You know that you can run just the 1 single process as admin don't you (look up runas)? It still sucks BIG TIME but at least it doesn't force you to run all processes with elevated security.
The problem with windows is it was designed to "just work" for "stupid people" and of course the easiest way to do that opens up the computer to nasty attacks. Hopefully the tide has changed and we will slowly but surely work to the happy medium where things just work without letting everything just work and also to where people learn a little about securing thier computer.
I thought that was the point? To make it free (as in the everyone should have access to it sense, and yes I know thats a slightly warped view of the GPL but fits for linux). I thought many people, especially academics and hobbiests from the 60's and 70's thought OS's should be free in all definitions of the word.
Or more likely is they all have a similar structure inside and so after finding one vulnerability it wasn't hard to morph it to the other jpeg libs that are out there.
They would want to redesign it if they were hurting thier hard drive suppliers sales. The reason for this is if buying a rio for the hd is cheaper than buying the hd itself then the hd supplier would rethink its discount to rio on the basis that they are losing thier cream of the crop profits on raw hd sales.
And yet it feels like you support the 2 hour distortion of a politcal ad that is Farenheight 9/11? I think that it should all be fair game and it should be up to people to sort it out. I'm tired of laws being passed and judgements being made because its not going "thier way" whoever they might be at the time.
Actually, if it is a problem with the cpu driver and setting power save mode on the processor, then it really will be a switch from 2.6ghz to 300mhz as the driver would just set the proc to the wrong speed.
Can you toss up some links to a picture? I'd like to see this (not because I think you are wrong but mostly because I like looking at historical computers).
Problem with (at least sony's) implementation of "computer in the monitor" is that its fat, its at least 8" front to back if my memory serves me right. Its also not a performer with its celeron and low end video.
I differ in opinion. This is a beautiful machine. Its one where people will be looking for the cable that hooks the "monitor" up to the computer. It will be especially perfect looking with the bluetooth keyboard and mouse. Then you will have a single cable to the power outlet and that is it. This is the first computer from apple in ages that actually has me thinking "man I wish I had that". I'm not a super apple fan (nothing against them just no reasons to buy them) but its about time that someone builds a computer with that form factor and those lines and it sounds like this one will even perform decently.
I agree with you, 11 years to as near perfect as they understand how to do. SP2 was a huge way toward basic security and did many good things.
What I want to know is whether Linux has even admitted that it has a security problem to work on? I know they try to be secure but it seems a great many people thing that Linux is already secure.
You forgot integrated support for scanners, digital cameras and video cameras. Integrated support for cd burning (though not very good). A slightly less broken implementation of the network stack (though it really wasn't fixed until 2k3). Um, some other stuff too that I can't think of. Maybe none of it mattered to you but there were some decent and usable changes in xp. Oh, appcompat for one and better support of directX.
And you make sure that you never overflowed your internal variables or did you treat them as "big enough". You never had your compiler do something stupid? You never had the OS do something stupid underneath you?
There are ways to get bugs in your software that are not caused by your own code. There are also things that your logical analysis can overlook. This is not to say that rigorously proving your algorhytm is bad (it is terribly expensive) just that its not a complete fix.
I'm not defending the MPAA but I think you will find that they say a Region 2 dvd and Region 1 dvd containing the same movie are actually different products since the Region 1 dvd is only compatible with region 1 players and the region 2 dvd is only comaptible with region 2 players. Furthermore they will probably state that anyone can buy a region 1 dvd for the same price regardless of where they live. They will fail to mention that this is useless to them because they have stopped the sale of region 1 players to thier location.
I think they should. You need to come up with a technology that makes labor from abroad incompatible with industry in the states and protect your wages a bit:)
Regional dvd's were developed so the movie industry could release the dvd in the US before they release the movie to theaters abroad. It also supports regional pricing so that they can better match the price to the demand in the area and not have to compete with themselves in other areas. Finally as you point out they can more easily divide distribution rights.
Its more like pay $5 a month or we will investigate your students who are probably sharing music we own the copyright to and hold your network financially accountable for the infringement. The college of course took the easy way out. If you buy that the RIAA should be enforcing copyright then they are being reasonable with the college in offering a legitimate way for the students to continue the behavior of downloading music.
Given the amount of research that Microsoft puts into these things (and I know people that deal with these sorts of things at Microsoft) this just proves how impossible it is to please everyone and how difficult it is to know how to localize a product for every possible locality. Its less that MS screwed up in these cases and more that they had no way of being 100% successful in pleasing all parties.
And where do they put the warmed water after its circulated through the buildings? This sounds like the same technology that industry had used for ages to cool thier processes until it was found to cause heat pollution that severely damaged the environment. They may have that solved but this sounds less like a technical miracle and more like a big oops in process.
Before you plug in the net cable turn on windows firewall. Its minimal protection but its better than nothing. One thing to make sure of after you have the firewall up is to not go to any sites or connect to any online services other than windows update until you are fully patched. I've never had a problem getting a machine patched once I adopted this method.
I think the statement about it being a glitch that ports are blocked totally explains why MS made windows less secure in the first place. The average non-computer savy user expects it to "Just Work" and when you make something secure you have to make nothing work until a person makes a concious decision to make it work. That pisses people off. I'm not defending the position, would be nice if stupid people could be prevented from particpating in many different activities, but unfortunately we have to accomodate them somehow.
