Re:Why do you think Bush gave them tax cuts?
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Tech Rich Get Richer
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...tax cuts for the rich
This phrase is really starting to annoy me. If you define "the rich" as "everybody who pays taxes", then yes, the recent tax cuts were "tax cuts for the rich". But that definition is obviously ridiculous, so the phrase "tax cuts for the rich" really doesn't apply to the Bush tax cuts. Please learn the definitions of the words you use before you speak again.
Is there anything I can do to minimise the chances that someone succeeds with such an attack? (settings changes, etc?)
I'd recommend putting a software firewall (like ZoneAlarm) on all your Windows machines, in addition to using a hardware firewall. That'll stop any NetBIOS packets from getting in.
The sad part is that it's true. I used to be one of those people. I thought I was 31337 because I ran FreeBSD while the unwashed masses were running Linux. Luckily, I grew out of that phase. Now I know I'm 31337 because I run Gentoo! (Just kidding! Please don't beat me up!)
Re:How many times has MS given something away????
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And Microsoft has recently acquired an anti-virus company, so I'm guessing they're going to try to put Norton and McAfee (or whoever owns them now) out of business.
It uses a loophole in the law to pay them a lot less than what they want ($1 per month per user for unlimited downloads, rather than $17 per user per CD), and there's nothing they can legally do about it, unless they change the law that they themselves lobbied for. Plus, it takes control of distribution away from the RIAA and puts it in the hands of the users. That's what will really infuriate them.
If you've ever read the story "And He Build a Crooked House" by Robert Heinlein, it contains a very good description of what a four-dimensional hypercube would look like. Imagine a small cube in the middle, six cubes surrounding it (one on each side, squashed together so that they share faces), and one big cube on the outside. Alternately, imagine two intersecting cubes (one corner of each cube is in the middle of the other cube), where each face of one cube is connected to each face of the other cube by another cube. Confused yet? So am I! Read the story, it's quite interesting.
This puzzle uses the first model mentioned above, except that you can only see seven cubes at once (the outer cube is hidden so that it won't block the view of the others). If you rotate the model (with Shift-left or Shift-right click), the outer cube comes into view.
Interesting idea, but for myself, I'd rather avoid a possible manslaughter charge, even if it was justified. Merely showing your gun is quite often enough to guarantee that you won't have to fire it (although you also have to be willing to fire as a last resort). I don't see why you'd rather kill someone than deter them with the threat of death (while still maintaining the option to kill).
Does anyone else find it ironic that when Intel makes one mistake in a processor, everyone jumps on them for making a bad product, but software companies can sell products with thousands of bugs in them and people accept this as normal? Sure, we complain about buggy software, but I don't think anyone here expects any software to be completely bug-free. Why are Intel and other chip manufacturers held to such a high standard? Or, more importantly, why are software companies not held to the same high standards?. If Intel and AMD can make incredibly complex processors that are (usually) completely bug-free, why can't any software company in the world make any product that even comes close to being free of defects?
Just in case you were serious and not trolling, I'll give you a serious answer.
There are quite a few people who get hundreds, even thousands, of spams per day. Sifting through the junk to find the few legitimate pieces of email is incredibly time-consuming and inconvenient, and accidentally deleting an important message can be disastrous. And what's really bad is that the cost is borne by the the recipients, in the form of wasted bandwidth and higher prices for ISP service. People who have to pay per byte are even worse off, since receiving spam costs them money directly. And ISPs are drowning in the flood of worthless junk messages clogging up their servers and their connections. Imagine you were to receive postal junk mail that was postage due, or collect calls from telemarketers. Now imagine you got hundreds of those per day. That should tell you why people hate spam so much.
Then twenty years later, George Lucas releases new footage of the incident that clearly shows the bounty hunter fired first, even though everyone who saw the original swears it didn't happen that way.
My guess is that they use the combined processing power of all those brains to render the Matrix. That's why free people can manipulate the Matrix -- they have access to the data being processed by their brains. (That's also why there are so many idiots nowadays -- all their brainpower is being stolen by machines!)
Now that I've had some time to think about it, I think I agree with you. I guess it's a good thing you have the exploit code instead of me.
By the way, thanks for putting so much time and effort into Samba. Next to Linux itself, Samba is easily the most useful software I have on my network (except for XBill, of course:-)). Keep up the good work.
Microsoft don't always fix bugs if there are no active
exploits against them and knowledge of them is limited.
