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This is incredibly sad.
Let's look at this.
- Malware-related tragedy
- Malware-related espionage
- Other Malware-related espionage
- Malware-related vendor issues
- Malware-related cyber-terrorism
In short, infected devices have caused serious problems (and occasionally fatalities). The Pentagon has been subject to malware-related cyber-attacks, including (as noted in the list) serious cases of espionage, in the past. That people are (a) running devices that are open to attack, and (b) are able to connect such devices to any Pentagon network, is seriously pathetic.
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This blows you completely away hairyfeet
FROM YOUR POINTS HERE -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1930156&cid=34734160 quoted & disproved, "point-by-quoted-point" as is my style in blowing away undereducated trolls like yourself, on the value of HOSTS files as an added layered security measure:
"I also personally consider it a public service to point people to solutions [superantispyware.com] that actually [comodo.com] work [malwarebytes.org]" - by hairyfeet (841228) on Saturday January 01, @06:56PM (#34733612)
Yea, they work alright (about as well as you say HOSTS files do) - NOT: Nothing alone is 100% effective:
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MULTIPLE EVIDENCES OF ANTIVIRUS &/or ANTISPYWARE PROGRAM FAILURES + SHORTCOMINGS:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/04/win_2000_virus_tests/
http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1839
http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/11/07/1545238.shtml
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(Want more?)
There is NO WAY THEY CAN KEEP UP WITH NEW MALWARES BEING MADE either... and you say they "work"? See above!
(They're "better than nothing", & I use them myself, for added LAYERED SECURITY - but, I don't put my entire FAITH ON THEM, as you appear to do!)
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"You have 190,000 to 340,000 infected websites at this very moment and that list will change by the thousands per minute as sites are cleaned, new sites are infected, new vulnerabilities found, etc." - by hairyfeet (841228) on Saturday January 01, @06:56PM (#34733612)
So would "your solutions", see above, on the SAME NOTE!
(Which aren't really "your tools" - you only use the tools of others like a trained chimpanzee, except that I am kept "up-to-date", by the minute, by these reputable sources for HOSTS file data!)
AND, AGAIN? I don't only "just use hosts" - I use this for my "layered security" setup:
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HOW TO SECURE WINDOWS 2000/XP/SERVER 2003 & even VISTA, + make it "fun to do" using CIS TOOL & beyond:
www.bing.com/search?q="HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP"&go=&form=QBRE
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It works, and practices the current trend of "layered security", which HOSTS are a part of!
In fact, that guide of MINE?
On 15 forums it's featured on since 2008, w/ over 750,000 views on how to secure a modern Windows setup (making it the MOST viewed in fact, & I stopped checking counts in 2008 + 1 forum it was on went down & lost 1 example of it having over 100,000 views) & has been made a:
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1.) Sticky/Pinned Thread
2.) Essential Guide
3.) 5/5 star rated
4.) Most Viewed in forums sections its inWherever it is featured! Have YOU done the same? No.
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It even got me PAID for it, @ PCPitstop -> http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2007/09/04/pc-pitstop-winners/
See Jan. 2008 (completely unexpected, but in January 2008 it won me a $100 prize there for its content)... That's the "total gamut" of "layered security" I use in addition to the HOSTS file (though I consider IT my "arc reactor core" of that security guide).
etc./et al...
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"That is the nice thing about math, it doesn't lie or believe in anecdotes." - by hairyfeet (841228) on Saturday January 01, @06:56PM (#34733612)" - by hairyfeet (841228) on Saturday January 01, @06:56PM (#34733612)
RIGHT - then, it's a pity that you rely on your 1.3 million ESTIMATED # of "bad sites" out there as you did from SOFTPEDIA.COM -> http://news.softpedia.com
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ITT Tech boy - You're NO "expert" (Far FROM it)...
" I also personally consider it a public service to point people to solutions [superantispyware.com] that actually [comodo.com] work [malwarebytes.org]" - by hairyfeet (841228) on Saturday January 01, @06:56PM (#34733612)
Yea, they work alright (about as well as you say HOSTS files do) - NOT: Nothing alone is 100% effective:
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MULTIPLE EVIDENCES OF ANTIVIRUS &/or ANTISPYWARE PROGRAM FAILURES + SHORTCOMINGS:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/04/win_2000_virus_tests/
http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1839
http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/11/07/1545238.shtml
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(Want more?)
There is NO WAY THEY CAN KEEP UP WITH NEW MALWARES BEING MADE either... and you say they "work"? See above!
(They're "better than nothing", & I use them myself, for added LAYERED SECURITY - but, I don't put my entire FAITH ON THEM, as you appear to do!)
