It's easy to avoid scams. I say they just educate people to the point where these scams are no longer profitable.
-Don't purchase/sell to certain countries. -Avoid any auctions that don't allow a well-known escrow service. -Request delivery confirmation on everything you send out.
So I read TFA thinking, so there's a glitch when windows has virus X on wednesdays only, and only in regions that have the chinese language pack, and only on systems with 64-bit version installed with a sound blaster driver installed.
But for the first time ever, slashdot's title isn't sensationalist. Microsoft simply states, yeah, for no apparent reason, files are getting corrupt using our operating system.
Jeebus F'n H Chroist! You had one job to do, and you screwed it up royally.
It's one thing when some obscure feature doesn't work correctly. It's another thing when a fundamental operation of your software hasn't worked for A YEAR since it came out.
IT'S AN OPERATING SYSTEM. Your job is to interface the hardware with the user and software.
*sigh* Bring on the "my linux-distro of choice doesn't do that, that makes me right all along" comments.
I'm another victim of this type of fraud. It seems that there needs to be a safeguard against this type of thing.
I invented a little button that allows you to buy things by clicking a single button once, but I keep getting threatened with law suits!! THIS NEEDS TO STOP! I WANT MY ROYALTIES! Damn you patent squatters!
Eh, it was a risk, but I felt it added true value to this discussion.
Plus I wouldn't really be taking hits from the official Slashdot City, presented in the other game thread. I am not a traitor. I will deliver the cause!
*** May you all enjoy the feast of a thousand clicks!
Google's monopoly is a consumer-supplied monopoly. There are tons of search engines to chose from, and in no way is google stopping you from using them. It just happens that people prefer Google, and so that has boosted them to monopoly size, but it's not completely via monopoly tactics. Now that they've created a product that everybody loves is when they take advantage of the widespread adoption.
The big difference is, if people begin to dislike google, it's not hard to start using Yahoo. People change email addresses regularly, it's not uncommon. If google's ads are offending you, use another search engine.
Microsoft is a monopoly, because you really have no other choices, save a fanboy-based apple industry that doesn't neccessarily get the job done when your clients all use windows programs.
There's a difference, and I believe that difference is approach.
- power for the drive(s) Do the drives need to be powered? They could just sit there...
- power for the server(s) using the drive(s) They could run a relatively small amount of actual devices to do the duplication, and stagger the duplication so a few drives at a time = full library in a year. Rinse. Repeat.
- costs of the backup architecture for DR Minimal up-front cost.
- costs of cooling the datacenter housing all of the above If we kept most drives dormant unless being used, I see a $55 air conditioner from walmart doing the job.
- maintenance agreement costs for all of the above If we're close to the border, I know where we can get some cheap labor...
- costs related to the admins who manage all of the above (salary, benefits, etc.) This could be the only real expense. But if you arrange it right, split the salary across number of movies, it could add up to only a few $$ per movie. Add staff as number of movies increase.
I think the problem is lack of motivation and innovation. It's almost as if they're saying, oh noes! Please! Pitty us! We've got such a hard task here-- meanwhile making no attempts to make it easier on themselves. What a bunch of drama queens.
Someone might say that hard drives are not an acceptable form of storage for long term- but I honestly have a hard time believing there's anything really long term. A few hard drives replaced on a yearly basis could be under $1K. With the right machinery to do the copying, you might not even need much of a staff.
The big number comes from the additional windows vista ultimate licenses after each hard drive dies.
John Doe, head tech for one of the leading digital film storage facilities, was quoted saying, "It's very difficult, since compaq doesn't ship these damn computers with recovery disks, we have to buy a new copy of vista every time it crashes, and of course, I wouldn't be caught dead with Windows home basic- no, our media is very important. We needed the extra protection of windows ultimate."
How is teaming with an online marketing company giving Google quite the stronghold that MS actually has? I mean- it's not like this means Google owns the billboards and television commercials.
