then why did the last 5 people I removed viruses for have javascript PDF exploits detected by the cleanup scanner after the virus was disabled and partially removed? Apparently they didn't "get it right" completely. There's only so much autoprotection you can do to your software before bad design and general insecurity takes over and it doesn't matter anymore.
Somehow I think that adding both of those options to anything Adobe makes wouldn't make an ounce of difference. They first need to patch that whole "putting features and pretty design before security" thing.
Hey, it's like an open source, distributed, real life adaptation of anime series and games and stuff when no movie is around to do it. When one person doesn't have the budget to dress 100 people up in snazzy constumes and get together to be their favorite characters in the flesh, they can all do it themselves and it comes together as a totally awesome event. I would have thought slashdot folks would be all for that sort of thing. Don't get me wrong though, a lot of those people are somewhere between really weird and mentally disturbed but still, the concept is great.
There's a password recovery program that works with all versions of Outlook that I've been using for over a year when people forget their password before upgrading to a new computer. I haven't heard about the IE one in the past so maybe that's new but the office exploits aren't at all. By the way, anyone who thinks, "Hmm, that sounds safe" about storing passwords locally on your computer using some cryptic, ambigous method that your Microsoft software suggests is pretty stupid whether a hack was written to unencrypt them or not.
The problem is, if they're hiring Americans then they probably won't be able to "walk around" all day, seeing as how the typical American isn't quite that athletic. I wonder how they would feel about their image if they were hovering around in a hoveround lol.
yeah! And it's unheard of for Time Warner/Road Runner to get under 5 megabits. Mine's 8. I don't know a single person who would ever, EVER test at under 1.23 MB so how they didn't win, I don't know.
Finally! More evidence to support my theory that dark matter is not magic, but in fact matter with no detectable radiation emmited from it or bouncing off of it. I say that because if this particular cloud wasn't being lit up by the black hole, we'd have no idea it was there and scientists would be making up stupid theories about where the magical gravity/invisible mass was coming from. It's just an extra-galactic bunch of crap that we can't see without a big radiation flashlight shining on it, not an interdimensional, unknown particle that resulted from quantum hybrid unicorn leprochaun magic. I can't even believe some of the idiotic theories about dark matter that have been posted on Slashdot as headlines! It definitely reminds me of what they say about UFOs. What's the simplest explanation? We have tons of crap flying around these days and that's what it is OR it's aliens from far away or time machines come from another time to observe us. I think I'll go with the simpler explanation lol.
That is an absolute and complete myth. Oxygen doesn't just randomly light on fire. I mean just read that last sentence and consult your high school chemistry book if necessary. You have to mix it with some material for the oxygen to combine with or nothing will happen. And I'll save you some time too. Last time I mentioned that on slashdot, it turned into a multi-page back and forth arguement about what NASA rockets are fueled by and it turns out it's not just oxygen alone.
Hurray for renewable energy but wow, this is stupid. If that summary is correct, spending almost half a trillion in one single place with one single technology to move to renewable energy is extremely stupid. I know the desert isn't exactly known for its horrific hurricanes but who knows what could happen! One earthquake or well placed nuke and all their expensive energy modifications go dark. They should spend a few billion in many different places instead of putting all their eggs in one basket.
That is such an awesome development but I have an even better upgrade to it. How about they also allow a random pissed off person to fire a paintball gun at them every 5 minutes during the meeting, film it, and make it a reality show on FOX.
lol well that's practically possible. I mean surprise, you inject universal cells that can transform into anything into someone's body with no way to guide them and they produce seemingly randomized cell types. I could have predicted that and I work on computers, not cells!