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"You have 190,000 to 340,000 infected websites at this very moment and that list will change by the thousands per minute as sites are cleaned, new sites are infected, new vulnerabilities found, etc. - by hairyfeet (841228) on Saturday January 01, @06:56PM (#34733612)
So would "your solutions", see above, on the SAME NOTE!
(Which aren't really "yours" - you only use the tools of others like a trained chimpanzee, except that I am kept "up-to-date", by the minute, by these reputable sources for HOSTS file data!)
AND, AGAIN? I don't only "just use hosts" - I use this for my "layered security" setup:
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HOW TO SECURE WINDOWS 2000/XP/SERVER 2003 & even VISTA, + make it "fun to do" using CIS TOOL:
www.bing.com/search?q="HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP"&go=&form=QBRE
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It works, and practices the current trend of "layered security", which HOSTS are a part of!
In fact, that guide of MINE?
On 15 forums it's featured on since 2008, w/ over 750,000 views on how to secure a modern Windows setup (making it the MOST viewed in fact, & I stopped checking counts in 2008 + 1 forum it was on went down & lost 1 example of it having over 100,000 views) & has been made a:
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1.) Sticky/Pinned Thread
2.) Essential Guide
3.) 5/5 star rated
4.) Most Viewed in forums sections its inWherever it is featured! Have YOU done the same? No.
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It even got me PAID for it, @ PCPitstop -> http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2007/09/04/pc-pitstop-winners/
See Jan. 2008 (completely unexpected, but in January 2008 it won me a $100 prize there for its content)... That's the "total gamut" of "layered security" I use in addition to the HOSTS file (though I consider IT my "arc reactor core" of that security guide).
etc./et al...
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"That is the nice thing about math, it doesn't lie or believe in anecdotes." - by hairyfeet (841228) on Saturday January 01, @06:56PM (#34733612)
RIGHT - then, it's a pity that you rely on your 1.3 million ESTIMATED # of "bad sites" out there as you did from SOFTPEDIA.COM -> http://news.softpedia.com/news/Number-of-Infected-Websites-Almost-Doubled-During-the-Second-Quarter-156591.shtml BECAUSE NOBODY KNOWS THE EXACT TRUE # OF MALWARE SITES OUT THERE, period!
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"Now for his HOPES file to actually be a REAL protection and not just a woobie? It will have to dynamically scale and keep up with that ever changing list of infections. Now even if he had twenty fingers and subscribed to every secu
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hairyfeet what is the EXACT # of bad sites online?
First: Answer the question above in my subject-line, ok?
I hate to tell you this, but, you can "quote figures" that are inapproximate estimates, all you like, because nobody REALLY KNOWS how truly many "bad sites" are really out there now - nobody has an "Exact Number" because it's a MOVING TARGET!
One I *TRY* to "keep up on" as best I can in fact... Especially on HOSTS files!
YOU? You also have to "consider your sources" too... see below. Later on that though...
See - each day, I add between 20-20,000 new ones (yes the range is THAT wide), but... I also have to PULL them too, & sometimes? That gets "up there" too!
(Problem is, again - NO ONE KNOWS HOW MANY BAD SITES THERE ARE OUT THERE, not really, period)
It's like keeping up with Comp. Sci. - it's always changing/growing, you can never, "know it all"... so, your #'s, or anyone elses??
PURE "GUESTIMOLOGY" (lol, there's a word!)
So - You can post late as you have here, to try to "bury it" so I won't see your reply... lol, no dice to that!
Now: Hairyfeet's 1.3 million malwares sites out there per his citation from SOFTPEDIA:
(Which is, perhaps, NOT the "greatest/most accurate-in-the-know" site on security mind you? LOL: Where my wares are oddly, still put up for download no less, bonus, as I just checked)?
They are correct on 1 thing: I have noted it here also before - it's GROWING FASTER than it did years ago!
I know that much from my hosts file population (running now, as we speak in fact).
My numbers are RIGHT, considering I block out 920,000 KNOWN ONES, as we speak, in my HOSTS file!
I constantly update it (probably 2-3 times a day or more)... doing it now, as I write this in fact!
Why? To stay accurate, & CURRENT vs. threats online, via a HOSTS file:
E.G. - Sites like hpHOSTS ( hosts-file.net/?s=Download ) update, HOURLY no less, & have removal lists too!
(As some sites DO clean up is why, or just drop)...
So, that said?
I am JUST RIGHT, probably DAMN CLOSE TOO, with the number I block currently, & even PER HAIRYFEET'S POINTS in quoted estimated (note, estimated, no one is really sure how many bad sites there are) numbers of malware sites out there.
