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* STILL BELIEVE routers = best security alone?

YOU SAID YOUR DNS NEVER WENT DOWN TOO?

Funny YOU ADMIT IT DOES -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & you FAIL vs. myself as usual, noob do-nothing "rookie ne'er-do-well" CHUMP!

APK

P.S.=> So much for your faith in routers alone stupid (225 in total, 15 posts with 15 items each) & YOU OUTRIGHT LIED ON YOUR DNS NEVER GOING DOWN TOO - HUGE fail (one for my bookmarks)... apk

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* STILL BELIEVE routers = best security alone?

APK

P.S.=> So much for your faith in routers alone stupid (225 in total, 15 posts with 15 items each)... apk

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But people buy stock on the premise that dividends can be handed out. Take away the premise and the stock is almost worthless.

From Google's initial prospectus:

We do not intend to pay dividends on our common stock.

We have never declared or paid any cash dividend on our capital stock. We currently intend to retain any future earnings and do not expect to pay any dividends in the foreseeable future.

From Google's investor FAQ:

Does Google pay a cash dividend?

No, we have never declared or paid a cash dividend nor do we expect to pay any cash dividends in the foreseeable future.

So, if you buy GOOG expecting a dividend, you simply haven't done your homework.

Spinning drives didn't replace tape,

Oh so this is what google's data center looks like and not this. My mistake.

Plus, Apple still charge EXACTLY THE SAME for memory today as they did then! ;)

Wrong. It was used because it was easy to locate the '9' in the dark. The old dial had a metal rest that you could use to locate 0 and (next to it) 9. See: rotary dial I know this since I read it 45 years ago in an old telephone box.

Hmm, I think I may have figured it out. I think that the browsers are adding an implicit .com at the end. So CNet got its hands on com.com, and when I type "http://com" in, it tries adding a .com to get http://com.com/ which then redirects to cnet.

So I think my previous test wasn't working the way I expected. Now that said, I still don't know what the difference is with what IE does -- I just tried typing 'www' into IE, and it took me to my domain's www host, and did not do a search.

Michael Zhang Petapixel Libels Atty4kids and violates DMCA

June 2, 2012

GoDaddy Hosting Copyright Infringement Legal Department ,., ia coevrightclainislugodaddfruunl RE: CEASE d, DESIST and Take Down DMCA Notice

You are hereby notified AGAIN (6 times) of one of your customers infringing my rights. The image is one the email attached and my artistic work, copyright protected is the second screenshot down, with the Twitter Bird, clealy identifying "Schwager Consulting" via the logo, also attached to this letter so that you know without any doubt I am the copyright owner. I swear under oath with penalty of perjury that this identified screenshot exploited by Michael Zhang on Petapixel is mine and I have not and will not give any rights to anyone for use. As such, this is a violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act ("DMCA") and you are liable if you continue to protect this creep. I have consulted with a specialist in IP, who is more than happy to sue to you. I ask you IMMEDIATELY take down for infringing my rights. The screen shot may be found at http://www.petapixel.com.com/tag/candiceschwager :. What is sickening is this man is supposedly a professional and is well aware of the law and your politicies, but violates them anyway. Read his blog.

He may contact me by mail at 1417 Ramada Dr. Houston Texas 77062 and is ill advised to call we after this bottomfeeder exploitation. I have more than a good faith belief that Michael Zhang knows he is infringing upon my rights because his entire article falsely accuses me of infringing upon Jay Lee, the Houston Hacker's rights, when Lee dropped this claim with Go Daddy without prompting from me. He voluntarily (scared) ran. Zhang clearly knows and I believe without a doubt he does that his use of my work on his site is illegal, unauthorized and objectionable under federal law.

I will pursue all available remedies against parties who do not respect my rights after having 14 websites taken down based on lies. Everything I have said is accurate under penalty of perjury of law and Michael Zhang aka Petapixel is not only libeling and exploiting me, but infringing too. Please take it down now or I will sue all in federal court. These juvenile games are hardly amusing.

