Well, the trouble is that you have to be fairly tech savvy to determine if that pirated Office 2010 has rooted your PC; and if youre fairly tech savvy, you usually arent foolish enough to run such copies (because you want to keep your job).
If the radio is so good (and I do listen to it), why cant they fund themselves like every other station? How do you NOT see the conflict of interest in having the government fund media?
Youre taking money from the people, promising it to them later, and somehow this is better than letting them use the money themselves?
You know, when people grow up and reach adulthood, they gain something called "responsibility". Tell me exactly why I cant be trusted to save my own retirement?
Search for "* keygen", and click on the first google site. Download the EXE it offers you (OFFICE2010CRACKS.KEYGEN.EXE). Im sure its safe, go ahead, run it.
No, its not "just what they want you to think", people looking for keygens are going to shady sites, and stop and ask yourself-- why WOULDNT a shady site admin have reason to give you bogus software? I mean, its not like they have any chance of making money off of you...
Im sure the pro pirates on here will protest that if you know where to look, and exercise some common sense, you can spot the obviously scammy sites, but the VAST VAST majority of stuff on Limewire, Gnutella, torrent sites, and crack sites is virus laden. I hesitate to even download Windows ISOs (for which I have a valid license) from TPB, because I really cant know if the reason that ISO MD5 sum is "off" is because of a slipstreamed update, or because the uploader rerolled the ISO with a built in rootkit and disabled SFC protections.
You know, theres a term for "government controlling means of production", and last I checked theres never been an instance of it working out well, ever.
The social engineering actually happened years before the "attack." Someone has been going around to businesses and telling them that it's ok for non-experts (i.e. people who don't know that loading a "document" into MS Word or MS excel is equivalent to "chmod u+x document;./document") to run MS Office on computers that have email or other internet access.
You might as well argue that folks need to go back to the days of paper filing and abandon computers because viruses exist. How do you suppose an office will collaborate if none of the computers with network access can open network hosted documents? How are the computers with the word processor supposed to access those documents? How are they supposed to mail out the finished proposal?
Just because there are attacks that can be mounted, doesnt mean there arent countermeasures. GPOs that disable embedding and macros; software restriction policies; setting appropriate permissions (including deny execute-- which IS distinct from the "read" permission necessary to open a document, so no, its NOT like chmod a+x) on network shares; and for those truly sensitive computers, disabling or preventing the installation of browser plugins.
Guess what-- without browser plugins on the machines with said high-level access, this would not have occurred. How often do we see 0-days for Chrome, or Firefox, or even IE8/9? Compare that to the number we see for combined java, flash, acrobat, and quicktime; now you understand how overreactive and knee-jerk your post is.
Not sure if theres some joke here I missed or something, but I can go to amazon right now and buy 450 grams (aka 1 lb) of aspirin (the drug itself, not just the binders) for around $30, including shipping.
If there was a real desire to shut down the trade, it could be shut down overnight.
Baloney. Whether or not there are reasons we arent trying harder to shut it down, that you think its so easy to do, when drug cartels more or less run some of the south american countries, is laughable. You think Felipe Caleron doesnt want the drug trade shut down? How well is that fight going again?
Try to remember-- this very article references the fact that these guys financed a sub, built in private, whose 1-way cargo is worth a quarter of a billion dollars. And these guys are just going to roll over if the US "really" exerts itself against this trade?
And yet, on every article, countless armchair scholars pontificate on how such and such experts are wrong, or how the proper course of action is this and that...
Warehouse would store more than a single 2TB drive-- 2TB of data @ 250kb per PDF is 8m letters. Im pretty sure your local grocery store could hold 8m letters.
Because having the government mandate the price of milk sounds like about the worst idea you could possibly implement, especially given that this is a capitalist system?
Because we as a people have decided that as a general rule it is best to let market forces work out the price of milk?
Your analogy is terrible. Using a car is not illegal; using this device at all in the UK, apparently, is. If the posts from the brits here are to be believed, you are not allowed to rip CDs to mp3s, and that is the only function (other than clock? I smell a defense) that this device serves.
I know it seems clever to make remarks like that, but I have to wonder why they get modded up when theyre just false-- you would actually have to prove someone format shifted, and fortunately the legal systems of first world countries require something more than the circumstantial "He has an ipod, and everyone format shifts; surely he has done it". There are zillions of other laws which would be easier to get someone on than this. I cant imagine how one would try to prove format shifting.
Yes, well, clearly Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot were religious folks. Athiests cant be repressive, violent, or murderous, no sir.
Seriously, every time someone makes this claim I wonder if they were asleep through all of their history classes. The story of mankind is one of tyranny and violence whenever the opportunity presents itself.
It would be kind of hard to prove that, as you could probably make a compelling argument that theyre really just litiguous trolls looking to countersue the first local government that tries to clamp down on them (as that IS what they do...).
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OEM copies have different checksums than retail, VLK, and academic. And SP0 vs SP1 vs pre-SP2 slipstreams all have different checksums.
Additionally, MD5 sums are vulnerable to tampering-- it is apparently possible to manipulate the ISO to achieve a desired checksum. So if youre relying on that to protect you, I have some bad news for you...
Well, the trouble is that you have to be fairly tech savvy to determine if that pirated Office 2010 has rooted your PC; and if youre fairly tech savvy, you usually arent foolish enough to run such copies (because you want to keep your job).
If the radio is so good (and I do listen to it), why cant they fund themselves like every other station? How do you NOT see the conflict of interest in having the government fund media?