ALSO: You can stop your trolling & stalking of myself here, hairyfeet, because this puts you away, with ease, everytimne (not even my OWN words, & I can produce more like it, easily enough, just ask):
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"Ever since I've installed a host file (http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm) to redirect advertisers to my loopback, I haven't had any malware, spyware, or adware issues. I first started using the host file 5 years ago." - by TestedDoughnut (1324447) on Monday December 13, @12:18AM (#34532122)
FROM http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1907528&cid=34532122
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There you go!
APK
P.S.=> Nuff said, as the saying goes - & I didn't even SAY it... others here using HOSTS files did, quoted verbatim... apk
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Parent is known troll and spammer
Parent is known troll APK, also known as KingsJester or the HOSTS file troll, which spams several sites trying to show off his supposed programming skillz by writing badly designed VB6 "apps" and loves to spam threads with his rantings on 16MB HOSTS files, which after repeated requests to show how a 16Mb static HOSTS file can scale against a threat of over 1.3 MILLION infected sites with more than 200,000 being added or removed PER DAY has refused to show proof and instead throws insults.
So anyone who listens to APK, Kingsjerker, or whatever he wishes to call himself this week, and thinks a HOSTS file will do anything but stop static ad servers, really needs to do the math. Not to mention on any machine before Vista it will seriously slow down the machine as it is read line by line per access, and frankly isn't much better on Vista/Win 7. About the most inefficient way to block a static site as one can get IMHO, and anyone actually pushing it as an effective solution to the ever revolving malware out there frankly needs their head examined. But then again we know trolls aren't the brightest creatures, now don't we?
For examples of his trolling simply watch this thread or any I post to, as he has been following me for weeks spamming since I pointed out he doesn't have basic math on his side.
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Re:A lot like Windows after all
What's the percentage of Windows users who install malware on their system rather than being hit by a remote exploit?
I don't know and I certainly doubt you do either. But considering how much anecdotal evidence there is to show that people are in large numbers willingly clicking on malware in emails and installing malware from pops to websites, it's not nearly as small as you try to make it out.
Not exactly a clear answer, but it looks like drive-by attacks are far higher up the threat list than attacks requiring user interaction.
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Before we all start the bashing..Please remember that this happens to all browsers, Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera have all had zero days.
It is also important to take note that IE is the second most secure browser after chrome, as it is the only one to make full use of WIC(Windows Integrity Controls), although does not have the sandboxing that Chrome has.
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Re:Ok, maybe this is too simple but
It's rumour, take it with as much or as little salt as you think it needs. But a quick google for malware UAC shows:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/04/windows_uac_flaw/
And IIRC there was a piece of malware that was signed using a genuine, valid certificate that was issued to Realtek. Looks like I do RC:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Signed-Malware-Used-Valid-Realtek-Certificate-147942.shtml
- this would walk all over the protection offered by ASLR and DEP because it wouldn't need to be injected into another running process.
Having said all that, I never for one minute believed the death of XP would mean the end of malware. It's become a full-blown industry in its own right these days, and a lot of money is involved. Those who do it aren't going to let a bunch of acronyms that make their job a little harder until such time as they've put whatever functionality they need to work around it into a library any more than burglars all gave up and started going straight with the advent of modern locks.
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mSata is not proprietary
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This study warrants more indepth scrutiny
I would look to all sorts of things for differences between the two locations. I would look at what types of people were sampled from both populations. For example, did the two samples include impoverished people as well as middle and upper class people? Does it account for various [sub-]species of humans ranging from varieties of white and black to asian, hispanic/native american? There are far too many differences for this study to simply compare the two locations and draw a conclusion. (Yes, I know I am being un-P.C. by saying [sub-]species of humans but I hold that when naming other species of other animals, we cite similar differences even when there can be successful mating between different species of other animals. And let's face it -- different species of humans have different strengths and vulnerabilities from others -- sickle-cell, various forms of diabetes and more If that doesn't at least qualify the acceptance of a sub-species distinction, I don't know what does. And no, I am not against inter-racial breeding, in fact I have practiced it quite a bit... some black women are just hot and my kids are half asian. So don't start with calling me racist -- I'm not -- I just want to deal in facts, not politics.)
It would be convenient if we could all point to a single factor in any given study of human longevity, but there is no such convenience. I'll read the study later when I have time, but simply stating "U.K. and U.S. population longevity different for reason X" isn't good enough.
If I were to cite a single factor, I would probably cite that the people of the U.S. are more prone to being over-weight. Why? Morbid obesity is bad -- no question about it. But it has been shown through [questionable] studies that having a little extra weight makes people more resistant to various problems and promotes healing... think of it as having a little extra "spare parts." Makes me think our "picture of health" is still not quite reflecting reality.
