If the exploit code has gotten past your AV, and managed to get itself rights to infect the MBR, and that doesnt trip the AV, then youre hosed. Once the computer reboots, the AV wouldnt be able to detect the change very easily anyways.
2. Build dams, canals and build a few feet into the air. This works for small floods, but if you get something new, it might still wipe you out. This is the Linux aproach: Try to secure things, deal with the few issues as they come up.
Being completely fair here, which security features are you indicating that Linux has that Windows does not-- would that be the non-granular permissions system, their "weak" form of ASLR (researcher Charlie Miller's own words), their lack of digital signature checking on drivers, or their lack of anything comparable to SFC (the system in windows that checksums all the system files and monitors them for changes)?
By the looks of it, #2 is already in place in windows.
Laptops all generally use between 10 and 50 watts. I havent seen a laptop that would consume much more than 50-- i think the highest voltage rating ive seen on a power brick is 23v, and the amperage wasnt that high.
I dont think you want to work in a world where every employee bears the full brunt of liability-- unless of course you happen to be one of those rare people who never makes any mistakes, of course.
Agreeing with fellow poster below, I was under the impression that the primary reason for the existence of UDP is for situations where you DONT want retransmits. TCP is reliable, but thats utterly irrelevant if your skype call stutters while TCP makes sure each packet gets through.
Put another way, UDP is generally NOT used because of a lower overhead (smaller packet size), but because it is designed for streaming scenarios (keeping the traffic flowing is more important than making sure each packet gets there). I mean, if we're already compressing the heck out of the audio and video streams, who cares if some small block of A/V data is corrupted? The user likely wont notice anyways.
And do you really believe that street cops are the ones sentencing drug defendants to jail time?
Last I checked, it wasnt the judges who initiated the legal process, it was the cops.
What's the percentage of black judges on the criminal courts there in DC where you live
Stats like that are hard to come by; I have been unable to get an accurate "police force racial breakdown" for example. Anecdotally, my one experience in DC with a judge (traffic) was black. My experiences in Virginia have all been with white judges (2-3). Cops have been mostly black in DC, white in Va. Make of that what you will; but absent any real figures, we're stuck with the anecdotal "court system looks diverse".
Are there different sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine and powder cocaine?
I honestly have no idea. I do know that there is a large black population in DC (56%), and presumably they vote, and presumably the people they vote for put these laws into effect; so any issues there would presumably be caused by them continuing to vote for people who push for such laws.
There's a big assumption in what you wrote but that does not matter if you're not working in the industry.
Given the number of women who play WoW, farmville, and other games casually, I would say that the folks who DO work in the industry have it figured out pretty well.
Also, I get tired of no eye candy for me, the eye candy always *is* me.
This isnt something that will go away, like it or not. There is a demographic out there that these games are aimed at, and whether or not your demographic gets more representation, games like GTA will have this kind of eye-candy because their primary appeal is teenage boys.
My "needs and wants" are fewer rape jokes and less T&A in the games already produced.
Then dont play those games; I find those type of jokes distasteful as well, so I dont play those games. There are LOADS of good games out there that dont fall into these traps-- basically anything by Nintendo or Sega, most of the good Indy games recently (humble bundles, minecraft, terraria, etc), most of the highly rated FPSes from the past several years (metroid primes, CoD, Halos, etc), and about half of the MMOs out there.
I think if youre going to play games that attract a lot of teenage and early-twenties guys, youre going to have to accept that the games will have some features you find distasteful.
Well, I know I feel victimized and put off and unable to enjoy a game when it has a female main character. I mean, everyone knows how terrible of a reaction Metroid Prime got, because its main character was female and loads of male gamers couldnt identify with the main character, right?/sarcasm
I really dont see why sex of main character is all that relevant. Perhaps it DOES say something about the mindset of developing the game; but with a few exceptions, it doesnt really effect the enjoyment of the game. Who CARES if the minecraft "protagonist" is male or female?
If you try to make a game which appeals to both, you will get the design by committee effect, and generate a game which sorta appeals to both, but not as much as a game tailor made to the specific group.
I think Blizzard would argue that you CAN make a game which appeals to everyone really really well, and with their subscription numbers I wouldnt argue with them.
Look at the vast majority of party games for consoles. They're designed for all ages and both sexes and they tend to be incredibly formulaic and dull,
Wii tennis is dull? New Super Mario is dull? All those wildly popular kinect games are formulaic? (cant speak to any of the others, as I only have a Wii...)
