Posts by Paul S. Gazo
17 posts • joined Sunday 17th May 2009 21:50 GMT
Re: Google a "friend of the court"?
"Trollbait -> backup account for somebody. Three posts since 2010."
That may very well be but it doesn't change the nature of the relationship. It's in Google's best interests that nobody restrict sales of any Android-based phones. As for SAP and the rest, they basically have nothing to do with the subject. It's like McDonalds get in on the fray and saying "we use electricity to cook our food, and Samsung's phones use electricity, so we're qualified to weigh in on this."
Now, if other handset manufacturers were coming out and signing in on this, that'd speak loudly. "Even though Samsung is our competitor, this whole patent war is bullshit and we want it to go away." That would speak loudly. But they're not. Evidently the only competitor (Nokia) says "nuke 'em from orbit".
There's the message, sadly.
Disclosure: I don't own any iDevices, don't want to, and dislike Apple's tactics. Oh, and I own a Samsung "superphone".
Friend, BE2012 isn't usable for anyone INSIDE Enterprise level IT. In fact, the loss of multi-server selection-lists impacts larger companies the most. While there were some really neat improvements in things like DeDupe, the fundamental functionality of the product is seriously degraded.
Good news: Symantec has a Beta out for the next release of BE.
Bad news: the beta is a refresh to include Server 2012 and Exchange 2013. It explicitly won't return Job Monitor or multi-server selection lists. For that... we continue to wait.
This, after the debacle that was SEP11's gold release. SEP is pretty decent now, but after the elegance of SAV, the 11.0 release was horrendous.
My advise to Symantec: stop worrying about "solutions" and "channels" and such. Just make your products better than everyone else does and you'll rake in money.
> Is this the actions of an 'innocent' man?
Sure. If I believed I was going to get screwed over and potentially end up dead by allowing myself to be extradited for something of which I was innocent, in a heartbeat I'd run. Not everyone is a martyr.
I'm not saying he's innocent. I have no way to judge that. But avoiding extradition when you think you're being persecuted doesn't indicate guilt. If anything, this radical a step supports his claim that he thinks he's in serious danger here. Again, he might be thinking wrong. I have no way to judge that. But your question implies all kinds of things that aren't reasonable.
Re: RDP in the open
A few points for you.
You're placing faith that there will never be an exploit discovered in whatever VPN client/server/protocol you've decided to use. That's exactly as reasonable as placing faith in RDP - which is an encrypted protocol - only moving the vulnerability to some other software stack.
Second, RDP has been available since Windows Server 2000, released February 2000. Twelve years for this vulnerability to be discovered. Yes, it's been there the whole time, but again... there could be an undiscovered issue that's been lurking in whatever VPN solution you've been advocating for the last decade.
Third, RDP is used for Terminal Servers which have the most utility when exposed to the Internet for access. Doing so is no more unreasonable than exposing a web server or mail server. Yes, a Terminal Server will generally have access to internal resources and yes there are ways to have public-facing web servers in a DMZ but ultimately we're still talking about software that is most useful if not behind a VPN.
Am I supposed to keep my IIS sites with Outlook Web Access behind a VPN? That'll be great... all my users with phones relying on that site for ActiveSync just... can't get e-mail. Anyone who wants to check their e-mail via OWA at a kiosk in a hotel just... can't because they can't install the VPN client I force them to use.
There's a difference between best-practices and practical-for-this-application.
Finally let's not forget the Small & Medium Business market. There's a whole whack of real-life reasons in that market that make it impractical sometimes to add layers of complexity. Sometimes Good Enough is the difference between losing a client and keeping one. And I point out again... twelve years we've had no meaningful discoveries in this technology.
As for internal LANs, there's another great point. Someone brings an infected laptop into the network where we DO have exposed RDP for maintenance purposes and wham... the entire building starts executing arbitrary code. Including the domain controllers. Yay.
So hopefully you understand that there are reasons to expose protocols other than SSH to the Internet from time to time, and that regardless... everyone* needs to patch NOW.
*Everyone = those who have RDP enabled.
Neither do I but:
It would've been interesting to demand all of Sony's computer were remanded into custody of a 3rd party while they were searched for evidence supporting that class-action suit.
Posted in Dell dumps RIM, saves fortune
Not as of eight months ago.
BESX 5 (Exchange released in March, Domino a couple days ago) doesn't require CALs and is good for up to 3,000 users per install/database. Depending on how you cluster things on your Exchange server, you may be able to run more than one BESX per enterprise. Not sure.
You're thinking about BPS 4, which had a user cap and you had to pay for CALs.
What I don't understand...
Is why sites like this one even exist. Who is the target audience who'd be visiting copyprotected.com? I mean, it's a site "that reports violations of the copy protection controls on DVDs and Blu-ray discs". Is someone at Universal or Sony or Paramount seriously browsing to this place every day to find out if the DRM has been cracked? Who - in a nutshell - gives a rat's ass enough to visit any site associated with the MPAA or RIAA except to find stuff to laugh at?
Paris because it's evident why someone might visit her.
Off-the-cuff proposal for a new rule to the game of life.
Is Assange guilty? Don't know. Don't really care either. But I do encounter entirely too many articles informing me that So-And-So has been accused of Horrible Act.