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Re:Remember People
They did do this to one of my computers. It worked quite well, preventing me from using Windows on that computer. Perhaps a little too well as I just ripped it out and installed Ubuntu where I don't have to worry about such bullshit.
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Re:wrong OS?
info is just old coverage of interview: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Updatable-Operating-System-for-Wii-37467.shtml
note is this quite different from "Linux" to mean a distribution or entire OS, this is just kernel.
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Almost there
"Compared to normal spider silk, it's not as strong," said Malcolm Fraser, a scientist from the University of Notre Dame. "But we are confident that, this being our first attempt, that we will be able to tweak the system to bring the system closer to the strength of true spider silk."
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Re:Don't cookies do the same thing?
The quick and painless answer would be to download a Flash Cleaner from a reputable host site. There are quite a few that have popped-up in the last year.
I cannot really comment on the efficacy b/c the one I use never finds anything thanks to SandboxIE & NoScript. I run it to double-check occasionally, it's portable...no install required.
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Re:Miranda rights
Add to this another set of laws formed by a radical feminist basically assuming any image of a female that you can't prove is of someone over the age of consent (16) is an image of a child (this includes cached images that may be advertisments that you never intended to view).
Wow. I hadn't thought of that before. Consider that until about 2 months ago, Chrome's version of AdBlock downloaded everything on a page and hid the parts you didn't want to see. If that's your browser setup, then it's statistically certain that you have downloaded (and presumably cached) images that you have never seen.
Right now, at this moment, it is very possible that you have child porn or other illegal content in your browser's cache, and that those images have never once been displayed on your monitor. If the cops seized your computer for utterly non-related reasons - maybe the RIAA managed to convince a judge to issue a warrant for an MP3 - then forensic software would find your hidden stash of child porn that you never knew about, saw, requested, or had any reason to be aware of.
Have a nice day!
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Re:My Motto
Umm.. the network settings are identical to the ones in XP. How can you possibly have trouble with that?
http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/Windows-7-Networking-5.jpg/
That is quite true of nearly everything. Yes, awesome eye candy... and better than Vista for stability, speed, and footprint. But what we have are less sophisticated users used to the look of XP... and all they use is email, probably browser email, and the web... and maybe pictures and a little word processing. WTF is the POINT of updating these users? What new features are they going to care about? Is 7 more secure? Does anyone care but those that love anything new? XP was original Coke. Vista was New Coke. Seven is Coke Classic. Brovo, Microsoft, you pay the bills for another decade.
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Activation and slipstreaming
When the hard drive dies, what's stopping you from just re-installing XP using the license you already have?
For one thing, you'll likely have to activate your copy of Windows XP again. The last time I tried this, it involved placing a voice call, waiting minutes on hold (which gets expensive if one isn't on an unlimited minutes plan), and trying to understand someone with a thick South Asian accent. For another, if your replacement hard drive is SATA, installing Windows XP requires either A. a floppy drive or B. access to a friend's PC with a burner and broadband to make an install disc slipstreamed with a SATA driver and Service Pack 3.
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Re:My Motto
Umm.. the network settings are identical to the ones in XP. How can you possibly have trouble with that?
http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/Windows-7-Networking-5.jpg/
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Re:The new "rationality" test. I support this test
You spelled favor wrong!
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Re:Map view
The easiest way would be to dull the surfaces so they don't reflect as much light. Paint of a different color, perhaps some sort of UV screen shade, perhaps some sort of POV panel film and of course texturing the surface with something like this(which qualifies as PVO film) or anything else would break it up too.
All you need to do is absorb some of the light or reflect is elsewhere before it focuses.
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Is it just me?
Am I the only one who prefers reading real books?
I stare at a computer screen enough.
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Ebooks are great for quick fact checking, but if Im reading 100+ pages I'd prefer a paper book. Its just easier on the eyes.
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Re:Great idea!
Your problem with Windows could be fixed in UNDER 30 minutes, and that is giving you extra time. For the "no sound" you simply use SIW which will tell you who makes the sound card, then Google does the rest. If you are talking about a laptop the OEMs never bother updating those, which means you have to go straight to the source. as for WinXP? XP ISO Builder which is also free like SIW will have you a custom XP disc with drivers in under 10 minutes, and is so simple my 15 year old made his own XP disc.
Now let me ask you a question, and be honest: How much CLI did you have to do to set up those "clueless relatives" of yours?
I don't have windows installed so I can use that program. In order to you SIW or XP Iso Builder, I have to install xp. I wasted a lot of time trying to install XP and Vista where as with ubuntu or sidux, I pop in a live cd and it works.
As far as CLI time spent, none. I installed linux mint on both my mom's machine and my in-laws with no issues.
