I read an interesting writeup in a magazine that showed hydrogen production, storage, and distribution actually had a larger carbon footprint than petroleum based fuels. I unfortunately can't cite a source.
Another interesting statistic was that fueling all of the cars currently on the road in the US would require covering everything but the state of Florida in corn crops.
Ethanol fueled vehicles don't exactly work when you need to drive through the corn.
will go where the information is free and there will always be an unbiased source of free news.
In case you weren't aware, journalists are paid with proceeds from newspaper and advertising sales. Accurate, unbiased reporting isn't going to come from folks who blog in their spare time. It comes from professionals.
Firefox + NoScript will block [INSERT WEBSPLOIT HERE].
NoScript also kinda prevents nearly everything on the web from working as intended, and is not a solution. Please shut up about how much you think it rocks.
Fighting on principles is too expensive in America, which is why few people bother to do it.
It's not necessarily that fighting on principles in America is too expensive, it's just that things that go against principles are cost competitive with the fight.
Since the parent got moderated as a troll because some moderator didn't understand the point, if you don't disclose and immediately start patching, you don't allow the public any ability to defend themselves against the vulnerability in question.
Do you believe that Dan Kaminsky's DNS exploit was handled improperly then too?
...Not trying to troll, I personally thought it was rather impressive.
I had figured the feature existed, but I haven't run into the issue of the problem burning my ass enough to figure out what to do that's more elegant than what I listed.
It really depends on whether or not you want the blocking all the time or just on demand:P
And so on. I used to use the same to pull expert-s/exchange results out of my Google queries, and then they started giving Google referred page hits free answers, so it's been a while since I used it.
And yes, there's probably a better method than what I've brought up, but it does work.
whenever i'm encountered by this strange slashdot groupthink
I wouldn't say it's all that strange, but we find snooping practices to be extremely abhorrent because they almost directly imply an assumption of guilt. Furthermore, ISP logs have frequently been used as a tool for the MAFIAA Lawyers to nail people up on the wall for enough "protection money" to satisfy their business model.
Lastly, years' duration of log-keeping rarely actually benefits the ISP or company in question. It is kinda funny that you posted this in a thread about 3 days worth of logging.
it's funny how authors go on about their sacred right to control their work but they're happy to sign over their rights to someone with a checkbook
...selling distribution rights to your work is exercising control over that work, you clod. It sounds like you're trying to argue about DRM, and everyone else is talking about copyright.
I think copyright is excessive in many instances (yay lobbyists), but it's certainly not immoral. And while I think copyright should be enforced, however not to the degree of absurdity that showed up in the Jammie Thomas case ($222k for 20ish songs), I agree with you that you should be allowed to make the decision to violate it if you choose to. Anything else means that there's a computer trying to make an objective decision it's not capable of making, and forcing that on people is a pretty usurious thing to do.
Please, don't say you want 300MB of your RAM wasted for Aero, when you could use them when they are required by applications.
That's one of the most ignorant arguments against using Vista that gets spouted over and over again on/.
Aero looks good on the desktop and helps make more sense of open applications. Windows also "pop out" at you more than they ever did with Luna.
Finally, consider that 4GB of DDR2 RAM is readily available for under $30. That 300MB of RAM is a $2.19 investment in your computer that raises the attractiveness of the UI over its entire lifetime. You probably spent more than that on lunch...
And seriously, Vista (post-SP1) really doesn't crash anymore than XP ever did.
They can't have some people running Vista when all their other infrastructure is set up for XP
I do it just fine with WMI filters set in the group policies that control application deployment.... but I go out of my way to get unattended MSI installs working correctly.
There's no reason that (given the infrastructure) it couldn't expand from 500 machines to 5000.
It's most likely not every call. Just by those on the List.
Now that you mention it, I actually pay $5 a month for an identical service from a company called Callwave, and their voicemail transcription services aren't 100% unlimited unless you pay for a pretty high tier of service. Ironically, the voicemails that I choose to have the service transcribe for me are actually the ones a thief would want most.