This kind of news benefits me not at all. You know what... time to stop the gossip-mongering. From now on, the accused is allowed to tell whoever he or she chooses, to prevent people "disappearing" into the legal system. Next-of-kin may also request information when arrests are made. Other than that, zip it. Shut up. The press shouldn't be permitted to spread the news.
I realize that's dangerous in itself, but too many lives are being destroyed because some pouty little pea-brain girl decides "he touched me" is a great way to get back at her Geography teacher for a bad grade.
I don't claim this is perfect, but it's food for thought.
Posted in .XXX domain deal stripped bare
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How does that work? I mean, sure... you keep your kids from visiting Humpty-Dumpty.xxx I don't dispute that. But what about Dirty-Crotch-Lickers.com?
Or are you somehow implying that you think that pornography will just... suddenly stop being available on any other TLD? Sorry, but dream on.
And stop worrying so much about your kids learning that sex is fun. You figured it out and they will to, no matter what you do. I'm not advocating deliberately exposing them to porn or sexuality, but there's a sliding scale of what is sensible to pretend doesn't exist. Five-year-olds won't CARE because they're hormonally disinterested. Ten-year-olds much the same. At fifteen... well, I've got news for you. Not very long ago in human history people would be married off and be at it like bunnies by fifteen.
Minimum pricing because customers are paying more on another platform?
Please bite me. It's a free market and it's about time the various overpriced fart apps were discounted. Most mobile apps are widgets at best and should be priced to reflect that. Artificial price control to inflate income is just wrong.
Paris because she gives it away for free.
I have an idea for a new patent.
"A System for Keeping the Intrusive Manufacturer of the Device I Have Paid For The Fuck Away From My Data".
Let's see how it works. A law is passed mandating the inclusion in all electronic devices a big indicator that lights up to tell the user the manufacturer has attempted to access device data. If the user has not requested this intrusion, they then press a button and the CEO of the manufacturer has his testicles electrocuted.
Seriously, if you want to build "security" features into your OS, fine. But when you're going and patenting systems for being a prying, spying, paranoid control-freak, you need to have your ego checked at the door.
Paris because maybe we could get something useful out of remotely activating her camera and turning on geotagging.
VLSC is a total arse-pain.
I work for a small IT shop that does outsourced IT for small & medium businesses. We manage everything for our customers. Now I have to jump through hoops to process volume license purchases for customers.
The biggest hurdle is that now the e-mail address of the end-user MUST be used to initially place a license into VLSC.
Great. I love it when customers have used their business addresses for personal MSN use. Customers will gladly give me passwords for the domain administrator, for their accounting software, and for anything else. But personal Live accounts get changed frequently Just Because. It's annoying.
Microsoft has the customer's money. Resellers should be able to process on behalf of, without jumping through hoops.
You named the group incorrectly.
They're not the moral majority. Amongst the developed world, they're the hypocritical majority and the moral minority. Most people like porn. Most people like sex. Most people just aren't willing to publicly admit it for fear of being ostracized as perverts.
Behind closed doors when nobody's looking, the guys proposing strict anti-porn regulation are busy taking a strap-on up the arse from a dominatrix in leather.
Don't be fooled. It's just about appearances. It's trendy to seem prudish, at least amongst the U.S.
Paris because at least she wasn't afraid of doing something that felt good.
Posted in Street View pulls Canadian murder scene
I'm a local
I live in Windsor. I don't get it. The killing happened. The investigation happened. Why having imagery surrounding the investigation is "tasteless" or even "distressing", I don't know. If I were related to the victim, I wouldn't be using Street View to check out the strip club where it happened. Otherwise, who is this footage bothering?
I'd be more disturbed by the fact that when Google imaged our city we were embroiled in a historically unprecedented THREE MONTHS. No garbage pick-up, no maintenance of public parks - our city which does a lot of tourist traffic - looked like hell. That our city is recorded "permanently" as very unattractive is far more disturbing than that one of our average two murders a year happened moments before Google showed up.
High and mighty still means you're high.
I am in IT and I've got two things to say to you:
One... given today's penchant for everything being a fat-ass web portal instead of lean local code, upgrading to speed up a browser is quite valid. I had to log onto Oracle's customer support site today, which is a Flash-based monstrosity that knocked my work PC onto it's knees, begging for help.
Two... my home PC is a 5.5-year-old P4 2.8Ghz single-core box and I'm strangely able to tell the difference between Firefox being slow and plug-ins being slow. Actual investigation reveals an interesting truth: FF is just fine. Maybe FF is just slower on the planet you don't share with Near-ready and I.
Interesting progression.
WinNT 4 got a total of 6 service packs.
Win2k got a total of 4 service packs.
Win2k3 gets a total of 2 service packs.
Win2k8 has a total of 1 service pack so far. (While it's called SP2 the RTM code is Vista SP1.)
Either product quality is going up or MS hates us all.
Truly disgusting
If a social-worker has any business knowing any of this information they have the means and authority to collect it. Also, if police have some mysterious need to know what school Child X attends, doesn't it follow that the same need to know adults' place of employment exists? This is a blatant money-wasting make-work project.
We'll also be reading about a copy of this database being stored on a laptop that gets stolen off the seat of someone's car... probably in about 12 months.
Paris because she knows all about getting screwed.