It can't spot viruses until they are either already in memory or sitting on your disk. Not really. AV protection programs can certainly tell if there's an active infection on your machine. The major problem with AV software is that when it's in memory, AV software is particularly bad at removing it. (Try deleting a file that's in memory. Can't do it? Try closing the program, then deleting? Oh, works now!)
The question I've always wondered is why something like Norton doesn't do more to control software that's running. Anybody who takes a look at RKunhooker with norton installed knows that norton puts a lot of hooks into the system, including on process start and end calls- norton pretty much becomes the gateway. But it doesn't do anything to stop infections from running, and then when you do a virus scan it reports that it can't clean the infection. You'll find it can't because the infection is in memory and therefore won't be deleted.
It's actually fairly easy to completely remove an infection, but sometimes requires running ERD or bartPE to remove items from startup and delete certain DLLs that load automatically with explorer. Once the hooks are removed, there are no active infections, just dormant files waiting for an AV to delete them.
I use IE as my 'promiscuous' browser and Firefox as my safe browser - makes sense to me. But of course, this is not the only means I have of protecting myself but it helps in one important way... It reminds me that I should be careful. That makes as much sense as only wearing the bullet proof vest when you're doing non-dangerous activities.
If anything, I'd do it the other way around. Promiscuous browsing on IE will certainly get you infected (ever open a pron site with IE? I haven't in years, and I don't plan to start now- even if those exploits have been fixed). I explorer is the only browser I can remember that would just let a virus download and install itself while you battled 80 popups. I understand Iexplorer7 is slightly better, but come on- that's what people are targeting, new exploits will come up.
I do things exactly opposite. I use opera for all my browsing, and nothing gets through. Then I load up internet explorer for my online banking. (my bank requires IE). I see no danger in that, because internet explorer is clean when I do it, thanks to the fact I never use it (and I clean my system regularly) with hijack this and pv and what not.
As far as I know, T-SQL only allows top(). Whereas MYSQL allows Limit X, Y, which allows you to basically "page" results to show, say records 5-10. T-SQL makes it redundant:
MYSQL:
SELECT * FROM records LIMIT 5, 5
T-SQL
SELECT TOP(5) * FROM records WHERE id NOT IN (SELECT TOP(5) * FROM records)
They both select records 5-10, but one is more redundant. (and possibly more memory intensive, slower, etc)
Opera passes the test as well. The wikipedia article is vague, but Opera 9 officially passed the Acid 2 test. Being the second web browser (after safari) publically available to pass it. (or third program after Prince - an application for converting XML/HTML+CSS into PDF)
Care to revise that "no IP logs" statement? Or are you still arguing for the sake of arguing? Oh gawd please. Most forum scripts keep IP logs of comments posted. Does that mean the entire site keeps logs of every visitor? No. Does that mean apache is holding on to gigs and gigs of traffic data? Probably, but definitely throwing out useless information to conserve some amount of space.
It's true, visiting a site means sending them your IP address momentarily so they can send you information. Some sites log that. My own site keeps the last 50 visitor's IP addresses. After that it discards them. Does that mean my forum doesn't have IP addresses? No. My forum keeps IP addresses, but I certainly couldn't link any activity on the forum to activity in other places on my site just using apache's logs unless I kept more than the latest 50 users on logs. And that would double my log files size in a day! I can't afford that. I don't get nearly the traffic they do. D'ah.
If it's on TV then you know it will be staged and chock full of pseudo-science dumbed down for the unwashed hordes (like Ghost hunters only with even worse acting and cheesy special effects).
So true. I can see it now...
"As it turns out, this company's website uses COOKIES, which basically store all your information and hold it there for hackers." *Tech pressed a button and magically zooms in on the exact part of a photo that he wants. Presses another button and it becomes completely clear and non-pixelated, just like how real photos on the computer work. Each button press makes a slight beeping noise, and any text on the screen appears letter by letter, also making a slight beeping noise as each letter appears... just like real computers do..*
"Using what's known as a proxy, and a few well known tricks, you could log in and steal everything! OMG!"
