Granted, I'm lazy, but I'm not dumb or uneducated, but I have no concept of an "anti-virus subscription".
Couldn't you have just looked at the pricing page for any of the major antivirus vendors, or any of the 163,000 hits on Google for "antivirus subscription" or 6.04 million for "anti-virus subscription" (the top hits of which are about the same) for this answer, instead of flaming the guy?
I mean, yes, you're lazy, but damn, man, it's just Google.
Those of you who have been doing the online thing a long time might recall an old BBS door game called "Time of Chaos". In that game, you could have a base with a passcode for the door, but opponents could buy a piece of gear that allowed them to make an attempt to crack your passcode.
The game would show the passcode as a series of periods ("."), replacing a random number of them with the actual codes. By using several of these devices, you could get several or all of the characters in the passcode by repeating the attempt.
A common defense was to use passcodes that consisted of periods, spaces, and alt-255, which on IBM-compatible systems of the time generated a character that looked onscreen like a space but wasn't.
This was especially effective if the attacker was on a system that couldn't easily generate the alt-255 character.
What stopped me was that dedicated readers could only do books, and PCs weren't right for various reasons.
Now, I have a tablet/laptop. The battery lasts for 4+ hours. The screen size is big enough for some of my ebooks that are scans of large-format pages.
I read ebooks just about daily; I'd say at least 6 days a week. I also use that laptop for everything other than games; I use a more high-powered desktop-replacement laptop for that.
There's a stack of dead-tree books on my bedside table. If they were available in ebook format cheaply at the time I got them, they wouldn't be there; they'd be on the tablet.
If I may be absurdly reductionist for a moment (yeah, alert the media, syberghost is being reductionist again) this just means that being really good at medicine will continue to be a survival trait of our species, and evolutionary pressures will continue to make us smart in all the ways that lead to medical breakthroughs. At some point we'll be smart enough that we'll just fix all the damn gene problems and move on to the really serious issues of the day, such as worrying about who will be kicked off of American Idol Season 8 Bajillion.
And then there's Alberta's oil sands, which may contain another 2 trillion or even more.
T. Boone Pickens once rejected working those fields because to make it profitable, oil would have to skyrocket to the unbelievably high price of $5 a barrel. Oil was $61.58 yesterday. Developing this field is now Pickens' largest single investment.
Especially considering they're just Uniwill generics with a little alien head on the back. You can get the same damn laptop from half a dozen other vendors for less money, and stick your own alien on it.
The problem with having the judge decide your fate is, at this level, judges are elected officials. Thus, they are subject to the pressures of re-election, and sometimes don't want to be the guy who "let a child pornographer go free".
You're probably better off with the jury; at least you get to present your case to them.
That would suggest I have the burden of innocence.
No, you're right, the government has to prove to the satisfaction of a jury that you did it.
To the satisfaction of 12 people who were too stupid to get out of jury duty. Using their effectively-unlimited resources.
But, I'm sure your esoteric technical arguments will convince a jury of non-technical people that you're right, in contrast to the government's arguments, which will consist of blown-up pictures of sex with barn animals that were accessed from your internet connection. Eventually.
There are many fights in life that I am quite confident I could win. I don't go around trying to get into them.
I could fake a mail from you to Saddam Hussain stating that you would like to assasinate one of your political leaders for one hundred billion dollars. (hello to the security people now joining us, calm down, it's just an example). This email chain has dates and times.
Now, try and prove to me the following: a) you didn't write it at all, b) it is exactly as first sent, c) the message was never sent in the first place.
I'd drop 8 years of outbound emails all signed with one of three PGP keys on the table, and drown you in a proponderance of the evidence.
Just name the competing company with its coaxial cables laid in the same public trenches as Comcast providing video and data services to areas served by Comcast.
If you define their competition as "cable modem providers", then yes, they're a monopoly on that.
If you define their competition as "internet access" or even "higher-speed than telephone modem internet access", their customers are there by choice, and can go elsewhere if Comcast is not providing the services they desire.
Yes, let's say "Republicans" when talking about the PATRIOT ACT, because only 2/3rd of the Democrats voted to make it permanent. Why, I couldn't imagine a more stinging rebuke by the Democrats than supermajority support!
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Yeah, this is the same guy who hopes to live long enough so that he can live forever. Keep on reaching for that rainbow, Ray.
Funny you should use that phrasing, since Tom Rainbow suggested over 20 years ago that we might be the last generation who see death as inevitable.
Then again, Tom Rainbow is dead.
It's a good thing you didn't say it was "pure crap", because that's trademarked.
Granted, I'm lazy, but I'm not dumb or uneducated, but I have no concept of an "anti-virus subscription".
Couldn't you have just looked at the pricing page for any of the major antivirus vendors, or any of the 163,000 hits on Google for "antivirus subscription" or 6.04 million for "anti-virus subscription" (the top hits of which are about the same) for this answer, instead of flaming the guy?
I mean, yes, you're lazy, but damn, man, it's just Google.
Looks more like this one.
...had a song that's applicable here. "What Have You Done For Me Lately?"
Yet how long has this massive fault been sitting there waiting for the first person to discover it?
