I wouldn't use Spybot - it's getting kinda out of date now, and doesn't detect some of the worst ones. I've *never* seen Windows Defender successfully detect a spyware infestation - it's 100% useless.
I recently had to fix a machine that was declared 100% clean by Spybot, Hijackthis, Windows Defender, etc. - and still kept throwing up random porn popups*. Turns out it was a virtumundo variant... the checker (forget the name) recommended by the hijackthis people could see it, but wanted money to remove it - eventually found an app that does it by doing some clever stuff and forces a bluescreen to stop it reinstalling itself (which it does in realtime.. you *can't* delete it manually). That's now in my machine fixing arsenal for the next time I see it.
Makes me wonder how many of the bleats that 'my machine is clean therefore it must be blizzard being hacked' posts on the Wow forums have variants of similar crapware on there.. and they've fallen into the trap of believing the scanners despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
* And that was a machine without IE on it and fully patched.. the thing apparently got on in a trojanned version of Acrobat Reader.
Except you *can* legally refuse to pay for any service - including a cab - if the service is substandard.
The service provider may take you to court (normally small claims unless it was something big eg. a house) and the court will decide if your assessment of the situation was correct.
The way this is usually decided is through negotiation - 'fix that window properly or you don't get a penny' kind of negotiation.. it works - had to do it once or twice in my lifetime.
The same deal does not apply to other copyrighted media such as CDs or DVDs if you have opened them, or books if you have read them. If you are talking about returning unopened items, then fine, but how can you tell if a digital media file has been played?
Actually it does. Speaking for the UK at least it's specifically written into the law that shops can't refuse opened goods, goods not in their original packaging, etc.
In the EU there are no exceptions allowed, so the law helps in those cases.
(in fact UK law has specific mention of the right to return goods even after they're used - the example given being self assembly furniture - you can return it even after assembly).
The same thing goes here in the UK, most shops provide for returns over and above statutory rights, as long as I have the receipt I can return almost anything for any reason
You don't actually need the receipt, just some way of reasonably proving you bought at that store - the price label is enough.
"The DSRs require you to refund any money paid by or on behalf of the consumer in relation to the contract to the person who made the payment. This means the full price of the goods, or deposit or prepayment made, including the cost of delivery. The essence of distance selling is that consumers buy from home and receive goods at home. In these circumstances, almost every case of home shopping will involve delivery of the goods"
Section 3.57:
"If the goods are faulty or do not comply with the contract, you will have to pay for their return whatever the circumstances."
Of course it's is a competing license. If a project moves to GPLv3 the other code that uses that project has the choice of either moving to GPLv3 or forking to maintain their current license. Expect forks of the major FSF works so that GPLv2 projects are able to continue.
As a developer myself I'd explicitly reject any patch that someone tried to put in under GPLv3 - some of the restrictions are ludicrous (in particular the restriction that stops you modifying network protocols would have meant the project I currently work on would have been impossible under GPLv3).
Here in the U.K. it's still illegal (as far as I'm aware) to format shift.
Yes it is. For example it's technically illegal to use a video recorder or Tivo or to rip a CD that you own into itunes (the apple 'rip, mix, burn' advertising was in fact an incitement to break the law - a crime in itself).
However a law has to be backed up by enforcement to by effective. Nobody has ever tried to jail someone for recording Eastenders for example.. and they would look pretty damned stupid if they did. It's unlikely such a prosecution would succeed anyway.
The a recent report proposed making format shifting legal, and having a specific exception on copyright law for parody (another thing we don't have that the US has).
(btw. it's written for politicians so has cheesy things like a 'what is IP' section.. it does mean it's readable though).
Well if you do it that way you get what you deserve. That's way over the top.
Nobody buys that kind of bandwidth at list price. Negotiate. I used to work for a company that went to people just like you and halved their bandwidth bills - whilst still taking a fat commission.
What was funny was we often went straight back to their original provider and negotiated a better price, so their physical link didn't actually change... of course they didn't realize that.
I never understood this... what's so great about me looking at it against (for example) a flea looking at it. Is intelligence a necessary component of 'collapsing the waveforms' (I really annoyed a teacher once by asking what happened if shroedinger used a cat with fleas.. he couldn't answer)?
What if you got a completely inanimate recording device to 'look' at it. Would that 'collapse' it too?
Anyway define 'look'. Since everything effects everything else, does the term even make any sense?
you make the assumption there that win32 calls are available, I'm running Linux.
It makes sense to try and keep the code as cross platform as possible.
If Win32 isn't available you're probably running on a proper OS that wouldn't let you map the BIOS anyway, so they might has well have used the Win32 calls in the first place.
Hrmm, this Asus board allows me to put an mp3 into it for the "power on" sound (no I am not joking), if I put a copyrighted file in there, and they snarf it without the artists permission (and they sure as hell didn't ask me, or suggest I shouldn't put it there for them to get) can we get the RIAA to sue them?