People will love it. My mom is already scared of cookies, now she'll understand why.
Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and say that when I set my audio less than 44 during recording, you can hear a very clear difference. It's not a golden ear thing, it's an obvious difference. Am I missing something?
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It's easy to avoid scams. I say they just educate people to the point where these scams are no longer profitable.
-Don't purchase/sell to certain countries.
-Avoid any auctions that don't allow a well-known escrow service.
-Request delivery confirmation on everything you send out.
Problem solved.
In this case, for it to be a useful home server, we'll have to wait for 3.11
So I read TFA thinking, so there's a glitch when windows has virus X on wednesdays only, and only in regions that have the chinese language pack, and only on systems with 64-bit version installed with a sound blaster driver installed.
But for the first time ever, slashdot's title isn't sensationalist. Microsoft simply states, yeah, for no apparent reason, files are getting corrupt using our operating system.
Jeebus F'n H Chroist! You had one job to do, and you screwed it up royally.
It's one thing when some obscure feature doesn't work correctly. It's another thing when a fundamental operation of your software hasn't worked for A YEAR since it came out.
IT'S AN OPERATING SYSTEM. Your job is to interface the hardware with the user and software.
*sigh* Bring on the "my linux-distro of choice doesn't do that, that makes me right all along" comments.
I'm going to go out and buy a PS3 now!!! Man I love sony. I hope it comes with a rootkit.
I'm another victim of this type of fraud. It seems that there needs to be a safeguard against this type of thing.
I invented a little button that allows you to buy things by clicking a single button once, but I keep getting threatened with law suits!! THIS NEEDS TO STOP! I WANT MY ROYALTIES! Damn you patent squatters!
The other thread
Eh, it was a risk, but I felt it added true value to this discussion.
Plus I wouldn't really be taking hits from the official Slashdot City, presented in the other game thread. I am not a traitor. I will deliver the cause!
***
May you all enjoy the feast of a thousand clicks!
I couldn't get enough people to click myminicity links! What a dumb game.
Google's monopoly is a consumer-supplied monopoly. There are tons of search engines to chose from, and in no way is google stopping you from using them. It just happens that people prefer Google, and so that has boosted them to monopoly size, but it's not completely via monopoly tactics. Now that they've created a product that everybody loves is when they take advantage of the widespread adoption.
The big difference is, if people begin to dislike google, it's not hard to start using Yahoo. People change email addresses regularly, it's not uncommon. If google's ads are offending you, use another search engine.
Microsoft is a monopoly, because you really have no other choices, save a fanboy-based apple industry that doesn't neccessarily get the job done when your clients all use windows programs.
There's a difference, and I believe that difference is approach.
- power for the server(s) using the drive(s) They could run a relatively small amount of actual devices to do the duplication, and stagger the duplication so a few drives at a time = full library in a year. Rinse. Repeat.
- costs of the backup architecture for DR Minimal up-front cost.
- costs of cooling the datacenter housing all of the above If we kept most drives dormant unless being used, I see a $55 air conditioner from walmart doing the job.
- maintenance agreement costs for all of the above If we're close to the border, I know where we can get some cheap labor...
- costs related to the admins who manage all of the above (salary, benefits, etc.) This could be the only real expense. But if you arrange it right, split the salary across number of movies, it could add up to only a few $$ per movie. Add staff as number of movies increase.
I think the problem is lack of motivation and innovation. It's almost as if they're saying, oh noes! Please! Pitty us! We've got such a hard task here-- meanwhile making no attempts to make it easier on themselves. What a bunch of drama queens.
Yeah, oh and by the way, cool.. playstation and stuff.
Back on topic now.. darn trolls. Let's build an even bigger city with more clicks then him! That'll show 'em!
Someone might say that hard drives are not an acceptable form of storage for long term- but I honestly have a hard time believing there's anything really long term. A few hard drives replaced on a yearly basis could be under $1K. With the right machinery to do the copying, you might not even need much of a staff.
The big number comes from the additional windows vista ultimate licenses after each hard drive dies.
