...if you are a mere alumnus, you are not affiliated with a university in such a way that you should be using scholarly materials to make points to others. Just getting a degree without holding a position does not qualify one to do such things. I sincerely hope that you're just trolling and don't believe this garbage. By your logic, do you imply that an active second-year biology student is more qualified to educate his peers than somebody who holds a PhD with 20 year of experience working at the CDC?
...this is an incidental way to produce ozone (O3) Arcing also produces a minuscule amount of tritium. Normally, this would be completely harmless (Yes, it's a beta emitter and shouldn't be inhaled in large quantities, but a single small arc only generates a couple of molecules...) The exception to this is when you find yourself working with spark-gap switches and somebody makes a tritium joke around an ES&H rep. It then becomes hugely hazardous because you'll find yourself spending hours doing paperwork and trying to explain radiation basics to liberal-arts graduates. This is experience talking...
No sweat - I have the same twitch when somebody tells me to "educate myself". I understand the knee-jerk "OMG - This guy might think that that Windows is as secure as [Insert ANYTHING else here]!?!" reaction. I have the same thing IRL and it kicks up more often than it should. Cheers.
Now I don't feel at all guilty about ad-blocking. I only feel guilty when I'm Adblocking a site that I want to support (/.). OK, fellow Adblockers, time to do the right thing: [Tools] -> [Adblock] -> [Whitelist this whole site]
I myself make mental notes to never do business with certain advertisers I feel are shady (which is more than I like to admit). I do too, but unfortunately those shady tactics (I include inexcusably ugly/loud/hard to avoid) are effective on a lot of people. Which, of course, is why they're still around. I had give my step-mother a firm talking-to after noticing a stick of Head-On in her bathroom.
[As a side note, I would have tried it out, but I couldn't figure out how to apply it.]
Send these 6% to gulag and domain-squatter That's the worst idea I've heard all day (and I've heard a few.) Those 6% are generating the ad revenue that pays for the pages that the rest of us AdBlock. I say keep 'em clicking! If they don't keep making the ads profitable, every site on the internet is either going to have to be subscription-based, blatantly commercial, or independently funded by somebody with enough $$ and motivation to keep it up.
These 6% are heroes - They're paying for a lot of our interweb.
with 76% market share, *reasonable* would be blackhats targeting you 76% of the time. One bank has good security and $24,000 on hand. Another bank has poor security and $76,000 on hand. 90% of bank robbers will decide to rob the latter. The other 10% are either idiots or have ulterior motives for picking the former.
The old "more market share is why Windows is more attacked" has been so thoroughly debunked you should be ashamed of yourself for parroting it yet again. Please- educate yourself; you reveal that you know little about operating systems when you say that. Wow, that was kind of nasty... Did my post somehow make it sound like I thought Windows was as secure as its competitors? The superior security is one of the many reasons I've got Slackware installed.
That said, Windows is attacked much more than the other OS's. It's more popular and, in general, its users are less computer-savvy. If I were a blackhat, Windows would certainly be my choice target for a variety of reasons - Even if it was on an even-footing security-wise with its competitors. I'm certainly on board that market share is not the only reason that Windows is targeted more than others - Not remotely. But, if you have some evidence that "totally debunks" the idea that market share and attack target are correlated, I'd love to see it.
Yet another car analogy, but it works here. Stealing cars and exploiting computer exploits are completely different situations. Imagine a city where 76% of the population drove Hondas. The other 24% drive a variety of cars of roughly the same value. Each make of car has a different security system. Now, if you can figure out how to get around Honda's security system, 76% of the cars in the city are yours for the taking. If you figure out how to get around Buick's security system, you have your choice of the handful of Buicks driving around.
Despite EllynGeek's impassioned opinion to the contrary posted below, I have no problem believing that 90% of the criminals in the city would focus on Honda.
Hmmm... Your ideas intrigue me and I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter. But, the only implementations I know of were at a municipal level rather than a neighborhood organization.
Windows is the problem. I'm certainly no MS fanboy, I don't consider your original post a Troll, and I won't even argue your 90% speculation. But I can't blame Windows's security for this. When you have 76% of the market share, it doesn't seem unreasonable that the blackhats will target you 90% of the time. So, unless their security is head-and-shoulders better than the competition, they will still have the most breaches.
perhaps it may behoove certain of us to act as "night watchmen" for our various neighbourhoods That's an interesting idea and may function just fine at a land-lady level. But, for some reason, my bank balked at the idea of granting me admin access to their server so that I could make sure that my personal info was secure.
Sorry for the reply-to-self, but I thought I'd save somebody else the trouble...
This legislation was obviously not passed by folks with any kind of technical sophistication. Umm, did you even RTF Summary?!? This legislation, at this point, has not been passed by anyone. These are still "proposed new laws".
I can see my ISP's point, but they're making my life difficult. The ISPs are in a difficult spot here. Ensuring that the content that users are trafficking is legal is actually more difficult than the post office ensuring that none of the envelopes that it relays contain fraudulent checks. This legislation was obviously not passed by folks with any kind of technical sophistication.
Unfortunately, that does not imply that it cannot lead to successful prosecution when an ISP is identified as being in violation...
Conan, Colbert and Stewart were a lot funnier WITHOUT the writers They were hilarious, but uneven. A lot of what they did was novel and fun. But, a lot was pretty weak. As fun as the "feud" was at times, other times it was obviously a lot more drawn out than it needed to be (Captain Obvious, I know...)
I can't say that I really missed it while it was gone, but I do welcome back The Word.
Yes - This was my attempt at humor. Sincere apologies to anyone who thought I was really this thick. I just couldn't resist such an obvious invitation to see how well I could break group-think and be modded in all directions.