I would suggest that this is a good reason for releasing exploit code. If you've informed MS of these bugs, and it's been a while, and they still haven't released a patch, give them a reason to. You've already done the responsible thing by informing them and keeping quiet (I'm assuming it's been long enough that MS would have released a patch if they considered it a high priority). Now it's time to force them to take action. Yes, innocent Microsoft customers will be hurt, but they'll be hurt even more if a random cracker discovers the same bug and writes an exploit without informing people of the bug. Don't allow Microsoft to neglect their responsibilities to their customers.
Well, Samba is supposed to make a Unix computer look and act like a Windows server, right? In that case, it could be argued that a remote root exploit is a feature.
Re:Yes, it's worth making these documents availabl
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Who modded this "funny?" There should be a "Score +1, depressingly true" mod.
Remember the part where Chiun is sitting on the floor watching TV, and the closeup shows he's actually supporting himself on his fingertips? I actually tried to do that a few times after I saw that movie. Never even got close.
Every commercial EULA I've ever read says (quoting from memory), "You may not disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer, modify, etc." Also, the EULA prohibits you from making copies of the software for your own use (except for backup copies). Those are all rights you would have otherwise had. According to copyright law, once I buy a copyrighted work, I'm allowed to do pretty much anything I want to with it, as long as I don't distribute copies or derivative works. (At least, that was the case until the DMCA was passed. I'm not sure of the status of fair use now.)
This has been addressed before. (My suggestion: email the site administrator an hour or so before the article is posted to give them time to prepare for the pounding.)
All I got from the movie is he doesn't seem to care about anyone but himself
I don't know about that. Remember the scene where he was teaching Pippin and Merry how to fight? He really did like them. And there in the end he rushed in and gave his life trying to save them. The Ring made him do some bad things, but he wasn't totally bad.
Speaking of annoying changes, one that really irked me was the inconsistency regarding what happens when someone tries to use the Ring. In the Council of Elrond, Aragorn says, "You cannot wield it. None of us can. The One Ring answers to Sauron alone.", which was not at all what the book said. On the other hand, Gandalf and Galadriel both made it clear that they were capable of using the Ring, although their intentions would have been twisted into evil. Someone who wasn't familiar with the books would have been really confused by that.
...it is all from CDs that I personally own or have borrowed from friends.
This is the RIAA. We know where you are. Do not attempt to escape. We will be there shortly with a warrant for your arrest. (Well, warrant may be too strong a word -- it's more of a used gum wrapper than a warrant per se -- but it still carries the force of law, since we are the RIAA.)
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This phrase is really starting to annoy me. If you define "the rich" as "everybody who pays taxes", then yes, the recent tax cuts were "tax cuts for the rich". But that definition is obviously ridiculous, so the phrase "tax cuts for the rich" really doesn't apply to the Bush tax cuts. Please learn the definitions of the words you use before you speak again.
I'd recommend putting a software firewall (like ZoneAlarm) on all your Windows machines, in addition to using a hardware firewall. That'll stop any NetBIOS packets from getting in.
The sad part is that it's true. I used to be one of those people. I thought I was 31337 because I ran FreeBSD while the unwashed masses were running Linux. Luckily, I grew out of that phase. Now I know I'm 31337 because I run Gentoo! (Just kidding! Please don't beat me up!)
And Microsoft has recently acquired an anti-virus company, so I'm guessing they're going to try to put Norton and McAfee (or whoever owns them now) out of business.
It uses a loophole in the law to pay them a lot less than what they want ($1 per month per user for unlimited downloads, rather than $17 per user per CD), and there's nothing they can legally do about it, unless they change the law that they themselves lobbied for. Plus, it takes control of distribution away from the RIAA and puts it in the hands of the users. That's what will really infuriate them.
But only in the UK. In the US and elsewhere, it's public domain. (See Project Gutenberg for a more detailed explanation.)
No, Franklin was the one who refused to patent his revolutionary stove, because he wanted his invention to benefit everyone.
This puzzle uses the first model mentioned above, except that you can only see seven cubes at once (the outer cube is hidden so that it won't block the view of the others). If you rotate the model (with Shift-left or Shift-right click), the outer cube comes into view.
Interesting idea, but for myself, I'd rather avoid a possible manslaughter charge, even if it was justified. Merely showing your gun is quite often enough to guarantee that you won't have to fire it (although you also have to be willing to fire as a last resort). I don't see why you'd rather kill someone than deter them with the threat of death (while still maintaining the option to kill).
