In keeping with the Omega Swiss watch analogy. What could they possibly do; extradite me to Switzerland for the charges? Wait.. Switzerland is not Sweden? Never mind the rape joke then.
I believe using TeaTimer would teach the average user to constantly click "Yes" without thought. As mentioned before this kind of security has a huge education barrier. I haven't run with TeaTimer since it was first introduced with Spybot, but my experience was pretty awful being prompted anytime anything was run.
Also if TeaTimer prevents changes to the registry prompted by some piece of crapware, said crapware has already been executed. What else has it done; how much protection does blocking changes to the registry really provide?
Is there a grammar or patent-writing rule prohibiting numbered points from containing more than one period? I wonder if this has anything to do with blanket approvals.
I agree, it was great certifying my email, but nobody else I knew was using even the free cert, so I let mine lapse too. It's a great concept, but just won't work out until fully integrated into all clients, or mandated.
I tried contacting several trust members in 2003ish, and never received a response.
You're correct for sudo (although there is a setting to require root password to use sudo). I've never seen su allowed without providing the password for the account you're trying to become. The exception is if you're already root, you can become anyone.
Disabling remote root login is just another layer of defense. If the attacker can't use root, their job is just that much harder. He dictionary attack 100 root password guesses, or go through a list of 100 user names with just one password.
No power grid, no vehicles, no water. I don't know what the population of New England is, but lets say 50 million people trying to get to a home where they still won't know what to do once they're there. The machine has stopped.
If an air-burst nuclear detonation has a radius as large as the article suggests, I envision the damage being much worse long-term than the total destruction of a single city.
While I would agree that hand making Ethernet cables is a fine way to go about things, if the boss says says to buy them pre-made, then just buy them. That is, unless you can convince him, for example, that hand making cables is necessary for keeping a tidy data room (precut sizes aren't going to work for running a building's worth of Ethernet jacks).
What you've posted him saying sounds like a lot of I'm-afraid-of-doing-that-myself jargon. By crimping the cables yourself you're opening yourself up for any data or transmission speed problems to be blamed on you and your shoddy Time Domain Reflectometer tests.
My thoughts exactly.
It's one thing to not want a brand licensed for use in a video game with realistic damage, but I'd encourage my customers, excited enough about my product, to create, distribute, and/or display what is equivalent to free advertisements.
You make a very valid point, but, beyond casing the house as the gas meter guy, what you described sounds like too much of a hassle. I'll rob the house next door with no cameras to contend with, thank you.
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I always believed sufficient stupidity was indistinguishable from malice..
In their defense, I've been pretty happy with AVG myself when compared to Norton or McAfee on my Windows machines. That being said, I'd hold off on calling them slimy since there's no motive for them to have done this to be malicious. I was surprised by the article brief.
I'd have to agree that my at-the-office Windows install gives me a little more trouble than at home, on Linux: Slashdot script timeouts, a rare crash, corrupt downloads.. but then again my Windows PC is pretty beat up and bloated with a few years worth of patches, and software.
A full on FF crash is maybe a once every three month occurrence, and I deserve it with my tab-abuse. I can't speak for IE7, but prior versions were much worse.
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In keeping with the Omega Swiss watch analogy. What could they possibly do; extradite me to Switzerland for the charges? Wait.. Switzerland is not Sweden? Never mind the rape joke then.
I believe using TeaTimer would teach the average user to constantly click "Yes" without thought. As mentioned before this kind of security has a huge education barrier. I haven't run with TeaTimer since it was first introduced with Spybot, but my experience was pretty awful being prompted anytime anything was run.
Also if TeaTimer prevents changes to the registry prompted by some piece of crapware, said crapware has already been executed. What else has it done; how much protection does blocking changes to the registry really provide?
I believe statistically significant deviation is .8%, but someone more knowledgeable should correct me if I'm wrong.
I figured you were joking. "How do I hold all that down at once?" I thought.
Alt+SysRq then press S, U, then B one at a time. R also looks like it might be necessary?
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/fix-unresponsive-or-frozen-computers-with-keyboard-shortcuts/
I wish I had mod points to dig you out of troll status. A well-formulated opinion != troll even if it's not agreeable.
Holy mackerel, you're right. Kudos!
Is there a grammar or patent-writing rule prohibiting numbered points from containing more than one period? I wonder if this has anything to do with blanket approvals.
Seriously..
It looks like the blog is here: http://www.ratracetrap.com/the-rat-race-trap/irrational-decisions-anchoring-and-arbitrary-coherence.html
God help us if Dell gets a hold of these.
I agree, it was great certifying my email, but nobody else I knew was using even the free cert, so I let mine lapse too. It's a great concept, but just won't work out until fully integrated into all clients, or mandated.
I tried contacting several trust members in 2003ish, and never received a response.
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is a favorite classic. Science fiction, but easy to read for anyone.
You're correct for sudo (although there is a setting to require root password to use sudo). I've never seen su allowed without providing the password for the account you're trying to become. The exception is if you're already root, you can become anyone. Disabling remote root login is just another layer of defense. If the attacker can't use root, their job is just that much harder. He dictionary attack 100 root password guesses, or go through a list of 100 user names with just one password.
No power grid, no vehicles, no water. I don't know what the population of New England is, but lets say 50 million people trying to get to a home where they still won't know what to do once they're there. The machine has stopped.
If an air-burst nuclear detonation has a radius as large as the article suggests, I envision the damage being much worse long-term than the total destruction of a single city.
I'm curious how would these would stack up against an iptables firewall with PSAD, or other open source offerings?
Think Linux Firewalls which was reviewed a while back, and which I use to protect my home servers.
While I would agree that hand making Ethernet cables is a fine way to go about things, if the boss says says to buy them pre-made, then just buy them. That is, unless you can convince him, for example, that hand making cables is necessary for keeping a tidy data room (precut sizes aren't going to work for running a building's worth of Ethernet jacks).
What you've posted him saying sounds like a lot of I'm-afraid-of-doing-that-myself jargon. By crimping the cables yourself you're opening yourself up for any data or transmission speed problems to be blamed on you and your shoddy Time Domain Reflectometer tests.
I for one welcome our nano-power generating hamster overlords..
My thoughts exactly. It's one thing to not want a brand licensed for use in a video game with realistic damage, but I'd encourage my customers, excited enough about my product, to create, distribute, and/or display what is equivalent to free advertisements.
You make a very valid point, but, beyond casing the house as the gas meter guy, what you described sounds like too much of a hassle. I'll rob the house next door with no cameras to contend with, thank you.
Correct. The story was posted before on the main page. http://science.slashdot.org/science/08/02/13/1418216.shtml
Grammar masochist?
This is your family on spam.
I always believed sufficient stupidity was indistinguishable from malice.. In their defense, I've been pretty happy with AVG myself when compared to Norton or McAfee on my Windows machines. That being said, I'd hold off on calling them slimy since there's no motive for them to have done this to be malicious. I was surprised by the article brief.
If I had points, I'd mod you up. I've been passively looking for a USB display like this for some time, and the price is right!
I'd have to agree that my at-the-office Windows install gives me a little more trouble than at home, on Linux: Slashdot script timeouts, a rare crash, corrupt downloads.. but then again my Windows PC is pretty beat up and bloated with a few years worth of patches, and software.
A full on FF crash is maybe a once every three month occurrence, and I deserve it with my tab-abuse. I can't speak for IE7, but prior versions were much worse.
I upgraded firefox and now it decides to crash every 15 minutes, when it used to only crash every half our. (...)
What could you possibly be doing to crash Firefox every 15 minutes? It sounds like you've got something else wrong to me. Time for a system reload.