You see it is quite easy to have clueless relatives on Linux...if you are willing to be unpaid tech support for life. MY time costs $50 an hour, and I don't do freebies, which means just TWO hours of hunting forums or dealing with CLI hoops costs me MORE than a copy of windows Home.
I don't spend any time supporting them (other than reminding them to turn on the damn num locks key over the phone (which I should have just set to auto-on but I didn't expect that to be such an issue>) The reason I switched them, in fact, was because I was tired of fixing their XP and later vista install (which took 2-6 hours since they ignored every virus update warning they would get and then when they would run across an web site that told them they had viruses, they would install whatever software was on that site that offered to fix it.) I tried setting them to auto-update, but they would turn off their machines and kept missing the update windows. (They are retired and have inconsistent hours.)
As to how much I charged, I don't charge family because they are my family. My family has also been their to help using their skill sets that I lack. And even if they weren't, they are family.
I switched everyone to linux because my time is not worthless and when they were running XP and Vista, I had days (not hours) of my life wasted.
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Re:Great idea!
Your problem with Windows could be fixed in UNDER 30 minutes, and that is giving you extra time. For the "no sound" you simply use SIW which will tell you who makes the sound card, then Google does the rest. If you are talking about a laptop the OEMs never bother updating those, which means you have to go straight to the source. as for WinXP? XP ISO Builder which is also free like SIW will have you a custom XP disc with drivers in under 10 minutes, and is so simple my 15 year old made his own XP disc.
Now let me ask you a question, and be honest: How much CLI did you have to do to set up those "clueless relatives" of yours? How many times when Ubuntu upgrade came around did you have one or more pieces of hardware that worked before not work afterward? How much time did you spend on forums hunting for "fixes"? If you handed these clueless relatives their PC with a blank HDD and Ubuntu, what are the odds they will have a COMPLETELY working system when they are done?
You see it is quite easy to have clueless relatives on Linux...if you are willing to be unpaid tech support for life. MY time costs $50 an hour, and I don't do freebies, which means just TWO hours of hunting forums or dealing with CLI hoops costs me MORE than a copy of windows Home. A wise man here on
BTW, what do you think of the fact that Dell has to disable updating and Canonical repos from ALL their Ubuntu offerings, because even with the tiny subset of machines Dell offers Canonical can't even be bothered with basic QA to ensure they don't break on update? I mean if Dell, a billion dollar company with a one on one relationship with Canonical, can't even get basic QA support or allow their machines to update without it falling like a house of cards, what chance do the rest of us have...hmmm?
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Re:Well, is this a good thing?
It was underground in the sense that most homebrew projects (like xbox media center) didnt distribute compiled code, just the source. You had to obtain the xbox development software yourself and compile the code or find a torrent if someone was nice enough to make one.
Very inconvenient.
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Re:Wrong layer
Or multiple OS images all with the same system files. Ive got copies of the hard drive of every PC Ive ever owned. It takes up a lot of space and I bet half of that space is taken up by the same windows systems files over and over again.
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Re:What the hell?
Exactly, what may seem like "common sense" regulation to some in one case when applied globally is completely ridiculous. This explains half the dumb laws on the books.
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Re:Yawn.
Wake me up when it scores 100% on the acid test.
It already does! On ACID 2.
Oh, you meant ACID 3?
IE9 Platform Preview 4 got a 96/100 score, with the last 4 points being in two technologies that MS considers "outdated."
Those would be:
SVG Fonts - replaced by Web Open Font Format (WOFF), submitted to W3C by Microsoft, Mozilla Corp, and Opera AB. Currently supported by Firefox 3.6+, IE9 Preview 3+, Webkit Nightly Builds (with Safari support coming sometime soon), and Google Chrome 5+. As of this time, Opera (10.62) does not support WOFF.SVG SMIL animation - Won't support the current or previous versions (1.0-3.0). While annoying, it's not really a surprise, as SMIL is currently undergoing major revision: "the SVG WG intends to coordinate with the CSS WG to make some changes to animation and to extend filters. There's already work started to reconcile CSS3 animations and SVG." (Source)
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Re:Not on Mac? Really?
Read the release notes on the patch for "Graphics patch to correct issues with Portal on Steam"...As the patch was labeled this in software update, I think that is a pretty good indicator of the problem.
Here is an article speaking about it, I just ran this patch yesterday on my Mac Pro:
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Re:Great news
Overclockers have gone above 6ghz here and above 7ghz here and dont forget over 8ghz here
In each case, its always about the heat.