In their defense, upgrading your system from any previous release to 5.10 didn't have this problem; it only happens on new installs of 5.10.
So most of the people who look for stuff like this didn't see it. Lesson learned.
Those of you who have been doing the online thing a long time might recall an old BBS door game called "Time of Chaos". In that game, you could have a base with a passcode for the door, but opponents could buy a piece of gear that allowed them to make an attempt to crack your passcode.
The game would show the passcode as a series of periods ("."), replacing a random number of them with the actual codes. By using several of these devices, you could get several or all of the characters in the passcode by repeating the attempt.
A common defense was to use passcodes that consisted of periods, spaces, and alt-255, which on IBM-compatible systems of the time generated a character that looked onscreen like a space but wasn't.
This was especially effective if the attacker was on a system that couldn't easily generate the alt-255 character.
What stopped me was that dedicated readers could only do books, and PCs weren't right for various reasons.
Now, I have a tablet/laptop. The battery lasts for 4+ hours. The screen size is big enough for some of my ebooks that are scans of large-format pages.
I read ebooks just about daily; I'd say at least 6 days a week. I also use that laptop for everything other than games; I use a more high-powered desktop-replacement laptop for that.
There's a stack of dead-tree books on my bedside table. If they were available in ebook format cheaply at the time I got them, they wouldn't be there; they'd be on the tablet.
Damn those meddling Republicans, intruding into our personal lives!
Oh, wait...
Too... many... jokes... can't... pick... one...
(head asplodes)
That's OK, because the women that DO come to Trek conventions are mostly, oh how to say this politely:
Willing.
If I may be absurdly reductionist for a moment (yeah, alert the media, syberghost is being reductionist again) this just means that being really good at medicine will continue to be a survival trait of our species, and evolutionary pressures will continue to make us smart in all the ways that lead to medical breakthroughs. At some point we'll be smart enough that we'll just fix all the damn gene problems and move on to the really serious issues of the day, such as worrying about who will be kicked off of American Idol Season 8 Bajillion.
I guess we'll just need to get used to depending on medicine as a race in order to continue.
This differs only in scale from depending on fire and the wheel in order to continue. Besides, we're getting awfully good at medicine.
And then there's Alberta's oil sands, which may contain another 2 trillion or even more.
T. Boone Pickens once rejected working those fields because to make it profitable, oil would have to skyrocket to the unbelievably high price of $5 a barrel. Oil was $61.58 yesterday. Developing this field is now Pickens' largest single investment.
Especially considering they're just Uniwill generics with a little alien head on the back. You can get the same damn laptop from half a dozen other vendors for less money, and stick your own alien on it.
FYI, this would be the laws that John Kerry pushed for. Not saying the Republicans aren't equally responsible, just keeping it real.
The problem with having the judge decide your fate is, at this level, judges are elected officials. Thus, they are subject to the pressures of re-election, and sometimes don't want to be the guy who "let a child pornographer go free".
You're probably better off with the jury; at least you get to present your case to them.
That would suggest I have the burden of innocence.
No, you're right, the government has to prove to the satisfaction of a jury that you did it.
To the satisfaction of 12 people who were too stupid to get out of jury duty. Using their effectively-unlimited resources.
But, I'm sure your esoteric technical arguments will convince a jury of non-technical people that you're right, in contrast to the government's arguments, which will consist of blown-up pictures of sex with barn animals that were accessed from your internet connection. Eventually.
There are many fights in life that I am quite confident I could win. I don't go around trying to get into them.
As long as we're at an inherant disadvantage because our standard of living is higher, we don't have a chance.
Outsourcing raises the standard of living in the target countries.
You miss the point. The other person just has to say they never received them.
You miss mine; I'd be able to show that I've sent thousands and thousands of emails to people, all signed no matter how innocuous.
You'd have one email you claimed I sent that was important, which wasn't signed. You'd be hard pressed to prove I sent it, at that point.
How's this for comprehensibilty?:
I could fake a mail from you to Saddam Hussain stating that you would like to assasinate one of your political leaders for one hundred billion dollars. (hello to the security people now joining us, calm down, it's just an example). This email chain has dates and times.
Now, try and prove to me the following: a) you didn't write it at all, b) it is exactly as first sent, c) the message was never sent in the first place.
I'd drop 8 years of outbound emails all signed with one of three PGP keys on the table, and drown you in a proponderance of the evidence.
This is exactly why I sign even trivial emails.
Just name the competing company with its coaxial cables laid in the same public trenches as Comcast providing video and data services to areas served by Comcast.
If you define their competition as "cable modem providers", then yes, they're a monopoly on that.
If you define their competition as "internet access" or even "higher-speed than telephone modem internet access", their customers are there by choice, and can go elsewhere if Comcast is not providing the services they desire.
Are all botnet operators dumb?
No, just most of them. Anything you do to raise the barrier to entry reduces the number of people doing it.
It appears that "best" means "of practical use to as few people as possible".
Yes, let's say "Republicans" when talking about the PATRIOT ACT, because only 2/3rd of the Democrats voted to make it permanent. Why, I couldn't imagine a more stinging rebuke by the Democrats than supermajority support!