The way I'm reading this makes it seem like they buried the lead. The iPhones are using 3G bandwidth overnight to report on how much 3G bandwidth they used during the day? That's stupid! That's stupid like 8 different ways. What if I wrap it in EM-proof material overnight? What if I take out the battery? Is the data for how much bandwidth I use lost? Does it queue it all up? Can it be combined that way on purpose into one transmission? What if I use a ton of bandwidth and never turn it back on until my billing cycle ends for that month? Why does the phone record the bandwidth and transmit it later and not the cell tower it's on? Can the data be faked so it looks like you used less bandwidth? Ugh typical awful, thoughtless Apple design.
Not only does this author contradict or duplicate himself many times in that list but he's basically saying everyone needs to write all software to accept all characters in existence. Certain compilers, frameworks, and other technologies that I have to use don't even support that! Plus, I'd have to manually filter all SQL injection style text instead of just shrinking the allowable character set. The fact that he even put "my software will never have to accept korean names" in the list shows how out of touch he really is. I'd phrase my rule more like "I don't care if someone may attempt to use a foreign character set in my program because I'm purposely not allowing it since it's an internal program and we're based in the central US plus all asian languages have english letter counterparts." And he stated that people may have multiple names and aren't settled on just one at any given time. WHAT?! If they're using my software to enter their name, they have to pick one. Call me stubborn like that. I don't know what planet this guy is from but he and his opinions need to stay there because I'm programming back on Earth.
How are they planning to magically teleport 1280x1024 3D video data at 60 FPS to my computer with under 50 ms of additional lag? This is an extremely stupid idea but if you consider that "real" gamers have systems that can render the games by themselves, it's redundant to say that real gamers won't take a technology like this seriously.
Simmer down, sparky. This is for real, that article just sucks at explaining it. I remember hearing about this in a book I read about 10 years ago so it's not new news by the way. Let me explain. A singularity has mass but no radius. It can still rotate though. That means if you shoot a particle into it at an angle, it gives is angular momentum and spins a little. Feed it a super powerful laser nonstop for long enough in the same direction and theoretically, it can rotate faster than the speed of light. That's because there's no point on the edge of the radius to measure the speed of so no speed limit is imposed. I don't know why they think it will stop "causing" gravity in the immediate area around it at that point but that's what they think will happen.
I'm getting REALLY sick of website mass hacks. I've removed different versions of that stupid fake antivirus crap and the last couple I've seen seem to have had the TDSS rootkit piggybacked on it too. Now that they're using java and reader as entry points, I can't just tell people to use firefox. I can't tell them use ____ antivirus because it still stop it because nothing will right now. At this rate, I'm going to have to tell people to just not randomly surf the web period. They either need to disconnect certain countries from the internet entirely or get their shit together and stop leaving gaping holes in software that millions of people run.
Well then there's the fact that you can only go one direction and the further out you go, the slower you accelerate and one tiny speck of any matter hitting the gigantic sail any time during your multimillion mile flight and you're screwed. Other than that, sails are a great idea. This is why they took sails off ships and invented motors back on Earth. It's a huuuuuuge step back if you ask me. Yes, it's easier to take a canoe and throw up a bedsheet and feel all special that you're using cheap and simple technology to move around but when you really want to go somewhere, slap a motor on it. We should be focusing on more compact, lighter ways to generate massive energy on a spaceship.
I feel I should point out once again that if Apple or Linux was the #1 most popular with like a 75%+ market share, they'd be the horribly insecure ones that are getting hacked all the time. It's not about the product quality, it's about what thousands of foreign programmers are targetting because they're going to find a security hole eventually no matter what system it is.
I play video games and I'm quite good. I always rank high in reaction time games like racing and also RTS games too. I was actually the #7 ranked platinum player in the Starcraft II Beta before it reset:) and I guess I break the stereotype because I'm extremely fit and in shape. One reason is I have a gym membership that I actually use and secondly, I play Dance Dance revoltion! The estimates of calories burned per song are between 10 and 35 and they're all under 2 minutes long. I have freakishly strong legs now because of that and pretty good aerobic abilities. I never actually run anywhere but if I suddenly decided to do so, I bet I could get a couple miles. Last time I played someone's Wii I was sweating too so if I had one of those, I'd be so healthy it would be crazy:-P Then there's that glorified eye toy thing that's coming out soon that will force people to move around so I think this all these things will get gamers in shape pretty quickly. But as for right now, some of us are already quite fit FROM gaming.