Pretty much all CPU's sold today (even "2.x ghz" chips) can go over 4ghz with proper air cooling. The reason they dont sell 4ghz+ chips is because chips have warranties and require a proper cooling setup in order to not fail at those speeds. Most important of course is heat sink and cpu fan which Intel and AMD do have some control over, but also of considerable importance is case fans and case ventilation, which they do not have control over.
Just moving my case fan from the stock front position (intake) to the back (exhaust) gave me 10 degrees C more headroom at load, allowing my AMD 1055T to go from 2.8ghz to 4.1ghz (before moving the case fan, I was only stable up to 3.36ghz) -
Re:They'll just use them to play Elite all day
Not directly, but you can make it work. slow.exe only works properly on CPU 0. Either force your application and slow.exe affinity to processor 0, or put slow.exe on processor 0 and http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Benchmarks/CPU-Burnin.shtml something like this on the rest.
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Re:Archaic file manager?
I never really liked the Windows Explorer as a file manager. Hundreds of different windows, folder settings now following you around but different folders showing differently, slow and just not powerful enough. Pre-Vista era I always liked Turbo Navigator a lot more, similar to how I use xplorer2 now. The recent Windows versions came with even more simpler and stupid file managers. I guess they're fine for a casual user, but a file manager really needs to have tabs and two panels.
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Re:Complimentary 7 point Slashdot troll guide...
https://launchpad.net/bugs/+bugs?field.searchtext=remote+code+execution&search=Search+Bug+Reports&field.scope=all&field.scope.target=
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-1252
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Critical-Vulnerability-Silently-Patched-in-Linux-Kernel-152678.shtml
http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-20-01-2007.html
http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-14-01-2007.html
http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-01-01-2007.html
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Re:Reason 7
"You want a reason for installing flash blocking plugins."
You're searching for one?
Many of these articles are redundant, I posted the links to show how ubiquitous the stories are. Flash will be around for a while since its the only game in town. But that will change, give it time. I DO NOT hate flash, but its old, there has got to be a better way to publish rich media, there just has to. I think, in time, as the OSS community wakes up to the need, some really great tools and protocols for interactive media that's at least as good as flash will come along.
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Comin' soon to the west very soon.
Yeah, it's comin' real soon. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Canadian-MP-Pushes-for-Legislation-to-Lower-BlackBerry-Security-107837.shtml
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Re:I wonderAccording to this article, it will run Adobe Flash:
At the heart of the 10.5-inch tablet lies an ARM chip. The exact chip set to be used has not been disclosed, but it is known that 2GB of memory will be present to back it up. The display is a color touchscrenn with multi-touch support. Furthermore, the configuration includes cloud storage, 10/100 Ethernet, WiFi b/g , a so-called highly-customized operating system and even support for Adobe Flash. Thus, there will be no issues regarding online videos and interactive educational content. Finally, the device comes with a digital camera and compatibility with OpenOffice.org documents, Adobe PDF and various multimedia formats.
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Re:The best-seeded torrents...
http://games.softpedia.com/get/Mods-Addons/World-of-Warcraft-Nude-Patch.shtml
And the internets are still alive
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Re:Tablet implies a touchable screen...
Actually, they say it's going to run Adobe Flash: Indian Government Unveils Quite Powerful $10 Tablet
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Re:Tablet implies a touchable screen...
Quoting from http://news.softpedia.com/news/Indian-Government-Unveils-Quite-Powerful-10-Tablet-148828.shtml """ At the heart of the 10.5-inch tablet lies an ARM chip. The exact chip set to be used has not been disclosed, but it is known that 2GB of memory will be present to back it up. The display is a color touchscrenn with multi-touch support. Furthermore, the configuration includes cloud storage, 10/100 Ethernet, WiFi b/g , a so-called highly-customized operating system and even support for Adobe Flash. Thus, there will be no issues regarding online videos and interactive educational content. Finally, the device comes with a digital camera and compatibility with OpenOffice.org documents, Adobe PDF and various multimedia formats. """
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Read about it.
You didn't read the material in the links provided.
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Re:Zero to botched in 60 nanoseconds?
Actually there is, and it works on XP too. Here you go, it allows you to turn it off, clear the cache, or set whether to be app, boot, or both. Funny that you think XP is faster, as I have been upgrading some pretty old systems to Windows 7 and they all seem to be a good 20%+ faster. I just came back from checking on my oldest boy's new Win 7 x86 HP upgrade this afternoon, and he can't quit raving about how much more responsive his MMO is now compared to XP. And this is an old 3.6Ghz P4 with 2Gb of DDR 400 and an old 7600GS 512Mb card.
