How could I have missed something so obvious? Microsoft should hire you for their sales team. If they did, everyone running XP would be upgrading to Vista.
It's not as easy as one thinks. Anyone can gain access with the right tools. If you wanted the user's password in the cube next to you, simply put a hardware key logger on their computer. The chance someone checks for this every time the log into their device is slim to none.
The thing that makes this type of issue difficult is that they already have an in with the organization, and with the right amount of patience, the time to get what they need. The only secure system is one that does not exist. 99% of it is user intelligence. We all know disgruntled employees who felt they were passed up for a deserved promotion. They key is to make sure everyone pays attention to signs so potential threats can be scrutinized, and to pray that any behavioral anomalies are noticed, if they even exist.
A big problem with the ratios is that 75% of 0 is still 0. If people saw the point of HD, sales would have been better. However, most TV owners have a 1080i capable fixed pixel device with a resolution of 1366 x 768, meaning it handles 1080i and scales it down. When you compare the pixels in 720p to 1080p, 720p has a little over double the pixels of 480p where 1080p is over 5 times the pixels. When you compare 720p to a 480p upscaled image, it's not hard to see why so many aren't biting.
Neither side wins until they start selling. So far, I don't see anything close to a winner.
Every company has an out. Its bad business if they don't. You can bet if every movie company jumps ship and left Disney the only supporter of BR, they would be able to escape the sinking ship. These companies don't reach the net worth they have by making stupid decisions that cause them to ride it all the way down.
You can bet company who has chosen a side can back out of their contract if the right conditions are met.
Doesn't Larry Flint publish a monthly romance novel from the male's point of view? I believe it sells real well.
Hmmmmm, come to think of it, maybe you're right about why women are in comics. She still looked good, even if her costume consisted of blue star granny panties.
Very, very true. I'm very mixed as to whether this is good or not.
Much of the tax payers dollars are wasted in courts by some yahoo who has no clue what they are doing, how to store the data. Not to mention, most jurrers, and even judges probably have eyes that glaze over when computers are spoken about. You could tell them that Mrs. Plumb did it in Windows with the Flux Capacitor on her 1.21 Gigawatt computer and they'd probably nod their head as if they understood. Ensuring that the investigator is competent is a must. We are probably seeing more Forensic investigators getting sued for botching up evidence, and or law engorcement investigations.
On the other hand, this will be difficult for small companies or individuals because I believe PI requirements vary from state to state(I may be wrong, feel free to flame). I think a lot of very talented investigators will get screwed, or forced to work in a smaller domain.
My biggest concern is that this will become a guage like the average certification did. We've all seen how well that worked out. If my mail man pulls up with his PI in forensic badge, I'm going postal.
It's not "fishy". You can put together numbers to prove anything. How many people are running linux on their desktop and didn't pay for it, so aren't counted in this pole, raise your hands.
BTW: I'm doing a study to prove smoking doesn't cause cancer. Anyone who is over 100, smoked all of their life, you're the perfect candidate. Please contact me.
My next study will show how unprotected sex followed by pulling out is the best method of birth control and STD prevention. Stay tuned.
They probably aren't too far off, depending how long ago the data was accumulated. Wireless is just getting out of the early adopter phase.
I know when I was living in my sardine packed townhouse community 2 years ago, only 2 houses were in range, neither of which had a strong enough connection for me to cancel my internet services, much to the dismay of my wallet. I also know someone who does war driving analysis for his job(why didn't I get that job), and he says it is just getting over 40%.
As more computer illiterate morons pick them up at Best Buy, expect the numbers to rise.
We are the early adopters. Considering the good security articles/comments I read here incomparison to security exclusive sites that are always behind, I'd say we average a more "secure" crowd.
I laugh every time I talk with a security professional and they look at me funny when I say a lot of good stuff comes across here. I laugh even more when I talk to them and find they are a cookie cutter CISSP who has no idea what simple security concepts like shell code, off by one errors, or me handing someone a $20 bill to loose their access card are. They are the ones who hear those terms and think, "Who cares, I'm patched". The average slashdot geek will look them up if they don't know them.