Possibly the bad games, but if youre saying that "there are lots of bad games, and theyre formulaic and dull", well, yea, thats the nature of the industry, some people will shovel out crap hoping for a quick return; thats not something youre going to fix.
It is co-operative, non-violent, and social. These are things that are not at all common in games.
One of the most viral games out there, Minecraft (and I suppose its newer counterpart, terraria) ARE co-operative, non-violent, and social. World of Warcraft remains one of the most popular games out there, and hits 2 of those points strongly-- are there many games that require as much cooperation or social interaction as an MMORPG? What about MapleStory, or any of the zillions of other korean MMOs out there (strong cooperation, role-playing, social interaction)?
A shortage of good games that appeal to women, we do not have. If all games arent like that, well, I dont see diversity as a bad thing.
Good job, though. It's helpful to have gotten to know your views on race.
Such a compelling argument. Because I believe the "race card" is way over used, and because I believe that there is a coorelation to being poor in the inner city and crime, I am racist.
FIVE HUNDRED PERCENT more likely to get jail time than a white man for the same crime?
Still not clear here, are you stating that blacks are being kept down by the black-run executive, and by a police force that has at least a large minority of black officers (at least here in DC)? Im not sure I get how that works, entirely.
Here in the US, the only turn that quickly if your skin happens to be an unfortunate shade.
Noones going to say "coorelation, not causation"? Or point out that more people with skin of "an unfortunate shade" get free money and handouts from the government than their "pale counterpart"? Or that a good number of the most powerful men in the government, in all branches, have skin of an "unfortunate shade" (given their percentage of population vs representation)? Or that inner city cops actually tend to BE that "unfortunate shade"?
Yea, the man is totally getting african americans down. Oh wait, the man IS african american. Whoops.
Is it at ALL possible that the linking causal agent is that more blacks tend to live in the inner city and be poor (for whatever cause-- possibly cyclic reasons), and that there is more crime in the inner city (always, through history), so blacks are more likely to be involved in crime simply based on economic and locational reasons?
Im not sure where to begin with the odd mix of fallacies and flaws in your post. You beg the question, claim to have knowledge without demonstrating a source (how do you KNOW that it has a probability of 1.0?), and act like you can exhaustively prove something outside the realm of logical reasoning-- as if empirical evidence could EVER prove something with a "probability of 1.0".
my lamp's light should ever fall upon the person who is completely unaffected by modern marketing
Ah, but you wont-- you are using some odd type of reasoning where you have declared that all are affected, and those who claim not to be affected are even more affected, and that because all are affected they are unable to see it-- and all this, because you have declared it so. Having never met me nor knowing anything about my preferences, you had immediately declared that I am nevertheless affected; how then could anyone convince you otherwise?
We're going to ignore it because it oversimplifies things. Its not just about money, its about getting reelected, and getting reelected is only partly related to money.
Heres the problem-- you stated, without knowing me or anything about me, that I am undeniably affected by the advertisements around me. You could pull up a dozen studies about how great current advertising is, and STILL not have good backing for that statement-- because I have never participated in such a study, and you are extrapolating information about me that you simply cannot have.
For instance-- there are basically 2-3 brands that I actually care about, and none of them do advertising (kingston, logitech, possibly lenovo)-- my love for them has come from long time use and customer support (no questions asked cross shipping, rapid response, etc). My beverages are generic, my food is generic, my furniture is ikea, and my car is ancient. My desire to change any of them is practically nil.
I suppose you could once again claim that I am suppressing such reactions and that the desires are lurking in my subconscious, but at that point there is nothing anyone could say that would convince you otherwise, because you have ventured in to a hypothetical realm of unprovables, unfalsifiables, and untestables (unless you have a way to dive into my subconscious to fish out what brand of italian suit I truly crave). At some point, it really is time to retract statements that reach way too far.
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If the exploit code has gotten past your AV, and managed to get itself rights to infect the MBR, and that doesnt trip the AV, then youre hosed. Once the computer reboots, the AV wouldnt be able to detect the change very easily anyways.
Er....
FixMBR
Reinstall windows (which renames / deletes ProgramFiles and Windows folders)
Which of these two stages is nuking the user data?
2. Build dams, canals and build a few feet into the air. This works for small floods, but if you get something new, it might still wipe you out. This is the Linux aproach: Try to secure things, deal with the few issues as they come up.