Does anyone else find it ironic that when Intel makes one mistake in a processor, everyone jumps on them for making a bad product, but software companies can sell products with thousands of bugs in them and people accept this as normal? Sure, we complain about buggy software, but I don't think anyone here expects any software to be completely bug-free. Why are Intel and other chip manufacturers held to such a high standard? Or, more importantly, why are software companies not held to the same high standards?. If Intel and AMD can make incredibly complex processors that are (usually) completely bug-free, why can't any software company in the world make any product that even comes close to being free of defects?
There are quite a few people who get hundreds, even thousands, of spams per day. Sifting through the junk to find the few legitimate pieces of email is incredibly time-consuming and inconvenient, and accidentally deleting an important message can be disastrous. And what's really bad is that the cost is borne by the the recipients, in the form of wasted bandwidth and higher prices for ISP service. People who have to pay per byte are even worse off, since receiving spam costs them money directly. And ISPs are drowning in the flood of worthless junk messages clogging up their servers and their connections. Imagine you were to receive postal junk mail that was postage due, or collect calls from telemarketers. Now imagine you got hundreds of those per day. That should tell you why people hate spam so much.
Then twenty years later, George Lucas releases new footage of the incident that clearly shows the bounty hunter fired first, even though everyone who saw the original swears it didn't happen that way.
My guess is that they use the combined processing power of all those brains to render the Matrix. That's why free people can manipulate the Matrix -- they have access to the data being processed by their brains. (That's also why there are so many idiots nowadays -- all their brainpower is being stolen by machines!)
Their response will probably be, "We're suprised that the CTO of a mid-sized company is emailing us from 'babeluvr69@hotmail.com'."
By the way, thanks for putting so much time and effort into Samba. Next to Linux itself, Samba is easily the most useful software I have on my network (except for XBill, of course :-)). Keep up the good work.
I would suggest that this is a good reason for releasing exploit code. If you've informed MS of these bugs, and it's been a while, and they still haven't released a patch, give them a reason to. You've already done the responsible thing by informing them and keeping quiet (I'm assuming it's been long enough that MS would have released a patch if they considered it a high priority). Now it's time to force them to take action. Yes, innocent Microsoft customers will be hurt, but they'll be hurt even more if a random cracker discovers the same bug and writes an exploit without informing people of the bug. Don't allow Microsoft to neglect their responsibilities to their customers.
Well, Samba is supposed to make a Unix computer look and act like a Windows server, right? In that case, it could be argued that a remote root exploit is a feature.
Who modded this "funny?" There should be a "Score +1, depressingly true" mod.
Remember the part where Chiun is sitting on the floor watching TV, and the closeup shows he's actually supporting himself on his fingertips? I actually tried to do that a few times after I saw that movie. Never even got close.
Every commercial EULA I've ever read says (quoting from memory), "You may not disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer, modify, etc." Also, the EULA prohibits you from making copies of the software for your own use (except for backup copies). Those are all rights you would have otherwise had. According to copyright law, once I buy a copyrighted work, I'm allowed to do pretty much anything I want to with it, as long as I don't distribute copies or derivative works. (At least, that was the case until the DMCA was passed. I'm not sure of the status of fair use now.)
This has been addressed before. (My suggestion: email the site administrator an hour or so before the article is posted to give them time to prepare for the pounding.)
I don't know about that. Remember the scene where he was teaching Pippin and Merry how to fight? He really did like them. And there in the end he rushed in and gave his life trying to save them. The Ring made him do some bad things, but he wasn't totally bad.
Speaking of annoying changes, one that really irked me was the inconsistency regarding what happens when someone tries to use the Ring. In the Council of Elrond, Aragorn says, "You cannot wield it. None of us can. The One Ring answers to Sauron alone.", which was not at all what the book said. On the other hand, Gandalf and Galadriel both made it clear that they were capable of using the Ring, although their intentions would have been twisted into evil. Someone who wasn't familiar with the books would have been really confused by that.
- Back up home directory
- Format
- Install new version
- Restore home directory
- Curse loudly when I remember that I forgot to back up various configuration files in
/etc and I'm going to have to redo all my changes by hand.
See, nothing to it!I can think of quite a lot of politicians who could benefit from brain regeneration. (Maybe it's the air in Washington...?)
This is the RIAA. We know where you are. Do not attempt to escape. We will be there shortly with a warrant for your arrest. (Well, warrant may be too strong a word -- it's more of a used gum wrapper than a warrant per se -- but it still carries the force of law, since we are the RIAA.)