Not sure whether to laugh or cry. Article 8 section 2 names just about every excuse a "public authority" can have to arbitrary remove and infringe upon basic human rights.
Same here, though I just use a second HD for Linux and FreeBSD.
BTW: I just contacted HP through chat, and asked if running Linux/FreeBSD would void my warranty. The answer was that running Linux would not void the warranty of my particular model (Pavilion t.490). It took a minute or 2 for the answer, but, it seems like HP does have some sort of list of Linux-compatible models.
8 years ago, I loaded FreeBSD on a Toshiba laptop (Satellite 320CDT). The first time I used X, I was greeted with a loud high pitched sound from the video-circuit (second try was ok), so I can understand the no-warranty statement for certain problems on certain models. Though I can't understand the relation between keyboard problems, loading Linux and no warranty.
PS: During the support-chat, it was mentioned three times that Windows would run best, the computer was designed for Windows and I could not get support for Linux.
You underestimate the indecisiveness and laziness of people. TV will take a blow the next few years, but it won't be as catastrophic as some predict. And as long as people don't have 100mbps internet connections, IP-based solutions won't be to offer the same quality anyway.
The summary isn't entirely clear. The 1.2 million are reported/analyzed/confirmed (couldn't find info on Shadowservers exact methodology). The number certainly won't cover all botnets (looking at their botnet map).
Perhaps it is because I'm European, but, isn't this just some misplaced 1ste April Fools joke? I mean, if it was serious, they'd never would have picked the first of April as a starting date.
I doubt they will use a single IP for long, in fact, I would say that if they are pro's, they'll only use it for several hours. There are quite a few organizations tracing and logging such IP's and some of the better security software blocks them.
The longer you use a single IP, the less effective they'll be and the higher the risks.
Falcon flew far beyond the "edge" of space, typically thought of as around 60 miles. Our altitude was approximately 200 miles, which is just 50 miles below the International Space Station. According to their own website, the ISS is at 250 miles, though other sources place it a bit lower (wikipedia: approx. 220 miles).
Same here, set up Vista Ultimate for a friend, and it was a horrible experience. The Control Panel is confusing and missing any kind of logic. They replaced My Documents and now you can't move it to D in a simple manner. The new icons for things like Windows Mail (formerly Outlook Express) are unclear. Typing in a country name in the Weather-widget expecting to see a list of locations within the country crashes Explorer completely. UAC is so invasive and annoying, I'm puzzled they actually dared to turn it on by default. First and last time I installed Vista, hopefully SP1 will be better.
Being an somewhat honest ISP, better QoS support from end-to-end will give me much more possibilities to deliver services to my customers in a more reliable way. Implementing any (global) system that relies on people/organizations/companies being honest is silly.
Actually, you can only have a limited (though still large) number of machines behind a router, because the router is limited in the number of ports per IP it can allocate.
More problematic is double NATing, which you will get when ISP and such start to use private address spaces for their clients and those clients have a network with a private address-space as well.
You'll also won't be able to use any security measures based upon IP's or DNS, you might get blocked from all kinds of services because someone sharing the outside IP misbehaved, etc.
As bad as that may sound, eventually, if the competition is fierce enough, the rates that a monopolist can charge to keep clients from switching will drop to a point that they won't make sense business-wise for monopolist.
I expect a good number of businesses to switch to Vista using the above technique to get a bigger discount and I don't think MS has much to worry about, yet. But I wouldn't want to be in their shoes in, say, 3 years from now.
Actually, some Spammers have already been using that trick themselves for quite a few years know. Even funnier, RFC's are quite vague about such behavior, so most MTA's don't block mail from addresses for which MX-records point back to localhost (or private network space).
Does anyone know if there are any numbers floating around the web which give a rough approximation of how much companies are spending at these kind of tactics? I know you can hire people to leave good comments, forum-posts and reviews and edits wiki's, but how much money is in it? How worried should we be?
Hmm, civilian (cargo) planes shot down by military: 8. By rebels: 3. By insurgents: 1. You could call rebels and insurgents terrorists, but then again, shooting down a plane is not necessarily an act of terror.
But still, I'm all for technology that protects us innocent civilians against the military:-)
The only provide a false sense of safety if you don't read their website:-)
Peerguardian may help, and yes, it blocks a lot of copyright enforcing evil-doers, but it is not meant to be tool that will give you complete protection. It is not pretending to be either. I would never use p2p without it, but, I don't expect miracles from it either.
AFAIK you'll need to wait at least another 10 years. (didn't bookmark the story about it, sorry)
But, do you really think they will ever release the truth about the JFK assassination? Or that the how and why is properly documented? I would be surprised. My only question is if LBJ knew about it.
Saddly though, in the real world, governments only are afraid of the next "election". Movies like V for Vendetta and The Matrix (1) are great, but in reality, most people would choose the Blue Pill. People just don't care if you give them what they (think they) want.
Not entirely. In order to get to the desktop environment, you needed to boot from either a Workbench floppy disk or an HD with Workbench installed on it. With Workbench installed on the HD, booting to the desktop environment took under 30 seconds with hardware that was 100-10000 times slower than todays hardware.
No matter how you look at it, if hardware has gotten 100 to 10000 times faster, but booting still takes about the same, something doesn't add up.