With superfetch plus readyboost using a 4Gb file on an 8Gb flash he can't quit talking about how it is like "getting a new PC" because everything loads just as quick as he can click it thanks to superfetch and readyboost. Perhaps you didn't use readyboost? Because I've found that even on this quad with 8Gb of DDR2 800 that readyboost with the fast SSD read speed really lets your programs fly. With 4-8Gb flash drives so cheap maybe you ought to give Windows 7 a partition on your drive and give it another go. After the suck that was Vista I kept my XP partition just in case, but since switching in Oct the only time I boot into XP now is to use an old DVD Creator app that simply won't run on x64. With everything else the faster speed of 7 just makes XP feel like a giant step backwards.
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Other countries should start policing Internet too
More recently in 2008, Kentucky courts seized the domain names for 141 online gambling sites (all for companies based in other countries including Malta and Costa Rica). The Kentucky court action threatened to disrupt global traffic to PokerStars, Full Tilt, Absolute Poker and many others. As of March of this year the case is still winding its way through Kentucky appellate and supreme court (the case has been reversed then upheld and is currently resolving issues of standing).
What gives US the right to seize domains of companies based in other countries and force their laws, views and things like ACTA and banning of internet casinos to citizens of other countries?
You wouldn't want China to take down international sites that violate their laws, would you? Or radical countries like North Korea? It's not even just about Internet, but in general too. What makes it OK for USA to do so. Actually, instead of filtering maybe China should start just taking down the sites they don't like.
Since US tries to put laws on the citizens of other countries, I say it's only fair other countries do the same. Like execute the death sentence of Facebook CEO. The best thing about this is that if Zuckerberg gets put into Interpol wanted list, he gets extradited to Pakistan as soon as he visits some other country. It's only fair, right?
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Re:You know? I think I'm okay with that.
Here's on non-embryonic stem cell research: http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/04/23/stem-cell-adult-research.html
Plus, here's the current story: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/05/22/vatican.synthetic.cell/index.html
And as far as genetic engineering goes, the closest thing to official statement from church is this, and you should check that out too (ch3, pnt. 90): http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/cti_documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20040723_communion-stewardship_en.html (the thing they're worried about here is the same as the theme of the movie Gattaca - http://news.softpedia.com/news/Vatican-Worried-Over-Gene-Related-Racism-110002.shtml)So that should show you you're wrong about first few points. Secondly, Church, unlike *some* Protestants in America doesn't condemn evolution, in fact the Church sees it as "one of possible theories". If that still sounds uninlightened, understand that the Church's role isn't to confirm scientific theories (no matter how plausible they are) - but they're not teaching to the contrary of science. I don't know about the global warming, and I don't know what the Church says on the topic (actually I can remember one high ranking bishop saying we should take care of the environment) - but if you do, be sure to tell me. However, I somehow get the feeling youo're wronge about this one too. And finally, same as for evolution undoubtedly goes for the big bang too - we see the Bible as authoritative in matters of faith, not science (and this is true since st. Augustine in 6th ct.), the above mistakes of the past as you can see have been addressed. You've mistaken us for your own special breed of Christians (afaik that would be [some?] Evangelicals).
Any more slanders I should address?
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Re:Folding keyboard
i use a holographic keyboard to type things out. its a little inconvenient but great for inputing text into mobile devices with bluetooth. http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Holographic-Keyboard-20314.shtml
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Re:Legacy apps
Yes, you can
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Re:Future of Internet and firewalls
Actually, it's more like: INTERNET -> PORT22, since just about anything can be sent through an ssh tunnel. And the encryption makes most types of deep packet inspection impossible.
You missed his point which wasn't about the protocol, but the port being used. If you use port 22, it'll be blocked many places because they don't want to allow you to ssh. If you use port 443 it'll be allowed since https is "necessary", even if you're using 443 to carry your ssh traffic. What's sad is seeing other services move to 443 to be more accessible. Most usenet providers offer SSL encrypted NNTP on port 443 (despite having an RFC port specifically for nntps).
But it is much harder to block if they actually use legitimate looking packets for protocols that get out rather then just it's port. So people have encapsulated IP within real HTTP traffic. Better yet they'll use ICMP or even DNS to carry your traffic. I find the DNS one particularly amusing because it uses your nameserver to redirect the traffic even if the host isn't given any outside access.
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Re:P = NP, eh?
Have you played the game in question? The upper-left square, and all neighbouring squares of the same colour as it, can be changed to any colour by clicking one of the tiles from the colour palette. You can’t click the colour it already is (nothing will happen), so there are really 5 possible moves at any given point. The contiguous region of the same colour as the upper-left square will change colours, merging into squares neighbouring it of the colour that you are changing to, creating a larger region of contiguous colour.
So, for a board with c colours, on any given move you can choose any of the colours except the colour of the upper-left square, so the total search space, assuming a 25-move play, is (c - 1)^25.