In other words it's absolutely useless. In fact it's actually worse than useless because it gives a false sense of security by giving the appearence of trust.
Paranoia is good - I don't disagree that there's an issue that needs fixing, but the way it's presented is as if there's a general exploit, but it just isn't that easy.
Clearly targeting a specific user where you knew information like the username and system setup beforehand would make this possible (independent of OS).
I strongly doubt it does, because you'd fall foul of vista UAC protection - no user app should go near the systemwide temp directory (that's even if you can find it... %TEMP%, GetTempFileName, etc. will always give you the user one. AFAIK you have to dig into the registry to find the system one, or be running as a system service).
Although a bug exists (file:// bypasses some of the security checks.. fixed already apparently) the theoretical exploit as written isn't usable - probably why there's no working example
I think, however, the "open source is more secure" argument tends to follow the idea that behind the scenes, the code under closed source applications tends to be generally faulty,
Having worked for many closed source companies I believe this to be generally true (scarily, with no exceptions I've seen.. although I believe they must exist). Deadlines are king and they really don't care whether the code is crap and will fall apart in a couple of years time... they want to get something out of the door *now*.
In OSS normally deadlines aren't the same pressure, and bad code is less common (although I've seen some appalling OSS code in my time).
I'm prepared to believe MS have cleaned up internally and their code is better than most, but the deadline pressure is there (as can be seen from some of the more obvious vista bugs they didn't get time to fix).
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World War II scenario.. hmm..
So in this scenario Linux arrives late to the party then spends the next 50 years gloating about how they bailed everyone out?
I wouldn't use Spybot - it's getting kinda out of date now, and doesn't detect some of the worst ones. I've *never* seen Windows Defender successfully detect a spyware infestation - it's 100% useless.
I recently had to fix a machine that was declared 100% clean by Spybot, Hijackthis, Windows Defender, etc. - and still kept throwing up random porn popups*. Turns out it was a virtumundo variant... the checker (forget the name) recommended by the hijackthis people could see it, but wanted money to remove it - eventually found an app that does it by doing some clever stuff and forces a bluescreen to stop it reinstalling itself (which it does in realtime.. you *can't* delete it manually). That's now in my machine fixing arsenal for the next time I see it.
Makes me wonder how many of the bleats that 'my machine is clean therefore it must be blizzard being hacked' posts on the Wow forums have variants of similar crapware on there.. and they've fallen into the trap of believing the scanners despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
* And that was a machine without IE on it and fully patched.. the thing apparently got on in a trojanned version of Acrobat Reader.
I hear the Zune switches modes from squirt to suck.
Isn't 'suck' the mode it ships in?
Except you *can* legally refuse to pay for any service - including a cab - if the service is substandard.
The service provider may take you to court (normally small claims unless it was something big eg. a house) and the court will decide if your assessment of the situation was correct.
The way this is usually decided is through negotiation - 'fix that window properly or you don't get a penny' kind of negotiation.. it works - had to do it once or twice in my lifetime.
The same deal does not apply to other copyrighted media such as CDs or DVDs if you have opened them, or books if you have read them. If you are talking about returning unopened items, then fine, but how can you tell if a digital media file has been played?
Actually it does. Speaking for the UK at least it's specifically written into the law that shops can't refuse opened goods, goods not in their original packaging, etc.
My local superstore, Tesco, will not accept returns on CDs and DVDs unless they damaged, in which case they're exchanged like-for-like
I think you'll find that they will give you your money back if asked. If they refuse report them to trading standards as they are breaking the law.
In the EU there are no exceptions allowed, so the law helps in those cases.
(in fact UK law has specific mention of the right to return goods even after they're used - the example given being self assembly furniture - you can return it even after assembly).
The same thing goes here in the UK, most shops provide for returns over and above statutory rights, as long as I have the receipt I can return almost anything for any reason
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You don't actually need the receipt, just some way of reasonably proving you bought at that store - the price label is enough.
http://www.consumerdirect.gov.uk/your-rights/fs_c
You need to read the regulations again.
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http://www.oft.gov.uk/News/Press+releases/2006/13
Section 3.48:
"The DSRs require you to refund any money paid by or on behalf of the consumer in relation to the contract to the person who made the payment. This means the full price of the goods, or deposit or prepayment made, including the cost of delivery. The essence of
distance selling is that consumers buy from home and receive goods at home. In these circumstances, almost every case of home
shopping will involve delivery of the goods"
Section 3.57:
"If the goods are faulty or do not comply with the contract, you will have to pay for their return whatever the circumstances."
Of course it's is a competing license. If a project moves to GPLv3 the other code that uses that project has the choice of either moving to GPLv3 or forking to maintain their current license. Expect forks of the major FSF works so that GPLv2 projects are able to continue.
