Ive never understood this. Can anyone explain why there is a significant difference between virus and malware, and why anyone would recommend 2 security programs running simultaneously? Doesnt this run dangerously close to the "2 antiviruses will wreck your machine" line?
Really just sounds like an attempt by security vendors to convince you to pay twice TBQH, last time i checked most of the free AVs made it clear they cover viruses, trojans, worms, malware, etc.
Its not that Google are any better than anyone else
I would argue that; whether for PR reasons, technical reasons, or other, most of google's offerings are open in some way or other-- Gmail, for example, seems to be the only major email provider that does not restrict auto-forwarding, or client access, or contact export, or anything else. Yahoo, MS, and AOL all have some form of lock-in.
So forgive me if I tend to cut them rather more slack than MS or AOL; the best thing about google is that if they ever become the Super Boogeyman, I can just pick up my data and leave.
Any geek worth their salt also never makes mistakes. Myself, I think I made a mistake once many years ago, and for my negligence i was rightfully whipped for it. Now of course I never make them; my work is always perfect.
Im wondering what kind of bus you would need between the laptop and the dock to give you the necessary bandwidth... arent you looking at several gigabits minimum?
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17" laptops (and some 16") almost always have full size keyboards. The keys usually arent as nice as a normal desktop keyboard's, however.
Something breaks, you won't need to get it serviced because you would just get a new one.
Isnt that pretty much the way it is for all non-major purchases these days (ie, car, house, boat)? And would you really be replicating in a new car every time you need new break pads, or an oil change?
You know, it IS possible some people enjoy frappucinos (or whatever Caribou's equivalent is), and that it has nothing to do with being pretentious. Some people (GASP) actually enjoy some of the drinks you can get there once in a blue moon. And "most restaurants" dont really offer anything beyond coffee-- every try asking for an espresso at a restaurant? And have you seen how much McDonalds charges for a tiny iced coffee?
Dont get me wrong, I drink there maybe once a month-- and that mainly because ive been given a gazillion gift cards. But it can be a nice place to meet up, and a nice place to grab a drink if you dont feel like just normal coffee. Way to scoff at something just cause you dont like it tho.
Im no economics guru, but is there any reason that software and technological innovation cannot count as "finished goods" in your equation? We have some of the largest tech companies in the world in the states-- Intel, AMD, Cisco, Microsoft, Boeing, etc-- their manufacturing may be overseas, but the real items the produce-- innovation-- come from the US.
Its better than that, I followed the very first link provided by the poster, then clicked on the link from the third paragraph....
To obtain your location, Google Maps takes advantage of the W3C Geolocation API
That article explains EXACTLY what it does and what information is gathered. And it appears (though I might be wrong) that WiFi data is used to discern location, but not always necessarily passed to a site using My Location. It also looks like the Geolocation spec ISNT authored by google, but by the W3C. But of course its not quite as fun to call "witchcraft" on the W3C, now is it?
You know, I keep holding out hope that people on slashdot will tend to read the articles they post before posting it, but maybe Im just being naieve.
After all, only Microsoft deserves to be a requirement, tight?
NOONE needs to be a requirement. Teacher assigns paper, student drafts it in whatever editor on whatever OS on whatever architecture he wants, prints it, turns it in. Whats the problem? If they need to use a specific program, do it in a lab, or make the thing web based. This isnt rocket science.
Standardizing on THE most expensive platform out there is just a retarded idea.
Windows 7 at least prepares them for the corporate world.
Because windows 7 will be the standard when students get into the corporate world 8 years later? You know, when its as old then as windows XP is now?
How bout this, stop trying to teach kids how to use Windows or Mac and teach them how to use computers in general. This is 2010, the time for pretending people dont need to know how to work the computer is over.
There is apparently a simple registry edit that can fix this, as Secunia advised. Surely MS can do something stopgap? I mean my goodness, a single Google guy found the bug, found a function partially responsible in helpctr.exe, offered a binary patch to partially fix the issue, and created PoC code. A secunia guy then reviewed the patch, found the REAL culprit function, and offered a working registry patch. This all occured within the last week-- and a multi-billion dollar company hasnt done anything except "confirm receipt of the issue" in that time?