(For c = 6, that equals 298,023,223,876,953,150 possibilities.)
For instance, this board. For the 15th move, you could choose any colour except pink, leaving 5 possible moves (purple, blue, green, yellow, or orange).
One obvious optimization is that of these 5, choosing orange makes no sense because no adjacent squares are orange. So, you should eliminate that entire branch where the next move is orange. My solver tries only the colours that are actually adjacent to the same-colour region.
Furthermore, note that in this example game, the board will be fundamentally identical after the plays blue, yellow or the plays yellow, blue (note that it should read step 16 at that point), so only one of those branches need be played out.
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My question
I'm sure I'll get modded down for this big time, but my question is "How much does it matter?" We really don't know any of this stuff for fact, but even if we did, it still wouldn't rule out a creator. Big Bang theory isn't set in stone. There's many different takes on both it, and also how the Universe could die. Were there multiple big bangs, and a multiverse? That's being suggested a lot lately. One of the widely held theories by Big Bang theorists was that the universe would end in a "Big Crunch" where the universe would run out of energy and collapse in on itself. Stephen Hawking at one time even held the belief that for no apparent reason when the Big Crunch began, time itself would reverse, and everything that had been done would be undone. He has since abandoned that position, especially given the evidence that the Universe is actually expanding. Now we get a new theory of "dark energy", which is everywhere but undetectable. "We know it's there, we'll find it some day!" People complain about the "God of the gaps" argument, what about "science of the gaps"?
Then what about evolution? I think the a high number of Christians accept that species have the ability to adapt and change in reaction to their surroundings through natural selection, which seems to fill a definition of evolution, even if it is not the one scientists want it to be. What most religions seem to not accept though is abiogenesis. The "primordial soup" theory, one of the corner stones of evolution has been largely rejected by scientists. A new article comes out rejecting it, and even slashdotters are jumping on board (sorry, can't find the -
Re:Hey everyone, this is Microsoft!
Is that really the case, though? The article was a little light on details with this acceleration, for all I know it could be DirectCompute based which would not work on Intel graphics and might end up being slower than IE8 on such systems.
Definitely, it's not just performance either, they've added support for several things in HTML5, CSS3, SVG etc that people have been wanting. They've really shown a lot of effort in trying to make IE not suck so much.
I wasn't aware the Javascript had improved that much in IE9. Thanks for the info.
Yeah, in a multi-core system they're actually using one core to compile Javascript in the background before it gets executed (so it's executing compiled code). The article I was reading was light on technical details, but it seemed to imply that it was being compiled to ASM or some other CPU-dependent language. Maybe just similar to how the
It looks like there's a short summary here:
http://www.taranfx.com/ie9-vs-chrome-vs-firefox-vs-opera
http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/IE9-vs-Firefox-3-7-and-3-6-Chrome-5-0-and-4-0-and-Opera-10-50-3.png/I thought I remembered a big test including IE9, but I think I'm remembering this piece from Tom's, which shows IE8 in last, but not very far behind Firefox.
In any case, I'm more impressed with Microsoft's work on IE9 than I've been by anything they've done recently (although I haven't played around with Windows 7 yet). I was happy with IE8 just because of the progress it showed from IE7, but IE9 is way beyond that, especially in terms of standards support. It won't make me stop using Opera, but it will definitely help me in my job developing web apps.
The thing that really pisses me off is the number of clients I have who still use IE6 (Avnet and Budget Truck, I'm looking at you), what's that 9 years old now? Thankfully, we don't need to test our applications with IE6 anymore, at this point we're responding to IE6 issues on an as-reported basis.
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Re:Is This Secure?
But Virtual Machine's are only as good as they're designed. Even the most known and biggest vendor VMWare has had serious bug and exploits in their software. For one example see this, which let an exe running in the guest OS exploit a vulnerability in the VM code to get code run in the host OS. A serious security risk, especially when were talking about Wall Street. Even getting an access to their internal network opens new possibilities.
Just because of this I think it's a stupid idea. Even more so because the gain is not really that much, but it can be really destructive. Someone will find a way to exploit it.
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Finally profits in the tail
XBox Profits up, sales down. If they get a long tail they may break even - and for Microsoft that's doing well. What does it say for a company that they hope to get out what they put in over a decade, inflation notwithstanding? And what about the failure rate? Is putting out products that fail half the time harming their brand? That's a reasonable expectation. If Boeing planes failed to stay airborne, or Toyota cars failed to operate safely less than 99.99% of the time, we'd have a serious issue with that. Somehow though Microsoft is getting away with quality control that nets 0.5 9's. How is that even possible?