Birds of feather, flock(fileno(together), LOCK_EX);
No OS is more "secure" then others. Vista is the most "secure" OS out there. Why? No one is using it, so no one is putting a ton of time into researching it, especially on the Blackhat side.
Most buffer overflows nowadays are results of careless mathematical errors or people who think they code securely, but have no idea what they are talking about. Posix system programmers have just as many careless programmers. They just aren't as likely a target since the number of people surfing the web are on a Microsoft box. I've said it before, I'll say it again, "If you want to spread a car virus, what would you attack, a Pinto or a Jetta?"
Look at all the vulnerabilities that started popping up for firefox when it got popular. On that note, thanks to all who aren't using Opera. I can almost sleep at night.
I've been having this coversation alot lately. The problem with security, or any field is that it's not what you know, it's how you use what you know. If I had a nickle everytime someone in my department asked me a question that I did not know the answer to, and in 30 seconds on google I got the answer, I'd be rich. When I first started in security almost a decade ago, it was on a newly formed firewall team(firewalls are the easiest way to get your foot in the door), and there was no one in the company with real firewall experience as it was outsourced. They pooled top talent from other departments, and guess what, they were one of the best teams I ever worked with. It was like a small startup.
That is why I laugh everytime I get a resume from outside of the company. By the time they learn the process, I could have broght a critical thinker, who didn't have the "experience" to do the job, up to speed just as fast, and in the long run, they'd have much more potential and loyalty.
When I do interview, a good sign that I like the person is if I abuse them with questions. Why? Because for me to get into that difficult of an arena, they must be a critical thinker, good under pressure, and be able to utilize their knowledge well to correlate problems and solutions. If all I do is a few technical questions, you can bet I'm not impressed.
Exactly. Ewoks. I can't tell you the number of times I have said that and people look at me like I'm crazy. The only difference between Ewoks and Jar-Jar Binks was my mental age. Most people loved them because they were in elementary school, or where the parents of kids elementary school, which is why anyone who was a kid ran around with a Jar Jar back pack.
There weren't many major diferences between the movies, as both had crappy dialog, great special effects, unbelievable stories, characters only lovable by kids, the kids parents, and or someone with fond child hood memories, etc, etc.
In comparison, there were a few flaws, but they were fatal:
Thanks computers, we weren't wowed with special; even the cheesy love stories you're forced to your significant other have amazing effects days has amazing effects.
Crappy titles leading in to a cool one. How many heard Attack of the Clones and thought it was lamer then a dog with no legs? They should have called the first one Blowing up the Death Star.
All of these wise Jedis weren't so wise. They can hear millions cry out when a planet is demolished, but they can't detect a Sith Lord is taking a dump in the stall next to them. Sounds like they needed to smoke some more midicloeans.
No chemistry between characters. Lets face it, short of Harrison Ford and Alec Guinness(already was a huge holywood star), no one went on to be in many blockbusters. Why? They were second rate actors/actresses. Thing is, they had great chemistry together. When Luke wines in the first one, I want to laugh. When Anikin whines almost identically I want to bitch slap him to remind him to act like he has a pair.
No witty dialog between characters. The inuendos in Empire between Han and Leigha were great. There were a lot of site gags and things that you would notice with multiple watching. None of that was here. The diolog sucked, but it appealed to everyone, which was why they are so rewatchable at different stages in our lives. The newest only had diolog that appealed to kids.
The third was definitely redeeming. Maybe not to the point where it stands with the originals, but it was close enough after the last 2. Then again, if you throw a ton of death and destruction into a Steel Magnolias sequel, I'd probably love that too.
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How could I have missed something so obvious? Microsoft should hire you for their sales team. If they did, everyone running XP would be upgrading to Vista.
So they've put in a working spam filter?
Maybe I can sell them their next version of Windows. I'd be more then happy to part with my FreeBSD CD for a couple of mil.
Don't forget how easy it will be for Soviet subs to ping our servers. At least they should be safe from Land attacks.
It's not as easy as one thinks. Anyone can gain access with the right tools. If you wanted the user's password in the cube next to you, simply put a hardware key logger on their computer. The chance someone checks for this every time the log into their device is slim to none.