Youre taking money from the people, promising it to them later, and somehow this is better than letting them use the money themselves?
You know, when people grow up and reach adulthood, they gain something called "responsibility". Tell me exactly why I cant be trusted to save my own retirement?
Search for "* keygen", and click on the first google site. Download the EXE it offers you (OFFICE2010CRACKS.KEYGEN.EXE). Im sure its safe, go ahead, run it.
No, its not "just what they want you to think", people looking for keygens are going to shady sites, and stop and ask yourself-- why WOULDNT a shady site admin have reason to give you bogus software? I mean, its not like they have any chance of making money off of you...
Im sure the pro pirates on here will protest that if you know where to look, and exercise some common sense, you can spot the obviously scammy sites, but the VAST VAST majority of stuff on Limewire, Gnutella, torrent sites, and crack sites is virus laden. I hesitate to even download Windows ISOs (for which I have a valid license) from TPB, because I really cant know if the reason that ISO MD5 sum is "off" is because of a slipstreamed update, or because the uploader rerolled the ISO with a built in rootkit and disabled SFC protections.
Im not sure arguments get more geeky than this, but thanks for the info.
Dont be hatin cause I can create VB GUI interfaces to track the haxxers.
There will still be places that it is illegal.
You know, theres a term for "government controlling means of production", and last I checked theres never been an instance of it working out well, ever.
The social engineering actually happened years before the "attack." Someone has been going around to businesses and telling them that it's ok for non-experts (i.e. people who don't know that loading a "document" into MS Word or MS excel is equivalent to "chmod u+x document; ./document") to run MS Office on computers that have email or other internet access.
You might as well argue that folks need to go back to the days of paper filing and abandon computers because viruses exist. How do you suppose an office will collaborate if none of the computers with network access can open network hosted documents? How are the computers with the word processor supposed to access those documents? How are they supposed to mail out the finished proposal?
Just because there are attacks that can be mounted, doesnt mean there arent countermeasures. GPOs that disable embedding and macros; software restriction policies; setting appropriate permissions (including deny execute-- which IS distinct from the "read" permission necessary to open a document, so no, its NOT like chmod a+x) on network shares; and for those truly sensitive computers, disabling or preventing the installation of browser plugins.
Guess what-- without browser plugins on the machines with said high-level access, this would not have occurred. How often do we see 0-days for Chrome, or Firefox, or even IE8/9? Compare that to the number we see for combined java, flash, acrobat, and quicktime; now you understand how overreactive and knee-jerk your post is.
Not sure if theres some joke here I missed or something, but I can go to amazon right now and buy 450 grams (aka 1 lb) of aspirin (the drug itself, not just the binders) for around $30, including shipping.
So no, its not $2000/lb.
If there was a real desire to shut down the trade, it could be shut down overnight.
Baloney. Whether or not there are reasons we arent trying harder to shut it down, that you think its so easy to do, when drug cartels more or less run some of the south american countries, is laughable. You think Felipe Caleron doesnt want the drug trade shut down? How well is that fight going again?
Try to remember-- this very article references the fact that these guys financed a sub, built in private, whose 1-way cargo is worth a quarter of a billion dollars. And these guys are just going to roll over if the US "really" exerts itself against this trade?
Everything is Symantecs fault. Everything. Its some kind of computing rule or something.
Its like "counterhacking the proxy" or "wardialing the WEP key". Just because you dont know what it means doesnt mean the rest of us arent on board.
And yet, on every article, countless armchair scholars pontificate on how such and such experts are wrong, or how the proper course of action is this and that...
How is this any different?
It's one thing to say that FoxNews spins things to a certain political viewpoint (which I think everyone acknowledges they do
Which, if people are being honest, ALL the media outlets do...
But of course, its only bias if you disagree with it, right?
Warehouse would store more than a single 2TB drive-- 2TB of data @ 250kb per PDF is 8m letters. Im pretty sure your local grocery store could hold 8m letters.
With scanners and OCR.
Why they were allowed to do that is beyond me
Because having the government mandate the price of milk sounds like about the worst idea you could possibly implement, especially given that this is a capitalist system?
Because we as a people have decided that as a general rule it is best to let market forces work out the price of milk?
I imagine that the autopilot would be mostly for highway use, as that is the most predictable use-case.
Your analogy is terrible. Using a car is not illegal; using this device at all in the UK, apparently, is. If the posts from the brits here are to be believed, you are not allowed to rip CDs to mp3s, and that is the only function (other than clock? I smell a defense) that this device serves.
I know it seems clever to make remarks like that, but I have to wonder why they get modded up when theyre just false-- you would actually have to prove someone format shifted, and fortunately the legal systems of first world countries require something more than the circumstantial "He has an ipod, and everyone format shifts; surely he has done it". There are zillions of other laws which would be easier to get someone on than this. I cant imagine how one would try to prove format shifting.
Good link. I was rather curious on why this particular researcher was relevant as all of his thoughts seem to be nothing more than conjecture.
Yes, well, clearly Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot were religious folks. Athiests cant be repressive, violent, or murderous, no sir.
Seriously, every time someone makes this claim I wonder if they were asleep through all of their history classes. The story of mankind is one of tyranny and violence whenever the opportunity presents itself.
> But they do not hate the dead soldiers
Yes, they actually do.
It would be kind of hard to prove that, as you could probably make a compelling argument that theyre really just litiguous trolls looking to countersue the first local government that tries to clamp down on them (as that IS what they do...).