This kind of attack into a voice portal is nothing new. I sat down with a fellow who owns a business VoIP telephony service and he showed me how he could alter his outgoing caller ID info to get into my voicemail directly from his telephone keypad... which makes it very easy to get into password-less voice portals/mail systems. Their voice portal requires a password, now that I think of it.
The biggest difference I see (as a Sysadmin, not a web developer) is that IIS on an Active Directory domain accessed via Internet Explorer provides single sign on access to web-based tools and applications. If tight security is required and your number of directly supported users is beyond a certain level, say two or three, IIS will allow you to apply your existing security model to a web site without requiring retraining of users, which I'm certain allows the Windows Server license and the CALS (...I hate CALS) to pay for themselves.
For anonymous access websites (see everything on the internet), Apache tends to be more straightforward.
I like being able to use VBScript to spit some info back through a browser though.
just because the OS manufacturer decided they want to make more money
Microsoft made Vista because XP is an aging product and the duct tape is starting to show through the the lacquer SP2/SP3 finish.
There have been significant advancements in technology since XP has come out and Vista is a ground up rewrite of Windows designed to exploit those features (yeah DRM har har). For example, if I want a universal image of XP, first you slipstream a disk, install it, change the HAL, remove some drivers, hack some more into the registry, slip in MySysPrep, pray to the gods, ????/profit, snap an image.... A universal image of Vista: Install software, sysprep, netboot from WDS server/WinPE CD and perform an image capture.
These things are coming to Windows 7 and maybe, just maybe IT professionals worldwide will pull their heads out of their asses, let go of their old-hat hacks, and welcome new technology instead of constantly f*cking crying about how "it's different."
Vista resolves your "uniform platform" argument in a way that XP never could, can, or will....
...It's kind of like a Mac or Linux user trying to explain why their platform is so much better than Windows XP, but the Windows user just doesn't get it.
It's exceedingly fallacious to say that the real world cost of a copy of Windows is ~$440.
The majority of people get their Windows licenses through OEM's like Dell or HP. Granted, an OEM license of Windows doesn't confer the same rights and privileges as a retail boxed license (for example, you can't install an OEM license in a VM or move it to your new built-from-parts computer), it's disingenuous to assume that the average purchase of a Windows license isn't an OEM one. Further, even a retail boxed copy of Vista Ultimate is $319 *direct* from Microsoft, significantly lower than the price you seem to think it is.
You may think that Microsoft's licensing options are ridiculous (and they are), but don't conflate your ignorance of them into the assumption that nothing Microsoft sells is remotely affordable.
After that, they can hire another person explicitly to edit and post stories, perhaps with journalism experience, nudging the story quality up to Over 9000% better than it was before!
It's a piece of mind thing. If you like, you can try the desktop redirector, which offers some of the same functionality but doesn't require the extra fee (i think). Though you are right.
Cell phone companies, unfortunately, are a bunch of assholes:(
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I read an interesting writeup in a magazine that showed hydrogen production, storage, and distribution actually had a larger carbon footprint than petroleum based fuels. I unfortunately can't cite a source.
Another interesting statistic was that fueling all of the cars currently on the road in the US would require covering everything but the state of Florida in corn crops.
Ethanol fueled vehicles don't exactly work when you need to drive through the corn.
I'm going to bookmark this post as a perfect example of why one should use gpl.
I think I get what you mean, but care to elaborate?
The trials take/took place in different countries, which naturally don't hold the same laws.
He was pointing out the differences in the defense put forth by each, not the difference in the laws of the country in which the trial took place.
His point stands, I think. A big "Fuck you guys" is gonna get you on the shitlist of pretty much any judge, court, or (probably) jury.
will go where the information is free and there will always be an unbiased source of free news.