John Doe, head tech for one of the leading digital film storage facilities, was quoted saying, "It's very difficult, since compaq doesn't ship these damn computers with recovery disks, we have to buy a new copy of vista every time it crashes, and of course, I wouldn't be caught dead with Windows home basic- no, our media is very important. We needed the extra protection of windows ultimate."
Oh come on, that was funny.
How is teaming with an online marketing company giving Google quite the stronghold that MS actually has? I mean- it's not like this means Google owns the billboards and television commercials.
That's a good point. *shudder*
The question I've always wondered is why something like Norton doesn't do more to control software that's running. Anybody who takes a look at RKunhooker with norton installed knows that norton puts a lot of hooks into the system, including on process start and end calls- norton pretty much becomes the gateway. But it doesn't do anything to stop infections from running, and then when you do a virus scan it reports that it can't clean the infection. You'll find it can't because the infection is in memory and therefore won't be deleted.
It's actually fairly easy to completely remove an infection, but sometimes requires running ERD or bartPE to remove items from startup and delete certain DLLs that load automatically with explorer. Once the hooks are removed, there are no active infections, just dormant files waiting for an AV to delete them.
If anything, I'd do it the other way around. Promiscuous browsing on IE will certainly get you infected (ever open a pron site with IE? I haven't in years, and I don't plan to start now- even if those exploits have been fixed). I explorer is the only browser I can remember that would just let a virus download and install itself while you battled 80 popups. I understand Iexplorer7 is slightly better, but come on- that's what people are targeting, new exploits will come up.
I do things exactly opposite. I use opera for all my browsing, and nothing gets through. Then I load up internet explorer for my online banking. (my bank requires IE). I see no danger in that, because internet explorer is clean when I do it, thanks to the fact I never use it (and I clean my system regularly) with hijack this and pv and what not.
As far as I know, T-SQL only allows top(). Whereas MYSQL allows Limit X, Y, which allows you to basically "page" results to show, say records 5-10. T-SQL makes it redundant:
MYSQL:
SELECT * FROM records LIMIT 5, 5
T-SQL
SELECT TOP(5) * FROM records WHERE id NOT IN (SELECT TOP(5) * FROM records)
They both select records 5-10, but one is more redundant. (and possibly more memory intensive, slower, etc)
MYST!
*Awaits mod down for suggesting such a slow paced game*
No? Nobody?
Ok, ok, how about this one? Sim City 2K! I build like a thousand water pumps, but no-ones getting water... what's up? Oh there it is.
Opera passes the test as well. The wikipedia article is vague, but Opera 9 officially passed the Acid 2 test. Being the second web browser (after safari) publically available to pass it. (or third program after Prince - an application for converting XML/HTML+CSS into PDF)
It's true, visiting a site means sending them your IP address momentarily so they can send you information. Some sites log that. My own site keeps the last 50 visitor's IP addresses. After that it discards them. Does that mean my forum doesn't have IP addresses? No. My forum keeps IP addresses, but I certainly couldn't link any activity on the forum to activity in other places on my site just using apache's logs unless I kept more than the latest 50 users on logs. And that would double my log files size in a day! I can't afford that. I don't get nearly the traffic they do. D'ah.
So true. I can see it now...
"As it turns out, this company's website uses COOKIES, which basically store all your information and hold it there for hackers."
*Tech pressed a button and magically zooms in on the exact part of a photo that he wants. Presses another button and it becomes completely clear and non-pixelated, just like how real photos on the computer work. Each button press makes a slight beeping noise, and any text on the screen appears letter by letter, also making a slight beeping noise as each letter appears... just like real computers do..*
"Using what's known as a proxy, and a few well known tricks, you could log in and steal everything! OMG!"
People will love it. My mom is already scared of cookies, now she'll understand why.
Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and say that when I set my audio less than 44 during recording, you can hear a very clear difference. It's not a golden ear thing, it's an obvious difference. Am I missing something?
I couldn't help but notice the commercial looks vaguely familiar...
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