Or how about this-- offer less tested patches through windows update under a hidden-by-default "Security fixes-- Testing" label or through a WSUS interface, and let IT staff test the damn thing. Arent such options available for various flavors of linux, now that I think of it?
Microsoft is a gigantic company with gigantic resources. Is it possible their priorities are not in patching? If ONE GUY can whip up an exploit and a patch in a few weeks, MS should be able to review the damn thing in a few hours on a few thousand virtual machines running in Hyper-V. You cannot tell me they dont have the resources to test this quickly.
Im not going to bother defending google here; Id much rather you flesh out your argument. What is Google doing wrong, how does it benefit them, and how would you have handled it? Point number 2 especially I would be interested in-- If google had wanted to mess with MS, why not release it as 0-day, and not report the thing at all?
I mean, its really popular to just throw flames at whatever company is in the articles posted here, but I think people should at LEAST be required to spell out what theyre saying rather than throwing vague potshots like "theyre no longer any better/different than [others]" without really defining their justification or meaning.
A 3.5" sata drive weights the same as a LTO cartridge? Quick googling suggests 3 tapes weigh (and cost) about the same as a single drive (.4lbs vs 1.3lbs; $30/800GB vs $80/1TB)
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I imagine if a mistake were made in the setup, it would not be caught until after the "gather data" phase, during an internal audit.
Which, suprise, suprise, is EXACTLY what happened. During an internal audit, Google found the issue, notified the world, and is dealing with the mess.
and thus are more likely to have AV and Antimal.
Ive never understood this. Can anyone explain why there is a significant difference between virus and malware, and why anyone would recommend 2 security programs running simultaneously? Doesnt this run dangerously close to the "2 antiviruses will wreck your machine" line?
Really just sounds like an attempt by security vendors to convince you to pay twice TBQH, last time i checked most of the free AVs made it clear they cover viruses, trojans, worms, malware, etc.
So youre saying security updates are the lifeboats, and we can judge the security of a program by how many security updates per unit time it has?
thats real good advice, Ill keep that in mind.
Its not that Google are any better than anyone else
I would argue that; whether for PR reasons, technical reasons, or other, most of google's offerings are open in some way or other-- Gmail, for example, seems to be the only major email provider that does not restrict auto-forwarding, or client access, or contact export, or anything else. Yahoo, MS, and AOL all have some form of lock-in.
So forgive me if I tend to cut them rather more slack than MS or AOL; the best thing about google is that if they ever become the Super Boogeyman, I can just pick up my data and leave.
Any geek worth their salt also never makes mistakes. Myself, I think I made a mistake once many years ago, and for my negligence i was rightfully whipped for it. Now of course I never make them; my work is always perfect.
Im wondering what kind of bus you would need between the laptop and the dock to give you the necessary bandwidth... arent you looking at several gigabits minimum?
17" laptops (and some 16") almost always have full size keyboards. The keys usually arent as nice as a normal desktop keyboard's, however.
1) A fact is something you believe to be correct
"Facts" correctness has nothing to do with what you believe. Facts are by definition correct.
Something breaks, you won't need to get it serviced because you would just get a new one.
Isnt that pretty much the way it is for all non-major purchases these days (ie, car, house, boat)? And would you really be replicating in a new car every time you need new break pads, or an oil change?
You know, it IS possible some people enjoy frappucinos (or whatever Caribou's equivalent is), and that it has nothing to do with being pretentious. Some people (GASP) actually enjoy some of the drinks you can get there once in a blue moon. And "most restaurants" dont really offer anything beyond coffee-- every try asking for an espresso at a restaurant? And have you seen how much McDonalds charges for a tiny iced coffee?
Dont get me wrong, I drink there maybe once a month-- and that mainly because ive been given a gazillion gift cards. But it can be a nice place to meet up, and a nice place to grab a drink if you dont feel like just normal coffee. Way to scoff at something just cause you dont like it tho.
Recapturing something from someone's hard/flash drive in their home is the digital equivalent of breaking and entering,
Id say that depended rather heavily on what terms you agreed to when you bought the device, wouldnt you?
