How so? What ongoing support is there?

this isn't just about support - they are banning it. Thats very different to just not supporting it.

Will PeerBlock/PeerGuardian still work? If not, what counter measures does one take? Also, does this apply to the USA only?

I don't know if you are an Aussie but it seems to me that the Government is being pushed in this direction by the owners of media companies.

I'd say this comes from the religious right in our nation. Conroy is just recently shmoozing up to the likes of Packer and Murdoch because he needs their support as no one else will.

That's how non-MS devices are able to communicate with it.

And even if it were a completely closed solution that only MS phones could connect to, so what? How is it a corporation's responsibility, internally, to work with other devices? Sure, if I ran a company I'd make it as easy as possible for people to connect because I'd want to enable them to check their work email elsewhere. But if security were more of a priority, or if maintaining a simpler system were, I see a lot of merit to locking it down to a single protocol.

Not in a big house, and not with Coax. But I've used phone cord (not Cat3, the 4-wire flat one) to pull Cat5 in a home.

First, there's no way that you can take illegally obtained "evidence" and punish the student for it. It goes against the 4th amendment, and is unethical on so many levels. I strongly doubt that this case will go too far in court.

Second, why the hell do they need to spy on students anyway? It's good that they're giving the students laptops, but what they do at home (regardless of all the stupid shit they do) is none of the school's business, nor is it in their jurisdiction. I could make a rant about how parents need to step it up and take better care of their kids, but I'll just sum it up: schools should stay out of parental territories. It's bad for the student, and it's bad for the school.

Whoever was running this, either the school IT admins or even the higher school administration should be at least suspended pending further review.

I'd guess he can afford the house because he doesn't throw money away when he doesn't have to. But I agree with pretty much everyone in this thread, including you: Just use the coax to pull new cable. I recently did this in an ancient three story house. It took a couple of hours to do all the runs but it was not really that difficult and saved a LOT of time and effort in the end.

I'm really surprised how many people are that close to where they were born.

Or maybe they didn't understand the poll.

That is because the referenced article is about security (you cannot tell this from the title alone, but it is clear from the context in which the original appears.) It does not address design or semantic errors, so the 'chip & pin is broken' issue from yesterday would not be a candidate, and the chosen errors are weighted by frequency of occurrence. All in all, it is a pretty narrow scope for such a grandiose title.

Northern U.S. didn't have back-to-back blizzards dropping 3 f***ing feet of snow last January, either. Who is going to go rob houses in that?

Yeah, I was thinking the same... how much ram are we talking about.. and ofcourse which version are they running? 32-bit or 64bit, as people should know that putting more ram as 4GB when running 32bit windows doesn't do anything with the more ram (it can even slow things down.. If you want to use a lot of ram you have to use 64bit windows)... Why anyone wouldn't put at least 4GB into their computer when running Windows 7 is really beyond me, especially when the price of ram is so low, and the advantages are great...

I just sent a note off to US-CERT. Anyone else reading this and experiencing these attacks, feel free to list them here.

Attach a CAT5/6 AND a string, and pull like hell. You'll be glad you have a string in the wall when you want to pull CAT7.

Just remember, when you attach something to the string, always attach a new string too. It sucks when you finally finish pulling a run, only to have forgotten the replacement string.

Sure. Plenty of times something is announced but never released or released far, far later than originally intended. The former is vaporware, the latter can be debatable. But a product that is done being designed, that has sample models produced, and that has a concrete release date in the near future doesn't meet the definition by any stretch.