They're 100% correct, which is why they said it. They're the most secure by a gigantic margin, people just don't target macs, android machines, or Linux with viruses because that would be stupid. But if suddenly tomorrow Apple got 75% or so of the market share, they'd get crushed by a dozen viruses at once. There wouldn't be an internet connected mac still running on this planet. Microsoft is still completely idiotic when it comes to security though, trust me. Asking the user if they want to run some cryptically named exe file before it executes is not security.
you clearly have no idea who you're talking about. ASUS was the only company to beat Apple in the least problems per 100 laptops of 2005-2008. They're the absolute #1 best, smartest device design company ever. This isn't some Acer piece of crap being thrown together carelessly to make a few bucks on a trend. When ASUS makes something, they actually put effort into it. Adding a camera, USB, and flash is going to destroy the ipad, especially if it costs less and they advertise heavily that it can run any "app" you currently have for free if 7 can run it. They have the same if not better warranty system that typically covers 2-3 years with the first being accidental damage. Apple doesn't even go that far. They'll have an inferior battery but that is absolutely it as far as cons.
I dunno what they were thinking but "Facebook assured the government 'nothing of this sort will happen in the future." actually ends in "which ensures that something of this sort WILL happen again!" Seriously, users getting pissed off at muslims (or at least some of them) and doing this sort of protest aren't going to sit down and take it when Facebook apologizes on their behalf and says it won't happen again. That seriously only encourages them to do it again and on a larger scale.
In fact, I would bet they're going to replace the verisign seal of a shrugging cartoon or some crossed fingers to accurately represent the new level of security.
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then why did the last 5 people I removed viruses for have javascript PDF exploits detected by the cleanup scanner after the virus was disabled and partially removed? Apparently they didn't "get it right" completely. There's only so much autoprotection you can do to your software before bad design and general insecurity takes over and it doesn't matter anymore.
Somehow I think that adding both of those options to anything Adobe makes wouldn't make an ounce of difference. They first need to patch that whole "putting features and pretty design before security" thing.
Hey, it's like an open source, distributed, real life adaptation of anime series and games and stuff when no movie is around to do it. When one person doesn't have the budget to dress 100 people up in snazzy constumes and get together to be their favorite characters in the flesh, they can all do it themselves and it comes together as a totally awesome event. I would have thought slashdot folks would be all for that sort of thing. Don't get me wrong though, a lot of those people are somewhere between really weird and mentally disturbed but still, the concept is great.
There's a password recovery program that works with all versions of Outlook that I've been using for over a year when people forget their password before upgrading to a new computer. I haven't heard about the IE one in the past so maybe that's new but the office exploits aren't at all. By the way, anyone who thinks, "Hmm, that sounds safe" about storing passwords locally on your computer using some cryptic, ambigous method that your Microsoft software suggests is pretty stupid whether a hack was written to unencrypt them or not.
The problem is, if they're hiring Americans then they probably won't be able to "walk around" all day, seeing as how the typical American isn't quite that athletic. I wonder how they would feel about their image if they were hovering around in a hoveround lol.
yeah! And it's unheard of for Time Warner/Road Runner to get under 5 megabits. Mine's 8. I don't know a single person who would ever, EVER test at under 1.23 MB so how they didn't win, I don't know.