Respectfully,

Candice Leonard Schwager

Lies

Hardly. The Militia Movement that was screaming mad against Clinton's supposed police state tactics and New World Order - where the fuck did they go when Bush took office and started wiretapping their phones and signing shit like the Patriot Act?

It's the same story with the Teabaggers. The same people losing their shit over Obama's deficits couldn't be bothered to get out of bed when Bush doubled the national debt. That's a fact, deal with it.

and slander.

Look who's lying now.

The little toolbar next to the Start menu in older versions of Windows. Many application installers default to placing an icon there. Example. In 7, it was replaced with taskbar pinning.

Poor Sony. So near, yet so far.

Nope, they were PCs before IBM manufactured them.

Sorry, that's just wrong. It's an anachronism.
They were "personal computers" sometime, not PCs. Though the were more often called microcomputers and home computers.

e.g.
TRS-80 Microscomputer: http://techmisadventures.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/6213180-583-800.jpg
Commodore Pet Home Computer: http://i.techrepublic.com.com/gallery/6213166-568-800.jpg
Apple II Personal Computer: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/09/10/article-2036072-0DD160A800000578-895_468x566.jpg

The rest of your post I agree with.

china has a lot of population.,probably thats why they are aiming at green ways to conserve energy
just cause 2

But they didn't do anything illegal. They're basically just using their own download application that comes with extra stuff.

Yes, but Download.com still assures users that they will never bundle that "extra stuff". Their Adware & Spyware Notice says:

In your letters, user reviews, and polls, you told us bundled adware was unacceptable--no matter how harmless it might be. We want you to know what you're getting when you download from CNET Download.com, and no other download site can promise that.

Also, they make it look like a download link for the real installer (which it used to be), and then the user gets this CNET crap. But they still used our name liberally in the trojan installer as if we were somehow responsible for or involved in this abomination. I've got screen shots on my Download.com fiasco page.

Also, this "apology" rings hollow because they aren't fixing the problem along with it. In particular:

1) He claims that bundling malware with Nmap was a “mistake on our part” and “we reviewed all open source files in our catalog to ensure none are being bundled.” Either that is a lie, or they are totally incompetent, because tons of open source software is still being bundled. You can read the comments below his post for many examples.

2) Even if they had removed the malware bundling from open source software, what about all of the other free (but not open source) Windows software out there? They shouldn't infect any 3rd party software with sketchy toolbars, search engine redirectors, etc.

3) At the same time that Sean sent the “apology” to users, he sent this very different note to developers. He says they are working on a new expanded version of the rogue installer and “initial feedback from developers on our new model has been very positive and we are excited to bring this to the broader community as soon as possible”. He tries to mollify developers by promising to give them a cut (“revenue share”) of the proceeds from infecting their users.

4) You no longer need to register and log in to get the small (non-trojan) “direct download” link, but the giant green download button still exposes users to malware.

5) The Download.Com Adware & Spyware Notice still says “every time you download software from Download.com, you can trust that we've tested it and found it to be adware-free.” How can they say that while they are still adding their own adware? At least they removed the statement from their trojan installer that it is “SAFE, TRUSTED, AND SPYWARE FREE”.

Why? x86 or ARM, both obey the same laws of physics. There is nothing inherent in ARM which makes it better at running Android. The x86 benchmarks are looking very good http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2011/11/30/intc113011aa_610x466.jpg

Proper box art link.

This.

Color me uninterested.

Let me color you: this (link from TFA)
(looks like a blue shit).

You make a valid point, but Safari seems to auto-open certain "safe" files in the case of this crimeware kit: http://www.securitynewsdaily.com/new-malware-goes-after-mac-users-0747/

However, a huge amount of malware doesn't propagate by someone running an executable - these days it frequently uses exploits in browsers, Flash, PDF readers, etc. Simply visiting an infected website or opening a malicious PDF is enough to execute the malware on your machine. Exploit kits make it easy to set up a website that will try many exploits against the visitor, based on the browser and plugins they are using.