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Not sure whether to laugh or cry. Article 8 section 2 names just about every excuse a "public authority" can have to arbitrary remove and infringe upon basic human rights.
Same here, though I just use a second HD for Linux and FreeBSD. BTW: I just contacted HP through chat, and asked if running Linux/FreeBSD would void my warranty. The answer was that running Linux would not void the warranty of my particular model (Pavilion t.490). It took a minute or 2 for the answer, but, it seems like HP does have some sort of list of Linux-compatible models. 8 years ago, I loaded FreeBSD on a Toshiba laptop (Satellite 320CDT). The first time I used X, I was greeted with a loud high pitched sound from the video-circuit (second try was ok), so I can understand the no-warranty statement for certain problems on certain models. Though I can't understand the relation between keyboard problems, loading Linux and no warranty. PS: During the support-chat, it was mentioned three times that Windows would run best, the computer was designed for Windows and I could not get support for Linux.
Don't know what it is based on, but Aluminium-based would be a safer bet (that's what they use as "paint" on Stealth for absorption of radar-waves)
You underestimate the indecisiveness and laziness of people. TV will take a blow the next few years, but it won't be as catastrophic as some predict. And as long as people don't have 100mbps internet connections, IP-based solutions won't be to offer the same quality anyway.
The summary isn't entirely clear. The 1.2 million are reported/analyzed/confirmed (couldn't find info on Shadowservers exact methodology). The number certainly won't cover all botnets (looking at their botnet map).
Perhaps it is because I'm European, but, isn't this just some misplaced 1ste April Fools joke? I mean, if it was serious, they'd never would have picked the first of April as a starting date.
I doubt they will use a single IP for long, in fact, I would say that if they are pro's, they'll only use it for several hours. There are quite a few organizations tracing and logging such IP's and some of the better security software blocks them. The longer you use a single IP, the less effective they'll be and the higher the risks.
Same here, set up Vista Ultimate for a friend, and it was a horrible experience. The Control Panel is confusing and missing any kind of logic. They replaced My Documents and now you can't move it to D in a simple manner. The new icons for things like Windows Mail (formerly Outlook Express) are unclear. Typing in a country name in the Weather-widget expecting to see a list of locations within the country crashes Explorer completely. UAC is so invasive and annoying, I'm puzzled they actually dared to turn it on by default. First and last time I installed Vista, hopefully SP1 will be better.
Actually, you can only have a limited (though still large) number of machines behind a router, because the router is limited in the number of ports per IP it can allocate. More problematic is double NATing, which you will get when ISP and such start to use private address spaces for their clients and those clients have a network with a private address-space as well. You'll also won't be able to use any security measures based upon IP's or DNS, you might get blocked from all kinds of services because someone sharing the outside IP misbehaved, etc.
As bad as that may sound, eventually, if the competition is fierce enough, the rates that a monopolist can charge to keep clients from switching will drop to a point that they won't make sense business-wise for monopolist. I expect a good number of businesses to switch to Vista using the above technique to get a bigger discount and I don't think MS has much to worry about, yet. But I wouldn't want to be in their shoes in, say, 3 years from now.
To make some decent money, the would have been better off building a Post-Apocalyptic Sperm Bank and sell all available slots to the highest bidders.
Actually, some Spammers have already been using that trick themselves for quite a few years know. Even funnier, RFC's are quite vague about such behavior, so most MTA's don't block mail from addresses for which MX-records point back to localhost (or private network space).
Does anyone know if there are any numbers floating around the web which give a rough approximation of how much companies are spending at these kind of tactics? I know you can hire people to leave good comments, forum-posts and reviews and edits wiki's, but how much money is in it? How worried should we be?
Hmm, civilian (cargo) planes shot down by military: 8. By rebels: 3. By insurgents: 1. You could call rebels and insurgents terrorists, but then again, shooting down a plane is not necessarily an act of terror. But still, I'm all for technology that protects us innocent civilians against the military :-)
this is evolution in action. The radio-station still should have known better though.
The only provide a false sense of safety if you don't read their website :-)
Peerguardian may help, and yes, it blocks a lot of copyright enforcing evil-doers, but it is not meant to be tool that will give you complete protection. It is not pretending to be either. I would never use p2p without it, but, I don't expect miracles from it either.
Same goes for the Netherlands. Monitoring started in 1706 and last year had the highest average temperature since that time.
I think the majority of that 2 billion would be spend on bureaucracy and moving the project from France to Germany and back every x months.
AFAIK you'll need to wait at least another 10 years. (didn't bookmark the story about it, sorry) But, do you really think they will ever release the truth about the JFK assassination? Or that the how and why is properly documented? I would be surprised. My only question is if LBJ knew about it.
Saddly though, in the real world, governments only are afraid of the next "election". Movies like V for Vendetta and The Matrix (1) are great, but in reality, most people would choose the Blue Pill. People just don't care if you give them what they (think they) want.
Not entirely. In order to get to the desktop environment, you needed to boot from either a Workbench floppy disk or an HD with Workbench installed on it. With Workbench installed on the HD, booting to the desktop environment took under 30 seconds with hardware that was 100-10000 times slower than todays hardware. No matter how you look at it, if hardware has gotten 100 to 10000 times faster, but booting still takes about the same, something doesn't add up.