Being completely fair here, which security features are you indicating that Linux has that Windows does not-- would that be the non-granular permissions system, their "weak" form of ASLR (researcher Charlie Miller's own words), their lack of digital signature checking on drivers, or their lack of anything comparable to SFC (the system in windows that checksums all the system files and monitors them for changes)?
By the looks of it, #2 is already in place in windows.
Use combofix, and the eventual Kaspersky Labs Popureb removal tool (due out whenever there are enough infections.
And really, the only things that need checksums are executable content, and most of that is replaced if you do a Windows repair.
To be fair, "the government" didnt "come up with" the Obama administration; that blame rests squarely with the voters.
Thats for charging the battery faster. The laptop's consumption is almost certainly not equal to that charger.
Win the war, not the battle.
Would that be the war against nintendo, minecraft, sega, or Eve Online?
Laptops all generally use between 10 and 50 watts. I havent seen a laptop that would consume much more than 50-- i think the highest voltage rating ive seen on a power brick is 23v, and the amperage wasnt that high.
I dont think you want to work in a world where every employee bears the full brunt of liability-- unless of course you happen to be one of those rare people who never makes any mistakes, of course.
In a fair world, the employees get terminated.
Agreeing with fellow poster below, I was under the impression that the primary reason for the existence of UDP is for situations where you DONT want retransmits. TCP is reliable, but thats utterly irrelevant if your skype call stutters while TCP makes sure each packet gets through.
Put another way, UDP is generally NOT used because of a lower overhead (smaller packet size), but because it is designed for streaming scenarios (keeping the traffic flowing is more important than making sure each packet gets there). I mean, if we're already compressing the heck out of the audio and video streams, who cares if some small block of A/V data is corrupted? The user likely wont notice anyways.
And do you really believe that street cops are the ones sentencing drug defendants to jail time?
Last I checked, it wasnt the judges who initiated the legal process, it was the cops.
What's the percentage of black judges on the criminal courts there in DC where you live
Stats like that are hard to come by; I have been unable to get an accurate "police force racial breakdown" for example. Anecdotally, my one experience in DC with a judge (traffic) was black. My experiences in Virginia have all been with white judges (2-3). Cops have been mostly black in DC, white in Va. Make of that what you will; but absent any real figures, we're stuck with the anecdotal "court system looks diverse".
Are there different sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine and powder cocaine?
I honestly have no idea. I do know that there is a large black population in DC (56%), and presumably they vote, and presumably the people they vote for put these laws into effect; so any issues there would presumably be caused by them continuing to vote for people who push for such laws.
There's a big assumption in what you wrote but that does not matter if you're not working in the industry.
Given the number of women who play WoW, farmville, and other games casually, I would say that the folks who DO work in the industry have it figured out pretty well.
Also, I get tired of no eye candy for me, the eye candy always *is* me.
This isnt something that will go away, like it or not. There is a demographic out there that these games are aimed at, and whether or not your demographic gets more representation, games like GTA will have this kind of eye-candy because their primary appeal is teenage boys.
My "needs and wants" are fewer rape jokes and less T&A in the games already produced.
Then dont play those games; I find those type of jokes distasteful as well, so I dont play those games. There are LOADS of good games out there that dont fall into these traps-- basically anything by Nintendo or Sega, most of the good Indy games recently (humble bundles, minecraft, terraria, etc), most of the highly rated FPSes from the past several years (metroid primes, CoD, Halos, etc), and about half of the MMOs out there.
I think if youre going to play games that attract a lot of teenage and early-twenties guys, youre going to have to accept that the games will have some features you find distasteful.
Well, I know I feel victimized and put off and unable to enjoy a game when it has a female main character. I mean, everyone knows how terrible of a reaction Metroid Prime got, because its main character was female and loads of male gamers couldnt identify with the main character, right? /sarcasm
I really dont see why sex of main character is all that relevant. Perhaps it DOES say something about the mindset of developing the game; but with a few exceptions, it doesnt really effect the enjoyment of the game. Who CARES if the minecraft "protagonist" is male or female?
If you try to make a game which appeals to both, you will get the design by committee effect, and generate a game which sorta appeals to both, but not as much as a game tailor made to the specific group.
I think Blizzard would argue that you CAN make a game which appeals to everyone really really well, and with their subscription numbers I wouldnt argue with them.