This infection model affects Mac, Windows, Linux, etc. While there are security architecture differences between OSs, the main reason Macs haven't yet got a big malware problem is that they haven't been targetted that much.

From something I wrote earlier - short version is that using Firefox/Chrome and a commercial antivirus on Macs is a good idea:

Here''s a survey of security experts, giving a fairly balanced view: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10444561-245.html - they believe that the Mac is less attacked but less secure than Windows and that Safari is not very secure. Using Firefox or Chrome is probably a better bet on Mac. Chrome - http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/mac/?p=667 - probably more secure than Safari, and it now does have Adblocking, Flash blocking and NotScripts (like NoScript but a bit painful to install.)

See http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/apple_quietly_updates_mac_anti-malware_feature.php for some comments - the OS X actually has malware detection built in, showing that Apple thinks there is something to protect against. Mostly Trojans at present. Here's a list of OS X malware: http://www.iantivirus.com/threats/

ClamXav may be OK, but Clamav, the underlying tool, is generally nowhere near as good as a commercial antivirus based on tests â" see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clam_AntiVirus#Effectiveness for a summary.

On Windows I generally recommend Kaspersky, who have good heuristic / proactive detection of zero days (the average signature AV only detects about 40-60% of in-the-wild threats). They do have a Mac version: http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/kav-mac-latest-versions

Mac reviews mention Intego as good: http://theappleblog.com/2010/02/04/antivirus-software-on-your-mac-yes-or-no/ and http://www.macworld.com/article/51438/2006/06/antivirussw.html (old review but includes ClamXav). Sophos is a reputable tool on Windows, which has a free Mac version: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2010/11/02/anti-virus-mac-free/

Due to the blended threats that attack first a PC and then your website, and increasing popularity of Macs particularly for web design, it's only a matter of time before a blended threat attacks Mac+websites.

On this topic, here is some bad practices in HR that needs to end:
1. Hiring based on stereotypes is NOT a good idea.
2. The purpose of HR should not be to minimize legal liability.
3. The illusion that celebrities are perfect needs to end.
4. Filtering people based on health problems to minimize health insurance costs is not a good idea.
5. Not hiring people based on debt creates a paradox for those who have to pay it off.
And as a side note, companies with seriously broken HR often have other problems too.

Sorry, I meant to include this justification of my earlier "continue to ignore Linux support" statement.

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1745

This is public knowledge since 2006:

The FBI appears to have begun using a novel form of electronic surveillance in criminal investigations: remotely activating a mobile phone's microphone and using it to eavesdrop on nearby conversations.

The technique is called a "roving bug," and was approved by top U.S. Department of Justice officials for use against members of a New York organized crime family who were wary of conventional surveillance techniques such as tailing a suspect or wiretapping him.

Nextel cell phones owned by two alleged mobsters, John Ardito and his attorney Peter Peluso, were used by the FBI to listen in on nearby conversations. The FBI views Ardito as one of the most powerful men in the Genovese family, a major part of the national Mafia.

http://news.com.com/FBI+taps+cell+phone+mic+as+eavesdropping+tool/2100-1029_3-6140191.html

Cellular carriers will remotely update the firmware of a smartphone by government request in order to turn your apparently inactive phone into an active microphone.

Wait, is this "HTML5 standard" that you speak of the same one that's expected to actually become a W3C Recommendation no earlier than 2022 ?

From the http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/networking/?p=234/ article:

Key signing should not be carried out online, so DNSSEC was designed to return a pre-signed report containing a range of names which do not exist; this could be signed offline and ahead of time.

Suddenly it's all very specific and yet somehow just incomprehensible.

I wonder if someone even knows what this means to the end user? I guess now I'll **have** to believe I'm actually on my bank's web site?

Had no idea what it was either until I read this.

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/networking/?p=234

We have also put together an information site here: http://www.dnssec.comcast.net and an FAQ with additional details: http://www.dnssec.comcast.net/faq.htm.