The thing that makes this type of issue difficult is that they already have an in with the organization, and with the right amount of patience, the time to get what they need. The only secure system is one that does not exist. 99% of it is user intelligence. We all know disgruntled employees who felt they were passed up for a deserved promotion. They key is to make sure everyone pays attention to signs so potential threats can be scrutinized, and to pray that any behavioral anomalies are noticed, if they even exist.
I ment snack bar. Damn sticky keyboard.
A big problem with the ratios is that 75% of 0 is still 0. If people saw the point of HD, sales would have been better. However, most TV owners have a 1080i capable fixed pixel device with a resolution of 1366 x 768, meaning it handles 1080i and scales it down. When you compare the pixels in 720p to 1080p, 720p has a little over double the pixels of 480p where 1080p is over 5 times the pixels. When you compare 720p to a 480p upscaled image, it's not hard to see why so many aren't biting.
Neither side wins until they start selling. So far, I don't see anything close to a winner.
Personally, I'm holding out for taste. I'll be first in line for the Jenna Jameson snatch bar.......
Every company has an out. Its bad business if they don't. You can bet if every movie company jumps ship and left Disney the only supporter of BR, they would be able to escape the sinking ship. These companies don't reach the net worth they have by making stupid decisions that cause them to ride it all the way down.
You can bet company who has chosen a side can back out of their contract if the right conditions are met.
Doesn't Larry Flint publish a monthly romance novel from the male's point of view? I believe it sells real well.
Hmmmmm, come to think of it, maybe you're right about why women are in comics. She still looked good, even if her costume consisted of blue star granny panties.
Don't forget. They need to start counting Kindle sales too.
The sad thing is, they probably proved it with Mathematical induction rather then common sense.
I'd have rather had it come with depressed AI logic.
That's good. I was afraid Hospital Bombing might catch on.
$20 bucks in ripped MP3's this is just a social engineering attempt to drop another trojan on your machine.
Very, very true. I'm very mixed as to whether this is good or not.
Much of the tax payers dollars are wasted in courts by some yahoo who has no clue what they are doing, how to store the data. Not to mention, most jurrers, and even judges probably have eyes that glaze over when computers are spoken about. You could tell them that Mrs. Plumb did it in Windows with the Flux Capacitor on her 1.21 Gigawatt computer and they'd probably nod their head as if they understood. Ensuring that the investigator is competent is a must. We are probably seeing more Forensic investigators getting sued for botching up evidence, and or law engorcement investigations.
On the other hand, this will be difficult for small companies or individuals because I believe PI requirements vary from state to state(I may be wrong, feel free to flame). I think a lot of very talented investigators will get screwed, or forced to work in a smaller domain.
My biggest concern is that this will become a guage like the average certification did. We've all seen how well that worked out. If my mail man pulls up with his PI in forensic badge, I'm going postal.
But prisons would be real crowded. Hopefully they'll have FTC(Fiber to the Cell).
I'm so getting a buttler named Higgins......
It's not "fishy". You can put together numbers to prove anything. How many people are running linux on their desktop and didn't pay for it, so aren't counted in this pole, raise your hands.
BTW: I'm doing a study to prove smoking doesn't cause cancer. Anyone who is over 100, smoked all of their life, you're the perfect candidate. Please contact me.
My next study will show how unprotected sex followed by pulling out is the best method of birth control and STD prevention. Stay tuned.
They probably aren't too far off, depending how long ago the data was accumulated. Wireless is just getting out of the early adopter phase.
I know when I was living in my sardine packed townhouse community 2 years ago, only 2 houses were in range, neither of which had a strong enough connection for me to cancel my internet services, much to the dismay of my wallet. I also know someone who does war driving analysis for his job(why didn't I get that job), and he says it is just getting over 40%.
As more computer illiterate morons pick them up at Best Buy, expect the numbers to rise.
We are the early adopters. Considering the good security articles/comments I read here incomparison to security exclusive sites that are always behind, I'd say we average a more "secure" crowd.