In case you weren't aware, journalists are paid with proceeds from newspaper and advertising sales. Accurate, unbiased reporting isn't going to come from folks who blog in their spare time. It comes from professionals.
Firefox + noscript will block XSS attempts.
Yes. We know.
Firefox + NoScript will block [INSERT WEBSPLOIT HERE].
NoScript also kinda prevents nearly everything on the web from working as intended, and is not a solution. Please shut up about how much you think it rocks.
Fighting on principles is too expensive in America, which is why few people bother to do it.
It's not necessarily that fighting on principles in America is too expensive, it's just that things that go against principles are cost competitive with the fight.
Since the parent got moderated as a troll because some moderator didn't understand the point, if you don't disclose and immediately start patching, you don't allow the public any ability to defend themselves against the vulnerability in question.
Do you believe that Dan Kaminsky's DNS exploit was handled improperly then too?
...Not trying to troll, I personally thought it was rather impressive.
I had figured the feature existed, but I haven't run into the issue of the problem burning my ass enough to figure out what to do that's more elegant than what I listed.
:P
It really depends on whether or not you want the blocking all the time or just on demand
is there a way to blacklist all the Ubuntu forums in my Google profile?
Keep track of the domain names of the sites with this info, and then
[searchquery] -stupidforum1.com -stupidforum2.com -stupidforum3.com
And so on. I used to use the same to pull expert-s/exchange results out of my Google queries, and then they started giving Google referred page hits free answers, so it's been a while since I used it.
And yes, there's probably a better method than what I've brought up, but it does work.
by developing a meme-generating meme
A meme-generating meme would kind of be like cancer...
...would it be "the cancer killing Slashdot?"
anyone who doesn't know all the lyrics to American Pie deserves to be shot.
Shot...with a cannon...
...That fires chairs.
I'm sorry you got modded down... that's so incredibly poignant that I feel like a moderator should be wooshed.
whenever i'm encountered by this strange slashdot groupthink
I wouldn't say it's all that strange, but we find snooping practices to be extremely abhorrent because they almost directly imply an assumption of guilt. Furthermore, ISP logs have frequently been used as a tool for the MAFIAA Lawyers to nail people up on the wall for enough "protection money" to satisfy their business model.
Lastly, years' duration of log-keeping rarely actually benefits the ISP or company in question. It is kinda funny that you posted this in a thread about 3 days worth of logging.
it's funny how authors go on about their sacred right to control their work but they're happy to sign over their rights to someone with a checkbook
...selling distribution rights to your work is exercising control over that work, you clod. It sounds like you're trying to argue about DRM, and everyone else is talking about copyright.
I think copyright is excessive in many instances (yay lobbyists), but it's certainly not immoral. And while I think copyright should be enforced, however not to the degree of absurdity that showed up in the Jammie Thomas case ($222k for 20ish songs), I agree with you that you should be allowed to make the decision to violate it if you choose to. Anything else means that there's a computer trying to make an objective decision it's not capable of making, and forcing that on people is a pretty usurious thing to do.
so really, this is either a failure of the user or of IT infrastructure.
We use LogMeIn for remote access for those folks, as it is cheaper than Citrix or other TS farms.
It could be a failure of IT, but generally I'd say it's a failure of of our budget.
Please, don't say you want 300MB of your RAM wasted for Aero, when you could use them when they are required by applications.
That's one of the most ignorant arguments against using Vista that gets spouted over and over again on /.
Aero looks good on the desktop and helps make more sense of open applications. Windows also "pop out" at you more than they ever did with Luna.
Finally, consider that 4GB of DDR2 RAM is readily available for under $30. That 300MB of RAM is a $2.19 investment in your computer that raises the attractiveness of the UI over its entire lifetime. You probably spent more than that on lunch...
And seriously, Vista (post-SP1) really doesn't crash anymore than XP ever did.