The goal was a couple of Funny's + Troll + Flamebait. Maybe an Insightful if I was lucky. Right now it's sitting at 3xFunny + 1xFlamebait + 1xUnderrated. No Troll yet.
I for one welcome all things troll friendly. The only thing keeping me from rejoicing completely is that this may interfere with internet censorship... Can we protect trolling, but still censor profanity and anything that may offend religious groups? Then I'll be happy and America will be safer. Those who oppose trolls but allow offensive religious speech hate America's freedom.
"If we made seatbelts out of titanium instead of nylon, they'd be a lot stronger. But there's no evidence to suggest that they'd really help improve passenger safety." They would be stronger, and raise the fatalities number. Seatbelts are voluntarily made distortable so they can help diffusing kinetic energy. Not to mention the fact that, in this case, the security measure is strong enough to successfully mitigate the threat. When is the last time that you remember hearing about a wreck when the occupant tore through the seatbelt and proceeded through the windshield?
Wow... That sounds a little overly-paranoid unless you're worried about being heavily attacked by a well-funded government. Even really dedicated crackers quit at the 14-char letter/number/special char rainbow table level...
Can't everyone read the password hashes file? On Linux at least. No. That was true 15 years ago, but things like.shadow files have made things much trickier for the average user.
I mean, why can't the "signature" of a CD being present just be emulated? Some games do check for stuff like that - And it's sometimes a real PITA. I bought the latest C&C game a while back. It not only checks for the original media, it scans to see if you have any disc emulation running on your computer. I run DaemonTools all the time and find it enormously useful. So, when I tried to run the game, it would detect DaemonTools and refuse to run - Even with the original media in the drive. Even exiting wasn't enough - it would detect the driver. It took hours of time and about a week of waiting before the EA Games had a fix for me. And, by that time, I had acquired a functional copy via TPB.
When it was all over, I thanked them for their help, but let them know how much easier the TPB solution was and let them know that I'd be using TPB until they got the bugs out of their protection scheme.
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I'm just happy to see the Department of Energy doing something other than nuclear stockpile maintenance.
...if you are a mere alumnus, you are not affiliated with a university in such a way that you should be using scholarly materials to make points to others. Just getting a degree without holding a position does not qualify one to do such things. I sincerely hope that you're just trolling and don't believe this garbage. By your logic, do you imply that an active second-year biology student is more qualified to educate his peers than somebody who holds a PhD with 20 year of experience working at the CDC?
...this is an incidental way to produce ozone (O3) Arcing also produces a minuscule amount of tritium. Normally, this would be completely harmless (Yes, it's a beta emitter and shouldn't be inhaled in large quantities, but a single small arc only generates a couple of molecules...) The exception to this is when you find yourself working with spark-gap switches and somebody makes a tritium joke around an ES&H rep. It then becomes hugely hazardous because you'll find yourself spending hours doing paperwork and trying to explain radiation basics to liberal-arts graduates. This is experience talking...No sweat - I have the same twitch when somebody tells me to "educate myself". I understand the knee-jerk "OMG - This guy might think that that Windows is as secure as [Insert ANYTHING else here]!?!" reaction. I have the same thing IRL and it kicks up more often than it should. Cheers.
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[As a side note, I would have tried it out, but I couldn't figure out how to apply it.]
These 6% are heroes - They're paying for a lot of our interweb.
That said, Windows is attacked much more than the other OS's. It's more popular and, in general, its users are less computer-savvy. If I were a blackhat, Windows would certainly be my choice target for a variety of reasons - Even if it was on an even-footing security-wise with its competitors. I'm certainly on board that market share is not the only reason that Windows is targeted more than others - Not remotely. But, if you have some evidence that "totally debunks" the idea that market share and attack target are correlated, I'd love to see it.
Despite EllynGeek's impassioned opinion to the contrary posted below, I have no problem believing that 90% of the criminals in the city would focus on Honda.
Hmmm... Your ideas intrigue me and I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter. But, the only implementations I know of were at a municipal level rather than a neighborhood organization.
Unfortunately, that does not imply that it cannot lead to successful prosecution when an ISP is identified as being in violation...
DARPA = Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Most nerds know who this is, if not the actual acronym)
GILA = Generalized Integrated Learning Architecture (OK - I had to look this up, but it didn't prevent me from understanding the summary...)
Does that help?
I can't say that I really missed it while it was gone, but I do welcome back The Word.
Yes - This was my attempt at humor. Sincere apologies to anyone who thought I was really this thick. I just couldn't resist such an obvious invitation to see how well I could break group-think and be modded in all directions.
The goal was a couple of Funny's + Troll + Flamebait. Maybe an Insightful if I was lucky. Right now it's sitting at 3xFunny + 1xFlamebait + 1xUnderrated. No Troll yet.
I for one welcome all things troll friendly. The only thing keeping me from rejoicing completely is that this may interfere with internet censorship... Can we protect trolling, but still censor profanity and anything that may offend religious groups? Then I'll be happy and America will be safer. Those who oppose trolls but allow offensive religious speech hate America's freedom.
Yes - But good luck persuading your "congresscritters" to add "political robo calls" to the list.
They would be stronger, and raise the fatalities number. Seatbelts are voluntarily made distortable so they can help diffusing kinetic energy. Not to mention the fact that, in this case, the security measure is strong enough to successfully mitigate the threat. When is the last time that you remember hearing about a wreck when the occupant tore through the seatbelt and proceeded through the windshield?
Wow... That sounds a little overly-paranoid unless you're worried about being heavily attacked by a well-funded government. Even really dedicated crackers quit at the 14-char letter/number/special char rainbow table level...
When it was all over, I thanked them for their help, but let them know how much easier the TPB solution was and let them know that I'd be using TPB until they got the bugs out of their protection scheme.