Look at the vast majority of party games for consoles. They're designed for all ages and both sexes and they tend to be incredibly formulaic and dull,
Wii tennis is dull? New Super Mario is dull? All those wildly popular kinect games are formulaic? (cant speak to any of the others, as I only have a Wii...)
Possibly the bad games, but if youre saying that "there are lots of bad games, and theyre formulaic and dull", well, yea, thats the nature of the industry, some people will shovel out crap hoping for a quick return; thats not something youre going to fix.
It is co-operative, non-violent, and social. These are things that are not at all common in games.
One of the most viral games out there, Minecraft (and I suppose its newer counterpart, terraria) ARE co-operative, non-violent, and social. World of Warcraft remains one of the most popular games out there, and hits 2 of those points strongly-- are there many games that require as much cooperation or social interaction as an MMORPG? What about MapleStory, or any of the zillions of other korean MMOs out there (strong cooperation, role-playing, social interaction)?
A shortage of good games that appeal to women, we do not have. If all games arent like that, well, I dont see diversity as a bad thing.
Yea, itunes is OK... when its not locking up and crashing and generally acting like playing music is a difficult task.
Good job, though. It's helpful to have gotten to know your views on race.
Such a compelling argument. Because I believe the "race card" is way over used, and because I believe that there is a coorelation to being poor in the inner city and crime, I am racist.
FIVE HUNDRED PERCENT more likely to get jail time than a white man for the same crime?
Still not clear here, are you stating that blacks are being kept down by the black-run executive, and by a police force that has at least a large minority of black officers (at least here in DC)? Im not sure I get how that works, entirely.
Here in the US, the only turn that quickly if your skin happens to be an unfortunate shade.
Noones going to say "coorelation, not causation"? Or point out that more people with skin of "an unfortunate shade" get free money and handouts from the government than their "pale counterpart"? Or that a good number of the most powerful men in the government, in all branches, have skin of an "unfortunate shade" (given their percentage of population vs representation)? Or that inner city cops actually tend to BE that "unfortunate shade"?
Yea, the man is totally getting african americans down. Oh wait, the man IS african american. Whoops.
Is it at ALL possible that the linking causal agent is that more blacks tend to live in the inner city and be poor (for whatever cause-- possibly cyclic reasons), and that there is more crime in the inner city (always, through history), so blacks are more likely to be involved in crime simply based on economic and locational reasons?
Man you should chill out a bit and keep your anger directed towards Cheney, his banker friends and the likes who actually screw you up the ass
pssst....cheneys no longer in office...
What does Fathers day have to do with anything? Is it a day that NSA cyber-ninjas are allowed to pursue personal projects, or something?
Im not sure where to begin with the odd mix of fallacies and flaws in your post. You beg the question, claim to have knowledge without demonstrating a source (how do you KNOW that it has a probability of 1.0?), and act like you can exhaustively prove something outside the realm of logical reasoning-- as if empirical evidence could EVER prove something with a "probability of 1.0".
my lamp's light should ever fall upon the person who is completely unaffected by modern marketing
Ah, but you wont-- you are using some odd type of reasoning where you have declared that all are affected, and those who claim not to be affected are even more affected, and that because all are affected they are unable to see it-- and all this, because you have declared it so. Having never met me nor knowing anything about my preferences, you had immediately declared that I am nevertheless affected; how then could anyone convince you otherwise?
We're going to ignore it because it oversimplifies things. Its not just about money, its about getting reelected, and getting reelected is only partly related to money.
Heres the problem-- you stated, without knowing me or anything about me, that I am undeniably affected by the advertisements around me. You could pull up a dozen studies about how great current advertising is, and STILL not have good backing for that statement-- because I have never participated in such a study, and you are extrapolating information about me that you simply cannot have.
For instance-- there are basically 2-3 brands that I actually care about, and none of them do advertising (kingston, logitech, possibly lenovo)-- my love for them has come from long time use and customer support (no questions asked cross shipping, rapid response, etc). My beverages are generic, my food is generic, my furniture is ikea, and my car is ancient. My desire to change any of them is practically nil.
I suppose you could once again claim that I am suppressing such reactions and that the desires are lurking in my subconscious, but at that point there is nothing anyone could say that would convince you otherwise, because you have ventured in to a hypothetical realm of unprovables, unfalsifiables, and untestables (unless you have a way to dive into my subconscious to fish out what brand of italian suit I truly crave). At some point, it really is time to retract statements that reach way too far.