Thanks

Chris
Comcast

Had no idea what it was either until I read this. http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/networking/?p=234

Flash + silverlight = can play video = browser plugins = win for particular corporations with vested interests to win at any cost
HTML5 (ie iOS, firefox 4) = can play video = html5 inside webbrowser = open standards = win for all

Not so much a win for the developers who now have to cater to differences in implementation/interpretation of a "standard" that won't be finalized (i.e. a w3c recommendation) for many years (Ian Hickson predicts this won't happen until 2022 or later) rather than for a single platform. Flash buffers you from cross browser compatibility issues. Already there are differences in built in codec support in the video element for chrome/firefox/ie9... Developers have to write messy code and include multiple versions of videos on their website in order for html 5 to work... and then regress to flash for ie8 and other platforms that don't yet support it.

Matt

"Lefties" that force themselves to do everything the opposite of a "righty" are no more wrong than people not "taking lefties into consideration".

Where do you get an idea like this? 'force'? Seriously?

I didn't 'force' myself to use a mouse with the left hand any more than I forced myself to write with my left hand.

When I used a computer the mouse is on the right

I set up the first mouse I ever used, a Genius 3 button mouse, in the mid 1980s. It went on the left because I put it there after plugging it into my 80286 based IBM PC AT clone with VGA (320x200 256 color!!) It came with a green xacto-pad cutting board for a mouse pad and looked like this...

http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-10877_11-32288-10.html (the one on the left)

The only only program I had that actually used the mouse at first was a paint program called "Dr. Halo". It came on a floppy disk in the box with the mouse. Now because it was a drawing/painting program, I was naturally inclined to use my drawing/painting/writing hand. Go figure.

I'm curious how you are going to rationalize this as 'forced' or 'wrong'...??

They would just need to provide the energy cost used as the basis. You see it all the time on appliances. (actually, in the US its required on new appliances)

Since most appliances use so little energy compared to what recharging a car would require, it's not really a big deal if the number on the appliance is off a bit.

Also, there are many locations with "peak hour" electricity costs. For many appliances, this isn't really important, as you generally don't get a choice when to use them (like stoves). For others (like dishwashers), you do get a choice, and electric cars would fall into this category (since you should be able to charge them during the non-peak hours).

One other thing I noticed on the one sample sticker is that they have used the assumption of 15000 miles/year to compute the "savings". The problem is that the car on the sample sticker can only travel 100 miles before it needs a 4-hour recharge. Technically, this car could travel 15K miles in a year, but it's highly unlikely. But, based on that and the 34kwh/100 miles, the car would use 425kwh every month. That means that it uses as much in 2 months as the fridge in your sample sticker uses in a year.

So, as 6 times the usage, you need more accurate numbers for the rate to make a truly informed decision compared to other vehicles that use a different power source (hybrid, gasoline, diesel, E85, etc.).

This doesn’t appear basically-nude to you? You’d feel fine having that same image taken of a 12-year-old girl and stored indefinitely on someone’s hard drive? It’s certainly a photo. And, if consent were given under the false promise that the image would not be stored, there was no consent because you coerced them with a false promise into allowing you to take the image.

Bullshit. Read linky below.

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=1400

I have often wondered when this glossy screen paradigm shift happened. All my laptops purchased prior to 2004 had nice matte screens. Now, glossy owns the market.

Based on my research I knew that glossy screens have better black reproduction, but I wondered why anyone would consider that a worthwhile tradeoff when it makes the screen useless (or at least very distracting) in the overwhelming preponderance of environments that people are in. I appreciate your insightful information, but it still doesn't explain why this sea change occurred.

I experienced this frustration a few months ago when trying to find an LCD TV that was still usable when a lamp happened to be turned on in the room (or at least 'use without wanting to put a brick through it'):

"Cool, all of these TV's have a glossy screen so I can get the inkiest blacks available on an LCD! My experience will be great as long as I only use it in a vampire-rated bunker!"