Finally! More evidence to support my theory that dark matter is not magic, but in fact matter with no detectable radiation emmited from it or bouncing off of it. I say that because if this particular cloud wasn't being lit up by the black hole, we'd have no idea it was there and scientists would be making up stupid theories about where the magical gravity/invisible mass was coming from. It's just an extra-galactic bunch of crap that we can't see without a big radiation flashlight shining on it, not an interdimensional, unknown particle that resulted from quantum hybrid unicorn leprochaun magic. I can't even believe some of the idiotic theories about dark matter that have been posted on Slashdot as headlines! It definitely reminds me of what they say about UFOs. What's the simplest explanation? We have tons of crap flying around these days and that's what it is OR it's aliens from far away or time machines come from another time to observe us. I think I'll go with the simpler explanation lol.
That is an absolute and complete myth. Oxygen doesn't just randomly light on fire. I mean just read that last sentence and consult your high school chemistry book if necessary. You have to mix it with some material for the oxygen to combine with or nothing will happen. And I'll save you some time too. Last time I mentioned that on slashdot, it turned into a multi-page back and forth arguement about what NASA rockets are fueled by and it turns out it's not just oxygen alone.
Hurray for renewable energy but wow, this is stupid. If that summary is correct, spending almost half a trillion in one single place with one single technology to move to renewable energy is extremely stupid. I know the desert isn't exactly known for its horrific hurricanes but who knows what could happen! One earthquake or well placed nuke and all their expensive energy modifications go dark. They should spend a few billion in many different places instead of putting all their eggs in one basket.
That is such an awesome development but I have an even better upgrade to it. How about they also allow a random pissed off person to fire a paintball gun at them every 5 minutes during the meeting, film it, and make it a reality show on FOX.
At least nobody figured out how to tweet that obnoxious African buzzing horn thing
lol well that's practically possible. I mean surprise, you inject universal cells that can transform into anything into someone's body with no way to guide them and they produce seemingly randomized cell types. I could have predicted that and I work on computers, not cells!
The way I'm reading this makes it seem like they buried the lead. The iPhones are using 3G bandwidth overnight to report on how much 3G bandwidth they used during the day? That's stupid! That's stupid like 8 different ways. What if I wrap it in EM-proof material overnight? What if I take out the battery? Is the data for how much bandwidth I use lost? Does it queue it all up? Can it be combined that way on purpose into one transmission? What if I use a ton of bandwidth and never turn it back on until my billing cycle ends for that month? Why does the phone record the bandwidth and transmit it later and not the cell tower it's on? Can the data be faked so it looks like you used less bandwidth? Ugh typical awful, thoughtless Apple design.
Not only does this author contradict or duplicate himself many times in that list but he's basically saying everyone needs to write all software to accept all characters in existence. Certain compilers, frameworks, and other technologies that I have to use don't even support that! Plus, I'd have to manually filter all SQL injection style text instead of just shrinking the allowable character set. The fact that he even put "my software will never have to accept korean names" in the list shows how out of touch he really is. I'd phrase my rule more like "I don't care if someone may attempt to use a foreign character set in my program because I'm purposely not allowing it since it's an internal program and we're based in the central US plus all asian languages have english letter counterparts." And he stated that people may have multiple names and aren't settled on just one at any given time. WHAT?! If they're using my software to enter their name, they have to pick one. Call me stubborn like that. I don't know what planet this guy is from but he and his opinions need to stay there because I'm programming back on Earth.
How are they planning to magically teleport 1280x1024 3D video data at 60 FPS to my computer with under 50 ms of additional lag? This is an extremely stupid idea but if you consider that "real" gamers have systems that can render the games by themselves, it's redundant to say that real gamers won't take a technology like this seriously.
Simmer down, sparky. This is for real, that article just sucks at explaining it. I remember hearing about this in a book I read about 10 years ago so it's not new news by the way. Let me explain. A singularity has mass but no radius. It can still rotate though. That means if you shoot a particle into it at an angle, it gives is angular momentum and spins a little. Feed it a super powerful laser nonstop for long enough in the same direction and theoretically, it can rotate faster than the speed of light. That's because there's no point on the edge of the radius to measure the speed of so no speed limit is imposed. I don't know why they think it will stop "causing" gravity in the immediate area around it at that point but that's what they think will happen.