Is this really even a suprise? I thought it was well known that, in general, Apple will reject apps with nudity.
I mean, whats next, an article alleging that Google may, in fact, have ties to the advertising industry?
Malicious links would've been virtually worthless in such a case.
Not really, since plenty of malware comes through plugins like flash, java, and adobe.
Im no economics guru, but is there any reason that software and technological innovation cannot count as "finished goods" in your equation? We have some of the largest tech companies in the world in the states-- Intel, AMD, Cisco, Microsoft, Boeing, etc-- their manufacturing may be overseas, but the real items the produce-- innovation-- come from the US.
Please correct me if Im incorrect.
To obtain your location, Google Maps takes advantage of the W3C Geolocation API
That article explains EXACTLY what it does and what information is gathered. And it appears (though I might be wrong) that WiFi data is used to discern location, but not always necessarily passed to a site using My Location. It also looks like the Geolocation spec ISNT authored by google, but by the W3C. But of course its not quite as fun to call "witchcraft" on the W3C, now is it?
You know, I keep holding out hope that people on slashdot will tend to read the articles they post before posting it, but maybe Im just being naieve.
After all, only Microsoft deserves to be a requirement, tight?
NOONE needs to be a requirement. Teacher assigns paper, student drafts it in whatever editor on whatever OS on whatever architecture he wants, prints it, turns it in. Whats the problem? If they need to use a specific program, do it in a lab, or make the thing web based. This isnt rocket science.
Standardizing on THE most expensive platform out there is just a retarded idea.
Windows 7 at least prepares them for the corporate world.
Because windows 7 will be the standard when students get into the corporate world 8 years later? You know, when its as old then as windows XP is now?
How bout this, stop trying to teach kids how to use Windows or Mac and teach them how to use computers in general. This is 2010, the time for pretending people dont need to know how to work the computer is over.
People who dont use twitter, you mean. What else would you call "the act of posting to twitter"?
Perhaps for some that is possible, although clearly Microsoft has no process in place to do something in that amount of time
I thought the point was that Ormandy recognized that and thinks it sucks, is unacceptable, and needs to be changed asap.
There is apparently a simple registry edit that can fix this, as Secunia advised. Surely MS can do something stopgap? I mean my goodness, a single Google guy found the bug, found a function partially responsible in helpctr.exe, offered a binary patch to partially fix the issue, and created PoC code. A secunia guy then reviewed the patch, found the REAL culprit function, and offered a working registry patch. This all occured within the last week-- and a multi-billion dollar company hasnt done anything except "confirm receipt of the issue" in that time?
Or how about this-- offer less tested patches through windows update under a hidden-by-default "Security fixes-- Testing" label or through a WSUS interface, and let IT staff test the damn thing. Arent such options available for various flavors of linux, now that I think of it?
Microsoft is a gigantic company with gigantic resources. Is it possible their priorities are not in patching? If ONE GUY can whip up an exploit and a patch in a few weeks, MS should be able to review the damn thing in a few hours on a few thousand virtual machines running in Hyper-V. You cannot tell me they dont have the resources to test this quickly.
Yes, leaving the bug unreported-- possibly until support for XP ends-- would have really done end-users a favor.
Im not going to bother defending google here; Id much rather you flesh out your argument. What is Google doing wrong, how does it benefit them, and how would you have handled it? Point number 2 especially I would be interested in-- If google had wanted to mess with MS, why not release it as 0-day, and not report the thing at all?
I mean, its really popular to just throw flames at whatever company is in the articles posted here, but I think people should at LEAST be required to spell out what theyre saying rather than throwing vague potshots like "theyre no longer any better/different than [others]" without really defining their justification or meaning.
17PB of LTO4 tape storage
Was that a typo, or did you honestly have 17,000 LTO4 tapes? Was this per nightly job?
A 3.5" sata drive weights the same as a LTO cartridge? Quick googling suggests 3 tapes weigh (and cost) about the same as a single drive (.4lbs vs 1.3lbs; $30/800GB vs $80/1TB)