They can't have some people running Vista when all their other infrastructure is set up for XP
I do it just fine with WMI filters set in the group policies that control application deployment.... but I go out of my way to get unattended MSI installs working correctly.
There's no reason that (given the infrastructure) it couldn't expand from 500 machines to 5000.
It's most likely not every call. Just by those on the List.
Now that you mention it, I actually pay $5 a month for an identical service from a company called Callwave, and their voicemail transcription services aren't 100% unlimited unless you pay for a pretty high tier of service. Ironically, the voicemails that I choose to have the service transcribe for me are actually the ones a thief would want most.
This kind of attack into a voice portal is nothing new. I sat down with a fellow who owns a business VoIP telephony service and he showed me how he could alter his outgoing caller ID info to get into my voicemail directly from his telephone keypad... which makes it very easy to get into password-less voice portals/mail systems. Their voice portal requires a password, now that I think of it.
Apache vs IIS. Well, whatever.
The biggest difference I see (as a Sysadmin, not a web developer) is that IIS on an Active Directory domain accessed via Internet Explorer provides single sign on access to web-based tools and applications. If tight security is required and your number of directly supported users is beyond a certain level, say two or three, IIS will allow you to apply your existing security model to a web site without requiring retraining of users, which I'm certain allows the Windows Server license and the CALS (...I hate CALS) to pay for themselves.
For anonymous access websites (see everything on the internet), Apache tends to be more straightforward.
I like being able to use VBScript to spit some info back through a browser though.
just because the OS manufacturer decided they want to make more money
Microsoft made Vista because XP is an aging product and the duct tape is starting to show through the the lacquer SP2/SP3 finish.
There have been significant advancements in technology since XP has come out and Vista is a ground up rewrite of Windows designed to exploit those features (yeah DRM har har). For example, if I want a universal image of XP, first you slipstream a disk, install it, change the HAL, remove some drivers, hack some more into the registry, slip in MySysPrep, pray to the gods, ????/profit, snap an image.... A universal image of Vista: Install software, sysprep, netboot from WDS server/WinPE CD and perform an image capture.
These things are coming to Windows 7 and maybe, just maybe IT professionals worldwide will pull their heads out of their asses, let go of their old-hat hacks, and welcome new technology instead of constantly f*cking crying about how "it's different."
Vista resolves your "uniform platform" argument in a way that XP never could, can, or will....
...It's kind of like a Mac or Linux user trying to explain why their platform is so much better than Windows XP, but the Windows user just doesn't get it.
It's exceedingly fallacious to say that the real world cost of a copy of Windows is ~$440.
The majority of people get their Windows licenses through OEM's like Dell or HP. Granted, an OEM license of Windows doesn't confer the same rights and privileges as a retail boxed license (for example, you can't install an OEM license in a VM or move it to your new built-from-parts computer), it's disingenuous to assume that the average purchase of a Windows license isn't an OEM one. Further, even a retail boxed copy of Vista Ultimate is $319 *direct* from Microsoft, significantly lower than the price you seem to think it is.
You may think that Microsoft's licensing options are ridiculous (and they are), but don't conflate your ignorance of them into the assumption that nothing Microsoft sells is remotely affordable.
Explicitly ignoring a user-base that high is almost as ignorant as legislating against homosexuals in liberal parts of the US.
But if Taco and friends think raising the barrier to entry on their site is a good idea....
I'm not really sure what to say about that.
Create a Rank based on achievement count and quality, then split by UID or Karma level!
Though I have to admit this achievement shit that has been showing up in games is really f*cking asinine.
After that, they can hire another person explicitly to edit and post stories, perhaps with journalism experience, nudging the story quality up to Over 9000% better than it was before!
Aye that was me, too lazy to login at work.
:(
It's a piece of mind thing. If you like, you can try the desktop redirector, which offers some of the same functionality but doesn't require the extra fee (i think). Though you are right.
Cell phone companies, unfortunately, are a bunch of assholes