I laugh every time I talk with a security professional and they look at me funny when I say a lot of good stuff comes across here. I laugh even more when I talk to them and find they are a cookie cutter CISSP who has no idea what simple security concepts like shell code, off by one errors, or me handing someone a $20 bill to loose their access card are. They are the ones who hear those terms and think, "Who cares, I'm patched". The average slashdot geek will look them up if they don't know them.
Birds of feather, flock(fileno(together), LOCK_EX);
Maybe, but regardless of the news day, anyone incorrectly identifying a file native to Windows is Front Page(TM) news.
int Yes = setreuid(owned, biatch);
No OS is more "secure" then others. Vista is the most "secure" OS out there. Why? No one is using it, so no one is putting a ton of time into researching it, especially on the Blackhat side.
Most buffer overflows nowadays are results of careless mathematical errors or people who think they code securely, but have no idea what they are talking about. Posix system programmers have just as many careless programmers. They just aren't as likely a target since the number of people surfing the web are on a Microsoft box. I've said it before, I'll say it again, "If you want to spread a car virus, what would you attack, a Pinto or a Jetta?"
Look at all the vulnerabilities that started popping up for firefox when it got popular. On that note, thanks to all who aren't using Opera. I can almost sleep at night.
I've been having this coversation alot lately. The problem with security, or any field is that it's not what you know, it's how you use what you know. If I had a nickle everytime someone in my department asked me a question that I did not know the answer to, and in 30 seconds on google I got the answer, I'd be rich. When I first started in security almost a decade ago, it was on a newly formed firewall team(firewalls are the easiest way to get your foot in the door), and there was no one in the company with real firewall experience as it was outsourced. They pooled top talent from other departments, and guess what, they were one of the best teams I ever worked with. It was like a small startup.
That is why I laugh everytime I get a resume from outside of the company. By the time they learn the process, I could have broght a critical thinker, who didn't have the "experience" to do the job, up to speed just as fast, and in the long run, they'd have much more potential and loyalty.
When I do interview, a good sign that I like the person is if I abuse them with questions. Why? Because for me to get into that difficult of an arena, they must be a critical thinker, good under pressure, and be able to utilize their knowledge well to correlate problems and solutions. If all I do is a few technical questions, you can bet I'm not impressed.
Exactly. Ewoks. I can't tell you the number of times I have said that and people look at me like I'm crazy. The only difference between Ewoks and Jar-Jar Binks was my mental age. Most people loved them because they were in elementary school, or where the parents of kids elementary school, which is why anyone who was a kid ran around with a Jar Jar back pack.
There weren't many major diferences between the movies, as both had crappy dialog, great special effects, unbelievable stories, characters only lovable by kids, the kids parents, and or someone with fond child hood memories, etc, etc.
In comparison, there were a few flaws, but they were fatal:
Thanks computers, we weren't wowed with special; even the cheesy love stories you're forced to your significant other have amazing effects days has amazing effects.
Crappy titles leading in to a cool one. How many heard Attack of the Clones and thought it was lamer then a dog with no legs? They should have called the first one Blowing up the Death Star.
All of these wise Jedis weren't so wise. They can hear millions cry out when a planet is demolished, but they can't detect a Sith Lord is taking a dump in the stall next to them. Sounds like they needed to smoke some more midicloeans.
No chemistry between characters. Lets face it, short of Harrison Ford and Alec Guinness(already was a huge holywood star), no one went on to be in many blockbusters. Why? They were second rate actors/actresses. Thing is, they had great chemistry together. When Luke wines in the first one, I want to laugh. When Anikin whines almost identically I want to bitch slap him to remind him to act like he has a pair.
No witty dialog between characters. The inuendos in Empire between Han and Leigha were great. There were a lot of site gags and things that you would notice with multiple watching. None of that was here. The diolog sucked, but it appealed to everyone, which was why they are so rewatchable at different stages in our lives. The newest only had diolog that appealed to kids.
The third was definitely redeeming. Maybe not to the point where it stands with the originals, but it was close enough after the last 2. Then again, if you throw a ton of death and destruction into a Steel Magnolias sequel, I'd probably love that too.