendor than the application language itself. It does seem that there is a bit of a learning curve though.
Yet their RHEL and other Linux flavor SmartStart DVDs are just as good as the Windows ones. Go figure. HP is just an all around good company when it comes to enterprise hardware and software support. It makes me sad that the quality of their printers continues to plummet downward though.
Most large OEMs provide install disks that load all of the drivers for you. For example at the place I work, we use HP Proliant boxes. The Proliant install DVD handles all of the disk partitioning, setting the RAID/disk controllers as primary, driver support, etc. HP has a whole slew of great system tools for the enterprise.
I might be wrong here, but I was just looking at Samba because I wanted to try it out in my environment. From what I read, it seems that it does not integrate with Active Directory and requires manually duplicating user accounts and passwords onto the Samba box in order for Windows clients to access it. They promise to have that fixed in Samba 4.0, but there isn't a release date for that software yet.
One of the largest financial firms in the world is using Excel instead of Calc to manipulate their financial data. Damn Microsoft and their market dominance. We wouldn't be in the situation we're in if they had been using OSS and Calc!