As a developer myself I'd explicitly reject any patch that someone tried to put in under GPLv3 - some of the restrictions are ludicrous (in particular the restriction that stops you modifying network protocols would have meant the project I currently work on would have been impossible under GPLv3).
Here in the U.K. it's still illegal (as far as I'm aware) to format shift.
Yes it is. For example it's technically illegal to use a video recorder or Tivo or to rip a CD that you own into itunes (the apple 'rip, mix, burn' advertising was in fact an incitement to break the law - a crime in itself).
However a law has to be backed up by enforcement to by effective. Nobody has ever tried to jail someone for recording Eastenders for example.. and they would look pretty damned stupid if they did. It's unlikely such a prosecution would succeed anyway.
The a recent report proposed making format shifting legal, and having a specific exception on copyright law for parody (another thing we don't have that the US has).
(btw. it's written for politicians so has cheesy things like a 'what is IP' section.. it does mean it's readable though).
Well if you do it that way you get what you deserve. That's way over the top.
Nobody buys that kind of bandwidth at list price. Negotiate. I used to work for a company that went to people just like you and halved their bandwidth bills - whilst still taking a fat commission.
What was funny was we often went straight back to their original provider and negotiated a better price, so their physical link didn't actually change... of course they didn't realize that.
I'll see your camera and raise you a Laptop.
I have Asus A6T bought new in October, covered in 'Vista capable' stickers.
Asus do *not* intend to produce vista drivers for this model, Apparently a 64bit dual core laptop is 'obsolete' according to their techs.
Asus suck.
$3600 for something to detect wireless networks?
For half that money you could get a fully fledged laptop with builtin wireless and run any tools you liked.
From the summary I was expecting a $50 pocket device.
It will also not work if you look at it
I never understood this... what's so great about me looking at it against (for example) a flea looking at it. Is intelligence a necessary component of 'collapsing the waveforms' (I really annoyed a teacher once by asking what happened if shroedinger used a cat with fleas.. he couldn't answer)?
What if you got a completely inanimate recording device to 'look' at it. Would that 'collapse' it too?
Anyway define 'look'. Since everything effects everything else, does the term even make any sense?
More likely they'll get an enforcement order preventing them from using personal data in any way (the current law allows this, in fact).
This is death to any company with more than a handful of customers.
For a stock listed company this won't only kill it it'll result in the CEO being sued by the shareholders as well.
Who needs jailtime?
Hillary Scott, assuming you're talking female.
you make the assumption there that win32 calls are available, I'm running Linux.
It makes sense to try and keep the code as cross platform as possible.
If Win32 isn't available you're probably running on a proper OS that wouldn't let you map the BIOS anyway, so they might has well have used the Win32 calls in the first place.
It's just an example of poor programming.
Hrmm, this Asus board allows me to put an mp3 into it for the "power on" sound (no I am not joking), if I put a copyrighted file in there, and they snarf it without the artists permission (and they sure as hell didn't ask me, or suggest I shouldn't put it there for them to get) can we get the RIAA to sue them?
No, they'll sue you for distributing it.
In other words it's absolutely useless. In fact it's actually worse than useless because it gives a false sense of security by giving the appearence of trust.
Paranoia is good - I don't disagree that there's an issue that needs fixing, but the way it's presented is as if there's a general exploit, but it just isn't that easy.
Clearly targeting a specific user where you knew information like the username and system setup beforehand would make this possible (independent of OS).
I strongly doubt it does, because you'd fall foul of vista UAC protection - no user app should go near the systemwide temp directory (that's even if you can find it... %TEMP%, GetTempFileName, etc. will always give you the user one. AFAIK you have to dig into the registry to find the system one, or be running as a system service).
Although a bug exists (file:// bypasses some of the security checks.. fixed already apparently) the theoretical exploit as written isn't usable - probably why there's no working example
I think, however, the "open source is more secure" argument tends to follow the idea that behind the scenes, the code under closed source applications tends to be generally faulty,
Having worked for many closed source companies I believe this to be generally true (scarily, with no exceptions I've seen.. although I believe they must exist). Deadlines are king and they really don't care whether the code is crap and will fall apart in a couple of years time... they want to get something out of the door *now*.
In OSS normally deadlines aren't the same pressure, and bad code is less common (although I've seen some appalling OSS code in my time).
I'm prepared to believe MS have cleaned up internally and their code is better than most, but the deadline pressure is there (as can be seen from some of the more obvious vista bugs they didn't get time to fix).
Your sig can be simplified to:
ruby -e "[1383424633,543781664,1718971914].each{|x| print([x].pack('N'))}"
You must be using some definition of 'simplified' I wasn't previously aware of.
From the text it's hardcoded to a specific installation of Windows (not even the default config). It wouldn't work on most systems.