I'm rather happy that MS finally decided to do it right and force people to learn how to deal with it. Hopefully they fix the few more little flaws that make XP SP2 less than secure (the windows firewall issues for instance).
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You know that you can run just the 1 single process as admin don't you (look up runas)? It still sucks BIG TIME but at least it doesn't force you to run all processes with elevated security.
The problem with windows is it was designed to "just work" for "stupid people" and of course the easiest way to do that opens up the computer to nasty attacks. Hopefully the tide has changed and we will slowly but surely work to the happy medium where things just work without letting everything just work and also to where people learn a little about securing thier computer.
I thought that was the point? To make it free (as in the everyone should have access to it sense, and yes I know thats a slightly warped view of the GPL but fits for linux). I thought many people, especially academics and hobbiests from the 60's and 70's thought OS's should be free in all definitions of the word.
They also need to hope that the non-deterministic optimizer results in the same output.
...through bulk unsolicited e-mail?
Or more likely is they all have a similar structure inside and so after finding one vulnerability it wasn't hard to morph it to the other jpeg libs that are out there.
They would want to redesign it if they were hurting thier hard drive suppliers sales. The reason for this is if buying a rio for the hd is cheaper than buying the hd itself then the hd supplier would rethink its discount to rio on the basis that they are losing thier cream of the crop profits on raw hd sales.
And yet it feels like you support the 2 hour distortion of a politcal ad that is Farenheight 9/11? I think that it should all be fair game and it should be up to people to sort it out. I'm tired of laws being passed and judgements being made because its not going "thier way" whoever they might be at the time.
Actually, if it is a problem with the cpu driver and setting power save mode on the processor, then it really will be a switch from 2.6ghz to 300mhz as the driver would just set the proc to the wrong speed.
Can you toss up some links to a picture? I'd like to see this (not because I think you are wrong but mostly because I like looking at historical computers).
Problem with (at least sony's) implementation of "computer in the monitor" is that its fat, its at least 8" front to back if my memory serves me right. Its also not a performer with its celeron and low end video.
I differ in opinion. This is a beautiful machine. Its one where people will be looking for the cable that hooks the "monitor" up to the computer. It will be especially perfect looking with the bluetooth keyboard and mouse. Then you will have a single cable to the power outlet and that is it. This is the first computer from apple in ages that actually has me thinking "man I wish I had that". I'm not a super apple fan (nothing against them just no reasons to buy them) but its about time that someone builds a computer with that form factor and those lines and it sounds like this one will even perform decently.
What I want to know is whether Linux has even admitted that it has a security problem to work on? I know they try to be secure but it seems a great many people thing that Linux is already secure.
You forgot integrated support for scanners, digital cameras and video cameras. Integrated support for cd burning (though not very good). A slightly less broken implementation of the network stack (though it really wasn't fixed until 2k3). Um, some other stuff too that I can't think of. Maybe none of it mattered to you but there were some decent and usable changes in xp. Oh, appcompat for one and better support of directX.
There are ways to get bugs in your software that are not caused by your own code. There are also things that your logical analysis can overlook. This is not to say that rigorously proving your algorhytm is bad (it is terribly expensive) just that its not a complete fix.
I'm not defending the MPAA but I think you will find that they say a Region 2 dvd and Region 1 dvd containing the same movie are actually different products since the Region 1 dvd is only compatible with region 1 players and the region 2 dvd is only comaptible with region 2 players. Furthermore they will probably state that anyone can buy a region 1 dvd for the same price regardless of where they live. They will fail to mention that this is useless to them because they have stopped the sale of region 1 players to thier location.
I think they should. You need to come up with a technology that makes labor from abroad incompatible with industry in the states and protect your wages a bit :)
That said it still pisses me off in general.
...nor was he responsible for opensourcing them. He just sites them as good examples of MS opening source.
I think that it was Rob Mensching that was mainly responsible for WiX and I'm not sure who was responsible for WTL.
Its more like pay $5 a month or we will investigate your students who are probably sharing music we own the copyright to and hold your network financially accountable for the infringement. The college of course took the easy way out. If you buy that the RIAA should be enforcing copyright then they are being reasonable with the college in offering a legitimate way for the students to continue the behavior of downloading music.
Premium accounts are plus accounts + extra features. I would expect you would get 2gb of storage.
Given the amount of research that Microsoft puts into these things (and I know people that deal with these sorts of things at Microsoft) this just proves how impossible it is to please everyone and how difficult it is to know how to localize a product for every possible locality. Its less that MS screwed up in these cases and more that they had no way of being 100% successful in pleasing all parties.
And where do they put the warmed water after its circulated through the buildings? This sounds like the same technology that industry had used for ages to cool thier processes until it was found to cause heat pollution that severely damaged the environment. They may have that solved but this sounds less like a technical miracle and more like a big oops in process.
Plug in ethernet after the computer had fully rebooted. I think the firewall would be on by then (maybe I'm wrong but it seems worth a try).
Before you plug in the net cable turn on windows firewall. Its minimal protection but its better than nothing. One thing to make sure of after you have the firewall up is to not go to any sites or connect to any online services other than windows update until you are fully patched. I've never had a problem getting a machine patched once I adopted this method.
I'm rather happy that MS finally decided to do it right and force people to learn how to deal with it. Hopefully they fix the few more little flaws that make XP SP2 less than secure (the windows firewall issues for instance).