Then again, perhaps I am in a minority when I find this kind of effect to be a critical fault in a display. To be fair, I bet those are some really vivid colors that can no longer be seen because of the reflection. A Pyrrhic victory for the design engineers, I suppose.

Are these glossy screens fundamentally cheaper to make than the matte screens that used to be ubiquitous?

I think they would want to sell to North Americans. We have a huge amount of disposable income, buy into the whole green thing, and feel bad about how bad things are in Africa. By selling huge volumes to us, they can develop processes to manufacture these cheaply, and make them more affordable to 3rd worlders.

There's no reason that a third world solar powered bulb would be shaped like a North American bulb, complete with screw threads moulded into the plastic on the top. It's meant to be cute.

Why reinvent the wheel? I am assuming that the bulb included in this thing is also manufactured and sold separately. Designing a manufacturing process just to produce this one component of a clearly niche product seems more wasteful than just grabbing components off the shelf.

Coleman lanterns are popular, but the Nokero is like a solar Coleman lantern powered by sunlight rather than gas lantern technology, so it can also be used for recreational purposes. It can provide emergency light during or after natural disasters, it can be an outdoor recreation and camping lantern, or it can be used in and around outdoor patios.

Motorola had the first QWERTY data phone.. the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X.

QWERTY?Where?
No mention of QWERTY on the wiki page either.
And where do you see data capabilities?

Nokia was next with their Mobira Senator.

Also not QWERTY

Then IBM had the personal communicator.

Bingo, looks like you got one right. (even though it cost $900)

I had the first real smartphone the QCP6035 from kyerocera. It predated the first blackberry by 2 years.

The Nokia 9000 beat you to it (1996 vs 2001).
RIM had their Inter@ctive Pager in 1995, even though it didn't have a phone.
They added a phone with the Blackberry 5810 in 2002 (only a year after your Kyocera).

Why all the RIM hate? Did a Blackberry kill your dog or something?

You can dual boot different versions of windows: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/Set-up-a-dual-boot-system-from-Windows-Vista-Inside-Out -- Maybe you could have an unencrypted partition to boot off of at home, and an encrypted partition to boot off of at work. Or boot windows off of a flash drive: http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-22_11-5928902.html Although I might suggest linux. Ubuntu's full disk encryption works great. You could set up a fully encrypted usb stick to boot from @ work.... If they accept that encryption. You could dual boot Ubuntu with windows. Just some thoughts.

These people can no longer play online multiplayer, a feature which they paid for. If the game or console isn't broken then it's reasonable for them to expect that they could continue playing.

Online multiplayer was a feature of XBox Live, a sevice which they also needed to pay for. That service no longer exists as of the 15th. These features were marked as such on the box. None of the features of the game are missing (system link multiplayer is still available), only those of the service because it no longer exists.

In the future an even worse situation will occur now that games need to be authenticated online in order to play even the single player campaign. What will happen then once those servers are taken offline in 5+ years? The business model shifted from buying to renting without us even noticing.

In this case, we've got the same situation as an MMO going out of business. The Ubisoft (and similar) DRM is a whole different issue entirely.

Of course, the OP's point (which after reflection I agree with) is that the End User shouldn't have to jump through hoops to get it to work. MS ought to make this known and available to players before they end their support.

It was pretty well known that the matchmaking service required XBox Live access. Look here, all the orange items on the list require XBox Live access to use. There's your fair warning.

So, the question is if MS should continue to provide access to XBox Live in perpetuity. I see no reason why this is any different from an MMO shuttering its servers. Yes, it sucks for those who bought the game and can't play it any more, but that's part of the deal when what you buy depends on a service being available. When that service goes away (and all services go away eventually), so does your ability to use its features. Of course, you also aren't paying for it any more either.

This isn't an issue with Halo specifically, just with Live for the original XBox in general. However, Halo 2 seems to be the only game people were playing, so it's difficult to make the economic argument in favor of MS maintaining this service for so few people.

