Electronic payment is not 100% safe. it's easily crackable and easily hackable. Banks aren't doing enough to make it safe...yet. They could but people would be too idiot to follow anyway. I'm a computer tech and trust me, I've seen my fair share of stupid people when it comes to easy "security" situations. I can't believe people still use their names or some very well public known word to them for their password. I've also seen people not securing their routers and other personal "electronic" gadgets and it is PRIMORDIAL to do so.

In other words, electronic is not the safest and best way cause people are too idiot or lazy to use more security. So I'm not convinced with what you said.

Who knows(but I would like to know) ? I sure don't. All I know is that Korea has around 800 billions in debt. Is it all from the US. I don't think so but this amount is big.

If only the U.S.A and other countries would pay their debt to them, I don't think they would need print those dollar bills lol.

You can get around the bandwidth limitations by using a service called Grandleech. Copy the URL from the download from Rapidshare. Tthen head over to www.grandleech.com, paste the link there, press download and have fun.

www.grandleech.com

It's called w3c. Those standards are there for a reason. unfortunately, not a lot of web browser dev don't use it 100%. That's one reason we got so many open alley in our pc's via the web browser today. I can't blame them 100% but theres a small percentage that goes to them of course. Theres also the fact that the bigger the code you got, the bigger holes you MIGHT have.

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Since when did the big guys followed the standards anyway (IE html validation anyone!). maybe this is what we need ? It's not the first time some company, organization or someone didn't follow standards and his software got way more popular. I could state that mozilla wasn't standard but it did follow the rules way better than IE did with W3C.

I'm sorry to say this but : The ARTISTS have been the only ones saying that piracy DOESNT hurt them." This is completely false. Piracy does hurt. Think about it, let say you spent 100k$ on your "product" and then you realise that it's on piratebay.org or some other site free to everyone. Don't give me crap with that piracy doesn't hurt. Piracy does hurt and at the same time it gives just enough image to the publisher (or whoever is behind it) to give enough attention so people buy their products.

It's the crooked publishers and distributors that are actually hurting the artists : Just for a fact, they hurt everyone, not only the artist by the way.

I think its because artist are getting sick and tired of people copying their material without permission. Steven Harper's party don't give a crap about the culture (look how much cash he gives to the dept of culture, that is pathetic) so he really don't have high priority on this matter. But the artist have enough voice to tell him to do something since it's becoming slowly out of control.

Theres a bill in Canada about copyright. It's the C-11 bill

http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Docid=5144516&file=4

it was Bill C-61 first, then it died and was replaced by Bill C-32 which also died. Now its called Bill C-11. Have fun reading this.

Theres also a website which gives lots of information on that bill : http://www.digital-copyright.ca/billc11/

I've worked for an ISP for over 4 years and I've been on the Internet and know a lot about it (ie: ccna). Yes ISP's needs to step up to increase their security measures. It's astounding how they let people which are complete strangers go in their network and do whatever they want, when they want without any authentication nor take any measure to protect it's network. Well not completly true they just do whatever they can when it's free and super cheap.

Theres also other security measures which could increase security in their "email" deparment. smtp and pop for example. most isp's today do nothing in that part. anyone can send emails to anyone without any limits...basically they suck there. Nothing is encrypted, authenticated and if it is its not enough for security.

further more, lots of protocol needs a big boost in security as most of them today lack lots of security features which could increase productivity, stability and security. I'm amazed that in 2012 we still have spam, bots, zombie machines today since those same ISP's makes millions.

Sorry but a university still act like a business. Even if they receive funds from the government, you'd be pretty stupid to think they only like on that type of funds. If they can't make money in any way, they will have to do something about it. So a school today is just like a business. As we all know businesses needs funds, cash and a lot more...just like a business. It also needs public attention which helps with all the above.

on the bright side, there not the only one doing this so this news...is not new after all lol.

Since cash is a big problem (boss are stuck up that subject ) in your school where you work, here is your answer. It's not the perfect answer but it's a good one. GNU/Linux. Yes it's not Windows, yes you have to do more than click next, yes it's not simple. But here are a couple of points that you should look at:

1.Linux is free.

2.If your new to it, start with some package distro like Ubuntu or Fedora, super easy to start with...learn from there. trust me it's easier than you think

3.Linux distro works with Windows network environment

4. Most,if not all, have free software alternative that can stand up to the big popular software like Microsoft office for example (openoffice is one)

5.It's more secure for your users. In a sense that once it's deployed they can't change important system files or settings, they need administrator access for that

6.You can customize lots of things like the look, the interface and lots of other settings

7.Linux does have a Gui interface like Windows so the switch is easier than you think

8.Linux as a great, wonderful, hell better support than Windows if you ask me. Lots of distros have wiki's, forums, website with support section.

Note: Ubuntu is nearly as easy to use as Windows when it comes to it's use sometimes...just click next 20 times and your done installing..I swear. Super easy transition tip: Install vmware, then install Ubuntu in vmware. Install most programs you need. If you can't find some, find alternative (you will find some, your a geek like us), once your confortable enough, deploy some linux PC's in some department for testing and let it test for some weeks.

Probably because cash is involved. I guess if you cut those computers off the Internet it would cost more. That's probably the reason they wont cut them off.

this is a very odd story. Why would the FBI request to change DNS for millions of PC's when all they have to do is switch the DNS server off. But no, they decided to get a court order allowing them to replace the rogue DNS servers with legitimate stand-ins so that all the infected computers wouldn't get cut off without warning, giving them time to get the word out.

btw, you can read this guide to check your dns.

http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/november/malware_110911/DNS-changer-malware.pdf

I loved the old 486 type of keyboard. That plastic was so thick that I could "break" the wall before the keyboard broke into pieces. Nowadays, I fear my keyboard will break in 2 if i press keys on it. lol