"In my experience, Mac users are even more irresponsible then clueless Windows users. They think they are magically protected, which means they will ignore obvious signs of infection till the very end."
Considering I could count the number of Mac "viruses" (Trojan horses) in the wild on one hand, I must wonder: how many data points does your "experience" consist of?
When I clicked on the first link, I got a preview "article" titled "Sign in to read: brain asymmetry eases hypnotic trance". What relation does this have to the summary? On another site, I would ascribe this to a foolish error, but I'm sure the editors at Slashdot would never allow such a mistake to happen.
How statistically significant were these results, given that the sample size was nineteen? I wouldn't be so quick to jump to conclusions considering the control and experimental groups must have included 10 or fewer people.
What research did you do before posting this opinion? Reading Eshoo's wiki page or a basic search would have brought up the very bill you like to pretend doesn't exist.
Interesting that the top 3 winning games portray women as victims of male aggression, while studies report that teenage girls are more likely to inflict physical violence on boys than the converse:
a consistent but counterintuitive finding is that female adolescents inflict more physical violence than male adolescents, with female perpetration rates ranging from 28% to 33% in contrast to male perpetration rates ranging from 11% to 20% (Foshee, 1996; Malik et al, 1997; O’Keefe, 1997).
I had fun messing around on the site. If you're interested in this sort of thing, HackThisSite.org has about a dozen similar "Realistic Missions" as well as forums and many other types of security-related challenges.
people are talking about how poorly designed Windows security is and how the user usually always runs as "administrator"
Speaking of always running as administrator, it may interest you to know that the trojan requires the user to manually enter an administrator password before it can spread on the latest version of OS X.
So no, it's not a "double standard" to point out that double-clicking an.exe file can root your PC, but you need to enter an administrator password to get a trojan running on OS X.
No, they can just hold him in prison until he complies with the order:
"once the party complies with the court's order, the sanction is lifted. The imposed party is said to "hold the keys" to his or her own cell, thus conventional due process is not required."
Way to patronize someone who clearly knows far more about law than you do.
The government can force you to give them access to the contents of a safe by giving them the keys.
Giving the password to a collection of encrypted files is pretty similar to giving the keys to a safe full of incriminating documents. Therefore, it's entirely reasonable to argue that the government has the right to force the defendant to provide the "key" to his incriminating data.
I'm not sure you will be happy; the results of the test may lessen your opportunities to be snarky.
According to Glasnost, Comcast is currently throttling 0% of torrent uploads and downloads.
I'm typing this on a Macbook Pro running Safari, and I'm happy about the results of this competition. As Apple computers (slowly?) gain market share, they will eventually be forced to significantly adjust their terrible attitude in terms of security.
I would rather have Apple "shamed" into providing me (and other OS X users) a more secure web browser/operating system than gain some pathetic "my system is more secure than yours" bragging rights.
In the long run, you'll be right about 1 in 52 times. If you happen to be right the first time with a particular friend, and never do the trick again, they will be scratching their head for a long time trying to figure out how you did it. Brilliant! Now to get 52 friends...
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"In my experience, Mac users are even more irresponsible then clueless Windows users. They think they are magically protected, which means they will ignore obvious signs of infection till the very end."
Considering I could count the number of Mac "viruses" (Trojan horses) in the wild on one hand, I must wonder: how many data points does your "experience" consist of?
According to the instruction image, they're using an online faxing service behind a proxy.
Seems unlikely anyone will go after dozens of kids behind international proxies.
When I clicked on the first link, I got a preview "article" titled "Sign in to read: brain asymmetry eases hypnotic trance". What relation does this have to the summary? On another site, I would ascribe this to a foolish error, but I'm sure the editors at Slashdot would never allow such a mistake to happen.
How statistically significant were these results, given that the sample size was nineteen? I wouldn't be so quick to jump to conclusions considering the control and experimental groups must have included 10 or fewer people.
If they object, why haven't they and their staff managed to come up with a proposal of their own?
She did come up with (or at least co-sponsor) a proposal: the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009.
What research did you do before posting this opinion? Reading Eshoo's wiki page or a basic search would have brought up the very bill you like to pretend doesn't exist.
a consistent but counterintuitive finding is that female adolescents inflict more physical violence than male adolescents, with female perpetration rates ranging from 28% to 33% in contrast to male perpetration rates ranging from 11% to 20% (Foshee, 1996; Malik et al, 1997; O’Keefe, 1997).
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I had fun messing around on the site. If you're interested in this sort of thing, HackThisSite.org has about a dozen similar "Realistic Missions" as well as forums and many other types of security-related challenges.
The United States continues to lead in nobel prizes and university-level education and research as well as these measures of innovation and technological achievement.
I'm curious which metrics you used to come to your conclusion that "[a]ll innovation will take place elsewhere, as it largely is already."
People mock Fox News because it lies and gives so much airtime to pundits who are clearly divorced from reality.
But I'm sure you knew that already.
This is why astrology is so powerful.
Obligatory Maddox link.
Are you telling me, that the organizers themselves are the ones who failed?
Yes. From Wikipedia:
It is incorrectly named "Olympiad" (the time between two Olympic Games) instead of "International Olympic Games of Informatics".
Whatever the hell they put in the fake "medicine" would probably do the trick all by itself.
You have failed to worship Obama. Your freedoms will be removed shortly after your guns are removed.
Really? Has that happened a single time? I'd love to know.
people are talking about how poorly designed Windows security is and how the user usually always runs as "administrator"
Speaking of always running as administrator, it may interest you to know that the trojan requires the user to manually enter an administrator password before it can spread on the latest version of OS X.
.exe file can root your PC, but you need to enter an administrator password to get a trojan running on OS X.
So no, it's not a "double standard" to point out that double-clicking an
I clicked on the link about hackers claiming credit for the Amazon hack expecting to find to find a professional web site about computer security.
Instead, I got a bizarrely colored and (hopefully) satirical blog containing articles titled "Amazon is a Gay-Hating Company for Nazis".
That'll teach me for trying to RTFA.
Your post assumes that "since filesharing is possible, it's moral".
Could you please justify this vast assumption rather than taking it for granted and then ranting about "censorship"?
No, they can just hold him in prison until he complies with the order:
"once the party complies with the court's order, the sanction is lifted. The imposed party is said to "hold the keys" to his or her own cell, thus conventional due process is not required."
(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_court#United_States)
Way to patronize someone who clearly knows far more about law than you do.
The government can force you to give them access to the contents of a safe by giving them the keys.
Giving the password to a collection of encrypted files is pretty similar to giving the keys to a safe full of incriminating documents. Therefore, it's entirely reasonable to argue that the government has the right to force the defendant to provide the "key" to his incriminating data.
I'm not sure you will be happy; the results of the test may lessen your opportunities to be snarky. According to Glasnost, Comcast is currently throttling 0% of torrent uploads and downloads.
ISP-level filtering is a viable way to stop 'unwanted content' from reaching users
Unwanted by whom?
The world is not yet ready to learn of the Ballmer Peak!
I'm typing this on a Macbook Pro running Safari, and I'm happy about the results of this competition. As Apple computers (slowly?) gain market share, they will eventually be forced to significantly adjust their terrible attitude in terms of security.
I would rather have Apple "shamed" into providing me (and other OS X users) a more secure web browser/operating system than gain some pathetic "my system is more secure than yours" bragging rights.
So that means that the new Firefox 3 beta runs really slowly, right?
Yeah. That's /i/. >_>