I'm getting REALLY sick of website mass hacks. I've removed different versions of that stupid fake antivirus crap and the last couple I've seen seem to have had the TDSS rootkit piggybacked on it too. Now that they're using java and reader as entry points, I can't just tell people to use firefox. I can't tell them use ____ antivirus because it still stop it because nothing will right now. At this rate, I'm going to have to tell people to just not randomly surf the web period. They either need to disconnect certain countries from the internet entirely or get their shit together and stop leaving gaping holes in software that millions of people run.
Well then there's the fact that you can only go one direction and the further out you go, the slower you accelerate and one tiny speck of any matter hitting the gigantic sail any time during your multimillion mile flight and you're screwed. Other than that, sails are a great idea. This is why they took sails off ships and invented motors back on Earth. It's a huuuuuuge step back if you ask me. Yes, it's easier to take a canoe and throw up a bedsheet and feel all special that you're using cheap and simple technology to move around but when you really want to go somewhere, slap a motor on it. We should be focusing on more compact, lighter ways to generate massive energy on a spaceship.
I feel I should point out once again that if Apple or Linux was the #1 most popular with like a 75%+ market share, they'd be the horribly insecure ones that are getting hacked all the time. It's not about the product quality, it's about what thousands of foreign programmers are targetting because they're going to find a security hole eventually no matter what system it is.
For $50, I'll stand on the billboard and throw bacon bits at your car as you drive past lol
I play video games and I'm quite good. I always rank high in reaction time games like racing and also RTS games too. I was actually the #7 ranked platinum player in the Starcraft II Beta before it reset :) and I guess I break the stereotype because I'm extremely fit and in shape. One reason is I have a gym membership that I actually use and secondly, I play Dance Dance revoltion! The estimates of calories burned per song are between 10 and 35 and they're all under 2 minutes long. I have freakishly strong legs now because of that and pretty good aerobic abilities. I never actually run anywhere but if I suddenly decided to do so, I bet I could get a couple miles. Last time I played someone's Wii I was sweating too so if I had one of those, I'd be so healthy it would be crazy :-P Then there's that glorified eye toy thing that's coming out soon that will force people to move around so I think this all these things will get gamers in shape pretty quickly. But as for right now, some of us are already quite fit FROM gaming.
They're 100% correct, which is why they said it. They're the most secure by a gigantic margin, people just don't target macs, android machines, or Linux with viruses because that would be stupid. But if suddenly tomorrow Apple got 75% or so of the market share, they'd get crushed by a dozen viruses at once. There wouldn't be an internet connected mac still running on this planet. Microsoft is still completely idiotic when it comes to security though, trust me. Asking the user if they want to run some cryptically named exe file before it executes is not security.
you clearly have no idea who you're talking about. ASUS was the only company to beat Apple in the least problems per 100 laptops of 2005-2008. They're the absolute #1 best, smartest device design company ever. This isn't some Acer piece of crap being thrown together carelessly to make a few bucks on a trend. When ASUS makes something, they actually put effort into it. Adding a camera, USB, and flash is going to destroy the ipad, especially if it costs less and they advertise heavily that it can run any "app" you currently have for free if 7 can run it. They have the same if not better warranty system that typically covers 2-3 years with the first being accidental damage. Apple doesn't even go that far. They'll have an inferior battery but that is absolutely it as far as cons.
I dunno what they were thinking but "Facebook assured the government 'nothing of this sort will happen in the future." actually ends in "which ensures that something of this sort WILL happen again!" Seriously, users getting pissed off at muslims (or at least some of them) and doing this sort of protest aren't going to sit down and take it when Facebook apologizes on their behalf and says it won't happen again. That seriously only encourages them to do it again and on a larger scale.
In fact, I would bet they're going to replace the verisign seal of a shrugging cartoon or some crossed fingers to accurately represent the new level of security.