TechRepublic covered this almost a month ago, though it still gets sidetracked (like the Boston article) in a way that exemplifies the bigger issue.

Particularly, the point is not about password ageing, which is merely one example of how controls are often ineffective at achieving the security objectives. The bigger problem is that the usual IT security industry mantra has total disregard for all the other IT objectives. The goal (the ultimate, parent objective) of IT is to assist the organisation in achieving its objectives. IT security is just one objective for achieving that goal, but all of them are important.

When evaluating implementing security controls do not simply consider security. You also have to consider things like productivity, expense, risk, or how it might make it harder for the company to respond to customer requirements. Failing to do this is why users’ rejection of the security advice they receive is entirely rational from an economic perspective: they are pursuing objectives and IT security appears little more than an obstacle.

I tried Ubuntu, But I just can't.

I wanted to install my favorite niche physics package. I couldn't even figure out how to set the files to 777 through the GUI, I had to 'sudo chmod' them.

Oh and no 'su'? really? I mean 'sudo bash' isn't that hard but jeez I don't know if this is more secure, but it sure is harder to use. I think I'll install centos before going back to fedora.

you can tell ubuntu is getting pretty good when the trolls have to try this hard to criticize it.

or did I miss a whoosh somewhere?

Why don't you create a root account so you can su all you like? Also interesting: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1415&tag=nl.e011

It was very sad that Linux wouldnt be allowed in this year as opposed to last time when nobody could crack it. Regardless of how you measure market penetration its nice to have it there as a reference point. Anything you pay for should be much better than something you can get for free.

Chrome has an excellent sandbox, especially compared to IE8 and Safari which makes exploiting stuff very hard even if you know of an open exploit. That nobody even bothered is a testament to that it really works. Nobody hacks at pwn2own, its done long before the competition starts in reality.

Google Chrome OS is something really interesting and everything up until now points to it becoming one of the most secure OS in a long time. While MacOS X and Windows 7 is a pile of ugly hacks Chrome OS seems to be built on excellent foundation from a security viewpoint. I really like it how they take the user out of the equation, just in line with Microsofts security researchers (that Microsoft never seems to listen to).

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=3275&tag=nl.e036

there's a MS-sponsored paper that states that users are RATIONAL to reject all security advise like running updated antivirus. see: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=3275&tag=nl.e036 which has a link to the .pdf of the paper

It seems that even IE beat Firefox in Javascript performance now. Firefox sure has been slacking recently. There's still road ahead though, Chrome and Opera are leading.

May be not as effective, but apparently marginally saleable. the user experience so far has been terrible but that's the way it is with any new technology.

Now, to make working CPUs out of lead. Solomon's Gold to the rescue!!! Moore's law will be salvaged by modern alchemy!!!

Suit:

here

Possible patents:

System for automatically generating queries
Method and apparatus for the integration of information and knowledge


Lifted from the register

Judging from the bright red color, I'm guessing you have to turn it upside-down and shake it to reboot. (Apologies to Scott Adams)

Token-Ring is even more resiliant at layer 4 than Ethernet. You can approach 99% utilization on Token-Ring (I have on a production LAN for weeks on end) where Ethernet is pretty much congested arount 16%. Don't believe me, ask around.

And until we got 100Base-T, Token-Ring was just plain faster then 10Base-T. I had this fight with an applicaiton developer that claimed that our 16MB Token-Ring was hampering his app's performance. We went to 100Base-T at no small expense (5 blades 48 ports each in a Chipcom/IBM chassis). NO fix. Of course, it was the servers. Or the disk drives. Or the coffee. Whatever.

Alas, Token-Ring is no longer competitive, but no loss. IBM charged too much, and Olicom couldn't keep up. 100MB Token and switching could have worked, but Gigabit Ethernet is more than good enough. Not many LANS have any hardware available to fill that pipe.

Imagine a beacon event at 10GBs. You might see the wires glow...

Yes, I miss Token-Ring. Don't hate the player, hate the game.